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William Rivers Pitt
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Remember that anonymous letter to Trump from three years ago? Here, in all its glory, is my New Years present to you. Still don't know who wrote it.
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Dear Fucking Lunatic,
I read with interest your recent interview with The New York Times. I couldn’t get past the bit about your being the most popular visitor in the history of fucking China — a country that’s only 2,238 years old, give or take.
Do you know how fucking insane you sound, you off-brand butt plug? That's like the geopolitical equivalent of ‘that stripper really likes me’ — only 10,000 times crazier and less self aware.
You are fucking exhausting. Every day is a natural experiment in determining how long 300 million people can resist coring out their own assholes with an ice auger. Every time I hear a snippet of your Queens-tinged banshee larynx farts, I want to crawl up my own ass with a Union Jack and claim my sigmoid colon for HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
We are fucking tired. As bad as we all thought your presidency would be when Putin got you elected, it’s been inestimably worse.
You called a hostile, nuclear-armed head of state ‘short and fat.’ How the fuck does that help?
You accused a woman — a former friend, no less — of showing up at your resort bleeding from the face and begging to get in. You, you, YOU — the guy who looks like a Christmas haggis inexplicably brought to life by Frosty’s magic hat — yes, you of all people said that.
You attempted — with evident fucking glee — to get 24 million people thrown off their health insurance.
You gave billions away to corporations and the already wealthy while simultaneously telling struggling poor people that you were doing exactly the opposite.
You endorsed a pedophile, praised brutal dictators, and defended LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!
Ninety-nine percent of everything you say is either false, crazy, incoherent, just plain cruel, or a rancid paella of all four.
Oh, by the way, Puerto Rico is still FUBAR. You got yourself and your family billions in tax breaks for Christmas. What do they get? More paper towels?
Enough, enough, enough, enough! For the love of God and all that is holy, good, and pure, would you please, finally and forever, shut your feculent KFC-hole until you have something valuable — or even marginally civil — to say?
You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.
You are the perfect circus orangutan diaper from Plato’s World of Forms.
So happy new year, Mr. Pr*sident. And fuck you forever.
Oh, and Pence, you oleaginous house ferret. Fuck you, too.
Sincerely,
Everyone

SoonerPride
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person who wrote that should get The Medal of Freedom, just for the entertainment value alone!
MrsCoffee
(5,825 posts)Fuck that guy.
MineralMan
(148,834 posts)I'm surprised anyone would post anything from that person on DU.
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Many of us who've been a DUer for many years (me, 19) may recall that Mr. Pitt has a checkered past on DU.
Beyond that, I don't see the value in F-you rants. IMHO, a complete waste of time.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)so yes, fuck that guy
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)LymphocyteLover
(7,720 posts)is that person?
Wicked Blue
(7,817 posts)and I love every word of it.
ananda
(31,483 posts)It is good!
mountain grammy
(27,664 posts)and I love it..
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)Scottish, seen some fine examples of the way the Scots hurl insults-effectively brutal and erudite.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)LymphocyteLover
(7,720 posts)mountain grammy
(27,664 posts)It is excellent.
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Augiedog
(2,618 posts)wish I was that clever lol
Hobo
(762 posts)Has to stay or write that guy needs to be in the dustbin of history he is an asshole
Hobo
Orrex
(64,973 posts)Just days after those same insights were published by multiple other outlets.
Yet somehow people still lionize his Johnny-come-lately commentary.
Pitt is a patriot and one hell of a writer
mountain grammy
(27,664 posts)Kid Berwyn
(19,853 posts)Not only is he a Democrat in the best senses of the word and Party, he signs his real name to what he writes — including this “Anonymous” letter he published.
calimary
(85,788 posts)LOVED the OP! An absolutely delicious read! Couldn’t have been better if it was served with a side of chocolate!
Kid Berwyn
(19,853 posts)I’ve seen his by-line there.
http://legacy.buzzflash.com/commentary/william-rivers-pitt-you-are-made-by-your-memories-so-remember
He and I had some serious word fights on DU in the old days — I used to post as Octafish.
Didn’t amount to a hill of beans, though, as we are on the same side. I still think he’s TOPS!
calimary
(85,788 posts)Octafish! I remember you!
I was a fan of Will Pitt too, for a long time.
Kid Berwyn
(19,853 posts)No matter the handle, it always is great to read you!
calimary
(85,788 posts)

questionseverything
(10,656 posts)
Kid Berwyn
(19,853 posts)Great to read ya!
Me: Same old, just much older.
you been Octafish?
appalachiablue
(43,510 posts)it's great to know you're here! and many thanks.
NYC Liberal
(20,400 posts)Not voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016 - ergo, voting for Trump - and encouraging others to do the same. Such a good Democrat.
Kid Berwyn
(19,853 posts)I don’t remember him wishing ill on a homeless DUer or anyone. I remember the abuse Pitt got for using his real name.
I don’t think he voted for Trump over Hillary, but you’ll have to ask him.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,180 posts)Of course I blocked him some time ago. I read this today to hear he got thrown off.
SergeStorms
(19,547 posts)It was forwarded through Pitt. That's the only reason his name is on it. Yes, Mr. Pitt left bad taste in more than a few DUers mouths. That said, there were extenuating circumstances for Mr. Pitt's words and actions at the time, and although that doesn't excuse those words and actions, it shouldn't disqualify him from being a productive and important force for Democratic ideas in the future. He was ashamed of his words and actions, and later apologized for them.
Carrying a grudge takes a lot of energy from a person, and it's a daily chore. You only have to forgive someone once and that burden is lifted. I don't know about you, but I like to travel through life with the lightest load possible.
mountain grammy
(27,664 posts)Skittles
(163,223 posts)bye bye
didn't write it.
malaise
(282,746 posts)Rec
Ferrets are Cool
(22,117 posts)Mira
(22,512 posts)you might be the writer. Not many could do it this well - but you could.
Pluvious
(4,954 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(22,117 posts)
DeSmet
(257 posts)Melania
denbot
(9,931 posts)Wisdom never fades.
emily333
(25 posts)It sounds like Pennyfarthing to me.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)wildman76
(292 posts)Auggie
(32,189 posts)Politicub
(12,309 posts)When I was in college, the campus arranged for poetry slam performers to come to campus and do dramatic readings. They would talk about all manner of injustices, and I ate the performances up.
I still enjoy a good righteous rant, and there is no shortage of them on the internet today.
However, I’m getting kind of tired of them. Yes, I hate everything republicans and Trump stand for. I am disgusted by the false equivalencies drawn between protest movements and seditious acts. And, yes, I am angered about a right-wing media apparatus that keeps a tight grip on people who enjoy manipulation and being whipped into a frothy frenzy.
Out of a scale of five, I would give this rant one star. While it contains a copious amount of explicatives, it goes on for too long. It would benefit from an edit. Or, indeed, not written at all.
These days, I prefer rants on video that last no more than a minute. Anything longer gets repetitive. My favorite ones have a segment where right wing acquaintances are told to fuck off because we are tired of discussing their shit.
While Pitt’s “rancid paella” is evocative, I see it as a purple-prose bourgeois show-off because I don’t like paella in the first place, and most of them seem rancid to me. Now, I would be able to relate to a rotten apple concealed by blood-red sugar (aka an old candy apple), because rotten apples are disgusting and a thin veneer of sugar would not mask the taste or texture. Paellas reek of classism.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Politicub
(12,309 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(11,504 posts)Moostache
(10,419 posts)William769
(58,398 posts)Joinfortmill
(17,743 posts)Lokee11
(318 posts)
Orange Buffoon
(227 posts)world wide wally
(21,836 posts)murielm99
(31,817 posts)for good reason.
He should not be allowed back-door entry into DU.
Grasswire2
(13,807 posts)Calm down.
XanaDUer2
(15,723 posts)I've been gone a long time. Back in the day, he was a DU super-member; I remember him relating his Truth out job to us when he got it.
NYC Liberal
(20,400 posts)He then stated he was not voting for Hillary in the general election in 2016 and encouraged others to do the same, which is what I believe got him banned for good.
XanaDUer2
(15,723 posts)I remember the excitement and congratulatory posts he always got on his books and Truthout articles. Crazy how things turn out. Thanks for the update.
SunSeeker
(55,396 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Also see:
Link to tweet
Beringia
(4,994 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,625 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,957 posts)Martin Eden
(14,100 posts)How low can Trump go?
I don't want to know
Eiight days hence
He's ejected with Pence.
calimary
(85,788 posts)Had to stop for laugh and interrupting “RIGHTEOUS!!!” breaks - mine as well as his!
Had to take, and deliver this slowly, paragraph by paragraph.
Autumn
(47,659 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 12, 2021, 09:42 PM - Edit history (1)


flotsam
(3,268 posts)And a very good writer.
SunSeeker
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