The Charlie Kirk Show - March 09, 2021


A $1.9 Trillion Permanent Pandemic Welfare State


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The $1.9 trillion welfare state bill is blitzing through Congress and looks like it will be signed into law. What is the Democrats' true motive? Is it immigration, inflation, and so much more? Buckle up.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, the $1.9 trillion welfare state bill is blitzing through Congress.
00:00:05.000 Looks like it will be signed into law.
00:00:08.000 What is the Democrats' true motive?
00:00:10.000 I'm going to tell you how inflation and immigration are tied together in a unique take that no one else has.
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00:00:37.000 Immigration, inflation, and so much more.
00:00:39.000 Buckle up. 0.91
00:00:39.000 Here we go. 0.91
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00:02:07.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
00:02:09.000 Just had an amazing weekend.
00:02:11.000 We gave four speeches in Albuquerque, New Mexico at my friend Steve Smotherman's Church.
00:02:18.000 What an unbelievable weekend.
00:02:20.000 Packed house at every single speech.
00:02:25.000 I guess you call it a church service.
00:02:27.000 Steve Smotherman is an amazing man, one of the most courageous pastors in the country.
00:02:33.000 In fact, I think the second service yesterday, we had well over 2,700 to 3,000 people there.
00:02:41.000 The service we did on Saturday evening, we had 1,200 people, overflow capacity.
00:02:48.000 And if any of you are interested to hear kind of what was said, I did a different speech in every single service.
00:02:55.000 The first one was the five things I learned in the year of 15 days to slow the spread.
00:03:01.000 In fact, we are coming up on the one, on one week from now, we will be at the one-year anniversary of the 15 days to slow the spread.
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00:03:15.000 It was a great weekend, but I wanted to start there because a lot of people were asking me about what was happening in Congress.
00:03:23.000 You see, what's happening right now is not being covered in a lot of conservative media.
00:03:31.000 There's been a lot of focus in the last few days around Dr. Seuss, and that's not a small story.
00:03:36.000 We covered Dr. Seuss, and we should.
00:03:39.000 We covered the royal family.
00:03:42.000 It seems like that is the number one story.
00:03:44.000 But I think there's something much bigger that is happening, that is looming, that so many people are not talking about.
00:03:56.000 And it's happening right in front of our eyes.
00:03:58.000 It's actually happening in Congress.
00:04:01.000 I got my political start actually in this very studio that I'm broadcasting from, AM 560 The Answer here in Chicago, primarily talking about the danger of big government, deficit spending, how Obama was going to borrow from future generations.
00:04:24.000 He was going to bankrupt our country, kick the can down the road.
00:04:29.000 When Barack Obama took office, the national debt was roughly $7 to $8 trillion.
00:04:35.000 It's now $26 trillion.
00:04:39.000 Both parties have contributed to rising deficits in debt.
00:04:43.000 Debt is the slavery of the free.
00:04:46.000 We have sold our sovereignty, sold our future out to foreign nations and out to inflated dollars.
00:04:55.000 In the last one year, we have borrowed $3 trillion, $3.1 trillion.
00:05:10.000 And now Congress is set to borrow another $1.9 trillion on top of the $4.4 trillion federal budget every single year.
00:05:22.000 I read from Politico playbook, and that's trillion with a T. Congress is about to pass, and President Joe Biden is about to sign into law the greatest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:05:43.000 Lyndon Baines Johnson, a racist president who actually became a United States senator largely because of election shenanigans in Jones Wells County, Texas,
00:05:58.000 one of the most corrupt, morally questionable politicians in American history who addicted tens of millions of people to government welfare and dependency through his great society program.
00:06:17.000 The bill extends far beyond stimulus payments and unemployment benefits that have received most of the attention.
00:06:24.000 It would expand the child tax credit and earned income tax credit, provide more generous support for child care expenses, and bolster Obamacare to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
00:06:36.000 The government expansion is so broad that the Washington Post, reflecting the sensibility of most liberals, says it augurs, quote, seismic shifts in United States politics because the pandemic made Americans more pro-big government and more anti-austerity, perhaps permanently.
00:06:57.000 Politico continues by saying, meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal editorial page a little late to the fight decries, quote, the COVID welfare state and warns that the $1.9 trillion Democrat bill provides a guaranteed income unlinked to work.
00:07:17.000 We already have tens of millions of people that are government dependent, that are taxpayer dependent.
00:07:26.000 That's the correct way to phrase it.
00:07:28.000 But this bill is so massive, it is so all-encompassing, it's hard to even comprehend the enormity of it.
00:07:41.000 Now, when I go through this piece by piece, more generous support for child care expenses and the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit, that is a small part of the bill and one that I don't necessarily philosophically oppose.
00:07:55.000 I think we should be unafraid to tell people to have more children and make it financially easier to have children in our country.
00:08:02.000 We are on the verge of a population collapse.
00:08:04.000 We are on the verge of having 500,000 less children this year than last year.
00:08:11.000 And insofar we can make it economically easier to have children and not go to Planned Parenthood, but instead have another one or two kids, fine.
00:08:21.000 Some conservatives disagree with that.
00:08:23.000 I think that the family is the most proven institution in American history, but that is not what this bill is about.
00:08:30.000 That is a small part of the bill.
00:08:33.000 A majority of the bill is about direct cash payments, bailouts for Democrat states that don't need it.
00:08:40.000 Meanwhile, California is running a surplus.
00:08:42.000 You might say, how can California possibly be running a surplus?
00:08:48.000 California is running a surplus because the Zoom and Skype economy has enriched Menlo Park like never before.
00:09:01.000 Politico continues: As the bill moves through the House for a final vote this week, two big questions are on our minds: How did Democrats win this fight over welfare while barely firing a shot?
00:09:14.000 And can they do it again?
00:09:18.000 The main reason why Democrats have won this with very little to any resistance is that most Americans would rather be taken care of than be free.
00:09:36.000 It's a difficult thing to talk about, but the idea of self-reliance, saving money, being independent, being free of taxpayer assistance is losing popularity.
00:09:51.000 Instead, people say, where's my cash?
00:09:54.000 Where's my check?
00:09:56.000 Now, this bill will also send direct payments to the Parkland shooter, the Boston bomber, Dylan Roof from South Carolina.
00:10:08.000 They're eligible for $1,400 checks from prison.
00:10:14.000 This is according to our producer, and so Media Matters.
00:10:17.000 If I'm misstating this, you can blame him.
00:10:19.000 Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton did mention it.
00:10:24.000 I only say that because last week we got entangled in this whole thing about voting and all that, but I believe this to be true.
00:10:30.000 Two senators have tweeted about it: Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton.
00:10:33.000 What are the Democrats' true intentions here?
00:10:37.000 I have a contrarian theory here of why the Democrats actually want to spend so much money we don't have, inflate our currency, and indebt our nation.
00:10:49.000 Because there is only a few solutions when you go this path.
00:10:54.000 And one of those solutions benefits Democrats directly.
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00:12:05.000 Why inflation?
00:12:07.000 Why are the Democrats rushing to spend $1.9 trillion that we don't need, that we don't have, that will assuredly inflate our currency?
00:12:16.000 The COVID welfare state.
00:12:19.000 Franklin Delano Roosevelt had the massive social welfare program called, not the Great Society, the New Deal.
00:12:27.000 That's right, of course.
00:12:28.000 LBJ had the Great Society.
00:12:31.000 FDR started massive Great Depression welfare programs that did not reduce poverty, that did not get us out of the Great Depression.
00:12:39.000 World War II got us out of the Great Depression.
00:12:41.000 Massive manufacturing investment pent-up demand post-war and almost no world competitors allowed the 1950s to be a time of peace and prosperity.
00:12:52.000 Lyndon Baines Johnson got the Civil Rights Act passed and in return wanted a massive increase in the social welfare state.
00:13:00.000 We have spent over $15 trillion on the war on poverty and poverty has won.
00:13:06.000 The federal government will spend over $700 billion a year to fight poverty every single year.
00:13:13.000 State and local governments spend about $350 billion a year.
00:13:19.000 That amounts to, on average, over $61,000 per poor family a year of three gets spent already.
00:13:29.000 That's without any additional assistance.
00:13:33.000 That's without any of the multi-trillion dollar Chinese coronavirus relief packages that we have passed in the last year.
00:13:40.000 And we passed two of them of PPP money, of direct cash payments, of $75 million for the Kennedy Center, of $50 million to NPR, it might be $70 million to NPR.
00:13:55.000 And what's not reported in the media is that if you get SNAP or if you get food stamp assistance, if you are on welfare, which is a form of just direct cash payments, or if you are in government taxpayer-supported housing, none of that was changed during the virus.
00:14:14.000 You are still receiving your taxpayer-funded benefits.
00:14:18.000 However, politicians who are fast to spend money they do not have to recklessly endanger future generations spent a trillion dollars plus back last spring of which we opposed another trillion back in December of which we opposed.
00:14:38.000 And now they want to spend another one point nine trillion dollars on top of the four point four trillion, despite over a trillion dollars back in December that was not spent.
00:14:49.000 Now, you want me to prove to you just linguistically that we're already living through inflation?
00:14:57.000 If you have become desensitized to the term trillion, inflation is already here.
00:15:05.000 If $1 trillion becomes something that you throw around without any sort of reservation, inflation is here.
00:15:14.000 You haven't just felt it yet.
00:15:16.000 And I am of the opinion that the way that we calculate inflation is completely and totally inaccurate.
00:15:23.000 Things that really drive working families into debt, medical debt, education, they have been going up well past the publicized rate of inflation.
00:15:37.000 But there is a sinister reason and a cynical reason and a political reason why the Democrats are doing this.
00:15:49.000 There is a question, why are Republicans not even going to the motions opposing this?
00:15:55.000 And the answer is understandable.
00:15:57.000 After January 6th, Democrats have been on offense and Republicans have been on defense.
00:16:07.000 And a lot of Republicans have felt shy in opposing.
00:16:12.000 They have felt paralyzed in mobilizing any sort of public displays of opposition.
00:16:19.000 You understand under regular political circumstances, if January the 6th did not happen the way it did, there would be hundreds of thousands of people in the streets peacefully opposing this multi-trillion dollar stimulus bill.
00:16:36.000 Cash payments to the Boston bomber and the Parkland shooter, $1,400.
00:16:43.000 Bailouts to blue states, which basically is a penalty to states like Florida and Tennessee.
00:16:51.000 But there is a multi-generational play that the Democrats are making here.
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00:17:51.000 I read from Politico, quote, the conventional wisdom is sound.
00:17:56.000 The twin crises of disease and recession boosted support for government intervention.
00:18:00.000 Let me just stop right there.
00:18:01.000 The crisis is not the crisis of the virus.
00:18:05.000 The virus is a separate problem that therapeutics, social distancing, people acting with their own agency and liberty and taking the virus seriously of how it impact their own livelihood was something we understood since May of last year.
00:18:25.000 And Florida opened restaurants in May of last year and never closed them again.
00:18:29.000 They had schools open, and they have the lowest rates per capita in the entire region and some of the lowest in the entire country with the second oldest population in the country.
00:18:42.000 The crisis is not a crisis of the disease, Politico.
00:18:46.000 It's a crisis of the lockdowns.
00:18:48.000 This is a self-inflicted crisis.
00:18:52.000 This is a self-inflicted problem.
00:18:55.000 We did this to ourselves. 1.00
00:18:57.000 The virus was done to us by China. 0.99
00:19:00.000 How China has been allowed to get away with this is a moral outrage. 0.99
00:19:04.000 It really is. 0.98
00:19:06.000 They should pay.
00:19:07.000 They won't.
00:19:08.000 The only thing they're going to pay is Joe Biden's family.
00:19:14.000 Boosted support for government intervention well beyond what has been tolerated for decades.
00:19:20.000 Donald Trump and the Republicans' own support for the last two bills depolarized the fight over this one.
00:19:25.000 I do agree with that.
00:19:26.000 That is a very good point by Politico.
00:19:28.000 It is.
00:19:29.000 The fact that Republicans did not fight on the prior stimulus or at least making it more targeted or doing it in bite-sized form absolutely made this bill easier to pass.
00:19:40.000 Politico is exactly right.
00:19:42.000 But Biden's opposition was distracted by internal divisions.
00:19:46.000 January 6th, impeachment, McCarthy versus Cheney, Trump versus McConnell, and the conservative media was distracted by juicier fare than tax policy.
00:19:54.000 I think Politico is not wrong here.
00:19:56.000 I think they're wrong with their description of this being a crisis of the disease.
00:19:59.000 It's a crisis of our own making of the lockdowns.
00:20:01.000 But I think Politico actually makes some two very good points here.
00:20:05.000 So I'm going to build that out, but I want to complete the point that I teased with in the last two segments, which is why are Democrats doing this?
00:20:15.000 Many people email us.
00:20:16.000 They say, don't the Democrats know better?
00:20:18.000 Don't they know the laws of economics?
00:20:21.000 They know this is going to cause inflation.
00:20:23.000 They know this will not create a stimulus for the economy.
00:20:28.000 Why?
00:20:30.000 So the Democrats know this will create inflation.
00:20:34.000 What is inflation?
00:20:36.000 It's when the amount of dollars in the economy outpaces the production, the growth of goods and services.
00:20:43.000 That is the most basic way I can explain inflation. 0.57
00:20:47.000 Inflation and taxes, according to Vladimir Lenin himself, is the best way to destroy a middle class and revolutionize an economy.
00:20:57.000 Inflation is something that almost every single dictator or tyrant uses as a strategy or a tactic to keep themselves in power.
00:21:08.000 Inflation is something people fear.
00:21:11.000 America played with inflation back in the late 70s under Jimmy Carter, where we famously had stagflation, low economic growth, and very high inflation.
00:21:24.000 As a response, you must adjust interest rates.
00:21:29.000 What is interest?
00:21:31.000 Interest is the price of money.
00:21:33.000 It's the price you pay to borrow.
00:21:36.000 So you must adjust interest rates to make it more expensive to go borrow money.
00:21:43.000 Back under Jimmy Carter, do you know what interest rates were?
00:21:46.000 22%.
00:21:48.000 22%.
00:21:49.000 It got high as 26% at certain times.
00:21:53.000 Inflation was so bad that in certain parts of the country, when you went and bought, let's say, a bag of fertilizer that would sit on the shelf for a month and a half, it had a longer shelf life.
00:22:06.000 There would be five or six prices written on the side of the bag of fertilizer that were crossed off.
00:22:14.000 Prices were changing so quickly that when you would go to a Home Depot or the equivalent of such back in the 1970s and you bought a bag of fertilizer, there would be six numbers listed and five of them crossed out because the price of fertilizer or the money supply was increasing so dramatically to keep up with it for the Home Depot or the equivalent to make money, they had to keep on crossing off the prices.
00:22:40.000 So inflation is a very real threat.
00:22:42.000 Now, we've changed the way that we tabulate inflation in our country.
00:22:47.000 And Oren Cass from American Compass does a phenomenal job.
00:22:50.000 In fact, I would love to have him on our podcast and talk to him about this.
00:22:54.000 He's been terrific, where he argues we're already living through an inflation cycle.
00:22:59.000 And I completely agree with that.
00:23:02.000 But even under the tabulation or the methodology that is used by the current economists, we are going to hit inflation.
00:23:10.000 The Democrats know this.
00:23:13.000 So how do you solve inflation?
00:23:17.000 Well, you can solve inflation by raising rates, or you can solve inflation by producing more, growing your way out of an inflation cycle.
00:23:27.000 But there's one other way that you can keep inflation in check.
00:23:35.000 More human beings.
00:23:38.000 More people.
00:23:41.000 And no, that doesn't mean that the Democrats are going to go on a big plan saying that we want to limit abortions and we want to expand family creation.
00:23:54.000 Instead, the multi-trillion dollar push that Democrats are making right now justifies, in their mind, a loose, open, and porous southern border.
00:24:10.000 They are going to make an economic argument very soon, and you heard it here first, and Senator Dick Durbin will do this.
00:24:19.000 And no one's talking about this, and how they will keep inflation in check if we just allow another 5 million people from Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and El Salvador to come in our country.
00:24:30.000 You might say, how is that going to keep inflation in check?
00:24:32.000 The more people that are trading with dollars, all of a sudden it dilutes the potential money velocity.
00:24:44.000 So you have 330 million people that are trading with dollars and 335 million people that are trading with dollars.
00:24:54.000 Basic supply and demand will tell you that that should keep inflation at least a little bit in check.
00:25:00.000 Now, of course, what they're not talking about is, will those 5 million new people be consumers, producers, or takers?
00:25:11.000 Studies show that more times than not, they will go on government dependency and they will take low-wage work.
00:25:17.000 And this is where the corporate class comes in.
00:25:20.000 This is why the Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to see a $2 trillion stimulus bill.
00:25:27.000 Because the Chamber, and this is the way that we have reconfigured our economy, is that almost all, and this is why I think we're on the verge of a very, very dangerous economic trend where almost all of our value is in highly speculative app development,
00:25:43.000 Silicon Valley and Menlo Park-based technology pipe dreams and consumer-driven push-delivery services.
00:26:00.000 And very little of our economy is in hardware production development.
00:26:06.000 President Trump famously hit a nerve when he talked about this, when he talked about reinvigorating a manufacturing class, and he was exactly right.
00:26:15.000 If you are not making physical stuff as at least a part of your economic pie, then you are nothing more than participating in a massive labor arbitrage.
00:26:27.000 So let's say we bring in 5 million people from Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico in the next year.
00:26:32.000 It's probably a high number.
00:26:34.000 Let's just play it out.
00:26:37.000 Why does the Chamber of Commerce want that?
00:26:40.000 Well, first of all, wages don't have to go up.
00:26:45.000 What better way to keep inflation in check by having 5 million people who are willing to keep a black worker in Philadelphia or a blue-collar worker in Erie, Pennsylvania from getting $35 an hour, and instead, someone who is willing to cut the wages, therefore keep us against inflation. 0.60
00:27:13.000 That's the wrong way to prevent against inflation. 0.60
00:27:16.000 Wage growth is a healthy price index increase.
00:27:22.000 It's how middle-class families are able to get ahead.
00:27:26.000 So instead, we have the worst possible pressure.
00:27:30.000 Here's what you're going to see.
00:27:31.000 Rising prices and stagnating wages.
00:27:35.000 When in reality, we should see lowering prices and rising wages.
00:27:39.000 And we were actually seeing that for a brief moment under the Trump presidency.
00:27:43.000 We saw a blue-collar boom.
00:27:46.000 Short-lived, obviously, because of our self-induced worst mistake in the history of Western society, lockdown.
00:27:54.000 But the Democrats are now saying, we'll spend a bunch of money we do not have, which will be a massive bailout to the blue states.
00:28:03.000 All of our crony donors are going to be very happy.
00:28:06.000 All of our corporate interests are going to be thrilled.
00:28:09.000 All of the blue states that we represent, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, are going to get the money they need, Illinois, especially, to subsidize their unsustainable pension model, which is a gift to the public sector teacher unions, the SCIU, and APSCAMI.
00:28:27.000 And then all of the potential downside can be solved by their actual pipe dream, which is the southern border is nothing more than a suggestion, and we must bring in millions of people a year because we have all these problems. 1.00
00:28:47.000 The only way to solve it is with a steady stream of foreigners coming into America. 1.00
00:28:54.000 That's their game plan. 1.00
00:28:55.000 Why? 0.68
00:28:56.000 Because those people are more likely to vote Democrat.
00:29:00.000 It's that simple.
00:29:02.000 We are living through a massive Democrat power grab.
00:29:09.000 All roads lead to the Democrats' desire to control this country permanently.
00:29:16.000 And a couple of questions I want to explore is where are the Republicans?
00:29:24.000 Why are they so silent on this?
00:29:27.000 And what can we possibly do about this?
00:29:31.000 The Democrats want one-party rule, $350 billion going to the states.
00:29:38.000 But the Democrats are actually creating a problem intentionally.
00:29:44.000 They're trying to solve a crisis by creating a crisis that will make them more important and accomplish their true desire.
00:29:54.000 Control everything always.
00:29:56.000 Where are the Republicans?
00:29:58.000 We are living through the most massive increase of a welfare state in our country since Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:30:06.000 Multiply bigger, exponentially bigger is the better way to say that, than anything that Obama even tried to do.
00:30:15.000 And yet, where we are is we have a Republican Party that is sort of indifferent to the idea of spending all of this money, at least go through the motions of trying to oppose this.
00:30:34.000 Now, the counter argument that is made, and I spent some time with some members of Congress recently, is that, well, they're not even passing this through committees.
00:30:43.000 We don't get to have any markups.
00:30:44.000 We get to have no say whatsoever.
00:30:46.000 And there is some truth to that, by the way.
00:30:49.000 Where the conservative think tanks have gone wrong is they think that we're still in a policy debate.
00:30:54.000 They think that this is some form of a Socratic seminar where you can present your arguments and the best ideas will win, or the Democrats will give you some form of a platform to air your grievances.
00:31:05.000 None of that is true.
00:31:08.000 Instead, this is brute force politics.
00:31:12.000 This is, we have more votes than you do, and it's going to pass. 1.00
00:31:16.000 Sit down and shut up. 0.92
00:31:18.000 Now, the Democrats are participating in a very risky bet. 0.98
00:31:24.000 And Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell should be saying this on television every single day.
00:31:30.000 This is what they should be saying.
00:31:32.000 The Democrats know they're going to lose in 2022 unless they change the rules of the game so dramatically that they think they're never going to lose again.
00:31:43.000 That's what HR1 is all about.
00:31:45.000 That's what this stimulus is all about.
00:31:47.000 That's what every single piece of legislation is.
00:31:50.000 They're trying to cement all of their priorities and power permanently, turn the entire country into the state of Oregon, California, where there really isn't much of a contest when it comes to elections.
00:32:05.000 The Democrats know under normal and regular circumstances, they are going to lose big in 2022.
00:32:16.000 They're going to lose massively.
00:32:19.000 Members of the House that I have talked to that I've been texting with, the Democrats are all but admitting this.
00:32:24.000 And so they're saying, you know what?
00:32:26.000 We are going to set the table in a way that will basically say you must have permanently opened borders.
00:32:37.000 We are not going to allow anything but mail-in voting and automatic registration for every single human being out there.
00:32:46.000 Go through the Bureau of Prisons, go through the DMV, register everyone to vote.
00:32:52.000 And if you dare challenge it, we're going to get in your way.
00:32:58.000 And so the Republicans are really nowhere to be found.
00:33:07.000 And this is a great opportunity, in my personal opinion, for Donald Trump to hit the road now.
00:33:15.000 I believe this is a great opportunity for Donald Trump to start doing public rallies again.
00:33:23.000 The leaders in Congress have demonstrated they cannot command any form of a stable media narrative in the midst of this Democrat power grab.
00:33:36.000 I know a lot of people have Trump fatigue.
00:33:38.000 I know a lot of people are tired of seeing and hearing him.
00:33:42.000 I thought his CPAC speech was excellent.
00:33:46.000 He's all we got right now to reinvigorate the American grassroots against this unprecedented power grab of HR1, HR5 stimulus.
00:33:56.000 He has got to get back on the road now.
00:34:00.000 Go to West Virginia.
00:34:02.000 Invite Joe Manchin to your rally.
00:34:06.000 Have 50,000 people there and say, Joe, we're going to be your biggest fan as long as you hold the line against reconciliation on HR1.
00:34:15.000 So people say, what can we do?
00:34:17.000 The best thing we can do is get Donald Trump back on the road to be a foil to this Leviathan of a Democrat Party, this power grab like we've never seen before.
00:34:32.000 If he hits the road, he could stop a lot of this because the Democrats are currently going unchallenged.
00:34:42.000 Thanks so much, everybody.
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00:34:51.000 God bless.
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