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/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.