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Offline Animl-AW

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #30 on: May 02, 2026, 05:02:11 AM »
The person voted most likely to grief lock a thread has not posted in a few days. They either got put on time out, got hit by a bus, or actually found something better to do with their life.

So if we are civil and don't start stacking soap boxes we should be able to keep this thread open and civil discussion going for a bit.

I'm finding the historical and economic sides of this discussion interesting.

If course you haven’t read bbs action logs, where you’d find bbs mod(s) that lock them not me, well because rule 14 exist. In fact, like another thread, I wasn’t the first. I’m not even caring now. If you want to be remembered by ruining bbs go for it.

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #31 on: May 02, 2026, 12:26:57 PM »
 :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

No one considers the possibility that they left OPEC to set their own prices and production levels? Or that it could end OPEC?


Seriously, a lot of nations in that region are moving past the hard line islamist agenda,as well as the hatred for Israel, and are discovering how much they enjoy the benefits of peace and prosperity.
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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #32 on: May 02, 2026, 12:42:29 PM »
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

No one considers the possibility that they left OPEC to set their own prices and production levels? Or that it could end OPEC?


Seriously, a lot of nations in that region are moving past the hard line islamist agenda,as well as the hatred for Israel, and are discovering how much they enjoy the benefits of peace and prosperity.

Indeed. And when peace in that region, absent for many decades, is restored some will still complain.
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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #33 on: May 02, 2026, 12:57:57 PM »
Indeed. And when peace in that region, absent for many decades, is restored some will still complain.

You won't get that without a full-scale US ground invasion and 20 year nation-building occupation.  Bibi knew that from the start.  I'm sure he never painted that end state.

You want to watch on the news for the next 20 years our boys and girls getting snipered at again in yet another ugly sandy place?

So Bibi can achieve "Greater Israel" ?  Lebensraum?



Just watch, any time we get close to a negotiated solution, Israel will bomb something, or assassinate a negotiator again to stop it.

Bibi doesn't want peace.  He wants "Greater Israel". 

And he is perfectly willing to bribe and Epstein-extort his way into getting America to spill blood and treasure to buy it for him.

I'm hearing rumors that it was Israel that provided the girl's elementary school coordinates.  Accident or a Mossad plan to get guilt on our hands so we a bound tighter to them? Hmmm.
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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #34 on: May 02, 2026, 12:59:53 PM »
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

No one considers the possibility that they left OPEC to set their own prices and production levels? Or that it could end OPEC?


Seriously, a lot of nations in that region are moving past the hard line islamist agenda,as well as the hatred for Israel, and are discovering how much they enjoy the benefits of peace and prosperity.

Of course they are but it's also another razor cut against the petrol dollar...

You do understand how that is important right...how we can be ruined financially without anyone firing a shot and that everything from Venezuela to Iran is about nothing more than trying keeping it relevant..we are boarding tankers now in an attempt to stop it..

It's started with China purchasing their oil with their yuan a bit back and is accelerating...

It's the only thing backing our fiat monopoly money these days that we print trillions out of thin air ... and of course now the threat of another illegal war to change their minds..

It should be as concerning as it is mind blowing imo..

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #35 on: May 02, 2026, 02:13:25 PM »
One of my daily stops. A layer down..

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #36 on: May 02, 2026, 02:20:54 PM »
One of my daily stops. A layer down..

https://youtu.be/va64Bx4T9sY?si=zGNpIT8fN_KgF5EG

A thought experiment.

If America was invaded across the Alaskan Strait and we wanted to keep fighting to push the invader back out of our country, 

would we be described as wanting to prolong the war and not accept a perfectly reasonable cease fire giving Russia Alaska? 
I mean, don't we want peace?
Do we just want to prolong fighting until we get our territory back?
Would we be roadblocks to peace just by wanting our country back?

Is there some amount of our soil we are willing to allow to be taken by force?  Let them have it to avoid trouble?
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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #37 on: May 02, 2026, 02:23:10 PM »
One of my daily stops. A layer down..

https://youtu.be/va64Bx4T9sY?si=zGNpIT8fN_KgF5EG

She lost me with saying both Trump and Putin agree that Zelensky and Europe are extending the conflict by not surrendering.  That's not analysis or reporting.  It's pro Russian propaganda.

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #38 on: May 02, 2026, 02:40:42 PM »
A thought experiment.

If America was invaded across the Alaskan Strait and we wanted to keep fighting to push the invader back out of our country, 

would we be described as wanting to prolong the war and not accept a perfectly reasonable cease fire giving Russia Alaska? 
I mean, don't we want peace?
Do we just want to prolong fighting until we get our territory back?
Would we be roadblocks to peace just by wanting our country back?

Is there some amount of our soil we are willing to allow to be taken by force?  Let them have it to avoid trouble?

I think we would genetically manipulate Jackson's Chameleons into giant power armor eating monsters and drop them on the front lines ....
We're really dipping into fallout lore with this.
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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #39 on: May 02, 2026, 02:45:21 PM »
I think we would genetically manipulate Jackson's Chameleons into giant power armor eating monsters and drop them on the front lines ....
We're really dipping into fallout lore with this.

I never played Fallout.

I think most true Americans would fight to the death rather than give up a single inch of US soil to an military invader trying to take it from us by force.  ( A few Quislings aside.)

I don't know why we should expect Ukrainians to feel any different.

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #40 on: May 02, 2026, 02:51:56 PM »
The removal of troops from Europe will expedite the fall of the dollar..

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #41 on: May 02, 2026, 02:55:45 PM »
The removal of troops from Europe will expedite the fall of the dollar..

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It will sure make it hard for us to project military power except over water.

That DRASTICALLY limits our range of options.  That makes us weaker.

Those bases were more for our benefit rather than Europe's.  We asked for those bases, not the Europeans. 

While we were reliable allies, they were willing to allow us to use bases on their soil.  That is a privilege, not a right.

We're burning through allies fast.  Soon we'll have to launch every bomber from Kansas.
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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #42 on: May 02, 2026, 04:55:18 PM »


https://youtube.com/shorts/H-Vsm5dRyDY?si=vHtKPg6HoCa0BhpN


Iran was a threat. To Israel.

And more importantly, to "Greater Israel".
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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #43 on: May 02, 2026, 05:09:19 PM »
$5 a gallon gas in less than a month..

We are told to be patriotic, shut up and pay it.. :rolleyes: :confused: :mad:

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Re: OPEC changes or the beginning of the end
« Reply #44 on: May 02, 2026, 05:20:38 PM »
$5 a gallon gas in less than a month..

I have to admit my first estimates are turning out to be low.

I thought $4.50\gal would be enough to create Regime Change here in the US by November.

If we are still stuck in this state, given futures, $7-8\gas gas is not impossible. 

I can't imagine what truckers will be paying for diesel by then.  $10\gal?

And that add inflation to every single item Americans use daily that has to be shipped around. 

Fed is already canceling all cuts in the foreseeable future.  They are starting to layout the conditions for further rate HIKES to counteract the Iran-Inflation.

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Broader AIPAC PAC + super PAC spending: Sludge/FEC analysis says AIPAC PAC and United Democracy Project (AIPAC-controlled) spent nearly $126.9 million in 2023–24, including $55.2M+ in donations to federal candidates and $37.9M in independent expenditures. At least $45.2M went to members of the 119th Congress.

So the cleanest answer is: hundreds — roughly 300+ sitting members were AIPAC-backed in the 2024 cycle, but an exact current split of Senators vs House members depends on whether you count direct PAC donations only, bundled/conduit donations, or outside spending. AIPAC’s own 2024 number is 361 supported candidates, not all necessarily seated.

They CLEARLY lobby on behalf the Israeli government, yet alone among all other lobbyists, they are NOT required to register as an agent of a foreign government.

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The first solution is to eliminate the legality in the US of dual citizenship.
I don't care what excuses or examples you bring up.
No man can server two masters faithfully.
It's not known, where those loyalties lie.  (e.g. Jonathan Pollard)
To remain an American, they should have to legally disavow and relinquish their other citizenship or face deportation.

A duel citizen is only half an American.

Israel does that on purpose to promote divided loyalties where they might need Mossad to operate.
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