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Sept. 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Last week I asked a stupid question.
And it took me a couple of hours on Friday to figure it out.
And I've been hoping I wouldn't forget it all weekend.
And here we are, and I remember what it was.
The stupid question I asked, so why are the teachers in Chicago going on strike?
And the answer is very simple.
So Obama can solve it as a campaign issue.
That's why they're on strike.
It won't be long before we hear Moochell say that he's up late at night on the campaign trail, practically crying, reading letters from students in Chicago, upset they can't go to school.
The schools are open in Chicago for lunch and breakfast.
Teachers aren't there.
Rom's kids are at their $25,000 a year private school.
The Chicago teachers have been offered a 16% raise.
How's that compared to your raise?
Your job, and they turn it down, they turned it down over some pension uh stuff.
You watch.
You watch this is gonna get stuff.
Ram Emanuel himself is the guy who said never let a crisis go to waste.
We know that the unions and Obama and Ram Emanuel of Democrats are in bed with each other.
And so this this to me, I think it's perfect setup.
I think we're being played like a strat of my question, by the way, hi folks, Rush Limboy here, brand new week broadcast excellence.
Happy to have you here.
My question is though, why is Obama still campaigning?
Can somebody explain that to me?
What do you mean, Snurley?
Well, because everywhere I look, this election's over.
Why Obama has hit 50% approval in the polls now for the first time ever.
The bounce out of that disaster of a convention was unprecedented, other than Dukakis, who had a 17-point lead after his, and somehow he lost.
Britt Hume said today on Fox, well, you know, you gotta keep in mind the guy leading in the polls in mid-September rarely loses.
Ever heard of Dukakis, ever heard of Jimmy Carter.
And now public policy polling has got a poll out saying Obama's at 50% in Ohio and they're closing the gap and they're gonna win Ohio now.
Except Obama might lose New Mexico.
New Mexico is in plate, and they're not telling you that.
But why is Obama still raising money?
Why is he still campaigning if this is over?
Every folks, this is so predictable.
The campaign to depress you and to dispirit you is underway and it's at full bore.
It's going 150%.
These people have a disaster of a convention.
They're trying to turn into the greatest convention ever.
Obama is pitied.
I mean, I I can't tell you all the fear.
I've even got people depressed because they think the new iPhone isn't gonna have anything in it.
I mean I'm surrounded by it.
And I'm here to tell you it is September the 10th.
There's two months to go.
There's no way this is over.
There is no way.
I get people say Romney's disappointment.
I'll give you another example.
The Hill.com had a poll last week.
I don't have it here in front of me.
But it was a devastating poll to Obama.
The Washington Post and ABC News poll was devastating to Obama just last week on Tuesday in his convention.
And the Hill.com poll had 52% thinking the wrong direction the country's headed.
Obama's bad to the country, Obama.
It was horrible.
The polling data from last week during the Tuesday of the convention was absolutely disastrous.
And all of a sudden it's done a 180 in a week.
And all that last week doesn't matter, and now the Hill.com has a poll out.
Guess what they say?
Guess what they went out and ask people.
If you think you're not being played and set up, you know what?
This election's not about Obama.
It's not a referendum on Obama.
Oh no, this is a choice between two men.
Why they went out and they polled the exact theme of Obama's speech, which was Jimmy Carter's speech in 1980, which Pat Cadell says, hey, I recognize that I wrote it.
Carter's.
And so now it's not a referendum on Obama.
It's a choice between two guys, which means, of course, whatever Romney says matters.
I'm here to tell you.
And I don't want you to.
Folks, you have got to stay bucked up here.
The effort to depress you and keep you home is it it I've never seen it like this before in my life.
I have never seen this intense an effort by the Democrat machine, including the pollsters that is designed, and it's it's sucking in a lot of our media.
It's sucking in, I'll just say it's sucking in the well.
A lot of conservative media is getting sucked in by this.
They're buying it because they get caught up in the bubble that is the world as created and defined every day by the mainstream media.
Their lives hinge on polling.
And of course, the polling, if you look carefully, you can find flaws.
The polls now are just being used as another tool of voter suppression.
The polls are an attempt to ref not reflect public opinion, but to shape it.
Yours.
They want to depress the heck out of you.
And they want to suppress your vote.
The polls are of adults.
Registered voters.
Let me tell you the polls that count.
And those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election.
That's when the pollsters worry about getting their credibility or holding on to their credibility.
Those are the polls that everybody remembers.
Nobody's going to talk about what public policy polling said in the poll in Ohio on September 10th.
They're going to worry about what public policy polling said a week before the election.
And that's when public policy polling, a liberal group out of North Carolina, is going to tell you what's really going on.
So if you're if you like polls, forget about them until two weeks before the election, because these now are being used specifically to depress you, to hang you up, to get you not voting, to get you mad at Romney.
Romney's horrible.
Romney's worthless.
Romney's not conservative.
Romney's selling you out.
Romney's this or that.
The election's not about Obama at all.
Let me ask you a question.
Can I get some common sense thrown in here?
What happened in 2010?
It was a landslide defeat for Barack Obama and the Democrats.
2010 was what?
It was a referendum on what had happened those two years.
And the Republicans hadn't done diddly squat because those two years the Republicans did not have enough votes anywhere to stop Obama anywhere, anytime.
They were mere spectators.
The House didn't have the votes to stop Obama.
The Senate didn't have the votes to stop Obama for the first two years.
The 2010 midterms were a shellacking, a landslide defeat, and not just for National Democrats, but all the way down the ballot to dog catcher in Oshkosh.
Nothing against Oshkosh.
It's just the first town that comes to my mind when I get on these riffs.
Now what's changed, folks?
It's gotten worse.
The economy has gotten worse.
The job situation has gotten worse.
The entitlement situation has gotten worse.
The debt situation has gotten worse.
What has happened in the last two years to erase what happened in 2010?
My point is not a thing.
What else is noteworthy about 2010?
There was no Republican candidate on a ballot nationally that was leaving anything.
The Tea Party was what was making things happen on the Republican side.
And I should better say the conservative side.
But it was a referendum on Obama.
And so is this going to be.
And every one of these polling groups and every one of these Democrat groups know it.
And they're doing everything they can to get you to forget everything you know.
They're doing everything they can to get you to deny what you know is common sense.
It is Amazing to watch.
And this this school teacher strike in Chicago, let's just see how long this thing goes on.
And let's let's see how it gets solved.
Anyone want to bet against me that Obama's the one that gets credit for this in a few short days.
Anyone want to bet that there might be even a little bit of violence in that finally Obama will have to do something.
Move in, do something.
He or he and Rom will figure this out so they get credit for solving it, because I'll tell you, there is no union that is going to go on strike right now for the express purpose of harming Barack Obama.
Quite the contrary.
Any union who thinks their actions would end up hurting Obama will delay or put off those actions.
I don't know if Ram's gonna beat up the teachers.
I just think he'll talk to the gangbangers and say, you know what I told you about ignoring the kids?
Well, forget it for a couple of days.
Now I'm just kidding.
I just get I'm just telling you there has to be, we know the alliance between a Democrat Party and Obama, more so than Rom, but nevertheless Rom's part of it, and the unions.
And you're gonna get really depressed when that happens.
I'm warning you right now, you haven't seen anything till you see the PR surrounding Obama solving the teacher strike, and then the video of the little kiddies going back to school going to be singing Obama songs.
Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, makes it possible for us to get propaganda.
And they'll be singing that as they walk in the school doors.
And the media will be swooning.
Oh.
There will be virtual orgasms.
I'm telling you nothing's changed from 2010.
None of this makes any sense, folks.
You telling me Obama's much more popular today than he was two years ago?
You think Obama's policies are much more popular today than they were two years ago?
Do you think the people that showed up and voted in 2010 to stop Obama have decided, oh the hell whether I like him.
Try this theory.
This theory.
I've had a I've had a version of this theory.
Here's here's theory out there.
Well, we're gonna lose.
Well, what's happened, Rush, is that the uh unemployment compensation, 99 weeks, that's coming gone.
And so what people have done is sign up for social security disability.
That's their new form of unemployment, which true.
It's happened.
But what we need to know is that that means that people are afraid to do without Obama.
The people on welfare, the people on social security disability, people still on unemployment are afraid to do without Obama.
The fact that he's destroyed the economy will actually benefit him.
Yes, that's what we're to believe.
The fact that he's destroyed the economy is gonna benefit Obama because all those people now on some sort of welfare-like assistance are gonna be scared to death to get rid of Obama because then what will become of their meager existence.
Let me check something real quick.
Uh Hill poll.
Uh I don't know which hill poll this is.
One last week and there's one out today.
Uh, that oh no, this is this is not uh this is not a referendum on Obama.
No, no, this is a choice.
It's like 36% believe it's a referendum on Obama, and 52% think it's a choice between two futures.
Why that sound familiar?
Here's more from the the Hill poll today.
Survey also includes some sobering findings for the regime.
Hmm, you aren't hearing about this except from me.
A majority of voters say their opinion of Obama's gotten worse since he took office, the poll.
Wait a minute.
This is the same poll that the media today is highlighting is saying it's not a referendum on Obama, it's a choice between two gentlemen, two futures.
Well, this Hill poll is as devastating this week as it was last week for Obama and people's perception of his job performance.
Again, the Hill.com poll today includes some sobering findings for the regime.
Majority of voters say their opinion of Obama's gotten worse since he took orifice.
Forty one percent said they have a much worse view of Obama now than 2008.
11% say their opinion's slightly worse.
Well, let's see, 41-11, that's 52%.
And it gets worse.
38% said overall that their view of Obama had improved.
By contrast, 47% say their view of Romney has improved as they've learned more about him.
Well, that's the exact opposite of what every poll is been telling you all weekend.
Hmm.
39% say that their opinion of Romney has become worse.
The Hill buried that in their poll.
Look at.
I know that Romney's not ideal.
And I know that Romney ticks you off.
And I know that Romney going on Meet the Press, thinking, there's parts of Obama carry like him.
And Ann Romney went out there.
You know what she said?
God bless Anne Rush.
She went out and she said our convention was meant to prove we're not heartless.
Well, let me tell you something.
You see that, you shh you ball up your fist.
What the heck?
What are they talking about?
It's not about them.
I hate to tell you this.
I told, I mentioned this on the air some time ago.
Romney, the best thing you can do is remember this election isn't about him.
He may as well be omer fud.
As far as we're concerned, we're voting against Obama.
I don't care who they put on the we're voting against Obama.
And that has not changed.
And there are more people now than in 2010 who are going to vote against Obama.
And David Gregory knows it, and F. Chuck Todd knows it, and the CNN people know it, and the MSNBC people know it.
And that's why they're doing what they're doing with the polling data, trying to dispirit you and depress you.
Because that's all they've got.
They can't sing the guy's praises.
He's a disaster.
Whether he's incompetent or whether he's doing it on purpose, doesn't matter.
It ain't working.
There's not one thing they can point to.
The Chevrolet Vote.
They're losing 49,000 on every car.
Right here in the stock is a 49,000 lost on every Chevy Vold made.
And Obama's out talking about the auto industry being revived and rescued.
It's a lie.
It's an absolute crock.
Anyway, I take a break here, folks.
You sit tight, hang in there, be tough.
We'll continue in just a moment.
You know, when it comes to the Gallup poll, you um, I think you've heard you probably just forgotten.
Axelrod.
And I've been threatening them, but I mean he blasted them for their um their spread for using the same voter turnout in 2010 to poll the electorate this time around.
He blasted them.
And shortly after he blasts Gallup, guess what changes?
Gallup's numbers.
Now, Axelrod is the government.
He's not just part of a campaign, he's part of the regime.
Somebody the government comes along and starts plus Gallup, sympathetic to Obama anyways.
It didn't take much.
But these teachers in Chicago on strike...
Being offered a 16% raise.
Didn't Michelle, was it wasn't Michelle Obama just talking last week about the heroism of teachers working without pay.
Just last week at the convention.
Was it wasn't she praising teachers?
She was going on what a heroes they are.
Because they often work without pay, and then they have to bring their own supplies from home.
Now they're on strike in Chicago.
I got an email.
Well, I can see where you might be right, Rush about Obama moving in at the last moment to solve the teacher strike, but if that's the case, why didn't Obama move in to solve all the murders going on in Chicago?
I think the answer to that, although cynical, very simple.
There weren't any pictures.
All we had were statistics.
19 more dead overnight or this weekend, whatever in Chicago.
But that was it.
We just had words, text.
There weren't any pictures of the slain.
There weren't any video footage.
There was no video footage of any of the murders.
Here we got pictures.
We got teachers on strike carrying picket signs.
Something people can actually see that Obama can stop, i.e.
solve.
Anyway, I got here we are.
We've got to take another break again.
Time's flying already into our first half hour.
Well, get to your phone calls.
Telephone number 800 282882, email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com, and a further discussion of the onslaught of your good senses when we get back.
Here's more information on Gallup, by the way.
The Department of Justice, Eric Holder, has joined in a lawsuit against Gallup, brought by a former Gallup employee as a top Obama organizer.
So the DOJ, the regime suing Gallup, and shortly thereafter Gallup's numbers on Obama changers, more from the Hill.com poll today.
Among women, 39% said that they were more likely to vote for Obama because of the conventions, while 35% said that they were more likely to vote for Romney.
That 39's gotta be 50 for it to matter.
After four days of the war on women, after four days of the uterus being the uterus in the vagina being a focal point of convention, they get 39% say they were more likely to vote for Obama.
They're gonna need more than that to overcome Romney's advantage in men.
And who the heck knows what the Hill.com was asking about this being a choice election versus a referendum election.
That doesn't.
I'm amazed.
Here you you have a poll that actually uses as a question an assertion from Obama's acceptance speech.
This is going to be a referendum Obama.
That's why we're so worried, folks.
Nothing's changed from 2010.
Did Chick-fil-A not happen?
Did those nationwide protests at Chick-fil-A not happen?
Have they all everybody that was involved?
You talk about a grassroots spontaneous effort.
All over this country, everywhere there were Chick-fil-A restaurants, you know what happened in response to the assault on Chick-fil-A.
Those people are gonna vote.
Have they decided after the Democrat convention to say, you know what?
Maybe Obama's not so bad.
This is a referendum on Obama, and it's what's got us all scared to death.
Because if the referendum on Obama is that this is the kind of country people want, that's what's got us worried.
But we it hasn't changed.
It's a referendum on Obama.
But they're doing everything they can.
I still predict, don't forget it was this last week.
New York Times and a couple of other uh uh prominent lib places started writing stories blaming Obama.
You get the Woodward book coming out, blaming Obama for being horrible decision maker, not even showing up.
Uh it's just last week.
And all of a sudden, the weekend comes, the Sunday show, some new polls, and the reality of just five days ago is forgotten.
It's not how things work.
It was just last week the media was preparing to throw Obama overboard in order to save liberalism because it looked like he was gonna lose.
All of this is based on a supposed mythical bounce that Obama got from his convention.
You know, last time my memory is that all these drive-by people were crushed after Obama's speech on Thursday night.
My memory is they thought it was horrible.
My memory is they thought it was empty.
My memory is that they thought it was vaping, there was nothing to it, and all of a sudden it's the greatest damn speech ever Given.
I know it's tough to hold on for.
I know it's tough to stay for some people.
And I'm not kidding.
I got people emailing me being depressed about the new iPhone.
I I kid you not.
Well, I'll tell you why.
It's because apparently everything is known about what it's going to be.
And that's like taking Santa Claus out of Christmas for people.
Apple's big announcement is Wednesday, and everybody thinks they know what the phone's gonna be.
It's gonna be a four-inch screen, it's gonna have LTE, four G LTE in it.
It's gonna have whatever.
It's gonna have people know it.
It's not a new design.
It looks exactly like the current phone, a little thinner, looks just like the current phone, just a half inch longer, but no wider.
It's gonna have a bigger screen, but nothing on that screen's gonna be bigger.
There's just gonna be more space on the screen.
And the Apple fanboys are all depressed that they're losing to Samsung, even though Apple just screamed them in court.
Because the Samsung phones are bigger screens.
It's amazing to track this.
You know, I'm a I'm a Mac fanboy myself.
So I track this stuff.
I'm actually, I got a friend of mine down here.
It's is is is forlorn like you can't believe because I try to tell him, look, remember last year, Siri?
Nobody knew that was coming.
They always hold something back that's exclusive to the new phone, some hot to trot thing.
He said, Well, what do you think it's gonna be?
So, how do I know?
So I started guessing, okay, fingerprint ID to lock the computer, lock the phone.
Uh facial recognition.
I don't know.
I started throwing what I thought were cool things out to mollify the guy to stop him from being so damn depressed.
I started pointing out when's the last time they changed the design of their laptops.
When's the last time they changed the the iPad design hadn't changed in three years?
It's not.
And the reason is last year everybody was expecting a teardrop design iPhone.
They didn't get it, and then I'm gonna be happy till they do.
And some of these Apple blog guys are obsessed with NFC technology, a near field communications, but mobile wallet, and ain't gonna be in there.
So I think it's all a failure.
I it's amazing.
I to look at the various things people are interested in, and you can find depression everywhere.
Disappointment, and Apple hadn't even said anything yet.
But everybody's convinced they know what it's gonna be, and it's like Santa Claus is uh.
One guy even said, you know what is Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple is so boring, they better get a celebrity out there to conduct the big show on Wednesday, or nobody's gonna watch it.
Uh now there's a uh a piece, PJ Media.com, pajamasmedia.com.
It's posted uh what's it yesterday by Sarah Hoyt?
Uh till yesterday I didn't know who Sarah Hoyt.
Well, I still don't know who she is, but this is an excellent, excellent piece.
I'm I can't read the whole thing because it's too long.
Spreading fear and despondency.
And sounds like she feels as exasperated as I do at the people who have gotten so depressed on our side that they're just about ready to throw in the towel.
She starts her post this way.
Recently I've been reading the anti-Obama blogosphere, and yesterday it finally got to me.
I I have only one question to ask.
Are you insane?
Now let me add a few other questions.
Have you gone completely out of your mind?
Do you want to lose?
You understand fully what a loss would mean?
I hate to say it, but I think the answers are yes, yes, yes, and no.
I don't like yelling at people on the right, like Reagan.
I hold on to the idea that there are no enemies on the right.
I prefer to make my points in nicer ways.
However, there comes a time any good housewife reaches for the broom, and it's now time for the broom.
Yesterday at various blogs I read over and over again the Democrat convention gave Obama big bounce.
He's winning.
His approval's now over 50%.
Their enthusiasm's as high as that of the Republican crowd.
And then you look at the polls that caused all of this, sky is falling stuff, and what are those polls?
Well, those polls are in fact the same old crap.
They poll adults, which you know skews Democrat.
They poll registered voters, which you know skews Democrat.
They poll with a skew of 4% Democrats over Republicans, as though this was still 2008.
And they they poll as if 2010 never happened.
And when Gallup polled, according to 2010, Axlrod and the regime jumped on him, threatened him.
Then all the people on the right echo these things as though they were legitimate, say, oh, but the polls were correct before.
So she's upset here at all the poll watchers on our side who fall for it and buy into it.
Really?
The polls were correct before when?
The very last polls before the election.
By the way, this is exactly right.
The very last polls before the election, when pollsters try to salvage their reputation, that's when you pay attention to polls.
It's just like I said, the public policy polling poll out of Ohio today that shows Obama at 50% doesn't mean anything.
Nobody's going to go back and cite this poll as to whether or not PPP had any idea what they were doing or any credibility.
Same thing with Rasmussen, saying with Gallup, Reuters, you name it.
They're going to look at the polls in the last week to two before the election.
And that's when you get accurate ones.
That's when we'll know.
Up until then, we know these polls are all conducted by people who want Obama re-elected, who want the Obama agenda.
They don't even know what it is.
How long do you think this country has as a let me ask you this?
How long does this country have if Obama wins?
We are headed toward an economic collapse.
And we're we are the leader of the world.
When it happens to us, there are reverberations all over the world.
It's not like some podunk little European country collapsing.
That goes to another relatively podunk European country for a bailout.
When we collapse, worldwide reverberation.
How long is it going to take?
I'm asking a serious question.
18 months.
You throw Obamacare onto what we know we're going to get more of from Obama.
More debt, more spending, the expansion of the welfare state, more people under how long can this go on?
How many of you think we're at the tipping point now?
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
The years are 2020, 2022, 2024, as to when they implode.
How long do we have if this guy wins?
And then what happens?
If this guy wins, do you realize was I saw Matthews?
Matthews was saying, I don't know when Friday, Saturday on PMSNBC.
If Obama wins, that's the end of conservatism.
Nope.
If Obama wins, I mean, say what's the end of the Republican Party.
And there's going to be a third party that's going to be oriented toward conservatism, no Rand Paul thinks libertarianism.
And I know if if if Obama wins, the Republican Party is going to try to maneuver things so conservatives get blamed.
The only problem is right now Romney's not running a conservative campaign.
But they're going to set it up.
Well, the right sat home or the right made Romney be other than who he is.
They'll try to deflect the blame.
But they got who they want.
Just how but how long do we have, folks?
If Obama wins, how long do we have?
I know people who think 18 months.
18 months before a real United States economic collapse.
That the Fed can't do anything about.
That the ChICOMs can't do anything about.
Two years, four year, whatever.
Point is that's what's on the other side of Obama winning, because he's not going to change anything.
Brief timeout, obscene profit timeout.
We'll be back after this.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple postpones the new iPhone announcement on Wednesday after what happened yesterday.
Obama was in Port St. Lucy.
Get this now.
This is Mr. Hip.
This is Mr. Cool.
Obama needed to make a phone call.
Somebody threw him their iPhone.
He was clueless.
He had no idea what to do with it.
He didn't know where to find the phone app, and then he couldn't find the keyboard to dial, the keypad.
This is Mr. Hip.
Let that be a Republican president.
You had the same kind of story about George H. W. Bush supposedly not knowing what a supermarket scanner was.
It took two iPhones and two attempts for Obama to figure it out.
Mr. Hip, Mr. Cool, Mr. Smarter, and everybody else.
And he said as a as a way of making an excuse.
Well, yeah, I use BlackBerry.
Oh, you mean the bunch that's just barely in business?
Because of the iPhone.
I don't think it's an insignificant thing.
And of course the Apple guys seeing this.
Oh my God, the president can't figure out our phone.
Maybe we should postpone the new one until he gets up to speed.
On the current one, didn't know how to use an iPhone.
He never, and he still didn't get through on his call.
He's sitting there, he's he still was not able to make that Port St. Lucy.
It may be something about Port St. Lucy.
That's the place.
Or if they're out of chicken McNuggets, they call the White House.
I have no idea what he was calling about.
You know, he was he was here at West Palm Beach yesterday, right?
City place, like four miles.
Four miles from my fashionable oceanside estate.
Can I ask another question for a what why is Obama here in Palm Beach County?
What's the voter?
What's Democrat registration of Palm Beach County?
70%?
60%.
So what's he doing here?
What's he do?
What's he doing here?
Palm Beach County is the last place he ought to be spending any time in Florida.
What's he doing here?
What's he doing in Boca?
What's he doing in Fort Pierce and all these places?
What's he doing there?
Well, maybe unless he's unless he's here raising money.
There's also a significant Jewish population here in Palm Beach County.
So why is he here?
He ought to have this place in the I own it column without ever having to come here.
And yet here he was.
And I saw a story sent to me yesterday.
Guess what state's in play?
They thought it's locked stock and barrel for Obama.
New Mexico.
New Mexico is in play.
That wasn't supposed to happen.
So he had to be here to raise money.
That had to be what he was doing here.
Now I'm not aware of any fundraising stops that he made.
Not to say that he didn't make any.
But if he's here in Palm Beach County, Floride, to uh shore up support, then that's quite telling.
Because if there is a blue county in this country, it's this one.
Why do I always end up living in these places?
I live in Sacramento.
The voter registration there was 80% when I got there.
It was 60% when I left.
Palm Beach, the island Democrat?
I'd have to say it is, yeah.
I say Palm Bates a Democrat.
it's a toss up 50-50.
It doesn't matter.
How can all those rich people be in Hollywood be Democrats?
You tell me.
I don't understand.
Well, I do understand.
But anyway, um, I don't know why.
I always end up living in these blue places.
Well, they do leave me alone.
It's a good point.
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