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Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
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To be fair, none of that has been paid out yet.
Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#13cut ties with israel at this point?
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Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The real question is why does this make Grump look like an idiot any more than the numerous other idiotic things he's already done.
Unlike most times this affects people’s pocketbooks- the only real political motivation.
Approval still rides at 37%, which is pretty decent given the amount of turmoil that has been unleashed
Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#15Iran has figured out it can make the US president look like an idiot over and over at relatively low cost to themselves, since they're already so thoroughly excluded from the rest of the world.
Iran is Lucy, Trump is Charlie Brown, and the Straight of Hormuz is the football
Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unlike most times this affects people’s pocketbooks- the only real political motivation.
Approval still rides at 37%, which is pretty decent given the amount of turmoil that has been unleashed
That tracks. My rule of thumb is that political topics have a 33% group that will never budge and the remaining 4-5% accounts for the lizard man constant[1].
1. https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/the-lizardmans-cons...
Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#17Iran has figured out it can make the US president look like an idiot over and over at relatively low cost to themselves, since they're already so thoroughly excluded from the rest of the world.
Iran or Israel?
Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unlike most times this affects people’s pocketbooks- the only real political motivation.
Approval still rides at 37%, which is pretty decent given the amount of turmoil that has been unleashed
Trump is already hitting disapproval levels seen during the end of W's second term. He actually is bleeding support and politically damaged due to all this.
It gets worse when you break it down into key demographics. In the same way W's presidency influenced millennials away from the GOP, Trump is doing the same for young voters today too.
Non-whites and Gen Z were plus for him in 2024. He has absolutely cratered his support in those two demos.
We will see how the midterms go :)
Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#19It is closed! Open! Closed! Open! Closed! We are negotiating! We dont! We do! We dont! We on the plane! We are not!
Everything is going to plan! Protect the precious bodily fluids.
Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
#20So Iran can shield Hezbollah and other allies/proxies via its stranglehold on the strait. This is quite the shift.