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Originally Posted By Fushaw: I paid $5.39 for premium today :( Costs me $60-80 to fill up my tank. I see diesel regularly over $6/gal for truck stops. I can't imagine what those guys are going through. Are we winning still? Originally Posted By Fushaw: Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: In several cities & towns in Texas, there are ever more "I did this!" Trump stickers. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/57882/il_570xN_7932967011_mayj_jpg-3825253.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/57882/Trump-I-DId-That-Sticker-St_-Louis-Count-3825254.JPG Whatever happened to that Trump promise of $1.99 a gallon gasoline ⛽?? Bigger_Hammer  I paid $5.39 for premium today :( Costs me $60-80 to fill up my tank. I see diesel regularly over $6/gal for truck stops. I can't imagine what those guys are going through. Are we winning still? I have a 30gal tank and 1.5h of commute per day. That’s some serious winning. |
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Originally Posted By Colt1860: There it is, there's always someone in these threads saying he never said it when there's video of him saying it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4NphZBfmnENo republican worth their salt would cheer for that. Trump is right though, we do have unprecedented economic growth. The wealth of US billionaires grew by 22% in 2025. Up to 15 Trillion in total assets, the most ever as a percent of GDP. Middle class household wealth was up 0.3% in 2025. So Trump's economic and foreign policy has made the US substantially richer. Not that anyone cares about those millions of working plebs, we have stocks to buy back and markets to price fix and data centers to build! |
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Originally Posted By Kuhndog: I didn’t get any Covid bucks, and doubt I’ll get any Trump bribe bucks… I only get to pay for this BS. I also don’t want any of this “free money”… I want a fiscally conservative policy that is followed. same here, but im starting to get swayed. i keep looking out the window for my wheelbarrow of trumpbucks, foodstamps, obama phones, and fema checks. so far nothing. one day though, one day. 
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Originally Posted By foggy: Hate that. Does he realize that's money from working republicans being given to people that didn't earn it? yes. its free money that he and the others have collected from you to disperse to bums, leeches, and mooches at their discretion. they have known this all along, why else would they continue doing so? |
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I would prefer that Trump not do giveaways like this BUT if it results in us winning the midterms then I am 100% behind it. If the Dems win a majority the slush fund spending for DEI and gender studies in Bahrain will make $5k per person look like a drop in the ocean. |
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Originally Posted By himarker: Insaw $6.59 in interior Alaska, most stations were between $6.19 and $6.29. This is getting pretty shifty. Heating fuel is $4.63 if you haul your own. Originally Posted By himarker: Originally Posted By imq707s: I saw $6.35 down in Arkansas last weekend.....best deal I could find was $6.15. Nothing like dumping almost $200 worth of fuel into my truck every week.....winning!!  Insaw $6.59 in interior Alaska, most stations were between $6.19 and $6.29. This is getting pretty shifty. Heating fuel is $4.63 if you haul your own. Oh, quit whining!  This morning Diesel was 2.499 €/l, which should be about $11 / gallon in your units. That might have something to do with the limited number of American cars exported to Europe.
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Originally Posted By 56xdx_Z: If this was real, it would have a bunch of terms and conditions like needing to make less then $50,000 a year to qualify, or whatever the Covid checks had First off, I doubt it happens even if we hold Congress. Second, you don't turn out the vote by stating conditions in advance, that comes after the votes are cast. Again, don't support this. But to RustedAce's point, this is how the game is played. Pathetic, but reality. |
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Originally Posted By JKTFinn: Oh, quit whining! This morning Diesel was 2.499 €/l, which should be about $11 / gallon in your units. That might have something to do with the limited number of American cars exported to Europe.If only I had some of that mild European weather for the next 6 months, I would care as much. Heating fuel is going to hurt this year. |
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Originally Posted By Grey_Man: Anytime Trump does one of these weird things, I always wonder what JD Vance thinks about it. Is he trying to advise against it? This is the type of shit that will hurt him in an election. I think Vance knows he is probably fucked in '28. He has to toe the line for another couple years during which who knows what crazy shit Trump comes up with. Probably the best thing that could happen for him is Dems take both houses and spend the next two years going after Trump and nothing else gets done. Trump will be too busy fighting them off to do anything else really dumb. Then after two years of the lefts peachmints screaming people may be willing to listen to Vance act like an adult. Personally I think he's in for a rough ride. |
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Originally Posted By himarker: If only I had some of that mild European weather for the next 6 months, I would care as much. Heating fuel is going to hurt this year. That it certainly does. Even here the houses with direct electric or oil heating have seen their prices lowered over these last decades and I don't even want to think what the last year has done. |
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Originally Posted By Kihn: People who think America is good. And are not on board with the globohomo thing. And don't want us to be irradiated into eternity by some doomer Jihad cult. And think DSA and communo-Islamism is a bad thing. Originally Posted By Kihn: Originally Posted By SWIRE: Define "us". Who exactly do you think he is trying to elevate? Are the people that he calls "losers" part of "us"? People who think America is good. And are not on board with the globohomo thing. And don't want us to be irradiated into eternity by some doomer Jihad cult. And think DSA and communo-Islamism is a bad thing. Who knows what the real story on Iran and nukes is. I heard "they were days away from a working bomb" but all Trump talked about was the "dust", the dust isn't bomb ready material. There was also no talk of seizing the nearly completed bombs, just dust. I agree with them not being allowed to have a nuclear weapon but so far nothing shown has indicated they were days or even months away from a working bomb. DSA is the real internal threat. Everything Trump has done with Iran and spending has only promoted the lies the DSA is promoting. They are coming across as genuine and people are believing them. Even in Red states the Dems political line has now shifted to lowering prices, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed healthcare....etc. and the public is starting to believe it without asking "who really pays for it" and "what strings come with it". On that issue, unless Trump has some secret plan to win the Midterms, it feels like he is doing the opposite of helping us win. |
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Originally Posted By NathanDrake: Ahem They won't kill themselves. They will want to kill you. Because they know they are right. In their moral universe of forced slavery, conformity and indignity. That's the lesson of their existence. THey've got the highest body count of the 20th century. By far. THink how better the place would have been without- * Lenin * Stalin * Trotsky * Mao * Castro * Pol Pot * BLM * Weather Underground * May 19th Communist Organization * etc. I'm a reactionary. 20,000 casualties with maybe as many as 40 deaths for the BLM riots. THose people are being elected to government positions now. Communism is a plague on humanity. It is in self-defense to prep for it. And besides It's a common trope. |
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Originally Posted By boolzi: I guess all there is to say is get the word out to vote! For the not-Communists. |
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Originally Posted By SWIRE: Well the $5,000 check is something DSA would support. I agree on the globalism thing, Trump has done a good job with that. Congress needs to make a lot of that permanent before they lose the House in November. Who knows what the real story on Iran and nukes is. I heard "they were days away from a working bomb" but all Trump talked about was the "dust", the dust isn't bomb ready material. There was also no talk of seizing the nearly completed bombs, just dust. I agree with them not being allowed to have a nuclear weapon but so far nothing shown has indicated they were days or even months away from a working bomb. DSA is the real internal threat. Everything Trump has done with Iran and spending has only promoted the lies the DSA is promoting. They are coming across as genuine and people are believing them. Even in Red states the Dems political line has now shifted to lowering prices, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed healthcare....etc. and the public is starting to believe it without asking "who really pays for it" and "what strings come with it". On that issue, unless Trump has some secret plan to win the Midterms, it feels like he is doing the opposite of helping us win. It's a dividend. For beleiving in America! Not Communism! |
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Originally Posted By Kihn: They won't kill themselves. They will want to kill you. Because they know they are right. In their moral universe of forced slavery, conformity and indignity. That's the lesson of their existence. THey've got the highest body count of the 20th century. By far. THink how better the place would have been without- * Lenin * Stalin * Trotsky * Mao * Castro * Pol Pot * BLM * Weather Underground * May 19th Communist Organization * etc. I'm a reactionary. 20,000 casualties with maybe as many as 40 deaths for the BLM riots. THose people are being elected to government positions now. Communism is a plague on humanity. It is in self-defense to prep for it. And besides It's a common trope. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRTGuTwoydnwKgyhpLcQKCD6AFL701srfiLknJAl37rYIW_PnkfR18IaUo&s=10 Man this is a thread about a $5k check for voting. Your wild Vacuum the Cheetos off your belly and go outside |
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Originally Posted By tier1bro: same here, but im starting to get swayed. i keep looking out the window for my wheelbarrow of trumpbucks, foodstamps, obama phones, and fema checks. so far nothing. one day though, one day. Originally Posted By tier1bro: Originally Posted By Kuhndog: I didn’t get any Covid bucks, and doubt I’ll get any Trump bribe bucks… I only get to pay for this BS. I also don’t want any of this “free money”… I want a fiscally conservative policy that is followed. same here, but im starting to get swayed. i keep looking out the window for my wheelbarrow of trumpbucks, foodstamps, obama phones, and fema checks. so far nothing. one day though, one day. Obama phones were (are?) real as are food stamps. We really shouldn’t group them with the 5k “check that’s in the mail.” My goodness, “the check’s in the mail,“ high inflation, higher interest mortgage rates, conflict with Iran, US military operations in Latin America, and pop music everyone loves that we’ll make fun of in 20 years. Do you know what this means? Trump has done it. He’s really done it! The ‘80s are back! 
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Better idea: Attached File But it would involve common sense In order to better control our national debt Trump could also cut off foreign aid to Israel. It would save $3.8 billion per year and gain Trump some votes and credibility... |
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Originally Posted By R_S: Better idea: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/33354/Everyone_saves_on_gas_with_telework_png-3825291.JPG But it would involve common sense In order to better control our national debt Trump could also cut off foreign aid to Israel. It would save $3.8 billion per year and gain Trump some votes and credibility... I'd argue we have more remote/hybrid work even leftover after COVID than we ever had pre-COVID. And yet gas prices are still astronomic... |
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Originally Posted By Kihn: It's fun to watch all of the TDSers rush in. Almost as fun as watching the loyalists hand wave it off. TDS has become the catch all for any reasonable person who objects to anything Trump floats, no matter how idiotic(which is pretty idiotic in this instance). Almost everyone sees how stupid this suggestion is. Embarrassing. |
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Originally Posted By Fushaw: I'd argue we have more remote/hybrid work even leftover after COVID than we ever had pre-COVID. And yet gas prices are still astronomic... Originally Posted By Fushaw: Originally Posted By R_S: Better idea: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/33354/Everyone_saves_on_gas_with_telework_png-3825291.JPG But it would involve common sense In order to better control our national debt Trump could also cut off foreign aid to Israel. It would save $3.8 billion per year and gain Trump some votes and credibility... I'd argue we have more remote/hybrid work even leftover after COVID than we ever had pre-COVID. And yet gas prices are still astronomic... Compared with the May 2020 peak of 61.7% we are down to 26.7% That's a decline of approximately: 35 percentage points 57% less telework than at the peak Studies show that workers are most efficient in hybrid environment and that a return to the May 2020 peak would also be a net gain in productivity. |
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Originally Posted By NathanDrake: Man this is a thread about a $5k check for voting. Your wild Vacuum the Cheetos off your belly and go outside Originally Posted By NathanDrake: Originally Posted By Kihn: They won't kill themselves. They will want to kill you. Because they know they are right. In their moral universe of forced slavery, conformity and indignity. That's the lesson of their existence. THey've got the highest body count of the 20th century. By far. THink how better the place would have been without- * Lenin * Stalin * Trotsky * Mao * Castro * Pol Pot * BLM * Weather Underground * May 19th Communist Organization * etc. I'm a reactionary. 20,000 casualties with maybe as many as 40 deaths for the BLM riots. THose people are being elected to government positions now. Communism is a plague on humanity. It is in self-defense to prep for it. And besides It's a common trope. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRTGuTwoydnwKgyhpLcQKCD6AFL701srfiLknJAl37rYIW_PnkfR18IaUo&s=10 Man this is a thread about a $5k check for voting. Your wild Vacuum the Cheetos off your belly and go outside I think he's lost it, can't accept the truth. As far as the killing folks is concerned, he might want to clean that up a bit. Talk like that is how forums get shut down. |
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Originally Posted By FreefallRet: Hell no Can we stop printing money? Did we not learn during Covid what happens when you put another trillion dollars in circulation? It's no big deal anymore, Bruh. Things are streamlined now because nobody wants to buy our debt...it's now an avoidance of "foreign entanglement". We buy it now so the printing presses can really go "Whhiiirrr!" It's a sweet deal! |
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Meanwhile oil is at $102 and climbing with the Venezuelan shit oil a year or more out from coming online. They are still cleaning up the wrecked A-10 from the attack on the 8th at our base in Jordan and the 30 patriots we fired from our “near infinite” supply didn’t keep our base from getting hit. Luckily for Iran we are not at war with them so we will hit some oil tankers as a slap on the wrist in return. |
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Originally Posted By PeepEater: Meanwhile oil is at $102 and climbing with the Venezuelan shit oil a year or more out from coming online. They are still cleaning up the wrecked A-10 from the attack on the 8th at our base in Jordan and the 30 patriots we fired from our “near infinite” supply didn’t keep our base from getting hit. Luckily for Iran we are not at war with them so we will hit some oil tankers as a slap on the wrist in return. Originally Posted By PeepEater: Meanwhile oil is at $102 and climbing with the Venezuelan shit oil a year or more out from coming online. They are still cleaning up the wrecked A-10 from the attack on the 8th at our base in Jordan and the 30 patriots we fired from our “near infinite” supply didn’t keep our base from getting hit. Luckily for Iran we are not at war with them so we will hit some oil tankers as a slap on the wrist in return. You think only 30 patriots were fired? There's video proof of AT LEAST double that. And I thought it was more 3-5 years+ for VZ oil to really get pumping. |
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Originally Posted By tier1bro: yes. its free money that he and the others have collected from you to disperse to bums, leeches, and mooches at their discretion. they have known this all along, why else would they continue doing so? Theres an important destination here: they have to win. Is he buying votes? Absolutely. But all those bums, leeches and mooches have to actually vote conservative to get it. This isnt handing out a few dollars or a cellphone and hoping you get a vote. To be clear, i dont like it, but dems passed that rubicon years ago and you're naive to think it hasnt already been happening on the conservative side as well. I guess arfcom needs to ask itself: do you all want to be the fair but gullible losers in this game where the opposition doesnt? Bubububu--! No, just stop. You bitch about it but youre not willing to take the only other meaningful step that matters. Its pathetic. |
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Originally Posted By ChaosSquared: You think only 30 patriots were fired? There's video proof of AT LEAST double that. And I thought it was more 3-5 years+ for VZ oil to really get pumping. I’m trying to not be a doomer. On one hand I wake up every day blessed to be in the top 1% of people to have ever lived on this planet but I’m still rather disappointed in the actions of people that I voted for. |
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Originally Posted By PeepEater: Meanwhile oil is at $102 and climbing with the Venezuelan shit oil a year or more out from coming online. They are still cleaning up the wrecked A-10 from the attack on the 8th at our base in Jordan and the 30 patriots we fired from our “near infinite” supply didn’t keep our base from getting hit. Luckily for Iran we are not at war with them so we will hit some oil tankers as a slap on the wrist in return. Originally Posted By PeepEater: Meanwhile oil is at $102 and climbing with the Venezuelan shit oil a year or more out from coming online. They are still cleaning up the wrecked A-10 from the attack on the 8th at our base in Jordan and the 30 patriots we fired from our “near infinite” supply didn’t keep our base from getting hit. Luckily for Iran we are not at war with them so we will hit some oil tankers as a slap on the wrist in return. STOP NOTICING!!! |
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Originally Posted By Snozberry: Theres an important destination here: they have to win. Is he buying votes? Absolutely. But all those bums, leeches and mooches have to actually vote conservative to get it. This isnt handing out a few dollars or a cellphone and hoping you get a vote. To be clear, i dont like it, but dems passed that rubicon years ago and you're naive to think it hasnt already been happening on the conservative side as well. I guess arfcom needs to ask itself: do you all want to be the fair but gullible losers in this game where the opposition doesnt? Bubububu--! No, just stop. You bitch about it but youre not willing to take the only other meaningful step that matters. Its pathetic. Originally Posted By Snozberry: Originally Posted By tier1bro: yes. its free money that he and the others have collected from you to disperse to bums, leeches, and mooches at their discretion. they have known this all along, why else would they continue doing so? Theres an important destination here: they have to win. Is he buying votes? Absolutely. But all those bums, leeches and mooches have to actually vote conservative to get it. This isnt handing out a few dollars or a cellphone and hoping you get a vote. To be clear, i dont like it, but dems passed that rubicon years ago and you're naive to think it hasnt already been happening on the conservative side as well. I guess arfcom needs to ask itself: do you all want to be the fair but gullible losers in this game where the opposition doesnt? Bubububu--! No, just stop. You bitch about it but youre not willing to take the only other meaningful step that matters. Its pathetic. "Bubububu...the Ds did it first! So, who cares if what he's proposing is illegal!" That's pathetic.... |
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Originally Posted By PeepEater: Combined with what he said about gas this is gonna be awesome. $5000 and sub $2 gas. Who wouldn’t vote for that? That almost makes me forget that the “ineffective” attack from Iran on our base in Jordan that got through after we launched 30 Patriots left a pile of our aircraft smoking on the runway including an A10 with a wing blown off. “Right after the election...oil prices are gonna be tumbling downward. For gas we'll get 'em below $2 per gallon! It's gonna take a little bit longer than the midterms." But we disabled 3 rust bucket Iranian tankers. We won that engagement! Bigly! |
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Originally Posted By PeepEater: I’m trying to not be a doomer. On one hand I wake up every day blessed to be in the top 1% of people to have ever lived on this planet but I’m still rather disappointed in the actions of people that I voted for. Originally Posted By PeepEater: Originally Posted By ChaosSquared: You think only 30 patriots were fired? There's video proof of AT LEAST double that. And I thought it was more 3-5 years+ for VZ oil to really get pumping. I’m trying to not be a doomer. On one hand I wake up every day blessed to be in the top 1% of people to have ever lived on this planet but I’m still rather disappointed in the actions of people that I voted for. Fair enough 
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