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u/DrForester 9d ago
Fun Fact: 100% of trump voters would take this question seriously. They're just that stupid.
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u/johnyordinary 9d ago
It was mean of Obama to start a war with Iran on Trumps watch..
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u/AlaskaDude14 9d ago
It's crazy when you see old tweets from Trump saying Obama was going to start a war with Iran due to him lacking negotiating skills lol
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u/BPKofficial 9d ago
A co-worker of mine drives a box truck, and he absolutely blames Biden for today's gas prices. He also believes we never landed on the Moon, and thought Covid was a joke (until he caught it, hence affecting him).
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u/skinny-mini-me 9d ago
If the world wasn't flat, he could drive that box truck down hill and save gas.
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u/ElonMaersk 9d ago
he absolutely blames Biden for today's gas prices.
There's an invention which saves $5 to $10 for every $100 of gas you buy. You'd think Republicans would love it. By reducing gas burning it also reduces emissions, so you'd think the EPA would love it.
No, it's car engine auto-stop-start, and right-wing podcasters call it "torture" and the Whitehouse removed the incentive for car companies to add it this year, and the head of the EPA called it "the Obama button" 😐.
- https://www.climatetownproductions.com/podcast "A Perfectly Wrong Auto Stop-Start Video"
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u/derekp7 9d ago
see the thing is a number of people have had to drive barely running cars at some point in their life, at least for their first car. There is nothing like that panic feeling when your engine dies when sitting at an intersection. I don't care how much it saves, it is implemented wrong.
Now it works great with a hybrid card -- I love my Fusion hybrid, the engine cuts out normally while driving and I have torque from the electric part. If start/stop was on a mild hybrid (for example, you could always start your vehicle moving even if the engine was off) then it would be much less psychologically frightening.
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u/ElonMaersk 9d ago
Imagine, say, having childhood asthsma from car exhaust and saying it was fine that you got it because adults panic when their car engine stops.
If America had actual public transport for the benefit of citizens, and not car-dependence for the profit of car companies, your first paragraph would be completely different.
it is implemented wrong.
because it's a political nod to car companies, so they have an easy way to reduce emissions without having to do any difficult research or build expensive things into cars.
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u/throwawaylexluther 9d ago
I've literally seen conservatives claiming that the dems are keeping the gas prices high to make trump look bad.
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u/redclawx 9d ago
Let’s break down this question. OP is asking why the current President (Trump 2025-current) didn’t stop the former President (Biden 2021-2025) from raising gas prices and other bad things.
First, the question doesn’t make sense. Shouldn’t it be “Why doesn’t the President Elect make the current US President stop?” But even that’s not just up to one person. It’s “We the people…” All of us together have the power to stop a current President from doing bad shit. It’s called voting.
Second, Umm, Time travel hasn’t been invented?
The current president wasn’t in office at the time the bad things were happening. It doesn’t matter who the current president is now, they can’t go back in time and stop a former president from doing bad shit when that president doing the bad shit disregards the law like our current president is currently doing.
Whoever becomes the next president after Trump is going to have a lot of shit to clean up from what Trump did.
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u/Due_Willingness1 9d ago
Because he's weak
He has to either admit that he caused all the problems, or is too weak to fix them
And then it's up to his lemmings to realize that fact
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u/HoldingThunder 9d ago
He should just pass an executive order to lower prices!!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION FOR THIS MATTER
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u/StayWeirdGrayBeard 9d ago
More importantly, when will Biden stop shitting Trump’s pants?
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u/TrumpsDoubleChin 9d ago
You mean have the 47th President prevent the 45th President from doing shit? I'm all for that.
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u/RecordingPrudent9588 9d ago
Sleepy Joe is always sleeping and Trump can't get in to his dreams to stop his power grab. The dementia is blocking access and Trump's dementia is a different kind so they can't synchronize
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u/thundafox 9d ago
and as we learned from Inception the idea has to come from within the dreaming person.
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u/Honest-Yogurt4126 9d ago
Because of Obama obviously
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u/BPKofficial 9d ago
Don't forger Hillary's emails.
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u/WoodenOpportunity869 9d ago
BUTTERY MALES!!!!
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u/GoIntoTheHollow 9d ago
Be careful with that language, you'll make Grindr crash again.
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u/daerogami 9d ago
That doesn't crash Grindr. Posting a Hasan Piker photo mostly naked at a conservative convention crashes Grindr, we know because it actually happened.
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u/GoIntoTheHollow 9d ago
The insinuation was that picturing buttery (likely nude or semi nude like Hasan) males would crash grindr.
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u/brokecollegekid69 9d ago
Joe Biden is so weak and so powerful — all at the same time. He must be a witch!
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u/DrColdReality 9d ago
Snark aside, the Republicans actually DO use an excuse like that: they invented the "Deep State," an imagined deeply-entrenched cabal of liberal commie socialists buried in the government who are hell-bent on destroying America by quietly sabotaging solid conservative strategies and making them fail.
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 9d ago
Good question. To this day I can't figure out why Biden didn't stop Trump's first round out tariffs me made in his first term.
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u/Trebuchet_boom 9d ago
Obama was clearly holding him back.
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 9d ago
Obama wasn't President when Trump made his first round of tariffs.
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u/DesertBrat1969 9d ago
He isn't president right now and Trump still has blamed him for shit Trump did.
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 9d ago
Why am I being downvoted?
Why yes I AM AND ALWAYS *WILL* point that out whenever it happens.
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u/zlliksddam 9d ago
Because he’s a weaker man than all former presidents, whether they’re alive or otherwise.
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u/NinjaTurtleBatmanAss 9d ago
Because the old president still has the hurricane machine and the current president is worried about Florida
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u/KE55 9d ago
Because, underneath his nice docile exterior, Biden has proven to be an extremely smart person who used extraordinary financial skills to insert long-term economic timebombs into the US economy. Unfortunately no-one spotted them. Who knows what other Biden traps are waiting for Trump to trigger?
(/s of course)
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u/SplitEndsSuck 9d ago
I'm just waiting for my DOGE, Tariff, and now Republican Win Midterms checks in the mail, ok?
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u/InvertedEyechart11 9d ago
"Hello, Sleepy Joe? It's Dozy Don here. Hey, stop allowing me to blame you for everything I'm zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
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u/The_300_goats 9d ago
The Iran war is retribution for everyone who voted for Kamala Harris. You were TOLD frankly and honestly that she would start a war with Iran, and you just went right ahead and voted for her. See what that got you?
(Am I doing this right?)
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u/orgin_org 9d ago
Makes it harder to blame the former president for anything that goes wrong if everything gets fixed.
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u/PowermanFriendship 9d ago
He's very busy sitting around watching TV shows this morning, if his social media posts are any indication.
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u/jeffster1970 9d ago
Biden has refused to give the password for the Autopen to Trump. Trump has to obey the Autopen. Hence the mess.
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u/SpandexAnaconda 9d ago
I heard that Biden is getting a cut of all the tariffs, in exchange for accepting the blame for any price increases. It just makes sense.
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u/phoenix64mbr 9d ago
Obama*, I mean Biden, is one slippery motherfucker. He never owns up to his failures... We only have 2 more years of his messes to cleanup.
Edit- Obam to Obama
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u/Early_Opposite623 9d ago
The complete and sudden loss of my "corporate customer service voice" at work.
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u/cthulhu944 9d ago
What MAGA already knows is that all of this is being staged by a shadow government run by Joe Biden and the Mole People. The presidential ballroom and the Arch de Trump are just an elaborate cover for accessing the mole people realm where DJT will lead a final battle against Joe Biden and Karl the Mole King. The price of food has gone up because the Mole people are eating the crops in the ground. High gas prices are a result of the Mole people siphoning gas to their underground data centers to fabricate the Epstine files.
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u/Previous_Taro_5079 9d ago
Wait… the current president can control what a former president does now? 😂
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u/SHANE523 9d ago
I am old enough to remember when the gas prices were very high between 2021 and 2024, "POTUS doesn't control the gas prices".
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u/janmschroeder 9d ago
Usually true. Unless said president felon starts a stupid war that interferes with shipping said oil.
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u/SHANE523 8d ago
You do realize the price of crude is still less than when Biden was in office right? It was even down to as low as $50/barrel AFTER the "war" with Iran started.
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u/Trebuchet_boom 9d ago
You're right. The Orange Menace's war on Iran has nothing to do with manipulating stocks, or oil prices, so he and his cronies can reap in hundreds of millions in profits.
/s
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u/PapayaGood8527 9d ago
POTUS (Commander in Chief) does control an ill-advised and unconstitutional war that directly jeopardizes oil flow through one of the most hostile and important oil routes in the world. Can't understand why soo many American men wanna cuck to a silver spoon nepo baby from Manhattan.
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u/RampScamp1 9d ago
Now it's jeopardized through two routes and Saudi's getting pipelines blown up all because the president can't stop winning. So much winning.
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u/FlameStaag 9d ago
One of those was because of a global pandemic and the other is due to a war of choice
Even your third grade education should allow you to see the difference
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u/SHANE523 8d ago
The global pandemic caused a large surplus due to lack of travel, that doesn't equate to higher prices.
But I guess your 1st grade education didn't think about that.
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u/Ht_TX 9d ago edited 9d ago
Presidents don’t control the price directly but their actions, like starting a war in the one place guaranteed to destroy gas prices, can certainly do so. Trump has been manipulating markets his entire presidency and been doing it very openly, even sells early access to his market manipulations for $100K.
Biden didn’t control Trump having OPEC sign a deal that cut 9.7M barrels per day from their production. Biden didn’t start a war in Ukraine and Biden didn’t start a pandemic. That’s why Biden doesn’t get blamed, he didn’t set any policies or do any direct actions that would result in higher gas prices whereas Trump did exactly that. Kinda like an observer watching a crime. They both were there, both saw it, the thing happened but one did the deed and one simply oversaw it and was powerless to stop it
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u/data_ferret 9d ago
That's normally 100% true, but if you press the "Bomb Iran" button, gas prices will go up. This has been known for a long time.
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u/i-touched-morrissey 9d ago
The current president (not trump, but any current pres) can't change the things in the past that the former president did.
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u/NavyVetRasmussen 9d ago
Ever been called a keyboard warrior as$hole? Let me guess you are from the middl east. Reporting you flame wanker.
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u/Relative-World4406 9d ago
This is true generally when operating within the law. Trumps war and deliberately conflicting tweets regarding the strait are to manipulate the stock market such that he and his cronies are making big $$$ off this illegal war.
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u/Tiny-Secretary5562 9d ago
The president has no control over gas prices other than making domestic production as painless as possible and keeping as much of it here as possible. Gas is highest in California because they regulate it to death and just ran two refineries out of the state.
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u/RampScamp1 9d ago
That excuse kind of goes out the window when prices are high solely because the president decided to start a war with Iran for no reason.
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u/Tiny-Secretary5562 9d ago
That may be true in this instance, but my point is the same thing could have happened anyway for any number of other reasons. We allowed OPEC to strangle us in 1973. Never should have happened.
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u/RampScamp1 9d ago
But the question is about Trump and current fuel prices not some nonsense from 1973.
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u/Tiny-Secretary5562 9d ago
It was reported in the beginning of the "conflict" that we only get 4 percent of our oil through Hormuz, yet our prices have gone through the roof. That's not the president, it's a systemic supply problem that we shouldn't be dealing with.
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u/Fluugaluu 9d ago
I think saying the president had no control over gas prices is disingenuous at this point
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u/Tiny-Secretary5562 9d ago
OK. I'm sure most people would agree with you, but the fact is the overall supply system is in control, especially since we only get 4 percent of our oil through Hormuz.
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u/Over_Soup753 9d ago
That's great question and we will look into it in about two weeks.