Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren aren't willing to sit quietly as Republicans try to claim that they have the ultimate authority in the new Senate, and they issued a warning to these Republicans that things are going to be very unpleasant if they block further COVID stimulus bills. This is the kind of hardball that Democrats need to be playing in Washington, and we need more threats of force by the Party if we want to see any progress in this country. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.newsweek.com/sanders-warren-warn-senate-majority-will-used-very-aggressive-way-if-gop-blocks-stimulus-1563932 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. Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, separately recently have issued warnings to Republicans in the US Senate saying if you intend to obstruct any of these COVID relief bills that we're trying to get out for the American public, if you obstruct these, we can promise you, life's not going to be very fun for you in the Senate for the next couple of years. Now, Democrats have the majority, but it is the most razor thin margin you could imagine with a 50, 50 split, Kamala Harris as VP being the tie-breaking vote. And that is the only thing that gives Democrats the advantage in the Senate right now. But it's enough. It's not enough, but it's enough to be called a majority. And Bernie Sanders as the new chair of the Senate budget committee has said that he intends to use his power to its fullest extent. He's going to use budget reconciliation, he says, a tool that you can only use a couple of times per year on very certain legislation. It is not a magic bullet by any means, but he can do some pretty amazing things to help the public with that tool. Elizabeth Warren, she's always been a fighter. I know some on ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efVciL2Rous

Rick Wilson, a former Republican strategist that has gone all-in on stopping Donald Trump, issued a scathing takedown of Republican voters on social media this week, calling them out for ignoring Trump's obvious "mental illness." On top of pointing out the fact that Trump's brain isn't working properly, Wilson also blasted Republicans for not caring about the assault that Trump has been found liable for and the many other legal problems that he's facing. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mental-illness/ 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. Former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, tore in to Republican voters in a lengthy post on Twitter just a few days ago. I'm not gonna call it X, that's not my style, I'm not gonna do it. It will always be Twitter to me. But in this post, Rick Wilson, who by the way, I had no love for Rick Wilson, not a fan of the guy. You go back and you look at his history, what he used to do as a Republican strategist, the guy's an a-hole like with a capital A. So definitely not my cup of tea, but I'm talking about this story today because I think Rick Wilson really hit on some important points that need to be discussed. So what he did was he basically blasted Republican voters out there for looking the other way on literally every horrible thing that Donald Trump has always done. Listen to this, it's not enough. This is his post on Twitter. It's not enough that he's a rapist, a fraud and slipping deeper into mental illness and sociopathy if they're fine with it, as long as they keep the sweaty febrile MAGA masses happy and keep their job. Now he says, Trump's a rapes a rapist that has obviously alleged he has not been convicted. So let's not, let's not focus on that. He was found liable for a sexual assault. But Wilson continues. I will not tell myself or anyone else comfortable lies about the Republican party. I will not tell you there are secret words from a mystical focus group seance that will convert the Red hat truck nuts. Cadre back to the Reagan GOPI have a long record of very accurately seeing ahead to what Republicans will really do and with Trump, as opposed to what, uh, people dream they'll do. How many times have I gotten the call of, oh, you can't attack X or Y. They're one of the good ones. Only to see the good one bend the need of Trump in hours or days. Sue Collins, anyone not one Republican elected, correct me if I'm wrong, has come out today with both barrels blazing on Trump's latest Russia capitulation. In fact, per Marcos Rubio's what me worry interview with Tapper, they're doing the opposite. There are no good guys in office staying in the fight. The MAGA GOP is corrupt to the core, craven to its bones and its utter abandonment of every shred of principle and Trump service as a disqua qualifier for redemption. Stop trying to put the paddles on the chest of this zombie party. Now, there's a lot to unpack there. Obviously I address the, you know, one of the names that he called him. Uh, you know, just for reasons. You can't actually say that. You gotta say alleged, you know, and that's really what it is. But anyway, um, at this point, I think Rick Wilson is right about what has become of the Republican Party. He's wrong, of course, acting like we need to be Reagan's, GOP. Like who do you think puts you on this path? Like Reagan helped put you on this path and before him, Nixon helped put you on this path. Okay? It's not like before Trump came along, everything was hunky dory with the Republican Party, this has been a very long downward spiral. Now Trump has accelerated the dissent of the party into hell. Sure. And the willingness of all of these Republican elected officials to go along with him has absolutely exacerbated the problem. And that is the problem. As Rick Wilson points out, yeah, you're always gonna have a horrible politician regardless of the party. You're always gonna have your occasional Donald Trump. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u60olOrCJSc

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia have sent a clear message to Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Mark Meadows: You guys aren't going to be offered plea deals. These three men were the ring leaders of the plot to overturn Georgia's election results, and the fact that Fani Willis wants to prosecute all of them means that she likely has what she needs to secure a conviction. This new information also shows that analysts had been way off about Willis' intentions, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains. Link - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/28/trump-trial-georgia-no-plea-deal 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. It was revealed this week that Fulton County prosecutors led, of course by Fulton County, DEA, Fannie Willis, have decided that they are not going to be offering plea deals to Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, or Trump's former chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. Those three individuals are officially as of now out of the running to even consider receiving a plea deal from the prosecutors. This is massive. You may think like, oh, okay, so they're not gonna get plea deals. So what? No. So what? Like, that's everything folks. These three men, Trump, Giuliani Meadows, are effectively the ringleaders of the entire scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. There's only actually one missing from that list, and that's John Eastman. Eastman has not yet been offered a plea deal, but he is asking to be tried separately, to be tried earlier, and to move up the deadline for a plea deal to earlier next year. So Eastman, I think, wants a plea deal. He just hasn't been offered one yet. I do believe in the end, he will be offered one because the deadline for plea deals to be offered is June of 2024. So there's still a chance that people like Giuliani and Meadows might be offered a plea deal. But the fact that right now prosecutors are the ones saying that it's off the table again, is a huge deal. Here's what it tells us. First of all, it tells us that all of the legal experts have been wrong. Legal experts and analysts, myself included, by the way, although I'm not an expert, um, all predicted that Fannie Willis didn't want to have a bunch of trials, that she didn't want to have a bunch of defendants. She only wanted to have one. Donald Trump. Clearly that's not the case. She wants to have at least three of them, Trump, Giuliani, and Meadows. So everybody, including myself, we were wrong about that. But it also tells us that she thinks, and her team thinks that they have enough to be able to secure convictions against these individuals, and more importantly, not only enough to secure convictions, but that they've already gotten enough to where they don't need these men to cooperate. That's the key. That's why this is so significant. They either have evidence that already existed or they've gotten enough evidence from the people who have taken plea deals to say, you know what? We don't need these guys. We can get them and we're gonna get them. That is why this is such a big deal. Now, if these three men, of course, are convicted under Georgia's RICO law, which is what they're all indicted under, that, that does come with a five-year minimum prison sense, minimum Being the key word there. They cannot be sentenced to fewer than five years in prison if convicted under that law. So Giuliani Meadows and Trump could spend five years in a Georgia State penitentiary. Now, that's obviously putting the cart before the horse at this point. We've gotta get there first. But the fact that they have said plea deals for these dudes that are off the table kind of tells us that they may have a lot more than we know about. They've gotten a lot better cooperation than we know about, and these men are probably screwed. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kU2kpN7yM

Our healthcare system is so broken in this country that it is now helping to feed our prison industrial complex. Counties across America are starting to throw people in jail for unpaid medical debts, effectively bringing debtors prisons back to this country. This practice is likely illegal, but many areas have found a way around thanks to numerous legal loopholes. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.   Link – https://www.cbsnews.com/video/county-in-rural-kansas-is-jailing-people-over-unpaid-medical-debt/ 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. Over the weekend, CBS news aired a special, basically focusing on one tiny County in the city, state of Kansas, excuse me, that was jailing people over their unpaid medical debt. They talked to some folks who had been through this. There's a horrifying experience, terrifying for these people to have to go through this, sometimes over just a couple of hundred dollars. But here's the thing that CBS did not do a very good job reporting, and this is something that we here at Ring of Fire have actually been talking about for years. So it is a little shocking that the corporate media just now finally decided to talk about that, and a little bit infuriating. But this is happening in Counties, cities and States all over this country. People are going to jail because they can't pay their medical bills. Now, here's the thing, technically, yes, a hospital, a doctor's office does not have the ability to file an arrest warrant if you do not pay those bills, they don't even have the time to do that. So instead, here's how this little scam works. They turn your debt over to a collection agency. The collection agency tries several times to get you to pay these bills and if you pay the collection agency instead of paying the hospital, it does show up on your credit report. However, in most instances, if you just have regular medical debt owed to a hospital or a doctor's office, that folks, does not actually show up on a credit report. So that's a little something to keep in your back pocket there. But if you pay the debt collectors, then it does show up on your credit report and it further hurts your ability to get credit in the future. So anyway, they send it to the debt collector. Debt collector tries a couple times and then if you don't pay it, they send you a legal summons saying, you got to come to court and tell us why you can't pay. Now here's the problem. These notices, these legal notices, these court summons are disguised as just another letter from the collection agency. They look no different. The outside of the envelope note looks no different. If you're somebody like me who's gone through this and you get those letters, you know, at least at one point in your life quite frequently. I finally have stopped getting them. You tear them up because you know what it is. I have the original hospital bills and when I get the money I call them, even if they've turned it over to collections and I let them know I'm going to pay you or I'm not going to pay at all. And they'll pull the account back from the debt collector and let you pay them directly. Anyway, people are ignoring these summons because they think it's just another letter from the debt collector. They tear it up, not long after, after they missed their court date, cops show up at their door and they take them to jail. That's how this little scam works. So then not only are these people on the hook for the debt they already had, they now have to pay court fees. They have to pay legal fees if they want to hire a lawyer and try to fight this and make it go away, or at least have a slightly better outcome. It's straining the legal system across this country and also helping to support our prison industrial complex. So if you're in an area with a private prison, guess what? Now they get to profit off of you not being able to pay your healthcare bill. #rof #trofire #theringoffire #progressivenews ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYECTppr8I