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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
