I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump and they don't necessarily agree with him. They're not racist or redneck, they're actually pretty decent people and so after talking to a number of them I wanted to write this.
Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of Ford Motor executives and said "if you close these factories as you're planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobody's going to buy them." It was an amazing thing to see. No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives, and it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - the "Brexit" states.
You live here in Ohio, you know what I'm talking about. Whether Trump means it or not, is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who are hurting, and that's why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump. He is the human Molotov Cocktail that they've been waiting for; the human hand grande that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them. And on November 8, although they lost their jobs, although they've been foreclose on by the bank, next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone, the car's been repoed, they haven't had a real vacation in years, they're stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan where you can't even get a fucking percocet, they've essentially lost everything they had except one thing - the one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American constitution: the right to vote.
They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be fucked over and fucked up it doesn't matter, because it's equalized on that day - a millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job: one. And there's more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class. So on November 8 the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touchscreen and put a big fucking X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives: Donald J Trump.
They see that the elite who ruined their lives hate Trump. Corporate America hates Trump. Wall Street hates Trump. The career politicians hate Trump. The media hates Trump, after they loved him and created him, and now hate. Thank you media: the enemy of my enemy is who I'm voting for on November 8.
Yes, on November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it's your right. Trump's election is going to be the biggest fuck ever recorded in human history and it will feel good.Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 25, 2016 10:06 AM
I have never been a fan of Michael Moore but he is spot on with his comments. Just wonder what happened for him to make sense for a change.
Posted by: Puyalluppete at October 25, 2016 10:44 AMBlind squirrel, broke clock...fat, idiot retard...
Posted by: tim at October 25, 2016 11:01 AMA lot of people must have shouted this right in his face, to make it impossible for him to dismiss them as a handful of malicious idiots.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 25, 2016 11:31 AMThat fat POS may be calling it out, but you know he'll vote for her anyway.
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at October 25, 2016 11:58 AMMoore isn't bright enough to understand the Democrat's get out the vote machine, the dead, illegals, welfaristsas, addicted and all. It's already humming in early vote states.
Posted by: BillH at October 25, 2016 1:15 PMPerhaps for personal gain but we have got to fight fire with fire. A split second fan of Mr. Moore. We will see. To Hell with Progressive Liberalism. It has died in Amerika in 2016 because of Trump. Thank God for our kids and grandkids.
Posted by: H. Jones at October 25, 2016 2:36 PMI was just running through my "regular" blog sites, hoping for a little sanity. Nearly every site has Trump swirling down the toilet. Then I come here and see an article by, of all people Michael Moore. Well pi$$ my pants Mike's calling for a Trump landslide. God Bless his commie soul.
Posted by: tonynoboloney at October 25, 2016 2:40 PMI got to my mothers nursing home just after the Democratic machine had been there and steamrolled the old folks for their votes. Waves of 'helpers' to see to it that the old folks filled their ballots (brought by the Town Clerk (D)) correctly.
My mother used to work the polls in her town and was very aware that something wrong was happening. At least she refused to allow anyone to touch her ballot until she had marked it and sealed it herself.
As I was reading the article I was saying to myself, "What century is this guy talking about?"
Posted by: John The River at October 25, 2016 2:49 PMAs I said over at WRSA:
Lying piece of rancid shit. I'll never believe anything that misfit of society has to say. You're unfortunately living in a time when almost everything is fake. Believe in nothing but yourself or suffer the consequences.
I suspect he feels ignored by the dems and is getting some of his own back.
He's not one of the slick, dapper, self-possessed elite dems. He's a slob. They figure they can do without his kind.
He said the enemy of your enemy....
Posted by: Lance de Boyle at October 25, 2016 4:44 PMHe'll say whatever gains attention.
Posted by: Lance de Boyle at October 25, 2016 4:47 PMPossibly somebody loaned the fat slob a copy of "Atrocities of The French Revolution" and that has the bastard noticing all the lamp poles in the DC area.
Have Gutting/Skinning Knife, Will Travel.
Posted by: Terry at October 25, 2016 6:03 PMHe's talking to Sanders' supporters. He's telling them it's okay to vote for Trump for the reasons he states. Sanders' people hate Killery, but people like Moore don't want them to stay home and let her win, either.
Posted by: AbigailAdams at October 25, 2016 7:43 PMMeh. Moore got his start with a hard on for GM. I think he likes seeing Trump stick it to the corporate world and auto executives in particular.
Posted by: D S Craft at October 26, 2016 7:48 AMMoore is a left wing pinko Marxist commie trash. I couldn't care less what his opinion is. I have heard enough of his tripe prior to know I do not want to hear more of it.I rank him right up there with the Kardashians and Spongebob for folks I would seek out for wisdom.
Posted by: Snakepit Kansas at October 26, 2016 10:43 AMI know, I'm not a fan of Moore either. He got his start chronicling what happened to the folks in Detroit and I think that is where this rant is coming from. Would you rather have this guy on your side or Paul Ryan?
Posted by: Teri Pittman at October 26, 2016 6:52 PMI'd rather he was gutted and burning.
Posted by: ghostsniper at October 27, 2016 4:39 AMProbable typo/misquote in the last sentence of the last paragraph:
"... Trump's election is going to be the biggest fuck ever recorded ..."
Quotation is missing the word "you" between "fuck" and "ever"
Although, now that I re-read it, I think I like your version better!
;-)))
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