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’m happy to provide the ultimate reason that the 14th Amendment cannot be used against President Trump to keep him off the ballot for the 2024 election. There has been a lot of legal opinion on this new strategy from the Marxist left because they’ve seen the internals and know that Trump is winning much more than what is being reported in the media. That’s why they are panicking. There was no alternative plan when the actual insurrection occurred in 2020, and Trump was removed from the White House by a government-sponsored coup. And which one you might ask? Pick one of the many, from the FBI actions of insurrection to the many provable occurrences of outright election fraud. To the Russiagate manipulations. There was plenty of very illegal activity that has yet to be prosecuted. But they all are violations of the 14th Amendment that the political left and some RINOs from the right are trying to pin on Trump now to keep him from being able to run in 2024. The real issue is that Trump was the established government at the time, so how could he have an insurrection against himself? All Trump did was question the actions of an official insurrection that the opposing political party was coordinating. And those types of coups were happening in other parts of the world where communism and socialism were trying to seize power. So, out of desperation in America, and with the help of a complicit media that wanted Marxism in America, they tried the same thing. Only it didn’t work quite the same way. And this ultimately will result from all the cases established against Trump and his direct reports in the White House, such as Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon. The assumption of all the charges filed as they have been assumes that Trump was the insurgent when it was the other way around.
The desperation for turning to the 14th Amendment is quite telling, actually, and shows just how flimsy even the most astute legal minds have had to dig into attempting to give the Marxist radicals who want to continue to use the power of government for their global strategic plans, any leg to stand on. My essential formula for solving most modern problems is straightforward: Guns, The Bible, The Constitution, and Trump. Those four things will make America Great Again, again if used as intended. And the desperation of using the Constitution to keep Trump from running in 2024 is ironic. The people who are trying to overthrow all power in America are turning toward the rule of law as their weapon. But that’s not what it says in the 14th Amendment Section 3. The references to a political officeholder inspiring an insurrection have no place with Trump, as Trump was the government. He was the one with his hands on the reigns of power. The grand illusion being used against all Trump defendants is their attempt to ignore that Trump was ever in office and had government power under his complete control. From January 2017 to January 2021, Trump was the third branch of government, the Executive Branch, popularly elected by the people of America, despite the many rigged elections that were clearly established to prevent him or anybody else from beating Hillary Clinton. The actual insurrection was that the government forces who lost power when Trump was elected staged a coup which ultimately, with direct involvement from the intelligence community, tried to prevent the people’s will from being known. They underestimated that enthusiasm the first time, in 2016. And in 2020, they wouldn’t.
Under the cover of COVID-19, they changed the election laws that would allow them to cheat massively, and many tens of thousands of people were involved, knowingly. And they openly plotted and schemed against the established government the entire time that Trump was in office. They didn’t just say, “auh shucks, we’ll try next time.” No, they worked to commit actual insurrection against Trump’s government to remove him from power the way we have seen occur worldwide with various communist takeovers, precisely the same way. And with all of them, the assumption was that they would not recognize the Trump presidency as valid, nor any trace of executive privilege, because to do that, the Trump administration would have to be identified as the official government at the time. And to pretend that it never happened. That is the essential legal premise of all these cases against Trump. And it can’t be that way because once you compromise for one point, all cases fall apart. Which the communist insurgents who want to take over the American government might think is appealing until the same gets applied to them. This is why the Constitution is such a powerful document. What they say it says is not what it says. They only hope that people are too stupid to read it for themselves, but to hold up in court, the case falls apart fast, which is good because it shows how weak all their attempts against Trump are going into 2024. This is all they have everyone, a year away from the election, which isn’t good for them. What is concerning is that so many people are letting them attempt such a thing, which means the hair in the drain of the swamp that Trump represents draining is much thicker and involves many more Republican RINOs than many of us are comfortable admitting.
For all those legal people out there, you’re welcome. I’m always happy to help. The case’s merit is not whether Trump inspired an insurrection with his words to the public after the opposing government showed signs of a rigged election. It was clear to many what happened, especially during that year with Covid driving the behavior and the still very uncomfortable evidence about the purposeful release of the virus as a bioweapon to commit election fraud and give more global power to the efforts of the Great Reset at the World Economic Forum, hiding behind the façade of the United Nations. We were dealing with a worldwide insurrection, and Trump was in the way. But regarding the official government of the United States, Trump was that figure when an “insurrection” occurred. So, he couldn’t have had an insurrection against himself. It came from those who opposed him, who are now the same people trying to prevent the people’s voices from being heard in another election. They knew how to seize power in 2020 because the numbers were not with them. And without COVID to hide behind this time, they are trying to take Trump away as an option to even vote for because that’s how desperate they are. Their entire strategy is to ignore that Trump was ever the representative of the government and hope that they can perverse the wording of the 14th Amendment if only they threaten to firebomb the homes of Supreme Court members and intimidate them into seeing the law from the perspective of radical Marxists. That is their entire game plan. And it’s as flimsy as it sounds, even though media members don’t have enough confidence in their reading ability to understand the Constitution themselves. There is nothing to the 14th Amendment case against Trump, and ironically, it opens up the Trump people to be able to pursue the insurgents who were the real problem. Their legal counsel would serve them better if they started to look at things from that perspective instead of reacting off the back of their heels. These are easy cases that are only puffed-up bluster from the actual government insurgents, who have seized power and now have the White House and are desperate to do anything to keep that power, which is what this entire case is all about.
For further conversations, it’s time to talk seriously about God and the politics of Heaven and, in general, everlasting life. A lot of people think that death is the end of it all, but I would argue that it’s just the beginning, and part of the point of life is to grow into something that can function well in the existence of a multidimensional political universe, because as it is in Heaven, so it is on Earth. The original sin was that God created man in his image because he wanted a family who would rule on his behalf over the Earth in ways that always had the eternal perspective in mind, and in that way, humanity was created to be over angels and demons relative to the Divine Council as it is talked about in the Bible many places, especially Psalm 82. This is important because to understand the fight we have today, politically, we have to get our minds around the concept of God and not think of him as a solitary figure sitting on a thrown in everlasting life waiting for everyone to go to Heaven and sit around in the pearly gates to do “something” for the rest of eternity. We tend to view Heaven as a destination at the end of the tunnel of life. But I think that’s just where the battles begin, and what we see on earth are reflections of that eternal life, and God, Yahweh, has always been under pressure to manage the vast populations of eternal existence. And that is why the Fall in the Garden was such a tragic occasion for him, which he has spent many thousands of years trying to resolve to his satisfaction. That might seem strange for an entity that created the universe and everything in it. But there is more to the story regarding the challenge of free will that is ultimately the point.
We all know the story of the Garden of Eden, where the snake tempted Eve to eat from the Tree of Good and Evil. This is the fruit of the lesser Gods, those in the pantheon at that time, for which Yahweh managed within this universal spectrum but constantly tried to undermine his authority. Those Gods would be characters who had been around for many tens of thousands of years before the biblical period we are talking about here, gods like Baal, Moloch, Ishtar, Marduk, and a long list of the same names that would be called other names in other countries such as Greece, Egypt, and the Americas, but would be the same essential characters. Yahweh was trying to do something different, and the rebellion on the Divine Council was certainly intent to challenge his authority, just as we see in our political order, which we can say reflects the actions of eternal life. Of course, once God’s creation had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and become like “them,” the gods of the Divine Council, they had to be cast away for God to try again and again to make the human experiment work by comprehending the aspects of Eternal Life that God intended for humanity. Not the kind of stuff they teach you in Sunday school or Church. But if you dig into scripture and read what it tells us from thousands of years of interpretation and analysis, things start to appear much more as they indeed are. In that case, the world opens up much differently for those with the courage to eat from that Tree of Eternal Life.
Humans couldn’t handle such a task, so they were thrown out of the Garden guarded now by Cherubim, creatures that have a recurring theme in ancient times. And eventually, because they fell from grace and were now functioning in the politics of the lesser Gods, such as Baal, God wiped them all away with the flood story, which is very much the same story we find in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Noah and his family are God’s chosen people, and they try to start the Garden story once more. Only to fail when people attempted to build the Tower of Babel, again setting their sights on the kind of mistakes the Divine Council had made for thousands of years. God came along and scrambled their speech so they could no longer build the Tower of Babel to reach Heaven. And Yahweh sent them to the corners of the earth to separate them politically from one another. But God doesn’t give up on this experiment with humans. Instead, he turns to Abraham and decides to make a new people from his line, which becomes the generations of Israel, Moses, King David, King Solomon, and the like. But again, once Solomon died, his children fell to the temptations of Baal and the gang, so God allowed Nebuchadnezzar to raid his people and punish them for their discourse, which was their political alignment and worship of the lesser gods of the Divine Council. Understanding that Divine Council, it helps to read from the ancient literature that comes out of Syria and modern-day Iraq. No wonder those areas are war-torn today; the conflict is a mask of the truth. Governments always want to think they are in charge as they completely are creatures eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. From there, after 70 years, God allows the people of Israel to rebuild and continue again, but of course, they fail, so he sends Jesus, his representation on earth, to be sacrificed like just another lamb out of Nazareth to solve the political problem with that Divine Council once and for all.
God’s problem, which is eternal, is how to get people to do the right thing of their own free will. God could undoubtedly punish them and impose his desires through force. But the divine experiment and the intentions of God’s purpose, and therefore, the meaning of life, is to create religious partners who can function for what’s right as interpreted by an eternal perspective. Not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the political world of the Divine Council. But the infinite aspects of all existence, as the universe knows and understands it. God was looking for reflections of him and his intent to do on Earth as it is in Heaven and to share rule with such creations. To say God has struggled with the Divine Council might seem odd, but the problem is free will, whether talking about people or angels, demons, and the pantheon of maniacal characters of eternal existence. Life and death is not the goal of these considerations, but free will is. And it is free will that is at the core of the American experiment, and it is the suppression of that free will that the world is attempting to stop presently in our political world. But the root cause of the problem is an ancient one, considering the fall in the garden and why it was so tragic to God. Because the politics of the Divine Council sought to corrupt the effort from the beginning, those characters would not allow God to create beings superior to them, such as humans were designed to be. To hatch from life into death as reflections of God himself and to rule over the Divine Council. And once that is understood, much of the trouble of our current time can be comprehended more fully.
Of course, we are going to have this fight in Butler County, Ohio. It’s happening globally, nationally, statewide, and regionally. Look what Ken Paxten is going through with the Bush political machine in Texas right now. We find the same kind of problem regarding issues on the Lakota school board: populism as opposed to machine politics. The main reason I can’t support Lynda O’Conner for the school board is due to her performance, which has been rooted in machine politics that has stood against the kind of reforms education needs. She has her role in the nasty storm that is about to hit, and rather than trying to destroy fellow school board member Darbi Boddy personally, she should have been preparing the community for what’s about to happen. I know many people are getting caught up in the Rs and the Ds, even though school board people are supposed to be nonpartisan. We know from experience that such a concept is far from the truth. And based on partisanship, I don’t see any difference between Lynda O’Conner, Julie Shaffer, or Doug Horton. They all would fit nicely in Kathy Wyenandt’s living room as like-minded Democrats. Lynda has called herself a conservative, and she has a network that leans in that direction, but her behavior has been more on the side of Kathy Wyenandt’s pro-government school posse of progressive insurgents and far from small government and fiscally conservative values of the GOP. All the intimidating phone calls, going through people’s garbage, messing with their utilities, or property ownership with useless bureaucracy attempting to show power over the anti-Lynda forces can’t change what she has done. She has told me what I wanted to hear in the past, yet she has behaved in the opposite direction, and those are not traits that can be endorsed. She brought us Darbi Boddy, then immediately, as soon as she was sworn in, turned on Darbi in excessively unhealthy ways, not showing good leadership at all. And now Lakota has a lot of problems looming on the horizon, and because of the time she has been on the board and what she has chosen to do with her time over the last two years, any rational mind would be crazy to endorse her. I was hoping she wouldn’t run and that she would point her interests in a different direction, such as a trustee position. But she has done the worst thing possible: running again when strategically it makes no sense, so now we must have a difficult conversation.
I’ve heard it all before: We must have Republicans on the school board, and these conversations have occurred in name only. Like some sports player who wears any team’s jersey, they are told to play against, without true loyalty to any team. The brand damage associated with Lynda will be very damaging in the months and years to come. I was at an event recently where some very smart political people were talking, and one of these particular people was right about this “perfect storm” that is about to hit. But we disagree on what role Lynda should play in it as an endorsed candidate of the Republican Party. I would advise that the GOP doesn’t touch this one with a 50-foot pole and let the Democrats choke on it because the storm is an act of their creation, and Lakota can do nothing to avoid it. I’m not against the GOP endorsing candidates. A GOP endorsement is powerful enough to do as it has in the past, but with two more good Republicans on the school board; otherwise, we’ll end up with union stooges. But for one of those two endorsements to be Lynda is a problem because the candidate might as well be one of the many liberals of Butler County who know they would never otherwise get elected to anything unless they were affiliated with the Republican Party.
The time to deal with this story would have been over the last few years when Lynda picked a fight with Darbi over, essentially, political power, and now the kicking the can down the road is leading to catastrophic circumstances. Obviously, it would have been better for Lynda not to be near a school board when these things hit the fan. But nobody listened, so the brand damage is going to be devastating. Nobody will be able to say I didn’t warn them. The best thing to do would be to throw this election to the Democrats. That doesn’t change any positive support for Russ Loges, who I think will be a great school board member. Darbi could use help, and Isaac can decide whatever he wants to do. But a teacher’s contract is coming, and they will want more money. There is a facilities plan that looks like it will legitimately cost a billion dollars over the next 20 years. Of course, that is attractive to people in construction, but it’s a vast, expensive commitment to a school system that is changing rapidly with school choice options that will become more dominant soon. This isn’t something that just occurred; the school board has been discussing this facility plan since Brad Lovell was president of the school board, and Lynda was looking for help dealing with him. It’s been a long time; meanwhile, Lakota has burned through its surplus and worked up the community toward a tax increase. The problem is that property value assessments are increasing significantly due to state auditor complications. So, the amount of taxation from those increased property value assessments will be significant. Not the environment that makes for a healthy community passing tax increases to support a government school. Then, of course, the national political challenges with inflation, supply chain issues at the grocery, and general temperament have brought pain to everyday people. These next few years are going to be rough.
I would have advised Lynda to ride off into the sunset after 16 years. Instead of digging in and picking a fight with Darbi Boddy because she didn’t fall under the control of the school board president like other members did in the past. And now there is a whole political faction within the Republican Party that is very angry at Lynda. And with all the intimidation techniques employed, it has only dug them in deeper. And they will continue to make their voices heard. Instead of working to solve those genuine problems, we have significant fractures that will be very destructive. Things would have been different if anybody was willing to play a little chess. The blame for this would be much better placed where it belongs, around the neck of Julie Shaffer or Doug Horton. But if Lynda is the endorsed candidate, it will likely end up around her neck, which isn’t good for her. And everyone supporting her will end up with eggs on their faces during a crisis period that will need a lot of leadership. This happens when you mix political philosophies in the way things have been done at Lakota. It is far better to have apparent political disagreements and to let the losing side be obvious than to let a GOP member burn at the stake with everyone else. And that is what kicking the can down the road financially for over twenty years will cost, which won’t be good for anybody. Lakota is not a quarter of a billion-dollar business with Lynda running it. It’s instead a quarter of a billion-dollar lottery ticket for the unions that have the power to distribute that pile of money collected by property tax owners that is spent on liberal political issues. And as all that hits the fan, it would have been best to have distance politically from the destruction that will follow. That is why I won’t support Lynda O’Conner for the Lakota school board. I would have supported her for trustee or some other position. But not for this mess, which occurred on her watch, actions she did not provide the leadership necessary when it was needed most.
I liked Russ Loges the first time he ran for the Lakota school board. I came to know of him during the last election as my focus was on the Republican-endorsed candidates in the previous election. Russ wanted to remain independent as he was getting involved in the school board business then. However, without any name recognition and much support outside of his efforts, he had an excellent showing, gaining several thousand votes with a noticeably conservative position. I have since met Russ at a few events here and there, and each time, I found that I liked him quite a lot. He’s a very likable person who has an excellent temperament. And now that we are in September with the November election coming up quickly, one that will have a lot of Democrats voting because abortion and marijuana will be on the ballot, so there will be unusually high voter engagement during an off-year election, it’s time to get endorsements. And Russ has already received an approval from some Central Committees around Butler County. One of the two that are specific to Lakota schools. So, he came to a meet the candidate night with the Liberty Township Central Committee to present himself with some questions and answers, which are shown here for those interested. I’ve been to quite a lot of these over the years, and this one was unique. I liked Russ Loges before the event, but after, I found my opinion of him had inflated quite a lot. He answered many tough questions very well and cared a lot about what’s going on in Lakota and the specific challenges that are on the horizon. Russ Loges is precisely the kind of person that the community would benefit from putting on the school board during the upcoming election, and he will win the support of many more Republicans for a party endorsement due to his excellent conservative positions.
Yet what Russ Loges is not is a person trapped in ideology. He’s a very even, measured person getting into the school board business from parental concerns. We have seen over the years that, typically, the best school board candidates who become board members are passionate parents who want to make things better for everyone. It’s a generally thankless job that doesn’t pay back any real fiscal compensation, but to play in that game, you must raise a substantial amount of money to become impactful in an election, especially in the Lakota school district, which has around 100,000 people within it. When Russ ran before, he did it as a concerned parent who wanted to help. This time, he has a broader approach that makes him well-positioned for much more support. And given the crowd reaction at the Liberty Township Central Committee event, many more will become very eager to support his run for the Lakota school board. Based on his answers, Russ is more than prepared for some of the complex challenges that are coming quickly on the horizon, and to deal with those challenges, Lakota will need people who care which was clearly expressed during the questions asked by Matt King during the event. Russ has kids in the district and a wife who is a teacher. Currently, he is a nurse and his bedside manner is instantly noticeable. He’s personable, cares, and wants to help his community, so all those traits were very encouraging and made it easy for everyone who met him to get excited about it.
On those times that I had met him, I wasn’t sure if he was the real deal. So often, when it comes to political events and the people filling specific seats, you get images of people but not much knowledge of the person. When I learned Russ Loges was a nurse, I instantly thought of a smart car driving, COVID mask-wearing big government type. But I was able to meet Russ outside this event, getting out of a big truck, and he’s a good fit for the conservative base of Butler County, Ohio. He’s outdoors-oriented and robustly presents himself. He reminded me of many of my friends in the fast draw community, even down to the jokes. Good, sincere people who love the American flag and the many who revere it with the pledge of allegiance. He’s certainly not a political radical but more of an even-balanced family man who is proud of his country and wants to help it improve. He’s a big guy with a warm personality who comes across as sincere without many pretenses. As he shook my hand, he seemed ready to go fishing, or hunting more than anything. He has a very natural leadership ability that is instantly noticeable. So, it wasn’t a surprise to learn that he has already sat down with the Lakota superintendent to talk about improving test scores for the students and building a successful team that can tackle some of the challenges looming. You could tell that he wasn’t just a nurse as an occupation, but that he was a leader as well. He is used to managing other people because he has a balanced approach to communication that has been well-tested by experience.
There are a lot of challenges on the horizon for Lakota and it will take outstanding leadership to meet them. There is a teacher’s contract coming up that could be very contentious. There is a facilities plan also emerging that will require a small fortune. There are indications that the current school board is planning to seek a tax increase even as property value rate assessments will increase sharply due to state challenges. So passing a levy will be even more challenging, especially in an environment where school choice will increasingly become the reality of tomorrow, regarding education. It would be easy to sit on the sidelines and turn away from some of these community problems, especially for those who have grown kids. But Russ and his wife plan to be in Lakota for a while. He mentioned that he wanted Lakota to be good for his grandkids, so he’s planning to keep deep roots in the community, so this isn’t a fly-by-night endeavor for him. He wants to help, and after meeting him, I am sure he is just the kind of person we need to work on some of these very difficult problems that are on the horizon, storm clouds coming in fast that will be painful. Yet, those problems are manageable with the right kind of people to deal with them, and Russ Loges was very encouraging. He could have easily won if more people had known him during the last race. More people will know him this time so he should be able to get votes in the required numbers just by letting people get to know him. I will certainly be voting for him, and I’ll be excited to do it. Things don’t always go how you want them to in politics, but sometimes you get to meet good people, and if not for this school board race, I wouldn’t know Russ Loges any other way. And after meeting him, I’m happy I did.
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.
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.
The Overmanwarrior 