Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy.
He had voted for President Donald Trump in the last election. He believed Trump had strengthened the economy in his first term, and he wanted more of that.
“I thought that he was going to bring some of those things back,” said Castillo, a 43-year-old factory worker. And now? “He said he was going to bring gas down, but the war in Iran is now making everything worse.”
It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.
Every single Republican that has been in office since I was born has started a war in the middle east. Every. Single. One. Anyone who didn’t see this coming is just a fucking moron.
Every single republican president in my lifetime has left office to a recession. Yet the average person is so brainwashed by corporate media that almost everybody thinks that conservatives are good for the economy.
The bottom line is they hate the United States and the Constitution. If they had their way back in the 1700’s we’d still be paying taxes to the king of England. I like to remind them that during the revolution the Founding Fathers would have been called radical left lunatics by the conservatives of the day.
I disagree, it’s just a divergence in belief in what America truly is. The sad fact is that their portrayal of America may be closer to the truth.
America was primarily built by rum running slave owners who hated paying taxes. It was founded by rich men to protect the interest of rich men, and not a lot has changed over time.
I like to remind them that during the revolution the Founding Fathers would have been called radical left lunatics by the conservatives of the day.
Maybe if you only read the popular history about people like Benjamin Franklin or Hamilton. In reality most of the founding fathers would be seen as rabid libertarians by today’s means. Some of their ideas about religion would seem liberal, but you would have to ignore issues like slavery, the brutality towards native populations, women’s suffrage, voting rights for the poor, and taxation to label them as leftist in general.
I feel that you probably agree with the sentiment but you just want to say well achtshually
I think it’s an important distinction. They loath the general population of America, but love America as a country because it facilitates their wealth.
I also heartily disagree with your characterization of the founding fathers.
Yet the average person is so brainwashed by corporate media that almost everybody thinks that conservatives are good for the economy.
That’s the one that blows my mind. I’ll be talking to reactionary centrists (that are probably voting Republican at least sometimes) and they will often concede a lot, but then say something like, “yeah, but at least Republicans know how to run an economy”?
It’s like…in what fucking universe? They like to point to Covid as somehow bringing it all down for poor PEDOnald, but cannot really show how he was remarkably better than the economy under Obama prior to Covid? Also, they cannot really point to what policy of Biden’s was so bad for the economy?
Hmm yes the Americans are made of American.
Don’t you have to go back to LBJ to find any president who wasn’t part of some conflict in the middle east? Granted, Carter’s might just be started by the hostage situation…
Nixon didn’t actually get into anything in the middle East. He armed up Israel and put our troops on alert, but didn’t get into any shooting. Granted, that’s because he was busy with atrocities in the far East. So it’s more just a case that he was already busy.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic. Dems never sold a war to the country based on lies, Bush senior might get a pass since Hussein actually invaded Kuwait but again the only reason we would protect Kuwait is because of oil.
It’s hard to not view my fellow Americans as contemptible, selfish pricks as a whole, nearly incapable of empathy. Killing brown people by the thousands is tolerable, but not paying 40 cents more per gallon of gas. Give me a fucking break.
Even the “good ones” will be more focused on making sure everyone else knows that they didn’t want this, as if the only important thing is that they don’t get any blowback personally. It’s still selfish in a roundabout way. If Karma were real Americans would suffer, period.
Out of 245 million eligible US voters:
75 million voted for Harris.
77 million voted for the con.
93 million couldn’t be bothered, or had their feelings manipulated by the sudden flurry of accusations that Harris must be a Zionist because that wasn’t ingenious propaganda.
I’m still more angry at the 93 million slugs than I am about the bigots, and that’s got nothing to do with fucking blowback.
When I say that 2 in 3 usians made trump get to the office, they say I’m lying. But this is the cold truth: more than 90 million usians thought that they were fine with both trump and harris. 90 million+ usians thought that trump was fine so they couldn’t be bothered to vote.
or had their feelings manipulated by the sudden flurry of accusations that Harris must be a Zionist because that wasn’t ingenious propaganda.
Setting aside the accuracy (or lack thereof) of your statement, you think Harris wasn’t a Zionist? Really now?
Apparently, everything negative about their candidate is a fake propaganda even though it’s all out in the open.
It’s a god damn team sports for them, where they can’t take any criticism and blame everyone else but themselves.
They’re a cult.
Isn’t she literally married to a Jewish man who has actively defended the Palestinian genocide in Gaza?
He’s spoken out against “singling out Israel due to anti-Jewish hatred,” but from a quick Google he hasn’t outright defended the genocide.
Even the “good ones” will be more focused on making sure everyone else knows that they didn’t want this
And how anyone who badmouths their favorite war criminal (cough cough Obama) is a Russian agent trying to sow division and aid the fascists. There’s unfortunately very little true anti-imperialism in America.
If Karma were real Americans would suffer, period.
The current state of the Western world in general should do wonders for one’s belief in karma.
I wish Americans would show more horror at the Iranian schoolgirls that we killed last week. But then again, republicans lack empathy as a rule. It’s too much to ask for these people to care about those dead kids, or the dead kids the Trump raped and murdered to hide the evidence. Or the thousands upon thousands of dead kids Trump killed by cutting USAID. That’s all too abstract. Prices at the pump, that’s what does it.
We need to completely rebuild our society and values system.
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Maybe the fucking morons that voted the warmonger into office shouldn’t also be the ones buying enormous gas guzzlers.
4 years of “I did that” Biden stickers on the pumps, but these dipshits keep buying lifted F350s like the $0.50 per gallon difference is why it costs so much to fuel up.
To be fair, they need these emotional support trucks so they can haul their daddy issues around with them.
Worth noting that Kamala Harris would have been in favor of this war with Iran as well. She was explicit about that in her campaign.
Edit: Worthless liberals crying in the comments over Mamala
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/harris-iran-greatest-adversary-trump-election.html
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/harris-promises-most-lethal-military
She would gone to war with Iran for Israel the same as Trump sorry to hurt your feelings with facts.
Source?
Because that’s not what things looked like in 2024.
Harris supported the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action deal with Iran to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. And she condemned a January 2020 military strike against top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and co-sponsored unsuccessful legislation to block further military actions against Iranian leaders and targets.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/harris-iran-greatest-adversary-trump-election.html
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/harris-promises-most-lethal-military
She would gone to war with Iran for Israel the same as Trump sorry to hurt your feelings with facts.
do you think she would have torn up and then try to reestablish and then go to war when she failed, the existing Iran nuclear deal?
The agitators that told people not to vote for her bear accountability for Trump being in office and the consequences that result. Why do you feel like you need to create cover for them?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/harris-iran-greatest-adversary-trump-election.html
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/harris-promises-most-lethal-military
She would gone to war with Iran for Israel the same as Trump sorry to hurt your feelings with facts.
Also thanks for adding extra shit to what I said! I didn’t talk about the nuclear deal stuff at all!
She was explicit about that in her campaign.
Then it will be trivial for you to find an example of her being explicit about it, and show all the downvoters what idiots they are.
It’s worth noting this opinion is worthless trash. Unless you have a time machine?
Fuck off, noone asked
Got proof?
Nah, didn’t think so
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/harris-iran-greatest-adversary-trump-election.html
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/harris-promises-most-lethal-military
She would gone to war with Iran for Israel the same as Trump sorry to hurt your feelings with facts.
Honestly, neck yourself and spare us the inconvenience of removing your useless filth
Classic liberal response lmao
Just dug mine out of the closet. Here it comes.
I lost most of mine… luckily they’re on sale!
Well here’s something interesting.
According to Trump, 52% of voters support the war. His source claims that “Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans say the U.S. military operation against Iran should last at least a few more weeks, an opinion 32% of Democrats agree with, and 50% of voters not affiliated with either major party”.
Smells like a poll Trump paid for.
Yes polls he made up. Well according to my polling infinity plus one percent of people think he’s a pedofile who belongs in jail
Wow! My poll says the same thing!
What a weird opinion for anyone to have: the war should definitely go at least a few more weeks, 1 week or 2 weeks is not good enough. Never mind achieving a specific goal, just how long is the minimum length of time the fighting should go on for.
United my ass. I want nothing to do with them.
Yep. The minute I hear some redcap grumble about gas prices, I’ll ask why they voted for it, then.
Unite over gas prices until we have to divide again over pedophilia.
Conservatives support it. The rest of us don’t.
unfortunately ‘the rest of you’ is only a third of the country
You are correct.
The US population is 340m, 266m are of voting age citizens. DJT got 77m votes. Kamala got 75m. Another 74m didn’t think it was important enough to show up. Russia even dumped a ton of money into the Green party along with GOP donors and was only able to siphon 600k Dem votes away to Stein.
There are just as many people who voted for fascism as there are who don’t care if a fascist gets put in charge. Only a third of the population was willing to do the bare minimum and just show up to vote. And many of they still shower Trump’s financial supporters with money. Starlink, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Meta,Google, Dell… et cetera.
Sad state of affairs.
Francisco Castillo, you are a fucking idiot.
I live in rural Nevada the price of gas before the war was $2.66. As of today it’s $3.15. Most people living here blame trans athletes and Biden…
Interesting development this morning. My supervisor isn’t here. He drives a big diesel truck ~40 miles/65 km to work. The truck allegedly gets 22 mpg. Diesel is $5 per gallon now. A little bit of math tells me it’s about $20 just to drive to work and back each day, not counting any tolls.
I’m sure it’s nothing.
Posing in front of a gas guzzler whining about the high price of gas. Maybe if the US mercenaries bomb and kill more people the price will hopefully go down!
It was $2.74 on the day Trump started the war, and it’s $3.79 today.
So the oil is drilled in the U.S., refined in the U.S., and shipped in the U.S., but the prices changed because there are shortages elsewhere. Hmm. Sounds like all those people who wanted “America first” should be sueing the fuck out of the oil companies.
Ah, my friend the leopard. Here for more face? Would you like fries with that order or can I interest you in the soup of the day?
“But sure I’ll vote him for a third term!”
