The state of Florida is working to become one of the most oppressive states in the nation, as Republican Ron DeSantis continues to stress culture war issues. But behind his assault on our rights lies an economy that is in utter shambles, with more and more workers and residents struggling to stay above water. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the sad state of Florida with investigative journalist Jordan Chariton of Status Coup News. Link - https://www.youtube.com/statuscoup Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. The state of Florida right now seems to encapsulate everything horrible happening throughout really the entire United States, the attacks on the LGBTQ plus community, the economic problems that average Americans are suffering from every day, creeping authoritarianism, all of it right here in the state of Florida and of course elsewhere throughout the country. But we here, we're kind of getting it a little bit harder than everybody else and recently, Jordan Chariton actually took a trip through this state, interviewing people, talking about all of these issues and Jordan Chariton with Status Coup news is here with me right now to talk about that journey. So Jordan, thank you for, for coming back on the show. I, I've watched the videos you've put out, just kind of in a broad sense, lay out what brought you to Florida in the first place? Yeah, I actually went to school in Tampa, so, I've kind of kept a close eye on, on things in Florida. And, you know, to me, I've seen a lot of the culture war coverage out there, but not a lot of connections to the economics because in my view, all these culture war distractions, which are actually hurting real people like LGBTQ people are just smoke screens to numb the masses to, in Florida rent is going up 30 to 50%. Inflation in Flo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdEH0Lm2sYU

Donald Trump actually won a legal victory recently, when a court ordered adult film star Stormy Daniels to pay the former President more than $120 thousand dollars after her lawsuit against him was dismissed. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3934536-trump-awarded-more-than-121000-in-legal-fees-from-stormy-daniels-just-hours-after-arraignment/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Donald Trump actually won a legal victory recently when a court ordered adult film star Stormy Daniels to pay the former president more than $120,000. If I look at this story, the number is like almost 600,000 when it's all over, isn't it? Yeah. Because she had previous judgements where she had to pay because she filed, in my opinion, a very stupid lawsuit. it Was a terrible. Whoever advised, the lawyer that filed that should, was that Avenatti? Well, I was gonna say he was her lawyer. He's in prison. Right. The guy's in prison, Avenatti. So, yeah. I mean, and plus we know Avenatti stole tons of money from her as well, not to mention all his disabled clients. But anyway, bad advice because she had claimed that a security guard, I guess at Trump Tower kind of, you know, manhandled her a little bit and Trump called her a liar. So she gets the legal advice to say, oh my God, I'm gonna sue you for defamation because you said I'm lying about this particular story. All this was about with Avenatti was Avenatti, nobody knew who he was. They, you know, he was, where California, that's kind of, you know, where they might have known him. Yeah. California and New York. New York. They kind of, oh yeah, I know this guy. He's always kind of bottom feeding. So this was his big shot. He was gonna build his name with Stormy Daniels. I'm gonna handle this case. Any idiot lawyer would've looked at that case and said, it's dead on arrival. So when Trump's, when Trump's lawyers make the argument to the judge, the judge knows the same thing we're talking about. This is a ridiculously frivolous lawsuit. First of all, she's a public figure. Second of all, this does not get to where you need to go on a defamation case. And so now she's been bombarded with $600,000 in money that she's had to pay back or gonna have to pay back. Yeah. So, you know, all of the money that she ended up getting paid for the hush money payment is a hundred percent gone. Yeah. So I assume she's obviously made plenty of other money off of the exposure from this. I don't know if it rises to the level of what she now owes this buffon. But to me, this really does all come back to Avenatti. Oh, it does. He had to have been the only lawyer in the country that would look at this and say, oh, he said you're lying. Great. Let's sue him. I'm gonna get to go on MSNBC a hundred times because of this lawsuit. Because that's what it was. And the story, this is what really makes me cringe, is the Democrats we're talking like, this is our Democratic presidential candidate. Remember that? It was gonna be him or Andrew Cuomo. Him or Cuomo. And so Avenatti we find out, well, yeah, he did all that stuff, but he also stole millions of dollars from his clients. One was paralyzed, you know, paralyzed in a wheelchair, stole their money. Stole money after money from his own clients. And what bothered me is that information was out there at the same time when you had these dopes saying, oh yeah, hell yeah. He's a Democratic contender. He's a fighter. Oh, look, we can put him up and against Trump. He'll win in 2020. How does that happen, man? Well it happened here, didn't it? It happened with this numbnut. And a lot of it, just like Trump was a creation of the media, Avenatti was a creation of the corporate media. How many times did Avenatti get to go on CNN and MSNBC? Yeah. I mean, it is countless. It dwarfs anything that we've every seen. And not one question from an MSNBC or CNN reporters saying, wait, let's back up. All this is already existing. We know this history that you have. Not one time did they ask this bottom feeder punk a question about that because it was the sale. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVl0NuBTqDg