Story after story about entrenched ivy-league establishment icons, of both political parties, running to the nearest camera or journalist to declare that they hate Ted Cruz has become something of a phenomenon. There is something about Ted Cruz that the ruling class fears. They’ve tried to destroy Ted Cruz since he was elected to the Senate, but for all their smear campaigns, the Washington Cartel has been helpless to stop the rising popularity of Senator Cruz. As I often write, fear plus helplessness is a perfect formula for hatred; and boy, do they truly, deeply hate Ted Cruz.
When asked to comment on the candidates vying for the Republican Nomination, President George W. Bush had nothing bad to say about the field, except when it came to Ted Cruz. The always well-mannered former President said of Cruz, “I just don’t like the guy“. This was a bit of a shock, because this was the first person that Ted Cruz hadn’t undermined with the truth that, without being prompted, lashed out at the junior Senator from Texas.
Talking with Andrea Mitchell, former Senator and runner up to President Clinton, Bob Dole echoed President Bush’s sense that he’s perfectly fine with the Republican field, except for Ted Cruz.
Senator and runner up to President Obama, John McCain, has mocked Ted Cruz as being a “Wacko Bird“, and has often been furious with Senator Cruz for refusing to get in line with the limp-handed approach of Senate Leadership toward President Obama’s transformational agenda.
In July, Senator Orrin Hatch lambasted Cruz, though not by name, after Senator Cruz called out Senate Leadership on their underhanded plot to save the Export Import Bank (which, as we now know, was in the works, and has recently been resurrected).
For these elected officials, it would appear that the driving force behind their hatred of Cruz is that, unlike them, when Cruz says he’ll fight for a bill, he actually fights for the bill. When he says he’ll do everything he can to repeal Obamacare, he means, he’ll do everything he can to repeal Obamacare. These other Senators say they’ll fight these battles, but they have no intention of really accomplishing anything. They hold show votes and dog and pony shows and nothing ever gets done. They fund every program they pretend to be against and send President Obama only the bills they know the President agrees with and wants to sign.
Senator Cruz’s refusal to lie to his constituents and to the American People makes the rest of his congressional colleagues look bad. Voters in Arizona and Utah my well be wondering, “If Ted Cruz isn’t afraid to stand up to the Obama Agenda, then why does my Senator seem so afraid� Maybe its’ because Hatch and McCain have no intention of living up to any of the promises they’ve made to you. Ted Cruz, by actually putting up a fight, made the cowardice or complicity of Republican Leadership obvious to every last one of their conservative constituents.
But that’s only a part of the story.
This morning, David Brooks wrote a seething article called The Ted Cruz Establishment, wherein I believe I have discovered, not the political, but the psychological motive for the establishment’s hatred of Senator Cruz. His piece was not intended to reveal this motive, but rather to reveal the multitude of established establishments that exist within and surrounding Washington D.C. What struck me as intriguing was Ted Cruz’s Ivy-League education. The high-dollar, upper-class world inhabited by Ivy-League graduates has produced an entitled culture inculcated within most of the establishments. Democrat and Republican elites usually share an ivy-league education in common. They run in the same circles, have the same connections, and despite belonging to differing political parties, generally accept the same worldview and reality. Those without ivy-league educations usually kiss the tails of those who do.
This is why it is sometimes difficult to tell our political parties apart. These people were all educated together and they are all trying to use our government to accomplish the same purpose – to protect their class and their friends and their system of government from the rabble known as the American People.
Senator Ted Cruz was supposed to be one of them. In fact, because he was “one of them†he was able to move up through their ranks and hold prestigious positions. Yet, Ted Cruz never quite fit in. I believe what these elitists hate the most is that they feel that Ted Cruz looks down on them. Ted Cruz doesn’t respect them because they have money, or because they went to Harvard, or because they are men of power. Ted Cruz is motivated by principle, not class. Ted Cruz has a political agenda and a love of constitution that overrules loyalty to his ivy-league brethren. This “counter-establishment†that Mr. Brooks loathes has recognized that Senator Cruz is exactly what they’ve been waiting for – Mr. Brooks also knows that this counter-culture of political insiders is more powerful than his establishment buddies realize, fueled by the freedom, conservative, and constitutionalist movements amongst the populace and composing the backbone of the grassroots of the party.
Ted Cruz is an ivy-league elite who, despite all indoctrination and peer-pressure, has continued to pursue his passion for principles derived from the enlightenment and from the United States Constitution. He doesn’t care about being liked by the upper-class, to whom he was destined to be indentured. He demonstrates the hypocrisy of both the Democrat and Republican establishments and has pulled back the curtain for the American People. The elites fear the harm done to their power when the American People understand exactly how corrupt they are in wielding it and they have been utterly unable, no matter how many of them slither up to microphones to denounce him, to hurt his popularity with the American People.
Fear plus helplessness equals hate.
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Cruz will never be President
Cruz is everything that Trump pretends to be.
And a WHOLE LOT MORE!!!
I’ve never seen Drumpf pretend to be a Constitutional Conservative. 🙂
Just saw this. Nice essay. However, there is a very good reason for “W” to hate Cruz…Medèllin v. TX. 2008. SCOTUS.The UN, the World Court, a murdering, raping, illigal alien AND the sitting US prez (Bush) all got their heads handed to them on a large legal plate by Ted Cruz. Oh, he just happened to save the US Constitution and American sovereignty, too, at the same time. So, Bush’s attitude toward Cruz is not at all surprising. Me? That case is just one of the reasons I voted for Cruz in the OH primary, am writing him in come November and will vote for him any chance I ever get.
As a fellow Ohioan, I also voted for Cruz in the primary and will vote for no one else come November. I am a 110% Cruzer conservative.
Although I understand and agree with you in regard to the SCOTUS case mentioned above, what I take umbrage with is how everyone twisted President Bush’s words to say he hates Ted Cruz.
The article stated; “The always well-mannered former President said of Cruz, “I just don’t like the guy“.”
That is ALL he said.
Another reason he suddenly doesn’t “like the guy” could be that he is running against his brother, Jeb Bush.
Would you lavish praise on an opponent of a member of your family for the top job in the world?
As a principled conservative why did Cruz want a massive increase in H1B visas? Why did he write a piece with Paul Ryan extolling the virtues of TPT/TPP?
“Sometimes, people ask me, ‘When you have a room full of Republican senators
yelling at you to back down and compromising your principles, why don’t you just
give in?’ The answer is simple, I just remember all those men and women who
pleaded with me, ‘Don’t become one of them.” – Ted Cruz A Time For Truth 2015
[…] Source: Ted Cruz: Why They Hate Him – The Bull Elephant […]
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“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.â€
George Orwell
One of my favorite Orwellisms.
I have researched Cruz for months and months. I find nothing bad about him. He shoots straight unlike most politicians, even those in the Republican party. I don’t believe they hate Cruz. I think they are scared to death that he will win because of exactly who he is. An honest, American politician, lover of our Constitution and our God given rights. He has not sold his soul to the devil for power like the others have, and they are SCARED to DEATH of what will happen to their plans if he were to become President.
If they didn’t think he had a good chance to become president they would not be working so hard to make him look bad.
They have no facts that would paint him badly or a liar, so they have to tell half truths and insinuate this or that but never any facts………We know more about them now than we ever have, so they can not get away with smearing the only honest person running for president.
Ted Cruz scares the h*ll out of Democrats and established Republicans. They fear him because he is an expert on the US Constitution, and he understands the limits on the power of the federal government. Can you imagine the reaction of anyone in our ruling political class to hearing a president say “I know of no where in the Constitution where the federal government is given that power.” As it is now and has been, our current politicians believe there are no limits on what the government can or should do.
He’s got my vote.
first clue, Hillary is coming after him guns-a-blazin’!
Cruz will have her peeing down her leg. She will NEVER get over on him and the demoncrats knows that. They will do everything in their power to make sure Cruz does not get the nomination. They don’t know how many Americans are watching them and they have no idea how many of us will vote Cruz………BUT, they will find out!
My husband has been a demoncrat his whole life, as was his parents…………….He will vote for Ted Cruz. He said the democrats are no longer worth voting for………Hey, I’m just glad he finally got it figured out right.
TED CRUZ 2016 !!!!!!!!
Cruz is a liar! period. For Christians to support this man is ridiculous. He lied again in New Hampshire, but got caught…again
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/01/22/in-twist-campaign-says-ted-cruz-has-health-insurance-no-coverage-gap/
It’s cute the way Trump-kissers “prove” that Cruz lied, only to check the evidence and see he did nothing of the sort.
He’s a liar. He lied about illegals.
So I’ll bite–just what lie did he tell?
Especially since Cruz was fighting the “Gang of Eight” back when Trump was funding them.
Yessseree. Someone who sees the phony Cruz. I still keep pounding on this guy after what he did at the RNC.
Yeah, how dare he tell voters to vote their conscience and support conservative values…..
I could also be because he’s never passed a single bill as a legislator.
Not a problem. They are bought and paid for, Cruz is not. Brat is having the same problem in the House.
Being able to pass legislation is a basic job for a senator. Cruz can’t even do that.
Sure! Freshman senators without even 3 years in office ALWAYS get their bills passed by the RINOs in charge, chowderhead!
Ted Cruz’s Sponsored Legislation in only less than three years in the senate
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=sponsored_legislation
How many of his bills were passed into law? Even one?
You just aren’t capable of understanding, are you.
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I understand quite well, thanks. The basic job of a U.S. Senator is to legislate, which means proposing and passing bills that become law. Cruz has not had one success at that effort.
You don’t know jackshit! We sent him there to fight the RINOs and their corruption and cooperation with Obama in the senate and he has done just that since day one. Any attempts at bills by him would naturally be shot down by those same POS RINOs who are in charge and/or the Liberal traitor democrats. Wake the hell up!
Big RINO Knives Out For Ted Cruz
Cruz Exposes The Traitors In The Senate Like No One Else Dares
http://conservativereport.org/the-big-knives-are-coming-out-for-ted-cruz/
Senate Democrats Block Ted Cruz Bill Revoking US Citizenship of Domestic Terrorists Joining ISIS
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/09/20/senate-democrats-block-ted-cruz-bill-revoking-u-s-citizenship-of-american-muslim-terrorists-who-join-isis/
Cruz Accuses McConnell of Working For The Dems
“…Using pie charts, Cruz made the case that McConnell has helped to pass legislation opposed by the majority of Senate Republicans but supported by the majority of Democrats…â€
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-accuses-mcconnell-of-working-for-dems/article/2575308#.VjNOW_IsbUM.facebook
Ted Cruz Was Right: McConnell Lied, GOP Senate Majority Vote With Obama at a Record Pace
‘What we saw today was an absolute demonstration that not
only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over again was a simple lie,’ said Cruz, a fierce opponent of the bank. ‘The majority and minority leader, arm-in-arm again, should not team up against the American taxpayers.’â€
http://www.redstate.com/diary/candicelanier/2015/07/27/ted-cruz-right-gop-senate-majority-vote-obama-record-pace/
Ted Cruz Slams Outgoing John Boehner Over ‘Early Reports’
That He ‘Cut a Deal’ With Nancy Pelosi Before Resigning
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/25/ted-cruz-slams-outgoing-john-boehner-over-early-reports-that-he-cut-a-deal-with-nancy-pelosi-before-resigning/
“Cruz tried Wednesday night to amend the bill to require an affirmative vote by Congress in order for the deal to take effect, but he was blocked…” ; “… Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had to fight off efforts by Cruz and Sen. Cotton to amend his bill, and was able to do so with clear support from nearly every Senate Republican. But even McConnell said he wanted the bill to be tougher…”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/05/06/ted-cruzs-attempt-to-boost-congress-role-in-the-iran-nuke-talks-was-just-blocked-in-the-senate/
So, once more, you’re more interested in the grand but useless gesture than you are in any real governing ability. Got it.
OH!? So it’s “useless” to clean up Washington and bring accountability and transparency in government AND while all those things exist today, any real governing can take place!?
You’ve never had a mind to lose!
Washington works exactly the way our founders designed it to work. It requires significant consensus to get anything done, and reflects the fact that politics in a democratic republic is the art of the possible. You’re hoping for a strong man on a white horse to ride in and remake the world in the form you desire. You’ll be perpetually disappointed, since that’s simply not the way our system of government works.
The federal government works so far outside of the limits of what our Founders designed that it’s barely recognizable and the politicians rule as if they were our masters. Our Founders left dozens of instructions to us if this situation ever occurred and we’re trying to avoid bloodshed but, we will have a government that knows it’s place! You’re obviously not loyal enough to help take back our own country so, your best bet is to stay the hell out of our way.
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The only blood shed will likely be yours. You simply don’t like our political system, but have the gall to call yourself some kind of patriot. People like you are useful idiots for demagogues, nothing more.
Well, calling the Founding Fathers demagogues can only lead to getting your ass kicked.
It doesn’t look like I’m alone in this, does it.
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Jefferson also wrote this:
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the
human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
No matter how many guns you and your friends buy, you’re still nothing more than an armed and untrained rabble. All the bloviating in the world won’t change that basic fact.
Jefferson’s moment of optimistic hope for futurity would now break his heart in our pathetic societal regression in spite of his many, clear and prescient warnings to us derived from what history proved to him and his colleagues as pre-failed and suicidal.
We have not progressed at all my dear elitist clown. We are the biggest disappointment of their wildest nightmares but, the wave of current (and near future) elected officials sent in to take our country back are making undeniable headway as well as the sheer numbers in proof of the vast appeal for outsider frontrunners of the republican party candidates. This situation makes a Second American Revolution a thankfully remote possibility but, from the highly capable forced-retired generals to the lowest ranked combat-seasoned soldiers and law enforcement personnel across the country, their call to the American citizenry could be made when needed and they are presently visible enough to traitors. Well, not all traitors.
If you’re relying on the Oath Keeper crackpots to help you reach the promised land, you’re in for a big disappointment – again. I actually think it might be beneficial for some of you nuts to pursue your “2nd Amendment solutions,” since it would provide an opportunity for a proper Reconstruction.
Then, you’ll be willing to start at your place?? I think you’re right and we should start cleaning the gene pool where the pus is pouring out.
Oh, you’ll definitely see me once you get something started. You won’t like it.
Excellent! You wouldn’t be around long enough not to like it.
More bluster?
Ignorance can be educated, and crazy can be medicated, but there’s no cure for stupid.
Stupid is threatening to take up armed revolt against your government if your political candidate doesn’t win. Are you planning to join him, Lynn?
I’ve never once regretted putting dangerous people in prison.
WOW!!! Excellent post filled with facts.
Thank you for taking on the ignorant “Winghunter” and doing such a great job.
What is so hard to understand about being a JUNIOR senator for some?
Then perhaps Cruz should watch and learn how bills become law so he can actually do his job as a senator.
I believe you may be onto something when you postulate that class or class identification drives a considerable portion of the animus among his fellow colleagues that view their role as the self proclaimed political ruling elite and Ted Cruz as a clear threat to that entitlement. I also believe you are dead on when you maintain this outrage transgresses party lines. For some time how I have simply viewed the establishment wings or the Republican and Democratic parties as simply the “uniparty” whose brands and creeds are just meaningless propaganda statements to give the uninformed voter the illusion of choice. I’m not saying that individual establishment Republican or Democratic electoral candidates don’t at times espouse differing options but that this is all washed away in short order in the halls of Congress with it’s pork loaded omnibus spending bills and frequent propensity for meaningless show votes that accomplish nothing. The whole class argument comes into even sharper focus when you reflect on the almost total avoidance and rejection of the working and middle class voter’s social and political concerns in the executive, judiciary and legislative process often bordering on the point of open and unequivocal condescension. That is part of the great shock and closed door meetings being held by party apparatchiks across the country today in the face of the rise of Cruz and Trump. As the voters lose their docility, the masters of the universe are caught in unknown territory and have little intrinsic ability to govern on intellect and insight rather then simply privilege. I have seen something like this establishment panic before in Kemper Arena in 1976 when the Reagan team cut the ground out from underneath Gerald Ford and his group of crony backers and came within a hair’s breadth of snatching the nomination away. Amusingly Bob Dole was stabbing fellow Republicans in the back even back then as an anecdote for those who believe things have changed all that much. It was great fun then and we all know what 1980 thankfully brought us but this time it is deadly serious and survival based.
I first came across Ted Cruz when he announced for the GOP Senate primary against David Dewhurst. I liked what I saw, but sadly his poll numbers were at only 2% and he was probably the least known of all the candidates. What I then learned about Cruz is that he is not only a convinced constitutional conservative, but he is also quite savvy politically. With almost no name recognition and a budget that was dwarfed by Dewhurst, he managed to maneuver into a runoff against him and then beat him in the runoff.
Agreed, Cruz is not well-liked among the establishment elite, but that is because he doesn’t play the game the same way they do. He is in it to win it, but his reasons for wanting to win are different from that of insiders. I like Cruz and if he gets the nomination it will be the first time in 50 years I’ve been able to vote without holding my nose while doing so and feeling like I need a bath afterwards.
Our kids live in Texas and we have many friends there. I’m happy to see a Texan so convinced he’s a great candidate. Some of our friends aren’t so sure. He looks fabulous to me, almost too good to be true.
Cruz is honest…….he is what he says he is and he does what he says he will do. That has the power mongers scared to death.
Ditto, first time I won’t be holding my nose either!
Well stated and I agree 100%. Ted Cruz is indeed capable of running our country and warding off all the misery obama and his ilk have caused. He is the first totally honest, God fearing politician I have been excited about in the last 60 years. He is exactly what he says he is and he will do exactly what he says he will do. That is why the establishment politicians are scared to death of him.
Sorry, I don’t vote for Canadians or people that look like the used car shyster that sold me a piece of crap back when I really needed a dependable car.
Looks like I will have to check out the down ballot dropouts to find someone to vote for. I wonder if that socialistic Native American candidate from the Clinton years is still around?
I’m sure that if you dig deep enough, you’ll find someone that you will like!
Well one thing for sure, none of the Baker’s Dozen impresses me at all. Trump is the only one singing on key while everyone else is imitating rap.
Your used car shyster also sang on key enough for you to be stupid enough to buy the car.
You haven’t gotten any smarter since then, have you.
He’s not a Canadian, but neither is he eligible to be President at this time.
We’ll take the word of Constitutional scholars over yours – No offense.
From The Right – MARK LEVIN: Ted Cruz IS a natural born citizen…and eligible to be president
http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-ted-cruz-is-a-natural-born-citizen-and-eligible-to-be-president/#ixzz3tGQi4jnh
From The Left – Alan Dershowitz: Ted Cruz is one of Harvard’s smartest students
“Famed Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz ranks Sen. Ted Cruz among the school’s smartest students, adding that the Canada-born Texan can run for president in 2016.†; ““The question is whether he can,†Dershowitz said. “I think he can. I think he’s a natural-born citizen and therefore he’s eligible to run…â€
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/09/dershowitz-tex-cruz-one-of-harvard-laws-smartest-students/
None taken. How’s that ‘consensus of experts’ and ‘settled science’ working out for you? — I didn’t listen to the Levin clip (and he’s wrong on the dangerous Liberty Amendments strategy) and Dershowitz is clearly expressing thoughts and opinion.
I’m going to cite a higher authority, and the only one that matters, please review below.
Only people meeting THIS criteria can be a Representative:
“No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”
Only people meeting THIS criteria can be a Senator:
“No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.”
Only people meeting THIS criteria can be the President:
“No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
‘One of these things is not like the other’
If you kick the dirt once or twice while throwing that pouty-lipped tantrum, it makes it more dramatic somehow.
ANY legal challenge will fail miserably. Get over it and enjoy a patriot in the White House which hasn’t seen one in a very long time.
Another content-free post does not do your illegitimate candidate any good. As much as only the rare gypsy can forecast the dealings of courts and attorneys et al, do keep in mind that there is most likely a reason the high court has not yet addressed this.
Either you support and honor the constitution or you don’t. Foreign and domestic.
You can be like George R now, or wait for Alan Grayson, or wait for ¡Yeb! to apply it as a pre-convention coup de grace.
One can’t support or honor the Constitution if a feeble opinion is placed ahead of the Founders actual meaning.
On The Meaning of A “Natural Born Citizenâ€
The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful
sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common
law and enactments of the First Congress.. Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen†includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent. As to the British practice, laws in force in the 1700’s recognized that children born outside of the British Empire to subjects of the Crown were subjects themselves and explicitly used “natural born†to encompass such children. These statutes provided that children born abroad to subjects of the British Empire were “natural-born Subjects . . . to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever.†The Framers, of course, would have been intimately familiar with these statutes and the way they used terms like “natural born,†since the statutes were binding law in the colonies before the Revolutionary War. They were also well documented in Blackstone’s Commentaries, a text widely circulated and read by the Framers and routinely invoked in interpreting the Constitution.
http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/03/on-the-meaning-of-natural-born-citizen/?hc_location=ufi
A natural born citizen is a US citizen. A US citizen is a US citizen. A US citizen is not automagically a natural born citizen.
Natural born citizen — a) Mom a US Citizen when born AND b) Dad a US Citizen when born AND c) born in a US state or US commonwealth state.
Founders specified the above and ‘grandfathered’ themselves in.
Ahh, join Donald Trump in trashing others on the superficial.
Yes, I have noticed that the sorts of people who use the word “shyster” typically don’t go for candidates like Senator Cruz.
Yes, ah, the “shyster” smear, which is kind of funny since it’s anti-Semitic and Cruz is an evangelical Christian. But when you get right down to it some people hate the Jews so much they have to blame them for everything. It’s a way to explain their failed lives. Take your vote and give it to anyone you please, thank you. You aren’t welcome here.
I didn’t know that, I just thought it was a perjorative for lawyer. Learn something new every day.
Blah Blah Blah. Such educated idiots. This place is getting to be just like BD. But I really don’t give zwei Scheisse what you think you know. Cruz would do anything to become President, including joining the Koch heads if necessary. We already have a constitutional expert in office, how did that turn out? You want to elect another one to trump Obama? Shysters are a dime a dozen this campaign cycle.
http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/id=900005387204/Is-Shyster-AntiSemitic?slreturn=20151112213937
Typical Trump chump. Don’t know jack and have no problem proving that to everyone else.
Ted Cruz Breaks With Koch Brothers on Crime Bill
“Before Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) electrified conservatives with his denunciation of liberal media bias at the GOP presidential debate last week, he took a little-noticed position on a major crime bill before the Senate that set him apart from the politically powerful Koch brothers.â€
http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/11/02/ted-cruz-breaks-with-koch-brothers-on-crime-bill/
Yeah, Commies have to stick together don’t they, Comrade? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b9041c7e1970035a7a06827ca1676cddc8e42915498fe8cac4acb9d851911930.jpg