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Jan. 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 1, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The disconnect, the divide, is even bigger than I thought it was, and I thought I had a handle on it.
But I'm telling you, folks.
The distance between those, for lack of a better term, govern us in Washington, and the majority of us out here, they don't have the slightest idea who we are anymore.
I mean, I they really, really don't have any idea who we are.
It's striking.
It's genuinely striking.
And they like to tell us that it's us out of touch.
And I'm telling you, I have never encountered a more out-of-tonch bunch of people who are otherwise, at least reputedly intelligent and aware.
And at the top of their game.
Anyway, greetings, great to have you.
Uh all that and more explained as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
Look at this Obama right now.
Up on Capitol Hill.
This is 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment.
What'd the 13th Amendment do?
Pop quiz.
Anybody know what it right?
So why is Obama celebrating it?
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
It ended slavery.
And why is he up there honoring it?
He knows, you know that he doesn't think that we've gotten rid of slavery.
The Black Lives Matter crowd doesn't think we gotten rid of slavery.
The civil rights coalition still acts like we have slavery in this country.
This is blatant hypocrisy what he's doing up here.
I'm dead serious about this.
Every day of the year, Obama and the Democrat Party act like we've made no progress whatsoever on racial relations that we're getting worse, in fact, right?
And then here he is honoring the 150th anniversary of 13th Amendment.
Which of those two seems the more unrealistic?
How can you honor the establishment of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery and then do what Obama does the under 364 days of the year?
And the Democrat Party.
You're looking at me like you can't believe what I'm saying.
Well, I'm just telling you, you take a look at whatever happened, Ferguson, Baltimore, you name it, whenever there is any kind of uh crime in this country, if if if uh uh African Americans involved by virtue of the news coverage and the civil rights coalitions again to gear, and that's Black Lives Matter, doesn't appear to me that there are too many people who think we've solved the problem.
It doesn't appear to me that too many people in the civil rights community think we've made any progress.
Do you?
Isn't that the whole point of the civil rights business?
Isn't that the whole point of the civil rights industry is to make sure that the problems never get solved?
To to abolish the idea we've made any progress.
I find this hypocritical.
I really do.
I mean, here we are.
This I predicted to everybody when this regime began that race relations in this country would get worse.
I predicted that the divide in this country would get worse because there was nothing unifying about Obama or his agenda or any of that.
Anyway, I didn't even intend to talk about this.
I mean, I didn't even know it was going to happen.
I'm just up here, he's happening to do this when the program starts, which I'm sure is also no coincidence.
So I thought I was duty bound to uh to comment on it.
Anyway, folks, back to my opening comments, the divide, the distance between those who are supposed to be our betters.
And I say that in a in the sense that uh you hope to be governed by the brightest people in the country.
I mean, that's why you elect them, vote for them, that's why you you entrust that they are extraordinary people.
And it's it's it's striking to me how little they really know about us.
It is just striking, and it is illustrated by this whole thing with Trump.
They are bamboozled.
They haven't the slightest idea.
They I'm literally serious.
It's not, they're just saying that they can't figure it out.
They can't figure it out.
There is not one aspect of the Trump phenomenon, they understand.
They really, really don't.
When they talk about it, you may hear them get close, but they don't have the slightest idea.
There's a Washington Post story today, written by is it Rachel Orr?
Yeah.
I don't care who wrote it.
Headline, I ask psychologists to analyze Trump supporters, and this is what I said, Washington Post.
They don't know.
They haven't the slightest idea why anybody would support Donald Trump, especially after these Muslim comments.
They just don't have the slightest idea.
And it scares the tar out of them.
So they have to come up with some explanation.
They have to come up with something to tell themselves to have it all make sense.
And they come up with reasons that they tell themselves that comfort them, that assure them there's really nothing to worry about here.
That whatever's going on with Trump really, really is way, way out there.
It's such an outlier.
And the way they are beginning to do that is to say that all Trump is is me.
I kid you not.
They have never understood this program from day one.
They have not understood the bond that exists between me and you.
They don't understand why you like this program other than to assign reasons that are insulting to you.
You're stupid, your mind-number robot, your racist, sexist pigs, whatever.
That's how they comfort themselves, because other than that, they can't explain it.
They can't, for the life of them, understand it.
So it comforts them since they think they have me figured out.
They think they have me pigeonholed into this tiny little compartment.
If they can tell themselves that this Trump phenomenon is just an offshoot of me, well, then there's nothing to worry about.
It's okay.
We just have to sign some shrinks to confirm what we already know here, and uh, and then we'll move on about our way, and we're confident in the fact that at some point we will prevail because we always do prevail.
We're the powerful, the Trump people and his supporters, they're the idiots, and they're going to implode.
And days go by and none of that happens, and the panic just intensifies.
Here, I'm going to back all this up with a couple of sound bites.
Starting last night on CNN, the Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer speaking with Jeffrey Tubin.
Jeffrey Tubin's a CNN legal analyst.
Likes to hang around with Farid Zakaria GPS.
And they talk about what's going on in the world, as Farid says.
And they're talking about Trump's call to temporarily stop admitting Muslims.
Do you realize what fools they're making of themselves on this, by the way?
Here's another this disconnect.
We're the ones who know what's going on.
We're the ones who know what's constitutional and what isn't.
We're the ones who know what really constitutes threats to this country.
They don't know.
They are so isolated and so cocooned in their own alternative universe that they only know what they tell each other and what they write for each other and what they have learned at their Ivy League institutions of propaganda.
They really don't know the Constitution.
And I point I made yesterday, and I want to continue to make it today, and there is a section of U.S. law that I'm going to bore you silly with today, reading it.
Not bore you.
But I'm many of you, by the time I finished the program, they're going to come on, Rush, okay.
We heard it, we heard it.
Could you just not mention it again?
I'm going to mention it over and over again because you know the trick here is repetition.
There's an actual 1952 United States statute that practically commands a president to do exactly what Trump is suggesting.
And the wizards of SMART in Washington don't have any idea.
They think Trump is blowing up the Constitution.
Tom broke all these, they think that Trump is shredding the Constitution.
We have a genuine constitutional crisis.
Because Trump's getting people all revved up over something that would destroy the fabric and the roots of this country, and that I can read to you this statute, which I will do in a moment, that practically empowers the president to do exactly what Trump is suggesting, given circumstances at the moment.
All the way back in 1952.
And in fact, it was a statute employed by Jimmy Carter, who kept Iranians out of the country during the Iranian hostage crisis back in 1979.
There are so many precedents, meaning we've already done it for Trump's idea that the wizards are smart, acting like this is extra constitutional destruction of the Constitution.
They don't even know.
And it's even worse if they do know and are pretending that they don't.
But I think it's that they don't know.
I think I think they're not half as aware and brilliant as they believe they are.
It's stunning how not only are they disconnected from us in a huge way, they have no desire to get closer.
They have no desire to understand.
It's like liberalism has taken over the entire establishment.
They have no desire to disprove what they believe, no desire to find out if they're right or wrong, because they can't possibly be wrong.
And anything that exists that shows them they're wrong has got to be buried, done away with, destroyed, blown up, or what have you.
Anyway, back to Jeffrey Tubin.
He's on CNN last night.
I'm sorry.
Wait a second.
Yeah, he's on CNN.
It's gonna be wrong page for a second.
And he's talking to Wolf Blitzer, who said the words the White House used, addressing Trump's comments, among other words, morally reprehensible.
As support continues, does Trump speak to the base, Jeffrey?
He speaks to a lot of people in the Republican Party.
There's no sort of mystery secret sauce going on here.
If you listen to what he says, it is very similar to what highly rated talk shows say.
You know, it's very similar to what Rich Limbaugh says.
You know, he is getting a very substantial portion, not a majority, but a very substantial portion of the Republican Party electorate.
I don't see anything that is going to happen that's going to change that.
You know, we have spent our time talking about, oh, he said a mean thing about John McCain.
He said a mean thing about Meghan Kelly, oh, his support's gonna go away.
It never goes away because people like him.
And they don't understand why.
But note the comparison.
See, they have to, they have to somehow dial this in to something they can explain to themselves.
I mean, they're scared to death of Trump and what he's doing.
For the exact reasons I mentioned yesterday, they can't touch him.
He owns the media.
He is using them each and every day to advance his position.
They know it and they can't stop it.
And they got to come up with some explanation.
So, oh, you know what?
Just like limb.
He just like talk radio, which they think that comforts them because that's no big deal.
It amazes me, it always is amazed me.
The audience of this program, if you really want to be honest about the audience of this program, you forget the way the traditional ratings are taken, what do we measure it and so forth?
We're well in excess of 20 million people, unique people in a week.
And the dirty little secret about numbers in this program, 12 million people during a three-hour program.
12 million unique people will tune in at some point.
Jeffrey Tubin, at most on CNN will reach 80,000 in an average CNN appearance, and maybe on a good day, 150,000.
And what do they disregard, or what do they hoist up as something that's irrelevant and not worthy of a program with an audience of 12 million or 20 million, depending on how you define it?
They're sitting there talking to people, 80, 100, 150,000 people.
No interest whatsoever in trying to find out why does this program have 12 million, 20 million?
They don't care.
All they want to do is be able to say, well, it's 12 million 20 million bigots, or it's 12 million twenty million idiots, or you name it.
But it's a reality that I don't want to face.
So here we are listening to people on cable news with a combined audience at the time this program is on.
Cable news, the three cable news now with a combined audience, maybe of a million.
Maybe of let's get this be beneficial here in general is a million and a half.
And here are these people acting like this is the side show.
Acting like this or Trump is the outlier.
This is the majority here.
This is what is dominant, not them and not their little audiences or their little networks and their little shows.
The difference is they're on television, see.
And this is radio and radio is the lowest rung of a showbiz ladder, and it's gee, it's just, you know, ych.
TV.
That's really important because people can see us.
Pictures.
They recognize us at bad baggage claims.
So let me we're important.
So now Trump is just saying what I say.
And they comfort themselves with this.
Well, that's how they just relegate it to meaninglessness.
But Tubin here is wrong in his analysis of the Trump base.
You know what's ironic about this is the base of support that Trump has is exactly what the Republic Republican Party claims it wants.
There's all kinds of independence.
There's all kinds of women.
And through all different demographics and age brackets.
Conservative Republicans are not the majority of Trump's support base.
They're large, but it's not the majority.
There are a lot of blue collar, known as union, known as taxpayers, known as laborers, known as the middle class who make up Trump's support.
Trump's support is broad based.
It covers practically every there's Hispanics in his coalition.
There are Jewish people in his coalition.
You don't read about it because the media doesn't want to confront that.
They have to tell themselves that Trump's base exists of people who would star in deliverance.
And that's how they comfort themselves, and that's who you are.
As they sit there with their what, elite, brilliant audiences of a hundred thousand and preach as though highly successful, much many more successful, much more successful media enterprises, attract many more people and hold them.
I mean, it is elitism.
Rumamuk.
Gail King grab Soundbite 3 quickly.
Yep, this is CBS this morning.
Just a brief little comment from her, same thing Tubin says.
Politicians' outrage over the idea of keeping Muslims from entering the United States does not tell the full story.
Many of Donald Trump's supporters say his proposal is worth a try.
And conservatives on talk radio agree.
So you see, that's how they're trying to destroy Trump is by linking him to me and claiming, you know what, I'm the guy to pave it.
You know who paved the road for Trump?
You know who's made Trump possible?
Barack Hussein Oh, folks.
If you people on the left want to be honest, Barack Hussein Obama is who makes Donald Trump possible.
Learn it, love it, live it, deal with it.
Okay, you noted thinkers in the establishment, the elite on the left, wherever you are, I want you to know I am more than honored to be lumped in here with your attempt to explain Donald Trump.
I know you're looking to comfort yourselves.
I know you're trying to tell yourselves the equivalent of a bedtime story.
The big bad wolf is not going to get you.
And I'm I'm, as I say, I'm honored and happy to be in your equation, but I just have to tell you something.
It's not me.
I mean, I don't have anything to do with why Trump's doing what he's doing.
You guys do.
You guys, Barack Hussein Obama, you people running the country the last seven, ten, fifteen, twenty, What you have paved this road, the Donald Trump Memorial Highway.
You made the circumstances possible.
You created the attitudes, the policies, you implemented things.
You're putting this country at risk in ways you don't even know.
And when you find out people think that you can't for the life of you understand it.
But if you want to explain Trump, and I'll get into this in detail as the program unfolds, and I'm going to read this section of the U.S. Code passed by Democrat Congress, signed by a Democrat president in 1952, right after we get back to the break at the bottom of the hour.
But you don't need to ask psychiatrists or shrinks to explain Trump supporters.
You just need to examine the last seven years.
Barack Obama birthed the Donald Trump movement.
There's no question about it.
Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you.
It's L Rushbow, your guiding light, times of trouble, times of confusion, times of murkiness, and even the good times as well.
One more audio soundbite just to show you the theme carries throughout the media.
This is local Los Angeles television news, KNBC Eyeball News at five.
Correspondent Conan Nolan reporting about Trump and his call to temporarily stop admitting Muslims to the country.
You hear a bunch of other people in a report, but Conan Nolan is the eyeball news reporter here for KNBC Los Angeles.
Doubling down, Trump today indicted the Muslim population already here.
The Muslim community is not reporting what's going on.
This from the California Council on American Islamic Relations.
Donald Trump is just trying to outdo his previous statements.
To that degree, Kerr and conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh may be in agreement on his program.
Limbaugh today said the most recent dust up over Trump's comments is, quote, glittering, glaring example of how he is playing the media like a stratavarius.
Okay, so you see the point of that bite is that I mean, even Limbaugh and Kerr are saying the same thing.
So they're pretty trying to put me right in the middle of this.
You know why?
Because they think that will discredit Trump.
Their opinion of me is that my reputation's mud.
They've destroyed me.
They think they have convinced everybody, including people that listen to me that I'm a reprobate.
And they're very confident they've convinced people that don't listen to me that I'm a worthless reprobate.
So therefore all they have to do is attach my name to Trump, and that will transfer into Trump also being a reprobate.
That's what they think.
That's why I say they're the ones sitting there with audiences 150,000 versus our 12 million to 20 million here.
And whatever their readership is, their magazines and newspapers, it's folly.
It's it's humorous, but this is they they have to resort back to these comfort zones that they have to explain what is to them the inexplicable.
You know, yesterday on this program we had a couple sound bites of um uh well, Mark Halperin was one, and there was another one saying, Well, before we really get a handle on what people are gonna think about Trump, we gotta wait for talk radio.
We gotta wait to hear what Limbaugh says before we're gonna know for sure how the country is gonna react to Trump.
So Halperin on Bloomberg TV last night, his show with all due respect, is talking with um his co-host John Heileman.
Listen to this.
We asked our chief political meteorologist to take on the mentally fatiguing task of listening to a lot of talk radio.
What he found is that the decibel level and the focus was a lot lower, a lot more mild than what it was elsewhere in the political and media world.
Rush Limbaugh, they weren't super negative about Trump to say the least.
We all note all the time that the conservative media echo chamber is powerful, but we don't actually understand its power in any meaningful way.
Um it seems to me that if this thing does not bring forth uh defection of that part of the base echo chamber, uh nothing will.
The last voice you heard there belonged to John Heileman.
He is the one who said, you know, we note all the time the conservative media echo chamber is powerful, but we don't actually understand its power in any means.
And he's right.
They don't.
They've never endeavored to.
They have used their own prejudice and political bias to explain the success of this program and who you all are.
And rather than acknowledge any professionalism that might be a part of this program, and rather ignor rather than acknowledge the achievements that have taken place here on this program, they instead assign it this oddball kook status that's way, way over there outside the mainstream of the country, which is what they think they are.
They are the mainstream.
And this, and our 12 to 20 million, which is the oddballs.
They're the normal, they're the commonsensical ones.
With their audiences of 80,000, 150,000 or what have you.
It's just they assigned somebody to listen to this program all day yesterday.
Not them.
They couldn't, of course.
No, no, no, no.
They had to assign a staffer to do it.
They could have just waited and read the website, but at least they listened to the program.
And you know what?
They were puzzled.
They didn't hear any anger here.
They didn't hear any super negative.
They expected it.
And since they didn't hear any anger, super negative, they go, wow, okay.
And uh we we're not gonna get any help from Limbaugh taking Trump out.
Uh-oh.
We got a problem.
See, they were hoping to tune in this program and find that I, too, was going to join everybody else over there.
Why would I do that?
I never do.
Conventional wisdom, you never find me there.
And not by design.
I just don't think the way the conventional wisdom thinkers do.
And I just I want to stress again, you talked about the I talked about the political reality of this Trump statement with Muslims and so forth and entry to the country.
Look at what he did.
I mean, in a political sense, folks, this is undeniable.
He he he owns a position.
He's the only guy.
He and Cruz, Cruz did not come out and condemn his position or condemn him.
Everybody else, everybody, is way over there, all saying the same thing, all actually exhibiting their lack of knowledge of the Constitution, their lack of knowledge of the law.
But the point they all sound the same.
And guess what?
They are all on the side of Obama.
And I don't know if you people in what we call the elite or the ruling class establishment, no, Obama is no longer popular here.
This is not 2007 and 2008.
Barack Obama is a drag on the Democrat Party.
He is a drag on this country, and the magic, if there was any, is long gone.
When Obama, when Trump succeeds in unifying everybody else but himself with Obama, that is a political victory for him.
The lone occupant of a particular political position.
And everybody, look at how fast everybody ran to condemn what Trump said.
This is something this nation needs to talk about, if you ask me.
We are a great nation at risk in a very dangerous world, and we are in the crosshairs of a lot of dangerous people.
And this is going to require a very thought-out strategy to win, to defeat the enemies that everybody acknowledges that we have, except in the White House, they will not acknowledge that we're face any enemy here.
Their big enemy is us.
Republican Party conservatism.
We need to be having a discussion, and yet everybody in this, everybody in the establishment, everybody, Democrats, Republicans, not interested in having the discussion, just immediately reacting as though Trump, oh my God, oh, getting out of here, oh my god, this drug, oh, oh, panicking.
What are they going to think of us?
Do you know, folks, even Hamas?
Hamas is a terror group.
Do you know Hamas came out in opposition to Trump statement?
That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, uh, and everybody else, the establishment, and Obama on the same side Hamas is on.
And over here all by himself Donald Trump.
Speaking out against it all.
Now, if you're the establishment, you don't think people are sophisticated enough to understand it.
So what, Rush?
You may say that's a brilliant political move, but the average voter in this country doesn't understand anything of the sort.
This is where you people in the establishment go off the rails more often than any other time, and that is underestimating what the people of this country know, what they think and what they are willing to do to protect themselves and their communities, their towns and cities and their families.
That's where you're just the disconnect is so great.
So they're a bunch of unsophisticated robes.
Meanwhile, everybody on that side is trying to tell everybody, oh no, no, no, I'm not an unreasonable bigot.
I'm I'm not biased, I'm not prejudiced, I don't uh I don't hate people of different religions.
No, no, no, no, count me among them.
It's a position not rooted in any substance whatsoever.
It's a position rooted in, gosh, I don't want the media to hate me, or I don't want it's just it's childish and immature given the real threats that we face.
So rather than take this subject up and try to defeat Trump on the substance of the idea.
What what defeat's a bad idea?
Better one.
That's all anybody's got to do, come up with better ideas than Trump's got.
You can't just sit there and insult Trump's ideas and just act like oh my God, that's so offended.
Oh, geez, it's super neat.
Oh my God, I can't believe anybody.
You gotta come up with a better idea.
And so far, the opponents of Trump have not come up with better ideas.
If you did, I give you an example.
Many of you might think this is going to be mean and insensitive.
I assure you it's not.
Because we're speaking here in the political sense, in the political, by the way, uh guest host of this program, Mark Stein, was on Greta last night.
You hear what he said?
This is great.
Stein said, quote, to most Americans, Donald Trump sounds a lot less nutty than John Kerry did when he said in Paris that Islam's not the problem while they're still mopping blood up from the streets in Paris.
Bingo.
To most Americans, Donald Trump sounds a lot less nutty than John Kerry trying to explain that they has a rationale for Islam bombing and shooting up Charles Hebdo.
Carly Fearina, this is in the Hill.com.
Here's the headline, Fearina.
Trump is a gift-wrapped present for Clinton.
This, by the way, this is becoming the reason in the Republican Party to get rid of Trump, is that they will just get wiped out by Hillary Clinton.
He's just gonna be, I mean, it's gonna be worst landslide we've ever seen.
Trump is just gonna get buried.
It's gonna be a tsunami.
She said if Donald Trump's a nominee of this party, she will wipe the floor with him.
We will also lose the Senate, and we may well lose the House.
She would be very happy, very happy to face Donald Trump.
Carly, you know we've spoken very positively of you on this program many, many times.
You haven't been able to wipe the floor with Trump.
Why will Hillary be able to?
Is Hillary that much better than you?
You say Hillary's gonna wipe the floor with Trump?
Why haven't you?
If it's gonna be so easy for Hillary to wipe the floor, why can't you?
If it's that easy?
Why can't any of the others on the Republicans, if it's that easy to wipe the floor with Donald Trump, how come nobody's doing it?
No, no, no, no.
I'm not trying to be mean.
I'm just asking legitimate political questions.
If you're gonna run around and say that Hillary Clinton is gonna mop the floor with Donald Trump, okay, well then tell us how you're gonna beat Hillary.
But before you do that, show us how you're gonna beat Trump.
I mean, does this not make sense?
Okay, the big fear is that Hillary Clinton, who is one of the biggest empty pants, folks.
This is another scene.
You mean a disconnect?
Hillary Clinton?
Are you kidding me?
The biggest empty pantsuit in American politics.
Talk about disconnected, talk about.
Anyway.
This magical woman just gonna mop the floor with Donald Trump.
Fine and dandy, okay?
Well then, how are you gonna beat her?
How are you gonna beat this formidable?
Almost unbeatable, brilliant, smartest woman in the world.
If she gonna mite the floor with Trump, don't you think you better show you can do the same thing?
And then tell us how you're gonna beat her.
Here is number eight U.S. code 1182, inadmissible aliens.
This law was written in 1952.
It was uh passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress, House and Senate, and signed by a Democrat president.
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by president.
Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the president may,
by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-emigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
Over here, everybody in the establishment of the political class, Republican, Democrat, media, you name it, is all claiming that what Trump said is dumb, stupid, reckless, dangerous, unconstitutional, while it is the law of the land.
And it was utilized by Jimmy Carter, no less, in 1979 to keep Iranians out of the United States, but he actually did more.
He made all Iranian students already here check in.
And then he deported a ton of them.
There is precedent for everything Donald Trump has said he wants to do.
And if you listen to the wizards of smart in this country in our political establishment, you will think that this stuff is just unheard of.
It's almost unspeakable.
It's just indecent.
And here we have in the establishment the reputed best and brightest, the smartest.
We're not even qualified to be in their company, more or less.
And they're dunces on this.
In November 1979, the United States Attorney General had given all Iranian students one month to report to the local immigration office.
7,000 were found in violation of their visas.
15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the United States 1979.
When this law, inadmissible aliens, I just read to you, which I'm going to be reading a lot to you today, to the point you're going to get tired of hearing it, but you won't forget it.
This law was passed in 1952.
Do you know what was going on in 1952, among other things?
There was no immigration in 1952.
It was shut down.
Immigration was shut down 1924 to 1965.
And why did we have this?
What was the what was the need for this in 1952?
Oh, yeah, we had rampant illegal immigrants, but I'm talking about we suspended legal immigration from 1924 to 1965, but we were being overrun in 1952 like we always are.
We're the last great hope of the world.
That law was written to allow the president to keep undesirables out and to kick undesirables out.
Back after this.
Barbara Walters came out of retirement to ask Trump if he's a bigot.
We have the audio soundbite coming up.
We have lots to do here today, folks.
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