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Michael Moore Says 'We're Living The Handmaid's Tale' IRL (Proves opioids are dangerous)
Too Fab ^ | June 30, 2018 | Staff

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."


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Going on 80.


41 posted on 07/01/2018 9:42:02 AM PDT by wmileo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. Shariah-dominant nations are.


42 posted on 07/01/2018 3:19:26 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Maverick68

Leftist authors project their totalitarian impulses onto rightists:

Harry Potter.

Hunger Games.

Handmaids’ Tale.

Very predictable.


43 posted on 07/01/2018 3:24:04 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are living ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’” Moore said on “Real Time With Bill Maher

He is correct and Margret Atwood was prescient. The Handmaid’s Tale exactly describes the repression of women by Islam and Moslims. The long coverings, the sexual repression and rapes, the ownership of women as objects... The focus on women solely as the bearer of children.


44 posted on 07/01/2018 3:28:06 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Boomer

Fatty Moore has a recurring case of Republican President Derangement Syndrome.


45 posted on 07/02/2018 5:22:37 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: Catmom
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.

No one ever went broke appealing to the American woman’s vanity and victim hood fantasy.

46 posted on 07/02/2018 5:33:45 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's funny; I don't remember Jabba the Hutt being in The Handmaid's Tale.

Of course, to be fair, I saw all the original Star Wars movies and I don't remember Jar-Jar Binks making it to the White House either. Thank God President Trump replaced him.

47 posted on 07/03/2018 9:15:02 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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