Donald Trump’s Reality TV Secretary Kristi Noem

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Derik Schneider

” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristie Noem flies to El Salvador for maybe the most disgusting propaganda event in political history”

Source:David Pakman Show with a look at U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. I guess she’s trying to show everyone how “fabulous” she is.

From the David Pakman Show

“Kristi Noem’s latest promotional video is making waves, and not just because of its message. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem filmed a controversial advertisement inside El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, warning undocumented immigrants of severe consequences. While some praised her stance, others chastised her rhetoric…

From The Economic Times

The New Democrat was talking about then Governor Kristi Noem a year ago when she was under consideration to be Donald Trump’s VP nominee and that doggone (pun intended) story broke about her:

“My theory for why Kristi Noem decided to do this, is she’s a much smarter politician than she seems to want anyone whose not inside of her South Dakota circle to know. I think she believes that Donald Trump is a loser, whose going down, because he’s going to lose overwhelmingly with women. And even lose too many Republicans with all his legal baggage, including the fact he could be a two-time convicted felon before election day in November and that will make it too hard for him to beat President Biden in November. And she doesn’t want to be part of that electoral catastrophe. And she sure as hell doesn’t want to get blamed for it. But that’s my theory.”

From The New Democrat

I would’ve thought that with David Pakman’s political satiric background, especially when talking about right-wingers, that he would’ve jumped all over Secretary Kristi Noem’s independent woman of MAGA, reality TV persona here. I mean I thought he would’ve jumped in there like a horse who hasn’t had anything to drink in a few days, would jump into a lake. But, no, he just gave us a left-wing take on how these suspected Latin American terrorists and gangbangers, are being treated by Trump Administration.

Unless you are a hardcore leftist, who’s not a fan of law enforcement to begin with, very hard to feel sorry for how these prisoners are being treated right now. And I’m saying this as someone who doesn’t approve of the President’s use Alien Enemies Act here.

So as Secretary Noem filmed her little independent, straight to home video, need to stay up to 4AM (unless you record it) c-film, from El Salvador, she does that by flaunting her $60,000 Rolex watch.

From recent reports I’ve been seeing, including from The Street, Kristi Noem’s net worth is somewhere around a million dollars. She’s 53 years old, her current salary as Secretary of Homeland Security is $246,000 a year. Could she have taken $50,000 dollars out her checking or savings account to pay for a watch, she may only where a few times this year? Sure. But that would be the smoking gun that you would need to see that she’s not a fiscal conservative and that she doesn’t believe in fiscal responsibility… even with her own money. But I would want to see proof that she bought this watch with her own money and not just take someone’s word on that before I believed it.

So the question here is did she really pay for that watch herself? I mean we’re talking about a middle-age woman (even though she still looks and acts like a little girl) who has a fairly modest net worth, especially compared with her fellow cabinet officials, perhaps spending $50,000 of her own money, on a Rolex, she may only wear a handful of times, even as Secretary of DHS.

Or, it was given to Secretary Noem as a gift by someone else who does have that kind of money to spend on watches. And perhaps that person wants influence with the Trump Administration. And if that watch is a gift, she would have to report that gift to the Office of Government Ethics as an executive branch employee.

But this little film that DHS did here… that’s all it was. Imagine Newsmax, or FOX putting together their own reality TV show for their MAGA audiences, this is what it would look like. People pretending to be for the common man (and perhaps just man) while they’re flaunting their high-end wardrobes, living in mansions, driving foreign luxury and sports cars… their expensive lifestyles. With wannabe reality TV star Kristi Noem perhaps as the star of it. But Majorie T. Greene, Lauren Boebert, Alina Habba, Pete Hegseth, (drunk or sober) Dan Bongino, The Kashman Patel, perhaps Joe Rogan, making weekly appearances on Cowboy Patriots For America. (Or whatever the hell it would be called) But that’s all it would be, just another show calling itself reality TV.

Does anyone who is currently sane, sober, and intelligent, (who isn’t 1 of Pete Hegseth’s drinking buddies) think this little c-film from Noem Productions, are going to to prevent Latin gangbangers and terrorists, as well as just innocent people from those countries, who are simply trying to escape the poverty and crime of those countries, from trying to come to America, legally, or illegally? Anyone want to make that bet?

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Katrina Szish & Bob Sellers: BREAKING: President Trump Withdraws Elise Stefanik’s UN Nomination Due to House Majority

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Rik Schneider

“President Donald Trump has withdrawn the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik to be Ambassador to the United Nations due to the slim House GOP majority. NEWSMAX’s Kilmeny Duchardt reports details.”

Source:Newsmax with a look at U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (MAGA, New York)

From Newsmax

From the President of the United States:

“As we advance our America First Agenda, it is essential that we maintain EVERY Republican Seat in Congress. We must be unified to accomplish our Mission, and Elise Stefanik has been a vital part of our efforts from the very beginning. I have asked Elise, as one of my biggest Allies, to remain in Congress to help me deliver Historic Tax Cuts, GREAT Jobs, Record Economic Growth, a Secure Border, Energy Dominance, Peace Through Strength, and much more, so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. With a very tight Majority, I don’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat. The people love Elise and, with her, we have nothing to worry about come Election Day. There are others that can do a good job at the United Nations. Therefore, Elise will stay in Congress, rejoin the House Leadership Team, and continue to fight for our amazing American People. Speaker Johnson is thrilled! I look forward to the day when Elise is able to join my Administration in the future. She is absolutely FANTASTIC. Thank you Elise!”

From Donald J. Trump

Just a point of clarification first: Katrina Szsih said:

“So what might have sounded like some type of scandal, is not that all. This is about Elise Stefanik keeping her seat in Congress”.

I get this is Newsmax and I don’t expect them to really give me any facts whatsoever, let alone even a few of them, or most of them, let alone all of them. And getting news from them, is like lying down in the street searching for water because you are thirsty. But their reporter Kelly Dukart said:

“Republicans are not willing to take a chance on her (meaning U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik) seat with their narrow majority in the House of Representatives…

“Republicans not willing to take a chance on her seat with their narrow House majority”, that’s the key line here. And you heard it from Newsmax, before you want to blame it on “legacy media”, the “liberal media”, “the left-wing media”, etc.

House Republicans have 2 seat majority right now in the House of Representatives. Think about that: Out of 234 seats, they only have 219 seats. Donald Trump is unpopular, Democrats are winning legislative seats in Pennsylvania in other places where Donald Trump won those districts by 15-20 points.

House Republicans lose Matt Gaetz’s Florida seat (and I’m not predicting that they will) and then Elise Sefanik gets to the United Nations and the Governor of New York (Kathy Hochul) would call for a special election for her seat as well and maybe that’s this summer and that’s Northeastern New York , where Democrats are competitive… The White House right now is doing political damage control right now and trying to hold back what could be a perfect political storm for the Democrats for the rest of 25 and going into 2026.

So Katrina Szish might be technically right when she say’s President Trump withdrawing Representative Stefanik’s name for the United Nations Ambassador, is not a “scandal”. But The White House is simply trying to contain a potentially major political fire for themselves.

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Representative Jasmine Crocket Gets Backlash From The Left For Her Hot Mess

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Erik Schneider

“Robby Soave and Lynda Tran react to “The View” hosts scolding Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-T.X) over her comments about Texas Governor Greg Abbott.”

Source:The Hill with a look at U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (Democrat, Texas)

From The Hill

“Backlash Over Rep. Crockett’s Gov. Abbott Comments”

Source:The View with a look at U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (Democrat, Texas)

From The View

U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett’s (Democrat, Texas) own words about Government Greg Abbot:

“Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there,” Crockett said. “And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot (expletive) mess, honey.”

And then Representative Crockett trying to clean up the manure she dumped in the kitchen. This is why you never let your horse into your house. You can imagine how well that went:

“I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable,” Crockett wrote on X.”

From USA Today

Just yesterday from The New Democrat on social media was talking about who Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham was talking about how The White House was handling Signal Gate: “Seriously: even freakin Laura Ingraham is asking questions like: “How did a journalist get added to a Signal group chat among top Trump officials discussing a U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen?” When even Fox News knows MAGA is screwing up… you know they screwed up.”

From The New Democrat

And now today, The View (which is like MSNBC daytime in the primetime) is talking about how Representative Crockett screwed up in how she not just got caught mocking Governor Greg Abbott (Republican, Texas) who is a paraplegic, but how she tried to explain her comment and tried to deny what she knew she did.

Representative Crockett saying she didn’t know Governor Abbot was a paraplegic… imagine being caught on video tape trying to walk out with a coat at a department store, or something and of course you get caught doing that and your response is something like: “That wasn’t me. That must have been my twin”. And you don’t even have a twin. I mean she’s from Texas too:

Does she ever go home?

Does she ever look at the media there?

I’m willing to bet she’s at least met Governor Abbot at some point. Did she think he was too lazy to stand up or something?

When intelligent people fall in ditches, they tend to pick themselves up and climb out of the ditch. But in Jasmine Crockett’s case, she decides that since she’s already in the ditch, she might as well try to dig for gold, or something.

Do you really need any other reason why The New Democrat for the last month now has endorsed James Carville’s political approach of strategic rope-a-dope and counterpunch?

Let the Republican Party be the Republican Party of the Marjorie T. Greene’s and Lauren Boebert’s, who can only get any political publicity at all, when they make a break for the wall and escape their political asylum’s and do something crazy on the street. They’re the party of Donald Trump and his political reality TV show The Keystone Cops At The White House.

The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of the people. Not the crazy people. The people who work hard, play by the rules, trying to get ahead in life. Not trying to make life harder for good, intelligent, responsible, hard-working Americans. As James Carville said:

“Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight, and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular. Until then, I’m calling for a strategic political retreat,” he wrote.

With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead,” the strategist continued…

From The New Democrat

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Don Lemon: HOT TAKES! – What’s In The Signalgate Texts?!

Posted on March 26, 2025 by FredSchneiderUS

“We have receipts! The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg has released screen grabs from the Signal group chat he was added to by Trump’s NSA Mike Waltz. Join us as Don breaks it down!”

Source:Don Lemon with a look at Leakin Mike Waltz and DUI Pete Hegseth.

From Don Lemon

From CNN:

“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”
1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”
1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)”
1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”
1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”

“If this information — particularly the exact times American aircraft were taking off for Yemen — had fallen into the wrong hands in that crucial two-hour period, American pilots and other American personnel could have been exposed to even greater danger than they ordinarily would face,” Goldberg and Harris wrote.

National security adviser Mike Waltz later texted to confirm that the target was in a building that collapsed and the strike was successful.

“The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz wrote at 2 p.m. ET.

And later in the day, Hegseth confirmed to the group that more strikes were coming.

“Great job all. More strikes ongoing for hours tonight, and will provide full initial report tomorrow. But on time, on target, and good readouts so far,” he said.

The release of the messages appeared to undercut Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s testimony on Tuesday, where she said it was to her knowledge that weapons packages, targets and timing weren’t part of the conversations in the Signal chat.

Gabbard on Wednesday doubled down on the administration’s insistence that no classified information was shared in the now-infamous chat.

“The conversation was candid and sensitive, but as the president, National Security Advisor stated, no classified information was shared,” Gabbard told the House Intelligence Committee. “There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared. This was a standard update to the national security cabinet that was provided alongside updates that were given to foreign partners in the region.”

She also said Hegseth was ultimately responsible for deciding what in that conversation should or should not have been classified: “Ultimately, the Secretary of Defense holds the authority to classify or declassify.”

Goldberg said on Wednesday the magazine decided to redact a sensitive piece of information out of their follow-up article.

“We did redact one piece of information because we felt, on our own, that we felt it was best to do. And the CIA asked us, but, you know, at a certain point, the administration is saying that there’s nothing classified or secret or sensitive in these so at a certain point, I just felt, you know, let our readers decide for themselves,” he said on MSNBC of the decision to publish the rest of the information…

From CNN

From The New Democrats yesterday:

“Before I get into the important point of what I want to say here, I have to say hearing a story like this, about these group of people, who were caught redhanded sharing military secrets, over a private phone… it’s not funny. But if 1 of your goals in life is to be the world champion of hypocrisy, this would be a great start: “Damn, these people are serious hypocrites. I got nothing on them. They can have the world title… if they want it that badly”.

As Jessica Tarlov said… and they weren’t called MAGA back in 2014 when Hillary Clinton’s email story broke, but these are the same people culturally and ideologically, who were accusing HRC of not being trustworthy to protect our national security secrets…

From The New Democrat

From The New Democrat today:

“So Ben Meiselas and ABC News do a very good job of laying out all the MAGA lies about Group Chat Gate from the Trump Administration. But Ron Filipkowski pretty much sums up their main problem here in 1 sentence:

“You would think that people who lie so much would be better at it by now from all the practice.”

And if you are someone who just doesn’t love political history, but Hollywood political history films… there’s a great line from Hal Holbrook (who played Deepthroat in All The President’ Men in 1976) where he’s talking to Bob Woodward (played by Robert Redford) about the Watergate burglars and the people in The White House whose job was to cover up the Watergate and the Plummers mess created by President Richard Nixon and his loyalists:

“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand…

From The New Democrat

I guess my first response here is and from the way Don Lemon reads Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s texts here… the Secretary sounds like a frat boy, who just got approved to a fraternity, (perhaps he’s just a sophomore) and he’s trying to impress the upperclassman in the fraternity and show them how tough and masculine he is and perhaps he’s already a few six packs in before this point… so he sounds like:

“Dude!!! Let’s do it! Let’s get him! Yeah, man!”

Or, it could be Pete Hegseth trying to prove to his group chat crew, how he got the nickname “DUI Pete”. And he’s just drunk out of the world at that point and he’s simply just ripping here.

Look, the country was warned last year about the consequences of having a president and presidential administration, that puts loyalty to 1 man, as well as performance and looks on TV, over actual qualifications, knowledge, education, experience, and intelligence, for the jobs that they’re seeking. But 77 million voters voted for Donald Trump anyway, which gave him over 300 votes in the Electoral College.

The U.S. Senate had the opportunity to deny these people their current jobs simply because they’re not qualified for them. But the Republican Senate approved them anyway, even though a lot of them knew better, but weren’t ready to risk their political futures.

Elections has consequences and when the people vote for the wrong people to represent them… bad things happen. (And that’s putting it mildly) The Trump Administration has been in office for 2 months now and we’re already seeing how inept and unqualified they are at governing.

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Ben Meiselas: Fox News COLLAPSES On LIVE TV As Lies ALL BLOW UP

Posted on March 26, 2025 by kireschneider

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Fox News is in a total panic as the Trump administration lies over its war plan leaks are getting more ridiculous and absurd by the minute.”

Source:Meidas Touch with a look at MAGA TV.

From the Meidas Touch

From FOX News themselves:

“National Security Advisor Michael Waltz is pressed on claims from an article in ‘The Atlantic’ and defends the Trump administration’s foreign policy success on ‘The Ingraham Angle.”

From FOX News

And from a real news source: ABC News:

“How did a journalist get added to a Signal group chat among top Trump officials discussing a U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen?

That’s a key question after the message chain was brought to light on Monday by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in an article titled: “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” A National Security Council spokesman told ABC News shortly after the article was published the message thread that was reported “appears to be authentic.”

Goldberg said he received a connection request on the commercially available app from a user identified as White House national security adviser Michael Waltz. He recounted later being added to a chat group with a message from Waltz about it being established to coordinate about Houthis…

From ABC News

What I’m going to talk about here really gets to my point about Laura Ingraham in this discussion. I can’t believe The New Democrat is sort of speaking up for Laura Imgraham (the princess of far-right propaganda) but this is Donald Trump’s America and times are very different. From The New Democrat last week:

“Just a little background of what I think of Laura Ingraham first and then the interview:

I think she’s a right-wing, hyper-partisan demagogue, who a best is very loose with the truth. But she’s not stupid or crazy. You see that just in the opening of this interview with President Trump where she said that The White House readout of the conversation between the President and President Vladimir Putin: “As a positive reading of the conversation”

And then Laura Ingraham literally asking the President when talking about Chief Justice John Roberts statement on the President attacking Federal judges because they ruled against him: “Are there any court orders that you wouldn’t defy?”

Think about that: a Fox News anchor… I mean there’s no one more MAGA than Laura Ingraham. Her right-wing populist record, goes back to the 1990s, if not father. She’s a saner, more intelligent version of Ann Coulter. And she’s asking the Dear Leader of the MAGA movement (who also just happens to also be President of the United States) “Are there any court orders that you would defy…

From The New Democrat

“Secretary Scott Bessent’s line: “Many of the employees are fantastic. It’s this consultant group. They’re like a boa constrictor. They’re like a python,” he said. “They’ve constricted themselves around our government, and the costs are unbelievable. They’re being passed on to the American taxpayer.”

Reminds me of this expression: “The expression “you can never trust a snake” is a common idiom used to describe someone who is deceitful, untrustworthy, and potentially dangerous, often implying they are scheming or manipulative. It’s rooted in the image of a snake, a creature often associated with stealth and danger.”

I’m just wondering of the Secretary is speaking from personal experience here. And perhaps cluing in Laura Ingraham’s viewers about his own trustworthiness.

Which would explain Fox News host Laura Ingraham less than enthusiastic expression and response to Secretary Bessent when the Secretary compared Federal workers to snakes…

From The New Democrat

And from The New Democrat about this yesterday:

“Before I get into the important point of what I want to say here, I have to say hearing a story like this, about these group of people, who were caught redhanded sharing military secrets, over a private phone… it’s not funny. But if 1 of your goals in life is to be the world champion of hypocrisy, this would be a great start: “Damn, these people are serious hypocrites. I got nothing on them. They can have the world title… if they want it that badly”.

As Jessica Tarlov said… and they weren’t called MAGA back in 2014 when Hillary Clinton’s email story broke, but these are the same people culturally and ideologically, who were accusing HRC of not being trustworthy to protect our national security secrets…

From The New Democrat

And from Ben Meiselas’s colleague Ron Filipkowski over at Meidas (Ron today about the Trump Administration’s lie machine:

“You would think that people who lie so much would be better at it by now from all the practice.”

From Ron Filipkowski

So Ben Meiselas and ABC News do a very good job of laying out all the MAGA lies about Group Chat Gate from the Trump Administration. But Ron Filipkowski pretty much sums up their main problem here in 1 sentence:

“You would think that people who lie so much would be better at it by now from all the practice.”

And if you are someone who just doesn’t love political history, but Hollywood political history films… there’s a great line from Hal Holbrook (who played Deepthroat in All The President’ Men in 1976) where he’s talking to Bob Woodward (played by Robert Redford) about the Watergate burglars and the people in The White House whose job was to cover up the Watergate and the Plummers mess created by President Richard Nixon and his loyalists:

“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand”.

The fact is The White House only speaks to 1 audience, which is their MAGA base. They feel as long as they have those small town, blue-collar, folks who think America is has been going to hell since the 1960s because of multiculturalism and everything else from that period… they’ll be fine. They just have to stay in there and keep doing all the fighting and attacking the so-called elitists. And anyone who isn’t rural, Anglo-Saxon male, they’ll just label those folks as DEI when they stand up to this White House.

So when you are only speaking to 1 audience and morality and honesty if anything are just obstructors to your ultimate goal which is to take over and run America, you can literally lie your asses off in public, even purger yourselves in front of Congress. Because who’s going to stop them?

And my point about Laura Ingraham is something that was made on The New Democrat last week: Ben Meiselas at 1 point in this video said referring to Ingraham: “She almost gets it”. He’s wrong. She gets it and I think she’s also getting tired of having to spend 10-15 minutes of her show every night trying to defend the Keystone Cops as The White House every night. I think she knows how incompetent they are and doesn’t even mind letting her viewers get a taste of that. But she doesn’t want to lose her job at Fox News and her 7-8 figure income every year from FNC. But that’s my observation about her.

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POLITICO: Sex, Drinking & Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill On What Congress Is Really Like

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Ederik Schneider

“This article was compiled from interviews conducted by Ben Jacobs, Jasper Goodman, Jordain Carney, Jennifer Scholtes, Hailey Fuchs, Emma Dumain, Lisa Kashinsky, Connor O’Brien, Holly Otterbein, Adam Wren, Daniella Diaz and Nicholas Wu. Juan Benn Jr. contributed to this report…

Source:POLITICO hopefully interviewed these members of Congress before 5PM.

From POLITICO

“Just months after being escorted out of a Denver theatre for lewd behaviour, a new report has spilled details on Lauren Boebert’s antics at a GOP Christmas party.

The Colorado representative was allegedly cut off from alcohol by a server at the New York Young Republican Club’s Manhattan gala, an incident seen by several witnesses, according to CNN.

The Secret Service was also reportedly forced to intervene in her repeated attempts to take selfies with the event’s guest of honour, former president Donald Trump.”

Source:The Independent with a look at U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (MAGA, Colorado) hopefully before %PM.

From The Independent

“New Report Paints Congress As Uneducated & Alcohol Fueled”

Source:The Ring of Fire with a look at U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (MAGA, Colorado) hopefully before 5PM.

From The Ring of Fire

Remember Senator Markwayne Mullin (Republican, Oklahoma) at Pete Hegseth’s defense conformation hearing? Well, The New Democrat does:

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?” Mullin demanded after Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine’s fiery line of questioning. “Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their jobs? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have…

The Oklahoma Republican went on to slam lawmakers for inquiring about whether infidelity in Hegseth’s marriages could be disqualifying for the Cabinet position, arguing that multiple politicians divorced spouses under similar circumstances.

“How many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No, but it’s for show,” Mullin said. “You guys make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy, because a man’s made a mistake, and you want to sit there and say that he’s not qualified…

From The New Democrat

“I’m just looking for qualifications. You didn’t give me any qualifications.

Starts bringing up the fact that, what if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? (LAUGHTER)

Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have.

Kaitlan Collins:

“I mean, first off, that’s a pretty serious accusation there. Do you want to name any of the senators that you’re saying– are drinking on the job?

Senator Markwayne Mullin:

No, and that’s — my whole point was, is that these senators, on the other side of the aisle, was trying to act like they were had more morals than Pete Hegseth. And they don’t.

If you’re going to hold someone accountable for their behavior, then hold everybody accountable. I’m not saying, I’m the most moral man or the perfect individual. I’m absolutely not. I wasn’t the one calling him out. But if you’re going to hold — if you’re going to hold someone at that standard, then hold everybody at that standard…

But I was in that room today. And when you said that, I guess, the thought that went through my head was, if what you’re saying is true, and your colleagues do show up drinking, to come to work and vote, which I think would maybe be concerning to those taxpayers who pay them, how is the bad behavior of a sitting senator, a defense of someone who wants to run the Pentagon…

From The New Democrat

I have a few responses here, but the general point has already been made.

Seeing this new story from POLITICO and all the members from the 119th Congress (House & Senate) that they talked to, makes Senator Mullin’s statement at Pete Hegseth’s defense conformation hearing:

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?” Mullin demanded after Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine’s fiery line of questioning. “Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their jobs? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have…

no longer look like a drunken fantasy. That he was actually on to something (instead of on something) back in January. I wish POLITICO talked to him, but you know what they say about members of Congress: If you can’t catch them by 5, they’re probably at the nearest bar or country club throwing a few back. Happy Hour is obviously their best time to drink because as Senator John Fetterman and (Democrat, Pennsylvania) and Representative Marjorie T. Greene: (MAGA, Georgia) they get paid so very little serving in Congress. Actually, I’m the only one who says: “If you can’t catch them by 5, they’re probably at the nearest bar or country club throwing a few back”. Just so we’re clear.

And then my last point here: anyone who thinks American democracy is about sending “the best and the brightest to represent us… whatever you are drinking or smoking right now, feel free to share that with everyone else who wants an escape from reality. And in Donald Trump’s America (also known as Trumpland) that’s a helluva lot of people. I mean there are waiting lines from the East Coast to the West Coast and every state in-between waiting for that reality escape.

As U.K Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said: democracy is the worst form of government… except for all the rest. The people that tend to get elected in government, come from the people themselves.

If you don’t like the current level of intelligence, qualifications, accomplishments, education, morality, that makes up who currently represents us in Congress, look at yourself and what you bring to the table for this country, first. And then who is currently representing you in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate right now. And who you voted for and supported in the past. Before you blame the people who are already in office, for their lack of qualifications, lack of intelligence, lack of accomplishments, and lack of morality.

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CBS News: How Donald Trump Officials, Congress Are Reacting to Atlantic Story On Yemen Bombing Group Chat

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Derik Schneider

“Monday’s story about an Atlantic journalist being included in a group chat among Trump officials discussing war plans for Yemen is reverberating across Washington. CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe and Nikole Killion report.”

Source:CBS News with a look at Donald J. Trump (MAGA, Florida) 47th President of the United States & 1st wannabe dictator.

From CBS News

Fox News political commentator Jessica Tarlov pretty much summed up my position on this… even before I thought of it:

“I don’t want to ever hear about Hillary Clinton’s emails again.”
Fox News’ Jessica Tarlov tore into the White House after it was revealed that The Atlantic EIC Jeffrey Goldberg had accidentally been added to a top-secret group chat.”

From Mediate

Before I get into the important point of what I want to say here, I have to say hearing a story like this, about these group of people, who were caught redhanded sharing military secrets, over a private phone… it’s not funny. But if 1 of your goals in life is to be the world champion of hypocrisy, this would be a great start: “Damn, these people are serious hypocrites. I got nothing on them. They can have the world title… if they want it that badly”.

As Jessica Tarlov said… and they weren’t called MAGA back in 2014 when Hillary Clinton’s email story broke, but these are the same people culturally and ideologically, who were accusing HRC of not being trustworthy to protect our national security secrets:

“Multiculturalism, education, elitism, modernism, is destroying America. And we need to fight back take back America”. That’s what the Tea Party believed back then and that’s what Tea Party/MAGA believes now.

And as the far-right in America is accusing Democrats of destroying America for the reasons I just mentioned, they get caught talking about the Pentagon’s war plans in Yemen, as well as future military plans that The White House is considering, on private phones. And if that’s not bad enough for you… they leak their plans and conversations to a private journalist.

But hey, American democracy has real consequences. And when a majority of the country votes for someone for President, who appoints people to office based on how they look and sound on TV, instead of their professional qualifications, their intelligence and knowledge, damn things can happen that has real consequences for the rest of the country.

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Matt Lewis: Mike Murphy On The GOP Train Wreck

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Rik Schneider

“Another week, another political dumpster fire.

This time, I sat down with my old pal Mike Murphy — famed Republican strategist, co-host of Hacks on Tap, and one of the few people who can talk politics without immediately spiraling into an existential crisis.

Trump’s “Blind Chimp with a Chainsaw” Strategy
I kicked things off by asking Mike a question that has been on my mind a lot lately: What the hell is Trump doing? His big moves — like tariffs — are about as popular as food poisoning. Is there some kind of strategy here, or is this just another episode of The Apprentice: Apocalypse Edition?

Mike didn’t sugarcoat it: Trump’s entire political playbook is a loop. Win as the wrecking ball, flop as an actual president, lose, then win again by pointing at the mess he made and blaming someone else. It’s not governing — it’s demolition derby politics.

The problem this time? The economy was Trump’s only real selling point. Voters bought the whole fire Biden, bring back the good times pitch. Now he’s back, and instead of keeping the wheels on, he’s careening down the highway with a megaphone, ranting about revenge and handing the keys to Elon Musk and a bunch of interns with names like “Big Balls.”

Mike summed it up with an image that’s both hilarious and terrifying: It’s like “a blind chimp with a chainsaw.”

Americans like the idea of cutting government waste — until they realize the waste is their benefits, their jobs, and, oh yeah, their entire economy.

The tariffs alone are a suicide note to Trump’s own voters. And that’s before we get to the cabinet full of Fox News rejects, the DOJ turned into a personal hit squad, and the foreign policy strategy that might as well be dictated straight from the Kremlin.

Mike’s verdict? “It’s like the Chinese Communist Party and super Democratic partisans got together and built Trump in a laboratory to blow the midterm elections…

Source:Matt Lewis talking to longtime Republican political strategist Mike Murphy about guess who …

From Matt Lewis

“Mike Murphy, infuriated Republican strategist and co-host of the “Hacks on Tap” podcast, joins Matt Lewis to unpack Donald Trump’s latest moves — tariffs that could spike prices, a chaotic cabinet filled with Fox News rejects, and a revenge-driven agenda that’s alienating voters.

From Elon Musk’s government meddling to a potential midterm disaster for the GOP, Murphy breaks down the method (or is it madness?) behind Trump’s endgame.

Plus, Murphy offers some solid advice for Democrats: Ditch the woke lectures, focus on the economy, and spotlight rising stars to flip the House in 2026.”

From Matt Lewis

have a few responses here:

The New Democrat has been posting a lot lately… really since February in response to James Carville New York Times essay about how Democrats should act as the opposition. Which included a response to fellow blogger Leigh McGowan about the same issue, the President’s State of the Union, the government funding bill, etc. And a lot of what we were talking about was how the militant left-wing of the Democratic Party has responded to the Democratic leadership about this, that, the other thing, and I’m sure something else after that. So if you read all of that, you might believe that the administration runs the asylum, not the inmates. But the Republican Party is the opposite of that, which is really what this is about.

To state the obvious: America is not Europe as far as how its political system operates. Germany (for example) has a center-right, as well as a center-left party, (by European standards) but they have smaller parties in their Parliament that are way to the right and left of the 2 major political parties there: the Conservative Party and the Social Democratic Party.

America is very different from Germany and the rest of the Europe in this sense. Yes, we have a Libertarian Party, a socialist Green Party, but not so much a far-right party anymore, because most, if not all those folks are now MAGA Republicans. But instead of having a multi-party political system in our government, its really just the Republican Party thats now dominated by these MAGA activists, (who in a perfect world, would be halfway around the world from any serious conservative party) and what’s left of the Goldwater-Reagan Conservative Republicans, and a few Northeastern Progressives in Maine and perhaps in other places.

And the Democratic Party still has those JFK Liberals and Roosevelt Progressives, but it has ideological bothers and sisters (if not ideological twins) of the Green Party as well as far as what those folks believe in ideologically and culturally. And that includes people who think communism is cool and other positions that could get anyone committed to any political asylum for the rest of your life.

And all of this gets to 1 of Mike Murphy’s original points here. Matt Lewis asked Murphy is: “Is there a method to Donald Trump’s madness here?” And Murphy’s answer was essentially “no” and he explained why. I would’ve asked: “Is there a madness to Donald Trump’s method?’

The Donald Trump Administration is essentially trying to destroy the American, liberal democratic, form of government, and replace it with his own personal oligarchy. And he and Elon Musk don’t give a damn who gets hurt in the process, including the Republican Party. Well, that’s sort of what the Democratic Left wants to do with the Democratic Party right now and perhaps our form of government down the line. (If Hell ever gets a month’s worth of snow at the same time)

But 1 major difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is the inmates run the asylum in the Republican Party. Whatever you think of Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, etc… they’re not politically crazy and trying to destroy the country first and figure out how to rebuild it later on. They’ve been very strategic. And what you think of what they’re doing, is completely up to you. But the Democratic leadership is not the Washington version of Madmen, or their own political reality TV show. Unlike with the Republican leadership.

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Alexandria O. Cortez & Bernie Sanders Lead The Democratic Left

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Erik Schneider

“Politics, like life, is all about timing.

The best politicians understand this.

Take Barack Obama. Sure, he was only elected to the Senate in 2004. And he said, repeatedly, he wouldn’t run for president in 2008. But, he saw his moment. He took it. And he won two terms as president.

Or, to cite the opposite example, Hillary Clinton passed on running for president in 2004 — believing she would be the de facto Democratic nominee in an open-seat fight in 2008. She would have likely won the Democratic nod in ‘04 and had a very good chance to beat a struggling President George W. Bush. She passed. And then lost in 2008 to Barack Obama. And never became president.

Which brings me to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. And the speaking tour she did last week alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Here’s the crowd they drew in Denver:

That’s 34,000 people. Which is pretty amazing given a) it’s 2025 and there’s no election for 600+ days b) Democrats are not exactly kicking ass and taking names these days.

On the heels of that speaking tour, the New York Times is out with a new piece asking a key question: What does AOC want to do next?

Here’s the best bit:

Interviews with nearly 20 progressive Democrats about the left wing’s future revealed a faction that sees the ideas Mr. Sanders has championed — reducing the power of billionaires, increasing the minimum wage, focusing more on the plight of workers — as core to the next generation of mainstream Democratic politics.

Though there is little agreement about who will emerge to guide progressives into a post-Sanders era, virtually everyone interviewed said there was one clear leader for the job: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Correct.

The story goes on to outline three possible future moves for AOC:

Stay in the House and become as committee chair if Democrats win back the majority

Run for Senate in 2028 — either against Chuck Schumer or for an open seat if he retires

Run for president in 2028

To me, this is a no-brainer: AOC should run for president.

There is clearly a lane for a liberal populist — someone in the mold of Sanders who, I would like to remind you, came pretty damn close to winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

And Sanders, at 83 years old, is not going to run for president again. This speaking tour, in fact, seems very much like a informal handing off of the baton to AOC.

Would AOC win the Democratic nomination? Who knows! And would she be the most electable Democrat in a general election? I doubt it but, also, who knows!

The future is uncertain. Timing is everything. And I think 2028 is shaping up to be a wide-open race for the Democratic presidential nomination where a figure like AOC would absolutely have a fighting chance to win.

Does she agree?

Source:Chris Cillizza proving once again why Americas are so ignorant when it comes to political philosophy.

From Chris Cillizza

From The View: “Hostin joins executive producer Brian Teta to discuss meeting with thought leaders about what Democratic voters want, what she would change about Sen. Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s message as they host rallies drawing massive crowds, and the highlights from visiting her daughter at college over the weekend.”

Source:The View with Sunny Hostin & Brian Teta.

From The View

The New Democrat has been very clear on where it stands on the James Carville vs Bernie & AOC debate about how the Democratic should act as the opposition party in this country:

“See, whatever you think of what Leigh McGown is proposing here, it’s the wrong approach, even if you like what she’s proposing. At least the politics of it, even if you agree with her ideas. What she’s talking about is proposing an alternative to what House Republicans are trying to jam through the House right now, but seem to be short on votes.

I’m with James Carville on this:

When you see your arch-enemy is drowning in the ocean. don’t throw them a lifeline. Let them drown.

When you see your arch enemy’s house is on fire and no one is there to do anything about it, don’t even offer to spit on the fire, let alone dump your own water on it, or call 911. Just let the house burn down…

From The New Democrat

“When you see your arch-enemy is drowning in the ocean. don’t throw them a lifeline. Let them drown.

When you see your arch enemy’s house is on fire and no one is there to do anything about it, don’t even offer to spit on the fire, let alone dump your own water on it, or call 911. Just let the house burn down.

Let MAGA burn our national house down. Hopefully they don’t destroy the country. But don’t help them do that, or try to get in their way, outside of what’s going on in the courts and at the state level. Show American voters this is exactly who you voted for and the consequences of that fateful decision. And tell them and show them there’s a better way on the campaign trail and why you deserve to be in power again.”

From The New Democrat

“Just when I think CNN is almost completely useless: they show a conversation that is really at the heart of the Democratic Party right now: which direction should they be moving in and how to combat Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. And the two sides represented here: The James Carville’s and the AOC’s.

The Carville’s representing the political rope-a-dope strategy of strategic, political counter-punching.

And the AOC’s who want to burn the house down and not so much concern with who gets burned in the process, just as long as the house gets burned down, so they can rebuild the Democratic Party in their left-wing, militant, socialist, badass, image, and perhaps take over the government as well…

From The New Democrat

I’m going to respond to what Sunny Hostin told Brian Teta about what the Democratic Party should be doing as well. But my first point is a quick response to Chris Cilliza and then I’ll get into what they are both saying here. Warning! This might offend a few WOKE tight asses.

Hearing Chris Cilliza talk about American leftists (people he still calls Liberals) reminds of an America before it became cool to be gay and gay men and lesbians were still in the closet, even if they were queens and dykes in private.

Neither Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the rest of The Squad in Congress, a lot of the left-wing in House Democratic Caucus, are closeted Socialists. They’ve been out for 10 years now if not longer. You can call them Socialists (perhaps they would prefer to be called Democratic Socialists) and you won’t offend them or have to worry about being sued over that.

Both Bernie and AOC are members of the Democratic Socialists of America. Bernie Sanders represents the self-proclaimed Socialist Republic of Vermont. The door of their political closet has not just been open for the last… 35 years (in Bernie’s case) and last 7 (In AOC’s case) but they took the door down and that closet is no longer there. And yet the Chris Cillizz’a of the world and a lot of the rest of the mainstream media feel the need to call hardcore leftists, “Liberals”, even though liberalism is way to the right of socialism ideologically.

So back to this Carville vs Bernie and AOC debate in the Democratic Party:

The Democratic Left (meaning Democratic Socialists) want the Democratic leadership to be their own version of Mitch McConnell. As Sunny Hostin said last week in talking to Senate Minority Leader (and I’m paraphrasing here) that:

“Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump burned the old playbook as far as how political leaders from other parties relate to each other. And it’s now time for Democrats to be as partisan as McConnell and Trump because of that. It worked for them. So it would work for us”. That’s basically what she’s saying here.

Every time the Left of the Democratic Party talks about how the leadership should lead, you know why they’re not in leadership.

To use a sports analogy: just because a team wins the Super Bowl by using a certain style of offense and defense, doesn’t mean that if you decide to run that exact same offense and defense the following season, that you’ll win the Super Bowl as well. Especially if you didn’t even make the playoffs the year before.

In football you have to run the offense and defense that best fits the personal that you have, in order to be successful. Very similar in politics: you have to use the political tactics and strategy that best fit you party and your members… your voters.

American voters elect Democrats to protect their entitlement programs, to keep the government running, to empower the middle class to move forward, etc. The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of progress, not obstruction. At least if you are a mainstream Democrat and you are not just a registered Democrat to have a voice in a major political party, instead of trying to run third-party with the Socialist Greens, to get elected. Like, I don’t know… Bernie Sanders, Alex Cortez, and the rest of The Squad.

American voters elect Republicans to:

Shake things up

To hold the establishment accountable, so the elitists (means successful and intelligent Americans of all backgrounds) don’t have too much power in America, Even if that means shutting down the government to advance their own political agenda.

So when you are the party of progress and that’s why you get elected and reelected over and over, shutting down the government simply because you don’t like the only government funding bill on the table, doesn’t work for you politically. Republicans can get away with that politically, because they are viewed as the obstructionists, the party of no (to paraphrase Senator Tom Coburn) and that’s why voters elect and reelect Republicans over and over as well.

Shutting down the government is not progressive, it’s regressive. And its even worst when it’s done by the Democrats, who are supposed to be the party of progress.

“American voters: we didn’t elect the Democrats to shut down the government. That’s what Republican do”.

But voters expect that from the Republicans. And this is something the Democratic Left may never understand. Which would also explain why they’re never in the leadership.

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Newsnight With Abby Phillip: Elissa Slotkin Has “White Flag Energy” in Dem Civil War, Says Jamaal Bowman

Posted on March 21, 2025 by FredSchneiderUS

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are testing out new party messaging, emphasizing the importance of fighting for working class voters. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) hit AOC and Sanders, saying “what have they actually done?” Former Democratic Congressman Jamaal Bowman called Slotkin’s comments “white flag energy.”

Source:CNN with a look at former U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (The Squad, New York) and U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (Democrat, Michigan)

From CNN

U.S. Representative Alexandria O. Cortez: “This isn’t just about Republicans. We need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us too,” Ocasio-Cortez said to applause. “But what that means is that we as a community must choose and vote for Democrats and elected officials who know how to stand for the working class…

Trump anded the keys to Elon Musk and is selling this country for parts to the richest people on the planet for a kickback. In exchange, they will bankroll his campaigns and those of his allies.”

U.S. Senate Bernie Sanders: “the wealthiest Americans – saying the richest among them “have fun flying off into outer space on their very own spaceships.”

“And maybe they should stay there,

They are like heroin addicts – they need more and more and more,” he said. “And if they destroy Social Security and Medicaid to get what they want, that is what they will do.”

From CNN

Just when I think CNN is almost completely useless: they show a conversation that is really at the heart of the Democratic Party right now: which direction should they be moving in and how to combat Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. And the two sides represented here: The James Carville’s and the AOC’s.

The Carville’s representing the political rope-a-dope strategy of strategic, political counter-punching.

And the AOC’s who want to burn the house down and not so much concern with who gets burned in the process, just as long as the house gets burned down, so they can rebuild the Democratic Party in their left-wing, militant, socialist, badass, image, and perhaps take over the government as well.

The New Democrat supports James Carville here:

“When you see your arch-enemy is drowning in the ocean. don’t throw them a lifeline. Let them drown.

When you see your arch enemy’s house is on fire and no one is there to do anything about it, don’t even offer to spit on the fire, let alone dump your own water on it, or call 911. Just let the house burn down.

Let MAGA burn our national house down. Hopefully they don’t destroy the country. But don’t help them do that, or try to get in their way, outside of what’s going on in the courts and at the state level. Show American voters this is exactly who you voted for and the consequences of that fateful decision. And tell them and show them there’s a better way on the campaign trail and why you deserve to be in power again.”

From The New Democrat

The New Democrat also supports Senator Elissa Slotkin on this as well:

“Senator Elissa Slotkin laid out the game plan last night for how Democrats, not just in Congress, but at the DNC level, the state level, as well as the activist level. need to act as the opposition party.

What Senator Slotkin (Democrat, Michigan) said last night is inline with what Fred was talking about last week:

The Democratic Party shouldn’t be acting like some shadow opposition party where they offer their own alternatives to every piece of bad legislation that Congressional Republicans bring up, or an unlawful, unconstitutional executive order that President Trump signs.

Or, instead to go to what James Carville was talking about last week: Democrats shouldn’t become the obstructionist party (which is basically what the left-wing of the party wants them to be) but instead let the people see who bad Republicans are at governing, especially when they have all the power. ”

From The New Democrat

But The New Democrat doesn’t support AOC and company on this:

“See, whatever you think of what Leigh McGowan is proposing here, it’s the wrong approach, even if you like what she’s proposing. At least the politics of it, even if you agree with her ideas. What she’s talking about is proposing an alternative to what House Republicans are trying to jam through the House right now, but seem to be short on votes.

I’m with James Carville on this:

“When you see your arch-enemy is drowning in the ocean. don’t throw them a lifeline. Let them drown.

When you see your arch enemy’s house is on fire and no one is there to do anything about it, don’t even offer to spit on the fire, let alone dump your own water on it, or call 911. Just let the house burn down.”

From The New Democrat

With all due respect to Jamaal Bowman: 1 of the reasons why he’s not still in the U.S. House today, is because he lost his Democratic primary in 2024. Why? Because he represents a House district that has a large Jewish Democratic population (not uncommon in New York City) and was seen as antisemetic and not addressing the needs of his own district.

And former Representative Bowman not just lost an election, at least partially, based on his own past ethnic and racially based statements about how you talk about Jews and other European Americans, I’m not sure you want to be throwing around terms like “white flag energy” (which can be interpreted to having multiple meanings) when talking about Democrats from another race.

As The New Democrat has been saying, really since right before President Trump’s State of The Union and really every since, almost everyday since… it’s easy to talk about how much Democrats should fight and how partisan the leadership of the party should be, when you are out of office, or you’ve never even been in a tough reelection battle in your entire political career.

Senator Bernie Sanders literally represents the Socialist Republic of Vermont. (Their own nickname, not mine)

Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez represents a district in New York City, where if any Democrats fails to get less than 80% of the vote there, that’s a close election for the Democrat.

Senator Elissa Slotkin represents Michigan. She beat former U.S. Representative Mike Rogers by 0.3% of the vote. Michigan is the definition of a swing state. The presidential nominee who has won Michigan since 2008, has also won the presidential election.

Bernie and AOC, and the rest of The Squad in Congress, can afford to be “political badasses” and attack not just Donald Trump every chance they get, but even Democrats as well and pay zero price for that.

The Elissa Slotkin’s, the Jon Ossoff’s, the Mark Kelly’s, and other swing state Democrats in the Senate, and all the swing district Democrats in the House, don’t share Bernie and AOC’s political luxury here. They need Independents and in some cases mainstream Republicans, and a solid share of the blue-collar vote in their states and districts, to even get reelected.

And these are things, facts (actually) that the left-wing of the Democratic Party, who seem more interested in their political, pop culture appeal, than anything else, have never understood about the Democratic Party. Which would also explain why they’re never in leadership.

The Democratic Party is only successful, when it’s a big tent party. And that includes not just Socialists, but militant Socialists. But it also includes Progressives and Liberals who have a big tend perspective not just about their party, but the rest of the country as well.

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