Hello everyone. This is Michael Moore.
This is my podcast. Welcome.
Welcome once again the election for President of the United
States and all the other at least every seat in the House of
Representatives and a third of the seats in the Senate.
That election is exactly 3 months, three months from right
now. That's it.
That's what we've got, three months, which in weeks because a
couple of these months are 31 day months.
I don't think I need to explain this to you, but you know, the
nuns are still with me. So this is how I was trained.
But basically it's 14 weeks from today, tomorrow.
So tomorrow, Tuesday obviously is the Election Day, Tuesday,
November 5th. This is Monday, August 4th, 14
weeks from tomorrow. Wow, we can do this.
I mean, think about this. I mean, this is, I know it's
it's like we just got the candidate 14 days ago yesterday
and already so much is emotion. So many things have happened, so
much money has been raised by small donations.
So many hundreds of thousands have volunteered to be
volunteers, to knock on doors, to make calls, to do whatever
needs to be done to end the madness of Donald Trump, have
him out of our lives once and for all.
Three months from today is our chance to do that.
I was on the RE Melbourne last week and just, you know, trying
to figure out Trump and the things he was saying and the
things that he did when he went to the convention with black
journalists and, and those 3 black women.
Oh my God, it was, if you haven't seen this, I've got to
post this. I, I want to, I want you to
watch the whole thing. It's not that long.
It's 34 minutes of Trump meeting his inquisition, 3 smart pointed
black black women. It's like the last play.
He must have walked on that stage and thought he was in the
7th, 8th and 9th ring of hell. And they didn't waste any time.
Rachel Scott from ABC just went right at him with, guess what?
Journalism, actual questions. And he didn't know what to do.
And, and she, she went down the whole list of his history as a
racist, his birther stuff with Obama, the stuff when he was in
his 20s with his dad, just one thing after another.
And, and, and, and his first response to her was that he'd
never heard a first question from a journalist, as nasty and
as rude as that was. And of course he loves, you
know, his, his one of his narrative themes in his through
his life is that there are two genders, men, of course, and
nasty women. He just thought he couldn't get
over how nasty that she was by asking a very pertinent
journalistic question. Why are you here considering you
have a 50 year history of one racist remark after another and
not just remarks actions paying for a full page ads in the New
York newspaper calling for the execution of four young black
men who are all innocent who committed no crime but were
charged with the assault and rape of a white woman jogger in
Central Park. Not only charged lies all this
so much about I mean if watch Ava Du Vernay's limited series
on it if you really want to see this really played out.
It's not a documentary, but it's a fact based drama on what these
four young men had to go through and how their lives were ruined
and how they were all sent to prison for varying amounts of
time. If I remember correctly, from
like a decade to I think the one that was in there the longest
might have been up to 1417 years for being innocent, completely
innocent. Well, they caught the guy, you
know, And of course they didn't want to.
They didn't want to undo their sentences.
The New York prosecutor, the New York City police.
No, no, no. But they got out.
They got out. They got some renumeration for
it. They didn't get their lives
back. But one of them last year got
elected to the New York City Council, which was such a cool
moment to see him sworn in as, as the person who was going to
make the laws and and be in charge.
One of the many people who sit on the New York City Council in
charge of the city. I don't think that still doesn't
make up for what happened, but damn it.
But Trump, she asked him that question and, and he was just
flabbergasted. He couldn't believe it.
And I'm, I'm sure he, I don't know, maybe I'm not sure, but I
was shocked he didn't just get up and walk out because they
also announced that Politi fact during the interview with him on
the stage online. Politi fact was going to be live
fact checking in the moment. Every time he said something,
they would instantly Fact Check it and put it up on the screen.
If you want to have that as one of the windows on your screen to
tell you whether what what he said just said was true or not,
which is what you would. That's the only way you could
ever allow him on the airwaves, unless that that bonus screen
was up there saying lie, lie. Here's the facts.
Here's the truth. Half lie.
Yeah, half lie. I know.
Hey. Well, you know, he's human.
You know, he can mess up sometimes and tell 1/2 truth,
which is still a lie. Anyways, I'll play.
I'll. I'll send this out to you here
sometime in the next few days this week or whatever 'cause
it's powerful. Powerful.
Powerful and every American citizen, every voter and all of
you listening throughout the world, just if you really, I
know, I know, I know what you already think about Trump, but
where do you, where do you hear this?
So it's been one of those weeks. It's been one of those two weeks
since the two weeks ago when Kamala Harris was named by Biden
as her successor. It's not quite the actual legal
way we do things here, but I don't hear anybody complaining
right now because ever all those pundits, all those Democratic
Party pundits, not all of them, though, thank God for Nancy
Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries because they knew.
They knew what America saw. You can't Unsee what we all saw
on the debate on June 27th. And, and it was just stunning
how many people that we like who sit in Congress, who write for
our papers, tried to tell us that what we saw didn't happen.
There's nothing wrong with Biden.
Hey, just getting old. We're all getting old.
Oh, my God. Now, after two weeks of Kamala
Harris, Can you imagine? Have we not fixed this?
Thank you everybody who supported me and saying, you
know, you know, the podcast I put out a couple days there
after the debate and what I wrote online was was done with
love and concern and care for him as a human being, as an
elderly person. I just thought it was awful that
he was made to quad on that stage.
Where are his people who should have prevented that to make him
suffer out there like that for 90, 94 minutes?
It's just I couldn't believe it. This is why you've This is why
you've got people that love you, people that are looking out for
you. And he was just left out there,
sent out there, left out there. And then they tell us the next
day, oh, he had a cold. Wow, stunning, wasn't it?
Just a reminder that even the good people on our side
sometimes have a hard time just saying the truth because
sometimes the truth is difficult.
Sometimes it's the awful truth. And in those moments, that's
when we discover who we really are.
Are we going to really be honest with ourselves and everybody
else and say what just happened? And as the days went on and he
and Joe Biden did other interviews and he called
Zelensky the president, the president of Ukraine referred to
him as President Putin. He referred to Vice President
Harris as Vice President Trump. You, I don't need to go over all
this with you. It's look, it's fixed.
And, and to Biden's credit, men, you know what we're talking
about here. Our way is to dig in, dig in, be
intractable, unmovable. He didn't do that.
He tried to, he tried to dig in. And I think the good that we
know about him, that good part, couldn't pull it off, thank God.
And of course, as you know, because you've been listening to
me now for 10 months and you've been reading my writings about
this and you've seen me on television.
The sad, sad part, just as they were talking last week about the
the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act 50 years ago
this past month, Lyndon Johnson. Lyndon Johnson picked up all of
the civil rights stuff that John F Kennedy wanted to do when he
died the previous year and got it all passed.
This Texan, former Texan senator, vice president to
Kennedy, got all the civil rights legislation passed that
Kennedy had on the table. And yet that's not what we
remember Lyndon Johnson for, is it?
We remember him and his invasion of Vietnam lying him and his
people as Pentagon lying to us about being attacked by the
North Vietnamese. A fake incident in the Gulf of
Tonkin. A resolution passed in the
Senate the next day or two after the so-called event in the Gulf
of Tonkin and out of the 100 senators, 2 voted no against
having a War 2 Wayne Morse and Earnest Groening.
OK, so they were both Democrats. That means they were had to vote
against their Democratic president Lyndon Johnson and the
and their Democratic Senate. Wow.
I don't think we've actually, they've not ever really allowed
a real war resolution since that day with Congress for us to like
legally and officially go to war.
Ever since then, it's been all sort of police actions or
whatever the legal term is. I might be wrong, There might be
one or two, but I, I, I, I think they learned their lesson on
this day because they didn't even want two senators voting
against it. And as you've heard me say on
this podcast and in my writings and on TV, Biden's fatal flaw,
just like Lyndon Johnson when he started the Vietnam War that
killed at least 2 million Vietnamese, another million or
two of SE Asians. That's what we remember Lyndon
Johnson for and what Biden is going to be remembered for.
Not the infrastructure bill. Sorry.
It's going to be that he became the bank for Benjamin Netanyahu.
He funded an invasion not not a defense of Israel, which I think
probably most people listen to this.
Not opposed to protecting the lives of human beings, No.
Biden gave Netanyahu money beyond what we already give
them, billions more to fund his slaughter of the Palestinian
people in Gaza. At this count, 40,000 civilians
dead, so many children, so many elderly people.
Just awful. Not only the money, but gave
them more weapons, more bombs. Sending in another battleship
here tomorrow. It's not about defense, It's
offense and it's offensive. And again, I don't know what
happened with Biden. I'm just going to actually just
chalk it up to the fact that he's been in decline for the
better part of the last year. They hid it from us.
You've read the stories in the Times and the Washington Post
and elsewhere. They've hid this from us.
He didn't have a cabinet meeting for nine months.
They didn't want people to see his condition.
OK, I get it and I don't get it. But the, but the but the
president who back in the beginning of last September
refused by Netanyahu's request that while he's in the US for
the UN annual meeting, that he come down to DC and have a, a
grinning grip with Joe Biden in the White House.
And Biden said, no, I don't want him here.
He's, he's indicted on at least three felonies, bribery, fraud,
other things. No, I, I'm not, I don't want him
no meeting. I mean, he snubbed him and he
was all, all already, You know, Biden was paying attention to
how 10s of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Israelis were
demonstrating in the street against him.
People wanted him out of there. He was trying to wreck their
judicial system on and on. Not invited to the White House.
I I don't think that had happened.
Usually that's the routine. The Prime Minister of Israel
comes for UN week and then pops down to DC for a howdy high and
the photo op of letting people in Israel know that we haven't
given up on them. Biden refused him.
Just a little over a month later, you see a much diminished
Biden on a plane, getting off a plane in Israel to go there and
hug Benjamin Netanyahu and promise him the moon, whatever
he wanted, essentially a blank check.
He did warn him. He wasn't that far gone yet, but
he did warn him. Don't make our mistake.
He said that what we did after 911.
But and yeah, I was just laughing inside of himself with
with the admonition from Biden, Netanyahu was going to do
exactly what he wanted to do when he did it.
And that is Joe Biden's legacy too, in addition to all the
other good things we've talked about.
I mean, just the, just the fact that that the war on Gaza, on
the Palestinian people is funded and and is armed by you and us
through our Democratic president is already was already hurting
Biden with young people, with Arab Americans, with Jewish
Americans who believe in peace, with all the rest of us that
just were saddened by the response and the slaughter.
Saddened because we were already so sad already by the slaughter
of the Israelis there on October 7th and all.
How many of us right thinking in the days after that.
Please don't do what we did after 911, like Biden said.
He said do not let your rage get the best of you.
Well, we didn't follow that advice and neither did
Netanyahu. But he had a bigger plan.
He's had it for a long time. So, yeah, so part of This Is Us
thinking, how are we going to save the Democrats?
How are we going to stop Trump? So here we are two weeks in a
day past Kamala Harris being our candidate to run against and
defeat Donald Trump. And so I thought what would be a
good idea? I, I wanted to do this for some
time now. And so this will be the first of
a series of podcasts and, and sub stacks.
If you, if you read my printed column on my sub stack site,
which is at michaelmoore.com, very easy to find.
I, I, what I want to do is I want to, I want to give all of
you 2024 election tool kit. All right, I've been putting
this together. The things that each of us can
do, what we can do, things I can give you, the places I can send
you ideas that maybe aren't going to be discussed by the,
the local Democrats or whatever, or the pundits on TV.
Things that I've learned over the years that work in order to
get out the vote, in order to win elections that can't be won.
And I'm, you know, a couple years ago, if you remember, in
the 2022 midterm, we did this series called Blue Dots in a Red
Sea. It was a series to stop the
predicted red wave. Do you remember this?
We were told that the Republicans were going to kick
such ass in the midterms in 2022 that they might pick up at least
40 new seats in the United States House of Representatives.
Do you remember that? And I'm like, where are these
people? What moon are they on?
Where do they live? Not going to Republicans aren't
going to pick up anything. They're going to lose.
They're going to lose seats. And so I wrote to you and I came
on my podcast and I told you, this is again, you know, this is
me now talking. This is the one who told you
that Trump was going to be the president of the United States.
He was going to win the 2016 election.
I did not want to have to say that to you.
I took no joy in it, but I needed to warn you and warn the
country that she was going to lose.
As I said, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
I was laughed at. When I went on TV to say this, I
was booed on, on the Bill Maher show by the audience, not by
Bill, but by the audience and, and, and in the the morning of
the election in November of 2016.
That morning the New York Times on the front page had this
little like thermometer thing that said that Hillary, there is
an 85% chance that Hillary is going to win the presidency
today. 85% chance, only a 15% chance of Trump winning.
That was in the morning. By 2:24 AM later that night, we
had a new president and his name was Donald Trump.
Again, no joy in any of that. So when 2022 came around, and I
did this series on my podcast here telling you how we are not
going to have a red wave. The Republicans are not going to
take over even more than they have.
We're going to have the Senate back in our hands and, and we're
going to have the tightest House, the fewest number of
seats between US and the Republicans, like single digits.
That's how close. And that's what it ended up
being. And, and because of people
resigning and death and whatever, you know, pretty much
now on any given vote, we just need to convince 4 Republicans
out of 220, say to vote with us. And there are just enough
moderate, I don't want to say liberal, but moderate
Republicans or Republicans that are in districts that Biden won
by 10 to 20 percentage points that they're not going to get re
elected this year if they vote with the crazies, the MAGA heads
in Congress. And so that's why in part,
Biden's been able to get through a lot of bills, a lot of his
early bills got passed because the the Republicans were so
beaten down first by Biden's election itself and the and the
seats we picked up that election.
And then by the midterms, not being a red wave, being a nice
blue wall sometime, you know, many years ago, I was the
youngest person, I should say one of the youngest or a number
of 18 year olds elected that year.
And then I decided to run for the Board of Education where I
lived in Michigan. So I having served as an elected
official, having won an election, I had no business
winning, I had learned a lot of things in that election of, of
how to get elected. And so I thought what I should
be doing right now with this election is giving you some of
the things, some of those things that I learned, some I don't
know how many years ago it was. God, it feels like 50 years.
Is that possible? Jeez, no.
Yes. Wow.
OK, Well, you get my point. I have some experience with this
and I have some experience of being able to have my finger on
the pulse of what I think's going on in the country,
especially in middle America, especially in working class
America. That's how I grew up.
So. So this is what we're going to
do today. I have put together Mike's
Election 2024 campaign kit for you and we're not going to go
through it all today. I'm just going to give you the
maybe the first three things or so that we can all do and we
should do it and we should do it right now.
I mean, do it today if you can. If you can't do it today, do it
tomorrow. But but let's just get started.
These are not necessarily the things that that you know,
people are going to suggest that you do.
These are going to be the things that I've seen work.
They worked for me. I think they'll work for you
where you live. And then over the next, you
know, couple of weeks, I'll add to the kit.
I'll give you new things. Like especially I've got
something for those of you who live in a state where you're
thinking I have no real say in this election.
I already know how the state's going to go.
Everybody does. It's not true.
I mean, yeah, yes, it is certain.
Mississippi is going to go red, as will Alabama and New York and
California, Oregon, Illinois will be blue.
But there are things you can do from these other states, and I'm
going to give you some of those things that you can do.
And I want to tell you that those of you who live in 26
states, you border a swing state.
So right now they're saying there's like seven states that
are going to decide the election.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, same 3 from 2016.
And then Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, possibly New
Hampshire, possibly Virginia. But those of you who live in
those 26 states that are not swing states, the border a swing
state, I'm going to talk to you about what you can do as a
neighbor. I'm going to talk to you about a
little weekend family trip. Get in the car for an hour or
two or three and go where people can use your help desperately.
I'll talk about all this in the coming days and weeks of other
things we can and should be doing.
But today I, I want to just read to you some of the stuff I've
written up on my, on my campaign kit here, my tool kit for you.
All right, So I've been promising you this for a couple
of weeks now. A blueprint, a strategy that
beginning today, don't put this off, OK, My friends.
Beginning today, all of us working together, we can use
this blueprint and strategy to actually once and for all end
the career of a political arsonist, the man who attempted
to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States
of America. That's right, I'm talking about
the 34 time convicted felon, the self admitted sexual abuser, and
the one time Dean of Trump University, Donald J Trump.
And this is it. This, my friends, is how we do
it. We have 92 days, 92 days before
we can live in a better world. And today, what I'm going to do
is give you the first item to place in your 2024 election tool
kit. And this is how Trump will meet
his fate. You, me, this tool kit and
millions of Americans who will be engaged and unforgiving over
these next three months. And listen, although this tool
does have the blessing of many of my, you know, progressive
family around the country of activist writers, nonviolent
rebels, it has not been approved by the Democratic National
Committee, which is fine. I mean, I did run it by people
that you would respect in DC who we're happy to read my ideas
here. And all of them agreed that
nothing I'm suggesting to you in this podcast is wrong or
inappropriate. And in fact, I was told it was
actually better that we, I, you and me are doing this, doing our
own sort of rogue operation in some ways to some of us.
It's, well, it's what we've had to do in the past, saving the
Democrats from themselves, saving the party from itself.
So I was talking to one long time party stalwart in DC when I
was talking about this election toolkit here.
And he reminded me how that in the past, the public attitude of
just leave it to the Democrats was really not always the wisest
thing to do. This is a Democrat telling me
this, right? He said twice in just 16 years.
We won the popular vote in 2000 and 2016 but lost the election.
How do you pull that off? So he says to me, tell your
people on your podcast, don't just sit there and think down
here there's a bunch of Democratic Party geniuses who
are going to defeat Trump. We can't do that, certainly not
by ourselves. We need all the help we can get.
Wow. Well, I thought, point taken.
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So this is what I thought. We just have to, we just have to
do basically two things. One, we will all work to ensure
that Donald Trump is never president again.
And two, we will elect a strong Congress that will give
President Harris the Democratic majorities in the House and the
Senate that she needs in order to accomplish her and our
agenda. And by now I think she has given
enough speeches in the first couple weeks.
Got a pretty clear idea what that agenda is.
The restoration of full women's rights.
Protect all of our freedoms. Ensure healthcare, elder care
and child care for all. End all voter suppression and
undemocratic actions. Get the money out of politics.
Stop the slaughter in Palestine. Ceasefire immediately.
Reform the Supreme Court. Created an economic democracy
that allows the working class and the middle class to thrive.
Make the rich pay their taxes and save this beautiful planet.
So anyways, here's how my battle plan, how it works.
I'm going to give you 10 steps. We're going to do like 3 steps
today, please. You know, you can rewind this
and play it. You can.
There'll be a transcript of this.
Or actually, you could just read my written sub stack from a
couple of days ago because it's essentially very close to the
same thing here. And I'll, I'll, I'll put the
link of that here on the on my podcast page.
OK, so here you go. You ready everybody?
All right. And please share this with
family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, whatever.
Step number one. Step number one is get your head
straight, get your head screwed on straight, and get your game
face on because we will not win unless we understand and own
this one basic fact. We are the majority.
What? What?
I know we've been down for so long it's hard to actually
barely say that with a straight face.
We are the majority. Oh, yeah, yes, you can, my
friends. And I'm going to send you
something later this week where you'll have all the facts and
all the research that my team and I have been doing over the
last month so that you can say this proudly.
We are the majority. Not the Trumpsters, not the
Republicans, not the people who believe in all the things that
make life extremely difficult for a lot of our fellow
Americans. Who is America?
It's us. It's us, the people who believe
in the things that we believe in.
We are the majority, and who knows that better than we do the
other side, the Trumpsters MAGA nation knows that we're the
majority. They know the majority of
Americans don't agree with them. That's why.
That's why Trump is on his way to losing the popular vote again
for the third time. That's why they're all so angry
and so hateful and have no intention, no intention of
losing in November. So that's why our own heads, we
have to be in an all or nothing. We're in the game mode here.
All in all of us, we're going to set aside our criticisms and
complaints and and the fact that the world is not going to be the
way we would run it because we are not running.
And if we wanted the world to be exactly the way we'd like to see
it, maybe one of us should be running.
Bernie tried. There are people, good people,
in the wings, and maybe you're one of them.
But until that day happens, it's a race now between Kamala Harris
and Donald Trump. So no more talk, no more yakety
yak here, no more political rhetoric right now.
We right now have only three months from today before the
election. That means that we must take we,
all of us action every day. There's no way we're going to
pull this off unless we do that. So I want to give you 3 quick
things that you can do actually today.
All right, here's number one. Go public.
You.
Yeah, I'm talking to you. I know you're not a public
person, but you have a few people in your life, right?
You need to inspire them by proudly proclaiming that you're
voting for heiress. And if we all do this, it may
actually possibly save the country and change the world.
Again, it won't be the way you want it to be, but we're not
voting for you. So let's get this right.
Start it. So start by going public.
And by the way, here's how you do it.
You're online right now, right? Because you're listening to me.
Well, maybe you've got earbuds and you're on a walk.
OK, Well, when you get back home.
But if you're on a computer right now, if you're on your
phone listening to me, then I want to ask you to do something
right now. I would like you to just pause
this podcast and write a brief 20 word, 50 word, maybe 100 word
if you're like me, your own thing that you call, let's just
call it my declaration for President Kamala Harris.
That's it, just a note and you're going to send it to 20
friends and family members. You need to tell them why.
Why? You are probably not a political
person necessarily. You don't usually send emails or
texts like this. But today you've got to do it.
You need to tell them why it's a new day in America for you, Why
there's no more important job for any of us right now, from
now until November 5th, to stop Trump to elect the first woman
President of the United States. Enough is enough.
Make sure they feel that from you as you write these few
sentences. Let them know we are not going
back to the 1950s. Our daughters will have complete
control over their bodies and their lives.
People in their 40s must no longer believe they will never
own their own home. That is not the America I choose
to live in. Every American must have access
to the care they need without having to consider the cost of
it. Whether it's health care, dental
care, mental care, elder care, child care, we need to stop
living like this. We are out of time my friends.
Invite these good people in your life that you're going to send
this note to, to join you in this, in this mission between
now and November 5th. I mean, seriously.
And start a thread with them. Start a text thread with them
right away. You can even name it.
You can call it. We're for Kamala, our Kamala
Crusade. Hurry for Harris, whatever.
I mean, just make up your own thing or have no name to it at
all. Just start texting the the 20
people, put them all on the thread.
Most I think will join you. They love you, that's number
one. OK, you can do that right now.
Stop right now listening to me or wait till I'm done here.
Next few minutes #2 today make your own handmade yard sign.
That's right. You're going to publicly declare
you're for Harris the the usual ones the campaign puts out
because the campaign's only two weeks old.
They're not ready yet, but they're printing them now.
They say they'll be ready by mid to late August here.
We can't wait. That's why you need to do one.
You know, you need to get out a piece of cardboard and some
magic markers. You're doing this because you're
making the campaign yours now. It's not just Vice President
Harris's or the party apparatus. It's you and me.
You and me are going to make this happen.
You and me and a few million other Americans who are going to
work their butts off. Make this yard sign, make it
festive, make it happy. Then go out and put it on your
front lawn. Or, or if you live in an
apartment building, put it in your apartment window.
Make a little ceremony out of it.
You know, take the sign out in front of your house, bring your
family out, invite a couple neighbors, bring out your cats.
There's an unveiling ceremony taking place.
Bring out a boom box. Put on some Beyoncé or
Springsteen or whatever appropriate music you think for
the occasion. Because of what you're doing,
you're saving your democracy on your street, the very St. you
live on. And as soon as people in the
neighborhood start to see this, you're going to find out friends
you you didn't know you had. Will it upset a few people?
Yes. That's OK.
You're not. You're not.
You don't have an angry sign. You've seen the Trump signs as
you've gone down the road, right?
Take America back. Make America great.
Make America great again and again and again and again.
Big flags, angry flags, using our American flag as a, as a way
to be angry. No, that's not you.
You're going to put it out there.
People are going to love you for it.
And as soon as we get some bumper stickers, you're going to
get a bumper sticker on your laptop and your car and your
backpack because we have no time to lose.
OK, so number one, right, first thing you're going to do is
write to your 20 friends and family and tell them we're all
in for Harris and we all need to get to work right now and sign
up for this thing with Michael Moore because he's going to be
sending us things for the campaign tool kit here.
Number two, you're going to go make a yard sign with your kids
right now or make it by yourself.
You know, I've I've already made mine.
It's pretty bad. The nuns gave me AD in art.
Unfair, I thought every year I thought unfair.
But that's OK. They were good to me in many
other ways. That's number 2, the yard sign
#3 you need to find out where the office is in your town, your
neighborhood, for the local Democrats, the local Democratic
organization. Find out where that is.
You probably can find it, Google it.
And you need to go there today. Even if you don't have the time,
just at least stop by there, pull up, pull in, walk into the
place, and announce yourself. There won't be trumpets or
anything. Just so when you announce
yourself, you know, don't do it like you're, you know, Prince
William or King Charles. You need to walk into that
office and just say put me to work.
Now. Don't be too disappointed if
they look at you like, who is this crazy person?
What are you talking about? Put you to work.
We don't even know what we're doing here yet.
That's OK. It's all early.
All right. But don't wait for them to say
anything. Just go pick up a broom.
There's a broom over there in the corner.
Grab the broom. Start sweep, sweeping the place.
Offer to make some calls. Offer to make some coffee, make
more yard signs. You already started that an hour
ago. You're a pro at it now.
I mean, trust me, my friends, just the doing the physical act
of anything, something, whatever, it will feel
exhilarating to you. Especially because you know that
millions of others across the country right now are doing the
same thing. Everybody is off the bench,
everybody in the pool, right? That's what it's been like for
two weeks and now you're in the pool.
Those are the three things. Write a note to 20 people, get
the get them to start a thread with you.
Get them to sign up here on the my e-mail list here.
It's for all free. So they get all the notices you
get. Then make your handmade yard
sign and plant it in your lawn or put it in your apartment
window. Find out where your local
Democratic storefront, offices, whatever.
Go there. If it's closed, leave a note on
the door. Call me.
I came to work. That's it.
That's not a lot. All of us have the time to do
that. I did it yesterday, you do it
today. If you're listening to this
later in the day here, then, then do it tomorrow.
But you can write the note to the 20 people no matter what
time it is. That's so anyways, those three
things, that's step one, going public.
Here's Step 2. You plus three makes America
free. My friends.
Let's just be honest. The only way we will overcome
the 10s of millions of Trumpsters who are definitely
going to show up and vote is for every single one of us to get
three other people to vote with us.
Whether it's going that day to the polls in person with them,
whether it's going over to their home and helping them fill out
their absentee ballot. Whether it's getting them an
absentee ballot, whether it's going with them to put it in the
drop box. You know, whatever it takes.
Think of three people. This could even be a relative
that lives 2000 miles away. You guys are going to be in
touch now. You're going to have your own
kind of fall relationship here with each other in a way you
haven't done that before. Talking about this great day
that this is all leading to. And I'll the two of you and, and
two others, two other people that you've identified that are
going to vote, that will make your vote, your one vote count
is 4 in a legal way, not the way that Trumpsers talk about, but
just because you, you identified people.
And, and here's the the thing here, when you do this, we're
talking about not necessarily getting strangers to do this.
That's hard. The priority is to identify
friends, Co workers, classmates, neighbors or family members who
maybe, maybe it's likely they're probably not going to vote.
Think of the people you know in your life that are non voters.
By the way, often times that's the majority of the country.
So it's not hard to find non voters.
You want to identify those non voters in your life.
But the ones who have the good heart, the ones that, you know,
if they did vote, of course they'd vote for the things that
Kamala Harris and you and I believe in.
You obviously don't want to go and convince Trumpsters and your
family to to vote. They already know what to do.
They're already angry enough and they don't want to talk to you
anyways. OK, so, so that's the key is
identify people that you think probably won't vote, but you're
going to see to it that they do by being a loving friend,
relative, neighbor, etcetera. Because I want to, I want to, I
want to introduce a mantra here to this tool kit.
And it goes like this. If you vote by yourself, in
other words, it's just you you're thinking about, It's just
you alone filling out the ballot, going to the polls, just
whatever. If you vote by yourself, we will
lose. I mean, let's face it, we're
behind the 8 ball here. We've got a candidate that's two
weeks old to pull this off. We need, we need to have as much
cushion, as much support as possible.
That's why I can't just be about you.
Well, I voted, So what? We still lost by a million and a
half votes. You needed to bring three other
people with you to the polls. You needed to convince them
across the country where they live to do what you're doing
when you're doing it. That's the key, my friends.
And I think what I'd usually do is I'll, I'll make up a list of
six people that fit this bill, good people that I know that
maybe probably aren't planning to vote.
Of course, that'd be the first thing I asked them.
You know, are you guys planning to vote this year?
I know it's kind of a crazy year.
And, you know, don't, don't sound, you know, judgmental or
threatening or whatever. Just.
And some of them will tell you, oh, hell yeah, I'm voting.
Well, I really hope it's it's voting for Vice President
Harris. You know, they might go.
Hell no, I'm not voting for her. I heard she wasn't even born
here. I'm not laughing, but I think
mostly you're going to hear Well, yeah, I usually don't
vote, though. I wasn't going to vote this
year. Well, that should be music to
your ears because all you've got to do now of these six is just
convince three of them. Take them, help them fill out
that ballot, take them to the polls.
Make a make a day out of it. Make a lunch out of it.
Hey, on Election Day, how about you and I, we'll go vote on my
my precincts on the other side of town.
OK, I'll come. I'll.
I'll vote. And then I'll go with you to
vote at your precinct and let's go.
Let's go. Let's go grab lunch.
Do something to make it not feel so cold and harsh.
Let them see how much you care about this country and how much
you care about them and their livelihood.
I'm basically asking you to become their voting mentor, to
be their emotional support citizen.
What do they call that when you, the people that need to bring a
dog on the plane, emotional support pet, something like that
animal. We'll let you, except you're the
human form of that. You're going to be this this
voter, maybe even a new voter, their emotional support citizen,
or think of yourself as their democracy doula.
You all know what a doula is, right?
I'll wait, Wait. Look it up.
It's not, it's not a midwife, not a doctor, but it's that that
little extra help would be nice to have if you're having a baby,
you know what I'm saying? Everybody knows you, everybody,
everybody would like a little extra help with anything.
Be their doula. Voting this year, my friends.
Must be a group activity. So it's each of us +3 that we're
going to get to vote. That's Step 2.
Step three-step three is, again, this is also just kind of a kind
of a psychological thing. You need to know that you are
not alone. And as bad as these Trump years
have felt, as bad as this war has felt, this cannot defeat us.
We have to pull ourselves out of our despair.
We have a chance with Kamala Harris and we need to join in
community with each other. It's a mass community though, my
friends of millions, and we need to do that.
That's step three. And you need to decide to do it
today. You need to.
You need, whether it's signing up for something or joining
something or being with other humans, you can't do this alone.
Neither can I. We're all in this together.
We sink or swim together. I'd rather not sink.
I'd rather swim. So start by, if you're not
signed up for me with me here, sign up.
Just hit the subscribe button on this thing.
It's free. You know, they might, some
prompts may come up or whatever, just it's free.
Just hit the free part and I'll send you these notices.
I'll let you know what we're all doing.
I'll give you examples, ideas other people are doing in their
small towns or neighborhoods across the country.
So sign up here and make and sign up with the local Dems.
You know they're, they're giving it their best shot.
They could use your help, your expertise, your ideas, or
connect with a student group. If you're a student on campus,
that's easy. You know where they're at.
You get tables all over the place.
Join a women's group that meets at the local bookstore once a
month. Once a week, there's a peace
group that meets at your church. If you're, you know, going to
that, the kind of church where people are going to vote for the
first woman president, go to the next meeting at your union hall.
They're talking about this. Maybe there's a local meet up
happening around Harris at a bar or a restaurant or someplace a
cafe. Go online, find this out.
There's a gathering going down right on right now in some park
where people are sitting around talking about what they can do
to help Vice President Harris to become the president.
You've got a date scheduled for tonight.
You got an online date. You haven't met this person yet.
What better time than the first date to to talk about this?
I mean that way too, you'll know whether there should be a second
date. Listen, my friends, I'm telling
you, unless you live in Montana or an island off Maine, you are
potentially less than a mile or two right now from some group of
people, maybe just a few people who are sitting around
struggling with how to defeat Donald Trump.
Go online and find them. And if you can't find them, then
just call one friend of yours and one sibling.
That's it. You're going to start your group
is going to start with three people, a sibling and a friend
and tell them that let's, let's start, let's start the group,
you know, and, and, and you could be the, the group leader
for now. Why not do this?
Oh, I know what you're thinking. Oh, they're going to say who put
you in charge? Tell them I did tell them.
Well, you know, he, he seems to know a few things.
He's an Eagle Scout. He said he was former Davison
Index paperboy of the year. He's got an Oscar that gives
him. I know that gives him special
powers. I know it because he's, he was
bragging about it. He has special powers in 103
countries around the world just by being an Oscar winner and
having that gold statue there in front of him constantly.
Well, they're only telling you the truth.
So therefore, to all of you who are listening, I anoint each and
everyone of you as a Harris campaign leader.
And or block captain. That's right, I'm talking.
I'm talking to you Marianne. You live in the 300 block of Oak
St. in Oshkosh, WI. You are now Block captain.
If you find out they've already got a block captain, ask to be
the Co captain. And by the way, congratulations
for this appointment. Block captain, campaign leader,
wherever you live, maybe you're in an apartment building.
Just be the just be the the, the floor captain.
You live on the 7th floor of your apartment building.
You're the 7th floor captain again.
Remind them why you have this authority and how you attained
it. And then serve your people well.
Be generous in spirit and please do not hold mind numbing,
suffocating meetings. Too many meetings is why people
quit groups. You need action activities only.
Don't allow people to get involved in all the nonsensical
talk about things that have nothing to do with defeating
Donald Trump. We want no drama Kamala.
No drama, Kamala, if you need to look that up, look up no drama
Obama. That's how they ran that
campaign. My friends, we are out of time.
Out of time and that's why I'm going to call an end to this.
That's it for today. You've got the three steps here.
I'll just do a quick recap. Step one, get your head straight
and get your game face on and remind yourself we are the
majority. And in doing that, it means that
you're going to go public now to inspire others.
You're going to make a yard sign and put it in your yard, and
you're going to go find the local storefront office of the
Democrats in your neighborhood or your town and tell them to
put you to work. That's it.
That's step one. Step two, U + 3 makes America
free. If you vote by yourself, we
lose. You got to get three other
people that you're going to guarantee to us to get them to
vote. You're going to find three like
minded people who normally don't vote and get them to vote on
Election Day or before in early voting.
And then Step 3, it's really just a reminder you are not
alone. Join in community, join with
others in your community, whatever that means to you.
It's a mass movement of millions.
You don't have to do this alone. It'll be a lot more fun doing it
with other people and the what we're all going to feel on
November 6th, the day after the election, the feeling will be so
profound, it'll be unlike anything we felt in our lives.
So that's it for today. Coming up on the next few
podcasts, I'll be talking about obviously other issues, but also
this. I'll be giving you new items for
your Election 2024 toolkit. We're going to talk about how to
do campaigning, how to do registration, how to make a
difference when you live in a state where it looks like the
vote is already been decided, how we can help out the swing
states. All of this will be upcoming in
future podcast. OK, well, I think just in
closing, there's lots more going on this week.
There's no word as to who the vice presidential pick will be.
And I, I posted a thing this weekend, just a note to the vice
president and her campaign that we're sure that whoever it is
will be a good pick, that she's a good person.
She knows what to do. She's been there herself.
And you know, of the ones that I've seen mentioned, I think
there's four of them. Probably if I were picking,
that's who I would pick. But I'm not picking because I'm
not running for president of the United States.
So I don't really get a say in this, but but there are good
people running for this endeavor and and the the, the one or two,
Well, actually one of you isn't that good.
I've already talked about you before on my podcast and on TV
and you know who you are. And I hope it's not you, but you
know, I don't get a say in this. So all I care about is to hear
the words. President Harris on January 20th
of the new year here. So, so we'll hope for the best
here in the next couple of days. And then I see that she's going
to the key swing states here this week.
So that's good. She'll be in Michigan and
Wisconsin already ahead of a prior Democratic candidate that
refused to visit Michigan and Wisconsin and lost.
So Kamala Harris will be in those two States and in
Pennsylvania and Arizona and Georgia and North Carolina.
So looks good, looks good, sounds good, Looking forward to
it. Donald Trump, as we've seen as
chickened out on the scheduled debate for September 10th on
ABC. He says he's already made his
own deal with Fox and she's welcome to come on Fox with him
at some arena. So we'll see what happens.
The I don't just for pure entertainment.
We'd love to see her debate him. Debate is probably too polite of
a word. So.
So we'll see what happens, what happens with that.
And OK, well, then we got more JD Vance coming our way this
week. I have no clue what that's going
to be, but he already, he already did his number with the
cat ladies and so I can only imagine what group of people are
in store for his vitriol this week.
So. So yes, it will prove, I'm sure
to be another crazy insane week. Wednesday will be 10 months of
the massacre of Israeli citizens in the South of Israel near the
Gazan border, October 7th, 2023. So I might have a few things I
want to say about that. So lots going on.
Stay tuned here. Look for the podcast.
Look forward to writing more on my sub stack, my column, my my
essays that I write. I've got a couple of good
thoughts and I guess maybe I'll close on that.
A good thought I will send out to President Jimmy Carter.
Yesterday, his family said that he's actually doing better.
He's in Hospice. He's been in Hospice for a
better part of the year. Nobody thought he was going to
last this long. The doctors didn't.
He's still alert. He's still present.
He's the family is actually, you can tell, very happy that he's
still with us and still with them.
And he wanted them to convey something to the rest of us
yesterday. And that was he's going to turn
100 on September 13th next month and he's going to have a
birthday party in Atlanta. Lots of different singers,
musicians, others are showing up for it, he says.
But the main reason he wants to live to September, to stay
alive, to hit 100, is because he doesn't want to leave us before
he gets to vote. Can't believe that it's possible
this is what he's saying, that he's going to maybe actually,
possibly live, not just to see the first woman as president of
the United States, but to actually vote for her.
He wants to vote and he wants to vote for this woman who he has
enormous respect and love for, Kamala Harris.
And I'm not sure exactly when early voting begins in Georgia.
Probably like the rest of the country, it's going to start
sometime near the end of September, beginning of October.
And he I, I suicide sounded like he was just going to refuse to
pass away until he got his last vote in.
And this is who he is, and this is who we know who he is to the
very end. Happy early birthday, President
Carter. Thank you for everything.
Thank you for the friendship that you've shown me in the
past. Thank you for everything you've
done for the people in this world who maybe don't have
everything they probably should have.
Thank you for building their homes.
Thank you for monitoring their elections.
Thank you for your wonderful wife who's just left us, Roslyn,
and your great kids. All of you, we'll leave on that.
Thanks again to my executive producer, editor Angelo Vargos.
Thank you to my other editors and researchers and people that
helped me put this together, David Chancula, Donald
Borenstein and others. Thank you, all of you, and thank
you for listening to this today here on my podcast.
This is Michael Moore. Be well and get off the bench.
Take care.