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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So people won't forget who fucked them up.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They’ll find a way to blame it on Obama

How dare he? After causing black death AND the biblical flood, he's messing with fuel?

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Doesn't matter. They have no intention of a fair race.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the flip in narrative was as close to immediate as it possibly gets, based on my experience.

For months, the narrative in part of my family was "eggs is the only thing we could still afford to eat and now they made that unaffordable, too".

Trump gets into office, part of his messaging was lower prices like day one, yet the eggs continue getting more expensive. And suddenly family is well-versed in supply chain issues, supply and demand, bird flu culling, and so on.

A year later, though, they literally will not talk about anything that's going on now if there's even a remotely political slant to it (ex: price of gas, new round of layoffs locally). Their current narrative has become "I don't keep up with the news no more. I haven't been on Facebook in months. I haven't heard about that. I ain't been in to town in awhile to see the prices."

[–] LoveTrumpsHate@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Taking the Mike Johnson approach

[–] Soulg@ani.social 6 points 1 week ago

Every fucking time

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't believe Biden would do such a thing

[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He most probably has his dirty hands on Venezuelas oil... high oil prices are a feature, not a bug.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Gotta make profits first, then tank the market so the billionaires can buy back in the game to make even more.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's surprising. Based on his previous behavior, I thought his most likely course of action would be to guarantee that gas prices would go down, and then to declare that gas prices had gone down, even though anyone could easily see that they went up.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why not both? With insider trading profit each way.

[–] poseur@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Run this quote alongside his quote where he prioritizes war over healthcare, education, etc. on loop, nonstop until 2030. Never let anyone forget that Trump wants to kill YOU. Yes, YOU 🫵

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

And everyone you know. And a vast majority of the people you don't know.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this rate gas prices will rise until we remove dependency from oil from humanity. It's looking like a really good alternative right now. The short-term will be awful

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

So glad I bought a pre-owned HEV back in 2022. Can't imagine what the price for it would've been if I tried to switch now.

Too bad Toyota's CEO turned into a MAGA ball-licker.

[–] mech@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"It could be, or the same, or maybe a little ‌bit higher, but it should be around the same,"

Trump told Fox News when asked whether the cost of oil and gas would be lower by the fall.

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

so… bullshitting as usual.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Colbert has the bit where he tells Bartiromo that, and her eyes are just perfect.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Was it due to Sleepy Joe Biden?

Or maybe "Thanks, Obama!"

Wait, 'Hillary's emails!'

'Hunter's laptop?'

Look, I'm trying REALLY hard here. Who has been the President? With control of the House of Reps and Senate?

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

It was Hillary’s buttery males.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hunter's Hog

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

If it's come to the point where even he's admitting that they'll "remain high", then we can probably expect them to double or something.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

He’s just daring us to remove him.