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Nov. 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 14, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, I'd tell you what I would do, and I would have already done it.
But since it isn't done already, here's what I would do.
I'd call Obama and I'd call Hillary.
And I'd say, you're gonna shut this stuff down.
You're gonna stop it right now.
It's your people doing this.
And if you don't shut it down, I'm going to.
And I'm gonna call every law enforcement department all over this country where these riots are taking place, and I'm gonna tell them I got their backs after I'm inaugurated.
You believe the hypocrites here.
These people, you know, eight years ago, I came on the air here and I said, I hope he fails.
And now we've got even liberals on the audio sound bites admitting they knew what I meant, led by Milmar.
They knew what I meant, because now they know they're engaging in hypocrisy.
I said, I hope he fails, meaning I do not want his policy implemented.
Socialism and all that sort of stuff.
Now these protesters are being lion, these rioters are being lionized and celebrated as great Americans.
And what are they hoping for?
They're openly hoping the Trump presidency fails.
I never said that about Obama.
I didn't want anything but his policies to fail to be implemented.
But these people who excoriated me uh all over this country for four years, and in fact, some continue to now hypocritically look the other way and claim that these protesters and rioters are legitimate and all that, and they're bought and paid for.
They are bust in.
I've got three different websites which have pictures of lines of buses, 10 to 15 buses in Chicago and in other places where these people are bought in, and they're the same people that show up at Black Lives Matter protests.
They're the same people that showed up in Ferguson in Baltimore, you name it.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
Great to have you, Rush Linbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Uh 800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
The reason Obama and Hillary are not going to shut it down is they love it.
Obama loves the look, and he loves the media telling everybody that the country is objecting to the election results and the election results.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me remind you again, and I'm not, by the way, angry or I'm loving every minute of this.
But I do think it's time to knock some heads.
And the fact is the Democrat Party was totally repudiated, and I am gratified.
I have found two substantive news stories now documenting that which I already told you last week.
The repudiation of the Democrat Party, starting with the midterms in 2010, has been profound.
They are at the weakest they have been since the 1920s.
Even George Will is now on board with Trump now that he's realized what happened.
George Will, oh yeah, all of a sudden now conservatives get to appoint the Supreme Court for 25 years.
Conservatives got to do this or that.
He's um he's done a 180 on this.
This election is a great illustration of reality versus mirage and illusion.
The media for eight years, and the Democrat Party for eight years has been acting and thus apparently convincing a lot of people on our side that we have lost the country, that we are in the minority, that we're outnumbered and big time outnumbered, and we are dwindling away to nothing, that the transformation of the country was well underway and nothing could stop it.
And it was not happening.
It wasn't even close to happening.
We could have defeated Obama in 2012, and we maybe could have in 2008, but that's a that's a big maybe not worth re-prosecuting at this point.
The truth of the matter is it's the Democrat Party that is the minority.
We have been governed by a dwindling minority for the last eight years, made to look like a supermajority trending up.
I'm gonna go through the numbers and the details again to remind everybody about just how deeply the Democrat Party has sunk and how they have just been shellacked and how Obama's specific policies were reputed in this election.
Therefore, these people protesting and whining and moaning and crying about things need to be told to grow up real fast.
They are not the majority, and they never have been the majority of people in this country.
That's why we're going to start hearing about the tyranny of the majority pretty soon and the rights of the minority pretty soon.
This is how the Democrats and the left always portray this when they when they lose elections.
But it is really bad, the circumstances for the Democrat Party.
Now, I don't mean anybody to assume from this that they're going to slink away and go away.
Quite the contrary.
They're going to continue to try to prevent to present the illusion that they are the majority and they got shafted.
And one of the ways they do that is with the popular vote versus the electoral vote.
So let me remind you some things about that.
Because I want you people fully confident.
I want you armed to the hilt with data and information.
I don't want you wavering on anything.
You have to promise me.
You're not going to waver.
You're not going to go knobbly in the knees, wobbly in the knees.
You're not going to get weak on me out there.
You are not going to fall prey to the usual tricks and practices implemented by the left and the Democrat Party.
You are the majority.
We won the election, and it was huge.
And the Democrat Party's losses are deep and significant and for a long time.
These losses have been occurring over a long number of years.
It didn't just happen with this election.
And the left knows it, and the Democrat Party knows it, but coming to grips with it is another thing.
They are used to living illusions.
They are used to spreading illusions, delusions, and all of this, and they will continue.
So let's look at the popular vote versus the electoral college.
They're trying to tell us that some states still haven't been called, and we're going to end up winning, they say, the popular vote by significant number of votes, which they are going to try to say de-legitimizes Trump's presidency, and they're going to use that to try to deny every Trump policy initiative on the basis that in terms of the population of the country, he was rejected.
So we need to get rid of the Electoral College and all this.
I don't think that's going to hold up.
The first reason I don't think it's going to hold up is this.
And I made this prediction last week, and I made the prediction based on some early data I had seen.
It's going to be a while before we actually have the total vote count.
And the reason for that is that the Obama forces are still out there trying to massage the results so that they can get this popular vote majority that they want.
Make no mistake about it.
So my prediction is that when all of the votes are counted, we're going to find that a significant number of illegal immigrants voted.
I wouldn't be surprised if the number is as high as two million illegal immigrants.
And when this all happens, it's going to be quite clear that Trump won the popular vote as well.
Mark my words on this.
As usual, don't doubt me.
But there's even more.
Let's say, for example, that we didn't have the electoral college, and the popular vote mattered.
Do you realize how that would have changed the entire campaign?
It would have made states like New York and California automatically in play.
They're not now.
Trump didn't spend any time in California, very little time in New York, because there was no point.
If every Republican in both states votes for you, you have no prayer of winning the popular vote there, and therefore you're nowhere of winning the electoral votes from those states.
So those states automatically go Democrat, but what if there was no electoral college?
The campaign would have been much different.
You wouldn't have had nearly as much time spent in North Carolina.
You wouldn't have nearly as much time spent in Wisconsin by Trump or Michigan or Ohio or some of these rust belt states.
You would have had Trump going where the people were.
He would have gone to New York, he would have gone to California, and he may not have needed to win the state, but if the popular vote was all that accounted, he could have easily won this election by simply changing focus.
Same thing for the Democrats.
You know, Hillary did not even go to Wisconsin.
Hillary spent all of her time assuming the blue wall, assuming the blue states were going to come through for her, and then she spent some time in what she thought were battleground states.
But without the Electoral College, there's no such thing, essentially as a battleground state.
They're a battleground state simply because the electoral college.
But if it's popular vote only, can you imagine if Trump had spent all the time in these states that he'd spent there in California?
So it's not automatic.
My point is that you can't automatically conclude that if the electoral college is thrown out, that Hillary would have won, because the campaign would have been entirely different.
And I'm going to go with the assumption that Trump would have won either way because Trump won.
He won as the election had to be contested.
Where Trump had to go and where Trump had to win, Trump did.
And they can't take that away from him, and they're trying to, with its electoral college BS.
But let me give you another analogy.
This one I like.
It's not a hundred percent, but it is close to all of you Democrats talking about your popular vote victory.
I'd like to talk to you about the 1960 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Nickies.
Many people believe that it was one of the greatest World Series ever played.
Game one, the Pirates, six to four.
Game two, the Yankees, 16-3.
Game three in New York City, 10 to Zip Yankees.
Game four, three to two Pittsburgh.
Game five, five to two Pittsburgh.
Game six, twelve to nothing Yankees.
Game seven, ten to nine Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh won four games, the Yankees won three.
But wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Let's not look at it as how many games the Pirates won.
Let's look at it a different way.
The Yankees outscored the Pirates 55 to 27 in those seven games.
The New York Yankees hit 338 in those seven games.
The Pittsburgh Pirates banned a measly 256.
So on paper, the New York Yankees just skunked the Pittsburgh Pirates.
55 runs to 27, 55 votes to 27 votes, but the Pirates won the World Series because they won the games they had to win.
They won four out of seven.
So you could say that the Yankees in this analogy won the popular vote.
55 runs to 27.
That's how you score who wins in baseball.
But they didn't win it, did they?
They lost the World Series despite playing much better, hitting better.
But there were four games that they didn't win.
Any number of ways that you can uh look at all of this.
Ladies and gentlemen, the bottom line is Trump won this election.
He was going to win the election no matter how it was contested.
This to me has proven to be indisputable.
So all of these bought and paid for protest.
We know these protests are bought and paid for.
Now that's not to say that there are some truly distraught people out there.
And to the people who are truly distraught and feeling just lost.
I mean, I I can't tell you how sorry I feel for these people.
But the reason I feel sorry for them is because of what has turned them out this way.
Who made them this way?
How in the world is it that adults young and old still act like five and six-year-olds when they don't get their way?
Why is it that losing an election is causing a genuine meltdown in Some people in such fashion that they're unable to cope.
They are unable to get out of bed and function as human beings.
I submit to you they weren't born this way.
They were raised this way, and they were educated this way, and it is a shame that this has happened, and it's worse than a shame because this has been done on purpose.
The fear mongering of the Democrat Party.
You know, climate change is the best example I can give you of the success of the fear-mongering of the Democrat Party.
John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam is now the Secretary of State.
He went down to Antarctica last week.
And I was reading my tech blogs.
And a bunch of them were dead serious when they said at least he got to go before it melted.
Antarctic is not melting.
We actually are in a dramatic cooling trend worldwide right now.
There certainly isn't any warming.
But these people believe it.
They really, really believe that the earth is not going to be around in such a shape that they will be able to live on it in like 20 or 30 years.
They really believe this, some of them.
Enough of them do.
This is just utterly irresponsible.
Now we have people out there claiming that the Trump election stands for some of the worst racism and bigotry the world has ever known in the United States of America.
And we have papers like USA Today and others claiming that this is just no good.
Why Trump represents a revival of Western values.
Damn right he does.
Western civilization is what made the greatest superpower in the history of superpowers.
Western civilization has fed the world.
Western civilization has clothed the world.
Western civilization has given the world its morality and its laws.
Western civilization is one of the greatest things ever happened to humanity in the history of humanity.
But the people on the left, no, no, no, no.
It's racist, sexist, bigoted, and homophobic.
I believe the vast majority of these people protesting are bought and paid for, as the Project Veritas videos proved.
It was the Hillary campaign buying and paying protesters to disrupt Trump rallies.
The same thing is happening here, and it happens every time they don't get their way.
And they're always called great patriots by the media.
They're always called great, great citizens, practicing the fine time honored practice of dissent when it's nothing of the sort.
And it it, if I I'm telling you, if I'm Trump, I call Obama and Hillary, and I say, you shut this down, because this is not good for the country, and these people are out living an illusion, presenting a false illusion, and there's nothing great about this, there's nothing unifying about this.
There's absolutely nothing good that can come of this, and you shut it down or I will.
I don't expect Trump to do that, but that's what I would do.
And if Trump called me and asked me what he should do, that's what I would tell him.
One of the reasons Trump got elected is this kind of stuff been going on for the last eight years.
This is one of the reasons he got elected.
People are fed up with it.
This is not helpful, it's not useful, and it's not morally superior to anything going on out there.
It's destructive.
It's actually taking young skulls full of mush and polluting them with ruinous ideas, personally ruinous and destructive ideas.
There's no link to the great dissent and protests of the past.
This is just childish, immature rabble rousing at best.
I have to take a break, folks, but we will be back after this.
From the UK Daily Mail, Governor Andrew Cuomo takes a stand against Trump and offers people under attack to take refuge in the Empire State.
Governor Kumo.
Said, whether you are gay or straight, Muslim or Christian, rich or poor, black or white or brown, we respect all people in the state of New York.
That's that's B.S. Just what was it, a couple years ago?
Cuomo invited all pro-life, pro-gun conservatives to leave New York State.
Does anybody Remember this?
He said New York is not open to conservatives.
It's not going to be a welcoming place.
If I were Trump, I'd call Andrew Cuomo.
Say, you want to do this?
But I'd call Bla Blasio too.
He's doing the same thing in the city.
And I think Rahim Manuel's doing the same in Chicago, and I'd call these guys.
Fine, you want to do this?
You keep it up, and I'm going to impound every dime of federal money your cities are getting.
I am not going to sit here and openly tolerate lawlessness like you are encouraging Governor Cuomo.
Illegal immigration is illegal.
Sanctuary cities are illegal.
Sanctuary states are illegal.
And we are not putting up with this.
We're not going to look the other way in the eyes of compassion or what have you.
While you continue to bring in undocumented, hopefully soon to be registered Democrat voters under some premise that they're being discriminated against by a bunch of hate monkers because none of it's true.
And if you want to keep getting federal money, you're going to shut this down and stop this right now.
That's what I would do.
And if Trump asked me what he should do, that's what I would tell him he should do.
Trump has not asked me.
By the way, the mayor of Los Angeles is also in on this.
Mayors, Governor Cuomo, uh, City of Chicago will continue as immigrant sanctuary, and the mayors of New York and Los Angeles pledge to remain immigrant sanctuaries.
This is a uh well, all of this is Reuters, UK Daily Mail AP, this is lawlessness.
Sanctuary cities are against the law.
Illegal immigration is against the law.
It is not rooted in racism, it isn't rooted in bigotry, it isn't rooted in anti-Hispanic, it isn't rooted in anything but the rule of law.
And Democrat Party officials getting away unpunished with breaking the law has got to stop.
If it doesn't, the Democrat Party is going to continue, becoming an even bigger minority.
You know the Democrats are always trying to help us do the right thing, aren't they?
Chuck Yu Schumer and Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi have been telling us that unless we reach out to Hispanics, and unless we join this push for amnesty that we are never going to win the White House again.
Look what happened.
Even on election night, even on Fox News, on Fox News, they had people left and right talking about how Trump was going to lose because all of the early voting Hispanics just had to be going, had to be voting for Hillary.
And Trump got the identical number of Hispanics that Romney got.
We didn't lose any ground with Hispanics.
We didn't lose anything with Trump's position on this.
And many Hispanics actually ended up being Trump supporters.
So I'd like to help the Democrats, like they have been offering us.
And I'm going to say if you guys don't shut down your sanctuary cities, you're going to continue to become an even smaller minority.
People are going to continue to vote against you, maybe not in your city, which is all left old Democrat.
Maybe not in your state, but nationwide, the Democrat Party is not going to provide a launching pad for you because there aren't going to be enough people going to vote for you, because the fact that you continue to engage in wanton violation of United States law is going to be made clear and abundant to everybody.
And as long as the illegal immigrants that you continue to offer safe harbor continue to commit violent crime, it's going to redound negatively to you.
And I, Rush Limbaugh, am just trying to help you, Governor Cuomo.
And I, Rush Limbaugh, I'm just trying to help you, Mayor de Blasio and the mayor of Los Angeles, whoever.
You guys are making profound errors here.
Huge, huge mistakes politically, aside from the fact that you are in wanton open violation of the law.
And you are not part of a governing majority nationwide in this country.
And your way of thinking is not representative of a majority of the thinking in this country.
It just isn't.
And it hasn't been for a while.
It's been an illusion that everybody bought, including me.
Look, folks, I can't sit and chastise anybody.
We all fell for this.
We all and largely because of the way our own Party leaders reacted over the years.
I had them come here and tell me we couldn't win the White House ever again with just us.
So whether I believed it or not, they did.
And look, look how one election, one election has exposed so much fraud, fraud in the media, fraud in the Democrat Party.
So much wanton illusion, so much purposeful lying to people, exposed in one election.
It's overwhelming when you really get into it and dig deep, the meaning of this election and what has been put on display, what has been exhibited here.
It's profound and it is deep.
But there are some Americans, like look at this story.
This is from Buzzfeed.
After Trump wins, suicide hotlines flooded with calls.
Four major hotlines, including two focused on LGBT populations, say their numbers are way up this week.
The spike in calls is unprecedented, one spokesperson said.
Since late on Tuesday night, four major crisis prevention hotlines have been reporting a surge in calls and chats and texts from people feeling intense mental distress.
I wonder.
They tell us this, but I wonder.
I don't doubt there's some, folks.
There is genuine, what's the word it?
Insanity is going a little bit too far.
But there's some genuine mental illness out there that has been taught.
There is genuine mental illness that has been programmed or indoctrinated or inculcated, whatever.
It's been taught.
If a teacher's had access to a Howard Zinn history book, if your kid has been taught by anybody believing that Howard Zinn tells the truth about American history, you have a you have a kid, you have a child that may actually be suffering mental illness.
They have been lied to, they have been I I'm at a loss for words to describe what actually has been done to them.
Now I think that these reported numbers are vastly exaggerated.
Way over the top.
I don't believe that such a sizable portion of the Democrat Party is this insane.
Maybe it's true.
I mean, when you say it that way, it sounds like it could be.
But all of these suicide, suicide hotlines, has anybody reported a suicide?
Have you seen a suicide because of the election?
I haven't.
I've seen some horrible, vicious beatings.
Angry African Americans beating up on white people just because they think they voted for Trump.
Dragging them behind a car for a quarter mile, half a mile at 75 miles an hour after beating them up.
I've seen these stories, but I haven't seen anybody actually reported to have committed suicide because of the election.
And yet we're told that calls to suicide hotlines are running at a record pace.
I think it's largely imaginary, and it is all due to the fear-mongering of the media.
The Democrat Party and the education institutions in this country and their propaganda machinery.
You take people that might not be wrapped too tightly to begin with.
You take some people that might be an order of fries short of a happy meal, and then you get them in your classroom for 10, 15 years.
And you scare them to death.
And you scare them to death.
Especially if they come from minority groups, LGBT, African American, women, whatever.
I don't doubt the Democrat Party's technique, one of their most practiced techniques, is scaring people to death.
Over what will happen if Republicans ever win elections.
But it seems to me that those who appear to be the most affected by all this are LGBT Americans.
And many of them are citing fears about their safety and safety.
and security under a Trump and Pence administration.
And I can't even remember one negative thing Donald Trump's ever said about gays.
But you see, that doesn't matter.
It's the hysteria that counts.
And the Democrat Party has created all of this.
All of these young skulls full of mush running around acting like five and six-year-olds are the direct product.
They are the product and the result of leftist education.
And it really is a shame when you strip it all away to have human beings, American citizens that are this fragile, this unable to cope with disappointment.
Life is filled with disappointment.
Life is filled with not getting your way.
Life is made up of the fight to win.
The things you believe in and get your way.
You don't win all the time.
And have you ever noticed it's only people on the left who act like five and six-year-olds when they lose?
It's only minority groups.
And who are they?
They are almost universally liberal Democrats.
Another brief timeout.
We've got some sound bites, and you might imagine that your host is featured quite a lot in many of the audio sound bites since we last got together.
We'll start reviewing those if we get back.
Don't go away, folks.
No, no, I know Trump has said stop it.
I know that.
Trump's gone out and stopped it, and he's he's told these people you don't have to protest, we're gonna get along fine and all that.
That's not what I'm saying.
He can do that only.
I'm saying Trump ought to call Obama and Hillary and tell them to shut it down.
It's their supporters that are being paid to do this.
Folks, this is the key that every and Trump especially needs to understand.
The idea that this is organic out there, it's not every time there is a major event that goes against the left, or might these people show up.
We've even had witnesses say that they've seen the same people this week in Chicago as they saw in Ferguson.
They've seen the same people in New York that they've seen in other cities during other protests.
It's the same people.
It's George Soros' money, largely, but it's Democrat donors that are paying for this.
All of this was exposed with Project Veritaz videos, James O'Keefe.
But we knew it before that.
This isn't organic.
This is not how people normally behave.
These people are being paid, as I say, within this universe of rioters, there no doubt are some people that are in total distress.
But I don't want to be redundant.
They're that way because they've been raised or taught that way.
It's it's it's not.
Look, what's going on does not require Trump to change it.
That's my whole point.
Donald Trump doesn't need to change a thing.
He doesn't need to apologize for anything, he doesn't need to explain anything.
It's these people's business to get on board.
The bottom line is winners do not reach out to accommodate losers.
It's the other way around.
And we have been making that mistake for way too many years here, folks.
And it's time now when we're on the winning side to act like it and to be confident of it and to accept the victory as legitimate in the sense that it represents the majority of the American people and that it is specific.
It's related to specific events and ideas and policies.
And there is nothing to apologize for.
Nothing.
Not one thing.
It is up to them to adapt.
They are not going to be harmed.
The idea that they think they're going to be harmed, that's the Democrats' problem.
It's up to people that they listen to to reassure them.
Because they're not capable of listening to anybody else.
But even that assumes that all this is Legitimate.
And I'm just telling you, the majority of it's not.
This is all for the it's all for show.
It's all for television, and the media is out there celebrating it.
In total hypocrisy, people ostensibly saying they do not want this.
They hope this fails.
They don't want any part of it.
They think it needs to be shut down and reversed, and that gets praised to the hilt by the media.
Anyway, that's my take on it.
You know what it is to the audio sound bites.
This was uh CNN's new day this morning.
Chris Cuomo is speaking with a panel, among them Jeffrey Lord, the American spectator.
And Cuomo's question.
What Breitbart does, whether they're targeting me or targeting other people in media is they deceive, they distort context, and they do it to advance an agenda that the media is against you, and that everything is the left and that the system is the left, and that this is about a race war and about white America being put down, and now you have the guy in the White House speaking for all Americans.
I don't know what the hell he's.
I gotta rate it in here, folks.
I was on the verge of offering a serious opinion of this particular TV newsman, and that would not be useful.
All I'll tell you is I have no idea what his question is.
But I think he's asking Jeff Lord, are you kidding me?
A Breitbart guy is going to be in the White House, a Breitguard guy who's responsible for race wars and white supremacy and all of this.
Chris Cuomo's one of these people that's just off his rocker with a total mischaracterization of who Donald Trump is and who his supporters are.
Here's how Jeff Lord answered the question.
I just disagree totally with your picture of Steve Bannon.
I read Breitbart every day.
I mean, it's conservative.
You're not going to hear much difference out of Breitbart than you are from Rush Limbaugh.
Russia's been saying things.
You think that Rush Limbaugh would be a good guy to have as a president's top strategist with him spending all of his time trying to divide this country?
Chris, here's the trick that the left always plays, and you just, my friend, played it.
Is that you guys divide Americans all of the time.
The Obama administration and the American left divide people by race, and then they pretend that it's all normal.
Jeff is exactly right about this.
So here's here's Chris Cuomo.
When you're talking about dim bulbs.
See, I couldn't help myself.
Should I bleep that out?
I've got 30 seconds to decide.
No, okay.
That's that's harmless enough.
So he really thinks that I divide America, that I am a divisive guy.
Of course, he, CNN, and all these people on the left whether they're about total unity.
Even while all of this rioting is going on.
The simple fact of the matter is this country is not unified because of the Democrat Party and its policies.
This party is not unified because of Barack Obama and his policies and his words and his approach to things.
We do want a unified America.
We want an America great for everyone.
We do not judge people by the color of their skin or anything of the like, just as they do, folks.
So poor Chris Cuomo here is living in his illusions, and he is the product himself of a bunch of propaganda and stereotyping, in which he believes that any conservative is by virtue of his or her existence divisive.
When it's the exact opposite, it is the left that is intolerant, not tolerant.
It is the left that's divisive, not unifying.
It is the left that feeds off of the chaos of disunity.
It is the left that talks about us versus them in even from the top, Obama, during his campaign in 2008, and then as he served as president, the same kind of divisive language.
But even with that, Chris Cuomo is emblematic of many in the media who is simply incapable of critical thinking, incapable of observing something and coming to his own conclusion.
He's simply trapped in stereotypical prejudice.
That is the result of being a liberal.
You mean Rush Limbaugh in a white...
Rush Limbaugh divisive.
That's just...
it's just outrageous.
But at any rate, folks, we uh with time is just marching on here.
We have to take another brief break.
We'll be back here and continue in a second.
I'll tell you something else.
Embedded media belief syndrome.
Every one of these little snowflakes and every one of these leftists and these rioters, not being paid for rioters, they believed the media.
The media told them, Nate Silver, New York Times, 99% chance Hillary wins.
They were assured by their Bibles that Hillary was going to win.
And she didn't, and they can't cope.
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