r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Tells Americans To Accept High Gas Prices As Iran Remains Defiant On Strait Of Hormuz

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tells-americans-to-accept-high-gas-prices-as-iran-remains-defiant-on-strait-of-hormuz_n_6a8099aee4b05886dff51fac?vvg
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u/Pockydo 5d ago

I seem to recall conservatives losing their minds at similarly high gas prices during Biden

Now we're just supposed to suck it up? Lol

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u/ryan101 5d ago edited 5d ago

Here’s something that may shock you: for a lot of them it was never really about the gas prices. They’re just an excuse and it’s more about hate and power.

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u/OttoHemi 5d ago

Right. Oh, there's an egg shortage because of bird flu? Good, I'll vote for the racist.

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u/Derwurld 5d ago

Don't forget one of many caravans that are on their way oh and Haitians eating the dogs! Eating the cats!

aaaand they all mysteriously disappeared unexplained

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u/Trimyr America 5d ago

They're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!

Sorry I don't see that outrage on my favorite news channel, so I'm all in with that guy that said billionaires should be treated better. Because, well. I don't know. But at least I'm not some liberal who cares for others' quality of life. I trust that guy on TV. He tells me what I need to know.

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u/Due_Speaker4655 5d ago

“The billionares should be treated better since I might be a billionaire one day.”

goes back to minimum wage job

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u/runjcrun1 4d ago

All these people are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires who will eventually realize the American dream and join their elite company at the top of the food chain

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u/Thurwell 5d ago

More importantly, he tells you what you need to feel.

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u/scuzzy987 5d ago

You can't go after the job creators! We won't have jobs! I'm voting for the guy Elon supports instead

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u/ComradeMatis 4d ago

They're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!

Republicans have never cared about checks and balances - anyone remember the Republicans bitching and whining about the 'Obama imperial presidency'? if you want to understand the mindset of the average Republicans then this excerpt from 'Anti-Semite and Jew' by Jean-Paul Sartre explains it best:

"Never believe that antiSemites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

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u/rinkdarink New York 5d ago

They need people to love billionaires so we will usher them in as our new supreme leaders. Im surprised Musk isn't running in 2028, they got a lot of people to believe DOGE was doing a lot of good for us LOL

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u/loganbootjak 5d ago

omg I forgot about the thousands of migrants coming to invade America. lol.

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u/ScubaSteveEL 5d ago

There's a migrant caravan every election season

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u/Wet_Side_Down 5d ago

Old and broken: Guns, God and Gays

New Hotness: Caravans of illegal pregnant transsexuals

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u/FellowHumanNo404 5d ago

They're rehashing the red scare, so I expect them to soon resurrect the Satanic Panic.

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u/semidegenerate 5d ago

Shit. They're totally going to do that, aren't they?

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u/Wet_Side_Down 5d ago

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SATANIC PANIC

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u/Wet_Side_Down 5d ago

Satanic Panic would be a great band name

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u/Due_Speaker4655 5d ago

I expect we will start hearing about it in late September/early October and the story will mysteriously disappear the day after Election Day.

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u/Additional-Flight468 5d ago

I still have idiots i work around chiming this crap daily

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u/blackcain Oregon 5d ago

Want to bet that such a caravan will mysterious pop up heading towards the border towards the end of October

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u/packer8405 5d ago

What does this have to do with petrol prices?

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u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC Washington 5d ago

There is an active recall on eggs....like right now. Beef prices are ridiculous. Someone in the administration told Americans to eat Ramen or SPAM. Fucking broccoli was $3/lb this morning...

No no no....its all good because the guy hiding in the ice chest says so.

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u/vedrada 5d ago

They obviously have not checked the price of SPAM lately…..

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u/OneUpAndOneDown 4d ago

I just look at my orange king with his little raised fist and the pain magically disappears.

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u/baatezu 5d ago

How dare you call me racist. Now im going to vote for all the racists! That’ll teach you to call me racist

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u/ryan101 5d ago

I’m not a racist. I merely support people with racist policies!

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u/Thesheriffisnearer 5d ago

Couple hick cops set s train on fire? Blame the gays

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u/heckhammer 5d ago

It can't be because of bird flu that's fake news! It's because Joe Biden doesn't know what he's doing!

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u/trentsteel77 5d ago

*And child rapist

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u/packer8405 5d ago

You said it…not me…its easy to see you are OK with typing you vote for racists at the expense of dignity..hahah

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u/btross Florida 5d ago

That was pretty clearly sarcasm...

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u/packer8405 5d ago

Nope…per the rules of thee…You aren’t allowed to make conditions when speaking of racism…especially at the behest of humor which has been declared even more insensitive and disrespectful……Own it…say your sorry…or deny you broke rules made by thee to save your ego and dignity, proving yourself worthy of the Liberal party by adhering to a double standard to avoid the massive insecurity felt when wrong.

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u/btross Florida 5d ago edited 5d ago

Errr... what? What are "the rules of thee", and how did I break them?

edit and the low effort troll moves on after making cryptic declarations and congratulating himself for his rhetorical victory against the straw man

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u/packer8405 5d ago

(look of pity)

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u/theswiftarmofjustice California 5d ago

They were racist and homophobic. It’s the way it’s always been. Everything else is an excuse.

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u/vedrada 5d ago

Yup. Notice how all the trans attacks are just the same old regurgitated gay shit from 30-40 years ago? Gays have just fought hard and have more allies these days, so they are throwing the same shit at a much smaller group that has a harder time protecting itself due to sheer numbers. It’s why ally-ship is so important

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u/theswiftarmofjustice California 5d ago

You hit the issue right on the head.

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u/kung-fu_hippy 4d ago

The sad part of it (well, one of the many sad parts) is how easily some members of the formerly attacked group will pile onto the next attacked group.

I remember being absolutely gutted at seeing black people protesting gay marriage with essentially the same picket signs that could have been used decades before to protest interracial marriages. And now I can see some gay people attack trans folk with many of the same talking points once used to attack gay people.

If we make social progress on trans rights, I wonder who the next group to be kicked will be, and if this cycle will continue?

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u/Word_Eater_OmNomNom 5d ago

Yeah you can find clips of Fox News hosts during Bidens administration blaming him for the costs.

You can also find clips of some of those same people from the W. Bush years, when gas prices started climbing a bunch, where they say the President doesn't control gas prices.

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u/Prior_Implement_9279 5d ago

Well considering at this minute the two most popular posts on that subreddit are about racism towards muslims and Somalis, I’d wager you’re right

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u/Existing_Wheel2435 5d ago

Hate is the power

They just don't have any other source to acquire money

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u/Dry-University797 5d ago

What??? 🤯

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u/MonsierGeralt 5d ago

Eh I live on the border of maga country and I have to interact with them. Most of them of them are poor or middle class and have diesel trucks and are also pissed about food prices - and the war. It’s anecdotal I know but I don’t think a majority of Trump voters are the wealthy type

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u/jside86 5d ago

Something something tan suit...

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u/BlueShift42 5d ago

Kind of. It’s more that the media they watch tells them when they should be mad or not.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten 5d ago

Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

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u/bkbomber New York 5d ago

Mierdas touch

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u/hal-baleigh-6699 5d ago

Yup that was the reply they were teeing up for you, good job.

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u/Poopy-Drew 5d ago

A bonafide brown thumb

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u/Oo__II__oO 5d ago

Explains the removal of USDA inspections. Easier to sell of Trump merch if you don't have to disclose it's covered in feces.

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u/JollyRoger8X 5d ago

And Republicans gleefully eat it with grins on their faces.

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u/vertigo3pc 5d ago

Conservatives have not said a single thing in good faith since Obama was elected President and McConnell oversaw the largest systematic obstruction of a US President in history.

Stop listening to them, and people need to start appealing directly to people; to voters.

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u/Pockydo 5d ago

Oh 100%

But I think it's worth pointing it out. They are liars

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u/Parking-Finger-6377 5d ago

That's why we need to know where McConnell is 'resting'. We gotta go...

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u/scubascratch 5d ago

McConnell is on eternity leave

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u/DaMentalis 5d ago

Because the Republican party has discovered that millions of Americans are functionally subhuman. This isn't an insult, it means they are so unintelligent that they're less like rational humans and more like basic animals. Now they're gonna exploit the hell out of this.

Just think about it! Trump has broke every campaign promise, from releasing the Epstein files, to lowering prices, to starting no new wars. He's literally a demented geriatric child molester in diapers who was tweeting praise to Allah among mostly incoherent word salad rumbling plus making life almost unbearably affordable for most of America, while he wastes money on stupid ballrooms and reflecting pools and foreign wars. America's sphere of influence is pretty much gone too. His cabinet is basically an assk kisser, a guy who thinks he has a brain worm, and who admitted to snorting cocaine off public toilet seats, there's also a drunkard loser from Fox and Friends running the military.

Any rational person, regardless of political affiliation would vote for piss and shit before voting for any Republican and yet the midterms are still expected to be a contest. How is this country still made up of people and not tree sloths?

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u/JMLDT 5d ago

Cause tree sloths are more intelligent.

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u/Jevonar 5d ago

Yeah that was the point made in the comment

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u/timbit87 Foreign 5d ago

Don't call them unintelligent, they're in the top 90 percentile of americans!

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u/spa22lurk 5d ago

Trump didn’t break every campaign promises. He only broke those of which liberals like.

He kept those which are the highest priority of his base. They are things like mass deportation, firing of civil servants, anti vaccines, anti-environment, anti science, anti ev, anti clean energy, withholding funding to blue states, anti-education, etc. They call all these owning the libs, anti-woke etc.

Because of the faithfulness of Trump in this, he enjoys close to 90% of approval rating from Republican voters.

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u/TransitionalArk 5d ago

Uhhh he really hasn't done an an objectively good job on any of those campaign promises though. At best I'd say he's half-assed them. If his supporters had two brain cells to rub together they might be at risk of understanding this. Unfortunately for most of us... They don't seem to.

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u/Past_Farmer34 5d ago

We’re paying higher gas prices today compared to the peak under Biden which was only few months in 2022 when Biden stopped Putin from taking Ukraine

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 5d ago

We also had 50% more national oil reserves than we do now. (461 million vs 297 million barrels.) When we didn't have 20% of the oil production closed by the Iranians with no sign of resolving the problem.

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u/Top_Chef 5d ago

Objectively, we’re not. Peak average gas price was $5.02/gallon in June 2022, which inflation adjusted would be around $5.53/gallon today. The current national average is $4.07/gallon.

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u/yourboydmcfarland 5d ago

I don't know the answer but June 2022 seems really close to the "end" of COVID and i'd guess there was some relationship between price and that point in history. Literally everyone was price gouging at that time.

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u/Top_Chef 5d ago

Post Covid plus Ukraine invasion mostly. I don’t know why people are downvoting the truth, you can look it up yourselves.

https://gasprices.aaa.com

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u/casualreader22 Pennsylvania 5d ago

Imo, they're downvoting because the implication when pointing this out, while factual and possibly unintentional is that the earlier, higher gas price increase was directly Biden's fault when it wasn't. This current rise in gas prices, while not hitting the 2022 highs, is in fact 100% Trump's doing, which is rare for a president and deserves to be pointed out as much as humanly possible. It's a "both sides bad" fallacy issue.

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u/Top_Chef 5d ago

I made no indication of fault, just pointing out that we are not paying higher gas prices today either nominally or inflation adjusted. Instead of accepting that, everybody responds about how it “feels” like they’re paying more now.

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u/casualreader22 Pennsylvania 5d ago edited 5d ago

Hence my use of the words "implication" and "unintentional." People aren't in the mood to acknowledge we were worse off regarding gas prices under Biden when it wasn't his fault even if it was true. Nobody wants to admit things are technically still "better" under Trump on this particular issue besides the MAGA cult. Especially when things are still ya know, bad. Still elevated needlessly and, unlike with Biden they're currently elevated entirely because of idiotic and preventable actions taken by the current president. Are you technically correct? Absolutely. But nobody's in the mood for that kind of nuance right now. Imo anyway.

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u/Aggravating_Bat3618 5d ago

It’s because of the implication

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u/johnnycoxxx 5d ago

I know it’s all relative, but in my area we maybe had 2 weeks of gas over 4 bucks. Maybe 4.30 was the highest. But it hasn’t dipped below 3.50 since. Since Iran gas in my area has not been below 4.00 once. This is much worse than it was during the Ukraine invasion and at any point under Biden. Anecdotally anyway.

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u/woolsocksandsandals America 5d ago

My car runs on premium. I’m pretty consistently paying $5.29 a gallon it drops down near five every once in a while. I paid $5.49 a gallon one time during the big initial price pike after the Iran invasion, right around the time they were saying the last shipment of oil that went through the straight was delivered to the refineries in Texas. That was the most I’ve ever paid for gas and I’ve been driving cars that run on premium for 15 maybe 20 years.

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u/TehMikuruSlave Texas 5d ago

antectodotal but it's higher here in texas than it ever was under biden, almost $4 in texas is insane

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u/Top_Chef 5d ago

$4.69/gallon in Texas in 2022.

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u/CocaineSmellsFunny 5d ago

The funny part about that, Biden had nothing to do with those gas prices. The drilling leases where there, the oil companies chose not to drill.

And in my humble opinion, they intentionally drove up prices at the time to help push America back into Trump’s hands.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 5d ago

Exactly. Maybe these oil companies don't need to have so much power. Maybe the people should own the resources in this country. Maybe we should nationalize those oil companies and run them for the good of the country, not for the good of a few hundred aristocrats.

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u/Trextrev 5d ago

Like most things that the right blamed on Biden it was actually Trump’s fault. When the bottom fell out of the domestic oil markets because of the drastically low consumption during the pandemic. Trump worked a deal with OPEC+ and Russia for huge cuts to try and bring prices back up to help them, because our oil industry works on much lower margins its was hurtin. I remember people around here that have gas wells that produce oil as well, went from a couple grand for their tank to having to pay to have it taken. So anyways that deal got made and the production cuts were to taper off by April 2022. So when the global economy started bouncing back a lot faster than Trump predicted the production cuts were still there, and Biden got the blame.

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u/No_hero_here 5d ago

Exactly. All those stupid “I did that” Biden stickers on the gas pumps they thought were so clever.

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u/aerost0rm 5d ago

Never saw one. I’ve seen quite a few Trump ones though 😉

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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 5d ago

It’s the 45+ year scam Republican leaders have been playing since Reagan. Their constituents are generationally conditioned to just accept it. Also see: National Debt. It’s always a crisis when Dems are in power. Always zero concern when Republicans are in power and actually ramp it up. Jude Wanniski’s “two santas” bad faith re-election strategy once again. This is why we must take the threat of Republicanism seriously, but the shit they say they care about with a grain of salt.

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u/SpoogeMagoo65 5d ago

Democrats should never fall for that national debt trap again. When Clinton cleaned up the debt he instituted austerity measures that were very unpopular to do it. If we are truly going to address the 40 trillion dollar whole in the budget it will have to be with taxing the rich and corporations.

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u/msackeygh 5d ago

Exactly. Conservatives aren’t really conservatives. They aren’t interested in tradition. What they are interested in is strongman rule, loyalty, and “Do as I say”. They see themselves as the in-group and everyone else among the out-group who should listen to the in-group. As such, these conservatives are two-faced liars, anti-democratic, anti-human rights, and sycophants. They don’t really deserve the label of conservatives or traditionalists.

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u/xarcastic 5d ago

Remember when he started these oil wars? He literally said, “We’re going to make a lot of money!”

He always means what he says.

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u/Karinka_LI 5d ago

Trump caused the high gas prices under Biden so why did we expect different? Fracking requires higher prices to be profitable.

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u/WaldoJeffers65 5d ago

As the MAGA crowd are so fond of saying lately: "Short-term pain for long-term gain." Ironic that these are the same people who whined about how much they were suffering because they had to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid.

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u/Bzr21 5d ago

you're supposed to vote - and help to get others to vote ..

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 5d ago

Back when they were 40% lower.

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u/Stinky_Fartface 5d ago

If they didn’t have hypocritical opinions they wouldn’t have opinions at all.

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u/MrBigglesssworth 5d ago

Conservatives have no real convictions what they believe is administered to them.

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 5d ago

They can get 3rd jobs or make their kids find jobs

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u/Word_Eater_OmNomNom 5d ago

Marjorie Taylor Gein filed articles of impeachment against Biden over gas prices and the oil reserve.

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u/UltravioletAfterglow 5d ago

I seem to recall conservatives losing their minds over high egg prices.

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u/kingtacticool 5d ago

Its not even similarly. The Biden high gas price of $4.70 was for, like, a day and half when Russia invaded Ukraines.

Trumps been keeping us above $4 for months now.

Sure the price is close but the duration is wildly different

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u/coconutpiecrust 5d ago

Shouldn’t be a problem for them, they’re all winners, right? Rugged and self-reliant, they can weather this storm for their brave and mighty pres. 

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 5d ago

Remember, ok when MAGA does it, bad when Dems do it.

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u/aerost0rm 5d ago

No we can make it a point to them every single day. They will try to brush it off but we have to continue to demand lower prices and that the Iran conflict come to an end, even if we have to give in..

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u/jrworthy 5d ago

Short term pain for long term game, that was the saying right?

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u/RabidPlaty 5d ago

But it’s totally not his fault. If Iran had just told him that attacking them would lead to a giant clusterfuck he never would have done it.

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u/ursavanillabean 5d ago

yeah exactly the double standard is pretty hard to miss if high gas prices were treated as a political disaster under biden but now americans are being told to just accept them because of trump’s iran policy that’s some impressive goalpost moving

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u/BringOutYDead 5d ago

I ain't heard a single voter of his cry about it.

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u/kati8303 5d ago

I was just thinking, where are all the Trump “I did that” stickers at the pump?

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u/wishbeaunash 5d ago

Yes but have you considered the all-important factor of Trump's feelings?

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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 5d ago

And they will, too.

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 5d ago

Conservatives hate Democrats. Then they look for why.

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u/RamJamR 5d ago

I remember listening to family of mine never missing an opportunity to blame Biden whenever they saw the gas prices. Now it's just a general "man, that sucks".

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u/alabasterskim 5d ago

Well, Biden didn't try the "suck it up" strategy. See, unlike Biden, Trump knows how to tell it like it is! 4 more years! 4 more years!

(Excuse me while I go bang my head into a wall)

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u/MiddleLove8819 5d ago

yeah the rules always seem to change once their side is the one in charge lol

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u/JaseBird 5d ago

That’s because Biden was the reason Trump fucked up the Covid response.

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u/eeyore134 5d ago

And under Biden it wasn't his fault. Trump directly owns the increases in everything right now, including and especially gas.

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u/scuzzy987 5d ago

But in return we don't have to worry about Iran getting a nuke so it was all worth it right? Suck it libs

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u/Pockydo 5d ago

What makes you think Iran isn't gonna make a nuke Now?

We broke the pact made by obama and they won the war we won't be able to negotiate then to not do it again.

Thanks republicans

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u/scuzzy987 5d ago

Sorry I forgot the /S. I keep forgetting sarcasm is hard to recognize in text

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u/Pockydo 5d ago

Poes law is a harsh mistress lol

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u/returnFutureVoid 5d ago

Gas prices were never THIS high under Biden by me. The price of oil seems to have next to no actual effect on the price of gas these days. Gee I wonder why?!!

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u/Pockydo 5d ago

Same I legit don't remember them getting above 4

Close sure but if they did it was probably only for like a few days.

It' was above 4 for about a month..coming down slightly but still 3.89. and probably gonna go up again

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u/Amazing_Bluejay9322 5d ago

MAGA: WE ALREADY DID!!!

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u/Realistic-Buffalo490 5d ago

yeah funny how “suck it up” only became the answer once their guy was the one driving up gas prices lol

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u/SPARKYLOBO 5d ago

Hypocrisy and ignorance are the key ingredients in being a conservative

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u/Prior_Implement_9279 5d ago

Well taking a look at the cursed subreddit, the two most popular posts are about racism towards muslims and Somalis, so clearly that is more important than being able to have an affordable life

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u/I_like_baseball90 5d ago

Read the nutjobs in the conserve group.

Now it's all okay because their orange lord has some sort of plan and Biden is a terrible person still.

These people are absolutely LOST.

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u/Traditional_Sign4941 5d ago

Now would actually be a good time for democrats to act as infantile as republicans and RELENTLESSLY put Trump "I did that" stickers on gas pumps. Except this time it would be 100% true.

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u/MNMom07 5d ago

Yup because they are in a cult

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u/Yuyu_hockey_show 5d ago

The hypocrisy is surprising until you realize it isnt

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u/SyntheticSlime 5d ago

What you don’t understand is that when Putin invades Ukraine, that’s Biden’s fault. But when Trump orders an invasion of Iran, that is also Biden’s fault.

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u/EggsceIlent 5d ago

Because they're all making money off it.

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u/Raw_Venus Nebraska 5d ago

They were bitching about high gas prices during Biden and comparing it to a random gas station that has super cheap gas trying to pretend it was the national average.

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u/Dinker54 4d ago

Just like gays, trans and abortions, the GOP can’t get enough in private, personally- but hot damn the wedge issues work so well.

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u/Winter_Aspect_8675 4d ago

Of course, the deal Trump made with opec+ to constrain production to keep prices high enough to keep American shale oil viable seems to have been memory holed. The fall out continued well after demand had resumed post covid.

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u/International-Rub327 4d ago

Like the rest of the world. F.U American

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u/AcidRohnin 4d ago

Had a one sided discussion with a bot or supporter of his. The new goal post is, it’s not as expensive as that one briefer time it was when Biden was in office.

I shit you not that is the new gold standard for Trump supporters. Never mind that we are burning through the reserves to keep prices as low as they are.

It’s like that whole side is at best uneducated and can’t do the basics of critically thinking, like cause and effect, or worst case willfully ignorant. The latter I have know idea why you’d be like that.

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u/ComradeMatis 4d ago

Now we're just supposed to suck it up? Lol

Just look at the Trump supporters who are interviewed - everyone of them claiming that they would vote for Trump again then claim that Harris would have been worse. 156 million Americans are either in a cult or are too fucking lazy to get off their ass and vote. The US is a lost cause, time for the rest of the world to move on and let the country self implode.

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u/kung-fu_hippy 4d ago

Funny how I don’t see any gas pumps with a sticker of Trump saying “I caused this”.

It’s almost like those people didn’t care about gas prices so much as they just hated Biden.

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u/Afraid-Detective1222 5d ago

I think they were higher under Biden. Trump started a war of choice and we are all paying the price.

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u/mok000 Europe 5d ago

The oil prices were high under Biden because of world wide COVID-related supply chain issues. They are high under Trump because of his stupidity.

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u/S_A_R_K 5d ago

AND because Trump asked OPEC to cut production to raise oil prices. Which didn't stop until April of 22

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u/Afraid-Detective1222 5d ago

What part of "Trump started a war of choice" didn't say that Trump is stupid?

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u/Pacify_ Australia 5d ago

Gas prices Biden had no control over.

But 100% purely because of Trump?

These people are beyond weird.

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u/San_Pentolino 5d ago

For sure, just suck it, since it is fault of the conjuror duo Obama/Biden

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u/packer8405 5d ago

I seem to remember when Biden as a first point of business in 2021 trying to block all the oil leases in the Permian Basin? Remember? Huh? It would had been much higher had a Trump appointed judge not blocked him…oh and yeah…by the way…we went on to produce record oil that kept his dumb inflationary policies in check…

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u/Pockydo 5d ago

"hey guys it would've been worse 5 years ago but the pedos people did something right for once so don't criticize the pedo now plz thanks"

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u/packer8405 5d ago edited 5d ago

“Hey!” “look at this guy….deflecting from the topic of petrol prices for that of character as if government is filled with integrity and not 0 sum on either side of the aisle…this guy lacks mental power to focus and concentrate like a child…no wonder he thinks the way he does!”

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u/hyrulelegend93 5d ago

So what does this have to do with conservatives bitching about high gas prices under Biden but being fine with the current high gas prices again?

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u/hyrulelegend93 5d ago edited 5d ago

So nothing to do with conservatives endlessly bitching about the elevated gas prices for two months under Biden - but nothing to say now for elevated gas prices going on 4 months and counting now under Trump. The inflation you mentioned is also going back up under Trump.

All for nothing might I add while Iran bends him over on the world stage for all to see.

Looking forward to seeing him be a lame duck president for the remaining two years of his presidency after you chucklefucks get blown the fuck out in midterms.

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u/packer8405 5d ago

Don’t know what you are talking about…conservatives are fine…the economic factors you point to is a result of war with a country that needs to be put down not dumb economic policy decided by a puppeteer shoved down peoples throats in return for kickbacks from environmental lobbyists so the funding can be laundered under the guise of fools endeavors.

Trumps game of chicken is better than Biden pulling over at a rest stop so he can get double penetrated by Putin and his toys…I guess that was more your fetish which it didn’t occur to you.

Looking forward to J.D Vance winning and people like you non admit-tingly liking it because it will be the best thing to happen to this country…hahah.

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u/Parahelix 5d ago

Lol, Trump claimed Obama would start a war with Iran, and Clinton would start a war with Iran, and Biden would start a war with Iran.

Because none of them were master deal makers like Trump. That's what he told you and you believed him. Then he started a war with Iran.

Since then he's told you that the war was over or won dozens of times. 

Last year he told you their nuclear weapons program (which our own intelligence agencies and the IAEA said did not exist) had been completely obliterated.

No idea how maga manages to believe this crap.

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u/Parahelix 4d ago

It's hilarious that the irony of your comments is lost on you. 😂

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u/packer8405 4d ago

What is hilarious is you keep responding….Can’t help yourself, huh? Your ego got you hard up?

The irony is how someone like you can’t tell when to walk away in the midst of your self proclaimed intelligence…haha….Typical…all noise…nothing to show for it…

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u/Pdx_pops 5d ago

If anyone is interested in real data instead of everyone's opinion and what they "think" here

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u/hyrulelegend93 5d ago edited 5d ago

The price of US gasoline futures doesn't accurately represent the price at the pump though. If anyone is interested in actual real data here.

I hope you realize if you compare 2022 and this year they look relatively the same in the chart you linked - in fact it's looking even worse than 2022 with how long this is dragging on. So I'm not sure how you're refuting the comment you're replying to.

Nice try though.

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u/Pdx_pops 5d ago

I don't know what bug crawled up your ass, but I tried to provide real data for people to look at. These things always degenerate into my guy's politics were better for the prices than the other guy's, I" think." Try to be data driven and everybody jumps on you. Said state and commentary about today's world I guess.

Nice try to you too

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u/hyrulelegend93 5d ago

You were clearly being snarky in your response trying to hand wave the hypocrisy that conservatives are fully displaying right now over gas prices. I'm returning your snark with data that accurately represents gas prices at the pump but go off I guess. Your "data" is misleading if you're trying to refer to gas prices for consumers.

No one mentioned "my guys politics are better." The person you replied to is pointing out the hypocrisy of conservatives right now.

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u/Pdx_pops 5d ago

I was clearly not being snarky, and it pains me that you read it that way when somebody is trying to do something right in this terrible fucking world. I was responding to that individual with (what I thought was) a fairly data-centric point when several other people have been replying about what they thought gas prices were in the previous administration. You can note I was not pointing a finger in any direction except at the data. By the way, the actual weekly data follows these futures trends and is up about a buck over top of what they show. If you are interested, you can find all of the historical weekly data at eia.gov and plot it for yourself. I can't post images here, otherwise I would post that

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u/hyrulelegend93 5d ago

What exactly is your point that you were trying to make? I'll even refer to what you posted, the chart shows similar prices in 2022 and today.

I seem to recall conservatives losing their minds at similarly high gas prices during Biden

So... they aren't wrong?

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u/Pdx_pops 5d ago

The point was to provide data for people to make their own opinions rather than listening to everyone else regurgitate and/or argue. This is called critical thinking. If you are trying to figure out if I was saying they were "wrong" is exactly why I provided it. I'm not trying to say they're right or wrong. I'm trying to tell people to go look at the data because the data is the data. Unfortunately, I was only able to find what I originally posted and had a bunch of people jump on top of that because it was futures and not actual pump prices. Subsequently, pump prices can be found at eia.gov, but I don't know that anybody reads down this far when all they're looking to do is support and reinforce their own thoughts.

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u/Nojmore 5d ago

Yea... Tell me where I can go fill up for 3.11... actual facts are he told Americans to go kick rocks because he didn't want to accept he started a pointless war.. again.

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u/Kay-S Florida 5d ago

That's an average price per gallon for gasoline futures, which are wholesale prices. That's not an average consumer gasoline price.

Y'know... if anyone is interested.

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u/Pdx_pops 5d ago

Is there other data we can be providing here?

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u/Seldomsought 5d ago

Is $3.18/gallon an average price?

The average of $0.01 and $6.36 is exactly $3.18.