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Four years after lambasting the Biden administration, GOP lawmakers are urging voters to be patient as gas prices climb over $4.50 per gallon.

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 91 points 5 days ago (5 children)

DONALD JOHN TRUMP IS A CHILD FUCKER

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 days ago

DONALD JOHN TRUMP IS A DAUGHTER FUCKER

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] Akh@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

Yep, adjudicated child rapist by a jury

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

And then murdered and ate them. Yes.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Akh@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 4 points 5 days ago

Since the lying liar said it, it was probably closer to 8...

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

There were probably more than 12 of them. So I hear.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago

Child rapist.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

See it's different when you actually directly cause the price increase with an unjustifiable war. That's somehow better.

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Art of the deal

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

And Biden didn't directly cause any price increase. Trump single handedly caused his.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 33 points 5 days ago

Funny how? Biden era has gas prices were caused by a sudden demand after a pandemic and a war started by a war mongering lunatic.

The pedophile gas prices are DIRECTLY caused by the pedophile himself. How the fuck they don't see it? Oh yeah, it's a cult.

[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Oh wow, the party of bad faith arguments made a bad faith argument? Must be a day ending in y.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

And they are morons. I'd like them to explain how the prices in 2022 were "Biden's".

Meanwhile, there is a straight line between the "fuck around" stage of PEDOnald attacking Iran to the "find out" stage of the price at the pump.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Phew, I'm glad they have succeeded in making gas prices a complete non-issue. So anyway, about those Epstein files...

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

NO! IT'S TIME TO NOT HAVE A WAR WITH IRAN ...AGAIN.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Fuck your patience. ..no more goddamned Nazi lies

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

We already know they are without decency.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those guys would down play child rape if they found out Trump did it!

Oh, wait.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Now they try to say.. "welllllllllllllll.... in tHe bIbLe the men married woman as young as 12...."

No motherfucker, they are NOT women. They are girls... babies... and the bible is a dumbass story with archaic values with pedophilia tendencies. Doesn't make it any less pedophilic.

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 6 points 4 days ago

You know why Donald likes twenty eight year olds?

There’s twenty of em!

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

John Kennedy is one of the biggest fuckwits in congress I can’t stand that motherfucker

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These are not real, serious, normal people as you or I would think about “people.”

They are not of us. They are others

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

They are others

They are the child fucking Epstein class - FTFY.

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is that picture of the guy who couldn't get the cock out of his mouth?

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am…unfamiliar with this lore

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

John Oliver from last week tonight always uses a clip from this... I guess testimony? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_KxaU49ZEA

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

they have patience because the long term of solving iran nuclear powers that's supposed to be obliterated is worth it for a war that's not a war that's over but isn't.

mission accomplished.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

mission accomplished.

I have to LOL that PEDOnald has already cut and run from his "Operation Freedom".

How many times has the bigly strongly orange menace cut and run just this year?

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

How many Tuesdays have there been this year?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

The nuclear threat that never existed

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What? This?

Its European gas!

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Just did a conversion. I pay £1.90/litre over here. That works out at $9.80/gallon. You're still only 2/3 the cost of our fuel, if that.

It was £1.30 before Epstein Fury started.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

It was £1.30 before Epstein Fury started.

Which, according to DDG search assist, equates to about $6.16 per US gallon, right in the middle of the range of prices on the grandparent commenter's map.

In other words, Americans are indeed now paying European prices [i.e. what was normal for y'all before the price shock].

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, in Australia, it's down to where it was before Operation Epic Fail. Kind of mysterious.

Not diesel, though.

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Mind bogglingly how hard it was getting taxed. Although the ass fucking will return in June when the government goes back to taxing it

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

OK, just a little more work from the Cheeto.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 3 points 5 days ago

If they really believed in the free market they'd be willing to pay for some patience

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Politcians are hypocrites, nothing new