That's because they're dumber than Trump is.
Can we just think about that for a moment? That's a really difficult feat.
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Because gas prices are the yardstick, apparently? Who cares about the wholesale destruction of the Constitution? Who cares about the war crimes? Who cares about the racist and illegal imprisonment and deportation of legal residents? Just whatever you do, don't jack up gas prices. JFC
Most people care about what affects them directly and nothing more.
The irony is that it is affecting them directly and most of them still don't get it.
"The trees voted for the axe because the handle was made of wood."
Seeing the ugly underbelly of America has been hard. This many people are this awful inside? Really?
"Nazis lament that they suffer for their perfect ideas"
It is expected but still sad that only some can admit not being at war with Iran nor closing the strait of Hormuz, IN HINDSIGHT, would have led to cheaper fuel.
Even sadder is that so many of those people care more about gas prices going up than the illegality of the war itself and its civilian casualties in Iran.
Republicans do not care about human lives. They barely care about American lives.
They don't care about any loves other than their own. They lack empathy. Everyone other than them is expendable.
That's not fair, they also care about lives they aren't alive yet. Once they're born they can get fucked though.
I don't think people realize the humanitarian crisis that's going to occur if the desalination plant attacks spiral any further. It'll consume not just Iran but the entire region.
Can't even get it right when these idiots are admitting they're wrong.
GAS WOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS OF AN ISSUE EITHER WAY BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T HAVE PISSED AWAY 2 YEARS PRETENDING ELECTRIFICATION WERE DEAD.
For real, the removal of federal incentives caused a huge wave of EV cancellations, which will inevitably increase demand for oil, which will increase prices.
But as always the bipartisan support for higher oil prices comes from the lack of regulation around them. Big Oil is taking this opportunity to drive up prices artificially and recording record profits (again). You would think with the importance of oil on our entire economy that someone would reign them in but alas their pockets are too deep.
FTA:
Thirty-five percent said gas prices would have gone up the same amount under a Democrat, while only 34 percent of Trump’s 2024 voters believe gas prices would have gone up more under a Democratic administration.
Am I reading this correctly? 69% of Trump voters think gas would have been the same or worse with Harris?
I seriously doubt that any of these people thought for one moment about what they said, but this is actually a complicated issue. Would Iran have closed the Strait of Hormuz if only Israel had attacked them? My guess is that they wouldn't, but it's just a guess.
How? Would Harris have also picked a fight with Iran to distract from the epstien files?
You falsely assume they can connect those two dots.
Everything goes in the square hole
Probably not, but if Israel had attacked its pretty clear she'd have sent them any material they asked for.
Maybe the trump dips hits aren't that far off on this one. Though more likely it wouldn't have escalated this far.
It could very well be that Israel wouldn’t have attacked Iran in the first place if Trump wasn’t president.
Thanks dbshitters.
Ah, but you're forgetting that something something socialism.
…..and what did they learn? That’s right, nothing.
What do you want🤷♂️
They are retarded deplorables. Unredeemable.
I didn't vote for trump, but I might have if I knew that he would make gas prices higher than $100/gallon permanently.
We can't afford the cost of low gas prices.
Trump is a radical Moaist environmental terrorist. Change my mind.
Also cares about improving working conditions for the people Mexico, apparently.
And improving the energy independence of the Cuban people
Exactly one Iran war cheaper
Tarrifs, corruption, ICE funding, concentration camps, protest response, extra assassination attempts, remodeling the white house every six months, the ballroom, setting up adversarial trade relations with most of the world, lawsuits (sometimes against himself in order to extract money from the government), Trump has spent more than any other president and has greatly increased the debt ceiling.
Some Trump supporters believe in objective reality? Well, that’s a start.
All of them have been lied to for decades. Some are beginning to see it.
Lots of things would be cheaper.
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Well, duh.
Ah doi
Theres a name I havent heard in years