URGENT APPEAL TO ALL MICHIGANDERS FROM MICHAEL MOORE! The polls for the Democratic presidential primary in Michigan are going to close in less than 3 hours. All of you who are my fellow Michiganders have a rare chance to have a direct say, and each of you as a single person can directly affect bringing this war crime that you and I are funding with our tax dollars to an end. Use it! There’s still time to vote before 8pm. Most of you live within a mile or two of a voting
Please stop making people see this as a single issue election. You are doing a disservice to the Nation.
I continue to see Americans become single issue voters instead of keeping their heads out of their asses and voting for the best character candidate. There has always been and there will always be a good reason to not vote for someone. Your job as a voter is to see past the single reason and vote for the best person anyway. Why? Because you will never know (and neither will the candidate) enough about the issue to make the right decision all by yourself. The best you can hope for is a good decision based upon a good person’s best attempt to do a good thing for all of us instead of just some of us.
There are thousands of good reasons for what is happening in the Middle East. There are a few million good ways to help the people involved. President Biden has been a part of, seen a lot of, and will be responsible for some of what is happening right now. With so many other players responsible for so many parts of what is happening, can you tell with any certainty what President Biden is responsible for? What did Trump do to cause the current troubles? Because Trump instigated much of the world’s current crises.
I was taught through many opportunities to die, that life is a gift that very many people do not appreciate unless it is only their own. Trump is one of those people. Biden is of the variety that believes that he was put here to be of service to others. He is not always the best at what he wants to be. But which servant of the people has been?
The one truth about Trump is that he has always and will continue to only serve himself. If it makes you scared witless voters feel better to know who is going to screw you and take every imaginable advantage of you, then no one can stop you from voting to hurt yourselves with Trump.
But if you are willing to vote for someone who knows more than you do about how your government is supposed to work, someone who has worked with others on so many sides of so many issues, someone whose entire life has been devoted to all the people instead of just some, someone who has made a lot of mistakes and admitted to them, someone who will not fail to put your issues before their own, then vote for any number of seriously good candidates that have nothing to do with Trump.
I may not live to see what Americans will do to themselves but I hope that we overcome our willingness to beat up the best of us just because we are attracted to what appears to be a strong white male.
As always, I wish you nothing but the very best Michael.
I am seriously thinking of cancelling my subscription. Biden did not create the problem in the Middle East. I have had enough of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot. I do not agree with Netanyahu and his reign of terror, but Biden only has so much power. We have threats to democracy right here at home. We have a golden opportunity to marginalize Republicans in 2024 and this crusade and ones like it may just give the Republicans the opportunity to turn the tide against us. Hamas gets a free ride. The three leaders of Hamas are worth $11 billion dollars while living in luxury in Qatar while their own people 65% of them before the October attacks required humanitarian aid. Biden can only do so much. He is no friend of Netanyahu. Netanyahu has the support of over 2 million Jewish settlers who would love to see Palestinians in Gaza pushed off the refugee camps in Egypt. Egypt will have no part of that potential humanitarian crisis. There are only 6 million Jews in Israel. Unless the Israelis stop Netanyahu, there is little Biden can do. I quote from Doug Floto who writes some newsletter I have never heard of who commented that "I remind them that Israel was FOUNDED in terror by Israeli nationalists bent on statehood." Great, Michael, why don't you just open the door to people who hate Jews and ignore the fact that there are Israelis who feel as strongly as we do that what is happening in Gaza is terrible. If they cannot throw Netanyahu out, what makes you think the Biden has the power to do so.
M Michael, I'm really upset with you.. What kind of response did you think Israel should have had?? Do you think they should have played nice in the sandbox?? And what would have happened if a proportional number of people had been so brutally attacked here in the US... Think the US would not have retaliated, defended itself in those people that were murdered? What's wrong with you?
I write an email every week to President Biden and our Michigan representatives telling them that they are going to lose Michigan and their eternal souls if they don't stop Israel's murderous revenge killing of Palestinians. I remind them that Israel was founded in terror by Israeli nationalists bent on statehood. I remind them that they will have to negotiate with Hamas because nationalist groups bent on statehood (remember the Viet Cong?) can't be defeated militarily. I remind them of their racism against darker skinned peoples as they throw out racist tropes about rape and murder and barbarism and pagan worship. I remind them the the use of human shields isn what our military and diplomats trot out if, when we can't dislodge people we hate, at least we van satisfy people that we bombed the Christ out of them. So how about we do that instead?
We surely don’t want slaughter. So the questions are first Hamas hiding behind its own people and their homes. Also a question that a response from Palestinans seems to miss the existence of Jewish people in Israel. A simple ‘yes’ will do from people who want peace. All that said Netanyahu is a real jerk. Israel has had far more competent prime ministers. I would just love a policy where just once the Palestinian perspective is that Jewish people can continue to exist. The ongoing policy has been for at least since Arafat that the end game is Jews must disappear from ‘river to the sea’. Wish it wasn’t true.
I understand the folks who are voting uncommitted as a protest, but please lets all be realistic about whats also at stake in this election. Donald Trump is going to be the Republican Nominee and if those folks who voted uncommitted think life for Palestinians would get with him are delusional.
Michael, what would have had Israel do after being attacked? Should they have just backed down so as not to offend the world which needs but a thin excuse to demonize Jews? What is your workable answer to the desire of the Arabs to slaughter all the Jews? What is your answer to Hamas deliberately putting the Palestinians in harms way to be killed in order to arouse the sympathy of the world? And what on earth do you think Biden can do to ameliorate a problem that has festered for centuries? Everything you do to "teach Biden a lesson" strengthens Trump and makes more possible the nightmare that would be a second Trump term. I am a Jew. My people are sick of 2,000 years of pogroms. The attack by Hamas is just the latest. Again I ask, what would have had Israel do?
Thank you for your last podcast, Micheal, and for this email. You explained the situation in Gaza with compassion and humanity, the way you always do, and I found it extremely helpful. I don't vote in Michigan, but I certainly understand what you are asking people to do, and why. You are one of America's great Patriots. I hope Joe gets the message, and uses his powers RIGHT NOW to stop the bombing and to help the Palestinians gain ALL of their human rights.
I love you. And will always be thankful for what you do and for your wonderful reporting.
But, please! I sure hope that Michigan isn’t going to give us a repeat performance of 2016 and hand the state’s electoral votes to Trump — like they did in 2016!
Has no one learned what not voting against Trump gets us!
Michigan needs to quit whining!
I get it. We all do. Biden’s Gaza policy is frustrating. And the killings are horrific.
But it’s going to get a LOT WORSE if your state doesn’t pull it together and vote for Joe Biden.
Two wrongs do not make a right. We can agree that the Holocaust was wrong and the Hamas attack was wrong but too many innocent Palestinians have been killed to exact revenge and restitution in a cycle that is never ending. Wrong is wrong and as plain as the nose on your face. – Judy Finelli
Wish I were able to vote, hoping it has the impact. I’m not so sure of Biden’s conscience or even his political sense anymore. Last night on Seth Meyers he tripled down, stating he was a “Zionist”! Oy vay Joey, wtf? Go Unccommited!
I always appreciate your views but in this piece you were MUCH too easy on Biden who, like Netanyahu , is a war criminal - not only for his failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza but for all the weapons he has sent to Ukraine. You make abundantly clear that our leaders are not honoring the wishes of We the People with your reference to the many unions et al that urging a ceasefire. For decades, America has been an oligarchy pretending to be a democracy and more and more of our citizens are realizing sad fact.
The corruption in the USA government is more than people realize due to the revolving door between the regulators and corporations. While the regulators are in the government, they do favors for the corporations so that when they leave the government they get a nice cushy job. This includes government regulators for the banking system, food system, drugs and everything else. The conflict of interest in science policy makers and health policy officials is terrible. I'm a longtime Democrat and I see this corruption and read about this corruption often. I'm disgusted that myself and my children have to grow up in a country that is so dysfunctional and I'm voting for another candidate, (not trump)
No one has clean hands here Doug & I'm no fan of Netanyahu - but to paint a picture of Hamas as the victim is beyond comprehension and shows that you are either unable or unwilling to look at the whole picture and complexity of this situation.
First of all, I love you. And I thank you for sticking your neck out your whole life.
The situation in the Middle East right now is a lose-lose situation. Everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Until we decide to live peacefully with our neighbors, we will always lose. A handful of people on both sides are driven by their ego and hate, creating more of the same.
Stop it already!! Israel has done enough damage, and the Palestinian people don't deserve retaliation of this magnitude. I wish they would rise up against Hamas themselves, and Israel says enough. Let's give peace a chance!!
As for Biden, his greatest strength is his ability to work both sides of the aisle, and I am confident he is doing everything he can to end this unspeakable horror.
None of this is of his doing and let's remember, he is the president of the US, not Israel or Palestine. Why are people blaming him anyway!?
Good for all you Michiganers for taking a stand. I appreciate your voice and it was heard. Still, please, don't let this allow a neo nazi into the White House ever, ever, again. if you think Netanyahu is bad, just wait.
Dear Michael,
Please stop making people see this as a single issue election. You are doing a disservice to the Nation.
I continue to see Americans become single issue voters instead of keeping their heads out of their asses and voting for the best character candidate. There has always been and there will always be a good reason to not vote for someone. Your job as a voter is to see past the single reason and vote for the best person anyway. Why? Because you will never know (and neither will the candidate) enough about the issue to make the right decision all by yourself. The best you can hope for is a good decision based upon a good person’s best attempt to do a good thing for all of us instead of just some of us.
There are thousands of good reasons for what is happening in the Middle East. There are a few million good ways to help the people involved. President Biden has been a part of, seen a lot of, and will be responsible for some of what is happening right now. With so many other players responsible for so many parts of what is happening, can you tell with any certainty what President Biden is responsible for? What did Trump do to cause the current troubles? Because Trump instigated much of the world’s current crises.
I was taught through many opportunities to die, that life is a gift that very many people do not appreciate unless it is only their own. Trump is one of those people. Biden is of the variety that believes that he was put here to be of service to others. He is not always the best at what he wants to be. But which servant of the people has been?
The one truth about Trump is that he has always and will continue to only serve himself. If it makes you scared witless voters feel better to know who is going to screw you and take every imaginable advantage of you, then no one can stop you from voting to hurt yourselves with Trump.
But if you are willing to vote for someone who knows more than you do about how your government is supposed to work, someone who has worked with others on so many sides of so many issues, someone whose entire life has been devoted to all the people instead of just some, someone who has made a lot of mistakes and admitted to them, someone who will not fail to put your issues before their own, then vote for any number of seriously good candidates that have nothing to do with Trump.
I may not live to see what Americans will do to themselves but I hope that we overcome our willingness to beat up the best of us just because we are attracted to what appears to be a strong white male.
As always, I wish you nothing but the very best Michael.
David
I am seriously thinking of cancelling my subscription. Biden did not create the problem in the Middle East. I have had enough of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot. I do not agree with Netanyahu and his reign of terror, but Biden only has so much power. We have threats to democracy right here at home. We have a golden opportunity to marginalize Republicans in 2024 and this crusade and ones like it may just give the Republicans the opportunity to turn the tide against us. Hamas gets a free ride. The three leaders of Hamas are worth $11 billion dollars while living in luxury in Qatar while their own people 65% of them before the October attacks required humanitarian aid. Biden can only do so much. He is no friend of Netanyahu. Netanyahu has the support of over 2 million Jewish settlers who would love to see Palestinians in Gaza pushed off the refugee camps in Egypt. Egypt will have no part of that potential humanitarian crisis. There are only 6 million Jews in Israel. Unless the Israelis stop Netanyahu, there is little Biden can do. I quote from Doug Floto who writes some newsletter I have never heard of who commented that "I remind them that Israel was FOUNDED in terror by Israeli nationalists bent on statehood." Great, Michael, why don't you just open the door to people who hate Jews and ignore the fact that there are Israelis who feel as strongly as we do that what is happening in Gaza is terrible. If they cannot throw Netanyahu out, what makes you think the Biden has the power to do so.
M Michael, I'm really upset with you.. What kind of response did you think Israel should have had?? Do you think they should have played nice in the sandbox?? And what would have happened if a proportional number of people had been so brutally attacked here in the US... Think the US would not have retaliated, defended itself in those people that were murdered? What's wrong with you?
I write an email every week to President Biden and our Michigan representatives telling them that they are going to lose Michigan and their eternal souls if they don't stop Israel's murderous revenge killing of Palestinians. I remind them that Israel was founded in terror by Israeli nationalists bent on statehood. I remind them that they will have to negotiate with Hamas because nationalist groups bent on statehood (remember the Viet Cong?) can't be defeated militarily. I remind them of their racism against darker skinned peoples as they throw out racist tropes about rape and murder and barbarism and pagan worship. I remind them the the use of human shields isn what our military and diplomats trot out if, when we can't dislodge people we hate, at least we van satisfy people that we bombed the Christ out of them. So how about we do that instead?
We surely don’t want slaughter. So the questions are first Hamas hiding behind its own people and their homes. Also a question that a response from Palestinans seems to miss the existence of Jewish people in Israel. A simple ‘yes’ will do from people who want peace. All that said Netanyahu is a real jerk. Israel has had far more competent prime ministers. I would just love a policy where just once the Palestinian perspective is that Jewish people can continue to exist. The ongoing policy has been for at least since Arafat that the end game is Jews must disappear from ‘river to the sea’. Wish it wasn’t true.
I understand the folks who are voting uncommitted as a protest, but please lets all be realistic about whats also at stake in this election. Donald Trump is going to be the Republican Nominee and if those folks who voted uncommitted think life for Palestinians would get with him are delusional.
Michael, what would have had Israel do after being attacked? Should they have just backed down so as not to offend the world which needs but a thin excuse to demonize Jews? What is your workable answer to the desire of the Arabs to slaughter all the Jews? What is your answer to Hamas deliberately putting the Palestinians in harms way to be killed in order to arouse the sympathy of the world? And what on earth do you think Biden can do to ameliorate a problem that has festered for centuries? Everything you do to "teach Biden a lesson" strengthens Trump and makes more possible the nightmare that would be a second Trump term. I am a Jew. My people are sick of 2,000 years of pogroms. The attack by Hamas is just the latest. Again I ask, what would have had Israel do?
Thank you for your last podcast, Micheal, and for this email. You explained the situation in Gaza with compassion and humanity, the way you always do, and I found it extremely helpful. I don't vote in Michigan, but I certainly understand what you are asking people to do, and why. You are one of America's great Patriots. I hope Joe gets the message, and uses his powers RIGHT NOW to stop the bombing and to help the Palestinians gain ALL of their human rights.
Thanks, Mike for the reminder. I hope that Michigan sends a strong message to Biden and we stop enabling the ongoing genocide.
I love you. And will always be thankful for what you do and for your wonderful reporting.
But, please! I sure hope that Michigan isn’t going to give us a repeat performance of 2016 and hand the state’s electoral votes to Trump — like they did in 2016!
Has no one learned what not voting against Trump gets us!
Michigan needs to quit whining!
I get it. We all do. Biden’s Gaza policy is frustrating. And the killings are horrific.
But it’s going to get a LOT WORSE if your state doesn’t pull it together and vote for Joe Biden.
Let’s keep our eye on the ball.
Two wrongs do not make a right. We can agree that the Holocaust was wrong and the Hamas attack was wrong but too many innocent Palestinians have been killed to exact revenge and restitution in a cycle that is never ending. Wrong is wrong and as plain as the nose on your face. – Judy Finelli
Wish I were able to vote, hoping it has the impact. I’m not so sure of Biden’s conscience or even his political sense anymore. Last night on Seth Meyers he tripled down, stating he was a “Zionist”! Oy vay Joey, wtf? Go Unccommited!
Michael -
I always appreciate your views but in this piece you were MUCH too easy on Biden who, like Netanyahu , is a war criminal - not only for his failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza but for all the weapons he has sent to Ukraine. You make abundantly clear that our leaders are not honoring the wishes of We the People with your reference to the many unions et al that urging a ceasefire. For decades, America has been an oligarchy pretending to be a democracy and more and more of our citizens are realizing sad fact.
The corruption in the USA government is more than people realize due to the revolving door between the regulators and corporations. While the regulators are in the government, they do favors for the corporations so that when they leave the government they get a nice cushy job. This includes government regulators for the banking system, food system, drugs and everything else. The conflict of interest in science policy makers and health policy officials is terrible. I'm a longtime Democrat and I see this corruption and read about this corruption often. I'm disgusted that myself and my children have to grow up in a country that is so dysfunctional and I'm voting for another candidate, (not trump)
No one has clean hands here Doug & I'm no fan of Netanyahu - but to paint a picture of Hamas as the victim is beyond comprehension and shows that you are either unable or unwilling to look at the whole picture and complexity of this situation.
Dear Michael,
First of all, I love you. And I thank you for sticking your neck out your whole life.
The situation in the Middle East right now is a lose-lose situation. Everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Until we decide to live peacefully with our neighbors, we will always lose. A handful of people on both sides are driven by their ego and hate, creating more of the same.
Stop it already!! Israel has done enough damage, and the Palestinian people don't deserve retaliation of this magnitude. I wish they would rise up against Hamas themselves, and Israel says enough. Let's give peace a chance!!
As for Biden, his greatest strength is his ability to work both sides of the aisle, and I am confident he is doing everything he can to end this unspeakable horror.
None of this is of his doing and let's remember, he is the president of the US, not Israel or Palestine. Why are people blaming him anyway!?
Good for all you Michiganers for taking a stand. I appreciate your voice and it was heard. Still, please, don't let this allow a neo nazi into the White House ever, ever, again. if you think Netanyahu is bad, just wait.
Thank you,
Carmen