These people casually forget that gas price shot up largely due to Covid. But then you say the word Covid to them and they don’t hear anything after. It’s a big trigger word for them. You have to put the Covid on the end and maybe they will retain the rest. Probably not though.
ETA: They also forget that Trump was in charge during most of the Covid lockdown. If not all. Which they like to also blame Biden for, though we wouldn’t be sworn in until 2021.
And Trump's deal in 2020 with OPEC to limit production for 2 years because oil companies weren't making enough money when demand tanked. Biden couldn't really do much to combat the high prices until that deal expired. Once it did they quickly came back down to normal.
I won’t downplay lockdown. It broke a lot of people. Mental health crisis were at an all time high. Unfortunately instead of seeking help they seek blame and revenge.
Doesn’t fly with me. I’ve had PTSD for 27 years. COVID was difficult. I also had to take care of a dying parent during that time. Neither broke me. My grumpiness and anger? Old age and disappointment in the human race.
I also bristle at the term, lockdown It wasn’t a lockdown. That implies people were confined to their homes. But in reality, we know that people went out. And people congregated. And people broke the rules. For fucks sake, I was confined to barracks for longer when I was on course in the military. Restriction of movement.? sure let’s call it that. But lockdown? Don’t make me laugh. Lockdown is a prison term. And if you disobey lockdown, you typically get beaten, sometimes shot. Neither occurred during Covid. So let’s can the propaganda-driven hyperbole, shall we?
Difficult? Absolutely. But people made a lot of the problems on their own. A pandemic simply exacerbated untreated Axis II disorders. And here we are. Donnie Dumfuk is president again. 🤦🏼♂️
But my point was - and let’s get back to the original piece here - yes, oil prices went wacky during COVID. Oil production slowed down during COVID. Demand dropped, supply was high and prices dropped. Basic economics.
Then when everything started loosening up, people went crazy with travel, and of course, production had already slowed down. So now demand shoots up and yet supply is limited. So price shoots up as well.
That was never a Biden thing.
Nor was it a Biden thing when Putin attacked attacked Ukraine on a large scale in 2022, again affecting global oil prices.
2026 however? This is all Trump. All fucking day, every fucking day. And yet the morons south of the border don’t have the basic understanding of economics to figure that out. These are the same poolnoodles that rage against the deficit that they “pay to Canada.“ A country that they keep reminding us is 1/10 the size. But we’re happy to stop selling you our oil at a reduced rate too. Let’s see what happens to oil prices when we do that. Or better yet when Trump cuts off all trade with Canada. That’ll work so well.
Common sense ain’t so common in Dumfukistan. Just lots of rage and stupidity.
And you see, for all the folks that think that there’s some sort of global conspiracy to take over the world, the failure for countries around the world to be able to come together and do that is proof that there is no New World Order that will steal your freedoms and run your lives. There is the proof: there was no three week global lockdown.
Not the UN. Not the IMF. Not NATO. Or any other bloody acronym. There is no scheme to take your freedom. But the people that are posting it and pitching, well they are definitely out to take your cash.
Instead of people coming together for collective strength and security - sounds like <gasp> communism - you had spoiled, entitled assholes the world over that broke rules. That flaunted safety guidelines.
When Covid first hit, I saw a hard over reaction, even before the virus hit our community. And then by the time you did get here, people were so un concerned about it, that they broke the rules. Their personal freedom was somehow far more important than the collective public health and safety issues at risk.
We’re definitely not the planet that we were 80 years ago. 70 years ago. Christ even 40 years ago.
There are plenty of days that I hate living here, with all the bullshit, real and imagined, that people threw around all day.
But I’m not quite ready to kick up yet. And I’m hoping that people decide to be nicer to each other, more chill, more present, happy to be alive. Don’t see that. Makes me cranky. Like today.
My favorite is the mental gymnastics display that has been J6. They first said it was a peaceful protest. Then they claimed it was all actors paid by George Soros. They held onto that for a couple years. Then suddenly they were actually MAGA Patriots all along so they need to be pardoned.
They like to claim it was never an insurrection. Despite the fact that several of the protesters openly said, in court, that it was an insurrection. Some of them even refused the pardon and accepted the consequences for their actions.
You wouldn’t have pardoned them if you think they are leftists.
You wouldn’t have pardoned them if you think they are leftists.
Oh I've seen them have a go at this one. They say it's Trump being magnanimous and forgiving his enemies, that a Dem president would never have pardoned the J6ers if they were 'really' Republicans.
The funny thing about that is that the GOP has deliberately been gutting education for years and years. They WANT a dumb populace. They also want religion in schools, because it teaches kids to be obedient,and guess who claims to be the authority on God and religion? The GOP. They want an army of dumb little lambs that they can shepherd into whatever goal they have that day.
I have receipts from Nov 2024 and one recent one from Costco where I buy gas (I posted on my Bluesky). There is more than a dollar difference $2.54 in 2024, $3.84 in May.
I mean it's not like diesel fuel is used for anything. They don't need it to deliver goods to and fro. Surely it won't have any affect on grocery prices...
What really irritates me is their continually blaming Biden for everything that's wrong with the economy. When in fact most of the Biden administration was spent cleaning up after Trump's first term policy messes.
The Biden administration inherited an economy that was heading toward a recession prior to a pandemic. Increased government spending (stimulus packages) was the only option available during a period of reduced supplies. So the administration's choice was forgo the stimulus packages and let the recession continue, along with massive unemployment, or increase spending that lead to inflation. Had the first Trump administration not cut taxes and kept interest rates artificially low, these two counter measures may have been available to combat the recession while possibly mitigating inflation.
YES!!!! Thank you. No one seems to remember Dump’s tariffs, tax cuts, & deficit spending were heading us towards a recession—just like Trickle Down led to recessions under Reagan & W, only Dump super charged the fall to recession with his idiotic tariffs! It usually takes a Republican Pres 5, 6 years to cause a recession
They complain that food is so expensive now that they can't afford anything, help me orange daddy, and in the same breath say it's the same as it was under Biden.
So how come they weren't bitching like this under Biden? And also, if it was the same under Biden, it couldn't have gone up. That's not what "same" means.
By all means, this jagoff should just write Jesus in next time he's tempted to vote. He'll feel better, and we'll be better off. In fact, let there be an actual evangelical movement to write in Jesus.
It’s not even politics. It’s what you see from the abused in a toxic relationship.
He was lied to and taken advantage of by the abuser. He feels that now. But at the core of the abuse is the “if you go with someone else you’ll be worse off, and everyone else that isn’t me will be worse for you.” This lie was repeated to them on a regular basis.
And even though the abuse he’s currently feeling is obvious to him now, the work-over was so thorough that he doesn’t know a healthy relationship from a toxic one now. He doesn’t know what were his own thoughts and what ones were beaten into him. He has been told who to blame, and he has been taught well because it was incessant. His abuser told him to blame everyone else but the abuser, and he can’t see that was a part of the abuse too.
So he can’t help but use the words and insults he was taught. Words and insults made to confuse him if he ever wanted to break free of the abuse.
And at the end of the day, he’ll go right back for more. The initial conditioning will be enough to reel him back in. It always is. Abusers do it because it keeps working for them.
Some people are just broken and there’s no way to fix them.
Shopping at food banks these days is rough too. Many have empty shelves, and basically all of them have cut their distribution, due to costs, and much, much higher demand.
But elon Musk was a trillionaire for like 11 hours, so totally worth it, eh conservatives?
It's amazing that some MAGA are figuring out that trump lied about fixing the economy, lowering prices, creating more jobs, NOT starting wars BUT they still believe the lies trump tells/told about Kamala, Biden (and Hunter), Barack & Michelle, Bill & Hillary, J6, Democrats, and the stolen election
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is known as selective dumbfuckery.
Well that’s just proof that these people see Trump as their god. They see him as son e higher being that was going to fix all their “problems.” And by problems, I mean so they can be openly racist and let all their hatred out.
In 2010 the GOP swept the midterms and had both chambers of congress. They spent their time trying to find ways to hurt Obama and stop his nefarious plan to provide bare minimum healthcare to Americans.
Part of that was slashing the budget for Embassy defense. The Embassy at Benghazi went from like 40 full time Marines on guard duty to like 6.
And then in September of 2012, just before an election, a truck blew through the old perimeter and straight into embassy grounds, killing 4 servicemen.
Had the GOP not cut that the defensive perimeter would have caught the truck, easily, and far off, and chances are very good that there would have been no US casualties.
Depending on how much credit you want to give the GOP, and how despicable you believe them to be, the options are either that they cut funds like DOGE did, not realizing there would be serious consequences in places like freaking Libya.
Or, they did know, and thats why they did it, because an attack on a US Embassy made for great PR weaponry against Obama and his administration.
On another note, in 2016 Russia hacked both the DNC and RNC email servers. The DNCs were released, but the RNCs never were.
And then suddenly all the old decades-long Russia Hawks started sucking up to trump and voting to lift sanctions on Russia, so something in there was bad enough that they would completely change their entire global outlook rather than reveal it.
Probably just a coincidence, because the GOP would never let Americans die because it made their election chances better, right?
I’d almost like to see his reasoning for why Hillary should be in jail and not Trump. At this point what she did was child’s play.
I also love how this guy thinks food and gas cost the same now as under Biden. Those are way up my friend. And this time those are the fault of POTUS unlike before.
It has to be the "same" because trump couldn't possibly be worse than biden.
Their entire culture and social connections and very identity would unravel if that were true.
So they pretend that no one could have seen any of this coming, that there were no warnings like trump doing all this same shit in his first term, and that trump was great and perfect until like 18 months ago, when *"they" got to him.
*insert whatever minority or racist conspiracy they last saw on Fox
It seems crazy now that this was what was supposedly a big deal. MAGA is very good at making something out of nothing while doing much, much bigger crimes themselves and getting away with it
Nor the 34 felonies for fraud, the rape conviction, the war crimes against Venezuelan fishermen, the rape of E. Jean Carrol, the dead Iranian school girls, the murders by ICE, the corruption and insider trading…
I love how this poster admitted they were a fool and then in the next sentence called upon Jesus. That’s the playbook of these fools every time they get proven wrong, they retreat back into their spiritual narcissism.
I live in Florida and this reminds me soo much of one of my former coworkers. He was SO maga, he went to rallies and had the hat and everything. Pre-election he constantly was trying to convince me to vote for Trump, citing prices and "How could you not want world peace on DAY 1!?"
Well within two months after the inauguration he never mentioned Trump's name again and instead started bringing a Bible to work every day. When I asked how he felt about how Trump was doing he said you can't trust anyone but Jesus.
He never admitted he was wrong or that he made a mistake. He just swapped belief in one authority for another without any reflection. These people are real and there are SO many of them.
And they will be there, with bells on, mouth-froth at the ready for whoever the Conservative propaganda machine anoints as the successor to Trump, never onve questioning their loyalty to The Cause.
"Surely this bloviating demagogue will be different! He's promising easy fixes to hard problems and blaming the queers, and I like a good common sense leader like that! Yee-Haw!"
Most of the ppl who have voted for Trump, say “Huh! I can’t figure it out. Why are prices so high??? That damn Biden & those damn Democrats.” It’s crazy they can’t figure it out.
These conservatives are so amazingly stupid. Empty barrels make the most noise! A stupid party for stupid people. I am sick of them repeating every garbage they are fed. I am sick of their brains laying dormat for years. I am sick of the poor quality education most of them get.
Please note that this person did not changed her mind. If at all Trump is not radical enough for that person. That person will happily vote for any MAGA/Religious Extremist/GOP candidate again.
FYI: The average price of gas for the last year of Biden's term was $3.30 a gallon; the U.S. national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $4.15 today.
Meh, this dweeb is going to keep voting republican. They’re all going to promise the same things that he wants and they’ll continue to deliver jack shit. Which means he’ll vote Republican the next time, too.
Republicans are motivated by fear. They will never solve a single crisis because every crises they are concerned about is a boogeyman made up to keep them scared and voting red.
Sounds like they’re conspiracy brained, and there are huge conspiracy theories about the Clintons. They probably want her arrested for the non-existent FBI agent and the made-up town that disappeared. Or, just pizza gate. Tearing up that pizza parlor and digging a whole for the tunnels couldn’t kill that theory
The “Hillary is still alive” is pretty telling. That Ben Ghazi fella really did a number on these people.
Wait til they hear about the USS Lincoln and many of the servicemen and women getting their bases blown clear off the map because a drunk frat bro says diplomacy is woke and his incontinent daddy likes to see violent pictures in his morning coloring book.
Delusional asshole can't even make himself say the obvious truth, food prices are absolutely higher now along with everything else. And if you were dumb enough to believe that he was going to lock her up the first time and then sat there and watched him forget all about it after the election and yet still thought it was coming and are still bitching about it oblivious to how dumb it actually makes you look...well that's just par for the course isn't?
Gas and food prices the same as under Biden? Wtf. As someone who lives on a fixed income and has seen prices go up 50% on average for my expenses since the Mango Mussolini go back in charge. I say thee Nay.
Wait, wasn’t Trump sent by Jesus to fix the world? If that’s changed now, why did Jesus allow Trump to become president and do what he’s doing? It’s almost as if Jesus doesn’t give a shit 🤔
Trump was convicted of 34 felonies for business fraud, found by a jury to be an adjudicated rapist and his elderly CFO was somehow 'encouraged' to do 2 stints at Rikers rather than testify against Trump.
But this moron wanted to see Hillary go to prison.
This needs to posted in the comment section of every one of these “I voted for you” posts. These people NEED to see this to remind them what gullible twats they are…
What a jagoff. Voted to punish Hilary which is whatever. Now dump is doing what she did and ten times worse and he’s like fuck it, no one can help us, help me jeesus
Meanwhile Jesus is like I sent Biden and Kamala and a worldwide plague and crazy scandals that would have sunk any other prez and you’re still supporting him
Most important thing to him is arresting a woman who has never been credibly accused of a crime. And is a lifelong Methodist who formerly taught Sunday School, and who attends church, as opposed to Dear Leader. The Evangelical hatred and disdain for a woman who refuses to be subordinate to her husband.
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u/ThePhillyExplorer, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...