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Feb. 20, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 20, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Happy to be here, folks, on President's Day, while Muchell Obama is using Twitter to wish a happy President's Day.
Quote to my personal favorite Barack Obama.
She's wishing happy President's Day to her husband via Twitter while she is in veil on a ski trip with the kids.
While Barack is no doubt taking advantage of the opportunity, probably eating pizza and burgers and other forbidden fruit, actually in the White House.
With Michelle gone, he doesn't have to go to some burger joint in Arlington.
He can have it right there.
Great to have you with us, folks.
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Story PJ Tantler Gallup.
Obama has lost five approval points in a week, or high gas prices to blame.
In one of the most underreported news items last week was this Gallup poll where Obama's down to, I think 42 or 43%.
Keep 43%.
Keep in mind.
This was after that humdinger winner of a week with contraception being made to big issue and uh all the other wonderful things that Obama pulled off last week, and he plummeted.
He lost five points in the Gallup approval poll.
And so this story that PJ Tatler, what's happened?
Well, we've seen what looks like the start of an early gasoline price spike at a time when the president's visibly militating against the pipeline.
A majority supports building the Keystone Pipeline.
Obama says no.
To the extent that the public is aware that Obama is spurning Canadian oil, driven our ally into the arms of the Chicons cannot be helping.
And the president also released a budget, but everybody knows that it's DOA.
But you know that budget is.
That budget is a blueprint.
That budget is his his dream.
That budget is exactly what he will do if given the chance.
It may be DOA as a piece of legislation, but it's it is very much alive in terms of what Obama's intentions are, and his intentions are massive new amounts of debt, higher taxes to pay for it, ostensibly, more and more regulations on business.
It is a blueprint for forever transforming this nation into something unrecognizable, as recently as four or five years ago.
He's now spent all that time last week on abortion.
All that time shoring up or trying to shore himself up with the Democrat base.
But it isn't working.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, and let's just jump feet first into this Santorum business.
I want to start actually with uh uh Friday night's hardball.
Chris Matthews had the editor at large from Salon.com, Joan Walsh, as a guest.
And uh they were talking about Obama's decision that insurance companies pay for contraception coverage for employees of religious-based businesses.
That's what happened at the same time Obama's approval number plummeting.
Now you're gonna hear in this bite something that isn't true.
They they cite a poll that shows uh 60 some odd percent.
66% support of Obama's federal requirement that private insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control.
There no, the vast majority of polls say it's 50-50.
It's not a 6634 issue.
It's not an AV 20 issue.
But more and more people are considered president doesn't have the authority unilaterally to just dictate this.
Don't doubt me, folks, there are more and more people starting to actually become alarmed, and they are independence at the brazen naked power grabs that Obama is making.
And the White House, the Democrat Party is living under age old assumptions that the independents hate values.
Speaking of that, I want to, I think it was the midterms in 2002.
In fact, I'm sure of it.
Couldn't have been 2006 because that's when we lost.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Midterms, because I was a guest with Brokaw and Russard on their NBC election night cover.
That's right.
2002.
Remember after the 2002 midterms, there were many surprises.
The Republicans did exceptionally well in the conventional wisdom is that the first midterm after a new president's election, his party loses seats.
That is a standard operating procedure conventional wisdom bit.
And it didn't happen in 2002.
And furthermore, the exit polls sent shockwaves through the political establishment.
Things that had never come up as issues per se mattered greatly to people as expressed in the exit polls.
And one of the things, and you'll remember this when I remind you, one of the glaring things that showed up at the exit polls was how much values mattered to voters.
And we were all surprised, and I'll never forget the Democrats.
Immediately upon the delivery of the exit polls, the Democrats for a week or two publicly were saying, Yeah, we're going to have to get our house in order on the value, the values-based voters.
We're not giving them enough.
We're going to have to, we're going to have to make some adjustments.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
And all that is, when you hear value-based voters, we're simply talking about social issues.
Social conservatives.
That or they were the primary reason for the 2002 midterm success.
And the Democrats get the usual lip service for a couple of weeks.
And then, of course, they abandoned it because they never meant it in the first place.
And I bring it up just to reaffirm the point that Jeffrey Bell makes in his recent book, That social conservatism has led to victory in presidential elections.
It's the dirty little secret the Democrats know and the media know, and it's why the social conservatives, one of the reasons why they're so despised.
They're also despised on principle, but they're also despised because there's so many of them.
And they're thought to be hick hayseed idiots who believe every syllable in the Bible, and how stupid could that be in their minds?
And they vote Republican and they're anti-abortion.
Oh, they've got every ingredient necessary for a liberal Democrat to hate somebody, the social conservatives have.
And they joyously, happily propose it and vote it.
And the Democrats know full what why do you think?
Why do you think Obama, the Democrats, all of a sudden try to concoct this contraception issue?
Because they're losing the independence.
They believe from the age-old pages of their playbook that if they can revive this notion that the Republican Party is nothing but a bunch of theologians that want to dictate from the pulpit in the White House that they can scare the independence back to Obama's camp.
They know they can't attract them with economic issues.
They know they can't attract the independents back by being positive about Obama's record because there isn't anything there to be positive about.
They know that social issues are a winner for the Republican Party.
Now, the Republican establishment doesn't like the social conservatives either.
They'll take them on election day.
But that's as far as it goes.
They're scared of them too.
They don't like them, but they'll take them on Election Day.
So Matthews says to Joan Walsh, there's a new New York Times CBS poll taken in February.
It spanned opinion both before and after the president announced his accommodation this past Friday, which kept the religious institutions from having to sign on to providing free of charge abortion benefits.
Sixty-six percent, Matthews erroneously cites here.
66% in the New York Times poll support the federal requirement that private insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control.
That's the only poll that shows that, by the way.
And he says to Joan Walsh, this is a pretty clear public opinion here, I think.
The only people who are really opposed to this ultimately, or the people who are most opposed, are born-again evangelical Christians.
So again, this is a Christian right issue.
Rushman law says they're gonna win the culture war.
I think he's a secret Democrat.
I think he's a closet Democrat.
He is leading Michael's party off a cliff on this issue.
All the polls show that.
I am leading the Republican Party off a cliff on the issue of abortion and social issues.
I'm not on the ballot.
I guess she's saying this because I'm not condemning Santorum for what he's doing.
Thank you.
Well, if I'm leading the party off the cliff, they ought to be happy, but they sure as heck sound worried to me.
You know, everybody chooses to uh conveniently forget that Bill Clinton ran on family values in 1996.
That's how he won the soccer moms for crying out loud.
The Democrats will they'll make overtures to the family values crowd.
Why did Clinton bother with all the public apologies with Jesse Jackson and so forth over the Lewinsky stuff?
Because it offended people's sense of decency where it comes to family values.
He had to get them back.
If family values didn't matter to Democrats, if they didn't matter to people, Clinton wouldn't have cared.
It wouldn't have mattered.
And he probably didn't want to do all that, but he had to.
Obama.
You know you want to talk about Santorum?
Obama started this.
If I may be bold, Ms. Walsh, it was Obama who started this at the national prayer breakfast.
Santorum is simply reacting to Obama.
Obama was the one who equated his policies with Jesus Christ for crying out.
We haven't had a Republican do that, and I don't know how long.
But Obama did it plain as day.
And where were you, Ms. Walsh?
Where were the rest of you lived?
You probably gripping your teeth and going, oh my, but you said, okay, he's priests, our guy.
We know what he has to do.
Another indication of just what the Democrats think they've got to do to win re-election.
They've got to show themselves to be at least friendly and non-threatening to Christians and Southern conservatives if they're to have a chance.
Otherwise, Obama wouldn't have wasted time trying to equate himself and his wonderful policies to Jesus Christ.
So he starts it.
That's what everybody has to remember here.
Obama started it.
Santorum was reacting.
Pure and simple.
And this was not all that Santorum was talking about last week.
He was also doing extremely well talking about the economy, manufacturing.
He hits grand slam home runs when he talks about such things as providing decent jobs for people who don't have college degrees in this country.
That's a lot of people.
And he hits grand slams talking about that stuff.
He also mixes in the other stuff.
And this, next sound bite, this is what Cinnamon Orbit.
This is Jackie Gleason to his wife and the honeymooners.
To the moon, Alice, when she really ticked him off.
Santorum said this is Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.
He was at a Tea Party rally.
This is what the president's agenda, it's not about you.
It's not about you.
It's not about your quality of life.
It's not about your jobs.
It's about some phony ideal.
Some phony theology.
Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, different theology.
A different theology.
It's not about your quality of life.
It's not about your jobs.
It's about some phony ideal.
And he said Obama's agenda is not based on the Bible.
And he didn't back down.
When they started firing at him for this, he did not back down from the assertion that Obama's values run against the values of Christianity.
Santorum said Obama is imposing his values on the Christian church.
He can categorize those values any way he wants.
I'm not going to.
But he's exactly right.
It was Obama who at first demanded that the Catholic Church provide free contraception and other abortion-related benefits.
After he says that his policies equate those of Jesus Christ.
So here's Obama demanding that churches and religious schools provide things that they are morally opposed to.
So Obama started this plain as day, and he actually Santorum says he's imposing his values on the Christian church, not the other way around.
Robert Gibbs, the former White House press secretary, was on this week yesterday.
The fill-in host, Jake Tapper, said to impressed by reporters as to what exactly he meant, Santorum said the president's, quote, imposing his secular values on the church, and I think that's wrong.
What's your reaction, Gibbs?
Those remarks are well over the line.
It's wrong, it's destructive.
It's time to get rid of this.
It's time to have a debate on our political positions, but not question each other's character and faith.
This GOP primary is uh in many cases, Jake, has been a race to the bottom.
We have seen nastiness, divisiveness, ugliness, distortions of opponents' records of the president's records.
Oh, yeah, we've never seen this stuff before.
Never before.
Just like we've never had anybody as brilliant and unique as Obama run for office.
We never had this kind of filth and campaigns.
We never had this kind of negative edge.
We never what a crook.
What is this?
Remarks are well over the line.
What remarks are over the line?
That Obama has a phony theology?
Santorum made it clear he was not talking about Obama's religious beliefs.
He was talking about Obama's political beliefs as a theology.
Wasn't questioning whether or not Obama loves Reverend Wright.
Everybody knows he does.
You didn't hear Santorum say that Obama doesn't believe what Reverend Wright says.
He didn't challenge Obama's relationship with his pastor.
This is me, they're nervous, folks.
They are very, very nervous.
So Bob Schieffer gets into the act on Slay the Nation yesterday, and that's coming up after this.
Slay the Nation By the way, if you're on the phone, I want you to stay on hold.
I'm gonna get to you.
It's going to happen.
There's just a lot going on today.
It's an amazing amount of stuff going on for a holiday.
But it is.
So Santorum shows up on Slay the Nation yesterday, Bob Schaefer.
He's 74.
I said 92.
He's 74 years old.
And Schiefer actually seemed like he was talking somebody from Mars.
He looked at Santorum and literally could not fathom that a living, breathing human being believes.
Much less would say these things.
So he asked Santorum about his remarks that Obama's agenda is about some phony theology.
Senator, I've got to ask you, what in the world were you talking about, sir?
I was talking about the uh radical environmentalists.
That's why I was talking about energy, this idea that man is here to serve the earth as opposed to husband its resources and be good stewards of the earth.
And I think that is a phony ideal.
We're not here to serve the earth.
The earth is not the objective.
Man is the objective, and I think a lot of radical environmentalists have it upside down.
Now I guarantee you, Santorum, by the way, could not be more correct.
Could not be.
I don't care whether you're religious or not.
He could not be more correct.
The left in this country has done its best to subordinate humanity To every other living or near-dead organism on the planet.
The left, and you don't even have to go to its extreme fringes to find this, although you will.
The left believes this would be a far better place.
The planet would be if there were no human beings.
They don't see any other organism participating in destruction of the climate, destruction of anything that's on the planet.
Everything but man is completely normal and natural.
It is man, it is humanity that is the abnormality and the problem on the planet.
Santorum's exactly right.
That's exactly how they think now.
Now, I guarantee you, Bob Schaefer, in the circles he travels, has never heard anybody say that.
He has never, nobody's even gotten close to say this is the first time he's been confronted with something like this, and he doesn't know how to deal with it, as you will hear when we get back.
By the way, Paul Ryan is the latest Republican to come out and say, it's too late to come up with a new candidate.
Carl Rove says, if you think that we can come up with a new candidate now, you are living on Pluto.
A number of Republicans are saying this notion that if Romney doesn't get it, that we can find somebody else at the convention, uh-uh-uh-uh, can't happen.
Now, before we get back to the Bob Schiefer sound bites, the stuff with Santorum, the drive-by media, the headlines have been hilarious.
Santorum says Obama's agenda based on phony theology, not the Bible.
Or Santorum questions Obama's Christian values.
Nobody.
Santorum has never once criticized Obama's beliefs as they relate to Jeremiah Wright's.
Santorum has never questioned Obama's devotion to Reverend Wright's church.
Not even talking about that.
Almost all of these reports go out of their way to misunderstand, actually misreport what Obama or sorry, Santorum was saying.
Which, to those of us who understand was perfectly clear.
Anybody who doesn't see, and this is the real truth.
Anybody who doesn't see that Obama and the rest of the left are the ones treating man-made global warming as an article of religious faith is either blind or a member of the news media.
It is the left that has converted global warming into a religion.
It is the left that has made abortion the sacrament to their religion of liberalism.
It's Obama and the left that are converting everything to do with environmentalism and global warming man-made to a religious belief.
Santorum was talking about Obama's belief in global warming.
He was saying gas prices are going up because of Obama's actions, which are based upon his belief in man-made global warming, which is a religion.
It is a theology.
But I'll tell you this, it really is an insult to conflate global warming and religion.
The insult is what the left has been doing.
The insult to our intelligence and sensibilities, the affront is the left's conflation, conflating of global warming and religion.
No, no modern religion is as anti-science as the belief in man-made global warming.
They have to fake the science.
They have to lie about the science, they have to ignore the science in order to expound their beliefs.
It's got everything that Christianity has.
It's got its garden of Eden, everything was perfect.
It's got man coming along, corrupting himself and committing sin and destroying the planet, and it's even got a nirvana.
If you agree to drive a hybrid car and pay higher taxes, then you can reach heaven on earth, which is what the left Preaches.
For crying out loud, they are trying to make what we exhale into a pollutant.
And therefore, according to the left, only mankind and our animals emit carbon dioxide, thus pollutants.
I'm frankly, I'm going to get a little offended that they're harping on Santorum for this.
I've been doing this for decades.
I've been making this point for decades, and they've ignored me.
Let's go back to Schiefer and his attempts here to deal with the Santorum.
So after Scheefer, CBS and Slay the Nation yesterday say, Well, ask you, Senator, what in a what in a world?
What in the world were you talking about, sir?
So Santorum answers, and then Schaefer says, Well, how does that translate into some sort of theology, meaning Obama's global warming beliefs?
How does that translate to some sort of theology that the president's theology is not based on the Bible?
I mean, that suggests he's not a Christian, sir.
I wasn't suggesting the president's not a Christian.
I accept the fact that the presence of Christian.
I just said that uh when you have a worldview that uh elevates the earth above man and says that you know we can't uh take those resources because we're gonna harm the earth by things that are that they frankly are just not scientifically proven.
For example, the politicization of the whole global warming debate.
I mean, this is just all an attempt to um you know to centralize power and to give more power to the government.
And uh, this is not questioning the president's beliefs and in Christianity.
I'm talking about the belief that man uh is should be in charge of the earth and should have dominion over it and should be good stewards of it.
Right.
I guarantee you this is this is Greek.
This is hieroglyphics to Schiefer.
He doesn't comprehend it.
See, remember when Lord Moncton came and delivered a speech here in the United States about global warming and said things that you've been hearing on this program for a long time.
Juan Williams?
So you know I never heard that before.
I I've got to stop and think about this.
I have never heard that perspective on global warming.
He hadn't heard it.
It's just everywhere, but he hadn't heard it.
I guarantee you, Bob Schiefer hasn't the slightest ability to comprehend this.
What do you mean elevating man over the earth?
What Bob, you do it every day.
All you have to do is believe that man is causing global warming, and therefore man should be subordinated to a tree or to carbon dioxide, which we exhale, or whatever, then you are believing that we are the problem, that we are destroying the planet, and that we are the ones that have to change and be punished for it.
And all that does is transfer control and power to the government and takes away individual freedom or liberty.
I guarantee you I could sit here and explain this for two straight hours to Schiefer, he wouldn't comprehend it.
And not just Schaefer.
I mean, you take any of them in the media on the left.
So Schaefer says, Well, Senator, I have to ask you to give some explanation of that.
I mean, you sound like you're saying, well, he's moving on.
This this the prenatal care controversy.
And Santorum had made the claim that amniocentesis and prenatal care contribute very proportionally to abortion.
And it's undeniable that they do.
I can remember 20 years ago on this program talking about the coming conflict between the ethics of prenatal care, amniocentesis, or learning what is in the womb before it's born, and medical ethics.
For example, I'm gonna give you the example that I gave 20 years ago.
If, for example, somewhere down the road, I said, we'll be able to tell prospective parents that your child is genetically prone to red hair, freckles, and overweight, how many people might decide to abort the kid because they just don't want a kid to have to live with those problems?
Nobody wants to be fat, freckle faced, and redheaded.
Well, we wouldn't do that to a kid.
I said, this is coming, folks.
It's coming.
And then I hit them with the clincher.
What happens?
If someday down the road, some scientist claims to discover the gene that indicates a predisposition to homosexuality.
And two prospective parents are told that their fetus has this gene.
What do you think is going to happen?
You're going to see the biggest switch from pro-choice to pro-life on the history of the planet in the gay population.
Twenty years ago, we were talking about these kinds of things on this program.
Here comes Santorum.
And he's making the point that prenatal care amniocentesis, the ability to discover characteristics and traits of children in the womb before they're born leads to abortion.
And that's Santorum again, Schiefer is just gobsmacked with this.
He can't comprehend it.
He says, Senator, I have to ask you to give some explanation of that.
You sound like you're saying that the purpose of prenatal care is to cause people to have abortions.
To get more abortions in this kind, I think there are a number of people would say that that's not the purpose at all.
That's simply not true.
A lot of prenatal tests are done to identify deformities in utero, and the customary procedure is to encourage abortions.
I didn't say prenatal care shouldn't be covered.
We're talking about specifically prenatal testing and specifically amniocentesis, which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb, and which in many cases, and in fact, most cases, physicians recommend, particularly if there's a problem, recommend abortion.
90% of Down syndrome children in America are aborted.
So to suggest where does that come from?
I have a child who has trisomy 18.
Almost 100% of Trisomi 18 children are encouraged to be aborted.
So I know what I'm talking about here.
And by the way, tell the Chinese and the people in India that knowing the sex of your children in advance doesn't lead to abortion.
One child policy and they want a son, and they learn that their fetus is going to be a little girl.
Haha, what do you think happens?
Folks, this is the thing about this, it's provocative, yeah, because it really pierces people's sensitivities and sensibilities, but is undeniably true at the same time.
None of this is easy.
Start messing around and things like this.
It's going to get complicated and uncomfortable.
We've got an abortion industry out there.
We've got an outfit, planned parenthood.
You should go to their website.
If you don't believe, go to their website and look at what children can see.
But planned parenthood makes its money and a lot of it performing abortions.
And what do they need for that to happen?
They need premarital sex, they need as much sex of any kind going on as they can get.
And therefore they encourage it.
There's a reason why in the 90s, all this ratcheted up, and they started teaching sex education, they started making all of this normal, and they started saying, you know, kids are gonna have sex, we can't stop it.
We better do the best we can to help it be clean and all of this stuff.
But the proponents of this need pregnancies.
Unwanted pregnancy.
They need them.
Planned parenthood lives off of unwanted pregnancy.
Now you may be offended, but I'm telling you, as a matter of fact, it is unarguable.
They would be out of business if there were no unwanted pregnancies.
And the more of them, the better, as far as Planned Parenthood's concerned.
Planned Parenthood By the way, case you uh case you have not been convinced that all of this going on with contraception and scaring people about abortion was not planned by the Democrats at Obama.
Somebody just tweeted in Obama's name from the White House the following message.
Join women in your community to build support for the president.
Attend a women 2012 House Party on February 22nd.
So the White House is putting together women 2012 House Parties on Wednesday.
They just sent out the tweet.
Hubba hubba.
Okay.
We're going to get to the phones.
People have been waiting patiently and uh normally well into the phones by now.
I'm not through with the Bob Sheefer sound bites, but I'm gonna get to the phones because uh have been more patient than we usually ask them to be.
We'll start in Sterling, Illinois.
Ken, thanks for waiting.
Really appreciate it, and welcome to program.
Hey Rush, how are you doing today?
Good, sir.
Thanks very much.
Um, yesterday at my uh Catholic Mass, the priest was giving us homily about uh the health care mandate, and he also tied into the First Amendment and the Constitution.
Well, a parishioner during the middle of the homily jumped up and started yelling at the priest, telling them he was wrong, that that's not true.
And the priest, he didn't miss the staff.
He just kept on going.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You are at church.
Yep.
The priest is conducting mass.
Is it his homily?
You said that.
Yep.
He makes comments that Obama's mandates violate the First Amendment, and a liberal parishioner stands up and starts shouting at the priest.
Yep, he stood up and uh started uh yelling at the priest, telling him he was wrong, that that that's not true.
Did he throw a condom at him?
No.
No.
Well, then he wasn't really militant.
If you'd have had a condom and thrown at the priest, then you might have had a problem.
Well, you I sat there and I chuckled after a second because uh I've heard you in the past talk about how when liberals are losing, they act wacky.
They're losing, and they're liberals first.
Yep.
And whatever else, second and third.
So what did the priest do?
He just kept on giving us homily.
Didn't stop at all.
So why was this parishioner even there?
Um we have our our parish is probably 50-50 between conservatives and liberals, and yesterday was a good day because we actually had a guy that uh the liberal is the liberal first, and he's a Catholic second.
And so his his beloved precious leader was assaulted, and he had to stand up.
It's kind of like when Republicans stand up in Congress and say, You lie to uh to Obama.
Well, what did the rest of the um the faithful do when this happened?
Uh everybody was just kind of um in shock and they were kind of laughing.
They didn't know what to expect.
I mean, uh after the the mass was over, everybody was telling the priest good job, we were all giving them high five, shaking his hand.
All right.
All right.
So the um the malcontent was uh overwhelmed by numbers at least.
Well, he uh he stormed out right after he said it.
Yeah, good.
Good.
So the priest hung in there.
Yep.
Well, happy days are here again.
I appreciate that on the spot report.
Karen in Settersville, Virginia.
Your next hello.
Hi, uh, Rush.
I I think we need to make a counterclaim against the fear tactics that are being used in the contraception issue.
The real fear should be that of mandatory contraception, which fits into the uh movement of the government into our lives and into our religion.
Yeah, I you know, I know what you're saying.
You're uh her her point here is an illustration of how totally out of phase things are.
That there ought to be real anger that the government wants to provide contraception for everybody.
What business is it of the governments to be doing this?
That's where people ought to be offended.
They ought to not be offended when a church stands up, what the heck?
You can't make us do this.
That's where the outrage ought to be.
Well, mandatory contraception fits into the environmental religion.
And uh I know.
It fits the bill, it completes the circle that man's the problem.
That humanity is the biggest problem the planet has.
How much better we'd all be?
And of course, the the overpopulation crowd still alive and well in the uh in the Democrat Party, and that's part and parcel of this as well.
Appreciate the call.
Karen, thanks much.
Gotta take a break.
right back.
I'll tell you what the real outrage ought to be.
The real outrage ought to be having to pay for things for other people, no matter what it is.
Obama comes down the pike and demands that somebody provide something to somebody else for nothing.
Somebody's got to pay for that.
That should be where the real outrage is.
And a little political observation here.
If, it's a big if.
If, as the polls indicate, Romney loses in Michigan, I think there's a possibility of something happening nobody's talking about.
And that's the reemergence of Newt.
Keep a sharp eye.
Anything's still possible.
We'll be back.
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