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Sept. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's a sad observation, folks.
I'm telling you, it's a sad, sad observation, but it's an observation that I don't think I'm alone in making.
It seems like it seems like rioting is almost expected now.
When there is a cop shooting.
A cop shooting, period.
Don't care about the details.
It seems like it's now axiomatic that there's going to be rioting or massive public protest or threats of rioting or threats of unrest every time the cops have to draw their weapons.
Now stop and think about this in a where are we here?
We're in the United States of America.
We are in the second term of the presidency of the first African American president ever elected so in this country.
A former community organizer, agitator, organizer, same thing, who promised and assured us via hope and change that none of this would survive his presidency.
This kind of thing was destined for the ash heap.
We weren't going to have these kinds of divisive squabbles any longer.
Because the election of the first African American president would finally mean that we had matured, that we had seen the error of our sinful past.
The election of the first African American president, not just that act, but the man himself, with his promises and his assurances.
It was going to unify us.
The country was going to become one.
The nation was going to be loved by all the peoples of the world.
And via hope and change, there would be an unbridled optimism that would spread coast to coast, east to west, north to south, all across this country.
And now look where we are.
In fact, not only are we nowhere near that, we have regressed.
We have regressed, and we are in the process of regressing.
Specifically in the area of race relations, but in general are throughout our culture.
Our culture is being roiled, our society is being torn asunder.
It is happening with happiness on the part of those doing the asundering.
They are gleeful and feel like they have an objective to accomplish here by further division creating angst.
There doesn't seem to be any desire for hope and change to mean anything positive.
It doesn't even seem to be any desire to want to.
Try to unify to get along.
So is it a coincidence?
And in Charlotte, you have a black chief.
You have a largely African-American city government.
You have a largely black police force.
And I think in the case of Charlotte, you have an African American cop.
Wha why?
Wasn't the election of these people and wasn't the commensurate rise in political power for African Americans to mayoralties and city councils?
Wasn't that supposed to also bring about a uh I not an end, I mean nothing ever ends, but why are things getting worse here?
You can look at this in some ways and say that our country, the people in our country, have actually tried to bring a halt to this.
The people of this country have done the majority of people in this country have done a lot of what they think they can do to demonstrate that they are not racists.
African Americans are routinely elected to positions of power all over this country, particularly in a deep South.
And yet it doesn't seem to have mattered.
Why is that?
I wish it had mattered.
It doesn't seem to, though.
Black lives matter gets into gear no matter the specific circumstances of any particular police event now.
It doesn't matter what the details are.
We have a police event, a cop draws a weapon, cop fires a weapon.
That's all we need to know.
That's all we need to know.
We're going to get into gear and we're going to find something to protest.
All in the second term of the first African American president in this country who promised and assured us that these are the kinds of things that would cease.
These are the kinds of things that we were going to finally be able to get past.
And I'm telling you, we are regressing.
And it's a shame.
It's just, it's just, it's just an abject shame.
When I say nobody wants this, I'm talking about reasonable people.
Nobody wants this.
What's happening in Tulsa today last night, Charlotte?
Nobody wants this, but some do.
Some are feeding off of it.
Not new, I know.
But I keep going back to hope and change.
This was supposed to end because there was supposed to be hope.
The election of Barack Hussein, oh, that meant there was hope.
That means that we had changed direction.
We were headed in a new direction, a positive direction.
There was to be a new sensitivity, a new awareness.
And we were told.
In fact, people on the left were using the term post-racial society to describe what the country would be like after the election of Barack Hussein Obama.
We're not post-anything.
We're worst post.
We're ipso post.
We're whatever is happening.
It ain't for the better.
We are digressing, we are regressing.
And it's just a downright shame.
By the way, did I not call this yesterday?
Jimmy Fallon is now getting the Matt Wower treatment.
I spent a lot of time yesterday explaining to those of you how the people on the left who used to love Matt Wauer, you know, they let Matt buy a big expansion of his house out in the Hamptons.
That meant that he was an accredited member of the establishment.
He wanted to add on to his property out there, and they said, fine, do it.
And he did.
Now that's the last place he wants to go.
His own buddies have turned on him because he was fair with Donald Trump.
And he was fair with Hillary Clinton in those presidential forums.
And now they're going after Jimmy Fallon for doing the same thing, and they're doing it in the New York Times.
They are doing it on late-night.
Have you noticed that Comedy Central seems to have taken over late-night TV?
Every Comedy Central reject now has a late-night show on the networks.
And these people are loaded for beer.
They're not comedians.
They are agitating their well.
They're social justice warriors out there, and Jimmy Fallon is now, he's he's the next victim.
Because he made Trump look human.
Why Trump let Fallon run his hand through his hair out there to prove it it was real?
And Fallon had a good time with Trump, and they were laughing, and now it's not good.
So Jimmy Fallon is next in the cross.
I just I just want you Republicans out there, you you GOPE people, you establishment who keep telling us.
Even now you keep telling us that you believe the American people want bipartisanship.
Maybe they do, but the people that you're gonna have to be bipartisan with, i.e., the Democrats want no part of it.
Matt Wauer tried his version of bipartisan.
Look what's happening in Mount Wower.
And then Jimmy Fallon tried it, look what's happening in Jimmy Fallon.
Same is gonna happen to you people.
It's not walking across the aisle and meeting people halfway and engaging in bipartisan this or bipartisan that.
That's not even the desire.
The people on the left.
And by the way, Dingy Harry history repeats.
All of us, you remember last year, Dingy, well, 2012.
Dingy Harry is out there saying at Mitt Romney didn't pay his taxes.
Got a friend.
Harry Reed had a friend, told him Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes in like 10 years.
And the press said, Who's your friend?
And Harry Reid said, doesn't matter.
You need to go ask Romney why he hasn't paid his taxes in 10 years.
The press said, oh, yeah, right.
And they did.
They went off and they asked Romney, after asking him why he hates dogs, why he hadn't paid his taxes in 10 years.
Well, now Dingy Harry from the Florida Senate.
Donald Trump isn't rich.
Donald Trump isn't wealthy.
Donald Trump lying about that's why he won't release his taxes.
So now the media has been giving their marching orders to change a narrative on Trump, and he's lying about everything.
It's again from the old playbook that doesn't apply to Trump, but they haven't figured that out yet.
Yeah, yeah.
It is.
It's just I don't know.
Black Lives Matter goes to the White House and gets praised to the hilt.
Black Lives Matter gets honored at the White House.
My question is were they radicalized before they went to the White House or after they left the White House?
Well, it's a fair question, is it not?
When did Black Lives Matter become really radicalized?
Before they went to the Oval Office or after.
Well it seems like violence and property destruction are the judge and jury justice that we have today.
The mob determines right and wrong and then hands down the sentence then and there.
And then the Justice Department watches from afar, and after everybody gets through tearing up a town, the Justice Department walks in there with Loretta Lynch and claims the police department's racist.
We're gonna have to take it over.
Now we're gonna have to impose our federal guidelines.
Charlotte, you're next.
Tulsa will be there before the end of the year before Obama's turns up.
Thank you.
I don't know, folks.
It's just a shame.
It's just nobody wants this except those who do.
And it's a hell of a thing, but when you ask these things happen, who profits?
Who benefits?
Somebody is.
Somebody does.
Nate Silver is out.
This is going to disquiet those on the left.
Trump has surged from.
Now, Nate Silver, let's explain this what he does.
I know you probably have have heard me say, but we have new people tuning in every day here, folks, and they in many cases are hearing things for the first time that you've heard a lot, so indulge me.
Nate Silver used to be at the New York Times.
He's an analyst of polls.
He's not a poll stirrer per se.
He looks at everybody else's polls and then he analyzes them as supposedly only he and his staff can.
And then, after that analysis, he attaches a percentage of likelihood of victory to each candidate.
And when this whole thing got started, Nate Silver factored that Trump had a 3% chance of winning the White House.
Today, it's 48%.
The latest vote projection from elections guru Nate Silver has Republican Donald Trump just six electoral votes short of winning and one point away from equaling Hillary Clinton's popular vote.
The newest 538 survey.
Trump's at 264 electoral votes, Clinton at 272.
That's two more than she needs.
It's the closest it's been in recent weeks.
So Trump, uh, just a couple of months ago, according to Nate Silver, 3% chance of winning up now to 48%.
And it is climbing.
Nobody has to send me anything here.
I just want to throw something on.
I did, I didn't print it because it's too in the weeds and too esoteric.
But it's an interesting thing.
Somebody, somebody credible, I don't even remember who, don't doubt me on this.
They took the same data.
They took this company went out and did a poll.
They polled the American people.
They polled, I think, something like 800 people.
They gave the data to five different pollsters.
Five different pollsters produced five different results with the identical data.
And the story purported to explain how this could happen, as though it was entirely understandable.
How is it understandable?
You have the polling questions, you have the answers, you have the crosstabs, you have the demo, you have everything.
In four of the five pollster analysis, Trump won by a point or two, and in the other four, Hillary was narrow.
I mean, it was close.
It didn't, it didn't, neither five, none of the five pollsters showed either candidate running away with it.
But it was the same data.
Five different polling companies were given the identical data, and they came up five different interpretations of what it meant.
And I was reading the story, said, Yeah, well, it depends on the questions you ask.
Well, they didn't ask any questions.
The questions were asked for them.
The answers were provided for them.
Well, yeah, but then it did you have to, you know, every poll waits.
W-E-I-G-H-D.
Every poll weights its questions and answers.
And that's up to the individual pollster.
Well, really.
So the individual pollsters look at the questions being asked, and then they decide that's a good question or not a good question.
I don't think I should give full weight today.
Is that how it happens?
Basically, you're right, Mr. Limboy, yes.
So, bottom line is same data, five different companies, five different results.
Just keep that in mind going forward the next time you see any poll produced.
I'm waiting for something to print.
It's been 30 seconds.
You won't believe this.
This is the headline.
Gloria Steinem keynotes planned parenthood fundraiser, quote, forced childbirth is the single biggest cause of global warming.
Unquote.
Don't smirk.
You used to buy every line, Rachel.
You whatever Al Gore said in the movie, you believed it.
I'm glad we saved you.
But forced childbirth.
That's along the meme that it's an illness.
Childbirth is male oppression.
Yeah, look at Angelina Jolie Pitt.
How many is she walking around with now?
Six.
Can you imagine the damage that family's doing to global warming under Gloria Steinem's theory?
Just think of this.
Forced childbirth, single biggest cause of global warming.
Are those people panicking yet, do you think?
But before you, folks, I always have to issue this caveat.
There are a dangerously large, sad large number of millennials who are going to eat every word of that up and believe it.
I have been um I have been shocked to learn how successful the global warming propaganda has been with millennials.
And you know why?
You know what the key word is with millennials is I've studied this too.
I'm prepared now to announce the results of my in-depth research.
Sustainability is the magic word with millennials.
If you tell them something is unsustainable, they will oppose it.
It's amazing.
You tell them it is sustainable, they love it.
Well, our current way of life means the climate is unsustainable.
Which means, to millennials, to a majority of them, which means we have to alter our way of life.
Because where we're headed now, the Earth's life support systems are not sustainable.
I was shocked to learn how many millennials really believe that by the time they hit 60 or 65 or whatever social security age is going to be for them that the planet is going to be largely uninhabitable.
They believe that almost identically the way seasoned citizens back in the 60s, 70s, 80s believed it when the Democrats told them that the Republicans want to kill Social Security and their benefits and kick them out of their houses.
Remember how you, when you heard that you think, why do these old people believe it?
And I said, because they can't afford not to.
What if it is true?
They're going to have nothing.
So they're going to keep voting Democrat just to make sure they can't trust that the Democrats are lying to them.
And the millennials are pretty much on the same page when it comes to climate change.
They just believe it.
It's their future.
And if there's no planet, inhabitable planet, and they haven't figured out how to get us to Mars, they're cooked.
Okay, before we get into the audio sound bites from uh from Charlotte, North Carolina, and let's see what he uh reaction there.
I want you to hear a couple of sound bites.
You know, yesterday we had the uh the news.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend announced that she had been at the home of George H.W. Bush, 41.
And uh she claimed it.
He told her that he was voting for Hillary.
Now he has stated that he's not going to announce who he's gonna vote for.
And so people have assumed that means he's not voting for the Republican nominee, but not necessarily.
Could well be he's gonna vote for the Republican nominee, but but doesn't want anybody to know.
Now, the thing is here that nobody heard him say this to her.
It's at his home.
They're in Maine.
It's a it's a it's a thousand points of light charity, cocktail party reception or something.
And it's classic that a Kennedy would take a private conversation and run out to Facebook with it and blast it all over the place.
Now that's what happened.
Now the Bush family is not going to deny or confirm anything because they've said from the get go that this is something they're not going to announce, so it's not going to react to it.
So Kellyanne Conway was on uh Aaron Burnett out front last night on CNN.
And I think this is how you deal with it.
I think she gave a great way, Kellyanne Conway Trump's uh campaign spokesman and uh campaign manager.
So the question was former president George H.W. Bush says he will vote for Hillary Clinton.
Now that's not just voting for Donald Trump, that's voting for Hillary Clinton.
What is your response to that, Kellyanne?
Well, I respect uh the 92-year-old former president very much and his decision, and I think that Americans are very grateful to the Bush family for their public service.
That's his right.
Look, this was a bruising primary, and Jeb Bush really failed all expectations that he would be the quote electable, the predominant person on the stage.
I mean, he lasted through South Carolina, got out of the race before March 1st.
So I know there are a lot of hurt feelings there.
Wow.
That's an interesting take on it.
Well, you kind of would understand him, uh, George H. W. Bush being a little bit out of shape after what happened to his son Jeb when they'd raised 115 million dollars, and Jeb was considered the de facto winner, hands down, before things even begun or began, so yeah, you can understand it.
So then uh, let's see, Aaron Burnett followed up, and she said, All right, look, the Washington Post is reporting that Mr. Trump may have violated laws against self-dealing through his foundation.
Now, I don't know if you've had a chance to read it, but they lay out several donations that he made to charities in order to settle lawsuits.
One of them involved Marilago.
It was a 100,000 donation to a veterans' charity and to settle fines at Marilago owed Palm Beach over some sort of dispute about a flagpole.
What it wasn't a dispute about a flagpole.
This was actually comical.
I happen to know about this.
Trump's Mar-a-Lago is right on the South Ocean Boulevard.
It's right there at the turn by the Bath and Tennis Club.
Yes, right there on the ocean.
It was built by Marjorie Merriweather Post when she was married to E. F. Hutton.
And her daughter Dina Merrill grew up in the place.
And it's monstrous.
Trump bought it for 10 million when he was married to Ivana back in the whenever days.
Ten million.
And refurbished it and renovated it and got permission to turn it into a private club with a portion of it reserved for his personal accommodations, residential area of it.
And so he put up this giant American flag.
He put up a flag that's bigger than the flags at automobile dealerships.
And the town of Balm Beach got the vapors.
Well, it it was it was it was there was a concern that the turtles, if they were attracted by whites, would see the American flag and be offended or realize they were supposed to be in Argentina, and here they are in South Florida in panic.
I mean, the town can come up, believe me, with any justification for whatever it is that they want to limit citizens' freedom being.
So there was all hell broke loose over the size of Trump's flag.
And it was big.
I mean, I and if the wind was blowing and the thing was fully extended and flapping around up there, it was huge.
But some in the hierarchy of a town leadership thought it was so big that it was an eye sore, and they associated it since it was Trump doing it.
They concluded that it was really a gauche way to market and advertised the club.
They weren't opposed to the American flag flag.
Don't misunderstand.
This was just huge.
So there were countless lawsuits back and forth.
It was uh it was big news down here for quite a while.
Now I'm I don't remember how it was settled, but the flag's still flying.
The flag still it's still waving and flapping in the breeze up there.
So there must have been some controversy with it because that's the nature of Aaron Burnett's question.
One of these uh one of these donations that he made to charities to settle lawsuits, one of them involved Marilago, 100,000 to a veterans charity to settle fines that Marilago owed Palm Beach over the size of the flag.
She said flagpole.
What about flagpole?
What about the height?
Now, of course, she said it's illegal to use a charity's money to benefit yourself or your business.
Can you believe she's asking this question with the Clintons?
I mean, this is this is incredible.
She's asking this of Trump's spokesman, campaign manager, knowing full what do you know how much?
What did I read the other day?
The Clinton Foundation.
Oh, I'm gonna get this wrong.
Something like seven million dollars was spent on travel alone.
Or maybe it was 70% was spent on travel.
I'm having a I'll I'll get it straightened out here before too long.
But it what it whatever the number is, it's astounding.
It's how much money not going to charity.
The Clinton Family Foundation is there to enrich members of the Clinton family and close associates.
I do know that the amount of money that actually gets spent on charitable works in the foundation is less than 30%.
They've got like a 70% uh off-the-top expense ledger, and the past through is like 30%, as opposed to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which is 99% goes to the charity.
Uh and and it's it's even there's a story here today, but the Democrats.
Here it is, in fact, right here.
Clinton Foundation has been a negative, according to a Democrat leader.
The Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative are meeting in New York.
This week coincides with the UN bringing all these ne'erdo wells from all over the world into town, because a lot of them are women.
So the Clinton global initiative is timed to happen at the same time.
It was 7.8 million dollars on travel in 2014, $5.2 million on charitable grants.
That's what it was.
The Clinton Foundation, $7.8 million on travel for whoever works at the Foundation, and the same year they donated $5.2 million to Charity.
So anyway, you thought I'd lost my place.
You're probably very frustrated.
Why did I get to the soundbike?
Well, here we are.
So she says to Kelly and Conway, are you concerned at all that Mr. Trump may have broken the law with the way he was using his own charity to pay for things?
This is a classic Donald Trump.
He wanted to raise the American flag as high as he possibly could over Mar-a-Lago.
I think a lot of Americans at this point would applaud that.
And of course, the county said he couldn't do it.
It had to be smaller, so they started assessing a 1250 a day fine.
So the way that they quote settled it was for Mr. Trump to donate 100,000 to a veterans group.
I don't want that to be lost here.
I want to point out to you that the Trump Foundation has no permanent staff, no paid staff, no overhead.
No one from the Trump family takes a penny as a salary or as benefits.
Contrast that to, as we know, the slush fund, the otherwise known as the Clinton Foundation.
Slush fund, exactly.
That's exactly what I call it.
Slush fund.
Nobody at the Trump family takes a dime out of it.
So there you have it.
So Kelly Ann Conway, I think at two different sound bites dealt with all of this exactly as it should be dealt with.
And we'll be back.
Yeah, there was the uh on the on the Trump flag and the flagpole, there was a controversy over how high the flagpole was because of the size of the flag.
Uh the flag was huge.
I should say huge the flag was.
So there was a there was a height uh component to this.
Okay, uh grab audio sound bites uh one, two, and three.
Then we're gonna grab a phone call or two on this.
This is the police chief.
Uh Mecklenburg uh police chief, Charlotte Mecklenburg police chief, Keith Lamont.
Wait a minute now.
Uh oh, the the sh uh the the chief's name is is uh uh Kerputney, and he's speaking about the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, who's the resident in Charlotte.
Remember now we have an African American Charlotte police chief.
We have an African American victim.
Yep, what is black lives matter all about?
White cops murdering innocent black men.
That's the narrative, that's the meme, that's the thing they raise money on and radicalize over.
Um not only do we have a black police chief here, we have black mayor.
Uh no, white mayor, but black town council.
If I've got that right.
I mean, just throw that out there because it does matter.
If they're gonna be the ones to make this about race, and if they're gonna try to establish another Ferguson narrative here that a that a white cop ran around murdered an innocent black citizen.
So it's black lives matter to the rescue, not the case here.
The facts do not match the black lives matter narrative.
Here is the police chief.
The officers gave loud, clear, verbal commands, which were also heard by many of the witnesses.
They were instructed in the subject once he got out of the vehicle to drop the weapon.
In spite of the verbal commands, Mr. Scott, as I said, exited his vehicle armed with a handgun as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it.
He stepped out, posing a threat to the officers, and officer Brentley Vinson subsequently fired his weapon, striking the subject.
And he then says that the truth does not match the narrative that either the media or activist groups in Charlotte are trying to establish.
So I would I would say, welcome to America 2016, Chief.
I mean, here he is an African American police chief.
There should be if if we don't believe Black Lives Matter and why they exist, if we are to believe that they really care about this certain aspect of uh law enforcement, then they ought not even be on the scene here, because this was black on black.
They don't go to Chicago, black on black crime.
They couldn't care less about what goes on at Chicago.
I mean, here there's no white coped.
So why are they even there?
Well, I mean, I'm asking rhetorically, because we know why they are there.
Here's the second bite from the chief.
It's time for the voiceless majority to stand up and be heard.
It's time to change the narrative.
Because I can tell you from the facts that the story is a little bit different as to how it's been portrayed so far, especially through social media.
So Charlotte, the challenge is ours.
I think the future can be bright.
But the work has to be done by all of us.
Welcome to America 2016, Chief.
I mean, it the the perp, as per usual, is not the innocent flower that the activists would like you to believe.
He's not walking around anticipating his first day at college next week, like they tried to say about Michael Brown and Ferguson.
So here's a here's the African American police chief in Charlotte Macklinberg and the police force.
They're saying, hey, you know, I'm looking at what they're saying about this.
It isn't true.
He's gonna catch hell on social media.
Here, one more sound bite.
This is uh the MAALCP and other members of a black religious community held a presser to talk about the police shooting of Charlotte resident Keith Lamont Scott.
This is the nation of Islam uh pastor.
His name is B.J. Murphy.
Open up in the name of Allah by bear witness that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.
I greet everyone at this press conference in the greeting words of peace.
What we're standing up for now is our black manhood and our black people who are being gunned down in the street, and we don't get no justice.
So what I'm calling for, and what we're calling for is a economic boycott of the whole city of Charlotte.
Since black lives do not matter for this city, that our black dollar shouldn't matter, right?
Don't spend no money with no white folks that don't respect us.
And that's all I gotta say, brothers and sisters.
Well, fine, except there's not any no white person involved in the shooting here.
That is right, correct?
The cop, the cop is African American as well, right?
And so yet here's the nation of Islam.
Uh local grand poop is saying, don't spend no money with no white folks.
Hmm.
What's up with that?
Here's uh here's Adam in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Says up there, Adam, it you are a self-confessed millennial, is that right?
Yeah, Russia, I definitely am.
Uh sometimes I do take a little offense to how you talk about my generation, but uh sometimes it is you have some points to make.
Well, I don't mean it, I don't mean it to be offensive, and if you if if I'm wrong about something, God please protect me.
No, I just don't I you know sometimes I just don't appreciate you kind of l uh lumping us all together.
Uh I've been a a long time conservative libertarian.
I've listened to you since I've been a teenager, got my car and definitely turned you on right away.
Right.
Um today I called, though, um you at the top of the show basically outlined a question was Black Lives Matter radicalized before after their sit-down meetings with Barack in the White House.
And why I call them is because uh prior to that meeting, um I always considered them, even though I didn't agree always with Black Lives Matter, I really considered their movement to be kind of an angry, an angry movement that was really just out of feeling oppressed and uh out of poverty uh a lot of communities and disrespect who you thought they were and why they were organized.
Well, no, no, not exactly why they're organized.
I I just thought that the main supporters, the average Joe Schmoe, obviously not the people that were in charge of the community themselves.
Okay.
Good, good, good.
But um, but what I'm really getting at was after their meeting with Barack, they put out their six demands.
And I don't know if you really covered that much.
Uh I never really heard you talk about it.
I really encourage all of your listeners to get online, go on to the Black Lives Matter website, and look at their six demands, because they pr if you read these six demands, you will immediately realize that this group is a racist communist organization that wants to do away with public property rights.
Exactly.
I why I read those six items shortly thereafter to make the exact point that you are are making and to and to prove that it's not even about African Americans being shot in the street.
It's just the vehicle.
I gotta go, though.
I have no time left.
A quick question here.
Why is Hillary Clinton not called out to demand that she denounce the rioting and violence of Black Lives Matter?
I mean, they're they're her group, right?
I mean, they're gonna they they they support her.
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