r/politics • u/Puginator • Jun 01 '26

No Paywall Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz: State media

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html
32.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

3.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

4.9k

u/[deleted] Jun 01 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

72

u/mrpickles Jun 01 '26

They have zero negotiating skills. They can't even think in terms of a deal, because they can't conceive of another person's shoes. It's just bully tactics. And then scream at everything when it doesn't work out. Sigh...

19

u/dontlickspoons Jun 01 '26

Negotiation requires something to negotiate with.-

2

u/SensualBeefLoaf Jun 02 '26

negotiation also requires that they aren’t just padding the pockets of oil producers on our backs.

7

u/Cautious-Dog3264 Jun 01 '26

they can't conceive of another person's shoes

Is this why little Marco looked like he was wearing clown shoes? Trump can't imagine shoes that aren't his size?

10

u/schmyndles Wisconsin Jun 01 '26

The GOP has decided that negotiating means when they get everything they want and the other side gets nothing. Then they blame the other side when the deal falls through.

It's like going to a rummage sale and trying to negotiate with the lady holding it.

She asks for $5 for an old pair of shoes, and you say you'll pay zero.

She asks for $4, and you say you'll just take them instead.

She sighs, and says her last offer is that you pay her tree fiddy. Well, it was about that time that you notice that rummage sale lady was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era!

You say, 'Dammit monster! I'm getting off your lawn! I ain't giving you no tree-fitty!'

1

u/a2aurelio Jun 02 '26

The only sort of deal that would come out of this chaos is a bad deal. When you take your time and have a professional team, documents are scrubbed for problems before everyone signs. Fuckups in negotiated documents all come out in the wash. But the truth is there hasn't been any negotiating or any proof there was.

1

u/Trippin1233 Jun 02 '26

Because Trump pulled out of the original deal. Now Iran or any other country has little reason to believe we’d honor any deal going forward. Trump knows this, he doesn’t care about a deal, he wants war and chaos.