My MAGA relative over Easter weekend claimed they have never really understood why people get so upset about gas prices. 🙄
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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High gas prices are a small price to pay for owning the libs!
Is it really the onion? I'm certain there are quite a few MAGAts who would say exactly that, because apparently it's necessary to fix the country
Yeah the onion has a hard time with parody these days, and this time they strayed too much to the truth
Either that or claims current gas prices are somehow still bidens fault. Or perhaps Obama
It's those liberal A-rabs.
MAGA believes this war should’ve done sooner (Biden and Obama didn’t have the balls to do what Trump did!), and high gas prices are due to past presidents slow to action.
I had my FIL make this claim that high gas prices are a small price to pay for disarming Iran and taking away their ability to create nuclear weapons.
I wonder what his excuse will be after TACO Tuesday when Trump accepted the Iranian 10 point peace plan which included their right to uranium enrichment, mussels and drones. I’m sure Fox News will feed him some other bullshit line.
You mean the exact deal we had in place already to prevent that, but trump withdrew from in 2018 and never got another deal agreed upon and just walked away? That one?
Yep that’s the one!
Of course since Obama did it, it doesn’t count, would never have worked, and probably would have helped Iran develop the bomb faster… /s
MAGA Diplomacy
I'm sure there are a small number of MAGA voters who are happy about high gas prices.
Ones working in the domestic oil industry, mostly ... especially the owners.
It's almost like it's was orchestrated by them...
All in, so effective at pushing renewables. Relatively small pain now, less extreme later.
What's this MAGA crap ?
Lots of people agree with Greg Mankiw, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bush, that gas should be more expensive.
Gas should be more expensive: look at typical prices in the rest of the world