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May 6, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 6, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yes, and greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's great to have you here as we are at the beginning of the end of another busy broadcast week.
I just saw out there.
I think it was on Fox.
Somebody was discussing how Hillary is going to bring in Elizabeth Warren as her designated Trump attacker.
You want to talk about being off the reservation?
That is it.
From the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday.
This is where callers get to choose what it is they talk about.
Well, we get to choose every day, but the thing about Friday, it doesn't have to be what we're talking about.
Doesn't have to be anything I'm interested in.
It can be anything else.
So if there's anything bothering you, anything you want to get off your chest.
You're tired of the campaign, other things, this is the day to go for it.
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This program, I ought to be honest, it's getting harder and harder and harder to do here, folks.
And I don't – I'm not joking.
I'm not trying to be lighthearted and make a joke, be funny or any of that.
It's just getting tougher and tougher.
I don't think, what are we in our 28th year, 27th, whatever it is?
I'm sitting here, I'm trying to recall if I can remember a time where there has ever been such panic.
I've I'm I'm drawing a blank.
I do not recall a time seriously, uh, where there's been the degree, and I'm going to share with you examples of it here today so that you know what I'm talking about.
The degree of panic out there I've not seen on our side, I mean, uh in in all the years that I have been doing this program.
Now, everybody knows that Paul Ryan is uh keeping arm's length from Trump.
He's saying, no, no, no, no, I can't do it right now.
I cannot.
I cannot endorse Trump.
I have to wait and see what's gonna happen.
You know, it it's interesting to me, amazing, interesting what have or what have you, to see all of these self-identifying Republicans and conservatives speaking out against the Trump revolution.
And that's fine.
Don't misunderstand me here.
Please listen to what I say.
I'm gonna be as precise about this as I can.
It is the degree of panic and anger and all is lost, and it's all been for nothing.
Sentiment.
I've never seen anything like it, and I don't know how to deal with it.
Because I'm not there.
I'm not that.
I never am that, and I never have been that, and I don't want to be that.
So I don't know how to deal with it.
And I don't want to fake it and act like I'm down in the dumps depressed and all is lost just to relate to you, if you are, because that's I can't do it.
I look at all of the self-identifying Republicans and and conservatives speaking out against Trump, and as I say, that that's fine, but uh some of the some of the people speaking out.
I don't remember anywhere near this kind of panic or fear or anger over Obama.
Obamacare, the Supreme Court's judgments in Obamacare.
I mean, if if people wanted to get angry and panicked and all is lost, I would think the last seven and a half years would have uh sufficed.
But I'm telling you, the vitriol that is going on, the anger within whatever you want to call it, conservative movement, Republican Party, the long knives are out, the daggers are out, everybody's throwing them.
Everybody's trying to win the contest.
Who can write the most red flag piece?
I mean, Barack Obama continues to fundamentally transform this country.
Fundamentally ignore the Constitution.
Fundament.
And there have been some people upset about it, and there have been some people, but the Republican Party hasn't.
The Republican Party never said a word.
This is the thing.
They wouldn't say a word in criticism of Obama that they meant.
It was all lip service.
The anger, the panic, the call to action, whatever it was, I haven't seen it.
Aimed at Democrats like I'm seeing it now because Trump has theoretically won the Republican nomination.
So many of the same people who said they would never back Trump because if he didn't get his way, he might run third party.
You remember that?
So many people way back last July and last August said that they would never back Trump because if he didn't get his way, he might run third party, are now saying the only solution we have is to go third party.
And there's all kinds of arguments about what that means.
How do we do it?
Do we do third party symbolically, or do we actually come up with somebody third party that can win?
Well, let me tell you how a third party candidate can win, and you tell me whether you want to sign on to this.
The only way a third party candidate can win this the timing alone to get ballots, signatures, rather, and everything to get the third-party candidate on the ballot in all 50 states, some deadlines for next week for this.
But let's say they've got some.
If you really want a third-party candidate to win, you are gonna have to see to it that neither Hillary nor Trump get 270 electoral votes, and the thing gets thrown to the House of Representatives, and they get to choose who the president is, and it could be anybody.
That's the only way a third party goes.
How do you think that's gonna play out?
Who do you think the Republican House of Representatives leadership, if they had a chance, if the election's deadlocked, nobody gets a 270, so the Constitution says it goes to the House, folks.
Low information crowd in our country, you let that happen.
Can you imagine what they're gonna think?
You think about rigged situations.
It won't be, but they have to deal with that.
Then who would the House come up with?
Who would they select?
They don't have it wouldn't have to be Trump.
By definition, it wouldn't have to be Trump.
It could be their third party guy if they're happy with one if they actually nominated or chose one that could actually win.
Point is it's a um it's a long shot.
Uh but here's Paul Ryan, who's the highest elected Republican in the land, Speaker of the House, saying he may not support the party nominee, which, again, fine with me.
I there's I've run out of energy to get so agitated over everything that's in the news.
I just don't have a capacity anymore.
There's too much of it out there.
I'm gonna go at this a different way.
I'll just tell you this.
From what I gather, and we've got sound bites coming up, there's little tiff going on here, that Ryan wants Trump to move more in his his direction before he can sign off and endorse.
And Trump's out there saying he doesn't like the Ryan agenda, and that I won, and you're gonna have to come to me.
I think if if if somebody prevails on Trump, do I really want to say this?
Let me ask myself, do I really want to say this?
See, this is I've got these dilemmas, folks.
I'm I'm starting to ask myself what's safe to say and what isn't anymore.
I mean, and keep you here, not have you run for the tall grass.
Let me reserve that.
I'm gonna hold that in reserve.
We'll do some other things too, and I'll get back to this, this Ryan Trump tiff.
Because I think there's a right thing for Trump to do here and a wrong thing.
If he wants to win, there's a right thing and a wrong thing to do.
Just don't know how many of you want to hear it.
I gotta take a break after this, be right back.
Don't go away, folks.
Open line Friday, welcome back.
Rush Lib Boy here on the cutting edge.
So the economy is in the tank, confirmed.
All the April economic news is out, jobs news and everything.
So what does Obama do?
Come out and spin it.
He's doing a presser or some sort of press availability right now at the White House, timed exactly to coincide with the beginning of this program, which he is wont to do.
Here are the numbers that you need to know.
April.
160,000 new jobs in April, vast majority of them part-time.
That is 50,000 below expectations.
The expectations are meaningless.
It's just a bunch of economic experts who don't know what they're talking about.
They're constantly surprised.
Every month, the media reports, the experts are surprised over what actually happened given their predictions.
But the bottom line is you can create all these jobs or not create all these jobs.
People's incomes are not rising.
People do not have more disposable income.
People do not have more liberty and freedom with their money.
So all of this is, you know, just irrelevant, but but there's Obama out there trying to spin this and use this as what he's doing.
This is an occasion to call for more government spending, get the economy going.
We're into our eighth year with Barack Hussein Obama, and we're still not spending enough money, even though we have doubled the national debt on his watch, but it still isn't enough.
Nope.
We need more.
We need more government stimulation.
Stimulus.
We need more government spending, and it needs to be fair.
That's the problem.
The money that's been spent so far hasn't quite been fair.
We need to redistribute the money.
Have you seen what the DOJ is going to do?
What Obama wants DOJ to do?
We're going to get rid of the term felon.
Too judgmental.
That's right, my friends.
We've got to broom the term felon.
There's one other term.
What is it here that we're getting rid of?
Did I put this at the bottom of the stack did I put it at the bottom of?
I'll find it here in just a second.
But we are getting rid of the term felon and one other convicted criminal, some such thing.
Because those are those are too stigmatizing and too judgmental.
This is not fair to those people.
It creates unfair image of them.
They've got another jail.
They've paid their debt to society to continue to call them convicts and felons.
Officially government, we're not going to do it.
It's just another in a never-ending assault on the dominant culture that existed since the days of the founding of this country.
Supposedly created in April is the fewest announced created jobs in seven months.
The labor force participation rate plummeted yet again.
The number of Americans not working, 94.04 million Americans.
I don't know what the adult population of the country is, I'd guess 210.
220 million.
Forty percent of them are not working.
You cannot have economic growth with that.
You can't have economic growth.
You can't have rising productivity without rising productivity.
You can't have rising wages.
Increased salaries just can't have it.
94 million Americans, somebody has to buy their food, somebody has to pay them to eat.
Somebody has to pay for them to get in their cars, somebody has to pay for them to use their cell phones.
Somebody has to pay for when they get sick.
Speaking of when you get sick, the government has purloined one-sixth of the U.S. economy in the terms of Obamacare.
So not only is the government spending more and choking more, it is making the economy where the American dream languishes smaller.
Never did pick up.
This is the thing.
Measured against what did economic growth slow.
Sure.
There hasn't been any appreciable economic growth Since Obama was inaugurated, there hasn't been any to write home about.
Otherwise, the number one issue in exit poll after exit poll after exit poll in primary after primary after primary, to the tune of 80% to 85%, number one most important issue to you, the economy.
Second most important issue to you, the economy.
Third most important issue to you, the economy.
Every primary, Republican, Democrat, most important issue, economy, because nobody is getting ahead.
And nobody feels confident that the pieces are in place to get ahead.
Where's the anger over that?
Where's the panic about that?
Where's the all is lost attitude about that?
Where has it been for the last seven and a half years?
J.C. Penny taking emergency measures to stay afloat.
Whatever they are, I didn't click the link.
Just another American corporation in trouble for all kinds of reasons that you can trace back to in part the United States government.
Not every business would be doing great.
Some of them are run by people that don't know what they're doing, some have made mistakes.
I don't try to lay it all off on the government, but the government's become one of the biggest impediments to corporate success because of crony capitalism.
The government sidling up and making deals with certain CEOs of certain industries and certain businesses.
The biggest result of that is a company, in order to grow, no longer has to innovate.
A company doesn't have to come up with a better product.
Company doesn't have to come up with a better service because the government's got their back.
And when the government's got their back, the government doesn't have the backs of their competitors.
The competitors take it in the shorts.
The corporation and CEO that's sidled up to Obama, you can crony socialism or capitalism won't even they're protected.
But the main thing is they don't have to defeat their competitors in order to grow.
They don't have to produce better services.
And so when you see JCPenney taking emergency measures to stay afloat, I doubt that Obama has any special arrangement with J. C. Penny.
And then, of course, one of the big headlines here, record Americans renounce citizenship.
That's something I don't know about the numbers.
I didn't click on the link again.
All I know is this is not the kind of news story that you see every day.
Uh 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 25 years ago, but you do see it in the last five to eight years.
You see a lot of it.
Americans renouncing their citizenship.
So that's the real world.
That's what's happening now.
We have on the Democrats side, we got Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman, who has lied to people about the way she got her name.
She told people that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
She told Sir Edmund Hillary that she was named after him.
Now, for those of you who don't know, Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest.
Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest years after Hillary Clinton was born.
Nobody had heard of Edmund Hillary when she was born, because he hadn't done anything yet.
But it doesn't matter.
She's running around telling everybody that she was named after him.
And everybody properly ooed and odd and so forth.
And it's just one of countless classic similar lies that Hillary Rodham Clinton has told her entire life, her entire career in politics.
And now we learn that Elizabeth Warren, who has also lied about having one hundredth of a cell of Indian blood, so that she would qualify as a minority in order to get a job at Harvard.
Has now been designated the official Trump attacker in the Clinton administration.
As I say, talk about being off the reservation.
So we're going to take a break here coming up just shortly at the bottom of the hour.
And I'm going to tell you what's coming.
It's open line Friday, and I want I do want to get some of your phone calls in.
And actually, we try to take more on Friday than any other day.
But here's some headlines.
The conservative catastrophe ahead.
For the conservative movement, it is Armageddon, as we now know who the next president will be.
That's Hillary Clinton.
That's Paul Kanger.
I think it's pronounced his name American Spectator.
Dr. Thomas Sowell and his syndicated column, an unmitigated disaster.
Donald Trump will be the next Herbert Hoover.
And that just scratches the surface of the various things out there today, attempting to describe where conservatives today are because of Trump.
Back in a second.
Here's what J.C. Penny is doing.
They're reducing both full and part-time employees.
They're reducing their hours, both sides.
Those who typically work 25 hours a week are being cut to 10 or 15 hours a week.
And of course, there won't be any health care benefits.
Then we're going to tune around.
We're going to listen to Obama and Hillary and the Democrats.
Well, not Hillary.
Not Hillary.
And not Bertie.
We're going to listen to Obama.
Other Democrats tell us what great recovery we got.
Well, yeah, this economy just truck it along.
Hillary can't say that because she's running for office, so she's out there talking about how rotten it is.
And that doesn't seem to calculate with anybody.
Really?
You're out there ripping the economy.
You've been a part of it.
It's yours.
Everything happening in this economy is stuff that you believe.
Every policy implemented, you believe it.
You supported it.
She's out there ripping it.
The only choice that she has.
She ought to be a sitting duck.
Hillary Clinton ought to be a sitting duck.
Hillary Clinton ought not have a prayer.
But no, everybody's still scared to death of her and assuming that she's a shoe-in now.
It's over, folks.
I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Countless columns, blog posts.
It's over.
Already.
Even before Trump is the official nominee.
It's over.
I'm overwhelmed with it.
I doubt that a lot of people read as much as I do.
It's my job.
It's my passion, by the way.
It's show preps.
I encounter a lot of it.
And the sheer volume is I've never seen it like this before.
Let me just give you some examples here.
And again, I'm not harping on anyone.
And I want everybody to understand I'm not doing it in this to rip into anybody or be critical of anybody.
I'm not trying to pick fights with anybody.
I'm just telling you what I found when I started doing show prep.
And in no particular order, by the way.
This is strictly me imparting information, pure and simple.
American Spectator, uh, two days ago.
The Conservative Catastrophe Ahead by Paul Kangar.
Maybe I just do this without even tell you who wrote these.
That might be the best way to do this, because it's not really my point is having you know who these people are for the purposes of taking action on it.
That's not what I'm trying to do.
Anyway.
For the conservative movement, it's Armageddon, as we now know who the next president will be.
Americans in 2016 resolved their next president, not on November 8th.
The official date to come of the election.
No, it happened on May 3rd in the state of Indiana.
It is Hillary Rodden Clinton, with Donald Trump winning Indiana and Ted Cruz thereby suspending his campaign.
The seal has been broken.
For conservatives, Armageddon is fully upon us.
A Hillary Clinton presidency, once seemingly impossible, when a half dozen to a dozen attractive Republicans could have defeated her, is now a fate-compli, courtesy of Trump and His supporters.
An unwaveringly devoted sect of followers have pushed a crass, vulgar, uninformed, unstable TV celebrity, casino mogul, cult of personality figure through the Republican primary process,
a man unequivocally unsuited in temperament, character, grace, and knowledge for the presidency of the U.S. Marco Rubio put it best when he described Trump as a charlatan and a con man who must not be allowed to hijack the conservative movement and the party of Lincoln and Reagan.
Well, fear not a permanent hijacking because Trump's leadership of the GOP will last only until November, after which he will slink back to New York, and Hillary Clinton will slide into the White House.
Trump can not win.
Because the vast majority of Americans outside the tight sect of Trumpists are repulsed by the man.
A friend of mine emailed me yesterday, he's a lifelong Democrat, who, like many Democrats I know, was planning on voting Republican this election because he despises Hillary.
He liked Cruz, he liked Rubio.
He would have supported almost any of the original 17 Republicans except Trump.
Now he is so appalled at Republicans that he can hardly contain his anger.
His email contains a very strong language, and at the risk of offending some of you, I include it only because it's symptomatic of what I'm hearing from Democrats.
Quote, I am stunned that supposedly educated people fool themselves into thinking this guy has any intention of implementing any of the bull that he spews out.
Trump has no ideology other than himself.
I mean, Jesus Christ, what the F bomb is happening?
This guy claims that that's the tenor of emails that he is receiving.
And by the way, the guy sent me the email he says here is highly educated.
Graduate studies in military history from a great European university, University of Leeds.
He was excited about voting Republican in 2016.
Now he thinks Republicans are at minimum stupid.
And at worst, borderline fascists.
He wants no part of a political party that would nominate Donald Trump.
This is the perception and brand damage that Trump is creating for the GOP and the conservative movement, writes this guy at the American Spectrus.
Not me speaking, he was joining me.
This is I'm reading to you examples of the panic, anger, whatever you want to call it out there.
It will hurt the GOP for a long time.
As for the conservative movement, the damage is less so because Trump is so obviously not a conservative and thus cannot lead an ideological movement he does not understand.
Oh, yeah, well, I got another piece here where it says Trump has hijacked the conservative movement, and Trump is what people think conservatives are now, and you conservatives, it's over for you.
This guy's happy about it.
He works at Fox News.
Oh, yeah, very happy you guys, Trump's hijacked the conservative movements because of all your blowhard conservatives on radio and TV.
Trump's come in, he studied you, and he's used what you didn't have the guts to do, and he's taken over your movement.
That's another example.
I want to get to the end of this American spectator piece.
Because with something like this, you obviously what the hell do we do?
If it's this band, what do we do?
Well, here's what this article says.
Alas, where does the historic Donald Trump massacre of 2016 leave conservatives?
It banishes us to an even longer period of exile in our own land, still further removed from the ideals of the American founders.
The year 2016 takes us another leap away from 1776.
Over the next four to eight years of a Hillary Clinton presidency, we have a lot of work to do, and we conservatives should brace ourselves to accept that most of our efforts are going to end in failure.
A man named Donald Trump arrived on the scene and torched it all.
His scorched earth candidacy fueled by his devout supporters leaves us gasping among smoldering ruins with liberalism dancing upon the ashes.
So uh it's all Trump's fault and his supporters, but uh so what do we do here?
Uh it banishes to an even longer period of exile in our own land.
There and I've looked there are other pieces that don't quite get this pointed or victory.
I'm like, but say the same thing.
And they all have at the end of them, they all have a uh almost a similar conclusion that we gotta roll up our sleeves, and we gotta keep working, and we gotta persuade these Trump voters.
We gotta tell them that they're wrong.
We gotta get to these Trump voters, and we gotta tell them what conservatism is.
We gotta get to these Trump supporters and we gotta define conservatism for we gotta convert them to conservatism.
We've got to get to these Trump and I'm thinking.
No, I don't know if you want to know what I'm thinking.
I better even think about that.
I'll do that.
Okay, back to a miniature review of things I have found and things, and by the way, I'm being I'm being sent emails from people too, describing how bad it's going to be that we're gonna be just this is landslide defeat headed our way, but there's just nothing we can do about it.
It's gonna be worse than anything anybody imagined.
Um I guess it's good if you're trying to sell subscriptions to something like the Wall Street guy's always told me that the best way to amp subscriptions is to sell panic.
Unless you do this will generate new subscriptions to whatever left and right.
Maybe some of that's going on here.
I don't know.
But here's another one.
Again, no names.
Not the point.
National Review online.
National Review online.
Fourth, I'm just I'm I'm joining this one in progress.
This is another what what we this is how conservatives can move forward.
Well, what do we do now, type thing?
Number four, reject the cult of celebrity in conservatism in favor of building enduring, meaningful conservative cultural institutions.
If the current election cycle has revealed anything, it's demonstrated it large chunks of the celebrity right, you know, the people who spent most of the last ten years or so calling out rhinos and proclaiming themselves the true arbiters of American conservatism, those celebrities.
They have proven they are little more than populist audience whores following where the lowest common denominator leads.
I wonder who he's talking about.
Who are these conservative celebrities?
Somebody name for me a conservative celebrity.
Oh, you think he might be talking about me?
Oh, I hadn't considered that.
Oh, reject the cult of celebrity in favor of building enduring, meaningful conservative cultural institutions.
If the current election cycle has revealed anything, it's demonstrated large chunks of the celebrity right.
You know, the people who spent most of the last ten years or so calling out rhinos and proclaiming themselves the true arbiters of American conservatism.
They've proven they're little more than populist audience whores.
Following where the lowest common denominator leads.
You don't think he's talking about me?
Last year, it doesn't matter who he's talking about.
No, that's not even the...
You can call anybody out you want.
Is this mighty Is this serious?
You really think this is the problem?
This threads like jealousy for crying out loud.
What do you mean?
I it just boggles my mind.
You know, you you you learn a lot about people in situations like you find it really bothers them personally.
Celebrity conservatives are the problem.
Okay, I'm just, as I say, I'm just tossing it out.
Now, there was somebody reacted to it at National View who said, I would uh I agree with you about the need to reject the cult of celebrity, and maybe I'm not understanding this paragraph correctly, but I would warn against being afraid of calling out Republicans who are acting like Democrats and shaming those.
So somebody responded, well, there were Ron out Rhinos for crying out loud, and we better not stop calling them that.
So there's that.
Let's see.
I didn't put these in any order.
What's next?
Um, I got this Paul Ryan business, and I I uh need to set that aside because that's its own subject.
Here's uh time here's uh Thomas Sowell, Dr. Thomas Sowell, an unmitigated disaster.
Donald Trump will be the next Herbert Hoover.
Republican Party leaders may have worried that Trump would not only lose the general for the presidency, but would also so poison the image of the party as to cause Republican candidates for Congress and for state and local offices to lose also.
Oh, that's another thing.
Yeah.
Trump getting a nomination is guaranteed.
We're gonna lose the House now, gonna lose the Senate, we're gonna be in a wilderness.
And we gotta roll up our sleeves and we've got to start all over.
And we've got to start talking to Trump people.
We gotta convince him that Trump's a bad guy.
We gotta convince him what conservatism is.
We've got to really start working on him.
We gotta start persuading people.
I read this and I say, what in the hell has been going on the last 25 years then?
What do you mean start over?
What has been going on for the last 25 years, if not the attempt to spread conservatism.
And even if you want to make the argument that Trump has hijacked conservatism.
Uh which again is its own subset of a of a of a topic.
But I just some of this stuff just hits.
I'm I like I say, I don't have the capacity for this kind of doom.
I it just in my makeup, I don't have the capacity for this kind of defeatism or negativism.
Now, and I'm allowing that some of this might be, as I said, you know, this stuff is written on blogs and websites, and they might be trying to amp up subscriptions, but I guarantee you the react, he's accusing us of being audience horse now.
He's accusing us of feeling the lowest government, he's abusing us of saying what we say, only to get an No.
No, but I'm at the possibilities.
I know that it happens with people that sell subscriptions to financial newsletters and stuff.
Anyway, Dr. Sowell's concern is in bringing up Herbert Hoover.
You know, Herbert Hoover was the Republican when the depression started.
And because of that, all you had to do to defeat a Republican for 50 years after the depression was to say he's Herbert Hoover-like.
Herbert Hoover was one of the worst things that ever happened, even though he was not a bad guy.
He just happened to be the president when the depression started.
Well, Trump's going to do the same thing.
Since Trump has hijacked a Republican Party, since Trump has somehow found a way to get the lowest common denominator of the Republican primary elected to vote for him.
It's going to be such a disaster.
Hillary's going to win 55 states, maybe 57 states.
She's going to win states that we haven't even found yet.
She's going to win it so big and so bad, Trump may not get 10 votes.
And that means when it's all over for 50 years, the Republican Party is toast because it's always going to be associated with Trump.
That's the premise of the Dr. Sowell piece.
And people, I have been sent 10 copies of this today.
Yeah, Rush, you ought to read this.
You see, see?
He's right, Rush.
You need to read this.
Jeez.
So I read it.
And I've told you about it.
Now I gotta take a brief time out.
I've sorry I wanted to get phone calls started this hour, but I failed.
Uh we'll we'll we'll get earlier.
We'll start earlier on the phones in the next hour.
I promise we'll be back.
The political damage of Donald Trump to the Republican Party is completely overshadowed by the damage he can do to the country and to the world with his unending reckless and irresponsible statements just this week.
Trump blithely remarked that South Korea should be left to its own defenses.
Meanwhile, where was this kind?
I don't do I need to ask this.
We want to talk about Trump and South Korea after we have an Iran nuke deal like we've got, and we just found out.
Thanks to a New York Times profile that the guy working for Obama who did it.
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