Author: Farron Cousins

Democrats Are Finally Flocking To Sanders’ Medicare-For-All Bill

Democrats Are Finally Flocking To Sanders’ Medicare-For-All Bill

Posted by | Sep 16, 2017 | , , , |

In the past week, a string of Democratic senators have announced that they will be co-sponsoring Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All legislation. Not only is this good policy, but it shows how effective progressive activism can be in pushing the Democratic Party further to the Left. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains why this move will be crucial if the Democrats want to retake the House and Senate in 2018. Transcript: I think one of the more interesting themes that has evolved since the 2016 election, when Hillary Clinton lost, was a lot of the establishment Democrats telling us that Bernie...

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Republican Politicians Abandon Their Party’s Sinking Ship While They Still Can

Republican Politicians Abandon Their Party’s Sinking Ship While They Still Can

Posted by | Sep 16, 2017 | , , |

Recently, several moderate members of the Republican Party who are serving in the House of Representatives announced that they would be retiring at the end of their current term. This has sent the GOP scrambling, both out of fear that they won’t be able to find a suitable replacement candidate, and fear that more retirements are on the way. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins talks about why the Republican Party deserves this and how they created the current disaster that they’re trying to escape. Transcript: Late last week, two Republican members of the House of Representatives announced that they...

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Republicans Vote To Keep Trump’s Tax Returns Hidden From The World

Republicans Vote To Keep Trump’s Tax Returns Hidden From The World

Posted by | Sep 16, 2017 | , |

The House of Representatives has voted to continue to shield Donald Trump from releasing his tax return information – something that presidents and Party presidential candidates have been doing for decades to prove they are on the level. This decision shows that Republicans are afraid of what we could find, but it also shows that they are being stupidly loyal to a man who constantly berates and bullies them. As Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins points out, this makes absolutely no sense. Transcript: In a very under reported story from last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives on...

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Lawyers For Trump’s Aides Warn “Don’t Lie To Protect Trump”

Lawyers For Trump’s Aides Warn “Don’t Lie To Protect Trump”

Posted by | Sep 16, 2017 | , , , |

Aides working for President Trump are lawyering up quickly, and their attorneys have given them some pretty straightforward advice: Do not lie to protect the President. Obviously members of the administration are getting more and more scared as Robert Mueller’s investigation gets closer to Trump, and these staffers need to understand that Trump won’t protect them, so they owe him nothing. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcript: The investigation into possible Russian collusion with the Trump campaign/Trump administration is picking up a lot of steam. In the last week, aides and former staffers for Donald Trump have...

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Ivanka Trump Sheepishly Admits That She Has No Influence Over Donald

Ivanka Trump Sheepishly Admits That She Has No Influence Over Donald

Posted by | Sep 15, 2017 | , , |

During a recent interview, Ivanka Trump finally admitted that she won’t be the savior that rational Americans had hoped she would be by saying that people have unrealistic expectations of her changing her father’s mind on certain issues. Ivanka promised to fight for the people, yet her father has trampled every talking point she threw out during the campaign. As Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains, Ivanka is as big of a fraud as her father. Transcript: Ivanka Trump’s role within the White House still isn’t quite clear. We do know that recently she peeked in on a meeting,...

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