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23 Oct, 36 tweets, 4 min read
Goggles. Masks. And ventilators. (sip)
(Malarkey)
(Dark) winter is coming.
You can’t live in a basement.
Empty chair fear mongering. God complex thinking he can control death.
Hope vs Fear
We can’t close our country. We must open our country. Cure can’t be worse than the problem.
I feel like I’m on a psychiatric ward. Biden moments are a clinical entity.
We can’t get killed financially.
Anthony is a disaster. They are idiots. I fact checked that.
I know some like their politics boring. I like the escalating passion.
Will we be deploying Covid sniffer flies tonight?
Nothing like being friends against Russians.
I remember Ukraine was left high and dry during Russian invasion.
Pinocchio 2020 🤥
Not paying taxes is a positive in my book of “Have you been forced to do anything against your will?”
Coffee grinds fortune telling.
We sho’ do!
First debate wins. It was the most fun. Who said politics can’t be fun?
Hope not. Or we will keep #MeToobin on zoom out of sheer boredom in perpetual March.
Joe Biden is a Terminator
We are not worried about getting sick. We are worried about being “saved”.
Best case is people well enough and affluent enough to pay cash directly to doctors. It works great!
The moderator is good this time. Biden woke up.
I agree that we should pay more out of our personal pockets for what we value. It’s called market.
Under Obama administration children were separated from nursing mothers during immigration law enforcement. You just didn’t hear about it.
Biden is getting out of breath. Visibly rattled.
Have you ever tried saying African-American around American Blacks? You get slapped around so fast “Who’s African?” while your mumble some sorry ass explanation. Then you never say African unless talking about first gen Africans.
“Folks”, we are voting for entertaining liars and boring liars. Well, some of us already cast our votes.
Almost
Prison vs forced medical treatment. Don’t be fooled. Both are state enforced coercion to comply with state mandated norms.
We are running out of time.
Bestest. Cleanest. Clearest. If you want to learn rhetoric appealing to the lowest common denominator - Trump is doing great. Uses simplest of words that people want to hear. Positive - perennial appeal to every American.
You don’t start wars you can’t win when you depend on whom you are fighting from toilet paper to drugs.
I missed the killing birds reference. I wish both of them were yelling at each other. I had better luck with that communication style.
“A liar must have good memory”

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