EPTOn May 01 2026 07:21 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I appreciate your clever tongue-in-cheek conditional ("if... then..."), because it's not the case that the Taliban is gone from Afghanistan (they've been back for several years):
"The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have increasingly cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services." https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/taliban-afghanistan
"Afghanistan under the Taliban, the Sunni Islamist group that retook power in 2021"
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45122
I wonder if we'll throw another few trillion into that void, or find a different void before Trump's presidency has ended!
I appreciate your clever tongue-in-cheek conditional ("if... then..."), because it's not the case that the Taliban is gone from Afghanistan (they've been back for several years):
"The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have increasingly cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services." https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/taliban-afghanistan
"Afghanistan under the Taliban, the Sunni Islamist group that retook power in 2021"
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45122
I wonder if we'll throw another few trillion into that void, or find a different void before Trump's presidency has ended!
Yeah but those are the reformed taliban.
If anything's going to be another void in the next idiocracy episode it's going to be a Saddam Hussein cosplayer refusing to play Saddam Hussein or something like that.
Baron Cohen tends to cover those bases (Kinda risky for him, someone like Gaillard does stuff that‘d get him offed pretty quickly in America)
