Come join the anticommunist Republican party. They've got:
- Price controls
- Closed markets
- State-owned industry
Edit adding a 4th
- The living-or-dead status of party members as closely guarded state secrets
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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All my libertarian friends hate it, but somehow keep voting for it.
Libertarians are just conservatives + weed - religion. They claim to not be cons but still vote 100% in that direction
Libertarians are just insanely stupid people who wish to appear intelligent. Because they think those views make them seem intelligent, lol
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Libertarianism is not a real ideology. Its just three raccoons in a trench coat. Anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction in terms.
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It's owned by Trump not the state. Closer to authoritarian dictatorship than communism.
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Silly person, that’s not what communist means. It means “anything/anyone we don’t like.”
It’s more of an amorphous ideal than a concrete set of “rules”.
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@cannedtuna Let me get this straight...
City-run grocery stores selling at-cost: Communist Bread Lines
Gas stations with government-controlled gas prices: Freedom Fuel Network
When the (Venezuelan) oil is stolen and the wars are paid for by the taxpayers, everything is profit.
Forgot about this oil reserve, I was thinking he’s laundering Russian oil
I've been waiting for it to crop up. Right after the illegal attack on Venezuela, Trump bragged about personally having a tanker of oil that no one ended up wanting. We had a stable oil supply. Then not too long after that, the attacks on Iran started. I have no idea if it's anything in the grand scheme of grifting and cons and murder but I'm guessing it was a factor in some way.
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The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis
This is ILLEGAL to Undercut the Competition!
-Free Market Republicans!
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He paid a bunch of existing gas stations to change their name and lower their prices. He will make up the difference by subsidizing the gas stations using tax payer money. I guarantee you this will not be noticed by the majority.
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This is like something out of a third world country. "Here is some cheap gas so keep supporting me."
This is like something out of a third world country.
In many important ways, the U.S. already is. Especially in certain parts of the country.
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I want to know the quality of the fuel. I'm betting there's a significant amount of water and other contaminants in it.
The usual Trump quality: Starts at rock bottom and somehow manage to dig down.
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It’s going to turn out that he is waiving the federal gas tax for some buddies and a cut.
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Wouldn't it be convenient if this "private retailer" somehow got free access to US fuel reserves?
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"Out of Trump's pocket" LMAO whatever they're on, I'd like to have some.
what happens when your cheap gas is no longer available but all the competitors already dried up?
Walmart
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Government subsidized gas is not an issue. But that's not what's going on. Trump is pocketing the money, cutting the gas with something else, selling stolen gas, or using tax payer funds for it (the last of which is whatever), but whatever he is doing isn't being done out of the goodness of his heart.
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Considering they already lifted regulations on percentage of ethanol added I can only assume this is %15 gas lol
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I keep seeing claims that Trump is doing this, but I have not seen anyone make any actual assertions of an evidence to that effect.
While Trump has jumped on the promotion, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's in on it somehow, it really sounds to me like some MAGA asshat who's trying to take advantage for publicity.
I'd really like to know who's paying for it, though, and why. Maybe it's just an introductory price to convince people they'll sell it for less, but I don't see how that'll get long-term customers.
Either way, the wild claims with nothing to back them up (i.e. OP's title) really annoy me. There's so much to be angry at. Fabricating lies is not needed. Or certainly saying things that are not known to be true - even the article doesn't say Trump is doing this, just the submitted title.
I keep seeing claims that Trump is doing this, but I have not seen anyone make any actual assertions of an evidence to that effect.
You can always tell when someone doesn’t read the article, sees the headline, and jumps straight into the comments because it’s literally right there in both the article and the short version.
At the beginning of the article referenced:
The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.
The White House announced the initiative on July 7 on X with a video of customers thanking President Donald Trump for lowering gas prices. The gas stations are located in the greater Philadelphia area, the White House told USA TODAY in an email on Tuesday, July 7.
I mean, did Trump come up with this idea? Very unlikely. I mean we all know how he operates at this point. Someone approaches him with an idea or product, and all Trump does is slap his name on it, ie: Trump Steaks, Trump Mobile, etc. and then he collects the royalties or kickbacks or whatever.
Either way, the wild claims with nothing to back them up
Again, you clearly didn’t read the article
i.e. OP's title
Not my title, the community rules state:
- Post titles should be the same as the article used as the source. Posts which titles don't match the source may be removed.
even the article doesn't say Trump is doing this, just the submitted title.
It’s in the actual article, not the TL;DR version for brevity because people don’t read full articles.
In a July 1st post on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, the president praised a “VERY smart Retailer” for “stepping up,” and “lowering gas prices at 25 ‘FREEDOM FUEL’ Stations across the Greater Philadelphia Area.”
“This Retailer is taking the lead, and others should follow,” Trump lauded. “They are doing this because they love the USA.”
What, do you expect him to run it personally or something? It’s directly posted on the whitehouse.gov site. While everyone out here is using him to make money, if it’s on the .gov website it doesn’t really matter who came up with the idea, he stamped it, and had it put up on a government official site. If you want a list of where these actually are, they’re available on the Freedom Fuel website. Feel free to go drive out to them.
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They will use up everything they can. And when they lose blame everything on Democrats.
If they win, they don't care about people complaining.
Ok here's my supposition:
The summary is: wealthy donor(s) are covering the loss so Trump doesn't lose the midterms.
The longer version is: most fuel consumed in the US is produced domestically. There no "shortage" because of the Iran situation, but prices increase because there's no alternative putting downward pressure on prices.
Suppose some domestic producer decided that the cost to them of trump being impeached is greater than the profit foregone by selling fuel at less than market rates.
Or, suppose Trump said to local producers, if you keep me in office we will keep this Iran thing going indefinitely, so process are down when he needs them to be but can go back up after an election.
No matter how you slice it, seems like a recipe for hyper wealth concentration.
US is a net exporter of refined fuels (what you put in your car), but the US doesn't produce the heavy crude that its refineries are all set up to convert into that fuel.
It's like saying you produce more cakes than you consume. That doesn't really mean shit when you run out of sugar, bomb the supermarket, mine the roads between you and the supermarket, and burn all the bridges between you and your neighbors. Can't exactly "borrow a cup of sugar" your way out of this one.
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My first thought at first headline was "now I'm outright paying for these motherfuckers' gas too?"
I gotta say, I thought the economy was way more fragile and would have no chance to withstand this concerted effort to bring it down. I mean it will 💯 go down in biblical flames, I'm just amazed it took so long!
I think the people who are trying to make it happen are surprised to. Doesn't matter to them because they will end up owning the planet anyway, but still!
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Trump is going to go down in history as the most successful career criminal ever.
"gas"
https://www.jalopnik.com/2210988/donald-trump-giving-communism-try-government-approved/
When I first heard this story, the article gave me a laugh.
Communism is when gas prices low.
I wouldn't trust this fuel to start a forest fire, let alone fuel a car.
You can't make this up
Willing to wager these gasoline inventories are getting diluted well beyond our normal summer blend thresholds.
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