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[So much going on – today's solar eclipse (protect them peepers), growing echoes of Charlottesville, President Trump reveals what next in Afghanistan, and Islamic terror now regularly arising out of indigenous populations, and more …  gjr]

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272 responses to “Sandbox – 21aug17”

  1. Ben Emery Avatar
    Ben Emery

    When are you guys going to own Trumps disaster? There was only one person Trump would have had a chance a beating and the Democratic Party did everything they could internally to make sure that she was their nominee. It started the day after she lost the nomination in 2008.
    This embarrassment of a predator misogynistic bigot President has proved the US electoral system is completely broken. Two political parties that have ensured no outside competition while becoming so corrupt they can no longer hide their complete loyalties are to industry.

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  2. Ben Emery Avatar
    Ben Emery

    These companies should be given the corporate death penalty for Crimes Against Humanity.
    Report: 100 Companies Responsible for 70% of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/11/headlines/report_100_companies_responsible_for_70_of_global_greenhouse_gas_emissions
    Excerpt from the Climate Deception Dossier
    http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/fight-misinformation/climate-deception-dossiers-fossil-fuel-industry-memos#.WZr18YUob88
    The documents clearly show that:
    Fossil fuel companies have intentionally spread climate disinformation for decades.
    Fossil fuel company leaders knew that their products were harmful to people and the planet but still chose to actively deceive the public and deny this harm.
    The campaign of deception continues today.

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  3. George Rebane Avatar

    BenE 822am – Nor sure what you mean by “own Trump disaster”. What more would owning it look like in these pages?

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  4. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    “When are you guys going to own Trumps disaster?”
    What disaster? I’m mostly just seeing an increase in border enforcement, a few less regulations, a few million crazy people with a shared delusion about ‘Nazis’. You probably should step back from your computer.
    Personally, I don’t blame either the high stock market or the healthcare debacle on a 6 month old administration. Both of those matter, unlike ‘Nazis’, and both have a life and logic of their own.
    Currently, I’d say that the two political parties are Trump and his adherents vs. Republicans/Democrats/Some Large Businesses/A swathe of the 17 intelligence agencies. You wanted an independent candidate and you got one, I can’t help it if half the country doesn’t share your prejudices.
    In terms of climate change, become expert enough in it as a science to make a good case of something. I’m happy to listen to political cranks all day, but fourth-hand science from non-experts is just flat tiring.
    In any case, oil will deal with itself. There’s always less of it over time and economic (‘economic’ mind you, not ‘subsidized’) solutions slot in all the time. The problem in human-caused environment degradation is from overpopulation and immigration to the first world (which increases the population of the first world, it would be ZPG or decreasing otherwise). Fix those and you’ll fix your problems.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ben Emery | 21 August 2017 at 08:22 AM
    When are you guys going to own Trumps disaster? There was only one person Trump would have had a chance a beating and the Democratic Party did everything they could internally to make sure that she was their nominee. It started the day after she lost the nomination in 2008.

    What disaster? Every day I get to say “…….still president Punchy” is just another day that more and more retread hippies and intellectual poseurs on the left shuck this mortal coil!
    To quote the “Green Libertarian”….”it’s all good”!
    And Ben…….this is an issue more appropriately addressed over at jeffys……they’re democrats…….. and the democrats were the ones who shivved poor old Bernie!
    Take your internecine struggles over there.

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Oh my. Trump seems to have given little Ben Emery the runs! Hurry Ben head over to the FUE’s and poop your propaganda there, please. Trump is doing fine. The reason you hate him is you hate him. We want to see things improve in the country and they are. The only thing going retrograde is the communists are in charge of the media, Hollywood and the democrats.

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  7. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    USC’s mascot horse, a white one, named Traveler, is the current target of the PC racists. Seems Robert E. Lee’s horse was named Traveller. Next, Mt. Rushmore jackhammers.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 21 August 2017 at 09:37 AM
    If it wasn’t for the destructive stupidity of it all it would be fun to see just how far the vanguard is planning on taking this!

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    All the way. Then they will be knocking on our doors after reading these blogs. Get ready.

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 21 August 2017 at 09:44 AM
    Pretty sure that that will end….badly…for them.

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Uh oh, Frisch, hey bub, the driver in Barcelona is now room temperature. And he wasn’t a White Supremacist!

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  12. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Maybe?
    I have analyzed these left-wingers for a long time. When I studied them before I attended a free speech rally in Berkeley this year I came to a conclusion. The press thinks these “Antifa” thugs are some form of organic construction. I think not. I think they are being funded and sustained by the Russians. Why would any domestic Patriots fund them? They are being paid to undermine the country and its institutions. Our culture and history are under attack and it is fomented by the Russians. They are the only ones who truly hate us for wiping them out during the Cold War and this is their revenge. Spread this all over th internet. I am convinced this is the case.

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  13. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Oh dear – poor Ben got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.
    Love all the cute attributes you hang on The Donald. They’re true because everyone Ben knows keeps repeating them. If you say something often enough, it becomes true! So magical.
    All these terrible things going on in the world. Bad, bad statues that suddenly appeared after Trump took the oath of office, for example. We all know that Obama would have certainly gotten rid of them if they had existed when he was in office.
    And a white horse that has almost the same exact name as a dead horse that once carried a bad man. I can see how that would trigger some people. Wasn’t there a horse called Trigger? Oh dear. It just gets worse.
    And those bad bad oil companies. We should just stop using petroleum. Right? Of course there would ensue mass starvation, but hey – you gotta break some eggs to have an omelet.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The reason the Lefties will never ever forgive Russia is that they dumped communism and now even tolerate Christianity. Bring back the USSR, Bernie’s choice to spend his honeymoon in paradise.
    Darn them Soviets. Why did they have to break up a perfectly good thing. They should have stopped it. Why did they allow it to happen? Now we are stuck with those gawd awful Russians.

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Uncle Keach is at work in the sock puppet factory a’gin
    Young Master Ben is as innumerate and illiterate as always. I’m guessing that straight A nursing school student (as claimed by his campaign bio) never did start that AA in Nursing program he was boasting about… but it is intent that counts among the Left. He wants to fix climate change, just like he’s against poverty, war and destruction, unlike the rest of us squares (thanx and a hat tip to Tom Lehrer for his “Folk Song Army” song). In fact here it is
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygMhtNQJ9M
    Ready… Aim…. Sing!
    Golly, Ben, did you forget that Podesta (as revealed by a wikileaked email) actually PUSHED his media allies in ’15 to present Trump as a “Pied Piper” candidate to lead the GOP astray. Blame Hillary first for thinking fiddling with the GOP primary elections was a good idea.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Todd @ 9:37 am.
    Aha! I told you they are going after the horses. And to think some thought I was joking. They really hate those horses more than they hate equestrians. Look how they trashed Mrs. Romney when she took up mounting horses as physical therapy for her debilitating ailments. Not to mention that Donald J Trump sponsored polo matches for his yearly charity fundraiser for the arts or something. Polo just reeks of White Privilege, drips huge balloons of Y-T Landlord Class Privilege. No wonder those Ivy Leaguersu and Colonialist British Oppressors like polo. They even walk around with a polo logo on their collared shirts. Makes me want to heave. They are standing on my neck, keeping this brother down. Hmm. Ok, the India Indians like polo and the NY limousine liberals do as well, but pay that no mind.
    It’s the horses that carried the racists to do their dastardly deeds. Ban guns, ban Dodge Challengers, and ban friggin horses! Without horses, none of those statutes would exist.
    Screw you and the horse you rode in on. Especially the horse you rode in on. Tommy Trojan can ride in an electric golf cart at the next USC game. Horses? No wonder USC stands for the University of Spoiled Children.
    How many young girls out there had their hopes dashed, hearts broken, and trust destroyed when Daddy did not buy his little girl a pony? No wonder our SJWs have men issues….and authority issues, and the “G word” issues. Saying God is like fingernails on the blackboard to them, so let’s just say “the G word” to be more understanding and avoid micro-aggressions. Hmmm. G word is kinda inflamitory. Hate speech I reckon, but I digress. Trace it all back to enivorment destroying farting horses.
    Wonder what my favorite….er….wonder what Mr. Ed has to say about this.
    https://youtu.be/LND1PypBnrU

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Todd @ 9:28 am
    “Oh my. Trump seems to have given little Ben Emery the runs! Hurry Ben head over to the FUE’s and poop your propaganda there, please. Trump is doing fine.”
    Hmmm. Did you hear about the elephant who had diarrhea? It’s all over town.
    Oh my Brother Ben is just like that nice guy who used to post over here after the election. Forget his name, married to the nice Native American artist. Judith something. Anyway, I recall one frantic morning he was pleading with us to do something about Trump. Like we had any say in the matter or any power. My vote don’t count living in CA, remember? Brad, his name was/is Brad, I believe. He was the second infrequent commentator here that morning to post begging us to do something about the new President. Figured after all the electoral college intimidation, Bro. Ben’s Jill Stein recounts, the burning cars and breaking glass at the Inauguration, and the hope of Golden Shower fizzled out, it was up to us David Dukers (rural flavored) old angry impontent limp dick white geezers to do something about the Donald problem. Must have been a new angle floating about the web that morning. Two out of two were telling us we were their last chance to Do Something about The Problem!
    I said something like this to Brad, a fine young hen pecked man: “Hang on, Brad, I will ask Trump.”
    “Mr Trump, can’t we let Brad & Co win something just once? It’s breaking my heart watching them assume the fetal position crying like babies. It’s seems so mean. Can’t we toss them a bone and let them win just one time?”
    Trump responded, “No! We are going to win and win until you get tired of winning and then you will ask me to stop winning and I will say No!, never get tired of winning.”
    “Sorry Brad. Mr Trump said no, never get tired of winning.”
    Sorry also to you, by sweet gentle Brother Ben. I just can’t get President Trump to up and quit. I tried, but he has cotton in his ears, I reckon. Nor can I bring myself to bend my knee to you or your millions of treacherous tyranny thugs. Sorry. It’s that old war injury flaring up again. My legs don’t run like they use to. Disavow Trump? Sumbit to censorship or have my tongue cut out for uttering his name? To be carried off in chains to your Shangri La? No thank you. You concerns are very important to me. Thank you for sharing.
    Long version:
    https://youtu.be/1NV9DSykTbo
    Short version:
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/906938266123063/?type=3&theater

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Yeah…….about that hacking scandal that Punch-E was going on and on about!

    A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack

    Only problem is that the analysis is from that notoriously right-wing source, The Nation!
    ………wait wut?!
    https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Curse those racist republican scallawags tear down their symbols!!!
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHpMvfFVoAEQG1B.jpg
    Democrats simply don’t do such things!

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  20. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    I’ve just spent an enjoyable half hour or so youtube browsing BLM/Antifa craziness.
    In the UK.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ZSAoevTn8
    It never really occurred to me to check them out. There’s a boatload.
    I just ran into the line..’take ya mask off, ya wanker!’. lol. Perfect.
    That darn Trump, he’s everywhere I tell ya.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Man… This guy looks like he came from Nevada City.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/20/police-man-arrested-defacing-confederate-monument-indianapolis-park/
    Hay Ben. Trump is doing fine, despite LIB news stacking the deck against him.
    So Tell me Emery,, just what has Trump done that’s SOOOOO damned bad?

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 21 August 2017 at 04:31 PM
    Nice! Looks like a real winner!

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  23. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    lol. Walt, that guy is absolutely sent from central casting.
    He’s the Year Zero poster boy, perfect for a meme generator.

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  24. Ben Emery Avatar
    Ben Emery

    Trump and Clinton were the only two candidates the other could possibly beat, that was the saddest part. Once again I suggest reading
    Grand Illusion
    The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
    by Theresa Amato
    http://thenewpress.com/books/grand-illusion

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Poor Ben… No,, NOT happy.
    Trump won. The people spoke. Tough titty that Ca. can’t stack the deck in LIBs favor.
    Do you forget that it’s the DEMS that have super delegates, and not the Repubs?
    How the hell do you think “O” beat Hillary the first time around?
    The people’s vote ain’t worth the ballot it’s printed on. YOUR choice is made in a dark, backroom.
    Still waiting to hear what Trump has done to warrant all the hate.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Bill… That stuff is Hillary tested, and Barry approved.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Here ya’ go Emery Bros.
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/08/21/ex-sf-mayor-willie-brown-ca-gov-jerry-brown-eyeing-2020-potus-run/#disqus_thread
    Ol’ Moonbat thinks he has a chance taking on Trump? And Nancy P. believes she and the goose stepping Left will gain 80 seats next year. She is now full blown nuts. She’s counting on the military vote for that.
    Our LIBS CO-OP unicorn ranch up on the Nevada City airport will make them millions before that happens.

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  28. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Ben at 5:56 – not a myth, Ben. I haven’t voted for the D or R candidate for pres for the last several elections. Just vote for one of the several others on the slate or write some one in that you prefer. But you have fun with your adult coloring book by T Amato.
    By the way, if you think Bernie could have beaten Trump, you really are out in La La Land.

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  29. Scenery Avatar
    Scenery

    Mitt Romney on Trump. How quickly will the Why Not Trump crowd throw one of their own under the bus to maintain their state of denial?
    I will dispense for now from discussion of the moral character of the president’s Charlottesville statements. Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn. His apologists strain to explain that he didn’t mean what we heard. But what we heard is now the reality, and unless it is addressed by the president as such, with unprecedented candor and strength, there may commence an unraveling of our national fabric.
    The leaders of our branches of military service have spoken immediately and forcefully, repudiating the implications of the president’s words. Why? In part because the morale and commitment of our forces–made up and sustained by men and women of all races–could be in the balance. Our allies around the world are stunned and our enemies celebrate; America’s ability to help secure a peaceful and prosperous world is diminished. And who would want to come to the aid of a country they perceive as racist if ever the need were to arise, as it did after 9/11?
    In homes across the nation, children are asking their parents what this means. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims are as much a part of America as whites and Protestants. But today they wonder. Where might this lead? To bitterness and tears, or perhaps to anger and violence?
    The potential consequences are severe in the extreme. Accordingly, the president must take remedial action in the extreme. He should address the American people, acknowledge that he was wrong, apologize. State forcefully and unequivocally that racists are 100% to blame for the murder and violence in Charlottesville. Testify that there is no conceivable comparison or moral equivalency between the Nazis–who brutally murdered millions of Jews and who hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to defeat–and the counter-protestors who were outraged to see fools parading the Nazi flag, Nazi armband and Nazi salute. And once and for all, he must definitively repudiate the support of David Duke and his ilk and call for every American to banish racists and haters from any and every association.
    This is a defining moment for President Trump. But much more than that, it is a moment that will define America in the hearts of our children. They are watching, our soldiers are watching, the world is watching. Mr. President, act now for the good of the country.

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Keachery | 21 August 2017 at 07:04 PM
    Look nitwit.…we have just this week wrested out the painful acknowledgment from no less a progressive luminary then Steve Frisch that we are not racists! It was indeed glorious!
    Go flog your idiocy over at jeffys!
    (George….you really need to work on cultivating a higher quality troll than KKKeachie the Retread!)

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Better check that colostomy bag “scenery”,, That gray matter is turning brown.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Well lookie here. Hay!! PAUL!!
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/21/give-up-the-home-you-own-black-lives-matter-activist-makes-list-of-requests-for-white-people/
    Something for nothing, the founding principle of the dead beat.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Christ… Even Crabb is seeing white hoods behind every live oak bush now.
    http://www.theunion.com/opinion/r-l-crabb-it-takes-a-village-idiot-202/

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Our Liar in Chief strikes again
    Trump Tweet:
    “Let’s get out of Afghanistan. Our troops are being killed by the Afghanis we train and we waste billions there. Nonsense! Rebuild the USA.”
    Today he states:
    ““My original instinct was to pull out and historically I like to follow my instincts,” Trump said in his first prime-time address, delivered from the Fort Myer military base in Arlington, Va. “I heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk of the Oval Office.”
    Liar in Chief

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 August 2017 at 08:02 PM
    Shouldn’t have let himself be talked into this!

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  36. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    He is evolving just as Obama did on so many issues.

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 21 August 2017 at 08:13 PM
    Shouldn’t have let himself be talked into this!

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  38. Walt Avatar

    When we are finally making progress the calls for “cut and run” pipe back up.
    HAY,, this is “O”‘s war. Don’t ever forget that. Trump cut the leash on the dogs of war.
    Trump doesn’t pretend to be a General like “O” did. Trump just said “sick’m! call me when your done” (if not,, he should have.)
    I’m kinda old school. FINISH THE DAMNED JOB. Cleaning up someone else’s mess is never fun, or easy. For the love of GOD,, give the poor bastard a chance. You think 8 years of Progressive sabotage can be fixed in six months?
    When “O” pulled out, ISIS was born.(insert joke here) Looking for the next radical group to spring up? Leaving is a great way to find them.
    staying keeps most of the fighting in their backyard, and not in ours.
    Really think attacks will stop if we get the hell out of Dodge? Care to bet the farm?

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Oh I think he was in a box about this. Not easy to make that decision.

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 21 August 2017 at 08:20 PM
    There’s no finishing this Walt. Plan on being there forever.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump dump in polls in swing states
    President Donald Trump’s support has dropped below 40% in several key states that helped him win the 2016 election.
    An NBC News/Marist poll released on Sunday showed that 36% of voters in Michigan approve of Trump’s job performance, while 55% disapprove.
    Trump’s support was even lower in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, at 35% and 34% support respectively. In Pennsylvania, 54% of voters disapproved of Trump’s job performance, and in Wisconsin, 56% said they disapproved.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-approval-rating-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin-2017-8

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt writes “HAY,, this is “O”‘s war.”
    HUH? Bush got us in there as he did in Iraq. How can you say it’s Obama’s war?

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 August 2017 at 08:37 PM
    ….still president Punch!

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