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May 30, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Debt Deal... or Debt Disaster?
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Debt Ceiling Deal Details 00:09:13
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People are fired up.
Looks like we have a debt ceiling deal.
Let's just start with the facts.
And I totally hear you.
The emails, oh my goodness, one after the other after the other after the other.
And by the way, we have Chip Roy coming on.
We got Andy Biggs coming on, but I think it's important we go through the facts.
What is in this alleged deal?
What are the details?
So let's go through it.
Okay, so the first thing is we have to remember how this all started.
Democrats wanted a complete and total debt ceiling increase, no negotiation at all.
And that's typically how the unit party operates.
Now, this is worth recognizing and noticing because the mandate that we, the conservative base, gave to our elected officials, at least some form of a negotiation process began to unfold.
Remember, they wanted to use the 14th Amendment to increase the debt ceiling.
No negotiations.
We're not going to talk about anything.
Now, Chip Roy is going to join our program.
The government is 40% bigger than it was pre-COVID.
The Leviathan, the Beast, the bureaucracy, the fourth branch of government is 40% bigger.
Is your family income 40% higher?
Is your family wealth 40% higher?
The wealthiest counties in America around Washington, D.C., what do they make exactly?
What products are they producing?
No, they're making points off of $50 billion appropriation there, war machine there, COVID emergency measure there.
The amount of printed and created money that the cartel of Washington, D.C., the crime syndicate of Washington, D.C. makes is remarkable.
And it's 40% higher than it was before Donald Trump said drain the swamp.
Think about the anger that people had towards Washington, D.C. in 2016 when Donald Trump said drain the swamp.
The government is almost 50% bigger than it was when Donald Trump originally said drain the swamp.
Boy, if there is a stock to buy, forget Apple, forget Alphabet, forget Amazon.
Can you buy stock in the growth of the federal government?
Maybe you buy treasury bills, but be careful with that one.
Okay, so what's actually in this deal?
So you have to remember: the Democrats didn't want to negotiate at all.
Democrats were doing the typical thing, Chuck Hugh Schumer, we're going to do a clean thing, 14th Amendment.
They got proxies like the Snow Woman, Amy Klobuchar going out and saying we're going to do 14th Amendment.
You got Lawrence Tribe floating this out.
It's been a mess for quite some time.
But Republicans, to their credit, passed a good bill in the House.
It wasn't a great bill, it was a good bill.
As the first salvo put the Democrats on defense, saying, Hey, you're going to have to negotiate at some point.
Okay, so let's go through actually what's here because there's a lot of chatter about it.
Let's go through the actual details.
So, this will raise the debt ceiling through January of 2025.
Now, many people were going into this battle hoping on a 10-year cap on spending.
What came away with was a freeze on spending for this year, followed by a 1% increase next year, which, if we stuck to it, would probably be a cut since our inflation rate is about 6% to 7% right now.
After 2025, though, there's no actual cuts on spending.
Instead, they're non-binding suggestions as the New York Times described it.
Now, let me just be honest: full transparency here.
I do this for a living.
I spent three hours reading this darn thing, and I'm still not certain on some of it.
It is written in like Orwellian doublespeak, thou shall not.
I mean, it's like the new King James Bible, not even New Kings, it's like original King James Bible: Thou shallest cut thou spending in thy future.
You're like, What?
Who talks like this?
Answer lobbyists and cartel members.
Okay, so after a lot of research, and I, by the way, I had our team going into this.
I said, What exactly is here?
Let's you know, get out of the noise.
The media is cheerleading this whole thing.
And I want to get actually into the details of all this.
So, let's keep on going through it, okay?
And even with that, some of the experts and the people are like, Well, I think it's this, and it depends on how the CBO scores it.
And some of it's murky.
Some of it are some victories and successes.
We'll talk about that.
Okay, unspent COVID relief funds are now being returned now that the COVID emergency is officially over.
That's about $30 billion in spending reform.
Now, some of these suggestions are just a little opaque, definitely needs some clarifying.
Republicans want a tougher requirements that people receive in government benefits, like Medicaid, SNAP, or food stamps, or TANF, T-A-N-F.
So, if you hear TANF, which again, it's very hard to say that three quick times, TANF, TANT, TANF, is welfare, had to be working for looking for work.
In the end, there were no changes of Medicaid, unfortunately.
But for food stamps, the age range where recipients have to be working or in training programs to receive benefits will be raised from 49 to 54.
The government also tightened the ability of states to grant waivers from this requirement, but the deal would also exempt veterans and homeless who previously were not exempt from work requirements.
Now, for TANF, T-A-N-F, there aren't expanded work requirements.
But once again, the deal would make it harder for states to grant exemptions to them.
Now, this is the most debated point is here.
And we have Chip Roy that has an opinion on it.
And Speaker McCarthy has said one thing.
I don't know.
I'm not a parliamentarian.
Again, I don't even think the lobbyists or some of the people writing these bills know how this is going to turn out.
Okay, so the question is on the IRS agents.
One version of events, Russ Vote, has said that this is nonsense.
They didn't defund any IRS agents.
The other side of it is that they're saying, no, no, no, it cut $1.3 billion out of the $80 billion to the IRS agents, so they can't hire any agents this year.
Okay, I'm not sure.
So the New York Times has an important follow-up on this.
Officials said in a background call with reporters they expected no disruptions whatsoever from the loss of the money in the short term.
So the IRS is saying our auditing will be uninterrupted.
So that's a debated point right now.
So officials say the IRS might simply pull forward some of the money earmarked for later years, then return it to Congress later and asking for more money, according to the New York Times.
Now, there are no new tax increases that we know of in this, no closing of loopholes.
And I want to read this right here.
So here's the debt ceiling kind of talking points, if you will.
HR1 energy permitting reform as passed by the House, which could go both ways, by the way.
That could also make green energy work programs approved quicker.
$131 billion cut to annual spending next year, shrinking the federal bureaucracy to pre-COVID cap for 10 years.
Now, that is a win, but we want to make sure we're clear with you, though, that we're cutting rates of growth based on an increased leviathan.
So it's like saying, okay, our budget is 50% bigger than it was six years ago.
And instead of growing by 6%, we're going to grow by 4%.
Now, obviously, I'd rather have it grow by 4%, but that's important clarity.
It repeals Democrats' $1.2 trillion IRA, unreliable energy tax break for the rich corporations and for communist China.
That's a win.
Fully overturn Biden's half a trillion dollar student loan bailout for gender studies majors, et cetera.
So, however, that's going to be decided in the courts, and Biden was very firm on that.
Based on all public reporting, Joe Biden and his cartel fought the hardest on the student loan relief.
That goes to show something.
They're very protective over the student loan bailout.
Bad Faith Negotiations Exposed 00:15:23
It's interesting.
So the IRS thing is debated.
We're going to get more clarity on that.
It also reclaims $50 billion in unobligated unspent COVID funding.
Now, look, here's something that we need to make sure is reinforced.
Most speakers, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Denny Hassert, would just do clean debt ceiling increases.
They wouldn't have any sort of negotiation tied to that.
Now, none of us are happy with just like happy talk, patty cake, or any of that.
The question is, are there wins here?
Yeah, there are.
But you guys aren't happy.
I hear you.
I see you.
And again, the legislative details here are still emerging because it still has to go through House Rules Committee.
But one of the reasons we couldn't even get a better deal is that there has been somebody peering over Kevin McCarthy's shoulder.
And we have some reports to share with you, some confidential briefing reports.
I was working the phones yesterday.
I was calling members.
I was calling people that were where I said, tell me the truth here.
What really happened here?
We have something to share because this is being framed far too much as McCarthy v. Biden.
No, there's a third character here that had a significant and heavy influence in these negotiations.
If you are underwhelmed, if you are angry, if you are furious, if you're upset, I hear you.
But it's important to mention the third actor in this, and it's not the turtle.
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The media framing of McCarthy v. Biden is incomplete.
So look, there's a lot of people talking out there.
They talk, And talking is fine.
But look, I read your emails.
I see the sentiment.
So I was working the phones yesterday.
I wanted to learn everything I possibly could.
Because look, let me be very clear.
I'm a deficit hawk.
I have been my whole life.
I think this overspending, this indulgence in debt is going to destroy our country.
I'm a balanced budget guy.
In fact, part of the mess that we're in, if we're honest with ourselves, is created thanks to Republicans.
And that's going to be the illuminating aspect I'm about to share with you.
So as I'm working the phones here, especially with people that would non-traditionally come on this program, I said, okay, why couldn't we get more domestic cuts?
Why couldn't we get, and they said, look, Charlie, and this was very important.
They said, you understand that a third aspect of this was Lindsey Graham in the U.S. Senate holding the neoliberal neocons hostage in the Senate, saying that we're not going to pass anything unless we get military increases, military increases of money to Ukraine, saying that we don't have bullets, we don't have ammunition.
So a third element here that's very important that I learned through private phone calls and talking to people that were intimately involved in the process here is that Lady Graham was threatening to blow anything up and saying, I don't care about your domestic stuff.
We need to have increases of what's happening in the defense.
So if you think it's a terrible deal, I'm going to say, Charlie, this is a terrible deal.
They think we're all ignorant fools.
Okay, I hear you.
Got it.
Message received.
However, you must understand that blocking up against driving a harder bargain is the fact that we have to spend $880 billion on Millie's military.
Now, mind you, some of you guys might say, oh, come on, you know, the military is sacred.
I disagree.
The United States military defense budget is more about colonizing the world for values that I don't hold and you don't hold.
It's not about constitutional republicanism or even democracy or consent to the governed.
No, no, no, it's about LGBT and BLM.
And secondly, you have White Rage, Mark Milley, and we're involving ourselves in Ukraine.
All roads lead to Ukraine.
So interestingly enough, we could have drove a much harder bargain and we still can if Republicans would just get off of their fascination with the war machine.
I just, you know, learning about, so here's you have McCarthy and Biden, but peeking over the shoulder of Kevin McCarthy is Senator Lindsey Grant saying, no, no, no, I'm not.
And by the way, there's a huge block of Senate Republicans that basically Lindsey Graham represents the neocon hawks, Joni Ernst, people like that, that were threatening, saying, hey, we're not going to put up with any sort of cuts.
Why do we have as many military bases that we do?
These are questions that we need to ask that if we're serious about cutting domestic spending, why aren't we saying, hey, Mark Milley, am I going to give you unlimited amounts of money?
In fact, Lindsey Graham has gone to Twitter and he is bashing this deal, but he's not bashing the deal in the way that you would.
In the grassroots, in the grassroots, you're emailing me, Charlie, it's not enough spending cuts in here.
Do you know what Lindsey Graham is saying?
He's saying that it doesn't increase military spending enough.
He's saying that we don't have enough ships and all that's all a bunch of nonsense.
This is fear-mongering nonsense.
Ryan, get that cut from the Raytheon CEO that says the reason that we are depleting our military stockpiles is because we're involved in a proxy war against the Russian Federation.
Here is Lindsey Graham telling you his true motivations.
Lindsey Graham and the warmongering Republicans were more involved in this than you could ever imagine, including Gallagher from Wisconsin, threatening to blow up the entire deal, which then was a limiting factor for us to be able to get serious domestic spending reform.
Play cut four, the best money we've ever spent, according to Lindsey Graham.
The best money.
In fact, we want more money, which is to send money to Ukraine.
Play cut four.
Free or death.
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Yes, and we will be.
And the Russians are back.
Is it the best money we've ever spent?
Thank you so much.
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Our border is wide open.
We have $80 billion going to militarized IRS agents.
And Lindsey Graham is in a foreign country while threatening to blow up progress that we can make on domestic spending to make sure that Zelensky and Ukraine have an uninterrupted line of funding.
I hear your frustration, but make sure you understand that it's much broader than the picture the media is painting.
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Okay, so this is very important.
Speaker McCarthy in these negotiations was up against a limit.
And the limit, the limitations that was put on him is not only by the House Freedom Caucus, which I support a balanced budget and I support radical spending cuts, and I know you do too.
No, the limitation, quite honestly, was being put on by defense hawks that wanted Millie's military to receive uninterrupted funding or the Department of Homeland Security to have even more money to be able to spy on Americans or the FBI.
You see, the Warhawks and the domestic Warhawks were heavily involved in this process, and it wasn't always materializing.
You see, the fixation on supporting the American war machine makes it very hard for us to negotiate in good faith.
Now, the Democrats don't negotiate in good faith.
They're a bunch of fraudsters and criminals.
But at the same time, we must be honest about our own side, which is, okay, we are a nation that is verging on bankruptcy.
We are heading towards that cliff very quickly.
And we talk about fiscal discipline and fiscal responsibility.
But why are we also not being honest about that our defense budget, the Department of Defense, is the Department of Invading Other Countries and the Department of Offense.
If Republicans are serious about fiscal responsibility and fiscal discipline, then you have to be willing to cut spending across the board.
And I believe there is an appetite actually amongst you in a way there wasn't five or six years ago.
The biggest ongoing harm in 9-11 is how it has made the Republican Party on this permanent war-industrial complex footing, a permanent security state.
There are so many things that we could achieve if we left those things behind.
And it would put the Democrats on defense because here's what happened in these negotiations.
Again, the Democrats, I don't trust them as far as I could throw them, but this is a true story of what happened in this negotiation.
The Biden team meets with the McCarthy team, and McCarthy is starting to say, hey, we could cut this.
And Biden says, well, you know, let's do some military cuts.
Let's do some cuts to the military.
Now, whether Biden meant it or not, we don't know, because again, they're a bunch of fraudsters, okay?
But we can't even call the bluff.
McCarthy can't get the bill passed out of the House and certainly not the Senate because Lady Graham is holding all the neocons hostage.
So McCarthy is just a reflection of the legislative reality that's happening in some sense, especially when it comes to defense.
And so Lindsey Graham goes to Kyiv, Kiev, visit, totally on purpose in the last couple weeks.
And so instead of saying, okay, Biden, we'll cut the diversity programs, we'll cut the gay poems on warships.
In fact, while we're at it, why don't we cut all the money to Ukraine?
Why are we doing this?
Ukraine's not a state.
They don't participate in our elections.
Our constitution's about the United States.
Is this making America safer?
We're going to lose our global world reserve currency status.
Why are we sending money to countries that hate us, for example?
We sent money for border security for Tunisia and other Middle Eastern countries.
We can't send border security for our own nation.
You know, just small, pretty important details like this.
But we are in a significantly damaged negotiating position because the sacred cow is the defense budget.
And it's not about defense.
It's about imperializing the world around an increasingly perverted, left-wing, radical, post-modern, post-structuralist view.
It's not about liberating people from tyranny or authoritarianism.
And the hilarity is that we are becoming more like the countries that we are trying to seek to liberate people from, even though we're not.
We're becoming more like the authoritarian Soviet Union.
We are becoming more like the Gestapo power-hungry Pullet Bureau that cracks down on dissidents.
And so I've lost my patience because I can't honestly deliver to you, an audience, a critique of this plan without telling you that the entire negotiation process was flawed from the outset.
It was not a good faith negotiation on behalf of Republicans.
And again, you might say, well, it's not good faith on Democrats.
We know who they are.
They're revolutionary Marxists that want the destruction of the country.
I want an opposition party that walks into the room and is willing to cut the GAE, the gay, the great American empire, so we can have a balanced budget.
We're not going to get anywhere until we call out that the inputs into the formula of the negotiation are significantly fraud.
Why is it that the deal is like, well, we could have got more here and we could have got more there?
For example, Lauren Bobert says, look, I think McCarthy did the best that he could to some extent, but we made it clear this would not continue.
Business as usual, just listen to this.
This is the vibe that I'm hearing from you.
But we have to be honest.
How did we get into that?
What happened in the negotiating room?
The answer is that we have this sword of Damocles hanging over us.
The globalists in the military-industrial complex had a silent seat at the negotiating table the entire time.
Can't touch that.
Can't touch that.
Because Lindsey Graham will lead a legislative insurrection against the bill.
Play cut 21.
As far as I'm concerned, I think McCarthy did the best that he could do to some extent with this deal, but we made it clear at the outset of this Congress that we would not continue business as usual here in Washington, D.C.
And so I was working on the phones yesterday, and I was just trying to get some clarity.
And some of the sources I have of people that were very, very close to the negotiation right in there, they were like, look, the conference is not going to put up with any defense cuts.
In fact, right now, Lindsey Graham's tweet, Lindsey Graham has come out and he is bashing this deal.
So if you don't like this deal, you're in agreement with Lindsey Graham, except he is the polar opposite.
So if you're the one, you're firing up Charlotte, doesn't cut enough spending, doesn't do this, doesn't that?
You know why Lindsey Graham has resorted to Twitter to say this is a bad deal, this falls short.
This is what he says.
Nation In Great Peril 00:04:10
He says, I'm going to use every lever in the Senate to amend this.
He says, I have total disgust for political leaders' decision to make it remotely possible to gut our national security apparatus at a time of great peril.
This guy is an alarmist.
This is the same playbook that is used during COVID.
You know, the sky is falling.
NATO's going to fall apart.
The Western order is going to collapse if the gay poem readers on Navy ships don't get every billion dollar they want.
You're trying to tell me there's no waste, fraud, or abuse in the Department of Defense.
You need this constant thing.
So Lindsey Graham goes out and he says, unfortunately, Speaker McCarthy have made this Biden defense budget, the Republican defense budget, with this disastrous deal.
Even though it increases military spending, Lindsey Graham says it does not increase it enough.
Let's get that clip you guys just sent in here.
So you have to realize all the different components here.
Let's go to another piece of tape here.
The Democrats are complaining it doesn't go far enough.
Play cut 13.
Number one, we need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely.
But number two, we need an expedited way to get us to clean, renewable energy, or we will continue to have these severe weather events that we have been having for quite some time because of the warming of the planet.
You see, if you vote for the debt ceiling bill and if you cut any spending at all, weather is going to intensify and the world is going to end.
I, in particular, do not like the catastrophization, say that three times fast, of American politics, that everything's always going to collapse, that everything's always going to fall apart, that we're always sitting on some sort of fragile set of circumstances.
When you believe that you're under crisis and you are driven by emotion and not by reason, you tend to not make the best decisions.
I think we all know this in our personal lives, that if you think that things are falling apart and there's a nonstop fiasco and you're under complete and total collapse, then you're going to act in a frenetic fashion.
That's what Washington, D.C. always wants to create.
They want to create the conditions of a crisis, albeit 99% of the time manufactured, so that we do not think rationally or reasonably.
And the actual crises that are happening, like inflation and the southern border, they just completely ignore.
Like there's a crisis of terrorism against trans people.
Not a joke.
That's a real bulletin that the DHS sent out.
I want to go to this cut here.
MSNBC reporting on how House conservatives are criticizing this.
Let's play cut 15, please.
It calms us House conservatives are criticizing the bill, calling it, quote, the fiscal irresponsibility act and not a win for Republicans.
On the Senate side, Republicans Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee have vowed to impede the bill's passage over their own concerns.
And Texas Senator Ted Cruz called the legislation a quote blank check for Democrats.
Why didn't we get a better deal?
If you walk into a negotiation and one fourth of the anchor of your spending is a cow that you, sacred cow, you have to increase.
It's a third rail you can't mention.
It is the thought crime, then you're actually not negotiating.
They are not fulfilling the mandate.
You know, Lindsey Graham says on his Twitter, our nation's in great peril.
Yeah, you know why our nation's in great peril?
Because of our deficit spending.
You get a map of all the military bases around the world.
The mantra that made Donald Trump popular is America first.
And I don't think we should completely retreat from the world, but what is the reason that we need troops and bases in sub-Saharan Africa?
What is the argument there?
What is the argument that we need a perpetual military presence in the Middle East right now?
What is the argument that we need as many troops as we have in Europe or in South America?
What is the argument for that?
And if we're unwilling to touch that, then we are not actually the party of fiscal discipline.
Defending The World First 00:02:23
Then it's all performative.
It's all just chatterboxing.
You can defend the homeland while balancing the budget.
But the moment that all of a sudden we say, well, these are completely off limits.
Military has to increase.
All roads lead to Ukraine.
We've told you that for quite some time.
It's more than just an intellectual exercise of whether or not Russia is bad or Ukraine's bad.
No, no, no, no.
This is a question of what matters the most.
And right now, military-industrial complex spending makes it so we can't even negotiate to get ourselves to a balanced budget.
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The U.S. military has 750 bases in at least 80 countries around the world.
750 military bases.
You know, we have four military bases in Spain.
We have two in Peru.
We have 119 bases in Deutschland, in Germany, 44 bases in Italy, seven bases in Australia, 120 in Japan.
And so part of this is because the neoliberal order that was created post-World War II was that we're going to defend the world.
We are going to defend the world.
And in exchange, you guys use the World Reserve's currency status and everything's just going to be terrific, fat, and happy.
Neoliberal Order Collapsing 00:04:05
The neoliberal order is collapsing.
Now, part of that is incredibly horrifying.
Part of it is actually promising because always be careful what you're going to replace with something.
We're not arsonists on this show.
I have a lot of problems with neoliberalism, but if you could replace a bad idea with a worse idea, if the Soviet Union taught us anything, it's like, okay, you don't like the czars.
They're not great, but Lenin is a lot worse.
And Stalin is worse than Lenin.
So be careful if you think you're in hell.
The depths of hell know no limitations when you're complaining.
So I'm not a fan of many elements in neoliberalism, but I fall short of just celebrating its demise for the sake of it.
But this is a fact.
This is a department of imperialism.
We need harsh fiscal discipline across the board.
But you know, I've been listening to podcasts and watching shows, and I just feel like this critique is incomplete.
The critique is incomplete because people are fired up.
They're angry.
They're, you know, they're furious.
They say, Charlie, I feel betrayed.
I'm never voting again and all this.
I say, okay, but again, you have a mass portion of the button.
And even right now, we got some emails of Charlie, I think the deal stinks, but we shouldn't touch defense spending.
You're part of the problem, honestly.
You are part of the problem.
If you think there is a sacred, if you think that the military is spending their money perfectly and precisely, we took away all of our negotiating strength right away from the drum, from the jump.
If we were really ready to tighten our belts in this negotiation, we should have entered and publicly said, Joe Biden, more important than money to Ukraine or gay poem readings on warships or Mark Milley's white rage seminars or Zoom calls about trans identity, there is not a single penny of the budget that is off limits.
Whoa.
That would have changed the entire negotiating.
We'll cut it all.
We will cut bases in Somalia.
We'll close our...
Why do we have a military base in Peru?
Can somebody just, I mean, I'm sure it's a really sweet country.
I've never been there.
I've actually never been to South America.
I'd love to go one day.
I believe the Incans were from Peru.
If I know my South American history well, I'm sure it's a sweet country.
Lima is the capital of Peru.
Why?
What is the geopolitical reason we have a base in Peru?
So if we would have entered this negotiation saying we are now a party of fiscal discipline, we will cut not just COVID emergency stuff, not just IRS agents, but yes, we will be willing to cut the gay, the great American empire.
Instead, we were unable to drive the hardest possible bargain.
And look, you could make an argument that Japan, Germany, and South Korea are strategic, but there's a lot of fat on that bone.
Again, I'm not like this radical isolationist, cut it all and do all this stuff.
But you have to be willing.
You have to be willing to call the bluff.
You have to be willing to be honest that when you have $880 billion and we're spending money to that uppity foreigner, Zelensky, in a t-shirt, like, oh, everything's fine.
It's sacred.
They act as if it's some sort of religious heresy to criticize the military-industrial complex.
And so, look, we're going to have a lot of guests on.
They're going to talk about how it's an underwhelming deal and all that.
But it's very important that you understand the negotiation was co-opted by a third person at that table, and that is the war machine.
An untouchable.
You cannot talk about it.
In fact, they get more money.
I mean, just a simple question.
We could have demanded a forensic audit of the Department of Defense.
We could have just got that out of it.
But the defense military machine controls so many of our politicians that we're never actually able to get to the meat of the issue.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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