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I’ll do the obligatory asking around, but in my experience, picking up a gun, let alone pointing it at someone, is the absolute last thing I’ve considered doing when high. Not even when my uncle’s FBI buddies were in the vacinity.

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Biden shouldn’t cave to the bigots on evacuating our Afghan allies by Catherine Rampell
No matter what this president does, demagogues will accuse him of "open borders.”

No. He should not. First, because it’s the moral thing to do, and second, because fuck them. It’s not like Tucker and his ilk are going to go start praising Biden for not bringing in the refugees. They’re not gonna go “Well we thought you were totally open borders, but now that we see you’re capping Afghan refugees we’d like to apologize because we were totally wrong.”

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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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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.