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Jan. 10, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 10, 2017, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
All right, I don't know.
Who is responsible for the code pink Looney Tunes getting into the confirmation hearings of Senator Sessions?
But whoever let him in there, I want to be the first to thank you.
Code Pink shows up dressed like members of the Ku Klux Klan start protesting Beauregard.
They think anybody named Beauregard can't be a good guy.
That's Jeff Sessions' middle name, and they start making utter fools of themselves.
And the security took their good time in uh in getting these people out of there.
These people continue to make fools of themselves.
And I think the more this the better.
Uh because in in the in the in the past, Republicans have cowered from this stuff.
In the past, these kinds of protests made Republicans fearful of opposing whoever was responsible for protests.
But these people are one of the many reasons why the Democrats lost.
And the more this activity, the more Merrill Street, the better.
The more of these kinds of protests that go on in there, the better.
The more insane, lunatic, deranged behavior by these losers who cannot accept reality, the better, folks.
They're not helping their cause.
They're only hurting it.
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So Jeff Sessions up first today in terms of confirmation hearings.
And uh it's going pretty much as expected.
The uh the dead giveaway that Sessions is probably gonna skate through.
Interestingly enough, is found in the New York Times today.
The New York Times has a front page profile of Sessions that is essentially an endorsement.
And you read this, say, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, because it wasn't that long ago that reporters for the New York Times were out there assisting others in the left dig up all this age-old so-called dirt on Sessions.
And all of a sudden, I mean, let me read you some excerpts from this piece in the New York Times, a devout Methodist and an Eagle Scout who will soon celebrate a golden wedding anniversary with his college sweetheart.
He is widely regarded as rigidly honest and inflexible on issues.
He considers matters of principle.
The family lived in a one-story house with no driveway, a small concrete front stoop, and a heating system consisting of a fireplace and space heaters.
He learned thriftiness from his parents who grew up during the depression.
Friends joked that even after he attained the comfortable life of a senator decades letter later, he refused to replace an aging car or the outdated kitchen countertops at his home in Mobile.
After he was elected Senator, taking a seat on the same judiciary committee that denied him the judgeship.
Mr. Sessions seemed to bear no grudge against those who had humiliated him in 1986.
It goes on from there.
Now this sends a signal to Democrats everywhere.
It sends a signal to drive by media.
What I'll tell you what this means.
It means they know they can't stop him right now.
And they're not going to waste their ammo here in the confirmation hearings.
They're going to hold their fire, they're going to wait for after Sessions is confirmed.
They're going to wait until he's attorney general, and then if something happens that they don't like, and that's guaranteed, uh, because he will enforce the law and not make it.
Democrats think the attorney general should make law.
In fact, that was illustrated in his QA with Senator Turban from Illinois, which I'll comment on here in just a second.
They also, I mean, these clowns in the media, they're going to need sources inside the Department of Justice.
They're going to need their leakers and they're going to need people to talk to them.
So they're going easy.
And the numbers are just are just not there.
The Democrats can't stop Sessions.
They can't stop any of these people.
Now, it may well be that for the sake of comedy, one of Trump's nominees may go down.
I have No idea who.
I'm just speculating here that uh the Democrats might make a stand on one of them.
But the numbers just aren't there.
If the Republicans stay unified and hold firm, there's not a single one of these people the Democrats can deny.
So the Democrats, they're going through the motions here of insinuating that Sessions has been a bad guy, he's been a racist, he's a pig, middle name is Beauregard, can't trust people from the South with a name Beauregard, probably was a plantation owner, maybe a civil war general, can't trust the guy.
They're doing all this, they're fundraising.
And they are doing what they have to do to appeal to lunatics in their base.
But they know they're not going to be able to stop the nomination.
Now, you know, Trump is under fire right now for many reasons.
He's under fire because of his business with the Russians and the hacking of the election.
He's under fire for just being Trump.
He's under fire for mocking, as Meryl Streep said, a disabled reporter.
Well, it turns out have you ever heard of uh uh Ira Madison III?
You probably haven't.
Ira Madison III is a host at MTV News.
Okay?
So this guy, Ira Madison III at MTV News today made fun of Senator Sessions on Twitter, because Senator Sessions has four Asian American grandchildren.
So I guess it's okay for people on the left to make fun of minorities.
It's okay for people on the left to mock minorities and humiliate and insult them and laugh at them and make fun of them, but it's not okay for anybody else to do it.
Here's what happened.
Senator Sessions appears today at the Senate Judiciary Committee, prepared to make a statement, give testimony, he's got his family there.
And uh, you know, we've learned some tricks of the trade.
Sessions is sitting there with one of his grandchildren on his lap.
I said, we're learning for the children.
I mean, how can you get up there and start throwing darts at somebody who's got a little baby sitting on his lap?
The optics of this.
And I was I was privately chuckling and making note of this.
Well, it turns out that he had a lot of family there, including his four Asian American grandchildren.
His daughter Ruth Sessions walk is married to a guy named John Walk, who is an Asian American man.
And so this Ira Madison III at MTV accused Sessions of stealing his grandchildren from Toys R Us for the hearing.
And he then he went on to call the grandchildren a prop brought in to mitigate accusations of racism.
I'm watching.
I told you I saw Sessions sitting there with the with his grandchild on his lap.
This Ira Madison the third clown tweeted there is no reason for that child to be in his lap in a hearing other than to send an I'm not racist message.
And then this Ira Madison the Third clown defended his attacks on Sessions' family before returning to allegations the Senator Harbors racist sympathies.
This guy writes regularly for MTV News, the host of the MTV podcast, MTV Speed Dial.
I guess it's a millennial hero.
Or a uh millennial star.
So you see, it's perfectly fine for people on the left to mock minorities, perfectly fine to laugh at them, perfectly fine to make fun of them.
In fact, it's heralded, it's supported as something that's necessary to go after this deeply racist, bigoted individual, Jeff Sessions.
And of course, he's none of those things.
He's not a racist, he's not a bigot, he doesn't even come close to being either one.
The protests, as I I'd like to who let them in there.
I I I was asking some people today, and I still don't know the answer to this.
And it's just because I'm lazy.
You know, I can get anything I want.
I mean, I can call anybody.
Anybody I call will answer, right?
I mean, I'm Rush Limbaugh, I'm the Mr. Big of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
So theoretically sternly tells me this all the time.
Just call them.
I mean, you call anybody, they'll take the call.
I don't use the phone.
I don't use the, I can't even stand a phone ringing.
I can't, I've got a phobia.
When I hear the phone, because in my life, the phone ringing has always been bad news.
So I don't even, I have I have ringers turned off.
I don't even want to hear it.
And using the phone is a because it's it's it's a hearing challenge.
So I don't call.
I don't know.
So I it's just laziness, folks.
I could find out the answer to the question.
I just don't know.
My impression is that whoever is in there is by invitation.
Somebody has to give a pass.
You just can't, as a member of the public dress up as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and walk into a Senate confirmation hearing, right?
Now I know at the for example, uh the House Gallery, you can.
You can what but for but if it's the State of the Union, for example, somebody has to extend you an invitation to the gallery, and I would think the same thing here.
In in times past, say during the Bush should, because you know Code Pink rarely shows up when Democrats are in the White House.
They do sometimes, but it's not nearly as frequently as when Republicans are.
And Code Pink was regularly in Senate hearings of one kind or another when George W. Bush was president.
I guess how do they get in there?
And the answer I always got was well, somebody on the committee has to give them a pass.
So I guess I ought to get the answer to this, because with as many people that want to get into something like this, how is it Code Pink gets in every time?
Um...
And they had it wasn't one or two people.
They had seven or eight people in there.
And they're dressed up as Klan people.
One of the one of the protest moments featured protesters dressed as members of the Klan standing up and shouting, Go, Jeffy boy, go, Jeffy Boy, Beauregard, thank you so much for being here for the people.
And then as they're taking the guy out, he shouts, Wait a minute, you can't arrest me.
I'm white.
White people don't get arrested.
And then they finally usher the guy out.
Nobody was taking it seriously.
Sessions and the senators were chuckling.
They made it, made a valiant effort not to uproariously laugh, which is what the natural inclination would be.
But they're smiling, so it didn't have any impact on any other than the media, the media couldn't get enough of it.
The media, everybody in the media stood up holding their cameras and their smartphones, and they started snapping pictures.
And I imagine they can't wait to start writing stories that the real news coming out of the sessions confirmation hearing was the protesters.
Now, Sessions made news today.
He promised he would recuse himself if there is an investigation into Hillary Clinton and her server and emails while Secretary of State and or the Clinton Foundation.
He said he would recuse himself.
And he said, unlike Loretta Lynch, who said she would defer to the FBI.
After having met with the president Bill Clinton, I will recuse myself.
And Senator Grassley from Iowa is the chairman.
And he said, you will recuse yourself.
I will recuse myself, Mr. Chairman.
You will recuse yourself.
I will recuse myself.
You let me let me make sure I want to ask this one more time.
You're saying you will recuse yourself.
They went at it four different times for sessions to assure everybody he would recuse himself.
Then Senator Durbin, this is a classic, by the way, illustration of the differences in people that understand the rule of law and the role of government, and people who think that the government trumps law.
Senator Durbin from Illinois is questioning Senator Sessions.
And I'm sure the Democrats assign each other various areas to go after, like Dai Fi went after Roe versus Wade and abortion and uh what Sessions thinks of all that.
It was Durbin's time.
He went after immigration, and particularly the dreamers and DACA.
And so he's painting this grim picture.
In his question to Senator Sessions.
What are we going to do about these kids?
What are we gonna do about these kids that everybody says we should deport?
What are we gonna do?
What are you gonna do in your face with the prospect of thousands of young kids and they might just be thrown out of the co and Sessions said, sir, that's your job.
I will simply enforce the laws of the land.
It is not my job as attorney general to implement law, well, to make law to write law.
I simply will follow the course of action taken by you and others in this body and over in the House who write law to deal with.
Now and what Durbin was looking for.
Well, I don't know what Durbin was looking for, but but clearly the import of Durbin's question is that the Attorney General ought to have compassion and be able to step in when things are not going the right way.
Uh protect the children and whatever, and Sessions didn't fall for it.
But his question clearly indicated that Durbin uh thinks that the Attorney General and judges and and other members of government should be activists.
The law be damned, just do what's good for, in this case, the Democrat Party agenda.
I mean, that's what it really uh boils down to.
So we have some audio soundbites to uh back this up.
The Russian situation and all that continues to cause a huge meltdown all throughout the Democrat Party.
I I I folks, let me tell you something.
The Democrats have not been this mad since Lincoln freed the slaves.
I've never seen anything like this.
We'll get into it in great detail after this first obscene profit break.
Don't have welcome back, Rushlin Bohr.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, we have a little soundbite here of an exchange between Senator Sessions and Senator Durbin from Illinois that it illustrates a little bit about what I was just saying, the uh differences in the way the law is perceived and activism and so forth.
So Durbin's question is this.
There is not a spot of evidence in your public career to suggest that as attorney general you would use the authority of that office to resolve the challenges of our broken immigration system in a fair and humane manner.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Now, what do you think of that question?
There's not a spot of evidence in your public career to suggest that as attorney general you would use the authority of that office to resolve the challenges of our broken immigration system in a fair and humane.
In other words, Senator Sessions, there's not a spot of evidence in your public rack career to suggest you care about people, and that you don't even care enough to use your power to help minorities.
That's what this really means.
And in the answer, Senator Sessions destroys Durbin and takes him to school.
You are wrong, Senator Durbin.
I'm going to follow the laws passed by Congress.
As a matter of policy, we disagreed on some of those issues.
I do believe that if you continually go through a cycle of amnesty that you undermine the um respect for the law and encourage more illegal immigration into America.
I believe the American people spoke clearly in this election.
I believe they agreed with my basic view, and I think it's a good view, a decent view, a solid legal view for the United States of America that we create a lawful system of immigration that allows people to apply to this country, and if they're accepted, they get in.
If they're not accepted, they don't get in.
And I believe that's right and just and American people are right to ask for it.
We have not delivered that for them.
Bingo.
Bomb dropped.
Explosion on the top of Durbin's head.
Sessions took him to school.
Sessions didn't cower.
Sessions didn't beg to be understood.
No, no, Senator, I do care about the disadvantaged, and I do care about the poor, and I do care about minorities, and I would do everything I he didn't do that at all.
He said, No, you're dead wrong about this question.
Not my job.
It's not the job of the attorney general to resolve challenges of a broken immigration system.
That's your job.
And he's exactly right about amnesty and what it causes and undermining the respect for the rule of law.
He's dead on right about this is why they oppose sessions.
This racism stuff from back in the days is Alabama.
That's all a smoke screen.
This right here is why they oppose sessions.
This immigration is why they don't want Jeff Sessions to be attorney general, even though they know they can't stop him.
Meeting and surpassing meeting and exceeding all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limboy here, 800-282-2882.
Grab a quick call.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
How are you doing?
Hey, Rosh Megadethis to you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been listening to you for well over 25 years.
And I listened to your conservative views, your your humor, your accuracy in discussions over the golden EIB microphone.
Right.
And you've often said, sir, that when liberals are in power, they're dangerous.
When liberals are out of power, they're funny.
That's right.
And I was just wondering, in light of the vicious attacks on President elect Trump, his family, his cabinet.
Are you rethinking of substituting the word funny with pathetic?
Well, I actually hadn't thought about it until you called.
That's why I wanted to take your call.
I can't remember all of the things I say.
Nobody could.
And that's why you that for some reason that's stuck with you.
And it's and at the time I uttered it, it was absolutely correct.
Liberals are in power, they're dangerous, that's still true.
When they're out of power, they were funny.
They were doing conca maybe crazy.
The thing that I realize now looking back on it, while we were laughing at them, there were a lot of people believing their insanity.
Turns out to be not nearly as many as we feared prior to the election.
I still think that they they uh uh they pose great, great opportunity for humor to laugh at them, such as Code Pink today and these protesters.
They're just they're they're they're uh unhinged now.
But I don't mind the word pathetic as uh as a descriptive, but I would warn you not to relax too much.
These people are not going away.
The people that you're talking about still teach your kids in high school and college.
These people that are now out of power, at least electorally, still run Hollywood.
They still assemble, write, and produce most of what you see in primetime entertainment television.
They still run the the public uh publishing industry.
And so they uh they're not going away, and they're becoming more and more unhinged and deranged as as time goes on.
Now I think for a while, the more of that the better.
They don't realize that they are the reason, one of the many reasons why Hillary Clinton lost.
They're one of the many reasons why Donald Trump won.
Uh, but I'm not gonna stop laughing at them.
They are some of the greatest source of smiles when they lose, that you'll ever come across, but pathetic, yeah, I can I can I can understand the use of the word pathetic.
They do look pathetic, but also keep in mind they're not going anywhere, and they don't understand, and this is very important.
I'm gonna build off something I said yesterday.
They don't understand the concept of defeat.
And I don't mean this in a in an upbeat way, in a in a positive way.
Uh the way you're supposed to deal with defeat is as a learning experience.
You analyze why and you double your efforts and you come back and you try to win the next time.
That's not them.
When I say they don't recognize defeat, what I mean by that is that they do not think they lost.
They do not think that what happened is real.
Remember, as I said yesterday in a recent profundity.
To understand modern day liberalism, you must understand that they reject reality.
To them, reality is something that we have constructed to exclude them.
To them, life is simply a game of power, and whoever has the power gets to dictate the terms.
Well, they lost.
It doesn't mean they were rejected.
It doesn't mean they lost.
They don't look at it the way you and I would in a circumstance like this.
They think they were cheated.
They think that, or more.
Worse than that.
They think that the look, the foundational thing to understand here is that they reject reality.
This is the simplest way I have found to explain liberalism.
It's the simplest way I've understand to or found to help people understand and educate people about it and to be able to spot it and how to deal with it.
And it's very simple.
Everything to them is a construction, a social construct.
And if you look at take any issue you want, take a look at marriage.
Marriage was marriage, and it was reality, and it was the result of millennia, thousands of years of human behavior, normal human behavior, that had been time tested by virtue of culture, and it spanned cultures.
Well, the left didn't look at that.
That wasn't real.
That was a social construct that was intended to deny them things.
And so that reality had to be changed.
And there's any number of examples that fit the bill here.
But the reason why they remain, you call it pathetic or dangerous is they do not think they have lost.
So they never turn inward.
They never, they never get introspective.
They never ask, what did we do wrong?
What do we need to do to improve?
Because in their minds, they are flawless.
In their minds, they are perfect.
In their minds, they are what is.
So in order to explain what happened here, there has to have been something that they got snookered by.
And in that they remain dangerous.
Because they are forever attempting to overthrow what I consider the normal.
They are always, they are committed to overthrowing and reversing reality.
If they don't fit in it, then it's got to be distorted, changed, overthrown, or what have you.
Not fit into.
They don't look at reality as something they have to adjust to, adapt to, and blend it.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Because reality isn't real.
It is a construction of the powerful, to set up circumstances to deny them access, whatever it is.
Equality, feed them, you name it.
They're a bunch of sick people, and they're not going away, and they're going to continue to be disruptive.
And this is why I have over the years begged people to understand that they are not to be accommodated, they're to be defeated.
This is they're the ones that make everything political.
And in the process, every battle with them is political, and they need to be defeated.
We don't need to cross the aisle and work with them.
They're not interested in that.
They don't compromise.
They don't think there's any need to because they're not wrong, they're perfect, what have you, even though they're sick.
And so we laugh at them for our own entertainment.
And by the way, we laugh at them as a means of explaining to other people who maybe are not politically oriented who they are.
But they're never going away, and they're never going to stop being disruptive.
And they are never going to accept whatever it is that they disagree with.
Now you might say, well, we don't either.
Well, we do.
It's called civility.
We understand when we lose, and we, in many ways, not always, but we engage to find out why and fix the problem or correct.
We want our victories to be legitimate based on a genuine majority support for what we believe and what we are.
That's not of any importance to them whatsoever.
They're all about bullying and power, uh, intimidation, which is what political correctness is.
So yeah, we I just don't want people to forget, I don't want you to think we've made this mistake to me.
In 1994, Republicans won the House first time in 40 years and made the mistake of thinking that the country had finally gone our way.
And so Newton of Boy start implementing their agenda, and they didn't explain why.
They didn't keep teaching.
And that that don't make that mistake now.
The Trump people have got to keep explaining and teaching and explaining why they're doing what they're doing.
Remember, all that's happened so far is that we've won an election.
Trump hadn't even been immaculated yet.
That has to happen on January 20th, and then the uh the real work begins.
That's why I'm glad you call.
I appreciate a brief timeout.
We will continue much more after this.
Don't go away.
Take a look at some economic news here, folks, just to show you the dramatic attitudinal shifts that have taken place in America since the election.
First story here from Bloomberg, U.S. Small Business Optimism Index surges by the most since 1980.
What happened in 1980?
What happened in 1980, folks?
You remember what happened in 1980?
That's exactly right.
Three gold stars for the staff on the other side of the glass.
That was the year that Rinaldus Magnus was elected.
Now, isn't it interesting and consistent that U.S. small business optimism index has surged by the most it has surged since 1980.
Details.
Optimism among America's small businesses soared in December, that's post-election, by the most since 1980, as expectations about the economy's prospects improved dramatically in the aftermath of the presidential election.
The National Federation of Independent Business Index jumped 7.4 points last month up to 105.8.
That's a highest since the end of 2004.
The share of business owners who say now is a good time to expand is three times the average of the current expansion, according to the uh website data, more companies also said they plan to increase investment and to continue hiring, which reflects optimism surrounding Trump's plans of spurring the economy through deregulation, tax reform, and infrastructure spending.
Now, this is important because growing jobs, you know, we're we've been focused with Trump on big businesses and big companies not moving manufacturing plants or moving them back.
And all that, that's great and important, but small business, as everybody knows by now, is where the majority of jobs in America are.
And the small business engine is what has been puttering along.
Small businesses where so many people have been losing Obamacare.
Small businesses where so many people's jobs have been converted to part-time to accommodate silly and ridiculous regulations and restrictions in Obamacare.
Now, these people clearly, these small business people, and this is very important here.
I think one of the reasons why this index has jumped is that small business owners are fully expecting Obamacare to go by the wayside.
Now the concept of repeling, repealing and replacing Obamacare, they're already starting to muddy the waters with this, which was predictable.
They're making it much harder than it needs to be up on Capitol Hill.
The people on Capitol Hill in the House and Senate still do not doubt me on this, still have not gotten their arms around what happened in this election.
They still haven't Been able to come to grips with what this election really meant, who made it happen, and what the expectations are.
They are the establishment they are insiders.
There's a way of the world there, and it was rejected by voters in this country.
And people inside the beltway, look at in one way you have to cut them slack.
It's the only thing they know.
The way they do business in crafting legislation is the only thing they know.
So when you start, and part and partial of that, you may tell you what the biggest fear the Republicans on Capitol Hill have in both chambers.
Obamacare is now an entitlement.
And that means that there's a lot of Santa Claus involved here.
There are a lot of people getting free health care because theirs is being subsidized.
And the Republicans right now are getting cold feet in many places, not everywhere, but in enough places.
Oh my God, what happens to us in two years if we take away an entitlement?
It's the same standard predictable thinking that we knew was going to happen.
And they're making this whole business of repeal and replace a whole lot harder than it needs to be.
The people that made this change in this country, the people that voted for Donald Trump, they believed what they heard.
They believed it when Trump said that he was going to repeal it and get rid of it and replace it.
They believed other Republicans who said it.
It is clear that they believed it by looking at this survey.
One of the reasons I am convinced that there's such optimism among small business owners is they really think that Albatross is going to be removed from their neck.
And it better be.
There better not be any withdrawal back to the, well, you know, we really need to rethink this.
We're going to do this.
And we can't repeal it if we don't have anything to replace it with.
Right now, we don't have a replacement.
And all of these calls, we need to slow down.
No, no, no, no, that's not the way to do this.
Slowdown is exactly why this election happened.
All of this slowdown is nothing more than excuse for not changing it.
And the excuse for not changing it is not rolling up the sleeves and doing the hard work.
It's just too hard.
It's too many pitfalls.
And these are the kind of things that are starting to happen, and they'd better not waffle on this.
The tendency is to waffle.
The tendency is to not do anything.
The tendency is to make surface changes and make it look like things are being done, but nothing in the end actually of substance changes.
And this is where Trump as president is going to have to have a big presence.
And his legislative age, the people that these liaisons that work with people on Capitol Hill from uh the White House or wherever he happens to be, are going to have to be on the case.
Because the natural tendency, the natural tendency in Washington, is when change like this comes up, is to not do it.
Oh, they'll gladly add things.
Oh, can't wait.
Oh, we need a bill to add fine.
Where do I sign?
Where do I vote?
But taking something away that might cause them problems in their minds anyway.
The next election, so this is this is a key element.
And another story here from CNBC, this is actually sourced at Deutsche Bank.
Trump's plans could double the United States GDP growth rate by 2018.
That's just another year.
And let me give you a pull quote from this story.
Remember now the headline, Trump's plans could double U.S. GDP growth.
So over here we got small business people full of optimism, more than they've had since 1980.
There's specific reasons for it.
And this poll quote from the story, this policy mix, this, by the way, this is the chief economist of Deutsche Bank in a report to the bank's clients.
His name is David Fulkertz Lando.
He said this policy mix, meaning Trump's agenda, has the potential of reigniting productivity growth and raising U.S. growth potential.
While Trump introduces higher uncertainty, this Is better than the near certainty of the continuation of a mediocre status quo.
In other words, even Deutsche Bank now feels free to admit that the worst thing could have happened would have been Hillary Clinton.
The worst thing that could have happened would have been a continuation of Obama.
Trump may be uncertain, or his presidency might have some uncertainty in it, but the optimism contained therein is much more than what would have been the status quo.
These are big stories.
The Democrats are in hysteria.
The Democrats are now demanding a 9-11-style special commission to probe Russia.
What am I telling you about they cannot accept reality, folks?
Seriously, they are I've never seen them this mad, the Democrats, since Lincoln freed the slaves.
And we'll be back.
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