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floren 1 hours ago [-]
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.
pvaldes 17 minutes ago [-]
Iran or Israel?
watwut 50 minutes ago [-]
I think it is about making US pressure Israel and eventually rupturing that relationship.
Meanwhile, Israel is trying to sabotage the peace process and dont care about that relationship.
kelseyfrog 28 minutes ago [-]
Iran is Lucy, Trump is Charlie Brown, and the Straight of Hormuz is the football
Jamesbeam 3 minutes ago [-]
most beautiful analogy I read today.
mindslight 59 minutes ago [-]
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.
conception 48 minutes ago [-]
Unlike most times this affects people’s pocketbooks- the only real political motivation.
ravoori 28 minutes ago [-]
Approval still rides at 37%, which is pretty decent given the amount of turmoil that has been unleashed
whateveracct 11 minutes ago [-]
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 :)
kelseyfrog 25 minutes ago [-]
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].
It’s exhausting every day every week every month it’s a new low, just when you thought it couldn’t get any lower or dumber…
pvaldes 2 minutes ago [-]
[delayed]
cosmicgadget 3 minutes ago [-]
So Iran can shield Hezbollah and other allies/proxies via its stranglehold on the strait. This is quite the shift.
ndiddy 48 minutes ago [-]
Iran’s perspective seems to be that their sovereignty will continue to be threatened by Israel if the US doesn’t start using its considerable amount of leverage over Israel to force them to stand down. I’m not sure how likely this would be, but Trump said that the US would start facing drastic fuel shortages and enter a recession in the next few weeks if he didn’t sign off on the MOU (which seems like a dumb thing to say while negotiations are ongoing but whatever), so it seems like Iran has a lot of power here. Ultimately, I think Trump and Netanyahu’s decision to start this war may result in the largest shift in the Middle Eastern power balance since the post-World War II period.
iAMkenough 1 hours ago [-]
Guess $300 Billion from U.S. taxpayers wasn’t enough. #TheArtOfTheDeal
Cpoll 42 minutes ago [-]
To be fair, none of that has been paid out yet.
cosmicgadget 2 minutes ago [-]
Didn't some of the gulf states provide reconstruction payments already?
sghiassy 45 minutes ago [-]
Art of the Deal sigh
indoorfish 58 minutes ago [-]
cut ties with israel at this point?
moogly 38 minutes ago [-]
Aragchi was likely correct in saying the Israeli death cult is a threat to all of humanity at this point. This is untenable.
watwut 52 minutes ago [-]
It is closed! Open! Closed! Open! Closed!
We are negotiating! We dont! We do! We dont! We on the plane! We are not!
CSSer 10 minutes ago [-]
Everything is going to plan! Protect the precious bodily fluids.
Meanwhile, Israel is trying to sabotage the peace process and dont care about that relationship.
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 :)
1. https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/the-lizardmans-cons...
We are negotiating! We dont! We do! We dont! We on the plane! We are not!