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'If Gas Prices Rise, Then Let It Rise': Trump Says Rising Gas Prices Does Not Concern Him
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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What do you mean by this?
I mean just what I said. There were MILLIONS of ballots that were straight Democratic tickets, except Trump as president, and they were concentrated in the Swing States. Obviously they hacked the machines, and flipped votes from Harris to Trump.
That's how he won EVERY swing state, a statistical impossibility, AND the "popular vote," the first time a Republican won it since Reagan in ~~1994~~1984. They couldn't even let Harris win a couple, just to make it look plausible. No, he had to go full dictator, and claim the ENTIRE country voted for him in a LANDSLIDE.
Have you ever spoken to someone who voted all Democrat, except for Trump for president? Have you every seen one on TV? Since those people decided the entire race, why didn't any media outlet collect a bunch together in a panel, and ask them to explain? Where are those people? Who are those people?
Show me ONE.
And yet Schmuck, Jeffries, and the DNC immediately declared the election "fair & square," because they were far more interested in demonstrating to MAGA and the world what a "peaceful transition of power" looks like, as if we hadn't seen that 45 times before. So we never had even the slightest interest in investigating the MANY reports of election improprieties in the 2024 election.
When this is over, and we are intensely investigating MAGA's many crimes, we should also look into what the Dem leadership was up to, because it sure looks like they were cooperating with MAGA on many occasions, including the obvious rigging of the 2024 election.
This is really interesting. Damn.
I feel he should have been instantly disqualified and imprisoned just for that phone call to Georgia where he's like (paraphrased) "C'maaahn, guy, just get me some votes. Gimme some votes (or else), guyyy."
But I know "Things this douche should have been thrown in the hole and forgotten for" is kinda a long dead horse at this point.
Absolutely! And if that wasn't enough, we actually have the 14th AMENDMENT, that prohibits anyone who has participated in an Insurrection, from holding office, and yet not a single Democrat tried to invoke that amendment.
That would have kept Trump from ever holding office again, as well as numerous other MAGA traitors. It wouldn't have been a controversy - he clearly planned and launched a violent Insurrection, and the 14th Amendment covered it perfectly. MAGA would scream, but that's what they get for losing their Insurrection. If you shoot at the King, you best not miss.
Except they did miss, and instead crushing them for it, the Dems gave them a Mulligan - go ahead, take another shot at destroying America. If the Dems had shown any leadership at all, they could have easily, and legally, kept all MAGA traitors out of office, but they were too cowardly, as usual. MAGAs will use any law, policy, amendment etc., and manipulate it far beyond any reasonable expection, to get what they want, but Dems won't even use the tools that our ancestors gave us to avoid exactly the situation we are in. If those composers of the 14 Amendment could see this, they would be so angry at 21st century Dems: "WHY DO YOU IDIOTS THINK WE PASSED THOSE FUCKING AMENDMENTS?"