Gullible GOP voters typically vote out of fear for Republicans so the Party can protect them from scary immigrants, muslims and the big bad trans boogeyman, but they may have finally found something that scares them even more than marginalized minorities: higher gas prices. After diesel passed $6 a gallon a number of Trump voters started shrieking—and some even threatened to vote Democrat. In this video we’ll look at a viral regretful Trump voter and disillusioned farmers to see how fellow Republicans are trying to convince them to not vote for Democrats in November.

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[–] 34 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Time for Dems to strike while the iron is hot and run on a campaign of "we're exactly like Republicans but we'll lower your gas prices". Which is basically how they campaign anyway but they can really lean hard into it now

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  • [–] 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    globalists

    the capitalists are coming from inside the house

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  • [–] 27 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    Can't wait to see how the Democrats fuck this up.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    The midterms are going to be legendary battle between who can fuck shit up harder

    The Dems who always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

    Or Iran fucking the Trump administration up with their October surprise.

    My money is still on Dems throwing harder data-laughing

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  • [–] 26 points 4 weeks ago

    After typically voting out of fear of made up bogeymen, Republicans are finally seeing something scarier -- a policy that actually affects them

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  • [–] 24 points 4 weeks ago*

    I'm a Republican, but you know what pisses me off more than anything is when the people that I vote for sell me out for globalist on the other side of the world who want to have global police state and use our resources, our men and women of our military and our wealth to fund it. This right here is a direct result of bad policy that was put in place by Republicans that I voted for. That's shameful for me to say. And I hope that uh like me, you remember in November who did this."

    honk Who are you going to vote for in November then??

    big-honk WHO ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR????

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    i hope it hits 10 a gallon

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  • [–] 17 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    i expect it to. saw an article that said trump was advocating for a diesel export ban, which would probably be the only thing that might bring diesel prices down.... but it's unclear how well it would work, or if that kind of quasi-nationalization would have cascading effects when the fossil fuel capital formations inevitably respond. if they even allowed that to happen in the first place.

    short of that sort of unprecedented move, we are very much locked in to spiraling diesel, imo.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I think a problem with a diesel export ban would be that most of the diesel refineries in America are majority owned by companies in foreign countries like France and Saudi Arabia. I don't know how they'd react to that. Maybe divesting their holdings in the refineries? I don't know. Would they go as far as shutting down refineries entirely?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    i think they would do whatever it took to monkeywrench the effectiveness of the ban, ao they could get back to making as much money as possible from their control over a critical resource. whether that's a slowdown or conversion or something else, i don't know.

    this industry, if nothing else, has demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice everything for short term gains and i don't think the US is willing to go all the way.

    articles make it seem like the administration is divided over even acknowledging this half measure. i don't see how they'd take the necessary steps like freezing assets, arresting noncompliant executives, and appointing competent outside managers and operational leadership to take control.

    it would probably force a 25th amendment style coup.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago

    nah. you'll eat shit and ask for seconds

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago

    doggirl-hi So are we going to end the war with Iran? Maybe help rebuild the infrastructure we destroyed?

    the-republican 🎵And I would do anything for gas...but I WON'T DO THAT🎵

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago

    lol I wish, 90% of them will just say things would be worse if we had a Dem president

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago

    Better late than never

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  • [–] [B] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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