The Matt Gaetz-Pam Bondi Switch

November 22, 2024 Hunter Wallace Conservatism, Politics, Populists 37

UPDATE:

This long Twitter thread explains why I am not upset about Gaetz going down. He screwed himself by associating with these people and it was too late to pull up from his nosedive.

It sucks.

I learned my lesson years ago on this.

Throughout the whole 2024 election cycle, I repeatedly said on X that activists focus too much on Trump and the presidency and neglect Senate races. No matter who is the president it is always the margins in the House and the Senate that determine whether anything gets done.

Here are some recent examples:

  • Obamacare passing on a party line vote in the Senate
  • Kelly Ayotte losing her Senate race in 2016 giving the incoming Trump administration a thin Senate majority controlled by Mitch McConnell to work with
  • John McCain singlehandedly torpedoing Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare in 2017
  • Years of grandstanding by people like Jeff Flake
  • Trump governing in a coalition with Senate Republicans and neutering his agenda to appease them because of the threat of impeachment from the Mueller probe
  • The first Trump administration only delivered the First Step Act and the Trump tax cuts because it was the only two things Senate Republicans could agree on
  • The chaos that ensued when Republicans bungled away a key Senate seat to the Democrats here in Alabama when Roy Moore lost to Doug Jones in late 2017. By early 2018, the Trump legislative agenda was dead in the Senate and completely dead after the 2018 midterms
  • In the Georgia runoffs after the 2020 election, Democrats won two key Senate races. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock enabled Democrats to pass the American Rescue Plan which spiked inflation which ultimately destroyed the Biden presidency
  • Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema saved the filibuster
  • The Senate is where most of Joe Biden’s legislative agenda died because of Republicans using the filibuster and opposition from Manchin and Sinema

In Trump’s second term, we can expect the Senate to play its customary role as the place where Trump’s agenda will be blocked. We knew going into the 2024 election that the tighter the margin in the Senate the harder it would be for anything to pass through Congress because it would empower the likes of Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski to play the moderate spoiler which happened with Matt Gaetz.

In 2020, I made two mistakes. I was so angry about Jeff Sessions that I refused to vote for Tommy Tuberville who has proven to be one of the better senators. Then I foolishly endorsed Ossoff and Warnock because I was so angry about with the deficit hawks who were ultimately proved right about inflation.

By the 2022 midterms, I had changed course. Anticipating this problem and reeling from Biden’s inflation, I was willing to support the likes of Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, Kari Lake and Joe O’Dea in Colorado just to give Trump enough yes men to push through his agenda. In 2024, Republicans dropped four key Senate races in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan and nearly lost in Pennsylvania by a margin of 1% or so because a small percentage of Trump voters failed to vote for Senate candidates. In the process, they bungled away an forfeited an enormous amount of power to Mitch McConnell over Trump’s agenda.

Activists, of course, spent the whole election cycle trying to defeat Trump and all the Senate candidates who would have confirmed his appointments. Now, they will whine about Pam Bondi replacing Matt Gaetz who is out as AG because he is short of ONE VOTE in the Senate. Their whole political program is self sabotage.

37 Comments

  1. A liberal Girl Boss, 2 failed marriages, no mention of any children, a long stint as a foreign lobbyist for Qatar (Qatar is
    just a huge CIA base, nothing more nothing less), a member of sorority psi psi psi (there are different spellings) which has an interesting symbol, yes, the 6 sided Star of Remphan which the Yids call the Star of David.

    Early life scrubbed, neatly scrubbed.

    All very expected, but what for Gaetz?

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  2. Gaetz was six or seven votes shy in the Senate, not one. The only opportunity was for Trump to do a recess appointment, which he definitely could have done, but he decided he didn’t want Gaetz in that position. It had nothing to do with your personal beef with people you call activists. You should drop that. Whose fault was C’ville? I was set to go, but then I was able to understand that the whole thing was a Trump/FBI setup to destroy the Alt Right. You were not able to understand that and fell into the trap. That was a bad break, but it was your fault.

    The Senate seats in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada were stolen. The Jews are trying to blame it on voters, such as the Jews at Citizen Free Press. That is a lie. Those seats were stolen.

    Why can’t you just tell the truth, that Trump simply decided he didn’t want Gaetz? Are you writing your own scripts down there any more?

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    • There were four no votes. He could have afforded to lose three. He lost by one vote … McConnell.

      This happened solely because 1.) a fraction of people chose not to vote or 2.) just voted for Trump. For a whole year, a chorus of “anti-Zionists” and other people like Forever DeSantis supporters and abolitionists told people not vote. This is the result. It wasn’t enough to sink Trump, but they were successful in empowering McConnell and Thune in the Senate

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      • “solely” – just like “white women” “solely” won the election for Donald Kike who pretended he was going to appoint Gaetz?

        You could just as easily say Catholics put Trump over the top. It’s RIDICULOUS.

        And Biden “solely” won because of the Anti-Vax crowd, eh? Who are you kidding?

        I voted but did not vote for Trump. Those who accept betrayal in the name of the “lesser evil” will never have political success.

        Those who deny or minimize the systematic fraud are not serious.

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  3. The Democrats stole the Senate seats as they generally do in those states.

    It’s clear now, from the bellwethers and the absence of coattails that the whole federal government conspired to rig the 2020 election.

    Democrats cheat in every election, and our whole political system is centered on allowing Democrats to continue to rig elections in urban areas, the permanent government in DC is premised on a de facto one party state, and Trump is part of that.

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    • > The Democrats stole the Senate seats as they generally do in those states.

      Indeed. You forgot to mention the second part of the flim-flam tho… The Gay Old Pedoburo played its part faithfully and did zip to resist or fight the fraud in several states where the D-jerseys get to count votes until they get the desired outcome.

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    • With all due respect, the Communists didn’t take over the Democrat Party and the Fabian socialists didn’t take over the Republican Party overnight. If the Democrats of 1952 led by Adlai Stevenson ran on the 2020 and 2024 platform of the Democrats led by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, pitchfork and torch-bearing Americans would have lynched them.

      We got to this point seventy years later.

      In their euphoria over his 2016 win, Pro-White Activists expected miracles from Trump who is not only a flawed candidate, but he is just one man. Their movement paid dearly for this error. Let’s not repeat this mistake. Keep our expectations low, take any win we can, and work to find candidates who can take the ball from Trump and move it up the field.

      This is not 1952 anymore. That America is over. Our shrinking demographics are going to force us to actually make strategic alliances with the White Adjacents – Non-Whites who prefer and want to adopt White American culture.

      We need to be a lot less emotional and reactive in our responses and be more detached, objective, and pragmatic in our responses. Matt Gaetz is gone and is thus, no longer relevant to our objectives. We need to focus on getting the rest of Trump’s picks across the finished line and then we need to focus on getting more Democrats and Rinos ousted from office in 2026 to be replaced by candidates who are America First.

      We need to get enough numbers in Congress that they can pass legislation to correct our dysfunctional election processes and create a national ID card to be presented in person at election time.

      I am against one day voting. Too much sabotage can be accomplished on Election Day with voting machines, but I do think a set amount of time for in-person early voting with the actual Day of Election being the deadline should ensure proper elections.

      Hopefully, Vance will be president in 2028. We need to make sure HIS Vice President is to the right of Vance and so on.

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  4. All one really needs to know about this:

    Remaining hard feelings among Capitol Hill Republicans that Gaetz toppled Kevin McCarthy. Which provoked a staredown contest between Trump and Mitch McConnell, which the latter won. That’s how Trump can be had, now I can see. Old as he is, he’s still a relative babe in the woods in the political arena. And types like McConnell, pat you on the back with one hand and stab you with the other, are his kryptonite.

    And that politics haven’t gone away, political division hasn’t gone away, the homeostatic equilibrium always reasserts itself. For the next two years, we can see where the homeostatic equilibrium will be: In between the White House and McConnell-allied Senate Republicans. Not any kind of IRL King Lear. Hell, the next two years may be much more like Richard III.

    Note: Don’t buy that the act of nominating Gaetz with the knowledge that he would be rejected was some deliberately planned long track 4D chess. Trump truly wanted Gaetz. Because, and this is supposed to be a paraphrase of a direct quote on those who were vetting AG candidates:

    “None of the attorneys had what Trump wants, and they didn’t talk like Gaetz,” … “Everyone else looked at AG as if they were applying for a judicial appointment. They talked about their vaunted legal theories and constitutional bull—-. Gaetz was the only one who said, ‘Yeah, I’ll go over there and start cuttin’ f—— heads.’”

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    • That’s a interesting observation. Now I know that McCarthy was a typical member of the Gay Old Pedoburo and more useless than tits on a hog (as they say down at the Happy Hollow Hog Farm), but what exactly did Gaetz accomplish by working for his downfall? Instead we get the equally useless groveling POS Mikey Johnson who never missed an opportunity to fellate our enemies. As Murika’s firstest Mexican Presidente, Caudillo of Crawford Jorge W. Busheron might have said: Heckuva job Matty!

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      • @Exalted Cyclops,

        Speaking of Jeb Bush, on his Twitter/X account, he has clapped harder than “AGB” at statements from Lyndsey Graham and Netanyahu at Lutnick-Kushner-Trump cabinet nominees.

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  5. ” In Trump’s second term, we can expect the Senate to play it’s customary role as the place where Trump’s agenda will be blocked ” no doubt, we the electorate are very reliable, about going back to sleep, soon as the election is over, to many in the Senate and Congress, suffer from the same arrogance and sense of entitlement, that you find in the media and among the tenured in academia, we should keep the spotlight on these crooked, whorishly, fake politicians indefinitely, we ought to be looking over their shoulders, same as they do us, IMHO, …… We have to stay serious, if we expect them to take us seriously ……

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    • We can’t rest until every Congress Critter in Clowngress has an AFPAC (America First Political Action Committee) Guy to call and consult before s/he votes on a bill. We need our own AIPAC.

      Those “AIPAC Guys” know that Congress Critters are untrustworthy as hell and wouldn’t hesitate to stab their own mother in the back to enrich or empower themselves. That’s why they are on the phone with them every day and pay regular visits to their offices to let them know that we are WATCHING you!

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  6. If your core team consists of Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, then mass deportations simply will not happen.

    If Marco Rubio is your Secretary of State, you won’t be ending any wars.

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  8. As a Huey Long populist, you should support universal healthcare without being able to reject someone for a pre-existing condition. While Medicare for all is better, Obamacare is still better than nothing.

    Or did you decide screw Andrew Yang and Huey Long because you’re a Trumper now?

    Populists may like Trump’s stance on immigration, but they should oppose Trump on healthcare.

    I, however, identify myself as a Vangaurdist (but not a Jew obsessive), not a Populist.

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    • I was only describing the pivotal role played by the Senate in the outcome of really all major legislation going back to Obamacare. The point is that margins in the Senate have been make or break and Gaetz going down is the latest example of this

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    • The problems related to jews are at largely the fault of whites’ abandonment of traditional Christianity’s teachings about the Synagogue of Satan. Even old folk-takes like The Old Grandmother’s Tale (See that SHIT? It’s really GOLD!!) have been disregarded in favor of an enlightenment-era lie. That’s how you end up with entire churches in deep heresy like the bible commentaries of a reprobate like Cyrus Scofield (who never should have been allowed anywhere near a pulpit). The example you cite is at least 50% investor stupidity.

      The reform has to come from within, not from outside. If whites took back their churches and purged the woke and other enablers of the Synagogue of Satan, there would be fewer of their people falling for such rackets – and far worse things. Pedowood would lose business, along with many other operating rackets.

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  10. meanwhile… across the pond

    “Switzerland: 67% Of Prisoners Are Foreigners”
    https://www.renegadetribune.com/switzerland-67-of-prisoners-are-foreigners/

    I would implement a concentration camp detention/labor system for all European countries. If you get busted you will pay for your incarceration and also contribute to society, and we will use your labor to accomplish that. The penalty would be much more lengthy if you are a non-White person in a White country. You’d also be deported, after your sentence was filled.

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  11. @charlie

    What about prison colonies? Vast swathes of South America could be turned into indefinite detention centers.

    But without the wall…hmmm

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    • Ahhh are you the same Martin Kerr who is the leader of the Anti-Christ Nazi cult the New Order? Just remember that oneday every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is lord & king of all.

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  13. Pam Bondi has been on my radar every since the $30,000.00 “real estate class” scams were going on. It wasn’t just Trump University, there was Scott Yancey and many other brandings for the same scam. It’s partly why I always knew Trump was lying. Before 2016 I knew he was fake. If you were paying attention in 2014 like me, you would have noticed Pam Bondi accepted a lot of money from these scammers as Florida AG in order not to take any action to stop them. As a decent white Christian, I do not support her immorality, nor Trump’s.

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  14. I hope I am very wrong but I fear what we have done is simply kick the can down the road so that our children have to fight for their survival. And their numbers will continue to decline while the blacks, browns and others grow. The fight our children may have will be much more difficult.

    What leads me to this was an encounter this week with a friend from long ago. He is a typical boomer republican. His only concern even now is for Trump to fix the economy.

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  15. “Denver mayor threatens to deploy cops, 50K residents in ‘Tiananmen Square moment’ to stop Trump’s mass deportations”

    Isn’t that just great !
    We have public officials defying the law to help criminals.

    This country is insane !

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  16. It seemed Matt liked to give roofies to underaged girls in order to have sex with them and these girls were going to go public. Wait, wait, wait, Pam Bondi was the head of law enforcement in the state of Florida, what did she do to punish Matt? Zilch, that is what she did. She sold out her victims for political gain and now you see her just rewards. She made AG by protection criminals like Matt Gaetz and protecting all the other filth in Florida who can buy their way out fo criminal prosecution.

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  17. OT:

    Sounds like someone in NATO in one of the European nations, might want the EU to have their own “war economy” as well…So maybe Trump can just cut off funding to Ukraine and skip trying to end the war and let the European nations take over and fund the Russo-Ukrainian war on their own. Trump could then start focusing “sooner” on America first and keep us out of all these wasteful endless wars…


    BERLIN, November 23. /TASS/. The confrontation in Ukraine is no longer a regional conflict, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said.

    The conflict in Ukraine “ceased to be a regional war long ago,” the DPA news agency quoted him as saying at an event organized to the Friedrich Ebert Foundation close to Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD). According to Pistorius, Russia has “entirely switched to the war economy” and is manufacturing as many weapons and munitions in three months as the European Union can manufacture in a year. “Our defense is a fragile thing,” he said and called on Germany to invest more into its warfare capacities.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 21 that strikes on Russian territory with Western long-range missiles had made the conflict in Ukraine a global one. The West’s provocative policy may entail serious consequences if escalation continues, the Russian leader warned.

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  18. OT:

    This is Doomsday prepping, European style.

    Secret documents revealed Wednesday that Berlin has begun making plans for how it could help deploy as many as 800,000 NATO troops — including Americans — into Ukraine as Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling reaches new heights.

    “Operation Deutschland” is a 1,000-page plan to prepare Germany for the possibility of a World War III scenario.

    The top-secret papers reportedly detail specific buildings and infrastructure to protect so they can be utilized by the military, and how businesses and civilians should prepare in case of increased threats, according to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

    They also suggested Berlin was preparing a way to push 200,000 military vehicles across German territory should the alliance be required to join Ukraine’s efforts, though further details were kept classified.

    Germany has also advised citizens on ways to prepare for the worst by boosting their self-sufficiency through mechanisms including installing diesel generators or even wind turbines, according to the report.

    The alarm is not contained to Germany. Sweden and Norway have also recently issued pamphlets and literature instructing citizens on how to prepare should the Ukraine conflict boil over into their countries.

    The rising concern comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin formally changed the Kremlin’s nuclear strike policy on Tuesday, announcing that Moscow may now use nuclear weapons to respond to non-nuclear, “conventional weapons” strikes…
    — NY Post article online

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  19. Can the incoming AG bypass congress during this national emergency that will be declared and introduce a program to allow private citizens to capture illegals for a reward?

    Here is what I asked AI about letting Congress do it:

    Me:
    Can Congress pass a law to allow private individuals who are qualified by passing a thorough vetting process and who have had prior work in law enforcement to capture, detain and turn over to ICE (federal agency) illegal aliens for set reimbursement amount per illegal?

    AI:
    Yes, Congress could theoretically pass a law that allows private individuals who meet specific qualifications—such as passing a thorough vetting process and having prior law enforcement experience—to capture, detain, and turn over illegal aliens to ICE (a federal agency) in exchange for a set reimbursement amount for each individual. However, such a law would face significant legal, constitutional, operational, and ethical challenges. Below is a breakdown of these considerations.
    1. Congress’s Constitutional Authority

    Federal Power over Immigration: Congress has the authority to regulate immigration under the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), and this includes passing laws related to enforcement of immigration policies. Therefore, Congress could create a legal framework that permits private individuals to assist in the enforcement of immigration laws by detaining and turning over illegal aliens to federal authorities, specifically ICE.
    Delegation of Authority: While Congress has the power to delegate certain enforcement responsibilities, it has historically limited such delegations when they involve sensitive functions like detention, especially when constitutional rights are at stake. For instance, ICE and CBP currently handle these tasks, and private individuals are typically not given direct authority to detain people based on immigration violations.

    2. Constitutional and Legal Concerns

    Due Process Rights (Fifth Amendment): The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law. This means that even individuals who are in the U.S. illegally have certain legal protections, including the right to contest detention. Allowing private individuals to detain and turn over people to ICE for a monetary reward could raise significant constitutional questions. Due process could be violated if such detentions are not done according to strict legal standards, and detainees may not have adequate access to legal representation or challenge their detention.

    Fourth Amendment: The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. If private individuals are given the authority to arrest or detain people, there would need to be clear rules about when and how they can make arrests. Probable cause would have to be met, and their actions would need to be closely monitored to avoid unlawful detentions or violations of individuals’ constitutional rights.

    3. Practical and Operational Considerations

    Vetting and Training: If Congress passed such a law, private individuals would need to undergo extensive vetting and training to ensure that they meet legal, ethical, and operational standards. This would include background checks, training in federal immigration law, human rights considerations, and proper detention procedures. The law could specify that individuals with prior law enforcement experience undergo additional training specific to immigration law enforcement.

    Oversight and Accountability: There would need to be rigorous oversight to ensure that these private individuals do not abuse their powers. This would include mechanisms for tracking and reviewing their actions, reporting requirements, and ensuring that any detentions are carried out lawfully and with respect for the rights of the detainees.

    Liability and Legal Protection: A federal law allowing private individuals to detain people could expose those individuals and potentially the federal government to legal liability. The law would need to establish protections against wrongful detention, excessive force, and abuse, as well as liability mechanisms in case individuals violate detainees’ rights.

    4. Ethical and Incentive Concerns

    Incentivizing Detention: The proposed compensation system (paying a set amount per individual detained and handed over to ICE) could create perverse incentives for private individuals to detain people arbitrarily or illegally in order to maximize their earnings. This could lead to racial profiling, wrongful detentions, and abuses of power. To mitigate this, the law would need to have strict safeguards and conditions attached to payments, such as the requirement that each detention be verified by ICE as appropriate before any reimbursement is issued.

    Public and Legal Backlash: A program like this could also generate public opposition due to the ethical concerns of outsourcing core law enforcement responsibilities to private individuals. Additionally, civil rights organizations and legal advocacy groups might challenge the law as violating constitutional protections and increasing the potential for abuses of power.

    5. Legal and Political Challenges

    Court Challenges: Any law authorizing private individuals to detain and transfer people to ICE would likely face legal challenges, including claims that it violates individuals’ constitutional rights or improperly delegates federal law enforcement powers to private citizens. Courts would likely examine whether such a system respects due process, Fourth Amendment rights, and whether the program could lead to discriminatory practices or illegal detentions.

    Federal Oversight vs. Privatization: There are existing models for contracting with private entities (e.g., private prison companies or security contractors), but directly outsourcing detention would likely raise questions about whether it undermines the proper exercise of federal authority. Given the sensitive nature of immigration enforcement, this could be viewed as an overreach in privatizing core governmental functions that are typically subject to strict federal control.

    6. Existing Frameworks and Alternatives

    There are already existing frameworks for cooperation between federal and state/local authorities (e.g., the 287(g) program, which allows certain state and local law enforcement officers to assist ICE with immigration enforcement). Expanding these partnerships might be a more feasible alternative to engaging private individuals directly in immigration detention.

    Private sector involvement in immigration enforcement could potentially be used for supportive roles, such as transportation or managing detention facilities, rather than allowing private individuals to engage in apprehension and detention.

    Conclusion:

    While Congress could theoretically pass a law authorizing private individuals to capture, detain, and turn over illegal aliens to ICE in exchange for compensation, this idea would face significant legal, constitutional, and operational hurdles. There would need to be robust protections to ensure that constitutional rights are upheld, oversight is maintained, and abuses of power are prevented. The incentive system could create perverse motivations, and liability risks would need to be carefully addressed. Given the potential for legal challenges, it would require substantial safeguards to avoid violations of rights and to maintain public confidence in the fairness of immigration enforcement.

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  20. How do all swing states go to Trump but then all the sentate races go to pepsi’s? Makes no sense. The usual election shennanigans have been reported but nobody cares. The cokes better audit the voting software while they still have some power to cling to but they won’t.

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  21. Aside from the fact that Bondi is a bleach blonde Italian, and probably wears blue tinted contacts, she will be OK. Although, she is a member of the Roman Catholic cult, and will say her Holy Mary’s for the poor little holocausted Jew persons. I will give her a pass.

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