Following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, gas prices, grocery bills and mortgage rates have all climbed
The US-Israel war against Iran has sent shockwaves through global markets, leaving many Americans grappling with a growing financial squeeze on everyday living costs.
Following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran – prompting retaliatory attacks on US allies in the region and Iran’s decision to close the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime passage – costs have surged across the US. Gas prices, in particular, have spiked sharply, with the national average rising by roughly 30% over the past month. Grocery bills, mortgage rates and fertilizer costs have also climbed.
Now, many Americans are being forced to reassess their finances and cut back drastically on basic necessities such as food, clothing and electricity.
I don’t think I’m going to make it through. Damn everyone that voted for Trump. Damn them to Hell.
First step is just to outlive Trump. You want to live long enough to see that worthless piece of shit in the ground. It shouldn’t take too long. Then pick the next piece of shit to outlive. Spite is useful.
I’m not making enough money to cover my mortgage. My industry is using AI as a reason to not rehire. I got professional certifications to switch industries, but nobody is hiring for jobs that can cover my expenses. Unless something happens soon I’m not going to make it.
I don’t want to join the military for a war for the benefit of Israel. I’m an old man.
Have you considered running for office, or working for someone who is?
Run for office? The only people that succeed at that have connections. If I had connections then I wouldn’t be in the circumstances I’m in currently.
Things seem to be changing around that sort of thing. And I wasn’t suggesting high office. Like, any office. But I also suggested working for a campaign, getting behind someone decent who might run in your area.
There are no honest people anymore.
These are exactly the times when such people rise. Support one. Be one.
Kat Abugazaleh just ran one of the best campaigns in American history. She did it with hardly any connections or personal wealth. She started up a mutual aid office. She changed the narrative. She was beaten only by a concerted effort by AIPAC. She set a model for how ordinary people can push change. Graham Plattner is attempting to do the same in Maine. He also has a pretty good shot.
Look, if you don’t like the idea, it ain’t for you. I was just trying to encourage you by throwing whatever ideas against the wall to see what sticks.
Damn everyone that voted for Trump.
Silicon Valley fascism was coming one way or another. It’s been building steam since the 90s.
Trump’s just one agent. It could have been under DeSantis or Cruz or Bloomberg or Hillary.
The notion that one party can just win forever, because the other is worse, only breeds shittier and shittier candidates.
remember: this is what the owning class wants. scared, hungry, poor people are much more likely to accept shit wages and still pay more everyday for everyday things.
the gaps in pay and cost will only end up as profit in the owning classes.
bonus is that the same working people are too hungry tired or scared to merc these fuckers.
Hunger is historically also the breeding ground for rebellion.
for sure. but i feel the current era’s owning class knows how to ebb/flow the troubles just enough to keep real rebellion away. :(
Sometimes, rebellion. Other times, reactionary pogrom.
The Russian mass murder of Moscow Jews under the younger brother of the Czar came about due to a global energy crisis. Japan’s invasion and genocide within China and Korea, too.
Americans? It fucked up prices all around the world, even raised mortgage taxes in the UK. Trump and Netanyahu is a world-wide pestilence that must be dealt like-wise.
Americans?
The only people in the world that matter.
Nevermind Cuba paying $20/gal for gas in the few places it’s still available. Or the Philippines seeing enormous street protests responding to surging energy prices. Or South African farms cutting their planting season thanks to fertilizer shortages. Or even the UK staring down the prospect of winter heating bills in excess of 2-3% of GDP.
Nope. Only America matters
Time to electrify and become energy independent with renewables. There’s no straight that can be shut down that would stop your solar panels from generating electricity. No government can stop the wind from blowing and wind turbines from spinning.
Yeah, that’s one of the perplexing things going on with right wing nationalists in basically all countries. You’d think they’d be all in into generating our fucking own energy and using it ourselves instead of sending money over to mostly the Middle East. But no, they’re all into fossil fuels - even in countries which have absolutely no such resources and need to import everything 100%.
But that’s the thing with such people, thinking is not their strong suit.
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Because they’re eating up their propaganda like good lil boys.
It’s a twofer.
Roll coal and kill darkies.
Fuck the MAGA Yanks and their stupid wars, the rest of the world suffers because of their rapist Pedo president cunt
Not just MAGA, also all of these “Independents” and shitty “Moderate” Democrats.
Idk mate that’s shifting the blame a bit don’t you think? There’s degrees of culpability, and I think the mad dog is worse than the people sitting on the sidelines. Place the blame squarely in those responsible, rather than open the door to infighting. Idk that’s just my opinion
Someone should tell them that the people who actually didn’t make it through were the 180-ish little kids that were bombed by an American missile in the middle of their school day over in Iran. Stand by and watch how the Religious Right try to argue they were child terrorists or something abysmal like that. Gas can cost 20 dollars per gallon and it doesn’t even compare. I’m just going to remind everyone conservative of that every time they mention anything about affordability.
All part of god’s plan. His mysterious ways. His mysterious ways and plans and don’t fret, he has a special plan and place for you in heaven if you simply ignore the goings ons in the world and have faith that his cruel, sadistic, horrific, mysterious plans are your fault because he gave you free will without guardrails even though being God he could have simply not allowed for the concepts of evil and suffering and just made everything peaceful and happy but it’s OK because when you get to heaven you get to worship the narcissistic asshole for eternity. Or you goes into the lake of fire and fry.
A perfect mysterious plan.
How much of this is just greedflation with an excuse of war?
100% of it is greedflation. The oil being sold at stations currently was purchased and processed months ago. Actual hits to costs would not be realized.
How much of it is the 40% additional money supply created during Covid?
If you’re paying with something as inflationary as TrumpCoin© what do you expect, QE is a scam on the working class people.
It’s the USI citizens’ turn to fight for their rights. Revolt and burn your government down.
You wanted a tough talking carnival barker, America. Now enjoy it.
To bad alternatives to fossil fules keep getting shut down, by the same people that complain about fule prices.
…and the US government slashes healthcare benefits across the board to fund the fucked up piss poor planned war.
As a American who didn’t vote for these War Idiots, oh well, that’s what we all get when morons with a sixth grade reading and comprehension level vote.
I’m just having they day Americans collectively and repeatedly voted for even when crap went south the first time around unfortunately.
No sacrifice is too much, when it benefits America’s billionaires. Maybe they’ll create a few more dead-end gigs in sheer gratitude.
