Affordable gas memorial on the mall in DC

[u/bat_screams]

[u/TG-Benji]

Lower prices AND no wars...

[u/jerjord → u/TG-Benji]

Trump: "We are working on a treaty." (Continues bombing Iran)

[u/LordHammercyWeCooked → u/jerjord]

Every time he changes his tune it's because he's trying to manipulate the markets and make the line go up or down. Day traders with insider knowledge know how to turn a profit when either one happens. Slow, incremental increases in value are the things they hate.

That's why "TACO" wasn't invented by Trump's critics, but by traders. They're always anticipating the flip. One day he's gonna say something insane meant to scare the whole god damn world, a couple days later he backtracks like it's no big deal. But he's not always bluffing. Sometimes he uses the office to start wars and invade countries completely out of the blue because that's another way he can shake up the markets once his words stop having an effect. Whatever it takes to create a pinch point that disrupts a market.

It's never about winning the war or making peace or diplomacy. It's a smash-n-grab for his own personal enrichment. And he has gotten VERY RICH destroying everything he can get his grubby hands on.

[u/Mklein24 → u/LordHammercyWeCooked]

This is what I'm talking about with anyone who says that Trump is stupid, or dumb, or anything. He's not. To dismiss his actions as lacking intelligence is very dangerous. It's deeper than some superficial "hur he's so dumb." the man is playing everyone for the right check. The line doesn't have to always go up. The right people can make a bunch of money when the lines goes down and takes us all with it.

[u/mistermustard → u/Mklein24]

nah he's dumb as fuck. he's just also extremely greedy. someone tells him he can make a lot of money doing something and he does it. it really is that simple. you think he would waste time with pardons if he wasn't getting something out of it? he's literally said he didn't even know one of the people he pardoned.

[u/NerdBot9000 → u/mistermustard]

From term one, we were told by insiders that Trump always believes whatever the last person told him. Like person one says "it's cold", and person two says "it's hot". Person three says "it's mild". And then he stays up tweeting about how mild it is.

[u/shit_sandwich45 → u/mistermustard]

Yeah, he's just a senile puppet now.

[u/Littlebit1013 → u/shit_sandwich45]

Or pretending to be senile to avoid prosecution like those mob guys.

[u/PartyPorpoise → u/mistermustard]

People often mistake power and influence for intelligence. But you don’t need to be smart to do a lot of harm.

[u/LordHammercyWeCooked → u/Mklein24]

I woudn't call it incredible intelligence. It's just brutally open corruption. It doesn't take a great feat of logic to create what's going on. It just takes opportunity and leverage. Like a mugging.

[u/freetotebag → u/jerjord]

The treaty is coming! Give it two weeks. Yeah… two weeks…

[u/FulcrumLumen → u/freetotebag]

He never said which two weeks!!!!!

[u/p_2923 → u/TG-Benji]

It blows my mind, absolutely fucking BLOWS MY MIND, that MAGA will defend all of this no matter what.

[u/TG-Benji → u/p_2923]

They can't accept they were wrong, even to the detriment of everyone.

[u/johnaimarre → u/TG-Benji]

They never actually gave a shit about gas prices or war.

[u/tallemaja → u/p_2923]

I was reading one of those periodically-released articles about "regretful" trump voters (I swear, the media salivates over them - why I read them is a little beyond me) and I noted at least one interesting and fairly honest answer, which was from a woman who mentioned that throughout the leadup to the election her dem-aligned family all lectured her repeatedly on what Trump was going to do, and they were all correct. What seemed to have irked her more than anything was recognizing she had been wrong. She never really indicated whether she regretted her vote per se, nor that she would even vote differently, but it was clear that she was most upset by "feeling wrong".

So to me it's a mixture of people who need to dig their heels in lest the whiny libs be vindicated, of people who really don't care at all but wanted to see other people get hurt (many, many of his voters have absolutely no idea what he's doing day-to-day at all), and people who are loving all of this because they enjoy his market manipulation work so they can cash out.

Never forget: a hell of a lot of people took jets to the Jan 6 insurrection. The idea that his voters are all poor folks is a fun little media contortion. Next time you see a story about "family farmers" hurt by Trump policies, pay pretty close attention to them. One recent story had a "family farm" hurt by him talking about how they first realized they were in trouble when their financial advisor keyed them into it. A family farm in such dire need that they had no idea things were bad til the financial advisor told them? You mean the rich family with a hobby farm. Not the case for all of them but absolutely the case for more than you'd think.

[u/Zuwxiv → u/tallemaja]

What seemed to have irked her more than anything was recognizing she had been wrong.

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled." - Mark Twain

As for the farms, my favorite was from at least a decade ago. There are sometimes taxes on large inheritances, and a common criticism was that a "family farm" might have a high land value on paper, but the family themself is barely scraping by. By taxing the inheritance, you force the next generation to sell the farm, even if they wanted to keep running it... or so goes the criticism. This critique against inheritance taxes has been around for a long time.

I wish I could find exactly which newsroom it was, but some journalists tried looking into this. They looked across records in the entire country, looking for how many family farms had to be sold because of inheritance tax.

They couldn't find a single one. In the entire country. In like, over a decade of records.

Of course, "let's write in an exception for agriculture and small farmers" somehow is absolutely impossible, when hedge fund managers are telling you about how we can't have inheritance tax because of mythological "small family farms."

[u/milespoints → u/TG-Benji]

I mean

Stephen Miller said “If you vote for Kamala Harris, gas will be $5 and our boys will again be sent to die in overseas wars”

He was 100% spot on!

I did vote for Kamala Harris, and those things did happen!

[u/sviridoot → u/milespoints]

So IT WAS Kamala's fault, checkmate liberals!

[u/AustinHinton → u/TG-Benji]

Don't forget cheaper eggs and full transparency on the Epstein Files on the list of "promises" dump made his platform on.

We are in this mess because a bunch of trailer trash were scared of a black woman. -_-

[u/Babys_For_Breakfast → u/AustinHinton]

Release the files! A lot of broken promises. I did pay $1.70 for a dozen eggs yesterday, though.

[u/ZAlternates → u/Babys_For_Breakfast]

Which came down on their own because the avian flu problem is subsiding.

[u/NB_NaughtyNerds → u/ZAlternates]

Trump personally bare knuckle boxed the avian flu on the white house lawn. He saved the chickens!

Chickens are now considering making Trump their official spokesperson.

Their new slogan will be CHickEns Always Trump Out. CHEATO for short.

[u/Lanky_Trifle6308 → u/NB_NaughtyNerds]

“The chickens came to me with tears in their eyes. They said ‘sir, we love you.’“

[u/SlackDaddy_G → u/Lanky_Trifle6308]

Big chicken, strong chicken

[u/DontAbideMendacity → u/Babys_For_Breakfast]

Thanks for going away, bird flu!

[u/egnards → u/AustinHinton]

My favorite part is when he undermines his own decisions. . .Comes out with a new deal a few weeks later that is objectively worse than what was already had, and celebrates how amazing he is as a negotiator while all his minions lap it up.

[u/ZAlternates → u/egnards]

They never knew about politics before he got involved so it’s all new stuff to them.

[u/Zappiticas → u/AustinHinton]

Yeah but you forgot that the black woman also laughed weird

[u/AustinHinton → u/Zappiticas]

Right right right she laughed weird and we can't have a president who laughs weird. Gotta have one that rage-tweets at 2am about "dumbocrats" while his followers clap like seals about how good he is at "trolling the libs".

I hate this timeline.

[u/himynameisSal → u/AustinHinton]

“I voted to own the libs. Turns out inflation, tariffs, and my 401k said ‘friendly fire enabled.’”

I do think some republicans suffer from the i dont know what i dont know. I blame the education system as the root of our problems, but hey go right ahead and dismantle that too.

[u/TheRealBlueJade → u/Zappiticas]

It feels like a certain portion of the country is forever stuck in high school.

[u/shadowblade159 → u/TheRealBlueJade]

That's because that's where they peaked, and they're forever chasing it again.

[u/Teledildonic → u/shadowblade159]

That's what they like about high school girls. MAGA get older and they stay the same age.

[u/Distinct-Pack-1567 → u/Teledildonic]

Yes they do, yes they do

[u/Teledildonic → u/Distinct-Pack-1567]

Alt right, alt right, alt right

[u/SwiftBase → u/TheRealBlueJade]

high school is fucking generous.

[u/Mike_Kermin → u/TheRealBlueJade]

Lack of education doesn't make someone decide to want to hurt other people, or not care about democratic institutions, or lie. It might mean you don't understand it all, but it doesn't make you a scumbag. And plenty of good uneducated people show that.

And I warn Americans, away from prejudice.

Because what you actually have, though you seem so fucking loath to say it, is fascism. They're fascists because they're fascists mate.

[u/EdiblePeasant → u/Mike_Kermin]

Why is fascism appealing to some people?

[u/WarmasterChaldeas → u/EdiblePeasant]

It's only appealing when they are part of the ruling party. They like the idea of bossing people around, forcing their own views on those beneath them.

[u/Baconanger → u/EdiblePeasant]

Because it only cares about aesthetics. And while a case could be made that some people incorrectly think they'll be a part of the ruling faction, some people really do just want to be told what to do and who to blame, even if they know on some level that they're being lied to.

[u/ThePoisonDoughnut → u/Zappiticas]

Eh, she also didn't promise shit. Like can we please not pretend like it's not the democrats' fault for failing to do anything at all to get the base excited to vote for their candidate? Who tf would be excited about a candidate that didn't even commit to the popular positions she signaled before the DNC and who neutered her VP candidate as soon as his rhetoric was starting to win over the base?

So often it feels like the democratic base believes that the party could never fail the voters, only the voters can fail the party which is wack as fuck.

[u/albyzon → u/Zappiticas]

weird laugh or reincarnated hitler with dementia?

[u/GrimbyJ → u/AustinHinton]

Well eggs are $1.19 a dozen here so we have that going for us

[u/Gwendolyn7777 → u/GrimbyJ]

Well our eggs are $1.42 and a gallon of milk is 4.54....and we are the poorest state in the nation.....at least our gas is still only 4.49, can't even afford to drive to the expensive ass grocery store theses days.....it's really a shame when a gallon of milk is more than a gallon of gas.

[u/Tony_Penny → u/AustinHinton]

They were also scared of the black man that wore a tan suit.

[u/AustinHinton → u/Tony_Penny]

Oh they went apeshit about the tan suit, but not a peep when Dump turned the WH into a trailer home. All that's missing is the '95 Ford pinto up on blocks.

[u/obscuriosityboner → u/AustinHinton]

And because millions of people didn’t even bother to vote. Voting should be mandatory, like in Australia.

[u/aohige_rd → u/AustinHinton]

Hey let's be fair, he did keep the promise of abusing minorities and immigrants. /s

[u/Sardonnicus → u/AustinHinton]

No. We are in this mess because our politicians allowed a person who tried to overthrow the government to run for president.

[u/Fox_Hawk → u/TG-Benji]

"Peacemaker and unifier" were the words used.

Riiiiiight.

[u/minos157]

Things we were promised:

• End of wasteful spending (DOGE)
• Lower gas prices
• Lower grocery prices
• Lower all the prices (hyperbole by me)
• No new wars
• End Russia/Ukraine in 24 hours
• Lower taxes (tips, OT, SS)
• Lower utilities
• Cap credit card interest rates
• Reduce corporate tax rate for companies making products in the US
• Tax credit for family caregivers

What we got:

• DOGE spent more than it saved while simultaneously knee capping important government functions, selling data, stealing data, and overall being a complete failure
• Higher gas prices
• Higher grocery prices
• Higher prices
• Wars in Venezuela and Iran
• Russia/Ukraine still fighting
• Tax on tips and OT is capped and barely helps, SSN credit isn't in the bill.
• Electric and natural gas prices have both risen
• No bill in the works for CC cap
• Bill didn't include corporate tax cuts for US production
• Bill didn't include credit for family caregivers

[u/CrazyLegsRyan → u/minos157]

You've got to highlight how Iran has cost us far far far more than Doge even claimed to save

[u/minos157 → u/CrazyLegsRyan]

Was just keeping each promise separate, but spot on. The war is also directly impacting many other bullet points (gas, groceries, everything) and will only get worse when we actually hit an oil shortage in a few weeks.

Though to be fair, he technically didn't claim that he would save us money with no wars since he also promised to massively increase the military budget lol

[u/Corfiz74 → u/minos157]

He also promised jobs and a flourishing economy - instead, he managed to choke off any economic growth/ job creation that the Biden admin had set into motion with his tariffs, and then added the closing of the Strait of Hormuz to kick of a real recession. World wide. Thanks, Trump.

[u/MeowmerLyn → u/minos157]

I need someone to explain to me this oil shortage thing as if I were a small child. Maybe give some data like a full grown adult though.

[u/Potential-Snow5838 → u/MeowmerLyn]

Conceptually, stuff takes time to move. Here's some not data driven but just the basic idea.

So lets say a company stores 10,000 gallons of fuel in reserve beyond what they sell day to day (lets just say this is 15 days worth for their normal operations) New ships come in, replace the stored fuel since they have a shelf life. Constant rotation means that your reserves stay where theyre at.

Ships stop sailing. I think the trip from the Strait of Hormuz is something like 40 days. So it will be 40 days before the actual effects of no more fuel ships are felt. On the 41st day, companies start using the reserve fuel since they aren't getting any new fuel in. We said 15 days of reserves, so on day 55, they now no longer have any fuel to sell.

Theoretically prices wouldn't rise until the reserves start being used because then you actual enter a fuel scarcity. But they raised prices at word that ships wouldnt be arriving any more, and then we're gonna get another rise in scarcity.

Again, I didnt pull stats for any of this so I have no idea where we are in the process, if we're actually at the reserves are empty stage or what.

[u/Panda_hat → u/CrazyLegsRyan]

Doges purpose was only ever to exfiltrate the data of US citizens and get it into private hands.

[u/Bart_Yellowbeard → u/Panda_hat]

And to end the investigations into fElon's companies.

[u/isatai-i → u/Panda_hat]

And russian hands, as Trump is a traitor and a foreign asset.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/CrazyLegsRyan]

Iran will cost us trillions as taxpayers when all is said and done just like conservatives' illegal Iraq aggression did. No new wars my fanny pack!

[u/swimming_singularity → u/minos157]

Don't forget the loss of our soft power and our continued insults to our allies. Trump has changed the landscape permanently, our allies will make deals without us. This will have real effects on our economy over the next few years. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years the rest of the world moves away from the US dollar.

Right now is a critical time to be focusing on the economy, cost of living, education for a stronger future, and our position relative to China. We're losing on all fronts as Trump and company continue to grift and ignore these other items.

[u/theburiedxme → u/minos157]

Don't forget these 30,573 false or misleading claims during the first term! They got some work to do on the wiki page for his second term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump

[u/Bart_Yellowbeard → u/theburiedxme]

Literally the Documentedly Least Honest Person in Recorded Human History. Nobody else has ever been proven to lie more.

[u/MaidMirawyn → u/Bart_Yellowbeard]

He tells the best lies! No one else tells lies like him!

Just last week, a guy said to him, “Mr. President, I don’t know how you do it. We couldn’t find anyone to lie 24/7, but you can!”

[u/Bart_Yellowbeard → u/MaidMirawyn]

A big guy, strong guy, with tears in his eye like you've never seen before!

[u/minos157 → u/theburiedxme]

Look man I only had so much time to type bullet points 😂

[u/Fleschlight36 → u/minos157]

You forgot the Epstein files were promised too

[u/minos157 → u/Fleschlight36]

Were they? I felt they were but couldn't find him actually promising to release them.

[u/pizzasoup → u/minos157]

June 2024, Fox & Friends:

Campos-Duffy: Would you declassify the Epstein files?

Trump: Yeah, yeah, I would.

Campos-Duffy: All right.

Trump: I guess I would. I think that less so because, you don’t know, you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would, or at least—

Campos-Duffy: Do you think that would restore trust — help restore trust.

Trump: Yeah. I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others. Certainly about the way he died. It’d be interesting to find out what happened there, because that was a weird situation and the cameras didn’t happen to be working, etc., etc. But yeah, I’d go a long way toward that one.

Regardless of what he promised, he was, in fact, required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act that he himself signed into law to release them. And that still hasn't happened.

[u/minos157 → u/pizzasoup]

Ah ok, yeah I guess I took that more as typical Trump waffling about the files, but it can definitely constitute a promise.

Trump not following the law is the least shocking thing you typed lol

[u/Yandere_Butler → u/Fleschlight36]

What? They released those files. And mark my words, the law will come for REDACTED’s ass /s

[u/VerySuperGenius → u/minos157]

Remember when DOGE told us there were millions of fraudulent payments going out of social security and then literally nothing happened? Seems like it'd be one of the easiest crimes in the world to solve since you can just look at where these fraudulent checks are being mailed to or deposited to.

Nope, turns out this administration was either lying to us or they just don't care at all about this apparent enormous fraud going on.

[u/Free_Range_Gamer → u/minos157]

Wow forgot all about the Russia-Ukraine war ending in 24 hours. Such an absolutely ridiculous claim to begin with that should make any rational person question everything else he says.

[u/GenXHoosier → u/minos157]

What about prescription costs being lowered 600%!

[u/minos157 → u/GenXHoosier]

You're right, I have yet to be paid when I pick up a prescription!

[u/MinuQu → u/minos157]

DOGE spent more than it saved while simultaneously knee capping important government functions, selling data, stealing data, and overall being a complete failure 

You forgot about the whole USAID thing, literally causing hundreds of thousands of dead around the world.

[u/DontAbideMendacity → u/minos157]

Americans lost over $6 trillion in wealth and retirement funds in April 2025. It took almost a year to get it back.

[u/Honkey85 → u/minos157]

You forget people starving in Cuba by US embargo in preparation for the next war.

You forget 300 billion USD reparations for Iran.

[u/Xicsukin → u/minos157]

Don't forget the lower cost of eggs. That was a huge selling point, cus it was all I was hearing about for a while.

[u/Brassica_prime → u/minos157]

And to publicly release his tax returns— but is suing for 10b because they got released

[u/bigtrayjay]

I can’t even count the number of things we’ve been promised at this point

[u/The_BAHbuhYAHguh → u/bigtrayjay]

Affordable groceries…

[u/RespectDramatic8487 → u/The_BAHbuhYAHguh]

It's such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries...

[u/DontAbideMendacity → u/RespectDramatic8487]

From the orange turd who claimed he invented the phrase "priming the pump."

[u/ThisIsMyUsername303 → u/RespectDramatic8487]

“Affordable” is an antiquated term at this point. 

[u/BZNUber → u/The_BAHbuhYAHguh]

Donald told me affordability is a Democrat scam

[u/Cocoononthemoon → u/The_BAHbuhYAHguh]

What's that word? Never heard it before.

[u/TrankElephant → u/bigtrayjay]

For anyone who voluntarily voted for a sexist, racist, (child) rapist to save a buck or two I would just like to say, fuck y'all, you get what you get and you got what you deserve. Kthxbye!

[u/Riots42]

Conservative I know went around back during when Biden was President and gas was like 3.30 a gallon putting stickers of Biden pointing saying "Did I do that?"

I offered to buy him some trump stickers myself if he'd do the same thing now that it's 6 dollars a gallon the highest in history and directly Trump's fault but he declined.

Ignoring cognitive dissonance is a requirement to be Republican.

[u/freeradioforall → u/Riots42]

"A republican president has non control over gas prices"

[u/WaveLaVague → u/freeradioforall]

You pissed me off so tell me, why not ? Why wouldn't I close the Strait of Hormuz for the day ? That'll teach ya.

https://giphy.com/gifs/MZppavoFOeIlrcWMfK

[u/Cemeterace → u/Riots42]

"If something bad happens when the politicians I don't like are in office, it's their fault. If something bad happens when the politicians I like are in office, it's still because of the politicians I don't like."

[u/rickrollmops → u/Riots42]

No, bold of you to assume they have cognitive dissonance to start with. Being a hypocrite doesn't require having mixed feelings about it.

[u/Legal-Practice2445 → u/Riots42]

Its funny, because Biden’s gas prices could arguably still have been trump fault for how he handled Covid

[u/Croatoan92]

As a European I'd like to know what happend to those "I did that" stickers on gas stations I constantly saw beeing posted on reddit ~2 years ago

[u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco → u/Croatoan92]

Mysteriously evaporated.

[u/BunnyLuv13 → u/Croatoan92]

I saw one on my local gas station about a month ago. Someone is still doing it.

[u/Meranio → u/Croatoan92]

As another European, I wish we had 5$/gallon gas (~ 1.32$/Liter = 1.13€/Liter). In Germany, it's around (ofter over) 2€/Liter so basically at 10$/gallon.

[u/idontwantnumbers → u/Meranio]

I was just working out the same thing, it currently about $7 a gallon for diesel or $6 for petrol in the UK. Seeing how expensive food prices are in America in other subs compared to ours, it seems like $5 a gallon gas isn’t a problem.

I think that their low MPG cars and that going anywhere needs car in most places probably don’t help the situation though

[u/Bill_Brasky_SOB → u/Croatoan92]

Now that Donnie is fucking everything up again in charge, my State has made it illegal to put stickers on gas pumps.

[u/just_some_sasquatch]

If only ClintonObamaBiden would stop ruining our country!!!

[u/Cudizonedefense → u/just_some_sasquatch]

Fox literally had a segment yesterday for a while about how Jill Biden helped cover up Joe’s dementia

The man hasn’t been president in over a year, everything is less affordable now, gas is higher now that it ever was under Biden, things are worse in really most ways except for the Dow (lol) and they spent a bunch of time talking about someone who is no longer relevant to our government. Like move on

[u/RemodelingMe → u/Cudizonedefense]

Meanwhile Fox is covering up Trump’s mental decline as well as his incompetence as President. 

[u/RespectedPath]

DC is not where this needs to be. This needs to be along every highway in every MAGA state in the US.

[u/The_Tank_Racer → u/RespectedPath]

With that it might earn the world record of the most vandalized memorial!

[u/arahman81 → u/The_Tank_Racer]

Gonna be hard going up against the Emmett Till Memorial.

[u/The_Tank_Racer → u/arahman81]

Emmett Till got digitalized to prevent further vandalism. Assuming the same doesn’t happen to the gas memorial, all we need is enough time to let the vandalism attempts stack up. (And for maga to not implode in the next few years)

[u/Dugen → u/The_Tank_Racer]

Fuck that. Make it bigger every time it is vandalized and install lots of cameras.

[u/RespectedPath → u/The_Tank_Racer]

And that will just bring more attention to it.

[u/SecondGo4]

Petrol prices here in the UK are even worse. Currently at the equivalent of 9.5 US Dollary doos per your US gallon.

[u/ApplePowerful → u/SecondGo4]

Here in the Netherlands the Average Retail Price is 11,19 dollar per gallon. :(

[u/jerhinesmith]

If you want to be infuriated, read this article from the NYTimes about how high gas prices and the war with Iran are affecting Trump voters.

Spoiler alert: they're not.

Some excerpts:

Adele Wilson, 30, of Ada Township, Mich. Ms. Wilson, a dental assistant, said Mr. Trump’s second term had been unsuccessful, and she called the war a “horrible idea.” She was unsure how she would vote in the midterms, she said, but she had already ruled out voting for JD Vance or Marco Rubio in the 2028 presidential race. She said that she was unimpressed with the potential Democratic presidential candidates, but that she might “vote Democrat until the Republicans get it together.”

I've seen this before - Adele will vote straight R in the midterms, I guarantee it.

Megan Hernandez, 42, of Winthrop, Maine. Ms. Hernandez said the price of gas was forcing her family to eat out less and spend less on “other little things.” But she noted that gas prices had not gone higher than their peak under the administration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (the average reached roughly $5 in June 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine). She said gas costs would not be a major factor in how she voted in the midterms. She believes the war with Iran might be necessary to prevent the country from acquiring a nuclear weapon, she said, and she is unsure how she will vote in November.

Megan will also be voting R.

Ryan Hummel, 25, of Cincinnati. Mr. Hummel, a recent college graduate who identifies as a political independent, said gas costs were one of his chief expenses and that he regretted voting for the president and distrusted the White House. But, he added, he was conflicted about the war and was unsure if gas prices would be decisive in how he voted in the future.

If I've learned anything, it's that "identifies as a political independent" means "votes solidly R but wants to be seen as intelligent".

Matt Yerkes, 74, of New Richmond, Ohio. Mr. Yerkes, who is retired, said he backed the war and viewed the costs at the pump as “short-term pain” to address a “long-term problem.” He said he disliked the president’s personality, but added, “I agree with essentially everything he does from a policy standpoint.”

This person does not give a shit and will unapologetically vote R.

Raven Hoskins, 27, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Ms. Hoskins, a package handler who identifies as a political independent, said gas prices were making it harder for her to afford food, and she blamed the president. “A lot of people, especially of my color, think that he’s a really racist man, but I look at him like a businessman,” she said. “Him running us like a business — I’ve seen where it’s gotten us, and it’s not good.” She said she was unsure what she would do in the midterms.

She's unsure. I'm sure she's voting R.

There are are a few more, but this is the same shit that we being published before the last presidential where a bunch of "independent" leaning folks were interviewed and seemed getable, but were all ultimately never going to do anything other than vote for Trump.

[u/Nicola_Vanzetti]

How about a memorial for the school children we double tapped with tomahawk missiles

[u/Jaythelittlecloud]

Sorry to bring this up, but this is exactly how dictatorship forms. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin also promised more affordable groceries, utilities, economic growth, safety, liberty, yada yada gold mountains... and I hope everyone knows how this ended up. Tyrans prey on people and scam them out of their votes, until it's too late. My American brothers, sisters and enby siblings, i stand with you. Be vigilant and don't give into nazi propaganda. I'm not saying be paranoid to every form of governing body (like trust medicine at least....) but if someone is convicted with 50+ felonies it's not the most trustworthy person, and definitely shouldn't be a president.

[u/S0rb0 → u/Jaythelittlecloud]

No need to apologize for that mate

[u/andrewisgood]

I like the Fell For it Again award.

[u/Magical-Mycologist]

I remember the “NO NEW WARS!” Chants. Where are his supporters now?

[u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco → u/Magical-Mycologist]

No longer feeling the need to pretend they liked him for anything other than the racist/sexist/classist stuff.

[u/GracieLanes2116 → u/Magical-Mycologist]

Trying to pull the Simpsons lawyer card

Before election

"No new wars!"

Now

"No, NEW WARS!"

[u/To-Far-Away-Times]

No way Trump was going to turn down the chance to prey on 150+ girls in an Iranian elementary school just because it was deeply immoral and a war crime and it would make gas prices go up. He flat out said he doesn’t think about American’s finances at all.

We know he shared a “wonderful secret” (his words) with Epstein, is anyone surprised he would continue to prey on children after that?

[u/Breatheme444]

I hate that I live in a world where the majority voted for this. 

[u/ThePapercup]

"read my lips, no new taxes"

every Republican president has straight up lied to the public to get elected, it's one of their defining characteristics. they have seen that it works because the conservative base has no long term memory. it's why Trump can get away with blaming Biden for shit that happened when Biden wasn't even in office. I have conservative family members who blame Biden for covid lockdowns and the J6 riot. you can't make this shit up, it's insanity.

[u/Cool_Cartographer_39]

https://www.npr.org/2006/05/03/5378487/environmentalists-quietly-welcome-high-gas-prices

[u/TG-Benji → u/Cool_Cartographer_39]

Expensive gas should slow the use of cars, and the pollution they emit.

Well the vast majority of us still need to get to work soo...

[u/SwiftBase → u/TG-Benji]

that's why we need better commuter infrastructure in this country and not endless miles of asphalt, a petroleum product, enabling endless streams of automobiles, a petroleum product, to stream down them, powered by gasoline, a petroleum product. Everybody always throws their hands up in the air about systemic problems like this and doesn't acknowledge that maybe we have to change the *system*

[u/TG-Benji → u/SwiftBase]

I think we just need EV charging stations that are on the same level as gas stations. I'd LOVE to drive an EV but my apartment does not have the ability to charge it.

[u/Ssweis23 → u/TG-Benji]

I disagree. It's more important and definitely cheaper to incentivize apartment complexes like yours to install Level 2 charging stations where you park at home so you can charge overnight. Charging at home is MUCH cheaper than at a DC fast charging station and the cost of the station itself means only a few will get built even if a business deems it profitable.

This needs to be alongside any public transport improvements that make us less car-dependent.

[u/iprocrastina → u/TG-Benji]

People will cut out discretionary travel.

People will also more seriously consider EVs, hybrids, and smaller vehicles. We see this happen whenever gas prices stay elevated. Americans love giant vehicles until gas prices get high, then suddenly people want to drive sedans and hatchbacks again.

[u/Shawnj2 → u/TG-Benji]

People are more likely to consider alternatives to driving when gas is expensive.

[u/TG-Benji → u/Shawnj2]

Not a lot of alternatives to consider unfortunately...

[u/Serious_Feedback → u/TG-Benji]

The sheer number of people driving Ford F150s to their office job says otherwise.

[u/Caleth → u/Serious_Feedback]

Not sure why you got a downvote it's true.

The pavement princesses and people buying up high end cars that need 93 octane for their 8 banger are making poor choices and there are alternatives for it.

I know because I just traded in my cx5 from 2017 for an all EV that gets me to and from work and I can recharge at home. The dollars not spent on gas have saved enough in 2 weeks to pay for the charger I bought, and in a few more if prices keep rising the monthly savings mean I covered my car note.

Even if your someone that can't do EV because you don't have a charger, you sure as shit could trade your pavement princess for a hybrid of some stripe. Going from an emotional support vehicle that gets 20MPG to something getting 50-60 would be a huge win.

[u/VerySuperGenius → u/Cool_Cartographer_39]

You can both be in favor of gas cars going away while also feeling the pain of high gas prices because our society didn't build any other way for us to get to work.

[u/Cokeblob11 → u/Cool_Cartographer_39]

America needed to get off oil decades ago

[u/Kira887 → u/Cool_Cartographer_39]

I guess after the “no nuclear” and “beautiful clean coal” shit, environmentalists have to take what they can get

[u/Gnplddct]

It's $6 where I live ^Cries

[u/JWils411]

We were promised a lot of things, but all we got was rampant and unchecked corruption the likes of which has never been seen in modern history.

[u/emerald-waters]

Serves them Right. To those who voted this the second time.

Of course the rest of others suffer too.. 😞

[u/thosefamouspotatoes]

The only people promised these things were the ones dumb enough to believe them. They didn’t promise me shit.

[u/d_smogh]

what about eggs?

[u/albyzon]

americans complaining for 5$/gallon while europe reached over 2€/l (8,25$/gallon)

[u/nn123654 → u/albyzon]

Sure, but our vehicles are bigger trucks and SUVs and get worse fuel economy, plus the US is just a lot bigger with no viable public transit or train options, and all our cities are designed around vehicles.

In Europe, you can just take the train which doesn't go up basically at all over short term flucuations.

[u/albyzon → u/nn123654]

well, having unnecessarily large cars and shitty public transport it's us fault, the fact that i can take a train doesn't mean that gas should cost twice as much

besides public transport isn't that cheap at least here in italy, and most of the times it's not even available

[u/TeteDeMerde]

I love whoever is putting these things on the Mall.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Train52]

More of no wars in the Middle East, those stupid wars as they were called. That bothers me the most all these wars are pretty much what destroyed the United States debt.

[u/Brave-Chain-2155]

You stupid leebrals, my gas done went down from 4.29-3.89, he’s doing EXACTLY what he done promised——some trumptard probably

[u/baikey123]

Conservatives will say it’s ai

[u/Deddentje]

Time to switch to liters instead of gallons. 

[u/vinegarstrokes420]

One of many examples for why people should vote based on records of what a candidate has done and not just on what they say they will do. Especially when this particular candidate was widely known as one of the most frequent liars in the history of human kind.

[u/pinniped90]

But we had to attack Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before we attacked Iran.

[u/Texasscot56]

We were promised lower prices for everything. That’s never happened either.

[u/Tough-Capital-345 → u/Texasscot56]

Just had a small tantrum the other day about this the price for grounded beef alone today makes me so mad

[u/Accomplished-Cup2781]

He's all over the Epstein Files too.

[u/Xdestroyed]

We pay more because Israel wants like this 🤷‍♂️

[u/PermenantRest]

Blame maga...

[u/Spiral_Out801]

Lol this is great. I hope people keep doing this type of call out.

[u/total_looser]

Read. My. Lips. NO NEW TAXES

[u/0111011101110111]

I'm the best at peace, nobody's better at peace than me. Groceries is a weird word, but I am smart. I've got good words. Nobody's got better words than me. Gas prices? They'll come down. I'll reduce gas prices by 600%... by 800%... we will have the lowest gas prices of any administration.

[u/Heyniceguy13]

The cost we pay to protect the pedophile corporate elite.

https://giphy.com/gifs/XClPnuZtG2yPyqTI6R

[u/NorysStorys]

This is so fucking infuriating. You think your fuel prices are high? Try everywhere else, it’s much worse. Your president who makes cavemen look like savants has inflicted this on the rest of us. Its magnitudes worse for Europe or Asia.

[u/czaranthony117]

The first casualty of any war is the Truth… and welp… gas prices also.

[u/FulcrumLumen]

Soooo it only took 10 years and 40 million warnings for people to realise trump lies?!?!

[u/Working_Village3338]

Meanwhile in Germany: 1 Gallon for $7.76

[u/DistinctAsparagus421]

This has gotta be AI, right? The bottom left corner doesn’t look like it’s even touching the ground

[u/AfterImageEclipse]

I'll end the war in Ukraine with one phone call

[u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe]

More objective proof that trump is, and has always been, a bad idea should not be supported by anyone, ever.

[u/summer_plays_]

On average its 7$/G where I live, I've seen it as high as 8$/G at Chevron.

[u/sponyta2 → u/summer_plays_]

California?

[u/EidolonRook]

All I know is everything Harris was supposed to do wrong, he’s done more of and “better” than she could have.

Way to stick it to the woman, I guess.

[u/Psychological_Net_37]

I'm holding my breath still waiting for those tariff checks he said were coming.

[u/WithoutJoshE7]

Now they're just deluding the fuel to compensate for their failure.

[u/greensangre]

In all fairness you can’t trust what a pedophile says

[u/deboo117]

Not just you, but the whole world in general. Fuck the USA and their arrogance.

[u/agentb719]

my gas was down to $2.19 back in Feb, and now its almost $4

[u/ironicmirror]

Great now put these up in Iowa and all over the Midwest. You're not convincing anyone in DC.

[u/Relative-Put-4175]

Yeah, he conned every dumbass that voted for him.

[u/HabANahDa]

Anyone who believed he would lower gas prices is an idiot

[u/Lemontreeguy]

Or you know move to a more clean technology then oil rigs/Derricks pumping crude shipping it to the land/refineries, processing it, piping it, hauling it to wherever all using the fuel during the process while risking lives to produce it.... Sooo Let's not fund the damn oil companies to pay lobbiests to keep oil relevant for their pockets... Some products I get, electricity production I can understand for a stable grid, people need to get over the hump of gas for daily driving, the costs is absurd VS electricity and especially for efficiency. I'd rather have a far more efficient power plant burn the fuel and drive an Ev. It's a no brainer with a little research and fact checking. So many opinions out there giving people the wrong idea about EVs.

Bit of a blab sorry lol.

[u/biscayne57]

Jimmy Carter lives.

[u/hyperlethalrabbit]

"Fell For It Again" award undisputed champions

[u/Public-Scheme-2570]

Did you Americans really believe that t-LYINGrump would do what he "promised"...WOW FOOLED AGAIN...here in canada we are paying $8...

[u/RobertAndi]

They misprinted the $6

[u/RedSix2447]

Bring back the rump and Epstein statue.

[u/DenvahGothMom]

A truly assholish former friend who really pretended to be a decent person and I think actually kind of tried to be until Trump took office the first time, when she just went mask off and started wallowing in her depravity, posted this in November 2024:

“If the liberals would have won, my feed would be FULL of in your face posts. I feel such a sense of peace and relief this morning. God kept this leader safe so he can pull us out of this absolute mess! It's ok if you don't agree. You had the right to vote - same as me. We've endured Biden/ Harris LONG enough! No more arbitrary pronouns! Can't wait for my gasoline and grocery prices to go down! And the Venezuelan gangs to be acknowledged as existing and then dealt with accordingly. It's all about to start and I can not wait!!!! Giddy with excitement!!! All the glory to God!”

I can’t even tell you how much I wish I could comment with photos of the insanely high gas prices around town! It won’t change their minds though. It was never about the gas prices. It was about him, giving them permission to be their worst selves.

[u/Main_Taste_7473]

Iranians pay 13 cents a gallon for regular gasoline even during the so called war.

[u/Fyrael]

At least your country isn't trying to tax sunlight now that electric cars exist.

[u/jaded1121]

Hey eggs are cheaper now.

Not that the market wouldn’t have fixed the price of eggs eventually.

[u/CygnusX-1001001]

Remember, Trump himself said that "affordability is a democrat hoax"

[u/Live-Whereas-9716]

If there was only a way to have known that politicians are unaccountable liars.

[u/Taku_Kori17]

Wow a politician lied to get into a position of power?! I'm SO SURPRISED?!?!. 😱

[u/plinkplonkplank]

And an end to the Russia/Ukraine war "on day one."

[u/Disgruntled_Orifice]

Like these promises haven’t been made countless times over the course of the last dozen campaigns..

[u/oofos_deletus]

Funny seeing Americans complain about 5 dollars a gallon when we here in the Czech republic would consider it cheap despite having much smaller wages. Our current average price converted to USD per gallon would be 7,89

[u/Glad-Peanut-3459]

Once a corporation gets the chance to raise prices they never go down.

[u/psykomorph]

Remember guys data centres need cooling and currently all cooling turbines are powered using oil as fuel. Trump has been a sell out to all the big tech since before his presidency, and they funded everything to make him win so that he carries out their wishes. He took Venezuela for oil, now wants to disrupt Middle East so that other countries have lesser options and start buying from the US. He is doing all of this and inflating everything along the way for the big tech(companies keep borrowing, printer goes on), and for their energy requirements. He has no regard for his people or voters as long as he gets to make his money by looting the country, its government and its people. This is one of the logical reasons I can come to.

[u/Dongfengs]

I used to think that Americans could be mobilized against their shitty duopoly once their treats became unattainable. But gas prices hitting insane levels won’t even send the hogs to the streets. Probably cuz they can’t afford to leave their cul-de-sacs

[u/-Esper-]

I wish this was the only problem, or even close to some of the biggest ones :/

[u/sheepily-]

im tired, boss 🫩

[u/Tankspanker]

I wish it was $5 a gallon in the Netherlands... Currently converts to $11,37 a gallon for the non-premium budget gas.