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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mary Ann on March 14, 2022, 10:18:04 AM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216480652
Demovictory9 (24,671 posts)
The People Behind the Joe Biden Sticker That Has Colonized America's Gas Pumps
The stickers first started showing up on gas pumps across the country last year: pictures of President Biden, usually placed to look like he is pointing to the price of the gas, with the words “I did that!” beside him. After first spiking in popularity online months ago, the stickers are hot once again these days, thanks to recent sharp rises in gas prices—$4.33 on average for a gallon of regular. With some consumers mad enough to become sticker vigilantes and Biden’s approval ratings in the dumps, there’s only one real winner in this situation: the sticker profiteers themselves.
“It’s been ramping up for a few months,” said Javier Estrada Ovalles, who’s been doing brisk business in “I did that!” stickers at his online store catering to car enthusiasts as well as his brick-and-mortar store in El Monte, California. “But in this last month alone, once the prices of the gas really started going up, I started getting bulk sales twice or three times more than it was before.” He said he went from getting 20 to 30 individual orders a day to 80 a day, and those 80 are often for packs of 10 or more.
The stickers are also moving fast at the Patriotic Products, an online shop run by an Oklahoma-based young man named Keenan. (Keenan declined to give his last name or specific age, saying that he’s “under 21.” He was suspiciously unavailable between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.) Over the past week, “I’ve noticed an increase of organic sales, meaning I’m not having to do advertising,” Keenan told me. He estimated that he’s sold about 1,500 stickers in that time, which is pretty good, but small potatoes compared to August—that was the first month he started selling “I did that!” stickers, still very early in the trend cycle, when he claimed he raked in $40,000 in sticker sales alone. The field was clear then, but now he has dozens, maybe even hundreds, of vendors to compete with.
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As the stickers have become popular, gas station employees have complained about the difficulty of getting them off the gas pumps or the worry that they might rankle some patrons. Estrada Ovalles protested that he doesn’t make the stickers for people to stick on gas pumps, but acknowledged that “they end up there anyway.” Because of that, his stickers are made of vinyl, he said: “If you try to remove ’em, they will fully come off. Wherever they might end up, it’s not a pain in the butt to clean up.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/joe-biden-i-did-that-gas-pump-stickers-prices.html
What we really need are Trump stickers with "Miss me yet?" to put under the Biden "I did that!" stickers. Their heads would explode.
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He estimated that he’s sold about 1,500 stickers in that time, which is pretty good, but small potatoes compared to August—that was the first month he started selling “I did that!” stickers, still very early in the trend cycle, when he claimed he raked in $40,000 in sticker sales alone.
Wait a minute! I was told by Peppermint Patty Saki that the price of gas increasing was due to Putin's war which started just a few weeks ago. I am confused, did this administration lie again?
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Wow, that article is rife with loaded language. "Colonized", "profiteers", "vigilantes"...
I'm not that familiar with Slate, but I'm guessing they have, shall we say, a leftward slant.
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“If you try to remove ’em, they will fully come off. Wherever they might end up, it’s not a pain in the butt to clean up.”
Just want to repeat what my friend does at the gas pumps.
The pumps inspection sticker is a tamper proof paper label that tares easily so my friend usually adheres the "I did that" sticker to that. The stations leave them there because of the large penalty on not having it. :-)
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... Colonized America's Gas Pumps
:rotf: As silly attempts to bogeymanize something though inappropriate epithets go, that has to be one of the silliest! :rotf: I guess LIEden being a white male precludes Proggies' usual Race Card and Gender Card playing tactics.
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Star Member Catherine Vincent (34,073 posts)
27. The gas station managers should check daily for stickers
If they catch anyone with the stickers, they should be fined. It's destruction of property.
If I come across one, I'll take my business elsewhere.
Yep, burn up precious gas going from this station to that one seeking out one with no stickers. We don't call em DUmmies for nothing.
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Wow, that article is rife with loaded language. "Colonized", "profiteers", "vigilantes"...
I'm not that familiar with Slate, but I'm guessing they have, shall we say, a leftward slant.
That is like saying the ocean has a little water in it.
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The easiest way to get rid of the stickers is for Slo Joe to create a competitive market that would drive the price of gas down to $2. But that would mean having to tell the enviro Nazis to shove it, so I guess the stickers will just keep coming.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216480652What we really need are Trump stickers with "Miss me yet?" to put under the Biden "I did that!" stickers. Their heads would explode.
https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Miss-Me-Yet-Decal/dp/B098199BHD (https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Miss-Me-Yet-Decal/dp/B098199BHD):
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61kY-rl5iuS._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
https://ragingsam.com/products/trump-2024-gas-pump-sticker (https://ragingsam.com/products/trump-2024-gas-pump-sticker)
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0551/6853/2678/products/image_900x_1919c263-b4f4-49e2-97d5-86b66c4cbb54_1800x1800.jpg)
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Also:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334111448209 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/334111448209)
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zIQAAOSwkFVhFZ5I/s-l400.jpg)
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Yep, burn up precious gas going from this station to that one seeking out one with no stickers. We don't call em DUmmies for nothing.
I thought they all drove Volt's, Bolt's, Leaf's or Tesla's anyway.
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Star Member Catherine Vincent (34,073 posts)
27. The gas station managers should check daily for stickers
If they catch anyone with the stickers 1., they should be fined 2.. It's destruction of property.
If I come across one, I'll take my business elsewhere 3..
1. Is Star Moron Catherine Vincent proposing that station managers frisk every customer before they are allowed to buy gas? :mental:
2. Gas station managers have the authority and power to impose and enforce fines? :mental: For, as she worded it, possessing an "I did that!" sticker? :mental:
3.. Star Moron Catherine Vincent believes gas stations should have an employee dedicated to sticker removal, lest one not remove a sticker fast enough and thereby lose her business? :mental:
Wait till Star Moron Catherine Vincent sees what those miscweants did in the ballot box 8 months hence! :rotf: :tongue: :fuelfire:
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Didn't click the DUmp link, but a touch surprised that a DUmmy hasn't yet asked for putting such stickers on gas pumps to be deemed a hate crime.
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3.. Star Moron Catherine Vincent believes gas stations should have an employee dedicated to sticker removal, lest one not remove a sticker fast enough and thereby lose her business? :mental:
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Even a DU-member saw the problem with Star Moron Catherine Vincent's "threat":
inthewind21 (473 posts)
31. so
If you see a sticker, instead of informing the gas station or just removing the sticker yourself, you'll punish the gas station and not the moron who put the sticker there? Makes perfect sense.
LPC Noob inthewind21 needs to be careful about committing Truth on DU. Sometimes it's rewarded with a granite pizza.
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All one needs a printer and some sticker paper.
:whistling:
I guess that would make me a 'sticker master at arms' or something.
:rotf:
I read elsewhere that if one wanted to put the sticker somewhere where it wouldn't be taken off, that one *could* put it over the cert tag sticker on the machine.
:whistling:
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All one needs a printer and some sticker paper.
:whistling:
I guess that would make me a 'sticker master at arms' or something.
:rotf:
I read elsewhere that if one wanted to put the sticker somewhere where it wouldn't be taken off, that one *could* put it over the cert tag sticker on the machine.
:whistling:
Ghost stickers! Shudder.. :p
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If they catch anyone with the stickers 1., they should be fined 2.. It's destruction of property.
I was told by the communist democrat leftists that destruction of property is no big deal when Black Loot and Murder did it in the summer of hate, rage, and intolerance of 2020.
Also if the black folkx can steal up to $950 with no penalties of the law happening, so should putting a sticker on a gas pump.
In addition, **** YOU DUMBASSES!
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I was told by the communist democrat leftists that destruction of property is no big deal when Black Loot and Murder did it in the summer of hate, rage, and intolerance of 2020.
Also if the black folkx can steal up to $950 with no penalties of the law happening, so should putting a sticker on a gas pump.
In addition, **** YOU DUMBASSES!
Yup.
How many times did we hear "It's just property" at the DUmp and elsewhere.
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Yup.
How many times did we hear "It's just property" at the DUmp and elsewhere.
But, but, but--it's not just stickers! It's an INSURRECTION!!!
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Yup.
How many times did we hear "It's just property" at the DUmp and elsewhere.
If leftists didn't have two faces, there would just be a blank space on the front of their heads.