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On One Hand, F*ck Howard Kurtz. On The Other Hand, F*ck Howard Kurtz.
BOTH HANDS DO IT!
November 11, 2020 12:45 PM
Know who we don't talk about very much at Wonkette? Fox News media idiot Howard Kurtz. And we're not about to start! Suffice it to say that no matter where he's worked — and he's worked a lot of places! — he has always been a dimwit. So he's just like a really good fit at Fox News.
Anyway, Kurtz has written something stupider and more Both-Sides-y about where we find ourselves in our fragile American experiment right now than Chris Cillizza could ever come up with in his wettest wildest dreams.
Did you know that Trump refusing to accept the results of the election and trying to do a coup and declare himself dictator is bad, but #BothSidesDoIt because Whoopi Goldberg said something mean on "The View"?
<p>It's true!</p><blockquote>On one side, we have Whoopi Goldberg scolding Trump voters for questioning the election, telling them to "suck it up."<br><br>On the other, we have Mike Pompeo dismissing as "ridiculous" a question about the transition, saying: "There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration."</blockquote><p>ON THE ONE HAND the actual secretary of State of the United States of America, the person in the government who condemns fake elections in other countries, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/just-mike-pompeo-loling-about-the-incipient-coup-nbd" target="_blank">says</a> there will be a smooth transition <em>to a second Trump administration</em>, because he's trying to help overturn the clear results of the American election we just had, but ON THE OTHER HAND, Whoopi was bein' hurtful.</p><blockquote>On one side, former Obama and DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan seemed to endorse a boycott against former Trump staffers, saying "employers considering them should know there are consequences for hiring anyone who helped Trump attack American values." <br><br>On the other, Georgia's two Republican senators (who are facing runoffs) are calling for the resignation of its secretary of state, also a Republican, for saying any fraud did not rise to the level of overturning Biden's narrow win there.</blockquote><p>ON THE ONE HAND, the Republican senators from Georgia <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/supervillain-team-up-kelly-loeffer-david-perdue-slam-gop-secretary-of-state-for-not-fixing-georgia-election" target="_blank">are calling</a> for the Republican Georgia secretary of state to resign because he, <em>so far,</em> refuses to steal the election for Trump, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, some Obama guy says maybe prospective employers should be aware of what outgoing Trump staffers did at their last job, which was destroying America, and that is also very hurtful!</p><blockquote>On one side, former MSNBC co-host Toure is taunting Trump voters: "I hope the pain and anxiety you feel now is excruciating. You voted against America." By voting for the candidate of their choice?</blockquote><p>ON THE ONE HAND, Toure was also additionally being extremely hurtful, but ON THE OTHER HAND ... uh oh, Howard Kurtz is all out of bad things to say about Dear Leader's coup! </p><p>Kurtz says it's just not this "left-right sniping," but also mentions that Trump <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/fired-guy-fires-guy" target="_blank">fired</a> Defense Secretary Mark Esper, noting that it's pretty silly since Esper "may have just been sent packing 10 weeks before he'd have to leave anyway."</p><p>That's right, "<em>may have</em>." Like it's an open question what happens on January 20.</p><p>Kurtz types a few more surely very important words before concluding:</p><blockquote>I imagine we will see more payback in the weeks to come. You would expect Trump and his supporters to feel badly stung, just as Hillary Clinton voters were four years ago. But I'm surprised that some on the left are also lashing out, despite the fact that their guy won.</blockquote><p>Oh well sorry Howard Kurtz is so surprised, but ON THE ONE HAND, the 75-million-and-counting of us who just resoundingly elected Joe Biden after enduring four years of budding authoritarianism from a mentally bereft shitmouth who had help stealing his <em>last</em> election aren't in the mood to play nice, especially as we watch him try to steal another one. </p><p>ON THE OTHER HAND, fuck you.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-endless-election-why-both-sides-keep-punching-back" target="_blank">Fox News</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>GIVE IT WONKETTE. We mean money. Thank you.</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Unknown Whistleblower Tells Laura Ingraham About Nevada Daylight Vote Heist That Definitely Happened!
This country keeps getting dumber.
November 11, 2020 10:20 AM
Professional terrible person Laura Ingraham used the words “President-elect Joe Biden" last night, so for a moment it seemed like Ingraham had started to accept electoral reality. Then she invited onto her white power hour the Clark County, Nevada, poll worker who Trump campaign surrogate Matt Schlapp claimed had witnessed blatant, daylight voter fraud.
The “whistleblower," whose identity was hidden and her voice modified, told Ingraham that she was on a walk during her lunch break when she happened upon people passing around envelopes and ripping them open. They stood near a clearly identified “Biden/Harris" van. These criminal masterminds helpfully leaned against the van so passers-by could observe that they were fooling around with BALLOTS.
WHISTLEBLOWER: As I got closer, I thought, "Those are ballots." I walked by four or five times. On the next time I walked by, they were putting them in the envelopes. They were putting them in a white and pink envelope.
OK, it's obvious the major story here isn't that the “whistleblower" claims to have seen very stupid and obvious "voter fraud" but that she's invisible. She apparently got close enough to these people to identify the color of the envelopes they were stuffing with illegal (i.e. “Black") votes. This reminds me of how Catwoman on the 1960s “Batman" series once “hid" from Chief O'Hara by crouching next to a piano. That worked because Chief O'Hara was an idiot, but most licensed election fraud racketeers aren't idiots.
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</p><p>Even Ingraham thought this was odd, but the “whistleblower" explained that the voter thugs had their backs to her and were using the van as a hard surface to mark the ballots. This does seem like something they might have wanted to do <em>inside</em> the van, unless it was “rocking" and they didn't want to disturb anyone.</p><blockquote><strong>WHISTLEBLOWER:</strong> They're not looking at me walking. I'm walking by them and they just walk past them. I don't turn around. I kind of make a mental note of “that's odd."</blockquote><p>“Odd" is a word we'd use to describe this account. </p><p>The “whistleblower" didn't bother using cell phone technology to document what she saw, but she has signed a sworn affidavit that should rightly prohibit her from operating heavy machinery. However, the Trump people have happily collected random voter fraud claims and UFO sightings, which <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nevada-voter-fraud-election-2020-ingraham-angle-exclusive" target="_blank">they insist are real evidence.</a></p><blockquote>"A sworn declaration from an eyewitness is the literal definition of evidence," a Trump campaign attorney said in a statement. "Those on the left and in other quarters that have been screaming that there's no evidence will need new talkers and most importantly, will have to now focus on the legitimate issues that have been raised."</blockquote><p>These aren't “legitimate issues." These are uncorroborated declarations of criminal activity. The Republicans who are convinced there's widespread voter fraud are the same people who dismiss systemic racism within law enforcement, despite eyewitness accounts and cell phone videos and actual bodies. </p><p>Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in Nevada by more than 35,000 votes. You'd probably need more than two people fixing ballots and possibly another van.</p><div id="ae6af" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="64b56d84806869c1ea4bdd86181688c6"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1326396394891079681" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">One Republican poll watcher found it suspicious that members of the military would vote for Joe Biden. https://t.co/xnFqBluLRS</div> — Brad Heath (@Brad Heath)<a href="https://twitter.com/bradheath/statuses/1326396394891079681">1605072518.0</a></blockquote></div><p>One Republican poll watcher in Michigan said he found it “suspicious" that members of the military would vote for Biden, whose son Beau served in Iraq. “I had always been told," he said, “that military personnel tended to be more conservative." If the data in front of him contradicted whatever stereotypes he held, then that could only mean FRAUD!</p><p>Biden had <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/more-us-troops-are-riding-with-biden-than-saluting-president-bone-spurs" target="_blank">polled better among military personnel than Trump, </a>perhaps because he's not an active national security threat and he hasn't called them <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/dear-us-military-this-is-what-your-commander-in-chief-really-thinks-of-you" target="_blank">“losers" and “suckers." </a></p><p>Here, let us summon (SATIRE, WE NOTE IN ALL CAPS AGAIN) Blaire Erskine for you: </p>
<div id="47c22" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="138f7a148f3a7ebdb89b9a53d96ce9c8"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1326524425211162624" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Anonymous poll worker comes forward, claims woman in van took ballots. https://t.co/AgsZMdqEdd</div> — blaire erskine (@blaire erskine)<a href="https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/statuses/1326524425211162624">1605103043.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>As journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1326422461081137152?s=20" target="_blank">Brad Heath noted, </a> these people aren't observing “fraud," which would require high-level coordination across multiple states to effectively “steal" an election. They are noticing what they believe are “irregularities" or in the case of our Nevada “whistleblower," "incidents too implausible for anyone to seriously believe" ... unless they watch Fox News.<br></p><p>And too many Americans do.</p><p><em><em>Follow Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em></em></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and supported entirely by reader donations. Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Fox News Idiots So Mad Trump Not Getting Credit For Coronavirus Vaccine He Didn't Create
Bite me.
November 09, 2020 01:04 PM
You know how Democrats are just going to stop talking about coronavirus now that the election is over? That's what Donald Trump always said, because coronavirus was just a hoax to tank his re-election prospects and because everything is about him. President No Mask had the virus and is now "immune," so obviously this whole thing is over, right? That's why nobody is even reporting that Mark Meadows and Dr. Ben Carson and God only knows who else got covid after attending the White House superspreader election night party
ANY-HOO.
Pfizer announced it has a COVID-19 vaccine it says is more than 90 percent effective, at least so far. This is great news, if the safety and efficacy of the vaccine pan out. And yet, it's sparked a tidal wave of BELLYACHING from Trumpland, because Pfizer didn't even take this opportunity to lick Trump's balls and thank him for being such a great Dear Leader. Mike Pence is taking credit for it, White House comms liar Alyssa Farah is doing a victory lap, and the whining at Fox News has gone up to eleven.
<p>Here's Fox Business idiot Charles Payne <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-host-promising-vaccine-news-are-you-finding-timing-curious-we-had-election" target="_blank">speaking to</a> "Fox & Friends" idiot Ainsley Earhardt about how NO FAIR:</p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3911951/embed/embed" width="480"></iframe></div><blockquote><strong>EARHARDT: </strong>Are you finding the timing curious? We had an election a week ago.<br><br><strong>PAYNE:</strong> I am finding the timing curious. It's frustrating. You know, it's so interesting. I was watching -- toggling around TV yesterday, watching a couple games and whatever, and I saw a commercial for <em>60 Minutes</em> and they said "we're going to go to the military's Operation Warp Speed." The military's? They're actually operating it, in fact, at the behest of President Trump. And then there's an article this morning before this came out that was, the shifting sort-of Operation Warp Speed to Biden now. The Washington Post: Biden advisers met with sharp -- with the Warp Speed drugmakers before the election. But what I thought was intriguing is on the Biden website, it says "Operation Warp Speed lacks a strategy to see its mission through and gain the trust of Americans." Well, I wonder what they're going to say today? Are they going to tell people not to take this vaccine that Pfizer is saying 90% effective? Are they going to say wait? I mean this is absolutely remarkable stuff. Credit where credit is due; President Trump, he really did push hard on this. Who knows, if it came a week earlier it might have changed the outcome, but it is great news for all Americans. </blockquote><p>Uh huh yes, well, one reason why people aren't really giving Trump credit for this is that Pfizer didn't actually take federal money under Operation Warp Speed, though it did ink a $2 billion deal with the Trump Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to distribute a vaccine, assuming one worked. But developing this vaccine? That's Pfizer. And you can argue that Pfizer might not have used its own piggy bank for the development of the vaccine if it didn't have that $2 billion deal with HHS, and that could be valid. </p><p>But LOL please. </p><p>Donald Trump did not do shit. Some people at HHS inked a deal with Pfizer, but if you believe Trump somehow made that happen, you are a goddamned idiot.</p><p>Allow Dr. Kathrin Jansen, Pfizer senior VP in charge of making vaccines, to explain:</p><blockquote>Dr. Jansen sought to distance the company from Operation Warp Speed and presidential politics, noting that the company — unlike the other vaccine front-runners — did not take any federal money to help pay for research and development.<br><br>"We were never part of the Warp Speed," she said. "We have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone."</blockquote><p>Got it? They were not part of Trump's Warp Speed thingie. Also she says she didn't find out about the vaccine's trials were going until Sunday afternoon, well over 24 hours <em>after</em> the media stole the election from Donald Trump, by doing math and reporting on vote counts. So that's the curious "timing" Charles Payne is whining about. </p><p>Fox News idiot David Asman just <em>nailed</em> his reporting and analysis in this tweet, except for how none of the details were right:</p><div id="e3731" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b1817e4aa2a3dae19fd1bf9ef5788037"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1325807310422364160" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">I have no doubt if this game-changing news on the virus came a week earlier, Biden’s razor-thin edge in the electio… https://t.co/ARjjDlSxRf</div> — David Asman (@David Asman)<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/statuses/1325807310422364160">1604932069.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Yeah, no. Again, Trump didn't do this, and Biden's win wasn't "razor thin," but rather more like "four and a half million votes and counting." Indeed, Biden is on track to end up with 306 Electoral College votes, which, as Donald Trump has told us VERY MANY TIMES, is a landslide feat that is literally impossible to achieve for mere mortals. </p><p>Because Wonkette is very fair, we did want to make sure you knew the part about Pfizer doing a deal with Trump's HHS for distribution of the vaccine, if it proved effective. But pat Trump on the back? After his constant lying and gaslighting about the virus? After his refusal to wear a mask or encourage mask use? After all one million of his bullshit conspiracy theories about coronavirus? After <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/dear-fox-news-viewers-do-not-inject-yourself-with-bleach-or-try-to-swallow-a-tanning-bed" target="_blank">DRINK BLEACH?</a> After we found out that he knew very well how bad coronavirus was back in February and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/mighta-been-nice-if-we-had-tapes-of-trump-admitting-he-was-lying-about-coronavirus-back-in-february-bob" target="_blank">admitted to Bob Woodward</a> that he was lying about it? After 237,000 Americans and rising have died on his watch, because of his malevolent incompetence?</p><p>Fuck you. </p><p>In other news, incoming President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/09/933002962/president-elect-biden-names-13-experts-to-covid-19-transition-advisory-board?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com" target="_blank">named</a> his coronavirus task force today. It includes real scientists, because of course it does, including Rick Bright, the vaccine chief from HHS <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/dr-rick-brights-whistleblower-complaint-on-f-cked-trump-hhs-coronavirus-response-will-leave-you-shook" target="_blank">who got fired</a> because he refused to promote Trump's snake oil Hydroxybonercream 3000 corona cure. </p><p>There is a light at the end of this tunnel. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>GIVE IT WONKETTE. We mean money. 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GOP Extends Post-Election Middle Finger Of Friendship
The Republican narrative for the next four years is set.
November 09, 2020 11:28 AM
During his victory speech Saturday, President-Elect Joe Biden offered a message of unity and reconciliation with Trump supporters. That's what he should do. He's the bigger person, unlike the petty Black man writing this post. Republicans are responding true to form, though, and slapping away Biden's extended hand of friendship. Sunday, on Fox News, Newt Gingrich burned a whole tree's worth of olive branches when asked about Biden's speech.
GINGRICH: Well, look, it's a nice sentiment.
Don't get excited. He's being sarcastic.
GINGRICH: First you go out and the Democrats steal five or six states, and that's what Republicans believe we're watching.
It doesn't matter what Republicans “believe." There's absolutely no evidence for these absurd charges. He's just sore because Georgia, which he represented in Congress for years, is one of those states Democrats “stole" by receiving more votes.
GINGRICH: Then you turn around and say, let's forget four years of Nancy Pelosi. Let's forget four years of impeachment, harassment, opposition, hostility, hatred, and now that I've won, why don't we be nice together.
<div id="91b57" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a96295c3d66b606b17c47b6c4e34fa31"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1325425493324206080" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Newt Gingrich calls Joe Biden's election a "corrupt, stolen election" that was "financed by people like George Soro… https://t.co/OFEbXHYx7s</div> — Jason Campbell (@Jason Campbell)<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/statuses/1325425493324206080">1604841037.0</a></blockquote></div><p>This is the emerging Republican narrative, and it's as mentally sound as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0sRrI2m4zE" target="_blank">Lex Luthor blaming Superman for his hair loss. </a> Resistance to Trump's gross policies and investigation into his many crimes was apparently “harassment," but it's not like everything was rainbows and flowers before Trump won. Gingrich has the gall to say this while appearing on a cable channel that was relentlessly hostile to Biden's former boss, Barack Obama.</p><p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/racist-megyn-kelly-shocked-to-learn-racist-things-were-ever-racist" target="_blank">Blackface explainer</a> Megyn Kelly tweeted similar twisted thoughts this weekend. It was drunk supervillain history. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Twitter</small></p><p>It's a flat-out lie that people who voted for Trump were “unfairly attacked relentlessly." They've been catered to with <em>New York Times</em> profiles and Democratic outreach over the past four years. The standard position was that Trump's a con man who exploited his white working class supporters' legitimate economic concerns. Interestingly, the rare times Trump supporters were mocked outright, the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/daily-caller-trump-outraged-over-republican-mocking-republicans-on-cnn" target="_blank">culprits were Lincoln Project types,</a> not actual liberals, whose hearts can't stop with the bleeding.</p><p>Republicans like Kelly want to use 70 million Americans as a human shield for Trump. Attacking him and his crime family is attacking “regular America." These are the same people who enabled <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/sean-hannity-cannot-believe-michelle-obama-would-be-so-crass-as-to-bring-up-trumps-birtherism" target="_blank">birtherism</a> and other slanders against Obama, which they insisted didn't reflect their views about all Black Americans. </p><p>But <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5uH1JFcaq8" target="_blank">“Gaslight"</a> is the GOP's new post-Trump funk jam.</p><p>During Trump's impeachment trial, Republican <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-impeachment-trial-sen-alexander-dab4c5f7-f99c-4151-ae04-836f0a502662.html" target="_blank">Senator Lamar Alexander conceded</a> that the House proved he withheld aid to pressure Ukraine into smearing Biden before the election. He still voted to acquit President Lame Duck because he believed the voters should decide his fate. Now that the voters have rendered a clear verdict, Republicans are pissed and pretending Trump was railroaded over a blowjob.</p><p>Gingrich led the baseless impeachment against Bill Clinton, so he's one to talk about “harassment" and “opposition." In 2000, Gingrich claimed Al Gore's potential <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/15/recount.gingrich/index.html" target="_blank">presidency would be “tainted"</a> if he successfully had all the votes counted. Now, he suggests with even less evidence that Biden's stolen this election.</p><blockquote><strong>GINGRICH:</strong> I think [Biden] would have to do a lot to convince Republicans that this is anything except a left-wing power grab <strong>financed by people like George Soros, </strong>deeply laid in at the local level. And, frankly, I think that it is a corrupt, stolen election.</blockquote><p>After slandering Biden and election officials from both parties, Gingrich questioned how Republicans and a Biden administration could possibly work together. Then, one of the bland, white hosts said that despite Biden's “happy talk," Democrats were the ones who resorted to personal attacks rather than debate real issues. Republicans, by the way, claimed <em>Joe Biden </em>was a socialist who wanted to defund the police and set cities on fire. </p><p>Do they even listen to themselves?</p><p>This weekend, political scientist and author Ian Bremmer suggested we temper our <em>Return of the Jedi</em>-celebrations and consider the unfortunate Empire, whose beloved leader was just tossed into a bottomless pit. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">We're gonna go with the “fuck off" option.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Twitter</small></p><p>Even Democrat and Fox News whisperer <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1325506992056770560?s=20" target="_blank">Pete Buttigieg suggested</a> something similar — keep the champagne chilled a little longer and reach out to someone who voted for a wannabe despot and who likely believes a shadowy liberal cabal “stole" the election. </p><p>True reconciliation requires movement from both sides. Republicans have only become more entrenched in their repulsive position. When they're ready to acknowledge reality, we can talk. I don't hold pointless grudges, but for now, after four years of genuine terror, I'm going to respectfully dismiss Bremmer and Buttigieg's advice and instead get my freed Munchkin on.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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