Now, We Beat Trump.
OK Everyone! It’s time to rise out of our despair! It’s been 24 days of mourning since the debate debacle sunk all of us into believing this election was over, that we were going to be abused by Trump for another four years. A sick, sick feeling.
But in one shining moment, at 1:46pm this afternoon, President Biden, in a true profile in courage, a selfless act for which he will be honored and remembered for years to come, put his country ahead of himself.
May I ask you, Mr. President, for one more brave and bold action?
Kamala Harris will be in a much stronger position to win if she can run as the President of the United States. As the incumbent President. This will give the country a chance to see her in action — as the most powerful person in the world. She will have three and a half months (as they say, “an eternity in politics”) to show the American people her smarts, her strengths, her heart. She is fierce, and compassionate, and unstoppable. She will have the power to issue significant executive orders that can provide help to the middle class, protect the environment, restore basic women’s rights. And to face down the man who has promised to be a dictator on Day One. For this takedown, I want a front row seat. And a large popcorn.
Vice President Harris, I have two suggestions for you on this fateful day:
After 10,000 years of men calling the shots and running the show, how great would it be if you asked Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan to be your running mate?! It would be a bold and historic move that no one is expecting — but tens of millions of Americans will cheer it and love it — marking the first time ever that a Party’s ticket for the White House is made up of TWO WOMEN! Two fearless, unbossed, energetic, highly capable women who will quickly become very popular (you have already pulled ahead of Biden’s numbers versus Trump; Whitmer’s approval rating in Michigan is an amazing 68% in her second term). Think of it — “Harris and Whitmer” will be on fire to save our country from the likes of Donald Trump — and I know that is exactly what you are going to do.
You cannot win the White House without Michigan. Right now, because of President Biden’s fatal mistake of his time in office — his funding and arming of Netanyahu’s slaughter and mass starvation of innocent civilians and children in Gaza — Michigan, a state with 300,000 Arab and Muslim voters, turned intensely against Biden and the Democrats who had, in 2020, received 60% of Michigan’s Arab/Muslim vote. Now the polls show the Dems will get only 15% of that vote this year — a massive 75% drop! The “good news” is that the Arab American vote has not switched to Trump — his current numbers show no improvement over his limited 2020 Arab support in Michigan. Arabs and Muslims right now simply plan not to vote or to vote but leave the presidential line blank. Also, thousands of young Michigan voters have stated they will not vote for a pro-war Democrat. This can be fixed. Vice President Harris, you need to go to Michigan and make a major speech as you stand with Arab and Jewish voters from Detroit and Dearborn and declare an end to the U.S. funding Netanyahu’s war in Gaza. If you call for an immediate ceasefire, plus no more use of American offensive weapons, and the release of all hostages, this will go a long way toward achieving peace and preventing Trump from entering the Oval Office. And perhaps you could promise aid to rebuild Gaza, and maybe offer a gentle apology as you speak to the hundreds of Michiganders who have lost loved ones in Palestine. This will save Michigan in November.
The vote amongst liberals and Democrats is seriously depressed. Millions are in despair. Many have given up. The youth vote is down due to the Gazan war. The Arab American vote is essentially gone. In the Michigan primary, 101,000 Democrats, upset with the embrace of Netanyahu, did not vote for Joe Biden but rather marked the box that read “Uncommitted.”
All of this could lead to a Trump victory. But…
Hear me loud and clear: Trump. Is. Beatable. Soooo beatable!! And he knows it. Trump is going to lose because we are the majority. America hates what he stands for. In 2020, after seeing and living through the trainwreck of his presidency, the citizenry removed him by over 7 million votes and sent him packing. Nothing he’s done in the past four years has convinced millions of these voters to change their minds.
Never forget this one indisputable fact:
There are more of us than there are of them!
And how do I know this? Because this is who we are:
America is a liberal country!
69% of Americans support legal abortion.
72% of Americans don’t own a gun.
90% of the country wants stronger gun control laws.
72% of us believe the Climate Crisis is real and that we must act NOW.
71% of all Americans approve of labor unions.
79% of us insist the rich must pay more in taxes.
76% of us want to more than double the minimum wage — to $17 an hour.
70% of all voters believe marijuana should be legal.
73% of the country want student debt relief.
74% of Americans support a cap on rents and the building of more affordable homes.
80% of the American public want a mandatory retirement age. 65% support term limits on all Supreme Court justices.
70% of us are demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza NOW!
The vast majority (72%) of all Americans want money removed from politics!
Youth, Women and People of Color, or any combination thereof, now make up 79% of those who will vote in November!
THAT is who we are.
In 7 of the last 8 Presidential elections, the majority of Americans voted for the Democrat on the ballot. That’s right. For the past 36 years, since 1988, the Republicans have won the popular vote only once.
Americans simply don’t like them. I mean, they really, REALLY don’t like them. Americans do NOT want right-wingers in our White House or running our country. And Republicans know this. They know their time is up. White people will cease to make up the majority of the U.S. in less than 19 years. That’s why they understand that the only way they can cling to any semblance of power in their “end days” is to get elected through gerrymandering, voter suppression, and attempting to not certify a legitimate election. They have already shown us the extent to which they are willing to go to seize this power: Staging a violent insurrection, refusing to leave office, threatening to lynch their own Republican Vice President, and conducting a treasonous coup. They’ve already packed the Supreme Court with scoundrels who have legally made women second-class citizens, denying real power to the actual majority of the country. And this week, they threatened that, once they are back in the White House and in control of both houses of Congress, they plan to conduct mass deportations of hundreds of thousands of Brown people — aka, Future Democrats, the new American Nonwhite Majority that will crush their traitorous activities as soon as the 2040s.
MAGA Nation is over. All that’s left to do is for each and every one of us to commit to getting out every single vote on our side of the political fence. I have some fun ideas on how we can do that while enjoying the rest of our summer and fall.
Who’s with me?!
— Michael Moore, Block Captain, Harris (Whitmer) Campaign: Grawn, Michigan
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Totally agree with you Michael! You hit the nail on the head. President Biden will be remembered as a great President who put our country before himself. Kamala will do a good job running against the grifter. The prosecutor vs the felon..
Well, whew! We can breathe again. However, I believe that Mark Kelly would make a better counterbalance to the Harris presidential ticket. I just, I just want to win. And I think that would be the better ticket. Also, full disclosure, I made phone calls for Mark Kelly's candidacy with the Sunrise people when he first ran for Senate.