I need you guys. Right now, I need you guys and I'm not kidding.

[tzikeh]

I originally thought I'd be able to maintain two journals - one for fandom and one for politics, because so often people don't want to see politics on their flists and I don't want to bring people down who come to lj for fun. But for some reason, all having two ljs has done is kept me from making any political posts at all. So, I'm going to delete politzikes, and go back to posting political stuff here, but always with an icon which clearly warns of oncoming politics, and always posting under an lj-cut.


Let me warn in advance that this might be a tad over-emotional because I got my period today and it's a very, very bad period indeed.

W gave a speech in Australia. He couldn't remember what country he was in, he couldn't remember what the speech was for, and once he finished babbling incoherently, he nearly took a header off the stage. A recounting of THIS GODDAMN FUCKING TRAVESTY, with video (if you can stomach it), is here.

Usually, when I use a lot of capital letters and exclamation points and curse words in my lj, it's not me being angry -- it's just me being my usual hyper self; over-excited, or hyperbolic, or waving my arms over my head like Kermit. Not this time.

I can't take it. I seriously can't take it one more day. I am sitting on my couch and weeping in absolutely incoherent rage. I cannot fucking take it one more fucking day. I want to purposefully seek out people who voted for Bush and PUNCH THEM IN THEIR FACES, because they fucking voted for this vile mass of vomit and all of the fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fuck that came with him.

I want to commit violence because this man exists, and because other people like him exist around him, and because 30% of the citizens of this nation still think he's a good president, and because 40% of the citizens of this nation still believe Saddam was behind 9/11, and because my countrymen have had fucking bullshit shoved down their throats for six-and-a-half years, and so many still don't care. And the fact that some people are finally realizing the truths which many of us had been shouting since the beginning does not make up for the fact that they have never given any of us a GODDAMNED FUCKING APOLOGY for calling us traitors and treasonous and "just as bad as them A-rab terrorists."

All we have to show for six-and-a-half years of being hated by racist ignorant fuckheads is the taste of ashes in our mouth and a Pyrrhic, I-told-you-so "victory".

Soothe me or join me in my fury; give me hope or scream in concert with me -- but someone please talk to me.

ETA More from Wonkette here.

Comments

[furies.livejournal.com]

heavens, don't even get me started.

there are many reasons i am no longer in politics, but largely? i blame bush and his idiots. i spent every day so infuriated that this man was ruining so much of what other people had done, so easily, so carelessly, that this idiot was supposed to be representing me and my interests on the international stage, that this idiot was reelected because the opposition party couldn't draw enough of a difference between the two - umm, exhibit a) idiot. exhibit b) actual decent IQ.

or, even worse (for me), all the people that just didn't give a fuck. that they were all going to move to canada or europe anyway, so why bother? the great experiment failed and they were moving elsewhere (except of course they haven't). i just want to beat people over the head sometimes. i want to ask the people my age who sincerely support bush where they got those powerful blindfolds. it disgusts me how all of a sudden republicans are about national security (oh yeah, love the missile defense system and the fucking WALL - cause you know, that worked so well for china) and everyone else just doesn't understand the danger we are in.

you know, i lived through 9/11. my parents were in munich at the olympics. SHIT HAPPENS. what you don't do is turn it into a media game and reason to go attack people you wanted to get rid of anyway. you might actually want to try to make the country safer, instead of making more enemies. because that's the thing that really, REALLY pisses me off - this illusion that we are safer now than we were six years ago.

TRY AGAIN.