Let all acquaintance be forgotten.
Never brought it one. And should all acquaintance be
for God, for the sake of All Blacks, For All Blacks sign my
tears. For all black, Sign Wednesday a
couple. Well, happy New Year everyone.
This is Michael Moore. This is my podcast Rumble with
Michael Moore and I was thinking about what to say to you today
tonight. Or maybe it's already turned
into New Year's Day. Or it's New Year's Week.
This was some year, folks. This was a crazy year.
And yet I have. A lot of crazy, weird optimism
about the coming year, which means it could all go to hell in
a handbasket, as far as I know. I mean, none of us know we don't
have a crystal ball. But I thought I would just end
the year with a just a quick recap of what we've been
through, but what we may not have to go through in the coming
year. In other words, we may find
ourselves a bit surprised by the way things could turn around.
I know, I know, a lot of you are not hopeful and you feel
helpless. And I don't blame you because
there is at least a portion of every single day I feel that
way. But usually by the end of most
days I have the sense. Of maybe.
Just maybe. We can turn this around.
It doesn't have to be this way. We don't have to be this way to
each other. We could wake up.
We could realize the job that we have in front of us and how we
can actually accomplish it. You know, I have never been
drunk. That's the God's honest truth.
I'm not bragging about that. I'm not saying that I've been a
good boy. I don't know why this thought
came into my head today. Probably because, you know,
alcohol is often involved on this particular day.
And thinking about how I've never been drunk, which is
weird, right? I mean, was I never young?
Did I not live a life? How could that happen?
Am I not Irish? I probably never really liked
the taste of most alcohol. I mean, I've had a few beers and
I and I've been on that maybe that borderline where I begin to
see like, Oh yeah, I get this. This is kind of like things that
are slowing down. I see.
I feel a little less afraid. Maybe I'll say what I've been
wanting to say, but I've never said and now I'm going to say
it. So yeah, I've.
I've been sort of there, you know, But I I know, I know where
the line is and I know that I've never fell or tripped over that
line. And mainly because I haven't
been able to last long enough, whether it's a beer or whether
it's liquor or whatever, I just can't get past the first few
sips or that first glass or the first bottle or whatever without
just feeling like, damn, I hate this.
That's really all it is. And I'm saying this knowing that
a number of you listening to this either have a serious
problem with this. It's alcohol or there are people
in your family who do, or loved ones.
There are people that may have died as a result of alcohol.
Haven't I just described every family, At least somebody in
your family or your extended family or your extended
community or your friends and neighbors and Co workers and
classmates, and we've all encountered this and it's caused
a lot of grief. So I I don't mean to be glib
about this, and I certainly don't need to sound like that
person who says, hell, I've I haven't had COVID yet.
Look at this you know. It's like all the rest of us.
We've had COVID or those. Of you who have had it.
Two or three times or more I think we all know what that's
what we've kind of all been through and then there's but
there is, there is probably I think I I read about 10% of the
population that never got it and never will just for whatever.
Reason. Science doesn't know yet and we
we don't need them in the room bragging about it or like they
have some special gene or some gift that they haven't received.
COVID by the way, if you are one of those people that just have
to tell everybody that you've never had COVID and isn't that
amazing. We're all just looking at you
going, you know, with our kind of Mr. Spock glare where we're
doing a mind melt and going You will get COVID tonight, Your
next week will be wrecked. We're all looking at you
thinking that, OK, just so you know.
All right. So it's not that.
But I I don't know. I just, I think maybe it is time
that I get drunk. I think I will tonight.
Not. Not because I'm down in the
dumps. Not because I'm depressed about
this year that we've had or what we see in front of us in 2024.
I just have thought about that after the year we've just had.
Not that the alcohol would help, but I think, I think maybe I
should just throw caution to the wind.
Get drunk tonight, don't get behind the wheel of a car, don't
do anything that's caused harm to myself.
But just, you know, just kind of blow the whole thing off and
wake up in the morning feeling entering the new Year in misery.
The more I think about this, the more I think you're not going to
do this. This is not how you're going to
spend New Year's Eve. But I'm just at that point, my
friends. I really have reached a point.
And I think a lot of you have reached it, too, Where enough is
enough. Yes, I'm talking about you,
Trump. And yes, I'm talking to you, the
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And I'm talking about a whole bunch of other things too.
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voice. So what we've learned in 2023
but maybe haven't quite grasped. I'm sure you've heard, you know,
all these end of the year, broadcast, podcast stories in
the paper, whatever. Where they do the year wrap up
and they say, here's what happened.
So we know already a lot of the things that probably don't need
repeating here by me, but I I want to just set this up so I
can get to the place where I want us to grasp what has
happened because I want us to have a better 2024.
So there's a great headline in the New York Times yesterday or
day before talking about how this was the hottest year on
record. You know, temperature wise, the
warming of the the planet is at an all time high.
We're already so far beyond a certain place that we never
intended to be at this point in 2024.
And here we are, really just years away from the point of no
return where we won't be. Able to fix it.
We won't be able to stop it. And then we're just going to
have to pivot and start finding ways to survive the catastrophe
that we've caused. But the headline on the front
page of the Times was I don't I should have this in front of me.
But basically it says something to the effect of yes, it was
supposed to be the hottest year on record but dot dot dot this
hot. I'm sure some of you saw that
and and then the story was about as bad as it was this past year.
What the, you know, the damage we've done to planet?
Earth. It was really a lot worse than
how bad we thought it was going to be.
Do you get the? Feeling that it's like everybody
kind of knows this now and then we just move on to the next
thing we have to do that day or this week or whatever, because
really nothing really is being done about it.
Don't you have that feeling too? It's like.
Yeah, we see all the stories and all the alternative energy stuff
and this and that and whatever. Look at how many solar panels
there are now, and look at all the windmills lining the ocean.
Every year, right? More and more of these stories
and all these corporations have all gone green.
And there's the electric this and the electric that and the
lithium battery this and the nuclear powered that or
whatever. Every year we get these stories.
Every day we get these stories. And yet, at the end of the year,
we have a headline that says not only is this been the hottest
year ever, it's even way hotter than what we think it is, and
that large swaths of ice are just melting in Antarctica up in
the Arctic region near the North Pole.
And there's no way to put that ice back together.
And so the warming is cooling the oceans, which is already
having many of the disastrous consequences that we've seen
just. With what we call weather all
year long, it's mind boggling. I think we all feel collectively
helpless that there's nothing we can do.
We've been snookered by corporate environmentalists.
These are so-called environmental leaders who've
made millions from all the things they've been selling us,
all the crap, all the lobbyists, all the everything, and got us
thinking that. All these good things were
happening and while they may have been happening, I don't
think we call them good things if we don't see the results.
And the results are it's worse every single year and you've
heard me say this over and over about.
You know, I mean, I'm at an age where, you know, I was a
teenager, but I was there at the first Earth Day 1970, and it's
like what's happened since then. I mean, some good things did
happen right away. You know, we had the
Environmental Protection Agency formed.
The Clean Air Act was passed. Clean Water Act.
I'm not saying nothing's happened, but on the big issue,
the number one issue, the extinction event that we're in
the middle of, and I'm not talking about the trees and the
whales and all the other things that we've made or are making
extinct. I'm talking about ourselves.
I'm talking about this species, humans, humans who have done
this to their home and it hasn't gotten better.
And there's few issues that we all care about where we would
say, wow, not only has it not gotten better in the last, you
know, 50 years, it's actually much worse.
There are a number of things you could say that about.
I know you're already thinking of what they are, but we also
have made some progress in some of these basic things that we
care about in this life. But not this, not this.
And we fool ourselves and we try to feel better about it all.
We try to, you know, And this, this year, 2023, will go down,
I'm sure, as one of those turning points where we could
have tried to turn things around, but we were listening to
the wrong people. The wrong people were leading us
on this issue. I'm not talking about the
assholes from the oil and gas industry and all the others who
work on a daily basis to wreck the planet.
I'm talking about some of our liberal friends, quote marks
around the word liberal people that try to pass themselves off
as those who are fighting the good fight to save this planet.
They've wasted a lot of energy, a lot of our time.
They've preyed upon our hopes, our fears, in our belief that
we're smart enough to figure this out and stop the demise.
That has not happened and I think we've been bamboozled.
I'm just one of those people IA lot of you, I'm sure the same
way you know bullshit. When you hear it, immediately
you know it. And at or at some point you
realize, wow, I have been bullshitted to for a long time
here. I didn't realize it at first.
They seem like good people. They had good ideas.
Yes, this will save Planet Earth.
My friends, my friends. We are going to have to take the
reins of this in our own hands to turn this around.
And I will continue to make this a priority and trying to figure
out the ways that we can do that as individuals and collectively
in our neighborhoods and our communities.
And how to do it politically on a large scale level.
By not listening to the BS anymore and and standing up to
those who are calling themselves the leaders of our environmental
movement when all they've done is gotten into bed with Wall
Street, corporate America, capitalism.
Because there's money there to be made.
And then there windmills and solar panels and and carbon
credits. Yeah.
What do you do about a good idea
once you realize it isn't a good idea?
In fact, it's maybe the opposite.
It's a really bad idea. And then what do you do when
good people that you respect continue to promote the bad idea
under the guise of it being a good idea?
Wow. I know.
It's a heavy thought, right? Because you kind of have a a
kind of a a human responsibility to stop it.
Stop the lies, stop the BS, and stop leading us by the nose down
the wrong Rd. In 2019, I helped my friend Jeff
Gibbs, who directed an incredible documentary that over
20 million of you have seen now. It's amazing.
You can still see anybody wants to see it.
They could see it for free on my YouTube channel.
I'll put a link up if you want to go see.
It's called Planet of the Humans.
I'm sure many of you have already seen it.
The whole professional corporate environmental capitalism
movement attacked Jeff and me and and anybody connected to
this because we wanted to tell you that maybe you were being
LED down the wrong path. And that there's something far
more radical that we need to do to save this planet and there's
no time left. I know there's a lot of things
going on in the world right now. There's a lot we need to to deal
with. But why didn't?
Why am I making this the number one thing to talk about on our
year end show? Because is there anything really
that's higher? Than.
Our very lives on this very planet.
And like I've said before, I really I think the planet will
figure out how to survive us. It's us who aren't going to make
it or if we do make it in our lifetimes and if we can pull
this off for a 50 to 100 years, we're going to be living a
miserable, miserable existence. And we're going to leave this
place to our children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren. And they're going to wonder, who
the hell were these people? What's the answer?
What's the note we're going to leave behind in the bottle?
What's the video that we can put in one of those things?
You know the time capsule thing you bury and people open it up
100 years later and we're going to have to leave not just the
video but also the machine, because they won't have the
machines we're using today so they can play the video.
What would we say? What?
Were we doing? While the Earth was crashing.
Or while our species was creating its own eventual
extinction. And I'll keep saying it, and
I'll keep trying to think of a way or ways for all of us to do
some good. Real good.
Not phony, baloney crap baloney good.
I'm not talking about little symbolic things that we can do
to show that we love the Earth. I'm talking about real, serious,
hardcore work that we all have to do and politically what we
have to do to make this happen. And I'm committed to that.
And I can't sit here today and tell you exactly everything and
every step and how we're going to do this.
But I'll tell you this much, I don't miss a day where I don't
think about what it is we should be doing, how to turn this
around, how to stop being on the road that we're on, the
so-called Green Rd. that has made it worse every single year.
Some people don't want to hear me say that, and I'm sorry.
I should have been screaming it a lot louder a long time ago.
I know you're thinking, Mike, what happened to the Happy New
Year show? We're getting there.
I just we can't leave 2023 and
not talk about how this has been the worst year ever for climate
on this planet. And as we've said, as Jeff has
said many times, part of our problem is that we keep calling
it the problem climate. We keep wrapping it around this
one word or this one idea. When it's something different,
it's about who we are and how we live.
Just like when we talk about guns, that the NRA is kind of
partially right when they say guns don't kill people, people
kill people because a gun cannot operate on its own.
It needs a human being. So yes, the guns are a problem
and we need to do something about that, and I'm going to get
to that in a second here. But doesn't it imply that we
need to do something about ourselves first?
Why are we especially we as Americans?
Why are we such a violent people?
Why don't other countries have this level of violence toward
each other? Is that worth discussing?
Investigating. And so the other headline of the
last day of the year here is we've had more mass shootings
this year than any previous year ever, and more gun deaths in
general. And that includes murders,
homicides, and especially suicides.
Why is it the number one cause of death now for children?
Guns. Gun violence?
This is so upsetting and so immoral.
And so. And why us?
Why don't the Canadians kill each other?
The way we do with guns or any of a number of other countries.
And yes, just about every country will have their horrific
moment of gun violence. Somebody will kill a lot of
people in the Czech Republic, but to them it's so shocking
because it's so rare, because it essentially never happens, and
here it happens every single day.
The Gun Violence Archive said today that there are have been
652 mass shootings this year 652.
Unbelievable. And they happen everywhere.
They have it in schools, obviously.
They happen at work. They happen in shopping malls
and churches and synagogues. They happen in homes where
people live, where most murders are amongst people who know each
other, not some stranger, not somebody randomly breaking into
your house. We kill the people we know and
love. Well, I made a whole movie about
this, explaining how I think we ended up like this, but I've had
20 years to think about about that since Bowling for
Columbine, and I have a lot more thoughts now and a lot, a lot of
new ideas of what I think we can do.
I'm not going to discuss that on this episode today, but I will
say that it's something that I have personally to myself
committed to doing this year, that I should share these ideas
on how we can decrease gun violence in this country.
I think some pretty shocking and shocking only because they might
just be that simple. If we did XY or Z, we could
immediately bring this down. So that's a piece of because I
looked to 2024 that maybe I'll be able to do all the stuff
about our democracy this year. A former president this year was
arrested in at least one case, mugshot, fingerprinted, and told
that he was being put on trial for trying to destroy our
democracy, for trying to overthrow our democracy, for
trying to overthrow an election. He's now facing 91 felony
counts, and he is the front runner candidate for the
Republican Party, for president of the United States.
The front runner, the one that millions of people want back in
the White House. And if you believe the polls,
which I don't, and I encourage you not to, he's ahead of Biden.
They're telling us he has a better chance than Biden of
winning the election this year. While that should be enough to
make you want to jump off the couch, head out the door and do
something, anything to make sure that never happens, 2023 will be
remembered as the year when, for the first time ever, a president
or a former president was indicted on felony counts and
faced multiple years in prison. But again, the piece of this
that doesn't. That doesn't make me want to get
drunk tonight. Is that?
And you don't brace yourself, because I know a lot of you are
very afraid. And I have been trying to talk
to you about Trump in the sense 2015, when I first tried to warn
you about how this was going to go down.
But. By last year, By 2022, when we
had our midterm elections. Enough of you.
Were listening to me by then when I told you that there was
not going to be a red wave, the Republicans were not going to
have some massive takeover of this country and that turned out
to be true. But that was because many of you
got your friends and neighbors and family out to vote and not a
presidential year in a in a midterm off year election.
And you did that and you did it in spite of the fact that the
media and all the pundits and everybody.
I was telling you that the Republicans were going to have
the the early stories where they were going to take over 50 some
seats in the House of Representatives on any given
day. Here's how much they control the
House right now. And and you know, and as you
know, they don't do anything. They've really passed nothing.
They can't get anything done. They can't even get somebody to
run their own House, a Republican.
But they are on any given day it only takes 4 Republicans.
This is like this. 435 members of the House, but on any given
day of just four don't show up or they're sick or they decide,
you know what, I'm not going along with all these nutters
here that are running the show. My party not going to do it if
just 4 Republicans out of how many other 221 in the House?
Change their mind or decide to run as a Democrat because they
want to make sure they get re elected this year or quit or die
because you know a lot of them are old, just four, and all of a
sudden the Democrats have control.
It's that close. So they haven't been able to do
too much damage in the house because they don't really have
any kind of a strong majority. They they have a razor thin
majority and very hard to work like that with that many people.
You can see already how they they haven't gotten along with
each other. So, so I want to say to you that
I need you to enter 2024 with this sense and a belief that
Trump is not returning to the Oval.
Office, that's not going to happen.
And these Republicans, they've cooked their goose.
You've seen it already in in these off off year elections in
2023, every time there's been an abortion question on the ballot,
especially in red states, the voters have come out in large
numbers to keep abortion legal time after time.
In Ohio, in Kentucky, in Montana.
These are not, you know, so-called liberal places.
They may not have many liberals, but they have women.
Women live in the states. Women are the majority gender.
And nobody, nobody I know, regardless of what political
stripe they are, likes the government telling them what
they can do or not do with their bodies when it when it affects
not the government. But it affects them, their
lives, their family, who they want to be, how they want to
live it really basic things. And the Republicans have taken
the the side against women. They are now the anti women
party. They are now the we, the
Republican Party, want to control what you could do with
your reproductive organs. How creepy.
Does that sound? It's madness.
And what I don't understand for the life of me is the
Republicans after even the all these elections this year and
the special elections for people.
I mean, Democrats have been winning these special elections
throughout the country, in state by state all year long.
You'd think some Republican would say, yeah, I don't, I
don't think we're going to, I don't think we're going to win
in 2024 if we keep telling women we want our hands on their
bodies. I don't know.
I don't think that's a good position to take.
I think some of them, I think have got that, but they, they
don't know how to stop the runaway train with Trump as the
conductor. We're going to throw a number of
them out in November. They know it.
And I don't know what Trump
knows. But Trump's not coming back.
And that's because young people, they don't like any of this.
They don't want the government pushing women around, abusing
women like this, taking away their rights.
They're angry about it. They're going to show up and
vote. And if you put together the
young voters that are going to turn out the black and Hispanic
voters, Asian voters, all the the the minority groups that are
going to vote in November, youth, women, people of color,
that's your majority right there.
That's your majority. I'll say it again, White men may
look like they're in charge, and they are, to a great extent,
still mucking up the world. But they since World War 2, the
only Democrats that have ever been elected to the White House
by winning the white male vote was Lyndon Johnson in the
landslide of 64. Barely a year after President
Kennedy's assassination, he got the white male vote, and the
only other time was Bill Clinton's second election.
That's it. Every other Democrat that's been
elected to the White House, from John F Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
to Bill Clinton in his first term, to Barack Obama and to Joe
Biden, every single one of those presidents I just named got
elected to the White House by losing the white male vote.
I know you're saying yourself that's not possible.
Even though I've said it now for what, the last 15 years?
I just want to keep saying it, folks, because they look scary.
They are scary, but their bark is their bark, and they are not
the majority of this country anymore.
White men are not the majority. And they certainly, when it
comes to voting, women vote by a higher percentage than men do.
And white men? It hasn't mattered whether the
majority of white men voted against Barack Obama twice.
They voted against Biden in 2020.
They voted against Kennedy and Carter.
Didn't matter. All those Democrats were elected
by getting an amazing percentage of women, people of color, and
especially young people to vote. And that's what's going to
happen this year. That's what's going to happen.
And if Trump doesn't know it, well, then he's just the fool we
think he is. But, but if we get out and work,
we could do a lot of damage to really put an end to the white
supremacy patriarchy that still runs too much of this country.
And yes, we have to talk about Biden and his the war crimes
that are being committed in our name with our money right now.
And this is one of the saddest things that has happened here
this year in these last what is it now, 2 1/2, almost three
months since the heinous massacre of Israelis on October
7th? And the response to that has
been to commit atrocity upon atrocity, carpet bombing the
civilians of Gaza, 70% of all the dead are either children,
women or the elderly. That's their targeted attacks on
the people who committed the massacre on October 7th.
There's been no targeting. This has been an excuse to wipe
out a group of people, to either wipe them out or move them out.
And you have to call it what it is.
And let me tell you something you know you're right to want to
support. Our Jewish brothers and sisters,
because they have been the victims of mass slaughter upon
mass slaughter, not just in the last century but for thousands
of years. And you're right to stand up for
them, But the best way, the best way.
And I set this back When we invaded Iraq.
People were all upset that Canada wouldn't join us in our
invasion. France wouldn't join us.
Our allies, right? People were mad, especially at
the French for some reason. I'm not quite sure why.
Freedom Fries. Remember that?
Mad at them for what? That's the thing your best
friend does. That's why you need a best
friend like a Canada or a France 'cause it's You're only your
best friend that can. Tell you you're fucking up.
You're doing something wrong. This is a war crime.
This is a crime against humanity invading on a country that had
nothing to do with 9/11 and killing its people.
That's what they told us. We didn't want to hear it.
And if if you want to, and I hope you do, support our Jewish
brothers and sisters around this world, one of the best things,
and this is what all the the Jewish peace groups have been
saying in Israel and in here in this country, the best thing you
could do to help protect us is to stop this madness, stop this
killing, stop the genocide, stop Netanyahu, help us.
Throw him out. Can't we can't do much about
throwing him out. Well, there is one thing we
could do. Stop bankrolling him.
Billions upon billions of dollars of our tax dollars going
to help, help, hurt, not help hurt.
This country, this country, the country of Israel.
The I'm not the first one to say this, am I?
Or is it? The people are afraid to say it
because really, I think if you love Israel.
Is this what you think Israel should be doing in your name?
My name with our money? Really.
I don't think you think that. I know, deep down, you don't
think that. I know you see how horribly
wrong this has gone? That those hostages are still
being held, if they aren't already dead from all the
bombing we've done. Here's what I don't do if you if
you kidnap my grandmother and hold her hostage.
And you're in some house or some place or wherever you're at.
I do not want the United States Air Force to bomb that house.
I do not want to put her life in risk because I'm trying to stay
in office. I'm trying to avoid, as
Netanyahu is, his felony indictments, his court trials
that were supposed to have taken place at by the end of this year
and now he's got an excuse to declare a semi martial law.
All this stuff is off the table now.
All the fact that that he was perhaps on his way to prison and
right now even 82% of the Jewish the the Israeli citizens want
him removed. Large numbers of Jewish citizens
of this country want him removed.
First of all, he didn't protect them.
We send all that money there to protect the people.
And he pulled the army back. He sent them off to the West
Bank to help the settlers, sent them up to the Lebanese border.
Where were they that day? Where was the army?
Where were the police? Where was?
Why were people hiding for 14 hours?
Well, I'm not the only one. To ask you that.
The Israeli citizens are asking that Israeli newspapers have
done a great job investigating what was really going on.
The truth is coming out and and hopefully Netanyahu will be
gone. But I have to stop here on this
last day of the year and entering the first day of the
new year and ask what are we going to do about this?
Because we've lost Biden. He's all Huggy Wuggy.
You're running over there hugging Netanyahu.
All this, this. Let's send more money.
Let's send more bombs. Let's send whatever support we
can. The the support is not
supporting these Israeli people who, you know, have a right to
live like everybody else does in this planet.
He's guaranteeing more killing of Israelis, more killing.
And I don't know what I am. I know he's doing all these back
channel things. I know he doesn't like
Netanyahu. I know all the things I think
that we've learned about this and he's trying to control them.
But he hasn't done a very good job of that.
There's close to 22,000 dead people, dead Palestinians,
civilians, children. And it's being done in your
name, my friends, and my name with your tax dollars and mine.
And I am so distraught about this.
And I know many of you are, too. And I know, I mean those of us
who joined Jewish Voice for peace, if you haven't joined
them, you should Jewish Voice for Peace and support them
these. This is a worldwide organization
but it's mostly started here in this country, started in
California a number of years ago.
You know and they what they are, they are they are Jews reaching
out to us, non Jews asking us to please join them in stopping the
slaughter, the madness, the apartheid, all of that.
And I think we have a responsibility to do that
because this can't go on. This has to stop.
We're entering this new year with blood on our hands.
Biden, President Biden, please. You are really the only person
that has the power to stop it. Because if you shut the bank
down, where? The bank, by the way, or the
bank for all this, close the tower window at the bank.
And that's going to be pretty much the end of that for a
while. This has to be done.
There can be no equivocation about this.
The ceasefire has to. Happen now and don't don't cloud
the issue with what about them? What about Hamas?
What about, you know, they did their atrocity and I hope those
who participated in it will be found, not killed.
Found and brought to justice. That's what civilized people do.
In fact, that's what we did at the end of World War 2 with the
Nazis. We just didn't walk up to each
one of the leaders of the whole thing and put a bullet in their
head. They actually got a trial.
Not a show trial, a real trial. They got to have their own
lawyers. The whole thing was televised.
They got to say the most outrageous things from the
witness stand about why they thought Jews were not human and
why they had every moral right to exterminate 6 million of
them. They got a trial, These Hamas
people who went in there and did what they did on October 7th
there, there's there's no effort to capture them because we're
too busy killing their families because, you know, that's what
you do when somebody commits an atrocity.
You go, you know, it's like, let's say somebody you know from
the Bronx broke into my apartment building here and, you
know, killed by family, killed by neighbors, killed by friends.
You know, there's hundreds in this apartment building killed
by this team of people from the Bronx.
Well, you know what we have to do then?
If something like that happened, we have to go and bomb the
Bronx. We have to go and kill the
family members of these people, their friends, their neighbors,
anybody, anybody. Looks like they might be from
the Bronx. Mow them down.
Why? Well, because some people from
the Bronx killed a bunch of people here in this apartment
building. Who would think like that?
Who would propose that? What is the difference between
that and what is going on right now that you and I are running?
We are the puppet masters, My friends.
Don't put your head in the sand on this.
And I know we, we are like, powerless as individuals to do
anything about this today. But how many of you are going to
live with yourselves and tolerate this going on
throughout 2024-2025? How many more dead children can
you handle seeing on TV? I bet you don't even watch it
anymore. Turn it off.
Stay away from it. It's gross.
It's awful. It's sickening.
But they had to die. They had to die because some
people of this much larger group of people, the Palestinians,
some of them committed an atrocity.
Instead of going and finding and arresting those who committed
the atrocity, let's just kill every one of them and anyone
that looks like them. This is sick.
You know it. I know it.
And millions of Israelis, they may not be the majority, but
there are 1,000,000 who agree with what I just said.
And millions of Jews in this country are working hard to turn
this thing around to stop the massacre.
But we don't have the power, do we?
And I hate the cynicism of the Democratic Party leaders, and
especially of Biden thinking because, well, what are we going
to do this year? Not vote for Biden.
Vote for Trump. That's our choice.
No, nobody is voting for Trump that voted for Biden in the last
election, right? Let's just say that right out
loud. Nobody's voting for Trump.
So then what are you going to do?
You know a symbolic vote for 3rd party candidate makes you feel
good. Get the anger out.
That'll teach him. I mean, please tell me there's
an adult way to reign Biden in to make him stop this as opposed
to the 13 year old way of of. And you're going to pay for
this, Joe Biden. You're going to pay for.
This you'll see. I I did that so well because the
13 year old of me is feels exactly that way, because that
is what I want to tell him. But if I'm allowed to be my
mature self for a minute or two, we have to stop this, my
friends, And for this being maybe the biggest, biggest
catastrophe of 2023, how do we dare let it continue into 2024?
No, right? And I know, yes, we have a lot
to do. Hottest year ever.
More mass shootings than ever in this country.
Everything else. The fact that that that Roe V
Wade now gone still hasn't been made the law of the land.
How the rich this year got even more rich.
The gap between those who have 9 slices of the pie and then the
10th slice, everybody's left to fight over so many things we
need to fix. They're still trying to ban
books in schools and libraries, but this was the year also when
unions rose up, when workers rose up and demanded things that
they got. And that's just one of a number
of examples I could give you here that that tells me that
people are are willing to stand up and fight to make things
better. There are still so many good
people, I honestly. Believe that in the next year or
two that Roe, Roe V Wade, that decision about legal abortion
will be a federal law. And like I said, I believe that
Trump will not return to the White House.
I believe we'll find new environmental leaders to get us
on the right path. And I have such hope and faith
the the future is already here, and that future is young, it's
majority female, and it's of color.
And the people who belong to these three groups will lead the
way in turning this around. And those of us who aren't part
of those three groups need to be their helpers.
Supporters do what they need us to do and whenever they try.
They, the people in charge, try to distract us with things like.
The. Hordes of immigrants are coming
across the border. You know, sometimes we have to
really get radical in our thinking here.
I would like to say to that stop running those stories showing
all these people on the road coming through Central America,
trying to get into the USI say welcome, welcome, welcome,
fellow Catholics. That's who they are, By the way,
I know that there's a certain group of people in this country
like to call them illegals. They look like they're mostly
people from heavily Catholic countries.
So I say to this Christian nation of ours, why are you
punking on them? Why are you punking on thousands
of Catholics desperate to get to this country?
Because they'd like to work here.
They'd like to work and raise a family.
You tell me what the crime is in that there are 11 point. 2
million job openings in this country.
In other words, there are over 11,000,000 jobs that we can't
fill because we don't have enough people.
They just started a, what they call a Friday schedule now on
the subway in New York City, where they're going to run less
trains on Fridays, in large part because they don't have enough
subway conductors, they don't have enough people to work in
the MTA system here. I mean, you've seen it no matter
where you live, you know, in the little town, you know where my
apartment is and where I live half the time.
And in Northern Michigan, you go to the diner or the restaurant
and it's close. It's got a close sign on it.
Why is it got a close sign? Well, they're only open be able
to be open four days a week now or five days because there's
nobody to cook the food, there's no fry cooks, there's no,
there's nobody to wait the tables on and on and on.
They've had to tell the school kids last year in my town that
they can only take the bus to school every other day because
they can't find bus drivers. They don't have bus drivers.
So they've told the parents on alternate days, you're just
going to have to get your kids to school every other day.
We'll have a bus pick them up, but we don't have enough bus
drivers to run school buses every school day of the year.
I'm not telling you anything you don't know, right?
You do live here. You do live in these towns or
these cities. This is the.
America we have now where we are missing or lacking 11 million
people to be part of the workforce.
And before, when we had the Industrial Revolution and the
invention of the automobile and factories and this and that,
whatever. At the end of the 1800s and
early 1900s, what did we do? We flung open the doors.
We had a thing called Ellis Island.
It was just like. Come, bring everybody.
Come on. We need help.
We need workers. Yeah, I know.
I know. We had slavery for a few 100
years, But you know. That was a great deal, by the
way, right folks? Nikki Haley, come on, tell us
all about it. You see, slavery, the
enslavement of human beings, was about being able to build this
into the the richest economy in the world.
And we got our start by and not. Having to pay labor, this
country was built on the backs of slaves.
The economy was built on the backs of enslaved human beings.
And then and then you had, we had to start paying people.
Everybody got paid. If you work, you get paid.
But we didn't see immigrants then after that, in the late
1800s, early 1900s, as a threat, something to fear, something to
be angry about, no. We were like.
Oh my God, Thank you for coming to America.
What? You can't speak English?
No problem. We'll we'll make sure you learn
the language here. You need this, You need food,
You need some kind of shelter. You know, tenements were built,
public housing was built, food was made cheap.
Things were done so that people could live here, work here,
raise families, live a life. So stop with the distractions.
I don't want to hear this anymore about all these hordes,
caravans, caravans of it, of illegals making their way to
America. Please come to America.
Please help us. I want to go down the street.
And get a hamburger at Bubba's. I need Bubba's open.
I want everybody to have a job. I want them to have a good wage.
I want them to have safe working conditions.
I want them to have full universal healthcare.
We can afford all this, do all this, and if you got more people
working and paying taxes, you got more money, and you make the
rich pay the taxes that they haven't been paying for the past
number of umpteen years, this is all going to change.
That's the positive thing I want to leave you with, folks.
It's all going to change. Why?
Because women aren't going to take it.
Because young people aren't going to take it.
Because black and Hispanic and Asian and Native American people
aren't going to take it. Thank God and let the white men,
the pundits, let them all grumble about it.
Let Fox News do whatever they do.
They'll never be the majority in this country.
Not going to happen. I know some of you don't believe
that. I know some of you are scared.
They're scary. I get it.
But there's more of us than there are of them.
There have been. It has been that way for a long
time, and it will continue to be that way.
And As for the people of Gaza tonight, at the end of this
year, I just want to say that I'm.
Sorry, I really am sorry. What happened on October 7th was
that morning. I woke up to that that news and
I just broke down. But it wasn't long before.
It wasn't just those 1200 dead. It was a a mass murder taking
place that wasn't going to create peace.
It wasn't going to fix the situation.
Those babies, the babies that were in the incubators that they
just had laid on some metal tray because the incubators had lost
the electricity because the Israelis shut it all.
Down. There was no water.
They couldn't do operations. They couldn't do anything.
And yet they've been trying to do them without all of that.
And it's been done in my name, and it hasn't protected or saved
a single one of my Jewish brothers and sisters.
It has made them more scared and more endangered.
And for this, all these babies had to die and are still dying.
As I say this, whatever has to be done, must be done to stop
this, to stop our president, our Congress, to help our Jewish
friends stop it in Israel. And to stop the lobbying here
and the lying here. This is a rotten way to feel
ending a year like this and having the the legitimate hope I
do have for the year ahead of us.
I know you've been listening to this long enough and thinking,
Mike, you told us at the beginning you were going to get
drunk for the first time. I've probably now have made the
case for why there should be no alcohol around me at.
At all at this. Point.
But I am, I am sorry to all the children of Gaza, to their
parents, to their grandparents, to all the people who are
suffering tonight. Be a lot easier to maybe deal
with it in my head if I wasn't funding it, but I am.
And you are those of you who are Americans listening to this?
No more, no more. I really care deeply about this
planet, the people who inhabit it.
No matter who you are, no matter how much we disagree with each
other, no matter what. This is not the world I thought
I'd be living in all these years later, I thought.
I and my generation, we knew what we had to do.
We figured it out. We knew what the big Lie was and
we were going to take care of business and we've done some
good things but nowhere nowhere near enough.
So over these next days and weeks, months on this podcast
and on my sub stack column, I'm going to propose a number of
things that we can do. Real things.
No BS. The real stuff that we have to
do and we can do it. We've pulled it off before, we
can do it again. We just got a ratchet it up my
friends, time is running out. Thanks for everything you shared
with me over this past year. I enjoy reading your comments
and your the emails you send me to my address.
I read all my mail, so you sent it to me at
mike@michaelmoore.com. I listen to your voicemails.
I thank you for all of that. I I thank you for sharing these
podcasts and these sub stack essays with your friends and
family. I appreciate all that.
I know I'm not alone. That's a good feeling.
It sucks to feel like you're alone.
I'm far from that, my friends. Oh my God, the gratitude I have.
So, yes, I do have hope only because I've seen the results of
this, and I hope that you've seen the results of the work
you've done. I appreciate it.
I pay attention and I've learned a lot from many of you who've
been active in so many things. So keep that up.
Get five or six other people with you involved this year.
Stay tuned to this to my podcast, to my Sub Stack column.
It's all free. No paywalls.
I know that together we're going to make some powerful things
happen this year. We're going to fix a lot of the
disastrous things that we did in 2023.
I know this, and I thank you for in your own way, making that
commitment with me tonight as we enter this New Year.
I'm not kidding. I really do think that when I
talked to you a year from now on this particular night, we're
going to look back and see we did some amazing things, things
that we didn't even think were possible because the world
looked like such a shitty place. And then it got a little better.
And it just took a few people. It didn't take billions. 1000
people can do an immense. Amount of good.
That group of 1000 people, well, we each know at least 10 people
and all of a sudden it's 10,000 and then that 10,000, it becomes
100,000. That's how it works.
It has to start small. I know I sound like I need a
Kleenex here. Sorry about this.
Just give me a SEC here. Oh geez, we can cut.
That out. My thanks to my executive
producer and editor. Speaking of cutting things out,
Angela Vargos, thank you so much for your help in this this year.
Thanks to all my friends who participate help what we do,
especially to those of you who are already working with me on
our our plans for what's coming up in 2024 of.
What we hope to do? To get out there to the rest of
you. So more on that later.
What am I looking for here? A bottle of Guinness.
Oh, don't do it, Mike. No, Mike.
No. Yes, I must.
I must. I think we should crank up the
New Year's music here and say a a fond farewell.
Not so fond to 2023. Let's take a look at 2024.
It's coming right at us right now.
It's staring us right in the face.
It's daring us. It's got our number.
It thinks we don't know what to do.
We know what to do. We're going to do it.
I'll leave it at that. Bless all of you.
Much love for me and I look forward to doing everything I
can with you in this coming year.
Peace, everyone. Be well.
Should old acquaintance be forgot and days of old things?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend, that gives a hand to
thine. We'll take a cup of kindness yet
for all, my dear, We'll take a cup of kindness yet for all
lands. I should old acquaintance be for
God, and never brought to mind should old acquaintance.
Be. For God.