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December 1, 2022
Spanish police are investigating reports of a small blast at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. In a statement to media, the ministry said police were told an employee at the embassy was slightly injured while handling a letter.
1 injured by small blast at Ukrainian embassy in Madrid - NewsNation
Spanish police are investigating reports of a small blast at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. In a statement to media, the ministry said police were told an employee at the embassy was slightly injured while handling a letter.
December 1, 2022
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes' lawyers James Lee Bright and Phillip Linder discuss the trial and seditious conspiracy conviction for their client's role in the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
Hear the promises Stewart Rhodes made to his lawyers before Oath Keepers trial - CNN
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes' lawyers James Lee Bright and Phillip Linder discuss the trial and seditious conspiracy conviction for their client's role in the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
December 1, 2022
Luke continues his recap of past interviews he's done with Trump supporters... this one is wild.
My Interview with Trump Supporter Got Heated! - Luke Beasley
Luke continues his recap of past interviews he's done with Trump supporters... this one is wild.
December 1, 2022
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was called out by the Denver Post over her hateful rhetoric toward LGBTQ+ people.
Lauren Boebert Gets CALLED OUT Over Her Anti-LGBTQ Hate! - Luke Beasley
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was called out by the Denver Post over her hateful rhetoric toward LGBTQ+ people.
December 1, 2022
UPS drivers are revealing the gruesome reality behind your online orders. They say the company is forcing 12+ hour days and constant overtime. The schedules have ruined countless families and marriages. And in the heat, excessive overtime can be a death sentence.
Excessive Overtime Is Killing UPS Workers - More Perfect Union
UPS drivers are revealing the gruesome reality behind your online orders. They say the company is forcing 12+ hour days and constant overtime. The schedules have ruined countless families and marriages. And in the heat, excessive overtime can be a death sentence.
November 30, 2022
“The Russians, having failed tactically and their military forces, are performing pretty abysmally. They’ve realised that they need to do something as a game changer.”
Corruption in the Russian army is causing troops to perform ‘abysmally’, former chief of the naval staff Admiral Lord West tells #TimesRadio.
'Putin has failed tactically and his military are performing pretty abysmally' - Admiral Lord West
“The Russians, having failed tactically and their military forces, are performing pretty abysmally. They’ve realised that they need to do something as a game changer.”
Corruption in the Russian army is causing troops to perform ‘abysmally’, former chief of the naval staff Admiral Lord West tells #TimesRadio.
November 30, 2022
Donald Trump's third presidential campaign could not be off to a worse start, and he is continuing to lose allies and former supporters who are just ready for him to go away. The latest person to ditch Trump is country singer Pat Boone, who says that he won't be supporting Trump this time around and that the former President shouldn't even be running. Trump still has a lot of support, but it appears to be getting weaker by the day. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
Donald Trump continues to hemorrhage allies that once stood staunchly by his side in 2016 and 2020. But now in 2022, gearing up for 2024, these people want absolutely nothing to do with him. And the latest person to come out is Pat Boone, the 88 year old singer, and of course, conservative who is, you know, still active among Republicans. In an interview with the Daily Beast published this week, pat Boone said that if he could give Trump one piece of advice, it would be don't run for office again. You're done, buddy. Time to move on. Here is what Boone said. If Trump were to ask my advice, I would ask him not to run. I don't think there are enough Republicans who would vote for him so he could be elected, but he was his own worst enemy in his manner, in his speech, and he made so many enemies that while he could be a great president again, if he muted his speech and all of that, which I'm not sure he is capable of, I would advise him, please don't run.
I think you will divide the Republican party even more. Sure, there are a few million people that will support him no matter what, but I think because of the uh, uh, applicable unmovable enemies he's created even in the Republican party, that he would not be elected. Now, most of this is actually a very good analysis by Pat Boone. You know, minus the part where a, if he just showed up, he could be a good president. No, he can't. His ego won't let him be a good president. His greed will not let him be a good president ever. Like there's no redeeming qualities that Trump has, even if he were to shut his mouth. But the rest of it is true. Like, yeah, there's a few million people in this country that will vote for Donald Trump no matter what. He could show up at their house, kill their family, and they would be like, wow, you killed them better than anybody's ever killed anybody.
I'll vote for you twice. Now, they will support him no matter what he does. But it's the average Republican voters out there, the normal Republican voters, the people who still believe in trickle down economics out there, and yeah, there is unfortunately quite a few of them. Those are the people that cannot stomach Donald Trump anymore. Those are the people who do not want to show up in a general election for Donald Trump. And we saw a lot of that in the midterms, right? We saw people vote for a Democrat at the top of the ticket. You know, if they were voting against an election denier or a hardcore mega freak, they'd vote against that person, go for the Democrat, but then continue to vote Republican all the way down. So that is the big problem that Trump has Voters already proved they're willing to not vote for crazy Republicans, but they'll still show up to vote for the other person and then vote for the rest of the Republicans. That is a big problem for Donald Trump. Now, it may not hurt him at all, obviously, in the primaries, but once he gets to the general, this could be an absolute
Landslide victory for the Democrats if Trump is the nominee. But back to the primary issue, if he continues to hemorrhage, big name, uh, supporters, people like Pat Boone, people like Ken Griffin, the hedge fund billionaire, and all of the other big name Republicans that have already said, no, Trump, were not doing this again.
Trump Campaign Hitting Rock Bottom As More Allies Ditch The Loser - Ring of Fire
Donald Trump's third presidential campaign could not be off to a worse start, and he is continuing to lose allies and former supporters who are just ready for him to go away. The latest person to ditch Trump is country singer Pat Boone, who says that he won't be supporting Trump this time around and that the former President shouldn't even be running. Trump still has a lot of support, but it appears to be getting weaker by the day. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
Donald Trump continues to hemorrhage allies that once stood staunchly by his side in 2016 and 2020. But now in 2022, gearing up for 2024, these people want absolutely nothing to do with him. And the latest person to come out is Pat Boone, the 88 year old singer, and of course, conservative who is, you know, still active among Republicans. In an interview with the Daily Beast published this week, pat Boone said that if he could give Trump one piece of advice, it would be don't run for office again. You're done, buddy. Time to move on. Here is what Boone said. If Trump were to ask my advice, I would ask him not to run. I don't think there are enough Republicans who would vote for him so he could be elected, but he was his own worst enemy in his manner, in his speech, and he made so many enemies that while he could be a great president again, if he muted his speech and all of that, which I'm not sure he is capable of, I would advise him, please don't run.
I think you will divide the Republican party even more. Sure, there are a few million people that will support him no matter what, but I think because of the uh, uh, applicable unmovable enemies he's created even in the Republican party, that he would not be elected. Now, most of this is actually a very good analysis by Pat Boone. You know, minus the part where a, if he just showed up, he could be a good president. No, he can't. His ego won't let him be a good president. His greed will not let him be a good president ever. Like there's no redeeming qualities that Trump has, even if he were to shut his mouth. But the rest of it is true. Like, yeah, there's a few million people in this country that will vote for Donald Trump no matter what. He could show up at their house, kill their family, and they would be like, wow, you killed them better than anybody's ever killed anybody.
I'll vote for you twice. Now, they will support him no matter what he does. But it's the average Republican voters out there, the normal Republican voters, the people who still believe in trickle down economics out there, and yeah, there is unfortunately quite a few of them. Those are the people that cannot stomach Donald Trump anymore. Those are the people who do not want to show up in a general election for Donald Trump. And we saw a lot of that in the midterms, right? We saw people vote for a Democrat at the top of the ticket. You know, if they were voting against an election denier or a hardcore mega freak, they'd vote against that person, go for the Democrat, but then continue to vote Republican all the way down. So that is the big problem that Trump has Voters already proved they're willing to not vote for crazy Republicans, but they'll still show up to vote for the other person and then vote for the rest of the Republicans. That is a big problem for Donald Trump. Now, it may not hurt him at all, obviously, in the primaries, but once he gets to the general, this could be an absolute
Landslide victory for the Democrats if Trump is the nominee. But back to the primary issue, if he continues to hemorrhage, big name, uh, supporters, people like Pat Boone, people like Ken Griffin, the hedge fund billionaire, and all of the other big name Republicans that have already said, no, Trump, were not doing this again.
November 30, 2022
Beau of the Fifth Column: Let's talk about plans for retaking the House in 2024....
November 30, 2022
Luke breaks down two Kari Lake supporters that delivered bizarre and dangerous speeches at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Kari Lake Supporters Deliver Bizarre and Dangerous Speeches at Maricopa Co. Meeting! - Luke Beasley
Luke breaks down two Kari Lake supporters that delivered bizarre and dangerous speeches at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting.
November 30, 2022
The Republican Party swears that they want to learn from their mistakes so that they don't suffer another disaster like they did in the midterms, but the team they've assembled to get things in order probably won't accomplish that goal. The RNC has tapped Kellyanne Conway, senate loser Blake Masters, and several other weirdos to do a postmortem on the party's midterm performance. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
Well, the Republican party is, uh, getting underway with their midterm post-mortem, and they have assembled a crack team of people to get to the bottom of why the Republicans underperformed in 2022 and leading this pack of weirdos is none other than Kelly Ann Conway. That is one of the people that the NC has tapped to figure out why Republicans didn't do so well this year. They have also tapped evangelical lobbyists, Tony Perkins and Senate Campaign Loser Blake Masters. So they have assembled a team of weirdos and losers to find out why the public thinks that Republicans are weirdos and losers. I really, really truly wish that this was fake, like this kind of seems like the story you would see from the onion, but this is real. This is what, uh, Republican National Committee chair Ronald McDaniel has done. A postmortem is a good idea, but putting some of the wackiest and most fringe characters that your party has to offer in charge of it means that you're not going to get the correct conclusion with your final report.
Because the problem with the Republican Party in the eyes of the voters are people like, I don't know Kelly Ann Conway, Tony Perkins and Blake Masters, but now you've put these freaks in charge of finding out why people don't like the party. You think they're gonna come back and be like, Hey, um, it's us with like, it turns out it was the three of us and everything we stand for and do within the Republican party that turned voters off. Like that's not going to happen. Here's what's even funnier about this. Those of you who've been following politics long enough, especially following us here at Ring of Fire long enough, know that after the 2012 election in which met Romney got thoroughly thumped by Barack Obama, Republicans came out at that time and said, gosh, darn it, we gotta do a postmortem. We gotta figure out why. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the Republican party.
And they finally came out with their postmortem and they decided, well, we didn't do anything wrong. Everything was fine. It's just the voters who suck their postmortem of 2012 really didn't analyze anything within their party, other than of course, well, they think we're a little bit out of touch, which is why they then went to Trump, who had his fake populous message, and it kind of worked, I guess, hoodwinking some voters, but now they're wise to that as well. So I don't know what this postmortem is going to bring us, but I do know it's not going to bring Republicans the real answers to what's wrong with their party. Especially, and I know this is the most overlooked one, but Tony Perkins, the evangelical lobbyist, y'all do understand Republicans, that it's your evangelical push that actually help Democrats
The most in the midterms. Taking away abortion rights, launching your culture wars, those were the big things that you paid a price for. So putting an idiot like Tony Perkins on your postmortem panel is probably a very stupid thing because that guy's never going to admit that the things that he stands for are what helped torpedo your party.
Republicans Assemble Team Of Losers To Analyze Their Midterm Failures - Ring of Fire
The Republican Party swears that they want to learn from their mistakes so that they don't suffer another disaster like they did in the midterms, but the team they've assembled to get things in order probably won't accomplish that goal. The RNC has tapped Kellyanne Conway, senate loser Blake Masters, and several other weirdos to do a postmortem on the party's midterm performance. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
Well, the Republican party is, uh, getting underway with their midterm post-mortem, and they have assembled a crack team of people to get to the bottom of why the Republicans underperformed in 2022 and leading this pack of weirdos is none other than Kelly Ann Conway. That is one of the people that the NC has tapped to figure out why Republicans didn't do so well this year. They have also tapped evangelical lobbyists, Tony Perkins and Senate Campaign Loser Blake Masters. So they have assembled a team of weirdos and losers to find out why the public thinks that Republicans are weirdos and losers. I really, really truly wish that this was fake, like this kind of seems like the story you would see from the onion, but this is real. This is what, uh, Republican National Committee chair Ronald McDaniel has done. A postmortem is a good idea, but putting some of the wackiest and most fringe characters that your party has to offer in charge of it means that you're not going to get the correct conclusion with your final report.
Because the problem with the Republican Party in the eyes of the voters are people like, I don't know Kelly Ann Conway, Tony Perkins and Blake Masters, but now you've put these freaks in charge of finding out why people don't like the party. You think they're gonna come back and be like, Hey, um, it's us with like, it turns out it was the three of us and everything we stand for and do within the Republican party that turned voters off. Like that's not going to happen. Here's what's even funnier about this. Those of you who've been following politics long enough, especially following us here at Ring of Fire long enough, know that after the 2012 election in which met Romney got thoroughly thumped by Barack Obama, Republicans came out at that time and said, gosh, darn it, we gotta do a postmortem. We gotta figure out why. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the Republican party.
And they finally came out with their postmortem and they decided, well, we didn't do anything wrong. Everything was fine. It's just the voters who suck their postmortem of 2012 really didn't analyze anything within their party, other than of course, well, they think we're a little bit out of touch, which is why they then went to Trump, who had his fake populous message, and it kind of worked, I guess, hoodwinking some voters, but now they're wise to that as well. So I don't know what this postmortem is going to bring us, but I do know it's not going to bring Republicans the real answers to what's wrong with their party. Especially, and I know this is the most overlooked one, but Tony Perkins, the evangelical lobbyist, y'all do understand Republicans, that it's your evangelical push that actually help Democrats
The most in the midterms. Taking away abortion rights, launching your culture wars, those were the big things that you paid a price for. So putting an idiot like Tony Perkins on your postmortem panel is probably a very stupid thing because that guy's never going to admit that the things that he stands for are what helped torpedo your party.
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