While all of this Israel vs Gaza is traumatic and deserves our attention and support, I can’t help but feel like it’s a mass distraction from the end of days in our own country. Between the Trump Documents Case being paused indefinitely by a corrupt judge to SCOTUS also pausing Trumps Immunity case, I feel like The Coup has rebranded and taken a less obvious route to victory towards a complete transition to Theocracy and Fascist Dictatorship and no one is giving it the attention required to stop it! Including you?
If you are unable to see that Democrats have their own special brand of fascism, which should be obvious in their enthusiastic passage of the Antisemitism Act and Biden's paramilitary throwing Jewish students down the stairs for speaking the truth, perhaps you better have your Trumpaphobia/McCarthyism checked. Yeah that genocide we're perpetrating is bad and all but they're just Muslims over there no big deal. There would not be a Trump if there were not an Obama/Biden administration that bailed out Wall Street and offered austerity for the rest of us. Same with spending the most in history on blowing up stuff around the world and massacring civilians. Your morals aren't much better than Trump's.
Thanks for attempting to put words in my mouth and translating what I said into complete bullshit. How about you stick to speaking for yourself and yourself alone.
Well said! How will things change for better if Biden continues as president? That's not to imply that Trump is a better choice but now the question is - how low can we go to keep Trump from winning?
Interesting as neither of you are women. You may think Biden and Trump are equally evil, but our lives as women have already been dealt life-altering blows to our freedom and Trump and his clan are hardly finished. I’m not interested in living in Iran, but that’s what’s coming under Trump and his clan! No hyperbole here! My heart breaks for Palestine, but I’m not ready to live under similar repression!
You are obviously somewhat blind We may turn a blind direction but dt is the real enemy and if you think differently , which you have a right to you become a bigger part of the problem and are joining the Circular firing squad unless you want dt to take over
That is why this election is important. Republicans when they control any part of government work towards their theocratic goals. We have win congress and the White House.
Man n n , talk about twisting words, Michael. Biden is laying out the parameters of how to have a peaceful protest in the USA, not what is going on in another country. But then you are projecting your feelings about the theme of the protest as a right not to have a peaceful protest? Quit projecting hate.
Sorry, I'm confused.
Firstly, I wish to say im not defending Israel actions , I am stating we are free to protest and we must abide by the laws of our land when we protest in the United States. That is the only focus of that speech.
Let's stick to the subject of Biden's speech. 1. Don't physically harrass others.
2. Don't deface or destroy property.
The students putting graffiti and putting inflammatory stickers on school property is destruction of property. Some campuses the students barricaded themselves in a building. and caused destruction of property.
Other places- and from what I read in the LA Times about the UCLA riot, , one student said the protestors were putting up-side down red triangles on the buildings. When a Jewish Student tried to explain to the protesters, do you know that red triangle is a Hammas symbol to destroy that building? They yelled he was a Zionists and did a human chain to push him away. He was trying to educate these people and they would not listen., he said one protestor admitted they did not know this fact. So I think some of the pro demonstrators may not be getting all the facts from the hard liners in their group.
Students making human chains to keep others from going into a building is hindering another person's freedom., especially if they have a right as a student to get to class. And singling out just those they think are defending Israel and declaring them Zionists, that is discrimination against one group. Human chains to keep police from arresting them is resistance. Two diffrent things.
The riot at UCLA is very disturbing, the LA Times article today May, 11, said the social media held a lot of disinformation. There was a whirl wind of complaints in social media of the Jewish students were being blocked from class and being harrasse, spit on and beaten. Many could not be verified, but some complaints could.
It is viral Social media HATE that has brought all this to a head. That last Saturday night, the So called Israel counter protesters came prepared with rocket fireworks and bear spray on the pro Palistinian campers trying to sleep, and they only had some sticks to defend against a planned assault. It sounded like a core of MAGNA protest group (without tiki torches) maybe mixed up in with the concerned citizens. Sound familiar? just a thought, no evidence.
As far as cancelling graduation ceremonies, it is the duty of the school admin to keep all students safe. Including a Palistinian valedictorian from possibility of HER being threatened at a graduation ceremony. USC found a solution by having graduation at the Collaseum stadium where they COULD have security for students and guests. Like going to a football game," check your ticket, let me see what's in the bag , please. " The ceremony was safe. When the young lady came on stage to recieve her diploma, the students erupted in applaue and cheer.
Not every school can do a major shift like that in a few weeks. and the venue was shared by another group! That is finding a safe solution.
Please don't accuse our president for not caring. He is doing his job, imploring his public for safe and peaceful demonstrations. Trying to bring calm and safety to our citizens is his first priority.
I'm sure Biden is constricted by past policy with Israel, but he is finding a way out of sending more rockets and such.
The college protests are doing a good job overall,. I read that the Palistinian refugees in Gaza have heard their works and are grateful.
This is about peace, compassion, love of fellow man.
my 23-year-old daughter who attended Bryn Mawr who is well educated and passionately, in support of the peaceful protesters tells me that she cannot vote for president Biden because of his position on Palestine she says that her peers feel the same. This is disaster looming. I am blue in the face trying to explain to her that not voting means a vote for our outloud fascist Mr. Trump.
we need a strategy .
(and frankly, I am angry with President Biden for not stepping aside and allowing us to find a viable candidate who can defeat Humpty Trumpty but I will vote for Mickey Mouse versus the orange peril.furious at having to)
yes, I was dissapointed he had no challenger either. It's too bad Bernie or Elizabeth Warren did not run. Baah, political tradition! rump threw tradition out the window, so why do they follow it? I think K Harris is a little like a newbie. I hope she has learned alot in the last 4 years, because she is next in line!
Nixon won and still the protests continued. If Trump is elected, I can't say he won't kill protesters but I'm not optimistic for better times if Biden stays.
Ahhh !!!!! Michel if You say you are For The Jewish People you Can be for Israeli but against their Jewish Trump Prime Minister which I am! There are a very few Students who wouldn’t let other students pass and if I was in Collage and even well meaning and good hearted as I believe most of the Students who are protesting are you don’t smash Windows of Campus buildings it dosent matter if your Parents are Paying 90 Thousand dollars a year for your Education you are in a way I guess Renting the Collage space ! As I said the Administration is CLEARLY over reacting and I for the Nine Millonth Time Write the White House to Agian tell President Biden to listen to Palestinian people and the Young People cause he could loose ! My advice to you Again for the Millonth Time is Tell People to not Vote Uncomited cause that’s a Vote for everyone’s favorite Orange Falling asleep at his hush Money Trail and Farting Trump 🤡
Jill Stein is a grifter just like Donald Trump. She has the same foreign policy/relations acumen as Trump. Why would you put this country in greater jeopardy by voting for a zero-experienced person who can't come up with responses to important questions?
If you knew anything about U.S. history, which you clearly do not even though you spent a few years here, you would know that there has been a two-party system since the 1790s. This doesn't make it right or good or the best option, but it is the recognized political system of the United States. This election is not the one to make big changes to the party system. What is necessary, is to make sure we stack both sides of Congress with Democrats so that some of these issues can be assessed, restructured, and codified.
Here are my responses to your juvenile post.
1. Your country is never going to pull out of it's downward spiral especially with your 2 main opponents.
This is an interesting take coming from someone who grew up in England and now lives in France. Do tell me how your country of origin and current country of habitat will fare if the United States continues “it's downward spiral.”
BTW, you should have written ITS as you were speaking of the US and therefore needed to use the possessive. IT’S is the contraction of it is. Having been schooled in England I would think you'd know proper English.
2. You are all so dim.
Yawn.
3. Each time you vote for a President you vote for one of the Duopoly.
See the bare bones history lesson above.
4. Why not try something new?
Because now is not the time to try something new. And it is really not the time to bring in more crooked idiots.
Chronological age does not make you less immature. It certainly doesn't make you smarter. Most people know where Sri Lanka is, making your little attempt at a barb pathetic and laughable.
Biden has served one term; he's running for the 2nd. All American presidents are warmongers save Jimmy Carter, who was lambasted as one of the worst when he was one of the best. The countries you have lived in are glad most of the time that the US is a warmonger. You've clearly done nothing to attempt to change that. And you've shown via your immaturity in these comments that you are more than willing to fight before being friendly. Just goes to show what a small person you are.
P.S. There are no professional writers skipping out on punctuation and proper grammar.
To all of the former Jill Stein protest voters and those who thought there was no difference between Hillary and trump, how did that work out? How many more people died of Covid because of trump's inadequacies, greed and buffoonery? Jill Stein was also a putin plant. Lastly wasn't trump supposed to be something new? Not a politician?
I make no apology for our 2 party system but it's what we currently have and if these stupid vanity candidates like RFK Jr., Cornel West and Ms. Stein REALLY want to enact change then they should start by building their base at the city/state levels.
Jill Stein is a Russian tool. Google her affiliations and tell me you’d actually pull the lever for her over democracy protecting Joe Biden. A vote FOR ANY THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE OR SITTING IT OUT is simply a vote for Trump. Unless, what you want is to live under authoritarian rule - exactly what we’ll get if G-d forbid, the orange animal wins.
Thank you very much Michael Moore, Your voice is so soothing to us, your hard work, to get us the information we need to carry on with trying to restore Democracy, and Constitutional Law to the poor and Middle Class is invaluable, we cannot do this without you. I am confused about why we speak about politicians as if they do what the people want them to do. The corporations own and run the country, and when elections happen the corporations spend money on the candidates they sponsor, and just flat out own. We are a fascist, oligarchy, empire building, authoritarian, dictatorship, with no Democracy, with no working Constitution for the poor, and middle class, where people have no say in the running or decisions on how the government is run. For decades Israel has been using snipers to kill Palestinians, even children, Israel turned Palestine into the largest open air prison in the world, Israel only gives Palestinians 4 hours of electricity per day, Palestinian hospitals are greatly under funded under staffed, and they have very little medical supplies, and equipment. Israel has been committing war crimes against the Palestinians for decades, and no one cared, Israeli citizens beat and kill Palestinians with no consequences, I saw a video of an Israeli going into a Palestinian home and then declaring, it is his home and he now lives there. The corporations that run the country, are training the Police to be the Military might, to quell decent by the people. That is why all these Military style training camps are popping up all over the US, they are being training to stop all protests of government and decisions made by the ruling corporations who own the country. I have watched and bought the DVD's of all your documentaries, and I hope there are more coming, if the people ever get control of the country, I hope your documentaries become a must watch in Schools and Universities around the country.
I think we all agree we have to keep Donald out of office. United we stand divided we fall! The American worker has so much invested in this two-party system we have to vote for Biden because if we don't, we get something worse. Biden is old and I think at the end of his next term, if not sooner, we will get a younger person who wants to live on this planet? A lot of the younger people in the GOP would end all oil regulations for a billion dollars also, so I don't have much hope of them evolving.
This is a time that reminds me of when I was an anti-nuclear protester. (Washington public power supply)nuclear plants were supposed to cost under a billion dollars and ended up costing 8 or 9 billion dollars and they ended up scrapping them. We were opposed to the fascists even starting the projects. Later the fascist would say, we've got four billion sunk into them, we can't stop now? Many were arrested and their lives were altered because they could not find employment. I am concerned this will happen with the college protesters also. The cream of the crop gets devoured like a wood chipper devours tree limbs!
In your podcast you mentioned the rule of law and I immediately started thinking of Merrick Garland not prosecuting the GOP conspirators of the insurrection sooner, and the federal courts letting him run the clock out with a corrupt Supreme Court also. We don't have much of a rule of law with genocide and traitors around. Also with about 40 million thugs roaming the streets in my opinion and about 40 million more at the gun range practicing to kill everyone they hate.
Donald has already said he would support Netanyahu. A vote for anyone other than Biden, as I plug my nose to vote for Biden, is a vote for Donald and a right-wing fascist dictatorship. I think Bernie Sanders and Al franken are the kind of people we need. Surely there are some young people in the Democratic party that will emulate FDR? I recommend Israel contains Rafa until a two-state solution is reached and there's a border between the two fanatical religious Nations.
This has often occurred to me as well! Lot on his plate, MUCH more capable than anyone insight of handling all the shit he has had to…and at his age! Good lord, though not perfect, and who is, quite good for our country overall. Just don’t sink him now and leave us with the Orange Demented Rump and his gang of thieves and felons!!!
bring back Al Franklin! what he did should have been a fine nit resignation! The orange guy did much worse Double standard!
I want to say that Michael can you do a story on the ultra conservatives Magna people trying to ursurp our deemicracy from local politics and going up the ladder? The banning of books in public libraries, school boards trying to get over run by conservatives. School libraries emptying their shelves.
It is not just in Florida!
it is happening here in California too! Courts overturning Enviornmental impact laws taking away the EPA and the Coastal commissions power to enforce laws!
Huntington Beach Library is under attack! All their collection are art books, cultural rich books, music books and music scores., children books, under threat of censorship. Educational children books on puberty and potty training are already pulled and moved to an adult, non youth section. The city wants to privatize the library to have control.
I appreciate your words but I am hesitant to be critical of Biden at this time!
The next 6 months will determine our future and we know what happens if Biden loses thus I would appreciate a different tack and save criticism of Joe for after the election and concentrate on going after the likes of JD Vance and Tommy Tuberville ( is that a real name?) and the rest if his thug-like syncopates I am a Sanders Warren democrat and I lived in Damascus from 1988-1990 My daughter was born in Damascus I know A lot about the Syrian/Palestinian/Israeli dynamic and conflict and am 90% in agreement with you but get Joe in and then let loose what
you will otherwise Voldemort will have our heads!!!!🔥
I almost didn't listen to the podcast this time, but I surprised myself by feeling very supportive of what you said. Your criticism of Biden is fair, and it doesn't matter in the slightest if you and I disagree on a detail here and there. Criticizing our President is our patriotic duty, and you are standing up and leveling with him on issues that are very important.
You continue to say we need to defeat Trump and that a second Trump term is "unacceptable to everyone" (although some people actually want it). I'm afraid some of the people you're talking to are not completely convinced that Trump is the danger you and I realize he is, and they are not bound and determined to defeat him. Some seem to live in an alternative reality and believe that if they vote for a third-party candidate, they will be able to create an alternative to a second Trump or Biden administration. Others are downplaying the danger Trump poses. While you are correct to level with Biden, I think you have a responsibility to level with these voters who think not voting for him in November will make a positive difference. Either Biden or Trump WILL be elected President in November. There is NO alternative. Sure, it sucks. No argument there. But yeah. We're trapped. It sucks. And pissing in a hurricane, however cathartic it may feel in the moment, will not make a difference. Their "inner 13-year-olds" are getting the best of them, and not pointing it out is dangerous. Please, Michael. You need to tell them to get real every bit as much as you tell Biden to do right.
Who is at fault? Louis DeJoy is still in charge of the post office with an agenda of slowing down delivery, reducing postal workers and processing centers. The supreme court is still overloaded with radical, lying Republican justices with no attempt to increase the size of the court to compensate . The republican majority in the house is just marginally getting by with idiots trying to slow down every attempt at moving legislation forward. Who is at fault?
you forgot the EPA was moved out of Washington.. and his attempts to privatize the National Forestry service and took their back up money for emergencies away! To help fight forest fires!
yes, Michael, thank you for giving us a platform to discuss the issues In our world. I don't thank you enough for making a safe place for us to talk. in fact, this is one of the few places I actually leave comments because everyone is so respectful of each others comments.. 🩷🙏🩷🙏❤️
Agrue over Biden's policy relative to Israel while Magats lick their chops. Israel is well-armed thanks to the USA. Why? Because Israel exists in a region dominated by people, countries, and ideologies that want to destroy Israel and believe that they do not have a right to exist. Now we want to tell Israel how to use those weapons. Biden has tried, and he is using whatever leverage he has. If those who are unhappy with what he has and is doing let them do whatever they want. And if they are willing to withhold their support/vote, let them look in the mirror and see if they would rather have tRump as pres.
Hi Michael, I subscribed to your podcast so I could feel the pulse of the people leading up to the November election. You have "predicted" the outcome in the two preceding elections. I need to plan living in either an authoritarian regime, or a hobbled democracy under "old white man" rule. I pine for new, young and progressive ideals, but understand and appreciate, in large part, what President Biden has done, many good things. My college debt is gone for one. And we have a black/Indian female VP. NATO is stronger seemingly and Ukraine has not fallen to the Russians, yet.
I still have my tee shirt from the Kent State student slaughters. It is white with large, black letters stating "student" incased in a red bullseye target. Those poor kids. I am proud of what our young protesters are doing. And, like you, I am concerned about a second orange man presidency if the Gaza conflict is not properly addressed and corrected. Politics and power suck. I am not diminishing the atrocity of this conflict, but where were the protestors when the estimated 500,000 to one million died in Rwanda? Was it because those dollars were NOT primarily spent on bombs and bullets to defend an "ally" country? Or, is it because their color wasn't as important as that of the people in Gaza/Israel? It's a puzzlement how we pick and choose who we defend. I think even Bill Clinton regrets how he handled Rwanda. I don't want to live in retirement worried about the future of my children and their families. I don't know what the magic formula is for turning the conflict around to avoid the orange man's return.
Michael,
While all of this Israel vs Gaza is traumatic and deserves our attention and support, I can’t help but feel like it’s a mass distraction from the end of days in our own country. Between the Trump Documents Case being paused indefinitely by a corrupt judge to SCOTUS also pausing Trumps Immunity case, I feel like The Coup has rebranded and taken a less obvious route to victory towards a complete transition to Theocracy and Fascist Dictatorship and no one is giving it the attention required to stop it! Including you?
If you are unable to see that Democrats have their own special brand of fascism, which should be obvious in their enthusiastic passage of the Antisemitism Act and Biden's paramilitary throwing Jewish students down the stairs for speaking the truth, perhaps you better have your Trumpaphobia/McCarthyism checked. Yeah that genocide we're perpetrating is bad and all but they're just Muslims over there no big deal. There would not be a Trump if there were not an Obama/Biden administration that bailed out Wall Street and offered austerity for the rest of us. Same with spending the most in history on blowing up stuff around the world and massacring civilians. Your morals aren't much better than Trump's.
Thanks for attempting to put words in my mouth and translating what I said into complete bullshit. How about you stick to speaking for yourself and yourself alone.
Well said! How will things change for better if Biden continues as president? That's not to imply that Trump is a better choice but now the question is - how low can we go to keep Trump from winning?
Interesting as neither of you are women. You may think Biden and Trump are equally evil, but our lives as women have already been dealt life-altering blows to our freedom and Trump and his clan are hardly finished. I’m not interested in living in Iran, but that’s what’s coming under Trump and his clan! No hyperbole here! My heart breaks for Palestine, but I’m not ready to live under similar repression!
It depends on how badly we want to defeat him.
As long as it takes.
You are obviously somewhat blind We may turn a blind direction but dt is the real enemy and if you think differently , which you have a right to you become a bigger part of the problem and are joining the Circular firing squad unless you want dt to take over
I think you meant Bush/Cheney. Check your dates.
Trumpaphobia?
That is why this election is important. Republicans when they control any part of government work towards their theocratic goals. We have win congress and the White House.
You seem to be down Biden lately. Please be careful, I don’t want Trump
Vote Jill Stein.........why vote for either of the duopoly.
Because a vote for ANY third party candidate is a vote for Trump. Is that really what you want?
No. I am voting for Biden. Any other vote is for Trump.
Because Jill Stein is also a fraud
Now, THAT will be a wasted vote!
Man n n , talk about twisting words, Michael. Biden is laying out the parameters of how to have a peaceful protest in the USA, not what is going on in another country. But then you are projecting your feelings about the theme of the protest as a right not to have a peaceful protest? Quit projecting hate.
Sorry, I'm confused.
Firstly, I wish to say im not defending Israel actions , I am stating we are free to protest and we must abide by the laws of our land when we protest in the United States. That is the only focus of that speech.
Let's stick to the subject of Biden's speech. 1. Don't physically harrass others.
2. Don't deface or destroy property.
The students putting graffiti and putting inflammatory stickers on school property is destruction of property. Some campuses the students barricaded themselves in a building. and caused destruction of property.
Other places- and from what I read in the LA Times about the UCLA riot, , one student said the protestors were putting up-side down red triangles on the buildings. When a Jewish Student tried to explain to the protesters, do you know that red triangle is a Hammas symbol to destroy that building? They yelled he was a Zionists and did a human chain to push him away. He was trying to educate these people and they would not listen., he said one protestor admitted they did not know this fact. So I think some of the pro demonstrators may not be getting all the facts from the hard liners in their group.
Students making human chains to keep others from going into a building is hindering another person's freedom., especially if they have a right as a student to get to class. And singling out just those they think are defending Israel and declaring them Zionists, that is discrimination against one group. Human chains to keep police from arresting them is resistance. Two diffrent things.
The riot at UCLA is very disturbing, the LA Times article today May, 11, said the social media held a lot of disinformation. There was a whirl wind of complaints in social media of the Jewish students were being blocked from class and being harrasse, spit on and beaten. Many could not be verified, but some complaints could.
It is viral Social media HATE that has brought all this to a head. That last Saturday night, the So called Israel counter protesters came prepared with rocket fireworks and bear spray on the pro Palistinian campers trying to sleep, and they only had some sticks to defend against a planned assault. It sounded like a core of MAGNA protest group (without tiki torches) maybe mixed up in with the concerned citizens. Sound familiar? just a thought, no evidence.
As far as cancelling graduation ceremonies, it is the duty of the school admin to keep all students safe. Including a Palistinian valedictorian from possibility of HER being threatened at a graduation ceremony. USC found a solution by having graduation at the Collaseum stadium where they COULD have security for students and guests. Like going to a football game," check your ticket, let me see what's in the bag , please. " The ceremony was safe. When the young lady came on stage to recieve her diploma, the students erupted in applaue and cheer.
Not every school can do a major shift like that in a few weeks. and the venue was shared by another group! That is finding a safe solution.
Please don't accuse our president for not caring. He is doing his job, imploring his public for safe and peaceful demonstrations. Trying to bring calm and safety to our citizens is his first priority.
I'm sure Biden is constricted by past policy with Israel, but he is finding a way out of sending more rockets and such.
The college protests are doing a good job overall,. I read that the Palistinian refugees in Gaza have heard their works and are grateful.
This is about peace, compassion, love of fellow man.
Quit projecting hate!
The defacing of property was wrong. I hate the fact people claim “totally peaceful” protest. Rose colored glasses.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla
my 23-year-old daughter who attended Bryn Mawr who is well educated and passionately, in support of the peaceful protesters tells me that she cannot vote for president Biden because of his position on Palestine she says that her peers feel the same. This is disaster looming. I am blue in the face trying to explain to her that not voting means a vote for our outloud fascist Mr. Trump.
we need a strategy .
(and frankly, I am angry with President Biden for not stepping aside and allowing us to find a viable candidate who can defeat Humpty Trumpty but I will vote for Mickey Mouse versus the orange peril.furious at having to)
The young people need to realize how much worse this world be under Trump. We are talking detention camps . Trump’s words detention camps.
The young people need to realize how much worse this would be under Trump. We are talking detention camps . Trump’s words detention camps.
yes, I was dissapointed he had no challenger either. It's too bad Bernie or Elizabeth Warren did not run. Baah, political tradition! rump threw tradition out the window, so why do they follow it? I think K Harris is a little like a newbie. I hope she has learned alot in the last 4 years, because she is next in line!
Who is Biden going to debate?
Nixon won and still the protests continued. If Trump is elected, I can't say he won't kill protesters but I'm not optimistic for better times if Biden stays.
Well, how were the last three years compared to the previous four?
Ahhh !!!!! Michel if You say you are For The Jewish People you Can be for Israeli but against their Jewish Trump Prime Minister which I am! There are a very few Students who wouldn’t let other students pass and if I was in Collage and even well meaning and good hearted as I believe most of the Students who are protesting are you don’t smash Windows of Campus buildings it dosent matter if your Parents are Paying 90 Thousand dollars a year for your Education you are in a way I guess Renting the Collage space ! As I said the Administration is CLEARLY over reacting and I for the Nine Millonth Time Write the White House to Agian tell President Biden to listen to Palestinian people and the Young People cause he could loose ! My advice to you Again for the Millonth Time is Tell People to not Vote Uncomited cause that’s a Vote for everyone’s favorite Orange Falling asleep at his hush Money Trail and Farting Trump 🤡
Kennedy Jr isn't much better! Even his family doesn't support him. People will start voting for him then.
Money is overshadowing morality big time. How to do fight that?
Why do you need to vote either of these miserable beings. Jill Stein
Jill Stein is a grifter just like Donald Trump. She has the same foreign policy/relations acumen as Trump. Why would you put this country in greater jeopardy by voting for a zero-experienced person who can't come up with responses to important questions?
1. Your country is never going to pull out of it's downward spiral especially with your 2 main opponents.
2. You are all so dim.
3. Each time you vote for a President you vote for one of the Duopoly.
4. Why not try something new?
If you knew anything about U.S. history, which you clearly do not even though you spent a few years here, you would know that there has been a two-party system since the 1790s. This doesn't make it right or good or the best option, but it is the recognized political system of the United States. This election is not the one to make big changes to the party system. What is necessary, is to make sure we stack both sides of Congress with Democrats so that some of these issues can be assessed, restructured, and codified.
Here are my responses to your juvenile post.
1. Your country is never going to pull out of it's downward spiral especially with your 2 main opponents.
This is an interesting take coming from someone who grew up in England and now lives in France. Do tell me how your country of origin and current country of habitat will fare if the United States continues “it's downward spiral.”
BTW, you should have written ITS as you were speaking of the US and therefore needed to use the possessive. IT’S is the contraction of it is. Having been schooled in England I would think you'd know proper English.
2. You are all so dim.
Yawn.
3. Each time you vote for a President you vote for one of the Duopoly.
See the bare bones history lesson above.
4. Why not try something new?
Because now is not the time to try something new. And it is really not the time to bring in more crooked idiots.
I agree with your main points, but the "you are a dumb cunt" part ruined it for me. Do better next time.
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Do better by way of vocabulary or do better by way of omitting any insult altogether?
I don't think 75yrs old makes me a Juvenile.
I was not born in England I was born in Sri Lanka after the decline of the savage British Empire. I wonder IF you even know where Sri Lanka is?
I have NO country. In my opinion the US and England were the worst of the worst. France is not doing well either.
SO vote for your 'warmongering' Mr Biden who has in his 2 terms succedededededded in blowing up a lot of countries.
You can fight over grammar I had no use for it as many writers now do not.
Try reading S. American authors who have no paragraphs/colons/commas etc.
You are just DIM.
You mentioned the US and England being the "worst of the worst." Is there a best in the world (or more than one)? I'm curious.
Excuses are like belly buttons. Everyone has one.
Chronological age does not make you less immature. It certainly doesn't make you smarter. Most people know where Sri Lanka is, making your little attempt at a barb pathetic and laughable.
Biden has served one term; he's running for the 2nd. All American presidents are warmongers save Jimmy Carter, who was lambasted as one of the worst when he was one of the best. The countries you have lived in are glad most of the time that the US is a warmonger. You've clearly done nothing to attempt to change that. And you've shown via your immaturity in these comments that you are more than willing to fight before being friendly. Just goes to show what a small person you are.
P.S. There are no professional writers skipping out on punctuation and proper grammar.
To all of the former Jill Stein protest voters and those who thought there was no difference between Hillary and trump, how did that work out? How many more people died of Covid because of trump's inadequacies, greed and buffoonery? Jill Stein was also a putin plant. Lastly wasn't trump supposed to be something new? Not a politician?
I make no apology for our 2 party system but it's what we currently have and if these stupid vanity candidates like RFK Jr., Cornel West and Ms. Stein REALLY want to enact change then they should start by building their base at the city/state levels.
And who won't win, anyway?
Is winning the 'end game?'
I don't think so. It's not a sport!
The point is to make sure the people win so yes, winning is the end game.
No, you're right. It's not a sport. It's reality.
Jill Stein is a Russian tool. Google her affiliations and tell me you’d actually pull the lever for her over democracy protecting Joe Biden. A vote FOR ANY THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE OR SITTING IT OUT is simply a vote for Trump. Unless, what you want is to live under authoritarian rule - exactly what we’ll get if G-d forbid, the orange animal wins.
Thank you very much Michael Moore, Your voice is so soothing to us, your hard work, to get us the information we need to carry on with trying to restore Democracy, and Constitutional Law to the poor and Middle Class is invaluable, we cannot do this without you. I am confused about why we speak about politicians as if they do what the people want them to do. The corporations own and run the country, and when elections happen the corporations spend money on the candidates they sponsor, and just flat out own. We are a fascist, oligarchy, empire building, authoritarian, dictatorship, with no Democracy, with no working Constitution for the poor, and middle class, where people have no say in the running or decisions on how the government is run. For decades Israel has been using snipers to kill Palestinians, even children, Israel turned Palestine into the largest open air prison in the world, Israel only gives Palestinians 4 hours of electricity per day, Palestinian hospitals are greatly under funded under staffed, and they have very little medical supplies, and equipment. Israel has been committing war crimes against the Palestinians for decades, and no one cared, Israeli citizens beat and kill Palestinians with no consequences, I saw a video of an Israeli going into a Palestinian home and then declaring, it is his home and he now lives there. The corporations that run the country, are training the Police to be the Military might, to quell decent by the people. That is why all these Military style training camps are popping up all over the US, they are being training to stop all protests of government and decisions made by the ruling corporations who own the country. I have watched and bought the DVD's of all your documentaries, and I hope there are more coming, if the people ever get control of the country, I hope your documentaries become a must watch in Schools and Universities around the country.
I think we all agree we have to keep Donald out of office. United we stand divided we fall! The American worker has so much invested in this two-party system we have to vote for Biden because if we don't, we get something worse. Biden is old and I think at the end of his next term, if not sooner, we will get a younger person who wants to live on this planet? A lot of the younger people in the GOP would end all oil regulations for a billion dollars also, so I don't have much hope of them evolving.
This is a time that reminds me of when I was an anti-nuclear protester. (Washington public power supply)nuclear plants were supposed to cost under a billion dollars and ended up costing 8 or 9 billion dollars and they ended up scrapping them. We were opposed to the fascists even starting the projects. Later the fascist would say, we've got four billion sunk into them, we can't stop now? Many were arrested and their lives were altered because they could not find employment. I am concerned this will happen with the college protesters also. The cream of the crop gets devoured like a wood chipper devours tree limbs!
In your podcast you mentioned the rule of law and I immediately started thinking of Merrick Garland not prosecuting the GOP conspirators of the insurrection sooner, and the federal courts letting him run the clock out with a corrupt Supreme Court also. We don't have much of a rule of law with genocide and traitors around. Also with about 40 million thugs roaming the streets in my opinion and about 40 million more at the gun range practicing to kill everyone they hate.
Donald has already said he would support Netanyahu. A vote for anyone other than Biden, as I plug my nose to vote for Biden, is a vote for Donald and a right-wing fascist dictatorship. I think Bernie Sanders and Al franken are the kind of people we need. Surely there are some young people in the Democratic party that will emulate FDR? I recommend Israel contains Rafa until a two-state solution is reached and there's a border between the two fanatical religious Nations.
I am glad to vote for Biden. The man has a lot on his plate. Trump could not handle all the international turmoil. For god sakes he supports Putin.
This has often occurred to me as well! Lot on his plate, MUCH more capable than anyone insight of handling all the shit he has had to…and at his age! Good lord, though not perfect, and who is, quite good for our country overall. Just don’t sink him now and leave us with the Orange Demented Rump and his gang of thieves and felons!!!
bring back Al Franklin! what he did should have been a fine nit resignation! The orange guy did much worse Double standard!
I want to say that Michael can you do a story on the ultra conservatives Magna people trying to ursurp our deemicracy from local politics and going up the ladder? The banning of books in public libraries, school boards trying to get over run by conservatives. School libraries emptying their shelves.
It is not just in Florida!
it is happening here in California too! Courts overturning Enviornmental impact laws taking away the EPA and the Coastal commissions power to enforce laws!
Huntington Beach Library is under attack! All their collection are art books, cultural rich books, music books and music scores., children books, under threat of censorship. Educational children books on puberty and potty training are already pulled and moved to an adult, non youth section. The city wants to privatize the library to have control.
LA Times Friday May 10, 2024
You mean Al Franken? Or Ben Franklin?
🤣😄 Franken I have my spell check!
I *hate my spell check!😝
I appreciate your words but I am hesitant to be critical of Biden at this time!
The next 6 months will determine our future and we know what happens if Biden loses thus I would appreciate a different tack and save criticism of Joe for after the election and concentrate on going after the likes of JD Vance and Tommy Tuberville ( is that a real name?) and the rest if his thug-like syncopates I am a Sanders Warren democrat and I lived in Damascus from 1988-1990 My daughter was born in Damascus I know A lot about the Syrian/Palestinian/Israeli dynamic and conflict and am 90% in agreement with you but get Joe in and then let loose what
you will otherwise Voldemort will have our heads!!!!🔥
The person who wrote that they think Trump has begun to Rebrand his desire for Dictatorship through his Various Trails is very True ❤️
Thank you Michael.
I almost didn't listen to the podcast this time, but I surprised myself by feeling very supportive of what you said. Your criticism of Biden is fair, and it doesn't matter in the slightest if you and I disagree on a detail here and there. Criticizing our President is our patriotic duty, and you are standing up and leveling with him on issues that are very important.
You continue to say we need to defeat Trump and that a second Trump term is "unacceptable to everyone" (although some people actually want it). I'm afraid some of the people you're talking to are not completely convinced that Trump is the danger you and I realize he is, and they are not bound and determined to defeat him. Some seem to live in an alternative reality and believe that if they vote for a third-party candidate, they will be able to create an alternative to a second Trump or Biden administration. Others are downplaying the danger Trump poses. While you are correct to level with Biden, I think you have a responsibility to level with these voters who think not voting for him in November will make a positive difference. Either Biden or Trump WILL be elected President in November. There is NO alternative. Sure, it sucks. No argument there. But yeah. We're trapped. It sucks. And pissing in a hurricane, however cathartic it may feel in the moment, will not make a difference. Their "inner 13-year-olds" are getting the best of them, and not pointing it out is dangerous. Please, Michael. You need to tell them to get real every bit as much as you tell Biden to do right.
Who is at fault? Louis DeJoy is still in charge of the post office with an agenda of slowing down delivery, reducing postal workers and processing centers. The supreme court is still overloaded with radical, lying Republican justices with no attempt to increase the size of the court to compensate . The republican majority in the house is just marginally getting by with idiots trying to slow down every attempt at moving legislation forward. Who is at fault?
Republicans!!!
you forgot the EPA was moved out of Washington.. and his attempts to privatize the National Forestry service and took their back up money for emergencies away! To help fight forest fires!
Wonderful format and content, Thank You, Michael Moore and your team of meaning makers.
I felt teary eyed when you said, "We Raised These Kids!" Good tears full of pride.
yes, Michael, thank you for giving us a platform to discuss the issues In our world. I don't thank you enough for making a safe place for us to talk. in fact, this is one of the few places I actually leave comments because everyone is so respectful of each others comments.. 🩷🙏🩷🙏❤️
We try.
Agrue over Biden's policy relative to Israel while Magats lick their chops. Israel is well-armed thanks to the USA. Why? Because Israel exists in a region dominated by people, countries, and ideologies that want to destroy Israel and believe that they do not have a right to exist. Now we want to tell Israel how to use those weapons. Biden has tried, and he is using whatever leverage he has. If those who are unhappy with what he has and is doing let them do whatever they want. And if they are willing to withhold their support/vote, let them look in the mirror and see if they would rather have tRump as pres.
A vital element in the Democratic process is dissent. Disagreeing, voicing different views gives legitimacy to a democratic government.
Hi Michael, I subscribed to your podcast so I could feel the pulse of the people leading up to the November election. You have "predicted" the outcome in the two preceding elections. I need to plan living in either an authoritarian regime, or a hobbled democracy under "old white man" rule. I pine for new, young and progressive ideals, but understand and appreciate, in large part, what President Biden has done, many good things. My college debt is gone for one. And we have a black/Indian female VP. NATO is stronger seemingly and Ukraine has not fallen to the Russians, yet.
I still have my tee shirt from the Kent State student slaughters. It is white with large, black letters stating "student" incased in a red bullseye target. Those poor kids. I am proud of what our young protesters are doing. And, like you, I am concerned about a second orange man presidency if the Gaza conflict is not properly addressed and corrected. Politics and power suck. I am not diminishing the atrocity of this conflict, but where were the protestors when the estimated 500,000 to one million died in Rwanda? Was it because those dollars were NOT primarily spent on bombs and bullets to defend an "ally" country? Or, is it because their color wasn't as important as that of the people in Gaza/Israel? It's a puzzlement how we pick and choose who we defend. I think even Bill Clinton regrets how he handled Rwanda. I don't want to live in retirement worried about the future of my children and their families. I don't know what the magic formula is for turning the conflict around to avoid the orange man's return.