Month: March 2020

The Radicalism of Candice Keller: What she has in common with streakers and other rule breakers

You can learn a lot about people by watching how they deal with pressure, so for that very reason I am a big fan of conflict. I think it’s the only way to really vet an idea, or a person beholding an idea. So when it comes to elections, debates are important ways to determine the right candidates from those who voters should pass on. With that said, there was a good debate hosted by the West Chester Tea Party on March 3rd at the Life Church at the corner of Butler Warren road and Rt 42 just south of Mason, Ohio that involved many of the candidates for the upcoming primary election that will be on March 17th so the timing of it was critical for voters to make their decisions and learn what they could while there was still time. And in the clip below a summary of the debate evolved into a tense exchange between George Lang who is running for the 4th District Senate seat in Ohio and his challenger, the disgraced fallen angel from the Statehouse Candice Keller. To George’s right was Lee Wong who couldn’t hold his excitement for Keller’s attacks on George while on George’s left was Keller who broke the rules of the evening by refusing to keep her comments within the time limit as she patronized the obvious front-runner like a mother scolding a baby, part of her strategy of attacking the establishment structure of the GOP itself as if she was ordained by God himself to step over the rules of mankind just to get her way. It is an interesting psychological performance that says a lot about all three candidates.

Now when it comes to rules, it is people who are on flimsy ground who need to break them. For instance, if I wanted to get rid of all the bad guys in the world, I would just take my guns out on the streets and shoot down everyone I thought was bad, and from my perspective, that may be a heroic thing to do. But its against the laws we have created as a society. Obviously to prevent that kind of violence from happening I instead elect representatives to create laws that we all somewhat agree to so we can have a stable society where rules prevent that kind of violence. So while people were clapping in the audience that Candice Keller broke the rules of the debate by going well over her time limit, she essentially stated that she was willing to break any rules thrown her way if it meant she could make her point. What she does as a legislator or as a potential legislator in the senate is not relevant if she feels God gives her some permission to break the laws of mankind to serve some master that is over the governing bodies of elections. And like the Ding Dong that Lee Wong is, he was there clapping with the other radicals in the audience who applauded Candice Keller’s attack on George Lang and the GOP establishment in general as a symbolic gesture that went far beyond acceptability. What if God said to me to hit the streets and shoot all the drug dealers, all the abortion practitioners, and all the people of corruption whom I might meet that day? That kind of testimony doesn’t hold up in any court of law, but it would certainly label such a person as a deranged lunatic.

The strategy that is clearly unsaid between Lee Wong and Candice Keller was on stage that evening and their attack, their beef with the world is that they are not part of the establishment, and if given a choice would like to be. George Lang is the front runner, the clear establishment figure in this election for senate so any shots that they can take at that formidable wall they consider a success. Lee Wong has very little shot at winning this election but his history with George Lang goes way back to over a decade so he and Candice hope to peel away enough votes between them to bring down not only an establishment candidate, but to bring harm to the GOP itself. However, their placement on the outside as opposed to the inside were results of their own decisions. They chose to be where they are in life, and now they find themselves looking in from the outside where politics is clearly a collaborative sport. You must be able to build teams, not just vote up or down. You must live within the rules you vote on; you can’t just do whatever you want and not give the mic to the next person when your time limit is up. Of course Crazy Candice received an applause for her actions, just as a nude streaker gets cheers at a ball game for breaking the rules, stripping off all their clothes, jumping the fence and running around for as long as they can until they are captured by security. That was essentially what Keller did at the debate as George, who was clearly playing by the rules, was clearly at a disadvantage within that audience to the spectacle.

You can’t call yourself good if you can’t be successful within the ground rules of the game, and in a debate where people are making decisions about you based on your skills to make rules and follow the rules, when you can’t follow the simple format you are announcing to the world that you will do what you want when you want no matter what it costs. It might look like a little thing to just a casual observer but Candice Keller and Lee Wong are both on the outside clapping for the downfall of the establishment because they have not shown themselves skilled at being politicians within the rules of the game, so they want to bring the game down because they can’t be successful within the established rules. Its also healthy to challenge the rules but that’s not what Candice was doing, it was in breaking the rules that she hopes to appeal to voters who just want to bring down the established politics of our times, and this is a person who wants to go to Columbus to make rules. The problem is obvious and watching that clip, you can see the normally mild mannered Ding Dong Lee Wong show his true colors by gesturing to Candice’s disrespect for the format structure and attack at that wall which divides insiders from outsiders with the same enthusiasm as an ANTIFA anarchist.

George Lang has been very successful at following the rules and creating them. All he could really do even under pressure was sit there and listen to Keller go on and on because she was obviously outside the format of the event which he wasn’t willing to follow. He could have broke a whole bunch of rules and taken action against her to shut her up, but Candice knew that as the established candidate to beat, George had everything to lose, while she had nothing, so it was no skin off her back to go on some radical rampage using her pro-life work as a mask of civility to justify her breaking of the rules that evening. If George had done the same, he would have shown himself to be as desperate as Lee and Candice were, so he sat there and took it the best he could even though it was wrong at so many levels. He held his composure well and people saw what was going on and that was why the event was a good one. Pressure certainly showed the good from the bad and voters had a clear view of who could live within the rules and who could be trusted to make new ones. But more than that, the reason that Candice Keller is being thought of as crazy is becoming clear for people. People may clap and cheer at the streaker showing their rear, but in the minds of everyone, they think they are crazy. Everyone who has to step outside the rules of society to make their point will be thought in this way, and that is particularly destructive to those running for an office that actually makes rules.

Rich Hoffman

Crazy Candice Keller Debates George Lang: A mask of righteousness to hide sheer incompetence

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I had gone to the Candidate Forum for the West Chester Tea Party at a nice little church in West Chester hoping to get a chance to talk to Candice Keller and to convince her to get behind George Lang to salvage her political career. Instead what I found there was a bitter woman afraid of the world, claiming the opposite, which is quite evident during her closing statements at that debate shown below. I know that George Lang, her rival for the senate run for the 4th District had been trying to keep it clean, but Candice and her followers would not stop with the negative punches on their Facebook page and on that same date Friends of George Lang decided to punch back, hard with a mailer depicting Candice Keller in what would be confirmed at that debate, as a crazy, terrified, conspiracy theorist who believes that the world is out to get her and to blame everyone else for the many bridges that she had burnt. George Lang tried to play it straight with her, even during his closing comments for the night, but anybody with half a brain could see that George was all that Candice could think about, and even deeper than that, had psychologically become her pin cushion for all the mistakes she had made which was now culminating in a short lived career as a 53rd House of Representative member at the Ohio Statehouse.

The truth of the matter was that Candice Keller had caught a fellow Republican sleeping when she won the 53rd District as a Tea Party type and she was on her way to the Statehouse to legislate. She believed in conservative ideas, however her ability to practice team building and really a true understanding of what a government representative is supposed to be doing was anchored to a kind of radicalism that might sound logical to church goers on Sunday, but were not connected to reality all the other days of the week upon a more general audience, and by the time she arrived on that stage just outside of Mason, Ohio as a candidate for the 4th District, she knew of no other way to get there but to burn down the Republican Party to hide all her missteps along the way. After hearing her talk for and hour and a half I didn’t want her endorsement of George Lang any longer to save her career. I just wanted to never see her again because she’s that kind of person, a revolting specimen who blames everyone but herself for problems that she created.

Even during that clip shown above, her son was sitting in the front row of the audience mouthing intimidating gestures to George as he was talking on the stage. You can see George responding to the kid in defense, trying to keep it as light as possible. But it took me by surprise. After the debate I talked to Todd Hall, the Chairman of the Republican Party because during the debate Candice had called out to him from the stage as if to paint a target on him for the other members of the audience. Then at the end during her closing statements she indicated that she wasn’t afraid of the Republican Party or Sheriff Jones—which clearly established herself not as a Republican but a fringe radical that she had painted herself into being. That was what I was hoping to help her fix upon going, but it was quite clear that too much damage had already occurred, and she was too far gone. What Todd told me was that his phone was full of intimidating text messages from Candice Keller herself. The case was pathetic to people who know better, he certainly wasn’t afraid of her coming to try to beat him up, but she certainly meant to imply that if she could, she would because things had not gone the way she had hoped they would as she entered the Senate race. She got caught saying some bad things that forced the Republican Party to distance themselves and she didn’t give anybody time to recover, she just kept piling on until she alienated everyone. Then she sought to bring George Lang down to cover her own indiscretions. So yes, George Lang has every right in the world to fight back, and I think we all would expect him to.

Even more than that, many people whom I spoke with wanted escorts to their cars because they were concerned that Candice’s son might assault them in the parking lot outside the church. I offered to help make sure they could get to their cars safely, but why would they even think such a thing? That is not how you get elected into a high office, you can’t punch and scratch your way into a victory and try to intimidate everyone in your way. That might work for some small election, but not for a big district like the 4th. Sure, sometimes you must fight, but only when everything else falls apart. Its obvious that Candice and her supporters think fight first then burn everything to the ground second, then hope something works out last. The biggest bully in that room that night was certainly Candice Keller who had pushed and pulled everyone around her to suit her own ambitions and to hide it from the world, as she attempted to put that mask on everyone around her, and in this instance, it was George Lang because he was running against her for that senate seat. And if he didn’t like it, her son was in the front row letting George know he was watching him.

Of course, after the debate, things were pretty normal. Everyone broke off into their own circles of influence and there wasn’t any conflict. But that so many people were concerned about it says a lot about how Candice Keller has presented herself to those outside her circle. She was thought of as a bully and not in the good way, certainly not as a freedom fighter for the people in the Statehouse, but an uncooperative stone thrower who refused to hear anything from anybody who did not agree with her and if they didn’t, then they were the spawns of Satan and agents of evil from the armies of Hell. And just a note, most people don’t want to deal with people who think that way—they come across as crazy. And in the case of Candice, if you follow how she handled her House seat from beginning to end each year that she held that seat she has dug herself into a deeper and deeper hole since 2016. By the end of it just four years later not only the Republican Party of Butler County but the Ohio Republican Party didn’t want to deal with her, and that isn’t good.

People who screw up in life usually blame others for their problems, in the case of Candice Keller, it’s the establishment. Candice blew the chance to help the establishment get better so of course all she can think to do is rip it down so there is no reminder of her failure. Its easy to blame the establishment and to attack it. I do it all the time, but in doing so, we must have solutions. You can’t just destroy; at some point you have to build something. I’ve known George Lang, and good people like Mark Welch, Ann Becker and Todd Hall for a very long time and I know them to be good people who want to do good things. Good is a relative term of course depending on belief systems and all types of considerations, but good from the perspective of understanding. The measure is whether or not people can buy into that understanding of good and that’s what elections are for. What makes Candice Keller crazy is that she insists quite the opposite, that anybody who doesn’t agree with her is a devil or part of the conspiratorial establishment and she uses those designations to hide her own lack of skill in helping the establishment solve problems with truth, justice and the American way. And that is why she has lost all support around her and is headed toward another embarrassing moment in this upcoming election, for which she and her family will only have themselves to blame.

Candice said it all during her closing at the debate on March 3rd, 2020 when she spent the whole time essentially talking about George Lang and nothing about herself other than showing how different she is from him. Gas as of this date is $1.95 a gallon and knowing that was the path, DeWine wanted a gas tax which the legislature negotiated down to pay for things as we go. DeWine thought it was responsible, people like George kept him in check and kept the door open to work with the governor on gun legislation that is pro Second Amendment. All Candice did was say no. The energy deal she went on and on about was a tie to greenie weenie tech that would have went into place if the support was not voted on to contribute to financial health. George’s vote to support was to help a business struggling against a lot of forces that wanted to bring in Obama era energy policies that had set that business up to fail. All Candice said to the matter was no. As I have pointed out, firefighters belong to huge international trade unions and have funds that need to be managed, which Keller completely ignored. According to her, just because firefighters are willing to run into a fire while the rest of us run out, we should just pay them infinite amounts of money. That’s not a very conservative position at all. But more than that, Candice showed in her closing that she can bitch and show herself a victim to bullies when as it turns out, the only bully in the room was her and her campaign. And as to the things she has said about George Lang before that mailer ever went out, I know they are lies because I know George, for a long time. And she stood in a church and defended those lies with great conviction, and that makes me even question not just her sanity, but her true belief in an almighty God. After that debate, I question both.

Candice wasn’t alone, watching the video notice how Ding Dong Lee Wong sitting next to George was clapping with Candice in her closing. The takeaway is that these are people who are on the outside of politics looking in, trying to appeal to Trump supporting Tea Partiers, but under pressure and emotion revealed who they really were. And in a political system where being a Republican means something, both of those candidates were clapping that Candice was rebelling against the GOP. So, what is their option—anarchy? To become future Democrats? Or to stay as independents? That simple gesture by Crazy Candice and Ding Dong Wong states precisely why the only candidate to vote for is George Lang for more reasons than we can name, but for the one that matters most, because the other options are either crazy, dangerous, or just plain stupid. And those are not traits that belong in our Ohio Senate.

Rich Hoffman

Yes, Videogames like Call of Duty can Inspire Violance: But they are wonderful to play and a big part of our future

As we watch the results that will shape up the 2020 presidential race from the Democrat perspective it’s a good time to talk about gun control and the latest Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare. I recently bought the game which came out last November, which I didn’t have time for then due to other projects and a much-needed long vacation. But over the winter months and with one of my grandsons showing an interest in the game I went ahead and bought it so I could learn what all the fuss was about. I’m not new to Call of Duty, in fact my particular PlayStation 4 was a Call of Duty: Black Ops bundle so I’m familiar with the franchise and the game play. But WOW, what a cool game and for anybody who is worried about gun control fanatics taking over and outlawing guns, I think quite the opposite will be happening. For a society that is penalizing children for every time a kid pretends to make a gun with their finger, or with a comb and gets detention during recess, these games are the exact opposite. Kids after playing games like Modern Warfare and Fortnite are much more likely to grow up to be supportive of guns, not less so. After playing Modern Warfare online for a few weekends now I have to say, it’s a lot of fun, and no wonder so many people enjoy those games. But there will be a political impact that must be navigated.

I love violent video games, just as I was as a kid, I would play war with anybody with two legs and was willing. The primordial nature of it is essential to the human experience. But make no mistake about it, I have no doubt that video games can inspire violent behavior, especially among the mentally ill or perpetually hopeless. I can easily see young people, or old people wanting to mimic the killing sprees on a game like Modern Warfare in real life because the experiences in the game are so lifelike. Yet, I am not one who thinks that there should be additional regulations on the video game industry, quite the opposite. I want to be able to play games like Modern Warfare and play shoot people at all hours of the night and day in any amounts that I desire, and I want video game companies to be freer to provide even more content. However, saying that, there is a greater need today for an adult population to coach young people on real firearm handling and to develop the healthy respect that is needed when using them to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

The promotion of guns in Modern Warfare even down to modifying each weapon with a gunsmith is intense and is a great way for people to learn more about guns. I would say that for an entry point into the shooting sports, a game like Modern Warfare has tremendous potential to expand gun rights as people are more familiar with guns than ever before. When I was young, we had BB gun wars where we’d try to shoot at each other. We also would throw dirt clots out of the garden because they exploded in a cloud of dust upon impact. At every break in school we had battles with each other on the playground and up and down the hallways. Its something humans need to do with one another like kittens play fighting with each other harmlessly, but to build up the muscle memory of action when needed for some future time when it might matter to defend their families from harm. But it was never so easy than to just turn on a video game console and go into a battle like that with players all around the world on a whim and engage in such an activity without any fear at all of being hurt. This is brand new territory relatively speaking, and it is building in our society whether or not the political forces of government like it or not, a real love for firearms that goes far beyond anything that I experienced as a young person.

I would go as far to say that I found my experiences online with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare heavenlike, it is some of the best fun I can say I’ve experienced in a long time and I can’t believe I’m so late to the party. Call of Duty has been around for a while, but I have been way too busy to play in that world because I thought of it as only being for young people. But it was through my grandson that I have been learning about Fortnite and now Call of Duty in a serious way and I get the fun. I would say I’m a bit more savvy about these kinds of video game things than other people my age, but even for me, its like a whole world that has been out there that I didn’t have any knowledge of. And those people are all potential voters and they will be interested in learning to shoot for real because of their video game experiences, and it is up to those of us who support Second Amendment activities to help guide them through the experience, safely. Yet there is no question about it, these modern video game players love guns and playing around with them, it won’t take much to gain their support for a society that relishes the Second Amendment.

With all the concern that American society might slide into a socialist state, or even embrace communism by those same young people, my thoughts on the matter is that they are confused. Their educations have taught them to embrace socialism and from their point of view, if they have free health care, free college tuition, free housing—free, free, free from government, they would have more time to do something they really enjoy, like play Call of Duty. But in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, or even Fortnite, the rewards for a job well done come fast and often and are the real incentive to continue playing. I found it personally very rewarding to go on a kill streak where gold rewards pop up on the screen with great dramatic effect. To get those rewards it really encourages you to keep playing and is deeply satisfying and a people responding to those neurological conditions are not going to embrace Karl Marx. Those two things just don’t go together. However, some deranged lunatic smoking way too much pot, or any at all, might want to get those same responses in real life while shooting real people, and once they have done so as a mass shooter are depressed that the thrill wasn’t nearly so rewarding and the consequences were life ending. There is a lot going on in our modern society and much of that is quite evident in the new Call of Duty game Modern Warfare. I’m a big fan now and will likely spend some time and effort on that fast-moving video game, because it’s cool, and relatively cheap when compared to shooting in real life. And for anybody who even likes guns a little bit, I can’t think of a better way to spend your free time than in playing those types of games.

Rich Hoffman

The Evolving Case of Giants in Ohio from Across the World: History as we know is changing forever

I’m not going to spend much time talking about it because I’m still negotiating to get a very rare book about lost races of people who have dropped out of our historic record, but I spent all weekend trying to get it. The book is considered a rare print which is something I feel a lot of passion about, and it was written during the 1800s before what I call the purge occurred. However, I can’t help but see some similarities to modern politics that are coming out of a movement that the rest of the world isn’t ready for. Its very much the same problem where establishment control over information is falling apart in this early new century where personal ambitions and hobbies are doing a better job than the traditional college institutions have, and that is what I would call the greatest mystery the world has been covering up for thousands of years, and its unraveling in front of our faces as we speak, which is why I was working so hard to secure that mysterious book all weekend long going from obscure brick and mortar bookstore to bookstore hidden in obscurity behind the chaos of a media culture that is extensive, and very noisy, most of the time quite on purpose.

I cover these issues from time to time as kind of a fun fill in to the politic discussions that normally are a majority of my work, but to me its all the same problem. Since I live in Southern Ohio I have grown up with an understanding about the mound builders that were traditionally associated with Indians and are tightly controlled by the government regarding research into who the mound builders were and why they built these things. Occasionally I have written very popular articles on the nature of the giant skeletons that were found coming out of these mounds which over time has opened up my mind to the obvious cover-up that has occurred, which the more I learn, has made me more and more angry. When we talk about the government getting involved in weaponizing the IRS or the FBI for political moves that benefit a more centralized government we find the same thing happening in the fields of the sciences. For instance, universities who do research into global warming find grants come easily to them from the government whereas those who are doing more independent research do not get money, so the university system has built their business model around liberalism for all those reasons, and it certainly does skew what research happens in the pursuit of truth and leaves much to be desired toward real inquiry.

However, we live in a time where information has been decentralized and people can talk and find each other much easier than in the past, making networking through the university system much less applicable to the endeavors of science. And more than ever, books published before the great purge of university institutionalism that started to really become a problem around 1915 have lost their power making it very important to go back to times before it and read what people were saying about archaeology and anthropology before money from the government became such a corrosive issue. And specifically, to that topic is the problem of who we are as a human species and what our true history is. I started asking those questions about 10 years ago when I ran across a map at the Mothman Festival in West Virginia that indicated in Ohio the burial locations of several giants, and I have written about them on occasion not as a conspiracy, but as an evolving topic. For instance, I know as I can see it from my front porch the very large Middletown Mound that used to be a near twin to the Miamisburg Mound just up the Great Miami River that within it are likely the skeletons of a giant race of people who lived in North America well before what we call the Indians ever inhabited the region. The evidence collected over the last ten years by many independent journalists has blown the lid off the case and we are in new territory that goes well beyond the skepticism of the television show Ancient Aliens. The government knows full well what’s in those mounds in Ohio, but it is using rules and regulations to hide the contents from society in general and for good reasons of their own. They were part of the purge and they want to keep the secrets that way for as long as possible. But like we see in politics where Donald Trump has become a great president by being unconventional, the establishment wants to maintain their power over history for as long as they can.

I wouldn’t say I have been a maniac about the topic, but I have gone around Ohio studying the various mounds and wondering if history was wrong about the makers and I have chronicled that journey on this blog site occasionally with some speculative analysis. But it was while traveling in England and visiting Stonehenge and the sites around the area where I become very convinced that it was the same people who were making monuments in the Ohio Valley, near my home, which meant that there was transatlantic diffusion by boat over three thousand years ago, well before the Vikings, well before even the Phoenicians, and certainly well before Christopher Columbus and they had an empire in place that extended all the way down to South America well before there were ever Mayans, Aztecs, and Incan people. To admit such a thing would have dire consequences to many forces who have justified their leadership to thousands of years of human civilization and to reveal that we have been living in another kind of Dark Ages, where information was controlled first by the Roman Empire, then by the Church which replaced it as a power in Europe, then by a government using secret societies to steer people’s minds away from the evidence until this present time where full disclosure is inevitable because of the free nature of our country in America and the desire to know things that have been obvious.

The more I have learned the angrier I have become due to the obvious misleading that has been going on for such a long time. I think the most important aspect of the wild fires in Brazil has been the revelation of the many lost cultures that were once established along the Amazon and we are not talking about primitive people but the same type of advanced culture that came straight out of Mesopotamia and migrated by ship across both oceans and settled in the Americas to launch just as complex cities states that have been now listed among the lost races of mankind, which is why I spent the weekend looking for that old book. I want to read it for myself and to start at that point at untangling the web of deceit that is being hidden behind the Native American façade that has paralyzed proper research in America through political correctness and a misguided assumption from the start. I will have a lot more on this in the future, but for the readers here I would direct their attention to the work of a guy who started sending me little messages almost a decade ago when I first published a list of giant skeleton locations, which surprised me when I learned about it. But since, Fritz Zimmerman has published several books on the subject and that has ignited L.A. Marzulli to start making films of their investigations and the evidence is quite overwhelming. I would suggest that it is the biggest cover-up of our civilization, and its something that deserves to be exposed because once it is well understood, it will change everything we know about history and our place within it.

Rich Hoffman

All The Money in the World: Bloomberg just wasn’t likeable, yet nobody dared to tell him that who wanted his cash

President Trump’s CPAC speech was the best thing to come out of the Saturday primary votes where Joe Biden won in South Carolina, which he should have. South Carolina is a state where even the liberals are more moderate along the political spectrum than in other places in the country. The people there were certainly not going to vote for a socialist in Bernie Sanders. And Sanders said the right things after he finished in a distant 2nd place, nobody wins all the states. Even Trump lost a few states to his rivals in 2016, but Super Tuesday likely won’t see much of a change in the dynamics. Sanders is going to have a good day; Biden is an alternative to those not ready to admit that the Democrat Party is and always was committed to socialism while everyone else is way behind in the horse race and will remain there. Yet it was Trump’s mimicking of Mini Mike Bloomberg that captured the day as something to note. As Trump nearly got on his knees in front of the CPAC audience to reflect on Bloomberg’s stage presence the statement about spending $700 million to get such bad election results is an important lesson. It takes a lot more than just television adds and media support to win elections, you have to have a message people can relate with, and Bloomberg just doesn’t have it, and all the money in the world can’t buy it.

It is very interesting that entering Super Tuesday that the Bloomberg campaign even with all their money to spend—way more than the other candidates—are in such denial as to their real position. Michael Bloomberg just isn’t likeable. He comes across as an intrusive micromanager trying to scam his way under the skirt of some poor woman trying to fend off the sexual advances of a creepy old man. And his attitude was framed well by his campaign when they said that Bloomberg is the only candidate to have campaigned in all the upcoming Super Tuesday states because of his wall to wall coverage of ad buys. Yet all he has managed to do is buy roughly 15% of the vote in all those states and is trending backwards in many of the Super Tuesday targets which means that by the end of the upcoming week, he will join Tom Steyer in being forced to leave the presidential race. The Democrats are going to end up choosing either the communist Bernie Sanders or the socialist/progressive Joe Biden who has attached to him massive corruption that will be exposed in any presidential run. Nobody else is even close to those two which is all the reason in the world that Democrats want there to be something to distract the world from their misery, such as the coronavirus.

This is essentially the problem that Hillary Clinton had where she thought in 2016 that she was going to win without doing all the work just because she had more money in her war chest to buy ads and get her name into the minds of people. The media of course is willing to take a candidate’s money, and that money might buy some support among commentators, but it can’t buy a message. And it can’t buy likeability. We all remember when Hillary Clinton was caught being propped up from passing out at that 9/11 ceremony where her team couldn’t hide her in a van fast enough. The truth of that day was that Clinton wasn’t prepared for a fight with someone with boundless energy like Donald Trump and ultimately the Democrats fear that the most in Joe Biden, that even if he were to win, there would be no way he could keep up with Trump and not come out sounding like a loser. So in some ways they were hoping that Bloomberg would get some traction. They went out and got some celebrity endorsements like Clint Eastwood and others who would say nice things about Bloomberg but just as with Hillary Clinton, it had been shown that nobody really cares what celebrities think about anything. They get paid to say what others think and that has not helped Bloomberg in the slightest. It didn’t help the flat campaign of Hillary Clinton and the political landscape is even less sympathetic now.

It’s a lesson for everyone that money can buy consultants, they can buy kind statements from the media whether its from actors or news commentators, but money can’t make anybody likeable. And Michael Bloomberg just isn’t likeable. His short stature is just part of it, but he’s short in all the worst ways, not just in height, but in his likeability. When Trump poked fun at how short Bloomberg was, it wasn’t just that the media billionaire who could barely see over the podium was physically small, but his thinking is and people can see it. They see him as petty, and overly authoritarian, and nobody wants another boss in life telling them what kind of soft drinks they can have, or where they are going to get their healthcare. People just aren’t that stupid and Bloomberg with all his money couldn’t figure that out, which is mystifying to an establishment that have built all their reputations on that flimsy premise.

And that will be the case when these billionaire candidates do drop out and get behind whatever candidate ends up getting the Democrat nomination. Their money won’t matter because the ads don’t matter anymore in this world where social media has equalized the election process. Money is important as a kind of pre-vote leading up to an election if a candidate can show support from a donor base, but it doesn’t do much to change the opinions of voters in a world that can get plenty of information about people outside of the official channels of mainstream media. Newspapers do not have the power they once did, and television news is so crowded with more interesting content that ad buys really don’t change minds, they just remind people of the name recognition once they are there on voting day to pull the lever for someone. Money can’t buy likeability, it can just get the name out, but if that name is attached to unpleasant thoughts, it can work against a candidate.

That is why Mini Mike Bloomberg will soon be on the way out blowing half of a billion dollars on nothing, and he will likely spend half that amount on the eventual Democrat winner trying to help them beat Trump in the November election purely out of spite. But it won’t matter because while the media won’t be honest with them and tell them how little their money really matters; I’ll be happy to. There is just too much competition out there for news. If a candidate is a phony, or a communist, people are going to find out about it, all the fancy ads won’t help at all. In a time where opinion was much more easily shaped, ads may have worked, but not in this day where media is consumed voraciously and in large doses. There just isn’t a way for an unlikable candidate to come across better by buying likeability. That isn’t for sale and in a free society with an open press, which includes all the Twitter feeds, blogs, and independent videos that are out there screaming for attention, all the money in the world can’t change an unlikeable person into a bastion of sentiment. And if that lesson hasn’t already been learned, it will be before 2020 is over, and Trump will still be the president.

Rich Hoffman

The Coronavirus and the Road Runner: An overplayed media is frustrated that the stock market hasn’t crashed yet

You could almost hear it in their voices at CNBC as the Dow closed Friday at only -357 points down. They were hoping for another day where the Dow lost over a 1000 points as the previous days had been. Media outlets already had the reports ready to talk about the biggest stock market losses ever as if it pointed to signs that the Trump economy was going to slow and a wonderful recession was in the making which might finally stop the president during an election year. But the Dow rallied a bit to close at less of a loss going into the weekend, and that didn’t sit well with the naysayers. They had been weaponizing the coronavirus as their most recent attack on Trump’s optimistic handling of American affairs, and last ditch effort to harm him in some way for the election in November but just like the Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons, the slight turn of the Dow indicated what the rest of us already knew, that this one will blow up in their faces too.

As I said the other day, this coronavirus issue is a hoax designed to cover up the bad economic data from China, and it has spread across the world by market managers who would like to see Trump gone, hoping to incite panic and harm to the American economy. The virus no doubt is real, but the effects have been greatly blown up by the same media that tried to make the “golden showers” story stick, the general Russian hoax, the impeachment scandal and a few years of the Mueller report. In the same way that the FBI had a plan B in case Trump was elected, market investors were trying to incite panic on purpose as to the strength of the virus in hopes to remove a president from office, once again. But the virus is a virus, and it does look big if you only look at the numbers of people affected. However, placed against the percentages of the world population we are talking about percentages near 0%. Most of us have a better chance of being hit by a car, or being hit by a meteor shooting in from space than in being struck by the coronavirus, and if we were by some chance, we certainly wouldn’t die from it. Its always good to be cautious and to take these things seriously, but shutting down the world over it is a bit much and says a lot about our panic driven society.

But I would offer again, this is the time to buy stocks if you are so inclined. It may be a good idea to see where things bottom out, but the name of the game is to buy low and sell high. I think the true value of the Dow will hit over 30,000 by the summer so anything purchased in this upcoming week could lead to massive gains if you are fortunate enough to invest enough money to see it really make an impact. There have been few times in history where the potential gains were so obvious and the bets less risky than in buying stocks at a time when political pressure purely has been the driver behind massive selloffs. We’re not talking about market corrections; we are talking about a radicalized agenda trying to set off a chain reaction to stop a thriving economy. The failure of that effort is what will cause the Dow to bounce back once people realize that this coronavirus is just a ruse, and really isn’t nearly as dangerous as everyone has made it sound. That makes it a safe bet to pour millions back into the Dow to really get a ROI quickly. After all, there are trillions of dollars on the table to be gained quickly for those bold and so inclined.

The real victim here is that so many people have gone out on the limb to try and spread this panic about the coronavirus that it will be remembered as a crying wolf too many times scenario. People believe this stuff because they have some trust remaining in the system of reporters and officials who are out there reporting on the matter. But once everyone comes to the same conclusion that I have, which they will, they won’t believe in the wolf the next time, and will ignore whatever is said entirely. When there is real danger, people will be much less inclined to trust the sources, and that is the real cost of the coronavirus tragedy. The global media has overplayed their hand in a massive way and ultimately let down their audiences.

Its not all a massive conspiracy to remove Trump from office however. I have been a radio show host and understand how difficult it is to fill an hour with just your voice. I don’t have a problem doing it, but I can see how others would be challenged day in and day out. For people in the media business something like the coronavirus is like a snow day for kids in school, or an easy day in the office, the topic tells its own story once potential death could be the result. That makes those time slots much easier to fill with voice and action while on camera, so the media loves coronavirus types of stories that pumps up their ratings without having to do much research for that day’s material. And that is very much part of the puzzle, once a story like coronavirus is out there, every media outlet knows they need to cover it with wall to wall attention because if a competitor beats them to it, then they will look bad. And most of the producers who work these cable shows and newspapers aren’t smart enough to see through the smoke, so it is easier for them to just jump on the panic train and ride it to wherever it goes. The money managers who wanted to hurt Trump know all this of course which is how they were able to inject panic into the story to begin with. All they had to do is start the process, the nature of media did the rest and that is how the fingerprints of the originators get erased from the evidence.

Twitter was interesting to watch during President Trump’s speech in Charleston, South Carolina Friday night, there was real panic from people who hoped that the threat of coronavirus would paralyze Trump to the White House putting out fires that they essentially started to divert him from his focus on the campaign trail. Trump was giving a normal rally speech even as the world was shutting down its schools and banning travel from one country to another. Elizabeth Warren who is trying to run for president, not very well, introduced a plan to divert funds from the border wall construction to fight coronavirus, yet Trump didn’t seem to care. He did his usual thing in spite of all the panic and I couldn’t help but think of a Road Runner cartoon where the Coyote had painted a fake tunnel into the rock wall of a mountain, only to have the Road Runner run into it as if it were real. Panicked and surprised the Coyote tried to do the same knowing that the painting was fake, but that if the Road Runner could do it, so could they. However, the rock was real and the coyote was crushed. Then to make matters worse a truck comes through the painting and runs them over. That is what is happening with the coronavirus and the general news of the stock market. Its all a ruse, and like all the times prior, President Trump will escape like the Road Runner always did, and the Coyote will be mystified as to why he continues to lose time and time again.

Rich Hoffman