Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has reportedly given his new, hand-picked surgeon general a 50% pay raise over his predecessor who left the job just one month ago. This new surgeon general has expressed skepticism at the effectiveness of the COVID vaccines, and has openly questioned whether or not masks are effective at slowing transmission. He's exactly what DeSantis wanted, and he is being handsomely rewarded for his ignorance. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/floridas-new-surgeon-general-is-making-over-twice-his-predecessors-salary-report/ 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. It was revealed this week that Florida's new surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Lopatto is going to be paid 50% more than his predecessor. Uh, former surgeon general riff keys, a 50% pay increase from the guy that just left the job a month ago. That is a hell of a raise. I don't care what industry you're in. If you're making 50% more than the guy that just had the job you've taken. Wow. Hey, good for you. Right. Except of course, it's very obvious why governor Ron DeSantis is, uh, paying this guy more. And it's because Lopatto is we have discussed in segments in the past, uh, is vaccine hesitant. You can't necessarily call them anti-vax although he has, you know, spewed quite a few anti-vax talking points, calling into question, the safety and efficacy of the vaccine saying he's not even really sure if it actually prevents COVID. He is called into question the safety of masks, which by the way, is actually the number one reason why DeSantis hired this guy. And I get more to that in a moment. And unfortunately, uh, surgeon general Lopatto there checks all the right boxes in terms of qualifications. We're talking Harvard medical school, the guy was a renowned p ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbx6JBE6pFM

Just a few months ago, Republican candidates were tripping over themselves to secure an endorsement from Donald Trump. But things have changed in a short amount of time, and these very same candidates who once boasted of the former president's endorsement - an even let him hold rallies for them - are now pretending that he doesn't even exist. Mentions of Donald Trump and his endorsements are disappearing from candidate websites at a rapid pace, and Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://www.axios.com/2022/08/31/republicans-midterms 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 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: 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. Something quite remarkable is happening with a lot of the candidates that Donald Trump has endorsed over the last few months. You know, they fought tooth and nail to get these endorsements. They went, they begged him, they traveled to Margo. They welcomed him into their states. He did rallies for 'em. They showed up on stage. It was a giant love Fest. But today something's a little different cuz if you go to a lot of their websites, do you know what? You're not gonna find any mention of Donald Trump? It actually began a couple weeks ago when Dr. Oz who realized that his campaign was going down in flames, tried to write the ship by scrubbing Trump's endorsement from his own website, got rid of the mentions of Trump. And of course it clearly did not help his campaign as he's actually doing worse now than he was before he did that. But it's not because he removed the Trump stuff it's cuz he is the worst candidate ever. Then you have other Republicans who this week it was revealed are, are scrubbing mentions of Donald Trump and mentions of the 20, 20 election being a fraudulent election. People like Blake masters out in Arizona. He's not doing so well. So he decided to go through his website, take out mentions of Trump, take out mentions of, uh, the 20, 20 election let's move forward. Not backward. Let's also hope people forget that Trump was just here doing a rally for me a couple weeks ago. Then you got other folks. You've got Doug Mao, the uh, Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate who has deleted 14 videos from his Facebook page in which he touted far right positions, including referring to climate change as pop science. You have Maryland Republican gubernatorial nominee, Dan Cox, who has deleted his account on gab, which is a conservative social media site, uh, in Wisconsin, Republican gubernatorial nominee, Tim Michaels erased mention of his endorsement from Donald Trump, deleting the words Trump endorsed from his website, bio. And there's plenty of others. There's plenty of house candidates. There's plenty of Senate candidates. So we're talking about people running for governor, running for house, running for Senate, and all of them are telling their people. Please get all those mentions of Trump off our website. It's not working well for us, but there's also another interesting thing happening. And by happening, I mean disappearing from their websites because what else is disappearing? Are there extreme views on abortion? Blake masters, uh, Tom Barrett, who's running for house in Michigan, Christian Castelli. Who's running for house in North Carolina, Barbara Kirk Meyer, running for house in Colorado. Um, Minnesota, Republican nominee, Scott Jensen. He's running for governor Oregon, Republican candidate for governor, Christine DRN. All of these people have deleted all of the abortion stuff off their websites is according to Axios, by the way They've deleted it all. Oh, abortion. I don't even know what that is. Is that something we take a stand on in the Republican party? I don't know. They're terrified. They're terrified of what is happening in this country, right? Sarah PA loses her election. Suddenly that Trump endorsement ain't worth a whole hell of a lot, especially for somebody with the national almost international recognition that Sarah Palin has. And by the way, all of this scrubbing happened before Sarah Palin lost her election. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcLQfim7_Wc

Former Trump advisor and noted warmonger John Bolton came out with a bold prediction about Trump's 2024 plans this week. Bolton claims that Trump will most likely NOT run for President again because he is afraid of being labeled a "loser." That may seem a little far-fetched considering the fact that Trump got absolutely annihilated in the 2020 election but he's continued to act like that never happened. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why Bolton's prediction is probably not to be trusted. Link - https://www.businessinsider.com/john-bolton-predicts-trump-wont-run-2024-scared-losing-2021-11 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. Warmonger John Bolton, who at one point had served as an advisor to Donald Trump, came out this week with an exceptionally bold prediction about what Donald Trump is going to do in 2024. And here's what Mr. Bolton had to say. I don't think Trump will run for the presidency in 2024. I think he knows deep inside, although he will never admit it, he did lose in 2020 and very much fears losing in 2024, because if he hates anything in the world, he hates being called a loser. I think he will talk about running incessantly until the very last moment, because if he were to ever say he was not going to be a candidate, it would turn the spotlight off and he doesn't like that either. I agree with you on the spotlight part because that's something I've actually repeatedly said here on Ring of Fire for many, many months now. But the other part he's not going to run because he's afraid of losing and he doesn't want to be called a loser. Uh, nope. I don't buy that at all. I genuinely and truly do not buy that assessment of Donald Trump. He, he lost in 2020. People call him a loser now. You have Republican groups that are putting billboards up across the country ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92L3qRgzSY

More and more allies of Tucker Carlson are speaking to the press about Carlson's desire to take down Fox News for not allowing him to get out of his contract and start a new show. This is the second major report where his allies have made these claims, but so far the former Fox employee hasn't done a single thing. The reason for that is likely because he can't go after the network without implicating himself in any horrible behavior that he may have witnessed. Is he willing to take that hit just to destroy Fox? Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins examines that question. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-fox-news-2660272881/ 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. According to a new report from Variety, Tucker Carlson's, friends and allies are telling the outlet that that man Tucker is prepared to go scorched earth. He is prepared to watch Fox News quote implode if they do not let him out of his contract and allow him to start producing his own show for whatever platform wants to take it. Now, about a week ago, Tucker Carlson did announce that he was bringing his show back to Twitter, uh, exclusively to Twitter, a claim that actually freaked Elon Musk out so much that he had to come out and issue a statement saying, we have no agreement with Tucker. He's just uploading it as a creator. We didn't do this, don't blame us for it. But Tucker can't actually do that because he is still under contract with the network until January of 2025. And if he were to go and produce another show, suddenly he's in breach of contract and then they sue him and then they don't have to pay him. And then he might still be barred from producing a TV show. So that's why his friends and allies are off. They want Tucker back on the air. Tucker wants back on the air. So they are making sure that they tell as many media outlets as possible that, Hey, Tucker's gonna come out and do some horrible things to Fox if y'all don't let him out of the contract. That is essentially the gist of what his friends told Variety, and it's the same thing that they told Axios about a week ago. But here's the thing, right now, all we're seeing is Tucker having his friends go out and make these threats. Oh, Tucker's gonna do this. Oh, he's gonna expose him. Oh, the whole network's gonna implode just you. Wait. If they don't let him out, he's gonna do it. He's totally gonna do it. He's gonna do it. Do it. Hey, what are you waiting for? If you actually have what you say you have, or what your friends are implying you have, go ahead and do it, Tucker, go ahead right now, like just do it. But you can't see, that's the part of the story. Everybody Mrs. Tucker Carlson can't do the things that he wants to do to Fox News. Here's why. What is he gonna do? Is he gonna expose some horrible wrongdoing at the network that was happening behind the scenes? Well, great problem is if you expose something that was, you know, even potentially criminal, you're a part of it holding onto that evidence, especially if it is some kind of criminal activity and not reporting it, you become culpable at that point. So there is nothing that Tucker Carlson can expose about Fox News without also exposing himself to potential liability for not coming forward. Not to mention the fact that if Tucker has anything that he finds out after the fact that he wants to expose about the network, he needs to keep in mind. The network also has plenty of things they can leak about him. We have seen plenty of leaks. We don't know where they're Coming coming from, but we have seen plenty of horrible things come out about Tucker Carlson since his firing. But really nothing from Tucker Carlson about the network itself. So who is holding all the cards here, Tucker and your friends, because it's not you. Fox has all the power in this situation, and I guarantee there's probably a lot more damning stuff that they could be releasing about you, but they're choosing not to. So if you wanna go toe to toe with the big dog, go ahead. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBjExHRoU8