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Nov. 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Now, what I'm going to start with today is not the most important aspect of what's going on today.
It's a factor, but it is interesting politics.
And it is evidence, once again, why you can totally trust that which I predict, that which I tell you, you can totally trust my instincts, because I use intelligence guided by experience.
Great to have you, folks.
The EIB Network, the one and only, and the Rush Limbaugh program here at 800-282-2882 in the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
When this news of the ISIS attack in Paris hit on Friday, Monday of this week was our first day, obviously, to discuss it.
One of the things that I said early on in the discussion on Monday of the activities in France over the weekend.
I said, you watch this attack.
There will be many results.
I mean, there are many, many uh uh reactions to it.
But I said, one of the things that's going to happen is Trump is going to skyrocket in the polls.
And he has.
Now that's not the news.
The news is the drive-bys cannot believe it.
I got two examples.
Hill.com, Trump rises in wake of Paris attacks.
And they write this from a standpoint that they just don't get it.
They're infuriated.
They are puzzled.
There are people in both the Republican and Democrat establishments who still believe that this Trump campaign isn't real.
They think that he's going to quit at some point, that at some point he's going to have gotten his jollies.
He's going to have proved his point, whatever it is, and something's going to happen, and he's just going to wave goodbye and say he's on to something else.
I think that there is a sizable contingent, and particularly in the Republican Party, that actually believes it's going to happen.
I think the state of denial is still pretty high.
Not so much about Carson, but about Trump.
And I I think that they really believe that by the time we get to Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump is for some reason, and they don't know what it is, not going to be there.
They are telling themselves this because they hope it's the case.
There isn't any evidence of it.
They just they haven't accepted what is happening here.
And as such, the fact that the Paris event happens, and Trump skyrockets in the polls has baffled them yet again.
Trump's gains show him once again confounding beltway wisdom, where the widespread view was that such a grave event would lead voters to look toward White House candidates who are purportedly more mature and sophisticated than the erstwhile star of the apprentice.
That's how the that's how the Hill leads their story.
That is a perfect case of projection.
The Hill put their own opinion in your voice.
They assume that you would think and react exactly as they have.
And who are they?
They are the drive-by media inside the Beltway Washington establishment.
Trump's gains show him once again confounding Beltway wisdom, i.e.
us, where the widespread view was that such a grave event would lead voters to look toward candidates more mature and sophisticated.
So they're admitting that they and everybody else inside the beltway thought that you would look at this kind of an event and say, oh my God, we got to get rid of this Trump guy.
He's nowhere near serious.
He's nowhere near qualified to deal with it.
When the truth is, a majority of people in the polling sample think Trump's the only guy willing to deal with it.
That's the that's the size of the disconnect here.
Now, as I say, this is not the most important aspect of this at all, but it is a teachable moment because it illustrates just how out of touch the mainstream media and the Washington establishment are in terms of you and the American public and what You think and how you think.
They're clueless.
They also have this tendency to foist and project their opinion on you.
They think Trump's not up to snuff.
They think this is going to show that Trump's not qualified.
They've always thought that.
And they think at some point something like this is going to come along and convince you.
Because, see, they get it, and you don't.
You're dunderheads.
You're behind the curve.
They are ahead of the curve, and they're just waiting for you to finally figure out what Trump is that they already know, and that is essentially they think he's a fraud and a pretender and not real.
Meanwhile, the New York Times and the rest of the drive-bys have actually published articles claiming the ISIS attacks should help Hillary's campaign.
Would somebody tell me how in the world that that happened?
Once again, they're hoping that it helps Hillary's campaign, but gosh, if I can figure out how.
The news about Hillary today is that she's so offended at what comedians are saying about her at an LA comedy club that she, her campaign is actually sought the names and contact data for the comedians that are cracking jokes about her.
Hey, you millennials, are you hearing me on this?
Hillary Clinton is offended at the jokes being told, and she wants the names and contact data of the people offending her, so I assume that she can bully them or frighten them or pressure them into shutting up.
It sounds like the way things are happening on campus.
So don't be surprised if when a lot of millennial supporters of Hillary hear this news, they support her.
Don't be surprised.
I mean, you have to, you have to understand that's possible, given the attack on free speech on college campuses all over the country.
You know what the amazing thing about about the college campus attacks is?
All of these protests.
The amazing thing is not the students doing what they're doing.
Students are students, and they've always been students, and they've always been children.
No matter this group seems to be more immature than most.
The real story on campus is how every administration is caving.
Everyone.
Mazoo, the what McKenna, something other college, Dartmouth, Amherst, wherever, doesn't matter.
They're all caving to the demands of these students.
They're not even stopping to pause.
The whole point of a university, you know the thing about a university.
Everybody talks about how liberal it is and how wacko the things happen on universities are.
The curriculum, the comments, the protests the students make.
The deal's always been that people would tolerate that because the university was a place where all kinds of ideas would be bandied back and forth and exposed, debated, learned, so forth and so on.
And so the nut case aspect of major American universities was tolerated.
The wacko nutcase far-left radicalism on campus was tolerated because the campus was a place where all ideas reverberate and bounce around.
Well, that's not the case anymore.
There are no it there are no views other than these wacko radical leftist ideas.
You can't find a conservative professor who will admit it on very many of these major American institutions, higher institutions of learning.
And even those who would admit it, you can count them on one hand.
It's simply the university has betrayed what it always was.
It's not universities are not what everybody's always thought they were.
They're not citadels of learning.
They're not places where all kinds of different ideas bounce around and students grow and learn to think and learn to defend their positions and learn new opinions and make calculations and learn to write and express none of that's happening on campus because it's all been replaced by an indoctrination.
And concomitant with that is the administration caving every one of these places.
That's what's amazing to me.
Now, back to Trump.
It's not just the Hill.com.
As I say, it is the New York Times.
The rest of the drive-bys are publishing articles claiming these ISIS attacks should help Hillary's campaign.
And the reason is because of her record at the State Department.
I kid you not.
This is how out of touch these people are.
They really, really, really, really are out of touch with mainstream American thinking.
Not news to me, but it might be news to more and more people.
It's a combination of arrogance and condescension.
They just are unable, and they are intolerant of any views other than their own.
So in the playbook, in the manifesto, in the narrative, in the template, it is written that in it if there's a terror attack out there.
It has to benefit Hillary.
How can you say that after Ben Ghazi?
How can you say Hillary Clinton's been called on the carpet over Benghazi?
A lot more people paid attention to that than a drive-by media knows or wants to be aware of.
She doesn't have a sterling record as Secretary of State.
She certainly doesn't have an anti-terrorism record.
The thing she's on the record with, don't forget is her definition of smart power.
We must empathize with our opponents.
We must sit down and chat with them.
We may learn what it is that inspires them and motivates them.
And in this way we build a uh a bridge of commonality.
And in this way we reduce tensions and so forth.
Why isn't that working in Europe?
Europe has basically bent over and grabbed the ankles for I don't know how many years now, doing everything they can to show they're tolerant and accepting and what's happening.
They're being laughed at, and all of that tolerance is being exploited.
They're being laughed at.
Another example is Mara Lyon this last night's special report with Brett Baer, who said, Mara, how is this playing for Republicans?
Where do you think this race goes?
Has it completely turned after the Paris attacks?
There were a lot of predictions that the Paris attacks would be the tipping point that a lot of Republican establishment figures have been waiting for, meaning that the angry outsiders, Trump and Carson, would fade and Republican voters would kind of wake up and start looking for a more plausible commander in chief, someone who's not a good thing.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That just sounds almost exactly like what I read at the Hill.com.
Except Mara Lyerson doesn't work there.
Let me check something.
The Hill.com.
When did this thing well, I'm not sure.
It looks like I got it this morning, and Mara was on TV last night.
I don't know when the Hill.
I'm gonna have to click on the link and find out when this piece was posted at the Hill.
Re-Queue that, Mike, because this sounds like exactly what I just read to you from the Hill.com.
Trump's gains show him once again confounding Beltway wisdom where the widespread view was that such a grave event would lead voters to look toward uh candidates purportedly more mature and sophisticated than the erstwilde star of the apprentice.
Okay, that's the Hill.com.
Here's Mara Lyerson again from the top.
There were a lot of predictions that the Paris attacks would be the tipping point that a lot of Republican establishment figures have been waiting for, meaning that the angry outsiders, Trump and Carson, would fade and Republican voters would kind of wake up and start looking for a more plausible commander-in-chief, someone who had foreign policy experience and was vetted and experienced.
That hasn't happened.
Trump has gone up.
Trump gets really good marks on being tough enough to fight ISIS in these polls.
Bombing the expletive deleted out of ISIS seems to be a pretty appealing message to a lot of Republican-based voters.
So in that sense, this has followed the pattern of the Republican race so far, which is that conventional wisdom has been wrong at every turn.
Yeah, and you are one of the architects of it, but I mean, you notice how similar her report is to what we read from the Hill.com.
I'm not criticizing Mara Lyon.
Please don't send her a bunch of emails.
I'm just pointing something out here that they all think the same way.
Are they all either talk the same way or they read the same stuff, they go to the same clearinghouse for the approved drive-by media opinion on any particular story because it's uncanny.
Her reaction to this is identical to what the Hill dot com's was, and it is that Republican voters are finally going to wake up and realize Trump's totally wrong to deal with something like this.
He's not mature enough, he's not worldly enough.
That to me is just uncanny.
And then they minds are boggled when they find out that Trump would up.
But I, Mara, I need to tell you people something.
I need to remind all of you in the drive-by something.
And it was there for you to see because it was a drive-by media report.
I had it here on this program yesterday.
It was a dissection and analysis of the demographics of Trump's support.
And you know, she says here, he seems to have a pretty appealing message to a lot of Republican-based voters.
That may be, but it's not just Republican-based voters, Mara.
Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, that uh close to a majority of Trump's support is coming from blue collar voters.
That was the news yesterday.
Blue collar.
Now, when you hear the term blue collar, people automatically think union thug.
Or union employee, union worker or something.
As I said yesterday, I think blue collar has a new meaning today, and that is somebody who pays taxes.
So Trump's doing well among blue-collar people.
I don't think Mara Lyson and Drive by Media would ever associate the Republican base as blue collar to you.
No.
So they're not even up to speed on where Trump is getting his support.
They're not even because I don't think they have the ability to be honest with themselves.
They can't believe that anybody who would vote Democrat might support Trump.
Why?
Well, Trump's gauche.
You know, he's unsophisticated, and he's uh he's not part of the network, and uh he's not one of us.
And they just can't believe that somebody would vote for Obama or vote for Hillary would be lighting it up for Trump.
But Trump's support, the point is, is coming from across the spectrum.
It's not just whatever they think the Republican base is.
And his numbers are way up.
And I remember what I said Monday.
If he wants to own this campaign, he'll pick up this terrorism and run with it like he has on immigration.
And if he does, nobody will be able to stop him.
Now grab Soundbite 8, because Trump, I watched the video of this.
Trump is drawing crowds that they're not reporting on anymore.
These crowds are huge where he's going.
This was in Worcester, Massachusetts, last night at a campaign event, he got heckled.
Now, this guy, you watch this video, Trump is just, it looks like he's having more fun than I've ever seen anybody have on a campaign trail.
Ted Cruz looks like that too.
But Trump just stands up there and smirks.
You know, he just in total control.
He knows the audience is eating it up.
Listen to what happened here.
50 million people on food stamps.
And I'll tell you what, if we had a real, if we had a real hello, hello.
A heckler, a heckler.
They're throwing the heckler out here.
You know, it's it's amazing.
I mentioned food stamps, and that guy who seriously overweight went crazy.
He went crazy.
Amazing.
Amazing.
That's an amazing sight.
He owns it and they're eating it up, and we'll be back.
Okay, I may have to reverse things here because I just found out that the Hill.com piece.
Trump's games show him once again confounding Beltway wisdom, where the widespread view was that such a grave event would lead voters to look towards somebody more mature, sophisticated.
That was posted at 6 a.m.
So it might be these people are stealing from Mara, not the other way around.
See, that's why I didn't want you to sending Mara license a bunch of emails.
You don't ever have to do that, folks, by the way.
You know, I take pride in the fact that that we don't join the fray here and get any public campaigns of sending emails.
I mean, you feel free to do it if you want.
I that's the point.
It's up to you.
Um I just don't want anybody to think I'm ever encouraging it to happen.
Now I got can I tell you a funny story?
I was recently requested to appear on a television show, everybody would know.
And the host said, Look, I want to pre-tape it.
Because the last time you were on, whenever I asked you a question, I was inundated.
We got so many emails and people mad at me for interrupting you.
You're either going to have to shorten your answers, have to pre-tape this because I tell you, it was overwhelming.
We have clogged up our email box.
The audience, you people are so loyal, and you are so protective that whenever even I'm just asked a question that you think I'm being interrupted, you mob them with email.
This guy says, Can we pre-tape it so we can edit out any thing that looks like I'm interrupting you?
Doesn't matter who.
It just it's great for you people.
Look at his email I just got.
I am fascinated by the way people say, hey Rush, you know all these media people.
They're all over there in Paris.
How many of them do you think are having affairs with each other?
How would I know?
I'm amazed at what people think I might have my finger on pulse on pulse wise, right?
But how many of them are having affairs?
I hadn't thought about it, but now I am.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh 800-282-2882.
Speaking of uh of emails and so forth, we are being uh queried, shall I say, from a lot of people, very eager to hear if they won the sweepstakes that we did last week, the five-day trip for four people to the Hawaiian Islands, and uh that people are still holding out hope that they're gonna be the ones to receive the big call.
And we appreciate everybody who participated.
And we hope that you are enjoying your new Liberty Plush stuffed horse.
We have not yet called the winner.
Catherine and I will be calling the grand prize winner early next week.
And we can't wait, so you still have a chance.
Nobody's won yet, nobody's lost yet.
So you're still in the running.
If you haven't heard from us, you're still in the running.
We also we received, I have to tell you, the most amazing entries for the recent adventures of Rush Revere challenges.
I'm I'm some of these young kids, these Americans are so incredibly talented, the feedback that we get from them.
Uh people ask me all the time, how do you stay optimistic?
It's because of things like this, you know, reaching out, reaching young people, having them participate in this, learning American history.
Can I tell you something else?
We got the uh look, I don't want to spend too much time on this.
I just I have to say thanks again.
We got you know the latest rankings and sales figures for Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner.
And you know what happened?
The first book in the series.
The Brave Pilgrims has skyrocketed to near the top ten again.
And that book was the first in the series, and it's uh almost exactly two years old.
All four of these books continue to percolate crazily out there.
That's another reason why stay optimistic.
And these books unlock the imagination of young people.
I'm convinced that's why they love reading them so much.
They dream, they imagine, they're taken right to these events in history that we are attempting to teach them.
So it's very, very rewarding.
And uh one of the reasons I'm able to stay upbeat and positive.
Some days it's tough.
It really is.
I think right now, folks, I mentioned yesterday, and Drudge even linked to this.
Minding my own business last night at home, bothering nobody.
And I got a couple of emails.
Hey, you made Drudge tonight.
And that when this happens, I always try to think, okay, what was it before I go check and find out what it was.
I try to remember what it was I said that might possibly have intrigued Drudge or his editors enough over there.
And so I guessed right.
They linked to the segment yesterday in which made the point that it's now getting dangerous.
Obama's leadership and his attitude is really getting dangerous now.
And the fact that this man considers a domestic political party, the Republicans, a greater threat to him and to America than he considers terrorism.
I don't care if it's Al Qaeda or ISIS.
The man really comes alive.
As I said, he doesn't need a teleprompter, he doesn't need cue cards.
He doesn't need to rehearse.
When it comes time to bash Republicans and blame Republicans, it's right there in his heart.
It's at the forefront of his mind.
But the Republicans aren't doing anything.
The Republicans are not committing acts of terror.
It really we are.
The United States is uh is always a great nation at risk in a dangerous world, but it's it's a more precarious place we find ourselves now than I can ever recall because of the nature of our leadership, which is simply unwilling to accept reality.
And people are starting to, I think, put two and two together and get four now.
I uh I have a story in the stack here that Obama, when it comes to terrorism, I think this is legal insurrection, which is a great blog, it's a great credible blog.
Obama doesn't even listen to his national security and foreign policy people when it comes to terrorism.
He doesn't even read the briefs.
He doesn't want to talk to them about it.
Now it is speculated because he thinks he already knows.
He doesn't need to be told.
He knows what he thinks of terrorism, he knows who the terrorists are.
I would, upon hearing this, I think of it in a totally, totally different way.
I don't look at it that Obama's up to speed and knows who terrorists are and what terrorism is and therefore doesn't need to be briefed.
I don't I don't think he needs to be briefed.
I I just I don't understand.
No, I do, I do.
I'm I'm saying this for a fact.
It's dangerous when the president of the United States, in the midst of what Western civilization is facing, wants everybody to think that the biggest enemy around is the Republican Party.
A party which caves to practically everything he wants.
To boot.
But even if it was not caving, even if the party was not caving, the Republican Party isn't anywhere near.
I mean, it's it's it's it's it's absurd.
It's dangerous.
It's not all there.
And we have other items of evidence as the program unfolds.
Let me just start going through the stack here, because it's a it's a never-ending stack on all of this that relates to ISIS in Paris and Syrian refugees.
Politico has a story today that uh majority of Americans oppose Obama's plan to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States.
This is according to two brand new polls released today.
A Bloomberg politics poll of U.S. adults found that 53% say the president's plan should be halted.
11% would allow Syrian Christians only.
28% say the program should continue without religious screening.
So when you add it up, 64% say we should either ban Syrian refugees or only allow Christians.
I need to remind you of something.
There were two items leading the program yesterday, both historical in nature, both factual and both true, and I led off with them to counter popular narratives that are out there today.
Number one, it's not who we are to have religious tests when it comes to refugees.
That's not that's not who we are.
That's not American values.
I have to tell you something, just between us.
Psst, I mean, don't tell anybody that I said this.
But I I cringe when I hear Obama talk about American values because I don't recognize them.
I don't recognize the American.
He's and he's always invoking them.
This is not who we are.
This is not American values.
When I look at what he thinks American values are, I'm I guess I'm it's getting dangerous out there.
The fact is we do have religion as a factor, major factor in accepting refugees.
Religion is a major factor in vetting them.
It's federal statutory law, folks.
I cited it yesterday.
It has become and is always been a major factor.
In vetting, in for any number of reasons why we ask the religion.
It's not something that we have never done before.
We do it constantly, we always have.
The second item, just to repeat it, was that we have, during 1924 to 1965, there was no immigration.
And the reason we shut it down is because in the early 1900s there were acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated largely by groups that were then called anarchists.
They were led by people who had names.
They were imprisoned and they were doing, they were doing everything they could to undermine the public order.
Undermine the United States, United States government.
It's not unprecedented what is happening today.
All of the vetting, I mean, all of the vetting, all of the attempting to find out, are we letting terrorists into the country?
Are we letting anti-American people?
It's not unprecedented.
We've always done it.
Those were the two items I led with yesterday.
Obama's out there trying to make people think, listen, new depth.
We have plummed a new depth.
We've never been this low.
We're really uh we're not being true to our values.
It's a crock.
Just because we happen to be the best place on earth does not mean we have a responsibility to give it away.
We are not obligated to let everybody in.
That's not how we deal with it.
It cannot be the way we deal with it.
And we are now what's happening is we have so many people laden with so much guilt over the fact that we do it right.
So what's the solution?
The solution is not let every oppressed human being in the world into the United States.
That can't happen.
What we should do is export what makes us great.
But the left doesn't agree that that's what's made us great.
Freedom, that's an imposition to people.
Clearly, there's an unequal distribution of freedom in the world.
There's an unequal distribution of capitalism in the world.
There's an unequal distribution of entrepreneurism.
And the reason is pretty much every place in the world in terms of human history has been governed by tyrants, dictators, thugs, you name it.
That's what's so exceptional about the United States.
But the point is, we have certainly protected our borders.
We have certainly had tests over who can become citizens and who can't.
The American people are not extremists.
The American people, as represented in these two polls today, who oppose Obama, they are the sensible ones.
They are the rational ones.
It is Obama and supporters of his who just want to turn over every border and orifice and entryway into this country and say, come on in, whoever you are, particularly.
If you happen to be ill-educated, if you happen to be any number of negative characters, that's who we really want here.
Because those people are thought to be easy converts to the Democrat Party.
But it's again, it's not just the Bloomberg poll in NBC News survey.
Along with SurveyMonkey, online poll, U.S. adults, 56% of Americans disapprove of an increase in the number of Syrian refugees coming to America.
Forty-one percent approve.
I have to take a break.
I just looked at the clock.
Sit tight, my friends, much more straight ahead as there always is right after this.
Okay, I did this on purpose.
I knew it would work.
I just reminded people, knowing full well people listening today who may not have heard yesterday, that there always has been a religious test in terms of deciding which refugees are admitted, but I didn't explain it.
I just said I talked about it yesterday.
So my email is filled with snarky.
You didn't explain why the keys, you're making it up.
Everybody knows we've never had a religious test.
You just did this to everybody, everybody believes you and you just delighted them.
No, I purposely did not explain it.
Because I wanted to set all of you snarky malcontents up.
It's very simple.
When you apply for asylum in the United States, there are certain things that you have to be able to prove in order to be granted.
One of those is that you're fleeing a war or you're fleeing poverty.
Another is that you are fleeing religious persecution.
Well, we must ask you about your religion if we are going to document whether or not you are being religiously persecuted.
Most people cite religious persecution as reasons for fleeing their homeland.
That and war-torn strife or what have you, but the vast majority cite religious persecution because they think it's an automatic.
Well, how can we determine whether or not they actually are fleeing such persecution if we don't ask them what their religion is and where they're from?
So I'm just telling you, this whole notion of who and what these Syrian refugees are and what their religious beliefs are.
And they're being asked, it's not new.
We've always done it.
But if you listen to Obama and the Democrats and the drive-bys, they want you to believe we've become these new intolerant religious extremists, and that all we want is white Christians.
In fact, you've even got some elected Democrats running around saying that that like Baghdad Jim McDermott's out there.
Yeah, they're Republicans.
They just they just want white Christians in here.
That's all they want.
As though there's something wrong with white Christians, by the way.
And I guess if you're a liberal Democrat, there might be something wrong with white Christians.
I mean, that actually is the group of people you're fighting.
Liberal Democrats' number one enemy is white Christians.
It makes up the majority of the country.
The Republican base is largely that configuration, not only, but largely.
Anyway, grab a call in the first hour.
It's Bob in Grand Rapids, and I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Dear Camp Ditto's from West Michigan.
Thank you, sir.
Uh my point is, you know, you ever notice that liberals love to use government for what government cannot do?
They want to louse people of government, they want to feed people of government, they want the government to run the economy.
But yet, when the one thing the government can do, like the military, they take a pass on.
They seem that everything that they are focused on is what government fails at.
Well, you know, not only is that not only is that true, the everything the government botches, they praise, and everything the government does well, they criticize, i.e., the military.
Correct.
The military has always got something major wrong with it that the libs have to go in there and fix.
But you do you better not lay a hand on the welfare state.
You better not touch one aspect of it.
By the way, I I would disagree with you on one thing and one thing only, Bob.
I think that the federal government does a damn good job of feeding people.
I got 50 million people on food stamps.
And all they have to do is take a little debit card and go down there and buy some.
What do you call those little bugles, nacho cheese bugles and a six-pack, and you're set up for the rest of the afternoon.
Then maybe buy a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Federal government's got this down pat, if you ask me.
I mean, 94 million Americans are not working.
And they're all eating.
The federal government sure has found a way to pick your pocket and make all that happen.
Here it is again.
Let me read to you.
Section 1158 of the Title VIII U.S. Code.
Burden of Proof.
Letter I in general.
The burden of proof is on the applicant.
To establish that the applicant is a refugee within the meaning, and then it gives the description.
To establish that the applicant is a refugee within the meaning of such section, the applicant must establish that race, religion, nationality, blah, blah, blah, blah, was at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant.
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