Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

I was promised a recession.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Let’s finish the job.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Bark louder, little dog.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

The revolution will be supervised.

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  3. 3.

    captnkurt

    But… According to Betty Cracker, I’m supposed to avoid Yeti-related content today. Surely not because of this? This is awesome.

    Also, “Avoid Yet-related content today” would make the best fortune cookie ever.

  6. 6.

    oldster

    That is deeply awesome.

    The only mistake, from the standpoint of voting behavior, is that it does not repeat the name “Dean Phillips” often enough. You’ve got to to tell them whom to vote *for* as well as whom to vote *against*.

  8. 8.

    BellyCat

    It’s about time that a political ad captures one’s — especially millenials’— genuine attention! More please…

  9. 9.

    J R in WV

    My innertubes have failed me, after decades of sailing the ethernet, reading the comments, writing the comments… failure abounds suddenly.

    Help!

  10. 10.

    TenguPhule

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) outlined a plan to limit testimony at Monday’s planned hearing to that provided by Kavanaugh and Ford — which brought cries of protest from Democrats.

    They insisted that other witnesses also be called, including Mark Judge, a Kavanaugh friend who Ford said witnessed the assault.

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the top Democrat on the committee, said it was “impossible to take this process seriously,” noting that 22 witnesses appeared at the hearing in 1991, when law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.

    “What about other witnesses like Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge?” Feinstein said in a statement. “What about individuals who were previously told about this incident? What about experts who can speak to the effects of this kind of trauma on a victim? This is another attempt by Republicans to rush this nomination and not fully vet Judge Kavanaugh.”

    Speaking to reporters later, Grassley defended his plan.

    “We’ve had two people that want to tell their story and that’s what we’re gonna do,” he said.

    Pressed about the precedent of the Hill hearing, Grassley said: “You’re talking about history. We’re not looking back. We’re looking forward.”

    i don’t like this LARP of 1984.

  11. 11.

    Alain the site fixer

    Ok, I turned off some caching stuff we weren’t using, turned off the edit comment plugin, and setup the CDN so hopefully things will be smooth and get even smoother over the next few hours. I won’t be monitoring the site for the next few hours constantly but I will take a peek once or twice.

    I hope these tweaks make the site look normal for you folks soon.

  14. 14.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Bigfoot and Yeti are not the same thing people. Am I the only one who knows this?

  16. 16.

    TenguPhule

    Nuck Fazis!
    @Johngcole

    god damnit I just googled mario kart fuck all of you

    John Cole was not spared.

  17. 17.

    Miss Bianca

    @TenguPhule:

    “You’re talking about history. We’re not looking back. We’re looking forward.”

    I’m looking forward, too, Senator Grassley. I’m looking forward to seeing your head on a pike. Or at least, your sorry ass tossed on the rubbish heap of history, along with Donald Trump dick references.

  19. 19.

    sukabi

    @TenguPhule: the problem with the article is that Judge was a participant, not “just a witness”. And Grassley knows if he’s brought in the entire thing falls apart, as he’s written detailed accounts of their days being blackout drunks and all the other crap.

    Grassley needs to go.

  20. 20.

    Miss Bianca

    @Alain the site fixer: Site looks normal to me – only thing I’ve noticed is that hitting “reply” to someone’s comment doesn’t automatically take me down to the comment box anymore. But everything else seemed as usual.

    Keep up the good work, Alain! Thank you!

  22. 22.

    Spanky

    Well, I have yet to see a Bigfoot cooler, so I can believe they’re different.

    BTW, do the yetis get royalties from Yeti?

  23. 23.

    Leto

    And here the shit sandwich tsunami:

    No. 2 Senate Republican sharply questions credibility of Kavanaugh accuser

    The No. 2 Republican in the Senate on Tuesday sharply questioned the credibility of the woman who has accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, as GOP leaders indicated they will limit witnesses at next week’s hearing to just the Supreme Court nominee and his accuser.

    Speaking to reporters, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said he was concerned by “gaps” in the account of Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor in California, who told The Washington Post in an interview published Sunday that Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her to a bed on her back, groped her and put his hand over her mouth at a house party in the early 1980s when the two were in high school.

    “The problem is, Dr. Ford can’t remember when it was, where it was, or how it came to be,” Cornyn told reporters at the Capitol late Tuesday morning.

    When asked whether he was questioning the accuser’s account — which Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied — Cornyn said, “There are some gaps there that need to be filled.”

    Sounds like you need to do a proper investigation on this matter, which means you can’t have the vote next week. Sounds like you should’ve vetted this candidate properly, instead of trying to rush through this usual Rethug piece of garbage.

    But wait, it gets better:

    Rough Horse Play

    Interesting and perhaps disturbing moment a short time ago as Carrie Severino, spokesperson of the Judicial Crisis Network, was interviewed on CNN. The JCN is the central campaign arm for Republican judicial nominations. The Federalist Society grooms and chooses the nominees. The JCN runs the campaigns, runs political ads in Senators’ states, as necessary. Here Severino argues that it’s not clear that what Ford describes wasn’t simply “rough horse play” as opposed to attempted rape.

    My wife sent me this and is beyond livid. They all need to be voted out. All of them, Katie. Also how can we defund these fucking horrible conservative networks? They all need to go.

    Also I’m having issues posting; error comes up saying connection not secure. Win10 on Chrome

  24. 24.

    Brachiator

    Funny how all this Bigfoot stuff is popping up all over the place. The animated movie Smallfoot opens September 28.

    A Yeti named Migo stirs up his community when he discovers something that he didn’t know existed — a human.

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    Bigfoot and Yeti are not the same thing people. Am I the only one who knows this?

    Is one Marvel and the other DC?

    Both are mythical creatures. The details don’t really matter all that much.

  26. 26.

    Gravenstone

    @Leto: I rather doubt Ms. Severino would view having the exact things done to her as “rough horse play”. So why would she attempt to belittle what Dr. Ford experienced in those terms? One thing is certain, this is going to expose the ugliness inherent in a whole lot of people.

  27. 27.

    Gravenstone

    @sukabi: Not only was Judge a participant, from the descriptions it was Judge’s direct action that inadvertently allowed Dr. Ford to escape from the assault.

  28. 28.

    hueyplong

    I hear at 400 pm McConnell will release a letter signed by 65 women that says Trump has a lovely member and not the Nub of Need described by Ms Daniels.

    Seems like they knew this was coming.

  29. 29.

    Gravenstone

    @TenguPhule: I saw something about Mario Cart on Yahoo News this morning, but wasn’t curious enough to click through. John’s anguished cry on Twitter ensured that any curiosity on the topic died. This thread simply reinforces that lack of curiosity.

  30. 30.

    Mike G

    “We’re not looking back. We’re looking forward.”

    I’m looking forward to seeing Grassley getting eaten by seals.

  33. 33.

    Sister Golden Bear

    What’s the over/under on how long it takes to get to the “well, the way she was dressed, the slut was asking for it” phase?

    Also too, aside from not mentioning the candidate’s name enough at the end, the Bigfoot commercial was full of awesome.

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    @Mike G: What have seals ever done to you that you would revole them to such a horrific fate?

    Give him to the sea lions. They’re kind of assholes anyway.

  38. 38.

    Kay

    @Leto:

    Well, except he said he wasn’t there and he doesn’t know who she is and didn’t touch her. So if it was “rough horse play” he’s lying.

    They really have to choose. They can’t toggle back and forth between “wasn’t there, didn’t happen” and minimizing what did happen. How many people work for the Federalist Society and The Judicial Crisis Network? They can’t come up with a single coherent defense?

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    Trump said Tuesday that he feels “terribly” for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee who could face off in a high-stakes hearing next week with a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers.

    “I feel so badly that he’s going through this,” Trump said during a news conference at the White House. “This is not a man who deserves this.”

    Trump called Kavanaugh “a great gentleman” and lamented that his wife and daughters are experiencing the public airing of accusations that Trump said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) should have brought up ealier in his confirmation process.

    Donald Trump can only fake empathy for foreign dictators, Rapists and Nazis. Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

  41. 41.

    TenguPhule

    @Kay:

    They can’t toggle back and forth between “wasn’t there, didn’t happen” and minimizing what did happen.

    Repuiblicans: Hold our beer.

  42. 42.

    TenguPhule

    Donald J. Trump
    ✔
    @realDonaldTrump
    · 4h
    Right now, everybody is saying what a great job we are doing with Hurricane Florence – and they are 100% correct. But don’t be fooled, at some point in the near future the Democrats will start ranting…

    Donald J. Trump
    ✔
    @realDonaldTrump
    …that FEMA, our Military, and our First Responders, who are all unbelievable, are a disaster and not doing a good job. This will be a total lie, but that’s what they do, and everybody knows it!

    5:50 AM – Sep 18, 2018

    North Carolina is so so fucked.

  45. 45.

    VOR

    It would be hard to find a congressman more out of touch with his district. One reason might be that Paulsen has not had a true town hall meeting with constituents in 7 years, instead choosing to hold “telephone town halls” where he can pre-screen questions. He held one supposedly public set of meetings in June, but they were only open to a tiny number of people. When asked why he does not hold town halls by Southwest News Media, he complained that “People turn them into a gotcha moment or a shouting moment.”

    So it was something of a surprise to his constituents when, in a debate with Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party opponent Dean Phillips, Paulsen claimed he gets his best ideas by listening to the voters. In fact, attendees found it so ridiculous that they burst out laughing at him.

    https://www.alternet.org/constituents-laugh-erik-paulsen-saying-hes-accessible

  46. 46.

    patrick II

    MSNBC on in the background:

    Trump: “That’s not what the (the FBI) does, they have already done background six times checks for his previous appointments.”

    They do background investigations six times previously, but the seventh is not what t he FBI does? O.K.

  48. 48.

    ruemara

    Yeti Pubes & Bigfoot ads. This day has been so weird.

    on a lighter note, I got my housemate his birthday gift early. A brand new hard guitar case for busking and generally caterwauling his lungs out for money somewhere outside. I am a great housemate for broke ass people. Food & tools?!

  51. 51.

    FlyingToaster

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Continent-specific.

    Yetis are Asian, from the Himalayas, and their habitat may stretch as far as the Hindu Kush.

    Bigfoots are North American, and largely wiped out except in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, BritishColombia). The Missouri Ozarks population of Bigfoots, named “Momos”, died out before I was born.

    You’re not the only commenter knowledgeable about mythical hominids. I also have some knowlege of Gallifrey and multimedia educational simulations (or more precisely, how to write computer code to handle the interactivity).

    You’re welcome.

  55. 55.

    Yutsano

    @TenguPhule: This is…actually more true than you realise. Leopard seals are aptly named for their hunting prowess and their aggression. And spots. Lots of spots.

  59. 59.

    The Midnight Lurker

    Hey, I just read an article on another progressive site about how a lawyer named Cyrus Sanai has ‘important information’ on Kavanaugh, and has been trying to get it to the Senate Judiciary Committee since July.
    The gist is that Kavanaugh’s mentor was a perv too, and retired before his past could catch up with him. Sanai says he has ‘witnesses’ who can shed light on Kavanaugh’s behavior.
    Do tell.

  60. 60.

    Arky Vaughan

    You should see the slimy commercials the NRCC is running in MN against Feehan (CD1 – to replace Walz the D running for Governor), Craig (CD2 ) running against the loathsome Jason Lewis and against Phillips. They are all 1% who put profits before people yada yada – basically it is claiming they are all Republicans! so don’t vote for them- vote for Republicans!

  61. 61.

    TenguPhule

    Nearly a dozen lawyers now assist Trump in contending with two federal investigations, one in Washington and one in New York, that could pose serious threats to his presidency and his businesses. But the expanding legal team is struggling to understand where the investigations could be headed and the extent of Mr. Trump’s legal exposure.

    The lawyers have only a limited sense of what many witnesses — including senior administration officials and the president’s business associates — have told investigators and what the Justice Department plans to do with any incriminating information it has about Mr. Trump, according to interviews with more than a dozen people close to the president.

    What is more, it is not clear if Mr. Trump has given his lawyers a full account of some key events in which he has been involved or during his decades running the Trump Organization.

    Via the FTFNYT. Trump’s legal team is disarray!

  63. 63.

    jonas

    @Kay: As we all know, this will unfold in predictable stages: 1. He was never there; it didn’t happen. 2. Ok, maybe he was there, but he never touched her. 3. Ok, he got her into a dark room, but it was just a bit of horseplay. 4. Ok, he was holding her down and fondling her, but she was a total tease and we know how teenage boys are.

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    @Arky Vaughan:

    Trying to get dumb “progressives” riled up against “establishment Democrats.” Again.

    I’d like to think they won’t fall for it, but very few people who still identify themselves as “progressives” seem to have learned a goddamned thing from 2016.

  67. 67.

    Roger Moore

    @Yutsano:

    Give him to the sea lions. They’re kind of assholes anyway.

    Excuse me, but I couldn’t help but overhear you say something bad about sea lions. Why don’t you like sea lions?

  68. 68.

    trollhattan

    So we had the RW dream murder of that nice Iowa girl by the Latino ag worker and now, a 22 YO Iowa white dude has been arrested for murdering a German-Spanish champion golfer and Iowa State University student.

    Tucker Carlson will be leading with this story for the next two weeks, right? Right?

  69. 69.

    Doug R

    I’m sure they were the same species until the Sasquatch crossed the Bering land bridge thousands of years ago to become Sasquatch and his American cousin Bigfoot.

  72. 72.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @TenguPhule:
    Um…isn’t precedent important when it comes to a Supreme Court Justice. The irony wasn’t lost on me at least.

    Whoever said the other day that a Republican’s verbal response to issues of double standards (re: if a Democrat had done) would boil down to some variation of “I’m not going to talk about hypotheticals” was spot on.

  73. 73.

    hitchhiker

    @Kay:

    Weird timing thing that I just realized …

    Summer of ’82: The time period when 26-yr-old Anita Hill was spending her days trying to suppress her gag reflex every time her boss spoke to her, while just down the road a young Brett Kavanaugh was living out the drunk-frat-boy life that would lead him to his current pickle.

    I really think we should mount a campaign to remove Thomas from office, on the grounds that he lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings. That we’ve allowed that confirmation to stand for the last 30 years is a damned disgrace.

  74. 74.

    Roger Moore

    @jonas:

    As we all know, this will unfold in predictable stages

    The Republicans aren’t as disciplined about these things as they used to be. They’re getting the different stages all mixed up, so some people are still claiming it’s a fabrication and some are already to excusing it as “boys will be boys”. There are even some who have gone ahead to “what about Bill Clinton”.

  75. 75.

    trollhattan

    @hitchhiker:

    I really think we should mount a campaign to remove Thomas from office, on the grounds that he lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings. That we’ve allowed that confirmation to stand for the last 30 years is a damned disgrace.

    100% in favor of this. “High-tech lynching” my ass. They murdered Anita Hill’s reputation to get their prize.

  76. 76.

    Aleta

    This morning Grassley & Ilk were saying: –There may not be a hearing. –Blasey-Ford won’t accept my request to attend, won’t answer my emails. Do they want to come or not? –We’re contacting potential witnesses, but Feinstein and staff refuse to participate.

    Trump: –FBI doesn’t want to investigate. –We’re not going to rush. –We’re going to get this done quickly.

    Collins: –I’m puzzled. –I really hope that she doesn’t pass up this opportunity.

    RW-er: –If someone makes accusations and then refuses to testify they should be prosecuted.

    Slimy commentators — (Reframing, misinterpreting all over the place… then knocking down their misinterpretations and getting outraged)

    National Resources Defense Council: — “The next Supreme Court justice will likely cast the deciding vote in key environmental and public health rulings—ultimately shaping the health of our planet and children for generations.”

  79. 79.

    JPL

    @Aleta: Kavanaugh will take away the right to have a safe abortion but my biggest fear is that they undue health care laws. Imagine a country where birth control is only available for the wealthy. I hate these people.

  80. 80.

    Yutsano

    @trollhattan: It pisses me off more that he dared to use the memory of Emmett Till to weasel his way onto that seat that rankles more than anything. But I would rather pressure him to retire. Right before the 2020 election is good.

    @Roger Moore: If your defence is to go whatabout on a rape charge…you’re pretty much admitting you’re already losing. It’s almost an admission your guy did it.

  83. 83.

    hitchhiker

    I think they’re screwed. Think of the flow chart of how this plays out.

    Shove Kav through quick: yes = enraged women, no = need a new candidate stat, with time running out to shove that dude through before the midterms.
    Bounce Kav: yes = pissed off R base, no = longer process & less likelihood he gets the votes

    They’re trying to walk a line that doesn’t exist. Trump overruled McConnell by choosing the most difficult guy, and now they’re stuck with him. Kav will spend the rest of his life with a cloud labeled “thug” over his head no matter what happens next. If they don’t get this done before we vote, Democrats are going to FINALLY be motivated by the Supreme Court with the same intensity Rs have brought for the last 40 years.

  87. 87.

    TenguPhule

    @JPL:

    Imagine a country where birth control is only available for the wealthy. at the whim of a rich male master of the brood mothers.

    Corrected for accuracy.

    Women are headed from citizens to commodities under this regime of terror.

  94. 94.

    opiejeanne

    @Mike G:

    ’m looking forward to seeing Grassley getting eaten by seals.

    I read that as “seeing Grassley getting eaten by snails”. Still laughing.

  104. 104.

    Aleta

    @JPL: There’s so much they plan to change, so much at stake. Protection for dissent and speech, privacy rights, transgender civil rights, worker protections. Regulations against dangerous pollutants and undisclosed chemical release. Publicly owned land. The right to hold corporations responsible for damages. Protections if you are arrested and called an enemy.

    They reframe the argument: ‘Not fair to hold someone accountable for loutish mistakes in their 20s.’ ‘Dems are cheating.’ ‘Feinstein.’

    They’re distracting us from all the lies he’s told under oath for years. They’re hiding who he is. Because if they didn’t lie we might be in the streets.

    This week will be full of Trump-generated distractions. They want this badly and they’re going to cheat even more than w/the tax plan. We need to be in the streets, deliver return receipt letters to Senators, send copies to newspapers.

  105. 105.

    opiejeanne

    @Roger Moore: The thing about Bill Clinton is I don’t think he ever had to force himself on women, I think enough of them lined up. He has a certain oozing charm that many find irresistible (Is irresistible spelled correctly? It looks wrong).

  106. 106.

    Schlemazel

    @hitchhiker:
    You forgot the denouement. Dump nominates some assclown every bit as evil but has not been accused of rape & all this shit goes down anyway.

    That is not a reason to stop fighting this particular assclown but a reason to make it about more than the fact he is a rapist

  109. 109.

    Brachiator

    @opiejeanne:
    Bill Clinton and, for that matter, JFK, were both very charismatic, but some of their approaches to women were problematic at times. And obviously with Clinton, you had the malice of his enemies to deal with.

  110. 110.

    FlyingToaster

    @opiejeanne: My dad and his cousins were convinced that was a hoax; it was in the wrong part of the state (Louisiana? suburb of Hannibal), and honestly, if there were a Bigfoot living along the Mississippi, Mark Twain would have written about it.

    I was between fifth and sixth grades that summer, and the AM radio guys spent all their time making fun of the drunks who staged this.

  112. 112.

    TenguPhule

    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said an FBI investigation is “essential” to prevent the hearing from becoming merely a “he said, she said affair.”

    Republicans responded that reopening the investigation is up to the White House and they are sticking with their plans for a Monday hearing — with or without Ford’s participation.

    I was not aware that Congress had decamped to Australia.

    Kavanaugh spoke with the Judiciary panel’s counsel Monday and gave a “clear and consistent” account of what happened 36 years ago, said a person who wasn’t authorized to be identified while describing the process. The person described Kavanaugh as “resolute” and eager to defend himself.

    And this would be the third or fourth change to his alibi now?

    how in the world does Trump do it? Every single person he nominates is an utter shitball.

  113. 113.

    Melusine

    ??? Brilliant! Gets the point across without fear-mongering, the actor is great through all the makeup and prosthetics, it’s memorable, and it leaves you feeling good after watching it – so rare after a political ad.

  114. 114.

    TenguPhule

    Among the GOP defectors was Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, a Judiciary Committee member who has clashed bitterly with Trump and is retiring from the Senate. Flake said he told No. 2 Senate Republican leader John Cornyn of Texas on Sunday that “if we didn’t give her a chance to be heard, then I would vote no.”

    There was enormous pressure on GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, two moderates who have yet to announce their positions on Kavanaugh and aren’t on the Judiciary Committee.

    Collins said that in a telephone conversation with Kavanaugh on Friday he was “absolutely emphatic” that the assault didn’t occur. She said it would be “disqualifying” if Kavanaugh was lying. Murkowski said Ford’s story “must be taken seriously.” Neither Collins nor Murkowski faces re-election this fall.

    Tremble worms, for your doom is upon you.

  115. 115.

    hitchhiker

    @Schlemazel:

    The problem with the other top choices is that they’ve been a LOT more clear on how they stand on Roe. If enough time gets eaten up with this nonsense & they have to start over with a whole new set of committee hearings and documents, it’s possible they’ll have lost too much time. They need to put this completely away before the elections, or at least be well into the process so they can claim it’s a legit use of the lame duck period to finish it off before the next senate is seated.

    I mean, it’s ALL a long, long shot, but not impossible. Kav goes down after an ugly hearing makes it impossible for women senators to vote for him … Ds pull off a takeover of the senate … and refuse to fill the seat that was Kennedy’s with someone who is not a centrist judge.

  116. 116.

    Wapiti

    I just don’t understand this: if they are going to have a hearing on Monday, why is Collins getting Kavenaugh’s story beforehand. Why is he pre-briefing a lawyer who works (presumably) for the majority on the committee. Sounds like stories are being tested and solidified by the same people who will be “judging” his honesty.

  117. 117.

    Kathleen

    @opiejeanne:

    The thing about Bill Clinton is I don’t think he ever had to force himself on women, I think enough of them lined up

    That’s the biggest reason Rethugs hate and fear him. They’re so very jealous.

  118. 118.

    jml

    Cant say I love this ad. Its the sort of ad that makes me think someone on staff fell in love with a concept and couldn’t let it go. Too clever by half. If Phillips needed a breakthrough ad, something to get people to pay attention to his race, it’s one thing, but he’s at the top of Red to Blue, has been raising money like crazy all year, and already has all of that. Paulsen (a true hypocrite and fraud) has been hammering Phillips as a sleazy businessman who can’t be trusted. Not sure this hits back hard enough.

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