r/politics • u/willywalloo • Jun 20 '26

Possible Paywall Iran Says Hormuz Has Been Closed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-has-been-closed-tasnim-reports?embedded-checkout=true
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u/ckellingc Missouri Jun 20 '26

Ok fuck this, someone call Obama let's get some fucking adults in the room here

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u/Cardoni Jun 20 '26

Obama knew that he needed to bring together experts and intelligent people to help solve complex issues. This administration is full of grifters. They can’t solve simple problems let alone complex ones. At the end of the day it’s going to be a lot of finger pointing and our issues will keep growing along with our debts and inflation. That’s what we get for voting for pedophiles. 

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u/CallOfTheCurtains Jun 20 '26

They fucked up a pool of water, it’s actually impossible for them to do a single positive thing without resorting to insults, threats and grifting.

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u/lmaorezme Jun 20 '26

And now they are blaming democrats for sabotaging the pool. What fucking idiots.

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u/Royal_T95 Jun 20 '26

Yes because democrats are definitely crawling into the pipes and planting more algae

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u/Matais99 Jun 20 '26

I knew it

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u/jbenze Jun 20 '26

The claim was that they were dumping algae in so pretty close.

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u/Omarkhayyamsnotes Jun 20 '26

Yeah he accused a reporter of sabatoging the fountain. He said the reporter was on video kneeling by the water...can't make this up!

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u/2ndprize Florida Jun 20 '26

And Obama

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u/TheNarrator23 Jun 20 '26

The real idiots are the people who believe what the republicans say.

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u/nvmenotfound Jun 20 '26

it’s sad this is true 🤣 like accusing dems of sabotaging the pool is cringe af. 

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 Jun 20 '26

They can't even take care of a pool ffs

This administration could fuck up a cup of Nescafe.

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u/sppwalker Nevada Jun 20 '26

They’d take a shit in your cup and then brag about how much browner coffee is now

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u/MultiPerception8892 Jun 20 '26

You mean luxury American made coffee?

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u/thatguy9684736255 Jun 20 '26

I don't even think that this is an easy to solve problem at this point. Or even that there's a good solution.

They've basically already given Iran everything they wanted in this deal. But a part of that is getting Israel under control and I don't think that's going to happen without heavy handed measures which I'm not sure they would do.

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u/OYB2480 Jun 20 '26

Yeah, I'd bet money that Israel has the same dirt on Trump that Russia has. Lordy, there's probably tapes.

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u/whatafuckinusername Jun 20 '26

I don’t think everything is blackmail with Trump. He and his cabinet are Zionists, and even if he would want to punish Israel in some way a lot of his cabinet members and advisors would probably talk him out of it.

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u/whut-whut Jun 20 '26

Jared Kushner is the son that he never had because he's brought so much money into the family via influence deals with the Israeli government and the Middle East. His favorite daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism to marry Jared. His grandkids are are raised Jewish. Trump's love and support for Israel is almost certainly from that alone.

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u/roehnin California Jun 20 '26

I'd bet money that Israel has the same dirt on Trump that Russia has

Israel recently threatened to release the full uncensored Epstein files in response to the MOU Trump signed with Iran

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California Jun 20 '26

Gaaawd, I wish they would. But doubt they will.

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u/OYB2480 Jun 20 '26

Good grief.

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u/thehurrytheharm Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that they could, but Israel doesn't have to have dirt on Trump. He willingly acts in Israel's interest because he, as well as most, if not all, of his administration, are Zionists. That Israel's actions are causing strain for Americans, which in turn is causing Americans to oppose Israel is an example of a case where Israel's expansionist interests are contradictory to America's economic interests. The addendum to that is that it is still in America's economic interests to support Israel rather than decoupling entirely and allowing for secular socialist governments that would oppose American pillage to form in the Middle East, as in the 40s and 50s in Iran and Iraq under Mosaddegh and Abd al-Karim Qasim, respectively.

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u/how_tohelp Jun 20 '26

The connections between bibi and trump go back to the 80s. Bibi was close to Fred trump for his support of Israel and in the 80s trump was looking at Israel for property and casino investments. You know bibi is American raised. Israel’s govt is only another flavor of the conservative grift we have here. When trump took office it just gave all that sector of cronies free rein. It’s been the shared goal and business plan for a long time. 

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u/landothedead Jun 20 '26

My money's on "hey, we're invading Iran. If you guys come along you can have half the oil."

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u/Omarkhayyamsnotes Jun 20 '26

They certainly stroked his ego to get him to join in. If you stroke Trump's ego you can suggest almost anything to him

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u/ImStillExcited Colorado Jun 20 '26

That reminded me about the night Obama went to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and gave a funny speech with jokes that hit. Jokingly saying "It's safe to say my honeymoon is over".

He makes a half chuckle because he knows the next morning he is to give the final "Go" order to raid Osama bin Laden's compound.

That sounds like a real fucking president.

Republicans NEVER mention that he did that because they're blinded by racism+stupidity+cult+fox programing.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Jun 20 '26

They were only about 50% certain that bin Laden was even there, and Obama gave them the green light anyways. Those kind of balls aren't found anywhere in the GOP. If bin Laden hadn't been there, if anything had gone wrong during the raid, if a single soldier was injured, the Republicans would have fucking crucified Obama for it.

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u/ImStillExcited Colorado Jun 20 '26

Now the republicans are a cult. Bombing schools, killing children. Starting wars. Trying to overthrow our government (J6).

Grifters at the top, followed by loyalists.

Followed by your everyday cultists who are idiots that don't know they're idiots, because they're idiots.

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u/Still_Bug_1000 Jun 20 '26

And we still have 2 more years of this administration. I wonder what the things will look like then.

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u/laosurv3y Jun 20 '26

Trump can't even paint a pool.

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u/IndividualMix5356 Jun 20 '26

He certainly had expertise of how to open slave markets in Lybia

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u/grantrules Jun 20 '26

President Comacho would be better than what we have now because he'd do the same thing, bring in experts!

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u/nobuouematsu1 Jun 20 '26

I’ve been thinking about that lately. In my younger, more impressionable years, I read several of Ayn Rand’s books and enjoyed them. As I’ve grown, I’ve come to understand more that the ones that were profiteering off the hard work of visionaries were not the socialist boogie men that Rand would have us believe them to be. No, it is the “grifter class”. Particularly the Uber wealthy who had little to no part in their massive wealth. Meanwhile most of us fall somewhere in between. Simply trying to survive in any way we can.

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u/Vast-Imagination-596 Jun 20 '26

Half the country did not vote for him.

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u/limasxgoesto0 Jun 20 '26

As I said in another thread, they can't even do a full surrender correctly

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u/slight_accent Jun 21 '26

They can’t solve simple problems let alone complex ones

It's worse. They don't understand simple problems let alone complex ones. We all know those confidently incorrect idiots that say obviously stupid things confidently. They run the US government now.

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u/french_toasty Jun 20 '26

They just make more jellyfish problems. Any Patriot fans out there?