Just got back from seeing Fahrenheit 9/11.

[aruan]

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I'll get back to you when I have something beyond shellshocked incoherence, venomous indignation, and utter disbelief at the people still planning to vote for this lying imbecile scumbag to share. For right now, I'm gonna go back to trying not to throw up my dinner.

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[powrhug.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know babe, I know.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

I just don't even know where to start. The $400K versus the $1.4 billion, ignoring intelligence reports from as early as the beginning of July that stated explicitly what would happen and who would do it, demanding his "investigative team" find a connection to Iraq, the myriad ways he had people planted throughout the Florida voting/recount offices, and I'm forgetting a thousand things but oh.my.god. This man allowed the murder of over 3,000 people and the wrongful slaughter of hundreds more in a grandiose diversionary tactic. My mind can only wrap around so many things at once, and I'll need to see this movie again before processing it completely. Though that prospect sounds more scary than appealing right now.

[powrhug.livejournal.com]

I've yet to see it again, but I really want to.

Wasn't it just the saddest when Gore basically had to tell his supporters to sit down and be quiet?

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe the beginning of the film, the rally and that the major news stations had called it for Gore, and how it was someone high-ranking in Bush's campaign who was called in to oversee the recount. Uh, conflict of interest, anyone? God, that was such a joke. I was embarrassed to say I was from Florida for the longest time. It wasn't Ralph Nader or butterfly ballots that threw that election, it was that hundreds if not thousands of people were disenfranchised in the voting process and the shoddy charade of a recount. Stole is entirely the right word for what Bush did in 2000, and damned if I'll have it again.

[digital-diva.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see this.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

It'll seriously mess with your head. It makes you wonder just what can't be bought and sold, and the answer isn't the American presidency or the lives of the citizens he's supposed to serve.

[crazybutsound]

I've seen it twice, already, but being as I'm not American, it's made me more sad than angry. I mean, it's not really like any of this was a surprise, but knowing how much the people have had to suffer because of that moron... the image of that mother in front of the white house makes me cry like a baby every single time.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

That mother's story tore me apart. That it's the people who believe in this country most are the ones dying because of the agenda of those who care the least about it. The image of the soldiers in Iraq are what haunt me, because of the needlessness of their suffering.

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

As always, you manage to sum up what I was feeling so much better than I ever could. I mean, I was seething and boiling over the top, and there was much Chasez-ness in the way I was trying to articulate. Heh.

But yes. Word. And just... !!!!!!!

}:]

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was dumbstruck and speechless for the twenty-minute ride back home, and that's still very little coherence I managed above. It's just unbelievable, like something out of some deeply perverse alternate reality movie, and yet here we are.

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

like something out of some deeply perverse alternate reality movie

I know! Throughout the film, I kept thinking, 'This isn't real. This can't be real.' It was just... well, hard to digest, for one.

}:)

[tallories.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to see this movie, but it's like passing a car accident on the freeway. Even without buying a ticket, I know how terrible the truths are going to be, and I wish with all my heart I could drive on by without looking at the blood and mangled metal and police tape, but I know within myself that I'm going to look, and I'm going to be repulsed. I've just been putting it off, I guess.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

I wish there'd never been a reason for the film to be made. But the fact that it still got to be, and was released, are in and of themselves minor miracles, and I think everyone who has the chance should go see it, to see what's happened since Bush took office (and for that matter, how he got there).