1 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,120 Hello, this is Michael Moore and this is my podcast. 2 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,200 Thanks everybody for joining me today. 3 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:26,280 It's the 4th of July weekend and it's been, geez, almost like 10 4 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:31,440 days now since the great debate, the Trump Biden debacle. 5 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,640 And I was really gobsmacked, right? 6 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:41,320 Like in the 1st 10 seconds, I could not believe what I was 7 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,920 witnessing. And then I stayed with it. 8 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,400 If you were like me and watch the whole thing, it was pretty 9 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,320 brutal. First of all, it's just brutal 10 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,840 because Trump is standing there. He can't stand looking at him. 11 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,920 He can't stand listening to him and he's just a non-stop 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,960 diarrhea of the mouth when it comes to just non-stop lying. 13 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,600 And then there was Biden, everyone's favorite grandpa and 14 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:10,680 all this is going to be good. Two different people on this 15 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,640 stage, that's for sure. And then it was just immediately 16 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:21,360 right down into the rabbit hole. So I decided that night that I'm 17 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,160 not going to need your care. I'm not going to get all twisted 18 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,440 about what I just saw or what I think should happen. 19 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,000 And I've said to myself, you just need to take a good long 20 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,280 breath, step back from it and just see how you feel in the 21 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,080 morning. And I said that to myself for a 22 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:43,000 number of mornings because I wasn't ready to sort of figure 23 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,960 out not just, I think I pretty much knew how I felt about it, 24 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:49,960 but it was, how do I communicate this now to you, to others? 25 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,960 And what do I do about it? Because I think I share. 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:56,720 A goal. That all of you share. 27 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,600 No matter how we feel about a whole bunch of issues or things 28 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,080 that that goal is, we must stop Donald Trump. 29 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,800 He will not re enter 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. 30 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,680 He will never step foot in the Oval Office. 31 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:15,600 Again, never, Period. And. 32 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,760 That's an OK goal to have because we know what the results 33 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,680 of this are going to be if it goes the other way. 34 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,960 So that part I didn't need to. Spend any time thinking about, 35 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,640 but you know, as I've told you over a number of months since 36 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:35,160 last October, of my utter disappointment seeing President 37 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,680 Biden embracing Benjamin Netanyahu, funding him, arming 38 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:48,160 him and not ordering him to stop using our weapons and our money. 39 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,840 Stop the slaughter, stop the ethnic cleansing, all that 40 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,560 stuff. And he kept saying he was going 41 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,320 to get a ceasefire and he never did. 42 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,160 Kept saying he was going to get humanitarian aid. 43 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,760 To 2 million. People that were suffering in 44 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,440 Gaza never did. One promise after another 45 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,320 broken. And it was clear that he was the 46 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,560 main enabler of Netanyahu and his so-called war cabinet. 47 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:20,920 And suddenly there were 10,000 dead Palestinians and then 48 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:26,520 20,000 dead, 30,000 dead, 40,000 dead, many of them, maybe the 49 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,280 majority of them, children, old people. 50 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:41,720 So, you know, I've just had my spirits deflated by this person 51 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,240 I voted for. And then the debate happened. 52 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,720 So a couple days ago, I finally sat down and just to get all my 53 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,600 thoughts and feelings out on the paper, wrote this. 54 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,360 And I, I wanted to, I want to read this to you. 55 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:03,800 I've already sent it out as a written sub stack to all of you 56 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,280 who are subscribers. And for those of you who are 57 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,480 also subscribers, but you like to listen to my podcast, this is 58 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,360 my podcast for today. I'm recording this actually 59 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,839 right after the interview that Biden gave George Stephanopoulos 60 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:25,000 on ABC News Friday night. And from what I'm about to say, 61 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,760 nothing has really changed. And was actually, I probably got 62 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,120 sadder because it just I saw the denial. 63 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,960 And in spite of my criticisms of Biden and everything, I am very 64 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,520 grateful for so many of the things that he's done in these 65 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:46,880 last 3 1/2 years. And yet tonight, it's like he 66 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,400 still didn't really have a clue as to what was going on, what 67 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:54,040 was happening and how dire the situation is for the country. 68 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,200 And the goal of stopping Trump may not be achieved. 69 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,480 I can't believe that's gonna happen, but it very well could 70 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,120 now. So I wanted to speak to you and 71 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,040 share these thoughts with you. Some of you will feel similar. 72 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,720 Some of you won't. Some of you will maybe be 73 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,440 disappointed. But this isn't about. 74 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,440 Who's our friend or who we have to be loyal to? 75 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,600 Or. Did such a great job and we 76 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,200 don't owe him or anybody. We owe this country. 77 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,280 We owe this country. Us, ourselves, our eternal 78 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:34,160 vigilance and our actions as citizens. 79 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:41,200 Democracy, as I've said for she's 30 years now, is not a 80 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,000 spectator sport. It's a participatory event. 81 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,240 It only. Exists when we participate. 82 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:53,480 If we check out. If we don't express our thoughts 83 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,880 and feelings what we stand for, it ceases to be a democracy. 84 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,680 And we won't. Have to worry about Trump ending 85 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,560 the democracy or some terrorists from somewhere else. 86 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,720 We become our own terrorists when we don't take the stands 87 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,960 that we need to take, especially when it's uncomfortable, 88 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,640 especially when maybe it's somebody we're grateful to or 89 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,480 that we like or whatever. Or somebody that we have a lot 90 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:19,680 of criticisms. About. 91 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,200 But we know what. Our what the larger goal is 92 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,480 here, what our responsibility is to the planet that we live on. 93 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,120 So before I read to you what I've written here, let me just 94 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,360 thank. Our underwriter for today's 95 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,960 episode, Shopify. Shopify has been with us for 96 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,440 some. 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We are asking the wrong question 120 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,040 about Joe Biden on this. 4th of July weekend. 121 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:03,440 I just want to start by paraphrasing to you in old 122 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,000 Richard Pryor joke. It's a riff on a original line 123 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,160 from Chico Marx, one of the Marx Brothers. 124 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,360 But Pryor spiced it up a little bit, he said. 125 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:18,360 Who are you going to believe, me or your own lying eyes? 126 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,440 Well. Since the presidential debate. 127 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,560 Over a week ago. The. 128 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,400 Leaders of the Democratic Party have been in. 129 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,800 Full five alarm fire mode wanting us to believe that we 130 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,240 did not. See what we. 131 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,360 Saw how have they described what happened on debate night? 132 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,919 The debacle. Oh, it was just a cold. 133 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,240 He had a bad cold. Everybody has an off night. 134 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,560 OK, so that wasn't his best performance. 135 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:52,960 All presidents have one bad. Debate You're not going to judge 136 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:57,040 52 years of public service by 90 minutes of a lousy debate, are 137 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,600 you? He's 81. 138 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 What do you expect? You'll be 81 someday. 139 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:05,760 Let me tell you something about Joe. 140 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:10,480 Biden, he's not a quitter. He's all in. 141 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,080 This is. Scranton Joe we're talking 142 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,000 about. Yeah, we've heard all the 143 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,720 excuses. But it's all malarkey. 144 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,560 That's probably because maybe we're asking the wrong question 145 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,080 when we ask what are we going to do? 146 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:33,720 About Joe. Maybe we should be asking what 147 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,400 are we going to? Do about ourselves and. 148 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,880 What can we do to get him? Joe, some help? 149 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,240 Perhaps. We should start with a 150 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,920 definition of terms. Like why do people keep? 151 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,400 Calling that thing we watched a debate. 152 00:09:54,960 --> 00:10:00,320 Was it really a debate if one of the debaters is mentally and 153 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,840 physically incapacitated? That he cannot. 154 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,240 Complete a sentence that he randomly flips between 155 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,960 discussing abortion, the three trimesters of a pregnancy, and 156 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,000 how great his golf game is. Then looking around, unable to 157 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,720 find one. Of the four cameras pointing at 158 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,320 him, he suddenly turns his. Head all the way to the left. 159 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,760 As if he was. Looking for Rhode? 160 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,000 Island or something, staring off into the distance. 161 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,160 And then out of nowhere, raises his. 162 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,280 Voice and shouts. We finally beat Medicare. 163 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:41,040 We finally beat Medicare. Not Ohio State, but Medicare. 164 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,360 We saw and we heard all of that. And no matter what the party 165 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,520 hacks. Keep telling us. 166 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,320 It was heartbreaking, my friends. 167 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,840 It was truly without equivocation. 168 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,920 Unlike anything any of us. Had ever seen before. 169 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:06,520 No matter where you stood. Or. 170 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,480 Stand on the Joe. Biden scale from Joe the working 171 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,640 class hero all the way. To Joe. 172 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:16,960 The banker of Palestinian. Ethnic cleansing one thing. 173 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:23,560 Was certain this. Was not a cold. 174 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,760 This was a human being in utter collapse. 175 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,000 Not just. Political collapse or? 176 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:37,440 Performance collapse, but rather a full frontal lobe meltdown 177 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,520 where at any moment. You had to wonder, was it 178 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,760 possible that the sweet and fragile existence we call life 179 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:53,320 was about to short circuit or worse, lose power, lose power, 180 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:59,240 lose power to Trump? And that no amount of shouting 181 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,320 stat or cutting. Quickly to a commercial break. 182 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,440 Was going to restore the president compatient to full 183 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:12,240 capacity in order. To save this even more fragile. 184 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,720 Democracy, do not mistake. My criticisms of Biden. 185 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,120 Spending nine months in the loving embrace of Bibi Netanyahu 186 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,080 as meaning that I do not deeply appreciate. 187 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,440 His three years of being. The most? 188 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,520 Progressive president of my lifetime. 189 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,800 That's right, my friends. There really has been no other 190 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,320 president, and we've had some good ones. 191 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:43,280 But with this president, with Biden, I mean, if you just look 192 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,640 at the record, there's been more. 193 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,120 Action taken through executive. Orders and. 194 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,280 Legislation to protect. The environment, more government 195 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,360 officials that he's appointed. Who are in their? 196 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,440 Heart of hearts. I'll say it Democratic. 197 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:02,720 Socialists, that's right. Everything he did with unions, 198 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:07,480 all the unions and all those union members who were backed by 199 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,000 their president, usually the president just kind of. 200 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Stays out of it. When it's between the. 201 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,360 Corporation and the unions. Not Biden. 202 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,800 He went to Detroit and walked the picket line with the United 203 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,440 Auto Workers. No president had ever done that. 204 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,920 He's given more serious funding to lift millions out of poverty, 205 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,040 more support for libraries, single mothers and college 206 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:36,320 students deep in debt. And he has had this fervent, 207 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:41,920 almost religious zeal to fight greed and obscene profits. 208 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:49,600 And that's because of the true compassion he has for those 209 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,560 who've been dealt a bad. Hand in life. 210 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,680 And he has done more of all of that than all the good 211 00:13:56,680 --> 00:14:00,280 presidents had. Whether it be Kennedy, Obama, 212 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,000 Carter, all of them. Whatever they were able to 213 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,640 muster hasn't matched. What Joe Biden has done, that's 214 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,400 just the truth. Then he got us through COVID, 215 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:19,880 the worst pandemic of the last century, plus the what was his 216 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:26,640 main job that he had to do one job in 2020, get rid of Trump. 217 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:32,360 And he did that and gave Trump a humiliating defeat. 218 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,360 It doesn't mean that he hasn't had his failures. 219 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,840 And yet on balance, and I'm remember I worked for Bernie and 220 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:52,760 was a Bernie supporter, but when Bernie wasn't the candidate, I 221 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,720 walk. Down on our main job? 222 00:14:55,160 --> 00:15:03,280 Remove Trump. None of that is feeling right 223 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:09,200 right now, is it? Has he had? 224 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:14,480 A stroke? Will there be another one? 225 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,400 Or a mini one? Or maybe a micro stroke, you 226 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:18,520 know, I mean. As you get. 227 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,400 Older, you have these things while you're sleeping. 228 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,880 Sometimes it doesn't doesn't end your life. 229 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:27,600 It it rewires a few things. Maybe you're a little slower. 230 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,040 Or something's. Drooping, you know, but. 231 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:36,800 Life goes on, but. Sadly, the decline begins. 232 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,760 And it's hard to reverse that. Decline, but. 233 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,560 One thing about getting. Older and I can now I guess say 234 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,960 this. It doesn't get better. 235 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,120 I mean you can. Deal with it just fine, but. 236 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,600 You have to just. Sometimes. 237 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,400 Accept that. OK, well I can't do now at this 238 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,400 age. What I did at 35, that's OK, 239 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,600 That's the way it's. Supposed to be, actually, it'd 240 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,760 be a little. Weird if it wasn't. 241 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,520 But I don't think we should be waiting till September, October 242 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,360 to deal with this. I think we have to deal with 243 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,840 this right now. And this is not about whether 244 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,640 he's fit to serve another four years after what we saw on 245 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,880 debate night. This is about whether he should 246 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:31,080 serve another four days in the toughest job in the world. 247 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,240 That's the question we should be asking. 248 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:41,120 Or let me ask you this if Joe Biden offered to drive you from 249 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,600 Flint to Detroit tonight, would? You get in the car. 250 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,440 I'm not saying people in their 80s can't drive. 251 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,640 A lot of them drive. My dad drove till he was 90. 252 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,880 It's not that. It's not really about the age. 253 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:03,320 It is about the capacity to function at a level that if 254 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:09,520 you're the leader of the world's only superpower, how on it you 255 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,240 have to be in George Stephanopoulos interview. 256 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:20,079 With him Friday night. He asked President Biden if he 257 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:24,599 would be willing to let a neurologist check him out to 258 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:27,800 take a cognitive test to do, and he interrupted and he said no, 259 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,480 no, I don't need any of that. I get a cognitive test every 260 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:31,440 day, Biden. Says. 261 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,760 He didn't mean that he. Actually gets a cognitive test 262 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,280 every he's. Saying that when you're 263 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,760 president of the United. States that. 264 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,560 Is a cognitive test. You're put through it every day. 265 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:47,200 But that's not the question. The question is something is 266 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,760 wrong. We all saw it. 267 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,000 And would you please just be willing to have an independent 268 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,760 doctor, not one at the Army hospital in Washington? 269 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,640 You're the commander in chief. That means that doctor works for 270 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,720 you. You're the boss, not him, not 271 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,440 her. This has to be an independent 272 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,720 neurologist who's going to check you out. 273 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,720 George asked that question to Biden 3-4 maybe five times. 274 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,040 And Biden just avoided it, kept laughing it off. 275 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:26,560 Wasn't necessary. You know the doctor that told 276 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,560 him he had a cold. You know, he thought he was OK, 277 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,720 just needed some rest. Well, listen. 278 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:40,280 I'm not a doctor and I could be. And hopefully I'm wrong about 279 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:46,320 all this, but like you, I do have eyes. 280 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,760 They don't lie, I. Like nearly every. 281 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:58,920 One of you had or currently has four grandparents and two 282 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,000 parents. Every one of us. 283 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,560 Four grandparents, two parents. Some of you even have. 284 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,640 More with wonderful step parents and step grandparents. 285 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,200 And. If you yourself. 286 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,120 Just you yourself. Are over the age of 40. 287 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,360 Your eyes have seen all this too. 288 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:22,960 The slow decline of your elders, followed by a sudden incident or 289 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,960 event, and then without warning, your loved one is. 290 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,480 Confused, not sure where he or she is at. 291 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,040 Can't find the keys, can't find the rest of the thought she just 292 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,440 had in her head. Or has the ability to even end 293 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,960 the sentence that he was in the middle of. 294 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,560 It's all quite normal actually, and it's to be. 295 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,720 Expected. It's called getting. 296 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,000 Older, and it will visit all of us one day. 297 00:19:54,360 --> 00:20:00,080 It won't feel good, it won't look pretty, but more than 298 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,360 likely, that feeble, humbling moment we're all going to 299 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:08,120 experience. Will not be televised live to an 300 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:11,920 audience of 2 billion people around the world with Jake. 301 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,760 Tapper's hot breath. Breathing down your neck and 302 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,080 telling. You ironically that. 303 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,800 Your time is up. Who? 304 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,440 Exactly is Jake Tapper, you might ask yourself at 81? 305 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:30,640 It won't matter because at that point when you suddenly blurt 306 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:35,680 out that there are 1000 trillionaires in America and 307 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,320 you've spent your presidency trying to make those 308 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,200 trillionaires. Corrected later to billionaires. 309 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:45,400 What have you been doing to them? 310 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,960 You've been trying to make them pay their friggin taxes. 311 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,000 They don't like you. And now you realize these rich 312 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:58,000 ass Barbarians are at your gate. And at that point, then yeah, 313 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:04,000 nothing will really matter. I'm sorry, my friends. 314 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:09,280 I've But if I have to be the only one to stand for Joe Biden, 315 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:10,600 that's right, that's. Me. 316 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,720 You heard me say that if I. Have to be the only one to stand 317 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,920 up for Joe Biden. Here to protect him. 318 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,640 From the cruelest form of elder abuse I've ever been forced to 319 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,480 watch. Well then that's what I'll do. 320 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:27,880 He was in epic. Distress that Thursday night. 321 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,120 Every cognitive default in his mind seemed to be shutting down. 322 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:41,480 If this had been somebody that you truly cared about, loved, 323 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,000 embraced. What would you have done? 324 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,640 Would you have? Seriously. 325 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,600 Even let him go out on that stage. 326 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,280 Who would send an 81 year old out onto any stage to debate a 327 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:06,200 living monster at 9:00 at night for a brawl that would not end 328 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:15,480 until 10:42 PM? Honestly, have any one of you 329 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,600 ever looked at the clock, saw that it was getting near 11:00 330 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,120 PM and said to yourself, I think I'm going to give grams? 331 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:27,600 And gramps a call. You never did that because it 332 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,720 would be cruel. They're not up. 333 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:32,800 You're not going to wake them up. 334 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,800 The only people who would think of forcing an elder to perform 335 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,880 at that hour of the night would be the same people who would 336 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,280 insist on six straight days of nonstop. 337 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:53,600 Debate prep hours and. Hours each day of standing and 338 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,280 talking until you were hoarse and exhausted. 339 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,080 Trump was right. I know there's the words I've 340 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,640 never spoken. Trump was right when he turned 341 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,840 to Biden to ask him what his problem was as to why he never 342 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:14,600 fires anybody. It's amazing to me how a week 343 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:21,160 later now, anyone on this campaign staff still has a job. 344 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,000 How is that possible after running this tired and grieving 345 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,840 father into the ground? A man who had just recently 346 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:39,000 watched his only remaining son being convicted as a felon for 347 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:48,600 the outrageous crime of needing help for being an addict. 348 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,880 Who would put this old man through a brutal boot camp, make 349 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,200 him memorize 200 facts and stats, and then pick the wrong 350 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,800 podium without once going on the stage the day before to check 351 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,640 the lighting, the sight lines, and where the bully would be 352 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:14,960 standing lying. A smug TV star who knew what the 353 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:20,520 red light on the camera meant, who knew timing and how to wait 354 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,280 and when to pounce. And devour his prey all while 355 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,720 speaking this. Was Trump all while speaking in 356 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:38,200 his softest, most fake, empathetic voice, speaking his 357 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,080 most honest statement of the night? 358 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,160 This is what he said right after Biden got lost. 359 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,480 Forgot what he was going to say. And then mumbled something. 360 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,320 Trump. Quote, he says to the 361 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,160 moderators. I really don't know what he said 362 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,480 at the end of that sentence, and I don't think he knows. 363 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:09,880 What he said either how Biden was not. 364 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,760 Well, Biden did not. Possess the faculties. 365 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,760 He needed something was wrong. Did nobody. 366 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,720 See this in the. Days leading up. 367 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,800 To the collapse. Did not a single. 368 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,760 Person raise their voice. To ask. 369 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,760 Maybe we shouldn't do this to him. 370 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,320 But they did do it to him. And the repercussions? 371 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,080 That we the world. And the generations after us 372 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,880 will have to suffer through are not even part of the current 373 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,080 discussion this week. It's all about making sure he 374 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:54,800 stays in the race and nothing about the risk to his own life 375 00:25:54,800 --> 00:26:00,200 he is facing as they push him, push him, push him. 376 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:06,640 To soldier onward. So I will say this to protect. 377 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:12,600 Him from an out of control party machine that is in a panic over 378 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,560 what to do for any of us to be. Silent now. 379 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,520 Is exactly what the term. Elder abuse is meant to 380 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:27,440 describe. Leave Mr. Biden alone. 381 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:34,960 Let him rest. Let him go home. 382 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:43,320 He has done his job. Let him have his dignity. 383 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:53,960 Please do him this favor. Tell the press that President 384 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,560 Biden has asked to have an independent team of doctors do a 385 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,000 full. Medical evaluation of his mental 386 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:07,240 and physical health. When they are through, they, 387 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,280 along with the president, will then announce. 388 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,160 The full results to the public. And give their honest 389 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,920 assessment. And that assessment? 390 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:25,200 May be this for the good of his well-being, he must stop work. 391 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:28,400 He must step. Down. 392 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,240 The next day, president. Biden, then will. 393 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,360 Give his final remarks. In a short and beautiful 394 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:39,560 statement. On the South Lawn. 395 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,320 Of the White House. The place will be packed with 396 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,480 thousands of grateful everyday Americans, fry cooks and 397 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,480 teachers, brick layers and nurses, gay teens and the vets, 398 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,680 the homeless, the union members and the elder. 399 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,480 Care workers. All of whom know what he is 400 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,520 doing. Is for the good. 401 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,800 Of the country. That he loves so. 402 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,200 Dearly he once. Saved the world. 403 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,160 From a man named. Trump. 404 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:19,400 And now, in one last selfless act, he is. 405 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,960 Stepping aside to ensure this Trump will be. 406 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:31,160 Banished for good millions upon hearing him speak. 407 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,400 While he wipes the. Tears from his eyes will weep 408 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,800 too. Biden will never. 409 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:48,880 Be forgotten. A profile in Courage, the 410 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,280 Founders. Of this country. 411 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,160 Were smart in many ways. They knew there would be 412 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,920 presidents who would not make it through even a four year term, 413 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,120 so they set up a position called Vice President just for that 414 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,600 reason. It's amazing actually, to think 415 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,000 that. We've only had 46 presidents. 416 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,160 In the life of this country. And that nine of them, that's 417 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,640 about 20%, have never made it to the end of their term. 418 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,000 Four were assassinated, 1 resigned. 419 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:30,080 Four more died of various illnesses Each time, though. 420 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,080 There was a smooth. And peaceful transition with the 421 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:39,280 Vice President being sworn in as the new president. 422 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,120 Contrary to what it may feel like right now, this is not an 423 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,880 unusual moment we are in this week. 424 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,120 This happens. There is precedent. 425 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,800 And if President Biden is unable to perform his duties, there is 426 00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:01,360 a tried and true solution. He resigns due to the obvious 427 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,920 medical issues that were on full display the night of June 27th. 428 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,600 His Vice President, Kamala Harris is sworn in as president 429 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,640 by federal campaign rules. She and only she, inherits all 430 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,560 the campaign funds in the Biden Harris war chest. 431 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,680 Biden will urge all his Biden Harris Convention delegates to. 432 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:33,200 Support her. She will now immediately become 433 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,640 the incumbent president who will run on the incredible 434 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,280 accomplishments of the Biden. Harris Administration. 435 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,960 There will be no real convention fight and nearly every American 436 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,880 would plan to vote for Biden, will vote for Harris. 437 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,520 As recent polling has actually shown us, many Biden voters have 438 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,080 already stated that they'd vote for a dead cat or a ficus plant 439 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,920 instead of Trump. They're not switching to Trump. 440 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,480 Some of you even said that they would go all out Weekend at 441 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,040 Bernie's and vote for a dead Biden if that meant keeping 442 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,920 Trump. Out of the White House. 443 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,000 One possible bonus at all this. Will be that a? 444 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,760 Record number of votes from women for Harris will make up 445 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,760 for some of Biden's loss of the youth vote. 446 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,360 And the Arab American? Vote and there's this. 447 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:35,720 For over 8 months, it has been reported that Kamala Harris has 448 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,680 quietly pushed for an immediate ceasefire. 449 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,000 In Gaza. It seems to me. 450 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,800 That there's one good thing that is possible from this mess we're 451 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,920 in. Less Palestinians? 452 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,360 Will die with. Kamala Harris. 453 00:31:54,680 --> 00:32:01,400 In the Oval Office and this someday we will look back and 454 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,880 see that we grew. And got better as a country. 455 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,120 And finally finished the job of having a full. 456 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:13,240 Equal and complete democracy. Our first female president. 457 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,840 It turned out. Ended up playing a big role in 458 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,080 making that happen. Another gift. 459 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,640 From Joe Biden. Picking her, knowing she was the 460 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:31,120 right one when, during their own debate on a stage back in 2020, 461 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,680 she gently but caustically reminded him that as a senator 462 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,680 many years prior. In Washington, DC, he. 463 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:46,440 Once stood in the way of she and her sister going to an 464 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,200 integrated school in Berkeley, CA. 465 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,840 That was his position at the time. 466 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,080 When she confronted him with. Us you could see. 467 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,360 In that moment, the sadness and shame. 468 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,040 On Joe Biden's face. He knew. 469 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:11,880 Right from wrong. And in 2020, he knew, even if 470 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:16,480 most of his supporters. Weren't sure about her as his VP 471 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,760 pick. And even if her platform was 472 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:28,480 essentially Bernie's, he knew she was the one and the first of 473 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,880 what would turn out to be many women and people of color who 474 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,560 would lead us. To our better selves. 475 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,920 I'm OK. With that, aren't you? 476 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,280 Let's find the. Courage to fix this. 477 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:52,720 After all, this weekend it's our 248th birthday. 478 00:33:54,160 --> 00:34:12,880 Now that's old. What will happen? 479 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,239 Either way, we're not going to let Trump back in the. 480 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,800 White House. We're going to have to make a. 481 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,560 Fairly quick decision. This can't go on now for days or 482 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,679 weeks if Harris is. Going to be the candidate or 483 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:34,239 whoever the candidate is including. 484 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,600 If it's Joe Biden. The election is Jesus. 485 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:42,679 Less than couple days, less than four months from right now. 486 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,920 Today. Wow. 487 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,560 So you get it. Right, can't mess around. 488 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:57,640 The candidate has to have four months, 4 full months to get out 489 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,080 there, and all of us have to do whatever we can do to prevent a 490 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:08,160 second term of Donald J Trump. So stay tuned. 491 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,720 We'll be on top of this over the next few. 492 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,000 Days this week. Not for long though. 493 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,920 We need a decision. I'll do my part if you're. 494 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,520 Listening to this Saturday here on. 4th of July weekend. 495 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,360 I'm going to be live tonight, Saturday. 496 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:31,480 Night at 7:00 PM. Eastern on MSNBC on Eamon's 497 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,400 show. I invite you to. 498 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,000 TuneIn, I think I'm going to be. On near the. 499 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,280 Top of the hour there. At 7:00 PM so. 500 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:42,440 TuneIn we'll talk about this and other things. 501 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,240 We'll. Talk about Gaza. 502 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:50,560 And what needs to happen. I feel bad that all this stuff, 503 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,760 all this mess that we're in here in the US is. 504 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,240 At least here has. Taken a lot of attention away 505 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,640 from stopping the massacre of all of these civilians. 506 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,600 Thank you for caring and doing what you need to do, whatever 507 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:13,080 that is to protect our. Democracy, my thanks to. 508 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,440 All of you for tuning in, this is Michael Moore. 509 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,040 This is it folks. Here we go.