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Wednesday’s show changed course as new details emerged about the Trump administration’s agreement with Iran.
Rick examines the widening gap between the administration’s original red lines and the terms taking shape in the MOU—from Iran’s ballistic missile program and nuclear infrastructure to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. He also explains why some form of agreement had become economically unavoidable, even as the White House denied leaked provisions that increasingly resembled the final framework.
Was this the hard-won peace Trump promised, a necessary retreat from a dangerous economic ledge, or a deal that preserved Iran’s power while postponing the hardest questions?
This episode follows the story as it was breaking—and asks whether the administration ended the crisis or merely changed what it was willing to accept. -
On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick argues that voters are starting to notice the gap between political slogans and real-world consequences. The show opens with Trump’s newly signed border enforcement funding package, the Senate fight over FISA, and the tension between giving elected leaders the tools voters asked for while refusing to hand the surveillance state a blank check.
Rick then connects the Middle East crisis to kitchen-table economics, breaking down the U.S. Apache incident near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s pressure strategy, Israeli-Hezbollah tensions, and how energy instability drives inflation back home. The second half turns to California, where San Francisco voters rejected a costly business tax measure, and Los Angeles’ slow-count mayoral race raised new election-confidence concerns around mail ballots, Skid Row registration payments, service-address voting, and alleged paid-vote claims. Rick closes by tying it all back to Oklahoma’s upcoming primary, warning that voters deserve more than slogans on taxes, schools, energy, insurance, state power, and public safety. -
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On this Finally Friday edition of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick argues that the fine print is where the real story lives. The show starts with the failed push to attach the SAVE America Act to the GOP’s immigration enforcement package, then moves into the May jobs report, which beat expectations with 172,000 jobs added, unemployment holding at 4.3%, and upward revisions to March and April.
Rick digs past the headline numbers to talk about where the jobs are coming from, why private-sector growth matters, how long-term unemployment and household pressure can get hidden behind good topline data, and why the economy is stronger than the media narrative but still complicated for real families.
The show also covers the growing SPLC allegations, Chinese robotics and national security concerns, Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent hearings turning into clip-factory politics, Graham Platner’s campaign-vetting problems, the disturbing bioethics debate around alpha-gal meat allergies, a real nuclear-energy breakthrough from Antares, and Amazon’s reported failure to move forward with a Stargate revival. Through it all, Rick keeps returning to the theme: the headline may get attention, but the fine print tells the truth. -
On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick breaks down Oklahoma's primary eve chaos, from early voting totals and ballot access to the GOP governor race, attack ads, and the confusing Trump endorsement of Mike Mazzei. The show digs into the major candidate lanes for Gentner Drummond, Mazzei, Charles McCall, Chip Keating, and Jake Merrick, including the Inola aluminum smelter controversy and foreign-ownership concerns.
Rick also covers Oklahoma's state revenue numbers, the U.S. Senate primaries, Democratic governor candidates, judicial races, and SQ 832, the minimum-wage ballot question. Nationally, the show ties in Trump's reported Iran/Hormuz deal, the G7 summit, America 250, UFC at the White House, Hakeem Jeffries leaving impeachment on the table, and a late quick hit on financial questions around the Obama Presidential Center. -
Do young Americans really prefer communism over capitalism — or have they been taught the complaints without ever learning the cost?
Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we dig into the polling, the education pipeline, activist networks, soft-on-crime city policy, and last night’s election results to ask how socialism became normal-sounding to a generation buried under rent, debt, inflation, and broken institutions.
This is not a simple ‘kids these days’ rant. It is a look at how worldview, economics, academia, NGOs, big-city politics, and weak consequences all collide — and why the Right has to do more than yell ‘Marxist’ if it wants to win the next generation. -
America’s 250th birthday should be an easy celebration — flags, fireworks, history, and gratitude. Instead, patriotism feels weaker, more divided, and strangely controversial. Today, Rick connects the dots among declining national pride, decades of centralized, test-driven education, the collapse of civics and U.S. history proficiency, and the rise of socialist-aligned candidates filling the civic vacuum. America does not need propaganda. It needs memory.
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Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we’re drawing the line between politics and power abuse — from the apparent swatting attempt at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home to blue-state Democrats floating a 100% tax on anti-weaponization payouts.
We’ll look at voter wake-up calls in Georgia, California, and Texas, America 250 already turning into a cultural food fight, Oklahoma’s SQ 832 minimum wage vote, Iran testing America’s red lines, and why rockets, pilots, and the Thunder all remind us what happens when America gets hit and answers back. -
Texas voters just sent Washington a message loud enough to shake both parties. John Cornyn is out, Ken Paxton is in, and the old idea that seniority equals automatic renewal took a serious hit. But the Texas reset did not stop with Republicans — Democratic voters rejected Maureen Galindo’s radicalism in TX-35, Al Green’s impeachment-theater era came to an end, and Oklahoma’s governor race is already showing signs of voter restlessness.
Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we break down what the Texas runoffs really mean, why Republicans cannot sleepwalk into November against James Talarico, what Oklahoma voters need to know before the June primary, and why trust keeps showing up as the central issue in story after story — from Biden’s Hur tapes to Minneapolis police leadership to activists getting reality hilariously wrong outside an ICE facility.
And because America is still bigger than the political mess, we close with the loud, weird, patriotic build-up to America’s 250th birthday — Hoover Dam, White House UFC, IndyCars on the National Mall, tall ships and all. -
Today on The Rick Robinson Show: courts, consequences, fake consensus, and political institutions that only seem to love the rules when the rules help them win. Rick breaks down Virginia’s court-retaliation fight, the DNC’s Biden-free 2024 autopsy, Iran’s reported assassination-bounty talk, Rubio at NATO, New York’s anti-ICE push, Senate GOP dysfunction, California’s fake grassroots politics, and a Friday culture close on Hollywood and late-night TV discovering the audience has options.
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TRRS 05-20-26 #ChatlivesMatterDay -- Power, Payback, and Political Math
Thomas Massie loses his Kentucky primary, Hakeem Jeffries talks about ‘breaking’ MAGA, Democrats drag SEC athletes into redistricting politics, and the FBI’s January 6 answers keep getting messier. Then we hit New York City’s budget fantasy, Texas demanding cities show their books, and why voters, taxpayers, and the math eventually notice everything -
Oh looky looky, the CIA is getting outed on The Hill along with Dr. Fauci -- So again Rick Eleventy trolls ZERO Plus Fraud rediscricting and news updates
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TRRS 05-06-26 The Bill Came Due Last Night
Politicians have spent years talking about democracy, public safety, clean government, immigration, and accountability. Now voters are starting to ask a simple question: are they actually walking the walk?
Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we dig into the breaking FBI searches tied to Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the legal fight over Virginia’s redistricting push, Trump-backed challengers hammering anti-redistricting Republicans in Indiana, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ohio primary win, Democratic coalition cracks, L.A.’s anti-ICE signs, local leadership failures, and the latest in the Cole Allen WHCD indictment.
The speeches were easy. Governing is harder.
And now the bill has come due. - Laat meer zien
