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This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson show, our number two of the show today. We had a bumpy start with some technical stuff. Computer acting a little weird, had to restart. Stream was a little weird. My, I looked like a bad Japanese B movie. Like one of those Godzilla movies they used to have on Saturday afternoons when, when bowling was on when I was a kid, there was like very little watch and television after the cartoons ended in American Bandstand, if you were lucky, a Godzilla movie or a King Kong Godzilla movie. And the, you know, the lip syncing was a little bit off. It's like, oh my God, Godzilla. And then the mouth moves.
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It's straight. That was the way the first 15 minutes of the live stream was today. It was a little weird. But we're here and, and we're kicking some major. But thank you very much, a lot of good news. I was almost overwhelmed by it last night. And Jimmy Kimmel got fired. He should have been fired. He should have been fired a long time ago. He's ruined late night television. He said that the shooter, the man who killed Charlie Kirk was a MAGA supporter, which was a lie, an absolute lie. And then he made a joke that wasn't funny. And the affiliate said, you know, I don't think we want to continue this relationship anymore because you've already driven us into the toilet. The affiliate stations around the country are kind of like a, you know, for lack of a better analogy, say for instance, you own a. I'm not sure. Cracker Barrel. They're there, aren't they? Are they independent franchises? I'll just say Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel. They're perfectly fine with their little Cracker Barrel. They don't like the, you know, they don't want their restaurants Changed. They don't want the menu all changed. And all of a sudden, you know, at the top they decided just wreck everything, destroy everything. And so the franchises are like, no, no, now the franchises can't continue without, you know, they were no longer to get Cracker Barrel materials and whatnot. But the local franchises in television, they can drop Jimmy Kimmel. And that's what happened. They said, you know, we've got too many people who are watching our, our shows and our TV stations across the country to support this jackass killing our advertising. And so they said, you know, we're choosing not to heir his program. You know, there you go, you made your bed, James, you made your bed and, and now you got a lie in it. So wham, wham, boo hoo. So that happened. What else, what else, what else? Oh, oh. Donald Trump is designating Antifa as a major terrorist organization. So all you little punk asses with your masks on, you know, getting in people's faces, you know, going after people like Andy Ngo and spraying them in the face with, with, with pepper spray and all this, all the destruction of dollars in damage, the hundreds of police officers. That BLEEP ends right now. Antifa and all of its affiliate groups are going to be defunded and investigated. So there you go. Go back to having a job, maybe find a job rather than being a paid protester and a disruptor. So that happened last night. Just a lot of really good news happening around the country. Donald Trump in England, in Great Britain, he had an incredible meeting yesterday at dinner with the King of England. It's so weird to see the King of England and Chris Ruddy of Newsmax was sitting one or two spaces down from the King of England. Chris Ruddy from Newsmax, our network, my network is growing around the world. Great Britain too. And in Great Britain they got a thing called gbn, Great Britain News. And that is their experience. The same meteoric rise that Newsmax is. And I got to meet some of the principals and they are outstanding. So a lot of really positive things happening. I know we are trying to get over the, the murder of Charlie Kirk and we're still, we have that hanging heavy in our hearts and it will forever, by the way. It's never going to go away. But, you know, look what it's happening. It's lit a fire. It's lit a spiritual fire. And the left, once again, what they did is they exposed their dark, awful side. And this is going to really hurt the Democrat Party. This is really going to hurt the Democrat Party. Because they're down with it. They caused it. Their decade of calling us maga fascist enemies of democracy, Hitler has left a body count, has left destruction. And now they killed Charlie Kirk. Somebody echoing the same talking points as antifa as the Democrat Party, even wrote it on one of the shell casings. The shell casing that killed the bullet came out of that killed Charlie Kirk. They're talking points written on it. There's no denial. There's no denial. The Democrat DNA is all over this. And now, you know, just when you think that we're falling into the abyss, a spiritual awakening is happening and the tide is being turned on evil. It really is. I remember I talked to Sebastian Gorka after Trump won, and I was celebratory. And he goes, rob, the battle is far from over. And it is. It is. But when things like this happen, the Democrat Party really exposes the blackness inside of their souls. And we don't want anything, anything to do with it. And they can say, oh, we didn't say that. Republicans do it. No, we all know. It's obvious. It's all very, very obvious. What are the other good news? You ready for this? Mahmoud Khalil, the guy who came over here, and he was former Columbia University graduate student, and he was. He was protesting against Israel and hate and terrifying Jewish students and all that, and he was acting like, you know, he could just walk into America and kick the door down and act like he owned it. And you, you listen to me. Okay, well, guess what? His ass is being deported. Yeah, he's. He's gone. He's going to be deported to. Where was it he's going to go to Algeria or Syria. There you go. Immigration judge Jamie Commons, based out of Louisiana, on Friday denied Khalil's motion for a waiver preventing his removal. The United States gtfo. Dude, you know, get out of here. If you don't love the country as founded. If you don't support our ideals and you want to mouth off and you're not a citizen yet, go away. We don't want you here. If you want to assimilate, you want to celebrate the history of the United States. You want to. You want to celebrate what we. What we have done? We. How we've become the greatest engine of individual and economic freedom in the history of mankind. Bring your Sharia law bullcrap over here. Try. You're going to move in and change everything. No, you're not welcome here. You assimilate or you leave. Bye bye. Bye bye. Have fun in Syria. I hear it's lovely this time of year, actually. No, it's never lovely, to be quite honest. So a lot of really good news coming down the bike. You know, we've been talking about Jimmy Kimmel. I want to get through some audio on the Jimmy Kimmel thing. Brendan Carr was talking last night. He was on. He was on Fox, he was on Newsmax last night. And he was talking about the difference between broadcasters and cable is different. Cable. You choose cable, you choose a cable company, you choose the things you want to watch. You choose hbo. They can use curse words, they can show boobies, whatever, all that stuff, because you have chosen to buy it. If you decide not to buy it, then fine. Broadcasters operate over the public airwaves, the airwaves that you and I own. And there are community standards associated with this. They have switched a little bit. They've changed a little with time. Certainly we're not like we were in the 1950s, but there are some things that will. You will lose your broadcast license. And Jimmy Kimmel was on the verge of doing it. Well, he was doing a lot of damage, first of all to the ratings for Late night, but also to these affiliate stations that, you know, they've got to accept all this programming. And then if you've got this rotten apple called the Tonight show with Jimmy Kimmel and they're wrecking your stations after the 10 o' clock news. And he comes on and he says things like he said about Charlie Kirk, you got to get rid of it. You can't be a part of it anymore. Here's Brendan Carr talking about the difference between broadcasting and casters are different than.
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Any other form of communication, including here. We're on cable right now. Fox News doesn't have an FCC license. CNN doesn't, but abc, cbs, NBC, those broadcast stations do. And with that license comes a unique obligation to operate in the public interest. And over the years, the FCC walked away from enforcing that public interest obligation. I don't think we're better off as a country for it. But look, President Trump ran directly at these legacy broadcast outlets and he exposed them to these market forces. And a lot of these affiliate groups said, to your point, we're tired of carrying this stuff, late night shows. Something's gone seriously awry there. They went from going for applause, from laugh lines to applause lines. They went from being court gestures that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology.
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Yeah, absolutely, 100%. And it's been that way. What have I been saying? Guys, conservative apartheid. It's been a conservative apartheid for a very long time and I can't believe after all these years it's starting to fall. Here is a little bit more from Brandon Carr, fcc.
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I think there's evidence of that. Look, running a narrow partisan circus, whatever the public interest means, it's not that. And we are working to reinvigorate that. This action today by nexstar and Sinclair, frankly, it's unprecedented. I can't imagine another time when we've had local broadcasters tell we call a national programmer like Disney that your content no longer meets the needs and the values of our community. So this is an important turning point. And frankly, speaking of that, obviously Charlie Kirk set out to change the country.
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It's the turning point. It's the turning point. Wow. Abc, Disney and broadcast affiliate Next are pulling Jimmy Kimmel from all their stations in response to the left wing TV host shocking remarks about the assassination of Jimmy Kimmel. Offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse. Nextar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with his programming in its ABC affiliated markets. Andrew Alford, president of nextar's broadcasting division, said Kimmel's comments about the death of Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a criminal critical time. Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest of the current time. You know what a lot of the stations are going to carry? They're going to carry tributes to Charlie Kirk. Yeah. Nation's largest ABC affiliate group to air special tribute to Carl Charlie Kirk on Friday and Kimmel's former time slot. You know, we as Christians, I'll say not, you know, exclusively Christians, but we are benevolent people and we, we are a giving people and a caring people and we've watched our country descend into the abyss and become godless and awful. And I'm not, I'm not an evangelical by any means, but there's a point where you just got to say, how far are we going to sink? And we've reached that point. We've reached that point. Here is one more, one more comment from the head of the fcc.
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You can't avoid ratings. At the end of the day, the market is going to be undefeated and a lot of these corporations, Disney and Comcast, they had been protecting and frankly subsidizing this content again. Once President Trump smashed that facade, he gave a permission structure to local broadcasters to finally stand up. And when you're losing money, in the case of Colbert, reportedly $50 million, that's only going to go so far. And the same thing with Kimmel. They're now facing the consequences.
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And none of these things belong to Kimmel. None of these, these airwaves, none of this time slot on a national platform belonged to Kimmel or Colbert. They decided to take the product down the leftward way and they excluded at least half of the country. And now they're returning to parity. There you go. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Donald Trump's election. No, no.
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It's the gift that keeps on giving.
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It is a Rob Carson show. You want to hear something really cool? So Donald Trump's over in England, in Great Britain, and no president has been invited to two state visits. It's the first time. So it's kind of a big deal because Donald Trump is kind of a big deal. And, you know, while Keir Starmer is in charge right now in Great Britain, that's gonna, that's gonna go away soon. Nigel Farage is gonna be the next prime minister. We'll talk to Hillary Ford, which at the top of the hour to talk about that. But yesterday they did this kind of military kind of review and all this. And Donald Trump sitting outside with, with King Charles, hanging out there with King Charles and what did, Isn't that cool? They played ymca, you know, and then the Brits, you know, they're kind of, you know, they're the Brits, you know, kind of, we play pumps and we drink tea and we eat crumpets and, and they played, they played that yesterday. It was pretty cool. I gotta tell you. It, it was really kind of cool to watch yesterday because it is nice to have a president who is not a weak, is not weak, does not have a massive trip on his shoulder, would remove the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office just to be a D word for Richard. And he doesn't have pudding for brains like Joe Biden. The embarrassment, the corrupt embarrassment that got into the White House because, you know, they rigged and steal stolen election. I could say that now because, you know, they did. So anyway, it was pretty cool. Here's Donald Trump yesterday. And this is, this is, okay, listen, I was listening to this last night. We're never going to have another world leader like Donald Trump. We're never going to have another person who runs for office like Donald Trump enjoy every single day of it because he's changing everything. And if you hate Donald Trump, kma, I don't even care. You aren't even a part of this. If you want to sit there and you want to curl up in a ball and, you know, whine about it, go right ahead. We're going to just lead the world forward into joy and patriotism and faith because it's happening. You know, you can, you could just descend into hell with the Democrat Party or you can get on the train and we can be a great American melting pot again instead of what the Democrat Party has done to our country by dividing us in every way, shape and form. But listen to Donald Trump. He's doing a. He's doing a toast last night to the King and his wife Camilla, the Queen. Queen Camilla. And listen to how he just, just listen to him do this toast because he's not only reading a script, obviously, but also improvising in a fashion we've never seen from an American leader in a uniquely American way. Listen.
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Deeply grateful to you, Queen Camilla, for your extraordinary graciousness and to William and Kate. Thank you so much. It's been so great being with you today. Thank you very much. Appreciate. It's a singular privilege to be the first American president welcomed here. And if you think about it, it's a lot of presidents. And this was the second state visit and that's the first and maybe that's going to be the last time. I hope it is, actually. But this is truly one of the highest honors of my life.
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Look what he did there. Right. This is the second state visit. Hasn't happened before. Don't know if it'll happen again, but I hope it doesn't. You know, he's making a joke. It's like he's. I'm the king right here, baby. You know, it's good to be the king and I hope there isn't. It was a good laugh line. Brilliant.
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Respect for you and such respect for your country. For many decades, His Majesty the King has epitomized the fortitude, nobility and the spirit of the British monarchy and the British people. He's dedicated himself to preserving the glory and unique character of this kingdom, restoring life to the rivers and streams, supporting the works of its artists and composers.
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We have a kinship with the English, and that's gone away. It's disappeared, you know, with the removal of the bust of Churchill and the hatred of England as founded in. And then, of course, the breach of the borders in England, the radical Islamic horde that has made its way into England and maybe the Brits. You know, I've always had a great deal of respect for the Brits. I'm sure many of you have as well. We came together and fought World War II and World War I. You know, we've lived and died together. We took the greatest parts of the governance of Great Britain and we brought it here and made it better, like we did with cricket. We made it into baseball, like we did with soccer. We made it into football and rugby. We made it into the NFL. I can go on and on, but we have a kinship with the Brits and it has been woefully neglected. And it's nice to see it back because I have a feeling when Britain turns and Nigel Farage is the prime minister and they turn to conservatism, there's no stopping this one, two punch. And if you include France in there, when France is finally able to have a conservative leader and you got Poland and you got Turkey and you've got Italy. Italy, oh my God, Italy's kicking butt right now. And there's just this worldwide movement. And I can feel it in my soul. I can feel it's not only political toward freedom, it's also spiritual to toward God. It really is. You know it too. You can feel it too. I know you do. You can feel it. It's happening. It's happening. There's something happening and it's profoundly good. And the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the exposition of the absolute evil of the Democrat Party and the left as they were complicit in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, all the damage they've caused to our country and then the death of Charlie Kirk. That was the turning point. That was the turning point. That's all there is. Yeah, it was really something else. Here is. I don't have King Charles here. King Charles was speaking last night. He did a delightful. It was a rather short toast, I'll just tell you, but still, it's just nice to see the, the adoration and the, and the friendship because we've always been a really powerful move for good in the world and now we're, we're going to get even better. Even better. I didn't get to see a lot of the Keir Starmer meetings this morning. Starmer has decided to recognize the Palestinian state, even though the Palestinians had its. To were given a two state solution and they, they whizzed on it. They elected Hamas and then destroyed themselves. So I'm not a big fan of Starmer, but he ain't going to be around much longer. Nigel's going to be taken over by the great of God. Gordon Chang, the author of the Coming Collapse of China, joins us next. Do not go anywhere.
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Schumer, your reaction to this?
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It is outrageous.
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This.
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It's a page right out of Xi's playbook. This is just despicable, disgusting, and against democratic values. Trump and his allies seem to want to shut down speech that they don't like to hear. That is not what democracies do. That is what autocracies do. And it doesn't matter whether you agree with Kimmel or not. He has the right to free speech. And so it is just outrageous. It is indicative of autocracy, and I.
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Am just outraged by it.
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Again, this is what dictators do. This is what Xi would do. This is what Putin would do.
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It is amazing that Chuck Schumer never has anything to say about the abuses that the Chinese Communist Party, you know, does to its own citizens. But all of a sudden, if Jimmy Kimmel loses his job, Donald Trump is Xi from China. I thought you'd appreciate that. Gordon Chang, how are you doing on this glorious Thursday?
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I'm fine, Robin. Thank you so much.
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I would say that is a really weak comparison to call Donald Trump President Xi for. And Donald Trump, by the way, didn't get Jimmy Kimmel fired. ABC and its affiliate stations got Jimmy Kimmel fired, and his mouth got him fired. So, anyway, I thought I'd share that with you. Do you have any opinions on Jimmy Kimmel's firing?
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Yes. You know, as you point out, this was not President Trump. This was a private media organization deciding that Jimmy Kimmel had crossed several lines, and that was for them to decide. So Senator Schumer's comment was grossly irresponsible. Yes, and I would hope the Senate would fire him, but that's a different story.
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You know, the interesting thing, Gordon, that you know as well as I do that over the last five years, the class of 1960 has essentially used the tenets of Mao's cultural revolution, combined with Stalin, combined with even the Third Reich, to fundamentally change America. One of the things that communism does is they make the. The society godless. And we were well on the way for that, by the way. You know that as well as I do. Donald Trump's election began to write that ship. And then Charlie Kirk's assassination really was the turning point as far as elimination of faith and elimination of God in the public square. And I think we're really turning evil and communism on its heels. What do you think?
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Yeah, well, I think that that was certainly the purpose of the assassination, but it's created such a backlash that I believe that, you know, we are going to see a revival of. Of religious faith in our country. And that's really important because, as you point out, Communists try to destroy faith, they try to destroy the family. So we need to bolster both of those.
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Yeah. If you were going to say the march of communism in America, on a scale of 1 to 10 before Trump's election, where would you say we were on the scale? Were we at 5, were we at 6 on the march? Word left? What do you think?
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Yeah, if the march is the worst at the 10 level, then I would say that we were at a six.
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Yeah. Yeah, minimum. It is. It never does anything to kill the leader of a righteous movement. It only makes it bigger. And it is. It was a big mistake. It is a tragic circumstance. As we mourn his death, we know that things are going to. Going to change eventually. I know there's a lot of other stuff. You know, China has not been on the. On the news cycle, the head of the news cycle in a while, but there's a lot of stuff going on. Gordon, you mentioned that there's a Trump Xi call tomorrow. What's going on? What's this all about, my friend?
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Yeah, this is in connection with the trade discussions that occurred in Madrid earlier this week between Treasury Secretary Besant and U.S. trade Representative Jameson Greer with their Chinese counterparts. And so they set this call up. There is going to be, they say, a meeting between CC and Trump at the end of next month and the beginning of November. And that would be in South Korea at the APEC summit. May or may not occur. But Trump, Trump clearly wants that to happen. And also the Chinese want Trump to go to China, which I think would be an extremely bad idea if our president did that. We do not want to legitimize the Chinese regime, especially at this point.
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Yeah. Right now, while China appears to be at least the Chinese Communist Party not strong, the last thing we need to do is throw them a lifeline.
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Yes. American presidents in the past have grown a lifeline and saved the Communist Party. And it was certainly misguided in two of those three circumstances. First of all, there was Nixon in 1972. One can justify that, but one cannot justify George H.W. bush sending Stroucroft to China after the Tiananmen massacre and saying, don't worry, the US Will support the Communist Party. That was disgraceful in the extreme. And then the second time was. Third time was when Clinton in 1999 paved the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization at a time where China was pretty much on the outset a number of different aspects.
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Now you've been talking about China really suffering economically and the tariffs. Obviously we have some more parity between China with regard to tariffs. Has the Chinese economy improved or declined further since, since all of this has happened since Donald Trump became president.
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You know, we have seen the Chinese economy decline and this was evident especially last month when we saw the price data. The consumer price index fell 0.4%. Now five out of eight months of the year, the CPI was negative. And the Producer Price Index, which measures factory gate prices, was down for the 35th straight month, down 2.9%. When countries get into a deflationary spiral, it's very hard for them to recover. And China is not going to recover anytime soon because now the Communist Party actually aggravate deflation, not alleviate it.
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Well, and also Donald Trump has now got $17 trillion of committed investment in American manufacturing which will result in some of this offshoring to China coming back here. That's, that's really going to hit home. That's going to cause increasing economic strife with their already stressed out tax base and already impoverished tax base. And you know that's going to, that's going to cause them to go into bankruptcy, don't you think?
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I think it's going to be really difficult for them because they've been looking to manufacturing to rescue the economy. And China has never been more trade dependent in its history. And at the same time, Trump is cutting off the access to the U.S. market. And we account for 34, 35% of global consumer spending. So that's why we are so essential to many other economies, not just China, but especially China.
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Now Gordon, if you can hang on for the next break, there are a few things I want to touch on. Obviously, fentanyl, that China was very involved in getting fentanyl into our country. We've got Donald Trump now essentially kind of threatening Maduro in Venezuela with the possibility of an amphibious assault on the country. At least he's, at least he's, they're putting up videos that would, would, would kind of portend that happening. So they're kind of freaked down there. If you can hang on, I want to continue on the other side of this break. Gordon Chang joins us. Gordon G. Chang on Twitter if you want to check it out. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Is the Rob Carson Show. Gordon Chang on the news Next hotline, one of my favorite guests. I've known him now for a few years and always a pleasure to have you on, Gordon. So the southern border has been sealed, presumably that is put a gigantic damper on fentanyl coming into the United States of America. The fentanyl trade was largely created by China. They send the raw materials to be assembled in, in, in Mexico. What sort of an economic impact does this have on China? Obviously China used it as a weapon to, to kill Americans. But does, does it have a substantive impact on, on China financially?
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Well, it does, but the point is now the Sentinel is coming in through Canada. So yes, Trump sealed one border, but we've got a problem on the other one.
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Doing all right. China obviously has been in cahoots with Venezuela right now. I, I don't know, I, I keep, I know in my heart, Gordon, that this movement toward freedom and away from the totalitarian direction that the world was headed in, I know it's underway. I can feel in my bones it's, it's something I, I, I just know it's happening. But, but Venezuela I, I believe will fall. I don't believe that Chavez or not Shabbat Chavez, Maduro is long for his leadership role in the Venezuelan government. Do you suppose? I was talking the other day, I'm trying to remember who I was talking to, but they said that Maduro most probably is shopping around to different, you know, despotic regimes for an escape. Do you suppose that China is having a conversation with him since they're, I guess, an ally?
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Well, you'd think so because Venezuela depends on China more than any other country. So you, for instance, you have China taking, I think like 90% or so of their oil exports in some years. I mean just an enormous figure. And then also there's diplomatic and propaganda support that China supplies economic support. So yes, Maduro is very much dependent on the Chinese.
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I think that Maduro is scared, bleepless, to be quite honest. You've got American warships off the coast. They've taken out now two drug boats and Donald Trump, Donald Trump is doing that unapologetically. The Democrats are trying to act like, you know, this is some sort of affront to human rights. But we all know that the Venezuelan drug games have been declared terrorist trend, was a terrorist organization and all of that. Do you suppose that Maduro is long for leadership and what do you think will happen should, should that regime come down?
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Oh, those are great questions. First of all, we know that most people in Venezuela don't want Maduro Yes. And that was clear in the last presidential election where Maduro stole votes, otherwise he would have been out.
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Yeah.
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And. And it's just, I think that there will be a transition to a democracy. Now. Getting rid of Maduro is going to be a little bit difficult because Chinese are going to spend a lot of effort to support him. I mean, they'll send him money, they'll put pressure on the United States. All sorts of things are going to occur. But I agree with you. Ultimately, his regime will fail because it is. The economy is so bad. And no matter what China does, it does not have the ability to reverse everything that Maduro has done.
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Yeah, yeah. I'm also hearing things about Iran. We know that China's had a relationship with Iran, the, The Ayatollah, the regime. I'm hearing that the freedom movement is still marching over there. The. Is totally. Is still weak. China doesn't have the influence they do in the Middle east right now after Donald Trump's visit over there. So it looks like the cards are possibly lining up. You've written a book about the coming collapse of China. If you're looking at a DEFCON rating for the fall of Communist China, where are we? Obviously five. It's a less one is, you know it's going to happen. Where would you say we are on that spectrum, my friend?
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I'd say, you know, if President Trump were to impose the tariffs that need to be put in place. Yes. Then we're talking like two and a half, three years. The question is whether Trump will do that or not, and I just don't know.
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I hope so.
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Clearly, with the Chinese continuing to steal intellectual property from the United States to the tune of half trillion dollars a year with their predatory trade practices, with everything else they're doing, clearly we should be imposing much more severe costs on them than we are right now.
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Well, fortunately, Trump is way out in. In front and trying to absolutely crush China with regard to AI technology. One other thing. Tick Tock. What's going on with Tick Tock? What. What's. What's going on with Resting TikTok from the CCP?
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There's supposedly a deal in place which hasn't been papered, but which at least the main terms have been settled. Apparently there'll be a new Tick Tock entity formed under American law. ByteDance, the Chinese owner of Tick Tock, will own 20% of it, and three American companies will own the remaining 80%. One of those American companies is Oracle. And Oracle is important because it will be providing the cloud services to the new TikTok. In other words, there will be data security.
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Good.
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Don't know, Rob, is the most important question, and that is who controls the TikTok curation algorithm? That's the algorithm that determines how much what your kids see and what they don't see. And if China controls it, this is not a good deal.
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Well, it's because we've been very, very disruptive. They've used it to disrupt our society, to destroy our children. They clearly have done that. But that, that has got to change if TikTok is going to continue. So we'll see.
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C
Absolutely. I think that from the sparse reporting that there is on the terms of the curation algorithm, that we'll be okay. But I don't know yet, and we won't know until the terms of the deal are actually disclosed.
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A
All right. Well, Gordon, I appreciate you. Thanks for being on the show. We always love it when you're on Gordon G. Chang on Twitter. When you're in DC, you got to come and visit me. We going to be in town anytime soon?
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C
Unfortunately not. But when you are there, we are going to stop by and pick you up on that.
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A
All right, my friend. Take care of yourself. I greatly appreciate your time today. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. I want to get to the Cash Patel in front of the house yesterday, and people like Jasmine Crockett looking like total morons. You know, Jasmine Crockett is a deb from St. Louis. I know St. Louis, St. Louis culture. They do this thing called the Debutante Ball, and it's where all the little, you know, little rich girls go and get presented to the Society Ball. And, and Jasmine is, is more deb than hood, I'll tell you that.
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C
And.
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And you know who she is. Listen, I've been talking about this liberal Karen, all right? Liberal Karen is a white woman, lives in a cul de sac neighborhood, belongs to the hoa. Probably has a couple of cats. Her husband is a whipped wuss who does everything she says. She's a busybody. She is involved in everything she wants to get rid of. She. She was the one who got rid of Native American mascots, even though she's not Native American because she wants to be a busybody, wants to make decisions. She's the one who said, we got to defund the police. Meanwhile, people in their cities are going, no, no, no, no, no. Don't do that. That's Karen. Jasmine is black Karen. There's a difference. She is an entitled individual. Who has a massive chip on her shoulder. Just like Michelle Obama blames all of the problems of whatever community she's in on, on colonialists and all this nonsense. She has an attitude. She thinks she's smarter than she is and she looks foolish. That's what she is, Director. And frankly, when people sit around and say things like, oh, you know, we're happy because now we feel safe, I don't know who feels safe in this.
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B
Country except for the white supremacist, because.
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A
I specifically, as a black woman, definitely don't feel safe. And she always whips out that black woman badge, that badge to try to shut you down. I know I rode next to a black Karen on the way down from the Acela. And it's just irritating when you wear your race on your sleeve at all times and you act like you are all this and you're really nothing. That's what she is. So there. There are several different Karens out there, trust me. And, and certainly Jasmine Crockett is a Karen. So here's the news on gold. Gold is up about 35, 36% this year. If you have a 401k or an IRA that is not there, maybe you should consider diversifying into gold. Think about this. You know, you've got money sitting in your retirement. You're waiting, maybe you got another 10 years. I got about another 10 years before I retire. And it's just not performing. And if it doesn't start picking things up, I got to do something about it. I got to do something about it. With gold going up 45, nearly 50% since last year, maybe it's time you got on the gold train. And right now, if you sign up with birch gold, first time gold buyers, up to $10,000 in qualifying gold rebate for you. Qualifying precious metals rebate for you. So make right now your time to buy gold for the very first time. Take advantage of the rebate up to 10,000 bucks. You got to do it by the end of the month. And it's already the 18th of the month. So you got to text my name, Rob 298-9898. Rob 298-9898. Claim your eligibility. Get your free info kit. Again, text Rob to 989-898. But time is of the essence because it is already the 18th of September and you got to do this by the end of the month. All right? So text my name, Rob to 989-898 if you would on the way, Hillary Ford, which is going to join us to talk about President Trump's historic visit to Great Britain. It was amazing to watch him hanging out with the King and the Queen yesterday. It was just, it was really neat, really classy. Keir Starmer this morning will get her thoughts on all things Great Britain. I told her they need to have hats over the city, make Britain great again, you know, we'll see what she thinks about that. That's all coming up on the Rob Carson Show. Our number three right ahead. Don't go anywhere.