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In reply to the discussion: William Rivers Pitt: Coward-in-Chief: Trump Wilts in the Face of Fascist Terrorism [View all]mcar
(42,584 posts)DU was my haven, post 911, as it was for so many of us.
Pitt was a big part of that, active and fully dedicated to Democratic principles.
Then Barack Obama got elected. Pitt morphed into one of the Democratic president's chief detractors. He seemed to go out of his way to find fault.
Then came the POSUCS episode. A man who didn't bother to research medical insurance coverage for his chronically Ill wife before they moved from a large city to a rural area pitched a royal fit when he realized her meds were not covered under the new insurance. Did he blame himself? No. He called the best president of my lifetime (I'm 58), a piece of shit.
I, and other DUers, stepped in to offer advice. Within an hour of his posting his temper tantrum, his problem was solved. Still, he kept the thread going for days if not weeks, while DUs Obama haters gleefully piled on. Only then did he delete the thread and apologize in a new one.
I recall that in the new thread, his acolytes twisted themselves into pretzels to justify his egregious behavior.
Then came the 2016 primary. Enough said.