Big scared ... and others

 So the Republicans must be BIG SCARED of Kamala Harris... 

The have  already started that she is not Qualified to be President . Where  she was born.. and What was her experience . ?   And they are trying to limit or stop her from using the funds that were already collected for the BIDEN / HARRIS ticket, even though they know full damn well that won't work cause her name is on that ticket ! 

And can we just say that it is not only is it insulting - it is embarrassing  to them that after near 4 years as her as VP - they can't seem to pronounce her name correctly.  Clearly it is intentional  ....  Fucking get over it and say her name correctly.  Like y'all say ing China Virus for COVID - makes you sound dumb. 

SO - set your VCR for September 15th - that is the scheduled date of the 1st debate of  Kamala Harris and Trump = this is former prosecutor .vs a convicted Felon- oh boy - this ought to be good... HE better be ready to get his ass kicked. 

Glad to see that the Head of the Secret Service Resigned ,.... the System failure was one thing - but her appearance in Congress - where she would not answer even the simplest questions posed by Congressman - geez it was tough to watch - if she tough she could like - deflect  all that - she tough wrong.   I mean - DAMN  - your organization nearly got a candidate for POTUS killed and you are playing footsie with Congress - ,, ??  not a good look

And what the actual F ??  

What are these people made of that THIS even has to be a discussion item ???

From Politico : ( and many many others)

House Republican leaders told lawmakers to focus on criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ record without reference to her race and gender, following caustic remarks from some Republicans attacking her on the basis of identity.

During a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning, chair of the House GOP campaign arm Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) and others issued the warning after a series of comments by their members that focused on Harris’ race as well as claims she is a “DEI” pick, according to two people in the room.

is She qualified ??? Damn right she is !

 

and we are just getting started

So now that President Biden has exited the 2024 Race for POTUS .... Wadda I think ?  - not that you should care.  Way back , I wish he would have not sought  reelection...  BUT - once he did I think the Democrats owed it to him to stick by his side and support him..   If they wanted to discuss other behind closed doors thats up to them. But Publicly - they should have circled the wagons. Even after a bad Debate, even after a the interviews that followed..   and I really hope that it was his and his families decision  for him to drop out - even though the public pressure was mounting for the last 3 + weeks.  The Democrats should have supported him- hell look at who the other party has for it's nominee - a man libel for the Sexual assault of a women, and the defamation of that same women. 90 something felony arrests and to date - 34 Felony convictions.. the biggest narcissist , racist, Prolific Liar  and Grifter , a person that aligns himself with dictators - Putin,  Un,  - and recently rolled out the red carpet at Marologo - for Viktor Orban  the PM of Hungary - who rules exactly like  Fat Nixon wants to ...-  and that party is still backing him....  

other thoughts : 

That this is an amazing moment that will echo in history for a while  -  White male - the POTUS. has stepped aside and endorsed a minority female for President.  Maybe that should not be amazing,,, but still..

And I can't  help but think that this move was well timed - that the guy they call. "Sleepy Joe Biden" just had the Republicans spend a better part of their convention bashing a guy that is no longer in even in the race ! kinda a genius move...

Will Fat Nixon be in a big hurry to debate Kamala Harris ??? - 

and of course - who will she chose as her running mate for Vice President ??? guess there are a few Candidates...  Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina , Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro , Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona...  certainly looking for a person that would greatly aid the ticket in beating Dump in that State. 

Will we see the same racist comment about Harris ? Her parents ? her Birth ? (she was born on Oakland , CA) - Will there be any other legal challenges ??  Where the GOP will want to push the issue to the Supreme Court where they have bought and paid for 6 of those Justices ?? 

Stay Tuned - things are just getting starting to get interesting .....

Not now - NOPE

 SO - Now the Republicans want everyone to tone down the rhetoric in the Political debate ??

"when the looting starts the shooting starts" -  "These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. 

"LIBERATE MICHIGAN!; LIBERATE MINNESOTA!; LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!"

Trump at one point asked in a private meeting with close aides whether the U.S. could shoot migrants below the waist to slow them down.

After bombs are sent to his political rivals - he blames the victims , "A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!"

Encouraged Police to be violent "When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, 'Please don't be too nice,'

at a Rally where a man is being beaten .."Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!"

More issues at Rallies followed .."If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell ... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise," the future president said on Feb. 1, 2016.

At a Las Vegas rally later that month, he said security guards were too gentle with a protester. "He's walking out with big high-fives, smiling, laughing," Trump said. "I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you."

A similar situation unfolded at a rally that month in Warren, Michigan.

"Get him out," he said of a protester. "Try not to hurt him. If you do, I'll defend you in court. Don't worry about it."

The shoot someone on Fifthe ave comment "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said at a campaign rally in Iowa.

It started young... "Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid," Trump wrote. "In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye -

In a recent interview  Moscow Mike Johnson said  “When the message goes out constantly that the election of Donald Trump would be a threat to democracy and that the republic would end, I mean it heats up the environment,” the Louisiana Republican said on NBC. “We cannot do that. It’s simply not true. Everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down.” ,,,,,,,,,,,, hummmm Guess Mike forgot about HISTORY...   

 December 2023 - Trump said,,, “He’s been weaponizing government against his political opponents like a Third World political tyrant,” Trump said to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Biden and his radical left allies like to pose as standing up as allies of democracy,” Trump continued, arguing: “Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy, Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy.”

BUT yea - NOW we need to turn down the rhetoric .... 

THIS is NOT America

 Let me say it . The assassination attempt against  Trump was WRONG- this is not who we are as Americans. WE like to think that we use the Ballot Box to settle things not Guns.  However;  in the past Politicians have been the victims and have had their  taken lives. The obvious ones that we know are - Lincoln, Kennedy, RFK, Martin Luther King, James Garfield, William McKinley,  and  some failed ones - against  George Wallace, Ronald Reagan,  Gerald Ford, FDR as President Elect. Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt. 

We like to think that these things only happen in 3rd world countries; however they clearly have happened here.   and look - there is no one that wants Trump out of this race more than me - but NOT LIKE THIS- I wanna see him get his ass kicked to the curb in the election ... Political violence is NEVER ACCEPTABLE.

But - look we are not living in a fantasy world. The Rhetoric by Trump himself has moved the needle toward violence.  He and the GOP have mocked those that were recent victims of crimes - even though this does not make what happened Saturday excusable -  in 2020 he mocked the Kidnapping attempt against Governor Gretchen Whitmer and his audience laughed and applauded.  in 2021- he prompted the attack on the Capital - with a FIGHT LIKE HELL speech- Gallows were erected on the Lawn and "Hang Mike Pence" was shouted by his supporters - then Senators and Representatives - some of whom ran for their lives when  the crowd attacked the Capital - called it a tourist visit  (by some in tactical gear , with bear spray and zip tie handcuffs). in September of 2023 - Trump mocked the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband - and his crowds laughed, cheered and applauded. In 2017 - he defended White Nationalists that caused violence in Charlottesville , calling them "very fine people" . 

In addition - the GOP has suggested that we "get over it" and offered Thoughts and Prayers after Schools shooting - in Newtown - CT, Uvalde - TX, and Parkland FL . blaming entrances , doors, and suggesting we arm Teachers to prevent these things,,...  

SO please spare us the Righteous indignation - that "Violence is never the Answer"  and similar statements that the GOP has come out with. 

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I don't need to say that I am not an expert on these things, Im not even a Sub Novice on the Secret service work.. however - I think they have a couple of questions to answer.

- How did a Gunman get so close to the EX- POTUS and get the upper position on them - as they left that roof top unguarded ??

-  While there are tons of video on the day - you can clearly see that the Sharp shooter - FBI or Secret Service on the other roof - was looking thru his scope in the direction of the Shooter - he lifts his head - you hear shots - then he looks back thru the scope and returns fire -  I assume killing the Shooter - why did he wait ? Why did he lift his head ?

- While I believe that the Secret Service has  great training and preparation for the possibility of these incidents. How the Hell did an 80 year old man get up and manage to get his  head and upper torso above the agents for what I counted as three Photo-ops... They had no idea at that point if there were multiple  shooters and from different angles -  they had to assume that the first shots might be a diversion that you were then going to run him into the main threat - gladly not the case - but they didn't know that then.   Contrast this with the attempt on Ronald Reagan -  where they jumped in his pushed him to the floor of the Limo he as headed towards and sped away.  You never saw and part of Reagan after that 1st shot was fired. 

- and I will assume that there was an ambulance standing by at the Rally- why was he not put into that  ?  Maybe protocol was to get to the Armored Limo then move to the medical transport or were the Medics move to the "beast II" car  ???  

And while not the Secret Service or law enforcement issue -  nearly no one behind Trump moved. Heck - there are more people that try to exit from the  back of an airplane  - 2 seconds after the doors open - even though there are 150 people in front of them- they still stand and try to get forward but not here ?? stunned I suppose ...  plus - watch the video - who is the guy in the Brown Derby right to the Left of the podium- he does not flinch. 

This guy 

And - I have already read threats from the Right - about Civil war ..  about you - whoever you is - attack us , we attack you. and suggestions that the shooter was Antifa, was a Democrat , or Liberal ,,, all untrue - from what we know as I write this - he was a white  20 something male  , he was a supporter of the GOP = made a small donation to a liberal candidate or group a few years ago,. what he was not was a Migrant illegal or not , he was not in Drag, Did not come from an LGBTQ event, not wearing a Biden shirt. Clearly we need a better understanding of what this person thought , who he communicated with in the hours, days , weeks leading up to this.... 

 

 

What is going on ??

 So - Yankees have  lost the last 7 series in a row - 

After a great start that they led the AL east by up to 3 1/2 games over Baltimore - and were at one point double digits over Boston - they are now  in 2nd place - 2 games back of  Baltimore - so a 5 1/2 game swing, and are in danger of Boston closing the gap  to one or two games before the All-Star break.  Sox play Kansas City

IS this Boones fault ?  - ALL Boones fault ?  - I do think he manages better in good times,,, and has little clue about what to do when they hit these lows ,,, and They seem to have LOW - Lows ...  a tailspin that they can't recover from.   When its not the starters,  it s the pen, or the closer , when they get good work from the pitching,, they can't score...-  and in Games where Judge does not get hits - they don't seem to score or win. . and while I like that Soto works the count and gets walks, Soto leads all of MLB with 79 bb's   and Judge at 65 - IMHO - they need to be more aggresive  with pitches in the strike zone - knowing that the team is getting little from the guys behind them in the Lineup... 

They need hitting help at the bottom of the order, Torres and Lemahiu are dreadful - they are  the new Aaron Hicks..   And runners in scoring position - forget it...   i think last night they were 1 for 9 ....  AND even though the players change year to year the result does not ....

Cashman and the front office have some hard choices to make - the only year that they are guaranteed to have Juan Soto is this year..... and no matter the team or the trade possibility - those teams are gonna want the Yankees best prospects - Jasson Dominguez and or Spencer Jones - both outfielders - that if you trade them away and DON't  sign Soto to a long term contract - you just lost out on whatever potential that Dominguez and Jones have...

They open in Baltimore tonight and are 2 and 5 to the Orioles this season - it's not a great mind set to have ,  but they can't get swept ...  We shall see ,... Does Boone Survive the weekend ??  Three weeks till the trad deadline of July 30 - who is still in pinstripes after that >?? and who if anyone of consequence do they add ?? 

The GOP platform

 

1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION - so much for all that  "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! "
2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY - sound like the Nazi detention camps or the US camps of Japanese during WW2 ?  what could go wrong ? Armed guards going around the country rounding up people - putting them in camps and shipping them - where ?? 
3. END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN - ya and do you have way how  ? or Just say that we will end inflation ?
4. MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR! ummm WE ALREADY ARE !!!  BY FAR - For the first time in more than 60 years, US energy production is now higher than US energy consumption,
5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER - so all y'all won't be voting against the jobs act, the infacstructure act , the chips act ETC ???
6. LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!   not like last time when you cut taxes on the Billionaires and we got stuck paying the higher taxes ??  and please explain where you are getting the added tax revenue to cover all these cuts ??
7. DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS - OH like a PErsons right to choose and vote ??  Those Freedoms ,, and freedom of religion ?? that one too ??
8. PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA -  ohhh just spout random BS,, and hope the Cultists buy into it...  BY siding with a dictator - Putin and Orban , and MBS?? 
9. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - oh and yea - "I will be your retribution" -  or you just gonna eliminate everyoen that does not agree with you??
10. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS - Violent offenders ?? Like ones that invade the Capitol and assault and kill Police officers in doing so ??? 
11. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN. and flowers and puppies for everyone ??? maybe candy - can I get candy too ?? 
12. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD - WE all ready are -  And most of you republicans voted AGAINST the PACT act !! and are we gonna stop calling Veterns Suckers and losers?
13. KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD'S RESERVE CURRENCY
14. FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE - that aint what the Speaker has been saying ,,,, he want to cut them to balance the budget - his words not mine - even though we know one has nothing to do with the other
15. CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS - yea - your Bought and paid for judges did most of that for you when they struck down the Chevron act of 40 years ago..
16. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN - but hey bibles and commandments are cool- thats not pushing an agenda ! maybe they can hold up the poster with the commandments when a person with an assault rifle comes to the next school.... 
17. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN'S SPORTS - good god  - stick to stuff that you don't know how to do ... 
18. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN - yea please we love the constitution excpet that FREE Speech thing when we dont agree with what someone else says ...
19. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP -  ok - register everyone at age 18 and give then a voter registration ID .  maybe take a lesson from England and France on elections... 
20. UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS - oh yea - that - but we will tell you how we are gonna do that in 2 weeks - right after the new healthcare plan, and the new budget and in two weeks - everything will be told !! 

 On this Date - July 4 1863 -  161 years ago -  the Army of Northern Virginia began a slow retreat - in a soaking rain storm -   from a Battle that they lost  at a small cross-roads town in Pennsylvania.  The Main part of this battle was fought by over a combined 165,000 troops , across July 1 , 2, and 3 - with the Final Days assault on Union positions costing Lee's army heavy casualties from which they would never recover. Even though the  war continued for nearly 2 more years and cost thousands of more lives, the Confederate Army never again would venture as far North as a few of its troops did on July 3rd. The High water mark - as some say - was a place that would come to be called "The Angle" at a group of  trees and stone walls  on Cemetery Hill.    Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead breached the Union position with a few men , but they were quickly overwhelmed and Armistead himself mortally wounded - he would die on July 5th of infections from the bullet wounds.  That assault on Cemetery Hill  by 12,500 confederates - you know as "Picketts charge" - even though there were many troops and commanders  under Lee's  - General Longstreet's troops that made the charge. After the war Pickett fled to Canada to avoid discussing his part in the assault. The Charge was a miscalculation by Lee as he thought that the Northern army was weakened to the point that the Confederate troops could overcome them even if they - the Confederates  - had about a mile of  open ground to cover to get to Cemetery Hill and the North held the high ground and had superior Cannons, rifles and reinforcements, . Picketts charge was a bloodbath - the North lost approx 1500 men, but the South lost 6,000 of the 12,500 that stepped out from the woods to begin the charge. 

The battle that  started on July 1 . when elements of the two armies collided at Gettysburg as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there (even though Lee had given the command that they were to NOT engage the Union troops till he had his entire army poised outside Gettysburg) . His objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division under Brig. Gen. John Buford, and soon reinforced with two corps of Union infantry. However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.

On the second day of battle, most of both armies had assembled. The Union line was laid out in a defensive formation resembling a fishhook from Culp's hill south to Little Round top . In the late afternoon of July 2, Lee launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank, and fierce fighting raged at Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Devil's Den, and the Peach Orchard. On the Union right, Confederate demonstrations escalated into full-scale assaults on Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. All across the battlefield, despite significant losses, the Union defenders under General George Meade  held their lines.

On the third day of battle, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was that dramatic infantry assault by the  Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge. The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great loss to the Confederate army.

On July 4  - Lee   led his army on that  torturous retreat back to Virginia.  51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle, the most costly in US history.

The fighting across those 3 days left the Town of Gettysburg with over 50,000 casualties. This was a town of about 2400 people that after the battle had every building - homes, barns, taverns,  Everything -  was turned into hospitals to care for the wounded. Free Blacks from the south were used to bury and then in some cases rebury the dead. The Union dead were buried in a wheel pattern in a spot of land that was to be a New Union cemetery.  They were buried with their divisions in that area. and today the Center of that is the Soldiers Monument - in the approx location that Lincoln gave the Gettsyburg address in November of that same year. 

a picture of part of the  Battlefield today - you can see a few monuments in the background.  There are over 1300 Monuments at Gettysburg, If you have never been it's amazing to see - to look from Cemetery hill down to the wooded area where Pickett's charge started , to Culp's Hill, Devils Den, down to Little Round top.... 

The Monument that stands at the Angle 

 

Welcome to the Monarchy  that the United states of America ... is quickly becoming 

I hope that Sotomayor's minority decision is as some say a bit hysterical and over the top .... BUT I  think we all know what were in for IF that FAT Nixon is reelected...

 “The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world, When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. 

Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. 

Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done.”

“Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law, Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. 

If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop.”

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” 

I have no clue...

I have been mistaken for a long time... In having a text discussion with a friend - that we normally do not talk politics - but he said something that I have failed to Realize...

Asking if I watched the debate - which I turned in about 1/2 way thru and was met with the

the Same Bullshit lies that Fat Nixon always tells... I switched it off.. I'm not learning anything new here

SAME OLDE LIES he always tells...  BUT -- BUT  he said that "BOTH sides could spin it (I am taking it to be the Truth) could spin IT either way" ...... and I don't care of Biden had a bad  night - which he did - I don't vote for criminals, inserrectionists, Rapists or people that want to destroy our democracy. 

However; I  never knew this,,  Frankly I did not - that intelligent people  see these LIES as "SPIN" - and I am taking SPIN here as just seeing a TRUTH in a different way... 

- The right fielder did not drop the BALL - NO - he failed to catch it.

- I was not speeding - I just enhancing my acceleration....

- Did not steal anything = I failed to pay for it...

And I am thinking that they will spin these debate out and out LIES into something else

(and I ain't doing your research for you - go check these yourself)

- He said he gave the largest tax cut in history - NOPE - his was ranked

below dozens of others

- He said every legal scholar wanted Roe Vs Wade overturned 

NOT TRUE - hell - 3 Supreme court justices disagreed

- Biden encouraged Putin to attack Russia .... Biden imposed sanctions on

Russia  because of the attack

- Said HE  "tried" to send in the National guard on Jan 6 

LIE - members of his own staff that were with him that day testified that he DID NOT

Plus the Commander of the National guard said he waited hours for authorization to act

- Said it was a made up story that he said that there were "very Fine people on both sides"

in Charlottesville (White Supremacists and KKK)  - that is widely available on Video with him  saying those exact words.

- he said Migrants are living in Luxury hotels - they are not - might be in Hotels - 

but far from Luxurious

- He said the Southern Border is the MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IN THE  WORLD.

I think the people of Ukraine and Gaza might have a different view of that ..

SPIN  AWAY !!!!!

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