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“Absolute Interference”: The people saying there wasn’t election fraud are those who need to be investigated

Wait a minute; why are news outlets still insisting that there was no election fraud in 2020?   Now I know the answer, but I have to ask it that way for the facetious, rhetorical question which it provokes and has been a screen for massive, international crime.  It’s one thing to say that a person doesn’t believe there was election fraud that gave the election to Joe Biden.  It’s an entirely different thing to say that “there is no evidence.” Because there is a lot of evidence that there was something wrong. First, there are significant problems with the Dominion Machines in Antrim County, Michigan, and now we have the Biden Justice Department into the Arkansas audit.  There will be a collision course on the results regardless of what is found.  There will be people from now until the end of time who will believe that this election was cheated.  The only way to avoid that fate is for Dominion and the outlets claiming there was no fraud to let people look at their machines.  To understand that there wasn’t any Internet tampering through the machine’s IP addresses and that there were no deals with China to instigate the biggest cyber hack in the history of the world.  Saying there was no election fraud from media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, and the network and cable news outlets controlled by massively wealthy billionaires giving infinite amounts of money to defeat Trump just isn’t going to cut the bacon. 

Most criminals will proclaim innocence when caught and pressed.  The many people behind the proposed fraud of the 2020 election are no different; the only difference is that the crime was a white one, not typically considered part of the criminal class.  But the evidence is mounting quickly, which shows that Trump did win that 2020 election.  It’s not just wishful thinking by Trump supporters.  It looks like our government has been working with a hostile foreign government to undercut our republic, and that is serious business.  Just having a bunch of people declare that there isn’t any evidence isn’t a valid argument.  People can say what they want about Mike Lindell.  I was watching some of Lindell’s work on election fraud on his new Frank Speech social media site.  I have observed how hostile news outlets have been toward that social media site, and I smell a rat.  If what Mike Lindell was doing wasn’t a threat in exposing the criminals who stole the election, they wouldn’t be so threatened by him.  They would let him do a social media site without much comment.  But that they do care tells you everything you need to know.  We see a cover-up, and at this point, everyone claiming that there is no election fraud are those we need to be investigating because, like most criminals, they sound guilty. 

I’d like to believe it when everyone says there was no election fraud in the 2020 election.  There would have to be many people involved, including news commentators like Bret Baier on Fox and Chris Wallace.  They aren’t precisely Republicans, but they are big names on a big station.  Would they be enticed by billionaire money, fear for their jobs if they didn’t play along?  I think they would be; I don’t think their journalistic integrity is that important to them.  The belief that it is part of their brand is not so intrinsically crucial to their beings’ essence.  Many people in the media will say and do anything for money, which makes them particularly dangerous when there are many rich political enemies of Trump and the MAGA movement who want to destroy the movement at any cost.  And there are always reporters and networks with their hands out for some money to say whatever they are told to say.  That is why so many of them say there was no election fraud without evidence that there wasn’t.  Instead, they offer themselves to say what they are paid to say and ask no further questions. 

If Dominion and other government election officials were more transparent about their counting methods, this story could be retired quickly.  Instead, the story has grown with more and more denials from them that aren’t aligned with reality’s facts. Their method isn’t to find the truth; it’s to confine it by eliminating competing outlets looking into voter fraud, like Mike Lindell.  Instead of offering evidence that no election fraud did occur, they have chosen to attack Mike Lindell, who is asking the questions.  They are using the Justice Department to harass legally President Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and the attacks on Sydney Powell, Linn Wood, and others questioning voter problems with the Dominion voting machines.  Do you know what that means?  They are guilty and hiding something.  Likely they are hiding a lot.

Mike Lindell’s new video on election fraud that he has on his Frank Speech website Absolute Interference featured personal information for me.  It had voting results from Butler County, Ohio, and Hamilton County to the south, which is in my neck of the woods.  I know the area and know how much it leans Republican.  There was voting tampering discovered there also.  The difference between Ohio and Pennsylvania and other states is that the margin was so significant in Ohio that they couldn’t get the votes.  Things were tighter in those other controversial states, and even there, they had to go to extraordinary measures to get Biden votes.  All this has been captured as evidence.  Now that evidence might prove to be not enough, it should see its day in court, and people should want to resolve it.  What is the government afraid of?  What is Dominion fearful of?  If they were innocent, why are they so hostile and aggressive?  Well, you know, dear reader. You’re not stupid.

I’m going to go out on a limb here; this election fraud thing is genuine.  The scammers set the whole thing up with the Russian story over the last four years so that when they did pull off the election fraud that was long-planned, people would be too tired of the story and all too willing to listen to the authorities without question.  But not everyone.  There are people like Mike Lindell who are eager to ask questions and put some money behind the effort.  And they have uncovered enough to see a day in court.  Of course, the criminals in this election fraud case, including our own three letter intelligence agencies, our House and Senate members, our Department of Justice, countries like Iran and China, social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, all thought they were too big to get caught.  And what we saw happen on January 6th was just a hint of what could yet happen as people are upset to see such a scandal go unpunished.  We have been made to look at them and think of the rioters who had their president stolen from them to appear crazy.  But they look now to be prophets who knew on that day by instinct that their government wasn’t accountable to them and was lying to them.  And perhaps that is the real point behind the cover-up.  To prove such massive voter fraud would destroy fundamental assumptions of our republic.  Many people in the Beltway can’t afford to have that question even proposed, let alone proven true.

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior


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Why Donald Trump is Best for the GOP: Some want civility, Democrats want war

Why Trump is Great for the GOP

As I said in the video above, the value of President Trump’s harsh rhetoric at times and aggressive demeanor can be seen in the gas prices at the pumps.   Never while Trump was in office were there troubles such as this pipeline hacking that occurred in on the largest oil supply route in southern North America as what has already happened to Jo Biden.  It’s a throwback to the days of Barack Obama and George W. Bush, even going back to the days of Bill Clinton where every little bird landing on the bow of a boat was cause for an increase in the price of oil.  It has always been a massive scam that politicians played for their own gain at the expense of the rest of us.  Now that Biden has weakened American oil supply domestically it has put the power back into all the crazy antics of the world’s villains at our expense and shows clearly just a few months into 2021 exactly why President Trump was so good and why being aggressive and bullish is a good trait to have in a president.  I could list many hundreds of other good traits, but most people can relate to problems at the gas pumps.  Politicians like Biden might come across as a nice guy as the pundits keep saying.  But they also are radicals selling socialism to us intending to destroy markets like oil to support their desires to control industry and of course they have a smile on their faces when doing it.  Many of us have been trained since birth to fear aggressive leadership because the hostile actors in the world want to have an easy time to get away with bad intentions, which is precisely why President Trump was so good and continues to be great for the Republican Party.

This all came up last week before the problem with the southern oil pipeline hacking that supposedly sent a spike in the oil supply prices.  I was speaking to a very good politician who happens to be a woman and wanted other options as presidential hopefuls to run in 2024, great personalities like Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem.  This nice politician represented quite a few people who wish that politics was nicer, that we could talk to other people from the other parties without all the hateful banter and that we could have civility in politics.  The argument was that both of those names, and there are others out there, are able to govern logically and without a lot of division.  Of course, my thoughts on the matter are that those names have been great, but that they are not the front runners and are therefore not targets of the opposition forces which in America is the Democrat Party.  Once DeSantis or Noem were to be the leading presidential candidates, they would be ripped to pieces like any other candidate, man, woman, or child.  That is what the political left does and they won’t start changing their behavior anytime soon.  They are what they are and so long as there are people like them in politics, there will be fights and those fights will be vicious. 

Unlike a lot of people in my position, socially, I don’t take offense to what people think.  I am very comfortable with my own thoughts and can deal easily with contrary opinions.  When people get mad at people who don’t think the way they do, it is because they are insecure with their own thoughts.  So I can speak to people who have very different opinions than mine and get along just fine.  But I am also known to blow my stack often when people mistake that good nature with changing what I do which are driven by my own thoughts on matters.  I have wanted a person in politics like Donald Trump for a long time, someone who can play the game the way the game is going.  Wishing for the game to be something else just isn’t dealing with the problem.  The idea that members of the GOP should lead by example as good Christian soldiers only leaves us on the losing side in an aggressive and hostile world.  Jesus might say to us to forgive our enemies.  Society might say that it takes two to tangle and that someone should be the bigger person in a conflict.  But when enemies want to destroy you just for being you, surrendering to them only fuels their aggression which has given us this political world that is full of so many villains.  The fuel prices is just one aspect of that villainy.  When it is wondered why there is so much evil in the world, the answer is that there just aren’t enough people willing to confront it. 

My conversation with this very nice and sweet person was sparked by what should happen to Liz Chaney who is losing her leadership seat within the GOP because of her hatred of President Trump.  Chaney is one of those old Republicans like John Boehner and Mitt Romney who just don’t get what the fight is all about and why they are wrong to not play that game.  While they are trying to work with the other side, the other side is literally trying to cut their necks.  Democrats have no intention on making peace, or operating fairly.  They have always been out to destroy us all and change us into something they want, political socialists covered in tattoos and addicted to drugs.  Democrats are weak below the line thinkers and will never be redeemed.  Their basic philosophies prevent such fair behavior, so making peace with them only fuels their ambitions.  As I said, I can deal with such people civilly.  The reason is that I don’t seek their approval and could care less what they intend.  In my dealings in the end, they will do what I need them to do or they will be destroyed.  So why be mean?  But if they get in your way, they have to go, and that was how Trump handled the Executive Branch and it was obviously effective.  We see now the contrast and why former Republicans were picked on so intensely. 

I would like to see a world where Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem could be president.  But so long as Democrats and radical communists and socialists are bringing hostilities to everything they do, playing with them with white gloves isn’t going to cut it.  That party will have to be destroyed before there is ever civility in politics.  There is no peace with them, and I know that hurts a lot of people who are averse to conflict.  Naturally nice people like this politician I mentioned are capable of conducting politics the way they desire.  But the other politicians out there aren’t and yes it takes two to tango.  That presents the ultimate problem, if you are nice to them but they aren’t nice in return, what do you do about that?  Most Republicans would say that we should pray for them.  That we shouldn’t take and eye for an eye but to give up our own assets and happiness if it brings peace to the world.  But in practice, Jesus didn’t make it very far in life with this attitude.  Evil reigned in his day just as it does today because we have yielded to evil and fed it with our timid souls.  And because we allow evil to persist, we have been getting a lot more of it in the world.  That is why Trump is the only pick for the top of the GOP and why others need to come to terms with that battle against evil.  Because it’s a very real thing and if defeated, would truly bring about peace in the way that the most loving and nurturing among us truly desire.

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior


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Never in America: China is at war with us

America Can’t be Taken Over

We know now that China is at war with us.  Many people who read my site have long known it, but now the mainstreamers are getting a taste of it and are scared.  China and other hostile players worldwide are angry at America; they are looking to topple our country.  They don’t like that people want to leave their countries to come to America through immigration.  They don’t want to compete with America and utilize a new kind of warfare to destroy us.  And if all the hostilities between the nations weren’t bad enough, the use of criminal cartels is pecking away at us to weaken us for the big event.   Americans in reaction have been talking about fighting back, but what do you fight back against?  Since childhood, we are all taught that combat involves something you can shoot at and be visibly angry about.  But these villains these days are not so easy to see.  There is no galvanizing Hitler among them.  Only smiling faces from our enemies and offers to co-mingle.  Yet that is part of their plan too, to fight us on terms they enjoy, not on terms we understand, and in those moments of indecision, they mean to destroy us totally and completely.  Those who don’t see the fight and want to believe that somehow, we can all get along are the people these enemies are targeting.  The combat is unlike anything any of us have been trained for.  Our childhood stories and media culture didn’t prepare us for it.  Yet, we still must find a way to win.

For me, I am 100% certain we are going to win. I’ve seen enough of the enemy from the 2020 election to consolidate my thoughts on the matter.  It’s clear as a sunny day for me.  It won’t be without effort.  It certainly won’t be easy, but when you know who your enemy is, you can then devise a way to beat them.  And in this case, I can certainly see their weaknesses; it’s in concealment, hiding just out of reach.  Now that we know that beyond speculation, we can learn how to strike them and end their plans.  Yet, many people are now presently terrified of where our country is.  They thought America was unsinkable, like the Titanic.  And now they can see the water filling up the ship for sinking.  That is precisely the psychological approach that China intends for us.  They mean to shock us into stagnation so we can sit rudderless at sea and fall to the bottom of a deep ocean, never to be heard from again.  That is how they plan to put down their riots in Hong Kong.  That is how they mean to take over Taiwan and acquire Japan.  China has global domination plans, and if they can get rid of the United States, they will have an open door to all their hopes and communist dreams.  But they are smart enough to know that America is far more robust than they are, so to beat us, they must defeat us without a physical conflict.  And that starts from rotting us from the inside out.

That is where they don’t understand Americans.  The quest for freedom has been a long one, and America was formed out of that basic human need, and once people see their freedoms eroding, they do rebel.  We can see that now with the mask mandates being lifted.  The Biden administration can do nothing because several GOP governors are lifting all their Covid restrictions well before the July 4th deadline ruining the Democrat platform for restoring normalcy to our society.  Democrats representing the China aggression in the world essentially needed to have the government put itself between disaster and lifestyles, and it hasn’t worked.  People grew tired of Covid and started breaking ranks. They gave the government the benefit of the doubt, and when the Biden administration tried to milk Covid out longer, people took matters upon themselves.  Not everyone, but enough to break the ranks.  The same thing is happening over the election fraud issue. All government-aligned elements, the corporate intentions to align with China strategically for the future, the social media platforms to set up the story that no voter fraud occurred—yet competition is emerging.  Mike Lindell’s Frank Speech site has come about to undo the Facebook tampering that was supposed to be a sure thing for the Chinese insurgents.  They had tampered with elections for a long time and previously used the Russia story to tire everyone on the topic before the real questions could even be asked.  The proof of voter issues from Mike’s site is getting a lot of attention and is gaining steam, which like Covid, will see a day soon where the story gets out of control, and China will not be able to contain it.

The voter fraud issue has been done in China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and many other places for years.  And they tried it in America by building up a decade of trust in social media like Facebook and Twitter for free.  Then on some future election, they would flip the switch and steal an election once they thought they had everything in place.  The problem for them is that America is not a compliant society, and it never will be.  Americans are friendly, maybe a little gullible.  But they will never give up their freedoms.  Some will, but not the whole nation the way China is compliant, or the people of England are.  America is way too diverse for complete control. That is what we are seeing as a reaction to Covid, election fraud, even the power of the Democrat Party by outright socialists and communists now.  The insurgents from China and other places do not understand Americans, and they are currently unsure what to do based on their observations of our behavior.  President Trump was never supposed to happen; people were supposed to stay scared of Covid-19.  They were supposed to trust their government officials and remain locked in their homes wearing stupid masks.  What China sees now was not supposed to happen.

China was never going to attack 300 million gun owners directly like in Red Dawn.  They had to attack our culture instead, and they started with our education system.  We have trained our youth into our destruction.  We see the damage from years of this behavior, yet enough Americans resist by creating options for themselves that conquest is not possible.  People are now homeschooling more than ever before.  They are fighting their school boards over critical race theory.  They are boycotting corporations that are sucking up to the Chinese communists.  Americans are coming alive and taking ownership of their lives in a way China wasn’t prepared for.  And the Democrat party wasn’t ready for the response either.  Seeing the resistance firsthand, it’s not the riots in the streets like their party engages in. Instead, what they are seeing are people who don’t care about their political class.  People do not like Biden.  They didn’t vote for Biden.  And now they are ignoring him as if he didn’t even exist.  This has left the Chinese perplexed, for none of this was in their plans.  And that is how we beat them by doing what they didn’t think of.  Which is precisely in our nature and why we will never be conquered. 

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior


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CDC Allows Teacher Unions to Write Covid Policy: Now we know all public policy was corrupt from the beginning

As if you didn’t need more proof of just how destructive and terrible our public education system is, here is another conspiracy theory turned into the fact, which I’ve talked about for many years. I’ve made it no secret that I think the government reaction to Covid-19 was a fake use of a virus to change social behavior toward communism.  It wasn’t the virus itself that was dangerous; it was the human reaction to it that was.  The use of Covid to turn the whole perceived outbreak into a government takeover of the United States, destroying its economy, establishing a coup of our President Trump, and further destroying the nature of freedom of a rival of China was always the goal. Well, now we know that the American Federation of Teachers, the labor union, helped write the CDC guidelines for Covid-19.  Think about that, many of the stupid CDC rules that we have all been living under, which gave out-of-control governors entirely too much power eroding constitutional limits, came from a public education labor union that had communist goals for our country.  And you know why? As an employee group, they were too lazy to do their already easy jobs. They wanted to sit home on their big, fat asses eating cake all day and expecting to get their extraordinarily high wages for doing nothing.  They used the Covid virus as an excuse to get out of work, just like any other lazy slug that uses a doctor’s note to get time off.  These members of the American Federation of Teachers wrote the note which the CDC signed ridiculously.

Now you also know, dear reader, why the CDC was bouncing around on their policies so much, changing their minds so often about what to do with Covid.  It’s not like science was driving the decision-making process.  A room of intelligent people wasn’t looking and analyzing what the medical profession saw on the front line to write CDC policy.  Instead, we had China’s influence over the World Health Organization writing policy from one direction, a communist one. We had government labor unions that were socialist based, writing them on the other side.  And Dr. Fauci was in the middle selling it to the public like the government stooge that he has always been. It wasn’t lives they were all trying to save, it was the destruction of our economy so that they could hopefully get rid of Trump, and they wanted a free ticket to sit home and still collect their paychecks that they were after.  The rest of us were forced to live under those same guidelines, which destroyed many jobs and incomes of millions of Americans. 

Even scarier was the jobs report from last week, where a million jobs were projected to return to the marketplace.  But what they ended up with was only 266,000.  Now the Biden administration backs the public education unions without question 100% of the time because “Dr. Jill” is a Doctor by the way and a teacher, so criticism of any teacher’s union is off-limits in this corrupt new White House.  That leaves the government ill-equipped to explain why their tampering with the economy has not succeeded after their liberal economists’ predictions.  They have used those CDC recommendations to destroy the effort to work in our economy.  They killed so many jobs, and now people have been paid to stay home, and guess what, they are.  There are millions of jobs out there that want to be fulfilled, and obviously, that’s where the White House got their number thinking it would be huge. After all, it was a shell game.  Destroy the jobs under Trump with Covid, then after a cheated election, put a Democrat in office, restore those lost jobs from the formally red hot economy, and take credit for all the job creation.  It would, of course, be challenging to create so many jobs after Trump and a 4% unemployment rate.  The plan was to destroy the jobs to get Americans to switch presidents then restore those jobs once a Democrat was in place, and while all this was happening, the teachers would have shut down the schools and coasted through the year with free paychecks for work, not done but paid for anyway.  

Only the jobs didn’t come back.  Those who were paid to stay home and earn the money of a total wage or more because of those CDC guidelines that made work nearly impossible for most employers, and teaching people to work from home and still get paid have backfired.  Even when the jobs are plug-and-play positions from the previous administration sent home due to Covid, this new government can’t even claim those they were planning to do.  All this destruction you must remember came from the CDC recommendations that Trump was supposed to follow and which Biden has been living by religiously.  We have all been under the thumb of emergency powers by authoritarian state governments who have taken great abusees of their new powers.  Those powers were given to them not by the most intelligent people in the world trying to save lives but by a public education teacher union that had members who were too lazy to work and used the virus as a way to play Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, only for an entire year.  As ridiculous as all that sounds, it’s precisely what happened.  And many of those million jobs that the Biden administration wanted to come back were from restaurants that have now closed, and will never recover, amusement parks like Disney. They have had to lay off thousands and thousands of permanent workers in an otherwise thriving economy.  And brick and mortar stores were further harmed by online shopping because nobody could leave their homes.  Those jobs were destroyed by the government and the CDC guidelines that drove policy that hampered our economy and changed behavior forever. 

The same idiots who thought they were going to have an April jobs report in the millions are the same knuckle dragging losers who believe that good coal mining jobs and nuclear power plants will be replaced with Green New Deal jobs, like building windmills and solar panels.  Like it’s a one-for-one trade that will grow and create all kinds of new work opportunities. Which it won’t, but even if it did, the government has shown that it pays more for the lazy and unproductive to stay home on their growing asses and live off the government.  And it all started by letting a public education union assist in writing the CDC guidelines for Covid-19, likely one of the dumbest things that have ever happened in government due to the scale and lack of checks and balances.  Public schools are already a disaster because of these education unions.  Now some geniuses at the CDC allowed unions to set policy the rest of us have had to live under?  That will go down as one of the dumbest things that the government has ever done.  But remember, the next time the CDC says anything and recommends something, that it’s not coming from a bunch of intelligent and professional people.  It’s coming from the American Federation of Teachers or some other radical communist labor organization holding a bag of Doritos breaking the scales with 60 extra pounds of fat gained by not working.  They used Covid to get free paychecks and still want more to stay home and watch television as the country falls into disrepair. 

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Starship 15 Lands: Risk is the key to all things in life

I felt great pride and was delighted to see that SpaceX managed to land their Serial Number 15 at their Boca Chica facility in Texas this past week.  It was quite a week, on May 4th, “Star Wars Day,” SpaceX launched successfully more of their Starlink satellites only to have the Falcon rocket land on a small platform in the Atlantic Ocean, right on the X painted on the surface.  Then the next day, with all the public scrutiny hoping for failure toward the Starship program in general, SpaceX took a big-time chance on a cloudy day to launch Serial Number 15.  A failure would have been a big hit on an otherwise triumphant week for the company, and nobody blamed them.  Most companies wouldn’t have taken that risk, but that is why SpaceX is so good.  They are highly competent, they are constantly striving for tomorrow, and they aren’t afraid of risk.  Much of that comes from Elon Musk, a guy who works 80 to 100 hours a week, showing in his products—and his employees.  Even with his pot-smoking incident on that radio show a few years ago, he has won me over because he has guts; he has a great imagination. He has injected into his companies great youthful ambition.  He loves what he does, work is not a nuisance to him, and we are all benefiting as a result.  So, when that Starship Serial Number 15 nailed their landing on a Wednesday afternoon in May, as four astronauts had just splashed down from the International Space Station on Sunday in the middle of the night, then they had the Falcon rocket launch and triumphant return on Tuesday. The Starship launch on Wednesday, I was more elated not just at all the successes but in the bold ambition of it all. 

Maybe even more than all that, though, during the previous week, Elon Musk warned enthusiastically that once these Starships start going to Mars and the Moon, that there would be accidents, that people would die as a result of the various adventures that are yet to unfold.  That was an important thing to do especially given the target on the back of himself and his companies.  The media parasites are looking for any slight stumble to cripple Musk in perpetual court battles. Yet, Elon has managed to stay in front of that ankle-biter mentality with some focused warnings that indicate danger and even death is not the worst thing in the world.  Then I might add, which is implied in Musk’s position, which he could never afford to endorse, that stagnation and yielding to crippling governments are far worse than death.  When Musk said that the Moon missions and going out to Mars would be volunteers who would know what they were getting themselves into before climbing on a Starship to head into space, it is fair and should be understood.  The media representing the government’s control of society through fears of safety is far more dangerous than a stagnant society. That is a conversation we need to be having.  Its time.

All the great leaps of the human race involve risk.  Most great things that we do in life involve risk.  Even asking someone out on a date requires risk; the fear of rejection can be paralyzing.  In this age of online dating and matchmaking, even that is being taken away from us as human beings, the thrill of facing down risk and enjoying the fruits of the rewards when you hit it big is the primary driver of human behavior.  We can blame the government for overstepping its bounds in assuming that averting risk is their direct way of measuring the value of government.  From their point of view, sure, it seems logical.  Make it so people never die and protect them from everything, and the government thinks they can justify their existence.  But the payment for that incursion is that our society stagnates dramatically.  A safe world is a boring world.  Now we’ve managed to simulate danger in our society with amusement parks, zip lines all over the place, MMA sporting events.  We understand the need for risk and threat that is a part of all our lives.  But there is nothing like real risk in a rickety airplane that we built at the start of the Age of Aviation or NASCAR drivers who risk a great deal every weekend on national television.  NASCAR is a lot safer than it used to be.  Drivers can crash at over 200 MPH all the time and now walk away.  That is because the trail of tragedy that led to that safety record did have many people who died, specifically drivers like Dale Earnhardt.  Now, who thinks the old “Intimidator” would take back his life to avert that risk?  It’s only the weak people who are timid in the world who believe in such a way that they would put safety over risk.  Risk is what drives the world forward and makes everything better.

Back in the day, every space launch from NASA would be broadcast on live television.  People understood the risk, and they wanted to watch the space race.  But when NASA did have an accident here and there, the federal government would lockdown on the safety aspects and kill the momentum of innovation needed to advance us into the stars.  SpaceX was barely covered with all the mentioned activities just over this past week because people have become used to the excellent safety record that SpaceX has.  But there will be accidents; people will get hurt.  People will die eventually.  Yet that doesn’t mean we should stop doing anything risky.  People die every day in car accidents, and we do not stop driving cars.  We deal with the risk because we value the benefits.  Now the government would love to get rid of cars and put us all on public transit where they can manage the risk by going 20 MPH and stopping at all railroad crossings.  But that is boring and not good for our lives.  It might be good for the government to measure things, but it’s not suitable for the species of the human race.  We need risk, we need danger, and we need adventure.  We must push ourselves in challenging ways, and we must strive to succeed even if the blood of failure has been spilled on us.        

Anyway, a big congratulations to SpaceX for such a fantastic week; significant risks were taken. Still, the hard work and thousands of important decisions that went into these programs certainly paid off, even if most people don’t understand the relevance.  They will eventually.  Watching Starship 15 stick that landing was a marvelous thing to see.  The door to the future was kicked open, and I liked the glimpse of what I saw on the other side.  It was breathtaking to watch. It’s been a long time since I was that happy to see someone else accomplish something, but that’s what I felt for the entire SpaceX team.  And Elon Musk, a billionaire who has never lost his way, sets the example of what hard work looks like by often sleeping on a couch in the middle of the shop floor of his companies because he doesn’t even have an office.  The result shows in all these successes, and I am proud to be in a culture that shares space with him.  I share with him the same work hours, and there is no way to cheat the system.  And it’s good to see other people working hard and always finding the positives no matter how challenging the problems are. 

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China’s President Biden: The timeshare of communism in America

Yes, the speech to congress in late April of 2021 might as well have been written by Karl Marx.  And that is what most of the commentators heard and reported in the wake after.  It was the usual banter back and forth with some lovely comments about Tim Scott’s response.  Tim is a great guy, and yes, he’s a black guy.  I thought the Biden speech was so weak that my dog could have responded to it, so it was kind of a waste of time for Tim to connect him to the same event.  It shows that Republicans missed the entire point of the Biden speech.  Putting a black Republican into that parade of socialism was what they thought was a clever move when in all actuality, it was an endorsement of playing this political fight the way Democrats want it.  No, the truth of the matter wasn’t about the issues or anything positive that Tim Scott might have said to poise Republicans to take back the House and Senate in 2022.  The subtext and intent of the speech were much more sinister and global.  I suffered through the address because I thought I needed to for my political hobby of commentary and advisement.  And I’m glad I did because I wouldn’t have known otherwise that Xi Jinping was such a prominent character in the Biden speech.  Biden spoke about how much time he had spent with Xi over the years and talked up the Chinese communist leader as a very ambitious man and that if we weren’t careful, we were going to lose everything to them. 

Biden was soft-selling communism in the same way that people who sell timeshares get you to buy their product.  They invite you in with the promise of no commitment, except for a little bit of your time.  Then once you’ve slept in their condo, and they’ve treated you to a nice vacation, they insist on a pitch that throws loads of guilt at you, and before you know it, you are signing up for a timeshare.  In this case, Biden said a whole lot that wasn’t obvious unless you understand these kinds of selling games.  Biden threw out a very liberal agenda.  Used Xi as the quintessential example we are chasing after in the world marketplace and that if we did not implement that liberal plan, we would all be working for China soon.  Biden mentioned that we need to add pre-K classes to three-year-old kids and to offer two years of community college after high school, all for free, paid for by increased taxes on the rich and dynamic.  Of course, Biden ignored the fact that our K through 12 education is a joke of liberalism that is harming children, not helping them now.  But the point of this speech was to sell more government education to shape minds into friendly communist subjects for an emerging government. 

But Biden said something else too, something that flew right over the heads of everyone.  He suggested that Xi would often tell him that democracy doesn’t work, that it’s too messy.  The implication is that communism is the way to go; that’s how you can get things done.  Democracy is too slow.  That the secret to success is in pushing things down people’s throats, they’ll thank you later.  Biden, of course, was using Xi as the bad cop where Biden was playing good cop.  Of course, Xi would approve and feed him a nice snack the next time they met on how well Biden did in selling communism without naming the beast to the top of the American government and the nation.  Biden made it sound as if he was willing to give democracy a chance, but that soon we’d have to make a decision; otherwise, China would be kicking our ass economically. So, if Republicans didn’t get on board and unite with Democrats on infrastructure, taxes, health care, open borders, and the Green New Deal, then we would all fall to China in the years to come.  Again, fear of a foreign power calling the shots and adopting socialism to fight communism is essentially the same thing.  Capitalism isn’t even an option to the Biden administration.  Of course, we knew it already, but Biden said it with his example of his admitted friend, Xi Jinping.

Now for anybody who truly understands economics and human empowerment, they know that China isn’t prosperous. I’ve addressed the issue many times here.  China only succeeds by copying the United States and stealing intellectual property.  Communist cultures destroy individual creativity and therefore ruin businesses.  The only way they can achieve this is by luring American companies to their economy and selling Americans things at a cheaper rate than buying American typically does.  Biden also addressed that issue by advocating that American’s “buy American” but then promoted that unions regain their power to take over the management of businesses, which are all socialist and communist in their intentions.  Labor unions are not pro-American groups.  They are international for a reason: to protect workers while selling to them the concept of socialism, which then ruins our culture from the inside out.  Either way, Biden plans to hand America over to Xi Jinping by making it look like it’s for our good without telling anybody that China is helpless without the United States.

The real answers are, of course, more free-market enterprise.  Less government school and more school of hard knocks.  In buying American with those American companies being dedicated to the United States and not global conglomerates like Coka Cola, which is operated out of London these days, just a few blocks away from the grave of Karl Marx.  And why would corporations still support Biden with his proposed tax hikes on the rich?  Well, it’s to get into new markets; they want access to the markets of over a billion people in China.  So to play ball in that game, they must adopt communism and China’s way of doing business.  China put Biden on that stage that night, and he spoke as their representative.  He certainly didn’t represent America.  Biden said that if Republicans fought him too much on his policies that we’d have no choice but to turn to communism to survive as a country. It’s the same trick that these politicians have pulled on the global corporations. The sales pitch is that there are only 300 million people in America.  There are over a billion in China.  Which market is more valuable to you, Mr. and Mrs. Corporation?  The Chinese never tell those corporations or our government about our partnership because there is always a catch, just like the timeshare salespeople.  You might have access to those billion people, but they don’t have any money to buy those products.  But by the time that these global corporations learn the hard truth, they have sold their souls to communism by then.  And the paid-off politicians, like the Biden family, are in on the game.  They work against America every day and sell the switch to communism through speeches like the one we heard from Biden.  That is what the speech was about; it was a warning to cooperate with the radical Democrats or be destroyed.  Because China is looming, and they are the ones in control. 

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Its Good to be a Counter-Revolutionary: Every age has its own fight to conduct

I know it’s not convenient.  I understand that most people want to live their lives by the rules of their American citizenship and to be left alone.  But, every generation has its challenges, there are always enemies out there looking to act on their own accord, and when you live in the best country on the face of planet earth, there will be attacks that whoever must defend is in the care of the day.  In the future, it might be those generations.  In the past, it was others.  And now, we have a task, and we cannot ignore it.  We have among us in America, intense revolutionaries who want to undo all of us and force us to obey them.  They come from all over the place; some are very wealthy, some are dirt poor broke, but they all hate America and want to undo it.  Our first task is to admit that to ourselves.

All of us are not pro-American supporters.  Some of our neighbors and friends are these revolutionaries.  Go to your local school board meeting, and you will see lots of enemies. These people are revolutionaries who actively work through education to destroy our children’s minds and destroy America from within.  Go to a poor neighborhood hampered by Democrat policies, and you will see attacks against our legal system to bring down our American system of constitutional law.  Look at our corporations, even the Coke that we buy at McDonald’s.  You will see global interests seeking a stable communist political environment to spread their brand to every corner of the world, who want to destroy American sovereignty to unleash their growth toward those markets, working as enemies against us all.  They are all revolutionaries who wish to revolt against American sovereignty, and they are willing to commit treason to unleash it, which of course, provokes a response from us. 

In the video above, I proposed embracing the counter-revolutionary role that sounds radical and even militant to many ordinary people.  But it is our task in this time and place to do so.  We are under attack and have been for a long time.  American massive growth and GDP hid it, and many of those named forces remained in a somewhat docile state.  It all came undone openly for the first time in our lives when the assassination of JFK occurred.  In a brief history of what went wrong, dueling was common in our founding fathers’ day, in the start of America as an idea.  Dueling was needed to protect the value of the name and reputation of the individuals involved.  Slowly dueling emerged into gunfighting in the age of Western Expansion.  Not so honorable, usually provoked in a drunken rage, but the intent was the same, to protect the reputation of individuals.  As the age of progressivism seeped in, and central government began taking control more and more every decade after that, up until the period of WWII, the killing of other people migrated from a very personal experience with gunfighting to the actions of the mob, where assassinations occurred blindly, and from a safe distance.  This took the courage out of combat and unsettled people’s minds in a new way.  When the KGB worked with American intelligence to get rid of a common rival, and a threat to the various city mobs all over America, JFK was a rich target, and the killing of him unleashed an attack on America through the revolutionaries that followed in the 60s right up to the present.

This is important because these actions created radicals of all kinds to act violently from the protection of a mob.  Fights between factions used to be settled face to face, with the antagonists being forced to take responsibility for their actions in the light of day.   This new kind of killer came from a blob of ideology and has eroded our country ever since, which has been entirely by design.  The enemies of America knew what they were doing.  First, it was the various city mobs that started the fall, which ironically became the leaders of the Democratic Party (Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton). It migrated to the KGB of Russia.  Today, China has bought up massive amounts of influence in American media, sent honeypot spies into the beds of many politicians to compromise them and steer favorable legislation toward communist causes and manipulate currency to collapse the influence of the American dollar.  Most of these things happen over such an extended period and on such a vast scale with so many people involved that everyday people don’t see it or refuse to see it because acknowledging it would mean they’d have to take responsibility for the action.  Yet there it is, and it’s on our doorstep today as a result and demands that strong people face them down in opposition. 

That is where my suggestion of becoming a counter-revolutionary comes from.  It is a term you should embrace.  It’s not an act of terror to insist that we return our nation to a foundation of constitutional law instead of accepting the chaos of a change state toward communism, which is precisely what is happening.  Being a counter-revolutionary is an honorable thing when revolutionaries have indicated openly that they mean to ruin your lives at any cost and that they dare you to meet them on the battlefield for a fight.  They have issued the dare.  Unfortunately, we have been taught in our public schools that we are supposed to walk away from fights, not participate in them for the last century.  Our legal system has punished the second act in a conflict, not the first.  Prosecutors are going after those that respond to violence, not those who issue it.  So we are gun-shy and have been for way too long.  We have sat by and watched other people speak for us at school board meetings.  We have allowed good people to be punished just because they don’t fit into a woke culture intent on undoing our country.  We were, after all, too busy taking our kids to soccer practice.  We didn’t want the responsibility for action, so the revolutionaries of our culture felt entitled to attack and unleash their will upon us, expecting an easy go of destroying all of us. 

As human beings in this particular age, we must defend America from its attackers in the media, from insurgents in the streets, and those compromised within our elected offices.  Failure to meet that challenge will leave history to consider us the losers who let it all slip away to the parasites of sociology.  To the revolutionaries who hated us because they weren’t us or were too stupid to join us and take our lessons and improve their lives accordingly, revolutionary intentions cannot be accepted.  But make no mistake about it, they meant to end us all, and we should not back down from being a counter to their intentions.  There is nothing radical about that.  It is patriotic and honorable to stand against revolutionaries who intend ill will and malice robbing all future generations of the opportunity to be Americans.  It’s not enough to light fireworks on the Fourth of July and celebrate what others have done to make American Great.  It’s time for us to do it all over again in a way specific to our times. 

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Public Schools Should Be Prosecuted: Examples of school board members advocating liberal destruction

Public Schools are Dangerous Places

It is great to see more and more parents speaking out about what happens in their public schools.  Early this past week, I provided some stories about my home district of Lakota who expressed themselves over transgender policies that are part of the teacher union progressive political platform.  Then, the mom from Georgia unleashed on her school board an excellent speech about removing the mask mandates.  The video went viral and brought a lot of attention to the core problem; public schools are not our friends.  They are not places of sanctuary and learning centers of intelligence.  They are progressive re-education centers that intend for your children to be reprogramed. Government schools plan to reprogram our children. Your society has produced a hopeful lifeform growing up in a healthy community. Public schools want to destroy them into a collective goo of liberalism and dangerous thinking that will destroy our nation from within. They should all be prosecuted for their active role in that corruption.  It’s one thing if these school board members didn’t know better and were just well-intentioned malcontents.  But there is too much evidence, and it goes on far too often in virtually every public school in our government education system for it to be an accident.  The destruction is purposeful.  They intend what they do, and that makes it criminal rather than just innocent stupidity. 

The mom from Georgia who unleashed her fury with her school board there had a good point.  School board members may be frustrated that these young moms are grandstanding in their public speaking forums. I’ve known enough school board members from all over the place to know that school board members don’t come into their roles as corrupt activists for liberal causes.  They seek election for those boards to help educate children and play a role in the goodness of their communities as they understand those roles in a “liberal” society.  Most of us have been taught that public education is the first ingredient to a successful life and that children must at least stay in school to have a shot at life.  That leaves a community member seeking importance well-defined criteria for doing something meaningful.  And it’s not easy to be a school board member.  Management is complicated and often not very rewarding. Most of the time, especially in a group setting, you leave at the end of a meeting not getting everything you want.  An elected body expects disputes with other school board members at the meetings.  But it’s hard to disagree with someone you’ve spent a lot of time with, and quickly friendships form. Peer pressure persists. Often, the platform a school board member ran on to get elected gets forgotten and is replaced by state mandates and teacher’s union expectations for progressive causes.  And they end up being consumed by the system.

A couple of school board members from my district of Lakota, Julie Shaffer and Brad Lovell, are excellent examples of this problem.  I know both of them from the beginning and am pretty sure they meant well.  But in the vacancy of intelligence that should come with any leadership position, they have sought to cover their lack of ability with the national trend of radical leftism and masking it with a façade of caring for the district’s children in all the ways that are typical of Democrat politics.  They profess to the voters that they are nonpartisan, that politics does not play a role in their decision-making process.  But clearly, Julie’s role has always been appeasement of the teacher’s union as a radical mad mom seeking to throw resources at children rather than the hard work of leadership.  I debated Julie Shaffer on WLW radio many years ago, and her pro-education views were significantly left-leaning, and she came apart fast while on the air.  Recently she has been the advocating voice that has pushed the transgender agenda at Lakota.  She didn’t have to, but she went out of her way to put her name on the controversial proposal.  Lakota is in a very conservative area, so her actions do not represent the community that elected her.  She argues that politics did not play a role in her decision, but the evidence says otherwise.  So when a school board member knowingly does something harmful to children, such as adopting a liberal agenda that looks to be destructive to the education position of a public school, isn’t that a prosecutable offense?  If you knew about a murder that was planned and you didn’t say anything, isn’t that still a prosecutable occasion?  You bet it is, and she is guilty of these accidents.  Knowing her, she knew what the transgender policy would do, but she did it anyway, to hell with what people thought. When pressed on the matter, she claims a lack of political partisanship and insists that what she is doing is for the good of all children.

Then there is Brad Lovell, a school board member who used to be a school administrator and is married to a current administrator who makes decisions as a couple who profits a great deal off the public education system itself.  The biggest problem with him is that he is tone-deaf to anything that might disrupt the education structure, making it very difficult to have complex opinions about anything.  Supposedly his conflict of interest is legal in being married as a member of the board to an active employee, but his actions show the real problem. He has shown no resistance to budget concerns and is always quick to desire to go to the public for more money.  He would be well at home in the Joe Biden administration of deficit spending, and we can understand why.  As teacher contracts continue to escalate in cost, administrators rise too in cost and make it a very lucrative scam for him as a school board member.  He is clearly in the role for the social status it provides him.  He has no interest in going against the political tide of transgender politics or taking a stand against Critical Race Theory.  And in that neglect, he is responsible for the minds that time will prove to erode under the weight of liberalism.  Rather than put community concerns over these matters first, he instead set his needs for income indirectly through his wife as a priority, which is why many of the parents of Lakota are becoming more and more frustrated.  He doesn’t want to rock the boat because that’s his life through his wife.  But they do; they want someone to care about these issues and to do something about them.

Those are just a few local examples, but every school district could tell the same story, leaving parents frustrated.  Rather than listen to the Georgia mom who pleaded with the school board to remove a mask mandate from her child, the committee instead follows the liberal agenda, blames the CDC for the decision, and claims they have no power to do anything about it. They have done the same thing at Lakota, to limit the number of parents who can come to the board meetings and talk; they have used the excuse of social distancing to restrict attendance, citing that it is Governor DeWine’s orders they are following.  Because school board positions are unpaid and pretty unsatisfactory otherwise, it doesn’t bring much passion for reform is needed to manage the district.  Instead, they follow the liberal plan that comes with all public schools and sign their name without taking any responsibility for what happens.  And in that way, for the many little lies they must tell while doing so, public schools should be prosecuted for the harm they bring community members for knowing lies they commit for political power instead of what’s suitable for children.  And it’s time to get all that to an end, for our own sake.

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The Debt Attack: It starts with 1.9 Trillion in new spending, but the aim is much more dangerous

To understand the most recent Covid relief bill that our government used to perpetuate massive progressive spending, you must understand that the government behind governments, what some would call a “shadow government” is pushing for all this reckless debt so that they can get rich forever off the interest rates.  Just like the credit card company that is trying to get the latest 18-year-old teenager their first official card to max out and make it so they can forever barely make their minimum payments, the very rich who fancy themselves as the puppeteers of the world governments have sought to secure their financial holdings forever by making it so everyone owes them money borrowed at a high rate of interest for the rest of their lives.  This latest 1.9 trillion-dollar escapade used Covid as an excuse, just as they did when they used it to alter election law to put themselves in power, but its not the end.  The Biden administration is already looking at a multitrillion dollar infrastructure bill to add to it, placing our national debt well out of range to where normal GDP could ever hope to pay it off.  It’s a different kind of military strategy, this one not coming from the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor, or the London Blitz.  These battles aren’t fought with guns, troops, or even nations.  These are attacks from a wealthy class of financiers who want to rule the nations of the world through debt, and they have their people in place within the United States now by using Covid-19 as a power move to alter laws, suspend the constitution, and thus cripple our nation of any righteousness due to the now overwhelming debt that they pushed their politicians to enact to fulfill their global strategic goals. 

Now, I don’t say all that to panic anybody.  Strategically, I see a way out of all this.  It won’t be pleasant for the people who have done all this to us, but I can see a way out.  A path of future explosive growth and a complete collapse of the other world economies that should allow for a great reset of our own.  If the current push is to set the world economies under a great reset toward communist control, which the extremely wealthy shadow government wants, the way to defeat them is the opposite way, by wrestling away the management of our government from them and casting them aside while other new sectors of the economy function under a constitutional republic—the way its supposed to be.  By removing the villains from the process, first by identifying them, then undoing their antics, then cutting them off from future endeavors, there is a bloody path out of this mess, so its not the end of the world. 

However, with all that aside, the continued insults of the little checks they have been sending our way—the latest, this $1400 little thing per person who makes under $100k per year essentially, are a real problem.  They think so little of us that they believe these relief checks are enough to distract us away from all the other spending they are wasting our money on for causes that nobody supports.  This certainly isn’t what people voted for.  When they say elections have consequences that only holds true if the elections are a true representation of the people’s wishes, not a made-up election with fake ballots filled out with mail-ins and flimsy rules made up because of Covid-19 to alter state election laws.  To pass this 1.9 trillion-dollar mess, give most of us a little cheese, then go spend massive amounts of debt on blue state bailouts from poorly run Democrat regions is an abomination of all logic and a true insult.  The $1400 checks will be gone as fast as people get them, just like their tax returns and people will be back to barely scraping by as the government stifles our economic activity with even more micromanaged incompetence by them for the aims of their masters, certainly not the American people who vote. 

Then as I said in the video above, the government caused us to lose that money, $1400 doesn’t come close to covering the massive losses we have all experienced.  Just think of the sports teams who could have had people sitting 3 feet apart instead of 6 and could have filled their stadiums and sold lots of beer to cover their concession costs.  Think of the restaurant owners who have gone out of business trying to comply with fake Covid laws.  Think of all the companies that have folded because of all the stay-at-home orders and the loss of productivity from everyone suddenly “working from home.”  Think of the loss in sales of every company, the raises people didn’t get because companies were barely making it and couldn’t cover their basic business loans, let alone expanding payroll to give out raises.  There are literally trillions and trillions of lost dollars just from 2020 that are lost opportunity cost, stuff that will be gone forever because government tampered with our lives in such a destructive way.  Then they think they can make it right with a silly little $1400 check?  We need about 10 of those checks to get close to where we should be.  Likely 50.  For some companies, the losses are in the millions.  That’s a lot of $1400 checks.  The fact that the government thinks these little checks come close to making things right says they either have no idea how bad the situation is, or they do and just think we are that stupid.  

But it was never about fairness, or even protecting us from a virus.  It was always a corral of us like a flock of beef being ushered into a slaughterhouse by a bunch of ruffians using fear to steer us where they want us to go so they can make money off us by hanging debt around our necks for the foreseeable future.  The kind of debt that this government has signed us up for wasn’t by accident, it was an attack, an assault against us all.  It was the work of a shadow government of financiers who see our government as just one asset in their portfolio and they laugh as we point to the constitution and cite rules and regulations that are supposed to regulate their imposition into our lives.  They will say, those who have the gold rule, and they have stolen all our gold.  They think they own us, and they think these deals they’ve made with this trillion in extra spending will chain us to them for all our lives while they profit off our suffering.  Well, I see a collapse of that entire system that they aren’t prepared for.  And I would urge you to prepare your minds for that time, because its coming close.  They are doing what they are doing now because they don’t know any better, even the shadow government is not prepared for what they created.  When all that comes crashing down, as it is poised to do, there will be a great reset and we have to make sure when it does that, we know what we need to do.  I wouldn’t say its all doom and gloom.  But people will be impacted, so make sure that you aren’t one of them. 

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An Authentic Han Solo Costume: The miracle of Amazon.com amid changing industries–and people

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Everyone knows I’m a huge Star Wars fan—which I view differently from the geeky other types of entertainment exhibitions of public support.  When I see the name Star Wars and participate in its products in whatever form, it evokes in me an optimism that is very specific to it that I am very fond of.  That’s why my favorite character within Star Wars is Han Solo, because he is the most optimistic character perhaps ever created for film.  Nothing is impossible for Han Solo—he’ll try anything under any circumstances because his personality is such that he figures his confidence and sheer will can get him through anything.  He is the Donald Trump of science fiction and I’ve felt that way about that character for more than forty years now.  On more than a few occasions I’ve dressed up as Han Solo for Halloween events, or other science fiction endeavors, conventions, watch parties, literary events at book stores—just various festive gatherings that celebrate costuming and character reverence—but I’ve never had any kind of official Han Solo clothing. I would just piece together whatever I could find that sort of looked like the popular smuggler from the Star Wars series and go from there. But my five-year old grandson is about to have a big birthday party marking that invisible line of being a toddler to a genuine little boy fully aware of the world around him with the memories that now matter—and my daughters are fashioning it to Star Wars.  As I’ve reported before also, these parties my kids do for their kids are not just little events—they go all out in creating a very mythic experience that is almost a theme park occurrence and due to their passion for Star Wars they are going all out.  That meant that of course I had to dress up as Han Solo—but this time I wanted to do it for real—as real as possible because of the effort my kids were putting into this party and the eventual impact it would have on the youth in my family attending this thing.  So I turned to Amazon.com to see what was out there and was stunned by a world I discovered.

My mom made me a little vest like Han Solo’s when I was in the fifth grade and I sort of kept it all these years even though it was way too small for me.  But even a few years ago if you wanted something that looked like a Star Wars character and bought a costume from a place like Party City it always came out looking far from authentic.  If you wanted something that looked like the clothing in the movie you had to make it.  Back when my kids were little we went to a Star Wars Celebration in Indianapolis and my wife made Jedi robes for my girls and their friends so they could dress up at that convention which occurred right before the movie Revenge of the SIth.  The internet at that time had some support—you could get directions from people who built their own costumes but there weren’t suppliers carrying things like that on the shelf.  Even though Star Wars was popular there just wasn’t any money in it for costumers to make costumes of all those characters in the movies  for a public of all shapes and sizes.  The scope of that work was unrealistic. For Han Solo specifically his outfit looks pretty simple yet is really quite complex.  For instance, his vest from A New Hope has a series of very complicated pockets positioned just right—and there is nothing like that off the rack at Wal-Mart or Kholes.  Han Solo’s pants don’t have pockets and have a very specific pin stripe down the side of them which disappears into knee-high boots that are meant to put the swash in the buckle for the very dashing character. The shirt under the vest isn’t just a white button-up but has a very unique collar and v-nick style that has to fit just right through the shoulders to give the correct effect.  Then there is the gun belt which is a thing all its own.  So I went looking for these things and I started with the Star Wars Costume exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center—which has been running all summer and will end around the beginning of October before moving on to the next city.  It’s a good exhibit, most of which I’ve seen before at the Smithsonian, but for my quest it served its purpose.  I was able to get right up to the Han Solo costume and look at things up close so that I could duplicate it authentically.  If I couldn’t find the items online, my wife was willing to build them from scratch so we went and took lots of pictures.

To my shook as I started looking now, in 2017 for these very specific Han Solo costume pieces for this epic party my kids were having I discovered that I was able to buy everything at Amazon.com relatively inexpensively.  For instance the great Han Solo vest that I figured was the most important part of the costume was just under forty dollars from an outfit in China.  I skeptically ordered it expecting it to arrive in a very flawed condition.  I expected something that looked like a typical Party City costume that smelled like plastic and rubber.  But what came to my front door was an exact replica of the Han Solo vest from A New Hope made out of material that was like that of tactical gear for a SWAT team.   It was a very good garment that was legitimate and it fit well the moment I put it on.  I was stunned by the quality of it.  I then proceeded to order the official shirt, the pants, the boots and the gun belt which as of this writing hasn’t yet arrived, but everything else has and again I was stunned by the authenticity of each item.

At different points in my life I had looked for these things and nobody carried them—as I said, everything had to be made by hand.  What’s unique about now from then—and by then I mean like six months ago—is that due to all the COSPLAY that goes on at these Comic Con conventions and now that Disney World is building these amusement parks with Star Wars lands within them there is this big COSPLAY movement that has emerged—where people dress up as characters from their favorite movies to delve into the mythology of these various sci-fi events—and out of nowhere there are all these suppliers who are making these costumes to meet the growing demand.  It’s a whole industry of itself that has virtually arrived out of nowhere.  I am aware of some of it because I find Comic Cons interesting as well as Gen Cons and other conventions.  I also noticed that the plans for the new Star Wars resort coming to Disney World is seeking to tap into this emerging market with a Fantasy Island style of Star Wars experience where they encourage people to show up dressed for the part.   Obviously Disney knew all about this culture and were building their business plans around it.  I only discovered it because of my grandson’s birthday party—but this was big business!

As I had ordered everything from my home computer and each item arrived one by one to my doorstep without having to go anywhere to search for it I became more and more impressed.  Even more shocking was that everything fit nicely, I didn’t have to send anything back.  Just by reading some of the reviews I was able to size myself accordingly with no trouble at all.  I figured that the risk was low because if the stuff showed up and was junky I figured my five-year old grandson would forgive me.  He’d appreciate the effort and wouldn’t get hung up on the details—even though he is a very smart little kid.  He surprises me what he notices.  He’s already playing the video game Battlefront very well which is about two years before I thought he would.  He plays online against other people who are very good—and he’s effective.  He knows all the different types of weapons that can be used, how to outfit each character and how to manage the Star Cards which give unique abilities to tactical engagements.  So if something wasn’t right, he’d notice. But after getting the parts of my Han Solo costume together it was obvious that I had nothing to worry about.  As far as this party was concerned, except for my hairline, the outfit looks just like it would if it was on the actual movie set.  That’s pretty stunning for something that was so easily ordered on Amazon.com.

This is all just another example of how imagination is fueling an entirely new industry and due to the excessive and efficient reach of Amazon.com they were able to connect me to suppliers around the world where I could get a very specific items from a forty-year old movie to my doorstep within two weeks.  And the quality wasn’t junky but meant to impress even under the scrutiny of the most ardent film geek.   In some cases my outfit is better than the movie original on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center.  Those costumes were meant for just a few months of filming, these for purchase were meant to last much longer and under the judgment of live audiences.  Needless to say, which I have before, we are seeing something new and hopeful from these modern movie enthusiasts which starts with a mythology in the movie theater and extends into real life—what Disney is doing down at their theme parks is tapping into the public need to play out their fantasies and is an expansion of imagination that is very specific to our species as human beings.  The need to personify a fantasy experience has deep psychological roots that go far beyond primal necessity.   I think the end result is a very positive one that is headed toward an unknown climax.  I know I love to see the imaginations of so many people at work to make something like all this possible—but it surprised even me at the extent of it all. And the entity most responsible for the success of this new industry was Amazon.com.  They were the middle ground players that connected need with supply and allowed both to get what they wanted at the best price and quality.  If they can do that with a simple costume from Star Wars, just think what they can do with real necessities.  We are living in a whole new world.

Rich Hoffman

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