Mojo
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Have there been any reports of MAGA types demanding that businesses sell them gas and eggs at the prices that the dear leader says he's achieved?
Face, meet leopard. Leopard, meet face.
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Stacyhs
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"Mississippi currently has the lowest average gas price at $2.937 per gallon" so $1.00 more per gallon that what DonnieDumbass claims.
Facts don't matter any more. The MAGA crowd have been told that petrol is $1.99 a gallon and they believe it. If they're paying considerably more then it's because of the retailer ripping them off, Democrats pushing up the price because of woke and wind turbines, foreigners taking advantage of the US or indeed that they must be misremembering how much they've paid.
thaiboxerken
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Exactly. MAGA has always bended their perception of reality to fit the narrative. Trump could pee on them and they would say it's raining.
Segnosaur
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This also ignores the fact that even if some people on the left suggest "move to where the jobs are", they still support the Democrats, who support things like the Appalachian Regional Commission to bring economic diversification to poorer areas.)
So your first statement should be:
Person A: There are no jobs here in the countryside to help support me.
Person B: If you moved to the city there are way more jobs because that's where the businesses are. But if you decide to stay where you are we will try to do things to make things better for you.
newyorkguy
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This concerns a trumper -- trump 4ever!!! -- who is a coworker of mine. I don't know him very well, just enough to exchange hellos, but another coworker who I'm buddies with, knows him quite well (they used to work together). He told me the following story which illustrates the mindset of the trumper.
This guy, lets call him Ted, had planned a vacation with his wife and two kids. They were going to drive from New York to the Grand Canyon, stopping along the way overnight. They were really looking forward to it. Before leaving Ted took the car to the auto shop to get it tuned up. This is where everything began to unravel.
Ted told my buddy the mechanic tried to rip him off. The mechanic identified a component that needed to be replaced. The mechanic told him, if he tried driving 8-10 hours a day it was going to fail. Problem was the component was about $500 plus $300 in labor. My pal asked Ted, "So you had it done?" Ted said, "Hell no! Think I'm stupid? That jerk is trying to rip me off." Okay.
First day of the trip, a Sunday. They got as far as Ohio, where they had a motel reservation. They stopped, about fifty miles east of the motel, to have dinner. Very nice place. After eating, on the way to the motel, the car suddenly shut off. Dead. No lights, the starter wouldn't turn over. The Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to Ted's 911 call. The troopers put out flares, called for road service, got the family off to the side of the road. The tow truck driver couldn't get the car started. Said, "Something's wrong, ' identified the systems that were not carrying a charge. The tow truck driver said it would have to go to the shop. "Call them in the morning." The state patrol officer took them to a nearby motel. The next morning the local mechanic identified the problem. It was the component the mechanic in New York predicted would fail. The local shop could fix it but they didn't have the parts in stock. They'd have to be ordered and, this was a mostly rural area of Ohio, they'd have to be ordered from a parts supplier in Columbus, about thirty miles away. The local shop guy said he would try and get them today, that afternoon, but it might be tomorrow. Ted decided to bag the trip. His wife used her phone to cancel their reservations and book a flight from Columbus back to New York City for her and the kids. That meant hiring a local car service to get to the airport in Columbus and it wasn't cheap..
The part didn't arrive Monday afternoon. It came Tuesday afternoon. The local mechanic told him the car would be ready "tomorrow," Wednesday. That the repair required a lot of disassembly and he was too busy to finish it that day. Ted finally got the car back early Wednesday afternoon. He drove back to New York
Vacation ruined.
Ted's takeaway? There had been nothing wrong with the component. The freaking mechanic in New York had done something to it to make it fail. Lousy SOB!!!
MAGA!!!!
This guy, lets call him Ted, had planned a vacation with his wife and two kids. They were going to drive from New York to the Grand Canyon, stopping along the way overnight. They were really looking forward to it. Before leaving Ted took the car to the auto shop to get it tuned up. This is where everything began to unravel.
Ted told my buddy the mechanic tried to rip him off. The mechanic identified a component that needed to be replaced. The mechanic told him, if he tried driving 8-10 hours a day it was going to fail. Problem was the component was about $500 plus $300 in labor. My pal asked Ted, "So you had it done?" Ted said, "Hell no! Think I'm stupid? That jerk is trying to rip me off." Okay.
First day of the trip, a Sunday. They got as far as Ohio, where they had a motel reservation. They stopped, about fifty miles east of the motel, to have dinner. Very nice place. After eating, on the way to the motel, the car suddenly shut off. Dead. No lights, the starter wouldn't turn over. The Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to Ted's 911 call. The troopers put out flares, called for road service, got the family off to the side of the road. The tow truck driver couldn't get the car started. Said, "Something's wrong, ' identified the systems that were not carrying a charge. The tow truck driver said it would have to go to the shop. "Call them in the morning." The state patrol officer took them to a nearby motel. The next morning the local mechanic identified the problem. It was the component the mechanic in New York predicted would fail. The local shop could fix it but they didn't have the parts in stock. They'd have to be ordered and, this was a mostly rural area of Ohio, they'd have to be ordered from a parts supplier in Columbus, about thirty miles away. The local shop guy said he would try and get them today, that afternoon, but it might be tomorrow. Ted decided to bag the trip. His wife used her phone to cancel their reservations and book a flight from Columbus back to New York City for her and the kids. That meant hiring a local car service to get to the airport in Columbus and it wasn't cheap..
The part didn't arrive Monday afternoon. It came Tuesday afternoon. The local mechanic told him the car would be ready "tomorrow," Wednesday. That the repair required a lot of disassembly and he was too busy to finish it that day. Ted finally got the car back early Wednesday afternoon. He drove back to New York
Vacation ruined.
Ted's takeaway? There had been nothing wrong with the component. The freaking mechanic in New York had done something to it to make it fail. Lousy SOB!!!
MAGA!!!!
Safe-Keeper
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That was my first thought, too. Or, heck, today you could probably even ask ChatGPT. Between the bot's advice and the second opinion, you'd probably know pretty well if the original mechanic was trying to rip you off.
Thermal
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Double edged sword, though. Who is right, the first or second opinion? And an AI is virtually useless for diagnostics. Car won't start? It could be any of a dozen causes, that AI wouldn't know to ask the symptoms of.
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I never understood the "if you don't like it, move!" mentality, especially given how it so often comes from people who love to yell loudly about how much they value freedom. Imagine where the US would be if that was the mentality every time something could be improved upon.
Colonist A: "There shouldn't be taxation without representation!"
Colonist B: "Look, if you hate it here that much here, move!"
Mojo
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Dabop
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"I know it's not your fault"
Yes moron, yes it IS his fault....
WHO made it part of his platform, that YOU voted for???
(you do have to wonder at the seemingly tiny mental acuity of these MAGAts...)
MAGA- leave no leopard unfed in the DSA
(Dysfunctional States of American...)
Yes moron, yes it IS his fault....
WHO made it part of his platform, that YOU voted for???
(you do have to wonder at the seemingly tiny mental acuity of these MAGAts...)
MAGA- leave no leopard unfed in the DSA
(Dysfunctional States of American...)
Tough ◊◊◊◊, Faith.
Jack by the hedge
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"I know it's not your fault" is just a desperate person's way of saying "I'm trying to ingratiate myself while kidding myself this wasn't exactly what you planned, because you're sure as ◊◊◊◊ not going to help me if it was".
Safe-Keeper
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"I know it's not your fault"
#notacult.
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Jack by the hedge
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It's not really a cult thing. "I'm sure you didn't intend to do X but... " means you know perfectly well they intended to do it but are offering them a blame-free opportunity to change their mind.
Trump is not going to change his mind just because people's lives got destroyed. The anguish and harm is intentional.
Trump is not going to change his mind just because people's lives got destroyed. The anguish and harm is intentional.
Norman Alexander
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Trump is never going to see that post anyways, nor any like it. His ◊◊◊◊-posting Communications Team led by Miller and Cheung (fascists both) intercept all his feeds and "curate" what he sees. So that he only has this completely unrealistic, big, beautiful, Trump-centric, Trump-positive view of reality. They are almost as good at inventing alternative universes as Marvel Comics.
newyorkguy
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...................Miller ................................Cheung
These are the two men who stand between the president and the rest of us. An official White House communication yesterday referred to California Governor Gavin Newsom as "Newscum." Something a fifteen-year-old kid would think was hilarious but in an official White House press release. A nightmare.
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turingtest
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We've actually gotten to the point where Trump could shoot a MAGA cultist on 5th Avenue, and, as they lay dying, they would reach up and tug on his pants leg while gasping "I know it's not your fault...."