Author: Farron Cousins

Mike Pence Urges Billionaires To Bully Americans Into Supporting Tax Cuts For The Wealthy

Mike Pence Urges Billionaires To Bully Americans Into Supporting Tax Cuts For The Wealthy

Posted by | Oct 21, 2017 | , , , , |

At a recent Koch Brother sponsored event, Vice President Mike Pence urged billionaires in the United States to use their “stature” to force their employees and other Americans to get behind the Republican Party’s tax reform package. The plan would be a huge giveaway to millionaires and billionaires, while raising taxes on bottom income earners, and Pence wants billionaires to bully low-income Americans in order to get his way. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription: Vice-President Mike Pence has come up with a brilliant plan to help sell the Republican tax plan, which, as we all know,...

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Insurance Company Tells 9-Month-Old That He’s Too Expensive For Them To Keep Alive

Insurance Company Tells 9-Month-Old That He’s Too Expensive For Them To Keep Alive

Posted by | Oct 20, 2017 | , , , , , , , |

A 9-month-old boy being treated for a rare form of aggressive brain cancer received a startling letter from his family’s insurance company: Because the cost of his treatment was deemed “not medically necessary,” the insurance told him and his family that they would no longer pay for it. Doctors have warned that without treatment the boy will absolutely die, but the insurance company still believes that the infant is too expensive to be kept alive. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains why this story highlights everything that is wrong with healthcare in the United States. Transcription: If you want...

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Trump Says The “Pee Tape” Dossier Is A Conspiracy Funded By The FBI, Democrats, And Russia

Trump Says The “Pee Tape” Dossier Is A Conspiracy Funded By The FBI, Democrats, And Russia

Posted by | Oct 20, 2017 | , , |

Donald Trump is not happy about the resurgence of the “pee tape dossier” that claimed that Trump paid prostitutes to urinate on him in a Russian hotel. While there were far more explosive claims in the report, the “Golden Shower” claim has gained the most attention due to the overall creepiness of that assertion. But Trump is fighting back, and he now says that this entire dossier was the result of the FBI, the Democratic Party, and Russia coming together to smear him. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription: One of, I guess the oddest stories that...

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Psychologist Warns That Trump’s “Downward Mental Health Spiral” Could Lead To War

Psychologist Warns That Trump’s “Downward Mental Health Spiral” Could Lead To War

Posted by | Oct 20, 2017 | , , , |

A behavioral psychologist is sounding the alarm bells over what she sees as Donald Trump’s “downward mental health spiral.” The psychologist has warned that his increasingly unhinged behavior could easily push the US into a war with other nations, which is becoming increasingly more evident via Trump’s Twitter rants. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription: A prominent behavioral psychologist along with a former White House ethics chief for George W. Bush have penned an article for NBC News talking about the fact that Donald Trump’s continued downward spiral of his mental health could very easily and quite...

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Trump Rates His Puerto Rican Response A Perfect 10 As Residents Continue To Suffer

Trump Rates His Puerto Rican Response A Perfect 10 As Residents Continue To Suffer

Posted by | Oct 20, 2017 | , , , , |

Donald Trump says that he would rate his handling of the dire situation in Puerto Rico a perfect 10, even though 28% of people on the island still don’t have access to clean water. Trump has bungling the situation in Puerto Rico just as bad, or possibly even worse, than George W. Bush with Katrina, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains. Transcription: On Thursday Donald Trump decided he was going to rate his own response to the disaster in Puerto Rico following hurricanes Irma and Maria. According to Donald Trump, he would score his performance a perfect 10/10....

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