This one is for all the @redstateinsurgents@a.gup.pe
I work in a gas station, there is a MAGA regular who is constantly complaining about how broke she is, she buys 2 packs of unfiltered camels a day, that’s $14.60 a pack, over $800 a month just for cigarettes cause she buys the most expensive packs in the store.
at those prices meth is cheaper.
I personally have pity for rank and file Republican voters.
They were simply easy marks our education system intentionally failed to teach critical thinking and reason to because obedient laborers don’t need that, and were then spoonfed sensationalist lies that appealed to their fears and anxieties, the easiest avenues for indoctrination, for the last half century under the guise of being “news” for the private profit of private shareholders and to turn them into useful idiot dependable votes for those same private shareholders to effectively capture their regulators and government that was once meant to protect us from them.
As just one in an ocean of examples, Fox “News” has been telling these poor sad bastards that “man made climate change is a hoax for scientists to sell books!”
So what you’re saying is, you don’t hate the fools, you pity them.
Okay the 70k lifted truck is valid. But I don’t think maga people are out there buying 100k watches
Recently Trump was selling $100K gold watches; I’m assuming it was mostly maga folks who bought them
It was almost certainly a way to hide “donations” (bribes), from multimillionaires and billionaires, not random maga poor people
Not the people that can’t afford gas, what the post is about. They don’t have 100k to spend on a watch.
Yeah but they can’t afford gas while Trump is selling expensive jewelry lol
So, as long as I’ve been on lemmy, I may have come across maybe 2 certified Trump supporters, yet… there are 36 downvotes on this post.
I wonder who the 34 other cowards are that refuse to stand and be counted. Also, I wonder how many of the bad-faith both-sides “leftists” we all know and love are amongst them.
Its the people who have lift kits and like beer and cigarettes. I need to get a lift kit but that has to do with the fact that some roads in my area are somehow worse than dirt roads and off roading.
Hey now, beer and cigarettes are necessities.
And all this with the dirt cheap gas prices in the US. In comparison to Europe, gas in the US is nearly free…
Sorry to hijack your comment, but seeing that “my grandchildren are in my daughters’ ovaries post” right above this one and your comment made me wonder:
Why is gas so damn cheap in the US while saying “healthcare is expensive” is a giant understatement.
Compared with Europe, where gas prices are regulated (and gas stations still seem to be doing just fine to the point that new ones keep popping up around where I live at an astounding rate) while it’s the healthcare that is subsidised and made availiable to all.
How come? Why aren’t gas companies in the US be as greedy as hospitals and pharma there? Why aren’t European gas stations few and far between, continuing to barely hold on, fail and ultimately closeleaving Europe gasless?
As an American: because gas has to compete. You can’t ask to go to the cheap hospital, they don’t even usually tell you the price before administering medicine. So hospitals charge what they’d like and that’s that. Gas prices are highly competitive and we’re one of the world’s primary oil producers and refiners. Additionally the Biden administration has been using our strategic oil reserves to stabilize gas prices.
I saw a lady apolozing to Trump for not donating because she had to pay her medical bills and was living in disability. So she was basically giving her disability check to Trump every month. 😖
If you’d see that in a movie it would be a weird comedy where someone’s head spins around 360° for no reason so the viewer doesn’t know anymore what to believe and what not.
Someone should rerun the Jerry Falwell ad with Trump on the headline
Even if you drive a small car being forced to pay about 15% of your total income just to get to work is still fucking expensive. And no, public transport or bike isnt a suitable option for everyone.
And no, public transport or bike isnt a suitable option for everyone.
So we need to build infrastructure for it. And more electric cars charged with greener fuel sources.
There’s only so much you can do with infrastructure to make up for the fact that most people want (for multiple good reasons) to live in suburbs.
IMHO we also need to clamp down HARD on landlords/HOAs. A big part of the reason I don’t want to live in an apartment/condo is that there’s a long list of rules I have to strictly obey. No political signs, no letting my cats outside, no string lights outside of Christmas season… Ridiculous.
" . . . and an RV and a garage full of boats and jet skis."
Oil Industry Guy When Gas Prices Go Up: “Oh no! It costs so much money to drive my big truck and cool my enormous house and afford business class airplane tickets and now I can’t afford my Carnival Cruise to Florida! This is the fault of the Evil Communist Green Party Democrats! Only Republicans can fix it!”
Oil Industry Guy When Gas Prices Go Down: “Oh shit! Oh fuck! I’m unemployed, broke, foreclosed on, and drowning in debt! This is the fault of the Evil Communist Green Party Democrats! Only Republicans can fix it!”
Oil Industry Guy When It’s Time To Form A Union: “Fuck you, you fucking socialists. I don’t need the government to do anything for me. I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps!”
But during all those scenarios…RECORD PROFITS FOR OIL INDUSTRY
Amazing how that happens seemingly no matter what.
But they already have plenty of gas.
My neighbor bought a new 64K truck (I know because he constantly mentions the cost) had a lift kit installed for 15K (I know because he constantly mentions the cost) has four kids who are bullies (I know because I see and hear them), and constantly complains about gas prices and property taxes, despite the fact that he is one of two houses in the neighborhood with kids.
Most of property taxes go to fund the public schools, which his children attend. Basically the neighborhood is subsidizing his children’s education, but he thinks he deserves to pay less in taxes. I explained this, and he told me I was full of shit, but I think he knew I was right, because he started revving his engine early in the morning the day after that and did it for like two weeks.
Hilariously, he stopped doing it not because I complained – I’m up early anyway – but because his wife came out in pajamas and started screaming at him for waking her up. Quite the metaphor for Republicanism.
I gotta get out of this neighborhood.
But you are so close to the action! Set up a camera and make a documentary!
Gas is cheaper right now than it has been in years
It was the cheapest I had seen since 2021 last week for like 36 hours and then overnight jumped up 12%.
It always goes down slowly over a three week period and then hits a low for 1 day and then goes up 10% or more overnight.
Problem is, when gas is at a low price, everyone wants to fill up their tanks thus increasing the demand. And obviously gas stations and gas companies are greedy people, so they won‘t lower the prices again until it starts hurting their turnover.
Personally I don’t believe that’s the case. Most people fill up when they need to fill up not because it reached a magic price. It’s not like most people have a choice and can say they aren’t going to drive to work this week because gas needs to drop a few more cents before they go fill up.
It’s not like most people have a choice and can say they aren’t going to drive to work this week because gas needs to drop a few more cents before they go fill up.
That’s true, however if your tank is half full and you see a damn low price most people will absolutely go and fill it up before it goes up again.
Man. I stopped on the side of the road the other day to help a guy with a “need gas” sign. I’m not exactly well off myself, but I figured I could give him a ride. “I ain’t got no cash, but thanks for stopping!” Dude’s driving a pristine pavement princess. Priorities, man…
Crazy. Plenty of people on the corners panhandling in my town, but none of them can afford rent much less a gas guzzling truck.
That’s why I stopped, primarily. I don’t have a lot to give, but I can give some time, so I figured I’d help out how I could. Knowing it’s probably just a ploy for money is annoying, especially considering all of the other panhandlers around that do actually need help.
Surely the immigrants are to blame?? Or the gay kids! Yes, they did this.
Surely the immigrants are to blame??
The Immigrants:
$100k watches? I have seen many instances of the pickup truck driving stereotype but I’ve never seen any of them wearing any sort of watch, let alone an expensive one. Is this specific to some country?
It’s a reference to the 100k Trump watch. So still specific to the US
Oh okay that makes sense. I hope we see a story about some tool like that buying a shitty $100k Trump watch and getting their comeuppance. This is definitely someone who would complain about gas prices because there’s no way they could afford a watch like that without feeling hardship.
They do feel hardship, but there are quite a few people that see donating to trump and trump merch as necessities (and not all of them are Americans).
People who like to be flashy with their money do buy expensive watches, but I only see them in the hundred TO thousand range. Anyone flashing a hundred-thousand dollar watch is out of their mind complaining about fuel prices.
The rest of the meme tracks in suburban Kentucky.
$100-1000 watches are not being flashy with their money. Almost everyone I see with a watch has a watch in that range. Flashy watches are usually 2K absolute minimum. Apple watches are like 300-700 and they’re everywhere.
I had a friend who was REALLY into watches. He had a 7K watch he loved to show off, and he would research watches literally every day and knew tons about them. Walking around with him was wild because we would walk by some random dude in a tshirt and he would suddenly lean over and whisper “he’s wearing a Goobly-Gluk Goober FX367, that’s a 25K watch!”
Really expensive watches often don’t look it. Look up a Patek Phillipe Nautilus. 1.5M. Looks (to me) like a casio or something.
I don’t care about watches at all.
My bad, I was thinking hundreds to thousands.
I wasn’t thinking about smart watches, but I haven’t been sold on them yet.
In my mind, the $100k watch sterotype fits more with one of those pimped out Hummers than a $70k pickup truck.
I doubt those guys complain about fuel prices either.
