Iran, Inflation & the Great D.C. Rent Crisis

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show

Episode: Iran, Inflation & the Great D.C. Rent Crisis
Date: February 2, 2026
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: Brigadier General Blaine Holt

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of The Rob Carson Show focuses on current political, economic, and cultural turmoil across the United States, with particular attention to the situation in Washington D.C., inflation and economic relief measures, controversy around recent activists and arrests (notably Don Lemon), the leftward shift of Virginia's state government, and escalating international tension with Iran. Rob Carson offers his trademark mix of satire, anecdotes, and pointed commentary, while Brigadier General (Ret.) Blaine Holt provides deep-dive military and geopolitical analysis, especially around Iran and domestic unrest.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Adjusting to D.C. & the State of the City

• Rob’s “new studio” blues: Rob opens with humor around his new studio setup—uncomfortable furniture and minor gripes—before segueing into weightier local and national issues.
• D.C. housing crisis:
  • Rob discusses rising rent/home prices:
    • “Average price where I live is $700,000 for a stupid house. … a crappy townhouse for $400,000...” [03:30]
    • Notes that “elite liberals” can afford it, but he rents.

2. Economic Optimism & Policy Changes

• Inflation and economic gains:
  • “The average worker has already gained at least $1,000 in their paychecks. … Social Security recipients, you got a major raise.” [02:40]
  • No taxes on tips/overtime, interest deduction for American car purchases for those under $250,000 income.
• New Fed Chair anticipated:
  • “You got this new fed chair coming in. Wash. His name's Wash. Like do the wash.” [05:14]

3. Critique of Media and the Left

• Media bias and gaslighting:
  • “There is an absolute vacuum with regard to any good news coming out of the administration, any good news on the economy.” [02:20]
  • Critiques media for only questioning “if Americans feel relief” when good news emerges under Republican leadership, contrasting with their silence during high Biden-era inflation.
• Predictions for midterms:
  • “The left is going bat guano crazy. … I don't think the Democrats are going to stand a chance because they're so awful.” [02:08]
  • Warns against complacency and urges local activism.

4. The “Great D.C. Rent Crisis” and Virginia Politics

• Liberal policy “bait and switch”:
  • Rob lambastes Virginia’s governor and Dem. party:
    • “...a communist. That's in the state of Virginia. ...policy provisions that they've done. They did not say they wanted to do it.” [07:09 & 08:25]
    • Calls for legal action over campaign misrepresentation.

Memorable Rant:

“This woman, this wretched, awful, crazy cat lady, Karen Abigail Spamberger. Lied. The Democrat Party in the state of Virginia lied. They lied and misrepresented every one of the things that they do... This cannot stand. This cannot stand. ... You cannot bait and switch on an election like this... That can't happen. We are a representative republic.”

— Rob Carson [09:00]

5. Don Lemon, Double Standards, and Media Scandal

• Don Lemon’s arrest:
  • Rob mocks the arguments that Lemon’s arrest was heavy-handed, comparing it to raids on Roger Stone and conservative targets (e.g., “agents by land and sea” at Mar-a-Lago; “CNN was tipped off…”).
  • Plays clips of various media figures (Gayle King, Liz Warren, Jamel Hill) and skewers claims of racism or targeted silencing.
  • Quote:

    “If Democrats didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all, as my friend Chris Plante likes to say.”
    — Rob Carson [16:04]

• Mockery of Lemon’s defense:
  • “He can claim rectum. I mean, victim.” [16:01]

6. Operation Metro Surge & Domestic Unrest

• Federal judge backs law enforcement crackdown in Minneapolis and St. Paul:
  • Carson applauds the judge's refusal to halt Operation Metro Surge, expresses frustration at ongoing protests:

    “I think people of Minnesota are sick and damn tired of this nonsense…” [20:27]

  • Discusses the origin of the protests and the increasing radicalization of leftist activism.

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International Focus: Iran & Military Standoff

7. Iran Standoff & Trump’s Strategy (with Brig. Gen. Holt)

• Ayatollah threatens regional war:
  • Trump’s response: “We have the biggest, most powerful ships in the world over there…” [21:43]
• Holt’s strategic analysis:
  • In-depth assessment of the deterrence game:
    • “If we put the Ayatollah into a place where it's game over, you could easily see them throwing a Hail Mary pass, which equates to a storm of 3,000 ballistic missiles…" [22:19]
    • Holt suggests a barrage would challenge Israel’s defenses but would not be a “hopeless” situation.
    • President Trump applying Sun Tzu-style leverage:

      “This president's going to the Sun Tzu playbook…tell them what we really intend to do…in a demilitarized way…” [27:16]

  • Importance of a “deliberate” approach, preference for facilitating regime change aided by internal revolution rather than military invasion.

8. U.S. Security & Terror Threats

• “Orphaned” terror cells in the U.S.
  • Holt: “That is a clear and present danger the president is weighing as he weighs what to do in the Middle East.” [23:41]
  • Trump’s unpredictability is highlighted as a strategic asset.

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“Fifth Generation Warfare,” Protests, and Election Fraud

9. Organizing Protests & Communist Influence

• Carson’s take on recent unrest:
  • “This is about overturning the country. This is about making America into the former Soviet Union.” [30:02]
• Holt on paid insurgents:
  • “This is a paid army. ... This money comes from NGOs ... and billionaire people who want to overthrow the United States...” [30:52]

10. Election Interference and Venezuela Connection

• Venezuelan influence in U.S. elections:
  • Holt asserts substantial Maduro involvement:

    “Atlanta was really the epicenter of foreign influence going into that city and then working in the other cities of the other swing states where we saw this nonsense.” [33:53]

  • Outlines “fifth generation warfare” as including media manipulation, psychological operations, and information warfare.

11. Trump’s Approach to Civil Unrest

• Letting blue cities “burn their own”:
  • “He [Trump] did say, however, if you try to put the heavy on a federal building, he's going to kick your butt…” [34:41]
  • Holt calls this “brilliant” and lauds Trump’s unpredictability.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On inflation/SS raise:

  “Those of you on Social Security are going to get...the largest raise in Social Security in the history of Social Security just by getting rid of the federal tax audit.”
  — Rob Carson [02:40]

• On activist protests:

  “This is about a communist overthrow of the country. ... they’ve been exposed and they're getting more desperate.”
  — Rob Carson [30:52]

• On Trump’s Iran tactics:

  "This president's going to the Sun Tzu playbook and going, why do we need to throw a bomb at these guys? Let's just put the ships off the coast, get their attention...”
  — Brigadier General Blaine Holt [27:16]

• On media double standards (Don Lemon):

  “If Democrats didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all, as my friend Chris Plante likes to say.”
  — Rob Carson [16:04]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• D.C. Rent & Economic Issues: 02:00–05:30
• Virginia Politics & Dem. Party Allegations: 07:09–10:30
• Don Lemon/Media Scandal: 11:56–18:08
• Operation Metro Surge / Minneapolis: 18:08–21:40
• Iran—Trump/Holt Segment:
  • Opening & stakes: 21:40–25:28
  • Sun Tzu strategy & regime change: 25:28–27:43
  • U.S. military as “insurance policy”: 28:19–29:14
• Civil Unrest / “Fifth Generation Warfare”: 29:45–33:22
• Election Interference & Venezuela: 33:22–34:41
• Trump’s Unconventional Domestic Policy: 34:41–36:27

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Tone & Style

Rob Carson maintains a caustic, witty, and irreverent tone, blending serious political analysis with humor and mockery. He leverages personal anecdotes and pop culture riffs to keep listeners engaged, appealing especially to a conservative-leaning audience. Brigadier General Blaine Holt adds gravitas and closely reasoned security analysis, striking a more measured (but still direct) tone.

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Conclusion

This episode offers Carson’s trademark mix of political satire and direct conservative commentary, backed by detailed strategic analysis from Brig. Gen. Holt. From D.C.'s cost of living and Virginia's swing to the left, to concerns about civil unrest, media manipulation, and foreign interference, the conversation is fast-paced and wide-ranging, always steering back to themes of patriotism, vigilance, and robust American response—both at home and abroad.

Listeners get updates on key political stories, economic optimism under a new administration, media controversies, a behind-the-scenes understanding of military maneuvers with Iran, and a warning about orchestrated domestic unrest—all delivered with Rob Carson’s “entertaining as well as informing” style.

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Transcript

[Rob Carson]

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You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the World wide Web. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hour number two got the studio rearranged here. It's kind of like putting on new shoes and they're very uncomfortable. And so the first hour of the show is kind of uncomfortable. You may not have felt it because I am a broadcast professional after all, but, but it was a little uncomfortable. It still isn't like this. The counter top is too high. It's like, you know, usually a counter comes up to your belt approximately, depending on how tall you are. You know, if you're a little bitty, it's going to be a little bit different. But, but for me, it comes up out to my waistline, right? It's about 36 inch, you know, there, this is a little bit higher. And so the chair that I normally sitting is too low. So I'm sitting on cushions right now. It's uncomfortable. It's just kind of weird. It's kind of weird. But, you know, I'm, I'm getting by. I'm getting by doing what I have to do, doing what I got to do to get this thing done. But great things are happening in Washington D.C. i've been here six months. You know, the left is going bat guano crazy. It is frustrating for me to watch this nonsense happening, these protests and whatnot. And I want the president and I want the authorities to kick some butt. I said that, you know, our strategy should be we got to win the Midterms, obviously, we got to do everything we can to win the midterms. We got to, you know, keep on the pressure, don't take anything for granted. But I don't think the Democrats are going to stand a chance because they're so awful. And all the good news is happening in the country. But the left is going to try to create the summer of 2020. This, this summer. They're already lining up on the wrong side of everything. The media is on the wrong side of everything. There is an absolute vacuum with regard to any good news coming out of the administration, any good news on the economy. The average worker has already gained at least $1,000 in their paychecks. And those of you on Social Security are going to get no taxes, the largest raise in Social Security in the history of Social Security just by getting rid of the federal tax audit. So you just got a major raise. Social Security recipients, you got a major raise. If you haven't even got a check yet, I'm sure you have. You had to notice. It's going to be pretty amazing for you. And then no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. You buy an American car, I think if you make under $250,000 a year, if you buy an American car, you can write off the interest. And as I've said, anyone who sells cars knows, and I did that the first couple years you got that car, that, that payment is interest, mostly interest, that first couple of years, then you can get down on the principal. All right, you got this new fed chair coming in. Wash. His name's Wash. Like do the wash. He's going to be jumping into the Federal Reserve in June and then rates are going to come down. I had a wonderful time this weekend. I hung out with a news reporter from Newsmax, Logan Radek is his name. And we went and saw the Adam Carolla at the Kennedy center. And I had a great deal of time to talk to him. He was a first time homebuyer. He and his wife been married a couple years and they're, you know, getting ready to have a family and all that. And the home prices around here are stupid. I don't know how you can afford to buy a home in Washington D.C. the average price where I live is $700,000 for a stupid house. And if you, you couldn't buy a crappy townhouse for $400,000 in this area, it's awful. I don't know who affords, I don't even know who for where I live. This little, this little enclave the little row homes down here near the Potomac start at 1 million 5 for less than a thousand square feet and go up from there. Generally, you owe you. It's million five, two million, three million, four million, four million, four million three. Who lives here? Well, a bunch of elite liberals live here, of course. Not me, though. I rent. I rent. But there's, there's a lot of great things coming down the pike. Price of gas is way down. Price of everything's coming down. And, and they're going to make it seem like everything is terrible, everything's awful. You know, I love these reports. You know, they always couch these reports when anything positive comes out of the Trump administration. But do Americans feel it? Do they feel the price of this is going down? Do they feel it yet? They always throw that in there. They did nothing. They reported nothing. When interest, when inflation was 9%, one year during the Biden administration. I remember it. I was in the thick of it. I was selling cards. I watched people come out of retirement to work at grocery stores, to work themselves to death. I watched the price of hamburger go from, you know, three bucks a pound to six bucks a pound. I watched chicken breast go from $1.88 a pound to $2.98 on sale. I watched it all. I watched it all. I took copious notes. I lived it. They didn't give a rat's behind when we were suffering under Joe Biden's presidency and it was a BLEEP show supreme. So a lot of good things are going to happen. They're going to try and burn down the country and do a lot of crap. And we need to stay positive, overwhelm them with joy and patriotism, be motivated, share how important it is to vote on social media, maybe get involved, involved in local politics. They got a petition going to shut down this Spam Burger administration, go after her legally for basically lying about the party platform to get elected and then basically running the state as a communist. That's in the state of Virginia. I moved here. This woman, this crazy bat guano, crazy governor, ran as a moderate, got into office, and now the Democrat Party is proposing monstrous tax increases, 50 new tax increases even though the state has a 2.7 billion dollar surplus. The green energy nonsense, electric bills are going to go up four times. She lied and misrepresented herself. The Democrat Party in this state lied and misrepresented themselves to get elected and then got into office. And they are doing basically what Zoran Mandami did and is doing here. This is Jen Kaggins Kickins of Virginia talking about what they're doing. Hey, it's Congresswoman Jen Kiggins.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

You know, two weeks ago today I.

[Rob Carson]

Attended the inauguration of our new governor.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

And her theme during the speech she.

[Rob Carson]

Gave was United for Virginia's future. Well, I must say that the past two weeks have been anything but unifying for Virginia. We are literally making national news about what's happening here and what the Democrats in the General assembly have proposed. They have proposed 50 plus new bills to increase your taxes. I'm worried about the message they're saying to law enforcement. They have a lot of anti law enforcement bills. What they're doing to places like the Virginia Military Institute. They are planning on corrupting, interrupting the voting system so they can vote two weeks late. No mail in ballots, no recounts, no hand counts of ballots. They are trying to steal the elections here. They are going to allow charities to get federal money and not have any scrutiny about their finances whatsoever. You cannot question when, even when they're fraudulent. That's how corrupt this Democrat Party is.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Who provides hundreds of new officers for.

[Rob Carson]

Our military every year. Just the business, the regulatory burdens that they're inflicting on our small businesses. I just got back from the grocery store. I heard from three people. Two who were upset about vmi, another lady who said she's literally losing sleep every night, just worried about what's happening to our commonwealth. The changes you see in this General assembly, they're going to hurt Virginia. It's an embarrassment on the world stage. We'll be sure and keep, keep you guys. Yeah, well, how about do something about it? Republican Party. You, you blew the election by putting a terrible candidate as the governor. She's done, she's done politically, you know, you know, how about, how about a good candidate? That would have been nice. That would have been. That would have been nice. But no, they did not. They chose an armadillo person with the, with the personality of an armadillo to run. And then of course, the Democrat Party lied. It should not be a legal election. By the way, I mentioned this early in a video. The party has a convention, adopts a platform that is presented to the voters. The voters vote on that. That's the way it has to work. That's the way it has to work. The Communist Party, when they put up their agenda and they vote on their platform and the American people vote on it, what do they say? No, we don't want any of that crap. This woman, this wretched, awful, crazy cat lady, Karen Abigail Spamberger. Lied. The Democrat Party in the state of Virginia lied. They lied and misrepresented every one of the things that they do, every one of the policy provisions that they've done. They did not say they wanted to do it. They did not say, vote for us to make this happen. This cannot stand. This cannot stand. I'm the only person in America saying this. You cannot bait and switch on an election like this. You cannot say you're Democrats, say you're moderates and lie, get into office and become communist. That can't happen. We are representative republic. We are a representative republic. We are not a democracy. We are a representative republic. When people vote for you, they vote for what they espouse, you espouse. And if you bait and switch when you get office, that cannot be legal. This cannot stand. It cannot stand. So I'm hoping I signed the petition this weekend to get the ball rolling to legally challenge Abigail Spamberger and these other morons. And these other morons. I want to mention something. This is kind of funny. A lot of, a lot of bull crap about this Don Lemon story. And I've told you, if you, if you discuss it with somebody and you say, well, Don Lemon was just a reporter, realize that Don Lemonade went in with a group he knew were going to commit an illegal act. He participated. He bought them coffee and donuts. He got in there and he participated in blocking people from leaving. And he had a microphone. He was interviewing people. That doesn't make him a journalist. And I said, if he did the same thing with a bank robbery where he talked to them outside and said, okay, you're going to go in and rob the bank, then went in rather than warning them there's going to be a bank robbery, you might want to get out of here. Same illegality. Same illegality. On the other side, Don Lemon's lawyer talks about and complains about how he was arrested. I'm going to juxtapose that with how conservatives have been arrested on the other side of the break. Let's take a break now. This is the Rob Carson show.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Relentlessly slowing the spread of the stupid every day. It's the Rob Carson Show.

[Rob Carson]

It is a Rob Carson Show. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Brigadier General Blade Holt is going to join us, talk about what's going on in Iran and all of that noise. Gayle King tried to bait Liz Warren on Don Lemon. Now, it's interesting. One thing he didn't notice this weekend is that NBC, they gave very little coverage to Don Lemon. Gayle King this morning tried to bait Liz Warren into saying, yeah, what happened to Don Lemon was illegal. The only people who are saying what happened to Don Lemon is illegal is MSNBC and cnn. The networks are reticent because they know he did something wrong. It sounds like Liz Warren knows it, too.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Why are there no Republicans, not one saying that no one is above the.

[Rob Carson]

Law, that this is all about politics? It's hard not to see it. It's hard not to see a political lens on this, is it not? I can't answer for the Republicans. I can only answer for my. I thought she should say, oh, yeah, of course it was. Of course the Republicans are targeting Don Lemon himself. And for myself, it's about backing off and letting the system work. That almost sounds like they got a case against him. That's pretty rock solid process. There is no reason to believe there's been anything other than an independent investigation.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

It's walked through all the steps.

[Rob Carson]

It is a grand jury, according to the evidence released, that has voted independently. And we will go forward with that process. And that process offers plenty of opportunity.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

For Donald Trump or anyone else accused.

[Rob Carson]

Of a crime to bring forward whatever.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Evidence they want to use whatever part.

[Rob Carson]

Of the legal system they want. But we. That is the most measured I've ever heard her. That is. That is the most measured I've ever heard her. And I don't think that bodes well for Donny. I don't think it did well. Very well for. For Donny. Not at all. There's. His lawyer was on this week complaining about how he was arrested with Jin Osaka. You ready for some hot sake? Yeah. Jen Osaki on Ms. Now, they didn't.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Do it just in the way you're supposed to. They wanted it to be terrifying. They wanted it to be intimidating. They wanted it to create fear.

[Rob Carson]

Okay, now listen, he contradicts himself.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

So he lives in New York. It's not Minneapolis. He's going to Los Angeles to do his job, which is to cover, in this case, the Grammys this weekend.

[Rob Carson]

Sure, sure.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

They wait until he's in Los Angeles. That's not enough. Yeah, they waited until 11:30 at night.

[Rob Carson]

Why did they wait till 11 when.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

He was coming back for?

[Rob Carson]

Oh, when he was coming back from the Grammys. He wasn't home. You see, you moron. Yeah, he didn't. He. They waited for him at home. The reason why they did it 11 is because he got home at 11.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Doing what he does in the lobby of a hotel. And not one, not two, not three, but the Bevy of agents around and take him away. Don thought he was being mugged.

[Rob Carson]

Did you realize that they brought in agents by land and sea for the raid on Mar A Lago? Did you know that? Oh, the same way with, with Roger Stone. Here's cnn. Listen, so for those of you complaining that the, the arrest of Don Lemon was somehow heavy handed, CNN was tipped off to the arrest of Roger Stone. Okay? And he was. And he was mobbed by armed agents.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

This is CNN breaking news.

[Rob Carson]

And the breaking news this morning.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

The FBI has arrested Roger Stone, the president's political advisor.

[Rob Carson]

Exclusive footage you're looking because they tipped off CNN right now from cnn.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

As the FBI arrives at Roger Stone's residence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, taking him.

[Rob Carson]

Nonviolent offender into custody.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

We understand he, he didn't write a.

[Rob Carson]

Church raid a church to terrify any.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Congregants will be arraigned in Fort Lauderdale later this morning.

[Rob Carson]

Sure.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Indicted on seven counts, one count of obstruction, five counts of making false statements, one count of witness tampering.

[Rob Carson]

Okay. Again, they arrived. He didn't raid a church before dawn. There before. Before dawn. Okay. In the dark. Not 11pm At a hotel or 6 a. Or just after 6am A dozen officers. A dozen officers were told. The FBI agent shouted, FBI warrant.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

And you can see it all play out right here.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Guns drawn and everything. This is just remarkable.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

It's just remarkable to watch.

[Rob Carson]

You know what they call listen?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

That's an FBI open door.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. Pounding on the door. That's a little intimidating. Another warning. Yeah. Long gun blazing. This is called, you know, the, the grab shot. Yeah, There you go. Wow, wow, wow. So honestly, wow. Really? Wow. If Democrats didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all, as my friend Chris Plant likes to say. Here's Donald Trump asked about Don Lemon on Air Force One. Thing. But he's a sleazebag. Everyone's known that. He's a washout. Probably from his standpoint, the best thing that could happen to him. He's getting, you know, he had no viewers. He had. He was a failure. He was a failed host. And now he's, he's in the. Yeah. Now he's somebody. Now he, now he can claim rectum. I mean, victim. He can claim victim. Here's Jamel Hill claiming that his arrest was racist. We need to remind ourselves of the racial element of this. No, we don't.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

There is a reason why.

[Rob Carson]

I think they raided the church because it was white, Don. A reason why Donald Trump not only picked independent Journalists. But black journalists in particular. No, no, not at all. Actually, he was just the only person, the only journalist who took part in the church raid ever. Clearly, we know there's no love lost between Don Lemon and Donald Trump that he's been very critical of. They arrested a white journalist at the church, too. The President. The president has. They've gone back and forth, but if we go back and undo all the layers of all of this, it was black journalists that were really at the forefront of calling Donald Trump out from the birtherism movement throughout. No, it wasn't really a lot of the things that. No, no, no, no. 97% of the press coverage, black, white, purple, green, whatever the hell would have been against Donald Trump. So there's that, honestly. See, and this is when, you know they're losing the argument. When they're losing the argument. Oh, my God. And here's Nikia Armstrong. She is with Black Lives Matter. She's the one who led the march, the. The Congregates March when she got arrested.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

We had belly chains around our waist.

[Rob Carson]

And we had handcuffs with bars in the middle. Yeah.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

As someone who majored in African American studies.

[Rob Carson]

She majored in African American studies. So now she's flashing that badge. I can tell you that that is the closest I ever felt to slavery in my life. That is really weird. Has she ever felt like a slave when she went on a ship? I wonder if she felt like that. Or when she drives by a field. It's kind of weird. I grew up on a farm in Iowa, and I had to work involuntarily in fields as a kid and well into my teens. I didn't get paid a dime. So I guess who's a little closer to that than her? She had to wear some handcuffs. Has she committed a crime? Oh, my God. I love it. I just love it. All right, I'm done talking about them. I'm talking about the. Done talking about him. Federal judge denies Minnesota's request to temporarily halt to Operation Metro Surge. Federal Judge Kate Menendez, obviously not a cat lady, denied Minnesota's motions for a temporary restraining order to halt Operation Metro Surge Saturday. The court documents filed on Saturday says that Minnesota in the Cities Minneapolis and St. Paul have not met their burden of truth because there is evidence supporting both sides argument as to motivation and the relative merits of each side compete. Competing positions are unclear. The court is reluctant to find the likelihood of success factors weighs sufficiently favor of granting preliminary injunction. They also said a court of appeals determined that the injunction would cause irreparable harm to the government because it would hamper their efforts to enforce federal law. You see, if that injection went too far, then halting the entire tire operation certainly would as well. There you go. Yeah. And then Jacob Fry said, of course we're disappointed. The decision doesn't change what people here have lived through, Fear, disruption and harm caused by federal operators. You know what? I think people of Minnesota are sick and damn tired of this nonsense, to be quiet honest. I think they're sick and damn tired of people going into Target for some stupid, inane reason. These crazy Karens are going into targets like Target has anything to do with federal immigration enforcement, but they eat their own. They're going to their favorite politically incorrect or correct store, their, their favorite woke store. And, and actually they're injuring themselves. That's how much self loathing they are. All right, so coming up, Brigadier General Blaine Holt on the other side of the break. Don't go anywhere. Hey guys, it's Carson for relief factor. You know, one of the most rewarding parts of sharing relief factor with you is all the real stories like Sandra's she tells us. I'd been hearing about relief factor on the radio for a couple of years. Finally decided to try it because nothing else has helped my back pain. With the three week quick start, I went for it. Now I feel like a new person. Those are Sandra's own words and it's just so gratifying to hear. I've experienced that kind of relief myself. And knowing folks like Sandra out there are feeling better makes it all worth it. Try it for yourself with a three week quick start. See how relief factor could be a game changer too. Call 804 RELIEF. That's 804 RELIEF. Or go to relieffactor.com that's relieffactor.com how will it feel to be out of pain? We are going to be joined by Brigadier General retired Blaine. Hold one moment. Donald Trump asked about the ayatollah saying that if Donald Trump attacks Iran, a regional war could break out on Iran. The supreme leader today said that US.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Could spark a regional war. Do you have any response to that?

[Rob Carson]

Why wouldn't he say that? Of course you're going to say that. But we have the biggest, most powerful ships in the world over there very close couple of days and hopefully we'll make a deal. If we don't make a deal, then we'll find out whether. Joining us to talk about that, of course. Brigadier General Blaine, how are you on this glorious Monday, my friend?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

It is a glorious Monday, a whole lot is happening. I'm doing great.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. So I, from I. My opinion is there won't be a regional war because nobody supports Iran. What, what are your thoughts on the A regional war is the ayatollah says if the United States attacks Iran.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Well, so I feel strongly about that both ways, Rob. On the one side, if we put the Ayatollah into a place where it's game over, you could easily see them throwing a Hail Mary pass, which equates to a storm of 3,000 ballistic missiles at the same time. Here's why they're not going to do that. They're not going to do that because President Trump has been working behind the scenes all weekend long, on the phone with Iran nearly the entire weekend with his team negotiating what is going to be their end game. But we had to show some real knives. I believe that they have shown the mullahs and the ayatollah that we know where all their stuff, their gold bars, their yachts, their assets, and it's going to be. The war has been fought in a different way. You had the seven attention getting explosions in Iran on Friday, and President Trump is looking to wrap it up this way. And then the Iranian people can take matters into their own hands, maybe a bomb here or there to help them out. But I think it's really going to be the end game. What we don't want to see is spiraling violence, not just in that region, but spiraling violence here if they activate a bunch of terror cells that would be orphaned if the ayatollahs left. So we got to be very careful. But the president's on the right track.

[Rob Carson]

So, okay, we know that Joe Biden opened up the southern border. We know that there are a lot of terrorists here. And you think that there's a possibility they're just awaiting their marching orders.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

That's exactly right. Marching orders that we hope never comes. Because if we orphan them, then you could see the next deal being, hey, look, look. If you're Hezbollah trend Air Agua or Iran's IRGC operating inside of our country, here's your chance. You've lost your life support, the money's gone. So you may as well find a way to get an off ramp without hurting or killing Americans. I can see that being the next thing, but right now, that is a clear and present danger that the president is weighing as he weighs what to do in the Middle East. Now, the ultimate backstop is the United States military has got this covered. If we need to reorient Iran, we can do that. But what we want to do is preserve this revolution for the Iranian people and let them get to self determination.

[Rob Carson]

You had mentioned, you had mentioned ballistic missiles. The last, I don't know, couple years. Israel has been successfully defending himself with, with very few exceptions, against a barrage of missiles and, and whatnot coming from Hamas and Iran. You think that would overwhelm the golden dome that they have if Iran decided to do something like this?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

So it just gets to be a numbers game in a barrage which would be trading missiles back and forth. Those events were 300 to 600 missile events. This would be everything they have left because they know there's no tomorrow. So it would be, well, I'm going to be martyred anyway, so I'm just going to go ahead and light up the Middle east and those systems are going to have a hard time with not a 600 missile barrage, but a 2500 missile barrage. And so, so enemy gets a vote. You have to reconcile that. But this is not to say that this is hopeless. We would just have to take a very offensive stance towards Iran and its capabilities at that point in time to stop that from happening.

[Rob Carson]

Right now we're only hearing about the United States acting autonomously. We got a flotilla. Donald Trump, his head is as large as what was off Venezuela. That's hard to fathom when you consider how large the flotilla off Venezuela was because it was massive. Obviously. We've been talking now for over a week, week and a half. They're real close to where they need to be to really kick some ass and take some names. And by the way, most of those names would be Muhammad. Thought I'd throw that in there, but they are. I know that Donald Trump is being very deliberate. He's not gonna, he's not going to just have the ships there for no good reason. And I would hope that one of the things that he's negotiating is the exit of the Ayatollah. That has to be it. There has to be a. He has to go. That has to be it. You can't say, oh, you got to stop killing people and you can stay in power plane. It's got to be that. You got to get your ass out of here.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Oh no, this is the exit game. They don't get to keep their regime out of the steel. Either way, one way you're going to be seeing Allah really soon. The other way you might have an exile location, but we're going to help the Iranian people take back their country and self determine and so yes, the preference and what my sources are telling me over the weekend is, is that we're being very successful because the President is bringing whopper amounts of leverage to the conversations with them that they had no idea we had the ability to do. And that involves, you know, you could leave Iran and you could be destitute like with nothing to your name. Believe me, we know how to go get that stuff from you and we will.

[Rob Carson]

It's been saying that too. Besson's been saying, if you want to take pallets of cash with you, ain't going to happen.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

No, not going to happen at all.

[Rob Carson]

So.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

So I think, you know, and again, this will rewrite books in every war college in the United States because it's that precursor. Instead of just going right to the sledgehammer option, which all the previous presidents have done, this president's going to the Sun Tzu playbook and going, why do we need to throw a bomb at these guys? Let's just put the ships off the coast, get their attention and respect and then let's tell them what we really intend to do to them and do it in a demilitarized way and then we can get to the Abraham Accord so much quicker.

[Rob Carson]

As someone who served through a good share of a 20 year war with Afghanistan, this has got to be such a relief to not only our retired service members but also active duty that we have a President who is being so deliberate and so careful and so strategic. Like with the, with getting Maduro out without, you know, he killed a bunch of Cubans, you know, a bunch of, a bunch of their, their guards and whatnot. But that's got to be such a relief to see the military used in such a fashion way.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Absolutely correct. Peace through strength. My time goes all the way back to WW Mogadishu. And these are all worthless adventures that netted us nothing but misery, pain, loss, blood and treasure. 08 Bankers and defense industrialists made a whole lot of money. And that continues today in Europe to this time. So a demilitarized foreign policy actually helps us sharpen our blade. To give the President as a military, that insurance policy he needs so that we are an iron backstop. So that when he says, well, if you don't want to do it one way, we can do it another way, we mean what we say. And this President has absolutely, in my view, used the military the way that our founders had always intended. No entanglements, let's limit ourselves. But then in and out, let's be.

[Rob Carson]

Efficient, speak softly, carry a big Stick right, brother.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

And have an implant.

[Rob Carson]

Although he doesn't speak softly.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Yeah, no, he really doesn't.

[Rob Carson]

He does not. Hey, I want to cover some of this civil unrest after the break. If you could hang on for a second there, I'd really appreciate it. Brigadier General Blaine Holt. Dangerous Intellectuals is the name of his podcast called Dangerous Intellectuals. You should listen to it. It's a really good podcast. By the way, he's a good storyteller and he gets a lot of great guests on there. Stuff you're never gonna hear anywhere else. Dangerous Intellectuals. Take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

If you've ever wondered how protests happen on the spot, this is exactly how. Without organizers, without the music, without the.

[Rob Carson]

Bullhorns, without all of these.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Right now, what they're doing is they're loading their trucks to leave out of here after they finish with the protest. None of the protests that you see.

[Rob Carson]

That happen immediately after something happens, which is all the time now, wouldn't be possible. What's behind me is a combination of Party for Socialism and Liberation. We have Democrat Socialists of America here as well, and a couple very loose communist organizations like Revolution. This is about overturning the country. This is about making America into the former Soviet Union. It's not going to work, but it's just a matter of how much damage they're willing to inflict on the American people with these nonsense, destructive protests. I really want to see some butt kicking. I really, really am tired of these children. But Brigadier General Blaine Holt on the Newsmax hotline. Yeah, this is what this is about. This is about a communist overthrow of the country. It's been going on forever. Now they see that they've been exposed and they're getting more desperate, and I predict they're going to become even more violent this summer. What do you think?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

They really are. They're running out of time. But these paid insurgents, and they are paid. This is a paid army. This is not an organic movement. This money comes from NGOs. That money comes from our taxpayer dollars a lot. And these billionaire people who want to overthrow the United States and take out our Constitution. But a lot of this stuff is popping off right now. And you should equate, you know, when we had the 700 ballot boxes getting lifted out of Atlanta and oh, wait, the DNI is there. Tulsi Gabb. That made the whole world start crying and screaming and falling apart, from Senator Mark Warner to all of these riots and anti ice things gaining traction. But they're also covering up Billions upon billions upon billions in fraud. But now that their crimes are going to start slipping into the light, you're going to see even more information operations, psychological operations and riots as the response from the bad guys. So, oh, massive Epstein release. Oh, on the day that they get the Atlanta thing done. Well, the release has some cooked intelligence in it, doesn't it? So now we have to unpack that and find out where all of this stuff is. But you are in a fifth generation warfare environment right now.

[Rob Carson]

I know we are. I know we are. And the reason why Tulsi Gabbard was in Atlanta, because it became an international incident. This is not just Democrats in America. This is a movement that is an election fraud and theft and upsetting the balance of power from outside as well. Collaborating with outside individuals. It's so funny. The voting machines are made in Venezuela.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Yeah, that's exactly right. It's all related. Go to Maduro, go to Atlanta, go to where this fraud is sitting, Go to the exposures of it. What do you think they're going to do? They're going to fight back with their own cooked intelligence because we're dealing with elements, rogue intelligence units. This is what the deep state is. So in one case, you had good FBI folks that were handling the raids very efficiently down in Atlanta. Wait a minute. Did we see any FBI backing up our ICE brothers and sisters up in Minneapolis? Don't they have a field office up there? Yeah, they do. So what we see is that the swamp itself is embroiled in this cold civil war, so to speak. But you just tell me how people are getting paid and I'll tell you what team they're playing for. And it doesn't matter. Party, party does not matter here. It's both sides of the aisle.

[Rob Carson]

Now, Maduro was taken out for a number of reasons. How big a factor was his involvement in election interference in America?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Just massive. It's massive because first off, he didn't, you know, he's been thumbs up with us the entire way through. You're looking at a big sweetheart deal. He's saying you think he's going to sing? He's. No, he sung. Got the verb wrong. He sang.

[Rob Carson]

Really?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

And. Oh yes. And so that's. Look, that's why they confidently went down to Atlanta and grabbed what they did. And I believe what we're going to find out, at least the source is helping me out with this. Atlanta was really the epicenter of foreign influence going into that city and then working in the other cities of the other swing states where we saw this nonsense. Look, there's. They're trying so hard to spackle over their crimes, but we have never been this close to exposing it all. And the President is very right. Take the word of the cartels, then start to expose the election fraud of 2020. If you cast the fishnet on the 2020 election net, you're going to get so many crooked people in the swamp. So before we all get lathered up about the midterms, ask yourself if they really start rounding up folks, how many incumbents are there going back into Congress?

[Rob Carson]

Very, very interesting. And then trying to remember who said it last week said that there were several members of Congress who were not legally there. I try to remember the congressman who brought that up anyway, brought up Trump this weekend, said that he's not going to get troops involved in violence in Democrat run cities. He did say, however, if you try to put the heavy on a federal building, he's going to kick your butt kind of like he did with tearing down statues in the summer of 2020. How do you feel about his burn your own damn cities down? We don'. We're going to stay out of it. How do you feel about that decision?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Brilliant. Because you know, he could change his mind tomorrow. So this is what the President's doing. He is using today's messaging. They'll make plans on that. Lo and behold, he changes the plan. So a lot of people are like, well, where's the Insurrection Act? Well, hold up, he hasn't made it yet. In other words, the President's lack, he's not predictable. His unpredictability or unpredictability is one of his greatest weapons. And the little communist hooligans, I love that term of that sound bite you had where the guy is, oh, loose communist. There's no such thing as a loose communist. Okay? They're communists and the President is making them pull their hair out.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it's funny. They wanted a big shutdown walkout on January 6th this year. Did not work. They wanted a big walk down, shut down a whole deal on Friday. Didn't work. Nobody's listening to their nonsense. The average American, even the average Minnesotan is sick and tired of this crap.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Yep, yep, yeah, we've had it. I mean, and my friends in Minnesota just absolutely, they're all talk. My, my friends in Minnesota are all talking about running for office no matter what. And they're not even politicians, which is exactly what we need in this nation, citizen servant leaders.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. And by the way, this David Koch who worked with with Nick Shirley. He's, he's testifying and then, and then so is is waltz and Ellison and he has, he has some dirt on Klobuchar who's planning on running for governor up there. And I hope this explodes. I want to see people perp walked in handcuffs spend the damn rest of their lives in prison. I'm so glad he done with this.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Our friend Catherine Harris has been spending an awful lot of time looking at them build stuff down at Gitmo. I'm just saying.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, that would be cool. Club Gitmo reopen, baby. I love it. Oh, man, I love this. I thought they were going to reopen. What's it, Alcatraz for that you need a lot of them. You can do either one. Oh, man, that would be huge. All right, Blaine Holt, thank you so much. Where can people find your Gloria and of course your podcast, Dangerous Intellectuals.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Come to Dangerous intellectuals dot com. Today I'm talking with one of America's premier AI talents to talk about the goods and the bads of artificial intelligence. You can see [e-mail] on the Insiders page. And brother, we're always on Newsmax, which is wonderful.

[Rob Carson]

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