The second comment is what Meade said when I showed him the image (and he had not seen my Facebook comment (he's not on Facebook)).
ADDED: Most people will just see this cover and not even consider reading the article, so the question is: What is the subliminal effect of the cover? If it's not anti-Trump, then Newsweek has failed, and I would say Newsweek has failed. Reason:
1. Trump has a huge penis.
2. Trump is joyously throwing money at us. He seems to be Santa Claus, flying through the air, bringing wealth.
3. If you look closely you can see the plane says "Government Air," but what the hell is "Government Air"? I see the plane and think of Trump's own planes, and Trump is personally wealthy, so the money seems to flow from him, not the government. If there's supposed to be some idea that Trump is throwing away government money on bad things, I don't get it. Maybe I would if I read the article, but I'm not going to do that.
4. "SNAKES" spelled backward is SEXans. I'm seeing "SEX" with Trump's head right in the K turning it into an X (from a strikeout to a strike, to mix baseball with bowling). That's "SEX" on top and right under him "PLAN." In the arch of light right under the plane, the word is "PLAN." Once you see "PLAN," it seems to pop and glow.
5. The man falling out of the plane is funny. Who is he? Just some guy. Subliminally, who is he to you? He's near the words "the most corrupt," so he's corruption. That's how my head reads it. Corrupt Washington, the Democratic Party and the the GOP establishment.
6. There's Trump, some money guy helping him, and 2 beautiful women, riding that giant cock sidesaddle.
7. Speaking of phallic symbols: SNAKES!
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How does Newsweek even still exist? Time too.
I liked the Trump wrecking ball cover last week. It reminds one that Trump is doing what we sent him to do. This one is good too. I just wish that Don King had been his VP.
Trump Bodyguard Is Called For Questioning By House Intelligence Committee
"The dossier contained a lot of information that could be considered troubling. Some of it, such as reports of meetings between Trump representatives and Russian officials has been verified."
People still read Newsweek?
It's among the most corrupt pseudo-news magazines in America.
Still whipping up cotton candy out of those same grains of sugar, ARM?
If you owned a cafe, we would have to keep an eye one you to keep you from re-using the grounds.
Awesomesauce! Trump is heading for re-election.
There are two major news outlets that have figured out how to continue to thrive, post-Internet:
The Wall Street Journal, by combining serious (leftist) journalism with serious economic analysis and serious (rightist) editorializing.
USA Today, by carpet-bombing hotels and waiting rooms.
I don't see other good business models except in small-time trade press, where the reporting is often terrible and dominated by press releases, but at least they have tight marketing strategies. Dentist Today reports: gingivitis leads to foot cancer!
Notice the weaselly language and wishful thinking in ARM's article.
The dossier contained a lot of information that could be considered troubling. Some of it, such as reports of meetings between Trump representatives and Russian officials has been verified. Other portions, like the pee-pee tapes, have not.
The House Intel Committee must feel Schiller, who left Trump’s employ in September, has something of value to share.
It's nice that ARM is supporting a NeverTrump web site as its significance wanes with Trump support rising. No matter what the left wing polls say, by the way.
Next year will be very interesting. The Democrats have high hopes and it will be fun to watch those crash.
Trump's bodyguard might be closest to being able to prove a negative. Just like, I suppose Clinton's bodyguards could have proven he was nowhere near that hotel room where Broaddrick was raped, if he had even bothered to deny it.
Is that for real or is it "fake news"?
If real, they've really lost their minds!
The odd thing is that, of course, Trump would be unable to surpass the Grant presidency, if he started now with that particular goal in mind.
And I'm not even tying to apply today's rules to yesterday's presidency - that would yield all sort of problems for relatively modern presidents like FDR.
-XC
How is he corrupt? We know Hillary is corrupt - we can list the big list.
Is Newsweek printed? Or is it online-only, like the CapTimes. Next time I fly -- on 10 days -- I'll check the periodicals at the airport.
Newsweek is like Teen Vogue.
OK for Clintons to pocket millions on secret Russian Uranium Deal.
Not OK for Trump or anyone else, to TALK to Russians.
Since when has is been against the law for meetings between American representatives and Russian officials?
Can anyone cite the statute that is being broken?
And Trump's Tweets are like Al Jaffee's "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions."
http://www.madmagazine.com/tags/snappy-answers-to-stupid-questions
They're trying for some fraction of the looney left audience. If they can get it, it pays.
Here is one of the top stories at its website:
WOMAN GIVES TRUMP THE MIDDLE FINGER AFTER FOLLOWING MOTORCADE ON A BICYCLE
You can read about what happened to its editor-in-chief here
No. MAD Magazine had self-respect.
The Presidency looks like Mad Magazine.
Give Newsweek credit: they cater to their audience more than the NFL caters to theirs.
I am Laslo.
I'll check the periodicals at the airport.
They're so thin on information, you won't have an excess baggage fee.
I suppose it's "modern", but the headline smushing into the masthead looks like bad graphic design to me. Then there's all the blue space at the bottom.
But they got Trump's giant phallus imagery in.
"How does Newsweek even still exist? "
I prefer Life, it has better pictures.
"...2 beautiful women, riding that giant cock sidesaddle...."
They cannot get their legs around the giant cock because it is JUST TOO BIG.
Their small size in relation to the giant cock indicates that they are like children.
And -- for children -- the giant cock is JUST TOO BIG.
I am Laslo.
Hey Ann, my eyes are up here.
Most corrupt administration? Just looking st modern administrations and leaving out Grant, Harding, Buchanan, etc., there is no way this administration can top Obama’s administration, much less Bill Clinton’s pardons for sale.
After not covering any of the scandals and corruption of the Obama administration, they have a lot of chutzpah, trying to appear as if they were muck-raking journalists.
They wouldn't know corruption if it slithered up to them and bit their asses!
The guy falling out of the plane is Tom Price, former head of HHS.
The rear female's legs don't line up with her torso, unless she's really kinky. Who is she?
Persuasion is in the perception eye of the beholder. As for me, I see Trump seeding the fly over country with his own salary that he gives back plus tax cuts that give back while creating good paying, real jobs. The harvest will come in 2020. Meanwhile he is flying too high for the CIA sniper teams that snuffed JFK.
1. Trump has a huge penis.
I see small airplane, like a miniature train at a kids' park.
4. "SNAKES" spelled backward is SEXans.
No it's not. SEXans <--> TEXans.
I'm seeing "SEX"
"A dirty mind is a joy forever." Funny how you see penises everywhere.
I felt the exact same way about the wrecking ball Trump heads destroying "government as we know it." My reaction was you go girl!
The actual scandal would appear to be one of those GOP lifestyle scandals, like Nancy Reagan's White House China scandals.
Price used govt planes; Mnuchin's wife is globetrotting trophy spend thrift, etc.
So Newsweek with this image is trying to create an aura of widespread corruption, where the substance is only extravagant expense account spending?
But Althouse shot down the persuasiveness of that intended image.
The wrecking ball cover could have worked as a Trump ad.
Hey, this post is on Twitter.
I bet his fingers are tiny!
Speaking of corruption, I"m sure ARM will be interested to learn that Uranium was exported out of the US via Canada by Uranium One/Rosatom.
“No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.
However, and in spite of that assurance,
NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.
NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.
Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license — which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal — the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.
The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”
12 million kilograms. That's 12,000 tons.
I believe the "beautiful women" are supposed to be Mnuchin's wife and (perhaps) Betsy Devos.
The rear female is Betsy DeVos.
I can't figure out who the other female is. The guy in front of her is obviously Mnuchin. The depictions are generally careful and well done.
No. MAD Magazine had self-respect.
And self awareness.
Newsweek and other left controlled media have zero ability to be self aware.
I confess myself surprised that Newsweek is still publishing. Then I have to wonder whether their subscription level is higher than Mad Magazine or not.
Your commentary made me laugh out loud, Althouse. Thanks. Love it.
Funny how you see penises everywhere.
@Ferananidinanide, ever since she married Meade.
(Meade, you old dog, you.)
A lot of leftwing Antisemitism on that cover.
"Funny how you see penises everywhere."
No, it's funny that I say it outright.
Seeing it isn't inherently funny or unusual. You're probably doing it too and so is just about everyone else. You are just too repressed to say to yourself, I'm seeing it, or too polite to say that to other people.
I'm saying it to spare you the effort/embarrassment. I think that's experienced as funny because you have anxiety around it.
I think the blonde is meant to be Ivanka. Neck's a little short, though.
Who is the guy in the brown suit? Schumer?
And like a cowboy on a bronco, Trump holds the mighty power of Government between his legs. He has tamed it, now it serves him and will him take where he wants to go.
The plane is climbing, Trump is taking off, triumphant, magnanimous.
Below him is the weak, whiny, uncertain word "may".
Trump roars over it, not looking down.
Reminds me of the time Barak and Michelle took separate planes departing within one our of each from D.C.to California because of a scheduling conflict. Arguably, NW editors have a short memory.
Gee, Newsweek, tell us what you really think.
Semiotics: The women are made to ride in the rear of the plane. They are made to ride sidesaddle. That's a precarious way to ride a jet plane and they are sure to fall in the event of turbulence. They are forced to dyea their hair blonde against their natural instinct to be brunettes. Looked at closely, you can see how unfairly women are treated in Trump world. Thank God we have Hollywood and the media to tell us how unfairly women are treated.
Althouse at 10:17:
"I'm saying it to spare you the effort/embarrassment. I think that's experienced as funny because you have anxiety around it."
She is explaining her Inner Laslo.
Obvious.
I am Laslo.
An airplane between a man's legs is a giant penis. No doubt.
Thanks NewsProg.
Well, the man's got a Mad Magazine presidency.
Lady, what is so hard for you to realize about how bizarre and full-of-shit this administration is? It's almost like you have a bullshit-detection disability.
Lady, what is so hard for you to realize about how bizarre and full-of-shit this administration is? It's almost like you have a bullshit-detection disability.
Althouse can easily defend herself, but after calling the last administration "scandal free" I think it's your BS detector that's busted.
If you look closely you can see the plane says "Government Air," but what the hell is "Government Air"? I see the plane and think of Trump's own planes, and Trump is personally wealthy, so the money seems to flow from him, not the government. If there's supposed to be some idea that Trump is throwing away government money on bad things, I don't get it.
Sounds like it escaped your notice that he actually has to and does use Air Force One for that - no matter how many weekends at Mar-A-Lago it's appropriated for, and at unprecedented expense to the taxpayers. Just basic info and an exercise in contrasting his own campaign promises lambasting Obama with worse behavior on his part now that he's attempting to do the same job.
Your blog is becoming like one big anti-civics project. If citizens of a country wanted to become more poorly informed, more pliant, more easily manipulated and ripe for a tyrannical takeover, I'd direct them here.
Maybe I would if I read the article, but I'm not going to do that.
As with you and Newsweek, I just peruse your blog for the pictures and headlines. Which in that case is warranted.
Great post Althouse - I got a kick out of reading your comments about the cover. They will drive the libruls here bonkers.
Btw, I thought the guy falling looks like Obama.
TWW said...
Reminds me of the time Barak and Michelle took separate planes departing within one our of each from D.C.to California because of a scheduling conflict. Arguably, NW editors have a short memory.
Don't forget Michelle taking over half a hotel in Spain (at taxpayer expense) so she and the girls could vacation.
The guy falling off is Tom Price.
...but after calling the last administration "scandal free"...
Did you make up this quote or is it just a way of demonstrating your inability to defend yourself?
Whatever "scandals" the previous administration had, usually hyped up, pale in comparison to this abomination in government incompetence, propaganda and corruption that is the Trumpelstiltskin one less than even a year in.
NEWSWEEK is a "liberal" publication, is it not? Then the cover makes perfect sense. If there's one thing "liberals" are against, it's throwing around taxpayer dollars. Just ask the Toothless State-fellator. He can tell you.
The cover is how you get more Trump...
Newsweek partially hides their banner with free flowing money. They want some, but they're too afraid to say so.
She does look and dress like Ivanka.
Ann Althouse said...
"Funny how you see penises everywhere."
No, it's funny that I say it outright.
No, it's funny that you see penises everywhere. I saw some people riding a kids' amusement park ride.
I think that's experienced as funny because you have anxiety around it.
Amusement park rides don't cause me any anxiety unless they spin.
And now it's funny that you're projecting your own sexual anxiety, which is part of your obsession with those naughty rude and very boring men you keep posting about, onto others.
The funniest sexual anxiety you've displayed was over that google guy's paper and his "shooting it out" etc.
It was pretty damned weird.
Most corrupt ever? Did I miss something?
Perhaps the news about Secretary Tillerson accepting millions of dollars from foreign oligarchs?
Did tax-preparation companies write the new tax reform the President is proposing?
Has Melania been hired to a well-paid sinecure by a company receiving millions of taxpayer dollars her husband earmarked for her?
Oh wait... all those were Obama administration scandals...
"...I just peruse your blog for the pictures and headlines."
And to leave comments, of course.
I am Laslo.
No doubt, Laslo. You're on to me.
My comments here are like subversive graffiti on the Berlin Wall of base partisanship.
"You are just too repressed to say to yourself" Nah. My superego keeps a tight lid on my psyche, repressing any subconscious desire to fall for pseudo-Freudian BS.
I think it's Chuck Schumer falling from the plane.
Er. Ritmo, who just loves lots of government and the Deep State, is comparing himself to subversives who opposed Communism. Uh, huh. In East Germany, Ritmo would have worked for the Stasi.
"My comments here are like subversive graffiti on the Berlin Wall of base partisanship."
I like to think they are excerpts from your Manifesto.
Don't go getting a hoodie and aviator sunglasses: that's my look.
I am Laslo.
Er. Ritmo, who just loves lots of government and the Deep State, is comparing himself to subversives who opposed Communism. Uh, huh. In East Germany, Ritmo would have worked for the Stasi.
manstreet is certainly an emotional little girl to ascribe to attitudes and sentiments the basic, rational need to keep a government competent and democratically accountable, instead of prone to turning everything into bogeymen and saviors as she does. And also, she forgot to tell Western Europe and the rest of Western civilization that they're all just a bunch of East Germans.
We get it - you can't handle this governing thing. Get out of it.
Speaking of Manifestos:
Roxy Music - Manifesto.
Manifestos work best with a great bass line.
I am Laslo.
"Funny how you see penises everywhere."
No, it's funny that I say it outright.
Seeing it isn't inherently funny or unusual. You're probably doing it too and so is just about everyone else. You are just too repressed to say to yourself, I'm seeing it, or too polite to say that to other people.
I'm saying it to spare you the effort/embarrassment. I think that's experienced as funny because you have anxiety around it.
No, really, most people don’t see a penis. And most especially don’t see “SEX PLAN” which is a reach even for advocates of subliminal messaging.
Subliminal messages are a real thing, but they aren’t always there and not everyone reacts to them. I think people who do are the type who are looking for them.
In the meantime, I enjoyed listening to angry Bernie voters vs. defensive Hillary voters yesterday on NPR. "She stole the nomination from Bernie!" "Bernie isn't even a Democrat! Hillary deserved the nomination!"
Nobody pointed out the obvious - yes, the corrupt hag stole the nomination from Bernie, but Bernie didn't have the balls to challenge it. He meekly accepted the ass whipping administered by the DNC. Oh, yeah, now there's a strong leader. He did get a very nice house out of the deal.
But it's Trump who is corrupt.
TTR and Fernanan-something,
You both have got the pulse of this blogpost. It’s weird.
That's Tom Price falling from the plane and Betsy DeVos throwing money around the it was nothing (presumably on charter schools that will help underprivileged kids).
The cure for liberal hatred is liberal tears.
“No, really, most people don’t see a penis. And most especially don’t see “SEX PLAN” which is a reach even for advocates of subliminal messaging.
Subliminal messages are a real thing, but they aren’t always there and not everyone reacts to them. I think people who do are the type who are looking for them.”
Precisely so.
But it's Trump who is corrupt.
Trump's the one in office and cutting deals to enrich himself so I'm not surprised your Carroll-esque, Republican sense of disproportion fixes your gaze on a party that's not got the power to do anything about it. That's basically the dictionary definition of corruption - your love of one-party rule and glee it not having it challenged.
Also, you seem to be confusing courage (especially if politically fatuous) with incorruptibility, but that's par for you and your party's virtueless course. RWNJ's who have (and understand) virtue? Hilarious!
Remember that the spy ring Mueller's FBI busted up, but told nobody about, was caught corrupting uranium trucking companies with bribes and kickbacks. ARM incurious.
I think Althouse having that dream about Trump a few weeks ago was weird too. It’s as if she is is infatuated. Maybe that’s why she’s so sexually oriented of late.
Trump's the one in office and cutting deals to enrich himself
Trump is only modern President to lose money by taking office.
Trump's the one in office and cutting deals to enrich himself so I'm not surprised your Carroll-esque, Republican sense of disproportion fixes your gaze on a party that's not got the power to do anything about it. That
Yes! Avert your gaze from Democratic corruption, let them take care of it while they are in power!
I think Althouse having that dream about Trump a few weeks ago was weird too. It’s as if she is is infatuated.
Narcissists of a feather sticking together.
They avoid being hen-pecked that way.
@ The Toothless Revolutionary:
If you happen to change your screen-name I suggest "The Molotov Cocktail."
That would be cool.
And then you could end each comment with "The Molotov Cocktail just threw a Flaming Bottle of Truth at you."
You might choose different letter capitalization, per your preference.
I am Laslo.
It’s only the sycophants who are still defending Trump nowadays. The writing is on the wall, and it says “Oh hell yes, it was collusion after all!” Criminal conspiracy charges are coming.....
"manstreet is certainly an emotional little girl to ascribe to attitudes and sentiments the basic, rational need to keep a government competent and democratically accountable"
Uh huh. Cause liberals are so good at keeping governments "competent and democratically accountable." That's why Hill got to pocket a ton of money and sell off 20% of our uranium to the Russians while part of the Obama administration. That's why the EPA got away with dumping a shit ton of chemicals into the Colorado River, without anybody being canned for it. That's why the IRS was able to go after Tea Party organizations (with Ritmo's gleeful blessing) and nobody has gone to jail for it.
Yeah, when I think of "competence" and "accountability," I sure do think of the Federal government!
Yes! Avert your gaze from Democratic corruption, let them take care of it while they are in power!
Geez tim. It's like the only thing preventing you from having any credibility with this are the number of peeps you refuse to utter against anything about the corrupt one-party state GOP while they are in power.
But that's ok. You do you. As all Republicans do. While the country burns. It makes the preening more satisfying, I hear.
If I were a Democrat, I would want a good house-cleaning. But Democrats don't seem to care. Look away, look away, look away, Democrats!
Give me a Trump scandal, with specifics, and evidence, in your own words. God knows you can type. Links only for reference, and let's talk.
"Criminal conspiracy charges are coming....."
Hopefully so. But not against the people you think.
I just love when Inga predicts the future, after being proven wrong again and again and again.
Doesn't daunt her though. She's like one of those inflatable Bozos that pop right back up again after being punched, except Bozo is smarter.
That's why Hill got to pocket a ton of money and sell off 20% of our uranium to the Russians while part of the Obama administration.
I just read about this one. She wasn't the only deciding vote. Apparently a majority of 11 - 12 agencies/commissions/individuals/whatever had to agree but to see Clinton as the master string-puller to benefit solely herself out of it takes conspiracy lenses of Mr. Magoo proportions. Like I said, Lewis Carroll time. The Trump Administration is like LSD for the already grotesquely distorted perceptions (they don't have thoughts) of the RWNJs running the country.
Yeah, when I think of "competence" and "accountability," I sure do think of the Federal government!
You just don't think, period. If you don't want there to be a federal government let alone one that's democratically accountable then move to Somalia, Red Dawn fan.
" the corrupt one-party state GOP while they are in power. "
Sure, I'm positive you were sobbing about the "one-party state" after the 2008 election, right?
Since that time, Obama's legacy has been to lose a massive number of seats at the local, state and national level, leaving the Dems with no bench whatsoever. But of course, that's not the fault of Dems, because nothing ever is. No, no, it's RACISM!!! and RUSSIA!!
Spot on analysis. Once again, the media arm of the Demoncrat party (the fifth column disguised as the fourth estate) is bending over and letting the world see Trump ass-rape them sans astroglyde like the weak bitches they are. In solidarity with the Palestinians they so love and admire, the bicoastual left never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
tim in vermont said...
Give me a Trump scandal, with specifics, and evidence, in your own words. God knows you can type. Links only for reference, and let's talk.
11/4/17, 11:24 AM
He said "pussy"
He didn't know a soldiers name.
He misspells words in twitter
The list goes on !
"You just don't think, period. If you don't want there to be a federal government let alone one that's democratically accountable then move to Somalia, Red Dawn fan"
Right. There's no middle ground at all between a Nanny State government and Somalia.
That's sure some subtle and nuanced thinking there!
Sure, I'm positive you were sobbing about the "one-party state" after the 2008 election, right?
How much gerrymandering did they do to prevent political competition from being done?
This much?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/06/republicans-and-democrats-both-try-to-gerrymander-but-only-one-of-them-is-any-good-at-it/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-power-that-gerrymandering-has-brought-to-republicans/2016/06/17/045264ae-2903-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/partisan-gerrymandering-has-benefited-gop-analysis-shows-n776436
http://www.businessinsider.com/partisan-gerrymandering-has-benefited-republicans-more-than-democrats-2017-6
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/upshot/its-time-to-end-the-old-debate-over-gerrymandering.html?_r=0
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-gerrymandering-e2f0312dd211/
https://www.salon.com/2017/06/26/gerrymandering-has-really-helped-republicans-studies-fine/
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-republicans-rig-the-game-20131111
Oh, Rolling Stone and Think Progress are really credible sites.
No wonder you're so fucked in the head.
Right. There's no middle ground at all between a Nanny State government and Somalia.
Actually, it's called Western Europe and the majority of industrialized democracies, Sparky. But you call them all "nanny states" and myopically believe that the economically immobile America is the only country that's got it right?
That is what you believe, isn't it, Sparky?
I take it that in between the narrow expanse of your life taking place between the college exiled days and your present-day sixties you never did much traveling, did you?
It's important for a RWNJ to have no idea how the world works. How else, then, can one presume that America is superior at everything, including everything it's inferior at?
Oh, Rolling Stone and Think Progress are really credible sites.
No wonder you're so fucked in the head.
It looks like Business Insider and the half-dozen others were guilty-by-association, too, then.
Care to narrow your argument even further?
Oh, yeah, let's blame gerrymandering! Not the liberal message. Not the fact that you liberals have shown you're a bunch of dishonest, corrupt shits.
The real source of liberal rage is that non liberals refuse to accept them as moral authorities.
So Trump is hung like a 747?
Does anyone sense the left's tired repetition of the GW Bush years but with less energy? Their handmaidens in the media started way too early and are looking fatigued. The dems have a long, slog, back in to power considering all the ground they lost during the obama years. How are they going to fool the normals into letting them back in power when they have to do their mandatory 5 minutes of hate against trump every morning and no ones joining in? Even the "late nigh comedians" are getting tired of pitching the same bile night after night with diminishing returns.
Ta, ta, Rage Boy, I have things to do and people to see. In the meantime, continue to add 20 more lengthy 500 word screeds to the thread. You convince nobody, but it's a nice way to vent your anger and hatred, I suppose. The Play Doh and coloring books just don't do it.
"Snakes on a plane"? Who's writing for them, that they're employing geezer-tropes like "snakes on a plane" in their headlines?
Oh, yeah, let's blame gerrymandering! Not the liberal message.
Find me a poll where people agree with the RWNJ as opposed to progressive message. Or do you think the polls are as corrupt and in need of control as the voters?
Not the fact that you liberals have shown you're a bunch of dishonest, corrupt shits.
The real source of liberal rage is that non liberals refuse to accept them as moral authorities.
The emotionally unstable baby momma man-street projects and doesn't understand that her unprovoked profanity starts in the rage center of her "brain."
I use "brain" in quotation marks because even for a baby momma pushing 70, she's not all that rational. But at least she wasn't left to wallow in the trailer park. Or was she...? Hmm.
Ta, ta, Rage Boy, I have things to do and people to see.
And people to be impregnated by. And then forgotten by.
Most people will just see this cover and not even consider reading the article, so the question is: What is the subliminal effect of the cover? If it's not anti-Trump, then Newsweek has failed, and I would say Newsweek has failed. Reason:
Nah - that's not the measure of success or failure. Newsweek has succeeded if the cover causes to you click on the article or buy the magazine.
In Newsweek execs, above all, they care about sales. If more people buy the mag--or click on the story--because of the cover, it's a success. The reason you'll see a lot more coverage of SCANDAL, whether it's sex scandal or money scandal or Russia scandal, is that SCANDAL sells and it's click bait.
You'll see a lot less coverage of the TAX PLAN. Because policy -- even policy that effects your own bottom line -- is boring for many citizens of the Republic. People want circuses. People wanna be entertained. And so it goes.
Leftwingers watch stupid Hillaywood propaganda - and they beeleeeve!
George Clintonoplois is going to take away your tampons.
I watched a Hillarywood movie about it, so it must be true.
“And then forgotten by.”
And it’s no wonder why.
Commu-leftist-Corrruptocrat blame-shifting. Hillary is so proud of you.
Here's another piece of work from the same Newsweek writer.
Commu-leftist-Corrruptocrat blame-shifting. Hillary is so proud of you.
Lol. The talking robot drawstring doll has been fed a Mad Libs program, I see.
"Blogger Unknown said...
It’s only the sycophants who are still defending Trump nowadays. The writing is on the wall, and it says “Oh hell yes, it was collusion after all!” Criminal conspiracy charges are coming....."
It's gotten to the point where I can't tell if it's Inga or someone trolling Inga.
“Now, a year after the election—and more than a year after Trump first made that pledge to the American people—many observers believe the swamp has grown into a sinkhole that threatens to swallow the entire Trump administration. The number of White House officials currently facing questions, lawsuits or investigation is astonishing: Trump, being sued for violating the “emoluments clause” of the U.S. Constitution by running his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.; Paul J. Manafort, the second Trump campaign manager, indicted on money laundering charges in late October; Flynn, for undisclosed lobbying work done on behalf of the Turkish government; son-in-law and consigliere Jared Kushner, for failing to disclose $1 billion in loans tied to his real-estate company; and at least six Cabinet heads being investigated for or asked about exorbitant travel expenses, security details or business dealings.
... according to the presidential historian Robert Dallek, no American leader has acted with more unadulterated self-interest as Trump. Dallek says that in terms of outright corruption, Trump is worse than both Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding, presidents who oversaw the most flagrant instances of graft in American political history. Grant’s stellar reputation as a Civil War general is tarnished in part by the Whiskey Ring scandal, in which Treasury Department officials stole taxes from alcohol distillers; members of Harding’s administration plundered oil reserves in Teapot Dome, a rock outcropping in Wyoming that has lent its name to the most notorious example of government corruption in American political history. In both cases, the fault of the president was in his lack of oversight. As far as Dallek is concerned, something more nefarious is at work in the White House of Donald Trump.“What makes this different,” Dallek says, “is that the president can’t seem to speak the truth about a host of things.” Trump isn’t just allowing corruption, in Dallek’s view, but encouraging it. "The fish rots from the head," he reminds.”
Newsweek
People responding to Ritmo.
Waste of time.
People responding to Ritmo.
Waste of time.
Who asked you, shit-for-brains?
Just because your ego is bigger than your balls doesn't mean anyone wants to hear you talk.
Ssshhhh. Go to your dark chamber of horrors and pretend to be operating on someone and abusing nurses.
Bile Boy had nothing, what a surprise, and Unkown has his inchoate innuendo.
Blogger The Toothless Revolutionary said...
...but after calling the last administration "scandal free"...
Did you make up this quote or is it just a way of demonstrating your inability to defend yourself?
Whatever "scandals" the previous administration had, usually hyped up, pale in comparison to this abomination in government incompetence, propaganda and corruption that is the Trumpelstiltskin one less than even a year in.
Sending the FBI and IRS after political opponents isn't a scandal to leftists. TTR thinks that is what you are supposed to do.
Obama has also been caught allowing Rosatom to export Uranium. Suppressing the FBI investigation into Rosatom wasn't a scandal because it was democrats being bribed.
Really you are just acting like an idiot. You can't name and support a single scandal of the Trump presidency. If you respond to this post it will be 2 paragraphs of insult and ad hominem you came up with looking in the mirror.
Corruption? What corruption?
“On January 11, just days before the presidential inauguration, Trump held a press conference at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan to address ethics issues surrounding his administration. “I could actually run my business and run the government at the same time,” he boasted. His tax lawyer, Sheri A. Dillon, described a vague arrangement in which Trump would not manage his businesses, but also not disassociate from them. On a table next to Trump were stacks of papers, presumably relating to his finances. A reporter’s photograph suggested the papers were blank, just for show.“The tone was set by the president when he decided not to divest,” says Walter M. Shaub Jr., who’d been appointed by Trump’s predecessor, Obama, as the head of OGE, and who remained in that post during the transition and first five and a half months of Trump’s tenure. He says this administration “came in unprepared for the rigors” of working within the federal government, “unaware of the fact that there are many requirements and a culture of accountability to the public."
A senior White House official who was only authorized to speak on background disputed the assertion that the Trump administration has not made ethics a priority. He says the lawyers working on ethics issues in the White House are “not shrinking violets” and points to the elevation of their office to deputy status, presumably giving those lawyers greater sway. The office is headed by Stefan C. Passantino, deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel to the president, who, upon his appointment, was praised by Howard Dean, a former Democratic primary candidate for the presidency and governor of Vermont. “I have a lot of confidence that he will be clear about what the ethical and legal boundaries are in his advice to the White House,” Dean said at the time.“
Newsweek
Ethics? What ethics? What about his buddy Bannon, who calls the President and lobbies him to fire Mueller?
“The most significant action by Trump to drain the swamp was taken a week into his presidency. On January 28, he signed Executive Order 13770, titled “Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees.” All such appointees had to pledge that they would not lobby the agency to which they were appointed for five years after leaving it; they would abide by restrictions regarding contact with agency officials; would not lobby foreign governments after working for the administration; would not accept gifts from lobbyists; and would follow other regulations.Shah calls it “the most sweeping Executive Order in U.S. history to end the revolving door” between 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the lobbying firms of K Street, singling out the injunction against foreign lobbying in particular. In some ways, the order is not dissimilar from what was in place during the Obama administration.
Eisen thinks the widespread granting of ethics waivers by the administration—that is, permits to violate the new rules—completely undermine the executive order. “They’ve made a mockery of the executive order and of ethics in general,” he cried out when I called him, claiming that the Trump administration has “virtually no standard” on how such waivers are granted. Fourteen such waivers had been granted as of May 31.While Trump officials have described the executive order as being not much different from the one that guided the Obama administration, Eisen finds that assertion preposterous: “It’s an ethics calamity of a kind we have never seen in modern presidential history.” In June, a liberal super PAC called American Bridge 21st Century found 74 lobbyists working in the administration, 49 of them in agencies they once lobbied on behalf of clients. The new deputy administrator of the EPA, for example, is former coal lobbyist Andrew R. Wheeler.“
I think there may have been some hard-core mags underneath the Playboys at young Althouse's home.
So this is what made it to the cover? I wonder what the committee deemed too ridiculous.
My first reaction to this was to think of 911 and the "falling man".
Maybe there's more from that tragedy that they could use somehow..flying into the appropriate building etc.
Down the line they could portray Trump pulling a Harvey at the SOTU address.
Sending the FBI and IRS after political opponents isn't a scandal to leftists.
Interesting. So wife-beater-wearing steroid-user Greek warrior wanna-be thinks the IRS should be investigating people who do pay their taxes as opposed to people ideologically opposed to doing so. I see how our debt will now grow.
Also, the rest of what he wrote sounds like he cribbed it from WorldNetDaily.com. Or InfoWars.com. That's a good one.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't read any news that hasn't been pre-tested for shock value and its utility in creating conspiracy theories.
Well, Unknown, I can think of a recent administration that fired all of its Inspector Generals. Dallek apparently can’t, but perhaps you can think of it if you try hard enough? I’ll give you a hint: it’s the president who, whenever a scandal popped up, he would insist that just read about it in the newspapers himself. So much for his level of oversight.
“The fish rots from the head.” Seems as good a description of the Democrats under Obama, Pelosi, and the Clintons as I’ve seen lately.
See how Unknown can't write these "scandals" down in his own words any more than Ritmo, if they had to formulate their thoughts on their own, they would pop like soap bubbles.
“Drain the swamp? Trump & Co. are the Swamp Things.
Trump has made a great deal of money from political corruption, and we need not rely on a special prosecutor to make that case: Trump boasts of it: “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” Trump says this kind of corruption is part of being a good businessman, and many of his conservative admirers — including the quondam Savonarola of Virtue Inc. — accept that justification eagerly. If Trump’s standards for his own conduct are loosey-goosey enough to accommodate bribery, then why would he demand anything more — or anything less — from his campaign manager? It might be the case that Trump’s obvious soft spot for Vladimir Putin doesn’t have anything to do with the Kremlin’s monkeying around in the U.S. election, or whatever nefarious business it was that Trump-campaign operative George Papadopoulos was up to with the Russians that he felt obliged to lie to the FBI about. Instead, it might be simple professionalism, the admiring tribute one would-be oligarch pays to a much more successful one. The only thing about which Donald Trump is consistent is his dishonesty; like the Clintons, he lies even when he doesn’t need to, as though he is simply keeping in practice. He can tweet “NO COLLUSION!” all night, assuming he can spell the words, but this we know: There was collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453265/paul-manafort-donald-trump-corrupt-practices
Have you seen Mad magazine lately? It's not what it used to be either.
“See how Unknown can't write these "scandals" down in his own words any more than Ritmo, if they had to formulate their thoughts on their own, they would pop like soap bubbles.”
See how Timmy thinks he is an original thinker, but everything he says comes straight out of Breitbart, WND, Info Wars, Gateway Pundit. He is nothing more than a mouthpiece for publications that exist only to Make Trump look normal, which by now most of us know he’s not. Neither are you, obviously.
Trump & Co. are the Swamp Things.
Don't tell them. It's their secret and what the love to delude themselves with.
It's like Luke finding out his father was Darth Vader. Except in their narrative, biology doesn't exist, either so that truth doesn't have to be faced. It's all a government conspiracy, science included.
"The Democrats have high hopes"
None that I know have high hopes.
Conflicts of interest. What conflicts of interest?
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357642-trump-sons-to-launch-real-estate-project-in-india
President Trump's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump will head to India in the coming weeks to launch two residential projects for the Trump Organization despite concerns over the president's potential conflicts of interest with foreign governments.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that this latest deed was signed before the Trump Organization's pledge to avoid new foreign dealings during Trump's time in the White House.
The two projects, a Trump-branded tower in Kolkata and apartments in the capital city of New Delhi, join three other active Trump Organization projects in the country.
In a statement to the Post, the Trump Organization boasted of the strength of the company's existing India investments.
A company owned by the president of the United States shouldn’t be risking potential corruption investigations and working with foreign government officials who may be corrupt,” Painter told the Post. “They shouldn't be trying to do all these deals all over the world. It just isn’t working."
In May, it was reported that Trump has gone back on his pledge to donate profits earned from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury in an effort to avoid conflicts of interest. NBC News reported that Trump hotels were not tracking all possible payments from foreign governments, despite Trump's promise.
The Constitution's emoluments clause prohibits the president from receiving foreign gifts. Trump did not divest his assets after being elected, and instead put his business empire into a trust controlled by his two sons.“
Quoting "ProgWeek" like it's real. LOL.
That cover is a cry for help.
BTW your trolls are amusing!
Trump has hotels all over the world. Should he to shut them down for you leftists?
It's not illegal to be in business. and no - it's not a conflict of interest at all.
What is illegal is using a political position of power to make money. Like what Hillary did while she was head of the State Dept.
Now, just why would he do this? Corruption. What corruption?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/u-s-to-exit-global-anti-corruption-effort-aimed-at-oil-money
“The Trump administration said it will exit a global anti-corruption effort that compels oil, gas and mining companies to disclose the payments they give governments worldwide.
The decision, announced in a letter Thursday to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, may undercut the effort that aims to give citizens and watchdogs in poor but mineral-rich nations details on how much their government leaders get in taxes, royalties and lease payments. With that information, they can ensure the money is spent on roads and schools, not squirreled away in foreign bank accounts.
"It’s pretty disgraceful for the United States,” said Jana Morgan, director of the Publish What You Pay coalition that supports the initiative. "Chinese state-owned oil companies and Russian state-owned oil companies" are disclosing payments.
"So you literally have American companies that are less transparent than Russian and Chinese state-owned enterprises," she said. The pullback puts the U.S. in line with Equatorial Guinea and Azerbaijan -- two other countries that are not fully participating in the voluntary, global initiative.”
LOL - any comment on Uranium One deal? LOL - no.
It's not illegal to be in business. and no - it's not a conflict of interest at all.
As president, he shouldn't be more interested in his own businesses than in any other. Free competition, and all.
But seeing as how you never made much money in your life, let alone owned a business, you can't be expected to understand that.
You're just another right-winger who talks the talk about business but has no idea how it actually works.
LOL - any comment on Uranium One deal?
We don't comment on things that are just speculation designed to drive the emotional right-wing conspiracy machine.
How many votes were necessary to approve the Uranium One deal other than Hillary? How were the rest of them bribed and how did they benefit?
Watch as the right-winger fails to understand basic conflict-of-interest issues.
TTR is back. You talk about snakes on a plane!
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos does not fly "Government Air." She uses her own private plane at her own expense.
I don't think anyone will see "Sex Plan" in the headline, but the image does show a happy, potent Trump throwing money to the people below. Tom Price was thrown off the plane for wasting taxpayers' money. Trump gives it back to the taxpayers, or so the image implies.
From Unkown's link
Shime said she couldn’t explain the U.S. retreat but suspected that the overall cost of the program and a dispiriting lack of attention to it may have been factors. Given already strong anti-corruption measures built into U.S. law and regulations, the government may have felt it was unnecessary and expensive, Shime said.
The Uranium One deal that netted Bill and Hill almost 150 million didn't really happen, according to Ritmo. got it.
McDonnalds called, they need you back for a second shift, Ritmo. The McFrappe machine is broken again. Says your lip prints are all over the nozzle.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
We don't comment on things that are just speculation designed to drive the emotional right-wing conspiracy machine.
I would just comment that this particular machine has worked miracles on Crazy April. She's crazier than ever. One might even think that she misses the Clintons, after their departure from the political scene. Her two minutes of hate never ends these days.
I don't think there's any greater admission of not knowing what she's talking about than trailer-dweller renee sauce being unable to figure out who needed to vote to approve the Uranium One deal or how they must have been bribed simply to benefit Hillary Clinton, alone.
https://twitter.com/whyyradiotimes/status/926094569216921601
Crazy April. She's crazier than ever.
She has to be. She's spending her nights and days twisting herself into pretzels to prove that a rug-wearing serial groper is more upright and upstanding than her nemesis - that other woman.
It must be maddening.
I see a drunk attempt to bungee jump from a 747 ala Steel Panther.
"Tomorrow is The End of The World"
"Tomorrow is The End of The World"
True, eventually
The magazine cover is as giggle-worthy for Trump supporters as the pictures of him riding a velociraptor or an Abrams with AR-15s blazing in each hand.
For the #Resistance, bless their hearts, it feeds their delusion that they have a point to make.
"What's Newsweek?" my kid asked me. I explained how in the olden days, we would wait an entire week for a synopsis of the news to be printed on dead trees and trucked to our houses. "It's sort of like carbon paper, now obsolete," I explained. "What's carbon paper?" my kid asked me . . .
Unknown's blind faith that he is not one of the stupid posters here, and that nobody could possibly think for themselves on account of he can't, is almost touching.
Earnest Prole said...
I explained how in the olden days, we would wait an entire week for a synopsis of the news to be printed on dead trees and trucked to our houses.
I still do. I have a subscription to the Economist.
TTR just throws shit against the wall to see what sticks. I remember a time when Democrats cared about "trailer dwellers," because I am getting old.
“Unknown's blind faith that he is not one of the stupid posters here, and that nobody could possibly think for themselves on account of he can't, is almost touching.”
Timmy, you aren’t very self aware, are you? I try to back up my assertions. I asserted that Trump is corrupt and unethical. That is exactly what I did with the many articles that have incidents of his corruption and lack of ethics. If you are truly too ignorant and blind to your own sycophancy and epistemic closure to understand that, that’s not my fault.
Whatever, you cut and paste long sections of pearl clutching and wish casting. I am perfectly aware of how a moron who cannot string together a coherent argument and dismisses far worse on his own side must see me.
The French have a saying that there are few things in life sweeter than being called an idiot by a moron.
“Whatever, you cut and paste long sections of pearl clutching and wish casting.”
Try reading the articles. It won’t hurt you much. Might even knock you out of your epistemic closure. I’m curious though Timmy, for several months now after an absense for a while, you’ve been the most prolific commenter here in these comments sections. I think perhaps you need to go back for some more treatment, I see that you are edging toward mania....again.
Boy, that thread has acquired a shitload of lefty trolls.
Maybe it's Newsweek that draws them.
TTR: It's gerrymandering. That's why Republicans win. Democrats are no good at gerrymandering.
Narrator: All those locally elected Republicans drew districts that would elect Republicans? And what got the first batch of Republicans elected?
TTR: Gerrymandering.
Narrator: And what came before that?
TTR: It's gerrymandering all the way down.
TTR: The $145 million bribes to Hillary could not have caused the Uranium One deal approval. Many more agencies were involved than just State.
Narrator: So you are suggesting a more thorough corruption of the federal government under Barack Obama than just Hillary's State Department? And that Russia's willingness to spend $145 million is evidence of extensive bribery across 12 federal agencies?
TTR: Hey boss. I need new talking points.
Narrator: So Trump's rhetoric about draining the swamp is, if anything, understated?
TTR: Boss?
Since when has it been against the law for meetings between American representatives and Russian officials?
Apparently, some time after the presentation of a bright, shiny Reset Button.
The writing is on the wall, and it says “Oh hell yes, it was collusion after all!” Criminal conspiracy charges are coming.....
Gawd, you're insane. Literally.
Clinically insane.
You belong in a padded room. Seriously.
Find me a poll where people agree with the RWNJ as opposed to progressive message.
304 - 227, asshole. November. 2016 The only poll that matters.
And stop your sniveling about gerrymandering. It has jackshit to do with gubernatorial and US Senate races which also flipped from blue to red.
Face it. Your Boy King sucked and he killed your precious party.
You deserve the wilderness.
Abuse of power. What abuse of power?
““There is no bigger abuse of power than the president ordering his Justice Department to investigate his political enemies or back off his political allies, and Trump has done both,” says former Justice Department communications director Matthew Miller. “If he did it in secret, it would be treated as an enormous scandal, but because he does it in public, we have all gotten used to it. But it’s still the worst possible abuse of power, and the kind of thing everyone in Congress should demand end immediately — with the most serious consequences if he doesn’t.”
Republican leadership, however, has entirely abandoned its constitutional obligations and makes no effort to halt such conduct. The leaders are not acting in good faith to uphold their oaths of office — namely to defend the Constitution.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/11/03/trumps-latest-impeachable-actions/?utm_term=.e95dc3b1baa8
Hillary Clinton belongs in prison. Until that happens, you leftists sound like bitter tools and corruption excusing butt hurts.
Why Liberalism is exhausted.
This is the reality that made Ms. Warren’s attack on Mr. Sessions so tiresome. And it is what caused so many Democrats at President Trump’s address to Congress to look a little mortified, defiantly proud but dark with doubt. The sight of them was a profound moment in American political history.
Today’s liberalism is an anachronism. It has no understanding, really, of what poverty is and how it has to be overcome. It has no grip whatever on what American exceptionalism is and what it means at home and especially abroad. Instead it remains defined by an America of 1965—an America newly opening itself to its sins, an America of genuine goodwill, yet lacking in self-knowledge.
This liberalism came into being not as an ideology but as an identity. It offered Americans moral esteem against the specter of American shame. This made for a liberalism devoted to the idea of American shamefulness. Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism’s unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.
Let’s stipulate that, given our history, this liberalism is understandable. But American liberalism never acknowledged that it was about white esteem rather than minority accomplishment. Four thousand shootings in Chicago last year, and the mayor announces that his will be a sanctuary city. This is moral esteem over reality; the self-congratulation of idealism. Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption.
Shleby Steele
there's some cut and paste or the McFrappe machine sucker.
David Begley said...
"How does Newsweek even still exist? Time too."
Blogger AReasonableMan said...
"Trump Bodyguard Is Called For Questioning By House Intelligence Committee"
"The dossier contained a lot of information that could be considered troubling. Some of it, such as reports of meetings between Trump representatives and Russian officials has been verified."
That answer your question, Dave.
Birkel: If it doesn't conform to the right-wing narrative, change the script.
But what if it challenges reality and common sense?
Birkel: Those things will have to conform to the script, as well.
All hail the script! The right-wing future will forced on us whether we like it or not!
304 - 227, asshole. November. 2016 The only poll that matters.
Ahhh... Like the Palestinians you, too, believe in one vote, one party, one time.
Since you hate the voters and love the electors so much, why not outlaw the franchise? Just keep those electoral college party hacks as the permanent voters for life and for all times.
Your vulgar elitism and hatred of popular opinion is emblematic of your party and why America is in the state of decline that Reagan, and W. and Trump have put it in.
In other countries elitists know to act in dignified ways. But "Jim at" apparently spent much time being told by his father what a jackshit-knowing asshole he is. That's why he hates knowing what the American people actually think. He couldn't care less about them.
That was so weak as to cause me embarrassment for you, TTR.
Best not to respond at all of that is all you can muster.
going back to Reagan after 8years of O'Bambi?
I haven't read Newsweek since it became Newsweak. And I do not look at its covers anymore. Thanks for bringing this print version of SNL to my attention, so I can continue to ignore Newsweek.
Liberals are just not as smart as they think they are and not very thoughtful.
I can't tell for sure, but I'm wonderin'…
sn't the guy dropping from the plane
not any average Joe, but
in fact Barack Hussein Obama?
https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/
This cover has excellent meme potential
We already knew that there is no adult supervision at Newsweek, but this sort of puerile crap demonstrates that there aren't any adults to supervise.
Just a quick comment about point 2
Take a look at the DOW chart.
The Dow has taken off 4700 points in one year. And it's volume of traded shares is vastly larger than anything the Obama administration had even post 'recovery'.
And THE lowest day of the last year was the day before Hillary had her preordained coronation.
If Hollywood wrote this, I would consider it a trite cliché. But yes, Ms. Althouse, he IS throwing out money and we are all reaping the benefit.
Amazing the difference between having a capitalist as president has on things compared to a man who considered private enterprise 'the enemy'.
Newsweek posts crap like that to get page views. Why are you helping them by advertising it?
What, me worry?
Is TIME doing a lot of Trump covers? I hope so. It increases his power.
Please don't insult the "Mad" magazine. It was (is?) funny.
To compare Newsweek to Map is an insult to Mad.
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