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August 12, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I predicted it.
I told you this was going to happen.
And it has happened, and I it we can prove that it's happened once.
And I think we're going to be able to prove it happened a second time.
Well, I predicted it halfway yesterday, right before Obama's Wait, we now know, by the way, the whole thing yesterday was a stacked deck.
That thing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was totally phony.
The little girl that asks a question is the daughter of a huge Obama supporter.
Anyway, let me do the programming format stuff here.
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So yesterday, right?
It was right about one o'clock 115 Eastern time when Obama started at Dog and Pony Show that was the most pathetic thing.
Yesterday, that town hall illustrated his lack of experience and lack of competence and what he's trying to do.
And I said, folks, don't be surprised if during the course of this town hall meeting there is a disturbance, and some people show up in clan outfits or carrying swastika signs.
And if it happens, it'll be union supporters.
It'll be acorn people.
It will be political plants.
Let us never forget Nancy Pelosi started this whole swastika business.
All I did was respond in kind with an accurate and researched comparison between the national socialism in Germany and the attempt to socialize health care in this country with some of the other Obama programs tossed in as well.
Pelosi started all of this.
Dick Durbin started all of this, called our not our interrogators at Club Gitmo in t uh Nazis, Nazi-like.
Uh it's this uh Democrats have been tarring and feathering conservatives or trying to for my whole career with this.
I fired back in kind.
And so now there was I I I get up last night or this morning, and I'm diligently doing show prep as I always do.
I go to Drudge Page and I say, Whoa, Congressman David Scott, sign outside the office, swastika painted on it.
Ha ha ha.
How convenient.
How absolutely convenient.
And for the life of I don't know in this case, we do know that a swastika sign at a dingle town hall was made and paraded around by a dingle supporter.
It has been proven.
It has been established.
I will get to that in just a second.
Here's David Scott.
Let's go to CNN headline news.
You see, this is how this is why you people in state-run media are in big trouble.
You're trying to make this whole health care debate something about me.
I didn't start anything.
As usual, I'm defending America.
I'm defending myself.
I'm defending the honor of the people who make this country work.
You people are out calling us Nazis, saying we're running around with swastikas.
When we are threatened with the loss of our freedom, so we're showing up to people who work for us, and we're demanding answers, and they don't have the answers.
And they tell us when we read the bill that that's not what's in the bill.
Well, we've read it and they haven't.
There ought to be anger about this.
There ought to be outrageous, and there is.
So we get tarred and fettered as Nazis because we just don't bend over, grab the ankles, and let you guys ram whatever down our throats that you want.
And uh so the name calling starts, and the uh the the Democrats do not know how to deal with this kind of opposition.
The media, in an effort to repeat and promote the propaganda from the White House and to push Obama's agenda, tries to make me the story.
I am the story.
I can't do anything to your health care.
I can't change it.
I can't force any change whatsoever on your health care.
Somehow I'm the story.
You would think that the the the state-run media and the Democrats would learn that trying to make me the story doesn't work.
For 21 years they've tried to, and I'm still here.
And if I say so myself, bigger, more powerful, more popular, more effective than ever.
Right, Zev.
So and slimmer.
Exactly right, and slimmer.
Which makes me even doubly effective and intimidating.
So these people trying to make me the story.
Me the story when I did nothing but respond to the speaker of the house saying that people on my side of this fight are running around with swastikas when there wasn't any photo evidence to establish it.
So let's go to CNN headline news, the dutiful state-controlled media, the anchor Robin Mead reporting this about Congressman David Scott, who's a Democrat from Georgia.
A Georgia congressman who supports health care reform found a swastika painted outside his office.
Democrat David Scott says that it should remind people to tone down the rhetoric.
Well, several conservatives have made Nazi references about health care reform, including radio host Russ Limbaugh.
You will find that the Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo.
Congressman Scott's office was vandalized less than a week after he got into a heated argument about health care at a community meeting.
I'm sorry, folks, I don't buy this.
This is too politically convenient.
We know that Obama staged an event yesterday.
The Democrats are staging events.
It's what they do.
They don't deal in reality, they don't tell the truth.com,
and it is dangerously close.
Now there's no swastika in Obama's logo.
I'm just talking about the tire shape of the thing.
And nobody's saying Obama's Hitler.
Everybody seems to be forgetting that Pelosi started all of this.
The Democrats started all of this.
Well, maybe you're right, Sturdley certainly just shouted at me over the IFB, they're not forgetting.
But some of the Robin Mead CNN has may not know.
It's a it's entirely possible that many people in the state-run media don't know.
Because if the truth isn't on the sites they read to find that quote unquote truth, uh, they'll never know.
So CNN's American Morning today, the co-host Kieran Chetri is interviewing Representative uh David Scott, Democrat Georgia.
She says, What is it about this health care debate that seems to have brought out the worst in so many people as we're discussing what everybody wants, which is to figure out solutions to our collective programs.
My situation all of this has been a realization that it has become politicized from the very beginning when Russian bow says, Well, we don't want him to succeed.
We don't want President Obama to succeed.
I want him to fail.
Well, Rush Limbo has an extraordinary audience, and many of them feel very strongly and and are influenced by him.
Right.
The tone has been set there, so you find people who will come in and hijack these meetings for the purpose of expressing that.
Here they go in denial again.
They're trying to tell themselves what these people do is project.
What the liberal Democrats do, they're the ones that are professional protesters.
They have the professional rent of mobs, the acorn, the union people, and uh they're just projecting.
Well, if it can't be real because what they do isn't real.
And so happening to them on the reverse, it's got to be made up.
It's got to be trumped up.
Yes, I wanted Obama to fail.
And I think everybody understands now what I meant finally.
I think most people understood what I meant at the time anyway.
They just shock and dismay that anybody would have to go now to say it.
But I knew all of this was coming down the pike before it happened.
Why?
Because I know socialists.
I know liberals.
I know what Bill Ayer stands for.
I know what Reverend Wright stands for.
I know who Obama is.
I know who Pelosi is.
None of this is a mystery.
We knew they were going to try this.
But no, some people were holding out he's going to be a great moderate, governed from the center.
He's going to triangulate uh post-racial post-partisan.
B.S. It was all B it.
Yes, I wanted him to fail.
Sadly, for the country, he's succeeding.
Which means the country's failing.
Three million jobs lost since he's immaculated.
How's that hope and change working out for you?
See the latest on the stimulus numbers?
50 some odd gazillion dollars spent on airports.
How's that working out for while they're telling everybody not to fly?
Because it's polluting the planet.
Now let's go to audio sound by 27.
Yesterday, there was um at a at a John Dingle town hall or some sort of meeting, there was a guy, a black guy carrying around a sign, Obama as Hitler's swastika, whatever it was, Obama as Hitler sign.
And this is why I don't believe that the swastika painted on the office door at uh what's his face, David Scott's office is anything other than politically convenient.
The uh the guest here uh is Bill Cornish.
He's a Dingle Town Hall attendee talking to Neil Cavuto, and here's the exchange.
There was actually a gentleman in there carrying around a sign to outside with Obama as Hitler, and it turned out later he was outside handing out Dingle information on the health care program.
So it appears that he was uh part of the dingo operation.
So the dingle operation grabbed a black guy, gave him his sign, Obama is Hitler, had him parading around outside for the cameras to catch, and then after the meeting, this dingle worker ditches the sign and is passing out dingle information.
We have proof of this from uh uh a blog called the blog prof. Um, and uh here's here's the uh the money paragraph in this blog.
Note the black man holding up the poster, and there are pictures here uh and screenshots from YouTube.
This screenshot was used in reports by the uh state control media who painted the protesters at Ningle's place as Nazis.
Here's the thing, though.
That black man is a dingle supporter.
Last Friday, Frank Beckman, on our Detroit affiliate, WJR, interviewed an eyewitness that said not only were union thugs let in through a side door before anybody else was let into the venue, but that he clearly saw from his vantage point that very um uh Obama as Hitler poster in the back hallway after the union thugs took their seats.
The interview was around 11 a.m., but WJR chose not to post the audio.
Uh thought it would have been bigger news and needed more than just to write a post, albeit an audio clip would have been uh would have partially sufficed.
In any case, the blogger has been scouring YouTube and the web for more info, finally found some.
Uh and uh there's an account of all of this.
So the bottom line is that at Dingle's town hall, the Obama as Hitler sign was being paraded around by a dingle supporter.
This is what I predicted yesterday, prior to the Obama Town Hall of Portsworth, New Hampshire.
So today we conveniently see on the Drudge Report page a picture of the Office of Congress in David Scott in Georgia with a swastika painted on it.
And of course, I am responsible.
When Nancy Pelosi put the thought in everybody's head.
The bottom line here is that the Democrats and Obama cannot defend their plan.
They cannot answer questions about their plan.
So once again, they are making me the issue in trying to not advance their plan, but to discredit critics of the plan.
Obama is also in heap big trouble.
You know, you late-night comedians waiting around for the material, itch staring you right in the face.
The Obama administration's writing your material each and every day.
Yesterday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the hapless Obama, which is, I think you remember Neil Diamond, brother loves traveling uh USO, whatever it is, town hall traveling campaign show is what the Obama administration is now.
And Obama announced that uh AARP is totally on board his plan.
Well, privately they are.
AARP, think of them as move on with false teeth.
AARP has been funneling big bucks that they scammed out of old people all the way to the DNC and so forth, but they never ever wanted their rank and file to know they were on board with the Obama plan.
They have not publicly said so.
Privately, I'm sure they have assured the Obama administration and Democrats that they're all for it.
But today, the moveon.org for people with false teeth at AARP are scrambling because the rank and file at AARP or say, what the hell is this?
We didn't sign up for Obama.
They don't want more and more senior citizens are coming to find out what's in this plan and do not want it, don't want any part of it.
Even a lib blogger, or not blogger.
Well, I guess you call him blogger, some lib, I got it in the stack here, posting On Tina Brown's new website, beast.
Big big lib big pro national health care says, my gosh, we're killing it ourselves.
There is end of life care.
There is euthanasia if you want to look at this.
Bill is horrible.
We don't like it.
And the Libs are also upset at the deal Obama's made with big pharma.
I had a story from Robert B. Rice yesterday from Salon.com didn't get to it.
And today, Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post, what Obama did, what Obama did, he accepted $150 million from Big Pharma in exchange for going easy on them with drug price demands reductions.
And the Libs are upset.
They're saying this is extortion.
And they say, what are we doing?
We're going to have our president getting in bed with big business to get legislation done.
And they are just beside themselves.
So there's a lot of stuff Obama's doing that his supporters don't know.
The AARP has not officially come out for this.
The rank and file has what the hell is our organization doing because they're more and more convinced that there's rationing and there is, and that end of life is determined to be whenever you're not worth living.
And more and more people are seeing this in the plan.
So it's uh it's not good.
And finally, we went back and found from Bloomberg, April 29th of this year, just a few short months ago.
President Obama said his are you you seasoned citizens listening to this?
President Obama said his grandmother's hip replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life.
Listen to me now, look at me.
Look at me.
Obama said during his grandmother's hip replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a sustainable model for health care.
He'd already thrown his grandmother under the bus.
She's a typical white woman when doing the speech on the Reverend Wright.
And now back in April on the 29th, he said, Yeah, my grandmother got a hip replacement.
And I said, Is this really worth it?
Terminal, is it really worth it?
I gotta, we we we have to think about this.
The president's grandmother, Marilyn, or Madeline Dunham, had a hip replaced after she was diagnosed with cancer, Obama said in an interview with the New York Times magazine.
Dunham, who lived in Honolulu, died at the age of 86, November 2nd, 2008, two days before the election victory.
I don't know how much that hip replacement cost, Obama said, um, I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she's my grandmother.
But people aren't going to be able to do that with his plan.
But he's actually, he's actually, he tells the New York Times magazine, mmm, maybe uh grandmother needs a hip replacement.
Uh she's got cancer.
Is it worth it?
Can we sustain this?
It's like yesterday.
What a faux pas in trying to sell his government-run health care plan, ripping the post office, praising UPS and FedEx.
I'd say if the Democrats, uh, if the Democrats want a shot at getting what they want, they need to pull Obama off the circuit.
They need to get him off the circuit.
They need to get him off the stage.
He is an idiot.
He displayed it yesterday.
He's not their hope.
He is a disaster.
He is now out there saying stupid stuff.
He is making stupid analogies.
He is detached from the reality of this debate where it is right now.
There's a reason that Joe Axelrod or David Axelrod has him uh uh uh employed by a and went into a teleprompter.
Uh it it is he's a disaster.
He's an unmitigated disaster when he is away from the teleprompter.
They've got to get him off the circuit.
We of course want him to stay.
Camille Paglia at Salon.com says Pelosi's got to go.
I love Camille Paglia, but I respectfully disagree.
We don't want Pelosi to go.
We want her to continue to remain the Botox face of the Democrat Party and its health care efforts.
We want Obama on the circuit.
Something else he said yesterday.
In addition to that, you know, he was the context he was trying to assure people that uh the the uh public option would not ruin private insurance, would not get rid of private insurance companies.
He said, hey, I mean, look, uh, uh UPS, FedEx, They do pretty well.
Post office of big trouble.
Yeah.
A government entity, much like the one he's setting up to run health care, can't compete, does it wrong.
And that's what he's telling that that's the kind of undisciplined, silly, stupid analogy.
And then he said, he's backed now to accusing surgeons of doing unnecessary surgeries for the money.
He said if that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that's 30,000 to 40 to 50,000 dollars immediately that the surgeons reimbursed.
So he's accusing doctors of amputating feet and other limbs from diabetics simply for money.
He's turning into the biggest liability they have.
And I I I just I think it's just amazing to watch this.
And I think they all know it.
I think they're beginning to realize by the way, we have only four months to save the planet, according to the uh UN General Secretary details coming up, don't go away.
By the way, folks, coming up, there's a great piece that I found.
What the health care bill actually says, a professor of classics at uh Duke University, David Lewis has gone through, read the whole thing.
And it's fascinating.
I'm gonna summarize it for you and share you with it to share it with you as the program unfolds right before our very eyes and ears today.
Ban Kaimun, or Ban Ki moon, not sure how he pronounces it, the Secretary General of the United Nations made a speech in um Korea, in Chan Korea to the Global Environment Forum.
I throw this in the health care debate because it's all part of the same mix.
It's all part of the effort to redistribute wealth all over the world.
Listen to this.
As we move toward Copenhagen in December, we must seal a deal on climate change that secures our common future.
I'm glad that the chairman of the forum and many other speakers have used my campaign slogan, seal the deal in Copenhagen.
I won't charge them loyalty.
I think he meant royalty.
Please use this seal the deal as widely as possible as much as you can.
We must seal the deal in Copenhagen for the future of humanity.
We have just four months.
Four months to secure the future of the planet regarding the environment.
Four months.
If Ban Kaymoon doesn't get what he wants, if the United Nations doesn't get what he wants, if Obama doesn't get what he wants, if all the world's leftists don't get what they want in four months, we will not secure the future of the planet.
This isn't going to resonate with people.
Nobody's going to believe that if we don't act whatever you want us to act, do whatever you want us in four months, we lose the planet.
We fail to secure the future of the planet.
Now I'm not going to let this Nazi thing, I'm going to get it back to it.
I'm not going to let this Nazi thing go, this Swats swastika thing go, because the the the Democrats here, in an effort to divert everybody's attention from what's in this rotten piece of legislation called health care reform, are once again taking a payout page out of the playbook trying to make this about me.
And once again, I'm sitting here minding my own business one day, and I see Nancy Pelosi say that all these peaceful people showing up at these town hall meetings on health care are carrying swastika.
She's calling us Nazis.
I responded in kind, and I'm not I'm sure they I'm understand why they don't like it.
But I need to ask a question here.
The reason we're not supposed to talk about the Nazis is because of the genocide of six million Jews.
So no comparison to Nazi Germany and uh and and German socialism.
We can't go there simply because of the genocide of six million Jews.
Uh when Pelosi starts calling, saying people running around carrying swastikas, that is what she means.
She is trying to associate people like you and me with that event in the world.
And I'm t I'm not gonna sit here and take it anymore.
I am not gonna sit here and sit idly by why a bunch of fascist socialists in this country try to smear and impugn mainstream conservatism rooted in the founding of this country with a genocide of six million Jews in World War II.
That's what they are trying to do.
That's the association they are trying to link.
And as such, everybody's afraid to bring up Germany in World War II because that's all anybody is going to think.
So when you say somebody's like Hitler, there's, oh, you're now you can't say that.
Nobody's as bad as Hitler.
Well, let me make a point.
The Nazis were national socialists.
Forget the genocide here.
That came toward the end of what they were doing.
They got started in the mid-30s and actually a little prior to that.
Well, don't forget what they were doing, but that's they were they were national socialists.
They were not liberty-loving individuals.
They did not preach respect for human beings.
They were not for small decentralized government anywhere.
They were not for honest capitalism.
They were national socialists.
And it was national socialism and the view of big government and the idea that the some were better than others, which led to that monstrous genocide.
The two are not separately contained.
And to sit here and to be compared to the monstrous genocidal Adolf Hitler, that's beyond the pale.
And that's what Pelosi's trying to do, and that's what Dingel's trying to do when he has one of his staffers run around with a swastika or or or Obama is Hitler.
Why?
Why do we have to ignore all of the national socialism of Nazi Germany just because of the monstrous genocide?
This experiment in national socialism in Germany went on for well over ten years.
And I'm I'm going to tell you right now, if you want to do a comparison, just taking this health care bill, you want to do a comparison between the people pushing it and the people opposing it to national socialism in Germany, it ain't a contest.
The people pushing this health care bill have far more in common with the national socialists of Germany, exempting genocide than any of us who are opposing this health care have.
We are not in any realm close.
Now the people in the media look at this as just an opportunity to divert attention to attack me.
They love doing it.
It gets them ratings.
They loved make this association between conservatism and Nazism.
Nothing could be further from the truth in any aspect of Nazism.
We are for capitalism, small, limited government, individual liberty and freedom.
We have nothing in common.
And the right has never had it in common with any socialism anywhere, including Nazism.
You want to put it on a the wrong way to look at this is a circle.
You'd need to draw a state line, a straight line, and put your precious moderates and independents in the middle, put conservatives on the right.
On the left, you're going to find Nazism, socialism, communism.
You're not going to find it on the right.
It ain't going to happen.
And so these people want to continue to try to say, and when we know that Dingle is out there having one of his own staffers running around with a sign.
We know full well what they're trying to do.
That's fake, just like Obama's town hall meeting was fake yesterday.
But I'm just going to tell you there is no way conservatives were we writing a health bill, and we have our own versions.
There is no way.
There is no way ever, any time, anywhere, that we make a serious proposal that the government decides who dies based on their age and health.
That's not who we are.
For whatever reason.
To health to us, health care is not about money.
It's not about saving money, not about controlling money.
Health care is about health.
Health care is about health care.
It's not about insurance, it's not about money, it's not bang for the buck.
Conservatives don't demonize as a matter of political course to advance our ideas.
People who are exercising individual freedom and liberty to advance those same notions, capitalism in the country.
We do not look at this country and instinctively dislike it, hate it, demonize it, want to change it.
We want to try and do we're trying to save it against a full-fledged onslaught, onslaught that by virtue of votes in the House and Senate can't be stopped.
So what are we supposed to do at town hall meetings?
What's the purpose here?
What's the purpose of a town hall meeting?
Is it so politicians can come and pass down from on high what they're doing without challenge?
Or is the purpose of a town hall meeting to hear from constituents?
We don't need to go to a town hall meeting to have a report from these clowns of what they're doing.
The purpose of town hall meeting is for them to hear us.
Now, what if during a period of town hall meetings a politician starts supporting legislation that's so unamerican, so freedom destroying, so repulsive to what their constituents want, that what should those constituents do?
If they say very meekly, Congressman, I don't think that's a very good idea.
I want to remain civil with you, and I don't I I want to talk.
Is that the way to stand up against things that are being forced down your throat that you think are unamerican and are going to destroy your freedom and liberty and maybe the country?
Or should they really display how mad they are about it?
What if?
What if, what if there was an actual plan to euthanize everybody over 70?
Just playing hypothetical here.
What if there was?
Would that be enough for people to be justified for yelling at their congressmen?
Are we still still supposed to pretend it's the Oxford debating society?
Congressman, I really think that that's going a bit far.
Where do you draw the line here?
Seems like it's okay to act up all you want.
You can, you can maim, you can destroy, you can firebomb.
You can blow up things.
If what you're doing is supporting a liberal issue.
But if you're a conservative, you're supposed to slink to the background and make sure you don't offend anyone with your passion.
While we sit and watch the left routinely use intimidation and threats to get what they want.
No mention whatsoever.
The busloads of SEIU union thugs showing up at these town hall meetings, no mention of all of the union supporters in the National Education Association, no mention of acorn people being employed by the White House to advance a plan that they know nobody wants.
No reporting on that.
That's just standard ordinary procedure.
That's that's fine.
That's democracy.
But people standing up and saying, stop it, why that's a tactical problem.
Uh that's gonna give Obama victory on a silver platter.
Why can't we appear to be mad?
Too late for that.
People ought to be mad about this.
They ought to be mad about what is being attempted.
And more and more people are finding out about this.
They are finding out about it, and they're also finding out that when they confront their members of Congress with incontrovertible evidence of what's in it simply by reading them the plan, the member of Congress says, Well, it's a that's a vicious rumor.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Of course that's not any.
I can't believe it.
That's a malicious rumor going around.
Who is it that is making nice with Mahmood Ahmadinizad?
Who is it that's making nice with the Castros?
Who is it that's making nice with Hugo Chavez?
Who is it that's putting pressure on the Jews in Israel to stop defending themselves and building homes?
Who is it who went to Cairo and compared the Holocaust to what the Israelis did to defend themselves against Hamas in Gaza?
It's this president, Barack Obama, and this administration, and that's the Democrat Party.
We're not supposed to be upset.
We're supposed to be pliant, malleable, flaked informed, we're supposed to be model polite citizens.
Well, this guy makes nice with sworn enemies of this country.
I've never had a friend like Khalidi, who hates Jews.
I've never had a friend like Reverend Wright.
and I don't hang around with sick people who hate aspects of the United States of America.
I don't hang around with anti Semites, and I don't hang around with racists.
But they're all over this administration, and they're all over the people who support this administration.
We're supposed to sit here and act nice.
We have a black conservative beat up in Melville, Missouri, by a black member of the Service International Union the SEIU union.
We're supposed to not provoke them anymore.
We didn't provoke them at all.
We provoked them in it.
If we did this with ideas by rejecting what they're doing, they're the ones who got all this uncivil incivility started when Obama's crowd shows up.
I gotta take a break.
I'm a little long.
Sit tight, we'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Simply by showing up.
Monologue segment next hour.
I'm going to share with you an independent objective analysis of the health care bill, what it actually says by uh John David Lewis, who is a professor of the classics at Duke University.
Oh, by the way, Mike, grab uh grab old people.
Have it standing by very quickly here.
Democrats have a senior citizen problem.
This is the politico.
And I love how this article, I'm not gonna read the whole article to you, but the article tries to get around the truth of what's gonna happen to seasoned citizens under the public option at the end of their life.
But if the very last paragraph, they just can't help it, the very last paragraph, listen to this from the political state-controlled media.
America's health insurance plans, a trade group for insurers, contends that slashing 156, 156 billion dollars from private Medicare Advantage plans would have a significant impact on seniors.
Seniors have been told that their coverage is not going to change, and if they like their coverage, they can keep it.
Said Zirkelbach.
The fact of the matter is that if these cuts to Medicare Advantage go through, as planned, seniors are gonna face increased premiums, reduced benefits, and in some parts of the country they're gonna lose access to their Medicare Advantage plan all together.
And this, this, this, ladies and gentlemen, is in a story where the state-controlled media doing everything it can to assure seniors, yeah, there's a problem, but it's not as bad as you think.
And that last paragraph says to senior citizens, you are screwed, grandma.
Here's white comedian Paul Schenklin.
Stop and think of this, folks.
You know how mad people are now.
Imagine if this crap becomes law.
How mad people are gonna be.
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