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To be fair, most conservatives since forever have believed that the president really does have some sort of magic oil price controller. That's why they bought so many of those, "I did that!" stickers of Biden and stuck them to gas pumps everywhere.
The president doesn't have a magical power to reduce gas prices but I do believe Trump has proven that a president does have the power to make them go up. Drastically.
Policies can make oil prices go down or up. Offer more alternatives, i.e. renewables, electric vehicles, WFH. Gas prices go down. Start a war that bottlenecks 20% of the world's oil supply? Prices go up
There is an asymmetry of any control any of us has over anything.
The capacity anyone has to make anything worse far exceeds our ability to make things better.
Destruction is inherently easy. I think that's why weak people are drawn to it.
I'm having trouble believing the "used to" part.
I bet he’s got a hard time “doing” much of anything any more. I mean, he’s just as shitty as we all know him to be, but I bet the physical aspect of abuse is starting to be beyond him at this point.
Like look at him. Pretty sure the only reason he isn't dead is because he has access to some of the world's best medicine. Strip that and he probably dies during COVID.
Quick add that to my list of things to abuse elected and appointed officials with if we can force reforms, no medical assistance.
obligatory Mitch Hedberg reference
Best than I could do on my phone right now...
I love this, I really do, but my only issue is parodying this disgusting piece of shit pedophile with that of the late great Mitch Hedberg. I mean, he might find it funny now and sign off on it, but it's just.. ugh.
That pedophile is disgusting.
I agree, he is a disgusting, barely-excusable facsimile of a human. But I'm also a firm believer that laughing at him is a powerful weapon. It'd hurt his ego so much more.
You want to stop dictators? Rob them of the power, undermine it. Make them a joke.
Remember... Hitler has only got one ball
He does not care about oil prices. He's trading and therefore manipulating the stock market for quick high profits. For himself. That's all that matters to him.
He can control it, it’s just that control comes from publicly lying and it’s short lived.
He doesn’t mind that, he and his shitty friends buy the dip and then short sell for billions
The stock markets are legalized gambling for the poor and a wealth transfer to the richest, because they own the house and the house always wins. That's why we no longer have employer fed pension funds and our retirement funding (which should be paid by taxes, like everything else in a sane, first world nation), like health care, depends on it. Eat. The. Rich.
So did lots of ppl who think the president controls oil pricing directly during Obama and Biden. Wonder how they all feel now.
He still can, he just has to keep fucking up diplomatic relations, and it can climb as high as he wants.
Well he can but it’s only in the up direction.