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"What Biden *really* says about Trump behind closed doors"

"Sick fuck" and "fucking asshole"

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2024/02/01/what-biden-really-says-about-trump-behind-closed-doors-00139178

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President JOE BIDEN has a reputation for salty language behind closed doors. But it nearly slipped out in public during his speech at Valley Forge last month to mark the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Animated and angry, he derided DONALD TRUMP and his followers for drawing glee from political violence.

“At his rally, he jokes about an intruder, whipped up by the Big Trump Lie, taking a hammer to Paul Pelosi’s skull,” Biden said.

“And he thinks that’s funny,” the president continued. “He laughed about it. What a sick …”

Biden let his voice trail off as the crowd cheered and chuckled.

In private, he doesn’t stop short.

The president has described Trump to longtime friends and close aides as a “sick fuck” who delights in others’ misfortunes, according to three people who have heard the president use the profane description. According to one of the people who has spoken with the president, Biden recently said of Trump: “What a fucking asshole the guy is.”

The White House declined to comment.

The epithets may cut against the image Biden often projects as someone eager to take down the level of incivility and acrimony in politics. But they also illustrate a core anger he has developed toward the man he ousted from office and may very well face again.

Biden has long been troubled by what he has perceived as Trump’s encouragement of political violence, which the incumbent believes is a direct threat to the nation’s democracy and deeply un-American, according to the three people familiar with his private conversations, who were all granted anonymity to describe them. His disgust toward Trump has never been a secret but has only grown in recent months as the former president tightens his grip on the GOP nomination.

The Trump campaign chided Biden for his remarks.

“It’s a shame that Crooked Joe Biden disrespects the presidency both publicly and privately,” said CHRIS LACIVITA, a senior Trump campaign adviser. “But then again, it’s no surprise he disrespects the 45th president the same way he disrespects the American people with his failed policies.”

Biden believes Trump has grown only more loathsome with time. The ex-president’s jokes about the attack on PAUL PELOSI, the 83-year-old husband of former House Speaker NANCY PELOSI, particularly gall Biden.

A hammer-wielding man who was radicalized by right-wing conspiracy theories broke into the Pelosi family’s San Francisco home in October 2022 looking for the former speaker. He attacked her husband, fracturing his skull. In the aftermath of the assault, a series of salacious rumors about the encounter took hold on the hard-right, which Trump used as laugh lines for his rallies.

“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anybody know?” Trump said to a raucous crowd of California Republicans at a state party convention in September. “And she’s against building a wall at our border, even though she has a wall around her house — which obviously didn’t do a very good job.”

Paul Pelosi’s attacker was convicted of attempted kidnapping and assault. That incident is not the only one which has prompted Biden to privately spit expletives about the likely Republican nominee.

Biden’s fury has also been triggered, according to the people who spoke to him, by accounts of Trump cheering on the Jan. 6 rioters from the comfort of his private dining room off the Oval Office. In addition, Trump’s declaration that there were fine people on “both sides” of the racist clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as his warm words toward VLADIMIR PUTIN have been known to set off the president.

Biden grew particularly incensed by reports of Trump refusing to visit a military cemetery in the rain and by stories that he has mocked the sacrifices of fallen American soldiers. Biden believes his son BEAU died of brain cancer that developed after being exposed to burn pits while serving in Iraq. And, as with the case of the Valley Forge speech, his fury on this front has spilled out into public view, including last weekend in South Carolina.

“[Trump] referred to those heroes, and I quote, as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ He actually said that. How dare he say that. How dare he talk about my son and all like that,” Biden said. “Look, I call them patriots and heroes. The only loser I see is Donald Trump.”

 

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“It’s a shame that Crooked Joe Biden disrespects the presidency both publicly and privately,” said CHRIS LACIVITA, a senior Trump campaign adviser. “But then again, it’s no surprise he disrespects the 45th president the same way he disrespects the American people with his failed policies.”

The disconnect boggles the mind.  It shouldn't, but it does.

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Thanks a lot, Joe:

Our Chart of the Day is from YCharts, which shows that US oil production has surged to a new record high of 13.3 million barrels a day last week.

The prior record was 13.2 million barrels a day hit in November, and is above the pre-pandemic high of 13.1 million barrels reached in February 2020.

America's steady rise in US oil production has helped put a cap on prices, with the commodity down 8% year-to-date even amid a flare-up in geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, and as the US economy remains on solid footing.

That's been great news for drivers, with the average price of gas steadily falling to $3.12 a gallon, according to the most recent data from AAA.

The US is the largest oil producer in the world, surpassing Russia's 9.5 million barrel a day production rate, and well ahead of Saudi Arabia's daily production rate of 9.1 million barrels a day.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chart-day-us-crude-oil-044740808.html

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2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Thanks a lot, Joe:

Our Chart of the Day is from YCharts, which shows that US oil production has surged to a new record high of 13.3 million barrels a day last week.

The prior record was 13.2 million barrels a day hit in November, and is above the pre-pandemic high of 13.1 million barrels reached in February 2020.

America's steady rise in US oil production has helped put a cap on prices, with the commodity down 8% year-to-date even amid a flare-up in geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, and as the US economy remains on solid footing.

That's been great news for drivers, with the average price of gas steadily falling to $3.12 a gallon, according to the most recent data from AAA.

The US is the largest oil producer in the world, surpassing Russia's 9.5 million barrel a day production rate, and well ahead of Saudi Arabia's daily production rate of 9.1 million barrels a day.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chart-day-us-crude-oil-044740808.html

Where are all your “I did that” gas pump stickers now you dumb motherfuckers 

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5 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

It's very funny to read conservatives still pretending as if the New York Times and Washington Post are super politically liberal publications when they're both pretty much openly rooting for Trump.  

5 hours ago, Js1 said:

Don’t forget CNN

Yep. CNN jumps on every poll that shows Donnie winning, no matter how shitty it is.

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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I had to watch that twice. They should stop reading economic news live as is comes in. And for the guy who said this was a good as it gets, I hope he enjoyed his last Fox News appearance.

The evening crew will continue to call it an "economic disaster" that needs saving from lord trump. Book it.

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2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Thanks a lot, Joe:

Our Chart of the Day is from YCharts, which shows that US oil production has surged to a new record high of 13.3 million barrels a day last week.

The prior record was 13.2 million barrels a day hit in November, and is above the pre-pandemic high of 13.1 million barrels reached in February 2020.

America's steady rise in US oil production has helped put a cap on prices, with the commodity down 8% year-to-date even amid a flare-up in geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, and as the US economy remains on solid footing.

That's been great news for drivers, with the average price of gas steadily falling to $3.12 a gallon, according to the most recent data from AAA.

The US is the largest oil producer in the world, surpassing Russia's 9.5 million barrel a day production rate, and well ahead of Saudi Arabia's daily production rate of 9.1 million barrels a day.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chart-day-us-crude-oil-044740808.html

Go post this in the oil baron thread where they like to talk shit about Biden killing the energy industry.

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16 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Where are all your “I did that” gas pump stickers now you dumb motherfuckers 

I seriously had someone tell me that they went around putting those stickers on gas pumps. The story ended with "But then gas prices dropped, so I stopped doing it."

(blank stares, awkward silence)

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

I seriously had someone tell me that they went around putting those stickers on gas pumps. The story ended with "But then gas prices dropped, so I stopped doing it."

(blank stares, awkward silence)

It’s the clearest anecdote I have seen of how fucking stupid those people are.  I know several people who did it.  And these are people who also believe anyone disfiguring a private business with graffiti and shit should be shot.

But it really is amazing to me how every major policy complaint about Biden from those fuckers has been addressed.  Inflation.  Boom, fixed.  Dependence on foreign oil.  Boom, fixed.  Economic growth.  Boom, fixed.  And now he’s got congress agreed to a deal to address the border.

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15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yep. CNN jumps on every poll that shows Donnie winning, no matter how shitty it is.

Csb/ the director of UT’s controversial right wing think tank/center made a funny quip about presidential polling from obscure corners.  Iona, Quinnipac, Suffolk, and Monmouth.  You won’t know if you’re reading reliable polling or the four auto berth play in games for March Madness. 

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54 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

I don't think I ever heard the term "black unemployment" and stats prior to Trumps team trying to use it as a campaign talking point. Do they provide other demographics statistics too? How are the Cubans doing? Maybe pacific Islanders are at their apex of employment? Might as well take the idea and run with it, "jobs jobs jobs" always makes voters happy. 

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I don't think I ever heard the term "black unemployment" and stats prior to Trumps team trying to use it as a campaign talking point. Do they provide other demographics statistics too? How are the Cubans doing? Maybe pacific Islanders are at their apex of employment? Might as well take the idea and run with it, "jobs jobs jobs" always makes voters happy. 

The Pacific Islanders would be doing a lot better but for a few bad apples from the Marshall Islands. Bastards.
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On 2/1/2024 at 6:44 AM, Goofyboy said:

Why do you get to decide what is and is not a national emergency? Three soldiers were killed on American soil by a foreign entity. That needs to be dealt with swiftly before it becomes an all out war. I’d say avoiding another all out war IS an emergency.

He's right though that the War Powers Resolution is a gigantic punt by Congress so they can let the President wage war without having to declare an unpopular war.

There's a tension, probably deliberate, between Congress' power to declare war and the President's CINC power to order troops into places and into action.  Checks and balances and shit, but congressional punt.

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He's right though that the War Powers Resolution is a gigantic punt by Congress so they can let the President wage war without having to declare an unpopular war.
There's a tension, probably deliberate, between Congress' power to declare war and the President's CINC power to order troops into places and into action.  Checks and balances and shit, but congressional punt.

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The handwringing over the pause in permitting new LNG export facilities while we still double our capacity in the next few years seems even more like an overreaction now, AND new projects that will also export from Mexico won't be affected. All the while, our NATO/EU allies look to be set. So, again, depending on the length of this pause, I don't see this as being that big of a problem. 

How the U.S. Became the World’s Biggest Gas Supplier

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In just eight years, the United States has rocketed from barely selling any gas overseas to becoming the world’s No. 1 supplier, a remarkable shift that has profited oil and gas companies and strengthened American influence abroad. But climate activists worry that soaring exports of liquefied natural gas could make global warming worse.

Last month, the Biden administration said it would pause the permitting process for new facilities that export liquefied natural gas in order to study their impact on climate change, the economy and national security. Even with the pause, the United States is still on track to nearly double its export capacity by 2027 because of projects already permitted and under construction. But any expansions beyond that are now in doubt.

At the core of the debate over whether to allow more exports is a thorny question: With governments across the globe pledging to transition away from fossil fuels, how much more natural gas does the world need?

America’s gas export boom initially caught many policymakers by surprise. In the early 2000s, natural gas was relatively scarce at home, and companies were spending billions of dollars to build terminals to import gas from places like Qatar and Australia.

Fracking changed all that. In the mid-2000s, U.S. drillers perfected methods to unlock vast reserves of cheap natural gas from shale rock. At the same time, natural gas prices began spiking elsewhere in the world, especially after Japan shut down its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima reactor meltdown in 2011 and began demanding more fuel.

That led to a stunning reversal. American companies, led by Cheniere Energy, began spending billions more to convert import terminals into export terminals, and shipments of U.S. gas to other countries began to surge.

‘Major demand growth’
Natural gas is most easily transported by pipeline. To send it across oceans, the gas must be chilled to 260 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, turning it into a liquid. The process of making and shipping liquefied natural gas adds complexity and cost, but if the difference between U.S. natural gas prices and overseas prices is big enough, it is profitable.

“It comes down to economics,” said Kenneth Medlock, senior director at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University. “Production just keeps growing in the United States, which keeps prices low. And then we keep seeing major demand growth in the rest of the world.”

The export boom has transformed America’s role in energy geopolitics.

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Europe has become the biggest importer of American gas in recent years, enabling the continent to slash by more than half its reliance on Russian gas since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In the future, Europe is expected to curb its appetite for gas by adding more renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. The main growth markets for natural gas are expected to be fast-growing Asian countries such as China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam that want to use the fuel for electricity, heating or industrial purposes.

But as U.S. exports keep skyrocketing, critics have raised concerns about the climate change impact of transporting and selling more gas around the world.

A complex climate question
The last time the Energy Department studied this issue, in 2019, it concluded that U.S. liquefied natural gas often produced fewer greenhouse gas emissions than other types of coal or gas used around the world. That meant that more exports could actually be beneficial for climate change if U.S. gas replaced those other fossil fuels. (When gas is scarce, some countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh have recently opted to burn more coal instead.)

But some environmentalists have disputed those conclusions, arguing that the analysis didn’t fully account for all the planet-warming methane leaks that can accompany natural gas production, and that it didn’t study whether a glut of gas might displace cleaner renewable energy rather than coal. The Energy Department is expected to study these questions while it puts permits for new projects on hold.

In the meantime, the U.S. gas boom is far from over, even with the permitting pause.

image.png.e42c7acde50e025cd672d9ff38ec3de4.png

Since 2016, U.S. energy companies have built seven large facilities in Texas, Louisiana, Maryland and Georgia that can export around 11.4 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas per day, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Another five projects along the Gulf Coast are already permitted and under construction and will be able to export an additional 9.7 billion cubic feet per day by 2027 — nearly doubling America’s export capacity. Three more facilities are currently being built in Mexico that will receive U.S. gas by pipeline and then ship it abroad.

The pause, however, could affect nearly a dozen proposed projects in the United States and Mexico that, if built, could boost export capacity by another 10 billion cubic feet per day, according to research by Clearview Energy Partners, a consulting firm. Whether those projects ultimately go forward remains to be seen.

With so many projects locked in, experts say it will be crucial to ensure that methane leaks from gas production are kept as low as possible. (The Biden administration has put forward several new regulations on methane.) “This is an area where we can actually deliver an emissions win, maybe more so than delaying or even killing a future supply project,” said Ben Cahill, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Because it’s what we do with the emissions on the projects that we know are with us today.”

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54 minutes ago, bolverk said:

The handwringing over the pause in permitting new LNG export facilities while we still double our capacity in the next few years seems even more like an overreaction now, AND new projects that will also export from Mexico won't be affected. All the while, our NATO/EU allies look to be set. So, again, depending on the length of this pause, I don't see this as being that big of a problem. 

How the U.S. Became the World’s Biggest Gas Supplier

image.png.140e2d9a69621ab67e21a17e25c7982b.png

In just eight years, the United States has rocketed from barely selling any gas overseas to becoming the world’s No. 1 supplier, a remarkable shift that has profited oil and gas companies and strengthened American influence abroad. But climate activists worry that soaring exports of liquefied natural gas could make global warming worse.

Last month, the Biden administration said it would pause the permitting process for new facilities that export liquefied natural gas in order to study their impact on climate change, the economy and national security. Even with the pause, the United States is still on track to nearly double its export capacity by 2027 because of projects already permitted and under construction. But any expansions beyond that are now in doubt.

At the core of the debate over whether to allow more exports is a thorny question: With governments across the globe pledging to transition away from fossil fuels, how much more natural gas does the world need?

America’s gas export boom initially caught many policymakers by surprise. In the early 2000s, natural gas was relatively scarce at home, and companies were spending billions of dollars to build terminals to import gas from places like Qatar and Australia.

Fracking changed all that. In the mid-2000s, U.S. drillers perfected methods to unlock vast reserves of cheap natural gas from shale rock. At the same time, natural gas prices began spiking elsewhere in the world, especially after Japan shut down its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima reactor meltdown in 2011 and began demanding more fuel.

That led to a stunning reversal. American companies, led by Cheniere Energy, began spending billions more to convert import terminals into export terminals, and shipments of U.S. gas to other countries began to surge.

‘Major demand growth’
Natural gas is most easily transported by pipeline. To send it across oceans, the gas must be chilled to 260 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, turning it into a liquid. The process of making and shipping liquefied natural gas adds complexity and cost, but if the difference between U.S. natural gas prices and overseas prices is big enough, it is profitable.

“It comes down to economics,” said Kenneth Medlock, senior director at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University. “Production just keeps growing in the United States, which keeps prices low. And then we keep seeing major demand growth in the rest of the world.”

The export boom has transformed America’s role in energy geopolitics.

image.png.67e98bf40258de6928912bd7e4e4cc79.png

Europe has become the biggest importer of American gas in recent years, enabling the continent to slash by more than half its reliance on Russian gas since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In the future, Europe is expected to curb its appetite for gas by adding more renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. The main growth markets for natural gas are expected to be fast-growing Asian countries such as China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam that want to use the fuel for electricity, heating or industrial purposes.

But as U.S. exports keep skyrocketing, critics have raised concerns about the climate change impact of transporting and selling more gas around the world.

A complex climate question
The last time the Energy Department studied this issue, in 2019, it concluded that U.S. liquefied natural gas often produced fewer greenhouse gas emissions than other types of coal or gas used around the world. That meant that more exports could actually be beneficial for climate change if U.S. gas replaced those other fossil fuels. (When gas is scarce, some countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh have recently opted to burn more coal instead.)

But some environmentalists have disputed those conclusions, arguing that the analysis didn’t fully account for all the planet-warming methane leaks that can accompany natural gas production, and that it didn’t study whether a glut of gas might displace cleaner renewable energy rather than coal. The Energy Department is expected to study these questions while it puts permits for new projects on hold.

In the meantime, the U.S. gas boom is far from over, even with the permitting pause.

image.png.e42c7acde50e025cd672d9ff38ec3de4.png

Since 2016, U.S. energy companies have built seven large facilities in Texas, Louisiana, Maryland and Georgia that can export around 11.4 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas per day, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Another five projects along the Gulf Coast are already permitted and under construction and will be able to export an additional 9.7 billion cubic feet per day by 2027 — nearly doubling America’s export capacity. Three more facilities are currently being built in Mexico that will receive U.S. gas by pipeline and then ship it abroad.

The pause, however, could affect nearly a dozen proposed projects in the United States and Mexico that, if built, could boost export capacity by another 10 billion cubic feet per day, according to research by Clearview Energy Partners, a consulting firm. Whether those projects ultimately go forward remains to be seen.

With so many projects locked in, experts say it will be crucial to ensure that methane leaks from gas production are kept as low as possible. (The Biden administration has put forward several new regulations on methane.) “This is an area where we can actually deliver an emissions win, maybe more so than delaying or even killing a future supply project,” said Ben Cahill, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Because it’s what we do with the emissions on the projects that we know are with us today.”

The hand wringing started with a poster that recently changed jobs into the LNG industry.  I can see how that would skew one’s perception on things.

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It's the same 3 posters that yell Democrats are killing the energy industry in the O&G thread with zero evidence. One poster gets so upset by the internets, they have a meltdown and demand their account be deleted, only to come back a week later and pretend nothing happened. These are not serious people. Put them all on ignore. 

 

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Yeah, I don't get it.  I was assured by the smartest people that we shut down all O&G production in this country and then threatened ERCOT with a literal gun to their heads to rely solely on unreliable Sun & Wind for power?  

I must have missed have missed the carrier pigeon memo.  

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Yeah, that's a Grade A Gotcha.  Two guys in the same position, both of whom he has presumably met during his time in service, and whose last names start with "M".

SENILE!!! DEMENTIA!!!  Woman, squirrel, camera, tits, window!

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, that's a Grade A Gotcha.  Two guys in the same position, both of whom he has presumably met during his time in service, and whose last names start with "M".

SENILE!!! DEMENTIA!!!  Woman, squirrel, camera, tits, window!

#covfeve

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Y'all are weird. That video is bad. I'd rather have Joe Biden entombed like Lenin running the country than the other guy, but I'm not going to try to deflect or make excuses.

Newflash: Joe Biden is old. He's still kicked ass so far and I'm happy to vote for him.

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2 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Y'all are weird. That video is bad. I'd rather have Joe Biden entombed like Lenin running the country than the other guy, but I'm not going to try to deflect or make excuses.

Newflash: Joe Biden is old. He's still kicked ass so far and I'm happy to vote for him.

Newsflash: the other guy's old man gaffes are worse.

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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

Whose are worse? Biden's or Trump's?

Be honest.

Do you really think anything is going to be accomplished arguing this point?

It is fucking hilarious you desperately want to argue it, and quite telling.

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Just now, David Dennison said:

Whose are worse? Biden's or Trump's?

Be honest.

If we're talking about mental stuff (and not gaffes as in "I'll be a dictator" and other insane shit Trump spouts), then I think the actual gaffes are equal. Biden sounds worse, however, as Trump just spits out whatever comes to mind instead of actually stopping to think.

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2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Whose are worse? Biden's or Trump's?

Be honest.

LOL he is never ever going to acknowledge Trump's

"What's the point of arguing? YOU'RE SO DESPERATE FOR A GOTCHA" 

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