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Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”

A Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters showed that 65% of U.S. voters blame Trump either “a lot” or “some” for the rise in gas prices seen since the beginning of the Iran war.

Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war, which he said was aimed at denying Iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.

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[–] 134 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Rich people don't know the price of anything.

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  • [–] 75 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

    I mean its one gallon of gas, what could it cost, $10?

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  • [+] 9 points 6 months ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'll be honest I've been biking around town lately (mine's a stupidly heavy cargo trike with an aftermarket class 2 motor slapped onto it, i love it) and with gas prices the way they've been, a lot of pickup truck drivers have been asking about my mileage (35-40 miles per charge, which on solar is free).

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Yeah, but that's in euro-dollars, or whatever you call them over there. Who even knows how much that is in real dollars? (I honestly wish I could claim /s on this, but this is literally how most Americans would see it)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's definitely a stereotype for a reason. Briefly talked to a US or Canadian couple in their 40s-50s last year, they were traveling Europe. They were in slight disbelief that a driver wouldn't take dollars/any other currency from a Chinese couple who had no Euros left on them. I wonder how it would go for me if I tried to pay in Euros in NA. Probably not great.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'd really like to believe it wasn't a Canadian couple 😭. We deal with Americans trying to use USD here too and I can't see any of us expecting to be able to use CAD anywhere outside of our country

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of border communities in the states at least accept Canadian currency, usually at 30% increase. Here in Maine we have the ITS (international snowmobile trail system) and plenty of folks from Quebec and New Brunswick ride over and end up spending Canadian currency.

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  • [–] 77 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    I seem to recall him claiming that he would get gas under $2/gallon. Where are we at on that?

    Gas prices aren't my primary concern. I've hated him for years for better reasons, but gas prices seems to be the only thing that is waking his supporters up.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them. Fuel prices are actually crazy complicated and The President generally has very little control over them (unlike in this case).

    Honestly I prefer the fuel prices to be higher to persuade the population to make better choices. I understand some bear that pain more than others.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them.

    In this case, the President ordering a needless war on Iran against all expert advice, and then vowing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention all the USA's attacks on other countries and moronic isolationist trade policies over the last year, makes it more the President's fault than it usually would be.

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  • [–] 62 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That didn't happen.
    And if it did, it wasn't that bad. <----
    And if it was, that's not a big deal.
    And if it is, that's not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn't mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it.

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    It's a lot less poetic when you had to live through it.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    At what point do we realize their strategy is to contend good rhetoric and reason, and it is quite effective, so reasonably we ought consider less reasonable approaches. Not necessarily unreasonable, but surely areasonable (if you’ll give me that). Not to tether my thread to the Marxist ideology but I believe they had a term for something like this, the “Great Refusal.” Modern equivalent, “fuck off, we’ll move on without you.” Not to the politics, but to their sources of power… in essence, maybe, when do we build infrastructure and demand public ownership of it? When do we organize unions and general strikes without playing by the elitist establishment's rules for doing so? When do we prioritize seeking out manners to fill the majority of our free time by means opposed to consumerism altogether? When do we as communities secure the functional ability to resolve our own needs for retirement and break the established dependence on financial markets or labor for securities in our vulnerable years? Surely there’s quite a few ways we can be doing a lot more as a society.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    This man thought a banana cost $10, and didn't go to a grocery store until after he was president.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    He didn't actually say a banana was $10 did he?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    He was just quoted as making fun of the concept of the "corner store." Apparently he grew up in NYC, and has never heard the term Corner Store. Out of touch much?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Could you imagine him in a bodega? He probably couldn't fit through the aisles and wouldn't know what any of the food is anyway.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I actually agree with him..... They aren't very high in comparison to how high they are going to be very soon!

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Or like, what the rest of the developed world pays for gasoline. We drive half price in the States, $4 is nothing. In Italy where some family live, fuel is (converted) about $2.10 a LITER. The average world price is $1.40 a liter. 3.8 liters to a gallon, the math isn't hard. We're complaining about having to pay a little more than half price.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Its the same cost but italy taxes gasoline much higher, in Italy it's like 7 dollars in taxes a gallon while the US is around 20 cents a gallon. If Italy taxed gas the same as the US it would be 4 bucks also

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago*

    In this episode of "History Repeats Itself," we explore MAGA's "Let them eat cake" moment.

    Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode "GUILLOTINES!"

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  • “they’re not very high…. They’re not very high… they’re not very high”

    -Trump supporters trying to convince themselves

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Only 65%???? Who the hell do the rest think caused the increase by starting a war of choice?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    35% is about the point at which you will always have Republicans supporting something regardless of how awful it is as long as it is a Republican position. 40 years of brainwashing by right-wing propaganda and corporate media complicity with it ensure it.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    DENY. You're such a liar. Wouldn't know the truth if it hit you in the street.

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    low gas prices is the only reason his other idiot policies have not caused collapse. Its all fairy dust and happy thoughts at this point.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Man eff that.

    Gas prices are high.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    What is wild is that so many reactionary centrists spent years lecturing the Biden administration and "blue MAGA" 🙄 for trying to explain the full context of the economy under Covid and instead trying to insist that instead of numbers, we should be listening to the vibes, man. Ignore all those market indicators, people feel bad, man, and anyone that says otherwise should be ashamed, etc.

    Wonder where all these assholes are now, given that, as opposed to the case for Biden, we can point DIRECTLY at something that PEDOnald has done to drive things that hurt the economy and make everything more expensive.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”

    So, does that mean he's going to do things to make it go even higher?

    As in "it's not high yet"?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    This fucker is so removed from reality he has no clue what’s expensive and what isn’t. I’d wager he’s never operated a gas pump in his life.

    You could give him a $200k salary, a home in some little town, and a car that was all paid for, and he’d starve to death in a year. He is beyond clueless as to what people have to do on a daily basis.

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    So the Bidenification is going in record time - he's now to the "no stupids, the economy is fine actually, you're just too dumb to realize it!" phase.

    How'd that work for Biden, I forget?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    *Republicans do something bad

    "This is just like Biden!"

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The economy was significantly better under Biden, who started his term with a global shutdown. Inflation was brought back to normal levels, job creation was higher than under Trump and the US had a decently strong economy in comparison to other countries.

    You didn't forget, you're dishonest. Either a MAGA troll or a useful idiot for MAGA.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago*

    Shitlib, not everyone that doesn't worship your version of neoliberalism is a Trump supporter. I'm a fucking Marxist.

    Biden's economy continued the path of the US since the 1990s - stagnant wages, so most growth goes to the rich in a K shaped economy. The gains the workers saw were quickly rolled back in the name of "curbing inflation", which of course fell on the working class, not asset holders.

    You want to play statistic games like you are, we can talk about how child overtly doubled under Biden after he chose to let the child tax credit expire.

    Or we can skip it - because 2024 already gave a verdict on this. For years Bidenonmics tried the "no, the shit you're eating is good actually", and that's why you have Trump again.

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Gas prices are lower now than they have -- been before

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