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Tbh, I’m not so concerned about myself. But the effect of higher gas prices tends to be very regressive. People who have less means often have to drive less fuel-efficient vehicles and have longer commutes due to housing costs. Additionally, this is going to affect the cost of other things (e.g. food).
People who are already stressed financially are going to really feel the squeeze.
He’s a secret stooge of the environmentalist movement and this is his endgame to kill the internal combustion engine. Wake up, sheeple!
Why should he care? He doesn’t pay for gas. That’s somebody else’s problem.
He has a whole country to pay for his gas… imagine how great that’s be if you were the biggest douche in the universe?
I sort of wish South Park would redo that episode with Trump instead cause he definitely beat out John Edwards. Could even just be a cut and paste for the most part, slightly different dialogue. Then a short live action apology with Matt and Trey saying hiow sorry they were that they didn’t realize there was such a better candidate when they first aired it and how much Trump is so much douchier than their original winner. Fuck even top it off with a cheesy gold paint sprayed award sent to acknowledge his accomplishments.
“Let them eat cake”
He must have a great plan to win the mid-terms…wonder what that could be???
Voter suppression
It will when some down-on-their-luck working man gets fed up and shoots him over it.
It’s pretty great that they’re already in full hubris mode cos that usually kills the facade really quick for normies
Diesel at $5 a gallon is going to concern him a lot in a couple of months. In fact it’s going to be a very great concern for the entire Republican Party.
I’ve seen as high as $6.79/gal here in the Portland metro area. And we aren’t even the highest in the country, I can’t fathom what it’s like in California
The US is so weird when it comes to gas prices. Here in Europe 2€/l (which is over 8€/gallon) was normal for diesel even before some of the latest bullshit. $3/gallon is insane
It is pathetic if egoistic concern over gas prices is the thing that sours MAGA on Trump, after all the shit Trump has done.
So where are all the “I did that” stickers on the gas pumps with his face?
I’ve seen a couple.
Remember what used to happen when some out-of-touch rich person gave folks the, “Let them eat cake” speech? Yeah. Good times.
I saw diesel at the equivalent of $7.47 USD/gallon today where im at.
Makes these old images of Biden raising gas prices funnier to dig back up. Omg $3! When some places now are pushing $6.
Here in the Southeast, those stickers were all over the place, too! Sometimes I’d even see them inside stores, people were putting them out faster than employees could remove them. They weren’t just used at gas pumps, though that was obviously the primary placement for them.
I’ve only seen the Trump version online so far. Wonder why those same people who were putting out the Biden ones aren’t getting the Trump ones out as quickly?
I’m sure it’s not that they’re low-life partisan hypocrites. It’s probably the lingering effects of the illegal tariffs driving up the cost of the stickers at a time when they’ve lost their jobs and healthcare so they literally just can’t afford the gas or the stickers to be able to put them out. I’m sure it’s that.
Wasn’t he elected precisely because of things like gas prices?
If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign. This would be seen as abandoning the electorate or breaking a manifesto pledge.
In normal countries if a budget can’t be decided on, the government collapses and an election is held. In the US, they have indefinite 6 month extensions where they end up not paying government employees every 6 months for a month. The whole country is broken.
Christ, if anyone in the public sector went a month without pay over here the unions would be rioting in the streets. It just wouldn’t happen.
Come to think of it, regardless of whether a budget passes or not, I suspect the government would still be legally bound to pay wages. I don’t know for sure though cos I can’t remember it ever happening.
In parliamentary democracies, it defaults to the status quo. Basically last year’s budget, plus that changes that it entailed. Taxes are still coming in, so there is no reason to stop money from going to places it needs to go and the difference between balance is called a deficit. Belgium could not form a government for 1-2 years rcently and ran through this scenario.
Its amazing that not only did the US never plan for this scenario but they’ve never changed it since. How do you convince someone to work for you when they might only get paid for 10 months a year?
And that downtime won’t be good for productivity either.
No, that’s fake news. What he said — he said you hear me ? He said he was gonna lower the price of eggs. And he did, it’s tremendous, the eggs… They’re cheaper than ever before. And they’re huge, huge eggs you wouldn’t believe it. I saw an egg… hear me, an egg that was so big it made Xi Jinpin afraid. Bigger than Greenland, and it was a cheap egg, a proud American egg. But now people don’t want cheap eggs, they want cheap gaz. Because that’s what woke Biden told em to want. /s
And they’re huge, huge eggs you wouldn’t believe it.
The likes we’ve never seen before… And probably won’t again… 😅
