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Sept. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 23, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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I've got Fox on here as well as seeing oh.
Speaking of which, have you heard what Trump said?
Trump said to hell with Fox.
He's not going on Fox anymore.
I don't know what happened.
Trump said, let me find it over here.
I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.
Now I don't know how far in the future you can see, but however far Trump can see, that's how far out he's not gonna do Fox anymore.
I don't know what happened.
Well, maybe I do.
Maybe Fox is harping on there's a poll that shows Trump is losing Gray's.
Not he's still in the lead, but he lost some ground.
There's just one poll that shows that.
And maybe Fox has some people harping on it, and he's he's ticked off about it.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone 800 282, 2882, the phone number if you want to be on the program.
And if you're on hold, stay there.
I'm gonna be getting to phone calls as quickly as I can.
We got a great roster of people waiting to speak.
And the Hillary Clinton news.
Now we've we some some some engineers or somebody have said that they indeed found Hillary work related emails from that server.
You know, this story, it's a roller coaster.
Or a Ferris wheel.
I don't know, but you I don't know from day to day, I don't know where we are on this story.
And and and on days like this where it's looking bad, we get an accompanying stories about Biden.
And we now have stories about Biden about how he's looking stronger in the polls, and he's thinking about getting into this now.
And that changes each and every day.
It's the essence of fluid, if you will.
Now, before we get back to Pope soundbites here from the greeting ceremony this morning.
This uh situation at Volkswagen, do you know Volkswagen certainly?
Do you know that Volkswagen owns portion now?
You didn't know that.
They they own a lot of brands.
They are the biggest car maker in the world.
And it's not just I have all the details here from our official climatologist.
Uh Roy Spencer.
It's not just that the CEO lied or the company lied about emissions in some of their diesel vehicles.
It's more than that.
They actually purposely programmed these cars to run differently when the computer sensed a routine emissions test was being done so that it would pass.
Folks, that is an engineering feat.
That is stunning that they were able to do that.
They were able to program those cars so that they knew when they were being tested, and thus the cars ran differently, and i.e.
were within limits.
When they're being that is a that's worth an invite to the White House if you I mean for Crangell, if you can copy a clock that's made by Radio Shack and impress Obama with that and get an invite to the White House, surely these engineers at Volkswagen would rate one.
You realize maybe Apple will hire these guys.
This is something they could do with iPhones, and this is amazing here.
Seriously, program the cars to run differently when the computer, the onboard car computer realized that an emissions test was being done.
So that it was in limited.
I mean, that's that's worse than inadvertent errors.
That's a purposeful effort to cheat.
The climate, to cheat the planet, to cheat the environment.
And of course, that then offends Obama and now the Pope.
Volkswagen, wouldn't you know?
Wouldn't you know?
Martin Wintercorn is the Volkswagen CEO.
Okay.
Also mentioned this.
Los Angeles.
This is the LA Times.
Los Angeles to declare state of emergency on homelessness and commit 100 million dollars to it.
Los Angeles elected leaders, As opposed to the unelected leaders announced yesterday that they will declare a state of emergency on the growing homelessness problem in the city and commit 100 million dollars toward housing and other services for homeless people.
I know.
I mean, what there's all kinds of lines here.
Just waving.
Why don't they disguise themselves as immigrants?
Why don't they go get, you know, pitch their tent or their shopping cart wherever near the border?
Like they're immigrants.
The proposal, which was presented at a City Hall press conference attended by city council members and Major Eric or Mayor Eric Garcetti, coincides with a Garcetti administration proposal issued late Monday that aims to free up nearly $13 million in newly anticipated excess tax revenue for short-term housing initiative.
What is this excess tax revenue?
Newly anticipated.
That tells me they don't have it yet.
That tells me they are anticipating collecting more tax revenue than they thought, but that they don't have it yet.
But it doesn't matter because they're going to commit this.
Now, what stuns me about this are two things.
How does this happen in a city that is run by compassionate, caring, concerned, and high taxing leftists?
Furthermore, not just the city in a state run by compassionate concerned, big spender, high taxing leftists.
How does this happen?
Why isn't California a utopia?
You can't blame the Republicans.
They aren't even a factor.
The Republicans can't mount enough votes to even get noticed on anything, much less stop something.
No, no, no, folks, I'm not asking rhetorical question.
I'm damn serious here.
How does this happen?
You've got a perfectly run city by liberals, you've got a liberal Hollywood, you've got liberalism running that town, and all the supposed benefits of it.
Compassion and caring and concern and anti-discrimination, whatever it is that comes under that umbrella, how in the hell can you have a record number of homeless?
And it furthermore, see, I only thought homelessness happened with Republican presidents.
And furthermore, I thought it only got reported with Republican presidents.
What's the LA Times even doing reporting this?
I know, I know it's a rhetorical, it's it's so bad they can't ignore it.
It is bad.
It's it's it's it's closing, causing the closure of emergency rooms along with illegal hospitals can't stay in business.
You know, federal law, you've got to be treated when you show up in the emergency room.
You know how many hospitals have closed in Southern California alone in the last number of years because of illegal immigrants and non-payers visiting the emergency.
They can't afford it anymore.
Liberalism can't be afforded, period, but it doesn't mean they don't give up trying.
But how can this situation even exist?
How can there be a record number of homeless?
Why is a hundred million dollars needed when you've got people that believe in utopia running the place?
And why are they doing this now?
Seriously, why why why now?
Why all of a sudden do they profess this massive concern about the homeless?
Well, if you read deeply enough into this story, you will find the answer to that question.
And it is a quote from a man named Sedillo.
And his name is uh what is his name?
His first name, Sadio.
Sadio.
Oh, I can't here it is.
Councilman Gilbert Sadio says it's not a skid row problem.
It's a problem that's proliferated throughout the city.
If we want to be a great city that hosts the Olympics and shows itself off to the world, we shouldn't have 50,000 homeless people sleeping on the streets.
And there is your answer.
They're gonna bid for an upcoming Olympics, and they know they're not gonna get it if they're 50,000 homeless people on the streets.
You know, you people don't need to do all this.
You need to take lessons from New York City in 1992.
They had the same problem.
I was there.
I saw it happen.
You know what they did?
They simply bust the homeless down to the Battery Park area for the week the Democrat convention was in town.
There was no way the homeless are going to be able to walk back up the Madison Square Garden in that period of time.
They didn't have to spend any more money, they didn't build any more housing, they just shifted them.
They just moved them from the garden down to the Battery Park area, Wall Street and so forth.
Right.
That's right, that's right.
That's right.
It was General Dinkins, Mayor Dinkins, General and Mayor for Life, David Denkins, they just swept them up.
Because they knew that C-SPAN cameras and network cameras were going to be there.
But seriously, no folks, at all, oh, oh, uh, attempted humor aside.
How does this happen?
How do you have during the Obama administration a Democrat run city, a Democrat run state for decades?
How do you have this homeless problem?
Aren't they the ones that know how to solve these?
Aren't they the people record tax revenues collected in California?
Why do they have this problem still?
You know, conservatism is the answer to this, and conservatism can answer the questions I'm asking.
They're not addressing the problem.
They never have addressed the problem, and they're incapable of addressing the problem.
You know why?
Because the problem, the actual solution to poverty and homelessness is not found in liberalism.
It's found in conservatism.
It's found in economic growth.
It's found in capitalism.
It's found in self-reliance.
It's found in self-help.
You're going to have a much greater success rate if you teach people how to get out of poverty, if you motivate them to get out of it rather than promise you're going to take care of them because you can't, and you end up with empty promises and circumstances like this.
At the end of it all, you still have the homeless and you still have the problems, but liberals get all the credit for having great intentions and big hearts.
And the people who are trying to help are worse off than ever.
But you're not supposed to point that out.
Yes, sir, Bob Rush Limbaugh talent on lawn from God.
Here is uh Danell, it looks that's Daniel.
And Daniel in Salisbury, Maryland.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It is an honor to speak with you today.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that very much.
Same here.
Thank you.
I had a point I wanted to make that with all this Pope hullabaloo going on around the country and seeing it all over the news everywhere you turn or listen.
It's interesting how the left always wants to remove God from government, you know, a separation of church and state.
You can't say God in schools or in government buildings.
That is until the Pope comes.
And then they're all showering him with praise and love and adoration and trying to use him to push their political agenda.
So we're in the reparation of church and state this week.
So how do you explain it?
I'm at a loss.
I was hoping you could let me know.
I'll be glad to.
I'll be glad to.
We've already actually done so.
You are exactly right.
This is, I made the point yesterday, and I put it a little stronger to lingo than you just did.
Day to day, normal day, Democrat Party holds religious people in contempt.
Particularly evangelical Christians.
They hold them in contempt.
Evangelical Christians are considered pro-life and gun kooks.
They are considered the bitter clingers.
Evangelical Christians, moral majority, they're a bunch of no-fun nerds judging everybody, telling them what they can't do, and disapproving of the things that they do.
And the left hates them.
as a deep contempt for them.
The Catholic Church is close second.
And if you doubt...
I know a lot of people, how can you say this?
Folks, I'm not saying it to rile anybody up.
I wish it weren't the case.
I wish none of what's happening today was happening.
I wish the last seven years hadn't happened.
I really do.
But they are happening.
And what I'm telling you has happened.
This administration has targeted for humiliation, the Catholic Church throughout the entire Obamacare saga.
Parts of Obamacare are designed to weaken the Catholic Church.
To force upon the American people behaviors that are in direct violation of catechism.
Abortion, contraception, you name it.
A lot of this stuff is a direct attack on the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church epitomizes the group that the left reviles this moralistic, we're right, you're wrong.
We have the answer, you are a sinner kind of entity, and they hate it.
They don't want to be judged.
That's why, folks, I'm telling you, this stuff matters.
These two stories I found in the drive-by media today, that's not accidental.
Salon article putting a friendly spin on pedophilia.
I mean, that's it's a pedophile writing.
What a great guy he is.
Don't get mad at me for being a pedophile.
I'm a nice guy.
Pedophilia's got its attributes.
And then there's casual sex with your friend's old boyfriend, isn't always a bad thing.
Just two examples of defining cultural rot down.
It's not accidental, it's happening now.
The point of the matter is uh I I think I think gay marriage is inspired in many sectors by anti-Catholicism and anti-Christianity.
There's no question about it.
So your question, well, given all that, what in the world is a Pope being celebrated for?
Put two and two together.
This Pope is not perceived to be like elements of the church that the left doesn't like.
He's seen as a fellow traveler.
He's right on the money.
Climate change, integration, Cuba.
Why, this Pope can come over here and give Obama gravitas.
He's the most popular man in the world.
Take a look at any poll.
The Pope, any Pope is the most popular man in the world at the time he serves.
Even Obama has enough strategic sense to recognize the opportunity he's got here.
So the short answer to your question is Obama is not comminggling church and state here.
As far as Obama's concerned, there isn't any church here.
He's got a fellow ideological soulmate.
And they're on the same page, and his presence and his popularity help Obama advance his agenda.
That's why.
Now, you just if it's hypocrisy.
It's profoundly hypocritical.
But the left gets away with hypocrisy all the time.
You'll never catch them on it.
I mean, you'll catch them on it.
It'll never, it'll never come back and bite them.
Because the left doesn't have any standards to be measured against anyway.
When you get right down to it.
So, Daniel, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Ray Livermore, California, great to have you.
It's another place liberals hate because this is where the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is where Edward Teller worked.
You know, Edward Teller, father of the bomb.
You got it, brother Rod.
Exactly right, I got it.
I know I met Edward Teller, by the way.
I was surprised he was a listener too.
Anyway, what's up, Ray?
What's happening?
Uh a mega uh peaceful clockmaker ditto to you, Russ.
Thank you, sir.
And um in your opening segment, you were talking about Hillary Clinton taking donations from parties and now taking political positions, it would be against those very people that she took money from.
Right.
And I would contend that she's gone to the Jesse Unruh School of Politics, and you you were in Sacramento for a while.
You've probably heard this name, and even this quote.
Um Jesse Unru once said that if you can't drink their whiskey, sleep with their hookers, take their money, and still vote against them, you don't belong In politics.
That's right.
That's right.
If you can't drink their whiskey, sleep with their hookers, take their money and still vote against them, you don't belong in politics.
Sounds like Hillary Clinton is ready for the job.
Jesse.
Yeah.
For the Democrat side of things, exactly right.
Yeah.
Jesse Unru.
It was it's U N R U H. Willie Brown always pronounced his name UNRWA.
But Jesse Unreal was a god in leftist politics.
He's also the creator of the phrase, money is the mother's milk of politics.
Same guy.
You got your you're on to something there, Ray.
Hillary has learned well.
Anyway, these people gave her money and she's now stiffing them.
And she's probably saying, where else are they gonna go?
They clearly aren't gonna give any money to Trump.
You people watching on the dental cam can see the smoke wafting away here.
It's a great one o'clock cigar going on.
I just have to tell you.
And we're back in the cutting edge of societal evolution.
By the way, CNN just had a um a graphic, a banner at the bottom of the screen, which said House Democrats urge Pope to speak out on issues.
See, there's no concern here over a religious figure in the country chatting with Obama about their mutual beliefs.
No problem whatsoever.
There's no problem with separation of church and state.
And do not doubt me when I tell you that the mainstream of the Democrat Party holds evangelical Christianity in contempt.
It is one of their primary motivating beliefs.
And in fact, I I believe that the popularity of Democrat politicians is directly related to how successful they are opposing and defeating anything to do with evangelical Christianity.
And that could be anything from morality issues to uh right and wrong issues to uh cultural issues.
And it is why I maintain that the mainstream of the Democrat Party considers uh conservatives and Republicans and Christians to be a greater threat than any foreign enemy is and that's what makes their embrace uh Pope Francis all the more remarkable.
You know, other popes visited the United States.
You know, you know when the first Pope came here?
Little trivia question?
You know what year the first Pope ever to come to the United States was?
It'll shock you.
1965.
Is that kind of surprised?
The first time a Pope ever visited the U.S. was 1965.
I think I I I'm having a middle block on which Pope it was.
I want to say Paul the Sixth, but I don't think that's right.
It may be.
Usually, even when I think I'm wrong, I'm right.
Uh even when I tell jokes about what the Democrats are gonna do, I eventually be proven to be a seer.
Come true.
Here's Scott San Clemente, California.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Scott, are you there?
Long time listener, second generation caller.
Um, for those of you in Rio Linda San Clemente is uh just south of you guys, not too far.
Um Rush, uh I grew up listening to your program, and I have to admit I had absolute disdain, absolute loathing, I could not stand anything that came out of those speakers.
Um, you didn't catch me before I went away to college to properly fill my mind full of mush.
And it wasn't until you know I got out of college and realized that I really didn't have anything to offer and only took a bunch of general electives that were kind of imposed by you know The state institution.
Um, and I was now in my my profession that I'm in now and that works under mobile homes.
Well, I work under mobile homes.
And we would have your program on, and it was syndicated after a popular uh station in in Los Angeles, and I didn't have the ability to turn it off.
And eventually um you resonated with me.
And the point of my call is that I'm finding what you say and what Donald Trump and Ben Carson are doing as is very synonymous in that you stand by your guns.
And I when I tuned in yesterday and I learned that Ben Carson was doubling down about you know, a Muslim being president, and basically he just wanted to make sure they were gonna adhere to the principles of the Constitution.
I was elated, and it was to me it was no different than what Trump's doing, and the fact that he's doing it and there's voices like you and Donald Trump, it's not that they're partisan, and the reason I think Donald Trump is resonating is that he's not he's not political, you know.
I mean, yes, he's political, but he is built into institution and he's willing to call it the way it is, and that's what people want.
He doesn't come across as a politician when he is doing politics.
Correct.
I mean he's in the political arena, he's running for office, so he's in the he's in politics, but you're right, he does not sound like in any way, shape, matter, or form a politician.
You don't when when Trump speaks, you don't ask, okay, what's he really trying to pull here, or what's he really saying, or what's he not saying?
It's right out there.
You hear what he's saying, and you you you have no doubt about it.
And so there's no attempt at subterfuge or uh say one thing and mean another.
Uh so it's it's just right out in the open.
And that's that is why I think a lot of people are gloming onto this, because it's perceived as real, genuine.
And and the other point you were prefacing in terms of the Los Angeles combating the you know, the homeless issue, that's exactly what I found.
I was in in an institution, a college institution, and I I was a complete liberal, man.
I mean, I uh I believe nothing but what they fed to me.
And only until I got out in the real world did I find that conservatism is the true practice method, and if you want to ever make something happen in your life, you gotta get down and do it yourself.
Nobody's gonna do it for you.
And so, amen, brother.
Well, that's awfully uh that's heartwarming.
This is a this is a great call.
Can I ask you a s uh a question before you go?
Please.
I'm genuinely interested in this.
I I uh I do not think of myself, and nor does anybody who knows me think of me as hateful in any way, quite the opposite.
Yet you admitted that in the early days of listening to me, you loathed what you were hearing.
And I'm curious how that manifested.
I mean, what was it that you hated?
What was the thing that got what got you so worked up?
Well, honestly, it was my mom's disdain.
So I think it was her voice that that was w you know outweighed kind of what your message was.
And then until it was just you, me and you, and I heard your voice talking directly to me, was it that, oh my gosh, this guy makes sense.
Uh so there was no filter prejudging me or or characterizing me before you listen, so I get it.
Okay.
Well, that's helpful.
I I appreciate that.
So you're in San Clemente.
Now, how old are you?
Thirty-three.
Thirty-three.
Well, all of them.
I can explain why the millennial generation is so embittered too, but that's for another discussion.
Uh well, no, give that a shot.
I'm I I'm fascinated in the millennial generation.
Uh and just as they're fascinated in themselves.
And no, exactly.
And and so I I I believe that we were sold a myth, and our parents didn't know any better, and you know, I come from the baby boom generation.
And they did.
They truly wanted the best for us, and so that's precisely why they made such an aggressive and fervent push for us to attend higher institutions of learning.
And we really thought that we were gearing ourselves, us millennials, I'm talking about, to just come out into the world with nothing but success.
And we have found that that is not the way it is.
And so we think that we were so entitled to everything and that we were gonna have such abundance at our feet and so many opportunities that now we realize that is nothing but a fabricated.
did you think that because that's how your parents prepared you or did you just think that that's what your education was guaranteed to provide you, or was it what the were you told that this was what the the the country was obligated to do for you?
What why because that's that's a much starker difference.
What when I was coming out of well, I didn't go to college, when I was that age that you're talking about here, I didn't think anything was guaranteed to me.
I didn't think anybody was gonna give me, and I didn't want them to.
Uh my my whole attitude was that I was gonna have to earn everything that I wanted to spend.
And then some.
So where did that come from?
If in your opinion, where did this because it's a it's a generational attitudinal thing.
Where did this this this almost immediate gratification expectation come from for millennials?
You I think I I mean uh we saw generations of success.
You know, we we saw, okay, I saw my grandmother, you know, and she was a dissent both of them from World War II.
There was not there was not a guaranteed success, and they can ended up being very wealthy and did very well, one of them.
And but that was never indicative of you know anything that was going to come to to us.
But I guess what I'm saying is that it was sold that the idea of education and somehow a degree was gonna empower you to be better.
And so and and I have I'm an English major, but I went into my parents' construction business, and I I mean, and so uh but I'm making it happen.
I think that's not I think I think you're exactly right.
I think college degree was so promoted, so hammered, so built up that it almost was heard by your generation as a guarantee.
Get this and the world is your oyster, just because you got that.
And I can understand that.
The way we sell education in this country, and the way we sell and promote college, which is itself a profit center, make no mistake about it.
Um that that makes that makes total sense to me.
See, in my generation, honest I'll tell you the honest to God truth here, Scott.
For me and and my friends from where I grew up in the in the uh the Midwest, in the center of the country, there was no expectation of anything.
And in fact, our reality was that we weren't going to really succeed and make anything of ourselves but until we hit 40, that it took that much time and that much hard work to establish yourself as being worth whatever somebody would pay you that you would require or define as as fair and a good life.
There was no my generation had no such expectations like yours did.
Whether we went to college or not.
Now, our generation was told we didn't have a chance if we didn't go to college, but we were not told that college guaranteed anything.
We were simply told not going doomed us.
And of course, old Rush said, well, watch me, screw you.
I don't want to do that.
But uh my dad thought he was a failure as a father for most of his life.
Um simply because he couldn't convince me to go to college.
But none of us uh expected that to automatically mean any it would it might meant a a good interview, but it we were under no illusions that the kind of success you expected with your degree was just at some point gonna be handed.
And I uh nothing I'm not saying that there's anything great about us compared to you.
I'm just chronicling or cataloging the differences for you.
I remember when I was in Sacramento, and I it was actually my second house that I bought, because I don't count the first house because it was a shack, and I had no business buying it anyway.
I did I did it because everybody said it's the best investment in the smartest.
I had no business.
I didn't I didn't make enough money to be owning a house.
But Sacramento was my first real homeowner.
I remember sitting at a uh at a bar at an old restaurant called Mac's and with a guy that built homes that was his, he was the developer.
And uh see, so this would have been 1987, so 51.
Some 30, what, 36 years old?
361, 80, yeah.
And he says, you know, Rush.
You know, I'm I'm I'm saying to tell you how excited I am by this first house, and says, This house, you're gonna be looking at this house someday as a shack.
You know, they don't let you make any money, Rush, until you're 40.
And this was a guy who was old enough to be my dad, and he was in his mind, he was not condemning anything that this is the way that society worked.
This is you had to work.
There were exceptions to this, but you had to spend enough time doing things well in order to get noticed and earn.
And then I think your generation, these dot-com guys come out, and there were instant millionaires, the Twitter guys, you see examples of that, and you think what they're telling you your degree is is automatic.
So you had some illusions that that you had to deal with too.
It wasn't all uh faux pas.
Anyway, I gotta run.
I'm way over time.
Scott, I appreciate it.
We'll be back with more after this.
No.
I was right.
It was Pope Paul the Sixth, and it was uh October 4th, 1965.
The first ill papa to ever set foot in the United States.
You forget how long Christianity's been around, the Catholic Church and the well, U.S. has been around two hundred or some odd years for that to be the case.
That that shocked me.
I don't know why it did, but um it just did.
Anyway, back to the audio sound bites.
You thought I lost my place, but we haven't back now to Pope Francis.
When we last left the audio sound bites, Pope Francis had just agreed with President Obama uh that uh he was a family of immigrants, came from a family of immigrants, and he was a guest in a country of immigrants, and so uh we all need to be immigrants and we need to love immigrants and welcome immigrants and because families' families have been built by immigrants and essentially Pope was saying I'm in.
And here's the next Pope bite.
Mr. President.
Together with their fellow citizens, American Catholics, I committed to building a society which is truly tolerant at inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities.
And to rejecting every form of injustice discrimination.
There we have it.
Right on.
Discrimination album and added to the uh uh immigration agenda.
Uh you might be saying why does why is the Democrat Party oppose this most of the time?
And here's the guy, Mr. President, American Catholics committed to building a society truly tolerant and inclusive, safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, rejecting every form of injustice, discrimination, and so on.
Uh this is not, those are not, I'll leave it to me.
Those are not the things the Democrat Party associates with Christians.
If they were, you wouldn't have this enmity that the Democrats have for Christians.
Evangelical.
Look, not all you mainstream Democrats, I realize many of you are Chris.
I'm talking about the far left wing, the the the leftist leadership, embodied by people like Obama, the community organizers, and those guys.
Um you know it as well as I do that there is a contempt for mainstream Christianity at the extreme margins, and I don't think it's extreme.
I think it's it's it's pretty much mainstream now on the American left and the Democrat Party.
Now I don't have time to get it in, but the next Pope bite, Al Gore could have said it.
It's about global warming.
That's coming up.
Don't go away.
Again, Pope Francis uh said on the uh on Shepherd 1, the jet that flew him from Cuba to Joint Base Andrews yesterday that he's not a liberal.
He's not a leftish, lefty, or whatever.
And uh we have a couple more Pope sound bites, and we'll get to others.
And of course, more of your phone calls coming up, other things happening in the news out there despite all of this.
So sit tight.
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