Trump Announces Total Blockade On All Sanctioned Venezuelan Oil Tankers; Demands Venezuela Return "All Lands, Oil, and all other Assets they previously stole from us"

I sense that Maduro's Minister of Propaganda will get a fawning interview on Tucker Carlson's show in the next couple of weeks.

Note that only some of Venezuela's tankers have been sanctioned for carrying banned Iranian oil. So this is not a blockade of all of their oil tankers.

It is nevertheless an escalation.

The Walls, CNN might say, are Closing In on Maduro.

Related: Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.

The price of gas is now at a five year low -- it had previously been at a four year low.

Now it's at its lowest level not just since covid, but since Trump's pre-covid final year of term one.

Americans are heading into Christmas with a financial break at the pump that hasn't been seen in years, as gas prices are projected to hit their lowest Christmas Day average since 2020 -- the final full year of President Trump's first term. The White House credits Trump's renewed focus on domestic energy production and regulatory restraint for the drop, arguing the contrast with the Biden years could not be clearer. "Thanks to President Trump, gas prices have hit a five-year low and Christmas Day gas prices are projected to fall to the lowest level since 2020," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Breitbart News, adding that driving down energy costs for families and businesses will remain a top priority as the administration looks ahead to the new year.
Data from GasBuddy suggests the relief will be tangible. The firm estimates Americans will save more than $500 million on fuel during Christmas week compared to last year alone, a meaningful reprieve after years of elevated prices that hammered household budgets. The historical comparison underscores the shift. On Christmas Day 2020, gas averaged about $2.26 per gallon nationwide while Trump was still in office. Just one year later, with Joe Biden less than a year into his presidency, that figure had jumped to roughly $3.26 per gallon. Prices stayed stubbornly above $3 on Christmas Day throughout Biden's term, averaging $3.05 in 2022 and $3.10 in 2023.
Those holiday figures came against the backdrop of a broader energy shock under Biden, who presided over the highest gas prices in U.S. history during the inflation surge that followed his policy reversals on drilling, pipelines, and energy investment. On June 14, 2022, the national average for regular unleaded hit $5.016 per gallon, according to AAA -- a number that became emblematic of the administration's broader economic troubles.
Industry analysts point to improving fundamentals now driving prices lower, but the White House is quick to frame those gains as policy-driven. GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan said refinery maintenance has wrapped up, supplies are increasing, and seasonal demand is down, all of which are keeping prices in check. "Provided there are no surprises, holiday travelers should see pump prices that come in a bit lower than last Christmas," De Haan said, adding that early indicators suggest lower prices could extend into next year as GasBuddy prepares to release its 2026 fuel outlook in January.
For the Trump administration, the timing matters. Lower gas prices during the holidays serve as a highly visible reminder of how energy policy ripples through the broader economy -- and a direct contrast to the Biden-era spikes that voters still remember. As millions of Americans hit the road to see family, the message from the White House is simple: energy dominance isn't an abstraction. It shows up on the receipt at the gas station.

Remember when Chuck Schumer said gas prices would "never go down"?

The national average gas price hit $5.01 under Joe Biden.

Today, in 23 states, it's below $2.75 per gallon. pic.twitter.com/dg3KBTm2V4
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) December 16, 2025

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Democrats are livid after local news in Las Vegas was just forced to show working class Americans CELEBRATE President Trump's plummeting gas prices

They've dropped 45 cents in ONE MONTH.

UBER DRIVER: "I can probably save roughly $60 a week!"

This is saving people… pic.twitter.com/lcBfbYW5ob
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 17, 2025

Below, Americans videotape their local gas prices. One guy celebrates $2.19/gallon gas, another guy in Texas shows gas at... $1.79/gallon.

Crazy!

The lowest gas prices I remember came after the first Iraq war. Gas prices had been high before and through the war, due to supply disruptions (and simple fear of possible supply disruptions).

After the war concluded, those fears ended, and the Saudis began pumping a lot as a favor to George Bush. Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

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1 Whoo!

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (3nLb4)

2 First?

Posted by: lin-duh at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (ZKcZu)

3 wow. Could have been first. Noob me read the content instead.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:21 PM (zjgNU)

4 $4.29 here in Seattle.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Funny part? Look at Blue States Lime New York, California, Illinois, etc. The prices there are still the highest in the nation. Weird.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (3arSl)

7 And I’m not comfortable with the escalation in Venezuela.

Nope.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

8 My eyes are getting dilated... good thing it's clouds and drizzly outside.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (ZKcZu)

9 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

10 ratchet, ratchet, ratchet...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (2GVsD)

11 What "lands" has Venezuela stolen from us?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

12 After the war concluded, those fears ended, and the Saudis began pumping a lot as a favor to George Bush. Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

I remember those days, but since I'm 29, it's clearly a previous life memory.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (zjgNU)

13 Gas is 89 cents in LA in Die Hard. Always bothers me a little when I see it. There is something wrong with me

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (BEQiS)

14 Has Judge Boasberg approved this yet?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (sX1BW)

15 An American president demanding the return of stolen American materials is the most America Last thing I can think of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

16 I still do not know why gas rose here by .30. Its still 2.69.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (zZu0s)

17 What "lands" has Venezuela stolen from us?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

They expropriated the holdings of a US oil producer. I don't recall which one, but all lands and capital.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:24 PM (zjgNU)

18 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.

Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (G1OIb)

19 Interesting ploy.... whole world getting sporty, various conflicts not responding to peace efforts (despite successes elsewhere) so... what to do?

Pick the biggest and weakest pain in your ass and smash them like an ant as a show of force?

Not the worst play i've ever heard of.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (JwNbV)

20 The price of gas is now at a five year low -- it had previously been at a four year low.

Now it's at its lowest level not just since covid, but since Trump's pre-covid final year of term one.

======

Yeah, but what is Trump doing about the affordability crisis?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

21 There are also 5 or 6 shadow fleet tankers around the Indian Ocean making a break for Venezuela. Could be more seizures, or maybe they will let them fill up first.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (NS3dP)

22 6 Funny part? Look at Blue States Lime New York, California, Illinois, etc. The prices there are still the highest in the nation. Weird.

not certain whether typo for "states like" or "state slime".

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (v3pYe)

23 I paid 0.86 a gallon in Alabama, it was the lowest I recall paying ever.
I know growing up my parents paid less at times, but that was when there were still leaded gas pumps.

Posted by: Inogame at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (53oGX)

24 Gas is 89 cents in LA in Die Hard. Always bothers me a little when I see it. There is something wrong with me
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (BEQiS)

I think the cheapest I ever paid was on my motorcycle (before I got a car) and it was 0.92.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

25 I'm waiting for the Democrats to start campaigning on low gas prices and how it's evil for Trump to be giving such a false sense of hope to the American People as they will be raising the f*ck out of prices when they retake the House and Senate in November.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

26 Pirates don't get to complain when their ships are seized.
On the other hand, Richard "Dick" Hanania is supporting Trump on this one, which I admit as evidence Trump shouldn't do it. Although I think Trump should do it anyway.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (gKWVE)

27 Liberals are always upset if something benefits regular Americans, or gives them more control over their own money and lives. Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (q33wW)

28 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.
Posted by: Case at December 17, 2025 02:25 PM (G1OIb)

It's an older tech, but we can and do.

I mean, coal is basically dirt that burns.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (zjgNU)

29 I can't find $1.79 (must be close to Houston) but I found $2.02 yesterday.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (uWKK8)

30 We should drone strike the Citgo sign behind Fenway as a show of force.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (sX1BW)

31 Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.
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Kamala will fix it

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (BEQiS)

32 Like Castro in '59, Chavez nationalized the oil industry and stiffed all foreign owners.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (2GVsD)

33 18 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.

if only there were magic rocks that could be used to boil water.

*wistful sigh*

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (v3pYe)

34 $2.55 at the AAFES in south Texas.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (3arSl)

35 First Lady bought me a shirt for my birthday that says "I majored in triggernometry" and has a schematic of a disassembled semi auto pistol below.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

36 We're still at $2.49.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (NS3dP)

37 Was it Chevron in Venezuela? Trying to remember.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (zZu0s)

38 Gas is still well over $3 here, and it's going up.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (UnA8+)

39 Heh.

Seize all Citgo properties in the US and auction them off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)

40 I heard on the Vince Show earlier today that Trump said we now have a FULL blockade on Venezuela. No oil in or out.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

41 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.

Send five dollars for my secret plans how to convert your carburetor to run on water!
-- 1970s Popular Mechanics ads

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (3nLb4)

42 if only there were magic rocks that could be used to boil water.

*wistful sigh*
Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 02:26 PM (v3pYe)

Yeah, if we ever found something like that, we'd be stupid to miss that opportunity.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (zjgNU)

43 11 What "lands" has Venezuela stolen from us?
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

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The land under the oil rigs that American oil companies paid for and built on and was then expropriated by the fucking Commies.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (5aZAZ)

44 Also, they ruined all the refineries they stole from the companies. I think their well efficiency went into the shitter as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

45 1. Let the shadow tankers fill.
2. Seize them.
3. Sell oil.
4. Profit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (2GVsD)

46 I'd be ok if Venezuela exported more of their women to the US.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (q33wW)

47 What "lands" did Venezuela steal from us? Any idea what the fuck he's talking about?

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (etNEE)

48 When I had my first 66 Mustang in 1988, fuel was $0.90 a gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

49 2.60s and up in Charlotte

Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uQzkA)

50 The mountains in some states are made of magic rocks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (NS3dP)

51 9 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

Chavez and Maduro expropriated (stole) billions of dollars worth of property from Chevron, Exxon, some others, and their shareholders. Refused to make any compensation at all. The US should have done something about this 20 years ago, it would have headed off a lot of trouble.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uWKK8)

52 As a yute, I was paying 29.9 a gallon at the Red Head station, topping off my beetle running on fumes for three bucks (never did that as I was a kid and only thought you could buy $1).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (gm9Sb)

53 In Los Angeles, during the Gulf War, was the first, last and only time I saw gas at

95 cents, IIRC.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (asXVI)

54 9 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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It is a move toward Hemispherical Security and Cohesion.
It is part of a pincer move between the US and Argentina discouraging socialist regimes while encouraging more democratic/republican forms of government.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (Mb4p6)

55 As a driver, I mean. As a kid, I remember my dad bitching about gas topping 50 cents.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (asXVI)

56 If only we could power our stuff with dirt.
Posted by: Case

We do it with dirt bikes, so why not cars?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

57 Yeah, if we ever found something like that, we'd be stupid to miss that opportunity.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (zjgNU)

Where the fuel was abundant here in the US.

Crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (zZu0s)

58 Venezuela nationalized oil company assets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (NS3dP)

59 "Thank for your attention to this matter."

Like a boss.

LMAO

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (oMo5x)

60 Better adjust for inflation.

Theirs and ours.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (JwNbV)

61 In an effort to halt this wreckless drive towards war, and in sympathy with the freedom loving peoples of Venezuela, the Washington State government will pass a $1.00 gas tax increase with the revenue going towards Venezuelan peace efforts.
Oh, and for the children.

*sarc...as if this is necessary*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:30 PM (2WIwB)

62 For comparison, it's just dropped to $3.99 in places, which actually probably maps with inflation pretty well.

And I was paying $4.29 a few weeks ago.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (asXVI)

63 The Walls, CNN might say, are Closing In on Maduro.

In 2028, The Walz will be closing in on you.

Posted by: Some call me Tim at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (0sNs1)

64 As a kid, I remember my dad bitching about gas topping 50 cents.

I switched to regular and Tim Walz'd my timing when premium hit 57.9.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (3nLb4)

65 Send five dollars for my secret plans how to convert your carburetor to run on water!
-- 1970s Popular Mechanics ads
Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (3nLb4)

Right next to the ad for the x-ray glasses where you could see a woman's underwear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

66 They have F16s.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (NS3dP)

67 Dems: it's Trump's fault that gas prices are low.
Normies: cool

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (LyrOO)

68 "Thank for your attention to this matter."

As per my previous email, we are coming for all of your shit.

Sincerely,

The Don

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:31 PM (q33wW)

69 Since I've had a driver's license the lowest price I remember for regular was $0.87/gal sometime around 1998ish

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (5aZAZ)

70 When I had my first 66 Mustang in 1988, fuel was $0.90 a gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Watch Diehard. And weep.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (oMo5x)

71 Here in the communist Republic of California gas is still about $4.50 a gallon. Go Gavin.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (NtVYv)

72 Ummm ... what "lands, oil, and other assets" is Trump talking about? The apartment buildings taken over by Tren de Aragua?

This is basically an attempted regime change, right?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

Chavez and Maduro expropriated (stole) billions of dollars worth of property from Chevron, Exxon, some others, and their shareholders. Refused to make any compensation at all. The US should have done something about this 20 years ago, it would have headed off a lot of trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uWKK

________

Oh that I know. The Venezuelan theft of oil lands and assets goes back to the 1970s. But that was privately-owned land. The way Trump framed it sounds like he's talking about United States territory he wants back.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

73 I thought that said Madison's Minister of Propaganda and immediately thought "Wait I thought Madison's Minister of Propaganda was Madison?"

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (BEQiS)

74 Well, we’re now at war with Venezuela. Hope it’s over quickly.

Posted by: RobertM at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (btIS/)

75 The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

Posted by: Diabeetus at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (FEAjO)

76 When I had my first 66 Mustang in 1988, fuel was $0.90 a gallon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:28 PM

Gas was $0.25 a gallon in 1971.

Posted by: Not quite Vic at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

77 The walls will close in on Maduro when the cruise missile hits his mansion

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (LyrOO)

78 I'm not comfortable with Trump being so forceful. He should be nicer. Not so confrontational. He could try saying please and thank you for example. Asking nicely for someone to return borrowed yard equipment for example. Rather than standing in their front yard with a gang makes the whole neighborhood take notice. Its embarrassing. I feel pressured to take sides. Well i am on the side of just getting along. Sure they seem to be having problems with drug smugglers using their country as a shipping platform. But that doesnt mean they are trying. And confiscating property of big foreign oil companies is just showing them how to share! Trump is such a small hand3d vulgarian. He probably smells like cabbage.

Posted by: Feelings whoa whoa whoa feelings at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (M2DeZ)

79 Once Chavez stole all the oil fields and such, he put cronies in charge and started to bribe other countries with free or subsidized oil. Meanwhile no money was spent to maintain this golden goose and output declined.

Not paid attention to their production in years but under Chavez the output fell by 50% IIRC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (2GVsD)

80 Die Hard fuel prices.

https://is.gd/xRbYpb

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

81
When I was a wee tad long ago and faraway,

I remember seeing gas priced at $0.10/gal during a "Gas War" at an intersection where there were gas stations on each of the corners.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (iJfKG)

82 Can we do an export tax on fossil fuels?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (NS3dP)

83 Oh that I know. The Venezuelan theft of oil lands and assets goes back to the 1970s. But that was privately-owned land. The way Trump framed it sounds like he's talking about United States territory he wants back.

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This is the proper way to frame it.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (sX1BW)

84 Watch Diehard. And weep.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (oMo5x)

Does this even count as horde mind anymore?

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (BEQiS)

85 Oh that I know. The Venezuelan theft of oil lands and assets goes back to the 1970s. But that was privately-owned land. The way Trump framed it sounds like he's talking about United States territory he wants back.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

That's what I was confused about, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

86 Gas going over .50 a gallon, and the Guidos running the cigarette machines changing the price to .45 a pack.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (gm9Sb)

87 The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

Posted by: Diabeetus at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (FEAjO)

We should do both.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (oMo5x)

88 >>They expropriated the holdings of a US oil producer. I don't recall which one, but all lands and capital.

Gulf.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (viF8m)

89 Thank you for your attention to this matter!

It never gets old

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (YobFY)

90 Well, we’re now at war with Venezuela. Hope it’s over quickly.

Posted by: RobertM at December 17, 2025 02:32 PM (btIS/)

Declaring war is not the same as enforcing sanctions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

91 52 As a yute, I was paying 29.9 a gallon at the Red Head station, topping off my beetle running on fumes for three bucks (never did that as I was a kid and only thought you could buy $1).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (gm9Sb)

When I was in 3rd grade I remember my dad giving me a gas can and a quarter and telling me to walk down the block and bring back a gallon of gas from the Esso station.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (uWKK8)

92
Re: CA & newscum

I *think* the broad ban on Small Engines go into effect on June 30, 2026.

Think about how monumentally Boneheaded that is.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (Oonfw)

93 Oh boy, here comes the "Drumphfff is Big Oil Puppet" hysterics fireworks.

Go long Chevron ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (uMYuS)

94 This is a very limited blockade, so we will see where this goes and how quickly.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (sX1BW)

95 The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

Embrace the power of 'and'

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (q33wW)

96 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (0G2Xo)

97 Diehard is better than It's a Wonderfull Life.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (NS3dP)

98 Yea but the price of Thumb Tacks is still high !!!!!

So Trump cannot claim victory just yet !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (J9q9v)

99 Liberals are always upset if something benefits regular Americans, or gives them more control over their own money and lives. Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

There's a lot of people less interested in control over their own money and lives than they are about control over other people's money and lives.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (OUMaO)

100 Does this even count as horde mind anymore?

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:33 PM (BEQiS)

Not when it as common as an exhale.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (oMo5x)

101 Gas got down to 89 cents a gallon where I grew up in Texas during the glut in 1998. Lowest I remember. My parents had grocery store points for fuel and filled up for like 40 cents a gallon.

Posted by: brak at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (jGJov)

102
Imagine that.

CA Democrats & newscum BANNED small engines, such as lawn equipment, generators, etc.

6 months from now sales are Outlawed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (Oonfw)

103 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (0G2Xo)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

104 As a yute, I was paying 29.9 a gallon at the Red Head station, topping off my beetle running on fumes for three bucks (never did that as I was a kid and only thought you could buy $1).
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (gm9Sb)

Heh.
Mine was a '59 VW with 36 screaming ponies under the hood.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (2WIwB)

105 Die Hard fuel prices.
https://is.gd/xRbYpb

Regular and unleaded. Remember those plastic nozzle adapters that let you put regular in your car with the small gas filler?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (3nLb4)

106 Diehard is better than It's a Wonderfull Life.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM

Battery > Penguinnery

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (0sNs1)

107 Venezuelans would have to get frisky for it to be a war war. This is us pinning a fat kid to the ground.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

108 36 doesn't seem like enough.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (NS3dP)

109 Retarded troll is here doing retarded troll things, again.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (5aZAZ)

110 Embrace the power of 'and'
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 17, 2025 02:34 PM (q33wW)

I would rather Trump spend the time and energy in our homeland than Venezuela. I have also seen no work towards that goal; rather, doing trade deals and rare earth deals with the Chicoms.

A simple EO banning Chinese purchases of tangible US assets seems pretty simple.

Posted by: Diabeetus at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (FEAjO)

111 Mine was a '59 VW with 36 screaming ponies under the hood.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:36 PM

Technically, wouldn't that be the trunk?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

112 Remember the good old days of gas rationing, gas lines, and prices escalating double digits every week?!

Democrats, we can get there again!

Posted by: zombie Jimmah Carter at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (ZkbES)

113 I saw previews for the movie about Melania coming out next month. I like Trump, but I imagine it would take a strong willed and tough lady to be married to him.

Posted by: jmel at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (RWHIh)

114 >>The Chinese have bought a LOT of farmland and other assets here in the US. I would rather Trump repatriate that then whatever the oil companies lost in Venezuela.

If it makes you feel any better China is Venezuela's biggest customer and a very significant player in the Venezuelan government.

This is not just going to hurt Venezuela, it will hurt both China and Russia and to some extent Iran.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (viF8m)

115 Ah, air cooled engines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

116 Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

I know, right!

Posted by: Californians Who Voted to NOT Repeal a Gas Tax at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (9tO06)

117 Being 29 and all, I don't remember those low gas prices

Posted by: Oh noes at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (HcoTw)

118 See !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Biden's plan is working. It just took Trump to implement Biden's plan to make everything affordable again .......

Posted by: Jackson at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (J9q9v)

119 I will admit it's fun watching a pair of Growlers and a Super Hornet circling like predator eagles in the Caribbean on FlightRadar24.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (bNf8H)

120 Venezuela received the first of 24 F-16A/B aircraft in 1983. Since then, two A and one B have been lost and not replaced.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (2GVsD)

121 Melania coming out next month.

Melania's coming out?

*makes 'call me' gesture*
-- Ellen De Generes

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

122 ASS is here, using his fractured English again, to let us know Chairman Xi's opinion of gas prices.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (ZkbES)

123 The weird thing about those "Die Hard" gas prices is I was driving by the Nakatomi building every day while this was being shot, and I don't remember prices being that low. I thought they had dropped in 1991 when the war started.

I've always wondered about that. That is also NOT a cheap area of town to get gas in.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (asXVI)

124 96 The wholesale global price for gasoline is now around $1.68 mainly due to lack of demand worldwide."

Actually, it's low because Trump worked to convince the Saudi's to keep pumping out high levels of oil to cut down Putin's income and also to reverse inflationary pressures in the US.
And it also gives Trump a free hand to take a swipe at Venezuela's oil production without having to face any big economic ramifications.

Interesting side note - China was buying a lot of Venezuela's oil at discount prices because it was sanctioned. So this move is also a backhanded swipe at China.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (uWKK8)

125 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?

Posted by: Kimo Loka at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (kiuY+)

126 Seriously, I don't understand how 40%+ of Americans can ever vote this way. It's amazing we've made it this far with so many stupid people in our country.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (BEQiS)

127 Top Chinese Missile Force guys claim growlers completely f up their radars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (NS3dP)

128 1983? F-16s?

They'd have more Caribbean cache if they were F-86s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (zZu0s)

129 Venezuelans would have to get frisky for it to be a war war. This is us pinning a fat kid to the ground.
===
Now that makes me even more uncomfortable!!! Fat shaming and bullying!!! Ugh.

Posted by: Feelings whoa whoa whoa feelings at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (M2DeZ)

130 The weird thing about those "Die Hard" gas prices is I was driving by the Nakatomi building every day while this was being shot, and I don't remember prices being that low. I thought they had dropped in 1991 when the war started.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

Maybe it was a fire sale?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

131 So this is like The Humungus and his cutthroats blockading the oil refinery in The Road Warrior, right?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

132 What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?

Posted by: Kimo Loka at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (kiuY+)

Concern noted.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (oMo5x)

133 36HP and 1959?

Now I have to look up when the 1200cc 40HP engine was introduced.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (2GVsD)

134 Venezuela received the first of 24 F-16A/B aircraft in 1983. Since then, two A and one B have been lost and not replaced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (2GVsD)

The second they put them in the air, there will be a lot more lost and not replaced.

(But I'm guessing that MAYBE one is airworthy, given communist attitudes towards maintenance.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (zjgNU)

135 104 I've had a bunch of beetles. Last one was a sunroof (canvass) 61 with no gas gauge, just the reserve switch under the seat. Had a problem convincing the ex that the reserve switch only worked once.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (gm9Sb)

136 I don't know, I still don't understand why Trump doesn't explicitly state that Venezuela has been stealing elections all across The West in general and America in particular for decades now.

* ShainS Shrugs *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (uMYuS)

137 I remember 26.9¢ right before the first Oil Crisis. It went up to 75¢ in a week. A hugely crippling time for normal Americans. Dad swore he'd never pay more than 99 cents. He relented soon, of course, and the country never recovered.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (DMIN7)

138 In the 80's, my brother built a 77 Scottsdale pickup. Put a 327 in it with a Rochester Q-Jet carb on it. He shaved the pistons and did some other mods to the internals and had a Muncie 4 speed trans with a 3,000 lb pressure plate on the clutch.

It had a 10 gallon tank and got 10 mpg. He didn't mind fuel being .75 a gallon, but it was still a lot to a teenager.

The truck looked like shit, but dusted just about everyone that wanted to race on Saturday nights cruising the strip.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

139 Can their air cap handle a 22 F16 bumb rush?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (NS3dP)

140 Can only assume more is goingbon than we know

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)

141 Back from a week's vacation.

Just noticed this. I think it's worth your few minutes:

♏️ 𝓓𝓪𝓻 ♏️ @DameScorpio
9h

VDH doing what VDH does so well. 👏 He takes a deep dive into the Seditious Six video. Verbiage. Staging. Lighting. And…Foreign influences. 🤔 👀👇🎥

https://tinyurl.com/4tj4mh7n

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (roqsI)

142 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump to raise gas prices above $5 a gallon to help Democrats in the Mid-term elections ........

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (J9q9v)

143 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
Posted by: Kimo Loka at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (kiuY+)

Ssssshhhh.

Forget it, he's rolling.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (/qoPY)

144 Trump actually said 'blockage' instead of 'quarantine' or other mealy-mouthed euphemisms.

Still sounds like an act of war....mind you, they have it coming.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (xcxpd)

145 >I sense that Maduro's Minister of Propaganda will get a fawning interview on Tucker Carlson's show in the next couple of weeks.

Depends, hope closely allied is Venezuela with Qatar?

Posted by: mea culpa at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (qYDuS)

146 If it makes you feel any better China is Venezuela's biggest customer and a very significant player in the Venezuelan government.

This is not just going to hurt Venezuela, it will hurt both China and Russia and to some extent Iran.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 02:37 PM (viF8m)

As I noted previously, this shot from Trump is sending a whole lot of pool balls bouncing in a whole lot of directions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (uWKK8)

147 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (BEQiS)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

148 Back from a week's vacation.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Where'd you go? And, more importantly, what'd you bring us?

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

149 How does Greenland figure into this?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (NS3dP)

150
I'd love to see the Intercepted Transmissions on the low gas prices.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (n7rxJ)

151 66 They have F16s

Maybe 5 working ones, and they are A models with relatively primitive electronics. Also a small number of Russian fighters. Smartest move for the VAF is to stay firmly on the ground

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (wXuSo)

152 Your loyal correspondent, checking in from a beach community Orange County, Ca. Yesterday I paid 4.399 for Chevron Regular. Locally, I've seen prices dipping down to the upper-mid 3's - e.g. 3.60+

A further update on the imminent refinery closures effect on supply and prices. Turns out, from a video Ace posted from Black Conservative recently, while we can't bring gas in from other states due to our special blend, we CAN AND DO bring gas in by tanker from I think S. Korea and someplace else so the situation in not as dire as first thought.

That also explains how, in a captive market where they can charge almost any price, refineries are still closing due to economics.

Sorry for the long post.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Tip your waitress.

I'm here all week.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (QGaXH)

153 | Maybe it was a fire sale?

Heyooooooo!

Seriously, though, we've been on fire for 50 years.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (asXVI)

154 How does Greenland figure into this?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (NS3dP)

It will be a tropical paradise when Global Warmening finally hits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

155 Perhaps PDJT means the Venezuelan ladies’ huge…tracks of land.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (+/y+R)

156 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

Us either, but we're happy about it.

Posted by: GOPe at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (0sNs1)

157 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
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I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.

Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

158 One thing i learned from landman is that 35 year old wells scale up, lose output, and need to be reconditioned. Which takes time, money and labor. Commies dont do maintenance.

Posted by: Not T Boone Pickens but at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (M2DeZ)

159 133 1966 was a 1300, displayed on the engine cover so it was before that. '67 was the big change to 12 Volt.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (gm9Sb)

160 Venezuela is a terrorist narco state who has been working with sovereigns like China, Russia and Iran to deliberate poison our citizens and undermine our country. That’s not only demonstrable, but the number of Americans killed by those drugs outweighs most wars we’ve fought. They are an active supporter of terrorist groups and have trained them in country. Also demonstrable. That effort has largely focused on asymmetric operations which are carried out by ferrying those trained assets across our southern border. Also demonstrable. Biden allowed a lot of that to happen with his open borders, along with operatives from just about every nation hostile to us. That’s one reason why the alert level is so high for a domestic attack right now. We have no idea who these people are, and where they are. But there is a lot of chatter that’s making a lot of people nervous. If there’s ever been a military operation that’s been justified it’s this one. BTW, Where are all those people who tell us we should only be fighting wars when it directly impacts our nation? Weird. Democrats are standing with the terrorists and illegal immigrants, and all those “the constitution” people have evaporated.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (3arSl)

161 How does Greenland figure into this?

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Glad you asked. Trump should use the funds from the oil we reclaim in Venezuela to pay for Greenland.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (sX1BW)

162 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

We do what we can.

Posted by: GOPe at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (uPqZl)

163 157 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
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I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

That's my assumption too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (xcxpd)

164 HOLY CRAP! Democrats are livid after local news in Las Vegas was just forced to show working class Americans CELEBRATE President Trump's plummeting gas prices

First it was eggs, now its gas, soon it will be housing.

Trump can't undo the destruction of the value of the dollar Biden caused but getting rid of illegals and regulations will lower the costs of staples...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

165 My plan to lower Gas prices would have worked if I was elected.

My plan was to lower the price of Gas-X Tablets thus reducing the cost to produce gas in the human body.

Ans people call me dumb and clueless....

Posted by: Kami Harris at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (70xJD)

166 Just make Maduro read a land acknowledgement statement.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (pkeXY)

167 Back from a week's vacation.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (roqsI)

Violated the 100 comment rule did you?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (oMo5x)

168 Step 1: Letters of Marque
Step 2: Viceroy of the Wayuunaiki Province
Step 3: Anyone else want to step to us?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (HXT0k)

169 There are so many ships in the Caribbean, so many ships close to Venezuela it's difficult to make heads or tails of it.

https://tinyurl.com/ysxjnfrx

Clicking cursor over a specific ship will give details, click again and receive more details.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (Mb4p6)

170 Where's the beef?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (NS3dP)

171 Anyone notice trump takes care of business?

We have these...festering foreign policy problems. He works hard to...make them no longer a problem. Forever.

Venezuela - he could just leave it alone. Same with Iran. But he wants to ...end the problem. And works toward that goal. Using whatever tools it takes.

He realizes he can bully Venezuela. Cut off their money. Force a collapse.

In Iran, he realized he had the perfect opportunity to end their nuclear program once and for all.

In Gaza, he doesn't want a ceasefire, he wants the problem ended.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (gDhA9)

172 I'm still paying $2.75/gallon, because NJ.

Luckily, my retarded state elected a twit for governor, who has promised to raise the cost of energy, so I can look forward to higher costs for the next 4+ years.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (n9ltV)

173 51 Chavez and Maduro expropriated (stole) billions of dollars worth of property from Chevron, Exxon, some others, and their shareholders. Refused to make any compensation at all. The US should have done something about this 20 years ago, it would have headed off a lot of trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (uWKK

Thanks for that. Wasn't sure what PDT meant about stolen oil fields.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 02:45 PM (y171U)

174 36HP and 1959?

Now I have to look up when the 1200cc 40HP engine was introduced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (2GVsD)

They guy that worked on it called it 36 horsepower. I've always assumed he was right as he was a mechanic and raced formula G class cars.
I miss that car. It was fun to drive. No gas gauge, just a lever on the floor to flip to the reserve tank.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (2WIwB)

175 Has anyone asked Sean Penn to weigh in on this Venezuela stuff? It would be gold.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (ZkbES)

176 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.

If you talk to moderate/right leaning low propensity voters one of the first things they tell you is, "I voted D and the government did stuff I didn't want. So then I voted R and the government kept doing those same things. Tell me again why I should vote R?"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

177 I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.
Posted by: Crusader at December 17, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

That's my assumption too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 02:44 PM (xcxpd)

It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (/qoPY)

178 147 I don't understand how WE can't understand why people don't want to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM (BEQiS)

Heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

I make this point all the time: We hate them. Most of us don't want to vote for them either. We're voting against the other guys. The Republican Party is like childhood leukemia: no one wants it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (mFz+I)

179 Remember when Chuck Schumer said gas prices would "never go down"?

------------

* Trump grabs own crotch *

"Hey Chuck U. -- I've got DogEater's 'Magic Wand' right here!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (uMYuS)

180 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

181 Trump doesn't need any kind of war to win this. Remember that Maduro has no popular support; the Venezuelan government is a criminal enterprise which survives only because it can pay off all the various cartels, militias, and military units on its payroll each month. Not a one of them is going to keep working for free; and in fact most of them are the kind of men who get very angry at being asked to work for free.

So shut the money spigots down, Maduro's own people will dump him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (uWKK8)

182 The weird thing about those "Die Hard" gas prices is I was driving by the Nakatomi building every day while this was being shot, and I don't remember prices being that low. I thought they had dropped in 1991 when the war started.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:39 PM

Maybe it was a fire sale?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (0sNs1)
______

It's entirely possible -- even probable -- that the shot of the gas prices was created in post and they just put whatever looked good on the cards. I also doubt they were selling leaded gas in downtown LA in the mid-80s. CA didn't completely outlaw leaded gas until around 1990, it was phased out starting in the 1970s. I think it would be a rare sight in downtown LA in 1985.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

183 Seems like getting rid of 2.5 million illegals yields all sorts of benefits to Americans.

Imagine what getting rid of 10 million will accomplish.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (gDhA9)

184 I don't think there's a car I hate more than the VW Beetle........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

185 I'll be glad when Maduro's out. Every time I hear his name mentioned, I think about a dark-wrapped cigar. Macanudo makes a good one.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (rj6Yv)

186 Maybe 5 working ones, and they are A models with relatively primitive electronics. Also a small number of Russian fighters. Smartest move for the VAF is to stay firmly on the ground
==
They wont even take off with the carrier air cap sitting on top and able to get there before they can get altitude.

Posted by: High ground at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (M2DeZ)

187 I'm assuming that he's talking about the assets that the commies seized from US companies when they took control of the government.

Chevron is up about 1.5% today.

I guess the market thinks this just might work...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (sKqQm)

188 Venezuela received the first of 24 F-16A/B aircraft in 1983. Since then, two A and one B have been lost and not replaced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:38 PM (2GVsD)

The second they put them in the air, there will be a lot more lost and not replaced.

(But I'm guessing that MAYBE one is airworthy, given communist attitudes towards maintenance.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (zjgNU)
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They'll all get smoked before they know what happened. The technological differences between the Alfa and Bravo 16's and what we fly now are akin to an atari 2600 and a playstation 5.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (5aZAZ)

189
* Trump grabs own crotch *

"Hey Chuck U. -- I've got DogEater's 'Magic Wand' right here!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (uMYuS)

This would be AWESOME........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

191 149 How does Greenland figure into this?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:42 PM (NS3dP)

======

"Yes...keep asking the wrong questions..."
-Luxembourg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

192 Clicking cursor over a specific ship will give details, click again and receive more details.

Posted by: Braenyard

Which key for firing missilles?

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (DMIN7)

193 I would wager most Americans couldn't find Venezuela on a map if you drew a circle around it.

Dumb As Dirt.

Posted by: Illiterate and Smelly at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (m8zKa)

194 "Trump Announces Total Blockade On All Sanctioned Venezuelan Oil Tankers; Demands Venezuela Return "All Lands, Oil, and all other Assets they previously stole from us"

So he is actually following international law then? I guess the democrats are going to be against international laws now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (0N4FZ)

195 Gas was $0.25 a gallon in 1971.
----------------
Yep. And my 59 T Bird was a hungry bitch. The back floor of the Bird was covered in returnable bottles I collected from construction sites. Good Times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (Wg6v7)

196 Chuck Schumer, the millionaire grillmaster serving up raw meat patties with cheese for his constituency of imbeciles.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (nljXp)

197 125 I'm confused. What oil, land and other resources has Venezuela stolen from the US?
Posted by: Kimo Loka

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When they nationalized the oil and mining fields. In the 70s.
(Which I think was all litigated and settlements agreed to (what choice did they have?))

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (zeE7J)

198 Step 1: Letters of Marque
Step 2: Viceroy of the Wayuunaiki Province
Step 3: Anyone else want to step to us?
----

I'm standing right here you know?

Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (TN0g+)

199 The Republican Party is like childhood leukemia: no one wants it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (mFz+I)

Rob Reindeer might.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (oMo5x)

200 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

Apparently Congress still doesn't have it on their bingo cards.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (/qoPY)

201 If this does lead into military action it is riskier.

But looking at how Reagan handled Libya could be a model.

Don't send a division of marines.

Bomb the shit out of Maduro and his allies.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

202 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (uWKK8)

203
Remember: Democrats' idea of "affordability" really means "free."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (Oonfw)

204
So he is actually following international law then? I guess the democrats are going to be against international laws now.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (0N4FZ)

No. He's a stupid poopyhead that has no clue what he's doing and is going to get us into WWVII.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

205 The 1300cc was the first universal engine case, you can bore those cases out to 1600 or 1776 or even bigger.

All right according to The Samba, 61 to 65 got the modified 1200cc engine that produced 40 SAE HP.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (2GVsD)

206 See, when the United States is energy independent, we can freely and repeatedly kick Iran and Venezuela in the nuts without repercussions.

And they richly deserve those kicks.

When we are dependent on them, we have to put up with their bullshit.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (gDhA9)

207 Those Electronics Carrier planes are not consisered fighters so have transponders on ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (NS3dP)

208 ----

I'm standing right here you know?
Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (TN0g+)

I didn't see that coming.

Posted by: Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

209 Gas was $0.25 a gallon in 1971.
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Yep. And my 59 T Bird was a hungry bitch. The back floor of the Bird was covered in returnable bottles I collected from construction sites. Good Times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (Wg6v7)

My Dad had a '71 442. That lasted less than 6 months as I recall.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (oMo5x)

210 When I first started driving, just after the first oil embargo, I was getting gas for 45.9 at Cumberland Farms stores in south Florida.

I remember going with my dad to fill his big Chrysler and him paying 28.9 pre-embargo.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH)

211 184 I don't think there's a car I hate more than the VW Beetle........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

My first car was a 56 VW Beetle . And no I didn't buy it new... Loved that car ..It had the little back window..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (VE6XX)

212 180 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

Come to think of it....

what if you work there? Can you top yourself off before you go home, or do you need another guy to come over and do it for you?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (JwNbV)

213 Damn.. Shoulda been Miss Cleo.

Sock fail.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

214 When they nationalized the oil and mining fields. In the 70s.
(Which I think was all litigated and settlements agreed to (what choice did they have?))
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (zeE7J)

So if they pay us back, do I get a check?

Do we pay down our national debt?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (/qoPY)

215 I'm gonna guess Venezuela is calling Russia and China for help, and I'm going to guess neither is answering the phone at the moment.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (gDhA9)

216 183 Seems like getting rid of 2.5 million illegals yields all sorts of benefits to Americans.

Imagine what getting rid of 10 million will accomplish.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (gDhA9)

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2.5 million in 9 months.

With ICE gearing up on Jan 1, 2026 to expand greatly.

Oh, and a mid-decade census (supposedly) which will send federal agents to every door in America, all of whom are deputized to enforce immigration law.

That's going to create a real incentive to hide in the shadows, if not outright leave.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

217 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
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Trump picked Marco Rubio for a reason. If I were Cuba I'd be laying low.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (Wg6v7)

218 First Lady bought me a shirt for my birthday that says "I majored in triggernometry" and has a schematic of a disassembled semi auto pistol below.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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Happy Birthday! Now you're the same age as me and can't call me old for another 6 months.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (DRSnL)

219 193 Granted left wing stuff but Doonesbury could be funny.Two Iraqi officers talking. "Only 50% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map".Yes, but the other 50% are Marines".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (gm9Sb)

220 88 >>They expropriated the holdings of a US oil producer. I don't recall which one, but all lands and capital.

Gulf.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Texaco

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (Mb4p6)

221 Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM

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It's a hoot to watch old TV series and films when you see the gas price at a gas station in a shor displayed at something like 19 cents, 29 cents, 39 cents ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (uMYuS)

222 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

Yes. I guess it's nice, but honestly, as long as the pump is under an awning, who gives a shit? And of course, it is deeply offensive to me as a free market guy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (n9ltV)

223 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (uWKK

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Haven't heard much about Panama recently ...

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (rj6Yv)

224 If you talk to moderate/right leaning low propensity voters one of the first things they tell you is, "I voted D and the government did stuff I didn't want. So then I voted R and the government kept doing those same things. Tell me again why I should vote R?"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

There's also the problem of not-so-moderate, hard right voters who said the same thing, and became zero-propensity voters. There's a lot of us.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (BI5O2)

225 Bomb the shit out of Maduro and his allies.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

A few hellfire ginsu missiles should do it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (oMo5x)

226 Kind of hard for every other nation to project power that far.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (NS3dP)

227 190 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

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That Venezualan woman won the Noble Peace Prize and she thanked Trump, so I think Trump believes he has a free hand from the "international community" to free Venezuala from the commie tyranny.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Vh9CX)

228 We recently seized a ship carrying military material that was going from China to Iran. We’re not gonna be shy about seizing anything headed for Venezuela.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (3arSl)

229 Happy Birthday! Now you're the same age as me and can't call me old for another 6 months.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (DRSnL)

Yes I can. The same with SpongeBro. He's 5 months older.......and still older than me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

230 Oh, and Thank You!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

231 >>> m8zKa

Whose timwalz is this?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (ULPxl)

232 It's a hoot to watch old TV series and films when you see the gas price at a gas station in a shor displayed at something like 19 cents, 29 cents, 39 cents ...
Posted by: ShainS

Wally in Mayberry was a price gouger. But he did give Gomer a cut of the skim.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

233 So we sorta kinda declared war on Venezuela, or rather the preliminary lead up to it. Never had this on my prognostication list from last year.
Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (pDt9x)

If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.
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"Our" side does a really poor job of explaining our positions on some matters. This is one example of it--there were 2 well-written articles published in the last 2 weeks that included confessions from Venezuelen insiders as to the MYRIAD of steps their current government had taken over the last decade undermine and attack the US. Yet "we" really haven't tried that hard to explain that to the American people.

Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (TN0g+)

234 -------------
Trump picked Marco Rubio for a reason. If I were Cuba I'd be laying low.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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No way around it. Cuba's on the list. The tyrants, if they are smart, should be offshoring their money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (Mb4p6)

235 Haven't heard much about Panama recently ...
Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (rj6Yv)

Chi Nah controls the canal.

We're trying to get Blackrock to buy it.

Yay, us.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (/qoPY)

236 207 Those Electronics Carrier planes are not consisered fighters so have transponders on ?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM (NS3dP)
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They have transponders on because we WANT everyone to know we're unzipping our fly and showing what we've got.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (5aZAZ)

237
we CAN AND DO bring gas in by tanker from I think S. Korea and someplace else so the situation in not as dire as first thought.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

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How does it turn into California's Special Blend, though?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

238 Gas is 89 cents in LA in Die Hard. Always bothers me a little when I see it. There is something wrong with me
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99 cents a gallon for leaded in My Hooptie by Sir-Mix-A-Lot

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (HXT0k)

239 If there is a war, we need to make them a colony and just take all their oil.

We are accused of doing that anyway, so what's the downside? Do what Russia and China do - install a puppet and claim reparations for it all. Then claim they are historically ours anyway.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (zeE7J)

240 Ace really did that drop of 3% give you a hard on for Trump ?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (0G2Xo)

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Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (Vh9CX)

241 When they nationalized the oil and mining fields. In the 70s.
(Which I think was all litigated and settlements agreed to (what choice did they have?))
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 02:48 PM (zeE7J)

So if they pay us back, do I get a check?

Do we pay down our national debt?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:50 PM (/qoPY)
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IIRC, there were two major rounds of nationalization. The first in the 1970s, and then a second in the mid-2000s (?) under that bloated tick Chavez. It may be that second one that Trump is talking about. I don't think it was just American companies either; I think a bunch of Euro companies were there too.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

242 NSDP hash. Do I get the Hugo Boss prize package?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (NS3dP)

243 $4.29 here in Seattle.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

Well, it costs money to run it all through the frother at Starbucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (npFr7)

244 >>> articles published in the last 2 weeks that included confessions from Venezuelen insiders as to the MYRIAD of steps their current government had taken over the last decade undermine and attack the US. Yet "we" really haven't tried that hard to explain that to the American people.
Posted by: Letters to Cleo
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If only they could read.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (Mb4p6)

245 And of course, it is deeply offensive to me
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Wow. That's a lot coming from Mr. Nekkid-Lardass-on-an-Ottoman guy.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

246 When I visited Venezuela, I was astounded by how much there was to eat! When I was at President Maduro's presidential palace, he served me not a seven course meal, but a twelve course meal!

Do you get a twelve course meal here in Israel-occupied America? I didn't think so!

Do the research yourself, people! Don't believe what they tell you, unless "they" are referred to you by our staunchest ally, Qatar!

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (1kWMS)

247 Yet "we" really haven't tried that hard to explain that to the American people.
Posted by: Letters to Cleo at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (TN0g+)

The Deep State called and asked "Explain what to who?"

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (/qoPY)

248 OT. I need some Moron input. Son has "camera bag" on his wish list. Way back when I was into photography, Tenba was the premium bag. I see that the name still exists but I don't know if it's still quality stuff. Any recommendations?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (3nLb4)

249 Venezuela may have enough reserves to pay our debt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (NS3dP)

250 I don't think it was just American companies either; I think a bunch of Euro companies were there too.

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The old Euro Company assets should be ours now too.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (sX1BW)

251 Haven't heard much about Panama recently ...
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Ooh/ Oh, yeah/ Uh-huh, ah!/ Jump back, what's that sound?/ Here she comes, full blast and top down/ Hot shoe, burning down the avenue/ Model citizen, zero discipline.....

Posted by: D.L.R. at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (M2DeZ)

252 Good. Time to flex on tin pot narcoterrorist dictators in our own hemisphere.

Let them hate. So long as they fear.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (wBaIH)

253 Nobody forced Citgo to do business in Venezuela. Are the US Armed Forces - and by extension you and I - now responsible to guarantee all corporate adventures on foreign soil ?

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (jzWBS)

You sound concerned.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (oMo5x)

254 55 As a driver, I mean. As a kid, I remember my dad bitching about gas topping 50 cents.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 02:29 PM (asXVI)

You could also get Freon-12 on sale for 89 cents a 12 oz can and put it in yourself in 10 minutes and have AC for a summer if you had a slow enough leak.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (QGaXH)

255 Alright, break out the yellow ribbons for Operation VENEZUELAN FREEDOM

Damn, Trump really has a case of the ass for Maduro
Monroe Doctrine FTW

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

256 I have to ask, being a dumb blonde, what assets were stolen from the USA by Venezuela? No comprende.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (WONhk)

257 245 $4.29 here in Seattle.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 17, 2025 02:22 PM (xhs9l)

Well, it costs money to run it all through the frother at Starbucks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 02:55 PM (npFr7)

Wow. It is roughly half that price here. Count my blessings, I will.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 02:56 PM (pDt9x)

258 Also, they ruined all the refineries they stole from the companies. I think their well efficiency went into the shitter as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yeah IIRC they kicked chevron out and the new engineers couldn't keep the infrastructure running... no experience.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (kfTpm)

259 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ZxPkt)

260 Wait...after the First Gulf War?

I'm starting to think Ace might not really.be 29....

Posted by: Moderate Salami, lurking at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (/3VV/)

261 >>> 223 Does someone else still pump your gas in NJ?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:46 PM (NS3dP)

Yes. I guess it's nice, but honestly, as long as the pump is under an awning, who gives a shit? And of course, it is deeply offensive to me as a free market guy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (n9ltV)

I argued with a long-ago cow orker about this who tried the "...but it's nice when it's cold out!" Dumbass, we were traveling to New Jersey from Colorado. And maybe I *choose* not to wait for sumdood to get off his butt to do a trivial task I do all by myself dozens of times a year.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ULPxl)

262 California Rep. Ro Khanna, referring to Newsom's former chief of staff recently being charged with corruption, said the aide's indictment is a "toxic stain" on the state.
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This bitch is a stain. Takes one to know one Ro.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (Vj99u)

263 IIRC, there were two major rounds of nationalization. The first in the 1970s, and then a second in the mid-2000s (?) under that bloated tick Chavez. It may be that second one that Trump is talking about. I don't think it was just American companies either; I think a bunch of Euro companies were there too.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

This was a big deal some years back, when the IMF was essentially being used to pay companies when the natives got restless in these third world shitholes decided to put socialists in power and nationalize their industries.

Once upon a time, Trump was a HUGE opponent of the practice.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (/qoPY)

264 >>They'll all get smoked before they know what happened. The technological differences between the Alfa and Bravo 16's and what we fly now are akin to an atari 2600 and a playstation 5.
Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 02:47 PM (5aZAZ)
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Especially true considering that the USS Ford carries a wing of F-35s.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (bNf8H)

265 Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

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Yes.

I'm sure the US government is running interdiction operations against jackleg gasoline pirates selling cut-rate crude oil to dolphins 'n' whales.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (BI5O2)

266 I would expect the Marxists will declare political war on President Trump over Venezuela.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (Ia/+0)

267 If we'd have had any leadership with any guts, it would have been on our list every year for the last 20 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 02:49 PM

Yep they violated international law way back in 2007 when they seized the oil fields and refineries that US companies paid for and built.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (0N4FZ)

268 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?
Posted by: Don Black

Greenland. And we want it back!

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (DMIN7)

269 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?

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Asked and answered. Now go away.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (sX1BW)

270 2.89 for top-tier reg unleaded yesterday here.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (kfTpm)

271 Oil Companies. Nationalization. All your stuff now belong to us.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (NS3dP)

272
The Walls, CNN might say, are Closing In on Maduro.

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I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (n7rxJ)

273 Some doofus thought Open Borders was good and would transform America. So, now an American has closed our borders and is opening borders elsewhere and they complain about open borders. Fuck these twats.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (Wg6v7)

274 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ZxPkt)

Oil-producing land that a U.S. corporation owned legally.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (n9ltV)

275 Not, for reference: the curb weight of a '67 beetle was 1500 lbs. By contrast, even my 2001 Miata was 2300 lbs (it had 126hp.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

276 Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

"They blowed up real good!"

Posted by: Oddbob at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (3nLb4)

277 I think what Trump is referring to is Chavez's 2007 theft of a about $40B from foreign oil companies.

I do hope he's planning on publishing the specifics though

Posted by: 18-1 at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

278 >> I'm sure the US government is running interdiction operations against jackleg gasoline pirates selling cut-rate crude oil to dolphins 'n' whales.

They’re doing it on porpoise.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (3arSl)

279 After this blockade we should immediately go reclaim the Panama Canal.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (sX1BW)

280 Valhalla I am coming. Drive back the Scandi Menace.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (NS3dP)

281 I think there is a vested interest in the government defending American private assets overseas from seizure by foreign governments.

If for no other reason than the FAFO doctrine.

Is the world a better, or worse, place, when any pisspot little penis-potato can get away with screwing our people over for the crime of making their economy better?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (JwNbV)

282 There is a new member to the F-16 club.

Argentina has accepted the first of 24 ex Dutch F-16s into service. The order will be filled by the end of 2026.

Total worldwide active F-16 force stands at 2,879 aircraft with another 98 on order.

127 F-16s that were in storage have been converted by Boeing into QF-16s for US testing. So, the US has 5x as many drone F-16s as Venezuela bought.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (2GVsD)

283 UBER DRIVER: "I can probably save roughly $60 a week!"

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Reliable Democrat voter anyway.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (Vj99u)

284 The best thing that might happen is that by seizing the tankers Cuban communist government may finally fall. They get a lot of oil from Venezuela and their energy grid already sucks. One can hope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 02:59 PM (LyrOO)

285 I got gas for $1.69 this week using my grocery card credits.

I'll never beat the 18 cents I got it for during covid though. That was crazy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (n5tGW)

286 Of course, my mustang is 3300lbs, I think (with, admittedly 435hp.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

287 Another thing Trump does with his dumb tweets is project strength and unpredictability, which his enemies fear.

Posted by: ... at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (5404P)

288 After the war concluded, those fears ended, and the Saudis began pumping a lot as a favor to George Bush. Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

The problem with dropping oil to $60/barrel is that a lot of the US production needs $70/barrel to pump, and around $50/bbl (estimates since no one is coming out to announce it) to do more exploration.

A good amount of the price needed to pump could be shaved by streamlining compliance and regulatory costs, and is something the EPA and Dept. Energy could do, should they feel a need to focus on that.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (rbvCR)

289 I *think* the broad ban on Small Engines go into effect on June 30, 2026.

Commercial grade battery operated lawn tools are easily 3x the price of gasoline equivalents.

I was looking at a backpack Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (WCaCG)

290 Perhaps PDJT means the Venezuelan ladies’ huge…tracks of land.
Posted by: Cray Cray

Check out the Caracas on her!

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

291 You sound concerned.

Of really all, and called, over trump !!!

do our that's please companies all invest yes what overseas manufacturing what 2nd the 3rd sit countries she yeah and you biggest risks - nationalization time dictator - that well remedied time you please military the thus you please taxpayer ?

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (jzWBS)

292 Looking forward to Trump invading Minnesota.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Wg6v7)

293 Maybe we have, indeed, written off Europe and their endless tiresome bullshit. Hopefully that includes the Ukraine bullshit.

Posted by: tubal at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (pDt9x)

294
Trump isn't about to start any neocon style regime change quagmire. Call this the Donroe Doctrine. Trump is reasserting control of our hemisphere.

The Chicoms, Iran/Islamoterrorists, and even Rooskies have been using Venezuela has a hub for subverting us in our own backyard. Donnie Two Scoops has had enough.

The drug thing, fentanyl especially, is the Chicoms fucking with us to undermine and weaken us. Hell, a lot of antifa shit has ties with this. Maduro has been a willing stooge for all this Chicom etc fucking with us.

That's what this. Trump is through with this shit, and Maduro is the example being made.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (w6EFb)

295
Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)

296 Clicking cursor over a specific ship will give details, click again and receive more details.

Posted by: Braenyard

Which key for firing missilles?
Posted by: t-bird

Alt+F4

Posted by: Old Internet Humor at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (9tO06)

297 97 Diehard is better than It's a Wonderfull Life.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:35 PM (NS3dP)

Both are 'feel-good, must see' movies for the whole family during the holidays!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (QGaXH)

298 221It's a hoot to watch old TV series and films when you see the gas price at a gas station in a shor displayed at something like 19 cents, 29 cents, 39 cents ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 17, 2025 02:51 PM (uMYuS)

Dag nabit ain't it the truth!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (y171U)

299 They have transponders on because we WANT everyone to know we're unzipping our fly and showing what we've got.
Posted by: ballistic
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Is that you Blind Melon Chitlin' ?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (XeU6L)

300 It's entirely possible -- even probable -- that the shot of the gas prices was created in post and they just put whatever looked good on the cards.
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That IS possible, though it seems like a lot of effort. Although, on the other hand, as I said, I was driving past that building every day and I've never been able to figure out where that shot was taken from. Maybe it's a setup with a model?

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I also doubt they were selling leaded gas in downtown LA in the mid-80s. CA didn't completely outlaw leaded gas until around 1990, it was phased out starting in the 1970s. I think it would be a rare sight in downtown LA in 1985.
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Mid-1980s is when they started tooting their own horns about ending leaded gas sales. I don't remember when they stopped selling it, though. (I vaguely recall thinking, "Oh, yay, I get to pay more for gas now!")

Also, the "Nakatomi" building isn't in DTLA. I'm pretty sure it's Century City (Fox Plaza IRL), but it's got to be about 10 miles to the west.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (asXVI)

301 Gasoline will make a big Klapow

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (Ia/+0)

302 287 I got gas for $1.69 this week using my grocery card credits.

I'll never beat the 18 cents I got it for during covid though. That was crazy.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (n5tGW)

Kept my youngest sane with nightly drives with dad around the area to all the empty malls and parks and stores...it was a blessing gas was that cheap, then.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (tOcjL)

303 243 NSDP hash. Do I get the Hugo Boss prize package?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (NS3dP)

plus a three for the reich!

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (v3pYe)

304 261 Also, what land did Venezuela steal from us?
Posted by: Don Black
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All of it. It's all ours.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (Mb4p6)

305
Commercial grade battery operated lawn tools are easily 3x the price of gasoline equivalents.

I was looking at a backpack Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Yeah, it's dumb. Plus, we still need a way to recharge those batteries.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (Oonfw)

306 There's a chain of stations in NW PA, Kwik Fill Big Apple that offer full service (well, just pump the gas) at no extra charge. It's optional.If you want to do it yourself, have at it. With Arthritis from shoulders down I sure miss it sometimes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (gm9Sb)

307 And maybe I *choose* not to wait for sumdood to get off his butt to do a trivial task I do all by myself dozens of times a year.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 02:57 PM (ULPxl)

Yup. Choice.

And last month the keffiya that the 7th century savage who was pumping my gas was wearing pissed me off. I called the company and got a response from the head of operations, who said..."nope, that doesn't fly with us. I'll fix it." And he did.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (n9ltV)

308 Many of the "drug" boat pics I have seen are those blue barrels that have tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)
____

Well, most Reddit regulars are probably heavy drug users, so there's that ....

I hate it that so many google searches now go to Reddit forum links. Ummm .... no. It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

309 Looking forward to Trump invading Minnesota.

- and -

I think what Trump is referring to is Chavez's 2007 theft of a about $40B from foreign oil companies.

When is the Department of War going to retrieve assets stolen by various state governments in the name of Civil Asset Forfeiture?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (WCaCG)

310 This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)
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They smoke the product. That's always the first mistake.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (rj6Yv)

311 Wonder why the trolls are so upset about this (beyond the obvious 'US military anything is bad').

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (ULPxl)

312 Which key for firing missilles?
Posted by: t-bird

Alt+F4
Posted by: Old Internet Humor at December 17, 2025 03:01 PM (9tO06)

Yeetus Ctrl-Alt-Deletus

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (JwNbV)

313 Oddly enough, it was Iran nationalizing their oil fields and breaking a deal with the Brits and the US that led to mullahs taking over the country.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)

314 Running with the bulls has been a lifelong passion of mine.

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (nljXp)

315 Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (WCaCG)

Hope you don't turn into a roman candle using it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (oMo5x)

316 All I see is a Blackhawk.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (NS3dP)

317 Feet dry and going downtown? One strangles the parrot beforehand.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (2GVsD)

318 Especially true considering that the USS Ford carries a wing of F-35s.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM (bNf8H)
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And I'm watching flightradar24 and seeing two-ship flights of Growlers and Super Hornets just doing hot laps off the coast. Lmao.

Posted by: ballistic at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (5aZAZ)

319 You go girl!

https://is.gd/HJYbHZ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (L/fGl)

320 Venezuela works for Iran. On US soil. IRGC and Venezuela's intelligence apparatus are intertwined.

Posted by: runner at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (g47mK)

321 I loved it when back in the 2000s, I think, there was some big meeting of heads of Spanish-speaking countries, and Hugo Chavez was blathering on about something or other, and King Juan Carlos of Spain said to him something like "Why don't you just shut up?"

That line became so popular that it was frequently used as a ringtone in the Spanish-speaking world.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)

322 Running with the bulls has been a lifelong passion of mine.
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (nljXp)

Better to be on that end of the bulls than David French's wife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

323 Now I have to look up when the 1200cc 40HP engine was introduced.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 02:40 PM (2GVsD)

1961, Anna.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (npFr7)

324 Wonder why the trolls are so upset about this (beyond the obvious 'US military anything is bad').
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:03 PM (ULPxl)

Because when it's all said and done, it should benefit the US.

They hate that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

325 291 I was looking at a backpack Echo brand battery operated Mexican bag pipe - $1200 for enough battery to do 45 minutes of work.

i didn't realize bagpipes were motorized. i thought you blew into them.

perhaps the traditional drone is created by a cox .049?

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (v3pYe)

326 Yes. I guess it's nice, but honestly, as long as the pump is under an awning, who gives a shit? And of course, it is deeply offensive to me as a free market guy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

CBD --- some history.

This was the result of small stations lobbying Trenton to try to keep big highway stations from putting them all out of business. It worked, because there were a lot of small stations in NJ at the time.

It is an interesting case where gov. tried to prevent the uber-capitalization that you have decried recently (I think it was you.) (You used a different word, but I just woke up and cooffee has not kicked in yet) This was the 70s when big stations with phone booth attendants were just starting to appear and the big oil companies were getting states to allow self serve. It mostly worked until NJ then turned around and made them dig up all their tanks and they went out of business anyway.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zeE7J)

327 I'm currently in California. Gas is $5/gallon (it is slightly less for the lowest octane in some places) and this is before next year when the refining capacity takes a shit. Newsom will get bludgeoned with this - gas will be closer to $6 as he runs in the Primary.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zdYK9)

328 >>> 311 Looking forward to Trump invading Minnesota.

- and -

I think what Trump is referring to is Chavez's 2007 theft of a about $40B from foreign oil companies.

==
When is the Department of War going to retrieve assets stolen by various state governments in the name of Civil Asset Forfeiture?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (WCaCG)

You jest, but - looking at *you*, Blondi.

Would be a nice change from Jeff "I Recuse" Sessions.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (ULPxl)

329
Let's take back ALL the 7-ELEVENS from India, too. Or Pakis, whichever.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (Oonfw)

330 >> are those blue barrels that have tops

Extra fuel for the run. Hell, I think weight/volume wise, depending on the run, they probably carry more fuel than the drugs. Money wise, the drugs are much more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (w6EFb)

331 You could also get Freon-12 on sale for 89 cents a 12 oz can and put it in yourself in 10 minutes and have AC for a summer if you had a slow enough leak.
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I've heard that there was never any proof that the various outlawed gases (har har) could make it UP to the ozone layer. All the AI is trained to say that OF COURSE it was.

I hate that it's so hard to get actual data with all of these tools.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (asXVI)

332
And why do we allow china to own Milwaukee tools?

Does china also own the land that Milwaukee Tools buildings sit on in the USA?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (Oonfw)

333 >Oil-producing land that a U.S. corporation owned legally.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Thank you for an actual answer. You are a great American.

Posted by: Don Black at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (ZxPkt)

334
Search DataRepublican's X feed for Venezuela. She's got a lot of stuff about all the anti-American antifa ties with Venezuela.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)

335 296 Trump isn't about to start any neocon style regime change quagmire. Call this the Donroe Doctrine. Trump is reasserting control of our hemisphere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (w6EFb)

I like that term, the Donroe Doctrine. White House should use it!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (y171U)

336 I wonder if those cigar boats even have a fire extinguisher?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (NS3dP)

337 I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:58 PM

Yep, basically we are going back to the monroe doctrine. Leave us and the Americas alone.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (0N4FZ)

338 330 >> are those blue barrels that have tops

Extra fuel for the run. Hell, I think weight/volume wise, depending on the run, they probably carry more fuel than the drugs. Money wise, the drugs are much more.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (w6EFb)

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The idea that these speed boats are transporting like 500 gallons of gas for smuggling is so hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)

339 You go girl!

https://is.gd/HJYbHZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It takes me to X but nothing happens. Just the black screen with the x in the middle.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

340
>> are those blue barrels that have tops

Extra fuel for the run.
Posted by: publius,

That's too obvious for the idiotic Reddit "geniuses" to suss out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (Oonfw)

341 I've heard that there was never any proof that the various outlawed gases (har har) could make it UP to the ozone layer. All the AI is trained to say that OF COURSE it was.

I hate that it's so hard to get actual data with all of these tools.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:06 PM (asXVI)

The atomic weight of freon tells you it would take tornadic force winds to carry it up to the outer atmosphere to do jack to the atmosphere.

It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

342 336 I wonder if those cigar boats even have a fire extinguisher?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (NS3dP)

I imagine they blew up with the boat

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (VE6XX)

343 Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (2GVsD)

344 Nobody forced Citgo to do business in Venezuela. Are the US Armed Forces - and by extension you and I - now responsible to guarantee all corporate adventures on foreign soil ?

Posted by: Howdy at December 17, 2025 02:54 PM (jzWBS)

You sound concerned.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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My tits are not calm!!! Not calm at all!!!.

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (M2DeZ)

345 >>Especially true considering that the USS Ford carries a wing of F-35s.

You mean squadron.

Also, the airwing is exclusively fourth generation. The F-35s were forward-deployed.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 17, 2025 03:08 PM (Y1sOo)

346 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zeE7J)

And highway gas prices are controlled, so they are always higher now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (n9ltV)

347 That Venezualan woman won the Noble Peace Prize and she thanked Trump, so I think Trump believes he has a free hand from the "international community" to free Venezuala from the commie tyranny.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 17, 2025 02:52 PM (Vh9CX)

I think that the US has had its eye on Maduro for quite a while, and there has been a serious focus on Venezuela in the last 5-8 years. Maria Corina Machado, "that Venezuelan woman" was extracted by Zodiac while the US did an overflight with F-18s as a way to distract the Venezuelan navy.
I don't think this is a spur of the moment activity, I think it is something that Rubio et al are very interested in, for everything from Russians and Chinese being involved, to supporting the Cubans, and running Hamas training camps and infiltrating Cartel members to the US. If you start looking into who ran Smartmatic and what they admitted they had done before they got sold, that is an additional issue.
Also Chevron wants their oil leases back.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (rbvCR)

348 307 And last month the keffiya that the 7th century savage who was pumping my gas was wearing pissed me off. I called the company and got a response from the head of operations, who said..."nope, that doesn't fly with us. I'll fix it." And he did.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:02 PM (n9ltV)

Yay!

Posted by: Joemarine at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (y171U)

349 We like this !!! Biff - dust off those plans for more facilities in China. And Mexico. And anywhere else with cheaper labor. This Trump fellow is all right !!!

Posted by: General Motors at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (x2Ks6)

350 346 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zeE7J)

And highway gas prices are controlled, so they are always higher now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (n9ltV)

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My understanding of the appeal of France in comparison grows...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

351
You see, they are fishing boats that fish for Gas Fish and then sell the gas fishes because they poor.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (Oonfw)

352 You can drop Milwaukee Tools from waist height a dozen times per shift and it takes several months to break them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (NS3dP)

353 Cheap gas and a forecast of 65 degrees on Christmas.

Ho Ho Ho

Posted by: illiniwek at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (vbXSk)

354 Related: Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.

Shit shot up from $2.11 yesterday afternoon to $2.59 this am.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (T+ixL)

355 Trump really is making America great again, in the Reagan tradition. Standing up to evil.

Posted by: PG at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (62PoT)

356 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

357 Yep, basically we are going back to the monroe doctrine. Leave us and the Americas alone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 17, 2025 03:07 PM (0N4FZ)
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"That goes double for Berbers"

And Persians, the Chinese, ISIS, and NKs.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (rj6Yv)

358
Yep, basically we are going back to the monroe doctrine. Leave us and the Americas alone.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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The Donroe Doctrine, as I saw somewhere on the internet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (n7rxJ)

359 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

Supposed to be close to 80 in NTX on Christmas day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

360 354 Related: Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states.

Shit shot up from $2.11 yesterday afternoon to $2.59 this am.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (T+ixL)

Christmas travel prices

Posted by: It's me donna at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (VE6XX)

361 You go girl!

https://is.gd/HJYbHZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It takes me to X but nothing happens. Just the black screen with the x in the middle.
Posted by: Bulg

https://is.gd/5tbZvM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (L/fGl)

362 343 Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Gonna need a big burka for that fat girl.

Posted by: Oh noes at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (HcoTw)

363 Can we trade Minnesota to Beijing for Tibet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (2GVsD)

364 Supposed to be close to 80 in NTX on Christmas day.
Posted by: Sponge

Reason No. 1 why I would NEVER move to Texas.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

365 "Gas is now under $2.75 per gallon in 23 states."

I saw $2.39/gal out in the sticks today. Now I'm waiting for the resulting reduction in shipping costs that won't come.

Posted by: gp at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (GHIyr)

366 Thetd are articles out there on the massive drug runningout of Venezuela and the chain of transportation used. Those fast boats don't just pull up to a US port.

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)

367 Shit shot up from $2.11 yesterday afternoon to $2.59 this am.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:09 PM (T+ixL)

Crude oil went up because of the Venezuela blockade.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (n9ltV)

368 >>I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

It's not new. He actually ran on it. I suspect that's a big reason he picked Rubio for SoS.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (viF8m)

369 56 degree high for Christmas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (NS3dP)

370 This is so dreamy just like the jfk blockade right lefties?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (udlma)

371 $4.49 reg

It is the lowest I have seen since Trump's first term.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (Vj99u)

372
Reason No. 1 why I would NEVER move to Texas.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

Texas is full. Cactus out front should'a told ya.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

373 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg

Official forecast:
12/22 76
12/25 77
12/26 78

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (T+ixL)

374 336 I wonder if those cigar boats even have a fire extinguisher?

that's where they stash the drugs

Posted by: anachronda at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (v3pYe)

375 >>> 141 Back from a week's vacation.

Just noticed this. I think it's worth your few minutes:

♏️ 𝓓𝓪𝓻 ♏️ @DameScorpio
9h

VDH doing what VDH does so well. 👏 He takes a deep dive into the Seditious Six video. Verbiage. Staging. Lighting. And…Foreign influences. 🤔 👀👇🎥

https://tinyurl.com/4tj4mh7n
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 17, 2025 02:41 PM (roqsI)

Coming from VDH, this makes me... quite curious. Seems like Kelly and frenz *ought* to be in deep shit, maybe even sitting in cells wondering what each of the others have said.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (ULPxl)

376 Well Fat Annie is supposed to be stealthy so I guess a burka can't hurt...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (2GVsD)

377 Yeah, it's dumb. Plus, we still need a way to recharge those batteries.

Didn't Ford produce a hybrid F-150 with a built in 120V 7.2kW generator and battery combo?

There were stories coming out of Texas during the Great Power Failure of February 2021 where people were using the trucks to power their homes.

I think the 430hp 3.5L twin turbo V6 is not considered by the state to be a "small engine" (< 25hp)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (a6PrB)

378 311 Wonder why the trolls are so upset about this (beyond the obvious 'US military anything is bad').
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Venezuela has been covertly being a pain in the ass to the US and its interest since Chavez. And has been looted and impoverished caudillo style by Chavez and then Maduro to the tune of billions of dollars stashed away. So you get Smartmatic which was used to create software for Maduro's elections and then spread to teh US directly and by licensing to Dominion Voting Systems. Current high executives and one of its cofounders in Smartmatic is facing trial for criminal bribery and general fuckery with Philippine elections right now (FCPA charges among others).

"Smartmatic was founded more than two decades ago by a group of Venezuelans who found early success running elections while the late Hugo Chavez, a devotee of electronic voting, was in power. The company later expanded globally, providing voting machines and other technology to help carry out elections in 25 countries, from Argentina to Zambia."

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (WDjG6)

379 Gas prices fell to under one dollar per gallon near my house, and I imagine in some parts of the country they might have fallen to 80 cents per gallon.

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75 cents/gal here in OKC after that war.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (g8Ew8)

380 These commies in NOVA won't drop their prices much. Many of the stations at 2.89-2.99, and many still over 3 bucks a gallon. There are a few at 2.69, but 2.99 seems to be more prevalent. One is 3.59, but it's next to the airport rental return. Go figure.
BTW- when I was young, gas pre-embargo was 29.9 at the local SOHIO. I remember it hitting 49.9 and people lost their minds.

Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 17, 2025 03:13 PM (SOGBX)

381 Boomer Pastor is troll but that's some funny trolling

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)

382 tops with the type of openings used to be filled with liquids. Venezuela sells gasoline for 14 cents per gallon . Smuggling is rampant

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Yes.

I'm sure the US government is running interdiction operations against jackleg gasoline pirates selling cut-rate crude oil to dolphins 'n' whales.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Yud. This troll is so comically stupid it has to be a kid. 20 something.
Venezuela to coast US is what 800 1000 miles or more?? Yea your boat's built in tank isnt big enough. You daisy chain the barrels as an auxiliary system. You aint stopping off on the way for gas.

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:14 PM (M2DeZ)

383 374 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg
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On the bright side, you won't have to go to Florida for Christmas to stay warm.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (WDjG6)

384 Are we basing in Dominican Republic?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (NS3dP)

385 (hZqcq)

The Left reverend Mary Cloggistan?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (2GVsD)

386 The lowest I remember as an adult that actually had to pay for gas is when I was in college in the late 90's and it was just under $1 a gallon for a period. Like $12 to fill up my car.

Nobody even really complained about gas in that era, it was just more the inconvenience of getting it. Same with things like groceries or eating fast food. No one really looked at this as a major stressor to living.

Other things, sure.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (eIzlH)

387 Citgo is owned by Venezuela. FYI

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (n5tGW)

388 Gas in se Pa has finally just broken under $3 most everywhere

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (Ia/+0)

389 Most Redditt users live in Bumfuckistan and are paid by the clicks they generate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (Mb4p6)

390 Boomer Pastor is troll but that's some funny trolling
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 17, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)

As if Trump isn't doing anything about the other things he mentions in his 'sermon.'

I mean, it's like no one has noticed Trump can handle more than one thing at a time, or something.

F*cking idiots........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

391 >>>Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Anna Puma

>F-35s are a boondoggle like the BFV. Best to spread around the losses to the rubes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (nljXp)

392 And highway gas prices are controlled, so they are always higher now!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That was the plan.
The oil companies forced out a lot of independents so they could control retail prices. First by cutting them off during the embargoes, then (probably accidentally) with MTBE making them all superfund sites. (What other industry is so vertical where they own the wells, refineries, and pumps?)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (zeE7J)

393 If demos really cared about immigrants, kill the leaders in shit holes. And set up a republic.

Has anybody come up with a reason why we should give our country away?

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (EyfuW)

394 Most Citgos got reflagged. I found one locally on Saturday.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (NS3dP)

395 Falling rents and cheap gas.

But remember we have an aFfoRdaBiLitay crIsIs kids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (udlma)

396 Are we basing in Dominican Republic?

Puerto Rico for starters. They've been there for at least a month. Can't swing a dead cat without hitting an airman or sailor on R&R.

Posted by: General Motors at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (x2Ks6)

397 My first charge card was a SOHIO gas card.

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (rj6Yv)

398 Can we trade Minnesota to Beijing for Tibet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:11 PM (2GVsD)

Why, when we can get Free Tibet?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (dK+Kv)

399 Bradleys are awesome.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (NS3dP)

400 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.

Not so fast!

Posted by: Lord Kelvin at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (w9Wax)

401 The F-35 turned into the US answer to the Eurofighter Typhoon jobs program along with F-111 TFX gee-whiz.

To think the JSF started in the late 1980s as a replacement for only the AV-8B Harrier II.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (2GVsD)

402 A simple EO banning Chinese purchases of tangible US assets seems pretty simple.
Posted by: Diabeetus

It should have been a law from the 1800's. I'm surprised there isn't a oblique intent of one already.

Posted by: Navin Gruesome at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (mlg/3)

403 I suspect the reason Trump is going after Venezuela is the National Security Strategy he announced about a week ago. The Numero Uno focus is no longer Europe, but the Western Hemisphere. Strong allies, stability, the neighborhood, that sort of thing. I bet Rubio will be doing a little "tour" of South and Central America to start implementing it. Maybe he'll even speak Spanish, haha.

It's not new. He actually ran on it. I suspect that's a big reason he picked Rubio for SoS.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:12 PM (viF8m)

It's very smart strategy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (g8Ew8)

404
Didn't Ford produce a hybrid F-150 with a built in 120V 7.2kW generator and battery combo?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I don't know about Fords, but people use their Priuses all the time when camping as a Generator.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (Oonfw)

405 Also Chevron wants their oil leases back.
Posted by: Kindltot

You left out Maduro threatening to invade Guiana a few years ago and massing troops on the border.

From Dec. 2023,
"Venezuelan voters approved a government-supported referendum on Dec. 3 to back the country’s claim over Guyana’s Essequibo region, following ExxonMobil’s discovery of large quantities of oil in the area in 2015. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Venezuela’s government not to take action that would affect Guyana’s control over the territory, but Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered state-owned companies to start exploration and exploitation of oil and gas deposits in the disputed area. What are Maduro’s main motivations for asserting control of the Essequibo? How should Guyana—and other international actors, including the United States—respond to the referendum and Venezuela’s moves to exploit resources there? Is Venezuela likely to invade Guyana, and how might the international community intervene if it does?"

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (WDjG6)

406 388 Citgo is owned by Venezuela. FYI
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:15 PM (n5tGW)

There's been a legal case brewing for years about the ownership of Citgo, and a group of American investors/financiers appear to be on the brink of seizing control of it from Venezuela. The Trump admin of course is encouraging this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK8)

407 Trump picked Marco Rubio for a reason. If I were Cuba I'd be laying low.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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No way around it. Cuba's on the list. The tyrants, if they are smart, should be offshoring their money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (Mb4p6)

***

The hell of it is Cuba could be a huge success in that region. What a waste.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (2WIwB)

408 I always miss the best trolls and gut stuck with dumbaindo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (Vj99u)

409 You sound concerned.

Of really all, and called, over trump !!!

do our that's please companies all invest yes what overseas manufacturing what 2nd the 3rd sit countries she yeah and you biggest risks - nationalization time dictator - that well remedied time you please military the thus you please taxpayer ?
Posted by: Howdy at
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Holy fck! You BROKE THE AI CHAT BOT WITH you sound concerned.👏👏👏👏👏

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (M2DeZ)

410 $4.49 reg

It is the lowest I have seen since Trump's first term.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You'll see that in your review soon. Phillips 66 leaves CA in Dec and Benito refinery closes in Jan...
Ca is screwed $8/gal soon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (kfTpm)

411 "If demos really cared about immigrants, kill the leaders in shit holes. And set up a republic.
Posted by: thug dolphin"

That never seems to work out. They need to kill their shit-hole leaders and figure out how to set up a republic themselves.

Posted by: Ripley at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (GUOwU)

412 237 How does it turn into California's Special Blend, though?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2025 02:53 PM (n7rxJ)

It comes in that way. That's why there's only a few other refineries outside California that can provide it.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (QGaXH)

413 F*cking idiots........
Posted by: Sponge
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You are being charitable today Sponge.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:19 PM (WDjG6)

414 I'm currently in California.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 17, 2025 03:05 PM (zdYK9)
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Are you near the In 'n Out Burger on Tampa?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (bPc+B)

415 Has anybody come up with a reason why we should give our country away?

Because White Christian Nationalism is the only culture that has ever been on this Earth that must be destroyed, the ground it flourished salted and the children mutilated.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (a3CJ+)

416 On the bright side, you won't have to go to Florida for Christmas to stay warm.
Posted by: whig

Who wants to stay warm all the time on Christmas. It's supposed to be cold, and your supposed to go outside and experience that from time to time.

Christmas is meant to be cold and dark. Winter solstice and all that. That's why we put up all the lights and decorations, and watch videos of burning Yule logs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

417 Venezuela really is a crisis that's effecting things in our backyard. I bend towards non-interventionism, but this is low hanging fruit.

Maduro needs to go, I would even be fine bribing him and offering him safe passage if it speeds it up. The guy has this ability to hang around like Fidel Castro.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (eIzlH)

418 You'll have to use highspeed rail soon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (NS3dP)

419 nood

Posted by: gp at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (GHIyr)

420 399 Why, when we can get Free Tibet?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 17, 2025 03:17 PM (dK+Kv)

With purchase of a Tibet of Greater Value.

Posted by: XTC at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (UnA8+)

421 >>It has been the formal policy of our country since President Monroe that we reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs. The United States has recently strengthened our laws to better screen foreign investments in our country for national security threats, and we welcome cooperation with countries in this region and around the world that wish to do the same. You need to do it for your own protection.

Trump said this during his speech at the UN during his first term in 2018. He didn't just decide this 15 minutes ago.

https://tinyurl.com/54b33xfb

Posted by: JackStraw at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (viF8m)

422 This is bullshit. My family did not vote for this. Trump and Rubio need to cut out their little foreign misadventures and get back to making AMERICA great again. The Venezuelans can make Venezuela great again if they want, but without our help.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 17, 2025 03:20 PM (YINx+)

423
Jim Norton, the comedian. What do you make of this guy?

He's the very definition of Paradox, yes?

He's quite sensible on just about everything, including tranny freaks, yet he pretends to be "married" to a tranny freak.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (Oonfw)

424 The atomic weight of freon tells you it would take tornadic force winds to carry it up to the outer atmosphere to do jack to the atmosphere.

It's all bullshit.
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That's my understanding, yes. I think they double-down on this because it's regarded as a success.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (asXVI)

425 This fuckface goes to Reddit every day and runs here with its new gaslighting talking points. Reddit is now fake "experts" on Venezuelan drug boats.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 17, 2025 03:00 PM (Oonfw)

Those speedboats with 4 160 horsepower Mercury outboards are probably burning 125 gallons of gas per hour. They have to pack extra fuel.

And where are they buying all those outboards?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (npFr7)

426 392 >>>Oh wow, Trump is going ahead with sales of the F-35 to Saudi Arabia. It seems to be one of the carrots Trump is offering Riyadh to join the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Anna Puma

>F-35s are a boondoggle like the BFV. Best to spread around the losses to the rubes

They are pretty impressive in the demos I've seen.
Don't know how that translates to the real world. F-16 demo is one of the most impressive I've seen. Next to the F-22

Posted by: Oh noes at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (HcoTw)

427 That never seems to work out. They need to kill their shit-hole leaders and figure out how to set up a republic themselves.

Republics can only function with a self-regulating, high trust population.

Which excludes almost all of the world right now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (a3CJ+)

428 Adjusted for inflation this is some of the cheapest gas we’ve had in the past 25 years. There was the Covid blip but other than that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (udlma)

429 You'll see that in your review soon. Phillips 66 leaves CA in Dec and Benito refinery closes in Jan...
Ca is screwed $8/gal soon.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

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"Trump's fault!" is what californians will say.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (eIzlH)

430 Rubio was just in Paraguay a couple days ago, signing a new agreement of cooperation etc with the US, even allowing us to base whatever we want to base there.

It's really amazing how much of South America is already on this administration's side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 17, 2025 03:21 PM (uWKK8)

431 You are being charitable today Sponge.
Posted by: whig

It's his birthday. He's probably already started drinking.

Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (77rzZ)

432 hee hee... Howdy went doody.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (n5tGW)

433 Republics can only function with a self-regulating, high trust population.

Which excludes almost all of the world right now.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Limited franchise versus unlimited. Unlimited, it only lasts until enough people figure they can try to vote themselves rich with other people's money.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:22 PM (WDjG6)

434 It's his birthday. He's probably already started drinking.
Posted by: Bulg
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So that is where the nic comes from. Soaking it up like a sponge.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (WDjG6)

435 F-35s are a boondoggle like the BFV. Best to spread around the losses to the rubes

==

I'm of the opinion a fighter jet from 30+ years ago is probably fine.

It's also clear this is all going "drone" very quickly.

Posted by: Leupold at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (eIzlH)

436 (What other industry is so vertical where they own the wells, refineries, and pumps?)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (zeE7J)

Health care

Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (rbvCR)

437 The idea that these go-fast boats as they call them are smuggling anything but something highly lucrative like drugs is just weapons-grade stupidity.

The risk is high. If the weather turns on them out in the open sea, they're dead. And that happens a lot.

I had Grok spew out the numbers and what is known. Most of these go-fast runs are island hopping. They offload their cargo to other ships and planes there. Most runs are less than 200 nautical miles, with less than 50 NM (I'll use the capital abbreviation so as not to conflate with nanometers).

They do occasionally try some really long runs, but that is high risk vs reward. Good chance mother nature will get you there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (w6EFb)

438 And where are they buying all those outboards?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Cartel Financial Bank.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:24 PM (WDjG6)

439 Heh, as of 2029 the Oscars will be on YouTube not network TV. Suck it ABC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (LyrOO)

440
And also, according to Grok, they will have some fishing boats staged for a rendezvous for refueling.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (w6EFb)

441 This is bullshit. My family did not vote for this. Trump and Rubio need to cut out their little foreign misadventures and get back to making AMERICA great again.

You need to take your rage out on the members of Congress and all of the District Judges who are doing everything in their power, and a myriad of things that are outright criminal to guarantee MAGA fails.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (a3CJ+)

442 The hell of it is Cuba could be a huge success in that region. What a waste.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2025 03:18 PM (2WIwB)

Yup. It could have been the gem of the Caribbean. All the elements were there.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (g8Ew8)

443 65 degrees on Christmas is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg at December 17, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

I have +5 F, and 30 mph winds. Wanna trade?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2025 03:26 PM (npFr7)

444 >>>Is Venezuela likely to invade Guyana, and how might the international community intervene if it does?"
Posted by: whig
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Those are last year's academic questions, that's when Venezuela lined up on the border. The media followed that right up until Maduro didn't go in or I missed the report.

Biden was president, Maduro was ready. Don't know why he stopped. Did we ship Guyana some 'supplies',? Don't know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (Mb4p6)

445 Maduro needs to go, I would even be fine bribing him and offering him safe passage if it speeds it up. The guy has this ability to hang around like Fidel Castro.
Posted by: Leupold
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Supposedly that is what is going on behind the scenes, the sticking point is not Maduro keeping his ill gotten gains but he wants over a 100 of his closest thieves, murderers, drug traffickers, and cronies to get immunity too and wants to stay in Latin America rather than go in exile to Qatar.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (WDjG6)

446 Time to TOP OFF THE STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES!!
After Biden drained off a lot to sell to China and India. And then Congress thwarted Trump in the first term to refill it when oil was cheap.

Of course California is still too high and never drops. Lost a refinery last year and Chevron moved HQ to Texas.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at December 17, 2025 03:27 PM (LKMDZ)

447 If you are a nation, you will eventually be at war.

Unless you want to live on a planet with one disgusting bloated EU-style "world government".

Get the hell over it.

And this time, can we at least please get some of the Oil if it's going to be Blood for Oil? That would be nice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (JwNbV)

448 NOOD You People...

Fani Willis

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (ULPxl)

449 Limited franchise versus unlimited. Unlimited, it only lasts until enough people figure they can try to vote themselves rich with other people's money.

Given that, I think island Tristan da Cunha probably has the best chance for a representative government

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (U4c/V)

450 Biden was president, Maduro was ready. Don't know why he stopped. Did we ship Guyana some 'supplies',? Don't know.

Posted by: Braenyard
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USN force him to back off. Probably prodding from the French as well.

Maduro still has not repudiated the claim.

There is a reason that almost all of his Latin American colleagues want his ass out of there. He is destabilizing the whole region intentionally via emigres including illegals, drug trafficking, and being a base for foreign interests like Iran, China, and Russia.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

451 What other industry is so vertical where they own the wells, refineries, and pumps?)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 17, 2025 03:16 PM (zeE7J)

Health care
Posted by: Kindltot at December 17, 2025 03:23 PM (rbvCR)

I would rate the US medical establishment as the most, or at least second most corrupt entity in this country right now.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 17, 2025 03:30 PM (g8Ew8)

452 If you are a nation, you will eventually be at war.

Unless you want to live on a planet with one disgusting bloated EU-style "world government".

Get the hell over it.
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This kind of talk isnt calming my tits! Not at all!!!

Posted by: Karen Winebox at December 17, 2025 03:31 PM (M2DeZ)

453 440
And also, according to Grok, they will have some fishing boats staged for a rendezvous for refueling.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 17, 2025 03:25 PM (w6EFb)
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Boats coming from Venezuela are going around the crescent of the Windwards and Leewards. Mother ships don't need to be big and the delivery boats don't need to hop many islands to their ultimate destination; the transit ship or plane to Europe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:32 PM (Mb4p6)

454 446 Time to TOP OFF THE STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES!!
After Biden drained off a lot to sell to China and India. And then Congress thwarted Trump in the first term to refill it when oil was cheap.
Posted by: Donovan Nuera

Biden's drawdown to make for cheaper oil prices in midterms damaged the facilities (they are vacated salt domes and prone to collapsing when not filled with fluid. They are not designed to act like gas tanks but rather to be filled up semipermanently in an emergency storage of petroleum for the US if supplies were cut off.

A lot of that oil auctioned went to Chinese buyers to boot which probably is why Biden and his cronies did it.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:33 PM (WDjG6)

455 This kind of talk isnt calming my tits! Not at all!!!
Posted by: Karen Winebox

Relax, have another booster vaxx, your tits will fall off soon after so no worries if they are not calm.

Posted by: whig at December 17, 2025 03:34 PM (WDjG6)

456 WE ARE NOT THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! WE NEED TO END OUR MILITARY AND STATE DEPARTMENTS!!! WHAT IS THE PREISDENT DOING??? YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO,IGNIRE THE OUTSIDE WORLD!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 17, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)

457 Sponge - my birthday too - have a good one!!

Posted by: Cheri at December 17, 2025 03:36 PM (FGQ5G)

458 >>>USN force him to back off. Probably prodding from the French as well.

Maduro still has not repudiated the claim.

There is a reason that almost all of his Latin American colleagues want his ass out of there. He is destabilizing the whole region intentionally via emigres including illegals, drug trafficking, and being a base for foreign interests like Iran, China, and Russia.
Posted by: whig
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Big tell on which way it went (Venezuela is a de facto dun deal) was the U.S. refineries opening up shop in Guyana. A big player recently, Exxon I think.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:37 PM (Mb4p6)

459 447 If you are a nation, you will eventually be at war.

Unless you want to live on a planet with one disgusting bloated EU-style "world government".

Get the hell over it.

And this time, can we at least please get some of the Oil if it's going to be Blood for Oil? That would be nice.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 17, 2025 03:29 PM (JwNbV)

We will beat war because of this sick warmongering nation!!! When we unilaterally disarm the world will be at peace!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (rQwsY)

460 Trade Canada Minnesota for Alberta

Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2025 03:40 PM (Ia/+0)

461
We will beat war because of this sick warmongering nation!!! When we unilaterally disarm the world will be at peace!!!
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 17, 2025 03:38 PM (rQwsY)
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You would be much happier with less worries about American aggression by living in some other country.
Pick one and make your travel plans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 17, 2025 03:42 PM (Mb4p6)

462 Some of my friends think Trump is nuts. The Rob Reiner post, paired with this Venezuela thing, gives one pause. Rationalize all you want, but just because somewhere at the core of it you can tell yourself he's right, doesn't mean that he also isn't also losing it.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 17, 2025 03:58 PM (MZ+PY)

463 > The lowest gas prices I remember came after the first Iraq war.

As a 29 year-old today you were barely walking. Quite the precocious little toddler to have been tracking gas prices at such a young age.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (1Nv0l)

464 desock

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 17, 2025 04:04 PM (1Nv0l)

465 This one is personal for me. I owed stock in one of the oil company whose assets were seized when the socialists took over Venezuela. So, they stole from ME, personally.

I would guess that the land he's talking about was land owned by American oil companies - in Venezuela, but I'm not sure. They seized billions of dollars worth of refineries, oil rigs, etc.

Posted by: MrExcitement at December 17, 2025 04:12 PM (hOOi9)

466
What I recall is that when Reagan replaced Carter, and when Trump replaced Obama, it took about 18 months for an economic boom to really get underway. I figure it will be about the same now. We're about 10 months in at this point.

The Covid shutdown looks like an op to wreck the first Trump economic recovery. I wonder what the Left is going to try this time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 17, 2025 04:13 PM (d4X7t)

467 Last I noticed, gas was still a bit over $3 in my town, so I'll have to keep my eyes open about that and see it it has dropped any.

Posted by: MrExcitement at December 17, 2025 04:14 PM (hOOi9)

468 37 Was it Chevron in Venezuela? Trying to remember.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 17, 2025 02:27 PM (zZu0s)

I think so. I also had some ConocoPhillips at the time. It was one of those two, but I think you're right - Chevron.

Posted by: MrExcitement at December 17, 2025 04:17 PM (hOOi9)

469 Be on the lookout for a flight of bombers coming in from mainland, arriving early sunday morning. They are friendlies.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 17, 2025 05:07 PM (cS1cw)

470 Lowepro camera bag

Posted by: free tibet at December 17, 2025 05:09 PM (iNp3L)

471 Ace, if the lowest gas prices you can remember are 80 cents/gallon, then you're not as old a 29-year-old as I feared, which means I can look forward to many more years of this nonpareil blog. Good news!!!

Posted by: bradc at December 17, 2025 05:21 PM (NSmg0)

472 Filled up my guzzler this morning for $2.39 per gallon. Left me enough to buy a non winning lottery ticket.

Posted by: FrankinTexas at December 17, 2025 05:23 PM (SFMsh)

473 Hugo Chavez trembles in his grave and sweating up to drown himself

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 17, 2025 06:17 PM (wGqjj)

474 $3.93 in Tumwater, WA.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 17, 2025 06:41 PM (pE12i)

475 With all due respect you guys attack Tucka at your own peril. The guy has made mistakes, but the assumption is that customers are stupid. We knew Daryl Cooper's assessment of Churchills motives were off; move on.

Tucka has done a hell of a lot more good than bad. Contrast that with Faux News or the WSJ...

Trump wants, correctly, bilat deals with countries versus omnibus type deals with groups. I prefer independent news folks than organized establishment types. Take the good and the bad.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 17, 2025 07:54 PM (mNOhh)

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