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bucolic_frolic

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4. TBH it's a protection racket

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 09:04 AM

Yesterday

We attack until they say make the pain stop, now everybody's a good guy and we get a cut. But, America First, no wars, no world's policeman, and NATO must go it alone.

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Trump: U.S. could be "the guardian of the Middle East" in return for 20 percent of the region's revenues [View all] dalton99a Yesterday OP

OMFG: Just DIE ALREADY! Chasstev365 Yesterday #1

Spending a billion dollars a day is a weird way to share "revenues"? kentuck Yesterday #2

OMG............... Lovie777 Yesterday #3

TBH it's a protection racket bucolic_frolic Yesterday #4

A protection racket where the "sales pitch" kicks off with a pratfall and a punching of ones own dick. RockRaven Yesterday #20

Yeah, OK. Solly Mack Yesterday #5

so...the worlds policeman ret5hd Yesterday #6

Sounds like he already knows the deal is dead. nt BootinUp Yesterday #7

Sooo... -misanthroptimist Yesterday #8

"I think I could get a cut and never have to pay taxes" struggle4progress Yesterday #9

obviously 19 is not enough Tetrachloride Yesterday #10

"Nice little country you got here. Too bad if something should happen to it." nt eppur_se_muova Yesterday #11

This is extortion, pure and simple. Diamond_Dog Yesterday #12

Fox in the hen house? malaise Yesterday #13

He will send our soldiers to die in the Middle East so he can get a 20% cut of a deal. Midnight Writer Yesterday #14

+1 dalton99a Yesterday #15

For 40 years, the Republicans insisted that we should "Run the country like a business" Prairie Gates Yesterday #16

Is that guy on acid? marble falls Yesterday #17

The past 4 months, he has literally just proven that the US cannot, in fact, guard the ME. RockRaven Yesterday #18

Trump Said He Calls the Shots. Netanyahu Just Made Him Look Like a Fool. Again. Norrrm Yesterday #19

They want to Christianize Islam. "They" being the crazed theo-loons of the so-called, religious right. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Yesterday #21

Saddam Hussein only took 15% Turbineguy Yesterday #22

It's going to get worse, before it gets better, isn't it? Baitball Blogger Yesterday #23

There is no bottom to his stupidity and depravity. dalton99a Yesterday #24

Victory in the Gulf, for the 40th time!!!!!! Swede Yesterday #25

Who would want this inept, incompetent, untrustworthy administration to be the guardian of anything? surfered Yesterday #26

Isn't that called a protection racket? sakabatou Yesterday #27

The demented fool D. Spaulding Yesterday #28