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Friday April 24, 2020; 1:10 PM EDT

The NYT isn't punting on whether drinking or injecting poison is bad for a human. #
They're taking a stand. #
There aren't two sides to that, per the NYT.#
No he-said-she-said. #
Not subject to alternate facts.#
Let's not agree to disagree. #
I am not being sarcastic. This is how bad it has been. They've accepted as reality lies that have cost us dearly. Two sides to ridiculous things that are not two-sided. Finally they have been pushed to the brink of their cowardice by a psychotic president who insists that ingesting random poisons could cure a person of the disease caused by the pandemic that is consuming our country. #
The NYT and Trump were in perfect sync on the possibility of this idea being true until now. Let's hope they come to their senses and start showing a bit of the courage and integrity that they take so much credit for having. #
The Times takes a stand.#

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