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This is the Rob Carson show, hour number three. We've got Brigadier General Blaine Holt joining us at the bottom of the and he will have some expert insight into what's going on with Iran. I mentioned last hour a piece, I believe this was in Breitbart about how a lot of things happening, refueling aircraft, C17 Globemaster transport planes, two aircraft carriers, 200 US fighter jets now positioned across the Middle East. And, and the, the leadership in Iran is being belligerent as ever, which I love, by the way, which I absolutely love. They are, they are foolishly proud. I don't know what they're proud of, to be quite honest, because they're just a throwback 5th century bunch of idiots who've never invented anything just spread terror around the world. And I'm hoping and praying that we'll see history. We see the, the fall of the Ayatollah. And when that happens, it'll be dramatic and amazing. It'll be dramatic and amazing. So we'll talk to him then. Public Stor Storage is moving headquarters out of la cause it's not business friendly to work there anymore. The company which earned $5 billion last year moving from Glendale to Frisco, Texas. It's pretty bad when vacant buildings are moving out because isn't that what a public storage place is? There's like one person working in the office. The rest of it's kind of vacant, just full of stuff. So Glendale, home to more than 50 years. Moving its corporate headquarters to Frisco, Texas, near Dallas. Company operates more than 250 million square feet at 3,500 locations in 40 states. I have stuff in a public stove, a public storage location in Kansas City. Do you know why your wife moves stuff to storage? Do you know why? Because it's the first step to making you forget about it so she can throw it away. I'm just going to tell you right now. If she says to you, I'm talking to the men in the crowd here, all right, could be some of the women, I guess, whatever, Anyway. But if your wife says, hey, you know, we got a lot of stuff in our house here. I think we should probably get a storage space. And you're like, you know, you're right, honey. And then you'll go through it and you'll, you'll say, you know all those other Elvis dolls from, you know, 1985 that you've had forever and you know, the sports memorabilia and those old records and what, yeah, you know what? It's climate controlled. And then it won't get wet over there. It'll be well taken care of. And what she's really saying is he's gonna forget about it and then I'm gonna get rid of it. Just gonna tell you that's what it is. That's what stories. That's what public storage is all about. She always brings it up. She says, hey, let's take some stuff over there because, you know, look at all the room we're going to have. Oh, you get a new toolbox or something. And you know what she really wants to do. It just, it's like separating you from your currency. When you go to Vegas, they give you, they give you, you know, credits or. I don't think they do. They do chips anymore. I've been to Vegas in forever. It separates you from currency, so you don't how much. No matter how much money you're spending. It's the same thing. It's the same thing. Rob Carson, Your emotional baggage is arriving on carousels. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Anyway, I do, I do still have some stuff over there. And when I go over to the public storage, I open it up. Oh, my God, I forgot I had that. Holy hell, that is amazing. I thought I got rid of that years ago. That velvet Elvis I've had since 1990. Holy hell, I didn't even know I still had it. Okay, let's move on. Democrat States are losing population because Democrat policies are not working. Zoran Mandami became the, the. The mayor of New York City and promised to usher in a new era of, of collectivism. The warmth of collectivism. He said, they're going to have grocery stores. You get free groceries. One of them lasted, the only one lasted one week. One week. The. The city is literally becoming an s hole. They don't know how to get rid of snow. They can't get people to shovel snow for 20 bucks an hour, so they raised it to 30 bucks an hour. They still could. Couldn't get people to shovel snow for 30 bucks an hour. Now, any moron other than Zoron would know you could buy a really nice commercial snowblower for $1200, $1500, and do the work of 10 by just putting a city worker there. But this is like, you know, the WPA with Franklin Roosevelt paying people to dig holes and fill them up again. And now they're paying like 45 stupid dollars for people to shovel snow. I mean, honestly, Honestly. And of course, last night Jake Tapper, you know, threw a question at him about why you'd need five pieces of id, five pieces of ID to shovel snow, but not to, not to vote.
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House Republicans are criticizing you for requiring workers to bring multiple forms of identification to sign up for that job. They tweeted, quote, let's get this straight.
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In Zoran Mamdani's socialist utopia, it takes two forms of ID to shovel snow,
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but no ID to vote. Make it make sense, unquote. What's your response to that, sir?
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Well, here in New York City, we
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follow the law and it's federal law to require certain forms of identification in order for someone to actually be paid for this kind of a job. And so that's what we're asking for,
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two forms of identification. It's a long standing. Why aren't you telling the federal government that is discriminatory that they are requiring ID to work? Why aren't you saying that? Why are you saying. This is Jim Snow 2.0. How dare you? Don't you know that black people can't get IDs and women can't get IDs? We can't have black people out here snow shoveling because of Gemstone 2.0, isn't that it? Right? You know, you gotta have ID to make a living and it's racist to require it to vote. Why aren't you pitching a fit why aren't you pitching a fit about all the, the, the people who are being discriminated against when they could be out there shoveling snow but they don't have ID because they're either too stupid or unable to to get one. That maybe they're a disadvantage. Don't know how to use the interweb. I don't even know. So many stupid things. That said New York City's going to hell in a handbasket. Fareed Zakaria is on cnn. He's usually pretty liberal. He was on, on that Bill Maher and Rahm Emanuel is there Rahm Emanuel's possibility he could run for president. Even though he looks like. He looks like a creepy mortician. He looks like a creepy mortician. Like the stereotypical creepy mortician in the scary movies and stuff. You know what I'm talking about? The welcome, please come in. That's. That's Rob Emanuel. And here he is saying the truth about Democrat run cities.
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This is a huge Democratic party problem. If you look at Democratic cities, they are terribly run.
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They have incredibly high taxes. It is impossible to build. So the cost of housing. Let me finish, let me finish.
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I give you Rahm Emanuel's like stop. I'll turn you into a zombie.
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Housing is crazy in places like New York and Chicago.
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If you look at Democratic states, you know, look, you go look at New York versus Florida. Roughly the same population. The budget of New York state is twice that of Florida.
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Yeah. And New York's budget is $127 billion in the entire state of Florida including Miami and Orlando and all those 117 billion.
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What do they have? Streets paved with gold. I live in New York, I pay the highest taxes.
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They're paved with crap and garbage.
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New York, you get nothing for it. And I think that is the image people have of the Democratic party.
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Yeah.
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Lots of taxes, lots of regulation, but nothing gets done.
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I live in L. A. Right. By the way, Rahm Emanuel is from Chicago. I don't know if you knew this but the Bears are gonna be leaving Chicago cuz the Democrats have bleed things up so badly. Here's what Jim Gossett did about the Bears leaving Chicago.
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Chicago. Chicago is losing the Bears.
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Yeah.
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That's pretty sad for Bears fans. It's once in state of affairs. We're bummed out. Looks like the Bears are moving out
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and they're headed to Gammon.
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Cos Brandon Johnson, he has ruined this town.
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Pretty good Chicago accent right there.
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It's past time. The high crime gets worse every day. It's likely what scared the Bears away. Hey, go to a game and you'll risk your life sit next to a guy packing a knife in Chicago.
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Chicago, Chicago, Chicago.
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Chicago ain't da Bears town.
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Da Bears. Duh. Bears. There you go. Yeah, I used to go to Chicago quite a bit. I've done some time on WLS radio up there and everything. Used to when I was growing up as a kid, I listened to Chicago radio and Larry Lujak and Johnny B and all those guys. And I wouldn't go back there. I wouldn't want to go back there. Here's Fareed Zakaria talking about the and listen to this. What? And the budget of New York City has blown up through the ceiling and yet they still don't have enough money. And the only thing he that little Jack Weed, the little socialist, the little lord of the Flies leader of New York is he just wants to cut the police and then raise property taxes. If he can't tax billionaires a mandate for a city we can afford.
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Last week he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable. New York has been fiscally profligate for so long that the headline number $127 billion, produces little shock. But for perspective, these are similar to the annual expenditures of a mid sized nation with all the expenses a country requires, like Greece or Thailand, devoted to governing one city. New York City's budget has ballooned in recent years. Listen, Michael Bloomberg's last budget, adopted for fiscal year 2014, totaled about $70 billion. So in little more than a decade, the budget has nearly doubled, growing faster than inflation and faster than the city's economic growth.
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Wow. And I wonder how many people in New York City have had a 100% increase in their salary in the last 10 years? Probably very few.
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And then there's the taxes on business taxation. The city is also off the char cuts. The Citizens Budget Commission reports that New York City business activity faces the country's highest combined corporate tax rate.
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What's that?
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17.4%. Once state, city and regional layers are stacked, Mamdani wants to hike income and corporate rates even further. Or else he says he will raise property taxes.
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Yeah, and then of course, let's not forget personal income tax.
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New York already sits at the extreme end of the American tax spectrum for high earners. The combined state plus city income tax reaches 14.776% at federal taxes and the combined marginal rate can exceed 50%, reaching roughly 55% on certain investment income.
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This is why Sean Hannity moved out. But it's not the only city that does this. Other Democrat cities obviously do.
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Blue cities are out of control. Take Los Angeles. The city's homelessness budget for fiscal year 202526 totals about 950 million. Do billion. The L A Homelessness Services Authority reported that in 2023, homelessness was up 9% countywide and 10% in the city. And the 2024 AP account noted that homelessness has surged 70% countywide since 2015.
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Yeah, and the money was stolen. That's your Democrat Party people. That's why people aren't moving to these states and that's why there are people moving out of these cities. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.
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The city's rental assistance spending rose from 263 million in fiscal year 2020 to 1.34 billion in the most recently reported fiscal year. That is a five times increase in a handful of years. And housing costs only got worse.
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Yeah, and it's only going to get worse in Zoran Mandami, moron Zam county, as I like to call them, is is recognizing that socialism doesn't work when you run out of other people's money. And right now you look at like when he said Bloomberg was the mayor 2014, the budget of the the city was under 80 million. It's 127 million now. And it's out of control. It's out of control. It's an out of control dumpster fire. It is. New York is out of control. There's no end to this madness other than, I guess, bankruptcy. Same goes with Chicago, same goes with la. This is what the Democrat Party is doing. People are moving away from Democrat states. Whenever socialism wins in a state, people move away. They don't go, I want to move there and get free stuff. They know the lie of it. It's never going to work. Rocco in Georgia joins us on the Newsmax hotline. How you doing there, Rocco? What's up today?
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Not a lot, Robin. Join your show, man. Hey, listen, you know, there's quite a few representatives and senators who are not going to show up tonight for the State of the Union. I have a pretty good idea. They should take those seats and fill them with children and teenagers who Tom Holman has rescued, who were led across the border, who were trafficked into this country.
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That's actually a really good idea. It's a really good idea. All the lives that have been saved otherwise would have been spent in mine. That's not a bad idea, brother.
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I mean, you know, they're not. Because let's say you're a representative, a state. You're representative of all the people, not just Democrats. Same thing with senators. And for you not to show up, you're not doing your job well.
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You know, Rocco, I got to tell you, I think it's a blessing and a gift that these petulant children, they think it's somehow punitive for them not to show up. I think it's fantastic.
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That's a better idea to put. Put those victims in that chair.
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I appreciate you, Georgia resident. Are you. Where you live?
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I live in Calhoun, which is north of Atlanta.
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Beautiful place, man. I love it. I love it. I love me some crystal burger, too, brother.
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Yes, sir, brother.
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All right, thanks. I appreciate you. Yeah, you too, man. You too. Georgia's pretty cool. I did a lot of time on WYA down there in Atlanta, and there's a big talker down there, wsb. Oh, my goodness. One of the greatest talk stations in the history of mankind, for goodness sake. WSB Atlanta AM&FM powerhouse. I love it, love it, love it, love it. Rob Fitter, he had Randy Fine on last night. Randy Fine is coming up with this save our puppies bill to prevent radical Islamists from getting rid of dogs because they think they're dirty. But they love their goats, man. They love them goats there. That's my goat over there with a pink ribbon around her neck. Oh, my God, she's so pretty. So beautiful. Valentine's Day was very special this year. She got my goat. Hey, I got her goat, too. There you go. Anyway, so Randy Fine, he, he said that he put up on, on social media, what would you rather have, a dog or an Islamist? And, and, and of course, everybody got all bit out of shape because you can't criticize Islam, you know, and, and Rob Finnerty asked me if he was going to resign.
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And he said, I'm wondering, do you plan on resigning? I don't. And you know what? They're going to have to get used to it. What's extraordinary, though, is Democrats are okay with one of their members texting with Jeffrey Epstein. They're okay with members stealing $5 million. But when a Republican congressman says, this is America, we get to keep our dogs and if you don't like it, you can go home, they lose their absolute minds. Do you regret that post? Not at all. I actually think it's great because what it has done is it has made people realize what we are up against. I think people have been dulled into believing that we're one giant human family. We share the Same values and we're all the same. But the fact of the matter is that those who are trying to bring Sharia to America and want us to submit to their faith, it's okay to like dogs. It's weird, but it's not okay. It's not okay to tell me I can't have a dog because you don't like them. And that's what this advisor said.
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Yeah. Unbelievable. I love those dogs where they, they got these ones where people go into the Humane Society and they're all sitting there in a row and they let the dog out. The dog decides which person they want. And I always get all teary eyed and everything. I love those. Because you know what? Dogs are a gift from God. I work with an organization called Friends in Service of Heroes in Kansas City. And dogs, the companionship of a service dog can save someone's life who has ptsd. They're man's best friend. They're a better friend than most men, I'll tell you that. Here's a little bit more from Randy Fine about the public prayer by Islam going on in Times Square.
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Why don't they just do that indoors? Why do they insist on taking over streets to pray when they could do it in their own church just like everybody else? That's a great question. The answer is because this is a form of submission.
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Yes.
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It is a form of intimidation.
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Yes.
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That call to prayer says there is no God but Allah. You know, Christians believe in Jesus, but they don't demand that everyone else submit. Jews, of which I am one, believe certain things, but we don't force everyone else to submit. But this version of Islam demands that everyone submit to it. It will start with our puppies. It will start with these street prayers. It will not end there.
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Yeah, and I'm about done with it. After 9 11, we allowed this to happen in places like New York City. I'm done with it. Here he is talking about being a time to fight back.
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Do you see how your original post, Congressman, could be offensive to some?
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Who cares?
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Not at all. I choose dogs. Here's the difference. Jews aren't telling people that they can't have dogs. We may not eat pork and we may not eat shellfish, but we're not telling the supermarket that they can't sell them. That's the difference here. And my post was very simple. If you're going to make me choose between having my dog or making a group of people who've immigrated to this country happy by taking my dog away, I choose my dog. And I've got news for you, 99% of Americans feel exactly the same way. Of all the Democrats who criticized me, all of them, not a single one said, you know, I don't like how Randy put it, but I will fight to make sure your right to have a dog is never taken away. Not a single one said it. You know why? Because they don't want to offend those who would take them away. It used to be if we didn't want anyone who wanted to come here, we were a racist. Then it was, if we won't give everyone who wants to come here free housing, free health care for your money, we're a racist. Now it's if we won't change how we live, we're a racist. We've had enough. We're going to fight back. And that's why my bill is so important.
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Yeah, there you go, scruffy. Bite them right where it counts. Thank you very much. Can also take your burka and stick it too. All right, coming up, Brigadier General is what I'm saying about. Brigadier General Blaine Holt joins us on the other side of the break to talk about Iran and other matters of interest. Don't go anywhere. Hey guys, it's Carson for quints. You know, a well built wardrobe is about pieces that work together and hold up over time. That's what Quince does best. Premium materials, thoughtful design, everyday stables that feel easy to wear even as the weather shifts. Quince has everyday essentials. I love the quality that lasts, by the way. Organic cotton sweaters, polos for every occasion, lighter jackets to keep you warm in the changing season. The list goes on. Now Quince works directly with top factories and cuts out the middleman. So you're not paying for brand markup, just quality clothing. Everything is built to hold up to daily wear and still look good season after season. I have a great wool blazer that has the ladies turning their heads even if they're not looking at me. And then of course, a cashmere sweater, ridiculously soft, doesn't cost a fortune as well. Refresh your wardrobe with quince. Go to quince.com newsmax for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's quince.com Q U I N C E.com Queensland Newsmax free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com/newsmax
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the Rob Carson show podcast is everywhere. Go to newsmax.com listen for details. Well, you know, frankly, I think it's a close call.
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I think these cartels, both the Listco
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New Generation as well as the Sinaloa,
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which is the other major cartel there
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in Mexico, they are both heavily armed. They are armed in a sense, just as well as the military there in Mexico go. But I think what President Sheinbaum and
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others have been okay to do thus
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far is to accept some limited US Assistance, mainly as far as intelligence and capabilities. But if it does come to a
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battle between Mexican officials and the cartels, I think all they really have to
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do is ask the US for some help. And President Trump has made it abundantly
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clear he's ready to help. Yeah. That is Chad Wolf talking about what's going on in Mexico with the killing of one of the big kingpins of the drug world down there. Part of a global strategy, part of, I guess, the Don Road doctrine, one of the next things that are happening there. And to join us to talk about this and other things is Brigadier General Blaine Holt, host of the Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast. How are you on this glorious Tuesday, my friend?
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Well, glorious hello from the Dominican Republic, my friend. We have arrived.
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You're in the Dom Republic. What are you doing down there?
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I found a thing down here that's very nice. It's called vitamin D and sunshine.
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There you go. Well, thanks for taking the time to talk to me today. I didn't expect this, but I really appreciate it, my brother. So let's talk a little bit about what's going on in in Mexico. This sounds like the beginning of something. What do you think the president is going to expect Sheinbaum to do now, and what are we going to do to protect Americans who are down there?
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Well, we're going to have to probably put together some sort of operation. I'm certain it's in the planning stages now to get Americans protected in Mexico both internally and on the coastal areas. You've got so many tourists that have only so many days of life support. So it's a very precarious situation. Sheinbaum's got her hands full. She's going to respond to America favorably in any way because she's all in. She's essentially made her bet. And it's going to be a very dangerous set of days ahead. And don't forget about the danger we face with the cartels right here at home.
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Absolutely, 100%. I had said, and, you know, I'm kind of fantasizing out loud that we send a couple Hueys in there with Jesse the Body Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger blaring Long Tile Sally and then Paint some targets and blow some things up. Do you suppose that could be in the offing? I mean there was a report of, of drones, US drones surveilling. I think that might have been out west. Do you suppose they've already done some of that reconnaissance and know what targets they might hit?
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Oh, I absolutely do. We've been studying potential targets in and around Mexico for years. We've only been refining the list. And so you know, this is, this is why you're watching the cartels just act spasmodically. You had the Jaliscos actually just throwing live grenades to create terror and havoc into grocery stores, blowing people up. So no, this is the real thing. And then what I would tell everybody is don't think this is in a stovepipe. This is related to Iran, this is related to Ukraine. This is every one of the global puzzle pieces is now clicking together. Don't forget we saw corrupt black market weapons from Ukraine find their way into the hands of the cartels. We know that Iranian shoulder launched missiles massage are in the cartel's hands. And in cartel hands with the Sinaloa is in our own country. So whether it's China and Russia having interests in Iran, whether it's Hezbollah and the IRGC working with the cartels in Mexico and in the United States. Time to keep our head on a swivel kids, because it's about to get really rough for a while.
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Yeah, they, I saw yesterday an armored vehicle brought from Ukraine even had the Ukrainian flag still on it. And you know that a good share of the money we sent over there, they sold those arm, took that money. It's the most corrupt country in the damn world. So you're saying that the whole bunch of bad actors are involved down there. What about training? I mean, you know, it's nice to have shoulder fired missiles and whatnot, but what sort of training do you suppose these, these drug cartels have? I mean listen, they're actually, they're well funded, they're worth billions of dollars thanks to trafficking of people and drugs. What, what are they going to do to be trained?
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Well, they're well funded. They have their own training camps. They have gone to Ukraine and fought with the Ukrainians there and have practical combat experience. And so you have irgc, the Iranians who have terror camps that where they train them in Mexico. Everything we've been talking about for years now is coming to fruition. Every single thing. And you know, everybody has always been like, well, is that really today's problem? Well, it is today's problem. Now, because the bad guys, whether it's the People's Liberation army, whether it's the irgc, Hezbollah, Trendero, they all work together. That's why President Trump chose to go after the cartels as his point of entry, because it's the vascular system to it all.
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Well, look what he did with Maduro. That certainly was cutting the head off a major snake there. But, you know, we always think of Mexico as this delightful little place. We go down and we, we head across the border, have some margaritas, you know, maybe do some pharmaceutical shopping over there because the drugs are a little bit cheaper, you can buy some tchotchkes. But Mexico is about as corrupt as it gets. And it is actually not. Not fully our friend.
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No, not at all. But it's about to. It's about to be because they have to choose now. Everybody's got to choose. Do you choose the cartels or do you choose the United States? Well, I can tell you that in a clandestine way, we have so put the cartels off balance. That's why parking the Ford off of Venezuela was so important. And you heard me say it before, it wasn't just about Venezuela. It's about the cartels that have no borders, including our own. And they have run the tables with impunity. They are billionaires several times over. They have well trained armies, but they've gotten fat, bloated, arrogant, and they don't understand that the United States put the blade back on its sword.
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Yeah, well, when you, you know, they're very arrogant. They were firing across the Rio Grande when Joe Biden was the president. They act very cocky when they're dealing with an unarmed populace, but they've never gotten a hammer from the world's greatest military. Now under the direction of Pete Hegseth and the commander in chief, that isn't going to mess around. I think if. What would it take for us to. And what do you suppose the limits to our interactions would be able to do a kinetic strike without having troops on the there.
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I don't think we need as many troops on the ground. I think we need some special forces inserts to work with our Mexican army allies. I mean, they are allies to us in an official sense, but they're working with us right now. And then, and then air power, but we don't need a massive invasion force, no massive army. We just need very intelligent air power. If you recall the Afghanistan operation in the early days when special forces on the ground was working with the Northern alliance and then you had air power overhead that's the complexion of this. That's what it should look like. And then what we want to do is we want to create with the most efficient means possible, nothing but a wake of death, destruction. And don't forget, one of the most important players in this, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is rolling up their laundered money. He is rolling up their assets. You have a super yacht in Puerto Vallarta. It's as good as gone because we'll take it from you.
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I love it. Blaine, hold. I know you're on vacation. Will you hold through the race? I want to get your thoughts on what's happening with Iran.
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Okay, Absolutely.
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So this world is totally changed and now you have a change in the administration south of the border from Amlo, who was into this let's give them all hugs crap to Sheinbaum, who's been better on the issue, there's still room for improvement. And now you see an operation like this where El Metro gets taken out. I mean, this is a totally different world. The president's not kidding around with this Don Roe doctrine. I know people are going, DON rowe, MONROE Doctrine. He's not, this is not a joke to him. He is not going to let in this complicated new world of threats, grid systems, EMP attacks, weapons, drones, fusion technology. He is not going to let people set up shop in central South America, Cuba and elsewhere. He's just, he's not, I don't know why people think he's kidding. He has shown no evidence that he's going to back down at all. And now you see it with El Mencho. Thanks to some of our support. You know, six feet deep and, you know, listen, sorry, man, but he found out.
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There you go. That is Dan Bongino. It's good to see Dan back on the air, hearing his voice again and hearing his expertise. But El Mincho is Eldetta. That didn't work very well. Anyway, Brigadier General Blaine hold is in the Damram right now enjoying a little vacation. But let's move on to Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that the Iranian regime would face a force they cannot even imagine should it attack the Jewish state. You've got Boeing KC135 refueling aircraft, C17s, 200 US fighter jets positioned across the Middle East. 2. Two aircraft carrier groups over there. It sounds like the chess pieces have been moved into place for Checkmate. What do you think?
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Oh, yeah, I think they have. But now let's get back to what I'm telling you about all these pieces interlocking. So what my hope is and what my advice would be would match actually, General Kane's, which is these should be surgical strikes. We don't need to do wave after wave and make it look like Iraq and Afghanistan because. Because we're going to have the main line of effort here in the United States, I believe, and Iran cells are here in the United States with us. We've had four years of open borders. So if you put the Ayatollah into a Hail Mary situation, don't think that that war just stays in the Middle East. They'll join up rather quickly with their brothers and sisters in the cartels, and they'll get active on this side. So how. This is what everybody's saying. Isn't the President doing anything? The President is threading the mother of all needles. He's trying to avoid World War Three. Let him work, because it's all related. There are no such things as. This is an incident on this part of the world. You got China, Russia, Iran, the cartels, Mexico, Venezuela. They're all part of this, and they're all here with us.
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What would you recommend? I mean, obviously, vigilance. And I would assume that we have intelligence services who are working on it here. What. What sort of attack? I mean, obviously, we know how terrorists operate, but how concerned do you suppose we should be? And how. How do we prepare ourselves? Brother?
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Yeah. I'm not trying to scare the daylights out of everybody, but you can see for yourself what's happening around the world. And it's not a fantasy that everybody understands who got into the country and that there's cartels on Main street to. So as communities, we've got to pull together, be resilient, understand that our grids, our water, cyber systems, all our targets, in addition to potential terror attacks, attacks on law enforcement and that kind of thing. So if you see something, don't just assume it's a fire running out of control. Somebody could have set that fire. It could be a diversion for something. Don't just assume that that antifa kid is an antifa kid. He might be a cartel kid or a. Or an Iranian. We just have to put the pieces together in the game, study everything. And again, this is not about. This is about us being resilient because the United States military can't come home right this second. We're busy around the world. We've got National Guard and all of that, but we already saw things like Minneapolis and don't think for five seconds these anti ice people aren't going to capitalize on those weaknesses. It's a little rough. It's a little rough, but. But we'd be lying if we said otherwise. And we don't need to be fearful. We need to be in touch with our creator and in touch with what we've done in case uncertainty falls our way.
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Absolutely. All right, brother, well, I hope you enjoy your time in the Dominican Republic. I would assume you have a couple of nice either Dominican or Cuban cigars with you.
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You were gonna do just fine, brother. I appreciate you having me on.
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Thank you very much and God bless it. And again, tell everybody where they can hear your Dangerous Intellectuals podcast. It's a really good show, by the way.
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Oh, thank you so much. We're come to dangerous intellectuals.com you're going to hear Dr. Emily Brearley talk about the corrupt cartel called International Aid and Development and how we've been fleeced over all the years.
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All right, brother, I appreciate you. Thank you very much for your time today.
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Thanks, Bob.
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Yeah. Tonight, by the way, tonight, State of the Union, Newsmax. Just watch it on Newsmax. There's no other place to watch it than Newsmax. Finnerty is going to be doing it. Rob Finnerty. Granted man Suster are going to be. Are going to be doing the play by the play by play pre and post and and I would encourage you to to download the Newsmax app. By the way, I've been with Newsmax for six years now and what a glorious organization it is. They got a bureau here in Washington D.C. they got a bureau in South Florida. They got a bureau in New York City and a Lot of people are turning in the Newsmax because you can trust Newsmax. You can trust Newsmax. And, and I got to tell you, the people on Newsmax, Rob Schmidt, Rob Finnerty, Carl Higby, Greg Kelly, just all outstanding people. And they don't, they don't. They're honest about who they are. They're not going to change their stripes, you know, depending on an election and all that stuff. So I would encourage you to, if you haven't checked out Newsmax, I would encourage you to watch Newsmax because it's, it's definitely something you want to watch. But again tonight, tonight on Newsmax is what you want to watch. You want to watch the State of the Union. By the way, real quick, let's check the price of gold real quick here because, you know, the price of gold went up real high and then it came back down again and then it went back on the check right here. What is the price of gold today, ladies and gentlemen? 5154. So we are well above $5,000 per ounce. If you have been considering buying gold, it's giving you a little bit of a tease here to get back in before it begins its climb again. I had mentioned earlier, ANZ sees gold hitting $5,800 an ounce in the second quarter. And so it's giving you a little pause. I know you've been thinking about a while. It was $2,600 announced a year and a half or so ago and now it's 5154 an ounce. And birch Gold is a company that I trust. I literally just invested of my little 401k in birch gold. And, and I said do it all gold, all gold, all the time, no silver. I said I will add silver to the portfolio. I'll just set aside a little bit, month to month and we'll buy some silver because I am going to buy silver because they're talking about $300 silver possibly this year. You know, it went above $115 an ounce. It's like in the 80s now. So I'm going to add some silver as time goes on. And I have gold now that it's low. And so what you need to do is text my name, rob to 989-898. Rob to 989-898. Get information, no obligation. A plus rating from the BBB. Rob to 989898 from Burt's Gold. This is the Rob Carson Show. Back in a minute. Rob Carson, Joe. Donald trump again playing 4D chess, I guess designated branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, the progenitor of isis, Al Qaeda and Hamas. There's a lot of stuff going on and is that Blaine Holtz said there's a lot of shenanigans going on in our country thanks to Joe Biden leaving the southern border opening endanger all of us. So, you know, be vigilant. Be vigilant. So you can't make this up. Democrats in Virginia pushed a bill through to restrict anyone under 21 for possessing a firearm. This is one of the Republicans in Virginia, by the way, Abigail Scamberger is doing the rebuttal to the Faith of Union tonight. She is a crazy cat lady from hell. But listen, this is unconstitutional. It's not going to stand. But listen to the lunacy from Democrats. And they will do this anywhere they get into office. Anywhere they get into office. They are going further left than they were in 2024. Hey, good morning, friends. I just wanted to hop on and let you know about a bill that passed yesterday on the House floor, House Bill 1525, which is intended to disallow anybody under the age of 21 to purchase, transfer, possess a firearm. And I won't go into all the details, but it says no one under 21 can do this unless you're with an accompanying adult and you're hunting or you're going to a shooting range. Well, that's just damned unconstitutional and will not stand. Friends, go to the code of Virginia and see what the definition of an adult is. It's somebody who's 18. This is the absurdity. This is the perfect example of the absurdity in Richmond and the attack on our second Amendment. Yeah, and this is a bunch of children who have no knowledge of the Constitution. A bunch of academic, intellectually stunted morons who are saying that an 18 year old who can die in battle cannot have a gun, it must be accompanied and can only use it at a firing range or deer hunting. Shut up. My God, you people are going to get. You're going to get your rear end kicked up between your shoulders. Okay, we got the second Amendment to not for, not for hunting, not for target practice because we overran with individuals who own guns, the most powerful army in the entire world. Do you suppose after defeating the British army with guns in the hands of civilians that we wanted to use them for target practice? My God, you people are so ridiculously stupid, uneducated and honestly, I am not. I am not going to move from this state as much as I might consider it. We've got to defeat these People got to defeat this nonsense and they will try it anywhere. Newsmax. Tonight, watch the State of the Union. We'll hit it tomorrow. God bless you. God bless America's founder Donald Trump. Makes the country great again. And until tomorrow, which is Wednesday, do not catch the stupid. I'll see you then. Love you guys. We're lost. I'm going to pull over and ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're looking to get to the campground. 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