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Posted by: thepinetree on 08/08/2024 09:36 PM Updated by: thepinetree on 08/08/2024 09:36 PM
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CAGOP, Leader Jones Announce Addition of Senator Alvarado-Gil to Republican Party, Senate Republican Caucus

Sacramento, CA...Today, Senate Minority Leader Brian W. Jones and California Republican Party Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson welcomed Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil to the Senate Republican Caucus and the California Republican Party as she announced her departure from the Senate Democratic Caucus and her change in party affiliation.




“Since my first day in office, I have put the interests of my constituents first. I was elected to serve the public, not a political ideology,” said Alvarado-Gil. “The status quo under a supermajority Democratic rule in the legislature is simply not working for this state. It is after deep reflection I announce that I will be joining the Senate Republican Caucus and the California Republican Party in their fight to Fix California.

“Since I’ve served in our State’s Capitol, I’ve had a front-row seat to witness the supermajority push California in the wrong direction, having a grave effect on our once Golden state. The Democratic Party is unrecognizable to what I once knew and lacks the will to fix the problems plaguing this state. I cannot stand by a party that ignores the will of the people and disregards the core American values that my very community supports and believes in.”

Alvarado-Gil is known for her bipartisan approach, notably diverging from norms earlier this year as she was recognized by media for her efforts with Senate Republicans to compassionately clear homeless encampments. Showcasing bold action and her strength as a leader, she even revoked support for bills when the supermajority prioritized politics over public safety.

“I will continue to aggressively advocate for fiscal responsibility, policies that protect and restore community safety, that support our veterans, tackle the homelessness crisis with accountability, and lower living costs,” Alvarado-Gil continued. “I look forward to collaborating with my Republican colleagues on their plan to Fix California and continuing to lead with a pragmatic approach on issues affecting my district and this great state.”

Alvarado-Gil has led the charge on numerous anti-crime measures, including efforts to address the fentanyl crisis, combat human trafficking, protect child victims of sex trafficking, make the rape of an unconscious person a violent felony, and crack down on the dumping of sexually violent predators in rural communities.

“It takes courage to stand up to the supermajority in California and Marie has what it takes,” said Leader Jones. “Her record on tackling crime, protecting communities from sexually violent predators, and prioritizing her constituents speaks for itself. Senate Republicans are committed to addressing the real issues facing communities across the state and look forward to adding an eager spit fire like Marie to the cause.”

Jones, who worked closely with Alvarado-Gil on several key Republican-priority measures in recent months, welcomes her with open arms.

“It’s no secret that California’s political landscape is heavily weighted to the left, but with increasing attention on issues worsened by Democrat policies, we can continue making strides in our fight,” Jones continued. “The pendulum is swinging in this great state. If we’re going to fix California, we need pragmatic leaders like Marie who have seen firsthand the impact of the supermajority’s policies on communities and want to change it for the better. For anyone else who might be tired of witnessing the supermajority run this state into the ground, we have a seat at our table for you, too.”

“Senator Alvarado-Gil has represented her community as an independent, fiscally-conservative voice in Sacramento, and we are honored to have her represent them going forward as a member of the Republican Party,” said Chairwoman Patterson. “While California Democrats continue to lose voters, the California Republican Party keeps adding in every congressional and legislative district and in every county. We are overjoyed today that this now includes Senator Alvarado-Gil.”

“California Democrats’ failed one-party rule has had disastrous consequences throughout the Golden State, and instead of fixing critical issues like rampant crime, a homeless crisis and an outrageous cost of living, they have driven our state to the top of all the wrong lists,” Patterson continued. “Thankfully, the constituents in Senate District 4 have a leader in Sacramento who will fight alongside the California Republican Party to move our state in the right direction once again.”

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‘Rip off a Leg or Two’: Undercover Video Exposes how Planned Parenthood Harvests Baby Organs
Posted on: 2024-08-09 05:41:05   By: Anonymous
 
Planned Parenthood fought for eight years to prevent the release of the Center for Medical Progress' newest video, which sheds even more light on the abortion industry's callousness about dismembering living babies and flouting federal law.

The pro-life investigators of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) have released previously-unreleased footage from their original 2015 investigation in which Planned Parenthood officials reveal how they mutilate the bodies of aborted babies to disguise the illegal abortion methods employed to kill them.

On Tuesday, CMP released video, which Planned Parenthood had fought to block for the past eight years, of two conversations at the National Abortion Federation’s (NAF) 2015 commercial trade show between Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (Texas) chief medical officer Dr. Ann Schutt-Aine, vice president of abortion access Tram Nguyen, RN, and undercover CMP journalists who the abortion insiders thought were laboratory wholesalers.

The footage contains more examples of the officials making light of the barbaric nature of their business, such as Nguyen saying at one point, “I’m like, ‘Yeah, I have like a leg for you!’ I’m like, oh sh**, if other people were to hear me, they’d be like, you are f***ing evil.”

But the most significant revelation is Schutt-Aine’s discussion of sometimes needing to take more “passes” at dismembering a baby within the womb “to avoid PBA,” partial-birth abortion, which has been illegal under federal law since 2003.

“If I’m doing a procedure, and I’m seeing that I’m in fear that it’s about to come to the umbilicus [navel], I might ask for a second set of forceps to hold the body at the cervix and pull off a leg or two, so it’s not PBA,” she says.

“Planned Parenthood repeatedly told Congress, the courts, and the public that it had ‘rebuffed’ any opportunity to sell aborted baby body parts in Texas,” CMP founder and project lead David Daleiden said of the latest footage. “This finally-released undercover footage shows that in reality, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast was ghoulishly eager to rip healthy babies out of vulnerable patients whole and alive, and mutilate their bodies after to sell body parts for top dollar.”

“Kamala Harris, as California Attorney General, raided my home and seized this footage to try to block it from release for eight years, on orders from Planned Parenthood and NAF. It’s time for justice under the law for Big Abortion,” he added.

Starting in 2015, CMP began releasing a series of secretly recorded conversations with officials from Planned Parenthood and NAF that set off a firestorm of controversy and a string of revelations about the abortion industry breaking multiple federal laws against profiting off human organs, altering abortion procedures for the sake of procuring better tissue samples, and potentially even committing partial-birth abortions or infanticide, as well as video examples of abortion workers displaying callousness toward the humanity of the children their work killed.

Despite pro-life outcry or the severity of the scandal, however, neither the Obama, Trump, nor Biden administrations ever took action against any of the implicated abortion organizations over CMP’s findings.

During March testimony on Capitol Hill, Daleiden called out Vice President Kamala Harris, who was Attorney General of California at the time the original baby-parts scandal broke and has since become Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, for complicity in a “cover-up” of the abortion giant’s crimes. Instead of prosecuting abortion-industry figures for the crimes exposed in California, Harris raided Daleiden’s home to seize his undercover footage and prosecuted him. Emails were later uncovered indicating that Harris’s office coordinated with Planned Parenthood on the situation.

In the years since, Daleiden and CMP were hit with various lawsuits and felony charges on claims of trespassing, misidentifying themselves with fake driver’s licenses, and recording people without their consent. CMP argued that the federal Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act had been misapplied, but in December they lost its final appeal of a nearly $16 million judgment against the pro-life group. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene last October.

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    Re: ‘Rip off a Leg or Two’: Undercover Video Exposes how Planned Parenthood Harvests Baby Organs
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 06:26:51   By: Anonymous
     
    Trump is running scared now. Yesterday's presser was a disgrace. He lied throughout, consistently, and without a hint of blowback by the press. Can you imagine if Biden lied like trump did yesterday, for the entire fiasco, for an entire hour?? The press would be all over him. Trump, not so much. What are they afraid of??
    Trump is a stone cold liar, on full display yesterday, and should be sent down the road to his home in the clouds, Loserdum.
    He is a national disgrace, and if he per chance is elected president, he will at least be right on one thing. Our country is a 3rd world country. That's what we will be if he wins. 3rd world, run by a dictator, despot. I don't think it will happen, but with all the rednecks falling in line with his complete line of bullchit, one never knows.
    Harris/Walz 2024

    Trump is a national disgrace.

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      Re: ‘Rip off a Leg or Two’: Undercover Video Exposes how Planned Parenthood Harvests Baby Organs
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 06:30:51   By: Anonymous
       
      Agree he is a National Disgrace

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        No Subject
        Posted on: 2024-08-09 06:46:51   By: Anonymous
         
        Trump is a raging lunatic …. Can he just go away… FOREVER

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          Re:
          Posted on: 2024-08-09 06:50:27   By: Anonymous
           
          Trumps getting crushed in the polls… People hate him … Republicans need a new Presidential candidate. Like the Democratic Party. Because we are going down again with the criminal insurrectionist felon …

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            Re:
            Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:20:25   By: Anonymous
             
            Kamala will lose as she is fundamentally unlikable. Power hungry yes, likeable, no.

            Remember when she launched in Oakland? She was the anointed one! Jumped out to big polling lead. Then people actually saw her for what she is.

            Her policies prove she is part of the unhumans. It is what she is and what they do.

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              Re:
              Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:30:16   By: Anonymous
               
              ^^Difference?? She may be "unlikeable", but people "hate" Trump. He'd throw his mother off the bridge to save himself. All the while looking in his hand held mirror.
              What a despicable fuk.

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        Re: ‘Rip off a Leg or Two’: Undercover Video Exposes how Planned Parenthood Harvests Baby Organs
        Posted on: 2024-08-09 06:50:23   By: Anonymous
         
        You agree with yourself; you posted to your own comment.
        Obviously you are insane, as you have made quite clear in this line of comments along with many, many others. My interest is what is the process in your mind when you have an argument or discussion with yourself? How do you decide who "wins" or "loses"? How many voices are in your head and do they all agree with each-other, or are there internal disputes that you have to manage and/or bury? Are all the personalities the same sex and your misandrist or misogynist, or are there multiple genders? What about race, are they all the same or are you a racist schizophrenic? Thank you for helping me understand the mind of someone so interesting as yourself.
        In kindness I want to point out that covid is making a comeback and I want you to be safe, so please go get a few safe and effective booster shots before you get sick.

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          No Subject
          Posted on: 2024-08-09 06:52:23   By: Anonymous
           
          Where exactly did you come up with that crap ?

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            Re:
            Posted on: 2024-08-09 06:56:09   By: Anonymous
             
            JD VANCE … Republicans need two new nominees. Because people think VANCE is way to Creepy… THAT was a HUGE MISTAKE DONALD … ITS OVER ANYWAY… YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON

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              Re:
              Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:02:15   By: Anonymous
               
              Good MORNING MAGA REPUBLICANS. LETS ALL RISE AND PAY HOMAGE TO THE JANUARY SIXTH.HOSTAGES… MAYBE WE CAN CHANGE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT THE OLYMPICS. TO TRUMPS NUMBER ONE HIT … FRANKLY BIGGER THAN ANYTHING TAYLOR SWIFT HAS EVER DONE OF COURSE …

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                Re:
                Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:05:35   By: Anonymous
                 
                September 18 … MARK YOUR CALENDAR… TRUMP SENTENCING ON 34 FELONY CONVERSATIONS…

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                  Re:
                  Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:08:46   By: Anonymous
                   
                  Republicans policy… PROJECT 2025 …. WRITTEN BY STEVEN MILLER …

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                    Re:
                    Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:14:56   By: Anonymous
                     
                    Trump cannot get a license to sell alcohol at his resorts. He cannot own a gun. And he could not get a job at WALMART. With his Criminal Record…. Just Saying … He is a Convicted Felon …

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                      Re:
                      Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:46:56   By: Anonymous
                       
                      You made lots of comments to yourself but you didn't answer any of my questions. What makes the modern liberal nutcase tick? Tell us about your mind and how it functions (or rather doesn't function).

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                        Re:
                        Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:02:13   By: Anonymous
                         
                        It's related to anti, probably anti's dad Bill

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          Re: ‘Rip off a Leg or Two’: Undercover Video Exposes how Planned Parenthood Harvests Baby Organs
          Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:54:08   By: Anonymous
           
          You're absolutely right he did post to his own comment and does this all the time. Same words, same format, just another lib/Dem loser who's going to vote for making America a communist country.


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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:09:43   By: Anonymous
 
To those of you that didn’t read he article on Alvarado/Gill, and take space to rail on Trump, you are illiterate, and demonstrate why this once great state is a disaster! I just rode the train from Modesto to southern Ca., what you see from the train is a direct reflection of Democratic rule in this state. Home less camp after homeless camp, filth everywhere, people on welfare could be cleaning up these right of ways to earn their “free “ money, but we know the democrats did away with welfare recipients working to earn the “free” money they get every month.
A “high speed rail” that isn’t anywhere close to being operational, started by Jerry Brown, a Democrat, and endorsed by now Governor Newsome a Democrat. The waste of hard earned tax dollars on this project is astronomical. Going through Fresno, much of the concrete work for said train has already been graffitied, thanks to the local Mexican population, showing no respect for the world that they live in! Many of you democrats have come to expect graffiti as normal behavior, let me tell you, “it’s not”. What a pitiful state we have become!

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    Re:
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:16:45   By: Anonymous
     
    That’s completely bogus … TRUMPS GOOD DOWN …

    [Reply ]

      Re:
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 07:48:12   By: Anonymous
       
      Lay off the booze, especially in the morning. It might help the voices in your head stay (more) quite.

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        Re:
        Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:12:46   By: Anonymous
         
        Crowd size…. Bigger than MLK …. THAT IS REPUBLICANS BULL SH— on FULL DISPLAY… LUNATIC’S …

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          Re:
          Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:17:23   By: Anonymous
           
          Trump looks like death warmed over. He is the oldest nominee for president in history. It’s obvious. He is in cognitive decline.

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            Re:
            Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:28:34   By: Anonymous
             
            This^^watch him lumber out in front of a mic. Slumped over, arms dangling like an ape, doing his best Lurch imitation. Then the bloated face, the vagina like neck, the unhealthy hue. Man, that dude is hurtin'!!!!!!!
            But at least he's got nice hair!!!!

            hahahahhehehehehehehohohohohohohohoho

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    Re:
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:14:29   By: Anonymous
     
    Yeah, but look at the new reservoir we got that we voted for in 2014...oh wait, they keep prolonging it, even though biden gave CA demiwit politicians $180,000,000 just awhile back, and still.....???? NOTHING, makes one wonder where the money has gone. What was once about a illion Dollars is now 7 Billion or more dollars. Damn good thing Newsom gave hundreds of millions just to the LA area for the homeless problem and they've shown amazing progress in knowing anything about if it's helped or not. Maybe we can get some of those illegals immigrants that cost CA tax payers billions of dollars a year to help? Better chance at that then getting a democrat off their lazy arse and working.

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      Re:
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:21:36   By: Anonymous
       
      Thanks REPUBLICAN FARMERS FOR TRUMP. LETS MAKE ALL CALIFORNIANS PAY FOR YOUR DAM. AND WHERE DID YOU SAY IT WAS GOING… LETS MAKE THE BLUE DIMOND COMPANY PAY FOR IT … BECAUSE YOUR PROFITS DONT EXACTLY TRICKLE DOWN TO ACTUAL CALIFORNIANS.

      [Reply ]

        Re:
        Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:23:54   By: Anonymous
         
        Can we get some of that Florida home owner insurance at 10,000 dollars a pop … Making AMERICA GREAT AGAIN …

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          Re:
          Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:42:39   By: Anonymous
           
          When one of your personalities makes another one mad, do you punch yourself in the face??

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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-08-09 08:39:24   By: Anonymous
 
Thank you, Senator, for joining the party of Life, Liberty and Happiness!! Thanks for leaving the #unhumans

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    Re:
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 09:36:52   By: Anonymous
     
    Would you pardon the January sixth convictions Yes said Donald Trump. Because he said they were convicted by a very bad system. Even though they were convicted in a court of law by a jury of their peers.

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      Re:
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 09:41:32   By: Anonymous
       
      Question of the week … Should a President be able to pardon himself ? Because if trump loses. He is going to prison for a very long time …

      [Reply ]

        Re:
        Posted on: 2024-08-09 09:51:25   By: Anonymous
         
        When you masturbate, do all the personalities get to cum or do you only let one?

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          Re:
          Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:31:49   By: Anonymous
           
          ^Depends

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      Re:
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 09:47:07   By: Anonymous
       
      Among other issues, what are your feelings about watching the cops let the "insurrectionists" in to the capitol, literally opening the doors and showing them around? Do you consider those officers part of the "insurrection"?
      One of many discrepancies that cloud the case, I am afraid.
      I suggest doing some independent research into how that day unfolded, it might cause you to ponder a bit.

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        Re:
        Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:06:00   By: Anonymous
         
        When you see MAGA criminals trying to Pass Fake Electors. Or a MAGA operative letting Trumps goons in to tamper with voting machines. Do you think the Mastermind Trump. And his Best Criminal PEOPLE. Deserve another term as President of the United States… ?

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          Re:
          Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:54:31   By: Anonymous
           
          Read this comment and imagine that William Shatner is talking. Fu&*ing hilarious!

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No Subject
Posted on: 2024-08-09 10:47:35   By: Anonymous
 
Another nut for Disgusting Don!!

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    Re:
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:32:38   By: Anonymous
     
    I'd like to nut all over Don's face.

    [Reply ]

      Re:
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 13:15:09   By: Anonymous
       
      Go ahead, JD does.

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    The con don Lies At Presser
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:34:13   By: Anonymous
     
    Among the many lies, none died on Jan 6.
    don the con ignores the MAGA nutcase lady shot climbing thru a top window over a Congress members door.

    Poor don, he is clearly losing it. Too many big macs, and buckets of kfc. His brain is one cholesterol muddled mess.

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      Re: The con don Lies At Presser
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:49:58   By: Anonymous
       
      If firms can get by with paying women 72 cents on the dollar for the same quality of work as men, then why don't we see any firms with all female labor forces using those lower costs to dominate the marketplace?
      If the answer is that males are physically stronger with more endurance etc, then what is your stance on trans athletes in female sports?

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She should lose her seat immediately!
Posted on: 2024-08-09 11:57:01   By: Anonymous
 
She should lose her seat immediately!

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    Re: She should lose her seat immediately!
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 12:55:00   By: Anonymous
     
    Chauvinist!! She is exercising her right to choose!

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      No Subject
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 13:33:47   By: Anonymous
       
      Welcome to the Nightmare call the Republican Party. Thanks to The Felon named Trump …

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      Re: She should lose her seat immediately!
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 15:18:40   By: Anonymous
       
      Yeah, and pretty soon she'll exercise her right to go down on DonOld while JD watches and simultaneously humps the couch!!

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    Re: She should lose her seat immediately!
    Posted on: 2024-08-09 15:16:48   By: Anonymous
     
    Well, she will be subjected to Trump grabbing her pusssy without her consent. Or will the skank give her consent? Its a tossup.

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      No Subject
      Posted on: 2024-08-09 15:38:06   By: Anonymous
       
      Should President Harris pardon the criminal Trump ?

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        Re:
        Posted on: 2024-08-10 04:56:02   By: Anonymous
         
        I don't believe Trump's been convicted of any crime for which Harris could extend a pardon.
        He has however been convinced of 34 felonies by the State of New York.

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          Re:
          Posted on: 2024-08-10 10:32:57   By: Anonymous
           
          ^^Bingo^^

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