Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy.
He had voted for President Donald Trump in the last election. He believed Trump had strengthened the economy in his first term, and he wanted more of that.
“I thought that he was going to bring some of those things back,” said Castillo, a 43-year-old factory worker. And now? “He said he was going to bring gas down, but the war in Iran is now making everything worse.”
It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.
Every single Republican that has been in office since I was born has started a war in the middle east. Every. Single. One. Anyone who didn’t see this coming is just a fucking moron.
Every single republican president in my lifetime has left office to a recession. Yet the average person is so brainwashed by corporate media that almost everybody thinks that conservatives are good for the economy.
The bottom line is they hate the United States and the Constitution. If they had their way back in the 1700’s we’d still be paying taxes to the king of England. I like to remind them that during the revolution the Founding Fathers would have been called radical left lunatics by the conservatives of the day.
Yet the average person is so brainwashed by corporate media that almost everybody thinks that conservatives are good for the economy.
That’s the one that blows my mind. I’ll be talking to reactionary centrists (that are probably voting Republican at least sometimes) and they will often concede a lot, but then say something like, “yeah, but at least Republicans know how to run an economy”?
It’s like…in what fucking universe? They like to point to Covid as somehow bringing it all down for poor PEDOnald, but cannot really show how he was remarkably better than the economy under Obama prior to Covid? Also, they cannot really point to what policy of Biden’s was so bad for the economy?
Hmm yes the Americans are made of American.
I wish Americans would show more horror at the Iranian schoolgirls that we killed last week. But then again, republicans lack empathy as a rule. It’s too much to ask for these people to care about those dead kids, or the dead kids the Trump raped and murdered to hide the evidence. Or the thousands upon thousands of dead kids Trump killed by cutting USAID. That’s all too abstract. Prices at the pump, that’s what does it.
We need to completely rebuild our society and values system.
Nobody seems to care about the MILLION PEOPLE who died in the first two months after cutting off USaid, I don’t really expect our species to care about anything anymore.
I will still fight for a better future and good outcomes, but I’ve seen just how dark and selfish our world is, and has always been, and I have no choice but to swallow the despair that we’re further from some kind of Star Trek utopia as we are from the extinction of the dinosaurs.
United my ass. I want nothing to do with them.
Yep. The minute I hear some redcap grumble about gas prices, I’ll ask why they voted for it, then.
Francisco Castillo, you are a fucking idiot.
I live in rural Nevada the price of gas before the war was $2.66. As of today it’s $3.15. Most people living here blame trans athletes and Biden…
Ah, my friend the leopard. Here for more face? Would you like fries with that order or can I interest you in the soup of the day?
Unite over gas prices until we have to divide again over pedophilia.
Conservatives support it. The rest of us don’t.
unfortunately ‘the rest of you’ is only a third of the country
You are correct.
The US population is 340m, 266m are of voting age citizens. DJT got 77m votes. Kamala got 75m. Another 74m didn’t think it was important enough to show up. Russia even dumped a ton of money into the Green party along with GOP donors and was only able to siphon 600k Dem votes away to Stein.
There are just as many people who voted for fascism as there are who don’t care if a fascist gets put in charge. Only a third of the population was willing to do the bare minimum and just show up to vote. And many of they still shower Trump’s financial supporters with money. Starlink, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Meta,Google, Dell… et cetera.
Sad state of affairs.
Posing in front of a gas guzzler whining about the high price of gas. Maybe if the US mercenaries bomb and kill more people the price will hopefully go down!
Interesting development this morning. My supervisor isn’t here. He drives a big diesel truck ~40 miles/65 km to work. The truck allegedly gets 22 mpg. Diesel is $5 per gallon now. A little bit of math tells me it’s about $20 just to drive to work and back each day, not counting any tolls.
I’m sure it’s nothing.
Hey, if you voted for PEDOnald, I don’t want to hear any complaining.
If you voted for the pedophile I don’t want to hear anything from you at all.
Gas is strangely cheap in my (deeeeep red) state as of this morning. It went up to $2.99 when the war started, but has held steady. That can’t last, and people here are really going to struggle to afford gas if it gets over $4 per gallon. It will be interesting to see if people get priced out of commuting.
