American Politics

[Questner]

I suppose, if you like discussing people of little consequence? Is Trump a person of little consequence to you?

So if you think talking about a 2x impeached, 4x indicted, insurrectionist and Repub fmr.president, who is now the Repub candidate for the 2024 US Election, isn't controversial and worthy of debating, when he says things like "America SUCKS!" and "America is a JOKE!", then perhaps you can explain to me, why spend multiple thousands of time in man hours and billions of dollars on coverage to pick a new president. Should we just hold a rock-paper-scissors contest for the US presidency?

If your ideal candidate, is someone that loves to utter slurs that degrade and denigrates America, the very country in which he plans to hold office and that doesn't bother you as to the character of your president or for the vision (or lack thereof) that he has for America and Americans, then I guess Trump's your man.

Better yet, if I were to take your quote and apply it to Trump (as the list of people he's insulted, defamed, besmirched and bad-mouthed, could wallpaper the White House 2x over), he has NO discernible CHARACTER, has NO VISION for America and NO PLANS (unlike what Obama/Biden did for example with the 2016 AI Development Initiative Plans, where today, the US is now the world leader in AI tech), or IDEAS with which to take the US to the next level. None! Unless you consider, "...drill baby, drill"?

So where exactly do you see Trump? Great, Average or Small minded?

I often like to use the quote: "Great minds think alike and small/weak minds seldom differ"

I know that people get a flu in a group but loose their marbles alone.

What's about the bold text and capitals?

It's very simple for the last couple of years.

Is America more prosperous? More peaceful? More stable? How confident is the average American in his economic future? Has the legal system become more just? How much is borrowed against the well-being of the future generation? Is it sustainable? Etc.

https://youtu.be/bPd55rmNgzk?si=AEdRJNAiPHtzQb2c

[EihTooms]

With Trump, about to receive classified documents again, it is obvious to Americans, that US national security, is at risk and in peril, once again.

If for a moment, we consider his past record with classified information, is there really any doubts, he already has plans to hawk said classified information/documents, to the Russians, Saudi Arabia and/or North Koreans...etc, to pay for his half-a-billion (plus and counting) in civil lawsuits, w/r to several defamation cases and running a corrupt and fraudulent business in the state of NY?

So it could be argued, Americans should be more worried about Trump putting US national security at risk and in danger, more so than the border security issue, that is more than solvable, especially given the bi-partisan bill, that just passed by the US Senate. Don't forget is was Trump who put the kibosh on the border bill in the House, for petty politics and of course, 'cause he'd have nothing to campaign on.

Therefore, when you take into account, what is the "constant variable", with both these problematic equational political issues, plaguing America, the answer is unequivocally...Trump!

As simply as it sounds, take out this malignant variable and eh Voil!...Americans solve both problems, with one voting strike. Problems SOLVED!

PS: Again, let's not overlook some of the benefits to immigration, as recently noted here: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2898096

The best move on behalf of USA National Security is to feed Trump strategically-crafted disinformation disguised as "real" classified information.

Trump acting on it himself or peddling such disinformation to America's enemies and adversaries might be the only way for Trump to finally accomplish something of a net positive for America in his entire adult life, however inadvertent and unintentional it might be.

[Spidy]

With Trump, about to receive classified documents again, it is obvious to Americans, that US national security, is at risk and in peril, once again.

If for a moment, we consider his past record with classified information, is there really any doubts, he already has plans to hawk said classified information/documents, to the Russians, Saudi Arabia and/or North Koreans...etc, to pay for his half-a-billion (plus and counting) in civil lawsuits, w/r to several defamation cases and running a corrupt and fraudulent business in the state of NY?

So it could be argued, Americans should be more worried about Trump putting US national security at risk and in danger, more so than the border security issue, that is more than solvable, especially given the bi-partisan bill, that just passed by the US Senate. Don't forget is was Trump who put the kibosh on the border bill in the House, for petty politics and of course, 'cause he'd have nothing to campaign on.

Therefore, when you take into account, what is the "constant variable", with both these problematic equational political issues, plaguing America, the answer is unequivocally...Trump!

As simply as it sounds, take out this malignant variable and eh Voil!...Americans solve both problems, with one voting strike. Problems SOLVED!

PS: Again, let's not overlook some of the benefits to immigration, as recently noted here: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2898096

[Elvis 2008]

First off, it is one thing to blame or credit a president with anything. Blaming Trump for the pandemic or giving Biden credit for going back to work after lockdowns ended is folly to me. You need to explain to me what said president did to affect the positive or negative change. Unlike the douches with their Republicans bad / Dems good diatribe, I can give Dems credit. Clinton raised taxes, balanced the budget, and made the economy went boom. The irony is the Clintons have gone from populism to elitists IMO and that is why HRC lost.

The latest Democrat twist is to say there is not an issue with the border.

So is the border problem Biden's fault? To that, the facts show not just yes but hell yes.

The EO also revoked the following executive actions:

Executive Order 13767, issued on January 25,2017, which directed executive agencies to secure the southern border and prevent illegal immigration into the United States, and called for immediate construction of a wall along the southern border.

Proclamation 9880, issued on May 8, 2019, which deemed immigrants who entered the United States without inspection ineligible for asylum.

Presidential Memorandum of April 29,2019, which prevented certain asylum seekers from pursuing any other form of immigration relief, required adjudication of asylum cases within 180 days of filing, imposed an application fee for asylum claims, and barred asylum seekers who entered the United States without inspection from receiving work authorization while their applications were pending.

Presidential Memorandum of April 6, 2018, which prevented DHS from releasing immigrants from detention while their immigration cases were pending.

Presidential Memorandum of April 4, 2018, which deployed the National Guard to secure the southwest border.

So yeah, Biden owns the border mess.

Seeing as how Democratic douches love attacking sources, the guy making this video is very pro-Ukraine. He has a Ukrainian wife and made videos condemning Putin. He is part of the group that is the new media because at this point, the mainstream is so bad that you know what they are going to say before they say it.

For me, the video was confirmation that the people ending up on the border seeking asylum are from all over the world and are not Mexican. It is an organized effort to skirt American law that benefits Mexican drug cartels. RFK Jr. Had a video showing the same thing.

If you ever want to know what Trump derangement syndrome is, you cannot get it any better than with the wall. Trump used tax payer dollars to buy supplies to build the wall. The Biden administration came in and literally said we are not going to use any of the materials that the Trump administration bought, and those supplies are sitting there to this day. Yes, the Biden administration is that fucking petty and that stupid. This video shows said supplies.

What has not been shown is illegal immigrants coming in wearing Biden t-shirts, but I am sure I will see one showing that.

Between this and Merrick Garland's latest speech condemning the use of voter ID laws shows the great criminal enterprise Biden is undertaking. He is literally allowing illegals to come into the USA to vote for him and paying them off with USA tax dollars. It is not even subtle.

Like you see with the Democratic douches here, they do not care if it is only Americans voting in the election. All they care about is if their side wins.

In 2020, if I were a judge, I would be skeptical of having to step in and possibly overturn an election, but the Dems have made it easy now with the complete fucking idiocy that went on in Colorado and Maine where Trump was tried to be taken off the ballot. And we have seen Dems weaponize the justice system to go after Trump and all these cases that just happen to materialize right before the election? At least in 2020 if there was massive cheating, it was hidden well enough that judges could not act. Now it is out in the open, and they are going to have to act if there are issues in the election. Well, at this point, we know there will be horrific cheating. It is just how well can it be hidden.

Quite frankly, with Biden mouthing off to the Supreme Court last night and openly bragging about and defying them with student loan forgiveness, I do not think judges will sit on the sidelines this time.

Dems were given a 9 to 0 loss the last time they tried to cheat and win an election without having it decided by voters.

So here is the video on the border that some here have suggested is not a problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdYAYgbf5Uc.

It is very much worth watching.

[Spidy]

No kidding, I just happened to watch a 1956/1957 Mike Wallace interview if Eleanor Roosevelt last night where she had no qualms about discussing ideas, minds and people in response to questions posed of her.

For example:

Of then current President Eisenhower; diplomatically, she said he was good at following orders and plans as a General but probably had less intellectual interest in a great variety of subjects than, say, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill or her husband had.

Of Richard Nixon; she said he appears to be a very intelligent person with ability but would be the least attractive choice for POTUS, an outcome that would worry her because he seems not to have any strong convictions, something she opined was needed to deal effectively with a crisis.

She was obviously a good judge of people and was quite willing to, diplomatically, offer her opinions of them.

Nice concise masterclass on Eleanor Roosevelt!

If she were still alive today and asked about Trump, Moscow Mitch, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz and virtually every other Classic Repub on the scene since Crooked Nixon's humiliating resignation her response would probably be to start vomiting and never stop for several days.

You had me at Trump and Moscow Mitch (...kkkk!)

[Spidy]

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt.

I suppose, if you like discussing people of little consequence? Is Trump a person of little consequence to you?

So if you think talking about a 2x impeached, 4x indicted, insurrectionist and Repub fmr.president, who is now the Repub candidate for the 2024 US Election, isn't controversial and worthy of debating, when he says things like "America SUCKS!" and "America is a JOKE!", then perhaps you can explain to me, why spend multiple thousands of time in man hours and billions of dollars on coverage to pick a new president. Should we just hold a rock-paper-scissors contest for the US presidency?

If your ideal candidate, is someone that loves to utter slurs that degrade and denigrates America, the very country in which he plans to hold office and that doesn't bother you as to the character of your president or for the vision (or lack thereof) that he has for America and Americans, then I guess Trump's your man.

Better yet, if I were to take your quote and apply it to Trump (as the list of people he's insulted, defamed, besmirched and bad-mouthed, could wallpaper the White House 2x over), he has NO discernible CHARACTER, has NO VISION for America and NO PLANS (unlike what Obama/Biden did for example with the 2016 AI Development Initiative Plans, where today, the US is now the world leader in AI tech), or IDEAS with which to take the US to the next level. None! Unless you consider, "...drill baby, drill"?

So where exactly do you see Trump? Great, Average or Small minded?

I often like to use the quote: "Great minds think alike and small/weak minds seldom differ"

[EihTooms]

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt.

No kidding, I just happened to watch a 1956/1957 Mike Wallace interview if Eleanor Roosevelt last night where she had no qualms about discussing ideas, minds and people in response to questions posed of her.

For example:

Of then current President Eisenhower; diplomatically, she said he was good at following orders and plans as a General but probably had less intellectual interest in a great variety of subjects than, say, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill or her husband had.

Of Richard Nixon; she said he appears to be a very intelligent person with ability but would be the least attractive choice for POTUS, an outcome that would worry her because he seems not to have any strong convictions, something she opined was needed to deal effectively with a crisis.

She was obviously a good judge of people and was quite willing to, diplomatically, offer her opinions of them.

If she were still alive today and asked about Trump, Moscow Mitch, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz and virtually every other Classic Repub on the scene since Crooked Nixon's humiliating resignation her response would probably be to start vomiting and never stop for several days.

[Questner]

Attaboy Trump!

Showing his true colors and disdain for the presidential office, for America, and the American people, with his buffoonery and wild rhetoric that "America SUCKS!" and "America is a JOKE!", slurred campaign speech.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt.

[EihTooms]

Trump's New Campaign Slogan..."America SUCKS!"
Attaboy Trump!

Showing his true colors and disdain for the presidential office, for America, and the American people, with his buffoonery and wild rhetoric that "America SUCKS!" and "America is a JOKE!", slurred campaign speech.

Good luck with that hate campaign and hate sloganism!


PS: Unless of course it's a dog whistle to "inspire" his supporters to get out of America?

Mainstream Media would like us to falsely remember Reagan's 1984 "It's Morning Again in America" re-election Campaign pitch as a sales job to help us think wonderful things about America.

Nope.

It was only another Classic Know Nothing / Do Nothing Repub Deadbeat attempt to take credit for the reduction in Inflation and interest rates, a result for which Dem Jimmy Carter shouldered all the heavy lifting and assumed all the political risk back in late 1979, took hold as a trend by mid 1980, continued well into Reagan's first years in office and for which Ronnie Reagan had absolutely nothing to do with unless wearing cowboy hats and riding ponies at his California ranch had something to do with reducing Inflation:

https://youtu.be/pUMqic2IcWA?si=bMSMTjUad0WX_s_e

At the same time, Mainstream Media would like us to forget Reagan's clear and unambiguous War Whoop against Evil American Democracy that so charmed and endeared America's domestic enemies and has inspired them to join and support Repub Icon Reagan's Repub Party ever since to attack and denigrate America as THEIR enemy too right up to this very day, choosing another Classic Repub lord and savior to lead the way.

Ronald Reagan, in his 1981 Inaugural. Address:

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archiv...l-address-1981

"...government is not the solution to our problem; government IS the problem."

Bear in mind, Reagan was not referring to some foreign dictatorship or monarchy. No, he was referring specifically to this government of, by and for the people, the United States of America, a constitutional federal republuc form of government that was established by our Founding Fathers precisely to solve problems for a freedom-loving complex society.

Yep, Great Repub Recession, Ten Consecutive Months of Whopping 10%+ Unemployment Rate in his 2nd and 3rd Year, Trade Arms For Hostages Felon Teflon Ronnie could just as well have highlighted his first Inagural Address with, "America Sucks"!.

[Spidy]

Attaboy Trump!

Showing his true colors and disdain for the presidential office, for America, and the American people, with his buffoonery and wild rhetoric that "America SUCKS!" and "America is a JOKE!", slurred campaign speech.

Good luck with that hate campaign and hate sloganism!


PS: Unless of course it's a dog whistle to "inspire" his supporters to get out of America?

[Spidy]

Fox News guest decrying migrant crime previously arrested after getting violent over a grilled cheese sandwich he deemed too cheesy. 3/1/2024

https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-w...g-violent-over

Now, you just KNOW that numbskull Winger is a Charter Member of Elvis and MDS1's Women-Haters Club! LOL.

Was there ever a doubt? (...kkkk!)

Yep. More Repub-Winger phony outrage planted in the otherwise empty skulls of their base since it is impossible for Repubs to point to one now revered positive legislative result or benefit to the American People that they ever proposed, fought for and passed when they occupied the White House and had the Majority in the House and the Senate.

Not one. ...

Not one, indeed!

However, the Incels/"He-Man Women Haters" Club, I see are back in the news AGAIN! The Dude (aka.James DePaola) with the violence over a "too cheesy sandwich", may yet be the strongest candidate for the "Incels/He-Man Women Haters" of the year award? But consider this dude?

Co-founder of Students for Trump charged with assaulting a woman with a firearm
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/12157...-trump-assault

The Ryan Fournier, "Students for Trump" acolyte, caught pistol whipping his girlfriend. Yet another gullible cult "leader/founder" of another "Trump dystopian" group, found to be charged with a violent act, against women. Definitely "cheesy", but I'll let you decide which of the two stories is cheesier (...kkkk!)

Charges Dropped:
"According to the court docket in North Carolina and a spokesperson for Students for Trump co-founder Ryan Fournier: charges against him for allegedly assaulting his ex-gf, including hitting her on head with pistol, have been voluntarily dropped." (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink..."I'll more than pistol whip ya, if you DON'T drop the charges").

It was unclear why the charges had been dropped. Fournier, now leads a group called Radical Alert, which claims to expose how radicals have "taken over American college campuses."

Okay charges were dropped by ex-gf, but you just gotta love the pivot and the rebranding to "Radical Alert"! (...kkkk!)

Classic MAGA Repubs or just Classic "cheesy" Repubs?

[Spidy]

No need to contrast the difference between Do Nothing, Open Borders-Loving Trump vs Real POTUS Joe Biden who has actually agreed to sign the bill full of conditions Repubs claimed to want but flip-flopped and rejected at Trump's behest.

The idiotic baby-talk and lies coming out of Trump's pie-hole vs Biden's perfectly lucid, adult, presidential demeanor and genuine invitation (again) to Repubs in Congress to get off their Do Nothing, Deadbeat Butts and give him the legislation to solve the problem since Executive Orders are only temporary at best and any of his on this issue are sure to be held up by Repub legislators and judges, should tell you everything you need to know about which candidate is capable of actually solving it.

And if that isn't enough, please note that Trump and his fellow Repubs have been lying about the "Migrant Crime Wave" inside and outside of the border towns and sanctuary cites from the beginning, all through the middle and right up until now.

From 2017:

No Evidence Sanctuary Cities Breed Crime

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/02/no...s-breed-crime/

From today:

Trump's claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data.
An NBC News review of available 2024 crime data shows overall crime levels dropping in cities that have received the most migrants.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...ata-rcna140896

Oh, and here is a "Thanks, Joe" bonus report:

Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong.
Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023. An expert blames a familiar culprit for the mistaken impression.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...own-rcna129585

Yes, Americans are mistaken! To further illustrate your point.

And the hypocrisy continues and "foot-in-mouth" disease is rampant with Repubs
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/26/fac...s-in-world-ii/

Since Sen. Tuberville (R-AL), being one of the most feckless Repub Senators, wanted to attack President Joe Biden, for a recent trip to NY and tweeted this:

• Tweets: "Hope Joe Biden enjoyed going out for ice cream in NYC while the rest of the city is afraid of crime and migrants." Feb 27th, 2024.

And because Sen.Tommy Tuberville, doesn't known his head from his ass, before opening his mouth, he tried to use an old fav. from the Repub playbook, that being blue states are all just "crime ridden" places and have the "worst crime", while of course ignoring the fact that the state he hails from, Alabama is 3x worse per capita than NY.

Since Sen. Tuberville, doesn't known his head from his ass, naturally he was fact checked on his tweet. As it turns out, while of course ignoring the fact that the state he hails from is 3x worse per capita than NY:

• Fact Check on NY v AL on crime:
  -NY state is homicide rate is 4.8 per 100,000
  -Alabama state "coach" Tuberville, represents, has a homicide rate of 15.9, the third highest in the nation.
  -Florida state where "coach" Tuberviile actually resides/lives also has a significantly higher homicide rate (7.4) than NY.

Reporter Gives Tuberville A Brutal Fact Check About How Horrible His State Of Alabama Is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D49im5nOmXc

Repubs are just simply blind to their own continuous hypocrisy and the harm they do spreading such lies. It is just astounding!

[EihTooms]

Bear in mind, there is no counterpart to this behavior, slurred speech, incoherence, repeated confusion over names of election opponents, the embarrassing baby-talk and whining, the gobbledygook blithering, the astonishing level and number of lies, etc with Joe Biden. Ever.

Nor is there a shred of evidence to suggest there will be for the next decade or more.

Trump Dementia: 'You Know Argentina, Great Guy. He Loves Trump.'
Morning Joe runs a supercut of Trump speech clips, and it's painful to watch.

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/t...rgentina-great

Then the following happened, in Classic Know Nothing and Do Nothing Repub fashion. Or is it simply Trump's serious dementia, or both?

Trump takes credit for legislation signed by Obama.

https://youtu.be/n2WpSxJCoEQ?si=qt8QyL6TUSrNLWOk

Yeah, that is the exact same President Obama that Trump has spent months reminding us he beat in 2020 and is running against today.

Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nikki Haley or is it Nancy might be intrinsically incapable of figuring out a side on any issue to settle on.

But as a loyal Classic Repub Trump-lover and Trump-supporter, she is doing a fantastic job of protecting their Party's lord and savior by keeping the Trump nomination process going and going and going so as not to put a final nail in it and force a Repub Nominee Trump to deal with serious questions on any issue of importance or, God forbid, have to go one on one against Joe Biden in a debate where it is certain Trump will not be able to understand a meaningful question from an unbiased moderator any more than he ever did or ever could understand the issues raised to his face by any other world leader he ever met or ever would meet.

[EihTooms]

Oh, thank you. Do you have any explanation for this post?

https://mishtalk.com/politics/bidens...d-biggest-yet/

Or for this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EODKUBzMnfw

If it is anything outside of Republicans are stupid and Democrats are great, which is what you have posted nonstop for years, you do not need to respond.

Congrats on the S&P 500 call. At least you were right about one thing.

- At this point the demonstrably Winger-leaning RCP polling Consensus has Trump and Biden in a statistical tie, Trump squeaking out approximately half a typical +/- MoE over Biden.

- It appears the polls are oversampling Hardline Trump Cult voters in the "Independent" demo. They might try to pass themselves off as such out of understandable embarrassment over admitting to anyone that they are indeed Repubs. But that doesn't mean they get to vote twice, once as a Repub and once as a fake Independent, despite Trump's instructions for them to vote twice in 2020. That is likely the answer to the "mystery" of Biden's Party, behind in the polls most of the time, also mostly creaming Repubs in actual regular and special elections in 2018,2919, 2020,2021, Red Tsunami 2022,2023 and so far in 2024.

-At this point in the presidential election year most poll respondents are not really paying much attention to the "campaigns", whatever the hell Trump is running on. For example, only about 5-15% of even Hardcore Repub Cult voters had been guessing Trump would probably be the Repub Nominee. This during the time when it was all over the news that he was beating every other Repub candidate's ass by 40% or more! How out of the loop could poll respondents be? Turns out pretty damn far.

- Mainstream Media has been giving Trump a pass on his policies and stewardship creating Trump's Pandemic ever since January-March 2020 when it was inarguably reported in Real News sources that he removed all the "Early Warning" Pandemic Prevention teams from those Chinese labs by September 2019, months before the first evidence of Covid cases emerged in those labs and while even he knew just a 2 month heads up would have been enough to avert all the trouble. Easily.

That allows for all the numbskull Repubs to blather on about how Trump's policies and stewardship were so great, produced a "great economy" (actually, through 2019 his economy would have ranked #7 among the 11 previous presidents' economies and that is if you don't factor in the TRILLIONS he added to the deficit to buy that below average economy) and come IP with idiotic questions like, "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago"? In 2020! LOL.

Uh, yeah, ill-informed.

I also think there is an American tendency to root for the underdog. But not necessarily to vote for one and invite him back to fuck up royally at every turn again. So some of those poll responses, maybe only a few percentage points for Trump, are on the order of "Atta boy. I like your spunk! 4 Felony charges and 91 counts! Chin up. Here, I'll toss you a bone. Sure, I'd vote for you over the greatest jobs creating, wage-increasing, global democracy-strengthening, economic recovery-producing, inflation-reducing, stock market and 401 K / IRA / Retirement Fund-improving President in History. LOL. Sure, sure, I really really really mean it. " LOL.

Among other things.

[Elvis 2008]

LOL. Nothing better than hearing a rabid Trumper Winger rant about how HIS Trump's Pandemic Closures were even worse for him than HIS Trump's Pandemic Covid was and how American tax dollars should be spent improving Infrastructure after 4 solid years of Classic Do Nothing Repub Trump assuring us his Infrastructure Week plans were coming "in about two weeks" when only Dem Joe Biden proposed, fought for and passed a historic Infrastructure DECADE on a bi-partisan basis!

LOL. Really. Just perfect.

BTW, have you found the section of the Thai Criminal / Penal Code that specifies that consenting adults exchanging money for sex is illegal yet? I can save you the trouble so you too can continue to be a Do Nothing Repub; there isn't one.

BTW Part 2, I hope you enjoy that historic Dem Joe Biden Infrastructure DECADE over there in the USA funded by MY taxe dollars (your beloved Trump assured us he is too "smart" to pay taxes) and facilitated entirely by MY votes for Joe Biden and the Dems.

Again, you're welcome.

Oh, thank you. Do you have any explanation for this post?

https://mishtalk.com/politics/bidens...d-biggest-yet/

Or for this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EODKUBzMnfw

If it is anything outside of Republicans are stupid and Democrats are great, which is what you have posted nonstop for years, you do not need to respond.

Congrats on the S&P 500 call. At least you were right about one thing.