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Documents Here! Documents There! Classified Documents Everywhere!

Posted on | January 24, 2023 | 2 Comments

It’s a Doctor Seuss story at this point:

Classified documents were found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Carmel, Indiana, last week, according to CNN.
It is unclear what classified information exists in the documents.
Pence’s lawyer alerted the National Archives of the revelation. The Department of Justice (DOJ) was subsequently notified by the National Archives. The FBI and Justice Department have launched an investigation into the documents and how they were taken to Indiana.

So Pence had classified documents in Indiana, Trump had classified documents in Florida, and Biden had classified documents in, what? Five locations now? So many that I’ve lost count, anyway. You get the idea that maybe all these “secrets” aren’t so secret. We should be grateful for the incompetence of our nation’s enemies, because certainly our “intelligence community” isn’t very good at protecting our national security.



 

 

Category: Scandal

The World’s Best Coffee?

Posted on | January 24, 2023 | Comments Off on The World’s Best Coffee?

On Saturday night’s episode of The Other Podcast, our Valdosta correspondent Dianna Deeley took time to thank John Hoge for a gift he gave her — Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee. Dianna’s praise for the quality of this product piqued my curiosity, and with a quick search of Amazon, I discovered that these beans sell for around $60 a pound.

Because I am far more the gourmand than the gourmet when it comes to coffee — I drink six or eight cups a day — I am certainly not a “coffee snob,” and am generally content with Maxwell House or whatever I get. But hearing Dianna’s testimony to the exquisite taste, I researched Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee and learned, among other things, that “this coffee has developed a reputation that has made it one of the most expensive and sought-after coffees in the world. Over 80% of all Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is exported to Japan.” A-ha!

Foreign competition from those inscrutable Orientals has bid up the price of these precious beans, which can only be grown at certain altitudes in the mountains of this one Caribbean island, so that the supply is limited, while the demand — well, why haven’t you ordered your supply of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans yet?

You see, now that I have discovered these beans — and am publicizing them so that everybody in the world with an Internet connection becomes aware of the superiority of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee — the increased demand will certainly result in rising prices. By the time you see this blog post, perhaps hundreds of our regular readers have already ordered their beans from Amazon, and the price may have hit $70 or $80 a pound.

John Hoge’s already boosting Blue Mountain beans on his blog, and this could be the beginning of a market-changing phenomenon — like the 17th-century tulip craze or the South Sea bubble.

BUY YOUR BEANS NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

It could be only a matter of weeks before the surging demand drives up the cost to the point that only the wealthy elite will be able to afford Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee — and meanwhile, me and my blog readers will be sitting on our stockpile of those precious beans, purchased at pre-“bubble” prices. Capitalism is beautiful.



 

 

Category: Economics

In The Mailbox: 01.23.22

Posted on | January 24, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.23.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Happy Lunar new year!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: T-Mobile Hacked For The Eighth Time Since 2018
EBL: Antifa’s Atlanta Getaway, FIRE JEFF ZIENTS, and Year of the Rabbit
Twitchy: April Ryan Tries To Tie Gas Prices To Race, Croggles Energy Secretary Granholm, also, Gov. Hairgel Explains Why Guns Are Bad While Surrounded by Armed Security
Louder With Crowder: College soccer player got benched after refusing to take a knee for social justice, now her coach owes her $100k, NFL Legend Tony Dungy defies media haters, addresses March for Life about the power of prayer, and Gringa Hilaria Baldwin brings back fake Spanish accent to yell at reporters chasing husband Alec (who killed a woman)
Vox Popoli: US Disavows Navy SEAL, Suddenly, An Unexpected Twist, Red China Buys SF Publisher, He’s Not Wrong, and They Lied, is How
Stoic Observations: Black Suffering

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Spiritual Battle
American Conservative: Constitutionalism in an Age Without Limits, The DEI Republicans, and Creating a Russian Bogeyman
American Greatness: Lies, Damned Lies, and Gun Statistics, How RNC Policy Lost a Winnable House Seat, Is the Justice Department Pursuing Biden Just to Get Trump?, and FBI Agent Who Investigated Trump-Russia Collusion Has Been Arrested For Colluding With Russia
American Power: When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know
American Thinker: The Real Purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour, The Disturbing Precedent behind Dangerous COVID Shots, The War on Competence, and President Deep State?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship on trial in London over millions in defaulted loans, Cuban dictatorship opens new luxury apartheid hotel for foreign animals, Russia sends ‘experts’ to toy with Cuba’s unfixable economy, or so they say, and Cuban police pepper spray mothers and their babies standing in line for diapers
BattleSwarm: Toss-able Suicide X-Wing Drone, also, “Beijing Mini-Me” Xiongan Is China’s Largest “Rotten Tail” Project
Behind The Black: First launch from Shetland Islands predicted for the fall, First Vulcan rocket arrives at Cape Canaveral, Martian crater with mound of ice? mud? hardened sand?, and Today’s blacklisted American: Game publisher fires employee for expressing conservative opinions
Cafe Hayek: The Primacy of the Consumer-Welfare Standard, also, What Was Uniquely Important About American Revolutionaries?
CDR Salamander: The Navy’s New Mission with Bryan McGrath – on Midrats, also, Can we Learn Something From the Air Force?
Chicago Boyz: What’s the Deal with Construction Productivity?
Da Tech Guy: Shades of Treyvon Martin in LA or Clemenza Must not have been available, ChatGPT says…sue the schools!, and Jonathan Roumie hits it out of the park at the March for Life
Don Surber: So Irrelevant They Won’t Stop Talking About Him, Turning California Into Hell, and Highlights of the News
First Street Journal: Amanda Marcotte gaslighting on stoves, All the News That’s Fit to Print? and Why, it’s almost as though gun control laws don’t work!
Gates Of Vienna: EVs Turn Ferries Into Death Boats, You And Whose Army?, Sweden Can Kiss NATO Membership Goodbye, and Culture-Enriching Knife Incident on the Bus in Mestre
The Geller Report: 21 Year Old Surfer Evan McMillen Dies Suddenly, 35-Year-Old Middle School Coach and Teacher Dies Suddenly in Front of His Class, Utah Doctor, Others Charged With Giving Saline shots Instead of Controversial Covid Vaccine, and 10.9 Million 2022 Midterm Mail-In Ballots ‘Unaccounted For’ in California
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Mmmmm, Coffee, An Older View of Andromeda, and Nothing to See Here. Move Along
Hollywood In Toto: Kavanaugh Doc Director Laughably Plays Victim Card, Comic Sam Morril Rages Against Big Tech Censorship, and A Terrible, Awful No-Good Week for Hollywood
Legal Insurrection: FBI Offers $25K Reward for Info About Attacks on 10 Pro-Life Centers, Antifa Members Arrested in Atlanta are White and Five Aren’t Even From Georgia, Vanderbilt Prof Calls College Math a ‘White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space’, Study Claims People Need to Battle Climate Change by…Drinking Less Coffee, and “There are signs of weakness in MIT’s commitment to academic freedom”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Classic sports Saturday, Third Sunday after Epiphany, and Monday Culture
Outkick: Bomani Jones Tanks Again On HBO, Shannon Sharpe Issues Apology For Ridiculous Altercation During Grizzlies-Lakers Game, Cincinnati Bengals Are A Monster Snarling At NFL, Defeating Narratives And League’s Best Teams, Peyton Hillis Home From Hospital After Saving Kids From Drowning, and Stefon Diggs Behavior During, After Bills Loss Serves As Reminder Of Past Issues
Power Line: More Documents In Slow Joe’s House, Thought for the Day/Week: Tocqueville on the Roots of MEOW, and How Dumb Can a Politician Get?
Shark Tank: Donalds Says Democrats May Not Want It, But Debt Ceiling Negotiations Are Going To Happen
Shot In The Dark: Deja Vu All Over Again, Emblematic, and Win-Win
This Ain’t Hell: Navy SEAL, AWOL, killed in Ukraine, Ask me anything…MCPON goes on Reddit, DIRCIA nomination blocked by senator, and The Festival of John Moses Browning
Transterrestrial Musings: Meet President George Santos, The Biggest Rat, The California Dream, and Gerard Van Der Leun
Victory Girls: Kardashian Goes To Harvard; Hilarity Ensues, American Mom Who Praised Red China Gets Flak, and Trans Women Threaten Real Women With Decapitation
Volokh Conspiracy: Canada Grants Refugee Status to Russian Fleeing Conscription, also, Justice Gorsuch’s Dissent from Denial of Review in an Excessive Fines Clause Case
Watts Up With That: UK to Ban Plastic Spoons, In Pennsylvania, Will Josh Shapiro Unlock Decades of Affordable Energy?, The Mexican Sun Sets on Making Sunsets, and UK Coal Plants Fired Up AGAIN as Renewable Energy Output Fails
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris Explains How Weather And Climate Work -Word Salad Ensues, Biden Talks About Police Officers, Has Absolutely No Idea What He’s Talking About, Nancy Pelosi Walks Back Outrage, Flip Flops On Classified Documents, and ABC Poll: Biden’s Leadership Ratings Underwater On All Major Issues
The Federalist: Like DeSantis, Every Republican Lawmaker Should Block College Board’s Critical Race Theory Class, America Needs More Unapologetic Christians Like Tony Dungy, AAP’s Obesity Treatments Prioritize Big Pharma Over Children’s Health And Wellness, None Of Biden’s Excuses For Having Classified Documents Make Any Sense, and Vimeo Nukes ‘Dead Name’ Documentary Highlighting The Horrors Of Transgender Ideology
Mark Steyn: You Think You’re Funny? The Nice Guys and the Modern Film Noir, Tal Bachman: New Year’s Day, part three, and The Deafening Silence

You know what time it is.
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Category: Linkagery

THE ATLANTA RIOT: Out-of-State Anarchists Torch Police Vehicle

Posted on | January 23, 2023 | 3 Comments

Chris Carr is Georgia’s attorney general, and his sense of indignation is widely shared by the law-abiding citizens of Georgia, who have never experienced the kind of left-wing extremism represented by the “protesters” who rioted Saturday night in downtown Atlanta.

The city’s mayor, Andre Dickens, made clear where he stands:

Atlanta is safe, and our police officers have resolved the disruptions downtown from this evening. Thanks to the quick action of our public safety officials working together, order has been restored in a swift manner.
The city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Department will not tolerate this, and we continue to protect the right to peacefully protest. We will not tolerate violence or property destruction. The Atlanta Police Department and our law enforcement partners are fully engaged and have the resources to protect our residents, our visitors and our businesses in this city.
Again, I want to thank Atlanta’s firefighters, our police officers, our 911 operators, EMS and everyone else who has helped to keep order in our city.
My message is simple to those who seek to continue this type of criminal behavior: We will find you and we will arrest you and you will be held accountable. We have arrested several of them this evening, and Chief Schierbaum will give you the details on that. Many of them don’t even live in Atlanta or in the state of Georgia and they don’t represent the voices of Atlantans. And some of them were found with explosives on them. You heard that correctly — explosives — and that has led to a police officer’s car being set on fire. And other destruction has occurred.
So make no mistake about it. These individuals meant harm to people and to property.

It was clear from what the police chief explained at the press conference that the “protest” downtown was organized with the subsequent destruction as its objective. Embedded in a crowd of several dozen protesters were a comparative handful of anarchists prepared to engage in violence. It’s a pattern we saw in many cities during the summer of 2020 — the “mostly peaceful” protesters serve as a sort of bodyguard to conceal and protect the perpetrators of vandalism, arson, etc. The media pretend to be surprised and dismayed that the protest “turned violent,” despite the obvious pattern which demonstrates that the violence was pre-planned and that the organizers of the “peaceful protest” knew damned well what the ultimate result would be.

Mayor Dickens and Attorney General Carr are having none of this. Keep in mind that Atlanta is the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, so they certainly know what “peaceful protest” means, and what these Antifa terrorists were doing? Definitely not “peaceful.” When I wrote about this story earlier (“Dear Antifa Terrorists: Please Go to Georgia, So Cops Can Kill All of You”), Antifa was already calling for a “Night of Rage” and demanding “reciprocal violence” against the police. Saturday on The Other Podcast — before we knew about the riot — we discussed the story, including Erick Erickson’s reporting about how Antifa doxed and terrorized employees of the company contracted to build the police training center that the protesters have dubbed “Cop City.”

Atlanta’s WAGA-TV reports:

Atlanta police have released the names, mugshots and charges for the six suspects arrested during a riot in downtown Atlanta Saturday evening. Only one of the suspects was a Georgia resident.
Nadja Geier, 24, of Nashville, Tenn.; Madeleine Feola, 22, of Spokane, Wash.; Ivan Ferguson, 22, of Nevada; Graham Evatt, 20, of Decatur, Ga.; Francis Carrol, 22, of Kennebunkport, Maine; and Emily Murphy, 37, of Grosse Isle, Mich. were each charged with four misdemeanors and four felonies.
The misdemeanor charges include: rioting, pedestrian in a roadway, willful obstruction of a law enforcement officer and unlawful assembly.
The felony charges include: second degree criminal damage, first degree arson, interference with government property and domestic terrorism.

Just out of curiosity, I Googled the lone Georgia resident on that list and — ooh, boy! — Graham Evatt is a strange case. His Twitter profile proclaims him a “Beta male,” apparently as a troll of my Australian friend Nick Adams, who calls himself an “Alpha male” on Twitter.

Let’s hope the judge deems these suspects a flight risk and denies them bail because, of course, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

UPDATE: Thanks to Dana in the comments for this item:

An Antifa ‘domestic terrorist’ is the son of a millionaire Maine surgeon who grew up in a stunning mansion in one of the most luxurious beach towns on the east coast . . .
Francis ‘Frankie’ Carroll, 22, was one of five people arrested on Tuesday at the autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Centre. . . .
Carroll is the son of surgeon Dr Mike Carroll and grew up in a $2 million five-bedroom and four-bathroom mansion in Kennebunkport – as well as enjoying time on his parents’ yacht.

Welcome to Georgia, yacht-boy!



 

 

Category: Crime, Georgia, Terrorism

Rule 5 Sunday: Gina Lollobrigida, RIP

Posted on | January 23, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Italian bombshell Gina Lollobrigida co-starred with just about every movie star of the 1950s and 60s despite a contract with Howard Hughes that effectively prohibited her from filming in America. Some of her best-known films are Beat The Devil (with Humphrey Bogart), The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (with Anthony Quinn), and Solomon & Sheba (with Yul Brynner).
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

“I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay when he did not fall in love with me.”

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1967, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five The More Things Change Friday, and the Saturday Asian Invasion. 

EVIL BLOGGERLADY: MAGA Vs. Democrat Secrets, Keeley Hawes, Lisa Marie Presley (RIP), Nos4A2, Glass Onion, Hotel Artemis, The Making Of A Lady, Vesper, Abby Zwerner, Democrat Knives Out For Biden, Saturday Night Fever, Three Stooges, I Feel Safer Already, Call Me – Escorts Of Davos, The Last of Us, Gina Lollobrigida, Riviera,  and Cheek To Cheek.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: You Jane, Jane March, Eat a Catfish, Save the Bay, Fish Pic Friday – Alyssa Vega, Thursday Tanlines, Some Wednesday Wetness, American Woman Wins Miss Universe, Tattoo Tuesday,  RIP: Gina Lollobrigida, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and Sailing, Sailing, Over the Ocean Blue

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Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales

Posted on | January 21, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Title track is from Klaus Schulze’s La Vie Electronique Vol.4, a nice three-disc set of old-school electronic music that could pass for classical if most classical stations weren’t stuck in the 19th century. Should not be confused with this Ray Bradbury collection, which might have inspired Schulze, who was a big reader of SF and Frank Herbert in particular.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Ryouma Sakamoto and his wife/dragon* Oryou.

The Next California Disaster
The Political Hat
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear
A View From The Beach
EBL

Goldilocks and the Four Interceptions 
The Pirate’s Cove
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Homeko
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.17.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Biden Celebrates MLK Day With Speech to Group Founded by Infamous Jew-Hater
Okrahead
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.17.23 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

‘A Routine Traffic Stop’
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 01.18.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Kerry at Davos: ‘A Select Group of Human Beings … Talk About Saving the Planet’
The First Street Journal
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.19.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Dear Antifa Terrorists: Please Go to Georgia, So Cops Can Kill All of You
The DaleyGator
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 01.20.23
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending on Lee-Jackson Day:

  1.  EBL (13)
  2.  357 Magnum (11)
  3.  A View From The Beach (8)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

*Dragons, dinosaurs, close enough.

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Category: FMJRA Award

Well, This Is Scary: Idaho Killer’s Motive May Be Unanswered Instagram DMs

Posted on | January 21, 2023 | Comments Off on Well, This Is Scary: Idaho Killer’s Motive May Be Unanswered Instagram DMs

Why would Bryan Kohberger kill four college students whom he’d never met? Nancy Grace may have put her finger on the motive:

Was there a possible link between the Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger and one of his victims? Fox Nation’s “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace” tackles this very question with the former prosecutor’s team of experts.
While forensic evidence seems to be pointing towards Kohberger — the criminology Ph.D. student accused of ambushing a group of University of Idaho undergrads in November and who’s since been charged with quadruple homicide — the case could hit a snag without a connection that indicates motive.
“Finally, have we found the link between Bryan Kohberger and his four murder victims, according to police? Of course the state never has to prove motive, but any jury would wonder why would he target people he had never met — or had he?” crime expert Nancy Grace posited.
“There’s a lot of forensic evidence, but… if you don’t give them a motive or a nexus, you’re going to have a problem come verdict time,” the former prosecutor and Fox Nation host explained.
The ‘Crime Stories’ episode explores how a source who spoke to People Magazine shared that Kohberger sent multiple direct messages (DM’s) to one of the victims through the social media app Instagram, but never received a reply.
Grace shared how DMs are sent and viewed, indicating to Fox Senior Correspondent Laura Ingle that the victim may have not even read or known about the messages from the suspect.
“It has been revealed now that it looks like there was a message coming from somebody that appeared to be Bryan Kohberger,” Ingle noted.
“And if somebody messages me from a post that I make or great report last night or something, I will see it. But if I’m not following that person, it’ll go to this kind of envelope that I forget about,” Ingle went on to explain.
“So sometimes I’ll go, ‘Oh yeah, I need to look at that. You need to accept the messages.’ And they’ll be a long string of random strangers saying things. And sometimes I don’t see it. And then you can either accept that message, you can delete that message. Sometimes they’re creepy messages, as we all know, being on Instagram. So there is a very big chance that she or he, whatever victim was didn’t see those messages because there wasn’t a reply according to the source.”
Grace posed the question about the importance of the phones involved, and how the interactions on social media between the victims and Kohberger could be the missing link for a motive.

Think about this for a minute. If you’re on Instagram, how often do you check your DMs? And if the DM is from someone you don’t follow, you may not even know they’ve DM’ed you. So here is the cute, popular college girl who probably had hundreds of followers, and here is this creepy loner type who has become obsessed with her, sending her DMs that she never answers because she never even sees the messages. In the creepazoid’s mind, he is being cruelly rejected by this girl, but she doesn’t even know he exists! Which is pretty damned scary to me, considering my daughter is a cute, popular college girl who uses Instagram. Like, there could be some creepy stalker loner out there at this very minute, boiling with rage because my daughter hasn’t answered his DMs.

And, in case you’d forgotten: Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

 

Category: Crime, Idaho

The Penn Scandal: Ivy League University Was Funnel for Biden’s Chinese Cash

Posted on | January 21, 2023 | 1 Comment

The University of Pennsylvania is an elite private school, where the annual cost of attendance is $81,340 including room and board. This Ivy League institution paid Joe Biden nearly $1 million between the time he left office as vice president in 2017 and the time he announced his presidential campaign in 2019. So far as is known, Biden made a grand total of nine appearances on the Penn campus in exchange for this lucrative remuneration, and also got a free university-provided office in D.C. as part of the “Penn Biden Center” deal, which is now under scrutiny because classified documents were found at the D.C. office. But there’s more to the story, as Gabrielle Etzel reports at Campus Reform:

UPenn announced the creation of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in February 2017, and officially opened its Washington DC center in February 2018.
Biden was named the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at UPenn in 2017. Prior to his bid for the Presidency, the DC think tank was designed with an office suite dedicated to Biden’s use while in the capital city.
UPenn paid Biden nearly $1 million for his contract between 2017 and 2019, according to the New York Post. Biden appeared on UPenn’s campus a total of nine times prior to suspending his professorship when he announced his presidential candidacy in April 2019.
At the inauguration of the Penn Biden Center, former president of UPenn Amy Gutmann stated, “The unmatched personal connections Joe Biden has with world leaders is equally important to our students, our faculty, policymakers, and the work of this new Center…in furthering [the] diplomacy and global engagement that is needed to advance the world order.”
Investigative reporting from The Washington Free Beacon reveals that, between 2017 and 2019, UPenn received $61 million in gifts and contracts from China. By comparison, UPenn received $19 million from Chinese investments between 2014 and 2017.
Following this report, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed an official complaint with the US Attorney’s Office alleging that UPenn and the Penn Biden Center may be in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Can anyone explain the Chinese Communist government’s sudden increase in generosity toward Penn once the university made its deal with Biden? As Guttman said, the selling point for the deal was Biden’s “unmatched personal connections . . . with world leaders,” and maybe what she meant was, “We’re going to get lots of Chinese payola.”

We can perhaps only speculate about Beijing’s motives, but certainly there is more reason to suspect Biden was beholden to China than there ever was to suspect Trump of being beholden to Russia.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

 

Category: Joe Biden
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