Rumble with Michael Moore

Random Thoughts about a winter without snow, Texas trying to ban the abortion pill for all 50 states, and what to binge on while Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to put the US through a red-blue divorce. 

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In last month's news cycle, dominated by yet another school massacre, a toxic train derailment, and the military's obliteration of threatening balloons — you may have missed some good news! The anti-MAGA Democrats continued their winning streak in February in one special election victory after another, and on this episode of Rumble, Michael spreads the good word. 

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You know the feeling when you casually come across a news article that unexpectedly, yet utterly, blows your mind? When you find yourself looking around with your jaw agape, but nobody else seems to be paying attention? That happened to Michael last week — not once but twice...

When you’re young, you can only take so much b.s. 

And when you watch a bunch of older white racist Southern men — i.e., the Republican supermajority of the Tennessee House of Representatives — attack two young black elected House members for “improper decorum” when they spoke out against gun violence just two days after the mass school shooting last week in Nashville, well racist acts are nothing new to the state where the KKK was born...

Because Republicans and Trumpsters know they are unable put down their own suicide pills, they soldier on in denying women (the majority gender) their basic reproductive rights — and they continue making it so easy for mass killers to buy as many assault rifles as they want (according to The New Republic, American citizens have now stockpiled 400 million guns in their homes, more than the entire US armed forces, Dept. of Homeland Security, and all local police agencies combined)...

Today, April 23rd, is Michael Moore’s birthday. And he woke up this morning to the Best. Birthday. Present. Ever.

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Music in today’s episode:

1) “Happy Birthday 1975” — Joni Mitchell

2) "Happy Birthday" — Imelda May

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At the time of this recording, the U.S. has had 199 mass shootings in the first 128 days of 2023. Number 200 will have happened by the time you finish this episode.

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What is this — high school? These approval ratings are in a time where most of the country doesn't approve of virtually anything. This concept is so antiquated, the pollsters might as well ask the public, in the presidential race, to vote for "Best Dressed", "Most Likely To Succeed", "Cutest Couple", "Class Clown", "MVP", "Best Smile" and "Most Likely to Bring Back Canadian Beer Through the Windsor Tunnel...

Mike’s friend and hero, Daniel Ellsberg, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He saved our country twice. He helped end America’s mass slaughter in Vietnam, and he helped bring down Nixon. He also inspired Mike — and millions — for decades.

This episode is Michael Moore’s tribute to the great Daniel Ellsberg, and includes Daniel's appearance on Rumble as Michael's first podcast guest in 2019...

Michael Moore is on strike. As a member of the Writers Guild of America, he and his 12,000 union sisters and brothers, most of whom write most of our movies and TV series, have been on strike since May 1. So what has Mike been doing while on strike? He’s been catching up on some of the best movies and TV series of the past few months and years. And he’s found some great picks. He also has turned into a binger...