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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,930 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 08:53 AM Saturday

****BREAKING NEWS**** Iran Just Reclosed The Gulf of Trump

Iran tightened its grip on the Strait of Hormuz again on Saturday, asserting that it was “under strict control” by Iranian forces — just hours after Iranian officials and President Trump had raised hopes for an end to the war by announcing that the waterway had reopened.

Iran’s military said in a statement that the strait had now “returned to its previous state” unless the United States ended its own blockade of Iranian ports. A shipping monitor run by the British navy said Saturday that it had received a report of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards firing at a tanker in the strait.

The new developments added to the confusion on Saturday over the status of transit through the strait, where Iran has choked global energy supplies by menacing passing ships during more than a month of war with the United States and Israel.


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"If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?"1 Corinthians 14:8





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FalloutShelter

(14,533 posts)
2. Every fudging day...
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:00 AM
Saturday

I marvel at how this timeline could be so ridiculous and horrific at the same time.
Nothin gets better until the Traitor is gone and the GOP is turfed out wholesale.

My mental health can’t take a lot more of this
TOFU TACO diet.

Scrivener7

(59,803 posts)
3. Once again, there's no reason for any of this. He started this war on a whim for no reason whatsoever.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:03 AM
Saturday

There's no reason for ICE, there's no reason for tariffs, there's no reason to be murdering boaters in South America, there's no reason to be bombing little girls, there's no reason to be making enemies of every ally we ever had, there's no reason to be blowing up the economy that was called "the envy of the world" before he got his hands on it, there's no reason to trash the White House.

There's no reason for ANY of it.

Bluetus

(2,947 posts)
8. The reason is chaos. It is always the game plan of Trump and Putin
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 10:36 AM
Saturday

Under cover of chaos, they can do all the other things they don't want people to see. Like, how much money have the Trump people made by trading on Trump's stock market manipulation, and investing in defense companies just before they get new contracts?

And it also goes back to Trump's 2011 tweet about Obama. Trump believes that start a war automatically leads to popularity. It worked for W Bush big time (and GHW Bush to an extent). But in those cases, the Presidents made a big effort to explain that to the public and the public generally saw those wars as just and necessary. Trump is a moron. In his mind, it is the command of power that makes a President popular. And the opposite is true. Americans see a RECKLESS command of power, and they hate that.

But there are reasons. Not intelligent reasons. Not valid reasons. But reasons in that demented brain of Trump.


newdeal2

(5,503 posts)
4. Can we place online bets on the next crazy meme he will post in response?
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:04 AM
Saturday

I predict this scene from Dr. Strangelove with his face instead


And something about “crazy bastards”

surfered

(13,790 posts)
6. This back and forth just creates more investing opportunities for insiders.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:11 AM
Saturday

Don, Jr and Eric will be making gobs of money.

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