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Nov. 3, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
There we go, isn't it?
Hi, folks, how are you?
It's great to have you back.
Great to have you with us.
And it's uh it's always a pleasure, a thrill and a delight for me to be here with you.
The way things ought to be.
And I, Rush Limbaugh, doing what I was born to do.
Host this show, and you are doing what you were born to do.
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Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have voted today to subpoena the White House for all internal documents, communications related to the failed solar company, Cylindra.
Now, in fact, Henry Waxman, Henry Nostralitis Waxman who's subpoenaed everything under the sun.
I just got through telling Mike, okay, here's what we're gonna do soundbite-wise.
I'm gonna tell him something I haven't told him.
Grab number 22.
It just came in.
This is this is Nostralitis Waxman.
Um before the Commerce Committee voted today to subpoena the White House for all internal communications.
Umstrilitis submitted everything.
This is what he said.
It should be the last resort.
It is justified only if an unbridgeable impasse between the branches has been reached.
None of that is true today.
Right.
Now, here's the thing.
Uh, folks, if if I were a prominent Muslim terrorist, I think we can all agree that I'm not.
Right.
But if I were a prominent Muslim terrorist somewhere in the world, I'd be feeling a little nervous.
I might want to stay close to my cave until the story blows over, especially if the Herman Cain story blows over too soon.
Because that means Obama's gonna be looking for a diversion.
What I mean is, and and if if you are a Muslim terrorist in a cave, you might be targeted by one of our drones uh or our special ops or what have you because they're gonna have to have something divert everybody's attention.
If this cane thing ends up sooner than the White House wants it to end up, then Muslim terrorists somewhere uh might be uh in in danger.
Meanwhile, the Occupy Wall Street crowd uh is now hoping to make Oakland, California the center of their movement.
And I want to take you here's here's me on this program back on October 6th.
There's no doubt in my mind that the White House is behind this.
I have wish I could tell you who, but a very prominent person asked me never to mention his name in this regard for months, has been telling me you watch Rush.
Do not doubt me, he said to me.
Obama is setting up riots.
He is fanning the flames for riots and eventual violence.
That's all he has got.
And now you look, all of this talk about millionaires and billionaires and people not paying their fair share and this relentless assault on achievement in this country has resulted in what?
The appearance of a spontaneous combustion of angry white college students who are fed up with all the injustices that this country is famous for.
That's his base.
Occupy Wall Street is his base.
Those are his foot soldiers.
Damn straight, folks, and Occupy Oakland is his base.
If you want to know who the Obama base is, take a look at Occupy Oakland.
Um, you you've probably heard yesterday in Oakland, the Occupy protesters uh railing against these hard economic times.
They closed down the port of Oakland and most of the stores and businesses in Oakland with a general strike, which is gonna do wonders for the economy, right?
It's gonna really do wonders to address the situation they claim to be concerned about.
Here you have Auckland, a city already on the brink of bankruptcy, and these people shutting it down, and the union leaders are suggesting that this is still chump change.
This is nothing.
Wait till they start going to the banks and occupying the banks.
And wait till they start going to the homes of executives and trying to occupy their property.
That's what the union leaders, union leaders are getting a little ticked off at the rank amateurism of the protesters, these kids.
Union leaders, you guys don't know what you're doing.
You're piddling around here.
Come on, you gotta throw a bomb into some bill.
You gotta something's gotta burn here, or nobody's gonna take it seriously.
You are embarrassing us.
That's right.
Steel workers guy is out making similar kinds of claims.
And it's it's it's going to only ratchet up.
Because none of what they're protesting about is actually what they're protesting about.
For example, if they were really concerned about the economy and the lack of what is the new term?
There's a new term, uh uh income uh uh no mobility or some such thing.
I've I've got it here somewhere.
There's a new term to describe their grievance here, but if they're really concerned about the economy picking up to the point that it's going to help them, this is sure a strange way of going about it, which I mean I'm convinced this is not what they're trying to do.
They're trying to create chaos and disrust, disharmony.
Uh any number of things.
Federal Reserve yesterday sharply downgraded its projections for the economy, warning that weak growth and high unemployment are going to be the norm for years.
A nation in decline.
Here's the Fed chairman saying this is the new norm.
The Fed expects the unemployment rate will be around 8.6% at the end of next year.
Currently it's at 9.1%, and will still be at 6.8% and 7.7% in late 2014.
In their June forecast, federal officials said joblessness would come down faster to around 8% by the end of 2012 when the next presidential election will take place.
Really?
Fed officials said that, well, they back in June.
Now they're revised is not going to be that good.
They were holding out hope for that magic 8% figure because no president's ever been re-elected with unemployment over 8%.
I'm just telling you, if the if the number this time a year from now is 8.9%, it's going to be 8%.
They won't tell you about the point 9.
If it's 8.5, it's going to be 8%.
And I got to tell you about the 0.5.
Now, despite these projections, the Fed's policy making board declined during a two-day meeting and ended Wednesday to take any action to boost growth, uh, leaving interest rates that are very low right now, unchanged as it is.
Now, folks, I have to say I'm the Federal Reserve's the Federal Reserve, but this is simply unacceptable.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Unemployment is going to be 6.8%, 7.7% in 2014.
Three years from now.
That doesn't have to be.
I'm frustrated.
I am really fed up with the notion that only government can come up with proactive things to fix this and that they're out of bullets.
They've shot their wad.
They don't have any more ammo.
So all we can do is sit around and manage the decline.
There's things we could do overnight.
It would speed this up.
One of them, as we all know, is repealing Obamacare.
Another thing would be to make a massive public display of getting rid of a bunch of constraining regulations.
We could announce tax cuts in the corporate sector, capital gains and the corporate taxes, any number of things that could be done here.
That's what's so silly about all this.
But everybody's sitting around thinking, well, only government can do this, only government can create jobs, only government can come up with proactive policies.
And I'm specifying proactive because the things the government's got to do essentially is shut down and get out of the way.
And get rid of a bunch of laws, regulations that have just put hamstrings on everybody here.
And of course, all of that equals conservatism.
This country just needs a grand dose of conservatism.
Steady, undiluted, uninterrupted conservatism for about 10 years and Katie barred doors.
And to sit here and have to put up with this pessimism and negativism from the Federal Reserve, where this is not who America is.
It's what some people have wanted it to become, and they have succeeded, but it doesn't have to be this way.
Got to take a quick time out.
You sit tight, we'll be back, and we will continue before you know it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're gonna be getting into the Herman Kane stuff in due course.
It's why it's a three-hour program.
Also, I have here a couple of um fascinating, interesting stories to me.
One's from the Hill.com written by a uh uh Republican pollster.
Obama fails all viability tests.
This is a piece of how bleak the situation is politically for Obama's re-elect the Democrats as well, even the New York Times.
A guy named Nate Silver, and this is a long story.
This prints out 14 or 15 pages, is Obama toast handicapping the 2012 election, and this guy's point is that I look at I just have to hear what this guy says.
Nate Silver is his name, and I've heard the name, but I don't know who he is.
I didn't print all 14 pages out, so it doesn't tell me who he is.
Not trying to insult him.
I just don't who it is, but he's in the New York Times soul.
In the leftist media, he's somebody.
And his piece basically says that if the Republicans nominate Romney, then Obama's chances improve because of the depressed result on turnout on the Republican side.
I think the New York Times might want to examine whoever wrote the headline here is Obama toast.
Because that could be in somebody's interpretation, racist.
So we'll get the details of those two stories as the program unfolds.
Something else that I have uh been noticing here.
Nate Silver's a famous statistician, I'm I'm told in the IFB.
And so he's a famous statistician.
He's written this piece about the Republican versus Democrat viability in Obama's down, Obama's uh could be toast.
He goes through all the scenarios, all the different Republican opponents Obama could have, and that's why the thing is um is uh is so long.
One of the intriguing things to me, folks, about watching the coverage of the Herman Cain story.
Like Snerdley came in here to me today and asked me, who do you think really leaked this stuff?
You don't think it was Romney or it was Perry?
I said, I think it only matters who leaked it if it's not true.
If it is true, if there's genuine real sexual harassment that went on here, it's silly to focus on who leaked it.
Because it was going to come out anyway.
And if it's true, that's the bottom line here.
You can get sidetracked.
Well, why should the Republicans be eating their own?
Well, they've we've been eating our own since as long as I've been paying attention.
But it's also part of the primary process.
That's not really what interests me.
I mean, it holds some.
But I am as fascinated, if not more fascinated, as I read and listen to people talk about how Herman Cain has handled it.
And it seems to be universally agreed that he's botched it.
That he and his campaign by dribbling things out with conflicting bits of information, rather than just, okay, here's the whole ball of wax in one announcement.
Others are saying he's really blowing this.
You don't send your campaign chief out there and publicly accuse somebody else's campaign of this.
What you do is you whisper it to people like at the political, and you let them run it as a blind item.
Well, you don't send your own guy out there to do this.
So a lot of the coverage is on how Kane and his campaign don't know what they're doing here.
And I've got a lot of people on our side writing to me saying, you know, I don't care if he did it or not.
What troubles me more is the way he's handling it.
This is not presidential.
This is not giving me confidence that he knows how to handle these things.
That's got me scratching my head a bit.
Because the message seems to be that Herman Cain hasn't handled a media ambush well, and therefore, I don't know, Rush, I don't think he's good to go.
He handled his media stuff very well.
I don't think he can be president.
Okay, so what is handling it right then?
We have to look to the past.
We have to go back in time, and we have to see where in similar circumstances, other candidates, similarly accused, have handled this.
And here's, and I did that.
And here's what I have concluded.
Herman Cain can't be president, based on what I'm hearing because he hadn't handled this right.
What he should have done is assigned, as we discussed earlier this week.
He should have assigned somebody on his staff to head up a bimbo eruption department.
That's the way to do this, apparently.
To do this right, you need the guts and the foresight to set up a bimbo eruption plan and turn it over to unscrupulous people to execute the immoral, unethical, and probably illegal instructions.
The right way to handle this, therefore, is you go out and you have a bimbo eruptions babe who deals with all the women who come forward, and then you hire a mad dog assistant who will go out and destroy all the women.
Such comments as what happens when you uh rave a dollar bill, uh throw a trade a park.
Apparently that's the right way to do this.
I guess Herman Cain doesn't have the right way to do this in him.
He hasn't handled a largely irrelevant media ambush very well.
He isn't a sufficiently good enough liar to be president.
I guess.
So we've all seen enough where he doesn't know how to lie, he doesn't know how to go out and attack his accusers, he doesn't know how to have a bimbo eruptions department.
He doesn't know how to destroy everybody involved in the investigation.
He's a rank amateur and he doesn't know how to deal with this.
Similar to Newt Gingrich, who didn't bat down the story of visiting his soon-to-be ex-wife when she was in the hospital.
That's a story that survived for years.
I know women who hate Gingrich because of this story.
It turns out to be not true.
The story is that Newt walked into his cancer stricken wife in her hospital bedroom and told her he was divorcing her and walked out of there.
It's not true.
His daughter set the record straight this week with an op-ed column someplace.
And now there are a number of, I've seen it on conservative blogs, a number of bloggers.
I want to apologize to Newt Gingrich.
All these years it wasn't true, but it wasn't true, but Newt not qualified to be president either, I guess because he didn't bat it down.
He let it survive.
He didn't do, he didn't do what the experts here do.
Had he done the right thing, what he would have done was have hired somebody to go out and attack his wife and besmirch her even further and make up the names of people and falsely accuse them of spreading this story.
A man of presidential timber would have immediately forced his family into the public spotlight with signed affidavits and corrected the smear.
So I guess what this country needs is a John Edwards.
That's the right way to handle it, I guess.
I guess what we need for president is a Ted Kennedy type.
I guess that's the right way to handle these kind of things.
Maybe an incarnation, a reincarnation to Bill Clinton.
From what I'm hearing from everybody, they the ones that do this the right way.
They're the ones that handle media attacks the right way.
Edwards Clinton, Ted Kennedy.
You know, if it wasn't for that stupid constitution with its restrictions on how many terms a person can serve as president, we we could use Clinton again.
He's obviously better at beating back sex claims in the media than Herman Cain is.
Herman Cain obviously is proving he's not qualified to be president.
But Clinton, not only could he be qualified to be president, he can be president and be a sexual harasser at the same time and be the most admired man of the Democrat Party because he apparently knows how to handle it right.
Herman Cain doesn't know what he's doing, we can't support him.
So what if Clinton pushed the community shakedown reinvestment act down on our thrust?
So what if Clinton's responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis and a bunch of other he's still qualified to be president, we are told, because he handled media the right way on his sex harassment charges.
Bimbo eruptions, Carville, and all that.
Let me take a brief time out.
Digest that, folks, and we will be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, so ladies and gentlemen, here's where we are.
I have been watching as I do the media react to Herman Cain, react to them.
And I have been watching our own media react to Herman Cain.
I did just just this morning I emailed some a couple people.
What do you think of this Cain business?
And uh I purposely rubber.
I don't know.
What do you think?
I think he's blowing it.
I don't like the way he's responding to this.
He's not presidential rush.
Not so much concern.
I mean, everybody's gonna have uh things in their past.
I just don't like the way Cain is handling this.
It got me to thinking.
Well, who did handle this kind of stuff well?
And that would be who got praised for the way they handled it, whose careers were enhanced because of sexual harassment or infidelity or what have you.
Whose career was not damaged when a woman that was with him in his car was killed.
That would be Ted Kennedy.
So maybe if Herman Cain isn't doing it right, that's who he needs to learn from.
So what we're saying is that what this country needs is an exceptional liar back in the office of president.
Frankly, Obama's one of the biggest liars we've ever seen.
Uh no reason for Herman Cain or anybody else to oppose him.
He's so good at it, we can't outdo Obama at lying.
So what are we saying?
Goodbye, Mr. Kane.
Washington's no place for a man like you.
You're not handling this right.
You need a bimbo eruptions team.
You need to be out there now destroying these women.
You need to be trying to put the politico out of business.
You know what you need to be saying, Mr. Kane, you need to point out that the politico was created for one reason.
So that the Washington Post wouldn't have to tarnish its own reputation by doing this kind of stuff, because everybody at the politico, at least the founders, came from the Washington Post.
And the Washington Post gets their little farm team over there at the politico, and they go out and they do all of this questionable journalist stuff on occasion.
Whereas the Washington Post didn't think, I don't want to do it this way with our banner and our name at the top of this kind of stuff.
Say stuff like that.
Hire somebody and go out there and talk about what sluts these women are.
In fact, go out there and hire a bunch of people.
You were minding your own businesses, we're women came on to you and they took their clothes off, and they're nothing but a bunch of stalking groupies.
Apparently that's the right way to do this.
Those are the people that get praised as belonging in Washington.
They're the ones that know how to do this.
This town's not for you, Mr. Cain.
You're too interested in having some version of the truth involved in this.
So I thought we didn't want slick politicians anymore.
Did Clinton handle Lewinsky right?
Apparently so.
He's he you have you can find no bigger star in the Democrat Party today than Bill Clinton.
Bigger than anybody.
With women, with the feminizes, with anybody.
There is no bigger star than Bill Clinton.
Mr. Kane, what you need to do is go out and get on TV.
Get your wife out there.
Your wife used to go on today's show and say that this is a vast left-wing conspiracy.
It's not to do you in because you're the first viable black Republican ever to chance at the office.
You just don't know what you're doing.
I don't know how any of us can support you.
And next, well, you know what you need to call Jesse Jackson.
And you need to have a public prayer session with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, where you confess your sins to them off stage, then you all three come on stage and hold hands and pray that you never do it again.
And with whom are you praying?
A serial abuser.
I mean, who has who better to offer such counseling?
Reverend Jackson with his own love child.
And he survived it.
I don't know, folks.
Really, when I look at people talk about how Herman Cain doesn't know what he's doing and he's not handling this right, what I hear is we still have people on our side who want to judge us by how well we do with the mainstream media.
And until every one of us understands that not one of us will ever be treated with respect or promoted by the mainstream media, until that happens, we're going to be flailing away in dreamland.
Too many people apparently still want to define their own irrelevancy, their own success by virtue of how they appear in the mainstream media.
And Cain's not appearing in the mainstream media very well.
But Clinton always does, so maybe that's the way to go.
John Edwards, they did everything they could to cover that story up for as long as they could.
They wanted any nobody knowing any part of what John Edwards had done.
And even after the story was out there, while it was widely known to be true, the mainstreams had not reported it.
There were still pockets of the mainstream media who were supporting Edwards for president.
Because it's all about policy, it's all about ideology.
It's not about fairness or anything of the sort.
You watch the latest developments in this Herman Cain witch hunt, and you really...
And we say this a lot, but you have to wonder why anybody would go into politics.
Especially somebody who is a conservative.
Which is exactly the way the media wants it.
They want, and the Democrats as well, they want to tamp down any desire on the part of qualified conservative candidates to get into this because this.
What's happening to Herman Cain's a warning shot to every other Republican.
You're next.
If you uh if you become viable.
If it looks like you could defeat Clinton, you are Obama.
Looks like you could go all the way, you are next.
That's right.
Bill Clinton officiated at the wedding of Anthony Wiener and Huma Wiener.
The Wieners.
Clinton officiated the Wiener's wedding.
And look at Wiener.
They did everything they could to cover that up for as long as they could.
I had nothing to see here.
That was uh that was due to Andrew Breitbart keeping things alive.
That the media was finally forced to deal with that.
Client number nine, Elliot Spitzer.
I mean, you can find examples where the media turns on, but Elliot Spitzer, client number nine was not all that well liked in Democrat media circles to begin with.
That also is a uh a factor in all this.
So I'm gonna take a brief time out.
We're gonna come back, and I've got a bunch of sound bites that will put all of this Kane stuff in perspective and bring us up to date as to where we are on it at the moment.
Kane has no public appearances today.
Quick timeout, folks, sit tight.
We'll be back.
I have an idea.
Maybe if Herman Cain's candidacy is cut short, or if it's not, but he loses, maybe CNN could give him a primetime television show, just as they did Elliott Spitzer.
Client number nine.
Apparently, that is a qualifying resume aspect for people in the left-wing media.
Ted Kennedy, serial womanizer, and worse, Bill Clinton.
We know the story, and they are the big stars of the Democrat Party.
They're the ones that tell us the right way to handle these scandals in the media.
I know I'm gonna get some blowback on this.
Rush, we're better than that.
We don't want our people dealing with No, you may not want our people dealing with it, but you still, people on our side still seek the approval of the mainstream media.
You still want us to be approved of the main streak, just like you're seeking it for yourself.
And it's on that basis that you say Herman Cain's mishandling this.
You think he's mishandling it, just say he's mishandling it, but not because he's not gaining the approval of the media or not.
What our side doesn't understand, there's nothing Cain can do to make this go away.
They lie about us.
If this turns out to be untrue, it's going to be reported as it was always alleged.
They're never going to let go of this.
So trying to get the approval of the mainstream media or to get them to report the truth is a fool's errand.
Let's say these women came forward.
So you know what?
We were paid to say all this.
None of this ever happened, and the country is convinced that he's been victimized by a scandal.
I guarantee the next day, there'd be a story in the media.
Herman Cain alleged to have sexually harassed three women, and then they would talk about whatever he's in the news about.
That will never go away.
That's gonna that's that's a tag, if you will.
That's something he's gonna be forever tagged with.
Bill Clinton will never be tagged with it.
Clinton's tag is Clinton Global Initiative.
John Edwards' tag is he had such compassion for the poor.
Herman Kane's tag in the media is always gonna be alleged to have sexually harassed three women.
Going to be forever tarred with this.
That's the way they play.
And there's nothing he can say to anybody at the politico.
There's nothing he can say to anybody at the New York Times or the Washington Post or ABC CBS NBC to change that.
Mark in Cincinnati, I'm gonna grab a phone call here and hope to cool down a bit.
How are you, sir?
Welcome to the program.
Doing pretty well.
Rainy day here in Cincinnati.
Great.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Now, I I have a question for you.
Yeah.
Uh I I a little bit about me.
I have two college degrees in finance and real estate, and going back for a master's uh an MBA.
And uh I've been trying to reach out to the Occupy Cincinnati protesters and uh explain to them uh the realities of what they're protesting against.
Now, uh I use facts, I use logic, I use black and white sources, uh, government data, everything.
And you can't explain to these people the realities of the situation we're at.
How do you reach out to these people and show them uh logically where the real problem and corruption is on in Washington?
You know, I have a uh uh a slight advantage over you.
Uh so my answer to your question will be frustrating to you.
My answer is I don't.
I don't try to convince them.
We had a guy call here yesterday, is exactly what you're talking about.
I spent 20 minutes with this guy.
I could tell talking to him, he wasn't interested.
None of it was penetrating.
However, millions of people were listening, and among those millions, I am confident there were countless converts, countless people who had their eyes opened.
This guy, they don't want to be convinced.
They don't want to live in a reality outside the phony one they have created.
It's their security blanket.
They have created this reality to explain their own loserness.
They have created this reality in which they live to explain their failures.
They've created this to explain away the fact that they don't matter.
Now they're like everybody else.
Everybody wants to matter.
Everybody wants to be known.
Everybody wants to have accomplishments that everybody else is aware of.
These people have concluded that they don't have anything like that.
There aren't any accomplishments, so they're going to be known some other way.
Everybody wants to matter, but but they're not for the I mean the rare exceptions, but they are not persuadable.
They don't want to be persuaded.
They are the product of years and years of indoctrination at every level of education they've had.
A couple of conversations with them is not going to change their minds.
Even a couple of earth-shattering life experiences which show them the exact opposite of what they believe are not going to change their minds about things overnight.
It is a slow process for most of them.
There are exceptions to this.
The way I deal with it, and but the reason, Mark, why you've got a good question.
I know a lot of people who are in the media who live and die with the uh desire that they are changing millions of minds.
And it's very tough to deal with when you realize that you're not doing that.
You get depressed, you can think you're working for nothing, that there's no purpose to what you're doing, uh, and you can't look at it that way.
All you can do is what you're doing.
The best thing you can do, and this is what I've told everybody who's asked me since the get-go, you just live your life and let the life you live set the example.
And when somebody asks you or you have the opportunity to talk to them, you tell them the truth.
But if you make it look like you're trying to persuade them, they're going to build a wall because the last thing they want to admit is that you're smarter than they are.
The art of persuasion, thus, really rests on your ability to make them think they have come up with the right answer.
Rather than you forcing them to face it or accept it.
They'll oppose that.
And not just these Occupy Wall Street people, but anybody.
And in any walk of life with whom you have a fundamental philosophical, political, or any other kind of disagreement with, unless there is a really special bond of affection and mutual respect, and you don't have that with these people you're talking to, You don't even know them.
Uh, you start out as the enemy.
You are what they're protesting, they think.
You have what they don't have.
You matter, you've succeeded.
You just told me you described yourself.
So they hate you and resent you to begin with.
And they think that you don't know what you're talking about because somehow you only got lucky.
You haven't done anything on your own.
So you start preaching to them, and their wall is going to go up, and uh they're gonna hate you even more.
They're gonna discount what you say.
But don't let that deter you.
There's nothing wrong with being right.
It's not your problem if they choose to go through life being wrong.
It's not your problem if they choose to go through life being absolute idiots.
It's theirs.
No, there's nothing wrong in being right.
The now, when these people vote in mass, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's problem.
I'm not trying to soft-sell this, but they are not in any way, shape, manner, or form anywhere near the majority of thought in this country.
If they were, there wouldn't be any economic growth.
We would already be living the movie idiocracy.
If you haven't seen it, read it.
You'll laugh and cry at the same time.
You know, it's an ancient Navajo proverb.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, that uh suffices here with our last caller.
You cannot awaken someone who's only pretending to be asleep.
It's wasted effort.
Just can't do it.
Remember the book Game Change, Mark Halperon?
All of the stuff they knew in the 2008 campaign that they withheld and wanted the st- they they knew that Edwards and his wife were at odds, hated each other, that things were falling apart in America, and they withheld it on purpose so as not, well, to sell books, but also so as not to negatively impact the Edwards campaign.
Nothing is ever going to change that.
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