Day: September 21, 2023

Judas Pence and the Siren Songs of Populism: People expect Republicans to win, not to be controlled opposition

Of course, the answer to Mike Pence’s comment on the siren song of populism, which has so well defined precisely who he is, is that those aren’t beautiful women posing as conservatives trying to lure well-intentioned people to the rocks of their destruction.  No, those utterances toward populism result from many years of lies by a party, the Republicans, who pretended to be a small government party but are no different from the Democrats.  I could say that about my own Republican Party in my town, but that’s not a new story.  I’ve been dealing with this balancing act since Ross Perot ran for president, and I supported him because I would never get behind the CIA. George Bush or his haphazard son, “W.”  Ronald Reagan was pretty good for a while before his assassination attempt, and after the party establishment started getting to him, he was much less effective during his second term.  Then we had the Clinton years and the fake government shutdowns.  When my wife had a chance to meet Newt Gingrich at a Republican Party event a few years ago, she refused to shake his hand because she was still mad at Newt for caving to Clinton when Republicans had him on the ropes and could have saved a lot of us a lot of grief.  No, populism is a much bigger story than just some fad.  It’s more than a movement and undoubtedly more sophisticated than some siren song attached to lustful desire and short-term gratification. 

Populism is a political strategy that seeks to appeal to the interests and concerns of ordinary people, especially those who feel that the established political and economic elites are not meeting their needs. It often involves rhetoric that frames the people as opposed to a corrupt or self-serving elite and emphasizes the importance of direct democracy and the people’s will. However, populism can also be controversial and divisive, and its effects on society and politics depend mainly on how it is used and by whom.  The conservative tether that Pence is talking about is a leftover idea fresh off of wins during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 when the Constitution was still new and victorious wars rallied people to the value.  But this Republican Party that Mike Pence is talking about is like some Dallas Cowboys fan still wearing a Super Bowl shirt from the ’70s or ’90s.  It would be best if you kept winning, guys.  You have to earn respect; it doesn’t just grow on trees.  And that is the problem with Mike Pence’s view of what conservativism is.  Conservatives have been the turn-the-other-cheek party, the party of losers.  Who cares what your principles are if you will always get your ass kicked?  That’s not good for branding.  And because they have been soft on everything, corruption has grown into a maddening contraption.  People want wins, and the Republican Party has not given it to them.  Instead, they have been happy to lose, and people are tired of it. 

I remember it well: the night before the election in 1992, I was at the Ross Perot headquarters in Dallas, Texas, getting gifts from his daughters and enjoying the patriotism of a hard-fought campaign.  Many people were mad at me for not supporting George Bush, the elder.  I was proud that Perot got 19% of the vote then.  But I hated Clinton so severely that I supported Bob Dole four years later.  He turned out to be pretty smart; he would become a big Trump supporter.  He was a pretty good guy, even if it took him most of his life to figure it out.  I supported John McCain, and he lost to the communist Obama.  And a few years after that, I supported Mitt Romney, and I remember how it was in 2012.  A bunch of people who thought they had conservative ideas all figured out.  One of John Boehner’s proudest moments was bringing the Pope to the congressional floor as Speaker of the House, as he cried like a baby at just about everything.  Republicans have been like that football team that always loses but are in your hometown, so you support them unquestioningly, like some fool who accepts losers.  That’s not how it’s supposed to be.  Especially when the Democrats have shown such a propensity for evil.  Going back to the Perot election to be in Downtown Cincinnati with many political influencers and watching Clinton give his concession speech was a real gut punch.  Would Bush have been better?  No, Clinton only accelerated the eventual drive toward populism.  As would Obama and now Biden.  Populism would come along regardless because defending the Constitution would require political victories, and nobody was promising that until Trump came along.  And that’s where things stand today.  Americans were hungry for an American First party and wanted it to be Republicans, the Party of Lincoln, the party that freed the enslaved people.  And the party of small government.  Other people allowed globalism to seep into the mix and ruin the character of America as a nation.  They did so by deceit, and people know that now. 

Americans want more than a tailgate party from their Republican Party.  They want to win and destroy the evil Democrats.  To truly stand for small government and to be fiscally responsible.  We now have a band of thieves who run the Beltway culture with lobbyists and overpaid consultants.  And it makes people sick to see.  They want victory and are turning to populism to give it to them.  People like Judas Pence sold out our country, allowed an election to be stolen, and are trying to put the country back in the hands of the people who screwed it up in the first place.  And people aren’t going to stand for it.  I am surprised to see how quickly Republicans in my region have forgotten, and it’s obvious they probably never understood the Trump years.  They were holding their nose and hoping for a return to the low expectations of party politics and controlled opposition.  But that’s never what I signed up for.  I was always a populist and more than that, I expected to win.  Not just once or twice but every time.  And unless my political party is committed to that, I’m not with them.  I will work against losers every time.  This is why Mike Pence, with all his years in politics, should know better.  Yet he didn’t, and he said those words against populism anyway, showing he learned nothing in all those years with Trump.  None of that magic dust rubbed off on him.  Is he happy to be a loser so long as he stands by conservative ideas, even if they are always just ideas and not a reality?  No, people want winners in their lives, and without victory, populism will take on a life of its own.  And if Republicans aren’t committed to winning, they aren’t committed to conservative ideas.  Because they have to be willing to fight for those ideas, and fighting means winning.

Rich Hoffman

The Devil Went Down to Georgia Because He Had an Election to Steal: But now its our turn to play

The devil went down to Georgia because he was looking for an election to steal; he was in a bind because he was way behind and willing to make a deal.  So he found Governor Kemp, who was a Never Trumper, and many others and through a combination of electronic voting machines and COVID rules, they allowed for massive cheating to occur, which gave Joe Biden just enough votes to win the state.  It was a rigged election before it even started; everyone knew what they were going to do before election day, and that was to keep counting votes until Joe Biden won.  It didn’t matter to them if it was legal or the ballots represented real people.  And in the end, they were caught.  Like the famous Charlie Daniels song where the Devil plays a little music in a bet for Johnny’s soul, he thought he had done enough to win.  But after his band of demons and their utterances from Hell played their song, it’s time for us all to say, “That’s pretty good son, but why don’t you sit down in that chair right there and let us show you how it’s done.”  It’s our turn and it’s not looking good for the bad guys.  This is why Kemp was able to secure the election for his second term immediately after all this controversy.  Remember when the MLB All-Star game was pulled from Atlanta and sent to Denver over protests due to election law?  And that Kemp was disenfranchising minority votes?  Yeah, right, Democrats were upset because they knew the same thing Kemp knew: Democrats had a cheating scam going on, and they were allowed to use it to knock off Trump, and other MAGA senators in Georgia in 2020 and early 2021.  But Kemp won re-election easily, Stacy Abrams wasn’t even able to come close once the election laws were tightened up.  And that is the dirty little secret that the evil that has taken over Georgia doesn’t want anybody to know about. 

The Devil in this case is the George Soros money and the influence of the globalist investment that put District Attorney Fani Willis in charge of the law, a known Marxist radical intent to destroy adherence to Constitutional protections in large municipalities.  We see this strategy all over America as part of a more significant effort to overthrow the American Constitution with case law that erodes its limits on private people.  In Georgia, the devil is playing its little song and has attempted to throw 19 different people into essentially one election conspiracy case, accusing them of trying to overthrow the election results distributed by the Georgia government where the Never Trumpers and radical Marxist Democrats pulled together to destroy Trump wholesale, or so they thought.  But it’s a case that’s all bark and no bite, a shot-in-the-dark prayer for the global communists to show that free speech can get you thrown in jail for going against the official narrative of a government.  The prosecution intends to convince a jury of Fulton County Democrats, which, on the surface, might look easy, that free speech can be a crime. Still, the reality is a different story: the official narrative of a government reporting agency, such as election results, can’t be questioned. If it is, you can be jailed for attempting to overthrow an election.  It’s like the Devil going to Georgia and not allowing Johnny to play his song to defend his soul or have a chance to win a golden fiddle.  Only the devil gets to play, and nobody else gets an opportunity to challenge him.

Well, you might not have heard that already the case is falling apart; just this week, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell are breaking away from the group and will be held separately on October 23rd, 2023.   The Marxist prosecution by Fani Willis intended to take the Trump support team of 19 different people, put them all in a room, and prosecute them on national television as a kind of mass hanging.  But a judge ruled that Chesebro and Powell would have separate trials, which is no easy task for the prosecution.  In her defense of General Flynn, Sidney has won against the federal government before, so this won’t be an easy song for the trial to play.  It will be more like a buzzsaw for them because it will show how much massive election fraud occurred in Fulton County and how sketchy everything was.  Sidney Powell is not the case that will establish precedence in favor of the prosecution; let me say that.  The Devil thought it had a good song until it had to hold up to the legal scrutiny of reality.  The only hope that Fani Willis had was surprise and brevity by knocking the world on its heels quickly and procuring all these defenses together before anybody had a chance to understand what was happening.  And already, that isn’t going to happen.  The Powell case will exploit the prosecution’s case, and the massive election fraud committed in Georgia during the 2020 election will feed the narrative Trump has been saying in an election year where he is already leading in the polls massively.  The Democrats don’t have an answer, especially if they can’t cheat. 

And in the end, the Devil will have to lay that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny’s feet because he knows that he’s been beat.  And we can all tell him that he can come back and try again because we’re the best there’s ever been.  But honestly, what we will learn from this case is that the Devil will be destroyed because the established case law will set a precedent that the Democrats will not be able to live up to anywhere in the country.  The Constitution will win because it’s meant to limit the powers of government, not give the government more control over individuals.  And like all the George Soros District Attorneys with Marxist backgrounds functioning in the deep blue cities everywhere, their actions are no longer surprising.  And surprise and speed to exploit their victims off balance was all they had.  Because there was election fraud in Georgia, a lot of it.  Trump only needed 11,000 votes, which were probably all in those boxes pulled out from under the tables when election officials shut down the counting that night over a water leak in a bathroom.  The truth that the Devil and his minions are trying to cover up with the force of government is that Trump won easily in Georgia and everywhere else.  Joe Biden didn’t win the 2020 election and failed in Georgia.  The election was stolen.  The Devil played his music and arrogantly thought nobody would ever beat him.  But now it’s our turn to play the music, and in the end, that golden fiddle will be placed at our feet, just like in the song, because the truth is obvious.  The Marxists behind this prosecution have no Constitutional authority to do what they intend, and the fact is getting out despite their efforts to conceal it.  And now it’s our turn to turn the tables on the Devil and his criminal partners, who are now caught.  We will prove in court that this plot by Fani Willis is the same as communist, socialist, and Marxist countries worldwide that have been stealing elections to gain power through digital machines.  In America, they tried it and have been trying to conceal it with the sheer intimidation of the government’s power.  And they are going to lose badly. 

Rich Hoffman