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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 111 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Start putting these on the pumps:

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fairly certain my Trump “I did that” stickers come down the same day I put them up.

Glad I sprung for the 100 pack.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet anything the same bunch that were screaming "make comedy legal again!!111eleventy!" and slapping their knees at how hilarious those Biden "I did that" stickers were (even though he had quite literally nothing at all to do with gas prices OR inflation) are now squealing in agony and racing to tear those down when they see the highly accurate and very apropos Trump "I did that" stickers, though. 🤣

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Yup. They can’t handle it being thrown back at them because they are snowflakes. It’s literally always projection.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cut them after you put them up. Like slice them so when they go to peel them off they have to peel off a bunch of bits of sticker and not the whole thing at once.

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[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I checked and it looks like no one is selling these yet.

[–] Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 75 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I dunno how much longer Bobby John from Oklahoma can take filling up his RAM 3500 Dually lifted XTREME offRoad Pavement Princess Edition™ @ $150 a pop for much longer, Mr. Pedo. You're making your cult followers very angry!

Keep it up!

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (21 children)

The baseline tank size for a ram 3500 is 32 gallons. Diesel is $5.74/gal on average in the Midwest. So a full fill up is ~$184/tank. You underestimated that, yikes.

For more fun, you can also upgrade to a 50 gallon tank, making it $287/tank.

These get a respectable ~18 mpg, so $0.32 per mile.

Just throwing money away

[–] socsa@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They get 18mpg when you drive them like a fucking baby on the highway. Your average idiot who floors it at every stoplight, and does 90 on the interstate gets half that.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't forget the ~~fucking idiots~~ totally cool and definitely not compensating intellectuals that "roll coal".

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Cutting off your toes to make people pay attention to your semi-weekly pedicure.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I have a Subaru WRX and it requires 91+ octane. It was $5.64/gal for me a couple days ago square in the Midwest. $71 to fill up and my gas light wasn't even on. Right next to the 91 on the pump was 88 at < $4.50/gal. When I filled up 2 weeks ago it was $5.09 then 2 days later $5.39. Fuck Trump and his admin so hard.

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can't think of a time past 2000 where driving conventional ICE trucks/big vehicles has been anything other than a money sink.

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I just perused approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

But it's a lot. Independence and Democrats so much less so that his overall approval rating is like 38% last I checked, nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

Remember towards the end of his first term he was around 40%, and Biden was at 40% for 3 years and did nothing to change that.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

That’s what Fox News, AM radio and this lovely new crop of manosphere jerkoffs are all put on the air to do. Create this cult.

Propaganda works. Usually only in one direction, usually only on most people. Add some evil-science military psyop characteristics and yeah. You get that.

If our billionaire ‘free’ press could get to breaking that down, that’d be great kthx.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Internet has just totally changed things, the crazies, the kooks, the cranks, prior to the internet they would say something crazy and be ostracized for it.

Now they get online they find a million other people that believe the same thing. And those Rich billionaires are using those crazy people for their own ends

The only answer is for us to organize and counter use those crazy people against the people trying to use them against us, that's the truth and we can do it. But obviously there's a lot more to it than that.

Obviously mass media was a thing before this and a huge problem, I was just illustrating away things have changed but you're right Fox News well first of all they are the devil, or at least the voice of evil, but the entire reason we have ended up in this place. Not just them but you know that the worst obviously. Or they were.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

Let's just cut our losses and all agree the USA experiment is a failure. Just split it up.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

The problem is, the split is largely rural vs. urban, which is scattered all over the country.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good thing he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace incumbent Republicans with candidates whose only personality trait is praising trump without question...

All this shit is going to backfire in the general, Republicans won't vote D, they just won't vote at all

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but... see! v0t3r Fr4uD! now praise your orange jeebus.

there will be violence from a small, but thoroughly brainwashed group of fascists.

[–] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I know my dumbass mom is “done with politics”. That’s actually the best I could have ever hoped for.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We are ruled by the dumbest dipshits on the planet.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For some reason that's the biggest bummer of it all to me, how incredibly dumb and powerful these people are. I'm starting to think someone has to be dumb to want to exert power over another person in the first place. I'm sure it fuels their egos too.

I wonder what its like to live like that, it sounds incredibly foreign.

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They're dumb but they're also ruthless, they rape and kill children with their bare hands, don't underestimate them just because they're dumb.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This just shows how completely out of touch this asshat is.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago

What does a gallon of gas cost? $100?

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He's never filled his own gas tank. He has no idea what the fuck we are talking about.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

You try filling up a helicopter to weekend at your ancestral home in Valley Forge, JFC !

You povvos have no idea.

FFS, you can't keep polo horses in Manhatten, the noise and pollution stresses them.

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[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even more fucked when you consider these are the prices in the US with oil subsidies. It would be so much more expensive without them, and only gas-powered vehicles would be paying, and not all of us...

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except that all goods require shipping and most shipping is also done by gas powered vehicles. I wish there was a way to opt out but I don't see it being possible.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

It's a peanut, Michael! How much could it cost?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Americans have had cheap fuel since forever

They also seem to like stupid vehicles that are incredibly inefficient

I love my little electric car. I have solar at home and have never once charged at a station and paid for it

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago

also, peanuts now $29 a can.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago

I mean yeah, we are sacrificing so much, but the pain is temporary, and a small price to pay for giving Iran a massive strategic boost they couldn't have gotten any other way!

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Speaking of peanuts, I really wish this fuck would choke on one.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's holding steady captain! $6.20!

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[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

As of today, there isn't a place in the US where gas is below $4/gallon, according to GroundNews

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[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just remember that the current UK equivalent is $8.30 for Diesel and $7.88 for gas/petrol

I'm sure you can do better

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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Let them eat cake...

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Lots of "peanuts" were burned up to fly a Boeing 747 or a chopper to a fucking golf course.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah geez just sell some of your crypto scammings to pay for extra gas price, dumbasses. /s

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