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12. This is extortion, pure and simple.

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 09:46 AM

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OMFG: Just DIE ALREADY! Chasstev365 5 hrs ago #1

Spending a billion dollars a day is a weird way to share "revenues"? kentuck 5 hrs ago #2

OMG............... Lovie777 4 hrs ago #3

TBH it's a protection racket bucolic_frolic 4 hrs ago #4

Yeah, OK. Solly Mack 4 hrs ago #5

so...the worlds policeman ret5hd 4 hrs ago #6

Sounds like he already knows the deal is dead. nt BootinUp 4 hrs ago #7

Sooo... -misanthroptimist 4 hrs ago #8

"I think I could get a cut and never have to pay taxes" struggle4progress 4 hrs ago #9

obviously 19 is not enough Tetrachloride 4 hrs ago #10

This is extortion, pure and simple. Diamond_Dog 4 hrs ago #12

Fox in the hen house? malaise 4 hrs ago #13

+1 dalton99a 4 hrs ago #15

Is that guy on acid? marble falls 4 hrs ago #17

Saddam Hussein only took 15% Turbineguy 3 hrs ago #22

It's going to get worse, before it gets better, isn't it? Baitball Blogger 2 hrs ago #23

There is no bottom to his stupidity and depravity. dalton99a 2 hrs ago #24

Victory in the Gulf, for the 40th time!!!!!! Swede 2 hrs ago #25

Isn't that called a protection racket? sakabatou 2 hrs ago #27

The demented fool D. Spaulding 2 hrs ago #28