Every Trump Lie Is a Confession-- William Rivers Pitt

[LymphocyteLover]

https://truthout.org/articles/every-trump-lie-is-a-confession/

A thousand of Trump’s most avid devotees came from miles around to stuff themselves into an enclosed indoor space, where they stood packed like cattle in a high-density field, maskless almost to a person, screaming and sweating all over each other in an orgiastic celebration of the death of reason.

I picture a COVID-19 virion, its crowns bristling red, feet up and reclined on its Barcalounger after a hard day at work killing people, looking serenely over that mob of reckless idolators before leaning to a virion friend and saying, “Hold my beer.” We will be hearing about the medical consequences from Sunday evening’s event before the calendar page turns, if the pattern holds, which it has with nearly unfailing consistency since this dismal year began.

Trump’s speech was an abomination of lies, distortions, exhortations and puling complaints. In other words, it was every speech he has given at every rally since he came down the golden escalator five years ago. It was a triumph of the mundane, proof itself of the banality of evil, so boring after endless repetition that none of the networks, not even C-SPAN, bothered to broadcast it. I had to work to find the thing.

As I let the bilge tide of Trump’s gibberish wash over me, however, I found myself encased in a rare moment of clarity. It is difficult to think straight when the president is ruining your country in real time at the top of his voice and right in your face. That, of course, is the entire point of the exercise. “For those who have been beaten down by the Trumpian disaster porn,” writes Tim Miller for The Bulwark, “rallies such as this don’t really make a mark any longer.”

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ya think?

That’s been obvious all along, did Pitt just finally notice? Trump does more projecting than Bell & Howell.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. We lost a great writer when Will left DU.

[marble falls]

6. Absolutely did. All around nice person, too.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. why did he leave?

[LymphocyteLover]

12. Aw, shoot. Thanks

I only read him occasionally. I have a friend on FB who posts his stuff.

[FarPoint]

32. I highly regard his stuff....

He is what made DU great....back in the day...

[bluesbassman]

15. Not true.

Yes Will called Obama a POS used car salesman, but as you may recall his wife was struggling with some serious health issues and the ACA failed her. As for the “Jill Stein” smear, that is pure fabrication. Link to where he said he was voting for Stein, or advocated anyone else to. If you can’t, retract your statement.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Some of Pitt's posts were removed. I do recall other DU posts

in which it was reported that he had spoken in favor of Stein, but that would be hearsay, and maybe I shouldn't have relied on them. However, he definitely stated he would not vote for Clinton, both on Truthout and on DU, which is why he was banned. https://truthout.org/articles/just-a-show-the-calm-sham-of-the-dnc/

[bluesbassman]

19. But that's not what you said, is it?

Make your case or retract. Otherwise you’re just perpetuating a smear.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. OK, fair enough. I relied on hearsay and I shouldn't have.

[mopinko]

22. you passed on a flat out lie.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. I didn't know it was a lie and I deleted my post.

[bluesbassman]

26. Well done VO.

[mopinko]

21. i think you should apologize pretty hard here.

will is an olllldddd personal friend. and defaming someone you know cannot defend themselves is pretty damn low.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. OK, I apologize, and I deleted my post.

Again, I should not have relied on second-hand information but checked the archives to see if I could find an original post. I generally try to be accurate and I messed up; I certainly did not intend to post something I didn't believe was true, based on other posts I'd read. Mea culpa.

[mopinko]

27. you are a big person for that.

i appreciate it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. I don't want to pass on anything that isn't true, and I should have been more careful.

[FarPoint]

31. I for one as a DU'er miss William Rivers Pitt....

I do not embrace such rhetoric....

[donheld]

16. Never

Mr. Pitt never ever voiced support for Jill Stein at any time. I've followed him for a long time. He was not a fan of Hillary and he did oppose some policies of Barack Obama, but he never supported Ms. Stein.

[mopinko]

23. when he was young and inexperienced he did the kind of thing

that you do when you are young and inexperienced.
he apologized, but it wasnt enough.

he is a good man, has grown much wiser w age and is now a great husband and dad.

and he always was one of the sharpest writers of our time.

[mahina]

35. A great writer and a good person.

I still don’t know why he got the deep freeze.

Truthout.org could use support if you can help, DU.

I miss the Will Pitt era DU. Remember the Bush v Gore debate when Bush channeled the Church Lady. Change , ptthhh.

[FM123]

3. Yes.

And when he lies about others, he more than just projects - he gives us details details details.

[thucythucy]

4. The projection covers every aspect of the Trump GOP.

Hillary as Russia's puppet--says the man who is the most useful of Putin's useful idiots--check.

The Biden family trying to cash in on their political stature--says the leader of the most corrupt family racket in presidential history--check.

Biden being "too touchy" with women--in other words a sexual predator--says Mr. Grab-Them-By-the-Pussy who has been credibly accused by at least twenty women of rape and sexual assault--check.

The whole Q-anon nonsense about the Democratic pedophile ring--says the man who wishes an accused and indicted co-conspirator in an actual sexual slave trade--double and triple check.

Accusing Vice President Biden of some kind of "cognitive decline"--says the man whose staff was so concerned about his own mental health they asked for a cognitive assessment of the President of the United States--who is himself so intellectually compromised he didn't even understand the meaning of asking for such a test--check.

It goes on and on and on.

Unless there are consequences--meaningful ones--for all this criminal behavior I don't see how this nation will recover any time in what's left of my lifetime.

[LymphocyteLover]

9. I know-- the projection is MIND-BOGGLING

[lagomorph777]

5. "packed like cattle in" ... the intake corral at the abattoir.

[LymphocyteLover]

10. true!

[Squinch]

7. .

[JI7]

37. +

[CanonRay]

13. William Rivers Pitt asked me to post this on his behalf:

Greetings, Will here. As my DU account has been suspended "pending review" for going on five years now ( 🙂 ), Ray here was kind enough to offer a chance to reply to your post.
1. "He'd called President Obama a 'piece of shit used car salesman' because he didn't like the ACA.
... is accurate. However:
"expressing support for Jill Stein"
... is epic nonsense. I was no fan of Clinton, to be sure. I wrote in Bernie Sanders in November '16, and as Clinton won my town, county and state (NH), that vote had no impact on the future. Expressed support for Jill Stein, however, is a lie.
Cheers.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. Wow, thanks for the info!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. If that's the case, I apologize for relying on second-hand reports

that he'd supported Stein. However, opposing Clinton in 2016 was a fair ban.

[mopinko]

28. that wasnt why he was banned.

[Grasswire2]

30. de facto banned, but not officially

the matter of suspending accounts of longtime members for years and years without resolution could be fixed.

[FarPoint]

33. That would please me!

Not sure Will wants to come back now but it would be glorious if he did do that....

[Grasswire2]

34. Will's not the only one who was sent to La La Land purgatory. nt

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[mopinko]

38. yeah. it took me a long time to get unflagged.

but pitt's trouble had nothing to do w politics.

[mahina]

36. Thanks.

Aloha Will.

[H2O Man]

39. Recommended.

It's a damned shame that Will's "temporary suspension" hasn't been lifted. It doesn't hurt him, of course, but it lessens the value of discussions on this forum. And, as the responses to this OP document, it allows for rumors and lies to become entrenched as accepted fact. But his contributions are not here, because we haven't learned the down-side to nursing old wounds, real or imagined.