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9 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I think it's more important now. Six months ago it's MSNBC and two minutes on the nightly news. Now a lot of people are dead or out of work and for two months you won't be able to watch television in six states without hearing it.
I don't think Woodward's tape changes things six months ago, and I don't think it does on its own now. In March they would have said, "Well, we shut the country down. We had a bill and so forth."
You are talking about mask-wearing. Assholes. These are the people who think taxation is theft. You can't tell them anything.
I only think it's significant now in that it's another week -- more -- where he's on the defensive, not defining the terms. Biden needs him to be a hostile witness every week until the election.

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