What a piece of shit (politics)

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux) 04/14/2020 at 22:45 • Filed to: coronavirus

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This egomaniac keeps finding new ways to make life hell on poor people.

Who do you think doesn’t get direct deposit on tax returns, and thus are desperately waiting on checks? Poor people. Who around the world are hoping the WHO can coordinate virus response and help collate and distribute data and research results? All the people, but especially people from poor countries with inadequate governments.

Go fuck yourself, Trump.

jimz > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 22:52

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jminer > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 22:56

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Fuck that motherfucker.

I can’t tell you how much I was hoping he’d sit back and let the experts handle this and not fuck it up, but goddamn at every fucking turn he’s done this.

This goes way beyond politics and is some combination of ineptitude and malice towards all.

RPM esq. > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 22:58

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Wait till you read about how receiving direct-deposit banks can seize  assistance checks to pay existing debts whether or not they’re supposed to be collecting them.

Just Jeepin' > RPM esq. 04/14/2020 at 23:00

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Jeez. The hits just keep o n coming.

CB > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 23:01

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I have one Republican friend who is trying to defend the cutting of funding to WHO, saying the leadership is corrupt by something something protecting Chinese interests I don’t quite understand.

In any case, I’m not particularly interested in getting into a fight on Facebook.

Svend > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 23:04

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If he gets in again after all this crap, I swear I’m going to go f**king mental.

How people can still think the sun shines out his arse is so far beyond me, I’d understand the meaning of life first. 

Just Jeepin' > CB 04/14/2020 at 23:04

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Let’s say they’re corrupt. Cut the funding after the crisis is over. 

Just Jeepin' > Svend 04/14/2020 at 23:06

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It took me weeks before I could stomach looking at the news after the 201 6 election. I can’t imagine this all over again. 

boredalways > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 23:07

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You’re too kind calling him a POS. He is a cunt. A cunt that threatens the lives of innocent children:

https://www.propublica.org/article/at-least-19-children-at-a-chicago-shelter-for-immigrant-detainees-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19

CB > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 23:14

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That was my argument.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer 04/14/2020 at 23:24

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Don’t mince your words. Tell us how you really feel.

Trump hates everyone who isn’t Trump. I think he even hates his supplicants.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > boredalways 04/14/2020 at 23:25

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Dude: that c-word is really sexist and you could definitely think of a better one. And besides, it’s vague.

fintail > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 23:27

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I like his “mutiny” bullshit today. I hope it ends like Mutiny on the Bounty for him.

45 is a disease.

And nobody should forget this:

Nick Has an Exocet > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 23:27

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WHO doesn’t get a weekly paycheck from the US government. Announcing that we’re going to cut funding is just a negotiation signal. People overreacting to this have zero concept of how NGO’s/Government operate. 

Svend > Just Jeepin' 04/14/2020 at 23:28

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It’s the way he f**ks up and people say, yay, look at what he’s done, he’s great’.

Then he lies, the media and people say he’s lying, he and his supporters say, ‘fake news’, then he’s found to of said it on tape, in a video or footage of him saying the lie to hundreds of people, his supporters still say, ‘fake news’. Then it’s forgotten about until next time, but it’s not ever really forgotten, because it’s never long enough to be forgotten, sometimes a month, sometimes a week, sometimes even a day.

166 democratic countries in the world, one being America, the other 165 looking at America, shouting and screaming at hearing any news from America, ‘what the hell are yo u doing?’.

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/14/2020 at 23:29

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Applies better to that daughter of his (the one who married into a glorified crime family) . Feckless, too.

Oddly enough, also to his sons.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > boredalways 04/14/2020 at 23:30

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Yes, but in his eyes they weren’t going to do anything in the next few weeks to bring up the DJIA, so fuck ‘em. Like senior citizens, they’re just a financial drain on the system and thus expendable.

/S, if it wasn’t obvious.

I’ve been playing a lot of (too much?) Just Cause 3 on the computer lately. Yesterday I was having fun with it by not shooting my enemies but using ropes to grapple them and launch them firmly into the sides of buildings or into burning vehicles. And when I went to sleep last night my dreams involved these same things, albeit with Trump the one being flung 100m into the air, against the sides of buildings, hit with Hellfire missiles and run over by tanks. I was a little surprised by this as I usually have very nice, happy dreams, but this current situation has me pissed off to no end, with all the talk of TV ratings and endless ass-kissing and demanding of apologies by his lickspittle sycophants for daring to criticize The Anointed One.

And here’s a little something  forwarded to me by my aunt:

Just Jeepin' > Nick Has an Exocet 04/14/2020 at 23:35

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Even so, the way he spouts this bulls hit has consequences. When he talks down NATO, he emboldens Russia. When he encourages violence against the media, or protestors, he emboldens people who just need that little push.

Telling the world that the WHO deserves to be cut off in the middle of a crisis does no one any good.

jimz > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/14/2020 at 23:39

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a bit of irony in that it reminds me of some of Adam Carrolla’s lines from the Man Show.  “I would rather pack my rectum with M80s and squat over a flaming hibachi...”

jimz > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/14/2020 at 23:40

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Except for Ivanka, Don Jr, and maybe Jared. 

jimz > Svend 04/14/2020 at 23:41

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How people can still think the sun shines out his arse is so far beyond me, I’d understand the meaning of life first.

because their opinion of how he’s handled this has been filtered through Fox News first. They aren’t judging it based on what he’s said and done, they’re judging it based on what Hannity, Fox & Friends, and Tucker Carlson say  he has said and done. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 04/14/2020 at 23:51

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I am not willing to go there for to do so would be to surrender a measure of my personal integrity.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 04/14/2020 at 23:53

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Plenty of sound bites for Uncle Joe to use in his campaign.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jimz 04/14/2020 at 23:55

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No, I think he sees them as necessary and valuable, not anyone to love or cherish or admire.

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/14/2020 at 23:55

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I was thinking something similar today - this whole gongshow is just made for campaign ads. Opposition campaign ads.

If the Ds play “civil” again, I don’t know.

fintail > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/15/2020 at 00:00

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I own my assholery :)

Svend > jimz 04/15/2020 at 00:08

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But there is more than one news outlet in the U.S. They surely can’t all just watch the same one.

Fox News isn’t news, it’s like the presidency, it’s a very poor joke in very poor taste. In short, it’s a catastrophic shit show. 

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/15/2020 at 00:15

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We’re now over a month into this chaos that in large part due to his fucking around is way worse than it had to be.

*disclaimer - my wife has spent her career in Public Health Education/Policy/Outreach and every day she gets more and more furious about how badly this has been handled.

wafflesnfalafel > Svend 04/15/2020 at 00:21

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yep, very frustrating - just one more thing not to forget.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > fintail 04/15/2020 at 00:21

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Gongshow: lol

atfsgeoff > Just Jeepin' 04/15/2020 at 00:23

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From Trump’s perspective, WHO is sucking China’s dick while also doing shit for the US, so of course he wants to cut funding to it. This is not an unexpected move. 

As for the stimulus checks being possibly delayed because of a printed memo on the checks, I call shenanigans. It takes an extra 10 seconds to type in the memo on the check template before hitting the run button. I’ll grant you that it’s pretty narcissistic to for him to insist on putting his name on all the checks though. In the washington post article that newsweek cited but neglected to link to, treasury officials dispute the claim that it would cause any delays.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer 04/15/2020 at 00:25

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It's bad.

VincentMalamute-Kim > fintail 04/15/2020 at 00:26

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Good one.  Caused me to google: 

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-the-coronavirus/

Svend > wafflesnfalafel 04/15/2020 at 00:36

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He’s not even my monarch or prime minister of my country, I’m just someone outside the country looking in screaming, ‘you can do better than this, you need to do better than this’.

I want to forget it, I want to forget it ever happened.

But even when this is all over, America will still have to pay for his secret service detail, etc... like any other living former president. That’s a real kick in the arse because I want to see him on skid row thinking what happened, what went wrong, etc... 

fintail > VincentMalamute-Kim 04/15/2020 at 00:39

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Nice link, I am sure the base thinks the site is D propaganda.  It seems the last few weeks would provide at least a few gigs of similar material.

boredalways > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/15/2020 at 00:50

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I only use the C-word on sad ass excuses for men. Like yourself and many others, I will not use on women (nor the B-word). The way he has treated women alone — his insecurities, his fecklessness, his lies, his greed, his cruelty, his bigotry and racism — he deserves to be addressed with a word so abhorrent.  Fuck. Him.

Although we disagree on the usage, I respect your opinion.  And I would gladly defend it.

wafflesnfalafel > Svend 04/15/2020 at 00:51

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but if you are in the market for a condo, just ring him up and he’ll make you a deal

jimz > Svend 04/15/2020 at 00:52

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But there is more than one news outlet in the U. S. They surely can’t all just watch the same one.

Oh yes, yes they do. Those other news outlets are too “liberal biased” for them. That feeling has been running through that mindset since at least the Reagan years. it wasn’t until Limbaugh broke out that Murdoch realized there was a lot of money to be made telling aging middle class white people that “yes, the media is a bunch of liberals, but here we are to find out the REAL TRUTH for you!”

and he’s been laughing all the way to the bank ever since.  

Svend > wafflesnfalafel 04/15/2020 at 01:00

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I wouldn’t trust him to sell me a bag of shite if I asked for a bag of shite, knowing all he sells is bags of shite. :) 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > boredalways 04/15/2020 at 01:01

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I mean, when you get right down to it, the word for the guy at the bottom of the heap, the most awful word is a quintessentially female word. I won't come to your barricade over it, but I think you could express yourself more effectively, if nothing else. The man is uniquely awful, an abject bully and has no redeeming quality that I can identify. And he is failing and he's catching a whiff of that fact now, though he is being propped up by his supplicants.

boredalways > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/15/2020 at 01:02

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Damnit, now I'm going to be dreaming of that tonight

Nick Has an Exocet > Just Jeepin' 04/15/2020 at 01:10

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The guy literally wrote a book on negotiation then people act surprised when he negotiates. I’m still waiting for someone to tell me what effect this has on WHO/world. 

boredalways > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/15/2020 at 01:18

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I get real angry when adults hurt children. I do my best to keep that anger under control so I try hard not to go past asshole level.

To paraphrase what you said, the qui ntessential American female insult so I turn a phrase and use it on disgusting “men” because they will be the first one to say it to a woman when they can’t get their way.

Curious, which insulting word(s) would you find more suitable?

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > jminer 04/15/2020 at 01:18

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A month and a half and testing is still maxed out and isn’t likely To increase for some time as the chemicals to make the tests are maxed out.

Svend > jimz 04/15/2020 at 01:28

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But when every other news outlet is going against what they are saying, they can’t all be wrong. Even a simple Google search would show that Fox News, isn’t news. 

It drives m e mad. 

DipodomysDeserti > Nick Has an Exocet 04/15/2020 at 02:09

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Trump did not literally write a book. I thought everyone knew this?

I think most people are worried that a guy with so maybe failed businesses under his belt might not be quite as good at negotiating as he thinks.

DipodomysDeserti > Nick Has an Exocet 04/15/2020 at 02:50

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“People overreacting to this have zero concept of how NGO’s/Government operate.”

To be fair, you can probably include the president in this category, along with people downplaying the move. I just checked their books and our base dues are around $60mil USD and $60mil CHF. We also give a shit ton of voluntary funds, which they’re about to ask for. The US makes up 15% of their budget. If you’re running an organization and you know 15% ain’t gonna be there next year, it’s going to cause some problem even in ideal circumstances.

Despite all that, Trump isn’t wrong in calling out WHO.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Svend 04/15/2020 at 07:18

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He’ll get reelected .

Just Jeepin' > Nick Has an Exocet 04/15/2020 at 07:54

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Ok, let’s spitball the impacts here.

Most immediate impact: people here and elsewhere, many of whom are already inclined to believe conspiracy theories, place even less credence in the advice from WHO. That suspicion of scientific expertise is something Trump and the GOP have already been cultivating for years, and is right now literally killing people.

Current and future Trump wannabes have it reinforced that cutting off and demonizing the international organization responsible for responding to is a legitimate political tactic. This will kill people in the future.

Fuck it. The real problem here is that Trump doesn’t give a shit about the trickle of money we give the WHO. Like him signing the subsidy checks, he never spends his own money on anything that benefits other people.

The problem is that this isn’t negotiation . T his is political maneuvering, pandering to his base, trying to find a scapegoat for his own colossal ignorance of how this pandemic was spreading in January and February and his litany of missteps along the way.

He’s encouraging people to suffer and die so that he can get reelected.

jimz > Svend 04/15/2020 at 08:01

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People want the warm comfort of being told they’re right, rather than face the cold reality that they might have been wrong.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > boredalways 04/15/2020 at 08:12

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Oh, I don't know, pencildick? The man is uniquely awful.

boredalways > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/15/2020 at 08:21

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*gigglesnort* I know you have something better

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > boredalways 04/15/2020 at 08:31

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I really don’t have any others. Like they say about learning to write effectively: less is more. Fewer adjectives, avoid using the word “it.” Be specific. The c-word, as I opined from the start, is weak because it’s vague. And misogynistic. President Trump exists to rile people and garner attention for himself. That’s all he lives for. He does it by being offensive. I refuse to return the favor.

Are you folding yet?

boredalways > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/15/2020 at 08:40

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Not sure if I'm going to be able to, mainly because I don't have a freed up PC to do so right now.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > boredalways 04/15/2020 at 09:21

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You can set it to run when the PC is idle.

avalonian > Just Jeepin' 04/15/2020 at 09:27

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Ya know what the real unfortunate part is. Folks who double down on their mistakes, I’m only a 24 year old male who makes meh money and is the only one working in my household. So I would love this 1,200 dollars. However, the scary part is everything I feel will come attached to this “stimulus “ to the people. We might have to pay it back or something, and folks really need this money. 2 trillion dollars and the max folks can get individually is 1,200 dollars. That’s a bit wild to me. In order for this to really help people that amount needs to be somewhere in the 5-10 thousand dollar range if folks are not gonna be working for 6+ months with the way it’s looking. Yet, we sit here with people who say “ appreciate what you’re getting etc...” the notion that we are not all in the same boat, but on different parts is crazy. Once this goes on past july, which it probably will due to the way things are handled. It will be insane unemployment, houses being los t and over all chaos. I just found out when I went to pa y my mortgage and make a smaller payment. It said, we can give you 3-6 months of deferment of payment, but the WHOLE TOTAL balance will be due at the end of it. So they are not extending the payments to the end of your loans. They are expecting folks to make 5-6 thousand dollar payments at 1 time, to be caught up. Now if you are unemployed for that long of a period, wtf is 1,200 dollars gonna do let alone with electricity water internet groceries etc.... I have a reasonably priced home in the suburbs of Georgia. With a 1500 dollar a month mortgage, that 1200 doesn’t pay anything. But companies with huge incomes that did not manage their funds correctly are supposed to get billions and billions?! I don’t know what to say, but I’m just some young guy.....

boredalways > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/15/2020 at 09:33

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Oh.  Then I will look into it later today.  Thanks.

Just Jeepin' > avalonian 04/15/2020 at 09:37

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Unfortunately there’s a pretty dramatic shortage of good ways to tackle the mess we find ourselves in;  we’ll be inundated with bad ideas and their consequences for years to come.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > boredalways 04/15/2020 at 09:45

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You are a good dude. I appreciate the dialogue.

Svend > jimz 04/15/2020 at 10:26

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Well that is sheer madness. 

VincentMalamute-Kim > fintail 04/15/2020 at 12:24

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Good point. So I googled for an assessment of Factcheck.org’s bias.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/factcheckorg-media-bias

Your point still stands as the base will still regard any criticism as fake news, hoax, lies, attempt at re-impeachment.

fintail > VincentMalamute-Kim 04/15/2020 at 12:44

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Fortunately, quotes are hard to fake, either they were said or not, easy to prove.

And indeed, any negative words are some kind of media conspiracy.

VincentMalamute-Kim > fintail 04/15/2020 at 12:52

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You would think recorded quotes would be especially damning. Not true with Orange Moron. “I have complete authority over the states” on Monday. “I will work with the governors on a plan” on Tuesday after his staff pleaded with him to learn a civics fact or two.

No embarrassment, just carry on like nothing happened. And everyone accepts it.

fintail > VincentMalamute-Kim 04/15/2020 at 13:05

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I love how “states rights” are holy and sacred until they get in the way of bluster.

The base will accept virtually anything, including their own demise, just to stick it to the “coastal elites”. No mention that their messiah is an inheritance-elite real estate speculator and reality show host from Manhattan,

VincentMalamute-Kim > fintail 04/15/2020 at 13:22

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yeah, that too!