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Hello everyone. 
This is Michael Moore. 

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This is my podcast. 
Welcome. 

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Welcome once again the election 
for President of the United 

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States and all the other at 
least every seat in the House of

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Representatives and a third of 
the seats in the Senate. 

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That election is exactly 3 
months, three months from right 

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now. 
That's it. 

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That's what we've got, three 
months, which in weeks because a

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couple of these months are 31 
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I don't think I need to explain 
this to you, but you know, the 

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nuns are still with me. 
So this is how I was trained. 

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But basically it's 14 weeks from
today, tomorrow. 

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So tomorrow, Tuesday obviously 
is the Election Day, Tuesday, 

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November 5th. 
This is Monday, August 4th, 14 

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weeks from tomorrow. 
Wow, we can do this. 

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I mean, think about this. 
I mean, this is, I know it's 

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it's like we just got the 
candidate 14 days ago yesterday 

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and already so much is emotion. 
So many things have happened, so

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much money has been raised by 
small donations. 

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So many hundreds of thousands 
have volunteered to be 

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volunteers, to knock on doors, 
to make calls, to do whatever 

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needs to be done to end the 
madness of Donald Trump, have 

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him out of our lives once and 
for all. 

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Three months from today is our 
chance to do that. 

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I was on the RE Melbourne last 
week and just, you know, trying 

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to figure out Trump and the 
things he was saying and the 

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things that he did when he went 
to the convention with black 

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journalists and, and those 3 
black women. 

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Oh my God, it was, if you 
haven't seen this, I've got to 

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post this. 
I, I want to, I want you to 

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watch the whole thing. 
It's not that long. 

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It's 34 minutes of Trump meeting
his inquisition, 3 smart pointed

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black black women. 
It's like the last play. 

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He must have walked on that 
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7th, 8th and 9th ring of hell. 
And they didn't waste any time. 

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Rachel Scott from ABC just went 
right at him with, guess what? 

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Journalism, actual questions. 
And he didn't know what to do. 

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And, and she, she went down the 
whole list of his history as a 

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racist, his birther stuff with 
Obama, the stuff when he was in 

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his 20s with his dad, just one 
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And, and, and, and his first 
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never heard a first question 
from a journalist, as nasty and 

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as rude as that was. 
And of course he loves, you 

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know, his, his one of his 
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his life is that there are two 
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nasty women. 
He just thought he couldn't get 

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over how nasty that she was by 
asking a very pertinent 

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journalistic question. 
Why are you here considering you

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have a 50 year history of one 
racist remark after another and 

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not just remarks actions paying 
for a full page ads in the New 

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York newspaper calling for the 
execution of four young black 

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men who are all innocent who 
committed no crime but were 

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charged with the assault and 
rape of a white woman jogger in 

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Central Park. 
Not only charged lies all this 

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so much about I mean if watch 
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on it if you really want to see 
this really played out. 

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It's not a documentary, but it's
a fact based drama on what these

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four young men had to go through
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and how they were all sent to 
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time. 
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like a decade to I think the one
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might have been up to 1417 years
for being innocent, completely 

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innocent. 
Well, they caught the guy, you 

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know, And of course they didn't 
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They didn't want to undo their 
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The New York prosecutor, the New
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No, no, no. 
But they got out. 

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They got out. 
They got some renumeration for 

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it. 
They didn't get their lives 

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back. 
But one of them last year got 

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elected to the New York City 
Council, which was such a cool 

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moment to see him sworn in as, 
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make the laws and and be in 
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One of the many people who sit 
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charge of the city. 
I don't think that still doesn't

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make up for what happened, but 
damn it. 

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But Trump, she asked him that 
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flabbergasted. 
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And I'm, I'm sure he, I don't 
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was shocked he didn't just get 
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also announced that Politi fact 
during the interview with him on

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the stage online. 
Politi fact was going to be live

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fact checking in the moment. 
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they would instantly Fact Check 
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If you want to have that as one 
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tell you whether what what he 
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which is what you would. 
That's the only way you could 

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ever allow him on the airwaves, 
unless that that bonus screen 

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was up there saying lie, lie. 
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Here's the truth. 
Half lie. 

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Yeah, half lie. 
I know. 

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Hey. 
Well, you know, he's human. 

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You know, he can mess up 
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which is still a lie. 
Anyways, I'll play. 

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I'll. 
I'll send this out to you here 

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sometime in the next few days 
this week or whatever 'cause 

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it's powerful. 
Powerful. 

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Powerful and every American 
citizen, every voter and all of 

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you listening throughout the 
world, just if you really, I 

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know, I know, I know what you 
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where do you, where do you hear 
this? 

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So it's been one of those weeks.
It's been one of those two weeks

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since the two weeks ago when 
Kamala Harris was named by Biden

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as her successor. 
It's not quite the actual legal 

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way we do things here, but I 
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right now because ever all those
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Party pundits, not all of them, 
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Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries 
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They knew what America saw. 
You can't Unsee what we all saw 

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on the debate on June 27th. 
And, and it was just stunning 

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how many people that we like who
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our papers, tried to tell us 
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There's nothing wrong with 
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Hey, just getting old. 
We're all getting old. 

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Oh, my God. 
Now, after two weeks of Kamala 

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Harris, Can you imagine? 
Have we not fixed this? 

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Thank you everybody who 
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know, you know, the podcast I 
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after the debate and what I 
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love and concern and care for 
him as a human being, as an 

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elderly person. 
I just thought it was awful that

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he was made to quad on that 
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Where are his people who should 
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suffer out there like that for 
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It's just I couldn't believe it.
This is why you've This is why 

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you've got people that love you,
people that are looking out for 

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you. 
And he was just left out there, 

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sent out there, left out there. 
And then they tell us the next 

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day, oh, he had a cold. 
Wow, stunning, wasn't it? 

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Just a reminder that even the 
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sometimes have a hard time just 
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sometimes the truth is 
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Sometimes it's the awful truth. 
And in those moments, that's 

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when we discover who we really 
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Are we going to really be honest
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else and say what just happened?
And as the days went on and he 

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and Joe Biden did other 
interviews and he called 

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Zelensky the president, the 
president of Ukraine referred to

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him as President Putin. 
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Harris as Vice President Trump. 
You, I don't need to go over all

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this with you. 
It's look, it's fixed. 

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And, and to Biden's credit, men,
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about here. 
Our way is to dig in, dig in, be

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intractable, unmovable. 
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He tried to, he tried to dig in.
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know about him, that good part, 
couldn't pull it off, thank God.

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And of course, as you know, 
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me now for 10 months and you've 
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this and you've seen me on 
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The sad, sad part, just as they 
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the 50th anniversary of the 
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this past month, Lyndon Johnson.
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the civil rights stuff that John
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died the previous year and got 
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This Texan, former Texan 
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Kennedy, got all the civil 
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Kennedy had on the table. 
And yet that's not what we 

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remember Lyndon Johnson for, is 
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We remember him and his invasion
of Vietnam lying him and his 

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people as Pentagon lying to us 
about being attacked by the 

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North Vietnamese. 
A fake incident in the Gulf of 

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Tonkin. 
A resolution passed in the 

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Senate the next day or two after
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of Tonkin and out of the 100 
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having a War 2 Wayne Morse and 
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OK, so they were both Democrats.
That means they were had to vote

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against their Democratic 
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and their Democratic Senate. 
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I don't think we've actually, 
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a real war resolution since that
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legally and officially go to 
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Ever since then, it's been all 
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whatever the legal term is. 
I might be wrong, There might be

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one or two, but I, I, I, I think
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this day because they didn't 
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against it. 
And as you've heard me say on 

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this podcast and in my writings 
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just like Lyndon Johnson when he
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killed at least 2 million 
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two of SE Asians. 
That's what we remember Lyndon 

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Johnson for and what Biden is 
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Not the infrastructure bill. 
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It's going to be that he became 
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He funded an invasion not not a 
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probably most people listen to 
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Not opposed to protecting the 
lives of human beings, No. 

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Biden gave Netanyahu money 
beyond what we already give 

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them, billions more to fund his 
slaughter of the Palestinian 

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people in Gaza. 
At this count, 40,000 civilians 

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dead, so many children, so many 
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Just awful. 
Not only the money, but gave 

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them more weapons, more bombs. 
Sending in another battleship 

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here tomorrow. 
It's not about defense, It's 

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offense and it's offensive. 
And again, I don't know what 

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happened with Biden. 
I'm just going to actually just 

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chalk it up to the fact that 
he's been in decline for the 

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better part of the last year. 
They hid it from us. 

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You've read the stories in the 
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They've hid this from us. 

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He didn't have a cabinet meeting
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They didn't want people to see 
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OK, I get it and I don't get it.
But the, but the but the 

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president who back in the 
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refused by Netanyahu's request 
that while he's in the US for 

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the UN annual meeting, that he 
come down to DC and have a, a 

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grinning grip with Joe Biden in 
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And Biden said, no, I don't want
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He's, he's indicted on at least 
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other things. 
No, I, I'm not, I don't want him

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no meeting. 
I mean, he snubbed him and he 

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was all, all already, You know, 
Biden was paying attention to 

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how 10s of thousands, hundreds 
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demonstrating in the street 
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People wanted him out of there. 
He was trying to wreck their 

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judicial system on and on. 
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I I don't think that had 
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Usually that's the routine. 
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comes for UN week and then pops 
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the photo op of letting people 
in Israel know that we haven't 

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given up on them. 
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Just a little over a month 
later, you see a much diminished

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Biden on a plane, getting off a 
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hug Benjamin Netanyahu and 
promise him the moon, whatever 

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he wanted, essentially a blank 
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He did warn him. 
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he did warn him. 
Don't make our mistake. 

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He said that what we did after 
911. 

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exactly what he wanted to do 
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other good things we've talked 
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through our Democratic president
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Biden with young people, with 
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Americans who believe in peace, 
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just were saddened by the 
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of the Israelis there on October
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How many of us right thinking in
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Please don't do what we did 
after 911, like Biden said. 

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He said do not let your rage get
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Netanyahu. 
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He's had it for a long time. 
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thinking, how are we going to 
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How are we going to stop Trump? 
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day past Kamala Harris being our
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defeat Donald Trump. 
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good idea? 
I, I wanted to do this for some 

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time now. 
And so this will be the first of

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a series of podcasts and, and 
sub stacks. 

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If you, if you read my printed 
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which is at michaelmoore.com, 
very easy to find. 

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I, I, what I want to do is I 
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you 2024 election tool kit. 
All right, I've been putting 

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this together. 
The things that each of us can 

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do, what we can do, things I can
give you, the places I can send 

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you ideas that maybe aren't 
going to be discussed by the, 

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the local Democrats or whatever,
or the pundits on TV. 

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Things that I've learned over 
the years that work in order to 

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get out the vote, in order to 
win elections that can't be won.

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the 2022 midterm, we did this 
series called Blue Dots in a Red

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It was a series to stop the 

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predicted red wave. 
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We were told that the 
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such ass in the midterms in 2022
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40 new seats in the United 
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Do you remember that? 
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people? 
What moon are they on? 

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Where do they live? 
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going to pick up anything. 
They're going to lose. 

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They're going to lose seats. 
And so I wrote to you and I came

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on my podcast and I told you, 
this is again, you know, this is

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me now talking. 
This is the one who told you 

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that Trump was going to be the 
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He was going to win the 2016 
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I did not want to have to say 
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I took no joy in it, but I 
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country that she was going to 
lose. 

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As I said, Michigan, Wisconsin 
and Pennsylvania. 

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I was laughed at. 
When I went on TV to say this, I

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was booed on, on the Bill Maher 
show by the audience, not by 

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Bill, but by the audience and, 
and, and in the the morning of 

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the election in November of 
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That morning the New York Times 
on the front page had this 

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little like thermometer thing 
that said that Hillary, there is

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an 85% chance that Hillary is 
going to win the presidency 

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today. 85% chance, only a 15% 
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That was in the morning. 
By 2:24 AM later that night, we 

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had a new president and his name
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Again, no joy in any of that. 
So when 2022 came around, and I 

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did this series on my podcast 
here telling you how we are not 

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going to have a red wave. 
The Republicans are not going to

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take over even more than they 
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We're going to have the Senate 
back in our hands and, and we're

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going to have the tightest 
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seats between US and the 
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That's how close. 
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being. 
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resigning and death and 
whatever, you know, pretty much 

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now on any given vote, we just 
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out of 220, say to vote with us.
And there are just enough 

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moderate, I don't want to say 
liberal, but moderate 

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Republicans or Republicans that 
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by 10 to 20 percentage points 
that they're not going to get re

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elected this year if they vote 
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in Congress. 
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Biden's been able to get through
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early bills got passed because 
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beaten down first by Biden's 
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seats we picked up that 
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And then by the midterms, not 
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blue wall sometime, you know, 
many years ago, I was the 

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youngest person, I should say 
one of the youngest or a number 

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of 18 year olds elected that 
year. 

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And then I decided to run for 
the Board of Education where I 

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lived in Michigan. 
So I having served as an elected

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official, having won an 
election, I had no business 

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winning, I had learned a lot of 
things in that election of, of 

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how to get elected. 
And so I thought what I should 

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be doing right now with this 
election is giving you some of 

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the things, some of those things
that I learned, some I don't 

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know how many years ago it was. 
God, it feels like 50 years. 

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Is that possible? 
Jeez, no. 

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Yes. 
Wow. 

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OK, Well, you get my point. 
I have some experience with this

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and I have some experience of 
being able to have my finger on 

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the pulse of what I think's 
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especially in middle America, 
especially in working class 

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America. 
That's how I grew up. 

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So. 
So this is what we're going to 

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do today. 
I have put together Mike's 

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Election 2024 campaign kit for 
you and we're not going to go 

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through it all today. 
I'm just going to give you the 

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maybe the first three things or 
so that we can all do and we 

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should do it and we should do it
right now. 

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I mean, do it today if you can. 
If you can't do it today, do it 

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tomorrow. 
But but let's just get started. 

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These are not necessarily the 
things that that you know, 

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people are going to suggest that
you do. 

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These are going to be the things
that I've seen work. 

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They worked for me. 
I think they'll work for you 

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where you live. 
And then over the next, you 

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know, couple of weeks, I'll add 
to the kit. 

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I'll give you new things. 
Like especially I've got 

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something for those of you who 
live in a state where you're 

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thinking I have no real say in 
this election. 

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I already know how the state's 
going to go. 

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Everybody does. 
It's not true. 

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I mean, yeah, yes, it is 
certain. 

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Mississippi is going to go red, 
as will Alabama and New York and

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California, Oregon, Illinois 
will be blue. 

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But there are things you can do 
from these other states, and I'm

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going to give you some of those 
things that you can do. 

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And I want to tell you that 
those of you who live in 26 

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states, you border a swing 
state. 

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So right now they're saying 
there's like seven states that 

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are going to decide the 
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Michigan, Wisconsin, 
Pennsylvania, same 3 from 2016. 

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And then Arizona, Georgia, North
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Hampshire, possibly Virginia. 
But those of you who live in 

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those 26 states that are not 
swing states, the border a swing

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state, I'm going to talk to you 
about what you can do as a 

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neighbor. 
I'm going to talk to you about a

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little weekend family trip. 
Get in the car for an hour or 

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two or three and go where people
can use your help desperately. 

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I'll talk about all this in the 
coming days and weeks of other 

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things we can and should be 
doing. 

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But today I, I want to just read
to you some of the stuff I've 

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written up on my, on my campaign
kit here, my tool kit for you. 

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All right, So I've been 
promising you this for a couple 

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of weeks now. 
A blueprint, a strategy that 

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beginning today, don't put this 
off, OK, My friends. 

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Beginning today, all of us 
working together, we can use 

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this blueprint and strategy to 
actually once and for all end 

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the career of a political 
arsonist, the man who attempted 

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to overthrow the duly elected 
government of the United States 

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of America. 
That's right, I'm talking about 

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the 34 time convicted felon, the
self admitted sexual abuser, and

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the one time Dean of Trump 
University, Donald J Trump. 

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And this is it. 
This, my friends, is how we do 

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it. 
We have 92 days, 92 days before 

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we can live in a better world. 
And today, what I'm going to do 

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is give you the first item to 
place in your 2024 election tool

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kit. 
And this is how Trump will meet 

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his fate. 
You, me, this tool kit and 

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millions of Americans who will 
be engaged and unforgiving over 

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these next three months. 
And listen, although this tool 

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does have the blessing of many 
of my, you know, progressive 

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family around the country of 
activist writers, nonviolent 

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rebels, it has not been approved
by the Democratic National 

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Committee, which is fine. 
I mean, I did run it by people 

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that you would respect in DC who
we're happy to read my ideas 

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here. 
And all of them agreed that 

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nothing I'm suggesting to you in
this podcast is wrong or 

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inappropriate. 
And in fact, I was told it was 

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actually better that we, I, you 
and me are doing this, doing our

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own sort of rogue operation in 
some ways to some of us. 

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It's, well, it's what we've had 
to do in the past, saving the 

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Democrats from themselves, 
saving the party from itself. 

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So I was talking to one long 
time party stalwart in DC when I

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was talking about this election 
toolkit here. 

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And he reminded me how that in 
the past, the public attitude of

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just leave it to the Democrats 
was really not always the wisest

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thing to do. 
This is a Democrat telling me 

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this, right? 
He said twice in just 16 years. 

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We won the popular vote in 2000 
and 2016 but lost the election. 

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How do you pull that off? 
So he says to me, tell your 

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people on your podcast, don't 
just sit there and think down 

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here there's a bunch of 
Democratic Party geniuses who 

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are going to defeat Trump. 
We can't do that, certainly not 

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by ourselves. 
We need all the help we can get.

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Wow. 
Well, I thought, point taken. 

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So before I continue, I'd like 
to take a moment to thank our 

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underwriter for this week's 
episode, a long time supporter 

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So this is what I thought. 
We just have to, we just have to

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do basically two things. 
One, we will all work to ensure 

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that Donald Trump is never 
president again. 

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And two, we will elect a strong 
Congress that will give 

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President Harris the Democratic 
majorities in the House and the 

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Senate that she needs in order 
to accomplish her and our 

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agenda. 
And by now I think she has given

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enough speeches in the first 
couple weeks. 

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Got a pretty clear idea what 
that agenda is. 

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The restoration of full women's 
rights. 

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,840
Protect all of our freedoms. 
Ensure healthcare, elder care 

449
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,680
and child care for all. 
End all voter suppression and 

450
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,800
undemocratic actions. 
Get the money out of politics. 

451
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,200
Stop the slaughter in Palestine.
Ceasefire immediately. 

452
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,960
Reform the Supreme Court. 
Created an economic democracy 

453
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,280
that allows the working class 
and the middle class to thrive. 

454
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:59,000
Make the rich pay their taxes 
and save this beautiful planet. 

455
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,360
So anyways, here's how my battle
plan, how it works. 

456
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,680
I'm going to give you 10 steps. 
We're going to do like 3 steps 

457
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,679
today, please. 
You know, you can rewind this 

458
00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:11,600
and play it. 
You can. 

459
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,199
There'll be a transcript of 
this. 

460
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,800
Or actually, you could just read
my written sub stack from a 

461
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,199
couple of days ago because it's 
essentially very close to the 

462
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,520
same thing here. 
And I'll, I'll, I'll put the 

463
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,000
link of that here on the on my 
podcast page. 

464
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,199
OK, so here you go. 
You ready everybody? 

465
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,320
All right. 
And please share this with 

466
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,639
family, friends, neighbors, 
coworkers, whatever. 

467
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:43,120
Step number one. 
Step number one is get your head

468
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:49,639
straight, get your head screwed 
on straight, and get your game 

469
00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:56,639
face on because we will not win 
unless we understand and own 

470
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:05,520
this one basic fact. 
We are the majority. 

471
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:08,680
What? 
What? 

472
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,600
I know we've been down for so 
long it's hard to actually 

473
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,360
barely say that with a straight 
face. 

474
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,720
We are the majority. 
Oh, yeah, yes, you can, my 

475
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,240
friends. 
And I'm going to send you 

476
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,760
something later this week where 
you'll have all the facts and 

477
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,800
all the research that my team 
and I have been doing over the 

478
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,160
last month so that you can say 
this proudly. 

479
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,640
We are the majority. 
Not the Trumpsters, not the 

480
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,680
Republicans, not the people who 
believe in all the things that 

481
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,720
make life extremely difficult 
for a lot of our fellow 

482
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,920
Americans. 
Who is America? 

483
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,920
It's us. 
It's us, the people who believe 

484
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,520
in the things that we believe 
in. 

485
00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,080
We are the majority, and who 
knows that better than we do the

486
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:06,560
other side, the Trumpsters MAGA 
nation knows that we're the 

487
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:07,760
majority. 
They know the majority of 

488
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,800
Americans don't agree with them.
That's why. 

489
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:14,760
That's why Trump is on his way 
to losing the popular vote again

490
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,120
for the third time. 
That's why they're all so angry 

491
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:24,320
and so hateful and have no 
intention, no intention of 

492
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:31,360
losing in November. 
So that's why our own heads, we 

493
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:36,240
have to be in an all or nothing.
We're in the game mode here. 

494
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,800
All in all of us, we're going to
set aside our criticisms and 

495
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,800
complaints and and the fact that
the world is not going to be the

496
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:56,560
way we would run it because we 
are not running. 

497
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:04,280
And if we wanted the world to be
exactly the way we'd like to see

498
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:09,600
it, maybe one of us should be 
running. 

499
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:18,240
Bernie tried. 
There are people, good people, 

500
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:23,200
in the wings, and maybe you're 
one of them. 

501
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:33,960
But until that day happens, it's
a race now between Kamala Harris

502
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:42,000
and Donald Trump. 
So no more talk, no more yakety 

503
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,640
yak here, no more political 
rhetoric right now. 

504
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:50,720
We right now have only three 
months from today before the 

505
00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,760
election. 
That means that we must take we,

506
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:59,000
all of us action every day. 
There's no way we're going to 

507
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,840
pull this off unless we do that.
So I want to give you 3 quick 

508
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,120
things that you can do actually 
today. 

509
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,320
All right, here's number one. 
Go public. 

510
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:13,400
Go public. 
You. 

511
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,200
Yeah, I'm talking to you. 
I know you're not a public 

512
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,440
person, but you have a few 
people in your life, right? 

513
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,840
You need to inspire them by 
proudly proclaiming that you're 

514
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:30,040
voting for heiress. 
And if we all do this, it may 

515
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,240
actually possibly save the 
country and change the world. 

516
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,720
Again, it won't be the way you 
want it to be, but we're not 

517
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:43,240
voting for you. 
So let's get this right. 

518
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,040
Start it. 
So start by going public. 

519
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:47,440
And by the way, here's how you 
do it. 

520
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,200
You're online right now, right? 
Because you're listening to me. 

521
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,520
Well, maybe you've got earbuds 
and you're on a walk. 

522
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,720
OK, Well, when you get back 
home. 

523
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,080
But if you're on a computer 
right now, if you're on your 

524
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,760
phone listening to me, then I 
want to ask you to do something 

525
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,120
right now. 
I would like you to just pause 

526
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:14,440
this podcast and write a brief 
20 word, 50 word, maybe 100 word

527
00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:19,760
if you're like me, your own 
thing that you call, let's just 

528
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:24,600
call it my declaration for 
President Kamala Harris. 

529
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:31,040
That's it, just a note and 
you're going to send it to 20 

530
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:36,120
friends and family members. 
You need to tell them why. 

531
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,680
Why? 
You are probably not a political

532
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,840
person necessarily. 
You don't usually send emails or

533
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,120
texts like this. 
But today you've got to do it. 

534
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:51,920
You need to tell them why it's a
new day in America for you, Why 

535
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,040
there's no more important job 
for any of us right now, from 

536
00:39:55,040 --> 00:40:01,800
now until November 5th, to stop 
Trump to elect the first woman 

537
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:06,520
President of the United States. 
Enough is enough. 

538
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:12,200
Make sure they feel that from 
you as you write these few 

539
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,320
sentences. 
Let them know we are not going 

540
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:22,360
back to the 1950s. 
Our daughters will have complete

541
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,680
control over their bodies and 
their lives. 

542
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,520
People in their 40s must no 
longer believe they will never 

543
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,160
own their own home. 
That is not the America I choose

544
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:41,360
to live in. 
Every American must have access 

545
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,320
to the care they need without 
having to consider the cost of 

546
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,560
it. 
Whether it's health care, dental

547
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:55,960
care, mental care, elder care, 
child care, we need to stop 

548
00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:04,450
living like this. 
We are out of time my friends. 

549
00:41:05,650 --> 00:41:09,280
Invite these good people in your
life that you're going to send 

550
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,400
this note to, to join you in 
this, in this mission between 

551
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,440
now and November 5th. 
I mean, seriously. 

552
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,560
And start a thread with them. 
Start a text thread with them 

553
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,000
right away. 
You can even name it. 

554
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,320
You can call it. 
We're for Kamala, our Kamala 

555
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:32,640
Crusade. 
Hurry for Harris, whatever. 

556
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,720
I mean, just make up your own 
thing or have no name to it at 

557
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:39,000
all. 
Just start texting the the 20 

558
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,040
people, put them all on the 
thread. 

559
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:45,960
Most I think will join you. 
They love you, that's number 

560
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,520
one. 
OK, you can do that right now. 

561
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,600
Stop right now listening to me 
or wait till I'm done here. 

562
00:41:52,600 --> 00:42:01,960
Next few minutes #2 today make 
your own handmade yard sign. 

563
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,840
That's right. 
You're going to publicly declare

564
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,200
you're for Harris the the usual 
ones the campaign puts out 

565
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,200
because the campaign's only two 
weeks old. 

566
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,520
They're not ready yet, but 
they're printing them now. 

567
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,040
They say they'll be ready by mid
to late August here. 

568
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,680
We can't wait. 
That's why you need to do one. 

569
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,200
You know, you need to get out a 
piece of cardboard and some 

570
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,560
magic markers. 
You're doing this because you're

571
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,920
making the campaign yours now. 
It's not just Vice President 

572
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:42,760
Harris's or the party apparatus.
It's you and me. 

573
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:45,200
You and me are going to make 
this happen. 

574
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:51,880
You and me and a few million 
other Americans who are going to

575
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:56,600
work their butts off. 
Make this yard sign, make it 

576
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,720
festive, make it happy. 
Then go out and put it on your 

577
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:02,840
front lawn. 
Or, or if you live in an 

578
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,760
apartment building, put it in 
your apartment window. 

579
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,800
Make a little ceremony out of 
it. 

580
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,400
You know, take the sign out in 
front of your house, bring your 

581
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,640
family out, invite a couple 
neighbors, bring out your cats. 

582
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,640
There's an unveiling ceremony 
taking place. 

583
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,520
Bring out a boom box. 
Put on some Beyoncé or 

584
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,920
Springsteen or whatever 
appropriate music you think for 

585
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,920
the occasion. 
Because of what you're doing, 

586
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:33,440
you're saving your democracy on 
your street, the very St. you 

587
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,800
live on. 
And as soon as people in the 

588
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,480
neighborhood start to see this, 
you're going to find out friends

589
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,280
you you didn't know you had. 
Will it upset a few people? 

590
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:43,320
Yes. 
That's OK. 

591
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:44,440
You're not. 
You're not. 

592
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,760
You don't have an angry sign. 
You've seen the Trump signs as 

593
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,840
you've gone down the road, 
right? 

594
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:54,440
Take America back. 
Make America great. 

595
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,320
Make America great again and 
again and again and again. 

596
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:07,680
Big flags, angry flags, using 
our American flag as a, as a way

597
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,840
to be angry. 
No, that's not you. 

598
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,960
You're going to put it out 
there. 

599
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:14,680
People are going to love you for
it. 

600
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,680
And as soon as we get some 
bumper stickers, you're going to

601
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,760
get a bumper sticker on your 
laptop and your car and your 

602
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,320
backpack because we have no time
to lose. 

603
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:28,720
OK, so number one, right, first 
thing you're going to do is 

604
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:32,000
write to your 20 friends and 
family and tell them we're all 

605
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,280
in for Harris and we all need to
get to work right now and sign 

606
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,600
up for this thing with Michael 
Moore because he's going to be 

607
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,600
sending us things for the 
campaign tool kit here. 

608
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,000
Number two, you're going to go 
make a yard sign with your kids 

609
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,600
right now or make it by 
yourself. 

610
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,680
You know, I've I've already made
mine. 

611
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:56,480
It's pretty bad. 
The nuns gave me AD in art. 

612
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,440
Unfair, I thought every year I 
thought unfair. 

613
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,920
But that's OK. 
They were good to me in many 

614
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:11,000
other ways. 
That's number 2, the yard sign 

615
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:18,720
#3 you need to find out where 
the office is in your town, your

616
00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:22,880
neighborhood, for the local 
Democrats, the local Democratic 

617
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,360
organization. 
Find out where that is. 

618
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,080
You probably can find it, Google
it. 

619
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,840
And you need to go there today. 
Even if you don't have the time,

620
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,440
just at least stop by there, 
pull up, pull in, walk into the 

621
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:43,760
place, and announce yourself. 
There won't be trumpets or 

622
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,760
anything. 
Just so when you announce 

623
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,960
yourself, you know, don't do it 
like you're, you know, Prince 

624
00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:52,040
William or King Charles. 
You need to walk into that 

625
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,160
office and just say put me to 
work. 

626
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:58,800
Now. 
Don't be too disappointed if 

627
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,120
they look at you like, who is 
this crazy person? 

628
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:04,480
What are you talking about? 
Put you to work. 

629
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,120
We don't even know what we're 
doing here yet. 

630
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,280
That's OK. 
It's all early. 

631
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:14,160
All right. 
But don't wait for them to say 

632
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,840
anything. 
Just go pick up a broom. 

633
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,560
There's a broom over there in 
the corner. 

634
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,080
Grab the broom. 
Start sweep, sweeping the place.

635
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,720
Offer to make some calls. 
Offer to make some coffee, make 

636
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:28,440
more yard signs. 
You already started that an hour

637
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,160
ago. 
You're a pro at it now. 

638
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,320
I mean, trust me, my friends, 
just the doing the physical act 

639
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,400
of anything, something, 
whatever, it will feel 

640
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:44,920
exhilarating to you. 
Especially because you know that

641
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,440
millions of others across the 
country right now are doing the 

642
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:52,560
same thing. 
Everybody is off the bench, 

643
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:59,280
everybody in the pool, right? 
That's what it's been like for 

644
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,600
two weeks and now you're in the 
pool. 

645
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:10,240
Those are the three things. 
Write a note to 20 people, get 

646
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:11,720
the get them to start a thread 
with you. 

647
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,400
Get them to sign up here on the 
my e-mail list here. 

648
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,440
It's for all free. 
So they get all the notices you 

649
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,960
get. 
Then make your handmade yard 

650
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:25,080
sign and plant it in your lawn 
or put it in your apartment 

651
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:28,320
window. 
Find out where your local 

652
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,440
Democratic storefront, offices, 
whatever. 

653
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,520
Go there. 
If it's closed, leave a note on 

654
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,040
the door. 
Call me. 

655
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:43,040
I came to work. 
That's it. 

656
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,840
That's not a lot. 
All of us have the time to do 

657
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,920
that. 
I did it yesterday, you do it 

658
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,760
today. 
If you're listening to this 

659
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,360
later in the day here, then, 
then do it tomorrow. 

660
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,120
But you can write the note to 
the 20 people no matter what 

661
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:10,760
time it is. 
That's so anyways, those three 

662
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,880
things, that's step one, going 
public. 

663
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:22,000
Here's Step 2. 
You plus three makes America 

664
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,120
free. 
My friends. 

665
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,680
Let's just be honest. 
The only way we will overcome 

666
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,600
the 10s of millions of 
Trumpsters who are definitely 

667
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:39,560
going to show up and vote is for
every single one of us to get 

668
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,000
three other people to vote with 
us. 

669
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,320
Whether it's going that day to 
the polls in person with them, 

670
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,400
whether it's going over to their
home and helping them fill out 

671
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,600
their absentee ballot. 
Whether it's getting them an 

672
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:00,760
absentee ballot, whether it's 
going with them to put it in the

673
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,800
drop box. 
You know, whatever it takes. 

674
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,560
Think of three people. 
This could even be a relative 

675
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:12,440
that lives 2000 miles away. 
You guys are going to be in 

676
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,320
touch now. 
You're going to have your own 

677
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,640
kind of fall relationship here 
with each other in a way you 

678
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,640
haven't done that before. 
Talking about this great day 

679
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:26,480
that this is all leading to. 
And I'll the two of you and, and

680
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:32,600
two others, two other people 
that you've identified that are 

681
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:37,680
going to vote, that will make 
your vote, your one vote count 

682
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:42,920
is 4 in a legal way, not the way
that Trumpsers talk about, but 

683
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,680
just because you, you identified
people. 

684
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,800
And, and here's the the thing 
here, when you do this, we're 

685
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,720
talking about not necessarily 
getting strangers to do this. 

686
00:49:53,720 --> 00:50:00,640
That's hard. 
The priority is to identify 

687
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,800
friends, Co workers, classmates,
neighbors or family members who 

688
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,920
maybe, maybe it's likely they're
probably not going to vote. 

689
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,400
Think of the people you know in 
your life that are non voters. 

690
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:16,280
By the way, often times that's 
the majority of the country. 

691
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,640
So it's not hard to find non 
voters. 

692
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,960
You want to identify those non 
voters in your life. 

693
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,120
But the ones who have the good 
heart, the ones that, you know, 

694
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:32,720
if they did vote, of course 
they'd vote for the things that 

695
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,800
Kamala Harris and you and I 
believe in. 

696
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,160
You obviously don't want to go 
and convince Trumpsters and your

697
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,880
family to to vote. 
They already know what to do. 

698
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:44,880
They're already angry enough and
they don't want to talk to you 

699
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,480
anyways. 
OK, so, so that's the key is 

700
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:55,160
identify people that you think 
probably won't vote, but you're 

701
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:59,280
going to see to it that they do 
by being a loving friend, 

702
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,120
relative, neighbor, etcetera. 
Because I want to, I want to, I 

703
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,400
want to introduce a mantra here 
to this tool kit. 

704
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:16,480
And it goes like this. 
If you vote by yourself, in 

705
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,840
other words, it's just you 
you're thinking about, It's just

706
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,720
you alone filling out the 
ballot, going to the polls, just

707
00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:29,480
whatever. 
If you vote by yourself, we will

708
00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:33,720
lose. 
I mean, let's face it, we're 

709
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:36,720
behind the 8 ball here. 
We've got a candidate that's two

710
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:43,480
weeks old to pull this off. 
We need, we need to have as much

711
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,640
cushion, as much support as 
possible. 

712
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,920
That's why I can't just be about
you. 

713
00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:58,040
Well, I voted, So what? 
We still lost by a million and a

714
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,440
half votes. 
You needed to bring three other 

715
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,000
people with you to the polls. 
You needed to convince them 

716
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,920
across the country where they 
live to do what you're doing 

717
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:15,400
when you're doing it. 
That's the key, my friends. 

718
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,680
And I think what I'd usually do 
is I'll, I'll make up a list of 

719
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:25,320
six people that fit this bill, 
good people that I know that 

720
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,400
maybe probably aren't planning 
to vote. 

721
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:29,880
Of course, that'd be the first 
thing I asked them. 

722
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,960
You know, are you guys planning 
to vote this year? 

723
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,360
I know it's kind of a crazy 
year. 

724
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:36,720
And, you know, don't, don't 
sound, you know, judgmental or 

725
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:37,920
threatening or whatever. 
Just. 

726
00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:40,680
And some of them will tell you, 
oh, hell yeah, I'm voting. 

727
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,200
Well, I really hope it's it's 
voting for Vice President 

728
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,560
Harris. 
You know, they might go. 

729
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:53,040
Hell no, I'm not voting for her.
I heard she wasn't even born 

730
00:52:53,040 --> 00:53:00,880
here. 
I'm not laughing, but I think 

731
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,240
mostly you're going to hear 
Well, yeah, I usually don't 

732
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:06,920
vote, though. 
I wasn't going to vote this 

733
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,080
year. 
Well, that should be music to 

734
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:13,600
your ears because all you've got
to do now of these six is just 

735
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:18,840
convince three of them. 
Take them, help them fill out 

736
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,480
that ballot, take them to the 
polls. 

737
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,640
Make a make a day out of it. 
Make a lunch out of it. 

738
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:30,840
Hey, on Election Day, how about 
you and I, we'll go vote on my 

739
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:32,720
my precincts on the other side 
of town. 

740
00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:34,240
OK, I'll come. 
I'll. 

741
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:35,840
I'll vote. 
And then I'll go with you to 

742
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:37,360
vote at your precinct and let's 
go. 

743
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,040
Let's go. 
Let's go grab lunch. 

744
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,360
Do something to make it not feel
so cold and harsh. 

745
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:53,280
Let them see how much you care 
about this country and how much 

746
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,120
you care about them and their 
livelihood. 

747
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:01,640
I'm basically asking you to 
become their voting mentor, to 

748
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,160
be their emotional support 
citizen. 

749
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,280
What do they call that when you,
the people that need to bring a 

750
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:14,480
dog on the plane, emotional 
support pet, something like that

751
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:20,480
animal. 
We'll let you, except you're the

752
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,520
human form of that. 
You're going to be this this 

753
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,320
voter, maybe even a new voter, 
their emotional support citizen,

754
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:31,200
or think of yourself as their 
democracy doula. 

755
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,160
You all know what a doula is, 
right? 

756
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,080
I'll wait, Wait. 
Look it up. 

757
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:46,240
It's not, it's not a midwife, 
not a doctor, but it's that that

758
00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:51,840
little extra help would be nice 
to have if you're having a baby,

759
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:58,520
you know what I'm saying? 
Everybody knows you, everybody, 

760
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,040
everybody would like a little 
extra help with anything. 

761
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,400
Be their doula. 
Voting this year, my friends. 

762
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:19,160
Must be a group activity. 
So it's each of us +3 that we're

763
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,320
going to get to vote. 
That's Step 2. 

764
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:31,360
Step three-step three is, again,
this is also just kind of a kind

765
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,960
of a psychological thing. 
You need to know that you are 

766
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,920
not alone. 
And as bad as these Trump years 

767
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:48,080
have felt, as bad as this war 
has felt, this cannot defeat us.

768
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,040
We have to pull ourselves out of
our despair. 

769
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:58,040
We have a chance with Kamala 
Harris and we need to join in 

770
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:01,560
community with each other. 
It's a mass community though, my

771
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,520
friends of millions, and we need
to do that. 

772
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,760
That's step three. 
And you need to decide to do it 

773
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,240
today. 
You need to. 

774
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,720
You need, whether it's signing 
up for something or joining 

775
00:56:11,720 --> 00:56:17,680
something or being with other 
humans, you can't do this alone.

776
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,080
Neither can I. 
We're all in this together. 

777
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,760
We sink or swim together. 
I'd rather not sink. 

778
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,760
I'd rather swim. 
So start by, if you're not 

779
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,040
signed up for me with me here, 
sign up. 

780
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,080
Just hit the subscribe button on
this thing. 

781
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,080
It's free. 
You know, they might, some 

782
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,800
prompts may come up or whatever,
just it's free. 

783
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:43,320
Just hit the free part and I'll 
send you these notices. 

784
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:45,640
I'll let you know what we're all
doing. 

785
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,480
I'll give you examples, ideas 
other people are doing in their 

786
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:50,720
small towns or neighborhoods 
across the country. 

787
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:57,080
So sign up here and make and 
sign up with the local Dems. 

788
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:00,960
You know they're, they're giving
it their best shot. 

789
00:57:02,240 --> 00:57:08,840
They could use your help, your 
expertise, your ideas, or 

790
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,520
connect with a student group. 
If you're a student on campus, 

791
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,680
that's easy. 
You know where they're at. 

792
00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:15,720
You get tables all over the 
place. 

793
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,520
Join a women's group that meets 
at the local bookstore once a 

794
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,440
month. 
Once a week, there's a peace 

795
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:28,320
group that meets at your church.
If you're, you know, going to 

796
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,480
that, the kind of church where 
people are going to vote for the

797
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:37,920
first woman president, go to the
next meeting at your union hall.

798
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,640
They're talking about this. 
Maybe there's a local meet up 

799
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:46,280
happening around Harris at a bar
or a restaurant or someplace a 

800
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,400
cafe. 
Go online, find this out. 

801
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,200
There's a gathering going down 
right on right now in some park 

802
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,600
where people are sitting around 
talking about what they can do 

803
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,920
to help Vice President Harris to
become the president. 

804
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,120
You've got a date scheduled for 
tonight. 

805
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,040
You got an online date. 
You haven't met this person yet.

806
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:12,680
What better time than the first 
date to to talk about this? 

807
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,880
I mean that way too, you'll know
whether there should be a second

808
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,240
date. 
Listen, my friends, I'm telling 

809
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:24,480
you, unless you live in Montana 
or an island off Maine, you are 

810
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:28,880
potentially less than a mile or 
two right now from some group of

811
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,720
people, maybe just a few people 
who are sitting around 

812
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,280
struggling with how to defeat 
Donald Trump. 

813
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:39,200
Go online and find them. 
And if you can't find them, then

814
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,920
just call one friend of yours 
and one sibling. 

815
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:44,920
That's it. 
You're going to start your group

816
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,800
is going to start with three 
people, a sibling and a friend 

817
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,360
and tell them that let's, let's 
start, let's start the group, 

818
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:57,040
you know, and, and, and you 
could be the, the group leader 

819
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:00,160
for now. 
Why not do this? 

820
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:05,040
Oh, I know what you're thinking.
Oh, they're going to say who put

821
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:12,440
you in charge? 
Tell them I did tell them. 

822
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,360
Well, you know, he, he seems to 
know a few things. 

823
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:22,600
He's an Eagle Scout. 
He said he was former Davison 

824
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:29,200
Index paperboy of the year. 
He's got an Oscar that gives 

825
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,080
him. 
I know that gives him special 

826
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:34,320
powers. 
I know it because he's, he was 

827
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,480
bragging about it. 
He has special powers in 103 

828
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,280
countries around the world just 
by being an Oscar winner and 

829
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:45,920
having that gold statue there in
front of him constantly. 

830
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,680
Well, they're only telling you 
the truth. 

831
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:58,160
So therefore, to all of you who 
are listening, I anoint each and

832
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,200
everyone of you as a Harris 
campaign leader. 

833
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,880
And or block captain. 
That's right, I'm talking. 

834
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:11,360
I'm talking to you Marianne. 
You live in the 300 block of Oak

835
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:15,720
St. in Oshkosh, WI. 
You are now Block captain. 

836
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,720
If you find out they've already 
got a block captain, ask to be 

837
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,960
the Co captain. 
And by the way, congratulations 

838
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:30,720
for this appointment. 
Block captain, campaign leader, 

839
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:34,360
wherever you live, maybe you're 
in an apartment building. 

840
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,840
Just be the just be the the, the
floor captain. 

841
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,000
You live on the 7th floor of 
your apartment building. 

842
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:49,440
You're the 7th floor captain 
again. 

843
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:53,880
Remind them why you have this 
authority and how you attained 

844
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:57,640
it. 
And then serve your people well.

845
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:04,320
Be generous in spirit and please
do not hold mind numbing, 

846
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:07,760
suffocating meetings. 
Too many meetings is why people 

847
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:13,160
quit groups. 
You need action activities only.

848
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:19,320
Don't allow people to get 
involved in all the nonsensical 

849
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:23,320
talk about things that have 
nothing to do with defeating 

850
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,760
Donald Trump. 
We want no drama Kamala. 

851
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:32,400
No drama, Kamala, if you need to
look that up, look up no drama 

852
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,360
Obama. 
That's how they ran that 

853
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,880
campaign. 
My friends, we are out of time. 

854
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:41,600
Out of time and that's why I'm 
going to call an end to this. 

855
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,760
That's it for today. 
You've got the three steps here.

856
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,120
I'll just do a quick recap. 
Step one, get your head straight

857
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:53,760
and get your game face on and 
remind yourself we are the 

858
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:58,840
majority. 
And in doing that, it means that

859
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:02,040
you're going to go public now to
inspire others. 

860
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,280
You're going to make a yard sign
and put it in your yard, and 

861
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,120
you're going to go find the 
local storefront office of the 

862
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:13,920
Democrats in your neighborhood 
or your town and tell them to 

863
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:15,920
put you to work. 
That's it. 

864
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,760
That's step one. 
Step two, U + 3 makes America 

865
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,640
free. 
If you vote by yourself, we 

866
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,160
lose. 
You got to get three other 

867
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:29,200
people that you're going to 
guarantee to us to get them to 

868
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,760
vote. 
You're going to find three like 

869
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:37,040
minded people who normally don't
vote and get them to vote on 

870
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,960
Election Day or before in early 
voting. 

871
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:46,920
And then Step 3, it's really 
just a reminder you are not 

872
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:50,080
alone. 
Join in community, join with 

873
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:52,480
others in your community, 
whatever that means to you. 

874
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,120
It's a mass movement of 
millions. 

875
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:59,200
You don't have to do this alone.
It'll be a lot more fun doing it

876
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:03,600
with other people and the what 
we're all going to feel on 

877
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:08,080
November 6th, the day after the 
election, the feeling will be so

878
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,080
profound, it'll be unlike 
anything we felt in our lives. 

879
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:20,440
So that's it for today. 
Coming up on the next few 

880
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:24,480
podcasts, I'll be talking about 
obviously other issues, but also

881
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:27,480
this. 
I'll be giving you new items for

882
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:33,760
your Election 2024 toolkit. 
We're going to talk about how to

883
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:38,040
do campaigning, how to do 
registration, how to make a 

884
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,440
difference when you live in a 
state where it looks like the 

885
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:45,240
vote is already been decided, 
how we can help out the swing 

886
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:48,440
states. 
All of this will be upcoming in 

887
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:52,680
future podcast. 
OK, well, I think just in 

888
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:57,440
closing, there's lots more going
on this week. 

889
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,040
There's no word as to who the 
vice presidential pick will be. 

890
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:08,160
And I, I posted a thing this 
weekend, just a note to the vice

891
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:13,680
president and her campaign that 
we're sure that whoever it is 

892
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:18,360
will be a good pick, that she's 
a good person. 

893
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:22,440
She knows what to do. 
She's been there herself. 

894
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:30,360
And you know, of the ones that 
I've seen mentioned, I think 

895
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:36,200
there's four of them. 
Probably if I were picking, 

896
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,080
that's who I would pick. 
But I'm not picking because I'm 

897
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:39,880
not running for president of the
United States. 

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01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:44,160
So I don't really get a say in 
this, but but there are good 

899
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:53,880
people running for this endeavor
and and the the, the one or two,

900
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,600
Well, actually one of you isn't 
that good. 

901
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:02,040
I've already talked about you 
before on my podcast and on TV 

902
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:06,600
and you know who you are. 
And I hope it's not you, but you

903
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:12,040
know, I don't get a say in this.
So all I care about is to hear 

904
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,440
the words. 
President Harris on January 20th

905
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:21,640
of the new year here. 
So, so we'll hope for the best 

906
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:25,760
here in the next couple of days.
And then I see that she's going 

907
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:29,520
to the key swing states here 
this week. 

908
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:32,680
So that's good. 
She'll be in Michigan and 

909
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:37,520
Wisconsin already ahead of a 
prior Democratic candidate that 

910
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:41,160
refused to visit Michigan and 
Wisconsin and lost. 

911
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:47,280
So Kamala Harris will be in 
those two States and in 

912
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:52,640
Pennsylvania and Arizona and 
Georgia and North Carolina. 

913
01:05:55,400 --> 01:06:00,440
So looks good, looks good, 
sounds good, Looking forward to 

914
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:04,040
it. 
Donald Trump, as we've seen as 

915
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:08,600
chickened out on the scheduled 
debate for September 10th on 

916
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,360
ABC. 
He says he's already made his 

917
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:16,120
own deal with Fox and she's 
welcome to come on Fox with him 

918
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:22,320
at some arena. 
So we'll see what happens. 

919
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,400
The I don't just for pure 
entertainment. 

920
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:33,200
We'd love to see her debate him.
Debate is probably too polite of

921
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,840
a word. 
So. 

922
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,040
So we'll see what happens, what 
happens with that. 

923
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:44,480
And OK, well, then we got more 
JD Vance coming our way this 

924
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:45,840
week. 
I have no clue what that's going

925
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:51,600
to be, but he already, he 
already did his number with the 

926
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:56,800
cat ladies and so I can only 
imagine what group of people are

927
01:06:56,800 --> 01:07:00,120
in store for his vitriol this 
week. 

928
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,000
So. 
So yes, it will prove, I'm sure 

929
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:09,320
to be another crazy insane week.
Wednesday will be 10 months of 

930
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:15,280
the massacre of Israeli citizens
in the South of Israel near the 

931
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:23,200
Gazan border, October 7th, 2023.
So I might have a few things I 

932
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,720
want to say about that. 
So lots going on. 

933
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:30,600
Stay tuned here. 
Look for the podcast. 

934
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:35,320
Look forward to writing more on 
my sub stack, my column, my my 

935
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:37,960
essays that I write. 
I've got a couple of good 

936
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:41,080
thoughts and I guess maybe I'll 
close on that. 

937
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:45,920
A good thought I will send out 
to President Jimmy Carter. 

938
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:51,240
Yesterday, his family said that 
he's actually doing better. 

939
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:54,360
He's in Hospice. 
He's been in Hospice for a 

940
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:58,400
better part of the year. 
Nobody thought he was going to 

941
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:00,640
last this long. 
The doctors didn't. 

942
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:05,880
He's still alert. 
He's still present. 

943
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:12,280
He's the family is actually, you
can tell, very happy that he's 

944
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:14,480
still with us and still with 
them. 

945
01:08:16,399 --> 01:08:20,640
And he wanted them to convey 
something to the rest of us 

946
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:26,160
yesterday. 
And that was he's going to turn 

947
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:34,160
100 on September 13th next month
and he's going to have a 

948
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:41,160
birthday party in Atlanta. 
Lots of different singers, 

949
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:46,359
musicians, others are showing up
for it, he says. 

950
01:08:46,359 --> 01:08:51,600
But the main reason he wants to 
live to September, to stay 

951
01:08:51,600 --> 01:09:00,000
alive, to hit 100, is because he
doesn't want to leave us before 

952
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:08,279
he gets to vote. 
Can't believe that it's possible

953
01:09:08,279 --> 01:09:11,680
this is what he's saying, that 
he's going to maybe actually, 

954
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:16,720
possibly live, not just to see 
the first woman as president of 

955
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:18,840
the United States, but to 
actually vote for her. 

956
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:25,720
He wants to vote and he wants to
vote for this woman who he has 

957
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:30,160
enormous respect and love for, 
Kamala Harris. 

958
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:35,880
And I'm not sure exactly when 
early voting begins in Georgia. 

959
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,399
Probably like the rest of the 
country, it's going to start 

960
01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:41,120
sometime near the end of 
September, beginning of October.

961
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:49,960
And he I, I suicide sounded like
he was just going to refuse to 

962
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:55,000
pass away until he got his last 
vote in. 

963
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:06,440
And this is who he is, and this 
is who we know who he is to the 

964
01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:16,160
very end. 
Happy early birthday, President 

965
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:20,800
Carter. 
Thank you for everything. 

966
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,040
Thank you for the friendship 
that you've shown me in the 

967
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,960
past. 
Thank you for everything you've 

968
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:34,400
done for the people in this 
world who maybe don't have 

969
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:36,400
everything they probably should 
have. 

970
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:40,640
Thank you for building their 
homes. 

971
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:43,120
Thank you for monitoring their 
elections. 

972
01:10:46,480 --> 01:10:51,000
Thank you for your wonderful 
wife who's just left us, Roslyn,

973
01:10:54,120 --> 01:11:01,680
and your great kids. 
All of you, we'll leave on that.

974
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:10,880
Thanks again to my executive 
producer, editor Angelo Vargos. 

975
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:17,640
Thank you to my other editors 
and researchers and people that 

976
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,880
helped me put this together, 
David Chancula, Donald 

977
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:24,640
Borenstein and others. 
Thank you, all of you, and thank

978
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:29,240
you for listening to this today 
here on my podcast. 

979
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:34,760
This is Michael Moore. 
Be well and get off the bench. 

980
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:36,240
Take care.