cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
on 13 Apr 2026 21:12
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And so many of these “common men” still seem to really believe that no matter what he actually says or does, all that matters is that he talks like the person they imagine him to be, which they believe means he unequivocally understands and cares about them and can do no wrong. He really does love the poorly educated, and you can see why.
The reality distortion field Trump supporters seem to be trapped in is rapidly approaching the strength of a black hole. I’m not sure what happens when it all collapses and they all fall into the event horizon but I’ll certainly be glad if they can’t escape and we never have to hear from most of them ever again.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
on 14 Apr 2026 06:10
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trump allowed magats- to be out and proud racists/bigots. its an analog of an awakening for closeted people.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Apr 2026 11:59
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all that matters is that he talks like the person they imagine him to be,
That’s the thing, it’s not even that he talks how they want, they literally just imagine that he does, and that’s good enough. It’s so fucking bizarre.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space
on 14 Apr 2026 13:40
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Where are going, Walmart? All the bread at my local big box supermarket is as advertised. Plenty of actual bread alongside the wonderbread, and the stuff in between.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space
on 14 Apr 2026 13:53
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And American industry has enshitified, so any cake we make tastes terrible. Most things taste terrible now, even our vegetables have become flavorless.
P00ptart@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 03:17
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Or at best, tasteless. My kid got some choco rolls the other day and offered me a bite. Tasted like nothing. I was like “no wonder I’ve lost weight, these things used to taste good”
qprimed@lemmy.ml
on 13 Apr 2026 17:52
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“ethel, get them damn kids hitched up to the truck! they pull slow and we gonna be late!”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
on 14 Apr 2026 06:11
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diesel is quite bougie for his followers.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
on 13 Apr 2026 17:39
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If they rise, they rise. Just makes solar an even more fucking obvious choice.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 18:34
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That’s really funny. My electricity prices have basically tripled over the past two or three years and my use hasn’t changed.
With the push towards AI data centers that seem to have coats pushed to the average homeowner, I do not think an EV will be the most cost effective option, at least in “car” form.
Maybe an electric bike or scooter would be more cost effective
lemmyng@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 19:10
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Hybrid vehicles are still an option.
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
on 13 Apr 2026 23:21
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I bought a used 2014 Chevy Volt 3 weeks ago and am averaging 250 mpg since owning it, it’s got a lifetime 140 mpg average.
I live 13 miles from work so essentially not using gasoline. So stoked.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
on 14 Apr 2026 01:39
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The higher the price of gas is, the more hybrids make sense.
Even if gas prices were low, I’d still want to buy a hybrid because prices don’t always stay low.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 19:48
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I know the prices vary by state and municipality but even with a 300% increase you might still save money overall with reduced maintenance and cost-per-mile. Filling up my tank with gas is ~$42 right now and with an equivalent EV it would cost ~$12 to fully charge (if it was 0-100%).
While my current use case for a car would not allow me to purchase an electric vehicle, my future case would. However, I am planning to wait for solid state vehicles. I don’t like how prone to thermal runaway lithium batteries are in their current state. That, and I don’t like the trend towards bigger and heavier vehicles.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to own a large diesel truck for when I need a truck, but it feels like such a waste as a daily personal commuter vehicle. Most of the time, it’s literally me and my spouse. Sometimes we have groceries, sometimes luggage. It’s such a waste of space and energy to be transporting an extra 3000 lbs around
a4ng3l@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 20:03
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I feel you… I went full electric and despite having solar I’m at about 300€ monthly. And that’s on top of the cost of solar and the production I get from the panels. The less we take on the grid the more expensive it is. Now we pay to inject our production when we don’t auto consume it. So all in all it’s always about paying more.
But at least we are not fucking up the air anymore which was the initial idea.
OwOarchist@pawb.social
on 13 Apr 2026 23:36
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I’m going to a mostly off-grid solar system, with grid power only as an emergency backup.
OwOarchist@pawb.social
on 14 Apr 2026 01:35
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Simply setting up an off-grid solar system with inverter and batteries connected to the primary side of an automatic transfer switch. With the grid power connected to the ‘reserve’ side on that automatic switch. Whenever battery power is available, the whole house will run on that, when/if the batteries run out, it will automatically switch to grid power. And automatically switch back to battery power when it’s available again.
(My power company is not very friendly toward grid-tie solar systems. So fuck 'em. I’ll go mostly off-grid and only use them for backup power.)
How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?
What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?
OwOarchist@pawb.social
on 14 Apr 2026 03:43
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How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?
$10/mo service charge just for being connected. Might eventually replace it with a backup generator, but for now, $10/mo is a fair bit cheaper than buying, maintaining, and refueling a generator big enough to run the whole house.
What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?
A) You have to apply for permission to have a grid-tie system (with $100 application fee), and that application can be arbitrarily denied if they decide they don’t want any more grid-tie houses in this area. No way to tell if they’d approve it or not; either way, they’re keeping the fee.
B) Part of that application is permits and inspection, and there’s no way my house is passing an electrical system inspection. It was originally built in 1910 and has been added onto and modified many times by many owners since. Some circuits are completely dead, absolutely none of the breakers on my four service panels are labeled … it’s a nightmare. Getting all of it up to modern electrical code would probably involve just ripping out every inch of wiring in the house and redoing it from scratch.
C) They never let me ‘sell’ solar power back. They’ll never pay me cash for it under any circumstance. They give a 1:1 ‘energy credit’ which can be applied toward future power bills and that credit arbitrarily expires and resets to zero once a year, no matter how much you’ve built up. Not a great deal.
I already had my gas connection cut off. Use 4G for internet because the wired ISPs here are shit for various reasons. The only things going in/out of my house that I use are clean/dirty water and electricity.
Solar/battery possibly with a petrol generator backup would allow cutting off the mains electricity too. The daily service charge just to have a mains connection costs as much per year as buying a petrol generator. As long as you don’t need to use much petrol then it rapidly becomes a pretty reasonable choice.
I suppose it depends what export tariffs are like, if they pay you a decent amount for sending energy back then it might cover the service charge for having a grid connection. If it doesn’t, get fucked. Disconnect me, I ain’t paying.
P00ptart@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 03:20
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I need a vehicle powered by spite. It’s my most common fuel, why can’t my car take it too?
wuffah@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 17:39
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I think that the distinct overlap between abusive religion and abusive leaders is what makes the former so useful to the latter.
kreskin@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 21:06
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We’ve been doing the exact same thing for thousands of years. Nothing ever changes. And governments and religions dont learn from their mistakes or evolve.
OwOarchist@pawb.social
on 13 Apr 2026 23:37
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That’s the whole purpose of religion – why it was invented in the first place.
shiftymccool@piefed.ca
on 14 Apr 2026 10:59
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The purpose of organized religion. Before that, it was just people doing their best to explain really weird shit the world did
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 17:41
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The original Reuters article instead of this dumpster fire of a source. (Canned explanation whenever I’m not so lazy.)
Also, the IB Times (as usual for this piece of shit outlet) is citing a quote from over a month ago as if it’s new news.
NullPointerException@lemmy.ca
on 13 Apr 2026 17:57
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Something something brioches?
Corvidae@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 18:00
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“Drain the Swamp”, “Anti-elite”, “America First”, “Fighting for Main Street, not Wall Street”.
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
on 13 Apr 2026 18:02
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Extra stupid because, even if he doesn’t care about the retail price of gasoline for normal people, gas prices drive inflation by increasing the cost to produce basically everything.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 18:42
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His friends + Russian Hitler are raking it in, good enough for American Hitler?
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
on 13 Apr 2026 19:37
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Too many hitlers these days smh
OwOarchist@pawb.social
on 13 Apr 2026 23:37
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Somebody should do something about that.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
on 13 Apr 2026 18:06
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its fine-- when he dies we sue his estate and Jared Kushner and take back everything he took with interest, and we toss his criminal enterprise kids in jail.
HarneyToker@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 19:39
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Let them eat cake!
jobbies@lemmy.zip
on 13 Apr 2026 20:06
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Wasn’t he elected precisely because of things like gas prices?
If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign. This would be seen as abandoning the electorate or breaking a manifesto pledge.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
on 13 Apr 2026 21:35
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In normal countries if a budget can’t be decided on, the government collapses and an election is held. In the US, they have indefinite 6 month extensions where they end up not paying government employees every 6 months for a month.
The whole country is broken.
Christ, if anyone in the public sector went a month without pay over here the unions would be rioting in the streets. It just wouldn’t happen.
Come to think of it, regardless of whether a budget passes or not, I suspect the government would still be legally bound to pay wages. I don’t know for sure though cos I can’t remember it ever happening.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
on 13 Apr 2026 22:39
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In parliamentary democracies, it defaults to the status quo. Basically last year’s budget, plus that changes that it entailed. Taxes are still coming in, so there is no reason to stop money from going to places it needs to go and the difference between balance is called a deficit. Belgium could not form a government for 1-2 years rcently and ran through this scenario.
Its amazing that not only did the US never plan for this scenario but they’ve never changed it since. How do you convince someone to work for you when they might only get paid for 10 months a year?
And that downtime won’t be good for productivity either.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
on 14 Apr 2026 11:30
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For parliamentary democracies the budget is the big point of contention. Most votes of no confidence happen because a failed budget proposal.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Apr 2026 12:00
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It’s “illegal” for public unions to strike here.
Reagan famously fired all air traffic control workers because they went on strike.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space
on 14 Apr 2026 13:51
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Learned about that from John Oliver. How the hell the unions have just quietly sat on that for 40 years as if they didn’t get their legs knocked from under there is beyond me.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Apr 2026 14:21
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They never truly recovered
FosterMolasses@leminal.space
on 14 Apr 2026 13:47
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If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign.
Real, I remember the day before Truss left, I overheard some man on the bus saying on the phone how she and the entire party should be “strung up in the streets”.
UK isn’t as quick to tolerate that sort of shit lol. They may drag their feet at times, but when they decide you’re gone, you’re gone.
It’s crazy how much the American populace is willing to put up with.
Makes these old images of Biden raising gas prices funnier to dig back up. Omg $3! When some places now are pushing $6.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
on 13 Apr 2026 22:10
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Here in the Southeast, those stickers were all over the place, too! Sometimes I’d even see them inside stores, people were putting them out faster than employees could remove them. They weren’t just used at gas pumps, though that was obviously the primary placement for them.
I’ve only seen the Trump version online so far. Wonder why those same people who were putting out the Biden ones aren’t getting the Trump ones out as quickly?
I’m sure it’s not that they’re low-life partisan hypocrites. It’s probably the lingering effects of the illegal tariffs driving up the cost of the stickers at a time when they’ve lost their jobs and healthcare so they literally just can’t afford the gas or the stickers to be able to put them out. I’m sure it’s that.
redlemace@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 11:52
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Many places In europe charge more than 2 euro per liter. so like 9 usd for a gallon.
also many places in europe have more fuel efficient cars
Also, we’re kind of used to those prices, because most of it is tax. The changes in actual gas price (which are upsetting Americans now) are fractions of the usual price for us.
Of course we also complain about high prices, but it doesn’t break our budgets.
Roughly $10 USD equivalent in my country now. Bananas money.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
on 13 Apr 2026 21:21
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Remember what used to happen when some out-of-touch rich person gave folks the, “Let them eat cake” speech? Yeah. Good times.
Nefara@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 21:24
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So where are all the “I did that” stickers on the gas pumps with his face?
Madison420@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 22:45
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I’ve seen a couple.
P00ptart@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 03:12
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I bought a pack of googly eyes to add to the ones I see, but haven’t seen any recently.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Apr 2026 11:50
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Ive seen one of JD Vance with a tiny head ala the Super Mario Bros movie Koopa but no Trump ones (in person) yet.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today
on 13 Apr 2026 22:25
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Diesel at $5 a gallon is going to concern him a lot in a couple of months. In fact it’s going to be a very great concern for the entire Republican Party.
8oow3291d@feddit.dk
on 13 Apr 2026 22:42
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It is pathetic if egoistic concern over gas prices is the thing that sours MAGA on Trump, after all the shit Trump has done.
Photonic@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 05:19
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Of course it is the only thing that will change their minds… These people can’t think further than their own wallet at this exact moment in time and maybe a few months in advance.
Sadly a lot of them will endure this shit because they can’t admit to themselves that they were wrong about Trump. They will keep thinking of ways to ease their feelings of cognitive dissonance, like “Iran was a huge danger and something needed to be done!” or “it’s good for the US since we export oil and LNG”.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Apr 2026 03:06
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I’ve seen as high as $6.79/gal here in the Portland metro area. And we aren’t even the highest in the country, I can’t fathom what it’s like in California
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Apr 2026 03:26
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The US is so weird when it comes to gas prices. Here in Europe 2€/l (which is over 8€/gallon) was normal for diesel even before some of the latest bullshit. $3/gallon is insane
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Apr 2026 04:10
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I haven’t seen $3/gal in years, but yes, I agree, the US is so weird in so many ways. I hate this place.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 13 Apr 2026 22:38
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It’s pretty great that they’re already in full hubris mode cos that usually kills the facade really quick for normies
SuiXi3D@fedia.io
on 13 Apr 2026 22:45
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It will when some down-on-their-luck working man gets fed up and shoots him over it.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
on 13 Apr 2026 22:51
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He must have a great plan to win the mid-terms…wonder what that could be???
douglasg14b@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 00:55
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Voter suppression
FosterMolasses@leminal.space
on 14 Apr 2026 13:38
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So basically same as the first time
CanadaPlus@futurology.today
on 14 Apr 2026 14:55
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Maybe actual vote rigging, I dunno. Just suppression isn’t going to save them this time.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip
on 14 Apr 2026 00:26
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“Let them eat cake”
JigglySackles@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 03:47
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Knew I’d find this quote.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
on 14 Apr 2026 00:49
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Why should he care? He doesn’t pay for gas. That’s somebody else’s problem.
He has a whole country to pay for his gas… imagine how great that’s be if you were the biggest douche in the universe?
I sort of wish South Park would redo that episode with Trump instead cause he definitely beat out John Edwards. Could even just be a cut and paste for the most part, slightly different dialogue. Then a short live action apology with Matt and Trey saying hiow sorry they were that they didn’t realize there was such a better candidate when they first aired it and how much Trump is so much douchier than their original winner. Fuck even top it off with a cheesy gold paint sprayed award sent to acknowledge his accomplishments.
Slashme@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 01:41
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He’s a secret stooge of the environmentalist movement and this is his endgame to kill the internal combustion engine. Wake up, sheeple!
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
on 14 Apr 2026 01:43
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Tbh, I’m not so concerned about myself. But the effect of higher gas prices tends to be very regressive. People who have less means often have to drive less fuel-efficient vehicles and have longer commutes due to housing costs. Additionally, this is going to affect the cost of other things (e.g. food).
People who are already stressed financially are going to really feel the squeeze.
Photonic@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 05:10
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That’s not a bug, but a feature. It means more money flows from poor Americans – often POC or immigrants, who Trump despises – to his already filthy rich friends in the oil biz.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Apr 2026 02:25
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wabafee@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 03:13
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I would be impressed this is a 4D chess move to stop reliance on oil countries and adopt green tech without angrying his base. But unfortunately this is probably just an old man that is suffering dementia.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Apr 2026 05:42
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He’s being blamed for all of this, though, and his base is angry about the Iran war.
No, he doesn’t care because big oil companies are raking in extra revenue from the oil crisis. Selling less for more is apparently good for business.
yuknowhokat@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 2026 00:11
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Maybe not good for business but certainly good for profit. Buy stuff at a barely raised price Jack the shit out of the price you sell it for and laugh all the way to the bank.
the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 07:02
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Rump couldn’t play 1d checkers, let alone 4d chess 😆. He is a bumbling clown and a coward, and all Americans should be embarrassed and ashamed.
IratePirate@feddit.org
on 14 Apr 2026 16:34
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“Aloof, angry and entitled is the best I can do for you.” - the average Karen
Gates9@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Apr 2026 03:24
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middlemanSI@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 04:25
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US == Casino, confirmed?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
on 14 Apr 2026 06:09
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he already said to his followers: “GET used to it, and stop complaining”
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Apr 2026 09:28
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His is entirelly a “some of you might suffer and I’m willing to make that sacrifice” perspective, and he and his family have surelly made more than enough money frontrunning his proclamations to cover any costs he has from higher fuel price rises, so he is alright.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space
on 14 Apr 2026 13:36
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Hey son! Are ya winning?
dunestorm@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 13:40
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Fucking selfish evil piece of shit human being. There is absolutely no regard for the welfare of others.
Critical_Drinking@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 14:11
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Every little helps in the Epstein amnesia operation.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Apr 2026 14:12
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Sounds a lot like “let them eat cake” to me.
tacoplease@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 2026 00:40
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The only valid retort is feed them metal slugs.
Pofski@lemmy.world
on 14 Apr 2026 14:41
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Can somebody explain this part to me?
He also signalled hope towards the fuel costs going down in fall, telling the host, ‘I hope so. I mean, I think so. It could be. Or the same. Or maybe a little bit higher. But it should be around the same. I think this won’t be that much longer.’
How can this be reported as him signalling hope? This is gibberish. Best part of all is that stockbrokers and traders will run with this as if it is now a given and then act complete pikachu if it doesn’t happen.
because it’s propaganda of a real story, you already know the right of it.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 2026 01:36
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I hope so.
Amazingly, it seems they meant it literally. Usually “hope” in this context means you think there’s a good chance something will happen. Trump literally has no idea whatsoever.
Napster153@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 2026 07:51
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Materialists are showing the inherent self-destructiveness of their ideology
CanadaPlus@futurology.today
on 14 Apr 2026 14:49
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How in touch he always seems with the common man. Just remarkable.
Would you expect any less from the man who invented the word “groceries”?
Did he say that he invented that word?
Yep, he did. There was no such word before last elections it seems…
Not exactly, but he did seem to think it was a novel idea.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2NKByZe7kZg&pp=0gcJCTQCo7Vq…
And so many of these “common men” still seem to really believe that no matter what he actually says or does, all that matters is that he talks like the person they imagine him to be, which they believe means he unequivocally understands and cares about them and can do no wrong. He really does love the poorly educated, and you can see why.
The reality distortion field Trump supporters seem to be trapped in is rapidly approaching the strength of a black hole. I’m not sure what happens when it all collapses and they all fall into the event horizon but I’ll certainly be glad if they can’t escape and we never have to hear from most of them ever again.
trump allowed magats- to be out and proud racists/bigots. its an analog of an awakening for closeted people.
That’s the thing, it’s not even that he talks how they want, they literally just imagine that he does, and that’s good enough. It’s so fucking bizarre.
What happened to all the Nazis in 1945?
Not enough, obviously, because they’re baaaack.
Marie Antoinette wants her sentiment back
(Yes I know it’s apocryphal don’t @ me)
and her head?
“let them
eat cakeuse diesel”Diesel is more expensive in the US.
Cake is more expensive than bread
and some breads in the US qualify as cakes due to unnecessarily high sugar content
how else can we give enough
customerscitizens diabetes to fuel the profit generating system that is the sickcare system run by insurance companiesI’ve heard you can cure diabetes by injecting bleach
Where are going, Walmart? All the bread at my local big box supermarket is as advertised. Plenty of actual bread alongside the wonderbread, and the stuff in between.
I laughed at this harder than I should have lol
And American industry has enshitified, so any cake we make tastes terrible. Most things taste terrible now, even our vegetables have become flavorless.
Or at best, tasteless. My kid got some choco rolls the other day and offered me a bite. Tasted like nothing. I was like “no wonder I’ve lost weight, these things used to taste good”
“ethel, get them damn kids hitched up to the truck! they pull slow and we gonna be late!”
diesel is quite bougie for his followers.
If they rise, they rise. Just makes solar an even more fucking obvious choice.
110% my next car will be an EV.
That’s really funny. My electricity prices have basically tripled over the past two or three years and my use hasn’t changed.
With the push towards AI data centers that seem to have coats pushed to the average homeowner, I do not think an EV will be the most cost effective option, at least in “car” form.
Maybe an electric bike or scooter would be more cost effective
Hybrid vehicles are still an option.
I bought a used 2014 Chevy Volt 3 weeks ago and am averaging 250 mpg since owning it, it’s got a lifetime 140 mpg average.
I live 13 miles from work so essentially not using gasoline. So stoked.
The higher the price of gas is, the more hybrids make sense.
Even if gas prices were low, I’d still want to buy a hybrid because prices don’t always stay low.
I know the prices vary by state and municipality but even with a 300% increase you might still save money overall with reduced maintenance and cost-per-mile. Filling up my tank with gas is ~$42 right now and with an equivalent EV it would cost ~$12 to fully charge (if it was 0-100%).
While my current use case for a car would not allow me to purchase an electric vehicle, my future case would. However, I am planning to wait for solid state vehicles. I don’t like how prone to thermal runaway lithium batteries are in their current state. That, and I don’t like the trend towards bigger and heavier vehicles.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to own a large diesel truck for when I need a truck, but it feels like such a waste as a daily personal commuter vehicle. Most of the time, it’s literally me and my spouse. Sometimes we have groceries, sometimes luggage. It’s such a waste of space and energy to be transporting an extra 3000 lbs around
I feel you… I went full electric and despite having solar I’m at about 300€ monthly. And that’s on top of the cost of solar and the production I get from the panels. The less we take on the grid the more expensive it is. Now we pay to inject our production when we don’t auto consume it. So all in all it’s always about paying more.
But at least we are not fucking up the air anymore which was the initial idea.
I’m going to a mostly off-grid solar system, with grid power only as an emergency backup.
I’d like to hear more about this.
Simply setting up an off-grid solar system with inverter and batteries connected to the primary side of an automatic transfer switch. With the grid power connected to the ‘reserve’ side on that automatic switch. Whenever battery power is available, the whole house will run on that, when/if the batteries run out, it will automatically switch to grid power. And automatically switch back to battery power when it’s available again.
(My power company is not very friendly toward grid-tie solar systems. So fuck 'em. I’ll go mostly off-grid and only use them for backup power.)
How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?
What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?
$10/mo service charge just for being connected. Might eventually replace it with a backup generator, but for now, $10/mo is a fair bit cheaper than buying, maintaining, and refueling a generator big enough to run the whole house.
A) You have to apply for permission to have a grid-tie system (with $100 application fee), and that application can be arbitrarily denied if they decide they don’t want any more grid-tie houses in this area. No way to tell if they’d approve it or not; either way, they’re keeping the fee.
B) Part of that application is permits and inspection, and there’s no way my house is passing an electrical system inspection. It was originally built in 1910 and has been added onto and modified many times by many owners since. Some circuits are completely dead, absolutely none of the breakers on my four service panels are labeled … it’s a nightmare. Getting all of it up to modern electrical code would probably involve just ripping out every inch of wiring in the house and redoing it from scratch.
C) They never let me ‘sell’ solar power back. They’ll never pay me cash for it under any circumstance. They give a 1:1 ‘energy credit’ which can be applied toward future power bills and that credit arbitrarily expires and resets to zero once a year, no matter how much you’ve built up. Not a great deal.
I already had my gas connection cut off. Use 4G for internet because the wired ISPs here are shit for various reasons. The only things going in/out of my house that I use are clean/dirty water and electricity.
Solar/battery possibly with a petrol generator backup would allow cutting off the mains electricity too. The daily service charge just to have a mains connection costs as much per year as buying a petrol generator. As long as you don’t need to use much petrol then it rapidly becomes a pretty reasonable choice.
I suppose it depends what export tariffs are like, if they pay you a decent amount for sending energy back then it might cover the service charge for having a grid connection. If it doesn’t, get fucked. Disconnect me, I ain’t paying.
I need a vehicle powered by spite. It’s my most common fuel, why can’t my car take it too?
Pretty sure that would be my bike
I think that the distinct overlap between abusive religion and abusive leaders is what makes the former so useful to the latter.
We’ve been doing the exact same thing for thousands of years. Nothing ever changes. And governments and religions dont learn from their mistakes or evolve.
That’s the whole purpose of religion – why it was invented in the first place.
The purpose of organized religion. Before that, it was just people doing their best to explain really weird shit the world did
The original Reuters article instead of this dumpster fire of a source. (Canned explanation whenever I’m not so lazy.)
Also, the IB Times (as usual for this piece of shit outlet) is citing a quote from over a month ago as if it’s new news.
Something something brioches?
“Drain the Swamp”, “Anti-elite”, “America First”, “Fighting for Main Street, not Wall Street”.
Extra stupid because, even if he doesn’t care about the retail price of gasoline for normal people, gas prices drive inflation by increasing the cost to produce basically everything.
His friends + Russian Hitler are raking it in, good enough for American Hitler?
Too many hitlers these days smh
Somebody should do something about that.
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Guy who doesn’t pay for his own gas doesn’t care about gas prices. More at 11.
Yeah. The morons he had to appease already gave him a 2nd term.
If the president gets shot, then let him get shot.
I like him! At least he’s honest! A real man of the people. Someone I could get a beer with. Drain the swamp!
Trump to the world: “Fuck you all, no one is stopping me from doing anything so I will keep getting more extreme until we find a breaking point.”
its fine-- when he dies we sue his estate and Jared Kushner and take back everything he took with interest, and we toss his criminal enterprise kids in jail.
Let them eat cake!
Wasn’t he elected precisely because of things like gas prices?
If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign. This would be seen as abandoning the electorate or breaking a manifesto pledge.
In normal countries if a budget can’t be decided on, the government collapses and an election is held. In the US, they have indefinite 6 month extensions where they end up not paying government employees every 6 months for a month. The whole country is broken.
Christ, if anyone in the public sector went a month without pay over here the unions would be rioting in the streets. It just wouldn’t happen.
Come to think of it, regardless of whether a budget passes or not, I suspect the government would still be legally bound to pay wages. I don’t know for sure though cos I can’t remember it ever happening.
In parliamentary democracies, it defaults to the status quo. Basically last year’s budget, plus that changes that it entailed. Taxes are still coming in, so there is no reason to stop money from going to places it needs to go and the difference between balance is called a deficit. Belgium could not form a government for 1-2 years rcently and ran through this scenario.
Its amazing that not only did the US never plan for this scenario but they’ve never changed it since. How do you convince someone to work for you when they might only get paid for 10 months a year?
And that downtime won’t be good for productivity either.
For parliamentary democracies the budget is the big point of contention. Most votes of no confidence happen because a failed budget proposal.
It’s “illegal” for public unions to strike here.
Reagan famously fired all air traffic control workers because they went on strike.
Learned about that from John Oliver. How the hell the unions have just quietly sat on that for 40 years as if they didn’t get their legs knocked from under there is beyond me.
They never truly recovered
Real, I remember the day before Truss left, I overheard some man on the bus saying on the phone how she and the entire party should be “strung up in the streets”.
UK isn’t as quick to tolerate that sort of shit lol. They may drag their feet at times, but when they decide you’re gone, you’re gone.
It’s crazy how much the American populace is willing to put up with.
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Makes these old images of Biden raising gas prices funnier to dig back up. Omg $3! When some places now are pushing $6.
Here in the Southeast, those stickers were all over the place, too! Sometimes I’d even see them inside stores, people were putting them out faster than employees could remove them. They weren’t just used at gas pumps, though that was obviously the primary placement for them.
I’ve only seen the Trump version online so far. Wonder why those same people who were putting out the Biden ones aren’t getting the Trump ones out as quickly?
I’m sure it’s not that they’re low-life partisan hypocrites. It’s probably the lingering effects of the illegal tariffs driving up the cost of the stickers at a time when they’ve lost their jobs and healthcare so they literally just can’t afford the gas or the stickers to be able to put them out. I’m sure it’s that.
Many places In europe charge more than 2 euro per liter. so like 9 usd for a gallon.
also many places in europe have more fuel efficient cars
Also, we’re kind of used to those prices, because most of it is tax. The changes in actual gas price (which are upsetting Americans now) are fractions of the usual price for us.
Of course we also complain about high prices, but it doesn’t break our budgets.
I’ve already seen several of Trump at the pump
Saw one in the middle of nowhere a couple weeks back and was pleasantly shocked
I saw diesel at the equivalent of $7.47 USD/gallon today where im at.
Roughly $10 USD equivalent in my country now. Bananas money.
Remember what used to happen when some out-of-touch rich person gave folks the, “Let them eat cake” speech? Yeah. Good times.
So where are all the “I did that” stickers on the gas pumps with his face?
I’ve seen a couple.
I bought a pack of googly eyes to add to the ones I see, but haven’t seen any recently.
Ive seen one of JD Vance with a tiny head ala the Super Mario Bros movie Koopa but no Trump ones (in person) yet.
Diesel at $5 a gallon is going to concern him a lot in a couple of months. In fact it’s going to be a very great concern for the entire Republican Party.
It is pathetic if egoistic concern over gas prices is the thing that sours MAGA on Trump, after all the shit Trump has done.
Of course it is the only thing that will change their minds… These people can’t think further than their own wallet at this exact moment in time and maybe a few months in advance.
Sadly a lot of them will endure this shit because they can’t admit to themselves that they were wrong about Trump. They will keep thinking of ways to ease their feelings of cognitive dissonance, like “Iran was a huge danger and something needed to be done!” or “it’s good for the US since we export oil and LNG”.
I’ve seen as high as $6.79/gal here in the Portland metro area. And we aren’t even the highest in the country, I can’t fathom what it’s like in California
The US is so weird when it comes to gas prices. Here in Europe 2€/l (which is over 8€/gallon) was normal for diesel even before some of the latest bullshit. $3/gallon is insane
I haven’t seen $3/gal in years, but yes, I agree, the US is so weird in so many ways. I hate this place.
It’s pretty great that they’re already in full hubris mode cos that usually kills the facade really quick for normies
It will when some down-on-their-luck working man gets fed up and shoots him over it.
He must have a great plan to win the mid-terms…wonder what that could be???
Voter suppression
So basically same as the first time
Maybe actual vote rigging, I dunno. Just suppression isn’t going to save them this time.
“Let them eat cake”
Knew I’d find this quote.
Why should he care? He doesn’t pay for gas. That’s somebody else’s problem.
He has a whole country to pay for his gas… imagine how great that’s be if you were the biggest douche in the universe?
I sort of wish South Park would redo that episode with Trump instead cause he definitely beat out John Edwards. Could even just be a cut and paste for the most part, slightly different dialogue. Then a short live action apology with Matt and Trey saying hiow sorry they were that they didn’t realize there was such a better candidate when they first aired it and how much Trump is so much douchier than their original winner. Fuck even top it off with a cheesy gold paint sprayed award sent to acknowledge his accomplishments.
He’s a secret stooge of the environmentalist movement and this is his endgame to kill the internal combustion engine. Wake up, sheeple!
Tbh, I’m not so concerned about myself. But the effect of higher gas prices tends to be very regressive. People who have less means often have to drive less fuel-efficient vehicles and have longer commutes due to housing costs. Additionally, this is going to affect the cost of other things (e.g. food).
People who are already stressed financially are going to really feel the squeeze.
That’s not a bug, but a feature. It means more money flows from poor Americans – often POC or immigrants, who Trump despises – to his already filthy rich friends in the oil biz.
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I would be impressed this is a 4D chess move to stop reliance on oil countries and adopt green tech without angrying his base. But unfortunately this is probably just an old man that is suffering dementia.
He’s being blamed for all of this, though, and his base is angry about the Iran war.
No, he doesn’t care because big oil companies are raking in extra revenue from the oil crisis. Selling less for more is apparently good for business.
Maybe not good for business but certainly good for profit. Buy stuff at a barely raised price Jack the shit out of the price you sell it for and laugh all the way to the bank.
Rump couldn’t play 1d checkers, let alone 4d chess 😆. He is a bumbling clown and a coward, and all Americans should be embarrassed and ashamed.
“Aloof, angry and entitled is the best I can do for you.” - the average Karen
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Of course, he’s an agent of influence, Putin’s running dog tasked to just run the US to the ground.
and ISRAEL, since he claims he reports to benny 24/7.
Why the fuck should they! Fuckn asshole!
Let them drive EVs…oh wait.
If the gibbets rise, then let them rise.
US == Casino, confirmed?
he already said to his followers: “GET used to it, and stop complaining”
His is entirelly a “some of you might suffer and I’m willing to make that sacrifice” perspective, and he and his family have surelly made more than enough money frontrunning his proclamations to cover any costs he has from higher fuel price rises, so he is alright.
Hey son! Are ya winning?
Fucking selfish evil piece of shit human being. There is absolutely no regard for the welfare of others.
Every little helps in the Epstein amnesia operation.
Sounds a lot like “let them eat cake” to me.
The only valid retort is feed them metal slugs.
Can somebody explain this part to me?
How can this be reported as him signalling hope? This is gibberish. Best part of all is that stockbrokers and traders will run with this as if it is now a given and then act complete pikachu if it doesn’t happen.
Djezes this is the stupidest timeline.
because it’s propaganda of a real story, you already know the right of it.
Amazingly, it seems they meant it literally. Usually “hope” in this context means you think there’s a good chance something will happen. Trump literally has no idea whatsoever.
Materialists are showing the inherent self-destructiveness of their ideology
Those grapes are sure sour.
Might be some Wrath in em too soon
“If Donny has to die, then let him die.”
Wouldn’t concern many.
Concern, no. Encouraged, by billions.
Make his fatass walk
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