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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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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.
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.
Only 65%??? Who the hell do the rest think caused the increase by starting a war of choice?
Probably Obama or something insipid like that
like the biden inflation that was blasting up literally as he took office and was down by the time he left and curiously one year into trump is blasting up again.
DENY. You’re such a liar. Wouldn’t know the truth if it hit you in the street.
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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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.
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
“they’re not very high…. They’re not very high… they’re not very high”
-Trump supporters trying to convince themselves
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.
Rich people don’t know the price of anything.
I mean its one gallon of gas, what could it cost, $10?
Not that far off. In Vienna for example petrol starts currently at 1.6 EUR/L (7.1 USD/gal) and Diesel is around 1.8 EUR/L (>8 USD/gal).
The US has a serious problem of being hooked on unsustainably cheap fuel due to oversized vehicles, spread out, car only, suburbia etc. Add to that the lagging transition to renewables (or rather the outright hostility of the US administration, actively preventing projects)
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).
That’s a great choice, where the urban layout allows for it, without feeling suicidal. I know also the US has places where this is perfectly feasible.
Maybe in parts of Europe
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)
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.
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
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.
Yeah even pretty far inland you occasionally get a Canuck buck in your change (usually it’s a small coin)
He wouldn’t care if he did. He just says what he wants to be true and gets away with it.
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.
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.
It’s the only thing a large portion of the population pays attention to or care about.
Gas prices and egg prices.
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.
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
I’m glad you said “in this case”. You had me worried there, for a minute!
I was definitely triggered until then!
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.
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.
Yes that was mentioned literally right after the part you quoted.
This man thought a banana cost $10, and didn’t go to a grocery store until after he was president.
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.
“Where’s the Diet Coke?”
The clerk just waves in the general direction of the coolers without looking up from his phone.
“HEY! There’s a fucking CAT back here!”
There’s always money in the banana stand
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
Real man of the people.
“The morons” -ftfy
Man eff that.
Gas prices are high.
/Laughing in UKnian. At current exchange rate, it averages $8.07 a gallon here for unleaded.
