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Oct. 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so if the election is turning and if Hillary Clinton is losing ground, then I say if.
Why?
What would be causing it, do you think?
It's Friday, folks.
Let us go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
What would be causing it?
Look, you can find you can find all kinds of polling data.
Washington Post tracking Paul, what is she down?
Eight points in the last four days.
Now there was a guy, somebody said the polls were going to tighten.
Somebody said that.
I remember hearing it.
I listened to myself very closely when I speak.
Somebody said that.
Eight points in four days.
And that's just the Washington Post poll.
There's other polling data out there that shows something similar.
So if Hillary Clinton is losing support, and look, the reason I say if, because look what they're asking us to believe.
That public opinion shifts this wildly.
An eight-point drop in four days.
That would indicate that support for Hillary Clinton's very soft.
I mean, if that can if that can happen.
Or, well, yeah, or or they were they were not telling the truth in the in the polls in the first place, which is my basic contention that polls are used as a weapon.
That polls are used to make news and to shape opinion rather than reflect it.
But at some point, these people in the polling business all want to maintain reputations.
They all want to be as close to the end result as they can be.
I think.
Maybe some are so partisan they don't even care about that.
It's going to continue to weaponize their polls up to the end.
But let's look at, since this is what we have to work with, and this is what the Daily Soap opera script is telling us.
Why would Hillary be hemorrhaging support?
What's happening out there to make this happen?
And there are some ways you can answer that.
I mean, there's there's some answers to the question, so I'm asking it.
But I won't also, folks, I want you to be, very aware of something.
I wouldn't put anything past anybody on the left in this election.
Because I'm here to tell you as much as we have talked about it, I don't think we've gotten close to describing and nailing the sheer panic that exists on the left at the thought of losing this.
I can't think of a way to describe if if you were about to lose everything, if you knew that you were going to lose everything in a week to ten days, what would you be thinking?
What would you be doing?
How would that affect you?
That's what we're talking about here.
Being in the establishment, being in the political power structure is everything.
People in that club or in that group of people, it is how they derive practically 100% of their self-worth.
It is how they derive their standard of living, their lifestyle, it is how they secure the future for their kids.
This network of wires and can and and uh conventions and connections, networking and so forth is how they live.
It's it's how they insulate themselves from the everyday forces of life that people not in that club don't have as much ability to insulate themselves.
And it's a very, very special thing to be in the establishment.
Oftentimes you get in there by birth, you get in by family name, you get in by resume, you get in by where you went to school.
A lot of its legacy, you're in it because your parents or your family was in it.
It's very rare for outsiders To come in and crash it and stay there.
It happens, but it's very rare.
If you're on the verge of losing everything, and whether it's everything for real or not, but in your mind, losing this election means you lose everything.
I think a lot of people on our side already have that attitude, in the sense that losing this election is tantamount to losing the country.
And for people on our side, it is the country.
It's the founding of our country, it's the constitution, it is our capitalist system of economics and government that provides future opportunity for them and their kids and their families.
It is the country, it's the way the country was founded, the way the country is structured, the way the country operates, where those opportunities are.
And this election to many people represents a closing down of those opportunities because of a dramatic transformation of the country.
People inside the establishment don't depend on the country.
They don't depend on the principles of the founding per se.
They depend on the connections being in the club gives them.
Now, I've talked to many people, you've you've you have too, and you've you've heard it said, you've read it, other people do think this election is about the country, holding on to the country as founded, losing in the country.
And then that one of the reasons that's so crucial to people is because that's their kids' future.
It's their grandkids' future.
The United States of America, with its focus on individual freedom and liberty, merit-based achievement, all of that, uh that has been what has made the United States exceptional and different from most other, practically all other nations in human history on earth.
And if we are to lose that status by virtue of losing an election, because the people who will win want to close off those opportunities, want to basically say that America has found it is corrupt.
America has found it is unfair.
America needs to be transformed, and you know the drill, what the Democrats stand for.
So people on our side have the same attitude about this election that people establishment do, but the people in the establishment have much more power individually and within their group.
They run everything.
And the prospect of losing it, I cannot describe to you the kind of fear and panic it causes.
And that's why I think all bets are off in terms of what those people would do to hold on to what they've got.
It's human nature.
And I just want to re-emphasize this, because I there's still a lot of time, and there's a lot of tricks that can still be pulled.
What happens?
Let's say here's the Washington Post tracking poll, Hillary's lost eight points in four days, and they're all out there making a big deal of it.
And I can cite you a couple of other polls here where similar downward trajectory by Mrs. Clinton's taking place.
What happens if the polls on Monday or Tuesday next week show her regaining it all, how you're going to feel?
You're gonna, oh no, oh no, you're gonna be one measure of angry, another measure of depressed.
And I'm just want to take the occasion of the program here today again to once again tell you nobody knows.
It isn't over.
There are too many factors in this election that do not have enough precedence for there to be accurate projections, predictions, calculations.
That's primarily because of the presence of Trump.
We don't even know, for example, that I mean what percentage of Trump supporters of these rallies are even Republican.
don't really know.
I have an audio soundbite today.
Somebody says, they're not Republicans.
They're not Republicans.
This is the biggest joke on Republicans.
Trump supporters are not Republicans.
Nobody knows what is going on.
But so let's deal with what we have today.
If the polls change dramatically in the other way next week, we'll deal with that as that happens.
I'm not going to predict it.
I just want to warn you that they will do anything.
They, meaning the Democrats and Republicans, the Washington, New York, Boston Power Corridor.
They're not going to just sit by and let this happen.
They're going to do everything they can to influence the outcome.
They have the power to do so.
That's one of the perks of being in the establishment.
You run the American political system.
You run the government.
It's a massive, massive undertaking to wrest control from the establishment, from the elites, from the ruling class.
And I that happening is closer to reality than anybody ever dreamed it would be.
Hence all the panic out there, particularly on the uh on the Hillary side of things.
But what if it's legit, if she's losing eight points in four days?
And I have no reason to think she's not, don't misunderstand what's causing it.
Why are people changing their minds?
Why are people abandoning Hillary?
Or why are independents making up their minds and moving away from Hillary into Trump?
What could be causing this?
It has to be, it has to be this wiki leaks.
Never ending drip drip drip drip drip drip drip email dump.
It is incredible.
The next drop, I think, will be number 20.
And the thing that is happening here, the drive-bys are not succeeding in suppressing it.
It is out there.
The data, the information, and specifically about one thing.
Something is breaking out.
Something is breaking through in all of this.
It's not Benghazi.
It's not Hillary's health.
It's not the fact that she boozes it up during the daytime, apparently.
Have you heard that?
Daytime consumer of adult beverages.
Yes, emails have been released of Clinton staffers asking each other, should we sober her up now?
It's three o'clock in the afternoon.
Yeah.
Go back to uh 2015.
It's not that.
It's not Bengazi.
It's not the 3 a.m. phone call.
You know what it is?
It's this Clinton Foundation stuff.
This Clinton Foundation stuff, strange as it may seem, may be breaking out.
And what it is illustrating is the fraud that the Clintons actually are went through it in great detail yesterday.
They set up the Clinton Foundation inside that foundation is the Clinton Global Initiative.
And it's all disguised as a charitable enterprise to serve humanity.
And it was all set up so Bill Clinton could recapture his great reputation and image following the Lewinsky scenario that soiled the last four years of his presidency.
Had to do it.
And so becoming engaged in worldwide charities was meant to help people forget the reprobate factor of Bill Clinton's presidency.
But what happened, what the real purpose of the Clinton Foundation was, which people are now beginning to see, was to get rich, to get personally rich.
And I've got a story in the snack today.
Howard Feynman and Chris Matthews talking about this very thing, and I swear when I read this, I think they're channeling me.
When Feynman is describing the Clintons of Arkansas and how they were surrounded by all kinds of rich donors And wealthy people, and they didn't have a pot to pee in.
They became obsessed with becoming rich, getting rich like all of their donors and all of their buddies and friends in the Democrat Party.
So they start out with their Renaissance weekend to start networking with all these rich people and eventually shaking them down for donations at the Lincoln bedroom and so forth.
And then that eventually becomes hey, after you donate to the Clinton Foundation, we want you to pay Bill Clinton $3.9 million as a consulting fee for your company.
And these companies would do it.
As we have learned, and the question is why?
Why, after you make a charitable donation to Clinton Foundation, and it was it was Doug Band, and his emails are which are giving this up.
I mean, these these people were being pursued.
They were being hit up.
They were getting a sales pitch.
Donate to the Clinton Foundation, and then, you know, pay Bill an additional three to consult for your company, or pay Hillary X amount for number of speeches or whatever.
And that went to them personally.
And what was going on was an assumption that the Clintons would look very favorably on these people that were both hiring them and donating to their foundation if and when they ever had a chance to get back in positions of power.
Well, Hillary did, Secretary of State.
Now she's seeking the White House, and a bunch of people have contributed, quote unquote, donated, quote unquote, paid the Clintons with major, major expectations.
But that gets in the weeds, where it is easy to understand is that the Clintons have gotten personally rich out of all this, and that's something that's hard to do.
In terms of 501c3 nonprofit, you have a charitable foundation.
A normal person that donates money to their foundation, it's gone.
You might get to write it off, but you don't get to go grab it and put it back in your pocket and live off of it.
It's gone from your stash of money.
It's gone.
But the Clintons found a way to get to it.
And they have become phenomenally wealthy.
while trying to deny all of it.
I think some of this may be breaking out in terms of understanding.
This may not be a big deal, But you know, yesterday, uh Michelle My Bell Obama did a joint appearance with the Hilde Beast.
Well, guess who introduced who?
The Hildebeast introduced the first lady.
Hillary Clinton allowed herself to be upstaged at her own rally, played second fiddle at her own rally.
Needs to feed off of somebody that's loved out there, and Michelle Obama is, and Hillary isn't.
So there's a lot of factors that go into this.
So look, I'm going to take a break here.
We're going to come back and review the polling data a little bit.
We've got fascinating news outside of politics today, too.
Guy predicting riots next year when people find out what their health care premiums are going to be.
More polling data on the NFL and the fact that it is these national anthem protests, which are almost solely responsible for the drop in TV ratings.
And of course, the league doesn't want to hear it.
The league won't talk about it.
League certainly won't admit it, but it appears to be the elephant in the room.
Nobody wants to reference.
Drive by media montage here, responding to the polls tightening by saying Trump has a narrow path to victory.
Listen to this.
It's about a half a minute long.
Does Donald Trump have a path to 270 electoral votes?
Looking at the map, it is tough.
There's basically no path for him to win.
The path is narrowing.
The path to victory is narrowing.
It's a narrow path.
They acknowledge that privately.
It's a very narrow path.
How does he get to 270?
Trump has a narrow path to 270 electoral votes.
Very, very difficult, very narrow path.
Trump has a very narrow path.
How difficult the path is for Trump.
Their path to 270 is, in their words, an uphill climb.
Steep, improbable even, Donald Trump's path.
Is there a path to victory for Donald Trump at this point?
No.
That was Peter Hart.
So So you see, we the polls are tightening.
Hillary has lost eight points in the Washington Post, some of the other polls we've chronicled yesterday and will do so today.
And so the drive by say, you remember the soundbites yesterday.
John King at C, you know, oh my God.
Yes, yes, if the if the if the if the election is about the economy and healthcare, yes, yes, yes, Trump can win.
And we had two or three other drive-bys yesterday going from Trump can't win, then Trump can win.
And then somebody got a hold.
You guys can't say that.
You can't say Trump can win.
So they've revised it now.
And the way you see the coordinated script here.
Every one of these people.
Yeah, the polls are narrowing, but Trump doesn't have it's a narrow, narrow path, a narrow path.
It may not even be a path.
Narrow.
The polls tightening don't mean anything, you see.
So somebody got hold of these fallouts yesterday and brought them back to reality.
We will continue.
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Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
So yesterday when the polling numbers were changing dramatically against Mrs. Clinton, the drive-by media was we played the sound bites for you.
Yeah, yeah, Trump can win.
Oh my God, Trump can win.
Yeah.
If the election's about the economy, it's about health care.
Yeah, Trump can win.
If it's about personality and confidence, Hillary will win.
And I was dumbfounded here, as I'm sure you heard, because I wonder how can these people turn on a dime?
I mean, the day before yesterday, they were telling us Trump was toast.
Trump had no prayer.
And that's been their line for the past two months that Trump is toast.
That it's over, that it's a landslide.
It's humiliating.
It's going to be so embarrassing that Trump's going to move to the South American continent and never ever be seen again.
That's how bad it is.
Then the polls come out, and yesterday Trump can win.
Somebody didn't like that.
Somebody who writes the soap opera skipped script for the drive-by.
You can't, you can't say on CNN that Trump can win.
So the message went out, it has to work this way, because we've got a 30-second montage here.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 people with the same...
Phrase.
Trump does not have a path to victory.
There's no path.
Trump can't win.
The path is narrowing.
He doesn't have a path.
The path is very narrow.
Some of the same people who yesterday said, hey, you know what?
Hey, Trump can win this thing.
So they got their minds right.
It's it's just eerie.
We know that this is coordinated, and we now know that all this comes from the Clinton campaign.
That's another wiki leaks.
Email dump has shown the collaboration between the Democrats and the media is undeniable.
In this case, it's a collaboration between the Clinton campaign, but the Harry Reid office collaborates with the media and vice versa.
And Chuck Schumer and all the other Barbara Boxer and uh Pelosi, they all coordinate.
In this case, the coordination is coming from the presidential campaign.
It's what's most important right now, but clearly.
Uh this is what's happening.
Here's George Stephanopoulos breaking the news on the ABC poll, being down to four points.
This happened this morning and morning America.
Breaking right now, our brand new poll shows a four-point race as Hillary calls on her most powerful weapon.
Joining Michelle Obama on the trail for the first time.
Her most powerful weapon is Michelle Myabelle Obama, her most powerful weapon.
Not herself.
Not her stance on the issues, not her agenda.
No, her most powerful weapon is Michelle Obama.
Somebody who can transfer credibility to Hillary because Hillary does not possess it on her own.
Well, here are the details.
Donald Trump has gained on Hillary Clinton during the past week, according to a new Washington Post, ABC News Daily Tracking Poll.
Solidifying support among core Republican groups, as well as political Independence.
Roughly six in ten still expect Clinton to win, while the poll finds shrinking concerns about the accuracy of the vote count and voter fraud.
So there's a lot wrapped up in that paragraph.
So Hillary's support has dwindled in a week by eight points.
But it's no big deal because 60% of the respondents still think Hillary's going to win.
And many people are beginning to doubt that there's any fraud going on, that there won't be any fraud.
A shrinking concern, shrinking number of people worried about the accuracy of the vote.
Let me translate it further.
Yeah, Hillary's down eight points.
It doesn't matter.
Six out of ten people still think she's going to win.
And an increasing number of people think that Trump is loony-toons for running around saying the election is going to be rigged.
That's what that first paragraph means.
Here are the real numbers.
Clinton holds a slight 4844 advantage over Trump among likely voters.
The libertarian placeholder, Gary Johnson at 4%.
The Green Party placeholder, Jill Stein at 1%.
Survey was Sunday through last through through yesterday, so they through yesterday.
Wednesday, sorry, this is Friday.
Man, the week is going by.
Clinton held a six-point edge in the previous wave and a 12-point edge in the first wave of the tracking poll.
So if you look at the headline, Clinton Leeds shrinks even as nearly 60% expect her to win.
So if you look at that headline, no low information voter is going to drill down to see that Hillary only leads Trump by four points.
I will, and of course I will then pass it on to you, but your average low information news consumer who might run into this on Facebook or at Yahoo News...
Clinton leads shrinks, but 60% think she's going to win anyway.
Trump's growth in support from 38 to 44% is fueled by support among Republican-leaning voting groups, as well as a significant boost among political independents.
So you could say that some Republicans are starting to come home, and the independents are starting to shift to Trump.
In fact, Trump saw his biggest gains among political independents favoring Trump by 12-point margin in this latest poll.
Sizable minorities of likely voters express concerns about fraud and inaccuracy, though worries about both have declined in the past month.
Fewer than 40% now say voter fraud occurs very or somewhat often.
That's down from 47% in September.
Studies of voter fraud have found that it is indeed very, very rare, says the Washington Post.
Every drive-by article includes this claim that voter fraud is any voter fraud and an increasing number of people know that there's no voter fraud.
And they dismiss every report of voter fraud as anecdotal or user error.
But meanwhile, they've got all those monitors out there.
There's no vote fraud going on.
The drivebys tell us there isn't any fraud, and more and more Americans understand there is any fraud, but we have an increasing number of poll watchers, don't we?
And we have an increasing number of Democrat lawyers out there watching the proceedings.
Now there's this.
We've got audio to go along with this too.
Let me find what number to get.
Right up to number seven.
Audio soundbite number seven.
This is the kind of stuff that starts popping up in the latter days of a campaign.
There's another one last week that showed Trump was going to win, and this guy has never missed.
This guy has only missed one election, and it was Gore and Bush.
But every election in the last century in this one.
This guy's formula works.
And that formula is to measure enthusiasm during the primaries.
Remember that?
I mentioned it last week.
And this guy projected Trump the big winner because from the moment the primaries began, there hasn't been anybody even close to him in enthusiasm.
And this guy measures that and combines it with social media things the way he supposedly scientifically does it.
The guy last week rejected Trump the winner.
Here's another one.
Trump will win the election and is more popular than Obama in 2008, according to an artificial intelligence system.
An AI system that correctly predicted the last three presidential elections puts Trump ahead of the Hildebeast in the race for the White House.
This AI entity here was developed by Sanji Vray, the founder of Indian startup Genic I, or Genic AI, artificial intelligence.
What it does, it takes in 20 million data points from public platforms, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in the U.S., then analyzes the information and creates predictions.
And this system says that Trump is going to win big, bigger than anybody can conceive.
He's more popular now than Obama was in 2008.
And the guy appeared, uh, what was it uh on CNBC's international network, Squawk Box Europe this morning.
And here is how he explained it.
The polls that put Hillary Clinton ahead of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are wrong.
That's according to an artificial intelligence system that's managed to predict the last three general elections correctly.
The AI called Mog IA was developed by Indian entrepreneur Sanji Vry and takes into account information from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in the U.S., then analyzes it to create predictions.
Data such as engagement with tweets or Facebook live videos have been tracked.
The result is that Trump has overtaken the engagement numbers of Barack Obama's peak in 2008, the year he came into power by 25%.
Rye said that the candidate in each election who has leading engagement data ends up winning the election.
Okay, I misspoke.
That's not the actual artificial intelligence guru who designed the app.
That's the reporter, the correspondent for CNBC International, Rjun Carpal.
And I just I quickly read this.
I thought we were going to get the words of the actual founder, but we didn't.
That's just the reporter.
But there's the sum up.
There's uh the theory behind it.
And these kinds of things always start popping up as as we neared the.
No, my gut's not.
I still don't know.
I told you yesterday I don't know, and I don't know now.
My gut's like a lean uh folks, it's really hard.
I mean, I we we have to to constantly fight being moved one direction or another by what we watch and what we read.
And you really have to fight not being moved by the stuff you want to be right.
Like a lot of people will see this.
Oh, yeah, they want it to be right.
They want it to be, they don't just want Trump to win.
They want these Democrats skunked.
They want it demonstrated that the Democrats are not loved by anywhere near half this country.
So they're glam on that.
You got to be careful.
You gotta be really careful.
You don't allow the stuff you want to be true.
You you you if you want to get it right, and if you if you want to, if you want to remain ejective, uh the Democrats are not doing this.
The Democrats are all in.
They're taking their own polling data, and that's all they need.
You can turn on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, New NBC, New York, it doesn't matter.
It's over.
Trump in a landslide defeat, and they're already on CNN, they're going state by state, showing you how it's going to happen before a single vote has been cast.
I just saw John King telling everybody how Hillary's going to win Georgia.
He's going county by county.
We haven't counted any votes.
He's not counting early votes.
He's doing polling data.
Projections.
And then after that, they went to Utah, then they went to Colorado, then they went to Texas.
I mean, if you if you watch the state, you can they're already making it look like this is election night.
The way they're covering this.
You gotta be real careful.
No, my gut.
My gut doesn't tell me anything yet.
If it did, I would share it with you.
But I don't have a feel for it yet.
Okay, to the phones we go here, open line of Friday.
I got a couple sound bites coming up that literally demonstrate, prove the point that I just made about the media.
Literally prove it.
We'll get to him in a moment.
We have Luke from Detroit on the phone.
It says, Luke, that you are 19 years old, this is your first election.
Is that right?
That is absolutely right.
It's a pleasure to be on the show, Rush.
Thank you for calling.
Great to have you here.
What's up?
So yeah, this is my first election voting, and I want to speak for a lot of people my age that I feel like are thinking the exact same way and feeling the same way as I am, and that is Hillary is definitely not the one.
I think that's pretty obvious to a lot of us, but I still feel very fearful, honestly, about um electing somebody like Donald Trump, somebody that I feel like could literally start a war with his temper almost.
And it's like there are definitely things that I like about him as well.
But um, let me let me ask you how how can I feel better about officially voting for Donald Trump.
Great question.
It's a great question, and I I so glad you called.
No, really, because it's going to afford me an opportunity to try to explain something.
Can I ask you, you you say your fear of Trump is that you think he might start a war, nuclear war.
What is it that's making you afraid of Trump?
Well, I I have to say, even just watching, I watched all the debates, and when his passion can get aroused, I just feel like he sometimes almost like loses the control of himself.
And I'm just thinking like a lot of these international diplomatic relationships are extremely delicate.
And I just think if he can lose his temper that easily, that just makes me nervous, like that so many lives are endangered, and he can just start a war that easily just from his bad temper.
Okay, this is um.
You're nineteen, and you're going through one of these for the first time as a voter.
You might have seen a campaign four years ago, but you couldn't vote.
But you're 19, you're you're an adult now.
And the first thing I would tell you that what you're seeing in this campaign is standard operating procedure about Republican candidates.
And Ronald Reagan in 1980, the Democrats and the media ran the same scam.
We can't trust this man with his finger next to the nuclear button.
He's a loose canon, he's off his mind, he's an idiot, he's a dunce, and we can't trust him.
What what you're seeing, now you you did say that your assessment of Trump is what you're seeing from Trump himself.
But how much of it is also due to what's being reported about Trump?
How much of that is causing that?
That's true.
It's a good point.
I I have noticed that a lot, even just with the media.
He's always made this to seem like such a fool at the way.
What I want to try to convince you of, uh, and you're going to have to believe me, and I've got no reason to lie to you here.
What what is happening to Trump in terms of the way he is being reported on and and uh cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.
I'm 65.
What they're doing to Trump, the way they're portraying Trump is common.
This, it may be your first time going through it.
It may unnerve you.
It may, my God, this is if we had somebody more reasonable, they wouldn't be doing this.
There wouldn't be so many people afraid of Trump.
They turned Mitt Romney into a walking Lucifer who killed his dog and didn't care if the female employees or wives of his employees died from cancer.
Uh so I think Trump does not scare me from the standpoint that you mentioned.
We are in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Luke, than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan.
And yet they tell you that Bush lied and people died, and we were all over the Middle East.
We've got more troops in more hot spots around the world.
We don't know how to do diplomacy.
These people don't know how to do diplomacy.
And I would argue, what's diplomacy gotten us?
These people supposedly experts at it, the soft sell, being reasonable, being intelligent, being from the faculty lounge at Harvard.
People are walking all over us.
The Russians to this at this moment are taunting us and threatening us.
Nobody's afraid of us.
I think Trump would be a welcome change in a lot of ways.
But I'm glad you called.
I understand what you're going through, but I wish Is it Reagan was too dangerous?
It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot, Luke.
They said Goldwater was going to destroy the world with nuclear weapons, and they're saying it about Trump.
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