DAILY SHMUTZ | COMMENTARY / OPINION | 11/8/24

COMMENTARY / OPINION

 

How Trump Won, and How Harris Lost   By Shane GoldmacherMaggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

He made one essential bet: that his grievances would become the grievances of the MAGA movement, and then the G.O.P., and then more than half the country. It paid off.

Nov. 7, 2024
Donald J. Trump’s chief pollster, Tony Fabrizio, had seen just about everything in his three races working for the controversy-stoking former president. But even he seemed to be bracing for bad news.

Mr. Trump had just debated Vice President Kamala Harris, repeatedly taking her bait, wasting time litigating his crowd sizes and spreading baseless rumors about pet-eating immigrants.

Mr. Fabrizio had predicted to colleagues that brutal media coverage of Mr. Trump’s performance in a debate watched by 67 million people would lift Ms. Harris in the polls. He was right about the media coverage but wrong about the rest. His first post-debate poll shocked him: Ms. Harris had gained on some narrow attributes, like likability. But Mr. Trump had lost no ground in the contest.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Mr. Fabrizio said on a call with senior campaign leaders, according to two participants.

It was yet more proof — as if more were needed — of Mr. Trump’s durability over nearly a decade in politics and of his ability to defy the normal laws of gravity.

He overcame seemingly fatal political vulnerabilities — four criminal indictments, three expensive lawsuits, conviction on 34 felony counts, endless reckless tangents in his speeches — and transformed at least some of them into distinct advantages.

How he won in 2024 came down to one essential bet: that his grievances could meld with those of the MAGA movement, and then with the Republican Party, and then with more than half the country. His mug shot became a best-selling shirt. His criminal conviction inspired $100 million in donations in one day. The images of him bleeding after a failed assassination attempt became the symbol of what supporters saw as a campaign of destiny.

“God spared my life for a reason,” he said at his victory speech early Wednesday, adding, “We are going to fulfill that mission together.”

At times, Mr. Trump could be so crude and self-indulgent on the stump that aides wondered if he were engaged in an absurdist experiment to test how much aberrant behavior voters would tolerate.

But Mr. Trump successfully harnessed the anger and frustration millions of Americans felt about some of the very institutions and systems he will soon control as the country’s 47th president. Voters unhappy with the nation’s direction turned him into a vessel for their rage.

“The elites cannot come to grips with how alienated they are from the country,” said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, an informal adviser to the former and now future president.

But more than just broad societal forces were at play. His victory owed, in part, to strategic decisions by a campaign operation that was his most stable yet and was held together for nearly four years by a veteran operative, Susie Wiles — even if the candidate himself was, for much of 2024, as erratic as ever.

The Trump team schemed ways to save its cash for a final ad blitz, abandoning a traditional ground game to turn out its voters and relying instead on a relatively small paid staff buttressed by volunteers and outsiders, including the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. Mr. Trump relentlessly pushed to define Ms. Harris not just as radically liberal but as foolishly out of the mainstream. The inspiration, his advisers said, was a memorable Nixon-era saying by the Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein: “A crook” — or, in Mr. Trump’s case, a convict — “always beats a fool.”

Mr. Trump’s aides gambled on mobilizing men, though men vote less than women, and it paid off. And they gambled on trying to cut into Democrats’ typically big margins among Black and Latino voters, and that paid off, too.

His close-knit campaign team navigated the hacking of a top official’s emails by Iranians, constricting security measures by American authorities following two assassination attempts and a final phase that included the use of multiple planes, in addition to the one with Mr. Trump’s name on it, to keep the former president safe.

How Mr. Trump won is also the story of how Ms. Harris lost.

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We Reclaimed America   [2:29]  Brigitte Gabriel

November 7, 2024

 

U.S. Military Deploys MASSIVE Force To Israel, Mideast; Iran Tensions Intensify   [39:16]

November 7, 2024  TBN Israel – Yair Pinto and Mati Shoshani discuss the significant increase of U.S. military presence in the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran. The U.S. show of force includes the strategic deployment of bombers, submarines, aircraft carriers, and thousands of troops as a clear message of deterrence. Yair and Mati also share the importance of a strong partnership between Israel and the United States and the crucial role of public support from American citizens.

 

Caroline Glick: Israel should take out Iran’s nukes, as Trump himself said a few weeks ago  [6:15]

November 7, 2024  Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

 

The Left Scrambles to Undermine Trump-Bibi Success   [53:52]   Caroline Glick

November 7, 2024 JNS TV | The Caroline Glick Show

Hope springs eternal for peace and prosperity in the Middle East with Donald Trump now elected to become the 47th president of the United States! But not everyone is happy. The left, both in Israel and America, have already begun their efforts to obstruct possible cooperation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump.

 

Voting Works   by Daniel Greenfield

No more black pill election doomerism.

November 7, 2024  Frontpage Magazine – After the 2020 election, a significant subset of election doomers insisted on clamoring in the comments that voting was futile. Useless. Accomplished nothing. Algorithms in machines would just automatically suppress their vote. No election could ever be won again. Ever!

(If you think I’m exaggerating, go back and read some of the comments we’ve gotten over the past few years.)

There were more sensible takes which were concerned with election fraud without telling people that there was no point in voting. But the black pill crowd was out there and while it’s hard to know how many votes they cost, probably in the thousands, if not in the tens of thousands. While they didn’t stop this election, they depressed turnout in the 2022 midterm election.

If the 2024 election proved nothing else, it’s that voting works. When there’s a ‘steal’ on, the thing to do is to outvote the steal and beat the margin of fraud.

Efforts at election integrity, especially in Pennsylvania, the home of some of the most shameless voter fraud this side of Tammany, proved especially important. While overall efforts fell fall short of what we need to properly secure elections (and I’m not even talking about voter ID), they certainly played a role.

Most importantly though, a landslide can’t be stopped. There is a margin of fraud. Always. But it’s not infinitely elastic.

You can beat fraud in multiple ways. Election integrity is one. Voting in the right voting officials is another. And out-voting the steal is something anyone can play a part in doing.

No more black pill election doomerism. We’re not at the mercy of a voting matrix that makes voting pointless. People can vote and they can win.

Daniel Greenfield   Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

 

After Election, Biden Admin No Longer Has Anything to Lose   by Daniel Greenfield

“Punish your enemies.”Barak Obama

November 7, 2024 – Before an election, a candidate pretends to be something he or she is not. An incumbent administration usually tries to soften its note so as not to completely alienate the public. But the public has spoken and the Biden-Harris administration is now officially a lame duck operation with nothing left to lose.

And nothing to do except implement its leftist agenda.

Hours after President Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, the Biden administration moved Wednesday to limit oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

“Hours after.”

Before the election, there was at least some pretense, but now they’re going all in, poisoning the wells, salting the earth, and protecting their agenda at all costs. And their agenda is a rather ugly one.

In the election runup, the Biden-Harris administration supposedly suspended a sweetheart ‘plea deal’ for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It’s back on now. One thing you can pretty much count on is that by the time Trump enters the office, Gitmo will be closed down no matter what it takes.

That was always Obama’s priority and that part of his legacy will be secured.

The Biden-Harris admin is also moving forward with its planned arms embargo of Israel with the State Department claiming that Israel had failed to meet its conditions. With a potential embargo kicking in next week, assume that’s the first of a number of anti-Israel measures that the outgoing admin will take.

The ideal goal there is to topple the Netanyahu government and bring in a leftist one before Trump comes into office.

What else? We’ll be finding out soon enough, but it’s a safe bet that there will be a lot of ‘rules’ and ‘dear colleague’ letters crafted in such a way that throwing them out will lead to lawsuits from various lefty parties. There will be new ‘national monuments’ on potential mining and drilling sites the size of small states. And if a lot of the keyboards are missing a ‘T’, then it wouldn’t be the first time.

(Before Bush entered office, Clinton staffers removed the ‘W’s’ from keyboards.)

This is as much about winning policy victories as getting revenge. As Obama said, “punish your enemies.” And after Trump’s landslide win, the leftists have a whole lot of enemies.

Daniel Greenfield   Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

 

The opportunity of Trump’s victory   Caroline Glick

How Donald Trump’s victory and Israeli Defense Minister Gallant’s firing pave the way for a strategic realignment in the Middle East that will serve as the foundation of regional peace and stability. By removing Gallant from office, Netanyahu removed the major political obstacle to pursuing victory on all fronts. Opinion.

Nov 7, 2024, 7:05 PM (GMT+2)   Israel National NewsCaroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship. She appears regularly on U.S., British, Australian and Indian television networks, including Fox, Newsmax and CBN. She appears, as well, on the BBC, Sky News Britain and Sky News Australia, and on India’s WION News Network.

(JNS) A collective sigh of relief was heard across Israel as the results of the U.S. presidential election were declared. But we cannot rest on our laurels. At this critical juncture, Israel must carefully assess the challenges it faces in the immediate term, as the lame-duck Biden administration completes its term. And it must set goals for the next four years to ensure that the opportunity Donald Trump’s return to the White House affords us is not squandered.

To understand the immediate requirements, we need to remember what happened during Barack Obama’s final months in office.

No longer concerned about winning an election, in December 2016, the Obama administration decided the time had come to punish Israel for opposing its nuclear appeasement of Iran and for rejecting its efforts to establish a Palestinian Arab terror state. That month, America’s U.N. ambassador Samantha Power drafted an anti-Israel resolution that declared all Israeli presence beyond the 1949 armistice lines—including the Western Wall in Jerusalem—illegal. Power then pawned it off on other Security Council member states to sponsor and abstained from the vote, ensuring the passage of what became U.N. Security Council Resolution 2234.

Resolution 2234 was the most anti-Israel resolution ever passed in the Security Council. It effectively called for an international boycott of all Israeli activities beyond the 1949 armistice lines. But 2234 wasn’t meant to be a standalone event. The Obama team planned to pass an additional resolution that would set out a timetable for Israel to agree to a Palestinian Arab state in Hamas-controlled Gaza, all of Judea and Samaria and eastern, southern and northern Jerusalem. The resolution was supposed to include sanctions on Israel if it failed to capitulate within the set time schedule.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked with Trump’s transition team to scuttle it. Netanyahu and Trump’s advisers appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who signaled that Russia would veto the resolution. Stunned, the Obama team angrily shuffled away.

There is good reason to assume that in the two and a half months before Trump returns to office, the outgoing Biden team intends to get that long-shelved resolution passed.

The Biden team may also initiate a resolution requiring Israel—on pain of Security Council sanctions—to accept a ceasefire in Gaza that will leave Hamas in power, a ceasefire in Lebanon that will leave Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border and in charge of Lebanon, or both.

Now as then, Netanyahu must work with Trump’s team and Israel’s many allies in the Senate and House of Representatives to block these anticipated moves.

Beyond punishing Israel for not bowing to the administration’s yearlong demand for capitulation, the purpose of the Biden administration’s anticipated U.N. ceasefire resolution is to prevent Israel from winning the war and to block the Trump administration from supporting an Israeli victory. The Biden team is expected to reinstate Obama’s effort to pass the Palestinian statehood resolution in order to prevent both Israel and the incoming Trump team from abandoning the failed and destabilizing “two-state” chimera.

In other words, the purpose of the U.N. operation will be to prevent Trump from adopting his own policies and prevent Israel from securing itself.

Blocking the Biden administration’s anticipated moves is Israel’s most pressing diplomatic challenge. But obviously, they are also a means to enable Israel to win the war it is currently fighting. As to the war, Israel must move deliberately to achieve its strategic goals on all fronts—and particularly in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

It is to this end that Netanyahu fired Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday.

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Caroline Glick: Israel should take out Iran’s nukes, as Trump himself said a few weeks ago   [6:15]   Rabbi Pesach Wolicki

Caroline Glick discusses former US Pres. Donald Trump’s re-election, what the Biden administration might do, and what Israel’s next steps in the war should be. Watch.

Nov 7, 2024, 5:02 PM (GMT+2)  Israel National NewsCaroline Glick joined the special Arutz Sheva – Israel National News and Israel365 US election coverage, discussing the implications of former US President Donald Trump’s re-entry into the White House, in light of the war against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.

“I think the victory provides Israel with an opportunity to win the war,” Glick said. “Until now Israel has pursued a path of moving forward strategically but not actually achieving our strategic goals, because at every turn the Biden administration has blocked us from doing so – whether it’s eliminating the Hamas regime in Gaza, or eliminating the Hezbollah-controlled areas of Lebanon that border Israel in the south of Lebanon, or taking out Iran’s nuclear installations. All of these things were considered out of bounds by the Biden administration and they worked assiduously to block Israel from achieving these goals.”

She urged that now, following Trump’s election, Israel should take steps to further its goals, including taking out Iran’s nuclear installations “as Trump himself said Israel should do just a few weeks ago.”

“So I think that those are the main things that Israel has to accomplish, and in the meantime work with the Trump administration to block the Biden administration during its lame-duck months in office from carrying out actions against Israel that could undermine those efforts at the UN.”

Regarding the Biden administration’s transition period, she said that she expects the Biden administration “will move to pass a series of anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council, that will work to require Israel to end the war as quickly as possible without a strategic victory, lest we be placed under UN sanctions under the Security Council, much like Iran was until the Obama administration agreed to give Iran nuclear weapons.”

Whether Qatar will be marginalized by the Trump administration, Glick stressed that “it depends on Israel,” and Israel has not pushed for such a thing in recent years.

However, the most urgent thing right now “is for Israel to win this war,” and that Israel should move as quickly as possible towards that goal.

She added, “We have to remember that it’s not a time for euphoria – it’s a time to recognize the nature of the opportunity that a Trump administration, that an incoming Trump administration presents for Israel. It’s not going to be just all roses and sunshine. Israel has to make very clear to itself, first and foremost, what it is that we want to do, what we want to achieve, and we have to use a partnership with the Trump administration to build a kind of strategic relationship with the United States that’s going to be able to outlast the Trump years and move into the future to secure our interests in the long term.”

“So I think that this is an extraordinary opportunity that we were granted by the grace of G-d but we have to understand its nature, we have to understand what we need, and we have to have the people in place in positions in Washington and in Jerusalem, and the Israeli people in Washington who are going to be able to actually implement a policy that will secure Israel’s alliance with the United States for the benefit of both countries for years to come while also strengthening and rendering enduring Israel’s position as a regional power hopefully at peace with more of our Arab neighbors, with the kind of borders that we’re going to be able to defend going forward.”

 

Watch Rich Liberal’s Face as Illegals Are Dropped Off at Her House  [1:15]

November 5, 2024  The Rubin Report – Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of the Nelk Boys seeing if pro-immigration Democrats are willing to deal with housing migrants.

 

Lefties losing it: All the best meltdowns after Donald Trump’s victory   [14:52]

Nov 7, 2024  Sky News Australia – Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to all the best meltdowns on social media after Donald Trump’s victory in the US election.

[Ed.:  Democrats screaming in the morning Nov.6th 2024:

 

 

Free Press Readers Saw This Coming   By The Editors

It’s not because we told you what to think. It’s because we did the basic job of journalism: We held up a mirror to reality.

November 6, 2024

Join us.

If you watched cable news and read the old media, you might think: Everyone in America agrees that Donald Trump is the great fascist, democracy-ending criminal. A felon! At The New York Times, even the conservative columnists came out to support Kamala Harris.

So ends the range of opinion in the legacy press. And for readers, so ends the range of vision.

Not for Free Press subscribers.

No one could have predicted the exact shape of last night. But by and large, Free Press subscribers weren’t shocked by the results.

That’s not because we told you what to think. It’s because we did the basic job of journalism: We held up a mirror to reality.

Free Press readers saw last night coming because our Peter Savodnik traveled the country to meet the politically homeless Americans in “The Great Scramble.” And to Flint, Michigan, and to East Palestine, Ohio, to meet those who were used as political symbols—only to be abandoned by those who claimed to champion them.

They saw it because Frannie Block and Olivia Reingold reported relentlessly on the insanity that gripped American campuses—as trust-fund kids trapped janitors, smashed up buildings, and demanded food be brought to their protests as “humanitarian aid.”

They saw it because we went to Dearborn, Michigan, and spoke to the Arab Democrats who were voting for Trump. Demographics were not destiny in this election, and it turns out that races are not a political monolith: Many Latinos this week broke for Trump.

They saw it because Madeleine Rowley reported fearlessly from the border—about the nonprofits making billions from the chaos there and on the explosion of sex trafficking that everyone else was overlooking.

They saw it because Niall Ferguson warned us of how elite culture can rot in his unforgettable essay “The Treason of the Intellectuals.”

They saw it because we never stopped telling the story of big tech’s overreach, especially on free speech, which Rupa Subramanya has covered ferociously and testified to Congress about.

They saw it coming because we reported on the ideological corruption of K–12 education—and the movement of determined parents to do better by their children.

They saw it coming because Jamie ReedAbigail Shrier, and others cracked open the stories that became a national issue in this election: the medical transition of minors, and biological men competing in women’s sports.

They saw it coming because Uri Berliner blew the whistle in a piece that changed the cultural conversation: “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.” “There’s an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed. It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line,” he wrote. Turn on MSNBC this morning, and see the truth of his diagnosis.

They saw it because Coleman Hughes wrote plainly about the “New Racism” that has turned elite American institutions into neoracist strongholds.

They saw it because we wrote about the lie that many tried to deny about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity.

They saw it coming because we had conversations on Honestly that revealed our massive political realignment. They saw it because we never shied away from debate, most recently between Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris.

Going into this election our staff had diverse preferences for presidential candidates. That remains so. And that mix is essential to our promise to you: to deliver journalism that tells the truth about the world as it exists. To cover the issues that matter most with integrity and independence.

At The Free Press, we are of no party. We carry water for no politician. Just as Free Press readers weren’t surprised by Trump’s win, you won’t now be cocooned from his flaws. Our commitment remains the same today as it was yesterday: to pursue the truth and to tell it plainly.

If there’s one bias we have, it’s toward the American project. It’s a divided, imperfect country, but it’s a good one. And thanks to our subscribers—freethinkers, like most Americans we know—we’re able to grow and cover it all.

 

Big Pharma is literally shaking in their boots, preparing for unleashing of RFK Jr on them…   SASHA LATYPOVA

Congrats on Trump victory, but please continue not trusting the government and demand justice for covid crimes.

NOV 06, 2024

I didn’t schedule a post for this morning, as I knew people would be distracted by the elections. Instead, I am going to repost some screeching from the pharma industry trade press I subscribe to. This morning, it appears that Trump won in a landslide, which is better news vs if Harris was installed via election fraud, but I advise everyone not to become complacent over this. I remain highly skeptical about Trump Admin and fulfilling his campaign promises. I will continue critically observing and reporting on the progress of change (if any), since we do not have an honest press that can do this job.

For the time being, let’s briefly enjoy the liberal tears flowing over the internet. Here is some screeching from the Big Pharma:

Donald Trump’s embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is forcing biotech and pharma leaders to grapple with having US life sciences policy influenced by a figure who has extensively criticized vaccines and the drug industry, routinely embraces many conspiracy theories, and has made threats to force out FDA staff.

As Trump has made gains in his bid for the US presidency against Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, he’s embraced Kennedy, who was once considered a fringe candidate expected to gather at most a few percent of the vote in some states.

“I’m gonna let him go wild on health,” Trump said of RFK Jr. on Sunday at a campaign event in Madison Square Garden in New York. “I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on the medicines.”

While Kennedy would be an unlikely pick for an actual appointment in the administration given the difficulty he might face with a confirmation, he’s worked with Trump’s team to help plan for a new administration, particularly on healthcare issues.

And last week, he gave a preview of what that would mean in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying that “FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” and calling for stopping what he called the suppression of  “psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.”

“If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags,” Kennedy said in the post.

The remarks weren’t a one-off. Earlier this month, Kennedy made similar comments to television host Phil McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, saying that the “principal objective of the FDA today is to serve the mercantile interests of pharmaceutical companies.”

There would certainly be limits to what an unconventional, RFK Jr.-allied FDA leader could do, given the power of professional staff at the FDA. But Kennedy’s comments have forced the industry to contemplate a very different environment in Washington if Trump wins and embraces a new approach.

And RFK Jr.’s planned reforms, like cutting funding or headcount at the FDA, would have to come from Congress. The FDA-pharma industry user fee deal, current through 2027, is renewed once every five years, and the FDA employees reviewing new and generic drugs or new evidence of existing drugs are typically not political appointees but physicians who are employed by the FDA via industry funds.

One former Trump health official who has had conversations with the campaign and those preparing for a potential transition said there were aspects of RFK Jr.’s ideas that had merit, including a focus on wellness and health. But they expressed a hope that more mainstream figures in a Trump administration would put guardrails around more extreme concepts, like RFK Jr.’s well-documented anti-vaccine sentiments. The person spoke on condition of anonymity.

The FDA and Trump campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Others are raising concerns that an RFK Jr.-run FDA might be antithetical to the agency’s mission.

“If RFK has a significant influence on the next administration, that could further erode people’s willingness to get up to date with recommended vaccines, and I am worried about the impact that could have on our nation’s health, on our nation’s economy, on our global security,” former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Monday at a conference in Minneapolis.

Holly Fernandez Lynch, a lawyer and bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, told Endpoints News that RFK Jr.’s proposals would amount to “a dereliction of duty” by the agency.

“FDA leadership cannot wholesale abandon the agency’s public health mission,” she said. “Unfortunately, I can’t imagine that the courts would come to the rescue given what we’ve seen lately. And whether Congress would or could depends on the elections too.”

PhRMA, which represents large drugmakers, said in a statement to Endpoints that the US “leads the world in innovative new medicines, in part due to the strength and integrity of the FDA’s human drug review program. The FDA is the gold standard in evaluating the safety, efficacy and quality of medicines prior to and following approval, and its role is critical in providing certainty for patients, health care providers and manufacturers.”

It is especially encouraging that these goons are afraid people will stop vaccinating. Imagine that! Imagine a society that doesn’t poison its children and doesn’t pray to charlatans in white coats! I am beginning to imagine this now.

Art for today: Chimney Rock vinery, watercolor, 12×16 in.

 

Gaslighting Media and Big Tech Are Trying to Manufacture a Kamala Win   JD RUCKER

This would be quite laughable if it wasn’t so sad… and potentially dangerous.   

NOV 05, 2024 – Scholars, philosophers, shrinks, scientists, and mystics across time have attempted to explain the power of positive thinking. Those who believe in a particular outcome tend to see that outcome happen. Even quantum physicists have their own theories that have panned out in the laboratory.

Whatever energy, spirit, or superpower one wants to attribute to the phenomenon, it’s definitely real. Henry Ford broke it down for the individual with his famous quote, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

It works even better on a mass scale. If a large group of people can be convinced that something is going to happen, it often does even if outside forces point to a different outcome. This is important on Election Day because corporate media is in the process of trying to convince the world that Kamala Harris can win.

None of those headlines are accurate. [Emphasis added]  The first one is particularly egregious in its gaslighting because the Kamala Harris campaign is in full-blown panic mode while the Trump campaign is trying their best not to seem overconfident.

Corporate media, upon orders from their UniParty Swamp and Deep State commanders, are trying to get Democrats pumped up so they can manufacture a win. At least that’s what they’re being told, and let’s hope that’s true. The alternative is ugly.

Donald Trump is on the brink of a massive landslide victory. As much as I hate public polls, it’s telling that the most accurate poll from 2020, Atlas Intel, has him winning all of the battleground states while being competitive in Minnesota and Virginia. Add New Hampshire to that list and likely a couple of “surprise” tight races in blue states and Trump should coast to well over 300 Electoral College votes and a majority of the popular votes.

In a free and fair electoral process based on legal American citizen voters, it’s possible that we could have results on election night. Of course, the caveat is “free and fair.” That’s very unlikely to happen unless the Democrats’ internal polling shows Trump achieved his goal of “too big to rig.”

This is why I’m relatively confident (slighting over 50% chance) that the sudden surge of unified gaslighting by corporate media trying to tell us that Kamala is going to happen is pure hopium. If not, then we’re witnessing their attempt to suspend disbelief. In that scenario, they’re prepared to steal the election and they need as many Americans as possible to disregard everything we’ve seen for the last month so we can accept the false results they have planned.

I’m not going to elaborate on the potential for a stolen election. We’ll cross that unfortunate bridge if it happens, but I don’t think it will. Every single indicator points to a Trump landslide. The only reason more pollsters and analysts aren’t saying it is because most of them hope it’s not true.

Let’s assume the indicators are right and corporate media is lying. That’s not exactly a tough pill for most Americans to swallow, not with trust in corporate media at an all-time low.

The only thing we should trust is that God is in control. If He wants Trump in the White House again, there’s no measure of cheating that can overpower His will. And if our judgment is due and Kamala is His choice, then we need to buckle up and brace ourselves.

Ephesians 6:11 comes to mind: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Don’t fear. Fight the good fight. Take care of yourself and your family no matter what happens with this crazy election. God is in control but He hears us. Otherwise prayer and free will would be meaningless.

For those who are not Bible-believing Christians, think positively about the outcome of this election with confidence that Donald Trump and his supporters have done enough to earn this victory. For Bible-believing Christians, do the same but throw in a prayer for good measure.

 

The Truth is self-evident   Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar

As the verse in Psalms tells us: ‘Truth will spring up from the earth.’ And, since October 7, we see it happening in front of our eyes.

Nov 5, 2024, 10:03 AM (GMT+2)  Israel National NewsThe day of Simchat Torah 5784 was for all of us a day on which the world changed, a day on which hard and terrible truths were revealed. The enemy’s hatred opened our eyes and exposed before us what we have long known, but for many of us it is a new, painful and horrifying world.

The people of Israel rose up and shook off their maladies and their disputes and like a lion, charged forward to defend the land, to defend good, to distinguish between light and darkness, while anti-Semitism raged around them.

A new sprout is beginning to grow. A people battling for its land, appreciating the value of its homeland, aware of its destiny, rising to the challenge of its life, but, as in the past, once again, this people is paying a heavy price in blood to rectify the situation.

In recent weeks, far from the northern and southern battlefields, something is happening in elegant parlors and in the halls of the Knesset.

A new reality is developing and its crowning glory is that the basic truth of our lives is being heard once again. The eternal truth that this land was given to the Jewish people by the Creator of the universe at His will, a truth that neither the Hague Tribunal nor the United Nations General Assembly can reject while claiming “you are robbers.”

This fundamental, elementary, and essential principle lies at the heart of the important book by former United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, “One Jewish State,” which has just been published in its Hebrew and English editions. At the initiative of MK Ohad Tal, two festive book launch events were held, one in the Knesset and the other at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem. Another book launch event, at the initiative of Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, took place in the Samarian hills.

The pages of the book reveal a profound insight tied to the roots of the existence of the Jewish people, indeed, the roots of the existence of the entire world: the Master of the universe and its Creator has greater familiarity with the global reality than anyone else, and from this understanding the perception emerges that Israeli sovereignty should be applied to the Land that He promised to the Jewish people, and peace, security, and prosperity will be brought to the region.

“The Jewish people are called Jews because they come from Judea, part of the kingdom ruled over by King David and King Solomon. The notion of Judea should not being part of the Jewish state of Israel, as demanded by the Palestinians and nearly all of the world, is untenable and part of a larger goal to decouple the Jewish people from their biblical homeland. As an observant Jew, and particularly since the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, I feel as if God is calling out to us and admonishing: How many more times do I need to convince you not to surrender the land that I have given you for eternity?” (David Friedman, from the book).

In his book, Friedman presents what appears to be the most realistic plan for normal life in the Fertile Crescent region. The participation of government ministers, Knesset members, mayors and many other personages at the book launch events indicates a growing support for the vision of applying Israeli sovereignty over the Land of Israel in its entirety. The book lays out a coherent and revolutionary program that addresses the future of the Jewish people in their land as well as the quality of life of the Arab population.

Friedman proposes in the book to grant resident status without citizenship to the Arab population of Judea and Samaria and provides lucid and scholarly reasoning, anchored in the theory of international diplomacy, that this is not apartheid. The world is full of precedents for this type of policy and similar ones. The book requires deep analysis and rethinking of the situation.

Friedman’s plan also received the support of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who wrote in the book’s foreword: “One of the first people who sought a meeting with me after I had become secretary of state was Ambassador Friedman. He requested the State Department revisit its policy of many decades regarding the legality of the West Bank settlements. Ambassador Friedman methodically explained to me why the 1978 memorandum of Herbert Hansell, then the chief lawyer at the State Department, was wrong in its conclusion that Jewish settlement in the West Bank was per se a violation of international law. […] I was sufficiently persuaded by Ambassador Friedman’s presentation to authorize my team to do a deep dive into the relevant issues. Ultimately, we concluded that Ambassador Friedman indeed was correct in his arguments, and I issued a directive reversing the Hansell memorandum and finding that Jewish settlement in the West Bank was not per se illegal. That order became known as the Pompeo Doctrine.

In issue 17 of the Sovereignty journal, published by the Sovereignty Movement (200,000 copies in Hebrew and English), Ambassador Friedman and MK Ohad Tal gave a joint interview in which they detailed the political plan. We were pleased to see that this was a different plan from the one on which the Deal of the Century was based. In contrast to that previous plan, which our movement, like many others, opposed, here it is referring to Israeli sovereignty over all the territories of Judea and Samaria without the Oslo division into Areas A, B, and C. Moreover, there is a total rejection of the idea of establishing a Palestinian state. We welcome this development and reawakening, so sorely needed during these fateful days.

We will add and relate that in a recent meeting that we held in the framework of the “Café Shapira” forum, led by Gali Bat Horin, who is working tirelessly to bolster and intensify the vision of the Right in Israel, we met many of those for whom the October 7 massacre shook their worldview and led them to a reawakening, to return to the Land, to join the right-wing camp. We met there for instance a member of a kibbutz who had been deeply rooted in the extreme Left and reversed his views, a woman who had skipped from the fringes of the Meretz party to the far right edge of the map, and many, many more like them.

The change, the reawakening, the return to Zionist and Jewish values are becoming increasingly apparent. This reawakening of so great a segment of the general public, alongside Ambassador Friedman’s revolutionary book, are central components of the birth of a new era. May it be so.

 

Bill Clinton REVEALS Arafat’s LIES, Hamas’s REAL Agenda and DEFENDS Israel’s History!   [6:07]

Nov 1, 2024  – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton shares inside details on Yasser Arafat’s failure to accept an Israeli peace deal that would have granted Palestinians nearly the entire West Bank and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton reflects on Israel’s right to self-defense in the face of continued violence from Hamas. 🇮🇱

[Ed.:  As evil as Bill has been throughout his life, this statement (if indeed he made it sincerely, and it’s not AI, a hologram, or a mask,) definitely credits his lifetime account upstairs (read: with God.).  It’s never too late to correct a wrong, or a wrongful life.  There are many paths of repentance leading back to our creator.  All roads lead to Him in the end — and in the beginning, anyway.]

 

Glenn Beck breaks down Dems’ step-by-step plan to ‘disrupt, delay, and discredit’ tomorrow’s election   [12:15]

NOVEMBER 04, 2024  BLAZE NEWS TONIGHTn his recent article, “The left’s 5-step election takeover plan is back – and worse than ever,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck outlined the Democrats’ recycled plan to “disrupt, delay, and discredit the electoral process” in the 2024 election.

Now he joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to elucidate the left’s plotting.

The first step in the Democrats’ plan is obviously “winning the vote.”

That means “finding ways legally to either change the law or to just look the other way to win the vote,” Glenn explains.

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is geared up for another round of fighting election-related lawsuits, and Biden’s DOJ has already sued certain states for “removing noncitizens from voter rolls or switching to paper ballots.”

Winning the vote means winning by whatever means necessary.

The second step is “winning the count,” which is the step “everyone is worried about, says Glenn.

“We saw it last time — all of a sudden, they just stopped counting at 10:30 at night,” which created room for “shenanigans” to happen, he explains.

Whether it’s calling for recounts in swing states, questioning every step of the counting process, or telling Americans “we don’t know who won or lost” in order to sow seeds of doubt, we can expect the 2024 election to look a lot like 2020.

Winning the certification is step three.

“Each state has to certify the vote and seat electors,” but if Trump wins, “objections and accusations of ‘shady’ electoral practices will fill the headlines.”

The fourth step in the Democrats’ diabolical plan is what Glenn calls “winning the Electoral College.”

The Democrat-controlled media is already priming Americans for the scenario in which Trump loses and takes power anyway by using Republican support to endorse alternate electors and then send the election to the House, where the GOP holds a slim majority. According to the left’s theory, the House will select him as president even if he loses the election.

But the truth is, this is the plan Democrats have mapped out.

“They’ll claim manipulation and try to delegitimize the Electoral College process,” Glenn wrote in the article.

“After that, it’s winning the transition,” he tells Jill and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

If all else fails and Trump wins, the final step in the plan is to “disrupt, disrupt, disrupt” the transition of power, which used to be nothing more than a formality.

We can expect protests, accusations, and anything the left can drum up to create chaos and “[set] the country on fire.”

However, if it’s clear tomorrow night that Trump is winning in a landslide, “they can’t pull any of this stuff off,” says Glenn.

“What are you feeling?” Jill asks in regard to the election that’s just a day away.

That means “finding ways legally to either change the law or to just look the other way to win the vote,” Glenn explains.

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is geared up for another round of fighting election-related lawsuits, and Biden’s DOJ has already sued certain states for “removing noncitizens from voter rolls or switching to paper ballots.”

Winning the vote means winning by whatever means necessary.

The second step is “winning the count,” which is the step “everyone is worried about, says Glenn.

“We saw it last time — all of a sudden, they just stopped counting at 10:30 at night,” which created room for “shenanigans” to happen, he explains.

Whether it’s calling for recounts in swing states, questioning every step of the counting process, or telling Americans “we don’t know who won or lost” in order to sow seeds of doubt, we can expect the 2024 election to look a lot like 2020.

Winning the certification is step three.

“Each state has to certify the vote and seat electors,” but if Trump wins, “objections and accusations of ‘shady’ electoral practices will fill the headlines.”

The fourth step in the Democrats’ diabolical plan is what Glenn calls “winning the Electoral College.”

The Democrat-controlled media is already priming Americans for the scenario in which Trump loses and takes power anyway by using Republican support to endorse alternate electors and then send the election to the House, where the GOP holds a slim majority. According to the left’s theory, the House will select him as president even if he loses the election.

But the truth is, this is the plan Democrats have mapped out.

“They’ll claim manipulation and try to delegitimize the Electoral College process,” Glenn wrote in the article.

“After that, it’s winning the transition,” he tells Jill and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

If all else fails and Trump wins, the final step in the plan is to “disrupt, disrupt, disrupt” the transition of power, which used to be nothing more than a formality.

We can expect protests, accusations, and anything the left can drum up to create chaos and “[set] the country on fire.”

However, if it’s clear tomorrow night that Trump is winning in a landslide, “they can’t pull any of this stuff off,” says Glenn.

“What are you feeling?” Jill asks in regard to the election that’s just a day away.

To hear Glenn’s answer, watch the clip above.

Want more from ‘Blaze News Tonight’?

To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

 

The Squirrel and the State

November 4, 2024  Brownstone Institute – In the name of public health, P’Nut the Squirrel and Fred the Racoon, famous the world over, have been seized from their caretakers and euthanized. The outrage is rightly palpable, but not just because of the facts of the case. It also serves as a metaphor for the last four and a half years. Disease control is the cited reason for the imposition of a sadistic state.

The carnage is all around us, and the passion to stop the insanity is more intense than ever. Whatever happens on Tuesday will not change that.

This drama unfolded during Brownstone’s annual conference and gala, which was a success beyond what we could ever have imagined. If you attended, thank you for coming. If not, you can watch all the proceedings, including the evening keynote by Dr. Drew Pinsky, at our Rumble channel.

Part of the point of such public events is to put on display the hard work Brownstone does behind the scenes with working groups, Fellows, book publications, retreats, and public outreach. If you appreciate what we do, please consider contributing to this work. Your support is all we have.

Our next Philadelphia supper club will be on Thursday, November 7. Come spend an evening with friends and guest speaker Thomas Harrington, Senior Brownstone Scholar and Brownstone Fellow, as well as author of The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.

The next West Hartford supper club is Wednesday, November 20. We’ll hear from a brilliant medical historian and current homeopath, Sarah Thompson, whose knowledge of the work of Harris Coulter is unmatched. Someday we’ll tell you the remarkable story of how we manage to get these once-banned books into print. It’s been quite the ordeal.

Here is some content since our last email.

What Should Be Done for Student Victims of the Shots? By Lucia Sinatra. There have been few wins for college students that were stripped of their fundamental right to bodily autonomy, but the fight for justice continues, and it finally feels like justice might be on its way.

Jeff Bezos Is Right: Legacy Media Must Self-Reflect By David Thunder. We should thank Jeff Bezos for highlighting the crisis of trust in the media. But his dismissive attitude toward “alternative sources” of news and information is part of the reason why many people are losing respect for the legacy media.

How Effective Are Vaccines Targeted to Respiratory Viruses? By Ian Miller. Public health agencies rely on contradictory data that contain profound uncertainties, and then use that data to create mandates or policies. It’s a vicious cycle, and one that the “Experts” refuse to acknowledge at risk of undercutting their public pronouncements.

Did Government-Sponsored Disinformation Worsen Covid-19? By Robert Malone. The Fors Marsh campaign deployed fear-based messaging to influence public behavior to comply with CDC and other USG recommendations. The intentional promotion of fear of death from an infectious disease disproportionate to actual risk of death is psychological bioterrorism.

Policy Founded on Distorted Evidence By Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan. So the answer to the initial question of how decision-makers can justify promoting the mammoth undertaking of annual influenza vaccination is: by distorting and cherry-picking the evidence, if they ever cared for it.

Election 2024: Analysis and Predictions By Josh Stevenson. The goal of this modeling project was to predict the outcome of the 2024 election using public health, demographic, and historical data. The approach relies on predictors that are a proxy for support for the Democratic Party within a population.

Continue reading

 

FINAL COUNTDOWN! How Israel Is Preparing for All Surprises and Outcomes  [34:36]

November 3, 2024  JNS TV | Jerusalem Minute – Josh Haston correspondent for JNS news interviews Alex trayman CEO of JNS.  Americans may be surprised to learn that they aren’t the only ones on edge about the upcoming U.S. presidential elections. Israel and its enemies are also waiting to see who becomes the next U.S. president, as so much of what happens globally hinges on Washington’s policies.

 

The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft Joins Steve Bannon on the War Room to Discuss the Latest Surprises on the ’24 Campaign Trail for Donald Trump  (VIDEO 6:40)   By Jim Hoft

Nov. 3, 2024 8:00 am – The Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to discuss the latest surprises on the 2024 campaign trail for Donald Trump.

Jim Hoft: I wanted to tell you this good news I saw today, and that was in Minnesota, that the Somali-American community came out and endorsed Donald Trump. And they said, We’re middle class, we’re working class, and we can’t afford things. And that was their pitch. And they said, “The Democrats have lied to us.”

So this is the Somali-American community in Minnesota. There’s 86,000 Somalians in Minnesota, by the way. There’s 86,000 Somalians in Minnesota, by the way.

And this follows last week’s announcement from the Muslim Americans in Michigan, which was a huge surprise. They came out for Donald Trump. They even went to the rally and endorsed Trump.

And it’s so bad in Michigan, listen to this, Steve, that Rashida Talib has not endorsed Kamala Harris because she can’t, because they’re so mad at the Democrats, the Muslim community.

So that’s some good news. And that’s just something that we never saw coming. I think that I love your coverage. God didn’t take Donald Trump all this way through all these bogus lawsuits and all of this abuse and humiliation and the couple shots in his ear to drop him now. And I think we have to grasp onto that and fight the rest of the way in!

Here is the interview on The War Room.  [6:40]  

 

Election already in the bag?? [2:17]  Patrick Byrne  @PatrickByrne

November 3, 2024  ISRAPUNDIT – BAD NEWS: Harris –  Obama privately smirking, 100% confident in victory. “Don’t believe polls or what you read, election already in the bag.”

Harris Transition Team 100% staffed with Obama staff.

Republic being overthrown. Our 1 chance = overwhelm rigged machines.

Retweet!

WATCH  

Peloni:  The overconfidence would seem to be bipartisan in nature, even as the Dems would seem to lack a legitimate reason for their sense of certain victory…any legitimate reason…

 

Elon Musk: “Israel’s Spy Plane JUST DID Something TERRIFYING & SHOCKS Iran!”  [25:58]

November 2, 2024  Elon Musk Rewind – Imagine this, a sleek, high-tech spy plane packed with cutting-edge AI and imaging tech so advanced it can zoom in on details from miles away, gathering critical intelligence without ever getting caught. That’s exactly what Israel used just days ago to carry out a massive strike on Iran, and the results were jaw-dropping. Over 100 aircraft took part in the mission, with Israel’s new spy plane leading the way, taking out multiple military sites deep inside Iranian territory—all without Iran even realizing it until the damage was done. And you know who’s as intrigued as the rest of us? Elon. The tech visionary himself is captivated by this powerful machine that seems to belong more to science fiction than reality. But here’s the real question, could this game-changing surveillance technology reshape global security as we know it?

 

Rampant Voter Fraud Ahead of Election Day ’24   [4:48]   Reese Report

November 1, 2024

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Who’s Who in America    by Dr. Robert Malone

WORTH THE READ🧵

Be an informed voter in 2024:

* THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.

* CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW

* ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.

* JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.

* HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.

* ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.

* CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.

* ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.

* ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY

* ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.

* CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.

THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS MEDIA WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.

Now you know why no one is investigated.

James Comey investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, then made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.

It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper. One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.

Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.   

Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas,” in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign.  Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation.

It gets even cozier. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff?   He is the husband of Kamala Harris! L

It only gets worse.  This “Family Tree” will make your head spin . . THE SWAMP IS DEEP!

Dominion (voting machine provider) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states – – The state of Texas rejected the machines.

– Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.

– Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic

– Smartmatic (another voting machine supplier) entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009

– Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela

– Smartmatic is connected to Philippine voter fraud

– Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown who works for George Soros (-he and Brown are life-long friends)

– Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profit boards including the Open Society Foundation,

– Brown chairs the Centre for Global Development.

– Open society of course is owned by George Soros

– Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global

– Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global

– Douglass C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s husband

– Guess who owns Dominion? – -Blum Capital Partners, L.P.

– Guess who is on the board for the company? — Richard Blum.

– Richard C. Blum is Dianne Feinstein’s husband.

– Nancy Pelosi’s husband is also a major investor

– An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems

And it goes on & ON!!

– Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.

– Dominion Voting is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post

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