Assumptions and Projections

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Imagine I’m talking about someone you don’t know. And I say “So and so is dumber than a doorpost.” Supposing you trust my opinion, what would you think? That the person I’m talking about is dumber than a doorpost, of course. If you don’t trust my opinion, you might just go “Oh, there Sarah goes again.”

On the other hand, replay the same scene, but I say “She’s dumber than a doorpost” or “[Ethnic sounding name] is dumber than a doorpost.”

Do you immediately jump to “You’re sexist/racist”? If so, congratulations. You found the racist. Let me just get you in front of a mirror.

Because there is nothing in being a woman/able to tan that protects you from being dumber than a doorpost. People who can tan, and yes, women too are HUMAN. That means that they partake the general panoply of human traits. There are geniuses and morons, saints and demons, hard workers and layabouts, and mostly — most of them — are just “blah normal.”

If minorities and women are fully human, then being able to criticize any individual with those characteristics should be a thing, without anyone suspecting you of being racist/sexist.

If on the other hand you are sure that all minorities and women are stupid/inferior, then bringing up that this one is stupid/inferior IS, definitionally, racism/sexism.

The problem isn’t that the left is racist and sexist. They are. The problem is that they don’t know they are, and that they got there through a truly bizarre circuitous route.

Part of it is thinking of humans as widgets that all fit in a large group definition. That’s a Marxist thing, though Marx applied it mostly to classes. But still, it’s part of the system, and Gramsci expanded it to races. Also the fact that Marx created a dualist system worsens it. To be a victim, there must be an oppressor. (To realize how wrong this is, consider most of human history. Everyone was victimized by circumstances. No oppressor needed.) If someone is oppressed they’re inherently virtuous and will triumph in the end. And here we are. Because the only true values are oppressed/oppressor, people can’t really have independent characteristics. And if you call someone something, you are, of course, insulting the whole group. Therefore you’re an oppressor and they’re victims.

But it gets worse.

You see, they no longer can tell who is smart and who is dumb. Part of this is the capture of the educational and cultural institutions by leftists, and the bizarre association of “Smart” with “Spouts leftism.” I mean, there is an overlap of “High IQ” and “Leftist” because of course high IQ people tend to do well at education — it’s one thing IQ tests measure — and education has become leftist indoctrination. This correlation has been interpreted as causation by other leftists. Therefore they’ve decided High IQ=leftism. And therefore leftism=high IQ. (They are also blind to how many High IQ people are submerged and hiding their opinions due to fear for career/family/future. You know, it’s amazing they can simultaneously cancel everyone of a different opinion and not realize silence is not consent.)

If you think that, or the reverse for that matter, is true, you have blinded yourself to signs of true intelligence/stupidity.

While I don’t think highly of Obama — due to his unscripted performance — I don’t think Gavin Newsom is in any way stupid. While Joe Biden is too dumb to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the sole, Bill Clinton is fairly brilliant (had to be to keep his sex-bunny eruptions silent so long.) And before age and drink took their toll, her Shrillness, Hillary and her Evilness Nancy Grey Goose Pelosi were nobody’s fool. Jean Francois Kerry OTOH is dumber than a trepanned fish. And on our side… Guys, I think most of Pierre Delecto’s brilliance is in his hair. McCain had the perpetually enraged look someone who feels the joke is whizzing by over his head. W… well, I’m not sure he’s on our side, but he’s not stupid. His inarticulateness is that of smart but not word-oriented people. The least said about Mitch McConnel the best. The brilliant people are rare, and two of them on the right right now are black: Thomas Sowell, and Clarence Thomas. I also happen to think that if our first black president had been Ben Carson it would have settled a lot of racist assumptions forever. While Obama…. well.

I can tell this, because what I look for to determine “At least normal intelligence” is “Can complete an understandable sentence that doesn’t wander off into nowhere or contradict itself.” (And let’s pause for the left’s insulting assumption that Kamala’s vocabulary is too elevated for us. Bitch, I could tie her up in sesquipedalian brilliance from here to next Wednesday and leave her in my dust. She’s not simply verbose, she’s incoherent.)

I can tell if someone on the other side is of superior intelligence because they defend their — fairly indefensible — beliefs in a manner that leads me to pause and think through the arguments, instead of rolling my eyes so hard they fall off their sockets.

The left on the other hand, by and large, can no longer do this. For everything from intelligence to artistic brilliance, they look first to “Are the opinions expressed correct to today’s received wisdom from above.” And if they are, they are — or course — very smart or worthy of accolades. (As we saw with the super genius who disparaged my work because it doesn’t espouse “correct” beliefs.)

This has caused them to become mired in stultified blindness across the board. If you can’t question received wisdom, you’re not going to realize something you’re advocating has not only been tried, but also failed spectacularly. And if you use mindless “correct” repetition to signify art and innovation, your products are going to be so boring you can replace sleeping pills with your latest offerings.

It has also caused them to become unwitting racists. (Or perhaps witting. For some of them.) If someone who happens to tan (or be a woman) is accused of stupidity they first check that the utterances are correct to today’s received wisdom. If so, they assume he/she/it is of course brilliant.

Therefore the only reason to accuse such a person of stupidity must be that the person doing the accusation is an oppressor, and therefore racissss, sexissss and probably homophobic too. (Dear leftists, for a stretch goal I challenge you to come up with something that ends in isssss that means not liking homosexuals. Then we can cast you as snakes in the animated version of this period’s history which our great grand kids will doubtlessly be creating. Okay, so this might be the illness speaking, but come on, it will be adorable, in a slightly repulsive way!)

The accusations have been overused and if they haven’t yet lost all their power are vanishingly close to doing so.

But getting rid of it would require the actual racists and sexists to undergo a complete epistemological revolution.

On the good side, if they manage it, they will be able to field better candidates. On the bad side, doing it might be equivalent to growing back eyes you’ve plucked out.

160 thoughts on “Assumptions and Projections”

  2. One of the many (many, many, many) ways that I came to despise Obama was the simple fact that any criticism of his policies and programs (and him as well) was that any adverse word brought forth shrieking accusations of racism. This was not a good look for a supposed republic – a Teflon-coated activist president.

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    1. I had the reverse issue with Bush II and DJT. Plenty of things to yell at either of them for, and what do the idiots use? Random made up silliness.

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      2. They try to put up what they think will turn off deplorables like us. “Those rubes hate the Commies, so let’s tell them Trump works for the Russians!”

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        1. Yeah, never worked for me. Because I realized that “communism” ceased being the justifying ideology for the totalitarian kleptocracy there many, many years ago.

          OTOH, this year “democracy” is the justifying ideology for the totalitarian kleptocracy that is the Democrat Party. Never fooled me with that one, either.

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          1. I wonder if they ever have figured out that “Our Democracy” is a tell. “Democracy” for them sounds a lot more like Tyranny for us.

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            1. Sure they want Democracy. They want a democracy where the 51% can do whatever they darn well please to the rest, and no one can object because “the majority” has spoken.

              They want a democracy where they can wipe out the 49% and then claim absolute victory and eternal power.

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          1. “But it’s a Peoples’ Democratic Republic!”

            Thus, a giant concentration camp run by an inbred clan of psychotic kleptocrats.

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        3. That’s certainly part of it, but I think the fact that they’ve lost the ability to make a reasoned, logical argument, with supporting evidence, is the major reason. If thinking is Right Out, sound bites are about all you have. As Orvan said, turned up to eleven.

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          1. Bob C. has hit the nail on the head. They do NOT use reasoned logic. More telling though is why they don’t. It is NOT because they can’t think (although their current leadership can’t think themselves out of wet tissue paper) it is because logic tends to be based on a True/False dichotomy. There are complicated logics based on “fuzzy” logical values, but as far as I know this is pretty much the realm of bored mathematicians and computer scientists. For a bi valued logic to work there is an assumption that “If A then B” is true for me then it must be true for ALL, i.e. it is an absolute. If what is true for me may NOT be true for you then any reasoned syllogism I may make may collapse. So all I have left to argue with is feelings. These being relative the right generally discounts them in argument. Oddly they are not absolutist in their relativism. For example value which is clearly relative (c.f. Lt. Col Dubois History and Moral Philosophy in Starship Troopers) they hold to be absolute in many cases. There are hordes of similar issues. Thus any argument we would make is likely to fail as they do not agree to the postulates we start with or hold them to be inviolate. They have in essence been miseducated thanks to the Post modern view of the world.

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  3. “And let’s pause for the left’s insulting assumption that Kamala’s vocabulary is too elevated for us..“

    My sesquipedalian tendencies culminate in a lexicon antithetical to the vernacular. – Ox ♉

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    1. It’s not the vocabulary — the words themselves — it’s the way none of them relate to each other, and do not combine to express any coherent concepts. They’re mean to sound Lofty and Intellectual, but the effect is that of a 3-year-old reciting words from a dictionary without having a clue what they mean.

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        2. Like MaligNancy a couple of years ago ghoulishly droning “For the children. For the children. For the children. For the children. For the children.” I wanted somebody to go thump her upside the head and get her unstuck.

          See, for them, words are not intended to convey any actual meaning, they are used to deceive and manipulate their enemies.

          And everybody that’s not THEM are their enemies.

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      1. Who knows? Although If asked to speculate I would rate it likely was a combined score of between 1050 and 1200 on the old 1600 scale. She attended Vanier College ranked 42 out of Canadian schools which currently has a 75% acceptance rate and then transferred to Howard (top of the HCBU). Law School Was UC Hastings a third rate law school, likely her LSAT’s and grades were less than impressive. Compare to her sister Maya who attended UC Berkely (Although seriously liberal NOT easy to get into even if you do get some advantages) and went for Law at Stanford (comparable to Harvard or Yale in stature).

        I’ve often wondered if Kamala’s issue is a combination imposter syndrome and being pushed really hard by a VERY accomplished mom and feeling second best to little sister. I suspect deep in her heart of hearts she knows she’s way out of her league but has failed upwards again and again leaving her in terror. I do not think she has ever been an off the cuff speaker and is not prone to put the work in to have even a vague level of competency/ One could almost feel sorry for her except that she seems to be a classic mean girl archetype blaming others for her problems.

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  4. Right now I’m more concerned about the Left painting themselves into a corner with all this “Trump is a Fascist”/”Trump is Hitler” when there appears to be a good chance that he’ll win.

    Many of them are thinking “we marched when he was first elected, but it didn’t change things” so “we should do something different this time”. 😟

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      1. I’m afraid you’re dead right on that one. And if they do succeed, they’ll have painted a very large target on every federal level Democrat in the country; and probably light off a murderous exchange the likes this country has never seen (but many others have – like revolutionary France for example.)

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          1. The world dodged a bullet in Pennsylvania. If there are a million folk who have given up on voting, just waiting for the start of the civil war, if only 1 % take it upon themselves to take revenge, that is 10,000 people looked for targets. Just 10% actually acting, thousands dead, and the civil war starts. How it ends, NO ONE KNOWS. One certainty, Civilization crashes hard.

            There is a reason for the left to attempt getting rid of guns, but all they do is, like Obama, become the best gun salesmen. The first thing Hitler did was gun control for Jews in Germany. It is much easier to convince people to board the cattle cars if they are not armed.

            The problem is that only the left can solve this problem, only Hamas can solve their problem. If someone wants to kill you, either they change their mind, or one of you is dead. This is why the fall seems the likely outcome. The left never stops.

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          2. They may realize it as an abstract possibility, but they believe that it won’t happen after 50+ years of “tolerating this.”

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            1. “Hell, that fuse has been burnong for 50 years, and ain’t nothin’ happened yet!”

              Dumb as bags of rocks…

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              1. A bag of rocks isn’t dumb when Jesus comes along. “The rocks and stones themselves, will start to sing!” And a bag of rocks are more useful too.

                However, their inability to understand the wisdom of a long fuse, and the difference between that and a misfire, are likely to lead us to a tragic ending. We must be ready for what needs to be done AFTERWARDS.

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                1. Amen to that; the best we can hope for is for things to not go kinetic, but I’m less sure every day that that will be the result. They simply have no conception of what can and will happen when “the people who just want to be left alone” have finally had enough; “Merry Romamian Christmas” is probably the least of it; a Committee of Public Safety is not beyond possibility, and then we’re all screwed.

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              2. They’re revolting alright. They smell. They look like they got in a fight with the dumpster behind the chemical plant and lost, with a few random bits of metal stuck in them as shrapnel. They sound like they were raised by syphlyitic chihuahuas (with apologies to small dogs everywhere).

                And their “ideas” that they cribbed from a lazy, couch surfing pseudo intellectual conman suck, too. Over and over again we find out that they cheated, lied, or outright plagiarized their way to the top (when it wasn’t some even darker method). And the party still does not disavow them when they are found out.

                With such (non-AOSHQ) morons there can be no proper argumentation. There is only pointing and laughing.

                And the memes of course. We will never give up our memes!

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          4. As I said, I’m worried about Harris’ planned speech in the Ellipse. Aside from her value as a martyr, a real black swan would be an attack by a rabid pro-Palestinian/Iranian.

            I sincerely hope the Secret Service is playing its A-game.

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          5. Or even worse; they are stupid enough to think they will somehow win. Given their view that their opponents are idiotic rubes, it is not an unreasonable conclusion.

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      2. IIRC, it was Jamie Raskin who proclaimed a couple of months ago that Trump would not be allowed to take office even if he won the election.

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          1. Since the vast majority of would-be and successful assassins in the USA are bughouse nuts:

            a) fairly safe to assume any armed nut near protectee intended or was at least considering assassination, depending on how tuned in to the mindrays from Mars or whatever was floating his brainpain today.

            b) said armed nut is bughouse nuts, so explanations will be bizarre admixtures of lies, delusions, misstated facts, irrelevencues, random actual truth, non-sequiturs, and lots of cray-cray.

            Thus feeding the other crazy conspiracy types.

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            1. Being bughouse nuts is a common characteristic of political assassins and would-be assassins, from Ur on. Not all, but that large majority.

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      4. This. Although should their crazies succeed should Trump wins any time after the votes are verified 1/3/2025 they may find that like Vader striking down Obi Wan they have bought themselves far more trouble than they expected. Trump has guaranteed that whatever happens to him any fixes he starts keep going, AND he has a pit bull terrier to deal with the press.

        Truthfully if they had let Trump have the second term instead of enhancing their way into Biden or just fricking ignored him for 4 years after planting the Turnip instead of attacking and martyring Trump and actually told the Turnip in Chief “NNo you get one term” and let the process choose someone else they’d likely be looking at a likely win for 2024 with maybe a follow on term. Certainly, No Personality Kamala would NOT be their nominee. Instead, the Obamaites got greedy and believed the stupid “Democrat party is the future forever” line. They’re lazy and greedy and those can be fatal flaws causing them to overreach.

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    2. They are trying to set the playing field for the event that they can’t fraud Commie Kamala over the finish line, and need to justify preventing Trump from taking office after beating the margin of fraud. The first step is doing what Hillary did in 2016 and doing everything possible to get the electors to be faithless and install Commie Kamala instead. If that fails, up second is if they stole enough House seats to get the House and thus have the House refuse to certify him as the winner. These steps will include large scale lawfare, as well as a sentencing by the NY kangaroo court to imprison Trump, with requests for release pending appeal denied. If all that fails, they will simply murder him. Simply put, they are going all in on preventing him from taking office again.

      Again, the rhetoric is to justify all of this.

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  5. Speaking of vocabulary … “a trepanned fish” … Sarah, I revere your command of the English language, vocabulary, idiom, the whole shebang … superior to my home-grown, child-of-an-English-teacher, facility, for which I have to apologize periodically when I reflexively correct someone … I will remember this phrase forever … thank you!

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    1. I never knew fish could suffer from depressed skull fractures, much less that there was surgical treatment for them. On the other hand, I should have realized that years ago with all the poor carp being flung violently about.

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  6. the left has the disadvantage that they never have to defend themselves until they reach the highest levels, which hurts selection as well as never allowing them to progress — which is funny in its way.

    Bill Clinton is a genius, a psychopath , but a genius. Obama is not stupid, but very shallow and lazy. Newsome the same. Pelosi is extremely ruthless, but not actually very bright. Schumer isn’t stupid. Hillary is stupid, Biden is moronic, and the Camel strikes me as actually dumber than Biden. Biden’s academic record is nothing to be proud of, but the Camel seems to have underperformed even he. She is very good at getting ahead though, von Hammerstein-Equord’s stupid and diligent personified.

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    1. I’m not sure about Hillary. People tend to marry their IQ range. I think she’s made herself stupid. And Pelosi, I’m estimating from before the alcohol pickled her brain.
      I agree that Commiela is dumber than Biden.

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      1. She’s really not that bright. Classic bon élève. Classic wannabe mean girl. Failed the DC bar, which is not a difficult bar. As for the attraction, Ole Bill has a pattern of liking them plump and busty and the young Hillary had herself a fair sized embonpoint. He also seems to like them kinda dumb. I suspect his insecurities from growing up a very bright Arkansas redneck who ended up in Oxford fill a large space,

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          1. I had to look that one up. It’s been a lot of years since I’ve read Stranger, and the ’91 edition is waiting for me to get to it, or more likely, for me to buy an eBook version. (My earlier RAHs were paperbacks, and didn’t survive our last move. I’ve acquired some in Kindle, and have found the e-reader better suited for how I now read. I have one or two hardback books that might never be touched, though I’ve read the eBooks.)

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            1. Annnd, Amazon doesn’t have the 1991 edition for the Kindle. OTOH, I think I have something coming up where I’ll have nothing much to do for a week. (Redo of a retina procedure. Best to not change altitude for a week postop, which means a week in a hotel. Lots of time to read, and one-eyed is fine.)

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      2. In the 1980s Hillary was a vicious bitch, but within normal range. Her problem might be medical.

        The starey eyes, non-sequitur diatribes, and sudden rages didn’t appear (that I can recall) until late in Dollar Billy’s first term as President.

        I’ve known people who acted like that. Most of them wound up on anti-psychotic drugs of one sort or another. They all hated the way the drugs made them feel (“I feel dead” was a common complaint) and often quit taking them, until they got cut out of normal society for being jerkwads. Then they’d go back on them for a while.

        But when Hillary was Boss of her little empire, there wasn’t any feedback loop to get her back on her meds, assuming she was on something.

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      3. Whatever Hillary was (and she was always unethical, thus getting fired from the Democratic Party team on the Watergate Committee for being unethical), she is not particularly bright these days, and her histrionics are ramped to 11. She is one of the loudest voices declaring Trump’s holding an event in MSG as replicating a Nazi rally held there, and yet:

        That’s right, the DNC nominated her husband to be President, in MSG.

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      4. Dysfunctional arrogance.

        “No one is actually smarter than me. Thus no one can legitimately defeat me. They cheated, or I would have won. Because I am smartest.”

        -That- is tattooed on her soul. Which is why she got her ass handed to her.

        If she were even a little humble, even slightly introspective, she might be genuinely dangerous.

        Nope.

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  7. “Virtuous” and “vile” are the real classifications. They may identify them by class, by race, by gender, by sexuality, by whether or not they butter toast before adding jelly or peanut butter, it’s ultimately window dressing, and the criteria can be changed in a heartbeat. Because “virtuous” really just means “obeys us” and “vile” means “will not obey us”.

    It’s all about power. Always has been, always will be.

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    1. It’s also an inherently genocidal ideology. By classifying people as being inherently
      “oppressor” or “oppressed” by virtue of their group membership/birth (or vile and virtuous), and declaring the goal of eliminating the oppressors, it is a rather open statement of intent to eliminate, i.e. murder, every single person who belongs to the designated “oppressor” group. This is why you see so many of the leftists who spout this ideology supporting mass murder of Jews. If anyone deserves to be described as modern day Nazis, it is the “woke” left who divides people into a duality by virtue of birth.

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      1. Omnicidal, perchance. To save the environment, they must first destroy it. To save the children, they corrupt them. To save the blacks, they shatter the family structure and corrupt their inheritance.

        There is no good to be found there, save perhaps good intentioned delusions and well meaning but low in practical intelligence but high in deluded maleducation fools.

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  8. I have noticed the left is creating a lot of radical anti-leftists, and that those are not the same as conservatives.

    Not going to be pretty how that plays out, but I have no idea how to stop it :/

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    2. Conservatives failed in their job to “conserve” anything worthwhile. Their politicians “conserved” their own power/money and merged into the Uni-party with the progressive-liberals.

      A better term for the “true” Right would be Constitutionists or the more popular “America Firsters”

      And the radical anti-leftists are just those that want to be left alone from tyrants and Karens.

      How it plays out will be “Whatever it takes, with chances of extra payback…”

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      1. I would still distinguish the radical anti-leftists from the Gadsten flag and classic liberals. Because most of the RaL are former soft leftists who got burned or worse by the Democrat party, and are more out for either blood or dominance than they are the freedom to be left alone. Many of them are still living in the Leftist frame, and have just decided if there is going to be a race/class war, they want to be the race/class on top, instead of the ones being fed into the ovens.

        Thing is, if you just want robe left alone, they will not do that. Even though they are against the Leftists, they simply don’t have the concept.

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  9. When told that somebody is ‘sharp as a tack’ I tend to keep my response muted because it will only get me in trouble.

    “Which end of the tack?”

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  10. As a heterosexual male I have always liked and encouraged homosexual men. More the better from my point of view.

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      1. I’m still on the fence about the Whoopi quotes, since most of them are relayed through the mass media, which is… unreliable.

        On the other hand, it’s entirely possible they’re true, either because she believes it, or because she wants to be as outrageous as possible to get some free notoriety. That seems to be a common tactic on the Left.

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  12. Speaking of smarts, or maybe not so smarts. You know what I love doing? Telling the Democrats my sons are voting for Trump this year. The Dems keep sending messages to the home number my kids used before they even went to college, and the lazy-assed Democrats have never updated their records. Confusion to the enemy!

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    1. I think I got put on the “Do NOT Call ” list for both parties a couple cycles back. I started telling the person calling that I was going to vote for the opponent of whoever called me last. The calls stopped dead.

      Of course, the fact I’ve only voted FOR a presidential candidate since Regan’s 2nd term run, I could still vote the way I thought was correct and not lie. But the calls stopped.

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      1. I answer unknown calls in Klingon. Cuts -way- down on repeats.

        Calling the Donkuloid vote wrangler a “willing slave” was oddly satisfying.

        My coworkers are often amused.

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        1. A friend’s wife sells some kind of skin-care products. When they get sales or political calls, she practices her marketing spiel on them.

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    2. I don’t seem to be getting much political robocalls this season. We regularly get calls identified as “NRA”. These go to the answering machine, and get a hangup. A websearch indicated that these might be third-party fundraisers for the NRA. I’m still a member, though my last renewal was several years ago, before the shenanigans of the executive became known. Flyover County is firearms-friendly, so it might be true.

      (Not discounting false flag, but it wouldn’t be surprising.)

      The Donks gave up when they called $SPOUSE when the Hildabeast was running. (2008?) At that time, she was still registered Dem, but her response to the caller (“Of course, you’re going to vote for Hillary in the primary, right?”) was great laughter. And a party change. We voted for Sarah Palin for VP and that guy for POTUS.

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      1. I get Texts. Mostly Pro-Trump yelling to early vote, but one “I’m a lifelong Republican who is voting Harris because J6, P2025, ‘Losers’, [etc]” replied “you are not a life long anything but Idiot” then the Stop and archived so if it comes again I’ve proof of the Stop. All my junk mail is the same pro-Trump Vote Early b.s.

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    3. My beloved is getting Harris begging emails. We have no idea why unless one of his Northeastern friends gave his name to the campaign as a joke (?).

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      1. I get email from Democrat campaigns, all to an address I’ve only used in one place: the local public library. Which apparently passed that around to the Democratic Party.

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      2. The Reader has been getting calls, texts, and emails from the Kamala campaign as well. In his case, it is because he lost a coin toss 40 years ago. The Reader and his wife had just moved to a nice suburban county with purple politics. We decided since we were going to be there for the long haul that each of us should register in one of the parties and contribute small amounts of money yearly to the local politicos. The Reader lost the toss and had to register as a Democrat. The contributions did help when we had to cut through the local bureaucracy a couple of time.

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      3. I for some reason get TONS of begging text spam from various Democrat causes. I have no clue why as my mobile number is post my change to the Republican party for the 2000 primary and I have NEVER donated to ANY political campaign for ANY party. I simply block the numbers and report them as spam. I do not wish to verify that there is someone at the other end as much as I really want to mock them sometimes. Many times the I’m already sold on trump you don’t have to tell me more meme would be SO tempting…

        I will note in the last 2-3 weeks their begging has gone to 11. This does NOT feel like someone who feels they have it in the bag.

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        1. Supposedly it is a deep psychological warfare ploy to make the (R) so comfortable that the Republicans don’t put out much effort and the (D) can walk off with a huge win in the White House and US House of Representatives.

          I think the author was whistling past a graveyard, but that was Politico, and it’s their job to be 1000% for the (D).

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          1. I think that author is smoking something. There is nothing to my knowledge that ties that cell # to a registered Republican. The area code (not that they mean much any more) is in eastern MA. As a whole Massachusetts has approximately 1.3 million Democrats, 450 thousand Republicans, 3.2 million unenrolled (i.e. independent not called that as there was briefly an Independent party) and about 35 thousand other minor parties primarily Green, Socialist and an odd Libertarian or two (and boy are those Libertarians odd). Likely MA will be 55-60% for Kamala dominated by Boston, Worcester, Springfield and other cities as well as Metro Boston and the smaller cities. Sending random stuff like that into the Mass Area codes as well as lots looking for money for other fights (especially senate fights that could flip senators from Blue to Red) argue that they’re actually looking for money. Suppressing Republican turnout in MA is about as useless a use of funds as I can think of, even Kamala’s people aren’t that stupid.

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            1. I think that author is smoking something. There is nothing to my knowledge that ties that cell # to a registered Republican. 

              Well, for openers, has that Republican ever donated money to any Republican candidate? The FEC requires name, current address, and current employer. Many of the donation sites also ask for phone number, but just what the Feds require will cross-reference to any number of commercial databases, credit reports, credit card companies that process the donations, all of which will have a phone number.

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              1. To the best of my knowledge I have never donated to a political candidate or overtly political group. In addition until 2000 I was a registered Democrat in MA (and NH before that). For CT I was unenrolled/independent.

                The messages do NOT contain my name and usually have less common names (Luis, Eva, and Alice, the Democrats thus misgendering me twice I should sue) referenced. My cell number was in a newly created (in 2002) prefix for the town it is in so there is no previous owner. I know this because in 2002 when we got our cell numbers the Verizon person was excited to see the new prefix and gave my wife and me sequential numbers in it.

                This looks like the texting/phishing equivalent of what used to be called war dialing either from spammers hoping for a response or from Democrat PACs. Although, that my wife has not seen similar (remember sequential numbers) argues against pure war dialing. The links embedded in the texts are not obviously incorrect/spammy nor are they obviously pointing to a .org site as might be expected for a political PAC. These texts REALLY took off after they kicked the Turnip in Chief to the door and it was Kamala. Pretty much I treat any unsolicited text or call as likely phishing. Source numbers LOOK like valid US numbers Area codes from DC, Florida or if about senate races from the state in question. These are almost always old style area codes (0 or 1 as middle digit) not modern overly codes as you will usually see with cell numbers.

                I have also seen texts that purport to be about Massachusetts ballot questions (Opposed to 2 which would eliminate the MCAS high school graduation, NOT a Democrat position at all, and in favor of 4 which would legalize the growing and use of psychedelic mushrooms for medicinal and recreational purposes generally opposed by the in power democrats). I don’t remember links on these, nor did they use some spurious name.

                The quantities have been increasing of late. In August and September it was 3-4 a week. I have been averaging 6-7 a DAY starting in Mid October.

                It does hurt my feelings that my best option seems to be staying radio silent. The joy I could get in replying to some of these is really quite tempting.

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        2. For cellphones– if they’re attached to any public records, like a mortgage, they can and do farm those.

          And some locations sell your phone number to other “charities.”

          And some are just raw generate-numbers-and-guess-location.

          So before I changed numbers I was getting texts from all over Washington state, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and from teh folks that a lady whose put the wrong number at her hair dresser in the Great Lakes area had her data sold to.

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          1. It is POSSIBLE my cell might have been attached to the mortgage (although that mortgage is now gone as of January this year). In general if we give a number to a charity it is the landline (which more and more is just a honeypot for random calls) so that route seems unlikely. And I will note that several charities (both Christian and secular) that claim NOT to sell your name almost certainly do given experiences we’ve had.

            The number is in an area code roughly equates to North Metro Massachusetts. It is NOT one of the original 3 MA area codes (617, 413, or 508 that was a late 80’s add on). The prefix marks it as being in a 3 town region which tends to vote slightly more Republican. But only >10% of MA is registered Republican (with ~35% being registered Democrat and the remaining 55%+ being unenrolled). So randomly throwing darts is unlikely to find a Republican to dishearten. As unenrolled tend to be pretty liberal on average (this is after all Massachusetts) Occam’s razor favors these either being requests hunting real donations OR phishing spam fishing in very fecund waters with prey both stupid AND liberal, but I repeat myself. Certainly cheaper than sending hordes of paper fliers and more effective than phone calls (especially to land lines which invariably have caller ID on them and so ignore most anything unfamiliar). Perhaps I shall try to fish out the links and feed them to some websites that verify link sources. It’s not like I won’t get 20-30 more texts between now and election day.

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  13. They’re equally blind to the fact that screaming about evil white men is creating the white male political demographic. The group of “white men” have very little else in common, ranging from trust fund millionaires to disabled coal miners. Keep lumping them all together and eventually they will start voting together.

    I hate self-fulfilling prophecies because they are (usually) so easy to see coming. Poor Fenris.

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  15. The Left and MSM have run out of ideas. It was very obvious last night on social media during the rally at MSG. All they do right now is keep shouting Fascist/Nazi at Trump and Vance and dig themselves deeper into a hole with anyone not already in their clutches. I think there’s going to be quite a lot of people with mental health breakdowns if/when Trump wins. Their TDS is debilitating.

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      1. I found it rather amusing with Commie LaWhoris’s “joy” campaign. I kept waiting for “strength through joy”, perhaps melding into “work makes freedom”. Both sound better in the original German. “Kraft durch Freude” und “Arbeit macht Frei”.

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  16. The way Democrats keep backstabbing KH, and the way they are mostly Clinton, Biden, and even Obama people… I really am starting to think that the current leadership is afraid of KH being superseded forceably by Walz and his Xiist/Maoist masters.

    Because they know they’d be next to go up against the wall, and they kinda like being alive.

    Of course, it’s possible that they’re just asking for more money, and that they are that stupid.

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  17. The Daily Mail is reporting Tim Walz had an affair with the daughter of a CCP official during his trips to China. She was despondent when he didn’t marry her.

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    1. Which suggests that, if true, China’s in really bad shape if the kids of Party members want out. And that Walz is a sleeze, again, if true.

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  18. > Bill Clinton is fairly brilliant (had to be to keep his sex-bunny eruptions silent so long.) 

    —

    Dollar Billy’s sexual adventures were not only widely known in Arkansas, they were even reported in the local newspapers, which were otherwise his bootlicking sycophants.

    That’s why Arkansans were standing around going “Whaat?” when he became a candidate, and then “WTF?” when he got the nomination, and then “Who is this guy they’re promoting, who seems nothing like the former Governor, and is nobody going to look in the newspaper archives, or even ask around back in his home state, so see what kind of seedy baggage he’s bringing to the ticket?”

    This being only four or five years after Gary Hart’s Presidential ambitions went down the toilet after he got caught in an extramarital affair.

    But the national media went “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil”, and back in the pre-internet days it worked well enough.

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    1. IIRC Gary Hart’s “problem” was some reporter challenged him on that issue and Hart said “prove it”.

      And the reporter followed Hart and caught him “fooling around”.

      Hart was an idiot for “issuing the prove it challenge” and not keeping it in his pants after saying “prove it”. LOL

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      1. Also Hart was running against The Party’s preferred candidate, so destroying him was part of the Democratic Party media arm’s job during that campaign.

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    2. The Powerline guys said the same thing about Walz – that he got the tongue bath of worshipful coverage from the major local papers, and so no one on a national level had any notion of what an incompetent sleaze he really was.

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      1. They saw what he was doing and thought it was the right thing, so he was one of the good guys, currently that is blowing up in their faces. The only problem for them is if they can swing cheating enough down ticket. I think they’d throw *KamalaWhorus overboard if they could.

        *A KamalaWhorus is not a big Dinosaur just so we are clear, the Kamalawhorus was small and lived in swamps and sucked in the scum off the top of brackish water.

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      2. Occasionally, MN has moments of sanity. Back a number of years, “Skip” Humphrey was campaigning against another similar grey, mediocre, and equally boring faceless entity. The voters couldn’t decide which they disliked the most. Jessie Ventura ran as an Independent and won the Govenor election. The political wailing and gnashing of teeth was heartrending.

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        1. I have deep roots in Minnesota (went to college there, father’s whole family is there) and every Minnesotan I talked to loved Ventura. If the stupid bastard had kept away from that Playboy interview, he might have won re-election.

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      1. Using normal definitions of “social media”, you’ll probably be able to post things, but whether other can respond (if they can even see it at all) is iffy.

        All of the major players are hard Left and have bragged in public about their censorship of non-Left opinions.

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      1. “Slick Willie” was coined by his Presidential campaign people. He was always “Dollar Billy” before that, in acknowlegement of his taxation and lavish funding of the backers who financed his governatorial campaigns.

        A whole lot of Arkansans were shocked when he wound up as Governor. With what I’ve learned about elections since, I now have some doubts as to how he wound up in office.

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    5. My aunt lived in Arkansas and would agree whole heartedly with the fact that Billy Clinton was a sexual abusing turd. She always claimed that Arkansas supported the Clinton campaign because it was the best way to get him out of the state.

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  20. As I’m old, easily broken, and work for one of the corporations that donates the wrong way, I’m going to, momentarily, bury my head in the sand and ask for help in remembering an old TV show. I think it starred Gary Collins and it revolved around an office where (through psychic powers?) folks were getting killed by doors and stuff.

    Not a great description; but it’s at least a form of science fiction…

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      1. And he’s an icky neeeerd that all popular girls should shun!

        …You do want to be a popular girl, don’t you?

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  22. The ignorance, and stupidity in politics is the same as the water fish swim in. Fish have no idea they’re swimming in water. Political hacks have no idea their narratives are ignorant, and stupid.

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    1. That was one thing that always impressed me about Fred Thompson, who apparently dated quite a few women while single in Hollywood, so when he ran for President, naturally the Democrats tried to get them to denounce him.

      Not one of them would.

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  24. “I can tell this, because what I look for to determine “At least normal intelligence” is ‘Can complete an understandable sentence that doesn’t wander off into nowhere or contradict itself.’ “

    Not always true. I know a few guys that listening to them is like trying to decipher alien hieroglyphics. Very high intelligence, essentially zero social intelligence to the point that they collapse into gobbledegook in public.

    Luckily, they have very intelligent wives that translate for them. Heavens help them if the wife dies first. Those poor men shouldn’t be let out in public without their minders.

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  25. I can disarm a lefty smarty-pants with a single question: If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?

    Asked myself that question a few decades back, and wised up finding the an$wer.

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    1. AOC is rich. The Biden corrupto-family is rich. Whole lotta rich Leftroids around. None of ’em are so smart, though. They don’t have to be — they’re connected. They pull down millions in graft selling out America to our enemies.

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      1. Connected and corrupt among the multitudes of corrupt in office. The reason why, even when they were “on their side” that they’ve had tumultuous relations with Trump and Musk. They’ve made their bucks because of their smarts and only played the corruption as much as needed to do biz in the areas they were working (Musk far less than Trump who dealt with NYFC and Alantic City Levels of corruption on both side of the law)

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        1. My previous place of employment was mostly college educated libs and trust funders. Most called in sick after the 2016 election and that is when I decided working on my exit plan…

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          1. Had a similar experience way back in 1980, when I walked into a large lecture hall for one of my grad courses at Stanford. It was the day after Reagan got elected, and you’d thought he’d stolen everyone’s birthday. Except, of course, for me, grinning like an idiot.😜

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          2. Had a similar experience way back in 1980, when I walked into a large lecture hall for one of my grad courses at Stanford. It was the day after Reagan got elected, and you’d thought he’d stolen everyone’s birthday. Except, of course, for me, grinning like an idiot.😜

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  26. Many of the people we’re dealing with on the E!Democrat side are…well, cunning would be the world that I’d use. They’re great at spinning stories, working a good con, working out what would make you happy to get what they want, one-on-one.

    The problem is that it doesn’t scale up. Not without a lot of people giving them cover, one way or another. And Harris is in no way smart enough to use her cunning effectively.

    And I think a number of the corporate overlords in charge of media outlets are realizing that if they don’t put the brakes on the stupid…they won’t have an industry anymore. Not even actual reform, just…not letting their people dig their holes deeper (i.e. the failure of a number of newspapers to endorse anyone and their staff screaming stupid things on the Internet where everyone can see them).

    What really worries me? Three possible things.

    Possible Thing #1-Harris catches a bullet and the killer can be spun for just long enough to elect Walz (who, I swear to God looks like Don Rickles doing LSD) on a martyrdom platform. And Walz uses her death to go full Maoist and ask for help from his allies.

    Possible Thing #2-Trump wins, but the E!Democrats crank up the lawfare to the point where that 1% of the hardcore MAGA crowd decide it’s time to go all Smuggler’s Blues, “everything exploded and the blood began to spill” and the chaos gets worse from there as the violence increases.

    Possible Thing #3-Trump wins, they can’t work out a viable method of cheating Harris into office, and the one-hundred-and-seventy million or so people that have been believing the story that Trump is Worse Than Hitler have to confront the sheer cognitive dissidence. (That dissidence either being that they are wrong or that Evil has won. See the second-nobody wants to think they’re wrong.) We may be looking at riots, people losing their minds on a wholescale level, and their 1% of lunatics deciding to obey the octopus in their brain and start going after the Evil MAGA People.

    There’s a reason why I’m not going anywhere near a big city until mid-January at the earliest. Why I’ve got sixty days of supplies stored.

    And I’m trying to stay hopeful.

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    1. I was planning on competing in a 3-gun match next month, but given the potential for ‘unrest’, that’s $500-$750 in ammunition to replace at current prices. I’ll see what things look like next spring.

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    2. I’m not looking forward to the 3 upcoming runs to Memphis/Bartlett TN I have on the agenda for TGDay, Xmas, and Mom’s Bday (MLK day)Granted I do my best to avoid the stupid bad areas (travel via Beloit but still gotta get past East St Lou) and Mom is on the MEM/Bart border north and east of the rot, but still, I at least don’t go through West Mem/Mem, by going via Dyersburg.

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    3. Possible thing #4: Start taking that catchphrase “You don’t hate the media enough” as something to agree with, and what logically follows.

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      1. Barring a massive Harris win, this might be the last hurrah of the “classic” mainstream media as a force in politics. If she wins, you can bet any paper that endorsed her is going to get some kind of support payments, one way or another.

        More people trust podcasts and YouTube than any network news program.

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  27. The natural analogy would seem to be “orientationist” for people who irrationally detest gays and lesbians as classes, or “genderist” for people who irrationally detest trans people as a class. This used to work for coining new labels: it gave us “classist” and “ageist” and “ableist” and even “speciesist.”

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    1. And it’s true, for values of “1800s Austria.”

      Looks like he’s on the patio of his place in Obersalzburg.

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    1. Christopher Stasheff had college professors go undercover as bar tenders and the like and thus manage to educate everyone to a college level. This solved all of society’s problems except that communication was too hard. (Hence the telepaths of Gramayre were crucial to what path society would take.)

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      2. That sounds right.

        When you’ve read so many books over such a long time that you can clearly remember parts of them, but not which book they were in. Just recently I recalled a setting, and ascribed it to ‘The Starfollowers Of Coramonde’ and Rick Cook. A belated search of my bookshelves revealed that it was actually ‘The Doomfarers Of Coramonde’ by Brian Daley. ‘Starfollowers’ was the second book, also by Daley.

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