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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael Moore gets on my last nerve, but he's got a point with this open letter to Ivanka:
AN OPEN LETTER TO IVANKA TRUMP FROM MICHAEL MOORE: "Your Dad's Not Well"Dear Ivanka:
Im writing to you because your dad is not well.
Every day he continues his spiral downward and after his call for gun owners to commit acts of violence against Mrs. Clinton, it is clear he needs help, serious help. His comments and behavior have become more and more bizarre and detached from reality. He is in need of an intervention. And I believe only you can conduct it.
He trusts you. He believes in you. Although I dont know you personally, you seem to be a very smart and together woman. I think he will listen to you. He must because he is now not simply a danger to himself, he has put the next president of the United States in harms way. He has encouraged and given permission to the unhinged and the deranged to essentially assassinate Hillary Clinton. Her life is now in worse danger than it already was and should anything happen, that will not only be on his head but also on those closest to him if they stand by and do nothing. I say this with the utmost kindness, care and concern for you, and I know you will do the right thing. Bring him in, off the road, away from the crowds. Now. Tonight.
And when you do, here is what a good friend of mine, a former counselor and social worker, Jeff Gibbs, suggests that you say to him:
...snip conversation
Ivanka, I have faith in you that you can do this. I know Ive called your dad crazy before, but I was speaking politically, not clinically. This has gone beyond crazy. The entire nation in fact, the entire world needs you to step forward and do the courageous thing history will praise you for: the loving act of a brilliant daughter who also loved her beleaguered country enough to say her father wasnt well and needed help.
Thank you, Ivanka.
Yours,
Michael Moore
Siwsan
(26,263 posts)I think he sometimes forgets that not everyone is tuned into his thought processes. But he really is a very smart, sweet, friendly and down to earth and surprisingly shy guy. I don't think most people realize how hard he has to push himself to be in such a public position, but I've heard him talk about that struggle. Perhaps sometimes he pushes a little bit too hard.
And I agree that his letter to Ivanka really nails the problem.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)disapprove of much of anything DRUMPF has said. And MM's suggested conversation in his letter is bizarrely unlikely to work. http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/open-letter-ivanka-trump-michael-moore-your-dad-not-well
catbyte
(34,393 posts)UTUSN
(70,695 posts)catbyte
(34,393 posts)Gives me the willies. It was interesting seeing that involuntary jerk thing she did with her arm when he grabbed her at the RNC. There's a whole lotta weirdness there. I kinda feel sorry for her.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I think she's the least disgusting member of that whole family.
Which is kind of like saying that Albert Speer was the least loathsome member of Hitler's cabinet.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)That's a lot to put on her... basically asking her to save us from Trump. It's possible she has already tried. There's a lot of people that won't listen to their own adult children because they still think of them as their babies. They love them, but don't respect them as adults, unfortunately.