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July 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Great to be back.
And great to bring a sense of calm and normalcy back to the country.
What would my presence here behind a golden EIV microvote?
I know it's disconcerting and chaotic when I'm not here.
Hell.
Even when I am here, it's all that, but we're able to mollify a bit.
So happy to be back, folks.
Telephone number if you want to be on the programs 800-282-288-2 and the email address, Ilrushbo at EIB net.com.
Late breaking news, the Freddie Gray case.
A judge has acquitted the fourth defendant.
That means not a single charge has stuck on any of the cops.
In the death of Freddie Gray, nice young man as he was referred to by Merilyn Mosby, the DA there.
Prosecutors in Baltimore have failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction, the Freddie Gray case.
This means that police are going to have to be on the lookout for disgruntled and angry Tea Party people to maybe start rioting and taking matters into their own.
Wait, did I say tea?
I didn't mean that.
That's what the media does.
The media thinks the Tea Party, yeah, they're always warning us to be on the lookout for any backlash against the perpetrators.
So anyway, this this could be a problem in Baltimore.
I'm serious.
This is the kind of thing that's happening now that causes um black lies murder.
You know, I mean, that's what it's becoming out there.
I, you know, I saw Obama yesterday.
I wasn't going to get into this yet, but I might as well.
I saw Obama yesterday afternoon at 4 30.
I was on the way home and I I'm flying home and I saw Obama at 4 30.
I was really anticipating this.
I wanted to see what Obama was going to say.
It's after Baton Rouge and what happened there.
And you know, it's it sounded like he almost got there again.
He couldn't help himself.
He started blaming rhetoric.
And he started telling and asking everybody to tone down the rhetoric, but you know he doesn't mean people like Al Sharpton.
And you know he doesn't mean people like Black Lives Matter.
I mean, he honors those people.
He brings them to the White House, he conducts seminars with them and so forth, and he praises them as being better community organizers than he ever was.
And then on the same day, the president said that police can make the job of being a cop a lot safer by admitting their failures.
America's police will be safer when they admit they have a problem, President Obama declared yesterday at a bilateral event with the Prime Minister of Espana in Madrid, fielding a question.
On Sunday, July 10th about the violence against police in Dallas last week.
Obama said the cops would be safer once they acknowledge their failures.
There are legitimate issues that have been raised.
There's data and evidence to back up the concerns being expressed by these protesters.
I mean, he fed it.
You know, this is the thing about this that I don't think anybody really really wants to get down to the grit-nitty-gritty on.
And then there's this story in the Washington Post.
Obama pleads with presidential candidates not to politicize the police shootings.
I mean, all of this stuff falls under the category are you kidding me?
Let's look at President Obama.
For example, let's take a look and analyze here.
When there is unrest in the Middle East, who does Obama back?
He backs the Islamic faction, exactly.
When there's unrest at home.
Who does Obama back?
Who does he backs the most radical leftist factions.
In Egypt, the secular military took out the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama backed The Muslim Brotherhood in Iran, the Iranian people rose up, what was called a green revolution, Obama backed the mullahs and then made a nuclear deal with them, granting them 150 billion dollars of unfrozen assets via the end of sanctions and the uh the green light to developing nuclear weapons.
In Iraq, the U.S. military provided stability after a long war to secure a secular leading government.
Obama pulled up stakes, pulls out, left Iraq vulnerable to Islamists within, and vulnerable to Iran next door, and hello ISIS.
In Turkey, the military attempted an Egypt like coup.
You know what that was about?
You know, the Turkey situation, you might think, Rush, that's so far removed from what's going on, it's not relevant.
It really is in some ways.
Because people don't know who uh Turkey's normal natural predilection is versus what's happening.
This Prime Minister Erdogan is trying to take Turkey into unfettered Sharia land.
He is doing, he's trying to make it an Islamic first, second, and third nation.
They're a member of NATO.
They have always been known as a secular nation, Islamist dominated, but that's never been their identity.
And Erdogan, there's some people thinking he may have orchestrated that coup in order to be able to get rid of every one of his military and police and diplomatic opponents.
Because he's purged something like 15 or 20,000 people after this coup.
They're gone.
Any opposition.
And the military was uh the in Turkey, military job review and performance review and promotions with accompanying raises always happens on August 1st.
You didn't know that, did you?
Well, it does.
And the military launches this coup.
It was not the first.
The what was the most recent coup?
2002?
1997-2002.
Umil launches this coup against Urdwan.
It didn't ever have a chance, and now people thinking maybe Erdogan actually sponsored this whole thing to make it look like he had he had tamp down a serious opposition effort.
But now he's got he's got smooth sailing towards taking Turkey into Primo.
Uh Islamist supremacism, and away from the secular identity that it is it has always had.
Who did Obama back?
Erdogan.
Okay.
Here at home, Obama always sides with the most radical leftist, Black Lives Matter over the cops.
Occupy Wall Street over the Tea Party, illegal immigrants over citizens, refugees over citizens, planned parenthood's baby butchers over the rule of law, bureaucrats over doctors, teachers unions over students.
We're dealing here with a guy who is a radical leftist, divisive by choice.
It's how he advances his vision of transformation, and yet he's sitting there at 56% approval in the polls.
The drive by media was able to take George Bush down to the low 30s with four to five years of daily pummeling on every aspect of his presidency, leading with Iraq, followed by torture, followed by Abu Ghrab, followed by Afghanistan, followed by the war on terror, followed by the economic collapse, virtually everything that was going wrong was pointed and laid right at the feet of George W. Bush.
But here it's the limbaugh theorem in full force.
Obama is perceived to have no responsibility for anything.
He's perceived to have no cause effect on anything that's happening.
It's thought by a majority of Americans that all of the stuff going wrong happened with Bush.
And that poor old Obama has been doing everything he can, swimming upstream, swimming against the tide, doing everything he can to fix these horrible problems for social justice and whatever, but there are these rascally Republicans in opposition and the conservative media and the Tea Party and the Trumpists and everybody Trying to stop our first African American president from his appointment with destiny.
When in fact he is the architect of this decline, and yet nothing attaches to him.
No accountability whatsoever.
The media hasn't hit him on anything like they did Bush, and it wasn't expected that they would.
I'm just illustrating how this is done.
It took him five years to take Bush down to the 30s.
With all of this, folks, it's stunning.
Every terror attack that you can remember here and abroad, the plummeting U.S. economy, 94 million Americans not working, LGBT, bathrooms, gay marriage, you name it.
56% approval.
Now what does that tell you?
What does it tell you about the people of this country and what they know?
What does it tell you about the people of this country, what they think?
What does it tell you about where we're headed as a country?
I mean, if all of this can generate a 50 and more, if all of this can generate a 56% approval rating.
I shudder to think what real progress would result.
What kind of approval rating would result in real progress?
I mean, this guy's calls for unity rings so hollow, this speech yesterday that he gave.
We'll get into that in a little bit more detail.
A lot to do here today, folks, has been away two days.
We got the Mike Pence selection Republican convention starting today.
There's all kinds of stuff.
And as always, I can't get to it all during the opening monologue, so that's why we're here for three hours.
But this country, many people, it's falling apart.
Do you realize in Banton Rouge, in the Reuters story today is still seeking a motive?
Still seeking a motive.
Police say not sure.
Other headlines, if you go to all of the various news sites, from Twitter to Facebook to Yahoo, all the online news sites that people click on.
All the top stories news say, you know what the headline is?
Marine kills three policemen in Baton Rouge.
Not former Marine.
Not former nation of Islam member.
Not former African American radical.
No, no, no, no.
Marine kills policemen, three policemen in Baton Rouge.
That he was a former Marine is the most important thing, not that he was a former member of the Nation of Islam.
Can you imagine if somebody had been a member of the Klan and shot up something like this?
Can you imagine what the headlines would be?
Clan member kills three whatever in Baton Rouge.
It's this is this is just how it happens.
And now we've got Obama out there saying the police can make the job of being a cop a lot safer by admitting their failures.
What does that tell you?
And you may say, but Rush, he didn't say that yesterday.
I saw his speech, and no, he didn't say it yesterday, he said it June 10th, July 10th, he said it at a different venue different time.
Yesterday was the first time he actually sounded like he was pro-police.
But he he could he couldn't help himself.
He dialed that back and still had to blame it all on rhetoric.
He wouldn't go anywhere near blaming the shooter.
He wouldn't go anywhere near.
It took everything he had, I'm certain, to not blame guns.
I mean, you know how often that probably had to be taken out of the teleprompter, his speechwriter put it in there, or Obama would put it in there.
I gotta say guns.
I know the speech writer take it out.
No, not today, not appropriate.
Wonder how many times guns was taken out of that prompter yesterday before he went out and made his address.
Anyway, uh it's it's frustrating, I know to everybody.
It is uh it's it's maddening.
And it uh it's confusing.
Like I say, all of this is generating a 56% approval rating.
And it doesn't, it doesn't make sense.
Unless certain other things are taking place that make sense, like a stupid public, an uninformed public, an uncaring public, a misinformed public, probably a combination of all three of those things.
But I'm just, I'm just telling you here, the the Freddie Gray cop, the fourth cop, and this was was this the cop that was thought to have the best chance of getting a conviction, or was that the last one?
The uh the cop here is Lieutenant Brian Rice, been acquitted of all charges related to Gray's arrest and death.
The uh the judge Barry Williams cleared Rice of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and misconduct in office in a downtown Baltimore courtroom this morning.
A judge had dismissed a second degree assault charge at the trial's midpoint.
The prosecutors dropped a second misconduct charge at the start.
That tells you how ridiculously overcharged Officer Rice was, just like all the other defendants in this case, and and Rice selected a bench trial rather than a jury trial, uh, putting his legal fate in the uh in the hands of the of the judge.
Reckless endangerment, negligence.
I've heard those terms, reckless gross negligence.
Oh, yeah, that was the Hillary.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, there's no nothing to see with Hillary on it.
Just none of it makes any sense.
People look at these things, and the wrong people always appear to be getting away with it, which ought to light up the Republican convention this week because that's one of the reasons it has taken the shape that it has.
Sit tight, my friends.
That's a little bit of table setting.
There's much more to go.
As you know, we barely wet the wicket here, so stand by.
We'll be right back.
You know, the President of the United States pleads with presidential candidates not to politicize the police shootings.
President Obama issued a simple, impassioned plea for calm and understanding on Sunday in the aftermath of the second police shooting this month, and just ahead of the two-party convention, so we don't need inflammatory rhetoric, Obama said.
We don't need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda.
Not especially after I've already succeeded wildly by doing it.
Nobody else needs to be able to come along and do it now, since I've been able to benefit from it myself.
That is why it is so important that everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further.
We don't need careless accusations thrown around to score political points and to advance an agenda.
We need to tamper our words and open our hearts, all of us.
Oh, it sounds so wonderful, except he's prime perp on all of this.
I made mention of something last week.
I want to just repeat it.
One of the things, not the only, but one of the flashpoints for all that's happening now is a lie.
A lie that has been known.
A lie that was knowingly spread, a lie whose flames were knowingly fanned by people no less than Barack Obama and others ranking high in the Democrat Party, and that is hands up, don't shoot.
The story coming out of Ferguson, Missouri, hands up, don't shoot, that the gentle giant was walking innocently down the street on an idyllic Saturday afternoon in August, thinking passionately about his first year away at college.
All of a sudden was gunned down by a racist white cop who went hunting for Young black males.
And what was this man's grievance?
What was his uh alleged crime?
He was walking in the street, not the sidewalk.
And he put his hands up, he said, Don't shoot, don't shoot!
And the cop fired, and the gentle giant was dead.
And that lie.
Every word of that is a lie.
And yet it has spread.
It did spread, and it has become part of the information packet for Black Lives Matter, the new Black Panther Party.
Imagine if the President of the United States had done a national address and knocked down every falsehood of that.
One instead of giving it life.
Instead of sending Eric Holder out there to make it look like they didn't trust the local grand jury and their results.
What if the president had simply said, folks, you're believing something that didn't happen?
People believe the president for whatever reason, no matter who he happens to be, and he didn't say that.
Welcome back.
Great to be back.
L. Rushboard have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair here on the most listened to.
Radio talk show in America.
So here's what I referred to at the very beginning of the program, the Reuters dispatch from this morning.
Baton Rouge gunman's motive remains unclear after police deaths.
And then they talk about how he's a former Marine.
And I'm telling you, that's low information people, if they even access this, that's what they know about the guy.
He's a former Marine, which what they're going to come away with is what is our military doing to people?
Our military's turning them into trained killers.
They come home and they don't know how to adjust.
They're making movies out of that premise, by the way.
Oh, yes, my friend.
Movies and TV shows about arriving veterans returning home from the theater of battle and not knowing how to cope anymore.
They've completely lost the ability.
They go on murderous rampages or they commit suicide or what have you.
It's become an ongoing meme.
A narrative in movies and television shows now.
So quite naturally, if you're a low information voter and you happen to see the top-line top news stories at your favorite online social media sites, you're going to see former Marine shoots three policemen in Baton Rouge.
You might not learn that he's also a former member of the Nation of Islam, and you wouldn't learn 90% of what's relevant to know about the guy.
And you would, if you were able to find out those things, learn his motive.
But just for the sake of you knowing, here's Reuters' take on this.
Authorities sought to learn more today about a decorated ex-U.S.
Marine sergeant who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge some two weeks after police there shot dead a black man, sparking nationwide protests, including one shattered by the massacre of five Dallas police.
What an opening sentence.
Folks, you have to understand the vast majority of people do not read this with the discernment that you have been trained now to consume news.
Most people don't have that.
They just see this as holy cow, decorated Marine must have been driven nuts by the military, comes home, shoots three cops.
Holy cow.
And might have even been justified, because the cop shot a black guy two weeks earlier.
He's a Marine.
He was a military man.
He might have been justified in doing this.
The suspect in the latest case, dressed in black and armed with a rifle, was shot dead on Sunday morning in a gunfight with police, who converged on the scene of a confrontation that Mayor Kip Holden said began as an ambush.
And then it provides the details of the story, but you don't get much more about the shooter until much later.
Police didn't identify the suspect, but a government official told Reuters he was Gavin Long of Kansas City.
Black, reported to have attacked police on his 29th birthday.
It's hard to know what his uh motivations were, said the Louisiana governor, John Bill Edwards.
Yeah, we're looking really, really hard here.
We're trying to see if he has any Tea Party affiliations.
Uh, you know, what talk radio he might have listened to.
He didn't say any of that.
But of course, this is what is normally offered.
The Daily Caller, Baton Rouge shooter, Gavin Eugene Long was Nation of Islam member railed against crackers on YouTube channel.
And Micah X. Johnson was a former Nation of Islam member.
And the and it's not that you needed to look hard to find out, but when you hear people start calling white people devils, I mean that that's right out of the Calypso Louis lexicon.
It may be even be out of the Elijah Muhammad lexicon.
A YouTube account operated by Gavin Eugene Long and discovered by the Daily Caller reveals key insight into what might have motivated the 29-year-old black man who killed three Baton Rouge police officers Sunday morning videos on his account show that he was a former Nation of Islam member.
He also ran it against crackers, made references to Alton Sterling, the black man killed by police in Baton Rouge on July 5th.
Other information about long shows that Kansas City native, honorably discharged in the Marines, went by the name Cosmo Osar Setepenra, or CDPenra, in one video filmed from Houston and posted along his YouTube account of July 12th, discussed being in the Marines and reaching the rank of E5.
Met with several men he seemed to not have known prior to the encounter.
He promotes a book he wrote, discusses black liberation theology.
Yeah, I wrote it for my dark-skinned brothers, Long said of his book.
If you look at all the rebels like the Black Panthers, Huey Newton, Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, they was light skinned.
But we know how hard y'all got it.
In the video, Long is heard lamented.
Remember now, Reuters can't find a motive.
In the video, Long is heard lamenting working for the white people.
He encouraged one man riding in his car as he filmed using a body camera to shop only at black-owned businesses.
He brought up a hypothetical scenario which a family member who wanted to buy carpet was forced to buy from a guy was a racist, folks.
And since the president says we need to stop the rhetoric, we need to start asking who's what is happening to these people?
How does this happen?
Who's teaching this?
Who's promoting this?
This isn't just happening.
Human beings are sponges when they are born.
Human beings are not capable of anything.
The only mammal in the world, you look at any other mammal that's born, a baby horse, a colt, is born able to walk that instant.
In six weeks, most mammals flee, mom and dad, and are on their own somewhere.
That's it.
Elsewhere in the mammal kingdom, there is no child rearing, there is no development, there is no upbringing, there is no raising.
The human being is the only mammal that requires all of that to become something other than an animal.
And it is crucial the input a human being gets.
So, you know, you can argue about what the natural disposition of a human being is without any ubringing, any child rearing, any raising.
What will the person tend to be?
It may be hard to predict, but we do know that they are programmable.
We are programmable, and the evidence is clear that these people's minds are being poisoned.
And I'm telling you, it's coming from the top.
The president of the United States, I don't care what you think of him, there's something that you have to realize about all of them.
It's about the office, actually.
They are the single greatest source authority perceived by the public in the world.
When the president says something, it is almost universally accepted.
And even if it isn't accepted, the natural reaction is not to distrust the president.
I'm talking about average, ordinary, nonpolitically oriented people.
Sometimes we, I include you and me in this, make the mistake of assuming that because we are as interested and as informed as we are that everybody else is.
And they aren't.
And there's certain things about the presidency that people naturally trust, that they naturally respect, no matter who holds the office.
As I say, it took the media five years to destroy this for George W. Bush.
And they haven't spent a day trying to discredit Barack Hussein.
Oh.
It took them five years.
You might say it took them three, but the point is it took outside effort.
It took a consistent day in, day out, 24-7 effort by the media and the Democrat Party to destroy the image in the presidency of George W. Bush.
And it was made easier by the fact that Bush sought not to respond to any of it.
So all of the allegations went unchallenged.
So I'm telling you, my point here is when the president stands up and rips into cops, when he says these protesters have legitimate grievances, when he invites Black Lives Matter to the White House and praises what they're doing.
It sends serious signals to people.
It sends serious messages to people.
And he sits up there and warns everybody against all the dangerous rhetoric.
And I know who he's got in mind when he's talking like this.
Don't doubt for a moment that I know who he's talking about and exactly the kind of things he's talking about.
But this man is a bigger agent provocateur than anybody else in this country could ever be simply because of the power of his office.
See, he brings these Black Lives Matter people up there who are promoting and applauding and approving all of this.
And that's in public.
Privately, we don't know what kind of poison's out there.
We can only imagine.
And it gets the sanction of approval from the highest office in the land.
And Loretta Lynch goes out and says after Dallas, you protesters, you were right.
We're going to do everything we can to protect you.
This is an aftermath of five Dallas cops killed.
What do you think people are going to hear if they begin the day with built-in grievances that they've already been taught?
Race relations are worse today than they have been at any time in our lives, folks.
There's a reason for that.
And it is not that American culture has become more polluted in racist ways.
It isn't that at all.
So many advances have taken place, so much progress is it doesn't mean that there aren't vestiges of racism.
There's all kinds of isms all over the place.
Everybody gets mistreated by somebody at some point in their lives.
Some of it's institutional, some of it's individual, but nobody has a bed of roses as a life.
But the point is we've made great, great, great progress.
But here's Obama lamenting all that's gone wrong after 50 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, he said one day last week.
Make no mistake how people hear what he says.
Black lies murder.
Black lies kill.
Now probably people are going to, oh Jerry, oh dear, but they can run around and they can say Bush lied, people died.
They can say that all day long, and they're going to be applauded.
They can say whatever they want to say, be it factually right, factually incorrect, doesn't matter because they are said to have a legitimate grievance.
And who pronounces the legitimacy of the grievance?
Why?
The American left, the Democrat Party, which seeks to profit from all of this.
Be right back.
Oh, yeah.
Look, folks, we're going to have Republican presidential politics coming out every bodily orifice starting tonight for the rest of the week.
So we're going to get to that in due course here today.
But I want to address this stuff, and I got somebody on the phone who wants to uh question about something.
It's Mo somewhere in Ohio.
Great to have you, sir.
You're up first today.
Welcome.
How are you doing, Mr. Limbaugh?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Here we go.
What do you want to start with?
Let's start with the um Man, listen.
I don't know how you guys think that's a hate group.
That's not a hate group.
And the reason why many people support that is because the Klan still run well.
Nobody gets a crap about that.
That's what's got everybody pissed off.
Everybody should care about the I just I I I should say that's bad.
But the Klan's been here for how many years and they still run around doing what they want to do, and nobody cares about it.
There's been 90 people late since 2013.
Nice.
And it was one last week that they found it apart.
Are you trying to say did it to itself?
Yeah, that's why people don't be caring about the lot of stuff that we going on, man.
Because they're pissed off.
And then you guys going out of town or go out of the country to go get away.
Wait, wait, wait.
Mo, hang on a minute.
Right right here.
Right here in the United States, right here, right a while, right here.
I'm saying you you are illustrating the very depth and practical impossibility of the problem that we face as a society.
You must be talking about Chicago.
You talk about these 90 lynchings that have happened since 2003.
No, I'm not talking about Chicago.
I'm talking about the one that was the one that was in Louisiana last year last was there was one last week in Louisiana at the park.
What lynching?
Give me these lynchings.
If 90 lynchings had happened in the drive by meeting be all over it, Moe.
You can look them up online, right?
Yeah, I'm you can look them up online.
There's been 90 of them.
This is nothing new.
And the crazy part is What's the what's the search phrase?
Lynchings since 2013?
Well, but how do I how do I find these?
How many lynches since uh 20?
Just two thousand.
Let's go two thousand.
Okay, let's search it.
Let's just lynching since uh since two thousand.
There's lynching since two thousand sea what we find.
Oh no, but no, no, but you can you say that's it.
This could be a trap.
It could be some cockami wacko website out there that's promoting.
I don't know what it was.
Mo, I I know the real reason you called.
At least I know what you told Mr. Snerdley was the reason you called.
And wait, well, you you told him that you don't understand how I can blame Obama for people killing the cops.
Um, and and then you asked him, what do you think happens when cops kill, such as in the Freddie Gray case?
Uh I think the cops killed Freddie Gray.
And certainly four different cops were tried by a judge, and there wasn't one charge that stuck.
Now, you don't believe in the criminal justice system because you have been told a bunch of lies about it, Mo.
And some of the people telling you lies about the criminal let me put it, some of the people giving you incomplete data about the criminal justice system happen to be people like Barack Obama.
And black lives matter.
How can some group call itself black lives matter and not be concerned about black lives lost when killed by black perpetrators?
How can you call yourself black lives matter when you don't care about those blacks that have been killed?
I don't care about the people killed in Chicago.
You can't get them interested in black on black crime at all.
And that's the majority of black death in America, not from cops, black on black crime.
It's not even close, Mo, but you don't want to hear that.
Because it just doesn't fit with what you have been told that gets you all revved up.
Obama knows it isn't true, but he runs around and feeds people like you, keeping you feverish pitched, loaded for bear, whatever, rather than trying to calm everybody down with the truth and the facts that it isn't nearly as bad out there as you think it is.
That would be the responsible thing for any president to do.
To try to calm things down, not pour gasoline on them.
But Obama has direct ties to the spread of this narrative that the cops are are committing murder against blacks.
It was in July 7th, I think Obama was in Poland, shortly before the five officers were assassinated in Dallas.
And Obama purposely misled people about policing and race.
He charged that police nationwide were preying on blacks because of the color of Their skin.
And he rolled out a bunch of junk statistics to prove that the criminal justice system is racist.
Such as blacks were arrested at twice the rate of whites.
They get sentences almost 10% longer.
What do you think's gonna happen when he spreads this kind of son?
But he leaves the context out of it.
This is why I say that Obama bears a responsibility for fanning these flames.
There's no question that he does, but I'm never gonna be able to convince you of it.
No, I'm gonna finish this.
And I got halfway through this about Obama's culpability.
I'm gonna finish this.
I know Moe's no longer out there.
He's probably trying to find the evidence of lynchings to call back here and fill me in.
But you sit tight, my friends.
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