January 9, 2012
On the media’s refusal to cover a potentially embarrassing Halloween party in the White House…
The press doesn’t want to get Obama in trouble… It is safe to say – it’s very accurate to say – that, domestically, in this country, conservatives – conservative Republicans – are the biggest enemy the Democrats have. Bigger than al Qaeda, bigger than the Taliban, bigger than Iran, bigger than any foreign enemy. The Democrat party, the Regime, the media, looks at their domestic political opposition as the biggest enemy they have, the biggest threat. And in a way, it kind of makes sense. We are the only thing standing in the way of their absolute power. They don’t look at the Iranians as trying to stop them. They don’t look at the Taliban as trying to stop ‘em. They look at us as trying to stop them. And they are part of the Obama agenda advancement team.
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January 6, 2012
On which Republican candidate Obama would prefer to run against…
You think they don’t want to run against Romney? So you’ve got Romney advisors that were hijacked to help put together Obamacare, and now you’ve got Obama who’s about to institute a mortgage-refinance plan that is the idea of a Romney advisor. And yet we’re being told – “They’re scared to run against Romney, they really don’t want to run against Romney.” I don’t see it that way.
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January 4, 2012
On the Republican primary race after the Iowa caucus (in which Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum tied for first place)…
Perry said last night he was going to head back to Texas for prayer, and reflection, to figure out what he should do next. Because he spent a lot of money in Iowa, and it didn’t translate to votes. And the theory is that if money didn’t translate to votes in Iowa, then it may not translate to votes anywhere else. And is it worth going into debt. Does he have a high enough base here to pull off what now would be a miracle. I hope he stays in. ‘cause I told you I like Perry. And I like Santorum. And I told you countless times I know, either one of those guys, and I said this about Bachmann as well – if any of them are elected President, I know, I have no doubt whatsoever, they are gonna be fighting for this country each and every day. No doubt whatsoever.
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January 2, 2012
[Previously-broadcast material] On the Occupy movement’s ignorant criticisms of capitalism…
Everything that’s happened to this country since 2008 is not capitalism. Bailouts. Government buying car companies. Investing in phony, fraudulent green energy things. This is not capitalism that’s happened in this country in the last three years. We haven’t had any capitalism. And the truth of the matter is that’s why we’re in the situation we are in. We’ve already abandoned it with this regime.
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December 30, 2011
Walter E. Williams is filling in for Rush today… On the unequal reaping of economic rewards in the free market system…
Now you take somebody like Joanne Rowling… she is the Harry Potter lady. And she’s a billionaire. She’s in that top one percent. Although she’s in Britain, she’s in that top one percent. Now how did Rowling become so wealthy and unequal to the rest of us? Well I think the entire blame for this social injustice lies at the feet of the world’s children. The children are responsible. Because her wealth is a direct result of more than 500 million Harry Potter book sales. And if the children did not have their parents go buy them these Harry Potter books, she wouldn’t be rich, she wouldn’t be in that top one percent. Or you take my friend – actually he’s not my friend, I just like the way the guy plays – Lebron James. He is an animal on the basketball court. And this guy has 43 million dollars a year. And that’s very unequal to the rest of us. That’s socially unjust. Now how does Lebron James get 43 million dollars a year? Well again, it’s the children. It’s the children getting their fathers – instead of children staying home and doing homework and their fathers helping their wives out with the kitchen duties, they’re going downtown to the sports arena and plunk down $100 to see Lebron James play basketball. And then I think there’s a form of gross discrimination with this as well. Because I can play basketball too. But nobody’s paying me 43 million dollars.
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December 28, 2011
Mark Belling is filling in for Rush today… On the lack of good news in advance of the full implementation of Obamacare…
I swear every three weeks, you’ll see a story about something – it’s never good – and then the phrase they put between the commas is “part of a little-known provision in President Barack Obama’s health care law”. The whole thing is filled with little-known provisions. Isn’t that what Nancy Pelosi said? “Well we’re just going to have to pass it and find out what’s in it.” Well now we find out what’s in it. Have we yet had one thing come out that’s in it, that’s been good? If there was, if there was just one thing in this, or one ramification – and we’re only in the early stages of this – if there was one thing that was working out well, can you imagine how the media would be trumpeting it? Obama would be there at wherever that magical place was where something good was happening because we passed Obamacare. Everything that happens as a result of this turns out to be a bad thing.
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December 26, 2011
On the failure of the Supercommittee to reach a budget agreement…
Everybody knew the Supercommittee wasn’t going to do anything. And by the way, there are no spending cuts. Even with sequestration. There are no spending cuts. It’s just reductions in the rate of growth. It’s the same old thing. Spending is still gonna up! It’s just like everything else, with the U.S. budget – it’s said to be a cut because it’s not going up as much. But defense spending, with sequestration, will still go up 16%. There’s no spending cuts here. Zilch, zero, nada. But anyway, folks, the market’s not down because the Supercommittee is gonna admit failure. Everybody knew this was gonna happen.
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December 23, 2011
Mark Steyn is filling in for Rush today… On the utter irrelevance of the payroll tax controversy…
Economists say that to sustain a healthy housing market, this country needs to sell 700,000 new homes every year. It was 315,000 in 2011. Now, that 700,000 figure is not going to be reached under any conceivable circumstances because Fannie and Freddie and the subprime mortgage and all the rest of it so distorted the housing market that this country now has about twice as many large family homes as it’s gonna need for the foreseeable future. So the problem here is an immense structural one. And the idea that giving you an extra $20 a week for another eight weeks… if you earn $50,000 a year, you will benefit from this dramatic Christmas gift from the President, $20 a week for an extra eight weeks, so what’s that? Two, twenty by eight, that’s $160. One hundred and sixty dollars. And we are supposed to be grateful that President Obama was so serious about this $160 – he cared so much, about you getting your extra $20 a week – that he was willing to stay in Washington, and not fly out to Hawaii for his vacation until today.
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December 21, 2011
On the need for Republicans to get serious about saving the country from economic ruin at the hands of Obama and the Democrats…
If you believe that our beloved country is collapsing due to government – why continue with these games? Why continue with such things as two-month expansions of the debt limit? Continuing resolution after continuing resolution instead of a budget. A two-month extension of a so-called payroll tax cut. These are games. This is style over substance. If we are to stop this, if we are to reverse this, if we are to get anywhere, we need to start now, make our case. We need to begin to reverse course. We can’t be so timid and scared and gutless that we jump every time Obama says “Jump!”
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December 19, 2011
On the liberal media’s strangely reverential coverage of the death of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il…
He was a murdering tyrant. His people are among the poorest in the world. And he’s spoken of here in reverent terms. The best thing he had going for him as far as these people are concerned was: He’s not a Republican. He wasn’t a conservative. You know, Hitler and Stalin both loved American movies too. This guy loved Michael Jordan. Wow, there’s really a lot to recommend him! Bachmann, and Perry, are stupid. Kim Jong Il – not a nut! It’d be a mistake to say that he’s a nut.
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December 16, 2011
On Democrat party class warfare tactics…
Out of the blue, the White House, and the Democrats, gave up on their millionaires surtax. Did you notice that? Did you notice that one year ago, they gave up on it too. Almost at the same time… I think, that when it comes right down to it, they’re never actually going to go to the mat demanding a tax increase on the rich in this economy. But I think they’re going to try and get as much mileage out of talking about one, and demanding one, and ripping into the rich, and exploiting class envy, just for the sake of reelection, just like Obama is putting his reelection first over the Keystone Pipeline. I think they think they can get just as much mileage out of the verbiage, blaming the rich, demanding a tax increase on them, without actually doing it.
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December 14, 2011
On the revelation that American realtors grossly overstated home sales for years…
Nothing’s real… if this number can be so easily fudged – and where is the journalist community? Where’s the curiosity here? Where’s somebody hearing the numbers, “Well, maybe we’re not going to accept what you say, let’s dig deep and find it.”? There wasn’t any. There’s no curiosity about the truth of the unemployment numbers. None. How much other out there is not real? How much else is being faked? How many other things are we being lied to about? The best guess is that we’re being lied to far more than we’re being told the truth. Particularly when it comes to the state. The status of the economy. And in large part, certain sectors of the economy the American people are just in denial about all of this. And it’s true. A lot of people don’t want to face just how bad things are.
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December 12, 2011
On the creeping, incremental growth of the state, how it benefits the Democrat party, and how difficult it is for conservatives to oppose it…
What are we trying to do? We’re trying to defend against this profligate spending, but we’re not on offense. We’re just trying to stop it. We’re like at The Alamo. We’re just trying to stop it. We’re constantly on defense. Everywhere. ‘cause we don’t use government the way they do. They’re constantly on offense. Constantly making a move, constantly trying to make it bigger. We’re just saying “Stop! Stop, dammit, stop!” We’re not even trying to advance anything… So this is how it works you see. If you feed them – if you feed the children, three square meals a day, during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? So you start out with breakfast for the kids that can’t afford that… and then of course it expanded, and we learned – now it includes dinner! … Okay and then school ends. And of course how can we expect them to feed themselves in the summer, when they haven’t had to for nine months. So, this is how it works. They demand to be fed during the summer. Or their acolytes demand that they be fed, during the summer. Because after all, we’ve conditioned them to not feeding themselves. Plus their parents don’t have to take responsibility of feeding them. And their parents don’t have to take the responsibility of paying, not directly… Wanton little waifs and serfs, dependent on the state. Pure and simple.
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December 9, 2011
On the possibility that a Republican presidential contender might try to run as an independent…
I think Ron Paul would do it. And if Ron Paul does it… we know that anybody, after this nomination process is over, is ticked off enough and goes third party – that’s it. You split the Republican vote. No third party candidate’s gonna win. No third-party candidate is gonna win beans in this election. All the third-party candidate is going to do is secure victory for Obama. And if that happens, if somebody on our side goes third-party, far as I’m concerned that’s what they’re trying to make happen. Re-elect Obama. For whatever reason. Anger at the electorate, at the Republican side for not nominating them, anger at other people for what happened to ‘em or what was said during the campaign, whatever… I think it’s one of the reasons the GOP is afraid to get tough and tell Ron Paul, “Look, you’re not polling anywhere, get out of this debate, you don’t belong here.” They’re not gonna tell him that… They don’t want to upset anybody and have ‘em go third-party.
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December 7, 2011
On President Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas…
The elected President of the United States said, in Osawatomie Kansas, trying to be Teddy Roosevelt, that the United States of America has never worked. That is a quote. “Has never worked.” Quote, unquote. Really? What was the first Thanksgiving all about? What was George Washington’s first Thanksgiving Proclamation all about? What was 250 years of the greatest prosperity and standard of living known to exist in all of humanity? The President of the United States said yesterday that it has never worked. But he didn’t stop there. He said that Americans must look to a more activist government, that taxes more, spends more, and regulates more, if the middle class is to be preserved. I can’t get my mind around this. This is antithetical to me. This is foreign, this is what we have faced from our enemies, since our founding. This characterization of our country.
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December 5, 2011
On the willingness of Republican candidates to let their campaign debates be hijacked by supposed entrepreneurial charlatans like Donald Trump…
Well the alternative view is – When are you Republicans gonna stand up and stop letting all these liberal media outfits moderate your debate? When are you Republican candidates gonna stand up and finally assert that the media is not gonna pick which one of you wins this nomination? Ergo, what’s so bad about Trump moderating a debate? Or about me, or about anybody else? Why must these debates be moderated by the Wolf Blitzers, and the MSNBCs of the world? For them to have any credibility? Why must these Republican debates be moderated by people who have one objective, and that’s to see to it that whoever wins this nomination loses? Let me put it a better way. Why should these Republican candidates repeatedly subject themselves to debates moderated by people whose only objective is to see Obama win? That’s my take on this.
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December 2, 2011
On government reports that the national unemployment rate has fallen to 8.6%…
The regime needs this, and when we finally get to under 9%, it’ll be 8-point-something, but the point-what won’t matter. The only number that’s going to matter is the “8” – [it] can be 8.9 – it won’t be 8.9, it’ll be “8”. Well it’s 8.6, but it doesn’t matter, it’s “8” and predictably the media’s all over it and that’s the headline… they’re not gonna dig deep and find out how it happened… the truth of the matter is… it’s a corrupt number… folks, the number of people who have quit looking for work in the last few weeks is 315,000. Those are the people who have thrown up their hands after 99 weeks. Or more. Of being unemployed. And they’ve said “I’m quitting. I’m not looking.” So they’re not counted. Therefore, the universe of jobs available in the country is down by 315,000.
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November 30, 2011
On how freedom is lost…
You don’t need prisons to lose your freedom. Look at political correctness. People stifle themselves. People will refuse to exercise their own first-amendment rights out of fear for what might be heard. Somebody might be offended. Somebody might be upset. So people willingly, willfully, give up freedom every day of the week. Political correctness has resulted in self-policing of your thoughts.
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November 28, 2011
On a New York Times article which outlines the Obama Administration’s new reelection campaign strategy…
The Democrat party… is going after the entitlement class, the welfare-dependent class, and the elite, in academia, art, human resource management, lawyers, library and social workers and so forth – what a coalition! The backbone of America! And that’s who they’re going after. They are ceding it! … The New York Times is admitting that the Democrat party, the Obama coalition is saying, “If you work, we don’t want you… If you work, we know you don’t want us. If you work, you’re the targets. If you work, you are the people we are gunning for. If you work, we are coming after you to make sure the other elements of our constituency are able to eat.” That’s what the Obama coalition is saying.
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November 25, 2011
[Rebroadcast material]… On why President Obama would ask the Supreme Court for an expedited ruling on Obamacare…
We’ve mentioned a couple possibilities as to why the regime has asked for a quick review and decision from the Supreme Court on Obamacare. And I want to throw out another possibility. Given where Obama is in the polls – and folks, it is much worse than the state-controlled media polls indicate – I think it’s disastrous. Simple logic would tell us, it’s disastrous. We are on the verge of a depression. The idea that the incumbent President has a chance to be reelected is absurd, in those circumstances. Yet the media narrative each day is of course just the opposite because Obama’s their guy… So they ask for a quick review of Obamacare. One of two ways to look at it. They’re either very confident they’re going to win this thing, or – or – given who Obama is, a community organizer who loves agitating people, and who is probably very connected, if not personally, his regime, to these Wall Street protests, and he’s … egging them on, and so is Biden. They’re egging these people on. So there’s a part of me that says Obama would love the court declaring Obamacare unconstitutional. I think Obama loves playing a victim. I think he would love to take that to the bank and say, “See what they’re doing to your free healthcare?”
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November 23, 2011
On U.S. energy policy…
What we’re doing now – our energy policy now – is frankly absurd. Killing off our own energy sector. Shutting down our own production. Shutting down our own discovery. Shutting down our own drilling. For a host of reasons, chief among them a hoax. Global warming, and pollution. Making ourselves vulnerable to world supplies, political circumstances, price variations, all of these things. We’re not acting like a super-power. We’re acting like a needy, defensive, no-confidence little child. Because we don’t have the right strategies. We don’t think enough of ourselves as a country, at the highest levels.
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November 21, 2011
On Michelle Obama being booed by a NASCAR crowd at the Homestead Miami Speedway…
Why would people boo the First Lady? Media can’t believe it. But I can. People don’t like being told they’re lousy parents. And Mrs. Obama has done that. People resent Mrs. Obama’s bizarre need to tell us what to eat and how much to exercise… Mrs. Obama has a husband that runs around and apologizes for this country that he was elected to lead… I’m also pretty sure that this crowd is not eager to go out and buy a car that you have to plug in, in order to drive. This is a fast car kind of crowd, this is NOT a Prius/Volt/Leaf plug-it-in-and-charge-it-for-40-miles kind of crowd. Also, I might point out, that people who go to NASCAR races are the very people her husband called “bitter clingers”: when things aren’t going well, what do they do? Why, they cling to their guns, and they cling to their religion.
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November 18, 2011
On the Republican presidential nomination process…
Despite what anybody tells you, we do not know who the nominee will be. But we do know what he or she should be saying… in order to secure the nomination. And that is, Barack Obama is the problem, not fellow Republicans. The problem is Barack Obama. The problem is the Democrat party. The problem is the American left. America’s greatness is not behind us. America’s greatness is there, it’s on the horizon. Our nominee must say “We will be great again,” and the first step in the process is getting rid of Barack Obama and the Democrat party. And moving them out of the way. Whichever of these people seeking the nomination makes that case – the most consistently and the most believably, and the most sincerely; not as a phony sales-type presentation, but genuinely means it – that’s who’s gonna get this nomination, in the end. And it is still up for grabs.
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November 16, 2011
On the winding down of the Occupy Wall Street movement…
Now that these kids from Occupy-Whatever have gotten used to urinating and defecating in the streets, when they go back home are their parents gonna have to house-break ‘em all over again? Teach ‘em how to use the potties, the bathrooms. If you are a parent of a “returning hero” from Occupy Wall Street you might want to put some newspaper down at strategic points inside the house. Particularly the bedrooms where your brave hero sons and daughters are returning home, after this valiant, valiant effort to overturn whatever it was they wanted overturned. But I am, folks at the end of the day here I’m still a little sorry to see them all go… Every photo from the Occupy protests looks like a campaign ad for conservatism… And this is why they had to be cleared out of there. This is why they had to go. I am convinced the mayors got phone calls from Washington, from Axelrod, from somebody, “Look, let’s shut this down because it’s not working any more.” The media gave it it’s best shot. The media tried to tell everybody “This is just like the Tea Party.” But it wasn’t working because the murders, the gunfire, the sexually-transmitted disease, the filth. The abject filth. Third-world type little city-states. In all these cities. Was a direct television ad for conservatism. These people. At Occupy whatever. They are the perfect representatives of the Democrat party.
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November 14, 2011
On the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will take up Obamacare for deliberation in March of 2012…
The regime is out there saying they want an early decision. The regime is suggesting they would like a decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare next June. That’s gonna have a possibility, the potential of making health care the issue during the campaign. And I don’t know how that works out for the regime, folks. If you look at what just happened in Ohio, where Issue 3, 66% of the American people want no part of the mandate requiring them to buy insurance, the news about health care every day, it gets worse, in terms of people losing their insurance, costs going up. But the regime claims that they want this decision before the election. And they’re out there predicting victory.
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November 11, 2011
On an announcement by the Department of Education that schools should start teaching personal finance classes to children in kindergarten…
Why would kindergarten students need to know anything about personal finance? By the time they grow up they’re not going to have any money of their own, it’s gonna all be the government’s. They are not going to have to worry about buying food; it’ll all be provided by the government. They won’t be buying homes or maybe even paying rent – they’ll be living in government-subsidized housing. They won’t have to buy a car, they’ll be given an electric car or told to ride mass transit.
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November 9, 2011
On the steady drip-drip-drip of sexual abuse allegations against Herman Cain in the media…
They’re not going to stop. They are going to not stop this until they see erosion, sufficient, in his numbers, for them to say they’ve succeeded. Just like they didn’t stop with Sarah Palin. They didn’t stop. They didn’t stop until she said she’s not running. And now, do you ever hear about her? You hear about her any more? Not at all. And it’ll be the same thing with Cain… And I guarantee you, Newt is gonna be the next one targeted. If he keeps this slow creep back up, he’s going to be the next one targeted. This is how the left works. And then the same losers on our side will start piling on, saying “Newt’s got some explaining to do there.” It’s the most amazing thing to me. Political enemies go out and level charges against people on our side, some people on our side [say] “Yeah, yeah, you may have something there.”
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November 7, 2011
On media accusations against Herman Cain that he made women feel “uncomfortable” in hotel rooms 15 years ago…
Folks, I get uncomfortable when Room Service shows up, when I’m in a hotel. What is this? That’s not a fact of anything, it is an accusation. And more than that, it’s a touchy-feely accusation. How many people are made to feel “uncomfortable” every day by other people? What kind of wusses run the world now? What kind of pantywaists run the world? Who is it – “Yes, I was made to feel very uncomfortable, I think it’s worth $50,000, Mister Limbaugh.” Every day, we all are made to feel uncomfortable by something. I would be afraid to complain, how many times I’m uncomfortable. For crying out loud, that’s the whole point, a nation of whiners! And complainers. Who want to be paid for it. For being offended or being made to feel uncomfortable but so what? By what? … The problem here is that it is not a fact. Not yet. That’s an accusation.
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November 4, 2011
On the case of a Dutch scientist – who published a study claiming that meat eaters were more selfish than others – who admitted his studies were fraudulent…
Let me make an observation here folks. I know meat eaters. I am a meat eater. I have never met anybody who feels superior to anybody or anything because they eat meat. But! I have run into all kinds of holier-than-thou vegetarians and vegans and other wackos who do think they are superior, and better, and smarter, than everybody else. I know gazillions of beaf eaters and I don’t know a one of them who has forced his eating choices on anybody else. But I know a bunch of rag-tag stupid vegan vegetarians, holier-than-thou superiorists who try to force everybody to eat what they eat and to not eat what they don’t approve of.
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November 2, 2011
On privatizing social security…
A question: if Barack Obama can use taxpayer money to invest in risky private sector investments – like all of these fraudulent, phony, there-is-no-business-there green energy loans – if Obama can do that – if he can use taxpayer money to invest in risky private sector investments that go belly-up – shouldn’t we be able to put our retirement money in a safer place than Washington? I personally, I don’t mind risking my money on investments I trust. What I don’t like is other people risking my money on investments only a fool would trust. Privatizing a portion of social security is an argument that’s always out there. And anytime somebody brings it up seriously within the realm of politics they get shot down as “third rail, can’t do that,” and of course look at how it’s demagogued. How is it demagogued? The argument for not privatizing even a portion of social security is that “people might risk their retirement savings on risky investments.” Yes, these stupid idiot people might go out there and invest their money in bad places. They might put their money in the stock market, “Oh no! And they might lose everything!” And they cite the most recent market crash they can think of. Well, excuse me, but isn’t Obama risking everybody’s retirement savings when he gives our money to green energy boondoggles?
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