Amanda CAARSON – Page 3201 – Amanda Unvarnished

· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

I can acknowledge that the candidate I voted for screwed something up.

That’s because I’m not in a cult.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) August 19, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

I still wonder how many deleterious effects we’ve experienced and will continue to experience because we didn’t have a normal presidential transition. It started the admin off on their back foot, and the GOP continues to slow walk new nominees further eroding institutions.
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) August 19, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

"We screwed over the people who helped us and our own citizens because we were afraid of what they'd say about us on Fox."

Fuck you. Of all the cowardly, chickenshit horse excrement floated to duck responsibility for doing your basic duty, this takes the cake.
— Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 (@AviWoolf) August 19, 2021

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Trump’s “Deal” With the Taliban Set the Stage for Afghanistan’s Collapse by Mark Follman

Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on August 15, 2021.Zabi Karimi/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. The weeks ahead will bring exhaustive debate about the grim developments in Afgha...

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Man surrenders after claiming to have bomb near US Capitol by Eric Tucker, Michael Balsamo, Colleen Long

WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol surrendered to law enforcement after an hourslong standoff Thursday that prompted a massive police response and the evacuations of government buildings in the area.

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Our Own Worst Enemy with Tom Nichols from podcasts.apple.com(51 minutes 53 seconds)

Host Reed Galen is joined by Author and Contributing Writer at The Atlantic Tom Nichols to discuss the lead-up and aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the mass disbelief in the medical community, and the state of our nation’s democracy through the lens of Tom’s new book, Our Own Worst…

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Republican governor welcomes Afghan refugees disparaged as a "scourge" by right-wing media by Zachary Petrizzo

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Right-wing media already bored with bashing Biden over Afghanistan, return to the culture wars by Amanda Marcotte

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 1 minute to read

The suggestion that Afghans who worked with American forces shouldn't be evacuated because they're all secretly terrorists is so deeply racist and stupid I can't even fathom someone would say it.
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) August 19, 2021

I’m really glad you said this out loud and everything but seriously you really should go check the shitty website you edit because the call is coming from inside the house.

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· 13 Elul 5781 (Saturday 21 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Do you even read your own shitty website? https://t.co/2XtMZbj1VT
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 19, 2021