Hello everyone, this is Michael Moore.
Welcome to my podcast. What a week this has been.
I hope you are as overjoyed, overwhelmed as I am seeing the
response to the incredibly brave and correct decision that
President Biden made. Thank you, President Biden, for
listening to us. We care deeply for you the night
of that debate. And at least on my part, I did
not want to see you have to suffer through this any longer.
You've done too much good and have been there for this
country. You are our most progressive
president ever. And we're going to have to work
out what happened here with Gaza and Netanyahu and fix this mess.
I'm sure you will participate in that.
I'm sure you have some ideas. And this has to happen.
I know you know that. And thank you for not giving up
on it or us or the people in the Middle East.
So, my friends, 100 days from today is November 5th, Election
Day. 100 days from today. I mean, I have to ask, he's
probably not listening, but does Trump even know what happened?
This week it took just five days.
This week, it took just five days.
Nothing like it had ever happened before in American
history. And yet, by this past Thursday,
a mere five days after President Biden's 1:46 PM Sunday afternoon
announcement of him ending his re election campaign and handing
the candidacy over to his Vice President Kamala Harris, just
five days. And that's all it took for the
Wall Street Journal on Thursday. You know the Wall Street
Journal, right? No friend to women, people of
color, young voters, the poor, the working class, the Wall
Street Journal, this grand Oracle of capitalism,
conservative ideology and the force that is Rupert Murdoch.
That newspaper ran this stunning historic headline.
And I mean, I looked at it and I said, wow, this is one for the
ages. Ready for it?
This is all it said. Harris erases Trump's lead.
WSJ poll finds Harris erases Trump's lead.
That's how long it took. Five days.
Kamala Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants,
2 genius parents, 1A Stanford economist, the other a brilliant
Berkeley scientist, both of them active in the 1960s civil rights
movement. It's actually where they met,
protesting for civil rights, participating in their beloved
adopted country, the United States of America, and proud to
have their children amongst the 1st to integrate a public school
in California. Yes, those were the parents of
Kamala Harris and her sister. But now it's 2024, and this
Kamala Harris last Sunday was accepting the all but certain
nomination to be the Democratic Party candidate for President of
the United States and, it should be noted, the chance to become
the first woman ever to hold this esteemed office.
Yes, that was just one week ago. Can you believe this?
A euphoric nation exploded in a joyful belief that finally the
promise of the American Dream was no longer just a promise nor
a dream, but a roaring reality that immediately took off like a
rocket. And each day this week has set a
new record for any presidential campaign ever.
Let me just give you the list of a few of these records from this
week. There was a record smashing
surge of volunteers across all the key swing States and a total
of 170,000 volunteers signing up throughout the nation.
They're still coming in. It was also the biggest one day
haul of campaign contributions ever and 60% of those
contributions to Harris were from first time donors.
The total overall take this week is more than $350 million as of
today. We also this week saw the
largest Zoom call ever for a campaign meeting.
OK, this was a Harris. You know, you just call and be
part of the Zoom if you want to be part of the campaign.
There were 160,000 participants on this Zoom.
I mean, my computer screen only holds about 140,000 little
squares of everybody. No, I'm kidding.
There's no, but they kept, they, they worked with Zoom and they
got them to keep adding more and more of whatever you need to add
to their servers. Also this week we had the most
people ever to register to vote over a 48 hour period. 40,000
people registered to vote in those first two days at the
beginning of the week, and of the convention delegates within
just three days, 85% of the delegates, that's was about 3400
of them, endorsed Harris after she'd only been a candidate, as
I said, for three days. And this was a full four weeks
before the convention was even supposed to start.
Wow. Look, historians and political
scientists, if you've had the TV on or reading about it, they all
agree that this level of enthusiasm, this quickly is
unheard of in modern American politics.
And, of course, Trump is furious.
He said he's planning to sue to, quote, keep Harris off the
ballot. He says this was a big
switcheroo. I planned my whole campaign that
I was going to be going up against Biden, and now they pull
this. Yeah, Donald, that's how the
world works. On top of it, not you're going
to keep Harris off the ballot. Well, good luck with that,
because it won't work. Apparently.
Somewhere along the way, Trump Van Winkle must have fallen into
a deep sleep and missed the memo that many white men like him
also seem to miss, it reads. It read something like this.
America is no longer your America.
You, the members of the exclusive club for the gender
that's missing the second X chromosome, you know, the one
that makes you prone to war, violent outburst, something
called mansplaining, harassing the other gender, dying on
average six years before that other gender, and yet still
holding the majority of the wealth, the property, the tee
times, and most of the seats in Congress, 72% of those seats
currently are in the hands of men.
That America, my friends, is being shown the door.
Here's what the new America looks like.
Just just listen to these statistics. 79% of the United
States is either female, that's 51% of the country.
Persons of color, that's 42% of the country or young adults
between the ages of 18 and 39, and they make up 42% of the
country. So it's either one of those 3
demographics you belong to or two of them, or maybe all three
of them. Some combination of all that
gives us 79% of the country right now is either female,
young, or a person of color or a combination of those 3.
My friends, this country is female, it's young, and it's not
so white anymore. Now, of course, hearing it
described that way. And don't worry guys, I'm, I'm
not leaving you out of this. I'm just saying that that's the
country we live in now, and it's really not the best place to run
for president if your three main personality traits are misogyny,
bigotry and sounding like everyone's Uncle Don.
Oh, and there's also this. You want to know the truth about
who your fellow Americans really are?
I've pulled this together from all the various Gallup polls,
Associated Press, CNN. Just listen to these statistics
because they don't promote this a lot in the media.
This is who your fellow Americans are, my friends.
This is the country you live in. 69% of Americans support legal
abortion. 72% of Americans don't own a gun.
Wow. 90% of the country wants more gun control laws, 90%.
So that's Democrats, Republicans, independents.
That's the country we live in. 72% of us believe that the
climate crisis is real. 71% of all Americans approve of Labor
unions. Wow. 79% of us insist that the
rich must pay more in taxes. 76% of us want a much higher minimum
wage. 70% of all voters in this country believe marijuana should
be legal. 73% of the country want student loan debt relief.
74% of Americans want more affordable homes. 65% support
term limits on all Supreme Court justices. 84% of Americans want
free pre-K and 3K for their youngsters. 69% of Americans
support same sex marriage. 65% of Americans want to end the
Electoral College. 89% of Americans oppose gerrymandering.
70% of us are demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza now.
72% of Americans want money removed from politics and 70% of
millennials say they would likely vote for a socialist
candidate. 70% of millennials. That is who we are.
Mr. Trump, how do you expect to win when what you believe in is
the opposite of what more than 2/3 of the country believes in?
On these 18 top issues I've just gone over, you're you're running
a campaign as a right wing wackadoodle in a country that
has seriously moved to the left. The majority of Americans hate
what you stand for. Just look at those poll numbers
I've just given you. Those percentages didn't come
from me. They come from Gallup, The
Associated Press, Pew Research, various networks.
They come from the American people.
And finally, one last powerful fact.
The Republican for President on the ballot has lost the popular
vote in seven of the last 8 presidential elections.
Wow. Since 1988, the American people
have made it abundantly clear they don't want a Republican
running the show. Only once in those 36 years did
the American people say, yeah, well let's let a Republican in
there for four years and that was an O4 with only and there
was the only one by one state, Ohio by 100,000 votes.
Overwhelmingly, the people vote for the Democrat on the ballot
to be in the White House to represent them in the US Senate,
where there's no gerrymandering in those Senate elections
because the entire state votes. No map is drawn.
The only reason that we were ever stuck with George W Bush
and Donald Trump is because the Founders created the Electoral
College in order to appease the slave States and try to avoid a
civil war. And well, you know, that seemed
to work out OK. But here's the kicker.
The majority of these three massive groups, I just went over
the three demographic groups, Young people, women, people of
color. They vote for the Democrat in
nearly every single election. 51% of all women vote
Democratic, 61% of all young people vote Democratic, and 83%
of all African Americans vote Democratic.
So those three groups, in a combination of all their
demographics, make up about 79% now of the population.
And while 60% of the white guys over 45 will indeed vote for
Trump, don't worry about it. First of all, 40% of those white
guys won't. That means potentially another
14,000,000 white dude votes for Kamala Harris.
So what's the take away here? It's quite simple.
Are you ready? I'll I'll say it slow in case
you want to write this down. There are more of us than there
are of them. We are now the majority.
We America is now a liberal nation.
Doesn't matter. From abortion to climate to the
economy to the millennials who would vote for a socialist,
That's who we are now. And we're going to elect the
first woman, a black woman no less, to be the president of the
United States. So what could possibly go wrong?
I know, right? Typical question that any
liberal should ask themselves in this country.
I'll tell you what could go wrong.
The only way that Trump can win in November is if liberals and
Democrats stay home. But why would that happen?
Well, the unthinkable, A certain skill set that many Democrats
have repeated ad infinitum would have to take place.
This, of course, what I'm going to list these things.
It's probably our greatest fear because we've seen it happen so
many times. So much disappointment.
I'll just give you 4 examples of how this could go South.
For instance, if the candidate, in this case Kamala Harris,
suddenly starts taking centrist positions in order not to offend
anyone, yet in doing so she ends up offending everyone, That is
the majority of Americans who are, as I've just pointed out,
our liberal left and progressive women, people of color, young
people and the working class. Well, let me just give you my
take on this. That is not going to happen.
She is not going to do that. Or here's another example.
If Harris continues Biden's embrace of Netanyahu and
America's funding of and the arming of the slaughter in Gaza,
this will hand the state of Michigan over to Trump and that
will put him in the White House. Michigan has 200,000 registered
Muslim voters and 300,000 Michiganders of Middle Eastern
or North African descent. Well, I think one way to fix
things in Michigan would be for Vice President Harris and her
running mate to make a major announcement in Detroit on a
stage with numerous area Arab Americans, Muslims, and leaders
of a wide-ranging coalition of Jewish peace groups To offer her
action plan as to what she and Biden can do right now to keep
their initial promise to Netanyahu.
What they told him that if he uses American tax dollars or
weapons to violate international law and human rights, such
assistance from the US will be withheld.
In fact, this is exactly what Biden said to Beebe in October.
When America experienced the hell of 9/11, we felt enraged as
well, and we made mistakes. So I cautioned the government of
Israel not to be blinded by rage.
In other words, his warning to Netanyahu was do not do what we
did to Iraq and to ourselves. Netanyahu then did the opposite
of what Biden warned him not to do.
And after each. Israeli round of carpet
bombings, obliterating hospitals, schools, child care
centers, refugee camps with hundreds and then thousands of
Palestinian bodies piled higher and higher.
Biden would admonish Netanyahu and tell him that we were going
to have to cease supplying him with an unlimited supply of
American tax dollars and weapons.
And then each time, President Biden, already in obvious
decline, seemed not to know what to do or how to handle the
horror he had personally unleashed on the good people of
Palestine. And so it continues to this day.
Or here's another thing that could happen.
Vice President Harris appoints Josh Shapiro as her vice
presidential candidate, and this too may result in losing
Michigan. Shapiro said that it's, quote,
anti-Semitic for anyone to join the Boycott, Divestment and
sanctions movement against Israel in order to convince them
to stop their apartheid behavior.
He has also cruelly compared the peaceful college students to the
Ku Klux Klan because they were calling for an end to the
slaughter in Gaza. Actions like these will diminish
the Arab American vote for Harris and depress a large swath
of the youth vote throughout the country.
I really hope somebody is listening to me right now.
As Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times has written, Biden is
in danger of losing Michigan and with it, the whole election.
Also, more than two dozen public education advocacy groups have
asked Vice President Harris not to choose Shapiro as her running
mate because, as they stated in their letter to her on
Wednesday, we respectfully ask you not to select Pennsylvania
Governor Josh Shapiro, who has supported education policies
mirroring Project 2025. As we Michiganders, as you may
know, remember we gave you the world, We gave you Trump,
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. So we are especially concerned
about even the slightest whittling away of our public
schools. And we too ask Vice President
Harris, respectfully to pick a running mate who is 1,000,000
miles away from any of these efforts.
And finally, should Harris decide to do the bidding of the
wealthy who are now lining up with big checks so they can try
to control her, this would clearly put her on the side
against workers and consumers. Here's a case in point.
This week, Reed Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, gave her
$7,000,000. What will he want for his money?
He's already actually stated what he wants, a quid pro quo.
He wants the removal of one of Biden's best appointments, the
head of the Federal Trade Commission, Lena Khan.
She is on a mission to break up the monopolies and to police
corporate America in the hopes of stopping them from doing more
harm. Hoffman and other big money
donors want to stop her. Hoffman has no shame in stating
what he expects in return for a $7,000,000 donation to the
Harris campaign quote, I would hope that Vice President Harris
would replace the head of the Federal Trade Commission.
Will Harris do what she is told? I don't think so.
My hope is no, absolutely not. But as many have said, the
Democrats are pros at snatching defeat out of the jaws of
victory. Yet as I see it, that's the only
way we can lose. If too many people sense it's
the same old political Hoo ha, you know, the the Democratic
Party and doing their same old thing, then the vote for the
Democratic Party in November will be seriously depressed.
Millions will stay stuck in their despair.
And all of this could lead to a Trump victory.
This must not happen. The overwhelming jolt of joy
from this last week must continue, but with action.
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we're trying to do. Man, it's been some week, hasn't
it? Just exhilarating to think of
the possibilities of what may happen here.
And I thought we'd close the podcast here today with our
ending would be the beginning, actually the beginning of Kamala
Harris as the Democratic candidate for president of the
United States. I want to play her first speech
that she gave last Monday afternoon in Wilmington, DE, at
the campaign headquarters, the place that was the headquarters
for the Biden Harris campaign. And overnight, they'd switched
the signs. And they began with President
Biden phoning in from his COVID bed, welcoming everybody and
thanking his staff for all their hard work, telling him he was
sorry that he couldn't continue, but he was putting country ahead
of his personal life, personal ambitions, maybe even ahead of
what he thought was best. And yet this is how lucky we
were to have him and, and still have him.
He did something that will be remembered throughout history.
So let's start with hopefully our next president of the United
States. I, I happen to have the TV on.
When this began, she walked out and man, I'll tell you she was
on fire. Here she is, her first words as
the official candidate in front of her staff in Wilmington, DE
this past Monday. You know, as many of you know,
before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected
as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as
I've mentioned, to California. And before that I was a
courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on
perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women,
fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke
the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know
Donald Trump's type. And in this campaign, I will
proudly, I will proudly put my record against his.
As a young prosecutor, when I was in the Alameda County
District Attorney's Office in California, I specialized in
cases involving sexual abuse. Donald Trump was found liable by
a jury for committing sexual abuse.
As Attorney General of California, I took on one of our
country's largest for profit colleges and put it out of
business. Donald Trump ran a for profit
college, Trump University, that was forced to pay $25 million to
the students it scammed. As District Attorney to go after
polluters, I created one of the first environmental justice
units in our nation. Donald Trump stood in Mar a Lago
and told Big Oil lobbyists he would do their bidding for a $1
billion campaign contribution during during the foreclosure
crisis, I took on the big Wall Street banks and won $20 billion
for California families holding those banks accountable for
fraud. Donald Trump was just found
guilty of 34 counts of fraud. But make no mistake, all of that
being said, this campaign is not just about US versus Donald
Trump. There is more to this campaign
than that. Our campaign has always been
about two different versions of what we see as the future of our
country. Two different visions for the
future of our country. One focused on the future, the
other focused on the past. Donald Trump wants to take our
country backward to a time before many of our fellow
Americans had full freedoms and rights.
But we believe in a brighter future that makes room for all
Americans. We believe in a future where
every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get
ahead. We believe in a future where no
child has to grow up in poverty, where every person can buy a
home, start a family and build wealth, and where every person
has access to paid family leave and affordable childcare.
That's the future we think. Together, we fight to build a
nation where every person has affordable healthcare, where
every worker is paid fairly, and where every senior can retire
with dignity. All of this is to say building
up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency
because we here know when our middle class is strong, America
is strong, and we know that's not the future Donald Trump is
fighting for. He and his he and his extreme
Project 2025 will weaken the middle class and bring us
backward. Please do note that back to the
failed trickle down policies that gave huge tax breaks to
billionaires and big corporations and made working
families pay the cost. Back to policies that put Social
Security and Medicare on the chopping block.
Back to policies that treat healthcare as only a privilege
for the wealthy instead of what we all know it should be, which
is a right for every American. America has tried these economic
policies before. They do not lead to prosperity.
They lead to inequity and economic injustice.
And we are not going back. We are not going back.
You're not taking us back. Our fight for the future is also
a fight for freedom. Generations of Americans before
us have led the fight for freedom, from our founders to
our framers to the abolitionists and the suffragettes to the
Freedom Riders and farm workers. And now I say team, the baton is
in our hands. We who believe in the sacred
freedom to vote. We who are committed to fight to
pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the
Freedom to Vote Act. We who believe in the freedom to
live safe from gun violence and that's why we will work to pass
universal background checks, red flag laws, and an assault
weapons ban. We who will fight for
reproductive freedom knowing if Trump gets the chance, he will
sign a national abortion ban to outlaw abortion in every single
state. But we are not going to let that
happen. It is this team here that is
going to help in this November to elect a majority of members
of the United States Congress who agree the government should
not be telling a woman what to do with her body.
And when Congress passes a law to restore reproductive
freedoms, as president of the United States, I will sign it
into law. We the people.
Indeed, we the people. So ultimately, to all the
friends here, I say in this election, we know we each face a
question. What kind of country do we want
to live in? A country of freedom, compassion
and rule of law, or a country of chaos, fear and hate?
You all are here because you, as leaders know we each, including
our neighbors and our friends and our family, we each, as
Americans, have the power to answer that question.
That's the beauty of it, the power of the people.
We each have the ability to answer that question.
So in the next 106 days, we have work to do.
We have doors to knock on, we have people to talk to, we have
phone calls to make, and we have an election to win.
So Are you ready to get to work? Do we believe in freedom?
Do we believe in opportunity? Do we believe in the promise of
America? And are we willing to fight for
it? And when we fight, God bless you
all, and God bless the United States of America and Joe Biden.
Thanks for listening today. This was our big kick off here
of the 100 days that we have now to get rid of any idea that
Trump has that he thinks he's re entering the Oval Office?
That is not going to happen. And all the work that we have to
do now to make sure this happens, it will not happen on
its own, but it is very doable. And as we've seen from this last
week, 1,000,000 millions are ready.
I'll be back with Part 2 of this kick off of the 100 days of how
we are going to to stop Trump and how we are going to elect
Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States.
Take care everyone, and we'll talk soon.
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