Mine is this: when making writing decisions, always stop and ask yourself what is best for the SCENE. What are the scene’s goals? Does this sentence, this paragraph, this line of dialogue serve those goals? If not, fix it.
WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden
WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted?
WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail