Kpete quotes Pittstain, dump piles on

[I_B_Perky]

The link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028387056

The OP:

kpete (52,489 posts)

I am afraid.
This Is Real, This Is Happening
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed

..............

I am afraid.

I am afraid to admit that I am afraid, because such an admission makes the whole thing real.

It's real. This is happening. The sun will rise on January 20 to shine down upon Donald Trump taking the presidential oath of office. The bitter winter wind will raise up his hair flap like a shark fin unless his handlers dog it down like some errant sail, he will complete the oath, and every living organism on Earth will be joined together as we enter the uncharted waters of the terrifying history to come.

Easier to pretend it's all just bad television while sorting the spoons for the sixth time. Easier, but not better. It is fine to be afraid -- you'd be a fool to feel otherwise -- so long as you remember that you are not alone in your fears. There are millions of people in this country who share the sentiment, and millions more besides throughout the world.

Importantly, not everyone is stuck in the mud. Many people -- including many of you -- are already knee-deep in resistance, strategizing and formulating plans to push back against Trump's destructive vision. The work to defend and preserve a century of human progress is already well underway. This is a generational affair, a towering global challenge. It will be nasty, brutish and hopefully short, but it will be. The trick is not to shelter in place, but to find the people near us who are mobilizing, and join with them. It takes many fingers to make a fist.

The cupboards will keep. It's time to get to work.

...............

Way more:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38795-this-is-real-this-is-happening

Pittstain is actually correct for the first time in his miserable booze soaked life.  Trump will take the oath of office for the president on Jan 20, 2017.

Ninga (5,329 posts)
2. I'm just enormously sad. What a mess. Nt

Your sadness makes me happy!

betsuni (4,016 posts)
3. Oh dear, I'm afraid this is very bad writing.

It take only one finger to make a point.

Everyone's a critic at the dump these days ain't they pitt?   

brush (10,349 posts)
5. I started to read it but then when I noticed the byline I stopped. Wasn't that guy banned from here?

And rightly so for his vile, divisive and unwarranted attacks on the president. Ef him.

If you want to read some good writing check out this piece from one of our stalwart posters:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2663468

 

betsuni (4,016 posts)
7. Yes, I know about bravenak's post, was first to comment!

That Pitt guy is an idiot.

 

Gothmog (33,895 posts)
25. Agreed

Oh how the mighty have fallen.


Rockhead piles on as well:

MineralMan (89,138 posts)
4. Too little; Too late, Pitt.

In holding our current President's feet to the fire again and again and in such and ugly way, you helped to split the Democratic Party. And make no mistake, the constant calumny you heaped on President Obama did play a role in what happened in November. The names you called him, in your sometimes articulate way, helped to divide people, rather than helping to create positive change.

You're no longer here on DU, so you probably won't even see this, but it's too late for you to change what has happened. And it needn't have happened at all. By working to divide people, you have helped to destroy progress, not to create progress.

Sorry, but you get no pass from me by calling, too late, for working together. I truly wish you had thought of this before, because it's too damned late now, Mr. Pitt.

ProfessorGAC (28,491 posts)
14. Pitt Is The Author of The Truth Out Piece kpete Linked In The OP

And i share MM's sentiments regarding the author.

Give it up pittstain. When even the dump thinks you are an idiot... well you are an idiot.

deaniac21 (6,710 posts)
6. It will be better in 24 business hours.

 

WhiteTara (18,982 posts)
10. I am not impressed.

I find his writing to be overly flowery and I know he is insincere. I've read his other work and know that he doesn't care about uniting anyone, but is just stroking his ego to assuage his guilt over his divisive writings of the past. Go back to JackAssRadicals, they love you there.

 

mcar (14,438 posts)
12. No thanks

Working against Democrats, including our president, in the name of "progressive" purity does not equal coming together. This writer helped to make this mess.

It's all pittstain's fault!!!

That is it for now.  Dunno if it will grow or not.

I must have missed pittstain getting banned at the dump.  Or did he just leave? 

[DUmpstruck]

When I see the camaraderie at the DUmp, I think of this scene from Galaxy Quest.

And smile!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ83r886Kyg[/youtube]

[thundley4]

MineralMan (89,138 posts)
4. Too little; Too late, Pitt.

In holding our current President's feet to the fire again and again and in such and ugly way, you helped to split the Democratic Party. And make no mistake, the constant calumny you heaped on President Obama did play a role in what happened in November. The names you called him, in your sometimes articulate way, helped to divide people, rather than helping to create positive change.

IIRC, Pitt called Obama a POS used car salesman. The only part that was wrong, was referring to Obama as a man in any way.

It's a shame that Rock Head thinks that telling the truth about a democrat is divisive.

[franksolich]

As long as drunken Bill admits he's afraid, it validates the institution of a Reign of Terror upon the primitives, who deserve it.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

IIRC, Pitt called Obama a POS used car salesman. The only part that was wrong, was referring to Obama as a man in any way.

It's a shame that Rock Head thinks that telling the truth about a democrat is divisive.

Democrats, at least at the DU, expect, no, DEMAND lock step adherence to the party. Any variation is met with viatrol and spittle producing rage.

[I_B_Perky]

When I see the camaraderie at the DUmp, I think of this scene from Galaxy Quest.

And smile!

 

That describes dummies to a T.  H5!

[FlaGator]

Will never did recover from that brick that hit him in the head in 2004 did he.

[SVPete]

MineralMan (89,138 posts)
4. Too little; Too late, Pitt.

In holding our current President's feet to the fire again and again and in such and ugly way, you helped to split the Democratic Party. And make no mistake, the constant calumny you heaped on President Obama did play a role in what happened in November. The names you called him, in your sometimes articulate way, helped to divide people, rather than helping to create positive change.

Wait! I'm confused! MM is accusing Pitt of telling the truth about Obama? I can see why that would PO DU-folk, but ...... Pitt?!

betsuni (4,016 posts)
3. Oh dear, I'm afraid this is very bad writing.

It take only one finger to make a point.

Depends on the BAC. I'm guessing Pitt blew a "Pickled".

[DumbAss Tanker]

Many people -- including many of you -- are already knee-deep in resistance, strategizing and formulating plans to push back against Trump's destructive vision.

Resistance is futile.  You will be assimilated.  'Assimilated' in this context may involve penal servitude at a labor camp in the logging, mining, stone quarry, or fossil fuel production industries, but still, assimilated.

[BannedFromDU]

     So are we off the hook for killing Andy, or is he going to get that squared away before "getting to work" on Trump?

[Delmar]

Will never did recover from that brick that hit him in the head in 2004 did he.

No, further back, 1984 when he lost his one true love black girlfriend.

It was 1984, and I was in love for the first time in my little life. We had met at a dance, and for a few magnificent weeks we drowned in each other's waters in the way you can only do at that sapling age. She was incandescent, hilarious, beautiful, funny and whip-smart, and I plumbed the depths of my barely-there personality just to keep up. She was wonderful.

And she was Black, and on the day of the Boston Marathon that year, I was walking down Commonwealth Avenue with my arm around her, and a car cruised by filled with a pile of upperclassmen from the school I attended, and the car slowed, and the faces in the windows were all turned my way, and they were a thunderstorm, a caricature of disgust and revulsion and rage and hate. She didn't see it. I did, but I didn't fully realize what was coming.

The day after, back at school, those upperclassmen formed a pack and swarmed me. There was a dress code, so I enjoyed the experience of being pummeled by large people in Navy blue sportcoats, felt their blows raining down while their terrible 1980s ties dangled in my face, and all the while they screamed, "Did you f--k that ni---r? Did you f--k that ni---r? Did you dip your wick? Did you?" as the fists flew.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025919819

[fatboy]

IIRC, Pitt called Obama a POS used car salesman. The only part that was wrong, was referring to Obama as a man in any way.

It's a shame that Rock Head thinks that telling the truth about a democrat is divisive.

In a stupor I suppose the pittseter tried to sign up for obamacare and discovered zip in the way of customer service and expensive premiums. I think he tried to walk back some of his complaints but he was as I remember it somewhat irked by the whole experience. This in contrast to the rest of the dummy crowd that was doing high fives because the web portal automatically signed them up for medicaid.

[diesel driver]

As long as drunken Bill admits he's afraid, it validates the institution of a Reign of Terror upon the primitives, who deserve it.

The more the left and DUmmies whine about Trump, the more I know he'll be a GREAT president!

Their sadness and dispair brings joy to my heart!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  😁

[Karin]

Delmar, you must maintain a file on these!   I'd forgotten that.

betsuni (4,016 posts)
3. Oh dear, I'm afraid this is very bad writing.

It take only one finger to make a point.

Yes you are right, and you should always proofread yourself.

Really, such monumentally bad writing:

and every living organism on Earth will be joined together as we enter the uncharted waters of the terrifying history to come.

He should get one of those "Dark and Stormy Night" awards. 

[Big Dog]

Delmar, you must maintain a file on these!   I'd forgotten that.

Yes you are right, and you should always proofread yourself.

Really, such monumentally bad writing:

He should get one of those "Dark and Stormy Night" awards.

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Delmar, you must maintain a file on these!   I'd forgotten that.

Yes you are right, and you should always proofread yourself.

Really, such monumentally bad writing:

He should get one of those "Dark and Stormy Night" awards.

The Bulwer-Litton Award, named after an English author.  I was watching some weird 'History' [cough] Channel docufarce on Nazi mysticism, which traced a lot of it to a fictional underground super-race called the 'Vril' which coincidentally was written by Bulwer-Litton.

[98ZJUSMC]

He should get one of those "Dark and Stormy Night" awards.

https://youtu.be/Gz3xzAJ_zVk

[Gina]

When I see the camaraderie at the DUmp, I think of this scene from Galaxy Quest.

And smile!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ83r886Kyg[/youtube]

except liberals aren't cute

[VelvetElvis]

When I see the camaraderie at the DUmp, I think of this scene from Galaxy Quest.

And smile!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ83r886Kyg[/youtube]

Funny.
It reminds me more of this:
https://youtu.be/ubBaigExGgI

[Adam Wood]

I managed to miss that Pitt got shitcanned.  Just curious: was this some spectacular flame-out or did they just quietly sweep him away?

[franksolich]

I managed to miss that Pitt got shitcanned.  Just curious: was this some spectacular flame-out or did they just quietly sweep him away?

It's probably a reference to when he "threatened" the bobolink primitive.

He was banned, but it was obvious it was a sham.

That was, I dunno, maybe five years ago?  Or more?

[Adam Wood]

It's probably a reference to when he "threatened" the bobolink primitive.

He was banned, but it was obvious it was a sham.

That was, I dunno, maybe five years ago?  Or more?

Wow.  Well, that's what I get for not paying attention, I suppose.

Too bad.  I got a real kick out of poking him with a stick about delivering Alabama for Kerry.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Seeing self destruction on the party level is fun, but seeing it more uh...'locally' is just a hoot.

 


I will be satisfied with 4 years of this, I swear I will, but please please pretty please can I have 8?

 



CMD

[DumbAss Tanker]

"Resistance" once meant blowing up trains, power substations, and bushwacking the odd dispatch rider (Though that usually ended up in 10 or so innocent villagers being shot in reprisal), now it apparently means endless bloviating on the internet and ceaseless whining on social media.

[SVPete]

"Resistance" once meant blowing up trains, power substations, and bushwacking the odd dispatch rider (Though that usually ended up in 10 or so innocent villagers being shot in reprisal), now it apparently means endless bloviating on the internet and ceaseless whining on social media.

Plus or minus a couple uses of "drunken", that's about it.