7. AMERICA WILL FALL #2

WHY AMERICA WILL FALL #2. Interesting note, compiled from WSJournal of 7.15.16 - The story related the immense, growing, unspoken, and ongoing cost of running a militaristic society, millions of ever-increasing veteran's benefits and programs, and now THIS expansion. All completely out of line. This cannot hold, nor should it, but no one lifts a finger to stop it. Pandering. Current disability and 'medication' programs for veterans is $60 billion (2015). A new wave of 5 million is coming on, at a 100% benefit of $3,000 a month, base. Fraud is now completely widespread. And, the latest wrinkle, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), for which doctors love to prescribe their own paybacks, will be redefined. A veteran NO LONGER needs an 'incident' of battle to cause PTSD diagnosis. The military will now accept that FEAR itself can cause an incident. NO. I cry foul. No, I cry foul. Not ONE politician will stop these ghoulish raids on our national tax-treasury. gar

6. MY THEORY OF FIFTHS - T80

TRANSOM #80 : MY THEORY OF FIFTHS : Electoral politics being what it is, this gets a little complicated, but hear me out. Effectively, after all the hooting and hollering, the reality is that the popular vote, the actual numbers, count for very little. A candidate can get more 'votes' yet still lose the 'election' because they are the wrong votes, not the Electoral College votes which are the actual 'political' votes needed. That being as it may, which leads a bias towards Clinton to begin with, there is a very conceivable strategy that could be at work here as, if done smartly, by Trump, to win Trump, the election. It may very well be his 'strategy' here, early on, to alienate and break the Republican base, after walking off, of course, to their chagrin, with their party. He eventually crosses one too many lines. The Republicans finally get disgusted enough. They repudiate him, cut his candidacy loose, and put up, or plant, an alternate candidate, by them, their own guy. Trump, no matter what, has a very strong, vocal, and unforgiving (and committed) base. They will vote for HIM, regardless. (That's one-fifth). The new 'Republican' party candidate gets his or her basic contingent of leftover Republican, never Clinton!, votes. (That's two-fifths). The Democrat/Clinton stalwarts will vote for her, no matter the rest. (That's three-fifths). The Indies, fudge around voting for candidates of their own (that's four-fifths). And then, the 'disgusteds' - alienated, angry, non-voters, distant, unwholesome (- that's five-fifths), they start trickling back. Surprise is, Trump's affrontery and bombast can draw some of them back in; militants, anarchists, fanatics and right-wing extremists. Whoever can get to own the fifth-fifth contingent can squeak in. At least I can see it happpening - and in my estimation it's why Trump wishes to cause outrage enough to BE dumped. He can pick up the pieces, regardless, and come in at 35-38% and get it, IF they are the right votes and IF he can build on that, even just a little. Weirder things have happened. Less an uprising or an outright public revolt - by the sort whom Trump can lift up, the real American Sluggo, the unwashed and underrepresented - they can be placated by him at the ballot box. All the other panty-waists - Bill Clinton, Barack Obama - who's always been nothing but a panty-waist anyway - and Hillary Clinton, who's a panty-waist trying to claim she's not, can fall by the wayside with their faces all pinched, claiming fraud, but in a losing cause. He can win by just continuing to be himself. The more candidates there are, the fewer votes he actually needs, on a downward trajectory. gar

5. CHUCK D

CHUCK D 'RAGING FOR AMERICA' - "The police are only the watchdogs of the law - the law has always been unfair, has always been biased. 'The power' is usually governments who talk equality but never carry it out. See, I'm a culturalist. Culture brings humans together through our similarities. Governments and culture are diametrically opposed. Beware of a government that tells you that they give you culture: The government has control over the narrative of stereotypes of people of color, and it pushes culture in that direction as well, [dictating to us] because the truth never flows to light. You gotta FIND the truth on airwaves. You gotta FIND the truth on television. You have to FIND the truth in newspapers much of the time. If you try to do something good, it's not going to make the front page. It's really exhilarating to see a presidential nominee with a train wreck coming out of his mouth, and people are astonished and shocked by it, and treat it as if it's a haunted house. You know the haunted house where people are afraid but they go in anyway? That's what this Donald Trump thing is like. It says, 'Stay away!' It says, 'Get out!' And you keep saying, 'Oh, my God it's so scary!' while walking into the haunted house. Then you see a head roll down the staircase. And you're like: 'Oh my God! What's up them steps? What's up that staircase?' It's not about being pro-Hillary. The word is out there that she'll do anything and say anything to be in that position. People of color? First of all, race is just a silly, stupid concept. So I don't know what [it means to say] 'I embrace people of color.' When he yells, he gets red-faced. O.K., I'm going to embrace all the red-faced people today...Governments are the cancers of civilization. The nerve for a government to say who can't move around on this planet - I mean, that's an alien concept. I think it's absurd for some government to say who and what is an immigrant. It's a lot of fucked-up shit."