Imagine standing in front of that excited, exuberant crowd, offer a bunch of hopeful platitudes, only to pull a midnight infomercial level stunt and be like "I know you all thought I was gonna do something but actually I'm not gonna do anything" it's fucking evil.
Jesus Christ. I just watched this for the first time last night. I’ll never see Obama the same way... how can he sleep at night? People of Flint... I see you.
Stephanie Daniels Many people were destroyed financially by the WallSt pigs with Barack doing nothing to hold the CEO's accountable.He did everything he could to thwart Bernie Sanders behind the scene. Didn't fight at all for Merrick Garland's nomination. People have to look past superficial impressions and identity politics when picking presidential candidates.
In his book, dreams of my father, Obama talked about how Democrats did nothing for the poor and blacks, but came around every election time and asked for their vote. He said that we sold our souls for a thanksgiving turkey. Now he became that same duchbag
I tried to warn people back in 2008 what a phoney baloney charlatan Obama is. Very few believed me. They got seduced by his charm and his being part black and believing he would really change things. By 2012, some had realized their mistake in voting for him. By 2016, most of them began to realize this fraud. By now, virtually all who voted for him feel that way.
@Paloma San Basilio You are totally right. He bombarded 7 countries, and in the complete film of Fahrenheit 11/9 Michael Moore shows that Obama bombarded an American city. What can we wait from Mr Biden? More crime bills and mass incarcerations www.bitchute.com/video/IehA9bM3AQl1/ www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/08/28/did-the-1994-crime-bill-cause-mass-incarceration/ or more violence from Ms Harris? ruclips.net/video/BnXXy-X4RrI/видео.html
And notice that Moore wasn't bother that people's lives were damaged by the bad water. He was just bothered that they lost votes. These people don't care about you; they only care about votes.
@cassl14 I would like to draw your attention to the fact that I think absolutely nothing of Trump, for me Obama is still a saint with regard to Trump. But what he pulled off there in this city made me extremely disappointed to see. It's a shame that he hasn't apologized for it until today or why he did this, are the Republicans put pressure on him so that he had to spread such a lie about the dirty water, why he do that ?!?
@cassl14 maybe !?! For me, Trump is the most dangerous thing that could happen to America because he divides people and doesn't bring them together. He advocates violence, not discussion. He is a typical fascist in a democratically elected office.
edition.cnn.com/2014/09/23/politics/countries-obama-bombed/index.html Obama bombed 7 countries, leaving millions in misery. If you see the full film Fahrenheit 11/9 Obama bombed an american city. Mr Biden's crime bills produced mass incarceration www.bitchute.com/video/IehA9bM3AQl1/ www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/08/28/did-the-1994-crime-bill-cause-mass-incarceration/ President Trump has pardoned a lot of people of all colours. Obama didn't pardon anyone, not even black people. I am an independent, I hate Bush but I am voting President Trump because he is not politically correct, but has done a lot of good things for the people and he can recover our economy fastest than Mr Biden and Ms Harris ruclips.net/video/BnXXy-X4RrI/видео.html
Michael Moore’s been getting a lot of shit lately and maybe some of it isn’t entirely invalid, but people forget what he has done to highlight situations like this and to communicate to masses just how terrible this truly is. How can you look down on someone that’s showing the people what he truth of our reality.
Because everyone is afraid to criticize Obama, and fear being called a racist for doing so. That is the Democrats, yes the Dixiecrats in disguise! They are wolves 🐺 in sheep’s clothing, and they destroyed the black community for years now! They got the black man and woman to separate from each other, creating the single mother epidemic and section 8 mentality with racist President Lyndon B Johnson that started it all, after signing the civil rights act. The time that Martin Luther King realize that he integrate black people into a burning house, and they killed him before he got a chance to get reparations for the black community. Now after years of the crack epidemic skip all the way to the Covid pandemic, the DemoRats are trying to ruin us again with racist as hell Joe Biden and corrupted Kamala Harris in the same basket 🧺
Look at who Michael Moore is cow towing too at the end of this clip. John Podesta (comet pizza) and that directly involves Hillary Clinton and the DNC. DNC owns Hollywood, Big tech companies, mainstream media. He's one of them or maybe worse if he has Podests in a doc... just sayin
@@123onajet I do agree I thought it was weird that he had John Podesta on but the DNC doesn’t own all those institutions. You could make the argument that the people that fund the DNC are also the people who have a hand in said institutions though.
@@supertrendymoneymaker0722 Some news for you: the Dixiecrats became Republicans. And our corporate overlords realized that they could buy the Democratic party in addition to the Republican one that they already owned. We're are all just commodities to them. You sound pretty partisan, but I urge you and everyone to look UP at the top 1% of the top 1% who are killing us all, rather than just AROUND you at the blue team or red team scapegoats that their mouthpieces are telling us to hate.
I wish more people grasped this fact. Voting for either party is voting for the same party. The oligarchs have never gaf about any of us (much-less the country) - - these are millionaire grifters out to enrich themselves.
it was so disingenuous of him to compare himself and what he may have done at two years-old to the victims in Flint. Obama grew up in privilege, not in inner-city homes with chipped lead paint. He had access to the best of everything as a child-one of the most exclusive private schools in the State of Hawaii, international traveling and living, PhD anthropologist mother, a bank vice-president grandmother who left him a half-million dollar inheritance. He certainly had far more advantages that the typical Black child growing up in 1960s and 1970s America. That's not the background of most of the children who were poisoned in Flint, and that's certainly not the background of people who reside in neighborhoods that are most likely to lack a sanitary water supply and proper sanitation services. Obama essentially played this game wherein he used his blackness to put on the facade of sameness and appear more relatable than he actually was. There were far more examples than this, but this one stands out because it is one of the few antics that his audience saw for what it was.
He grew up during his school years in Indonesia, not Hawaii. His mother had remarried an Indonesian man and moved with him to Indonesia. So the entire "private school in Hawaii" is blatant nonsense.
@@Samplesurfer What is blatant nonsense is a person being emphatic about something they obviously haven't fact-checked. He attended the Ponahou School in Hawaii from fifth grade through his high school graduation. He's a 1979 graduate of this school, and it's no secret that this private school is expensive and exclusive. In addition, the FACT that he was able to continent-hop as a Black child born in the U.S. is even more proof of privilege.
@@tincredible The very fact that one sees a child of a black man and a white mother as "black child" is so typical USA. But a key point is a different one. It is your casual use of the terms 'privilege' and "exclusive private schools" for what actually in the 1970s was a rather standard middle class upbringing which you got with (grand)parents with academic degrees and white-collar staff functions. Please: in the USA a vice-president of a bank can mean anything. Either running an entire division or unit, or just having a personal assistant. Obama lived several years in Indonesia in the 1960s and in the USA from 1971 onwards (with his grandparents) on Hawaii, and he didn't grew up poor, but just middle class. Privileged in the 1970s was when your (grand)parents were (multi-)millionaire. A half-million dollar inheritance isn't that special in a middle class household if there aren't many other heirs to divide it up. So I dislike your casual and rather unthinking usage of the word "privilege" and "exclusive private school" for someone who grew up in a rather standard, middle class setting and didn't went to an expensive boarding school. It sounds like a Fox News host. This is not because I don't see the difference in his upbringing, and most of the people living in Flint, MI today. But in particular because the typical black family in Flint, MI in the late 1960s or early 1970s had probably as much wage income to spend as Obama's mother and/or grandparents. The economy, social position and wages in the early 1970s were very different. You couldn't work at Wall Street in the 1970s as a broker/trader without moonlighting or second/third jobs to earn enough. However a factory worker in Flint MI in the 1960s/1970s had a good paying job. This all changed in the 1980s, and not in a good way for the factory workers in Flint, MI. Michael Moore's film "Roger & Me" provides still a good idea. However it isn't smart to project today back on the late 1960s / early 1970s.
@@Samplesurfer You clearly don't know much about the economic positionality of Black America if you think that that 1) a Ponahou School education, 2) having a bank vice-president granny who left her grandson a half-million dollar inheritances....were typical, Black life" experience at ANY point in American history. I can assure you that Black people Obama's age are more likely to have grandmas who were domestics or sharecroppers than bank VPs, so no matter how "little" the title entailed, it still provided a whole different life than most Blacks lived at the time. The only way your analysis would reflect accuracy is if you were to base your entire case on aberrations. The Black-white wealth gap is as wide today as it was in the late 1960s, so there was nothing about Obama's upbringing that was typical for Black children in the 70s. Likewise, there was nothing markedly different about Black people's wealth in the 1970s. The only difference is that many had the incomes to live a modest working class lifestyle and purchase homes without as much education or post-secondary training, but they STILL weren't living like Obama was living. To compare Obama's white family to a 1970s Black family in Michigan is tone-deaf when considering that white people of all eras haven't lived off of income alone. They live off of actual WEALTH, which is generational. We live in a nation where the majority of wealth is inherited, not earned in the wealth-holders' lifetimes. Black families generally lack generational wealth because we got a 350 year late start in being allowed to access the avenues for wealth-building. That's why when life changed in the 80s for Flint factory workers, they no longer had anything worth value to pass down to their progeny. That's why many of the children and grandchildren of those middle-class factory workers are largely poor today. That's not Obama's familial narrative in he least. Do you want to know what else Obama's family's whiteness meant that was NOT the case for Black families in Flint in any era? Obama's maternal whiteness meant that the family could purchase homes that didn't depreciate in value because of their race. As we know, home ownership has been a wealth-building for Americans, so that alone set his background apart from the typical Black American's background of any era. What you're doing is simplistically cherry-picking history to suit your preferred narrative. What would be SMART is to look at the big picture as it relates to our historical reality.
@@tincredible Sure I am incredible aware of that. But casually throwing around "privileged" for what is actually a middle class upbringing, just shows you seem to have an axe to grind. The problem with your attitude is that shoveling Obama in the "privileged" category takes away the harsh light on the genuinely privileged Americans. About 0.1% of the population. Don't underestimate the risk that corporate bigwigs soon decide to hire "Proud Boys" and "Oathkeepers" as their 21st century "Pinkertons". In that way homegrown US fascists (real ones) can happily engage in All American privatized "surpression of the poor" for a living, paid for by the actual privileged. Happy "privileged" hunting. And don't think I exaggerate. Amazon.com already in Europe hired a neo-nazi security firm to keep their immigrant workforce in the warehouses in check in Germany in the 2011-2013 period. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neo-nazi-guards-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-germany-8495843.html
This makes me so mad. I know I’m not a Michael Moore fan generally, but I have to give credit where it is due. The people of Flint, MI deserve so much more!
And 2 years later nothing changed the water is still bad smh 🤦♂️ An Obama with his sarcastic voice when he talks is insulting! And he is very dangerous down playing the suffering of others, and which the brainwashed supporters cheer for him! It’s all politics they say…But if this was your family suffering and dying to lead poisoning and legionnaires disease 🦠 you wouldn’t say it is just politics! Yet the brainwashed public continues to vote for the 2 sides in ignorance. We will always lose this way if we stay ignorant. The good guys only wins in the movies, but the ruling rich elite status alway wins!
Bernie should be hammering this and going after Obama/Biden. He's not, at every turn he says Biden is his friend, Biden can beat Trump and if Biden is the nominee Bernie will support him and campaign on his behalf..😔
I’m sorry but as much as y’all like Bernie, he’s very weak and bends the knee to his own supporters. For example, when Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie, his supporters got mad and didn’t want a “right winger” to endorse him(he’s a liberal). Because of that, Bernie didn’t accept his endorsement. In 2016, even when Hillary fucked him over in the primaries, he still endorsed her. Because of that, over 12% of Bernie supporters actually voted Trump because they were pissed at Hillary
Problem with Bernie is that he can't beat the system. He tried to beat Hillary in 2016 but they fucked him over hard. To the point where he likely got threatened with "Support the candidate we want or else."
Renagade2332 who cares? Bernie will continue to get re-elected in Vermont! Look at Tump ( love him or hate him) he had the balls to take on the media and the republicans and Democrats machines.
When I watched this part my heart broke just came acroos this and it's sad. Living in another country I now look at this being apart of Obama's legacy as sad. Why didn't he do something? Disappointment.
Because he is apart of the elites that don’t give a crap about the value of human life, especially not caring for his own people! No wonder why Trump won back in 2016. An I don’t blame Black and Latinos for voting for Trump either! Good riddance to the DemoRats!!!
Obama ran out of bombs, deported more illegals than trump in his first term, had his entire cabinet run by Goldman Sachs, militarized the police, solved the financial crisis by letting the banks take a trillion worth of foreclosed homes, and that’s just what comes to mind. The American presidency is about who can sell the lie the hardest to the greatest number, with the media’s complicit.
T R it’s in his DNA. I agree with you on everything except the deportations. They inflated the numbers. When someone was caught climbing over the fence and immediately brought back- that was counted as deportation. He didn’t round them up from job sites, because his corporate donors would never allow that to happen.he didn’t even care that blacks were more affected by illegal immigration
When you've been around the federal government long enough, you come to realize that the government is not in the business of safety and security, it is in the business of the perception of safety and security. It has always been this way. While the law says possession is 9/10 of the law, the government practices perception is 9/10 of the law. Once you realize this, everything takes on a new perspective.
I don't understand how the hell THAT wasn't big news all over Facebook. It's the army. With gunfire. And tanks. And people shouting. They literally terrorised a town for their 'training'.
It’s the Michigan National Guard and they’re there to install govt provided water filtering systems in every home and business as a temporary fix, while the work could be done to make the water and its delivery system safe... and to advise Flint that medical care was being made available to everyone. ruclips.net/video/w6RWM4N1aqQ/видео.html
Thanks for posting this Michael!!💖🥰I have been debating leaving you an anchor v.m. regarding this documentary... soon after you announced it being available on Rumble, Amazon took it down!!👎🏾
Jeff Bezos is oooooone heckofa guy... Corporate greed has bought the Democratic Party out. Now barely anyone apart from the lower-to-lower-middle-class within the DNC is supporting Bernie. Bernie is a threat to the swamp that Trump added more water to.
Theatrics and lip-service. The Bloomberg campaign spent more than 5x the amount of money in Flint than would have been sufficient to fix its water problem.
@@mtalhaawais If Bloomberg did that, I think we all will catapult Bloomberg to the Presidency. Enough lip service. We just want things done. Start somewhere.
What I liked about this movie is Michael Moore buried everybody. Hillary, Obama & Trump. The AOC scene was stupid considering what we know now but other than that this was great.
The best thing you can do for yourself and your family is trying to become as self-sufficient and independent from others, and that includes the government. Others, including the government (of any political side), will let you down.
What an insult to our intelligence. “ This is not a stunt” , I’m going to publicly state that I need water , which is conveniently prepared and immediately ready , then I’m going to wet my lips with it. Boy I really was thirsty.......they all think that we are stupid and they are ALL bought and paid for. He just pissed on their shoes and told them it was raining.
It wasn't immediately ready. The full video of his speech shows it took quite a while for the water to be delivered to him. I still would call it a stunt though.
The media lies a lot about the left . There are only proganda networks in America. The New York times , CNN gives you left wing propaganda and fox right wing propaganda.
@@RigginTheRod010 Bullshit. If the problem was fixed then why are people in Flint still getting skin rashes from the water? Anyone who lives in Flint or has talked to anyone who lives in Flint knows that the government didn't fix anything. You can't possibly be that fucking stupid as to believe that the local, state or federal government fixed the problem in Flint when the problem still exists.
Such a disgrace 😔 The residents of Flint should have all been relocated with no cost to them. Clean water is the most basic of human essentials. This is a true crisis in America and nobody cares...
Sad. And this when we had grownups in the White House. (:-( Alas, America got wholesale snookered on that hope/change thing and "Yes we can". (:-( Bernie: Hope/Change 2.0, FDR 2.0.
I'd say bernie was, at least somewhat of a better bet than obama, having a background that was far more consistent and not really being a creature from the Ivy Leagues
In 2021, at least three major infrastructure improvements are set for completion. The City is finishing work on the service line replacement project to get rid of lead pipes leading to Flint homes, building a secondary water supply pipeline and constructing a new water treatment chemical feed building. After $400 million in state and federal spending, Flint has secured a clean water source, distributed filters to all who want them, and laid modern, safe, copper pipes to nearly every home in the city. FLINT, MI - State officials say there was a “dramatic drop” in the level of lead in Flint water during testing in the first half of 2024. Officials with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy said in a news release on Friday, Aug.2 Aug 2024
look at the face of cute black kid that most likely had been poisoned and affected by lead with Obama's voice-over " when I was a kid I was taking a chip of lead....". broke my heart.
because the backlash to that would have been insane, someone would've leaked that it was bottled water and he would never live it down... heck it might even be the number 1 thing he'd be remembered for in his presidency.
@@christopherhook2141 there was a boil water advisory 2 weeks ago...and they never replaced pipes that were damaged in homes...the water is still fucked
I was disappointed with Obama. He said he addressed mergers in Agribusiness Corporations only to put Agribusiness and Monsanto's mouth piece Tom Vilsack as Ag Secretary. Joe Biden made the same mistake. I knew many farmers who voted for Obama and then didn't vote for a democrat since then.
Google it the corrupt government hooked up a notoriously polluted River the Flint River that had been polluted since the thirties by General Motors Dupont Plastics Pittsburgh Paint & Glass and hooked it up as drinking water!! this water was so corrosive it ate the pipes exposing LED so many children and many people got sick and died from lead poisoning it's still happening today... and yes the National Water safety board was in on it and took bribes
@@XxQueenChristinaxX But were poll watchers allowed to watch the process? Was there voter fraud? "As of the time that I'm writing this comment" - it's not over yet. "Life-Long Dem and Flint City Council Member Backs Trump in INCREDIBLE Speech": ruclips.net/video/DsDHp7GUD0c/видео.html
[Pasting my comment from another video on this subject]: I'm watching this video after watching Jimmy Dore skewer Obama for his heartless response. For me, besides this stunt, the bigger problem is why didn't this spur Obama and Dems into action to make fixing our decrepit infrastructure a big priority? Before anyone says he didn't have the House and Senate, let's remember that infrastructure is a truly popular bipartisan issue. He should've campaigned on this issue in some red/swing states to boost Democratic numbers in Congress. But no, he only cares about the brand and myth of Obama. He was a celebrity president before Trump came along. Obama's even worse than Clinton in this respect. Bill (and Hillary) Clinton were policy wonks (still heartless and corrupt) who believe in actually doing things, notwithstanding their disastrous impact to our country.
I never did get this. Did it ever come out why Obama did this? What was he thinking I've? I've had some challenges of my own and so have been unable to follow Flint's story since then. Hope it's gotten better.
This really broke my heart. The people of Flint deserve better.
Imagine standing in front of that excited, exuberant crowd, offer a bunch of hopeful platitudes, only to pull a midnight infomercial level stunt and be like "I know you all thought I was gonna do something but actually I'm not gonna do anything" it's fucking evil.
why debbie stabenow did nothing?
Wow why even go through all the B's of using a jet to fly out there just to basically spit in those people's faces
Jesus Christ. I just watched this for the first time last night. I’ll never see Obama the same way... how can he sleep at night? People of Flint... I see you.
He did alot of things like this
Why did you see him as a hero in the first place? I knew from day one that he was a phony pretending to be a messiah.
Stephanie Daniels Many people were destroyed financially by the WallSt pigs with Barack doing nothing to hold the CEO's accountable.He did everything he could to thwart Bernie Sanders behind the scene. Didn't fight at all for Merrick Garland's nomination. People have to look past superficial impressions and identity politics when picking presidential candidates.
In his book, dreams of my father, Obama talked about how Democrats did nothing for the poor and blacks, but came around every election time and asked for their vote. He said that we sold our souls for a thanksgiving turkey. Now he became that same duchbag
I tried to warn people back in 2008 what a phoney baloney charlatan Obama is. Very few believed me. They got seduced by his charm and his being part black and believing he would really change things. By 2012, some had realized their mistake in voting for him. By 2016, most of them began to realize this fraud. By now, virtually all who voted for him feel that way.
Look at people faces . They were so pissed.…
The audience was not amused
@Paloma San Basilio You are totally right. He bombarded 7 countries, and in the complete film of Fahrenheit 11/9 Michael Moore shows that Obama bombarded an American city. What can we wait from Mr Biden? More crime bills and mass incarcerations www.bitchute.com/video/IehA9bM3AQl1/ www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/08/28/did-the-1994-crime-bill-cause-mass-incarceration/ or more violence from Ms Harris? ruclips.net/video/BnXXy-X4RrI/видео.html
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS AND ALWAYS WAS.
I said it from the beginning, a slick corrupt Chicago politician. sigh....
This has changed my image of Obama a lot, I am disappointed in him!
And notice that Moore wasn't bother that people's lives were damaged by the bad water. He was just bothered that they lost votes. These people don't care about you; they only care about votes.
@@TheMarc52 Mr Moore came from a flint suburb, he cares more than you
@cassl14 I would like to draw your attention to the fact that I think absolutely nothing of Trump, for me Obama is still a saint with regard to Trump. But what he pulled off there in this city made me extremely disappointed to see. It's a shame that he hasn't apologized for it until today or why he did this, are the Republicans put pressure on him so that he had to spread such a lie about the dirty water, why he do that ?!?
@cassl14 maybe !?! For me, Trump is the most dangerous thing that could happen to America because he divides people and doesn't bring them together. He advocates violence, not discussion. He is a typical fascist in a democratically elected office.
edition.cnn.com/2014/09/23/politics/countries-obama-bombed/index.html Obama bombed 7 countries, leaving millions in misery. If you see the full film Fahrenheit 11/9 Obama bombed an american city. Mr Biden's crime bills produced mass incarceration www.bitchute.com/video/IehA9bM3AQl1/ www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/08/28/did-the-1994-crime-bill-cause-mass-incarceration/ President Trump has pardoned a lot of people of all colours. Obama didn't pardon anyone, not even black people. I am an independent, I hate Bush but I am voting President Trump because he is not politically correct, but has done a lot of good things for the people and he can recover our economy fastest than Mr Biden and Ms Harris ruclips.net/video/BnXXy-X4RrI/видео.html
Michael Moore’s been getting a lot of shit lately and maybe some of it isn’t entirely invalid, but people forget what he has done to highlight situations like this and to communicate to masses just how terrible this truly is. How can you look down on someone that’s showing the people what he truth of our reality.
Yet he cowards out like Bernie.
Because everyone is afraid to criticize Obama, and fear being called a racist for doing so. That is the Democrats, yes the Dixiecrats in disguise! They are wolves 🐺 in sheep’s clothing, and they destroyed the black community for years now! They got the black man and woman to separate from each other, creating the single mother epidemic and section 8 mentality with racist President Lyndon B Johnson that started it all, after signing the civil rights act. The time that Martin Luther King realize that he integrate black people into a burning house, and they killed him before he got a chance to get reparations for the black community. Now after years of the crack epidemic skip all the way to the Covid pandemic, the DemoRats are trying to ruin us again with racist as hell Joe Biden and corrupted Kamala Harris in the same basket 🧺
Look at who Michael Moore is cow towing too at the end of this clip. John Podesta (comet pizza) and that directly involves Hillary Clinton and the DNC. DNC owns Hollywood, Big tech companies, mainstream media. He's one of them or maybe worse if he has Podests in a doc... just sayin
@@123onajet I do agree I thought it was weird that he had John Podesta on but the DNC doesn’t own all those institutions. You could make the argument that the people that fund the DNC are also the people who have a hand in said institutions though.
@@supertrendymoneymaker0722 Some news for you: the Dixiecrats became Republicans. And our corporate overlords realized that they could buy the Democratic party in addition to the Republican one that they already owned. We're are all just commodities to them. You sound pretty partisan, but I urge you and everyone to look UP at the top 1% of the top 1% who are killing us all, rather than just AROUND you at the blue team or red team scapegoats that their mouthpieces are telling us to hate.
This scene pretty much highlights that BOTH PARTIES are NOT on your side. Vote AGAINST Democrats AND Republicans.
You said a word . The two party system is their system for their people . We the people are Us and not Them !
You know, the constitution states "we the people" not "they, the government"
I wish more people grasped this fact. Voting for either party is voting for the same party. The oligarchs have never gaf about any of us (much-less the country) - - these are millionaire grifters out to enrich themselves.
Bingo
As much as I like some Michael Moore films, he has sold out & plays nice with the Democratic Party. Shame on him.
This was the moment I lost all my affection for Obama. Such a cruel thing to do.
it was so disingenuous of him to compare himself and what he may have done at two years-old to the victims in Flint. Obama grew up in privilege, not in inner-city homes with chipped lead paint. He had access to the best of everything as a child-one of the most exclusive private schools in the State of Hawaii, international traveling and living, PhD anthropologist mother, a bank vice-president grandmother who left him a half-million dollar inheritance. He certainly had far more advantages that the typical Black child growing up in 1960s and 1970s America. That's not the background of most of the children who were poisoned in Flint, and that's certainly not the background of people who reside in neighborhoods that are most likely to lack a sanitary water supply and proper sanitation services. Obama essentially played this game wherein he used his blackness to put on the facade of sameness and appear more relatable than he actually was. There were far more examples than this, but this one stands out because it is one of the few antics that his audience saw for what it was.
He grew up during his school years in Indonesia, not Hawaii. His mother had remarried an Indonesian man and moved with him to Indonesia.
So the entire "private school in Hawaii" is blatant nonsense.
@@Samplesurfer What is blatant nonsense is a person being emphatic about something they obviously haven't fact-checked. He attended the Ponahou School in Hawaii from fifth grade through his high school graduation. He's a 1979 graduate of this school, and it's no secret that this private school is expensive and exclusive. In addition, the FACT that he was able to continent-hop as a Black child born in the U.S. is even more proof of privilege.
@@tincredible The very fact that one sees a child of a black man and a white mother as "black child" is so typical USA.
But a key point is a different one. It is your casual use of the terms 'privilege' and "exclusive private schools" for what actually in the 1970s was a rather standard middle class upbringing which you got with (grand)parents with academic degrees and white-collar staff functions.
Please: in the USA a vice-president of a bank can mean anything. Either running an entire division or unit, or just having a personal assistant.
Obama lived several years in Indonesia in the 1960s and in the USA from 1971 onwards (with his grandparents) on Hawaii, and he didn't grew up poor, but just middle class.
Privileged in the 1970s was when your (grand)parents were (multi-)millionaire. A half-million dollar inheritance isn't that special in a middle class household if there aren't many other heirs to divide it up.
So I dislike your casual and rather unthinking usage of the word "privilege" and "exclusive private school" for someone who grew up in a rather standard, middle class setting and didn't went to an expensive boarding school. It sounds like a Fox News host.
This is not because I don't see the difference in his upbringing, and most of the people living in Flint, MI today. But in particular because the typical black family in Flint, MI in the late 1960s or early 1970s had probably as much wage income to spend as Obama's mother and/or grandparents. The economy, social position and wages in the early 1970s were very different. You couldn't work at Wall Street in the 1970s as a broker/trader without moonlighting or second/third jobs to earn enough. However a factory worker in Flint MI in the 1960s/1970s had a good paying job.
This all changed in the 1980s, and not in a good way for the factory workers in Flint, MI. Michael Moore's film "Roger & Me" provides still a good idea.
However it isn't smart to project today back on the late 1960s / early 1970s.
@@Samplesurfer You clearly don't know much about the economic positionality of Black America if you think that that 1) a Ponahou School education, 2) having a bank vice-president granny who left her grandson a half-million dollar inheritances....were typical, Black life" experience at ANY point in American history. I can assure you that Black people Obama's age are more likely to have grandmas who were domestics or sharecroppers than bank VPs, so no matter how "little" the title entailed, it still provided a whole different life than most Blacks lived at the time.
The only way your analysis would reflect accuracy is if you were to base your entire case on aberrations. The Black-white wealth gap is as wide today as it was in the late 1960s, so there was nothing about Obama's upbringing that was typical for Black children in the 70s. Likewise, there was nothing markedly different about Black people's wealth in the 1970s. The only difference is that many had the incomes to live a modest working class lifestyle and purchase homes without as much education or post-secondary training, but they STILL weren't living like Obama was living.
To compare Obama's white family to a 1970s Black family in Michigan is tone-deaf when considering that white people of all eras haven't lived off of income alone. They live off of actual WEALTH, which is generational. We live in a nation where the majority of wealth is inherited, not earned in the wealth-holders' lifetimes. Black families generally lack generational wealth because we got a 350 year late start in being allowed to access the avenues for wealth-building. That's why when life changed in the 80s for Flint factory workers, they no longer had anything worth value to pass down to their progeny. That's why many of the children and grandchildren of those middle-class factory workers are largely poor today. That's not Obama's familial narrative in he least.
Do you want to know what else Obama's family's whiteness meant that was NOT the case for Black families in Flint in any era? Obama's maternal whiteness meant that the family could purchase homes that didn't depreciate in value because of their race. As we know, home ownership has been a wealth-building for Americans, so that alone set his background apart from the typical Black American's background of any era. What you're doing is simplistically cherry-picking history to suit your preferred narrative. What would be SMART is to look at the big picture as it relates to our historical reality.
@@tincredible Sure I am incredible aware of that. But casually throwing around "privileged" for what is actually a middle class upbringing, just shows you seem to have an axe to grind.
The problem with your attitude is that shoveling Obama in the "privileged" category takes away the harsh light on the genuinely privileged Americans. About 0.1% of the population.
Don't underestimate the risk that corporate bigwigs soon decide to hire "Proud Boys" and "Oathkeepers" as their 21st century "Pinkertons".
In that way homegrown US fascists (real ones) can happily engage in All American privatized "surpression of the poor" for a living, paid for by the actual privileged.
Happy "privileged" hunting.
And don't think I exaggerate. Amazon.com already in Europe hired a neo-nazi security firm to keep their immigrant workforce in the warehouses in check in Germany in the 2011-2013 period. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neo-nazi-guards-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-germany-8495843.html
Just seeing this for the first time in 2023. Wow. Obama's second term was awful but seeing this just takes it to another level.
He's a prick. What a shock
Same here; good lord. Any time I hear someone say “I miss Barack, he’s my president!”, I’ll send this to them. What a clown he was.
This makes me so mad. I know I’m not a Michael Moore fan generally, but I have to give credit where it is due. The people of Flint, MI deserve so much more!
And 2 years later nothing changed the water is still bad smh 🤦♂️ An Obama with his sarcastic voice when he talks is insulting! And he is very dangerous down playing the suffering of others, and which the brainwashed supporters cheer for him! It’s all politics they say…But if this was your family suffering and dying to lead poisoning and legionnaires disease 🦠 you wouldn’t say it is just politics! Yet the brainwashed public continues to vote for the 2 sides in ignorance. We will always lose this way if we stay ignorant. The good guys only wins in the movies, but the ruling rich elite status alway wins!
You know why he can do that to your face? Because his voters are weak morons.
Bernie should be hammering this and going after Obama/Biden. He's not, at every turn he says Biden is his friend, Biden can beat Trump and if Biden is the nominee Bernie will support him and campaign on his behalf..😔
I’m sorry but as much as y’all like Bernie, he’s very weak and bends the knee to his own supporters. For example, when Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie, his supporters got mad and didn’t want a “right winger” to endorse him(he’s a liberal). Because of that, Bernie didn’t accept his endorsement. In 2016, even when Hillary fucked him over in the primaries, he still endorsed her. Because of that, over 12% of Bernie supporters actually voted Trump because they were pissed at Hillary
Problem with Bernie is that he can't beat the system. He tried to beat Hillary in 2016 but they fucked him over hard. To the point where he likely got threatened with "Support the candidate we want or else."
Bernie is nothing but controlled opposition
@@joa9657 Controlled opposition doesn't make the real candidate look so bad. He whipped up anti Hillary fervor within the Democratic party.
Renagade2332 who cares? Bernie will continue to get re-elected in Vermont! Look at Tump ( love him or hate him) he had the balls to take on the media and the republicans and Democrats machines.
"We have a short term water crisis that needs to be fixed" Snyder is a joke.
He fooled a lot of us
cassl14 Indeed - disgusting
cassl14 The same thing happens here! 😂
cassl14 has And you! ☮️
The greatest trap no one saw coming
Never fooled me
When I watched this part my heart broke just came acroos this and it's sad. Living in another country I now look at this being apart of Obama's legacy as sad. Why didn't he do something? Disappointment.
Because he is apart of the elites that don’t give a crap about the value of human life, especially not caring for his own people! No wonder why Trump won back in 2016. An I don’t blame Black and Latinos for voting for Trump either! Good riddance to the DemoRats!!!
Obama ran out of bombs, deported more illegals than trump in his first term, had his entire cabinet run by Goldman Sachs, militarized the police, solved the financial crisis by letting the banks take a trillion worth of foreclosed homes, and that’s just what comes to mind. The American presidency is about who can sell the lie the hardest to the greatest number, with the media’s complicit.
T R it’s in his DNA. I agree with you on everything except the deportations. They inflated the numbers. When someone was caught climbing over the fence and immediately brought back- that was counted as deportation. He didn’t round them up from job sites, because his corporate donors would never allow that to happen.he didn’t even care that blacks were more affected by illegal immigration
This was May of 2016, the problem was fully fixed Jan of 2017.
@@supertrendymoneymaker0722 and people got tired of Trump so got Biden. Though I'd take Obama over both of them
Look at the people’s faces... just look at them
That glass of water. DESPICABLE
When you've been around the federal government long enough, you come to realize that the government is not in the business of safety and security, it is in the business of the perception of safety and security. It has always been this way. While the law says possession is 9/10 of the law, the government practices perception is 9/10 of the law. Once you realize this, everything takes on a new perspective.
"Thank you for caring for us Obama"
😂😂😂
I think about that guy and I feel bad for him.
Pure gold.
Isn't this followed with "instead of sending in the army corps of engineers, Obama sent in the army"?
I don't understand how the hell THAT wasn't big news all over Facebook. It's the army. With gunfire. And tanks. And people shouting. They literally terrorised a town for their 'training'.
It’s the Michigan National Guard and they’re there to install govt provided water filtering systems in every home and business as a temporary fix, while the work could be done to make the water and its delivery system safe... and to advise Flint that medical care was being made available to everyone.
ruclips.net/video/w6RWM4N1aqQ/видео.html
@@Will-gj5xm I thought that it was the state government that had control over sending in the local National Guard to anyplace in the state.
Thanks for posting this Michael!!💖🥰I have been debating leaving you an anchor v.m. regarding this documentary... soon after you announced it being available on Rumble, Amazon took it down!!👎🏾
Jeff Bezos is oooooone heckofa guy... Corporate greed has bought the Democratic Party out. Now barely anyone apart from the lower-to-lower-middle-class within the DNC is supporting Bernie. Bernie is a threat to the swamp that Trump added more water to.
Flint a popular location in MMs work. It's had it's problems but this is the most shocking. Where are the media on this Michael?
Thank you for posting this. So what did Obama do to help the Flint water crisis? Genuinely curious.
Theatrics and lip-service. The Bloomberg campaign spent more than 5x the amount of money in Flint than would have been sufficient to fix its water problem.
And all the other cities that have bad water........
@@mtalhaawais If Bloomberg did that, I think we all will catapult Bloomberg to the Presidency. Enough lip service. We just want things done. Start somewhere.
Lina Balawan I'm not sure I understand your point, but to clarify, he spent that money on his campaign and not on the infrastructure in Flint.
@@mtalhaawais He should have fixed the water problem and then run for office
What I liked about this movie is Michael Moore buried everybody. Hillary, Obama & Trump. The AOC scene was stupid considering what we know now but other than that this was great.
"Thank you for caring for us Obama"
.....BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
I haven't trusted him from the beginning.
and this is why you got Trump.
The best thing you can do for yourself and your family is trying to become as self-sufficient and independent from others, and that includes the government. Others, including the government (of any political side), will let you down.
This was disgraceful!
What an insult to our intelligence. “ This is not a stunt” , I’m going to publicly state that I need water , which is conveniently prepared and immediately ready , then I’m going to wet my lips with it. Boy I really was thirsty.......they all think that we are stupid and they are ALL bought and paid for. He just pissed on their shoes and told them it was raining.
It wasn't immediately ready. The full video of his speech shows it took quite a while for the water to be delivered to him. I still would call it a stunt though.
@@theboxofdemons a poorly timed stunt
All politicians turn on you after you give them your vote.
Cringe. Ending with Podesta.
Podesta's the molesta.
I cringed too!!!
podesta just wondering when he can get back to spirit cooking
I've been wanting to see this film but it's not on Netflix, where can I find it? Thanks.
we photo gal It’s available for purchase through Amazon still... ironically for like $13
It's on Netflix now. I've just seen it.
I was looking for it yesterday. It's not on Netflix and it was pulled from Amazon, you can't even buy it. I found it on Vudu
@@catdowntheroad5765 - Literally type it in and it doesn't show up. None of MM's films do. Crazy.
@@wephotogal I've just done it again. I type in "far" and Fahrenheit 11/9 comes up. Maybe it depends what country you're in? I'm in the UK.
When Jimmy Carter was confronted, he bought everyone at Love Canal a new home.
Damn, he sucks at acting like he does being a president
it's not acting. it's real
Still better than 45
No. Not really.
I can’t imagine what it’s like to live with no sense of shame or guilt whatsoever. I can barely watch this.
Dang...he didn't drink any of that water.
He should have gulped it. What a clown
No kidding 😒
Both sides are evil....I’ve honestly never seen this till now
The media lies a lot about the left . There are only proganda networks in America. The New York times , CNN gives you left wing propaganda and fox right wing propaganda.
Obama has done so much worse. Look it up. Disappointed
@@mar002007 like what....
Who's here after hearing that Snyder's been charging?
Right here. As he should.
He did nothing instead... Prayers and love for Michigan and I am so sorry 🙏🌍💔🇺🇸💔🇺🇸
Well the criminal governor loves him.
Is this how he got his martha's vineyard house?
And then bought a beachfront home because of rising sea levels 😆🤣😂
Random question is that the same podesta from the emails?
Rick Snyder and Barack Obama deserve to spend the rest of their days in Supermax. This is exactly why I don't vote.
Obama eventually had the issue fixed the next year
@@RigginTheRod010 Yeah I am sure Obama personally replaced all the lead pipes in Flint. Stop with your gaslighting bullshit.
@@saml8967 shut yo ass up. The issue was fixed in Jan of 17
@@RigginTheRod010 Bullshit. If the problem was fixed then why are people in Flint still getting skin rashes from the water? Anyone who lives in Flint or has talked to anyone who lives in Flint knows that the government didn't fix anything. You can't possibly be that fucking stupid as to believe that the local, state or federal government fixed the problem in Flint when the problem still exists.
This is my first time watching this, I get it now...
What exactly, if I may ask?
Political theater then, political theater now.
We do need a reset. Get rid of the dem and rep corrupt political organizations.
and here we are, a third president later and still flint is having the same issue :(
Such a disgrace 😔 The residents of Flint should have all been relocated with no cost to them. Clean water is the most basic of human essentials. This is a true crisis in America and nobody cares...
Two birds of the same feather.
He didn't help at all , didn't care , didn't drink that water
When people realize politicians don't actually care for them. Wake up
This stunt made me lose respect for Obama.
Sad. And this when we had grownups in the White House. (:-( Alas, America got wholesale snookered on that hope/change thing and "Yes we can". (:-( Bernie: Hope/Change 2.0, FDR 2.0.
I'd say bernie was, at least somewhat of a better bet than obama, having a background that was far more consistent and not really being a creature from the Ivy Leagues
That was fucked up. People were dying due to lead poisoning and he's making a stunt out of it. That was a big mistake.
2:21 That kid seeing the real Obama
False hope is way worse than no hope.
"There can be true despair without hope" -- Bane
Never trust anyone who works for the law never trust any president you vote for either
In 2021, at least three major infrastructure improvements are set for completion. The City is finishing work on the service line replacement project to get rid of lead pipes leading to Flint homes, building a secondary water supply pipeline and constructing a new water treatment chemical feed building.
After $400 million in state and federal spending, Flint has secured a clean water source, distributed filters to all who want them, and laid modern, safe, copper pipes to nearly every home in the city.
FLINT, MI - State officials say there was a “dramatic drop” in the level of lead in Flint water during testing in the first half of 2024. Officials with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy said in a news release on Friday, Aug.2 Aug 2024
This really stained my view of Obama irreparably.
That was bottled water in that glass.
I knew it was a stunt when i watched it live back in the day
So, they were all worried about how it reflected on the Democrat Party instead of how to actually fix the problem.
This "sip" destroyed my entire faith in Obama
Born and raised in Flint, here. Obama did jack shit for Flint.
look at the face of cute black kid that most likely had been poisoned and affected by lead with Obama's voice-over " when I was a kid I was taking a chip of lead....". broke my heart.
Michael Moore please show Bernie how to take on the Democratic establishment the way FDR did!
I wonder why his handlers didn't just pour bottled water into the glass so that he can gulp it safely and make it seem like he's drinking tap?
That's what they did
@@LA_Commander Then why did he pretend to drink it both times?
@@darkfeather6857 He is a very good stage actor?
because the backlash to that would have been insane, someone would've leaked that it was bottled water and he would never live it down... heck it might even be the number 1 thing he'd be remembered for in his presidency.
1:43 and then after the speech his mind changed
I hated Obama before this, but jfc. He really told all these people that were hoping and praying he would do something "nah fuck you all."
I live on the Eastside of Flint. It's 2020 and the water is still fucked!
It was fixed in 2017
Stop lying!
@@christopherhook2141 there was a boil water advisory 2 weeks ago...and they never replaced pipes that were damaged in homes...the water is still fucked
NEVER trust a politician and NEVER put your hope in one of them.
I was disappointed with Obama. He said he addressed mergers in Agribusiness Corporations only to put Agribusiness and Monsanto's mouth piece Tom Vilsack as Ag Secretary. Joe Biden made the same mistake.
I knew many farmers who voted for Obama and then didn't vote for a democrat since then.
And peope still don't understand why we got Trump.
One helluva used car he sold there.
What ppl did to his Mural isn't quite fucked up enough
Give up on heros!
If they’ll do this… what are they doing about jaybbbsz?
What did he do?
Not a Damn Thing!!
Finally everyone has a price..... shame
What is this about? What happen to the water? Sorry I don't know and would like to understand.
Ancient water pipes made of lead which contaminate the water in the Flint area en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
Google it the corrupt government hooked up a notoriously polluted River the Flint River that had been polluted since the thirties by General Motors Dupont Plastics Pittsburgh Paint & Glass and hooked it up as drinking water!! this water was so corrosive it ate the pipes exposing LED so many children and many people got sick and died from lead poisoning it's still happening today... and yes the National Water safety board was in on it and took bribes
Joe Biden is going to lose Michigan because of this.
LMAO
Joe should lose all the states
Biden is going to win MI. As of the time that I'm writing this comment, he's still on the path to an electoral victory. He won Flint's county as well.
@@XxQueenChristinaxX
But were poll watchers allowed to watch the process?
Was there voter fraud?
"As of the time that I'm writing this comment" - it's not over yet.
"Life-Long Dem and Flint City Council Member Backs Trump in INCREDIBLE Speech":
ruclips.net/video/DsDHp7GUD0c/видео.html
Yeah...about that
😂
Short term water crisis that need to be repaired,. That's some great bull hit. Governor
I see you... what is that? Avatar?
"Can I get some water?"
02:35
Should've drank it every day
In retrospect the stunt is very much like something Trump would do except his followers would love it.
Democrats love Obama: both sides are incorrigible.
Fool
Wow. You're pathetic. Keep voting blue no matter who!
Lmao snyder ain't ever been to a Flint HS graduation or city council meeting or he would have known lmao
might as well call him a Muppet Character... he was nothing but the face of a puppet.
[Pasting my comment from another video on this subject]: I'm watching this video after watching Jimmy Dore skewer Obama for his heartless response. For me, besides this stunt, the bigger problem is why didn't this spur Obama and Dems into action to make fixing our decrepit infrastructure a big priority? Before anyone says he didn't have the House and Senate, let's remember that infrastructure is a truly popular bipartisan issue. He should've campaigned on this issue in some red/swing states to boost Democratic numbers in Congress. But no, he only cares about the brand and myth of Obama. He was a celebrity president before Trump came along.
Obama's even worse than Clinton in this respect. Bill (and Hillary) Clinton were policy wonks (still heartless and corrupt) who believe in actually doing things, notwithstanding their disastrous impact to our country.
Biden passed the infrastructure bill so that works.... Clinton was the last time the country was at $0 debt
0:22 Is this Michael Moore's family? They look just like him.
Now I'm about to mock you
I never did get this. Did it ever come out why Obama did this? What was he thinking I've? I've had some challenges of my own and so have been unable to follow Flint's story since then. Hope it's gotten better.
PS - sorry for the weird typo. Recurring g problem with my phone.
This was May of 2016, the problem was fully fixed Jan of 2017.
Show biz
Gaslighting. This is hard to watch...
Have you have new water yet?
Go show this to the BROTHA'S🙄
Michael Moore Loves Obama so why does nt Mr Moore defend him.
Even that surprised-looking kid in the audience (2:20) could smell the rat.