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Posted: 1/12/2021 3:20:08 PM EDT
Link Posted: 1/12/2021 4:28:39 PM EDT
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It is just hopeless.

Nobody can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory faster than a Republican.
Link Posted: 1/12/2021 5:28:15 PM EDT
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Not that it matters, but I just sent the guy what's essentially a WTF were you thinking? email...  though as polite as I can currently generate.  You can email him too.  Link
Link Posted: 1/12/2021 7:09:35 PM EDT
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Because republicans are stupid.  

Republicans always think the other side is just misinformed and can be reasoned with if they were just to have a conversation.


Democrats think the other side is evil and must be destroyed because they can’t be reasoned with.
Link Posted: 1/12/2021 7:32:05 PM EDT
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Not that it matters, but I just sent the guy what's essentially a WTF were you thinking? email...  though as polite as I can currently generate.  You can email him too.  Link
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E mail sent

E mail Phelan, ask him to get Constitutional Carry on the floor for a vote. Also not to put Democrats as Chairs of committees critical to passing gun bills.
Link Posted: 1/12/2021 8:09:30 PM EDT
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Bonnen Jr
Link Posted: 1/12/2021 11:44:48 PM EDT
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Dennis Bonnen went into the porn business but was too lazy for the job so he hired Phelan.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 11:50:07 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/13/2021 12:52:09 PM EDT
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It is just hopeless.

Nobody can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory faster than a Republican.
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It is just hopeless.

Nobody can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory faster than a Republican.

That's their job, it seems.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 12:55:00 PM EDT
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 They are not dumb.  They just operate a little different than Dem.
 You know they are in bed together.  
 They help each other to make money together.  
 They don't give a shit about average joes.  Average joes are the stepping stone to help them getting to the top and get rich.
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Because republicans are stupid.  

Republicans always think the other side is just misinformed and can be reasoned with if they were just to have a conversation.


Democrats think the other side is evil and must be destroyed because they can’t be reasoned with.


 They are not dumb.  They just operate a little different than Dem.
 You know they are in bed together.  
 They help each other to make money together.  
 They don't give a shit about average joes.  Average joes are the stepping stone to help them getting to the top and get rich.

He means we are dumb; not the clever weasels that convince us to vote for them.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 1:59:32 PM EDT
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Because republicans are stupid.  

Republicans always think the other side is just misinformed and can be reasoned with if they were just to have a conversation.


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^^^THIS^^^

I also kind of agree with the guy above who said in reality both parties are in bed together, and it's all just a fake show for the peons.  Normally I would poo-poo that concept as paranoia but not anymore.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 2:40:02 PM EDT
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Bonnen II:  The Next Chapter
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 2:42:27 PM EDT
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I sent emails to everyone in Austin including the janitor expressing the insanity of this continuing effort at suicide.  I'm sure they can print them out and use them as toilet paper during the pandemic TP shortage.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 3:15:55 PM EDT
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Where can I find the record for who voted for him as speaker?
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 3:26:28 PM EDT
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Where can I find the record for who voted for him as speaker?

Basically everyone voted for him.  Which lends credence to the theory that it's one big incestuous party versus two parties.

From the Texas Tribune here.
The House voted 143-2 for Phelan, with four members not voting. The two members who voted against Phelan were GOP freshmen Bryan Slaton and Jeff Cason.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 3:39:22 PM EDT
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I sent emails to everyone in Austin including the janitor expressing the insanity of this continuing effort at suicide.  I'm sure they can print them out and use them as toilet paper during the pandemic TP shortage.
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Hey, don't blame the janitor, he's probably the only honest working man in the capitol.



Link Posted: 1/13/2021 3:42:43 PM EDT
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It won’t officially happen till the legislature convenes

ETA

Damn already happened. All this Trump stuff I missed it
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 3:47:00 PM EDT
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Sent him a nastygram.

Basically asking him WTF and I thought recreational MJ was still illegal in TX, so what is he smoking?

I'm tired of being nice to redcoats.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 4:24:44 PM EDT
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Does this guy have a history of being a RINO before all this?
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 6:47:26 PM EDT
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Not really, while Boner fucked up Constitutional Carry. Phelan got through allowing people to carry without a permit when evacuating. Not great, but like most of Texas gun freedoms they move in very small steps.

Texas has been letting Democrats be chairs of committees for years, the trick is not to have them of chairs of important committees.

Now is the time to send Phelan an e mail asking for a good pro gun conservative to chair the homeland security committee.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 8:53:23 PM EDT
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Now is the time to send Phelan an e mail asking for a good pro gun conservative to chair the homeland security committee.
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Done.
Link Posted: 1/13/2021 9:57:26 PM EDT
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Got to realize, the Judges get contributions and that make their rulings what they are......or there is nepotism ....witness that, little me got into Dist. Court where the adverse attny  / judge were about to French kiss !   Well, guess who worked me over?  two or so years later an honest exiting attny explained those love bugs... the attny suing me had hired a  little fart attny that was the judge son in law....  wat a deal..!!!!.. well, after a staged drma or so, I suffered  the verdict  put me in bankruptcy.... did not file for it, but it was that !   They are all playtime pals, never answer for their doings..... they love their stage plays, payola, fringe bribes, you name it !  what a gig !   the media is a lap puppy dog for them.... am too old to worry more, as folks only fix what they  feel .... and therefore should get it good and hard !  Thanks, Ben Phuked
Link Posted: 1/14/2021 11:01:05 AM EDT
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I hope he doesn't let them chair any committees pertaining to redistricting or election security/process.
We're completely screwed if he does either of those.
Link Posted: 1/14/2021 5:55:36 PM EDT
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We're completely screwed if he does either of those.
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Send Phelan an e mail then!
Link Posted: 1/14/2021 6:16:34 PM EDT
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Email sent.
Link Posted: 1/15/2021 10:46:59 PM EDT
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After what we have gone through he is out of his fucking mind.

Not fit to be a Texan
Link Posted: 1/16/2021 12:16:49 AM EDT
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Well, he did graduate from UT Austin, so...  yeah.  
Link Posted: 1/16/2021 6:02:37 AM EDT
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I sent him an email.
Link Posted: 1/16/2021 3:00:15 PM EDT
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His reply.  

That’s a great idea on how we can better diversify TX.
I will implement that post haste.  

F this guy.  
Constitutional carry has no chance again.  

What are our reps thinking?
Link Posted: 1/16/2021 3:15:47 PM EDT
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Our Republicans are the worst.  It is like they are all cut from the Romney/McCain/Cornyn cloth.

Link Posted: 1/16/2021 5:23:12 PM EDT
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That’s a great idea on how we can better diversify TX.
I will implement that post haste.  

F this guy.  
Constitutional carry has no chance again.  

What are our reps thinking?
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So did you send Phelan an email? Asking to help get Constitutional Carry on the floor for a vote, and asking for a pro-gun conservative to be Homeland Security chair?  If not you are as big a part of the problem as the DUMBocrats.
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 10:01:19 AM EDT
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That’s a great idea on how we can better diversify TX.
I will implement that post haste.  

F this guy.  
Constitutional carry has no chance again.  

What are our reps thinking?
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WTF? Diversify Texas? We don't need political diversity in Texas, the democrats are ruining shit and have been taking freedoms for decades!!

This fucker is no conservative.
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 12:05:12 PM EDT
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WTF? Diversify Texas? We don't need political diversity in Texas, the democrats are ruining shit and have been taking freedoms for decades!!

This fucker is no conservative.
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So really he acknowledges their only goal is to sell us out and bring in more foreigners and Californians to make them rich and turn us blue while the rest of us suffer the consequences.  

It only happened so fast in Georgia with Hollyweird because the state was smaller.  It is taking more time here because of all of our mid-sized cities.
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 12:44:35 PM EDT
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WTF? Diversify Texas? We don't need political diversity in Texas, the democrats are ruining shit and have been taking freedoms for decades!!

This fucker is no conservative.
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That’s a great idea on how we can better diversify TX.
I will implement that post haste.  

F this guy.  
Constitutional carry has no chance again.  

What are our reps thinking?



WTF? Diversify Texas? We don't need political diversity in Texas, the democrats are ruining shit and have been taking freedoms for decades!!

This fucker is no conservative.



Have you guys even e mailed Phelan asking if he would do what he could to get a floor vote on Constitutional Carry? I bet if he got 300-400 e mails he would pay attention. Same with a pro-gun chair of the Homeland Security committee.

Or are you just going to scream and cry here? Maybe you should look at Phelan’s voting/bill sponsoring record. It is not too bad. He was the sponsor of the bill that allows Constitutional Carry when evacuating from a declared emergency.
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 1:24:59 PM EDT
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Because every single damned politician is a complete, worthless, lying scumbag.

Therefor, they fuck over everyone except themselves, since that is the only person they ever actually represent.

They are all scumbag liars.
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 1:25:42 PM EDT
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So really he acknowledges their only goal is to sell us out and bring in more foreigners and Californians to make them rich and turn us blue while the rest of us suffer the consequences.  

It only happened so fast in Georgia with Hollyweird because the state was smaller.  It is taking more time here because of all of our mid-sized cities.
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This man gets it....
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 7:00:45 PM EDT
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Because republicans are stupid.  

Republicans always think the other side is just misinformed and can be reasoned with if they were just to have a conversation.


Democrats think the other side is evil and must be destroyed because they can’t be reasoned with.
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So basically, they have it backwards. Democrats are evil and Republicans are stupid.
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 7:29:11 PM EDT
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Well, he did graduate from UT Austin, so...  yeah.  
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After what we have gone through he is out of his fucking mind.

Well, he did graduate from UT Austin, so...  yeah.  

Fucking TU
Link Posted: 1/17/2021 9:46:01 PM EDT
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I emailed him tonight and will post his response.
Link Posted: 1/18/2021 8:44:57 AM EDT
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Have you guys even e mailed Phelan asking if he would do what he could to get a floor vote on Constitutional Carry? I bet if he got 300-400 e mails he would pay attention. Same with a pro-gun chair of the Homeland Security committee.

Or are you just going to scream and cry here? Maybe you should look at Phelan’s voting/bill sponsoring record. It is not too bad. He was the sponsor of the bill that allows Constitutional Carry when evacuating from a declared emergency.
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That’s a great idea on how we can better diversify TX.
I will implement that post haste.  

F this guy.  
Constitutional carry has no chance again.  

What are our reps thinking?



WTF? Diversify Texas? We don't need political diversity in Texas, the democrats are ruining shit and have been taking freedoms for decades!!

This fucker is no conservative.



Have you guys even e mailed Phelan asking if he would do what he could to get a floor vote on Constitutional Carry? I bet if he got 300-400 e mails he would pay attention. Same with a pro-gun chair of the Homeland Security committee.

Or are you just going to scream and cry here? Maybe you should look at Phelan’s voting/bill sponsoring record. It is not too bad. He was the sponsor of the bill that allows Constitutional Carry when evacuating from a declared emergency.



Emailed. Lets see how much of a RINO this guy is.  With him foolishly putting Democrats in powerful committee chair positions so they can kill any pro freedom bills he's already shown he's at least politically purple.
Link Posted: 1/18/2021 9:38:29 AM EDT
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Emailed. Lets see how much of a RINO this guy is.  With him foolishly putting Democrats in powerful committee chair positions so they can kill any pro freedom bills he's already shown he's at least politically purple.
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That’s a great idea on how we can better diversify TX.
I will implement that post haste.  

F this guy.  
Constitutional carry has no chance again.  

What are our reps thinking?



WTF? Diversify Texas? We don't need political diversity in Texas, the democrats are ruining shit and have been taking freedoms for decades!!

This fucker is no conservative.



Have you guys even e mailed Phelan asking if he would do what he could to get a floor vote on Constitutional Carry? I bet if he got 300-400 e mails he would pay attention. Same with a pro-gun chair of the Homeland Security committee.

Or are you just going to scream and cry here? Maybe you should look at Phelan’s voting/bill sponsoring record. It is not too bad. He was the sponsor of the bill that allows Constitutional Carry when evacuating from a declared emergency.



Emailed. Lets see how much of a RINO this guy is.  With him foolishly putting Democrats in powerful committee chair positions so they can kill any pro freedom bills he's already shown he's at least politically purple.


Dude, Phelan has not placed any chairs yet, at least not formally. Every speaker has had a few Democrats as chairs. Now many of these were went Texas had some reasonable Blue Dog Democrats. It was Boner who put an anti-gun Democrat in charge of Homeland Security committee, and we still got pro gun bills through including a bill Phelan authored.

Boner also did not want Constitutional Carry passed, that is why he lied about what the bill did. Phelan never lied about Constitutional Carry and he authored and got passed a ‘Constitutional Carry light’ bill. Which is to me a good sign.
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Dude, Phelan has not placed any chairs yet, at least not formally. Every speaker has had a few Democrats as chairs. Now many of these were went Texas had some reasonable Blue Dog Democrats. It was Boner who put an anti-gun Democrat in charge of Homeland Security committee, and we still got pro gun bills through including a bill Phelan authored.

Boner also did not want Constitutional Carry passed, that is why he lied about what the bill did. Phelan never lied about Constitutional Carry and he authored and got passed a ‘Constitutional Carry light’ bill. Which is to me a good sign.
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I so hope you're right, Don, but faith in elected officials in recent years...especially Republicans...has been a huge disappointment.  Democrats have always gone for the throat, and it has worked for them.  I hate to say it, but I think the only solution is to do the same and go scorched earth on democrats.  Sounds terrible, but you treat cancer with extreme surgery and chemo.  Democrats are cancer.
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Dude, Phelan has not placed any chairs yet, at least not formally. Every speaker has had a few Democrats as chairs. Now many of these were went Texas had some reasonable Blue Dog Democrats. It was Boner who put an anti-gun Democrat in charge of Homeland Security committee, and we still got pro gun bills through including a bill Phelan authored.

Boner also did not want Constitutional Carry passed, that is why he lied about what the bill did. Phelan never lied about Constitutional Carry and he authored and got passed a ‘Constitutional Carry light’ bill. Which is to me a good sign.
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That’s a great idea on how we can better diversify TX.
I will implement that post haste.  

F this guy.  
Constitutional carry has no chance again.  

What are our reps thinking?



WTF? Diversify Texas? We don't need political diversity in Texas, the democrats are ruining shit and have been taking freedoms for decades!!

This fucker is no conservative.



Have you guys even e mailed Phelan asking if he would do what he could to get a floor vote on Constitutional Carry? I bet if he got 300-400 e mails he would pay attention. Same with a pro-gun chair of the Homeland Security committee.

Or are you just going to scream and cry here? Maybe you should look at Phelan’s voting/bill sponsoring record. It is not too bad. He was the sponsor of the bill that allows Constitutional Carry when evacuating from a declared emergency.



Emailed. Lets see how much of a RINO this guy is.  With him foolishly putting Democrats in powerful committee chair positions so they can kill any pro freedom bills he's already shown he's at least politically purple.


Dude, Phelan has not placed any chairs yet, at least not formally. Every speaker has had a few Democrats as chairs. Now many of these were went Texas had some reasonable Blue Dog Democrats. It was Boner who put an anti-gun Democrat in charge of Homeland Security committee, and we still got pro gun bills through including a bill Phelan authored.

Boner also did not want Constitutional Carry passed, that is why he lied about what the bill did. Phelan never lied about Constitutional Carry and he authored and got passed a ‘Constitutional Carry light’ bill. Which is to me a good sign.

Go on...
Link Posted: 1/18/2021 12:58:57 PM EDT
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I emailed him. I’m expecting the normal squishy political response.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 1:28:31 AM EDT
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If anyone read my “his reply” comment and took that seriously my apologies I though the post haste and diversity comment would ping the sarcasm meters here.
I suppose I should not have made fun of a serious topic.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 2:25:04 AM EDT
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This may be our best chance to get Constitutional Carry passed. The Republicans lost no seats in the last election, it is a plank in the Texas Republican Party, we have a speaker who is honestly friendly to gun rights, having been the sponsor of gun fights bills.

Keep up e mail Phelan asking for a floor vote and to appoint a pro-gun chair to Homeland Security. Don’t expect a response but his office staff is adding up how many are for and how many are against.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 12:20:14 PM EDT
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I emailed him 8 days ago...  still no reply.  I guess I should have used monosyllabic words and shorter sentences.
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Seriously, legislators and their staff REALLY appreciate it when people get directly to the point.  Not saying you should use crayons to draw pictures, but keeping your message very succinct will likely be much appreciated.
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Seriously, legislators and their staff REALLY appreciate it when people get directly to the point.  Not saying you should use crayons to draw pictures, but keeping your message very succinct will likely be much appreciated.
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I emailed him 8 days ago...  still no reply.  I guess I should have used monosyllabic words and shorter sentences.


Seriously, legislators and their staff REALLY appreciate it when people get directly to the point.  Not saying you should use crayons to draw pictures, but keeping your message very succinct will likely be much appreciated.


Keep e mails to 2-4 lines. The e mail I sent covered two related topics and I kept it to 3 short lines. The two things I asked for was doing as much as possible to get a floor vote on Constitutional Carry and to make sure we get a pro-gun chair of the Homeland Security committee.

I never expected an answer, but I can 99.999% sure Phelan’s office is making ‘tic marks’ on each item.
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I keep it to about 5 sentences, usually less.  

tl:dr applies outside of GD
Link Posted: 2/25/2021 3:51:07 PM EDT
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Finally got a letter today from Phelan on the email I sent back in mid Jan about this issue.  

His response is essentially a "fuck off".
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