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Radio Host 1: Good morning, Dr. Paul.
Ron Paul: Good morning, it’s nice to be with you.
Radio Host: How are you?
Ron Paul: I’m doing fine.
Radio Host: You’re going to go back to being just Citizen Paul after you’re done?
Ron Paul: Well, I’ve had trouble sitting still, I hope I can still be active and participate in the discussion that I’ve been interested in, and so far so good, but I’ve had a little bit of time to relax, too.
Radio Host 1: We seem to be having just a little bit of an erosion in that whole freedom and smaller-government thing going on here.
Ron Paul: Well, how do you mean?
Radio Host 1: Well, we’re not sure if we’re the only ones noticing this, but it seems like we’ve got a King instead of a president who’s just up there telling us how it’s going to be.
Ron Paul: Oh, yes. They have been eroding up there for a long time, so I don’t think much about that city up there and the political process of the two parties. But the Freedom Movement, for me, is outside of Washington, and it’s with a different group of people, it’s with a new generation, it’s what’s on the internet. And that is where I see the growth and the interest and the enthusiasm. So, if I look outside of Washington, I think there’s a lot to be optimistic about. If you look at Washington DC and the budgetary process and what they do on a day-to-day basis, you can get pretty depressed over that. So I have to look to the positive things, and I think there are some positive things. But, in the short run, I don’t think they’re going to straighten the mess out in Washington, so I’m sort of anticipating a time when there will be major decisions made, because this system we have today isn’t viable, it’s going to get a lot worse, and I’m just hoping we have enough numbers to put it back together again with more common sense, rather than saying, “Well, what we need is more government, we need the United Nations to come in and take care of us.
Radio Host 1: I think that’s the plan, isn’t it?
Radio Host 2: We’ll get there.
Ron Paul: Yes, that’s the group that we’re competing with. But let’s hope the American people wake up. I mean, we go to international organizations already, we ask them about trade and monetary policy and welfare problems and when do you go to war. And I’m sort of old-fashioned on that, I think that should be a national issue, and governments should be close to home. So we have a lot of work to do, I’m not complacent at all to think that it’s going to be an easy fight. But I am encouraged that a lot of people are starting to wake up and realize that this is not sustainable. And anybody who thinks, “Oh yes, we’ll go along with the Paul Krugmans of the world and just print a lot of money and that will solve everybody’s problem”; it’s verging on insanity, as far as I’m concerned.
Radio Host 1: Yes, that’s kind of the plan: we just print a little more money. It’s not real money, it doesn’t matter, you can print as much of it as you want.
Radio Host 2: Well, Dr. Paul, a lot of people here on the Walton and Johnson Show are constantly asking us what are we going to do about it? We point out these problems all day long, what are we going to do about it? Is there a leader out there that will risk losing whatever it is they’re going to lose? Will somebody, and will that somebody be you, step up and just charge ahead, fight this fight, and say, “Follow me, we’ll take them down”.
Ron Paul: Well, I hope we have a lot of people like that, and that’s where I think our numbers are growing. I think it’s the endorsement of ideas that’s more important than one person, because you could have the perfect president who wants to lead the charge, but the people say, “No, we love these wars, we should start one with Iran right now, and we agree with Keynesian economics and we agree with the Federal Reserve”. So people’s attitudes are like that, and generally they still are, they still endorse both political parties, endorse the idea that the government should do these things, they should be the safety net and we should be the policeman of the world. One person can present the case, but you got to convince people that we’re doing the wrong things, and that’s where I think our numbers are growing.
Radio Host 1: Well, I hear from the media that the Tea Party is pretty much over now, is the Tea Party dead?
Ron Paul: Well, I think in many ways it’s undermined itself. Because if the people were honest and looked at where it started, they’d find that it started in 2007 during our first presidential campaign; it was spontaneous, it perked up, it had certain views, and then the Republican organizations came in and they said, “Hey, there is a Tea Party Movement, we got to go in there and take over”. And, in many ways, it became an arm of the Republican Party. But, as far as I’m concerned, the original organization which was spontaneous is still there, there is still a large group of people who are studying and reading and know what Austrian Economics is. They’ve studied about the Federal Reserve, they know why we should bring our troops home. And that group of people were part of the Tea Party and the Tea Party undermined it, but that group of people who believe this way still exist, and those numbers are growing. But, once the Tea Party all of a sudden had national leaders, which became a part of the Republican Party, they sort of undermined themselves.
Radio Host 1: I think it was Henry Ford that said that if the people knew the workings of the Fed and our monetary stuff, if they really knew what was exactly going on and really understood it, they would be in the streets tomorrow.
Ron Paul: I believe that, but compared to five years ago, millions of people know now that the Fed has a significant responsibility for the chaos they’ve caused. It’s a special-interest that bails out banks, Bernanke dealt with 15 trillion dollars during the 2008-2009 crisis. And did he bail out the home owners, no, they lost their jobs and their houses. This money went into the big banks and the foreign governments, and we still stand there to back up the whole system. But the amazing thing here is how much trust they still put in us, the United States; that we’ll be able to be the policeman of the world forever, and that as long as we print money, we can loan it to foreign governments and they’ll keep buying our bonds and finance our extravagance. Well, that is a decision that will come to an end, and nobody can predict when that will happen. But the Fed is the culprit, and this is why Jackson and Jefferson struggled so hard to keep us from doing this. And then Lincoln wanted to have a central bank again, and we’ve been back at this forever. But they will self-destruct, I mean, there’s been no system like this that was maintained for long periods of time, and this one is amazing because it is still lasting. But there will come a time, and I don’t think it’s that far off, where [profits] will be lost and foreigners will quit. Foreigners have essentially quit buying our mortgage debt, they’re still buying our treasury debt, but they don’t buy that mortgage debt. And who’s buying it now, it’s the Fed that’s buying it, like a trillion dollars worth of bad mortgage debt. And how do they buy it, they create money out of thin air, and it really doesn’t help the average person. There’s a saying in Austrian economics: when you deliberately destroy a currency, what you do is you destroy the middle class, and that is so true, just look at what’s happening to our middle class. And the rich aren’t getting poorer, the rich are doing quite well. But this will cause a lot of anger to arise and then it will stop. But this is why it’s so important for people to say, “What kind of government do we want, do we want a government that’s supposed to take care of us from cradle to grave? Or do we want a very limited government to protect our liberties?”
Radio Host 1: When the crash started happening, how did we keep from going into total chaos, and how does something arise out of this that has a semblance of going back to where we were?
Ron Paul: That is the key question, and it’s a tossup. We’re better off now than we’ve been in 30 years. I started talking about this in the 1970s. We’re much, much better off now, in the last 5 years we’re much, much better off. We have the internet now, we have good radio shows that will talk about this, so we’re moving in that direction. But it still goes back to what the people understand to be important. So that’s where we’re winning. But they won’t go without a fight, believe me, they will come with their guns to take our guns, and they’ll do whatever they can, and they will want to make use of the chaos. But I think we’ll do much better with our collapse than, say, the Soviets did. You know, the Russian government and the Russian people now, in fact, have gone back to Jeffersonian democracy, or a Republic. But I think we have a better chance because we have a better tradition of sound money and property rights and contracts. But we have to awaken the people.
Radio Host 1: Do you own guns, are there guns in the Ron Paul household?
Ron Paul: I think I could search around and I may well have one or two, but I don’t like this idea. Matter of fact, conceal-and-carry always bothered me, too, and you can see why. They have a list of you and they put you on that map and they say, “Oh, he has a gun in the house”. So I think people should have a natural right to defend themselves, and if they haven’t hurt anybody, they should be allowed to own a weapon. And I would say the tradition in Texas has been that it was always assume that people had guns in their house. The police don’t protect us, the police are in the cities and that’s where the most violence is. But if you live outside the city, the assumption is that there’s probably a gun in the house, and it’s that assumption that that gun is probably there that provides most of our safety in our whole state.
Radio Host 1: Criminals don’t obey laws.
Radio Host 2: Has the government ever enacted or created one law that the criminals will obey? When they write that law, I’m going to go ahead and get behind that one. Make me a law that the criminals will obey.
Ron Paul: Well, you know, it sort of helps them, they know what we law abiding citizens are going to be doing, so it enhance them. Even some of the criminals and former criminals they say, “Hey, this is a great map, I’m not going into that house because they have a gun.” So the assumption should be that everybody has one. And where’s the evidence to show that people who own guns legally and are peacefully, how many of those guns actually have been used in crime? We have the strongest laws in Washington DC; the strongest drug laws and strongest gun laws, and that’s where the most violence is. And I don’t know how they get away with this whole idea of terrorizing the nation.
Radio Host 1: I know how they get away with it: television. The TV news people just tell us what we’re supposed to think, because we’re too dumb to question it, and most people do.
Ron Paul: I think that’s exactly right, when I started in the 1970s, there were three major networks, and that was it. But today, right now, about 80% or 90% of the people between 18 and 30 get their news from the internet, they don’t watch the TV anymore. So that’s why we have to use every vehicle possible to reach people, and we can compete with the three major networks.
Radio Host 1: All of those television networks, like CNN and ABC, have internet sites, too. What part of the internet are these young people looking at?
Radio Host 2: If they read the Huffington Post, they’d have a completely different idea of the world than if they’d read Drudge Report and Breitbart and that kind of thing.
Ron Paul: Yes. Well, we have to compete with them with the same tools, but we essentially had no tools before. So I think with the internet and talk radio and these sort of things, we at least have a vehicle. When I gave my live speech on the House floor, I said what my greatest concern was, and I said it was the undermining of civil liberties. Because all these issues, whether it’s financial or foreign policy or violence and all these things, if we don’t have the chance, if you are ever curtailed on what you can say on the radio or I’m curtailed on the meetings that I hold, that’s when we’re in big trouble. Or if the internet gets regulated for we who want to use it to our use, that would be a very bad sign. So I think the protection of civil liberties, which I think so often conservative Republicans are pretty weak on. Sometimes they don’t want to protect civil liberties like they should.
Radio Host 1: Could we ask you a favor? We don’t really talk to Ron Paul very often, so we thought maybe we’d ask you. You know people in Washington in powerful places, they’d probably take your call whether they agree with you or work with you or not. Could you ask them to put us back on the radio in Houston, because we got some powers that worked behind the scenes.
Ron Paul: You mean somebody in the government took you off?
Radio Host 1: Well, sort of, they talked to somebody who talked to somebody, they gave the word, it trickled down, and then the guy here at the radio station came in and said, “It’s out of my hand, guys, I got to take you out. We have hundreds and hundreds of licenses and they said they would look on them more favorably if you didn’t have stuff like this on”.
Ron Paul: Well, then it’s already getting down to the wire, the things I’ve been worried about are already happening.
Radio Host 1: It’s happening, it’s happening right now in front of us, and it’s happening to us, that’s the worst part of all.
Radio Host 1: Dr. Paul, we got to go to go to the break because we’re late, but what’s that book you wrote a few years ago about the Fed?
Ron Paul: “End the Fed”.
Radio Host 1: That’s a book people should read, “End the Fed”.
Ron Paul: Right.
Radio Host 1: We appreciate your time.
Ron Paul: Okay, sure thing, good to be with you.
Radio Host 1: We appreciate it, we’ll be back.
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well not very well… you should still carry gun if you’d like too. But disarming someone with martial arts skills with a gun pointed at you at arms length away or from behind or in front of you can make a big difference.
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well not very well… you should still carry gun if you’d like too. But disarming someone with martial arts skills with a gun pointed at you at arms length away or from behind or in front of you can make a big difference.
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It is clear from Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing. Israel yields strong influence over our politicians. These Jewish groups and lobbies are working on a plan to get Americans to wage war with Iran & consequently, our soldiers will die for their Jewish state.
Ron Paul’s foreign policy is not to wage war in the Middle East and he was defeated by these Jewish Lobby.
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Let us put an end to the enlsavement of the human Race!
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Yes, I am “calling out this peaceful revolution” we must resist the Masonic Master State and call upon all peaceful people in the world to rise up against those who rationalize their evil wickedness under philanthropic disguise!
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Ron Paul, you’ve got me! Coming to take…Ron Paul: Well, I hope we have a lot of people like that, and that’s where I think our numbers are growing.
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You are hysterical! Holy hell, I get a good laugh reading your comments; it says a whole lot about what kind of a person you are!
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Ron Paul, is the only person who has his head on straight in this country, as far as I am concerned among the representatives just like John Quincy Adams who called the masons a “wicked conspiracy”, the SEED OF EVIL and part of the kingdom of Satan, and died in the house of representatives, when the masons attacked Mexico with the express permission and invitation of the president Benito Juarez, because he like Ron PAUL did not like agressive wars to expand the territory or influence of the US, but no one seems to listen to them, I urge everyone to “insist” on the publication of the TRUTH, the WHOLE TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH about that WICKED CONSPIRACY in the book by MR JOSHUA BETHEL who will take the lies of HENRY FORD and WINSTON CHURCHILL and disect them “bit by bit”! He will do this in the book:
“THE INTERNATIONAL MASON, the world’s foremost problem”, wake up there is a war for freedom to be fought here for the kings are suppressing this book, for they know it will show their entire plan for “world enslavement”!
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clearly and it will be the biggest gun battle in history of USA just like it was in times of prohibition.
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just 2 of his passing in 14 years is a big time failure and a big waste of tax payers money.
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fuck off, idot … do your effin’ homework… Ron Paul is far from a failure. Dill-weed.
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Word!
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I’ll Google that when I get the time… not a priority… nothing’s gonna change here.
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Ron Paul is still our best shot for change . Everything he has said is becoming more and more accepted by those afraid of change. Mainly our parents generation who want a simple basic guy in office who won’t make waves. With Ron Paul we surf his waves those of us who surf that is. Go Ron Paul!!!
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GO PAUL JHON
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you just speak to the voices in your head ,retard. how does it feel still living in your parents basement? is your hand getting tired from jerking off to chubby porn?
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Sorry, I don’t speak illiterate!
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hows it feel being a failure at life just like your idol paul?
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I’m laughing at your grammar, again! You can’t even form one comment without your fingers getting cramped! Bahahahahah
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Dear Shampoolappy, just laughing at people because of their grammar is not an argument it shows clearly your lack of respect that is all, clearly you have afraid of what JOSHUA BETHEL is going to say to the world, and that is why you are making fun of content you do not understand and still less appreciate, yes, the danger of having our guns confiscated is “greater than ever”!
STOP THIS EVIL SPIRAL,before we all become the slaves of the masonic master race, for that is who secretly sponsored the GERMAN MASTER RACE, and the evil government they sponsored with masonic funds, we must stop this outrage against our liberties and we must stop it now!
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haha at ron paul and your credibility. can’t even answer a simple question. no wonder the who country thinks ron paul and his followers are complete retards. enjoy failing at life.
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No one fails at life until he stops trying it is true of course the majority of this country still believes like Germany felt at one time, that it was their job to “cure the world” of its ills, the german Kaiser stated as much:
AM DEUTSCHEN WESEN SOLL DIE WELT GENESEN, but they did not cure the world did they now, the US is following our footsteps, do you think they will do any better, hardly for it is the nature of all evil empires, and the US is an evil empire since evil kings are secretly running it to abuse their power to enslave the world, clearly we are as a nation “enslaving the world” under US government control and we should “stop that trend” before it destroys us like it destroyed the German republic, kingdom or Reich or whatever you call it, we are “technically insane” in our country and the “POWER” has gone to our head, because EVIL KINGS give us the illusion of power, when they have all the power while we keep going deeper and deeper into debt to finance their “evil delusion of magalomania” that needs to stop and it needs to stop now, stop the INTERNATIONAL MASON from taking over the world, and do it now, the GERMAN KAISER was a mason as well and “destroyed the russian monarchy”, and started the bolschevic revolution, all this will also come out in the new book by MR JOSHUA BETHEL you are all deceived if you think Ron Paul is a looney he may well be one of the few people who still know what is really going on behind the scenes and he knows we are on the slippery slope that ALL EVIL EMPIRES have been on, and we are “far down the road”!
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founding father lol, only thing him and the founding fathers have in common is their racist beliefs. fuck the constitution. if we stuck with the original constitution, women and blacks would have no rights.
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You are correct that the orginal constitution did allow slavery, but Thomas Jefferson also stated it was a living document and the only reason it had that provision was because it would have split the country in two otherwise, as it almost did when slavery was finally abolished, do not knock the constitution because it originally compromised on slavery all documents have flaws, and no the constitution is not a racist document it guarantees our freedoms and limits government in what it can do, and that “allows us to be free” look at nations without written constitutions and you will find “Military dictatorships” that alone should give you a clue that “constitutions” are indeed important instruments that we “must preserve” if we are to preserve our liberty into the 21st century, the PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH called it a heavenly banner, a group of principles that were “created by men” who were sent to this planet for this very purpose to found a constitution that would limit the power of government and to guarantee a measure of freedom for all people all over the globe, so do not knock something you do not understand, there are not now the “KIND OF PEOPLE” that created that constitution, for they were “wise men raised up for that very purpose”!
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Ron Paul used to be a Gynecologist, so he is used to dealing with sick cunts.
This should be no problem for him.
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Now you are hitting below the belt, shame on you!
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Where did he mention religion?
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also würdest du unsere heutige situation mit der in British India gleichsetzen? ich habe gandhi erwähnt, da er ein paradebeispiel dafür ist, dass man keine waffen braucht um sich gegen ein regime zur wehr zu setzen. dein zitat ist im übrigen recht alt, später war er für vollkommen friedlichen widerstand, weshalb man sich heute an ihn erinnert.
Da hitler das als vorwand genutzt hat, seine macht zu verstärken, ist es bei uns falsch strengere waffengesetze einzuführen? ist unsere situation ähnlich?
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Ich glaube wir muessen der Freimaurerei ein Ende setzen denn es waren die Amerikanischen Freimaurer die Hitler finanziert haben all das wird in dem neuen Buch von Joshua Bethel dem internationalen Juden der das buch:
DER INTERNATIONALE FREIMAURER, das groesste problem der Welt herausbringen wird, bitte sagen sie es der Deutschen Publik, das dieses BUCH die Welt veraendern wird!
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“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” Gandhi
“Als erste zivilisierte Nation haben wir ein Waffenregistrierungsgesetz. Unsere Straßen werden dadurch sicherer werden; unsere Polizei wird effizienter und die Welt wird unserem Beispiel in die Zukunft folgen!”
Adolf Hitler, Reichsparteitag am 15.09.1935
Hitler entwaffnete Juden sowie politische Feinde basierend auf eben jenem Waffenregister
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Genau, History always tends to repeat itself, and yes, stupid idiotic people follow Hitler’s example just like he predicted no doubt with the same result, only the goverment will have weapons and they will kill who they want with no one being able to check them!
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“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” Gandhi
“Als erste zivilisierte Nation haben wir ein Waffenregistrierungsgesetz. Unsere Straßen werden dadurch sicherer werden; unsere Polizei wird effizienter und die Welt wird unserem Beispiel in die Zukunft folgen!”
Adolf Hitler, Reichsparteitag am 15.09.1935
Hitler entwaffnete Juden sowie politische Feinde basierend auf eben jenem Waffenregister
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hitler hat waffen ans volk verteilt (volkssturm). der grund warum kaum jemand sich gegen das regime aufgelehnt hat, war die indoktrination durch die ideologie. bei mao und stalin lag es eher daran, dass das volk gehungert hat und zu schwach war um irgendwas zu unternehmen.
genau, weil der einzige unterschied zwischen neuzeit und mittelalter die schusswaffen sind. vllt solltest du in die geschichtsbücher schauen, dann wüsstest du vllt auch was über gandhi und seinen unbewaffneten widerstand
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Totalitäre Regime entwaffnen ihre Völker um sie wehrlos zu machen, das haben Hitler, Stalin und Mao auch alle getan bevor sie millionenfachen Völkermord begehen konnten.
Deutschland hatte vor Hitlers Machtergreifung ein Waffengesetz das wesentlich freiheitlicher war, als das Waffengesetz der USA heute ist. Und zu der Frage, wie es denn ohne Schusswaffen wäre, da kannste ja einfach mal im Geschichtsbuch nach gucken unter “Mittelalter”
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typical ron paul and paultard move, side step the question whenever you know your wrong. did you learn to do that in your cult meetings?
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What’s with this nasty bastard burping and shit in my earhole! Dudes got a serious digestion problem. It’s annoying as hell and would liked to have been able to pay attention to the commentary by Ron Paul.
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Haha, thanks for proving my point again!
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you mean the point that publish, ron paul published. promoted and profited from a racist newsletter? haha go jerk off to that racist retard. enjoy failing at life.
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the main natural right is to live. guns bear the power to perpetrate that right in ridiculous amounts (look at the US gun statistics). if there were no guns, why would you need them to defend yourself?
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Thanks for proving my point.
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