Donald Trump woke up on Tuesday morning and immediately got on Truth Social to let the world know how angry he is. During one of his typical meltdowns (which are becoming far more frequent) the former president demanded that Judge Juan Merchan "take off the gag order!" so that he can attack anyone that he pleases during his trial. Trump's tirades are not going to do him any favors as he faces justice, and it isn't even clear at this point who this rants are meant to sway. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/trump-truth-social-2667782644/ 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 woke up on Tuesday morning, the morning after, of course, his very first day in his criminal trial. Uh, and he woke up angry on Tuesday. Uh, in fact, he woke up very angry on Tuesday, and as he usually does, the first thing he did in the morning was he got on truth social and let the world know how angry he is about everything that's happening to him. But this time it wasn't just letting us know that he's angry, he also had a demand for Judge Juan Rashan. And that demand was that you take this gag order off of me right now, here's what Trump said on truth social. This conflicted Trump hating Judge won't let me respond to people that are on TV lying and spewing hate all day long. He is running rough shad, he is running rough shad. He, he, he did that as two words. So sorry. He is running rough shot over my lawyers and legal team. The New York System of Justice is being decimated by critics from all over the world. I wanna speak or at least be able to respond. Election interference, rigged, unconstitutional trial, take off the gag order, followed, of course, by three exclamation points. That's how you know he means business. When you get to three exclamation points, one exclamation point, you know, you, you, you can excuse that. But with his three, you know, he means business right? Now, here's the question I have actually, before I ask that. Trump then went on to another post and he said, my trial is an assault on America. Sure, whatever. Um, it's not. But okay, now when he says this, like, take off the gag order, what I wanna know is in Donald Trump's mind, does he think that Judge Marshawn is gonna see that and be like, oh, oh, I, I, I didn't know he wanted me to take this off. Why? Why didn't anybody tell me? Of course, I'll take it off. Like, what do you think is gonna happen? Do you honestly think there's anybody in that New York courthouse that's gonna see this and be like, Hey Judge, we gotta take this thing off, man. Yeah, look at this. I mean, eh, right? I mean, three exclamation points. Oh my God, we can't fight that. Like, that's not gonna happen. The people who already believe the gag order should be taken off. You already believe the gag orders should be taken off you, you're not gonna win over new people who see your post and are suddenly like, oh, well I guess he's got a point there. I mean, listen, you have a gag order on you because you are in a position of power. You are in a position of influence, which is why you are not allowed to talk about the people who are gonna be witnesses in the case. Meanwhile, the witnesses in the case like Michael Cohen, stormy Daniels, they're allowed to go out in the media because they don't have that kind of power. And of course, 'cause they're the ones testifying, they can't influence their own testimony to go a certain way to appease themselves. You see what I mean? That's Why they can do it, and you can't. But as this trial proceeds, we are going to see more panic from Donald Trump. We're gonna see him waking up every morning, getting on truth, social first thing, spreading lies, spreading hatred, spreading vitriol, because that's all he has right now. He is a very scared, somewhat sleepy old man. His life is crashing down around him. 'cause let's not forget, like as he is dealing with this, we also have all of those unanswered questions about his bond in the fraud trial. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o-QvhqYrQM

President Biden might not be celebrating many electoral successes, but he is succeeding in one area: Packing the courts. So far, Biden has gotten more judges approved than his two predecessors had at this point in their administrations, though both previous men were able to get a SCOTUS pick seated in their first 6 months. But the lower courts are where the action is, and Biden is doing a good job of getting judges approved and out the door, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains. Link - https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-pushing-federal-judge-nominees-through-faster-pace-trump-obama-1615229 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. I've been really tough on Joe Biden and that's because I'm not a cheerleader for anyone here, you screw up, I'm going to call you out. You do well, I'm going to give you props. And so here is a chance for me to actually praise Joe Biden for something that he's doing very well. In fact, he's actually doing it better than his two most recent predecessors, Donald Trump and Barack Obama and that is getting federal judges appointed to the bench here in the United States. So far, and this number may seem small, he's gotten eight federal judges appointed to the bench. He's got another 30 nominees waiting in the wings and he's got roughly 100 vacancies to fill. But getting eight approved by this point in his presidency is more than Trump had at this point. It's more than Obama had at this point. The only difference is that those two individuals did by this point in their presidency, have a Supreme Court seat filled. So, you know, they've got that edge on him. However, there's a weird bit of caution here. Only 15 Republicans in the Senate have voted against his nominees in total. Lindsey Graham has voted for in favor of, to confirm, all eight of these nominee ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uQfBChmt_Y

The CEO of Boeing announced that he’s leaving the company at the end of the year. His announcement came after a string of mechanical failures on Boeing jets, which employees say were the result of years of cutting corners. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.commondreams.org/news/boeing-ceo-corporate-criminality Order a copy of Mike Papantonio's new book at https://www.amazon.com/Suspicious-Activity-Thriller-Mike-Papantonio-ebook/dp/B0C7RL3BQ4 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. The CEO of Boeing announced that he's leaving the company at the end of this year. His announcement came after a string of mechanical failures on the Boeing jets, which employees were warning about for years. They said, this is coming, this is coming. But it was during a time when there was cost cutting and cutting corners at every, every step of the way. This is an industry, Farron, that is making so much money they can't spend it all. Right. They're the war, they are the weapons war industry. That's what this story, I wish they had got into more details on it, but they're the weapons war industry. They don't make money on building jets. They make money on selling missiles that blow the hell out of three quarters of the world. That's what they do. And so they're making a ton of money, but they still want to cut corners so they can pay this cat an exorbitant obscene bonus every year, while the workers keep getting cut and cut and cut. Pick it up. Or worse, depending on what happens to the workers, as we've seen. But like you said, you got over 150 employees for Boeing that in the last couple years have sounded the alarm to regulators saying, hey, listen, they're cutting corners here. They're using shoddy materials. They're not following regulations. This is subpar material on this jet that will fail. Will you do something? 150 employees telling regulators this and regulators say, nah. I mean, we've got all these big contracts with Boeing. We're kind of bailing 'em out already with the 737 Max. So we're just gonna let it be. And of course, what happens? People die. Yeah. It's obscene. Okay. 350 deaths just in two fatal crashes. 350 deaths. Not to say, what else is there? And okay, so not one time have they been criminally prosecuted. Okay. They always get these sweetheart deals. We're gonna defer prosecution. Can you get it right? No, Mr. CEO, you're not going to prison. If you killed that many people, you'd be in prison tomorrow. But we have a Department of Justice that is so tied to white collar, I mean, here's what happens. They're looking for jobs. You got lawyers there that are looking for jobs. Either that, or the lawyers with the Justice Department are career lawyers. They're tired. They don't have to work that hard. They're at GS, whatever the hell that is. And they're making all the money that they need, so they don't do anything to go after these folks. The other part, like I said, the other, two different divisions. One is the career person. Hell, why work hard? Right. I'm gonna be paid anyway. And then the other folks that are looking for jobs with corporations like this. So they kill all these people, no criminal prosecution, just like we saw with opioids. They killed 150 people a day for decades, Farron. The Department of Justice had everything they needed to prosecute, but they didn't prosecute. And we see it constantly. It's just a way of life in this country. But in this case, the 737 Max 9, what a disaster. Yeah, absolutely. We're dealing with a company that there is no question they were intentionally making bad airplanes. No. Which is the part of the criminal intent. Right. Which flows all the way to the top. Right? Absolutely. And these non prosecution agreements from the DOJ are actually only meant for basically first time offenders. Okay, this is your first time doing something bad. You didn't actually even hurt anybody. So we will give you a non prosecution agreement here. But with companies like Boeing, these are repeat offenders. They should not even qualify for these non prosecutorial agreements. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1cFtIMayRE

Republican Representative Mike Johnson from Louisiana is the new Speaker of the House, and the GOP could not have made a worse choice for the country. After a tumultuous few weeks, Republicans finally coalesced around the nominee after a blessing from Donald Trump, and that's not the least bit surprising. Johnson served on both Trump impeachment defense teams, fought to NOT certify the 2020 election results, and even filed an amicus brief in Texas to toss out more than 100,000 votes in the 2020 election. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the dangers of this fringe lunatic now leading the House. Link - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-congratulated-trump-speaker-nomination-1234862031/ 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. Well folks, after weeks and weeks and weeks of dysfunction, the Republican Party this week finally picked a new speaker of the house and somehow it's the worst possible person they could have picked. Aside from maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republicans have picked Republican representative Mike Johnson from the state of Louisiana to be the new leader for the Republican Party health for the whole House of Representatives. In general, Mike Johnson is now the third in line for the presidency, and Mike Johnson is somebody who helped, uh, basically is being described as one of the architects of the Republican attempts to not certify the 2020 electoral college results. So we now have a man who does not believe in US elections, serving as the Speaker of the House, third in line for the presidency, and he doesn't believe in the legitimacy of American elections, and that is just the beginning of how horrible Mike Johnson is. He is also being described. Hakeem Jeffries did a wonderful job of calling him out as being a Christian nationalist and fundamentalist. This is a man who would love nothing more than to put a nationwide abortion ban in place. This is the man who sat next to Donald Trump as a member of his defense team for both of his impeachment trials. This is a man who helped organize a group of 146 Republicans to file an amicus brief in Texas that went to the Supreme Court to throw out thousands and thousands of votes for President Biden. That, of course, is actually separate from his attempts to not certify the electoral college results on January 6th. And this is the man that is now in charge of the Republican Party. So let me throw out a hypothetical for you here. Let's assume that somehow some way Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives after next year's midterm elections. I know it's a long shot, but it's still a thing that could theoretically happen. If they do that. Mike Johnson would most likely still remain the speaker of the house, which means Mike Johnson would likely be the speaker of the house on January 6th, 2025 when it comes time to certify the election results of the 2024 election. Well, we've seen what Mike Johnson has clearly done in the past with the last presidential election, and if the 2024 presidential election yields results that Mr. Johnson does not like, what are the chances that he having full control over the house attempts to overturn those election results as well? I'd say it's pretty safe to say that that chance would Be pretty great at this point. That's a horrifying thought. You know, it's one thing when it's just a couple of yahoos out there. It's not the whole party trying to do this stuff. It's not the leader of the party trying to do this stuff. It's just a bunch of Republican right wing freaks trying to undermine democracy, and they don't have a majority, right? That's one thing that's bad enough. But when you actually have the leader of the party that could be the one pushing that in the future, that's when you've got a real issue on your hands. That's when they could the authority to do that. Just throw out all the votes and do whatever the hell they want, elect their own president, ignoring completely the will of the American public. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEubWq9G0z4