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.
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.
Nobody seems to care about the MILLION PEOPLE who died in the first two months after cutting off USaid, I don’t really expect our species to care about anything anymore.
I will still fight for a better future and good outcomes, but I’ve seen just how dark and selfish our world is, and has always been, and I have no choice but to swallow the despair that we’re further from some kind of Star Trek utopia as we are from the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Francisco Castillo, you are a fucking idiot.
Unite over gas prices until we have to divide again over pedophilia.
Conservatives support it. The rest of us don’t.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Hey, if you voted for PEDOnald, I don’t want to hear any complaining.
If you voted for the pedophile I don’t want to hear anything from you at all.
Gas is strangely cheap in my (deeeeep red) state as of this morning. It went up to $2.99 when the war started, but has held steady. That can’t last, and people here are really going to struggle to afford gas if it gets over $4 per gallon. It will be interesting to see if people get priced out of commuting.
