The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work attributed to King Solomon, the son of David, and the purported author of several Old Testament texts. The work is believed to have been written in the late first or early second century AD, and it tells the story of how Solomon was granted the power to command demons and other supernatural beings by God.
The Testament of Solomon is a fascinating text that sheds light on the beliefs and practices of early Jewish and Christian communities. It is also an important source of information about the history of demonology and magic in the ancient world.
The text is divided into two parts. The first part describes how Solomon was approached by the demon Ornias, who offered to bring him great wealth and power in exchange for his soul. Solomon, however, was wise enough to outsmart Ornias, and he forced the demon to reveal the names of all the other demons and spirits that were under his command.
Using this knowledge, Solomon was able to command the demons and spirits to build the Temple in Jerusalem and perform other tasks for him. The second part of the text is a collection of spells and incantations that Solomon used to control these supernatural beings.
The Testament of Solomon was highly influential in the development of both Jewish and Christian demonology. Many of the demons and spirits that are mentioned in the text became part of the standard demonological taxonomy used by later Jewish and Christian writers.
In addition, the Testament of Solomon influenced the development of magic in the ancient world. The spells and incantations that are included in the text were widely copied and adapted by later writers, and they continue to be used by practitioners of magic to this day.
Overall, the Testament of Solomon is a fascinating and important text that provides insight into the beliefs and practices of ancient Jewish and Christian communities. It is a testament to the enduring power of myth and legend in human culture, and it remains a valuable resource for scholars of religion, history, and folklore.
The Common Era (CE) is a calendar era that is widely used around the world. It is also known as the Christian Era or the Current Era. The year CE is equivalent to AD (Anno Domini), which means “in the year of our Lord” in Latin. The Common Era began on January 1, 1 CE, which is the year that is believed to be the birth year of Jesus Christ.
What anybody needs to know about the Ken Paxton impeachment trial in Texas is that he’s a MAGA supporter who has been very influential. At the outset of the 2020 election, as the Attorney General of Texas Paxton established one of the best cases for election fraud proof, which upset all those RINOs who wanted a clean break with Trump. So, the old Bush power in Texas put a target on Paxton’s back right away. And recently, Paxton was going after Google over privacy issues. So, this trial in Texas, where the House has already impeached him from his position and now the Senate is going through the process of hearing the evidence cast against him, is an old game by the old forces who are clinging to their power from MAGA challenges to their established order. It reminds me of a case in my county within the Republican Party, where legal warfare is regularly employed to destroy political rivals. The core of the dispute is to resist the apparent changes that are part of the MAGA movement and the hope that if those challenges are destroyed, everything will snap back into the controls of the old days. Where the Bush family was in charge, alliances with big companies like Google could occur under the radar, and election fraud could be conducted in the open, and nobody would question it. It is interesting to watch, especially as RINO Republicans have attempted to shame Paxton with references to an affair he had that was well settled before any of these current issues emerged, which are being used to attack his character. People see through it that it’s essentially the same type of case thrown at President Trump, and the results will be the same.
The Ken Paxton trial in Texas is an ongoing legal battle that has captured the attention of many across the United States. The problem centers around allegations of securities fraud against the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton. The case has been controversial, with many questioning the motives behind the investigation and subsequent charges. At the heart of the matter is the accusation that Ken Paxton committed securities fraud by encouraging investors to buy stock in a technology company without disclosing that he was receiving compensation for the recommendation. The case has been mired in legal battles and delays, with Paxton’s lawyers arguing that the charges should be dismissed due to a lack of evidence. As it is going, the case against Paxton has been weak at best, with the best parts of it involving going to the FBI with no evidence, just accusations. And if there were any merit to the case, the Biden DOJ would have picked it up because they want to take down Paxton for his election case against the federal handling of the 2020 election. But there was nothing there, leaving the entire issue to the flimsy holdovers of the Bush legacy control over Texas. So everything is coming out petty instead of having any good legal standing. As bad as it all is to attempt to impeach an attorney general by his party, over essentially, nothing but to get rid of a member of MAGA in the power politics of Texas, the attempt says far more than any of the evidence does that has been established against Paxton. We have uncovered a monster that we always knew was there but has emerged in the wake of Trump in the White House and the distinct fear that he will return, with people like Paxton gaining power.
I see these fights all over the country, and they are happening in just about every county. As I have said about my county of Butler County, this is the number one issue challenging everyone. Many supported Trump during his first term because he was in power then, but they held their nose and couldn’t wait for him to be removed from office, which they cheered for when they thought nobody was looking. In the wake of one of the most massive crimes in world history, which was the stolen election of 2020, and the Covid release of a bioweapon against the public to allow for cheating to occur, no matter who was harmed in the process, you could see clearly where people were politically. Many put on masks and surrendered everything to the health administrators, hoping that a superior power, more significant than Trump, would knock him out of office. These are the same people who, just months before, would gut their mothers for a chance to get a VIP pass to a Trump event and stand next to him for a picture. I watched all this action with curiosity. And over the last three years, it has been obvious what they were up to all along: they wanted to go back to the regional powers, such as what the Bush family has over Texas. And there is always some family like that all over the nation, and they were pleased to snap back into that control in the wake of Trump. They wanted their power back, so anybody expressing Trump-like opinions now that Biden was in the White House were a target, and everyone expected Trump to be gone forever, in favor of some controlled asset like Ron DeSantis, they bet everything on that future. And that isn’t what’s happening.
I tried to explain this to many people at our Lincoln Day dinner in Butler County, Ohio, after Ron DeSantis had just come and spoken to everyone. Many were hoping that DeSantis was going to be the Trump killer. I told them that Ron was going nowhere, which is precisely what has happened. I found it surprising that nobody wanted to talk about Trump. And those who did, and we saw this same kind of radicalism on the Lakota school board, where the former Trump supporters were quick to adjust to this new Biden world as if the former Republican president had never happened. It was as if some great eraser would come along and put all the people who wanted power back in charge forever. It was a bizarre exchange. On that school board, the Lynda O’Conner’s of the world wanted to destroy the Darbi Boddys over essential political philosophy, establishment against MAGA. And now there is panic in those groups because they have bet everything on the old forces destroying these new rivals. All the political hits have not beaten their enemies; it has only made them stronger, just like what is happening with Trump. And, of course, what is happening to Ken Paxton. The frustration is that Paxton will emerge from this impeachment process with more political power, which is the case with all these traditional attacks. The old games no longer work; people don’t like the kind of society that we have had with them in charge, such as the Bush family or the DeWine clan in Ohio. People want better political parties to represent them, not those who make deals with Google to ruin our country, destroy our Constitution, and tell us that we’ll all be better after the compromises. That them selling us out to foreign interests was to our advantage somehow. But many have realized that the political parties, especially RINO Republicans, have not been good for us, and we want real change. And we’re not going to accept sell-outs. We’ve given them a chance in the past, and we are now forever against their further attempts. And that they can get rid of Trump, Ken Paxton, or even regionally, Darbi Boddy or Roger Reynolds, and people will still be upset with the lackluster RINOs. They will never regain their old power, and in the future, they will only be more and more resented. That is the future of politics; we want more like Ken Paxton and fewer Jeb Bushes. We want people who represent us, not some ruling-class aristocracy. And those needs will only increase in the future; we will never go back to the old days that caused all these problems in the first place.
I had a good shooting season this year, as is usually the case. Over the Labor Day weekend, there was one that I look forward to each year specifically. I go all over the region to attend these gun-fighting competitions and meet many different people to satisfy my obsession with speed, which has been with me for a lifetime. Cowboy Fast Draw is a unique sport that is very popular, and it should get a lot more news coverage. But since it’s guns and a deliberate reverence toward a specifically American lifestyle, many woke media won’t touch it in even casual ways. But not doing so is very disingenuous to American culture, which is the point of social rejection. It would be like avoiding discussing knighthood in Europe or the samurai in Japan. Gunfighting in America is one of those core elements that almost everyone can relate to, but the forces hostile to our country want desperately to remove it from people’s minds. So we have these competitions all over the United States that are very well attended and increasing in popularity, yet many people don’t even know about them. The shooting season occurs mainly during the warm months, from April to around October. For me, the one over Labor Day in Darke County, Ohio, is usually the last, so it has a special meaning. There are a few more in October and November, but I’m often too busy to get to them. My reason for getting to as many as possible is that they are very positive experiences. I think about many things that don’t make much sense in everyday life, but all the pieces come together nicely at Fast Draw events. In the Labor Day of 2023 competition, I received a very hard-won award with significant meaning, and you can read the faces. A lot is going on with these kinds of things.
I see Fast Draw as a lot like golf; you get together with friends and see how low your score can be over some time. Gunfights usually last all day, so it’s not a one-and-done endeavor. It requires long, sustained skill that is repeatable. But unlike golf, this is a timed sport. You are forced to react as quickly as possible to the target, making this kind of competition very unusual and American. I like many things, including golf, but there are many things extraordinary about Fast Draw that I find very beneficial personally. Particularly when it comes to metaphors for speed, in regular life, where people don’t show up for gunfights with their guns on their hips and all the special equipment you get to mess around with to play the sport, there are lots of excuses for why things don’t happen or can’t. I find the typical labor position that has come out of the Department of Labor in government particularly repulsive, and since COVID was introduced to liberals, and they have used the potential for sickness not to do any work, my frustrations with the world have only increased dramatically. I do not look for excuses for anything. I think production is beautiful, but most of the world is looking for reasons, and the more liberalism in a culture, the more excuses that culture has for things that they think cannot be done. The attitude is, “If you want to do something right, you should take your time,” assumes that the faster you go at something, the worse the quality of the endeavor. In that way, the labor market that has evolved with lots of Marxism has sought to do less work and do it slower, rather than the classic American approach, which is faster and more accurate.
The reason that gunfighters in classic American Westerns were so obsessed with being faster than the other fighter is the proper metaphor for American culture, where the expectations for everything was tight. Capitalism evolved in America under the premise of speed. And, of course, the speed wasn’t of much value if accuracy wasn’t a part of the story. Of all the sports out there, Fast Draw is the fastest sport. It has elements of many popular sports, mainly drag racing. But there is nothing faster than Fast Draw, where the main objective is drawing a gun and hitting a target with a wax bullet in under half a second. And what I learn from watching different shooters from different places around the country is fascinating. And very refreshing. In the business world, slowness has been embraced because of all the socialist, communist, and under-all philosophies of Marxism running in the background, dripping wet in the compliance culture. Those who make the rules that human resource departments must follow load assumptions against the speed that a company can operate, and too often, people unthinkingly follow without pushing back against the essential premise. And it can be very frustrating to deal with, especially if you think about it, which most people avoid. In golf, you can take your time with the game and are often rewarded for going slower, so many people in business assume that slower is better and that success means making that adjustment. But from the perspective of my favorite sport, Fast Draw faster is better, and the management of speed and accuracy measures success and failure.
There are a lot of essential lessons in Fast Draw that should be directly applied to the business world, which is why I wrote a book on the subject, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business. You must remove as much nonsense from the process to get the speed you need in the sport. The more motion, the more steps, and the more variables there are, the slower your time will be. And under pressure, you still must be able to hit the target. You don’t have time to be casual. Most of the winning times in the sport are around a quarter of a second to a half a second. So, the pressure to achieve speed will expose anything unnecessary. And that’s how it should be in business, whether it’s a drive-through window at a fast-food restaurant or selling a new car to a customer. You might have noticed that since COVID-19 and the Biden administration has been in the White House, things have slowed down significantly in America. The business world expects to go slower and blame the supply chain upstream for failure. This is a very un-American concept, one of the biggest problems of the modern age. And it’s very different in 2023 than in 2019 before Covid came along. Yet, without measuring things with speed and accuracy, people might not notice that the value system was slow and, ultimately, communism with low-performance expectations. The more Fast Draw events I go to, the more hope I have for the world because I can see people who know how vital speed is to modern culture. Not just dressing up in gunfighter garments and paying reverence to the Old West. I appreciate the shooters I meet and their “need for speed,” which is specifically American. And it certainly gives me hope for the future when I see how hungry people are to win at Fast Draw. Because if they can figure out that balance in that sport, they may do well in real life in ways that capitalism best reflects.
Something significant is happening that is very obvious, but little has been made of it; people are generally waking up to the malicious intentions of Bill Gates and his friends in the World Economic Forum. People are now looking for the sideshow games where crimes against humanity have been committed, and Klaus Schwab and the economic Marxist terrorists of the world are not prepared for the wrath that is coming their way, which was most evident in the wake of the Maui wildfires. Well, at this point, we should call it the Maui arson that destroyed a town that had been discussed as a satellite city for the World Economic Forum’s 15-minute cities. The best way to build one is to destroy the old one, which looks to be the case here. A few years ago, nobody would have asked any questions. Conspiracy theorists would have voiced their opinions, but the mainstream media would have poured cold water on them, and the public would have accepted the controlled narrative. But not any longer, not since Covid ruined the trust of public officials, and now three years of Biden have shocked people into observing the obvious. The World Economic Forum has gone too far, and the shock to the world has been a degraded impression. I noticed something similar when Microsoft, run by Bill Gates, released Windows 95, which was not as well received as Windows 3.1. And ever since, Microsoft has been further scrutinized to the point it is today. A necessary evil that people generally don’t trust. Just as they no longer trust Bill Gates. That is the case with everyone connected to the World Economic Forum. People are onto the games and now see them being played everywhere, not conspiratorial, but in the logical way the bad guys have always tried to hide from the public.
I said that the truth about the Maui fires would emerge in the aftermath as we watched what people did. As it turns out, the power company had been trying to maintain its infrastructure, but the emphasis was on woke policies for renewables, straight from the World Economic Forum’s radical agenda. And the power company had turned off the power hours before the fire started, so how could a spark from them set off the blaze? There are a lot of unanswered questions that only point to terrorist activity, not a natural occurrence or an accident from the power company due to infrastructure failure. I have seen that same radicalism in my state of Ohio regarding FirstEnergy. On the one hand, they have adopted all these woke rules to appease the climate terrorists, making them the target of a hostile public upset at the changes. But then the climate terrorists are trying to set up the power companies for complete failure and are looking to drive them out of business. It’s the classic gun-to-the-head robber who forces someone they are holding up to do what they are told, only to be shot dead after they’ve handed over all their money. These climate terrorists doing their deeds for the World Economic Forum behind the efforts of the United Nations are playing for keeps, which looks to be the kind of set-up job in Maui. But the public is aware of the game, and they instantly rejected the official narratives for the fire and went straight for the developers who have promised to rebuild as a “city of tomorrow” as the instigators of so much death and destruction. If it can happen in Maui, then it could happen everywhere.
The bad guys in the world have been doing these things for a long time, destroying the planet and rebuilding it in their version of “Build Back Better.” That kind of terminology was already being stamped on liberal t-shirts before there was a Joe Biden in the White House, but after Covid was a major overstep by Bill Gates and the gang, they didn’t seem to realize that it was a step too far. And now people have lost trust in the officials that the World Economic Forum has worked so hard to capture. But now that they have the power, they have lost the public’s faith and don’t seem to understand why. Their entire plan, just like every version of Windows ever released that was supposed to be better than the first, has consistently failed in some way because they could never quite get it right. Power is hard; it’s easy to make a misstep, and that is what we are dealing with now. Climate terrorists were just caught starting fires in Greece to attempt to evoke an environmental message, and now that fires are breaking out all over the world frequently, it’s not a natural occurrence that people expect. The first thought is climate terrorism by these radical Marxists inspired by the members of the World Economic Forum who plan to profit off the carnage and then build what they want. There’s one sure way to overcome the kind of city opposition that building a 15-minute city would typically involve. Just burn it down and kill all the people who would oppose it. Then blame the power company you are also trying to put out of business because they use fossil fuels in capitalist markets. That game has been going on for too long, and many people have suffered.
The public outrage is very energetic on social media. How much of it gets outside the algorithms tightly controlled by the Deep State is an issue for debate. Typically, discussions against the administrators of the Deep State and the members of the World Economic Forum who have a lot of money that they think buys their governments don’t get outside of the circular firing squad of specific groups that are easily monitored by the powerful forces who think they are in charge. But the word is getting out anyway, and ordinary people now see the obvious. They are asking the right questions that are no longer conspiracies but honest observations that have lingered in the background. People might have been shy about expressing those opinions, but now they are open. And regarding the Maui fires, there is actual hostility that is well-founded. People don’t like to be suckered, and they feel suckered. Bill Gates has shown the same kind of stupidity with his climate change activism that he did with Windows releases. Everything worked for him as long as he had a monopoly on opinion. But once people could think for themselves, which started happening with Windows 95, the value of their Microsoft products began to diminish. People would put up with it to get along, but they weren’t suddenly yearning for the product. And that same thing has happened to the losers in the World Economic Forum. They thought people would want what they were selling: globalism, climate change, a godless, overly sexualized heathen society of sweaty losers looking to them as gods. But, what they have been caught doing was acting as the latest terrorists, no different from the old hippie Weather Underground radicals. Instead of operating out of the back of a pot-filled, rusting van playing Beatles eight-track tapes, they are billionaires like Bill Gates who have lost their minds, if they ever really had them.
I love the new busing strike at Lakota schools. Nothing infuriates me more than slow-moving vehicles clogging up the roadways, and since school has started back for the fall, all the buses hauling kids around to a communist government school in my district that eats money insatiably has been a sore subject for me. I’ve dealt with this busing issue for years; I remember when Lakota cut busing as an extortion method to push parents to pass a tax increase back when we had to fight those levies every few months. And I certainly remember how it was during Covid. Parents learned not to have busing, and as far as I’m concerned, parents can take their kids to school. They’ve done it before; they can do it again. They already get a free babysitting service in the school paid for by the taxpayers, so the least they can do is drive their kids to school. But my favorite school board member, the only one who has been really good on busing issues to make things better for parents, Darbi Boddy, is supportive of busing services and has wanted to expand coverage. See, we don’t agree on everything, just most things. Darbi ultimately is not a professional politician, but she’s in politics the way it’s supposed to be. She’s a mom, and she thinks like a parent. So, she is undoubtedly sympathetic toward school bus drivers as they voted to strike just before Labor Day 2023. And what’s unusual about this strike isn’t about money or benefits. The busing services are contracted out to a company called Petermann, which handles the needs of the drivers, who are well compensated. Instead, the problem is over surveillance, a similar tech issue as is at the core of the Hollywood strike of actors and writers. Technology has turned into a tyrant, and the drivers aren’t happy about it, so they have walked off the job.
Of course, there is more to the story, which is why this is a compelling analysis. Lakota schools want to micromanage the bus drivers in ways they would never dare do with their employees, and because of Petermann handling the union responsibilities, it has given Lakota schools a chance to try and fix their social perception problem with parents during an election year, without having to take responsibility for anything and making members of their radical leftist union upset. Lakota has been very soft on pedophilia over the last several years, following some genuinely detrimental behavior with several past employees that have damaged the public school brand. Followed by some very disappointing report cards from the state and a financial situation where the lawyers are essentially running the school, the current school board, except for Darbi Boddy, has been a complete disaster. So they need a public relations push, and this school bus driver issue has been, for them, a golden opportunity. Suddenly, they want to use technology to monitor if the bus drivers are putting both hands on the steering wheel while turning and if they are staying within the speed limit. The same policy is not present to ensure that Lakota teachers behave themselves. If a kid shoots a spitball at the back of a bus driver’s head, and the driver yells at the kid. The act will be caught on video. But if it happens in a classroom, nobody will ever know. So based on that premise, Lakota management, starting at the school board, is talking out of both sides of its mouth, which is a standard from them, not an exception.
Without question, there are school bus drivers who are cheating slugs. They don’t fill their logbooks out correctly; monitoring will help correct that problem. But the number is likely under 25%. There is no precise justification for abusing the other 75% with overmanagement while the rest of the school culture gets away with horrendous acts of defilement and social degradation. Sure, bus drivers park in places they shouldn’t be to associate with other drivers who shouldn’t be there between pickup tasks. There are many reasons to justify the increased monitoring of the bus-driving staff. But the question is, “Should they do it?” Given the government school culture, the least of the problems are the bus drivers, yet the school board and superintendent want to be harsh with them in just another phony plea to convince parents that management cares about the kids. Parents interact with school bus drivers as representatives of the school more than they do the school itself, as the bus usually comes to their homes personally, where the school is someplace the kids disappear to. This has allowed the school board to appear tough on discipline over employees they don’t even have responsibility for while Lakota’s teacher’s union members get away with everything. If Lakota wanted to be tough on employees, it would have reacted much differently to the many abuses of kids that get reported but are slowly dealt with at the school board to protect the school’s image rather than to make kids a priority. But if a school bus driver goes over the speed limit by driving 40 MPH on a road that’s only 35, even though the rest of the traffic is going 45 MPH, then the push will be to write that driver up for a safety violation. Technology has allowed for this kind of oppressive micromanagement, which is not good.
It’s hard enough to get drivers for a school bus; it’s a part-time job at best that you have to spend your whole day doing, first early in the morning, to pick the kids up. Then, mid-day pre-rush hour traffic takes them home. It’s an idea I don’t think society should have ever started. It should be the responsibility of the parents to take their kids to get an education, wherever it is. Bussing has made it way too easy for parents. In this case, it has been an all too easy target for a school board that has mismanaged its affairs to appear more diligent than they are because the introduction of expanded technology has allowed tyrants to have power over others they should never have. Mainly when the utilization is not applied evenly to all parties involved. The bus drivers are being punished for disciplines that the school board would never apply to the teachers and administrators under their management. The third-party Petermann drivers are an easy target with expendable employees. And if nobody goes to school, the teachers get a more leisurely day, which we saw they were too willing to exploit during COVID-19. Technology isn’t used to improve everything, only to control it for power over innocent people while the real trouble persists elsewhere. The hope is that parents will think Lakota is doing an excellent job with the safety of their children by monitoring speed limits and hand placement during driving while the teachers are trying to convince boys that they are girls and that everyone can use whatever bathroom they want. Meanwhile, the lawyers are using taxpayer money to settle every legal challenge that comes their way, and they are trying to do to Darbi Boddy what the school board is trying to do to the bus drivers: blame them for all the lousy mismanagement of the district, when the real trouble is in their back yard, which many parents will never otherwise see.
It’s an exciting trend, not a surprising one, but certainly telling, and that is debates no longer matter in presidential politics, and as a byproduct of that, money is much less of a factor. One thing that was grossly obvious in the last Fox News debate was how much things have changed in just a very short period, and if you watched it, or at least some of it as I did, you can see a desperation from the cable news networks to assert a power that they used to have over the process, which they are desperate to hang on to. Among those under 10% types, there was a consistency to bend allegiance to the media moguls who wanted to set the presidential agenda around consultants and Beltway priorities to keep a globalist narrative on track. And Trump wisely stepped beyond those controls, leaving essentially the old-world Republicans to battle it out for the bottom in an utterly meaningless debate. While the discussion was occurring, Trump, of course, did his now famous Tucker Carlson interview, which very quickly gathered up a quarter of a billion views, so the differences in future state politics and the past that have been primarily controlled by consulting firms and media tycoons couldn’t be more obvious. It’s all about the horse race and the coverage leading up to it for all the parasites who have injected themselves into the process and, over time, taken complete control of the narrative. But that’s changing now, as it should have long ago. All presidential politics should be about managing the republic and nothing else. However, just like in sports, we have turned a game into it, and many people have figured out how to make a living off the coverage of that game. Some have even toyed with the idea that they can run the country if only they force the candidates to stay within the debate framework established by the media.
One of the big arguments that were made toward Trump joining the Fox News debate was that if the President started a trend of not participating in discussions, then Joe Biden would likely skip doing any arguments in 2024. Well, I have news for everyone: Joe Biden will never do any more debates. His handlers will not put him on a stage to talk outside a controlled format. It’s just not going to happen. There will be no presidential debates in 2024, which, of course, all the people who make their living covering the horse race of politics find devastating. But that’s a good thing because all those tag-alongs were useless anyway. The debates in elections were meant to show people who the candidates were. But they have evolved into setting the presidential agenda. Everyone knows who Trump is; he’s the most famous person on Earth. Nobody is going to learn anything new about Trump after a debate. The only people who would benefit would be the people hosting the discussion and trying to sell airtime while covering the horse race of politics. That is essentially all Fox News is and has been for a long time. They cover the horse race but don’t care much for what horse wins. They make their money off the event’s coverage, not the actual results in the aftermath. This kind of culture has led to all the wrong priorities, leading blank-minded candidates to dance to the strings of media owners who then take the business of the republic and form fit it into their business needs.
During his last term, Trump showed how easy it is to fix many of these issues that consultants have been getting in the way of for a long time, which has hidden itself behind the debate culture of the past. That’s another reason the media hates Trump; he has exposed this game. He doesn’t need the money that donors can give, and he doesn’t need the media to make him into a star. He’s his own person, which infuriates the consultant class. They can’t make him who he is; he doesn’t need them, which is one of the scariest realities they could have for a lot of people who are parasites in the world–not to be needed, and Trump doesn’t. It also points out the political change where money is used to buy influence. Money doesn’t have so much power these days because the game used to be that the media would make a star out of a candidate, and that star would then use that success to raise money, so the money could then be used to buy airtime on the media that created the star, to begin with. Trump has stepped over that entire process altogether. It’s all been a shell game that has benefited the wrong people. The voters have been used to generate the money, but they never get what they want out of politics, leaving everyone perpetually hungry for the next horse race, which Fox News starts covering three years before an election. It’s been a big scam that does nothing to help solve problems; it only makes money for those who cause all the trouble in the first place, and people are no longer interested. That may be terrifying to the people who make money off politics, but it’s a changing business, and they’ll have to adapt.
The Biden people ripped off the scab when they tried to put him in office with a campaign in his basement during Covid. Trump and Biden had a debate that year, 2020, but they fell short of completing the traditional three that had preceded their terms. Biden is a primarily handled media caricature kept in power by stolen elections, just as most communist countries stay in control. Only in America people know better because we do have a free media culture. And if traditional media doesn’t serve the people, then they will find alternatives, and they have. And Trump’s campaign in 2024 will completely embrace that new media. The old media isn’t doing anything useful anyway, so Trump doesn’t need them. Biden has shown that he doesn’t need them either. So, there won’t be any presidential debates in 2024. Fox News hosting these debates is over; nobody cares. And there will be no return to that type of shell game, rightfully, because money has essentially been taken out of politics. Money can’t buy support the way it has been sold in the past. People form opinions about political candidates much differently now, and consultants are finding themselves out of a job they never should have had in the first place. The future of Trump is to move much faster than the Beltway consultants ever could, and the news will occur at a speed only fast-moving social media can cover. Newsrooms with editors picking the top three stories of the day are a thing of the past. The need to know, and quickly, is the wave of tomorrow, and people will form their opinions on their own, not to be shaped by the glitz of media machines and slick ad campaigns. No, for a change, candidates will be judged by what they do, not what they say, and the future of politics is all about achievement, not manipulation, which is a needed change that we’ve needed for a long time.
At first, I thought the Oliver Anthony song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” was interesting. I watched people rally to him in private concerts with great enthusiasm and was impressed that the song communicated to them in ways that good art does. Great! But the looters have climbed on over the last few weeks, especially at Fox News, where they thought they had found that populist connection with their audience again when they played it at their 2nd Place Debate for the under 10% presidential candidates. And Oliver Anthony was featured on Disney-owned Good Morning America, the Joe Rogan Podcast, and many other outlets. The world is in shock over this song, which I could call the kind of song that might have been featured on The Dukes of Hazzard years ago. I liked it, but what was all this shock, and what did I think about it? I like the young man, Oliver Anthony; it was wise for him to turn down several record labels and do his best to keep his music small and private—authentic. That is, after all, what people like about it, and the moment he loses that, it’s all over. Authentic is better than financially successful, I would say in most cases. But as I heard the song a few times, I felt more like Oliver Anthony was just another slack-jawed hippie singing about how unfair the world is, as is typical in any bar on a Friday night as people ten beers into the evening throw darts and shoot pool drowning in cigarette smoke and cheap cologne laced with sweat, complaining about how corrupt Washington D.C. politicians are. Complaining about how unfair life is does not solve the problem, and Anthony Oliver has made no claims to being a conservative. He’s much more of a liberal, so, interestingly, many are accusing him of being an icon of the political right. I would say, far from it.
I’m a big tent Republican Party kind of guy, and if people who like Anthony Oliver’s music want to join the fun of a President Trump Republican Party, that’s fine with me. I might look at their politics while we’re all in that big tent and shake my head. Very few people are alive on earth as conservative as I am, so I am usually disappointed with people’s politics. There is nothing new there. But I am also one of the most tolerant of other people’s opinions. The key to a future Republican Party is that many people are coming to it. After the Trump mug shot, many from the “hood” are now converting from Democrats to Republicans, and I’ll happily hold the door open for them as they walk by with marijuana smoke streaming from their mouths, which I find objectionable. But this is about winning, not so much converting everyone to my version of conservative politics. There are union members who love Trump, and suddenly, we are all rooting for the same political figure, which is weird. But it comes with a big tent. If everyone wants to go camping and talk over the weekend, likely at the end of it, I will convert people over to my way of thinking, so I’m not worried about values. But first, the right people must be elected to have the debate. The Republic must survive as something we can all agree on. So, I welcome all the drunks from the Friday night beer binge as they play Oliver Anthony turned up on their car stereos while driving around with the windows down.
I’m not with Glenn on this. Don’t be weak in the first place. Life works much better.
The problem with Democrats, or people heading in that direction, is that they are typically victims in life, and victimization is dripping off that “Rich Men North of Richmond” song. Republicans are can-doers, typically, Democrats are can’t be dones, so they seek the power of government to do what they can’t do for themselves. So, from the outset, the two sides aren’t even functioning from the same planet, and if we want peace, everyone must at least want to achieve the same things. And what’s going on with the Oliver Anthony song and the people drawn to it is that it correctly identifies why people feel like victims. But I would say they don’t need to be victims because they have everything in their power not to be. The American Constitution limits government power so people don’t have to be victims. The Rich Men North of Richmond became that way because there were too many people at the bar on Friday drinking too much when they should have been paying attention to what was happening in the world. The rich, powerful men in Washington became that way, not because they were the best or brightest. But because, they were the most unethical and willing to take advantage of people who were too lazy to manage their own lives. So, singing about it or drinking about it doesn’t solve a thing. And the sad thing about that song is that so many people can identify with it. They can relate because the music does speak to them. But in a healthy society, it shouldn’t. The song’s existence as a work of art is great because it gives us some measure of culture. But the reality of that culture is pretty pathetic and passive. It’s not the kind of stuff that inspires greatness.
I’ve expressed my comments about this song to several people who have instantly taken offense to my opinions, something about me not having compassion for the “down and out,” whatever that means. For people who have known me for a long time, they know what I’ve been through in life. It was never an easy road, and I have lost everything many times over. But there has never been one day where I have not woken up to make that day better than the day before. I know pain, deep pain. It’s much worse pain than Oliver Anthony is singing about—life-crushing pain. But I’ve never felt the way about it as he does, to cry about how unfair it is. I’ve always been a turn-lemons-to-lemonade person, a positive thinker who can turn even the fires of hell into drinkable ice water. I’d love more songs like that. If there were, then we could say those are the ballads of the Republican Party. But this “Rich Man North of Richmond” is just more people complaining about how unfair the world is without having the courage to do anything about it themselves. And that’s what makes a great nation. Not a bunch of crybabies. But people who can deal with the pain and make something good happen. I can’t identify with what Oliver Anthony is singing about because I’ve never felt that way. Not because it’s been an easy life but because I’m not wired that way. And rather than yield to those emotions, I would say not to cry, don’t drink your problems away on a Friday night listening to that song. Instead of being sad, read a book, do something constructive, and continually work to improve yourself and the world around you. And I think the result will be impressive and something you can feel good about. Complaining does not help. And Oliver Anthony’s song is all about complaining when everyone should be getting to work to make the world a better place, starting with themselves.
I was never a big fan of LinkedIn, even before they banned my account over my book The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, which they thought was disparaging to their excellent relationship with China. So, to answer the question I get at least 50 times a week, no, I am not on LinkedIn. I was, for a while, out of some obligation I thought was part of the modern world. But I had little value for it, so at the first dispute, we parted ways happily, which has provided me with just enough emotional distance to have an objective opinion about it. LinkedIn has a very menacing presence in all actuality and is laced with communism in ways that an entire generation has not considered, and I find it despicable. I view people with a job with a good company yet still maintain a LinkedIn profile as adulterous married people who always look at their dating apps with an eye on something better. It is impossible to be in a committed relationship with a spouse while always looking out to see if there is someone better. A job, like a good marriage, requires a commitment, and dating apps are a clear sign that one or both spouses are not committed to the relationship. That is essentially what LinkedIn does; it is a dating app for job seekers. And if someone has a good job and a good employer, well, they should be committed to that relationship, and they shouldn’t always be looking for a better job. Some people out there, just like people who get divorced a lot, are always looking for the next best thing, and by jumping from job to job, they might find opportunities that they otherwise wouldn’t have had. But that is my position on LinkedIn. It’s a dating app that shows a lack of commitment to an employer and that people who are on it all the time are one-foot-in, one-foot-out types of people who are not very valuable to an organization.
Yet, there is something far worse with LinkedIn that indicates its Chinese roots, which it is well known for supporting. The hidden message of LinkedIn is that people don’t matter and that leadership is embodied in the collective, not the individual. LinkedIn goes against the gunfighter metaphor that I use often, the comparison of the lone gunfighter who steps into a saloon out of a heavy rain and orders whiskey at the bar with their back turned to the room. The gunfighter knows that nobody will make a move because the room is full of parasites who want to use anybody they can meet to further their life in some way. So the gunfighter doesn’t worry about some assassin that might try to shoot them in the back. Such thoughts are Hollywood fantasy. In real life, people are much more malicious and lazy. They’ll use them before trying to kill someone for all they are worth. Therefore, people of worth are precious in the world because most people fall well short. Instead, most people reside in the crowd, happy to follow others, which is why the gunfighter knows they can order a whisky at the bar and enjoy it without concern for potential assassins. Nothing in the world is more valuable than leadership, and leadership is not formed through networks and relationships. It’s in understanding the motivations of other human beings and what they are willing to do to obtain value, then directing them toward some state of usefulness. LinkedIn is an audience of people in the saloon looking at the gunfighter, measuring to see if something can be gained from a relationship. When discussing networking, we are talking about building relationships in this fashion.
Yet China, as a collectivist, communist society, does not strive to empower its individuals into greatness. They look for compliance as their primary objective, so they have much trouble building their economy. Without the outside influence of globalists from the World Economic Forum mentality, China would still be a poor country. All their wealth has been stolen; it wasn’t generated through individual achievement, as in Western capitalist countries. In many ways, the designers of Linkedin are well aware of this. The hidden message of LinkedIn is that individuals do not matter, nor do other companies. By filtering down individual achievement, the people on LinkedIn are not looking for the next Jack Welsh or President Trump in the world, who ran a very successful show on television about the values of business in The Apprentice. They want a society of bootlickers who are not committed to corporate leadership and are ultimately easy to control from the centralized state. By always being willing to jump from one job to another, nobody has deep roots of commitment to their employers, making them weak toward centralized control. The LinkedIn audience is looking for compliant, noncommitted people to populate the workplaces of the world, and the effect is noticeable. Professionally, there are a lot of non-committed people out there who show fragile leadership toward their organizations. And that is by design. LinkedIn tells the professional world that people don’t matter; they can all be traded like baseball cards and easily replaced. So, puff yourself up to potential employers looking for just such a poison and destroy the concept of capitalism by destroying the notion of authentic leadership among the corporate community.
You have to watch these tech firms and understand their overall philosophy for getting into business, to begin with. Facebook was a dating app that tapped into the human need to be wanted and then exploited that desire with a sense of community or communism. That same approach was introduced to Western cultures by attacking the concept of marriage with easy divorce. If you were unhappy with your spouse, get a new one. Don’t fight out the problems; go somewhere else, which has destroyed the concept of the American family or even a European family. And in so doing, that gives the state more power over the individuals involved. Rather than the family or the corporate culture having the strength and ability to resist such temptations. The way to attack the concept of family was to make divorce more socially acceptable and too tempting whenever things got tough in a marriage. LinkedIn has sought to do the same in corporate structure, making it easy for talent to leave at the first sign of trouble and keeping CEOs always turning toward the state for approval rather than providing leadership through the frequent storms of life. In many ways, we see the essential conflict of our times: Do you follow the leadership of Yahweh, or do you seek the many gods of Canaan and sacrifice your firstborn children to appease them? LinkedIn says to appease the gods, make whatever sacrifices you need to make, and surrender leadership to the state. I say, be the gunfighter, follow after the individual Yahweh and the rebellion against collectivism that he represented, which formulated the foundations of all Western culture. Be the leader, not a follower. And don’t seek the arms of always some new opportunity. Instead, continuously make the best of what you have and fight for a better day. And stay away from the communist desires of LinkedIn.
It wasn’t that long ago that I told the story about my LinkedIn account, which I no longer have because of an interview about decoupling from China once I released my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business. LinkedIn is a bunch of communist China-supporting advocates on the wrong side of history, so I don’t miss them at all, and that’s a topic all its own. However, the fear of China taking over America is on many people’s minds, and I have assured people that such a possibility is unrealistic. Even as much as the set-up goes back for many decades by domestic enemies in America who propped up China to become that device for a one-world government run by communism. Now that people realize that was always the strategy, there is a lot of talk about decoupling the American economy from China. And now that the cat is out of the bag, there are a lot of lost globalists out there who have no idea what to do next because their entire lives have been planned around this China model taking over the world and collapsing the American market. People like Larry Fink and Ray Dalio have been moving a lot of money in that direction, and Wall Street has been betting on it for decades, significantly impacting people’s private 401K plans. But I cover in my book how easy it is for America to defeat any enemy, or any individual can defeat global thugs like gunfighters defeated lots of nasty bad guys in a dusty street for personal preservation and the perpetuation of law and order for a thriving civilization to flourish. As we speak, the China model is dying, propped up by phony economic numbers and corporations terrified the public will figure out what a lousy bet China has been for them. So far, the media culture has prevented that knowledge from getting out, but reality is spectacularly showing itself.
It all goes back to that dumb John Lenin song, “Imagine,” and the high school days of many of the characters causing so much communist trouble today. It’s not hard to reflect on the young antics of Larry Fink way before BlackRock was created for him by the Federal Reserve looking to dump a bunch of phony money in the market to start a chain reaction toward a collapse and to prop up the China model of global communism. These current billionaires, like Ray Dalio, smoke dope in the backseat of a car and listen to classic rock and roll songs in favor of communism and how dead America was, such as America Pie. “They drove their Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry.” Once they got out of college, many drunken binges later, they were ready to cheerlead America’s destruction while at the same time calling it “smart investments.” But their minds were never right and always filled with ill intent from their ideological teenage days where their lifelong philosophies of destruction and American hating sentiment solidified as they learned to take off the bra of the next pimple-faced girl in their back seats masked by marijuana smoke. I could even go back even further as to how those songs, teenage customs of rebellion, and what those young people learned in school were given to them directly by the KGB as their parents watched old westerns on television at home and couldn’t see the bad guys riding into town. They were looking for people on a black horse in a black hat. Not a bunch of communists hidden behind popular culture dressed like the Beatles.
None of this happened quickly, but it is coming apart very fast. Now that the globalists are in prime time and have been caught on COVID-19 and many other horrendous enterprises, the world economy has been turning away from tyranny for several years, and that decoupling effort is well underway. And I would offer that trust in China as a global partner is never coming back. All the corporations that have invested in this merger with globalism are left at the altar as the timid Chinese are losing power by the day. Their entire strategy depended on secrecy and intimidation, and that has not been the American public’s reaction, suddenly all too aware of the threat. President Trump certainly wasn’t the cause; he was the effect of this awareness. And after his previous term, the mask of China has been ripped off, and all those previous business efforts are failing. Doing business with China has a stigma that was never there previously, and they will never be able to repair that impression now that people have it. China and the global communists who have infiltrated American politics never had a plan B. And as scary as it is to hear that China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil are all moving away from a dollar-controlled currency, the sentiment in America, where most of the world’s productivity is centered, is to pull back and internalize, not to partner with hostile communist countries leaving them very vulnerable as a result. That is why decoupling from China is something most Americans now want to do, meaning all those investments toward China becoming the next dominating centralized government are disintegrating in front of their faces. So many American billionaires have spent money in that direction, yet the scam is coming apart rapidly.
It won’t happen overnight, but the trend will be anti-China for many future decades until the communist government there, and in other places, is defeated. Not just cosmetically but economically. China has difficulty concealing that information from the world, and their state-controlled media has helped them. But the writing is literally on the wall, so all these corporate alliances where globalism controlled by China was utilized are already considered busted investments. And if you lose a lot of money because of it, don’t say you weren’t warned. I warned everyone for several decades now, and just because the Chinese-loving LinkedIn people have essentially employed a strategy of “keep away,” the reality was eventually going to catch up to them. The teenage fantasies that many of these modern-day losers have been trying to fulfill were never originally ideas built on the hopes and dreams of human ambition but on the backs of the compromised, drunken fools and overly sexed counter-culture druggies who bought the KGB message hook line and sinker only to find themselves dinner of the globalist communist effort. And they have been slow cooking for several decades now, thinking they were the ones doing the cooking. But actually, they were the ones being cooked, and now it’s time to eat. And Americans, those who haven’t become domestic enemies in support of global communism, are the ones at the table with hungry stomachs. And corporate America, which has fallen for this scam, is on the wrong side of history. None of what happens next is what anybody thought would happen. Of course, I’ve been saying it, and those who listened will prosper greatly. But most didn’t, and the tough times will be their own. They were warned but didn’t listen because they thought all that rebellious music and drug use they did as teenagers was the wave of the future, instead of the communist propaganda that it was all along.
It’s tough to be a front-runner, which is where Vivek Ramaswamy finds himself among the second-place contenders for President of the United States. As much as I like Vivek, I’m a Trump guy, and from the beginning, it has always been for me Trump, Trump, and more Trump when it comes to the White House. It’s Trump, or something much harsher, that does not consider civility. Trump was treated wrong during his first four years and has been treated wrong since he left office. And to set things right in America, Trump must be back in the White House. So, I have not covered Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign because he has been running against Trump. However, now that the smoke is starting to clear, and Vivek has shown that he’s never betrayed Trump and has adopted a very MAGA platform in the running for president, there are some things that we can talk about that have come up regarding his character. Now that the world has come to know Vivek Ramaswamy, there are concerns that he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the picked insurgent from Wall Street. After all, he is worth nearly a billion dollars, so he doesn’t exactly fit the profile of “one of us.” But then again, Trump is a billionaire, and as I’ve said many times, the Trump of the 80s and 90s is not the kind of person I would have voted for President. And Vivek is still a very young person, not yet 40. But now that he has overcome DeSantis in most polling, and everyone else, all the presidential candidates likely running to be vice president, Vivek is getting more negative media attention, which requires some clarity.
Before there was a book there was a bright young man who wanted to do something good.
I don’t think Vivek Ramaswamy is anything but sincere in his efforts to run for president and have a political future to continue something good that Trump has started. I know Vivek to a degree and have met him several times. He’s from my area of Cincinnati, so our paths have crossed a lot. I remember very well when he launched his political career at the Middletown Republican Party headquarters, talking about a book he was about to release called Woke Inc, which has gone on to bring great awareness to the dangers of corporate Marxism run by people like Larry Fink from the World Economic Forum. Vivek is a person of magnificent intelligence, and I would look to him as the next great economic advisor in the Trump administration. Vivek Ramaswamy has started Strive Management as an offering to take on the prominent money managers in BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, operating out of Columbus, Ohio, instead of Wall Street, New York. Strive Management, I think, is the solution to the monster that the Federal Reserve has created. So, Vivek Ramaswamy isn’t just some dreamy Republican looking for attention. His heart is undoubtedly in the right place, and I can say that because of my interactions with him. Vivek came to an event that I was a part of organizing, and as he explained to me, it was there at that point in his life that he began to see the other side of things, and it inspired him to step away from being a CEO of biotech companies and instead do his part to save America. So, just because people are wealthy and successful, it doesn’t mean they have sold their souls away and are useless for the rest of their lives. People are always on a journey; they seldom stay the same throughout their lives. They evolve as they learn, and Vivek is still a young man and learning who he is.
I like Vivek quite a lot
Vivek Ramaswamy is a great talent, and I am not surprised he’s getting much serious attention as a presidential candidate. I hope he is in that kind of position for many years. As much as I support President Trump, it is time to start thinking about 2028 and beyond. And I believe Vivek Ramaswamy is there to continue a MAGA platform that can help correct America’s severe problem with international finance, where America’s real problems start. It’s not some faraway country that is the next military threat to American interests; it’s the local bank and the money manager of our 401K plans, and few people in the world understand that better than Vivek Ramaswamy. And that will be just as much of a problem four years from now as it is currently. So, I am very supportive of Vivek Ramaswamy, and I want him to succeed in this presidential venture so that he continues to offer his talents to politics to carry a MAGA platform well into the future. And I have enough personal information about him by knowing him and talking to him to give my opinion on his motives in all this. I think he’s a young person who has had great success and realized it wasn’t enough. He has a gift for communication and wants to use it to save a country he loves. I know the event that he told me about helped shape that moment for him in stepping away from being a wealthy CEO and becoming a political figure that could extend the Trump platform for the Republican Party well into the future. With a wink and a nod, I would say to everyone, that’s why we have events like the one I’m alluding to. Because you never know how many Vivek Ramaswamys are out there asking questions about their lives and looking for something meaningful to do next.
NEW: Donald Trump says he *is* open to picking Vivek Ramaswamy as his vice presidential pick and likes what he sees, but suggests that Vivek is a little controversial.
I think Kari Lake is the leading vice-presidential candidate. But for many reasons, I believe Vivek Ramaswamy would be better. The more he talks, the better things get, and as a political party of Republicans, we want Vivek to speak as much as possible. I would love to have four years of Vivek as a vice president, getting on-the-job training for eight solid years as a president. The Vivek I know is a guy who made it big, and it wasn’t enough. Like Trump, he has independent wealth and wants to use his skills to help his country. His political activity has nothing to do with a desire to be near corruption and be recognized as necessary. He already is. But due to his financial independence, like Trump, he is turning to politics to give something back that few people in the world ever get. So, I think Vivek is running for president, not as a controlled asset of Wall Street. But as a person who has stepped over from the dark side of finance and can help fix a very broken problem with his unique skills. I don’t think Vivek ever meant to be on the dark side; he left college and stepped into the world to be successful for all the right reasons, the way society measures it. But these days, he’s more than that; he has grown. And that is why he’s running for office, and he should be a positive contributor to positive political efforts for many years. There are good guys out there, even in the world of politics. Trump came to this good guy desire late in life. And when it comes to Vivek Ramaswamy, it has come early, and perhaps just in time to help save the world.
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