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Michael Moore can't believe how the tables have turned.

Two months ago, the result of our upcoming 2024 presidential election seemed a foregone conclusion, and a second Trump presidency seemed inevitable. But now — just 71 days before the November 5th election — Michael dares to feel hopeful that we may just elect not only our first woman president, but our most progressive!

Also on today's episode, Michael discusses the one stain on an otherwise spotless Democratic Convention: Their disrespect of Palestinian-Americans by not letting a single one of them speak on the stage. Shame! We, their allies, will not be silent about the slaughter in Gaza. 

More to come in Mike’s next Substacks and Podcasts! Sign up (it's free!) at Michaelmoore.com.

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Music in today's episode:

"Lollipop" — The Chordettes

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The first steps in using Michael Moore’s 2024 Election Toolkit are easy:

1. Get your head on straight and put your game face on. Own this one important fact: YOU belong to the Majority! Most Americans have had enough of Trump. Most Americans believe in what Kamala believes in: women’s rights, basic freedoms, Justice for all, a home of one’s own, economic democracy, peace, and a fair shake for all.

2. Go Public! Take today and write your personal declaration to your friends and family as to why you’re voting for Kamala Harris and the Dems on November 5th. Put a sign in the yard. Sign up to volunteer at your local Democratic Party. There’s much work to be done!

3. Never forget: You are not alone! But if you vote alone, we lose. Join with other groups and like-minded people to make this election a historic movement to save our Democracy!

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On this episode of Michael Moore’s podcast, we learn about the UAW’s history-making plan to bring union wages, union benefits and a paid vacation to every working class American. You in? Your grandparents had a pension.

Working people have been put through the grinder. Now it’s time that the wealthy paid for their sins. 

Also — thank the universe for the protesting college students of America. As Netanyahu and Biden continue the slaughter of the innocents, young Americans are fighting back. It is an amazing and inspiring sight! Let’s support them in every way that we can. As their signs say on their encampments: SILENCE IS VIOLENCE. 

Not in our name.

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This episode is dedicated to answering all of your questions and giving you all of the advice you'll need to survive Thanksgiving dinner with your conservative brother-in-law Bob and Aunt Qanon Karen. Last week, Mike solicited your questions that you know you'll be dealing with from your right-wing family members. From climate change to vaccines to BLM to dozens of other common questions, Mike is joined by Rumble Executive Producer Basel Hamdan to prepare you for a peaceful, healthy and happy Thanksgiving dinner.

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Music in the episode:

"Thanksgiving Prayer" - Johnny Cash
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"Thank U" - Alanis Morissette
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"Thank You" - Dido
https://youtu.be/1TO48Cnl66w

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From Amazon Studios: "Val"
Check out the outstanding documentary film about one of the great actors of our time Val Kilmer
https://www.amazonstudiosguilds.com/titles/val/

To help us untangle the lies around inflation panic, the so-called “labor shortage,” and Build Back Better, Mike is joined by Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University, Stephanie Kelton. They also discuss why it is foolish for Democrats to place the fate of their agenda in the hands of the Congressional Budget Office, and what’s really going on with the economy, as capitalists attempt to keep a pool of workers chronically unemployed and underemployed and desperate for work.


Stephanie’s latest piece “Hate the Game” on her Substack:
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/hate-the-game

Read her book, “The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy”
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781541736184

And check out Jon Schwarz’s piece in The Intercept about inflation:
https://theintercept.com/2021/11/10/inflation-economy-debt-milk-prices/



A Thanksgiving Episode Ask

Send me your questions or concerns you have before entering your Thanksgiving dinner debate with Uncle Ned or your QAnon-following Aunt. What questions do you need an answer to?
Email: [email protected]

Or send a voicemail here: 
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Mike is joined by Yale History and Law Professor Samuel Moyn to discuss his recent op-ed titled, “If Democrats Return To Centrism, They Are Doomed To Lose Against Trump.” They discuss the Democrats passing the physical infrastructure bill, but failing to, as promised, simultaneously pass the much-needed and politically popular human infrastructure bill, plus the decision by 6 Squad members to courageously stick to their word and only vote on both bills together. They also discuss the neverending campaign from corporate Democrats and corporate media pushing the party to move to the “center” and be more “moderate” and water down all of their programs that the American people and the planet currently need.

Read Moyn’s op-ed in The Guardian:
If Democrats return to centrism, they are doomed to lose against Trump

Read his book, “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War”

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Music in the episode:
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
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After the promise of major legislation that would rival the impact of FDR’s New Deal, Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda has been sucked dry by corporate America and their pawns in the Senate. Instead of massive new programs to help children, parents, students, the elderly and all us by dealing with the climate crisis, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema appear to have brought the $3.5 trillion bill down to some crumbs. And rather than having it all paid for by taxing the wealthy, they may be putting a halt to that plan, as well.

This is a monumental disaster that will not only hurt the American people, but will once again expose the Democratic party as weak, feckless, and still in the grasp of Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry and the usual special interests. Turnout for the 2022 midterm elections will be suffocated and the Republican party will feast on the Democrats’ stupidity and ride back into power on it (with Trump waiting in the wings in 2024).

Mike’s joined by a great journalist and former Bernie speechwriter, David Sirota, to talk about where things stand and discuss the need for progressives in congress to HOLD THE LINE and not support these bills moving forward unless items like Paid Family Leave, Medicare Expansion, and taxing the ultra-rich are put back in.

Read David’s reader-supported publication, The Daily Poster:
https://www.dailyposter.com/

Listen to his new Audible podcast, The Meltdown, here:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Meltdown-Podcast/B09J733SQR?source_code=ORGGB1560127210054

And look out for his upcoming movie with Adam McKay, Don’t Look Up. You can watch a trailer of it now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL9aJcqrtnw&t=1s

Call the Capitol Hill switchboard to contact your Congressperson. Tell them to support to NOT support this bill until it contains Paid Family Leave, Medicare Expansion, and taxes on the rich!
202-225-3121 or 202-224-3121

Email your representatives here:
https://democracy.io/#!/

Music in the episode:

“Hey Joe” - Jimi Hendrix
https://youtu.be/rXwMrBb2x1Q

“Killing Me Softly With His Song” - Roberta Flack
https://youtu.be/DEbi_YjpA-Y

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For the past few weeks, conservative, corporatist Democrats in Congress have been chipping away at what Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have teamed up to create -- a massive $3.5 trillion investment in the American people. The negotiations on this legislation are ongoing and Mike is joined by a member of Congress fighting to keep the bill as robust and helpful to the majority of Americans as possible, Rep. Ro Khanna of California. Mike and Rep. Khanna discuss what’s in the damn bill, what listeners need to do to help get it passed, what it’s failure might mean to the country, and how devastating it could be politically. They also discuss Rep. Khanna’s collaboration with Paris Hilton to end the abuse of young people at treatment facilities. Finally, Mike listens to your voicemails.


Call the Capitol Hill switchboard to contact your Congressperson, or to put pressure on Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin. Tell them to support this bill:
202-225-3121 or 202-224-3121

Email your representatives here:
https://democracy.io/#!/

And contact the White House to push the Biden administration to end the filibuster:
202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414

Email: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/


Learn about Ro Khanna’s work with Paris Hilton to end the abuse of young people at treatment facilities:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/10/21/troubled-teen-industry-with-paris-hilton-rep-ro-khanna-d-calif-caroline-lorson/


Music in the episode:
“Misirlou” - Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
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Steven Donziger has spent the last 800 days under house arrest with a government tracking device around his ankle.

His crime?

Well, Donziger is the lawyer who successfully sued the oil giant Chevron on behalf of the people of Ecuador for deliberately discharging 16 billion gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon between 1964 and 1992. Donziger and his colleagues succeeded and won a $9.5 billion judgment on behalf of the indigenous and poor communities of Ecuador in 2011. Chevron has yet to pay a dime on this judgement and instead, have brought this case to the friendly confines of the United States and turned Donziger, the person who successfully prosecuted them, into the one doing time.

Mike is joined by Steven Donziger, live from his house arrest, to explain the Kafka-esque/Twilight Zone case in which Donziger is serving as the punching bag of corporate America, with the American people footing the bill. They discuss this bizarre and unprecedented case, his condition, and what we all must do to fight back.

Episode Notes:

Announcement on U.N. Human Rights body ruling that the U.S. government must release Donziger from “arbitrary” detention and compensate him for legal violations:
https://www.makechevroncleanup.com/press-releases/2021/9/29/breaking-highest-un-human-rights-body-rules-us-government-must-release-steven-donziger-from-arbitrary-detention-and-compensate-him-for-legal-violations

Slate’s piece on the horrific facts of this case:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/chevron-judge-loretta-preska-steven-donziger.html

Donate to Donziger’s legal fund and sign the petition for his release here: https://www.freedonziger.com

Call Attorney General Merrick Garland’s office to demand the federal government take on this case and pursue justice for Donziger: 202-514-2000

Or email AG Garland here:
https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice

And make sure to call your respective Congressperson to pressure them on this issue: (202) 224-3121

Music in the episode:

“I Fought The Law” - The Clash
https://youtu.be/yhcreVY_qLI

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Congress could be on the verge of passing a historic investment in America's human and physical infrastructure not seen since the 1930's. The overwhelming majority of the Democratic caucus is behind it, the majority of Americans in countless opinion polls support it and it is the backbone of President Biden's domestic agenda. Yet two Democratic Senators -- Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona -- stand in the way of getting it done. Michael Moore is joined by Rep. Ilhan Omar on this Emergency Podcast System episode of Rumble to find out where this legislation currently stands and what the American people can do to help pass it. The answer: call Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin's offices and tell them to support the Build Back Better Act.

Call 202-225-3121 or 202-224-3121

Read Rep. Omar's Recent Op-Eds

Why we're willing to put our votes on the line for the Build Back Better Act
By Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Katie Porter and Ilhan Omar
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/opinions/biden-spending-bill-infrastructure-vote-jayapal-porter-omar/index.html

Democrats must be bold to save America from Republican attacks
By Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/09/27/democrats-health-care-wages-rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar/5835421001/

Read Ilhan Omar's powerful memoir:

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9780062954220

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