After a special election on Tuesday, Democrats are once again in control of the statehouse in Michigan, which actually gives them full control of the state for, at least, the rest of the year. Democrats are continuing to rack up massive electoral victories, and this could be proof that the polling showing a close national race between Biden and Trump are way off the mark. Democrats wouldn't be winning everywhere - including in deep red areas where they shouldn't have a chance - if the public was torn between which Party would be better in control. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/democrats-retake-michigan-house-special-election-wins 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. We are being repeatedly told that the race for the White House, you know, Democrats versus Republicans, it's neck and neck control of the House of Representatives. We don't know, maybe Republicans keep it. Maybe Democrats take it. Everything is so close right now. We, we just can't tell. The polls are all over the place. Right? Well, I would advise you to stop looking at the polls and instead start looking at election results. Because this week, Democrats in the state of Michigan, due to a series of special elections on Tuesday, retook the State House, Michigan is of course a vital swing state in this year's election. There were two seats up in this spec special election on Tuesday. Democrats easily won both of them by double digits, like in the twenties to 30 percentage point double digits. Now, Democrats were expected to win those seats. So I'm not sitting here telling you that they won red districts, they won bluish districts, but the amount by which they won was in fact staggering. Democrats now for at least the rest of the year, depending on how this, you know, elections go at the end of the year, maybe they have it longer, but they've got control of the state of Michigan till the end of the year. They got the governorship, they got the state houses. Democrats got everything in that crucial swing state because voters said, we want Democrats, not Republicans. Kinda like that election that just took place, the special election in deep red Alabama, where a Democrat triumphed by, by actually campaigning on the issue of abortion. Democrats shouldn't have run that way, won that race. Democrats should not have won that race running on that issue, but they did. Jacksonville, Florida, same thing. Deep red, a hardcore progressive wins it. Democrats are winning all over the place. I don't know the last time that I sat here and said, oh, Democrats aren't doing good in special elections, folks. Oh, Democrats aren't doing great. Every time I talk about these special elections, whether it's for George Santos seat or these other places, or the ballot initiatives that are very progressive, that are winning, Democrats are winning across the board, including in places where they shouldn't. So we're gonna look at those results all over this country and honestly say to ourselves that Democrats are in trouble. That doesn't make any sense. Oh, but the polls are showing these things. I don't give a what the polls are showing. What are the voters actually doing is what matters. And the voters are overwhelmingly saying, by God, we want the Democrats. I don't know about you, but I'm looking at results, not the polls. And if we're basing 2024 on what the results are telling us, Not the polls, then this should be a landslide for Democrats in November. Now, I do not think it's healthy to have this, you know, just overwhelming optimism. Ha ha, Democrats are gonna win. Let's do that. I don't wanna give you a false sense of hope, but what we're now looking at historically, you know, for the last year and a half, Democrats are kicking and Republicans are falling apart. And I think that tells us a hell of a lot more than what any of these polls out there are actually telling us. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ngb0pDTTY

Via America’s Lawyer: Following the 2019 terrorist attack at a Pensacola naval base which left 3 dead, families of victims sue the Saudi Arabian government for being complicit. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. 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. Well, it's a regressive, obsolete, thuggish regime that only stays in, and basically what they've done is they've claimed all the natural resources for themselves. Now think about that. Who in the hell says, yeah, you're entitled to all the oil, you do that through a dictatorship, a regressive dictatorship. Here's the other part of the story that really gets ugly. They have this arrangement with the Wahhabi, the Wahhabi clerics, right? And the Wahhabi clerics allow business as usual. They are, they aren't an uprising. It's, they're radical, crazy clerics. Like we saw affect us right here in Pensacola. Tell that story, I mean. Right. You know, what was it? December of 2019, I believe, we had a shooter here at our local Naval air station. One of the largest Navy air stations in the country, from Saudi Arabia was here as part of, I guess you'd call it a bit of an exchange program. They send their people here to be trained by our military. Because we buy their weapons. Right, and to learn how to use them, to take that knowledge back to Saudi Arabia, turns out this guy had spent years being radicalized by Al-Qaeda. Saudi Arabia completely ignored all the warnings they had on this. Let him come here anyway. Ignored his social media posts talking about the countdown is coming. Right. Or the countdown has started, I believe. Waiting till this attack happened, kills several individuals, wounds couple dozen here in Pensacola. Alshamrani, okay, now here it is. He attacks US soil, Biden knows that, Blinken knows that, who's over the ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4T0eij4vM

In interviews with legendary reporter Bob Woodward for his new book, Donald Trump openly bragged about the "airtight NDAs" that he made his White House staffers sign before working with him. This is an unusual move for a President, but there was obviously nothing normal about Trump's administration. In the same tapes, Trump also talks about how much he likes Putin and how stupid he thought George W. Bush was. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-audiobook-nda-aides-b2205489.html 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. As part of his new audio book, Legendary Journalist, Bob Woodward. Um, part of the book actually talks about, actually doesn't talk about it, has Donald Trump and his son Trump Jr. On tape bragging about their airtight non-disclosure agreements. I'm gonna read you the exchange that took place. Again, this is part of the audio book with Bob Woodward, Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. Talking about the NDAs. Donald Trump says, I do have nondisclosure deals with. And then Trump Jr. Jumps in. Uh, Corey has one, hope has one senior pops in. Corey has one hope, has one, uh, to do so. So I won't even ask one question, even as I have Junior then chimes in, uh, I don't have one, and I'm in the middle of a book, and then senior says, he's the one I'm most worried about. To which junior replies, I'm not getting next week's paycheck until I sign one. And then Mr. Woodward trying to get the conversation back on track, asked this, Uh, do you think these are airtight agreements that no one could write a book? And this is where Trump responds. This is where the good part is. I think they're very airtight. I think they're extremely airtight. And anybody that violate it, let's put it this way, it's so airtight that I've never had, you know, I've never had a problem with this. I don't like people that take your money and then say bad things about you. Okay? But saying bad things about you isn't exactly a reason for somebody to sign a non-disclosure agreement, right? I mean, is your ego really that fragile? That you have to tell people that, Listen, if you wanna be near me, you're not ever allowed to tell anybody any of the bad things I ever did. I mean, for Trump, yes, that's, that's the way he operates. It's the way he operates with his business. It's the way he operated while at the White House, which yes, was very out of the ordinary. It wasn't because people were handling classified documents. It wasn't because they were privy to information that they legally couldn't share with the rest of the public. It's because he didn't want them talking about the horribly stupid things that he did. That's what these are about. And most other presidents didn't do that. Sure, they understood the risk that come along with the job. You do something, somebody's gonna put it in a book sometimes, somewhere, there's little you can do about it. Trump, of course, tried to head that off at the past before it even happened. And now here he is bragging about it. I have effectively silenced these people from sharing my deepest, darkest secrets. And they're so airtight that if anybody violates it, he wouldn't even get into what would happen. Like that's the truly terrifying Part. He wouldn't even say what would happen to those people if they violate those non-disclosure agreements. Now, here's the other part of this. Donald Trump's non-disclosure agreements have not held up in court because he made them too broad. So we've had many people that have challenged them in court and won. So they're not exactly as airtight as you'd like them to be, buddy, because you're not doing such a good job legally defending any of them. But another part of this I did find interesting that has nothing to do with the nondisclosure agreements is the part where Donald Trump said, of Vladimir Putin, I respect Putin. I think Putin likes me. I think I like him. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLmprBxWac0

As Americans increasingly refuse to get vaccinated, states are turning to more and more desperate measures in order to get people to get the shot. One of the ways they are attempting to do this is with vaccine lotteries, where fully vaccinated people can submit proof of vaccination and be entered to win cash prizes of up to $1 million. These efforts appear to be working, but it is beyond pathetic that Americans are so reluctant to get the shot based solely on partisan politics. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/554864-more-states-turn-to-lotteries-in-vaccine-hesitancy-fight 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. New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, all of these states are coming up with plans to get their residents vaccinated, including the people who are a little hesitant about getting this COVID vaccine. But what they're doing is they're essentially having to bribe people coming up with what they're calling vaccine lotteries, where people can, you know, submit their vaccine card, showing that they are fully vaccinated. You then get entered into these drawings and in some areas you could actually win up to $1 million cash for doing nothing more than getting vaccinated. And I think that's a pretty good deal. Here in the United States over the last couple of weeks, maybe month ish, we have seen a decline in the number of people getting vaccinated. We have seen a big decline in the number of people getting their second vaccination shot. They get the first, but then they don't come back for the second. Overall, our numbers are trending down, even though we've got some areas like the state of Florida here, that's still seeing a, you know, couple thousand COVID cases a day for most of the month of May. COVID is not going ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz56BtDeWVs