Stupid People With Guns- Boston Drunkard

[Tucker]

 Newest screed from Willie the Pimp.

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 11:03 AM
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Stupid People With Guns 
 An audio version of this article is available here: http://www.truthout.org/stupid-people-with-guns58294



(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Mini D, D Sharon Pruitt)

Stupid People With Guns
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Monday 05 April 2010

I'm sitting inside my dark little office on a sunny day to write this, and believe me, it's a sacrifice. We got more than 14 inches of rain here in Boston during the month of March, and it has reached the point that people have forgotten what the sun is. They're outside right now sacrificing goats and Pekingese dogs to the Yellow Orb God so the harvest will be good. Well, no, not really, but you get the idea. If it had been snow all through this last month, we'd all be dead, and now it's nice out for the first time in five months and I'm inside writing.

Why?

Because I've stopped being appalled and aghast and unsettled by all these brain-donor right-wingers who have been making threats and breaking windows and running people off the road. I've stopped being appalled, and now I'm just pissed. I have had enough of these blowhards, these false heroes, these empty patriots, these bigots and liars and doomed fools. It is enough.

I'm also pissed at myself, because at least a small part of the problem is my fault, too. The more attention these wingnut gasbags get, the more their profile gets raised, and that's no good for any of us. I mean, come on, all the networks show Sarah Palin on a daily basis for the same reason they show car accidents and people stuck sideways on amusement rides (that one occupied a fair portion of CNN's afternoon broadcast the other day). It's the spectacle of it all, the sad and sorry spectacle, and as a writer, it's hard to resist. When someone shows up at a health care town hall meeting and starts shrieking, "Keep your damn government hands off my Medicare," well, the die is cast. Every picture I see of these Tea Party gatherings looks like the monthly meeting of the There But By The Grace Of God Go I Society, and laying off them has proven exceedingly difficult.

Well, no more. This last time will have to pay for all, because I am done paying mind to that which is wholeheartedly, proudly and oh-so-conspicuously mindless. I'm missing out on a beautiful day so I can let these people know what I really think of them, their whole agenda, and what exactly they can do with it, one final time.

I know plenty of people, liberal and conservative, who are politically angry and not shy about sharing their opinions. My conservative friends are up in arms about what they perceive as an unacceptable expansion of government power - who, because they have integrity, also felt the same during the Bush years when George and the boys were piloting one of the largest federal expansions in modern American history - and my liberal friends are furious about the decision to open offshore drilling, about the public option head-fake, about the escalation in Afghanistan, and about any number of other things.

They're mad, but they're not stupid.

Really, that's the thing here.

There are right-wing people who are angry, and there are right wing people who are angry and stupid, and that turns out to be a pretty ridiculous combination, especially when these angry stupids also happen to own firearms.

The most recent example of this, of course, is this Hutaree group in Michigan. Long story short, a bunch of Taliban-style, Biblical, absolutist bucketheads who were armed to the teeth decided the End Times had arrived, and were gearing up to go to war against the Antichrist. As it turned out, however, His Satanic Majesty was booked elsewhere that week, and these Hutaree people found themselves in need of a new target. They found one: cops. Their plan was to go kill some cops, and then attack the funerals of the cops they killed so they could kill more cops, along, presumably, with cop wives and cop kids and cop parents and cop friends. Fortunately, they got busted, and are now going away.

Why did Hutaree think the seven bowls were in the process of being spilled? Funny you should ask, because it's pretty damned funny. Apparently, at some point, they received a chain email about a bill before the house called H.R. 1388. The text of the email read:


Something happened ... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news ... just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen. Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA. This is the news that didn't make the headlines.

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza. The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

Doubtful? To verify this for yourself: www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488 PLEASE PASS THIS ON ... AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW. WE are losing this country at a rapid pace.


Doubtful? You'd better be, because this is gold-medal-winning gibberish from soup to nuts. H.R. 1388 was a bill that expanded AmericaCorps and other federal aid programs dramatically, which the geniuses from Hutaree could have found out for themselves in about 12 seconds, had they bothered to look the bill up ... and never mind the fact that this email describes a House bill and an executive order in the same breath, as if they were the same thing.

The stupid ... it burns ...

Of course, another breathless accusation leveled by another chain email claimed that H.R. 1388 was establishing a required stint of public service for all Americans, which wasn't true either, but that wasn't juicy enough for Hutaree. No, they got an email from Somewhere Out There saying that Hamas was moving in down the block thanks to the president; they didn't bother to look the thing up for themselves, and boom, it was cocked-and-locked-let's-find-a-cop time.

Obama is bringing Hamas to America? Jesus wept.

This miraculous breed of pure stupid has managed to dig itself in pretty deep with a certain subset of American humanity, to the point that black-letter history itself is up for review and redaction. Steven Thomma, writing recently for McClatchy, nails it to the shed:


In articles and speeches, on radio and TV, conservatives are working to redefine major turning points and influential figures in American history, often to slam liberals, promote Republicans and reinforce their positions in today's politics.

The Jamestown settlers? Socialists. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton? Ill-informed professors made up all that bunk about him advocating a strong central government. Theodore Roosevelt? Another socialist. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Not only did he not end the Great Depression, he also created it. Joe McCarthy? Liberals lied about him. He was a hero.

Some conservatives say it's a long-overdue swing of the pendulum after years of liberal efforts to define history on their terms in classrooms and in popular culture. "We are adding balance," Texas school board member Don McLeroy said. "History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left."

"History in the popular world is always a political football," said Alan Brinkley, a historian at Columbia University. "The right is unusually mobilized at the moment."


Unusually mobilized? Sure. That's what happens when stupid people get lied to IN A VERY LOUD VOICE.

Who do you blame for this phenomenon? I suppose the fact that America's education system has been getting bled year after year to support an unimaginably overblown and overpriced "national defense" arsenal should bear some of the burden. Sure, certain dark corners of Christianity have had their hateful and demented effect. The media can take a big bite of the blame apple, either for aggrandizing the demonstrably idiotic, or for taking the worst aspects of it and flashing it across the sky with klieg lights.

Oh, and don't forget the Republican Party, which considers these bozos their "useful idiots" and uses them to great effect, but not before getting them to vacuum up quarters from between the couch cushions to fund RNC efforts toward preventing Hillary Clinton from mandating abortions for all pregnant Christian girls in the land. The GOP got these people all worked up while picking their pamphlet-filled pockets all the while, and the funny part is they're now as afraid of their own base as Bart Stupak is.

What we have here is nothing more or less than stupid people with guns, and you know what? I'm fine with guns. I believe Americans should have them if they want them. I believe in reasonable limitations on being able to purchase assault weapons and bazookas because, well, the words "well-regulated" are right there in the Amendment next to "militia." I believe in background checks to make sure you're not buying a gun because your medication ran out. But I've come to believe that being able to buy and own a gun should also involve passing a fairly difficult civics exam. Before someone goes out to buy a gun in defense of their country and their liberty, we should have some kind of metric to determine if that person actually knows anything about the country, and knows anything about the roots and truths of the liberty they claim to cherish.

If we can't or won't cure the stupid, at least we can disarm it.

In the meantime, I have one last comment I wish to address specifically to those of whom I speak. You, sir or madam, are a small fraction of a person. Your hate has overtaken your higher faculties, and that makes you pathetic beyond words. You are not a hero or a patriot. You are watching the world pass you by, and that scares the cheese out of you. For you, stupid is a defense mechanism, a comfortable blanket wrapped around your head to drown out that which you fear, hate and misunderstand. It is not too late for you, but I'm through waiting to see if you are capable of anything beyond the low behavior and sorry spectacle you have displayed to date. This is America, and you have a right to your grandiose, willful stupidity, but I choose to exercise my right to tune you out. You are a fart in the wind, and I have more important things to do than truck with the likes of you.

Screw these people. I'm going outside.

http://www.truthout.org/stupid-people-with-guns58294
 

ixion  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 11:04 AM
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1. "Stupid People with Guns" describes 90% or better of the US military
 Edited on Mon Apr-05-10 11:04 AM by ixion
and they have a license to kill, to boot. 

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 11:07 AM
Response to Reply #1
2. (facepalm) 
 Thanks for kicking my thread. I think.

*sigh*

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 11:16 AM
Response to Reply #4
10. How many soldiers have you met? How many are you friends with? 
 I know a whole bunch, including family members. Just ran into an old friend of mine, a Marine staff sargent who survived tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was thrilled to see him alive and well.

My father was a soldier.

But I guess all these friends of mine are the 10% who aren't crazy stupid with a licence to kill.

Do me a favor. Get the **** out of my thread.

Don't alienate your friends. The count is dwindling.

arcadian  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 11:28 AM
Response to Reply #10
15. I know a kid who only went over there only to kill and experience war
 He hadn't experienced anything in life and he wanted to come back and be a writer like some Ernest Hemingway come lately. He saw no problem telling me about his 38 "kills". He wore it like a trophy. Oh yeah and he's a shit writer, just started a job with Northrop Grumman. If you can't choose a profession that doesn't kill or maim innocent human beings, I think it best that you just not do anything.

So much bullshit in one post. arcadian, you're a liar.

tammywammy  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 11:11 AM
Response to Reply #1
3. Um, wow.

ixion  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 11:13 AM
Response to Reply #3
7. Yeah, I know...
 It's crazy scary

tammywammy  (1000+ posts)      Mon Apr-05-10 11:14 AM
Response to Reply #7
8. No, your ignorance and broad brush statement about those in the military is what's scary. n/t

ixion takes a standing 8 count.

Rest is butt smoozing. It's a new campfire.

[GOBUCKS]

It seems that lately "(facepalm)" has become the drunken Pitt's favorite lame device. It has taken the place of Pittian Emphasis, i.e., A. Period. After. Each. Word. Pitt is to the writing profession as Pam Dawson and Anne Prichett are to teaching. The difference is that Pam and Anne take their sustenance from the public tit, while Pitt's income is derived entirely from the labor and generosity of earlier generations of his family. Pitt himself has never done or earned anything. It might be more accurate to say that Pitt is to writing as stevenumbers is to seduction.

[Ralph Wiggum]

It might be more accurate to say that Pitt is to writing as stevenumbers is to seduction.

Good one, GOBUCKS, and incredibly accurate.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I made it through five paragraphs of that drivel and he never actually got to a thesis statement referencing 'Guns' in any form.  It appears to be just another Pitt masturbation-fest full of feigned folksy chattiness about his own god-like superiority to all the humble and benighted mortals.

He needs to get a grip and realize his writings are a suck-fest, not a masturbation-fest.

 

 

[dandi]

Because I've stopped being appalled and aghast and unsettled by all these brain-donor right-wingers who have been making threats and breaking windows and running people off the road. I've stopped being appalled, and now I'm just pissed. I have had enough of these blowhards, these false heroes, these empty patriots, these bigots and liars and doomed fools. It is enough.

Oh, hang it up, asshole. For all your running in circles with your petticoats gathered up you're not going to convince America, or anyone outside the moonbat blogosphere, that a couple of broken windows and random threats is Kristallnacht revisited. There's more mischief in a small town on any given Saturday night than what has been perpetrated across the country in a year by Tea Party folk or like minded individuals. No one of consequence is buying your bullshit.

You are the biggest bunch of crying, cowardly, rat-like wussies it's ever been my misfortune to lay eyes on.

[The Village Idiot]

I am kind of missing those Time Traveling, Interdimensional, Rogue Sex Crimes Investigator threads.

[JohnnyReb]

"The pen is mightier than the sword."'...so it stands to reason that a drunk with a pen is more dangerous than a right winger with a gun.....especially a drunk that can't tell time.

[zeitgeist]

"The pen is mightier than the sword."'...so it stands to reason that a drunk with a pen is more dangerous than a right winger with a gun.....especially a drunk that can't tell time.

No Learned Hand, {Life is not a thing of knowing only — nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion. } Willie, the Face-palm, Pitt is that, a drunk that can't tell time.  His writing is a embarrassment to his former teachers, that he fancies himself one, an embarrassment to himself; he is one who's time upon the stage has come and gone.   

[jukin]

It would take far longer than 24 business hours to have read that screed.

[Karin]

Pitt had his interview with NPR, and is less than thrilled:

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 04:14 PM
Original message
NPR asked me to participate in a segment on bullying. The audio link is here. 
 Edited on Mon Apr-05-10 04:24 PM by WilliamPitt
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12...

They cut a *lot* of what I had to say.

Enjoy. I guess.
 

Link

Then, we hear from the genius:

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 04:33 PM
Response to Original message
4. Don't feel badly, Will. That happens more often than not.
 Happened to me in about every venue, CNN, LATimes, SFChronicle. It's just part of the deal.

Thanks for doing the segment.

  She's a pundit?  Or just wishes to be?

[JohnnyReb]

Happened to me in about every venue, CNN, LATimes, SFChronicle

I didn't know they took "personal" ads much less edit them for brevity.

[Randy]

I've stopped being appalled, and now I'm just pissed. I have had enough of these blowhards, these false heroes, these empty patriots, these bigots and liars and doomed fools. It is enough.

Yep I agree, it is enough. PM me with proof you're you and I'll answer you with name and address. You can come on by to discuss it like a man. I'll even leave the guns in their proper places.

To show what a nice guy I really am, once they've checked you out and plastered or patched any damages you suffered I'll take you shooting at the range. Both experiences ought to man you up a bit and maybe, just maybe your balls will finally drop and you may just start growing some hair on them like a real man.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Now that right there is funny as Hell, Will tries to make like a bigshot and gets topped by a known-even-on-DU wack-job like Beth, aka sexfat.

 

[Airwolf]

That ass could copy every word of a Shakespearean play and it would still read like crap.

[diesel driver]

That ass could copy every word of a Shakespearean play and it would still read like crap.

William Shakespear Pitt?    

WRP has it all wrong.  It's not the Tea Partyers that are causing the violence....

It's the Dimrats and Liptards.....

Only a moron (or someone "educated" in a government school) doesn't know that the KKK was basically the "Taliban" arm of the Dimrat party back in the late 1800's/early 1900's....   

[njpines]

or Will Shakespitt, perhaps?

 

[diesel driver]

or Will Shakespitt, perhaps?

 

Bottomless Pitt....

That could go 2 ways....

[Tantal]

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 04:33 PM
Response to Original message
4. Don't feel badly, Will. That happens more often than not.
 Happened to me in about every venue, CNN, LATimes, SFChronicle. It's just part of the deal.

Thanks for doing the segment.

Hey, Sexfat. Leaving a drug-induced obscenity-laced rant on the network's voice mail system doesn't qualify as an interview.

[NHSparky]

When it comes to liberal violence, the MSM and liberals are about as likely to find it as two blind, deaf, and dumb lesbians finding each other in the Pike Place Fish Market.  Willful ignorance can be such a bitch sometimes.

This isn't to say that there aren't some whackjob so-called conservatives propogating violence.  There are.  But their numbers are far fewer because 1--we call ourselves on it, 2--we have greater respect for each other and our institutions to just piss on them because we feel all butt-hurt.

[ReaganForRushmore]

with the outcome of Ruby Ridge in mind, why wouldn't thinking Americans fear their government?
Why does Obama need a Praetorian Guard as inserted in the HCR bill?

[USA4ME]

This might have had some punch had he written something similar between 2001-2008 about the left saying Bush is Hitler, Republicans are fascists, cried out about the militant libs who were intent on assassinating Bush and his cabinet, those who went around claiming that terrorism was a CIA plot, etc...  But, he didn't.  He joined hands with them and supported their efforts.

Also, it's hard to post about the hate of others when one posts at hate sites like DU and truthout.  So outside his realm of fellow hatemongers, the only one's paying attention are those who are pointing and laughing at his own hypocracy.

.

[JohnnyReb]

with the outcome of Ruby Ridge in mind, why wouldn't thinking Americans fear their government?
Why does Obama need a Praetorian Guard as inserted in the HCR bill?

To protect his black half from his white half....he's gonna hire "Black Panthers" but they will be no problem working around them....just spread a little catnip(white hookers) and they'll be as good as disarmed.

[AllosaursRus]

I made it through five paragraphs of that drivel and he never actually got to a thesis statement referencing 'Guns' in any form.  It appears to be just another Pitt masturbation-fest full of feigned folksy chattiness about his own god-like superiority to all the humble and benighted mortals.

He needs to get a grip and realize his writings are a suck-fest, not a masturbation-fest.

 

 

You get the "boobie" prize! I couldn't make it past the second without drifting off in a daze.

Every time I read the Pisser Pitt, all I can think of is "blah, blah, blah, blah" now, worship me, those of you without my superior knowledge of 24 business days!

That and ESAD, Pisser!

[PatriotGame]

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-05-10 11:03 AM
Original message
Stupid People With Guns
 An audio version of this article is available here: http://www.truthout.org/s...pid-people-with-guns58294



(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Mini D, D Sharon Pruitt)

Stupid People With Guns
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

This is ME in a free civil AMERICAN society:



This is YOU in YOUR Utopian society: (BTW, YOU are on the business end of the barrel)



On Edit:

Who's YOUR daddy now Mo-Fo?