Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore released his take on the election, Trumpland, late last month. (Photo: trumplandmovie.com)
Filmmaker Michael Moore, who ominously predicted that Donald Trump would win Tuesday's presidential election, on Wednesday released a "Morning After To-Do List" urging those despairing over the outcome to "[t]ake over the Democratic Party and return it to the people."
The list, which has gone viral, lambastes the Electoral College, "pundits, predictors, [and] pollsters," as well as "[a]ny Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist, and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President [Barack] Obama every day for eight full years."
Moore specifically roasts the corporate media, saying Trump "is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that."
And he recommends people take heart in--and remind others of--the fact that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in fact won the popular vote.
"You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage, and they want a single-payer true universal health care system," Moore writes. "None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the 'liberal' position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen."
Ahead of the election, Moore predicted that the presidential election would go the way of Brexit--an argument echoed over the summer and again on Wednesday by Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald, who noted the "overwhelming" parallels between Trump's victory and the U.K.'s June vote to leave the European Union.
Greenwald wrote Wednesday:
The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people. While elite circles gorged themselves on globalism, free trade, Wall Street casino gambling, and endless wars (wars that enriched the perpetrators and sent the poorest and most marginalized to bear all their burdens), they completely ignored the victims of their gluttony, except when those victims piped up a bit too much--when they caused a ruckus-- and were then scornfully condemned as troglodytes who were the deserved losers in the glorious, global game of meritocracy.
That message was heard loud and clear. The institutions and elite factions that have spent years mocking, maligning, and pillaging large portions of the population--all while compiling their own long record of failure and corruption and destruction--are now shocked that their dictates and decrees go unheeded. But human beings are not going to follow and obey the exact people they most blame for their suffering. They're going to do exactly the opposite: purposely defy them and try to impose punishment in retaliation. Their instruments for retaliation are Brexit and Trump. Those are their agents, dispatched on a mission of destruction: aimed at a system and culture they regard--not without reason--as rife with corruption and, above all else, contempt for them and their welfare.
Moore's full five-point list:
- Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
- Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters, and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and "come together." They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
- Any Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist, and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.
- Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked". What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all "You're fired!" Trump's victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
- You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: "HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!" The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don't. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he's president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we'll continue to have presidents we didn't elect and didn't want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage, and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the "liberal" position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).
Let's try to get this all done by noon today.
--Michael Moore
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Filmmaker Michael Moore, who ominously predicted that Donald Trump would win Tuesday's presidential election, on Wednesday released a "Morning After To-Do List" urging those despairing over the outcome to "[t]ake over the Democratic Party and return it to the people."
The list, which has gone viral, lambastes the Electoral College, "pundits, predictors, [and] pollsters," as well as "[a]ny Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist, and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President [Barack] Obama every day for eight full years."
Moore specifically roasts the corporate media, saying Trump "is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that."
And he recommends people take heart in--and remind others of--the fact that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in fact won the popular vote.
"You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage, and they want a single-payer true universal health care system," Moore writes. "None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the 'liberal' position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen."
Ahead of the election, Moore predicted that the presidential election would go the way of Brexit--an argument echoed over the summer and again on Wednesday by Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald, who noted the "overwhelming" parallels between Trump's victory and the U.K.'s June vote to leave the European Union.
Greenwald wrote Wednesday:
The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people. While elite circles gorged themselves on globalism, free trade, Wall Street casino gambling, and endless wars (wars that enriched the perpetrators and sent the poorest and most marginalized to bear all their burdens), they completely ignored the victims of their gluttony, except when those victims piped up a bit too much--when they caused a ruckus-- and were then scornfully condemned as troglodytes who were the deserved losers in the glorious, global game of meritocracy.
That message was heard loud and clear. The institutions and elite factions that have spent years mocking, maligning, and pillaging large portions of the population--all while compiling their own long record of failure and corruption and destruction--are now shocked that their dictates and decrees go unheeded. But human beings are not going to follow and obey the exact people they most blame for their suffering. They're going to do exactly the opposite: purposely defy them and try to impose punishment in retaliation. Their instruments for retaliation are Brexit and Trump. Those are their agents, dispatched on a mission of destruction: aimed at a system and culture they regard--not without reason--as rife with corruption and, above all else, contempt for them and their welfare.
Moore's full five-point list:
- Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
- Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters, and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and "come together." They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
- Any Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist, and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.
- Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked". What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all "You're fired!" Trump's victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
- You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: "HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!" The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don't. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he's president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we'll continue to have presidents we didn't elect and didn't want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage, and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the "liberal" position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).
Let's try to get this all done by noon today.
--Michael Moore
Filmmaker Michael Moore, who ominously predicted that Donald Trump would win Tuesday's presidential election, on Wednesday released a "Morning After To-Do List" urging those despairing over the outcome to "[t]ake over the Democratic Party and return it to the people."
The list, which has gone viral, lambastes the Electoral College, "pundits, predictors, [and] pollsters," as well as "[a]ny Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist, and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President [Barack] Obama every day for eight full years."
Moore specifically roasts the corporate media, saying Trump "is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that."
And he recommends people take heart in--and remind others of--the fact that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in fact won the popular vote.
"You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage, and they want a single-payer true universal health care system," Moore writes. "None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the 'liberal' position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen."
Ahead of the election, Moore predicted that the presidential election would go the way of Brexit--an argument echoed over the summer and again on Wednesday by Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald, who noted the "overwhelming" parallels between Trump's victory and the U.K.'s June vote to leave the European Union.
Greenwald wrote Wednesday:
The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people. While elite circles gorged themselves on globalism, free trade, Wall Street casino gambling, and endless wars (wars that enriched the perpetrators and sent the poorest and most marginalized to bear all their burdens), they completely ignored the victims of their gluttony, except when those victims piped up a bit too much--when they caused a ruckus-- and were then scornfully condemned as troglodytes who were the deserved losers in the glorious, global game of meritocracy.
That message was heard loud and clear. The institutions and elite factions that have spent years mocking, maligning, and pillaging large portions of the population--all while compiling their own long record of failure and corruption and destruction--are now shocked that their dictates and decrees go unheeded. But human beings are not going to follow and obey the exact people they most blame for their suffering. They're going to do exactly the opposite: purposely defy them and try to impose punishment in retaliation. Their instruments for retaliation are Brexit and Trump. Those are their agents, dispatched on a mission of destruction: aimed at a system and culture they regard--not without reason--as rife with corruption and, above all else, contempt for them and their welfare.
Moore's full five-point list:
- Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
- Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters, and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and "come together." They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
- Any Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist, and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.
- Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked". What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all "You're fired!" Trump's victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
- You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: "HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!" The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don't. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he's president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we'll continue to have presidents we didn't elect and didn't want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage, and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the "liberal" position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).
Let's try to get this all done by noon today.
--Michael Moore