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brewens

(14,972 posts)
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 07:53 PM Tuesday

Trump says our energy bills will drop by 50% if he's elected. Bullshit and he wouldn't even want to try

that. It would come right out of his wealthy supporters hides. No way it could happen without people making fortunes off of energy taking a big hit.

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Trump says our energy bills will drop by 50% if he's elected. Bullshit and he wouldn't even want to try (Original Post) brewens Tuesday OP
Pathological lying, child rapist said what? onecaliberal Tuesday #1
Trump intends on unleashing a new pandemic to tank the world economy? That is the only way energy prices drop 50%. Freethinker65 Tuesday #2
Energy prices to drop 50%. Demobrat Tuesday #3
Well dried bullshit can be burned notemason Tuesday #4
To cut household energy costs by 50% ... Wiz Imp Tuesday #5
Plus a dozen Trump steaks delivered to every house dalton99a Tuesday #6
This is like when a cult leader predicts the end of the wold Diraven Yesterday #7
He didn't cut the price of anything while he was President. Everything went up ZonkerHarris Yesterday #8

Freethinker65

(10,779 posts)
2. Trump intends on unleashing a new pandemic to tank the world economy? That is the only way energy prices drop 50%.
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 08:01 PM
Tuesday

Demobrat

(9,607 posts)
3. Energy prices to drop 50%.
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 08:09 PM
Tuesday

No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. No tax on social security.

Yeah, right. And Mexico is going to pay for a brand spanking new border wall. Come to think of it, how come nobody ever asks TSF whatever happened to that?

He will say anything he thinks will buy him a few votes. And of course the rubes will fall for it.

Wiz Imp

(421 posts)
5. To cut household energy costs by 50% ...
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 08:29 PM
Tuesday

would mean energy costs would return to levels they were in the 1990's. If Trump was capable of making that happen, then why didn't he do it between 2017 and 2020? (rhetorical question obviously) In fact, energy costs rose about 10% total while he was president. This is definitely one of his biggest lies that he thinks his stupid followers will believe (and he's probably right about his followers) but for it to work, he needs people who don't already support him to believe it - most of those people are far smarter than that. Anybody with a functioning brain should be able to hear Trumps claim and know immediately what he's saying is impossible and he's just trying to bullshit you to get your vote. And once he got that vote, he couldn't care less what energy cost - if energy doubled or even tripled at that point he wouldn't care because it wouldn't significantly impact himself.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2023/10/11/how-much-energy-costs-have-changed-over-the-last-40-years/

Diraven

(879 posts)
7. This is like when a cult leader predicts the end of the wold
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 12:30 AM
Yesterday

And then it inevitably doesn't happen. It will just be someone else's fault and the cultists will keep on worshipping.

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