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Hello, this is Michael Moore and you're

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listening to Rumble

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with Michael Moore, my weekly

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podcast.

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Thank

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you everybody for tuning in today.

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And thank you for all of you who

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wrote me over the last week about last week's

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podcast regarding guns

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and my plan on what to do. I

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couldn't give away too much of it and I probably

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gave away too much already just

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by announcing that I was going to do something

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to try to help put an end to all

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this madness.

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But I just wanted to thank you. The

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not only just the response, but the ideas

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that many of you had, new

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ideas, things we haven't thought about doing

0:58

of how we could correct the

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epidemic of gun violence

1:03

in this country. It was

1:05

heartening. I got

1:08

excited about many of

1:10

the ideas that you expressed. I

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shared them with my crew, those

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who are already thinking and doing regarding

1:18

what we're up to here on our end. So

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to Bob, my NSA guy

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who has the night shift and

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Kenny who usually has

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the day shift of listening in

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on me.

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Just keep this to yourself for at

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least a few months. All

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right. Thank you to all of us working on this project. We

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are nonviolent people. We

1:46

believe in peace. We

1:48

are not filled with hate. Just

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fill out the report with other stuff.

1:55

Thanks. Okay. So

1:58

I want to bring up something that's been in the news. week

2:00

or two and that is the record

2:02

low approval rating in the polls

2:05

for President Joe Biden. Apparently

2:08

at what is it 38 percent 39 percent whatever

2:10

it

2:12

is it's uh it's

2:15

now the lowest for a

2:17

first-term president ever

2:20

or at least since whenever they started doing these approval

2:22

rating polls. It is lower

2:24

than Nixon, lower

2:27

than Reagan, lower

2:29

than Bush one or two, and

2:33

lower than Trump. Whoa!

2:40

Now I know the president's

2:42

granddaughters are probably you know

2:44

listening to this podcast and I don't

2:46

know how often grandpa tunes into

2:48

this but if you could pass this along to

2:50

him I just want to kind of interpret

2:53

the

2:54

meaning of this low approval rating

2:57

and the rest of you can join in

2:59

on this you can drop him a note at

3:01

the White House if you want WhiteHouse.gov

3:04

and I

3:05

know a lot of you have written to me like

3:08

you're upset and you're worried oh my god

3:11

is it possible that

3:13

Trump is gonna be back in the White House you

3:15

know is it possible that Biden's gonna

3:17

lose you know isn't there

3:19

somebody else that can run

3:22

can't we get somebody younger I don't

3:26

mean to laugh I'm just well

3:29

yeah he's 80 it's there's

3:31

lots of people younger that

3:34

could run that are eligible they just

3:36

have to be born in the US a

3:39

citizen of the country and 35

3:43

years old that's it and

3:46

I know there's a couple of other now Democrats

3:48

that are running but

3:52

and I know a lot of you feel like why don't

3:54

we have a third party or fourth party or

3:56

whatever and yes you're right I've

3:59

said this so

3:59

since I was a teenager and

4:02

yet we don't have it. I haven't made it

4:04

happen. You haven't made it happen. And

4:06

we can say this, but if we

4:08

don't actually work together,

4:11

form an organization, make it large

4:13

and make it happen, we're

4:16

not gonna be able to,

4:19

well, we just can't just dream it up. Like say,

4:21

oh, next year, let's get a third

4:23

party candidate.

4:25

You know, we're in a very

4:28

dangerous time, as we all know. So

4:30

the work we probably should have done, could have

4:32

done, would have done a decade

4:35

or two or three ago hasn't

4:38

been done. So therefore we

4:41

have to now deal with the hand we've

4:43

been dealt at the table.

4:45

So having said that,

4:48

the fear that a lot of you are feeling

4:50

about Biden losing or Biden not

4:52

making it because of this record

4:54

low approval rating. Okay,

4:56

let me just, let's start by saying a couple of things. Number

4:59

one, approval ratings

5:01

really, I

5:04

don't even know where the idea came up with. I don't know

5:06

how many decades they've been doing it. Isn't

5:08

it kind of an old timey

5:10

idea to begin with? Why are we even doing this? It's

5:12

the 21st century, we're more

5:15

than one fifth of the way through the century

5:18

and we still have approval ratings.

5:21

You know, that should have gone out with a newlywed

5:24

game. Where

5:26

are you? Right?

5:29

Or Charles in Charge. Such

5:33

an ancient idea. We're

5:37

beyond this, aren't we? The popularity

5:39

contest, the approval

5:43

rating, the approval. How about

5:45

this? We don't approve,

5:47

period. None of us do. We don't approve

5:49

of anything we see going on right now. We're

5:51

sick and tired of it all. Approval,

5:54

a pollster is gonna call

5:56

me and ask me, do you approve, no,

5:59

don't even ask, don't. I don't approve of anything right

6:01

now. It's all so messed up. Isn't

6:08

that kind of how we, I mean, we do approve of some things. You

6:10

know, you love your dog,

6:13

you love your cat, you love your goldfish, you

6:15

love American Dream. I

6:19

thought there are things you approve

6:21

of, but really, it's

6:24

such a silly question,

6:25

isn't it? We're

6:29

being talked to like we're in some kind of

6:31

preschool room. Okay,

6:35

who likes the grape flavor? It's

6:42

stupid. It's

6:45

a stupid question. So the first thing

6:47

the pollster should just do

6:50

right now immediately is stop taking

6:52

approval ratings.

6:54

All right, cause it doesn't really mean anything. I'll

6:56

give you an example as to why. First

6:59

of all, if a pollster calls

7:02

just about anybody in the public and

7:04

asks them if they approve of

7:06

a particular politician, the

7:09

first inclination I think amongst the majority

7:12

of the people, not everybody, but

7:14

amongst the majority is

7:16

you're wasting my time. I'm answering

7:18

the phone and you're wasting my time asking

7:21

me if I approve of a politician. Why

7:24

don't I just save your time and tell you, I

7:27

don't approve of any of them. I'm against politicians.

7:29

Fuck them all.

7:31

It's kind of, I mean, you

7:34

don't need to drop the F bomb on the poor person

7:36

who's calling

7:38

you from the Philippines to ask you your opinion on

7:40

this, but seriously, the

7:43

reason why these don't mean anything, Trump's

7:45

approval rating is only a couple points above

7:48

Biden's. So

7:50

they don't like him either. And

7:52

on the pundits on TV, oh, we're

7:55

now, a divided country and now

7:57

we're in agreement that we don't like anybody who's.

7:59

running for president. And

8:02

it's like, yeah, but take out Biden

8:04

and Trump and, you know, put in, I

8:07

don't know, DeSantis and,

8:10

you know, I don't know, there's

8:12

no Democrat I can think of right now. See

8:14

that's right there. I can't even think of a Democrat,

8:17

you know, I mean, obviously, other than Bernie and there

8:20

are there are some good ones actually that are

8:23

not just in the Senate and Congress, but are in our

8:25

state governments, Michigan, places

8:28

like that, you know, we have good people,

8:29

but they're not running,

8:32

they're not going to win. And

8:34

so don't ask me about any

8:37

of this, people generally

8:39

are just going to say, no, I don't approve

8:41

no matter what name the pollster throws

8:44

at them on the phone. Okay,

8:46

start with that. So right there,

8:48

you've got probably at least half the people

8:51

already disapproving. And

8:53

it's probably why Biden and Trump's

8:56

disapproval number is

8:58

so close, but there's

9:01

also this and now I'm speaking

9:03

to people who voted for Biden,

9:06

who will vote for him again next year,

9:09

even people who are

9:11

somewhat pleased with a lot of what he's

9:14

done, a lot

9:16

that he's gotten accomplished, what

9:18

he stands for, what he stands up for. You

9:22

know, you have a good feeling about

9:25

a lot of who he is and what he does. Yet, if

9:29

a pollster is saying, Mike, do

9:34

you approve of

9:36

the job Joe Biden is doing? To

9:40

be honest, I think if I've never gotten one of

9:42

these calls, but if I got one, I think

9:46

I would err on the side of, of even though

9:48

I do approve of much of

9:50

what he's done and I'm

9:53

going to vote for him. I

9:56

don't want to say that to the pollster. I

9:59

don't want to be be recorded as approving

10:01

of, and now we can list all the things that I'm

10:04

upset about, that he hasn't done, that

10:06

he isn't standing up for, mistakes

10:09

that I think he's made, all of that. If

10:11

you put those things together, and I'm not gonna go

10:14

through a litany of it right now, you've heard me make

10:16

my criticisms and my concerns and

10:19

all that,

10:21

but to mark me down

10:23

as, yes, I approve

10:26

of how things are going. No,

10:28

actually I don't. I

10:31

think I would probably say that

10:33

I don't approve. And

10:35

so when you're looking at that 38% approval

10:38

rating or 39%, whatever it is,

10:41

know that there's a lot of people probably like

10:43

me, who because

10:47

there are a number of things I don't approve

10:49

of, I'm gonna err on that, only

10:51

in the hopes that him seeing

10:54

that number will nudge him

10:57

toward doing the right thing, to

11:00

fixing this. It's

11:07

just strategy, right? It

11:10

doesn't mean I don't approve of him. It

11:13

doesn't mean that he won't

11:15

have my vote, not gonna vote

11:17

for the Republican, not gonna not show up.

11:21

So do you see how just ridiculous

11:23

this is right from the get go? And

11:27

you know what they do is they look at that and they think,

11:29

oh yeah, he's only got like a 38% approval

11:31

rating. Wow,

11:34

that means under 40% of the country is

11:37

gonna vote for him. No, that's not what it means.

11:41

It means people are just pissed. We're

11:43

all pissed right now. We're all in a funk.

11:46

We don't like a lot of what's going on. And

11:51

so we register that complaint

11:54

when the pollster calls. Or

12:00

if Republicans are thinking, oh, his

12:02

approval rating is down in the thirties. Wow,

12:05

we have a chance to win this election. No, you

12:07

don't. You're not winning

12:10

another election.

12:12

Trump was it. Trump

12:15

was it. That's on us

12:17

too, by the way. You didn't make that happen. That's

12:20

on the decisions that the Democratic

12:22

Party made, that

12:25

Hillary made. As

12:27

I've said many times, the state I'm

12:29

from, Trump got an

12:31

average of two votes per

12:33

precinct more than Hillary in Michigan

12:36

in 2016. That's

12:38

why he became president. The

12:42

DNC and the whole apparatus,

12:45

the whole political shenanigans

12:48

couldn't figure out how to get just two more people

12:50

out per precinct to vote for Hillary.

12:52

Of course, she wouldn't come to the state to campaign.

12:55

That was a little problem there. The

12:58

campaign refused to allow any yard

13:00

signs to be sent to Michigan. They

13:03

thought the signs would remind the Trump

13:05

voters that, oh, the election's coming up. Don't

13:07

forget to vote for Trump. I mean,

13:09

you know,

13:11

again, if you've seen my work,

13:13

my movies, listen to this podcast,

13:16

I've told you everything that happened that went wrong.

13:19

So the approval rating, don't worry

13:21

about it.

13:22

It means nothing.

13:24

I mean, can you remember right now who was voted

13:27

in your senior class in high school, most likely

13:30

to succeed,

13:32

best dressed? You

13:35

know, what? I

13:37

mean, can you, nobody remembers any

13:39

of that because it doesn't matter who

13:42

the most popular kid was. You

13:44

know, best athlete. Maybe

13:47

I don't, some of us can remember that one. I

13:49

was in that election they have, and

13:51

see, I was elected.

13:53

I won best

13:56

comic is what it was called at my high school. Best

13:58

comic, some schools call it. class clown.

14:04

The majority of the seniors that year voted

14:06

me as that. Which

14:11

reminds me well I'm not gonna say it right now I'm not

14:13

gonna talk about it right now I just maybe

14:15

I should just alert you that sometime very

14:17

soon here I'm gonna

14:19

write a sub stack a written sub stack about

14:23

the concept of humor and satire

14:27

and the political ways

14:29

to create change not

14:32

without a hammer in

14:34

your hand but with a

14:37

with a sense of humor but

14:40

we'll get to that here in the next week

14:43

or so. In the meantime

14:45

if the pollster calls don't

14:47

worry say whatever you want to say if

14:50

the Republicans misinterpret it is that

14:52

what they don't understand is that I'll bet

14:54

you a third of that 38%

14:57

approval rating and then or I should say the disapproval

14:59

rating for Biden

15:02

is from people who like him people

15:05

who voted for him and

15:08

they're just upset as

15:11

they should be. So

15:17

I don't approve but

15:20

I approve you can carry both

15:22

thoughts in your head you already

15:24

do. Alright

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Before we close up here

19:33

for today, just an idea I had this

19:35

week as reading. I didn't

19:38

understand, I never really probably thought

19:40

about it too much, like what does it take to

19:42

become a state in this country?

19:45

Do we all the people in this country have to

19:47

vote on letting a state in or becoming

19:49

a state? I mean, how did it happen?

19:52

How does Alaska and Hawaii

19:54

become the 49th and 50th state? I

19:58

mean, I was just a toddler. so

20:00

I don't know any of that. And

20:03

then I found out this week, it's actually

20:06

quite simple. In

20:08

order to make something a state, you

20:11

just have to get the House and the Senate. You just

20:13

need a majority vote. You don't need

20:16

that 60% vote thing or

20:19

all the other nonsense that we've allowed

20:21

to take place in the Senate especially.

20:24

You just need

20:26

a simple majority of the

20:28

U.S. House of Representatives and a simple majority

20:30

of the United States Senate.

20:33

And then for the President to sign the bill,

20:36

that's it. You don't have to ask all

20:38

the states.

20:39

You don't have to have a national referendum.

20:42

You don't need a constitutional amendment.

20:45

There's nowhere in the Constitution that it lists the names

20:47

of all the states. It's

20:50

actually quite simple. And

20:52

because we control the Senate

20:56

and we did

20:58

control the House, and we will,

21:01

my prediction by the end of this term,

21:05

when we are and we have

21:07

a Democrat in the White House, did I mention how

21:09

the Republicans aren't gonna win again?

21:12

Of course, I have to put a caveat on that. If

21:14

we don't show up to vote, if we don't do the organizing,

21:17

if we don't do our part,

21:19

and if in this case Biden

21:21

and Harris, if they don't do their part and

21:23

do the things that we elected them to do,

21:27

if they hedge, if they

21:29

pull their punch, if they just

21:31

go all silent and not do

21:33

the job over the next year, yeah,

21:36

yeah, that actually could result

21:38

in a Republican victory, yeah.

21:40

So we have to do our part.

21:43

People in the White House, the Democrats

21:45

in Congress, they've gotta do their part.

21:48

And if that happens, the majority of Americans are already

21:50

with us. So they just gotta

21:52

be able to look at the situation, say, yeah, I think I'm gonna

21:55

vote today. They've done some

21:57

good things here, and I certainly

21:59

don't want.

22:00

the other people in charge of this

22:02

country. So, but I'm

22:06

only bringing this up because I started thinking, you

22:08

know, Washington DC, District

22:11

of Columbia should be a state. People

22:13

there do not have all the same rights

22:16

that the rest of us have. They are American citizens.

22:19

Yeah, they just have like an observer

22:23

in Congress. They don't have a member of

22:25

Congress to represent

22:27

them. There is no voice for the

22:29

citizens of DC. And there's, I don't know, maybe

22:32

seven, seven, 800,000 people live

22:34

in Washington DC. They

22:37

have no voice. They get no vote. That's wrong.

22:39

That's not a democracy. That

22:42

has to be fixed.

22:45

They've already voted. They want to be a state. They're

22:47

American citizens. They live in

22:49

the Continental 48, I guess, 48 plus.

22:52

I

22:55

mean, seriously, why

22:58

don't we start to prepare for when

23:00

we have both houses and the White House

23:03

here in another, you know, almost

23:05

year and a half. Let's give statehood

23:08

to the District of Columbia,

23:10

those American citizens, full voting

23:12

rights.

23:14

They'll get at least one representative in

23:16

the House and they'll get two senators. And

23:19

if you're saying all that, they should two senators

23:22

for that little city, that little

23:24

city is somewhere just under a million

23:27

people, that there's already more people

23:29

in the District of Columbia than there is in the state of Wyoming,

23:32

the state of Vermont. I think this might

23:34

not be another state or two

23:36

that DC outranks.

23:38

If you get two senators in Vermont, the

23:42

people in the District of Columbia should have their

23:44

two senators too. Now,

23:47

getting into the whole issue of there, should there even be

23:49

the Senate the way it's set up? Because

23:51

it's totally not democracy.

23:54

That's for a different podcast. But between

23:57

the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

24:01

which has what three or four million people?

24:05

They're all American citizens. If

24:09

they want to be a state, and I think they've kind

24:12

of made that clear,

24:15

somewhat clear, if

24:17

they do, they should be a state. Let's

24:20

make Puerto Rico a state. They're

24:24

a hell of a lot closer to us than

24:26

Hawaii. We did

24:28

that. They're

24:31

closer than Alaska is to

24:33

the lower 48. We did that.

24:37

Puerto Rico should be a state. They should get two

24:39

senators. And with, I don't

24:41

know, that population they have, that's,

24:45

ooh, that's at least five members

24:48

of the House. We

24:51

can make this happen very easily. Simple

24:54

vote in the next session of

24:56

the House and the Senate,

24:57

signed by the President, boom.

25:02

And we can start to fix this problem we have, where

25:05

we have a Congress that's not truly representative

25:07

democratically. And I don't, and

25:09

I mean small d, I'm not talking about Democratic Party.

25:12

I just mean, it's

25:14

not one person, one vote in this

25:16

country, the way we've got it set up. So that has

25:18

to change. We should think about changing that,

25:21

and not wait any longer. Just

25:24

like we're gonna have to fix the Supreme Court. And

25:27

I'll get into that here in the, also the next

25:30

week or so, because, man, all

25:35

the news that's been coming out about

25:37

the Supreme Court and on their shenanigans

25:40

with the money,

25:42

rich people buying them off,

25:45

not good. And they've got to rue

25:47

the day that they

25:50

got rid of Roe v. Wade last summer.

25:54

Why we let Alito talk us into this. Now

25:56

everybody hates us. Now they're

25:58

looking into our finances.

25:59

Now they're gonna impeach

26:02

us. What the hell? Well,

26:05

you know you if you take away the rights

26:08

of the majority of Americans that would be women

26:10

the majority gender If you

26:13

take away the right to

26:15

control their own bodies their own reproductive

26:18

organs If

26:21

you say that those rights to

26:24

to their bodies belong to

26:26

the male-dominated

26:28

Supreme Court

26:30

well You're

26:32

gonna piss off a lot of people and that's what's

26:34

happened and they've shown up

26:36

to vote last November

26:40

They're gonna show up this year. They're gonna show

26:42

up next year and Yes,

26:44

now investigative reporters are all over your ass.

26:47

So We'll talk about that also

26:49

that upcoming podcast, but I

26:52

just want to say that

26:54

You know one of the one of the cool things about

26:56

us Taking more power away

26:58

from the Republicans in next year's election

27:01

is That we could

27:03

easily actually throw the Virgin Islands in there too They

27:05

should have their they should be a state

27:07

if they want it. They should be a state. They're

27:09

American citizens right now That

27:12

don't have rights don't have votes.

27:16

So they should be able to Be

27:19

a state so I'd be two senators

27:22

there two for Puerto Rico two for the District

27:24

of Columbia So there's six

27:26

new senators in areas that

27:30

And I would say this regardless if they were Republican

27:32

areas or Democratic areas, but just so it happens.

27:35

It seems like we'd have

27:37

Close to six new Democrats

27:40

in the Senate and Another

27:45

maybe ten or so

27:47

Democrats in the House of Representatives, of

27:49

course, this is why the Republicans hate this idea

27:52

why they will fight it But they can fight it all

27:54

they want. All we need is a simple majority

27:56

vote in the House and the Senate and

27:58

Biden's signature Bingo,

28:00

done, mic drop.

28:04

Think about it.

28:05

All right, so that's it for today.

28:08

Thank you very much for tuning in to Rumble.

28:11

I appreciate it. Thanks again for

28:14

all your comments, especially about whatever

28:16

we have up our sleeve here. So thank

28:18

you for that. I read all

28:20

your emails and your comments and

28:22

I appreciate it very much. So don't

28:25

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28:28

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28:35

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28:40

right everyone, that's it. Thank

28:43

you. Hope you're enjoying the month of May. I'll

28:45

talk to you next week. This is Michael Moore and

28:48

this is Rumble.