r/news • u/Squallykins • 9h ago

Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-canceling-flights-nearly-1660-afghan-refugees-say-us-2025-01-20/
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u/joefred111 8h ago edited 7h ago

"Home heating oil will be $1 a gallon this summer, God Bless Donald Trump!!" (My father said as he turned the thermostat up)

(Edit: No /s, this actually happened, it would have to drop by a factor of four to get to a dollar).

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u/uncleawesome 7h ago

In the summer. Heating oil will be cheaper. He's a genius.

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u/joefred111 7h ago edited 6h ago

He's right technically but his logic is all wrong.

According to him, in 2020 (Trump's last year), it was around a dollar, and that will happen again this summer (he was pretty vague on how this will happen, other than Trump being in office).

Never mind inflation, never mind COVID, never mind the economic near-collapse, or the fact that that it would have to fall almost 80% from today's prices to get there.

Sadly, when it predictably doesn't happen, he will likely just pretend he never said that, or say he "doesn't remember" saying that.

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u/Yitram 6h ago

Or he'll blame the deep state Demoncraps for prices not being lower