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Feb. 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I have something here, ladies and gentlemen, I'm holding in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
It is from the archives of Rushlimba.com.
I mean, my website.
December 2nd 2014.
What about 14 months ago?
Jeb Bush.
To win presidency, you have to run against the base.
We have here greetings, my friends, and welcome Rush Limbaugh.
Almost hyperventilating right now.
There is so much to try to squeeze into three hours today.
And I don't think I could do it all justice.
I mean, I could squeeze it all in, but some of it would just be scant few seconds of mention just to qualify that I talked about it.
There is so much roiling out there and so much effervescing out there.
So just hang in there.
We'll get to every bit of it we can.
It's why the program is three hours long.
800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program, we'll be talking to you, of course, as the program unfolds.
The uh the mother of all see I told you so moments.
By the way, there are two postmortems today on the Jeb Bush campaign and what went wrong with it.
One's in the Washington Post, it prints out to seven pages.
There's another one in the politico.
It prints out to five pages.
Both of them pretty much say the same thing.
And if I could synthesize it, if I had to synthesize it down, it would be the Republican establishment and the establishment consultants class raised over $100 million, believing in an old paradigm that all it took was money.
The message, that could come later.
The candidate, yeah, that was somewhat important, but we can't use his last name.
They went into this knowing that there was fatigue in the population for the Bush family and fatigue for the Clinton name as well in terms of Republican vote, and they did it anyway.
And they went out and they raised over a hundred, well, a hundred million dollars of the super pack and whatever they raised for the campaign itself, and they've got zilch to show for it.
And as these people are quoted in interviews, it sounds like they're from the Stone Age.
This is the establishment, these are the people with access to all the donors.
These are the people who could put their hands on that kind of money, and they had no idea what to do with it.
They had no idea what they were doing, all the while thinking they were the only ones who knew what they were doing.
Neither of these pieces uh are hit pieces per se.
I mean, it's it's they're they're mostly retrospectives and just in post-mortems.
And both contain highlights I want to share with you.
But here it is, uh, December 2000, 2014 from uh my website.
We have a Jeb Bush audio soundbite.
I said, let's see.
It's last night in Washington, the Wall Street Journal CEO Council.
It's an invitation-only event featuring some of the nation's most powerful CEOs, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush spoke, and this is what he said.
Remember this?
I don't have the sound, but I'm gonna quote what he said.
I don't know if I would be a good pant candidate or a bad one.
I kind of know how a Republican can win, whether it's me or somebody else.
And it has to be much more uplifting, much more positive, much more willing to, you know, to be practical now in Washington.
Lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles.
And there it was.
Lose the primary with to win the general.
So we embarked on a crusade to define that.
And it didn't take long, we all figured out what it meant because eventually they said so.
They wanted to win the Republican primary for Jeb Bush without securing a majority of votes support from the base.
I. They set out to Do that, and they thought they could do it with money.
They thought they could do it with money, strategy, and message.
But both of these postmortems make it clear that even before they started, they had polling data that told them not to do Jeb Bush.
There was nothing personally against Jeb that anybody had.
It's just the Republican base was tired and wanted to move on from Bush's.
They knew this.
They had every bit of polling data they could have had that told them don't do this, don't go into it, don't start raising the money, you're gonna waste it, and they did it anyway.
And what becomes perfectly clear is that a bunch of people were in this for themselves, and how out of touch they are and were within their own party and where the country is headed.
Nothing that you don't know, so I'm not saying this is earth-shattering stuff, uh except that it well, it actually it kind of is when you see the depths to which everything was misunderstood, miscalculated, or actively known and nevertheless stubbornly fought against to absolutely know available.
So Jeb Bush is out, and this is creating an entirely new paradigm.
Now, folks, I went through uh uh a lot of mainstream media over the weekend and this morning.
And uh there's a theme out there, and you might have heard it bandied about in any number of places.
You've heard it bandied about in the Republican establishment, you've heard it bandied about in the campaign, certain sectors.
Uh, you've heard media people talk about it, and that is that Donald Trump cannot win a general election.
He just can't.
Why, his negatives are way too high.
It would be the absolute worst thing the Republican Party could do.
Who's telling us this?
Once again, our quote unquote friends on the left.
I went through story after story after story of how scared to death they are of Trump.
A Harvard professor actually has a piece today on this is how Hitler did it.
Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler.
The United States is about to become Nazi Germany while nobody is looking.
This is how it happens, she says.
She's a professor at Harvard and any number of other left-wing rags, websites, papers, you name it.
For somebody or a group of people who think that beating Trump would be one of the easiest things they've ever had to do, they sure as heck are scared of him.
And once again, the two don't go together.
If you really think Trump is easy, if you really think beating Trump is the best option you could have if you're a Democrat, then wouldn't you want to be promoting him?
Wouldn't you want to be talking positively wouldn't you wouldn't you be trying to secure his primary victory and nomination on the Republican side?
I mean, the people writing this caustic stuff about Trump.
I mean, there's some on the right, as you know, the mainstream Republicans, but I'm talking specifically now about people on the left who they're never gonna vote for Trump.
Why spend all this energy on how rotten and dangerous Trump is?
Well, now there are possible answers.
These are all establishment people.
Trump's an outsider, doesn't matter.
Republican, Democrat, they don't like outsiders, they got to trash anybody trying to upset their world.
That's understandable.
But I think this is uh is more than that.
I think there's a genuine fear out there that Trump can win.
I think there's a genuine fear, at least that's what I'm interpreting here, that he can beat Hillary Clinton.
And furthermore, I think I think that these people think that about Marco Rubio, too.
And I believe they think it about Ted Cruz.
I think they believe Hillary Clinton is vulnerable.
Which would take us into an entire discussion of what happened uh in in Nevada over the weekend.
Memo to Bernie Sanders, as far as the Democrat National Committee is concerned, you are still a bum.
And Bernie, it's over.
Even Hillary is running around out there now saying we have to be we we have we it we have to be more than just what we're going to give people.
Grab audio soundbite number 20, Saturday night Las Vegas at Clinton Ham campaign headquarters, Hillary addressing supporters after winning the Nevada caucuses.
I want you to think about this.
It can't be just about what we're going to give to you.
It has to be about what we're going to build together.
Your generation is the most tolerant and connected our country has ever seen.
In the days ahead, we will propose new ways for more Americans to get involved in national service and give back to our communities because every one of us has a role to play in building the future we want.
What do you mean community service?
What do you mean, national service?
What do you mean giving back?
We want to know what you're going to give us.
That's why we like Bernie.
And Hillary's telling them there is no Santa Claus, even on the Democrat side.
Also, uh, folks, on this this uh Apple and the Department of Justice and the FBI, you believe how big this has gotten.
You know, people make fun of me, both here at the EIB network and in my personal life.
They make fun of me over my my passion for these devices, which is okay.
People have made fun of me my whole life.
They make fun of my the fact that I really like them.
They make fun of the fact that I'm an expert in these things.
I've had people over the weekend sending me questions, comments about this argument between Apple and the FBI, what it means the terrorist phone.
I have I've taken a lot of time to try to answer in great detail.
I have expressed and tried to correct uh incorrect assumptions that people have.
You know, it's it's amazing to me.
Do you trust this government, folks?
I don't I don't trust the Obama administration.
I never have trusted it.
I don't trust it now, I won't trust it in the future.
And most of you don't either.
Most of you are very suspicious of it, and rightly so.
You should be.
This is an administration that doesn't really care about the Constitution much.
It's trying to transform the country, erase or harm much and many of the things which have defined the greatness.
And yet when this episode comes along, everybody's all in for the government.
Why?
Because there's a terrorist involved.
Yep.
A terrorist, a terrorist phone.
And so everybody throws or casts aside their distrust, their their justified distrust and throws all in because this phone belonged to a terrorist.
To properly understand this situation, to properly, if you really want to know what this is about, you have to forget what kind of phone this is.
iPhone 5C, 5S, 6S, 6 plus.
Forget it doesn't matter.
You have to forget that a terrorist was involved, because that's not what this is really all about.
You have to focus on one thing.
Have you learned through all of this?
Do you now realize, despite how many of you have been running around thinking that the NSA can track your every move?
They can listen to every conversation.
They can maybe even turn on your microphone or camera on your phone and monitor what you're saying because your life is so exciting.
People at the NSA can't stop tracking you.
Now all of a sudden, you're learning the government cannot hack your phone.
You have learned they cannot get into your phone.
Do you want them to be able to?
It's no more complicated than that.
If you want them to be able to get into your phone, then support the FBI.
Tell Apple to shut up and go away.
But this is even more frustrating than that because of what we learned over the weekend.
The terrorist phone was not owned by the terrorist.
Mr. Saeed Farouk Skyhook did not own his phone.
San Bernardino County owned the phone.
And it really I don't mean to sound uh uppity or braggadocious here.
I am fascinated by this tech because of how intricate and in many ways miraculous it is.
I have spent a lot of time learning how to use these devices and learning what they're capable of and how they might help me with my enjoyment of life, but my productivity in life, workflows, and you number I want to know as much about them as I can.
Most people don't.
Understandably.
But here's the thing.
Do you know that over the weekend we learned the FBI told San Bernardino to change the password on this phone?
They thought that they would be able to find out information if they change the well, not the password, the Apple ID password.
It's just it's an absolute mess.
Nobody knows what's going on or how to use these things.
Here's the bottom line as I'm coming up to it on a break.
Since San Bernardino County owned the phone, they could have had total control over it.
If you are a business right now and you deploy iPhones, and I'm gonna stick with iPhones in this case, because that's what I know, but it's true of any others.
If you're a small business, a corporation and you provide phones for your employees and you own those phones, there is something called digital device management.
It is software that allows you to control everything on their phone.
You can put restrictions on what they can do with it.
You can put restrictions on which apps work and which apps won't.
In other words, you can stop them from using the phone personally.
In addition to that, you, because you own the phone, have the ability to erase it at any time and find out what's on it.
You can reset the passcode yourself as the owner of the phone.
You can do it with four clicks.
If the people in San Bernardino County had ever taken the time to find out what they could do with the phones that they were giving to employees, if they had just taken the time to have somebody come in and teach them, we wouldn't be here.
Because there already is a way for the FBI and San Bernardino to get what they want in the circumstance where somebody's using a phone owned by a business, digital device management.
It's software, it's on servers, it costs about four dollars per phone, and you have your IT manager research it and learn how to operate it, and you control and manage every phone that you deploy remotely.
You don't have to have it in your possession to set up these restrictions.
It just has to be signed in to the proper ID, Apple ID, and whatever other identification systems a company uses.
And there is a specific opportunity for owners of phones in this like San Bernardino County.
They could have gone in the moment this incident happened, they could have locked Farouk and whoever out of the phone, anybody else, and only allowed themselves in.
They could have gone in, they could have gotten every bit of data they wanted off that phone via a backup or a dump.
They could have changed the password themselves.
They could have done any number of these things.
But they didn't know they could.
They had no idea.
And I'll wager that 95% of companies or organizations that give away phones or provide them for businesses, have no clue about any of this.
Anyway, sit tight, folks.
We've just begun to set the table.
We will continue in mere moments after this.
I misspoke.
I didn't mean DDM, I meant MDM mobile device management.
And in the case of Apple, it's free.
Other software, $4 a phone is what it averages out, but with OS 10 server, which is simply what you would need.
It's an app, it's a it's a server operating system.
You could you can deploy all you have to do is set up the profiles for the phones that you want that are under your management.
This is why you have an IT guy.
It's why you hire one.
Most people are not going to take the time to learn this, so hire an IT guy.
IT guy does this, manages all the devices.
But the point is, in a situation like this, or any disgruntled employee or any circumstance where you, the employer, need to find out what's on your employee's phone.
Guess what?
Because of mobile device software, there already is a legal backdoor on every phone under mobile device management.
Apple doesn't need to add anything, and the FBI doesn't need to have Apple rewrite software for all of us because what they want exists in a large number of circumstances and did exist in this San Bernardino situation.
But I'm sure the people at San Bernardino were clueless and had no idea.
They even confused the passcode to unlock the phone and the password for the Apple ID connecting the phone to iCloud.
They even they got confused over that.
They literally had no idea what they were doing.
It's stunning what they did not know.
And we're back.
Great to have you on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, El Rushbow.
We'll get back to this Apple FBI security encryption debate as the program unfolds.
Of course, we're moving forward now in the Republican presidential primary.
I think the Democrat thing is over, folks.
It never really got started.
You understand Bernie Sanders was never going to win the nomination.
He was never going to be permitted to win the nomination.
Now, what kind of fallout there is in the Democrat side when Bernie's voters figured that out?
They don't know that yet.
Bernie's voters think he's still in this.
They're starting to get the picture because they see how the superdelegates are being allotted.
Nevada was Hillary's first real win, but it took shenanigans for this to happen.
It took Harry Weed paying off the unions.
It took Harry Reid paying off the unions to prevent caucusing in the casinos.
Hillary Clinton has, with her vast fortune, helped Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and the Democrat National Committee out of some debt.
So the game is in.
It's rigged, it's fixed, and Bernie has always been there, primarily as a foil, although Bernie doesn't know it.
But Bernie has been there to create the illusion that Hillary can overcome a tough fight, that she can engage in a tough fight, that she can survive and thrive, that she's not worried about people coming at her, that she's not in a coordination, that she's prepared to roll up her sleeves and start duking it out with anybody.
Bernie Sanders, she doesn't care who else.
And then Bernie's going to be properly vanquished, and people are going to say, see, this woman is not to be trifled with.
Bernie has been a foil all along, and he is now.
Now the foil may have gotten out of control.
Bernie might have been doing a little bit better than they intended for him to do.
But he was never going to get the Democrat nomination, and he's not going to get it now.
All the actions on the on the Republican side, and the establishment is in a full-fledged panic.
I mentioned last week and the week before and the week before that that the establishment, whoever they are, but pretty much everybody opposed to Cruz and Trump still is of the belief, and they were going into the weekend that Trump's going to implode.
Or something else.
Something's going to happen and Trump's going to get out.
It's the most amazing state of denial that I have seen.
It has what has propelled them.
They spent a hundred million dollars on the Bush camp.
Against who?
Against Trump?
Trump's out getting free media.
Do you realize everything's been tossed upside down here?
Money is the mother's milk of politics.
Hear all these other candidates trying to raise a few bucks here and a few bucks there to buy a couple of ads that might run on TV.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump picks up the phone from Trump Tower and gets ten minutes whenever he wants it on any network.
And if he wants to go down the escalator where they have the camera set up in front of the waterfall, he can appear on camera whenever he wants.
Realize the value of all the media time Trump is getting that he's not paying for.
Yet everybody else is out there trying to raise it dime by Dime dollar by dollar, go out and buy ads and so forth.
It's amazing.
And on the establishment side, they believed that's all it was going to take.
A hundred million dollars, and not a penny of it spent running against Democrats.
How wasteful is that?
I know it's primary.
The opponents right now are Republicans, but part of winning this thing is what you're going to do.
How you're going to stop the people who put it s and mess, and that's the Democrats.
And the Jeb campaign didn't even think to go there.
It's mind boggling to have that kind of money, and after all of this, nothing to show for it.
And I'm reading stories where now they're going to hit up the same donors for Rubio.
How much money do these people have left?
How much do they have left that they actually want to spend?
The same people that asked them for money for Jeb are now asking for for money for Marco.
The same people who've demonstrated they don't know how to spend it.
Who've demonstrated they may not even be on the same playing field that Trump is on.
They're being guided by tradition and age old theory and policy, which has obviously surpassed them.
And it has surpassed them simply because they appeared to be arrogant toward their own grassroots voters.
Jeb Bush, December 2014, to win the presidency, you have to run against the base.
You have to lose the primary to win the general.
This never had a chance.
But they thought it was brilliant.
They thought this new technique was going to shock and awe everybody and sneak up on them.
And do an end run to the nomination without the support of the base.
And when you get down to it, they never got above four or five points where it mattered.
So now it's Panic City.
Now what do they do?
Well, now they've got to coalesce around somebody.
Now you've got people, Lindsay Graham's out there saying, you know what we need?
We need a Ruby Ocasic ticket.
That's what we need.
Right.
You need a Rubio Casey ticket.
I'm sorry that's you still don't have the answers.
But they don't have the answers because they continue to live in denial.
They still don't think that what's happening is happening.
Let me amend that.
What they don't believe that's what's happening is real.
They really don't.
They still think Trump is not going to finish this.
Somehow, some way.
He's going to really, really at some point, he's going to really say something that just that's it.
No more support, no more tolerance, and he's going to be gone.
Or that some miracle is going to happen.
And he's going to come along and get snookered and schlonged by the other candidates.
So what I think they're really doing right now is planning how they are going to upend all of these results once they get to Cleveland and the convention.
I would wager that the brain trust of the Republican establishment is even now trying to figure out how they can send this thing into a brokered convention, how they can come up with a way to basically ignore all the rules they wrote for this campaign for this primary season and this convention and throw it open so that they once again the power brokers can secure what they want in defiance of what the grassroots has expressed here.
I mean, if I were them, that's what I would do.
They obviously can't let go.
They don't want to let go.
This is their party, this is their establishment, this is their power base, this is their livelihood, this is their future.
This is their standard of living, and this upstart here that they don't even think is a Republican to come along and shake, oh, the hell they're just gonna sit by and let this happen.
They've proven they don't know how to stop it, they've proven they don't know what they're up against, they've proven they do not have the slightest idea.
And this has got to be a shock to them.
They thought they're the experts, folks.
They thought they were the only ones who knew how to do something like this.
Win a nomination for the presidency.
They had all the power.
They had all the money, they had all the inside games, they had all the tactics, they had all the power, they had the ability to pull the levers and maneuver this however they wanted, and nothing they did got them over four or five points.
You look at the exit polling data coming out of South Carolina, and some of the predictive polling for the future.
The AP here, and you can you can just sense the disappointment.
As this was written, a new AP poll finds registered Republicans and Republican-leaning voters put Trump at the top of the GOP field when it comes to which candidate best fits with their stand on the issues.
They give Trump the best marks for competence and decisiveness.
Far more Republicans than not say they would vote for Trump in the general election.
86% of Republican voters believe he can win in November.
That gives him a 15% point advantage over his nearest rival.
Now, the conventional wisdom is that Trump can't win.
His negatives are too high.
It'd be an embarrassing landslide loss for the Republicans if Trump could.
It's over.
Hillary will mop the floor.
But 86% of Republican voters think he can win.
And based on my reading of the drive-by media yesterday and today, they're scared to death he can win.
While they write that he can't.
While they write that he has no chance, while they write that he is the modern incarnation of Adolf Hitler, while they write that he would blow up the Constitution and do great damage to the country, and while they write that his supporters are clueless and do not even know who they're really supporting, they say there's no chance he can win.
Well, then encourage him to go forward, wouldn't you?
If you're the Democrats and you're scared to death this guy and you don't want him to win, and you don't believe he can, if you think that he is guaranteed to lose in a landslide, why don't you people on the left start encouraging every Republican primary voter to support him?
Why not run the trick?
Why not do the trick?
If Trump is your guaranteed route to Hillary Clinton becoming president, why don't you promote him instead of writing all these pieces while you're so afraid of him?
And why everybody else should be afraid of him.
Predictions of Trump's inevitable political demise have arrived almost daily.
This is back to the AP story, since the brash real estate mogul jumped into the White House race.
They came again after last weekend's Republican debate when Trump aggressively went after Bush as president.
They've concluded here at his comments on Bush on 9-11, weapons of mass destruction, and none of that hurt him.
They don't believe it.
They can't understand it.
They thought he would be finished after his introductory remarks back on the 16th of June.
Meanwhile, in South Carolina, the Republican turnout was yet another record.
The real news is Democrat turnout so far.
Wherever you go, the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire, Nevada, Democrat turnout.
You need a microscope to see it.
It is that small.
Republican turnout.
Republican voters shattering South Carolina primary record Saturday night with almost all precincts reporting.
737,000 votes had been counted 20% higher than 2012.
By contrast, a Democrat turnout has tumbled from its 2008 records in all three contests, including Saturday and Nevada.
Eighty thousand voters took place in Nevada 33% fewer than in 2008.
So to sum it up, Republican primary, South Carolina beat their previous record by 20%.
The Democrat turnout was down by a third.
Safe to say Republican base is fired up.
Despite the establishment's best efforts, the Republican base is fired up.
And there were some crossover voters.
Yes, I'm watching the clock stick with me here.
In South Carolina, 24%, 24% of South Carolina primary voters were not Republican.
So basically, one quarter of those who voted Saturday for the Republic were not Republicans.
Of that 24%, Trump got 33% of them.
Rubio got 19%.
Ted Cruz got 17%.
And we will be back.
And we are back.
El Rushbow having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
So nearly 25% of the voters in the South Carolina primary were Democrats.
Trump only got 33% of them.
Now stop and think about him.
You might say he made an appeal in that Saturday night debate.
But Rubio and Cruz together got 17 or 17.
30-17 in it, 36%.
Trump got 33%.
My my point is that Rubio and Cruz haven't said anything.
That sounds like any Democrats is, and yet there were some Democrat crossover voting for them.
Now, it could be they're trying to sabotage Trump, it could be the number of things or it could also be that there actually is some Democrat fallout for the Democrat position crossing over to uh join Republicans.
Well no, it's too soon to say.
To the phones, I gotta get a phone in the first hour.
Steve in Duluth, Georgia.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, thanks, Rush Megadiddos.
You bet.
Great to have you.
I have a definitive knowing what I know a little bit about the technology.
Um my opinion is is that uh Apple should uh develop a tool of some sort that would remedy this, and I think the best legal way to do it, as with any device, legal device you have today, you have to have a court order.
You simply have to have a court order to attain, for example, you just can't walk through my front door and get into my computer without a court order.
Uh same thing with the phone.
Uh I I believe they should develop uh you know technology to do that.
Now I will tell you that I'm affiliated with a company and we do uh hundreds of thousands of repairs, refurbishment warranty work, uh turnover of phones uh a month.
So we see we see everything.
And I will tell you, and this is not a well-known thing at all, even though you can delete, delete, delete, delete to your your heart's content.
When I get that phone back, if you've taken it back for repair, refurbishment or whatever, even if you go into the store, for example, at your favorite cellular store and you decide this to try a new phone, and within the 15-day or 30-day period you don't like it, you take it back.
That phone comes the same route as if it were broke.
And I can go into that phone, even though pr presumably you've uh presumptively you've taken away all the information.
It's not true.
I can get to it, I can look at it, I can see the pictures, I can see the text, I can see the numbers.
Um and it's my job, oh, by the way, from the manufacturer or whatever that manufacturer might be, uh to wait a minute.
Now, you're telling me the phone has been wiped, you can still get the f the pictures from.
Yep.
Well, then if that's true, then why is the FBI even messing around with Apple?
Why don't you just go in there and get what's on the phone?
Well, uh good question.
Um I will tell you that uh, you know, the iPhone is unique in several different ways with regards to the technology the way they set up their access.
Um the other Android phones are much easier to do this with, but uh being that it's a new Apple device and that sort of thing, th there are there are several different ways, in my opinion, what I know, and and I don't know uh i I'm so far away from uh Well, let me I'm I'm I'm running out of time.
Let me answer my own question.
The reason Apple doesn't go in and get the data that you claim is there, and on this phone it is, I dispute your notion that you can go get data like full photos and text and whatever from a phone that has been wiped and erased and basically reset up with factory defaults is brand new.
Now I know that people who may have done damage to the phone, you can maybe find bits of data from and get parts of their pictures back, but a phone that's actually been wiped, de-goussed, cleaned up, factory defaults, you're out of luck.
But the answer to the question, why doesn't the FBI just go on because there isn't a back door built in yet.
And if somebody is forced to build one, it's gonna end up on everybody's phone, not just this one.
It's not no other way possible.
I'm out of time.
I'm too.
And the FBI has a court order for this phone.
Apple's ignoring it.
That's what the fight's all about.
Well, it's about more than that, but sadly, my friends, out of uh precious broadcast moments at this moment.
But stay glued to where I know you can't move anyway.
You can't go anywhere.
You're locked here.
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