Moore: Obama Should Use Power Over Auto Companies To Kill Cars, Replace With Mass Transit
Want to know how socialists think? Check out Michael Moore on MSNBC this evening, urging President Obama to use the government's power over the auto manufacturers to . . . kill the internal combustion engine and replace cars with mass transit.
As everyone knows, politicians and pundits know what people need better than billions of people themselves. You don't want to ride the rails? Tough: yes you do. Watch Moore make his government-knows-best suggestion to kill the engine of progress to Larry O'Donnell this evening.
Video after the jump.
Watch Moore describe how socialists really think once they get the "power".
MICHAEL MOORE: The auto thing is a good example too of where I wish Obama would just, if he would just ratchet it up another notch. Yes, he saved the jobs of all my friends back in Michigan. But now that we sort of control the car companies, let's get them doing mass transit. Let's get them doing things that are going to save this planet. Because the internal combustion engine is not going to get us to the 22nd century. That's just not going--we're not going to have a planet. That has to stop. And I just thought: gee, we have this power. You know, you can do things.
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Oh man
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:23pm.
Well, figured as such, but that idea......
Oh.
My.
GAWD!
That's bloody brilliant!
NOT!
I am so sick and tired of his ilk trying to tell us how to live our lives, especially his Irish master, DuhO'One.
Fat Boy ought to be run out on a rail since he likes to talk about using rails.
-Jon
Fat Boy ought to be run out
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:35pm.
Fat Boy ought to be run out on a rail since he likes to talk about using rails.
Just as long as they roll him in honey first.
After all, we want to be sure he takes all of the flies with him, not just 90% of them.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Bridges to nowhere. Now Moore
Submitted by kg on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:56pm.
Bridges to nowhere. Now Moore wants trains to nowhere.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Hum...
Submitted by TeachertT on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:22pm.
maybe Michael Moore thinks trains are still operated by mules and wood. maybe he thinks most are still steam. Who knows. He certainly doesn't.
perhaps if we tried building a large wooden badger....
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:23pm.
The Soviet Union and Red China tried all these stupid ideas about using government to control the economy and peoples transportation and we know how that worked out.
One thing you can say about socialists is that they are eternal optimists. Stupid and unable to learn from experience but ever optimistic about their beliefs.
Well, Napa already has the wine train...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:29pm.
how bad could the Twinkie train be?
Maybe now that Obama is nearing the status of dictator...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:33pm.
...he could make Michelle happy and piss of Michael Moore with the stroke of a pen.
-Just by banning hot dogs.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Hypocrite
Submitted by cjk on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:35pm.
Yeah, okay, as long as they charge that fat-f*ck a double ticket to park his double-wide fat a*ss
Holy cow
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:39pm.
Ol, Larry got down to the bottom of that Barrel quick. Wow
Not socialism, but fascism
Submitted by Asok on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:41pm.
No. This is the way fascists think. In socialism, the government owns the businesses that they order about. In fascism, the private sector owns the businesses that the government orders about.
He means...
Submitted by Turn Right on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:43pm.
He means mass transit for the masses, but limos and private jets for the important folk (like himself).
Only when Michael Moore, Al Gore, et al. start arriving via subway or bicycle, do they have the right to expect people to think that they are serious about what they are saying.
I personally don't care if Moore HITCHHIKES to work.
Submitted by Tailgunner on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:21pm.
Nothing gives that scum any right to tell me how, where and what I'm going to drive.
I hack up better looking stuff than that homeless snail.
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
Hope the axles are strong....
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:57pm.
Anytime Moore travels it's mass transit.
Yep, 2 plane seats
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:06pm.
For his fat mouth
Boudin,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:35pm.
Two First Class seats. I doubt that he'd have to pay for the second seat as anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves seated next to him would undoubtedly ask to be moved - even into coach - or if the plane was full, the baggage compartment.
You're too fast Chris
Submitted by Junk Science Skeptic on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 1:28am.
I was just scrolling down to say the same thing.
So my question is where
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 9:59pm.
does this pig get the idea that the government can take the cars away of law abiding citizens on a whim?
Oh, I'm sure they will find a
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:03pm.
Oh, I'm sure they will find a way to do it eventually - it'll just take longer than a whim.
We better all wise up and
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:23pm.
quickly.
Remember Moore going to Cuba
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:30pm.
for one of his propaganda films? I think that's where he got the idea.
On a whim?
Submitted by ThisnThat on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 12:41pm.
You mean, like banning salt -- on a whim? No way they could do that, could they?
I agree. Governments of the people, by the people, and for the people don't ban things on a whim. but obama sure can, can't he?
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TnT,
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 12:45pm.
incadescent light bulbs
transfats
If the ego represented by this administration gets any bigger Mickey Mouse ears will be illegal due to them casting dispersions on the CIC.
Lesson learned...
Submitted by Dan Diego on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:05pm.
With trains it will be more efficient to move "radicals" to re-education camps.
So Michael Moore wants To Put All Autoworkers On Unemployment
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:15pm.
When Michael Moore speaks gas taxes rise, brakes fail, tires blow and gas milage drops. Oh! and the trains don't run where he thinks they do.
Are you sure?
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:38pm.
Don't you mean when Michael Moore drives, his tires blow, his brakes fail, and his gas mileage drops? :)
A little helium . . .
Submitted by Lakewood Ed on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:14pm.
. . . shoved up his . . . vent . . . and he would be a mass transit blimp.
Obama should use his power to
Submitted by Bhaal on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:17pm.
Obama should use his power to make Michael Moore walk everywhere that'll be a start to saving the planet.
An asian business associate
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:19pm.
An asian business associate just remarked to me that the best thing that ever happened to strengthen asian businesses was American liberal stupidity. He said everyday that liberals preach, environmentalism, social justice ,NIMBYism and diversity his business improves.
What power?
Submitted by octavioj on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:24pm.
He cannot simply tell companies they MUST reduce production. He cannot tell companies they MUST not make this or that car. Chrysler was just able to get from under the Federal government because of the SUVs the president wanted to kill. Is this a tyranny now?
mass transits
Submitted by Tjexcite on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:29pm.
mass transits and high speed trains works great to take everyone to the gulags, reeducation center or just plan death chambers.
Sit down fat asss you're blocking my view!!
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:53pm.
This fat mother flucker is the most anti American American on planet earth as far as I'm concerned since he's profited so handsomely for his open treason.
So, frankly after his cozying up to CUBA were I president at that time I would have charged him with treason for cavorting with America's known enemies, in this case Fidel Castro, and then used an executive order to have commissioned a whale sized Titanium made JUMBO yard arm to hang this big bertha loudmouthed fat azzzz right on the Mall for the world to see what happens to convicted American traitors.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
easier way...
Submitted by OldJoe on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 8:32am.
Just send him a triple quarter pounder with cheese, super sized fries and a diet pepsi!
eat, Michael, eat..!
Mass Transit for the Masses
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 10:52pm.
Mass transit as the main mode of transportation was a hallmark of corrupt socialistic regimes (think the USSR) where the poor masses who couldn't afford cars (even with lawn mower engines) had to take the subway or street car to get around, while the privileged classes rode around in their Zil limousines. Yeah, sounds like just the kind of society and transport system that Moore would admire...
Micheal Savage
Submitted by Ozconservative on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:05pm.
Micheal Savage hit the nail on the head on why libtards hate cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj9GRp9naYg
I wonder how Cleveland Golf
Submitted by Firmworm on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:08pm.
I wonder how Cleveland Golf feels about this pig wearing a cap with their logo on it while spewing this anti - business crap?
Didn't notice the cap, but...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:12pm.
Isn't Golf the sport of the evil rich?
Michael Moore Should Move to North Korea
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:17pm.
It is free of cars. And he can enjoy their weight loss program too.
That is, if he doesn't get slaughtered and processed for FOOD...
Submitted by Tailgunner on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 9:23pm.
...as soon as he gets off the plane. (Word is, cannibalism in NK is not unheard of.)
CANDIDATE Obama: 'Yes, we CAN'.
PRESIDENT Obama: 'BECAUSE we CAN'.
If it's not New York?
Submitted by Darasen on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:31pm.
To some extent mass transit is very handy and nice to have. I lived in D.C. (Fairfax) for about a year and found I mostly liked the transit system there.
That said when people suggest mass transit every where it is clear they are large city bound elitist. The idea sounds great when you only commute between L.A. and New york city but for the vast majority of the country it is just no good. We are far too large and spread out as a nation to rely on such a system. There is no way to provide logical cost effective to areas like central Florida that aren't in the middle of Tampa or Orlando. What about areas like Kansas where some towns populations are just a bit over one-thousand ? Elitist like Moore only think about where they are and themselves.
Or Texas
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 12:06am.
Or the state of Texas which is between 600 and 800 miles wide depending on north to south and east to west. Dallas from Austin is about 200 miles, or Dallas to San Antonio is 280 miles(give or take a couple miles) or from Austin to Lubbock is about 380 miles....you get the idea.
This is why cheap gas prices (should be between 1.20 to 1.50 a gallon) is important, we can go further without charging 100 dollars to fill up a 25 gallon tank.
Mass transit doesn't work too well here in Texas because of the distances, but we do have the buses, commuter planes, and Amtrak trains. But now that Janet Nappy is sending her goons to those kinds of locales besides airports, people are going to want to take their own vehicles.(by the way, the surpremacy clause allows that the Texas law recently passed which makes it a felony for a TSA to do anything more than a standard patdown OVERRIDES the federal agency; they tried to say that the supremacy clause of the Constitution allows them to do those patdowns, and they are VERY wrong)
We enjoy the freedom of choice of traveling whatever way we wish without government interference. But the federal government(actually a dictatorship at this point) is trying like hell to interfere with our lives.
-Jon
Anything
Submitted by Bob K on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:56pm.
that his fat *** rides in is "mass transit".
Soon...
Submitted by desertphreak on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:10am.
Soon only a train will be able to move his mass...
Go back to 2004 already.
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 11:58pm.
Go back to 2004 already.
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I am not aware
Submitted by KalihiwaiBeach on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 12:36am.
of any baseball hat factories in Michigan
what a loon!!
Hey
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 3:00am.
Hey Kalihiwai.....................you must be about one mile from me.....................aloha!!!
The day this lard-ass phony,
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 3:04am.
The day this lard-ass phony, or the delusional ALGORE, or Princesse Pelosi, or Boy Blunder, or ANY of these other psuedo-assed hypocrites actually STARTS to 'practice what they preach', then maybe I will give a little more serious thought into their idiotic agendas.............
Meanwhile, I'm not going to be holding my breath..........
And...........Michale Moron...................take your tub'o'lard and your cankles and your ugly mug and your dumb-ass baseball cap and your scruffy beard ( to hide your stupid looking face), and ALL of your anti-American, socialist, communtist, PHONY (hey Mike, will you send me a big fat check?? I make a LOT less than you do!!!).............and go to Cuba, or Venezuala, or better yet, HELL!!!
Liberal Fascism
Submitted by krig on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 5:37am.
AIl I can say is read Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left et al... This is the fascisista who'll make all the important decisions for the so called "lilliputians or little people".
I stumbled across the interview.....
Submitted by notinstl on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 7:15am.
....paused for a moment.....felt a precipitous drop in the IQ in the room....and quickly changed the channel.....the room brightened.
What's cool.
Submitted by diskinetic on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 8:00am.
What's cool is the pseudo-charm he tries to smear upon the quote as so much marmalade. The effect is supposed to be, "If you dear, sweet, disillusioned people had a firing neuron in your cranial cavities, I'm so sure you'd agree with me."
Yes, he's THAT stupid.
he is looking a little puffier in the jowls...
Submitted by OldJoe on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 8:31am.
..too many egg mcmuffins and triple quarter pounders...
I guess the lard is congealing in his ... oh never mind.
So Michael, let me get this straght
Submitted by Airforce_5_O on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 8:33am.
You want the government to kill jobs, because it will not take a lot of workers to build this mass transit of yours, to save the planet? Where is your union spirit? Why is it with these Dems its, let the government take over and we can get it right! When has the federal government ever taken over an industry and got it right?
Say it ain't so Mi-Mo!
Submitted by The Irishman on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 9:29am.
I suppose tonight I'll be holding a Roger and Me VHS & DVD burning party. Poor Flint.
Mass transit is ok. Masses of liberal lard forcing it is not ok
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 9:38am.
America was going the "mass transit" way before the federal government got into the action. The federal money started rolling into the states during the Ike administration. The interstate highway sytem sucked up all the money for 4 laners and left little incentive in the free market and for the states to invest in an economically viable mass transit sytem.
Today the rage among eco-freaks is mass transit. Eco-friendly mass transportaion for the proletariat will be the answer to all of our prayers( do ecofreaks pray for the system or just prey on the system?) they tell us in commercial after commercial called "the news."
New Mexico's former Governor strapped the taxpayers with a white elephant called the "Rail Runner." . http://newmexico.watchdog.org/1550/railrunner-costs-eating-nm-alive/
Moore may be an idiot but idiots like him have convinced politicians to put the nation into more hock.
Ecology is expensive in terms of lost capital and loss of liberty. Moore may not be aware of how nutty his ideas are but policy planners and politicians do know. And still the nation's leaders insist on forcing taxpayers to board the mass transit bus bound for the delapidated bridge up ahead.
As if I needed another reason,
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 9:39am.
I don't trust any man-child who wears a ball cap EVERYWHERE he goes. Did he never have a father who taught him right from wrong?
A psychologist would want to explore and and find out what he's hiding under that cap.
I think the answer is obvious
Submitted by IdahoJim on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 1:17pm.
There is nothing underneath that ball cap.
IdahoJim
http://idahoandy.net
He Should Go Back and Review
Submitted by washingtonpharmgirl on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:21am.
Roger and Me.
Moore the idiot
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:27am.
He needs to go back to making lousy movies and keep out of politics.
wow-this guy knows whats best for you and me-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:47am.
humans-especially him, are insignificant. after 6,000+years, this planet will be here long after we are gone.
he is a joke, but not to laugh at.
he is a typical liberal-those of you who voted for BHO-and your business is in the automotive field-are you happy now.?
I'm against mass transit
Submitted by Kat Outta the Bag on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 5:49pm.
I'm against mass transit because I don't want to be stuck sitting next to a sweaty, disgusting pig...like Moore.
Michael Moore's next occupation
Submitted by jpwcpa on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 6:16pm.
I wonder if it's true that President O'Bonehead's wife wants to hire Michael Moore to be her personal bodyguard. As I understand it, when Moore is standing next to her at some event, all of a sudden her a$$ doesn't look nearly as fat. And of course, it would cut down on his opportunities to appear on MSNBC if he were hired as a bodyguard to FAFLOTUS, so there is that benefit as well.
mikey and his "opinion"
Submitted by chisco on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 8:23pm.
Maybe "mikey" can take his dumbass "opinion" and go shove it, ya think?!
First of all, when was the last time his fat butt was even ON a bus?
Oh, wait -- Mikey doesn't go anywhere on a bus, does he? Nope, he's always ensconced in a limo or some other luxurious vehicle......
But, now suddenly he's an "expert" on the way OTHER PEOPLE should get around.......
Reply
Submitted by TheGeek on Thu, 08/25/2011 - 4:05am.
Replacing cars with a mass transit will not do any good in the country. By doing this it will affect car dealers the most. Not only that it will also affect some of the parts sales such as hitch covers, roll pans, brakes and other car accessories.
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mass transit
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 08/25/2011 - 10:26am.
Not to mention the absolute control the government will have over transportation.