the price of gas

Damn Aussies. If they could just figure out how to pronounce the long "O" without throwing an "R" in there, they'd be pretty awesome. 

I Fucking Love Australia

It wasn't the 34 felony convictions. It wasn't being found liable for sexual assault. It wasn't six bankruptcies. It wasn't raw dogging a porn star while his wife was home with a newborn. It wasn't the classified documents in the shitter at Mar-a-Lago. It wasn't January 6th. It wasn't the Epstein files cover-up. It wasn't gutting healthcare for millions. It wasn't getting the tariffs struck down by his own Supreme Court.

No. None of that did it.

You know what finally got through to these thick skulled, flag waving, truck driving, freedom loving patriots?

The fucking petrol price.

Four dollar gas. That's the line. That's where the moral compass finally kicked in. Not democracy. Not decency. Not dead soldiers. The price on the sign at the servo.

Nick Fuentes, actual white nationalist, is now telling his followers to vote Democrat. Let that sink through your skull for a second. The bloke who had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago is now saying vote blue because the GOP, and I quote, broke every single promise. Epstein cover-up. No mass deportations. And now a regime change war in the Middle East that was supposedly never going to happen.

Alex Jones nearly cried on air. "I needed Trump as my lifeboat," he said. "And I'm watching it sink." The bloke who told parents of murdered six year olds that their dead children were crisis actors is now having an emotional fucking crisis because his favourite strongman turned out to be full of shit. My heart bleeds, Alex. It truly fucking does.

Joe Rogan, the man who single handedly delivered the bro vote in 2024, just told his eleven million listeners that the Iran war is "insane" and that people feel "betrayed." Betrayed! The bloke had Trump on his podcast, endorsed him the night before the election, went to the inauguration like a kid at Disneyland, and now he's sitting there going "this doesn't make any sense." No shit, Joe. Millions of us have been screaming that into the void for a fucking decade.

Tucker Carlson called the strikes "disgusting and evil." Megyn Kelly said she has "serious doubts." Matt Walsh called out every single conservative influencer for being anti-war until five minutes ago. Andrew Tate, the self-help guru for incels, questioned why anyone in America benefits from bombing Iran.

And here's the thing that should make every single person who warned about this want to put their fist through a wall. Every single one of these people was told. They were told about the grift. They were told about the lies. They were told about the incompetence. 

They were told that a man who bankrupted casinos couldn't run an economy. They were told that "America First" was a bumper sticker, not a policy. They were told the tariffs would backfire. They were told the grocery prices would go up. They were told.

And they called us hysterical. They called us snowflakes. They called us Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers. They said we just couldn't handle winning.

Well congratulations, champions. Gas is up 60 cents in a month. Oil hit 120 dollars a barrel. The Strait of Hormuz is shut. Seven American soldiers are dead in a war that 80 year old Donald Trump started because Benjamin Netanyahu asked nicely. The Supreme Court ruled his tariffs unconstitutional. He's lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Grocery prices are rising at their fastest rate in three years. His approval rating is 37 percent.

This is what winning looks like, apparently.

The fuck around stage lasted about eight years. The find out stage just landed like a fucking extinction level asteroid. And the saddest part isn't that they're finally seeing it. The saddest part is that it took their hip pocket to get there. Not morality. Not empathy. Not the rule of law. Not dead kids in Iran. Not their own constitution.

A number on a sign at a petrol station.

That's MAGA in a nutshell. The entire movement just got distilled down to its purest essence. They didn't give a fuck about democracy. They didn't give a fuck about norms. They didn't give a fuck about anyone who wasn't them. But the second it cost them an extra twenty bucks to fill up the F-150, suddenly they're political philosophers.

Welcome to the find out, legends. Some of us have been waiting for you.