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May 27, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 27, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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You know this this Hillary email stuff, she's it this is beginning a she's just looking like an idiot here now.
She tries to explain all this stuff away.
She's keeping it alive, it's not going away.
This this stuff um they're not gonna be able to get rid of this, even no matter what happens in the nomination convention throughout the whole campaign, it's gonna be dragging along, and what a brilliant idea.
I don't know if Trump even knows how brilliant the idea he has is to debate Crazy Bernie.
You talk about a brilliant live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
You know, we were talking yesterday about instincts and how Trump should just keep following.
Like promising, you know, suggesting somebody walked up to him and started giving grief about calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas, and he just shouted right back at them and doubled down on.
And I don't even know if Trump.
Please don't misunderstand me on this.
This is a testament to his instincts.
I don't know if he realizes how really brilliant this proposed debate with Crazy Bernie is.
And I think everybody's missing the reason why it's brilliant.
Greetings, folks, great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone, telephone number, open line Friday.
Whoever you want to talk about's fine.
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And the email address is L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
And hang on just a second, my batteries become unseated here.
And before I can hear myself.
There we go, got it back.
Okay.
The thing you've heard that the Democrats are in like Joe Manchin and some of these others.
No, no, no.
Don't debate.
No, they're mad at Bernie.
They're mad at Crazy Bernie for accepting it.
Crazy Bernie is thanking Jimmy Kimmel for suggesting the idea.
Trump went along with it.
Now the Democrats, you would think that they're upset about this because it's upstaging Hillary.
And Hillary would be upset about it for that reason.
But I don't think that's why the Democrats are worried about this.
I don't think that's got them.
She's only what?
How many delegates away?
I know that wouldn't have much to do with upstaging.
It's a factor.
But I think what they're really worried about.
So far, the Crazy Bernie campaign hasn't been seen by very many people.
Remember the Democrat debates took place on Saturday nights, or as they say in my hometown of Cape Girardo, Saturday.
They took place on Saturday nights.
Nobody watched them.
Debbie Blabbermaus Schultz purposely scheduled those debates when nobody's watching TV.
Now people are aware that Crazy Bernie's winning.
And people are aware that Crazy Bernie's doing, but they don't know what Crazy Bernie's saying, because that campaign is not taking place in mass media.
It's taking place if the uh the physical locations, and there are excerpts, of course, highlights, news stories, and the drive-by media about it.
But Crazy Bernie hasn't had anywhere near the national exposure that, say Trump has had, or even that Hillary has.
And I'm here to tell you folks that the reason why there is such panic and palpable fear on the Democrat side that this may actually happen.
They are afraid the public is going to end up seeing the real Democrat agenda with the mask off and with no camouflage, if they put Bernie out there.
I mean, Hillary's a radical socialist too, but she knows how to cover it up.
She knows how to hide it.
She knows how to mask it.
She knows how to camouflage it.
She's much better at that.
So was slick Willie.
Obama is good at hiding it.
Crazy Bernie doesn't even try to.
Crazy Bernie is just pedaled to the metal, testicles to the wall, as far as he can go on this.
And nobody has seen it.
And if that could be seen as what the Democrat, this is the most exciting guy in the Democrat Party.
That's why they're worried, folks.
Remember, Democrat Party, it's as true today as it was 27 years ago when I started this program.
They cannot win national elections by being honest about their intentions.
Just to re-illustrate.
If Barack Obama told everybody what was going to happen to the national debt before he ran for office as part of his campaign, he wouldn't have got elected.
If he had explained exactly what was going to happen with the passage of Obamacare, he would not have been elected.
He had to lie.
You like your doctor, get to keep your doctor.
Like your plan, you get to keep your plan.
Premium's coming down $2,500.
They have to lie about their intentions, and they have to lie about the outcome, the results.
Crazy Bernie doesn't.
Crazy Bernie's out there proudly, happily shouting all of this.
Crazy left-wing socialism stuff.
Somebody asked him, Gracy Bertie.
How do you explain Venezuela?
He didn't want to go there.
You know, when you when you when you ask an avowed socialist about any avowed socialist failure, you either don't get an answer or you get some derivative.
Well, you know, they didn't have enough money.
Well, you know, the right people weren't in charge.
I'm the right people.
We're the ones we've been waiting for.
You get something like that.
But he was asked about about Venezuela, the other South American countries that are falling apart by Univision of all people.
That's who asked him.
And his response was in effect to tell him to shut up.
He said he wants him to concentrate on his campaign, as if the real life effect of radical socialism doesn't have a bearing on the campaign of a radical socialist.
But this is why, and have you heard Hiller's reaction?
Oh, no, no, no, no, they're not going to do that.
They're just kidding.
You know, this is they're just kidding about this.
Meanwhile, she's sitting over there saying, what the hell is going on here?
What's Trump doing debating?
And she's out there saying, no, no, no, Trump's going to be debating me.
She doesn't want that to happen either.
Now, this is a brilliant move.
And I do mean it when I said I don't know if Trump knows how I'm not trying to insult him.
I'm trying to compliment his instincts here.
His instincts just serve him so well.
It's it's breathtaking to watch.
And I have to tell you all something.
You people in this audience, I am so impressed.
You in this audience have memories rivaling my own.
And I am genuinely dazzled by it.
I had a number of emails today asking me how in the world I am going to defend Trump for saying that when he was asked what he wants the Republican Party to be, his answer was, I want it to be a workers' party.
And there are people in this audience who remember me decrying that term and ridiculing that term as having socialist communist roots.
And I've always pointed out socialists and communists.
Fidel Castro, he calls the citizens of Cuba workers, for example.
The uh the father of Ilian Gonzalez, the little five-year-old kid that Janet Reno stole and sent back down to Cuba.
Fidel, when he was uh talking about this, talked about the dad of Elion Gonzalez.
Oh, yeah, yeah, he's a great worker.
He's a good worker.
That's how they, and I have always that's just cringe-worthy to me.
People are not workers.
That's that's the robotic term for the way socialists look at the uh the hoi polloy.
And so here comes Trump.
He's asked what he thinks the GOP is going to be in the future.
He says, I want it to be a workers' party.
So people say, so, so, rush, the Republican nominee uses a term that you properly tie to socialism and communism.
What do you think about that?
I've got all these people challenging me on this.
You imagine the memory that these people must have.
Right here, Trump, I want the GOP to become a workers' party.
Folks, I'm just gonna tell you, he doesn't mean it that way.
Trump's not a socialist or communist, he doesn't mean it that way.
Trump, once again, uh, is using terms as they are actually defined in his world.
I know exactly what he means by that, and he doesn't mean anything socialistic or communistic about it.
He's not, and the reason I know that is that he doesn't think that way.
Trump is not an ideological guy in that way.
So what Trump is simply saying, I am convinced, and I, if you can, if you can prove me wrong, feel free, have at it.
But I'm convinced that what Trump is saying is that he wants the Republican Party to be on the lookout for people that work for a living.
Blue-collar people, whatever, but he wants to the he wants the Republican Party to be the champion.
It's easy to figure out what he means here.
He's out there talking about trade deals and immigration and all the people getting shafted by this.
We all know who those people are.
These are people of manufacturing sector and other sectors of our economy where jobs have been displaced and lost and moved abroad.
I know exactly what he means by that.
And he's not talking about socialism, communism terminology.
He's he wants, if you wanted to take it a step further, and he doesn't know this either, but you know, the Republican Party has one of its brand problems has been it's always been identified with uh management.
Big business management, entrepreneurs.
I mean, you have to admit that the Republican Party and many in the conservative wing of the Republican Party spent a lot of time talking about entrepreneurs, particularly during campaigns.
They talk about the job creators, we gotta get out of their way, we've gotta grease the skids, we've got to make sure entrepreneurs have what they need.
And uh the Democrats have always it's it's just been assumed the Democrats are the home to blue-collar working people.
And the Republicans are home to this incorrect, but I mean, this is the branding, this is the way it's evolved.
So Trump comes along.
I want to see the GOP become a workers' party.
He's not talking about a socialist or communist country.
He wants the Republican Party to represent the very people in his group, the very people showing up to his uh rallies, the very people whom he's already championing.
People get him go to work every day.
He doesn't know this other stuff.
And I'm that's by the way, that's not an insult either.
I'm I'm not, it's not a comment on Trump's knowledge or ignorance and just the way he thinks.
And everybody's so many people in this camp can't figure that out.
He's totally outside the box.
They keep trying to plug him in to the playbook and the behavioral patterns and so forth that have traditionally been defined by political campaigns and politics in general of two parties, and he's not.
He's an outsider.
He doesn't talk that way, he violates PC every time he opens his mouth.
And so there's still people can't figure it out.
And there are still people looking for any opportunity whatsoever to trip him up, and they thought this was one of those.
But it's like this debate with with Crazy Bernie.
Who would ever do that?
Who he instinctively agrees to it, and then, as the kicker says it's gotta be for 10 or 15 million dollars that proceeds go to battered women, women in need, whatever, something to do with women.
And I guarantee you he doesn't have focus group, he doesn't have a bunch of people studying this.
This was not something just it just it just happened.
But I'm telling you, remember the thing, because you're gonna see more and more people talking about this as if if if it acts if it actually appears that it's gonna happen, then you're gonna see panic on the Democrat side like you haven't seen before.
And you're gonna be made to think that the panic is because this upstage is Hillary.
That Bernie should go away.
And Bernie ought to know not to do this.
You know, Bernie's not a team player.
Bernie knows Hillary's a nominee.
He's got no business debating Trump.
He got no business accepting invitation.
Bernie ought to stand down, step aside and let her have it, which has been what was supposed to happen since 2008.
Isn't it interesting?
2008, here we are, 2016.
Both guys who wanted the president at the same time Hillary wants it refused to stand down and let her have it.
And yet that's what both guys were supposed to do.
And neither guy, Barack Hussein all or Bernie, are agreeing to stand down and let her have it.
So Bernie, he would love this, and the Democrats would hate this because this would be that audience that would rival some of the highest rated TV shows in or out of politics,
and it would give a worldwide audience to what the Democrat Party really stands for, unmasked, uncamouflaged, because Bernie doesn't care.
And that's what the Democrats don't want anybody to see.
Take a brief time out, open line Friday, Obama.
Did he or did he not apologize, in your opinion, when he went over there to um to Japan?
Hiroshima.
You think he did apologize?
Well, we'll explore it.
We got that, we got all kinds of other stuff lurking in the shadows, waiting to be brought forth by me, your host.
We'll get to it after this.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Your highly trained broadcast specialist.
It's real simple, folks, to Donald Trump, a worker is somebody with a job, like somebody he would employ a construction worker, a uh secretary, executive assistant, campaign manager, what have you.
Anybody with a job to Donald Trump is a worker.
Now to the Democrats and the rest of the socialist movement, workers are downtrodden, inept, incapable victims of corporate titans who need government assistance to get out of bed in the morning,
to get dressed, to get on the bus, to go to some menial job, then go to the protest march, then go home and tend the garden and then go to bed and repeat the cycle the next day.
That's what a worker, a nameless, faceless number in the cog of the state.
That's not what Trump thinks of, and it's not what he's thinking about when he says, I want to see the GOP become a workers' party.
What he wants is the GOP to become the party of the middle class.
That's exactly what he means.
And I had a note from somebody, you know, like Rush, I agree with you about this.
I really do.
You're brilliant as usual.
Except there's a problem here, Rush.
Have you noticed how often you have to fall behind Trump, stop behind and explain everything he says.
No, I'm only explaining this.
I don't think anybody paid a scant bit of attention, except people in this audience who remember what I've said about the word.
I mean, when the Democrats talk about workers and stuff, no, does it register?
I think half or more of the population when they hear Trump say he wants the GOP to become a workers' party.
They're not associating it with the Soviet Union or the Chicons.
They it means what it means to them.
But you and I, who are highly attuned to liberalism and the communist socialist industrial complex out there, or ideological complex, we know full well what their terms mean, and I have sought to define them.
So within the uh confines of this audience, yeah, it might be necessary to explain this, just as it might be necessary to explain a couple of other things that Trump does like the invitation of the agreement to debate crazy Bernie.
But for the most part, people don't need these things explained.
I just I'm answering questions I got in emails today because some of you are really sharp and have profoundly uh deep memories out there.
Now we've got a break coming up at the bottom of the hour, and we're gonna get into this the final day here of Obama's latest international, what some people are calling an apology tour.
We have some audio sound bites of Obama in Hiroshima and commentators discussing what Obama has said.
And I just want to leave it up to you as to what you think.
Here's a brief montage of the drive-by media insisting, insisting that whatever Obama did on this trip, in particular in Hiroshima, he was not apologizing for America.
The first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, laying a wreath, addressing survivors, but no apology.
Stopping short of an apology.
No, he did not apologize.
The president not giving an apology.
President Obama, though not offering an apology.
No apology, but reconciliation.
Daily soap opera again.
The script.
Even before he left, it became a folk of will Obama apologize.
Will he or will he not?
And here's the drive.
No, he didn't.
He didn't apologize.
Must be worried that people think he did.
In fact, I think the public understands almost everything Trump is saying.
When we take time to explain Trump, I'm explaining it to uh the drive-bys in many cases.
And in some cases, Republicans who don't get it.
Of course, the Democrats don't either.
But see, this this is, folks, this is why there is such panic in the political class.
Everybody does understand Trump.
He doesn't have to be explained.
Everybody gets it.
They might disagree with it, but everybody knows what he's talking about.
He's not lying, he's not camouflaging, he's not masking, he's not PC.
And everybody else in the political establishment does all of that.
So that that's another reason why there's so much abject panic of Trump.
Now, there's also substantive disagreement with Trump on in many sectors, too.
I'm I'm not I'm not trying to categorize all of the disagreement Trump is surface sub.
There is some serious substantive disagreement with him on the part of many conservatives.
I understand that.
But I'm just in the context of this whole thing about Trump saying I want to see the GOB become a workers' party.
And in general, the fact that his supporters do know what he's talking about is one of the things that rattles so many in the political class.
Here's what he said.
He was he was asked what he thought the GOP would look like in five years.
He said, I love the question.
Five, ten years from now, different party.
You're gonna have a workers' party, a party of people that haven't had a real wage increase in 18 years.
They're angry.
What I want to do, I think cutting Social Security, a big mistake for the Republican Party, and I know it's a big part of the budget.
Cutting it the wrong way is a big mistake, even cutting it at all.
I'm not sure I got there through deep analysis when asked about his views.
My views are what everybody else's views are.
When I give speeches, sometimes I sign autographs, I get to talk to people, I learn a lot about the party.
I learn what people say by listening to what they say to me.
He said he learned that voters were disgusted with Republican leaders and channeled their outrage.
It isn't complicated.
Everybody wants to complicate this, and it isn't.
So now to Barack Hussein oh, and uh yet another apology tour, according to some.
Here's John Bolton.
He was um on uh Fox Business Network this morning with Maria Barcheromo.
Well, actually, Maria Barceroma wasn't there.
She's got enough status that her Memorial Day weekend starts on Friday.
So they had a sub-host in there by the name of Sandra Smith.
And she said to uh John Bolton, what do you make of Obama's visit and his words over there at Hiroshima?
I don't think we have anything uh to be ashamed about uh from reflecting on Harry Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
Uh I think Obama's speech was, however, consistent with his apology tour across his seven and a half years of office.
Uh I don't think he's ever actually said in any of these occasions, I apologize.
It's always more indirect, and it was indirect here today.
I know what he means, but I think Obama has.
I know Clinton has.
I know Clinton has actually used the words we're sorry, or uh apologize on behalf of my country.
But I I I know what he means.
Obama goes over and uh acknowledges the defects of his own country.
I give you an example.
This one happened in Washington.
Some ChICOM diplomat was in town.
And they were meeting with uh somebody, I guess at the State Department, Chikom diplomat meeting with the U.S. diplomat State Department.
And the U.S. diplomat started in on the ChICOMs and some human rights, civil rights violations in certain provinces.
And the ChICOM guy launched, hey, you got nothing to talk about.
You can't preach to us about this.
You guys have your own history of violating human rights, violating civil rights.
And the American diplomat agreed.
And I must say that the ChICOM representative does indeed have a point.
We do have our own crosses to bear.
And I apologize for speaking in the tone, I suppose.
So it's that kind of stuff that Obama has done.
He's done it a lot.
And I agree totally.
Bolton's exactly right here.
Doesn't directly say it so that he can deny saying it, but everybody knows what he's doing.
Everybody knows he's got a chip on his shoulder.
So let's listen to Obama himself.
This is Hiroshima.
Obama participated in a wreath-laying ceremony.
You know, this is not news to me.
When I lived out in Sacramento, I worked there from 1980 before to 1987.
And the mayor at the time was a woman named Anne Ruden.
And I actually think, with my memories, I think she actually did join a delegation that went over there and did apologize.
If I'm wrong about that, one thing I do remember is that every anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a bunch of leftists would gather in Sacramento somewhere and have a huge day-long apology ceremony.
And they would constantly talk about how necessary it was, and how guilty they personally felt, and how they needed to personally apologize.
And they'd get people like Martin Sheen show up for the thing when he wasn't stealing sewer grates from the homeless to sleep on himself.
So here's Obama in Hiroshima.
the way you think.
71 years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.
A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city.
And demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.
Okay, so what's your take on that?
The tone of that, you have to look at the tone of this.
And clearly Obama, and I do mean clearly, clearly Obama does not in any way sound supportive, declarative, or in agreement with the decision.
Let's not forget something about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Those bombs were dropped years after we entered the war.
Hundreds of thousands were dead.
The Nazis were attacking freedom in Europe, and the Japanese were attacking freedom in the Pacific, and we were in the middle of both assaults.
And the decision to drop the bombs in Hiroshima Nagasaki was as much to protect the lives of American soldiers as it was to defeat the enemy to kill two birds with one stone.
But it's not as though we started the war that way, like the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor, or like Hitler did invading Poland for all intents and purposes.
We were not the bad guys.
We were doing what the United States has always done, defending liberty all over the world, in addition to defending ourselves.
And I will guarantee you Obama doesn't see it that way.
Obama thinks only one thing, and that there should be tremendous guilt on our part because of this event.
Here's the next Obama bite.
How often does material advancement or social innovation blind us to this truth?
How easily we learn to justify violence in the name of some higher cause.
What higher cause?
Every great religion promises a pathway to love and peace and righteousness, and yet no religion has been spared from believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill.
What the hell is what's that got to do with Hiroshima Nagasaki?
Every religion, no religion has been spared from believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill.
We didn't get into World War II because we were running around thinking of ourselves having a license to kill.
We were defending ourselves.
For crime and sake, we were defending ourselves and everybody else that was under assault.
We were defending the free world.
License to kill?
Obama is letting everybody know what he actually thinks about this.
Here's the next and final Obama bite.
We stand here, in the middle of this city, and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell.
We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see.
We listen to a silent cry.
We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war and the wars that came before and the wars that would follow.
Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering.
But we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.
See, Obama's got this, he believes this saying out there, the arc of history.
Imagine, if you will, uh this belief that either history repeats itself or doesn't.
And if it's cyclical, then you can plan for it.
You can know how history's going to repeat.
If it doesn't, and you think you can stop the arc if you think you can stop history, if you think you can stop the degradation of that's what Obama believes here.
So when I hear him say, killed across the arc of that terrible war.
And look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering.
What we must do differently.
What we must do differently.
We were minding our own business on December 7th, 1941.
We were not bothering anybody.
What we must do differently.
Anyway.
Yes, yes, yes, I know.
He might have been including the Japanese in all this.
See, that's another technique.
Another technique of people like Obama.
You did it, and we did it.
And we were both wrong, and we should never do it again.
Problem solved.
Compassion declared.
And we'll be back.
Grab audio soundbite number three again.
It's only 23 seconds.
This Obama, I want you to listen to this and ask yourself, is there is there any other event about which what Obama says here would equally apply?
Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky, and the world was changed.
A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.
Yeah, so here he is.
By the way, do you think it's coincidental that Obama's doing all this on our Memorial Day weekend?
And by the way, do you know what our Memorial Day weekend is?
I mean, seriously.
Do you know what the purpose of Memorial Day is?
And I'm not talking about barbecues, hot dogs, and do you know what the real purpose is?
What how does it distinguish itself, say, from Veterans Day?
We are honoring the war dead on Memorial Day.
We are honoring the war dead.
We are honoring those who have sacrificed everything they have.
That's what Memorial Day is.
As opposed to Independence Day, as opposed to Flag Day, as opposed to Memorial Day, as opposed to Labor Day.
We are honoring the dead.
Anybody find a coincidental bomb is over in Japan lamenting.
The bombs at Hiroshima Nagasaki on Memorial Day.
Now he's coming back.
I mean, he's on his way back now.
He'll be there for the reflaying.
I don't think the timing is a coincidence.
Myself, I really don't.
Let's go back.
And your phone calls are coming up, folks.
A lot of good ones, in fact, are hanging on, so we'll get to them ASAP.
But I want to go back to August 6, 1945.
Aboard the USS Augusta in the Mid-Atlantic.
President Harry Truman announcing the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT.
The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor.
They have been repaid many fold.
It is an atomic bomb.
It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe.
The force from which the sun draws his power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Now Harry Truman in his days, shortly after he lived was reviled, not for this, he was just it was just reviled, but it was in the 60s and 70s.
Harry Truman had a rebirth.
And there were popular songwriters.
Where are you, Harry Truman?
We need a guy like you again.
And it was because of things like this.
Imagine it.
We don't have a everything he said here could be said to be violation of political correctness to one degree or another.
Bragged about the power of the bomb, linked it to the universe.
That's God.
Talked about the relationship of power of our bomb to the sun.
Blames the Japanese for everything that's happening here.
And proud, proudly claims that we've wiped them out.
We've wiped out a city.
See, back in World War II, it was civilian death counts that determined who won and lost wars.
There wasn't any surgical anything back then.
Dresden, Berlin, London, you name it.
It was precisely civilian populations that were hit, in addition to military targets.
This is what led to the Japanese surrender.
Here's more from Harry Truman again, same situation, August 6, 1955, on board the USS Augusta in the mid-Atlantic.
We are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have in any city.
We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications.
Let there be no mistake.
We shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war.
It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July the 26th was issued at Potsdam.
Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum.
If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
Proudly promising more.
A rain of ruin from the air.
One final bite will scream.
We have spent more than two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history.
And we have won.
But the greatest marvel is not the size of the enterprise, its secrecy, or its cost, but the achievement of scientific brains in making it work.
What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history.
Talking about the nuclear weapon there, and we will be back.
Hiroshima was a military target, by the way, not just civilian.
The Japanese 5th Division, 2nd Army headquarters were there.
But it wasn't it was Nagasaki, the second bomb, that made them surrender.
And it was only because the Emperor overruled his military.
They didn't want to surrender even after the second bomb.
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