This is Rumble with Michael Moore.
I'm Michael worm. Welcome everyone.
Thanks for listening. Thanks for all the wonderful
comments and things. You wrote about President,
Carter fact that he's entered hospice.
I wrote my sub stacked column this week.
It's an open letter to President Carter.
And if you had a chance to read it, if you haven't, you can go
on, my sub stack at Michael more.com and read it.
And just like to talk about a few things that are on my mind
today and kind of get them out of the way.
First of all, I might as well. Start with some good news, the
victories against the term stirs against the Insurrection, us
against the heaters. Just continue to roll forward in
the month of February, which just ended.
So if you missed some of this, because there's so many other
things in the news every day, A lot of things, just don't make
it online, they don't make it on the TV news.
So before they pass Us by, I want us all to take a moment and
I guess Pat ourselves on the back a little bit.
Now, I know a lot of you have a hard time listening to my
podcast and reading my sub sticks.
When I try to tell you that the Republicans are toast that
they're in their final days, that the people who stand for
democracy are winning, they're going to win that.
That while the thing we call the Democratic party, often times
leaves a lot to be desired because the people running it
don't know what they're doing. They have no idea sometimes who
this country is and so their finger isn't quite on the pulse
and they, you know, don't do the job, they should be doing, they
don't find the right candidates to win or, or maybe some of us
should be running and we don't, and that's part of the problem
too, because if we want better candidates, we may need to look
amongst ourselves and not just waiting for the party hacks at
the top to pick people for us, too.
Form and doesn't really work that well, does it look, I did
forty four subsets that I wrote 44, essays in the 44 days,
leading up to the November election, contouring, all the BS
that we were being. Told that there is going to be
this red wave that the Republicans were going to kick
the Democrats ass and we were going to lose the Senate.
We were going to lose the house. We're going to lose all this
stuff around the country. And again I'm not really not a
contrarian I don't look for. I don't look for ways to just
sort. I have say, no, I disagree.
I'm over here on the other limb, I'm away from all of you who are
telling us how things are going to be, and I don't believe it's
going to be that way. But I really, again, just as I
tried to warn people that Trump was going to win in 2016.
I gave the reasons why I wasn't just saying stuff to be
provocative or whatever. I just live in the midwest.
I feel like I listen to people, especially I listen to people
that are not like me or that I disagree with.
I don't spend a lot of my time actually, Them to listen to me
because that's kind of a waste of time.
They're locked in on what they believe in terms of a whole host
of things that there's no way I could ever get them to change
their minds. So I don't waste my time doing
that. What I do is I believe that the
majority of our fellow Americans actually believe in all the good
things that we believe in. But they don't vote, or they've
given up for good reason sometimes, or they suffer
because of the color of their skin, the voter suppression and
the Jerry A man, during and everything that goes on.
And so sometimes we lose these elections.
But when there's actually, we make up the majority of this
country. You know, we who believe that
our environment should be protected, we who don't believe
in the death penalty, we who believe that we need to do
something about guns in this country, whole bunch of
categories, whether it's our schools, whether it's our water
systems. I mean, you just go down the
whole list countries, pretty much divided between those
people who I believe that we need to stand up against the
moneyed interests against capitalism against the greed,
whatever you want to call it. It's caused us a lot of harm.
So when a train goes off the tracks, the hilarity of watching
Republicans try to attack Biden for a train the train president
himself. You know, when Trump and the
Republicans and the wealthy donors for years, have fought
every issue. Shoe when it comes to safety,
whether it's trains, whether it's cars, whether it's the air
were breathing or whatever, the fat cats fight us, they get the
poor people, especially poor white people believing that
they're on their side and that they're going to be on their
side with God and guns, and they're going to fight the gays
and all this rigmarole that we are finally winning.
We're winning all these battles and I know a lot of you want to
believe, oh, we're in trouble. Oh, Trump's coming.
Back. Oh Mike.
No, you don't understand. Its I live with these people.
I work with them. Oh they're crazy Maga crazy.
Yes you're right. They are crazy.
Stop listening to him. Stop worrying about them.
A majority of this country doesn't agree with them.
Dave was seven of the last eight presidential elections.
Since George daddy, bush in 1988, okay?
How long ago that was? A lot of people, listen to, this
weren't even born yet. Seven of the eight presidential
election since Daddy bush in 88 have been won by the Democrats.
Not the Republicans. The popular vote has been won by
the Democrats now. Sadly a couple of Republicans
got into the Oval Office because we have people that are corrupt
and we have actual laws that aren't followed, or we have
legal gerrymandering and legal, voter suppression.
And until we change that the corrupt minority party, T the
party of the rich, they're the minority everybody else.
The 99% are the majority. So shouldn't their candidates
win every time because in seven of the last eight presidential
elections, the majority vote, went to them, went to the people
that were fighting the bushes and the trumps And yet.
And yet, here we are. And I know a lot of you are
still depressed and are still worried.
Even after we have this great, great Victory victories in
November, there was no Red Wave. I told you we'd stop it, we not
only didn't lose the Senate, we picked up a vote in the Senate.
We now have a stronger, slight majority in the Senate.
Millions of his showed up to vote.
Millions of us got millions of others to come to the polls.
We won governorships, we won State houses.
State sentence all over the country.
We destroy these Republicans. And now the Republicans only
hold a 9 seat majority in the house.
Which means any vote could flip by five votes and we would have
the majority of votes to pass. Whatever we want in the house in
Congress right now, even with their so-called Republican
majority. So I'm going to, I want to just
kick off today by giving you some more good news.
And again, remember, I do not belong to the Democratic party.
I don't pay dues the Democratic party.
You know? If you followed me for years,
I've been highly critical of the Democrats and there's a long
ways to go, but we've been using them as a way to beat back the
Trump's and the bushes and these so-called Republicans Who have
destroyed their own party. And now it's just a matter of
doing crime scene, clean-up essentially a bringing in
Servpro to wipe up the mess, they've created of themselves
for themselves. So we have we have more work to
do great. We can do it.
We're citizens of a democracy, we still have the vote, the
billionaire has the same number of votes, as you, or me one,
that's it. That's like the greatest news.
The billionaire. Yeah.
They got a ton more money than we have.
Yeah, they own a lot of property and they owned factories and
they only economy and they own this that whatever.
But when that, when that voting day comes and that curtain
closes or you send in your ballot and you seal it, you put
the stamp on it. By the way, when I'm president,
there will be no stamps needed for your mail in ballot all
free. It's already that way in a
couple places. We need that anyway.
Sorry. Didn't mean to get off on that.
What I'm telling you here is that the wealthy, each of them
have only one vote. And so because there's more of
us than there are of them. We win every time or we should,
the only way we never win is because they rigged it with
gerrymandering and voter suppression.
They try to stop black and brown people from boating and they
make it very difficult, everybody's on to them.
Now, the majority is onto them were on to them and bit by bit.
We stop them and bit by bit. There is no Red Wave.
There are no more red waves coming my friends.
It says it it's over. I know Mike but I don't know if
Biden can win. He sold and I just shut up.
Stop it. Stop it.
Please come on. Oh, I almost did abide
impersonation. Stop it.
You gotta love the guy.
Come on. Yes, he's not me.
He's not you. We would do things a little
differently. Right now, he's the club we have
in our hand to beat back the haters, the bigots, the white
supremacist, the misogynist, the gun lovers.
And we are going to continue to win over and over and over again
and I am not an optimist. If you see my movies I I am
telling you this as a person who is very aware of the predicament
and the predicaments that we've been in and we'll be in And it's
not guaranteed anywhere that we're going to win.
I'm just saying that we hold the power in our hands and it's up
to us whether we choose to use it.
More of us than them, more of us in a democracy means they lose
Simple as that except not so simple.
Right? Because we have to get out there
and we have to do the work as a lot.
I just I'm sorry I got off on that tangent here but I've just
I just want to give you some good news.
I want to tell you some incredible things that happen in
the last month in the last four weeks of the last 28 days of
February. Now we're in March, but I think
I didn't see a lot of this on the news.
I don't think you did either. And so I want to in the or still
in the doldrums of winter here and I want to give you some good
news to lift your spirits. But first of all, why don't I
think our first underwriter tonight for this podcast
episode. First up is a huge.
Thank you to Netflix and they're brilliant oscar-nominated film.
All Quiet, on the Western Front, frankly.
You know, there were a lot of great movies that were made this
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Okay, so just take just listen to what I'm going to say, this
is what's happened with what we'll call them Democrats
because they have to run as Democrats because in a country
of 330 million people. We only have two political
parties to represent the complete spectrum of thought and
ideas amongst 330 million people to parties.
All right, so that's what we have now, it won't be that way
in my lifetime that will change. There should be five or six
political parties to cover the broad range of political
thinking that we Have As Americans and I believe that
that will happen but not tonight and not in March.
So just listen to what has happened against the Maga crowd
in just a month of February. So on February 7th,
Pennsylvania, the Democrats swept, all three seats in three
special elections that were held for the Pennsylvania, state
house representative made three open seats.
Three different districts in the state.
They won them all. And now, the Democrats control,
the Pennsylvania, state house, for the first time, in 12 years,
which now will allow them to block legislation from the
republican-controlled state senate.
Including the restrictions that the Republicans want to place on
abortion and their support of voter suppression.
They will be unable to pass these laws because the Dems,
now, control the state house that happen.
In just the last month. and then February 21st, the state of
Virginia, Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat won, a special election
for the US Congress, the 4th District in Virginia.
She did so well that she scored 13 more points than Biden did in
the 2020 election when he got elected.
She all performed Biden by 13 points, became the new democrat.
That will represent Virginia's, 4th District that happened on
February 21st, and she replaced the wonderful Don mceachin.
Who died Democratic representative House of
Representatives. He died.
Shortly after winning his re-election just this past
November. And as I told you between 2020
and 2022, 16 members of Congress died or resigned.
Or disappeared or were arrested or were caught in a scandal,
whatever it was, they left or removed from Congress, 16,
special elections had to be held.
Shit happens. And special elections are held.
That's why we have to be ready to win these special elections.
Let me just read this from CNN. This is, this is good.
I like this so far in 2023 besides mcclellan's victory in
the Virginia, fourth district, the Democrat.
They're already already just since New Year's Day.
There have been 12 special elections for State Legislative
seats, in which, at least one Democrat was running against one
Republican, and in those 12 races since New Year's Day,
Democrats have been outperforming Biden's 2020
margins by an average of Four Points.
I don't know, it doesn't do me any good to say I told you so
because all I'm doing is quoting data.
That not all of these Representatives that are elected
in these elections. Make it to the end of their term
for whatever reason. God bless them.
If they've passed on the others Scandal, sometimes they actually
they want to run for a higher seat.
They want to run for a senate seat or something else.
But they're gone. Special elections are held we
pick up more seats. You know, I don't like to make
predictions and I really don't want to make promises, but I
told you that when we lost the house for the Republicans by
just a few seats, a few months ago that by the end of this term
in 2024, the Republicans will not be in control of the House
of Representatives. Now I don't like going out on a
limb and saying things like this, but I what I really am
trying to do is give you some belief in ourselves.
The bastards now are on a tear on a losing streak.
Now that has lasted since 1988. And they only win when they lose
Trump. Lost the popular, vote Bush,
lost the popular vote. So they got a special key to let
their white asses in because we have gerrymandering a voter
suppression. It's the only reason they're
there or were there. You're not going to be there
anymore, we're fixing us. So also in February Wisconsin
had a primary for their state supreme court.
Very important their supreme court because they're just one
vote off from giving women their rights back.
So, there's going to be a runoff in April, in the state of
Wisconsin. So, basically the top two,
vote-getters were a very liberal Justice and a very conservative
justice. So this is a big election in
April for Supreme Court in Wisconsin, it will determine
whether or not women get their rights back to control their own
bodies. Anything you can do to be
supportive of the groups in Wisconsin to win in April just
like we've been winning. Ting.
We let's let's win this one too. Okay, on February 21st.
What happened? New Hampshire and New Hampshire
incumbent Democrat. Chuck grassy not Grassley not
the guy on the Midwest. Chuck Grassi was re-elected to
the New Hampshire House of Representatives in a special
election after the 2022, midterm race back in November and it in
a tie vote a tie vote. For a state house, seat.
So thousands voted and ended up in a tie.
So, if you think your vote doesn't count a single vote,
doesn't count. He would have had to go through
this special election, Chuck grassy, but he did anyone on
February 21st, another Democratic Victory also, on
February 21st in Kentucky. One of our favorite red States.
The Democrat Cassie Armstrong. She won a special election to
fill a vacant senate seat in Louisville's District 19.
Another Democratic win in a red state.
If you remember from our our podcast series, that we started
over the holidays blue dots in a Red Sea. 12 episodes.
I gave you a how we are going to start winning in red towns, red,
counties, red States. And it started with the November
election. It started with the ballot
proposals in Kansas and Kentucky and Montana.
Troy, I don't need to explain those three states to you.
Do I I mean burning man, you know the Woodstock Summer of
Love, doesn't have anything to do with those those three
states. They're all red States.
And they all voted to support in some way or another a woman's
right to choose a woman's right to control her own body.
Right to life. They kick their ass, right?
They don't believe in a right to life.
They believe in a right to misery and a right to force, God
down your throat, their God and blue, I could tell you there,
God, whatever it is that they've created, the god of hate.
What would what would a god of hate be called?
Who is the god of hate? Where does the god of hate
reside? It's feeling a little warm.
Let me just leave it there. And then finally on the last day
of February here this week, February 28th in Connecticut.
Democrats swept all three State House Seats in a special
election. So there's three special
elections, Democrats won all three State House Seats in
Connecticut, you're getting the gist of this, right?
It's win after win after win after win after win.
That's what's going on, folks. That's what's been acting.
That's the news. You probably haven't heard of
it's important for those in power to keep your spirits down.
To not. Have you get excited about
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we know that it's rigged with gerrymandering and voter
suppression hoping that we'll just go.
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Okay, welcome back here. I want to play you something on
that was on American Idol, this past Sunday, maybe you've seen
this, it's getting passed around, but this being an audio
podcast. If you want to watch the clip,
I'll put the link to it on my podcast page here.
But in the meantime, I just want you to hear this.
So This Is American Idol and you know, they have people come in
amateurs perform and they hope to get selected and eventually
be voted by the American public who watch the show as the
American Idol. Get a record deal on whatever.
Anyways, there's three judges. They are Lionel.
Richie Katy, Perry, and Luke Bryan.
So, after the kid, I think, after your performed, his song,
they asked him. You know, why he decided to try
out for American Idol? I just want to play this for
you. This is Lionel, Richie.
And Katy Perry, and Luke talking to this young contestants.
The young kid wants you to hear. What he had to say and their
response. If you're just listen to the
audio of this, you're not going to be able to see Katy Perry but
she essentially loses it and collapses.
Her head just goes down on the desk.
She can't look she can't look up.
It was so riveting. And so moving and it's just a
small moment. But very indicative of the time
in which we live and I hope 50 or 100 years from now of the
planet still around and they still have the digital tape they
can watch try and understand. I messed up, we were Let's just,
let's play this right now. From this Sunday's American
Idol. Why are you doing Adam man?
So American Idol. Number one is kind of where
people that I enjoy make. It number two is, as I said
before, I'm from Santa, Fe Texas and may 2018 a gunman walked
into my school. I was in art room one.
He shot up art room to before he made his way.
It's art room one. Lost a lot of friends.
Eight students were killed two teachers were killed.
And it's just really been - man saying a face had a bad rap here
since 2018. Man.
You just got the perfect voice. You, you sing from the right
spot, you just you let it come out of your heart and that's
what we love around here. when she doing Katie, our country has
Build us facts. Not, okay.
You should be singing here because you love music.
It's true. No, because you have to go
through them. I agree.
He did have to lose eight friends.
I hope that you remind people that we have to change because
you know, it's terrible, Katie, it's horrible.
We have tolerated this for so long.
Do all has become a norm that we've got to change my grade,
and I hope you can just lead, zoomy that sell for my school
for you and God this ma'am. Thank you, yes, ma'am.
I know we began the episode with all my good news here about how
the Republicans the mega heads. The trumpeters are getting
crushed in all these special elections that have started to
be held here and will continue to be held every month between
now and the end of 2020 for elections that we're going to
win and keep winning. And I know to end this with a
clip from American Idol, was probably difficult for some
people to listen to. But I'm not going to shut up
about this issue. I've spent the last couple weeks
here more than a couple weeks maybe now, but since the
shooting at Michigan State, the killings I've been writing a
subset column written and Rewritten, it trying to figure
out what it is. I need to say now after dealing
with this issue for So many years.
Twenty years ago, and me Bowling for Columbine.
And in fact, the 20th anniversary of us winning the
Oscar for best documentary, for Bowling for Columbine, is coming
up here in about three weeks, March, 23rd, and we've got a
little surprise. I think we're going to, I'll
tell you about it in the next podcast, but maybe keep that
keep that date open the night of March. 23rd, the 20th
anniversary of the Oscar being presented to Bowling for
Columbine. Anyways, that's that's what I've
got for you for now. Do not despair work to do.
We could do it. I'm really honored to be doing
this with all of you. It feels good for once in our
lives to be in a big vast. Majority of our fellow
Americans. Agree with us, not with the
haters, they've chosen sides and they've chosen us hats off to
all of you. For everything you've done to
make this change occur in our society.
I love you for it. My thanks to my producer and
editor, Angela Vargas to everybody who's had anything to
do with this podcast. I'll talk to you again here in
the next few days. This is Michael Moore.
The podcast is called Rumble. See you soon.