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Another attempt by Trump to end the war with Iran

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AGAA4 Tue 25-Aug-26 16:06:48

Trump is urging other countries to impose sanctions on Iran.
The problem is most of Iran's trade is with China who have called the sanctions illegal and will not be complying.
Iran say they have been waiting for this from Trump and are well prepared.
It will depend on other countries complying. China have said no. No reply yet from India or Russia.

madeleine45 Sat 29-Aug-26 01:17:11

On hearing that the demented D Trump has decided that he can rename a lake that he has no right to change anything, I have decided that I will follow his example.

So I declare that place that was called the Oval should henceforth be called The National Lunatic Asylum and then at least we shall feel that it is correctly named for who is living there! The song about the kings new clothes comes to mind. If they stopped saying how good the new clothes were and saw the nude reality, then something might just possibly improve a little

petra Sat 29-Aug-26 09:43:13

Have hope.
I put a bet on Trump in both elections. Not for any other reason than you only had to read and listen to what the American voter was saying.
I will be betting on this man.
www.facebook.com/reel/1654033318938192

Wyllow3 Sat 29-Aug-26 10:39:31

Just a gentle heads-up on that phrase—'lunatic asylum' carries a lot of old stigma and a pretty dark history regarding mental health, so it's generally avoided now.
I get the gist, and its delightful to think up alternatives 🙂

nanna8 Sat 29-Aug-26 12:09:06

Wyllow3

Fallingstar

Whitewavemark2

The bottom of his tie gave me quite a start for a second😄😄

🤣🤣

Do you think the people who produced the photo did it deliberately? It's absolutely hilarious - if it wasn't so gross, as in the*lies*. All they had to do was a little erasing.

Hey, imaround, that is good family news. Now doubt has got hold of them at first there will be quite a lot of silence then, in that red zone people will begin to share privately at first...then...

I always though he was a bit of a dick —- 😁

imaround Sat 29-Aug-26 13:08:44

petra

Have hope.
I put a bet on Trump in both elections. Not for any other reason than you only had to read and listen to what the American voter was saying.
I will be betting on this man.
www.facebook.com/reel/1654033318938192

Add Talarico in Texas. These 2 could help flip the Senate.

imaround Sat 29-Aug-26 13:14:21

I am almost certain Texas will flip blue. Oddly, I am also watching Ohio to flip blue.

And well, he is not very popular with the farmers and ranchers right now. That makes up the bast majority of the red states.

He is never going to allow this election to happen, IMO. He knows he is going down. But I haven't the faintest idea what that would look like as it is uncharted territory.

Good news, a Federal judge just played them hard, and now they have a temp restraining order that says they can do nothing about mail in voting for 2 weeks. She can extend it for another 2. He can't appeal a TRO. grin

Whitewavemark2 Sat 29-Aug-26 13:48:54

3 months to the vote, which is a long time in politics, but it does look that the democrats will take the house but at present unlikely to take the senate.

I’ve been looking at what the democrats could do if they just had the house and it is quite a lot.

They can but a brake on ICE.

Make life difficult for Trumps war in Iran.

Restrict his tariff powers

Voting, they can block Trumps legislation and investigate federal interference

Challenge Trump’s executive orders.

Trump’s legislation - refuse to pass it.

Impeachment - not likely to be successful without a big majority and control of both houses.

(Info from AI)

From our point of view, the biggest gain is that the democrats can considerably weaken Trump’s foreign policy, but not sufficiently to stop him from say taking over Greenland or Canada, but they can refuse to fund this activity, And in any case he has to overcome his army, the courts, the EU and NATO as well as Congress. So hopefully it is so much more difficult thst he would have the world believe.

Oreo Sat 29-Aug-26 15:21:18

madeleine45

On hearing that the demented D Trump has decided that he can rename a lake that he has no right to change anything, I have decided that I will follow his example.

So I declare that place that was called the Oval should henceforth be called The National Lunatic Asylum and then at least we shall feel that it is correctly named for who is living there! The song about the kings new clothes comes to mind. If they stopped saying how good the new clothes were and saw the nude reality, then something might just possibly improve a little

The Oval? Now Madeleine45 play nicely that’s just not cricket!😂
Now if you mean The Oval Office….that’s another matter.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 02-Sept-26 14:59:57

It is exactly as we assumed.

Netanyahu has apparently been on state television bragging how he manipulated Trump into starting the Iranian war.

AGAA4 Wed 02-Sept-26 15:12:39

How that will go down with Trump? I do wonder if what Netanyahu knows about him that Trump won't want disclosed.

silverlining48 Thu 03-Sept-26 09:09:05

We might be able to hazard a guess… though Netanyahu may have the same skeletons in his cupboard.