Kamala Harris is now the Democrat candidate for President of the United States.
It’s rather important Americans know who their presidential candidates are, what they stand for, how qualified they are to lead the nation, and be able to make an educated estimate of how good or bad they would be as president.
This article presents a deep dive and lots of documented data about Harris, her career, and her political ideology and mindset to ascertain what kind of president she would be. For those who just want to see the bottom line, and not have to read and watch all the material in this article, here is a summary of my assessment of Kamala Harris as potential president, after analysis of all the documented, historical data and information:
Harris is Biden 2.0. She follows and will follow the same agendas and policies that Biden was instructed to follow. Her presidency will be a seamless continuation of the Biden administration. If you like Biden as president, you’ll like Harris; if you think Biden was a poor president, Harris will be equally poor or possibly worse.
Harris has failed in every government job she ever held. She has proven to be incompetent, of mediocre or lower intelligence and a pathological liar.
Harris is a significant player in the Democrat party machine that is Marxist-oriented, anti-Constitution, anti-Bill of Rights, pro-crime, pro-global oligarch agendas (see here, here, here and here), pro-fascist governance and pro-trans-for-kids barbarism.
My conclusion is that she is unfit to be president. (I had the same opinion of Biden before the 2020 election. Everything I predicted Biden would do, he did - and worse, unfortunately.)
(The companion article Is Tim Walz Fit to Vice President? A Deep Dive Examination of His Record and Intentions shows that Walz would be a disaster as VP or president.)
The rest of this article provides data and evidence to support these conclusions. I invite readers to examine the evidence and come to your own conclusions.
Democrats and mainstream news media are feverishly attempting to sanitize and re-write Harris’s political career and government job performances. They are desperately trying to portray her as a combination Captain America, Wonder Woman and Savior of Democracy. None of this is remotely accurate or true, as shown in this article.
Summary of the Harris ‘Platform’
Kamala Harris is a key cog and tool within the Democrat party political machine. So her philosophy, ideology and platform exactly follow those of the Democrat party. Here’s a quick summation of the Harris resume and ‘platform.’
Harris supports harmful, irreversible, barbaric trans drugs and surgeries for children and minors.
She supports political and sexual grooming of children into Marxist and trans ideologies.
She welcomes the invasion of the U.S. by tens of millions of illegals.
She supports giving illegals free housing, free education, free health care, money and the right to vote.
Harris applauded and encouraged BLM riots in 2020. She also supported releasing rioters without bail or criminal charges. She even had a link on her Twitter page asking people to donate money to get criminal rioters out of jail. Many of those criminals and thugs she helped bail out went on to commit more crimes and violent acts, including murder.
Harris supports Marxist and socialist principles - as she demonstrated clearly as DA, AG and Senator. One of many examples: “Truly terrifying clip of Kamala running for president in 2019 threatening to seize private property from corporations. ‘I will snatch their patent. Yes we can do that. Yes we can. The question is do you have the will to do it. I have the will to do it.’ ”
She wants to eliminate private health insurance, and have only the government run health care and health insurance.
She supports the psychotic reparations agenda. (The two best descriptions of the reparations issue: Thomas Sowell: “Among the most absurd apologies have been apologies for slavery by politicians. When somebody who has never owned a slave apologizes for slavery to somebody who has never been a slave, then what began as mushy thinking has degenerated into theatrical absurdity - or worse yet, politics.” Rob Schneider: “People who never owned slaves paying reparations to people who were never slaves is like paying child support for a child that isn’t yours to a woman you never fucked.”)
She supports the fraudulent climate ‘crisis’ agenda.
Harris knows NOTHING about economics or world affairs, but will take her orders from those with self-serving agendas that work against the U.S. - and the world’s populations in general.
Her track record as DA, AG, US Senator and VP is terrible (see below for details).
Harris has repeatedly used race for her own political gain and self-serving interests. Harris claims to be ‘black’ and ‘African-American,’ when in fact she’s mixed race, with her ancestry being a combination of Indian, Jamaican, Irish and other racial lines - with only a small percentage of African ancestry. She also fabricated stories of being a ‘victim of being black.’ (I couldn't care less about her or anyone’s race; but I DO care when a presidential candidate lies about her race for political ends.)
“Media’s Version of Harris is Unburdened by History”
“When in 2019 Harris ran for president, she drew little support and dropped out quickly. The Los Angeles Times said she never should have even entered the race.
“ ‘And she couldn’t connect with voters because of the core weakness in her candidacy: a lack of cohesive strategy and clear personal convictions. There was no evidence of the political soul needed to guide her toward public policy she felt strongly about.
“ ‘She didn’t exactly have a sense of who she was and what she believed and what she wanted to get done,” said a disappointed Harris insider who asked for anonymity. “And sooner or later that stuff gets exposed.”
“ ‘Her strategic plan wasn’t clear. She was all over the map on healthcare and criminal justice.’ ”
“ ‘She has earned a nasty reputation as an alleged 'soul-destroying' workplace 'bully'. Only four of the initial 71 staffers hired by Harris during her first year in office still remain in a job. The rest either quit or were fired.’ ”
“She supports defunding the police.
“She supports sanctuary cities.
“She played a leading role in the disastrous hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in which the U.S. left to the Taliban billions of dollars worth of military equipment, left behind Americans and Afghans who had assisted us, and lost 13 fine military personnel, after which she did not even attend the dignified transfer of their remains at Dover AFB.
“She supports Marxism, arguing absurdly that we all have the same capacities and should end up in the same place, but since we didn’t start out in ‘the same place, some folks might need for equitable distribution.’ (Her family’s private residence is valued at $5 million, if you aren’t in the same financial position, go lay claim to it.)
“She hasn’t a clue about or respect for the Constitution. When she participated in the presidential debates, she insisted over Biden’s dissent that she could institute gun control by executive order.
“She called the border wall a ‘vanity project’ and said that illegal aliens aren’t criminals, and the surge of them across our borders is ‘not an emergency.’ She even argued that U.S. taxpayers should provide health insurance coverage for illegal border crossers. (Under this Administration, there have been an estimated 11 million of them. Do the math on the cost of that.)
Political Career Path
Harris’s father was Donald J. Harris, a Jamaican economist who taught at Stanford University. Donald Harris was an openly-avowed Marxist and considered himself a Marxist scholar.
Her father clearly had influence on Kamala’s mindset. Her actions throughout her life have shown she believes in and follows most Marxist principles (as does the entire Democrat party embraces Marxist principles).
Kamala Harris became a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, CA in 1990. But her political star took off when she and Willie Brown began an intimate relationship while he was Speaker of the California State Assembly. (Brown was technically married but had been separated from his wife for a couple of years when he and Harris got together.)
Brown has been one of the most influential figures in California politics over the past 40 years. Unfortunately, his influence has been far more negative and destructive than beneficial. In addition to failed policies, Brown was a well-known communist supporter, and the Chinese Communist Party regarded him as a close ally in the U.S.
Brown went on to be mayor of San Francisco from 1996-2004.
Brown mentored Harris in his ‘philosophy’ and how to win in the political arena. Harris was a very willing student, and a sponge for learning and following the Democrat political way of life.
Willie Brown is a poster child for Democrat governance - policies and agendas that lead to urban decay and ruin, fiscal insanity, out-of-control crime, increased poverty and homelessness, and blatant corruption.
“Willie Brown Shows How Not to Run a City
“By jettisoning the new urban wisdom, Mayor Brown is making San Francisco uglier, more dangerous, and financially shaky.”
San Francisco has gone into the toilet; the city today is a national disgrace. Several Democrat politicians contributed to this city’s tragic descent into ruin; it can be argued that Wille Brown started the ball rolling down that path to ruination.
Harris is a chip off the old Brown block, as shown throughout her career. Harris contributed to the city’s decline.
While lovers, Brown appointed Harris to various state boards and commissions he controlled or influenced, such as the California State Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and California Medical Assistance Commission.
These were high-paying jobs, and there is no question that Harris got these appointments only because of her intimate relationship with Brown. (California has been one of the most corrupt states in the nation the past 3-4 decades, and giving friends and family lucrative positions with no regard for competence and expertise was and still is rampant in that state.)
By virtue of these appointments and her relationship with Brown, Harris was able to meet and mingle with the leaders of the Democrat party machine. Harris’s own ambitions made her willing to do and be whatever the party and political leaders asked of her; some call this being a tool or puppet or useful idiot. This made her a popular and trusted cog in the political machinery, and allowed her political star to rise and shine.
Harris was loyal only to the Democrat political machine and her own ambitions - not interested in or guided by justice or truth or belief in the Constitution or protecting Bill of Rights freedoms or doing the right thing regardless of external pressures.
She was a mirror of the brand of corrupt and destructive Democrat politics as practiced by Willie Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Kathy Hochul, Tim Walz, Lori Lightfoot and many, many others in the party over the past 30 years or more. The political scene in California over the past 30 years is one of the most corrupt eras in U.S. history.
Harris became an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, and ultimately became DA of the city in 2003. She was DA thereuntil 2010.
Harris was elected Attorney General of California in 2011, a position she held until 2017. Willie Brown and the Democrat party machine engineered Harris’s election as AG.
She then became a U.S. senator from California from 2017-2020, until she became Joe Biden’s Vice President.
Job Performance
The most important measure of anyone’s qualifications for any job is their performance and character in previous jobs. This is where the rubber meets the road. And this is where Harris has failed most gorgeously.
San Francisco District Attorney
As DA of San Francisco, Harris contributed to crime soaring in that city. Crime went up sharply after she became DA.
This isn’t correlation; it’s causation. Harris’s soft-on-crime-and-criminals policies and Marxist mentality cultivated and increased crime.
San Francisco is the model of what happens to a city governed entirely by Democrat policies, agendas and extreme leftist mindset. That once-terrific city has descended rapidly into ruination, soaring crime, drug addiction and urban decay - all the result of Democrat rule, to which Harris was a major contributor.
“In remarks on the House floor, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) spoke about San Francisco's decline and denounced ‘progressive’ policies brought to the city by VP Kamala Harris and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).”
“Judge rips Harris' office for hiding problems - S.F. Crime Lab Scandal
“San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' office violated defendants' rights by hiding damaging information about a police drug lab technician and was indifferent to demands that it account for its failings, a judge declared Thursday.”
This scandal led to the dismissal of over 1,000 drug-related cases. Harris later claimed she was “unaware” of these actions. Given her position as DA, this is highly unlikely; the most plausible conclusion is that she lied to cover her own ass.
“Tulsi Gabbard presents Kamala Harris’ extreme policies, the false narratives being created around Harris' record and her push toward lawlessness.”
Details are given about Harris’ poor record as prosecutor and DA.
As DA, Harris and her prosecutors routinely violated the law and trial rules by withholding exculpatory evidence or running roughshod over due process. One notorious example is that of Jamal Trulove, who was wrongly convicted of murder by the Harris team:
“When she was San Francisco D.A., Kamala Harris cost the city of San Francisco millions of dollars and cost Jamal Trulove more than six years of his life. Harris allowed the people working under her to pursue a murder charge against Trulove that was ultimately overturned by an appeals court. Harris has yet to account for this incident, which is in stark contrast to the progressive image she is trying to project as she runs for president. Trulove shares his experience growing up in San Francisco and his thoughts on Harris' role in his case.”
There were other cases where Harris and/or her team of prosecutors were either sloppy and incompetent, or outright criminal.
Harris oversaw the convictions of nearly 2,000 people for marijuana offenses, as reported by Bay Area News Group in 2020. Yet Harris admitted to routinely smoking marijuana in an interview, laughing and cackling maniacally as she answered the marijuana question. Nice double standard.
Later, Harris flip-flopped: VP Harris insists ‘nobody’ should go to jail for pot - despite record of convictions as DA.
This one example is representative of repeated hypocrisies by Harris.
As DA, Harris strongly supported and lobbied for Proposition 47, an extremely controversial law that lessens penalties for crimes. Prop 47 has proven to generate an explosion in crimes.
Then there is the case of Planned Parenthood:
“Harris opened the investigation into pro-life journalists at the Center for Medical Progress and ordered a raid on the home of one of those journalists, David Daleiden. Their undercover videos show Planned Parenthood executives talking about selling aborted baby parts, which is illegal. Her office charged the group with violating state privacy laws when she left for the U.S. Senate.”
California Attorney General
“Kamala Harris' record as vice president and in California statewide office show a long history and pattern of scandal and failures.
“During her term as California Attorney General, Harris was rebuked by judges after her office attempted to defend a conviction obtained by local prosecutors, who had inserted a false confession in a 1995 murder case. The defendant, a housekeeper for the murdered couple, was charged but never confessed.
“Later, in 2006, Harris came under scrutiny during her campaign for attorney general after she refused to return donations from a disgraced fundraiser after she accused her Republican opponent of something similar. Harris accepted, and kept, donations from Norman Hsu, a Democratic fundraiser and fugitive of 15 years for grand theft auto charges. Hsu had also contributed to other Democratic candidates, including Hillary Clinton, who promptly returned the funds.
“In 2019, Harris accepted donations from the firm that defended Jeffrey Epstein a decade prior in his Florida sexual abuse case. Senator Harris, who was then running for president, had criticized the firm’s work on the same day saying their work on the case called ‘into question the integrity of our legal system.’
“Harris's office also blocked evidence that could have freed an innocent man (Kevin Cooper) from death row. This isn't a minor oversight; it's a blatant disregard for justice and human life.”
Look at California politics in general - massive corruption. Look at what’s happening to that state: soaring crime and poverty; invasion by millions of illegals; $68 billion deficit in 2024; encouraging and pushing barbaric, harmful trans drugs and surgeries for children and teens; highest taxes in the nation; declining education and people leaving the state in droves.
This decline is caused entirely by the governance, corruption and failed policies of the Democrat party that runs the state. Kamala Harris is a key part of that machine.
U.S. Senator
Kamala Harris was named the most liberal U.S. Senator in Congress during her term. This is saying something, given some of the ultra-liberal senators like Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Dianne Feinstein, Bernie Sanders and others. (Sanders is openly a socialist.)
Harris proposed abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. This is in line with her wide-open-border mentality - a mindset shared by most Democrats which has led to 15-20 million illegals invading the U.S. since the Biden administration took office in Jan. 2020.
“Kamala Harris compares ICE to the Ku Klux Klan”
Harris opposed fracking, domestic oil drilling, coal mining and virtually every source of domestic energy production that did or could make the U.S. energy-independent. Her justification is the fraudulent ‘climate crisis’ - a ‘crisis’ and global agenda that has been proven false by the majority of genuine climate scientists.
As senator, Harris supported and still supports all agendas related to the fraudulent climate ‘crisis’ and UN Agenda 2030.
Vice President
Harris has been a total failure and disaster as VP. By every survey and ranking, she is considered the worst VP in U.S. history.
Her word-salad, incoherent speeches and answers to questions are legendary (see below for dozens of examples.)
But her most catastrophic failure was as the so-called ‘border czar,’ in which Harris was placed in charge of handling the border crisis. Instead of handling it, she exacerbated the problem.
Harris was appointed to be in charge of the border crisis by Biden in 2021. Given that 16-20 million illegals have poured into the U.S. since 2021, there are only two possible conclusions regarding Harris’s success or failure as border czar: (1) she failed disastrously and totally, or (2) she succeeded gorgeously, since Democrats want tens of millions of illegals in the country, for future votes and other political reasons.
Now, Harris and Democrats are trying to re-write history, claiming Harris was never border czar. This is an incredible and absurd attempt at gaslighting, when it’s crystal clear to everyone that Harris was assigned the role. “Media outlets started claiming she was never President Biden’s border czar. These claims are verifiably false.” Even an official congressional resolution acknowledged Harris as border czar. More proof of Harris’s failure as border czar here, here, here, here and here.
Lies, Disinformation, Gaslighting and Incompetence
Like all too many Democrat politicians, Harris is a pathological liar. (That seems to be a job requirement for Democrats.)
As one of many examples, when Harris ran for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020, she suggested Biden was a racist because of his past position on bussing. Harris said she was one of the little girls who first integrated her segregated school. But Harris was born after the Civil Rights Act was signed, and California never had segregated schools. Her school in Berkeley wasn’t segregated; the makeup of students reflected the demographics of the area.
Another example of deliberate lying is Harris’s repeated claims she is Black/African-American. As noted above, her mother was from India. Her father was from Jamaica, and mixed race himself. (Mixing one part black paint and three parts other color paints does NOT result in black paint.) Yet Harris repeatedly exaggerated her racial claims purely to advance her political career. That’s why race has become an issue in her campaign; Harris herself created racial controversies by her history of self-serving lies.
Harris has a history and pattern of flip-flopping, fabricated narratives, reversals and phony story-changing for self-serving and advancement purposes.
Harris is completely ignorant and uncomprehending of economics and economies, business, international affairs, defense and technology. Such ignorance and lack of knowledge leaves her wide open to be a puppet on a string, controlled by others for their own gain.
“Kamala Harris’s Economic Ignorance and the Housing AffordabilityCrisis. Harris’s plan to address the housing affordability crisis blames the free market for problems caused by government policies she’s supported.
“In her recent interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, Kamala Harris said that she would solve the housing affordability crisis by lowering home prices, which she proposes to do by increasing the supply of houses.
“That alone reveals her economic ignorance. The reason housing costs are so high is not a lack of supply. There are plenty of houses. They are just unaffordable.
“In fact, there is a housing surplus remaining from the building boom that occurred during the housing bubble that burst in 2007, which precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.”
“Harris will say anything to get ahead.”
“Kamala Harris says 18-24 year olds are ‘stupid’ ”
“It has been a year (2022) of gaffes, fumbled words, and strange speeches for the Vice President. Washington Examiner has compiled Kamala Harris most bizarre moments.”
“We may any day now, any minute now, have the comprehensively inept bumbling giggler in chief Kamala Harris installed as the leader of the free world and the Democrats 2024 presidential candidate.
“When looking at Kamala Harris, it’s easy to be distracted by the ineptitude, the cackling idiocy, but this is a dangerously race-obsessed neo-Marxist politician whose voting record is among the most radically far left in the Senate.
“Kamala’s reckless race-baiting is really never mentioned by the US media, not by the overwhelming majority of them anyway.”
“Kamala Harris is no better than Joe Biden when her litany of tumbles, mumbles and gaffes are examined.”
“US President Joe Biden has dropped his re-election bid, officially endorsing VP Kamala Harris to replace him as nominee. But does she have what it takes to hold the top job?
“Kamala Harris's questionable moments that left heads scratching.”
“Blizzard of lies: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts to the media rebranding Vice President Kamala Harris after President Biden suspended his re-election campaign.”
“Joe Biden has been ridiculed for his stumbles, mumbles and gaffes for years, but what many people may not know, is that his Vice President Kamala Harris is just as bad, serving up cringe-dancing, confused speeches and incompetent leadership.”
“A massive crowd of nearly 47 people has turned out here in Michigan to watch this Cackling Dingus explain how unions work. Let’s listen carefully as the most intelligent woman in the Democratic party explains collective bargaining to union leadership.”
Word Salad Gibberish
Having watched over a hundred interviews and speeches by Harris over the years, I have come to the conclusion she’s isn’t very intelligent. In fact, her intelligence and understanding of economics, international affairs and life in general is shockingly low for someone who was an attorney, DA, AG, Senator and VP. Harris isn’t alone in this; history is filled with thousands of people with mediocre-to-low intelligence who yet achieved high levels of power.
Intelligence is NOT a quality required of politicians and government officials to get ahead. History has proven this conclusively.
Harris rose to those levels not because of competence and intelligence, but because she was a very willing tool of the Democrat political machine - especially the machine in California.
“Kamala is asked how she will fix inflation. She answers by saying generic words about what inflation is for a solid 45 seconds.”
This video is excerpted from a press conference Harris held in Paris. The full text of that conference is here. Readers can see how uninformed and ill-equipped Harris is to handle various economic, technological and world affair issues.
Here are some other examples of Harris’s word salad gibberish uttered over the years.
“It is time for us to do what we do, and we do it every day, so it’s time for us to keep doing what we do.”
“We all watched the television coverage of just yesterday, and that’s on top of everything else that we know and don’t know yet based on what we’ve been able to see, and because we’ve seen it or not doesn’t mean that it hasn’t happened.”
“What can be unburdened by what has been.” (Stated over a a dozen times)
“The significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.”
“During the course of being vice president, have many situations where it becomes clear to me that there are, you know, people of every age and gender by the way, who see something about being the first that let’s them know they don’t need to be, um, limited by other people’s limited, um understanding of who can do what.”
“What else do we know about this population, age 18-24. They are STUPID!”
“We are in the midst of a public health epidemic that has taken the lives of over 220 million Americans over the last several months.”
Harris: “We’ve been to the border. So this whole think about the border - we’ve been to the border.” Interviewer: “YOU haven’t been to the border.” Harris: “And I haven’t been to Europe, either.”
“Equality suggests often - everybody should get the same thing. Well, that often assumes everybody started out in the same place. As opposed to ‘equity,’ which is everyone should end up in the same place. And if then understand not everybody started out in the same place, you understand some people need more - so we all end up in the same place.” (“We all need up in the same place” is one of the key principles of Marxism - Keihatsu)
Other examples in these video:
Harris’s Marxist and Socialist Ties
Not only was Harris’s father a devout Marxist, but Kamala has embraced Marxist and socialist principles as her primary life philosophy. Just look at every action, speech, law and bill she took, developed or supported. The proof of her Marxist mindset is overwhelming and irrefutable.
Since socialism and Marxism have proven to be disastrous failures in terms of quality of life, health, wealth and happiness for entire populations, and since the United States is supposed to be a free market nation, it’s important that American citizens know if a potential president espouses Marxism and socialism and intends to expand those agendas if elected to the White House.
The following was written by Geoffrey B. Higginbotham, Major General, USMC (Ret.):
“While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM revolutionary movement. Simon currently chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM), Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones.”
(BLM is a domestic terrorist group fraudulently pretending to ‘help black people.’ There is zero evidence that a single black person has ever been helped by BLM, but it has been proven that top BLM ‘leaders’ have siphoned off millions of dollars for themselves - Keihatsu)
“Harris has openly and aggressively supported BLM terrorists and Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza.
“Kamala Harris's sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese communist group.
“Phillips married into the multi-billion dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and the voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama, defeat Hillary Clinton. Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris's political campaigns for various California elective offices.
“Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, works for the law firm DLA Piper, which boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China. DLA Piper has over 140 lawyers dedicated to its Communist China investment Services branch. Emhoff was just appointed Professor at Yale to school future lawyers in the fine points of communism.
“When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a pro-communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network; this organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China and North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left Communist former president of Haiti, and the radical Lavalas movement.”
“Who are Kamala Harris’s radical Marxist associates?”
- Trevor Loudon
Conclusion
All the data and information presented in this article are documented and available through public records, books and reports and videos on YouTube and Rumble. The data supports my conclusion that Harris is unfit to be president.
Whether readers arrive at the same or different conclusion based on all this data is up to them.
Great coverage of a person who must be rejected by every voter who cares about USA and law and order.
Stellar work, as always!!