Author: Tony Prettyman

The Government Is About To Shutdown On Friday, But No One Is Paying Attention

Presidential politics serves as a great distraction for Congress, and almost no one realizes that their failure to pass a budget bill means that Friday is shutdown day for the federal government. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: You know one of the worst things about presidential elections? It makes people forget that the rest of the country is still functioning. The house and the senate, those guys have been back to work for a month now. Have you been paying attention to anything that’s happening there? More importantly, does anybody realize...

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Bashing Trump Is Fun, But Hillary Needs To Tell Us What She Stands For

Hillary Clinton has focused most of her campaign on telling us why Donald Trump is so bad, but we still don’t know much about her policy positions. Now is the time for her to pivot to tell us why she’s better and how she differs from Trump. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Hillary Clinton has made her entire campaign so far, ever since she officially became the Democratic nominee, about bashing Donald Trump, showing us in advertisements, saying during how her speeches how horrible he has been towards people with disabilities,...

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Presidential Debate Recap: Sniffles, Snafus, and Snark

The first presidential debate of 2016 is in the history books, and it turned out exactly as people had expected. Hillary got in some good jabs, but Trump’s bullishness came through stronger than ever. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Last night we had the first presidential debate of 2016 and it went exactly as everyone predicted it would. Trunp was able to hold it together for about the first 8 to 10 minutes before he reverted back to his old bully, bullish self, complete with a very odd case of the...

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Billionaires Are Favoring Hillary Clinton, And That’s Very Unsettling

It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats were talking about the evils of corporate money flowing into campaigns. But today, Hillary Clinton is outraising Donald Trump, and they think its the greatest thing ever. What happened to this Party? The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: According to a new report by Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton is pulling in 20 times more campaign money from billionaires than Donald Trump is. Now obviously, this is a complete reversal from the way things typically work. Usually the big money donors are all in the pockets of...

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Will Debate Moderators Bring Accountability To Debates?

If the presidential debate moderators don’t act as fact checkers, then why bother having a moderator? The job of the moderator has to include fact checking or else there will be no accountability for either candidate. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Tonight’s the night that everybody has anxiously been hoping would never arrive, and that is the night of the first debate. Now, obviously headlines all over the place, Huffington Post, all kinds of other liberal outlets are saying that the bar has been set so low for Trump that all...

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