‘Apparently I’m An Idiot’: Trump Voter Freaks Out Over Rising Gas Prices

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pennyslvania-trump-voter-gas-prices_n_69ba0fe5e4b08059575e1f48

40 Comments

  1. “I was OK with him as long as he was going after the brown people, but I just paid $5 more for my tank of gas, so fuck him.”

    I guess whatever breaks the cult, but…fuck you too, lady.

  2. SuperstitiousPigeon5 on

    These few and I mean very infinitesimally small defectors need to be treated like scientologists leaving the cult. Yes, your reasons for following a fraud should be examined, but take this time to look into every decision you base your personality on. Are they from the same people? The ones who told you Trump had the answers? It’s time to do some soul searching and start by leaving the people who got you to follow blindly.

  3. Static-Stair-58 on

    We all fucking knew that they knew Trump was shit. They didn’t care because he acknowledged their hate and racism. This is the consequence of putting your reactionary emotions over logic and common sense. This is what feeling over facts leads too.

  4. Not to worry – they’ll go home, turn on the Fox News, and that hint of intelligence that threatened to rob them of their invincibility will be rapidly sucked out of them.

  5. One of them said to prevent Iran from nuking.

    But didn’t Iran get their nuke facility bombed?

  6. Signal_Mammoth_657 on

    He really thought the guy aggressively pushing for massive import tariffs and buddying up with oil executives was going to magically make gas $1.50 a gallon again. the complete lack of basic economic understanding is just staggering at this point tbh.

  7. Let’s elevate her across media, to make her voice heard around the world – it may be one of our best bludgeons against the MAGA cult.

  8. cfalnevermore on

    I’m not gonna bother agreeing with you. It feels enabling at this point. You guys genuinely believe if a democrat disagrees with you it’s “persecution.” I think it’s a church thing. You love that others are bothered by the hateful rhetoric. The stripping away of protections and benefits for minority groups, the rise of bigotry into common practice. Glad you feel bad about gas prices though.

  9. PrecedentialAssassin on

    Don’t ignore the 3 people he also asked who totally support the war because Trump is “keeping us safe.” Insanity.

  10. Every Fox segment yesterday was the host telling us why Trump was right to attack Iran and this war is for America. Give it a couple weeks. They’ll get all these folks right back in the Trump train. Once they can get a few TikTok influencers on board too, to tell you that prices aren’t bad – just drive and eat less, oh, and check out this cool dance move – they’ll return to full support. Every. Time.

  11. If this is what it takes I hope gas goes to $18 and people finally get Trump removed before he tries to nuke Portland or something.

  12. Far_Adeptness9884 on

    never mind the pedophilia, rape, and racism, it’s the gas prices that are the tipping point for them.

  13. That Trump voter has him for another 2.5 years too. Unless they back impeachment. Damage is done and accumulating but removing him early might keep us from the worst case scenarios and give us the chance to start climbing out of the holes this president keeps digging.

  14. Well most of us knew these about Trump voters and the people who didn’t bother to vote or said they couldn’t vote because Gaza or primaries or some delusional self righteousness .

  15. Rusalka-rusalka on

    I saw this on the news last night and laughed because it was so self aware out her rage. But, it’s true. She is an idiot.

  16. BackgroundGur3645 on

    Yeah the thing is that they will keep voting R every election cycle because they’re fixated on the notion that Democrats will tax them out of a paycheck and the house they live in.
    One of many talking points along with 2A, trans, religion, etc. It’s crazy bc it can be all or just one of these subjects that keep people afraid and continuing to vote Republican, the gas prices can be easily forgiven and forgotten with these folk.

  17. It’s fucking infuriating that a matter as relatively small as fucking gas prices is enough to sway these people. Tells me how little they care about most of the issues.

    And yes I’m aware of how much gas prices affect, thank you, I’m saying it’s a relatively small thing in a grand big picture point of view.

  18. Appropriate_Mess_350 on

    Did these people think they would be put on a list, or be mailed an “I support Trump” discount card so they could remain unaffected by his corruption and incompetence???

  19. Gas prices is what makes them upset, not pedophiles. Only care when it affects them.

  20. Steel-Tempered on

    If the election was today, and she knew everything Trump has done, she’d still vote for him. These people are lost causes. And yes, she is an idiot.

  21. They are not idiots they are evil, they do not care about the suffering of others so were fine with Trump until it affected them. If you don’t care about the murders and the rapes and the child assaults and the hospital bombings and the concentration camp but care about the price of gas, you are evil not stupid.

  22. >“I think he’s doing the right thing,” Jim Matter said. “In the long run, it’s gonna help us out cause if they get nuclear weapons, we might not be here in a couple of years.”

    Trump’s wars without cause is sending a clear message to every country, including Iran – get a nuclear capability or risk devastating attacks. Trump has done more to assure we are UNSAFE than anyone in history.

    There are only two ways for the USA to diminish the threat of a nuclear capable Iran (or Chad, or Saudi Arabia, or …). We can either demonstrate that these countries will be safe from belligerent neighbors (like Israel) through our actions, or we can occupy them and turn them into colonies.

    Trump, the brainless ego, has destroyed 50 years of goodwill on the first path. There is no realistic way to do the second one. The problem with occupation is numbers. There are 350 million Americans in a world with billions of people. Iran alone has 90 million people. We’re supposed to occupy them how?

  23. It’s great to see people turn against this administration, but it still underlines the main problem. A very large percentage of voters will support petty and cruel policy UNLESS IT IMPACTS THEM.

  24. TheIncredibleHelck on

    And a selfish one, at that. Keep digging, you’ll find more areas to improve on, dont giveup! Dont ever stop the introspection! You have a lot to catch up on!

  25. geologicalnoise on

    Gas prices are up over $1.20 from before the strikes on Iran here in PA where I’m at. $2.79 before the strikes, and as I drove past this morning they were $3.99, with daily increases.

  26. Another_Road on

    I saw the clip she was in. Before her three people said they were still 100% on Trump’s side and that the higher gas prices were worth it to “keep them safe”.

    Just so you know, this war still has like 80%+ support from MAGA.

    There are republicans that aren’t fans of this but there are still absolutely a ton of MAGA Republicans who would still vote for Trump no matter what.

    So don’t assume one voter is inductive of the majority. I fully believe that Republicans will lose the midterms but I also think complacency will be a poison for those who can’t fathom anybody supporting Trump still.

  27. No_Celery_5373 on

    The fact that it really is just gas prices says a lot about the quality of a Trumper

    Unconstitutional actions, disrespect for troops, embezzlement, demolishing the white house.. 

    They don’t give a shit if the constitution is being used as toilet paper, but don’t dare hurt ’em at the gas pump.