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Moore writes: "Trump and the profit motive are murdering our doctors and nurses and citizens."

Filmmaker Michael Moore. (photo: Sacha Lecca)
Filmmaker Michael Moore. (photo: Sacha Lecca)


This White House Doesn't Give Two Shits About You

By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page

07 April 20

 

rump and the profit motive are murdering our doctors and nurses and citizens. We�ve now been told that the National Stockpile of emergency equipment is there for the PRIVATE SECTOR to use to supply BUSINESS so that the PRIVATE SECTOR can SELL medical gear to hospitals for a PROFIT. That is what Pence and Jared Kushner and the Pentagon told the American people yesterday at the White House press conference. Are we going to put up with this? What are we going to do? This ignorant arrogant murdering bastard of a president must be removed from office � and we cannot wait until November. Every one of his enablers must be shut down too. We must rise up. We must be heard. I will help in any way I can. A nonviolent mass movement of millions can shut these people down, can force them to do what we tell them to do. Why wait until you�ve lost a loved one to act? This White House doesn�t give two shits about you. They told you this pandemic was a �hoax. � Trump told you this virus was �like the flu,� that it was nothing, that it would be gone just like that. Months after he could�ve acted, he sits there today refusing to send the full help that�s needed, refusing to set up a national coordinated effort, refusing to declare a national lockdown, refusing even to keep his own hands off his own face. Trump, through stupidity or design, is out to kill us. This sounds like it can�t be happening. It is. IT IS. We need to use our collective smarts to survive. And we have no time. FEMA has just ordered another 100,000 body bags! They need a MILLION! Or more. History is full of people who just stood by and did nothing. Sometimes because they were paralyzed by fear, sometimes because they just didn�t believe they could make a difference. This is one of those moments when you must not be frozen in place. We�ve been told to �shelter in place.� But when that term is used in a school or mass shooting it means that once you shelter in place you must also immediately join with others to rush the shooter and take him down. If you just sit there or hide under your theater seat, he is going to go up and down the aisle and shoot you like the sitting duck you are. Trump is his own psychopath and he will not change so that you can live. Do you want to live? Do you want your parents and grandparents to live? What are you willing to do? Not with a gun, but with your brain and your guts and your ability to organize others. What is your idea? WHAT IS YOUR IDEA? Tell me! Tell us! Post it here. And then let�s organize and lead and ACT like our lives depended on it. Because they do.

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+33 # RMDC 2015-11-18 15:55
Spain has a good record of prosecutions under the principle of "universal jurisdiction." This is the only way criminals like Netanyahoo will ever be rounded up and locked in prison.

Go Spain!!!!!
 
 
-25 # pagrad 2015-11-19 08:33
 
 
+24 # rich black 2015-11-18 18:13
When it comes to Israel, the incident isn't totally unprecedented. In 1967, the Israeli air force attacked the USS Liberty. Although it took many installments over the years:

"In May 1968, the Israeli government paid US$3,323,500 (US$22.6 million 2015) in compensation to the families of the 34 men killed in the attack. In March 1969, Israel paid a further $3,566,457 to the men who had been wounded. On 18 December 1980, it agreed to pay $6 million as settlement for the final U.S. bill of $17,132,709 for material damage to Liberty herself plus 13 years' interest".

Wonder what kind of compensation the US Government gave to the governments of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos after US Gen. Curtis LeMay said the US Military would, "bomb them (SE Asians) back to the stone age", and actually ended up killing about 3 million of those citizens in a false flag war.
 
 
+13 # indian weaver 2015-11-18 18:15
I believe it was Baltasar Garzon who filed a War Crimes indictment against dubya some 5-6 years ago (following similar indictments against dubya issued by Malaysia, Switzerland and Scotland, still in force: they can detain dubya if he steps foot onto their soil - didn't Interpol file a similar indictment against dubya, or am I mistaken here?). Obama twisted the Spanish government's arm (read: threatened) to dismiss Garcon's indictment. At that time, somehow the Spanish government also found a way to "discredit" Garzon so he was out of the limelight since then. Correct me if wrong. That indictment may not have been filed by Garzon, but someone else. It was filed, in any case, then disappeared from decent society.
 
 
+14 # CarolYost 2015-11-18 23:37
Go Spain! One of these days, the criminal leaders will really be locked up.
 
 
+23 # munza1 2015-11-18 23:38
This article presents the Israeli version of events that the members of the peace flotilla attacked the Israeli soldiers, who boarded them illegally in international waters, with knives and clubs. This is not the story the survivors told and all cameras photographic and video evidence was seized from the participants who were released three days later after the Israelis had told their version of events to the world. And that's the version but of course this correspondent whom I doubt interviewed any of the survivors seems to make it all right as the NGO is 'alleged to have ties to the Moslem Brotherhood'. At least present the other sides version of what happened. One of them killed was an American citizen and some were shot in the back of the head execution style. Give me a break. It's depressing when a certain version of events gets picked up and repeated as though it's the true version of events.
 
 
+15 # Majikman 2015-11-19 02:25
Thanks, munza1, for your corrections. Your version is how I also remember the events unfolding as broadcast on Democracy Now.
 
 
-27 # ForceFoxFive 2015-11-19 03:32
I connect to this site for liberal commentary news of considerable worth, such as the witty illuminations of Max Taibbi and astute dissections of teabagger politicians and idiot savants like the brainless brain surgeon Carson. However, the site has also become the refuge for transparent Israel demonizing and barely transparent Jew bashing.
Radical Muslim savages are blowing up everything in sight and this place instead chooses to go on bender on a tired notion of Spain
reigniting its own proud Inquistional heritage with this idiotic indictment, Worse, these stupid articles are the rallying dog whistle for the same clutch of roach posters that scatter their spew forth whenever another Israel smear hits these pages. 3 radical Islamic scumbags stabbed a Jewish teacher in Marseilles today..YET NOT A Frickin WORD about it on these pages of perpetual vitriol towards Israel and Jews. Israel for all its warts, is still a tiny productive democracy in an ocean of scum degenerate regimes that put women
In gunny sacks and generally perpetuate teeming populations
of brainless poverty ruled over by a few super rich and paramountly selfish families or depots. For all this mewling about the poor oppressed Palestinians, when they controlled Jerusalem no Jews were allowed and raw sewage ran in the "holy" streets.
And if given the chance, they'd have it back that way and all the
Jews driven into the sea. They bet and lost. Deal with their deceit.,
 
 
+10 # Maturus 2015-11-19 08:36
If you must use such language ("degenerate regimes that put women In gunny sacks") to make your point you should explain how this sits with your world view:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/05/ultra-orthodox-jewish-sect-belz-women-driver-ban-illegal-equality-commission
 
 
+9 # rich black 2015-11-19 08:59
 
 
+3 # mebemo 2015-11-19 09:55
ForceFoxFive:

I don't care whose "side" you're on, language of this kind does nothing to promote either peace or kindness in the world.

"Let there be anger management, and let it begin with me."
 
 
-2 # ForceFoxFive 2015-11-23 02:45
What kind of "language"... Oh yeah the Truth...
 
 
-1 # mebemo 2015-11-23 16:47
Quoting ForceFoxFive:
What kind of "language"... Oh yeah the Truth...

If you're unaware of the level of overt hostility that informs your every comment, you're seriously in need of therapy. The "raw sewage" with which you seem obsessed has its source in your own mind. Try a little gentleness.
 
 
+17 # Misterioso 2015-11-19 10:03
 
 
-5 # ForceFoxFive 2015-11-20 14:28
Yeah the usual revisionist manure spin. If you're gonna invoke 1948
The "indingenous" Palestinians, instead of staying put, heeded the siren call of their savage brethren, a coalition of brave Arab horde nations ..."clear out, while we murder all these Jews and then
come back to your land and have theirs too!" .so they did and the
military Mensas w/ a 20-1 advantage bent on mass slaughter....
Got Beat?.....the poor indigenous "bet and lost"...deal with it
...had it gone according to the odds, all the Jews would be gravemarkers nobody would care, and sewage would still run in the streets of Jerusalem...
 
 
+11 # cymricmorty 2015-11-19 10:34
I'm tired of the inappropriate overuse of the anti-Semite tagging as an offense mechanism used to shut down any dialogue or speaking out about the atrocities of a brutal, blatantly racist regime. Be careful: over time, its overuse will eventually render it meaningless.
 
 
+11 # elizabethblock 2015-11-19 13:20
I wear a button that says JEWS AGAINST THE OCCUPATION. It stimulates some interesting conversations, including one at a supermarket with a woman who finally asked me, "Why can't they just get along?" I replied: Because the Jews want all the land with none of the people; they think they have a right to it; and they think, with good reason, that they can get it.
 
 
-1 # ForceFoxFive 2015-11-23 02:51
"All the land"? The Muslim world controls areas in excess of the
United Ststes territory and yet this tiny splinter where there is more
Productivity and democracy than on any of those vast expanses of
Wastelands. suppression of women, ignorance and impoverishment.
yeah they need to have it...for what? Raw sewage as ran in the streets of Jerusalem when they controlled it?
 
 
+9 # elizabethblock 2015-11-19 13:21
And Israel has paid, and is paying, a price for the occupation - not anything like the price paid by the Palestinians! - but not insignificant. Israel would like to be the Athens of the Middle East. Instead, they are the Sparta.
 
 
+2 # elkingo 2015-11-19 13:25
How can the world contain all this murderous horseshit and so much else of it? People ought'a be nice to one another, and that is the only politics. Lotta' help, Hah?
 
 
+2 # PABLO DIABLO 2015-11-19 21:53
Netanyahu should have his say in front of The International Criminal Court.
Garzon is a courageous hero.
BDS NOW.
 

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