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Now get $80 off your first month with promo code space80 when you go to talkspace.com match with a licensed therapist today at talkspace.com send save $80 with code space80@talkspace.com hold it. Now 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. How about some conservative comedy? I know you might not be able to tell from looking at me, but I am also a political refug. I escaped from the People's Republic of New York and Wexler. I think we have some New Yorkers in here. Yeah. You know that gay Muslim they're all obsessed with up there? Barack Obama. Oh, hello. That's funny. You see, it's funny. It's funny because that's, that's comedy. Conservative comedy is on the ascent because the left can't be taken seriously anymore. It's good to see you be able to make money and make funny, make fun of people like Barack Obama now because otherwise, you know, before you were, you were destroyed. You were absolutely destroyed. People couldn't be comedians and whatnot. Rob Schneider is kicking butt right now. It is wonderful. And listen, I've been writing conservative comedy for a very long time and it's just kind of nice to see blossoming because one of the things that we have an advantage of is that it's true. The we, we, we have truth involved in our, in our comedy. That's the way it is. One of the big stories of the day, the Democrats are freaking out because I'll just say this real quick. 2020, we've not been able to talk about it. We've been shut down. We've been threatened. Some news organizations have been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars because they dared to even cover the story. Even cover the story. It's weird, it's weird, it's weird. But one of the reasons why we voted for Donald Trump and one of the reasons why we knew that the day after the election in 2020 Donald Trump was going to be the president again was because we said that election was absolute bull crap. And so finally the FBI went into Fulton County, Georgia, the county where they were going to prepare to thanks to these idiot that they, that they hired to go after Donald Trump, Fannie Willis, and they were going to put Donald Trump in jail the rest of his life. FBI agents spent the afternoon inside the records warehouse for the Fulton County Georgia Board of Elections. The matter is sealed before a court, meaning details are limited. But we can report this is related to the 2020 presidential election. Just let it go. There's nothing to say. Why are you still bringing this up? Sources tell Fox News that agents retrieved documents, phones and computers after a judge signed a warrant. President Trump has long made Georgia. Here's why it's still a story. I'm just going to share a little audio, a flashback from 2020. A water pipe has broken in State Farm Arena. State Farm Arenas where they were kind of the absentee ballots of Georgia's most populous county. And now the tabulation has stopped. It's Allegheny, which is Pittsburgh, but also Beaver Art of our county to county Butler in Westmoreland. They've all stopped counting for the night. They've gone to bed. They begin the process at 10 o'. Clock. This would never happen before. It had happened in all the battleground states. But there was nothing to see there. It was a water pipe burst. It wasn't a water pipe burst that actually disappeared the very next day. Everybody knew it was a lie. Good morning, Heather. They did have to press pause overnight. They will be back in a few short hours. Expected to resume counting. 8:30. It's never happened before. Fulton county is now going to stop counting at 10:30pm That's Fox News. They lost their journalistic curiosity the day after that election and will resume their count at tomorrow morning. They basically stopped counting. Tonight. They're going to start counting again. Nothing to see here. Why would you even care? Why would you even care? It's six years later. What did they have to hide? It's amazing that 2020 was an anomaly. And Democrats squeaked by Joe Biden, who couldn't get out of his his home and Couldn't fill his Covid circles in 2020. Somehow squeaked by in Georgia. And, you know, they. Now they don't want to turn over the evidence. And they say, you know, it's voter intimidation. How the hell is it voter intimidation to on the up and up. Why don't you read it? Open those books, say, hey, man, we going to get this cleared up. We want to get this cleared up over ballots from 2020 that aren't tied to the voters. They are decoupled from the voter registration. So you wouldn't know how these people voted anyway. They just want to look at the ballots. It's obvious that the Democrats are hiding this because really, because they have something to hide. They know that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. That is. That is dismiss and misinformation there or something. That is. You can't say that you. That should be censored. You can't have an opinion on that. Don't you know that by now? This is Mo Ivory. She's a county commissioner in Fulton county, and for some reason, she's upset about this. Fulton county is right now the target, the only county right now fighting over an election that already happened. Yeah. Let it go. But he died. He was murdered six years ago. Let it go. It is coming to a place near you. This is the beginning of the chaos of 2026 that is about to ensue. Wow. And listen to this county commissioner from Fulton County. You can tell she's kind of nervous because she's talking real fast. Hi, everybody. Listen, I know you're watching the news. You're saying a lot of stuff about this at the foot and county elections and registrations. I'm on the inside right now. So I just want you to be, like, real discerning about all that you're hearing from people who are on the outside of what's going on. I'm going to give you the. Don't listen to anybody else. Just listen to me about what's happening. So they served a warrant. The FBI. This is Trump serving a warrant to go up the 2020 ballots, which are in a secure location inside of here, 700 boxes. The first warrant that they gave was incorrect legally, like they didn't follow the right procedure. They went back and they fixed it and they came. She sound a little nervous back. And now they are actually collecting the boxes. They are in the command, the chain of command in Fulton County. It is racist that once they are archived, they become the possession of the clerk of superior court, which is Shea Alexander. She is here and she is with them inventorying everything. Take your breath, girl. That they're taking. We, the commissioners, the chairman, the county attorney, are trying to figure out a le plan as to maybe an injunction, a motion to quash. We don't know yet. We're trying to figure it out. We're getting all kinds of legal advice. I got you stalking even faster. She sounds like she's a little nervous. That is just crazy. That is crazy. Here's Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon, he went to jail because the Biden administration, because he. It was held in contempt of Congress and he was a political prisoner. Are not ever going to allow you to steal another. Steal another election. Steve. You can't say that. It's the disinformation. Misinformation, ever. Malformation. We're going to get set things right on 2020. Can't say that. We're going to hold accountable and make criminal charges about the people that stole the 2020 election. You're a racist. And in this case, it'll be in Georgia, but it's going to be many other places. Hitler. Hitler in. In Minnesota, in Minneapolis. We'll make sure we're going to get the voter rolls. You're not going to have illegal alien invaders vote anymore the way that keeps you in office. Because the Democrats haven't had to win an election a very long time. They can't. This is why they're lost right now. This is why they're caterwauling. They don't know what. They don't know anything. They don't know what the American people want. They didn't learn anything for 2024. They're going to stick with their nonsense, their bullcrap in. In states like Virginia, they just lie about, you know, their platform and then get into office and spring it on everybody like this crazy cat lady, Abigail Spamberger. Crazy cat lady just, you know, lied, lied, ran as a moderate, is a communist. It ain't gonna stand. It has to be legally challenged. It's ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Tommy Tuberville, he was talking to Benny Johnson about the elections. Why it's important that we make sure from here on out they can't be stolen anymore. We will not win any more elections in terms of majorities, if we don't pass the SAVE act because they bring in all these illegals and they're gonna try to get as many of them to vote as they can, then they have all these voting machines that are all crooked. There's no voter fraud out of Venezuela by the way they have a system that they can win elections. We probably have a dozen or so people up here in the House and the Senate that were elected illegally. They shouldn't be here. What, because things were crooked in the elections? Just look at Nevada and Arizona and all these. Oh, you mean like in the. In the midterms when. When the. The Maricopa County. 65% of the voting machines stopped working that day and Republican voters were turned away and Kerry Lake ended up losing the governorship. Are you saying something like that places that. That you know, it's been proven, but nobody does nothing to see here thing about it. But I'll go back to the money that has been stolen. If you go back to the first. First six months I was here back in 2000. Listen to this. This is something I've been saying. The Democrats had the majority House, Senate and the White House, and they did this first what cares Act. You know, we need money for Covid, $2 trillion. Well, what they do with that money, they sent it to all the blue states to pay it off their debts because they had stolen so much money they could not function. And we're talking about 30, 40 billion for California. 30, 40 billion for new York. Same thing for Chicago. The cities. I mean, it is a disaster, folks, you are. You are being stolen blind. Yeah. 100%. 100. Let's do a little flashback. Fannie Willis tried to put Donald Trump in prison. Her case fell apart because she's, you know, an idiot and her. And she's corrupt. And she was. She was, you know, having an affair with Nathan Wade. And he didn't wait. He was knee deep in it, man. He was knee deep in it. And she got all sorts of nervous and stuff when she was exposed. I'm the best DA in the Southeast. Why wouldn't I be proud of my work? I noticed that you didn't bring any diversity here when you brought witnesses. You brought all Republican Caucasian people to come and to tell you about my work. I don't need daddy to tell me how to do my work. I know how to do my work. What I can tell you is that I allowed Mr. Wade to build up. She's gonna be in hot agua too. I want to do a little flashback because, you know, Jim Gossett and I have been writing a lot of satire. And this is from the Greatest Hits, Fonny Willis, A little flashback as the FBI raids Fulton County, Georgia, about Fonny Fanny Willis is a crook, or Fanny, whatever you want to call her. All the money that she hired her boyfriend. He was unqualified, then lied about it when she testified. 700 grand he made. He made a lot of money, Fanny. Made sure he got paid. Well, he certainly paid for it, that's for sure. No experience, but still got hired. 700,000 for that. They should be disbarred. Can you do a million? Well, I've spired old Fanny. All right. Whatever you paid. Wade. Nathan Wade, he's your lover. They should put you away all Fanny. And you gave them a job just for cover. They should jail you today, old Fanny. What you talking about, Will? Oh, Fanny, you used federal funds for your pleasure. Yes, you did. And you won't get away, old Fanny. Your conviction is that is Jim Gossett. A satire piece of satire for a couple years ago. I wanted to share it on this. On this great day as the FBI rated the. The ballots in Fulton County. We've been waiting. This is what we've been waiting for. Let's take a break and come back, shall we? This is the Rob Carson Show. The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. Alison Chains, Jim Bones. I think we need to hear our Cabinet Super Friends theme song. In the great hall of the Justice League, there are assembled the world's famous four greatest heroes. Marco Rubio, created from the cosmic legends of the universe. Scott Besant, Christine Elm. Their mission, to fight injustice, to right that which is wrong and to serve all mankind. That's the disruption to you, you millennials. That's a Gen X cartoon from Saturday mornings when you could only watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. They were special. But anyway, there is a cabinet meeting going on, right? They're always good. They're always good. Here's the President talking about the length of the last one. Now, the last one went on for like three hours and the President was nodding off because he works 19, 20 hour days as opposed to Joe Biden, who would, you know, put a lid on it at 10am and make a poopy in his pants. But he kind of nodded off a little bit and he wanted to clear that up. Today we are going to ask a couple of people to say a few words. And we're not going to go through the whole table because the last time we had a press conference, it lasted for three hours. And some people said he closed his eyes. Look, it got pretty boring. I love these people. What I love, there's a lot of people it was a little bit at the boring side, but I didn't sleep. I just closed them because I wanted to get the hell out of here. Some of them, I don't sleep much. And you know, it's funny, some of them got me in a blink. You know, when you go like, they took me as at the closed segment of my cycle and they said, he's sleeping. And besides that, Marco, between these two guys, if I was sleeping, they'd be waking me up very fast. They'd be knocking me. Come on. I gotta tell you, I love this. I just love this. And again, the reason why I moved here is to witness history. And we're never gonna have anything like this again. We're never gonna have a present like this again. There's never gonna be another moment like this. That is phenomenal. I mean, phenomenal. And, and the. The Democrats continue your death spiral into hell. You look like idiots. You look like complete morons. Christy Noem dropping a massive. Nope, that's old. I'm not gonna play that. Nevermind. I was gonna play a Christine I'm sound bite, but I just realized that's not today. That's not today. So we won't do that. But anyway, we got a cabinet meeting going on today and it's. They're always a lot of fun. They are always, they're always very entertaining. And also, by the way, a lot of times with, with the left, because they're academics, generally, they, and I told you this for, they consider the meeting to be the accomplishment. If you have a meeting, then you've had the accomplishment. I went to some meetings with Chris Ruddy at Newsmax when I was brought on board at Newsmax and Chris Ruddy. When you go into a meeting with Chris Ruddy and the, you know, the news group there, it's amazing. They're right across the street and a couple floors up from where Rush Limbaugh started WABC Radio. And, and so it's kind of interesting, you get in there in a Chris Ruddy meeting and it's, what have you done? What do you got? What have you done? What have you got? What have you done? What have you got? Dozen people, you're out of there in 15 minutes. That's it. What are you doing? What do you got? What are you done? What do you got? What are you going to got? Break by with academics. Oh, I don't know, maybe we could consider an itemization of the security of the Social Security and the possibility of an infrastructure. Blah, blah, blah. And nothing happens. Nothing ever Happened? Nothing. Donald Trump just revolutionized Social Security for Gen. What, what is, what's Gen Z and what's next? Is it Gen Alpha? Is it Gen Alpha? I think it's Gen Alpha. Gen Alpha. You're going to be able to July the fourth, put a thousand dollars into kids savings from the government and then maybe your employer can do it by the time it gets 30 years old, if you play your cards right, could have a million dollars in the bank, pay cash for a house. It's going to be amazing. Donald Trump did that. Joe Biden sat there and did nothing for 50 years in the Senate, by the way. Not a damn thing. Speaking of Newsmax, millions are tuning into Newsmax. You know why? Because Newsmax kicks butt. It's amazing. You watch Carl Higby. Carl Higby is amazing. Truth teller. There's nobody like him on tv. Oh my God, the guy can bench press four plates like ten times. It's amazing. Rob Finnerty, spectacular. Don't Rob Finnery. Since he went to, he lived in, in Kansas City and then he got called up to the bigs New York City. Now he's amazing. He does these, these brilliant monologues with a plum and humor and a little wink and a nod. You got Rob Schmidt, he's you know, just rock star. He's a rock star and he's got a bedside manner. You just want to listen to him talk. It's amazing. You know, Greta Von Susterance over there. Greg Kelly is nobody like Greg Kelly on television. Find out why Newsmax is the fastest growing news channel in America. There are a lot of other little ones out there. They do not connect like Newsmax does. And I'm proud to be a part of it. Proud to be a part of it. Get Newsmax on cable, streaming, download the free app, get a Newsmax plus membership. That's what I have. I listen to it in my, my Bronco Buck. It's kind of cool. Democrats are willing to say that anything that Donald Trump does is bad. If Donald Trump cured cancer, they say, what did cancer ever do to you? Yesterday Tammy Duckworth went after Marco Rubio about getting rid of Maduro in Venezuela. One of the greatest moves in the history of Latin America or Latin Americ Americans, Hispanics going thank you, thank you for doing this. And here she is going after Rubio and looking like an idiot. Anyone who believes that gangs that flood our country with fentanyl or cocaine are not threats to the United States is not living in reality and certainly does not reflect the opinion of most Americans. But the president was talking about are these gangs that have. And these narco trafficking groups that are waging war on the United States. There's no doubt. Yeah. These groups have waged war on those boat captain. Narco terrorists are just fishermen. The United States, they have waged. For example, Train to Dog was not just a criminal gang presence in our street. It is a criminal gang responsible. Directly responsible. And, dad, the Trump administration has acknowledged the vast majority of the men it rounded up and deported to torture under this law had no. There's no torture, you moron. Criminal records whatsoever. You made that up. Independent. Over 75%. Who did we torture? We haven't tortured anybody. We've arrested people that are members of gangs and we've deported them. We don't want gang members listening to your voice, Duckworth, is torture. I found that many of the men were here. Hearing you talk torture, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime alien enemy? Of course not. I mean, these are. That are threats to the national security of the United States. But I've described this in hearings in the past, including those. Are you guys saying that we're at war? We are, absolutely. When it comes to narco trafficking groups and criminal gangs that are targeting the United States for criminal. We're in a state of war. There's no doubt about the fact that we're waiting war. And guess what? We kind of kicked their butts. There you go. And now, now Venezuelans in the get along gang. And now people are celebrating. Michael Charbonne was talking about being in the Dominican Republic, meeting all these people from Venezuela and other Central and South American countries going, thank you. Thank God for Donald Trump. And freedom is spreading down there. And Tammy Duckworth, you just look like a, like. Well, you are an idiot. So it does make sense that you look like an idiot because, yeah, you're. You know what I just said. Gordon Chang, the Gordon Chang joins us next to talk about China, among other things. Don't go anywhere. Let me share Brian's story from Alabama. He tells us about Relief Factor. Trying it for just three weeks. At least 90% of my pain was gone. My pain had started to limit me at work and at home. And I'm amazed at the relief I've gotten. Those are Brian's own words, and they speak volumes about what relief factor can do. I've seen that kind of transformation myself. And hearing Brian's experience just reinforces why I'm so passionate about sharing this with you all. Don't wait if you're dealing with daily pain. Launch your three week quick start and see what Relief Factor can do for you. Call 800 for relief, that's 800 for relief. Or go to relieffactor.com that's relieffactor.com how will it feel to be out of pain? Between now and the end of the century, China will lose probably 2/3 to 3/4 of a its population. So it reports 1.4 billion. Now it'll probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of 450 million. No country has ever undergone a demographic collapse like this, not even Europe during the Black Death. Wow. So really what we're talking about is something nobody has ever seen before. And I don't think China can remain a great power when its population falls apart. Gordon, always great to see you, my friend. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Gordon Chang. I see Gordon Chang everywhere. My gosh, I can't escape the guy. But I love it. I love it. I've been dying to talk to him about this, among other things. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang on Twitter joins us on the Newsmax hotline. How are you on this glorious Thursday, sir? I am fine on this glorious Thursday, Rob, how are you? I'm. I could not be better. I honestly could not be better. It's a glorious day in Washington, D.C. this is my home now. I love it here. I'm having the time of my life. But I got to tell you, what about all this social engineering that China did? Why isn't their population so great? Remember when they were taking little girl babies and abandoned them beside the road to die so that the male babies would live? Wasn't that going to take care of everything? Well, it certainly didn't. What it did was, first of all, it indoctrinated the Chinese people so they now think that one child is all that they should have. Yes. But also, though, the Chinese people right now are gloomy because the economy is trending downward and there's all sorts of problems in society. Plus also, as any society matures, it becomes less fertile. So you have all these things hitting at the same time. And that means that China is going to suffer that demographic collapse that is unprecedented. Well, haven't they also been lying about their population? That's right. You know, they got all these phantom cities they built. Remember that? They got all those phantom cities with empty malls and empty storefronts and all of this. And it turns out that, that what have you heard about China's real population? We are at a billion three and all this. Apparently that's not the case? Yeah, they report 1.4. And there are a number of people, including a Chinese demographer, Yifushin, at the University of Wisconsin, who believes it's maybe 100 million less, maybe more. Yes. And by the way, Yi actually predicts that China will be somewhere in the neighborhood to 330 million at the end of the century. Of course, nobody knows that's the lower end of the range. But by the way, his estimate, which he's worked out, assumes that China is able to maintain a total fertility rate of about 0.9. And it doesn't look like they're going to be able to do that. That is, that is pretty remarkable. That's pretty remarkable. And I saw you tweeting this morning about how Xi Jinping is systematically destroying the country. And you wrot wrote a book, the Coming, you know, collapse of China and all of this. And it sounds like it's really beginning to be precipitated and the ball is starting to kind of speed up a little bit. Well, it certainly is. I mean, the motor of China's rise has been its economy, but its economy is stumbling now. It's not growing at the 5.0% pace that they reported for last year. Could be 2 1/2 to 3, according to one group of analysts that did an important study about a month ago. But it could even be less than that. Yeah, maybe zero, maybe even negative one. We just don't know. And I actually think that nobody in China knows either for a lot of reasons. But the point is it's not growing fast enough to retire the debt that it's accumulated, especially since 2008. You know, as Donald Trump has brought in, you know, 18 billion, trillion dollars in, you know, investments in all of this. And something that I, you know, you remember Barack Obama said, I don't have a magic wand. I can't bring back manufacturing in America and all this. The more that we are beginning to see the Made in America label showing up on more goods, the fewer Chinese goods we're going to need. This is going to get really big and ugly because, for instance, our trade deficit with China has dropped dramatically. Our trade with the entire world has dropped dramatically. This is going to put a major hurt on the Chinese economy. Yes, because Xi Jinping's only plan is to export more. For various reasons, he's not taking the advice of almost every economist in the world to move to a consumption based economy, which means that his only hope is to sell more products to other countries. He's selling less to the United States. He's trying to sell more to the global south, as the Chinese call it. But even countries in the Global south are starting to resist Chinese, the flood of Chinese imports. So Xi has got a real problem. He did very well last year. 1.19 trillion of merchandise trade supply. Yeah, I think that that's high tide. Yeah, I do too. I do too. Also the President got involved and, and shut down the, the serious flirtation that was going on between Mark Carney and Xi Jinping, saying that if you get into a big trade agreement, you get all chummy, you know, flying over to China and everything. We're going to put 100% tariff on your products. And he backed the heck off of that in no time, didn't he? Yes. Well, you know, President Trump also has another tool, and that is Article 3210 of the U. S MCA trade agreement that allows any trade, many any of the three members of that trade agreement, US, China, Mexico, to withdraw from the agreement if any other member enters into a free trade agreement with a non market country. China is a non market country. And Carney trade deal with Beijing may not be, quote unquote, a trade deal for purposes of usmca, but it gets awfully close. And so this agreement anyway is up for renegotiation and Canada absolutely needs us because we take 76% of China's merchandise exports. 76%, Rob. Yeah, and I saw that this morning. And also I believe that they were planning on all these cheap EVs going over there to Canada. That's been kind of c blocked. Doug Ford, I think he's from Ontario, he was all down with it. But, but apparently the Chinese are, the, the Canadian auto manufacturers were up in arms about it. So it sounds like that's, that's doing a flat line. Well, this is really interesting because President Biden, one of the better things that he did was he prevented the importation into the US of Chinese EVs because they're connected. They're basically rolling spy machines. Now Carney has agreed to allow 49,000 Chinese EVs into Canada at a reduced tariff rate of 6.1%. The Trump administration has preliminarily said we're not allowing Canadians to drive those cars into the US and that's a good thing. Wow. We don't want the Chinese spying on us. Yes. Their EVs. We don't allow these cars in directly. We're not going to allow them indirectly driven by Canadians. Yeah. I want you to listen to this from Scott Besson and John Carl Last weekend, it seems like the same agreement that's been in place since the 50s. Well, I think you talk about the agreement with, with Greenland, haven't seen the full agreement. Secretary General Mark Ruto was a very good interlocutor between the Europeans and between President Trump. But look, a lot, a lot of things have changed up in Greenland. Jonathan, do you know what the Istanbul Bridge is? Tell me. A Chinese freight ship that for the first time in October came across the Arctic into the UK they are shortening their travel time. So the Arctic is changing. Now, that is dramatic, that is. Now we understand why Donald Trump considered Greenland to be so bloody important. And this has got to be a major blow to China. Yeah. With the Arctic ice receding, it allows the Chinese to surge into the Atlantic from the top without going through the choke points of the Panama Canal or Cape Horn at the tip of South America, which is basically stormy seas through a good portion of the year. So this allows the Chinese to end up very close to our ports as the Arctic ice recedes. This is important. Yeah. It also is obviously great for our, you know, the dome, the. The golden dome over, over. That keeps us much more secure. Gordon Chang, can you hold through the break? I got a couple more questions while I ask you on the other side. Okay, Absolutely. All right, we got Gordon Chang. More from him in just one moment. This is the Rob Carson show, So I just want to thank everybody for being here. My cabinet has been amazing. I like this much better than going around for three hours. We'll pick on other ones. Pam, you're doing great. We're all doing great. JD if you'd like to say something, you can. Would you like to really quickly? He is, after all, the Vice President of the United States. It's okay, sir. I'm here for the free coffee. I just say it's an honor to serve with this group, and we're doing a lot of good for the American people. I got to tell you, I have never wanted to watch a cabinet meeting until this administration. Gordon Chang on the Newsmax sideline. Isn't it just kind of fun to watch? Isn't this just kind of fun to watch levity and positivity and. And believe in America rather than being led by a kindergarten teacher, Jill Biden? Yeah, well, it certainly is. And President Trump knows how to talk to the American people for sure. I'll tell you, it's just. It's fun. It's fun. It's fun to watch. I just saw this headline on Newsmax. Cuba is down to 15 to 20 days of oil amid a US blockade. That's going to be really, really big for the collapse of Cuba and the Communist Party. And same goes with blocking oil from China, from Iraq, Right? Yes. Those are two very important things because the Castro regime has relied for a very long time on essentially very cheap Venezuelan crude. And with the Venezuelan regime now out of the business of supporting Cuba, you've got now Havana, I think, on the ropes. Oh, God, yes, it's going to fail, but it is going to say it very well no longer be the threat that it once posed. Coast. Well, look at, look at Cuba. Cuba is a toenail clipping as far as the size of its landmass. It's an easy, easy. And they're blockading without even having to send ships. That's the thing. They're blockading without sending ships. Yeah. And the important thing here is that that lifeline is now over, you know, and also, you know, you mentioned Iran. President Trump has been talking about cutting off the flow of Iranian sanctioned oil, and most of it, either 80% last year or 90% in 2024, 90% went to China. So China's going to have to. Have you heard much about China? Energy prices, gas prices? We never hear about gas prices in China. But they can't be, they can't be going crazy, right? Not quite yet. I think that that's going to be something that will happen if President Trump cuts off the Iranian crude, because then it's not just Iran, it's also the expectation of what might happen and that'll affect prices. Rob? Yeah, yeah, it's. It's pretty crazy. And then I saw the other day a story about Elon Musk. I believe it's Texas. They're mining some of these rare earth minerals for, for EV batteries, and they're doing it in a very environmentally sound fashion that doesn't involve enslaving children from Africa. And that's going to put China on the ropes, too. I saw this. Oh, it's, it's amazing what Musk is doing. Yeah, it's. And it's Musk. And it's also a lot of other initiatives that reduce or eliminate our dependence on China for rare earths. So, for instance, you're talking about Texas. Well, there's a Rice University professor who's talking about recycling. You know, we've got a lot of material, computer stuff with all of this stuff, if you recycle, really puts China. You know, it cuts our dependence on China substantially. Well, they're having to recycle silver right now, because silver mines are beginning to run dry before they find new ones and they're starting to recycle that. So certainly these batteries, you've got to find a way to use them again. Keir Starmer tells Xi Jinping that UK wants more sophisticated relationship with China. So we heard Macron, Macron in Davos saying they wanted a friendlier relationship with China. I think Keir Starmer is not long for the country. I think that Nigel Farage is going to be taken over. So I don't think this relationship is going to be very long lived. What do you think? One of the things about Starmer is that he is putting his hopes on an economy which is failing, but America is booming. So, yes, Sarmer can say anything he wants, but that's not a very smart strategy. No, it really is. It's just stupid and it's really funny. I thought Trump's Davos appearance, he owned it. He owned it. And that Starmer and Macron would decide to side. They failed in so many ways. The uk, the eu, NATO, they failed in so many ways. And they're continuing to double down on stupid. And I think it's going to precipitate the rise of people like, you know, like Nigel Farage. We've also seen Maloney in Italy, we've seen the rise of Hungary. So just a matter of time for Great Britain before they come to their sentences and things change. I believe that anyway. Gordon, are you still there? Correctness in England right now? That's got to end. Yeah, it is. It's coming. It's coming. Gordon, I appreciate you. Where, what part of the country do you live in? Are you part of this, this ice and snowstorm we had? Were you affected by that at all? Yeah, we live in New Jersey, Garden State, which is under a little snow right now. Yeah, yeah. And we're waiting for the next snowstorm. Yeah. Are you going to get hit by this thing that's going off the Atlantic Coast? Maybe. They say Sunday, but most of it is going to end up in Boston, so. All right, it's Massachusetts turn now. Good. Well, Massachusetts and Boston can have it. Gordon, thanks for your time, man. I appreciate you. Thanks so much, Rob. All right. All right. Gordon G. Chang on, on Twitter is his handle, by the way. I hope you enjoy those, these conversations. It's. To me, it is so exciting to be able to discuss these things with, with people like Gordon Chang. It's like an honor for me. You know, this guy who's a farm guy by, from Iowa, selling Cars six years ago gets to talk to people like Gordon Chang. And I hope you, I hope you enjoy it. We try to make it real and, and, and talk to them and I think it's a lot of fun. Whatever, whatever. Let's take a break and come back, shall we? This is the Rob Carson show. It is a Rob Carson show. Trying to figure out what I want to talk about here because you know, there's so much to talk about. Where's Gold right now? Just checking. 45,300, you know, there you go. $5,300. 989898 for Birch Gold. They're saying, you know, Newsmax was saying 5,600 earlier today. So who the heck knows what's going to happen? It's, it's pretty crazy. Stephen Colbert is in a, you know, at the end of his deal he's going to be no longer a host on late night. He has ruined late night television. He and, and Jimmy Kimmel have destroyed late night television. And here is Jimmy. Here is Stephen Colbert last night. Once again, there's no reason to say this. There's no funny about it. It's just being a jerk. I think we can all agree, guys, he's got his well fluffed audience in front of him and all of that and everybody's screaming and yelling. Nobody else feels that way, by the way. It's just his audience, his elitist audience. It's kind of like the cabal of liberals who live in Washington D.C. they sit around and they comply. We applaud. Oh yeah, but nobody else can cares, you know. Nobody else cares. Here he is talking to another very little watched late night TV host Seth Myers about the possibility. Are you ready? Here's a guy who on a nightly basis. Listen. On a nightly basis in a country of 330 to 350,000 million people, averages 256,000 adults, 25 to 54 years old. That means like, like a couple thousand in New York City. A couple thousand in a city of millions of people. A couple thousand in la, couple thousand in Des Moines. I mean it's really bad. It is really, really bad. But here he is talking about running for president. He might run for office, maybe even president. I've heard that one. Yeah. Oh my God. Obviously, Obviously. Obviously. I mean that's something I have discussed with my faith leader and my family. And if there is some way for me to serve the American people in some way, way that could possibly be greater than a late night television show. You are not popular enough to do anything like that and you're not knowledgeable enough. You don't have any common sense. So there's that. There is that. So. Oh, here. Here you go. This is kind of interesting. Unhinged Virginia nurse who encouraged colleagues to inject ice agents with paralytic drug is swiftly fired. Melinda Cook, nurse, anesthetian Anesthetic. Yeah. She puts people to sleep. Kind of like Nancy Pelosi. Virginia Commonwealth University Health was fired by the hospital Tuesday. She spewed disturbing, disturbing remarks in the spade of the TikTok videos. Cook was identified by local media. She suggested sabotaging tactics like anti. Like doing this. Like doing this. Fill syringes with suc chlorine, whatever it takes and stick ice ages with it. She also suggested taking poison oak and putting it into a solution and spraying it at ice ages. Okay, she's destroyed her career. How insane do you have to be to not only think of this, to think of injuring people as an anesthetician or with, with this, but let alone put it on social media. This is why the left is losing. This is why they are losing. Nobody on the right is doing something so evil. What we do is we pray for people. We pray for people, people on the left. This. And if you put it on social media, you've lost touch with reality. Insanity. That's it. That's why the Democrat party is doing a death spiral into hell. Told you. Told ya. It's time for me to go. I think we had fun, didn't we? Yeah. Check out the podcast, will you go to all your usual podcast platforms, subscribe and share with other people. Tomorrow, the unusual suspects and of course, an awesome Friday show. God bless America. As founded Donald Trump and his awesome presidency. 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