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Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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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

As of yesterday, some sources have it as low as 29% (well, of his handling of the economy): https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-approval-hits-second-term-lo...

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

#52
post #24

Trump agreed to the MoU saying it's allies would stop attacks, including in Lebanon. Israel continues to bomb it. It's up to Trump to put pressure on Israel to stop in order to make good on his deal. It's no surprise this is instantly falling apart - Trump promised something he couldn't deliver. We can only hope that he does eventually put enough pressure on Israel to stop.

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Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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Trump agreed to the MoU saying it's allies would stop attacks, including in Lebanon. Israel continues to bomb it. It's up to Trump to put pressure on Israel to stop in order to make good on his deal. It's no surprise this is instantly falling apart - Trump promised something he couldn't deliver. We can only hope that he does eventually put enough pressure on Israel to stop.

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What did Hezbollah do to break the ceasefire? I am having trouble finding anything besides news about Israel continuing to airstrike Lebanon.

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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He's not really up for re-election, so I'm not sure what approval numbers have to do with it

> He's not really up for re-election, so I'm not sure what approval numbers have to do with it As an outsider, it seems the US midterm elections are a couple of months from now. If republicans lose, Donald Trump will most likely be impeached for all the mind numbingly high-level corruption and involvement in a pedophile ring.

Quite unlikely to get an impeachment. While there is the (long) possibility of Dems flipping the House and Senate, they will not alone have the votes to force him out without a number of Republicans to defect in the Senate. Anything is possible, but given how much insanity has already been tacitly approved, the economy would have to hit truly apocalyptic levels to expect that outcome.

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Nixon was about 25% support before he resigned.

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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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...

Nixon was about 25% support before he resigned.

You have to multiply by the Lead-Poisoning coefficient for all events taking place in the 1970s.

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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Nixon was about 25% support before he resigned.

You have to multiply by the Lead-Poisoning coefficient for all events taking place in the 1970s.

Heh. Given the increased strength of party-identity, I fully agree that the floor of support will be higher than in the past.

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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Iran 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.

Well you can definitely crack Donald Trump's image but when it comes to the loss, most of the loss will be borne by common people. Oil prices will once again rise markets once again fall and AI is already taking jobs. Inflation will rise along with unemployment and bad times are coming. This is happening mostly because of the foolishness of Trump.

Who do you think elected trump?

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

#59
post #24

Trump agreed to the MoU saying it's allies would stop attacks, including in Lebanon. Israel continues to bomb it. It's up to Trump to put pressure on Israel to stop in order to make good on his deal. It's no surprise this is instantly falling apart - Trump promised something he couldn't deliver. We can only hope that he does eventually put enough pressure on Israel to stop.

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In Israel or the ”lebensraum” in Southern Lebanon?

Re: Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce

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post #24

Trump agreed to the MoU saying it's allies would stop attacks, including in Lebanon. Israel continues to bomb it. It's up to Trump to put pressure on Israel to stop in order to make good on his deal. It's no surprise this is instantly falling apart - Trump promised something he couldn't deliver. We can only hope that he does eventually put enough pressure on Israel to stop.

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Please. This was all Israel and an obvious "fuck you" to Trump.
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