July 26, 2024

Sunrise — 5:46.

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62 comments:

Mason G said...

In the years leading up to this 2024 election, we have watched closely as every pathway for online voices has been shaped, changed and in some cases eliminated. One example is very close to home here at CTH, where Google has said -directly- the content within the comment section is the justification for their demonetization. If The Conservative Treehouse does not shut down comments, Google Ads (controlling 75% of all online revenue) will NOT be permitted. ¹The goal is to shut down the conversation.

Let that sink in for a moment if you didn’t already. It’s not the content of the website that generates the censorship, it is the CONVERSATION in the comment section that Google is concerned about. Take that example as an empirical datapoint and then extend it. Now you understand why the comment sections in various platforms have been removed, and even worse the 3rd-party software plug in (like Disquis) is heavily controlled and moderated.


https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/26/understand-how-your-social-media-voice-becomes-the-enemy-in-2024-and-the-connection-to-kamala-brat-harris/#more-262728

Note above: "Comment section." FWIW...

Bill Crawford said...

Any early thoughts on how Kennedy's presence will affect the election? Will he stay in the race until November?

FullMoon said...

The FBI issued a statement declaring former President Donald Trump was struck by a bullet and not glass or other shrapnel almost two weeks ago when a gunman fired on him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Narr said...

Wray knows he won't last two shakes of a sheep's tail if Trump wins, and is just giving Trump and Trump voters the bird.

The rule of Lemnity said...

I know Biden called Trump after the shooting.

Did other living former presidents call Trump?

Inga said...

Yikes.

“Donald Trump Gets No Black Votes vs. Kamala Harris in New Michigan Poll”

The WDIV/Detroit News poll found that the presidential race is a dead heat between Trump, the Republican nominee, and Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee—with each receiving 41 percent of support.

Among the Black voters surveyed, 82.1 percent supported Harris, 11.5 percent backed independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and none supported Trump.”

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-no-black-voters-michigan-poll-kamala-harris-1930542

Humperdink said...

In an early release of Christopher Wray's memoir, it turns out he has been studying the assassination of JFK. Differing from prevailing evidence and the Zapruder film, Wray posited that it wasn't the bullet from Lee Harvey Oswald's Mannlicher–Carcano rifle that killed Kennedy. According Wray's theory, the bullet first struck Texas Gov. John Connally's tie clasp, severely injuring Connally. The tie clasp then flew off Connally's tie and proceeded to hit JFK in the head and killed him. Critics in the media were initially skeptical but have since come around to the possibility.

RCOCEAN II said...

If you disregard the temperature, that looks like a snowless winter sunrise.

Drago said...

Inga: "Yikes.

“Donald Trump Gets No Black Votes vs. Kamala Harris in New Michigan Poll”'

LOL

Here we go again with Inga the Wind Up Toy!

You'd think she would have learned her lesson yesterday (Trump "formally withdrew" from the debates!!!) but no. If Inga was capable of learning, would she really be Inga?

I think not.

So, away we go!

Inga, how many black Michiganders took part in the WDIV/Detroit News poll? Remember, they only claimed to have polled 600 people total....

Of course, since I take pity on Inga, as we all should, all things considered, let me help out Inga out: Newsweek admits there is no way of knowing how many blacks answered the poll.

Yes, you read that correctly, a "poll", which is supposed to be rigorous and capture all relevant demographic data, contains....none of that!!

And Inga bites down hard on it like a young Kamala hanging with her "mentor" Willie Brown!!

LOL

Thanks Inga! We all needed a good laugh.

Deep State Reformer said...

“If you rely exclusively on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, or the New York Times for your information you might be excused for not knowing the most elementary truths about the country you live in and its recent past. As ominously, snap polls show that one-third of Democrats believe that Donald Trump orchestrated his own assassination attempt. Here we are drifting into fevered swamps.”

“Drifting” he says? They’re already there. This guy is kind of right, no? Just saying. Think about it. I knew an old purged and exiled ex-Communist Party member who said she read Pravda for the truth and the read the NYT “for the fucking lies”. Ridiculous I thought then, but now? Go figure?

https://americanmind.org/salvo/beyond-lying/

Drago said...

In addition to feeling bad for the Althouse commentariat having to put up with Inga's knee jerk automaton responses to her New Soviet Democraticals instructions, I still feel bad for her as well. Putin likely made her believe that poll was legit.

Wince said...

How many times did Wray evade giving full and complete testimony to Congress based on the “active investigation” excuse.

Yet he volunteers idle speculation before Congress when it he thinks diminishes Trump?

What a disgrace. No redeeming value to that guy.

Drago said...

"Yet he volunteers idle speculation before Congress when it he thinks diminishes Trump?"

Yes.

Wray purposely, with intent, maliciously offered up that bit of BS as lefty talking point red meat and launched it into the media sphere knowing full well how it would be used.

Just like the "51 former intelligence officials" hoax protecting the astonishing openly corrupt Biden crime family.

That's why today's announcement from the FBI, generic with no name attached, putting Wray's BS to bed seems so strange. Wray himself, after seeing the reaction, almost certainly knew he had gone too far in exposing his alliance with the New Soviet Democraticals and so they walked it back to reality.

Iman said...

“I take insignificant things and I discuss them as if they’re significant. And I believe that exploring the significance of the insignificant is, in itself, significant.”

—- Quemala Harris

Inga said...

“White Women: Answer the Call”, a Zoom call inspired by the call for Black women held earlier this week, saw 164,000 white women join, reportedly setting a world record as the largest Zoom meeting in history. Nearly $2m was raised for Harris in less than two hours on Thursday night.

The Zoom call that started it all was hosted on Sunday by Win With Black Women, a group of Black women leaders and organizers, within hours of Biden’s decision, and saw an astonishing 44,000 participants, raising more than $1.5m for Harris’s
budding campaign.

A Win With Black Men call also inspired by the call with Black women raised more than $1.3m to support Harris from more than 17,000 donors on Monday.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris-zoom-answer-the-call

Inga said...
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Achilles said...

This country desperately needs Kamala Harris to be the Democrat nominee.

She is easily their worst possible candidate.

Inga said...

From Peggy Noonan…

“I had long thought Kamala Harris couldn’t beat Donald Trump. That’s wrong. She can.

We’re a 50/50 country, each side gets 40 going in, you fight for the rest but it can always go either way. As people who speak the technical language of politics say, Mr. Trump has a high floor but a low ceiling.

But beyond that, something’s happening.

Ms. Harris has not, in five years on the national stage, shown competence. She is showing it now, and that is big news. Her rollout this week demonstrated talent and hinted she may be a real political athlete.

Her past and famous verbal embarrassments, which shaped her public reputation, almost all took place in interviews and ad libbed arias. They obscured a real proficiency.

She was striking and strong in this week’s speeches in Milwaukee and Houston. She knows how to act a speech. When she is scripted she is good. That isn’t all put-down. She knows what a good speech is. She can judge it, recognize good material. Not all candidates can. Most can’t. It is its own talent.

Milwaukee especially had power. Its theme: “We’re not going back.” We’re not going back to Jan. 6, 2021, to the old ways, to unfreedom, to racism, sexism, to Trumpian America. We’re going forward into something new and exciting. She was positing that it is bigger than her.

Among those who follow politics closely and are highly online for political content, views of Ms. Harris hardened long ago. But to those of relaxed engagement, especially the young, she will be a new figure. They’ll be seeing her for the first time. They’ll be open to what they see.

Her party is newly alive and loaded for bear. This is what top Trump staffers feared, according to Tim Alberta’s heavily reported work in the Atlantic. They didn’t fear Joe Biden. What they feared was “institutional Democrats,” in the words of Susie Wiles. The Democratic Party is a machine, a vast network of groups and money lines that knows how to get out their base and a would-be base. A deteriorated Joe Biden couldn’t fully capitalize on this. A dispirited party wouldn’t fully produce it.

But a new and revived candidate who woke everybody up? That would be a danger.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-kamala-harris-surprise-i-thought-she-couldnt-beat-trump-but-now-think-she-could-fbdcaebc?st=vs7iqlllydnakr9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Achilles said...

The democrat party just forced out the candidate that all democrats voted for and replaced him with a candidate none of them voted for.

If the democrats do not allow an open convention they are just an evil anti-democratic machine and only stupid people will follow them.

Inga said...

More than 100,000 new voters registered since Biden withdrew from race.

Kate said...

I've paid no attention to Harris over the last three years. Although I've seen the "cackle" described, I've never heard it.

Now she's showing up on my YouTube ads, asking for money. I have 5 seconds before I can skip. The timbre of her speaking voice is so grating. How can a professional orator still talk like a child with a head cold?

imTay said...

Biden called Trump and said, Geeze, Donnie, why’d ya move your head

gadfly said...

As Politico reports, the new name of the game is "weird":

[Against] former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, Democrats are leaning into a new attack line against the Republican ticket: that they’re just really weird.

“It perfectly describes the uneasiness people feel. It’s how people who don’t live and breathe politics every day react to hearing the Republican vice presidential candidate denigrate people without children,” said Tim Hogan, a Democratic strategist . . . . “It’s simple. It’s how you might talk to your neighbor about the crazy political climate we’re living in.”

And when the Harris campaign sent out a memo on Thursday responding to Trump, on what they described as “a 78-Year-Old Criminal’s Fox News Appearance,” they included . . . this [takeaway]: “Trump is old and quite weird . . . ”

wendybar said...

PAYING OFF TRAITORS NOW....


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A Friday night news dump F you. Brazen stuff. These people have no privacy on government devices. Their messages belong to us. The worse you behave, the more you get paid as long as it’s in service of the correct side. Disgraceful.


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Biden administration launders $1.2M payment to Peter Strzok (and likely a similar payment to Lisa Page) through settlement of likely-doomed lawsuit.


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/26/biden-justice-department-agrees-to-a-disgraceful-settlement-with-lisa-page-and-peter-strzok-n2642603

gadfly said...

Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term

Speaking at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach on Friday, Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost, delivered a cryptic message.

“And again, Christians, get out and vote!” he said to a cheering audience. “Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again.”

wendybar said...

Yeah gad, it's weird to condemn the traitors to the country that are fundamentally transforming it into a Progressive utopia ghetto, isn't it?? You fools only have to look at Biden supporters to see weird.

Big Mike said...

Nice of the FBI to acknowledge that its Director misspoke when testifying to Congress, i.e., Donald Trump was wounded by a bullet. His physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, having spent 24 years as a military doctor, already told the world that the injury he treated was a bullet wound, and a military doctor might sort of know what a bullet wound looks like.

Big Mike said...

Day 51 of the one week stay in space for American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. When will NASA admit that it’s not safe to bring them back via their Boeing-built spacecraft and plan to bring them home some safer way?

Rich said...

American prosperity and rising incomes (now badly maldistributed to the superrich to the detriment of everyone else—but that's a distributional problem, not a fundamental problem) arise from the continued cooperation and integration of the economies of the advanced democracies since the Second World War. American Internationalism is the core of American domestic economic success through international economic and financial leadership of its allies.

The alliance of advanced democracies is the richest and economically most successful international grouping ever — and it is built on democratic cooperation, not strongman assertions of national power. In contrast, authoritarian and autocratic powers utilize predatory and coercive uses of power at each short-term opportunity on the assumption that short-term extractions of advantage make for long-term success.

The Trump-Vance view of economic and inter-state diplomacy is to set aside if not undercut economic integration and overarching political cooperation for a regime of asserting short-term power advantages to coerce short-term benefits — and let the devil take the hindmost. Transactional power assertion substitutes for democratic cooperative leadership. You want to lead Nato, not blackmail Nato.

Trump is some sort of idiot-savant ignoramus. Vance is a Yale-educated opportunist unanchored in any consistent successful school of thought in modern politics. Instead, he rather cynically believes that far-right politics has a chance of capturing a majority in an American society that ultimately always moves forward, not backwards into reactionaryism. Truly a bright young man out of place and out of these times — his tin ear gives him away.

rehajm said...

If the democrats do not allow an open convention they are just an evil anti-democratic machine and only stupid people will follow them.

You won’t get an open convention but you may get an ‘open convention’ because the lie is delicious to them. In the end the people what have been running Joe will be nominated via Kamala. It is written…

I quibble with your if/then. The then has already been determined and is not depended on the additional action…

Leland said...

How is that Primary vote going for you, gadfly?

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Very interesting article at The Federalist centered on a DOJ IG memo that details in just under 100 pages how rabidly out of control assistant special prosecutor Cooney has been. Going back to the end of Trump’s term he has been spreading lies within the department, leaking misleading information to left-friendly media outlets and arguing for outrageously high sentencing guidelines when it comes to Trump and his allies. Yet opting not to prosecute at all for similar crimes by Trump haters like the FBI’s McCabe. Mollie Hemingway does a good job of condensing the long detailed IG report, which was released the 23rd with little notice by DNC Media, into a dense 1500-word article.

Cooney is Jack Smith’s top deputy in his rabid pursuit of Trump and Trump associates. His story is one more clue into how we got here and why those cases are all, as in all, starting to fall apart with the scrutiny of one Federal judge asking simple questions like, “Has the DOJ ever done this before?”

Drago said...

It would be helpful if LLR- democratical Rich would simply provide the link for the content he steals and tries to pass off as his own in the same way his fellow leftist gadfly does.

Tsk tsk tsk

Jersey Fled said...

Inga:

You seem to have missed the larger CNN poll run a few days earlier that showed Trump at 15% among Blacks. Pretty normal for Republican candidates. In fact, hardly a story.

I won’t post a link to the CNN poll because you already did - right there in the Trump Gets No Black Votes link you posted. It’s covered there.

I’ve asked you this before, but why are you so focused on how many Black votes Trump gets? Are Black votes different? Are they better? Just wondering.

You’ve got to do better, Inga. You’re wasting our time with posts like this.

Rusty said...

I see the short bus has dropped off the creme de la creme of the usual suspects.
Remember commenters. The assciative property of stupid.

Big Mike said...

The US Secret Service suggests that maybe Trump shouldn’t hold any more outdoor rallies. Trump responds by announcing a return to Butler.

Pay attention liberals; this is what a manly man does.

MadTownGuy said...

Lightning and a burning car pushed into a gully are blamed for wildfires in the West

"A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Meanwhile other blazes scorched the Pacific Northwest.

Flames from the fire the man is accused of starting exploded into what is now the Park Fire, which has burned more than 195 square miles (505 square km) near the city of Chico. Evacuations were ordered in Butte and Tehama counties, with the blaze only 3% contained by Thursday evening.

California authorities did not immediately name the man they arrested.
"

All the fires will be laid to climate change, I'm sure.

Rich said...

Vance is very hard-working and super intelligent. His law school contemporaries all confirm this. His flip flop on principles is a warning to all — he’s willing to do anything for power.

With Vance we are reminded once again that intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing.

Achilles said...

Rich said...

Vance is very hard-working and super intelligent. His law school contemporaries all confirm this. His flip flop on principles is a warning to all — he’s willing to do anything for power.

With Vance we are reminded once again that intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing.


The problem is always with the people that disagree with you. All the super smart people know that.

Vance may be super smart, but any time he changes his mind on something it is because he didn't consult with Rich first about morals and ethics.

Disagreeing with Rich always boils down to a moral failing.

That is why Rich supports assassinating political opponents.

Rich said...

That "cat-lady" thing will hopefully stick to Vance like a dingle-berrie.

Achilles said...

Drago said...

It would be helpful if LLR- democratical Rich would simply provide the link for the content he steals and tries to pass off as his own in the same way his fellow leftist gadfly does.

Tsk tsk tsk


No. He is most likely a professor or in some dopey intellectual discussion group. There are a lot of "intellectuals" that say dumb shit like what he is posting all of the time.

These people generally have a government subsidized job in air conditioning and want their lawn mowed cheap.

Nothing he is saying is hard to come up with. And the fact that he muddles the post world war 2 economy with the post Nixon-China deal economy just shows that he has no actual understanding of the words he uses.

Rich said...

@ Achilles: I think Vance flipping from "never Trumper" to 1st sycophant is why he was picked. A campaign staffer will show Vance what "beliefs" polls bad and he will instantly accept a new set of "beliefs" that poll better. ‘Those are my principles and if you don’t like them I have others.’

Trump's success among the American christians, the atheist/agnostic right wing and the worshippers of Reagan reveals a common part of the American psyche. They have no values, they have no beliefs, they just want their freedom at the expense of others.

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Drago said...

Achilles: "No. He is most likely a professor or in some dopey intellectual discussion group."

Based on the totality of LLR-democratical Rich's "work product" at Althouse blog, I suspect Rich is more of a middling corporate accountant type.

Achilles said...

Rich said...

That "cat-lady" thing will hopefully stick to Vance like a dingle-berrie.

Talking about dingle-berries.

Kamala has said some of the most ridiculous shit. Top 3 most leftist Senator this generation.

This isn't even the coconut tree stupidity. This is the stuff when she wasn't drunk.

This next couple weeks is going to be epic. It is still highly likely she is dropped before the convention.

Achilles said...

Rich said...

@ Achilles: I think Vance flipping from "never Trumper" to 1st sycophant is why he was picked. A campaign staffer will show Vance what "beliefs" polls bad and he will instantly accept a new set of "beliefs" that poll better. ‘Those are my principles and if you don’t like them I have others.’

Trump's success among the American christians, the atheist/agnostic right wing and the worshippers of Reagan reveals a common part of the American psyche. They have no values, they have no beliefs, they just want their freedom at the expense of others.


You can't even articulate what Vance or Trump want for the country in good faith.

You can only argue with the fiction you have created. Nobody thinks you are smart when you cut down your own straw men.

You are a stupid person Rich. You are dumber than Kamala Harris. Have fun with this train wreck over the next couple weeks.

We certainly are. 55 Million views in less than a day by the way

Everyone is laughing at you.

Rich said...

I’ve never been a fan of Harris but …. she’s not Trump.

Trump is unsuited to be the next president. His efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election revealed the instincts and morals of a dictator.

That sums it all up and never should it be forgotten.

Big Mike said...

Rich elitist Rich says …

Rich said...

People like BM who adore a psychopath will never settle for anything less than the real deal.

Rusty said...

Is Rich on the spectrum?
Asking for a friend.

Inga said...
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Old and slow said...

Rich posts a well written cut and paste. The problem I have with its content is this: we have seen the results of both Biden's and Trump's economic policies. We choose the imperfect over the disastrous.

Rich said...

Trump Wants a Weaker Dollar But Wall Street Doubts He’ll Get One ~ Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-25/usd-will-trump-s-push-for-a-weaker-dollar-work-wall-street-doubts-it?embedded-checkout=true

Trump should retain Liz Truss. They share the same implementation vision and skills

America Firsters forget one thing that also Brexiteers forgot: they have exports too.

Sure, they import more than they export but the share of exports on the US economy to the entire rest of the world is higher than the share of exports in most countries (except maybe for Canada and Mexico) going to the US. The rest of the world is still considerably bigger than the US economy.

It was the same fallacy in Britain when they talked about their trade deficit with the EU being an advantage in Brexit negotiations. It never was, as Britain sent almost half its exports to the EU while even Ireland had only 12.5% of its exports going to the UK. So any disruption in trade would always hit the UK harder than any EU country even though in absolute numbers the EU would lose more. But since it was much bigger, that loss would weigh much less than what the UK would lose as a proportion of its economy.

This is how I would explain this to a 10 year old: imagine an elephant and a bulldog get into a fight. In that fight, the bulldog loses 1 liter of blood, the elephant loses 1.5 liters. Note that the elephant loses more blood than the bulldog. Question: who feels worse? The 10 year old answered correctly. The elephant might feel a bit dizzy while the bulldog will probably die.

The same will play out in a trade war US vs. rest of the world. And the US in this case, for once, won't be the elephant and their exports will be the blood they lose. Nationalists always fall for the same simple math delusion. One that even a 10 year old can see through.

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walter said...

She did such a good job as Border Czar, they are trying to pretend she never was Border Czar.
Rich and Inga are cool with that.
Time for a joint venture in "migrant" housing.
Just form an NGO and cash in.
Don't you worry your pretty little noggins about pesky rape trees and child trafficking.
Orange man bad. Heels up Harris because Vagina.

Rich said...

People like Big Mike who adore a psychopath will never settle for anything less than the real deal.

walter said...

She did such a good job as Border Czar, they are trying to pretend she never was Border Czar.
Rich and Inga are cool with that.
Time for the two to form a joint venture in "migrant" housing.
Just form an NGO and cash in.
Don't you worry your pretty little noggins about pesky rape trees and child trafficking.

Achilles said...

Rich said...

@ Achilles: I think Vance flipping from "never Trumper" to 1st sycophant is why he was picked. A campaign staffer will show Vance what "beliefs" polls bad and he will instantly accept a new set of "beliefs" that poll better. ‘Those are my principles and if you don’t like them I have others.’

Trump's success among the American christians, the atheist/agnostic right wing and the worshippers of Reagan reveals a common part of the American psyche. They have no values, they have no beliefs, they just want their freedom at the expense of others.


Exactly.

You can't enunciate the principles we hold because you are stupid. So you pretend there aren't any.

You are just a stupid person who doesn't realize they are a government subsidized mandarin class turd.

I can accurately describe what you want:

You want free trade and you want massive immigration because you have a cushy government subsidized job and you don't care about working class people.

Your job has no attachment to value created so you don't care about value creation.

You want cheap stuff at the store made by low cost foreign labor. You want your lawn mowed cheap.

You hate Donald Trump because he actually built things that people wanted built.

Drago said...

LLR-democratical Rich: "I’ve never been a fan of Harris but …. she’s not Trump."

LOL!!!!

Channeling of 100% Pure LLR-democratical Chuck!!

You just knew it was coming, didn't you?

Big Mike said...

People like Big Mike who adore a psychopath will never settle for anything less than the real deal.

Assumes without evidence that Big Mike adores, or even much cares for, psychopaths, and further assumes that Donald J. Trump is one. Big Mike has looked at the record and past pronouncements of Kamala Harris and is well aware of precisely who is the psychopath in this Presidential election campaign.

Sometimes Rich is inadvertently hilarious. This was one of those times.

Jim at said...

You’ve got to do better, Inga.

That made me laugh out loud. Thanks.

effinayright said...

gadfly said...
Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term

Speaking at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach on Friday, Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost, delivered a cryptic message.

“And again, Christians, get out and vote!” he said to a cheering audience. “Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again.”
***************

Oaf. He means "you won't have to vote any more" ....for HIM. Because he can only serve for four years.

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