Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy.

He had voted for President Donald Trump in the last election. He believed Trump had strengthened the economy in his first term, and he wanted more of that.

“I thought that he was going to bring some of those things back,” said Castillo, a 43-year-old factory worker. And now? “He said he was going to bring gas down, but the war in Iran is now making everything worse.”

It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

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    Out of 245 million eligible US voters:

    75 million voted for Harris.

    77 million voted for the con.

    93 million couldn’t be bothered, or had their feelings manipulated by the sudden flurry of accusations that Harris must be a Zionist because that wasn’t ingenious propaganda.

    I’m still more angry at the 93 million slugs than I am about the bigots, and that’s got nothing to do with fucking blowback.

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      or had their feelings manipulated by the sudden flurry of accusations that Harris must be a Zionist because that wasn’t ingenious propaganda.

      Setting aside the accuracy (or lack thereof) of your statement, you think Harris wasn’t a Zionist? Really now?

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        Apparently, everything negative about their candidate is a fake propaganda even though it’s all out in the open.

        It’s a god damn team sports for them, where they can’t take any criticism and blame everyone else but themselves.

        They’re a cult.

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        Isn’t she literally married to a Jewish man who has actively defended the Palestinian genocide in Gaza?