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March 19, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 19, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, hang on here uh just a second, folks.
Uh everything okay in there.
Late arriving show prep.
Okay.
Okay, we are back.
As as you know, um Mrs. Clinton, because of a Freedom of Information Act request, uh a number of uh of uh of uh pages, eleven thousand pages of her White House schedule uh have been released today from the Clinton Library and Massage parlor, and I just got a blurb that she was in the White House on the day it was discovered that the blue dress had the stain on it.
Uh Vermonica Lewinsky.
Uh so anyway, we'll get to that after the first uh break here when I have time uh to do um a little absorbing of of what all this contains.
Plus, uh a quick blurb I just got the Michigan primary do-over is dead isn't going to happen.
It's a blow for Operation Chaos, but it's the first blow for Operation Chaos.
We will be able to continue on with this.
Telephone number here, 800 282-2882.
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What?
What are you saying?
Well, I know it's not a actually, Snerdley's right.
It's not a total loss.
It could lead to even more chaos out there uh because of the Michigan do over.
Oh, yeah.
Could lead to lawsuits, all kinds of things.
Absolutely right.
Um relation to Jeremiah.
Right.
Barack Obama was on nightline last night, and the co-host Terry Moran said, if I went to a church where white supremacy was preached, what would you think of me?
I disagree with you, though, Terry.
That's not what's preached at Trinity.
And that I think that is a an easy equivalence that is not at all what is taking place there.
If you look at the sermons, even the most offensive ones that are a dish.
He is condemning white racism as he defines it.
But he's not condemning the white race.
He is not suggesting that blacks are superior.
What he's saying is is that this that white racism is endemic in this society.
Uh you probably got a point there.
The a better question would have been what if I went to a church that preached separatism?
What if I went to a church and my preacher was in just filthy rage with hate?
What would you think about that?
Um But uh it there's there's there's still, you know, there there's there's clearly uh whites are the problem as far as Jeremiah Wright is uh is concerned.
Then Obama says this about the O.J. Simpson trial.
You remember when during the OJ trial, there was a similar moment when the culture the the black and white culture just had these completely opposite reactions and nobody understood it.
And by the way, I'm somebody who was pretty clear that OJ was guilty.
And I was ashamed for my own community to respond in that way.
But I also understood what was taking place, which was that reaction had more to do with a sense that somehow the criminal justice system historically had been biased so profoundly that a defeat of that justice system was somehow a victory.
Yeah, well, it wasn't good for unity.
That's not the kind of stuff that promotes unity, Obama.
Uh it isn't.
You know, this is all i he's right.
It was jury nullification.
The jury either says, screw you, we've been lynched, we've been this, okay, we're gonna one of our guys gonna get away.
Now you see how you like it.
And so forth.
Um, but that's that's all two wrongs don't make it right.
I mean, there's any number of arguments against that.
But see, here again, Obama uh r i he condemns and then takes the condemnation back.
Well, I condemn it, but I understand it.
And once again, he falls back on the notion that it's the country's fault that the OJ jury did what it did, that the jury had no complicity in their own verdict whatsoever, which takes us where?
To liberalism.
Nobody's responsible for what they do.
There's always somebody else to blame or some institution to blame that makes people victims.
So when you strip away all of the rhetoric and the flowery language and the inspirational syllables is What you're left with here is that this guy is as liberal as any Democrat who's ever run for the White House and is trying to mask it.
Like every other liberal tries to mask it, he's masking it in his own way.
The mask has come off now.
Or is in the process of it.
Now, I am the one out there uh yesterday who said up until and it was actually I've got to snurtly credit for this because Snertley's analysis.
But up until yesterday, Obama was a candidate, a black candidate, transcended race.
And that was one of his strengths.
Spee yesterday, he became the candidate of race.
Terry Moran's question, there's a political risk for you, isn't there?
By embracing race, you might become the race candidate.
And that's a limiting thing.
Absolutely.
And so uh you know, hopefully this is something that we have talked about.
We've lifted up.
It'll spur discussion.
You know, like Robert Kennedy's wonderful metaphor, ripples of hope.
You know, you throw a rock and into a pond and those ripples will go up.
We don't know where those ripples will go.
I have no idea how this plays out politically.
But I think it was important to do.
So that's that's Obama, yeah, yeah, running a risk here, becoming the uh the race candidate.
That's why we've lifted it up.
We'll spur discussion, you know, like Robert Kennedy's wonderful metaphor, ripples of hope.
You throw a rock into a pond, those ripples will go out.
Uh this is what Obama wishes his campaign could return to, ladies and gentlemen.
Computer froze.
Maybe it's sabotage, but we'll get the computer unfrozen.
You know, the commercial that we have played parodying Obama's speeches and lofty rhetoric and people's uh reaction to it.
This is what he would wish that his campaign could return to.
With everybody buffaloed, agent of change, transcending race.
Obama didn't speak about race prior until yesterday when the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy out of necessity, not courage, had to be addressed.
Finally, Terry Moran Nightline last night says, is there a difference between black patriotism and white patriotism?
The African American community is much more familiar with some of the darker aspects of American life and American history.
I think that they understand America much less as a marching band playing, you know, John Phillips Sousa.
They understand America much more as a jazz composition with blue notes.
And I think th those are different things.
And so the African American community can express great rage and anger about this country and love it all the same.
That'd be great if we saw evidence of the love.
It would be great if we saw evidence of the love.
Well, you know, it's a thin line between love and hate.
Really is.
Relationships, it's sometimes said that you can't really hate somebody until you love them first, because the emotion of hate requires significantly strong emotion on the other side.
You can dislike somebody.
If you really get to really, really, really get mad at him hate a guts.
You gotta love them.
Because only people you love can disappoint you that much or make you that mad.
So I can understand this.
I can understand hate in your country and loving it at the same time.
I just want to see the evidence of the love from people that Obama hangs around.
That's all.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution as usual.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right, Deval Patrick is the um the uh governor of Massachusetts.
He is an African American.
He was in CNN last night.
And affiliate host for uh uh Anderson Cooper was Campbell Brown.
She said, you know, he uh he knew how controversial Reverend Wright's views were.
Why did Obama seem so surprised when they became public and this turned into such a furor?
It reminds me a little bit of that wonderful old saying of uh I think it was Louis Pasteur that education is learning to listen to anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
There are uh candidates, I'm sure who listen to the most virulent of the conservative radio talk show hosts.
I know occasionally my wife listens to that stuff while she's driving in the car.
But it doesn't mean that she accepts those points of view.
Oh, so this is now what happens on this program is no different than what happens in the church, where the preacher is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Here is the moral equivocation.
You see, this is this is uh folks.
We could not ask for more of this kind of illustration of just how liberals think and who they are, running around insulting millions of Americans who uh who listen to talk radio.
Uh just wanted you to hear that.
Now, Marianne Williamson, as you know, a noted author.
This uh this happened this week.
This is the about the Geraldine Ferraro thing.
I mean, the chaos that we are causing.
I mean, it's it's spanning all known boundaries.
It is exceeding all objectives.
Wait till you hear this.
Mary Ann Williamson, who is a noted uh uh female authorette who does things helping women become women and better women and get in touch with their female femaleness, whatever.
I really don't know how to describe what she does.
This is a is it do you know who she is, Don Mary Ann Williamson?
Well, she's she she's a white Oprah in book form.
In a way, all right.
And she was on retirement living TV's Daily Cafe, which is some obscure cable channel.
And the host, Felicia Taylor, said, as a feminist, people have criticized you because you've said you're gonna vote for Obama, not Hillary Clinton.
How do you respond to that?
First of all, I'm not gonna vote with my vagina.
That's first of all.
A lot of the things that I think of as real feminist values, to be honest, I see more in the policy positions of Barack Obama than I see in the policy positions of Hillary Clinton.
You know, our generation, baby boomers and older, we remember a time when in order to we thought it was a kind of mistake of of that wave of feminism in the 70s, in order to show that we were liberated, we almost suppressed our own feminine, and we became more masculine.
To me, I don't look at a female candidate who's taking on this kind of hard stance to show she's powerful.
To me, the new feminist vision is to be genuinely feminine in how we show up as women with no apology.
All right, so this fural stuff and all that it doesn't bother.
She's not gonna vote with her vagina.
Yes, Mr. Sterley, a program observer as a question.
Yes, what is it?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I think it does.
Well, but she's uh she says that uh when if she's not gonna vote uh with her vagina, you could assume, yes, that uh women who are voting for Hillary are voting with their vaginas, which would make Bill Clinton happy.
Probably regardless how the vote comes out.
If you got that many women voting with their vaginas, Clinton's gonna be satisfied.
Um regardless.
Uh but she write about one thing here.
The huge C I told you so.
Feminism took away femininity, made him competitive.
I can open a door myself.
I can remember back in the 70s complimenting a woman's appearance.
Oh, you're insulting my brain, she would say.
You just you you're objectifying me.
Is that all you see is how I look?
This is what they've been taught.
So I mean, if for the longest time I was afraid.
I would when I saw a woman whose appearance I wanted to compliment, I'd I'd apologize.
So I said, please, I hope it's done offend you, but I did that for 20 years.
That that decade had a profound effect on so many people.
It was unreal.
Uh I think some people are still confused and uh screwed up by it.
All right, now here on Hardball last night, a montage of a report by David Schuster on Operation Chaos.
In the January and February Democratic primaries, Obama attracted on average 57% of self-identified Republicans, compared to about 25% for Hillary Clinton.
But this month, things changed.
And a lot of people are pointing to one man, Rush Limbaugh.
At the time of Limbaugh's remarks, John McCain had practically wrapped up the Republican nomination, and Barack Obama had wheeled off 11 straight Democratic victories.
That's when the Clinton campaign launched its kitchen sink strategy, and Limbaugh launched his vote for Hillary strategy.
Did it work?
Approximately a hundred and nineteen thousand Texas Republicans voted for her in a state where Clinton's overall margin of victory over Obama was about a hundred and one thousand.
In other words, Republicans helped turn a virtual draw into a slight Clinton victory.
While Obama won Mississippi in a landslide, Republicans favored Clinton three to one, swelling her vote totals and costing Obama, according to analysts, a few delegates.
The next big Democratic primary in Pennsylvania is a closed contest, meaning registered Democrats only.
But Republican tactical voting is still a potential factor in Indiana, Montana, and Puerto Rico, and conservatives who identify themselves as independents can vote in North Carolina and West Virginia.
That means out of the nine remaining major Democratic contests, conservatives could cause mischief in five of them.
The question is, will it make any difference?
Or is this Mr. Schuster, don't forget Pennsylvania.
You left it out there.
We have operatives who are registering Democrat up until March 25th to vote for Hillary in Pennsylvania.
It is happening there too.
Operation Chaos rush the vote, uh exceeding all objectives.
Now, on hardball, Chris Matthews hosting uh former New York City mayoral candidate Mark Green.
Uh, is also the president of Air America, whose audience you could put a thumb, uh thimble, uh phone booth, certainly Matthew says, Well, Mark, what do you think here?
Is this going to be the greatest example of political sabotage in history?
Republicans sneak into Democrat voting booths, elect the candidate they think is the easiest to beat.
And always right, by the way, I know a lot of Democrats that rooted for Reagan to win the nomination only to learn he can beat any Democrat.
Rush is thin in weight, but he's also thin in logic.
I think Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingram are laughing to themselves how when they say jump, some progressive pundits gullible, say how high.
First of all, voting is uh ingrained sacrosanct habit.
It's very unlikely that many Republicans or Democrats will vote strategically in primaries.
They otherwise wouldn't vote it.
Second, this reminds me why I like Pennsylvania and New York closed primaries.
Democrats should decide who the Democratic nominee, so no Republicans can game it.
Yeah, but you guys clearly love gaming hours.
You love choosing our nominee.
So Matthews says, Mark, the problem you have is the numbers.
David Schuster just reported the enormous number of Republicans have switched over, and only after Limbaugh began his effort here to try to get them to vote strategically.
Did they shift from voting?
The ones who voted were inspired by Barack and were voting for him all of a sudden after he said go vote for Hillary to screw the Democrats, they started to do that.
How do you explain that?
That's a fact.
It's a fact that those numbers voted for Hillary.
It's a total congestion.
No, but only after only after Limbaugh made his call.
How about this?
Today, USA Today Gallup did a poll.
Hillary Clinton is more ahead of McCain than Obama is.
Hillary Clinton has pulled ten points ahead of Obama, by the way.
What do we change the subject for?
No, no, no.
Are you jealous of Rush Limbaugh's ability to get his people to do what he wants them to do?
Uh uh unfortunately, Chris, you and me and Ed don't have ditto heads.
We have thinking people.
Yeah.
And you're this guy has lost every election he's ever raged.
Uh, which I guess it one way of looking at, you could say Mark Green is an expert in the way people vote.
And that is a don't vote for him.
No matter how hard he gets them to try, or tries to get them uh to vote for him.
How does he really know what voters do when they go in?
Um Matthews.
You jealous of Rush Limbaugh's ability to get his people to do what he wants to do.
Operation Chaos rolls on.
The saga continues, a man, a living legend, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a way of life.
I want to go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen, and uh one of the many things that helped us uh at the beginning of Operation Chaos make it happen.
Looks like the Michigan do-over is dead.
The hotline is uh is reporting.
Uh I'm sorry, the politico is uh is reporting.
Uh Ding Dong.
Well, actually it's Michigan's hotline.
Ding dong do over primary is dead, time of death for the uh the do-over Michigan primary about eleven AM today, March the nineteenth.
a Lancing Insider instant messages to explain the latest development, and this is on the Politico.com website.
The Senate Democrats just had a long caucus following their long phone call with the gang of four, as uh Carl Levin and others pushing a revoter called, and the result is that nobody moved.
There was no unity on the Democrat side.
There just wasn't lady that there was no unity on the Democrat side.
But we thrive, Mr. Limbo, we thrive it's more than you do.
You don't even want unity.
Yeah, I know because it's not it's an impossible concept, you clutz.
Anyway, we didn't get any unity here in Michigan.
Nobody moved, votes aren't there, thus it'll not go to a vote in the Senate, and barring some other last-minute miracle that does not involve those four, and the governor in Hillary traveling to Michigan, it's as dead as a doornail.
Then there's an update from State Senator Tupac Hunter.
Tupac spelled the same way as Tupac Shakur.
State Senator Tupac Hunter, an Obama supporter, confirms the outcome of today's meetings.
The caucus has expressed again today.
There is no concern about the proposal and a great deal of unreadiness.
Uh the Senate's still overwhelming.
We inform the four great Democrats who've worked very hard to come up with a solution.
It's uh one of those things where you can agree to disagree.
The question then becomes, what do we do now?
Unity.
Usually so Michigan do over is dead, and this, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's think ahead to Denver.
And the Democrat Convention in August.
Maybe there is their convention in September or August.
Ours is in September, right?
When is it?
One of these.
The Democrats is August?
Okay.
Think of the potential lawsuits.
Michigan files, think of the absolute chaos, perhaps on the floor of the convention over Michigan being disenfranchised.
Will I go?
I've been so I've been asked to go to the Republican convention and uh, you know, host a little cocktail dinner party the night before it, but I don't know that I don't know that I would be welcome at our convention.
I might I might be welcome at the Democrat convention, depending.
I don't think I'd be welcome at our own.
Okay, uh the Hillary was in the White House on stained blue dress day.
Schedules review by ABC showed that Hillary may have been there when the fateful act was committed.
Listen to this.
Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day her husband had uh Lewinsky with uh with Monica Lewinsky and may have actually been there when it happened, according to records of her schedule, released today by the National Archives,
an initial review uh by ABC News of 17,481 pages of Senator Hillary Clinton's schedule as first lady also finds significant gaps in time in many days containing only private meetings at the White House with unnamed individuals.
The public schedule uh for Senator Clinton on February 28th, 1997, the day on which Lewinsky's infamous blue dress would become stained by the president shows the first lady spent the morning and the night in the White House.
The February 28th schedule lists her as attending four drop-by events closed to the press between eleven a.m. and twelve thirty p.m. and then records her as staying in the White House overnight that fateful day.
The schedule lists three different events occurring that evening at Washington Theaters in the Kennedy Center, but does not indicate if she went.
According to the Star report, President Clinton took Lewinsky into an Oval Office bathroom in the early evening after recording a radio address.
Forensic tests later conclusively showed the blue dress that she was wearing was stained with the President Siemen, according to the Star Report.
So all you vagina voters out there may have things here to reconsider.
Operation Chaos.
Battle Creek, Michigan.
This is Sandra.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Uh, thank you for taking my call.
Yes.
Um we hear so much about these evil rich people, I don't care what uh race or whatever they're from, we hear about them all the time.
But my question is who would we go to for a job if there were no rich people?
Government.
Uh-huh.
How could there be a government without rich people?
Uh that's a good point.
Yes.
That's where the money comes from.
Ours and the job.
Well, but see, that's you're you know you're you're uh you're absolutely right about this.
This is and it's so commonsensical.
It's so ridiculous.
Well, it's scary that so many people don't understand it, but we have fifty years of Democrat Party class envy that has uh convinced people that most money is governments.
You know, I've you you know how to fix this.
Here is how to fix this.
This will never happen.
Well, I shouldn't say never.
But all you people who want you want the flat tax or you want the fair tax or you want the sales, national sales tax, you want to fix this.
Here's how you fix it.
For one year, you end all withholding.
For example, if you happen to be employed by someplace that pays you a hundred thousand dollars, then they every month they will pay you whatever twelve into a hundred thousand is.
And then every month you'll get a bill of how much you have to send the fire department, how much you have to send to school district, how much you have to send to the federal government, how much you have to send to the state government, how much you have to send to the city, every tax in the world that you pay,
you will be paid the gross every month, and every month you will have to pay the government, and it'll either be you'll get a giant bill and it'll be deducted from your credit card or however you want to do it, from your debit card, or you can write the check.
But you every month will be paid the gross.
If you are paid ten thousand dollars a month, that's what you get.
And within two days, you have to take out of that ten thousand every dime in taxes you owe everything you pay.
And do this for a year.
And follow up and and really hammer the people who don't pay their taxes.
Hunt them down, make a big deal of hunting them down, put a couple of them in jail if they are a two-month delinquent.
You if we end withholding for a year, then this is what'll never happen.
People would understand exactly how much they are earning that they never see.
I am convinced that most people think that they are paid the net in their paycheck because they never see the gross.
And then they're told, yes, and the government is matching your social security.
Oh no.
When you get the 10 grand every month, or whatever it be, you owe all of Social Security because your employer not matching anything because he's not matching anything now.
It's just money you never see.
You want to end this notion that there are budget cuts that are dragged.
You want to end the notion the government doesn't have enough money.
You want to end the notion that government has all the money and you only get to keep what you get.
You want to you want to you want to create the idea that in people's minds and hearts in their lives they earn the money and it is the government that takes it from them rather than gives them something.
And along with ending withholding, buy-bye refunds, because you're gonna owe every month exactly what you owe.
You're not gonna be allowed to underpay.
You can overpay if you want, but you won't do it this way.
You make $10,000 a month, and you and you have to every tax item you owe, you have to see it recorded or write the check, and you end up with $5,000 by the time everybody's taken their check from you.
I will guarantee you this notion of class envy and who's rich and who is it and who's paying what would be out the window.
This is why it will never happen.
It would never ever happen.
Now, those of us who file quarterly estimates because we are incorporated, self-employed, independent contractors or what we already know this.
And we have to pay them every month, but you have to set it aside.
You ha it's it's due every April 15th.
See, we're really those of us who do it this way, folks, we get a double whammy on April 15th, and and those of us who do, we we wait a little last minute to file our taxes so we can hold on to our money as long as we can before giving it to the government.
You don't get that chance because it's withheld from you.
Now, April 15th, we owe for the previous year and the first quarterly estimate for the current year.
Two checks.
Next June 15th, the next quarterly estimate, next September 15th, and then January 15th.
And you have to you have to set the money aside, because you have you don't pay it.
If you're a day late, they find you penalties.
They track you down.
Um and those of you who file quarterly, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
If everybody had to do this, we could take our country back.
Once again, Operation Chaos, now exceeding all objectives.
I am Rush Limbaugh coming to you today, as every day from Operation Chaos Headquarters, the heavily fortified and bunkered EIB Southern Command, Bob Beckle was on Fox News Channel's uh election headquarters show last night.
This is their five o'clock show with uh with Bill Hemmer and the newlywed Megan Kelly.
You said story about her wedding in the uh New York Times.
Wow.
If you didn't, it's it's a fascinating story.
Anyway, Hemmer says to Bob Beckle, who uh he Beckle here has a plan to counter uh Operation Chaos.
Hemmer says, is Rush Limbaugh winning with his message of the conservative radio talk show host instructing listeners to keep Hillary Clinton in a race, saying the more they duke it out, the more harm they will do to themselves.
Democratic leaders are saying that.
You know, we can't go all the way to Denver.
Well, guess what?
They're superdelegates.
They could vote.
So instead of whining, make up your mind and cast a vote.
The last vote is June 3rd, and I think the superdelegates should decide on June 4th.
All the evidence will be in, and so then we'll have almost three months until the convention.
I don't think it's quite as dire as Republicans dream about or that Rush Limbaugh dreams about.
Uh, we'll take June 7th, Bob.
June 7th is Puerto Rico, uh, or June 3rd, whatever it is.
But did you notice what he's suggesting here?
Bob Beckle, who by the way ran uh the campaign of Walter F. Mondo in 1984.
Bob Beckle has suggests superdelegates vote as soon as you can end this, right?
Don't take it to the convention.
Um it's I don't know what the rules, of course.
The Democrat Party aren't any rules.
See, they're just customs and traditions.
That's the way they can say they never break the rules.
Um so well, I have to check and find out if there has to be a custom or tradition change for superdelegate delegates to vote prior to the convention.
Because they still they st they're still gonna go through the roll call at the convention.
They're still gonna call the states.
And when they get to Michigan and Florida, they may not even call their names.
There could be riots and protests, and even Reverend Jeremiah Wright, notwithstanding, if the superdelegates after all this give it to Hillary, Sharpton's promise Dimash.
Operation Chaos, Bob, I hate to tell you we'll go on even after the superdelegates vote, especially depending how they vote.
Rita in Belleville, Illinois.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hello.
Um, it's a good job I wrote this down because I would have forgotten it by now.
Anyway.
That's she's only been on hold for two hours, folks.
Um I'm sorry about that, uh, Rita.
That's why we wanted to get to you, but uh, I'm glad you took took drastic action here to remember what you call about.
Well, I'm calling about why we cannot have Hillary in the White House.
Because she wants to do a national health thing.
So does Obama.
There's there's no difference in these two.
Well, they should go over to England and see what the National Health has done for eight funds.
You know, uh I know you know because you're from there.
We've been talking about that and also what's happened in Canada, but you misunderstand the hubris and the arrogance of Democrats.
I mean, if if they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how uh health care, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here.
Well, because they they think the only thing it hasn't happened, right, is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.
Yeah.
Well, the the thing is, though, the the labor party have been closing hospitals.
Oh, I know people have been told it isn't people are being women are being told to get midwives because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine or not at the hospitals.
What's also, and you can confirm this, I get 20 seconds.
What's happened is a private medical practice has started up.
People who can afford it are going to medical hosp institutions, hospitals, and so forth, uh, that are not part of the National Health Service.
They've opted out.
Yeah.
It's and that that will happen here too, and you'll end up with this rich versus middle class strata that you have now.
It'd be a total mess.
And I gotta go.
We're out of time.
And the EIB obscene profit center timeout right now.
I'll tell you something else that American liberals go to the UK.
They see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as the Harlem Globetrotters, and they love that.
Total power.
Whether anything works or not is irrelevant.
We work.
See you tomorrow.
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