Qasim Rashid, Esq.Dec 9, 2022

I'm not an expert on prisoner trades so I'll limit my comment to this: If you're upset that Biden exchanged an arms dealer for Brittany Griner—but approved Trump releasing 5,000 Taliban terrorists who then took over Afghanistan—stop pretending its national security you care about.

Moreover, for the people pearl clutching that the U.S. “traded an arms dealer” for the release of an innocent American woman—wait til you hear about the worlds largest arms dealer. (Hint: It’s the USA).

Show threadflexghost.Dec 9, 2022
@QasimRashid so many red herrings today. Whatabout the cia whatabout the taliban. We can be happy for her release and upset a mass murderer is free and upset we literally negotiated with terrorists simultaneously.
Show threadMeme
@flexghost @QasimRashid If you were also upset that Trump released the Taliban terrorists, he's not talking about you.
Dec 9, 2022 at 5:49amWeb
Show threadflexghost.Dec 9, 2022
@QasimRashid @Meme irrelevant
Show threadMemeDec 9, 2022
@flexghost @QasimRashid No, it's really not. He's calling out hypocrisy, and you're assailing him for it. You can be happy for Brittney like you say and also be sad that a bad dude is free (though you do know the US likely will be tracking him for the rest of his life and he'll probably end up back in jail, right?). But the vitriol I've seen around this, which he's calling out, has NOTHING to do with the "Merchant of Death" and EVERYTHING to do with who was released in exchange.
Show threadAgoraDec 9, 2022
@Meme @flexghost @QasimRashid exactly! The reason why America continues to have these societal problems with POC and marginalized groups has a lot to do with “good” people making excuses like this.