Donald Trump deflected responsibility for misleading Americans about the length of the Iran war, dismissed low poll ratings as “fake numbers” and refused to rule out the possibility of declaring a state of emergency before the midterms, in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine.

When confronted with questions about the length of the Iran war, the US president blamed the media for reporting his remarks in which he said the conflict was projected to last “four to five weeks”, in March.

“ … I think the press fed it to them,” Trump told Time when asked whether Americans misunderstood him.

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[–] 17 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

A bunch of red states already did...

They're cutting restrictions on red diesel and letting trucks run overloaded to make less trips.

The red diesel is the big one tho, we need that shit to harvest crops here in a little bit, allowing it on road is going to burn thru the reserves that already wasn't big enough.

trump is gambling on trying to get UK or other "allies" to give us their reserves, but they need that shit themselves, because of the war trump started.

It's going to get much worse before midterms too. Which is why using reserves now is so stupid. Probably 2-3 weeks before election Iran is going to really tighten the screws and make gas prices skyrocket. I really could see them shutting off the whole tap to influence midterms against trump.

Maybe even flat out saying "if republicans win this won't stop". And with the Houthis controlling one major straight, they can hold it for literal decades

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

    The red diesel is the big one tho, we need that shit to harvest crops here in a little bit, allowing it on road is going to burn thru the reserves that already wasn't big enough.

    Red diesel is not some fancy fuel, it's literally just diesel with red die in it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    Buddy ...

    It's different because it's tax free and for agriculture....

    We need that for agriculture, if we use it now what the fuck are we going to harvest crops with?

    I understand you couldn't think of that yourself...

    But why the fuck wouldn't you ask me what you weren't able to get from the context of my comment?

    Edit:

    Someone else tried explaining this, and you just could grasp it...

    And most of your post history is you arguing with anyone who ever tries to help you understand anything.

    You're just gonna have to stay wrong bro, eventually you'll need a new account as well, because I'd bet a shit ton of other people have blocked you as well

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    that is true, but it will still be needed to used to gather in all the autumn crops and plant the spring ones not too far away

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  • [–] -3 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    No. It isn't. You just need diesel. If there's not enough red diesel, you just get regular diesel and put red die in it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

    ok, but then that has extra tax attached (assuming, as I'm not in the US, that is like the UK where red diesel doesn't have all the road tax attached.) Here in NZ it is all 'white' diesel and Road User Tax is separate

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