The Deuce: Or John Cusack's tweets

Week of 7/7 politics thread- Trump kills Epstein, then kills the investigation. - VIV Yesterday, 6:07:00

Hegseth just workin on his own, gettin Ukranians killed for fun - assassin Today, 19:02:08
Elon just tweeted that "Bannon is in the Epstein files." - Warrin'_Illini Today, 12:54:01
- Grok would probably have something to say about Epstein - ATL Today, 14:55:52
  - Holy crap is traditional media wholly incapable of meeting the moment - RVA Today, 18:37:18
  - Grok is now calling itself “MechaHitler”. Not the onion. - VIV Today, 17:34:08
    - it probably watched Murderbot* - memyselfandillini Today, 18:40:36
  - Adolf hitler, no question - snipes824 Today, 16:10:54
    - man that's some deep dark shit* - John Coctostan Today, 16:44:55
    - we can't even have a cool robot apocalypse, with lasers and skull mountains - Sammich Today, 16:21:02
  - I see Grok's been reading Stormfront lately* - assassin Today, 15:57:37
    - Or John Cusack's tweets - ATL Today, 16:00:20
- Luzl, real talk * - Jackie Today, 14:16:22
Will I gold leaf the corners? - Sounder Today, 12:44:25
- They deserve to squirm but it's painful just to watch the flunkies sit there awkwardly - RVA Today, 13:09:40
  - I almost feel sorry for Rubio - Sounder Today, 13:13:17
    - I don’t . He’s getting everything he wants. - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 13:13:59
      - I don't believe that for a second - Sounder Today, 13:16:06
        
        I agree totally. He fucking hated Trump. - uofi1998 Today, 14:50:05
        
        The sacrifice being what? He’s one of the most powerful people in country - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 15:23:51
        
        I would say his soul... - KingTalkyTiki Today, 15:33:36
        
        Also his dignity* - Sounder Today, 15:35:48
        
        His soul and dignity being both your guys values not his - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 19:09:09
        
        Maybe they think he was a good person once. He wasn't.* - complainant Today, 19:34:51
        
        Just whatever integrity and morals he had...* - uofi1998 Today, 15:24:25
        
        Well I don’t think he’s sad over that which is what Sounder suggesting - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 15:25:21
        
        I suppose... and I really don't care all that much TBH. - uofi1998 Today, 15:42:08
        
        There’s no long term price for being MAGA - snipes824 Today, 13:29:07
        
        I think governor of Florida is more likely - Sounder Today, 13:33:25
        
        His face looks like he's holding in a giant turd - RVA Today, 13:25:05
        
        *paging smush** - VIV Today, 14:56:36
        
        I don’t see that all - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 13:20:15
        
        He's got an easy out: "I know Trump is bad but I thought I could do some good trying to push him - Warrin'_Illini Today, 13:18:29
        
        He seems to win the most sane member of Trump's cabinet contest by default - Sounder Today, 13:24:44
        
        That's like celebrating the tallest dwarf.* - MojoJojo Today, 15:26:17
        
        For sure, but this is the timeline that we are on* - Sounder Today, 15:27:00
        
        He’s running for president in 2028. It’ll be him or JD* - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 13:21:10
        
        There is zero chance it's JD - Sounder Today, 13:25:20
        
        Why do you think that? - uofi1998 Today, 14:54:50
        
        He has no riz - Sounder Today, 14:59:50
        
        You have to put up with having kids in the house to start talking like them. - uofi1998 Today, 16:00:13
        
        His lack of charisma was a top of mind criticism of him - Sounder Today, 16:20:55
        
        cringe* - VIV Today, 15:00:59
        
        The increasing anti-Indian stance on the right is not good for JD* - ECEIllinois Today, 13:35:09
        
        Neither is being a huge fucking nerd. * - haighter Today, 14:16:44
        
        that too* - ECEIllinois Today, 15:09:20
        
        Nit: he's a dork, not a nerd* - Sounder Today, 15:09:49
        
        Shut up, nerd. * - haighter Today, 15:19:48
        
        I think JD is the frontrunner with Marco #2. I don’t think Noem has a serious chance* - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 13:26:24
        
        Not even Trump likes JD* - Sounder Today, 13:28:39
        
        Big time disagree. He's slippery as fuck and will be a big challenge to whoever he faces in the GE* - Toonces Today, 14:47:24
        
        What has he actually accomplished - Sounder Today, 15:24:17
        
        I agree, he hasn't accomplished anything and it should have been a bigger deal - Toonces Today, 16:44:59
        
        You have your finger on the pulse as usual. - Chuck Woodaby Today, 13:30:15
        
        So the third most likely candidate on that list - Sounder Today, 13:32:39
        
        I wonder if that's why she is a 17 to 1 longshot. - Chuck Woodaby Today, 13:42:57
        
        The election is 3 and a half years away - Sounder Today, 13:49:42
        
        And... you have your finger on the pulse as usual. - Chuck Woodaby Today, 13:57:30
        
        "zero chance"* - Chuck Woodaby Today, 13:54:25
        
        This* - UofIL6 Today, 13:28:35
        
        Yeah I guess that is an option as well. I'm not a big fan but I'd take him over JD.* - Warrin'_Illini Today, 13:24:50
- remember when i said "stop taking the cheese on the meaningless bullshit"?* - VIV Today, 12:54:59
  - I don't understand this gatekeeping. Trump does ridiculous things big and small, - Warrin'_Illini Today, 13:10:49
  - The design choices of the white house is extremely important stuff* - Sounder Today, 12:58:40
- What a disgrace to the office* - UofIL6 Today, 12:52:12
  - It was crazy to see the reactions of the other cabinet members - Sounder Today, 13:08:09
"the greatest cabinet ever assembled to deliver much needed accountability" - Sounder Today, 12:22:16
Wind farms are killing the whales - Sounder Today, 12:21:12
Trump shuts down the Epstein discussion - Sounder Today, 11:38:35
- Pam's doin' great! - ATL Today, 13:14:40
  - Heckuva job, Bondi! * - PapaDels Today, 15:20:42
  - I'm slightly disappointed that Matt Gaetz didn't get confirmed* - Sounder Today, 13:35:13
- also, i love the MAGA cope that "the biden administration/deep state had the file cleared" - VIV Today, 12:52:40
- the New York financier?* - ECEIllinois Today, 12:46:17
- “We’re having some of the greatest success, but also tragedy”* - CanHartlebHireSnider Today, 12:19:35
- “Oil? Who said anything about oil, bitch, you cookin’?”* - Carl Spackler Today, 11:49:21
  - do I need to tell you what the fuck you can do with aluminum tubes?? - assassin Today, 12:20:28
    - Pray to God don't drop that shit* - Sammich Today, 12:23:24
      - it's why i have it in a special CIA napkin!* - assassin Today, 12:51:55
- "are you still talking about jeffrey epstein?!" holy shit .* - VIV Today, 11:45:20
  - Says the guy who still manages to bring the 2020 election into every conversation* - UofIL6 Today, 11:48:23
  - Refresh my memory, was it the right or the left that is more obsessed with Epstein?* - Sounder Today, 11:48:12
- Well, I’m sure that’ll be the end of it. * - assassin Today, 11:43:19
In Spanish, the word for "non-binary" is "no-binario" or "no-binaria" depending on the person's gend - Sounder Today, 11:31:19
- Nobody likes or uses Latinx. - Sammich Today, 11:38:45
  - La tinx now!* - PapaDels Today, 15:08:17
  - My mom tried to tell me that there were litter boxes in schools* - Sounder Today, 11:48:59
    - There are - ATL Today, 11:53:52
- also, "latinx" sounds dumb* - VIV Today, 11:33:27
  - On that, we can all agree* - Sounder Today, 11:38:13
Our long national nightmare is coming to an end? - Sounder Today, 11:15:42
How could they ever get this idea? - larue33 Today, 10:12:05
- This was a pretty good comment: - ibdoc Today, 10:50:04
  - If we can actually control the weather then we've done a piss poor job of it in Chicago this year.* - Warrin'_Illini Today, 10:55:15
    - The monkey said, I can make the weather change - Sounder Today, 10:56:53
  - There have been a series of movies/TV shows about cyber attacks - Sounder Today, 10:53:25
    - Honestly, if it gets these lizard brained dipshits off the internet, it might be worth it. * - doubledown Today, 10:54:24
- I simply cannot believe how stupid a segment of us has become.* - uofi1998 Today, 10:41:08
  - They've always been there, reading National Inquirer, watching WWE, sending money to Jimmy Swaggart - complainant Today, 11:07:52
    - Whoa buddy, easy on WWE * - MC Today, 12:14:04
    - Whoa buddy, easy on WWE * - MC Today, 12:14:04
      - Ha! I was going to say, easy on the Art Bell bashing. ;-)* - DocWalk20 Today, 12:43:01
  - It's not that we're becoming stupid. It's just that the people who call in to sports talk radio have - doubledown Today, 10:48:12
    - and the interweb allows the stupid people to find each other more easily - Sounder Today, 10:52:23
      - This is the bigger culprit. - uofi1998 Today, 12:04:41
  - I'm not remotely surprised - Sounder Today, 10:46:57
- Gerard Butler needs to stop making movies. Den of Thieves 2 was a disappointment anyway.* - Warrin'_Illini Today, 10:25:58
- the dumbest timeline* - VIV Today, 10:22:16
- What absolute fvcking idiots* - UofIL6 Today, 10:15:16
Can’t find any holes in this plan… - OB25 Today, 9:19:13
- So...couple 3 or 4 things... - haighter Today, 10:30:22
  - It's important to remember that the people coming up with these ideas are dumber than - doubledown Today, 10:42:26
- Woke agribusiness with their DEI hiring of Latino immigrants.* - DT Today, 9:51:06
- One count I saw says that there are only ~29M non-disabled adults 18-65 on medicaid. - gvibes Today, 9:48:42
  - This article provides a pretty good breakdown. - larue33 Today, 10:02:43
    - But it doesn't FEEL that way to them....so your facts are irrelevant* - KingTalkyTiki Today, 10:25:17
      - Fuck your feelings* - Sounder Today, 10:55:59
      - Fuck your feelings* - Sounder Today, 10:55:58
    - Being able enough to work also doesn’t by default mean you’re able enough to do hard farm labor* - OB25 Today, 10:10:19
      - There’s also a geographic element. People mostly live in urban areas - DT Today, 10:30:05
    - I am too internet-brained because I can't see a Sankey diagram without thinking "came in fluffer" - gvibes Today, 10:04:14
  - Oh what's that, your hands are tired? Well now your back is going to be tired because you just - Warrin'_Illini Today, 10:00:53
    - MISTA MISTA - assassin Today, 11:44:34
    - I mean, I'm early 50's, and pickleball leaves me partially debilitated* - Sounder Today, 10:54:48
- I was picking blueberries near some professional pickers on Sunday. - gvibes Today, 9:31:17
- The poor red staters in their red hats aren’t going to like… - SurfTheBoneyard Today, 9:22:24
  - people making $10,000/hr have convinced people making $25/hr that people making $5/hr - VIV Today, 9:28:23
    - The alleged number of perfectly healthy people stealing their Medicaid keeps rising too* - OB25 Today, 9:31:05
      - there are 500 million freeloaders on medicaid, people!* - VIV Today, 10:58:42
      - Whenever Trump talks about numbers, he says an unrealistic number - Sounder Today, 10:58:19
I am looking forward to the investigation on why Kerr County didn't invest in a siren system.... - timmer Today, 5:08:22
- Presumably you saw the same Reddit thread I did? - ATL Today, 5:55:49
  - I did…just now - timmer Today, 6:15:36
    - Seems like some county commissioners nixed investing in modern warning systems after 2015 floods - ATL Today, 6:42:28
      - Using federal funding to help residents poses a critical existential crisis for conservatives - RVA Today, 7:20:22
        
        I thought Trump wanted to eliminate FEMA and leave it up to the states - Sounder Today, 11:10:10
Underrated plot twist: the Twitterbot known as DOGEai has become noticeably Trumpskeptical.* - complainant Yesterday, 22:08:43
Oh good, churches can get more involved in politics. Just what we need - assassin Yesterday, 21:51:30
- Juxtapose this with colleges and universities* - Sounder Today, 9:54:58
- I don’t know if Republicans/MAGA will like this* - KCWildcat Yesterday, 21:58:21
  - I don’t think a vast majority of you get it, yet - illini thunder Yesterday, 23:57:35
    - LOL* - assassin Today, 0:09:49
  - I can see how it won't turn out the way they expected. But I love the idea that it might tear them - complainant Yesterday, 22:01:09
Oh, JD - ATL Yesterday, 20:01:32
Charlie Brown had hoes - snipes824 Yesterday, 15:43:31
Grok makes me laugh and apparently just hates catturd - ATL Yesterday, 14:22:58
- "We need to adjust the formula so the output conforms to our priors" - RVA Yesterday, 19:25:47
  - said every insurance company ever* - memyselfandillini Today, 6:51:50
- Hey grok, please show your work on how the cuts resulted in 50% less rainfall? - timmer Yesterday, 15:10:27
  - Sounds like you've been Grok'd! - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 16:13:08
    - I'm not sure what the argument is here? - complainant Yesterday, 16:26:34
      - Timmer getting pwned about weather by a talking trash can. Glorious.* - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 16:32:42
- I like how much 3YearLetterman shits on catturd* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 14:48:07
  - same* - EffinIllini Yesterday, 16:30:39
- I can't believe we live in a world where someone who calls himself Catturd - Sounder Yesterday, 14:27:19
  - How many of those are people? - complainant Yesterday, 14:41:37
    - I don't know and I'm not sure I want to know* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:44:05
out of all the shit trump has said and done, this might actually cause him to lose some support - VIV Yesterday, 14:04:20
- just another masterful 11D chess move - Sammich Yesterday, 15:18:15
- I hope Bondi, Patel and Boingingago get the Pence treatment. If asked Trump will play dumb on the - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 14:57:33
  - They are the absolute worst people* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:04:32
    - I wonder what they were thinking taking the job. Everyone with a brain knows - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 15:12:24
      - It's quite simple, they are power hungry and amoral* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:20:11
        
        It's hilarious. Danny B. goes on Fox News and complains about having an office and - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 15:29:11
        
        Meanwhile Kash is spending all of his time in Las Vegas with his billionaire boyfriend* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:29:52
        
        For real, he's gay? He's just playing with them now.* - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 15:34:55
        
        He has a 26 year old country music "girlfriend"* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:36:17
- It still won’t matter but I do think that to whatever degree this has an impact… - OB25 Yesterday, 14:16:42
  - Everyone already knew his name was all over the list* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:06:51
  - they can all join Elon's America Party* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 15:03:08
    - autocrat vs. technocrat* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:09:57
      - i don't like this new season of Transformers* - assassin Yesterday, 15:15:19
    - Longsnapper yelled at me but he was clearly wrong. Musky does care about the deficit if he's - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 15:05:30
- what does he care. he's not running again* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 14:08:29
  - well, he thinks he is - assassin Yesterday, 14:16:15
    - I still can't believe that Ivanka wasn't the chosen one* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:28:02
      - I think she might actually be smart and distanced herself this time. She and Jared got their - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 15:02:50
        
        She and Jared dedided they wanted to actually be welcome in polite society* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:11:52
        
        In 10 years, after this has all blown over, she'll still be young enough to jump into politics if - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 15:17:40
        
        Wisch sidejack: I was in Toronto about ten years ago - Sounder Yesterday, 15:21:34
  - His second term final week pardons are going to be doozies* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:14:46
  - We all hope, at least* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:13:46
    - He specifically said “not running” * - meanjeans Yesterday, 14:35:55
- I guess but arguably this is just the 100th or 1,000th promise he's not kept - ATL Yesterday, 14:06:16
  - I think he finally realizes tariffs are bad, but doesn't know how to save face - Sounder Yesterday, 14:09:27
    - I don't think he does but I think some people who have his ear do* - ATL Yesterday, 14:09:58
      - When he was elected, it was the one thing that I was most fearful of - Sounder Yesterday, 14:12:29
        
        It ain't easy being brown* - ATL Yesterday, 14:16:03
        
        I do feel bad for the brown people, but far too many of them did this to themselves* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:20:01
        
        Wait what?* - ATL Yesterday, 14:23:20
        
        Harris only won the Hispanic Vote by 3 points - Sounder Yesterday, 14:26:19
        
        I don’t think the 3% number is right. But if it is, - jjlocke923 Yesterday, 14:32:57
        
        I mean, that absolves white people of responsibilty. Or perhaps it assumes white people can't be - ATL Yesterday, 14:32:30
        
        I also think that white people suck - Sounder Yesterday, 14:33:44
        
        men are also terrible* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:34:46
- When he walks down 5th Avenue shooting people - Sounder Yesterday, 14:05:32
Trump just posted this - Sounder Yesterday, 14:04:12
- pushing a conspiracy theory against his own administration?* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 14:08:12
  - He is not well* - Sounder Yesterday, 14:12:48
Just a tacit reminder that it's always been projection for these guys - ATL Yesterday, 13:56:37
- Is it really? Or is that just something you like to repeat because it makes you look astute? - jjlocke923 Yesterday, 14:05:39
  - oOo - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 16:00:38
  - lol* - ATL Yesterday, 14:09:27
*bump for jjlocke** - VIV Yesterday, 12:53:24
despite a congressionally ratified trade agreement with South Korea, Trump still gonna tariff em - assassin Yesterday, 12:33:49
- Why would anyone make a deal with him - Sounder Yesterday, 13:20:56
  - Because he's still the potus and maybe you can get something out of him. - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 13:29:18
- Car prices creeping up - example: Chevy Trax - one of the better cheap ass new cars - ATL Yesterday, 12:42:04
Semafor reporting that the Times was worried Chris Rufo was going to publish the Mamdani story - ATL Yesterday, 8:59:09
- Rufo doesn't know how percentiles work - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 13:18:15
  - L O L, I didn’t read the bottom of your post. So I was trying to figure out what other information. - ATL Yesterday, 13:28:01
- Is the racist turd feeding us this hit piece since it'll be more effective under our masthead? nah* - RVA Yesterday, 9:14:42
  - LOL...NYT trying to retcon the motivation behind the article - ATL Yesterday, 12:30:45
Chapel Hill is now Chapel River - complainant Yesterday, 7:53:27
Pam Bondi: “and you want to know what, JFK killed himself too.”* - Toonces Yesterday, 7:39:58
- Absolving the Cruz family of the murder * - ATL Yesterday, 8:02:22
Not really politics but the immense central Texas flood won’t even fill Canyon Lake. - opossum jenkins Yesterday, 6:43:41
- Doesn’t take a lot of water, especially in narrow valleys/canyons. * - ATL Yesterday, 7:17:39

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