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  Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth # 13 Women. That’s it. Michael Moore Oct 8   There are 6 million more women in the US than men. Talk about outnumbered! There are more women who vote than men — 63% of eligible women vote. Only 59% of eligible men vote.  And when women vote, 56% of them vote for the Democrat over the 38% that vote Republican.  Can these Republican men at least do the math? So while I’m presenting all of these 44 reasons (one each day) as to why we are going to win in November (and how we’re going to do that), let’s not forget that there is one, overwhelming, laser-focused, locked-and-loaded reason that the Republicans are already doomed, defeated and demolished. They must know it. That they have cooked their own geese.  And that reason is women.  More than any other reason, women, the majority gender, one month from today, will lead the crushing blow of defeat to the Republican politicians committed to the destruction of our Democrac...

Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #12: Biden just gave us a boost and a toke. Michael Moore Oct 7     (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) On November 8th, the Republican Party will face a reckoning. This won’t happen through magical thinking, or hoping it into existence. It’ll happen because the nearly 200 million of us who make up the majority of this country did our part.  Yesterday, President Biden did his:  With the stroke of his pen, Joseph R. Biden officially pardoned the thousands of Americans who were convicted on federal charges of simple marijuana possession since it became a crime in the 1970s. But he didn’t stop there… He also encouraged all governors to follow his lead and do the same with people convicted on state charges for simple possession of marijuana.   He asked the Attorney General and Health and Human Services Secretary to review how marijuana is categorized legally — the first step to changing its categorization from a Schedule 1 drug. Currently...

  Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #10: Meet Blake Masters, Whackadoodle No. 9 Michael Moore Oct 6     (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) In 34 days from today, on Wednesday November 9th, I believe we will wake up that morning with smiles on our faces. Because tens of millions of us will have descended upon the polls the day before and, in a poignantly Democratic move, saved our Democracy.  And while we enjoy our morning coffee or tea, we will revel in our own contribution to this victory — those 5 new voters we each registered, the carpool shuttles we arranged to get our fellow Americans to the polls, the donations made to our progressive candidates and all the groups that fought for a free and fair election. And when we leave the house that morning in our fall jackets, we’ll look down and notice we’ve left our “I Voted” sticker on the front, and in a moment of both joy and relief, we’ll decide to leave it on for another day or two or three… And in the midst of all th...

  Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #9 Why will we win? Because the American people hate fascism. Michael Moore Oct 4   “A nationalist...is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.”— Timothy Snyder The vast majority of Americans have always opposed any form of fascism, even though at times tens of millions of us have endorsed the genocide of our native peoples, the enslavement, raping and lynching of humans kidnapped from Africa, the prohibition of Chinese immigrants, the over 100 illegal invasions of other countries, the closed doors to victims of the Holocaust, the passage of laws legalizing white supremacy, the prohibiting of marrying or having sex with someone of your own gender and the government legalizing the second-class citizenship of all women, to name but a few. Yet, in spite of all this, the vast majority of Americans are repulsed by fascism. And that is why those of the party that suppo...

  Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #6 The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform Michael Moore Oct 1     I saw this graphic flying around the internet and thought, “Wow. This says it all.” This ready-made, four-point “Republican Agenda” needs no explanation, no additions. And yet… it won’t convince any Trumpsters who happen upon it to leave the Big Lie behind on November 8th because they’ve already blinded their eyes to the Truth. And all you liberal and independent voters reading it now already know that everything in this agenda is absolutely the truth. So how does it support my belief that in this November’s election we are going to crush the Republicans who tried to overturn our legitimate 2020 election? Because the way for us to guarantee a whopping victory is to reach out to the 77 million voters who didn’t vote in the past two elections. Studies have shown that when nonvoters are asked their feelings about the major issues of the day, the majority of them lean to the...