The Michael Knowles Show - March 03, 2020


Ep. 504 - Biden’s Super Monday


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Mayor Pete Buttigiegiegieg endorses Joe Biden. Amy Klobuchar drops out. Chris Matthews drops out of the race. Beto O Rourke drops out? What seems like centuries ago, no one cares.

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00:00:30.400 Amy Klobuchar drops out of the race.
00:00:33.020 Chris Matthews drops out of MSNBC.
00:00:35.780 And Joe Biden has a Super Monday.
00:00:38.360 We will examine how the Dems are pulling out all the stops to stop Bernie before Super Tuesday.
00:00:43.480 Then MSNBC pushes out Chris Matthews after 20 years.
00:00:47.940 We will take a look at the bogus Me Too reasoning 0.99
00:00:50.900 and then go deeper to what's really behind the ouster.
00:00:54.180 All that and so much more.
00:00:55.280 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:18.820 Amy Klobuchar drops out yesterday, endorses Joe Biden.
00:02:22.200 Pete Buttigieg drops out two days ago, endorses Joe Biden.
00:02:27.060 Beto O'Rourke drops out what seems like centuries ago, endorses Joe Biden.
00:02:32.220 Nobody really cares, but he's going to do it anyway.
00:02:34.360 Susan Rice didn't run for president, didn't drop out, did lie to Americans about Benghazi,
00:02:40.040 but she also endorsed Joe Biden yesterday.
00:02:43.340 Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, forget about him?
00:02:46.520 I'd forgotten about him too.
00:02:47.580 Now, unfortunately, I got to remember him because he endorsed Joe Biden.
00:02:52.200 Sleepy Joe sweeping up all of these big, big endorsements.
00:02:58.540 We will get to what it means.
00:02:59.960 First, let's turn to Mayor Pete, who went out, campaigned with Biden himself, and endorsed
00:03:07.240 the former vice president.
00:03:08.520 Politics at its best is more than policy.
00:03:11.180 It's soul craft.
00:03:12.020 And so it's fitting that I am joining to support a campaign that speaks so often about the soul
00:03:16.900 of this nation.
00:03:18.060 I don't believe the world is divided up into people who are all good and people who are
00:03:22.300 all bad.
00:03:22.880 I don't believe that how you voted in the past makes you good or bad.
00:03:27.200 I believe that each of us can have good things and bad things brought out of us.
00:03:31.880 And that's why leadership is so important.
00:03:34.040 I'm looking for a leader.
00:03:35.100 I'm looking for a president who will draw out what is best in each of us.
00:03:40.280 And I'm encouraging everybody who is part of my campaign to join me because we have
00:03:45.300 found that leader in vice president, soon to be president, Joe Biden.
00:03:51.860 Mayor Pete's endorsement is just like his campaign.
00:03:55.540 Contrived, cliche, and secretly radical.
00:03:59.720 Right?
00:03:59.960 It's, it's kind of an empty endorsement.
00:04:02.220 We need politics to unify us, to bring us together.
00:04:05.680 We, it's, we're not all bad people are all good people.
00:04:08.500 We're, we're people and we need politics and politicians do politics.
00:04:13.160 And we found a politician who does politics in Joe Biden forward together, unity, unity
00:04:18.740 forward Biden.
00:04:20.920 Okay.
00:04:21.180 So you just say, all right, whatever.
00:04:22.820 You're just, Pete Buttigieg just likes the way that his voice sounds.
00:04:26.580 So that's probably the best thing he's got going for him as a candidate is his voice
00:04:29.700 has a sort of nice tone to it.
00:04:32.120 He uses a bunch of cliches.
00:04:33.720 And then there's, there's that little secret radicalism, right?
00:04:36.600 The way he opens up is he says, politics is soul craft and, and unity and Joe Biden and
00:04:42.360 togetherness and moving forward and together.
00:04:44.420 You say, hold on, wait, go.
00:04:45.560 What did you just say?
00:04:46.660 Go back to that first one about the unity.
00:04:49.580 No, no, no.
00:04:49.860 Before that, about the, about the togetherness.
00:04:51.980 No, after that.
00:04:53.180 Oh, the soul craft.
00:04:54.460 Now, this is something that I think the left really believes.
00:05:00.980 I think most left-wingers believe it.
00:05:03.020 Pete Buttigieg just gives you a little glimpse into it.
00:05:05.320 They believe that the purpose of politics is not to just sort of get along together in
00:05:09.860 civil society or to defend a tradition that we've all inherited or to protect the rights
00:05:14.040 that are given to us in our constitution, in our laws that are protected by our institutions.
00:05:19.140 No, it's soul craft takes on this religious aspect because for the left, the state has
00:05:27.960 all the power, all the, is due all of the reverence of a religious institution.
00:05:35.480 And they believe that human nature is infinitely malleable.
00:05:38.380 So, you know, conservatives tend to believe that the human nature is nature, right?
00:05:42.160 You're born with it.
00:05:42.840 It's set.
00:05:43.440 It's broken.
00:05:44.420 It's never going to be perfected.
00:05:46.100 We're never going back to the Garden of Eden.
00:05:47.580 And the left doesn't think that.
00:05:49.380 They think with just a little bit more time or a little bit more money, they will be able
00:05:52.840 to perfect human nature, will end up in utopia.
00:05:55.280 That's, the Marxist program was to perfect human nature.
00:05:58.560 It's every leftist utopian program.
00:06:00.580 And that's what Pete Buttigieg believes as well, which is unsurprising.
00:06:04.600 You know, he's, he talks like a moderate, he walks like a moderate, he endorses like a
00:06:08.900 moderate, but every so often you get a glimpse of that radicalism, which really is the
00:06:13.700 generational shift.
00:06:14.700 They talk in this, uh, in, in this endorsement that how the, the real difference between Joe
00:06:21.280 and Buttigieg is generational.
00:06:23.580 Well, I guess that's true, but the sad thing is if Pete Buttigieg is the moderate of his
00:06:28.740 generation, it shows you just how much further to the left the millennials have gone.
00:06:33.540 So Joe Biden is very excited to get this, uh, this endorsement.
00:06:38.040 So he comes up there and as always just flatters and flatters and flatters.
00:06:42.800 If you've supported a man of enormous integrity, a fellow who, uh, has as much, uh, moral courage
00:06:50.980 as he has physical courage, I really mean that.
00:06:54.220 Like Bo, he, uh, he had a backbone, like he has a backbone, like a ramrod.
00:06:59.560 He, I really mean this and think about it.
00:07:02.580 If Pete had been around another six years, I wouldn't be standing here.
00:07:06.340 Pete be standing.
00:07:07.380 I'd be endorsing Pete.
00:07:09.140 No, I really mean it.
00:07:10.580 I really mean it.
00:07:11.220 Yeah.
00:07:11.800 So when you have to set off a certain statement that you're saying by saying, no, no, I really
00:07:17.280 mean that.
00:07:18.540 What you are implying is that for other things that you say, you don't really mean them.
00:07:24.340 It's like when people say, Hey, look, I'm going to be honest.
00:07:26.740 You say, well, what were you before where you were lying to me before, but now you're going
00:07:29.620 to be honest.
00:07:30.140 Okay.
00:07:30.980 If you have to set off the true statements by saying, no, no, I really mean that.
00:07:36.280 Then I have no reason to believe that you really believe the thing you say you mean
00:07:41.080 right now, because it means that you don't mean many of your statements.
00:07:45.000 So it's very possible that you don't mean the statement.
00:07:47.700 No, no, I really mean that.
00:07:48.800 But this is Joe Biden's problem.
00:07:50.400 So it's not that Joe Biden is, I don't think he's a nefarious, you know, pre-planned sociopath
00:08:01.740 liar.
00:08:02.600 I think he has no regard for the truth.
00:08:05.120 I think he doesn't care about the truth at all.
00:08:06.640 And so he just flatters and ingratiates and glad hands and compliments.
00:08:10.720 That's every photo of him.
00:08:12.260 You know, all the photos of him with women.
00:08:13.880 People tried to make it out that they were really lascivious.
00:08:17.600 I don't think he's lascivious or lustful or something like that.
00:08:20.320 I think he's just a flattering, oily politician who's always trying to form an intimate connection
00:08:25.400 with people.
00:08:26.400 And as a result of that, if you pay attention for two seconds, you realize you can't believe
00:08:29.800 a word that the guy says.
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00:09:48.040 So Joe Biden is the nominee.
00:09:52.440 Not the nominee yet.
00:09:53.540 He's the front runner.
00:09:54.300 We'll see.
00:09:54.680 Maybe after Super Tuesday, he'll become the nominee.
00:09:56.980 But he is the front runner.
00:09:58.000 He is on a straight path to the nomination.
00:10:00.640 And here he is in all his glory at a rally yesterday.
00:10:05.640 Democrats, behold your leader.
00:10:08.240 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:10:10.920 All men and women created by the gold. 0.97
00:10:13.280 You know the thing.
00:10:15.240 All men and women.
00:10:16.300 And you know the thing.
00:10:19.540 Periclean.
00:10:20.960 Lincoln-esque.
00:10:22.100 Wow.
00:10:22.680 What soaring rhetoric.
00:10:25.380 He's like Reagan and Lincoln and Pericles combined.
00:10:29.880 That's the best they've got.
00:10:33.480 He can't even recite one of the most famous lines in American history.
00:10:39.120 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:10:40.920 And you know, you know the thing.
00:10:42.520 If Democrats nominate this guy, I never want to hear another word, not a peep, about how
00:10:48.000 President Trump talks.
00:10:50.160 It's not just once or twice.
00:10:51.440 This is what Joe does all the time.
00:10:53.240 Biden had another greatest hit on Sunday when he was wrapping up an interview with Chris
00:10:57.960 Wallace on Fox News, one of the most famous journalists in the country, and he couldn't
00:11:02.600 remember Chris's name.
00:11:04.220 We'll see who's sleepy.
00:11:07.220 Mr. Vice President, thank you.
00:11:09.460 Thanks for your time.
00:11:10.280 Please come back in less than 13 years, sir.
00:11:14.180 All right, Chuck.
00:11:15.220 Thank you very much.
00:11:16.740 All right.
00:11:17.640 It's Chris.
00:11:18.400 But anyway.
00:11:19.240 I just did Chris.
00:11:20.540 No, no.
00:11:21.240 I just did Chuck.
00:11:23.080 I tell you what, man.
00:11:24.100 These are back to back.
00:11:25.400 Anyway.
00:11:25.960 No, it's OK.
00:11:26.460 I can do it early in the morning, too.
00:11:28.420 Safe travels on the champagne trail.
00:11:30.600 Thank you, sir.
00:11:33.220 Oh, gosh.
00:11:35.040 We'll see who's sleepy.
00:11:36.920 OK.
00:11:37.440 I think we've seen who's sleepy.
00:11:40.060 The problem here is not even that Joe Biden messed up Chris Wallace's name.
00:11:44.640 I mean, you should know who you're talking to in an interview, or you should have the
00:11:47.500 good sense just not to say the person's name.
00:11:49.460 But the real trouble is what he said at the end.
00:11:51.840 He goes, oh, yeah, no, Chris, man.
00:11:53.980 Yeah, it's just did him back to back, and it's so early.
00:11:57.200 I don't know how you guys do it.
00:12:01.140 Joe Biden is saying that he does not have the energy and stamina of a TV newsman, but
00:12:07.200 he wants to become the president of the United States, the leader of the free world.
00:12:12.060 That is not a great pitch for your own candidacy.
00:12:16.200 Look, if you just say, oh, sorry, I forgot your name, Chris.
00:12:18.080 Look, all you guys look the same to me.
00:12:19.360 I got to go.
00:12:19.760 I got to go hit the campaign trail.
00:12:21.080 You make a little joke about it or something.
00:12:22.620 That's fine.
00:12:23.160 But to say, gosh, it's so early in the morning.
00:12:24.840 How do you guys do it?
00:12:26.440 I don't know, man.
00:12:27.200 You're supposed to do it if you become the president.
00:12:29.140 So maybe we should rethink this whole thing.
00:12:32.460 My favorite part now is that the Democrats have three real options.
00:12:37.480 Elizabeth Warren is not going to get out of the race. 1.00
00:12:39.500 We can get into why that is in just a second.
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00:12:50.420 So my favorite part about all of this is that the Democrats now have three real options.
00:12:56.340 The options are the corrupt dotard, the sort of old man who can't remember the Declaration 1.00
00:13:04.120 of Independence.
00:13:04.860 He can't remember what the interviewer's name is.
00:13:08.480 That's one.
00:13:10.200 The doddering communist.
00:13:12.020 That's two.
00:13:12.940 And then the billionaire philanthropist, finance, media mogul, who served three mostly successful
00:13:20.540 terms as mayor of New York City, one of the world's most important cities.
00:13:24.700 And the first two are winning.
00:13:27.360 They actually, I'm not saying Mike Bloomberg is a good candidate.
00:13:30.780 In many ways, he's like the worst candidate possible.
00:13:32.580 But just compared to Bernie and Biden, Mike Bloomberg has actually accomplished quite a lot in his
00:13:39.440 life.
00:13:39.780 He's actually an intelligent man, even though he gets his worldview pretty wrong.
00:13:44.580 And they're going to give it to the guy.
00:13:46.000 Joe Biden ran for president in 1988, had to pull out because he told very specific lies
00:13:51.540 about his academic record and other things.
00:13:54.400 Ran for president again 20 years later in 2008, didn't do any better.
00:13:58.020 I don't think he won a single delegate either time.
00:13:59.980 Now he's running again 12 years after that, total flop, a guy who accomplished very little
00:14:05.500 in the U.S. Senate.
00:14:06.720 And you have Bernie Sanders, who got kicked off a commune for being too lazy.
00:14:09.980 Bernie Sanders, who never had a job until he was 40 years old.
00:14:12.540 Bernie Sanders, who's never effected really any serious legislation.
00:14:17.360 And then you got Mike Bloomberg, who's actually made something of himself, actually was a,
00:14:20.820 he was an okay mayor of New York.
00:14:22.340 He was fine.
00:14:23.000 You know, he's relatively successful, got three terms, big career.
00:14:26.860 And they're, the Democrats are just like, absolutely not.
00:14:28.960 No way do we want that successful guy.
00:14:31.300 Not a chance.
00:14:32.900 Donald Trump is loving this.
00:14:35.100 The president is having such a great time.
00:14:37.480 He loves the chaos.
00:14:38.940 Here is President Trump's reaction to Pete Buttigieg's endorsement of Joe Biden.
00:14:44.280 Buttigieg, so do you think that will change?
00:14:45.720 Yeah, yeah.
00:14:46.380 Well, he just, Buttigieg just went out and said something and probably they'll say, hey, look,
00:14:52.180 if I win, I'll put you in the administration.
00:14:53.900 That's called quid pro quo, right?
00:14:56.680 Quid pro quo.
00:14:58.800 And they probably said, hey, listen, if I win, I'll give you an endorsement, but will
00:15:04.000 you take me in the administration?
00:15:06.040 Now, I'm sure like, I'm sure nothing like that has ever happened, right?
00:15:09.360 But that's the way it seems to go.
00:15:11.660 But no, it's rigged against Bernie.
00:15:13.240 There's no question about it.
00:15:14.360 Oh, man, what a great, what a great response.
00:15:19.060 He makes a good point, right?
00:15:21.260 The point is what we're seeing right now is called a quid pro quo.
00:15:25.600 Hey, you remember when you guys were trying to impeach me and throw me out of office for
00:15:28.440 a quid pro quo that I didn't even do?
00:15:31.340 They're doing a quid pro quo right now.
00:15:33.680 How come, how come you only talk about my quid pro quo that I didn't even do?
00:15:37.260 You don't talk about their quid pro quo.
00:15:39.980 Trump's strategy, importantly, is to highlight his opponents doing the same and worse as
00:15:46.800 he does, right?
00:15:47.460 It's this never explain, never apologize, always attack.
00:15:52.100 So he's taking every opportunity just to go after them, to needle them, to hit them.
00:15:56.140 I mean, how do you attack a guy for endorsing a political candidate?
00:15:59.240 Trump figured out how to, and it was a good attack.
00:16:01.660 Then at the very end, he gets in there, he complete non sequitur, goes down, he goes,
00:16:05.760 and by the way, they're going to steal it from Bernie.
00:16:07.300 All right, see you guys.
00:16:08.020 Because the Democrats are stealing it from Bernie has become a sort of right-wing meme.
00:16:13.460 The reason it's become a meme, the reason it's become popular, the reason right-wingers
00:16:16.580 are talking about it is, A, because it's true.
00:16:19.460 The Democrats are doing their level best to steal this nomination from Bernie, just like
00:16:24.100 they did it in 2016.
00:16:26.240 But B, the reason they're doing it is because it creates so much more chaos in the party.
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00:17:42.540 So, right now, with Joe in the lead, President Trump is turning his attention back to Joe Biden.
00:17:49.760 So, the attack is shifting, and a lot of people aren't catching this.
00:17:54.340 The attack is shifting just from Sleepy Joe, that was the original attack on Joe Biden,
00:17:59.380 that Joe doesn't have any stamina, he doesn't have any energy.
00:18:02.620 It's now shifting to Sleepy Joe is surrounding himself with radicals.
00:18:09.400 I honestly don't think he knows what office he's running for.
00:18:14.680 And it doesn't matter.
00:18:15.820 You know, maybe he gets in because he's a little more moderate, so maybe he gets in.
00:18:19.420 But he's not going to be running it.
00:18:20.860 Other people are going to.
00:18:21.960 They're going to put him into a home, and other people are going to be running the country.
00:18:25.660 And they're going to be super left radical crazies.
00:18:29.360 They're going to be super left radical crazy.
00:18:31.720 Joe's going to be in a home.
00:18:33.480 He'll be watching television.
00:18:34.860 Everything will be just fine.
00:18:36.020 So, they're going to put Joe in a home.
00:18:39.320 I love, this is a great way to get the joke across, right?
00:18:42.720 Is the really funny outrageous thing he's saying is they're going to put Joe in a home.
00:18:47.380 But he just throws that line away, right?
00:18:49.800 So, he moves you past that.
00:18:51.300 So, well, you're still laughing at, oh my gosh, did he just say he's going to put his opponent in a home?
00:18:56.540 Then he moves on to, but he's going to have all these radical crazy young people around him.
00:19:00.520 And the radical crazy young people are the ones that you've got to be afraid of.
00:19:04.340 This is the evolution of the attack.
00:19:06.080 Because I think President Trump thinks that Bernie is more beatable in a general election than Joe Biden.
00:19:11.680 This is why he's propping up Bernie, and he's going after Biden and Bloomberg.
00:19:15.640 He just, I think Trump doesn't believe the Americans are going to elect a radical socialist.
00:19:19.920 And probably the Trump team has got a good oppo file on Bernie.
00:19:22.920 So, he keeps saying this, right?
00:19:24.300 They're stealing it from Bernie.
00:19:25.440 Bernie's getting robbed.
00:19:26.360 He's always kind of defending Bernie.
00:19:28.420 But now he's starting to use the attacks that he would use in a general election against Bernie against Biden, which is about the radicalism, right?
00:19:39.800 He's saying, yeah, even Joe Biden, you think he's kind of more moderate?
00:19:42.580 Maybe.
00:19:43.160 But he's a senile old man.
00:19:44.420 They're going to throw him in a home.
00:19:45.360 He's going to go watch TV.
00:19:46.740 Then they're going to have all these radicals running the country.
00:19:48.820 Because this is a win-win strategy, right?
00:19:51.600 The strategy of going after Bernie and defending, or going after Biden and defending Bernie is not going to turn off the Bernie bros, some of whom President Trump probably wants to win over, or at least demoralize enough that they don't come out and vote in the general election, right?
00:20:07.700 But, at the same time, it gets ready that same attack that he thinks is going to be effective in a general election.
00:20:16.040 So, you know, Trump is tweeting out, just yesterday he tweets out, they're staging a coup against Bernie.
00:20:21.060 A few days ago he goes, Democrats are working hard to destroy the name and reputation of crazy Bernie Sanders and take the nomination away from him.
00:20:28.700 I love that.
00:20:29.340 They're trying to destroy the reputation of a man I'm calling crazy.
00:20:32.960 Next one.
00:20:33.600 The Dems are working hard to take the prize nomination away from Bernie.
00:20:36.940 Backroom politics, which Bernie is not very good at.
00:20:39.560 His people will not let it happen again.
00:20:42.560 This is real political savvy.
00:20:44.340 Even the way that he talks about the home at the rally, he's talking like a stand-up comedian.
00:20:51.040 He's talking like a political commentator, not as a guy in the race.
00:20:55.540 A guy who's in the race would never admit that there's a chance that his opponent would win.
00:20:59.560 He would never say, let's say he wins and you're going to be okay with that, right?
00:21:03.940 He would say, no way, we're going to, we're going to win it.
00:21:06.220 Now, my opponent doesn't stand a chance and we're going to go beat him.
00:21:09.060 But he stands back, he goes, yeah, okay, let's, let's say he wins.
00:21:12.520 Let's say Biden wins because he's a little more moderate or whatever.
00:21:14.580 You're not going to like what happens, okay, because you're going to get all these radicals running it.
00:21:19.080 And Biden will be in a home and he'll be watching TV and that'll be fine.
00:21:21.740 But he's, he's, he's got a little bit of that distance there.
00:21:27.080 And he's just, he's like, you see this crazy political scene?
00:21:29.900 You see what's going to happen?
00:21:31.340 You guys better, you're probably going to want me.
00:21:32.960 I'm not, I'm not begging for it.
00:21:34.120 I'm just saying you're going to want, you're going to come begging for me if those radicals are running the show.
00:21:38.660 There's a big political savvy that's going on here, which is that there are two political divides in this country.
00:21:46.720 Okay, the two political divides are left, right.
00:21:50.640 We already know that.
00:21:51.880 That's the one we talk about all the time.
00:21:53.680 The other political divide is establishment populist.
00:21:57.840 Okay, and they don't, they don't exactly match up.
00:22:01.220 So Trump wants to win suburban voters by presenting himself as more establishment than Bernie.
00:22:09.720 That's the, that's the pitch of crazy Bernie, crazy radicalism.
00:22:14.480 But he wants to mollify, he wants to pacify, he wants to kind of make nice with the Bernie voters by presenting himself as more populist than Biden.
00:22:25.420 So all that tweet about, they're stealing it from Bernie, those corrupt people are rigging it from Bernie.
00:22:29.740 That's all to say, hey, Bernie bros, you and I have common cause because we're both outside the establishment.
00:22:36.080 But then when he goes out and he makes the arguments about how crazy Bernie is, how he's a radical socialist, how Biden's campaign people are radicals, he's making the argument to the suburban voters, to maybe the Biden voters.
00:22:48.580 He says, look, I'm more establishment than Bernie Sanders.
00:22:53.280 You're going to be a lot more comfortable with me.
00:22:54.820 He's making those two at the same time.
00:22:59.320 Very, very smart strategy.
00:23:01.320 I think he's doing a good job.
00:23:02.340 And for people who say that I'm just saying he's doing 4D chess or something, I don't know how conscious this is.
00:23:07.600 It might just be innate.
00:23:08.740 But if it's innate, then it backs up something we've been saying for the long time, which is that the guy's got very good political instincts.
00:23:14.740 Let's take one question from the audience before we get into Super Tuesday, before we get into Chris Matthews.
00:23:19.800 Here's a question from A. Michael, have moderates, Biden and Bloomberg, explicitly stated to your satisfaction that communism is immoral?
00:23:31.720 Or is their only argument against Bernie that it is a good but impractical idea?
00:23:39.660 No, they have not stated to my satisfaction that communism is immoral.
00:23:43.360 They haven't made that argument at all.
00:23:44.520 Unfortunately, a lot of right-wingers have not stated that to my satisfaction either because everybody's just making some lame, bean-counting economic argument.
00:23:53.440 I mean, you remember when Barack Obama was president, they went down to Cuba and got absolutely nothing out of it.
00:24:00.100 Just gave Cuba everything, didn't take anything in return, didn't get any concessions from the regime.
00:24:04.100 And Barack Obama, another guy who talked like a moderate but actually was a secret radical, he came out and said,
00:24:11.440 look, these distinctions between capitalism and communism, they don't really mean that much for our generation.
00:24:19.200 They do.
00:24:20.660 They do mean a lot.
00:24:22.000 They are totally different views of the relationship of the individual to the state, of the local community to the state, of tradition and history to politics.
00:24:31.600 So he said that and then Barack Obama had the money line.
00:24:35.300 He said, we just care about what works.
00:24:38.180 That's what Mike Bloomberg is saying.
00:24:39.420 He says, socialism doesn't work.
00:24:42.180 That's what Joe Biden is implying.
00:24:45.020 I don't even, he's not even saying it that explicitly.
00:24:47.400 Socialism doesn't work.
00:24:48.260 We're going to do what works.
00:24:50.420 If by Bloomberg, obviously, that's all he cares about is the efficiency of markets.
00:24:54.060 If all you care about is just getting GDP up a little bit higher or just kind of making the market a little bit more efficient,
00:25:01.000 then you're just as bad as the hard left, as the radical left.
00:25:07.020 In some ways, you're worse because you're not viewing people as people.
00:25:09.880 And the human being is much more than just a commodity.
00:25:12.460 It's much more than just an economic product.
00:25:14.760 It's much more than just a sort of cog in a machine that can be greased or oiled or shaped a little bit better under different regimes.
00:25:24.260 Trouble with communism is that it's, it's evil.
00:25:27.080 It's wicked.
00:25:27.660 It's a pest.
00:25:29.040 It has no respect for human dignity.
00:25:31.980 It's atheistic.
00:25:33.280 It's materialistic.
00:25:34.340 It discounts everything that matters to us in life.
00:25:37.140 And also, it destroys the economy.
00:25:39.820 That's the argument.
00:25:40.500 So nobody's making it right now, other than I think President Trump is actually pretty good at making this argument.
00:25:45.880 He makes an argument much more to the human person than any of the Democratic candidates.
00:25:50.040 Okay, let's get to Super Tuesday predictions.
00:25:52.440 Then we got to get to Chris Matthews, not Chris Wallace.
00:25:56.320 I don't want to pull a Biden.
00:25:57.440 But first, I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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00:26:31.220 It's actually not quite as crazy as Hollywood.
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00:27:37.100 We have too much to get to before Super Tuesday.
00:27:52.320 I told you we're going to do our best to get through it, and we are on track.
00:27:57.380 So Super Tuesday, this is maybe the biggest thing to look for going into it.
00:28:01.540 Right now, the Buttigieg, Klobuchar endorsements could have completely changed the map on Super Tuesday.
00:28:10.760 So Super Tuesday, all these different states are going to go out and vote.
00:28:13.440 Before the Klobuchar and Buttigieg endorsement, if you just look at the average of the Real Clear Politics polls,
00:28:20.300 Here is who is supposed to win the various states.
00:28:26.260 Alabama, Biden.
00:28:28.360 Arkansas, Bloomberg.
00:28:29.980 California, Bernie.
00:28:31.280 Colorado, Bernie.
00:28:32.520 Maine, Bernie.
00:28:33.700 Massachusetts, Bernie.
00:28:35.420 Minnesota, Klobuchar, followed by Bernie.
00:28:39.060 North Carolina, Biden.
00:28:40.520 Oklahoma, Biden and Bloomberg have a tie.
00:28:43.140 Tennessee, Tennessee might be Biden.
00:28:47.640 I actually don't have that written.
00:28:48.260 That might, that'll be a surprise for later tonight.
00:28:50.960 Texas, Bernie.
00:28:52.140 Utah, Bernie.
00:28:53.380 Vermont, Bernie.
00:28:55.240 Virginia, Bernie.
00:28:58.440 Massive stuff.
00:28:59.400 So Biden, you get what?
00:29:00.500 Maybe two likely wins, one likely tie.
00:29:03.180 Bernie, eight likely wins, one likely tie.
00:29:05.480 And Bloomberg, one likely win.
00:29:07.500 Now, what happens when you add Pete and Klobuchar's endorsements?
00:29:10.280 So obviously, it's not going to work out exactly like this.
00:29:13.040 But if Pete and Klobuchar get exactly the number of votes that the polls were predicting,
00:29:17.220 or if all of those votes do just transfer over right away to Joe Biden, all of a sudden,
00:29:22.740 you've got Alabama, Biden, Arkansas, Biden, California.
00:29:27.640 Slightly Bernie, but basically tied with Biden.
00:29:29.760 Colorado, Biden.
00:29:30.680 Maine, Biden.
00:29:31.420 Massachusetts, Biden.
00:29:32.420 Minnesota, Biden.
00:29:33.600 North Carolina, Biden.
00:29:34.640 Oklahoma, Biden.
00:29:35.480 Tennessee, Biden.
00:29:36.240 Texas, Biden.
00:29:37.240 Utah, tied between Bernie and Biden.
00:29:39.320 Vermont, Bernie, obviously.
00:29:40.880 And Virginia, Biden.
00:29:42.360 It becomes a Biden blowout if the Klobuchar and Pete votes actually go over to Joe Biden.
00:29:51.880 And California is basically a tie, even California with a slight Bernie edge.
00:29:56.320 Now, the big wild card here is going to be Mike Bloomberg.
00:29:59.120 Mike Bloomberg is not giving up.
00:30:00.740 After Buttigieg and Klobuchar got out, Bloomberg was asked whether he would get out too.
00:30:06.640 I think you know his answer.
00:30:07.620 We both talked to Pete earlier today and Amy just a little while ago, and I wish them all
00:30:14.680 the best.
00:30:15.260 I thought both of them behaved themselves, is a nice way to phrase it, but they represented
00:30:20.420 their country and their states very well.
00:30:24.020 And I felt sorry for them, but I'm in it to win it.
00:30:28.200 And we are going to go out and we're going to go get them.
00:30:33.140 I love this guy.
00:30:34.220 I love that Mike Bloomberg has such condescension that he would say, yes, well, I felt that Buttigieg
00:30:41.860 and Klobuchar, they behaved themselves.
00:30:44.160 They didn't cause me too much of a problem.
00:30:46.420 If they had, of course, I would have wiped them off the face of the earth.
00:30:49.260 But no, no, they were good, little kiddies.
00:30:51.500 All right, kiddies, go away now.
00:30:54.260 You know, Buttigieg and Klobuchar, they have to play nice.
00:30:56.660 They have to get out early.
00:30:57.560 They have to make the smart endorsement, right?
00:30:59.160 They're young people.
00:31:00.560 They're relatively young.
00:31:01.700 They have their political careers ahead of them.
00:31:03.740 They don't have $60 billion like Mike Bloomberg.
00:31:07.040 Bloomberg doesn't have to worry about any of that.
00:31:10.260 You know, Elizabeth Warren didn't get out.
00:31:11.740 She didn't get out when Klobuchar and Buttigieg did.
00:31:13.920 Why not?
00:31:15.500 Because Elizabeth Warren is not quite as young as Klobuchar and Buttigieg.
00:31:19.800 She's got a little less to lose in her political career. 1.00
00:31:22.420 This might be the last chance that she could run for president. 0.86
00:31:24.880 So she's just going to stick in it.
00:31:27.240 At Bloomberg, certainly this is his last chance.
00:31:29.360 So listen to this response.
00:31:31.600 Listen to a response that Mike Bloomberg gave to a voter at a town hall on Fox who said, hey, I'm a gun owner.
00:31:38.580 I'm a regular American Second Amendment supporter.
00:31:41.000 How come I'm not allowed to have a gun and protection, but you, Mike Bloomberg, are allowed to walk around with armed security?
00:31:48.060 How do you justify pushing for more gun control when you have an armed security detail that is likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines that you seek to ban the common citizen from owning?
00:31:57.600 Does your life matter more than mine or my family's or these people's?
00:32:04.660 Look, I probably get 40 or 50 threats every week, okay?
00:32:12.780 And some of them are real.
00:32:14.180 That just happens when you're the mayor of New York City or you're very wealthy.
00:32:18.140 And if you're campaigning for president of the United States, you get lots of threats.
00:32:22.080 So I have a security detail.
00:32:24.380 I pay for it all myself.
00:32:26.520 And, you know, they're all retired police officers who are very well trained in firearms.
00:32:33.440 I love this guy.
00:32:34.380 I love that he gives at every opportunity the worst political answer you could possibly give.
00:32:41.440 He goes, are you saying, Mr. Bloomberg, that your life matters more than mine?
00:32:46.440 Bloomberg more or less says, yes, I am.
00:32:48.900 And I'm saying that because I'm rich and famous.
00:32:52.080 He just, he just goes, look, listen, you peasant. 0.76
00:32:55.940 I get threats against me because I am a famous politician and, by the way, very, very wealthy.
00:33:03.500 And, and look, look, I pay for my security myself because did I mention that I'm wealthy?
00:33:07.820 I'm very wealthy, much, much richer than you.
00:33:10.940 And that's why I need to have more rights than you have, peasant. 0.97
00:33:15.880 Perfect.
00:33:16.320 What a great, what a great way to, to connect with the voters.
00:33:20.300 I get a real kick out of Mike Bloomberg's elitism, probably not going to play well in Peoria.
00:33:26.260 In some ways, he would be the best choice that the Democrats have because he wouldn't just completely destroy the country.
00:33:31.540 In some ways, he's the worst choice, though, because it's pretty clear that Mike Bloomberg doesn't really like people all that much.
00:33:40.820 He doesn't seem to have a great respect for people.
00:33:43.460 He, he just wants to run their lives.
00:33:45.320 He just wants to tell them what to do.
00:33:47.000 But he doesn't, he doesn't really seem to connect with them or view them as human, just as cogs in a machine.
00:33:52.480 I mean, he said the president is a managerial job.
00:33:54.800 That tells you everything you need to know about the way he, he views the world, but he's probably not going to do that well anyway.
00:34:00.640 So going into tonight, it's Biden's to lose.
00:34:03.300 We're going to see if South Carolina was a fluke or whether, whether it was the beginning of the end of the Democrat nomination.
00:34:11.400 Now, Klobuchar and Buttigieg are not the only left wingers to drop out in recent days.
00:34:15.600 They're the only presidential candidates to drop out in recent days.
00:34:18.460 But there's another major left winger who dropped out yesterday.
00:34:21.900 That would be Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
00:34:25.640 Chris Matthews came on last night.
00:34:27.600 Shocking to everybody.
00:34:28.640 He's had this show hardball for 20 years now on MSNBC.
00:34:33.100 He goes out and he says, hey, my first story, I'm retiring.
00:34:36.760 I'm out.
00:34:37.320 Here's Chris Matthews's reasoning.
00:34:39.480 Let me start with my headline tonight.
00:34:41.660 I'm retiring.
00:34:42.940 This is the last hardball on MSNBC.
00:34:44.840 And obviously, this isn't for lack of interest in politics.
00:34:48.620 As you can tell, I've loved every minute of my 20 years as host of Hardball.
00:34:52.540 Every morning, I read the papers and I'm gung ho to get to work.
00:34:56.100 Not many people have had this privilege.
00:34:58.440 I love working with my producers and the discussions we have over how to report the news.
00:35:03.040 And I love having this connection with you, the good people who watch.
00:35:06.400 So right off the bat, right off the bat, you realize that Chris Matthews did not choose to retire.
00:35:11.700 Chris Matthews was pushed out by MSNBC.
00:35:14.440 I mean, he says it explicitly.
00:35:16.100 He says, obviously, I'm not losing interest in politics.
00:35:19.600 Obviously, I'm not losing interest in you.
00:35:21.020 I love this job.
00:35:22.180 I love working with people.
00:35:23.900 But I've got to go.
00:35:25.120 And then he explains why he's got to go.
00:35:27.320 The conversation with MSNBC, I decided tonight will be my last hardball.
00:35:31.160 So let me tell you why.
00:35:32.660 The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins.
00:35:35.620 We see them in politics, in the media, in fighting for their causes.
00:35:39.440 They are improving the workplace.
00:35:40.940 We're talking here about better standards than we grew up with, fair standards.
00:35:45.340 A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other, compliments on a woman's appearance
00:35:49.700 that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay.
00:35:55.480 Not then and certainly not today.
00:35:57.040 And for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry.
00:36:00.200 There it is.
00:36:00.880 He got me too'd.
00:36:02.380 Chris Matthews, one of the real titans of left-wing commentary.
00:36:06.280 And actually a left-winger who I always got a kick out of, I mean, he was wrong about
00:36:09.240 so many things.
00:36:09.980 He got that, he said he got a thrill up his leg when he saw Barack Obama.
00:36:13.320 I mean, there were many, many, many, most things he got wrong.
00:36:17.880 But I always got a kick out of him.
00:36:19.000 He always seemed like sort of a straight shooter in that he was saying what he believed.
00:36:23.180 And he was kind of funny about it.
00:36:24.680 And he was kind of ornery.
00:36:25.380 So I'm sorry to see him go.
00:36:27.400 He got me too'd.
00:36:28.380 And I'm really sorry to see him go the way that he did.
00:36:32.040 Because I googled this.
00:36:34.360 I said, oh, maybe Chris Matthews is some big womanizer. 1.00
00:36:37.220 Maybe he's been sleeping with all the women at the show. 0.70
00:36:40.640 Maybe he's pulled a Matt Lauer.
00:36:41.960 Maybe he's stepping out on his wife all the time or something.
00:36:45.280 No, that's not it.
00:36:46.820 You heard him talk about it there.
00:36:48.340 He said, people make comments.
00:36:51.640 And sometimes those comments are wrong and I shouldn't have made those comments.
00:36:54.760 I said, what kind of comments did he make?
00:36:56.780 He's a commentator.
00:36:57.480 What kind of comments did he make?
00:36:58.700 So I looked up the article that's in GQ magazine by Laura Bassett.
00:37:04.900 This is the article that ostensibly got Chris Matthews fired.
00:37:10.120 And she gives all the reasons, all the horrible things he did.
00:37:13.220 Here they are.
00:37:13.860 It's called, like Warren, I had my own sexist run-in with Chris Matthews.
00:37:18.120 So she's objecting to something Chris Matthews did with Elizabeth Warren too.
00:37:21.860 The article begins, I believe the woman, which means he's not telling the truth, said Warren,
00:37:26.800 who recently had to defend her own credible story of pregnancy discrimination.
00:37:32.260 I'll pause right there.
00:37:35.300 That first line is a lie.
00:37:37.040 She doesn't have a credible story of pregnancy discrimination. 1.00
00:37:39.480 Elizabeth Warren is now saying that she was fired from her first teaching job because she got pregnant.
00:37:44.300 But we have her on video from years ago talking about how she didn't get that teaching job.
00:37:50.660 She didn't keep the teaching job because she lacked a credential and lacked interest and wanted to stay home with her kid. 1.00
00:37:55.000 Her own words.
00:37:57.160 I'm not making that up.
00:37:58.340 That's what she said.
00:37:59.700 Then she's lying about it now.
00:38:01.340 And then this writer, Laura Bassett, writing in GQ, is lying about Warren's lies.
00:38:06.160 Not a good way to start off the article if you're going to try to torpedo a guy's career.
00:38:10.180 The article goes on.
00:38:12.080 And why would he lie, Matthews said.
00:38:13.640 Just to protect himself?
00:38:15.600 Yeah.
00:38:16.000 And why would she lie?
00:38:17.320 Warren responded pointedly.
00:38:18.860 There was no reason.
00:38:21.560 I'm skipping around a little bit, but you get the point.
00:38:23.100 There was no reason for him to harp on its veracity except perhaps that he himself has made so many sexist comments over the years that he has a vested interest in Bloomberg being let off the hook and going after Warren.
00:38:35.340 So she's accusing him of sexism here.
00:38:38.220 It is not sexist to observe that Elizabeth Warren is a liar. 0.98
00:38:44.100 However, Elizabeth Warren is one of the most famous, infamous, and egregious liars in the entire country. 1.00
00:38:51.160 She lied for decades about her ancestry and said that she, the whitest woman in the world, was Native American.
00:38:58.160 She did that at elite universities. 0.99
00:39:00.720 She did that possibly taking jobs away from actual Native Americans. 1.00
00:39:04.340 She then lied about the pregnancy discrimination.
00:39:06.840 She then lied very recently about where her children went to school.
00:39:11.660 Lies about everything.
00:39:12.400 There's nothing sexist about calling a liar a liar.
00:39:16.800 But, you know, this woman, in using the kind of Me Too era as a political cudgel, is using sexism the way that the left has used racism for so many years, which is not to point out an actual example of bigotry, but just to silence your political opponent.
00:39:34.160 Matthews has a pattern of making comments about women's appearances in demeaning ways.
00:39:38.600 The number of on-air incidents is long, exhausting, and creepy, including commenting to Erin Burnett, for example, you're a knockout.
00:39:46.900 It's all right getting bad news from you while telling her to move closer to the camera.
00:39:50.340 Regardless of whether you think that a MSNBC host should compliment people's appearances, it is simply a fact that what he said is not demeaning.
00:40:06.040 She's saying he's made demeaning comments.
00:40:08.520 Well, what was the comment?
00:40:09.280 The comment was, you're a knockout. 0.72
00:40:10.540 That's not demeaning.
00:40:11.520 That's a compliment.
00:40:12.440 Now, you could say it's wrong to compliment people in the workplace, never give anyone a compliment.
00:40:17.260 Okay, that's fine.
00:40:18.300 Fair enough if we're living in this politically correct culture.
00:40:21.500 Fine.
00:40:21.800 We can all go along with that.
00:40:23.080 But you can't lie about it and say that it's demeaning.
00:40:25.340 It simply was not.
00:40:26.800 Even the word creepy, he adds the word creepy in here.
00:40:31.320 Creepy is just a way to, you know, slander somebody without having to give any kind of example.
00:40:37.960 And Chris Matthews, look, I have a lot of criticisms of Chris Matthews, but I don't think he's creepy.
00:40:42.660 She goes on.
00:40:44.700 She talks about an interview with Hillary Clinton.
00:40:47.080 He suggested that Clinton had only had so much political success because her husband had messed around.
00:40:54.840 Yup.
00:40:55.420 No one would know Hillary Clinton's name if she wasn't Mrs. Clinton. 1.00
00:41:00.380 She was the first lady of Arkansas, then the first lady of the United States.
00:41:02.840 And then she, immediately after leaving the White House, became the senator from New York, a state she had never lived in.
00:41:09.760 Do you think she became the senator of New York because Hillary is just so famously good at connecting with voters? 1.00
00:41:15.120 Don't think so.
00:41:16.060 I think it probably had something to do with her last name.
00:41:18.740 She goes on.
00:41:19.300 In 2017, I wrote a personal essay about a much older married cable news host who inappropriately flirted with me in the makeup room a few times before we went live on his show,
00:41:28.280 making me noticeably uncomfortable on air.
00:41:30.620 I was afraid to name him at the time.
00:41:32.300 I was afraid to name him for all the flirting, the traumatic flirting, for fear of retaliation from the network.
00:41:37.880 I'm not anymore.
00:41:39.120 It was Chris Matthews in 2016, right before I had to go on his show and talk about sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.
00:41:46.900 Totally bogus allegations, by the way.
00:41:48.740 How many years are we into the Trump presidency?
00:41:50.700 They got nothing on him.
00:41:51.780 Goes on.
00:41:53.360 Matthews looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him, and he said,
00:41:58.520 Why haven't I fallen in love with you yet?
00:42:00.900 Oh, my gosh.
00:42:03.220 Oh, Ms. Bassett, I'm so sorry this happened to you.
00:42:05.800 I hope that you get millions of dollars from MSNBC to pay for the years of therapy that you will need to recover from Chris Matthews saying,
00:42:16.700 Why haven't I fallen in love with you yet?
00:42:19.000 In a public setting, without inviting you to dinner, without inviting you to his hotel room,
00:42:24.540 without inviting you to his office like Matt Lauer does.
00:42:27.060 Just a slightly flirtatious comment.
00:42:33.540 Good grief.
00:42:35.480 Then she gets to the bottom.
00:42:37.960 And she says that Chris Matthews needs to be fired.
00:42:40.880 Having a news anchor who calls women she-devil.
00:42:43.820 By the way, he only did that to Hillary Clinton, and it happens to be correct. 1.00
00:42:46.880 And treats their assessments with infantilizing suspicion.
00:42:50.200 He treated Elizabeth Warren with infantilizing suspicion because she infantilized herself by lying all the time.
00:42:56.540 While conducting post-debate interviews builds in a major disadvantage for female candidates. 1.00
00:43:01.380 It's downright irresponsible.
00:43:03.660 She brings up Matthews' employment.
00:43:05.320 This is absurd.
00:43:07.780 This woman should be ashamed of herself. 0.99
00:43:09.460 Me Too has obviously jumped the shark.
00:43:12.280 Me Too is addressing an actual problem.
00:43:15.960 The actual problem is all of these mostly left-wing men in power in media and politics
00:43:22.160 acting like complete degenerates and abusing women.
00:43:26.020 That's a real problem.
00:43:27.600 Did I mention they're mostly Democratic, mostly left-wing men who have been doing it?
00:43:30.460 Like Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer and all of the other ones?
00:43:33.300 Yeah, I just wanted to make sure I got that in there.
00:43:36.300 That started out to address a real problem.
00:43:38.280 And now, it has become a cynical tool to be wielded with impunity only when it is politically convenient.
00:43:48.820 That's it.
00:43:49.600 That's all it is.
00:43:50.560 It's sad.
00:43:51.160 It's pathetic.
00:43:52.100 Because, by the way, Chris Matthews is not being fired for this Me Too thing because he made a flirtatious comment in the makeup room or something.
00:43:59.900 The reason he's being fired is because he's now not left-wing enough for the Democratic Party.
00:44:04.900 He's not left-wing enough for his network.
00:44:06.760 And he's a very left-wing guy.
00:44:08.780 But the other day, he came out and came out against Bernie Sanders.
00:44:13.060 It would be bad if Bernie Sanders got the nomination.
00:44:15.960 The other day, he's made a few on-air gaffes, right?
00:44:18.360 But he's made on-air gaffes throughout his whole career.
00:44:21.920 There was this incident that was kind of embarrassing where he confused two black politicians and thought one was the other one.
00:44:27.760 And it was very awkward.
00:44:29.700 But he's been doing this kind of stuff for years.
00:44:32.180 He's been talking the way he talks for years.
00:44:35.620 The thing that changed is the Democratic Party, which is now, in terms of just the delegate count,
00:44:41.220 is ready to nominate an open, avowed socialist, an actual communist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union.
00:44:47.860 And Chris Matthews is from an older school.
00:44:49.820 The fight that we're seeing in the Democratic Party nomination right now, the Biden-Bernie fight,
00:44:55.280 is the fight that we're seeing on MSNBC.
00:44:58.280 It's the fight that we're seeing in left-wing commentary.
00:45:00.500 It's the fight that we're seeing in the media.
00:45:03.180 And that fight is only going to heat up through November.
00:45:06.900 Last question before we get to it, before we get to Super Tuesday later tonight.
00:45:11.180 This is from JF.
00:45:12.100 Who would be more beneficial to Biden as a VP, Klobuchar or Buttigieg?
00:45:17.700 Klobuchar would.
00:45:20.380 Having a woman probably would be more beneficial. 0.97
00:45:23.760 I think women outrank gay men on the intersectional victimhood scale.
00:45:29.000 No, I don't think Buttigieg would be a great VP candidate.
00:45:32.240 The only advantage he would have is he could debate Mike Pence,
00:45:34.360 and the left could pretend that Mike Pence is some big homophobe or something like that.
00:45:38.260 But I suspect it's actually going to be someone totally different.
00:45:40.500 I don't think Klobuchar or Buttigieg, these kind of fairly weak presidential candidates,
00:45:45.040 I don't think that they're going to be the best choice.
00:45:48.040 I think you could see someone from somewhere else in politics,
00:45:50.980 maybe another name we've heard who hasn't been around in a little while.
00:45:54.740 You know, that's probably more likely.
00:45:57.100 There's 300 million people to choose from,
00:45:58.940 so they don't need to just choose from the handful who have made it this far in the Democratic race.
00:46:04.320 All right, stick around later.
00:46:06.300 We will get to Super Tuesday.
00:46:07.820 We have so much more to get to, but we'll have to save that for tomorrow.
00:46:10.980 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
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