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May 1, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Ask Charlie Anything 144: Do People Want Freedom? Are Most Pastors Cowards?
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Misuse of Language and Democracy 00:10:02
Hey everybody, it's Anthony Charlie Kirk show and ask me anything episode on Monday live from Seed to Table here in Naples, Florida.
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Buckle up, everybody.
Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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Someone says here, Charlie, I don't like the fact that you say we're going to lose in 2024.
Let me be very clear.
We're going to lose unless we make serious changes.
Okay?
Right now, we have not made the critical investments in key states, and I get angry when people say we're going to win, we're going to win, we're going to win.
How many times have we said that?
And all of a sudden, at the last hour, they find ballots and they do all these different sorts of things.
And so I think we need to play like we are the underdog.
We need to act as if we are the underdog, not as if we are up automatically going to win.
I don't like that mentality.
Sir, you're the first question.
I'm a public school administrator for a long time.
Been involved in public education for a long time.
What are we going to do as a strategy to prevent this manufacturing of a very left-wing liberal perspective when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion?
I can remember some times where I was an administrator and we bring in a speaker and even speaking about borders was a racist comment.
You know, we're creating a group of students that are graduating that are fueling this left-wing feel.
What are we going to do about school board elections?
What are we going to do about making sure that we're teaching the things that value America versus teaching we hate America?
What's the story?
Now, from what I understand, you guys have done pretty well with school boards here locally.
Maybe, maybe not.
Am I understanding that correctly?
I'm from Michigan, and we're not doing well.
That would be why, because I don't know if that, I think there's a lot of take back here.
Look, here's my piece of advice, and we'll just go through it piece by piece.
If you can afford it, you should not send your kids to government schools, period.
You've got to take your kids out of government schools.
Now, you might say, well, Charlie, I can't afford to send them to private school.
I can't afford to homeschool them.
I couldn't afford to not.
I sent them to Greenpeace Catholic Central.
Yeah, let me finish the thought, right?
Which is, if you're willing to borrow money for your kid to go to college, why wouldn't you be willing to borrow money for your kid to go to a more important K through 8, K through 12 experience?
I think K through 12 is a lot more important than four years of college.
And so I have not, I quite honestly have not seen a good argument to keep kids in government schools.
If you decide to do that, you're playing Russian roulette with their values.
With that being said, we should still get involved in school boards and try to take them over.
But you're dealing with the teacher unions.
You're dealing with textbooked.
You're dealing with all sorts of different forces there.
We need to have a mass exodus out of the government school system, and we need to build more classical schools, more charter schools.
We need more homeschooling.
I would love to see us fight and improve government schools, but especially in Michigan, it's nearly impossible at this point to do that.
God bless you, though.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right, who's got the next question?
So, a couple of years ago, my parents actually started a classical Christian cottage school.
And I teach at the school, first and second grade.
But I was just wondering if you have any advice on how to get people on board and donors and how to advertise it.
For the classical Christian school.
Yes.
Well, you have to be, I mean, you know, having built something that from nothing and getting it out there, you have to be a relentless advocate for your cause and for your efforts.
So you just have to get as many stakeholders involved.
And then if you do good work, people will find that good work and it will get rewarded.
What's the name of the school?
The Fletcher School.
What is it?
The Fletcher School.
Very good.
Well, God bless you and thank you for being here.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
All right.
Who's up next?
Anybody?
We'll do this question here.
Charlie, this is the question.
I think we have another question here.
Charlie, why is it that Eric Swalwell has not been held accountable for his very spicily worded email?
Let's just call it relationship with a Chinese spy.
Representative Troy Nells calls out Eric Swalwell for this play cut 69.
Mr. Swalwell is down there.
Obviously, everybody knows he's made some comments.
He's got a checkered past.
He's alleged relationships.
A checkered past.
It's my time.
Alleged affairs.
No, You don't get to say that shit.
He had alleged relationships with Yam Yum.
I asked the gentleman's words to be taken down.
I'll get a sign.
I asked the gentleman's words to be taken down.
It's casting a slur on another member.
Well, I am here.
He is making.
I asked the words of the gentleman to be taken down.
It's casting a slur on another member.
Let us have some order and civility here, and we will take up the issues.
So Eric Swalwell allegedly had an affair with Feng Feng and was never held accountable for what that happened.
We have a federal law enforcement completely captured by the Chinese Communist Party.
Who wants the next question?
Anybody?
Come on up.
We want to thank you for coming.
We love you.
We watch you every day.
Thank you.
We have a very strong grassroots group here.
We're very involved with our school board, our commissioners.
I don't know if anybody mentioned, but we passed a medical freedom ordinance and resolution about a month ago so that our county, Collier County, will be free of medical mandates the next thing that comes across to us.
God bless you.
Thank you so much.
God bless you.
The medical freedom issue is one that I don't think we're focusing on enough right now.
If you look at autonomy against forced vaccinations and what they tried to do under COVID was absolutely unbelievable.
Speaking of which, Anthony Fauci is rewriting history.
Anthony Fauci, who should be in jail, says the mask mandates were not a mistake.
Play cut 49.
We need to better explain what we're doing.
Play cut 49.
You know, Caitlin, I don't want to say a mistake, but I think we really need to remember next time we're confronted with this, that when you have a situation where there's doubt in the minds of some people about whether something works or not, we better try to reach out and be a better explainer of why we feel these things are important.
Because whenever, particularly in our country with our free spirit, which we all embrace, that people being told what to do very often has the opposite effect.
That's what I was referring to in that interview.
Free spirit.
Everything the founding fathers designed was to prevent people like Anthony Fauci from having power.
He is at direct odds with the American founding fathers' promise of checks and balances, separation of powers, consent to the governor.
No one ever elected Anthony Fauci, yet he had complete control over all of society.
Yes?
Hi, my biggest concern is the misuse of language, starting with the redefinition of a pandemic and a vaccine by the CDC, as well as the use of the word democracy instead of constitutional republic, the use of the word constitutional rights instead of rights protected by the Constitution.
I'm assuming the turning point is doing a lot in that way.
What is there that we can do just generically in order to be able to get our legislators to change these things?
And have you got some advice for not just the young people, but the legislators themselves?
Yeah, I mean, this is why having the fight over the redefinition of what is a woman is so important.
Language is how we communicate truth, right?
And so this is why when someone is looting or committing arson, they say, oh, it's peaceful protesting.
Orwell warned us against this in 1984, which is the inversion of language where language no longer objectively actually has value.
This is why the trans debate is the most important thing happening in America.
It's not an insignificant sideshow.
It's the assault of language, the assault of traditions, customs, and norms.
The ability for people to be able to have agreed-upon truths of which we organize society is the downfall of civilization.
We are not a democracy.
In fact, I go as far to say, and I get attacked by the media, democracy is actually a really bad idea.
Democracy is not a good idea.
People are afraid to say, oh my goodness, I don't like that.
Representative government is a great idea, but pure unadulterated democracy is mob rule.
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We are not a democracy, and I'm glad we're not a democracy.
When people say it over and over again, now the media loses their mind when I say this.
We should celebrate representative government.
We believe in the consent of the governed.
But what is the technical difference between a democracy and a republic?
It's significant.
A democracy is ruled by majority.
That if you have 50 plus one votes, then you're able to do whatever you want.
A republic does acknowledge, of course, the consent of the governed and majoritarian rule, but it has a pre-written, eternal document or truths that govern the ambitions or the emotions of the majority.
So, for example, the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are intertwined.
They are harmonic documents.
When we have life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or life, liberty, and property, these are eternally applicable to human beings, including in the preamble of the Constitution.
So, therefore, we enumerate these in the Bill of Rights, which was originally really drafted by George Mason in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, where the government has rules.
In a democracy, you would never have the government have direct rules.
In a republic, there are barriers for the government to go after human liberty, human flourishing, and human freedoms.
A republic also acknowledges that rights come from God.
A democracy does not outright acknowledge that.
And so, a constitution, a constitutional republic, has separation of powers, checks, and balances.
A democracy, by definition, is that you get to vote yourself more rights and more stuff.
A republic has a preference on limited government.
A democracy has a preference on the demands of people.
Pastors Must Speak Bold Truth 00:04:50
And guess what?
People are always going to want to demand more and more free stuff.
A republic has a preference on liberty.
A democracy has a preference on getting other people to pay for your free stuff.
Very, very big difference.
We are a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
Your question, ma'am.
I moved up here and moved away in 2008, and I just moved back because I wanted to raise my daughter here and not California.
You really inspired me during the lockdowns there.
The mandates were intense.
My question is: moving back here, I was at Saddleback Church in California.
And Rick Warren really bummed me out.
It really bummed me out.
But my question is: is there a coalition or somewhere advertised that's with the Daily Wire or a turning point where a 34-year-old like me can go be like, that church is going to be lit?
Yeah, so I think there's some really good churches around here.
I think so.
And you guys can connect them.
And so we have Turning Point Faith, TPFaith.com, TPUSA Faith.
And we have a pastor summit actually coming up in a couple weeks of over 600 of the best pastors in the country.
And let me just speak more broadly to all the Christians out there.
Stop going to churches that are led by cowards.
You need to have pastors that are speaking boldly and proclaiming truth.
And you might say, well, Charlie, how do I know if I'm led by a coward?
Did they mention in a thankful way the reversal of Roe versus Wade when it happened last summer?
If not, you're probably being led by a coward.
Did they lock down and force masks on their congregation?
So this is very, very important.
I don't know any specifically here.
I have been told that there's some wonderful and courageous and bold churches here.
I could tell you if you live in Phoenix, I got recommendations or California, but find the bold and the courageous churches because it is amazing how apathetic and how uninterested.
I mean, you mentioned Rick Warren.
Rick Warren texted me and I, because he's very upset at me because I've been going after Rick Warren, right?
Rick Warren walked in a BLM march.
Rick Warren mandated masks and vaccines, saying that's what Jesus would want.
And I went after him very hard, and he didn't like that.
And I'm going to meet with him, and I'm going to say the same thing I say publicly to Rick Warren, which is you're not finishing well.
Rick Warren, you were a great pastor when you wrote purpose-driven life and you brought people to the Lord.
You are not finishing well the same way that King Solomon didn't finish well.
You are off your path.
You are pandering to the world and to the woke.
You become unstable and you become a very weak person.
And Rick Warren was one of the best voices that we had.
Maybe it's for money, maybe it's for power.
I don't know what the reason is, but you know, Rick Warren has spoken at the World Economic Forum repeatedly.
That's Rick Warren.
And it's very disappointing.
So I hope it changes.
I will meet with him.
I'll have an open and candid conversation.
And here's the test.
I'll say, Rick, you know, if you would like to prove that you are one of us, take out your phone right now and tweet that the trans agenda is from the pit of hell.
Tweet right now then.
And he'll probably say, Oh, that's not my role.
And I'll say, That's why you're not a pastor for times like this, because you have become confused, weak, and cowardly.
And Rick Warren and Andy Stanley, who I know just lost his father, so I'm trying to lay off of him for a little bit.
Judas Smith, Levi Lusko, these sort of cool kid Christian pastors are doing great damage to the kingdom and to the country.
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Let's continue with some questions.
How are you?
Good, Charlie.
Thank you for all you do.
It's voices like yours that are helping America to get the truth out.
And I was just wondering if you have any advice.
Teaching Young People Value Liberty 00:03:04
It seems like when the mask mandate started and everything from voting, people would show up to vote and they'd be turned away and they would comply.
And there's so much people, especially in the youth who have been taught to obey authority, complying right now.
Do you have any advice for how to get the word to many people using and exercising their free will?
Yeah, that's a great question.
So I'm a big fan of the Bible, as many of you know.
And here's a provocative truth that happens throughout the scriptures.
People, most people do not want to be free.
A lot of us here want to be free.
But, you know, when God delivered his chosen people out of Egypt into the desert, within days, he blew coil off course, manna came from heaven, and they said, We want to go back to Egypt.
We want to go back to bondage.
We want to go back to slavery because at least we were able to eat meat.
It's amazing.
How many people do you know that have desired comfort over liberty?
You have to teach the value of liberty to young people.
I would much rather live a full and unpredictable life than a boring and a safe life.
And the vast majority of young people, I actually think the new national motto in America has been informally relabeled as better safe than sorry.
I think that's okay to say at times, but I'd rather say live freely and boldly and courageously.
That's a better country to live in.
And the kind of pathological religion of safetyism makes the mask issue popular.
And here's what's so interesting: is that, you know, I talk about this with guns and I get attacked: is that if you have any form of liberty, you're going to have a cost to that liberty.
We could get 50,000 less deaths a year right now.
We just have to ban driving.
Automobiles.
There's a cost to almost anything that we consider to be important.
But here's what I fear more than anything else on this topic, is that people are so willingly giving up hard-earned freedom and liberty given to them by God for a false sense of security.
It's not even that they'll actually be secure.
And you could play it out.
Who are the people that are the most secure, that have the meals provided to them, that are able to sleep on a bed?
It's jail.
But they have no liberty.
And what happened in the lockdowns was a form of them imprisoning the entire American population, especially our young people that now have the highest suicide rates, that have high alcohol addiction, drug addiction, self-harm.
All the negative indicators go up dramatically.
And so it's not an easy answer, but it goes back to what I said earlier.
We need churches to teach the value of liberty.
I believe God wants his people to be free.
Pushing Back Against Corporate Oligarchy 00:10:50
I really do.
And liberty is not man's idea.
It is God's idea.
And right now, a secular society will end up being an unfree society.
The American founding started with the revival, started with Jonathan Edwards talking about in the black robe regimen, sinners in the hands of an angry God.
It started with George Whitfield.
It started with Jonathan Mayhew.
It talked preaching about this idea of liberty.
But here's the other thing is liberty is not doing whatever you want to do.
That's licentiousness.
That's license.
Liberty is having the ability without somebody getting the way to do what you ought to do.
It's a totally different thing.
Thank you for your question.
I appreciate it.
Hello.
Hi.
My name is Teddy Collins.
My question today is, I've had a lot of issues down here with people what they call rhinos.
They only care about protecting their pockets, the economy, but they want to neglect the social issues.
And they're the benefactors of the wise policies of God-fearing conservatives.
They care less about the children being indoctrinated, the unborn.
And how do we fix that as far as in our party?
Yeah.
So let me first give you all of us some messaging advice.
Stop calling them even rhinos.
Call them neoliberals.
That's what they are.
It's a technically more accurate term.
A neoliberal is someone who believes in three main things.
They believe we should invade the world, invite the world, and import a bunch of products that we do not need.
Those three things are why Tucker Carlson got fired.
Tucker Carlson was willing to say the Ukraine war is a mistake and we should try to broker peace.
Tucker Carlson was willing to say it's a mistake that we have 5,000 people a day coming across our southern border.
Tucker Carlson was willing to say, you know what?
Our trade deals have hurt the American worker.
Those three things hurt the bottom line of transnational corporations and neoliberals.
But if I could add a fourth one of neoliberals, neoliberals are afraid to fight for the most important issues directly affecting our children and our culture.
Neoliberals will say, why do we talk about the trans things so much?
Why do we talk about the social stuff?
Well, first of all, we didn't force the issue.
They are forcing the issue.
And even more important than that, this is why politics is not as important to me as philosophy or getting our morals and our ethics right.
Bad politics comes from not being able to define what is reality and what is true.
The neoliberals think we could go back to an old America with the snap of our fingers.
That's not going to happen unless we take America back from them.
And so I would stop calling them rhinos.
Are not even Republicans in name only.
They are flat-out members of the American left, center-left, called neoliberals.
How do we defeat them?
Here's the good news: anybody that has children, we need to start a new movement that is called the Parents' Party.
The Parents' Party will retake America, and it needs to be about medical freedom, strong America, common sense values.
I don't think this is political.
I mean, let me prove to you that my heart is not all about politics.
I agree more with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on what he's saying when he runs for president more than Nikki Haley on most issues.
Not all issues, but most issues.
He talks about the administrative state.
He talks about medical autonomy.
He talks about surveillance state.
Again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I think, is wrong on abortion, and he overdoes it on the environment.
This is a question of is the promise of citizen government going to continue in America.
And so, what gives me hope is if we can challenge this uniparty that is dominating our country, I think 90% of America agrees with us.
It's going to be a challenge, though, because the corporate oligarchs and the leaders of the Uniparty want us to think that the divide is Republican-Democrat.
The divide is not.
The divide is instead parent versus pervert.
The divide is nationalist versus globalist.
The divide is citizen versus internationalist.
If we can frame that, we're going to win in big ways, but it's going to take a lot of work.
Reality versus fantasy.
These are the correct divides.
I think we actually are the moderates.
I think we're the ones that are looking at things fairly.
For example, I have pretty relaxed views on tax policy.
I don't like high taxes, nor do you guys.
But I would much rather have kids not be taught pornography in classrooms than lowering the corporate tax rate.
That's way more important to me.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Yes, sir.
Good to go.
My name is Michael Peters, member of the Lee Republican Executive Committee.
Moved down here from North Florida, lived there for 15 years, owned a small business there, got to be real good friends with lots of other small business owners and farmers.
And the farmers in North Florida are being bought out by Bill Gates.
How do we stop it?
It's a great question.
So this is where we need to push back against oligarchy.
And it's not just Bill Gates, it's the Chinese Communist Party as well.
And so, and you can't blame the farmers.
So some people say, oh, why are the farmers selling?
Because they come in with unbelievably lucrative cash deals, people.
I'm talking about 10 times multiples on earnings, right?
Four times.
And they're like, I can't say no to this, right?
So I believe there should be a law passed on a state-by-state level that billionaire oligarchs should not be able to buy millions of acres of farmland.
You want to buy a couple hundred thousand acres?
Okay, there could be a limit.
But the Chinese Communist Party should be able to buy zero, okay?
But I would be willing to go as far to say that, Bill Gates, you already own enough land as it is in the country.
Bill Gates is not buying farmland because he wants the betterment for the country.
He's letting it go fallow.
It's what?
He's letting it go fallow.
I believe it.
BlackRock, for example, should not be able to buy up single-family homes to then rent them back to our kids.
Amen.
So what we're getting at here is the next exciting development in the conservative movement.
I'm a free market guy.
We all like free markets.
However, free markets should serve people.
When free markets fail to serve people, we should be willing to use prudence, practical judgment, to make the market serve the people.
It's against the free market to have a guy worth $110 billion go buy farmland, let the land go.
You said fallow is the technical term, right?
And so foreigners should not be able to come in and buy our farmland.
Single-family homes should be owned by families or small investors, not $10 trillion funds.
Guess what?
Republicans are afraid to say this out loud because they're purchased by big party Chamber of Commerce neoliberal donors.
Amen.
The American right, embracing these ideas, will be able to bring over 10 or 15% of Democrats, big time.
And so if you are a family and you own a rental property, that's fine, or five or ten, that's not the problem.
If you're a farmer and you want to buy an extra couple hundred acres, fine.
The issue is people that use the backbone of America, property ownership and farms, as portfolio assets to remake America in their globalist neoliberal image.
Teddy Roosevelt can and should serve as an example of how to challenge corporate power run amok.
The founders, in fact, Alexander Hamilton would have agreed with this.
Abraham Lincoln would have agreed with this.
This is the new right.
The new right is willing to push back against corporate power the same way we should push back against the administrative state.
Hey, Charlie, this is Denise Nystrom.
So glad to have you here at Seed to Table.
Thank you.
I just wanted to share a little something with you, and maybe you can shed some light on this.
So based on all of our conversation here today, I hear you loud and clear about the fact that we need to take control over what's going on.
And to that end, I did that.
I ran for school board.
I didn't win, but let me just say that I was that non-establishment, a candidate.
And thank you.
And I lost because political action committee money, dark money, spent $400,000 to say that I was woke.
I believed in boys and girls' bathrooms when I've been fighting against it.
I was even endorsed by Alfie Oaks.
So what does someone like me do when I can raise $70,000, but I don't have $400,000 and the Rhino establishment takes somebody that's qualified like me out of the race?
This happens a lot.
You got to run again, and you got to keep scrapping.
You got to keep hustling.
And you can't give up.
Eventually you will win.
And your name ID increases over a period of time.
But this is not unusual, okay?
What I have found is in pockets across the country is you have great grassroots people like you that all of a sudden the corporate types come in with a lot of money and they misrepresent.
And that's why grassroots networks matter so much.
That's why what we're trying to do on our program to support the good candidates and get the message out.
We're all living through a big change, everybody.
I hope you understand that.
The change is not complete.
The positive change, though, is we're going to get to a place where Turning Point Action, for example, is able to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
And that kind of corporate money won't mean as much.
Here's what my dream is.
Remember when the NRA endorsement was a very, very big deal?
I'm endorsed by the NRA.
We need to have a series of grassroots groups, maybe Turning Point Action, maybe you're not, where it doesn't matter how much money they spend, but a step of a thumbs up or a green stamp of approval from Turning Point Action or whatever can cut through that.
Because, you know, I'm doing this three hours a day.
I'm making a lot of enemies.
The RNC, they don't like what I'm doing.
Good.
That means that we're going after the people that have done a lot of damage to our movement.
Run again.
Keep on scrapping.
And by the way, Tyler Boyer was on our program.
You know, we've done everything we can to try to remove Rana as head of the RNC, and she's losing popularity.
You just have to keep on scrapping and going after it, and you can't give up.
Ronald Reagan lost a couple times before he won.
Remember that.
Abraham Lincoln was a failed politician until he was a very successful politician.
Fair enough.
I'll take your business card.
Advice for Homeschool Media Discernment 00:02:40
All right.
God bless you.
All right.
Come on up.
Let's get the mic down.
We have two minutes.
Hi.
Sorry.
Thank you for being here, Charlie.
I'm Katie Wilson from here in Naples.
I'm sorry.
Just get as close as you can to the black mic.
Okay, that's really loud.
I'm a homeschool mom of two girls.
Thank you.
And it is my goal to raise my children in the admonition of the Lord.
And I want to raise them with good, patriotic American values.
I want them to really know our nation's history and I want to help them really learn discernment moving forward with how they should live as an American.
And that can be really tough discerning, especially with the media.
You know, there's a lot of mixed messages in the media.
We've got horrible mainstream media anymore.
There are voices like yours out there, but how do I start teaching them discernment with media and just what they can trust?
Because I'm not going to always be here to direct them.
Where do we start with our kids learning?
Yeah, it's a great question.
So, I mean, it depends, you know, what their age are.
I know it's her sixth birthday today, so happy birthday.
Look, the first thing is family dinners are very important.
Here's my biggest piece of advice: limit technology.
I'm a big believer in the Sabbath.
And I think the Sabbath is one of the most ignored, beautiful gifts in the entire Bible that Christians.
I turn off my phone completely from Friday night to Sunday night, and then I work like crazy every other day.
And so you're able to get a lot done when you have a true day of rest.
And then you need to have non-technology family dinners where you talk about things.
But, you know, our program is good in one regard.
We air a lot of the bad guys' stuff, and then we respond to it, and we talk about it, and we say, here's what they say, and here's why it's not so good.
But then also, you know, don't be afraid of preparing your kids that they're going to be bombarded with lies and deceit.
Don't shield them.
This is very important.
Don't try to make your kids, you know, fragile.
Make them tough.
That balance, you have to pray for wisdom from God.
It's a very important thing.
Sometimes homeschool parents get it right.
Sometimes they don't.
Sometimes homeschool kids end up very fragile.
And that's not good.
So that would be my piece of advice.
And happy birthday and God bless you.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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