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Tuesday, August 31, 2021
90 retired generals and admirals call for Austin and Milley to resign immediately
The group said if Austin and Milley did advise Biden against the withdrawal – and he still went forward with it – they should have resigned in protest
You have to wonder why they were selected in the first place. One was selected because of the color of his skin 'people of color' in Bribem's mind trumps any other attributes. The other is both maintain a 'wokeness' especially their views on critical race theory and white supremacy. Again, in Bribem's mind, trumps their military prowess.
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More than 120 retired generals and admirals sign open letter questioning Biden's mental health and backing election fraud claims
Flag Officers 4 America released a letter in May questioning the legitimacy of President Joe Biden's election victory
In May, a group of more than 120 retired military officers wrote to President Joe Biden to tell him his election was less than legitimate – while questioning his mental acuity.
The letter echoes former President Donald Trump's claims of widespread election fraud – which have not been borne out in the courts.
'Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the 'will of the people' our Constitutional Republic is lost,' the letter from retired officers says.
The group calls itself 'Flag Officers 4 America' and consists of retired military officers including generals and admirals.
'The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020,' they wrote.
The letter, called an 'Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals,' was reported by Politico.
It echoes Trump's claims that absentee ballots are not secure as it goes after Biden, who serves as Commander in Chief of the military.
'Election integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen. Legal votes are identified by State Legislature's approved controls using government IDs, verified signatures, etc,' they write.
'Today, many are calling such commonsense [voter ID] controls “racist” in an attempt to avoid having fair and honest elections. Using racial terms to suppress proof of eligibility is itself a tyrannical intimidation tactic,' they write.
The retired officers raise doubts about Biden's mental capacity – and reference Speaker Nancy Pelosi's move to get assurances about the nuclear codes in the days after the January 6 MAGA riot.
When you're supposed to be honoring the dead but the time is more important
https://nypost.com/2021/08/30/biden-ripped-for-apparently-looking-at-watch-at-troops-ceremony/
57 second video... and it's an earful!!!
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How our enemies view Bribem:
LaMont China Demetrious Iran
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Have to say I got a lump in my throat too
Thought FB would delete it because some people may find it offensive.
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Hold on to your seat... Harris is holding steady
This article presented by the Associated Press. As the Bribem administration Afghan debacle is disintegrating faster than a sandcastle in a hurricane the AP decided to run with this fluff piece.
Don't think you could get any more out of touch than this!
Spectators or active participants trying to control the situation? The mantra... we're leaving Afghanistan no matter what the cost.
Harris holds steady on Southeast Asia trip as crises loom
© Provided by Associated Press U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, accompanied by Gardens by the Bay CEO Felix Loh, visits the orchid that was named after her, at the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay, following her foreign policy speech in Singapore, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
HONOLULU (AP) — In Singapore, in between a foreign policy speech and a roundtable talk about supply chain issues, Vice President Kamala Harris stopped to smell the flowers.
Specifically, she checked out an orchid that the country named after her — a light fuschia hybrid named Papilionanda Kamala Harris — a diplomatic honor also bestowed on former President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden during past visits to the country.
“Oh, this is extraordinary,” she marveled as she took a brief tour of the lush Flower Field room of Singapore’s iconic Gardens By the Bay on Tuesday.
It was a brief — and rare — moment of normalcy for Harris during a diplomatic trip chock full of extraordinary circumstances.
House Dem calls Biden's handling of Afghanistan 'f---g disaster'
Bribem said the Afghan crisis was Trump’s fault because he was forced to follow the policy Trump put in place. He also said inexplicably there is no crisis at the southern border, but if there is it's Trump's fault, after he didn't follow the policy Trump put in place.
The thought process of a stammering old man not fit to be president.
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Fox News' Chad Pergram reports the latest on Reps. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., and Seth Moulton, D-Mass., taking an unsanctioned trip to Afghanistan.
The Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a "f---g disaster" of "epic proportions," according to Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass.
"The thing that everybody needs to understand, even if you completely agree with the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw, the way they have handled this has been a total f---g disaster," he said, as reported Thursday by New York Magazine.
The administration, he claimed, "has created a disaster of epic proportions," which should be investigated by Congress.
Moulton and Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., visited Afghanistan this week, prompting backlash from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Democratic aides in Congress.
Moulton, meanwhile, seemed frustrated with his own party for not holding the administration accountable.
He told the magazine: "I did everything I could. I mean, I would get on these calls with like a small number of members of Congress, mostly Democrats, who would all very politely say, ‘We love you Biden administration, but can you do a little bit more on this.’"
"I would be the only one who would just say starkly, ‘Here are the stakes. People are going to die.’"
While Moulton said he didn't like criticizing President Biden, he also said, "If telling the truth is what’s required to save a few lives, then it’s worth all the bad politics in the world."
The Biden administration has seen a wave of criticism in recent weeks, which intensified on Thursday when 13 U.S. service members died in bombings at Hamid Karzai International Airport. A long list of Republican politicians have called for Biden's impeachment or resignation and on Friday two House Republicans introduced articles of impeachment for Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
So far, the administration has touted its evacuation efforts.
On Thursday, Biden said: "These American service members who gave their lives — it’s an overused word, but it’s totally appropriate — they were heroes … They were part of an airlift, an evacuation effort unlike any seen in history, with more than 100,000 American citizens, American partners, Afghans who helped us, and others taken to safety in the last 11 days. Just in the last 12 hours or so, another 7,000 have gotten out."
He also took responsibility for Thursday's events but indicated he was working with a difficult timeline for withdrawal.
"I bear responsibility for, fundamentally, all that’s happened of late," he said.
"But here’s the deal: You know – I wish you’d one day say these things – you know as well as I do that the former president made a deal with the Taliban that he would get all American forces out of Afghanistan by May 1."
Friday, August 27, 2021
Don't think you could put it any better coming from a Gold Star father
Two minute video. Removed from YouTube because it violates their child safety policy. So please don't let your child watch this. A father's love for his son may be too graphic causing delirium and could result in forgetting what bathroom they're supposed to use.
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Thursday, August 26, 2021
What a revolting development
Afghan fiasco fallout
If Bribem is impeached Harris becomes president who is at least as bad as Bribem if not worse. If something should directly happen to Harris Pelosi becomes president. An argument could be made she's worse than both of them combined!
Why are we in this situation a moron in charge of the Afghan debacle?
I guarantee you mail in voting had a lot to do with it.
Ask yourself this. What party is 100% against stopping voter fraud?
Just think if he's not impeached we have 40 months to go with this asshole.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
It's kind of ironic
The tragic anniversary of 911 is right around the corner and with Bribem at the helm were right back in the same boat staring at another one.
New intelligence report falls short on finding COVID-19 origins, reports say
While everybody's focus has been on Afghanistan the administration quietly slipped this in under the radar.
I fully expected nothing was going to come out of this ‘investigation' and it didn’t.
What Bribem Didn’t Say
On tip from Ed Kilbane
Too bad we can't swap out Bribem for this guy.
Been watching General Jack Keane on FOX. Never saw him so animated he is absolutely furious.
BTW... A nice gesture on the part of the White House would be for Bribem and Harris to turn themselves over to the Taliban in exchange for the release of all Americans. It would be a win-win for the United States and the Taliban.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Monday, August 23, 2021
VP Kamala Harris laughs when asked about tragedy in Afghanistan
Vice President Kamala Harris is under fire for laughing when asked about the deadly chaos in Afghanistan — before Singapore’s prime minister pointed out during a press conference with Harris that the Biden administration’s exit plan went “awry.”
The VP — heavily criticized for her delay in addressing the disaster that started after the US pulled out despite the Taliban’s resurgence — was already grinning widely when she approached reporters Friday.
A reporter attempted to ask about her “response on Americans” — but the VP cut her off before she could finish.
“Hold on, hold on — slow down, everybody!” Harris said, before letting out her now-notorious laugh, shaking her shoulders as she chuckled.
The VP finally controlled herself to insist that the Biden administration “couldn’t have a higher priority right now” than Afghanistan.
Vice President Kamala Harris laughed after being asked about the crisis in Afghanistan
Harris, who has previously been criticized for similar reactions at seemingly inappropriate moments, spoke as she was heading overseas — but not to Afghanistan.
Instead, she traveled to Asia for stops in Singapore and Vietnam — ironically, the sites of previous US-UK military humiliations.
People line up to board a bus after disembarking an Air Belgium evacuation flight arriving from Afghanistan at Melsbroek Military Airport, on August 23, 2021.EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ
“Apparently she thinks it’s a laughing matter,” one person tweeted as the footage of her cackle was spread on social media.
“This is like a Saturday Night Live skit — except it’s real and she’s not acting. Nothing to laugh at,” another person wrote, while others showed a meme where laughter was her response to every emotion.
“How has she not trained that laugh away yet?” another asked.
Other observers were outraged that she was heading to Asia while insisting that Afghanistan was the key concern.
Vice President Kamala Harris insisted that the Biden administration “couldn’t have a higher priority right now” than Afghanistan.EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
“A higher priority right while she jets off to anywhere but where she needs to be,” one person tweeted, while another person said it was “why I’m going to board this plane and depart this self-inflicted catastrophe.”
“Kamala Harris says that the administration couldn’t have a higher priority than Afghanistan… Is that why she’s in Vietnam on a foreign trip and Joe Biden has been on vacation half the time?” another person tweeted.
At a joint press conference with Harris in Singapore, the island country’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday noted the US’ botched departure from Afghanistan, as thousands of people remain at Kabul airport seeking evacuation and more thousands of Americans are stranded across the Taliban controlled country.
“Countries make calculations and take positions, and they have to make calc- — recalculations and adjust their positions from time to time,” Lee said.
A US Marine comforts an infant while they wait for the mother during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan.EPA/U.S. Marine Corps
“Sometimes it can be done smoothly; sometimes there are hiccups. Sometimes there’s — things go awry and take time to put right.”
But Harris repeatedly declined to say what she felt should have been done differently in the withdrawal.
“There’s no question there will be and should be a robust analysis of what has happened,” she said at a press conference in Singapore.
“But right now there’s no question that our focus has to be on evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us and vulnerable Afghans, including women and children.”
The vice president’s stumbles come as she continues to tank in polls. According to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday, 55 percent of likely voters say the former senator from California is either “not qualified” or “not at all qualified” to assume the duties of the presidency.
The trip is Harris’ second foreign mission this year. She visited Guatemala and Mexico in June to enlist help in stemming a surge in illegal immigration, but the trip was overshadowed by her struggle to answer questions about her refusal to visit the US-Mexico border, which she ultimately did after returning to the US.
More than 200 released Guantanamo prisoners have committed acts of terrorism and killed Americans since their release and 151 of them are still on the run
Not all but most of this is his fault.
If you recall back in 2008 one of his campaign promises was to release the Gitmo prisoners. How he ran on this premise (so soon after 911) and got elected not once but twice is beyond my wildest imagination. I thought most people, myself included, wanted them executed... let alone released!
Khairullah Khairkhwa released by Barry is now sitting in the presidential palace in Afghanistan.
To add insult to injury Barry once said he knew there was a good possibility they would return to terrorism but he released him anyway. At that point in time if this wasn't an impeachable offense I don't know what the hell is.
Another facet of the Afghan debacle that pisses me off
They want their freedom.
As long as somebody else is paying for it.
Sunday, August 22, 2021
If he calls this support hate to see the criticism
No difference
Bribem was on television the other day at a news conference informing us how he received the full support of our allies around the world on his Afghan exodus. It would be safe to say Britain is one of our closest allies.
Headlines coming out of Britain:
Afghanistan withdrawal ‘damn well feels like defeat’, Tory MPs tell Boris Johnson
Another close ally Benjamin Netanyahu saw the handwriting on the wall.
You can't make this shit up... Really...?
Bribem can.
Something to think about...
What concerns me is now that the Taliban is flush with weapons provided by Bribem, probably more than they could ever use, what's to stop them from teaming up with Al-Qaeda and/or ISIS march into Pakistan and attempt to take possession of their nuclear bombs?
U.S. forces in Afghanistan look at alternative evacuation plans as ISIS threatens Kabul airport, NBC News reports
U.S. defense officials say that the military is looking for alternative ways to get Americans, Afghans and third-country nationals safely to the airport in Kabul following threats from the Islamic State, according to reporting from NBC News.
Two defense officials told NBC News that they are tracking specific threats from ISIS against the Kabul airport and those trying to get to the airport. With that, alternative ways are being developed to get people to the evacuation zone, the officials explained.
“We are executing an alternate path,” a defense official told NBC News. This includes gathering smaller groups of people at specific locations and then moving them to the airport in intervals. The goal is to get them there safely and make it easier to get through the gate quickly with smaller groups of people.
The threat from ISIS comes as President Joe Biden and his administration are facing criticism on how they handled the overall evacuation from Afghanistan.
The withdrawal, which was announced by Biden earlier this year, has been beset by multiple controversies, including people swarming the airport and making it almost impossible to get even some with the proper documentation out of the country.
The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Saturday warned American citizens not to travel to the airport “because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport.”
A White House official informed the press pool on Saturday, that, in the past 24 hours, six U.S. military C-17s and 32 charters departed Kabul. The total passenger count for those 38 flights is approximately 3,800. The White House official says that since Aug 14.the U.S. has evacuated approximately 17,000 people.
A White House official also informed the press pool that Biden met with his national security advisors Saturday morning. Those conversations focused on the current security situation and counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, including issues pertaining to ISIS. The larger-scale evacuation was also discussed, the White House said.
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Now this is really bad!!!
Truly a sad day for America
A group of Taliban fighters released propaganda footage and a photo mocking the famed World War II picture of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. In the original 1945 photograph (left), a group of six Marines are depicted hosting the flag on Mount Suribachi. The Taliban's Badri 313 Battalion recreated the image this week. In their version, a group of soldiers is seen hoisting the Taliban flag in a similar fashion while sporting U.S. weapons and gear that was likely stolen from allied militaries during patrols of Kabul. The Badri 313 is a special unit of Taliban fighters that dress like U.S. soldiers by wearing camouflage, combat boots and body armor. The special operations unit also drives armored Humvees and carries M4 carbines. U.S. officials say the Badri have seized what remains of the approximately $28billion in weaponry that America gave the Afghan forces between 2002 and 2017. 'Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now,' one official told Reuters on the basis of anonymity. In videos released by the group, the Badri 313 soldiers are seen with military helmets and sunglasses, bullet proof vests over camouflage jackets and trousers instead of the typical robes, and armed with tactical rifles.
Friday, August 20, 2021
Story from The Daily Beast probably one of the bluest most progressive websites you'll ever find
Why is America and the rest of the world so awestruck by the Afghan debacle? Bribem has been in politics for over 50 years. His 'notoriety', claim to fame, if you will stems from his stupidity and the countless gaffes he has made over the years. Remember when Barry had bin Laden in the crosshairs? Bribem admitted he told Barry not to take him out. That would've been another disaster had he been president! To top that off he's also a crook.
Yet he sits in the oval office.
If this isn't an impeachable offense I don't know what it is!
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Biden’s 'Insane' Story About Afghans Who Helped U.S. Doesn’t Fly
One day after the Taliban seized control of the Afghan government, the Biden administration found itself struggling to explain why local allies like interpreters, drivers, security guards and fixers had been left behind.
The Biden administration’s justification—that many of the Afghans who had risked their lives to aid the U.S. military actually wanted to stay—left aid workers, refugee advocates and members of Congress gobsmacked.
The truth, those advocates have told The Daily Beast, is simple and stark: that they simply can’t pay for it.
“We don’t know of any SIV recipients that wanted to stay in Afghanistan,” said James Miervaldis, chairman of No One Left Behind, a group that works to aid Afghan and Iraqi interpreters as they resettle in the United States. “The reason they haven’t quote-unquote ‘exercised the right’ is because they don’t have the money.”
That fact was wholly absent from President Joe Biden’s speech on Monday, when he attributed the lack of evacuation to some kind of hopeful, last-ditch Afghan nationalism.
“I know that there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghan civilians sooner,” Biden said in a speech on Monday that largely laid the blame for the fall of Afghanistan at the feet of the country’s own security forces. “Part of the answer is some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier, still hopeful for their country. And part of it was because the Afghan government and its supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, ‘a crisis of confidence.’”
Advocates, members of Congress, and nonprofit organizations that work on behalf of translators and interpreters in conflict zones were baffled by the president’s contention, telling The Daily Beast that they had never encountered any successful SIV applicants who turned down a chance to leave the country—thereby escaping potentially deadly retribution from the Taliban—voluntarily.
“The administration’s claim that many Afghans did not want to leave the country earlier is inconsistent with our experience,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, who said that the Afghans her organization was working with were “desperate” to leave Afghanistan and were being blocked by a visa backlog that now tops nearly 70,000 applicants.
“Since the moment that we announced we were fully withdrawing, I have not heard of a single human being that was like, ‘Oh no, I want to stay and hedge my bets with the Taliban,’” said one congressional aide whose boss has been lobbying the administration to bring SIV applicants to safety. “That’s insane.”
© Provided by The Daily Beast Thousands mobbed the airport in Kabul as the Taliban took over, desperate to leave Afghanistan
There are an estimated 18,000 Afghans seeking a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), which is provided to Afghan nationals who worked on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan or served as interpreters for American military personnel. Of those who have been granted the visa, only half were able to exercise their right to come to the United States before the Afghan government collapsed—mostly, advocates say, because most of them just can’t afford to leave.
Under normal circumstances, once successful applicants for an SIV receive their visas from the U.S. embassy for themselves and their family, they either purchase airline tickets for a commercial flight out of Afghanistan. But those flights can cost upwards of $2,000 per ticket, in a country where the median household income is barely $4,100 per year. Even for a lone SIV applicant, the price of safety is often out of reach. For a family of five, it’s nearly impossible to leave without obtaining a loan—meaning that even upon reaching safety in the United States, they are burdened with enormous debt.
Even American citizens are being stuck with an extraordinary bill upon being airlifted out of Afghanistan. On Aug. 14, as Kabul fell to the Taliban, the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council released a security alertinforming Americans abroad that “repatriation flights are not free, and passengers will be required to sign a promissory loan agreement and may not be eligible to renew their U.S. passports until the loan is repaid.”
For successful SIV applicants who cannot afford commercial flights—all of which have now been grounded anyway—they must apply for a seat on flights organized by the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations affiliate that provides migration services for refugees and displaced peoples. That process, Miervaldis said, can take up to five months—and that was before Afghanistan’s government collapsed.
“I guess it’s not enough for this administration to blame Afghans for losing the country because they just didn’t want it badly enough,” another congressional aide said caustically. “Now we have to blame people we fucking left there for us leaving them, too.”
The inability to pay for a flight out of Afghanistan, advocates said angrily, is not the same as choosing to stay—and is certainly different from doing so out of misplaced confidence that the Afghan central government would be able to beat back the Taliban.
“The administration did nothing,” said Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the bipartisan working group that has been trying to persuade the administration to create an evacuation plan for months. “Now they’re trying to blame everybody but themselves when the only people that they have to blame is themselves.”©
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) says the Biden administration is “trying to blame everybody but themselves when the only people that they have to blame is themselves.”
Over the course of several days, the White House repeatedly declined to provide the number of successful SIV applicants who it claims turned down the opportunity to leave Afghanistan because they believed that the now-collapsed government would protect them, although White House press secretary Jen Psaki doubled down on the president’s assertion that many SIV applicants chose to remain in the country rather than leave for safety.
“Of the initial numbers of SIV applicants that were granted visas, there was a good chunk of that number who did not take advantage of those visas and depart,” Psaki told reporters on Tuesday, adding that while that didn’t change the government’s obligation to protect those Afghans from a vengeful Taliban, it was “an important component of the story of the last six months.”
© Provided by The Daily Beast White House press secretary Jen Psaki doubled down on the president’s assertion that many SIV applicants chose to remain in the country rather than leave for safety. Anna Moneymaker/Getty
(Yes and it was the Republicans that want to defund the police not the Democrats)
In the days since Biden first pushed the “still hopeful” message, the administration has tentatively retreated from that argument, instead emphasizing that a large-scale evacuation of the estimated 18,000 SIV applicants and their 53,000 family members could have further destabilized a tottering Afghan government, leading to an even swifter collapse.
“There was a concern that if we moved too quickly that it would undermine the confidence of the Afghan government and it would lead to a collapse even faster,” Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said during a State Department press briefing on Wednesday. “I appreciate that in hindsight people are saying: ‘Why didn’t you do this? Why didn’t you do that? Why didn’t you do this?’… The focus now today is getting all those SIVs out. We are working day and night to make that happen.”
The administration’s primary concern, Sherman said, is in getting SIV applicants and American citizens out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible. In a briefing with reporters on Thursday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby noted that since August 14, the United States has evacuated 7,000 noncombatants, with roughly 2,000 of those having been airlifted out over the previous 24 hours.
But refugee advocates note that many of America’s NATO allies had begun evacuating their own interpreters and vulnerable Afghans months before the United States’ withdrawal kickstarted the government’s collapse, with no apparent “crisis of confidence” that hastened the country’s fall into Taliban hands.
“Germany was the first—one month, maybe two months before everything went bad, saying ‘Hey we’re gonna evacuate 300 interpreters and staff.’ Italy had more people, and they flew their people out. Then Britain came along and said ‘Hey we’re gonna move as many interpreters out as possible,“ said Miervaldis. “NATO allies started this process earlier and the question is, why hasn’t the United States jumped on that effort, or followed their lead?”
“Our administration didn’t listen to their own DOD, their own IC and both Republicans and Democrats in Congress who have been warning for months about growing threats to our Afghan partners,” said McCaul. “I am grateful to our NATO allies who are doing all they can to get these people to safety and hope they continue to do so. But we cannot place the full weight of this burden on our NATO allies.”
International organizations that advocate on behalf of interpreters in conflict zones have called on the United States to bear most of the burden in rescuing Afghan allies from the crisis that the United States itself created. Growing political opposition to increasing refugee admissions, however, has forced those groups to reach out to Western allies to bridge the gap between Afghan need for safe haven and American willingness to provide it.
“The legislation for the SIV program has always been bipartisan; however, its implementation is too dependent on the political winds, even aside from its inherent dysfunctionalities,” said
Maya Hess, founder and CEO of Red T., a nonprofit that works to protect translators and interpreters in conflict zones. “We hope that the U.S. (and other NATO member states) will step up and honor their commitments.”
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