But Michael. He’s NOT an evil genius. He is simply evil. And currently OUT. ON. BAIL. Not counting the trials awaiting him.
He calls the Vice President of the United States the r word. And yes I have to sound like a six year old because I refuse to say that word out loud. He says that repeatedly and is CHEERED by thousands.
Evil - disgusting hateful venom - is not just/only embodied by this almost 80 year old uneducated, unread, non-curious, lazy, hateful narcissistic bully - it has been unleashed and given permission by HALF OF OUR COUNTRY.
I’m coming untethered because I have a heart. And it is breaking. You make movies. Could we concoct a more spiteful, loathsome villain ? And yet at least half the people watching that movie think HE is the hero. he is the prodigal son, come back to us with all righteousness after a rigged system tried to destroy him. Anointed by Jesus himself.
AND MILLIONS OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IT.
JOIN HIM IN HIS RACIST, SEXIST, XENOPHOBIC, HATE-FILLED/OVER-FILLED CRAVEN SOULLESS WISH TO TURN THE US INTO A DICTATORSHIP OF WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS.
It is unbelievable.
It is terrifying.
It is heartbreaking.
It isn’t a movie or a bad dream that will end as we turn off the television or wake up and remind out sickened stomachs that it wasn’t real.
For me, it isn’t the polls. To me, their ‘margin of error’ needs to be 50%. Because I cannot fathom how even one single person could be considering this man-filled-with-hate as a legitimate applicant for a real job. Let alone candidate for elected office. Most CERTAINLY NOT, the PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
I am doing all of the final stretch GOTV/campaign work. So are all the people around me. SO IS VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, GOVERNOR WALZ and their respective spouses and families.
As President Obama said - with incredulity- this week, “WHEN DID THIS BECOMES OK” ?!? I ask myself this question every single day.
Dr.Tool, I feel compelled to try to answer an important question you ask; where did these people come from? How is it that such an evil man could be "given permission by HALF OF OUR COUNTRY?"
It might not be too surprising or difficult to understand when we stop to remember that this is the country where Europeans invaded and committed one of the greatest acts of genocide in history. An ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people. Over a long, drawn out period these killers treated the indigenous people like dangerous animals and joyfully killed men women, children. The killers were treated like heroes for a long time afterward. Hollywood and authors of junky, childish novels made them into "real men" who "tamed the west" as they mercilessly pursued the hapless "Indians" with their firearms, killing them wholesale, until there are hardly any left.
This is the country which enslaved millions of our fellow human beings for centuries. Treating them as chattel to be purchased, sold, used and destroyed. This country created the most brutal, massive form of slavery in history. To this day the "black" descendants of those slaves are still treated as second class citizens by every measure of social indicators used by social scientists. This shameful slavery was not stopped until the country exploded in a civil war. And to this day, there are "White" people in the South and perhaps, fewer in the North who still feel as though the wrong side won that war.
This is the country which has sent its military to massively bomb civilian, noncombatants in German and Japanese cities. Killing these people on a huge scale never before seen in history. We call the Americans who did this the "Greatest Generation." The Second world War came to an end after this country used the new nuclear bombs to kill civilian, noncombatants in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by vaporizing hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in seconds. And since then the US has built enough of these bombs to kill all of human kind in a matter of minutes.
Is there any need to go into the Korean War and the Vietnamese War? Is there any need to talk about the almost eight hundred military bases this country has built around the world?
Must we discuss the literally dozens of countries from Hawaii to Iraq and Iran where the US has fomented a right wing, Fascist Coup D'Tat? Or invaded and destroyed these places, and called this our Foreign Relations Policy?
From my Humanist point of view this evil has been in our national life from the beginning. It is not new. It has not just recently appeared with the advent of the Trump Humpers who might number almost half of our population.
I obviously agree with all of that horrific history. I guess I had hoped that bit by bit and inch by inch, that famous ‘moral arc’ has been bending toward Justice. Obviously we are not there yet. But there have been advances. Changes toward more equality. Perhaps I’m naive enough to believe that those changes were not merely surface but had also changed the hearts of many more than apparently have been changed. And that knowledge hurts even more.
Dr. Tool, I too am naive and hopeful enough to believe that moral arc is bending toward justice. We are still seeing improvements. Both, those indigenous people and "black" people I spoke of are making snail-like advances. We do have vocal antiwar, anti racism, pro-environment, and a weak, but still barely-alive leftist movement in this country. I am possibly overly sensitive about indigenous people because I lived in the middle of Chippewas for over a half of a century and my best friend is a member of the White Earth Band.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you. I have absolutely no patience for the hand wringing over polls, and have been begging friends to ignore them. And now you have given me the data to remind them that polls mean nothing and voting means everything.
Until I die I will never understand how he-who-shall-not-be-named has so many people bowing and scraping to him. Jim Comey helped a lot in 2016 with his bullshit lies about oh her EMAILS!!! And of course the oh I can’t vote for a GURL group just voted for Trump then because he had the right body parts. And the media is just going along to get along. Useless SOBs. It’s going to be up to we the people to end the madness, the mainstream media has all their heads waaaay up their asses.
I was concerned as well, until a pundit on MSNBC reminded me of a very important factoid. Suburban women are traditionally undercounted. There is data to back this up. The pollsters undercounted them in the midterms in 2022, where Democrats did WAY better than expected from the polls -- and I suspect they were also undercounted in the runup to the Virginia Assembly elections where Democrats flipped both houses (NOBODY expected that). Also, a lot of Harris voters are in the demographic that doesn't answer cell phone calls from people they don't know.
Suburban women, and I suspect black women wherever they live, will put Harris over the top. IF they vote.
The thought that occurred to me as I was reading all these wildly inaccurate prognostications from the past is that they are too often no more than modern day augury, draped in superficial trappings of "science." Too many polls are too opaque about their statistical methodology to be taken seriously. Too many journalists are too ignorant of statistics to be qualified to report on what poll results can and cannot tell us. We have to develop our own skepticism and discernment. Posts like this help.
Thanks Michael for calming me down. I was getting all wrapped up on the polls and too much news. I have been “doing something”! Weekly the Blue Dots meet every Saturday at our normally Red County on the bridge for 2 hours waving Harris Flags, Honk for Harris signs, etc. I feel so energized, and I’ve met new friends, and overall, I feel good doing something.
I think most Americans including the cult realize that Kamala Harris will obtain about a third more votes than Donald Trump. What the voters are nervous about, is the Republican party stealing the election. Biden and Garland could have prevented all of this by doing their jobs 4 years ago! Garland is still our attorney general who looks the other way constantly. He has helped the Republican party gain control of the Congress already by not prosecuting Trump immediately after the insurrection and all of the other GOP.
This looks like a phony election. I saw one video of trump waving to a non-existing crowd outside of an airport. The bots and billionaires are making it look close and control the polling. It wouldn't surprise me if only one out of five people vote for Trump? The foreign billionaires and oligarchs control the Supreme Court of the United States, Congress and department of Justice. It is amazing what you can buy from capitalist with money!
Would you like to see proof that you are right on target with your analysis? I suggest you read my book: The Illusion of Justice. (There is a link for a free digital copy in my post today.)
I'm a 77 yr old bad ass boomer libber and have never been called for a poll. They suck. If we could have elections without any polls whatsoever, imagine all the time that would be spent watching the candidates work their butts off to meet us where we are and our pathetic attention spans would be spent on only the issues and the people, leading to the fabulous denouement of the ACTUAL election day! And while we're at it, let's ban all the "crystal ball questions" from our pals in the media.
Also -- I heard on the news today that more registered Democrats than Republicans seem to be taking advantage of early voting. But that's probably because their Dear Leader told the Republicans that early voting is un-American and that it's their duty to take off work to stand in lines on Election Day.
The GOP has released a slew of Republican polls in the past 2 weeks. We have to stick with the reliable ones... We will be looking at those in the coming days!
OMG thank you for this Michael! I know you've been telling us and I listened and tried to remember what you've been saying but...lets just say whew thanks for being in touch xoxo
Yesterday, I talked a person into voting for Harris who hadn't planned to vote.
Thank You for your service, Gloria!!
Me too! Making GOTV calls to Nevada.
But Michael. He’s NOT an evil genius. He is simply evil. And currently OUT. ON. BAIL. Not counting the trials awaiting him.
He calls the Vice President of the United States the r word. And yes I have to sound like a six year old because I refuse to say that word out loud. He says that repeatedly and is CHEERED by thousands.
Evil - disgusting hateful venom - is not just/only embodied by this almost 80 year old uneducated, unread, non-curious, lazy, hateful narcissistic bully - it has been unleashed and given permission by HALF OF OUR COUNTRY.
I’m coming untethered because I have a heart. And it is breaking. You make movies. Could we concoct a more spiteful, loathsome villain ? And yet at least half the people watching that movie think HE is the hero. he is the prodigal son, come back to us with all righteousness after a rigged system tried to destroy him. Anointed by Jesus himself.
AND MILLIONS OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IT.
JOIN HIM IN HIS RACIST, SEXIST, XENOPHOBIC, HATE-FILLED/OVER-FILLED CRAVEN SOULLESS WISH TO TURN THE US INTO A DICTATORSHIP OF WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS.
It is unbelievable.
It is terrifying.
It is heartbreaking.
It isn’t a movie or a bad dream that will end as we turn off the television or wake up and remind out sickened stomachs that it wasn’t real.
For me, it isn’t the polls. To me, their ‘margin of error’ needs to be 50%. Because I cannot fathom how even one single person could be considering this man-filled-with-hate as a legitimate applicant for a real job. Let alone candidate for elected office. Most CERTAINLY NOT, the PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
I am doing all of the final stretch GOTV/campaign work. So are all the people around me. SO IS VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, GOVERNOR WALZ and their respective spouses and families.
As President Obama said - with incredulity- this week, “WHEN DID THIS BECOMES OK” ?!? I ask myself this question every single day.
Dr.Tool, I feel compelled to try to answer an important question you ask; where did these people come from? How is it that such an evil man could be "given permission by HALF OF OUR COUNTRY?"
It might not be too surprising or difficult to understand when we stop to remember that this is the country where Europeans invaded and committed one of the greatest acts of genocide in history. An ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people. Over a long, drawn out period these killers treated the indigenous people like dangerous animals and joyfully killed men women, children. The killers were treated like heroes for a long time afterward. Hollywood and authors of junky, childish novels made them into "real men" who "tamed the west" as they mercilessly pursued the hapless "Indians" with their firearms, killing them wholesale, until there are hardly any left.
This is the country which enslaved millions of our fellow human beings for centuries. Treating them as chattel to be purchased, sold, used and destroyed. This country created the most brutal, massive form of slavery in history. To this day the "black" descendants of those slaves are still treated as second class citizens by every measure of social indicators used by social scientists. This shameful slavery was not stopped until the country exploded in a civil war. And to this day, there are "White" people in the South and perhaps, fewer in the North who still feel as though the wrong side won that war.
This is the country which has sent its military to massively bomb civilian, noncombatants in German and Japanese cities. Killing these people on a huge scale never before seen in history. We call the Americans who did this the "Greatest Generation." The Second world War came to an end after this country used the new nuclear bombs to kill civilian, noncombatants in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by vaporizing hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in seconds. And since then the US has built enough of these bombs to kill all of human kind in a matter of minutes.
Is there any need to go into the Korean War and the Vietnamese War? Is there any need to talk about the almost eight hundred military bases this country has built around the world?
Must we discuss the literally dozens of countries from Hawaii to Iraq and Iran where the US has fomented a right wing, Fascist Coup D'Tat? Or invaded and destroyed these places, and called this our Foreign Relations Policy?
From my Humanist point of view this evil has been in our national life from the beginning. It is not new. It has not just recently appeared with the advent of the Trump Humpers who might number almost half of our population.
I obviously agree with all of that horrific history. I guess I had hoped that bit by bit and inch by inch, that famous ‘moral arc’ has been bending toward Justice. Obviously we are not there yet. But there have been advances. Changes toward more equality. Perhaps I’m naive enough to believe that those changes were not merely surface but had also changed the hearts of many more than apparently have been changed. And that knowledge hurts even more.
Dr. Tool, I too am naive and hopeful enough to believe that moral arc is bending toward justice. We are still seeing improvements. Both, those indigenous people and "black" people I spoke of are making snail-like advances. We do have vocal antiwar, anti racism, pro-environment, and a weak, but still barely-alive leftist movement in this country. I am possibly overly sensitive about indigenous people because I lived in the middle of Chippewas for over a half of a century and my best friend is a member of the White Earth Band.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you. I have absolutely no patience for the hand wringing over polls, and have been begging friends to ignore them. And now you have given me the data to remind them that polls mean nothing and voting means everything.
Until I die I will never understand how he-who-shall-not-be-named has so many people bowing and scraping to him. Jim Comey helped a lot in 2016 with his bullshit lies about oh her EMAILS!!! And of course the oh I can’t vote for a GURL group just voted for Trump then because he had the right body parts. And the media is just going along to get along. Useless SOBs. It’s going to be up to we the people to end the madness, the mainstream media has all their heads waaaay up their asses.
I was concerned as well, until a pundit on MSNBC reminded me of a very important factoid. Suburban women are traditionally undercounted. There is data to back this up. The pollsters undercounted them in the midterms in 2022, where Democrats did WAY better than expected from the polls -- and I suspect they were also undercounted in the runup to the Virginia Assembly elections where Democrats flipped both houses (NOBODY expected that). Also, a lot of Harris voters are in the demographic that doesn't answer cell phone calls from people they don't know.
Suburban women, and I suspect black women wherever they live, will put Harris over the top. IF they vote.
Thx Mike. I needed the jolt!!!
Trumpolini and Vanceypants… Burnt toast and a rotten egg.
Blurph!
Thank you, Mr. Moore for this reality check.
The thought that occurred to me as I was reading all these wildly inaccurate prognostications from the past is that they are too often no more than modern day augury, draped in superficial trappings of "science." Too many polls are too opaque about their statistical methodology to be taken seriously. Too many journalists are too ignorant of statistics to be qualified to report on what poll results can and cannot tell us. We have to develop our own skepticism and discernment. Posts like this help.
Actually some people even lie to pollsters. Shocking but true
Thanks Michael for calming me down. I was getting all wrapped up on the polls and too much news. I have been “doing something”! Weekly the Blue Dots meet every Saturday at our normally Red County on the bridge for 2 hours waving Harris Flags, Honk for Harris signs, etc. I feel so energized, and I’ve met new friends, and overall, I feel good doing something.
I think most Americans including the cult realize that Kamala Harris will obtain about a third more votes than Donald Trump. What the voters are nervous about, is the Republican party stealing the election. Biden and Garland could have prevented all of this by doing their jobs 4 years ago! Garland is still our attorney general who looks the other way constantly. He has helped the Republican party gain control of the Congress already by not prosecuting Trump immediately after the insurrection and all of the other GOP.
This looks like a phony election. I saw one video of trump waving to a non-existing crowd outside of an airport. The bots and billionaires are making it look close and control the polling. It wouldn't surprise me if only one out of five people vote for Trump? The foreign billionaires and oligarchs control the Supreme Court of the United States, Congress and department of Justice. It is amazing what you can buy from capitalist with money!
Would you like to see proof that you are right on target with your analysis? I suggest you read my book: The Illusion of Justice. (There is a link for a free digital copy in my post today.)
Are you pre denying the election results?
I said, Kamala will win the popular vote, and the congress and supreme court will appoint Trump.
We’ll see. The people will decide.
Let's banish political polling!
I'm a 77 yr old bad ass boomer libber and have never been called for a poll. They suck. If we could have elections without any polls whatsoever, imagine all the time that would be spent watching the candidates work their butts off to meet us where we are and our pathetic attention spans would be spent on only the issues and the people, leading to the fabulous denouement of the ACTUAL election day! And while we're at it, let's ban all the "crystal ball questions" from our pals in the media.
Love you, Michael. You and your magnificent mind.
C
Thanks Michael - as usual, the voice of reason!
Also -- I heard on the news today that more registered Democrats than Republicans seem to be taking advantage of early voting. But that's probably because their Dear Leader told the Republicans that early voting is un-American and that it's their duty to take off work to stand in lines on Election Day.
Thank you, Michael! These are words I needed to hear. And as Whoopi says ... it isn't the polls, it's only your vote that counts.
Deep Breaths, Deep Breaths.
BANG ON! If you look at the crowd sizes you can get a much clearer view of who is going to win...
https://barrygander.substack.com/p/harris-jumps-ahead-again-watch-the
Um, sounds like a trumpf line. I didn't see huge rallies in 2020 for Biden. Let's turn out where it counts - at the voting booths or by mail.
Lucky Biden's not running, then! LOL
But you are right: full speed ahead.
Oh you're so good! I enjoyed reading this! Thanks very much!
Excellent!! I hope you get a good response.
Thank you for your thoughts as well!
The GOP has released a slew of Republican polls in the past 2 weeks. We have to stick with the reliable ones... We will be looking at those in the coming days!
OMG thank you for this Michael! I know you've been telling us and I listened and tried to remember what you've been saying but...lets just say whew thanks for being in touch xoxo