Quote of the day
posted at 9:45 pm on April 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Vigilant Democrats worry today that the Republican Party is only playing possum, or that it can be revived by extraordinary means such as a Martian invasion. In fact, the GOP is a mummy-wrapped skeleton sitting in its own chilly mausoleum of bilious resentments and creepy sentimentality. What remains to call themselves Republicans are baldly badly educated or just prankish Confederate re-enactors—chubby men in gray and butternut suits with gold buttons and feather-tipped hats, clanking down stairs with shiny sabers. A handful of them are just boors from the South who look poorly on horseback and wave unread Bibles while calling for Billy Sunday to rise like the gold market.
What about Ike and Richard Nixon and the worshipped California cowboy manqué Ronald Reagan? Not one of them cared a toothpick for the Republican Party of their time and each struggled mightily to remake it. Ike was indifferent to partisanship: His beating of the splenetic Robert Taft in 1952 for the nomination was the success of a conqueror over a sharpie. Nixon was a troubled, spiteful Quaker who despised the Republican Party as the ‘Eastern Establishment,’ and who governed as a liberal Democrat with the apostasy of wage and price controls, the EPA, and embassies to the mass-murdering Mao and the hollow Brezhnev. Reagan was a right-wing Democrat from homespun Illinois who, after years of failing in Hollywood and then charming California, swamped Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale with the passionate votes of the Democratic Party. I have long suspected that the Kennedys voted for Reagan twice.”
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I’m from the North, and I oppose Democratic slavery in all forms — including the one it imposes on the unborn.
unclesmrgol on April 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Oh, and I look good on horseback.
unclesmrgol on April 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Remember in 2004 when the Democratic party was supposedly dead forever?
I guess John Batchelor doesn’t.
Proud Rino on April 10, 2009 at 9:51 PM
They should eat that up in his market.
Spirit of 1776 on April 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM
HA haha heh heh
joe_doufu on April 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM
John Batchelor is smoking something illegal.
Then again, he is a Princeton preppie…
coldwarrior on April 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. And from time to time I read left wing blogs, so that’s saying something.
therightwinger on April 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Why are conservative values (God, country, and family) considered a southern thing? I think that if global warming turns out to be the real thing, I wouldn’t mind losing both the east and west coasts. Good riddance.
TXMomof3 on April 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
The giveaway for me was his shots at conservative talk show hosts and Fox News. It was gratuitous. Again, his following is pretty small and I think that’s his real beef. I mean c’mon…the Republican party has been dead for 76 years?!?! WTF?
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
That’s called “laying it on thick”.
SouthernGent on April 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
After reading the entire post, this is what I came away with…..
RINO’s = R.I.P.
“A breathing Republican Party would have brought out the flintlocks, boarded the windows, and settled down for a defense of the republic.” = You betcha…………!
Seven Percent Solution on April 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Is there an essay generator that spits out blog posts with all the Republican-bashing buzzwords intact, but the paragraphs don’t make a lick of sense? It’s probably the same software responsible for my spam — sometimes both are unintentionally funny.
There just aren’t enough hours in my day to factcheck this.
Isn’t there KP video to post from tonight’s Hannity panel?
Terrie on April 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
As soon as Allah’s middle leg stops dancing.
SouthernGent on April 10, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Right. A failure.
Hawkins1701 on April 10, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Allah, by the way………….
…….. KP was on Hannity.
Happy Easter!
Seven Percent Solution on April 10, 2009 at 10:01 PM
On Wednesday when my family is at the tea party in DC, we shall see if conservatism is dead. I hope for so many people that we can’t even move.
TXMomof3 on April 10, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Who is John Batchelor and does anyone really care. (except his mommy)
thomasaur on April 10, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Yes. (link to Ace)
Spirit of 1776 on April 10, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Kirsten gets on my nerves. She first argued that this is not a Christian nation and then turned around and said that the majority of people are Christian. She argues straight talking points most of the time.
TXMomof3 on April 10, 2009 at 10:03 PM
I’m still not sure what this sentence means, but if Reagan was a chump, he was a 2-term, Soviet Union-dissolving chump!
LOL.
What a loser this Batchelor dude is; Republicans have held the White House for what 50? years out of the last 76 that we were supposedly “dead?”
Jenfidel on April 10, 2009 at 10:03 PM
He’s just looking for ‘Some Strange New Respect’…that’s all.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Listen folks Batchelor has a point. He is speaking of the ideology and the philosophy of the party. As a registered Republican from California I am especially jaded and sensitive to the RINO’s within and until we get a real leader. A leader that will call a spade a spade and has the cajones to tell America that they have been believing in a false promise called Social Security and Medicare; programs that are untenable and unconstitutional and need to be done away lest we enslave future generations to pay for our mistakes.
Theworldisnotenough on April 10, 2009 at 10:05 PM
We lost to Obama by less than 10% and it’s all over for us? Dream on!
Dollayo on April 10, 2009 at 10:05 PM
The author fails to define what it is, exactly, that was different about the Republican Party before it “died” 70 years ago. I read the whole article through with curiosity to see what the answer was, from this self-proclaimed sincere student of the Republican Party. He had my attention, but chose to rant rather than inform. Shame that I had to waste my time, but I should have known better seeing as how it was published in The Daily Beast.
Dead Hand Control on April 10, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Conservarism is not dead, we’re just winnowing the chaff from the grain.
thomasaur on April 10, 2009 at 10:06 PM
This sort of Sh_t is what college freshmen write, trying to impress their bored overpaid profs and bored, underpaid grad assistants: Purple prose and disjointed pretentious opinions, poorly supported and just tossed out for effect
This guy can kiss my Republican rear
Janos Hunyadi on April 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM
conservarism s/b conservatism
thomasaur on April 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM
It is important not to let people equate conservatism with the Republican party, or we’ll find that half the population won’t even listen to our ideas. It struck me particularly in arguments about the Obama deficit – “sure, they ran though own deficits with Bush, and now they don’t like Obama’s.” Pardon me, but don’t let that “R” next to Bush confuse you, a lot of us were anti-government spending all along.
kc8ukw on April 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM
I didn’t get that out of this rant at all…I mean, I agree with your thoughts, but I didn’t see them expressed in anyway in that rant. Even if I give him the benefit of the doubt…he was playing the part of a sniper with a sawed-off shotgun.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM
He’s looking for a book deal…………..
………….. like dear Ms. McCain.
Seven Percent Solution on April 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Conservatism is the answer.
Zorro on April 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Batchelor hits MSNBC andCNN in 5…4…3…
thomasaur on April 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM
What is he saying? Since President Reagan was successful it means he was actually a Democrat. Based on that since Pres. Carter was such a flop I guess he was the realRepublican. He is from the South after all.
Cindy Munford on April 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM
An excellent point!
Thank you!
(If so much of the base hadn’t stayed home, we might not be suffering so badly with trillions of dollars of potential debt under President McCain…)
Jenfidel on April 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM
What Batchelor fails to note is that the Republican Party of 70 years ago is not the Republican party of Goldwater nor Reagan. The Goldwater shift changed the Party. 70 years ago just about any Democrat could have passed for Republican, and vice versa. Wasn’t until the Goldwater and Wesrtern Conservative shift of 1964 and then in 1968, that the GOP became what it was when it (along with a lot of Democrats and independents) elected Reagan.
The Dems had their own shift in 1968, amid the Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and Hubert Humphrey fratricide that moved the Democrat Party from being “Republican” (in a 2009 sense) to its far Left bent which has been the singular earmark of the Democrat Party over the past 40 years.
Batchelor must be looking at pay-per-word at this point so he can pay his taxes on 15 April. Otherwise, his entire essay makes no sense at all, from a historical nor from an ideological perspective.
coldwarrior on April 10, 2009 at 10:13 PM
I listened to Batchelor’s WABC show, and still listen to his Sunday night show on XM when I’m in my car, but he seems to be scattershooting with this piece.
If he has a problem with the Republican Party since the days of Alf Landon in 1936, he’s either going through a wide swatch of history and changes within the party, or he’s couching a nostalgic wish for a return to a period of the Gold Standard and isolationist policies that might have been viable in the world of 1928, but certainly isn’t today.
Republicans definitely have RINO/go-along-to-get-along problems right now, but Batchelor seems to be channeling a kinder, gentler Pat Buchanan in his wish to roll back the clock to before FDR was elected.
jon1979 on April 10, 2009 at 10:13 PM
This reads like something that was cobbled together from about a half dozen different sources.
MB4 on April 10, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Actually, I blame Ronald Reagan for the state the Republican party is in today. It goes back to the 1980 primaries. His biggest opponent was George HW Bush.
Bush was the candidate the party was pushing, and in campaigning he was extremely cruel to Reagan. So it came as a big surprise to me, when Bush was chosen as his running mate. Always felt that Reagan should have chosen someone whose vision was more in his. Bush was polar opposite on many issues.
A stronger and more conservative running mate for Reagan in 80 would have produced a better candidate in 1988. Not someone who would forget what got the ticket where it was, and ultimately lose to the likes of Lonesme Rhodes.
Tommy_G on April 10, 2009 at 10:16 PM
This reads like something that was cobbled together from about a half dozen different sources.
MB4 on April 10, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Probably gets his talking points straight from Carville, Axlerod, and Rahm!
TN Mom on April 10, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Shutting it down early tonight?
iamse7en on April 10, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Now if a computer didn’t write that……….
………. I don’t know what did.
What say you getalife……….?
Seven Percent Solution on April 10, 2009 at 10:18 PM
I bet you eat this crap up huh AP?
conservnut on April 10, 2009 at 10:19 PM
If the Republican Party is dead then so is our Liberty. They may be far from ideal but there is no other option at this point.
Sorry, I’m not willing to give up on Liberty just yet.
Kronos on April 10, 2009 at 10:20 PM
How do you know what AP eats? He posted an article…if you differ from the author, take it up with him.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Good Friday and all…………
……. we can give Allah a break, or at least I can.
Seven Percent Solution on April 10, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Good stuff there
I have my doubts Kennedys voted for Reagan but I would not doubt that Hillary voted for McCain. The Republican party will find its voice again and Obama is doing everything in his power to help us find it. I think Paul Ryan has the basic formulation liberty, small government, low taxes and he is the first I heard articulate the rough outline of a platform.
msmveritas on April 10, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Hey, it’s Good Friday and he didn’t drop an atheist/evolution or Palin thread, he probably had to search high and low to find this drivel. Go with it.
thomasaur on April 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM
The South shall ride again!!!
Dreadnought223 on April 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Give me a break, AP’s a big boy and he expects me to bust his chops from time to time. I still love the guy even if he is a damn yankee. ;-)
conservnut on April 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Dead Hand Control on April 10, 2009 at 10:05 PM
no you are mssing the pt. the writer is saying that FDR killed the REP party. That it never recovered. That IKE was not a republician, that nixion was not a republician, that Reagan was not a republiican.
The writer is trying (badly IMO) to say that the only way the republician party has been able to win in the last 70 years is running as democrates.
The New deal and FDR as far as the writer is concerned killed the republician party.
unseen on April 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM
The Progressive Wave Peaked with Obama getting Elected. The Democrats should worry, the backlash will be hellish. I really thought a moderate like McCain was going to pull it out easy last November. These Pols have no idea the Social Shock they are causing to the Country, and the outcome of swinging to far from one side of the Political Spectrum to the other. The Pendulum isn’t swinging gently back and forth. Obama didn’t get 46% of the electorate, I would wager he has shed some support since he was inaugurated. So that 46% is probably higher now. Obama did lie he stated don’t expect him to take a lurch to the left when he won, and that is just what he did. So they can’t see past the last election, how do you consolidate Power when you are busy being partisan and polarizing the Nation? Obama: I Won…just what does he think he won, and how long does he think it will last?
Dr Evil on April 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM
A wee bit haughty from the party that now owns all failures and at President Pantywaist’s and Vice President Blowhard’s pace, they are going to set Guinness record that won’t be rivaled for a century.
I’m still feeling 3 will get you 5 that TOTUS will be a lame duck by Memorial Day.
Dusty on April 10, 2009 at 10:31 PM
How can you maintain the facade of self-proclaimed genius when you are such a damned fool.
Eisenhower was essentially bullet-proof when it came to partisanship. Being credited with winning WWII pretty much makes one able to do what they want without being concerned about the politics. If you really want to see a more interesting study of this same situation look at George C. Marshall who was essentially a Democrat. It should be noted that both Generals were strictly non-political until after their retirements.
Nixon, to a certain extent was also bullet-proof. He was the “take no prisoners” reformer who was elected to undo all the bad policy of the 1960s brought to us by Kennedy and Johnson. He did that.
Ronald Regan, who you despise, was also a reformer to get us past Jimmy Carter. He also had deep conservative values which is probably why you seek to smear his legacy.
Traitors like you and the rest of the McCain Quislings see the future as go along to get along with the Democrat agenda. There is a core Republican consitituency that doesn’t include the McCain traitors and appeasers. The core agrees with Rush that the filthy liar in the White House must fail and any support of the filthy liar’s agenda is conspiracy.
It really is that simple, even if a self-proclaimed genius like yourself is too damned hate-filled and stupid to understand the obvious.
highhopes on April 10, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Actually, Republicans have held the White House for 36 out of those 76 years, whilst the Dems have held it for 40. (Studying History – it does a mind good…)
pcbedamned on April 10, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Not yet 100 days and nearly 1200 to go. If the country is not in ruin by then, even Jimmy Carter’s legacy will look good compared to this.
The country will either be reading Mao’s Little Red Book, or in open rebellion against a ‘wimpy’ foreign policy, irresponsible spending, a gutted military, and mandatory bicycle transportation.
Starlink on April 10, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Amen, sister!
I would like what’s left of my family to flee California first – they are always welcome in Texas.
tru2tx on April 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Damn, tough love there dude. But it’s sounded a lot like blaming the messenger to me.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Gettin’ lazy, AP?
This was drivel when you put it in the headlines earlier, and it’s still drivel from a guy I still say sounds like Art Bell’s “flamboyant” sister.
MrScribbler on April 10, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Don’t disagree with ya, but AP posts headlines in as comment threads all the time…depends on the interest level it seems.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:37 PM
It was a guess-timate (I did put a question mark. It’s a holiday and I didn’t want to look it up to be “accurate.”)
Out of the last 50 years, the GOP has held the White House for the majority of the time.
Jenfidel on April 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Now you guys have been on this site long enough to know that AP gets all depressed if he can’t stir a little venom on a daily basis. I’m just trying to give the guy his fix.
conservnut on April 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Somebody needs to take away this moron’s thesaurus. You, sir, are the “splenetic” one!
KS Rex on April 10, 2009 at 10:42 PM
AP…I normally never hit HA at night anymore thanks to you…no atheist Q of A on this day? Surely you’ll make up for it…too bad your boss sold out on real conservatism…
DCJeff on April 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Yep, I’ve been here a long time…I just don’t know how you know that AP loves venom. Do you?
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM
So let him make a “Dude” post Quote of the Day for once!
MrScribbler on April 10, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Quote of the Day from John Batchelor? Come on, you can’t be serious!
You might as well ran Sullivan’s Trig rant as the QOTD, just as insightful and relevant to the political discourse.
Norwegian on April 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM
This stuff is tiresome, send him an email or something.
msmveritas on April 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM
This is the same John Batchelor who gave us the comedic stylings of intelligence wag John Loftus pronouncing Saddam Hussein dead again and again and again, evening after evening after evening. Never correctly.
Good times.
Stephen M on April 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM
I’m all for it!
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Nonsense. Americans will be quoting from Obama’s little blue book. So named to point out to honor the states that voted the filthy traitor into office.
highhopes on April 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM
OT: Good news. The man who caused the crash that killed Adenhart has been charged with murder.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2009 at 10:55 PM
The GOP was killed by amnesty. It’s that simple and obvious, and a good many of us stated that at the time.
progressoverpeace on April 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Ronald Reagan is the politician, of those who lived in my lifetime, whom I admire most. I know that’s not the topic but that is my response to the photograph. What a guy.
aengus on April 10, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Funny how you ask a question and answer it at the same time while making the point you disagree with.
lexhamfox on April 10, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Again, you and I agree.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Terrific,
Another Kathleen Parker RINO with a radio station.
Kini on April 10, 2009 at 11:11 PM
What a great nightcap from Allah!
Nothing like a raspberry right before the congregation says “Amen”.
You (and your Mets cap) are on your own. I think there is room in the foxhole to the east of my position.
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 11:15 PM
When in doubt, sling out tired, old and racially-tinged insults comparing the GOP to Southern Confederates.
Hell…Batchelor would probably sh*t his little Yankee drawers if he had to spend even one sweltering July weekend wearing a prankish wool butternut uniform (not suit you dolt) carrying 20lbs of rifle, knapsack and bedroll.
If seen a lot of self-loathing conservatives in my day but this guy takes the cake.
The Ugly American on April 10, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Do we have an estimate of what portion of the base stayed home. I think quite a few did and I think a fair portion of the self described independents are Republicans denying association. For the most part polls, legit ones, show the country leaning right still. We do need someone to emerge from the ashes though and start articulating exactly how Obama has taken us off course.
msmveritas on April 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Here’s the thing. Ronald Reagan was the real deal. His writings on conservative principles are amazing. The filthy liar in the White House is straight out of central casting when the media declared it time for somebody different to take the role of president.
The irony is that Reagan, an actor, is more of a President and human being than the filthy liar will ever be.
highhopes on April 10, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Freakin’ turd is probably eating dinner right now using my great grandmother’s silverware.
The Ugly American on April 10, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Which reminds me…TCM is screening Two Thousand Maniacs tonight ; )
The Ugly American on April 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM
That is somewhat of a non-sequitor. Most of the base eventually voted for the rat bastard traitor (especially after he was forced to put a real Republican on the ticket as VP). Some of the base did indeed stay home but the real problem for McCain was that the base didn’t get out there and support him the way they did GWB (and why should have they done so?). He got the votes of the base but he never got their enthusiasm because he and his wing of the party does not reflect the values of the base. It was electoral engineering that foisted the bastard on the party and his minions expected to replace the base with disgruntled Democrats. What happened is the trainwreck of a Presidency that is quickly destroying the nation as we know it. We have McCain supporters for this treason as much as the idiots who voted for the filthy liar in office.
highhopes on April 10, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Ew.
Anwyn on April 10, 2009 at 11:42 PM
If Hillary had been the nominee, which she almost was, it would have been an almost tied election.
Speedwagon82 on April 10, 2009 at 11:45 PM
The
writingswhinings on the Daily Beast are becoming tiresome. They smack of a bunch of Ivy League elites practicing mental onanism with the equivalent reward.AZfederalist on April 10, 2009 at 11:47 PM
That’s not exactly something to brag about, IMO.
INC on April 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Ha ha, probably so. I guess that’s what happens when you are a rebel democrat.
Dollayo on April 10, 2009 at 11:56 PM
John Batchelor is destined to join the ranks of those who have prematurely declared the death of the old and presaged the birth of the new, with similar results.
The conservative messages of Goldwater, Friedman and Reagan make as much sense today as they did then. For various reasons, the conservative message lost resonance since the era of Reagan and it is hard to sell umbrellas on a sunny day. But the democrats are in the processes of unleashing a deluge of big government and radicalism that will fundamentally change our society as we’ve known it. So it comes a little surprise to hear of the death of conservatism and the Republican party. Batchelor may well be the perfect contra indicator and thoughtful conservatives would do well to start selling umbrellas.
moxie_neanderthal on April 10, 2009 at 11:59 PM
I think he’s having an identity crisis.
Saltysam on April 10, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Yeah, we get it…you a Civil War reenactor. I love history too and I’m a southerner, but dragging your hobby into this discussion and your display of regional pride is not going to help the point. Nothing wrong with it, but it doesn’t fit the discussion.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Meh. Was this article written in 1992? Because it could have been. I recall plenty of similar ones then.
Vashta.Nerada on April 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM
And who is that idiot Brit who runs the place? She doesn’t even have a clue what America is about. Of course, we have an Indonesian Precedent, now, so …
progressoverpeace on April 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM
I would rather take political advice from Poland’s gay elephant.
Speedwagon82 on April 11, 2009 at 12:02 AM
KP needs some teeth bleaching.
and that article was dum. what’s with his attack on poor megyn kelly?
anna on April 11, 2009 at 12:11 AM
+1!
I think the name “Reagan” makes liberals go bonkers. That’s why I try to say several hundred times a day. Like garlic to a vampire.
Branch Rickey on April 11, 2009 at 12:15 AM
I think to add to your points, McCain never confronted the issues and uncertainty about Obama that needed to be addressed. He was a terrible campaigner and it wasn’t until Palin came on board that there was any enthusiasm or real criticism of Obama.
I was just looking at a tea part blog and found two videos one where Obama is clearly caught lying about his relationship with Brzezinski. Clearly the McCain campaign should have brought this as well as many other issues to the public. It was less a matter of being gentlemanly than it was what the public should have known before they voted.
The second video I looked at there was of a college student interviewing Monica Crowley and Mika Brzezinski. Mika says some interesting things especially towards the end. Specifically she seemed concerned that people who are uninformed go out and vote giving Dems full power which will ultimately lead to a return of Republican power. She knows what is evident, I believe, to any who are looking objectively. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and Dems left unfettered are going to destroy themselves.
While it is excruciating at times to watch this administration blunder and bow, all the while needling and poking at Republicans. They are smug while they bumble and focus entirely on the wrong issues. I don’t believe this is wishful thinking on my part. It is not a matter of wanting them to fail but knowing that surely they will fail. I believe the GOP needed this time, sadly, to get back to the issues that are at the heart of Reagan’s success. It will be welcome news to those who now get to experience Carter Part II.
msmveritas on April 11, 2009 at 12:15 AM
FTW.
Viewtifulgare on April 11, 2009 at 12:15 AM
It’s not about “hobbies” and “regional pride” but rather more about respecting those of us who volunteer our time and money to teach living history to school children and the public at large.
His insults cut quite a large swath so IMO, it very much fit into the discussion.
The Ugly American on April 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM
This is why the term Conservative has retained the same meaning for much more than 232 years.
The rest is just wishful thinking.
Speakup on April 11, 2009 at 12:18 AM
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