August 19, 2026

More on Satan's top lackey, Hasan Piker

The last poll before the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary had Piker's DSA candidate--radical leftist Francesca Hong, who'd said Thanksgiving should be cancelled--up by 22 percent.  Looked like a blowout, and Piker was gloating.

Strangely, the communist Hong ended up narrowly losing to the current lieutenant governor.

Piker responded by throwing a tantrum, lashing out at "the fucking national media" (that's a quote), accusing them of sabotaging Hong's campaign. 

Piker's response?  "Fuck 'em and fuck Thanksgiving," he huffed, referring to Hong's view that the holiday should be canceled because it "celebrates colonialism."  Then like all bullies do when punched in the mouth, Piker practically begged the Democratic Party to stop being so mean to him.

>>"I know we don't always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point,  defend me," Piker whined. "Not because you love what I have to say, not because I'm part of this coalition, even though I am--whether you like it or not--but you are going to inevitably have to say, This is a ridiculous conversation that we're having..."

Millionaire Piker went on to say it would be helpful if Democrats could be "a little bit more honest about how I'm not this dangerous, toxic radical force." 

Of course Piker is a total communist, totally radical.  He knows it--brags about it.  He just doesn't want YOU to know it.  For him to whine that establishment Democrats need to be "more honest" and agree with his brazen lie that he's NOT radical--when that's exactly his claim to power--is ludicrous.  Here's what he's explicitly said he's pushing:

  • abolishing the senate; 
  • packing the Supreme Court;
  • abolishing the Electoral College and replacing it with...well the Dems' original idea was to elect the prez by the winner of the national popular vote, but now the Dems have an even better (i.e. worse) idea:
  • having congress select the president!
  • abolishing ICE;
  • abolishing police and prisons;
  • criminals to be immediately released without having to post bail; 
  • free college (camouflaged as "free education for all...up through college," cuz all most people hear is "free education" and think highschool);
  • "forgiving" all student loans (meaning taxpayers pay off student loans--cuz everyone loves "forgiveness," right?)
  • "Medicare for all" (government controls all healthcare, as in the UK and Canada); 
  • unlimited immigration and giving all illegals citizenship;
  • ending U.S. use of oil, gas and nuclear power;  
  • de-funding the armed forces;

Who wouldn't support ALL those, eh?  And notice all the "free shit" for lazy folks.

The future of the U.S. is riding on the outcome of maybe 4 races--and not just because those may win the Dems majority control of both chambers of congress--something they already effectively have now due to cowardly Republicans.  No, the more serious problem is that if even 2 or 3 DSA candidates win, Democrats will know they can't win without DSA/socialist votes.  So wins for even 2 or 3 of Piker's communists will make almost all future Democrat candidates adopt most DSA policies.

That's the real problem, because "your" public schools have indoctrinated almost all kids to believe a) you can get things for "free;" b) "If you don't have as much stuff as you want, it's because you're oppressed by the rich, and corporations; c) the U.S. is evil and built on stolen land, so we need to adopt socialism to atone for past wrongs; and d) if you're white, you deserve to be conquered by mo' deserving foreigners.

Both Karl Marx and Lenin explicitly believed that the key to communist domination was to take control of education, because once a kid firmly believes anything, it's really hard to get him or her to change their views.  So Dems are winning more voters every year.

If El-Sayed wins, Democrats will realize that the only way to win will be to adopt Piker's communist policies.  They'll adopt his instruction to candidates to seem to just want us to consider those policies, but of course Dems in congress will vote for 'em.  They'll cunningly insert one socialist program at a time into "must-pass" bills.  They'll trade support for some trivial GOP policy to get the GOP not to filibuster a major communist bill in the senate.  

You've seen the playbook dozens of times before, but you're so busy with work and keeping food on the table that you can't remember past a month or so.  And of course it wouldn't make any difference if you did recognize the cunning, destructive tactics, cuz congress-whores do anything they want to get re-elected.  You can't stop 'em.

In the distant past there was some stigma associated with living off welfare.  That's all in the past.  Forcing people who never went to college to pay off $250,000 in student loans for some "womens' studies" major at Columbia or Hahvahd?    "Of course, deplorable!  It's only FAIR that you pay off my student loan!  Dat my RIGHT!"

Seriously, how many people do you know who would turn down "free money" if almost everyone else is getting it too, eh?   

Weak Republican candidates will start supporting DSA programs to give more "free stuff" to voters, so more poisonous policies will become law.

Hopefully you're beginning to see why I'm convinced the future doesn't look good.  Wish I had an idea about how to change it.  Sorry to say I don't. 

 

My prediction: It's too late. Dem socialists will win in November--by lying

Hasan Piker--advisor to dozens of DSA communists--is the closest creature to satan that I've ever seen.  Here he explains the importance of DSA candidates lying to voters:

"Our politicians, whether AOC or anybody else, are NOT running away from progress.  So their pragmatism isn't to moderate their policies but to moderate their comms, their communication."

If you didn't get that, read it again.  Piker is saying "his" candidates are NOT changing their positions to get elected, but instead are merely being "pragmatic" by claiming they no longer support communist policies.  And that's exactly what you're seeing. 

Piker admits Muslim communist Abdul El-Sayed's true beliefs are "electoral poison," then tells his minions how to fix that: "You got to moderate your message, even if you don't want to temper your movement, in order to sell it to the public."

"Moderate your message even if you don't 'temper' your movement" is commie-babble for not being honest about their communist policies--things they've openly pushed before but now are seeming to re-think.  But it's horseshit.

You may have seen that surveys of Democrat voters show about 60% have a favorable view of socialism and a negative view of capitalism.  And white women with a college degree favor socialism even more--over 70%, with about the same percentage saying they dislike capitalism.

Clearly these women have never lived under socialism.  Instead they've simply swallowed the communist propaganda, like "In Cuba and Europe, health-care is absolutely free, and faaaabulous!  Same for housing, and food!"

So health-care is free, eh?  Only if you can get it.  In Canada and the UK it's normal to have to wait six months to get an MRI.  Rather than waiting, Canuks who fear they may have cancer come to the U.S. and pay cash to get an MRI in a day or two.  Nowhere in the rest of the world can you get that--unless you're "connected," part of the ruling party. 

Of course American liberals never heard about that, and wouldn't believe it if a Canadian or a Brit told 'em.  Stupid liberals--men as well as women--totally buy the lie that healthcare in the socialist world is faaaabulous--because it's "free."

But obviously it is NOT free.  Nothing is free but the air you breathe, and sunshine.  Your taxes pay for everything the government supposedly "gives" citizens.  And if you don't understand that (and liberals absolutely don't) you're too fucking stupid to breathe.

Stupid liberals are on the verge of handing over control of the entire U.S. government to socialists.  And if you know history of other countries (spoiler: you don't), you know they'll never relinquish that power.

Of course you don't believe that cuz you're smaaaht, right?  You know control of our government has bounced back and forth, so it's absurd to think that would end, eh?

That's because you naively think communists actually support democracy--because they endlessly bleat that they do, eh?  Well look at Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Spain: You can vote communism in, but can't vote it out.  The Party changes the constitution so the president can serve as long as he wants.  The Party rigs elections because The Party counts the votes.  (Sound familiar?)  The Party appoints all the judges.  Only Party members get hired as university professors, ensuring that all college grads only hear how totally wonderful socialism/communism is.  (We've been there for decades.)

When there are shortages "It's not the Party's fault, comrade!  It's doze eeebil American capitalists preventing us from trading!"  In the case of Cuba they call it a "blockade," but the truth is that even friendly communist countries will no longer GIVE fellow socialists nations billions of dollars of food or medicine.  The USSR did that for decades with Cuba and finally said "enough."  

Wait, we were always told that all socialists were big on "solidarity" with fellow socialist nations!  Guess that was also horseshit. 

SO...what does this all mean for the U.S. just 80 days from now, eh?  To understand it you have to know military history.  (Spoiler: you don't.)

One of the areas where Trump has NO knowledge or expertise is military conflict.  He stupidly believes the leaders of Iran would realize they were totally out-gunned and would surrender, to be able to regain the ability to sell the $400 MILLION worth of oil they sold to the world every DAY.  And from Trump's limited perspective, that makes perfect sense.

But the Muzz leaders of Iran refused, because they knew they could claim they had defeated the U.S. (which they claim every day, if you care to watch), and could string Trump along with bullshit negotiations until the mid-terms.  They knew that if they could con Trump into NOT bombing 'em into oblivion til then, the Democrat party would use the power of the purse to force the U.S. to end all operations in the region and withdraw all forces.  The world will understandably see that as surrender, and the loss of face to the U.S. will be devastating.

More crucial: Iran will be free to build the atomic bombs they've been working on for years.  They admitted to having roughly a thousand pounds of 60%-enriched uranium, enough for about 20 atomic bombs.

After the first time Iran's leaders bleated "We have defeated the U.S." Trump could have ended that bullshit by ordering our Air Force to bomb them until nothing remained--as we did to win WW2.  But he naively believed they'd opt for a negotiated settlement, since it would obviously be far less destructive.  Very logical.  But Iran's rulers didn't care.

Now, with just 80 days left, Iran's leaders know they've won: Trump no longer has the option to bomb 'em into oblivion, simply because doing that so close to the election would make it seem that he was doing it to save congressional seats for the GOP.  And the Mainstream Media would eagerly, endlessly bleat that this was the only reason.

SO...with Iran still bragging that they've defeated the U.S., conservative voters will be demoralized and will stay home, while U.S. leftists will turn out in record numbers to seize control of congress.  In fact I predict we'll see dozens of Dem precincts reporting more ballots cast than eligible voters, just as in 2020.  But no judge will hear the case, and there won't be time to investigate before the new congress is sworn in.

Skeptical Repub voter: "Nah, we'll still be fine cuz only 60% of Democrats will vote for socialists!"

No, you're naive: Dems will vote for the Democrat candidate, even if communist--cuz in the last few weeks before the election the Dem-fellating Mainstream Media will show endless video of all the communist candidates sounding EVER so moderate and reasonable.

Their communist DSA candidates won't renounce support for the dozen commie priorities, but will simply say things like "We need to consider abolishing the senate, having Medicare for all, abolishing police and prisons, making college free, forgiving all student loans, allowing unlimited immigration and giving 'em citizenship, ending our use of oil, gas and nuclear power, allowing criminals to be immediately released without having to post bail, de-funding the armed forces, packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Electoral College and replacing it with the winner of the popular vote, and having congress choose ouah president."

"SEE, citizen?  Just consider doze things, right?  Where's the harm in dat?"

So there's my prediction.  And in 80 days or so we should know--though we may have to wait another two weeks for the Dems to inject enough fake ballots into the count.

And the hoot is, almost no one who reads this will believes a word of it. 


August 18, 2026

Axios: "OpenAI plans 3.2-gigawatt data center in Georgia"

Axios (leftists) ran this POS story:

OpenAI has announced plans to build a data center near Savannah, Georgia, with 3.2 gigawatts of power.

"With" is an interesting choice of words.  What it actually means is that the proposed project will USE 3.2 gigawatts.  Hmmm...
  The entire story is one big press release pushing the supposed fabulous benefits of this project.  Seriously, every word of this reads like a paid press release.

OpenAI says guarantees are in place that residential electricity prices won't increase, and also that OpenAI will reduce its power consumption during periods of high demand before others are impacted.

The "we guarantee the price of residential electricity won't increase" is utter horseshit.  If the state utility commission raises the rates, the company will claim their use had nothing at all to do with that.  And no one can prove otherwise.

OpenAI says it will provide $80 million in benefits to local priorities such as schools, public safety, health care, workforce training and housing.

Locals: "Wow!  $80 million!  Faabulous!"  But read more carefully: benefits "such as" "workforce training."  There's no breakdown, so the company could spend $78 mill on training its own workforce, eh?

The company says it expects to also pay hundreds of millions of dollars in state and local taxes and become the county's largest taxpayer.
    It will also provide up to $71 million in Codex credits for use by every student at a college in Georgia and pay for an independent auditor to verify it is following through on all of its commitments.

Effingham County Commissioner Jamie DeLoach issued a statement saying he and his colleagues posed tough questions about environmental impact and other issues.
    "What we found is a project that uses minimal water, won't increase energy costs for county residents, will generate new tax revenue to support our schools, and create new opportunities for local businesses," DeLoach said.

"What we *found*..."?  No.  What the county commissioner says "we found" is only what the company told 'em.  Nothing more than that.  And it gets WAY better:

The county says it estimates the average homeowner will see a 40% reduction in property taxes due to proceeds generated by OpenAI's data center."

WOW, a 40% cut in your property taxes, eh?  Sound like obozo's bullshit lie to get Obamacare passed: "The average family will SAVE $2,500 a year on health insurance!"  How'd THAT work out, eh?

I'm certain "the county" didn't say jack-shit.  No county worker would put their name on that.  Instead county commissioner DeLoach is claiming "the county" said this, so no one can be held responsible later.
   This isn't "reporting."  What it is is a press release by the company.  Not a single word of caution by the "reporter, nor any question about the impossible-to-guarantee claims by the company.  In other words, hogwash, designed to make local residents support the proposal cuz they believe they'll be getting millions in tax revenue, a 40% drop in their property taxes, and that their electricity bills won't go up.
    If this sounds WAY too good to be true, guess we'll find out.  And if it's not, there won't be any way to hold corrupt pols accountable for supporting the bullshit.

Source: Axios

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/openai-savannah-georgia-data-center-project


 

Ceuta update

If you pay attention [spoiler: you don't] you heard about 60,000 "migrants" from Morocco invading a Spanish city--Ceuta--on the north African coast.

The Times of London is leftist but pretty reputable.  Two days ago the Times updated this to 80,000.  Eh, estimates, right?

Here's the hoot: every Lying Mainstream Media propaganda outlet absolutely assured you that "almost all of the 'migrants' left and returned to Morocco."  But "almost all" is very vague, eh?  That's not an accident. 

But the Times tweaks that just a bit, saying "Although the vast majority of the immigrants have been returned to Morocco, 9,000 people are believed still to be in Ceuta.  [Note: "people," not "invaders."  And 9,000 still remain?  Is that what the cool media kids say is "almost all returned"?]

Authorities there are investigating 15 reported rapes by doze peaceful "refugees"--or as the Times calls 'em, "migrants."

The Times even admits ONE has been expelled back to Morocco.  Think about that for a second: invader crossed into Ceuta, rapes a girl, then gets a ride back to the border.  No punishment.  Got away with rape.  Think he won't brag about that to his homies?

The Times also admitted there was a second "influx" (the Left's term for invasion) of 300 or so this past weekend, but it was "mostly prevented."  Only 46 of the invaders were from Morocco, with the rest from elsewhere in Africa.

Define "mostly," assholes.

The Times joins the rest of the Left in describing the invasion in soothing, non-alarming terms.  Can't have Brits or other Euro-weenies getting worked up about these invasions, eh?  Just like the Democrats in the U.S. eh?  "Deez po' refugees not break ouah law at ALL, deplorables!  Dey iz "refugees" so we gots ta let 'em in, an' give 'em free housing, food, medical care and free university tuition!"

Source: Times of London

https://archive.ph/Ofwwh 

August 17, 2026

bribem sells off SPR oil: Media fawns. Trump does the same: Media screams!

The graph below shows the number of barrels of oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). 

Democrats and their "expert consultants" are screaming to high heaven that Trump using oil in the SPR to compensate for reduced world supply due to the Iran conflict is "damaging the salt caverns in the reserve!!!"  So...let's take a look at the numbers, eh? 

 

Point here is that when bribem sold off 40% of the oil in the SPR--much of it to foreign nations--the Lying Mainstream Media didn't say a critical word--cuz the Media eagerly fawned over whatever the corrupt bribem did, eh?  But now that Trump is doing the same thing, the Media has their panties in a twist: "Dis is AWFUL!  It gon' destroy duh SPR!  Scream scream!!"  

August 16, 2026

Some women understand Islam and communism

Note the poll below: white women without a college degree favor Republican Rogers over El-Sayed by 22 percent, while white women WITH a degree--FAR more likely to be liberal--favor the Muslim DSA communist by 23 percentage points. 

 

What does that tell ya?

Democrats: "Why, it clearly shows that college-educated liberal women are reeeally smaht!"  

No. 

How many nations must be destroyed before free people wake up?

Some people only learn by experience. 

 

Only liberal women are this crazy.  Unfortunately there are tons of 'em. 

Once upon a time...

 

Percentage of leftist professors at top U.S. universities

Naive Americans don't believe all the professors at the "prestige" universities are between 99% and 90% Democrat/leftist/socialist.

 

Democrats: "Ouah faaabulous universities are NOT leftist!  Dis just another "right-wing conspiracy tale."

 

Those who refuse to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it

Jean-Luc Melenchon has been a communist for decades, before founding what's now the biggest far-left (communist) party in France. 

Stupid Democrat: "I don't live in France, so I don't care about anything that happens there!  It can't possibly have any relevance for ME or ouah faaabulous Democrat partei!"

You bet, sparky.

In France, as in most free countries, communism has attracted a small percentage of the population--the lazy, greedy and stupid--but are having a hard time expanding their following.  But communists like Melenchon see a way to take over, quite legally, which  he happily explains:  In a speech caught on video he explains that the solution is to ally with...wait for it... Muslims.

This is the same playbook being used by the left in all Western countries.

People who know history instantly spot the flaw:  It's classic.  In the flying business it's called "target fixation."  This "smaahht" pol is so fixated on ruling that he's happy to make a deal with the devil, confident that after their combined forces win total power, the devil will allow him and his fellow commies to run things.  Surprise!

The evidence is right there for anyone to see--but Leftists refuse to see it.  Iran: 47 years ago Iran had a communist party called the MEK.  Lots of college students.  Their goal was to overthrow duh eeeebil Shah an' gibs all duh powah to duh pipo!  Yep yep yep!

So when duh Muzz started the revolution, duh commies totally joined in!  It wuz gon' usher in duh start of a faaabulous new era, eh?

An' sure enuff, their combined forces forced duh Shah to flee.  And with him gone, his supporters and enforcers quietly melted away.

But to the dismay of the commie college students who'd helped the Muzz overthrow the Shah, within weeks the Muzz started executing the students 

Wow, who coulda' predicted *that,* eh?

Americans under 40 don't know jack-shit about any of this.  If our public skool boards weren't run by communists all Americans would learn these crucial lessons of history in highschools.  But not a single school teaches real history, cuz way mo' impo'tant to teach the faaabulous benefits of turning boyz into gurls, and vice-versa, eh?  So a few million American socialists are happily supporting duh Muzz to win power.  DSA, eh?  "Free Palestine!  Death to America," eh?

Anything to win power.

Now: why do young American socialists NOT know that the Muzz always execute the communists as soon as they take over, eh?  Because young socialists (communists) are naive idealists.  The young ones usually don't push killing their opponents, but are confident that everyone will see that communism is a faabulous system, right?  So no need to kill anyone.

Islam is similar up to a point: Like communists, Muslims believe their system isn't just "better" but is the only system allowed by Allah.  That's a big difference.  But even more crucial is that *from the very beginning,* Islam has ordered the faithful to execute unbelievers unless they convert to Islam or pay the special tax ("jizya") that "infidels" must pay to live.

Starting to get it yet?

No, you don't, because young Americans know nothing true about Islam.  All they know is the bullshit lie "Islam is the religion of peace."

Lambs led to the slaughter, cupcake.  

When morons like Melanchon are put against the wall to be executed, they literally won't believe it's really happening: "But...but...but...we helped you overthrow the eeebil infidels and capitalists!  So you should be sharing power wif' us!  But instead you're executing us?  How can this possibly be happening?" 

There's an old saying: "Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it."

Leftists: "Whut?  We don' see no silly 'lessons'!  An' we iz reeel smaaht, cuz we attend Columbia or Berkeley or Hahvahd or Stanford or Brown!  An' all ouah professors agree dat weez smaaht, an' dat communism is duh wave of duh future!  Errybudy gon' be, like, totally equal, comrade!"

Again: "Lambs to the slaughter."

Of course if you're a Democrat or DSA member, you don't believe a word of any of this, cuz all your professors--who are reel smaaht, jus' like you!--have told ya Islam and communists are natural allies, eh?  So dat mus' be true, right?  Why wud your profs lie about something so crucial, eh?

 

 

On such naivete, ignorance, stupidity the world hinges.

If I had kids, I'd wanna teach them that a) communism sucks; b) that college profs (who are considered smaahht) love communism;  c) that they'll urge you to ally with Islam to overthrow "unfair capitalism" and usher in a socialist world; and finally d) that it never works, because as soon as 'your' coalition takes over, the Muzz will kill their infidel supporters.

Of course if you're a Democrat, you don't believe a word of any of this. 

August 15, 2026

Sometime in the next seven days the U.S. national debt will top $40 TRILLION

And if that doesn't shock ya (and it doesn't), consider that since just paying the interest on that debt now cost us $1.5 Trillion every year--all of which must be borrowed!--that debt is growing like crazy.  

"How fast is it growing?"  You won't believe it.  Analysts say the debt will explode from $40 Trillion to $50 Trillion in less than three years.  

I've been warning y'all about this for years now, but since I'm not a government whiz-kid, people just shrug.  But finally the experts are starting to wake up.  This isn't a "conspiracy theory" or some random blogger guessing: Bank of America just predicted that the $50 trillion debt will be reached in July 2029. 

A tad under three years from now. 

Here's a piece from the shitheads at ABC, way back when the debt was just $31.4 Trillion.  When do ya think that was, eh?

It was $31.4 Trillion just over three years ago: May of 2023.  So since the debt provably, demonstrably, unequivocally grew by $8.6 TRILLION in just three years, the idea that it'll increase by another TEN Trillion in just three more years shouldn't strike you as hard to believe. 

 

Note how relatively flat the curve is until about 1970, when all the Dems' vast welfare state got into high gear.  Since then the curve has climbed at an ever-increasing rate, as pols realized they could buy votes by giving voters "free stuff."

As the debt continues to grow, we'll have to borrow even MORE money to pay the extra interest on the added debt--which we've been doing all along.  Plus, old U.S. debt is at a lower interest rate than current paper, so even if the corrupt, worthless congress were to magically stop spending more than the govt takes in, the amount we're forced to pay in interest would continue to increase.

Probably less than ten percent of Americans understand what you've just read.  Most of those don't care, and even fewer have any idea what's gonna happen.  So...what can we do about it?

First to be brutally honest:  It's too late to avoid the train wreck.  There are only three "relevant" responses: First is for congress to drastically cut spending. But of course they won't do that.  Never.  You show 'em the $8.6 TRILLION increase in the three years from  2023 to 2026, then the expert projections of another TEN trillion increase by July of 2029--less than three years away--and they'll literally run away rather than explain why this is either FAKE NEWZ or not a problem.

News flash: We're in this mess because the people who run congress are by turns stupid, corrupt, greedy, stubborn and useless. 

Second option: congress cranks up the printing presses and prints a few trillion in crisp new $100 bills.  Not only won't that help, it'll make things way worse because it will trigger "hyperinflation," like in Venezuela and every other nation that's tried it.  The problem there is that in two months--virtually overnight--the value of all savings will be driven to zero.  Hyperinflation means you're stupid to save even a dollar, since a month from now it'll be worth ten cents.  Everyone is wiped out.  AND it still doesn't solve the problem of congress INSISTING on spending more than it takes in, every year.

The third possibility is to default on the debt.  Of course this means no nation will loan us billions for 15 years or so.  At least that would eliminate $1.5 trillion a year in interest paid--though much of that will be to Americans.  And to banks.  And you can bet the banks will use bribes to get congress to continue to pay interest on their T-bills.  Oh yew bet.

But congress still spends more each year than we take in.  If no one will loan us money, where will that money come from?

That puts us back to the second option: print the cash, meaning hyperinflation.

Short answer: there's no way out.  Stupid, selfish, corrupt, power-hungry members of congress devised this disaster--and many of the ones in congress today have made it much worse.  And yes, we know the sons of bitches were elected (maybe) by voters, so the NY Times will blame...voters.  But the truth is that almost EVERY member of congress gets corrupted by the cesspool of DC.  By the power.  By lavish, fawning, slobbering praise--and even more lavish campaign contributions.

So...sadly we can't escape what's coming.  And it's gonna be ugly.  But I can tell you how to keep it from happening again:  Automatic ten-year prison terms for the ten most corrupt congresswhores grifters every year, along with forfeiture of pension and confiscation of all assets.  Yes, their families will suffer.  Sorry about that.  Maybe churches can start GoFundMe's to keep the families from starving.

 

 

August 14, 2026

No matter how crazy you think Leftists are...

 

"Why is there a push to ‘cancel’ one of the wealthiest Bay Area cities?"

The piece below (after needed background) is from the San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 10, 2026

Some things about the future are easy to predict: You find out who's running any entity--a city, state, company, country, "association"--and if they're liberal Democrats you can be absolutely certain the liberal shitheads will penalize whites for the sole purpose of giving free shit to minorities. "Cuz dat only FAIR, citizen!!"

Oh, y'say you think that's hyperbole?  Not possible in the U.S.?  Ahh, I see you just arrived on this planet.  Enjoy your stay.

Some background on the story below: It's from the left-liberal (pro-socialist) San Francisco Chronicle.  The leftist propagandist is writing about a tiny city across the bay--a tiny, beautiful, 1.7 square mile enclave named Piedmont, totally surrounded by the city of Oakland.
 
San Fran and Oakland have always been rivals.  Then slowly, Oakland turned into a crime-ridden shithole.  I won't bore you by explaining how that happened, cuz you already know.

After the 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of San Francisco, some of that city’s wealthiest families flocked to an unincorporated portion of the wooded foothills overlooking Oakland.  Months later, as Oakland tried to force their tiny community to become part of faaabulous Oakland, citizens voted to incorporate their own city.  By doing that, Piedmonters preserved their large lots and ensured control over their town's decisions about parks, schools, police and so on. 

So why would the Chron be concerned about this tiny city inside its cross-bay rival, eh?

Because the Chron is run by leftists.  The Chron piece is absolutely dripping with leftist/lib propaganda--all of which has one goal: if you're white, the Left demands that you not be allowed to have a tiny town with better housing, better parks, better city services than the mega-shithole that surrounds you--even though you pay for those things.

Instead you must be forced to build "low-income housing" inside your tiny, 1.7-square-mile jewel.  You're forced to do that by a state law, rammed through by the Democrat-ruled legislature.  What could possibly go wrong, eh?

Over a century after this wealthy suburban enclave rejected being "annexed" by Oakland, Piedmont remains one of the Bay Area’s most controversial cities.  To its 11,000 residents, their 1.7-square-mile swath of oak trees, ivy-covered mansions *and top-ranked schools* represents the zenith of the American dream. 

But to its critics, Piedmont is a prime symbol of the economic and racial divides that continue to plague the Bay Area. 

“It really is ridiculous that a place like Piedmont even exists,” says [leftist "transit planner," Oakland resident and protagonist for this propaganda piece] John Rosemoore, who has a punk-rock aesthetic. “What’s going on there says a lot about our society as a whole.”

Yes, and the Left hates everything about the place--because it represents freedom, which communists absolutely hate.

It’s not just that Piedmont’s median home price is more than 3½ times that of Oakland’s.  Despite being completely surrounded by one of the nation’s most diverse major cities, Piedmont is roughly 70% white and just 1% Black—a striking figure compared to Oakland, where 20% of residents are Black.

You may have noticed that the Chron doesn't capitalize "white," but does capitalize "black."  No kneeling, fawning, slobbering suck-ups at the Chron, eh?

The boundary between Piedmont and Oakland means one household might have access to a better-performing school district and police department than the home right beside it.
Yep, and that's intentional: it's not a plot, or "oppression," just the difference between a well-run, honest city government, chosen by residents who have high standards, versus Oakland.
  So now Chron propagandist inserts a pithy quote by the assistant director of UC Berkeley’s "Othering and Belonging Institute," and with a name like that you already know it's run by leftists: 

“Back in the day segregation was having white and Black neighborhoods in the same city, but now most segregation is felt between cities, rather than within them.”

In case you didn't get that, read it again: it's the thrust of the article:  'It beez a crime dat whites wanna run dere own cities, wif' good skoolz and cops an' parks an' stuff!  Yew only gots dat 1.7 square miles cuz yew stole it!  We not shure how, but gotta be true!  Or yew exploited us!  However yew did it, it not right, so we gon' use state law to force yew to build "low-income housing" so we kin have duh benefits of yo' skoolz an' parks an' shee-it.'

Enter “Cancel Piedmont.”  Transit planner Rosemoore has been handing out stickers and selling T-shirts with that slogan.  The professional transit planner now sees the campaign as a vehicle for challenging the Bay Area’s intertwined systems of race, wealth, housing and local governance.

That's some world-class wordsmithing there: the screech from Leftists like the Chron propagandist and Rosemoore is that "We will not ALLOW you to somehow have better schools, better cops, lower crime and bigger lots.  We demand that you build "low-income housing" so you'll become as magnificently DIE-verse as Oakland!
  The article then describes an admittedly awful incident from a hundred years ago:

By the mid-1920s, Piedmont touted the most millionaires per square mile of any U.S. city. [cuz it was only 1.7 square miles, eh?]  One of them was Sidney Dearing, who’d made a fortune running a popular jazz club in Oakland. Since he was Black Seminole, at a time when Black people weren’t allowed to buy homes in Piedmont, he gave his white mother-in-law $10,000 to purchase a four-bedroom house.

Some residents were outraged, and there were many aggressions against the Dearings.  The city eventually bought the property by claiming it needed it to build a road--which was never built.  Outrageous?  Clearly.  Problem is, liberal white guilt wants to turn Piedmont into Oakland to atone for the century-old outrage.  Sound familiar?  The "reparations movement" is well underway in California.

By the time the leftist transit planner began his "Cancel Piedmont" movement in June 2025, Piedmont was well into confronting complex questions: how to build more housing, reckon with its history of racial exclusion, diversify its schools and respond to growing scrutiny over whether a city so different from Oakland should remain that way.

 "So different from Oakland," eh?  Different HOW?  Ooohh, can't say!  And there ya have it:  If you live in a jewel and have a lick of sense you do NOT wanna "build more housing" or "diversify your schools."  Living in Piedmont beats the hell out of living in Oakland, and everyone knows it.  Which (and here comes the entire point) is the entire reason the Left wants to see Piedmont brought down to Oakland's level.
  Is dat clear enough for ya?

If not, consider this:  Back when the Berlin wall divided communist East Berlin from free West Berlin, why did thousands of residents of the East risk their lives to get to West Berlin--with hundreds shot to death on the barbed wire--and yet NO ONE ever went the other way, eh?
   Same climate, same natural resources, and yet all the daring escapes only went in one direction.

Or consider North Korea vs. South Korea:  Same deal: identical climate and resources, yet hundreds of residents of the North fled to South Korea, with scores shot to death as they tried to cross the DMZ--and yet not one person tried to go the other direction!

Why do ya think that was, eh?

I don't need to tell ya, cuz you already know.  Sadly, your kids don't know.  The communist-ruled public skoolz nevah told 'em, cuz "Dat not important, comrade.  Prolly FAKE NEWZ by duh capitalists!"

See, when two competing ideologies are operating right next to each other--as in Berlin, Korea or Piedmont/Oakland, the difference in the results becomes to obvious to ignore.  So leftists wanna make people ignore the better competing system, whether by putting up a wall or merely barbed wire and shooting anyone who tries to go to the better side.  Or in the case of Piedmont, forcing that tiny enclave to bulldoze parks to build low-income housing.

So back to Piedmont.  Leftists: "We don' wanna do hurt doze wipipo in Piedmont!  We jus wanna force 'em to build low-income housing!  An' to "diversify" their skoolz and police force.  Cuz die-versity iz ouah strength, citizen!  Dat beez obvious to ebrywun!"

Wait...if "die-versity" is so fucking great, why is die-verse Oakland--in exactly the same location as Piedmont, with the same great climate, views and access to...everything...such a crime-infested shithole compared to Piedmont, eh?
   When you have an answer for that, let me know.  Take all the time you like.

 But the more Piedmont has tried to atone for its divisive past through diversity initiatives and public apologies, the louder some of its detractors have become.

Wow, what a shock!  Give socialists/leftists an inch...

The city’s diversity efforts have included hiring a consulting firm to help it address implicit bias and organizing community discussions to promote racial equity, which critics  claim are little more than performative gestures. 

The state of California says only 200 of Piedmont’s 3,947 housing units are in multifamily buildings like duplexes or apartment complexes.

Heaven forbid!  So we--your betters--will force you to fix that!

Complicating matters [nice wording], the vast majority of the city’s zoning is for single-family homes, and there isn’t much room for more construction.

Why is this a problem?  If you don't have room for more, why on Earth would you try to build more, eh?  You've got a jewel there--but if you do as the Left demands, you get Oakland.  "But dat jus' FAIR, comrade!"

Faced with these constraints, the city has long struggled to translate its stated support for affordable housing into completed projects that enable more teachers, firefighters and other middle-income workers to call it home.

Again the communist goal is revealed: 'Effrywun shall liff in identical 1,200 square foot apartments!  If dat requires building apartments where there are now parks and tennis courts, tough shit.'  To communists "equity" is far more important.
    Of course dat don't apply to duh rulers, like duh faaabulous Gavin Newsom, cuz dey deserve 7,000 square foot mansions in gated communities!  But yew are ordered not to object to dat, cuz...Gavin iz special.

Even modest housing proposals [i.e. building low-income apartments on what are now parks--this is considered a "modest proposal"] can spark public debates about altering a cherished neighborhood character defined by large lot sizes, abundant greenery and quiet street-scapes. 

Caption in the Chron: "The city remains controversial because of its high-priced homes and lack of diversity."

The city’s latest housing project proposes turning a stretch of open space, sports fields and public facilities into at least 132 homes, including 60 units of low-income housing.

Victory for liberal Democrats.  They force the city to allow the sharp end of the wedge in.  But hey, what could possibly go wrong, eh?

Professional transit planner Rosemoore has nothing personally against Piedmonters.  For him, Piedmont’s ugly racial history >>The city’s most consequential housing project proposes to turn a city-owned stretch of open space, sports fields and public facilities into at least 132 homes, including 60 units of low-income housing.

As decades passed, Piedmont’s exclusionary housing practices became far less blatant. But local real estate agents’ penchant for “off-market” deals with friends and acquaintances still made it difficult for Black and working-class families to gain entry.

You need to be a realtor to decipher that line: that means not listing a property, but facilitating a sale between friendly realtors.  The left wants this to be illegal.

Now every year Piedmont High School holds an assembly to educate students about the horror the Dearings endured. The city even commissioned an Oakland artist to design a memorial near the Dearings’ old home. The project, which could be unveiled by the end of the year, cost around $400,000.

So there ya go, citizen.  We order that every city mus' be "die-verse."  Yew may not like that, but we leftists rule the state and the courts, so we don't care what yew want or think.


August 12, 2026

Yet another murder you'll never hear about from the Lying Mainstream Media

Another day, another black-on-white murder that you won't ever hear about from the Mainstream Media:

 

White husband and father Fredrick Lytton was working alongside black monster 23-year-old Devin Rice in Nashville.  And with only that much info you already know how this ends, eh?

The two were reportedly arguing about a soda when the older white father turned and walked away.  Moments later the black demon walked up behind the older man and emptied a handgun into the white father's back, killing him. 

It's been a week since this black-on-white murder, and unless you lived within TV range of Nashville, you never heard about it.  Not one national network mentioned it.

Of course local media had to cover it to avoid looking corrupt, and numerous local media published or broadcast the story--but not ONE showed you a pic of the white victim, nor mentioned that race of his murderer.

Leftist Media owners: "Wuh...why would we do dat?  Dat wud jus' make whites angry and suspicious of young black men, eh?  We woud NEVAH wanna do dat, eh?  Cuz dey ain't nuffin' to be alarmed about, deplorable!"  

The white dad walked away from the argument.  So duh black demon feel disrespekted, right?  So he totally wif'in his rights to murder duh white guy from behind, eh?

Now obviously, only a fraction of blacks are like this.  The problem is that that fraction still translates into a huge number of blacks who are pleased when blacks murder whites.  They don't worry about consequences because they expect white judges and DAs to tolerate their murdering whites cuz that's how today's leftist-ruled "justice system" works.  

Leftist judges and DAs go easy on black killers cuz "dey haz been so oppressed," eh?  It's how all leftists think, and how the Dem party works.

Whites aren't "out to get" blacks, we're just totally sick of the endless violence and social pathologies, the endless complaints, the bottomless well of grievances.  The endless excuses for murders, rapes and other violence.  The endless anger. 

Devin Rice's public defender will plea-bargain the ambush murder of the unarmed white father down to "assault."  The demon may be sentenced to a long term but will be out in two years.  "Cuz it wudn't hiz fault, see?  He felt disrespekted!  So yew cain't blame him, right?"  Put Devin Rice's name in Google Alerts and you'll see. 

August 11, 2026

Some...thought-provoking quotes from the Koran

With the Muslim communist Mamdani ruling NYC and the ghastly Abdul El-Sayed looking like a shoo-in to be the first Muslim U.S. senator, perhaps it's time to look at the commandments in Islam's holy book:

Democrat: "Dat FAKE NEWZ!  None of dat iz in duh Koran, cuz Islam is 'the religion of peace!"

DSA Democrat: "Actually we support all those orders.  Like our leader, the faaabulous, brilliant communist Hasan Piker has said, "We must make the streets run red with the blood of capitalists!"

Democrat: "Um...uh...umm...she doesn't really mean dat.  She jus' venting!  Yeh, dat's it!  After all, who wouldn't be screaming after Trump has been so mean to trannies and women and minorities and 'undocumented Americans,' eh?"

Birds of a feather: both are fakes.

One claims "I'm Doctor Science," the other claims to be a woman. 

 

For young Americans and Democrats: as should be obvious, the creature in purple isn't female, so obviously wouldn't need a gynecologist.  Instead it's a tranny named Richard Levine, hand-picked by bribem to be America's director of health at HHS.

It's an inside joke by the Democrats on conservatives: the director of "health" (including mental health) being a tranny.  Too funny, eh?  

Amusingly, by LAW the director of health is made a four-star admiral in the "U.S. Public Health Service," which was another Democrat joke on conservatives: "Four-star tranny admiral."  Are you laughing yet?  Russia and China had to be shaking their heads with amazement--or laughing their asses off. 

 

Dems used Sesame Street to push duh fake "vaccine"

What do ya know about propaganda, citizen?  Answer: virtually nothing.  So naturally the following piece broadcast by Democrat-fellating CNN--using the adorable, totally trustworthy puppets of the totally leftist-ruled Sesame Street--doesn't make you the least bit uneasy, right?

Couldn't possibly be propaganda, cuz it's so sweet and cute, right?

 

Do ya think the Democrat-fellating leftists at Sesame Street said even ONE cautionary word about getting your kids "vaccinated" (well, jabbed) to save ouah chirren? 

Of course not.  Not a single word about duh jab harming or killing pipo.  Or that it would NOT prevent pipo from getting Covid--though the moronic Biden promised it would?

If this doesn't strike you as propaganda, don't worry: You're reacting just as the creators of this horseshit predicted:  Like most Americans you believe this iz too cute to be propaganda.  

Definition: "We gon' lie to ya to get ya to do whut we want, an' yew gon' believe we iz tellin' you duh Gospel truth!"  

Average American: "I'm way too smart to fall for that!" 

Horseshit parroted by moronic leftists in state govts

This is the kind of horseshit parroted by moronic leftists--in this case the "Oregon Health Authority."  Parroting Fauci's bullshit that it was totally safe for pregnant women to be injected with the "leaky" (i.e. didn't keep you from getting covid) "vaccine."  

 

Oregon has been ruled for decades by left-wing Democrats and lesbians.  They wouldn't know a "confidence interval" or a "codon" or the genetic code of the spike protein if it bit 'em.  But what the could do was parrot anything Fauci bleated--without bothering to do a scintilla of actual research.  "Cuz Fauci is 'Doctor Science,' so everything he utters mus' be true, right?  Cuz why wud he lie?"

"Wait...whut dis?  Y'say we have emails from his subordinates saying duh virus was clearly modified in a lab?  And that literally two DAYS later he emailed 'em back saying he wanted 'em to write a paper saying the exact opposite--that the virus "evolved naturally"?  Wuh...wuh...wuh...dat mus' be a LIE!  SURELY his lackeys nevah wrote such a paper, right?  Right???"

"Wait...y'say they DID, and that Fauci got it published in 3 weeks?  Titled "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2," published in the journal Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020?Authors Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes, and Robert F. Garry?"

(For young Americans or Dems who never paid attention: the first case of the Chyna virus in the U.S. was only confirmed on Jan 29, 2020.  Fauci's lackeys already had the genetic code of the spike protein--as I did--and instantly recognized the four inserted genes that made the harmless bat virus lethal to one-tenth of one percent of humans who got it.  They told Fauci their conclusion the first week in Feb, via email.  We have the email.)  

(Two days later Fauci emailed Kristian Andersen, "asking" him and his colleagues to write a paper saying exactly the opposite--that the virus had "evolved naturally."  We have the email.  And Andersen et al did exactly as directed--because he and his "institute" were dependent on multi-million-dollar grants from Fauci.)

The person congress should subpoena and question under oath is Andersen.   Ask him if he every emailed Fauci that the gene sequence of Covid-19 appeared to have been modified.  If he denies, remind him he's under oath, and show him the email and ask if he sent it. 

Then ask him if Fauci emailed back "about" two days later asking him to write a paper saying the virus "evolved naturally"--i.e. the exact opposite of what Andersen and his colleagues had actually concluded.  If he denies, again remind him he's under oath, and show him the email he wrote.

Now that Fauci is no longer head of NIAID, Andersen won't risk a perjury conviction to save the monster's worthless ass.

Question for the GOP:  Why hasn't this already been done?  Y'all have the emails.  Do your damn jobs!  

Nah, citizen, dat FAKE NEWZ!" 

August 10, 2026

If these rays can really get this far out of the water, I'm impressed

The WaPo just noticed the massive ($40 TRILLION) national debt

Apparently Hell has frozen over.

I deduced that because today at 7:30 a.m. the leftists who run the Washington Post published a story that finally recognized what I've been warning about for a decade: massive deficit spending, adding to the massive national debt, is about to kill the U.S.

Of course you didn't believe me, cuz I'm just some anonymous blogger.  But when the faaabulous WaPo says there's a problem, Democrats pay attention, eh?  Some quotes from the Post:

The budget of the federal government is the largest of any organization in human history. It’s larger than the entire economy of every foreign country except China.

Yep.

In the past, huge surges in our nation's debt were largely caused by wars or recessions.  So they were temporary.    That’s not how it works anymore. The debt increases due to demographic trends as the bulk of spending goes to programs that serve an aging population.
Yep.  When the Democrats rammed through "Social Security," Medicare, and later Medicaid, the future disaster was set in concrete.  A few math-proficient people warned about it at the time, but the Democrats controlled congress, so they always got whatever they wanted.

One of the problems is that most people don't understand "maff."  Most don't even understand "compound interest."  People who understand both knew the Democrat programs would eventually bankrupt the government, but the Dems refused to listen, cuz promising voters free shit was a sure way to be re-elected for life.

This is how you get members of congress (and presidents) who are 85 years old and have never held a job outside of government in their entire lives.  They're dumb as rocks, but Dem voters love 'em cuz they support giving duh pipo "free shit."

It'll come as a big surprise to most Dem voters to learn that (obviously) nothing is free, eh?  Someone always has to pay.

Democrat politicians: "But not you, citizen!  Because we have absolute power, we'll make duh rich pay for the stuff we're gon' gibs ya!  We can set the income tax rate on high earners as high as we want, an' dey haz t' pay it!  How about...94 percent?  So duh rich will pay for everything!  Just like under faaabulous socialism!"

Democrat voters: "Perfect!  Those fat-cats have too much money!"

Oh, young Americans say dat fake newz?  Dat duh max tax rate wasn't even close to 94%?  Okay, try asking AI "Was there a time when the top federal income-tax rate was 94%?"
   
So the pitch to voters was "We'll offer you a monthly check from age 65, and we'll fund it by taking a tiny bit of  your check, and the rest from taxing The Rich."  And of course 95% of voters--being offered free money each month--agreed that this was a great idea.

And at that point, the future was set in concrete.  Inevitable.

Of course you don't wanna believe that.  "Dat jus' a 'right-wing conspiracy theory!' eh?"

I love it when people who don't understand a lick of maff or finance or compound interest or exponential growth try to tell me how the world works. 

So back to the Post story:

In 1945, 84 percent of federal spending was on WW2, a tsunami of spending that would end once the war ended.  By contrast, in 2025, 73 percent of federal outlays were on mandatory spending or interest payments, which are legally obligated to continue.

Read that last sentence again: first that these payments are "legally obligated to continue."  Half of that is true: interest payments are mandatory.  But the other half is a brilliant piece of Democrat propaganda: congress could reduce SS, medicare and medicaid drastically.  Of course they won't do any of that, cuz...Democrats.  I get it.

So let's look at "interest payments."  If the U.S. were to default on paying interest on the debt, no sane entity would loan any more money to us.  So you might think that would force the gummint to cut spending back to only what it takes in in revenue, eh?

Hahahahahaha!  No way.  The sons of bitches will never cut spending, and instead will simply print all the money they "need," while trying to find a way to blame Trump. 

Democrat voter: "WOW, printing money!  Why didn't we think of that earlier?!"

Answer: cuz printing "fiat money" always causes ruinous inflation--as has happened to every third-world shithole when they've done it.  Dozens of examples.

Democrat: "Dat fake newz!  Dat nevah happened!" 

Really, sparky?  Latest example is Maduro's Venezuela, where inflation reached 10,000 percent a year.  Going out to dinner you had to carry a dufflebag full of currency.  Savings became worthless overnight.

What do ya think that does to a country, eh?

You have no idea, and don't wanna know.  The evidence is out there, quite clear.  You just don't want to know.  And the Lying, Democrat-fellating Mainstream Media refuses to tell ya.

Oh wait...maybe this "breakthrough" article by the Post explains how we can avoid disaster, eh?  Let's see:

The only source of population growth after 2030 will be immigration.  The entitlement programs making up much of the budget were designed under 20th-century demographic assumptions that no longer hold true.

Ahhh, the brain-trusts at the Post assure readers "immigration will save us!"  And because you read it in the Post, you believe it.  But is it true?

Certainly massive immigration adds people to the country.  Question is, how many of the "immigrants" are working in jobs that pay into the Social Security fund?  If you're a self-employed American citizen, the LAW forces you to pay not just the 6.5% SS tax that's taken out of every check corporate employees receive, but ALSO another 6.5% that your employer is forced to ALSO pay.  And since you're the employer...get it?

You have to pay it because the IRS knows who you are, knows every bank account you have.  But if you hire, say, lawn care or a housecleaning crew, paying cash, who pays into SS, eh?  And "migrants" aren't known to the IRS.  All cash, only minimal bank accounts that could be confiscated. 

But these same "migrants" are collecting welfare and medical care, and what used to be called "food stamps" (now "EBT"), free housing.  Where does all that come from, eh?

Government.  Meaning taxpayers.  And since the federal government always spends more than it takes in, it must borrow the difference, every week.  So are "migrants" a net gain to the SS system, or a net loss?  

No one knows.  What we do know is that most Dem-ruled states refuse to open their books to show how much they're paying to "migrants," which should be a clue.  And we're just starting to find the hundreds of billions lost to fraud in both Medicare and Medicaid--much of which is stolen by foreigners.  But we're not likely to ever know the real numbers.  And that's intentional.
  
The Post admits that SS "has run annual deficits since 2010" and "is projected to go insolvent in 2032."  And that

"Medicare’s budget-busting makes Social Security’s look modest by comparison.  It spells fiscal Armageddon. The Medicare hospital insurance trust fund goes insolvent in 2033."

Wait, it gets worse:

"The fiscal *challenges* [note the far less alarming wording] scheduled to arrive in the 2030s are actually based on optimistic assumptions.  The CBO estimates assume no recessions, low and stable inflation and no new government programs."

Ahh.  "Optimistic" is being generous.  The Post piece ends with this:

"Budget hawks have been talking for years about many of these problems, [to no avail].  The federal budget has been able to withstand more than many expected. But the 2030s is when the bill comes due."

I'm writing this on August 10, 2026.  For duh maff-phobic, 2030 is just 3.4 years away.

If that didn't get your attention, read it again.

If we'd started taking corrective action 20 years ago, the catastrophe would be less serious.  But of course, politicians refused--cuz dey luuved giving voters "free stuff," eh?

But now Democrats (including the Post's writers and editors) say we kin be rescued IF we'll just open the borders again, like the Partei's brilliant thinkers Obozo and bribem did, eh?

No, but this bullshit claim will enable the Dems to blame conservatives for the disaster, saying "We tried to fix dis by opening the border, but yew deplorables insisted on not only closing it, but also deporting ouah saviors!"

So it goes, eh?

Source: Washington Post, 10 August 2026

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