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1 Sep, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Me: "Will the U.S. be recognizing the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan any time soon?"

White House chief of staff Ron Klain: "I don’t think anytime soon, I don’t know if we will ever recognize their government."

Some breaking news tonight...
Joe Biden said just last month “the Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army. They’re not remotely comparable, in terms of capability.”

I asked @WHCOS: Did the White House really have no clue how quickly the Taliban would take over?
Listen to his reply:
The Wall St Journal reports that an Afghan interpreter who helped rescue Joe Biden in 2008 from a snowstorm is asking the president to help him escape.

@WHCOS responded to me, in an exclusive interview: “We’re gonna get him and the other SIVs out.”
My full @MehdiHasanShow interview tonight, on @peacockTV, with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain (@WHCOS) on Afghanistan and the Biden withdrawal.

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28 Aug
This has to be seen to be believed. Old, rich, centrist white guy tells people in America to stop complaining about racism & injustice because 'only 5% of Burundians have electricity' & Honduras has more murders than us. Can't make this stuff up. Pure, unadulterated whataboutism.
Maher, who is worth 10s of millions of dollars. says the "only people who starve here are" actors "doing it for a role." Gets a laugh. Then tells the audience to "turn on the news".

Well... ok...
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Maher, citing photos from Kabul airport, says to applause: "Afghan mothers are handing their babies to us." Like so many Americans, he's totally unaware of stories like this, where U.S. soldiers killed 2 *pregnant* Afghan mothers & tried to cover it up:
nytimes.com/2010/04/05/wor…
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22 Aug
“There have been very few international casualties since 2016,” says ⁦@RoryStewartUK.

Again, a complete ignoring of the massive+rising *civilian* casualties in 2018 & 2019.
unama.unmissions.org/afghanistan-10…

Do Afghan casualties not count? Only foreign ones? wsj.com/articles/what-…
I am not sure why we keep glossing over (ignoring?) statistics like this and pretending we were just over in Afghanistan minding our own business and keeping our heads down in recent years. It’s absurd and amoral, tbh.
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
nytimes.com/2019/07/30/wor…
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15 Aug
"Give the Taliban and their supporters in Pakistan a big applause. Absolutely."

On a day like today, as the Taliban retakes Afghanistan, I can't get these lines out of my head from this @AJHeadtoHead interview that I did with former Pakistani ISI chief Gen. Asad Durrani in 2015.
Gen Durrani was not just openly bragging about the ISI's support for the Taliban, but wanted to be *congratulated* for it. I wish some of the Pakistani nationalists on this hellsite were more angry at him than they are at me.

Full interview with him here:
Pakistan has done a lot for Afghan refugees, taken in more than any other country on earth, & Pakistani troops have lost their lives fighting the Taliban in Pakistan, but segments of the Pakistani intelligence and defense establishments have undoubtedly helped the Afghan Taliban.
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13 Aug
“Think about that message: If you go and die for the cause, the president will promote you as a great patriot. All in the service of Donald Trump's self-centered big lie. That he won."

From my @MSNBC opening monologue on the lionization of Ashley Babbitt:
"Babbitt was a conspiracy theorist. A devout believer in Donald Trump's election lies. A devout believer in QAnon. And it is a tragedy, a tragedy, that she lost her life for those beliefs."
"Donald Trump was impeached for inciting an insurrection... and that statement [praising Ashley Babbitt] is yet more incitement. To violence. To terror."

More from my opening monologue on @MSNBC tonight - please do watch & share:
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5 Aug
One of the most annoying things in this pandemic is folks on left & right only using metrics of ‘hospitalizations’ and ‘deaths’, as if that’s all that matters, as if #longcovid doesn’t exist, as if the data showing even ‘mild’ Covid cases can have cognitive effects doesn’t exist!
Some of us, rightly, sensibly, wisely, don’t want to get Covid - a brand-new disease with unknown long term consequences for the human body! - even if it won’t lead to us getting hospitalized or dying. Forgive me for having a higher bar than that.
The willful downplaying of #longcovid is both morally wrong and bonkers from a public policy perspective given the healthcare costs of tackling it in the coming years and maybe decades.
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26 Jul
So, I opened the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC last night with a monologue outlining the *five* main unanswered questions I'd like the House select committee on January 6th to get to the bottom of.

Please do watch & share:
1. Were certain GOP members of Congress involved in organizing the January 6th rally, as claimed by far-right pro-Trump activist Ali Alexander?
2. Were certain GOP members of Congress in contact with insurrectionists, or militias involved in the insurrection, and even giving them tours beforehand?
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