ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪtruly anybody who thinks Biden has a little dial labeled "gas prices" that he can turn up and down as he wills has no idea how all of this works. you know who DOES have a little dial labeled "gas prices"? OIL COMPANIES. and you don't need to be a genius to see how oil companies benefit from dipshits blaming a president, who has flirted with green energy, for the price of food and gas
do americans just seem to think everything is a state run company with the president as the supreme decision maker? the president and government are not in fact all-powerful, I beg of you to recognize this fact
Bacon Brisket Gaming@starwall I mean, they* literally voted for Trump and got him elected to be exactly that
* almost half of the voters, and most white voters
[UNC] LITTLE WHITE CUCKBALL@starwall no right on the president's desk is one lever labeled gas prices and one lever labeled big mac prices
Swiff, Archmage (Green)@starwall it's much like the "let's go brandon" thing.
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There's so many respectable ways and reasons to critique biden
It's childish and absurd both to hide your disdain with a dog whistle, and to critique a president for one of the few things they truly have NO sway over
@swiff Biden is on his knees PLEADING with the CEO class to lower the prices of goods and services, just straight up begging because the government is too impotent to actually do anything to the market
Andrew Cassidy@starwall The president's job is to make gas prices low and the lower the gas prices the more presidential they are
unflushable@starwall waiting for "artisanal short cycle oil" to be a thing
healyn@starwall republicans love this shit going into midterms. if you ask a conservative, "what should biden do?", their only answer ever is "keystone pipeline", which wouldn't make a fucking dent in the price of gas
@starwall and frankly, establishment dems are fine with this too, because they hate having power. way more comfortable being the opposition party
Trump eliminated the JCPOA. why the hell didn't the Biden admin immediately lift those Iran sanctions? fear of the reaction from KSA and Israel?
@starwall hoping this (seemingly to my dumb ass) exceedingly short sighted strategy marks the death throes of big oil and/or pushes people off this shit as much as possible
@unflushable me too... it's time to get mad