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Welcome back to the Rob Carson show on this Friday. Hope everybody had a wonderful day yesterday. Hope you're getting a nice long weekend. And like I said, my trucker friends. I hope you guys are being careful. I know you are. But when I hear things like that story about this hijacking because you're carrying lobster like that, I worry about that. I really do. I worry about you guys. So I want to go to cut four here, Noah. And this is interesting. So California just went through an audit. The state auditor just conducted an audit of California. And I want you to listen to just a little bit about the audit. And let me tell, tell me if it sounds something vaguely familiar to you. Here we go. This latest report was issued by the state auditor and that's a nonpartisan position. That state auditor now puts eight state agencies on the high risk list of agencies to out for for things like fraud and mismanagement as well as waste. Here's a look at that 92 page report. Newly added to the high risk list is California's food stamp program. If the state doesn't get the improper payments under control, it could cost an extra two and a half billion dollars. Also on there is the Department of Finance which was tasked with giving out Covid relief funds. Critics say $32 billion of that was taken by fraudsters. Then there are infrastructure issues like California's deteriorating dam. Also the high speed train that's already cost taxpayers 18 billion without a single section of track complete. Other reports cite $24 billion spent on the homeless issue that critics claim the state lost track of. More recently there's a report that says California cell phone users paid a surcharge for years to Upgrade the state's 911 system. Here's Congressman Kevin Kiley talking about what happened to that plan.
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That after spending $650 million on that system, the state is totally scrapping it and starting over. Completely wasted the money because the technology doesn't work. Mind you, we are very close to Silicon Valley in Sacramento and yet the government can't figure out how to make basic technology perform.
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Yum. This is the state's own auditor. Do you know that they think that the waste, fraud and abuse in California could be up to $70 billion billion dollars? 70 with a B. Do you realize how much money we as taxpayers would have back in our pockets if the government and especially on a state level. I think the waste, fraud and abuse is far worse on a state level than it is on the federal level. And I could be living in dreamland, but I think it is far worse on a state level than on the federal level. How much money we would have back in our pockets. This and it's because they don't respect us. Not all, but a lot of state workers and a lot of government workers don't care because it's other people's money. Opm, other people's money. So they don't care. We pay their salaries and they are supposed to be stewards of our money, yet they are not. And this isn't even making big news because it was released right before Christmas. So it doesn't make big news. This is going to just get lost in the weeds when Gavin Newsom runs in 2028. This is going to be a long forgotten memory. Four out of eight agencies. The auditor's new report identifies eight high risk agencies that not only exhibit serious waste Fraud and abuse, abuse or mismanagement, but also have failed to take adequate corrective action. So they know that they're losing money. They know that the billions, billions of dollars, these agencies, billions each are losing money. It's disappeared. And how does money disappear? How does that happen? They're losing money somehow and they failed to correct it. They're like, oh, sorry, our bad. And they refute. They just didn't correct it. So I don't know what you do. And until people in California start to rise up and get upset about this, nothing is going to change. The report found again, massive payment error rates in the delivery of food assistance benefits. Does that sound familiar to you? Does that sound like Maine? Does that sound like Massachusetts? Does that sound like Minnesota, the poster child for fraud? California is going to take that crown in a heartbeat. This is several times Minnesota's alleged fraud and abuse. If Calif. The numbers for California turn out to be right, that alone could cost the state two and a half billion dollars. Where is the money going? That's what I want to know. I want to know who's in charge of oversight, number one. And number two, where did the money go? You can find it if you want to. And who was ever in charge of the oversight for these programs need to. Need to be held to account. It is. It also discovered that fraud and improper payments for unemployment benefits continue to cost the state billions. It just keeps happening. Inadequate eligibility determinations for Medi Cal, which is their version of Medicaid, put billions more at risk. No one is guarding the money and it's clear that they don't care. And that's what drives me nuts. On top of all of this, 49 dams in the state pose what is called extremely high hazard to life and property. The number of dams rated poor, so that's 49 dams rated poor or unsatisfactory, are increasing by 73% over the last two years. This is Gavin Newsom's America, and he's dining at the French Laundry without a mask while the staff wears masks to serve him. I mean, how much more Democrat party can. Can you get than that, right? Like, how much more can you get than that? The double standard is insane. And Gavin Newsom with his jazz hands there with the weird hand motions is going to get the nominee because none of this matters to them. None of this matters to them. The state's unemployment insurance program bought again, you heard this in the report. 7224 mobile devices for employees to use from home during COVID They took them back Put them in a closet. And nobody remembered to cancel the contracts for 7,000 phones. We just forgot. We just kept paying it. Nobody, nobody along the line said, you know, this probably isn't a good idea because it's other people's money. Another a California Air Resources board, I don't even know what that is, continued paying one of its employees over $170,000 salary annually for 15 months after the employee left. And I guarantee you that employee gets to keep the money. Like I would be so afraid, you know, if I get overpaid by, by one of my clients, if I get overpaid, I'm immediately on the phone. I actually like to email them because I like to have a paper trail. I'll email them and say, hey, you overpay me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then that let them decide how they want to handle it. Because I know in the end they're going to come, they're going to eventually find it because it's private business, it's a private industry. They're going to find it and they're going come back to me and want the money. So I don't want them to think that I'm dishonest and keeping it. So I'm like, oh, you overpay me, even if it's 20 bucks. Well, 20 bucks. I don't know if I would, but, but I would let them know, hey, you know, you made a mistake here. And this happened several times where I've been like, oh, this is a big mistake. And I'm very honest and I let them know. But apparently this guy, I would assume he got to keep it 128 billion on a high speed train 18 years later, nothing. No track. No track at all. But they spent 18 billion and haven't done a darn thing. Nothing. 24 billion on homelessness, yet the home, they lost track of the funds. They don't know where it went because you know where it went. It went to these NGOs, it went to these little services that somebody set up and says, oh no, I'm helping the homeless, I'm giving them counseling, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. Provided the paperwork, probably with a storefront or a fake address or there's like 14 businesses run out of one address and they don't do anything. And they just lost track of the funds. Just lost it. 24 billion and homelessness has soared. California has the highest rate of homelessness in the nation, probably because they just lose the money. And that technology system you heard about Their hubs given a jump from Silicon Valley, but they actually have Silicon Valley in the state. And that, that phone system, the 911 system that they had spent all this money on upgrading and putting in, didn't work. So, oh well, it just scrapped the whole thing. $650 million later. Now I know that's not in the billion, so that's just a drop in the bucket. But if you don't want to give it to me, because I'll take it, I will take that 650. I'll even pay the taxes on it. Thank you. I'll be more than happy because when I'm done with taxes, I'll have about half left. So I have about 325 left. 325 million. You know what? I won't be on the radio on Monday. Not gonna be here anyway, but you know what I mean. So the stage budget, and while all of this waste, fraud and abuse is going on, they're just losing billions and billions of dollars. The budget grew by 50% in five years under Newsom. And this guy wants to run for president and I guarantee you he, he is going to be the candidate. Now in the meantime, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services has canceled main care payments to Gateway Community Services after the audits found that that charity, Gateway Community Services, this is one of those organizations that people just set up and they know how to play the game. They over bill overbuild the state over a million dollars, about a million $1,070,000 from March of 2021 through December. Not bad for less than two years work. The cash was supposed to cover the costs of interpreting services to Somali migrants. I'm sorry. Maybe we should be teaching them English instead of translating for them so they can just continue to not integrate into society. Maybe we should be teaching them English instead. Now Gateway also reportedly overbilled for more than 600,000 between 2015 and 2018. And they are under a cloud of suspicion still for other violations that were found during another state audit that was completed in 2024. But they keep doling money out to them. Thank goodness Maine finally came to their senses and said enough is enough. Now you ready? Gateway was funded and see if you see a common thread through this. Gateway was founded in 2015 and which they were immediately under overbilling people by a Somali migrant, Abdullah Ali, who became the subject of some scrutin. He launched a 2024 bid to run for the president of Jubaland, which is an autonomous region in Somalia. While he's living in the United States, running this charity, Gateway Services, which was defrauding the state of millions of dollars in improperly billed services. Why is he still here? Why? Why is he still here? We should have repatriated him to Jubaland and we should have given him one way ticket so you can go campaign in person, Juba Land without American money. You know, this is exactly what he used the money for, in my humble opinion. I don't know what happened to this guy. I don't even know if he's even been, if he's even been charged with anything. The agency also has connections to a number of prominent Democrats in Maine, including Democrat State Senator Chloe Maxim and Democrat strategists Joanne D. Arc Archangelo and BJ McCollister. BJ is served in the Joe Biden campaign 2020 for the White House. And he chief of staff to Maine Democrat Senate President Troy Jackson. Shocking that they have connections to Democrats. Nobody could have seen that part of the puzzle. It's just shocking. All right, I've got some more coming up. We're going to talk a little bit about Georgia and the voter rolls because we got that going on, too. That's next on the Rob.
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We're back on The Rob Carson Show, 800-922-6680. If you want to jump in, you know, I love it when you jump in, call and sometimes challenge me. That's good. 800-922-6680. We have some rules, though. You have to, if you, if you tell Noah you're calling about something, one topic, and you go to a different topic, we're gonna dump you. That's just the way it is when I keep on topic. And we have to be respectful, like, I'll be respectful to you. I expect the same in return. And you can disagree with me. Has to be an adult conversation. I don't think that that bar is too high, although some people will always crawl under the bar, right? There's always someone who will crawl under the bar. So the Georgia 2020 election results in Fulton county are back in the news. And this is something that I remember, I'm old enough to remember when we weren't allowed to discuss any kind of perceived irregularities with the 2020 election. Remember that? You got, you got censored. He got thrown off of social media. You were throttled. And Rudy Giuliani had his life ruined over this. Now we're finding out in Fulton county there may have been some things going on that really weren't all that fantastic. For instance, after Five years of trying. A citizen investigator has finally uncovered proof of widespread irregularities in the 2020 election results for Fulton County. His name is David Cross. And how sad is it that it took a citizen to say, I'm going to get to the bottom of this, that we don't have any journalists, investigative journalists, who do this? So he obtained nearly all of the county's election records through a FOIA request, and he discovered that signatures were missing on no less than 134 tabulator tapes, representing about 315,000 votes. Chain of custody totally broken. Total chain of custody broken. He said this is not partisan. This is statuary. He was at a hearing earlier this month before the Georgia State Election Board. He said, when the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are by definition uncertified. Yet they were counted. The law was not followed, and people should be outraged at that. But, of course, no harm, no foul. It's done. It's water under the bridge. Joe Biden won Georgia by less than 315,000 votes. So, you know, there's that. Very quickly, Anthony in Philadelphia wants to go off topic here. Just very quickly, Anthony, I'm going to. Gonna try it. We'll see what happens. Anthony, welcome to the Rob Carson Show. I'm Phoenix Generous. Hello.
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Well, you have so few callers. I wanted to talk about election integrity. Can I ask a question?
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Well, are we talking about Georgia? Because we're talking about the Georgia. Fulton county election and the lack of a lack of custody in the questions that were being asked because you said you wanted to talk about what a good job Trump is doing. So you lied to get on the air. And I'm not quite sure one would lie about getting on the air when we're talking about election integrity in Georgia. So if you would like to talk about Fulton county and the election integrity is there, I'm more than happy to listen to you.
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I'll address that. But I'd also like to.
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No, no, no, no, no. Are you going to address that? If you want to address it, address it. If you want to go somewhere else. I'm sorry, not now.
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If you read. If you read a little bit further, it's. It's procedural nonsense that. It's like if you went to a restaurant and charged a $500 dinner, somehow signed in the wrong place on the check. Okay. That's what this guy's talking about.
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And actually, that. Actually, that's not true. And I'll explain why. But thank you. I appreciate it because I think there are a lot of people who would, who would probably agree with you. But let me explain and maybe you can learn something here. Anthony, thank you so much for joining me on the Rob Carson Show. So the signature was blank on every single tabulator tape the county produced for early voting, and some tabulator tapes appear to be missing entirely. That's a whole nother issue. The tapes account for just over 60% of the votes cast in 2020 in Fulton County. So imagine that 60%. Now, the tabulator tapes show the chain of custody. So they're signed in the beginning to show that they are. There's no votes on them, that they are empty, that they're clean. And that's the first step. So that is signed. Yes, the tabulator tapes are empty, they're clean, and then they're signed again at the end to show that they have been sealed, that there's a sealing process that requires two signatures and that they've gone through that process. And so none of the signatures are there verifying those three processes. So that's like saying if you get to use Anthony's analogy, you get a check, but there's someone else's meal on it. There's someone else's meal on the check, but you get the whole check because no one did the process to see that the check, the receipt, the bill that you were getting was just your items that you had in the restaurant. That's required. You don't want someone else's items. You want to pay for someone else's items. So you want to make sure that that step is done. Same thing with the tabulator tapes. You want to make sure that there are no other votes on there and that this is clean and you're only counting the proper votes. That was not done. We'll, we'll attack, attack this a little bit later after we speak with Chris Ch Toto on the Rob Carson Show.
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And Jerry Callahan@Newsmax.com Listen. See now there's some good music. There we go. Mary Walter. And for Rob Carson, I will be with you next Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Ken Matthews will be with you on Monday. All right. Joining us now, Christian Toto, Daily Wire Blaze contributor. He's the host of the Hollywood in Toto podcast. What a great guy. Christian, I'm so lucky I get to talk to you because Rob's not here, so I'm being a little selfish. How are you?
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I'm great. Thanks for the kind intro.
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Absolutely. And you're also a podcast co host of off the Beaten Path. He does everything. You can find him on YouTube at Hollywood in Toto. So he is absolutely everywhere. I have to start out with this, and it's not really Hollywood, but I know you probably have something to say about it. So, you know, they have this Christmas Eve jazz concert that's been going back for about 20 years at the Kennedy Center. And you've got this guy, Chuck Red, who called off the performance at the last minute because it's now the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial center for the Performing Arts. So because they changed the name, he won't have anything. He wouldn't even perform in the center, which I don't know. I think it's kind of childish, especially when the left was all about tearing down statues of people whose name they like or they didn't like. The person who was associated. Did you see what I'm saying? Like, there just seems to be a really weird double standard.
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Oh, totally is. But I'd go a little further in that. Listen, what about all the people who had plans that night to watch that show and maybe got babysitters or cleared their schedules or looking forward to it at the very last minute? Oh, it's gone. I'm not doing anything that night because my plans have been canceled. I mean, that's just selfish.
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I think it's childish, right?
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Yeah, but that's not unexpected at this point. You know, the resistance takes many forms. Most of it akin to a two year old's tantrum.
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Yes. You know, I wonder if we should get in the pacifier business. You know, we could both afford to unmute. You know, we could both make a little money on the side. I don't think either one of us would scoff at making a little money on this side.
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I mean, you could get Jimmy Kimmel to sponsor it. I think it'd be great. Maybe that with, you know, some no tears shampoo, because Jimmy's so good at.
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Crying so often now, Jimmy Kimmel, you know, did you notice he had to go to England to trash America? Did you notice that?
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There's so much about that that Drives me crazy.
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So go, have at it.
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Gave an address to on English TV and basically saying, trump is evil, Trump is fascist, Trump is this, Trump is that. Well, two things. He's talking about free speech, which obviously matters deeply to everyone or should also. Free speech is under significant attack in England.
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Thank you.
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If he had any sort of bravery or nerve or any sort of ability to speak truth to power, he'd say, I'd like to take this minute to not only I'm not a fan of Trump and I don't like what he said about me or whatever you want to say, but I can't let this moment go without really, you know, excoriating people here in this country for locking up people, for sending the wrong things on social media. That's not good. That's censorship. That's fascism on the rise. And while I hate Trump and I'm going to denounce him, I can't let this moment go without saying that. But he couldn't say that because that's not who he is and he doesn't care about free speech. Really?
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I was so glad you brought that up, because I'm like, wait a minute, aren't they arresting people? There's a guy who's been in jail for like, 500 and some odd days because he refuses to take down a post that he made on social media. They will come to your home and arrest you if you say something on social media that they don't like or you yell something at somebody on the street that they. That is somehow hurtful or something. Unless, of course, you're yelling at Jews, in which case is totally fine.
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Yeah, that's game on. Listen. Jimmy Kimmel and his friends were virtually silent for the last 8, 10 years while cancel Culture rose up, while the WOKE mob shut people down, while the Biden administration was censoring people left, right, and in the center. There was so many things that he could have stood up for, so many ways. He could have said, hey, I'm going to use my clout, my power, my platform to speak out for free speech. And he didn't say, boo. He doesn't care. This is all politics. It's all partisanship. He is a fraud, an absolute clown. And not the kind that makes you laugh, apparently.
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No. But here's another one who is suffering from tds. I swear, I used to laugh when they would talk about liberalism as a disease and TDS is real. And I was like, okay, I don't think these people are mentally ill. Really changing my, my tune about that. With the second election of Trump, they seem to have just gone off the end. Like, I truly believe there's some kind of mental illness at play here, that they're so, that it's, they just can't, can't rectify it in their brains. Look at Rosie o' Donnell who had to go to therapy and she, first of all, she moves out of the country. Fine, move out of the country, I don't care. But then she has to go to therapy in Ireland, even though she's no longer living in America because Donald Trump is still bothered somehow bothering Ireland.
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Yeah, you know, I'm not a doctor, so I can't take it from that perspective, but please do anyway.
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It's okay.
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Yeah, no, no, no. But it seems to be rooted in narcissism. And I think Dr. Drew Pinsky is far more educated and such an. I've talked about it a lot. Is that a lot of cultural problems are facing today. They're rooted in narcissism. And listen, if she wants to leave the country because she hates Trump in a way, God bless her, because at least she's, you know, she's not just saying it. She did it. But then you go to another country instead of finding a new home and finding new happiness, all you do is you find her on social media and all these different talk shows on Ms. Now just blathering on about Trump. My God, he's living in her head. And it's just ridiculous.
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And it affects her kids, which I think is really sad. And a lot of these people, it affects their kids because they feed this poison to their children. And now their children hate Trump. They don't even know why. What bothered me, I just want to go back to Jimmy Kimmel for a hot second. So he was selected to deliver Channel 4 because they have, it's all BBC owned, I guess over there, the alternative Christmas message, which is counter programming to the BBC's traditional Royal Christmas address. Traditional Christmas address. And of course, he goes after Trump and he says tyranny is booming in the US and then he apologized on behalf of the half the country, basically telling the audience, saying we're not bright, we're American.
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Like, well, he's speaking for himself. So he.
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Thank you.
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And you know, he's not funny, he's not bright and he's not correct. And you know, the bottom line is if a lot of celebrities, a lot of artists are afraid, they're afraid of being canceled, they're afraid of losing work, they're afraid of many, many things. It's a very fearful business. I get that. I have some sympathy for them. But if Jimmy Kimmel truly believed in his heart of hearts that speaking out against Trump meant his job, maybe his, his freedom were in jeopardy, he wouldn't say boo. He wouldn't say a word. He can say this because he knows that he'll be fine and he knows the media will rally around him and he knows he'll get more famous by saying this. He doesn't believe it's true. Not. There's no way.
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It's so fascist. You know, it's so fascist, him being allowed to trash the president at every turn. So fascist.
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Do you think he kicked him off the air for one week? That's how, that's how strong and mighty and powerful is. Trump is so, so omnipresent and so. And so dictatorial that he couldn't even get him off the air for more than a week.
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Exactly. Now he claims that his show has returned stronger than ever. Is that true?
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You know, the ratings do seem to be a little higher. I know they peaked a lot the first episode or two when he was back, which is understandable, what I've seen. You know, it's hard to get a good sense of the ratings. I just, I struggle to even get the latest information. You have to kind of dig for it. But it does seem like they've ticked up a little bit. And actually, I think it'd be interesting when Colbert goes away in May, because the show and him are gone in May. Maybe some of those people go to Kimmel. Maybe he gets another boost. But I just, you know, even if you were liberal, either secular left, you hate Trump, even if you're all those things. I just can't imagine watching that show. I can't. It's so infantile. It's so angry. It's not funny. It's predictable. Who finds that engaging? I mean, I just can't figure it out.
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Yeah. Well, coming up, I want to talk about something that you wrote. Hollywoodintoto.com, you wrote this and talking about Jimmy Kimmel and comparing him to Donald Trump and the speech. All right, so we're gonna do that coming up. And remind me to ask you about the movie Melania as well. Okay, so lots to talk about. We are with Christian Toto here on the Newsmax hotline. The Rob Carson Show. Joining us on the Newsmax hotline, it is Christian Toto. You can find him everywhere. Just look for Hollywood in Toto, his podcast. He's also on the Daily Wire. He's A Blaze contributor. And you can go to hollywoodintoto.com now you have on Hollywood and Toto a piece where you talk about Jimmy Kimmel. You say Donald Trump can kind of sound like the way Jimmy Kimmel describes him on social media as a fascist like we were just talking about. And you reference what he said about Stephen Colbert. And for those of you who don't know, Donald Trump said put out on True Social, Stephen Colbert is a pathetic train wreck with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success. Now, after being terminated by CBS but left out to dry, he has actually gotten worse. Along with his non existent ratings. Stephen is now running on hatred and fumes, A dead man walking. CBS should, quote, put him to sleep. Now is the humanitarian thing. It's, it is the humanitarian thing to do. Go ahead, go with that. Go. Because I sometimes don't like the way President Trump speaks. I sometimes do not like that either. But, but is he right?
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Well, he went on with that. He said that the network newscasts and their late night shows aren't, are almost 100% negative to me, shouldn't their very valuable broadcast licenses be terminated? Terminated. I say yes. Now here's the thing. I don't like that speech. I hate that speech. I don't like those shows. But imagine the precedent it would set if he cracks down on their broadcast licenses and said, you know what, they need to go. Because that harkens back to the was the Fairness Doctrine where we had to have both equal sides represented in broadcasting, which is a whole different sort of avenue to go down. But the bottom line is this. Those shows exist. They're allowed to say what they want to say. They are uniformly left of center. For sure. We've had that for a long time. The answer is not to take them down. The answer is not to threaten them because we just, I just think it's a terrible road to go down. But the thing with Trump is, is he says these things and it gets it off his chest and then nothing happens. He doesn't do it. You know, the reason why Colbert is off the air coming in May is because the show is losing millions and millions of dollars. And the reason why Jimmy Kimmel had a week off from his show is because he directly lied about who was allegedly the killer of Charlie Kirk, didn't apologize for it, and the affiliate stations howled in protest. That's why that happened. But when Trolley Trump says these things, not only is it not presidential and not cool, for lack of a better phrase, it feeds their egos and it gives Them something to rally around. So when Jimmy Kimmel says it's fascism, he can point to those posts and say, here, see now, again, there's no action there, thank goodness. But that doesn't do us, doesn't do the right, doesn't do Trump any good. It just doesn't. And I think more people have to kind of say that and say, Listen, Mr. President, stop with that. It's, it's, you know, it's wrong. You're not following up on it. It may feel better, but that's. You're hurting our cause here and you're hurting free speeches. Cause it's not good. It gives them fodder. It makes them pretend that they actually are righteous and true, and they're not.
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See, I agree with you sometimes. And listen, I grew up with in the shadow of New York City, believe it or not, rural New Jersey at the time. But Donald Trump has always been a fixture in my world. Right. Growing up as Donald Trump was, was always there. His dating, he had the shows, he was on Howard Stern all the time. He was always a fixture. So I get it. The way he speaks in general doesn't bother me. Like, I know what he's doing. I know he's trolling. He has a phenomenal sense of humor, and he's a good troll. He loves to troll because he knows that the left is going to take the bait every single time. That being said, I agree with you. There are times that I'm like, oh, why, why, why? You know, like, just be quiet. Because they do sometimes use his own words against him and he makes a situation work. He knew he was joking. We knew he was joking. But they still will use it against him to, to kind of, you know, get Trump. And we don't need to have that. We already have enough of it. And I am old enough to remember when the Democrats wanted the Fairness Doctrine.
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Yeah.
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And the Democrats don't want that anymore.
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You want to go down. Yeah. Not the marketplace is correcting because all these shows are dying because Gutfeld on Fox News is doing very, very well. So the marketplace is fixing this. And to me, the bottom line is simple. You know, Jimmy Kimmel can say whatever he wants, but at this point, whose mind is he changing? I don't think he's changing a single person's mind. If you like him, fine, go have at it. But he's not going to make a Trump voter into a non Trump voter. He's not to going it change people's minds.
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B
Right.
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He's speaking to the converted. And that's fine. If you love Ms. Now, God bless you. Go watch it. I can't imagine why you would. It's insulting to me. But, you know, that should be allowed to exist on the platforms. And I think the same. And they go. You can really kind of burrow down into. Well, it is broadcast TV and there's a different responsibility. And I do get that. I don't think you want to go down that road. I really don't.
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B
Yeah, no, I'm with you in the couple minutes that we have left here. Melania, the movie coming out in January, I kind of want to see it. Am I going to regret it? I don't know.
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You know, it's a good direct. I know some. Brett Radner's got a lot of me too issues trailing him. I don't want to diminish that. But he's a talented fellow. So I imagine what he's doing is of consequences coming January 30th, by the way, should be in theaters. And we don't know a heck of a lot about Melania. It's kind of a weird thing to say about the first lady. Two term first lady. But, you know, a lot of the Vogue style magazines, they don't want to go anywhere near her because, you know, know because of who she is and who she's married to. So, you know, she's been a fairly private person over the years. So, yeah, I'm curious about it and curious what this, what this movie can share. And at the same time, you know, this is something probably within her worldview where if it was, it's not going to be a hit piece, it's going to be more, you know, favorable, more fun and potentially like a lot of documentaries are of late. So I just hope there's some interesting, innovative information there. She lets down her guard. She shows who she is and, you know, she deserves that time and that space because the media is not going to be anything but cruel to her, sight unseen. So if she's able to kind of tell her story her way, I think that's valuable.
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B
Yeah, no, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this. So if we ever get to talk again after I see it, maybe I'll just text you whether it was good or bad because I did that after another movie, the Downton Abbey movie, I could. I texted you to tell you about it. Thank you so much for joining me. Have a wonderful new year, Christian, and I'll see you again soon. Next Friday we get to talk again. So thank you so much.
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A
Can't wait. Thank you.
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B
More coming up. We're not done yet on the Rob Carson show, so just want to wrap up our discussion about the Fulton County, Georgia, the votes lacking certifying signatures. It is a big deal. It's not like you forgetting to sign your bill at a restaurant even though they have your credit card number. Not the same at all. We had a CIT Citizen journalist to thank for this. His name is David Cross. And I'll go into it a little bit more. You don't have a lot of time, but I do want to play this for you. This is a 2020 clip of a Fulton county election worker who was testifying under oath about what she observed regarding military ballots in Fulton county during the 2020 election. This is all the stuff you're just hearing now because it got all censored on the Internet after 2020. Here we go.
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I estimated that somewhere between 80 and 90% were going to Joe Biden throughout the day. It kept making me sicker and sicker every time I saw another Biden, Biden, Biden.
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B
And then I'm going through batches.
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100% of the batches were Biden. I find that statistically impossible.
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B
Yeah, I think we all do. I'm not good at math, but I know that that's statistically impossible. And we're supposed to believe that these are military absentee ballots. 100% going to Joe Biden. Hmm. That's a little funky, right? The attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections is named Ann Brumbaugh. And when it comes to these missing signatures on the tape, he's. Cross found that. Multiple other red flags in the records. He said, we found identical protective containers. Counters. Excuse me. Across several different polling places. Polls that were open eight days late, poll they should have closed. They were still open for eight days. Polls closed at impossibly late hours. Like 2:09am in the morning. A poll closing and poll closing times that don't match the tapes. They're all supposed to match the tapes. The tapes are the check the check and balance for the elections. None of them matched. We found duplicated scanner serial numbers where the memory devices were removed from one scanner scanner and printed on an alternate scanner. And it goes on and on. And you know what she did? She pleaded no contest. She said, I've not seen the tapes myself. But we do not dispute that the tapes were not signed. It was a violation of the rule. We won't. We don't dispute the allegation from the 2020 election, but yet Joe Biden won by fewer than 315,000 votes. So had that check had been there, had people been doing their jobs, that wouldn't have happened. But they're like, oh, you know, at this point, water under the bridge. I just want to know where Rudy Giuliani goes to get his life back. All right. Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Noah, you are so great. Thank you so much. Ken. Thank you. Ralph, thank you. And of course, Rob for let me sit in the seat. Ken will be with you on Monday. Be nice. And I'll be back on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday here on the Rob Carson show. God bless.
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