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Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 10:42:02

here's the chair of the nonpartisan independent Federal Communications Commission at CPAC talking about all the partisan political censorship he's responsible for.

https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-cpac-discussion-with-fcc-chair-brendan-carr/5198471

"Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy"

Posted by ECEIllinois <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ECEIllinois' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 20:36:21, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Just another notch in his moron belt*

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 22:21:06, in reply to ""Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy""

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Nothing in the rule book says a pope can’t be president*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 20:51:02, in reply to ""Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy""

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Or that the President can't be Pope

Posted by illini222 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illini222' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 22:19:50, in reply to "Nothing in the rule book says a pope can’t be president*"

Drink Everytime Brad Underwood says "Elite" in a press conference.

Update

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 10:48:39, in reply to "Or that the President can't be Pope"

It appears as if Trump has deleted his post portraying himself as Jesus after facing some backlash from his own supporters. pic.twitter.com/9ZpWXBgL9L
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 13, 2026

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Commandment #1: You shall have no other gods before me.

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 10:42:49, in reply to "Or that the President can't be Pope"

Commandment #2: You shall not make for yourself any idol.

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Um, there are two possible issues with that

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 21:18:15, in reply to "Nothing in the rule book says a pope can’t be president*"

One is whether the Vatican counts as a foreign state, and thus the pope may be considered a foreign sovereign. The POTUS is ineligible for compensation by a foreign state, for example.

Another is the Catholic Church's own rules regarding public office.

Now do Muhammad *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 5:18:41, in reply to "Um, there are two possible issues with that"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

*snickers**

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 10:36:43, in reply to "Now do Muhammad *"

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"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Truly amazing. Bravo*

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 22:01:02, in reply to "Um, there are two possible issues with that"

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LOL*

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 21:26:20, in reply to "Um, there are two possible issues with that"

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

1. It’s a joke

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 21:26:08, in reply to "Um, there are two possible issues with that"

2. While the emoluments clause would surely be litigated the pope is could most likely work his way around it.

But it’s a joke. The pope is not running for president.

I mean, he did just announce his 2026 Christmas Mass would be given from Des Moines.*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 5:23:51, in reply to "1. It’s a joke "

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2. While the emoluments clause would surely be litigated the pope is could most likely work his way around it.

But it’s a joke. The pope is not running for president.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I would convert to get inside the building where the American Pope is Popeing.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 13, 2026, 8:07:28, in reply to "I mean, he did just announce his 2026 Christmas Mass would be given from Des Moines.*"

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2. While the emoluments clause would surely be litigated the pope is could most likely work his way around it.

But it’s a joke. The pope is not running for president.

You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

Isn't it just like a wedding? You cross your arms when you get to him in the sacrement line?*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 8:28:12, in reply to "I would convert to get inside the building where the American Pope is Popeing.*"

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2. While the emoluments clause would surely be litigated the pope is could most likely work his way around it.

But it’s a joke. The pope is not running for president.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

If I'm seeing the American Pope I want the full experience. But I say no to rape.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 13, 2026, 8:29:40, in reply to "Isn't it just like a wedding? You cross your arms when you get to him in the sacrement line?*"

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2. While the emoluments clause would surely be litigated the pope is could most likely work his way around it.

But it’s a joke. The pope is not running for president.

You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

Sorry, I have heard people try to make the eligibility claim as a non-joke*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 21:32:06, in reply to "1. It’s a joke "

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2. While the emoluments clause would surely be litigated the pope is could most likely work his way around it.

But it’s a joke. The pope is not running for president.

and you haven’t seen Air Bud. *

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 21:35:54, in reply to "Sorry, I have heard people try to make the eligibility claim as a non-joke*"

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2. While the emoluments clause would surely be litigated the pope is could most likely work his way around it.

But it’s a joke. The pope is not running for president.

Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

Yes. Literally an air bud joke about having an American pope

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 12:10:17, in reply to "and you haven’t seen Air Bud. *"

Who on a strict constitutional basis is eligible to president of the US provide he maintained residency.

The feasibility and practicality of it is much like the feasibility and practicality of a dog playing basketball!!

Deranged, including playing the oldies like “Landslide”.*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 20:40:28, in reply to ""Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy""

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Futures down 500. Need the recurring Monday morning war victory tweet*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 18:13:06, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Trump says gas prices may be higher for the midterms

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 17:40:46, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

MAGA!!!!

Chicken Little poster child

Accidentally telling the truth. *

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 18:22:37, in reply to "Trump says gas prices may be higher for the midterms"

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MAGA!!!!

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

If he predict’s that things will suck and is right, does that absolve him of fault?

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 18:01:02, in reply to "Trump says gas prices may be higher for the midterms"

I bet he thinks it does

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MAGA!!!!

(for rent)

Just wrote the Federal Government a big check. Hope they spend that money wisely.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 12, 2026, 15:05:01, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

I'm about to do the same. Happy it's going to be used on a Tomahawk...

...to blow up another Iranian school full of heathen kids, than say providing healthcare or food for my fellow Americans

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Down goes Orban.

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 14:31:39, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://x.com/yashar/status/2043410834534359460?s=20

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

What a name. Like someone being elected President whose name was John American.*

Posted by Carl Spackler <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Carl+Spackler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 21:14:48, in reply to "Down goes Orban. "

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https://x.com/yashar/status/2043410834534359460?s=20

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lol, good*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 17:26:50, in reply to "Down goes Orban. "

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https://x.com/yashar/status/2043410834534359460?s=20

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ooo

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 15:37:39, in reply to "Down goes Orban. "

https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/msg/1775943238.html

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Excellent*

Posted by PapaDels <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=PapaDels' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 15:29:12, in reply to "Down goes Orban. "

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https://x.com/yashar/status/2043410834534359460?s=20

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I have schweppervessence and wessonality.
Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean.

I knew JD would work his magic *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 14:34:29, in reply to "Down goes Orban. "

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https://x.com/yashar/status/2043410834534359460?s=20

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Stolen from Twitter.

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 20:30:47, in reply to "I knew JD would work his magic *"

Hegseth talking up land invasion of Iran as the answer to all life’s problems*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 13:02:39, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Chicken Little poster child

Where is this coming from?*

Posted by gvibes <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=gvibes' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 15:36:59, in reply to "Hegseth talking up land invasion of Iran as the answer to all life’s problems*"

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Expect markets to be down 3% tomorrow *

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 15:35:59, in reply to "Hegseth talking up land invasion of Iran as the answer to all life’s problems*"

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(for rent)

He’s so embarrassing. Is it true his father sued him to stop him from using the family surname?

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 15:06:18, in reply to "Hegseth talking up land invasion of Iran as the answer to all life’s problems*"

Just asking questions.

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I think the only way out of this war is capital gains tax cuts *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 13:15:15, in reply to "Hegseth talking up land invasion of Iran as the answer to all life’s problems*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Eliminating the estate tax.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 15:20:55, in reply to "I think the only way out of this war is capital gains tax cuts *"

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Drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge?*

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 13:31:13, in reply to "I think the only way out of this war is capital gains tax cuts *"

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Meh, eliminating Medicaid*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 13:29:49, in reply to "I think the only way out of this war is capital gains tax cuts *"

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Chicken Little poster child

Headstart caused the war*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 13:30:47, in reply to "Meh, eliminating Medicaid*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I blame DEI and Drag Story Hours.*

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"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Trump announces naval blockade of Iran*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 8:26:16, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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The guy is flailing. This is not a construction project or a casino

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:34:57, in reply to "Trump announces naval blockade of Iran*"

It’s real world, life or death, situations that he that trying to bully others to submission will not end well

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(for rent)

You mean he can’t just simply not pay and declare bankruptcy?*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:50:37, in reply to "The guy is flailing. This is not a construction project or a casino"

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It’s real world, life or death, situations that he that trying to bully others to submission will not end well

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He’s en route to that now. Rinse and repeat but with the USA

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 11:07:15, in reply to "You mean he can’t just simply not pay and declare bankruptcy?*"

He is the greatest threat to the United States of America on all its history. Not England (1776 / 1812), not the Confederacy (1862), not Japan or Germany (1941), not the Soviet Union (1946-1990). Not anyone. The greatest own goal since the Roman Empire

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It’s real world, life or death, situations that he that trying to bully others to submission will not end well

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(for rent)

How’s that gonna work with the Chinese arms shipment on the way? *

Posted by meanjeans <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=meanjeans' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 8:54:15, in reply to "Trump announces naval blockade of Iran*"

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BLAM, there's my opinion people - behold

Maybe we can seize them to restock since we’ve used up all our own stuff.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 11:33:59, in reply to "How’s that gonna work with the Chinese arms shipment on the way? *"

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Silk Road*

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:36:42, in reply to "How’s that gonna work with the Chinese arms shipment on the way? *"

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(for rent)

So now WE’RE closing the Strait?*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 8:30:02, in reply to "Trump announces naval blockade of Iran*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Foreign policy brought to you by Uno.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:50:43, in reply to "So now WE’RE closing the Strait?*"

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It’s the Strait of America now.*

Posted by Toonces <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Toonces' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:35:22, in reply to "So now WE’RE closing the Strait?*"

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I’m ugly.

Yo dawg, I heard you like blockades. So, how about I blockade your blockade*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:07:58, in reply to "So now WE’RE closing the Strait?*"

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Reciprocal Blockades!!!*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 11:32:15, in reply to "Yo dawg, I heard you like blockades. So, how about I blockade your blockade*"

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Chicken Little poster child

No deal; China preparing arms shipment to Iran

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 4:30:45, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Now i suppose Trump will declare victory and walk away; blame Biden

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Chicken Little poster child

Hope everyone’s got a phone they like. WW3’s gonna be bad for the old supply chain. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:28:20, in reply to "No deal; China preparing arms shipment to Iran"

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Now i suppose Trump will declare victory and walk away; blame Biden

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Totally worth it to trigger the libs*

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Now i suppose Trump will declare victory and walk away; blame Biden

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"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Sure, they’ll cut off our supplies of rare earths and semiconductors, but we can cut their supply…

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:55:15, in reply to "Hope everyone’s got a phone they like. WW3’s gonna be bad for the old supply chain. *"

…of, um, well, whatever it is that we produce in the US.

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Now i suppose Trump will declare victory and walk away; blame Biden

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He already declared victory again in response to talks breaking down.

“Whether we make a deal or not makes no difference to me. The reason is because we’ve won,” Trump tells reporters, downplaying the importance of the ongoing ceasefire negotiations involving Vice President JD Vance.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-says-makes-no-difference-if-deal-reached-or-not-warns-china-of-big-problems-if-it-ships-arms-to-iran/

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Now i suppose Trump will declare victory and walk away; blame Biden

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What exactly have we won and what was there to win? From what everything around here costs

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:33:46, in reply to "He already declared victory again in response to talks breaking down."

And how his actions closed a strait that was open, we are “losing”. Whatever that means.

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Now i suppose Trump will declare victory and walk away; blame Biden

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I just feel bad for Hegseth. Now where did I put that Ray Liotta gif ...*

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 7:14:05, in reply to "No deal; China preparing arms shipment to Iran"

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Now i suppose Trump will declare victory and walk away; blame Biden

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Ugh Trump making an appearance at UFC on CBS

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 20:16:18, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

He looks all glassy eyed

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Chicken Little poster child

He’s thirsty

Posted by digs <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=digs' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 12, 2026, 10:39:32, in reply to "Ugh Trump making an appearance at UFC on CBS"

Jesus man have some respect for yourself

Got some on your chin

https://x.com/happypunch/status/2043202679195718024?s=46&t=ACBkEvAYzq8tudwAwdWy7g

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He looks all glassy eyed

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Little Marco also there. Really leaving JD to flounder huh*

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 22:09:22, in reply to "Ugh Trump making an appearance at UFC on CBS"

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He looks all glassy eyed

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

Why tf didn’t he go to Pakistan?*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 22:31:14, in reply to "Little Marco also there. Really leaving JD to flounder huh*"

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He looks all glassy eyed

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Chicken Little poster child

He wants JD to own the failure

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 22:59:44, in reply to "Why tf didn’t he go to Pakistan?*"

Also the Iranians thought JD was their lifeline because he’s the most anti-war so they wanted him.

But everything Rubio does that’s not for his own personal gain is to cuck JD and he’s succeeding.

I think if Trump had a do over he’d pick Rubio over Vance

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 22:18:43, in reply to "Little Marco also there. Really leaving JD to flounder huh*"

Vance he picked because of Don Jr and Tucker but he never really liked him and Tucker is out with him.

Rubio has clearly been Trump’s guy. He’s gotten all the major face time over JD

Making yachts more affordable again

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 17:35:07, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

That’s satire.

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 20:41:26, in reply to "Making yachts more affordable again "

Right?

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Da Pope throwing shade at Hegseth.

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 13:44:18, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2043034345225572505?s=20

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Never read the comments*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 16:33:58, in reply to "Da Pope throwing shade at Hegseth."

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https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2043034345225572505?s=20

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Chicken Little poster child

Looks like Swalwell and Gonzales expulsions are coming up this week

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 12:00:14, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

With Cheriflus-McCormick and Mills to follow.

Quite the precedent has been set

Do you think sexual assault and fraud are bad? *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 12:59:09, in reply to "Looks like Swalwell and Gonzales expulsions are coming up this week"

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With Cheriflus-McCormick and Mills to follow.

Quite the precedent has been set

No I don’t obviously

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 13:23:21, in reply to "Do you think sexual assault and fraud are bad? *"

I think they’re all most likely not good people that aren’t deserving of being Congress.

I certainly wouldn’t vote for any of them.

But I also believe in due process (and elections) which is in varying stages for each.

Used to be Congress only really expelled members for literally taking up arms against the US and allowed the system to do its duty. But all that changed in the past couple years.

That is a big change imo.

I hope Alvin Bragg investigates financial transactions between

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 21:38:44, in reply to "No I don’t obviously "

these women and the Steyer campaign.

For him, paying a million per person is a bargain.

Bruce Pearl is going to boycott Spain because of Pedro Sanchez's stance against Israel

Posted by rozoben <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=rozoben' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 11:40:41, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://x.com/coachbrucepearl/status/2042741082228715983

Not surprised that he is a zionist.

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stick to politics Bruce. no one wants you near a mike or a court*

Posted by memyselfandillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=memyselfandillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 13:25:57, in reply to "Bruce Pearl is going to boycott Spain because of Pedro Sanchez's stance against Israel"

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https://x.com/coachbrucepearl/status/2042741082228715983

Not surprised that he is a zionist.

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Mikerophone? *

Posted by Tuscy <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tuscy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 15:49:17, in reply to "stick to politics Bruce. no one wants you near a mike or a court*"

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https://x.com/coachbrucepearl/status/2042741082228715983

Not surprised that he is a zionist.

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"I wouldn't mind the DP here." - jumpingdan

That’s good beer.*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 17:32:50, in reply to "Mikerophone? *"

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https://x.com/coachbrucepearl/status/2042741082228715983

Not surprised that he is a zionist.

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to open the Straits of Hormuz

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 11:00:55, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Will they be in the form of cash on pallets in an unmarked C-130 like Barack HUSSEIN Obama did?*

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 12:51:08, in reply to "We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to open the Straits of Hormuz"

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(for rent)

I assume they’ll convert it all to Trump coin and send it to the Iranians *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 17:36:07, in reply to "Will they be in the form of cash on pallets in an unmarked C-130 like Barack HUSSEIN Obama did?*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

US denied this. Apparently we also sent two naval ships through the strait and back*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 11:03:31, in reply to "We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to open the Straits of Hormuz"

Centcom says this was the start of mine clearing operations*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 11:55:51, in reply to "US denied this. Apparently we also sent two naval ships through the strait and back*"

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Saw that Iran can’t locate all of the mines it laid.

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 12:00:15, in reply to "Centcom says this was the start of mine clearing operations*"

Not good.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Have to stop their tracks for fear.

This song will stop playing itself in your head by May 15.

Something they have in common with Trump*

Posted by illini222 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illini222' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 16:39:11, in reply to "Saw that Iran can’t locate all of the mines it laid. "

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Not good.

Drink Everytime Brad Underwood says "Elite" in a press conference.

Somebody should inform the underwriters at Lloyd’s*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 11:17:19, in reply to "US denied this. Apparently we also sent two naval ships through the strait and back*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Farm lobby may have had a meeting with Trump

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 10:22:02, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Coming soon: lines at gas stations. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 10:43:23, in reply to "Farm lobby may have had a meeting with Trump "

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There is a substantial number of Trump voters nostalgic for the past I guess *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 10:51:33, in reply to "Coming soon: lines at gas stations. *"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

As long as blacks get even less gas than they do Trump voters will be happy.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 11, 2026, 18:01:03, in reply to "There is a substantial number of Trump voters nostalgic for the past I guess *"

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Sounds like Eric Swalwell is being accused of sexual assault by a former staffer.

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 10, 2026, 16:51:30, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

He should drop out of the gov. race and probably congress too.

I hope Steyer wins.

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

Tom Steyer has spent like $120M on the race so far. I would prefer him over Katie Porter though*

Posted by ECEIllinois <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ECEIllinois' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 17:44:46, in reply to "Sounds like Eric Swalwell is being accused of sexual assault by a former staffer."

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He should drop out of the gov. race and probably congress too.

I hope Steyer wins.

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I can’t believe how terrible the options are in that race*

Posted by snipes824 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=snipes824' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 17:52:25, in reply to "Tom Steyer has spent like $120M on the race so far. I would prefer him over Katie Porter though*"

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He should drop out of the gov. race and probably congress too.

I hope Steyer wins.

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Kamala should've run for governor instead of thinking about running for President again*

Posted by ECEIllinois <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ECEIllinois' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 17:58:15, in reply to "I can’t believe how terrible the options are in that race*"

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He should drop out of the gov. race and probably congress too.

I hope Steyer wins.

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The Richard Nixon*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 18:01:34, in reply to "Kamala should've run for governor instead of thinking about running for President again*"

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He should drop out of the gov. race and probably congress too.

I hope Steyer wins.

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It's always so funny to me when someone like Steyer rails against money in politics

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 17:51:33, in reply to "Tom Steyer has spent like $120M on the race so far. I would prefer him over Katie Porter though*"

The guy has spent as much as anyone and more than many he calls out.

But the dem candidates there are pretty weak imo. There was a good chance for a GOP lockout had Trump not stupidly endorsed.

Orban is going down Sunday, right?*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 13:18:19, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Chicken Little poster child

Our Hungarian Bartender is convinced that Russia will steal it for Orban

Posted by JacobRDaugherty <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=JacobRDaugherty' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 20:13:46, in reply to "Orban is going down Sunday, right?*"

He fled Hungary due to Orban and also the lack of economic opportunities

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I'm yelling faipari*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 13:19:00, in reply to "Orban is going down Sunday, right?*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Why are you yelling “woodworking”?*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 16:56:51, in reply to "I'm yelling faipari*"

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Google told me it was timber *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 18:12:20, in reply to "Why are you yelling “woodworking”?*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Mamdani pledges to eradicate literally teh worst part of New York City

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:56:40, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I’m not losing this negotiation. Please don’t put in the paper that I’m losing this negotiation.

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:14:02, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

unbiased dice roller

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

At this point, it's functionally impossible

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:30:39, in reply to "I’m not losing this negotiation. Please don’t put in the paper that I’m losing this negotiation. "

for any deal that he can negotiate to not be significantly worse than the Obama deal that Trump tore up.

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unbiased dice roller

we already have proof of this with not NAFTA (which i know wasn't obama's)*

Posted by torinese <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=torinese' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 17:18:21, in reply to "At this point, it's functionally impossible"

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for any deal that he can negotiate to not be significantly worse than the Obama deal that Trump tore up.

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unbiased dice roller

Did we discuss the Wisconsin and Georgia special elections from this week?

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:11:06, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Wisconsin S Ct is noteworthy because the liberal candidate outperformed Kamala Harris by 20+ points but even outperformed the liberal candidate in last year's S Ct election by 10 points.

In Georgia, the D candidate lost but his margin was 17 points better than MTG's margin when she ran in 2024.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I credit my FIB influence.

Even the county our cabin is in went blue.

That's effing huge way up dere.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Same here, but with Rock County. Was already purple, getting bluer.*

Posted by MojoJojo <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MojoJojo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 13, 2026, 10:25:06, in reply to "I credit my FIB influence."

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Even the county our cabin is in went blue.

That's effing huge way up dere.

Dems have big momentum. Only question is whether there will be free/fair elections in Nov*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:16:32, in reply to "Did we discuss the Wisconsin and Georgia special elections from this week?"

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I think the clear answer to that question is no, but there are degrees.

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:22:40, in reply to "Dems have big momentum. Only question is whether there will be free/fair elections in Nov*"

Hopefully the Bluenami will be massive enough to overcome ICE at polling places or whatever else they come up with. Then all we have to worry about is whether they'll pull some shit in January again. Or maybe just refuse to recognize election results entirely.

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

It would be foolish to not assume that the Republicans

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:27:15, in reply to "I think the clear answer to that question is no, but there are degrees."

Will do the maximum level of election fuckery that they are allowed to get away with, and to have as much in place as possible to prevent that from happening.

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Assume they'll do more than that. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:32:05, in reply to "It would be foolish to not assume that the Republicans"

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Will do the maximum level of election fuckery that they are allowed to get away with, and to have as much in place as possible to prevent that from happening.

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I fully expect armed forces at polling places*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:38:50, in reply to "Assume they'll do more than that. *"

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Will do the maximum level of election fuckery that they are allowed to get away with, and to have as much in place as possible to prevent that from happening.

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I gets it's hollow to say it's against federal law for federal troops to be...

Posted by shua <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=shua' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 13:06:51, in reply to "I fully expect armed forces at polling places*"

stationed at polling places.

unless “such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.” So I assume they'll classify immigrants as enemies of the US

I hope they like being told “fuck you for your service.” *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:43:19, in reply to "I fully expect armed forces at polling places*"

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Will do the maximum level of election fuckery that they are allowed to get away with, and to have as much in place as possible to prevent that from happening.

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In Wisky, liberals are the majority until 20230 at least*

Posted by reggiedunlop <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=reggiedunlop' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:16:32, in reply to "Did we discuss the Wisconsin and Georgia special elections from this week?"

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That's a *long* time*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:17:46, in reply to "In Wisky, liberals are the majority until 20230 at least*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

whoops, it's Friday, I will let that sit out there*

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I'm just glad you put that date out into the universe. Hopefully it will manifest something.*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:26:16, in reply to "whoops, it's Friday, I will let that sit out there*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

the perfect man for an aural medium

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 11:02:27, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5822769-secretary-kennedy-podcast-launch/

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

And the medium’s aural*

Posted by PapaDels <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=PapaDels' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 20:53:46, in reply to "the perfect man for an aural medium"

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5822769-secretary-kennedy-podcast-launch/

I have schweppervessence and wessonality.
Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean.

He and Sauer should co host *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 11:11:28, in reply to "the perfect man for an aural medium"

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5822769-secretary-kennedy-podcast-launch/

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

A face for radio, a speaking voice for print, and the writing ability and intellectual firepower for

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 11:05:19, in reply to "the perfect man for an aural medium"

just shutting the fuck up and going away.

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5822769-secretary-kennedy-podcast-launch/

Pete B is so good at this

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:07:18, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2042604161590599762

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Is Kernen just playing heel? There are moments where he eyes seem to break Kayfabe. *

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https://x.com/atrupar/status/2042604161590599762

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Yes, he is.

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 11:01:00, in reply to "Is Kernen just playing heel? There are moments where he eyes seem to break Kayfabe. *"

he's your typical '80s trader turned pundit, which means he knows full well how fucked this all is. He's playing the MAGA role to try to keep Trump's FCC from coming after CNBC.

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

I'm never not impressed by the mental gymnastics true believers will put themselves through....

...to defend an obvious piece of shit who has zero idea what he's doing, except when it comes to enriching himself and his lackeys.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Nope*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:45:32, in reply to "Is Kernen just playing heel? There are moments where he eyes seem to break Kayfabe. *"

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Chicken Little poster child

Kernen has an MS in Molecular Biology from MIT

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:14:19, in reply to "Pete B is so good at this"

but he didn't know that Ireland and Scotland are not part of the same land mass

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

He basically failed out of scientific work tho*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:26:20, in reply to "Kernen has an MS in Molecular Biology from MIT"

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but he didn't know that Ireland and Scotland are not part of the same land mass

Chicken Little poster child

Did he? Or did he just decide he was more interested in money? *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 11:18:58, in reply to "He basically failed out of scientific work tho*"

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but he didn't know that Ireland and Scotland are not part of the same land mass

I can’t believe that’s the level of guy they’ve got on CNBC*

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The male host laughing is pretty wild *

Posted by illini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:52:53, in reply to "I can’t believe that’s the level of guy they’ve got on CNBC*"

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Kernen is an ultra MAGA climate change-denying dumbass flamer.

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:25:49, in reply to "I can’t believe that’s the level of guy they’ve got on CNBC*"

Everyone else on CNBC is pretty decent.

Chicken Little poster child

Really? I am just impressed the other host spoke up*

Posted by reggiedunlop <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=reggiedunlop' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:14:13, in reply to "I can’t believe that’s the level of guy they’ve got on CNBC*"

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I figured it was more a down the middle finance place, not a stumbling MAGA idiot place*

Posted by snipes824 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=snipes824' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:18:19, in reply to "Really? I am just impressed the other host spoke up*"

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Fair and, and to the show's credit, they did push back on MAGAman*

Posted by reggiedunlop <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=reggiedunlop' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:21:05, in reply to "I figured it was more a down the middle finance place, not a stumbling MAGA idiot place*"

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Kernen was a pretty solid finance guy before the ultra MAGA came out on the broadcast

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:13:32, in reply to "I can’t believe that’s the level of guy they’ve got on CNBC*"

Sorkin is so great at what he does as well but is subtle politically relatively speaking

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Can we just hire him to go around and talk to people, how much would he be worth? 100m?*

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Yep, he is just so great at communications and making a point*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:12:14, in reply to "Can we just hire him to go around and talk to people, how much would he be worth? 100m?*"

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which only works on highly educated white people apparently. because he gets basically 0 from any

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:37:44, in reply to "Yep, he is just so great at communications and making a point*"

other demographic group

I wonder if that would be any different if he was straight.

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:42:16, in reply to "which only works on highly educated white people apparently. because he gets basically 0 from any "

I lean toward no. Most of the people who dismiss him don't even bring that part up. The fact that he's liberal seems to be justification enough.

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

extremely broad brush, but i think it would. there's a reason why black people don't give him

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:44:41, in reply to "I wonder if that would be any different if he was straight."

the time of day

It’s because he’s gay

Posted by TarheelIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=TarheelIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:10:16, in reply to "extremely broad brush, but i think it would. there's a reason why black people don't give him"

I know a black women who’s married to a preacher. She hates Trump to the very core and in the last election 2020 she told me to my face that she would have a hard time voting for Pete. She said she would rather sit out.

Recrudescence

delete*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:26:23, in reply to "Yep, he is just so great at communications and making a point*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Da Pope firing off some tweets this morning. Trump gonna be mad*

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 9:09:16, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Pope: “peace is good. Jesus loved peace. Killing people is bad.”

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 9:58:10, in reply to "Da Pope firing off some tweets this morning. Trump gonna be mad*"

Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Unlike Muhammed*

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:05:37, in reply to "Pope: “peace is good. Jesus loved peace. Killing people is bad.”"

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

Excellent drop in. *

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:51:46, in reply to "Unlike Muhammed*"

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

Anyone who has studied the Quran and Muhammed's life knows this

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 13:51:56, in reply to "Excellent drop in. *"

You can even look it up if you want a casual answer. Muhammed was a military warrior, unlike Jesus, for example.

Thanks for sharing this entirely relevant information!*

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You can even look it up if you want a casual answer. Muhammed was a military warrior, unlike Jesus, for example.

""If you lie down with dogs..."*

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Maybe you need to do an AI search…*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:44:54, in reply to "Unlike Muhammed*"

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

Chicken Little poster child

Please, say more...

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

.............wat*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:35:53, in reply to "Unlike Muhammed*"

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

Islamophobia is like jell-o*

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

I am not Islamophobic. You have no basis for asserting that*

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

I didn't realize the Pope spoke for Mohammed.*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:25:07, in reply to "Unlike Muhammed*"

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

the pope should speak out against Iran's repressive theocracy with some energy, IMO*

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

Okay?

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 21:05:32, in reply to "the pope should speak out against Iran's repressive theocracy with some energy, IMO*"

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-calls-peace-and-dialogue-protests-continue-iran

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Hegseth: fuck you Leo. What do you know about Jesus? And who elected you to be a moral arbiter?

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

West Virginia gets a nation's highest 87% of its electricity from coal. Its power rates have risen

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 7:57:20, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

73% in the last ten years.

Ashley Nicole Dixon of Danese works as a manager at a Dollar General store and has a teenage daughter at home and another in college. She flipped through bills on her phone totaling more than $5,000 charged last year for electricity in her house that’s just over 1,000 square feet, even though her air conditioner didn’t work last summer. She voted for Trump, but said she’s done with him because he and other Republican politicians in West Virginia’s Capitol aren’t looking out for her interests.

“I love West Virginia because it’s beautiful. But anymore, it’s just a sham from the local government all the way up to Charleston,” she said, adding she believes the state’s Public Service Commission should be elected, and Trump should send her a check since he promised to cut electricity bills in half.

“I have no choice. It has to be paid,” she said. “And that’s what makes me sick because now I’m going to have to go … take more money out of my savings account just to keep the lights on.”

...

Jennifer Brown of Kingwood lands in that category. She’s employed at West Virginia’s federally funded Head Start program for low-income children and her husband is a postal worker. They have four kids and during the winter months, their combined utilities can climb to $1,000 a month, eclipsing their $798 mortgage. They were on a payment plan for their gas this winter after receiving a shut-off notice, and she said they were still paying off a water bill from their previous home.

“Every month we get our utility bills, I’m so angry. I’m like, ‘Why is this so high?’” she said, adding it’s not unusual to pay $200 to $300 for electricity and the same for water, sewage and garbage combined every month. “And we can’t figure it out. Nothing seems to be wrong … and we’re not wasteful.”

Bills introduced that would have temporarily frozen electricity rates in West Virginia or helped those who are most vulnerable went nowhere this year in the state legislature even though increased energy costs are often passed on to ratepayers. The Public Service Commission has approved a flurry of rate hikes in recent years as private utilities grapple with maintaining profits while improving infrastructure in a mountainous, sparsely populated state.

...

It’s been a particularly tough burden for some small businesses to carry. In the western town of Ravenswood, just across the river from Ohio, some shop owners were forced to shut down this winter because they couldn’t pay their electric bills.

Heather Santee said the power at her bakery was abruptly terminated just ahead of Valentine’s Day. She was behind on her bill, but said she would have been able to pay the necessary chunk of the $4,000 she owed if she could have stayed open long enough to fulfill the holiday orders. Instead, the shut-off forced her out, leaving the tenants living in apartments upstairs without heat too.

“Once I started getting those high electric bills in the winter, I was like, ‘This will be what closes me down,’” she said, adding the bakery was her dream and the loss has her thinking maybe it would be better to just leave the state altogether. “West Virginia is holding back a lot of people because they are allowing these bills to be so high.”

I didn't realize it was this bad up there. It's crazy for your electric bill to be higher than your mortgage.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

And that’s without getting into how much Mountain Dew prices have risen.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 8:43:12, in reply to "West Virginia gets a nation's highest 87% of its electricity from coal. It's power rates have risen "

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Coal is stupid. They voted for stupid. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 8:10:46, in reply to "West Virginia gets a nation's highest 87% of its electricity from coal. It's power rates have risen "

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That's beautiful clean coal to you*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 12:41:13, in reply to "Coal is stupid. They voted for stupid. *"

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The people of WV are good and smart. But coal is dead and they need to stop

Posted by memyselfandillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=memyselfandillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 8:26:43, in reply to "Coal is stupid. They voted for stupid. *"

giving their all to a few at the top of the crumbling coal pyramid.
Unshackle WV, and set it loose so those folks can tackle
and make money on some of the problems of the day.

73% in the last ten years.

Ashley Nicole Dixon of Danese works as a manager at a Dollar General store and has a teenage daughter at home and another in college. She flipped through bills on her phone totaling more than $5,000 charged last year for electricity in her house that’s just over 1,000 square feet, even though her air conditioner didn’t work last summer. She voted for Trump, but said she’s done with him because he and other Republican politicians in West Virginia’s Capitol aren’t looking out for her interests.

“I love West Virginia because it’s beautiful. But anymore, it’s just a sham from the local government all the way up to Charleston,” she said, adding she believes the state’s Public Service Commission should be elected, and Trump should send her a check since he promised to cut electricity bills in half.

“I have no choice. It has to be paid,” she said. “And that’s what makes me sick because now I’m going to have to go … take more money out of my savings account just to keep the lights on.”

...

Jennifer Brown of Kingwood lands in that category. She’s employed at West Virginia’s federally funded Head Start program for low-income children and her husband is a postal worker. They have four kids and during the winter months, their combined utilities can climb to $1,000 a month, eclipsing their $798 mortgage. They were on a payment plan for their gas this winter after receiving a shut-off notice, and she said they were still paying off a water bill from their previous home.

“Every month we get our utility bills, I’m so angry. I’m like, ‘Why is this so high?’” she said, adding it’s not unusual to pay $200 to $300 for electricity and the same for water, sewage and garbage combined every month. “And we can’t figure it out. Nothing seems to be wrong … and we’re not wasteful.”

Bills introduced that would have temporarily frozen electricity rates in West Virginia or helped those who are most vulnerable went nowhere this year in the state legislature even though increased energy costs are often passed on to ratepayers. The Public Service Commission has approved a flurry of rate hikes in recent years as private utilities grapple with maintaining profits while improving infrastructure in a mountainous, sparsely populated state.

...

It’s been a particularly tough burden for some small businesses to carry. In the western town of Ravenswood, just across the river from Ohio, some shop owners were forced to shut down this winter because they couldn’t pay their electric bills.

Heather Santee said the power at her bakery was abruptly terminated just ahead of Valentine’s Day. She was behind on her bill, but said she would have been able to pay the necessary chunk of the $4,000 she owed if she could have stayed open long enough to fulfill the holiday orders. Instead, the shut-off forced her out, leaving the tenants living in apartments upstairs without heat too.

“Once I started getting those high electric bills in the winter, I was like, ‘This will be what closes me down,’” she said, adding the bakery was her dream and the loss has her thinking maybe it would be better to just leave the state altogether. “West Virginia is holding back a lot of people because they are allowing these bills to be so high.”

I didn't realize it was this bad up there. It's crazy for your electric bill to be higher than your mortgage.

what about clean coal? you know where they get the coal and then they wash it?*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:37:32, in reply to "The people of WV are good and smart. But coal is dead and they need to stop"

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

dunk it in bleach and shine some UV light on it*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 10:44:25, in reply to "what about clean coal? you know where they get the coal and then they wash it?*"

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Horse paste that ish*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 11:01:39, in reply to "dunk it in bleach and shine some UV light on it*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Is this why Melania came our of moth balls

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 22:00:25, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://x.com/calltoactivism/status/2042422294228672997?s=46&t=BiSCeWNnfeeYMXAZqAhMUw

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Nevermind, old news*

Posted by Carl Spackler <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Carl+Spackler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 20:19:37, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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So space x’s ipo is just another Elon griftcon

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 19:40:15, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

SPACEX RECORDED NEARLY $5 BLN LOSS LAST YEAR DUE TO AI EXPENDITURE - THE INFORMATION

https://bsky.app/profile/fintwitter.bsky.social/post/3mj426euri42n

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

big guy just truthed a video of a woman being beaten to death with a hammer.

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 18:53:29, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

very normal.

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:04:39, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Hmmmm

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ralph_wiggum_im_helping.gif *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 17:58:52, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

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Hmmmm

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“i cannot wait to go down.”*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 17:34:57, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

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Hmmmm

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Chicken Little poster child

when I was about 7, I cussed in front of my friend and he said he was gonna tell my mom

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 17:13:58, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

so of course, being an advanced tactical mind, I immediately went to tell my mom that, no matter what my friend said, I had never uttered a bad word in my life

I don't think I threatened any lawsuits, but sometimes my childhood memories are a little blurry

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

LOLOLOLIL

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 15:31:36, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

Reporter: I just got off a call with Trump, who said he had no prior knowledge that Melania Trump would discuss Jeffrey Epstein in her remarks today. Before we hung up, Trump said that Melania didn't know Jeffrey Epstein.

https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3mj3n3emgfh2y

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Where did she announce this? At an event or was this for TV?*

Posted by gullit <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=gullit' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 15:04:48, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

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Hmmmm

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She had press conference and read a statement*

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 15:10:05, in reply to "Where did she announce this? At an event or was this for TV?* "

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Hmmmm

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It was weird AF*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 15:14:15, in reply to "She had press conference and read a statement*"

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Hmmmm

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Yeah, so random seeming.

Posted by SurfTheBoneyard <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=SurfTheBoneyard' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 15:48:55, in reply to "It was weird AF*"

Especially since she has pretty much been in seclusion. The “why now?” of it will be interesting.

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Hmmmm

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Sky Marshal of the Luftwaffle

“Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie

Has Iran become so bad

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 15:59:18, in reply to "Yeah, so random seeming."

that they're using the Epstein files as a distraction?

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Especially since she has pretty much been in seclusion. The “why now?” of it will be interesting.

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Hmmmm

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Iran should add an 11th peace demand—Release the Epstein Files.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 16:50:08, in reply to "Has Iran become so bad"

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that they're using the Epstein files as a distraction?

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Especially since she has pretty much been in seclusion. The “why now?” of it will be interesting.

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Hmmmm

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I’m beginning to think the Epstein Files are in that mountain in Iran *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 18:54:37, in reply to "Iran should add an 11th peace demand—Release the Epstein Files.*"

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that they're using the Epstein files as a distraction?

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Especially since she has pretty much been in seclusion. The “why now?” of it will be interesting.

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Hmmmm

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Any Port in a Storm (which is also the name of Trump brand condoms)*

Posted by memyselfandillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=memyselfandillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 16:13:54, in reply to "Has Iran become so bad"

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that they're using the Epstein files as a distraction?

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Especially since she has pretty much been in seclusion. The “why now?” of it will be interesting.

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Hmmmm

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Whatever happens, the Don't Tread on Me guys will have Slovenia flags in their profile pics*

Posted by KCWildcat <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KCWildcat' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:51:56, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

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Didn't Macron recently publicize her and Epstein's relationship?*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 9, 2026, 14:35:14, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

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Hmmmm

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

It sort of seems like they might be getting in front of a story that's about to come out*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:09:58, in reply to "So they sent out Melania today with out of left field Epstein comments"

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Hmmmm

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She's been going at Michael Wolff for a while now.

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:23:43, in reply to "It sort of seems like they might be getting in front of a story that's about to come out*"

This has been going for at least 6 months.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/melania-trumps-legal-knocking-down-epstein-stories-false-rcna223940

I wasn't involved with Epstein. Don't put it in the paper that I was involved with Epstein.*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:15:11, in reply to "It sort of seems like they might be getting in front of a story that's about to come out*"

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Hmmmm

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

ooo

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:21:42, in reply to "I wasn't involved with Epstein. Don't put it in the paper that I was involved with Epstein.*"

https://x.com/shutupmikeginn/status/403359911481839617?lang=en

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Streisand Effect*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:27:17, in reply to "ooo"

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https://x.com/shutupmikeginn/status/403359911481839617?lang=en

Coriolis Effect*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 14:35:41, in reply to "Streisand Effect*"

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https://x.com/shutupmikeginn/status/403359911481839617?lang=en

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

man, people really don't like when you commit genocide

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 13:03:28, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

take note, Democratic establishment

https://bsky.app/profile/sahilkapur.bsky.social/post/3mj2xqlzfjk2r

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

March was hot

Posted by MC <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:28:04, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

OFFICIAL from @noaa.gov today: March blew the cover off the record books here in the U.S.

❗️Average temperature: 9.4° ABOVE the 20th century normal
❗️First time ANY month exceeded 9°F above average
❗️This was the ALL-TIME WARMEST March in the 132-year record

https://bsky.app/profile/shelwinkleywx.bsky.social/post/3mizruq4ncs2a

Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

Colorado with lowest peak snowpack on record thanks in part to hottest March ever on record…

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:37:17, in reply to "March was hot "

https://youtube.com/shorts/Zl0QAcvQPB0?si=UdKBP08PlG1cvBc1

https://youtube.com/shorts/fw4gEzOKKsA?si=L-BjcqED4S7qX15B

This state is going to burn (more than usual

)

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Related: Watching a webcam at Jackson Hole Golf Course...greens are currently being watered.

Posted by EffinIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=EffinIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 15:05:56, in reply to "Colorado with lowest peak snowpack on record thanks in part to hottest March ever on record…"

on April 9th.

The Tetons look lovely, however.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/Zl0QAcvQPB0?si=UdKBP08PlG1cvBc1

https://youtube.com/shorts/fw4gEzOKKsA?si=L-BjcqED4S7qX15B

This state is going to burn (more than usual )

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so warm there this year. the rinks we usually skate at weren't open most of winter*

Posted by cpsteine <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=cpsteine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 10, 2026, 9:46:16, in reply to "Related: Watching a webcam at Jackson Hole Golf Course...greens are currently being watered."

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on April 9th.

The Tetons look lovely, however.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/Zl0QAcvQPB0?si=UdKBP08PlG1cvBc1

https://youtube.com/shorts/fw4gEzOKKsA?si=L-BjcqED4S7qX15B

This state is going to burn (more than usual )

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It’s bad. 17-18 worst I’ve personally seen, but this is far beyond. Park City also a disaster*

Posted by cpsteine <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=cpsteine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 13:31:49, in reply to "Colorado with lowest peak snowpack on record thanks in part to hottest March ever on record…"

SLC got 2.75 inches of snow this year, and Myrtle Beach, SC got 6*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 13:42:19, in reply to "It’s bad. 17-18 worst I’ve personally seen, but this is far beyond. Park City also a disaster*"

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how many people are left at noaa?*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:30:05, in reply to "March was hot "

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:50:09, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

JD just wants the big desk. i don't think he really has any scruples about how it happens. he would have done it on day 1 if he could have pulled it off.

but especially as we get later into the summer, if we're still BSing around iran, trump's approvals are still in the shitter, and the impending midterms are looking bleak, i could see a palace coup.

i think hegseth and RFKJr would never flip, but little marco would go absolutely along. i think a lot of the lower positions are kind of windsocks and could be talked into it.

the biggest issue would be the house and senate votes, but i think if it started looking like they were clearly going to lose the senate as well as the house, and the leadership of the old guard GOP felt like it gave them a chance to hang on to the senate, they might consider it.

super longshot on all of this, though. it's risky and you don't want to kendall roy this thing if you're JD. the risk calculus is more to just wait out the great big beautiful blood clot.

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

guys, this post was about JD wanting to stab trump in the back,

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 17:23:51, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

not a prediction that this would come to pass.

i think it's highly unlikely.

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

read it that way*

Posted by cpsteine <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=cpsteine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 18:16:49, in reply to "guys, this post was about JD wanting to stab trump in the back, "

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not a prediction that this would come to pass.

i think it's highly unlikely.

he's even worse than trump! or is it too early for that?*

Posted by Ari Gold <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Ari+Gold' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 13:23:15, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

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Oh he's fucking evil in his own unique, craven, diabolical way....

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 13:31:42, in reply to "he's even worse than trump! or is it too early for that?*"

...but as long as you're making $$$ who cares, right Ari?

Tell Throwsize I said hi next time you see him, and let him know that I sadly haven't committed suicide yet, y'know like he's been wishing for...

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Disagree. That path would kill any chance at him getting reelected*

Posted by Carl Spackler <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Carl+Spackler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:46:26, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

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hot take - he has a 0.0% chance of winning an election for President

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 13:25:08, in reply to "Disagree. That path would kill any chance at him getting reelected*"

he's not nearly the charismatic figure trump is with almost none of the name recognition. the hardcore trump base won't turn out for that guy

Absolutely zero chance, he is so cringe

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 13:41:11, in reply to "hot take - he has a 0.0% chance of winning an election for President"

Rubio seems the clear front runner for the MAGA contingency.

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he's not nearly the charismatic figure trump is with almost none of the name recognition. the hardcore trump base won't turn out for that guy

Impeachment is much easier than the 25th, and that's not happening either. *

Posted by larue33 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=larue33' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:28:38, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

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What's the threshold for 25ing the potus? Just a majority of the cabinet?

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 9, 2026, 11:54:47, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

Going back to the shoes thing, I can't imagine any of them doing that.

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

majority of the cabinet led by the VP would inform congress they think the POTUS is unfit

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:09:00, in reply to "What's the threshold for 25ing the potus? Just a majority of the cabinet?"

POTUS has the right to challenge that (and trump absolutely would).

it would then need a 2/3rd majority in both house and senate (vs. just a majority in house and 2/3rds in senate for impeachment and conviction, respectively) to remove.

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Going back to the shoes thing, I can't imagine any of them doing that.

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

Ok thanks. Yeah that'll never happen. He tried a coup and nothing happened.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 9, 2026, 13:10:51, in reply to "majority of the cabinet led by the VP would inform congress they think the POTUS is unfit"

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Going back to the shoes thing, I can't imagine any of them doing that.

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

gotta clear 2/3 in both senate and house, right?*

Posted by cpsteine <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=cpsteine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 11:43:38, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

yep. *

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 11:44:42, in reply to "gotta clear 2/3 in both senate and house, too, right?*"

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

that piece feels tough; JD couldn't control the narrative and the politics once it jumped cabinet*

Posted by cpsteine <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=cpsteine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 11:46:26, in reply to "yep. *"

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exactly why i think it's still a longshot.

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:06:42, in reply to "that piece feels tough; JD couldn't control the narrative and the politics once it jumped cabinet*"

you'd need to be certain you had the votes. you come at the don; you best not miss.

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

My assumption. Until Trump is a negative to GOP, he’s going nowhere. *

Posted by MC <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 10:30:04, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

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Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

he's a negative now, IMO, and it's not close. they're headed straight down*

Posted by cpsteine <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=cpsteine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 11:44:18, in reply to "My assumption. Until Trump is a negative to GOP, he’s going nowhere. *"

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There is some wiggle room to drop in the polls. But he’s not far away *

Posted by MC <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:16:56, in reply to "he's a negative now, IMO, and it's not close. they're headed straight down*"

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Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

For the last 12 years Donald Trump has been both the cause of and solution to the GOPs problems *

Posted by ijustkrushalot <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ijustkrushalot' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:19:31, in reply to "There is some wiggle room to drop in the polls. But he’s not far away *"

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right. i don't think we're far off from that, though. *

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 10:38:00, in reply to "My assumption. Until Trump is a negative to GOP, he’s going nowhere. *"

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

Are we though?

Posted by tvillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=tvillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 10:42:37, in reply to "right. i don't think we're far off from that, though. *"

He's never been lower for sure, but we're so splintered as a society. His 10% or whatever it is who really would vote for him again if he stood out on 5th Ave and shot Ryan Reynolds dead still exists, and there's nothing that will move them off that rock. They are the Family Guy donkey meme. And that 10% is what's dragging all the remaining "NEVER LIBRUL" Fox News viewers to the ballot box.

That number is way higher than 10%*

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in the larger block of trump voters/conservatives, you have several different buckets

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:05:18, in reply to "Are we though?"

1. The not-really-conservative Trump MAGA populists. Not really politically engaged before Trump.

2. Conservative NeverTrumpers. A pretty small group of old guard GOP.

3. Trump Republicans. Solid politically active GOP voters that are still on board with Trump's policies

4. Trump voters that don't approve of his policies.

The smart GOP political calculus is that you're immediately ruling out group 1. There's only one Trump (sorry Don Jr.). People will try to keep MAGA going, but no one has the gravitas of Trump.

So, you need 2+4>3. Every Tucker and Megyn and Rogan you lose increases 4. I think the 3 side of the equation is still probably 15-20% in the lead, but that's only a swing of half that needed to flip the equation. The Iran war is massively unpopular. Self-inflicted high gas prices are massively unpopular.

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

"the gravitas of Trump"

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:29:22, in reply to "in the larger block of trump voters/conservatives, you have several different buckets"

what the fuck are we even doing, and why?

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

gravity, perhaps*

Posted by cpsteine <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=cpsteine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 16:37:55, in reply to ""the gravitas of Trump""

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what the fuck are we even doing, and why?

I think #2 are just democrats nowadays

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:13:08, in reply to "in the larger block of trump voters/conservatives, you have several different buckets"

Like the bulwark

Most of the never Trumpers from 10 years ago are fully on board with Trump now.

Their foreign policy has won as evidenced by Marco Rubio being Trump’s foreign policy czar and being cheerlead by Lindsay Graham and Mark Levin.

And much of #4 won’t identify as democrats but they pretty much what old #2 was and they are forming alliances with the left.

Marco has his own ambitions and he’s done it by using Trump. I don’t think he has love for Trump but his rival is JD and he will choose Trump over JD to further his own goals.

Even in the recent yougov poll in which the Iran War was -19 favorability Trump voters still supported it 71-22

Trump’s not going anywhere.

It'd be like Succession S1/E6 with JD thinking he's got the votes only to have

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:59:06, in reply to "I think if JD knew he had the votes, he's 25th don in a heartbeat"

DJT pressure everyone in the end to switch

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agreed. And i don’t think JD has a boy named Squiggle that can cook up a beat to fix it. *

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 10:37:24, in reply to "It'd be like Succession S1/E6 with JD thinking he's got the votes only to have "

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DJT pressure everyone in the end to switch

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

US Forest Service being chopped down. Not sure what they do but Trump sucks *

Posted by MC <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 8:56:53, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

From the bit I read he's killing forestry research stations & consolidating offices in Utah.

Posted by EffinIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=EffinIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:25:43, in reply to "US Forest Service being chopped down. Not sure what they do but Trump sucks *"

Thought is that more land will be opened up for logging, mining and development.

Probably going to result in more & larger fires with more property damage without people trained to manage wildfires. (Unsure the effect regarding the actual firefighters.) Also, potential issues with mudslides & runoff in areas where trees were removed and developments built where they shouldn't be.

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I see we will be auto-registering all 18-25 yo men for the draft. Good, more pie for me.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 9, 2026, 8:39:03, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

Could you use this same process to auto-register all 18 year olds to vote*

Posted by shua <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=shua' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 10:03:11, in reply to "I see we will be auto-registering all 18-25 yo men for the draft. Good, more pie for me.*"

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Most states already do this. Something like 90% of registrations are currently automatic. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 8:47:30, in reply to "I see we will be auto-registering all 18-25 yo men for the draft. Good, more pie for me.*"

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Isn't the only difference here the auto register? All men register for selective service at 18

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 8:47:01, in reply to "I see we will be auto-registering all 18-25 yo men for the draft. Good, more pie for me.*"

Now it's just automatic instead of having to do it themselves or potentially face liability.

Imagine if we just sent every 18-25 yo in the country. We could totally overwhelm anyone we wanted.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 9, 2026, 8:50:18, in reply to "Isn't the only difference here the auto register? All men register for selective service at 18"

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Now it's just automatic instead of having to do it themselves or potentially face liability.

You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

Overwhelm them with... TikToks and Instagram pics, aka, the Orange Krush approach?*

Posted by IlliniOllie <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniOllie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 10:10:37, in reply to "Imagine if we just sent every 18-25 yo in the country. We could totally overwhelm anyone we wanted.*"

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Now it's just automatic instead of having to do it themselves or potentially face liability.

Hasn't worked out very well for Russia so far. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:30:46, in reply to "Imagine if we just sent every 18-25 yo in the country. We could totally overwhelm anyone we wanted.*"

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Now it's just automatic instead of having to do it themselves or potentially face liability.

Today is the anniversary of the greatest day in American history.

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 8:10:11, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

wut?

Posted by EffinIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=EffinIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:28:31, in reply to "Today is the anniversary of the greatest day in American history. "

Isn't Killdozer Day June 4th?

Edit: and there's a chance I could be in Granby June 2nd or 3rd.

General Lee officially surrendered on this day in 1865

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:34:01, in reply to "wut?"

the yellow bumper sticker refers to the Killdozer, but the two are not related, except that they are presumably on the same car

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Roscoe P. Coltrane Victory Party*

Posted by memyselfandillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=memyselfandillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 19:02:52, in reply to "General Lee officially surrendered on this day in 1865"

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the yellow bumper sticker refers to the Killdozer , but the two are not related, except that they are presumably on the same car

duh.

Posted by EffinIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=EffinIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:37:52, in reply to "General Lee officially surrendered on this day in 1865"

I was trying to figure out the connection.

Sad the Killdozer came top of my mind first.

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the yellow bumper sticker refers to the Killdozer , but the two are not related, except that they are presumably on the same car

Encountered the Killdozer story a couple years ago. That was a wild ride*

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 12:41:51, in reply to "duh."

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I was trying to figure out the connection.

Sad the Killdozer came top of my mind first.

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the yellow bumper sticker refers to the Killdozer , but the two are not related, except that they are presumably on the same car

I don't think I had ever heard of Killdozer. Is that bad?*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:57:43, in reply to "duh."

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I was trying to figure out the connection.

Sad the Killdozer came top of my mind first.

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the yellow bumper sticker refers to the Killdozer , but the two are not related, except that they are presumably on the same car

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

No. It means you are normie as opposed to a weirdo on the internet martyring a crackpot*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 10:08:28, in reply to "I don't think I had ever heard of Killdozer. Is that bad?*"

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I was trying to figure out the connection.

Sad the Killdozer came top of my mind first.

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the yellow bumper sticker refers to the Killdozer , but the two are not related, except that they are presumably on the same car

LMFCO yisssss*

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 8:51:00, in reply to "Today is the anniversary of the greatest day in American history. "

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nice deep cut on the bumper sticker. *

Posted by ijustkrushalot <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ijustkrushalot' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 8:44:37, in reply to "Today is the anniversary of the greatest day in American history. "

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Granby is pretty nice year round. *

Posted by memyselfandillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=memyselfandillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 9, 2026, 9:12:51, in reply to "nice deep cut on the bumper sticker. *"

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0 oil tankers have transited the Strait since the ‘ceasefire’*

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 22:20:17, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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back to threatening Greenland*

Posted by ECEIllinois <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ECEIllinois' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 19:58:51, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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and the Pope

Posted by Tortillini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tortillini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 20:09:16, in reply to "back to threatening Greenland*"

https://newrepublic.com/post/208820/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-donald-trump

Pope Leo's response:

"You take out a knife, we take out a gun. You send one of ours to the hospital, we send one of yours to the morgue."

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Just excommunicate JD already. *

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 20:27:52, in reply to "Pope Leo's response:"

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"You take out a knife, we take out a gun. You send one of ours to the hospital, we send one of yours to the morgue."

Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

I suspect this was all just a way to make money

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 17:41:52, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

There is no way the rest of the world would accept the elimination of freedom of the seas by charging tolls by Iran or an Iran/US partnership.

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(for rent)

Sign seen on an overpass on the way home: “PEACE PRIZE LOL”*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 16:23:02, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

Has anyone here ever even SEEN a ceasefire???

Posted by OB25 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=OB25' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:27:00, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

The @VP on bombs flying after the US-Iran ceasefire: "An hour after the president announced the ceasefire, the Iranians launched a bunch of missiles. Then the Israelis responded, then some of the Gulf Arab states responded. This is the nature of a ceasefire. No ceasefire ever goes without a little bit of choppiness.

When something is happening, young people like to say it’s “lit.”

You negotiate a ceasefire. But you don’t keep the ceasefire. Which is the most important part!*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:47:45, in reply to "Has anyone here ever even SEEN a ceasefire???"

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Yeah, I’m going to take the insurance because I’m going to beat the hell out of it*

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:57:20, in reply to "You negotiate a ceasefire. But you don’t keep the ceasefire. Which is the most important part!*"

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(for rent)

Well I’ve seen a horsefly*

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:38:58, in reply to "Has anyone here ever even SEEN a ceasefire???"

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(for rent)

He just casually glosses over the UAE blowing up an oil refinery in Iran

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:33:53, in reply to "Has anyone here ever even SEEN a ceasefire???"

Seems like a pretty big deal!

First time one of the gulf states retaliated and joined in on the bombing and they blew up an oil refinery!

I can’t imagine they didn’t have an ok to do that but wow

if you want an omelette and new AI data centers, you have to crack a few eggs and oil refineries*

Posted by ghost_of_clt <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ghost_of_clt' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:41:22, in reply to "He just casually glosses over the UAE blowing up an oil refinery in Iran"

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N U D E S I N B I O

What if your war to get new AI data centers disrupts the supply chains for AI chips?

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:53:39, in reply to "if you want an omelette and new AI data centers, you have to crack a few eggs and oil refineries*"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-war-helium-aluminum-shortage-impact/

Helium is a byproduct of natural gas processing, and attacks on Qatar's liquefied natural gas facilities mean it could take years to rebuild production lines. Earlier this month, QatarEnergy told Reuters that the attacks wiped out 17% of the country's LNG export capacity, and that repairs could take three to five years.

...

Because helium is highly effective at transferring heat, making it ideal for rapid cooling, it's essential for manufacturing semiconductors. Chipmakers use it to cool wafers — the discs of silicon printed with tiny electronic circuits.

Helium is used during the etching process, when material that's been deposited on a wafer is scraped away to form transistor structures, said Jacob Feldgoise, an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.

"Helium is an essential component of semiconductor manufacturing, and a significant proportion of it comes from Gulf countries," Mani said. "Imagine not having chips to power laptops, iPhones and small appliances? Everything with circuitry runs on one, and all of those will be hurt if we don't get helium soon."

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Iran's 10 Points were written by ChatGPT. So they get an F*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 15:10:47, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Chicken Little poster child

Ceasefire is over. But hey, at least Donnie cashed in by manipulating the markets*

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 14:05:57, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Markets so odd. Not much really changed, but up 3%*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 13:04:13, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Can't he just behave like a normal human?

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:51:43, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

No, no he can't.

https://x.com/MikeSington/status/2041843078282276919?s=20

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No, he can't. He has frontotemporal dementia. He's genuinely not of sound mind.*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 12:47:44, in reply to "Can't he just behave like a normal human?"

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No, no he can't.

https://x.com/MikeSington/status/2041843078282276919?s=20

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

When you’ve lost Megyn and Tucker … *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 12:43:58, in reply to "Can't he just behave like a normal human?"

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No, no he can't.

https://x.com/MikeSington/status/2041843078282276919?s=20

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I wouldn't say he lost them. He discarded them.

Posted by Chuck Woodaby <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chuck+Woodaby' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 13:08:42, in reply to "When you’ve lost Megyn and Tucker … *"

Choosing Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro (and their audiences) over Tucker and Megyn is certainly the choice of a stable genius.

He never has...and he ain't gonna get better as the senility takes hold

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 11:00:38, in reply to "Can't he just behave like a normal human?"

Great OpEd in the WSJ yesterday titled titled "Trump Can Make America Optimistic Again"

"How?" you may ask.

Just be something he's never, ever been in over 60 months in office

These jagoffs pray he'll be the one thing he's never been as he continuously strays darker and eviler by the day.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

In fact, he was voted in specifically because he acts like this.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 8, 2026, 10:55:15, in reply to "Can't he just behave like a normal human?"

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No, no he can't.

https://x.com/MikeSington/status/2041843078282276919?s=20

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

it seems like literally everyone in israel is upset with this deal. so maybe this leads to the fall

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:46:18, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

of the governing coalition?

if this sweeps netanyahu off the stage once for all then at least something good will have come from this shitshow

Has anyone seen the Iran Lego rap/diss videos? I keep seeing them on TikTok...

Posted by shua <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=shua' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:23:55, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

there seems to be a bunch of them. I can't link them at work.

Here's one I found from Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW3A0C9kgZ2/

When the folks running a repressive Islamic fundamentalist regime have more social media savvy...

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 13:08:23, in reply to "Has anyone seen the Iran Lego rap/diss videos? I keep seeing them on TikTok..."

...than the jagoffs in the loser regime currently running the US.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Breaking news? Iran says strait will be closed again because of Israel *

Posted by MC <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:53:45, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

WH says Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire. So yeah both sides are not on the same page*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:29:48, in reply to "Breaking news? Iran says strait will be closed again because of Israel *"

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Yeah I don’t think this is over

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:05:12, in reply to "Breaking news? Iran says strait will be closed again because of Israel *"

There will be a pause and haggling for a bit with both sides in the media. The Iranians will certainly utilize their influence in the information sphere that is probably their most successful tool. They are far from honest brokers though and I doubt the US ends up on terms with them.

In a couple weeks I expect more bombing when the US doesn’t get what it wants.

How could it be over? Did you see Iran's 10 point plan?*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:06:45, in reply to "Yeah I don’t think this is over "

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Chicken Little poster child

Yes that’s my point. The US will never agree to it

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:07:49, in reply to "How could it be over? Did you see Iran's 10 point plan?*"

But most are acting as if we’ve capitulated to it.

I don’t believe that.

Unless...

Posted by larue33 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=larue33' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:51:55, in reply to "Yes that’s my point. The US will never agree to it "

Some rando on BlueSky suggested that Oman will be the conduit for Trump to get a slice of the toll Iran will levy on every ship going through the Strait. Wild idea, but I think Trump would be willing to toss Iran a couple of our nukes as a sweetener if they actually gave him that cut.

Funnel payments through the Board of Peace to avoid the appearance of corruption.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 14:47:10, in reply to "Unless..."

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Trump absolutely capitulated.

Posted by Chuck Woodaby <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chuck+Woodaby' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:23:08, in reply to "Yes that’s my point. The US will never agree to it "

Doesn't mean he won't change his mind with one phone call from Bibi or Miriam or a bad night of news coverage.

Art of the Deal*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:29:30, in reply to "Trump absolutely capitulated."

Link? *

Posted by Tuscy <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tuscy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:04:46, in reply to "Breaking news? Iran says strait will be closed again because of Israel *"

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"I wouldn't mind the DP here." - jumpingdan

CNBC *

Posted by MC <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:15:49, in reply to "Link? *"

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Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

TV*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:05:37, in reply to "Link? *"

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Chicken Little poster child

Art of the deal!*

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Sky Marshal of the Luftwaffle

“Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie

Credit where credit is due, I have to admit that Trump appears to have gotten us

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 8:49:37, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

back to nearly as good of a deal as Obama had with Iran, while extracting a ton of taxpayer dollars for defense contractors, increasing oil profits for his industry benefactors, and billions in speculative returns for his kids and other insiders. So props for all that.

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I kind of think we’re just gonna go back to bombing them again in 2 weeks

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:19:24, in reply to "Credit where credit is due, I have to admit that Trump appears to have gotten us "

And Trump will argue this pause restarts the clock on the war powers act cause they will break the ceasefire.

But we’ll see.

I think the constraint of the War Powers Act is what really stopped this and Congress not wanting to authorize it.

I think Trump desperately wants out. He had no clue of the consequences of his actions

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:33:44, in reply to "I kind of think we’re just gonna go back to bombing them again in 2 weeks"

And he has nothing but shitty incompetents advising him

Chicken Little poster child

if he could get out while making it look like he won, he totally would. *

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 14:19:36, in reply to "I think Trump desperately wants out. He had no clue of the consequences of his actions"

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And he has nothing but shitty incompetents advising him

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

Maybe. but also Trump and hegseth were both claiming the that regime change has been accomplished

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:25:23, in reply to "I kind of think we’re just gonna go back to bombing them again in 2 weeks"

and that now it's up to the people and region to shape the future. that seems like people that want to try to wash their hands of this and walk away

They say a lot of things

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:59:10, in reply to "Maybe. but also Trump and hegseth were both claiming the that regime change has been accomplished"

Trump says the new regime is great and much smarter than the old regime and better and then in the next breath he’ll say they’re crazy bastards, bullshitters and can’t be trusted with a bomb.

Trump says whatever suits his purpose in the moment.

I don’t think this is over at least not under the terms that Iran is putting out and most seem to be running with.

for sure. if Israel and Iran keep shooting, then nothing changes and we'll be dragged back in*

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:06:58, in reply to "They say a lot of things "

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Iran is now shutting down the strait because Israel attacked Hezbollah in Lebanon

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 10:11:19, in reply to "for sure. if Israel and Iran keep shooting, then nothing changes and we'll be dragged back in*"

Most western news that I saw last night claimed that Israeli aggression in Lebanon was not covered by the ceasefire.

Neither side is really interested in ending this thing imo. I don’t believe Trump is really interested in ending it outside of external pressures placed on him. If he had his choice he’d keep bombing.

He's done nothing to accomplish the main goal of the war

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 8:56:38, in reply to "Credit where credit is due, I have to admit that Trump appears to have gotten us "

And he's ready to leave

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There was a goal?*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 8, 2026, 8:57:44, in reply to "He's done nothing to accomplish the main goal of the war"

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And he's ready to leave

You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

Jewish guy ... **snaps fingers twice, scratches chin** ... used to be a teacher ...*

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:10:59, in reply to "There was a goal?*"

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And he's ready to leave

Really, to eliminate Iran's HEU and capabilities.*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:07:57, in reply to "There was a goal?*"

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And he's ready to leave

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How many ships hit the Strait daily? Palettes of cash!*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 8, 2026, 9:12:48, in reply to "Really, to eliminate Iran's HEU and capabilities.*"

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And he's ready to leave

You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

This will take awhile to straighten out. Firstly, insurance companies have to be willing to step in

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:35:16, in reply to "How many ships hit the Strait daily? Palettes of cash!*"

They will be very reluctant. If they don't, no one is going to be willing to send ships through.

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Reportedly 100-130 ships per day

Posted by Jersey <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Jersey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:18:15, in reply to "How many ships hit the Strait daily? Palettes of cash!*"

I'm sure we'll find out years from now how Trump somehow personally benefited whether it be directly or indirectly.

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There was a different one at every press conference/gaggle. So like 23 goals.*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 9:02:29, in reply to "There was a goal?*"

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And he's ready to leave

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

It's gonna cost $2 million every time we Strait. That rules.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 8, 2026, 9:04:26, in reply to "There was a different one at every press conference/gaggle. So like 23 goals.*"

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And he's ready to leave

You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

Iran planning to charge $2M per tanker to go through strait. we've achieved less than nothing*

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 8:45:45, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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It seems like somebody is currently firing missiles at Israel.*

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 19:52:29, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Is it biclops?*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 8, 2026, 8:37:30, in reply to "It seems like somebody is currently firing missiles at Israel.*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Doesn’t sound like Israel is going to observe the cease fire

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 20:50:26, in reply to "It seems like somebody is currently firing missiles at Israel.*"

That should help

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The call is coming from inside the house. *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 20:00:19, in reply to "It seems like somebody is currently firing missiles at Israel.*"

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Wonder how much money they made today?*

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:40:33, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Check your storks!*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:49:17, in reply to "Wonder how much money they made today?*"

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Two weeks!

I mean it this time, two weeks!

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Sky Marshal of the Luftwaffle

“Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie

Interesting. Iran says they will open the strait.*

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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We agreed to all of their demands. The MIC remains undefeated.

Posted by Chuck Woodaby <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chuck+Woodaby' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 19:33:01, in reply to "Interesting. Iran says they will open the strait.*"

(Except in war)

What exactly does Pakistan have to do with all of this?*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:25:30, in reply to "Two weeks!"

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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Let me put this in terms you might understand:

Posted by Chuck Woodaby <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chuck+Woodaby' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:41:04, in reply to "What exactly does Pakistan have to do with all of this?*"

We're Kanye West. Iran is Taylor Swift. Pakistan is Kim Kardashian.

Kim Kardishian is posting tweets (written by Kanye) to make it seem like things with Taylor and Kanye are cool, but in reality Taylor is not cool with this at all and we are about to look at what we made her do.

Fantastic*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 19:53:33, in reply to "Let me put this in terms you might understand:"

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This might be the best post of the year*

Posted by Quiz <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Quiz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 19:25:14, in reply to "Let me put this in terms you might understand:"

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Had the same thought. *

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 19:46:37, in reply to "This might be the best post of the year*"

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

Pakistan is close to China, which wants its oil back*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:40:25, in reply to "What exactly does Pakistan have to do with all of this?*"

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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Neutral mediator. Iran is bombing all the others that tried to mediate*

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:30:43, in reply to "What exactly does Pakistan have to do with all of this?*"

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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Art of the Deal*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:38:16, in reply to "Neutral mediator. Iran is bombing all the others that tried to mediate*"

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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Gas prices will likely remain close to $4/gal

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:14:57, in reply to "Two weeks!"

Greed

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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(for rent)

Another Picasso from Trump*

Posted by snipes824 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=snipes824' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:57:08, in reply to "Two weeks!"

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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Well, at least we’re giving Iran time to rebuild their missile/drone capabilities*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:09:06, in reply to "Another Picasso from Trump*"

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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What a pussy*

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:39:33, in reply to "Two weeks!"

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I mean it this time, two weeks!

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T-minus two hours people!!!!*

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:01:14, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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(for rent)

I will be on a flight across the Atlantic. Keep me posted!*

Posted by Dilbert <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Dilbert' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:31:51, in reply to "T-minus two hours people!!!!*"

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Iranians threaten to blow up US airliners over Atlantic*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:52:19, in reply to "I will be on a flight across the Atlantic. Keep me posted!*"

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Trump gets two week deadline extension to seize on, thanks to Pakistan

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 14:39:24, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Whom I'm sure Trump begged to propose

Chicken Little poster child

Or we just wrote a tweet for the Pakastani PM to post:

Posted by Chuck Woodaby <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chuck+Woodaby' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 16:50:54, in reply to "Trump gets two week deadline extension to seize on, thanks to Pakistan"

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM,"… https://t.co/q0ls8pK0qd pic.twitter.com/lm2vSEElkb
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) April 7, 2026

.

We're going to need to install a better PM. Hope Imran Khan has room for a cellmate.

Unsurprising*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 17:12:40, in reply to "Or we just wrote a tweet for the Pakastani PM to post:"

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Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM,"… https://t.co/q0ls8pK0qd pic.twitter.com/lm2vSEElkb — Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) April 7, 2026 .

We're going to need to install a better PM. Hope Imran Khan has room for a cellmate.

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lol, no way*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 16:52:25, in reply to "Or we just wrote a tweet for the Pakastani PM to post:"

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THE ART OF THE DEAL!!!!!!*

Posted by shua <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=shua' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:07:02, in reply to "Trump gets two week deadline extension to seize on, thanks to Pakistan"

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Whom I'm sure Trump begged to propose

Right before market close. I'm so shocked*

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 14:57:54, in reply to "Trump gets two week deadline extension to seize on, thanks to Pakistan"

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Whom I'm sure Trump begged to propose

NYT reporting confirms that Bibi sold Trump on the war with a pollyannish assessment of risk/reward

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 14:09:36, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZFA.j6-o.Jn6giQD4mdIJ&smid=url-share

Mr. Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing to near-certain victory: Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks. The regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz, and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against U.S. interests in neighboring countries was assessed as minimal.

Besides, Mossad’s intelligence indicated that street protests inside Iran would begin again and — with the impetus of the Israeli spy agency helping to foment riots and rebellion — an intense bombing campaign could foster the conditions for the Iranian opposition to overthrow the regime. The Israelis also raised the prospect of Iranian Kurdish fighters crossing the border from Iraq to open a ground front in the northwest, further stretching the regime’s forces and accelerating its collapse.

Mr. Netanyahu delivered his presentation in a confident monotone. It seemed to land well with the most important person in the room, the American president.

Sounds good to me, Mr. Trump told the prime minister. To Mr. Netanyahu, this signaled a likely green light for a joint U.S.-Israeli operation.

Mr. Netanyahu was not the only one who came away from the meeting with the impression that Mr. Trump had all but made up his mind. The president’s advisers could see that he had been deeply impressed by the promise of what Mr. Netanyahu’s military and intelligence services could do, just as he had been when the two men spoke before the 12-day war with Iran in June.

...

The U.S. officials assessed that the first two objectives were achievable with American intelligence and military power. They assessed that the third and fourth parts of Mr. Netanyahu’s pitch, which included the possibility of the Kurds mounting a ground invasion of Iran, were detached from reality.

When Mr. Trump joined the meeting, Mr. Ratcliffe briefed him on the assessment. The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.”

At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, it’s bullshit,” he said.

Mr. Ratcliffe added that given the unpredictability of events in any conflict, regime change could happen, but it should not be considered an achievable objective.

Several others jumped in, including Mr. Vance, just back from Azerbaijan, who also expressed strong skepticism about the prospect of regime change.

The president then turned to General Caine. “General, what do you think?”

General Caine replied: “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.”

Just as most sensible people suspected.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

they shoulda just appended "JD told us all of this" to the end, because it's pretty obvious who's

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:17:24, in reply to "NYT reporting confirms that Bibi sold Trump on the war with a pollyannish assessment of risk/reward"

trying to save face with this leak

I don't think it's a leak.

Posted by Chuck Woodaby <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chuck+Woodaby' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:47:45, in reply to "they shoulda just appended "JD told us all of this" to the end, because it's pretty obvious who's "

Haberman and Swan are writing a book about this. Trump sat down with them 3 weeks ago for an hour and answered all their questions.

I think I've identified their source:

There’s no way trump was anyway able to describe details like that and remember who said what or

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 19:32:23, in reply to "I don't think it's a leak."

even who was there

Probably true. Trump brags about it because he’s proud of it

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 16:10:40, in reply to "I don't think it's a leak."

He wanted to do it and was given an optimistic sell which was all he needed.

Which is why you see his advisers try to manage it as opposed to fighting it. They knew Trump was going in.

It's like the "they're bragging" scene from The Big Short*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 16:10:25, in reply to "I don't think it's a leak."

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Haberman and Swan are writing a book about this. Trump sat down with them 3 weeks ago for an hour and answered all their questions.

I think I've identified their source:

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

I wish we would just bomb Israel*

Posted by HeatMizer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=HeatMizer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:05:35, in reply to "NYT reporting confirms that Bibi sold Trump on the war with a pollyannish assessment of risk/reward"

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Whoa whoa whoa whoa.

Posted by Toonces <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Toonces' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:23:53, in reply to "I wish we would just bomb Israel*"

We should also nuke ourselves as well.

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I’m ugly.

That's probably an even money bet on Polymarket. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:25:47, in reply to "Whoa whoa whoa whoa. "

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We should also nuke ourselves as well.

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I mean really, how long could a war in the Middle East last?*

Posted by shua <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=shua' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:02:17, in reply to "NYT reporting confirms that Bibi sold Trump on the war with a pollyannish assessment of risk/reward"

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Doesn’t this thing cost about a billion dollars per day? I’m not even sure how that’s possible.*

Posted by Toonces <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Toonces' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:24:41, in reply to "I mean really, how long could a war in the Middle East last?*"

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I’m ugly.

that's why they need another $450 billion for war in FY 2027*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:58:48, in reply to "Doesn’t this thing cost about a billion dollars per day? I’m not even sure how that’s possible.*"

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

If only Iran had spent money on their people, the USA might be able to afford Medicare*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 16:50:14, in reply to "that's why they need another $450 billion for war in FY 2027*"

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the corruption has to be off the charts*

Posted by shua <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=shua' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:38:26, in reply to "Doesn’t this thing cost about a billion dollars per day? I’m not even sure how that’s possible.*"

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Probably hours or days. Weeks or months at most surely.

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:23:18, in reply to "I mean really, how long could a war in the Middle East last?*"

No way Years, decades, or centuries could even be possible, right? RIGHT?!

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Shocking*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 14:44:57, in reply to "NYT reporting confirms that Bibi sold Trump on the war with a pollyannish assessment of risk/reward"

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If only Trump wasn't the dumbest motherfucker imaginable. *

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Seriously CNBC what the Fuck kind of question is this?

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 13:30:49, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3miwbbo3zgs2n

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Making Sherpa

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 18:28:57, in reply to "Seriously CNBC what the Fuck kind of question is this?"

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"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3miwbbo3zgs2n

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

There's a segment of the population that doesn't care about good and evil as long as they profit.

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:43:07, in reply to "Seriously CNBC what the Fuck kind of question is this?"

...which includes some current and former posters here.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

It's all about the Trump Put

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 14:15:57, in reply to "Seriously CNBC what the Fuck kind of question is this?"

And the myth that everything he touches turns to gold for the extremely wealthy.

Chicken Little poster child

ooo

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 13:43:52, in reply to "Seriously CNBC what the Fuck kind of question is this?"

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

I guess the answer is buy calls. Either they print or it doesn't matter anyway*

Posted by meanjeans <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=meanjeans' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 13:36:42, in reply to "Seriously CNBC what the Fuck kind of question is this?"

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BLAM, there's my opinion people - behold

has the deadline passed? Or was it 8pm eastern? i'm so confused*

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 13:22:20, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Maybe he moved it to 1-2 PM like the Iranians had asked*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 13:24:04, in reply to "has the deadline passed? Or was it 8pm eastern? i'm so confused*"

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

EMEA historian sees similarities

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 13:10:42, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://x.com/marci_shore/status/2041536262314553784

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Some expert on CNBC said the consequences on oil prices could last a decade

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:06:50, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Chicken Little poster child

Oil industry expert says oil industry may be forced to keep prices high*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:30:44, in reply to "Some expert on CNBC said the consequences on oil prices could last a decade"

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Time to update the Landman speech. $108/barrel is the new target.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 7, 2026, 13:26:09, in reply to "Oil industry expert says oil industry may be forced to keep prices high*"

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

It’s their commitment to fighting climate change. *

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:33:35, in reply to "Oil industry expert says oil industry may be forced to keep prices high*"

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

"Listen, we don't want to keep making these obscene profits, but we owe it, to the children"*

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:32:46, in reply to "Oil industry expert says oil industry may be forced to keep prices high*"

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Fake news*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:09:17, in reply to "Some expert on CNBC said the consequences on oil prices could last a decade"

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meanwhile, JD Vance is spending tax dollars to interfere in another country's election

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:51:24, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

to reelect a crooked autocrat and push Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/2041499829365305563

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

and to maybe learn a thing or two:

Posted by ghost_of_clt <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ghost_of_clt' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 15:46:04, in reply to "meanwhile, JD Vance is spending tax dollars to interfere in another country's election"

https://x.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/2041271692673126549

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to reelect a crooked autocrat and push Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/2041499829365305563

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N U D E S I N B I O

oOo

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:20:31, in reply to "meanwhile, JD Vance is spending tax dollars to interfere in another country's election"

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

while claiming that Ukraine is interfering in ours? these people are craven psychopaths*

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:59:30, in reply to "meanwhile, JD Vance is spending tax dollars to interfere in another country's election"

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to reelect a crooked autocrat and push Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/2041499829365305563

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a functional nation might have moved on to the revolution part by now*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:32:26, in reply to "while claiming that Ukraine is interfering in ours? these people are craven psychopaths* "

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to reelect a crooked autocrat and push Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/2041499829365305563

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

For a country that was founded on a revolution against a perceived oppressive government

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:51:13, in reply to "a functional nation might have moved on to the revolution part by now*"

We've never really had our storm the Bastille moment.

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to reelect a crooked autocrat and push Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda.

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We literally had a civil war. *

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We've never really had our storm the Bastille moment.

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to reelect a crooked autocrat and push Russian anti-Ukraine propaganda.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/2041499829365305563

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Donnie already Taco’ing*

Posted by Mrap24 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Mrap24' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:01:50, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Big jump in gas prices in CU today, $4.29…yesterday was like $3.89ish*

Posted by Jackie <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Jackie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:01:25, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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Just wait until it goes to $10 when half of the Middle East refineries get bombed out*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:32:15, in reply to "Big jump in gas prices in CU today, $4.29…yesterday was like $3.89ish*"

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There isn't a redneck alive that wouldn't personally take up arms over $10/gallon gas. *

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sure, but they'll be blaming/hunting trans people and college professors*

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:37:27, in reply to "There isn't a redneck alive that wouldn't personally take up arms over $10/gallon gas. *"

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At $10 a gallon, I think you see most airline travel halted*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:52:15, in reply to "There isn't a redneck alive that wouldn't personally take up arms over $10/gallon gas. *"

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followed shortly by a US bailout of El Al*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:33:14, in reply to "At $10 a gallon, I think you see most airline travel halted*"

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Iranian embassies are apparently just trolling Trump these days

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:49:19, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I wonder if Ron could maybe find anyone to put some pressure on the president

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 9:46:36, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Perhaps someone elected to a co-equal branch of government tasked with oversight of the executive branch

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2041511744233693563?s=46&t=z69_YQQOuxclWLApk9FmHQ

if thoughts and prayers are good enough for American kids

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:00:35, in reply to "I wonder if Ron could maybe find anyone to put some pressure on the president"

then they're good enough for furrin kids too

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 7:49:02, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2041497481960137089

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I wonder why the constitution didn’t give war powers to a single individual?*

Posted by PapaDels <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=PapaDels' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:13:30, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

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I have schweppervessence and wessonality.
Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean.

But apparently it does goes nuke powers to one person*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:00:07, in reply to "I wonder why the constitution didn’t give war powers to a single individual?*"

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I feel like there should be an annual razzie award for anti-Peace Prize

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:29:23, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

Putin would finally have competition

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(for rent)

I think it's the FIFA Peace Prize. *

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Putin would finally have competition

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At this point, even FIFA is thinking about taking back their award*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 11:34:11, in reply to "I think it's the FIFA Peace Prize. *"

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Putin would finally have competition

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They already do. It’s called the fifa peace prize*

Posted by snipes824 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=snipes824' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:57:49, in reply to "I feel like there should be an annual razzie award for anti-Peace Prize"

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Putin would finally have competition

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A House of Dynamite*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:22:29, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

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Sure he's threatening genocide and alienating every one of our allies...

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:13:35, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

...while our VP in in Hungary trying to strengthen our ties to other authoritarian leaders....BUT at least there's less gender neutral bathrooms.

Seems like a net win for America.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

Are we sure there's fewer gender neutral bathrooms? They're being built all the time.*

Posted by Toonces <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Toonces' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:23:00, in reply to "Sure he's threatening genocide and alienating every one of our allies..."

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...while our VP in in Hungary trying to strengthen our ties to other authoritarian leaders....BUT at least there's less gender neutral bathrooms.

Seems like a net win for America.

I’m ugly.

Next you'll tell me the Dow isn't over 50K anymore, either!*

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:37:24, in reply to "Are we sure there's fewer gender neutral bathrooms? They're being built all the time.*"

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...while our VP in in Hungary trying to strengthen our ties to other authoritarian leaders....BUT at least there's less gender neutral bathrooms.

Seems like a net win for America.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

fewer*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 10:18:20, in reply to "Sure he's threatening genocide and alienating every one of our allies..."

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...while our VP in in Hungary trying to strengthen our ties to other authoritarian leaders....BUT at least there's less gender neutral bathrooms.

Seems like a net win for America.

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Dagnabit.*

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...while our VP in in Hungary trying to strengthen our ties to other authoritarian leaders....BUT at least there's less gender neutral bathrooms.

Seems like a net win for America.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

It's worth noting Trump said he was going to liberate the Iranians from an evil regime.

Posted by Toonces <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Toonces' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 9:31:13, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

That was maybe 2-3 weeks ago?

So many lives being wrecked around the globe by our idiot pedophile potus.

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I’m ugly.

democrats got rid of their unfit, senile grandpa. when will the GOP get the balls to do the same?*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:44:38, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

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"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

Of all the things that are never going to happen, this is the most never going to happen thing.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 7, 2026, 8:58:01, in reply to "democrats got rid of their unfit, senile grandpa. when will the GOP get the balls to do the same?*"

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

never, d'uh*

Posted by TarheelIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=TarheelIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:50:07, in reply to "democrats got rid of their unfit, senile grandpa. when will the GOP get the balls to do the same?*"

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Recrudescence

When will the media report on Trump's obvious senility in the same way they did Biden's?

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:48:32, in reply to "democrats got rid of their unfit, senile grandpa. when will the GOP get the balls to do the same?*"

I'll take "never" vs. the field.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I’m shocked that this guy was on the brink of going broke because nobody wanted to work with him. *

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happy war crimes day to all how celebrate*

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:31:40, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

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the Department of War encourages us to treat every day like it's War Crimes Day*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:41:03, in reply to "happy war crimes day to all how celebrate*"

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I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Will just lie to get out of his ultimatum. Claim that Iran has capitulated.

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:15:05, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

Do people really not get his schtick?

Chicken Little poster child

Do people really not get that this is insane?*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:45:27, in reply to "Will just lie to get out of his ultimatum. Claim that Iran has capitulated."

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Do people really not get his schtick?

"the alchemy of the tartar sauce and cheese with the fish combined with the buttery steamed bun is so good." - Sounder re: a Filet O Fish

A lot of people do, but our national press/media are desperately trying to sane-wash it*

Posted by IlliniRunner <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniRunner' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 12:33:55, in reply to "Do people really not get that this is insane?*"

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Do people really not get his schtick?

That's the offramp he was already hoping for. Iran closing the strait and pissing off his buddies

Posted by OrangeSox <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=OrangeSox' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:36:02, in reply to "Will just lie to get out of his ultimatum. Claim that Iran has capitulated."

was not something he anticipated however. Shame he couldn't go country to country killing off leaders without any hiccups.

Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:16:29, in reply to "Will just lie to get out of his ultimatum. Claim that Iran has capitulated."

https://theonion.com/trump-warns-iran-to-accept-his-ultimatum-or-face-wrath-of-next-ultimatum/

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Yep, that will certainly happen. Miraculous last second negotiation where he gets nothing

Posted by UofIL6 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=UofIL6' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:16:17, in reply to "Will just lie to get out of his ultimatum. Claim that Iran has capitulated."

But claims massive win

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Do people really not get his schtick?

TACO*

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 8:11:59, in reply to "Game of chicken? Trump: Whole civilization will die tonight"

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Iran apparently bombed a critically important Saudi petrochemical plant which may or may not still

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 21:47:56, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

be burning and potentially severely damaged.

galaxybrained idea floated by Markwayne: close down customs at airports in sanctuary cities*

Posted by ECEIllinois <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ECEIllinois' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 19:25:42, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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You mean, where most of the international flights land?

Back to Oklahoma, named like a serial killer guy.

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Sky Marshal of the Luftwaffle

“Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie

We really made a mistake letting people from the shithole states (and the shithole parts of other

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 7, 2026, 7:55:45, in reply to "You mean, where most of the international flights land?"

states) vote.

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Back to Oklahoma, named like a serial killer guy.

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Yeah, that sounds like the kind of idea he'd come up with. *

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 19:26:55, in reply to "galaxybrained idea floated by Markwayne: close down customs at airports in sanctuary cities*"

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NY Times often sanewashes shit Trump says but not here

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 16:32:06, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

“Trump warns Iran to accept ultimatum or accept wrath of next ultimatum” The Onion*

Posted by PapaDels <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=PapaDels' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 15:52:37, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

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I have schweppervessence and wessonality.
Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean.

Some people are saying they are the empty, the emptiest threats anyone has ever made.*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 15:58:27, in reply to "“Trump warns Iran to accept ultimatum or accept wrath of next ultimatum” The Onion*"

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Big strong men were crying saying “sir, thank you for being so tough for me!”*

Posted by PapaDels <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=PapaDels' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 16:55:43, in reply to "Some people are saying they are the empty, the emptiest threats anyone has ever made.*"

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I have schweppervessence and wessonality.
Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean.

Trump seems like he might be in "fuck it, nuke 'em" range.

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on April 6, 2026, 16:01:01, in reply to "Some people are saying they are the empty, the emptiest threats anyone has ever made.*"

Which would be real bullshit. I watched a Rick Steves special on Iran and the people seem lovely.

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You cannot lose games in the NFL and still win.

"the response he got from President Trump was one of surprise that Canada still had a monarchy...

Posted by KingTalkyTiki <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=KingTalkyTiki' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 15:46:39, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

...sugeesting it wasn't something he was aware of."

Just the stupidest timeline.

"You must own the honor of being the whitest, military vet, fat, multiple state property owner but most of all the one who hates their own country the most in our country."

I still have so many questions about this rescue in Iran saturday

Posted by John Coctostan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=John+Coctostan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 14:39:53, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

we had multiple aircraft and 100 men on the ground for hours in Iran, apparently only like 40 miles from a major city, and they weren't really fired upon?

we had an temp airstrip that was 'previously developed for possible rescues or other contingencies." What? like it was already there, created without iran knowing?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/iran-airman-fighter-jet-rescue-mission.html

It’s not far from Isfahan though not super close

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 15:26:14, in reply to "I still have so many questions about this rescue in Iran saturday"

I’ve seen speculation about it possibly being a test run if they were to raid Isfahan to secure the enriched uranium

Today was the Easter Egg Role

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 14:27:40, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

The Easter Bunny was clearly uncomfortable having to stand next to Trump while he gave an update on the Iran war to children gathered on the South Lawn for the White House Easter Egg Roll. 🐰

h/t @mikesington.bsky.social

https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3mitq6ktze22a

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Bondi’s new important private sector job?

Or did he mean it was important she got a job in the private sector?

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Sky Marshal of the Luftwaffle

“Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie

Easter bunny role played by Rubio?*

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 15:03:26, in reply to "Today was the Easter Egg Role"

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member when it was Spicer?

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 16:24:42, in reply to "Easter bunny role played by Rubio?*"

ah, memories from a happier time

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

Was the Easter Bunny wearing Florsheims three sizes too big for Marco?*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 15:15:22, in reply to "Easter bunny role played by Rubio?*"

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How long before Bannon files a multimillion dollar lawsuit that is promptly settled

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 14:03:32, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

for the full asking price?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/politics/supreme-court-bannon-trump.html

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I wish I could teleport to a timeline where I didn't know who Nick Shirley and Big Balls are.

Posted by doubledown <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=doubledown' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 13:27:36, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Jesus Mosh Pit Thrashing Christ these two guys are dumb.

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Your very sane president

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 11:30:51, in reply to "Political bullshit for the week of April 6: apologies if this was already discussed, but"

Trump: "We sent guns, a lot of guns. They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs. You know what happened? The people that they sent them to kept them…I'm very upset with a certain group of people, and they're going to pay a big price for that."

https://bsky.app/profile/thebulwark.com/post/3mitoiqwnv42n

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

He’s talking about the Kurds. He says they sent guns to the Kurds

Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=CanHartlebHireSnider' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 14:15:19, in reply to "Your very sane president "

The Kurds were supposed to send them to protestors in Iran but they kept them instead

Art of the Deal.*

Posted by JFG <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=JFG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 15:05:22, in reply to "He’s talking about the Kurds. He says they sent guns to the Kurds "

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The Kurds were supposed to send them to protestors in Iran but they kept them instead

OK?*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 14:16:45, in reply to "He’s talking about the Kurds. He says they sent guns to the Kurds "

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The Kurds were supposed to send them to protestors in Iran but they kept them instead

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

get grandpa to bed, he's telling stories about the autopen to random kids

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 12:32:51, in reply to "Your very sane president "

https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2041184238788133211

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Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

ooo

Posted by ijustkrushalot <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ijustkrushalot' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 6, 2026, 11:40:14, in reply to "Your very sane president "

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2041188347507286239

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