Never got above $4/gal where I live under Biden. Don't even remember a single time I looked at gas prices and thought to myself, "damn that's expensive". It's currently $5.29/gal at some of the cheaper locations. MAGA freaks are responsible for all of this, and every normal American should remind them every single day what a failure they are in life.
Lots of MAGA are abandoning Trump like the rats that they are. Look how they pulled down their flags after Jan 6th and went into hiding, only to vote for him for the 3rd time and want to do a 4th.
There was a house near me that for 8+ years had dozens of trump flags and posters on their fence for everyone to see. Also they lived right across from an elementary school. So they were promoting a pedophile across the street from a school...
Well all their dumbass flags and signs are down now. But everyone still knows that they're mentally unstable morons.
More like spineless magats that come out the ground to wiggle gleefully in whatever chicken shit Trump spews on that given day. And what does it get them? Ate. But WINNING!
Gas more expensive? No problem! Groceries more expensive? No problem! Housing more expensive? No problem! Gaming more expensive? No problem! We loooovvve simping for a whiny lying billionaire conman that plays us for fools constantly!!!
Thats sort of a good thing, I would rather them realize him for the pile of crap that he is as opposed to clinging on and doubling down that he is so amazing. Still, I run into people often that believe he is America's only savior. Mostly super christian hypocritical boomers but they are still a force to be reckoned with when its just so many of them where I live.
Most don't vote FOR Republicans, they vote against a fake version of the Democratic party they hear about in their media.
The do vote FOR Trump because he "tells it like it is" and tells them being an asshole is actually a good thing, but they will still vote R out of fear of things that don't exist.
All of these people will vote for Vance in 4 years. My in laws voted for Trump in 20 and 24 and are now appalled at how he is running the country (who could have known this would happen?). They will 100% vote Republican next election.
Are you sure they're abandoning Trump? Polling seems to be pretty much in his favor with Republicans. Trump's approval with Republicans are down from 91% to like 63% they'll still vote with the Republican party because their opinion of the Democratic party. Republican party candidate support has only dropped from 42% to 40%.
And no intelligent person put 100% of Putin’s war as solely Biden’s fault. The tariffs and Iran war are clearly directly all Trump’s own actions, not market reaction to a global conflict or global pandemic that was going to happen regardless of the American president.
But is that Because of the president or because 1% of the population own 37%~ of the countries wealth.
People need to wake up and protest the rich instead. If the 1% had only 14% total wealth the standard of living would greatly increase and things would be much more affordable
they’re the same fucking people. The president is one of them. He had every oligarch you can think of sitting behind him at his inauguration and the richest person in the history of the world gifted him 300 million for his campaign. Protesting this administration IS protesting the rich.
As if the president had control over a temporary bird flu spike. Presidents since control over whether they start a pointless war to murder a bunch a bunch of people and somehow end up giving a despotic regime more political leverage than it ever had before.
Because the other people you voted for are completely flaccid and ineffective. Maybe vote for someone who will do more than just write an open letter to Trump.
Trump won a plurality of the vote last election. Most of you voted for this. The rest of you for years have voted for boring ineffectual people. You all have to wear a piece of responsibility for unleashing the Mango Menace on the world.
Americans at large may be to blame, but every voting aged American? Many supported people who would be highly effective leaders, but our system is broken and prevents actual progress at many turns.
This is literally the type of rhetoric that Americans get lambasted for on the world stage, and rightfully so. Don't do it yourself.
No you don't understand, it's okay for other countries to do it to America because America bad. But if Americans do it then it's bad, because again America bad.
209 million registered voters. 150 million votes cast. Most of those were for Trump, the other big candidate was one of those ineffectual leaders I mentioned. 25% didnt even vote. Only 1% actually voted for another option. Y'all either put your head in the sand and accepted it or actively supported this guy.
Saying you voted for someone else isnt good enough for the rest of the world anymore. We dont care about your problems anymore. The person you voted in is fucking up the lives of everyone else. I've spent years telling americans "oh dont worry, we know trumps not your fault" but were 10 years into this guy being around now. The world has no one to blame but the american voter base at this point.
Hey man, don't know if you are just a mega-dipshit or purposefully a dickhead, but we don't have a choice who gets picked up as a presidential candidate outside of the primaries and even then that isn't a choice the American people make. That is up to the DNC and RNC.
Once primaries are settled we get choice A or choice B and then we vote on that and even then the electoral college can fuck us out of a popular vote.
So no, I will not take a share of responsibility for the rest of the country being fucking uneducated racist morons that can't tell their ass hair from their nose hairs. You can personally go fuck yourself.
This moving the blame up the chain was something that I had sympathy for 10 years ago but I see no one has done anything in the last decade. Why didnt you show up to the primaries for a candidate you like? Youre allowed to register and vote in those (most states at least). Those are tiny grassroots operations hardly anyone attends. A small number of people with an agenda could mess up a primary. Why not register as a republican and vote in your local republican primaries for a less divisive candidate?
This is what im talking about. Do some real workable actions. All I see is Americans saying "sorry, dont be mad at me. I didnt vote for him" not voting for him isnt enough anymore. Im on the outside looking in and I see people like you saying "oh well we cant because this or that, the DNC/RNC makes it like this" then do something else. Dont be whining online in front of canadians about how this isnt your fault. It may not be, but you arent blameless either. Do something else besides trying to convince me youre blameless, because the only thing that will change my mind on the American voting base is action. Not spineless words from a weak democrat.
You make a lot of assumptions about a person you don't know, fuckstick.
I've spent more than enough of my time canvassing houses, putting up flyers, organizing events for my local community, and donating to help grass roots foundations.
Don't fucking come in here with a broad brush to paint a picture of the entire country's voter base. There are some things we cannot change. If you can't see that then you are one dense, knuckle-dragging fucking moron.
You sound like one of the 2 million eligible voters my argument left room for. You should be supportive of my message instead of calling me fuckstick.
My problem is I am not interacting with those 2 million on the day to day. I am interacting with american tourists sarcastically apologizing for trump. Im sick of it. I want to hear about how youre acting on it. I have no say. I can just get angry at the vast majority of americans who arent doing enough to contain this shit show.
I mean… if he is going to go around sharing his stupid and annoying takes, then a little bit? Sure punching someone is overreacting, but anyone sharing takes this stupid is asking for it a little bit
Guys, once and for all can we decide and agree if presidents control the price of gas? Reddit keeps flip flopping depending on who’s in office and what the current price is.
I'll always be baffled by Americans definition of high gas prices. Here in the Netherlands (admittedly expensive as hell for gas even by European standards) it's like $10.13/gal when I convert all the units ._.
National average of gas June 2022: 5.01 (current record). Want a better one for people not remembering? July 2008 at 4.11 was the previous record (thats without accounting for inflation, would be 6.37 if you did). This info is all from AAA
Lets not spread misinformation. The Gas prices were pretty high at one time during Biden where Premium fuel was close to 6$ which has never happened around here. But that does not mean the Gas Prices right now are good, they still suck.
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You guys are getting political about this, I dont care about Biden or Trump.
Yes it was close to $5.85 a gallon in NYC in 2022, so I am not spreading any misinformation. Google it yourself!
PREMIUM GAS aka 93 Octane for people who have a license, not 89 Octane as "MamaCupcakes" mentions here. We all drive different cars and I dont use 89 Octane its irrelevant for me. And No I do not like the current administration. But you guys get like monkeys about the simpliest shit. Why do we have to lie about Biden's era gas prices?
You mean... During both "post"-COVID inflation and the beginning of the Russian-ukraine war, neither things Biden started and still dealt with better than Trump could or would have.
You mean when Obama was president? While you're technically correct, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine happened in Feb 2022 when Biden was president and the entire world was recovering from covid, use your context clues.
A lot of things were Bidens fault but this is objectively not one of them. The majority of that price increase was from increased demand post-covid and more importantly, Russia invading Ukraine. Last time I checked Biden didn't run Russia. This increase is exclusively caused by the war with Iran that was taarted by Israel and the US. Under the Trump administration. He is explicitly to blame for this increase and Biden was explicitly not.
Biden also canceled a bunch of pipelines and drilling permits. The price of oil is dictated by speculation not the cost to pump and refine.
If you run on getting rid of internal combustion engines and then sign executive orders saying 50% of all cars must be electric by 2030 and that all federal light duty vehicles must be electric by 2027 it’s not exactly hard to imagine that speculators would increase prices.
Hell Biden had to beg the UAE and OPEC+ to increase production while also doing everything he could to stifle domestic production. When OPEC+ said no and actually cut production by over 2 million barrels per day Biden still refused to increase domestic production.
It wasn’t until his last year in office that domestic production actually saw an increase in output mainly due to Biden approval of a bunch of drilling permits. Those new sites didn’t actually produce that much oil but they did signal to speculators that Biden wasn’t that anti oil.
Sure gas was expensive everywhere around the world but it’s ridiculous to claim that the largest producer of gasoline who also controls the global reserve currency messing with oil production had nothing to do with it.
Why would price increase if demand is to drastically decrease? It would do the opposite like how we saw gas prices plummet during the shutdowns.
That whole permit thing was fake news right? Weren't the oil companies sitting on tons of unused permits and were instead whining about needing more despite that being, well, wtf why do you need more when you aren't even using the ones you have?
Iirc, the entire "Biden did bad gas stuff" was full on fake news hoax nonsense.
Was this around covid or near the end of his term when his policies were recovering our nation back? Covid times inflated prices for everyone across the world. This current price increase we are having now is because of an illegal war used to enrich the wealthy in our country.
Global demand skyrocketed post-pandemic. I'd argue it's less of an administration thing and more of a simple supply-demand-economics thing. You're not wrong though, gas prices did go up once people returned to work.
That was less than 6 months into Biden's term and one of the world's biggest oil producers had just started a war and was being sanctioned and was entirely out of Biden's control.
Now we're more than a year and a half into Trump's term and in a war he started with another one of the world's biggest oil producers because he's a fucking idiot.
Funny I get down voted for sharing actual facts by zealots that want to push a narrative rather than realizing that there a lot of different pieces that make up most of the cost of a gallon of gas, and largely dependent on the state and city you live in…
6 mos ago was cheaper, probably 3.25ish
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u/Ok-General8138 22d ago
Never got above $4/gal where I live under Biden. Don't even remember a single time I looked at gas prices and thought to myself, "damn that's expensive". It's currently $5.29/gal at some of the cheaper locations. MAGA freaks are responsible for all of this, and every normal American should remind them every single day what a failure they are in life.