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Stat showed today a Democratic Attorney General nominee in Virginia was caught on text saying that he wanted to shoot political opponents and also that that political opponent's kids are actually small fascists.

We'll get into the leftist permission structures for violence, how that's manifesting in attacks on ICE agents in Chicago, federal agents being unleashed in Portland, plus the latest on all of the Gaza negotiations between Israel, the United States, and Arab countries in the region.

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We've been talking about this for weeks, obviously.

All this reached its apotheosis with the murder of Charlie Kirk and the explosion of sympathy for the murderer among mainstream members of the press, certainly in places like X and Blue Sky from the left.

We now have some statistics to back up willingness to engage in violent activity in order to press forward a political agenda, particularly from the left, thanks to Skeptic Research Center, which is connected with Skeptic Magazine, which is run by Michael Shermer.

This brand new study investigates support for political violence among Americans.

And what it finds is that some 44% of very liberal people in the United States, 44% say, quote, violence is often necessary to create social change.

Meanwhile, 28% of liberals say that as well.

The levels of support on the right are not even close.

Normal conservatives, only 20%, say that.

People who consider themselves very conservative say violence is often necessary to create social change.

In other words, more mainstream liberals than very conservatives believe that violence is often necessary to create social change.

About one in three younger adults, according to this survey, that'd be Gen Z and millennials, expressed support for political violence.

Liberal Gen Z women were more supportive of political violence than were Gen X and baby boomer men.

And that makes some sense considering the fact that liberal Gen Z women constitute a huge percentage of the very far left.

Not only that, this sort of belief system that people who are undereducated, people who are ignorant, that those are the people who are perfectly happy with political violence, actually, it turns out, political violence is a luxury belief.

Americans with the highest level of educational attainment, graduate or professional degree, are about twice as likely to support political violence than those with less formal education.

As my friend Dennis Prager suggested, college these days is not teaching people wisdom.

It is giving them information and not teaching them wisdom.

Over half of black Gen Z adults agreed violence is often necessary to create social change.

This, of course, is a massive problem, a gigantic problem.

And of course, the problem does skew young.

If you look at how this breaks down according to age, what you see is that for the proposition, violence is often necessary to create social change.

49% of liberal Gen Gen Zers believe that violence is often necessary to create social change.

For millennials, 44% of millennials who are liberal believe violence is often necessary to create social change.

Now, there are a large percentage of conservatives who also believe that.

So, again, the idea that this doesn't exist, permission structures for violence only exist on the left, that's not true.

But predominantly right now, they do exist.

on the left.

And we are seeing that manifest day by day.

Let me cover the news.

The news is always the stuff that's happening on top of the iceberg.

It's the events that are happening in plain view.

And then the stuff below the iceberg is the gigantic social support systems for the things happening at the top of the iceberg.

And so when we talk about this story of a Democrat, Virginia attorney general candidate fantasizing about murdering a state GOP leader, you have to understand that the reason that that is happening is because of these gigantic thought structures that have been created and perpetuated generationally that say it is perfectly okay to talk about murdering your political opponents because they are your political opponents.

According to the Daily Wire, Democrat Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones, in recently uncovered text messages, fantasized about murdering a state GOP leader with, quote, two bullets to the head and then pissing on the graves of other Republicans.

In text messages first obtained by National Review, Jones says to another lawmaker he would use two bullets to murder then GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert.

Three people, two bullets, Gilbert, Hitler, and Paul Pott.

Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.

Jones texted to delegate Kerry Coyner, a Republican.

Spoiler, put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know.

And he receives both bullets every time.

Earlier in the text messages, Jones expressed he would attend the funerals of Republican lawmakers in Virginia to piss on their graves, send them out awash in something.

So apparently what ticked him off is that there was a funeral for a Democrat in the state of Virginia.

And the Republican GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert went to that funeral for Democrat delegate Joe Johnson, who passed away at the age of 90 and said nice things.

And this, of course, is what made Jay Jones very, very angry, the Democrat Virginia AG candidate.

And so he texted this Republican state delegate, if those guys die before me, I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves, send them out a wash and something.

And then again, He made the sort of old joke, and it is an old joke, that if you're in a room and you have two bullets in your gun, there are these three people in the room and two of them are Hitler and Pol Pot.

You put two bullets not in the truly evil people, but in this third person.

Now, to be fair, that is kind of an old joke.

But then he followed up.

Then he followed up.

A follow-up message from Jones confirmed not only that he wanted to kill Gilbert, but also that he would like Gilbert's children to die.

Okay, so this Republican state delegate.

wrote back, you weren't simply asking questions and you know it.

And Jones wrote back, I genuinely was.

I wasn't attacking you.

I was trying to understand your logic.

And the Republican delegate wrote back, you weren't trying to understand.

You were talking about hoping Jennifer Gilbert's children would die.

And you wrote back, yes, I've told you this before.

Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.

And the Republican state delegate wrote back, I point blank, asked you more than three times and you dug in that you meant it.

I honestly am questioning a lot today.

This is in the aftermath of Charlie Crook's murder.

This person went back and asked, did you mean that when you were talking about shooting people?

And this Democrat A.G.

Kansa wrote back, I mean, do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil and that they are breeding little fascists?

Yes.

Okay, that is insane, obviously.

Winsom Earl Sears, who is running for governor of Virginia right now and is currently lieutenant governor under Glenn Youngkin, put out a statement calling for the resignation of Jay Jones.

saying, quote, this is a horrible to read and should be wholly disqualifying of someone running for an office that protects the people of Virginia.

Jay Jones's horrific comments are a symptom of the entire Democratic Party, and his running mate, Abigail Spanberger, needs to call him out, call on him to drop out.

Attorney General Jason Mierez has served the people of Virginia with honor and dignity and will continue to do so come November.

Jay Jones can never be Attorney General of Virginia.

Now, the way that the mainstream media have covered this, totally insane.

And quite wild, actually.

First, they claim that there are allegations that Jay Jones wanted his political opponent.

Those aren't allegations.

He literally just said it.

He literally just said it.

It wasn't, those aren't allegations.

If you text someone and then you confirm over and over you mean a thing, and then you say that children should die because they're little fascists, I mean,

at a certain point, can we take you at your word?

Politico reported it this way, and this just shows you the insanity of the legacy media.

Quote, a string of text messages from Jay Jones, Virginia's Democratic nominee for attorney general, where he mused about violence directed toward a political rival is triggering widespread backlash and threatening to shake up the state's November election.

So, the story, as always, this is how it works.

If Democrats do a bad thing, the story is Republicans pounce.

If Republicans do a bad thing, the story is Republicans did a bad thing.

I love that language there.

That Jay Jones mused about violence.

He was just musing, a little bit of musing.

You know, it's what you do.

Like when you call for someone's murder.

It's you musing about what would happen if something bad were to happen to them.

Pretty incredible stuff.

There's no, I'm sorry.

Again, this conversation apparently happened in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk being murdered.

And so when we say that the legacy left, the mainstream left, has a soft spot in its heart for murder and terrorism.

I wish I could say that weren't true, but it appears that there is a lot of truth to that statement, and there's poll data to support it as well.

And it's embedded systemically in the system.

If you are a member of a so-called oppressed group, group, you can get away with literally attempting to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice.

If you happen to be a person who claims you are trans, you will get a lesser sentence.

This is the other big lesson of the weekend in left-wing violence.

Alrighty, folks, the violent permission structures don't just exist with regard to this Virginia AG nominee.

They also exist in Chicago, in Portland, actually in London.

The leftist violence permission structures continue.

We'll get to all of it in a moment.

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So you'll recall that in 2022, there is a person who traveled to Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Maryland home and was caught outside the home with weaponry,

with breaking and entering materials, getting ready to enter Justice Kavanaugh's home and kill him and harm his family.

Well, he was just sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison.

Why precisely did he not get 30 years behind bars, this person?

Why did the perpetrator not get 30 years behind bars, which is what you would get for, you know, attempting to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice?

The answer is that the person who attempted the murder here now considers himself trans.

And the entire media, they're going along with this.

The entire media are now claiming that the Kavanaugh would-be assassin is a woman.

I am not even kidding you.

They're using female pronouns.

You must respect the pronouns of the person who claims to be a woman.

I got to say, women are getting real violent these days, like shockingly violent.

I never would have expected, for example, a woman to be the person who tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh.

And that's because it wasn't a woman.

But here is the headline from NBC News.

Woman sentenced to eight years for attempting to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.

Woman.

Okay, now I'm just going to point out not a woman.

Not a woman.

The first paragraphs, quote, a woman who pled guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh three years ago was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison.

Sophie Roski, now 29, was arrested near Kavanaugh's home in June and told officials at the time that she intended to kill the associate justice, then herself.

She appeared in court on Friday for her sentencing in a yellow jail jumpsuit.

Now, why exactly is this relevant?

Well, the reason this is relevant is because the judge in this case, U.S.

District Court Judge Deborah Boardman, gave this man 97 months in prison, saying she felt that Rossky has shown remorse for her actions, according to NBC News.

The judge also ordered that Rossky, whom she referred to as a transgender woman, needed a lifetime of supervised release.

And the judge admitted, full out, that one of the reasons for the lenient sentence was the trans status.

That that was one of the reasons.

Boardman said that Rossky will be housed in a male-only Bureau of Prisons facility and says she took that into consideration when considering the severity of the sentence.

So, good new rule for murderers.

If you are a murderer or an attempted murderer and you wish for a lower sentence, simply claim that you are a woman and then talk about the hardship of having to be in a male-only prison and they will let you out early so that you, a man, don't have to be with the other men in the prison because you claim that you are a woman.

This is well below federal sentencing guidelines.

Quote, this is an atypical defendant and an atypical case.

Though she got far too close to executing her plans, the fact remains she abandoned them.

Sophie Roski's admission of guilt and efforts to come clean did not occur after or even because she was caught in the act by police.

If she had not called 911, law enforcement would never have known about Sophie Rossky and her plot to kill a Supreme Court justice.

Just amazing, amazing stuff here.

So,

again,

here you have a person who literally attempted to kill a Supreme Court justice, and the person is going to get a lower than recommended sentence because he is claiming to be a she.

This is the way that apparently the mainstream left now thinks this person is a victim in some way.

Now, we should also remember that the reason that someone tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh is because someone inside the Supreme Court leaked the draft opinion overturning Roe versus Wade and Dobbs months early.

And somehow, supposedly, they still haven't caught the person.

I guarantee you somebody knows who leaked that.

I guarantee you.

Somebody knows who leaked that.

Undoubtedly, it was some staff member in the Supreme Court building who was for one of the left-wing justices in an attempt to create precisely the kind of pressure that led to the assassination attempt.

Okay, meanwhile, speaking of permission structures for violence, who's a big weekend for this,

apparently, there was an attempt to attack ICE agents over in Chicago,

and the situation got pretty dang fraught.

It got pretty fraught in Chicago,

where a group of people legitimately mobilized to attack

ICE agents.

This, of course, led to Chicago and the state of Illinois attempting to claim that it was actually the fault of President Trump.

The actual story here is apparently that a group of people mobilized in an organized fashion in order to attack members of immigration and customs enforcement.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, quote, this morning, Border Patrol law enforcement officers were ambushed by domestic terrorists that rammed federal agents with their vehicles.

The woman, Mara Marmartinez, driving one of the vehicles, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon and has a history of doxing federal agents.

She took defensive fire from CBP agents and has been discharged from the hospital and is currently in the custody of the FBI.

The driver of another vehicle, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, involved in the ramming, has been apprehended by law enforcement.

The scene became increasingly violent as more domestic terrorists gathered and began throwing smoke, gas, rocks, and bottles at DHS law enforcement.

Another domestic terrorist

was arrested arrested for assaulting CBP at the scene.

Following J.B.

Pritzker's refusal to allow local police to help secure the scene, Secretary Noam has deployed special operations teams to restore law and order.

As our ICE law enforcement was responding to the shooting, a domestic terrorist followed them and rammed their vehicle in an attempt to run them off the road.

This individual has also been arrested

and is in HSI custody.

An ICE vehicle popped a tire and was subsequently mobbed by domestic terrorists, forcing law enforcement to abandon the vehicle for their own safety.

The vehicle was significantly damaged.

Several CBP law enforcement officers were sent to the hospital with various injuries.

So this is an organized terrorist assault on agents of Border Patrol and ICE.

Again, egged on by the left.

I mentioned the movie at the end of last week, One Battle After Another, which is basically about glorifying this specific kind of activity.

And the movie literally opens with a raid on an ICE facility.

And I understand that's a piece of entertainment.

I get it.

I also understand that there is a permission structure that has been created by the left, that if you are doing the brave work of resisting federal law enforcement in the enforcement of the law, somehow this makes you a hero.

And not only that, the true villain is the person enforcing the law.

This has been the case made by rotund governor of Illinois, J.B.

Pritzker, who said the feds need to get the heck out of Chicago.

Well, you know, they might not be in Chicago in the first place if you just let them do their job and if you inhibited.

people from violently assaulting officers.

Let me just say that the secretary doesn't know what she's talking about.

She frankly says that people are clapping.

They're not.

They're booing her on the street and they're booing ICE and CBP.

They're marching, the CBP marching on a beautiful Sunday in

Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago.

They're raiding neighborhoods where instead of going after the bad guys, they're just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials.

Are you a U.S.

citizen?

I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S.

citizen.

So you can imagine people are getting detained, they're getting arrested, U.S.

citizens.

And they did this, of course, when they raided a building in the middle of the night in South Shore.

130 people that were emptied out of this building.

They were going after a few gang members.

And instead, they broke windows, they broke down doors, they ransacked the place.

And there were people that were held, I mean, elderly people and children zip-tied.

Elderly people held for three hours at a time.

They are the ones that are making it a war zone.

They need to get out of Chicago.

If they're not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what the president said they were going to do, they need to get the heck out.

So they need to get out of Chicago.

Not the people who are violating the law.

The people who are attempting to keep the law are the ones who need to get the heck out of Chicago.

According to J.B.

Pritzker, who's also very upset because the president has said that he wants to use National Guard troops perhaps to quell the violence in Chicago against law enforcement officers, Pritzker put out a statement saying that Trump had given him an ultimatum that he was going to federalize the troops.

And he said, well, you know, it's absolutely outrageous.

It's just terrible.

Why is it that you have more ire for the people enforcing the law than the people violating the law?

Why?

And the answer has to do with a permission structure for violence.

Meanwhile, Gregory Bavino, who's one of the top agents spearheading President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, blasted both Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for feeding violence against Border Patrol and ICE agents.

Here he was explaining.

Those individuals like the governor or the mayor, they feed violence.

They foment this violence.

And I kind of scratch my head as to why they would do that, but they are actually feeding this violence and trying to get people hurt.

I wonder if they actually want.

Border Patrol agents and ICE officers hurt.

At this point, I've almost came to that conclusion.

It's a sad fact, but they continually, they continually banter that rhetoric around.

And I've not heard anything on the suspects that we've arrested, the bad people and bad things that we've arrested by the thousands.

I know they said it was 800.

It's over a thousand arrests now in Chicago.

Just yesterday, I was with Secretary Noam.

We arrested an aggravated felon who had spent three years in prison for a firearms offense, walking the streets with immunity.

What does the governor have to say about that?

You never hear them say anything about that.

That's awfully concerning to me.

And Secretary Noam herself says, listen, anybody who attacks federal agents will be hunted down and jailed.

Here was the secretary.

We're going to go out there and we're going to make sure that there's consequences for the way that they're behaving and that we're going to prosecute them.

We're going to bring them to justice.

We're not taking this anymore.

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He's a pro MAGA journalist, and he appeared on Fox News to explain that he actually was physically assaulted while he was covering another one of these Antifa protests.

And then he walked over to the cops and he was promptly arrested for his trouble.

This is the video of him being shoved around for the great crime of, you know, walking around and not being a radical leftist.

He's just walking down the street.

He's obviously not attempting to do anything violent.

Tubby Batman over here with his mask on

starts trying to shove him around

they shove him into a a bit of a a bit of a pit

start yelling at him and unfortunately this sort of violence has become fairly commonplace in portland sorter told fox news nobody can take that video and say i was the aggressor in that situation simply trying to walk down the sidewalk with my camera i'm actually walking in my car at the time they jumped in the way they blocked me they start surrounding me i keep trying to walk around them.

They continue to push me.

And then eventually one of them throws a punch.

And then he says he went over to the police.

And seven or eight minutes later, a sergeant walks up and points to me and says to the officers, cuff him.

No reason given.

The officers didn't know what they were doing.

And Sorter said, listen, the officers, rank and file officers, they don't do anything unless they're given a direct order by one of their superiors.

So somebody was telling somebody to arrest me.

Meanwhile, The left continues to maintain that Portland must remain a federal law enforcement free zone.

And this goes back years at this point.

You remember during BLM when Antifa was attacking courthouses in Portland, and federal officers at that point were put in the courthouse in Portland to protect the courthouse.

Well, meanwhile, federal judges are claiming that it's somehow a gigantic sin to mobilize the Oregon National Guard in Portland.

The judge said, quote, this country has a long-standing and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil life.

This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.

Well, what happens if the locality refuses to protect law enforcement officers in the pursuit of their duty?

Stephen Miller, the Deputy White House chief of staff, he then put out a statement on ex quote legal insurrection.

The president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, not an Oregon judge.

Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life.

There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide.

This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order, and the Republic itself.

And again, there is a question here as to what exactly is federal law enforcement being instructed to do that is beyond their remit.

Legally speaking, what law enforcement is being asked to do on the federal level is protect other law enforcement in the pursuit of their federally authorized duty.

And that is being inhibited by judges, it's being inhibited by Democratic lawmakers,

and it's being treated as some sort of act of heroism to resist federal law enforcement that is attempting to enforce immigration law.

And again, this all ties into a broader willingness on the radical left to wink, nod, and massage those who are willing to do radical violence.

Van Jones, who obviously is not of the right, but is one of the only honest people on the left these days.

He was on Bill Maher on Friday night and he torched Democrats over their response to Charlie Kirk's assassination.

I was very frustrated people in my party throwing rocks at the corpse before he could even be buried.

Blood still on the widow's shoes and people want to post every dumb thing he ever said.

He was a 31-year-old kid.

I mean, Van Jones, of course, is exactly right about all of this.

The immense amount of sympathy for the killer, an attempt by the media to turn the killer into some sort of romantic lead in a terrible knockoff of Dog Day Afternoon.

An amazing, amazing thing.

And this, again, is because, as we've been talking about for weeks, the left wing has fully fleshed out permission structures for violence.

And those permission structures for violence exist in a wide variety of forms, in resistance to ICE, in resistance to federal law enforcement, and yes, in support for Hamas, in support of a Palestinian terrorist state.

There's a journalist named Matthew Syed who was in London for a gigantic protest in Trafalgar Square where police arrested 493 people.

And he writes, in the UK Times, I asked a simple question in a pro-Palestine protest and it turned ugly.

And here's what he writes, because you have to understand, you know, in Lines and Scavengers, I talk about the coalition of scavengers who just changed the flag at the front of the parade, but it's the same coalition.

And whether they are going around arguing for global Marxism or whether they're going around arguing on behalf of terrorist groups, it's the same group of people.

It's why Greta Thunberg just changes hats.

She goes from global warming to global Marxism to free Gaza in a nanosecond.

And it doesn't matter because the hat is the same.

Western civilization sucks and I'm willing to side with anybody who believes that Western civilization has to be uprooted.

Here's what Syed writes, quote, let me transport you into the heart of London, Trafalgar Square, no less, in a nation that likes to pride itself on tolerance, the rule of law, and mutual respect.

There is a circle of people on the lower tier of the square, under the shadow of the National Gallery, surrounding a few hundred more holding placards proclaiming support for Palestine Action, a prescribed terror organization.

I approach a group of three women, perhaps in their 50s, brown-skinned British accents, and one of them recognizes me.

You're that journalist, Matthew Syed.

Yes, can you talk?

They assent.

So I ask what I take to be a fair-minded question to elicit their position and why they are here.

Quote, who do you blame for what is unfolding in Gaza?

Do you think Hamas bears any responsibility?

For the avoidance of doubts, I had writes, that was the extent of my question.

I didn't say anything else about Hamas, that their founding charter is committed to the killing of Jews, that they've consistently said they wish to commit October 7th-style atrocities again and again, that they are funded by Iran, which wishes to expunge Israel from the pages of history, that the Mullahs have sometimes insinuated that Muslims have a duty to kill Jews wherever they are found.

Perhaps, who knows, the inspiration for a man called Jihad, born to a Syrian father, who described the Hamas attackers as, quote, men of God on earth, attempting mass murder in Manchester.

No, all I asked was, is Hamas partially responsible?

Here's what happened next, as their friendly faces turned to, well, something else.

Go away, one said.

Go away.

You are a bad faith actor.

We don't want to talk to you.

Just F off.

It's a really boring online.

You are disgusting.

And he said, I am disgusting.

Yes, you are disgusting.

You are not a journalist.

It is very clear what your position is here.

Now their voices were getting louder.

Piss off.

Thanks for your time.

I appreciate it, I said, retreating, but they were not finished.

What are you doing here anyway?

You are prejudiced.

Hopefully nobody will ever buy a book you write.

You are a charlatan.

You are an effing racist.

Now, again, notice the victim mentality in the scavengers.

They are asked a simple question.

Who bears responsibility for what's happening in Gaza?

Does Hamas bear any responsibility considering they started the war, refused to surrender, and still have not given up the hostages, despite their lip service to the idea of a deal?

These people consider themselves the victims.

And if you criticize them, you are a racist.

You are victimizing them.

You are doing them verbal violence.

Syed writes, those surrounding us started to join in.

Well said, sister.

Yeah, well said.

Others in the enclosure began to applaud.

I noticed a tall man with a Palestine flag a few meters away and he pointed at me, although I wasn't sure why.

A younger woman approached and said, I have seen you all afternoon trying to get a rise from people.

I only asked if Hamas is partly responsible.

Is that so very provocative?

You are here to cause trouble and you are going to get trouble, she said.

Syed says, I wish I could tell you this was a one-off, but I spoke to at least two dozen people and with two exceptions, including a lovely black guy from North London, who conversed intelligently and politely.

The motivation for being here was obvious, potent, and implacable.

The hatred of Jews.

I heard conspiracy theories.

October 7th was a false flag operation.

Blood libels, and the pervasive view that the Manchester atrocity was not a heinous attack, but righteous come-uppance for an evil people.

My sense is that many felt liberated to say what they really thought by the proximity of like-minded others, the classic symptom of mob mentality.

Syed says, What perhaps struck me the most was the vivid contrast between the ostensibly peaceful nature of the protests, holding flags, going limp when they, when arrested, so they had to be lifted by four officers at a time, and the latent violence of their views.

As police carried off an elderly protester I'd talked to a little earlier, and who was convinced of the virtue of his hateful opinions,

protesters started shouting at the young officers, shame on you.

But are they not following the instruction of a democratically elected government, even if you disagree with it, and upholding the rule of law?

F democracy, F the police.

You perhaps won't be surprised, I had said, to hear that most were virulently left-wing.

I almost felt like crying as another anonymous hater, perhaps 22 white, middle-class accent, started to lecture me about intersectionality and colonialist oppression.

It was like woke bingo.

I couldn't help asking about the oppression of women in Gaza, but her face went blank.

How the F do you know women are treated badly?

Or Amnesty International?

This momentarily phased her.

She couldn't quite place amnesty in the institutional framework of the Jew-funded global conspiracy, but she recovered quickly.

Well, I haven't read about that, but I have read about Jewish occupation and genocide.

Syed says,

How did protesters who weep for Gazins feel about the prospect of the killing ending?

Because, of course, there may be a peace deal any moment.

I can assert that almost nobody I spoke to showed the slightest interest.

I haven't kept up with that one.

I haven't read about it.

If Netanyahu signed up, it must be awful.

But surely it's a good thing if it brings an end to the slaughter, he said.

Hesitation.

But it won't be a just peace.

I left Trafalgar Square even more convinced the government has demonstrated criminal complacency about the rise in anti-Semitism over recent years.

Now is the time for robust action.

Otherwise, we will see more atrocities like Manchester.

But remember, what's happening to Jews in London is happening to the Wester at large.

You have barbarians inside our civilization imported by people in our civilization.

And then you have fellow travelers from a wide variety of causes willing to stand next to them to tear down the institutions they feel are laying them low.

That is why you have this motley crew.

This bizarre agglomeration of different interest groups all marching under the flag of Hamas.

That is why.

And they could not care less.

Notice the silence, man.

It's unbelievable.

They could not care less if there is some sort of end to the war in Gaza.

In fact, the end of the war in Gaza will be bad for them because then how can they claim that the Jews are engaging in something awful?

They'll have to find somebody else to yell at or a different way to claim that the Jews are engaged in something awful.

Because when a lot of these people mean the Jews, they don't mean the Jews.

What they actually mean is just any Western civilized power in conflict with pro-terrorist, anti-civilizational forces.

They'll just switch that hat once again.

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Meanwhile, negotiations over the end of the Gaza war continue.

Now, that wasn't supposed to happen.

If you recall back to last week, the president delivered an ultimatum alongside the prime minister of Israel.

The ultimatum was basically a 21-point plan.

And if that plan was not accepted in full, then Israel would go in and finish the job in Gaza City.

Israel right now is occupying and has militarily cleared a large majority of Gaza City.

There are a few square blocks that are remaining.

Presumably that is where Hamas is sort of hold out for its end stand.

And Israel has paused in place because the president has asked Israel to do that at this point.

The president is very optimistic about some sort of deal.

Hamas seems to be playing a game of yes, but, which is smart.

I mean, they're evil, but they're not stupid.

And so Hamas has been playing a game where they say, yes, we are totally for that deal.

But here are 27 different changes we want to the deal.

And the question becomes, at what point everybody on the other side, meaning America, Israel, and everyone else who has been on board with the original deal, gets up and walks away from the table.

And the onus is on Qatar and Turkey.

I understand that the main players here are Israel and Hamas, but understand, Hamas can only be cudgeled into some sort of deal here by Qatar, its sponsor state, and Turkey, its other sponsor state.

Both of those states have been holding up Hamas for years.

Qatar has been providing billions of dollars to Hamas.

There's a reason that Hamas's leadership felt felt safe in Qatar up until precisely the moment Israel fired a missile at them in Qatar.

You don't have to take my word for it when it comes to Qatari's support for Hamas.

I asked our friends and sponsors over at Comet, a project of perplexity, how much financial support has Qatar provided to Hamas since 2005?

The answer, Qatar has provided an estimated $1.8 billion in financial support to Hamas Ran Gaza since 2005.

This funding has included both direct cash payments and material assistance, such as fuel, with regularly monthly transfers reaching 30 million dollars per month at times and occasional large pledges for reconstruction and aid projects

according to comet the aid has periodically included annual commitments such as a 400 million dollar pledge in 2012 and a 360 million dollar annual pledge from 2021 monthly cash transfers around 30 million dollars per month from 2018 onwards and emergency grants and from 2007 to 2014 qatar's financing was mostly independent sometimes through secret or informal channels outside international oversight A significant portion of Qatari assistance is delivered as fuel, which Hamas then sells for cash and has humanitarian aid that is controlled or dispersed by Hamas.

So yes, Qatar has been and remains the number one supporter of Hamas.

Turkey, meanwhile, has become a safe haven for members of Hamas who have left the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.

Turkey and Qatar are the ones who have the capacity to turn the screws on Hamas and get to a deal.

This was true October 8th as well.

It is why the policy that I advocated literally days after October 7th that could have avoided nearly everything everything that has happened in the Gaza Strip, would have been the United States going to Qatar and saying the military base goes away unless Qatar forces Hamas to release all of the hostages and its leadership to go into exile.

That would have short-circuited the entire war.

But Qatar was unwilling to do that because, of course, Qatar plays both sides.

At a certain point, Qatar is going to have to be held to account for its clients in Hamas.

At a certain point, I understand.

that we are trying to forge a warm relationship with Qatar.

I understand that we have an air base there and also that the United States has an interest, presumably, in Qatar acting as a mediator.

But Qatar is not an honest broker.

And at a certain point, either Qatar can get it done or they can't get it done.

We just signed a mutual defense agreement, which effectively means that if Iran or Israel or anybody else attacks Qatar, the United States has to come to the defense of Qatar.

One question, are you willing to die for Doha?

Is one of those questions.

But beyond that, the screws need to be put.

to Qatar and Turkey to actually fulfill their pledge here.

If they can get it done, then they should get it done.

Because Hamas keeps getting squirrely.

Hamas is now demanding the release of arch terror masters, people who are effectively like Yaqya Sinwar, the former head of Hamas, who was killed by Israeli forces after masterminding October 7th.

Hamas is now asking for the release of somebody like Marwan Barghoudi, who of course is a terrorist mastermind who would immediately take leadership of whatever the newest terrorist cell is in the Gaza Strip or Judea and Samaria, the so-called West Bank.

Hamas keeps trying to change the terms of the deal.

And the president has made clear over and over and over again that either it's going to be a deal or Israel is going to have free reign to go in and finish the job in Gaza City.

And then the implementation of the Trump peace plan will just happen whether Hamas likes it or not.

And if the hostages are still being held, the Hamas plan still will be put into place.

Hamas will be defenestrated as a military group.

It will be worse for Israel because Israel won't get the hostages back.

But it will also be worse for Hamas because no one from Hamas will survive in the end.

The president on Saturday told Axios, quote, we are close to a peace deal in Gaza.

He said, Bibi, this is your chance for victory.

He was fine with it, Trump said.

He's got to be fine with it.

He has no choice with me.

You got to be fine.

Now, President Trump is pushing very hard because he believes that this is the opening.

President Trump said, we had great receptivity for our plan.

Every country of the world in favor.

Bibi is in favor.

Hamas went a long way.

They want to do it.

Now we will need to close it.

Trump said that Turkish president receptive Erdogan, who's about to receive a bunch of F-35s from the United States.

I think that is a bad idea considering the Islamist nature of the regime in Turkey.

But he says that Erdogan was, quote, very helpful in pressing Hamas to move forward.

Erdogan helped a lot.

He's a tough guy, but he's a friend of mine and he was great.

Okay, fine.

Well, if these are friends of the United States, then they ought to do the work.

The onus is on Qatar and Turkey to get to the end of the process here because they're the only ones, truly, who can force Hamas to end this process.

They are the only allies that Hamas effectively has left.

President Trump is very optimistic.

Yesterday, he spoke to the press in a bit of a gaggle, and he said, a lot of countries surrounding Israel are pushing.

It looks like it's working.

We had some very good meetings.

The countries of the world, a lot of the countries surrounding Israel, frankly,

Muslim, Arab, and many others have had great meetings with Hamas, and it looks like it's working.

So we'll wait for a little while, see how it all turns out.

It's going to work very, very quickly.

I think it's going to go very quickly.

The meetings seem to be very good.

We'll find out.

We'll let you know soon.

Now, listen, there is tremendous optimism, certainly on the Israeli side, that the hostages will come home, which has become the number one priority of the Israelis.

The question is what they're willing to do to get the hostages.

Are they willing to effectively lose the war?

Are they willing to guarantee some sort of cordon where the Israeli military will not be the guaranteeing security force?

What exactly is the deal?

The president has put one out there.

That would have Israel drawing back to a line that's a couple of miles from the Mediterranean Sea, a line that they were holding a few months back, drawing outside of Gaza City in exchange for the hostages, and then Hamas giving up its weaponry, Hamas not being a part of the future governing body of whatever takes place next.

Tony Blair is, of course, supposed to be one of the people who's deeply involved in that governing body, a transitional authority that would also be run by the UAE, by Saudi.

Qatar presumably would be involved in that way.

So the deal is still taking shape.

The question, as with any deal, is when are you willing to get up and walk away from the table?

If Hamas is just screwing around here, buying time for themselves to rearm, if Hamas is just trying to draw this out in order to win some sort of misbegotten PR victory,

well, they're going to have another thing coming.

Because the reality is, if a deal does not get done, the IDF is going to go in and finish the job.

The president has made this very clear, by the way.

The president put out a statement.

Quote, there have been very positive discussions with Hamas and countries from all over the world, Arab, Muslim, everywhere else, this weekend to release the hostages, end the war in Gaza, but more importantly, finally have long sought peace in the Middle East.

These talks have been very successful and proceeding rapidly.

The technical teams will again meet on Monday in Egypt to work through and clarify the final details.

I am told the first phase should be completed this week, and I'm asking everyone to move fast.

I will continue to monitor this centuries-old conflict.

Time is of the essence, or massive bloodshed will follow, something that nobody wants to see.

The president also told CNN that Hamas faces, quote, complete obliteration if the group refuses to cede power and control of Gaza.

That is what he told Jake Tapper on Saturday, if Hamas insists on staying in power.

Tapper pressed the president on Hamas' response to his 20-point ceasefire proposal, citing Lindsey Graham's interpretation that Hamas had effectively rejected the plan by insisting on no disarmament, keeping Gaza under Palestinian control, and tying hostage release to negotiations.

And Tapper said, is he wrong?

And Trump responded, we will find out, only time will tell.

The president says he expects clarity soon on whether Hamas is genuinely committed to peace.

And he was asked if Prime Minister Netanyahu is on board with ending the campaign in Gaza and supporting the president's broader vision, and he said yes on BB.

Speaking of which, here was the Prime Minister of Israel saying that they are on the brink of a deal to end the war.

This was the Prime Minister on Saturday night.

We are on the verge of a very big achievement.

It's not final yet, but I hope that in the coming days, during the Sukkot holiday, I will be able to announce to you the return of all the hostages in one phase, while the IDF remains deep inside the strip and the territories that control it.

Thanks to the great support I received from you, citizens of Israel, and thanks to the bravery of our fighters, I stood up to enormous pressure from home and abroad to stop the war and to give in to Hamas's dictates.

You know what would have happened then.

We would have left Gaza having achieved almost nothing.

Okay, so that is a translation of what the Prime Minister is saying.

He, of course, you'd recognize his voice.

He's speaking in Hebrew there.

And so that is the translation of his statements.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, appeared on Meet the Press on NBC on Sunday, and he said, listen, if Hamas remains in control, then this whole thing has been for naught.

You can't launch something like October 7th and expect to remain in control.

No one should forget what happened on October 7th.

We don't forget what happened on October 7th.

That's the other thing the president repeatedly points to is remember October 7th.

But the implication, whether we agree with it or not, we have seen the impact that this has had on Israel's global standing.

And I think that's the point the President is making here, is that whether you believe it was justified or not, right or not,

you cannot ignore the impact that this has had on Israel's global standing.

That said, if we never want to see this happen again, meaning a war like this, you can never have another October 7th or anything like it ever happen again.

And that's the thing the President has reiterated and repeatedly made clear to our partners in the region.

And that is, if you truly want peace and stability and a better future for the Palestinian people, then there has to be a Gaza that is not governed or controlled in any way, shape, or form by Hamas or anything that looks like Hamas.

Now, again, there is a lack of clarity at the moment as to what the shape of the final deal will look like here.

It is quite possible that Hamas is screwing around again because we have heard preliminary deals announced many, many times over the course of this conflict to free certain numbers of hostages.

And of course, that is not.

exclusive to this part of the world.

We saw talk about an Iran nuclear deal that never took shape because Iran was lying.

We've seen talk about a deal in Ukraine and Russia in which Vladimir Putin was lying.

So it would would not be a shock if Hamas is lying, trying to draw this out, kind of the final measure of torture for the Israeli population and for the United States and the Arab world, by the way, that wants to get to the end of all of this.

The Secretary of State did say that Hamas has at this point agreed to the framework.

Now I would view it in two phases in terms of understanding how to break this out.

The first piece of it, which was very clear from the letter and Hamas's response, is they have agreed to the president's hostage release framework.

And what needs to happen now, and they acknowledge in the letter in their response is there now needs to be meetings which are occurring even as I speak to you now and hopefully will be finalized very quickly on the logistics of that.

What that means is, you know, who goes in to get them?

Is it Red Cross?

You know, when do they show up, et cetera?

You know, what place are they going to be?

And the conditions have to be created for that to happen.

You know, you can't have bombs going off and fighting going on in the middle of this exchange.

So that's piece one.

The second part, and we want to see that happen as soon as possible.

All 48 hostages, both living and deceased, and there's some need to be released.

And there's some logistical challenges to that that we'll have to work through.

But that work is happening even as I speak to you this very moment.

The second part of it, it's even harder, and that is the long-term peace.

What happens after Israel pulls back to the yellow line and potentially beyond that as this thing develops?

How do you create this Palestinian technocratic leadership that's not Hamas, that's not terrorists, and with the help of the international community?

How do you disarm?

any sort of terrorist groups that are going to be building tunnels and conducting attacks against Israel.

How do you get them to demobilize?

All that work.

That's going to be hard, but that's critical because without that, you're not going to have lasting peace.

You may get the hostages back.

You may get a cessation of hostilities, but in the long term, it's going to happen all over again.

So both are going on at the same time.

But priority number one, the one that we think we can achieve something very quickly on, hopefully, is the release of all of the hostages in exchange for Israel moving back to that yellow line, which is...

basically where they stood at the middle part of last month or of August.

And that's the one we're focused on.

Even as I speak to you now, there are people meeting on that.

Okay, so that is the deal the United States wishes to pursue, that Israel wishes to pursue, that achieves the war goals of Israel, and that also frees the hostages.

Now, the question is, what Hamas is going to attempt to link to that?

Because what Hamas knows, just on a pure negotiation basis here, is that the minute the hostages are out, they basically lose their leverage.

And so they're trying to guarantee upfront their survival, their maintenance of weapons.

They were trying to make a claim over the weekend that they want to retain their quote-unquote defensive weapons.

What would that even look like?

What is a defensive weapon in the context of urban warfare?

It does not exist.

So again, they're getting squirrely.

It'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out.

There is tremendous optimism from the American side.

There's optimism from the Israeli side as well.

The question, I will come back to it, is, will Qatar and Turkey fulfill the commitments they have made to the president of the United States to press Hamas to end this war?

And once again, The only people capable of ending this war are Hamas.

The ball has been in their court since October 6th.

It was in their court before October 7th.

They decided to launch October 7th.

Then they decided to do two years of war and fight a PR campaign with dead bodies created by Hamas, people who they were shielding their weapons behind those people.

They decided to do that.

This has always been a Hamas-driven war.

Every drop of blood that has been shed is on Hamas, and that continues today.

If the war continues, that will only be because Hamas refused to end the war.

Period.

End of story.

And it will be because its allies in Qatar and Turkey refuse to do the thing they've committed to do, namely to press Hamas to actually get to the end of this war.

Meanwhile, the government shutdown continues apace.

It is being driven, again, by Democrat intransigents because what exactly are they seeking to gain?

A reversal of the one big beautiful bill?

Nobody really knows what they're trying to do here.

It's not playing.

First of all, nobody really feels the pressure, unlike the Democrats.

When Democrats are in charge and there's a government shutdown, Democrats try to maximize the pain on the American public.

When Republicans are in charge and there's a government shutdown, Republicans try to minimize the pain on the American public.

So I'm not sure the American public is really feeling the government shutdown in any significant or severe way.

And so that means the Democrats aren't really paying a political penalty, per se, at this point.

Hakeem Jeffries continues to try to articulate some sort of rationale for why I suppose the shutdown continues.

Here is the House Minority Leader.

The House Republican partisan Spending Bill is a dirty piece of legislation that continues to gut the health care of the American people, and it's riddled with toxic right-wing Republican priorities because it's connected to a March spending bill that Democrats in the House uniformly rejected.

And we rejected it significantly because of the fact that it was an attack on veterans, an attack on children, an attack on housing affordability, and certainly was an attack on health care at the time in November, November,

excuse me, in March of last year.

And now they just want to continue that.

So it's irresponsible in our view for Republicans in the House to continue to insist that they aren't trying to advance their own extreme right-wing priorities.

Of course that's what they're trying to do.

They've been doing it all year.

At the same period of time, it's also irresponsible that House Republicans continue to be on vacation.

So again,

I'm just, I'm confused as to what the goal here is in the end.

It doesn't seem like there's a goal except for simply catering to the left wing of the Democratic Party.

Hakeem Jeffrey says, we will not be bullied, but you absolutely are being bullied, Madud.

You're being manhandled by the left wing of your party.

That's what's happening here.

Well, we are going to continue to stand by our hard-working federal civil servants.

And it's unfortunate that Donald Trump and Republicans have decided to now use them as pawns because of the Republican refusal to provide health care to working class and middle class Americans.

At the same period of time, Ali, you make a very good point, and that's the reality.

Donald Trump, Russ Volt, and this malignant crew that's part of this administration, they have been engaging in mass firing since January 20th.

They've been doing it outside of the context of a government shutdown.

And so to the extent that they're claiming that a government shutdown may force their hand, that's just pretext.

for something that they've already been doing.

This is why it's important for us as Democrats, of course, to continue to hold the line on behalf of the American people while also making it clear we'll sit down with the Republicans.

We want to find a bipartisan path forward.

It's always been done that way in the past when we found ourselves in the context of a government shutdown.

Okay, again, it's just, it's pathetic stuff.

But what this is really about in the end is who can yell the loudest among the Democrats?

Because whoever yells the loudest is somehow considered the winner.

This is the Corey Booker strategy for leadership.

Get up there, pop in your angry eyes, and then just, and then just yell a lot.

Well, one of the people who's attempting to somehow do it again is Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris seems to want to run for president again.

She's making,

go for it, lady.

And she's making the case that the reason she lost the first time is she just didn't have enough time for the American public to get to know her.

Ignoring the fact that the more you know Kamala Harris, the less you like her.

This is the rule of Kamala Harris.

Well, apparently over the weekend, she did a book event and she started just yelling and screaming about how Donald Trump does not have a mandate because he won a narrow election over

Kamala Harris.

Well, I mean, that's not how electoral mandates work.

If you win, you're the president, and then you get to do the things that you're elected to do.

That's typically how it works.

Here's Kamala Harris yelling about it.

And here's the other thing that is quite unprecedented.

And

it was the tightest, closest presidential election.

It was the 21st century.

He has not had a mandate.

That is not a mandate.

So, I mean, if you yell that it's not a mandate, then it doesn't change anything.

There's no constitutional provision where the loser of an election yells a lot, and then magically the mandate goes away.

And by the way, that's not even remotely true, that this is the closest American election of the 21st century.

That's not true, like, at all, actually.

There was an incredibly close election in 2000.

It was decided by 700 votes, 600 votes in Florida.

2016 was a very, very close election, as you recall, where the president, the current president lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College.

The 2020 election was actually quite close.

This last election was, at best, the third closest election of the 21st century.

But, you know, ladies got to do something to make a living these days.

Okay, meanwhile, on the cultural front, there are a lot of people who are apparently very hot and bothered over Bad Bunny, a person whose name is Bad Bunny, who is hosting,

hosted SNL this last weekend and is the halftime star, I guess, of the Super Bowl.

And I'm not one of the people who's very exercised about this.

I frankly don't care who performs the halftime show at the Super Bowl.

I think it's a waste of time and a waste of money.

It is not made for people like me anyway, meaning straight men.

And so Bad Bunny.

you know, hosting the halftime show at the Super Bowl.

I actually think it's kind of hilarious because he said that he wouldn't come back to the United States while Trump was president, and here he is breaking his vow.

Well, not only is he doing that, he's now showing up at SNL to speak Spanish at you.

More of this.

Honestly, good.

More.

I like that.

This is good.

I think the Democrats should show who they are.

I think cultural left-wingers should show who they are.

And Bad Bunny should show up on SNL and lecture Americans on why they need to learn Spanish.

And by the way, I'm not anti-learning Spanish.

I've been trying to do it myself for years and failing.

I think it's a good thing to know multiple languages, but I don't think Americans take kindly to being lectured about how they must learn Spanish in the English language speaking country that is the United States.

I'm doing the Super Bowl halftime show.

And

I'm very happy.

I'm very happy.

And I think everyone is happy about it.

Even

Fox News.

That bunny is my favorite musician.

And he should be the next president.

Thank you.

Wow, thank you.

No, no, but

really, I'm very excited to be doing the Super Bowl.

And I know that people all around the world who love my music are also happy.

Especially todo Latino.

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de todo demotrando que nuestra vuelle, no transportación este pay, nadi en uncara podoraza cal ni vorral.

And

if you didn't understand what I just said,

you have four months to learn.

Okay, like I'm not going to be lectured about learning Spanish by by Bad Bunny, a person who calls himself Bad Bunny.

And I hope that Democrats embrace this full scale.

That actually it is an obligation of everybody to learn Spanish, not for him to speak English so that we can understand him.

Go with this.

And when I am looking for cultural arbiters who are going to really spell out what it is that the Democratic Party should be about, I look to the multicolored hair of Molly Jongfast, who says that Bad Bunny represents the values of the Democratic Party.

Her hair grows ever more neon.

It's kind of impressive.

I have to say,

I don't know that her hair was always like this, but whoever is her specialist in doing the die,

getting creative out there.

If the message is okay or works in different crowds, you don't have to think that that person needs to be your presidential candidate.

Like, this is a problem that we all get obsessed by.

Is this person ascendant?

Is this the one?

Is this the way to do it?

But you might like AOC.

You might like, you might like, you know, Pritzker, whatever the case is.

Are you getting the message?

And what's important about the op-ed I wrote in the New York Times and Bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny represents a lot of the values that right now the Democratic Party should, I mean, you know, the idea that Puerto Rico is part of America, that we shouldn't be racist against people who come from, I mean, like these are easy ideas that, and he's a great messenger.

And if you think about Donald Trump got that politics is downstream of culture.

That's why he's at UFC fights.

That's why he claimed ownership of Jake Paul and Joe Rogan and those people because he knew that the way to get in front of low-frequency voters is to be in the culture.

Democrats have that too, but they're so reticent to embrace it because they're so cautious and lawyerly.

And I think it's a mistake.

Yeah, well, you know, go for it.

Go for it.

More of this.

I think we should definitely take our political.

cues from the great, brilliant folks over at SNL, who, by the way, spent the weekend also mocking J.K.

Rowling for the great crime.

J.K.

Rowling, you'll remember, told Emma Watson to basically stand back, stand aside, because Emma Watson had been ripping into her a year ago and now is trying to make nice with her

because J.K.

Rowling has committed the heinous sin of saying that boys are not girls and girls are not boys.

So that means that it was time for SNL to mock J.K.

Rowling.

You know, always on the side of the 20% SNL, as opposed to the 80%.

Dobby, the house self-attached service.

Are you okay?

You don't have to be scared.

Scared?

Why would Dobby be scared, sir?

Dobby's just about to publicly weigh in on trans people, that's all.

I mean, do you really have to?

Oh, yes, sir.

Master sent Dobby to go on the telly and define once and for all what a woman is, sir.

All right, first of all, I do not love master.

I really don't.

And is your master J.K.

Rowland?

Why, of course, sir.

Oh, oh, no.

Dobby wasn't supposed to say bad, Dobby, bad, Dobby, bad, Bobby,

why do you keep hurting yourself?

It's not right.

Why?

Dobby doesn't know.

Perhaps because house elves are house elves are somehow always the problem, even though we're only 1% of the population.

But house elves aren't the victims.

Master Rowling is.

She gets so much hate mail.

Just this morning, she received this t-shirt that says, they K Rowling.

Keep going with this.

Honestly, cultural left,

please.

The right will be in power forever if you continue this sort of nonsense.

All righty, folks.

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