If only --
If only we had started evacuations earlier … we would have had this earlier. https://t.co/5FVYFeV8En
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 21, 2021
CNN on Day 7 of treating Kabul airport checkpoint story as if it were D Day invasion
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 21, 2021
I am begging anyone who covers this to please take like five seconds to look up what happens when wars end and how countries set the terms of those ends. https://t.co/wxI6tAn2Sn
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) August 20, 2021
Someone should probably break the news to Engel that setting his reputation ablaze won’t change the outcome in Afghanistan. https://t.co/fCkzDt21JZ
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 21, 2021
Lying liars --
"Nobody has lied more about the Afghan collapse than Pompeo. At every stage, he aided the Taliban and sabotaged the Kabul government. And now he dares to blame others." https://t.co/G5zG6dRzae
— Will Saletan (@saletan) August 20, 2021
Authoritarian (Republican) tuff guy culture --
This is the culture of threat that has overtaken America. Authoritarianism depends on this breakdown of our civic culture. Free discussion & compromise replaced by verbal & physical violence to get your way. https://t.co/wwLZ9Jmaxc
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 21, 2021
"I don't want to be in charge, but if I was ... give me 9 guys, I'm gonna walk through the streets [in Afghanistan] and I'm gonna kill everyone I see, and I'm gonna grab the Americans. It is not difficult" -- Rob O'Neill
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2021
This is the sort of commentary Fox News platforms. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/LwFrgxQ1XM
Sniveling alleged child sex trafficker says what --
This wing of the right has always had such gleeful bully energy, made up of bullies and followed by bullies and people who suck up to bullies and wish they were bullies. https://t.co/NlVkt4gKfb
— UtterDebacleHat (@Popehat) August 20, 2021
given the backstory and ongoing legal controversies I’m not sure I would post a picture of myself with a woman who appears to be passed out https://t.co/JRvpOF8Yc2
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 21, 2021
Run ginger run https://t.co/7WAnOfikOq
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 21, 2021
They're only theories, man! --
Literally every antivaxxer pic.twitter.com/MtC13vvQn0
— Tim Fullerton (@TimFullerton) August 21, 2021
