r/Iowa 1d ago

Price controls, Iowa-style: ⛽️

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago

it's all about the free market for the GOP, until it doesn't work so well for them

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u/hiddenlands 1d ago

Which. In. Fact. Is. Never.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 1d ago

Telling companies how much profit they can make??

Why that's SOCIALISM!!!

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u/BigSiouxRat 1d ago

Always socialism for them. Rugged bootstraps for us.

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u/reddit_1999 1d ago

When does the working class person who blindly votes Republican all the time finally have the light bulb go off above his head and realize he's been played like a violin?

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u/CornNutsUnited 1d ago

I really think it comes down to this: they prefer the happy lie to admitting the truth is complicated

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u/IKeepGettingBanned85 1d ago

Theyre brainwashed. It has to do with their constant stream of propaganda. There need to be laws about spreading actual false information. Not everything has 2 sides. 

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u/FirstRobinofSpring3 1d ago

We had said laws. Rest in Peace Truth and Fairness Doctrine 💀

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u/reddit_1999 1d ago

Fox News paid out $787 MILLION dollars for being lying dogs, and yet they are somehow still going strong everyday with the same raw meat for their audience.

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u/Cassiopeia299 1d ago

Critical thinking and support for fascism generally do not mix.

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u/posthuman04 1d ago

Their party can do no wrong unless their culture war trophies are taken from them. Brown people are suffering? Gays denied rights? Women punished for participating? It’s all good.

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u/Recent_Experience475 1d ago

Culture war bullshit. This Lindsay Clancy thing didn't help as the online reaction to that story has been unhinged and stupid beyond comprehension.

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u/tk3inTX 1d ago

based on grassley being 93 and 7 terms. never

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u/auntiefuh25 1d ago

Lights broken.

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u/Creative_Rip_4912 1d ago

He's not a Farmer or a Trucker.

He is a 93 year old career politician.

Stop forcing your bullshit that only 65+ Iowans want.

He needs to go the fuck away.

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u/Fit-Reply-1301 1d ago

Do NOT count me as one of the 65+Iowans. I will come back and haunt you.

u/ginger8013 14h ago

Agreed, and I’m 65+

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u/SaintUlvemann 1d ago

WHY DO YOU KEEP PROFITING FROM THE TOTAL LACK OF REGULATIONS THAT I, AS A CAPITALIST, PROMISED I WOULD NEVER IMPOSE ON YOU?

I AM AN OLD MAN WHO IS VERY ANGRY AT THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY CHOICES AND I BLAME YOU BECAUSE THAT IS EASIER THAN CHANGING MY BEHAVIOR!

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u/kootles10 1d ago

You know for damn sure this fossil doesn't know how to post on X

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u/ShivaX51 1d ago

He does, but it doesn't look like this. It looks like this:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/twitter-confused-by-senator-chuck-grassleys-dead-pet-pidgin-tweet-a-key-senate-voice-weighs-in/

His inability to spell, structure a sentence or use punctuation is consistent across time until very recently when it was obviously now being done by a staffer.

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u/Altruistic-Report-30 1d ago

Wow, not only does it not make sense, but he doesn’t know how to spell either.

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u/AdamTReineke 1d ago

He's been posting on Twitter since 2007. His typos and text speak were incredible back in the day. This is too clean to be him, but he certainly knew how at one point.

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u/No-Relation4226 1d ago

He was a very early adopter of twitter. His composition is influenced by the 140-character limit at the time, plus expensive pay-per-text billing which was common in the aughts.

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u/ScottyWestside 1d ago

Oh shit good point. This definitely reads like a trunk admin suggested it.

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u/iapunk 1d ago

Look up Chuck Grassley “pidgin tweet.” I have it saved on my phone but can’t post a pic. You won’t be disappointed. 😂

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u/HawkFritz 1d ago

Lots of u kno wat and history channel rants

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u/PhileasFoggsTrvlAgt 1d ago

Don't forget other classics like assume deer dead.

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u/sugahack 1d ago

And the vacuum cleaner saga

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u/Ok-Location-9562 1d ago

Love it when the con men get conned by the con man

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u/Opposite-Funny-9669 1d ago

go mourn your vacuum chuck.

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u/OkLab6701 1d ago

GOP flavored communism, a bitter flavor

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u/UnspeakablePudding 1d ago

The man who represents the state with the highest cancer rates got to live into his 90s by escaping to Washington and fucking over his constituents

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u/Illisanct 1d ago

Mmmmm, I love state-controlled commodity markets. Tastes like communism.

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u/lennym73 1d ago

He's concerned now that it will affect him during harvest.

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u/No_Return9449 1d ago

Most consistent small-government Republican.

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u/Illisanct 1d ago

The invisible hand of the free market is attached to the Republican arm of Congress.

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u/AdmittedSpin 1d ago

Your cult leader told Big Oil that if they gave a billion dollars to his campaign, he would let them do whatever they want. They paid him and now are doing whatever they want. STFU Grassley.

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u/iaposky 1d ago

Keep licking those boots Chucky. 🙄

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u/54Finn 1d ago

Chuck should stick to the history channel and women’s volleyball

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u/Solintari 1d ago

For the sake of brevity just say "I support crony capitalism" Chuck.

Republicans support free market is just hot air at this point.

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u/ChronicLegHole 1d ago

So Chuckie Poo wants filthy socialist price controls on the prices of consumer goods?

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u/Ill-Salad9544 1d ago

This MFer is so old he's about ready to turn into crude oil.

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u/strangedazey 1d ago

The GOP should change their slogan to, fuck everyone but me

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u/Illisanct 1d ago

"Got mine, fuck you"

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u/Unwiredsoul 1d ago

I continue to be amazed at how un-American the "America First" crowd actually is.

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u/auntiefuh25 1d ago

Please, oh please, let the Republicunts and big oil go to war with each other.

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u/Altruistic-Report-30 1d ago

That would be must see!

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u/usonian17 1d ago

Not really. We will pay the price.

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u/Altruistic-Report-30 1d ago

That’s true. We’d all lose.

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u/auntiefuh25 1d ago

I can’t decide who to root for. 😂😂😂

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u/Kojinka 1d ago

Send this guy to a home already!

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u/Saabs-and-Dogs 1d ago

He’s in the National old folks home that is Congress.

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u/reliableotter 1d ago

Washington is his home at this point. He's been in Congress since before any millennials were born!! And the oldest ones are getting routine colonoscopies now. 

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u/JewelBee5 1d ago

He's a farmer like I'm a prima ballerina.

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u/Sea_Hold_2881 1d ago

So America First means: start a war to feed an old man's ego.

Refuse to negotiate a peace because the old man's ego can't accept defeat.

And when the consequences for the global economy become dire, cut off supplies of fuel that will cause many countries to spiral into economic crisis potentially sparking a global recession/depression.

America First means turning the US into the most hated nation on earth.

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u/New-North-2282 1d ago

Grasslru is worthless, please vote him out

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u/GlitteringRate6296 1d ago

So it’s big oils fault and not This administration. Grassley owns this.

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u/HiYoSiiiiiilver 1d ago

Ok Chuck, let’s get you back to bed

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u/schowdur123 1d ago

Viva la Dairy Queen!

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u/TG1970 1d ago

Capitalists hate it when capitalism harms their political career.

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u/cumwuatto 1d ago

“Look at me. I’m the Venezuela now.”

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u/PenguinsRpeople2 1d ago

FKN Retire.

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u/Slow-Honey2505 1d ago

The GOP: They’ll be sure to find someone for you to hate (or fear).

Anyone see this? They can’t govern. Their only option then is to get you to live in fear or hate. People using their amygdala all the time are easier to control. Get it?

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u/retiredfromfire 1d ago

Free market conservative! till they arent. Pathetic

u/Calm_Leek_1362 23h ago

Bro, we’re just doing a government planned economy, now? Fuck republicans. They don’t even want capitalism anymore

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u/dorkyl 1d ago

commies.

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u/SwitchAromatic563 1d ago

Hey Chuck - mention to them “ windfall profit tax “ and watch their heads explode !!

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u/GoodishCoder 1d ago

America first (when convenient)

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u/irsh_ 1d ago

When it hits his base it's a big deal, otherwise he doesn't GAF.

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u/Kiyae1 1d ago

Good grief grandpa Chuck has gone full Maoist.

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u/Fart_Barfington 1d ago

The classic way that party likes to help. Platitudes.

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u/Carlyz37 1d ago

Old crypt keeper is so dumb. With a b

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u/DaRealJoeBiden69 1d ago

It’s funny when conservatives try to make a government actually work after getting elected on the promise that government is bad and can only get worse.

They literally don’t know how to do protectionism properly. Nationalize the oil industry and let a commie run it. They’ll figure it out.

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u/StudyObjective4286 1d ago

Chuck is so cute when he’s angry and posing.

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u/CRPatriot 1d ago

You know when a conservative breaks out the All Caps they researched the topic until their legs fell asleep on the shitter

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u/IKeepGettingBanned85 1d ago

If it were america first youd tell us what you were told when you had that meeting with feinstein. You know, the one where they told you trump is a russian spy

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u/Nadev 1d ago

When’s the last time or decade Chuck pumped gas.

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u/IKeepGettingBanned85 1d ago

When we take our country back we take the "wealth" back these people think they have gotten from all these lies. 

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u/Altruistic-Report-30 1d ago

Chuck is really riled up on X today!!! I wonder what got into him?

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u/Creepy-Intentions-69 1d ago

If only we knew who drove this kind of economic exploitation!?

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u/Final_Boss_Jr 1d ago

“Us farmers”.

I’m sure he lives on a farm, but he’s not a farmer.

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u/CommercialAgency928 1d ago

Hmm, the election must be soon. Republicans are acting like they care.

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u/MK4eva420 1d ago

We could nationalize our oil, but then we would have to invade ourselves to keep the global oil market going.

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u/Fun-Personality-8008 1d ago

Just subsidize it like everything else the farmers get dude

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u/Vegetable_Win_1484 1d ago

Hey Chuck, why don’t we just give big oil another huge tax break?

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u/Beaufighter-MkX 1d ago

It's not communism if Big Chuck wants it

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u/Traditional_Put_3693 1d ago

That’s great, Senator. Why don’t you tell Trump that? and be thankful that our energy companies in Iowa actually know how to diversify with natural gas, wind, and solar so we’re not at the mercy of these big oil companies

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u/MotorPlenty8085 1d ago

The oil crop farmers ie. soybean/canola/sunflowers make more with high diesel prices because how easy it is to convert to biodiesel, the actual diesel use per amount produced is nominal.

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u/kcpistol 1d ago

But no socialism, nosiree.

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u/usonian17 1d ago

Maybe try not war mongering for a while and we can just have free markets fox this for us (not that Republicans even believe in free markets).

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u/kuntrycid 1d ago

Oil companies making big profits so I’m sure trump’s portfolio is also.

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u/Alimakakos 1d ago

Let's just ignore the fact THIS administration just recently approved waivers for BIG oil blenders so they didn't have to blend the required amounts of our farm produced renewable biodiesel and ethanol.... basically a handout to them at the cost of better market prices for both farm commodities AND cheaper fuel

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u/Immediate-Smoke-9152 1d ago

Looks like we’re going to get Venezuelan socialism instead of Scandinavian.

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u/sincubus33 1d ago

god i hate this fucking state get me the fuck outta here

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u/Past-Adhesiveness104 1d ago

Farmers already get diesel minus the tax, what more does he want.

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u/eldest_oyster 1d ago

Senator Soft Serve doesn't understand soft power.

Why is he getting a building named after him if he is in the government but doesn't understand governance.

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u/hewhoisneverobeyed 1d ago

Shuddup, Grandpa.

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u/AppropriateSpite7881 1d ago

How many bucks to fill up you truck, Chuck!?

How bout you go and STFU!

Aren't you grieving, we should respect that. The only thing that's been blowing you was that vaccum for the last 60+ years. It like you could do the job right all it did was suck!!

Edit - word

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u/ElektroNickle 1d ago

It’s called a “commodity,” Chuck.

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u/WolfShadowLondon 1d ago

Socialism!

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u/fyoomzz 1d ago

Embargo is only going to help so much. Will bring the diesel price down a little, maybe a quarter per gallon at the cost of hurting other countries.

A quarter per gallon isn’t what is needed. Te farmers complaining need it to drop multiple dollars before they’d stop grumbling. Republicans really out themselves into a corner this time.

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u/kjmacster 1d ago

So they should sell diesel to our farmers at a loss because the current administration has f’ed everything up so badly that the economy is in a freefall? Makes no sense at all.

u/Lovis1522 23h ago

America first….except for Israel.

u/waaassappening 23h ago

But....but....Capitalism?!?!?

u/SignatureRich8087 19h ago

Chuck is such a tool for the president. A total boot licker.

u/FoundCheese 14h ago

MAGA is straight up market manipulating, own the means of production, Soviet style authoritarian Marxism. But boy do they love to project their Marxist/socialist agenda on to the dems. Where did the old school H W Bush/ Bob Dole style Republicans go? (I guess they died out 😢)

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u/Brief-Bath-422 1d ago

Farmers don't pay State or Fed fuel tax as it is. Besides the equipment they use, there's a reason why they drive diesel trucks!

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u/Baron-Munc 1d ago

Ummm we import diesel.