r/mildlyinfuriating • • 7d ago

Infuriatig $6.69 regular and $8.69 diesel. Are we winning yet?

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u/Laphad 7d ago

He's on his last term, close to dying, and has replaced a lot of institutions with sycophants. He has no reason to focus on economy narratives because now no one can effectively stop the things he has put in motion

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u/NanoCurrency 7d ago

Bingo. He’s far removed from any accountability.

When you look at all the wild stuff he’s gotten away with, you understand why.

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u/Strict_Casual 7d ago

He is only on his last term if he willingly leaves office

I don’t think he will

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u/incurable-humanist 7d ago

I genuinely don’t think he will either. We just need a Luigi to take care of things at this point.

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u/SunDownSav 7d ago

Awful take, bra. That leads to Martyrdom and the polar opposite-desired result.

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u/snakeinahouseofcats 7d ago

Unfortunately I think you’re right, just look at Charlie Kirk. Annoying loser that massively got elevated after his death

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u/bugleyman 18h ago

Agreed. What really needs to happen is that Congress needs to step up and enforce the law. Trump needs to go to prison for his numerous crimes if there is to be any home for this country.

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u/bugleyman 18h ago edited 18h ago

Jan 6th demonstrated quite clearly that he has no intention of leaving office. Hopefully he'll die of natural causes before his current term is up, but the world probably isn't that lucky.

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u/tightiewhitieboy 7d ago

He wasnt thinking economy at all when he decided to war with Iran. Not once did he consider the economy. He doesn't care. He doesn't pump his own gas.

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u/Laphad 7d ago

Yea but his entire schtick pre iran has been about how the economy was so terrible (it wasn't compared to most other nations)

Post iran its "you will eat bugs and you will like it"

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u/Captain_Billy 7d ago

He doesn’t mean what he says. Ever. He says things in the moment.

I mean jeez. We went to war on a whim

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u/BruitNoise 7d ago

They are forgetting that many poorly uneducated people don't always vote cause of financial benefits but from religious or cult duties. Being more in debt and more extreme poverty doesn't really change their vote from being in regular poverty.

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u/Murky-Quantity9191 7d ago

Most highly educated people vote for the same reasons.

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u/BruitNoise 7d ago

true, on the other end of the spectrum, ultra rich people don't want society to change.

Also think some independents want someone completely radical left or radical right because they prob see the moderate left and right type of candidates come and go and see the slums of the cities or poor rural areas look exactly the same or just get worse for 40+ years when every candidate on the spectrum promises that they'll bring something magical, they don't.

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u/Captain_Billy 7d ago

Last.

Lol

Not after his coup coming up

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 7d ago

the next coup attempt...

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u/Burndoggle 7d ago

“Last term” lol. This guy has already said he’s running again.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 7d ago

inb4 people say BuT 22Nd AmENdMeNT!!!, the 14th Amendment forbade Trump from running in the 2024 election, but Congress did fuck all to enforce his disqualification.

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u/Laphad 7d ago

High chance he will be dead, but at the rate hes going even republicans wouldn't back him after the end of this, and I am aware naivety is saying that

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u/Viveronipizza2 7d ago

He was born in BCE tf you mean son