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Dec. 15, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, every greetings, my good friends, and welcome back.
It's great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Doing what I was born to do.
And so are you.
I was born to host, and you were born to listen and learn.
It's an arrangement that is working fabulously.
Happy to have you here, folks.
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So I said at the top of the program, they just keep sucking us back into this.
We try to get away from it.
We try to escape the gravity of this fraudulent story, and they just keep sucking us back in.
Josh Ernest has now doubled down on the idea that Trump was not joking.
So actually, grab sound by number 24.
We actually went back to the archives.
And we have the Trump soundbite that got all of this started.
By all of this, I mean Obama.
Don't believe when Ernest goes out there and says what he says that he's that he's freelancing.
He's off script.
He's not.
I guarantee you.
You know, the press secretary is the most visible member of the regime in any regime.
The press secretary is out there every day, next to the president.
The press secretary is the most, and the press secretary is in the inner circle.
The press secretary is in a lot of meetings or is briefed on meetings if he's not allowed to be in them, because it's the press secretary has to go out and answer questions without saying anything, and basically doing what he can to be mouthpiece for the president.
So there's no question here that this is Obama.
This is what Obama wants Ernest to be saying, which everybody needs to know.
By the way, have you heard the latest name tossed in the um in the in the hat here for potential press spokesman for Trump?
Kimberly Gilfoil.
So let's who who are the names that we know that are in that in that pot in that hat.
Laura Ingram's in there.
Monica Crowley's name has been mentioned.
Sean Spicer, he won't get it.
He won't get it, because I think Trump's gonna go all female all the time on this job.
Kimberly Gilfoyle, uh I didn't know this because I don't really care about this stuff, but I learned this today.
She's half Puerto Rican.
I didn't either.
And so it's therefore concluded that she's Latino.
And so Trump could kill two birds with one stone.
Put a woman out there and counter this idea that he hates women as misogynists and a Latino.
This is the way people in Washington think.
You know, you would put people out there not because they're maybe the best at it or good at it, but because they satisfy some of these concerns that Democrats have about things, the way they look at people.
And so this is how they continue to try to plug Trump into their playbook.
Yeah, Trump will probably pick a woman.
Uh and the fact that she might be half Puerto Rican and be Latino, why that could kill a couple of her.
This is the way they think.
Trump doesn't.
Now his advice, we have some advisors who think that way, and who might be uh advising him in this regard.
But no, Spicer could Spicer is effectively doing it now, right?
So don't misunderstand.
Spicer would be fine with me.
I don't, I'm just my my initial reaction was that it's not going to be Spicer, because I do think Trump will go female, because that's who most of the names being tossed around are.
Uh am I leaving it or is it Laura Ingram, Monica Crowley, Kimberly Gilfoy is a new addition to that list as of yesterday.
And Spicer, is there anybody I'm leaving out here?
Uh yeah, I can't think of any others, but that does not say there aren't.
Uh anyway, I'll get back to Ernest here in just a second, since I've gone off on this tangent.
Let me stay on the tangent and finish the tangent.
Ryan's Prebus was on, he's doing a radio interview yesterday.
I think it was Hugh Hewitt.
And the subject came up about press secretaries in general and the White House, the Trump White House theory, because Trump's a different, he doesn't need the media to get his message out.
Trump, I think is going to continue to do rallies, for example.
And I think Trump is going to continue to tweet.
And I think Trump is very much aware that he has the ability to go right to the American people and doesn't need the drive-by is to filter what he says.
He doesn't need to impress the drive-by, so they report favorably on him.
He doesn't need any of that.
So they're going to have to decide whether or not they want to continue to behave according to convention and have a press secretary.
They will have a communications office.
But whether or not there is a daily press briefing is another matter.
Then another version of the story is that they'll still have the press briefing, but it isn't going to be on TV.
There won't be any cameras.
And let me tell you something.
If there are no cameras in there, then it's going to be real.
You regular listeners know my theory about cameras.
You put a camera anywhere and you forever change what otherwise would have happened.
You put it on a street corner.
You put a camera that people can see or that people know is there, and it'll change the way everybody behaves.
Because everybody is self-conscious.
Only the truly professional have an ability to scrub their self-consciousness.
That's that's I think the key ingredient actors need, by the way.
In order to become somebody else, you've got to be able to shed your self-conscious.
And most people can't.
When they see a camera, they become obsessed with how they look.
And they'll try to find a mirror or a window to see what they look like, and then make sure they stand in the right place where the camera gets in the right way.
And if they have to talk, then they're aware people are listening.
It just changes everything.
A camera, particularly if it's not normally there.
Now, after a while, the camera is forgotten.
I've I once watched TV series on the Lafrac family, and they were building a building in New York City.
It was shortly after I moved there.
And the documentary makers had cameras every day in every meeting that these builders had, the executives.
And I happened to run into these guys a couple of weeks after the documentary aired at of all places Le Cirque.
And I just I was compelled, it was a great documentary, and I learned a lot about how buildings are built.
So I walked up and I congratulated them.
I said, How in the world?
Why'd you let the cameras in?
They said, you know, after the first week we forgot they were there.
You forgot they were there.
It took them 30 minutes to set up everything.
Yeah, but you don't even notice it after a while.
And that's true.
But not for TV people in the press room.
They know there's a camera there.
Look at how the House of Representatives in the Senate were changed when they added cameras.
It's just, folks, I'm not being critical or not, just it's just a fact of life.
And when you're talking about amateurs, it really affects things.
And what happens wherever there's a camera is much different than what would happen if it weren't there.
So the theory is being bandied about, take the cameras out of the press room.
And what will happen is that a lot more substance will take place.
If the reporters know that they aren't being televised or videotaped while they're doing what they do, and if the press secretary knows the same thing, I know you're what about iPhone cameras and things.
I understand.
I'm just telling you what what's being bandied about.
And the reason for taking the cameras out of there is to re is to reduce the showbiz factor of all this and to make it more real.
Then there's talk about canceling the press briefing on a daily basis altogether.
Why do this?
The Trump thinking is what point is served here.
I send a guy out there who's determined not to tell you what I'm doing.
That's his job, to not determine what I'm doing.
Tell you what I'm doing.
His job is to not give anything away that we're thinking in here.
His job is to make you think you've got access when you don't really have.
Why do I want to engage in that kind of phoniness?
When I have something to tell the press, I'll go talk to them, which is going to be very rare.
When I have something I want to tell the American people, which is going to be a lot, I'll find a way to get to them.
You imagine if they follow through on this.
Now, the final version of this is Prebus says, no, no, no, no, you misunderstood.
We're not thinking of this.
All I was talking about was changing the seating chart.
And that's a big deal too, because the seating chart, whoever is in the front row is considered to be the biggest people in the clique.
The most powerful people in the room.
And if you're in the front row, the tendency to be noticed by the press secretary is greater than if you're in the middle of the pack or even at the end.
And Previs was talking about rearranging the seating order that had nothing to do with seniority and bigness of newspaper.
And they're all ticked off about that.
So they don't know what's going to happen now regarding the press secretary and the briefing and all that.
And they're fit to be tied.
I'm just telling you, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump scrubs it.
Now Snerdley thinks you just, you're you're, you know, you are still so much an insider that any suggestion that I make that constitutes a dramatic change in the way things are done.
You look at me like, no, no, they would never do that.
I wouldn't, I'm just, I'm not predicting they're gonna do it.
Just telling you I wouldn't be surprised if they did it.
There Snurley just said if you don't feed them, they're gonna write something anyway.
Trump feeds them every day.
And look what they still write.
There has never been a candidate or a president elect who feeds the media more.
These people, since Trump got in this campaign, have never had, if they were honest with you, they've never had more fun.
They maybe ticked off the guys running rings around them and defeated them, but they've never had more fun covering somebody.
I've always thought this was the case, and they hate that.
They are really, really conflicted by the fact that he's he's their ratings are up, their subscriber base is up, people are paying more attention to all these media outlets except for CNN and MSNBC, and they love it, and they know Trump's doing it, they hate it.
They hate everything about it, and they hate that Trump runs rings around him.
But a part of them likes it as well.
But Trump feeds these people, and what we're finding out is it doesn't matter.
They're gonna make it up anyway.
They Trump knows what their agenda is, their agenda is to take him out.
He knows this.
Here you have notice how I cleverly swerved back to this seamlessly, whereas many of you probably thought I'd lost my place when I went out there on a tangent, but it never happens.
So now we return to Trump to illustrate what I just said to you.
Let's go back to Trump.
This was July 27th at Durell at his golf club down there, and he was actually doing a press conference, and the 33, 30, whatever it is, thousand missing Hillary emails were being discussed, and this is what the Trumpster said.
I will tell you this.
Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.
I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
Let's see if that happens.
All right.
Now, that is so classic Trump humor.
And the reason I recognize it is because it's my kind of humor.
It's exactly the way I taunt them.
It's exactly the way I tweak them.
It's the same thing as Trump was at one of his rallies recently, and he said, don't tell anybody.
I'm not supposed to announce this till next week, but I just thought the whole thing's being televised around the world.
Don't tell anybody, but the Secretary of State's gonna be mad dog mad us.
Don't tell the media.
The media's in the back of the room.
Don't tell the media.
It's a it's a technique.
I did it, I've done it throughout this entire program.
I did it the other day when I warned you not to tell the media, not don't tell Obama that I was gonna give away what I think Trump's strategy is.
Don't tell Obama to blow the whole thing.
This is clearly the media was at this point in time, back last July, having a cow, uh, comey and and the emails and and what what Hillary did or didn't do, and the 30,000 she deleted, and there were stories that Kim.com and others had them, that WikiLeaks had them, and then everybody was denying that they had them.
And so in the midst of all this, Trump's asked about it.
He says, Russia, if you're listening, maybe you can find because the point of the story was that everybody was trying to find him and nobody could.
The FBI couldn't find them.
So Trump, all this is, is just jamming what the media does right down their throats, choking them with their own words.
Hey, Russia!
Hey!
Hey, Vlad!
Hey!
If you're listening, maybe you can find Hillary's emails and let the media know.
They really want to know.
Tell them what's in those emails.
Well, this is what has served Obama and Josh Ernest and the Democrats now saying that Trump was working with Putin to hack the Democrats and hack the election.
That soundbite, that, and I'm sure you remember it as a listener to this program.
You remember when we originally aired that and laughed ourselves silly with it?
Because it's hilarious, and they have no sense of humor.
So here's Ernest doubling down today on the idea that no Trump wasn't joking.
He was seriously asking Putin for help.
You all have it on tape that the Republican nominee for president was encouraging Russia to hack his opponent because he believed that that would help his campaign.
This is not in dispute.
Now I recognize that the defense from the Trump campaign is that he was joking.
I don't think anybody at the White House thinks it's funny that an adversary of the United States engaged in malicious cyber activity to destabilize our democracy.
That's not a joke.
Nobody at the White House thought it was a joke.
Nobody in the intelligence community thought it was a joke.
I'm not aware that any members of Congress in either party that was briefed on this matter multiple times dating back to the summer thought it was a joke.
It was a joke.
It was a great joke because it was making fun of all of you, Mr. Ernest, which is something you apparently have no sensitivity.
You can't recognize it, because I guess you people are so special and so elite that it's just not permissible to laugh at you.
I guess.
And when anybody does, it's unacceptable.
The idea that Trump was urging Russia to hack Hillary with that comment.
You know the context, the media going haywire, trying to find out what happened to Hillary's 33,000 emails, and Comey said they couldn't find him, but everybody was saying they looked for them, they couldn't find him.
Where were they?
We had interviews with the guy who supposedly wiped her server, this bleach bust guy, whatever.
The context of this makes this even funnier.
All the while, here we have Trump supposedly trying to help the Russians destabilize our democracy when, in fact, folks, all the way back in September of 2015, Obama was told by intelligence agencies the Russians were hacking.
Hacking the political parties, hacking the DNC, trying to hack the White House.
Obama knew all the way back, September 2015, and didn't do a single thing about, nor tell anybody.
Judge Napolitano has dropped a bomb.
Andrew Napolitano, the adult Eddie Munster, I affectionately refer to him as.
You remember Eddie Munster?
Well, Judge Napolitano is the adult Eddie Munster.
Anyway, he was on Fox and Friends today, and he said that it is in fact U.S. intelligence agents themselves who are responsible for leaking all the stuff to WikiLeaks, not the Russians.
He said the United States intelligence agencies who did not want this woman in charge of the federal government, exposing more agents and resources and undercover assets in the Middle East that they did it.
Now let's stop and examine that for a minute.
Here is Hillary Clinton, who made a total mess of Benghazi, who did not come to the aid of CIA agents, CIA agents who are protecting the annex there.
She has a reputation for disrespecting military people in the White House, Marines, other uniformed personnel, throughout the time she's been First Lady and up to State Department level.
And so Judge Napolitano says, hey, it's the CIA that didn't want this woman anywhere near the White House.
She's a security risk herself.
I mean, this is a woman who claimed that she had to dodge sniper fire landing in Afghanistan one time.
So let's just throw that in the mix.
Then the UK Daily Mail story, ex-British ambassador who is now WikiLeaks operative claims that Russia did not provide the Clinton emails to WikiLeaks, that in fact they were handed over to him, an ex-British ambassador, at a Washington park by an intermediary for disgusted Democrat whistleblowers.
Wouldn't, when this all settles in, wouldn't it just be the most delicious irony of all?
If it was in fact Democrat whistleblowers who had no desire for Hillary Clinton to get anywhere near the Oval Office, who were doing the leaking and the the quote unquote sabotage.
Wouldn't that just be delicious, folks?
And I wouldn't discount the possibility.
Two sources now alleging to it.
And I wouldn't doubt it at all.
When the media gets on a narrative and runs with it like they are this Russian business, I guarantee you, guarantee you, it's very possible this is nowhere near what really happened.
We'll take a break and be back.
Here's Aaron in uh Washington, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great.
Thanks so much for taking my call at the time.
Yes, sir.
I want to make a quick point.
I'm looking at the world.
I've I've never seen it like this before.
And I think there's been a revival and an awakening on both sides on the right and the left.
And on the right, we've realized we don't need the left.
Capitalists don't need socialists.
But what's scary is everybody on the left had an awakening also.
And they realize that they do need us.
And it it it the mask is dropped.
And they realize that they're irrelevant.
They're inconsequential.
They couldn't survive without the hard work of everybody on the right.
You think they figured that out?
I think that's why they're I think they know they're drowning.
I was I was gonna ask you.
Look, this is an intriguing concept.
Let me go back to the very beginning of this.
Because you you think I just want to restate this.
You told me if I understood you correctly.
You think it's been a reawakening of both sides where those of us on the right have realized we don't need them.
Absolutely.
We don't need them to for our lives to be lived the way we want to live, and for the country to operate the way we want it to operate, we don't need them, okay?
Absolutely.
But they have realized they need us, that they can't have the country they want without us.
And your theory is they need somebody working, they need somebody paying taxes for them to all be on welfare with.
They need somebody producing the things that they're going to take from people to give away.
Is that is that your basic theory?
Well, they go one step further.
If it was a reality TV show and you put a group from the right and a group from the left on an island with some bare supplies, everybody on the left dies.
They have no life skills whatsoever to make it.
And they they've realized that.
They have lived as leeches.
Okay, wait, let's stop right there.
Hold on.
I I want to bring your examples to life.
We've got two reality shows.
We got a bunch of conservatives on an island, and they know self-reliance, and they know production, and they know the idea of incentive as motivation.
On the other reality show, you have a bunch of liberals on an island, and there's no golden goose there.
There's nobody out producing wealth, there's nobody creating anything that can be taxed or transferred.
Uh, there's nobody, there's nothing that can be redistributed, and as such, they don't know how to go out and produce because they have not done so.
Right.
We've actually we we have seen that show, but are you aware that we've seen that show?
We've seen it again and again in every every system that's tried it.
No, no, no.
I mean that actual show.
We have seen that show.
I'm gonna get into trouble here, folks.
I'm not aware of that.
Yeah, it's called Hurricane Katrina.
Well, that is that's true.
We saw it.
That's true.
You had you had people that were willing to sit there, waiting for the book.
And wait to uh wait for Shepard Smith to get a boat to come pick him up, or Anderson Cooper to get somebody to come pick them up, versus the people either got out or stayed there and were driving the boats to go pick up the people that were asking for help.
Well, I think the scary thing is that the people on the left, when they realize I think that's what's happening, Not only are they realizing a lot of people.
What evidence do you have?
Wait a minute now.
What evidence do you have that they've realized?
I don't see that.
I think just in their behavior, they're acting like they're they're drowning, they're flailing, they're pulling everybody under.
They're they're acting scared, and they're acting desperate.
Now wait a minute, though.
Yes, but thanks.
There's no wait.
If you were correct, and if they had seen the light, and if they realized they couldn't get along without us, there would be some gratitude.
And there isn't.
There is more hatred.
Insane ludicrous, unhinged hatred for us than ever before.
There's no appreciation for us.
I will concede that point, but I'll also conceive that an awful lot of people that I work with on a day-to-day basis, whether they're in trades unions or they're in manufacturing, they have all come around.
Not one of them voted Hillary.
And they all voted for Obama, and these are guys going back four generations of Democrats.
And they said enough is enough.
Right, right.
Right, right.
Okay, so you've got what is called anecdotal evidence.
You've got some people you know who are being a little bit more understanding.
I'm I'm here to tell you, and I I I respectfully disagree here that I think on balance nationwide, there isn't any acknowledgement from anybody on the left that we are worth even being alive.
And and then and and they I think there's more abject hatred and division and discord, unhinged, special kind of stupidity than I've ever seen in my life.
You know the other we've the other the other version of your story that we've seen is the pilgrims.
Your reality show, I we've we've seen it.
We've seen it repeated day in and day out, if we want to look at it the way you did.
Okay, look, I'm out of time.
Believe it or not, I I've I've shared that story with my kids, and I believe I heard it from you.
I've been listening to you for a long time.
And when they tried socialism, they starved to death.
And when they they had private property, they flourished.
Well, they didn't they they didn't quite some of them starved.
And they didn't produce nearly as much.
There wasn't any incentive.
There were a bunch of people that figured out the pilgrims figured out that they could sit on their ass all day because other members of the camp were out producing because everything got put into a common store, everything produced, and so whether they produced or not, they got a share of it.
And it didn't work because what happened, resentment set in among the people that were doing the work and doing the producing.
And William Bradford's journal is very clear about this.
They've they scrapped that and they essentially uh set up a system of market capitalism, and that's when they began to prosper, and that led to the first Thanksgiving, thanking God for all of that.
And you're right, you did hear it here because it's not taught anywhere else.
Or wasn't now iPhone seven or seven plus, which do you prefer?
To be honest, I don't know.
Uh let's go with the seven plus, it'll be a gift for my wife.
Well, now wait a minute.
Uh if you don't know, you mean you you mean you don't know the difference in the two?
I do know the difference.
I'm not sure which one is which one would be better for her.
She has the Samsung big galaxy thing that she's used to, but believe it or not, she she dropped it in water not too long ago, and it's been on the fritz, and I was looking to get her a phone.
Yeah, it was on the Fritz out of the box.
Don't it was on the Fritz out of the box.
She just didn't know it.
Um is it a big phone?
Yes, sir, it is.
And she likes it?
Yes, she does.
Okay, then you want you want the plus.
Who's your carrier?
Well, that's the other thing.
She switched uh her and the kids over to straight talk.
So I'm not sure what the carrier is.
It's just uh uh you you pay as you go.
It doesn't matter.
Tell me I'm not it doesn't matter.
I have iPhones that'll work on any network in the world except for a couple of ChICOM LTE networks, but you're not gonna go to China with these, so you'll be fine.
Does she does she have a color prep?
My guess is she's like gold or rose gold.
Let's go with rose gold.
That sounds that sounds beautiful.
Okay, I f I think I think I'll be able to accommodate that.
I think I got one rose gold left.
If not, I'll go gold, but hang on just a second here, Mr. Sturdley, we'll get your address and we'll get the phone out to you.
Uh you'll have it tomorrow.
If you have a FedEx address, it's good.
We will be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Grab sound by number 25, Ryan's Prebus.
This was on a Hugh Hewitt show.
The one I was telling you about uh we had these comments about the potential changes in the White House Daily Briefing.
Here's what Priebus said this is yesterday morning.
I think that many things have to change.
And I think that it's important that we looked at all of those traditions that are great.
But quite frankly, as you know, don't really make news and there's just boring episodes and looking at things like the daily White House briefing from the press secretary.
I mean there's a lot of different ways that things can be done.
And I can assure you we're looking at that.
And that's when the panic set in.
They said that Priebus, they're thinking that Trump's thinking of canceling the daily briefing.
What are we going to do?
What are we going to do?
They're going to start wailing about their constitutional requirement to speak truth to power, to hold people in power accountable, something they have not done the past eight years, and they're going to want access to Trump.
I I want to reiterate what I what I said yesterday.
I really do believe, folks, that the people in Washington really don't yet have a grasp of what has happened here.
I mean, they know, and they're claiming they know what's happened, that Trump is an outsider with no political experience and that he's won.
And they know that Trump draws a lot of people to his rallies.
And they know that Trump says and does things that don't register with them that seem to be inexperienced and disqualifying, even.
Trump's just a as this a neophyte.
And they're looking at his cabinet and they see a bunch of rich white guys, which automatically disqualifies them.
And they're CEOs, and then that disqualifies them.
And they believe that it disqualifies Trump with the American people.
They have fallen prey to the idea that what they think is what everybody thinks.
Even these people who realize they don't know where flyover country is.
Even people who realize that they've lost touch with the people in the heartland.
They still work.
They operate under the premise that whatever they think is what everybody thinks.
And so what they think about Trump is what everybody thinks or is going to think.
And so Trump's making mistake after mistake.
He's putting these rich white CEOs on.
You just don't do that.
Where are the people of color?
Where are you just don't do that?
And I don't think that they yet have a full grasp of the tornado that is headed their way once Trump's inaugurated.
I really don't.
I I know how to listen to Trump.
I I've made a special effort at this, and I've I know the guy upwards and forwards and back inside out.
When he tells, like he said in West Allis, Wisconsin on Tuesday night, or whenever it was, Monday night, we're gonna work so hard for you.
We're gonna work he is speaking as honestly as he ever does.
He has every intention of shaking things up, not to shake them up.
He has every intention of making this country without any doubt and question the greatest place on this planet.
In positive good ways, I mean.
He knows that this is going to be a huge rebuilding project, and he knows he's gonna have opposition here and there.
But I don't think people have the full grasp yet of just what is in store.
They get little tidbits of it like, yeah, we're thinking about ditching the press briefing.
We don't know what we're gonna do yet.
We're thinking about it.
This is the definition of outside the box.
And they are all, they're not only are they inside the box, their box is a concrete bunker with only a couple of small little windows, and they just can't see what's headed their way.
And I think we're on the cusp here, potentially, of really whirlwind improvements at a rapid pace that are going to leave everybody gasping for air, who are Trump opponents.
He's gonna have missteps.
I mean, it's it's it's gonna be uh fraught with missteps and and mistakes here now because nobody nobody uh is perfect, and I'm not trying to imply that.
I just I just have a sense of it.
I mean, I it's nothing that I can say he's said, other than we're gonna work so hard for you.
These are not placeholders, these are people that don't need these jobs for their resumes or for their egos or for their reputations or any of them.
These are doers.
These are people that do.
And we haven't had that in a cabinet for eight years.
We have not had doers.
Trump's military people are doers.
Obama's military people are watchers.
They are the political people that wait for orders politically correct and uh and all of that.
Institute odd rules of engagement based on political correctness.
If we get engaged in a military conflict, it's gonna be to win it.
It's gonna be to wipe the enemy out.
And when and all the PC things not gonna be, and there's gonna be caterwalling in Washington like you haven't heard.
You think this is bad now for this hacking?
You wait.
It's gonna, I think it has the potential to be a lot of fun to tell the truth.
And the time just keeps racing by, ladies and gentlemen.
We already are down two hours into our three hour excursion into broadcast.
Why is it not four?
Because we always leave people wanting more.
Never satisfied, always with the realization there is tomorrow.
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