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.
It’s hard to not view my fellow Americans as contemptible, selfish pricks as a whole, nearly incapable of empathy. Killing brown people by the thousands is tolerable, but not paying 40 cents more per gallon of gas. Give me a fucking break.
Even the “good ones” will be more focused on making sure everyone else knows that they didn’t want this, as if the only important thing is that they don’t get any blowback personally. It’s still selfish in a roundabout way. If Karma were real Americans would suffer, period.
Out of 245 million eligible US voters:
75 million voted for Harris.
77 million voted for the con.
93 million couldn’t be bothered, or had their feelings manipulated by the sudden flurry of accusations that Harris must be a Zionist because that wasn’t ingenious propaganda.
I’m still more angry at the 93 million slugs than I am about the bigots, and that’s got nothing to do with fucking blowback.
Setting aside the accuracy (or lack thereof) of your statement, you think Harris wasn’t a Zionist? Really now?
Isn’t she literally married to a Jewish man who has actively defended the Palestinian genocide in Gaza?
He’s spoken out against “singling out Israel due to anti-Jewish hatred,” but from a quick Google he hasn’t outright defended the genocide.
When I say that 2 in 3 usians made trump get to the office, they say I’m lying. But this is the cold truth: more than 90 million usians thought that they were fine with both trump and harris. 90 million+ usians thought that trump was fine so they couldn’t be bothered to vote.
And how anyone who badmouths their favorite war criminal (cough cough Obama) is a Russian agent trying to sow division and aid the fascists. There’s unfortunately very little true anti-imperialism in America.
The current state of the Western world in general should do wonders for one’s belief in karma.