About 24 hours ago, I said out loud, here at Meadhouse, "I'm waiting for Trump haters to say this was done to distract us from Epstein."
I'd like to think anyone saying that is doing satire, but James Carville really commits:
🚨NEW: James Carville goes on *UNHINGED* rant claiming Trump Admin Venezuela Operation was "ALL ABOUT EPSTEIN"🤦♂️
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) January 3, 2026
"Come on, people! Wake up! ... Never ever underestimate what Trump will do to try to survive and draw attention away from Jeffrey Epstein."@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/jRa52gwDwD
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The word 'commit' attached to a post about James Carville is a fit, if ever there was a fit. Good old James was always on a different path. And now that path is so far removed from the real world, it's almost sad to listen to him. He's left us all far behind.
But within the cacophony of Leftists pulling for the wrong people at every turn in this age, he is but a gnat on a cow's behind. He's just one of many, shouting into the wind about Trump this, Trump that.
No one has ever done more brain damage to more people than Donald Trump. He is the worm that winds inside of their brains. All day long.
i want to hear what Inga says about this!
It's more winning. That's what drives them nuts.
I lasted one minute with Carville. He woulda' sounded more rational if he'd ranted about Russia collusion. Pathetic, really, and half drunk.
I didn't listen to his rant. Did he say the Walz are closing in?
Trump’s already given the game away- it’s about the oil.
The Epstein distraction was simply a bonus, as was it for his retaliatory vetos, as was his windmill fiasco driving up energy cost, as was his affordability crisis.
And now he’s eyeing the western hemisphere, as the Gulibles cheer.
How many decades old is that picture of Epstein and Trump that Carville displays behind him? What evidence do you have of Trump's wrongdoing?
We're still waiting. But the walls are closing in, right?
Aspirin factory. That is all. Aspirin factory.
"his windmill fiasco driving up energy cost"
The Associate Sociology professor is implying that windmills are the solution to our non-existent energy problem.
It amazes me that anyone ever took this man seriously. He is a clown.
The Epstein info has been more damaging to the left and especially Bill Clinton at this point. You’d think Carville would be wanting people to forget about Epstein. I wonder if Bill will give him a call.
About 15 years ago, James Carville was the keynote speaker at the dinner for a PAC dinner for dermatologists lobbying congress for restoring or increasing basic research funding. Carville told the meandering chestnut about being pulled over by a state trooper, while his wife corrected his misrepresentations. In the tale, he reached over and smacked his wife as she spoke up. The room was filled with zero hilarity. Even then he lacked the neural connections to know what a fool he was making of himself. Seems he’s fallen further downhill. Sad.
Year two hasn't actually started yet. That happens on the 21st. It's still early. Carville is already as broken as the Alabama defense in the fourth quarter of the Rose Bowl.
Indiana's Rose Bowl victory was also part of the plot to distract us from the main focus of our lives which is, of course, proving that Jeffrey Epstein and Trump were raping little girls. Carville's busy looking for more evidence.
Heh.
Breezy said...
"The Epstein info has been more damaging to the left and especially Bill Clinton at this point. You’d think Carville would be wanting people to forget about Epstein. I wonder if Bill will give him a call."
He should be more concerned about Mrs. Clinton.
Breaking news on CNN: Dems accuse the Administration of lying to Congress about Venezuela.
Impeach!
Lefties on Twitter have assured me it’s about stealing Venezuelan oil.
I hope James Carville is doing satire.
@Althouse, that would be “no.” Trump has broken the Democrats, or more correctly Trump has allowed hardcore Democrats to break themselves in public.
Like Donald Trump, James Carville is the Platonic Ideal of Poe’s Law in action: Anything he says or does is indistinguishable from a satire of what he says or does.
Carville must remember the movie “Wag the Dog” and which president that was about…
tim maguire said...
“Lefties on Twitter have assured me it’s about stealing Venezuelan oil.“
One doesn’t need to rely on lefties on Twitter.
“We're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela, and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country," Trump said.
…to be fair to James, for decades many supposed smart people, intellectuals bought and embraced his wares. I suspect when that happens you’re assured they’ll buy anything I say…
Read that claim on Althouse yesterday, from TeaBagHag I believe. The talking points memo was a little slow in propagation apparently.
The betting markets are taking wagers on when his Christmas tree comes down. ‘at the estate sale’ is the prohibitive favourite…
@WWPaulKlee, The Talking Skull’s wife is Mary Matalin, who was George H. W. Bush’s campaign director when afar ille began romancing her.
Once upon a time, Carville was a brilliant strategist. Now he’s just an addled old fool. One in a long line of addled old fools using social media to destroy their reputation on their way out history’s door.
Ronald Ward points out a real issue—Trump will dare to use Venezuela’s oil wealth to being prosperity back to the Venezuelan people.
How awful.
What’s with the Joseph Epstein tag? I hope Ann Althouse is doing satire.
Maduro is about to commit suicide …
Tim @ 7:07, you’re selectively choosing a justification. Trump clearly stated the U.S. will take a share. That explains the objective to anyone not guzzling the koolade. Trump goes further with a dishonest justification.
“We built Venezuela’s oil industry with American talent, drive, and skill, and the socialist regime stole it from us during those previous administrations. This constituted one of the largest thefts of American property in the history of our country. Considered the largest theft of property in the history of our country. Massive oil infrastructure was taken like we were babies.”
Let’s not confuse “we” with the American tax payers.
U.S. companies did once dominate Venezuelan oil operations but they lost control after nationalization.
Venezuela legally owns its natural resources under international law.
There is no legal basis for the U.S. government to claim Venezuelan oil as U.S. property.
A president cannot legally justify seizing another country’s resources simply on the claim of restitution from past nationalization.
Trump’s resonates the political rhetoric and mendacity that American citizens in general were shortchanged but it simply isn’t true. And it is not grounded in accepted legal principles of property rights or international law.
Oh, and he’s promised “boots on the ground” to assist in this rich man’s bank robbery.
Carville’s claim to fame was getting Clinton elected: “it’s the economy stupid”. That’s it. End of story. Now he has been reduced by Trump to a foul mouth old fool.
Hes a nasty little gollum he vouched for all thr other slithy toves
The recession of 1990 was one of the shallowest on record csrtainly compared to 1982 for instance
The same response every time. Trump hate first. Soon after, its the Jews.
No one on the left or the right will notice Congress Monday morning stock buying. Congress, both sides, has spent the weekend planning to weasel their way into current events, for a profit. That has been the norm for decades.
What has changed is Trump is now the distraction for the corrupt class.
It's always been the Jews fault, Trump is a recent addition to Orwells two minutes of hate.
Since he was the author of "It's the economy, stupid", I've despised him for as long as I've been aware of his loathsome existence.
US oil companies had legit property interests via leases in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government took this property interests without due process or just compensation.
This is all first year constitutional law stuff.
He never goes away axelrod and plouffe and the other dead ringer for the late bruce glover messina the obama trust
Dave Begley said...
"US oil companies had legit property interests via leases in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government took this property interests without due process or just compensation."
A fact conveniently overlooked. Also overlooked by leftists, is that prior to their 'perfect society' being imposed on the country, Venezuela was one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
It took a couple decades, but the socialist, communists destroyed the country.
Happens to every commie country, a fact overlooked by the left.
"It's all about Epstein."
It couldn't be that Carville is deflecting and distracting on behalf of Clinton, could it?
Stomp him like a water moccasin
Horse hockey Dave and surely you know it.
U.S. oil companies held contractual interests under Venezuelan law, not U.S. constitutional property rights, and Venezuela’s nationalization was an exercise of sovereign authority recognized in international law.
Any compensation disputes are resolved through arbitration, not the Fifth Amendment.
The deeper problem is that the president is declaring a wrong, judging it, and enforcing a remedy himself, using taxpayer-funded military force to collect an unadjudicated private claim — collapsing Congress, the courts, and the presidency into one office, which is exactly what the Constitution was written to prevent.
Like the courts that convicted trump or conrad black or khodokorsky
What a contrast from the Biden years. And didn't they feel like 6 or 7 instead of four? Action can have positive or negative outcomes. Inaction, in a world full of hungry and unscrupulous powers, always has negative results. I'm not a fan of gunship diplomacy. I hope this works out in the short to medium term. Long term...hard to see this not being a good thing, especially if the crimp in the black market gas business topples Cuba and brings Putin to the table re Ukraine. Fingers crossed.
Carville....hasn't anyone told him he sounds insane?
Just as legit for arbitration
Joe Kennedy aka Joe for Oil used to romance about the Maduro governemnt because of…the oil.
As one ages (I’ll be 75 soon) one thinks about how one will be remembered. Carville is 81. The left presumably enjoys Carville’s profanity aimed at Trump. And that’s how he will be remembered. What a legacy!
Speaking of legacies, Trump will be remembered for many things. One of which will be how Venezuela comes through this. It will be out there for all to see, just like Hillary’s Libya.
As Carville was almost surely talking about himself in the following quote, "Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.", he had contracted a severe STD, that when compounded with his TDS, and caused him to totally lose his mind.
Going for a gig on Tucker's podcast?
More like hasan piker's volunteering to replace the dog
“Trump’s already given the game away- it’s about the oil.”
A person would have to be dumber than the dumbest box of rocks not to understand this is about oil. Without oil there would have been no Maduro. Revenues from Venezuela’s oil enabled narco-trafficking operations. Revenues, BTW Venezuela received from China which will now be losing 800,000 barrels of oil a day.
Reading the comments one must conclude that RJ Ward was in favor of keeping Maduro in power along with the Cuban security forces. Am I correct RJ?
Vizzini doesnt know what script to read
Literally foaming at the mouth.
Eva, if oil revenue justifies regime change, then any resource-rich country is fair game—and that’s exactly the precedent the Constitution and international law were meant to prevent.
Hump, this is the same move every time: if someone questions process, legality, or consequences, they’re accused of supporting the villain. It avoids answering the actual issue.
How is the invasion of Iran going, you know - the one that commenced immediately after the bunker busters?
Likd a rabid dog
Ol’ Snakehead speaks…
What Trump did was enforce the decisions made during the Obama Administration:
Key Actions Taken by the Obama Administration
Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014: This act, signed in December 2014, required the President to implement sanctions (visa bans and asset freezes) against Venezuelan officials responsible for violence and human rights abuses during protests in 2014.
Executive Order 13692: Issued in March 2015, this order declared the situation in Venezuela a "national emergency". This established the legal basis for blocking assets and suspending U.S. entry for individuals involved in significant violence, human rights abuses, ordering the arrest of those exercising freedom of expression or assembly, or engaging in significant public corruption.
Designated Individuals: Seven specific officials were initially sanctioned under this executive order.
I think jason cohen is the greater fool
“Eva, if oil revenue justifies regime change, then any resource-rich country is fair game”
Maybe learn to read first.
“Without oil there would be no Maduro”
Cleaver’s breaking into a sweat over the demise of another leftwing junta.
Flop sweat.
Gollum with a southern accent.
“Trump’s already given the game away- it’s about the oil.”
Yesterday a white leftist directed this accusation at a jubilant Venezuelan wearing the flag of his country and dancing in the street. His response was "You think the Russians and Chinese were here for the arepas?"
“Horse hockey Dave and surely you know it.”
Cleaver’s regional colloquialisms are quite amusing, no?
Eva, you’re explaining motive, not providing legal authority — and motives don’t create limits.
Yes. I’m explaining why a thief stole a country and turned it’s riches into a criminal enterprise - which has now been curtailed.
Legal authority was granted by the Obama Administration (technically the Bush Administration set the initial legal framework, but Obama used that framework in relation to Venezuela). It just took 2 decades for enforcement to occur.
Don’t think so Leland. Sanctions and indictments aren’t dormant war powers. No administration — Bush, Obama, or otherwise — received congressional authority to invade or govern Venezuela.
Eva, even if everything you say is true, motive still isn’t authority. By that logic, any powerful country gets to decide when another country has forfeited sovereignty — and history hasn’t been kind to that idea.
I'd have more respect for Carvel's this-is-about-Epstein line, as lame as that is, if he came right out and said, 'Look, people, when I was in the Clinton WH, we tried this same exact shit. We launched cruise missiles into Afghanistan to distract from Bill 's afoolin' 'round with Monica Lewinsky and it led ultimately to 9/11 and more than 20 years of war in that country, so I know what I'm talkin' about here. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, haven't we learned anything? And this ain't projection, so don't try to psychoanalyze a psychoanalyzer neither, okay?'
The guy was indicted. Catch up.
Watching Carville these days is akin to watching a highway pileup; you know you should avert your gaze, but you can't resist. Truly, he is a sad spectacle, a withered hulk of a human being trying desperately to cling to the last shred of relevance and shamelessly pretending to be a person of note. Where is his wife? Why is she not there to stop him from continuing to make a fool of himself? Could it be she truly despises him and enjoys his self-demeaning carnival act? Or did I miss her obituary? And why, dear Professor Althouse, did you give him a forum where his utterly pathetic bleatings and blatherings can be more widely shared? Have you no shame, either? Is it just another way to encourage clicks and reactions from your readership? This is just unutterably sad all around and I feel diminished as a person having participated.
"Possession is nine-tenths of the law."
Multiple presidents declared the wrong and judged it. This happened over the course of 20+ years, not 11 months. Chavez and Maduro victimized multiple entities outside Venezuela, not just Venezuelans. Nations have a right to defend themselves from the likes of them.
What other option is there, really? The indictment was levied 5 years ago. Go to Congress for a law enforcement perp capture go-ahead? The UN? They have no jurisdiction. Plus, Maduro was warned and given many opportunities to avoid this action. His narcissistic arrogance is his downfall.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Eva, you’re explaining motive, not providing legal authority — and motives don’t create limits.
Nobody cares about your stupid legal authority bullshit. You are a piece of shit. You didn't care when Obama and Biden started wars with no legal authority. It happened repeatedly.
Anyone who engages him on this basis is just being dumb and you are giving him power.
Chuck is a traitor and he belongs in Somalia. Stop letting him besmirch the Constitution and use it as a weapon to carry out his evil.
You are giving this piece of shit legitimacy. He deserves nothing but exile so we can have a free country back.
Bob Boyd said...
I'd have more respect for Carvel's this-is-about-Epstein line, as lame as that is, if he came right out and said, 'Look, people, when I was in the Clinton WH, we tried this same exact shit. We launched cruise missiles into Afghanistan to distract from Bill 's afoolin' 'round with Monica Lewinsky and it led ultimately to 9/11 and more than 20 years of war in that country, so I know what I'm talkin' about here.
These people don't believe a single thing they say.
There is no reason to discuss any of this with them. They are scum that need to go to a different country.
Well mary matalin rarely emerges
Again - If the Dems had anything on Trump in those files- Biden would have released that info - and the hack-D media would have rammed it up our collective asses all day and all night for 4 years.
When you got nuttin! The funny part is the left's use of "distraction"
Well they informed the pakistanis and they tipped off bin laden so only a group of hum were on site
Harakat um mujahadeen (army of the faithful)
Of course if the northern alliance had been given the go ahead
Or the 1999 strike on the falconry camp
Carville says things, and millions of Dems nod in agreement. I envy his ability to do that.
Most of them laugh at his scrawny gizzard
There was a deep dive into Epstein's life in the New York Times, and plainly one of Epstein's strategies was to insinuate himself into the lives of powerful people in any way he could.
There was another point made in that story, which was that Epstein got hired by 'Ace' Greenberg, under his strategy of hiring poor, smart, and hungry young men into his organization, Bear Sterns, you know, the same types of guys who came up with securitizing mortgages, the 'brilliant' idea that led to the crash of 2008. Bear Sterns was ground zero of that crash.
There seems to be an illusion that if you get a brilliant person, they can see ideas that nobody else ever thought of, you know, like Beethoven could create his Ninth Symphony purely out of his intellect.
What are some other things that happened in this era? Oh, that's right, certain "very smart" people decided that it would be a good idea to experiment with gene splicing coronaviruses, you know, to end disease.
I am so sick of the lies and the gaslighting, but apparently there are a lot of people who can't get enough of it, because, like LLMs, the liars and gaslighters are sure to suck up to the people who believe than and slather them with praise for their discerning intellect.
He's not doing satire - carville's doing politics. That's what he always does. Listening to carville is only good for three things:
1) Marveling that someone that ugly got married.
2) Marveling someone that stupid is taken seriously.
3) Understanding the current (D) party line.
What is the justification? I'll tell you.
It was successful. Maduro is in the slammer and the Venezuelan people are jubilant. No American servicemen died. The operation was a huge win. Like it or not, that's how it works.
After the failure of the Bay of Pigs, John F. Kennedy told a journalist that, “victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.” Trump rolled the dice and won his bet. Americans love that. People love that.
Academic regurgitations from anonymous trolls who hate every breath Trump and his supporters take won't stack up against that. They're boring and irrelevant.
What do you expect people to do with that stuff? Say,
'The outcome is wonderful, but surely we must impeach Trump?'
To say,
'America must punish her bold and successful leaders and thereby punish herself in the name of endlessly debatable legal opining?' Please.
I'll take the scales off my eyes when carville takes them off his whole body. He's always looked a human snake.
Seems like the real cultists are all dedicated democratic Walzians .
Trump could bring inflation down to .1%, crime in cities down to .1%, the national debt be zeroed out, cure cancer, etc... and still Carville would find some speck in Trump's eye to criticize..
That is just the nature of TDS folks. They are blind. They say the see but they don't.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
What’s with the Joseph Epstein tag? I hope Ann Althouse is doing satire.
1/4/26, 7:12 AM
Poor Joseph. He should get with that Jeffrey Epstein that Rep. Crockett mentioned and commiserate over being mistaken for the icky Epstein.
rehajm said...
The betting markets are taking wagers on when his Christmas tree comes down. ‘at the estate sale’ is the prohibitive favourite…
1/4/26, 6:54 AM
In a Silent Generation/Boomer, (nominally) Catholic household such as theirs, the Christmas tree might be around until the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6.
You gotta spread disease before you end it. /* the corrupt left.
I'm just here for the comments.
Not satire.
I don't know how this will turn out- events usually have a life of their own that evolve outside of the control of the people who initiate them. There is a far better chance this intervention turns out well than those carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan had. However, if the hook you are hanging your hat on here consists of "legal authority" arguments, all I can do is laugh my ass off at you- not only are you being hypocritical but you clearly have no idea of the international order of politics even works.
Had Joe Biden done exactly this same thing, I know I would not have criticized it as "illegal"- I would have pretty much written the exact same thing I have written about it the last two days- that the ultimate outcome, good or ill, won't be known for some number of years but that isn't a reason to not act all by itself.
" it’s about the oil"
That's a new one. I never heard that before. All thinking can cease now.
Wait till old man Carville finds out there are kids on his lawn right now, and their parents are Republicans.
I wasn't joking yesterday when I wrote that a district judge is going to order Trump to return Maduro to Venezuela- it is going to happen.
It is a great exposé of Democrats that they claim to think, without evidence, that “Epstein” is substantive and about Trump and the capture of Maduro, for which Joe Dementia offered $25 million, is a distraction. Their elite are not serious people and their followers are morons.
“About 24 hours ago, I said out loud, here at Meadhouse, "I'm waiting for Trump haters to say this was done to distract us from Epstein."”
Carville’s lost the plot. Epstein has fizzled, and the smart haters have pivoted back to Jan 6. That’s what people really care about. Jan 6! Jan 6!
"About 24 hours ago, I said out loud, here at Meadhouse, "I'm waiting for Trump haters to say this was done to distract us from Epstein."
Depending on how seriously the Epstein files may condemn Trump in proving the frequency and nature of his actual participation of sex with underage girls, if any--and, really, we don't yet know the particulars in this regard...it may be negligible or even non-existent, or, it may be serious -- it's entirely logical to assume that this and all other outrages issuing from Trump are all intended to distract from the mestasizing Epstein cancer.
An oil lease is a contract between parties no matter where you are located. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that these contracts were let decades ago when US oil companies were the standard for drilling processes and lease agreements. The Venezuelans certainly weren't punching holes in the ground and extracting the crude. Only with US oil company assistance.
So. No the US isn't stealing oil. The US has leases and crude contracts to fulfil. The US oil companies are going to have to fix a lot of oil infrastructure before they begin. There is nothing cheap in any part of an oil field, or a refinery either.
JFK cribbed that "Defeat is an orphan" quote from Winston Churchill. Who probably cribbed it from someone else. Churchill did that a lot.
Don't we all realize by now that we won't see all of the "Epstein files" because of national security concerns? Democrats feel free to demagogue the issue because they realize that material will be held back, as it was with the assassination files of the 1960s. It's all "performative²."
Mary Matalin looked mummified in her last few public appearances. Maybe Carville has finally completed the process and has stored her in the basement or the family crypt.
Yes cicadaz are more gregarious
i had HIGH HOPES to hear what age old leftist Inga had to say about this;
but i guess she's busy at the psychiatric hospital (or wherever she's at now)?
But, at least i got to hear from SOME of our lefties!
It TURNS OUT, that this whole thing is horrible!
because; not Only is it good for the US;
but! it's good for Venezuela TOO!
AND! it's NOT GOOD for Iran, which has its OWN problems right now
Thanx Lefties! It's GOOD TO KNOW who's paying Your bills
Mollie on X: "Experts foiled again!" / X https://share.google/SrZ8se70AU55QyVnY
Paul said...
.."Trump could bring inflation down to .1%, crime in cities down to .1%, the national debt be zeroed out, cure cancer, etc.."
So, you're ACTUALLY asking for:
the money printers to be bankrupted?
both criminals AND lawyers to be put out business?
bankrupt money lenders?
AND put both doctors AND BigPharma our of business TOO?
You Trumpists won't be happy, until You DESTROY Every Thing the Democrat Party has worked So Hard on.. Will YOU?
Ronald J. Ward said...
Don’t think
Fine chuck. You explain the legality of Hillary Clinton’s arrest of Khadaffi.
Biden took all the incriminating Trump related Epstein files but can’t remember where he put them.
Ronald is too busy with important issues like pursuing Republican “election deniers” lol
Theyre in the chevy corvette
"Depending on how seriously the Epstein files may condemn Trump in proving the frequency and nature of his actual participation of sex with underage girls, if any--and, really, we don't yet know the particulars in this regard...it may be negligible or even non-existent, or, it may be serious -- it's entirely logical to assume that this and all other outrages issuing from Trump are all intended to distract from the mestasizing Epstein cancer."
Tl;dr: Since Trump hasn't yet proven a negative, it's pretty plain that he must be doing this to distract from his obvious guilt!
The word has gone out to the federal judges to keep shtum. Because its obvious that if Maduro returns to Venezuela it will go hard for him.
Wait! WTF am I thinking! Fed judge ruling will specify that Maduro must be flown to ... Brazil? France? Canada?
Place yer bets, folks.
Depending on how seriously the Epstein files may condemn Trump in proving the frequency and nature of his actual participation of sex with underage girls, if any--and, really, we don't yet know the particulars in this regard...
I'll go out on a limb and say that when the Democrats in Congress were texting back and forth with Epstein himself back in 2017, and brainstorming with the convicted pedophile on ways they could "get" Trump, that would have been a highly opportune time for any such particulars to be disclosed.
In such circumstances, I think the absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence.
Saliva sneaking out of both corners of his maw. Not doing well. He's taking a short break from yelling at the clouds.
Beware the ides of #MeToo, Carville.
Jaq at 12:19. I don't doubt that many Venezuelans have a favorite lamp post picked out for Maduro if he returns to Venezuela. Things don't go well for deposed dictators.
For a political strategist he sure sucks imagery in his Zoom calls. Looks like he can't figure out how to lower his La-Z-Boy...
until the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6.
...it was a reference to last year when his tree was still up long after that...
Hassayamper,
If I recall correctly, not even Epstein is a "convicted pedophile" -- The charges he was actually found guilty of were indeed sex related, but not pedophilia.
i want to hear what Inga says about this!
I trust you're only speaking for yourself.
Carville and Olbermann should start a podcast
Temu Skeletor is really falling off the deep end.
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