Three-Time Trump Voter Goes Off About Gas Prices and ‘Worthless Pile of Sh*t’ Trump: ‘Apparently, I’m An Idiot!’
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Fascism, yes please. But don't you touch my precious gasoline.
Don't forget paedophilia. Pedos are apparently not a deal breaker.
That's because they lack empathy, anything that impacts others won't change their mind, when it impacts them directly is the only time they'll care and boy are they about to be impacted.
I was genuinely shocked how much this is the way most people are. I just didn’t get out enough to understand empathy is not normal,
I've speculated about this a bit.
Our society protects and/or hides from the general masses, a lot of the bad stuff that happens in the world. It's the media and our lawmakers, but it's also very cultural.
The Internet has also been very dumbed down. 20 years ago it used to be easier to find videos of some of the horrors that occur around the world. Drug cartel videos, war videos, terrorist videos. Remember rotten.com, etc?
I think seeing stuff like that, or maybe not the extreme detail but at least hearing about it, gives you a different perspective. At least it did for me, towards the empathetic and cautious.
If people are protected and hidden from the bad, how will they ever know? The people I've met that lack empathy seem very childish like they've never been exposed to anything.
This, in my opinion, is very much on purpose and by design. If our population had all the gruesome details about what really goes on in the world, the wars, the trafficked children, terrorist and drug cartel tortures, all the suffering in 3rd world countries and poverty...
They would be less happy, and therefore less enthusiastic to go buy stuff. Also, many would be causing a ruckus for our leaders to fix it all.
Your purpose is to produce and consume, to prop up the billionaire and elite leadership class. And not cause any problems, or at least kept in control. This is best when you're "happy" and content. Or at least content enough to keep the machine churning.
I feel like empathy is the Hallmark of a healthy soul. Unfortunately, a soul has to be earned through struggle, inner turmoil, forgiveness and growth. Many people just haven't made the effort or gained the experience yet
A lot of them aren't in the yet column, they actively and knowingly refuse to
What happend is that corporations took over. Sites like Reddit, Facebook and such have their "code of conduct" that limits what you can post and violating that results in losing your account. Both examples made this a very painfull punishment as a Facebook account uses your real name and Reddit make sure that you can't really make a new account after being banned. The last decade it's been very noticeable how people start to self censor with bullshit like "PDFile" or "unalive". We're living in a 1984 Big Brother re-enactment.
Januari last year I was banned from Reddit over nothing. I did manage to get a new account for allmost a year until I got banned again, again over nothing. But during those months I did experience a lot of selfcensoring because the thread of another ban.
It's not so much "dumbed down" as it's become company territory with workplace like rules and policies. And we're being treated as unpayed personel.
Looking critically I think it really started at Nixon.
That was the first real crack in the idea that government and society will work for the people, even if they don’t now. The draft was repealed then. When the us went to war it was everyone’s problem. Now it’s not.
Regan took the ball and ran with it. Radically slashing social safety nets while improving wealth for most. I wasn’t alive for it mentally Ill people didn’t used to live on the streets by the 10,000’s of thousands. Unions protected workers much more than what we have now before that.
There used to be some kind of idea we were all in ‘this’ together.
But maybe since I wasn’t there none of that was true then either.
While also making everyone afraid due to violent criminals roaming the streets.
I don't think it's most. I think it's way too many, for sure.
That’s what I used to think. Surely more people have empathy and act on it than don’t.
I used to think people disagree on how to address the issues, but agree on the issues should be addressed.
It’s just not true.
We did vote on it.
But most people didn't vote. I don't know that I'd lump them in with the group that did, but for the wrong person.
I wouldn't lump them all in - some were legitimately disenfranchised - but most non-voters showed zero empathy when the world needed their help for an hour.
nor is sexism, or racism.conservatives:" i can excuse BIGOTRY, but i draw the line on GASOLINE."-republican voters.
Only things that directly effect them.
Maybe it’s aspirational.
You know how they say right wing voters are just embarrassed future millionaires?
"As long as the regime is hurting brown and queer people, I'm happy. I'll even lose money, representation, and status, as long as the browns and queers are being persecuted."
Oh you absolutely are an idiot
Even better, they used to be a "useful idiot" to someone - now they're just another idiot useless to everybody.
The price of gas did it, huh?
yup. it wasnt:
Nope. none of that. It's when he went to put gas in his Ram pickup that it all hit home.
Its always "as long as im not affected"
Ao selfsish, short sighted and plane dumb
planes are smarter than plains
After about the third "You're Fired", I never wanted to hear anything from that asshole ever again.
I was 18 ish in the late 80s, I saw him on David Letterman. I thought he was a stupid piece of shit, for 30 years I have seen people either talk about how great he is (though it always seemed like the people saying he was great were making fun of him) or about how he scammed people. And every time I think "how fucking stupid can people be"
Monumentally, apparently.
I'm about the same age and very vaguely remember being aware of him in the late 70s. I assume my "let me pull apart distressed companies for profit" father had something of his that was just so glaringly awful to look at.
By the time he was pushing into the greater media bubble, it was painfully obvious he was the worst kind of gold plated clown.
Sorry to be picky, but it's definitely way more than 40000 dead Palestinians.
I mean at least there's that one trans kid not in the girls badminton team, so it was all worth it /s
Being racist for decades 👍
Doing thousands of stupid things during the first term 👍
Stealing of top secret documents (and attempting to cover it up) 👍
Insurrection 👍
34 felony convictions, plus numerous fines and trials for other heinous shit 👍
Being a rapist of E Jean Carroll, plus numerous other sexual assault court cases 👍
Grabbing women by the pussy 👍
Having people murdered on their own streets 👍 and foreigner fishermen in boats 👍 mass illegal deportations to death camps👍 ...
...wait, this is going to take too long.
Ok, all the Epstein and child rape stuff, and bombing of little brown girls in school and just about everything and anything that most decent people would see as abhorrent 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
But when the price of fuel goes up then that's just unforgivable. That is a step too far!!!
that's what pisses me off. he's a fucking asshole, he isn't a good person for changing his mind.
he probably got an erection watching ICE terrorize minorities and killing people on the streets, or seeing US bomb girls, or the fact that he's a Pedophile. no the real problem is when he has to pay a little bit more in gas.
*she, so probably no erection.
I mean, her clit probably still got hard, so...
metaphorical erections
Conservatives only care when it affects them.
Small brain maxes out at one float number
She's the only one half thinking though. The other idiots in the video couldn't even find Iran on a map and have no fucking clue what theyre talking about.
Country is cooked because these idiots can't take ten minutes to think about anything.
As a three-time Trump voter she's a bit slow on the uptake, but unlike a majority of them, at least she is now willing to recognize her error.
Only after her face began to be eaten
Yea, but she stopped after a few munches, those other guys are still being gnawed on and seem to enjoy the experience.
Ayo, those other guys into furries now? 😉😈
She is willing to recognize the error and that is exactly what is needed now. Yes it comes from their selfishness but it's the best way to turn these people around: them feeling it themselves and finally connecting in their mind that voting for this idiot = everything is getting crazy more expensive. Not sure if she should be made fun off for finally seeing her error. The more people feel okay with having been wrong, the better the next vote might be... while there still is voting. Making fun of them will make other people dig themselves even deeper in their trenches of stupidness?
Amanda thinks turning in her algebra homework 15 years late will earn her at least partial credit.
I'm sure her whole family has been trying to tell her since 2016.
You were warned. So, so many times. Yes, you are an idiot.
Yet given the chance to vote for him again…
Listen, trump might diddle little kids but the dems are harvesting organs and blood for satanic ritual from one of many abortion farms scattered around those white hating sanctuary cities. /s (probably)
Republican voter: "And the proof is... my feelings."
These overgrown toddlers are so pathetic...
Won't somebody think of the leopards?
Pass me the ketchup please.
What's even more disappointing is all the other people interviewed were entirely willing to pay more to "keep the country safe". That woman at least have some self awareness even of it's just about gas. The rest is all gone.
could she just possibly be even more selfish than the others, and it brings her, coincidentally, into alignment with a single reasonable idea. Like her selfishness disallows her to even lie to herself about the safety of the nation.
I take that over members of a cult. If your selfishness prevents you from participating in a ritualistic mass suicide, that is probably a good thing.
Ah America...you can steal money, rape children, defraud billions, but don't touch the price of gas.
Which is why the world sees the USA as only slightly less evil that Russia or North Korea.
She already said she's an idiot.
I'm not sure if any republican has ever made life better for the working class
Sure they have, but not since the shift to the 5th party system.
Conservatives have certainly never made life better for the working class, but Republicans haven't always been conservative.
A couple weeks ago I had a back-and-forth with a conservative poster who staunchly believed that the GOP is still the "Party of Lincoln." I was telling them how that wasn't the case anymore, described the fifth party system, explained that the two parties switched views in the mid-20th century. They responded by saying I had been brain-washed by the MSM and calling me a sheep. I hadn't seen so many emojis in a reply since ~2009, so I shrugged them off as a bot.
Maybe I gave them the benefit of the doubt a bit too freely.
Lincoln
But that's why I prefer to call people "conservative" or "liberal" (or "progressive" or "communist" or "libertarian") instead of by party
funny the one that started the whole movement had alzheimers dementia and the current one has it as well.
Hilariously, we're now doomed to repeat history.
Some people liked Theodore Roosevelt.
Not by the numbers, no.
Self-awareness of your weaknesses is the first step on the road to overcoming them.
if only most of these morons didn't have egos that made them literally hide from the truth.
They're literally pure ego and nothing else. It's maddening, having personally dealt with it for years.
I want to be mean to her, but unlike her compatriots there, she has at least some insight. Good for her. Now stop being an idiot.
Nah, after that whole shit show, TWICE, high gas prices is the tipping point? That's insane.
i was just talking about this earlier, gas prices are like the ONE thing americans will get upset about. food prices, housing prices, healthcare prices? cost of business
but if gas prices go up ONE DOLLAR (at 10 gallons/fill, this amounts to a $10 increase, so maybe 30% / $40-50 extra bucks a month if you're commuting; i wfh so i haven't done that in 5 years now) people start losing their shit
it's insane to me, and i live here
When your F250 gets 10mpg and you use it to commute to work it adds up real quick.
😭 here i thought i drove piece of shit cars, but i guess my shitty cars are somewhat economical... (i get like 20-25 mpg)
Gas and taxes. They'll happily accept massive price increases on everything else, pay hundreds of dollars extra a month for health insurance, rather than pay a small percentage more in taxes or on gas.
Gas prices are symbolic of much more than just the price of gas. It's the one item that people have to buy multiple times a week, so they automatically keep track of the price, since it is such an integral part of their life. The price is also displayed on big lighted signs all along every roadway. What other consumer item has that much broad public awareness? With that much awareness, gas prices begin to become symbolic for prices in general. When gas prices go up, people instinctually feel like EVERYTHING is going up.
Who the fuck buys gas multiple times a week??
I buy gas about once a month, maybe twice if I go on a trip.
I’d be happiest if gas was $10/gal or more, maybe it would rip this fucking driving fetish out of some folks minds.
If you drive every day, you're probably going to buy gas at least twice a week, especially if you don't like being too low. Plus, traffic is terrible where I live, and you burn a LOT of gas just sitting.
Most vehicles have a fuel tank capacity to give about 300-400 miles range.
Who is driving 600-800 miles every week? That is insane.
A lot of people. Especially those who have to do gig work to make ends meet.
It's common to work fairly far from your home. I have had many jobs in my life with a daily commute of 50 miles or more, sometimes for years. Add to that side trips to the grocery store, or restaurants, or anything else, and it starts to add up.
I live at the southern tip of my population area. It's 30 miles or bumper to bumper traffic to get downtown, and I did that commute every day for a while. I even had a job for short time in one of the northern suburbs, and my daily commute was 90 minutes, ONE WAY.
If you own a home, and you get a new job that's in the same region, but even farther away, you don't buy a new home near your job, you just suck it up, and leave earlier for work.
Going through a 400 miles tank of gas is a normal weekly thing in America, that's why there are gas stations EVERYWHERE. Many people drive 10,000 miles a year or more. I always average more like 15-20,000 per year, because I drive a LOT for work, enough that I consider myself a professional driver for at least part of my job.
And then there is cargo shipping by truck. Again, America is a big place, and lots of stuff is shipped by truck, which travel a LOT of miles, and use very expensive diesel fuel. When the price of shipping goes up, EVERYTHING goes up.
Multiple times a week? What the fuck is going in the US? Are you people drinking that shit? Does that explain the obesity? Are you for real "multiple times per week" you fill up your cars? What a sorry ass failed nation.
I talked to my dad about the gas prices. He said he's only filled up the tank on his car once this year so far and it's still half full. Me, I don't even own a car because it's a dumb waste of money.
There's nothing wrong with being ignorant of the country but being so rude about it at the same time makes you look like a cunt.
America is a BIG place, with a lot of miles between cities. Most people in America don't live near any kind of a decent mass transit system, so they have to own a car to get to work every day. Because we are so spread out, many people have long daily work commutes of an hour or more. 2 income households are extremely common, so each one would need their own vehicle to get to work, and there might even be more cars in a home if they have older teenagers who need a car to get to work or school. A household with multiple cars might burn up a few hundreds miles every day, just going to and from work.
However, over the last couple of years, cars have become very expensive, both to buy and maintain, and many people are turning to more affordable alternative modes of travel like e-bikes and motorized scooters. Many states and municipalities are wrestling with new restrictions (age, registration, traffic laws) for these new types of transportation. Now that gas prices are exploding, there will be even more of a demand for personal electronic travel devices. Those are good for light travel, like getting to work, but they aren't very good for serious travel, like long distances, or carrying cargo.
Thr same fucking people who'd put those Biden "I did that!" stickers at the pump will willingly ignore higher gas prices when their pedophile god-emperor causes it.
I mean yeah lots of them do that, but this article is specifically about someone NOT doing that...
The video showed several people saying they supported the higher gas prices. That lady was the exception who finally learned that the golden asshole isn't someone who should be in power. I don't have high hopes she wouldn't vote for him again though.
Same here in India we have idiots who say they will pay higher prices in modi's regime than question the government and demand answers. Smh
Good thing they got it on camera. Trump always needs Amanda Robbins cam.
Well, admission is generally the first step. I respect that.
I agree entirely.
Those first to self realisation will rank among the best figureheads for mass pushback, being able to genuinely empathise with those yet to come to terms with being quite so supremely reamed by such an odious contender for the title of "most selfish winnet to ever fall from the collective anus of the United States".
Yes. Yes, you are.
It's the unquestioned belief in Trump that beggars belief here in Europe. We have had our own issues with Hitler and most are 2-4 generations later who know where that stupidity takes us.
To be fair, Trump has done a lot of super shitty war crimes, but the scale of which does sort of pale in comparison to Hitler. I just pray that it doesn’t have to get that bad in ‘murika before they wake up.
So they had to interview dozens there so that they could find that one woman?
PA is full of trumpers. Source: I live in pa.
Typical low IQ, under educated, brainwashed American 🙄
At least she is capable of some type of self reflection. More so than say, the entire republican party combined.
Where do Americans get the idea that Iran gives a single fuck about the US?
Go look at the history of the nation's. It's like Iran just forgets the US exists. Then the US comes along to bully them about something, and Iran's just, "Why us?"
They may not have before, but they sure will now
Decades of propaganda and being beat over the head with American exceptionalism and some main character syndrome mixed in.
A massive amount of the terrible shit America does, if not basically all of it, comes down to the belief a shocking amount of people have that the US is just the fucking protagonist of earth and absolutely anything and everything we do is righteous and just, everyone else hates us because we're too fucking awesome and cool (literally, one of the main reasons given as to why Iran supposedly would nuke us for no reason is because "they hate our way of life).
It's just an absurd amount of deeply broken people, with massive amounts of lead poisoning, just thrashing about as they realize they'll die soon.
Yeah, that's it.
There are so many nations that could use those good intentions. But "they're not near the Persian Gulf, so fuck 'em."
Says a lot about the true intentions of the hero in America's hero narrative.
Well, admitting it is the first step.
Slightly less so than anyone who still likes the worthless pile of shit, at least
These idiots will fall for it time and time again because they lack any form of critical thinking skills.
thats why fall for mlms quite easily, SOMETHING THAT IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE must be good?
Just like most people will fall for articles like this, thinking this means people will change their minds about this administration.
Oh there's no chance in hell these people learn their lesson, they've already got their vote locked in for 2028.
Some people just can’t learn that lesson
These MFs are some of the most selfish, lazy, myopic and sadistic people ever.
Even if it doesn’t benefit them directly, and could even cost them personally in the future, they are happy if others get hurt and they don’t have to lift a finger. They enjoy and relish suffering of others based on their made-up morality that excludes their own failings.
I mean
Thrice is clear indicator of a learning disability.
The ol' classic: Hate politicians but love a billionaire politician.
This seems appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQhY5CMMl4
https://archive.is/20260317231320/https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/three-time-trump-voter-goes-off-about-gas-prices-and-worthless-pile-of-sht-trump-apparently-im-an-idiot/
People have been saying it for a decade and they've been laughing.
And she's with him 1000%!