Rick Scott Unveils Terrifying Republican Agenda For 2022

First term Republican Senator Rick Scott has decided to take it upon himself to outline a Republican agenda for 2022, since actual Republican leadership wants to just wing it in this year's election. And honestly, America would likely be better off WITHOUT Republican ideas. Scott wants to focus on culture war issues that Republicans are pushing state to state, while also doubling down on some of the worst Republican policies at the national level. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

Become a member today!

Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!

Find our merchandise at Teespring

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

Be sociable! Follow us on:

Follow more of our stories at

Subscribe to our podcast

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

First term Republican Senator Rick Scott from the state of Florida has decided that he doesn't like Mitch McConnell's plan to head into the midterms with no actual agenda for the Republican party. So even though he's only in his first term, he does happen to chair the, you know, national Republican senatorial committee, which is their big fundraising arm for Senate Republicans. So he does have some power. He's got quite a bit of it, and he's decided to kind of use his power a little bit to show that he in fact has a better plan than Mitch McConnell. Rather than sitting back and watching Democrats self destruct, no, Rick Scott says I have a 31 page plan that I am releasing and this is gonna be our path moving forward, for those who want to adopt it, of course. Right? I don't want to step on Mitch McConnell's toes. But that's exactly what he's doing because this is the power struggle taking place in the United States Senate today among the Republicans.

And to be honest, we would all probably be much better off if the Republicans did have no plan, because the thing that Rick Scott has put out there is absolutely horrendous. It would ban any federal application from any mention of race at all. And you may think, okay, well, isn't that a good thing? Don't we want to not consider that? No, we actually need those things to make sure that we have, you know, representative people working in government. You strip that away, I guarantee you we're gonna start seeing more and more and more and more old white guys taking over everything, which is of course, why affirmative action exists in the first place, to prevent things like that, because yes, there is bias in hiring and Rick Scott wants to take us back to that. He also wants to enact legislation on the federal level for national voter IDs, which means that low income people who may not drive, they clearly don't travel by airplane.

They don't need IDs, right? You don't look like you're 12, so you don't need an ID to go down to the store and buy a case of beer, if you can even afford it. There's lots of people in this country for the record folks who do not have IDs and do not have the means with which to get them. And Rick Scott knows that, Republicans know that, that's why they put these laws in place. There's other methods they could use to verify somebody's identity, they just refuse to do it. So that's why they're doing it because this one actually costs people money and makes them have to take a special trip and all of that, that they can't do. It also would attack critical race theory, which again is not taught in any school in this country. It would ban transgender athletes, you know, basically going through the gamut of culture war issues for Republicans, codifying into federal law what Republicans are doing state by state across this country.

And not enough people are getting off about as I've already mentioned once in a video this week. And also it would raise taxes on the poorest Americans. Now, Rick Scott came out, I think it was Tuesday evening and said, no, this thing does not raise taxes on the poorest Americans. That's not in the plan. And then everybody literally pulled up the plan and said, it's right here. It says it right here. To have skin in the game, everybody has to pay at least some income tax.