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June 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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There is a gallop poll just hitting, and it has Barack Hussein Obama at 43%.
I just got the number.
I think it's an approval number.
I don't think it's a Romney number.
It's an approval number.
Hiya, folks.
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You know, Obama, Carney, all of these clowns, they run around, they talk about every legal expert agrees, all legal, all economists from the entire spectrum all agree.
Let me tell what everybody agrees with.
Every legal scholar agrees that you cannot invoke executive privilege to hide illegal activity.
What would be more illegal than giving weapons to murderous drug cartels in order to be able to curtail the second amendment rights guaranteed Americans by the Constitution?
What in the name of Sam Hill is legal about seeing to it that you create crimes?
That's what this administration did.
They created crimes, they enabled crimes, they gave weapons, popularly called assault weapons, which they wanted banned.
And the American people did not want them banned.
And the elected representatives of the people did not ban them.
And that wasn't good enough for Obama, and that wasn't good enough for Holder to hell with the American people and to hell with a Congress.
We'll figure out a way to get rid of these guns, and they came up with Fast and Furious, which basically allowed the guns to walk across the border into the hands of drug cartels who use them.
Two hundred, three hundred people dead, wounded, probably more than that.
Mexicans to boot, Latinos.
Every Latino in this country thinks Obama loves them, cares for them, wants them to have the best, all this kind of stuff.
Who do you think got killed with these guns?
Martians.
Mexicans got killed with these guns.
Plus one of our border agents got killed with these guns in the hands of drug cartels.
Now you don't get to assert executive privilege to hide that.
After all, it's it's it's far more.
This White House trying to hide illegal activity than they're trying to protect national security.
Give me a break.
National security my rear end.
Ask yourself this.
Would they be asserting executive privilege if they thought that these documents would help Obama get re-elected?
If they thought that these documents would dump the blame for this on Bush, would they be exerting EP?
No way.
Even if there was national security involved, do you think there's nothing.
If these documents helped Obama's re-election effort, it didn't matter what kind of national security was compromised, they would release them.
So I have a question.
I'm just a citizen.
I sit here, I watch this stuff.
I want to know, was Eric Holder lying when he said the day before yesterday he was going to give these fast and furious documents to ISA.
He said he was going to turn them over.
Or is he lying now?
When he says that they're so secret that he had to ask Obama to assert executive privilege.
He was gonna he was gonna produce them.
Well, we don't know which ones, but he was going to turn over some documents.
Now we get executive privilege.
Now there's a need to print this out, folks.
There's a story out here from from Terry Jeffrey at Cybercast News Service.
And pardon me, I have to turn away from the microphone to get to my keyboard to print.
And here in about 25 minutes when the printer prints out what I'm printing, I'll be able to get it to you and tell you what it is that I'm talking about.
Until the printer prints, I'll have to vamp like only the highly trained broadcast specialist I am can vamp while I wait for the high-tech equipment to spit out what it is I need.
And here it is.
And it is simply this.
Terry Jeffrey, a story is from yesterday.
Headline is this Obama made pre-inaugural pledge on stopping guns to Mexico.
Holder Napolitano worked issue from first month.
Three and a half years before he invoked executive privilege in refusing to hand over to Congress internal Justice Department documents about Operation Fast and Furious.
And just eight days before his emaculation, President elect Kardashian met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon over lunch at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington.
He promised that he would take action aimed at stopping the flow of guns into that country from the United States.
Public statements from both Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Big Sis, Janet Napolitano, demonstrate that they were both personally working on this issue from their first month in office, explaining the pledge that Obama made to Calderon at their January 12, 2009 lunch.
I was having lunch with W that day, because that was my birthday.
I was having lunch in the Oval Office dining room that day while Obama's meeting with Calderon across town at the Mexican Cultural Institute.
Anyway, Obama and Calderon having lunch January 12th.
Robert Gibbs released a statement that day indicating Obama would ask Janet Napolitano to lead part of the administration's effort in stopping the movement of guns to Mexico.
In particular, Napolitano was supposed to increase information sharing.
President elect Obama expressed support for efforts in the border states, both the U.S. and Mexico, to eradicate drug-related violence and stop the flow of guns and cash.
He did just the opposite.
They came up with this program, Fast and Furious, which added to the flow of guns.
Now, Obama and Holder would not have had to make these pledges to Caleron if Bush was already doing this.
If there was already an effort to stop this, they wouldn't have had to promise it.
Yet there went around saying Bush was doing all of this.
Well, if Bush was doing all this, what's Obama promising Colderon that he's going to do it?
Obama told Sarah Brady he was working for gun control under the radar.
That's in the story.
Obama told Sarah Brady, she's the wife of James Brady, who was tragically wounded in the assassination attempt of President Reagan.
And everybody loved him, James Reese.
It was the press secretary.
And he was a funny, funny guy.
Everybody universally loved press secretary.
And he was shot in the head.
It was never the same.
It was very tragic.
Obama told Sarah Brady he was working for gun control under the radar.
Well, that's what Fast and Furious is.
Under the radar, gun control under the radar.
You see, the Congress had failed to ban assault weapons.
Obama wanted them banned.
Democrats wanted them banned.
Democrats want guns out of your hands no matter what, even if you do hunt and fish, I don't care what they say, they want the gun out of here.
But there's no sediment for it.
I'll never forget.
I will never I'm watching the Bush Gore debate in 2000, 12 years ago, and I was shocked because Al Gore was going on and on and on in support of gun ownership.
And I said, What have I missed here?
Well, it turns out there was polling data all over the place that it was a losing issue for the Democrats to start advancing gun control laws.
Thank you.
So ever since then, it's been a losing issue for the that's why John Kerry in the 2004 campaign went to Ohio.
Is this where I get me a hunting license?
Want to make him sound like some Big gun advocate.
But that doesn't, they want these guns out of people's hands.
And so fast and furious, he tells Sarah Brady, it's not in the story, it's just a just I just remember it.
He told Sarah Brady he's working under the radar to get rid of guns.
Now, how is Fast and Furious any different from what Obama did with the DREAM Act?
Obama went around Congress to get the DREAM Act.
He after they rejected it, uh, they reject the ban on assault weapons, and here Obama comes up with Fast and Furious.
Now, the importance of this story from Terry Jeffrey at the Cybercast News Service is that Obama made a pledge to the president of Mexico before he was immaculated to stop the flow of weapons.
And they ended up with a program to start it, and Holder and the boys are out there saying they didn't know anything about the program for months after they were inaugurated, when in fact they knew about it and made promises about it the week prior to being inaugurated.
Jay Carney, you have backed yourself into a corner, and everybody in the regime in the media backing themselves into a corner by trying to defend Obama on this because the record is clear.
And there we have the story yesterday of uh of another meeting between Colderon and Obama later, after he had been immaculated.
April 16th of 2009, to move further on this.
The Sarah Brady business with Obama and Obama saying he's working under the radar, that's a Washington Post-style section, April 11th, 2011.
Sarah Brady told the Post, the Washington Post, Obama told her, quote, I just want you to know that we're working on it.
We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.
So that was April 11, 2011, the Washington Post style section.
Sarah Brady, who became a big gun control advocate after her husband was shot, um was working to get guns out of people's hands, and Obama said, I'm working on the under the radar, and fast and furious was what was under the radar.
All righty, folks.
Obama down to 43 at Gallup.
Everybody, including the New York Times, the LA Times, USA Today, Washington Post, CBS ABC NBC is laughing about the latest Bloomberg poll.
Have you heard this, thirdly?
According to Bloomberg, Obama leads Romney 53 to 40 percent among likely voters.
Thirteen point lead, Obama over Romney in the Bloomberg poll.
And everybody's laughing about it.
And the great thing, the Washington, here, New York Times, outlier polls are no substitute for news.
That's how they're characterizing this.
LA Times.
Is Obama's big lead in Bloomberg poll to be believed?
Washington Post.
The poll is pretty clearly an outlier.
Wall Street Journal.
The Bloomberg poll diverges from several other national polls, which have reflected a much closer race for president.
National Journal, poll showing Obama well ahead differs from other surveys.
Christian Science Monitor, Obama leads Romney by 13 points in a new poll.
Can that be right?
New York magazine, President Obama leads Romney by four billion points, according to Bloomberg poll.
Nobody believes they're all laughing at what does that tell us?
That means that even these drive-by's no matter what their own polls say, and no matter what anybody else, they know it is too close for comfort for them that they have to come out and mock this Bloomberg poll.
And you know what else is in a Bloomberg poll?
This is unbelievable.
Americans say they are better off since Obama took office.
A plurality of Americans now say they are better off than they were when Kardashian was inaugurated, providing a surprising lift to Obama's re-election campaign despite troublesome economic news.
And then they quote some mortgage banker in Michigan.
Guy's name is Jim Steely or Seeley.
Everybody laughing at this.
It's all part of the same poll.
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Yeah, yeah.
A clear plurality.
Say yes, they are.
It's absurd.
Bloomberg.
All right, folks.
I'm gonna get to your phone calls when we come back.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Okay, so um according to the Bloomberg poll, we are supposed to believe.
And Barack Kardashian is now more than twice as popular as he was in 2008 when he won the presidency by six percent.
They got him here at 5340.
That's 13%.
He won a six or seven.
So he is twice as popular now as he was in 2008.
That's what Bloomberg wants us to believe.
Meanwhile, Rasmussen and Gallup in their daily presidential tracking polls, just for what it's worth here.
Both have Romney up 4745.
Both those polls, Ram Ramp Rasmussen and Gallup.
Now a question.
Can any of you point to any group?
Blacks, Hispanics, Jewish voters, white collar, blue collar, uh gay, lesbian, transgender, what are you n I don't care.
Can anybody name for me?
A group of voters which will give Obama more support in this election than he had in 2008.
It's an open-ended question.
I'm uh it's not rhetorical.
I'm I'm not suggesting there isn't one.
I'm just trying to put this Bloomberg poll in some kind of perspective.
He's up 5340, twice as popular as he was in 2008.
Well, where?
What group is gonna give him more support than he had in 2008, and then why?
And if you can answer that for me, then maybe we can talk Dixie.
In the meantime, we're gonna start with Marcus in Spartanburg, South Carolina as we go to the phones.
I really appreciate your waiting, Marcus.
Thanks for joining us today.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thanks very much, sir.
I'm calling uh because I'm a police officer for the state of South Carolina, South Columbia Highway Patrol, um, formerly military police officer, also former Kardashian kid.
And uh What's a Kardashian kid?
A Kardashian kid is uh member of the clan who voted for Obama, didn't know what we were doing.
We were on the hike for him, they voted for him because he's black.
All right, and celebrity of the United States kind of guy.
Right.
Okay.
It it would seem that way.
Yeah.
But I wanted to speak to you because I was given a challenge by an uh another a friend of mine on the force with me to listen to you for six weeks.
Give you that chance and to see if you couldn't change my mind.
And uh before I was a police officer, I was uh a substitute teacher is what I did before I got my full-time position, and it you have no idea how much you influence even young children in high school.
I I'd be waiting for classes to come in, and I'd have you on, and uh you you'd be amazed at how fifteen and sixteen-year-olds know Rush Limbaugh want me to keep Rush Limbaugh on instead of giving them their paperwork.
So I uh I wanted to call and thank you for first of all changing my mind.
I had no idea that uh Obama had voted for some of the same things that Bush put before Senate.
I had no idea how much of a hypocrite this man was until I listened to you.
Some of the children that have graduated now are voting Republican now, and and their eyes are open because they've had the chance to talk to to talk to me in the classroom, listen to some of your uh listen to you on the radio and uh had a chance to go out and vote now because they know the difference.
Their eyes are open down.
That's and uh you just have no idea of the influence.
I appreciate your calling and and telling me that.
I um uh I didn't I didn't know that you would encounter that among fifteen or sixteen-year-olds.
What Marcus, what what how did this guy convince you to do the six-week trial?
Well, um, we were sitting at at a gas station one day getting ready to go on patrol uh we worked third shift and uh he had uh his iPhone plugged up to the speakers in his car before he turned his his radio on, and uh I said, uh, who's this guy?
He goes, uh Rush Limbaugh, and I said, uh I I don't listen to Rush.
I said I'm I'm an Obama fan.
He said, I I'll tell you what, he said, give me six weeks, listen to him.
Listen to him with me every single day.
If he doesn't change your mind, if you cannot see the light, if you're still a Kardashian kid, I'll give you five hundred bucks.
Oh, no kidding.
So you had a financial incentive.
Yes, I did.
And I I passed up five hundred bucks because you are the only man in the history of this world to ever change my mind on anything.
Well, now let me tell you something.
Marcus, I'm I'm I'm gonna reciprocate in kind.
I I am moved greatly by the fact that you would would would spend five hundred bucks.
So I'm not gonna give you five hundred bucks, but I want to send you a new what would you rather have?
Would you rather have a new retina iPad or a new MacBook Air?
Oh wow.
Uh uh the iPad's always been pretty cool to me.
I appreciate that.
I pay well, you want okay.
So I'm gonna send you an engraved iPad.
Do you do you have do you have a uh look at I'm gonna I'm gonna send one from Verizon because Verizon, there's this new LTE, which is 4G instead of 3G, and Verizon is in like 300 markets now.
It's everywhere.
ATTs, their rollouts are slower, they're they're at 38.
So I'm gonna send you a Verizon, and I think we've only got one in there left.
It's it's white, but it's beautiful.
So we'll send it.
So you hang on here, Marcus.
Don't hang up so Mr. Snerdley can get your uh your share.
Well uh Fed exit to you, you'll have it tomorrow.
Well, I appreciate it, Russ.
No, it's Marcus, you've made our day here.
You made our day here.
You uh you you risked five hundred bucks.
And you stuck with it for the six weeks, which is exactly your friend was right on the money, because that's what we say it takes here.
Six weeks of s of constant study and devotion to the program to be able to put it all in context day to day.
Way to go.
Really appreciate it, Marcus.
Happy to have you in the audience.
Did you hear what Marcus said?
The only man in the history of the world who changed his mind was me, L. Rushbow.
Yeah.
It does make me feel good.
Has anybody changed my mind?
Has anybody ever changed my mind?
Uh gosh, I'm sure they have.
I just can't remember the last time it happened.
But I'm sure people have changed my mind.
Uh not in recent years.
But I'm I'm I'm sure that it has uh sure that it's happened.
You know, we we need to start a promotion.
Listen for six weeks promotion or something.
It's I've always said it takes six weeks, steady listening to understand the context of this show.
We don't do topics here.
Like I'm not gonna go home today and decide what tomorrow we're gonna talk about and get some guest to talk about carrot cake recipes for the holidays or some such dribble.
We deal with it as it happens.
And you have to listen every day.
Like for what we've saying about Eric Holder today, you have to have been here yesterday to understand some of it, because I don't reset the table every day.
That's why we say the six weeks.
This is unlike any other program out there.
This is not it's not contained by any boundary other than the clock.
But even at that, the biggest the biggest separation that we have is is uh twenty-one hours.
Look, folks.
Uh I want to talk a little bit here about Obama for a second, in a universal kind of way.
Because what we have here, what I knew was the case back on January 16th, 2009, when I said I hope he fails, I knew this was coming, because I know liberals, and I and I'd heard enough of what Obama had said.
We'd played the sound bites on this program from the early 2000s.
Um and the things he had said on the campaign trail.
It was patently obvious that he was just another radical liberal politician.
That's all he was.
And I understand liberals, and I don't want them to succeed.
The country suffers when liberals succeed.
That is a belief that's embedded in my heart, and it's never gonna change.
Nobody's gonna change my mind on that because I don't lie to myself.
So I hope he failed.
And everybody who had this shocked and outraged reaction to it knew exactly what I meant.
And yet they tried to characterize it as I was hoping the country failed.
People were saying nobody wants presidents to fail.
That means the country fails.
Everybody gets behind the print.
No, no, no.
It's not what I wanted this guy's policies to not succeed, being implemented.
I didn't want national health care.
I didn't want all this debt.
I didn't want all of this incompetence.
I didn't want all this economic destruction, and I knew, and I'm not bragging.
Folks, I just know liberalism, socialism, doesn't take any superior intellect.
All you got to do is look around the world at current socialist and communist countries, realize it ain't us, and we don't want any part of it.
So from the get go, as far as I'm concerned, Obama was nothing more than just the latest liberal politician, except he was more radical.
And I thought that he was a fraud.
Because he was trying to live off this messianic image that had been created for him and that he had helped create.
Well, what were the key selling points in the marketing of Barack Obama to the American public?
He was different.
Unique.
Smarter, more worldly, more articulate, more reasonable, more understanding.
We had never seen anything like him before.
Yes, he was of mixed race, but that wasn't what made him different.
Turns out it did.
No, it was that he was special.
Barack Obama was special.
He was better than us.
He was better than we are.
He would deliver us from evil.
He would make the world love us again because the rest of the world already loved him, newfound respect.
He was going to end partisanship.
He was going to end racism.
He was going to end discrimination simply by being elected.
Nothing more.
Magic was just waiting to happen.
And then his autobiography came along, and his autobiography proved, quote unquote, just how special he was.
That was exhibit A. Why he was a truly great writer?
Think of it.
He had never produced a single piece of paper that would indicate that he was a writer's writer, but he was able to sit down, focus, and type out a masterpiece.
Everybody agreed.
A writer's writer's book.
Unique, not very many people could write a book of this passion and substance and discovery and all that rot gut that they used to describe it.
It was magic.
No ghostwriter, just Barack Obama and a computer.
And that was just the beginning.
He was also a once in a century speechmaker.
Nobody delivered speeches like Obama.
Nobody mesmerized a crowd like Obama.
No candidate before him could say so little so well.
No candidate before Obama ever, ever had the ability to say nothing as brilliantly and as articulately as Barack Obama.
And no one before him ever had a better crease in their pants.
The crease in his slacks was so sharp and so unique that one of the most brilliant political commentators in the world, David Brooks at the New York Times recognized that crease in Obama's pants immediately as the thing that stood out about him that was going to make him a great president.
We actually heard this.
It was stated and Brooks wrote it, and he repeated it.
And it was used at proudly as an example of the uniqueness of Obama.
And not only was Obama wonderful and magic and great and unlike anything we'd ever seen, he was going to remake all of us into something as special as he was just by being elected, just by being president.
All he needed was control of the Congress and a few more radical leftist members of the Supreme Court, a compliant mind numb media, and he was going to make all of us brilliant.
He was going to make all of us great.
And greatness and brilliance and love and compassion.
And bipartisanship would flow through every river, through every town, through every state of this great land.
Obama the Great had ideas on how to improve the Constitution.
Yes, enough of the Bill of Rights, enough of all these negative liberties, enough of the Constitution which told government what it couldn't do.
Barack Obama was brilliant and smart, and he knew that we needed a constitution that spelled out what government could do.
Ostensibly for us, but in reality to us.
He would bring the parties together.
He was a citizen of the world.
He could go to Cairo and make Osama bin Laden convert to Judaism.
He could turn gay people straight, straight people gay, buy people whatever they want to do.
He could do whatever anybody wanted to be done.
He could make it possible.
And it was going to happen almost instantly after he was immaculated.
We were lucky.
We were oh so lucky to have Barack Obama.
Except that we weren't.
Soon as he was elected, started trotting out ideas that had failed in the 1930s.
He brought back Hillary care that the country despised.
Better than anyone before him, Obama would grow government, punish the private sector, attempt to take over the health care system in order to create an all-powerful centralized authority, replete with death panels, and thus could effectively control every aspect of our lives for our own good because compared to him we were nothing.
We needed him to show us the way.
We needed his guidance and countenance.
And we would happily blind ourselves to nothing but his path, and we would trod and walk it right behind him, always behind him.
And we did this while he gave General Motors to the United Auto workers.
He gave campaign donors sweetheart deals with our taxpayer money, shut down American oil rigs, while bankrolling oil rigs in Brazil and Mexico.
He bowed down to dictators.
He made promises to a Russian thug that could be collected after his reelection.
He brought lobbyists by the busload to the White House.
He ran the most politicized Department of Justice in history, he invoked privileges he criticized from the floor of the Senate.
He was special.
You consider that he took all of the worst policy ideas from the past 100 years and crammed them down this country's throat in three and a half years at the bargain basement price of five trillion dollars beyond our revenue.
What a great guy.
What a special and unique man.
This special special man cannot get a single vote on any budget he presents.
But he insists that we give him more money and pay higher taxes, and that we thank him while we do it.
Despite all the hype, all the promises, all the fawning media coverage, Obama is just another liberal politician in a long line of them.
He's just the most radical of all of them to ever come down the pike.
He's more reckless.
He has a bigger appetite for personal power than anybody who come down the pike.
And as is now been learned by his own biographer, David Moranis, who's read his book and has found a minimum now 39 lies in the book.
He's an out and out fraud.
He made up all of the truly meaningful epiphanies and significant life advances detailed in his book.
They were all made up.
His life story isn't true.
His promises of more jobs and less debt were lies.
His promise of transparency was also a lie.
He hasn't upheld his promises in the Oath of Orifice, and he hasn't come clean about his membership in a socialist political party.
There really isn't anything special in a constructive sense about Barack Obama.
Anybody that he asserted a separation of powers privilege yesterday, but last Friday he dismissed the very idea of separation of powers when he said that he alone could determine all matters relating to immigration?
To hell with Congress.
To hell with it.
You could call that special.
You could call a blatant disregard for the laws that he swore to uphold and protect.
How's this for special?
Obama sitting on a scandal resulted in the deaths of at least 200 Mexicans and a U.S. border agent.
Wow, we have never had a president do that before.
And make us all love him at the same time.
Truly unique in American history.
And according to Vestors Business Daily and a bunch of bloggers and so forth is just a fraud.
And that's unique.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Let's go back to the phones.
People always are patiently waiting here.
This is uh Kevin of Brick, New Jersey.
Hi, Kevin.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, Megadidas.
Thank you, sir.
I'm a huge fan.
All right.
Um the question I wanted to ask you is do you think that there's any chance that the uh independents might uh see Darrell Ice as being too aggressive in pursuing the fast and furious documents?
Yeah, you know, this is going around.
I think this is a technique that's designed to intimidate ISA into shutting down.
Oh, okay.
I I think uh this is this was predictable.
They're gonna say ICE uh overstepping his bounds, he's going to upset the independents.
I've had it with this upset the independence business.
If you listen to every one of these theories, the end of it all is that we Republicans had better stop fighting for what we believe, or else the independents are going to get mad.
Independents uh uh don't follow the news.
I'm not sure the independents know what Fast and Furious is yet.
I'm joking.
But I'm serious, Kevin.
We can't criticize Obama.
It'll irritate the independents.
We can listen to Pelosi, we can listen to Obama, we can listen to Democrats go after us, and me, Republican politicians all day long.
That doesn't upset the independent.
Have you ever noticed that hard-hitting criticism of Republicans that never bothers the independents?
Pursuing so-called Republican uh excesses, going after Bush, trying to stop the Iraq war, trying to frog march scooter libby or Carl Robin.
That never irritates the independent way.
If you listen to Democrats, the independents are nothing more than full-fledged solid hundred percent Democrats.
Well, if that's true, why are they independents?
I'm sorry, I just I don't buy this.
We've got a constitutional violation, we've got an attorney general who is lying to the elected representatives of the people, and ISA is supposed to dial it back because that might irritate the independents.
This has been a trick that the Democrats and the media have been using my entire life to get Republicans to shut up and to stop fighting for what they believe in.
And the sad thing is that the moderate Republicans buy into it and believe it, along with a lot of Republican political consultants who get hired to run campaigns of Republican candidates.
It is a noose around our neck that we willingly place and then we step to the tree limb.
So, no.
It makes no intellectual sense whatever, Kevin.
Don't doubt me.
So, Kevin, are the Democrats really trying to help us when they warn us what the independents might do?
Are the independents really people that don't care about the Constitution being violated?
Are the independents perfectly fine with running American guns to drug cartels in Mexico with uh hundreds of people being killed?
And the independents are going to get mad if we try to get to the bottom of that?
Is that is that what we're being told to believe?
Don't swallow that stuff, Kev.
Come on.
Wake up.
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