Posted on 06/30/2018 10:54:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"This is a serious point," Moore warned on Bill Maher.
Michael Moore is urging Americans to oppose Donald Trump right now, before the U.S. looks just like Gilead.
"We are living 'The Handmaid's Tale,'" Moore said on "Real Time With Bill Maher" Friday night. "This is a serious point. The best part of the show is the flashbacks, where [Offred, played by Elizabeth Moss] tries to figure out where was the point where it was too late. Where was the point that if we all just had risen up, just done something? But because it happens in little increments. That's how fascism works."
The dystopian book-turned-award-winning Hulu television series takes place in a totalitarian society, Gilead, which is ruled by a fundamentalist regime and where women's wombs are treated as property of the state. Because of dropping birth rates, fertile women are sent into sexual servitude.
As more of the story comes to our small screens, the parralels become all to familiar. For example, a timely episode this season focused on children being ripped from their parents, as children were being taken from their parents at the border in the real world.
Moore also said Americans need to act quickly, because if they don't, Trump will likely win the 2020 election and will try to stay in office after two terms.
"You have to listen this time," Moore said to the camera, "Because he is going to win the 2020 election."
"Even if he doesn't, he's not going to leave," Maher added.
Moore and Maher both noted how Trump has shown admiration for dictators such as China's President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un, both who have been in power for many years past the U.S.' two terms.
"[Trump] won't leave after the second term if he doesn't have to, if nobody stops him," Moore said. "This man believes in being president for life."
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"He loves the dictators," Moore continued. "I'm telling you, my friends, if we don't stop it now, you'll look back at this show when we were all goofing around, talking about 'The Handmaid's Tale', but this is the moment."
Moore, who's past work includes the documentaries "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" was promoting his new film, "Fahrenheit 11/9," referring to the date when Trump was elected. The director said he hopes that the film, which premieres September 21 (a few weeks before the midterm elections), will encourage people to get out to the polls.
"We're going to bring Trump down," Moore said. "I am not going to participate in providing hope for people. Anybody who is hanging on hope, that implies there's no sense of urgency. This is not about somewhere over the rainbow. Optimism is very dangerous. It's not about warm and fuzzy now."
On second thought, in his case, lets make it a 72 month hold.
With Obama, we were living 1984. So, what is Moore’s point talking about fiction novels? Is this Book of the Month Club”
President Trump will leave office after two terms. You read it here.
Pure crap to impress his limited audience. He doesn't believe it for a second.
M Moore likes to run his mouth about getting out there and putting your bodies in it. He should try getting off his ample ass and coming out here in the real world. Me thinks he won’t last long or be much of a challenge. But then who would Whoopi protect here junk from?
Don’t like equitable trade and responsible immigration, Moore? Then go FO and build your delusional paradise somewhere else, jackass.
How old will Don Trump be in 2025?
If someone is going to pretend that a fantasy world is real, they should choose an interesting one like The Lord of the Rings, not a boring one like The Handmaid’s Tale.
Mikey, put down that copy of Hillary's playbook this instant !!
He will be 79 on June 14, 2025.
To get free publicity he makes outrageous comments.
This is an orchestrated Hollywood publicity stunt.
Maher is playing his part in the game.
Have you ever noticed how someone with a new movie, book, album, etc. always make outlandish comments the media covers as 'news'?
It's all fake.
Don't fall for it.
When you talk about his comments, you're promoting his movie.
Don't be their tool. Don't play their game. Don't get played.
Not sure who this is, but I thought the Handmaid’s Tale was about the dangers of Islam.
Michael Moore lives his life in cloud coo-coo land.
He thinks none of us feel the same way abput his socialist libtard agendas being pushed on us wen they’ve been able to do socwth the power they have?
Moronicus Idioticus Fat Bastardous.
I think the shock for this crowd is that he’ll virtually change enough of the system....that their theme and message will be hindered for at least twenty years.
For example....there’s some path going on now where the Bernie-crowd intend to take over some of the Democratic theme, and probably fifty percent of the Democrats really can’t go along with that message.
Another example...it’s very likely that come 2024, Trump will have replaced a total of four Supreme Court justices (Ginsburg and Thomas are guaranteed, and Breyer might be another name).
Another example...it’s possible that most US troops in South Korea and Germany are directed to come back to the US.
Historians will attempt to write this book, and the whole story by 2024 will consume over 800 pages.
I remember reading “The Handmaid’s Tale” back in the 80’s when I was a moonbat.
It really is the kind of story a mind like that can take seriously.
Kinda amazed at its staying power but it is real tin foil hat stuff.
It’s called islam.
It was. The author wrote it as an allegory about Islam.
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