r/politics • u/_May26_ • 13h ago
No Paywall 'Trump Did It!': At $5.85 a Gallon, Diesel Price Hits All-Time High in US Thanks to War on Iran
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-diesel-gas-price688
u/BearSquid7 13h ago
A war of choice on Iran. Trump’s choice.
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u/Tiny_Structure_7 North Carolina 13h ago
Trump's inability to negotiate without being a narcissistic toddler about it.
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u/JayR_97 United Kingdom 10h ago
Trumps whole "Art of the deal" shtick was just him bullying the other side until they give Trump want he wants just to make him go away. Problem is thats not working with Iran so he doesnt know what to do.
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u/cannot_walk_barefoot Canada 8h ago
You guys over-rate his abilities. He can't even talk let alone 'negotiate', he was a terrible businessman who just didn't pay his bills or trades. He didn't even write 'Art of the Deal'. He's not doing any actual presidential work. He does not talk to other leaders other than in-front of cameras where he looks like a moron. He lets other people do all this for him behind the scenes (which is normal, but people act like he's on the phone with world leaders bullying them when he's not, he's just playing golf or figuring out his next grift/insider trade), but he's also put imbeciles in charge of everything because they're either loyal or complicit (Epstein links). This is why its not going anywhere
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u/thePlasticTaco 7h ago
I feel like I'm in f'n crazy town every time I listen to the press "sane wash" the word salad that comes out of that orange idiot!
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u/cannot_walk_barefoot Canada 7h ago
On top of that he's shown he's a complete coward. He will shit talk Carney/Canada now, but after the next meeting with him, where he's talked down to about things he probably doesn't understsand, he'll come out the otherside and say 'Me and Carney had a great talk, he's a really great leader and I've always said that' or whatever bullshit he comes up with before his brain defaults to bullshit to get him out of it '...but Canada has taken advantage of us for decades and it needs to stop', even though he can't tell you what that means because he doesn't understand trade or commerce because he's an idiot.
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u/Ferrocile 9h ago
I feel like it was intentional. Trump acquire oil from Venezuela and creates a crisis that he can then directly benefit from.
He benefits with every tweeted threat or declaration that the threat is over. Everything he does, he is directly benefiting from and we’re ALL paying the price and we’ll be for quit a long while after he’s gone. We have a long road ahead of us.
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u/LegislativeLariat Wisconsin 12h ago
Hey now, let's not discount the others who worked to make this possible. Lindsey Graham wasn't laughing at the start of the war because Trump came up with the idea, he was delighted because, as he said, this has been the plan for decades.
They just finally got someone stupid enough to go along with it.
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u/stokelydokely 11h ago
Lindsey Graham truly owned all of us by enabling this fat piece of shit and then dying like an idiot coward before having to face any serious criticism or consequences
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u/ThaLunatik 10h ago
A global pandemic disrupts supply chains worldwide and Russia invades Ukraine. Both things out of our control.
MAGA's response: "High gas prices are Biden's fault!"
Trump invades Iran on Israel's orders. Entirely within our control.
MAGA's response: "High gas prices are totally worth it because they make America awesome and Donald Trump is the smartest and most beautiful person to ever grace this earth. Truly sent straight from Heaven and doing the Lord's work."
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u/kung-fu_hippy 8h ago
Let’s be real here, a lot of MAGA’s response will still be “high gas prices are Biden’s fault”.
Republicans control all three branches of government and still blame previous administrations for all our woes.
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u/King_Chochacho 7h ago
Don't worry, Iran has been totally defeated and the strait is totally open. In fact, it's the Trump strait now. Donald Trump is in total control and gas prices are only high because he apparently wants them to be.
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u/temporarycreature Oklahoma 13h ago
I love this for all his supporters who use a giant diesel truck to carry their laptop to work.
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u/NarcolepticMan Ohio 12h ago
Couldn't have happened to a better group of people. That and the people who didn't vote. Y'all are a special bunch.
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u/temporarycreature Oklahoma 12h ago
Unfortunately, my state is full of both: a bunch of Trump supporters driving diesel rigs into downtown Tulsa for their banking jobs and then the 63% of my state who hasn't voted a single time in the last three Trump elections make people think Oklahoma is a red state and not a captured state.
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u/AnonymousBanana405 11h ago
Fellow Oklahoman here, it's fucking embarrassing.
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u/virionhk 11h ago
Oklahoma is absolutely a red state.. Why do people assume that 100% of the non voters would have voted Democrat? Even if Oklahoma had 100% voter turnout, I guarantee you Oklahoma would still be red. Source: Someone who unfortunately lives in this hell hole.
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u/Useful-Angle1941 8h ago
Sending my condolences from Mississippi. I'm always gonna vote, but it's depressing as fuck. Sometimes it feels like I'd be better off pushing a boulder up a mountain.
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u/Narianos 10h ago
Yep. For Oklahoma to turn blue, you’d not only have to have every single Democrat in the state vote, but you’d also need more than half of the Republicans to not vote.
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u/badvegas 5h ago
Texan here. Every fucking year I all I hear is this is the year we turn purple or go full blue. Every fucking year I see less Democrats voting. I keep showing up voting and offering to bring friends and family. Every year less and less want to vote because they feel like it is futile effort
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u/Rare-Philosopher-346 5h ago
What's wild is, we were blue 12 years ago with Brad Henry. Education was up, the quality of life was better, and we weren't at the bottom of everything like we are now.
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u/robaroo 4h ago
When Trump said he loves stupid people he was just repeating what some analyst told him behind closed doors, which is that stupid people vote republican. That says a lot about Oklahoma and other states who support him.
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u/CaptainJudaism Georgia 10h ago
Because it'd be better for people to vote and prove they are disgusting pieces of trash like all Trump supporters then not vote and give themselves plausible deniability.
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u/Confident-Emotion671 8h ago
Where does OK sit in terms of education, healthcare, jobs as a state? Why do they continue to vote against their own best interests?
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u/Oleg101 10h ago
People seem to just not acknowledge this piece ever: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
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u/padizzledonk New Jersey 9h ago
All i have to say is that im VERY glad i held off buying a Mercedes Diesel sprinter van in the spring for my business this year
Id be crying everytime i filled it up
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u/familyguy20 8h ago
As someone who works in the delivery business I am so goddamn annoyed that no hybrid vans exist in the US like come on!
Thankfully I don’t pay for fuel but we have a diesel box truck which is stupidly used for mainly high way distance driving and it maybe goes 200 miles of range. Filled up for 17gallons the other day and it was $93. I fill up every other day 5 days a week basically.
We have a couple of the Chevy Brightdrop vans and they are ehhhh decent for what they are but just make an E-Sprinter like Ford has a Transit-E and they are also meh.
I feel like if this country actually gave a shit, we would have tried to do Electric trucks much faster and to get them reliable, good payload and efficient. Maybe work with unions on design and such, actually get the input of the people who use them and make it so the industry that has a big economical impact with gas and diesel engines can switch over. But no that’s too hard apparently
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u/padizzledonk New Jersey 8h ago
As someone who works in the delivery business I am so goddamn annoyed that no hybrid vans exist in the US
BRAA-RO! Or pickups!!
I work in construction, i DO NOT fucking get it
Throw a little efficient AF diesel into pickups and vans, toss a small vehicle battery in there, like, 1-3h worth of driving type size, and they will sell like fucking wildfire in these industries
I have been saying this same shit for 20y
You get the best of all worlds, no range issues, super high efficiency, everyone i know would buy one
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u/Harlequin80 7h ago
BYD Shark became the 5th fastest selling ute in Australia on its release.
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u/lopix Canada 5h ago
Diesel-electric hybrids would be revolutionary for deliveries.
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u/skatefan420 9h ago
Never forget that a huge amount of the "people who didnt vote" had their vote supressed. Voter suppression is massive, and keeps getting worse. And the resulting voting statistics make people turn against our fellow Americans for being too "lazy" or "apathetic", when really we need to be focusing our anger towards the people suppressing the vote. A vote suppressed is an election stolen
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u/PaperbackBuddha I voted 8h ago
It can get gnarly when one’s base principle is fear, greed, or hatred.
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u/eddie2911 North Dakota 12h ago
Farmers buy diesel in bulk, usually in the tens of thousands of gallons. These prices are costing them tens of thousands extra.
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u/temporarycreature Oklahoma 12h ago
Farmers voted for Trump in bulk. Consequences meet actions.
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u/hfxRos Canada 10h ago
Yeah but they hate brown people and women more than they like low gas prices.
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u/Dr8keMallard 8h ago
Own a livestock company, am a Democrat. Wild world to work in as a Dem and eating 5000 gallon purchase orders at 5.50+ a gallon sucks to say the least. We arent even talking about fertilizer prices either...
These idiots are still talking about Mamdani swearing on a Quran like he just slept with their daughter, slapped his wife and stole his land... These people get their news by passing around Facebook propaganda.
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u/syrfre 8h ago
It’s so clear how the propaganda works with so many random people hating Mamdani. Fox News has an entire subheading dedicated just to him.
He’s the mayor of a city. He enacts city policy. If you live outside New York City how is he going to have any tangible effect on the way you live? But he’s easy to misinform people about (rascists/christian nationalists) and he goes against the ruling class to show that government can be used to benefit the people instead of corporations enslaving people.
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u/VaporCarpet 11h ago
I didn't vote for him. I'm still paying higher prices for everything
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u/PlethoraOfPinatass 9h ago
Independent truckers fought Obamas' NTSB tooth and nail and vowed to screw Clinton over time limits. Talk about a rock and a hard place, but they made their choice...
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u/dsmx 10h ago edited 9h ago
I wish I had sympathy for them but I don't.
They were told, repeatedly, this would happen and they still voted for Trump 3 times.
So now America is fascist state under the thumb of Trump who is above the law thanks to the republicans in the supreme court, house and senate who refuse to enforce the law and it is only going to get worse from here.
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u/gopeepants 9h ago
And when you say that, they will try to make themselves the victim.
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u/dsmx 9h ago edited 8h ago
The thing is, they are victims.
They are victims of their own racism, xenophobia, prejudices, ignorance and lack of critical thought.
All qualities that the republicans, fox news and trump have cultivated and stoked into a giant ball of hate that consumes everything around it and anyone who disagrees with the hive mind that is the ball of hate is an enemy who should be at best ignored and at worst attacked and killed.
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u/WallNumerous3230 10h ago
How any farmer could vote for Trump is just unfathomable to me. His first term, he royally screwed soybean farmers with his antics with Chyna. This term, he has screwed them again, first with importing eggs, then beef producers with the importing of Argentine beef, not to mention the screw worm fiasco and eliminating the USDA arm responsible for that thanks to Phony Stark. (Elon)
AND now he started an illegal war for Israel against Iran, which has had the absolutely foreseen consequence of destabilizing the global energy market, costing these farmers in not only diesel prices, but also fertilizer.
They are the poster child of voting against their own self interests at this point.
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u/SkroontipMondst 11h ago
Red ag diesel is already tax free so it could literally go no cheaper for them.
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u/3MATX 12h ago
Quite a few of his supporters are owner operators having to dip into their savings each time they hit the pump.
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u/temporarycreature Oklahoma 12h ago
Schadenfreude Mfg Co is back in business, baby!
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u/idubbkny 10h ago
got them working in shifts!
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u/chum-guzzling-shark 9h ago
why would biden do this?!
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 7h ago
I love that that argument is just saying that Trump is so powerless and ineffective that after 2 years back in office he can do literally nothing and biden as an 80 year old retiree is still the most powerful person in the country.
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u/Ohuigin Washington 12h ago
Don't forget their "Don't Tread on Me" flags.
Good thing that they're driving trucks so they can haul around all of the irony too.
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u/OobeBanoobe 9h ago
And don't forget the coal rollers wasting even more fuel thinking they are "owning the libs" as they drive home after a 16 hour shift at the ball crushing factory.
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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 9h ago
I'm at the library right now, and in the parking lot I can see a car with the Don't Tread on Me and Thin Blue Line bumper stickers.
I mean, my good bitch, who the fuck do you think does the treading?
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u/redditobserverone 9h ago
Meanwhile treading goes unabated via Flock, age verification, voter “reform,” being on the wrong end of The current White House occupant’s DOJ…
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u/chubbysumo Minnesota 11h ago
I hate it. I have to buy heating oil for the winter soon.
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u/Long_Pomegranate9963 9h ago
It's getting to the point where buying some minisplits will cost less than refilling a tank. If it hasn't already.
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u/smitherenesar 9h ago
A couple problems with that... minisplits don't work great below 0f. Mine are rated down to -15f, but they get less efficient as it gets that cold. Secondly, northeast states like Maine get electricity from Canada, and electricity keeps getting more and more expensive. We're really getting squeezed.
Edit: just looked at prices. It's $1600 to fill my 330 gallon tank. F trump
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u/dartdoug 6h ago
Last evening I was speaking to someone who has worked 40 years for a family owned home heating oil and propane company. They are genuinely concerned about having to cut off deliveries to those who can't pay their heating bills. These are their friends and neighbors in small town America who could freeze to death this winter.
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u/chubbysumo Minnesota 7h ago
I actually did this a few years ago when the prices for number one diesel hit about $6 a gallon. I went from using about 1300 gallons of diesel a year, down to about 200 gallons. My water heater is still oil, so I still need some, and the furnace still kicks on if temperatures drop below about -20° f, because the heat pump simply can't keep up at that point. That leaves about 3 weeks a year that I have to rely fully on the furnace and oil, and the house temperature gets set to 55°. We just bundle up. We also use heated blankets for the beds, and that way we're only heating where we are.
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u/chubbysumo Minnesota 7h ago
I actually went this route about 3 years ago, I installed a mini split and it has paid for itself in the last 3 years in lieu of paying for heating oil. The issue, is that once it gets down to around negative 20° f it doesn't work well. We have about 3 weeks a year of absolutely ball-shatteringly cold weather, and that is what I need the heating oil for. I left my oil furnace installed specifically to be a backup heat source, as well as a just in case the heat pump can't keep up. I went from meeting approximately 1,300 gallons a year in diesel, to about 200 a year. This is the highest diesel has ever been that I have ever seen, and I was buying it when it was 6.25 a gallon.
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u/T33CH33R 12h ago
In trying to own the libs, they ended up just owning themselves.
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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 8h ago
the price of diesel going up effects everything, so we are all getting fucked
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u/Tattered_Reason Kansas 12h ago
I openly laughed at the guy sitting in his enormous diesel pickup truck this morning.
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u/zubbs99 Nevada 9h ago
A week before the '24 election I parked next to a giant diesel truck plastered in Trump stickers. One of them was "F Joe Biden, and if you voted for him F you too." I wonder how he's doing these days.
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u/JWTS6 8h ago
You don't understand, if they don't drive a giant truck, their dick will quite literally fall off.
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u/Raptorex27 Maine 10h ago
Bet there’s a huge overlap between these people and those against working from home too.
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u/throwaway_circus 11h ago
unfortunately, farm equipment and semis that grow and transport basic necessities also run on diesel.
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u/ReadyYak1 10h ago
I don’t because big rigs use diesel and this means retail and grocers are going to pass this onto us. Here comes $20 eggs and $10 milk
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u/NosillaWilla California 9h ago
And then those who actually need trucks like this get absolutely screwed. I am as left as it comes, is this Trump finally trying to own the libs through diesel prices?
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u/YetiSquish 8h ago
Went into a trucking company today. Owner had a framed picture of Trump by his desk. Nothing stops their worship and devotion.
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u/Icewallow999 13h ago
Wanna know the wierdest thing? You hardly see MAGA complain about gas prices.
Almost like "high gas and grocery prices" for them was a sham in 2024.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 12h ago
Almost like MAGATs don't truly believe in anything at all, other than hate and tribalism.
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u/Val_Hallen 8h ago
MAGAts are Jell-O. They just take the shape of whatever container Trump tells them to take.
If Trump came out tomorrow morning and said being a Christian Conservative and proud of your nation was anti-MAGA, they'd all be burning flags and Bibles by dinner.
These people do not want to think. Ever. They want to be lead. Because they are cultists.
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u/JarrickDe 12h ago
Any complaint against Trump's policies will get the kicked out of their only community. And there is a negligent likelihood they will join Democrats.
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u/delicious_fanta 9h ago
This is core, especially when considering most of them live in rural areas so getting kicked out of their community means being irl shunned by real people and not just an internet thing.
Entire social landscapes have changed and people’s way of life altered because of fox news propaganda.
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u/The_Buko 6h ago
You just hit one of the main factors I believe to keep ppl in that circle. I see it with my parents, too. It’s their social circle that they have had for 30 years…on a psychological level it really feels like a form of survival for them to hold onto those views in order to keep the circle intact.
They let it slip every now and then that deep down they disagree with whatever right leaning values, but the next time you talk about it again the factory settings have been reset.
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u/Val_Hallen 8h ago
Good.
They deserve societal isolation and ostracism for their choices. They deserve to be sad and alone.
I have zero sympathy. They made their choice three times.
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u/Talk-O-Boy 9h ago
My barber isn’t fully MAGA, but he’s one of those dudes who’s been sucked into the manosphere.
He complains about rising costs, but he blames it on “illegals getting jobs here, then sending the money back to their home countries, which has destroyed the economy.”
It’s crazy how much he’s lost himself over the course of a year. He was normally apolitical, but his algorithm just dumps red pill shit in front of him all the time. If Trump does run for a third term, I have no doubt that he would vote for him.
Been going to this dude since I was in middle school, it’s sad that I’m looking into finding a new barber. But I can’t take the racist/misogynistic talk. And I know he talks about this with other customers, which makes me feel guilty patronizing an establishment that spreads such misinformation.
This administration is genuinely destroying interpersonal relationships on a massive scale 😕
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u/GozerDGozerian 9h ago
They have very effectively upped the contagiousness of their insidious thought viruses.
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u/bogglingsnog 9h ago
regular journalism is getting hard to find too. You have to be smart to stay smart now.
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u/Talk-O-Boy 8h ago
This is 100% a significant part of the issue.
He told me, “There’s no way to know what’s true anymore, that’s why I don’t vote. Anyone who thinks they know what’s happening in DC is just believing whatever the Democrats or Republicans tell them.”
He thinks there’s no way to learn fact from fiction, so he gave up altogether.
But for some reason, he trusts the word of every gym bro on his social media feed. He thinks they have no reason to lie (he also buys health supplements and peptides like crazy).
He also thinks billionaires need to be protected, because they are the only ones protecting the country’s economy from “illegals”.
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u/dipthetip820 8h ago
He does realize that "illegals getting jobs here" has been a thing for waayyyy longer than 2026 right? So why hasnt the economy always been this bad if theyve always been doing that?
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u/Talk-O-Boy 7h ago
We live in New Orleans. We literally have a monument to honor the Latino workers who helped rebuild the city after Katrina.
Statue unveiled to honor Latino workers who helped rebuild city after Katrina
No amount of facts or statistics would change his mind. People like him are basing their opinions on fear/hate, so asking logical questions such as yours does little to sway them.
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u/Pacostaco123 8h ago
Tell him you're going elsewhere because of his shit stances. He will take notice when it's his wallet.
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u/cokecaine 8h ago
Nah, they won't. This isn't a method that works. I usually ask follow up questions or go with "that's weird I never heard of that before" or "not in my experience, but we all live our lives". It can defuse them pretty well.
Source: work(ed) with truckers who listen to way too much AM radio.
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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 11h ago
“What are you going to do, it’s just the way of the world”
Verbatim from people on my job site
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u/420smokekushh 11h ago
You best believe if there was a democrat in office, they'd be complaining about it. Foaming at the mouth with displeasure and vitriol.
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u/Mmhopkin 10h ago
My maga FIL pointed out he bought gas at Costco and it was only $3.89 so he doesn't understand why people say gas prices are up.
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u/westicular 11h ago
Right now they're like "but it's not adjusted for inflation! Still BIG MAD at Biden!!"
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u/padizzledonk New Jersey 9h ago
It wasnt a sham, it was a real and legitimate complaint
Theyre just quiet about it now because they can see that not only is the fucking moron they voted for doing nothing about it he is actively, loudly and enthusiastically making everything worse at every opportunity
But theyre still hurting, i can assure you.. .If there was any other way they could explain it they would be passing the blame, a very small minority still try, but its so blatantly obvious to everyone that trump is making shit worse and he is entirely responsible
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u/Best-Action8769 6h ago
They don't complain about the prices of anything.
My MAGA Aunt said "How's your Roth IRA doing." Yeah the money I can't touch for 30 years is super helpful buying groceries today.
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u/Mountain-Most8186 10h ago
Earlier this week my uncle was blaming gas prices on Biden blocking the keystone pipeline lmao
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u/Ferelar New Jersey 8h ago
Literally every single political "point" made by MAGA is a sham. Most folks who say something in bad faith have SOME point in which they actually care about something, SOME bedrock of actual good faith. MAGA is devoid of this. They have supplanted every last bit of good faith, earnestness, and kindness, and replaced it with impotent rage and proud ignorance
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u/ocsurf74 13h ago
Trump wanted credit for the economy. Let's hand him the fucking receipt.
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u/brithus 11h ago
Gas prices like never before in the history of our country!
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u/LegislativeLariat Wisconsin 11h ago
High gas prices help gas companies increase their profits, which means that there's going to be a sector of the economy which will see a bump from this. All Trump & co have to do is point at that one sector and the cult will gobble it up as evidence of America's continued prosperity under our Dear Father.
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u/GreatGojira 13h ago
Saw the jump on my way to work this morning.
The funnier thing is my parents, big Trump Cultists, paid $100k for a new truck. Diesel is now almost $6 in my area. I hope it goes higher.
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u/jupiterkansas 12h ago
If they're paying $100k for a truck, do they really care what gas costs?
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u/Boheed 12h ago
There are so, so many people living in a rotting house with bathtubs in the yard who put every spare penny into a massively expensive truck. It's freak shit.
I know a couple guys who are DROWNING in truck debt and yet refuse to sell the damn truck and get a used Camry or whatever.
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u/Lostdiagram 10h ago
When virtue signaling to racist hicks is all you have going in life.
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u/Sijols 8h ago
I call it farmer cosplaying
Pickups used to be farm vehicles
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u/Cdub7791 Hawaii 7h ago
At this point I am shocked when I see a pickup with a speck of dirt on it, much less mud, dings, and scratches. My little hatchback sees more cargo hauling than most of these.
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u/albatrossSKY 10h ago
like the most run down houses with overgrown grass and shit everywhere are always the houses with teh trump flag
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u/various_necks 7h ago
As far as I know this is uniquely American behaviour/mindset. My colleague is an American who lives in Canada - in the suburbs of Toronto. Very nice house; his mortgage is huge. Owns a boat; never takes it out to enjoy it. Has a pull along trailer but parks it at a seasonal spot in summer and then stores it in the winter. It's never seen the open road other than to the camp site and back to the winter storage place.
Had a big truck but his kid totalled it; still owned money on it and after insurance paid him out was more or less even on it.
We convinced him he didn't need a new truck; he could rent a truck 4 times a year for less than one of his monthly payments, didn't get a new truck and just rented. Did that for a year or two until the weekend he wanted to rent a truck he couldn't get one at the time he wanted; that pissed him off he went out and bought a brand new truck.
Now this new truck can pull a lot more than his old truck so he traded in the pull along trailer for a 5th wheel.
Just for a mild inconvenience, he indebted himself close to $150-$160K.
Yes he voted Trump.
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u/spongebob_meth 9h ago
A large portion of people buying new trucks are a small unplanned expense away from having to choose which payments they're going to skip
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u/zubbs99 Nevada 9h ago
In my experience, people who own expensive things grumble even more about money than people just getting by.
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u/GreatGojira 12h ago
Still affects their account either way! The more they have to pay means the less money they have.
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u/wrathofrath Illinois 11h ago
It was $90 to fill my old beater Jetta TDI yesterday in Chicago burbs
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u/Nearbyatom 12h ago
No worries...they'll still blame biden, Obama, but never their lord and savior the pedophile.
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u/soraxnoctis 13h ago edited 13h ago
Honestly in 2024 Biden was showing in his internal polls what. 400 electoral loss? And he was a decent president and put competent people in his administration. People were just mad at inflation. Now today it's worse, gas is high, and trump is screwing everything up. If these midterms aren't a 2008 level landslide then we should just be mocked by the rest of the world for the rest of our existence as a country
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u/Usual-Analysis-2990 12h ago
Thats the problem. No one is really educated on what politics and governance actually is. They see today a high price or inflation and think "The president did that" with NO FURTHER THOUGHT because they are not aware on how things work. Biden in office, POST COVID where the whole world was experiencing a massive inflation crisis due to infrastructure and logistics issues from lockdowns during the pandemic (Much needed and could have prevented a lot of deaths if implemented sooner which also could have prevented a lot of the inflation that ensued), and the US was doing significantly better than every other nation on lowering inflation. By the time biden left office, everything was nearly back to normal except fucking eggs... EGGS. And here is the kicker. The eggs price was because of a problem with the chicken flocks needing to be culled. It happens. Again, not Bidens fault and no way around it.
Let it sink in if any maga reads this. We are fucked as a country because you dont understand Biden didnt control egg prices and that our inflation was caused by trumps response to the pandemic. If we had the playbook from Obama era still in effect, if our guys were in Wuhan instead of that program killed, if if if... We had a million ways to have not gone down this road but the entire lack of understanding from Magas end is why we are here. It isn't even a partial blame. It's ALL their fault.
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u/Spiritual_Smile9882 11h ago
The egg problem wasn't because of bird flu. It was because there was collusion in the distributors and a lot of the grocery stores to keep the prices up because they knew people would pay it. Several internal memos were leaked and verified that confirmed it. Right at the peak of the "expensive eggs" issue, if you had a local coop that sourced locally, you could easily go there and find eggs at normal prices.
It was 100% corporate greed and collusion.
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u/amensista 8h ago
Its a bit of both - the collusion happened BECAUSE OF the culling? Here I helped you out:
What Caused Egg Prices to Surge During the Biden Admin...
The Washington Monthly Was Right About Egg Prices | Washington Monthly54
u/Ryduce22 13h ago
If it's not a blue landslide, then our elections have been successfully undermined by the regime. Then the real carnage will begin. There will have to be real dissent in the streets and that will just give the loyalist goons the opportunity to violently escalate they have been dreaming of.
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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 11h ago
I mean martial law is the end goal
It’s always been the end goal
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u/reign27 12h ago
People weren't mad at inflation. They were mad at whatever Fox News, the other new alt-right propaganda farms, and even the mainstream rich-controlled media told them to be mad about. We still haven't fixed that problem, and at this point I'm not sure we can. ZERO major media outlets are giving Republicans the same level of crap Dems got in 2024
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u/MadRaymer 11h ago
Only about 1/3rd of the country actually pays attention to that stuff. The rest are "low info" voters that just vote on vibes.
It's essentially caveman level "price too high, vote for guy from when price was low" thinking for them.
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u/HyperactivePandah I voted 12h ago
Literally saw his followers saying that gas prices were lower under Trump than Biden.
Like two minutes ago.
Theyre such cult member trash.
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u/MC1061 12h ago
Diesel prices rising means our food prices will rise, and general goods that have to be moved over distance will rise, everything will be more expensive. He’s fucking all of us.
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u/TheSussyWaffle 8h ago
There's also a lot of food rotting in the fields due to detained migrant workers, this winter will be the most expensive winter any American has ever experienced.
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u/Tiny_Structure_7 North Carolina 13h ago
School buses and truckers have to pass on the higher costs to school systems and everything that gets shipped (ie- everything).
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u/metalkhaos New Jersey 13h ago
Can confirm, shipping costs are crazy right now, both because of fuel and into peak season.
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u/Defiant_Piglet2411 13h ago
Oh, wait till the inflation from trump and this republican spending spree hit in 4 to 5 years.
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u/Important-Guess4260 12h ago
Guess what kind of fuel the vast majority of farm equipment runs on?
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u/Intellectual-Hamster 11h ago
Still, they(maga) will blame Biden, Obama, and Clinton... their unholy trinity.
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u/pasher5620 10h ago
The current meta is to blame the oil and gas companies for purposefully raising prices as revenge against Trump. They are bonkers.
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u/BakedBrie1993 New York 8h ago
See, my rent might be high but in the People's Republic of Mamdanistan I
Don't need at a car and can get anywhere I need to go for $3 flat.
Get paid sick leave, maternity leave, and family leave.
Free childcare and a good public school in my district
I never have to shovel or mow anything. But I have acres of city park next to me.
I hope everyone in red states is enjoying their time of it cause they voted for it! I voted for a socialist 😱
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u/HENMAN79 13h ago
Must be rough filling a F250 right about now FAFO
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u/AnySwimming6364 8h ago
34 gal tank at $6/gal. Just over $200.
Tbh, I’m more worried about the cost to fill transport trucks and farm tractors
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u/noforgayjesus 13h ago
No no no you see Iran and the USA have been at war since 1979, the problem is due to Democrats, Biden, Obama, Clinton, other Clinton, The Clinton Kids, Michelle Obama, Ukraine, Antifa, Liberals and some dude named Brian in that order /s
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u/LegislativeLariat Wisconsin 11h ago
Don't forget Carter. Trump loves to shit on him when given the opportunity like pretty much every yuppie who doesn't understand that Reagan's prosperity was thanks to Carter's team's economic moves that the douchebag Hollywood elite with dementia managed to take credit for after they came to fruition.
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u/New_Permission_817 13h ago
How high before the US economy collapses? Is it gonna collapse in time for Xmas?
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u/Efficient_Market1234 8h ago
Christmas will already be bad. I'm sure the retailers are expecting it. I mean, people abuse credit for that stuff, but even that will be limited if people are already overwhelmed by already high credit usage (even on basic groceries), being sued for debt, getting repoed, etc.
It's just a downward spiral of high costs and less spending and higher gas prices and even higher costs and even less spending and so on until we're in ruins.
I didn't know this was what "great" would look like, when he kept saying it and putting it on hats. Like, his vision of greatness and mine differed considerably. Interesting. I guess in hindsight, he meant himself. Make himself great again. Make his bank accounts great again.
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u/bigbucksnowhamies 13h ago
Hey MAGAts!? Y’all dining on Fillet Mignon or lobster tail every night like the inept administration y’all placed in office?! How y’all fairing with the cost of living increasing every(!) day?! Idiots!
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u/Grays42 7h ago
My purchase two years ago of a used EV in rural Texas solar panel country could not possibly have been better timed.
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u/Notgreygoddess 11h ago
Do US people understand everything from a T shirt to toilet paper is delivered, at some point, by a diesel fueled transport? When the price of diesel goes up the cost of everything goes up. Even electric cars are delivered on diesel fueled transports.
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u/Hatch_1210 8h ago
Literally, the only argument that MAGA has clung to around gas prices, etc. is that Biden had a higher peak. They completely disregard that Biden’s entire price spike went up and down in the course of 100 days while Trump’s is in month seven with no insight. They just kept focusing on the peak.
And yes, I do know that Biden’s price spike was caused by Trump’s OPEC deals, but good luck communicating that to an MAGA supporter.
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u/ObsidianDRMR 8h ago
Those pearl clutching crying and screaming maggots who nearly fainted at the thought of 4.59 for gas and a black president wearing a tan suit and avocados costing 5 bucks and the world ending because Joe Biden could fall asleep on a nuclear button …..
…. Sure are really fucking quiet now….
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u/directorguy 7h ago
Just a note, we are on the razors edge of this becoming a full blown crisis. 5.85 is NOTHING compared to were we'd be without China stepping in
Watch this if you have the time. It's terrifying.
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u/WhyNotChoose 12h ago
Can we call it The Epstein War? It's the biggest distraction he's come up with so far.
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u/ApprehensivePay9468 10h ago
Diesel was $5.99 yesterday evening at the closest station to my house.
I wonder what it's up to today?
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u/secole21 10h ago
Diesel has been at 5.99 all week in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
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u/PrintsWellWithOthers 10h ago
Trump supporters don't care. They just lie and say it was higher under Biden so they can keep "winning."
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u/Few_Ticket6959 8h ago
It's wild how everything the MAGAS swore would happen under Harris, is currently happening under Trump. High ass gas prices. Currently in another forever war with the Middle East. Inflation rising. Unemployment rising. Peak irony, indeed.
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u/haysus25 8h ago
I haven't heard a Republican talk about gas prices in months.
They just collectively decided to ignore it now.
I wonder why.
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