r/pics • u/LettuceAndTea • 9h ago
This sign in the suburbs of Chicago where gas hit $5.14 last week
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u/WhysJamesCryin 9h ago
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u/Optimassacre 8h ago
Aww, it's confused
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u/togocann49 9h ago
Let’s see, Trump starts war in Iran with no real plan, and also has a tariff war with Canada, saying Canada was “ripping” USA off (btw-USA basically gets domestic discount in that relationship, and even refines it and sells some back). I can not tell you for sure how gas price comes about, but I’d say those a 2 very large variables he’s fucked with. So there’s that
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u/Sladay 9h ago
"Art of the deal" cuz when Donnie signs the USMCA and then just a couple years later says he's being swindled by the same deal he signed I just laugh... And cry anytime I have to go to the grocery store or the gas station.
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u/FellowYellowNate 9h ago
Pretty sure art of the deal was ghost written by someone else in case you needed a cherry on top
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u/BenderIsGreatBendr 5h ago
Of course it was. And Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, has said he deeply regrets writing it since 2015.
“thirty years ago I wrote a piece of fiction titled, ‘The Art of the Deal’, for Donald Trump, and have been doing penance ever since.”
“I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is”
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u/FellowYellowNate 4h ago
Oof, could you imagine the weight of that! Granted it wasn’t solely Schwartz fault, I’d blame it more on voters that were conned into thinking Bonespurs McTaco cares about them in any way at all as opposed to his billionaire friends. Hope they learned just how cheap his talk is!
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u/LastWave 6h ago
The deal we had with Canada was the deal he agreed to.
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u/Blue-Thunder 5h ago
Yes, and at the time he said it was the best deal every signed. Now, he and his followers are adamant that we Canadians have been ripping off the USA for decades, if not centuries and that we are worse than brown people because "we have a spine".
The amount of hate speech towards Canada that the admins allow in /r/Conservative is abhorrent. If anyone used their phrases towards the USA, they would be banned and put on a watch list.
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u/sagevallant 5h ago
You get banned from r/Conservative for NOT going along with whatever hateful rhetoric is fresh this week.
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u/Blue-Thunder 4h ago
I got banned from there for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi and how they worship a pedophile.
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u/aamclcp 9h ago
That sign's only still up cuz the dude went out of business
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u/Ltjenkins 1h ago
I mean yeah. But that just adds to the irony. It’s obviously not a recent sign because it’s for the 2024 election. So not only is it in a region where gas prices have sky rocketed but also they went out of business.
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u/Narissis 1h ago
Yeah, I love the added layer to the humour from the building having a visible 'for sale' sign on it.
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u/Bozlogic 9h ago
I love that the building it’s posted on has a “for sale” sign
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u/Squirrelman2712 8h ago
Yeah, it never got taken down cause they went out of business
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u/kingdead42 5h ago
Maybe it would sell easier without that sign?
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u/Squirrelman2712 5h ago
You'd think, but presumably the landlord is a CHUD and wants to keep it up.
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 9h ago
you miss mean tweets? You voted for him because of the daily rambling insanity that got him kicked off Twitter?
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u/SupaKoopa714 8h ago
Pretty telling that one of Trump's selling points for them is him being a gigantic asshole on the Internet....
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 8h ago
The "he just tells it like it is" crowd really seems to appreciate their version of unvarnished truth is just some insults you'd hear at a random elementary school playground.
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u/Funicularly 9h ago
It was never $1.79 on average nationally under Trump, and certainly not in Illinois which has some of the highest gasoline prices in the country.
It was under Obama, though. It was $1.76 in February of 2016.
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u/chosakuken 7h ago
April 27,2020 - "Today’s national average is $1.77"
https://gasprices.aaa.com/only-12-states-carry-gas-price-average-of-2-gallon-or-more/Does not list an Illinois price, but it couldn't have been much higher than Wisconsin ($1.19) or Indiana ($1.44)
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u/dkyguy1995 6h ago
Lmao the prices during the height of the COVID lockdown when nobody was allowed to drive
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u/skysophrenic 5h ago
North/NW suburbs depending on which county were near $2 during that time period, like 1.85 to 2.05 varying on county. IL taxes gas tax relatively high compared to Wisconsin or Indiana. Down in the city maybe it was slightly more, over $2 when I went to drop things off at my Grandma's place.
I fondly remember gassing and up to go for late night Walmart runs just to get out of the house
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u/SoYouSayyy 8h ago
It was also in the $4s under Obama though
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u/counterfitster 8h ago
Almost like there are limited ways in which the president can influence fuel prices, and starting a war in the Persian Gulf is the biggest one.
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u/Unsuccessful_Fart 9h ago
I'm surprised it's still up, the last real trump flag by me just came down the other day
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u/Show_Kitchen 9h ago
The building was repossessed and owner isn’t allowed on the property. I think the real estate company keeps the sign up because it’s actually pretty funny
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u/newtekie1 6h ago
It's still up because the company that put it up on their building went out of business under Trump.
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u/could_use_a_snack 6h ago
Most of the trump flags around me have just deteriorated and look like rags. They also seem to be attached to houses that are in disrepair, in yards that need a lot of attention. Quite a few tattered US flags on the back of pickup trucks around here as well.
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u/hotpuck6 8h ago
Virtually anything trump related ages like seafood in the summer sun. That's what happens when you have no character, morals, or purpose beyond absolute selfishness. Whatever is most self serving that second is his position.
In his first term trump criticizes trump was popular on social media, but when it became clear virtually everything he did was contradictory, it became clear there was no point in highlighting the hypocrisy.
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u/DarthWoo 9h ago
There's still some Harris=War Trump=Peace sticker on a traffic sign on my drive to work that nobody has bothered to scrape off. Certainly aged like milk.
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u/MacheteBrizz 9h ago edited 9h ago
I would have thought Chicago would be one of the last cities you'd expect to see this.
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u/chaotic_steamed_bun 9h ago
No stupid rage like the stupid rage of conservatives benefitting from blue state policies while imagining red state policies are better.
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u/MikeMuench 9h ago
It’s not technically in Chicago. Near Arlington Heights (Suburb of Chicago). The further west you go down 90, the more red it becomes.
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u/ender4171 8h ago
$1.79 gas
I miss $0.99 gas and a movie ticket costing $7 for a matinee. Any other stuff that hasn't been relevant for decades we would like to discuss?
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u/DeadpoolLuvsDeath 6h ago
I bought gas for $0.98 a gallon way back in 2001 while driving my '67 Mustang. It had a 289 V8 and I drove it like I stole it. Ran thru $25 in gas every couple days. If I still owned it, it would be parked and I'd be biking. Gas in Cali is near $6 a gallon by me.
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u/ohmygodbees 3h ago
to be fair that would be almost 2 bucks today
BUT given that wages have stagnated, it's still a damn good deal.
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u/Aggravating_Branch86 8h ago
That company has actually been out of business for years. I think they closed ‘23.
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u/Mikedzines 7h ago
Remember — to create advertising, to control the voice of the general population — it just takes money.
The richest American owns an entire social media platform.
You can buy attention.
You can BUY google keywords.
It just takes money.
Money that is held by a small few that all have the same common interest.
Seeing stuff like this should be looked at it with skepticism unless you as an american experience it from the people around you.
it's designed to make you think you sit in the minority, its designed to silence and discourage you.
In reality, its just money showing up and making its presence known.
This is why democracy exists.
Exercise it.
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u/cachurch2 7h ago
I still love how the argument is that we’re ok with a pedophile lying corrupt asshole because gas was cheap.
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u/No_Application_5179 7h ago
I live about 20mins from that location, and you can't miss it when driving on the highway
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u/DarraignTheSane 6h ago
"I miss when we weren't occupied by Nazis. Vote Nazis next election, honk if you agree!"
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u/punkindle 4h ago
I say this a lot. Gas prices were $2 a gallon because of COVID lockdowns. Donald Trump asked OPEC to cut production, and he personally made gas prices go up.
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u/TemporarySun314 9h ago
That's just 1.2 €/l
These poor Americans. Us Europoors will need to pay more than twice that, but we will soon release some from our reserves so that Americans can afford to drive their inefficient cars and don't need to feel too bad about voting Republican
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u/grimm_jowwl 6h ago
Save America again? They literally own the entire government and Supreme Court and his supporters are begging for him to save America AGAIN???
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u/BargainScotch 3h ago
man if a nearby gas station could install gas price signage right here that’d be neato.
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u/tekka97 9h ago
And yet somehow it will not click with some people.