MAGA voters also claim they prefer a president who shits their pants.
I had to go find that onion post. Most of it is funny stuff about wanting prices to be higher for no particular reason, but this got me at the end:
"I figure anyone who sells oil knows better than I do what to do with my money. As my grandmother used to say, the higher the gas price, the closer to God.”
The absurdity is still there, yeah, but it’s just too close to reality. I’m an old white guy born in the Trumpian Farmlands of Pennsyltucky, and it shook me a bit. That first line especially… They wouldn’t say it out loud because they have to maintain the iamverybadass facade, but they live to be a cog in the machine, to serve the higher life form that will be their salvation. It’s almost like their god, their cult leader, and their president can be the same person. And that’s before we address the part where they chose one of the worst humans possible.
Unfortunately if there is any difference between these two takes it’s that the real-life person says the quiet part out loud.
Religious freaks are predisposed to believe the most outlandish nonsense, so they’re the perfect target for political indoctrination. If they can believe in imaginary friends to the point of tithing to them, they’ll do that with a real life guy who promises to protect them from evil, just like Jesus.
A real badass can choke on dear leaders cock until they turn blue
I doubt his member could choke anything larger than a teacup Chihuahua.
These are not equivalent.
It is if you can’t read. You know where your are. This is be voted to the top.
The current US happenings have made The Onion’s job impossible
Lately it feels like they’ve taken reality as a challenge and are trying harder to capture the feeling.
The onion of prophecy they really need to start riffing on this maybe hint their parent company is the front for a cult or something idk
…five f*ckin’ blades, man…
Over twenty years of oracular excellence
How is basically loosing a war with Iran worth it? Taco man stupid.
I think he tried to say it’s treason to say we’re not winning. Something, something, 1984.
… Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana…
They are willing to sacrifice for stupidity. Duurr just doing my part paying high prices so our President can embezzle more money. It’s the Ameridumb way!
Completely different headlines and trust me I’m not defending trump.
The point isn’t that they’re word for word the same but that the onion made a joke about the trump cult that came true
Except not; saying “Iran war is worth economic pain” and “high gas prices are loved” are different arguments even if both are absurd they are not functionally similar arguments.
Boy wait until you find out why gas prices are high
The oil cartels using a highly unpopular war as an excuse to jack the prices up?
Yeah, nothing to do with the Strait of Hormuz
Except that the problem isn’t only from the cartel right now, the problem is that now a important route was blocked due to war which made petroil transport harder making it more pricey and that reflects on prices that consumers see
And yet Saudia is in full support of the US attacking iran. Weird that.
Saudia
The airline?
That’s literally the free market behaving as it’s supposed to. Prices are increased to the highest point all goods get sold, so during shortages prices spike.
If you don’t like this, you don’t like capitalism.
Yeah? Thanks for proving my point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity
Its not like noone knew a war with iran would result in them blockading the strait…
It’s the word “excuse” that doesn’t fit right. There is no shame in the action for them, no duplicity or deception. The Iran war is an opportunity for them to jack up the price, an opportunity they always take when available as is their fiduciary duty.
Relevance? Second isn’t saying high gas prices are good but they are worth it for “so and so goal” not the same.
Give it a couple more months to line up more literally, then they won’t even need a reason to love the pedo’s plans
They have slightly different words, but they mean the same thing.
Technically, not quite. Saying something is good is not the same as saying it’s worth it. To use a stupidly simplified example: throwing away $40 is not good. Throwing away $40 when it gets you a new video game might be worth it, if you decide you want the video game.
Of course, that does require that you want the video game. And if it’s a game you think is bad, then you’ve created a lose-lose situation. Which is how most of us would evaluate the situation in the OP. But some people clearly support the war on Iran. They should be criticised for that support itself. But there’s no inconsistency with believing some negatives brought about because of it might be “worth it” for the outcomes of the war.
Exactly unsure what I’m saying wrong people aren’t getting this is what i mean.
It kind of looks like you do
No I’m pointing out that saying these gas prices are good and that saying these gas prices are worth the cost of x thing are completely different statements in all ways and the second is reasonable in some scenarios not in this one but in some.
