Trump claims doubled gas prices are ‘way down’ as his transport chief tells Americans to take road trips
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sean-duffy-gas-prices-iran-war-b2972612.html
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0li0li@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 138d
Kill international tourism with tarifs and talks of invading allies, then kill domestic tourism with gas prices. Guess the hotel lobby is not strong enought to push back.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 138d
he owns a chain of hotenls but is grifting so hard from taxpayers they can all be empty forever
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 138d
Doesn't matter. He's laundering millions through his hotels. Want to bribe the president? Book a few nights at his hotels for an over inflated cost. You don't even need to actually stay in the hotels.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 138d
Turns out laundering millions is just for pikers and PEDOnald has leveled up. PEDOnald and his sons have a crypto scheme that has made them billions so far.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 138d
Don't forget about ICE hurting domestic travel too
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 138d
They're up against the weapons lobby and the Israel lobby. It's no contest, they aren't even playing in the same league.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 138d
Hotel lobby is not
strong enough to push backproviding enough bribes.teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 137d
They are also weakened already because of airbnb.
Seaguy05@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
Also start refusing to renew passports
voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 65 pts · 138d
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 138d
Take a road trip out of the Untied States, escape while you can
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 138d
Untied or unraveled
blattrules@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 138d
So he’s still calling it a war and it’s gone on for longer than 60 days. Congress is absolutely useless and has ceded their power to him by not reining him in. This has only taught him that he can declare war on any country, push it past the 60 day limit and congress wont do shit about it. I really thought that the checks and balances in this country were more than just theater that relied on people in power to not blatantly break the rules.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 137d
Why would the straits be opened? The president can't meet Iranian conditions without looking like he lost. Plus Israel won't stop their bullshit and they own the president and our other ivy league swells with their blackmail.
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 138d
Who are you going to believe? The effin President or the gas prices right there on the sign?
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 138d
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
I swear, these people read 1984 as a how-to guide. Let's hope they skipped The Handmaid's Tale.
aarch0x40@piefed.social · 17 pts · 138d
Yes, apply for a third mortgage today so you can take a road trip this summer!!
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 13 pts · 138d
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
Zier@fedia.io · 9 pts · 138d
The entire trump administration should book multiple buses and take a road trip together. A road trip over a cliff!
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 138d
That would be a good use of your tax dollars. 🤣.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 138d
Oh that's the highest diesel price I've seen today.
rayyy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 137d
MAGA followers will believe ANYTHING their lord, savior, felon and pedophile tells them to believe or they will make wild excuses for him but when Obama used Dijon mustard and they wanted to crucify him.
pirate2377@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 138d
Not to advocate for it, but gee, I wonder why someone would try to take his life when statements like this are an insult to our intelligence as he smugly makes America worse and worse...
parzival@lemmy.hkserv.space · 3 pts · 137d
The gas price has been decreased to $8!!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
Wait, I thought we were all supposed to dress up like it's the 1950s on the airplane, as if being a slob on the airplane was a problem that America was really asking any leadership to solve.
I'm sorry, what were Duffy's qualifications again, besides being on the TV?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 137d
Willingness to lick Trump's incontinent ass, same as all the others.