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18 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Digby, Donald Trump.Hillary Clinton, millennials, president, social media, Twitter

Right. Because they’re all the same?

Yesterday Digby engaged someone via Twitter:

diggby091716

digby ‏@digby56
What would be helpful for people to do to earn it? (I’m not being snarky. I’m truly interested in ideas.)

Symone D. Sanders @SymoneDSanders
Too many of y’all in my mentions need to stop telling millennials voter what you think we should do and start trying to earn our support

5:40 PM – 17 Sep 2016

That’s a nice gesture from Digby.

What’s the alternative to spoon feeding? I dunno, maybe inform curious people that they can easily look some information up on the, you know, Internets? And then apply a healthy dose of critical thinking. That seems like a good place to start. Unless they want to be spoon fed.

In reply to Digby:

bersin091716a

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin
@digby56 Back in the old days we all thought not being the insane candidate was enough.
5:51 PM – 17 Sep 2016

I couldn’t resist piling on:

bersin091716b

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin
@digby56 In 2008 when asked if we wanted chicken or $#*& with ground up glass in it we didn’t ask,”That depends, how is the chicken cooked?”
6:05 PM – 17 Sep 2016

That was in reference to a classic from David Sedaris in 2008.

And, finally:

bersin091716c

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin
@digby56 Back in the old days we actually considered daisies, countdowns, and who would control the nuclear football and voted accordingly.
6:08 PM – 17 Sep 2016

At this point, given the objective choices, if they’re not there they never will be, nor were they ever going to be.

The most chilling sentence in the English language

26 Tuesday May 2015

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Digby, Sarah Palin

“She would have been one heart attack away from running the world.”

The Unanswered Question

25 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Digby, Ferguson, Michael Brown, missouri

A speaker at the National Moment of Silence – August 14, 2014 – Kansas City, Missouri.

Tom Sullivan, at Digby‘s place:

….One has to wonder what sort of dynamic led from asking two men to walk on the sidewalk into a deadly shooting….

Previously:

Kansas City moment of silence – August 14, 2014 (August 14, 2014)

Kansas City moment of silence – August 14, 2014 – part 2 (August 15, 2014)

#NMOS14 Moment of Silence Kansas City Mike Brown Rally (August 16, 2014)

The Ferguson Commission: Change agent or spinning wheels? (November 24, 2014)

Best quotes so far about the republican debt hostage crisis

14 Thursday Jul 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Debt ceiling, Digby, Eric Cantor, whining

From the inimitable Digby:

So you’ve probably heard that Eric Cantor came running out of the White House debt meeting today screaming “the bad man tried to touch me!”….

From Blue Girl via Twitter:

@BGinKC Blue Girl

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if at tomorrow’s #debtceiling talks, @EricCantor’s chair had a booster seat & a Tonka truck on the table? 8 hours ago

The governator had it right in a previous life:

Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Detective John Kimble: They’re horrible. They’re like little terrorists.

Phoebe O’Hara: Tell me about it.

They sat Eric Cantor at the wrong table.

Previously: Eh, what a maroon… (July 11, 2011)

 

The inimitable Digby

24 Monday Jan 2011

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class warfare, Digby

We are not worthy.

….conservative Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal talking about a new television show:

“You have major criminality, excused as nothing. You can do anything you want, as long as you’re poor.”

That’s absolutely right, of course. Except for one word.

[emphasis added]

Well, isn’t that rich?

Our time in a nutshell

29 Monday Mar 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Digby

From the incomparable Digby:

…Let’s face it, these people are ridiculous. At least the 60s revolutionaries were trying to stop the government from fighting a war, fergawdsake. These people are trying to stop the government from helping people buy health insurance. Have you ever heard anything so absurd?…

We are not worthy.

Rule of law in a nutshell

13 Saturday Feb 2010

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Digby, wingnuts

We are not worthy.

The incomparable Digby:

Prove It

…it’s worth noting more explicitly, that the government presumably always “knows” that someone is guilty before they indict him or her for a crime. At least it should. The point of the trial is to make them prove it. They have to put their evidence on the table and convince 12 people that it’s enough to take away someone’s freedom or, in this case, execute them. And because trials are public, this demonstration of proof creates trust in the justice system and the rule of law among the population at large…

[emphasis in original]

You’d think a wingnut might comprehend that, except they can’t fit the whole paragraph on their palm.

Violent right wingnuttia is the new liberal?

13 Saturday Jun 2009

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Digby, wingnuttia

From a comment at Digby’s place:

…you should never argue semantics with people with a mental age of twelve and the historical perspective of a houseplant.

Thought for the weekend

07 Saturday Feb 2009

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Digby, economic stimulus, Obama, Senate

From the incomparable Digby (We’re not worthy!):

…For some reason I keep thinking about the Senate voting 98-1 for the Patriot Act and all going to the steps of the capital to sing “God Bless America” together. Try to picture that happening under a Democratic president under any circumstances.

How true. How true.

What Digby said

17 Sunday Aug 2008

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Digby

We are not worthy.

Mainstreaming Crazy

…In fact, the default position among Democrats, Republicans and the media is that the only kooks in the country with whom it is unacceptable to be professionally or financially involved with are on the left. And “the left” is defined so broadly that it includes groups like MoveOn and Vote Vets. The right, in contrast, has fully integrated even their extremist fringe into the mainstream and everyone accepts it…

[emphasis added]

Go. Read the whole thing.

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