Hello everybody. This is Michael Moore's podcast.
I'm filling in for Michael Moore today.
This is the other Michael Moore, Not the one that does the
podcast every week but me, the other Michael Moore who you know
is usually watching The Bachelorette Vanderpump Rules.
So I just want to thank the real Mike for letting me take over on
today's episode. You know, before we get started,
let me just it's some good news this week and you know, because
both Mike and I, the other Mike grew up in Flint, MI.
I guess I'm I'm supposed to say I was born in Flint, MI and then
my mom and dad got married and then they moved out to this
village about 6 miles outside of Flint, that my mom's, I don't
know, great grandparents. They moved to Michigan in, I
don't know, something like 1834. Before it was the state, there
were like six families there. It was mostly Native Americans
and they came across this lake. Lake Nepesing is what it's
called, checked in with the the native people and said, hey, you
know, would you mind if we just set up camp here And they said,
no, no, no, no problem, first mistake, OK, no, my, I mean my
family and the other five families were all, they're all
good people. And in fact, once they gave the
Indians typhoid or or whatever disease white people brought to
this continent, the other five white families did not want to
help. They want to get near the
Indians with their typhoid because they they got the
typhoid for some reason. The white people didn't have it
or they had the the virus or I mean I don't know the story.
This is all science back in the early 1800s.
Suffice it to say the poor native people, you know, half
the tribe came down with it there on the other side of the
lake. They let the white people camp
out on the on the southern shore of the lake.
So my, my great, great grandfather was like, you know,
we've got to figure out a way to help them.
You know, a lot of them are dying, you know, I mean, you
don't see 1800s. They didn't have much medicine
or anything, but they did, they did have some kind of medical
training. One of them did, actually.
The one of them was, it was my great grandfather.
And he said, why don't we load up a canoe and we'll signal them
to come, you know, one of them to come meet us in their canoe
and and we'll take a bunch of food and supplies and things to
help them. And so that's what that's what
my great grandfather did. And they helped nurse a lot of
the native people back to from their sickness number did die.
But the ones that didn't, well, they thought of my great
grandfather as someone very special to them for the rest of
his life because he was willing to risk his life to go help them
and to feed them. You know, the stories that I was
told as a child and all through my life and the research I've
done. And and then I was on that PBS
show, Finding Your Roots. And Henry Louis Gates and his
people at Harvard did this incredible research, found out
all these things about the various branches of my family.
And that was. That was one of the.
Stories. And of course, you know, my
uncle was in the great Flint sit down strike that founded the UAW
back in 193637. And my grandmother was in the
UAW, worked in the factory during World War 2 when all the
factories were converted to making planes and guns and
grenades and all that stuff. Instead of making spark plugs, I
think she made grenades there in Flint.
But you know, that's the family I grew up in.
They're all UAW members on my on my dad's side.
And we are the children of my parents.
We're all beneficiaries of what the union did immediately.
In the 1930s, our fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers were
paid a a living wage from the defeat of General Motors.
In 1937 they got out the first industrial contract for auto
Workers Union and all through growing up, you know, we had
completely free medical care and never heard the word deductible
or co-pay, none of that stuff. We went to the dentist for free.
We went to the eye doctor and got glasses for free on and on
and on thanks to the union. And then you know, parents and
grandparents were able to save some money.
Anybody wanted to go to college, could afford to go.
I never heard the word student loan to go to the University of
Michigan. And it's not just Michigan.
University of California was essentially free.
SUNY schools in New York were free.
University of Michigan. I don't know.
What was it like, 100 bucks? It was an amazing time to grow
up, but only because of the courage of our grandmothers,
Mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles all fought, fought hard,
risked their lives, fought General Motors, fought Ford, or
as we say, Michigan. Ford's.
It's a little colloquial thing to don't ever ask us why the
name of the company is Ford, but we always call it Ford's.
Yeah, no, I work over at Ford's. I never knew it was the wrong
way to say it till I was an adult and then people from other
parts of the country. Why do you guys say Ford's
'cause it's plural. And they they make more than one
car. So anyways, and that's how I
grew up, but let's let me not go back into that.
I want to keep talking a little bit about this.
And then I want to talk to you about what we need to do to
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podcast. The Good news this week is once
again the UAW has defeated for like the first time ever a
foreign car company. They all go from from all these
liberal progressive European countries, you know, for the
people. But they when they build their
cars in America, they build them down South where they can pay
people shit where there are no unions.
And that's the way it's been for it foof 4 decades or more.
This is where Toyota goes. Mercedes, Nissan, Volkswagen go
down the whole list of them. They all do it with non union
labor and then they sell their their cars to, you know, good
minded liberals who like to drive a really safe Subaru.
But what happened, as you know from past podcasts, is that last
year finally one of the most progressive candidates to run
for the office of president of the UAW ran.
And one based on the fact that in the previous election that
finally the rank and file the average workers would be able to
vote in a direct popular vote for who would be president of
the UAW. Before that you had to get
elected to go to a UAW convention, you know often held
in Florida or Las Vegas or you know usually some non union
state which I used to convince myself to think, well that's
good, that's where they should go because they got to convince
the them to join the union. But it was really just a lot, a
lot of times the union hacks basically running, getting
elected, they would go and then they would appoint who the
president would be. Now, I will say this, as far as
most of the unions go, UAW usually had good people there,
good people running things, trying to run things.
Not great people necessarily, but good people who, you know,
would eventually cave into what General Motors or Fords wanted
and then and go along and the workers would get some kind of
mediocre contract. And over the years, all the
things that my family and other families fought for in the 30s
and 40s and 50s eventually evaporated.
And all of a sudden we learned words like deductible and
co-pay. Jeez.
And so I and others supported over the years the left wing
essentially of the UAW to get first of all, everybody gets to
vote for president and then let's elect a president that's
going to fight for the workers. And we finally got that.
We finally got that a year or so ago.
The individual's name is Sean Fain, Shawn Fain, FAIN.
And he, on his first day gave a speech that put them all on
notice. Here we come.
Everything you've made us give back over the years, We want it
back. We're getting it back.
And get ready, Rich Fox. We're coming.
And as you I'm sure remember this past summer, boom, UAW goes
on strike, won't go back until there's at least a 20 or 25% pay
increase. Boom.
And and all the other things that were lost over the years,
they didn't get it all back in one strike.
That's probably going to take another strike or two.
That's OK. We're patient.
Not really. This new leadership of the UAW
is on fire and this past week the president of the UAW Sean
fame issues essentially A proclamation or I don't want to
use violent imagery, but he decided to fire the warning shot
over the bow and what he said was this.
We at the UAW are not just concerned about auto workers or
the members of our union. We are going to lead.
We are going to lead the movement for all working people
and we will join with all other unions who want to be a real
union. And we will fight for all
working people, all genders, races, creeds, colors.
The caste system that's been set up, we're going to tear it down
the two tier system and President Obama stepped in to
save General Motors and Chrysler.
Save them. Except in the in the saving.
You know that back. You know Obama and and Biden, He
used to run on the slogan about, you know, vote for us.
We saved Flint. We saved Detroit.
You didn't. With all due respect, you did
not save Detroit or Flint. They're still in need of saving.
What you saved was General Motors.
And there's still a General Motors.
And what you saved is Chrysler. And now there's still a
Chrysler, except it's called Stalantis or some other.
You know one of those fake names that you pay branding companies
$10 million to come up with? Something called Verizon.
We've said Verizon for so long now, have you actually
forgotten? It's not a word.
Remember when you first heard it?
Oh, Horizon. Oh, yeah, I know.
We had a bookstore where I lived.
Horizon Books. No, not Horizon.
Verizon. What's a Verizon?
It doesn't matter. It's just they paid billions of
dollars for somebody to come up with that.
OK, well, anyways, the new UAW under the new leadership
announced their commitment over the next four years.
You know back when I was born over a third of the country
belonged to a union, which is a lot considering the South was
still part of the country 1/3 when I was born.
It got down to something like 11% here in the last few years.
But that's if you count public employees.
Cut the teachers and the the people that plow your the snow
on your street and cut them. All of it I'm talking about now
for the private companies, the engine of America, it got down
to 8 or 9%. That's all that that had a union
contract that guaranteed the healthcare the two to four week
vacation. Well I'm I'm thinking back to
when I was a kid. My dad they all had four weeks
off when I was a kid, all the women and men who worked for the
UAW and so they basically they said we're done giving in.
Obama got the union at that time, the UAW of 2009, to agree
to where the older workers who've been there for a while
could keep their portion, I should say of their their pay in
the 20 to $25 range. By the way, when you the media,
which is always on the side of the large corporations which
owned the media always will tell you that these workers are
getting like 38 or $40.00 an hour and they put in all these
other things, it's not their actual take home pay.
It's not even their gross pay. They add any little benefit they
get like if suddenly now it's, you know Martin Luther King Day
is a holiday. They they they they count that
as a as not into their pay, but it's a cost to General Motors
because these are paid holidays. And so they they have people
thinking that these auto workers are making a ton of money.
They're making better than if you're working at Chipotle.
That's the best you can say. But when they won the strike
this summer against General Motors and Stalantis Chrysler,
not Fords Ford's decided that they they didn't think it was
right. And I don't know I I, I, I
probably should know the story better.
But you know they were we're in the 4th generation now of the
Ford family that you know starting with Henry Ford back in
the early 1900s and then it it went to his son, then it went to
his grandson and then went to his great grand right.
Now we're in the great or great great grandson era and what that
has given us is I think the the great grandson was a Buddhist
and he turned the the roof of the Ford headquarters there in
Dearborn, MI into a a green like jungle, just beautiful lush
thing that would cover the roof, would keep in the the heat it
would be an energy saver. Looks really nice too.
So we got that out of the great grandson Ford and and a lot of
his Buddhist thinking. A lot of the way to treat people
was it was anyways, by the time it got around to GM going belly
up and Chrysler going belly up, they didn't go belly up.
They were the number one American car seller.
They made cars that people wanted.
They stopped believing in planned obsolescence, which was
the the way that it always used to work.
Planned obsolescence mean they built cars that were supposed to
fall apart in three or four years so that you, the people
would just keep buying another another car.
So they stopped that under the Buddhist regime that was running
Ford, and they started making cars starting with a Ford Taurus
that actually lasted 6-7, sometimes close to 10 years.
And all the nabobs over at General Motors and Chrysler,
they're going. Why are they doing that?
How are they going to make any money?
And if you got to get, you got to get people to buy a car every
three or four years, it's car. Car's got to fall apart.
Typical, you know, American thinking, American car thinking.
Except here's what happened. A new generation was growing up
and the the parents that were buying Fords, all of a sudden
it's like the car worked. The glove box didn't always fall
down when you came to a stop, things like that.
You didn't have to keep replacing the little light bulb
in the overhead light when you open the door of the car, stuff
like that. You know, the muffler didn't
fall off. And what happened is, is that
when when the consumer buys something and it doesn't fall
apart and it lasts the next time they're ready to buy a car, what
do you think they're thinking? This was really boring.
We never were in the repair shop or whatever.
Let's go back to General Motors. I I kind of missed Mr.
Goodwrench. No, that's not what happened.
What happened is after buying that first Fords, they buy a
second one the next time they buy essentially that the next
generation that's growing up there, they still buy Fords
because the thing isn't going to fall apart and it took general.
Motors and Chrysler. So long to figure that out and
only when the Germans then stepped in.
Germans came to Detroit and bought Chrysler.
Mercedes-Benz bought Chrysler. Daimler.
Benz is the name of the corporation.
And all of a sudden they started telling the the people there
that were running Chrysler, you can't be making these mini vans
that every time you hit a bump in the road, your head hits the
ceiling. We're going to put some Mercedes
shock absorbers and we're going to put some.
We're going to build the chassis of this so that it at least
feels like a Mercedes. And all of a sudden it became
the number one minivan, the the Dodge Caravan and the the Town
and Country. Why?
Because people were happy that they hadn't bought a piece of
shit. And then they started buying
more of them. And then Chrysler was able to
somehow almost escape bankruptcy.
Not quite. OK, This is a long way of saying
the good news that not only did the UAW win new contracts to get
rid of the old ones that Obama set up again, the two tier
system where the old workers were still making over $20.00 an
hour. But anybody, any new hires that
started during the Obama administration, they could only
make 10 to $12.00 an hour. So auto workers were making 10
to $12.00 an hour. That's not a living wage.
So you're working as an auto worker, you're a union member
and you can't pay all the bills. So the progressives within the
UAW fought and fought, got more elections, won more elections
within the locals. And eventually in a year or so
ago, we ended up with Sean Fain as the president of the UAW.
And a whole new era began immediately announcing they
weren't going to settle for anything.
They wanted the old stuff back that they gave up to save
General Motors and Chrysler, and they won.
They won less, they won less. Summer.
All three of them, including Fords, decided to make it all
right. And when that was over, they
said, now we're going to go South in the US and we're going
to unionize these auto plants, foreign automakers, You have
been warned. And last week, Volkswagen in
Chattanooga, TN, the workers there for the first time ever
voted in the union. And now all the others, Nissan,
Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, all the other workers in the other
factories down South are like, wait a minute, we want this to
what, a 20% raise? They're all in now.
They're all going to be fighting for this.
And then just here before the weekend, there is a Mercedes
truck plant down South. They already had had a union,
but they got skunked again back in the day, back around O Eight
O 9, and they announced they were going on strike.
And boom, all of a sudden they got what the new UAW was getting
the other workers, two UAW victories, both of them down
South, both of them within a week of each other and you could
see what's happening. And so a few days ago, Sean
Fain, President of the UAW, asked all other unions to join
with him in what will be a four year campaign, A four year
movement to organize and unionize the United States of
America. To give every worker the chance
to be paid not just a living wage, but a good wage.
A great wage where you could enjoy life, where your kids
don't have to worry about going to college, where we're going to
have true universal healthcare, where everybody is covered for
everything. None of this Plan B shit.
The real deal, just like they have in every other democracy,
that is what they have announced and they have asked that all
unions, if they're in the middle of doing new contracts, now do
that. Those contracts must must have
an end date of April 30th, 2028, four years from now, because
they have called for May 1, May Day, May 1, 2028 as the day as
the goal date. There are new contracts not just
for union members now, but all workers should have a right to
join a union and have that union fight on their behalf for better
wages, better benefits, safer working conditions and that this
is a four year mission. Talk about thinking long term
and it's already started. I mean, it literally just
started before the weekend started, you know with this,
with this latest victory, it will continue this year.
Don't forget the victories before the auto workers.
This past year, the Teamsters put UPS up to the wall and they
got what the workers wanted. The you've all the UPS, truck
drivers, the unions for what I the what I do for a living.
We went on strike, the writers, the actors, and held out until
we got what we thought was a fair contract.
Largest strike ever in Hollywood, longest.
Nobody was giving in. Everybody now finally sees the
writing. It's not just on the wall.
They've smeared it all over our faces.
And we are happy to be part of leading, leading this movement.
So that those of you listening to me who aren't being paid what
you should be paid, who don't have the great health coverage,
who don't have a pension if you're under 35, look, look it
up, pension, PENSION. That's what we and our fathers
and our grandmothers and our aunts and our uncles, that's
what they all had and have to this day.
Ask any teacher in any blue state.
Actually, it's really to tell you the truth is National
Education Association and the the other teachers union had
great contracts and continue to have them.
And they include things like a pension so that you don't have
to work yourself to the bone so you don't even get to the age of
retirement because you're so wasted.
You've got 11 spinal problem, one disease problem after
another, working all those years, whether it's in a
factory, in a school, whether it's in the sewage plan of your
town. 30 and out. I remember.
That's my my dad, whole family, they were all fighting for that
when I was a kid, 30 and out. Meaning you work 30 years.
That's enough. Standing on a factory floor
breathing in all that crap, doing all that hard labor. 30
now, which means if you got a job at General Motors at 18,
your retirement age was 48 and my dad took it.
He took the retirement because he was in World War 2.
It he actually was probably I think in his early 50s by the
time he officially retired. But none the less he got to
enjoy his His years from being 50 plus years old till when he
passed away just before he turned 93, got to do things he
wanted to do. He got to volunteer for the all
the things that the Catholic Church he belonged to did for
the poor, all that stuff. Enjoy life, enjoy his children
and his grandchildren. Same thing for my mom.
Same thing. She was a a clerk, so she didn't
have a union. But here's the thing that
happens in a town when the union comes in and one of the big
employers gets to all the workers there, they go on strike
or they they, they sign enough union cards and there's a union,
their wages go up. The other places, even the, the
local, you know, public institutions, they cannot,
they've got to be able to match what the workers are getting at
the union place. Otherwise people are all going
to want to go to the union place and then you don't have enough
workers. So even though you may not get
the union at your place, you get the union pretty close to the
union wages. When you live in a town like
that and the union movement spreads, I mean, I've talked to
you about this before, how I remember one of the dads, he was
a bagger, grocery bagger. In other words, he stood at the
end of the, you know, thing when they on the belt, food's moving
through the cash registers, punching it all in says, you
know, that'll be $21.00 for this week's groceries.
I know I come from a different planet, different time, but but
then there's then there's there's a there's a man or a
woman with an apron at the end of the thing, putting all the
groceries in. Very smart fashion by the way.
In the bag so nothing gets crushed and and puts it all in
your in your thing so you can wheel it out.
That was a union job in Flint, MI, if you got your groceries at
Hamadi's. Which was a a local.
Arab, Palestinian, Lebanese run business, as many of our great
local businesses were in southeastern Michigan.
Thank you Arab Americans, Muslim Americans for you know, helping
give us the middle class life that we had in Michigan and and
to some extent some people still have not all that bagger.
That grocery bagger got a union wage with health benefits with
retirement pension. Can you believe this, young
people? I'm telling you that I'm going
to say it again, a pert The person who bagged the groceries,
got two to four weeks vacation, got medical care, dental, all
this stuff. And and it wasn't just the
grocery baggers, it was the the night time janitors waxing the
floors. It was the dry cleaners, all the
people sucking, all those fumes, working dry, cleaning people's
clothes. They were union.
I'm just going down the street where I lived on, just thinking
of different people that work there.
And I'm thinking the only people.
And we and we. I lived on a dirt St.
There wasn't even pavement on this street.
And and God, just thinking back to just how how the class system
worked, especially in a union town.
OK, so maybe it took another decade before we got pavement on
the streets. But on our dirt St. lived a
whole bunch of factory workers. But also there were three public
school teachers. The Presbyterian minister, a
doctor, an osteopathic Dr. lived on our street.
Great guy. You know any of us kids?
Broken arm. We didn't have to go to his
office or the hospital. He was just down the street.
And he was there to help. The man living next on one side
of us I think drove truck worked it at one of the maybe, I think
we don't know one of the the steel fitting places in Flint.
Can I mention the postmaster lived down our street?
The postmaster for the town lived on our dirt St. in a in a
little two, maybe two-bedroom, 3 bedroom, maybe.
Little ranch was called a ranch house.
Trust me, it didn't look like a ranch.
Oh, they were. They were such good people.
All these good people I grew up with and everybody, everybody
lived the middle class life. Everybody took a vacation.
Every one of them. The kids went to college.
Student loan. What the fuck was that?
I'm not kidding. I'm not making this up.
Young people, you've been had, you've been snookered, you've
been bamboozled, and it's so morally wrong that you didn't
and haven't been able to have what your parents had or your
grandparents had. And that's what Sean Fain and
the UAW announced this week. They're sick of it, too.
They're sick of it not just for their own auto workers.
They're sick of it for everybody.
And now the fight begins. Four years, Union America.
Wow. Why do I think we have a great
chance of this happening? Because you listening to me
right now, and the people, you know have had it, and the young
people, they don't need me to tell them how they've been
bamboozled. They know it and that's why
they're in the streets. That's why they're on the
college campuses. That's why there's tents going
up everywhere. You haven't seen anything yet.
And all the lies, the media and everybody trying to tell people
about these demonstrations, oh man, it's not working, is it?
They interviewed this this college student and they find
that one college student. I I'm fearing for my life.
I I I've spent all week here on campus running for my life.
Are you serious? Yes, it's all it's all hate.
And it's anti-Semitism. Wait, wait, wait, wait, what?
What? Which part is anti-Semitism?
Well, there, you know, it says Free Palace.
I got to read the signs everywhere.
I got to read these signs. They're in my.
Face free Palestine? Yeah, which means free A group
of people, the Palestinians, who are part of one of the original
Semitic tribes, Semites. What's anti-Semitic about trying
to free Semites? What?
What do you?
I don't know. It says from the river to the
sea. Yeah, that's what it says here
in the United States Constitution, except we got a
bunch of rivers in the middle, so it says from sea to shining
sea. Is that anti-Semitic?
The only anti thing it is, is I guess it's anti native people.
But you know, we had a nice long genocide that took care of that.
Because remember, never forget we are the O GS of genocide.
And so now all these hundreds of years later, to see good people
or people we thought were good people committing a genocide
against the Semitic people, the Palestinians.
You know, I love when I have this conversation with people
who I'm trying to just bring a lie, still haven't given up on
them. I hate it.
They've given up on themselves. They believe that it's OK to
steal land and to have a a system where some people are
free and the others live in an open air prison.
But I try to. I try to get this through and
I'm like, Oh, no, don't you see? If you believe in democracy,
that's the way to go, where everybody has a fair and equal
chance at everything, except if you form a theocracy that says
one religion gets the special privilege and the others, Well,
to listen to the worst of what I've had to listen to in recent
months, the others don't exist. Michael, why do you say?
Why do you call them Palestinians?
There's no such thing. There's no such thing as a
Palestinian. There's no such thing as a
Palestine. That's all made-up.
So where do you get your what? What's what backs your deed to
this land? Well, it's in the Bible.
Oh, I see. So that's not made-up, really.
You know, even some of the most religious people I I know and
respect will tell you that that book is a series of stories,
allegories, parables to try to speak to the larger truths about
that we should not take each other's lives, that we should
respect and love each other, that we don't steal from others
and we don't lie and we're not envious of other people and what
they have. It's kind of the basis of most
religions, really. And take care of the poor, like
in all religions. It's like at the top of the list
what we all have to do to make sure that those who are the have
nots get to have more. That's what it's really supposed
to be about, right? And everybody should have that,
whether it's from the river to the sea, from the mountain to
the desert, from the ocean to the other ocean, whatever it is.
I am so proud of the students who have been demonstrating, who
have been building these encampments on the campuses,
standing up for others. What's in it for you?
What's in it for you at at Columbia, where the University
of Michigan or Cal Poly Humboldt to?
That used to be Cal State. Where'd they get a Poly?
I don't know. Don't get into it.
I'm just saying this is going on now at hundreds of campuses in
the US and around the world. It's so powerful.
It's so inspiring. It's so amazing.
And the love. The love that I have witnessed
that these encampments that just just the the thing I saw the
other day where the the, you know, this thing has been set up
in support of people in Gaza, in support of the Palestinians.
And a group of Jewish students showed up and wanted to be part
of it, wanted to support the people in Gaza.
And they were welcomed into the encampment by the Palestinian
students. And and by the next day, each
night at these encampments, they show a movie outside.
They they they've got music going.
It's really kind of it's a very nice thing.
It's very well organized. They pick up the litter.
You know, it's just it's a very it's very cool parents, you'd be
proud of them. But here, what I saw the other
night was in the entertainment part of the night time
activities. A group of Palestinian Arab
students were putting on a Jewish folk dance to welcome the
Jewish students who had joined the encampment to stop Netanyahu
and Biden from this war. Let me just say that again.
Arab students learning a a little Jewish folk dance to let
them know how much they appreciated the Jewish support
for what they were doing. And it's not just one place.
I just, that's just one thing I saw.
There's so much love and compassion and kindness and
empathy going on here amongst our kids.
You know, parents, boomers should be very proud of these
these last really two generations, now close to
entering a third generation that we've raised and what we taught
them and how to be in this world and the world we all want to
live in. I don't know.
I'm just so I'm just so threatened by all this hate
there I'm. I have to run across.
I'm running for my life across. Campus.
Stop it. Stop it.
OK, first of all, leave the acting to those who are either
there at school training to be actors or other professionals,
or in my case, in union members, SAG members.
Stop the lying. Stop the fakery.
Stop the killing. Stop your endorsement of the
killing. All of us, The vast majority of
Americans are for peace. The vast majority of Americans
don't like this war, Don't want Biden sending them more arms.
And last week, what did he do? Send them billions of dollars of
more armaments? What is wrong with you, Joe?
I in my life have never seen a A president, even Trump, doesn't
purposely try to lose. Why are you attempting to lose
the election? Why are you telling these young
people no sense vote for me, 'cause I'm for war.
I know you're I those of you who listen to me every week here.
So you're like, Mike, you've been on this now since October.
I know I'm not going to stop either.
I'm not going to stop until somebody who works in the
executive branch tells me and I you don't have to give your
name. I know enough of you anyways.
You're going to tell me privately that the students, the
kids, everybody they've gotten, they've gotten through to Joe
Biden. Now he's now he's trying to
figure a way out. There's no nothing to figure
out. Pull the plug and then beg for
forgiveness. This went on too long.
You know it, Mr. Biden, and we cannot afford Trump back in the
White House. And you will be remembered in
history as the person who gave Trump a second term, The vast
majority of those who are under the age of 30, they oppose you
on this, and they're not going to vote for Trump.
Don't worry about that. Worry about the fact that
they're just not going to vote at all.
Worry that they'll stay home or worry that they'll show up to
vote. And they'll do what I and others
are encouraging them to do. Please vote for Congress and
Senate. Build a Democratic wall.
If Trump should win, build that wall around him so that he can't
get anything passed for four years.
How sad. We have to lose 4 years of our
lives and all that should go toward creating a better world,
a better society, saving the planet from its environmental
catastrophe that we're in the middle of.
We're going to have to, like, just fight Trump because Because
you, Joe, you told us you had an ironclad commitment to Benjamin
Netanyahu and that was worth it. That was worth it to destroy our
country. You should maybe talk to some of
the Jewish members of your staff, people that work in the
White House, the executive branch, the various cabinet
ministries there in DC I've spoken to a number of them.
A number of them were also Jewish and who hate what you're
doing. You should talk to them.
You're listening to the wrong people or you're listening to a
a thing in your head that those of us who grew up in post war
America, we'd do anything to help our Jewish brothers and
sisters to make sure they never had to suffer again like they
had to suffer in the 20th century.
Everyone was on board except for the few haters and bigots.
Everybody was on board to protect the Jewish people on
this planet. And out of that came perhaps a
well-intentioned idea, but one that hurt millions of others of
people, took their land, made them live as second class
citizens and now 34,000 dead in just six months, 70% of them
women, children and old people. I paid for that.
You paid for that. We've all paid for that.
And if there's any justice in the universe, if we ever have to
answer to anyone or anything, what's our answer going to be?
I know I had to pay my taxes April 15th.
OK, let me tell you something. That's not going to fly.
All of us have a responsibility. All of us should take some
inspiration from our young people.
And you don't have to go to the campus and support them, just
you're they're doing fine. They've got this figured out.
They're not going away and they're not going to vote.
They're not going to vote. A lot of them are not going to
vote for a president who funded and armed this whole thing.
Get that through your thick skull.
You've did so much good in your first three years.
You're the most progressive Democrat that's ever sat in the
White House, at least since FDR, certainly in my lifetime.
And there's been good people that have done good things.
Obama and Jimmy Carter Kennedy, you know, I mean, there's, you
know, we can make a list, but nothing like what Joe Biden has
done. And yet, like Lyndon Johnson,
who gave us the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act and
Medicare and Medicaid and what's he remembered for sending 60,000
American kids to their death in Vietnam, which then also then
created the deaths of well over 2 million Vietnamese killed by
the United States of America killed by the policies of Lyndon
Johnson and then Richard Dixon. OK, they're telling me my time
is up. I just want to thank everybody
for being involved. Caring.
Don't despair. That's the That is their biggest
weapon against us. Have us despairing.
Have us feeling so defeated. We are not.
We are the majority. Act like it.
Let Biden know how you feel. Let your representatives know
how you feel. If you have young people in your
family, if you have college students in your family, be
supportive. Give them what they need.
We are lucky to have them. Oh, man, we are so lucky.
Thanks, everybody. Don't forget to go online and
figure out how you can get people that you work with to
sign a union card. That's the first step to sign up
to have a vote, a democratic vote where you work.
Because this isn't democracy, right?
Yeah. And you could still do this.
It's not too late. Trump's not back yet.
Join the UAW or join along with them in organizing and
unionizing every worker in this country.
Thanks to my Executive producer, Angela Vargos.
Thanks to all of you who listen to this podcast.
I'll talk to you soon. Be well.
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