Posted on 12/29/2004 6:52:24 AM PST by PJ-Comix
I've noticed that this word (differential) is a new buzzword amongst the dummies, used as an attempt to cloak themselves with a mantle of intelligence and credibility. As it is, they always use it incorrectly and end up unmasking their stupidity.
Yeah, it was such a stretch since the DUmmie themselves were quoting from LOTR.
Here are some classic examples of Pied Piper Pitt melting down in a not so inspirational fashion as well as representing the full spectrum of nuttiness this goofball has inhabited. Also, notice the bizarre inspirational style which I think he lifts by watching sci-fi or other movies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=5569&forum=DCForumID60
WilliamPitt (15402 posts)
Sep-18-02, 04:48 PM (ET)
The political ignorance of the Dem-bashing squad on DU
Hard-core title line, I know, and a blanket statement that does not pertain to everyone on this board who has hard words for the Democrats. Someone once told me that marketing is about putting butts in the seats. Now that my title line has put your but in this seat, read on and see if any of this resonates with you.
1. We here at DU are not, in any way, representative of the mainstream in American politics today. That's just the way it is. So when the Democrats do not do what we want them to do, understand that they are doing what the vast majority of the mainstream within the party wants them to do. The majority, for example, wants a Homeland Security Department...and let us not forget that the first person to publicly endorse and speak of that idea as policy was a fellow named Albert Gore, Jr.
2. There has been a vast amount of moaning, wailing, rending of clothing and gnashing of teeth in the last 24 hours because Tom Daschle and John Kerry, among other Dems, have said they are supportive of Bush regarding war on Iraq. Daschle has even gone so far as to say a vote for this will come before the election.
Doom, right? Let's all just nip off and shoot ourselves, right?
Um...
Here's the deal.
The press people who handle ALL elected officials are the most important people in any Congressional office, for obvious reasons. None of them, NONE OF THEM, will allow their politician to say anything in public that might possibly seem to be against 9/11 issues or the war on terror. Like it, lump it, but the vast majority of the country is not nearly over that shit, and the media isn't helping them, and so any politician who seems to be against anything that has to do with 9/11 is asking to get their throats cut.
This is realpolitik, and if it sucks, blame your parents and your grandparents ad nauseam and et cetera, because it has been like this since Machiavelli went looking for a job.
The real deal, however is this: The Dems may be vocal about supporting Bush, but as my editor at Truthout phrased it, they speaketh with forked tongue. What will happen is the following, as simple as day - they will call for a referendum, and they will say Congressional support for war on Iraq will come IF AND ONLY IF the United Nations is on board in the same fashion.
Anyone reading the news today, after Hussein's offer to send the inspectors in, know that the UN is in chaos because of it, and the Bush crew has been desperately trying to react. They got a gift with this, if they truly wanted to disarm Saddam and keep everyone safe. But they don't want that. They want war, period, and Iraq's offer has screwed up any near-term chance that the UN will get behind it.
So there it is, yo. These fellows in the Democratic Party have their problems, sure. But they are not nearly as stupid as some here would say. I think we need to keep the hari kari knives on a high shelf until further notice. Some excitable DUers might cut themselves before the lights come on completely upon the playing field.
But that's just my 2 cents. Apologies if I offended with my title line. Just trying to get the message out.
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WilliamPitt (15402 posts)
Oct-07-02, 07:34 PM (ET)
The Democratic Party has finally lost me
With a few notable exceptions, Democrats in the Senate appear prepared to give George W. Bush everything he wants regarding war with Iraq. No matter that a vast majority of Americans do not want this war, no matter that the case for war has not been made, no matter that the international community repudiates such action, and no matter that this push for war has been put forth by the White House in a cynical attempt to deflect public attention from gross mismanagement of the government, and away from the catastrophes within the business community. Democratic House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt surrendered last week, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is preparing to lead GOP mouthpieces like Joe Lieberman in a total capitulation to Bush's plans.
For one, brief, shining moment two weeks ago, it appeared the Democrats would stand up to the incredibly dangerous program put forth by the Bush administration. Al Gore spoke publicly and caustically about Bush's ham-fisted handling of the economy, and the variety of ways war with Iraq will make the world a more dangerous place for America. Senators Byrd and Kennedy likewise excoriated the administration. Daschle stood in the well of the Senate and demanded an apology from Bush, after Bush flatly stated that Democrats did not care about the security of the United States. Byrd and Kennedy have since been hung out to dry, and Daschle has proven himself to be unworthy of the title of leader. His little temper tantrum at the podium is bitter dust in the mouths of every American who hoped that, finally, finally, the Democrats would make a stand.
Because these jellyfish cannot find within themselves the courage to be moral, because the truth is not in them, because they have decided to accept the spoon-fed poison of Karl Rove's Machiavellian disinformation campaign, it might serve any American who reads this to be reminded of the truth, and the stakes, in this matter.
There is no case for war in Iraq. There is no proof whatsoever that Saddam Hussein poses a threat to America or his neighbors. The marvelously absurd Catch-22 we have heard so often is that Hussein is a mortal threat, and yet will be a pushover in battle. There is no proof that Hussein retains any functional aspect of the chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs that were totally dismantled and destroyed by the UNSCOM weapons inspectors from 1991 through 1998. Repeated attempts by the United Nations to reinsert more inspectors have been spurned by the Bush administration in favor of combat.
Back in 1991, when Hussein had vast stockpiles of these weapons, he did not use them when American forces were bulldozing through his country. When he fired SCUD missiles into Israel, there was no mustard gas or other chemical agent attached to the nose comes, and there could very well have been. The only time Saddam Hussein has used these weapons was during the 1980s, while in the paid employ of the American government under Reagan, which gave him most of the stuff in the first place. Should an American army arrive in downtown Baghdad, however, and should the dire rhetorical salvos of the Bush administration prove correct, American solders may come face to face with botulinin toxin. You can put Israel on the firing line right next to G.I. Joe.
The irony is rich, wretched and deadly: Hussein only used these weapons when he was a vassal of America, after receiving these weapons from America, never against Americans, and may only actually use them against America - if he still has them - if we invade.
The idea that Hussein has connections to al Qaeda terrorists is laughable; Hussein is a secular dictator who has crushed Islamic fundamentalism for 30 years. Bin Laden and al Qaeda despise him and want him dead. Hussein would sooner stick his face into a running chainsaw as give weapons of any kind to al Qaeda, because the end result of wither action would be the same.
The concept of bringing democracy to Iraq through war, proffered by the Bush administration, is a vomitous joke. Democracy in the western sense means majority rule, and the majority in Iraq is comprised of Shiite Muslims who are ideologically and theocratically aligned with the extremist mullas in Iran. The rest of the Iraqi population is comprised of Kurds, who will not be allowed to rule Iraq or anything else because of Turkey, and by the Sunnis, from whose vicious tribal politics came Saddam Hussein. Democracy in Iraq is a concept that terrifies our allies in the region, most notably Saudi Arabia. Given the fact that the House of Saud appears to have great management control over the House of Bush, it is profoundly unlikely that anything resembling democracy will ever come to exist in Iraq through this looming process. Whomever rules there after the 'regime change' will be as bad as Hussein, or worse.
Bush's resolution for war that is about to be swallowed whole by Congress speaks of making war on the "region," not just Iraq, thus giving him legal cover for total war upon the entire Middle East. This is the passionate dream of the extremist neo-conservative hawks within the Bush administration who are actually running American foreign policy and the War on Terror: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Democratic Congressional leaders know these men, and know the dangers they represent, and yet appear fully capable of giving them a legal blessing to extend eternal war across the planet. George W. Bush is not running this government, and this war is not just about Iraq.
Should we attack Iraq with the purpose of removing Saddam Hussein, there will be no easy repeat of the Gulf War. American troops will face house-to-house combat in the streets of Baghdad, a city of five million people. One former combat general interviewed on a cable news station predicted the possibility of American casualties amounting to a battalion a day. In order to prosecute this urban war, Baghdad will have to be 'reduced' via aerial bombardment and artillery, which is likely to cause tens of thousands of civilian deaths. The resulting outrage – termed the 'Al Jazeera effect' after the Arabic news station that will broadcast the shattered bodies of Iraqi civilians all across the Middle East – will spawn new and more horrible terrorist attacks on our shores.
Last, but not least, it is painfully obvious to any clear-headed person that the Bush administration has pushed this war to shove Enron, Harken, Halliburton, Arthur Andersen and the woeful state of our economy and the stock market off the front pages and out of TV news rotation. Andrew Card, the White House Chief of Staff, looks at his President in terms of marketing. In fact, he was quoted last August as saying that the administration would not bring up war against Iraq at that point, because August is a bad time to introduce new products. They have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.
By not pointing out this obvious and bloody tactic, the Democrats have almost completely guaranteed their doom in the midterm elections come November. Today, they say they wish to see this war vote through "to get the Iraq debate behind us," thus fundamentally misunderstanding the planet they exist on. The media will feast upon this coming war, and will report on nothing else. Democrats could walk on water and raise the dead out by the Lincoln Memorial, and the media would show old footage of the Gulf War and slobbering Republicans pounding the war drums. Bank it.
Let us remember a few other key facts, as long as we are skipping down memory lane. When the conservative Supreme Court intervened in the Florida recount, in defiance of every states-rights platitude ever spit from their tall seats, when they handed the election to Bush based upon a dizzying twisting of constitutional law, Congressional Democrats rolled over and died. Only the Black Caucus stood tall in the aftermath, walking out of the chamber as the disaster was sealed with legislative wax. The Democrats overwhelmingly voted for the PATRIOT Anti-Terror Act, perhaps the most fundamentally contra-constitutional piece of legislation since the Alien and Sedition Act. There have been gut-checks upon gut-checks for these 'leaders,' and they have failed time and again. When Mr. Bush says "Frog," they jump. Period.
Now, we have this.
I have for my entire life been a Democrat. My parents came of age with the rousing words of John F. Kennedy ringing in their ears, and I was given their passionate liberalism with mother's milk. Mine has never been a starry-eyed liberalism; I voted for Clinton twice, and Gore once, both times without regret. Whichever way my own personal views have tended, I have always been a pragmatist when it comes to elections and politics. Win first, I have always said, and hope that the issues I believe passionately in will find their way into the policy realm. I have been feasting on half a loaf for years, and have never cried for my empty stomach.
That is all finished now. You may now call me a Street Democrat. I am unrepresented by the leadership of the party to which I have always given my loyalty. Accordingly, I have, and will continue, to take my opposition out onto the streets and news stands and bookstore shelves of America. I was in downtown Boston protesting Bush last Friday, I will be in Washington on October 26th for the massive anti-war rally that will be taking place, and I will be out on those streets at every opportunity. My leadership has failed, and I am forced to do their jobs for them. I am not interested in electoral gamesmanship, pragmatism or being a good party man any more. My essential core of ethics have been battered and bruised by the Democratic leadership for years. I have always accepted that half a loaf, and never cried for my empty stomach. No more. Not on this one.
Today, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be a Democrat.
Know this well, you fools. I am not alone in my disdain. Americans have been so badly abused by the process of politics in this country that more than half of them now refuse to vote. The rest wander the streets of this nation like Diogenes with his lamp, looking only for one honest man. The closer you cuddle to this administration, the farther you remove yourselves from your duties as the loyal opposition, the less of a distinction you offer to an American voting public desperate for leadership that knows what is right, and knows what it is doing.
Perhaps you have some master plan in the works. Perhaps you will take the dangerous words and intentions weaved through the Bush resolution for War on Iraq and turn it against him. Perhaps it only seems like you have left great men like Senator Byrd hanging out to dry. Perhaps there are wheels within wheels in this matter. I have always trusted you, always believed there was more than one game afoot. I do not believe it anymore, and woe unto you because of it. If you have lost me, you can be damned sure that you lost millions of others before me. I am the bitter end of your support, and I am finished with your farcical excuse for leadership.
Remember one last thing before you trundle into the chamber and sell us all down the river. The Democratic Party was virtually annihilated the last time it made a bad decision about a war. History may well record the coming debacle in Iraq as a Bush war, but I will remember you. I will never forgive, and I will never forget.
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WilliamPitt (15402 posts)
Oct-08-02, 09:09 PM (ET)
A Ronin Democrat is still a Democrat.
I am a Ronin Democrat - a fighter who lives by the code, but calls no man or woman master. I feel utterly betrayed by the leadership of this Congress, and I cannot in good conscience equivocate for them any more.
But I am still a Democrat. I am not a Green, or a socialist, or a communist, or a libertarian, or anything else. I am a Democrat. My lodestars are JFK, FDR and HST, in that order.
Some people are probably going to see this as some sort of betrayal of what I posted last night. I don't care, and won't buy it if they try try to sell it. I am a Democrat who cannot abide the leadership of the Democratic party as it stands. The principles - the code - is still in my heart, and will always be. I am Ronin, and my sword is true.
The election in November is the most important thing that will happen in any of our lives. If I were to allow my disgust with these Democratic yellow-bellies to keep me from the polls, or to keep me from voting Democrat in that election, I will have fulfilled the endgame chapter in this story. I will have given everything over to Bush and his people.
This must not happen.
I am Ronin. I call no man master, because I see no one worthy of my sword. But I will not allow the barbarians to burn my nation to the ground. Bush and his ilk are the barbarians. What some will call a compromise, I call warfare - complete and total warfare. I will use these bastard Democrats to defeat Bush and his people, I will use them like battering rams to drive Bush from governmental control, and then I will take my sword and wreak a terrible vengeance upon any Democrat who dares defy the principles I live by.
The Democrats are not moral, not ethical, not dependable. They are, however, a convenient weapon to be used in this fight. Nothing is worse than Bush and his people, and I will use the Democrats to destroy them.
Then, I will destroy the Democrats, for they will be right in my sights.
I am a Ronin Democrat. My firsrt foe is Bush. I will use all political weapons available to strip him of power. On November 5th, my weapon will be the Democratic voting lever. On November 6th, God help any Democrat who betrays the code.
Is the fact that I am willing to puke on my shoes while voting Democrat, because I see Bush as a far greater threat, a betrayal? Or is it a wise warrior in action?
You tell me. I am a Ronin Democrat. Democrat. Never forget it, and never forget the Main Enemy. He must be defeated, and if the cost is a share of my honor, then so be it. He will go down, and voting Democrat will do it.
And damn them all.
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WilliamPitt (15402 posts)
Nov-11-02, 07:04 PM (ET)
All of you - each and every single one of you - can kiss my ass
You Greens who have come raving out to attack Democrats because you see throats bared for the cutting after Tuesday disgust me.
You Democrats who have reignited this fruitless, useless war against Greens nauseate me.
You liberals who blame moderates make me want to puke.
You moderates who blame liberals are a disgrace.
You partisan fools who have already targeted Democrats for political destruction before we even know the lay of the land in 2004 are shameful.
Wellstone was murdered. Prove it. Wellstone wasn't murdered. Prove it. The election was stolen. Prove it. The election wasn't stolen. Prove it. Be sure, at all times, to insult and denigrate and flame and be disgraceful self-destructive assh*les while you're at it.
Looking at this forum in the last week has proven one thing: As a movement, we are an absolute cluster-f*ck. Know what that means? That is Marine-speak for a series of disasters that lead to total catastrophe. That's DU, right here and right now. A total and complete cluster f*ck.
Republicans from sea to shining sea have probably been ignoring all their favorite internet porno sites all this week, choosing instead to pleasure themselves while reading what has been going on here. It has been that sexy for them to watch us eat ourselves whole.
Take a deep breath and flame away. You know I'm right.
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WilliamPitt (15402 posts)
Nov-24-02, 10:18 PM (ET)
The A#1 reason we need to get behind a moderate Democrat
Like everyone else, I have been tearing my guts out trying to figure out what we as Democrats/Progressives need to do about the aftermath of the 2002 election, the coming 2004 election, and this hard time that will come in between.
Like a lot of other people here, I feel in my heart of hearts that the Party needs to show its Leftward side more than they have, to eschew this right-centrist move that has disheartened the base and rendered the Party indistinguishable from the GOP in too many respects. I read that Ann Lewis interview the same as you.
BUT
I have also seen that Chuck Baldwin article (now up on truthout), and I have seen the Freeper threads where the goobers are freaking about the OHS. The resistance to the Bush administration among the rank-and-file Republicans is growing, and is growing angrier.
So what does this mean?
I fear to say it means this: We cannot abide a leftward shift for 2004 if we are to win. Elections are won and lost between the 40 yard lines, and all the people in between those hatch marks will not be willing to go hard left after four years of hard right/corporatism. The resistors within the GOP ranks absolutely will not go for that.
If we can field a moderate Democrat who, like Clinton, is able to control a majority of the base, and if that moderate Democrat can bring in half of those people within the 40 yard lines, and if that moderate Democrat can swing even a few of these pissed-off Republican voters, well then, we got us a winner.
That means the lefties like me don't get everything they want.
That means, no matter what else happens, the Party has to become more vocal in opposition.
That means a lot of us, myself included, are going to have to swallow some bile.
My heart says go left young man, but I am looking hard at these disenfranchised GOPers, and I am wondering if my heart knows what is right in this case. I don't know. I could be wrong. But this has given me pause.
"We are part of the reality based community and that is a good thing." Reality based? Oh, God please spare me!
I'm not sure the DUmmies are Hobbits. They could all be Gollum, looking for shiny things and spouting "What's it got in it's pocketses!" Yes, Gollum, I think. LOL
Who is this William Pitt, anyway? Somebody I should recognize? He talks about being famous.
The good guys were the land of Gondor; the bad guys were from Mordor
ROTFLMAO!!!
I knew he was a con-man right out of the box. He preys on these little moonbats and they just fall right into his quicksand.
The Pied Piper is the perfect illustration of this man.
Before him, they were in love with Bev Harris. This too shall pass, and the kids will turn on the Pied Piper Pitts.
BWAAAAAHHHHAAA
Which is it, Bill? Is testosterone a good thing or a bad thing?
. . . had a marriage blow up on me while I was here. . . .
Maybe it had something to do with your confusion about male hormones.
Pitt used to post here? Hmmmmm. Interesting.
He writes for a blog.
It that makes him famous, well, Beckysueb, so are you, and me, and PJ, etc. etc.
;-)
PS... Won't our mamas be proud - mine always wanted me to be famous... for something good...
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanx for your posting of Pitt Rants Past. Pitt is constantly riding a roller coaster. One moment he is a REALPOLITIK Democrat, then he is an angry "street Democrat" and then he rides back up again to being in support of "moderate" democrats. And all this is accompanied by self-important Drama Queen performances. Hey, Pitt, are you EVER consistent???
I know, I know. I apologize for not being up on my LOTR lore. In any event, I made the corrections on my Blogspot.Com Blog.
FILTHY NASSSSSTY SNEAKING BUSHIESSSSSSS!!!!! THEY STOLE THE PRECIOUSSSSSSSS!!!! WE WANTS IT, WE WANTS IT (gollum, gollum)!!!!!!! WE HATES THE BUSHIESSSSSSS FOREVER!!!!!!!
Wouldn't you think that a self proclaimed political activist, who "seems" to have an inside in the Kerry campaign, would at least know the facts? Why, oh Why do these DUmmies believe him?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x204945
Pitt also has a Shakespeare book next to his computer. I know this because he pointed out that fact. Pitt is always pointing out his supposed "intellectual" pursuits which consists mainly of mentioning the books he has or quoting constantly from histories of the ancient world. Funny, though, I didn't notice him correcting the DUmmies about that obvious phony Shakespeare quote about patriotism that they were often spouting.
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