Gassy MAGAts

What happened to all the let's-go-Brandon fuckers who like to blame presidents for high gas prices?

Presidents usually have very little control over gas prices, which is the point I was making in this cartoon from 2022, which is one of my favorites of my own cartoons. And even though presidents don't have much control over gas prices, that never stopped MAGAts from blaming Democrats when they get high, like they did during the Biden era. But truth be told, most MAGAts probably don't understand that presidents don't control gas prices, even when you explain that they are high worldwide, not just in the United States.

But right now, high gas prices are Donald Trump's fault, just like prices in general are high from his stupid tariffs. Trump was bragging about lower fuel prices over the past year, but now that they're high, he wants to act like it's not a big deal. This week, he said,” If they rise, they rise.”

"I don't have any concern about it," he said when asked about the higher prices at ‌the pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit."

Maybe he's talking about human lives, because the seven service members killed so far are the direct fault of Donald Trump, just as the girls’ school where at least 180 of them were killed by a missile is Donald Trump's fault, as is every death, civilian or otherwise, in this war, his fault. The US lied about bombing the school, so leave it to the Trump administration to make the United States come off as the bad guys when fighting the totalitarian extremist Iranian regime that murders its own people.

I am starting to think that when it comes to higher gas prices, higher egg prices, higher grocery prices, the death of Americans, and the destruction of the country for his own selfish greed, Donald Trump doesn't give a shit. He should just go ahead and borrow Melania’s I-really-don't-care jacket.

On Monday, Trump said he has a plan to address surging oil prices driven by his war with Iran, but offered no details.

“I have a plan for everything. You’ll be very happy,” he told the New York Post on the 10th day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Maybe we'll get the details about the time he tells us about his healthcare plan, which he promised in 2016. Maybe he'll tell us in two weeks.

Oil has stopped coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, which is about 20% of the world's supply. Shippers don't want to risk having their ships sunk in the war. Now, Iran is threatening to mine the Strait. Trump says they will be dealt with "violently” if they do, but aren’t they already being dealt with violently? Trump has already killed their leader along with thousands of their citizens, including at least 180 schoolgirls.

Perhaps the Trump regime needs to issue more violent rhetoric, which could be addressed by just giving Pete Hegseth a few more Red Bulls.

Donald Trump says that the Iranian leadership wants to talk, which means that Donald Trump wants to talk. I think Donald Trump wants a way out of the war and would like to negotiate an end to it. The problem with that is the Iranians don't trust the United States because they were in negotiations when Donald Trump abruptly stopped them to start the war. The Iranians thought progress was being made before the bombs started to drop. And after Trump had most of their leadership assassinated, the Iranians don't trust us.

Trump went into this war without a plan, and now he’s bored. He would like to push this war aside so he can start a war with Cuba without a plan. What could go wrong?

Today, Iran stated that Donald Trump had better be careful so that he is not “eliminated.” You can question how seriously the United States has taken that threat, but Donald Trump has been in hiding all day.

Dinner: I went to Giant late this afternoon, and I found these skewers with shrimp and veggies. The sodium and sugar content is very low, so I decided to make it for dinner with brown rice and a side salad. My glucose number should be pretty low tomorrow. It was at 102 this morning.

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