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 was $2.74 on the day Trump started the war, and it’s $3.79 today.
So the oil is drilled in the U.S., refined in the U.S., and shipped in the U.S., but the prices changed because there are shortages elsewhere. Hmm. Sounds like all those people who wanted “America first” should be sueing the fuck out of the oil companies.
Maybe the fucking morons that voted the warmonger into office shouldn’t also be the ones buying enormous gas guzzlers.
4 years of “I did that” Biden stickers on the pumps, but these dipshits keep buying lifted F350s like the $0.50 per gallon difference is why it costs so much to fuel up.
To be fair, they need these emotional support trucks so they can haul their daddy issues around with them.
Worth noting that Kamala Harris would have been in favor of this war with Iran as well. She was explicit about that in her campaign.
It’s worth noting this opinion is worthless trash. Unless you have a time machine?
Fuck off, noone asked
Source?
Because that’s not what things looked like in 2024.
Harris supported the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action deal with Iran to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. And she condemned a January 2020 military strike against top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and co-sponsored unsuccessful legislation to block further military actions against Iranian leaders and targets.
do you think she would have torn up and then try to reestablish and then go to war when she failed, the existing Iran nuclear deal?
The agitators that told people not to vote for her bear accountability for Trump being in office and the consequences that result. Why do you feel like you need to create cover for them?
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.
I disagree, it’s just a divergence in belief in what America truly is. The sad fact is that their portrayal of America may be closer to the truth.
America was primarily built by rum running slave owners who hated paying taxes. It was founded by rich men to protect the interest of rich men, and not a lot has changed over time.
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.
Maybe if you only read the popular history about people like Benjamin Franklin or Hamilton. In reality most of the founding fathers would be seen as rabid libertarians by today’s means. Some of their ideas about religion would seem liberal, but you would have to ignore issues like slavery, the brutality towards native populations, women’s suffrage, voting rights for the poor, and taxation to label them as leftist in general.
I feel that you probably agree with the sentiment but you just want to say well achtshually
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.
Don’t you have to go back to LBJ to find any president who wasn’t part of some conflict in the middle east? Granted, Carter’s might just be started by the hostage situation…
Nixon didn’t actually get into anything in the middle East. He armed up Israel and put our troops on alert, but didn’t get into any shooting. Granted, that’s because he was busy with atrocities in the far East. So it’s more just a case that he was already busy.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic. Dems never sold a war to the country based on lies, Bush senior might get a pass since Hussein actually invaded Kuwait but again the only reason we would protect Kuwait is because of oil.
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.
or had their feelings manipulated by the sudden flurry of accusations that Harris must be a Zionist because that wasn’t ingenious propaganda.
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?
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.
Even the “good ones” will be more focused on making sure everyone else knows that they didn’t want this
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.
If Karma were real Americans would suffer, period.
The current state of the Western world in general should do wonders for one’s belief in karma.
Just dug mine out of the closet. Here it comes.
I lost most of mine… luckily they’re on sale!
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?
“But sure I’ll vote him for a third term!”
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.
