Never heard any president just outright dismiss cries for help like this. Fuck this guy.

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    “I do say to [Foley], first of all, I love her, because she voted for me three times, and I think she’d vote for me again if I had that opportunity,” Trump said.

    He completely dismisses her concerns, then says she would vote for him again if given the chance. He’s probably right, and that’s exactly the problem.

    He doesn’t have to do anything to keep his sycophants and qultists, so why would he put any effort into doing something differently?

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    His reply:

    “I do say this. Beef we have to get down. I think of groceries. It’s an old-fashioned word, but it’s a beautiful word. Beef we have to get down, but we’ve got prices way down,” Trump said, further claiming that energy costs are also already down and “all-encompassing.”

    My eyes figuratively popped when he started insulting the autocrat leading North Korea who just announced that he has nukes now, way back in 2017 I guess. Maybe a few more times after that, until a pattern emerged. The above quote is just par for the course, not even mildly interesting.

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      Can we have just one fucking person follow up some time and ask him why he thinks a word (in his case, fucking “groceries”) is a “beautiful word”?

      I just can’t…

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    The last time I filled up my car was the first and only time that I’ve seen gas prices budge since last year. I’m not sure why they keep saying they’re down this year other than that. I don’t think you should be able to claim that it’s cheaper to drive now until they stay down for at least two months.

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      Because whatever they say, a large portion of the voter base just listens and believes and doesn’t think. Like at all. The lack of thinking, in any capacity by voters, has been a winning strategy for the party for a long time.

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      When the economy goes to shit, oil consumption drops and gas prices along with it.

      It’s not a perfect 1-to-1 thing but it’s real