Don’t worry my President, Donald J. Trump, knows what he is doing. He has been anointed by God to lead our nation and defeat the forces of evil that are trying to tear us down. He is playing five dimensional chess and has the U.S., Iran, and the world exactly where he wants them.
Gas prices will soon be .99 cents a gallon, factories will be rebuilt and exploding with jobs paying $70 an hour, a critical White House 10,000 person ballroom will built, an arch honoring the greatness of Trump reaching 100,000 feet above DC will be built and Canada, Greenland, Venezuela and Cuba will become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th states. None of these immigrant residents, however, will be allowed to travel to the mainland U.S….well except for maybe the white, straight, Christian, English speaking ones from Canada and Greenland.
You just have to trust my President, Donald J. Trump, and his all knowing process. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!!!!! /S
Sadly it won't. All it has done is get rid of one leader, who has been replaced by an even more hard-line one. It's also rallied the people in Iran against the US, in addition to their own leadership. So yeah, worked out really well...
Im so fucked man. Can't get more credit cards. All i have are maxed. I stopped taking 2 of my medications. I eat once a day. My internet is going away after this month. My 950 sq ft one bedroom is full of the stuff from my mother and grandmother because I lost the storage unit and its all I have of them. My rent has almost doubled in 3 years. I only make 18 an hour and trying my damndest to find something better but im injured and cant do hard labor anymore like i used to. I work on my weekends to attempt to stay afloat. Im done for dude, I struggled 2 years ago but I could end the month without using my credit cards. Now, I work so hard just to sit in my dark apartment and stress. American Dream
I know it doesn't help with the monetary aspect, but there's a lot of movement these days toward downsizing on the family heirlooms collection if it's consuming all your space and crowding you out of your own life. Fancy plates and porcelain dolls and other knickknacks can be targetedt, and you're not a bad person to throw some of that stuff away. Obviously preserve what's important to you personally, but you have permission to sell, donate, or throw away things you'll never use, maybe get a cheaper apartment or a place with roommates if you don't need as much space afterward.
Sorry you're going through it, hope it gets better soon.
Thank you. And yea I got rid of the non essential type stuff already. It's mostly photo albums, a few sentimental things that arnt worth anything to anyone, a big antique China cabinet that was my grandma's first big purchase when she got independent and a ridiculous dining table and chairs her grandfather built. Its old but gorgeous. Figure I have to give that away to my aunt who I can only hope will take care of it. Thanks though, its tough but not much else to do. Take care of yourself and good luck
The job market is FUCKED UP. Ive even had 2 referrals fall through because the company decided to close the positions instead and give people more work instead.
I’m sorry about where you are at. Could you share a two bedroom with someone or find someone who has a basement apartment for rent that would be less? You definitely have to sort through the stuff you have and get rid of most of it. That might raise some money to help. Sometimes paralysis happens when you are in a position you don’t know where to go or what to do. Don’t let yourself get paralyzed.
Two top 1% commenters don’t know that you can look up exactly what is used to calculate cpi and how it’s weighted… this sub is a joke. And yes they include energy and food.
Nah I’m going to be a prick when people think the government is covering up inflation instead of them not understanding the statistics they’re talking about. The amount of conspiracy nonsense getting spread around is exhausting. You’d expect slightly better from an economics sub, but pretty much all of reddit is turning into shitty version of rpolitics.
Nah let’s just let people intentionally spread misinformation with no push back. Are you actually happy in a sub where the top commenters all have no clue what they’re talking about at best? It’s fucking embarrassing that you’re even defending it.
And yet you don’t bother to say that to them. Instead you get upset because I didn’t baby them enough. May I suggest next time you correct the idiots instead of trying to tone police me. You’re part of the problem.
Also like it’s not even a common mistake for anyone that even bothers to listen to financial news. If someone mentions inflation, 99% of the time they’re talking about headline. If they’re talking about core inflation, they’ll say core inflation. Again, this is easily solved by a google search, but even that is asking too much of the top commenters in an economic sub.
How can anyone see Trump and Israel’s war on Iran as anything but a major strategic defeat?
Idk what they were thinking but thought taking on a multi thousand year old civilization with some of the brightest minds, a serious national pride, and robust industry could be taken out in a day and they started the first day of the war bombing a school and massacring 200 little girls?
$100 billion dollars spent in what could’ve linked the nation with better infrastructure or eliminated millions of people’s medical and college debts
The entire global community is rooting for Iran outside the usual suspects (UK, Germany)
All allies alienated
Entered the war with 5 strategic objectives and didn’t meet a single one
The war resulted in a 6th strategic objective which was to open the Strait which was open prior to the war and currently hasn’t been met.
Iran is now objectively stronger and has emerged as a new pillar of global power and West Asia’s hegemon.
Years worth of ammunition stocks gone in a couple of weeks so much so that you had to move THAAD missiles from Korea.
Presidential approval rating at an all time low
Humiliated in the middle of this debacle when you went to your main competitor (China) and their leader openly talks about declining powers right in front of your face
> How can anyone see Trump and Israel’s war on Iran as anything but a major strategic defeat?
depends what the goals were. one interpretation of trump's repeated "failures" at everything he does is that he's actually trying to arrange the outcomes he is in fact arranging. in other words, he may be trying to sabotage the united states toward the end of enriching a handful of oligarchs, because everything he does has that outcome.
It’s a win for isreal. It’s basically put a pause on the nuclear program and any opposition will take time build back up as most resources will be directed towards rebuilding. Keeps Iran focused on the US.
It's a huge loss for Israel. Iran resurfaced with more geopolitical power than ever. Iran's reputation in the world has spiked while Israel's has cratered. There's no evidence that their nuclear program was significantly derailed, which is why Trump is desperate for the Uranium
And they've just ensured that the American boomer generation is the last one where they will receive widespread support.
Not really. Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to deter Israel; its conventional missile force has shattered the Israeli sense of security. Remember, before 2025 Iran’s capability to hit Israel with missiles was only theoretical. Now? Israel has proven utterly helpless to stop complete saturation of its air defense, and an inability to deter Iran with its own military. Hell, even the United States cannot deter Iran.
The US will not always be there to protect Israel, and it does not look like the Islamic Republic is going anywhere anytime soon.
I actually think this is a huge loss for Israel from the perspective of anything other than the very short term. Iran will come out of the conflict with their strategic hand significantly strengthened and Israel has done massive and lasting damage to its most important alliance by alienating a huge percentage of its population. We won't see another US presidential nominee as friendly to Israel as Trump and Biden for decades.
It becomes propaganda when pushing the same message across many discussions and reddits. Also: 'rooting for Iran?!'. Nobody is rooting for those civilian murdering zealots but on every metric the situation has become worse.
High oil prices are good for the US relative to the rest of the world.
US oil production requires higher costs to be profitable since extraction via fracking is more expensive than the techniques available in other regions. High prices allows US oil production to be profitable.
The price of gas in the US is still lower than it was originally in other parts of the world. Increasing fuel prices globally cripples the rest of the world while mildly inconveniencing Americans.
Since inflation in the US is inevitable, the blow is softened if the rest of the world undergoes inflation at the same time due to increased fuel costs.
I love how now it's "mildly inconveniencing" while a couple years ago ya'll had your flags flying on your trucks crying about a much smaller increase than we're currently facing.
And the election was Nov 2008 and the winner didn't take office until 2009 so who can we thank who for those prices? Average price in 2024 was $3.30/gal
The average American is fucked regardless. Inflation is inevitable and it’s probably going to be crushing. We can see what’s happened to equity prices since Covid, it’s not over yet
They are paying a lot more than that! Trucking costs with diesel are up and food shoppers pay those extra costs which then get passed onto consumer. Everything is getting passed onto the consumer who is asking for higher wages to afford these costs.
This is the cost of doing Israel's bidding. Everyone one should thank Netanyahoo and all the Zionists who pushed us into this folly. They are laughing behind our backs and thinking what suckers we are for spending all this money and materials just for them.
Israeli officials are literally complaining on Twitter right now about Trump not letting them push further into Lebanon. They are talking about how they are a sovereign country and Trump doesn't get to tell them what to do.
As if the US didn't just spend $100B and lose most of their bases in the middle east fighting their war for them. The ingratitude and audacity of these people is mind blowing.
I believe in my President, Donald J. Trump. I believe I will receive a refund from all the winning. People are saying there’s never been this much winning before. The best winning. Tremendous winning. Some say nobody has ever won this hard.
As the White House said, I just need to “sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end—it always does!”
So I’m relaxing. My energy bill is up $450, but I’m told that’s actually a sign of strength. Very strong bill. Perhaps the strongest bill we’ve ever seen. /s
It’s gonna get a lot worse. I’m in an economic indicator industry. Basically, my industry feels impacts first. I’m telling you now, stop all spending and get to shelter.
Construction, landscaping in Florida. This industry has been lucrative for YEARS even during COVID. Now, shit is getting stormy. Clients are running out moneyz 👀
Is that all you care about is money? 450 dollars is nothing compared to the destruction of modern civilization. If you have kids or grandchildren be very worried.
I am a minimal driver. Remote worker, live proximal to everything I use regularly (gym, grocery stores, restaurants) and I drive less than 10 miles a day on average. I usually fill my tank once per month. My gas bill used to be around $28~. My gas bill alone is now over $50~, assuming I have absolutely zero outliers. However, I have some health issues which require me to see specialists and drive to different parts of town. So now I am filling up every 3ish weeks, closer to $65~ a month. If I were commuting to work, that numbers would be substantially higher.
Now, the energy prices for the home have skyrocketed because of various reasons; 2 rate hikes this year by the local power company.
I am easily experiencing over $1000+ a year increases, and I would consider myself to be living in “optimal” circumstances. There is no way that the average household, who DOES have to commute, who DOES have to drive substantially more than I do is not experiencing more than a $50 price jump per month.
he stated specifically he doesn't considering US citizens financial situations or the financial impact on their lives when he makes decisions. He does not care. He never cared. He was fully willing to do this to everyone, ontop of the insane tariffs that drove up food prices 20% and every single grocery item on the shelves. They will never go back down.
he lied to his MAGAts and now they're seeing the full impact. I've been seeing polls and they are BRUTAL.
he still doesn't care about you or the midterms or the republicans. he's spending 100s of millions of dollars to primary his own, core republicans that have supported him since the beginning.
nothing matters to these ghouls (trump, levitt, bessent, licknut, rfk jr, cruz, rubio) except personal enrichment for them, and their epstein class. the only measurement he has used to say the economy is good is the stock market and that only effects the top 10% of people, meanwhile the average household has taken on probably thousands in extra bills. I would imagine we're that a lot of people will be homeless coming up, and they will just want to imprison them or to kill them. they certainly won't want to help them, he specifically said he wants to keep house prices high, and then drives up prices on everything by sabotaging tourism, alcohol, groceries, lumber, steel, toys, cars, power grid (sabotaged our batteries coming from canada that drove prices lower) water, electronics and gaming systems, anything imported to the economy, all of our alliances and trading avenues globally, destroyed. they rip apart the most vulnerable people in the US's benefits and disability, fire over 250k fed employees, career civil servants, with 0 plan to to replace them, destroying branches of government.
They care about how much money they can make in the next 2.5 years, all be damned who get in the way or speak up. They want to go after people for their first amendment, 2nd, 4th, 12th amendment rights.
They hate the US, and they hate all of us and are stealing from us for personal profits.
I've barely scratched the surface but it blows my mind that we put ourselves into this position.
I feel bad for people that have to commute far for work. A few years ago I just had a feeling things like this were going to get worse so I found a place a couple of miles from work. Luckily I only need to fill up every two weeks.
Simple_Shake_5345 | 21 days ago
Don’t worry my President, Donald J. Trump, knows what he is doing. He has been anointed by God to lead our nation and defeat the forces of evil that are trying to tear us down. He is playing five dimensional chess and has the U.S., Iran, and the world exactly where he wants them.
Gas prices will soon be .99 cents a gallon, factories will be rebuilt and exploding with jobs paying $70 an hour, a critical White House 10,000 person ballroom will built, an arch honoring the greatness of Trump reaching 100,000 feet above DC will be built and Canada, Greenland, Venezuela and Cuba will become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th states. None of these immigrant residents, however, will be allowed to travel to the mainland U.S….well except for maybe the white, straight, Christian, English speaking ones from Canada and Greenland.
You just have to trust my President, Donald J. Trump, and his all knowing process. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!!!!! /S
C0LL0C0 | 21 days ago
How depressing that without that /s, we wouldnt know if this was a real post
Jaymesned | 21 days ago
Can't be real, no randomly Capitalized words.
ButteredPizza69420 | 21 days ago
Average pill popping housewife facebook post
aft_punk | 21 days ago
Don’t forget drug prices are going to be 600% lower too!
dust4ngel | 21 days ago
> factories will be rebuilt and exploding with jobs paying $70 an hour
this is deeply misleading. the truth is:
Conditionofpossible | 21 days ago
can't get 600% cheaper with the old math
Ok_Lettuce_7939 | 21 days ago
MAGA and the orange regard himself: He could lower gas and grocery prices, totally defeat Iran, and cure cancer and you libtards will still hate him!
Anyone with a brain cell: he has done none of those things
Krystarado | 20 days ago
that’s just talk. Real results matter more than promises.
WiskeyUniformTango | 21 days ago
I heard we're getting free gas for life once the war is over.
Yeah thats the joke, the wars never going to be over.
OddlyFactual1512 | 21 days ago
Breaking news: Magnus Carlsen learned the basics of 6d chess, so your savior can now play 6d chess. No other human can manage something that complex.
0o0o0o0o0o0z | 21 days ago
Fucked up thing is ~30% of US voters beleive something along those lines...
lopix | 21 days ago
> except for maybe the white, straight, Christian, English speaking ones from Canada
If you think any Canadians want to visit...
Cheap-Explanation293 | 21 days ago
Propaganda is the US' main export. You think Canadians are immune? How many snowbirds still live in Florida?
BallsInSufficientSad | 21 days ago
I know people personally who have been violently impacted by the Iranian gov't.
I am happy to pay 10x this if it means any form of change in Iran - including complete political disintegration of the country.
JoannaCuppa | 21 days ago
Sadly it won't. All it has done is get rid of one leader, who has been replaced by an even more hard-line one. It's also rallied the people in Iran against the US, in addition to their own leadership. So yeah, worked out really well...
kostac600 | 21 days ago
and now the IRGC is the government without any controls
BallsInSufficientSad | 20 days ago
Is it hard liners all the way down? Because we have a lot of bombs...
InclinationCompass | 21 days ago
Trump doesnt give a fuck about them regular people. This is why coddling snd cozying up with Putin, a leader of another authoritarian regime.
NoSomewhere7653 | 21 days ago
Im so fucked man. Can't get more credit cards. All i have are maxed. I stopped taking 2 of my medications. I eat once a day. My internet is going away after this month. My 950 sq ft one bedroom is full of the stuff from my mother and grandmother because I lost the storage unit and its all I have of them. My rent has almost doubled in 3 years. I only make 18 an hour and trying my damndest to find something better but im injured and cant do hard labor anymore like i used to. I work on my weekends to attempt to stay afloat. Im done for dude, I struggled 2 years ago but I could end the month without using my credit cards. Now, I work so hard just to sit in my dark apartment and stress. American Dream
[OP] grrrbr | 21 days ago
I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope things get better, apologies I can’t offer more than that. ❤️🩹
NoSomewhere7653 | 21 days ago
No worries. Didn't mean to just unload on your post, my bad. Just bubbled up. Take care of yourself and stay safe out there
dazedandconfuzed1 | 21 days ago
My brother in law was in the same situation and he had to join the military just to not be homeless.
Dave-Javoo | 21 days ago
The credit cards are the problem, they are a trap and they are incredibly hard to get out of.
Exotria | 21 days ago
I know it doesn't help with the monetary aspect, but there's a lot of movement these days toward downsizing on the family heirlooms collection if it's consuming all your space and crowding you out of your own life. Fancy plates and porcelain dolls and other knickknacks can be targetedt, and you're not a bad person to throw some of that stuff away. Obviously preserve what's important to you personally, but you have permission to sell, donate, or throw away things you'll never use, maybe get a cheaper apartment or a place with roommates if you don't need as much space afterward.
Sorry you're going through it, hope it gets better soon.
NoSomewhere7653 | 21 days ago
Thank you. And yea I got rid of the non essential type stuff already. It's mostly photo albums, a few sentimental things that arnt worth anything to anyone, a big antique China cabinet that was my grandma's first big purchase when she got independent and a ridiculous dining table and chairs her grandfather built. Its old but gorgeous. Figure I have to give that away to my aunt who I can only hope will take care of it. Thanks though, its tough but not much else to do. Take care of yourself and good luck
BillionDollarBalls | 21 days ago
The job market is FUCKED UP. Ive even had 2 referrals fall through because the company decided to close the positions instead and give people more work instead.
Pokemanswego | 21 days ago
It’s gonna get A LOT worse. Best to get with family and friends now.
NoSomewhere7653 | 21 days ago
Yup pretty hard when family are trump humping idiots and no friends. But yea, ill be ok. I've slept in my car before so if it happens, it happens
Pokemanswego | 21 days ago
Fuck the car, might as well camp in the woods with nature.
katmomjo | 20 days ago
I’m sorry about where you are at. Could you share a two bedroom with someone or find someone who has a basement apartment for rent that would be less? You definitely have to sort through the stuff you have and get rid of most of it. That might raise some money to help. Sometimes paralysis happens when you are in a position you don’t know where to go or what to do. Don’t let yourself get paralyzed.
Where do you live?
IKillZombies4Cash | 21 days ago
Add in food cost and I honestly have no clue, no math, no bending of the truth or math that would suggest that inflation is ANYWHERE in the 3s.
I don’t see how it’s not in double digits. Food , gas , energy all up over 10% despite what the BLS sharpie charts are saying .
Jafar_420 | 21 days ago
Because they don't add in certain things whenever they give us the general inflation number.
Apprehensive-Ad9523 | 21 days ago
No energy costs. No food costs.
shitposterenthusiast | 21 days ago
Two top 1% commenters don’t know that you can look up exactly what is used to calculate cpi and how it’s weighted… this sub is a joke. And yes they include energy and food.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
gplfalt | 20 days ago
Core inflation numbers do not include energy and food so it's a very common mistake
Which is why it's important instead of being a bit of prick to clarify points of discussion.
shitposterenthusiast | 20 days ago
Nah I’m going to be a prick when people think the government is covering up inflation instead of them not understanding the statistics they’re talking about. The amount of conspiracy nonsense getting spread around is exhausting. You’d expect slightly better from an economics sub, but pretty much all of reddit is turning into shitty version of rpolitics.
gplfalt | 20 days ago
May I suggest...leaving reddit then? It's not a prison you know.
shitposterenthusiast | 20 days ago
Nah let’s just let people intentionally spread misinformation with no push back. Are you actually happy in a sub where the top commenters all have no clue what they’re talking about at best? It’s fucking embarrassing that you’re even defending it.
gplfalt | 20 days ago
Buddy there's ways to "push back" without being a prick.
You think its some conspiracy but it's likely an honest mistake from folks in the sphere of interest but not deep.
You're screaming perpetual anger addiction vibes.
May I suggest next time.
"It's a common mistake but headline inflation does include those metrics it's core inflation that doesnt"
Or be perpetually angry I guess. It's just not productive in the slightest.
shitposterenthusiast | 20 days ago
And yet you don’t bother to say that to them. Instead you get upset because I didn’t baby them enough. May I suggest next time you correct the idiots instead of trying to tone police me. You’re part of the problem.
Also like it’s not even a common mistake for anyone that even bothers to listen to financial news. If someone mentions inflation, 99% of the time they’re talking about headline. If they’re talking about core inflation, they’ll say core inflation. Again, this is easily solved by a google search, but even that is asking too much of the top commenters in an economic sub.
[OP] grrrbr | 21 days ago
How can anyone see Trump and Israel’s war on Iran as anything but a major strategic defeat?
Idk what they were thinking but thought taking on a multi thousand year old civilization with some of the brightest minds, a serious national pride, and robust industry could be taken out in a day and they started the first day of the war bombing a school and massacring 200 little girls?
Pathetic.
dust4ngel | 21 days ago
> How can anyone see Trump and Israel’s war on Iran as anything but a major strategic defeat?
depends what the goals were. one interpretation of trump's repeated "failures" at everything he does is that he's actually trying to arrange the outcomes he is in fact arranging. in other words, he may be trying to sabotage the united states toward the end of enriching a handful of oligarchs, because everything he does has that outcome.
willstr1 | 21 days ago
As someone put it, is there anything a hostile foreign agent would do differently?
Euphoric-Use-6443 | 21 days ago
tRump now says negotiations with Iran are "BORING"! Decaying Dotard never had a plan!
Yagoua81 | 21 days ago
It’s a win for isreal. It’s basically put a pause on the nuclear program and any opposition will take time build back up as most resources will be directed towards rebuilding. Keeps Iran focused on the US.
Good_Air_7192 | 21 days ago
Putin's selling more oil too
yupgup12 | 21 days ago
It's a huge loss for Israel. Iran resurfaced with more geopolitical power than ever. Iran's reputation in the world has spiked while Israel's has cratered. There's no evidence that their nuclear program was significantly derailed, which is why Trump is desperate for the Uranium
And they've just ensured that the American boomer generation is the last one where they will receive widespread support.
d88k41t | 20 days ago
> It's a huge loss for Israel
And who said Israel is out of the game? The war will never end unless the US totally disjoin from Israel, Israel destroyed, or Iran regime is changed.
Sommern | 21 days ago
Not really. Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to deter Israel; its conventional missile force has shattered the Israeli sense of security. Remember, before 2025 Iran’s capability to hit Israel with missiles was only theoretical. Now? Israel has proven utterly helpless to stop complete saturation of its air defense, and an inability to deter Iran with its own military. Hell, even the United States cannot deter Iran.
The US will not always be there to protect Israel, and it does not look like the Islamic Republic is going anywhere anytime soon.
Xeynon | 21 days ago
I actually think this is a huge loss for Israel from the perspective of anything other than the very short term. Iran will come out of the conflict with their strategic hand significantly strengthened and Israel has done massive and lasting damage to its most important alliance by alienating a huge percentage of its population. We won't see another US presidential nominee as friendly to Israel as Trump and Biden for decades.
el_diego | 21 days ago
> We won't see another US presidential nominee as friendly to Israel as Trump and Biden for decades.
Here's hoping!
Apprehensive-Ad9523 | 21 days ago
It's all about Isreal. They win no matter what. See. we give them free money. Another of money
PistolofPete | 21 days ago
How exactly is Iran a power house?
Some-Band2225 | 21 days ago
Within the region who would you rate as one of their peers?
James_Solomon | 21 days ago
Propaganda. Seen this exact message glazing Iran as a "multi-thousand year old civilization" a dozen times by now.
OptimistPrime7 | 21 days ago
How is propaganda?? Iran has one of the oldest civilisations in history, it is just a fact.
Carpentidge | 21 days ago
It becomes propaganda when pushing the same message across many discussions and reddits. Also: 'rooting for Iran?!'. Nobody is rooting for those civilian murdering zealots but on every metric the situation has become worse.
OptimistPrime7 | 21 days ago
No one is rooting for Iran at the same time no one likes US either.
InclinationCompass | 21 days ago
Ironically, your comment is propaganda.
lapideous | 21 days ago
High oil prices are good for the US relative to the rest of the world.
US oil production requires higher costs to be profitable since extraction via fracking is more expensive than the techniques available in other regions. High prices allows US oil production to be profitable.
The price of gas in the US is still lower than it was originally in other parts of the world. Increasing fuel prices globally cripples the rest of the world while mildly inconveniencing Americans.
Since inflation in the US is inevitable, the blow is softened if the rest of the world undergoes inflation at the same time due to increased fuel costs.
mixreality | 21 days ago
I love how now it's "mildly inconveniencing" while a couple years ago ya'll had your flags flying on your trucks crying about a much smaller increase than we're currently facing.
lapideous | 21 days ago
Gas prices were $5/gallon back in 2008, which is around $7.60 inflation adjusted. I paid $5.50 yesterday
mixreality | 21 days ago
And the election was Nov 2008 and the winner didn't take office until 2009 so who can we thank who for those prices? Average price in 2024 was $3.30/gal
Petrichordates | 21 days ago
So your point is that we also had record gas prices the last time we elected a republican to a 2nd term?
Sure seems like a trend.
shadowboxer47 | 21 days ago
> Gas prices were $5/gallon back in 2008
Ironically enough, the result of a disastrous Republican war in the Middle East.
Bodes well for our future!
InclinationCompass | 21 days ago
> Gas prices were $5/gallon back in 2008, which is around $7.60 inflation adjusted. I paid $5.50 yesterday
So you’re telling me republican presidents lead to higher gas prices?
lozo78 | 21 days ago
You mean it's good for corporate profit margins. Which, in this case, is not good for average Americans.
lapideous | 21 days ago
The average American is fucked regardless. Inflation is inevitable and it’s probably going to be crushing. We can see what’s happened to equity prices since Covid, it’s not over yet
lozo78 | 21 days ago
So since the average American is already fucked we should just make it even worse for corporate profits?
lapideous | 21 days ago
Why don’t you go vote about it?
Resident_Window_9369 | 21 days ago
They are paying a lot more than that! Trucking costs with diesel are up and food shoppers pay those extra costs which then get passed onto consumer. Everything is getting passed onto the consumer who is asking for higher wages to afford these costs.
Jafar_420 | 21 days ago
Asking and not receiving.
PoisonedPotato69 | 21 days ago
This is the cost of doing Israel's bidding. Everyone one should thank Netanyahoo and all the Zionists who pushed us into this folly. They are laughing behind our backs and thinking what suckers we are for spending all this money and materials just for them.
yupgup12 | 21 days ago
Israeli officials are literally complaining on Twitter right now about Trump not letting them push further into Lebanon. They are talking about how they are a sovereign country and Trump doesn't get to tell them what to do.
As if the US didn't just spend $100B and lose most of their bases in the middle east fighting their war for them. The ingratitude and audacity of these people is mind blowing.
piperonyl | 21 days ago
Trump barely lost any support and he handed billions in profit to the oil and gas industry over the next few years.
This is all according to plan.
Captcha_Imagination | 21 days ago
thinking you are suckers? America saw what he did in his first term and decided they wanted more.
Total_Ad_9709 | 21 days ago
I believe in my President, Donald J. Trump. I believe I will receive a refund from all the winning. People are saying there’s never been this much winning before. The best winning. Tremendous winning. Some say nobody has ever won this hard.
As the White House said, I just need to “sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end—it always does!”
So I’m relaxing. My energy bill is up $450, but I’m told that’s actually a sign of strength. Very strong bill. Perhaps the strongest bill we’ve ever seen. /s
Pokemanswego | 21 days ago
It’s gonna get a lot worse. I’m in an economic indicator industry. Basically, my industry feels impacts first. I’m telling you now, stop all spending and get to shelter.
[OP] grrrbr | 21 days ago
Mind sharing what industry? 👀
Pokemanswego | 21 days ago
Construction, landscaping in Florida. This industry has been lucrative for YEARS even during COVID. Now, shit is getting stormy. Clients are running out moneyz 👀
MegaThot2023 | 20 days ago
To be fair, you might be experiencing the correction of the overheated Florida real estate market.
apixelops | 21 days ago
I mean, Americans were warned that this would happen, and most of them chose to either not prevent it or actively support it
Too bad the rest of the world has to suffer, but the US deserves this
martin | 21 days ago
a welcome reduction in my Trump Tax since the average household paid $1.5k last year for tariffs.Thank You Sir
Lougaroo81 | 21 days ago
Is that all you care about is money? 450 dollars is nothing compared to the destruction of modern civilization. If you have kids or grandchildren be very worried.
CyberSmith31337 | 20 days ago
I don’t accept that horse shit estimate.
I am a minimal driver. Remote worker, live proximal to everything I use regularly (gym, grocery stores, restaurants) and I drive less than 10 miles a day on average. I usually fill my tank once per month. My gas bill used to be around $28~. My gas bill alone is now over $50~, assuming I have absolutely zero outliers. However, I have some health issues which require me to see specialists and drive to different parts of town. So now I am filling up every 3ish weeks, closer to $65~ a month. If I were commuting to work, that numbers would be substantially higher.
Now, the energy prices for the home have skyrocketed because of various reasons; 2 rate hikes this year by the local power company.
I am easily experiencing over $1000+ a year increases, and I would consider myself to be living in “optimal” circumstances. There is no way that the average household, who DOES have to commute, who DOES have to drive substantially more than I do is not experiencing more than a $50 price jump per month.
dojo_shlom0 | 21 days ago
he stated specifically he doesn't considering US citizens financial situations or the financial impact on their lives when he makes decisions. He does not care. He never cared. He was fully willing to do this to everyone, ontop of the insane tariffs that drove up food prices 20% and every single grocery item on the shelves. They will never go back down.
he lied to his MAGAts and now they're seeing the full impact. I've been seeing polls and they are BRUTAL.
he still doesn't care about you or the midterms or the republicans. he's spending 100s of millions of dollars to primary his own, core republicans that have supported him since the beginning.
nothing matters to these ghouls (trump, levitt, bessent, licknut, rfk jr, cruz, rubio) except personal enrichment for them, and their epstein class. the only measurement he has used to say the economy is good is the stock market and that only effects the top 10% of people, meanwhile the average household has taken on probably thousands in extra bills. I would imagine we're that a lot of people will be homeless coming up, and they will just want to imprison them or to kill them. they certainly won't want to help them, he specifically said he wants to keep house prices high, and then drives up prices on everything by sabotaging tourism, alcohol, groceries, lumber, steel, toys, cars, power grid (sabotaged our batteries coming from canada that drove prices lower) water, electronics and gaming systems, anything imported to the economy, all of our alliances and trading avenues globally, destroyed. they rip apart the most vulnerable people in the US's benefits and disability, fire over 250k fed employees, career civil servants, with 0 plan to to replace them, destroying branches of government.
They care about how much money they can make in the next 2.5 years, all be damned who get in the way or speak up. They want to go after people for their first amendment, 2nd, 4th, 12th amendment rights.
They hate the US, and they hate all of us and are stealing from us for personal profits.
I've barely scratched the surface but it blows my mind that we put ourselves into this position.
BigFishPub | 21 days ago
I feel bad for people that have to commute far for work. A few years ago I just had a feeling things like this were going to get worse so I found a place a couple of miles from work. Luckily I only need to fill up every two weeks.
Eyeon_82 | 21 days ago
Does anyone honestly think any of the millionaires and billionaires even give a single thought to that $450?
They don't care. They've got their cash and don't have to worry about deciding between fuel, food and medical care.
They'll just play geo politics like it's a video game.
They don't live in the same world as you.