Welcome to rumble with Michael Moore.
I Michael Moore. And yes the word today is blue
is the color of the day. Blue is the color of the day
believe. Blue.
The blue tsunami. The blue tsunami is Victorious.
We did it folks. I just can't.
Thank you enough, me, and you, and millions of Americans did
The Impossible here with the selection.
I'm recording this. Now, it's a little over 24 hours
since we learned that Senator Raphael Warnock was re-elected
in the state of Georgia. We now no longer have a 50-50
Senate that we controlled with the vice president's vote.
We have a 51/49 summit. This is so amazing on so many
levels and the, and yes, the Republicans are going to have
the house for a little bit but they barely have it.
I know the Debbie downers out there thinking like, why are you
so happy? You know, we only got the
Senate, we don't have the house. And I know I know how it is.
I know it. We're so used to defeat on our
side were so used to getting our asses kicked but that isn't what
happened this time. We did something that was
completely unexpected, just the opposite.
We were told four months was going to happen that we were
going to be drowned in a red wave.
In fact, our blue tsunami created a blue wall that
prohibited that drowning and left the Republicans in the
house. With the longest faces on a
politician I've ever seen. I mean, have you seen any of the
Republicans on TV, these last couple of weeks, they look so
gloomy. So glum, so sad, because they
know there's only a for vote differential that they hold onto
looks like it's going to be a 221 to 214 house with the
Republicans having seven more seats.
But what that means is when there's a Whoa.
They if they don't get four votes, if for Republicans decide
to vote with the Democrats On Any Given Bill, the Democrats
win, because then it will be a 218 vote to 217 you, follow my
math here. So we're going to have 214
Democrats, if for Republicans, vote with us, that brings their
221 vote down to 217 the four votes, go to us, And now we have
218 votes on the bill and we win to 18 to 270, don't be saying
years old Mike. These Republicans they always
vote like a pack, they never break.
That's the old days. That's not that way anymore.
They barely made it through. So many of these Republicans
that did win their house seats. They want it in either
districts, that were blue districts districts, one by
Biden, two years ago, districts that have more a kratochvíl
voters registered there. They barely eat some of these
won the Republicans won by just a few hundred votes.
A few more one, just feels like a thousand votes.
That's it. They know that when 2024 comes
around, especially if they are stuck with the stench of Donald
Trump at the head of the ticket. They know they are not going to
get reelected. These Republicans and that's why
they are going. You watch how many times they
quote reach across the aisle and vote for the Democratic bill
because they got to say to themselves.
Geez, I got elected here in this blue District.
Am I going to vote against women's rights?
No. Because they're not going to get
reelected. They're going to vote for
women's rights, are going to vote for Reproductive Rights.
I think going to sit there and think they're going to get
reelected by voting to keep the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour.
No, all we need is to pick up for Republican votes.
Anytime there's a vote in the house, pick up for votes, we win
the vote. That's it, my friends.
And as I've explained to you the makeup of their so-called
majority isn't going. Hold because in any given two
year term, each session of the house is a two-year term.
So in this session that starts January third in the last two
years from 2020 to 2022. There were 16 members who were
elected in 2020 that never made it to the end of 2022.
They either died, they quit, they were caught in a scandal,
they were indicted. They decided to run for a
different office. They took another job, there's a
whole bunch of reasons but 16 who were voted in in November of
twenty twenty aren't there. Now, they weren't even there on
Election Day last month, they had already gone so there are
then special elections. Held in these districts, that
lose a member of Congress during the two-year period.
Assuming the same thing happens, like it does every session where
a number of the members, I mean sadly will, you know, one of the
members has already died. Just in the last three weeks
since the election It's just the way life goes.
We only need four seats. That's it.
We only need flip a for That's it and we will be controlling
the house. We will be the majority in the
house. That is what's going to happen
sometime during these next couple of years.
But before that even happens, they can't even get McCarthy
elected speaker. He needs. 218 votes.
All right, we hold 214 of the boats and so he's got to get
four more votes. When they did a dry run of the
vote. I like a straw vote here a
couple weeks ago. He didn't even get 200, you got
180 something votes so they're having a big fight amongst
themselves. The Republicans Some of them may
make a deal if four of them, make a deal with the Democrats
to vote against McCarthy because they hate him so much.
There's no McCarthy a speaker of the house at that point.
It possibly could be a Democrat. Or the Democrats will agree to
elect the most liberal, Republican means any number of
ways. This could go But but the thing
to hold onto here is that they are in such disarray.
The Republicans right now in the house are in such
discombobulation, they are really in the middle of their
own civil war with each other, not against us with each other.
And that's why they look so glum because they're not going to be
able to govern, their not going to be able to rule their own
house. We're going to come out of this.
Looking good on the right side. We're not going to get our way
all the time, but we're going to get, we're going to get four out
of 221 Republicans to say, you know what, I think it's in my
best interest to vote for women to vote to support.
I think we had, we better do that support women.
They are like more than half of the electorate.
Or to vote to vote for clean air clean water.
Or as you know, some of the basic things schools, you know,
the stuff like that, where they're just not going to be
able to take the Trump position. They're not going to be able to
take the Mitch McConnell position, they're going to have
to vote to get their ass re-elected.
That means they're going to have to vote in a way that enough
Independence and Democrats in their district will vote for
them. In 2024, my friends, we are in
such a great spot here that we've created.
You created this. We all did this, the blue wall
that we've created against their red wave, that didn't drown us
just to get an understanding of just the Senate, our victory in
the Senate. A president Democratic or
Republican. has not lost at least one senate seat in any
midterm not the first midterm any midterm almost 90 years that
within Roosevelt's early Roosevelt first, his first
midterm 1934, That's almost 90 years.
And Biden comes out of this, he doesn't lose a single senate
seat. His record in the election.
Now with war, knocks re-election 14, 2014 20, all the Senate
seats that were up the Democratic Senate seats that
were up for re-election or election or won by democrats and
we picked up a republican seat on top of that.
Pennsylvania. This has not happened in almost
90 years. Nobody predicted this.
No but nobody except all of us who believed in the blue
tsunami. Everybody, you know, this yet to
turn the TV, off all the pundits, all the posters, all
the even the ones on our side kept telling us, well and we
just got to hope for the best. You know.
We're we're going to lead. We're probably going to lose two
to four Senate seats and you know I mean there's no way we're
going to win the Veta and you know more knocks just going to
have a horrible time in Georgia and and how many letters did you
get from Mark Kelly begging for well, the Beheading of Mark
Kelly's emails to all of us. It's over.
We're dumb. We're doomed.
None of it came to be. We won every stinking seat that
we were up for every seat that we had to keep we kept and then
we added Pennsylvania. As the icing on the cake.
That's what a blue tsunami did. And now, and now we have a
discombobulated House of Republicans holding up.
I just just a hair with a few seats.
With their leader, their Republic.
He's the Republican leader has been the Republican leader there
in the house, Kevin McCarthy, any as of tonight, he can't
even, he can't even guarantee his own Victory as Speaker of
the House. It's an amazing thing.
The Senate thing is so amazing.
It hasn't been seen in your time in your parents time.
In your grandparents time. And I'm not talking about just
for Democrats, I'm talking about there's been no Democratic or
Republican president, who has not lost a senate seat in any
midterm, almost 90 years. And that's where Joe Biden
stands today. That's where the Democrats
stand. That's where all of you who
voted Democratic, even if you're not Democratic, you know, you're
not a member of the democratic party or anything, but we just
had to stop. We had to stop the madness, and
we stop the madness and they couldn't stop us.
And they're going to get a surprise or two with a house,
they're going to see that we're going to run this house.
We're going to call the shots. Why?
Because the majority of Americans believe in the
platform of the democratic party.
Look at any poll, any poll show you this and then the time with
these goofy exit polls. He all this other stuff.
These are I'm talking about the polls that I believe are more
accurate are the ones when they asked Americans.
How do you feel about this issue or that issue?
And they give them a straight answer, the polls about
politicians, who's going to win the X-rays type, Paul's not
trustworthy. once again, we proved them wrong, but on the
issues, We're the majority of American stand, you know this?
The majority of Americans, don't believe that $7.25 an hour
should be, the minimum wage, the majority of Americans want Paid
Family, Leave, they want paid sick.
Leave. They want Medicare expanded for
the elderly for their parents. They believe that the climate
catastrophe is actually happening.
It's real. they believe that fertilized egg is not a human
being and that Roe versus Wade that was a good decision and it
should not have been overturned by this religious Supreme Court
that we have I noticed this week, the what the Iranians the
Ayatollah, whatever they announced, they're going to
disband the morality police. The ones that are going around
and arresting women because they didn't have a covering on their
heads. Or they were cutting their hair.
the morality police is being disbanded in a ran but not in
this country now where we have these six, Religious
conservatives. Shoving, their religious View.
On choice, on abortion down our throats and forcing women.
To carry a pregnancy to term whether they like it or not
because they are the morality police of the United States of
America. That's not the majority of
Americans, the majority of Americans.
I mean, every abortion ballot proposal that was on the ballot
here. Last month, not just the states,
like, you know, Michigan and California Vermont, the pasta.
I'm talking about States like Kentucky and Montana and then
Kansas earlier this summer. That's the Erica we live in, we
live in a blue America. The majority of Americans,
whether they call themselves Democrats or not, they believe
in what we believe in. That's the good news.
That's what's going to rule. This is really a great was a
great day here on Tuesday. When Senator Warnock one, I know
again, I'm hearing the Debbie downers.
Yeah, but Mike, look how many votes Herschel Walker got.
Yeah, that's right. We're in the fight for our lives
here. That's right.
We have to get out and work and work and work again.
This isn't going to come easy. Nothing good does, right.
Isn't that the old cliche? It's true.
We the majority will have our say in this democracy.
If we show up, if we do the work, the work that needs to be
done in the next couple of years.
But we did what had to be done here in the last month or two.
And it's resulted in us, not only keeping the Senate, but
increasing our numbers in the Senate.
It's allowed us to throw the house and the House Republicans
into utter disarray to where we're going to have a lot more
control over, how things are going to go.
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voice. Okay, we are back and we've gone
over the good Senate news, but that's not all my friends.
Look at what has happened across the state's.
Oh my God, the states. We picked up two brand-new,
governorships used to be, you know, the Republicans had so
many more Governor's than the Democrats.
Now, it's 24 Democratic Governors, 26, Republican
Governors, almost equal. Thanks to the blue tsunami that
took place on November 8. How about all the states where
we now control Democrats control the house and the Senate, the
State House, the state senate State Assembly, We picked up
four new states where the Democrats didn't control the
state house or Senate and now they control both Michigan.
Massachusetts Minnesota Maryland.
I know you think I was doing the alliteration there.
We'll all the M States, and I was going to say Mississippi
next. Don't sorry, not Mississippi.
But we got four new states where we control the whole shebang.
We have the governor's seat. We have the house and we have
the senate in these states. Oh no, the blue tsunami hit
these states. And the ballot proposals, the
blue tsunami went into red States and did things like in
Nebraska. in Nebraska where they had a ballot proposal, to raise
the minimum wage by more than 50%, And it passed in a red, a
deep red State. This blue idea, this Democratic
idea That, that the minimum wage.
Should be at 15 or more dollars an hour, some states, it's 18
now and 1920. That's the tsunami.
That is gone through this country where the vast majority
of Americans agree with us on all these issues.
We done good here, my friends. All of you did this all of you?
I know it was hard. I know a lot of you even on
Election Day, You Went to the polls and you thought I'll glad
Mike saying all this. But, you know, come on the
chance of this happening, not good.
But why what would made you, what would make you say that?
Because I know you don't own your own polling company.
So how'd you how'd you figure that out that we were going to
do so bad? Why are you so worried?
Turn the TV off. Turn the pundits off.
Turn all the bloviator Soph, stop listing of this trust
yourself, you know, where you live.
This is the United States of America, and it's a country that
where the majority are not, bigots, are not misogynist are
not haters, it's a country where our young people are, so active.
So involve record numbers of Youth turnout in the election
last month. It's a country where we're in
some states women show up. More than men by 10 percentage
points. And we're women, the majority of
women vote for the Democrat, not the Republican where the
majority of the people of color black Asian, Hispanic.
Native American Arab American. They vote for the Democrats, not
the Republican. That's the country, all before
the election member how many, how many things that we have to
read and tell us that oh, you know, these all this family, go
go to, you know, voters are and the Republicans are picking up a
lot of them. How many times do we have to
listen to that all through the summer and September and
October? Wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong.
Those of you who believed in US, even if you had your doubts.
You you made phone calls, you sent postcards, you knocked on
doors. You did all of this.
You made this happen, you created the blue tsunami.
And nobody on television and newspapers.
Nobody in the mainstream at least certainly was saying that
you know, you were doing the right thing and you were
thinking the right thing here because Democrats were going to
put up a wall. We were going to protect the
Senate. We were going to discombobulate
the house. For the Republicans.
We were going to have all these victories in all the states
across the country, the local elections, the ballot proposals,
No, we were told we were nuts. We were told that we were crazy
to think that that was going to happen.
If any of you said in the weeks leading up to the election,
these Republicans are not going to take a single Democratic
seat. We're going to win every seat
that we have up for election for re-election here at this
election. You would have got no.
But I mean, you know, I wasn't let on TV, I was fine.
I was led on the last three days before the election for days.
Bye. Bye.
You know, two or three good people on MSNBC, To let me say
this. Cuz it wasn't even the it wasn't
even the the narrative. That was on any cable news.
That we were going to win every single Democratic seat up for
re-election. And every time I set it, well,
not the host, the host, the anchors were good, they were
good to me and they let me say it and they and they didn't call
me crazy. So but you know the feeling
right if you tried to tell anybody there was going to be a
blue tsunami or a blue wall that there was going to be no red
wave that they were not going to drown us that we would remain
holding power in our hands. Even when we don't have the
power, we have the power. Oh, my friends, don't ever let
yourself sink it to that kind of Despair again.
No president. I'll say it one last time.
No present. No Democratic president.
No Republican president in these last 90 years.
Has come through it without losing at least one of their
Senate seats. We lost none.
Biden became the first president since Franklin Roosevelt in the
early 30s. To not lose a single frigging
seat in the US, Senate. Unheard of unexpected.
And anybody who thought that it was going to turn out that way
was denounced as cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
I like Cocoa Puffs. It's been a great month, it's
going to get even better, just wait.
Thank you, my friends. I'm so honored to be part of you
to be part of this greater good. The tens and tens and tens of
millions of us who made this happen, who will make it happen.
Again, if anybody thinks we're done, just wait.
It's a blue day, blue. Blue blue is our world.
I love all you guys. Thank you very much for being
part of this. This is Rumble.
I'm Michael Moore. Thanks so much.
Here's to our blue tsunami. My world is blue.
Blue is my world since I'm without you.
Who is my world without you? Who is my world without you?