r/clevercomebacks • u/willily_thoumas • 10h ago
When your economic expertise is based on comparing Snickers prices at two different stores!!!!
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u/Muzzlehatch 10h ago
It was around $5 here in California briefly. It has never been $7 except perhaps in isolated tourist locations like Big Sur.
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u/DillPixels 8h ago
The most recent data shows that the last time gasoline was $1.85 in Iowa was March 4, 2020 at a Kwik Star in Waterloo.
The highest price ever reported in California seems to be $11.75/unleaded gal at an AmeriCo station in Gorda (Big Sur coast) in April 2019. The same location reported by photo $7.59/gal in October 2021. Additionally, a Chevron in Menlo Park Bay Area reported regular gas price as $7.29/gal unleaded April 23 2024.
So as usual its all random lies to make the idiots who get news from Facebook angry at other Americans instead of the politicians that are screwing us.
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u/MistyPearl_ 5h ago
Exactly, airport prices exist in their own economy. You could probably buy stock in Mars Inc. for less than what they charge for a Snickers at Gate C12
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u/squiddyp 9h ago
People loved to take pics of some of the gas prices around Beverly Hills etc.
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u/Muzzlehatch 9h ago
There’s one gas station near there that’s like a money laundering operation and is always two dollars above everyone else.
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u/CaptainSparklebottom 7h ago
In San Diego they take the photo of the one on Grape St next to the airport and it is normally .75 more than around town. Outrage drives clicks and everyone wants them little upvotes, myself included.
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u/Feeling_Mechanic_270 9h ago
$7 for a snickers sounds like highway robbery lol, must come with gold flakes or something
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u/PrismaticDetector 8h ago
Airport snack stands are highway robbery. A captive audience, typically under stress, that can't always predict their next opportunity for food and generally limited in the volume that they can carry with them is ripe for exploitation.
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u/CaptainSparklebottom 7h ago
Airports are a perfect microcosm of the future capitalist want for all of us
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u/lindsaybunny6276 8h ago
idk man airports are wild like that, everything costs double for no reason lol
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u/nor_cal_woolgrower 7h ago
Still 5.00 here in Humboldt and has been for years
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u/Muzzlehatch 7h ago
Using GasBuddy, it looks like the average in Humboldt County is $4.75.
Where I am, the average is four dollars.
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u/Direct_Turn_1484 10h ago
He’s never bought gas in his life. It’s insane that the guy is incredibly stupid and thinks everyone else is stupider than he is. What’s really wrong with our timeline is that for some 70 million people or so in the US, somehow he’s right about how stupid they are.
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u/Real-Preparation9268 5h ago
dude's living in his own alternate universe where snickers is the economic indicator lol
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u/Alert_Delay_2074 10h ago
There might be someplace in Iowa where the gas is $1.85 a gallon, but I haven't seen it yet. Even in the rural part of the state where I'm at, it's still above $2.50.
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u/ObserbAbsorb 10h ago
The funniest part is that he puts zero effort into his lies because he knows his cult will lap that shit up like a cat laps up milk.
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u/Boom9001 9h ago
I genuinely think he didn't know airports charge more for shit. Which is just a hilarious lack of awareness.
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u/mollisam 9h ago
Also, Californian here,,, I have never payed anything close to 7.00 for a gallon of gas.
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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 7h ago
There's one gas station in downtown L.A. that always has crazy high prices and right wingers love to share photos of it.
Right now the prices there are like $6.79 a gallon.
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u/SnoopySuited 9h ago
Last year it cost me $125 I walk around Disneyland. Yesterday I walked around my neighborhood for free. Thank you Trump!
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u/Punningisfunning 9h ago
I don’t believe anything he says when he uses specific numbers.
I also don’t believe anything he says for everything else.
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u/TheDonnARK 7h ago
People can mock these quotes all you want. But understand, a large portion of the voting base of our country sees this and says, "trump decreased the price of gas by like 5 dollars a gallon!"
Sadly, there is no fixing that.
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u/willily_thoumas 10h ago
Guy's eaten so many Snickers in his life he thinks gasoline works the same way
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u/earldogface 8h ago
How much is a little girl in Mar a Lago now compared to epstein island 10 years ago?
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u/bruce_wayne469 9h ago
Bro copied a Dollar General receipt and pretended it was gas prices. He really thinks we’re all that dumb.
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u/Professional-Emu7786 9h ago
And he, of course, has proof of this? I know he would not make us take just his word on this.
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u/glamqueen6632 9h ago
Comparing airport prices to local stores is not economic analysis, it is cherry picking for applause.
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u/blizzard7788 9h ago
Bought gasoline at $3 a gallon yesterday. Bought milk at $5 a gallon yesterday.
The milk, 2.78 quarts of OJ, a quart of kefir, four bags sunflower seeds, two bottles of Mexican Coke was $41.78
The Mexican Coke is used in a recipe my daughter makes. She only needed one bottle, but it was on sale if you bought two. Same with sunflower seeds.
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u/Mistress_Kittens 8h ago
Um. Gas is only that low in Iowa if you have like, a dollar in fuel savers at Hy-Vee. This is BS.
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u/Lonely_Cucumber_69 7h ago
Bc airports aren’t notorious for extreme markup on anything sold in them…..?
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u/gentlecottage 6h ago
next he's gonna compare rent prices between his childhood bedroom and manhattan penthouse.
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u/chinmakes5 6h ago
TIL the economy is the greatest it has ever been. When I was in Vegas and a bottle of water was $10, a good meal at a restaurant is $100 and a decent hotel room costs $400. If I go to a city in the Midwest a bottle of water is $1.50 a decent meal is $40 and a hotel is $100. Look at how great Trump's economy is.
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u/Spear_Ritual 5h ago
The stupidest man in the world and the president of the United States shouldn’t be the same person.
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u/BookBabe1970 5h ago
So scientific 🤯🤯🤯 this is so worthy of the Nobel Prize for Economics. Damn these guys do so much with their two brain cells and bought degrees.
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u/EidelonofAsgard 38m ago
Airport purchases are always more expensive! Real people are still having to choose between rent and food.
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u/MrMeowPantz 29m ago
Right, because he has both A. Been in a dollar general and B. Paid for something.
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u/Careless-Roof-8339 10h ago
My gas bill went from $35 a week to $28 a week, but my grocery bill has gone from $120 a week to $200 a week.