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Peter Navarro: Only Donald J. Trump Can Save Us From ‘China Virus’ He Ignored For Months
Also reveals shocking connection between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
May 18, 2020 01:50 PM
Last week, the White House's pet economic crackpot, Peter Navarro, went on TV and claimed the media was throwing a “pity party" for all those annoying unemployed people. Amazingly, Navarro is still allowed to speak in public. Sunday, on ABC's “This Week," he claimed that Barack Obama was serving as “Joe Biden's press secretary" when he criticized the Trump administration's bungled COVID-19 response. (Obama never actually mentioned his former vice president during his commencement addresses.)
NAVARRO: As far as I'm concerned, [the Obama] administration was a kumbaya of incompetence ...
Wait ... what does that even mean? Is he suggesting the Obama administration was an ineffective African spiritual? Navarro is probably following his boss's lead of just randomly calling Obama incompetent, which is objectively untrue. Obama's administration boasted an unbroken eight-year streak of people freely leaving the house without fear of their lungs exploding.
NAVARRO: We saw millions of jobs go off to China [during the Obama administration]. His new normal was a flat-line in the way of wage growth.
Yes, those days when the black guy was president and we could touch our friends were so relentlessly terrible. The Trump campaign keeps trying to link Biden to Obama, but this election isn't held on Fox News. It takes place in America, and Obama is very popular there. He won both his presidential races with a majority of the vote. A Joe Biden who only exists in the public memory as Obama's wingman is likely unstoppable at the polls.
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<strong>NAVARRO:</strong> I'm happy to report that this president, <strong>Donald J. Trump,</strong> in three-and-half years built the most beautiful economy in modern history.
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“The most beautiful economy" is very Trump-like phrasing that Navarro shamelessly parrots. But the economy now looks like the “after" photo of a meth addict. The economy
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YGn0l9zfew" target="_blank">“ain't pretty no more."</a> That's on Trump. If he “built it," he broke it, right?
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<strong>NAVARRO: </strong>The Chinese did take that down in about 30 days.
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The “Chinese" did no such thing. COVID-19 isn't a biological weapon. We had an opportunity to contain the virus, but the Trump administration allowed it to spread like wildfire.
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<strong>NAVARRO:</strong> We're in this process of rebuilding that, and this president, <strong>Donald J. Trump,</strong> has the skills to do so.
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Dude, we're not happy about it, but we know who the president is. You don't have to keep reminding us.
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Navarro said the key to our economic recovery is going “back to the future" and “buy American, deregulate, and innovate." He wants to “bring the jobs home" and make products here. So enjoy paying $10,000 for an iPhone.<br>
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After “This Week" host George Stephanopoulos challenged him, Navarro backed down from claiming China “deliberately" wrecked the US economy, but he argued that China hid the virus for two months with the help of the World Health Organization. WHO
<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/30/who-declares-coronavirus-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency/" target="_blank">declared COVID-19</a> a global health emergency in January, when even Navarro himself was warning the White House about COVID-19. Trump would spend most of February dismissing the coronavirus as man-flu.
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Navarro also spouted garbage about how Biden is China's BFF and Trump is the only president to ever “stand up to China." He also claimed without evidence that Biden's son, Hunter, accepted $1 billion from the Chinese.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Over on “Meet the Press," Navarro blamed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the nation's half-assed testing program, but he's still on board with Trump's no-assed plan to reopen the economy RIGHT NOW.<br></p><blockquote>
<strong>NAVARRO: </strong>Opening up this economy isn't a question of lives versus jobs. The fact of the matter is, and it's something President Trump realized early on, if you lock people down, you might save lives directly from the <strong>China virus,</strong> but you indirectly are going to kill a lot more people. And why do I say that?</blockquote><p>
Yes, why <em>do</em> you say that? It's all lies.
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<strong>NAVARRO: </strong>If you contrast this complete lockdown where some of the people in the medical community want to just <strong>run and hide</strong> until the virus is extinguished, that's going to not only take a huge toll on the American economy, it's going to kill many more people than virus, the China virus ever would.
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Yeah, all those scaredy cats in the medical community want to hide under their beds from the coronavirus, but brave patriots like Navarro would punch the virus in the nose, like it was a shark and not highly infectious. Republicans are very concerned about everyone's mental health during the not-so-complete lockdowns. However, COVID-19 has killed almost 90,000 people in just a few months. That's already
<em>almost double</em> the number of <a href="https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/" target="_blank">suicides in all of 2018. </a> It's also closing in on the number of Americans who <a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/poor-americans-die-younger" target="_blank">die annually from poverty.</a> Which maybe we'd like to consider doing something about. There's no minimizing this virus or Trump's responsibility for its spread.
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Fox News Idiot Says Barack Obama Not 'Articulate,' So That's Neat
Fox News hosts came this close to calling Obama's commencement speech 'shiftless.'
May 18, 2020 10:33 AM
Barack Obama delivered a virtual commencement address Saturday for the 2020 graduates trapped at home with their families. Most Americans loved the reminder of what it was like to have a president, but others -- let's call them “Republicans" -- hated the reminder of when a black guy was president.
On Sunday's "Fox & Friends," co-host Jedediah Bila expressed her disgust with Obama's words, which she believed were “inappropriate" for the moment.
<div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3872586/embed/embed" width="480"></iframe></div><p><br></p><blockquote><strong>BILA:</strong> You know, the more I listen to it, the weirder it gets, truly, to listen.</blockquote><p>This wasn't one of Donald Trump's coronavirus press briefings. Obama's address was fairly straightforward. He used actual words and everything. Maybe all that human decency confused her. </p><p>Bila thought Obama was too “political" and that's not what the kids needed. Where was the inspiration, the call for bipartisan unity in the face of national crisis?</p><blockquote><strong>BILA:</strong> But then when you think about it, it's a commencement speech, it's supposed to be motivational, positive, it's supposed to be about the graduates. This was not the time for what he's doing. This was not the time to say, "Oh, this leadership isn't doing a great job" or, you know, "Adults don't always know what they do." It just seems so depressing, to be perfectly honest, and just so completely inappropriate for what a commencement speech is supposed to be. </blockquote><p>This is not a <em>normal </em>commencement speech. Everyone listening was in their sweatpants. We can't confirm that Obama himself wasn't wearing sweatpants. Obama played straight with the graduates and acknowledged that the world is fucked up, and it's not their fault. It's the the so-called adult leaders who dropped the ball. That's important for young people to hear because, within a few years, those same adults will complain that “kids today" aren't as driven as they were back when they attended college in “buildings." </p><p>Of course, Bila clearly hadn't listened to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/16/politics/obama-graduate-together-speech/index.html" target="_blank">Obama's speech</a> all that closely. It wasn't just an angry screed like the Fox News prime time lineup.<br></p><blockquote><strong>OBAMA: </strong>[COVID-19] pulled the curtain back on another hard truth, something that we all have to eventually accept once our childhood comes to an end. And all those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing? Turns out that they don't have all the answers. A lot of them aren't even asking the right questions. So, if the world's going to get better, it going to be up to you.<br><br>That realization may be kind of intimidating. But, I hope it's also inspiring. With all the challenges this country faces right now, nobody can tell you "no, you're too young to understand" or "this is how it's always been done." Because with so much uncertainty, with everything suddenly up for grabs, this is your generation's world to shape.<br><br>Since I'm one of the old guys, I won't tell you what to do with this power that rests in your hands. But I'll leave you with three quick pieces of advice.</blockquote><p>Obama's advice to the COVID-19 generation was “Don't be afraid; Do what's right; Build a community." Sure, it wasn't as on the nose as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHo88cj3eAc" target="_blank">“Lord loves a working man" and “Don't trust whitey"</a> but it was hardly “depressing" and “inappropriate," as Bila claimed. </p><p>Co-host Griff Jenkins lamented “no-drama" Obama's "lost opportunity." Conservatives are constantly surprised that after more than a <em>decade</em> of vile personal attacks, Obama is not that interested in playing nice with assholes. Jenkins even mentioned the latest baseless character assassination directed at the former president.</p><blockquote><strong>JENKINS: </strong>We haven't heard much from him and the entire time and, look, President Trump has taken lots of shots at President Obama. We hear <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/obamagate-fireman-russia-hoax-garbage-truck-happy-mothers-day" target="_blank">Obamagate</a> all this past week. So this was the opportunity for Barack Obama to step into the void, get that soaring rhetoric that we remember and inspire these young graduates like my niece Marilyn, [who] graduated from Villanova this weekend.</blockquote><p>Yeah, congratulations to your niece and all that, but fuck you. Donald Trump accused Obama of multiple crimes he <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/president-pull-ups-big-temper-tantrum-so-angry-stomp-stomp-stomp" target="_blank">can't even be bothered to make up,</a> but you expect Obama to remain “above the fray"? When Obama “steps into the void" Trump's piss-poor leadership has created, it's not just his prerogative but his moral duty to read Trump for the filth he is. That's quite the “soaring rhetoric" for most of us enduring Trump's plague.</p><p>Jenkins can't believe anyone would attack leadership at a time when we need them most, but leadership also includes Democrats. Fox News hosts frequently attack Democratic governors and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/princess-cookies-n-cream-vanderbilt-pelosi" target="_blank">the speaker of the House,</a> even during a pandemic. </p><p>Pete Hegseth claimed Obama was talking “like a typical leftist" when he denounced “the people in charge." This is so silly. When conservatives rail against Democrats in power, they are “populists" who'll “drain the swamp," but when liberals criticize Republicans, they are commies who don't respect democracy and the rule of law. </p><p>Then Hegseth exchanged his dog whistle for a bullhorn. </p><blockquote><strong>HEGSETH: </strong>And by the way, <strong>Barack Obama's not all that articulate.</strong> When he reads the off a teleprompter, he can be inspiring, or off of a speech, but when he's impromptu the "uhms" and the "ahs" it's like -- it's impossible to listen to.</blockquote><p>These ass clowns will continue insisting “Obama's a dummy" even though their glorious leader is Donald Trump.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>“Articulate" is a “compliment" racists give black people who are objectively superior to them in every way. Conservatives revoked Obama's honorary “good one" status early into his presidency and regularly claimed Obama was a moron who just read pretty words off a teleprompter. This would still make him articulate, as he'd have to read the words and imbue them with feeling. Laurence Olivier was pretty damn articulate. Donald Trump is barely literate.</p><p>Republicans have made public health a wedge issue. We need Obama out there, inspiring young people of all ages, so we can all vote out the thing squatting in the White House. It's the only way we'll ever safely leave our own houses. </p><p>Check out a real president articulating his black ass off.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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'Fox & Friends' Applauds American Patriots Boldly Spreading COVID-19
You can’t keep Americans cooped up forever ... or just two months.
May 18, 2020 09:50 AM
The fine folks at Fox News believe a “movement is coming," and it's a movement where Americans defy the law and endanger the lives of others. When desperate immigrants sought asylum at our borders, conservative pundits wanted to lock 'em up and build WALL. That was a national crisis. Now, Fox hosts valiantly defend the inalienable rights of white people to do whatever the hell they want, no matter the cost.
On the weekend edition of “Fox & Friends," Pete Hegseth, whose hands you should never touch, declared that people were “done" with the shutdowns, and it was their impatience that had let to some governors relaxing restrictions -- not any namby-pamby science.
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<strong>HEGSETH:</strong> People are going to start to open up. They're done. They're done. They said, "I don't have a business if I can't open my doors. You've told me what experts told me to do, flatten the curve. Got it. I'm not waiting for the vaccine which you're telling me is the new standard.
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Conservatives claim Democrats and medical experts are moving the goalposts, but a complete return to normal was never possible without a vaccine. Most Americans <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/poll-sports-fans-want-coronavirus-vaccine-before-attending-live-games-again/" target="_blank">aren't going to risk large gatherings</a> with thousands of strangers. We'd have also flattened the curve for nothing if we resume normal activities without a <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/16/1001787/why-contact-tracing-may-be-a-mess-in-america/" target="_blank">national testing and tracing program,</a> which doesn't currently exist. Hegseth pointed to news articles about people violating social distancing guidelines as evidence people are fed up with COVID-19 lockdowns and that elected officials should govern according to the public's temper tantrums.</p><blockquote style="margin-left: 20px;">
<strong>HEGSETH: </strong>This is going to happen. This is part of the reason why governors opened up. They knew people were going out either way. They don't want to look like fools, and this is the people leading the way.
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It's not governors like Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom who are going to “look like fools" when this is over. It's the governors who buckled under to political pressure from a vocal minority of COVID-19 skeptics.
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<a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-covid-reopening-first-day-20200516-grvwu6gekza6haewyn6ex6m7te-story.html" target="_blank">Maryland </a>kicked off its first stage of economic reopening on Saturday, after Republican Governor Larry Hogan permitted nonessential retailers, barber shops, and salons to open at limited capacity. Maryland has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/maryland-coronavirus-cases.html" target="_blank">roughly 10 times </a>as many confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths as Oregon, but its population is not 10 times larger. A salon owner in Marion County, Oregon, was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/us/oregon-salon-reopens-against-state-orders-trnd/index.html" target="_blank">heavily fined </a>for violating Democratic Governor Kate Brown's stay-at-home order. Brown doesn't believe it's safe for businesses in the county to reopen. This isn't like our dumb gun laws, where a Republican might argue there's some longstanding cultural tradition of spreading the coronavirus. The science is the same everywhere, and without a national standard, we're going to see this become more of a partisan issue.
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Co-host <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJB-IeTGVvE" target="_blank">Griff Jenkins</a> mentioned speaking with a surf shop owner in Ocean City, Maryland, whose business usually makes "a year's funding in three months of the summer," so it's just “time for him" to reopen. Jenkins seems to think the tourism trade will function normally this year. Broadway theaters were only closed for a few days after 9/11 but <a href="https://www.americantheatre.org/2018/11/19/how-the-shows-went-on-after-9-11-with-an-assist-from-ovid/" target="_blank">decreased tourism</a> to New York after the terrorist attacks shuttered many shows.
</p><p>Co-host Jedediah Bila claimed New Yorkers are starting to go “stir crazy" in their tiny apartments. The lockdowns are affecting their “mental health." Conservatives love pretending to care about mental health whenever it is convenient for them. You know, like how gun control is never the answer. We need to address “mental health"! Of course, conservatives never actually <em>address mental health</em>. </p><p>Now we need to let everyone out of their houses before they go full <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lQ_MjU4QHw" target="_blank">Jack Torrance,</a> even if it means people would die.
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<strong>BILA: </strong>So I said this a long time, the second the weather gets warmer, you're going to have people who will just flood outside, because ...
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<strong>HEGSETH: </strong>And they should. And they should.
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They should not. This isn't responsible rhetoric from your friendly neighborhood state media outlet.
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<strong>BILA</strong>: They can't help it. They know that they need the Vitamin D. They know that they need -- their sanity is suffering.</blockquote><p>Vitamin D is available as a nutritional supplement. Look, we all know this sucks, but people were cooped up for weeks after <a href="https://www.weather.gov/iwx/1978_blizzard" target="_blank">blizzards.</a> They couldn't leave the house, and sometimes didn't even have electricity. There was no high-speed Internet access or Zoom happy hours. </p><p>Bila said it just isn't possible to keep people locked inside “forever," which is significantly longer than the most conservative estimate for a vaccine. Who's moving goalposts now?</p><blockquote><strong>BILA: </strong>It's not possible. It's not feasible. So at some point you're going to have to open up and you're going to have to <strong>let the chips fall where they may,</strong> as terrible that sounds. I mean, listen, I'm very empathetic to this.</blockquote><p>Yes, that does sound terrible. Only megalomaniacs<a href="https://twitter.com/JedediahBila/status/427983959490711552?s=20" target="_blank"> (or libertarians)</a> ever say <a href="https://youtu.be/Ueo8LU9AZTc?t=123" target="_blank">“let the chips fall where they may."</a> Bila and her husband have recovered from the coronavirus, so she's hardly “very empathetic" to people who are at risk of dying from the virus if we hastily reopen the country. She just doesn't see any reason to remain personally inconvenienced. She's survived COVID-19. Screw everyone else.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-friends-host-country-will-need-open-and-let-chips-fall-where-they-may" target="_blank">Media Matters</a>]<br></p><p>
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Fake President Trump Wishes He Was As Real As POTUS From ‘Independence Day'
We’d personally prefer President Jeff Goldblum.
May 18, 2020 09:05 AM
Saturday, while Americans across the country gathered to watch the last legitimate president give a fire-spitting commencement address, Donald Trump tweeted a clip from the 1996 movie Independence Day when the equally fake president, as played by Bill Pullman, delivers a stirring victory speech at the film's climax. Someone with the Twitter handle "Mad 'Obamagate' Liberals" heavily edited the clip so Trump's rotting pumpkin head replaces Pullman's face. This no doubt delighted Trump because all he ever wanted was to play-act as president in a multi-million dollar production where things go “boom."
<p>“Mad 'Obamagate' Liberals" doesn't end his intellectual property vandalism with Trump. Brad Parscale is there, watching the fake president from the crowd, as are Sean Hannity, Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, Mike Pence, and Donald Trump Jr. Yeah, this is some sad shit.</p><p>President Thomas J. Whitmore's words are goofy and mildly jingoistic but sentimental enough that it's impossible to imagine them coming from Trump's diseased mouth. </p><blockquote><strong>WHITMORE: </strong> "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests ... and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution ... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!</blockquote><p>Trump is only president because he exploited Americans' “petty differences." The only "common interest" he shares with anyone is his own self-interest. If aliens ever invaded Earth, Trump would try and cut a deal with them, maybe offer up blue state residents for vivisection on their mothership in exchange for death rays. You know Trump would love his own death ray. It would spice up his press conferences. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><em>Independence Day</em> is a strange choice for an alternate Trumpian reality. The advanced, all-powerful alien civilization is felled by a computer virus. That was a modern update from the biological pathogens in the original <a href="https://www.shmoop.com/war-of-the-worlds-hg-wells/book-2-chapter-8-full-text-5.html" target="_blank"><em>War of the Worlds</em>:</a><br></p><blockquote>And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians ... dead! ... slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.</blockquote><p>That's not the most pleasant image right now, considering an infectious agent has devastated our society. Also, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC were all vaporized in the initial alien assault. Millions died. That weighed heavily on Whitmore but Trump would just boast about how all his Florida land was spared. </p><p>Whitmore is only able to deliver his big speech because he trusts science. He supports the “cockamamie plan" from Jeff Goldbum's satellite technician. He even fires the bonehead secretary of Defense. Trump doesn't have science's back. He listens to Jared Kushner, and no alien invasion movie ends happily when the president pays attention to their idiot son-in-law. </p><p>After seeing the altered clip, Pullman told the <em><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-pullman-responds-donald-trumps-altered-independence-day-clip-1294926?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank">Hollywood Reporter,</a></em> "My voice belongs to no one but me, and I'm not running for president — this year."</p><p>He'd certainly be an improvement over what we have now.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-pullman-responds-donald-trumps-altered-independence-day-clip-1294926?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank">Hollywood Reporter</a>]</p><p><em>Follow Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em><br></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 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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