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No. Trump published the bottom image showing oil prices, which most Americans never buy in their entire lives. And another person created a modified image showing the prices of gas and diesel, which Americans constantly use.
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The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since it began being filled in 1982. I’ve heard that it's close to the critical level where caverns can collapse. And this is while the US is at war with Iran, which controls the flow of 20% of the world’s oil, and in a trade war with Canada, which supplies 60% of the US’s imported oil.
It's mind-boggling how one person can ruin a situation so badly and so quickly for an entire country.
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This is my typo. Sorry about that. This percentile was supposed to start at 50% and end at 90%.
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Trump's story began on New York's Beach Harbor, where his father built about 16 apartment buildings that he apparently wanted to rent only to white people. In 1950, Woody Guthrie became one of the residents; he wrote the song "Old Man Trump" and moved out in 1954 because he could no longer tolerate Trump’s discrimination against Black people and minorities.
The federal government filed a lawsuit against Fred Trump for discriminating against black people. He turned to the same lawyer that most gangsters in New York turned to — Roy Cohn — who became Donald Trump’s mentor. Cohn said, "never apologize, deny, deny, deny, always attack, and counterattack," which has become Trump’s way of doing business ever since.
When New York City neared bankruptcy in the late 1970s, Trump used his father’s money to portray himself as the savior of the "Big Apple." He bought the iconic Bonwit Teller store, demolished it, and transformed it into Trump Tower. This project came to fruition at a time when construction in New York was entirely controlled by the Italian mafia.
David Letterman: "Have you ever knowingly done business with what I like to call organized crime?"
Donald Trump: "I have met on occasion a few of those people. They happen to be very nice people. You just don't want to owe them money."
Trump even said during a panel discussion once years ago that he didn't want cameras filming him in his office because Mobsters cames into his office and they didn't want any damn cameras around.
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Is it meant to say 50% - 90%?
Yes, it's a typo. Thanks for pointing it out.
Also, is this inflation adjusted?
Yes.
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Here is the data on percentiles and inflation. I took the inflation rate from March 2025 to June 2026, which is about 4.4%.
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I’ve accounted for inflation, so this represents growth across all percentiles. But while growth is barely noticeable for half of the country, billionaires are going crazy not knowing what else to buy.
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In 2025–2026, the US admitted 16,287 refugees from South Africa and 169 from the rest of the world.
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Musk himself brought in over a thousand immigrants. His anti‑immigration stance is pure hypocrisy.
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But what if I’m a little bit tired of winning?
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And now Trump wants to buy diesel from Russia himself in order to lower prices.
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"Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia." - Eric Trump
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press." - Donald Trump
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The article states that the restrictions affect Starshield.
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Robert Wilson, the first director of Fermilab, was once asked in Congress what his laboratory did for the country’s security, to which he replied: “This new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.”
By cutting spending on mental health and food for schoolchildren, education, and science, Trump and MAGA are making the US less great, not more. Their performative pride has no logical basis and seems clownish to me.
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Yes. He’s just the second most powerful person in the most powerful country on Earth. His opinion can't compare in importance to that of a random Redditor with 500 karma to their name.
Wait, I’m being told that some immigrant stabbed a citizen in Austria. We must interrupt the broadcast of the Vice President’s speech to cover this news, which is of great importance to all Americans.
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$366 million, actually. And now, billionaires are also using one of the top 3 "left-leaning" television networks to openly attack Democratic candidates.
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Trump isn't a Zionist, nor is he right-wing or left-wing. He just loves money and sides with whoever happens to be the highest bidder today. Isn’t it obvious already?
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Can’t different people have different opinions?
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The Democrats will either have to pack the Supreme Court or pass a constitutional amendment, or billionaires will end democracy soon. To hell with Citizens United.
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And when Musk bought Twitter, he practically bankrupted the company within 2 years, as users began leaving in protest. He simply flooded Twitter with bots and sold it to another of his companies for a made‑up figure. Now Twitter is just a propaganda machine funded by SpaceX’s revenue.
It should be illegal for media outlets and social media platforms to merge with the businesses whose interests they lobby for, because this violates the basic principles of capitalism.
There are two types of Trump supporters: