Posted on 08/06/2019 7:19:41 PM PDT by Libloather
RUSH: Now, I want to expand a bit on this whole situation we find ourselves in and try to explain why in a particular sense. Now, the left is being who they are, and theyre gonna do this kind of thing anyway. Call us racists, call us white supremacists, attack Trump. We know this.
Theyve tried to overturn the election results. This is who they are. But its really intense now. Its really ramped up. They are proceeding full speed ahead.
The Democrat Party, if youll notice, every one of these candidates is promising to give away virtually everything that you have, need, or want in life. I mean, they have gone to the extremes of virtually everything the extremes in their attacks on Trump and us. White supremacists, white nationalism, racism. They are so over the top, so far gone. But they have the rallying support of the media, which normalizes it.
But Im telling you: We are witnessing some of the most profound abnormality on the left that I have seen in my lifetime. I think it borders on group insanity. I think it has gripped the Democrat Party and the American left, and there are reasons why it has happened, which is part of what I want to get into here. This is not meant to excuse what theyre doing. It is meant to explain, in truth, how it is they are losing, why they are losing and losing big. They are losing profoundly and they know it.
The greatest illustration of it is to listen to their campaigns. Theyre offering to give away things the total cost, if you add em up, is $200 trillion. From Andrew Yang wanting to give everybody in America $1,000 a month to start, to Medicare for All, to you name it. To getting rid of student loan debt, to getting rid of food stamps or expanding it. Whatever the case may be. They literally are promising that everybody is going to get everything they want and need. Every one of these candidates is!
Its unrealistic. It is impractical. Its not possible. It will never happen. Now, what explains this? Well, the other side of this, what explains it is, how deeply and thoroughly they are losing. Now, again, Im not offering an excuse for their behavior, because this is who they are anyway. Like theyre offering free health care, or theyll offer the illusion of it. Or theyll offer, you know, to forgive student loans with certain limits.
But now all the limits on everything are off and now its just free everything. Because theyre out of stuff, folks!
They are out of issues on which to win. Theyre out of issues on which they can prevail. In fact, they dont even want to enter the arena of ideas. I want to take you back to Friday where I made a salient point and I will admit that Im bouncing off an essay that was written by Mr. Newt on this, back on August the 2nd. It was a very long Facebook post, and its what gave me the idea to expand in my own way on this. Remember last Friday, I asked you to think about just how angry, disappointed, beside themselves your average, ordinary Democrats are today for one reason?
Remember during the Obama years? What was the message to the American people at large? That Americas economic greatness was behind us, and that much of that economic greatness was undeserved anyway. It was the result of us being a mean-spirited thief, a superpower which stole resources from other nations. We pilfered their resources, their oil or what have you. We took it all for ourselves. We had presidents like Reagan and Bush, which were mean-spirited, extremist conservatives and so forth.
But the superpower status of the U.S. was not really deserved, was not just. The United States was founded unjustly and immorally, and Obamas message was that the economy that everybody used to believe in that would grow and grow so that each generation would have a chance to do better than the previous generation? Those days were over, Obama said. Remember? And everybody believed him. Everybody believed Obama. He was the messiah!
There were terms like the new normal to describe a flat economy featuring maximum GDP growth per year of 1%. Obama would go to areas particularly hard hit by job loss and tell people, The jobs werent coming back, and he would react to Trump promising to rebuild the manufacturing base by saying, Well, whats he gonna do? Wave a magic wand? Those jobs are gone. Theyre not coming back. Barack Obama and the Democrat Party purposely lied to the American people about their own country and set them up for low expectations. They called it the new normal.
They said they were the ones to properly manage the decline, and they had their constituents believing that it wasnt possible anymore to do better than your parents, that when that happened, it would be the exception. This was the Obama message for basically eight years. The reason Obama had that message is because that was the intent. The intent was to damage the American economy. The intent was to slow it down. The intent was to strip superpower from the status of the United States, cause Obama and these people really did believe this garbage that we were unjust in our founding, that we were immoral, that we were a slave state.
And we didnt deserve all this prosperity, particularly if wed stolen so much of it which they never offered any evidence for. They just said it. The point is all of this pessimism and all this negativism, every Democrat who idolized Obama and thats practically all of them bought it hook, line, and sinker. Then Donald Trump gets elected. In less than three years, virtually everything Barack Obama and the Democrat Party told the American people has been demonstrated to be utter, pure BS.
Economic growth exceeds 3% per annum. Jobs are more plentiful than they have ever been. The labor force participation rate is at an all-time high. The unemployment rate for African-Americans and Hispanics is at a record low. The United States is renegotiating trade deals to the advantage of the United States. Member states and organizations like NATO are finally paying their fair share. Donald Trump tells states all over the world, The days of you picking our pocket? Those days are over.
Well, the upshot of this, folks For eight years, Obama preaches, This is the new normal: America in decline. Well manage it for you. Well make sure it doesnt hurt you too badly. If you believed that, and here comes Trump, who you hate to begin with who you dont think won the election, who you think stole it with the help of the Russians and now virtually everything you thought was gospel, virtually everything you invested in as gospel has been blown to smithereens? Youd be mad too!
Obama has been demonstrated to be either a liar or incompetent or worse, that Obama didnt care to even try to improve the lives of the American people while saying thats what he was doing. His whole purpose, Obamas whole message was, Look, lifes gonna suck for a while, but were the ones to make it suck less. Were the ones who are gonna cushion the blow. Were the ones who are gonna make sure youre not hurt too bad. Well have a little help on health care there, a little help on student loans over here.
So now the Democrats are lost, folks! Virtually everything they believed has been blown to smithereens. Donald Trump is running rings around them! The Republican Party and conservatism, on issues of substance, are running rings. Even the ChiComs blink on currency manipulation overnight! Donald Trump is running rings around em, and they are beside themselves! They hated him to begin with, and now the hate is out of control! They dont have anything to run on, folks!
Theres no way the Democrat Party can say, Give us a chance. We can do better. A, they dont believe in doing better. They dont believe in self-reliant population. A self-reliant population doesnt help the Democrats. The Democrats need people dependent. The Democrats need people helpless. The Democrats need people who are uneducated and without hope and dont think they have any future. Thats where the Democrats come in and save the day. The more people that dont need the government or the Democrats, the more lost the Democrats and the more unnecessary the Democrat Party is.
And thats exactly where they are right now! They have In a presidential campaign, theres not one of these candidates that is even attempting to say, Let me try. I can do it better. What are they saying? Ill have more class. Ill speak better. Ill be smarter. No. What they really are saying is theyre giving you everything. Theyre offering to give you everything as though its all gonna be free. If it costs $200 trillion? So what! If its $300 trillion? So what! You deserve it; were gonna give it to you! The days of you having to work for it are over.
Besides, if you dont elect us you may never get it anyway, because the Republicans arent gonna give it to you. The Republicans dont want you to have it. All of these lies. The point is, theyve got nothing. When youre running for president and you cant run on anything optimistic? When you cant run on anything positive? When you cant say, Yeah, I know things are pretty good right now, and I can do even better! When you cant say that, when the only thing youve got is to try to convince people that things happening right now are not happening?
The only way you got to run is to tell people the unemployment rates really not that low and the jobs that are being created are really not that good? Thats what was true with Obama! Most of the jobs created with Obama were part-time jobs, not full time. The labor force rate was at an all-time low with Barack Obama! The turnaround has been overwhelming, and in less than three years! Thats why they are so obsessed with all this hate. That is why even their rank-and-file voters are beside themselves, cause they bought into Obama like he was God, like he was The Messiah.
They believed everything! They didnt have the guts to question, the guts to challenge. The first African-American president, he wouldnt lied to them! Well, he was either lying or he was incompetent. But Ill tell you one thing: Obama did not think that whats happening in America today was possible. They dont believe in capitalism, folks. They dont believe in capitalism, even though its the only thing thats ever produced ongoing wealth and prosperity for the masses!
The only thing thats ever done that, they stare at it, they look at it, and they deny it as it stares them in the face! They continue to resort to something that has never worked a single time in the history of humanity: Socialism, communism, totalitarianism, tyranny, whatever you want to call it. Thats where they are, because theyve got nothing else! So now all these candidates are in a race to see who can be the bigger Santa Claus. If I were them, Id be fit to be tied too.
If I were them, I would be so ticked off, Id be so angry, because everything they believe in has been shown to be a gigantic bust and failure and that everything they oppose, does in fact work. Now, this doesnt change the fact that theyre ticked off. It doesnt change the fact that theyre deranged and delusionally angry. It makes em really dangerous, and the media constantly trying to normalize this insanity is how you get people agreeing to sign on to such folly as the red flag laws.
Thats nothing but a beeline to taking your and everybody elses guns away from them (starting with retired military and retired law enforcement) on the pretext that youre mentally disabled, that youre mentally ill, that you have PTSD or some other manufactured mental illness. Hey, man, youre exhibiting red flags! When did I do that? Well, your latest psychiatric session. What did I say? It doesnt matter. The psychiatrist said you pose a danger to the community. We gotta come get your gun.
Thats what they want to do.
Its a hideous bunch of people that were up against, folks. Dishonest, mean, extremist. The home of racism and bigotry right now is the Democrat Party and the object of their rage is white America.
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RUSH: Let me give you some examples of what Im talking about. The Democrats are screaming about what? A $15-an-hour minimum wage. Theyre screaming about this; theyve been screaming about this for years. Take a look at the job openings that you can find where jobs that pay over $100,000 a year that are available right now in the United States: Data scientist, nursing manager, marketing manager, occupational therapist, product manager, developer, engineer.
Theres any number of jobs that are open right now. There are more jobs than there are people to fill them. The Democrats are talking about $15-an-hour minimum wage? Trump has wiped that out as an issue! Its irrelevant! These are not times of suffering and pain economically. The Democrats have been whining for years about how Americans dont save any money, how theyre locked out of investing. Really? The savings rate has risen to 8%. And there are more people invested in the stock market today than ever, with 401(k)s, Keogh plans, SEP IRAs, you name it. The Democrat Party doesnt have it! You yell about old people giving up food to pay for drugs? It isnt happening to the extent that it has been before, because prices on drugs are being dealt with, slowly, but they are being dealt with. In other words, all these issues have just been taken away from them and they know it, folks. Thats why everything has to be given away now.
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RUSH: Wouldnt it be great if the Trump campaign picked up this theme here? I mean, look, I can do it all day long. Theyve gotta be the ones to do it. This has to become part of their campaign. Theyve got to sing their praises. Now, Trump does this at his rallies. Weve got a built-in ad campaign. The Democrats need to be properly characterized for people. The Democrats needed to be properly positioned. Meaning people, voters need to understand where the Democrats are. Theyre lost; theyre gone.
Theyve got nothing positive to campaign on. This is so crucial! Youre running for president of the United States, and theres not one of these 20-some-odd candidates who can say, I can do it better. Give me a shot. Trump did. Trump said to African-Americans, Give me a shot. Whatta got to lose after 50 years of stagnation voting for the Democrats? Now look at African-American unemployment! This is a gold mine waiting to be mined in the hands of adept political advertising creators and campaign strategerists.
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RUSH: All these people out there on the left, some are Never Trumpers, Man, Trumps words are poison! Trumps words are poison? Trumps words are poison? You know whats poisoning this culture is the left! What is it about people on our side where theyre simply unable to see this? Why is it permissible for the left to run around and call all of us white nationalists or white supremacists?
What the hell has Trump ever said that comes close to categorizing, misjudging, misrepresenting an entire segment of the population of this country? And yet the left can seemingly do it with impunity. Donald Trumps words are poison. Donald Trumps words are poisoning our culture. Donald Trumps words are impolite. Donald Trumps words are rude. Donald Trumps words are embarrassing.
What about the people on the left? I dispute the contention anyway. Im not saying two wrongs make a right. Im not even accepting the premise that Trumps words poison anybody. These are people that have just never spoken like real people speak to each other. Trump happens to.
But for Gods sake, folks, they get away with calling us white supremacists every other sentence, every other word were racist, were sexist, were bigots, were homophobes, and these people concerned with the way Trump talks, never condemn the accusatory, slanderous, and libelous language coming our way from the American the Democrat Party and the American left? Hitler, concentration camps? Some of stuff these people on the left utter is sheer, pure bile. And I dont hear any condemnation of it.
I dont hear any condemnation or even criticism of it from people like John Kasich or the Never Trumpers out there who seem to be obsessed with what they think are Trumps mannerism transgressions. And this has always been the puzzling thing. Theyve always said we need an executive with character, an executive with cultures mannerisms, sophistication and a wide academic understanding of the world arrayed around us.
Fine and dandy. Where the hell do we have that on the left, for crying out loud? Barack Obama just cause he spoke well, no matter how much he lied, no matter how much he insulted us, same thing with Bill Clinton, same thing with John Horse Face Kerry. The fact that these people are forever insulated against the same allegations.
They get to insult us, they get to lie about us, they get to impugn our integrity without anybody calling them out, somehow were just supposed to understand thats who they are. When Joe Biden does one of his regular gaffes or commits one of his regular acts of plagiarism, Well, you know, thats just old Joe. Not supposed to think anything of it.
Now white men are serial rapists, abusers and all this. Yet it seems to me most of the people charged with that have been famous, big time rich Democrats lately. Its a two-way street. You know, I want to give you some more examples, by the way, of how I think the Democrat Party has zilch, zero, nada just to explain everything they believe has been taken away from them. All of their promises except now to give everybody everything. Thats how bankrupt these people have become. Just give everybody everything.
Lets stop playing the game. Lets just go for everything. Everybody, you get what you want if Im president. Ill see to it. The reason I think they have descended to this position is because they are bankrupt. They are bankrupt morally. They are bankrupt on policy. They dont have anybody and this so important they dont have anybody running for the presidency who can dare say, I can do it better. I can make things better. Because theyre too busy trying to make everybody believe that we all live in Elijah Cummings district!
Theyre trying to make it look like everybody lives in a sewer, like were in the apocalypse, we are in the post-nuclear era, and theres nothing to go around. We have an unfair distribution of resources, that everybodys in misery, everybodys suffering, the picture these people paint is one of utter desolation, which is where their political fortunes are right now. So what have I covered? Okay. So theyve been promising a minimum wage 15 bucks an hour. Its irrelevant with the job opportunities that exist now. Its irrelevant. Its not supposed to, never was to support a family of four, but its an issue that they dont have anymore. Theres too much economic opportunity out there. People dont have to settle for $15 an hour, is the point.
Savings rate is up. Consumer confidence is sky-high. People are investing in the stock market and benefiting from it because its been on a tear. And theyre all invested anybody with a 401(k), anybody who has any kind of an IRA is invested in the stock market. Thats most Americans. And yet the Democrat Partys out there ripping the Wall Street crowd to shreds.
Heres another one. The Democrat Party for the longest time has been whining and moaning about prison reform, unfair sentencing. The black incarceration rate, much higher percentage of African-Americans in prison. Why? Because of racist America, because Americas still a slave state.
Well, guess what? It was Plugs and Clinton and Obama who instituted those laws that made all that happen! It was Clinton who gave us the Crime Bill of 1994 that Joe Biden actively supported and signed on to and into law, containing the unfair sentencing guidelines and all this stuff. This all came from the Democrat you remember what drove it?
Back in the nineties the Democrat image was they were soft on crime. The Democrats were soft on the military. Thats what they were dealing with back then. So they come across with this crime bill, Were gonna get really tough, were gonna show people were not soft on crime. Were gonna show people our number one constituents are not the criminal element. So they gave us the very stuff that the Democrat candidates are complaining about today.
But who is it that has taken the issue away from them? Who is it that spearheaded, engineered, and signed prison reform? Why, my friends, it was none other than D.J. Trump, Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner moved the issue forward.
And so now weve got prison reform and weve got the stabilization of these African-American incarceration rates. I mean, some people are being let out of jail as you well know, which you may disagree with. I dont care. The point is its another issue taken away from em. Theyre complaining about something thats already been done! Theyre complaining about something thats been done that was necessary to do because of their first support back in the nineties for supposedly getting tough on crime. Look. They know all of this. Even if Im not doing a good job of making this clear, they know. Theyve got nothing to run on here. Theyve got really no complaints other than Trump is an ogre.
They tried Trump is a traitor. They tried Trump stole the election. They tried Trump colluded with Russia. That blew up in their face like Wile E. Coyote. Everything has blown up in their face. And this stuff is gonna blow up in their face, this white nationalist stuff, that Trumps rallies are inspiring all this, is gonna blow up in their face like everything has blown up in their face since election night of 2016.
Whats another thing the Democrat candidates are promising to do? Medicare for All. What does that mean? 160 million Americans get their health insurance at work. Guess whos gonna take it away from you? The Democrat Party. The Democrat candidates are promising as part of health care reform to make Medicare for All, meaning government-run health care, meaning no private health insurance, meaning no health insurance at work, no employer provided. Do you think 160 million people are just gonna sit there and let that happen once they find out this is what the Democrats want to do?
And guess whos exposing this? Other Democrats who dont agree with this! There are some so-called moderates like this Delaney guy and Bob Bennet, the Senator, Bill Bennet, whatever his name is not Bill and theyre all running around in these debates telling these Democrats, If you do this, you are guaranteed to reelect Donald Trump. And so theyre all jumping on these two moderates so-called for not being on the same train here.
But these candidates are all talking about taking away employer based health insurance! As I say, 160 million people have it, 160 million people, if they dont like it, theyre at least satisfied with it. Its something they dont have to worry about. I mean, its there. They may not like the premiums, the prescription costs, there may be some things about it. But its there. It may not be there until the Democrat Party gets finished with em. What kind of lamebrains are these people talking about this? When you promise to give everybody everything, well, you gotta take some stuff away from em first. If people are getting health insurance at work but you want to give health insurance to em, you have to take it away from em first, and then reprovide it. But its the taking it away from em that I dont think a whole lot of people are gonna sign on to. Most people have the benefit of employer health insurance. Talking about taking that away and replacing it with some government-run bureaucracy in the image of Obamacare or the Post Office or the DMV, Im telling you, folks, people are not going to vote for that.
The unions dont have much to bitch about anymore. Trump has worked on manufacturing jobs coming back. Trump alone is defending the coal industry. The Democrat Party is promising everybody again? When will they learn? Hillary promised to get rid of coal. I guess they think they can do it cause Obama got away with it. Obama got away with everything because nobody dared criticize the first African-American president.
But it didnt help Hillary. And its not gonna help Biden or any of these other people. Bidens being very loud about it (imitating Biden), Damn right Im gonna get rid of coal, damn right. One guy says, No, were not. Donald Trump. The unions, what are they gonna do? The unions are gonna sign on with a guy thats gonna put their industry out of business? Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO head honcho, is out there warning the Democrats, You guys, youre making yourselves unnecessary to us. The list goes on.
And the more people are working, the more dues that the union leaders get to abscond, uh, collect. Everybody is happy right now. They just have to go through the motions of hating Trump, but all this adds up to the Democrats dont have an issue. So the only avenue the Democrats have, you talk about threading a needle, Sean Hannity told me the other night, Rush, its so difficult, its so difficult for Republicans to get elected. They really gotta thread the needle, gotta get enough electoral votes in these traditional Democrat states.
I understand all that, but I think its the Democrats needle that is narrow. Well, the Democrat path is narrow. The road is narrow. And the only road open to them is what? Venezuela, socialism, communism, thats it! Give everybody everything. Its a very small and narrow road because this is not a socialist country.
The majority of people dont want it to become a socialist country. The majority of people dont want to give up the right to be the best they can be. They dont want to squander that opportunity and have it replaced by a government mandating what everybody will be and become. Were not there yet.
Here are the outliers: immigration and abortion. Those are the outliers. Immigration, Im gonna hit you point-blank. Immigration would have been solved in the first Trump year had it not been for all of the Obama judges and leftist tools around the world shutting down every effort Trump made to build the wall, to ban travel, to do all the things Trump was trying to do to keep his campaign promise to make sure the only people that got into this country got in here legally through our existing immigration system.
The one thing everybody continues to miss, theyre trying now to portray opposition to illegal immigration as evidence of white supremacy. It has nothing to do with race! Illegal immigration has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with culture and the rule of law. We all know that if our laws end up meaning nothing, theyre all gonna end up meaning nothing. If you can selectively apply em we may as well just write it up and say sayonara because we now have a different country, if the rule of law is that flexible. This isnt about race. Its not about wanting people of color in the country. Its quite the opposite. You give me a country run by Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, throw a couple others in this list, and I would sign up for it tomorrow. This idea that opposition to illegal immigration is about race and white supremacy is one of the most insulting things. Its the exact opposite. Its about the preservation of the American ideal, the preservation of the distinct American culture. And anybody who wants to come here and be a part of that, I dont care if they got horns on their head, it doesnt matter!
But if were just bringing people in here to become essential slaves of the Democrat Party that never learn to speak English, that never learn to take care of themselves cause the Democrats dont want em to, if their own purpose is gonna be to show up every four years and vote Democrat, well, thats not the deal! Even if it was all white people coming in to do that, the opposition would still be the same. It has nothing to do with race.
And abortion. Im gonna tell you, the Democrat Party, who would have ever thought, in order to hold on to abortion they now have to support it after birth? Theyve been on the verge of losing abortion so bad, its like theyre gonna give everything away and now abortion you can have one after you giving birth if you want or right up to the day. Folks, Im telling you these are not winning issues.
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RUSH: Manassas, Virginia. This is Olivia. Thank you, Olivia, for calling. Whats shaking? Whats happening? Whats up? CALLER: Okay, I want to get straight to the point. Im a little nervous. I just dont understand the campaign strategy of the Democrats accusing President Trump of being a racist. The black community largely do not vote for the president. They dont like the president based on believing what the Democrats have told them.
Secondly, the guns, the shootings that happen, we all should be outraged. But the very communities that they say they care about, those type of shootings of so many people dying, I think Baltimore is going to hit another record, they say nothing. Theyre very silent on those issues. So Im not understanding their strategy of what theyre campaigning on RUSH: Well, Ill tell you exactly what it is. Your point about why are they calling Trump a racist when the black vote goes Democrat. Because they want to keep it there. And they know the African-American unemployment rate is at an all-time low. The Democratic Party knows that Donald Trump has performed economic advances or enabled them for African-Americans more so than the Democrat Party has in 50 years. They are scared to death.
When the Democrat Party has run out of things, which is most of the time, thats all theyve ever had, Olivia, is everybody else is a racist. Thats why were sick and tired of it. Theyve said it so often, its lost its impact. So now theyve had to replace it with white supremacist and white nationalist.
So now every white in America led by Trump is not just a racist, why, its even worse. And its because theyre trying to convince African-Americans not to abandon them. And all the violence in these Democrat cities, of course theyre going to ignore that until they can find a way to blame Trump for that, too, which is what theyre trying to do with all of this.
The only issue they have left to run on is race.
Very good.
and who do they have to run... . run on anything?
Doesn’t matter. They will have enough dead people and illegal votes to worry about plus all the brainwashed kids that vote now.
Joseph Epstein had a good column in The Wall Street Journal the other day on the harm done by the word "racism" and why we should stop using the word.
As it becomes more and more unlikely they will find a viable candidate to run against Trump, the danger increases that some Democrat will decide that assassination is the only solution. I hope the people guarding the President are extra-vigilant.
Bump for later. I got about a third of the way through it, but want to read the rest.
Great post.
[[[The only issue they have left to run on is race.]]]
Hate, Vitriol and Intimidation is mainstream Democrat policy now.
Apparently , inciting mass murder is their latest push for voters. Uncivil louts.
Actually, they seem to run only on impeachment and race...these are only meaningless words and not policies.
Forge ahead MORONS...guaranteed Trump win..........
All the FR and inconsolable nay-sayers who hate Limbaugh should take a knee every night and thank God for old Rushbo. He was the pioneer, and talk radio has been the only damned communications arm that has informed Americans when a Conservative could hardly find a friendly voice elsewhere.
I am not usually able to listen to him, but I got to today. Wow!
Bttt
You might say It’s Morning in America.
BTTT
bfl
Wouldn’t you like to have this bunch overseeing the laws of the land after the way they blew up on whites after these shootings???
They seem to have a lynch mob mentality.
Had this very discussion with a few people this weekend.
You can’t say anything about China because you actually agree.
There are no issues that affect you or me that Trump hasn’t already touched so, you have nothing except to undermine the person.
Once you’ve gone personal in your remarks you have conceded you haven’t really studied the issue, have no grasp of the issue or realize you have no grounds to fight on except some imaginary island you live on, Population “You”.
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