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In the Voting and Registration in the Election in November 1996 report issued by the Census Bureau in 1998, there was a general drop in all areas of turnout when compared with 1992, including some of the following trends:

  • 1996 held the lowest levels of reported voting proportional to the population among registered voters since the Census Bureau started compiling such data since 1948
  • The single largest decline in voter turnout between consecutive presidential elections in the Census Bureau’s history (est. 1948) from 61.3 percent to 54.2 percent
  • Actual votes dropped from 114 million to 105 million

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Chainz has apparently learned a thing or two from his Down South predecessors in flossing, the Big Tymers:

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In Thugz Mansion, there would be no death or poverty or violence. Thus, no crime would occur and there would be no reason for the police to patrol. Also, policeman are vilified for within the USA’s slums, mainly for their brutality both in and outside of them and so Nas is also pointing out there would be heaven since the cops would not be there to bash in your face for no reason.

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Thugs would presumably be dancing around the luxurious items not only awaiting them in their Thug Mansion but with Nas the next time they go out to celebrate one of their victories.

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“Loud” is slang for high grade cannabis. Marijuana’s potency is determined by it’s THC content, THC which appears to crystallize on the exterior of the marijuana leaf (in all actuality its merely a trichome. As a result, truly excellent “loud” will often have fine amounts of crystal-like trichomes of THC (main psychoactive chemical) on the exterior, a sort of “Buyer Beware” but positive since you know you are about to have a good ass time.

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Despite all the warning signs, there was a widespread belief Obama was for the people. Despite his top contributors being Wall Street’s financial and technology firms the belief persisted.

Then even after hiring over 100 big money lobbyists all doubts were gone; Obama was a man of the people, mainly because people stopped hearing about his promise to end lobbyist influence or just plain didn’t care/know about the current situation.

Either way, he lied and it was a gimmick to appeal to the population. It worked.

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Uhhhm…I hate to correct you Kissinger, but we actually “hit back” over 50 times from 1945 to 1971.

Fifty times!!

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John Foster Dulles, President Dwight D. Einsehower’s first U.S. Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959, did not care about any interests unless they were explicitly American.

There is a long list of contributions both blood-stained and brazenly aggressive which Dulles left the American empire with such as:

This is just the declassified stuff. It’s no wonder countries did not mess around with America: they were actually scared of the chief diplomat, Dulles, and his refusal to shy away from brazen if not confrontational political maneuverings.

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