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🛑“Cease Fire” Edition

Apr 08, 2026
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In a stunning display of crisis management, President Trump announced that “a whole civilization will die tonight” over Iran’s failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, then graciously un-annihilated said civilization roughly an hour before his own deadline, presumably because someone reminded him that dead civilizations can’t make trade deals.

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