Rich people don't know the price of anything.
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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.
It’s the only thing a large portion of the population pays attention to or care about.
The thing is, when someone is bad at many different parts of their job, it's easier to build a coalition of people who each want him removed, for their own reasons.
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.
I'm glad you said "in this case". You had me worried there, for a minute!
The older I get, the more I agree with Calvin's dad. Adjusted for inflation, he wished gas was about $20 per gallon. Let's fucking do it.
The way I like to frame it is that no president has a "make gas cheap" button, but they all have a lot of "make gas expensive" buttons. Trump likes pressing those buttons because they aren't labeled as such
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.
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.
This reads like poetry.
Not mine, fwiw. It's circulated as "The Narcissist's Prayer" online.
It's a lot less poetic when you had to live through it.
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.
This man thought a banana cost $10, and didn't go to a grocery store until after he was president.
He didn't actually say a banana was $10 did he?
I was confident it was one of his quotes, but I think I may have misunderstood an Arrested Development quote.
But he does things "Health Insurance Costs $12 Per Year"
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rich-health-care-insurance-cost-639676
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?
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.
I actually agree with him..... They aren't very high in comparison to how high they are going to be very soon!
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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“they’re not very high…. They’re not very high… they’re not very high”
-Trump supporters trying to convince themselves
Only 65%???? Who the hell do the rest think caused the increase by starting a war of choice?
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.
Probably Obama or something insipid like that
DENY. You're such a liar. Wouldn't know the truth if it hit you in the street.
Real man of the people.
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.
Man eff that.
Gas prices are high.
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.
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"?
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.
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?
*Republicans do something bad
"This is just like Biden!"
How can you still afford to be huffing gasoline with these prices!?
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.
Both can be true. Biden was improving the economy in places, but many people did not feel the recovery.
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.
Gas prices are lower now than they have -- been before

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