Welcome everyone. This is Rumble with Michael
Moore. I am Michael Moore.
One of the best things about doing this podcast is that
people just regular normal, everyday people who are
listeners, like you are also songwriters and musicians.
Poets, so many creative people and I just love, love, love it.
When people send me something they've written, whether it's a
poem or short story or some music, a song every week.
There's an influx of this creativity.
And in some cases, I really like song this last month, this one
came in the one that you're listening to here is, we're
opening the show. So I wrote the guy back.
I said, hey, I really like your song and these two guys who
wrote, It it Keith each, it EG y, UD and Scott Evans.
They are both the writers and the performers and I thought I'm
going to play this one of these days and here is that day is
just such a, it's a good uplifting song and they wrote
it, they said because living through the pandemic in the
sense of isolation that so many of us have had and the
importance of never forgetting that you're not the only one.
You're not alone and thus the name of the song, I'm Not The
Only One and I love the message. I love the whole tone of it.
We can listen to it just a little bit more of it here.
Yep, there it is right there. So I decided to play it here on
my podcast today and to thank once again, Keith Egypt and
Scott Evans for this wonderful tune, man.
There's a lot going on this week.
I don't want to take a lot of your time.
I try to keep this fairly short today but there's just some
things that have twisted my head in a Linda Blair, sort of way
and you ever just wake up some days and you make the mistake of
reaching for your phone and seeing what happened overnight?
And you're like, why did I pick up this phone?
And it's like, it's like that for me way too much.
And as you can see, the only way I can get through, it is to try
to keep my sense of humor. And I've got this podcast where
I can unload and that's what I'm about to do right now.
I want to start with the Catholic Archbishop of San
Francisco, Archbishop cardi Leone.
So this past week, the Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco,
sent a letter to all the Catholics.
Of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and I'm going to read
you just an excerpt of this letter that was read in.
Many churches in the Bay Area here, this past Sunday, this is
the Archbishop speaking. after numerous attempts to speak with
Congresswoman Pelosi, To help her understand the grave ill.
She is perpetrating the Scandal, she is causing and the danger to
her own soul that she is risking.
I have determined that the point has come in, which I must make a
public declaration that she is not to be admitted to Holy
Communion unless and until she publicly repudiates her support.
Art for abortion rights. And confess and receive
Absolution for her cooperation in this evil in the sacrament of
penance. Okay, now, if you're not
Catholic, just so you understand penances confession.
So basically, he's calling her out for being a massive sinner
because she is cooperating in evil.
She will not be allowed to get the host though.
It's called the host the Holy Communion at Mass.
If you're seeing this in movies, right?
That you need, we get aligning. You get up there and you hold
out your hands or stick out your tongue in the priest, puts the
little piece of unleavened bread on your tongue.
And he's saying that she cannot know, priests can give her
communion. Oh, she is forbidden and she is
forbidden until she confesses her sins and that she repudiates
her support for abortion rights and he's got rights in quote
marks. And he's not going to let her
take communion again until she goes to confession.
Confess her sins and receives Absolution forgiveness for sins.
Wow, the audacity of any of the top Executives of the Catholic
Church. Shaming anybody regarding evil?
Considering what the Catholic church has done.
On so many levels to just starting with the priests and
the kids. And everything else.
They're pushing the third world to make sure that condoms are
not distributed because that's an evil.
That's a sin. You saw the, maybe I maybe
didn't see it. Trump endorse the state, senator
and state of Michigan the last week or two here and she was
asked about the Supreme Court ruling.
That's about to come down. They asked her, do you also
support birth control? Be made it legal.
Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
And same-sex marriage. Or we have known.
That's that's evil. You understand, right?
The ruling it's coming down. Yes, it's about abortion.
But the way that Alito has written this, it basically is
meant to cover anything, where it involves the privacy of an
individual. Whether who you're in, love with
who you want to marry, whether you want to control when you get
pregnant or not or get somebody pregnant.
All of that, is up for grabs here in this Aledo decision.
And this in spite of the fact according to a Washington
post/abc news poll that was released earlier this month,
fifty-five percent of Catholics in the United States.
Want the Supreme Court to uphold Roe versus Wade.
They want abortion to remain legal, the vast majority of
Catholics. but these priests in these Bishops, Wow.
I mean, I don't know. I don't know.
I of course, as you know, if you've listened to this I was
raised Catholic. I am a recovering Catholic and I
went to the Seminary for a year to be a priest.
This institution is just gone Bonkers.
It's been that way for a long time, obviously.
But Man, and I want to know if I could talk to this Archbishop,
I'd same. Do you know how lucky you are to
even still exist? Do you realize if this were any
other organization Community Club in the United States?
That you would have been shut down a long time ago.
If you were the Kiwanis just seriously, I'm not making a joke
here. If the Catholic church was the
Kiwanis or the rotary club or any any kind of this think of an
institution like that and at Kiwanis clubs, all across the
country children were being raped.
How would Americans respond? How would people in these towns
respond? Once it became known that this
was going on. Well, I can tell you if you're
from another country and you don't know what's that well?
Right now, every Kiwanis Club in the country would be burned
down, burned down close that down.
Chain bolted. That would be the end of the
Qantas. That would be the end of just
pick anything. That's a group of think that's
run by men, all men. They wouldn't exist.
They're so lucky. Do you understand this?
And he, if you her Bishop, you're listening to this.
The fact that you're still in existence that you the Bishops
who hit all this, and who Moved priests around knowing what was
going on and you still just moving to another Parish, don't
say anything. Yeah.
You are the criminals. You knew.
You commit a crime After Crime, After Crime in covering this up.
And in supporting actions in the third world where they can't get
birth control where they can't use condoms and, and the growth
of AIDS throughout the third world, because of you and what
you believed in. And you use Jesus as your
Shield, Jesus was your beard. Jesus was your cover.
Oh, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus.
He cares about the little baby that hasn't been born yet.
Really? Because Jesus doesn't say a
single word in the Bible about abortion.
You mean this up? You made people believe this,
you is part of a sick male Dynasty, that wants to control
women You do it within your own institution?
They have no power. They have no say Oh, you make it
look like you to care. You're very patronizing about
that. You let women hand out
communion. I know, I know all.
Yeah, I got it. You've gotten away with us for a
long time and how dare you say to the Speaker of the House who
represents the majority of American political opinion, her
opinions, and her beliefs politically are in line with the
majority of the American public. And, you know, I don't need to
say that. Of course, I have my own
disagreements. With Nancy Pelosi and things.
I wish were better and I wish they fought harder for the
things they do. But that's not what this podcast
is about. This is you the Catholic church
and you this Archbishop in San Francisco saying that you're
going to shut her down and you're not going to.
She's like one of the most visible and devout Catholics.
There's none of us were Catholics that are anywhere
close to her and Biden in terms of their utter Devotion, to what
they believe in, they believe in what you believe in what you
say, you believe in. But you don't really do you
because you're criminals. And you know, it the fact that
you even think that you could go on TV and dress her down and say
that she's not going to be able to participate in the thing that
she believes in. Until she goes to confession and
kneels in front of a man Neil's in front of a priest.
Whose only a man, And admits her evil.
Admits her sin of supporting other women who have a right to
the reproductive organs and to do with it what they want.
And you you have the audacity to say to her.
She has to ask for forgiveness. You Archbishop are the one that
needs to ask for forgiveness and you are the one that needs to
pay the price for what you've done.
And it just so people understand, it's nothing
personal here with the Archbishop but this guy
Archbishop Cordy Leone. He has been one of these crazy
what they call right-to-lifers but they don't, they don't
believe if they were really about right to life, they would
be taken care of our babies. We care about a fertilized egg.
You're so sick when you start talking like that.
Don't you know that we must protect the rights of the
fertilized egg? Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
That's what you are. And those of us raised Catholic,
those who are Catholic. We know this about you.
Also this Archbishop just reading about him today.
He's an anti-vaxxer. Right to life.
He's an anti-vaxxer. And he has not got gotten
vaccinated himself. Absolutely stunning.
He also was very outspoken in his imagine.
This guy is there to show up San Francisco fought against
same-sex marriage. If you're gay, you're committing
a sin just by being gay. He warned, any Catholic School
teachers in the Archdiocese to conduct their lives in a way
that does not undermine or deny the church's Doctrine.
My sister was actually a teacher in his Cathedral High School
many many years ago. I don't know if she wins me
saying saying that don't meet the outer, but yeah.
I don't know what to do about this.
Religion, I was raised in. Painful on some levels, right?
Because the basic stuff, right? We do agree with that loving
each other and being good to people.
Don't kill other human beings. And some people still go to
church. They believe in these ideas that
you should love your neighbor. That you should be good to
those. Even the worst people on this
planet. That you should house the
homeless feed, the hungry, heal the sick.
Those are the beliefs of this particular religion. some people
still want to believe that still want to try to live their lives
like that, but then you come along, And you you trash this
historic woman in our United States Congress because she's
fighting to actually make Roe v-- Wade.
The law of the land not just forget about these Supreme Court
decisions, make it the law, pass it through Congress.
Have the Catholic President sign it, like he said he would do.
Well, let's hope Nancy Pelosi keeps walking up the aisle to
take communion. I dare dare the Archbishop to
deny her that and just remember you and your other Bishops.
You're so lucky to be walking free.
That you're not in prison. Thank God, you're not Kiwanis.
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So as I'm sure you've seen on the news in the last few weeks,
there is a tragic baby formula shortage.
Baby formula just when you thought you've gotten through
everything. Alright?
In this covid era. Now, to be known as the monkey
pox era Along Comes the fact that we can't even guarantee
that there will be food for babies.
Unbelievable, isn't it? What kind of country are we
seriously that we would run out of baby formula?
No not everybody. Can breastfeed their baby for a
whole variety of reasons. Not the least of which is an
economic system that has people working themselves to the Bone.
Where we don't have any kind of paid child or family leave like
they haven't all the other democracies and the ones that
aren't democracies. They think it's important that
when you have a baby you whether you're the mother, the father
you should maybe spend some time with the baby get all the good
feelings from that, you know, some of these countries.
If you have a baby, you get six months off with pay.
Not us though because we love babies so much, you know, right
to life. Yeah.
Well, we love them so much that that we got to make sure that
fertilized egg gets out there because when it gets outside the
mother's womb, there may not be any food to feed it with in the
richest country on Earth. Stunning, isn't it?
How many times have you shaking your head watching the news,
these last couple of weeks that we would be out of baby formula?
How many times you just turn the TV on?
Because I can't. What's the next thing?
You're going to tell me. How low have we sunk as a
country? And the thing is we can't blame
the foreigners because 98% of the baby formula that American
parents by is produced in the United States right here.
But because we are big Believers in the capitalism and letting
companies do whatever the hell they want to do. 90% of all the
baby formula made, in this country is made by Abbott.
And three other companies. That's it.
They control 90% of the market. Abbott alone, makes 43 percent
of all us baby formula. Just ask yourself.
Just you don't have to agree with my politics of Economics or
whatever. Just ask yourself a common
sense. Question, do you think it's safe
that one company would control nearly half of anything?
half the computer chips we need Half the electricity.
That's got the lights on in the room here right now.
Let me just pick anything. It's doesn't sound right?
Does it impact dangerous? Don't you think?
If you let the control of anything be in the hands of?
So few rich people. And just for our own safety,
just for our own Homeland Security.
When you make sure that not only that, there would be enough baby
formula being made, but that would be being made by a lot of
different people. And perhaps, if there was true
competition, the thing they say they believe in, you know, the
competitive Marketplace free enterprise, which of course,
they don't believe in any of that anybody who says they're a
kabbalist. So they but they what they
believe in control world domination.
They don't want competition, they want to eliminate the
competition, they want to buy out the competition, they want
to be if they could, their Nirvana would be to be the only
baby formula company in the world.
That is a capitalist wet dream, right there.
So we don't have any competition, we don't have any
real, you know, spreading this out across the country and
numerous numerous people making the baby formula.
We have this situation here and you know just again to be clear
if you're not really buying what I am saying here in terms of why
it set up this way, if you think this was just an accident,
During the pandemic between 2019 and 2020, one Abbott's profits
soared by 94%. On top of that, the company
increased dividends to their shareholders by over 25% during
the pandemic. And then, at the same time
announced a stock buyback program that was worth five
billion dollars. And since the passage of Trumps
2017 Republican tax, law Abbott has saved billions more in
taxes. And it has seen its effective
tax rate decline to levels. Well, below the statutory rate
of 21%. In 2019 edit paid only nine
point six percent in taxes, a very income ten percent in 2020.
13.9% in 2021. So how did this whole Scandal
happened to wear a couple months ago here in February Abbott
nutrition recalled baby formula originating from their plant in
Sturgis. Michigan I'm trying to think
what else we know about surges. If I remember correctly, if it's
not the, it's one of the first cities that that set up an
electric system back in the late 1800s.
One of the first to do it in Michigan.
In fact, I think that's their nickname, the electric the
Electric City. So, that's what we know about
Sturgis. Michigan, what we know now about
it, is that it had, it has this massive factory.
Run by Abbott nutrition that makes or did make baby formula.
This one Factory in little Sturgis Michigan population.
10,000 people produced up to 25% of the entire nations baby
formula. But it was contaminated.
And that led to, at least at the beginning for hospitalizations
of babies and the death of at least two infants.
Now, how do we know about this? Why I was in the FDA doing?
Why aren't they doing their work and inspecting?
This This has been going on, actually this kind of behavior
it Abbott for years, but it wasn't until last year.
A 34 page whistleblower report. In other words, somebody inside
Somebody and I'm hoping it was somebody from Benton Harbor
decided to start taking notes, snapping pictures and put
together a 34 page whistleblower report that was entered into the
record by the House Appropriations Committee in
April just a month or so ago. This is what this was a blur and
thank God for all whistleblowers out there who when you see
things wrong and you do good to collect the evidence and you
give it to the right people. This one person discovered
falsification of records at Abbott relating to the testing
of seals the seals on the formula.
And how the factory Executives would sign verifications without
adequate knowledge failure, to maintain accurate maintenance,
records shipping packages with Phil weights that were lower
than what was on the label. You don't need to fill that up.
I know it says, it's got so many ounces, which is a cut back, a
little bit. We can make more money.
It shows that Abbott continually released untested infant
formula. The executives there in the
factory. They hid information during a
20-19 FDA audit. Abbott failed to take corrective
measures once the company knew that their testing procedures
were deficient and there was an atmosphere of retaliation
against any employee, who raised concerns about the company's
practices. And the root of this, all this
contamination was allegedly known by Abbott for nearly seven
years. The flow pipes in the factory.
They were pitted. They were full of these pin
holes that allow bacteria to enter the system.
And at times it led to bacteria, not being adequately, cleaned
out in the cleanup process. And this in turn caused, the
baby formula product to flow through these pipes and pick up
that bacteria. That was trapped in the
defective areas of the pipe. If the a learned of this last
September September 20 21, here we are.
We're going into June And it still, isn't fixed?
Still there's no way they say they're getting their other,
they'll be back online in a couple weeks.
Well, I don't know if we want them back online in a couple
weeks. His has this been checked out.
If you have a baby, are you okay give me.
Give me the formula. It was made in Sturgis.
Michigan, if you give to good if you're good, no one's going to
say that. Last September, September of 21,
the FDA had heard, there might be something wrong.
So they go there and they do this inspection.
But then the very next month, October last October, The
Whistleblower submitted his or her report to the FDA.
They did not interview The Whistleblower until late
December 2012, 14 months. Then the FDA didn't bother to go
in and inspect the plant until the last day of January of this
year. So now five months have gone by
and then they didn't issue the recall for another two or three
weeks into mid to late February of this year.
Wow. And still, they turned a pretty
profit. They made a ton of money.
Why do we let this to go on? And why is it that I'm just
telling you about this? Now, you should not become your
news for me, not me, not to, they're saving wrong with me.
But I'm just saying, where's the media?
Why don't we know this? Why haven't we been told this
all? We hear all the baby formula
shortage continues. Yeah.
But what's the story? What's the story behind the
story? Why aren't we told this stuff?
And why isn't there already a statue being erected to this
whistleblower in Sturgis? Michigan.
Or outside the FDA headquarters. In d.c.
Because is this, our, this is, our only really our only front
line of protection. Isn't it to have good?
People who are employees of businesses that are cheating,
the American public and that are putting the American public's
children, their babies in danger Because they want to hurry up.
Hurry up, don't fix the pipe. It's good enough.
We got to make money here. No, no.
I don't know what to say. You know, I have so many other
things I want to get into today, but I've already taken up more
of your time than I promised. So we'll talk about what Joe
Biden said about. Yes, we would send troops to
Taiwan. No, we aren't and no, we won't.
Sorry, Taiwan we're not getting into some kind of war with
China, that's just not going to happen.
So everybody would better figure that out.
Work it out. Let people have their freedom
China, don't invade Taiwan but I hate to tell you.
We're not going to be sending our troops.
Are nobody listening to this right now.
Now can honestly tell me that they would love to sacrifice
their young boy or the young girl, so that Taiwan is
protected from China. Anybody want to say?
Yes, I be very willing to give up my son's life so that the
people of Taiwan will be free. No, you don't want to do that.
It's the 21st century. My friends, we have to find new
ways to deal with this. I just, I wanted to before we
close to my apologies for going so long here today.
I just want to say a few words to those of you who are
graduating from high school and for those of you are going to
enter your senior year, this coming September, first of all,
on behalf of all the adults in this country, I want to offer my
apologies. You have had a very difficult
two or three years here. And I'm proud that you've hung
in there, but it wasn't right. It wasn't fair.
And this has to get fixed. We have to make this up to you
somehow because I fear that you're going to be this kind of
Lost Generation is two or three or four years.
Now, we're going where pandemic is an over and in the ways that
you're going to pay for that because you missed out on an
education that you should have received, but you also missed
out on living life as a teenager when this started, what were you
15 16 17? It's not right?
And I'm sorry, I want to apologize but I want to do more
than that. I want.
Our government to take care of you, you should be able to
college right now free of charge and anything that you do in,
let's say the next 10 years of your adult life, you shouldn't
have to pay for anything that involves enlightening yourself.
Anything that has to do with education, whether its buying a
book, taking class learning Spanish, we should make that
available to you because we cheated you out of at least two.
If not more years of your high school education.
And you got cheated out of just being with each other, but being
teenagers. Of being 1617.
If I were president, I think I would suggest that the kids in
high school right now. They get an extra year to for
free and I don't mean to say, oh I got to go, you're going to
stay in high school. Now, to you're 19 or 20, maybe
some learning, but the rest of it should be, you know, I don't
know form. A band started, hip-hop groups
to do, do whatever it is, you want to do.
Let's make that happen for you, whatever?
That is that would make you happy.
Let's do that for you. Let's provide the funds for
that. You deserve that And not just
high school kids, all the kids. Come on.
It's the right thing to do. So to you, graduates, who are
graduating this week next week. Congratulations for pulling it
off. Apologies from the rest of us
that you had to go through all this and and just know that I am
maybe millions of others who hear this on this podcast will
stop for a moment and say you know, we owe them something.
Let's figure out what that something is.
And let's make it available to them.
These are our kids, I know it sounds like a cliche, this is
the future, but it is the future and I'd like the rest of my life
being lived in a, in a nice future with mentally healthy
individuals and people who were not behind the others, because
they didn't learn X Y or Z in school, the school was a screen.
On top of the dining room table. Not right.
So have a good time here during graduation week.
Be careful, be safe. Be smart.
Respect others. But have some fun.
Please. And that's going to be it for
today. Oh, wait a minute, that's right.
Oh my God, my sister told me she's a lawyer.
She thinks is possible. The Supreme Court May release
this decision right after Memorial Day weekend.
It's possible that they just want to get this out of the way
before, too much steam, builds up because because now for the
first time in over a year, In the poll yesterday.
The majority of Americans are going to vote for the Democrat
in the midterms and not the Republican probably could have
been had this whole time until they this thing got released by
the Supreme Court got leaked. And so all I can say is
everybody I'll we will do something as soon as good as it
gets close to this decision coming out that all we all have
to get out in the streets. We have to get off the couch
everybody. It's that's right.
There it goes. That's the siren Battle
Stations, battle station, Battle Stations, everyone who loves
their democracy and everyone who believes.
That everyone has equal rights, everyone has the right to
control their own body. We must do battle to stand up
for the rights of women. We must do battle to protect our
democracy. If we let this get by And we
don't have the response that we need to have.
We will Rue the day. That we did not fight back
everybody, please? Now.
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