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Feb. 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yes, so what I did.
Well, I mean, one of the things I did, I mean I'm I looked through some of the replies that people made after Obama tweeted the question.
Remember when he announced a payroll tax cut extension.
He tweeted a question how much can you buy with $40?
And I didn't see one person say that their vote could be bought for 40 bucks.
They all talked about gasoline and a new television and health care, all this stupid stuff for 40 bucks, but I did not see anybody say their vote could be bought.
So maybe he's overreaching.
Just kidding.
Greetings and welcome back, uh ladies and gentlemen.
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All right, today, one of those days, I'm gonna have to go back to our archives.
Everything I predicted, pretty much everything, back in December, is now starting to happen in full force.
And the whole point of it is to depress you and dispirit you, like the unemployment numbers looking magical now.
Uh Obama's approval numbers looking magical now.
The Republicans look like blithering idiots now.
In fact, Ed, grab audio soundbite number one.
This is what I warned you about back on December 20th.
I have warned you this kind of thing is going to happen.
The unemployment number is going to precipitously drop, and it's going to get close to 8% by next November.
Just mark my words.
That's in the can.
It's in the cards.
Also, Obama's approval number now is up five points over the last three months or some such thing.
So here we go.
Approval numbers up.
I'm just warning you now not to get dispirited.
I'm warning you now not to think that the actual emotion or passion for changing course, defeating Obama, repealing Obama.
It is ratcheting up.
It is not weakening, it's not tiring, it's not getting lazy.
People are not giving up, but you are not going to see that evidence.
You're not going to see evidence of that passion or energy that you have and your fellow citizens have for change.
You're not going to see it.
What you're instead going to be told is that, wow, look at Obama's approval numbers going, wow, and unemployment.
Look at the number coming down.
Oh, it's all coming together.
That's going to be combined with Obama, as he's saying now, as I predicted he would say, it's worse than we thought it was.
They didn't tell us how bad it was.
All of that is from December 20th.
All of it.
And don't you feel that way?
And I did I not tell you how you were going to feel.
Did I not warn you?
Do not succumb to this.
I know it's hard.
I've got a Rasmussen poll result today.
Rasmussen, this is not Gallup.
This is not ABC, uh whoever they do there.
It's not CBS New York Times, it's not NBC Wall Street Journal, not ABC Washington Post.
Rasmussen, are you that this?
I guarantee you, this poll is going to be put on the equivalent of every Democrat locker room.
Fifty-two percent say it's better for the GOP to work with Obama than stand on principle.
Rasmussen.
Most voters still think Republicans and Democrats in Congress are out of touch with their respective party bases, but now believe that it's more important for the GOP to work with Obama than to fight him.
Rasmussen.
But Rush, maybe you're wrong.
Maybe we are dispirited, and maybe all this good news for Obama is real.
And maybe the takers do outnumber us.
And maybe we ought to feel like moving to New Zealand.
Come on, Rush, at some point.
What what do we I'll tell you when it's time to move to New Zealand?
No, not yet.
It's only February.
All of this is predictable is my point.
Everything that's happening In the media today.
Everything Obama is doing was totally predictable.
And because it's predictable, so is this polling result.
But it's only February.
Who knows what's going to happen with the economy?
My gosh.
$4 gasoline is headed down the pike.
Maybe $5 a gallon gas in the Obama's going to try to spin that as evidence of a good economy.
But he's also proposed raising taxes on the uh on the oil companies.
It's in his so-called budget.
Now, that budget's never going to see the light of day.
It's not intended to, because he wants to run against the do-nothing Congress.
But there's nothing stopping the Democrats.
They control the Senate.
There's nothing stopping them from proposing a tax increase on big oil.
You also, you've got Obama proposing to reduce the nuclear arsenal by 80%.
The Republican primary process, I mean, this this is starting to get uh under a lot of people's skin, is another thing I predicted to you is starting to happen.
You, you know, you've got you got Democrats out there now talking about the year of the woman as though it's 1992 all over again, all about this contraception stuff.
You know, the news about Santorum is that that uh uh it it's all so predictable that Santorum wants women barefoot impregnant in the kitchen.
There are even some conservative, so-called conservative bloggers and media people that are joining in that chorus because they're for Romney.
So the conservative bloggers fear that's for Romney is joining with the left-wing attack on Santorum.
Time magazine yesterday, there's a story, Michael Shearer, I think that's how he pronounces his name, I'm not sure, but there's a there's a one-hour video of Santorum talking about all this, and the Time magazine guy urges his readers, he has the link to the videos to start here at 17 minutes into it.
17 minutes into it, well, what what's in the first 17 minutes you don't want us to see?
If you watch the whole video and you have the whole thing in context, you learn that Santorum is not trying to get the federal government and doesn't support and would not do, would not have the federal government get on a contraception kick.
It just wouldn't happen.
But if you take some of what he says out of context, as you can with anybody, you could make the case.
If you skip the first 17 minutes, and the pro-Romney people in the conservative media have skipped the first 17 minutes and they're just focusing on what because they want to they want to take Santorum out.
So in the meantime, we are where I told you yesterday.
The people still watching videotape from last Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel involving Whitney Hughes, those people who try to put as many notches in their belt every night as they their lives exist.
Getting up, finding somebody have sex with, maybe somebody else, then going to bed, getting up and repeating it.
You tell them that a Republican wants to take away their birth control pills, and they don't care what else is going on.
And this is what the objective is.
So this is this.
You know, screw as many people as they can before they go to bed, get up and do it again.
You know the people I'm talking about.
You know, the the the bottom line here, the media, let me put it to you this way.
The news media is now calling the so-called controversy over Obama's birth control mandate, a culture war.
Don't forget who started this.
Obama started this by requiring the Catholic Church and its, well, not the church, but schools and so forth, to pay for this.
To pay for everybody's contraception, to pay for everybody's abortions, to pay for all the abortion-related stuff.
Don't forget last week, and of course there was an uproar and an outcry, and Obama ostensibly heard it and said, okay, okay, I'll I'll make the insurance companies do it.
Good.
Good.
We beat Obama back.
Good.
No, we didn't.
The president just unconstitutionally mandated that insurance companies not provide free.
By the way, this group that gets up dressed, screw as many people as they can every day and go to bed and get up, do it again.
They believe in free.
They think there is something free.
Anyway, uh Obama got all this started.
Now there is a culture war.
The news media is calling the controversy over Obama's birth control mandate, a culture war.
They are using that phrase all over cable news.
Culture war.
I have to hand it to them.
They set this up back in January with Stephanopoulos in that Republican debate in New Hampshire.
They set it up.
None of this is real.
Do you understand none of this really happened?
Don't Romney support abor uh George, I uh uh uh what nobody supports.
What are you talking about?
Do you?
I'm just asking you theoretically.
Do you George, the states could do it, I suppose, but nobody wants to, George, said Romney.
They went back and they found this one hour interview of Santorum and Ergo, and we're in the middle of a culture war.
But may I ask you to do something?
Look around.
Look at the abysmal state of our culture.
We are in a period of cultural depravity and rot, and everybody knows it.
Are we not?
Now the Democrats would love for that to become an issue because they think that that isolates the pro-lifers, the hicks and the hayseeds that come to the forefront of the Republican Party people live in the South.
People don't know how to have the right kind of lunch packed for their kids in North Carolina.
Got to have federal agents to see that kids are eating properly.
That group.
Democrats and the media chomping it a bit, champing it a bit, whatever the hell, eager for this whole culture war thing to surface.
Because what does it do?
It takes everybody's attention away from the ongoing economic destruction.
I don't care about the unemployment numbers today, and I don't care about uh the so-called improvement uh in in jobs and Obama's approval numbers.
They desperately want people's attention off of the economy and Obamacare and the culture war, they think they can go back to their their archive pages and bring that uh issue back and think it's a slam dunk winner for them.
But is the lack of free birth control really the most important social issue facing the country today?
I don't think so.
In fact, something tells me that if the upcoming election could be decided on social issues, the Republicans could win that in a landslide because we are on the right side of the culture war.
The problem is we're scared to death of it.
The Republican establishment wants no part of it.
They want no part of the culture, they want no part of social issues.
They have been ticked off about this.
I've told you the story about how some establishment guy approached me in the Hamptons in the 90s, had his index finger poking me in the chest.
What are you gonna do about the Christians?
What?
I'm just here trying to have a cigar after.
What are you gonna do about the Christians?
So what are you talking about?
They're destroying us.
We're never gonna win with the Christians and it's pro-life stuff.
You gotta get them off of it.
They listen to you.
Turns out the guy's wife was constantly nagging him about abortion, and so are these other establishment guys, wives nagging about it.
It's so the Democrats are trying to revive this.
Ain't no doubt about it.
None whatsoever.
So I guess I I guess we'll discuss it along with um other stuff that's in the news today.
But this this poll from Rasmussen, 52% say it's better for the Republicans to work.
You know the bad thing about this.
Republican leaders in Congress are gonna see this.
Remember, Rasmussen is considered to be if there's a Republican poll versus a Democrat poll.
This is a Republican poll.
Rasmussen.
So the Republican leaders in the House and Senate, they're gonna see this.
See, C, C, they do want us to work with Obama.
They do want us to cross the aisle.
They do want us to have a moderate.
That's what They're going to get well, the payroll tax cut, etc.
They I wish you hadn't brought that up because I'm really ticked off about it.
I mean, that's that's textbook how.
Speaking of screwing, screw yourself.
Uh as I say, I'm gonna explain all this.
I'm just here in our first segment setting the uh the table.
A corresponding poll, there's a there's a Gallup poll out.
And yesterday, Gallup said the real unemployment number 9%.
The real underemployment number is 19.1%.
So while a regime is claiming that the unemployment rate's gone down to 8.3, Gallup says it is at 9%.
The difference is Gallup uses raw numbers, not seasonally adjusted numbers.
And uh starting to believe the seasonally adjusted just code word for manipulated to help incumbent presidents.
I don't know it's not just Obama.
I mean, I thought I think seasonally adjusted is designed to help the establishment, both parties in power currently in Washington.
And then they went out and they talked to some small business people.
And they asked them, I mentioned this yesterday, too.
85% of small businesses, 20 million dollars a year annual or less, 85% say nope, not hiring anybody.
And Gallup went out and they asked him, why are you not looking for new employees?
And the answer, health costs, government regulations.
So in the real world where the pedal hits the metal, where the rubber meets the road.
Nothing has really changed.
But in the media and the polling data, and on cable news, you you would think, folks, that it's it's 2008 again, and we're dealing with the Messiah, and all is uh all is lost.
But it isn't the case.
It is it's everything is happening according to predictable plan.
Folks, I am not a seer.
I'm not Nostradamus, I just know liberals.
That's all.
I'm able on December 20th to tell you what is going to be in the news on February 16th, because I know liberals and because I know the media.
I don't I don't have any uh clairvoyant uh talents or ability, I just know liberals.
And if I can predict it back on December 20th, what it means is that I can predict manipulation.
I can predict how they are going to be acting.
Nobody can predict what's actually going to be happening in the real world next day or the next week, but you can predict what liberals are gonna do, regardless what reality is.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
We will continue.
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On this Santorum interview, you may have noticed that there is not, at least there wasn't uh mid-morning today, and I couldn't find one yesterday.
There is no transcript of the Santorum interview.
The Time Magazine interview, the link where the writer says, uh, join this uh interview at 17 minutes uh in.
Right.
There is no transcript because if you read what Santorum says in that interview, it is perfectly clear that he's expressing his private feelings, that he would not try to impose his views on the public through legislation.
He says plainly that he would never try to do that.
Now, what's being said about Santorum by the media and by conservative bloggers who are for Romney is that Santorum is going to entry going to try to impose his moral values on the country from the White House and via legislation.
And he would not do that.
Now he might try to lead on it, uh bully pulpit, make speeches, but in terms of legislating his personal moralities, they would never do it.
So it's a non-story.
But they found enough in there they can take out of context to make it sound as though what Santorum can't wait to do is get elected president and then outlaw contraception and abortion with an executive order.
That's what they want people to believe that he's going to do.
Now, something else.
You remember a couple of days ago, I think it was a couple days ago.
We had the story from the Carolina Journal about the federal agent that was inspecting school lunches brought from home made by four-year-old preschool moms.
A federal agent was at the school in North Carolina and Hoke.
I think the name of the school was Hoke or whatever.
It was North Carolina.
And they found that the lunch brought from home didn't meet federal health guidelines.
Well, you don't know this because it's not being reported, but the state of North Carolina is in an uproar over this.
And it is a clear indication the culture war is alive.
We'll be back in just a second.
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Let me fill you in on what's happening in North Carolina as a result of what happened at the Hoke County Elementary School.
We had the story from the Carolina Journal earlier this week.
A four-year-old brought lunch from home.
It was a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, and something else.
There was a federal agent there inspecting every lunch brought from home.
This little girl's lunch was found to be, and it wasn't approved.
It didn't meet federal guidelines.
They're saying that it was absent a milk or milk equivalent.
So they ran and got some chicken nuggets and made the kid eat the chicken nuggets.
Now, there's some confusion of whether they took her lunch away and made her eat the nuggets or whether they let her eat her lunch and then got the nuggets and brought them and added to the lunch and left it up to her.
It doesn't...
Trying to get to the bottom of it is a little distracting.
Here's the point.
The point is that the state of North Carolina is in an uproar that there is even a federal agent in the school looking for this kind of thing.
Now this story, you're not going to see it on the news stories that are talking about Obama's approval numbers.
And you're not going to see it on the cable news stories talking about the economy and the unemployment number coming.
You're not going to see this.
But this is it's got the entire state of North Carolina royal because a lot of parents did not know that there was a federal agent dispatched by the U.S. Department of Agriculture investigating, examining what they were giving their kids to.
It's a four-year-old's here.
It's a kindergarten.
Now here's the latest from the Carolina Journal, a national uproar over a four-year-old's recent encounter with a preschool lunch monitor.
Preschool lunch monitor at Hoke County Elementary Scruel has prompted two members of the North Carolina congressional delegation to fire off a letter expressing strong concern to Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary.
The unfortunate and absolutely unnecessary event exemplifies the very definition of government overreach and further perpetuates a growing reason of why the American people continue to hold less and less faith in our government.
Write U.S. Representative Larry Kissel, Democrat in the 8th District, and a letter co-signed by Representative Renee Elmers, a Republican from the 2nd District.
Kissel, and it might be pronounced Cassell, represents the district in which the incident took place.
The incident in which the child's lunch was deemed by somebody as failing to meet federal nutrition guidelines established by Muchell Obama was reported in a Valentine's Day story by Carolina Journal.
It quickly garnered major coverage on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, and from there it uh it bombed all the way out to Drudge and uh news channels and so forth.
No state or screw official has identified the person who intervened during the child's lunch period to tell her that she was eating a substandard lunch.
Now, here's what happened.
Kid, four-year-old goes to kindergarten.
A federal agent.
Hi, honey.
Can I look at your lunchbox?
The message here, and you have to understand.
Don't doubt me on this.
The message that was delivered from this agent, the little girl is.
Your mom doesn't know what's best for you.
We do.
You can't trust your mom.
Your mom is not making you a healthy lunch.
That's the message.
That's the purpose of this.
This is not about nutrition.
This is not making about making sure this four-year-old eats right.
This is about control.
Like everything Obama's doing, like everything the liberals are about, this is about control.
This is about taking control of every citizen at a public institution run by the government, i.e.
this school.
So this little girl has this well-intentioned government official.
Tell her that the lunch her mommy gave her is not good.
It's not healthy.
This little girl went home.
From what I understand, this little girl went home and asked her mother why she doesn't care about her.
This little paraphrasing, the little girl went home and said something to her mother.
The people at school told me that you weren't giving me a good lunch.
Something like that.
This is how easy it is.
This is how easy it is.
Well, this is why in North Carolina people have lost their cookies.
People are royaled precisely because of this.
This whole state is up in arms over this.
You're just not seeing it.
It took the TV station and Raleigh two days to report on this.
And when they reported on it, it's still from the sympathetic standpoint of the government.
But there are families, moms and dads, grandmothers and grandfathers all over the state of North Carolina saying, what the hell is there a federal agent in the school investigating the lunchbox in the first place for?
But the real point of this is not to make sure the girl gets her chicken nugget.
By the way, chicken nuggets versus a banana and turkey and cheese.
So who's who's giving who a questionably nutritious food item here?
But it's not about that.
It's about control.
It's no different than back in the intense days of abortion when men were portrayed as predators.
The whole point was to get little girls thinking their daddies were gonna hurt them.
Their daddies were dangerous.
Their daddies were somebody they had to be protected from.
Same thing here.
Don't doubt me on the you think Rush, you're really over eating.
No, I'm not.
For this this is who.
Call them statists, call them neostatists, call them dictators, call them whatever.
People who know better than you.
Don't doubt me.
You know that this is happening throughout our culture now.
Government knows better than you.
Government knows better than you what's good for you.
They don't think that you have what it takes to make the right decisions anyway.
That's why they want as many people dependent as possible.
See, control them.
So they create doubt and distrust in this little girl's mind about her mommy.
Now it says here, no state or school officials identified the person who intervened.
We may know.
Because there's another story about this.
It is from the uh let's see, CBS TV affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky, WKYT.
Headline Franklin's School Cafeteria gets visit from USDA official.
And the name of this official is Audrey Rowe, R O W E. Audrey Rowe is visiting schools all over the nation.
Everything we can do to make food taste good, Roe told students at Elkhorn Middle School in Frankfurt on Wednesday.
The USDA official from Washington got a first-hand look and taste of school lunches in Kentucky.
I think we can make it where one day you'll say that lady was here and I like this food now.
That's what I'm working on.
So in this case, a woman named Audrey Rowe goes to a middle school.
And what she wants the students to think is that because the federal government was there, the food is good now.
The food, the lunches provided by the parents, not good.
Not healthy, doesn't meet federal guidelines.
But this federal agent roars into town, takes a look at the school, the cafeteria, what the students are eating, and says to the students, I think we can make it where one day you're gonna say that lady was here and I like this food now.
That's what I'm working on.
Could it be that this was the woman that was in North Carolina on Wednesday?
I have no idea.
The story says it was a state agent.
This woman is a state agent.
If it's not the same woman, it's the same mentality.
A Google search reveals that Audrey Rowe has been very busy inspecting many school cafeterias around the country for many months now.
When did it become the federal government's job to make sure school lunches taste good?
Not that we really believe making food taste good is her ultimate role here because that's not what once again, this is about control.
This is about creating the impression in the minds of these kids that the federal government was here, and because of that, the mistakes your parents make or the mistakes everybody else in the cafeteria makes, we're gonna fix it.
Your food's gonna taste good, you're gonna have the right food.
We love you.
We are taking care of you.
We know better for you than your families do, we know better for you than the principal does, we know better than your teachers do.
We, the federal government, and we are from Obama.
Mm-mm-mm, and we are who will make your life better.
Taylor Boggs ate lunch with Audrey Rowe, who's worked directly with Obama on school lunch legislation this woman has.
Well, that would make her Michelle Obama's enforcer.
She's the deputy administrator of the USDA's food and nutrition service.
As a black woman from Chicago, she went to Harvard.
She's a natural fit for the job.
It says usually for students, if they don't have a good lunch, sometime around mid-afternoon, they get sluggish, they start having issues, said Audrey Rowe.
She said the bottom line is that school lunches today are going to be a lot different next year.
Once Michelle really gets her hands on the levers of power.
Eighth graders say their meals are pretty good, but some days it's really greasy and not fresh.
Now these government chicken nuggets can be greasy, can't they?
Audrey Rowe says that the districts have brought in chefs to make changes.
Yeah, these are S E I U chefs, by the way.
These are S E I U cafeteria workers.
These are Obama union thugs being brought in here.
Elkhorn Middle School was given the thumbs up for already serving fat-free milk and whole grain bread.
I'm really pleased with what I see here in Kentucky.
Other school districts are not as far along, said Audrey Rowe.
She said the new laws will not just change what's served in cafeterias, but what's allowed in vending machines in other areas of school.
Now remember, this has all been tried in California.
They tried the healthful stuff in California, and there was a black market created in Doritos.
And Lay's ridge potato chips and everything else that you could no longer get in the vending machines, and they finally had to give up and put the garbage food back in.
They were about to have riots.
The kids did not want to eat chickpeas, garbanzo beans, and tofu.
So I don't know if this was the same woman.
Probably not, but the mindset is the same.
You got federal agents in schools, and what they're doing is telling the kids their parents can't be trusted.
Not that their parents mean them harm.
Their parents just aren't competent.
The parents just aren't.
They're just not as good at this as we are.
Trust us.
Yeah, well, who do you think made these kids fat, Mr. Limbaugh?
Parents.
We gotta come in, we gotta control this and change it.
Anyway, uh this is the kind of thing that when it happens and people hear about it, they get up in arms.
This this is not.
Nobody who voted for Obama intended for this.
I guarantee you.
Very few.
The vast majority of the literal mind-numbed robots that voted for him did not think this is what was going to happen.
Let's take a break.
We'll come back and continue with much more right after this, before you know it.
I want to I want to read you a passage from Obama's second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope.
I've read this to you before.
This is page 36 from page 36.
This Obama writing in his second autobiography.
Quote, we all agree that there must be limits to the state's power to control our behavior, even if it's for our own good.
Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.
Well, I guess that doesn't mean much.
Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government.
Oh, wait a minute.
That doesn't mean it means he's not gonna do it.
He just says you wouldn't be comfortable with it.
I got a note here from Glenn Reynolds.
This is a this is a good point.
This contraception business.
But how the contraception rule is like making mosques sell bacon.
Follow this.
Note how the narrative in the press has shifted.
The regime, the Obama regime says that churches who oppose contraception still have to pay for it.
Then when people object, the talk shifts from who pays for contraception to whether somebody wants to ban it.
Which is exactly what's happened.
Obama proposes that the Catholic Church and its organizations pay for contraception abortion services.
Then they object, oh, okay, well, we'll make the insurance companies pay for it.
And then from there, they start talking about somebody suggesting it'd be banned, which nobody did.
Nobody is talking about banning contraception.
It's been totally made up.
By design.
It'd be the same thing as passing a law requiring mosques to sell bacon.
And then when they objected, responding by saying, What's wrong with bacon?
You're trying to ban bacon.
No, no, no.
It's uh it's a good sleight of hand.
It's an interesting sleight of hand that uh is happening.
So Obama wrote that back in 2006, and it doesn't mean he's not going to monitor what we eat.
It just means he knows we're not gonna like it.
Plain as day, not many Americans will feel comfortable with the government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.
But because of the rising rates of obesity, and because of how much of our medical spending is being spent on that stuff, we're gonna have to monitor what people eat.
Doesn't say it, but the uh implication is clear.
People in New Jersey continue to be upset over Governor Christie and the flags at half staff for Whitney Houston.
Here's Governor Christie, some by 20.
This was uh yesterday in West New York, New Jersey.
I'm disturbed by people who believe that because of her history of substance abuse, that somehow she's forfeited the good things that she did in her life.
I just reject that on a human level.
What she is is a cultural icon in the history of the state.
And then he continued with more.
All of us should learn to be a little more understanding of that and understand that this is a disease, and that we need to help these folks to try to conquer this disease and not ridicule for it.
Because it's a struggle for everybody.
So he's saying that we're gonna fly the flag at Half Staff to call attention to this rather and then try to look at this as something that can be a Learning experience for people.
Uh, rather than to denigrate her, because she perhaps might have fallen victim to her disease.
Quick timeout, back with more after this.
Don't go away.
Fastest.
Three hours in media.
Where did this one go?
It's gone.
It was fabulous.
It was over the top.
It was on point.
It was kick butt.
And so will the next one be.
And in the one after that.
You just have to be patient.
Another obscene profit timeout here at the top of the hour.
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