The Michael Knowles Show - August 06, 2025


Ep. 1787 - Democrat Congresslady： I’m Loyal to Guatemala Before America


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49 minutes

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734

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Democrat Congresswoman Delia Ramirez gives a speech in a foreign country about being more loyal to another foreign country than she is to the country that took her and her illegal alien parents in. And the craziest part is she will most likely not have to face a single negative consequence for it.

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00:00:30.000 A Democrat Congress lady just traveled to a foreign country
00:00:35.820 to give a speech in a foreign language
00:00:38.380 to proclaim that she is more loyal to yet another foreign country
00:00:42.920 than she is to America.
00:00:45.320 Her husband is an illegal alien.
00:00:47.760 She boasts about this. 0.96
00:00:49.500 She has apparently nothing but contempt for the country that took her,
00:00:54.380 that took her also illegal alien parents, in.
00:00:58.200 And the craziest part is she will most likely not have to face
00:01:05.260 a single negative consequence for it.
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00:02:59.920 This woman, Delia, Delia Ramirez, Delia Ramirez, is a Democrat member of Congress.
00:03:07.800 She just traveled to Mexico City for the Pan-American Congress, whatever that is.
00:03:13.160 And here is what she had to say.
00:03:14.340 I am, I'll translate that for you.
00:03:24.780 My Spanish is pretty weak.
00:03:25.720 But she said, I am speaking Spanish because I am a Guatemalan before I am an American.
00:03:33.780 What does she mean by before?
00:03:35.680 I really wanted to give this woman the benefit of the doubt, seriously.
00:03:38.040 So I said, well, maybe she meant I was a Guatemalan before I became an American.
00:03:44.600 It's not exactly what she said, but sometimes the tenses get messed up when you're translating languages.
00:03:49.500 No.
00:03:51.140 No, she was born in America.
00:03:54.100 So she could not possibly have meant I was a Guatemalan before I became an American.
00:03:58.980 She has to mean I am a Guatemalan.
00:04:01.620 I consider myself to be Guatemalan before I consider myself to be American.
00:04:07.220 In some ways, it's funny, a lot of people are going to attack her and say, this woman is a foreign element and she isn't really an American. 1.00
00:04:15.400 In some ways, this is the proof that she has assimilated to be an American.
00:04:19.400 This is what it means to assimilate as a leftist in America, is to hate America, is to not consider yourself American, is to try to consider yourself as being any nationality, having part in any identity group before being an American.
00:04:33.360 So that's one of the most American things about her.
00:04:35.260 Her parents were immigrants.
00:04:37.280 Actually, more precisely, her parents were illegal aliens.
00:04:40.900 America took them in.
00:04:43.780 She herself, I guess, is a citizen because of the loophole of birthright citizenship.
00:04:49.180 But she didn't consider herself American.
00:04:51.520 She clearly doesn't like speaking English.
00:04:53.680 She married an illegal alien. 0.70
00:04:55.440 Her husband, this Democrat Congress lady's husband, is currently an illegal alien.
00:04:59.180 Could be deported at any moment if we were to seriously enforce our immigration laws.
00:05:04.540 She goes down to this ridiculous event, the Pan American Conference, with the usual suspects, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania.
00:05:14.420 She's not one of the squad Congress ladies.
00:05:16.440 I don't know who that is.
00:05:17.340 It's Jesus Gilberto Garcia, also of Illinois.
00:05:22.540 On her website, she observes that her husband's in America illegally, and she's in a, quote, mixed status marriage.
00:05:31.860 And she fights for the rights of dreamers.
00:05:35.240 Dreamers is a euphemism for foreign nationals who are in our country illegally.
00:05:40.140 Dreamers like her husband and for comprehensive immigration reform.
00:05:44.640 The husband needs to be deported immediately.
00:05:50.520 Full stop, end of discussion.
00:05:54.440 I hope, I'm sure the White House has considered this.
00:05:57.000 I'm sure Tom Homan has considered this.
00:05:58.900 But just to bring it to your attention, if you've not considered it already, that lady's husband needs to be deported immediately.
00:06:08.280 Not out of cruelty.
00:06:09.880 Not because I think that we should break up marriages.
00:06:13.200 Au contraire.
00:06:13.920 Quite the opposite.
00:06:15.460 I don't want to break up her marriage.
00:06:17.080 I want her to go, too.
00:06:18.640 She's awful.
00:06:19.600 She adds nothing to our country.
00:06:21.320 We can't technically deport her because she got birthright citizenship because her parents snuck into the country, and we have a kind of a silly jurisprudence on this.
00:06:28.560 So we can't just deport her, but she needs to leave. 0.92
00:06:31.860 She does not add anything to this country.
00:06:34.540 She is openly, explicitly hostile to the country.
00:06:37.940 She, in her own words, wants no part of the country.
00:06:40.860 So get her out. 0.99
00:06:41.900 What's the point of having her here?
00:06:44.660 The liberals will say, well, it's her right because she's got birthright citizenship. 0.97
00:06:48.180 And the libertarians will say much the same thing.
00:06:50.260 It's her right, her constitutional rights.
00:06:52.020 But my question, as just like a normal guy in politics, is what good does she bring to the country?
00:06:59.360 How is it good for the country for her to be here?
00:07:01.440 It's not.
00:07:02.440 How is it good for Congress for her to be there? 0.93
00:07:04.240 It's not.
00:07:05.320 How is it good for her to be here?
00:07:06.820 She says it's not good.
00:07:08.460 That's what she's implying when she says I'm a Guatemalan before I'm an American.
00:07:11.960 Then go to Guatemala, honey.
00:07:13.300 I don't need you here.
00:07:14.500 I guess if I must, I will tolerate your being here.
00:07:19.540 I don't have to tolerate your husband being here.
00:07:22.520 But I don't know.
00:07:23.460 You want to go to Guatemala?
00:07:24.540 I want you to go to Guatemala.
00:07:25.940 Hey, we agree.
00:07:27.720 Look at that.
00:07:28.160 That's bipartisan agreement.
00:07:29.320 That's wonderful.
00:07:29.840 And before, I already hear the liberal objection.
00:07:35.780 They will say, Michael, you're misconstruing her words.
00:07:39.060 We are a pluralistic society and people have multiple identities at the same time.
00:07:44.940 Michael, don't you have multiple identities?
00:07:47.600 You are an American.
00:07:50.180 You are of Italian extraction.
00:07:53.060 You're a Catholic.
00:07:54.660 You are a Republican.
00:07:56.140 You're a conservative.
00:07:57.820 You're a traditionalist.
00:07:59.200 You're a this.
00:07:59.700 You're a that.
00:08:00.720 You're a Yankee fan.
00:08:02.380 You have all of these identities.
00:08:05.460 She has multiple identities, too. 0.60
00:08:07.300 Yeah, that's true.
00:08:08.940 And I could even say certain identities are more important than others.
00:08:13.180 For instance, my Christianity is more important than even my national identity or my racial identity or my sexual identity or whatever.
00:08:23.760 That's true.
00:08:24.980 I would say I'm a Catholic first.
00:08:26.240 That's the deepest part of my identity, for sure.
00:08:29.200 But that's not in conflict with my other identity groups.
00:08:32.500 Being a Yankee fan does not conflict with being a Catholic, does not conflict with being American, does not conflict with being a Tennessean, does not conflict with being a man, does not conflict with being a prep who wears collared shirts and gold button blazers, does not conflict with anything else.
00:08:51.220 Being a Guatemalan conflicts with being a woman. 1.00
00:08:53.360 Being a Guatemalan conflicts with being an American. 0.99
00:08:57.760 We all have many simultaneous loyalties, but we cannot simultaneously be loyal to multiple things of the same kind.
00:09:06.720 This is why being a dual citizen or a triple citizen or a quadruple citizen doesn't really make any sense.
00:09:15.420 Because you cannot simultaneously actually be loyal to multiple countries at once.
00:09:21.020 Because if those two countries go to war, you have to pick one. 0.59
00:09:23.340 I can be loyal to the Yankees and my local barbecue joint and America and the Catholic Church.
00:09:31.600 I can be loyal to all of those things because those are different kinds of things.
00:09:36.640 You cannot simultaneously be loyal to two countries.
00:09:39.840 And in this case, this woman isn't even saying, I'm equally loyal to Guatemala as I am to America.
00:09:45.680 She says, I am Guatemalan.
00:09:47.380 I'm first, I'm Guatemalan.
00:09:49.540 Once I'm done being Guatemalan, whatever is left over of my loyalty and my affection, that I give to America.
00:09:55.380 Not enough for me.
00:09:56.500 Get her out. 1.00
00:09:57.500 The way to get her out is to deport her husband. 0.99
00:09:59.220 And you should deport her husband not only as a matter of convenience to speed her out of our country, do it as a matter of justice.
00:10:04.660 He has no right to be here.
00:10:05.820 And the longer we tolerate this kind of injustice, the worse off we are.
00:10:09.260 Just a minor point on this.
00:10:11.060 There was a story yesterday, Nashville executed, not Nashville, the state of Tennessee in Nashville executed a death row inmate.
00:10:18.820 And some people were whining about this.
00:10:21.160 Some people who are intrinsically opposed to the death penalty, who think that the death penalty is intrinsically evil, which is simply is not.
00:10:28.020 And there's really no good way to argue that death penalty, which is perfectly just in principle.
00:10:34.580 This guy was executed.
00:10:35.740 He murdered, many years ago, he murdered his girlfriend and her two young daughters, a six-year-old and a nine-year-old, horrific crimes, and he was executed.
00:10:44.740 He committed those crimes in 1988.
00:10:48.740 As far as I'm concerned, the only part of this episode, of this punishment, that really raises eyebrows is the fact that it took almost 40 years for justice to be served.
00:11:00.360 That is wrong.
00:11:01.400 There's something really wrong about that.
00:11:02.760 And the longer you allow injustice to fester like that, the longer you wait to deliver justice, the more questions are raised about the justice of any given action.
00:11:16.220 The longer you let this Congress lady's husband hang out in the country, the longer you let 11 to 16 million foreigners stay in our country, the more difficult it's going to be to deport them, the more dubious the ethics of deporting them really look like. 0.51
00:11:30.880 So you've got to hurry up.
00:11:32.180 Get her out of the country. 0.86
00:11:33.240 I don't want her here.
00:11:34.060 Okay.
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00:13:00.420 Kamala Harris, long rumored to be considering running for governor of California.
00:13:08.180 You know, she was attorney general of California, senator from California.
00:13:12.580 Then she jumped to the national stage.
00:13:15.300 She was vice president.
00:13:17.380 Then I guess she was technically running for president. 1.00
00:13:20.100 107 days didn't work out very well.
00:13:21.820 So she was exploring California governor.
00:13:26.100 Here's what she had to say on The Colbert Show.
00:13:29.080 Yesterday, you made an announcement that you're not running for the governor of California.
00:13:33.080 Correct.
00:13:33.460 Even though in early polling, you beat every other candidate by double digits.
00:13:37.280 You said you're going to sit this one out.
00:13:40.260 Why are you sitting this out?
00:13:41.160 Are you saving yourself for a different office that might be?
00:13:43.740 No, no, no, no.
00:13:46.500 That's what everybody, obviously.
00:13:49.160 I know, but honestly.
00:13:50.360 Obviously, people project onto their hopes and dreams.
00:13:52.940 And honestly, it's more perhaps basic than that.
00:13:57.800 I am, listen, I am a devout public servant.
00:14:01.140 I have spent my entire career in service of the people.
00:14:06.100 But to be very candid with you, I, you know, when I was young in my career, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family.
00:14:17.400 And one of the points that I made is, why is it then when we think we want to improve a system or change it, that we're always on the outside on a bended knee or trying to break down the door?
00:14:30.400 Shouldn't we also be inside the system?
00:14:34.020 And that has been my career.
00:14:36.380 And recently, I made the decision that I just, for now, I don't want to go back in the system.
00:14:44.460 I think it's broken.
00:14:45.340 Oh, yeah?
00:14:48.140 Hold on, wait.
00:14:49.160 Lady, eight months ago, you were begging all of us to let you be president, to be as far in the system as possible.
00:14:56.660 Your entire professional life has involved you trying to get further and further into the system, including doing some rather dubious things to further get yourself into the system.
00:15:08.920 Let's just leave it at that.
00:15:09.820 Let's be polite.
00:15:11.640 Now, all of a sudden, you are humiliated at the national stage.
00:15:14.800 You lose this race. 0.97
00:15:15.960 All of a sudden, it dawns on you, you know, maybe there's a problem with the system.
00:15:18.640 I don't want to be in the system.
00:15:20.120 All I know how to do in my entire professional life is be in the system.
00:15:23.260 I don't want to be in that, though.
00:15:26.740 Hold on.
00:15:27.120 I thought you were a devout public servant.
00:15:29.100 If you're devout, if you're really devoted, you would continue to be in public service.
00:15:34.860 Could you imagine someone saying that with a straight face?
00:15:36.880 I'm a devout public servant.
00:15:38.480 Could you imagine with a straight face saying, oh, I'm a devout Christian.
00:15:41.660 I'm devout.
00:15:42.300 I'm very pious.
00:15:43.860 Oh, I'm a holy.
00:15:44.940 I'm a living saint.
00:15:46.740 I'm a living martyr as far as I'm concerned.
00:15:50.060 Yes, none is holier than I.
00:15:52.660 So devout I am.
00:15:55.060 Really?
00:15:55.680 Take me seriously.
00:15:56.620 I'm a serious person, but I'm much better than you.
00:15:59.020 I'm so devout.
00:16:00.040 But I'm not going to run for office.
00:16:03.740 In this case, you're saying I'm a devout public servant.
00:16:06.500 Saying I am so devoted to running for office and serving in office, but I'm going to quit now.
00:16:15.080 Because it's broken.
00:16:16.960 Because what?
00:16:19.220 Was it broken eight months ago?
00:16:20.920 No.
00:16:21.500 What changed?
00:16:22.100 I'll tell you what changed.
00:16:23.620 We have polling out from California.
00:16:27.700 So this is a Capital Weekly poll.
00:16:30.520 This is from February.
00:16:33.600 But not a lot has changed in the California governor's race.
00:16:36.800 Showed that for California governor, 23% of respondents wanted Kamala Harris.
00:16:42.420 Kamala Harris had just run a national campaign. 0.98
00:16:44.840 She had run for president. 1.00
00:16:45.820 She had the highest name ID she's ever going to get.
00:16:48.700 Basically, perfect name ID.
00:16:50.460 She had as much goodwill as she was going to get after dumping $2 billion into a campaign to make people like her. 1.00
00:16:56.960 23% of Californians wanted her to be governor. 1.00
00:17:00.940 The Republican, John Cox, who no one has ever heard of and who has not said that he's running, had 21%.
00:17:11.620 Kamala Harris, $2 billion.
00:17:13.540 Democrat, California, served as senator, served as attorney general, spent all that money to make people like her. 1.00
00:17:19.640 23%.
00:17:20.080 A Republican no one's ever heard of.
00:17:22.100 Two points lower, 21%.
00:17:23.300 In California.
00:17:24.340 Followed by former U.S. rep Katie Porter, a Democrat who resigned in disgrace because of a super creepy sex scandal. 0.85
00:17:33.820 She had 16%.
00:17:35.500 16%.
00:17:36.540 She wasn't even that far off from Harris.
00:17:38.260 Disgraced sex freak ousted from the House of Representatives within striking distance of Kamala Harris. 0.52
00:17:51.580 Pathetic.
00:17:52.760 The reason she's not running for governor of California is she can't win. 1.00
00:17:56.080 And not only would she lose, she would be completely humiliated.
00:18:00.440 Completely humiliated.
00:18:01.540 It would be, if this is not already the end of her political career, it would be the end of her political career. 0.72
00:18:08.540 Okay, well then, Colbert says, are you thinking about another office?
00:18:11.760 Let's look at the presidential polling.
00:18:14.440 The latest data, the latest poll on the 2028 Democrat race.
00:18:20.440 Harris has 21.1% support.
00:18:23.320 That is a 14-point drop since March.
00:18:27.720 April, May, June, July, and the beginning of August.
00:18:31.820 Five months, she's dropped 14 points down to 21.1%.
00:18:35.340 Just one in five Democrat voters would support her. 0.70
00:18:40.020 Now, when the polling began January 1st, she had 34.8%.
00:18:45.200 So she was already weak as the Democrat nominee, as a person who should be the frontrunner in a weak field.
00:18:50.960 Who's it going to be?
00:18:51.900 Buttigieg, give me a break.
00:18:53.740 Newsom, Newsom burned his main city to the ground.
00:18:56.780 Newsom is a total joke.
00:18:59.040 Whitmer, Shapiro, Democrats don't like Jews anymore.
00:19:04.020 Ain't going to be Shapiro.
00:19:04.980 Who do they have?
00:19:08.660 I guess there were two presidential candidates from the Democrats who are popular right now.
00:19:14.620 But that's Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy.
00:19:16.420 They were working for Trump.
00:19:17.540 Who do you have?
00:19:18.440 You got nothing.
00:19:20.680 You got nothing.
00:19:21.460 The book is going to be terrible.
00:19:22.640 I seriously doubt Kamala Harris wrote any of it.
00:19:26.200 I kind of doubt that she even read it.
00:19:29.080 It's called 107 Days.
00:19:31.000 107 Days to End Kamala Harris' Political Career.
00:19:34.340 This strikes me.
00:19:36.020 All of this strikes me as Sarah Palin stuff.
00:19:38.560 This is Sarah Palin 2.0.
00:19:40.160 Except that Sarah Palin was politically talented. 1.00
00:19:42.600 And Sarah Palin was, relative to Kamala Harris, a much, much more serious politician.
00:19:48.060 But Sarah Palin got really bruised up in the 2008 race when she was the running mate to John McCain.
00:19:54.560 And afterward, she went on TV and she was selling stuff.
00:19:58.580 And she was keeping herself in the public eye.
00:20:00.960 But it was always teasing.
00:20:03.560 Maybe I'll run in 2012.
00:20:05.080 Who knows?
00:20:05.400 Maybe I'll run in 2016.
00:20:06.800 Maybe, maybe I'm going to keep running.
00:20:08.980 The support just wasn't there.
00:20:10.200 It's just a way to try to stay relevant on this prompt.
00:20:13.760 Maybe I'll run.
00:20:14.280 Maybe I'll run.
00:20:14.820 There's no path for Kamala Harris. 0.68
00:20:16.680 She was like the first person out of the 2016 Democrat primary field.
00:20:21.440 She only got picked to be VP because she's a black woman who isn't a communist.
00:20:25.080 Like Karen Bass was the other prominent black woman who could have been picked. 1.00
00:20:28.260 Biden put himself in a corner.
00:20:29.460 Said, I'm going to pick a black woman. 1.00
00:20:30.540 Kamala was the only choice. 0.88
00:20:32.980 She got the nomination because with the Democrats' racial caste system and sexual caste system, 0.98
00:20:37.520 you couldn't overlook the black lady VP, even if Newsom might have been a better choice 0.99
00:20:44.180 or some other, Whitmer might have been a better choice.
00:20:47.160 So look, good honor that she got this far.
00:20:49.960 It's impressive that a woman who can't speak and has no actual opinions made it this far in 1.00
00:20:54.020 politics.
00:20:54.680 But she's done.
00:20:57.580 She's done.
00:20:58.340 Stick a fork in her. 1.00
00:20:59.240 She is done with the federal government.
00:21:00.700 Now, you know who else was working for the federal government and is no longer working for
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00:21:11.940 Epstein.
00:21:13.160 Now, hold on.
00:21:14.440 Hold on.
00:21:16.020 Remember I said, you're going to say, Michael, you got something wrong.
00:21:19.400 You predicted something wrong.
00:21:20.600 Because I said, when all the Epstein stuff was coming up again, I said, hey, I just want
00:21:25.180 to let you know, you will never learn anything more that is in any way significant about Jeffrey
00:21:31.380 Epstein.
00:21:31.800 It's just not going to come out.
00:21:32.940 There's not going to be the big smoking gun.
00:21:34.500 You're not going to learn new stuff.
00:21:37.600 You'll think you're learning new stuff, but you're not going to learn new stuff.
00:21:40.140 Remember I said that?
00:21:41.080 And it was a very unpopular view.
00:21:42.860 And I explained why, because governments are not totally transparent.
00:21:45.620 And there are reasons that states sometimes need to protect information.
00:21:49.200 Either Jeffrey Epstein is who the government says he is, in which case you've already heard
00:21:52.060 everything you're going to hear.
00:21:53.160 Or he's a little bit more than that, in which case you've definitely heard everything you're
00:21:57.040 going to hear.
00:21:57.400 Anyway, I got in some hot water for saying that.
00:22:00.700 And it looks like I'm wrong now, right?
00:22:02.480 Because Radar Online, big headline.
00:22:04.300 Do I have the piece?
00:22:05.160 No, I didn't even print.
00:22:05.720 I just took quotes from it.
00:22:09.200 Breaking exclusive.
00:22:11.280 Jeffrey Epstein was secretly working with the U.S. government, according to bombshell documents
00:22:15.600 obtained by Radar Online.
00:22:17.480 Well, that's new information, right?
00:22:21.220 An FBI report.
00:22:24.160 This bombshell, explosive, exclusive document from Radar Online was already reported in 2018.
00:22:35.040 It was already reported seven years ago.
00:22:37.560 This article was main page of Drudge Report yesterday.
00:22:41.860 Oh, wow, breaking exclusive.
00:22:43.260 So there's probably new information to some people, because some people didn't read it
00:22:47.740 back when it came out seven years ago.
00:22:49.620 What was the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the FBI?
00:22:53.020 Because lest you missed it all those years ago, Epstein was, in fact, an informant for
00:22:59.800 the FBI.
00:23:01.180 What does that mean?
00:23:02.400 Does it mean he was working with other intel agencies in America?
00:23:04.860 Was he working with foreign intel agencies?
00:23:06.740 What was the Epstein operation?
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00:24:39.220 I'll just read the report.
00:24:40.160 Even though it's not actually new information, it is being presented as new information.
00:24:44.040 The late tycoon and pedophile who died in jail in 2019, age 66, was, quote, more than just
00:24:51.880 protected.
00:24:52.420 He was a puppet, informant, and spy for the FBI.
00:24:56.240 That, according to an intelligence source, he is a 2008 internal file obtained through
00:25:02.440 a successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show Epstein was operating as an FBI informant
00:25:08.400 prior to his now infamous 2007 sweetheart plea deal.
00:25:12.580 So, in 2007, he gets this plea deal where he said, yeah, I was doing a bunch of creepy
00:25:15.980 stuff with the young girls, and he goes to the Palm Beach court, and he's allowed out
00:25:20.160 on nights and weekends, and it's like he basically had to just go to a hotel for a little bit.
00:25:24.280 But he got this unbelievable sweetheart deal, no federal prosecution.
00:25:27.240 How'd that happen?
00:25:28.620 Well, apparently this file was obtained through a FOIA lawsuit.
00:25:31.900 Now, again, I think the file was already out there.
00:25:34.240 The information was already out there.
00:25:37.000 So, why is this being reported on as new information?
00:25:39.920 I don't know.
00:25:40.200 So, Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon.
00:25:45.680 A special agent whose name was redacted wrote on an internal cable dated September 9, 2008,
00:25:50.120 marked routine.
00:25:51.920 Case agent advised that no federal prosecution will occur in this matter as long as Epstein
00:25:56.460 continues to uphold his agreement with the state of Florida.
00:25:58.860 So, this deal between the FBI and Epstein allowed him to plead guilty to the much reduced state-level
00:26:07.960 charges in Florida and get a slap on the wrist and then go free.
00:26:13.200 According to a source close to the case, these are the smoking gun documents.
00:26:17.980 They show Epstein was an active source for the FBI way before his plea deal in 2007.
00:26:22.860 The real reason the FBI has been stonewalling for years is because these files blow up the official story.
00:26:27.460 Epstein wasn't just evading justice.
00:26:28.840 He was helping them.
00:26:29.800 You don't give this kind of deal to a man like Epstein unless you're getting something big in return.
00:26:35.220 Okay, so Epstein was a Fed.
00:26:36.820 That's the takeaway.
00:26:37.820 Epstein was a Fed.
00:26:39.080 We already kind of knew it.
00:26:41.840 We already had the reporting from Alex Acosta, who was the U.S. attorney on the Epstein case.
00:26:46.280 Then he was up for labor secretary under Trump.
00:26:47.860 He reportedly, according to the Daily Beast, so take it with a grain of salt,
00:26:50.560 but he reportedly said in an interview with the Trump transition that the reason that Epstein got the sweetheart deal
00:26:57.680 is because he belonged to intelligence and Acosta was told to let Epstein be.
00:27:02.480 So Epstein was a Fed.
00:27:05.740 Gee, you don't say.
00:27:09.080 You know, a lot of people are Feds.
00:27:12.720 This accusation gets thrown about.
00:27:14.340 It's bandied about a lot.
00:27:17.140 It's often true. 1.00
00:27:18.960 It's often true, okay?
00:27:20.440 People who are mob figures, people who are in organized crime, a lot of them are Feds.
00:27:25.940 A lot of them, what do we mean by Fed?
00:27:27.500 We'll get to that in a second.
00:27:28.220 A lot of people who are political activists, who are prominent extremists, you know, political extremists and dissidents.
00:27:35.260 A lot of them, not just now, but for many, many decades, up to and including the present time, have been Feds.
00:27:44.520 And what I mean by Fed is not that they're super secret agent double spies who were raised in a laboratory at Quantico or Langley.
00:27:51.960 What I mean is they provide information on their associates and their associates' activities and their campaigns to the federal government.
00:28:02.240 And I'm not saying they do it necessarily willingly.
00:28:05.560 Usually what happens is the government will get them on some kind of a crime.
00:28:10.060 Did they participate in a riot?
00:28:13.220 Did they participate in some violent action?
00:28:15.440 Did they cheat on their taxes?
00:28:16.900 Did they not report some income?
00:28:18.040 Did they, whatever.
00:28:19.360 They're going to get them on some minor crime.
00:28:21.940 They'll say, look, we can either put you away.
00:28:23.640 We can either prosecute you.
00:28:24.940 We can either do this, that, or the other thing.
00:28:26.960 We can either take your money.
00:28:28.480 We can, or you can give us some information when we ask.
00:28:33.040 And we're not, that's it.
00:28:33.760 We're just going to meet with you every so often.
00:28:36.060 And you give us some information.
00:28:38.080 Maybe, who knows, we'll go meet at a restaurant.
00:28:39.700 It's no big deal, every month or two.
00:28:43.200 And you're going to tell us about, whatever.
00:28:45.720 If you go back many decades, about the Black Panthers.
00:28:47.740 Or you're going to tell us about the Civil Rights Movement.
00:28:49.320 Or you're going to tell us about, but all the way up to the present day.
00:28:52.040 There are many ways to get you.
00:28:53.520 And so, in this case, with Epstein, he was a Fed.
00:28:58.540 Yeah.
00:28:59.280 Most people who you think might be Feds, in my humble rule of thumb opinion,
00:29:05.840 yeah, yeah, it's probably a safe assumption.
00:29:08.580 It's probably a decent assumption.
00:29:09.840 Let's put it that way.
00:29:11.720 With Epstein, duh.
00:29:14.580 You'd think a guy was operating a secret pedo sex island with the richest, most powerful people in the world.
00:29:20.780 And then he was prosecuted, but he got totally off the hook.
00:29:23.360 And he wasn't working with the government.
00:29:26.280 Give me a break.
00:29:26.800 Of course he was.
00:29:27.440 The question now is, not, was he an informant for the FBI after his prosecution?
00:29:34.780 The question I have is, was he working for or with anyone before the prosecution?
00:29:44.300 The way it works, the way people turn cooperators and government informants is,
00:29:48.940 they're doing something a little dodgy, and the government gets you, and they say,
00:29:52.860 well, we won't punish you if you inform for us.
00:29:55.220 And a lot of the time, people inform, even if they deny it publicly.
00:29:59.360 Now, with Epstein, that's what happened.
00:30:02.560 Okay, now he's informing for the FBI.
00:30:05.680 But who was he working with before?
00:30:08.320 Was he, as is being alleged, working for the Mossad?
00:30:13.620 Was he working for, I don't know, MI6?
00:30:16.220 Was he working for the CIA?
00:30:17.420 Was he working for organized crime?
00:30:19.100 Was he, or it is entirely possible that he was just running his own kind of thing,
00:30:26.980 running his own little criminal enterprise.
00:30:29.760 I'm saying it's possible.
00:30:30.660 I'm not saying it's likely.
00:30:31.840 I'm not saying it's plausible.
00:30:32.560 I'm just saying it's possible.
00:30:34.300 He was running his own thing.
00:30:35.400 He gets pinched by the feds.
00:30:36.440 Either way, the fact that we know that he was a federal informant eventually means that
00:30:44.880 the government knows what he was up to.
00:30:47.620 The government knows a lot more about his operation than the government's let on.
00:30:53.500 And the fact that it has already been reported many years ago that he was a federal informant,
00:31:00.920 the fact that this actually isn't any new information is just a reminder.
00:31:04.960 You know how much I hate to say I told you so.
00:31:08.900 You're not going to get juicy new info on the Epstein case.
00:31:12.900 You're just not.
00:31:13.740 There can be perfectly, there can be bad reasons for that.
00:31:16.220 There could be good reasons.
00:31:17.140 There can be virtuous reasons.
00:31:18.540 There are, the governments are not even supposed to be totally transparent.
00:31:23.300 But I'm just looking at the timelines here.
00:31:24.980 You're not getting any new info.
00:31:27.720 Full stop.
00:31:28.420 Now, I mentioned a lot of people think he was mobbed up with Mossad because he was working
00:31:32.920 with Ghislaine Maxwell and Ghislaine Maxwell's father.
00:31:35.160 Robert Maxwell was reputedly associated with Mossad and MI6 and maybe the KGB and whatever.
00:31:41.720 So, turning to Mossad, turning to Israel rather, not just the spy agency of Israel, but to the
00:31:47.660 nation itself.
00:31:49.120 Bibi Netanyahu is reportedly going to occupy Gaza.
00:31:54.820 And look, these are reports coming out of the Israeli press, out of the international press.
00:31:59.260 He is planning to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets with his security
00:32:05.480 cabinet.
00:32:06.900 The die has been cast, according to local journalists, or according to a senior official
00:32:10.980 quoted by local journalists.
00:32:12.300 The die has been cast.
00:32:13.920 We are going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip and defeating Hamas. 0.96
00:32:18.060 According to reports, the unnamed official said, if that doesn't work for the chief of staff
00:32:25.980 of the army, of the Israeli army, then he should resign because we're doing it. 1.00
00:32:30.540 It's going in.
00:32:31.300 We're not asking for advice anymore.
00:32:33.200 We're going to go take Gaza. 1.00
00:32:35.320 Now, also being reported, the families of hostages are worried that these plans could
00:32:40.460 endanger their loved ones because it's believed that 20 of the 50 supposed hostages in Gaza
00:32:45.000 are still alive, 20 hostages who are alive.
00:32:48.640 Polls suggest that three in four Israelis favor a ceasefire deal to return them.
00:32:53.000 So three in four Israelis, vast majority of Israelis, according to polls, would rather
00:32:58.460 Israel not conquer the Gaza Strip, would rather Israel leave Hamas in power, but get a ceasefire
00:33:05.380 deal to bring the hostages home.
00:33:07.760 The government, according to all these reports, including from Israeli media, says no.
00:33:12.360 Even if the hostages are going to die, even if the moment we conquer Gaza, they're going 0.96
00:33:17.100 to kill all the hostages, we have to do that.
00:33:19.220 That's the better course.
00:33:19.980 My question for the, you know, I've been, I've had the least, in some ways it's the least
00:33:27.560 popular view on the Israel-Gaza conflict, but in many ways I think it's the view of most
00:33:31.240 Americans.
00:33:32.100 It's the least popular view among the media and among activists and politicians.
00:33:36.140 I think it is the actual popular view among most Americans, which is, I broadly have supported
00:33:42.140 Israel.
00:33:42.540 I get Netanyahu's reaction to October 7th, 2023.
00:33:48.880 I do think that the Palestinian Arabs have certain rights.
00:33:52.480 I do think that wars that begin in a just way can turn unjust.
00:33:56.160 I'm a little skeptical of the Israeli actions in the war.
00:34:00.000 I'm deeply troubled by, for instance, that attack, accidental or otherwise, on the one Catholic
00:34:05.780 church in Gaza.
00:34:06.500 And some of the reports coming out of the West Bank, and maybe even the mission drift,
00:34:11.100 the fact that this war was supposed to be to get the hostages home, punish Hamas, and
00:34:14.640 yet it moved into bombing Iran and maybe regime change in Iran and occupying southern Syria.
00:34:20.280 And I'm just a little skeptical.
00:34:22.080 I want to know when the war is going to end, especially because we're funding it as Americans.
00:34:25.340 That's my view.
00:34:26.980 It's a complicated view.
00:34:28.500 It's a nuanced view.
00:34:29.480 It doesn't make Bibi Netanyahu out to be the devil himself.
00:34:33.240 It doesn't pretend that Hamas and the Islamists are in any way on our team or in any way admirable 1.00
00:34:40.040 or to be tolerated.
00:34:41.260 It recognizes that there is a distinction between combatants and civilians.
00:34:45.260 I don't know.
00:34:46.220 I know that's not popular in the world of punditry or political prognostication.
00:34:53.340 I think that's where most Americans are.
00:34:54.860 And so my reaction to this news, having that view, is, I don't know.
00:35:03.200 What's the alternative?
00:35:04.740 What's the alternative to conquest of the Gaza Strip? 0.75
00:35:07.540 What Netanyahu is now saying is the objective of the war is the neutralization of Gaza as a
00:35:16.060 political threat, as a security threat.
00:35:18.480 That's it.
00:35:19.200 And that's what I've been wondering.
00:35:20.020 In order to have a just war, you have to, one, have clear military objectives,
00:35:23.840 and then you need to have proportionality, which means not using excess military force
00:35:28.460 to achieve those military objectives.
00:35:30.580 And you need discrimination to discriminate between combatants and civilians, and you need
00:35:35.520 all sorts of a just cause and a legitimate authority and all the rest.
00:35:38.180 But you need proportionality, especially, and that means you need clear objectives.
00:35:43.500 Netanyahu is saying, Gaza proved itself to be an unacceptable security threat right on
00:35:49.480 the border of Israel.
00:35:50.320 Well, we played this game.
00:35:53.520 We used to control Gaza. 0.96
00:35:55.040 A lot of people don't even know the history of Gaza, but we allowed Gaza to kind of run 0.92
00:35:58.580 its own show, and it's proved itself to be an unacceptable security threat.
00:36:01.740 So we're not going to let them continue to be run in the way that they're run.
00:36:06.840 Okay.
00:36:08.360 Okay, fine.
00:36:09.020 That means it's not really about the hostages.
00:36:11.100 It's not really, it's just, it's about neutralizing Gaza. 1.00
00:36:13.020 Well, in that case, what are they going to do other than occupy Gaza? 0.95
00:36:16.420 They're going to just let Hamas keep running the show? 0.88
00:36:19.700 No.
00:36:20.300 They're going to have elections be held?
00:36:22.500 Do you think some other group is going to get elected that's going to be so much better?
00:36:25.060 I don't think so.
00:36:25.700 I mean, before 1967, Gaza was controlled by Egypt.
00:36:29.640 Okay.
00:36:30.240 After the 1967 war, until 2005, Gaza was controlled by Israel.
00:36:36.220 2005, Israel decides, right, we're going to give Gaza to the Palestinians. 0.55
00:36:40.060 They give it to the Palestinian Authority.
00:36:41.580 That lasts until 2007.
00:36:44.300 2007, they hold elections.
00:36:46.660 Hamas gets elected. 0.98
00:36:48.000 2023, Hamas rules through 2023. 0.95
00:36:51.440 2023, they attack Israeli civilians.
00:36:54.080 Now Israel's going to go in and take it. 0.99
00:36:55.600 Okay.
00:36:56.960 I'm not saying that's wonderful.
00:36:59.180 Oh, that's great that Israel's going to conquer Gaza. 0.99
00:37:01.920 It certainly seems quite unfortunate that Gaza's already basically been obliterated.
00:37:06.620 But I guess for the people who really hate Israel and Netanyahu, what's your solution?
00:37:15.300 If you accept that Israel is a nation, is an actual nation, the Israeli government is a legitimate authority established by the United Nations and a war of conquest and the Balfour Declaration. 0.54
00:37:28.500 And if you believe that any modern nation state is a legitimate nation state, it's hard to argue how Israel is not a legitimate nation state.
00:37:36.020 If you grant all of that and you grant that Hamas is an unacceptable security risk in an independent Gaza, what's the alternative? 0.92
00:37:46.140 Give me the alternative.
00:37:46.900 I'm open.
00:37:48.060 I think I'm like most Americans.
00:37:49.620 I'm pretty open-minded on the issue.
00:37:51.080 What's the alternative?
00:37:51.980 At least now there's a little bit of clarity on the war.
00:37:57.260 And it's not a moment too soon because as even another pretty right-wing former Israeli prime minister points out, Israel doesn't have any friends anymore.
00:38:06.080 People are sick of this war and Israel is becoming, in his words, a leper state. 1.00
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00:38:54.000 My favorite comment—well, hold on, now, listen.
00:38:56.000 I didn't pick a comment.
00:38:57.380 So I want you to be clear.
00:39:00.220 The producers picked this comment, and we'll see if it actually is my favorite comment.
00:39:03.880 It's from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.
00:39:07.440 Don't forget, FEMA skipped homes with Trump signs.
00:39:10.560 That's true.
00:39:12.480 That's true.
00:39:13.200 FEMA did skip homes with Trump signs.
00:39:15.640 I guess you're making that point.
00:39:17.880 This was in North Carolina, right?
00:39:19.380 The Trump supporters, when the federal disaster relief went in there, FEMA said, don't go to the homes.
00:39:25.580 There's like memos about this.
00:39:26.620 Don't go to the homes that have Trump signs.
00:39:27.740 But in this case, the FEMA news was that FEMA would not send disaster relief to states that didn't do business with the state of Israel.
00:39:38.980 Another Israel story, actually.
00:39:41.400 But I think that would have been at the direction of higher-ups political appointees, right, at DHS.
00:39:46.220 I don't know.
00:39:46.520 I actually—I don't know that you blame FEMA for that one.
00:39:48.240 Now, according to former Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, Israel's status in the United States, which is the state of Israel's chief political patron,
00:40:01.880 Israel's status in the United States has never been so bad.
00:40:04.560 It is being seen as a leper state.
00:40:05.980 He says, the Democratic Party hasn't been with us for some time.
00:40:09.940 We're also losing the Republican Party, whose support for Israel once could be counted on. 0.75
00:40:13.740 Even those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the state of Israel.
00:40:16.700 Israel is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.
00:40:20.920 The government is doing terrible damage and still does not understand the magnitude of the disaster.
00:40:24.940 There you go.
00:40:25.780 And obviously, Bennett opposes Bibi Netanyahu and wants his job.
00:40:29.020 But there you have it.
00:40:30.660 I don't see anything false in what he said.
00:40:33.000 Now, because I hold the view, I think, of most Americans on the Israel-Gaza conflict,
00:40:40.620 it means that I am simultaneously called a shill, PR flack, Shabbos, goy, bought-and-paid-for Israeli propagandist, on the one hand,
00:40:52.860 and an anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas reincarnation of Hitler, on the other hand.
00:41:00.500 Whenever I say anything about the Israel-Gaza conflict, I'm somehow both of those things. 0.80
00:41:05.440 I don't know.
00:41:06.280 I think most Americans are called both of those things by propagandists on both sides.
00:41:10.740 But you don't need to take our word for it.
00:41:14.380 I bet you listen to the former prime minister of Israel, who's a pretty right-wing guy, Naftali Bennett.
00:41:19.120 But never been so bad.
00:41:23.480 Leper state. 0.98
00:41:25.240 Terrible damage.
00:41:27.140 Israel being seen as a liability and a burden on the USA and Americans.
00:41:30.680 The war has to end.
00:41:32.140 I made this point a few weeks ago.
00:41:36.260 A just war cannot go on indefinitely.
00:41:39.680 There are just wars.
00:41:41.340 There's justice in going to war. 1.00
00:41:42.940 There's justice in conducting war. 1.00
00:41:44.380 Wars can begin for just causes and be conducted in an unjust way.
00:41:49.680 But a war cannot go on indefinitely and still be just. 0.64
00:41:56.360 And that's why it's not that the state of Israel is losing support among Americans,
00:42:01.940 including among Republicans who used to be very supportive of Israel,
00:42:04.520 simply because of propaganda.
00:42:07.180 There's some of that.
00:42:08.100 But it's because of the facts on the ground in the war and our relation to that war.
00:42:15.320 So it's got to end quickly.
00:42:17.560 I think Netanyahu is sensing that.
00:42:19.480 I think that's why he's saying, all right, we need a conclusion here.
00:42:22.500 What's the conclusion?
00:42:23.360 What are we doing?
00:42:24.380 Okay.
00:42:24.880 Speaking of generally unpleasant events, there's a story.
00:42:29.900 I teased this yesterday.
00:42:30.700 I have to get to it.
00:42:33.100 This is in Wired.
00:42:34.340 Highly recommend you read this article.
00:42:35.960 Wired Magazine, Confessions of a Recovering AI Porn Addict.
00:42:41.080 AI Porn.
00:42:45.320 I'm going to read there for it.
00:42:46.880 This is the subheadline.
00:42:48.420 Their words, not mine.
00:42:50.500 Confessions of a Recovering AI Porn Addict.
00:42:53.080 A gooner tells Wired he became hooked on the cartoonish nature of AI porn.
00:43:00.240 Several addiction experts say the genre could pose a problem
00:43:03.540 for people prone to compulsive sexual behavior.
00:43:07.700 And if you read it, it's this guy.
00:43:08.740 He's not just, this guy has a girlfriend.
00:43:10.680 He's not just a total, you know, freak leper who can't speak, speaking of lepers, 1.00
00:43:15.340 who, you know, a social leper who can't speak to anyone,
00:43:17.840 who's just so contorted by perversions that he just is completely locked up in a prison of his own mind.
00:43:22.380 This guy has a girlfriend.
00:43:24.920 I think he's got a job.
00:43:26.040 Yeah, he's got a job working for a sports betting company.
00:43:29.980 But he had this addiction, not merely to pornography,
00:43:33.120 but to this AI pornography, to cartoons with totally grotesque features
00:43:36.880 that can't possibly exist in real life.
00:43:39.220 And he said it was affecting his relationship.
00:43:41.620 He was affecting his intimacy.
00:43:42.940 It was poisoning his mind.
00:43:44.200 He said he was just on the brink of total despair.
00:43:46.860 And the article interviews a lot of people who have fallen down this rabbit hole.
00:43:51.120 This is not different in kind from regular porn, regular porn addiction,
00:43:58.940 where how many guys have written into the show over the years to say,
00:44:01.700 a porn addiction has ruined my life?
00:44:03.060 How many surveys do we need to see that men are exposed to porn at the age of eight
00:44:07.160 or nine or ten as a median age of exposure?
00:44:10.780 And it really screws them up.
00:44:12.860 How many stories do we need to hear about some married guy, 0.98
00:44:16.720 maybe with a kid or two?
00:44:18.560 Wasn't that the Mr. Beast sidekick?
00:44:20.200 It's like married to a beautiful woman, had a beautiful kid,
00:44:23.120 and then he got into some really weird stuff,
00:44:26.040 and all of a sudden he thinks he's a woman.
00:44:28.080 The Wachowski brothers, the guys who made The Matrix,
00:44:30.380 they said they became transgender because of pornography. 0.56
00:44:33.760 Okay, crazy stuff that you hear about regular pornography.
00:44:37.200 This is just the logical conclusion of that.
00:44:41.340 It's not totally different in kind.
00:44:42.800 It's the logical conclusion of that.
00:44:44.960 One problem with regular pornography is that it sets unrealistic expectations
00:44:49.700 and cultivates unrealistic desires about sex.
00:44:52.620 Such that you read these reports that come out about younger and younger people engaging in all this kind of abusive sexual activity,
00:44:58.680 you know, hitting people and choking people and all this kind of stuff.
00:45:02.540 And why?
00:45:02.860 Because they're obviously learning it from pornography.
00:45:04.740 I don't know if they're just imagining it out of nowhere.
00:45:06.480 Why are you seeing this spike in this activity?
00:45:09.240 Because they're seeing it in pornography, and we're mimetic creatures, so we just imitate what we see.
00:45:13.800 And not only do we imitate behaviors, we imitate desires.
00:45:16.540 So it cultivates unrealistic desires such that if you become a degenerate porn addict,
00:45:21.920 you will not be satisfied with your girlfriend or your wife. 0.78
00:45:26.080 You will desire other women, other things, stranger and stranger ways to titillate you. 0.96
00:45:36.640 That's what you see happen with regular pornography.
00:45:39.000 What is a big problem here is that the artificial intelligence pornography sets expectations and cultivates desires that are totally divorced from reality.
00:45:52.480 So it's not even just like you're setting the expectations that you're going to do some wacky, crazy thing with some, you know, blonde with gigantic whatever, you know. 0.82
00:46:00.240 Okay, we don't need to get too graphic here.
00:46:01.880 But it's not just that it sets the unrealistic expectations and thereby, because we're creatures of habit,
00:46:06.780 cultivates these bizarre desires and unrealistic desires of regular pornography.
00:46:13.140 It's going to be like a cartoon with like three breasts and two heads and tentacles. 1.00
00:46:20.740 You know, it's going to be, it's going to be something that's like so completely out there that it cannot exist in the real world.
00:46:28.060 And that is really, really bad because it's much, much harder to come back from that.
00:46:32.880 You can, there are plenty of people who have recovered from this addiction, just like any other addiction, addiction to drugs or alcohol or anything else.
00:46:38.600 But it's really bad.
00:46:41.280 It's really, really bad.
00:46:42.880 And this is, not to broaden it out too much, this is kind of the logical conclusion of liberalism.
00:46:50.900 To me, the greatest statement of what liberalism is as a political philosophy, progressive liberalism, all the way back to classical liberalism, is paradise lost.
00:47:00.720 It's John Milton writing the character of Satan, Satan who is the archetypal classical liberal, who is cast down into hell.
00:47:10.260 And he says, that's fine.
00:47:11.780 I don't care.
00:47:12.840 I am so going to ignore reality.
00:47:15.820 I'm so concerned with my autonomy that I'm going to celebrate being in hell.
00:47:20.480 The mind is its own place and it can make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell.
00:47:25.020 And it's better to reign in hell.
00:47:26.860 It's better to be autonomous in hell amid torture than it is to serve even a good God in heaven.
00:47:35.240 That's liberalism.
00:47:36.600 That's the apotheosis.
00:47:39.120 That's the logical conclusion of liberalism.
00:47:41.680 Okay.
00:47:42.820 And that's what you have here.
00:47:44.240 I remember I was having a conversation.
00:47:45.900 I was with Drew years ago with one of these stories came out, you know, a report that men would rather look at pornography than sleep with a real girl.
00:47:54.680 And we were joking about it.
00:47:56.420 We were saying, could you imagine, could you imagine someone saying that?
00:47:59.480 And then we thought, oh, yes, I can.
00:48:01.740 Of course.
00:48:03.600 Because a real girl has wrinkles. 1.00
00:48:07.660 A real girl might have a little bit of fat in that one area. 1.00
00:48:10.420 A real girl has opinions and desires. 1.00
00:48:12.780 A real girl has a say. 1.00
00:48:14.540 A real girl can judge you. 1.00
00:48:16.520 A real girl can reject you. 1.00
00:48:18.220 A real girl is a human being.
00:48:22.120 Porn is just whatever you want.
00:48:24.120 We were saying, oh, there's always any kind of, any desire you might even possibly think up.
00:48:27.760 There's some porn for it.
00:48:28.900 That was true before AI.
00:48:30.060 Now you just get caught in this seemingly solipsistic prison of your own constantly perverting and degrading desires.
00:48:42.280 Not good stuff.
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