"If I Wanted the Gov't in My Womb, I'd F*** a Senator" Women and Girls in My Small Michigan Town Are In Revolt. Listen here (uncensored)
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"If I Wanted the Gov't in My Womb, I'd F*** a Senator" Women and Girls in My Small Michigan Town Are In Revolt. Listen here (uncensored)
Episode 247: Rumble with Michael Moore
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Michael Moore
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and political provocateur Michael Moore offers his subversive and humorous take on the issues of the day and talks to a wide range of people from comedians and politicians to the people who’ve tried to kill him. Plus various mischief with Mike’s friends, family and the neighbors who don’t work for the NSA.
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Friends,
Today I’m turning my podcast over to the women in the Michigan town where I live. Listen through to the end, and I promise you’ll be left with a sense of hope and possibility in stopping the right-wing attempt to take over the country and keep women as second-class citizens.
— Mike
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"If I Wanted the Gov't in My Womb, I'd F*** a Senator" Women and Girls in My Small Michigan Town Are In Revolt. Listen here (uncensored)
We are now under minority political rule by rural and conservative white men, and likely to remain that way for a while.
The political system has left us with the reality of today's Senate and today's court, which are together able to block the standard political paths towards progress. The only non-violent route I can see towards returning to normal politics, where the people have power, is a national strike. I hope you will add your voice in favor of such a strike. The court's Dobbs ruling offers a real opportunity because it affects all women and the many men who believe we each have a right to control what happens inside of our bodies. That's not like racial justice issues, where it is easy for white people like me to tut-tut yet do nothing. And it's not like economic issues, where both sides pretend to be able to solve our economic problems, while voters just blame or credit the party in power for economic results over which they have little control.
So if there were ever a time for the people to show their power, this is probably it. We are still in a pandemic which forced many of us to become aware of how "essential workers" are given the short end of the stick, or perhaps just the tiniest glimpse. We are forty years into Reagan's destruction of the labor movement, forty years into the capture of the government by the wealthiest, using race to divide us. It all culminated in trump, and Dobbs is nothing more than the result of trump having sold his soul to the pseudo-Christian radical right in order to get their support.
We are all so disgusted, and too many of us are angry at Democrats for not being able to magically alter our reality. Now the reality of the religious right's intentions towards individual liberty are undeniable to all. This is the time.
If judges can lie so that their nomination to the Supreme Court will be approved by the Senate, our government will have lost all of its credibility. The Constitution will just be a meaningless collection of words; the verdicts of that Supreme Court an injustice carried out upon the citizens of the nation. Is it not a crime to lie under oath? Do Americans need to respect the decisions of dishonest people in high places who do not respect Truth?