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223 responses to “Sandbox – 6apr18”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “So George then for now I assume it’s ok for the NRA to preach random shooting of those who oppose them. that concept has no opposition from RR hardcores”
    That’s pure BS, Paul. No one, not even Nugent, is calling for random shooting of anyone.
    Metaphor… like
    All the world’s a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances …
    The guy whose hit was Cat Scratch Fever 40 years ago isn’t as good at metaphors as little Billy Shakespeare was, but it was still a metaphor, not a call for real shootings of people.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Still waiting on my answer Paul,, YOU made the accusations.
    Now what were you saying about my hate? Care to elaborate?
    Where is that charge about Hillary?
    Going to prove to us again that I was right the first time?
    Never met a Greek that told the truth…. You can start any time.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    I can hear that poor dog yelping from NC.

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gregory
    Can you explain exactly what Nugent was referring to in my post? I’m open to suggestions.

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I don’t think Nugent was referring to your post, Paul.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Man, what a attention whore Punchy is. Gregory has the patience of Job. Remember that time our newsman went 6 straight hours on Melania’s shoes and Donald not wearing gloves. This will go on for hours, lol. Fact is indeed stranger than fiction.
    Personally, I think it is more merciful to shoot rabid dogs than coyotes. BTW, think we just launched some missles on Syria….

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  7. Walt Avatar

    The official word at the moment is “wasn’ us!”
    They say 8 got shot down. Since when did they get that good at shooting them down? Israel?, Alla forbid, the Saudis?
    Of false flag?? OH the possibilities.
    Trump would take credit before the first one hit the ground.
    And if the chem attack is what’s being said,, attack well deserved.
    Trump has something that “O” never possessed. Balls, and a spine.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    toes 900pm
    Paul was just playing with his dead puppies a’gin.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gregory
    What in your view did Nugent mean when he said:
    “Don’t ask why. Just know that evil, dishonesty, and scam artists have always been around and that right now they’re liberal, they’re Democrat, they’re RINOs, they’re Hollywood, they’re fake news, they’re media, they’re academia, and they’re half of our government, at least,” Nugent said according to conservative media watchdog Media Matters.
    Nugent continued: “So come to that realization. There are rabid coyotes running around. You don’t wait till you see one to go get your gun. Keep your gun handy, and every time you see one, you shoot one.”

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, do you understand what a metaphor is and how metaphors are used?

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    toes 1022pm
    try this one…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak0_fa1DDpc

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    oooooh, here’s a classic that fits the narrative even better!
    “Everybody run! The homecoming queen’s got a gun!”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG3yGdQYwqg

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  13. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    BUT GREGORY, WHAT ABOUT TED NUGENT??!!!
    lol. You know when that kind of shit shows up you’ve hit Peak Sandbox.
    in other news.
    https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-to-replace-liberal-9th-circuit-judge/

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Breaking news for Paul!!! A Stormy update!!
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/stormy-daniels-sketch-trump-threat/
    Get the wood wax Paul!

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes 714am
    Regarding Ted Nugent
    I have no regards for Ted Nugent, preferring other lyricists and other bands, but I suppose “Cat Scratch Fever” had a beat and you could dance to it if you were the sort who wanted to dance to that sort of thing.
    However, I bear him and his music no ill will and anyone who has kept that sort of gig going over that many decades is obviously connecting to people.
    That said, Paul’s choice to treat Nugent’s politically incorrect metaphoric speech literally, and misquoting him to boot, is Paul’s way to punch his rhetorical opponents. The only way to win that game is to not play the game.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar

    California is a Shithole; Makes Calcutta look good.
    Infectious disease expert and UC Berkeley professor Dr. Lee Riley told NBC journalists the streets of San Francisco are worse than any of the world’s most notorious slums. “The contamination…is much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India.”
    I guess diversity isn’t always so grand. I guess illegal immigration isn’t always the strength of America. Clearly, immigration- in the wrong form- does not lead to prosperity. California has become unlivable. The middle class are fleeing in record numbers- many of them to Las Vegas.
    44% of Californians don’t speak English at home. It is a foreign state inside America. Soon expect to see employment ads that say, “Americans not wanted.”
    California is following “the Mexican model” – ie a population with a tiny sliver of super rich elites at the top…and everyone else is dirt poor. Just like Mexico, the middle class is becoming extinct in California. This is the express train to hell.
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/wayne-allyn-root-california-shthole/

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar

    Pubsters jumping ship at record numbers-most since 1952
    Republicans Giving Up House Seats At A Rate Not Seen In Decades
    More Republicans are departing “than any year since at least 1952,” according to an elections observer.
    So far, 37 House Republicans have announced they are retiring, running for another office or resigning outright. Such an exodus usually precedes the beginning of every primary season, but this year is shaping up to break records.
    “This is more Republican retirements than any year since at least 1952 (and possibly much earlier than that),” Daily Kos Elections editor Daniel Donner tweeted last week.
    By contrast, the comparable number for House Democrats totals
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-retirements-record_us_5acb8fc6e4b0337ad1ea639e

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BUT BILL, WHAT DOES TED NUGENT THINK ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO POOP?! DOES HE WANT TO SHOOT IT?! DOES STORMY HATE TED NUGENT?! WHAT DO THE POLLS SAY???!!!
    I’ve always liked this map.
    http://mochimachine.org/wasteland/
    …although now the owner of it has a bit of a lecture marquis.

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Green Libertarianland.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5413551/Drug-needles-feces-line-streets-San-Francisco.html
    I wonder what kind of visuals you get with an E ticket?
    But wait, there’s more.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/26/los-angeles-burbs-crack-down-on-huge-homeless-camp-near-disneyland-fearing-new-skid-row.html
    Gotta love Progressive utopia. A petri dish of the results of a Leftist single-party state. In the long run you end up with a few rich with helicopters, a middle class made up purely of government employees plus a few ‘knowledge workers’, and the majority living in favelas.
    I’m looking elsewhere for concepts for a new California state flag.
    http://media.culturemap.com/crop/72/15/633×475/Austin-City-Limits-Festival-ACL-2015-Weekend-One-Best-Signs-Best-Flags-Poop-Emoji_114524.jpg

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  20. George Rebane Avatar

    Has anyone else noticed, or is it only me who has not seen any leftwing commenter here singing the praises of California? Look back in these comment streams during the reign of Obama. The Left took every opportunity to promote and be the apologist for all those programs that were supposed restore CA to its former days of glory. Now none of them want to talk about it – better to look at national polls and count retiring Repub congress critters. Can you imagine what America would be like if the progressives get their wish to make the country into a one-party state? It would give new meaning to shithole.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Scenes, re; California is a Shithole.
    1) What grabbed my paulssy about the article was it is not immigration that is the problem, it is the wrong kind of immigration. Immigration in CA is a negative sum game. It is not diversity that is a problem,, but the skewed quantity and quality of diversity that makes CA (and CA public education) a shithole.
    What Wayne Allen Root omitted in his article is the new Quality of Life Survey just came out. We rank dead last in the 50 State QofL survey. Bottom of the barrel for quality of life. Hard to argue against not only is CA a Shithole, it’s the biggest Shithole in the USA.
    2). The Wall. Bonnie posted this before, put it is so sobering I will post it again. Hard to argue that the Wall is a big ineffective waste of mula.
    https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/05/01/underreported-how-building-a-border-wall-changed-san-diego/

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar

    Yes, Trump is fulfilling his promise, they are Draining the Swamp for sure.
    F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen
    “The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So Paul, you’ve gotten past your Nugent hangup?

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    America’s Stasi is now in place.

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Here’s that US News and Whirled Report listing by quality of life
    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/quality-of-life
    Perhaps if the local hard left could finally push everyone resisting of town and state, they could finally have Nirvana right here!

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    If we could just borrow Nugent for a while, maybe the Green Libertarians would quit pooping in the street quite so much.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQhM7voma8A
    Crazy of the week club: HE’S JUST LIKE HITLER!!!
    http://www.newsweek.com/im-holocaust-survivor-trumps-america-feels-germany-nazis-took-over-876965
    San Francisco leads the way.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QATHFJApFo

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    “He’s just like Hitler!” – another sad survivor of the Holocaust.
    – Hitler enlarged government’s reach into private lives and made industry a de facto arm of government; Trump is reducing government’s overreach and encouraging private enterprise with lower taxes and regs.
    – Hitler murdered his political rivals; Trump is pilloried by his political rivals.
    – Hitler prevented people from leaving; Trump is preventing illegal aliens from entering.
    – Hitler established the secret police to spy on Germans; Trump’s opponents are developing a secret and independent FBI to spy on Americans.
    – Hitler started a war to expand Germany’s Lebensraum; Trump is ending war to bring Americans home.
    – Hitler sought to racially purify the German nation through gas chambers; Trump welcomes everyone as a legal immigrant who can contribute to America’s wealth, security, and quality of life, regardless of race, religion, or national origin (also throw in the alphabet soup of gender orientations and sexual preferences).
    – …

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    No Gregory
    Got some choice Nugent stuff about how he dodged the draft by pooping in his pants. The NRA have a real gem on their board that seems to be reflective of the consciousness of the organization. Here’s direct quotes from your guy Nugent, Board member and spokesperson for the NRA. For your reading pleasure.
    “I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.
    […]
    So I went in, and those guys in uniform couldn’t believe the smell. They were ridiculin’ me and pushin’ me around and I was cryin’, but all the time I was laughin’ to myself. When they stuck the needle in my arm for the blood test I passed out, and when I came to they were kicking me into the wall. Then they made everybody take off their pants, and I did, and this sergeant says, “Oh my God, put those back on! You fucking swine you!” Then they had a urine test and I couldn’t piss, But my poop was just like ooze, man, so I poop in the cup and put it on the counter. I had poop on my hand and my arm. The guy almost puked. I was so proud. I knew I had these chumps beat. ”
    http://gawker.com/5983634/patriotic-american-ted-nugent-shit-his-pants-to-avoid-the-draft

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    George R 323
    Don’t forget the Nazi disarming of the civilian population (especially the you-know-who) but the Nazis didn’t have to do any real heavy lifting as the Weimar Republic put into place a stringent registration and permit system in the 1920’s… the Nazis just made it harder for some folks to get. Germans had gotten used to not needing or wanting guns by the time of Brownshirts.
    Paul 344pm
    Nugent isn’t “my guy” Paul, I’m not the NRA and I’ve never been impressed with his music or his opinions on polisci… musicians are rarely good at that sort of thing…
    But that doesn’t mean I’d dance to the tune you were calling, either. It was obvious you were trolling, and Nugent wasn’t saying what you claimed in your characterizations.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Love it. All Stormy All The Time is being replaced with All Nugent All The Time. This made my day. Thank you ‘newsman’, thank you. Much obliged.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    From what I have heard, Ted’s tunes are far better than Paul’s.
    No wonder the Queen really wasn’t all that impressed, despite her being known to have an ear for crappy music. Ted’s made millions. has many a ranch with exotic game. And a hot woman ta’boot.
    Funny thing about that war of the 60’s and 70’s. Libs piss and moan about it, an now look for ways to trash those who didn’t for one reason or another. Wish you thought of that way out Paul?
    Trash war.. Check
    Trash and spit on those who were there, as they come home. Check.
    Trash the ones who didn’t go for political expediency. Check.
    Care to get Jane Fonda in on the game? Nice pic of the traitor sitting on antiaircraft guns, wearing an enemy helmet.. Leftist hero.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Middle East
    Is it just me, or has anyone else’s eyebrows raise when each and every time we mention pulling back in Syria, a sudden chemical attack happens and we are pulled right back in. Chemical weapon attacks to jump in with both feet, or chemical weapon attacks to keep us there. This last one happened as soon as Trump announced he would like to get out of that Shithole.
    No way for me to ever know for sure, but I have seen conflicting reports that make me wonder if the some of these reports and usage of chemical weapons on civilians are not in reality being used by those fighting against the regime. Not talking about the latest chemical weapon attack in the Damascus suburbs (were ISIS has a pocket stronghold), but the previous cases.
    Whatever is truth or fiction, there is no doubt there are some neo-cons, Democrats, and Deep State operatives that are hell bent on staying in Syria no matter what. Complex geo-political issue, but the timing of always of gas attacks appears to be the same, aka, a reason to stay, a reason to get involved. It’s like the ace up one’s sleeve dropped on the table right before the other players are ready to cash in the chips.
    In related news, London may be banning home deliveries of corrosive liquids like bleach to counter this year already.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You are talking trash to a fellow veteran Walt. I did my time which is a lot more than Trump did.

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  34. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    News o’ the day.
    TRUMP HATES PUPPIES!
    https://twitter.com/OGCherLovely/status/979901966758305792

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Trash? I don’t think so. That’s pretty much accurate.
    HELL! Your one of those “illegal war” clowns,, So your the one doing the trashing talking about someone who didn’t go.
    I was in one of the few combat trained units in the AF. (nope, not a pilot,, not a security cop) there,, narrowed it down for ya’. Figure it out from there.
    I don’t give anyone crap for not doing their civic duty, unless they themselves bitch about those who did. Like your peacenik gang.
    I did serve, so that gives me licence to bitch at those who didn’t.

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Now there was something you just don’t wee every day.
    A fully restored B25 Mitch. with Brit markings. OD green with the classic yellow bands. Had to give it a true salute as if flew overhead.
    Flightradar24 has it coming out of riverside. Someone is seeing the state in a grand manner.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar

    I served to Walt. Six years in the AF Reserves. Six months active duty, one weekend a month, two weeks every summer, honorably discharged. Didn’t shit in my pants like your guy Nugent who you admire so much

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  38. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Trump is punching at the clouds with tiny fists. How dare the FBI investigate illegal activities of Trumps lawyer? How dare they?
    “But what about Hillary??” Squeak up now.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Squeak, squeak.
    I propose that Meuller or the FBI give Trump the same treatment they gave Hillary Clinton. No recorders, no putting her under oath, granting impunity to her witnesses….er…lawyers involved and having them present, no placing her under oath and be allowed to say “I cannot recall” 40 times. Also, have her exoneration written a couple months in advance of the casual off the record interview. That would be fair, right?

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Weekend warrior. That’s what us full timers called ya’. I’m supposed to be impressed?
    Yaa yaa.. That and 5 bucks might get you a soy latte’.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar

    It was more than your hero Nugent served Walt. Also Trump got off because he had pimples or something like that. You have no complaints about the time they served. Can you explain that?

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Boy jon, you got the same frustration as Bobbie. “Don’t talk about Hillary! We are not talking about Obama, we are talking about the here and now! You are forbidden to discuss anything but what I say you can!” Friggin control freaks
    Sorry, little jon, but after eight straight years (maybe ten) of Punchy talking only about Bush whenever we were discussing the current events during the Obama Administration, well, maybe we will discuss only what you tell us to in another 2-3 years. We won’t stay on the popinjay’s level forever. It’s not who we are, albeit it’s great fun to see your frustration grow and grow. We need more time to get in line. Thank you for sharing
    1) The same bedwetters who want to take our “high powered rifles are the exact same folks who did not care when Obama gave the same high powered rifles to Mexican drug cartels. Squeak, squeak.
    2) Bad NRA, bad: Facebook Gave Money To 85% Of House Committee “Questioning” Zuckerberg Next Week.
    3) In less than 50 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek to teaching redemial English. Squeak, squeak.
    4a) You know, of all the Founding Fathers, the Left likes only one. The only one who sided with having a bigger more intrusive Big Bro. That be Hamilton, their hero.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1030846993732189/?type=3&theater
    4b) Yeah, I should have posted that last blurb on the Townhall thread, but I choose not to because of convience. Like destroying 30,000 e-mails under supeona and smashing 13 phones….it was for convience. Squeak, squeak.

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar

    So Walt, can I assume that you agree with Punchy that Trump once had pimples? Good, glad you agree with him.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar

    So Walt, can I assume that you agree with Punchy that Trump once had pimples? Good, glad you agree with him. Common ground.

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  45. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    The UK steps up to the plate on solving society’s problems.
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/840634/Ban-kitchen-knives-pointed-doctor-deadly-knife-crime

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  46. Walt Avatar

    OH.. Ted has his own TV show… Paul doesn’t. Another reason to be cranky Paul?
    Now it’s pimples? DAMN Paul,, can’t keep the accusations straight?
    Thanks for the second episode of “Paul screws the pooch”.
    What next? Claiming Ted has numerous illegal boarder crosser’s heads stuffed and mounted on his South Tex. wall?
    So.. What was your excuse not to be full time AF.? Music deferment?

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Ok, the dumbeth down of America is complete. And the emotionally unhinged one’s us we should honor, listen, and follow their dictates. Fellas, we are screwed.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpsPtz2a-o

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  48. Walt Avatar

    Good find Bill.. Yet the Pauls and “jons” of the nation want them to be able to vote at a younger age.

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