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Dec. 18, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 18, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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So President Obama talked to Paul Ryan after the budget deal passed.
And you know what Obama said to Ryan?
Obama told him, quote, thanks for making government work.
I'm telling you that's what this is.
I will splain here again.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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Two hours remaining on open line Friday.
Open line Friday is where the people that call a program can branch out, talk about whatever they want to talk about.
I can ask tech questions.
I don't care how nervous it makes dawn.
If you have a tech question, your iPhone, your Mac, I don't care.
Ask it.
You can't go to any place better than here for that, I guarantee you.
Sports.
Speaking of sports, two things in sports today.
First, NFL headline, USA Today, why are fewer NFL players being arrested?
It's uh well, aside from the fact they're not trying.
Just a year after one of its biggest PR disasters ever, the NFL has reason to believe that its players have gotten the message.
NFL players have been arrested or charged with crimes only 35 times this year.
That's the lowest annual number on record since 2000.
Less than half of what the league had nine years ago, according to a database of player arrests and citations kept by USA Today Sports New category, player arrests.
The uh reduction here marks the first year of results since the NFL revised its personal conduct policy in response to a rash of high-profile domestic violence last year, including the Ray Rice incident, where he socked his wife in an Atlantic City elevator.
And then there's the we'll get into this in detail here.
That's not a snarky story.
It's they're not being snarky there.
You could interpret that as snark depending on your attitude, but they're actually praising the NFL for this.
Only.
Hang on just a second.
Next headline from the Daily Wire, ex-NBA star Gilbert Arenas, quote, nine out of ten women who cry sexism are ugly.
And of course we'll delve into this.
This is uh this is gonna need some explanation as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
What's the official program observer has a question?
What's the question?
What is a fusion drive?
Very good question.
You know, solid state drives are speedy, they're fast.
Flash storage is instant startup compared to hard drives that spin.
But it's very expensive.
So you can't, most people uh would not be able to afford to have a hard drive that's all solid state that's very big that would hold all of the data that they're gonna accrue, like pictures and things.
So a fusion drive is say one and a half terabytes of storage, but 30 50 gigabytes of it is solid state.
That's the part that starts up.
That's where the apps are, but none of the data.
The data is held on the rest of the fusion drive, which is the spinning traditional disk drive, but your startup data and all of the apps that you use would launch from the solid state drive.
That makes having a computer with a decent amount of storage and yet instant startup affordable.
And the fusion aspect is the software that's written because the drive, the solid state drive, it has uh uh various what whatever data is on that changes, it floats depending on how you use your computers.
If if if you use the mail app every day, that app's gonna be on the solid state portion all the time, and it'll stay there and have its reserve place.
If you use your browser every day all the time, it's gonna have a place there.
If you use your Photos app occasionally, it'll be there on the days it thinks you it'll be there when you need it.
That's the magic of the software.
But because it's all because it's expensive that, you know, a full terabyte of solid state storage.
Off the top of my head, if it could add $1,500 to the price of a computer, whereas a terabyte of standard old spinning disk drive storage is 150.
So you combine the two and you get the magic of the speed of startup, but much more storage capability when they haven't get external drives.
Now, I folks, uh Mike, I want you to grab somebody 22 and soundbite number three.
I want to do them side by side here.
Chuck Schumer and Bill Kristol.
This tweet that I have here that I have discovered that details what Obama said to Paul Ryan after the budget deal was done, confirms what I actually think is going on here.
Says Obama talk called Ryan and said, thanks for making government work.
Now, let me briefly go through all of the excuses that we are given for why this happened.
A well, we were up against a deadline, the clock was ticking, and man, they we just it was worse than Ryan knew the mess that Maynard left him and that clock was running out, and we had to deal with the cards that we were dealt, and we just had to rely on the same old way we've been doing this, and it's going to be different next time.
Except this is what we've been told every omnibus budget December for the last eight years.
It's fold or roll because everybody knows that the end of the year is December, and everybody knows that deadlines are pushed and pushed and pushed for exactly this reason.
You get closer to the deadline, there's a greater urgency to get things done.
The difference here is why is it the Democrats never have to play the cards they're dealt?
Why is it a clock is never ticking on the Democrats?
Why is it never the Democrats who have to compromise what they want in order for a deal to get done?
And especially now, the Democrats have fewer seats in the House than at any time since the Civil War, and yet they just got total victory.
Okay, in addition to everything else that I've said in the past two days about this, I think what's really going on here.
The Republican Party, if you listen to them.
Even now there are candidates for the Republican primary who are making the case that they are the ones who can cross the aisle and work with Democrats.
There are fewer of them, but you and I know well that the Republican Party seems to believe that it needs to expand.
It can't win with its current base.
There simply aren't enough Republicans to win.
So they have to broaden the base.
They don't like their base.
They don't like us.
They don't like conservatism for a host of reasons that you know and understand we need to repeat those.
The interesting thing is they think they need to broaden.
That's why they support amnesty.
They think they get more Hispanics.
They need but they think that they need to show they can make government work.
And that's why they have made a political calculation that as far as their own political fortunes are concerned, they're damaged much less by letting Democrats win big time on things like this, as opposed to shutting down the government.
The Republican Party has made it clear they're scared to death of the whole idea of even being accused of shutting down the government.
And at all costs, they have decided it's gonna stay open.
At all cost means whatever the Democrats want, they get.
The Republicans have thrown away the power of the purse.
The Republicans have thrown away their majority.
They have thrown away every obstacle that would normally be in the Democrats'way.
The power of the purse is big.
It all makes sense politically if you realize that the Republicans are doing here exactly what they've told us they think they have to do.
They think they have to cross the aisle and work with the Democrats.
They think that demonstrates to...
to Hispanics and independents and women and moderates that they can work with Democrats and that they can cooperate and that they can make government work and that they can be bipartisan.
And doing all of that dispels all of the bad branding they've got of racist, sexist, bigot homophobe.
So the Republicans have decided to heck with their own base.
They don't care about it.
They don't respect it, so they're gonna run the risk of losing it while they show non-Republican voters how great they are by giving the Democrats what they want, because that's how you keep government open.
By giving the Democrats what you want, that is how you cross the aisle and cooperate by giving the Democrats what they want, that is how you demonstrate you can make government work.
Chuck Schumer admitted it in the Politico yesterday.
Quote, Senator McConnell wants to see the Senate work, but the good news for Democrats is that to make it work, he has to basically do our agenda.
This is what the Republican leadership has calculated, folks.
In order to be seen as bipartisan, in order to be seen as cooperative, in order to be seen as not argumentative, as in order to be seen as noncombative, in order to be seen as bipartisan and able to make government work and keep it open, they have to basically do the Democrat agenda.
Because anything else is going to result in an accusation of shutting down the government.
Or not caring about the poor, or not caring about Planned Parenthood, or whatever.
The Republicans have made the calculation, they're sick and tired of these accusations.
And so in order to eliminate that and to broaden their base and to show how great they are at making government work, they are giving the Democrats their agenda.
For pointing this out, I have become the bad guy.
I'm the extremist, I'm the one out of touch, I'm the one that doesn't see what's going on as the country is being sold down the river.
When the Democrat agenda is implemented, you can say goodbye to whatever you think the United States of America was, and instead you wave hello to the new America that we are transforming to under Barack Hussein Oh.
Our last caller, David in Seattle.
This guy was the Bush Cheney chairman for King County.
Between 2000 and 2004, you can't get more straight and narrow Republican.
He was the Bush Cheney campaign chairman for King County Washington.
And he thinks it's over.
He thinks we've lost, and he thinks he's tracing this transformation of the Republicans, basically into Democrats or Democrat light.
He thinks it goes back to weapons of mass destruction and Iraq.
I think it traces back maybe to that, but that's when the first emigration battles began.
If you recall, it was between 2000 and 2004 that I had emissaries in the White House sent down here to talk to me to try to make me understand amnesty and how it wasn't amnesty.
But now, knowing all of this and knowing what the excuse were against the wall.
Well, time was running out.
Well, we didn't know how bad it was.
Well, we had to play the cards we were dealt.
Well, you know.
Side by side, here is Bill Kristol, C-SPAN's Washington Journal yesterday, reacting to one of the hosts there read from my transcripts from my website yesterday.
And he focused on this part when I said yesterday we don't even need a Republican Party if they're going to do this, just elect Democrats, disband the Republican Party, let the Democrats run it, because that's what's happening anyway.
Speaking of euphemistically, I mean, Realistically, nobody's going to get rid of the Republican Party.
I'm trying to illustrate how lost and gone and bye-bye the Republican Party is.
We may as well just elect Democrats because that's effectively what's happening.
The Republicans are implementing a Democrat agenda.
Bill Kristol reacted this way.
I don't like the omnibus spending bill.
I probably would vote against it if I uh were a member of Congress.
Having said that, it would be a lot worse if Nancy Pelosi controlled the House and Harry Reeve control of the Senate.
Let's not kid ourselves.
This does not make the case for Democratic control of Congress.
It doesn't make the case that Republican control doesn't matter.
But I do think this is the case.
And Paul Ryan sort of said this, that he sort of was stuck with where things were.
The clock was running out.
He felt he had to go with the way business has gone in the last few years.
Chuck Schumer yesterday reacting.
If you would have told me this year that we'd be standing here celebrating the passage of an omnibus bill with no poison pill riders at higher levels above sequester than even the president requested, I wouldn't have believed it.
But here we are.
This bill is a great victory for the principles Democrats stand for.
Barack Obama calls Paul Ryan and thanks him for making government work.
Schumer tells the politico, yeah, Mitch McConnell wants to see the Senate work, but the good news for us is that McConnell knows to make the Senate work, he has to basically do our agenda.
And over here, we've got establishment Republicans asked, hey, you know, it could have been worse.
I mean much worse if Pelosi and Reed were running a show.
Not according to Chuck Schumer.
You remember the Democrats just got more of what they wanted in one budget than they ever got with Pelosi and Reed.
That's what Schumer is saying.
And Patty Murray and Israel, that's what they can't believe.
They got more with a Republican speaker than they ever got with Pelosi running the joint.
And now an obscene profit timeout.
We'll come back and we'll do these two sports stories.
We'll change direction here.
We'll get back to your phone calls first.
Always do that open line Friday, so be patient.
It won't be long.
Here's John in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Back to the phones.
Open line Friday.
Great to have you, John.
Hi.
Rush, I love your show.
I always agree with you, and I voted for Obama.
It says here Bush.
Okay.
Sorry about that.
Bush.
It vote you voted for it says here, Bush?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I got a script here, Jim.
I got it.
I got you.
I understand.
It would be very, very nerve-wracking to appear on this program.
So you write down the basics and make sure you don't forget.
Yeah, I get it.
Yeah.
Hey, uh, I got a question for McConnell and uh my Republican leadership.
So we we can't defund Planned Parenthood because we don't have the presidency.
Okay.
I got that.
Cool.
But why can we defund the 2006 Security Fence Act?
You mean to build a wall?
Yeah.
So 2006 security was was for the 700 miles of secure double layer fence.
Right.
Um.
And Bush was president at that time.
Well, because they that that wall wasn't built because somebody forgot to design the door.
Well, but the argument my leadership, the people the smart people up in Washington that I send money to and I vote, they said, hey, look, you can't defund legislation when it's Planned Parenthood, when it's Obamacare, when it's all this other stuff.
Okay.
That's the argument.
I hear what you're saying.
No, no.
No, wait, that's not no, no, no, no.
It's you can't defund entitlements.
You certainly can defund legislation.
It's done all the time.
Defunding entitlements what's said to be impossible to do because that's basically taking Santa Claus away from people.
But defunding legislation.
Look, you're you're you got a great question here.
They said, oh, we can't defund Planned Parenthood.
No, no, no, we can't.
But they can easily take away the money to build a wall.
And you're asking what why?
If you got the guts to take money away from the wall, why don't you have the guts to take it away from Planned Parenthood?
And it comes down to a guts question.
And the answer is rooted in the new outreach that the Republican Party is engaged in.
They do not want to anger the Feminazis.
They don't want to anger the now gang.
They do not want to be accused of conducting a war on women.
So whatever the Democrat Party wants, where women's issues are concerned, the Republicans support.
Because in their minds, that's how you eliminate all the talk of the war on women.
The Democrats also don't want there to be a wall.
And most Hispanics vote for Democrats, the Republicans believe.
Therefore, to show the Hispanics that you don't hate them and that you don't intend them any ill will, and you want their families to be able to come here, you take away spending for the wall.
You send the message, hey, we're not what they say about us.
We like you as much as the Democrats do.
That's what's happening here.
The Democrat Party is engaged via legislation and budgeting.
They are engaged here in an ongoing outreach effort to expand their voter base.
And in the process, they are willing to throw away their current base for the new one they hope to get.
What is that?
What has Trump said about the budget?
Probably what I've said.
I mean, I'm the advisor, right?
Now Trump said he's ripped it.
I mean, it it he said that the Republicans threw in the towel on the budget deal.
He uh in dropped his statement on the budget shortly after the program yesterday, and it's it's exactly what you would expect any reasonable person to think of it.
And I just I just checked, folks, this budget contains more of what the Democrats want than Harry Reid and Pelosi ever provided.
This budget is more generous to the Democrats than anything that they've ever had from when the Democrats ran the show in in the in the modern era during the Obama years.
And they make the point here because the people are taking issue with me that uh it's as though Reed and Pelosi still run the show.
Oh no, no, there's a much different much different budget if Reed and Pelosi.
No, that this is bigger.
Obama got more of what he wanted from the Republican leadership than he's ever gotten from Reed and Pelosi.
Just in terms of dollars and and policies, paid for, doubled down, implemented, you name it.
It's abundantly clear.
This is not this is not Republican.
Well, there is some cowardice, but it's not what you think.
This this is not the Republicans caving by any stretch.
This is the Republicans reaching out to new voters.
Do not doubt me on this.
Here's uh here, Jason, San Angelo, Texas.
You know what the great thing about San Angelo is you've got to be going there to get there.
You will not you will not just run into this place.
So the the point is the only people in San Angelo are those who want to be there.
That's right.
Great to have you with us, Jason.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing?
I I have uh watched, I watched you on television as a kid because my dad made me.
And uh I've been listening, I got hooked to the young age and been there, been with you ever since.
Um you're right to my point.
Um there's two things that are coming out of Washington that make me livid, absolutely shaking mad, and that is that's not who we are, and we can't.
And if they actually knew who we were, they would never say we can't.
Because Americans from the from the inception of the country have always taken on adversity.
You know, head on and overcome.
You are so right.
That's that's why I cringe at these excuses that we heard.
Well, the clock was ticking, and there's nothing much else we could do.
How does the clock tick down when every year you've got 12 months to prepare for what's gonna happen in December?
Well, I mean, if I tell my boss the well, the clock was ticking, so I didn't get my wells treated today.
Would I have a job?
No.
These people need to be fired.
I have a different theory.
It's the same, maybe the same purpose.
Um there's a popular word they would understand.
They need to be defunded.
Whatever gets them to quit doing what they're doing is fine.
Well, I don't I see that's another thing.
I don't know if the current leadership's gonna change.
The current leadership is the change.
The current Republican leadership is the change away from what you've always thought the Republican Party was, which was an opposition to the Democrats Party or conservative leaning in any way, limited government, low taxes, individual liberty and freedom.
That's not that's it's not the majority of thinking it's there anymore.
They may say it is during campaign time, but you don't find any evidence.
I mean, any evidence of those beliefs in the budget.
What you find is excuses.
So no, you're you're uh you're and the I agree with you too on the this is not who we are.
This is not our values.
I just I I start boiling when I hear that.
Because Obama's values are not mine.
And I resent to all get out this assumption that liberal Democrat leftist values built and define this country.
No such thing is even close to the truth.
Liberal Democrat values undermine the America that was founded.
Liberal Democrat values are attempting to transform this country away from the values and the traditions and the institutions that were established at our founding.
Why do you think so many people are upset?
That's what's at stake here.
Stephen Appleton, Wisconsin, this is a little trivia for you.
This is where visiting teams stay when they go in to play the Green Bay Packers.
Steve, how are you, sir?
Great to have you on the program.
Very good, Russ.
Ditto's I have some very liberal Democratic friends, and they all seem to say the same thing that Republicans are just so stupid.
It's just so very easy for the Democrats to walk all over the Republicans.
They have absolutely no respect for the Republic Republicans because it's just too easy to go and beat them.
Now I want to ask you a question.
And I don't want you to get mad, but I want you to understand anybody can call here and say anything.
Does that really happen to you, or is that what you think the Democrats are doing?
You actually have liberal Democrat friends who chortle at you at how easy it is to bamboozle Republicans.
Yes, they all say the same.
It's so funny because it's as if they're reading from the same script.
They always say Republicans are stupid.
Well, you know, it doesn't it doesn't surprise me.
I have suspected, long suspected behind closed doors, that the Democrats are kicking each other.
They can't believe how good luck is this end of it.
They just can't believe.
And all of this public, like on their blogs and in the drive-by media about these Republicans, you've got to watch out for them.
They're such tricksters.
You know, all the fundraising letters that the Democrats sent out.
Beware, these Republicans are saying they know they're lying through their teeth.
They don't dare send out a letter, fundraising letters saying we've beaten the Republicans, we got to right where we want them.
They're so stupid, they're giving us everything because nobody would send them a dime.
So they have to constantly in public portray the Republicans as these great deception artists, and very, very clever opponents.
And these Republicans are sandbagging everybody, and they're setting you up to be totally wiped out.
And in private, I don't doubt for a minute that these Republicans or the Democrats are sitting around actually dumbfounded at how they have no opposition anymore.
I would be, if I were a Democrat, I don't know what it's like.
It must be like what it was like to be a fan of the New York Yankees for 50 years up until the 2000s began, where you never lost.
The media loved you, everybody loved you.
Your opponents were dirt.
Your opponents never would have stood a chance, never had to worry about anything.
I think they have to be sitting around, gloating privately.
In fact, I know they are because they're now starting to gloat publicly, like Chuck Schumer and some of the others did at the press conference yesterday.
And Obama?
You know, calling Paul Reddit, hey, Paul, I won't thank you.
They're making the government work.
I mean that to me is uh that's a gigantic put down to me.
Now, Ryan may have accepted it as a great compliment, who knows.
But Steve, it doesn't surprise me at all that that you've got liberal friends doing that because it's only the natural common sense reaction for any Democrat to have over how easy it is becoming for them to get anything they want.
We'll be back.
Again, let's return the audio sound bites because I'm by no means finished with the audio sound bites viciously savagely attacking your host or mildly referencing your host.
It's a combination of different kinds.
This was yesterday afternoon on the Fox News Channel's The Read Ultor, hosted by Gretchen Carlson.
And she's speaking here to a former Clinton pollster by the name of Bernard Whitman about me.
And up first is her question to Whitman and uh a soundbite from this program.
Rush Limbaugh, talking about why people don't get Donald Trump and Trump supporters.
He says the real question isn't Trump, it's what's wrong with the ruling class establishment.
Listen to this.
The question is what's wrong with them, not what's wrong with Trump or Rubio or Cruz or any of these other candidates.
Why doesn't the establishment see what the rest of us see?
The interesting thing is that Rush Limbaugh put Marco Rubio in the anti-establishment candidate package there.
Note the things that interest them.
So you've got editors, you've got people monitoring the program, mining for any potential soundbite to use on their program to get guests to bounce off of.
And they hear me say this that the real question is not what's wrong with Trump.
What's up with Trump?
What's up with the establishment?
If anybody needs to explain themselves, is that and then they hear, my God, do you hear what he said?
He put Rubio in the anti-establishment group.
Oh my God, we got news here.
So they assume the clip, and they play it for the former Clinton pollster, Bernard Whitman, who replied thus.
That shocked me, and it sort of made me think is Rush Limbaugh on the payroll of the Rubio campaign.
I tell you one person who probably was very surprised to hear that was Ted Cruz.
I think it's quite clear that Marco Rubio is pretty much an establishment politician along the lines of Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and I get exactly why uh the voters are so frustrated.
They don't feel that the Republican establishment is listening to them, understands them.
But the idea that Marco Rubio is an anti-establishment candidate, I think that's news to just about everybody.
It is.
But he wasn't.
Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party.
Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican.
Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment.
And then along came the gang of eight bill.
And there's Marco Rubio in the picture with Chuck Schumer and Dick Turban and the rest of the gang.
And Ted Cruz isn't in there.
I was simply referring back to the original days.
Marco Rubio was at one time.
Anyway, that's not the the central theme of what I was discussing.
But yet that's what they thought was newsworthy.
Moving on to uh Fox Business Network, uh show called Kennedy, hosted by Kennedy, to be Lisa Kennedy, she's a former MTV person, right?
Believe so.
And she was talking with a um columnist from the Daily Beast named Michael Moynihan.
And she said, Was I right saying that Donald Trump is the Darth Vader of this election?
After he was attacked by Rush Limbaugh for going after Ted Cruz, now he's downshifting.
So that was in response to and Limbaugh.
I mean, if everybody was on his side still on that, he would he would crank it up.
This is not a man of principle.
This is a man who is reacting entirely to the crowd.
So this guy's upset that when I advised a certain way to not criticize Cruz, that Trump appeared to follow that advice.
To this guy, that means Trump is not a man of principle because he backed down in the face of criticism of me.
Now I got an interesting uh question in the email here.
And some of you may think it's a snarky question, or you may laugh at it.
Snartily being one.
But the the basic premise of the email is Rush, why is it always you that these media people use?
Why is it anytime it's you say something in AU, why do they use you?
Well, there are host of reasons to answer that question.
One, they think I am the voice of the mainstream conservative opposition.
And they know I'm consistent, and they know I don't waver and all that.
So it's I I'm I'm something I'm dependable when they need to present what they think is the standard proper conservative view on something, go out and get what I say and then ask others to comment on it.
But there is also another factor here that some of you may have figured out that has backfired on them.
I can't tell you how many times, but to many of these people, they believe, I'm talking about the media now, at the producer level, at the editor level where these things are really assembled and put together.
They believe that they have effectively destroyed my reputation.
And with you and uh Americans, they believe they have marginalized me as some oddball kind of Jar Jar Binks character, so that all they have to do is hoist me up, and that sends a signal that this is what the kooks and the oddballs and the weirdos think.
They think then, and that's the result of their work.
They have sought to marginalize me as one of those kinds of people.
But they they blow it, I mean, they undercut that premise every time they use me because they do, and it's clear to anybody paying attention that there's nothing radical or extreme or whatever it is they're trying to say it is, and everybody takes it seriously, and everybody reacts to it seriously.
And so it's it's it's kind of backfired on him.
But I mean, there's a there's a tinge, there's a multi-faceted answer to that question.
No, the I've never I've never wavered, I've never been a squish, and that's why, you know, okay, we need a conservative viewpoint on something.
Where do we go?
Limbaugh!
See what Limbaugh said about it.
That's it.
You want the conservative point of view, conservative reaction, conservative theory, see if we got see if we got audio on Limbaugh, right?
That's that's part of it.
Uh-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
X-NBA star Gilbert Arenus wrote a caption to an Instagram post, which featured a video of two blondes half naked playing basketball.
Gilbert Arena said, now this is what America was hoping for when they announced the WNBA back in 1996.
Not a bunch of chicks running around looking like cast members from Orange is a new black.
If Skylar Diggins came out like this, I don't care if she missed every layup.
I'm a by season tickets, and I don't even know where the heck Tulsa is.
Meaning I don't care where they play, if they're going to be blonde and show up half naked, I'm watching I'm a by-season tickets.
And he said, if you think this is a sexist comment, then try this.
Nine times out of ten.
The women that cry sexism are ugly.
That's why they're doing it, because they're ugly to begin with and they want the attention.
so far, this is this is in the Daily Wire, and there's no outrage yet.
There's just, is this sexism?
Or is it an example of how we can't handle anything not politically corrected?
There's a serious analysis of the impact of this statement.
Oh, the WNBA has responded to Gilbert Arenas and his insane Instagram.
Oh, so now he the WNBA babes thinking Gilbert Arenas is insane.
And cruel.
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