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Michael MOORE is an a-hole still crapping on Hillary, so if voters didn't vote/like her (Original Post) UTUSN Oct 2019 OP
I turned off MSNBC when they announced that Moore would be on Gothmog Oct 2019 #1
Tnks UTUSN Oct 2019 #2
Same Here Me. Oct 2019 #7
Me too. n/t frogmarch Oct 2019 #36
Me too. nt Kahuna7 Oct 2019 #41
I don't trust him. Mc Mike Oct 2019 #3
i am impressed with the number of people here that don't like Michael Moore. NT tiredtoo Oct 2019 #4
He's got a track record. How do you mean it? UTUSN Oct 2019 #5
I think he is ok. tiredtoo Oct 2019 #6
I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. nbsmom Oct 2019 #8
"I think he is ok". Me too. OK for me to poop on. oasis Oct 2019 #13
Moore definitely did some good things in the past Downtown Hound Oct 2019 #58
Yea but... kwolf68 Oct 2019 #9
true but There are a lot of very despicable things he said and did that made the situation worse Thekaspervote Oct 2019 #10
Meh, he read it one time & has gigged us more times. UTUSN Oct 2019 #11
He also said Obama would lose in 2012. tman Oct 2019 #12
SO MUCH THIS Maru Kitteh Oct 2019 #19
He's a Susan Sarandon. Trying to stay relevant. LakeArenal Oct 2019 #42
No, the Russians made sure they switched enough votes in those states. Hilary didn't 'lose'. triron Oct 2019 #15
Fuck that !!! Russia helped Trump that's the end of the "Clinton had flaws" bullshit excuse people uponit7771 Oct 2019 #18
How tired are you of the "she was flawed" claim? StarfishSaver Oct 2019 #26
+1, uponit7771 Oct 2019 #44
There were only two options. She was going to win or she was going to lose StarfishSaver Oct 2019 #23
Nope. MrsCoffee Oct 2019 #29
Elections are unbelievably complex, very fluid and full of unknowns. Hortensis Oct 2019 #48
Well stated The Wizard Oct 2019 #55
Moore loves him some Bernie and Hillary is anathema to him. triron Oct 2019 #14
Moore was also on the Last Word Gothmog Oct 2019 #16
Remember when Michael Moore got a spot speaking at the first Women's March? lapucelle Oct 2019 #52
that was a mistake Gothmog Oct 2019 #56
Linda et alia appropriated one of Secretary Clinton's most famous quotes as the march theme, lapucelle Oct 2019 #57
Post removed Post removed Oct 2019 #17
I doubt she's really very far to your right. yardwork Oct 2019 #21
+1 MrsCoffee Oct 2019 #24
Her voting record and ideology are solidly liberal, in the middle Hortensis Oct 2019 #28
I didn't alert, but I see the post is gone. I like your post. yardwork Oct 2019 #32
I didn't alert either. It's not just Hillary who's smeared as Hortensis Oct 2019 #37
I agree on all points. It's our democracy that's being smeared. yardwork Oct 2019 #39
+1000. That's the bottom line. Hortensis Oct 2019 #40
Same here Sherman A1 Oct 2019 #22
UGH..The day Moore stops attacking democrats is the day he stops appearing on television. Cha Oct 2019 #20
Great responses! yardwork Oct 2019 #25
Mahalo, yardwork! Cha Oct 2019 #30
Mahalo, dear one! yardwork Oct 2019 #33
A' ole pilikia.. Cha Oct 2019 #34
hes so divisive.. i turn the channel when hes on samnsara Oct 2019 #27
I think we need a letter writing campaign to get MM off the air. flying_wahini Oct 2019 #31
lol RandiFan1290 Oct 2019 #38
Yup. When he said a vote for Gore was a vote for bush told me everything I needed to know about still_one Oct 2019 #35
MSNBC is promoting snowybirdie Oct 2019 #43
I skipped that movie last night Gothmog Oct 2019 #50
I'm getting slammed by a Moore fan... Archae Oct 2019 #45
lol RandiFan1290 Oct 2019 #46
REAL intelligent response... Archae Oct 2019 #47
I skipped the Bowling movie last night Gothmog Oct 2019 #49
Me too katmondoo Oct 2019 #59
Let's see if he jumps on the Tulsi bandwagon. WhiteTara Oct 2019 #51
I'm tired of him lecturing me wryter2000 Oct 2019 #53
He's a turd evertonfc Oct 2019 #54
Listen to Michael Moore! earthside Oct 2019 #60

Gothmog

(145,321 posts)
1. I turned off MSNBC when they announced that Moore would be on
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 10:47 PM
Oct 2019

You are confirming that I made a good decision.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
7. Same Here
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 11:03 PM
Oct 2019

and as I've said before better he learn how to treat his staff better and pay his bills rather than badmouthing Dems. But it's the only way he can get attention these days. I think his last film earned less than $150,000. But nevermind, the self-avowed anti-capitalist isn't worried about money with 50 mil in the bank.

tiredtoo

(2,949 posts)
6. I think he is ok.
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 10:55 PM
Oct 2019

All political activists and politicians have done things i did not like. But i think this guy does more good than bad for Democrats.

nbsmom

(591 posts)
8. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 11:06 PM
Oct 2019

He made Bowling For Columbine, and Roger and Me, and pointed out the issues with income inequality years ago.

BUT

He also hung out with the predator Assange
He has given too much credence to Edward Snowden/derided a lot of Obama’s efforts in the last months of his administration
And he basically was MIA when everyone else was campaigning to protect our country from what happened on November 8 2016. But was too happy to go on all the shows and blame everyone for not listening to him.

So I just don’t know anymore.

oasis

(49,389 posts)
13. "I think he is ok". Me too. OK for me to poop on.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 12:06 AM
Oct 2019

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog seconds the motion.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
58. Moore definitely did some good things in the past
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 02:18 PM
Oct 2019

By raising awareness of many issues that few others would talk about. But he's well past his sell by date. He should have retired 10 years ago. Now he's just a nuisance and does more harm than good.

kwolf68

(7,365 posts)
9. Yea but...
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 11:09 PM
Oct 2019

Moore predicted she'd lose. Blowing Dump put in California wasn't where Moore was focused on. He said she was weak in PA, MI, OH....he was right. Only when Dems will admit the flaws in the game, can we draw up new plays on the white board.

Thekaspervote

(32,778 posts)
10. true but There are a lot of very despicable things he said and did that made the situation worse
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 11:16 PM
Oct 2019

I don’t give him a pass, never will

LakeArenal

(28,820 posts)
42. He's a Susan Sarandon. Trying to stay relevant.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 09:39 AM
Oct 2019

Hillary is past caring what “celebrity” pundits say about her.

As people keep pointing out, HILLARY AIN’T RUNNING FOR ANYTHING. She’s a citizen who poked the bear and man all the bears are taking the bait. Hillary didn’t even have to name a name. It’s incredible.

Then Moore crawls out with nobody likes her. Deflection for sure.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
18. Fuck that !!! Russia helped Trump that's the end of the "Clinton had flaws" bullshit excuse people
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 05:49 AM
Oct 2019

... have been saying as a sly way to bash her. Everyone has flaws, we're human.

And it was essentially a two person race, any moron can predict the other person will win ... that's not a cerebral event in human history.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
26. How tired are you of the "she was flawed" claim?
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:32 AM
Oct 2019

She must be the it candidate in history blamed for not winning an election because she wasn't perfect.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
23. There were only two options. She was going to win or she was going to lose
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:27 AM
Oct 2019

It's not like he selected 9 random numbers plus the Powerball out of the blue. Picking the one choice out of two that actually happened doesn't make him some sort of a great gifted oracle whose wisdom and prognostications must be heeded now and forever.more.

MrsCoffee

(5,803 posts)
29. Nope.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:43 AM
Oct 2019

Moore uses the narrative that Hillary lost those states and the election. Trump and the Republicans stole those states and the election with help from Russia.

It took TREASON to steal it away from her.

Fuck Moore and his socialist bullshit.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
48. Elections are unbelievably complex, very fluid and full of unknowns.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:06 PM
Oct 2019

Even without massive corruption of the election, it would be impossible to run a campaign that looked perfect in retrospect, without those "flaws" you fasten on as complete explanation.

This election was stolen using many techniques because that's how the Republicans do it now. They literally cannot win national elections by popular vote any more. They know it, Russia knows it, political scientists know it, you should know it. Over the past 40 years of a conservative era that allowed conservative domination of government, they've embedded a great deal of corruption that has helped them increase the theft at all levels more each decade.

Remember GA's AG Brian Kemp blatantly stealing the governor's race using various methods all over the state, but disenfranchising over a million voters to guarantee his own election -- while the world watched in amazement? And what happened then? What few legal avenues were available were pursued and failed, as GA's Republicans in government had designed them to, and then there were no more. Stacey Abrams was forced to announce her legal fight was at an end, but she cannot be forced to concede a blatantly stolen election and is fighting electoral corruption around the nation.

The same things are happening on smaller, less noticed scales all over the nation, wherever conservatives hold power. And Russia is interfering with all the assets of a nation state waging occult war.

I get that you don't respect Hillary and apparently most Democrats much, thus your choice to tune into Moore's attitudes, but you really need to at least respect and look for truth, whatever it is. Those who store lies instead of truth turn themselves into self-made idiots literally no longer capable of understanding their world. That's what's happened to millions on the right.

Btw, how do you feel about Moore claiming in one of his documentaries that President Obama told Flint mothers to give their children lead-poisoned water? He usually keeps this kind of thing to what can't be easily proven wrong by facts, but my guess is he just slipped and got a little over-indulgent of his own flaws there. Arrogance from getting away with almost all of them? Knowing he'll never be without people who respect him no matter how many finally become aware of his deeply flawed nature?

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
55. Well stated
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 02:07 PM
Oct 2019

Minority rule will end with the abolition of the Electoral College and gerrymandering. A strict limit on campaign spending and a ban on campaign advertising from anyone but the candidates. Organizations like the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" played the media like a cheap fiddle and the "news" covered their ads like they were legitimate news when in fact the news was making contributions in kind to the Bush campaign. Fox News should be identified for what it is, a 24 / 7 Republican propaganda outlet.

lapucelle

(18,275 posts)
57. Linda et alia appropriated one of Secretary Clinton's most famous quotes as the march theme,
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 02:14 PM
Oct 2019

and then blacklisted any mention of her name in the program or at the event.



Response to UTUSN (Original post)

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
28. Her voting record and ideology are solidly liberal, in the middle
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:42 AM
Oct 2019

of the liberal spectrum, and on graphs far left of the few genuine conservative Democrats we have in congress.

I sort of hate to see a post from someone who said he or she voted for her removed, but a claim that a liberal member of the Democratic caucus was too far right furthers the a blatant and easily disproved lie that mainstream Democrats lean conservative. They do not, only conservative Democrats lean conservative, and Hillary is in no way "right."

Yes, Sanders does imply or say it outright in one way or another most times he speaks in public, that Democrats are little different from Republicans. I've come to suspect he believes it, which is very strange and removed from reality if true. Just how far left is his perspective view coming from that he can't see real difference between the party determined to create national healthcare and the party determined to destroy it? Between those who put children in cages and people fighting to rescue them?

In any case, this is the Information Age and there's no excuse to believe him. If the poster is unhappy about the removed post, he can find out why it was by looking up Hillary's ideological record (studied by many honest researchers and on line). We're all targets of incoming lies 24/7/365, in fact elections have become battlefields in war. We have a duty to ourselves and the future of our nation to become well enough informed to be able to recognize most of them immediately, certainly this constantly repeated attempt to divide and conquer our party.

yardwork

(61,650 posts)
32. I didn't alert, but I see the post is gone. I like your post.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:48 AM
Oct 2019

I'm fed up with the blatant lie that Hillary is "conservative." Invariably, people who promote this haven't done any reading into Hillary's actual positions or voting record.



Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
37. I didn't alert either. It's not just Hillary who's smeared as
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 09:07 AM
Oct 2019

"conservative," of course, but you and me and almost every Democrat in or running for office.

40% of the electorate didn't even bother to vote when McConnell was promising to destroy the ACA and Medicare, Trump was promising to persecute brown-skinned people, and Sanders was responding to discussions of Republican crimes with statements like "Anyway, the Democrats do it too."

NO. We don't.

still_one

(92,219 posts)
35. Yup. When he said a vote for Gore was a vote for bush told me everything I needed to know about
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:56 AM
Oct 2019

that asshole

He is a self-grandiose blowhard who loves attention, that very few give to him now from his several well done documentaries from the past

People like to say he predicted 2016, but they seem to forget that he also told us how McCain and Romney were going to win.

He started bashing the Democratic party at the Women's unity march when Ashley Judd took the podium and told him to go sit down.





snowybirdie

(5,229 posts)
43. MSNBC is promoting
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 11:11 AM
Oct 2019

A rerun of his old movie they are running this weekend. It been rerun everywhere many times. Just weekend filler trying to be relevant. No thanks.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
51. Let's see if he jumps on the Tulsi bandwagon.
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 01:54 PM
Oct 2019

Then all doubt will be eliminated in my mind about him.

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
53. I'm tired of him lecturing me
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 02:01 PM
Oct 2019

His depiction of how Trump “won” ignores the Russian interference. So, why should I trust it?

 

evertonfc

(1,713 posts)
54. He's a turd
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 02:07 PM
Oct 2019

Hillary won but ran a terrible campaign that ignored some crucial states. I mean, it was a low turn out election that saw us lose PA, MI assnd almost MN. That's absurd. You better motivate or we will lose agian

earthside

(6,960 posts)
60. Listen to Michael Moore!
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 02:39 PM
Oct 2019

He is a pretty good political handicapper -- he was right about 2016.

That's why the Hillary folks don't like him ... because he saw what they refused to see and what they still don't want to acknowledge: Clinton ran a bad campaign and Trump obviously out did her where it counted in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Disparege and ignore Moore's perspective at your own peril, unless you want another four years of Trump.



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