The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 223 - Left Feels Punched In The Stomach, And They Deserve It

Time Magazine named Donald Trump their Person of the Year, and the left had a field day comparing him to Adolf Hitler. But there's something rather telling about the media in comparing and contrasting their 2016 and 2012 Person Of The Year cover art. In 2016, it's the Godfather. In 2012, it was the President of the United States. Trump is the president of the Divided States of America, and according to Time Magazine, that's because he's a gangster. Trump didn't spring out of the ground like a demon. He's the product of a divided America. But the media continue to purvey the lie that only Republicans divide the country. No wonder nobody trusts them. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News and host of the Daily Show with Bill Maher. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard, and has been featured in The Daily Mail, The New York Post, and The Huffington Post. Ben's new book is out now, "The Dark Side of America: A Guide to America's Most Influential People in America." is out on all of the social medias, including Amazon Prime and Vimeo, and is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. If you haven't already checked out his work, you can do so by going to the App Store or wherever else you get your favorite podcast listening to podcasts, listen to him on the pod, and subscribe to his podcast, Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, "Ben Shapiro's Show." and subscribe on Podchaser, Ben's Show is a must-listen to all of his stuff, too! , and more! . Thank you for listening to Ben's work? Subscribe to his work? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices? Subscribe at bit.ly/BenShannon's work is also linked in the podcast on The Six Sigma Podcasts? and Ben's podcast is also on The FiveThirtyEight's Podchronicity is on Six Sigma and more than $5 stars in his podcast is on The Hill? on the Podchore Podcasts on The Six Figure Podcasts, and other places he also gives a review on his profile on The Root is a podcast on Six Figure Thing?

00:00:00.000 On Wednesday, Time Magazine announced what everybody already knew.

00:00:03.000 Donald Trump was their person of the year.

00:00:05.000 The left, of course, had a field day comparing Trump to 1938 Time man of the year, Adolf Hitler.

00:00:09.000 To be fair, the right made some of those same comparisons when Barack Obama was Time person of the year in 2012.

00:00:14.000 But there's something rather telling about the media in comparing and contrasting their 2016 and 2012 and 2008 people of the year.

00:00:23.000 Here is what the 2008 cover looked like, right?

00:00:25.000 There's Barack Obama in all of his shining magisterial glory.

00:00:29.000 Here is the 2012 cover from Time.

00:00:30.000 There's Barack Obama gazing into history somberly.

00:00:33.000 And then there is Trump on the cover of Time this year, right?

00:00:36.000 Kind of gazing over his shoulder.

00:00:38.000 In what looks to be a leather mafia chair.

00:00:40.000 Now, first of all, let's look at the art.

00:00:42.000 So, that 2008 Obama image poster is very clearly a mirror of the Hope poster.

00:00:48.000 Right?

00:00:48.000 Let's see the Hope poster, if we can grab that.

00:00:50.000 Right?

00:00:51.000 Upward, looking from Obama, gazing into history, beacon of change and light, all of the half colors going on. 1.00

00:00:57.000 That's obviously what that is a shout-out to.

00:01:00.000 The 2012 Obama image, that is a mirror of this famous JFK portrait.

00:01:05.000 That shows him contemplating his own place in history.

00:01:07.000 So here's the JFK portrait.

00:01:08.000 You can see him kind of looking down, and half of his face is in shadow.

00:01:11.000 And then here's the one from Obama 2012, if we can grab that again.

00:01:15.000 You can see it's very clearly meant to mirror that, including the shadowy kind of face.

00:01:23.000 In 2016, the Trump image mirrors the chiaroscuro of the Godfather, right?

00:01:26.000 It looks like that, right?

00:01:27.000 Let's look at the Trump cover again, and then there's the Godfather.

00:01:30.000 Right?

00:01:31.000 Very clearly that's what they're attempting to do.

00:01:32.000 The media are already attempting to tell their story.

00:01:34.000 Obama was a wonderful, deep, shimmering image of joy, a historic figure. 0.99

00:01:39.000 Trump is a gangster.

00:01:39.000 But even more clearly, Time is attempting to suggest that Trump is somehow indicative of the divide of an America that didn't exist when Obama was on the ballot.

00:01:47.000 In 2012, you'll notice, they simply labeled Obama President.

00:01:50.000 Trump, however, is President of the Divided States of America, as you can see.

00:01:54.000 How do we get divided?

00:01:55.000 Presumably, according to Time, that's due to Trump, or at least because of his supporters.

00:01:59.000 Now, does anyone believe that if 80,000 votes in the swing states had gone the other way and Hillary had been on the cover, Time would have labeled her President of the Divided States?

00:02:07.000 Of course not.

00:02:08.000 All of which shows why Trump regularly slapped the media and why it worked.

00:02:12.000 Most Americans know the country was not a paradisiacal place of whimsy and unity under Barack Obama.

00:02:16.000 We've been divided for at least a decade and Obama exacerbated that divide.

00:02:20.000 Trump didn't spring out of the ground like a demon.

00:02:22.000 He's the product of a divided America Obama helped make happen.

00:02:26.000 But the media continue to purvey the lie that only Republicans divide the country.

00:02:30.000 No wonder nobody trusts them.

00:02:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:32.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:38.000 Alrighty, so much to get to on today's Ben Shapiro show.

00:02:41.000 Ooh, I'm so excited to be back, and it feels so good.

00:02:44.000 It's good to be back in a studio where we're not, you know, flanked by weird curtains from the Holiday Inn Express, but it's good to be back in a normal studio with a normal microphone and all of our capabilities brought to bear, so today's show must therefore be unbelievably spectacular.

00:02:58.000 But before we get to all of the magic and wonder of today's show, and there's plenty of magic and wonder yet to come, we need to give a shout-out to one of our great

00:03:06.000 We're good to go.

00:03:35.000 I don't know.

00:03:53.000 We're good to go.

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00:04:39.000 Okay so I want to begin with just it's been a very weird kind of experience being somebody who didn't vote for either of these candidates because I get to take part in the celebration that Hillary Clinton was not elected at the same time I have some trepidation obviously about Trump being president we're gonna get to all of that in a second but

00:04:56.000 I'm definitely... I do have to laugh when I see these just overdramatic, insane responses by the left.

00:05:02.000 They can't act like adults. 0.63

00:05:04.000 They have to act like spoiled, whining children about the fact that their candidate didn't win.

00:05:08.000 And it's pretty delicious.

00:05:09.000 So, Valerie Jarrett's a perfect example of this.

00:05:11.000 Valerie Jarrett was supposedly Obama's brain.

00:05:15.000 She was kind of his right-hand woman.

00:05:17.000 And she said that this was basically a gut punch this election.

00:05:21.000 We were surprised by the outcome of the election.

00:05:23.000 I'm not sure what the right analogy would be, but like a punch in the stomach, let's say.

00:05:31.000 Soul-crushing might be another description.

00:05:35.000 But that's the democracy that we have.

00:05:38.000 The people get to decide, and the elections matter, and we have to get about the business of doing

00:05:43.000 Our job.

00:05:44.000 Valerie Jarrett, the architect of so much terrible policy, feeling the gut punch of having all of those policies rejected and many of them wiped away, that is absolutely delicious.

00:05:54.000 I love that soul-crushing.

00:05:55.000 It's just, there's a wonderful ring to that.

00:05:58.000 There's a wonderful ring to that.

00:06:00.000 Um, and then there's this article from New York Magazine, and I love New York Magazine because it's got some actually good content on rare occasions, and then it's got stuff like this, this taking very seriously the insanity of the left.

00:06:11.000 So, here is the article.

00:06:13.000 The post-Trump haircut by Heidi Mitchell.

00:06:16.000 For the past 20 years, Juliana Evans, the director of marketing for The Lumberyard, a contemporary performing arts company based in New York City, has had the same flowing brown locks.

00:06:25.000 Her stylist in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

00:06:26.000 has been trimming her hair every 12 months, for as long as she can remember, and always colors it the same medium brown shade.

00:06:31.000 Then came the November 8th election upset.

00:06:35.000 And Evans fell into a downward spiral.

00:06:37.000 I cried for three days, the Atlanta native 45 recalls, which is, by the way, insane. 0.99

00:06:42.000 If you cried for three days over an election result, you're a crazy person.

00:06:45.000 I remember in 2004, when I thought Bush was going to lose, I went and I bought Mozart's Requiem. 0.84

00:06:50.000 And I figured, OK, that would be my my kind of wallowing in the depression.

00:06:54.000 And then when it was over, I'd go out and live my life three days.

00:06:56.000 I felt like it was the worst thing politically that ever happened in my lifetime.

00:07:00.000 Really, the worst thing politically that ever happened in your entire lifetime?

00:07:03.000 You're 45.

00:07:04.000 Like, a lot of bad stuff has happened in your entire lifetime.

00:07:07.000 I mean, that goes all the way back to, like, 1961.

00:07:09.000 So that means that—or at least to 1971.

00:07:12.000 So you've watched, like, American cities burn down.

00:07:15.000 You've watched race riots.

00:07:17.000 In the last few years, you've watched race riots.

00:07:19.000 You've watched terrorist attacks.

00:07:21.000 I mean, you've seen a lot of bad stuff in the United States.

00:07:24.000 And this is the worst thing that happened politically in your lifetime?

00:07:26.000 It was catastrophic.

00:07:28.000 By Friday, she noticed Gray's growing in, so she put on her big girl panties and dragged herself to the drugstore.

00:07:33.000 Yeah, it sounds like she's a real big girl. 0.98

00:07:34.000 Literally without thinking, I grabbed the natural black box by Garnier.

00:07:37.000 She said, I was like, F it!

00:07:38.000 This election, dead in my soul!

00:07:40.000 I think I wanted to do something defiant to feel stronger.

00:07:43.000 Again, this goes back to a critique that I had of Lindsey way back when.

00:07:47.000 Lindsey, of course, you'll remember.

00:07:48.000 She used to do makeup on the show.

00:07:50.000 She's now back in Texas.

00:07:51.000 We all miss Lindsey.

00:07:52.000 But Lindsey had a tattoo on her wrist that said Brave.

00:07:54.000 And I said, that's only something that women can get away with, is a tattoo that says Brave. 0.99

00:07:57.000 If you're a dude, you better have served in Afghanistan to get a tattoo that says brave, and you better have been wounded, right?

00:08:03.000 For women, it's like, I got out of bed this morning, brave tattoo, go! 1.00

00:08:06.000 So this woman feels very special.

00:08:08.000 She had to feel defiant to feel stronger, so she dyed her hair black.

00:08:11.000 She didn't, like, go pump iron or something. 0.96

00:08:13.000 She went and she dyed her hair, and it made her feel stronger.

00:08:16.000 Okay, then.

00:08:17.000 So that sense of malaise is spreading across D.C.

00:08:20.000 as women stare up at that glass ceiling still hanging over them.

00:08:24.000 And contend with a bleep-grabbing kleptocrat moving into the nearby White House there collectively, however subconsciously, making their own statements of rebellion by challenging traditional notions of beauty. 0.97

00:08:33.000 Good idea, let's just be ugly to challenge Trump.

00:08:35.000 That sounds awesome. 0.97

00:08:36.000 See, whenever people say non-traditional, usually when people say non-traditional it means really crappy.

00:08:41.000 When they say things like, we're going to have a non-traditional Christmas, that usually means that we're going to throw out all the nice things about Christmas, and then we're going to like an art show at the Modern Art Museum and stare at a pair of shoes.

00:08:52.000 When somebody says that they're going to challenge traditional notions of beauty, what they really mean by that is we're going to look all fire ugly.

00:08:58.000 That's the idea.

00:09:00.000 Traditional standards of beauty, it turns out they're traditional because people like them, typically.

00:09:06.000 I love this.

00:09:07.000 It says, when you see that much blonde hair on the floor, you know something is going on, says Nicole Butler, creative director and master colorist at Daniel's Salon in DuPont Circle.

00:09:17.000 During the notoriously slow month of November, her salon received a startling number of bookings, with at least three women a day sitting in her chair asking for a drastic change, like cutting off six inches, going black, or going platinum.

00:09:26.000 Usually stuff like this is planned for weeks and put on the books after several consultations, but this was very spontaneous.

00:09:31.000 First of all, is that true?

00:09:33.000 If it's a big change.

00:09:51.000 That's true.

00:09:51.000 So Taylor says you can spend up to $200 or $300.

00:09:54.000 Usually a guy, it's like, for a guy to have a drastic change, usually it's like, you go in there, the guy starts giving you a bad haircut, and then you're like, continue, it's too late, you buzzed me too close.

00:10:02.000 And that's how Jonathan Hay ends up with his current haircut.

00:10:04.000 That's usually how this works.

00:10:09.000 I love this article.

00:10:10.000 They say, clients, especially those over 40, expressed a feeling of loss and uncertainty.

00:10:14.000 Maybe this is some kind of compensation for not getting what we wanted in the election.

00:10:17.000 By changing our hair, we can control the outcome.

00:10:20.000 No, it turns out you can't.

00:10:21.000 It turns out that changing your hair did not control the outcomes.

00:10:24.000 It reminds me of this story that was out of, where was this out of?

00:10:27.000 It was Pakistan or India. 0.72

00:10:28.000 There was a story recently that a man's wife wouldn't sleep with him for 10 years, so he cut off his willy.

00:10:33.000 And I just thought, that seems like a really poor solution to a pretty big problem.

00:10:39.000 That's the opposite of what you want to do there, fella.

00:10:41.000 So these women, I'm going to chop off my hair to show Trump. 1.00

00:10:44.000 Like Trump gives a crap? 1.00

00:10:45.000 Like anybody sitting around going, 1.00

00:10:46.000 Oh my god, look at all these women! 1.00

00:10:47.000 They have platinum blonde hair!

00:10:49.000 They're coming for us!

00:10:50.000 No, Trump, resign!

00:10:52.000 I don't think anybody really is that concerned about a bunch of women dying their hair black.

00:10:58.000 I really don't.

00:10:59.000 Plus, let's face it, women's hair has been getting significantly uglier over the past few years. 1.00

00:11:03.000 I don't know what the hairstylists are saying or why they're doing this, but

00:11:07.000 I know several very good-looking women who have decided for no reason at all to just color their hair like Harley Quinn, and it turns out that that's not nearly as good-looking in real life as it is on the chick who plays Harley Quinn in the movie.

00:11:18.000 Mainly because the chick who plays Harley Quinn in the movie is extremely good-looking. 1.00

00:11:21.000 Okay, so, putting all this aside, the insanity of the left, I want to talk a little bit about

00:11:27.000 About some of the new Trump department picks.

00:11:29.000 Trump has picked some new secretaries, and some of them are quite good.

00:11:32.000 We haven't had a chance to talk about all of them.

00:11:34.000 Secretary of Defense James Mattis is the General James Mattis, Mad Dog Mattis.

00:11:38.000 He's terrific.

00:11:39.000 This is a very good pick.

00:11:41.000 What I really want to talk about, I'm going to do a couple of things next, and this is why you should subscribe so you can see the whole analysis.

00:11:48.000 The big question about Trump.

00:11:49.000 We don't know what he's going to be yet.

00:11:51.000 We just don't.

00:11:51.000 We don't know what he's going to be, because he's been a Rorschach test the entire time.

00:11:54.000 He has a position on immigration, then he switches the position on immigration.

00:11:58.000 He has a position on the environment, then he invites Leonardo DiCaprio to Trump Tower to talk it over about green jobs.

00:12:04.000 Or he invites Al Gore to talk about the environment. 0.99

00:12:07.000 Or he invites Ivanka Trump to come in and say whatever stupid Democrat thing Ivanka Trump is going to say. 1.00

00:12:11.000 I don't care what you say about Trump. 1.00

00:12:12.000 Ivanka's a Democrat.

00:12:13.000 But in any case,

00:12:15.000 We don't know what Trump is going to be.

00:12:16.000 So all we can do is try to read the tea leaves that are in front of us, or at least make our judgments based on the evidence that are in front of us.

00:12:22.000 So this breaks down into really two categories.

00:12:24.000 Category one is the cabinet picks, which I would say 8 out of 10.

00:12:29.000 Very, very solid cabinet picks for President-elect Trump so far.

00:12:32.000 If he picks somebody good for Secretary of State, that'll raise to a 9 out of 10.

00:12:36.000 I think that he's made a lot of very solid cabinet picks, and we'll go through some of those in a minute.

00:12:40.000 You can almost do good Trump, bad Trump this way.

00:12:42.000 His cabinet picks?

00:12:43.000 And then there's what he does and says on Twitter and what he's been doing with these companies, which I think is absolutely abysmal.

00:12:49.000 And who you think Trump is going to be sort of depends.

00:12:52.000 Do you think that Trump is going to be the guy who appoints and delegates?

00:12:54.000 He appoints a bunch of people who he's going to delegate to, and they're going to take care of business, and he's just going to sit there and reap the rewards for having appointed good people?

00:13:02.000 If you're a good manager, by the way, most of the work is done by your subordinates, and maybe that's Trump.

00:13:07.000 Or,

00:13:08.000 Or is Trump going to be the micromanager who keeps sticking his thumb into the pie because he needs the attention, he wants to get the headline, he needs to be the man in control, like he is on Twitter and as he has been with the economy.

00:13:17.000 And so we're going to go through sort of the two sides of this coin and we're going to determine which Trump is the real Trump, which is the one that we ought to watch, or should we watch both and then just take it as it comes, which has been my approach thus far.

00:13:27.000 But let's start with the Cabinet pick.

00:13:28.000 So this is obviously good Trump, okay?

00:13:30.000 A lot of these picks are really good.

00:13:32.000 So here is the new pick for Defense Secretary James Mattis.

00:13:35.000 Here's some of the things he's had to say in the past.

00:13:37.000 We're up against an enemy that means what they say and we should not patronize them.

00:13:50.000 This is a group that deserves no support from anyone, and we should try to shut down its recruiting, shut down its finances, and then work to fight battles of annihilation, not attrition, but annihilation against them.

00:14:03.000 So the first time they meet, the forces that we put against them, there should be basically no survivors.

00:14:10.000 The enemy gets a vote, is the way we put it.

00:14:12.000 You may want a war over, you may declare it over.

00:14:15.000 The enemy may not agree, and you have to deal with that reality.

00:14:19.000 And that's great.

00:14:20.000 Okay, so James Mattis, very good pick for SACDEF.

00:14:22.000 Obviously, this is somebody who takes no prisoners, or if he does, that's only because he failed to shoot them the first time.

00:14:27.000 That apparently is sort of the mentality.

00:14:30.000 Great pick for defense.

00:14:31.000 Here are some other great picks that he's made.

00:14:33.000 I think Tom Price at Health and Human Services is going to be a very good pick.

00:14:36.000 Somebody who actually knows how Obamacare works and hopefully will help dismantle it.

00:14:40.000 Mike Pompeo at CIA will be very good.

00:14:42.000 I think Jeff Sessions as Attorney General will be a very good pick.

00:14:44.000 Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador, I think, is a pretty decent pick.

00:14:47.000 Now, not all of them are great.

00:14:48.000 I think that, obviously, I think Bannon's a bad pick for White House Chief Strategist.

00:14:52.000 I think Mike Flynn at NSA is far too pro-Russian and also very erratic.

00:14:57.000 I think that's not a very good pick, but, I mean, he does know more than certainly the fiction writer who currently occupies that office, Ben Rhodes, who literally wrote fiction and then Obama made him National Security Advisor because, I don't know, he likes his unpublished fiction?

00:15:11.000 But some of these other picks are not so great.

00:15:13.000 Ben Carson at Housing and Urban Development, I think, is a silly pick.

00:15:15.000 But most of these picks are pretty good. 0.62

00:15:17.000 And he just added three yesterday that are quite good.

00:15:20.000 One of them is Scott Pruitt at the EPA.

00:15:22.000 Another is General John Kelly at Homeland Security.

00:15:24.000 And the third is Andy Puzder.

00:15:25.000 He announced that one this morning.

00:15:27.000 I don't know.

00:15:44.000 Which is true.

00:15:44.000 Even if you believe that climate change is man-caused, that doesn't necessarily explain to what extent it's man-caused, doesn't explain how you're going to fix that.

00:15:52.000 The biggest problem with the climate change argument is that you sort of have to have a solution to it, and nobody on the left has a solution other than living 19th century standards of living, and that's unworkable.

00:16:01.000 Pruitt's been an outspoken opponent of EPA over-regulation.

00:16:04.000 He sued the EPA before, and now he's gonna head it up, all of which led Dan Pfeiffer, who is an Obama advisor, to tweet this, which is a great indicator.

00:16:11.000 He said, at the risk of being dramatic, Scott Pruitt at EPA is an existential threat to the planet.

00:16:16.000 At the risk of being dramatic?

00:16:17.000 Well, don't overstate it, boy.

00:16:20.000 An existential threat to the planet.

00:16:22.000 He's like Zod, or the Death Star. 0.91

00:16:25.000 Scott Pruitt of the Death Star.

00:16:26.000 You always knew that the guy who was gonna destroy Earth was gonna be a guy named Scott.

00:16:30.000 You just knew that was coming.

00:16:31.000 So it's just, again, the fact that the left is going nuts over this, it's a great pick.

00:16:36.000 Scott Pruitt's a really good pick.

00:16:37.000 Then there is John Kelly.

00:16:38.000 So Kelly has linked the danger of terrorism to the loose coverage of the southern border.

00:16:42.000 So he says that it's more of a, the reason to police the southern border is much less about the economy and much more about terrorism.

00:16:47.000 He served, obviously, with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:16:49.000 He's a Gold Star father.

00:16:50.000 He's run U.S.

00:16:51.000 Southern Command for years, working with countries south of the border.

00:16:54.000 He will be a far cry from soft foreign policy notions of the Obama administration.

00:16:58.000 There are questions for people whether he's going to be as hard on illegal immigration, unrelated to terrorism, but there's not a lot of indicators he's going to be soft on illegal immigration.

00:17:07.000 And finally today, Trump also named this Labor Secretary, Andy Puzder.

00:17:14.000 So you've heard of him because he's been in the news before.

00:17:16.000 He's the longtime CEO of CKE Restaurants, which is Hardee's and Carl's Jr., and he understands how economics works, and the left is losing their mind because he's not going to cave to the labor unions.

00:17:25.000 He spent his entire career saying to the labor unions, guys, you can protest as much as you want, but flipping a burger, flipping a burger is not exactly a job that requires a $20 an hour salary.

00:17:36.000 And you can pretend that's not the case, but we'll just end up building machines that can do it for less.

00:17:40.000 This is the sort of stuff that really, really ticks off the left, and that's why he's a really good pick.

00:17:45.000 Here's a little clip of perspective labor secretary Puzder.

00:17:51.000 The policy guys call it the welfare cliff.

00:17:55.000 Because you get to a point where if you make a few more dollars, you actually lose thousands of dollars in benefits.

00:18:00.000 And quite honestly, these benefits are essential for some people.

00:18:02.000 They're how they pay the rent, they're how they feed their kids. 0.69

00:18:05.000 So what happens is, we have people who turn down promotions, or if minimum wage goes up, they want fewer hours, they want less hours, because they're afraid they'll go over that cliff.

00:18:15.000 And we really make the distance between dependents and independents too broad to gap.

00:18:20.000 Instead of these handouts, there's something called the Earned Income Tax Credit, which actually could help people better than any of this stuff.

00:18:27.000 Yeah, it's already lifted millions of people out of poverty, and what it is basically is right now it's an annual check, it should be a monthly or maybe a bi-weekly check, but it's a government supplement, so you don't end up in all these complex programs.

00:18:39.000 You know, they're difficult to satisfy, people have to figure them out, they have

00:18:43.000 Okay, so I'm not a big fan of the Earned Income Tax Credit, but Puzder is very up on what businesses need, and that is obviously something that is necessary.

00:18:48.000 So his cabinet picks are quite good.

00:18:49.000 His cabinet picks are quite good.

00:18:51.000 And in just a minute, we're going to get to

00:19:12.000 The other side of the coin, which is, you know, what about all the other things he's doing and which one is the true Trump?

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 12, 2016

Ep. 223 - Left Feels Punched In The Stomach, And They Deserve It

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