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May 10, 2024

Hillary Clinton "Writes" A Broadway Musical About, Get This, How Women Have Been Oppressed by Men

Decrepit closeted lesbian says what?

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THE MORNING RANT: Learn to Weld? What if Manufacturing Jobs Come Home but White Collar Jobs Get Offshored?

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Principled Free Traders* had a great run during the quarter century before Trump’s presidency. “Thought leaders” on both side of the political aisle agreed that exporting as many US manufacturing jobs as possible to developing countries was a desirable thing, as they sneered “learn to code” at the deplorable blue-collar workers who lost their livelihoods to offshoring.

(*Just a reminder regarding my animus toward “Principled Free Traders” - I am not necessarily opposed to genuine, reciprocal free trade, but it angers me when people advocating for unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism falsely promote themselves as being highly principled “free traders,” especially when the foreign mercantilists are hostile countries that have abominable labor policies and are generally closed to US exports.)

Then Trump and his tariffs came along. So did Covid, and supply chain interruptions, and shipping backlogs, and port breakdowns, etc. The higher cost of US labor started looking a lot better compared to the cost of not receiving products that are stuck in a foreign port.

Meanwhile, the work-from-home era started during the Covid hysteria, and employers are still struggling to get employees back to the office. For better or worse, employers are realizing that if a job can be done at a kitchen table in suburban America, it can also probably be done in Bangalore or Moldova, but for much less. And unlike manufactured products that must be slowly shipped across the globe, the product the laptop class creates is digital, and can be shipped around the world in the blink of an eye.

This Google story broke last week, and although the number of Google employees losing their jobs is not huge, it had a significant impact because it really makes explicit that tech jobs are now being offshored, and that U.S. employers are dismissing white collar workers for the express purpose of replacing them with cheaper employees in places like India and Mexico. Learning to code won’t help the laid off employees. Maybe they need to learn to weld.

“Google lays off 200 workers, shifts jobs to Mexico and India in latest restructuring” [NY Post – 05/01/2024]

At least 50 of the roles were based at Google’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents.

In just the first few months of 2024, about 60,000 employees have been laid off by tech companies.

“A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs; From major layoffs at Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft to small fintech startups and apps” [TechCrunch – 5/03/2024]

The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024.

As Don Johnson notes, it was foolish for white collar workers to think their jobs couldn’t be offshored too.

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But at the same time, while coding can be offshored and spreadsheets can be produced and sent from anywhere, there’s a growing appreciation for the value in locally manufactured products, which don’t have to sail through chokepoints which have a habit recently of getting choked off.

“Simultaneous Obstructions to the Suez and Panama Canals Threaten the Global Supply Chain” [Foley & Lardner Insights – 02/21/2024]

Nearly 15% of global shipping traffic is estimated to pass through the Suez Canal in a given year. The volume of freight traversing the Suez Canal decreased dramatically since December 2023 due to the Houthi militant attacks.

The Panama Canal—which ordinarily carries approximately 40% of all U.S. container traffic—is simultaneously experiencing interruption due to an unprecedented drought. Drought conditions have decreased water levels of the canal to well below normal levels and forced canal authorities to decrease the amount of traffic navigating the canal each day by more than 36%.

How significant is the onshoring trend in manufacturing?

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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Portrait of writer Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin

Ilya Repin

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The Morning Report — 5/10/24

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Good morning, kids. I suppose the theme of today's editorial is "If you can't dazzle 'em with facts, razzle 'em with bullshit." Meh, this has been politics since time immemorial. Yet with everything coming out of the putrid pie-holes of those who fancy themselves as our betters, it's just in your face.

One of the first instances of modern-era Orwellian Newspeak mashed up with Goebbels' "Big Lie" emanated from none other than the rancid, repulsive sewer of Malig-Nancy Pelosi way back in 2010:

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.

Talking to reporters, the House speaker was defending a jobless benefits extension against those who say it gives recipients little incentive to work. By her reasoning, those checks are helping give somebody a job.

"It injects demand into the economy," Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. "It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name."

If you listen closely enough, you could even hear the faint laughter of John Maynard Keynes coming from the Infernal Reaches. Yet, because of an educational system that has utterly failed except in creating a mass of illiterate dupes glued to their smart-phone screens waiting for the next proclamation either from Beijing, Kalorama or Bir Zeit University, here we are 13 years later and you have this:

A letter from 19 Democrat Senators in late March, including Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), John Fetterman (D-PA), and Tammy Duckworth (D-WI), urged the Democrat incumbent to push for amnesty for illegal immigrants earlier this year, but the party appears to be split over how to handle the crucial election year issue.

“Deporting all such individuals — as former President Donald Trump has threatened to do if reelected — would devastate the American economy and destroy American families,” the Democrats claim before going on to add, “streamlining pathways for undocumented immigrants with no criminal history and deep ties to the United States to obtain parole or a lawful immigration status would provide stability to their families, require them to pay taxes, and to check in with the U.S. government regularly.”

Et tu, Lumpy? Here I was singing your praises as the unlikeliest voices of reason vis a vis Israel as well as your previous stand on the border insanity. That aside, the salient point is the madness that illegal aliens who, when you completely ignore the mythological 11 million figure (upwards of 8 million have arrived since Biden was taken out of the vegetable crisper in 2021) that even back when Reagan was duped into giving amnesty to a million in exchange for border/immigration security back in 1986, comprise perhaps as much as 10% of our population are a boon to our economy is now accepted as the emmes truth by Leftists and an alarming number of so-called independents and moderates. As for RINOs, they love illegal aliens because they constitute slave laborers right here on our own soil – including an alarming percentage of children.

Deporting as many illegals as possible, perhaps the reinstitution of Operation: Wetback on a permanent basis would be a gigantic step in improving our economy, national security and nearly destroyed national unity and culture in immeasurably positive ways. Of course, the reinstitution of sane economic and regulatory policies that take government the hell out of the way of businesses, especially small businesses, from growing and flourishing will be the rising tide that lifts all boats, especially citizens at or near the poverty line in obtaining jobs or going into business for themselves. That also requires a complete reorientation of our "educational" system and culture away from sloth, envy, perversion and entitlement mentalities back towards inculcating and incentivizing personal responsibility, ethics, morality and ambition.

From those two examples of insanity, we go to one of the deepest and darkest snake pits of deception and deviltry, Foggy Bottom:

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that an Israeli military campaign in Rafah would “actually weaken … Israel’s security.” He also said that the U.S. had presented Israel with “a full range of policy choices” that would achieve the same goal of dismantling Hamas without entering Rafah, but did not explain what those choices were.

Asked whether [Celeriac-in-Chief] Joe Biden’s announcement that the U.S. was withholding weapons from Israel would undermine Israel’s leverage in hostage negotiations, Miller said that “hasn’t been our assessment” of the talks. . .

[Spokes-anus John Kirby's] logic appeared to be that if more "Palestinian" civilians died, Hamas would have less incentive to release Israeli hostages — whether out of anger at civilian casualties, or because of Hamas’s desire to cause more civilian casualties, Kirby did not make clear. The White House has not said what an alternative to attacking Hamas in Rafah would be.

They were no doubt thinking that every Jew in Israel and on planet Earth should stick themselves in an oven and turn on the gas. Except with Biden's ban on gas stoves, the best the Jews could do is slowly broil themselves to death. Aside from that, every other assertion is based on bald-faced lies about the situation on the ground, who is responsible and the fiction of what the outcomes would be based on those falsehoods.

So, if Israel wipes out the last remaining vestiges of a barbaric death cult in their midst that has vowed to kill every Jew in the world, that makes Israel less safe? I guess I'm just too damned stupid to understand the brilliance of this brainwave.

Interestingly enough, both the border and the situation in Israel (as well as the utter horseshit about how great our economy is!) have put these assholes in a bind because no one with even half an RFK JR. brain worm is buying the bullshit. And it's forcing Democrats to both double down on their policies while simultaneously attempting to pull back from them before November, which fraud notwithstanding could wipe them out with a Trump return as well as losing the Senate and House.

Not that that matters with the likes of Mike Johnson or McYertle's likely replacement Jon Thune. Both of them will do all in their power to sabotage Trump's legislative agenda in reversing course. Ditto the Deep State and all of the bureaucracies that will covertly or even overtly commit rank insubordination to a Trump administration.

So when the old "razzle-dazzle" doesn't work, just lie and then blame us ungrateful, unwashed rubes – the intended receivers of elitists' wisdom – for not swallowing it, then accuse them of being too stupid to understand and appreciate it, and when all else fails, whip out the race and literally Hitler cards.

Death to Hamas. Death to globalism.

And have a good weekend.

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Daily Tech News 10 May 2024

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May 09, 2024

The Proper Order Of Things Is Often A Mystery To ONT

Hello everybody! Welcome to Thursday night. Everybody get LOUD!

Who knows, it might land you a job.


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10 Kiloton Whoopie Cushion Cafe

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Carcassonne, France
by @lecmn

Green Mountain Valley in Madeira. I've linked this before but it's so otherworldly.

Just a bunch of videos of Swiss fields and waterfalls.

Red squad, take off!

Pandas: The Ultimate Alpha Predators.

Cat rescue. Another cat rescue.

Man rescued from flooding in Brazil is reunited with his doggos.

Rescuing puppers.

Harrowing video of an out-of-control car. A brave samaritan gets his car in front of the out-of-control car to slow it down and stop it.

One dog's on Puppy Uppers, the other one's on Doggie Downers.

Two friends make up a game together.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who dig, and those who get covered in dirt.

Cute red panda gets a cool-off.

A cow dreams of something bigger.

F around and find out, bozo!

ICYMI: Doggo with a Go Pro in his mouth.

The sweetheart of the subway.

I've linked this like ten times but this otter (a good sea otter) is so helpful.

WATCH as a young gorilla EVOLVES BEFORE YOUR EYES into JOE BIDEN.


Will you play with me?

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Quick Hits

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Netanyahu to Biden: Go crap in your pants again, Grandpa Funnyfingers.

In an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday, President Joe Biden finally made explicit what has long been implicit in his administration's Israel policy. Responding to reports that the United States had paused an arms shipment to Israel, the president said:


I've made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet that they're not going to get our support if in fact they go into these population centers. We're not walking away from Israel's security, we're walking away from Israel's ability to wage war in those areas.


To add insult to injury, Burnett asked Biden if he "heard the message" of campus protesters upset by reports from Gaza of "mass graves and summary executions, that there's been evidence of." Rather than point out that these reports are crude lies for which there is absolutely zero evidence, other than the say-so of the same Hamas sources that brought the world the fake IDF massacres at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the aid convoy in February, the president merely said, "I hear the message." Shivving an ally and laundering a blood libel--two outrages for the price of one!

But in truth, no one should be surprised. That the White House would ultimately attempt to use its leverage to preserve Hamas in Gaza was baked into the American response to Oct. 7 from Day 1. Indeed, it was the entire purpose of the administration's messaging campaign to exonerate Iran and to forbid the Israelis from acting against Iran's prize proxy in the region, Hezbollah, in the immediate aftermath of the attack. By framing the war as the latest skirmish in the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict," and not as a hot front in the Iranian terror empire's cold war against the U.S.-led regional order, the White House effectively set a trap for Israel.

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On Thursday, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that "the IDF has armaments for the missions it is planning, including the missions in Rafah. We have what we need."

In his first official response to Biden's warning, meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that if "Israel has to stand alone, we'll stand alone." We'll see in the coming weeks and months if Bibi is willing to call Biden's bluff.

That guy makes a good point: Barack Obama tweeted that we should stand back and support Israel as it dismantles Hamas.

That may sound supportive, he says -- but Obama's real message was, "attack Hamas and not Hamas' patron and funder, Iran."

We must have investigations into the Democrats' secret deals with America-hating Iran.


Israeli politicians aren't happy with President Poopypants:


US President Joe Biden's threat to withhold arms in the event of a full-on Rafah incursion has sparked harsh domestic criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with critics panning both his handling of relations with the United States and his far-right allies' "insulting" denunciations of Jerusalem's closest ally.

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"I've made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet: They're not going to get our support if they go [into] these population centers," Biden said, using Netanyahu's nickname.

The CNN interview marked Biden's toughest public comments yet on the matter, as concern has grown in the administration that Israel is not planning to heed US warnings against a major offensive that the White House feels wouldn't take into account the million-plus Palestinians sheltering in Gaza's southernmost city.

Responding to Biden's announcement, several members of Netanyahu's hard-right government slammed Biden, accusing him of weakness and alleging that his actions were good for Hamas.

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, from the hardline Otzma Yehudit party, accused Biden of following the path of former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who attempted to appease Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1938. Otzma Yehudit leader and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir simply tweeted "Hamas (loves) Biden."

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The rest of the article is about the Israeli left opportunistically attacking Netanyahu for not being nice enough to Biden.

Eh, maybe we should let Biden cut them off. I'm kind of sick of the Israeli left.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If you don't have the strength to stand up for yourself, why should the rest of us care?

Student sues Rutgers University for antisemtism, claiming the school allowed antisemitic thugs to intimidate her.


A Jewish student from Bergen County sued Rutgers University Thursday, alleging that she was harassed in her dorm after she attended a pro-Israel event.

Rebecca "Rivka" Schafer, 19, said she suffered other instances of antisemitism as well at Rutgers' New Brunswick campus, where students set up an encampment in recent weeks to protest the military campaign in Gaza and the university's ties to Israel.

The suit, filed in state Superior Court, seeks unspecified monetary damages from Rutgers, which Schafer accused of discrimination and allowing a hostile environment to fester against Jewish students.

"For years, Rutgers' Jewish students have reported incidents and concerns to Rutgers; yet Rutgers continues to tolerate faculty members, guest speakers, groups, student and student organizations that legitimize or endorse antisemitic expression and actions," the lawsuit says.


According to the suit, Rivka was targeted by fellow students after she went to an event intended to rally support for Israel this spring. That came amid a non-binding student referendum on whether Rutgers should divest its endowment from companies with ties to "the government of Israel's human rights violations."

Two days later, on March 28, Rivka found fliers with her photo posted throughout her dormitory, the lawsuit said. The picture was accompanied by the messages "Free Palestine" and "Free Gaza" and urged students to vote in favor of Rutgers Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Student Referendum vote.

"The message to Rivka and her peers was clear," according to the suit."Don't support Israel, we know where you sleep."

The goal was to "harass, intimidate and bully Jewish students, to create a hostile school environment for Jewish students and to suppress the vote of Jewish students, including Schafer," the complaint said.

The suit faults Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway for allowing the divestment vote to go forward. Holloway was warned by Jewish students that it would stoke antisemitism, the lawsuit said. The suit cites another incident that allegedly occurred a week after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and another 250 taken hostage. At a meeting in the dorm, another student "expressed appreciation that there was a large death toll in Israel." The comment earned appreciative snaps from other participants, who were "extremely aggressive" in their commentary about Israel, according to lawsuit.

"As a result of this conduct by her fellow dorm residents, Schafer left the meeting scared and shaking," it said.

I mean, there's some snowflaking going on here, obviously, but I do approve of suing these people.

Trust the experts:

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NeverTrump Fatsos and Softcocks Are Coping and Seething About Joe Biden's Betrayal of Israel

But, but, but but he brought honor and dignity back to the White House.

I was told America is back, baby. Was I misinformed? Is America not in fact back, baby?

I expect him to reverse this statement when he gets angry calls from his Democrat donors.

Bet against me.

Via Duane Patterson at Hot Air:

Joe Biden deserves nothing but condemnation, censure, and withering contempt for his announcement tonight that he will withhold significant amounts of the recently approved aid to Israel should the government begin a full-on siege of the last Hamas redoubt in, around, and under Rafah.

For seven months now, I have defended Joe Biden. On our podcast and on this website, I have repeatedly said that while the president may have felt--wrongly, in my view--that he needed to maintain some rhetorical space from Israel because of the imagined need to keep young people and Arab-Americans in his electoral camp, the actual policies and support he was offering and providing the Jewish state were consistent and solid.

I defended him for months as he took more and more anti-Israel actions because I understand his need to placate the Muslims in Michiganistan.

But they impeached Trump for asking Ukraine for evidence about Biden's interference in that country's internal politics.

For months, for example, he pushed for a significant aid package even as he criticized tactics and strategies employed by the IDF to fight in Gaza. And he supplied important logistical support to protect Israel--first by deploying ships to the Lebanese coast to deter Hezbollah and then in the air campaign that rendered the direct Iranian attack all but harmless.

That was then, this is now. That aid package he fought for? He's now blocking much of it himself--and is promising to do worse in days to come. That support for Israel? He is now pursuing policies that are designed to keep Hamas alive. This long-time friend of Israel? At an incredibly critical moment, he is giving Barack Obama a run for his money as a singularly destructive American "ally." We're told the decision to act this way came last week but that Biden wanted to keep it quiet until he delivered his speech commemorating the Holocaust.

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Israel's cause is just. Hamas's cause is evil. Biden has now made affirmative moves to keep Hamas alive. A moral reckoning will ensue, and so will a political reckoning. And so will the judgment of history itself.

Who could have guessed this infinitely-corrupt, stupid political animal and credibly-accused rapist would turn out to be a bad guy?

This Plus-Sized Lightweight too:

Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatch

Fwiw. I've heard from a LOT of reliably anti-Trump people - I mean really, really, anti-Trump people - who have had it with Biden tonight. Anecdotal, to be sure. But very telling in my circle.

So Jonah, now that he's betrayed you on your highest priority, it's okay not to support Biden in his heroic quest to Save American Democracy? We were all evil when we chose Trump because the Democrats (and the Republican branch of the Uniparty) were screwing us on the American border, but now that the Israeli border is threatened, it's moral and right to abandon Biden?

Preen harder you fat fuck. Preen your bloated heart out.

Obviously I support Israel, strongly.

But allow me to be like the millionth person to ask this of the neocons: Is Israel the only nation worth defending?


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@IzaBooboo

There is no discernible good strategy here from any angle. This will not gain him back votes from the hard left and it will turn far more people against him. Just from a purely political move it makes no sense.


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@JonahDispatch

That's the main reason it's so infuriating -- it's bad policy and bad politics. It's a wholly futile gesture that will win over no one.

So what you're saying is, if it were better politics and would win over more pro-terrorist voters in Michiganistan, then you would support Biden's decision to rescue Hamas from its final reckoning?

So the "main frustration" is not that the policy is pro-terrorist and an objective evil, but only that the policy won't help Biden beat Trump?

Keep cashin' them checks, Jonah. Keep cashin' dem Pay-4-Play checks.

You grotesque globular blobular Rent-a-Pundit, go fuck yourself in the heart with a knife.

Just ten hours before Biden announced he was withholding Congressionally-authorized arms sales to Israel, Democratic propaganda front The Bulwark assured its neocon readers that Biden was still a super-patriot on Israel:

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In the sidebar, I used my well-known psychical powers to predict their next propaganda offensive:

Their next article will argue that Biden is trying to be a great friend to Israel -- real friends tell their friends when they're doing wrong, right? Real friends cut you off drinking at a bar when you've had too many. And the best friends of all cut off your armament lifeline when you're in an existential fight with terrorists.


So here's richly-paid Democrat Propagandist Bill Kristol to shore up "Republican" NeverTrump support for Biden.

How close did I come in my prediction?

In yesterday's newsletter, we summed up Joe Biden's position on Israel's war in Gaza, as his administration has laid it out for months, like this: "Israel should do more to minimize civilian casualties, but those casualties are ultimately the responsibility of Hamas, and the United States believes Israel has the right to strain every nerve to root Hamas out of Gaza."

Well, maybe not every nerve. The news from Biden's sit-down interview with CNN's Erin Burnett last night was an ultimatum from Biden to Israel: If you forge ahead with your invasion of Rafah--Hamas's last stronghold--the United States won't be providing the bombs for you to do it.

Now he's going to tell "Republican" NeverTrumpers to ignore what Biden just said, because he was probably just running his mouth and didn't mean any of it, really.


A few questions to consider as you think about all of this.

First, how big a deal is this? Something very much like this has happened before. In fact, it's basically happened in every war Israel has fought. Biden has joined the roster of American presidents--including Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, Richard Nixon in 1973, Ronald Reagan in 1982, and George W. Bush in 2006--in pressuring Israel not to wage wars quite as their government might have planned, or to bring wars to a close more quickly than Israel's government might have wished. And many of those efforts by earlier American administrations involved pauses or restrictions on arms shipment to Israel, or other forms of pressure.

"Everybody does it!"


So, is this just par for the course, or is this time different? How much of this is the normal friction of foreign policy between allies in a time of war? Or is this something more?

He decides that Biden just wants to make sure Israel has a good plan for avoiding civilian casualties.


But one can say this: It had seemed that the U.S. position had been that if Israel were going to go into Rafah, they had to show they had a real plan and were making a real effort to mitigate as much as possible with consequences for civilians. But is it the failure to make adequate provision for civilians that Biden is now objecting to? Or is it going into Rafah at all? It sounds from the interview like the latter. But Israel has been saying for months that they're going to have to finish the job of dealing with Hamas, which means going into Rafah. So why this change in U.S. policy, if it is one?

He's pretending that he was unaware that Biden and Kirby and Blinken have not made a steady stream of accusations against Israel and have not repeatedly threatened to cut aid to Israel if they didn't stop their war on Hamas.

He's pretending that Biden is still keeping his vow from six months ago, that he supported the elimination of Hamas.

Despite the fact that he is now Hamas' most important defender and guardian.

Which brings us a second question. Why did President Biden choose to offer these thoughts in the middle of an interview during a trip to Wisconsin focused on the economy and jobs? There are reasons that when presidents make important foreign policy statements, they tend to read a prepared text and have other administration officials lined up and ready to explain and amplify.

Obviously it was perfectly appropriate for Erin Burnett to ask the questions she did. But it would have been equally appropriate for President Biden to say that we're in sensitive and complicated discussions with the Israeli government on these issues, and I'm not discussing any of that right here on CNN.

But Biden didn't take this course.

Isn't this a surprising lack of discipline from an experienced president? Which has real consequences in making the policy harder to understand here at home, and for those inclined to agree with it, harder to defend, in the political maelstrom that we're already seeing.

"A surprising lack of discipline from an "experienced" (read: demented and dying) president?"

Are you fucking kidding me? THIS IS A "SURPRISING" LACK OF DISCIPLINE? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD BIDEN SPEAK? HE CLAIMS HIS UNCLE WAS EATEN BY FUCKING CANNIBALS AND THAT JAPAN IS XENOPHOBIC AND MISOGYNIST.

No, it wouldn't be a surprising lack of discipline if this were a slip-up.

But it's not a slip-up. He has been telegraphing the Pivot to Hamas for months and months, and he specifically went on Erin Burnett to announce the new policy, and make sure his terrorist voters in Michiganistan heard all about it.

He's trying to sell his readers on the line that Biden is really, really still in Israel's corner, he just had a "speak-o" on CNN, and all of this talk of cutting aid during a war with terrorists is perfectly normal and routine, he just wants to make sure Israel has a really good plan for avoiding civilian casualties.

It's not exactly what I predicted, but it's close.

Bill Kristol, proud NeverTrumper and intellectual, who just wants to restore dignity and honesty to American public discourse.

Another fat fuck. Another Egg on Legs. He's got tits like double-stuffed hoagies.

Get another 12 covid boosters, Bill.

None of this is remotely surprising. Obama was notoriously anti-Israel and pro-Iran and pro-Arab. And the Obamabots control this ancient withered husk.

The failed novelist who is said to share a brain with Obama -- let me think about Obama's IQ; okay, sharing a brain with another person checks out -- says Biden is pursuing the exact right policy that he told him to pursue.


Ben Rhodes
@brhodes

This is the right decision by Biden - to condition aid and do it publicly. There cannot be a blank check for the Israeli government to escalate a humanitarian catastrophe that is making no one safer. Backs up words with actions and aligns with US and intl law.

"Intl law." Fuck you.

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AARP Poll: Trump Is Thumping Biden in Pennsylvania By Five Points

Interesting.

He's winning the Boomers. He's winning Gen X, aka "The New Greatest Generation," by 16. (Even though I'm not yet 29, I identify as a Gen Xer.)

He's winning all other age groups, including the very young, by a point.

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House Republicans: It's Time to Send the Foreign Proto-Jihadists Illegally Squatting on American Universities To "Study Abroad" in Gaza

Before getting to that, via Twitch, noted warmongrel Liz Cheney has the sads that Biden is now supporting Hamas, and cries Tears of Crisco on Twitter about it:

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She's not the only Vulnerable Democrat now pretending to be surprised by Biden's Pivot to Hamas.

Politico:

"I've been clear that allowing anyone to enter the country without being properly vetted and going through a legal process undermines our national security," said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). "And that neighboring countries in the region including Egypt and Jordan should play a leading role in taking in refugees."


Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said the White House and Biden's administration should keep its focus on a bigger prize: "The administration should be focused on reaching an agreement that ends the fighting, frees the hostages and gets much-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza." ...

Here's a political stunt that I would like to be a real thing: Send the terrorists-in-training back to their terrorist shitoles.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles introduced legislation Wednesday to send Hamas-sympathizing student visa holders home and told Hamas-Sympathizing student visa holders to "go study abroad in Gaza."

The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the legislation, which is titled the Study Abroad Act. The bill would specifically "revoke the F, J, or M visa" of any alien who authorities have "arrested for rioting or unlawful protest," or who authorities have "arrested while establishing, participating in, or promoting an encampment" at an institute of higher education.

"The ability to receive higher education in the United States is truly a privilege. Previously known for their prestige and unparalleled academics, many elite American universities have damaged their hard-earned reputations by opening their doors to impressionable terrorist sympathizers. In the last several weeks, our nation has seen these institutions overrun and terrorized by young people calling for a third intifada," Ogles told the Caller before introducing the bill.

"These antisemitic, anti-America riots have wreaked havoc and chaos on campuses, leading to the cancellation of commencements and in-person classes. It is unacceptable that we would allow non-Americans to terrorize our institutions of higher learning. It's time to send a clear message to foreign, Hamas-sympathizing students rioting: if you bring chaos to our universities, you can study abroad somewhere else. Might I recommend Iran, Qatar, or Gaza? They seem more your speed," he added.

Ogles was joined by Texas Republican Rep. Randy Weber and South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan as cosponsors of the legislation.

"If you hate America so much, you should get the first ticket back to your country and attend college there. The unruly anti-Semites that are spewing hate and discontent on college campuses will not be tolerated in the United States," Weber told the Caller.

Protests continue to take place at college campuses across the U.S.

"If you come to America on a student visa and support a terrorist organization like Hamas, then you are in violation of your visa," Duncan told the Caller. "We do not need Hamas sympathizers on American soil breaking our laws and influencing our youth to hate America and freedom. You riot on behalf of a terrorist organization, then say goodbye to your visa."

If only.

I heard someone, Matt Walsh I think, calling for Republicans to pass something like this, to force Democrats to vote against it and proclaim themselves as pro-Intifada-Riot.

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We're In the Final Months of An Election So That Means It's Time for the Democrat Deep State to Star Censoring Political Discussions Again

One of the things that most displeases me about Trump is his championing the billion dollar FBI office and keeping it in the sewer of political corruption, Washington DC.

I'd like to think that if Trump is re-elected, the FBI will have reason to fear, but I don't think that.

I think Trump likes brand names.


On Monday, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that federal agencies such as the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) restarted discussions with Big Tech platforms. According to NextGov/FCW, this coordination will focus on "removing disinformation on their sites as the November presidential election nears." Warner claimed these talks resumed in March, around the same time oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri -- which centers on the feds' censorship efforts -- were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.

When pressed on the validity of Warner's remarks, an FBI representative confirmed to The Federalist that the agency has resumed communications with social media companies ahead of the 2024 election.

"The FBI remains committed to combatting foreign malign influence operations, including in connection with our elections. That effort includes sharing specific foreign threat information with state and local election officials and private sector companies when appropriate and rigorously consistent with the law," the representative claimed. "In coordination with the Department of Justice, the FBI recently implemented procedures to facilitate sharing information about foreign malign influence with social media companies in a way that reinforces that private companies are free to decide on their own whether and how to take action on that information."

CISA External Affairs Specialist Tess Hyre declined The Federalist's request for comment on whether the agency has resumed discussions with social media companies to combat what it claims to be "disinformation," but she said that CISA Director Jen Easterly will be participating in an "Election Security" hearing in "the coming weeks."

Neither the FBI nor CISA responded when pressed on when they restarted communications with social media companies on efforts to remove posts containing so-called "disinformation" from their platforms. The FBI and CISA did not identify the specific companies they're working with on such efforts. Neither agency provided an answer when questioned on how they determine what constitutes "disinformation" or what other federal agencies they are collaborating with in these efforts to have "disinformation" removed from social media platforms.

Biden is the most grotesque censor since at least Woodrow Wilson, and probably in all of American history.


Rep. Jim Jordan's (R-Ohio) Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an 800-page report that reads like Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."

Take a look:

In March 2021, an Amazon employee emailed others within the company about the reason for the Amazon bookstore's new content moderation policy change: "[T]he impetus for this request is criticism from the Biden Administration about sensitive books we're giving prominent placement to."

In March 2021, just one day prior to a scheduled call with the White House, an Amazon employee explained how changes to Amazon's bookstore policies were being applied "due to criticism from the Biden people."

In July 2021, when Facebook executive Nick Clegg asked a Facebook employee why the company censored the man-made theory of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the employee responded: "Because we were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more. . . . We shouldn't have done it."

YouTube "shared with the Biden White House a new 'policy proposal' to censor more content criticizing the safety and efficacy of vaccines, asking for 'any feedback' the White House could provide before the policy had been finalized." Someone at the Biden White House got back to YouTube with, "at first blush, seems like a great step."
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One Facebook executive's email revealed that the company was brainstorming "additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration."

Facebook's internal communications also revealed that "The Surgeon General wants us to remove true information about [COVID vaccine] side effects," and, of course, Facebook eventually complied. Mark Zuckerberg tried to resist at least at one point, emailing that "when we compromise our standards due to an administration in either direction, we'll often regret it."

But the White House applied more pressure, and Zuckerberg caved.

There's a word for using government power to silence debate: censorship. And it's as American as serfdom, haggis, seppuku.

Speaking of us losing our right to free speech before an election, Google censored that Trump ad targeting black voters, claiming the ad was a "policy violation."

Then they reversed this decision.

They claim it was all a perfectly innocent mistake and totes not politically motivated.

An advertisement for the Donald Trump reelection campaign that was aimed at Black voters in Middle Georgia was removed by Google last week and then reinstated, the company confirmed to The Telegraph.


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The Middle Georgia ad created a firestorm of comments on social media, even drawing a communication from the former president's son, Donald Trump Jr., who claimed "Google is censoring this pro-Trump ad to protect (President Joe) Biden." Trump Jr. even asked his followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, to help him make the ad go viral.

Google is censoring this pro-Trump ad to protect Biden. Let's make it go viral. pic.twitter.com/1qDH5QzkbJ
-- Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)
May 4, 2024


Google says it made a mistake. "This enforcement decision was made in error," a Google spokesman told The Telegraph, and "it was appealed by the advertiser and quickly overturned upon further review. This ad is currently running."

Here's that ad:

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Chris Cuomo: I'm Taking a Regular Dose of Ivermectin But Am Not a Horse; "Joe Rogan Was Right"

Everything they told us was a propagandistic lie. Everything.


Chris Cuomo's stance on Ivermectin as a theraputic drug for COVID-19 has done a complete 180, as the news anchor who once said on CNN that anyone promoting it should be "shamed" now says he's "taking a regular dose" to deal with his own struggles with long-term effects of an infection.

Cuomo shared in January that he's suffering from "long COVID," or the long-term lingering effects of a previous infection. This week on the PBD Podcast, a current-events show hosted by Patrick Bet-David, the NewsNation personality said he's using the antiviral to help with an ongoing inflammatory response and "brain fog."

"I'll tell you something else that's gonna get you a lot of hits," Cuomo said. "I am taking ... a regular dose of Ivermectin. Ivermectin was a boogeyman during COVID. That was wrong. We were given bad information about Ivermectin. The real question is, why?"

When COVID-19 was peaking in 2020 and 2021, Ivermectin emerged as a fringe remedy, and was instantly denounced as a "horse dewormer" -- including a segment that mocked podcaster Joe Rogan for announcing that he had success taking the antiviral drug. Though it was first used in the 1970s as an antiparasitic primarily for animals, Ivermectin's use in humans had become widespread in later decades, as a malaria prophylaxis and treatment in particular, and is considered very safe.

"Everyone's going to say 'Joe Rogan was right,'" Cuomo continued. "No, Joe Rogan was saying -- yeah, he was right -- that's not what matters. What matters is, the entire medical community knew that Ivermectin couldn't hurt you. They knew it ... I know they knew it. How do I know? Because now I'm doing nothing but talking to these clinicians, who at the time were overwhelmed by COVID, and they weren't saying anything!"

When Cuomo was still a CNN anchor, he and colleague Don Lemon ridiculed its use after Rogan's disclosure:

"People who are getting, injecting, drugs for animals," Lemon said at the time, "and horse -- ."

"And people telling them to!" Cuomo interjected at the time. "What person -- you know you talk about cancel culture and who to shame -- Ivermectin? A de-wormer? Really? ... they need to be shamed. They need to be called out and shamed, brother."

On the PBD podcast, Cuomo walked that back -- way back -- suggesting that part of the reason Ivermectin was so vehemently rejected was that there was no profit in a drug that was already inexpensive and widely distributed.

"Journalists" claim that only "experts" should offer advice about technical subjects, bu then they -- non-experts in everything except propaganda -- routinely tell people what The Science (TM) is.

Further, Joe Rogan was not prescribed ivermectin by a hobo off the street. A medical doctor, an expert in health and disease, prescribed it.

Did CNN ever say "Well, an expert prescribed this, so we should defer to his expertise"?

They would parry this by saying "he's not an expert in covid," to which I reply: He's certainly more of an expert in covid than a fucking J-school graduate and nepo baby gay fuckboy, Anderson Cooper.

These Experts In Nothing Except Being Unwarrantly Arrogant Liberals all called a drug made for humans, whose creation was awarded a Nobel Prize in (human) medicine in 2015, "horse dewormer" and "horse paste."

I guess the Nobel Prize committee in medicine aren't relevant enough experts in discerning between People Medicine and Horse Medicine, too.

The "Don't Speak on a Subject Unless You're an Expert" rule is not a rule, it's a con. You can tell it's a con because the people pushing it the most aggressively violate it themselves.

And, by the way, I've never seen a liberal "journalist" who did not believe he is actually an "expert" on everything he talks about. They're all stupid, ignorant blowhards with an agenda but they all think they're polymath Renaissance Men.

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We're Six Months Ahead of an Election So That Must Mean It's Time for Biden to Tap the Political, I Mean Strategic Petroleum Reserve Again

This demented pant-shitting rapist has brought trust and dignity back to the White House.

Biden promised to refill it. He cancelled that promise. Now he wants to deplete it further to give him an election boost.

President Biden will use crude oil from the strategic petroleum reserve should the need arise, energy adviser Amos Hochstein has said, noting there was enough oil in the reserve.

"We have been replenishing into the SPR for the last several months. I think we have sufficient supply in the SPR to address any kind of concern in the economy if we need it," Hochstein said, speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference, as quoted by Reuters.

The U.S. saw the stockpiles of crude oil in the SPR fall from 638 million barrels at President Joe Biden's inauguration to just 347 million barrels by the summer of 2023 as the administration tried to bring down gasoline prices for consumers by releasing over 180 million barrels from the SPR.


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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

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The vastly entitled "students" currently shutting down some of our elite universities have exposed the generation-long shift from a society that allows youth to suffer the consequences of their actions, to a society that allows children (and these people are absolutely just spoiled little kids) to skate through their first 20 or 25 years without any sense that being jerks might earn them a punch in the nose.

When a group of lawbreaking students takes over a building on campus, then hilariously demands that the university feed them, the time is long overdue for a national discussion about how we have raised a generation of spoiled brats who think that they are not only entitled to all of the benefits of adulthood, they are also entitled to the accommodation that culture makes for children.

The First Amendment of the Constitution is clear. Speech, however vile...however stupid...however ignorant of reality...is legal. Trespassing and destruction of property and kidnapping and assault are not speech, and these effete elitists must learn the difference.

Sadly, the lesson that these "protesters" are learning is that they can break the law with impunity, and their punishment will be: nothing. That teaches them that the hecklers' veto is alive and well and living on campus and, more destructively, on airport off-ramps and city intersections and lecture halls.

And when these children march off into the real world after graduation (and they will be allowed to graduate!), what will they bring to the work force? Imagine the job interview!

Of course many will do no such demeaning thing like actual work. They will remain at the universities, then slide effortlessly into government or NGOs that are currently being showered with government money. They will be a new generation of parasites in the bureaucratic state and its supporters in the quasi-government organizations that do the government's bidding when it is inconvenient to act directly. And even worse...in 10 years many of these children will be the vanguard of a new generation of activist professors...molding the mush-brains of a new crop of undergraduates!

I can hardly wait!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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Valencian fisherman

Joaquín Sorolla

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The Morning Report — 5/9/24

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Good morning, kids. Very early appointment this morning so I'll keep it short. The first of the two big stories is Speaker Mike Johnson, who is turning into the Paul Ryan of Kevin McCarthys, gets to keep his speakership mostly because the Democrats have turned him into the Joe Biden of Nancy Pelosis.

Eleven Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against the motion to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) motion to vacate, ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from his position.

Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Eric Burlison (R-MO), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Warren Davidson (R-OH), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Alex Mooney (R-WV), Barry Moore (R-AL), Chip Roy (R-TX), Victoria Spartz (R-IN), along with Greene, were the Republicans who voted against tabling the motion to vacate.

Greene’s motion to vacate came after she filed a motion to vacate Johnson from his position as speaker of the House in March. Conservatives in the House have argued that Johnson has capitulated to the Democrats and [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden.

In April, Johnson proposed a $95 billion foreign aid package. The package sent roughly $26 billion to Israel, $61 billion to Ukraine, and $8 billion to supporting allies in the Indo-Pacific.

On Monday, Greene and Massie met with Johnson for roughly three hours in an attempt to propose accountability measures to ensure Johnson would not advance an agenda that Republican members of the House opposed.

After the meeting, Greene said that she and Massie had engaged in a “very long discussion with Speaker Johnson” and would be meeting with him again the next day. Greene added that she had been “patient” and “diligent” and that nothing “has changed.”

There are those who will place the blame on this at MTG but considering the actions of Johnson, as well as the sudden resignation of several GOP congress-critters right during an election year that all but evaporated our majority in the House, is she really where the blame lies? And lest we forget Kevin McLuntz who was replaced for basically doing what Johnson is still doing. The rot is indeed ugly, dark and deep. MTG's only fault, if you could call it that, was being openly as angry about it as we all are.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his handlers have now all but declared war on the State of Israel:

Yes, we’re on Hamas’s side now. It’s as official as it can get without Old Joe Biden asking Congress for a declaration of war against Israel: the Biden regime has thrown the weight of the United States government behind the effort to save Hamas. As Israel begins its action in Rafah against Hamas’s last significant forces, Biden apparatchiks have come out strongly in support of the jihadis, attempting to kneecap Israel’s efforts by withholding crucial and previously agreed-upon arms shipments. . .

. . . The Biden gang pressures Israel and not Iran or Hamas because this is all about securing the Arab Muslim vote in Michigan and elsewhere. The pressure on Old Joe has been high for months. Back in November, Nihad Awad, executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis, declared at a pro-Hamas rally: “No cease-fire, no votes. No votes in Michigan, no votes in Arizona, no votes in Georgia, no votes in Nevada, no votes in Wisconsin, no votes in Pennsylvania. No votes for you anywhere if you don’t call for a ceasefire now.” A ceasefire, like cutting off Israel’s arms shipment, would allow Hamas to survive. That’s why Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) agreed, adding: “The American people won’t forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now. Or don’t count on us in 2024.”

. . . The U.S. government has gone all-in on saving Hamas, just as Israel has a chance to realize its stated goal of destroying the organization forever.

Why is the Biden regime betraying an ally, a course of action that could have repercussions with other allies and potential allies for generations to come? Why has the regime essentially switched sides in Israel’s conflict with the same jihadis who scream “Death to America” as well as “Death to Israel”? It’s all about getting that vote in Michigan, as well as expressing the left’s hatred for particularity and for groups that refuse to efface all their individuality and join the collective. But the longer this keeps up, the Biden regime will not just imperil Israel, but the nation that had been the Jewish state’s great defender. Not that any of its apparatchiks will care about that.

Hopefully, Israel still has enough munitions stockpiled to finish off the cockroaches in Rafah or at least get them on he sly from the Saudis or Emiratis, perhaps even Egypt, none of whom have any love for the mythical "Palestinians" and their backers in Tehran.

And yet the chants of "Genocide Joe" don't seem to be dying down regardless of what Joe's fellow incest aficionado Bro-Fo Omar claims.

That's it for today. Talk amongst yourselves. As Stormy Daniels would say, "No holes barred!" Except Paul/Kurt, et al. Hasta mañana.

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Daily Tech News 9 May 2024

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  • Underpants gnomes, eat your heart out.

    Stack Overflow signed a deal with OpenAI - creators of ChatGPT - to sell off user data at a presumably enormous profit. (Tom's Hardware)

    The users of course don't see a penny of this.

    Understandably annoyed, those users started editing their content. They can't delete answers that have been accepted due to the way Stack Overflow works, but they can update them and render the data worthless.

    So Stack Overflow started banning its own best users.

    To rub salt into the wound, Stack Overflow has long banned its users from using generative AI to help write those answers, but has no qualms whatsoever about selling your work.

    This likely violates the terms of Europe's GDPR, so let's see what the lawsuit fairy brings.


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May 08, 2024

(5/8/24) Wednesday Overnight Open Thread

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

Quote II

“I want to say, shame on this committee for doing this. Apparently … the majority members keep attacking the NPR CEO Katherine Maher because she’s not here. They gave her one-week notice, she’s a brand new CEO and today is her board meeting, her first board meeting as CEO, and you want to haul her in here so that you can rake her over the coals for your partisan issues. Shame on this committee! I’m beside myself. I think it’s outrageous.” Democratic Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette

She enjoys projecting partisanship, Representative DeGette is one of nine impeachment managers arguing for Donald Trump's conviction.


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