Rob Carson Show Episode #33

It's the Rob Carson show. Are you ready to be pod smacked? Now here's Rob Carson. Hello. Time for episode number 33 of the Rob Carson show podcast. Hello. Uh, hope you're having a glorious day thus far. Today's podcast number 33 will largely be political. I will be doing episode 34 in a little while, and that'll move away from the politics to some other stuff. Cause I like to cover both of them. And, and honestly, if you look at politics and pop culture, there is a true intersection of them right now, more than ever before with Donald Trump as the president of the United States, but I've got so much material. I, I'm not, I don't want to do an hour long podcast. I know you have a life. All right. And if you could give me a half hour a day, that is a gift from God. Really, really, really do appreciate it. If you would do me a favor, will you share the podcast with others? I want to have as many downloads. My goal is to get about 20,000 downloads a month. That way I can monetize it. That way I can pay the bills. That way I can attract a few advertisers and we can make this bigger and better. And I can do even more. Now I do have a page it's called patreon.com. Go to p a t r e o n.com. Look for Rob Carson show. And if you could pledge a dollar or five, $5 or $10 a month, I just put it in there. It'll come out of your checking account. You won't even know it'll be harmless. It'll be awesome. And it'll, it'll, it'll make sure that my wife and I aren't homeless in a month. All right. Let's start off with this whole Jeff Sessions rigmarole. He is by the way, going to be the attorney general. I do believe by commenting on it the other day, I lost more Facebook friends because some people wanted to make this about this woman. She is a victim. She is being silenced by a, uh, a bunch of old white men. Uh, not the case. It's a matter of decorum. It's a matter of the decency of the Senate and let's face it. Harry Reid wrecked the Senate. He wrecked the Senate. He lied about, uh, uh, Mitt Romney said that he hadn't paid taxes. It was an untruth. It was an absolute lie and he was proud of it. I always like to say that, uh, Harry Reid is the, uh, the love child of Gollum and Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. Um, here's the original exchange as Elizabeth Warren is quoting from Ted Kennedy in 1986 about then Jeff Sessions, who was not a Senator, Mr. President, the majority leader centers impugn the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama as Warren by the chair, Senator Warren quote, said Senator Sessions had used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens. I call the Senator to order under the provisions of rule 19. Mr. President, Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. President. I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States Senate. I ask leave of the Senate to continue my remarks. Okay. So she asked for leave from the Senate to continue her remarks. This was her little hissy fit. She was reading a letter from Ted Kennedy. Uh, she had some excerpts from a, uh, a letter by Coretta Scott King and, uh, Coretta Scott King. God bless her. Yes, she is a legendary. She's a historical figure, but she can be wrong about stuff. And when you, I don't care who it is, if you are, if you are paraphrasing or you're quoting from someone else, and it is a demeaning remark. And what I would consider to be a false statement about Jeff Sessions, then there's going to be held to pay. Then there's going to be held to pay in the Senate because there is a level of decorum that has to be met in the Senate. Now I'm going to play a few soundbites here, including Ted Cruz's thoughts on it, including a wonderful piece by Marco Rubio in the well of the Senate. He had some great things to say about it. Hugh Hewitt was talking to Tucker Carlson last night and Hugh Hewitt, despite the fact that, uh, there was a lot of caterwalling, there was a lot of, uh, outcry from the left in support of, uh, Elizabeth Warren. Um, the Senate was made to look like a bunch of bullies and all that. Hugh Hewitt says it was a brilliant move by Mitch McConnell to, uh, but tell her to sit down and shut up. It's a brilliant move by the leader for a couple of reasons. One, he is trying to restore a chamber that Harry Reid destroyed Tucker. Harry Reid left almost every Senate tradition in tatters. All of the pillars are down and they're at each other's throats. And Mitch McConnell, if you read his memoir, the long game, he really is a traditionalist, he would like to restore the decorum and the process of the Senate. But in my view, as a Republican, as a partisan making Elizabeth Warren, the face of the democratic party is a brilliant stroke. I mean, if they can tag team her with Bernie Sanders and you can have a liberal law professor from Massachusetts. I did not like that visual. And a socialist from Vermont tag team leadership of the democratic party. I am very happy. The last time a left-wing law professor led the democratic party at the end of his eight years, they were down 12 net seats in the Senate, uh, 50 plus seats in the house, 14 governorships and 900 state legislators. So I'm all for left-wing law professors becoming the face of the democratic party. Yeah, I am too. Absolutely. 100%. And the fact that she was such a baby about it. Now you, you think that that's one of some sort of a feminist that, that she, she is an accomplished person. Uh, and, and is a historical figure for women. This is a woman who balls up like a little baby and cries foul when she's criticized. She legitimately did something that was not allowed in the Senate. This was not some ancient, uh, uh, rule that's never been used. This is an attempt by Mitch McConnell to make the Senate and keep the Senate a civil place. Here's a little bit more from Hugh Hewitt on how broken the Senate is. Jeff Sessions is arguably the best prepared man to be attorney general in the last 50 years. Deputy assistant, uh, deputy assistant, uh, us attorney, uh, United States attorney, state attorney general, four times the United States senator on the Senate judiciary committee. Everybody in the democratic caucus knows better than what they said. They will tell you that off the record and it is disgraceful what they said about Sessions. He'll be a great AG. And I just do think how do, how do senators work with a man for 30 years? Uh, knowing, or at least they're saying that he is a, a racist who wants to keep black people from voting. Why is this despicable character, uh, continually reelected? It's first of all, second of all, how does anybody work with such a despicable human being? All standards have gone. And I blame, uh, Harry Reid, who by the way, also enabled Jeff Sessions to get confirmed by using the read rule to destroy the filibuster. But it's Harry Reid's legacy. It's a mess. It's a completely uncivil place that I don't know that, that Mitch McConnell can repair, even if he wants to. And I'm not sure we want to repair it until after Gorsuch is confirmed. All right. We will say Marco Rubio, uh, had about 10 minutes on the Senate floor talking about why it was important that Elizabeth Warren sit down and be taken out of the discussion with regard to Jeff Sessions, nominee nomination as attorney general. Here's the founders and the framers and those who established this institution and guided it for over two centuries understood that that debate was impossible. If in fact, the matters became of a personal nature. And let me begin by saying that I don't, it can't be about personal insults, it quite simply cannot believe that that was necessarily the intention here, although that was perhaps the way it turned out. But I think it's important for us to understand why that matters so much. I want people to think about our politics here today in America, because I'm telling you guys, I don't know of a single nation in the history of the world that's been able to solve its problems when half the people in a country absolutely hate the other half people in that country. This is the most important country in the world, and this body cannot function if people are offending one another, and that's why those rules are in place. I was not here when secretary Clinton was nominated as a member of this body at the time. But I can tell you that I am just barely old enough to know that some very nasty things have been written and said about secretary Clinton. And I think the Senate should be very proud that during her nomination to be secretary of state, despite the fact that I imagine many people were not excited about the fact that she would be secretary of state. To my recollection, and perhaps I'm incorrect, not a single one of those horrible things that have been written or said about here, some of which actually did accuse her of wrongdoing wherever uttered. OK, so that's that's the rule. And listen, there are a lot of despicable people in the Senate. There have been OK. There have been plenty of them. But when it comes to a nomination, you can't make it personal. A little more from Marco Rubio. Turn on the news and watch these parliaments around the world where people throw chairs at each other and punches and ask yourself, how does that make you feel about those countries? Doesn't give you a lot of confidence about those countries. Now, I'm not arguing that we're anywhere near that here tonight. But we're flirting with it. We're flirting with it in this body and we are flirting with it in this country. Oh, we are definitely flirting with it in this country. We are definitely flirting with it in this country. And the violence and the vitriol and the broken windows and the riots are coming from the left are coming from supporters or at least people who, if not Hillary supporters, just Trump haters. Mr. Rubio. In this country, if you watch the big policy debates that are going on in America, no one ever stops to say, I think you're wrong. I understand your point of view. I get it. You have some valid points. But let me tell you why I think my view is better. I don't hear that anymore. Here's what I hear almost automatically. And let me be fair from both sides of these debates immediately. Immediately, as soon as you offer an idea, the other side jumps and says, the reason why you say that is because you don't care about poor people. Yep. Because you only care about rich people. Yep. Because you're this or you're that or you're the other. Or you're a racist or you're a Nazi or you're a white supremacist. I could go on and on. And I'm just telling you guys, we are reaching a point in this republic where we're not going to be able to solve the simplest of issues because everyone is putting themselves in a corner where everyone hates everybody. That's 100% true. And it starts on college campuses. And it started with Occupy. And it started with Black Lives Matter. And it moved on to now calling Trump supporters or Jewish immigrants who are gay at Berkeley, calling them Nazis. All right. Where do you go after that? Where do you go after calling someone a Nazi, referring to someone as Hitler? What comes next? Because that's as violent as the rhetoric gets. So what's next? Actual violence? Well, it appears to be happening across the country. I have tremendous respect for the other chamber. And I understand that it was designed to be different. But one of the reasons why I chose to run for the Senate and, quite frankly, to run for reelection is because I believe that I serve with 99 other men and women who deeply love their country, who have different points of view, who represent men and women, who have different views from the men and women that I may represent on a given issue, and who are here to advocate for their points of view and never impugning their motives. One of the things I take great pride in, I tell this to people all the time, is the one thing you learn about the Senate is whether you agree with them or not, you understand why every single one of those other 99 people are here, because they're intelligent people, they're smart people, they're hardworking people. They believe in what they're saying, and they articulate it in a very passionate and effective way. Now, let me just say of Mr. Reid, on the they believe what they say, I do not agree when it came to him. He knew that Mitt Romney had paid his taxes. He floated a rumor which helped to ruin a campaign, and he did that constantly from the Senate. And I can name call here because I'm not a senator, and I can say the man is a foul scumbag, and the country's a lot better now that he's retired. And I understand when I see my colleagues stand up and say something I don't agree with, I try to tell myself, look, I don't understand why they stand for that, but I know why they're doing it, because they represent people who believe that. And I am so grateful that God has allowed me to be born and to live and to raise my family in a nation. He said, God, oh, my goodness. And he's in a government building where people with such separation of church and state from points of view are able to debate those things in a way that doesn't lead to war, that doesn't lead to overthrows, that doesn't lead to violence. Meanwhile, the opposite is happening around the country. The absolute opposite of what he just said is happening around the country. The other night in Berkeley, college Republican Nwead Thomas feared for his safety because he helped to organize a campus talk by Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay Jewish immigrant with a black boyfriend. He said that he was shoved when he headed for the building that it was going to be held in. It got worse, and his peers sheltered in place as firebombs were thrown at the building. Tomas says he's been told to watch his back because he may get jumped. He's this this local group on the campus are saying that they want to publish the names and contact information of those sympathetic to Milo's visit. As he went into the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, he walked through a crowd. Protesters surrounded him, closed in on him, pushing and shoving from all sides. He said, we know who you are. You can't hide from us. All right. It was getting violent at that point. They were surrounding me. They were assaulting me. Rattled, but essentially unharmed. He made it into the building. There he met up with Milo Yiannopoulos and the Berkeley Republicans. It was not long before someone pulled the fire alarm, a protester. Then protesters began shooting M-80 firecrackers at the building, with several narrowly missing the group, and the police officers attempted to guard them. M-80s are enough to cause pretty serious injury, by the way. They're little bombs, and they're illegal. Thomas said that of Milo's security guards, a former Navy SEAL, he says, I haven't seen protests like this since Afghanistan. As the protest began, light fires around the building. Thomas remembers thinking they were going to burn the building with the Senate. I don't think they would have had any regrets burning us alive, Thomas said to the college fix, by the way. We were basically like cattle. The protesters shouted, we're going to burn and shut your shit down. As the group maneuvered around the protesters, by the protesters, they yelled, F the Berkeley College Republicans. Thomas says that someone had posted his personal information on Facebook and Twitter before the protest. As a result, several demonstrators appeared to recognize him and tried to follow him home, so he ended up sleeping at a friend's house for his own safety. Since that night, Thomas has continued to face threats for his role in organizing the event. One individual mentioned they were going to catch me in the shadows, he said. Some have claimed the protest was orchestrated not by students, but by far left-wing organizers, Thomas disagrees. Says it was a quote, it was a combination of both students and protesters. To suggest students play no role in this protest is preposterous. There is footage of even so-called non-violent protesters cheering the violent actions of the others. There were meetings on campus organizing the protest that alluded to the planned use of violent tactics. Moreover, since the event, an anonymous leftist group has threatened to release the names and information of hundreds of Berkeley Republicans. The college Republican members. That's the rabble. What happened with Elizabeth Warren was preventing that from entering the chamber of the Senate. And she went and cried like a little baby on social media. She went and tried to play victim all over the place. You know, honestly, what a joke. Elizabeth Warren faked being a Native American because she saw that there was some sort of advantage in her academic life for scholarship and other accolades. And now that she's a senator, she's a big, strong female senator, was a potential candidate for president, and she gets told to sit down and she cries like a little girl. Like a little girl. Senator Tim Scott took the floor at the Senate as well to talk about the reaction that he received from constituents and others on Twitter with regard to his support as the lone black Republican in the Senate. The reaction that he got from people online. And it's typical stuff. I mean, you hear this every time an African American attempts to stray from liberal democratic ideology. He wanted to share their opinions about my endorsing Jeff Sessions. You are a disgrace to the black race. Anthony Burnham at Burnham R says you are an Uncle Tom Scott. You're for Sessions. How does a black man turn on his own? Anthony B from at Political Art says Senator Tim Scott is not an Uncle Tom. He doesn't have a shred of honor. He's a house Negro. How many times do we have to hear this bullshit? How many times do we have to hear this Uncle Tom, house Negro bullshit? Honestly, can you come up with something new? As I've said, you can reach a level of violence with your discourse, and then it becomes physical violence. And that's what's happening in places around the country. Right now, that's not happening in the Senate. Right now, it's not happening. But clearly, Tim Scott is being attacked with the most vicious attack you can imagine for a black man. What's next? He also writes, I guess, Anthony Burnham has been fairly active recently online. Yeah, he was referring to the house Negro played by Samuel L Jackson and Django, by the way. Twitter feed. I'm a complete horror. Black man who's a racist against black people. Big Uncle Tom piece of furniture. There we go. Think for yourselves. You're a disgrace to your race. He was thinking for himself. That's the irony of that. He was thinking for himself. He was not towing the party line or towing the race line with regard to Jeff Sessions. He was thinking for himself. This fool, this moron on Twitter is telling him to think for himself by thinking like everybody else. Honestly, just quite simply amazing. I don't know. I've lived in Washington, D.C. for about 10 years. This is ugly. All right. There are people there who legitimately are despicable people. I get that. Harry Reid was a despicable human being. I'm sorry. He just was. He became incredibly rich thanks to knowing people, channeling money to his home state where he purchased land remarkably. Suddenly, highways appeared there. No. And now I think we need to take it back. We need to take it back because what's happening on the streets of America cannot get bigger and it certainly can't be entertained in the sun. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC talked about amazing how you can work with senators, you can co-sponsor bills, you can all this. And by the way, Jeff Sessions got an award from the NAACP in 2006, an excellence award. Okay. He was also thanked by Coretta Scott King for assisting in the funding and the building of a Rosa Parks library and museum. All right. Here's Joe Scarborough. Her presentation was elegant. Right. It wasn't unmeasured. It was invoking history. Right. We're talking controversial history. We're talking about it. Yeah, but they've worked. Come on. What controversial history? He put the KKK out of businesses in Alabama. My dear friend from Alabama, my buddy from Alabama. Oh, Jeff Sessions, my good friend. We are here with Jeff Sessions and then suddenly he's appointed. He's a bigot. How could he ever be Attorney General? He's a bigot. The fact they've worked with him for all these years and they've eaten with him every day and they've co-sponsored legislation with him every day and they've stood in those stupid press conferences out with a capital behind him. Being Attorney General is a little different. I know, but you don't go from being afraid of the guy to suddenly him being a bigot. Why were they friends with this bigot all these years? She was reading letters. I'm not talking about her. I know, but you're not letting them make a point by broadening it out. But I'm not talking about you. Harold's bigger point is not about Elizabeth Warren. It's about the Democratic Party. What is your strategy for having all that warfare with Betsy DeVos when you lose, having all that warfare against Sessions when you know you're going to lose, when you've got to deal with this guy for four years? And he's going to be Attorney General. When Betsy DeVos was sworn in as Education Secretary, the left melted down in the country. They were saying that the children were going to die because of her. This is what they have in their quiver. This is all they have. And this is how you shut down debate. You call somebody a racist. Listen, I've been in the other night on Facebook. I commented about the Women's March. And I said it was an unfocused, organized, astroturf event. And there were people who said that my speech, I sounded like a Nazi. That's when you shut down the debate. That's an attempt to shut down the debate. Because once you call somebody a Nazi, branding me as a Nazi, and the word gets around, and people think, wow, Rob was talking like a Nazi the other night. And I know for a fact by the silence on my personal Facebook page that many of my friends have unfriended me because of that. All because I had an opinion that was different than theirs. All because I said, and I didn't buy into the Women's March being some sort of a revolutionary march for all women. It was a left, very left of center march. 50 organizations funded by George Soros and others marched on Washington, DC, excluded pro-life women, wore their stupid pussy hats. And I hate using that word. But since I can and I'm on the internet, I'm going to say it. The word normally that should be reserved for pornography. And idiotic speakers quoting inflammatory poetry lyrics. And Madonna saying she thought about burning down the White House. Those aren't the women of America. But because I criticized that menagerie, people unfriended me. You can't work with people when you call them a bigot. You can't work with people. When you call them a whatever. You can't suddenly look at someone you've co-sponsored bills with, somebody who you've dined with, somebody who you've been seen with, somebody who you have, you know, held the hands and shook hands and photo ops. And then suddenly he's an insufferable bigot. You can't do that. That crap has got to stop. And I don't care if he's quoting a letter or she's quoting a letter. I don't care if he was quoting a letter was wrong. It was wrong to do it. It was a backwards way of being able to say things using someone's words instead of yours. It was a way of saying all of the things she knew she was saying it. She knew she was calling him a bigot by using Coretta Scott King or Ted Kennedy's words. Really backwards way of doing things, you know, really backwards way of doing. Okay. Let's move on to some other stuff. The White House has shut down. Talk about impeachment. Maxine Waters, who is as dumb as a box of rocks without the rocks, is saying that he should be impeached, even though there's no impeachable offense being committed. Here's Sean Spicer addressing the impeachment question in a press conference yesterday. Question. Any response to the calls for impeachment by Representative Maxine Waters? Hunter Walker. I mean, I would just say, look, I think, look, it is. The president is doing everything he can to move this country forward. I think whether it's the Democrats in the Senate who are trying to stall these nominees or these little political stunts on the House side, the bottom line is, I think, by and large, you see the support that the president's receiving for his policies throughout the country. It's because I think people recognize, A, the business as usual is over and that the president's commitment to both keeping this country safe, growing the economy and creating jobs is something that is welcomed by all Americans, regardless of party. I think when you see stuff like that, I think it really just shows that they really missed the message that voters sent this past November. By the way, first-time claims for unemployment are at a, I believe, a four-year low this week with Donald Trump in the White House. That didn't stop Maxine Waters from doubling down on the idiotic idea of impeaching a man with no impeachable offenses committed. Is that they have created a response that is not credible. She was on MSNBC from the Senate. Well, this is the- Or I should say the Capitol building. Most outrageous and ridiculous president that this country has ever had. He cannot be dependent on for anything that he says. And so for them to try and pretend that somehow what I'm saying is outrageous and I've been reined in and all of that, there's no truth to that. As a matter of fact, all that Nancy Pelosi said was she was not ready yet to talk about impeachment. Because you have to have committed an impeachable offense, you see, other than being quote unquote outrageous. I'm ready to talk about it because I do believe that he has shown us enough and defined himself in ways that we have to be suspicious and concerned about him and we've got to dig deeper. Okay, suspicion is enough to impeach, according to this woman who puts the ding in dingbat. Wow, I mean, ding, ding. Big time, big time. Okay, a couple of other things before we take off today. And then I'm going to record my next podcast, which will be a little bit different. It'll be a little bit less political. TJ Maxx and Marshalls have instructed employees to toss out signs for Ivanka Trump products. Now, this started off with Nordstrom saying they were removing the fashion line. And apparently it has caused a gigantic backlash against the company. They said it's because they wasn't selling. Then if you look at these other companies, TJ Maxx and Marshalls, this isn't about sales. This is about employees being told to get rid of signs, companies dropping the line because she is associated with Donald Trump. I understand that Donald Trump is a polarizing figure. So was Barack Obama, the most polarizing president in US history. If Michelle Obama had a fashion line, would they be pulling that? No, because you'd immediately be called racist. As far as boycotts, I'm not a boycotter. But at the same time, it's kind of convenient for me because I don't go to Nordstrom. I don't go to TJ Maxx and I don't go to Marshall. So that's good. Finally, a new study that should put fear in the hearts of a lot of bureaucrats. This is a British study, but I would assume that the same problems with federal government employment exist here as well. I think we could easily say that actually. British think tank Reform says 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless, they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion a year. They said that robots are more efficient at collecting data, processing paperwork, doing the routine tasks that now fall to low-level government employees. 21% of public sector employees workers hold strategic cognitive roles. Reform says the problem is that the public sector employees unions have bloated the civil service ranks, forcing government agencies to keep on older employees and mandating hiring quotas for new ones. And the same thing is happening in the good old US of A. All right, that's going to do it for me today, guys, with episode number 34 of this podcast. 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