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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #44

Michael Moore — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:01:57 GMT

The odds are long. A Hail Mary pass or two is needed. The opponent is badly bruised from a whoopin’ they took on November 8th. They are left with what will be an anemic majority in the House. But that’s not til January 3rd. Until then, we have 40+ days where we hold the lead and possess the power. If we choose to use it strongly, wisely and with a touch of cooperation from a teeny-weeny group of Republicans who are fed up with being the villains, we have a chance to do some good.

In an amazing turn of events, a bill passed by the House last year to codify the 2015 Supreme Court decision to make same-sex marriage legal, has been shepherded by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer through the Senate where he convinced 12 Republicans to pass the House bill to make same-sex marriage the law of the land.

So I got to thinking — how many other House bills have been passed in this session of Congress and are just sitting in the Senate gathering dust waiting for a vote? Turns out a lot! Many will need 60 votes for them to pass thanks to the anti-Democracy Republicans who keep the filibuster going.

But some can pass with the 51 votes the Dems already have. Why not spend these 40 days and either convince a few Republicans to come along like they did with the same-sex marriage act or we just go ahead and pass the ones we can pass with 51 votes.

Even if we only get one of these enacted as law, it’ll be worth it.

In case you missed it, on Sunday’s podcast of “Rumble with Michael Moore,” I threw a few of those Hail Mary passes to see if we can squeeze a few more victories out of this Congress (until we get it back 10 months from now after two scandals, three resignations, four indictments and an untimely death during an “all you can eat” desert at an Applebee’s in suburban Virginia).

Six weeks during the holiday season makes this a difficult endeavor. But we just took Pennsylvania! Michigan is all Blue — Deep Blue! Crazy Red Nebraska passed a ballot proposal raising the minimum wage by 40%! Marijuana is now legal in Maryland and Missouri!

So how ‘bout continuing the Child Tax Credit? Extending the Civil Rights Act to the LGBTQ+ community? Passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act?

So please, if you haven’t already, have a listen to the podcast episode, it's only 40 minutes long. Just see it as me laying out my next crazy idea like, “hey, did you hear the one where we're going to have a Democratic woman of color represent Alaska in Congress? Or how ‘bout the one where Kansas would protect the right to abortion in their state constitution? Or the one where there would be no red wave on Roevember?” Crazy, huh?!

Pundits and bloviators will say it can never happen, but they should know by now whenever we hear that, that’s our catnip.

Are you with me Arizona and Nevada? Of course you are. You never left us.

ICYMI — listen to my Sunday podcast below:

Here’s a list of the bills and legislation ideas discussed in this podcast:

To expand civil rights to the LGBTQ+ Community:

H.R.5: Equality Act — Passed House
S.393: Equality Act — Introduced

To end gerrymandering and protect voting rights: There are currently two bills that have passed the House and are sitting in the Senate.

H.R.1: For the People Act of 2021 — Passed House
S.1: For The People Act 2021 — Introduced
— Expands voter registration (e.g., automatic and same-day registration) and voting access (e.g., vote-by-mail and early voting). It also limits removing voters from voter rolls.
— Requires states to establish independent redistricting commissions to carry out congressional redistricting.
— Sets forth provisions related to election security
— Expands the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requires additional disclosures of campaign-related fundraising and spending, disclaimers regarding certain political advertising, and establishes an alt. campaign funding system for certain federal offices.
— Requires a code of conduct for Supreme Court Justices, prohibits House Members from serving on the board of a for-profit entity, establishes conflict-of-interest and ethics provisions for federal employees and the White House.
— Requires President, Vice President, and certain candidates for those offices to disclose 10 years of tax returns
H.R.4: John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act 2021 — Passed House
S.4: John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act 2021 — Introduced
— Sets guidelines to determine when states must receive preapproval from the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia before making legal changes that would affect voting rights.
— Requires states to notify the public of changes to voting practices.
…and more.

To cap insulin prices for all:

H.R.6833: Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes — Became law
S.3700 - Affordable Insulin Now Act — Introduced

To protect DACA kids:

H.R.6 - American DREAM and Promise Act (no Senate bill)

To give pensions back to GM employees:

H.R.6929: Susan Muffley Act of 2022 — Passed House
S.3766: Susan Muffley Act of 2022 — Introduced

Extend the Child Tax Credit (CTC): A group of House Democrats wrote a letter to Dem leadership regarding CTC on Nov 10th. Here’s an excerpt:

“At a time when the price of essential goods and services like food, child care, and housing are near record highs and many Americans are struggling to make ends meet, we write to urge you to oppose the inclusion of corporate tax breaks in any must-pass or tax extenders bill that is brought to the floor for a vote unless workers and families are provided with commensurate support and relief. These include extending the expanded monthly refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) and expanded Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) as soon as possible, and no later than the end of the year.”

To provide relief to those whose jobs were outsourced overseas:

H.R.3974: Trade Adjustment Assistance Modernization Act of 2021 — Introduced
S.2218 - Trade Adjustment Assistance Modernization Act of 2021 — Introduced

Expand Medicare coverage to include dental, vision and hearing benefits for everyone.

End the filibuster.

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ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #17: Early Voting, Mail-in Voting, Dropbox Voting — These Were Made for Libs, Hard Workers, Book Readers, Artists, Busy Parents, Slackers, and Progressives like us! In other words, The Majority!

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

Truth #37: It Can’t Happen Here

Truth #38: The Day After the Blue Tsunami

Truth #39: Roevember Election Day Mixtape

Truth #40: We Win Either Way

Truth #41: We Killed the Red Wave

Truth #42: Can you bring yourself to say we will win the House?

Truth #43: Even the Losers Get a Trophy.

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #43

Michael Moore — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:54:20 GMT

Here are some headlines and pronouncements we’re seeing yesterday and today:

“Republicans in Ruins with House as Consolation Prize”
“Is It a Win When You Have a House with a Broken, Battered Party Inside?”
“Republicans Squeak by with House Thanks to DeSantis Drawing Gerrymandered Map”
“GOP Wins House with Razor-Thin Margin that May Cut Both Ways”
“Republicans scrape back control of US House”

Wow. How rare is it when the so-called winners (barely, of the House of Representatives) are actually considered a bunch of losers?! (Think Houston Astros, 2017 — won the World Series but forever known as a bunch of cheaters. Ouch.)

That’s where the Republicans are at today.

Hailed just weeks ago as the new conquerors on their way to victory —

“REPUBLICANS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE WITH FOUR NEW SEATS!”
“REPUBLICANS WILL WIN THE HOUSE BY 50 SEATS!!”
“BIDEN IS OVER! CRIME! INFLATION! TRUMP IN 2024!”

Whoops.

They couldn’t defeat a single sitting Democrat in the United States Senate! In fact, the Democrats took one of theirs, something that rarely happens in a first midterm.

Americans at the polls last week resoundingly rejected Trump-backed candidates and chose to vote for Democracy and abortion rights over the cost of a gallon of gas.

This is what I want to tell each of you today:

The Republicans now hold the House by the smallest of margins. They have what I call an anemic majority. Weak. Incontinent. Impotent.

Because they are haters, misogynists, bigots and Democracy-destroyers, they will not last, and their House will not hold.

They only got here today by the skin of their teeth thanks to Supreme Court-approved gerrymandering and voter suppression. They were so battered and beaten in this election, they had to crawl on bloodied hands and knees to barely make it across the finish line. They are in a state of shock over what has happened. They’ve already started fighting each other. A Republican-only civil war has broken out between the Trump wing and the DeSantis wing. I’ve already got my front row seat and am ready to pop the corn.

Let me give you four quick reasons why we may not hear the words “Republican-controlled House” for very long:

1. Republicans who barely won in a blue district can read the writing on the wall — if they want to stay in Congress, in order to win, they are going to have to switch parties. If just one or two do that, it could make all the difference in the Democrats being back in charge.

2. If the Democrats pass a bill in the Senate (which they control), they may only need 2 or 3 Republicans in the House to break ranks to get it passed. Only 3 out of 220 Republicans? C’mon! Time to try some old-fashioned horse trading. What happened to the fine art of haggling? There’s got to be one good persuader on our side! Tea with Barbara Lee? Coffee with AOC? Who would turn that down?

3. S**t happens. As I mentioned on Wednesday, there’s usually a dozen or so of the 435 members elected to the House that, for one reason or another, never make it through the 2 years of their term. Just since the 2020 election, there are 16 members of Congress who didn’t make it through til now. A few died. A few quit. Sometimes a few will be indicted. Or some will be caught in a scandal. One or two will say they forgot their phone chargers in their car, then leave the building and high-tail it out of D.C. And when that happens, because it will happen, we need to be ready for when they hold the special election to fill their seat. In each congressional district, we need to have replacement candidates on standby, ready to launch into action. Let’s not wait until it happens. Let’s think this out in advance. Because we will perhaps only need to win just two or three of these special elections to regain control of the House. So ask yourself now, today, who is that beloved person there in your town, that pillar of your community that is willing to receive the Bat Signal in our grave time of need — and fight to win. Figure it out now. Don’t wait. And don’t say “this can’t happen” because your district has been historically “red.” Remember, the people in Alaska in August just elected a woman of color, a Democrat, to replace the late Republican Don Young — who’d held the seat for nearly 50 years!

4. On last Saturday night, the Democrats officially won the Nevada Senate seat. By Wednesday afternoon, Chuck Schumer got 12 Republicans to vote to advance a new bill to codify same-sex marriage. And Clarence Thomas went to bed Wednesday night crying into his pillow. The Democrats accomplished in 4 days what they should have done with Roe at some point over the past 50 years. We only have 45 days left of our federal Democratic trifecta where we control both houses of Congress and the presidency. It’s time, during this lame duck session while we still hold all reins of power, for the Dems to strap in, show some guts right now and make Roe the law of the land. Democrats in Congress and the Senate — tell your families you may not make it home for Thanksgiving. You’ve got work to do. You have to work through the holidays. Reschedule your family Christmas for February. Yes, for the sake of our country, it’s that important. Well, it is, that is, if you’re a woman of childbearing age, or a DACA immigrant kid, or a single mom working for $7.25 an hour at a greasy spoon. Why should they have to wait another two years in misery?

Every waking moment between now and the installation of the 118th Congress on January 3rd, you have to get this legislation passed: DACA. Universal Pre-K. Paid family leave. A minimum wage increase. Ending gerrymandering. Did you forget abortion??!! Either some of these or all of them. Show some courage. Show some fight. Your actions today will inspire a massive turnout in 2024 because you will have shown the majority of Americans who support you on every single one of these issues that you had the fortitude to get it done when it mattered most.

You’ve got to make this happen!

And in the meantime, over at the White House, Biden, as a Catholic seeking redemption, can start making amends for something he did when he was back in the Senate. He and the Democratic Congress can repeal the 1994 Clinton Crime Bill — the “tough on crime” law that created the mass incarceration of Black and Brown Americans in the 1990s and 2000s. Both Clintons have since denounced their own actions in passing their Crime Bill, but Biden — who was instrumental in getting it through Congress — has not. In a time when the Republicans lost by running on a platform of white supremacy, crime, and a ‘fear of the other’, repealing a law that legalized a new Jim Crow would be the just, moral, and popular thing to do.

By winning the House, the Republicans may have won the battle, but they’ve lost the war. They know this. You can see it in their reactions over the past few days. Their party is imploding. It’s time for the few sane and moderate Republicans to jump ship and either become Democrats or declare as an independent and caucus with the Democrats.

Or, just head out the door saying you’re going out for a pack of smokes… and never come back.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

Truth #37: It Can’t Happen Here

Truth #38: The Day After the Blue Tsunami

Truth #39: Roevember Election Day Mixtape

Truth #40: We Win Either Way

Truth #41: We Killed the Red Wave

Truth #42: Can you bring yourself to say we will win the House?

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #42

Michael Moore — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:54:53 GMT

It’s hard, isn’t it, to believe in ourselves? Especially when you’ve spent the past few months feeling politically hopeless and trying not to believe the “predictions” shoved down our throats that we are all going to drown in a Trumpian Red Wave of election deniers and right wing nutters. And so millions of you — good people, liberals, lefties, Democrats, Montessori parents — sink into a despair, knowing in your heart of hearts we are doomed. Between Biden’s low approval ratings, the “record high“ inflation, and the media telling us over and over how the first midterm election of a new president is usually a slaughter (Obama lost 63 House seats in his first midterm), most liberal voters simply gave in to the inevitable.

So I stepped in to help turn that around. Every day for six weeks I wrote to you, my Substack subscribers and social media followers. I sent you a daily email to give you hard data and facts (plus my own Midwestern common sense) as to why there would be no Republican landslide and that Trump would never rule America again. I asked only that you get five others to vote with you — and that you start believing in yourselves, in us, and in our wonderful, crazy country where there are millions more of us than there are of the haters and the Democracy destroyers. A country still unfinished, and my insistence that we do just that: Finish it. Make it right. And guarantee that everyone has a seat at the table and a slice of the pie.

Many of you wrote me with gratitude, telling me of the hard work you were doing to get out the vote. It lifted my spirits (which was much appreciated as I had come down with Covid on the fourth day of these “Midterm Tsunamis of Truth”, half of them written while lying in bed and trying to remember my middle name).

And then came our unexpected success on Tuesday — unexpected only by those who promoted the false narrative of a Republican landslide — but, sadly, unexpected also by all those who bought into that false narrative, namely depressed Democrats.

Many of you wrote me this week to apologize for not believing me because I saw instead a Blue Tsunami Wall that would protect us. Well, no apologies are necessary. I know how it is to be swamped by what the Times and NPR and the Wall Street Journal and a hundred pundits are throwing at you. And, without thinking, how people start repeating what David Brooks is saying! What FiveThirtyEight is saying! What their smart friend is saying. You hand your critical thinking mind over to them without even thinking about it.

And yet you never think to ask, “Why am I not hearing the opposing side to this narrative? Is there not a single person who believes the Democrats are going to resist history, make history, that the polling is wrong, that “approval ratings” are anachronistic and irrelevant… and wrong? That we live in a very new America where the younger generation is on fire, where women have had it up to here, where the calendar is screaming at us that we are just 20 years away from the U.S. no longer being a “white” country. A country where white people will be the minority by 2042. Those knucklehead white supremacists know it! What do you think the January 6th insurrection was really about? I mean if Herschel Walker is now their only hope, jeez they gotta be feeling just awful. What would great-great-Confederate grandpappy say about all this?

So, yes, I have been howling these facts out to the wind, and yet I could not find a single commentator on TV or in journalism who would break from the herd and agree with me that the whole stinking media has it all wrong and that the Democrats are going to do better than fine, and that the Republicans are about to have their ass handed to them.

During the six weeks leading up to the election, no newspaper, no magazine, no TV network or armed forces wire service sought either to report on my facts and data about “no red wave is coming” — or do their own reporting to tell the public that a fantasy narrative has been concocted to depress the Democratic vote. I’m on TV a lot. I’m always being asked to come on TV to join the discussion. But not during the midterms. They didn’t want to even consider what I was saying. Other than Bill Maher (who didn’t agree with my analysis but thought I should be heard), Salon, and The Guardian newspaper would let me put forth the possibility that the red wave was in fact a red herring.

Is it the ball cap? The Supercuts haircut? The wardrobe I loaned to John Fetterman?

In the final days before November 8th, three decent, brave non-primetime souls on MSNBC — the longtime pro Alex Witt, the rapper/lawyer Ari Melber and the indefatigable Joy Reid — gave me a voice. Viewers were shocked to hear someone say we on the left were not only going to keep the Senate, we were going to pick up a seat or two. That not only were the Republicans not going to clobber us in the House with 30 to 50 new seats, they might be in for an upset because it’s gonna be so dang close. And Trump’s mob of election-denying candidates were going to go down in flames. There would be record numbers of young voters, and women were on a rampage over the abolishment of Roe. The sword of vengeance would be theirs.

Of all of the above glorious victories we attained on Tuesday, my favorite was this:

In nearly every state, women voters outnumbered the men. And young voters delivered another record turnout — second highest in nearly three decades.

Women and youth made Democrats the real winners.

As I came out of the voting booth on Tuesday, an elderly woman came up to me. The color of her eyes was steel.

“Women,” she said to me, “we are ruthless. And when we are ruthless, men who cause harm to us, to our children, never see us coming. And then it’s too late. This, this what the Court did, now you will see what I mean by ruthless.” Chills. Because she meant it. Thrilled, because I believed her.

In most states, women voters on Tuesday vastly outnumbered the men (in a few of them by 55% to 45%!). Guys — what did you think was going to happen after women were once again reminded that they can just go f**k themselves as they were told to do by the Supreme priests in black robes on June 24th of this year? If you’re afraid of 2042 when it comes to race, get your male lug head ready to wrap itself around this fact: By 2028-2032, women will make up half of Congress; good luck finding a male doctor or male lawyer under 45 (the majority of all medical and law students today are women); and there will be a woman in the White House — and she won’t invade Iraq, won’t impose cruelty and suffering on the poor, the immigrant or the single mother; a president who will embrace the oppressed and welcome all who do the shit work none of us would ever do. From them she will find America’s next new leaders and geniuses.

So I need to close by asking all of you a favor. After the election on Wednesday, as I had for weeks, I tried to assure you that not only are we going to win the Senate seats in Nevada, Arizona and the Georgia runoff on December 6th, I think we are going to hold the House! Yet even after I shared with you 40 Tsunami Truths, still, until even this very moment that you’re reading this, you are sick to your stomach with the belief that of course we will lose the House.

So let me make this simple observation — when in your American lifetime have they not called who has won the House SIX FRIGGIN’ DAYS AFTER THE POLLS HAVE CLOSED? Never! So what do you think is taking so long? I’ll tell you what I think: It’s because the count is very, very, very close — so close that the Democrats have smoked this election, and now they are just a seat or two away from owning the whole damn show in DC!

Can you handle that? Can you finally please stop always thinking the worst and that the forces of evil will triumph? Even if we don’t win, can you reach into yourself and at least “believe” we are going to win the House? Because our next victory starts there, inside of you. That’s one thing I admire about the other side — they believe so deeply in everything they believe in. They believe the earth was made in just 6 days. They believe Jesus walked on water. It doesn’t matter that it makes no sense or that there was no need for him to do that because he was a perfectly good swimmer. They believe Trump is a prophet sent to us from God to get rid of the IRS.

They win so much because they’ve got God.

We have Noam Chomsky. That’s not a fair fight.

So will you take a moment and say these 10 words out loud for me, right now:

There are more of us than there are of them.

And…

We will Hold the House!

Sure, it may not happen by a vote or two — but that’s not the point! The point is we’ve brought the Republicans trembling to their knees tonight. They can’t believe this has happened to them. They will not be able to collect themselves into a fighting force. They will fight each other. We will peel away a few of them at a time when we need their votes. Which Republican representative who won by only 40 votes is going to dare vote NO on the Violence Against Women Act? Or expanding Medicare for their parents?

Here’s a fact the pundits don’t quote:

In this current session of Congress, elected in 2020, 9 Republicans and 7 Democrats never even lasted until the end of this term! Some died. Some quit. Usually one or two are indicted. Some went out for a pack of smokes and never came back. Special elections had to be held to fill their seats. How do we now have a Democrat representing Alaska in the House? Because Republican Congressman Don Young died this year, and in the special election to replace him, Democrat Mary Peltola was elected. When the first two Republicans in this new session are gone, we’ll be ready to fly into action and clean up. One way or the other, the House will be ours.

But what do I know?

Spirits up everyone! Ride the wave!

P.S. Here’s a song for the end of this Veteran’s Day weekend. It’s from P!nk and her dad. He wrote it after he returned from the Vietnam War. It’s the first song she learned to sing. Enjoy.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

Truth #37: It Can’t Happen Here

Truth #38: The Day After the Blue Tsunami

Truth #39: Roevember Election Day Mixtape

Truth #40: We Win Either Way

Truth #41: We Killed the Red Wave

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #41

Michael Moore — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:04:17 GMT

It’s 6am and I haven’t gone to bed. The headlines are already popping up on my screen:

“No Signs of ‘Red Wave’ as Race for Congress Remains Tight” (New York Times)

“Congress hangs in balance as Democrats defy expectations” (Washington Post)

“‘Red wave’ fails to materialise as Fetterman clinches crucial Senate seat for Democrats” (The Guardian)

“Control of Congress Remains at Stake as Democrats Fend Off Anticipated ‘Red Wave’” (The Wall Street Journal)

I’ve checked my inbox and so many of you have written to me through the night. So many of you who worked hard over these last months to prevent the bloodbath. A fascist takeover by a full slate of election deniers and voting suppressors.

And now we know there will be no bloodbath. Not today. And it’s because we and millions of others erected a force field around the haters and bigots to stop them in their tracks. And that is what has happened. Sometimes you have to lose a battle or two in order to win the war.

I love how you all knew that if for some reason we couldn’t create a blue tsunami on Election Day, our second best choice was to make sure there would be no red wave.

And that is where we are at as America wakes up on The Day After. As Election Day 2022 came to an end, the Republicans last night were in a state of shock as they found themselves, at least for now, in control of neither the House nor the Senate! They were unable to throw a single Democrat out of the United States Senate. In fact just the opposite happened — the Democrats were able to flip control of their Pennsylvania Senate seat from a Republican to a Democrat. In stunned disbelief, the Democrats instantly went from a 50-50 Senate to a 51-49 Senate in their favor. Georgia and Nevada are still too close to call, but the Democrat in Georgia holds a small lead, and the Democrat in Nevada has played see-saw all night with the Republican. To be clear, they’ll be counting these votes for days, if not weeks, and so it’s anybody’s guess what could happen.

As for the House, you need 218 seats to hold a majority, to be able to pass (or defeat) a bill. Right now they are 20 seats short of that and that is why none of the networks nor the AP nor the New York Times have called the House for either Party.

The looks on the faces of Fox News are glum. This was not what they — or we — have been told for months would happen. Back in the spring, Republican leadership predicted that the Trump Party would pick up nearly 60 seats in the House. It looks like they’ll be lucky to get 10. Commentators on Fox called it a “disaster.” One scenario suggests they could end up with just a one vote majority.

“The real winner tonight” said one Republican, “is Joe Biden. He’s got a big smile on his face right now.”

There was so much heartening news coming out of last night. Abortion rights measures passing in Vermont, California, Michigan, and Kentucky — with Montana poised to follow suit. Marijuana was made legal in Maryland and Missouri. Record midterm turnouts by young people occurred in many states.

I will go into more detail when we next talk (after more votes are tabulated). For now, let me just say this:

We were lied to for months by the pundits and pollsters and the media. Voters had not “moved on” from the Supreme Court’s decision to debase and humiliate women by taking federal control over their reproductive organs. Crime was not at the forefront of the voters “simple” minds. Neither was the price of milk. It was their Democracy that they came to fight for yesterday. And because of that drive, we live to fight, and hope, for another day…

Once again, massive thanks to all of you for helping all of us build a Blue Wall that stopped an ugly red wave.

I’ll speak to y’all later.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

Truth #37: It Can’t Happen Here

Truth #38: The Day After the Blue Tsunami

Truth #39: Roevember Election Day Mixtape

Truth #40: We Win Either Way

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Mike's Midterm Tsunami Truth #40

Michael Moore — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:49:02 GMT

We win either way today because love and kindness always wins out over hate and greed. Sometimes it takes a while. And when we win today (or tomorrow or 2024) we will fight to better the lives of everyone — including and especially the lives of those burdened with hate and confusion over what it should mean to be an American. Our love and compassion — and the ability to have a Political Party that knows how to present a cogent, compelling and convincing message — is how we will heal the politically despondent, those who have given up and are sadly staying home today, those who’ve been easily tricked into voting against their own best interests, and those who are succumbed with a mindless fear of “the other” who are going to hurt them or take what their white Christian leaders have promised them is theirs.

And if we “lose,” as the media predicts — an outcome they will have willed into existence by convincing just enough Americans that the price of a gallon of gas is more important than the human rights of an entire gender and more important than the actual Democracy itself — then we will live to fight another day. A lie has a short shelf life when exposed to the resounding Truth. There will always be more of us than them, so let’s just figure out how to truly activate and embrace both that majority and the 80 million who are nonvoters. One way to do that is to follow through on our promises: Tax the rich, support the working class and their families, all women are equals, and we create a new generation of civically-engaged critical thinkers who read and act and love.

I woke up today in good spirits, thoughtful of the future, but in need of a good laugh and a small dose of humanity. So, for this 40th Tsunami Truth, I thought I’d share with you a brief collection of cartoons, memes, greater truths and a child who plays her accordion for a field of cows. I hope this helps you get through the high anxiety of this day, brings calm to your soul, and real hope for what lies ahead.

Oh — and if you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time! Even if you are not registered, in 19 states plus D.C. you can still register in-person AND vote today at the polls. Here’s the list: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. And here’s where to find your polling place.

And now for Mike’s Election Day Funny (and not so funny) Pages! Enjoy.

We’ll talk tonight…

(A decade ago)

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

Truth #37: It Can’t Happen Here

Truth #38: The Day After the Blue Tsunami

Truth #39: Roevember Election Day Mixtape

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Mike's Midterm Tsunami Truth #39

Michael Moore — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:12:40 GMT

The Day has arrived. The verdict will soon be rendered. I have only one vote. So do you. But all of us together decide where we want the country to go.

I’ve been counting on the vast majority with whom I share this land, the ones who believe in the human rights of women, who believe that the human species is in deep environmental danger, who believe the rich, by getting richer, have made life harder for everyone else — I believe we, together, are going to turn this all around. Beginning today. Right?

To celebrate this day, I’ve made a playlist, a mixtape of special music for a special day. Something to listen to while in line at your polling place. Or listen to it tonight as you fall asleep. Or if you’ve already voted, just put it in your ears or on your sound system and let ‘er rip all day long. Feel good. Be proud of what you’ve done. Enjoy this moment. Have a virtual dance with me! Get ready for the future. There is much to do.

But today, sing a song, let out a yell, wear mismatched socks and share a simple kindness with someone. VOTE if you haven’t already! I’ll be at my polling location this afternoon. I will party with all of you tonight, no matter the outcome. We can’t be stopped now.

Enjoy the tunes!

TRACK LIST:

00:00:00 Democracy — Leonard Cohen

00:07:04 Break My Soul — Beyoncé

00:11:35 People Have The Power — Patti Smith

00:16:35 The Times They Are A-Changin’ — Michael Moore

00:20:16 New Americana — Halsey

00:24:11 We Shall Overcome — Bruce Springsteen

00:28:57 Wasteland of the Free — Iris DeMent

00:34:07 Before The Deluge — Jackson Browne

00:40:01 America — Simon & Garfunkel

00:43:28 All You Fascists — Billy Bragg and Wilco

00:46:08 The Sound Of Silence — Disturbed

00:50:16 We Belong — Pat Benatar

00:53:53 Where Is The Love? — The Black Eyed Peas

00:58:01 American Tune — Paul Simon

01:01:41 Beyond The Sea — Bobby Darin

01:04:32 American Saturday Night — Brad Paisley

01:09:01 Better Days — The Goo Goo Dolls

01:12:27 Star Spangled Banner — Jimi Hendrix

01:16:12 American Idiot — Green Day

01:19:06 American Life — Madonna

01:22:56 Better World A-Comin’ — Woody Guthrie

01:26:00 Put On A Happy Face — Dick Van Dyke & Janet Leigh

01:29:33 Not Ready To Make Nice — The Chicks

01:33:23 Dog Days Are Over — Florence + The Machine

01:37:01 I’ve Seen All Good People — Yes

01:43:35 Under Pressure — Queen & David Bowie

01:47:29 You’re Not Alone — Allison Russell (feat. Brandi Carlile)

01:52:33 The Ghost of Tom Joad — Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello

02:01:11 Talkin’ Bout a Revolution — Tracy Chapman

02:03:44 Try — P!nk

02:07:48 President — Wyclef Jean

02:11:23 All Along The Watchtower — The Jimi Hendrix Experience

02:15:21 Oh Very Young — Cat Stevens

02:17:51 The Greatest — Sia

02:21:10 We Got the Beat — The Go Go’s

02:23:40 Killing In the Name — Rage Against The Machine

02:28:53 F**k You — Lily Allen

02:32:25 We Can Be Together — Jefferson Airplane

02:38:10 About Damn Time — Lizzo

02:41:21 Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life — Eric Idle & Monty Python

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

Truth #37: It Can’t Happen Here

Truth #38: The Day After the Blue Tsunami

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #38

Michael Moore — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:56:51 GMT

It is now less than 29 hours until the polls open.

Whose heart didn’t just skip a beat reading that sentence! This is it my friends! Everything and anything that we do in these next 30+ hours will decide the fate and the future of this unfinished Democracy.

Tens of millions of our fellow Americans would prefer we not finish it. I understand. For them, the country has become too black and brown, too many women “taking over,” too many languages from the huddled masses they don’t understand, too many educated people, too much compassion for the have-nots, the disabled and the families who can’t afford a Christmas tree. Plus, TV shows got smarter, sports got dumber and spaghetti in a can just doesn’t seem to taste right anymore.

If you think you are scared of us losing on Tuesday, imagine what it feels like for our not-so-loyal opposition who are now forced to live in a country where the majority no longer go to church, the majority of adults are no longer married, the majority no longer have a gun in the house, the vast majority support nondiscrimination laws for the LGBTQ+ community, and the vast, vast majority are not haters, bigots, climate deniers, election deniers or drive a General Motors car. Think of how scared they are of Tuesday!

So come with me on a brief but joyful jaunt down the yellow brick road to “The Day After the Blue Tsunami” to see what our future could look like after we defeat the insurrectionist-loving Republicans. (Spoiler Alert: It looks a lot like the America we’ve always wished we had — and now will. Spoiler Alert #2: This peek at our future will only become a reality if we force the elected Democrats to give us the country they’ve promised us. As we know all too well, they will need our guidance and assistance.)

Sometime between Tuesday night at 11pm ET and Friday morning we will know the outcome of the Midterm election. And if it goes the way it should go, then we will have the chance to create a different America in the next two years. By holding the House and hopefully picking up 2 new seats in the Senate (to counter any blockage from Manchin and Sinema), then we will have a clear shot at improving so many things which need our attention.

So, if you will, sit back, close your eyes and imagine it’s sometime in 2023. It’s the America we’ve long hoped for. The New USA — brought to you by the libs, the teachers union, critical race thinkers and the makers of classroom kitty litter…

The year of 2023 began with the first day of the new Congress on January 3, 2023. The new 53-majority Democratic Senate voted to eliminate the filibuster. From that day forward, President Biden and the Democratic Congress were able to pass a long list of legislation to make life better for working families, the Earth in general and the Democracy specifically. With the filibuster gone, there was no Republican interference.

Also on Day 1, the Dems needed to make two strong statements — and they did, by taking these actions:

They passed a series of election reform bills so that voting is now easier — and voter suppression is against the law. Gerrymandering was also outlawed. This should prevent the next Trump from trying to upend our election system. And Congress began the process to eliminate the Electoral College!
No one works for less than $25 an hour any longer. All workers now get “paid family leave time” when needed. All workers also enjoy a minimum of 4 weeks paid vacation every year. Workers are encouraged to join unions that will negotiate and advocate for them.
ObamaCare is now “USA Universal Care” — a system of free health insurance for all. No one ever has to pull out their wallet again at the doctor’s office or at the hospital. It is fully funded by taxing employers the way they were always taxed for Medicare. By eliminating the private profit-making insurance companies, profit and overhead costs have been brought down by at least 25%. Finally, thanks to Congress instituting the proposal from National Nurses United to charge a penny tax on all shares traded each day on Wall Street, billions have been raised to cover USA Universal Care. By learning from the Canadian system, no American now is ever denied care. There are no co-pays, no deductibles. One popular improvement to the American system, unlike the Canadians and British, the U.S. covers mental and dental care. By shifting the focus to health prevention, costs have been brought way down — and more importantly, fewer people are getting sick for less periods of time. Who knew what a 30-min walk would do!
Now that the required 38 states have passed the Equal Rights Amendment for women, it has finally been placed in the United States Constitution! That took long enough! (Weren’t there women on the Mayflower?)
As soon as the 535 members of Congress got their locker keys and cafeteria passes, they got right to codifying the original Roe v. Wade into a nationwide law making abortion legal in all states and territories, keeping all birth control legal and easily available — and authorizing research on a male birth control pill, plus making vasectomies free and easy to obtain.
The government is now funding free pre-K for 3 and 4-year-olds. Community college and vocational school are also now free.
The rich are finally paying more in taxes. This seems to have made all the hard-working people and parents in the country feel better. Capping the out-of-control prices of the cost of homes also helped. Hollywood got back to making movies but seemed in some cases to have forgotten how to make a great one. People wanted comedies so there were more of those. The richest man in the world bought Twitter and in the first week fired half of all the company’s employees. By email.

Nonetheless, we were all so relieved that the crazy Trumpsters not only lost the election, many of them bought a large swath of land in Utah and moved there, waiting to be beamed up by JFK, Jr. where he was expected to take them to one of Jupiter’s moons where Sean Hannity would guide them and rule with wit and compassion. Trump had already built a signature golf course there on Ganymede, and even had the gravesites mapped out for his other two wives, his five kids and Gary Busey.

We didn’t really miss any of them. We liked not having to be inundated with the stress of feeling like our world was going to fall apart any minute. Soon, we could no longer remember what MAGA stood for. Which was a good thing.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

Truth #37: It Can’t Happen Here

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #37

Michael Moore — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:57:20 GMT

In the slight, minuscule off-chance that most of you are unable to bring 5 nonvoters with you to the polls and thus allow the Republicans to win on Tuesday, let me lay out an optimistic view of what they will attempt to do once they ransack our Capitol a second time.

But let me first say that there is NO reason why we should lose! There are 20 million more of us! The majority of Americans agree with us on nearly every issue, from climate to abortion to a living wage to expanding universal health care to gun control to paid family leave. 70% of eligible voters are women, people of color, or between the ages of 18-35 — or some combination of these three. THIS is the base of the Democratic electorate. The Democrats, who have won the popular vote in every presidential election but one since Bush the First in 1988.

So how could we lose? There’s only ONE way that could happen — we, the vast majority, don’t show up. We, the majority, didn’t make sure that everyone we know voted. That we, the majority, took our majority for granted, didn’t fight as hard as we could, sinking into our despair because we believed the pundits and pollsters instead of our faith in our mission to do good. We turned ourselves into professional cynics repeating clever never-heard-before(!) cliches like “the Democrats are just as corrupt as Republicans!” and “Obama didn’t fix the water travesty in Flint!” Oh wait — that was me who said those things! Well Mike, just because a cliche is true doesn’t mean you have to keep repeating it at a moment when we are facing the existential crisis of losing our Democracy.

So before I paint the picture of how royally f***ed we will be should we lose on Tuesday (we won’t), let me start by giving you a small piece of good news:

Anything that a Republican Congress might pass can be stopped by a Biden veto. And because there is no way the Party of Trump will elect enough Senators and Representatives to override that veto, we are relatively safe for the two remaining years of our Democracy.

PLEASE SHARE THE FOLLOWING:

1. Plans have already been drawn up to impeach Biden. They will do this at least five times in 2023 and 2024.

2. As the Republican Congress will control the country’s purse, they will attempt to remove all funding of ObamaCare, public education, poverty relief, hunger, the arts, civil rights enforcement, and the environment. “Defund the police?” Not quite. Their mission will be to defund everything.

3. They will pass a nationwide law banning all abortion (to get it passed, they’ll reluctantly agree to sparing the life of the mother as their one exception).

4. They will ban same-sex marriage — because there’s nothing worse than marrying the person you love.

5. Nothing will be done to halt inflation. Too much money is being made by the rich from charging higher and higher prices. Why spoil a good thing!

6. They will stop Biden’s college loan forgiveness program. It’s vital to keep young adults in hock as long as possible so they will be compliant workers in desperate need of that paycheck.

7. The Republicans will continue to refuse to reinstate the Violence Against Women Act. Because, like, why?

8. They will investigate and seek to prosecute Dr. Fauci, Hunter Biden, Cassidy Hutchinson, Joe Biden, and yes, Hillary Clinton.

9. They will block any attempt by Biden to nominate a new Justice to the Supreme Court, claiming “two years before the next inauguration is too close to the next president taking office.”

10. As Trump now completely controls the Republican Party, all Republican elected officials, fearing him and needing his backing for re-election in 2024, will do whatever he tells them to do. It’ll be the first time in my lifetime where a defeated Commander in Chief remains essentially in charge as the Shadow President, pulling the strings, getting his way, fully in charge of the permanent roadblock and placing all of us in danger.

This list just skims the surface of what the Republicans are planning to do. They will be on a bloody tear. Unlike us, when they have power, they wield it without mercy.

Thank goodness we’re not going to let this happen. Because we got an extra hour of sleep last night! We’re so rested and assured of our majority, we’re going to make a ton of calls today. We’re going to walk down the street or the hallway of our apartment building to knock on a few doors and say hi to our neighbors and share with them why Tuesday is so important to us, keeping the conversation personal and human, not political, not a debate. We’ll let them know the location of the neighborhood polling place, but that’s enough. People are tired. It’s been a tough 3 years. If you can take off from work on Monday and Tuesday to campaign and work the polls, please do so. Calling in “sick” in this case will not be a lie. We are all sick over the condition of this country we love.

P.S. Stay tuned because I’m going to paint the picture of what our country’s going to look like after we win on Tuesday — something we’ve hoped for for a long time.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

Truth #36: Dem Insiders Quietly Confide to Me What We’ve Known All Along

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #36

Michael Moore — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:55:42 GMT

Well, my friends, it’s been a very interesting few days. After 5 weeks of my daily insistence that we, the majority, are going to have a Blue Tsunami on Tuesday, I am now (especially after being on TV last night) hearing from Democratic Party insiders who want to tell me (confidentially) that my belief in our victory is not unfounded and is now looking more and more, well, likely.

A couple of these Dem apparatchiks of course had their own reasons to share this good news with me. One asked if I could stop saying we’re gonna win. “We’re worried if people think we’ve pulled ahead,” one said to me, “there’s a chance they'll say ‘oh good, I don’t need to vote!’”

“That’s old thinking,” I texted back. “The public is already setting new early-voting records. People — our people — are on fire! Women are fed up and in the middle of a not-so-quiet rampage. They’re gleefully looking forward to extracting the men from Congress who support the medieval practice of forced procreation.”

“True,” he texted back. “Pollsters show abortion as #3 on the list of concerns, but that doesn’t account for the intensity and yes it’s huge. The anger over Roe decision is huge.”

I added: “And the anger from young voters is also huge. They know we’ve left them with a dying planet. Their only hope for survival is to toss every last one of the planet killers overboard.“

“Agreed. They’ll also be there in record numbers on Tuesday.”

Another Dem Party person contacted me to thank me for the “brave and correct” stance of believing in the “possibility of the Democratic victory.” She also said I was probably hurting their fundraising.

“You mean,” I replied, “all those scary emails you guys keep sending out saying we need to ‘DONATE $17 BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT OR WE’RE GOING TO LOSE!!’”

“Yes,” she said. “We need the money. And yes, the more scared people are, the more they’ll give. Your blog is making many of them feel less scared and more hopeful. Not good Mike.”

“Hope,” I offered, “in a time like this, is not a bad thing. Especially if it is based on facts and not simply emotion. Why not have the DNC send out a mass email this weekend telling everyone that their hard work is paying off! Tell them what you just told me — that your internal research is showing Fetterman is going to win Pennsylvania by at least 6 points! Grassley in Iowa is probably going to lose. That New Hampshire was never really in play!”

“Don’t share those stats I gave you,“ she admonished me.

“Sure,” I laughed. “That’s why you gave them to me. Of all people. So I wouldn’t share them with a few million others. Do you also wanna tell me that Val Demings is going to beat Marco Rubio?”

“No.”

One other takeaway from these conversations was their belief that, in post-pandemic America, polling is a “broken science.”

“Don’t dignify polls by referring to them as a science,” I said. “It’s the fraud of propaganda, trying to invent a factual basis for what is a work of fiction.”

“You’re essentially right,” one admitted to me. “Before the vote in Kansas [this summer to keep legal abortion in their state Constitution], FiveThirtyEight wrote that the anti-abortion crowd was going to win by four points. They lost by 18 points! Polls are bullshit.”

They pointed out to me that these days a lot of “polls” are actually funded by corporate lobbying groups and others with Republican backing. Often when you hear about the latest “poll,” it’s often an aggregate of many polls and the Republican and business interests do their best to include their biased polls in the soup so that the percentage for their desired candidate rises to the top.

“Look at the small print,“ one of them said. “Some of them list a ‘margin of error, plus or minus, 10 or 12 points!’”

So it’s true — we are being played for suckers. The Republicans need us to believe that Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin doesn’t stand a chance. They must “depress” our vote, convince us we’re going to lose before we even open the ballot envelope.

Last night I received a letter to my Substack address from someone else who works inside the Democratic Party. Someone who wanted me to know the truth about what they knew from inside the (soft) belly of the party of Obama, JFK and FDR. He wanted me to know that what I’ve been telling you for 37 days is the truth and nothing but.

Here’s his letter:

In 2018, I started working as a consultant for the Democratic Party in its campaigns. It was a dream job come true. I've always been a politics junkie and it felt good to be doing my part (and make a living wage).
But 2022 has broken me.
Last year, I started working for the Dems on digital fundraising and let me tell ya, Mike: These motherf***ers in the Party really do care more about raising money than helping people or even winning their own elections.
You know all those emails that say "give us $25 or terrible stuff will happen"? Yeah, I’m the one who writes them.
Part of the reason I wanted to reach out to you is because of your prediction that Dems can still win big on Election Night. As someone on the inside who watches and monitors this stuff for a living — I want to tell you why you are 100% right.
Anytime you see a headline talking about a “Republican surge” in the polls, that data is likely sourced from one of three places: FiveThirtyEight, Real Clear Politics, or the Cook Political Report.

These outlets are poll aggregators that average the results of multiple polls to come up with their “predictions.”

Since September, the GOP has purposefully flooded the zone with conservative-leaning polls in an effort to game these aggregators.

This is admittedly a brilliant strategy — but it also means headlines warning of a red tsunami that may be severely overstating the Republican advantage.
It also explains why recent polls don't reflect the early-voting data — which shows a clear Democratic advantage.
Numbers do, in fact, sometimes lie. If folks actually show up between now and Tuesday to the polls, the Democrats will win.
I know you say it all the time — but please, please, please beg listeners to vote.
J.

Wow. There you go. And I have no problem or loss of pride in coming to each of you and begging you to please, please, please get out and vote and get others to vote with you over these next 4 days.

I have been calling many of your relatives and friends, the phone numbers you’ve sent me, to convince them to vote. If we all do our part, we are going to have a Blue Tsunami on Tuesday, putting the final nail in the virtual coffin of a two-year coup attempt to destroy our Democracy.

Please do something this weekend —

Consider this that extra push you need to get off the couch and on the ground knocking on doors and talking to your neighbors about voting. Grab a friend and do it together!

Don’t like knocking on doors? Encourage everyone you encounter this weekend to vote — your next-door-neighbor raking their leaves, the cashier at your grocery store.

Wanna go bigger? Go on a mini-road trip to help out the swing state near you!

Or keep it remote! Make some tea, have a lozenge ready and make some calls for Democratic candidates through an organization like Vote Save America, Democratic National Committee or Sunrise Movement, your states’ local Democratic party, or directly through candidates’ websites: Cheri Beasley (D-North Carolina), Mark Kelly (D-Arizona), Mandela Barnes (D-Wisconsin), John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia), Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada).

Don’t like calling strangers? Call everyone in your contact list!

Do whatever you can to Get Out The Vote!

I’ll be posting a new podcast in the next day or so, plus my final Midterm Tsunami Truths which I’ll email you. Please share them with others. Please vote.

P.S. I’ll be on Joy Reid with Rob Reiner tonight at 7pm ET on MSNBC.
And then tomorrow with Alex Witt on MSNBC at 1pm ET. Tune in!

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

Truth #35: The kids are all right.

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Mike's Midterm Tsunami Truth #35

Michael Moore — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:56:08 GMT

(A daily series to counter the attempts to depress the Democratic vote next Tuesday.)

Everyone loves to characterize potential young voters as apathetic and lazy, and too often diminishes or outright dismisses the power they hold. Surprising? No. A mistake? Abso-f**king-lutely.

Since 2004, young voters have overwhelmingly leaned Democratic. Like I’ve said in earlier Truths — the youth vote elected Obama to the White House in 2012. The youth vote gave the Democrats the House back in the 2018 midterms. And in 2020, the youth vote won Biden Georgia and Pennsylvania. Overall, 65% of 18-24-year-olds voted for Biden vs 31% who voted for Trump.

And this year all signs are pointing to history exceeding itself…

On Nov 1, Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) — the leading nonpartisan research center that focuses on young people’s civic and political participation — released its latest report. Based on 41 states where data is available, youth voter registration, age 18-24, is up 6% nationally compared to 2018. And in an election year where a number of races may be decided by a percentage point or two, anything above that in terms of new, young voters can make all the difference for the Democrats.

And this increase is in some of the states with the most hotly contested races:

+38% Michigan
+29% Kansas
+20% Colorado
+18% Nevada
+14% N. Carolina
+14% Texas
+5% Arizona

That 29% in Kansas helped the anti-abortion referendum fail, and that 14% in Texas may very well carry Beto O’Rourke over the finish line.

Between August and November, 53% of newly registered 18-29-year-olds were women, compared to 47% men.

But Gen Z doesn’t only have the ability to vote this Roevember, they also have the intent.

A study by Harvard recently revealed that 40% of all young adults plan to vote in this election — a record! Just two midterm elections ago in 2014, that number was just 19.9%! The study also found that young voters want the Democrats in charge of Congress by a 26 point margin.

And what are the main issues these young liberal-leaning voters say are bringing them to the polls?

Abortion
Protecting Democracy
Inflation
Climate Crisis

72% of the young Americans polled said they believe the rights of others are under attack, and 59% believe their own rights are under attack.

And the best part — we still have 6 days (including another whole weekend!) to keep driving the number of voters up! There’s still the chance, right now, in 21 states plus Washington D.C., to register to vote — 19 of which, plus D.C. offer same-day registration on Election Day, Nov. 8th!

Let’s keep up momentum folks! I am already doing my part by making my daily Mike’s Midterm Calls, and I’m asking you, please, continue doing your part to Get Out The Vote!

And don’t forget — the kids are all right.

Bonus Thought: If you want a quick fix to get you through your TV Cable news withdrawal, look for me in conversation with Ari Melber (Thursday in the 6pm ET hour), Joy Reid (Friday in the 7pm ET hour) and Alex Witt (Saturday at 1pm ET) — all on MSNBC. Be sure to tune in as I go up against the conventional wisdom!

Finally, in case you missed it, our Tsunami of Truth swelled across the Atlantic ocean last weekend, with a feature article in The Guardian. Check it out below!

For the past month, Academy Award-winning documentary maker Michael Moore has been emailing out a daily missive, Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truth, on why he believes Democrats will win big in America’s midterm elections next month.

Moore calls it “a brief honest daily dose of the truth – and the real optimism these truths offer us”. It also – at this moment in time – flies in the face of most political punditry, which sees a Republican win in the cards.

Making predictions is a risky undertaking in any election cycle, but especially in this round, with Democrats banking they can hitch Republican candidates to an unpopular Supreme Court decision to overturn federal guarantees of a woman’s right to abortion. Republicans, meanwhile, are laser-focused on high inflation rates, economic troubles and fears over crime.

But political forecasting has become Moore’s business since he correctly called that Donald Trump would win the national elections in 2016, against common judgment of the media and pollster’s businesses.

The thrust of his reasoning that this will be “Roe-vember” is amplified daily in the emails. In missive #21 (Don’t Believe It) on Tuesday, he addressed the issue of political fatalism, specifically the media narrative that the party in power necessarily does poorly in midterm elections.

“The effect of this kind of reporting can be jarring – it can get inside the average American’s head and scramble it,” Moore wrote. “You can start to feel deflated. You want to quit. You start believing that we liberals are a bunch of losers. And by thinking of ourselves this way, if you’re not careful, you begin to manifest the old narrative into existence.”

Reached by telephone last week, Moore said that his purpose, in effect, is to puncture herd-thinking. He points to three recent examples where political norms were wrongly interpreted.

“If I said to you six months ago, ‘you know Kansas, right? It’s a huge pro-abortion state and this summer by a margin of 60% they’re going to keep abortion legal’ you’d think I had made a crazy statement,” he says.

“If I’d told you at the same time that in the congressional election in Alaska, a hard red state, that it’s not only going to be won by a Democrat but a Native Alaskan Democrat, again you’d have to question if I was out of my mind.”

Finally, he draws attention to Boise, Idaho, where an incumbent Republican candidate for the board of education was endorsed by a far-right group, the Idaho Liberty Dogs, and lost to an 18-year-old high school senior and progressive activist, Shiva Rajbhandari, who was also co-founder of the Boise chapter of the climate group Extinction Rebellion.

In each case, Moore says, conventional thinking was challenged.

“I have a high-school education so probably, maybe, you shouldn’t be getting your news from me, if you’d just been paying attention in the last six months to Kansas, Idaho and Alaska you’d have seen the red flags going up,” he says.

Moore likes to go off in a different direction. He comes from Michigan with its strong connections to anti-government movements – Moore attended high school one district over from Oklahoma bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols. They graduated the same year.

His read is not metropolitan-orientated. Last year he wrote that Democrats have “insurrectionist envy” of the January 6 Capitol riot. “Deep down in your soul, as you watched what your eyes could not believe was happening, admit to me that in that appalling moment on January 6, 2021, you were – how do I say it – jealous that it was the fascists who had risen up, and not us long before now,” he wrote.

Moore insists he’s not simply being provocative in predicting a Democrat landslide. “I’m sixty-eight and I don’t have time to mess around. I’m deadly serious.”

Moore predicts the election will see a record turnout of younger voters whose views pundits and commentators often miss. “If you spend any time with women, the Dobbs decision struck them personally and deeply. This was a religious edict based on conservative Catholic principles.”

Moore’s political musings are not limited to critical observations of the right. Missteps by Democrats are also apparent. “The biggest hurdle to what I’m doing with the series is the Democratic party,” he says. He’s been watching Democrat governor and state election debates on the US public broadcaster C-Span.

“It’s very disheartening and it would make even me question how we’re going to pull this off. The Democratic party consultants are feeding lines that are so lame and weak. They don’t go for the jugular like a Republican would. It doesn’t inspire people at home.”

“We stand here on the precipice of a very important election and our greatest enemy could be the Democratic party itself,” he adds.

But Moore has a further point, often made but not always heeded, that the biggest political grouping in the US is not Republicans or Democrats, but non-voters. This non-voter party, which is perhaps the most potentially powerful but also the most inaccessible, is the group Moore wants to reach.

“The non-voter party don’t see how politics benefits them, they’re disgusted with the hypocrisy, a lot are disgusted with the crazy fighting that goes on, and the craziness that Trump amped up,” Moore says, adding that when he turns on the TV in the evening he doesn’t necessarily go to a news channel but looks for a comedy.

Moore’s call-to-arms, then, is to reach the non-believers. “Everyone who does care, and feels like our democracy could be hanging on by a thread” now “has to do something in these last weeks”.

In his case, he says, it could be as simple as calling a cousin who doesn’t vote to give him reasons why, this time, it’s important and that “he can go back to non-voting after this.”

But what would he say to them?

“Aren’t you tired of nothing getting done? All this deadlock bullshit. One way to undo this logjam is to give Democrats a chance to pass legislation and let’s see how it works out. Maybe it won’t work. Maybe they’ve got bad ideas. But no idea and no decision is paralyzing and hurts the country. If we talk like that, talk normal, that could be a huge help.”

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

Truth #34: Deep Down, You Know You’re Being Played

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #34

Michael Moore — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:55:06 GMT

(A daily series to counter the myth that the Republicans are going to win the House and Senate)

In order to accept the ruse that “the polls have shifted in the Republican’s favor” — in other words, that the majority of Americans suddenly yearn for a return to the days of the accused rapist Trump — then you’d have to truly believe the following horseshit that the pundits, pollsters and party hacks are pedaling to you:

The Pundits: “The female fury over the Supreme Court Roe decision in June has subsided. Women were initially angry and upset, but then they calmed down and collected themselves, realizing that the cost of a dozen eggs (chicken eggs) and the price of a gallon of gas was far more important than having their own absolute legal control over their reproductive organs — and that being ordered to carry a pregnancy to term against their will was really no biggie.”

The Truth: The men who own and run the media have NO clue just how outraged the vast, vast majority of women remain over having it shoved in their face once again that they are second class citizens who are never going to hold real power (74% of Congress is still held by men and 426 of the Fortune 500 companies are still run by men), that women will never be paid the same as men, and that 56% of those forced to live in poverty and 64% of those who work the lowest paid jobs are and will always be women as long as the patriarchy says so — or until the patriarchy is smashed.

And these men who’ve been telling you (lying to you) every day during this election that women don’t really worry their “pretty little heads” over this stuff — which is the literal man’s boot placed squarely on their necks, as RBG used to say — are also telling us that women have been able to put their “emotions” aside and now wake up every morning obsessed with the price of gas (as of today, a whopping 21 cents over a year ago!). Of course women would gladly give up their basic human rights for a gallon of gas! The men who think this way are either just stupid, or they know all too well that they must depress the Democratic vote next week by getting just enough of you to believe that women are now voting for Republicans.

Well, these men are about to find out just how powerful women are and that, in fact, they haven’t forgotten for a friggin’ second how the Catholic mullahs of the Supreme Court shat all over them on June 24th — and they will, one week from today, show the Party of Male Dominance what real Justice and justifiable vengeance looks like. I can’t wait to be a witness.

P.S. One small hint of the oncoming tsunami of women: Early voting in Georgia has already set a new record. And here’s the “bad” news the patriarchy isn’t reporting — of those who have already voted, 55% are women and 45% are men. A whopping 10 point difference! Landslide numbers. And the men who’ve been telling us nonstop for the past couple weeks that the Republicans are going to win, causing so much despair amongst liberals — well, these men don’t even see the 100-foot female wave a-coming their way.

Bonus Thought:

In order to believe the polls claiming the American people want Republicans running our Congress — the same Congress where 147 of those Republicans voted to overthrow the election of Joe Biden — then you also have to believe that the 7 million people Biden won by have now been convinced by Rudy and the My Pillow guy that Biden is no good, he’s gone senile, and there’s got to be something evil on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

Truth #32: This Is All You Need to Know

Truth #33: Let Me Call Your Non-voting Brother-in-Law!

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #33

Michael Moore — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:43:10 GMT

We have just about a week left to go. Holy shit! This is it!

To win, to make sure our large majority of climate-believing, reproductive rights-supporting, anti-capitalist-fighting, mass incarceration-liberating, voter suppression-smashing, universal health care-providing, union-organizing, affordable housing-creating and soon-to-be victors over the Republican Party — all of us MUST step it up in these final 8 days if we are going to pull off the upset of upsets and send the politically illiterate pundits and election-denying party hacks packing! Once and for all!

I, too, must do more. While I can’t fly to a dozen states and go door-to-door with each of you this week, I can do the next best thing: I can personally call your still-undecided brother-in-law and convince him to vote with us. Or your aunt who gave up voting a decade ago. Or your close friend that agrees with us but can’t stand Biden. That’s ok — let me talk to them. If you send me their phone number I’ll try to call as many as I can every day for the next 8 days. I’ll listen to them and then I’ll do my best to convince them to join us. We’ve got nothing to lose here and everything to gain, one vote at a time.

So here’s how my phone calling for you is going to work:

If you want me to call a relative or friend to convince them to vote, send me a private email to: MikesMidtermCalls@gmail.com with her/his/their name and number, what your relationship is to them (sister, brother, son, daughter, etc.), and the best time to call. NOTE: As I expect to receive a few thousand requests, I will only be able to do just so many calls. I won’t have the time to arrange it in advance with you or them. It will just be random and unexpected when I call. It’s the only way to pull off something a little crazy like this. But it’ll be fun — and I think I can bring a few people along with us.

I’m looking forward to joining with as many of you as possible. I simply want to do as much as I can while sitting here in my post-Covid recovery! Don’t worry, I’m all good, just a slight dry cough and fogging up occasionally trying to figure out why I’m watching this particular World Series (or is it the Bachelor in Paradise I’m confused about?).

I will keep sending all of you the daily Midterm Tsunami Truths and my podcast. You might also see me on a few TV shows this week as I try to confront the attempts to depress our vote with the bs of the “surging Republican victory.” Oh wait — we swore off TV! Hmmm. I’ll leave it up to you.

Let’s do this my friends! Time is running out. The hard work — convincing the vast majority of Americans to side with us on nearly all the major issues — that work is already done! They already do! Now all we have to do is get them to the polls! Easy-peasy! There’s at least 20 million more of us than the Republicans. I mean, talk about having a huge lead! Let’s not blow it. Let’s not fail and embarrass ourselves because we couldn’t get a voter 2 miles to the voting booth!

Let’s go!

Let’s do this!

I’m here to campaign with you! Put me to work! I’ve got my phone bank all set up to get your family and your friends into a voting booth and save our Democracy.

P.S. And remember — What’s the reason we’re going to win? Because we are pounding the pavement and the internets for the next 8 days! We are unstoppable. We are the majority! We love this diverse, crazy country and its Democracy — and we intend to fix it and make it even more fair and user friendly. Who’s with me?!! See you this week!

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

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Mike's Midterm Tsunami Truth #32

Michael Moore — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:28:32 GMT

This is how the Republican Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have voted in the past two years.

100% of all Republican members of the 117th Congress in the House of Representatives in 2021-2022 voted against everything from cheaper drug prices to against fixing climate change, against the Voting Rights Act, against helping veterans with cancer and against prosecuting rich tax cheats.

Please show this list to everyone you know. If there’s anyone still on the fence about voting, this should help them make up their minds.

(This is part of my daily series to counter the propaganda that the Republicans are going to win the House and Senate)

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

Truth #31: If I Had a Hammer

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #31

Michael Moore — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 01:38:59 GMT

(A daily dose of truth about how millions of American voters are going to crush the traitor Trumpsters on November 8th)

Of course, the first thought that went through my head was “You mean it was that easy to break into Nancy Pelosi’s home? The Speaker of the House? Second in line to the presidency?!!”

Fortunately for her sake, she was not home in San Francisco when the attacker broke the glass on the door, unlocked it and let himself in. Her husband of 59 years, Paul Pelosi, was inside the home. We still don’t know all the details other than Pelosi was able to dial 911, and when the police arrived the intruder was hammering Pelosi’s skull with, well, a hammer, and shouting, “WHERE’S NANCY??!! WHERE’S NANCY??!!”

This was the same screaming demand from the mob during the January 6th coup attempt. Once inside they were on a mission to hunt her down. They broke into her office, ransacked it and stole her computer. They wanted to hang Mike Pence and kill her.

But, later that evening, once order was restored, 147 Republican senators and House members continued the coup attempt by voting to overturn the certified results of Biden’s election. It was a clear act of treason. In the 1800s, after the Civil War, this country was so worried that the treason committed by the South would eventually happen again, they wrote the punishment for it right into the 14th Amendment of the Constitution:

Section 3:

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Wow! It says it right there: If you as a member of Congress engaged in any insurrection or rebellion — or if you’ve given aid or comfort to that rebellion — then YOU can no longer be a Senator or a member of the House of Representatives or just about any other office in the land!

So why, for the life of me, are these 147 traitors still sitting in the House and Senate? Why have they not been arrested and tried? I guess that’s our job next week when we vote to remove as many as we can from Congress.

Paul Pelosi underwent surgery for his fractured skull and right arm Friday night. They say he is going to recover, whatever that means when you’re 82 years old. The attacker is now in custody. His internet writings all parrot Trump and the My Pillow guy. He told the police his plan was to tie up Mr. Pelosi and then wait for Nancy to come home.

As I followed the news of this over these last two days, I found myself quite unsettled and recalling the half-dozen times a right wing assailant has come at me with a weapon. Those who follow me here on my Substack know the sordid details of these attacks, so I won’t repeat them again. Needless to say, I felt awful for the Pelosis — and I realized this isn’t the last we have seen from these Republican thugs and their thirst for violence.

Already they are camping out by the early-voting drop boxes to intimidate voters. They wear camouflage, masks and carry assault rifles because it’s legal to do so in most states. Election officials have seen a drop in the number of election workers who had signed up to work the polls. Reuters reported that in a poll they took, 40% of potential voters said they expect some sort of violence, if not an eventual Civil War. This is the new normal we are being asked to accept.

As a part of this series to embrace our upcoming victory on November 8th, I’d like to help all of us break our culture of fear and defeat the forces of fascism and violence with a deep and different version of nonviolence. It’s about the part of the philosophy of Gandhi and King that is not taught in school or ever uttered on the news each January when we “celebrate” Martin’s birthday.

It’s about how non-violence can’t work unless the forces of evil commit their own acts of extreme and abhorrent violence.

Both King and Gandhi knew that the only way to defeat the racist Southern politicians and the racist British army was to get them to rip off their hoods and their “civilized” masks and expose themselves for the sick bastards they really were. King and Gandhi trusted there would be enough Americans and enough Brits who would be so appalled by the vicious response of armed authority against the peaceful nonviolent protesters that there would be a public outcry and a demand for change.

But they knew that would not happen unless a number of Black Americans and poverty-stricken Indians were assaulted, crippled or killed by the authorities. THAT is what would move the needle toward Justice. So, as both men would later write about their strategy, they knew the only way to win was for them, the men of peace, to take the kind of peaceful actions which would definitely trigger the brutal violence of the ruling class. Which meant that King and Gandhi had to make sure that all marchers, freedom riders, salt boycotters, etc. had to agree that to participate in these peaceful violations of the law might very well get them killed. But it went even further than that. King and Gandhi knew that they would only succeed if some of their people — including possibly themselves — were murdered by the authorities or by their racist citizen posses. With the pictures of that, the good citizens in the UK and the US would act to stop it.

They didn’t want to die. But they were willing to give their lives if that is what it took.

So, we all say we want to save our Democracy. Really? How far are you willing to go to “save our Democracy?” Write a $17 check? Post a blog? Sacrifice your life for the greater good?

Each person has to decide for themselves. But sometimes, when it comes to the big stuff, the day may come where you’ll have to ask yourself, is this really worth dying for? Not to kill for. But to die for. Nonviolently stand your ground and make them run over you. Let the world witness the true level of your commitment, be it to end a war, protect the rights of women, stop the police from killing an innocent Black woman or man, save this planet, or save our work-in-progress Democracy. Because if some of us are no longer willing to live in fear, to no longer be bullied, no longer be the wage slaves to our corporate masters, no longer have a Supreme Court of religious zealots forcing women to remain pregnant against their will — if we are willing to make it clear that while we will cause no harm to anyone, we will also no longer let the authoritarian State abuse, assault, humiliate, starve, refuse medical help, dumb down our kids to be cogs in the Idiocracy — if we are willing to say NO to all of that, to sit down and grind the machinery of power to a halt, then I promise you two things will happen:

1. Millions will see the level of our strong commitment to make their lives better, and they will make their way to the polls November 8th to elect the candidates who will pass the legislation we need. And…

2. Most Americans are repulsed by this era of political violence and want nothing to do with it. They need to take that repulsion to the polls and vote the Trumpsters out. And you need to try and get as many people as possible to vote.

This is no time to be afraid. It is the moment to be brave. It is the week for us all to shine. The violent attack on the Speaker’s husband cannot become the first of many of these attacks. That hammer that sent him to the hospital is actually meant to be used on all of us. RESIST! It must end now. We need to speak loudly and with one voice.

We do that, the election is ours.

Roe the Vote!

Roevember is Here.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

Truth #30: Turn Off the News! Stop Reading the Paper! They’re Filling Your Head with Mush.

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #30

Michael Moore — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:48:16 GMT

(A daily series to counter the myth that the Republicans are going to win the House and Senate)

I can tell from my mailbag, just 11 days out from the election, that many of you are going mad. Even more of you have sunk into a deep depression. Nonstop polls, punditry and journalistic pomposity telling you every single hour all the ways the Dems have blown it, lost it, and how the Repugnants are soaring like eagles! Yes, you are told, you might as well sleep in on Election Day because this baby is over.

It is all a lie. They have no clue what they are talking about. They tell the story they want to tell. If it doesn’t fit their narrative, it’s not in the story. You are being misled, bamboozled, hoodwinked, scared to death, and made to believe that the economy has imploded when the factual truth is that wages are up, unemployment is at the lowest in half a century, more jobs have been created during this presidency than any other president in their first two years, inflation has slowed, the economy grew 2.6% last quarter, and everyone on Social Security is going to get a whopping 8.7% increase in their monthly checks in the coming year. So what is really happening here? I’ll tell you what’s happening: Your leg is being seriously pulled — so hard that if you don’t stop listening to (and believing!) all this bullshit, you’re going to lose more than a leg.

TURN THE TV OFF! No cable news for the next 11 days! No reading the daily newspaper! TURN OFF THE NEWS ALERTS ON YOUR PHONE! What’s the point of letting them drive you insane?

Why do we all get dozens of begging, scary emails every day from Democratic candidates telling us how they are being beaten into the ground by the Republicans — “and please send me $17 by MIDNIGHT or I’m a goner!”

How is that helping?! Not one word in these emails about them promising to raise the minimum wage or end the filibuster. Just, “WE’RE DOOMED! SEND MONEY!” Zero messaging. How is this a winning strategy? Hundreds of thousands of us are working 24/7 to get out the vote when Democratic Party hacks are doing what they can to depress the vote. In the end it doesn’t matter. We have never thought they were ever going to ride to the rescue. We’ve always known that WE were going to have to crush the Trumpsters by our sheer numbers and fortitude.

And that’s what we are doing.

As I finish writing this the news anchor on TV just said this: “40% of Gen Z are planning to vote in a record turnout — and why this may not be good for the Democrats! We’ll be right back after this!” Are they serious? Do they know that none of us believe them?

And why do I have this bloody TV on in the first place???? TURN IT OFF!!

And please trust me — we are going to be OK — if we all do our part. Thanks to the thousands of you who’ve written to me to tell me all that you’re doing to make sure we keep control of the House and Senate!

And to the pundits — start talking to some women and you might get a clue about the oncoming Tsunami. If you don’t know what women are, here’s what they look like:

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

Truth #29: They’ve Got Big Plans That We’ve Gotta Stop

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #29

Michael Moore — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:55:55 GMT

(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

On June 24th this summer, our Supreme Court — 67% White, 78% Catholic, 59% Men and 66% who don’t know what dry shampoo is — issued their religious edict forcing all women of childbearing age who hold a fertilized egg into a government mandated and enforced pregnancy, under penalty of law. The Court ran out of room on their parchment scroll to list what the exact penalties would be should a woman try to escape the 9-month incubation by removing the clump of cells, so they left it up to the profound wisdom of the states — like Texas, where successfully performing an abortion is now a first-degree felony, punishable by up to life in prison. We are not that far from women hanging on the wall off the Boston Common. To think otherwise shows one’s stupidly dangerous naïveté.

On that day in June, with a nation in shock — and a gender in revolt, the spoils of which will be revealed on spikes in 12 days — much was made of the clear and incoherent opinion issued by the 12th-century Vatican scholar Samuel Alito. But there was little attention paid to the concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas who, like Alito, is a true believer in shoving vicious, never-uttered-by-Jesus Catholic ideology down the throats of America.

On that day of infamy, Justice Thomas waxed poetically, wondering just how far the Christian Nationalists could take their Roe-killing decision.

According to Thomas, very far.

Here’s what he wrote in his concurring opinion:

“We should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold (which legalized Birth Control), Lawrence (which invalidated sodomy laws), and Obergefell (which legalized same-sex marriage). Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents. After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions…”

So, to translate Thomas’ plans, here’s what he’d like the Court to do:

Outlaw birth control.

Outlaw same-sex sex.

Outlaw same-sex marriage.

The idea is to build on outlawing abortion, using the Court’s new rationale to expand their bans on other sexual behaviors they find to be deviant and against God’s will.

But as we know, it’s usually the actual deviants, in their sick and twisted minds, who want to stop the “perverts” who use a diaphragm or a condom or an IUD, or any pill or device that grants women absolute control over their bodies. That, to them, is the ultimate crime.

And now they think they can get away with it because, well, they just did get away with it.

Thomas is not alone. His opinion was hailed by all forms of Republicans and right-wingers, and emboldened a swath of Republican lawmakers to publicly pledge their loyalty to this agenda.

In July, when the House Democrats, as the majority, put the “Respect for Marriage Act” — a bill that would repeal the “Defense of Marriage Act,” and prohibit states from discriminating against couples married in other states regardless of the couple’s “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin” — up for a vote, 157 Republicans voted against it.

Democrats followed up a few days later with a vote for the “Right to Contraception Act” — a bill written to “protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives, to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.”

This time, only 8 Republicans crossed the partisan line to vote with the Democrats, 2 others abstained, and a whopping 195 Republicans voted against Americans having the right to buy, use, or even learn about condoms.

But, my friends, the fatal flaw in their agenda, the actual Achilles’ heel here, is that what they’re trying to attempt is actually something the vast majority of Americans oppose:

71% of Americans support same-sex marriage.
75% of Americans support access to birth control.

In fact, as the LA Times reported, “Only four states — S. Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas — lack clear majority support for marriage equality, according to state-by-state surveys by the Public Religion Research Institute.”

As the “Respect for Marriage Act” sits and waits for its vote on the Senate floor after the Midterms, 5 Republican Senators have publicly stated their support, while 8 Republican Senators have clearly stated their opposition. For the rest, mums the word, as they try to “wait it out,” past the election, knowing the will of the majority of the American people stands in conflict with their base.

It’s clear though in the last couple weeks, that despite the actions of their colleagues in the House, the Senate Republicans have been told to tone down their rhetoric, that their anti-abortion stance is a losing proposition in this election.

One of the 5 Senators that has publicly stated his support for the “Respect for Marriage Act” is Ron Johnson who said that while he thinks the bill is unnecessary because he believes Obergefell will never fall, “should it come before the Senate, I see no reason to oppose it.” Why? Because he’s running in a hotly contested Senate race and he knows full well that 72% of Wisconsinites support marriage equality — including 58% of Wisconsin Republicans.

And that, my friends, is why they’re going to lose. Even Ron Johnson can see the writing on the wall.

Not just because of everybody reading this, but because everybody wants and needs birth control. Everybody wants to marry the person they’re in love with, regardless of their gender. And everyone wants and deserves their God-given right to have sex.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

Truth #28: Whackadoodle No More

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #28

Michael Moore — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:55:47 GMT

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(A daily series about why I’m convinced the Trumpsters, the Republicans and their ongoing attempted coup are about to be tossed into the trashbin of history.)

Well folks, another day, another Whackadoodle Republican running for office — not to get elected, but to remind the voters how insane and dangerous the Trumplican Party is.

Today I’d like to introduce you to the next on our list of the Top Ten Whackadoodles:

• John Gibbs, Republican running for the House seat in Michigan’s 3rd district — once held by President Gerald Ford.

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When it comes to Mr. Gibbs’ extreme views, you don’t need to take my word for it, you just need to read his.

A staunch Trump ally, he claims that the outcome of the 2020 election was mathematically impossible. Gibbs actually served in the Trump administration as acting Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development. He joined Trump’s 1776 Project, which was established to support “patriotic education.” He calls Critical Race Theory a “diabolical scheme.”

Gibbs doesn’t stop there. According to CNN, “Gibbs made multiple references to a conspiracy theory started by far-right bloggers claiming Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta took part in a Satanic ritual that involved bodily fluids.”

But the best part of Gibbs’ past was the historic contribution he made while attending Stanford University.

There, at one of the country’s most prestigious colleges, Gibbs created his own think tank called “The Society for the Critique of Feminism.”

Gibbs was adamant that he and others at Stanford expose the “serious misconceptions” caused by the feminist movement — crazy notions propagated by feminist leaders who falsely claim that women have been historically oppressed, or that a patriarchal society is inherently wrong and that more women in the workplace is better for women [because it isn’t]. Gibbs also wanted to dispute the lie that women were receiving unequal pay for doing equal work.

Here’s a portion of the questions and answers Gibbs wrote on the think tank’s website:

Q: Are men smarter than women?
A: If by "smart", one means the ability to think logically about broad and abstract ideas in order to deduce a suitable conclusion, without relying upon emotional reasoning, I think the answer is yes.
Q: What do you think about women getting the right to vote — women's suffrage? Should women have the right to vote?
A: We cannot say that women should be able to vote simply because they are a large part of the population. Most importantly, we should consider whether or not our democratic process and our country has benefited from women's suffrage…
Increasing the size and scope of government is unequivocally bad. And since women's suffrage has caused this to occur on a larger scale than any other cause in history, we’ve concluded that the United States has suffered as a result of women's suffrage.

I promised you as part of this Midterm Tsunami series to give you my top 10 Whackadoodle list of Republican Candidates on the ballot. But after posting the above about House candidate John Gibbs, and realizing there is no way to limit this list to 10 Whackadoodles when the real number is closer to 500 — and because I only have 13 more days to impart these Truths — I’m just going to complete the rest of the list of ten right now:

• Andy Ogles, Republican House candidate for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District who said, “If you are going to defund an agency, then I say we defund the Department of Education and its liberal agenda.”

• Kari Lake, Republican candidate for Governor in Arizona, who, as CNN reported, “posed for a photo and video with far-right personalities Ethan Schmidt-Crockett, the founder of the AntiMaskersClub who harassed a store specializing in wigs for cancer patients this summer because it required customers to wear masks, and Greyson Arnold, a Nazi sympathizer who has a history of making White nationalist, racist, antisemitic and pro-Nazi statements, including once calling Adolf Hitler “a complicated historical figure who many people misunderstand.” After Arnold posted a photo of the trio on Twitter, Lake replied, “It was a pleasure to meet you, too.””

• J.R. Majewski, Republican House candidate running for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, who made headlines in 2020 for donning a QAnon t-shirt during his Fox News interview celebrating his “TRUMP 2020 — KEEP AMERICA…GREAT” lawn mural.

• Yesli Vega, Republican House candidate running for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, who was caught in an audio clip, after an interviewer said she heard it was harder for a woman to get pregnant if she had been raped, saying, “Well maybe, because there’s so much going on in the body, I don’t know. I haven’t seen any studies but I’m processing what you’re saying. It wouldn’t surprise me, because it’s not something [the rape] that’s happening organically, right? It’s forcing it. And then the individual, the male, is doing it as quickly [as he can] — and so I can see why maybe there’s truth to that.”

Which truth, I’m still not sure of, other than the truth that this person should not serve in Congress.

• Bo Hines, Republican House candidate in North Carolina’s 13th district, who has been endorsed by Madison Cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Matt Gaetz. The first bill he wants to pass in Congress is a 10-year moratorium on immigration.

• J.D. Vance, Republican Senate candidate in Ohio, who wrote in a September tweet that “Alex Jones is a far more reputable source of information than Rachel Maddow. One of them is censored by the regime. The other promoted by it.” When asked about that tweet in an interview, Vance said: “People are terrified of unconventional people, of people who don’t think the thoughts that they’re supposed to think. And that to me, is like the opposite of what you would want in an elite. You would want an elite that’s willing to think outside the box, that’s willing to say, well, maybe this is like a crazy idea, but maybe it’s true.”

I believe the majority of Americans will show up at the voting booth, or fill out their mail-in ballots in all of these races and with the stroke of their pens, send all of these Whackadoodles on a walk of shame the next morning on Nov. 9th.

Because the truth is, in their Faustian deal with the Trumpian devil, the Republican Party threw itself into a hell of chaos, vulgarity, and extreme-extremism.

America has had enough.

I’ve had enough.

And that is soon to be the end of them.

Hate loves hate.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

Truth #27: We are going to win because our side has millions of good souls like this…

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #27

Michael Moore — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:10:04 GMT

This is who we are. And we should take heart that everyone like Luke — who represents the true majority of Americans — are voting early right now. They are sending in or dropping off their mail-in ballots right now. And they are going to vote en masse on November 8th!

Hate loses. And if you don't believe that, then start fighting with all the love you have inside you for these next 2 weeks. Convince just one person you know who usually doesn’t vote to vote just this one time. “Adopt a Nonvoter!” There are over 15 million of you who are reading or have access to this Midterm Tsunami Truth right now. You subscribe (free and paid) to my Substack where there have been 5.4 million reads of these daily Truths since I began posting them 4 weeks ago. You follow me on social media. You are a regular listener to my podcast (nearly 40 million downloads to date). You are a massive force to be reckoned with. If just 10% of you convinced just one friend or family member to vote, that’s an extra 1.5 million votes! Trump won in 2016 by just 77,000 votes in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College. Each of you, in just this one very small way, can move a mighty mountain in these final two weeks.

You have to believe! You have to know the real and loving America you live in. Re-read the tweet from Luke above. Stop listening to those who are working overtime to depress and lessen the Democratic vote. They are banking on your cynicism and despair. Don’t be their puppet! Resist! Trust that love usually wins out in the end. Stand up today and do something to make this happen. If you can’t stand up for this crazy, flawed, amazing country, then can you please just stand up for yourself? For your own dreams and desire to live a life that seeks Justice and Peace and a fair shake for everyone? A life not controlled by the company, the boss, the neighborhood association who just told you they don’t like the garden you’ve planted or the color you’ve painted your shutters. There are scoundrels on this ballot who plan to cut your Social Security and Medicare. Who are going to cut funds to your child’s school. Who are going to turn your public library over to a profit-making corporation in order to “save money.“ Their agenda is to make your life harder as they line the pockets of their wealthy donors. Don’t think for a minute they plan to stop with regulating uteruses and deciding who you can marry. They are overflowing with hate and anger and the fear of losing their Caucasian Patriarchy. Don’t think for one second that they wouldn’t kill, metaphorically or literally, to preserve their authority over you.

So please encourage all who you know to stand up — for their own dignity, for this last chance to save what we have, to do it for those who came before us, who gave their lives, who suffered through poverty to give us a chance, my grandmother, desperate to feed her children, who went door to door in the nicer neighborhood of Flint and offered to iron their clothes for a dime.

I do it for her. And for you. I do it with Luke who wrote that tweet saying he’d be proud to have an asylum-seeking immigrant family living next to him.

I do it for us, the majority.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

Truth #25: The side with the best nursery rhymes wins.

Truth #26: We Will Win Because Americans Don’t Want to See This Happen...

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Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #26

Michael Moore — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:30:56 GMT

By the Times Obituary Staff

A system of government, once the dream of Enlightenment visionaries including Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin and John Locke, died quietly last night in voting booths across America with the American people themselves agreeing to end the experiment that ultimately never fully attained its potential as a nation of true equals.

Founded during the brutal genocide of the Native Peoples, and then built on the backs of kidnapped and enslaved Africans, American Democracy proclaimed in its founding document that “all men are created equal” — although none of the founding fathers actually believed that, even though they thought the sentiment “sounded nice.”

Having not been attempted for over 2,000 years since the Greeks first invented their form of democratic government, American Democracy was born in 1776 as part of a rebellion against British taxation, British courts wanting to eliminate the slave trade and the King of England issuing a proclamation acknowledging that Native Americans had suffered “great Frauds and Abuses” and promising that no further British settlements would be built west of the Appalachian Mountains. This infuriated the wealthier colonists who then decided to take up arms against the Crown.

The eventual American Constitution guaranteed that only 10% of its citizens — just the white male property owners — could participate in its Democracy. For the next 200 years, America tried to improve on its idea — ending slavery, letting women vote, letting people marry whom they wanted to marry, etc., but they never could get it quite right.

By the 21st century, new Christian Nationalist leaders emerged promising to “make America great again” which inspired the dwindling White majority to become politically active. At the same time, the more liberal Americans grew tired of politics and spent their time amusing themselves with “binge watching” and “craft beers.”

In yesterday’s historic election, tens of millions of voters showed up to put American Democracy out of its misery. Newly elected Senators and Congressmen promised more religious laws like the ones banning abortion and sodomy.

Conservative leaders from the UK to Italy to Brazil hailed “America’s courage in ending its flawed attempt to promise ‘freedom’ and ‘equality’ when both are in direct contradiction to capitalism and the free market,” said Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

To celebrate their victory, MAGA groups across the U.S. tonight are holding Critical Race Theory book burnings and round-ups of those who “are confused about which gender they are,” said the Leader’s son.

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win

Truth #23: We Believe in Science. And that’s why we will win.

Truth #24: Vote Local, Win National

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Mike's Midterm Tsunami Truth #25

Michael Moore — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:56:02 GMT

Michael Moore sings a nursery rhyme for you.

Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Lyrics by Michael Moore:

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Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!
Gently to Roevember. 
Merrily, Merrily,
Merrily, Merrily
Traitors are dismembered

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Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote
Toss the GOP!
When they’re gone 
We’ll pass some laws 
And save Democracy!

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Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote
A woman’s right to choose!
Guns are gone
And so is ‘Rump
There’s no way we can lose!

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Roe, Roe, Roe The Vote
Free Health Care soon for all!
Paid family leave 
And College is free
Relax — it’s legal weed!

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Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote
People over Profits!
A living wage
Grandma loves Old Age!
The rich now pay for all of it!

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Roe Roe Roe Your Vote
November 8th’s the day!
We’ll’ve PeaceNoWAR!
Ted Cruz no more! 
The Earth We All Will Save!

ICYMI:

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truths:

Truth #1: The Campaign

Truth #2: Even a kid from 4th hour Trig class can beat this crowd

Truth #3: The Haters, the Bigots and the Supremacists Always Lose in the End

Truth #4: Introducing The Whackadoodle 10

Truth #5: Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. But he is very afraid of You.

Truth #6: The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform

Truth #7: Biden, Don’t F**k with Me

Truth #8: If you’re not registered, you can’t Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!

Truth #9: Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism.

Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9

Truth #11: 147 Reasons We Will Win on November 8th

Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke.

Truth #13: Women. That’s it.

Truth #14: If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out.

Truth #15: Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, Whackadoodle No. 8

Truth #16: As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th.

Truth #18: The Good Queen vs. The Mad King

Truth #19: A Workers' Revolt Extends to the Voting Booth

Truth #20: We Are in Charge

Truth #21: Don’t believe it.

Truth #22: If the election is about inflation and the economy, THANK GOD — We Win