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Don’t go after people’s kids to get to them. Not just in politics. Anything.
It’s one thing if the kids chose to play in the game themselves—such as by holding a position in the White House—but quite another when you drag them in.
As Vito Corleone put it, “That I do not forgive.” https://t.co/Ou1xGXGHTm

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) August 15, 2021

Or, in a democracy, we could blame the voters for outsourcing war to volunteers and then not really caring what was going on or where "Afghanistan" is https://t.co/hVjkN7wVtA

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 15, 2021

Dear Jewish leaders: Do you know what we call Jews who convert to Judaism? Jews. Full stop. Calling them anything else is otherizing. Shabbat Shalom

— Rabbi Sandra (@rabbisandra) August 14, 2021

The biggest problem with the media is the audience.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 15, 2021

Americans should be furious with the governments of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, which told us, for 20 straight years, that we were winning in Afghanistan, that the billions we were pouring into the Afghan government & military were worth it.

It was all a lie.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 15, 2021

Periodic reminder that the reason Poland has a law making it illegal to say Poland was complicit in the Shoah is that Poland was complicit in the Shoah.

— (((Holzman-Tweed))) (@HolzmanTweed) August 14, 2021

I think it’s good that a savvy white supremacist is America’s most popular newsman, and even better that a subset of influential former leftists think he’s a salutary bard of transgressive populism pic.twitter.com/351xOSGjAs

— Sam Adler-Bell (@SamAdlerBell) August 14, 2021

I sometimes think that immigrants are to Republicans what Christians were to Romans. A convenient group on which to blame all your own mistakes. https://t.co/kYZIuo35aD

— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) August 14, 2021

This sort of buck-passing annoyed me with Obama, it annoyed me with Trump, and it annoys me with Biden. It's pathetic and demeaning. https://t.co/oOJW1aasQW

— Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 (@AviWoolf) August 14, 2021

i can think of a big country with a lot of empty room they could live in. it’s a united group of states, maybe you’re familiar with it, and we’re ready to take in tons of people. https://t.co/j5DJJJm3mG

— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) August 14, 2021

LOL. Twitter uses the internet like cars use paved roads. You want to take control of someone else's car because you don't like where they're going or who's driving. No wonder you didn't get into USC.

— Bob Myers (@dbgbdwolf) August 15, 2021

Yeah, and politicians never take sole credit for stuff they don't deserve. Biden screwed this up royally. But a lot of people made it easy for him to do it. Did you give Trump sole credit for everything he claimed sole credit for? https://t.co/CNXeknqUqm

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) August 15, 2021

There is no good argument against the US admitting Afghan asylum-seekers, and many good arguments for (moral obligation, strategically beneficial, etc.)
Do it. Do it more. And speed it up. https://t.co/Ecq1c4i9NC

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) August 15, 2021

Trump went so far as to portray the Taliban as America’s counterterrorism partner, saying they “will be killing terrorists” & “will keep that fight going.” The May 1 withdrawal date was his doing, as he and @mikepompeo pretended the Taliban would take care of terrorists for us. https://t.co/hA1yYEqCFo

— Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) August 15, 2021

Can we not pretend that the same Republicans who will run a Benghazi-style media op on Afghanistan wouldn't have similarly exploited a scenario where Biden defied the Trump deal to stay? The whole scene is bad enough without letting the GOP play high and mighty.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 13, 2021

oof

wait until she finds out about the cron daemon running on her computer. It messes with time itself. https://t.co/PlrW683gQk

— Sabretooth Nietzsche (@HaygoodLaw) August 13, 2021

All it took for Republicans to to discover the evils of the carceral state was for some white supremacist domestic terrorists to get caught up in it. https://t.co/vePNoeqtcL

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) August 13, 2021

the right is honestly just tedious. they will find anything to get mad about, good lord https://t.co/UwY0AcrEXf

— Brennan Suen (@brennansuen) August 13, 2021

It’s amazing what features of our criminal justice system suddenly become outrageous when applied to antidemocratic insurrectionists. https://t.co/2O9w8Tekhj

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 13, 2021