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	You know, it's it's pretty fascinating.
	I don't know if you saw the video we showed it last night on Hannity.
	Uh there's a couple of GoFundMe pages.
	One allows a page for this Minneapolis gunman, Andrew Sunberg, um, a guy that was shooting into the home of this mother with young children.
	Thank God nobody was killed.
	But you see, we showed you the bullet holes last night all over the house.
	And she's the woman when the police, uh a sharpsman in Minneapolis, ended up taking this guy out.
	Um, you know, then there was a Black Lives Matter protest, and she confronted Black Lives Uh Matters activist saying, This is not a George Floyd event.
	Go look at the bullet holes.
	They tried to kill, he tried to kill me and my children.
	Anyway, GoFundMe is now collecting a small fortune uh for this guy on his GoFundMe page.
	On the other hand, GoFundMe uh is not allowing uh a page for Jose uh Alba, uh, the guy that was working in the bodega worker that was working that was attacked and used a knife to defend himself.
	And their answer is uh quote, our terms of service prohibit fundraising for the legal defense of a violent crime.
	Well, he's not convicted of a violent crime.
	And at this point, the fundraiser has been removed and all donors have been refunded.
	Now, as it relates to the GoFundMe page uh that's going on for this guy that was firing bullets into this home.
	The fundraiser states donations will go towards funeral food family expenses.
	Fundraisers for these types of expenses are allowed under GoFundMe term.
	So go explain that to me.
	We had over the weekend, we talked about it yesterday.
	You know, I'm looking at, for example, in today's Wall Street Journal, the food court in Indiana's Greenwood Park Mall.
	The food court was the intended target of a mass shooter.
	He fired 24 uh rounds, killed three people until uh this is he was 20 years old, the guy that fired the shots, Jonathan uh Sapperman is his name, fired 24 shots before he was taken out by a hero gun owner, 22-year-old kid, um, who's identified as Alicia Dickin or Elijah Dickens, depending on how you pronounce it, is different spelling.
	But anyway, the guy the shooter had another hundred rounds stored in a nearby bathroom where he'd been hiding out before the attack.
	So obviously, he intended to keep shooting as long as he could.
	And but for this brave individual stepping up who happened to have a handgun, and he's been heralded as a hero and a good Samaritan, as he should be.
	And anyway, police identified the shooter, and this guy saved God only knows countless lives.
	This was a this was a potential for a mass shooting disaster.
	But of course, the media mob freaks out, just like they freaked out when the Supreme Court recognized that a right enumerated in the Constitution, and that being the second amendment, the right of the people to keep and to bear arms.
	It doesn't say arms meaning muskets, keep arms shall not be infringed.
	And the Supreme Court upheld that with the New York Gun Club case, and this is how the media mob reacted to that.
	We just received some very disturbing news from Washington That the Supreme Court of the United States of America has stripped away the state of New York's right and responsibility to protect its citizens with a decision which we are still digesting, which is frightful in its scope.
	This decision has made every single one of us less safe from gun violence.
	The fact that the court is coming down with this decision feels total death.
	And I think I worry that it undermines the legitimacy of the courts.
	It seems I don't even have the words.
	It seems stupid.
	No, it's worse than that.
	It's worse than that.
	It's not even stupid.
	It is No, it's it's so it's such a middle finger to New York.
	Many of us are deeply concerned and troubled by the Supreme Court's ruling today.
	Um it it I believe defies common sense and um the Constitution of the United States.
	Frankly, Katie, New York City will look a lot more like Alabama once this ruling goes into place with guns widely available with concealed carry.
	We've known for a lot of years, because we've reported a lot of years on this program how uh when you have more guns available, you have less crime.
	Statistically speaking, John Lott has written more guns, less crime, and has written updated versions of this for years.
	He's the president of the crime prevention research center.
	And anyway, he's speaking before the House Judiciary Committee taking up a bill that would ban most rifles this week.
	And he said the term assault weapon is nonsensical.
	First, the AP's highly influential style book, followed by the news media is recognizing that fact as the AP now acknowledges the term conveys little meaning and is highly politicized.
	Politicians will obviously continue calling AR 15's assault weapons and weapons of war as President Biden did, and as many seem to think AR means assault rifle when it stands you know for something that is not assault rifle, armalite rifle is actually how you say it, uh, after the company that developed this this firearm in 19 uh sometime in the 1950s.
	Anyway, the media is now finally recognizing that AR or AK style rifles designated for the civilian market are fundamentally different than military weapons.
	Anyway, John joins us now.
	I I I look at this guy, Elijah Dickens, a 22-year-old kid in this mall.
	He didn't have to risk his life.
	This guy's fired 24 shots into a food court, killed three people already, could have killed many more, and had a hundred rounds more in the bathroom that he can go back to very quickly.
	Uh, but for the bravery of this young kid, uh, we don't know how many people might have died here.
	Right.
	I mean, he ran to the sound of gunshots.
	I mean, we've seen recently, you know, people are human.
	We just saw in Uvali, Texas, uh police being afraid to go in to a place where there was a gun because they were worried about getting shot.
	And yet this individual, this young man, ran towards the gunshot that he heard, and he undoubtedly, as you say, is saved many lives.
	In all your studies in all the years, we don't really hear a lot about people using guns and self-defense protecting people.
	One of the arguments I've always had with anti-gun liberals, anti-second amendment liberals, is let me ask you a question.
	What happens if it's midnight and somebody breaks into your house and they want to bring harm to you and your family?
	What are you going to do?
	More often than not, the answer is predictable.
	I'll get on the phone and I'll call 911.
	Even with the fastest response team on record, that's still not enough time to stop the incident.
	Whatever's going to happen will happen in the interim.
	Basically, you are allowing yourself at that point to be a sitting duck at the mercy of a criminal that doesn't obey laws by the very nature of being a criminal.
	Police are extremely important.
	Anybody who's read my academic work knows I think police are the single most important factor for reducing crime.
	But at the same time, police themselves understand that they virtually always arrive on the crime scene after the crimes occurred.
	And that raises the question about what people should do when they're having to confront a criminal by themselves.
	And telling people to behave passably is not Very good advice.
	By far the safest course of action, and this is particularly true for people who are relatively weaker physically, women and the elderly, because you're almost talking about young males doing the violent crimes, and when a man is attacking a woman or an elderly person, there's a lot larger strength difference that exists there than when you're talking about a man at ta attacking another man.
	I would argue it's the most vulnerable people in our society who benefit the most from having the option to be able to go and protect themselves.
	One quick comment about the Indiana case.
	You know, they had red flag laws that didn't stop this individual from doing it.
	But they did have though recently passed constitutional carry, which made it possible for this young man, this 22-year-old to go and stop the attack.
	Well, well, why are so many people offended that he's being called a hero and a good Samaritan?
	Because they're blinded by their hatred of guns so much.
	I mean, you go and look at Michael Bloomberg's gun control groups people who are out on Twitter, and they're very upset that anybody would call this individual who ran towards the sound of gunfire a good Samaritan or a hero.
	I don't know what else you would go and call somebody who goes and saves multiple lives.
	But I have to tell you, the media has been very irresponsible in terms of these mass public shootings.
	They're responsible, I believe, unfortunately, for many of these attacks.
	Because if you read the diaries, if you read the manifestos from these killers, what you find over and over again, they say if I can only kill more people than such and such kills, I can get more media attention.
	They thrive.
	Their goal is to get media attention.
	And they know the more people they kill, the more people that more media attention that they're going to be able to go and obtain.
	And the question you have to ask yourself is how do you reduce the media attention?
	I'm not going to go and argue we should go and get rid of the First Amendment, but there are things that you can do, particularly making sure somebody is there quickly on the scene in order to go and stop them.
	The faster somebody can get there, the more you're going to limit the number of people that they're going to be able to kill or wound, and the more you're going to be able to limit the amount of media attention that they're going to be able to go and get.
	You know, after the Buffalo shooting case, the media ignored the part of the manifesto where this killer explained in detail why he picked the target that he did.
	He wanted to go to a place where he knew the civilians there would not have concealed handguns for protection.
	I can give you dozens of these diaries and manifestos where these killers explicitly say they're targeting a place where they know their victims can't defend themselves because that will allow them to go and kill more people and allow them to get more media attention.
	But yet you will search in vain for any media coverage, any news media coverage of that basic simple fact that was there.
	And yet you would think these guys care so much about stopping these attacks, but they give a huge amount of media coverage, and they refuse to talk about how these gun-free zones actually serve as magnets.
	That these killers may be crazy in some sense, but they're not stupid.
	They know if they go to a gun-free zone where civilians are banned, they're going to kill more people.
	The Uvaldi case, 30% of the schools in Texas uh have armed teachers.
	Unfortunately, not that net school.
	The Tulsa uh hospital attack, again, a gun-free zone.
	Uh, as I just mentioned, the Buffalo case.
	You go through 96% of these mass public shootings take place in areas where civilians are banned.
	Now, gun control people would say, well, good guys with guns don't stop these attacks because they'll go and they'll point out, look, in the Buffalo case, there was an armed uh guard there.
	Well, that's true.
	But the thing is, having somebody in uniform with and having them be the only person with a gun, who do you think the attackers take out first?
	They have an almost impossible job there.
	It's kind of like somebody in uniform.
	If they're the only person with a gun, it's kind of like a neon sign above them that says shoot them first.
	They have an incredibly difficult job.
	If you have people with concealed handgun permits, who would actually make the job of that officer or that guard much easier because if the person attacking them attacked, they reveal their position, and now they have to worry that somebody behind them or to the side that they can't identify beforehand might also have a gun and be able to stop them.
	All right, more with John Locke.
	I think every school should have undercover, retired police, retired military, but specifically trained in the safety of schools, for example, to stop school shootings.
	One way into the school, one way out, emergency contingencies, probably every other door would have an alarm on it, so people can't open it.
	And I think that would protect uh all these schools from these devastating shootings.
	I think Uvaldi was an anomaly in as much as the cops, I mean, watching this video is heartbreaking to me because I know so many officers, people that are in law enforcement, and that is the exact opposite of how they all would react and and how they're trained to react.
	Um you also have to add to the equation, I mean, things have gotten dramatically worse in terms of police being able to do their job.
	Uh look at the defund movement, look at the no-bail laws, look at the dismantle police department.
	You know, look at people not being charged if they go into a store in San Francisco or other cities, and as long as they don't take a thousand dollars worth of stuff, they're okay because they can walk right out the door.
	Um that is now commonplace.
	We have about 30 seconds.
	I mean, you and I understand why violent crimes increase, even if uh Democrats don't.
	You have defunding the police.
	New York City's cut its police budget by a billion dollars a year.
	You have district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute people, you have bail reform that's there.
	And you we could go on.
	But you know, Biden wants to make it solely about guns.
	You know, less than eight percent of violent crime involves guns.
	The way you reduce violent crime with guns is the same way you reduce all violent crime, the other ninety-two plus percent, and that is you make it risky for criminals to go and commit crime.
	Higher one.
	When they don't when they know there's a risk, when they know there's going to be consequences, when they know there's going to be pushback, I think the odds of them taking that chance are greatly reduced, and the odds of them being successful uh hopefully uh shift to the safety and security of innocent people that are that are trapped by uh during these moments.
	Anyway, John Lott appreciated as uh always president of the crime prevention research center.
	Thank you for giving us facts the mob than the media will never give us, or politicians will never give us a never stops working for the good of the country.
	Sean Annity with behind the scenes information on today's breaking news.
	Hannity is on right now.
	All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
	Thanks for being with us.
	800-941 Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program.
	So after Glenn Youncan won by a significant margin in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and you know, we weren't paying as close attention to New Jersey as we should have.
	And I said, I'm not gonna make that mistake again.
	Like, for example, Lee Zeldon running against Kathy Hulkel or Kathleen Hulkle, the governor of New York, I would argue has a chance if this becomes and develops into a wave election.
	Unlike other people, I'm not I'm not jumping the gun and making bold predictions about uh a massive wave election.
	Uh I'll believe it when I see it.
	I'm cautiously optimistic.
	Uh it's going to be up to you, the American people to make sure that that all happens.
	Uh, but I decided that I'm not going to ignore races just because the odds are usually low in a general election.
	For example, Maryland has had a rhino governor by the name of Larry Hogan, uh, who's trying to get another rhino apparently into office.
	Uh I know President Trump has supported Dan Cox for governor in Maryland.
	That primary is taking place tomorrow.
	Uh Dave Bosse knows a lot about the race.
	We brought him on for a couple of minutes to give us an update on what's going on.
	I'm sorry, the primary's today, and to get get some uh updates as to what's happening in this race and why that you think this is a winnable race.
	Hey, Sean, thanks for having me back.
	Look, you're exactly right.
	Just like New Jersey, uh Maryland is on the cuff.
	And once again, uh Republicans can keep the seat.
	Larry Hogan has been the only thing uh between the radical leftists in Annapolis uh and the citizens of Maryland.
	He's the only thing that's standing in the way of higher taxes and and bigger bureaucracies in the state.
	But today is a day where Marylanders, Republicans in their primary, can elect Dan Cox, uh, who is the conservative in the race.
	He's in the State House right now, and he's going up against Larry Hogan's Kelly Schultz endorsed uh as as his endorsed candidate.
	Uh and it's just been it's it's really a grudge match what it's boiling down to between Trump President Trump and Larry Hogan.
	You know what's been fascinating to watch, and I know you follow this as I do.
	It seems that anybody that Donald Trump supports, you get groups that claim to be conservative, and I'll mention one of them.
	Um and by the way, Steve Moore, I want to make sure I'm I point out, even though he founded the Club for Growth is not a part and has not been a part of the Club for Growth for many, many years now.
	He's part of another organization.
	Uh if you listen regularly to this program, you know that.
	But it seems like they anybody that Trump supports, they want to go in and assist with the Trump opponent just to try to make President Trump look bad.
	Now, I know a lot of people, the reputation of Club for Growth has always been that they're conservative, and it was connected to Steve Moore and Steve Forbes.
	It's not anymore, is it?
	Well, no, it's not at all.
	And and and look, they they do agree with President Trump on occasion.
	And in the Liz Cheney race, they are on the side of uh Harriet Hageman, who is the Trump endorsed candidate there.
	But for the most part, they have really found themselves on the opposite side of President Trump.
	And it's for the life of me, I don't understand it.
	What President Trump did in office for four years was everything the Club for Growth says they are for uh and have been for since they're founded.
	So it's interesting.
	Do you see the same phenomenon that I'm seeing?
	Is that all these never Trumper groups, they're trying to damage Trump's credibility, and even if it means supporting uh liberal, they like for example, there are some people that hated Donald Trump so much, the never Trumpers, that they voted for Joe Biden and they voted for this disaster of a president that we now have.
	That's right.
	And and whether it's con these groups that you're talking about or individuals.
	Look, Larry Hogan, uh Governor Ricketts in Nebraska, uh uh Chris Christie, uh, you know, there's some people out there who are Asa Hutchison who have never really done uh much on their own as far as the conservative movement.
	They haven't done anything as far as the conservative movement is concerned.
	But they come out against President Trump because they have to find a lane for themselves for their own futures.
	They have nowhere to go except to try to be against Trump.
	And it's it to be honest with you, it's not a good game plan.
	Oh, it's not a good game plan.
	All right, so that's taking place today.
	Uh, what were the polls showing going into today?
	So Dan Cox has been leading in pretty much every poll that I have seen um by three to five points.
	Uh, and I think he's going to hold we we see low turnout across Maryland today, which I think in everything we've seen in prior states really shows the that Trump motivated voters are going to be the ones turning out in bigger numbers, and that's going to help people like Dan Cox and Trump endorse candidates down ballot.
	All right, Dave Bossy, what we watching.
	We'll uh report tonight on Hannity as the election results come in.
	We appreciate you being with us.
	Thanks for the update, my friend.
	Thanks, Sean.
	800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program tour busy phones we go, Marshall is in the incredibly beautiful state of Montana.
	It's been many a day, Marshall.
	I'm sitting here, my New York studio and thinking, what the hell am I doing here?
	I could be out in the wilderness looking at God's Majesty in Montana, and I'm thinking, I think you're a lot smarter than I am.
	Well, I was uh right here from North Carolina twenty-one years ago, so I I didn't really have much of a say, but I love that I that that happened.
	Um all around Montana.
	The Bitteroo Valley is by far the most gorgeous part of Montana.
	I mean, glaciers pretty too, but Montana is wonderful.
	Except this time of year, hundred degree weather.
	I'm I'm used to 40s and 50s.
	Right.
	Well, I mean, that's uh that's a little colder for me.
	I have a little bit more problem with the cold than maybe you do.
	The cold part doesn't appeal to me.
	Yellowstone appeals to me.
	I'm I'm kind of look at that life and I'm like a little envious in the back of my mind, or I look at people that live off the grid in Alaska, and I think could I ever do that?
	I'm not really sure if I'm courageous enough to do it.
	Yeah, there's uh there's actually quite a bit of people that I know personally who are um building their own off the grid kind of little homestead.
	It's it's it's pretty cool stuff.
	I I don't know if I could do it, but it's pretty cool, that's for sure.
	Definitely rugged individualism uh as defined.
	What's on your mind today?
	So, first thing, thank you to your call screener.
	She's awesome.
	Kind of just wanted to call, and uh you don't need any words of encouragement from me.
	You're a tough guy.
	But uh, you know, I just it it it rubs me a little bit the wrong way when people go out and they say the conservatives and people with you know loud voices like yourself go out there and try and stir up violence when really all the the the large message is you know, just let me live my life, man.
	Like government, get out of here.
	Like, that's the whole premise of of America.
	I don't need someone in DC telling me how I need to live my life.
	I'll refer to my local authorities, that's fine.
	But I don't need someone out there telling me that I shouldn't have this type of gun, or I need to pay for this person's health care, or no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's not why I'm out here.
	That's not why I'm an American.
	I don't need to take care of everyone else.
	I'm here to take care of me and my family.
	And so it kind of rubs me the wrong way when you have people out there saying that, you know, just simply stating that, you know, that us as conservatives we're really focused on life, liberty, and happiness, but somehow we're spreading violence and enabling people to go out and do very heinous things.
	I mean, you have radicals on the left.
	Well, we've seen now what, 50 pro-life crisis pregnancy centers vandalized, churches vandalized after the Roe v.
	Wade decision.
	You see, for example, Black Lives Matter in Antifa.
	We saw what happened in the summer of 2020.
	Democrats were either quiet, the majority of them were quiet, said nothing.
	Or they just lied to us and said, Oh, these are mostly peaceful.
	They weren't.
	Or they were activists like Kamala Harris and saying they shouldn't stop, they won't stop, beware, take note, and then you know, promoting bail funds for people that were involved in the rioting.
	It's amazing the double standard, but you're referring to Republicans always being called racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, wanting dirty air and water, blah, blah, blah.
	It goes with the territory, but that narrative they've it's sort of like the boy who cried wolf, it's it just doesn't have any impact anymore because they've it's number one based on a lie, and number two, they've overused it.
	They have not they have nothing to run on.
	The only thing they've got is oh, Republicans are gonna outlaw all abortion.
	That's a false narrative.
	Oh, Republicans uh want everybody to have a gun.
	No, they believe in the second amendment.
	Republicans support January 6th.
	No, I condemn January 6th in in real time.
	We have to protect elected officials at our institutions.
	Absolutely.
	I even turned to my wife on January 6th and I said, Man, I've never felt so disappointed in in the people that I support.
	Even if they didn't fully have anything to do with it, I've never felt so disappointed because that was just horrendous.
	But then you can't you can't just anybody on the left were they disappointed in the summer of 2020 rioting?
	Why are the committee investigating that?
	We we lost dozens of Americans, thousands of cops injured, billions in property damage.
	Where's that investigation?
	Probably about as close to their support to conservatives as it can, you know.
	That's that's where it's hidden.
	I just wanted to call in and say thank you for having such a loud voice.
	I thank God for your opinions, your mind and your and your voice.
	Well, I agree I can't do it without you.
	But it's all of us.
	You gotta remember this.
	It's just not me.
	I'm only one vote.
	It's all of us.
	All hands on deck, and that's it.
	This is this is now a very pivotal moment for the country.
	And and we can take the country back.
	We can we can get America back on track.
	We've done it before, we can do it again, but we have to take it seriously, and if we don't take it seriously, we'll get the government we deserve.
	It'll get it will Get worse.
	If you let them take over, it will get infinitely worse.
	So, you know, it's up to we the people to make sure that doesn't happen.
	Anyway, my friend, enjoy the beautiful Montana skies out there.
	Appreciate you being with us.
	Ryan is in Wisconsin.
	Ryan, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	I'm probably better than I deserve.
	Sean, how are you, sir?
	I'm good, man.
	What's going on?
	Uh, real quick, I just kind of wanted to second that last guy.
	Your screener's got to be the nicest growing radio.
	Why is everybody flirting with my phone screener?
	What's going on lately?
	Everybody's flirting with Katie.
	Everybody wants to date Katie.
	Hades getting like hit on every day.
	She's so pleasant.
	I mean, what do you what else do you do?
	I don't listen, I'm not against it.
	She's free to, you know, hang up on you if she wants.
	She doesn't do that.
	Well, I have a uh a couple points I want to talk to you about, Sean.
	I'm I am a um 39-year-old small business trucking owner operator.
	Um, you know, and you hear a lot of stuff going on the radio about supply chain and fuel costs, and um, you know, there's there's a lot more that goes in goes into it than a lot of people realize.
	Um, you know, friends don't know.
	Are you are you an owner operator or you work for a company?
	I'm an owner operator, sir.
	Oh, okay.
	So you how many trucks do you have?
	Do you just have the one or you have uh uh a couple?
	I've I've just got the one.
	I'm working on it.
	I actually just uh got rid of my tractor uh just because you know the obscene costs, um, and bought a dually and a 40 foot flatbed to pull behind it, and I'm gonna run them like that for about a month and uh good for you.
	You know, obvious obviously.
	These are hard times right now.
	Look, trucking is slowed somewhat for the summer, but you know and I know it's seasonal, so you're gonna pick up probably in the fall, right?
	Well, this is technically supposed to be the good time of year to run.
	Um, but but the thing is with the with the diesel prices getting you know sky high, what a lot of people don't understand is that that lowers the amount of things that are getting shipped, right?
	And think of it like supply and demand.
	When when everybody wants something, people that are selling it can charge whatever they want.
	Okay, so as the fuel prices go up, the amount of goods being shipped goes down, which means there are less loads available.
	Um, and there's not a lot of direct shipping going on unless you're you know one of the mega carriers.
	They don't really feel this that much because they've got contracts with all these big shippers where they're getting paid a set rate no matter what happens, right?
	What's left you know goes out to the brokers.
	So as a small business owner, um owner operator, you're gonna get probably 90% of your loads that you run from the load boards.
	Okay, the load boards deal with the brokers.
	Well, here's what happens.
	The shipper goes to the broker and says, I have this load that needs to be run.
	They may pay the broker $4,000 to get the load run.
	The broker can pay the drivers whatever they want to pay.
	Right?
	That's all true.
	I know about the bulletin board, I know about the brokers, I know because I have friends in the trucking business.
	However, it's your truck.
	You get to pick what loads you're gonna take and which loads you're not gonna take.
	And and by the way, it's an art form to map it out where you drop off a load and you don't have to drive too far to get another load.
	Right.
	Right.
	Well, that is that is true to an extent, but you know, at the same time, if you own a lemonade stand, you're not gonna stop selling lemonade because you don't want to use those particular lemons, you know.
	So it's in there are times where you're gonna have to take loads that are not as profitable.
	Right.
	Well, look, I the only the only thing I could say to you is, you know, be you're you're a smart guy.
	I can hear it in your voice.
	Just be super smart about it.
	And if it's not worth taking that load, it's not worth taking that load, period.
	And it's gotta make financial sense, or else, you know, you don't work for free.
	And i in this environment where diesel prices are high, people have to expect the cost to go up.
	So, you know, make sure you're a tough negotiator and and lean on those brokers because all of those loads are up to bid, and you know what, they need to get those or they need to get those trucks there to get those supplies out, or else they're not gonna be brokers very long.
	Um, but I do sympathize with what you're going through, and I also want to thank you for what you do because everything we have and every store we go to got there because of guys like you.
	So I appreciate everything you're doing, my friend.
	I'm just short on time.
	That's gonna wrap things up with today.
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	Why is it open season on Hispanic Americans that happen to be conservative?
	It's unbelievable.
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