I love vague threats like “big problems” or “consequences”
The fine art of the deal. The subtle maneuvering behind the scenes, the long term strategic thinking, the focus on the good of the country, the deft handling of challenges along the way. See the master do his work.
Yeah! He might do a thing?!
Maybe bleat about it. Maybe start another fight somewhere. Maybe he will send out goons to the stations.
Yeah, cmon!
I just need to subsidize demand, I swear bro just one more subsidy man
The retailers? Wouldn’t that be the gas stations? Is he targeting the small business / franchisee while giving the oil companies a free pass?
First rule of being a bully is always prey on the weak, not the strong.
The big oil companies already laughed in his face and told him ‘shut your stupid mouth or we’ll use our lobbyists to get you impeached’.
The gas stations make no money on gas. Gas just brings in customers for the delicious hotdogs.
Don’t forget the cigarettes and booze.
I’m confused why he cares about california, sounds like them threatening to not pay taxes could fuck his whole presidency
So is he pro-free-market or not? Inquiring minds and all…
He’s pro-Trump, and will do whatever it takes for Trump to win bigly.
And THAT is what it’s all about… Lowering gas prices because he knows that if gas is still over $4 / gal in November, Republicans lose big…
But Gas prices aren’t coming down until the war he started is over, and even then, it may never come back to where it was…
He’s Pro Dumbass.
That’s interesting, so are his followers…
As if he would even understand the concept.
GOUGING The word is gouging. The number of times I see “gauging” used for this is too damn high!
It’s one of those words that I see misused all the time, like rouge (instead of rogue) and loose (instead of lose).
I sometimes wonder if his stuff is being crafted like spam is crafted. Meaning all the idiotic spelling and grammar. I mean, all the random capitalization drives me nuts…
Sure, some of the reasons that spammers put in so many misspellings may be to try to get past spam filters, but that’s not the only reason.
One is to filter out the smart people, basically. Spammers and conservatives have a very key thing in common - they rely on having stupid people fall for their nonsense:
https://josephsteinberg.com/why-scammers-make-spelling-and-grammar-mistakes/
You don’t have to wonder, AOTUS admitted staffers write them. Not just dictation either, they write in his prose.
POTUS is a dunce.
Rogue:
Rouge:
No one likes a loose goose.
I suspect sometimes his typos are intentional.
He can turn around and say “I told you there’d be no gauging the gouging! Why didn’t you listen?”
Trump promised $2/gal on ‘day one’ of his presidency. So where the fuck is our $2/gal? Liar!
For Europeans, that’s around $0.52 per litle
In Canada, I remember prices like that around 1990 - I’m sure they will achieve that, as well as other prices from that era such as $0.50 hamburgers and $1 boxes of cereal
Which we can eat in our $90,000 houses.
I miss the the days I could fill my car with $20, but I probably still complained about the price
Or about a quarter of the current price.
Gas prices cut. BOOM! Government subsidies given to oil companies to offset their loss. BOOM! End users pays for it all yet again.
and theres no money to pay for it, so it will, of course, be paid via another massive, crippling blow to our already exploding debt.
because debt doesnt matter under republicans.
and debt doesnt matter to trump because he’ll die before facing any of the consequences.
Sounds like communism to me.
Fun Fact: what killed communism wasn’t so much the ownership details of the means of production, but the fact they chose a command economy instead of a market economy. Planned or command economies are bad, no matter what political ideology is behind it.
Also: the way politicians world wide allowed conentration of mega corporations, I feel we are moving much more towards a command economy than a market economy.
Command economies using 1940s technology aren’t particularly good.
Back in the 70s the Cybersyn project was largely successful until the CIA deposed Allende to put Pinochet into power.
they also spent way too much money on war.
I don’t even get this: china and the ussr, were the fastest growing economies ever. Both had some famines at the start and then solved their famine issue. They went from poorest countries in the world to superpowers absurdly quickly. This is a nonsense point. The reason they were so strict and ruthless is largely cia selection bias, and has nothing to do with their economic system, yes. But their means of production issues and therefore socialism is far from the problem.
I was being hyperbolic, Republicans are supposed to hate communism, but Trump keeps trying to dictate how business should operate
Gauging, is that how they say gouging in Yankee land, or is that a typo?
Neither. It’s a removed president.
Calling him removed seems offensive to the differently able.
He’s got soup brain.
I’d agree, but he could be both cognitively disabled and a fascist piece of shit at the same time.
Guessing it’s an auto-correct. Gauging is measuring/quantifying. Gouging was what they should have bee looking for.
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What a fucking clown
So, they go out of business, monopolies buy them up, operated by price scalpers? Great plan… For evil Nazi scumbags
He’s buying in again before the price spikes. Lebanon still dooms any Iran deal.
He didn’t give a shit a little while ago, but I guess his handlers realize that’s not winning any votes and with the elections coming up…
But don’t worry, he’ll stop caring the second he wins again.
