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Jan. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, this this business of the glue.
That's what I refer to in the glue that that is holding the Trump coalition together.
This actually predates the Trump campaign.
This goes back to who the Tea Party is.
If you want to know the truth about it, folks.
Everybody made the mistake of thinking when the Tea Party erupted out of nowhere.
And let's not forget, by the way, what are we?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, great to have you here at the EIB network at 800-282-2882.
Let's not forget the Tea Party was not the result of some strategic plan launched by somebody out of nowhere.
It was a spontaneous eruption of mostly people had never been professionally formally involved in politics before.
It dates to the Obama stimulus deal in 2009, but really began to coalesce with Obamacare.
Those two things sent the big message to the Tea Party people, what become known as the Tea Party people.
That is, there was no longer any concern for what this government was spending.
There was no longer any concern for the for the danger that that was going to cause.
There was no longer any pretense of responsible budgeting, keeping public taxpayer money in check, used responsibly, none of it was all out the window.
And people erupted in a combination of fear and outrage and anger over it.
It was a betrayal.
It was irresponsible.
It was unresponsive to what people had voted for, what they thought they were going to get, and it was destructive.
It was going to take the financial futures away from millions of people's children and grandchildren.
And so the Tea Party was born.
And the mistake was made right off the bat by the drive-by media and many inside about whether the Tea Party was all conservatives.
They wanted it to be all conservatives because they already then had their built-in mechanisms to impugn it.
The left, the Democrat Party, and many in the Republican Party had already developed ways to mock, make fun of, impugn conservatives and conservatism for years.
So here comes this new group of people.
Well, we'll just call them conservatives made up angry white men, racists, sexists, a bunch of bigots, and that's who they became.
That's what they, well, that's not who they were, that's what the effort to define them became.
At the same time, the Democrats, you know what, we need our own group.
We can't let this stand.
So they created Occupy Wall Street.
That was a totally artificial, manufactured, bought and pay for rent a mob, put together by the left and the Democrat Party, made to look like it erupted spontaneously in response to the Tea Party.
And it was made out to be much bigger and much more uh refined and organized and all that.
And it was not.
It was fake from beginning to end.
Occupy Wall Street, I mean, they did real things, but their existence was entirely fake.
There was nothing spontaneous about it.
There was nothing natural about it.
So from the get-go, Republican establishment as well, mystifying me from day one, started making fun of and ragging on the Tea Party, right along with the Democrats.
But the Democrats led the charge on it along with the media.
Bunch of hayseeds, bunch of hicks, you know, the usual and hominum attacks.
And all this is happening while Obama's uh getting health care up and running.
Not a single Republican vote.
There was a built-in majority coalition for the Republican Party to link to and join up with.
The Tea Party consisted of not just Republicans, and it wasn't just conservatives.
The Tea Party was made up of people who were apolitical.
They had not been involved in politics one way or The other other than voting ever.
They'd never been to town hall meetings, none of it.
They were scared, they were fed up, and they wanted somebody to know about it.
They didn't feel like they were being listened to or heard or taken into account.
So they started getting involved.
And then when the years went by, the public perception was the Tea Party disbanded.
Oh, where's the Tea Party?
Nobody talked about it anymore.
The Tea Party had their, you had a bunch of groups that were organized back in the day, and they were out raising money and doing conventions, and none of that seemed to be happening anymore.
So the assumption was made that the Tea Party just kind of faded away as it was going to, because it was never real in the first place.
They said it was never going to have any staying power because it's just average citizens, just they were just angry on a lark, but they're over it now.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Not a chance any of that was right.
As Obama kept being Obama, the people in the Tea Party kept getting angrier.
Remember, they tried to organize into tax-exempt foundations fundraising.
Hello, IRS not permitting it, shutting them down.
That's another thing that led to people thinking the Tea Party was fading away and disbanding.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party had this built-in majority coalition to join up, and they never did.
Because they thought it was a bunch of conservatives, and they didn't want any part of them.
They don't, they have continually overestimated who their base is.
The Tea Party was a lot of Democrats in it.
The Tea Party had a lot of minorities.
The Tea Party had a bunch of people from a cross-section, a demographic cross-section.
But you don't know that because you were told it was nothing but a malcontent conservatives and disaffected Republicans and what have you.
Because it was easier to criticize them that way.
It was easier to make fun of them.
It was easier to ridicule them and mock them.
Because they'd had years' experience doing it.
So we'll just call them a bunch of conservatives, and nobody will take them seriously.
Well, guess where they are now?
They're with Donald Trump is where they are now.
And if you have any doubt about that, if you're wondering, why would Sarah Palin this our last call?
Sarah Palin didn't endorse Trump to advance conservatism.
That's not what this is about.
There's so many missed opportunities for the Republican Party here.
It's it's it's actually frightening to make a list of them all.
Republican Party could be owning the show.
The Republican Party could have won the White House in 2012.
The Republican Party could be a governing majority party, except they don't want anything to do with conservatism.
Not really.
If they did, the political landscape would be an entirely different looking landscape today.
And I know the Republican Party mocked them.
Republican Party mocked the Tea Party.
They worked with the Democrats and the media to smear them, just like is happening now with the Trump coalition.
And it is the key point here is who they are.
As I have been trying to say, the majority of Trump's support base is not Republican conservatives.
There are a lot of them, but it's not the majority.
Remember, last week we learned 20% of Trump supporters are disaffected, blue-collar Democrats.
20% who are admitting it.
There's probably many more.
Trump's got a share of Hispanics, they're share of African Americans, females.
Which is that's bad news for Hillary.
Hillary, I mean, let's call a spade a spade.
The vast majority of American men don't want any part of Hillary Clinton.
That's why she has to support, get as much support from women as she can.
She can't survive without it because the men of America aren't want it isn't gonna happen.
No way, Jose.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, Europe inundated with these refugees, many of them militant Islamists.
Some of them not even militant, they're just Muslims that are pouring out of their own war-torn countries and they're going where they think there is a better life.
And one of the things that's happening, and I'm not, folks, I'm just reporting the news here.
They are abusing women.
They are misbehaving with women.
In some cases, many cases they are engaging, they're raping women.
And they don't understand why people are upset at them.
Their culture says that's no big deal.
That's that's what men get to do.
Well, of course, these pansy socialists, the European Union are beside themselves to know what to do about it.
Afraid to criticize them because that make them mad and terrorize them.
You know, start IEDing them and so forth.
So they can't.
So they're trying to make peace with them.
You know what they're doing?
French news agents are going to write here, my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
In Norway.
In Norway, migrants are being given excuse me, to the verge of laughing.
Migrants are on the verge of being given courses to prevent violence against women, especially rape, and these courses also are designed to teach migrant men how to interpret customs in a country that may seem surprisingly liberal to them.
For example, these guys can't believe that women are allowed to show their faces.
And they interpret that as women coming on to them.
This is what they are saying to the authorities.
Well, in my country, woman cannot show face.
And when she does, it is signaled to.
Come on, baby.
So the Norwegians are going, oh, really?
Well, we can't have our women cover their faces.
That ain't gonna happen, so what are we gonna do, Mohammed, to let you know that it's not a signal.
So they're having seminars and and and behavioral counseling with these immigrants.
The courses were introduced actually several years ago because this isn't new.
What's new is the reporting.
The courses were introduced several years ago.
They have become particularly topical after complaints of mass sexual assault on New Year's Eve in Cologne in Germany, by a crowd of mostly Arab and North African men.
There were mass assaults on New Year's Eve by Muslims all over Europe.
It wasn't just in Cologne.
Cologne happened to be reported.
It was all over Europe.
And if these courses have been taught for years, clearly it isn't working.
Because the problem is getting worse.
But here's here's an example from one of the leaders of the course.
The school, the the seminars, whatever they one of the women who designed this.
She said the idea behind this course is to talk about risk situations that can arise when it comes to rapes and sexual assaults.
We need your help.
She's this is saying this to the Arab men.
We need your help so that we can together detect these situations.
Meaning you need to help us know when you think you can rape one of us.
We need to know what we are doing to make you think.
I mean, it's...
Is this not classic?
So you have mass rapes taking place, and the victims Think it's their fault that they've done something to cause it, and they're doing seminars with the rapists to find out what it is they're doing.
Risk situations are things like women being out in public.
Not allowed where these guys are from.
Women frolicking at a train station or in a pub or in a bar.
That sends a signal to these guys, they are telling them.
It's only natural that Muslim men would think that these women are coming on to them.
That's that's what the message is.
So here's an example, cultural misunderstandings.
The participants in these courses, the teachers and the Muslim men, they brainstorm scenarios where cultural differences may cause misunderstandings.
For example, if she comes to my place, meaning if I'm standing at a restaurant or a bar and she comes to where I am, that means she's consenting to sex.
That's what these guys are telling me.
Because that's what it means where they're from.
In other words, if a woman approaches, comes to where I'm standing, that's a come on.
That's how she's signaling what she wants.
That's what these guys are telling me.
Norwegians, of course, the Norwegians.
Oh, really?
Okay, this is helpful.
And then one of the men said, if a girl kisses me, I figure that means she wants to sleep with me within minutes.
Women are not permitted to be that forward, and when they are, it can only mean one thing.
These guys are telling Norwegians.
So Linda Hagen, one of the course instructors, says to these guys.
Well, you know, in Norway, gentlemen, it's quite common to hug and to intine and to dance very closely, but that doesn't mean anybody wants to have sex.
That doesn't mean when you see Norwegians dancing, or when you see people meeting and hugging, or when they entwine, you shouldn't think that it automatically leads to a sexual encounter, and that the people involved want it to.
These guys are probably shaking their heads, say, you want us to believe this.
First they have to have the word entwine defined for them, and then when it is, they get even more confused.
And then Linda Hagen, the course instructor, says, Look, this says this to the French news agency, the reporter.
Look, everyone's in agreement that rape is bad.
We all agree.
But there are all these gray zones, these situations that are a little difficult to grasp.
The problem can arise with any of us.
Oh, sure it can.
Like on American college campuses.
The women are supposed to understand that some of these guys are just misinterpreting it.
And we're in instead of lashing out, supposed to stop everything and explain.
No, this is not what my behavior means.
So look at all of this.
My point is look at all of this.
Tolerance and understanding extended to these uh Arab men compared to what's happening to American men on campus or everywhere else.
There's no tolerance.
There's nothing but allegations, accusations, or what have you.
But I mean the whole thing is a rape crisis over there, they're doing seminars.
Why are you raping us?
What signal are we giving you?
And these guys are responding.
Okay, so we'll have to stop dancing and we'll have to stop entwining and hugging.
Yep, pretty much it.
You do that, and you are marking yourself.
To Grand Rapids, Michigan, this is uh Bob.
Bob, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you?
I'm great, sir.
Thank you.
Uh my comment was if Trump wanted to kind of wrap this thing up right now, he could both defang Cruz and flatter him at the same time while winning over Cruz supporters.
If, say next week he came out and announced that Ted Cruz was going to be his first nominee to the Supreme Court if he was nominated or if he was elected as a that wouldn't work.
It wouldn't work because Trump's out there telling everybody what a bad guy Cruz is.
He's if he's not eligible to be president, he's not eligible to be on the court.
If he can if he's qualified to be president of Canada, Prime Minister Canada, Trump's can't Trump doesn't think he has to do anything anyway.
Look, folks, look on if we want to start, let me throw a philosophy.
Let me if if we want to say what Trump can do to wrap this up, let me say what Cruz could do to wrap it up.
Paint a dollar sign on his forehead.
That would send a signal to the donor class, a secret signal, dollar sign on his forehead, tells a donor class he's secretly one of them.
He's in it for the money just like they are.
How would that work?
Snerd ways considering it.
Hey, you know what?
That's not a bad idea.
Uh why did why all of a sudden you think that Bob Dole and some of these establishment guys are warming up to Trump?
Well, there's part of it, they're scared they hate Cruz.
They just hate Cruz.
Why they hate Cruz?
Because they don't doubt Cruz is an outsider, and they don't doubt Cruz is going to change the way things are done.
Do you find it interesting that that this move toward Trump comes the day after he signs on to the ethanol thing?
It's the kind of stuff insiders like.
I don't know.
I'm just thinking off top of my head here.
I mean, I'm responding to callers with their own theories, so I thought I'd throw a couple of mine out there.
What the heck?
Get this.
I just got a note.
I haven't had a chance to read it in detail.
What's the link?
AP, big story.
Apparently, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr, Republican, has said he would vote for Bernie Sanders over Ted Cruz.
Now let me see this.
Still Cruz has become such a pariah that one of his colleagues, Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, told supporters of the campaign fundraiser for his own re-election that he would vote for liberal Senator Bernie Sanders, liberal communist.
Senator Bernie Sanders for president before Cruz, according to one person who attended the event, Burr did not appear to be joking, said the person who demanded anonymity to discuss the private gathering.
So it's the word of one guy who was at a private gathering.
Obviously, he's trying to make a point here.
You know, I'd vote for Bernie before Cruz.
Oh, man, I'll tell you.
See, these establishment guys, they're not learning anything.
They're doubling down whatever their animus toward conservatism is.
And believe me, Republican voters, when they hear stuff like this, they react to it.
They don't get scared.
Oh wow, you know what?
I better abandon Cruz or we're gonna lose Richard Burr.
You think any of them react that way?
Oh my God.
Really?
We might lose Richard Burr's vote?
Oh, geez, okay.
I'll not support Cruz anymore.
It's the exact opposite.
Hey, Burr, take this!
Then they sign up for both Trump and Cruz.
Holy smithereens.
By the way, folks, if you want to chronicle, if you want to observe, this is only applies to those of you, let's see, what over 40?
Maybe 45.
If you want first hand evidence and illustrations of how this country is changing, I want you to watch how the media and the citizens in affected areas react to the weather forecasts of the upcoming blizzard.
You are going to see grocery stores ransacked and looted.
Well, not looted.
What's what's the word whatever he goes in there and hoarding?
You're gonna see warnings all over the place about you better not shovel or you're going to get a heart attack.
If you do get a heart attack, how to get to the hospital in the snow.
It's going to be incredible.
And you're going to wonder, if you're 45 or older, what has become of people?
One of my favorite stories is the Donner Party.
You know the Donner Party?
wagon gang that was traveling to California through Nevada.
It went over the Sierra Nevada in winter.
And it got so bad that to survive they had to resort to cannibalism.
And they later found a journal.
Members of the Donner family kept a journal.
And the only reference to the weather they found was it was an especially tough winter.
There wasn't a bunch of whining.
There wasn't a bunch of moaning.
There wasn't a once, oh my God, we're going to do it.
They just one reference.
Wow, this is a bad winter.
Yeah, you could get difference in toughness.
Of course, back then there weren't too many options.
Donner party couldn't head to the airport and get on an airplane head to Florida.
They had to deal with it, of course.
That's but that's the point.
You watch, you'll see.
And of course, this is just weather forecasts.
No, you've got all these weather agencies hyping this.
And then you throw the global warming people in and the El Niño people in.
And by the time everybody gets through with this, this is going to be the absolute worst.
This may be a snowstorm that could cause the Earth to lose its balance on its axis and forever go out of its orbit with the sun.
I mean, anything's possible here.
That's how boundless the hysteria and the panic will be.
You mark my words.
You ever you ever I remember they played a football game in a blizzard in Denver.
The San Diego chart, 25 inches of snow.
They played a football game.
The players loved it.
In Philadelphia, they canceled a football game in a forecast of eight inches of snow some years ago.
I remember being in New York, there were two or three 25-inch snowfalls.
Yeah, and the weather forecast, but it didn't cause panic and hoarding and all this.
And the cabs ran and everything.
I know, you know, we've got a lot of great sound bites, and I haven't got a what's this?
What's this?
Oh, snertly with evidence that I'm already right.
What is this from?
NBC News, Washington, states of emergency declared in Virginia, D.C. and Maryland.
Yep, here we go.
It'll be long.
You're going to have round-the-clock weather forecasts on the cable news networks and all that.
You have reporters standing out there in two-inch deep snow, four-inch deep snow, three-foot deep snow, whatever, telling you not to do what they're doing.
Not to shovel.
You might have a heart attack.
Don't it?
And I know what's saying.
Mr. Limbaugh, are you so infinity that you're not even concerned about potential theft freaking?
No, not at all.
People looking for evidence of how the country's evolving and changing, it's gonna be right in front of your face today.
Well, you want to admit it or not.
Have at it.
Audio sound bites.
Let's start here last night on CNN The Situation or Wolf Blitzer speaking with Jeb Bush about Sarah Palin's endorsement of the Trumpster.
Blitzer said, Sarah Palin, as you know, endorsed Donald Trump.
You call that laughable.
That was your word.
But she's saying it Donald Trump's conservative enough.
What's your response?
Governor Bush?
Well, I have a lot of respect for Sarah Palin, particularly her commitment to the life issues and to protecting the disabled.
But for her to say that Donald Trump's a conservative when he was pro-abortion in the most recent past, he believed in higher taxes.
He thought Hillary Clinton would be a great negotiator in Iran.
He's been all over the map on foreign policy, certainly not a conservative.
Rush Limbaugh and others are now questioning his conservative credentials, and I think they're right.
This is why I've been delaying this.
Everyone's got me in it, snarling.
one of these.
That's right.
Jeb Bush is certainly not a conservative.
Rush Limbaugh and others are not questioning Trump's conservative credentials, and I think they're right.
This is Al Gore, 1993.
CNN Larry King alive, the NAFTA debate, debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot.
Let me just finish this one point.
And distinguished Americans from Colin Powell to Tip O'Neill to Rush Limbaugh.
And we go to CNN last night.
Don Lemon.
Don Black Hole Lemon.
We love Don Lemon here, folks.
We absolutely CNN wouldn't be CNN with a Don Lemon.
Do you think that jet could have got swallowed by a black hole?
We say this affectionately, folks.
So Lemon's got uh let's see, says he's talking to uh was talking to Trump about Palet at all.
Here's how it went.
I watched the speech last night.
Everybody was riveted by that, but you did seem to be uncomfortable.
Other people have said it.
Here's what Russ Limbaugh said.
Take a listen to this.
I saw Trump standing aside while she was at the podium, and he's not the kind of guy that stands aside.
He just isn't.
He's that dominant.
He is that huge to give up the podium even to somebody endorsing him, sponsoring him.
I'm not criticizing it, don't anybody misunderstand.
I'm just telling you what I think here.
Do with it what you want.
And I observed it.
It I said yesterday, Trump doesn't seem like the kind of guy to give up his podium.
But he did.
I remarked on it.
Here is Trump's response to Don Lemon.
Clearly, these guys are trying to get Trump to throw me overboard.
Here's what happened.
I love Rush.
I think he's an amazing guy, and he's been so supportive.
And I understand some people thought it was really nice because it showed respect.
So, you know, I guess it's a flip of a coin.
Uh probably if I left, people would have said, Oh, gee, why did he leave the stage?
That wasn't very nice.
But I understand exactly what they're saying, and I understand Rush.
And by the way, really like Rush.
Back to CNN, CNN's Don Lemon up next is talking with Gloria Borger, the chief political analyst at CNN about Trump and Palin, and that's how this went.
He did look a bit uncomfortable because he didn't know Sarah Palin's speech was going to be that long.
But I thought, and I'm glad you raised that because, and Rush Limbaugh obviously raised it.
He was wearing a full coat, too.
So he looked a little uncomfortable, sort of being in the background, you know.
He's not a good presidential spouse.
He's not a guy that you know is number two on the stage.
Presidential spouse?
I didn't mean that.
He's not a he's not running for presidential spouse.
Does that mean Clinton is a good presidential spouse?
Who is a good?
We don't have.
Anyway, just Gloria Borgia, see.
Even Rush Limbaugh said it.
So it must be true when it comes to Trump.
This morning, back to CNN, Alison Camarada speaking with Trump's campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis about me.
They played the clip of me and then had a discussion.
Rush Limbaugh is saying that Donald Trump is wrong to be calling Ted Cruz nasty.
Listen to what Rush Limbaugh just said.
I think Trump going after Cruz is quite normal.
It's understandable.
But I think he's making a tactical error the way he's doing it.
Whatever you want to say, Cruz is not a nasty guy.
When you get into criticism, it better be believable.
And it continued.
Is Rush Limbaugh wrong?
No, I think that Rush Limbaugh has a job to do as well.
Rush Limbaugh is the absolute master of Rush Limbaugh.
He has 20 million people who listen to him, and he carries a lot of sway in the Republican Party, the conservative movement in America.
So what he's doing is he's out there defending a person he considers to be uh puritanical, uh orthodox uh conservative.
I'm an Orthodox conservative.
I get where Rush is coming from.
But the whole issue here is that Rush is defending someone that he happens to think a lot of.
What he was saying, this is from a political perspective is a tactical error.
All again, Mr. Trump is doing is passing on what other people inside the Washington Beltway say about Ted Cruz.
Right, see, so they're trying for they are trying so hard.
On the one hand, they are quoting me as an authority to buttress the points they want to make, and then they would just love it if if these Trump people get it.
I mean, they know what's going on.
They hear what I say.
I said, You want to criticize Cruz?
Go right ahead.
I'm just saying that there may be better ways of doing it, but then this guy comes, hey, look, understand what Russia saying, but we gotta remember Mr. Trump is just repeating what other people are saying.
So last night Don Lemon interviewed uh Trump, and they were talking about Trump's speech at Liberty University, and the whole two Corinthians versus second Corinthian things came up.
And Lemon said, you know, you uh you got a lot of guff for this.
Plenty of your supporters defend you, and then there are other people saying it.
It's a screw up.
It's a two Corinthians that a second Corinthians.
You also said hell.
It's a violation of what you say to religious people.
What about this, Donald?
My mother was from Scotland, and in Europe and in the UK, they actually say two.
They say two Corinthians, and a number of people have pointed this out.
And it was not a big deal.
I'm surprised you're even asking the question.
And frankly, Tony Perkins uh wrote that out for me, because Tony thought it would be great.
He knew I was going to liberty, has a great respect for liberty, and Tony Perkins is a very, very good guy.
And he actually wrote out the number two Corinthians, which I could show you very nicely if you'd like.
And I called Tony and he said, no, well, I meant second, but he wrote out the letter to somebody I do respect a lot and like a lot.
We gotta take a break.
We'll do that and be right back.
Right back here.
Don't go away.
Here is Edward in New York, 28 years old.
Great to have you on the program, Edward.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, long time listener, uh first time caller.
Uh I'm I'm in my twenties, and uh I am a Trump supporter, and I guess I'm also a member of what people are calling the the halt, right?
And uh I just wanted to like explain maybe or for maybe a lot of your listeners, uh, why Donald Trump is so uh is so popular despite the the consternation of many in the conservative movement and the Republican Party.
And uh just really simply the Democrat Party for the past half century has been openly the party of the fringes, right?
The party of uh disaffected minority voters, black uh Mexican immigrants, uh single women, uh feminists, all these things, homosexuals in the past, you know, ten years.
And the Republican Party, whether it wants to admit this or not, has become the de facto party of white men.
The only meaningful difference, though, is that the Republican Party is not allowed to appeal to its own constituency.
While the Democrat Party obviously does nothing but appeal to its own constituents.
So when you look at the the political scene in America like this, Donald Trump not only becomes understandable, but he kind of becomes inevitable.
So you think people your age view Trump as something much needed, brand new, breaking from the constraint formula that both parties find themselves in.
Uh, yes, and I I when people you mentioned Charles Crowdhammer earlier, uh, you know, being so puzzled as to why Trump seems impervious to poll uh dropping poll numbers when he, you know, does things like insult Megan Kelly, it's because as weird as this sounds, it's not really about Trump.
It's Donald Trump can kind of do whatever he wants because in a lot of ways he's the only person that seems serious.
And I know that sounds weird to the ears of someone like that.
I totally get it.
No, no, no, no.
I totally this my burden as a host is I totally understand you.
And and the fact that I understand you is making me an enemy.
In some of my own sectors.
The fact that I understand where you're coming from.
When you say it's not really about Trump, it's the opportunity Trump presents.
It's the newness, it's the what have you, it's the breaking out of whatever it is, it's gotta shackled.
I totally get what you're saying.
I like the way you expressed it, too.
But I gotta run.
I'm really out of time.
Edward, thanks very much.
Open line Friday tomorrow, folks.
Looking forward to it, and thank you, as always, so much for being here today.
Have a good one.
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