Author: Gary Bentley

During a Q&A about his Party’s new healthcare plan, Paul Ryan was asked about the millions of people that could lose their healthcare coverage under his plan. He replied by telling the audience that the most important thing was to bring costs down – Which is Republican code talk for shifting the cost burden onto low and middle income taxpayers instead of taxing the top 1% as the current system does. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: At a press conference yesterday when Paul Ryan was trying to go out there and...

Researchers from Wharton College – Trump’s alma mater – have released a new study that shows that the election of Donald Trump has helped to make men feel more comfortable being aggressive towards women during negotiations, and has reduced the overall level of civility in conversations between the genders.  This echoes a similar study by the Southern Poverty Law Center that proved that Trump’s election has increased the level of bullishness in people all over this country.  Chivalry is officially dead, and Trump killed it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: An...

A new study shows that the right wing outlet Breitbart was at the center of driving the corporate media’s agenda during the 2016 Presidential election and primaries. News stories that originated on Breitbart bounced through conservative media outlets and then onto progressive media outlets that were forced to refute or debunk the issues driven by the right wing media.  This is a dangerous trend that appears to be continuing with President Trump’s mainstreaming of the fringe news site. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: Is Breitbart.com actually the most influential new outlet...

A leaked draft of Trump’s EPA budget has been released, and this budget will cut the EPA’s funding by as much as 30%.  This is part of his administration’s desire to make the federal government completely dysfunctional, and their desire to let the fossil fuel and other industries operate with virtually no oversight as they poison our environment and our citizens. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: President Trump is taking a lot of credit for jobs that have been created in the United States over the last few months, jobs that...

President Trump can’t stop repeating the false claims that he hears from Fox News, and this is very troubling considering that this man has access to our nation’s nuclear codes.  It’s time to start worrying about the Fox News president and what he’s capable of doing as a result of the fake news that he’s ingesting. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: President Trump tweeted out Tuesday morning that Barack Obama had released 122 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and that those prisoners made their way back onto the battlefields overseas and the...