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What We Learned from the Trump Rally in Cincinnati: Pavarotti’s “Nessum Dorma” displayed truely for the first time on earth

The Clintons have built such a strong international syndicate of criminal activity that Al Capone would be jealous for destroying his legacy of vile manipulation and conduct unbecoming.  Wikileaks have provided the daily evidence for a conviction, but like Capone the media, the justice system, and many hell-bound contributors have hidden the evidence from the public lulled to sleep by sleazy tabloid topics designed to fill their brains with overwhelming complacency intent to keep them that way. But Trump is the Elliot Ness of our time, not a perfect person, but a King Solomon like godly vessel embodying an optimism that spans deep into the roots of the human race–a hope that there is life beyond such treacherous figures like Clinton and Capone who would meddle with our lives and drain us of everything to satisfy their quest for unlimited power and fulfil the very primal aims of evil. 

It was on an oversea business call while Sheriff Jones was speaking—which I was watching on a monitor–that I began to get a sense of the epic magnitude of what was happening.  The crowd was ecstatic and it easily spilled over into the corridors for which I was standing making it very hard to hear the participants over my phone.  I knew when I was about to re-enter US Bank Arena in Cincinnati on October 14th just before Donald Trump spoke amid massive controversy unjustifiably leveled at him all day long to eliminate his presidential run against the criminal Hillary Clinton, that there was an unusual amount of energy in the room—it was a wave of optimism and hope that just isn’t found anywhere in politics under any other circumstance.  And at that particular moment the song shown above was playing, as it always does at Trump rallies in Ohio.  It was Pavarotti’s “Nessum Dorma” and it was an epic entry back to my seat where my wife was.  That song I felt, and even more so feel today, represents best the entire message of the Trump campaign from the start of it last year to the election on November 8th 2016 and the audience present understood it too.  Trump wasn’t even in the building yet and they were spirited—even vivacious with hope dripping from their bodies like the sweat of an intense athlete after hard play under an intense sun.  “Nessum Dorma” will forever be to me the embodiment of this freedom movement which currently rests on a precipice of uncertainty.  As I walked down the steps to my awaiting wife, to that song, my suspicions were proved 100% correct—the media has underreported the effectiveness of these Trump rallies.  Even after a week of allegations of sexual impropriety, the people at US Bank Arena which was filled up to the box seats at the ceiling weren’t buying it proving the Pavarotti version of that song to be more than a metaphor for Trump himself.  Nessum dorma translated to English means “none shall sleep” which by the thrill in the air at the rally, tempted by the media to sleep to the facts of all the crimes which wrap the Clinton campaign like a warm blanket—the people were not sleeping and Pavarotti’s lyrics cried out in boldness throughout the 21,000 capacity crowd that in that arena nobody was even weepy eyed.  They were awake and were ready for a fight and no matter what happens on election day—something new was amiss and it was a force to be reckoned with. 

I had picked the spot shown in the videos here for two reasons.  I knew I had to make that very important call before Trump arrived due to the time zone differences with my recipient—so I had to be able to easily get to someplace where I could talk on a phone.  But more than that, I was texting images of the rally to members of the media throughout the event because I wanted to make sure the outside world understood how many people were actually there.  From that seat I could get a good panoramic of the arena from Trump on stage to the people in the highest seats—and I used that vantage point to tell a story which spilled over onto television reporting later that night, and radio coverage.  This was my third Trump rally in Ohio, the first was in March at the Savanah Center in West Chester.  The second was at the Sharonville Convention Center in July.  And now this one at US Bank Arena in downtown Cincinnati—and this one was certainly the most epic.  Metaphorically, the Trump events were no longer about Trump, but about the movement which had percolated from his massive wake and the US Bank rally embodied that with all the gusto for which Pavarotti sung “Nessum Dorma.”  The pictures I had to take had to capture that scope in its totality, and I think they certainly did. 

One particularly stunning aspect of the night was when the media entered the arena just before Rudy Giuliani spoke and was booed as if they were the visiting team of a hated sporting rival.  The last time I heard those kinds of boos was in the heyday of the Cincinnati Bengal rivalry with the upstate NFL team, the Cleveland Browns.  It was a hard wall of opposition for the 26-35-year-old road reporters for the mainstream media.   The men looked like the stereotypical metrosexual representation of their generation, all stood about 5’ 6” and wore those ridiculous “skinny jeans.”  The women looked like people fresh out of line at a Starbucks in Seattle—liberalized, socialists in their sentiments and yearning for their version of the modern “flower child.”   When they came out of the tunnel the crowd attacked them with verbal harassment that was like a wall of hatred—which had been nurtured for months with the media’s deliberate propping up of corruption for which Hillary Clinton represented.   Those media personalities were complicit in covering up crimes the audience was fully aware of and they let those reporters know it when they entered.  It was something I have never seen before—and it was intense. 

The next morning the news was fair in reporting that the US Bank Arena had been filled, but they didn’t say much about the optimism witnessed.  There were literally people cheering for Trump as if their lives depended on it, because in many ways—it does.  The event had a religious quality to it.  As I reflected on the evening and the many rock concerts I had seen in that very arena over the years—I remembered how hard it was for popular bands like Prince and the Revolution, and ZZ Top to fill that place to the brim for songs that all of society generally loved.  I had witnessed a Trump rally where the relatively boring topics of trade deals was discussed along with taxes—but people reacted to it the way they would if KISS were playing “Detroit Rock City.”  When Trump stepped out for the first time, as seen in the videos here provided, it was as if Mick Jagger or Steve Tayler appeared—rock stars well-known to the public for years that many generations experienced.  Nobody I heard from Newt Gingrich to Rudy Giuliani, or even Sean Hannity had properly articulated what was happening in that arena as the world outside spun out of control with revelations of criminal conduct on a global scale that was a first for our species.  Trump and that audience leaned on each other with a hope that only the great Pavarotti had captured with such intense passion with his much beloved “Nessun Dorma.” 

These people were wide awake and they knew the media was trying to put them to sleep.  And with each lyrical climb of that classic Pavarotti song came the consciousness of mankind climbing out of such a slumber into a world of true reality where it was realized that this wasn’t an election between Republicans and Democrats, morality, or even economics—but between the basic fight of good against evil.   Eliot Ness became an alcoholic later in his life and lost a lot in his fight against Al Capone.  King Solomon waged war, had affairs and had many wives living a life that many would consider sinful, yet he was God’s vessel for delivering a people to their righteous place in history and his wisdom came from beyond human endeavor.  And Trump, like so many before is a man who has transcended the limits of human shackles and along the way, there were casualties.  But like the voice of the great Pavarotti—something beyond earth and all its history was born and it appeared on the stage of US Bank Arena as the last hope for the human race, and there was reason to be optimistic, because for some people they were awake for the first time—and they wanted to do something about it.

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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How Trump can Win the Next Debate: War gaming hard questions with Chris Wallace

trump4Obviously with the polls giving Trump a boost after the presidential debate on October 9th 2016 and the failure of inflammatory controversy to prevent the results—Hillary Clinton supporters are in a full panic.  One more poor performance of Hillary Clinton on a stage where Chris Wallace is the moderator is enough to terrify them because as Wikileaks has shown of John Podesta’s emails—they don’t trust Hillary without her handlers guiding her like a puppet through anything resembling opposition.  What is even more terrifying for them is that Trump thinks fast on his feet and can dominate those debates—like he did at the last one.  One more good debate performance would be a torpedo hit to the Clinton campaign that it likely won’t recover from which is why all these attempted sex stories from Democratic operatives are now at a fevered pitch.   With three weeks to go until the election, there is full panic in the corners of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.  The political left is doing everything they can, cooking the polling with high Democratic samplings, false media stories, and every dirty trick in the playbook of politics to stop Trump–but it’s not working and there is real fear in the voice of Hillary Clinton and the future of the global progressive movement as they stare down the coming weeks and contemplate losing it all.

Trump is quite capable, but we are all good at different types of things and as a strategist—a good one that I am—I noticed a few things that he could afford to clean up ahead of this next debate with Wallace.  Chris Wallace is one of the few traditional reporters left out there—he’s still an old school journalist who was in the field doing good work while a lot of the current press was still being brain washed at their liberal colleges learning to work in the modern media environment.  So he will ask tough questions of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  He knows which kind of questions will stump them both because he has interviewed them over the years many times and has no real influence of celebrity to taint his conduct.  I expect out of him a good debate format that could work dramatically to Trump’s favor, so for the sake of the campaign as a whole, I am offering this information to help fill the natural inclinations of Donald Trump who is good at thinking on his feet—especially when he has a hook into something useful to use in whatever situation is in front of him.  In this case, avoiding the pitfalls Chris Wallace will throw at him so he can let the events of the debate run their natural course in showing how terrible Hillary is without her helpers which would then solidify the case against her in front of 100 million people just a few weeks from the election—fair and square.

If I were Trump—and I can say that knowing that I understand the way he thinks—I would exploit the weaknesses that will come up during the debate for which Hillary will falter.  She will not be able to answer the questions about Wikileaks, Podesta, or her deleted emails.   Additionally, when the subject of congressional perjury comes up, she was clearly guilty and that will leave her stumbling on the stage because essentially, she lied, she knows she lied and her body language reveals all the truth against her efforts at hiding it.  The Clinton Foundation is another aspect of her campaign that she can’t defend.  The sexual exploits of her husband Bill were the subject of the last debate and need to be left off the table this time in favor of setting up these narratives for the last two weeks.  If I were Trump every question would be pivoted back to one of those topics which would leave her a writhing mess on stage.

But Wallace isn’t going to want to look like he just picked on Clinton—because he truly wants to be fair and balanced.  He will go for the jugular on Trump too and let the public decide who handled the pressure best.  So let’s war game this a bit with Trump’s answers to help solve that problem.  Obviously I’m not writing this for the general public—but for the Trump campaign.  Like Trump I think fast on my feet.  I don’t like to take notes and when I speak in public I like to be spontaneous and rely on my wits.  But I have the benefit of emotional distance and can think objectively about this issue so as Trump is playing things out in his head so that he can be spontaneous on stage, it helps to let some online app read an article like this while doing debate prep so that when you’re in the moment you’ve heard this stuff before and can act without hesitation on the questions posed.  I know Trump has very good people around him who know a lot of this—but again—when you’re in the heat of the battle, sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.  So let me describe the trees so that the campaign can cut down the right ones and build something nice for the country to benefit from.  What follows is a mock debate from the point of view of Wallace and Trump as I imagine it will be after watching Chris for years.  These will be the manner for which he will ask questions designed to stump Trump.

Wallace: Mr. Trump, over the last week additional women have come out against you as a response to the Access Hollywood tape and claimed unwanted sexual advances.  How do you respond to calls that your actions of sexual misconduct disqualify you to be in the most powerful office in the world?

Trump: Well, Chris, as I’ve said of the tapes mentioned, it was locker room talk, banter that guys do sometimes just to have fun.  You know—we’re all human beings.  Guys say things to each other for fun, and so do women.  There is an entire bachelorette party industry that counts on people having fun in such a fashion that many wouldn’t want to have revealed during serious moments of their lives.  For a long time I lived my life building a powerful business and to feed that drive, I lived a bit of that life as a rogue when it came to relationships.  For a long time, and it was probably all me because I was so focused on building my businesses, but the idea of a woman who I could pour myself into and share a life with seemed like a fantasy to me—until I met Melania.  I don’t say it much, but I’ll say it now—why the hell not—but I appreciate her incredibly.  Her patience and constant love have actually encouraged me to grow to be the man that is standing before you now, ready to take all my years of experience—in every phase of life—and help make America Great Again not just fiscally, patriotically, or even legislatively—but in a way that might open others to the kind of love I have for Melania—which she nurtured along over many years patiently.  I’m not going to say that I’m a perfect person, but I do strive for perfection every day and in regard to a partner in life, Melania is the closest thing to perfection that I’ve ever had the pleasure to know.  And it has changed me for the better, into the man standing before you now, who is offering to be your voice to the world for a day yet to come where we can all be better off.

(APPLAUSE)

Wallace:  Mr. Trump, your opponent has produced her tax returns and has called on you to do the same.  Your refusal to do so has gone against years of precedence where every presidential candidate has provided them.   As the IRS has said, you are free to release your tax returns even under an audit and many legal minds agree—you are not prevented from doing so.  So why haven’t you released them?  Is there something you are trying to hide form the American people?

Trump:  Chris, as you’ve reported on Fox News a lot, the IRS has targeted conservative groups heavily for their political affiliations—so I wouldn’t trust what the IRS tells you—because they don’t have a good track record at honesty—let me tell you that.  But as I’ve said, I’m under a routine audit.  Since I’ve been involved on the front lines of many conservative causes over the last eight to ten years increasingly, those audits have become much more routine—so I can provide many examples of IRS targeting.  So while I’m under audit—and because of the way a tax report shows only the kinds of things politicians value—like the amount of wealth they can confiscate from you so they can give it away like candy in exchange for votes to keep them in power—I’m not going to take any chances.  Obviously, we’ve all seen that the system is rigged and the IRS is part of that.  I pay millions and millions of dollars in federal, state, and every kind of tax that politicians like Hillary has come up with so my tax forms are a lot more complicated than hers.  She gives a few speeches to Goldman Sacks and earns millions of dollars to do their bidding and that income is easy to show.  She didn’t create any jobs or build anything taxable—unlike me—so she only has to put down a dollar value.  I’ve actually built things and those things are taxable assets and those types of reportings get complicated.  My papers that I filed at the start of the campaign do a much better job of showing the dynamic of my vast assets and burdens.  Additionally, I must say, given the lazy status of our media culture, the way they print anything Hillary wants, it is clear they wouldn’t do the investigative work to even begin to understand what my tax returns tell about anything.  Because essentially, they don’t understand money, wealth, or amassed value.  They only know to do hit pieces to elevate more crooked politicians like her and seek to keep me out of politics so they can protect the corrupt organizations they’ve built.

(CROWD SHIFTS IN THEIR SEATS AS WALLACE CAN’T HELP BUT SMILE)

Wallace:  Mr. Trump, you’ve said time and again that you know more than the generals in solving foreign policy issues.  Yet if you are commander in chief, you will have to work with many generals in dealing with the great challenges the United States is dealing with around the world.  Given your statements how are you going to accomplish that task?

Trump:  Chris, look, I’ve been doing this stuff for a long time.  Not only am I a successful businessman, but I’ve written several bestselling books, and I wrote The Art of the Deal.  I’ve sat across the table from many people who don’t like me and I’ve found a way to work with them toward objectives that are usually mutually beneficial—that’s what making deals is all about.  And I want to make deals that are good for America for a change.  So when it comes to generals and even people from the other side of the political aisle in congress and the senate—I’m going to be able to work with them.   As sure as you’re sitting there it will be easy because these guys are on the government dime, they get paid one way or another and they are going to take the path of least resistance—let me tell you that.  And they will agree with me more than disagree because “they’ll take the path of least resistance.”  I’ll listen to the generals.  Some I will value and we’ll act on their good advice.  Some will be idiots and I throw them out of the people’s office.  That’s the way it’s going to be, Chris.  And Washington better get ready because we’re going to be doing things differently than we have in the past and for a change, we’re going to win.

Of course these are only three questions, but they are the big ones that Trump has not answered with the kind of depth that a candidate at this phase of an election needs to, so it’s time to put these issues to rest.  This is only advice; I certainly wouldn’t expect Trump to recite these paragraphs word for word.  I think I know his mind well enough to put together these sentences in the style that he thinks.  It’s just not always easy to turn practical thought into political speech at the cutting edge, and with Trump, he is certainly at the cutting edge.  Hopefully this helps, because this last debate could sink Hillary Clinton by adding to the great debate performance of October 9th.   I know this is an unconventional form of communication to a presidential candidate—but what the hell.  I’ve invested so much into this campaign that this is the least I can do.  Hopefully this helps.

Rich Hoffman

Liberty Twp, Ohio and will be in the VIP section of the US Bank Arena Rally on 10/13/2016.

Just win…………..

Video of BIll Clinton Raping a 13-year-old Girl?: Trump proving to be the dagger to destroy a great, evil, beast

Because of the Wikileaks and the history of Hillary Clinton—who will kill to achieve her political objectives—she’s done it before—not directly of course but through her “people” the mud toward Donald Trump is slinging furiously.  Clinton’s people are doing what they are doing because they essentially have been caught lying, cheating, and completely manipulating American politics at every level.  They hope beyond reason that Trump—whom they set up to take down from the start—which everyone knew from the beginning that the controversies which followed him would make him easy to destroy a month before the November election.  What they didn’t count on was that Trump when you really do some digging into his life is extremely clean—unlike their lives.  The Clinton camp was caught thinking that Trump was just as sexually depraved and maniacal as her husband Bill—but as it turned out, he wasn’t and never has been.  Trump was always something of a Hugh Hefner type of playboy—most of his adult life—but he wasn’t abusive to women.  But Bill, Hillary’s husband—has been abusive and apparently the group Anonymous has tape of Bill Clinton raping a thirteen-year-old girl on that secret orgy island I wrote about some time ago.  According to the below video, Hillary knows about this tape and has been doing damage control for a long time hoping to hide the scandal behind Donald Trump.  But what they didn’t count on was that Trump has proven stronger and purer than Hillary could ever imagine leaving them now wondering what to do—because they are busted. 

I must point out to you dear reader who may have a hard time believing all this about Bill Clinton just remember the case of Steubenville, Ohio.   Remember that one—because I told you all about it.  Football players—idolized by the small town around the high school football program in that Ohio outpost—raped a girl abusively and the police, school and entire community attempted to cover up the case.  It was Anonymous that brought forward the evidence and the rest is now history.  Justice was done.  This is the same kind of case, the entire media and political system is seeking to support Hillary Clinton—and they are willingly covering up crimes to bring about their desired political results.  And it’s time to punish them for their open participation in criminal activity.  In that regard, Bill Clinton is very guilty and his wife—and enabler–wants to be president of the United States.  She wants to be so bad she’ll destroy any life she has to—and that is the story of October 2016.  She’s on the ropes with all the Wikileaks proof that is pouring forth and she is in serious danger of losing this election.  And she’s panicking—which is a form of justice all by itself.  It’s about time bad people like her sweat something out.  What a bomb that would be when and if that video were released.  What would she say then—blame the Russians, the Chinese, or even the Australians?    That would be interesting given that it was her husband who flew to that sex island in the Caribbean so many times with her knowledge fully understood. Yet she didn’t do a damn thing about the crimes that were committed against those little girls.  And she has a special place in Hell with her name on the door because of it. 

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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Join My Rebellion to Retake our Government: The Wikileaks evidence of a governemnt, media, and entertainment culture corrupt beyond repair

I’ve been saying it for a long time and some thought I was exaggerating.  If anyone were to spend the next few years reading my millions and millions of words of advice hoping to steer readers away from the danger that the world is now learning about—they would discover that I predicted all this—explicitly.  But this isn’t about being right—it’s about doing what’s right next.  Essentially, we have a month to get out the word and to give the American people the tools they need to elect a president who will begin to clean up our government.  Because as it stands now—which Glenn Beck, Paul Ryan and people I used to know like Rob Portman are the political hacks who are helping to feed this maniacal monster in our present federal government.  Beck said today that Hillary Clinton if she were president would not be the end of America—that congress could keep her in check and that the Constitutional barriers would hold her in power.  He’s an idiot.  The new Wikileaks releases of Hillary’s John Podesta’s emails are damning and you can see them for yourself below.  There is enough there to show in any court of law that the White House, the Justice Department, the FBI, the IRS, the DNC the entire media establishment from your local newspaper to the biggest network conglomerate–and even Republicans have contributed to mass injustice which favors globalism and a complete destruction of traditional America.  When the FBI and the Justice Department won’t uphold the law—who are you going to turn to?   

John Podesta couldn’t say anything in defense of his email leaks but to point to Russia and hope to divert attention away from the real contents of the documents flowing through the Clinton operative’s computer in the first place.  Yet those same people, Hillary, Podesta and all the others listed in the Wikileaks releases indicate they are clearly controlled by foreign interests like George Soros, Saudi Arabia, and United Nations strategies much more sinister than a Russian government trying to put themselves back on the world map of relevance.  The content was created by Podesta and his criminal class of manipulators and the media has helped cover up everything with a mafia style syndicate at all levels of our government—and the proof is right here.  The proof is here because “they” (Podesta, Clinton and many others) acted in such a terrible way that was corrosive to our Republic.  And they did it knowingly.

So here’s the deal folks.  Until November 8th of 2016 I’ll believe in the election system, and if Trump wins—the nation can begin to heal.  But if he doesn’t—I am very ready for a civil war against these very corrupt and evil people.  Glenn Beck is out of his mind—and I told his buddy Stu that today.  It is not moral to yield to evil—and these people are evil—and we are required to do something about it.  And that “something” isn’t playing patty cake with these losers.  It is not moral to let these bad people have their way and to allow our only means of legal justice to continue levels of corruption that mandate violent removal from their control over our very lives—especially with the proof in our hands—no matter where it came from.   I’ve warned about this stuff for years and as it turns out—I wasn’t exaggerating even an iota.   I’m saying I will personally lead a rebellion if it comes to that and I don’t give a rat’s ass who knows that I’m at the front of the leadership, because it won’t matter for them.  I hope for a peaceful resolution, but I’m not counting on it.  I will not support criminals and evil people and these Clinton people are immoral and I will fight them any way possible—because it’s the right thing to do. 

My hunch is that the election will turn out well, unless the Clinton people cheat massively—which the Wikileaks evidence show is quite possible.  But I do watch news all over the world every day and I remember reading the three articles shown below on July 4th of this year and the polling of the Brexit vote was about the same as what is currently going on between Hillary and Donald Trump.  We know how that turned out and the reason for the success of Brexit was essentially the same as what we are experiencing in America.  But Glenn Beck is out of his mind wrong.  Paul Ryan is wrong.  Rob Portman is wrong.  I’ll vote for Rob because he’s a good guy—but he’s a naïve idiot to think that his choice is a “moral” one.  Yielding to evil is not moral. 

https://www.ft.com/content/6a63c2ca-2d80-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/07/03/after-bad-brexit-call-online-polls-come-age/86479478/

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/04/why-the-majority-of-brexit-polls-were-wrong.html

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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Women who are Terrified of Hillary Clinton: The Fire behind the Smoke!

Hey, Hillary started it.  Donald Trump tried to keep the election about issues—as much as possible when a Clinton is involved.   So when the Clinton campaign through a newspaper they control, The Washington Post, released an 11-year-old video about Donald Trump—that they waited until October to release—because they’ve had the video for a long time—Hillary opened herself to her deep dark past.  So it should go without saying that Trump and his campaign spent about five minutes throwing cards on the table that they had been holding also.  Breitbart.com met with three victims of Hillary’s past wrath at the Watergate hotel of all places on Saturday October 8th—and let the women talk about what kind of woman Clinton really is.  Women who may not otherwise know can learn who the Democratic presidential candidate really is now.  And it’s not good.   Donald Trump put out a Tweet to the Breitbart articles and exclusive videos as he boarded his plan to head for the big St. Louis debate on October 9, 2016 and now you can see them too below.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/09/juanita-broaddrick-kathleen-willey-paula-jones-bill-clinton-sexual-assault/

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/09/breitbart-news-exclusive-video-interview-bill-clinton-accuser-juanita-broaddrick-breaks-describing-brutal-rapes/

This news is bad enough, and it cannot be ignored by the press as much as they’d like to.  But to make matters even worse for Hillary is that while the world tripped over the details of Donald Trump talking privately over a hot mic, Wikileaks unloaded about 1% of what they had of the deleted Clinton emails-which is essentially enough by itself to not only put her in jail, but to bring indictment to most of the members of the Washington D.C. culture—from the White House, to the Justice Department—to the FBI.  So read these links.  Watch the videos.  And enjoy the debate.  It will be one for the history books and remember Clinton supports—Hillary started it. 

Put George Soros out of business–VOTE TRUMP!

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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Everything is Awesome: The Key to Donald Trump’s success in politics and why the controversies are irrelevant

I watched with the fascination of a scientist the oddly chaotic admonition of Donald Trump on Saturday October 9th over comments he made about women eleven years ago.  It didn’t matter to me in the least—perhaps even less.   I wouldn’t care about such things if the event happened yesterday or there were stacks of similar tapes—it certainly had no impact on my support for Donald Trump.  So I found it very strange that the entire media and so many established politicians quickly turned on Trump and were actually calling for him to step down while his counterpart on the other side—Hillary Clinton actually broke the law—many times in her campaign—and hadn’t received anywhere near the same level of outrage.  What was going on was something that I was aware of, but it was something that sort of resides on the subsurface of our American existence and now it had emerged from the shadows disguised as something else entirely and showed its fangs.  During the Saturday after Trump made an unneeded apology we were able to smell the vile breath of this new American villain—the direct assault of progressive politics aimed at destroying the American male completely and replacing him with some scribbled mess of academic creation—a Frankenstein monster assembled in think tanks around academia to allow liberals around the world to steam roll the newest form of communism across the face of planet earth.    It wasn’t Trump they were after so much as it was the representation of alpha maleness he has been restoring in America which terrifies the political left because this has been a long time in the making.  What was happening was their last-ditch effort at maintaining their strategic trajectory before it was too late and that epitome of “maleness” was in the White House.

It was just a few days earlier when conservatives were outraged at the openness that Duke University feminists established a new program called The Man’s Project which is designed to essentially further feminize men out of existence with a nine-week program aimed at destroying traditional role models men play within our society.  This has been going on in public schools of all kinds for essentially the last forty years but has picked up a lot of steam over the last 15 or so and the results have been catastrophic.  Divorce rates are too high, role models of men to their sons and daughters has been woefully eroded away greatly harming children psychologically—which was always by design because in the wake of the strong man of the house and neighborhood was always the promise that father government would be there with a welfare check.  Essentially government has been seducing our women in America for generations with promises and whispers in their ears through television programs like Oprah, and Dr. Phil—setting up for the complete eradication of male ownership of children and wives within traditional family structure to be replaced with a second marriage to big daddy government and all the empty promises a typical sleaze bag doing such a thing might promise.  And the only way they can pull off such a ruse is by getting men out of the house—and break them down completely then rebuild them from the ground up under progressive direction.  Programs like this Duke University class are now spreading all over the country and is a major problem for upcoming generations if we don’t correct the matter now—and that is part of what a Trump Presidency promises much to the fears of progressives behind this movement.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/02/duke-university-now-offers-safe-space-for-male-identified-students-to-contemplate-porn/

When I was first married in the late 80s I experienced a version of this radical hatred of alpha maleness firsthand.  Family and friends of my wife who was a budding fashion model when she met me and had all the promises of having a career in New York on the cover of major magazines did not like my unusual maleness, even back then when it was far more common than it is today.  One of the reasons my wife and I married so early was that she wanted a family and so did I.  She didn’t want a career where she served some boss in some corner office—she wanted to work for herself building a traditional family—and that was essentially all she cared about as a biological woman.  We shared that sentiment and against the wishes of virtually everyone—we married and started having kids in a traditional manner.

You would have thought that I had committed the worst crime of the century and for really the first ten years of our marriage “the world” came down on us hard.  After all, a woman knows her family for at least two decades before she gets a husband so every time there was some challenge in our marriage—where I needed to work more overtime to cover our costs, or child expenses forced us to decide whether or not to get a jug of milk or purchase baby food—there was some friend or family member trying to pull my wife into a more progressive version of family construction—where big government was at the center of her life—where a woman didn’t need a “man” because there were programs for her “independence” and people openly encouraged her to leave me over little things—normal life events that came at us at an alarming rate.  To make matters worse my wife was strikingly attractive and virtually every man on planet earth tried to seduce her—especially older ones who were comfortable in life and had a lot to offer a woman with a few kids and a lot of headaches.  The pressure was immense and I spent many, many evenings so deep in hard feelings that suicide was a constant temptation—and we’re not talking about a few weeks or months of tribulation—I’m talking about years and years of no light at the end of the tunnel.

However, if you’ve ever heard the song from The Lego Movie, “Everything is Awesome” that is essentially my calling card to success in just about everything I do.  It is the way I live my life every day—I have an extremely positive outlook on life and I can find joy in the deepest wells of sorrow.  I’ve had that ability my entire life and it never served me better than in those hard years of my 20s and early 30s over this issue of outside elements attacking my family essentially for insisting on being a traditional role-model for our children.  So instead of committing suicide which anybody in my situation would have justifiably performed many times over—I woke up every single morning essentially singing that song to myself—even though it hadn’t been written yet—and I attacked my many problems within that framework.

I spent ten years studying Joseph Campbell’s power of myth studies and I learned that the roles the sexes play in their relationships, however transitory it is to our life on planet earth—has a major impact on the way culture shapes itself to our evolution.  Campbell was what I considered a “super academic” who was a maverick in thinking but read on the scope of the world’s greatest scholars and after reading him I was sure that the solution to my problems was to be an epic male and that through the power of myth that I could hold my family together and that in the end everything would work out because psychologically, everyone involved in was essentially looking for a strong male in their lives, or they were trying to get rid of it so that they could take control of my family—and so long as I understood that the strategic objective was my “maleness” then I knew what I had to defend to obtain victory—which I of course did.

My victory, which was extremely hard to see in the early 90s, gradually destroyed my many enemies by their own volition–those assailants who had attacked my family from the get go and they are now miserable heaps of human flesh—if they lived long enough.  Some didn’t live and they collapsed under their own misery and all I had to do to destroy them was hold to my values.  They wanted me out-of-the-way so that they could destroy what I built and take possession themselves of my efforts as parasites—which is essentially what is happening to Donald Trump now.

Trump’s campaign at its core is about alpha maleness fixing the rot for which the progressive experiments of our age of have destroyed—the massive debt, the poor economic growth, the loss of integrity that comes from a wimpy political class—Trump is an alpha male that has arrived on the political scene completely uncorrupted by weakness to find our nation overrun by despots in the wake of strong male influence—which world mythic study informs us is a key ingredient to a successful society.  That isn’t to say that women have no role in the modern world—but the problems of our time are specifically caused by the destructive experiments by the progressive left in eradicating “male presence and influence.”  For men and women to truly be equal, women would have to fill that role traditionally held by men as the strong anchor for which families take root.  Some women do perform this role nicely, but such thinking is genetically attached to men so it traditionally comes second nature.  The failure comes from government’s attempt to replace the family completely—by micromanaging families into sending the woman into the workplace to serve a master, and sending the man into the workplace to serve another master—and then sending the kids at 3 and 4 years old to pre-school to learn to serve a different master leaving the family pulled in many different directions all controlled by a centralized government.

Trump is the last of his kind essentially—he represents a time when alpha males were much more common and to be one you had to essentially beat out other men for the top prizes—and that sometimes meant stealing away their wives to prove that you were the top alpha in your region—that you had the best house, the best cars—the best businesses.  Those are all vile things to the capitalist hating political left—but they are all inventions of the human race who have dreamed them up and put them to use—and are now part of our biological concerns.  The political left recognizing this has sought to reverse the human race from reaching to the stars to looking back to the ground for which they stand with environmental concerns about “mother earth” hoping to put a halt to the inventions derived from capitalist excess which naturally weakens the need people have for a centrally controlled tribal leader in the form of elected officials.

What Trump has is similar to what I have—and these things are similar to what most men had back in the day when men were men, women were women and everyone knew what their roles were specific to their families—which made them all stronger.  Having indomitable spirit to always preserver no matter how bad things are traditionally is the optimism a powerful alpha male brings to his family and is something they can count on to always outlast any kind of tribulation.  And this is why Trump is able to wake up on a Sunday after a day like he had yesterday where essentially the entire political world crashed down around him because as a strong alpha male who has literally weathered every storm most people could ever hope to endure—because his existence is not predicated on the controls of the political class—but extends to the roots of his entire being—and step into this upcoming debate with a swagger that most find unimaginable.  In this case Trump is the King Solomon of our time—the vessel of God himself—in all his glorious maleness to give birth to a nation that progressives wanted to see aborted before it was even out of the womb—then to take that nation and teach it to be an alpha in the world and eventually to the galaxy at large as the human race migrates into space.  Trump is bigger than the political class and it terrifies all those who have hooked their stars to that thinking—because Trump as president will dominate that star by his very presence.  So understand dear reader that is what is going on over this rather trivial issue about Trump’s “past” comments.  The outrage only exists among those invested into this new progressive thinking where traditional family structure is intended to be replaced by daddy government—the other man who wants to steal our wives, enslave our children, and dominate every phase of our existence.  And Trump, like me, obviously has the great gift that all pillars of strength have within their families and businesses—the ability to look at any problem—no matter how troubling—and to think—Everything is Awesome—because it is.

Enjoy the debate.   It will be one for the history books!  We’ve never seen anything like it in the history of the human race, from the mythology of the great alpha male Zeus to the king facing the ultimate goddess of Tubber Tintye.  In fact, as I read Melania’s statement yesterday it was quite clear that she served the Tubber Tintye role for Donald Trump perfectly—which is the real role traditional women have had.  They have always had the ultimate power.  I wouldn’t have worked so hard for my wife if she was not my personal Lady of Tubber Tintye and obviously Trump has his Melania—the only woman really worth fighting for to step beyond the average concerns that typical alpha males typically experience except for those who keep reaching for that ultimate boon residing on that spinning golden couch which hold within her the solutions for the human race.  Trump had the courage to go there—and it has obviously transformed him over the last decade—and that makes him ripe to be president.  In case you don’t know that story, click here and I’ll tell it to you.  It’s certainly worth your time.

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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Donald Trump’s ‘Heartbreak Ridge’: Everything you need to know about his controversial statements

I never had any illusions about Donald Trump and I don’t think anything he has ever said or done in relation to other women is an experience that a typical rock star or movie actor wouldn’t also be involved in.  When a person has power, women throw themselves at your feet—it’s a biological condition that is built into human DNA.  Women want the best DNA they can get for a potential mate—or they want bragging rights that they were able to seduce a man’s attention within the context of all potentialities.  And yet, this is different between men and women because it is the female who holds all the power.  Whatever the motive, powerful men—especially powerful “alpha males” do have to push off women with a conscious effort because as the game goes, the more women who want to sleep with you, the more powerful and honorable you are if you are a man—especially among peers.  The conversation recorded over a hot mic with Access Hollywood is typical “guy talk,” the same that you’d hear at a typical sporting event, golf course, or gun range.  Many times, women who are at these gatherings with other men participate openly—so I don’t see what the big deal is—other than the fact that if the Republicans like Paul Ryan truly are insulted by the comments, then they need their testicles to drop—because nothing Trump said has any bearing on my strategic support of him from the start.

But I have increasingly found myself liking Trump more and more by the month over this last year and a half as he journeys for the White House.  I have seen in him a change that maybe he’s aware of.  I have seen the same kind of change in very powerful people whom I know personally—people who have found within the battles that we all fight a higher level of valor that they didn’t know existed before.  When I’m in these kinds of talks with other men, I never use the pronoun “I” because honestly, I wouldn’t. I always steer the conversation back to some higher topic and everyone comes away better for it.  That is because at my core, I don’t measure my power on such primitive yearnings.  It’s not a big deal to me to engage in biological prowess which has attached to it a lot of emotional baggage, and in that clip I saw about Trump—if I were hiring him for a job back then I still would have figuring that I could “teach” that behavior out of him once he gained access to higher modes of thinking—which by default he would have been exposed to.  Trump during this presidential journey looks to have hit that new gear in thinking.

I noticed it when he recently shook my wife’s hand.  My wife over the years has routinely been hit on by every male who wanted to measure their prowess against mine—because they figured if they were able to do so—that they’d have something over me in some fashion.  The Donald Trump who shook my wife’s hand in 2016 was not the same person who would have shook it in 2005. I think for Trump Melania is his dream girl and slowly over his relationship with her he has evolved.  And I think the birth of the Tea Party movement in 2009 has given him focus toward the world beyond his years.  Additionally, I think his perspective changed once he started becoming a grandpa—where his children started having children of their own—and your parental instincts at that point shifts from your children to your grandchildren because you have power and knowledge at that point that you didn’t have two decades earlier.  I have dealt with people who I expected to attempt to seduce my wife.  In fact, I have lost a lot of friends over it, because I never forgave them over the years for the attempt.  And if I met Donald Trump in 2005 I would have expected an attempt by him.  I would have conducted whatever business I had without giving him an opening to even try. I would of course trust her, but I wouldn’t have trusted him—because in the world of guys—that’s just how things are.  However, if for whatever reason I had to travel somewhere and the Trump who is running for president now offered her a room at his apartment while I was gone to keep her busy while I did whatever needed to be done—I’d take him up on it without worry because I see he has made the proper psychological transition that is beyond such silly representations of terrestrial power.  And to me, only such people should ever run for any public office.

This really only applies to men because women clearly have a different kind of experience.  Sexually, men lose interest in women after age fifty because the role of the women in sex is an enticing one which diminishes with age—where with the woman she might be attracted to a man not by his looks, but by his social status which usually gets stronger as he gets older.  This is why it is so common for a sixty-year-old man to be seen dating a 26-year-old woman.  For most people the thought of sex between those two people is gross—but for the couple, the woman gets what she wants—social prestige and access to wealth while the man gets the massage of his ego that indicates that a young woman who could have anybody she wanted let him into her lair.  For a man who keeps scores of this kind, it is an enticing game which confirms in the mind of the male that he has arrived at success in life when those kinds of options are available to him.  The magic really happens when men graduate beyond such thinking.  Older men—men well over sixty—I have noticed finally start thinking right about these matters because either their private attributes no longer yearn for the biological game offered by women, but more importantly they evolve as people to the point where sexual pursuits no longer “do it for them.”  For this very reason, many of my best friends today are older men—men in their 70s and 80s.  I can’t say that I would have gotten along with them in their 40s, 50s and even 60s, but I do once they stop looking at women and saying—“boy I’d like to tag that ass.”

Ten years ago, Trump was in his upper 50s, and by his own evolution was still a few years away from thinking about bigger things than success in business, success in bed with women, and seeing his name in lights.  I remember watching Ghost with Bo Derrick in the late 80s where Donald Trump made a cameo appearance and I thought at that time that Trump likely slept with Derrick because socially, she was considered a perfect “10,” back then.  But today, if given the same chance, I don’t think Trump would try to sleep with Derrick.  He’s been married to Melania now for many years, and she seems to have settled him in that regard.  Additionally, Trump’s mind has been awakened to considerations that reside well beyond sexual pursuits, likely due to his age, his relationship to his kids who are now the age of the typical women powerful men seek to sleep with, and the addition of grandchildren who look to their grandpa to make the world safe.  Once a man is awakened to this higher calling, exploits with young women for the purpose of climbing the peaking order of social status with other men subsides and new priorities are established.  That is where I see Donald Trump at now.

So the comments Trump made all those years ago doesn’t faze me at all in my support for him.  I see a man today who has graduated into an age where I think all our politicians should be.  I think all people seeking elected office should be older, successful people in their private affairs because giving a man in their 40s and 50s access to the kind of power the presidency of the United States provides has proven to be too much for their minds.  They yield too quickly to the rock star status of celebrity and the beautiful women that come with it.  And the same people from the political left who pretend to be insulted by Trump’s actions are the same idiots promoting sexual theater like The Rocky Horror Picture Show—which is essentially a promotional film advocating sexual deviancy.  The Obama administration along with Hillary Clinton’s primary priorities is giving special rights to people based on their sexual preference—and you can bet that a typical gay conversation is filled with a lot more graphic banter than what Trump said about any woman.  Don’t forget that idiots like Paul Ryan and all these other Republicans who have been tricked into withdrawing support for Trump after the “objectifying” comments about women, are playing right into the playbook of the political left.

Further, I have personally witnessed this behavior myself—when the political left has nothing else to throw at you, they try to turn women against you by exploiting things you’ve said about women to collectively manipulate them into some tribal manifestation of solidarity.  I had many area Republicans do to me on a local scale what elected people like Paul Ryan are doing to Trump now for essentially the same thing—and it really showed me how small-minded they were in the process.  I’ve been known to say more than my fair share of controversial comments before, and it is really weak that Republicans fall for the scam over and over again.  What Trump said is kid’s stuff, and just about every man and most women out there do it—and if they had been in Trump’s position, they’d do far worse—you can bet on that.  I’d say to these Republicans what I’ve said to many around me in the past only for them to find out painfully that they should have listened to me all along—this is not a big deal.  Most women want to be objectified if they can be because it is a source of their power.  Men want to objectify because it represents power and prestige.  And Democrats aren’t interested in mankind evolving beyond such thinking because at the heart of their party politics are homosexual rights which they want to expand.  They are only after the social trend for alpha males to rule society—because they are betas attempting a coup within the peaking order of mankind.  Don’t fool yourself otherwise.  They don’t care about women, Democrats only seek to use them to attack the traditional role of the alpha male in society so that they can achieve a new power structure for which they control—and when Republicans run from alpha males who need their traditional support—they are giving Democrats exactly what they want.  What Trump said was no worse than a typical Clint Eastwood movie.  Society has changed, for the worse—and Republicans like Paul Ryan have played right into the hands of our domestic enemies with his lack of testicular fortitude.

I stand by Donald Trump more now than ever—not because of this little scandal but because he continues to hang tough and is willing to fight the very corrosive forces destroying our country directly.  He’s of the right age, the right temperament which often comes once a person has evolved beyond wealth, women, and peaking order concerns into a new world few people ever arrive at.  Trump is the best man for the tough job ahead because he is a man who has evolved beyond the terrestrial exploits of the very average, and has his mind on a prize far greater than biological yearnings.  His journey over the last decade has delivered him to the precipice of restoring America as for what I believe he believes—is his calling card to entry into the pearly gates of the everlasting.   Always a man answering the call to a great challenge, Trump is doing what he needs to do in order to correct his past by bringing what he has learned to the Executive Office for the benefit of our nation.  And I’m very excited about it—even more so now—because if the left is that scared of him now, think how they would be on November 9th.

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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It’s Over For Hillary Clinton: The thing about little birds who whisper sweet secrets about to be unleashed

As I watched Trump literally destroy Hillary Clinton’s stage presence on Saturday October 1st at a rally in Pennsylvania—which was hilarious and charismatic all at the same time, I noticed something different about Donald Trump.  The edge was gone as if he knew something—or had learned it lately which the rest of us have not yet discovered that would doom his rival Hillary Clinton.  That’s when a little bird came to me to whisper sweet nothings about events brewing across the great Atlantic—headed for a media outlet near you.  Little birds like that always want you to promise not to say anything to give away their secrets—yet they want you to say something otherwise they wouldn’t come to you in the first place—so it’s always this type of game with “little birds.”  But rest assured Trump fans—the Trump people know what I’m alluding to and Donald Trump obviously can smell the blood in the water—especially since Clinton decided all by her little self to draw that blood first at the first debate they had together.  Let’s just say she deserves what she has coming and this next debate will be one for the ages.  It will be worse than a prison sentence to stand on stage at a town hall style forum in front of another 100 million people and watch all her hopes and dreams vanish over a 90 minute period because what’s getting ready to happen will even have liberals stirred up.  So just remember, Hillary asked for it.

Even better than justice is when you have a guy like Trump who will defy convention in every regard and do what he thinks is right.  It may not seem like Trump should mock an old woman for her weaknesses while trying to court more women voters who may happen to be fat, ugly, or losing estrogen at the rate of a deflating hot air balloon—gradually becoming more of a sagging bag of flesh with each moment—but Trump isn’t a normal candidate and he doesn’t have to pretend to be.  He’s a real, authentic, hard-working person who is certainly out of the mainstream loop—and the mainstreamers just essentially lost their candidate—so it’s now a one person race.  And there’s nothing they can do about it—and Trump knows it, and feels no need to put on a happy face just to make them happy.  And I love it.  And I also love those little birds who visit me with little gifts from beyond.  Soon you’ll love them too.  Get ready—this is going to be fun.

You don’t see that kind of thing at Hillary rally, even on nice days.  There will be a lot of happy people this week.  That’s for sure.

Rich Hoffman

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Star Wars Battlefront: A mythic jump into the future of the human race that is just jaw-dropping cool

It took my radio buddy Matt Clark from WAAM in Ann Arbor, Michigan a good part of 2016 to talk me into getting Star Wars: Battlefront for my PS4.  But after a lot of coaxing, by him, I finally did about six weeks ago.  The result after just that short duration of time—and granted I have very responsible social obligations so I can’t sit around playing games all day every day—but presently I’m well over 2 million points of online play and I just hit level 52 by Force Friday on September 30th which still gives me reasonable happiness and hope for the future of what has become one of the most important mythologies to our society in the history of the human race.  There is nothing like Star Wars really and now that I’ve played Battlefront a lot on PS4 and witnessed the new Deathstar expansion I have a few things to say that are extremely positive.  The game is simply jaw dropping in its scope, ambition, and graphic ambiance.  Even though I deal with a lot of very usual serious subject matters on this site, I often say that I vacation in the Star Wars universe as a stress management tool, and with Battlefront that has certainly been the case—so it’s OK to take a break to think about something fun.

As I’ve said before, I am a fan of the Star Wars miniatures game.  I wish I had more time to play it, but I think it is superior to Chess as a strategy game and is a real window into what can happen when the human imagination is unleashed through a powerful mythology like Star Wars.  For the last couple of weeks, billionaires on the cutting edge of tomorrow—like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk—have been discussing the opportunities for expanding the human race into our solar system, which I have been talking about for quite some time.  Where those two individuals are not aligned with a person like me politically, we do agree on human expansion into space, the development of new technologies, and expanding the reaches of our imaginations during the next century—and largely Star Wars has helped frame the thought in our generation to make possible the real science we are just beginning to see.  In fact, I was in a business meeting just yesterday—Force Friday—where the new Star Wars toys for the upcoming film Rogue One were released at Target—and the old timers in that meeting were astonished with the very real business results they had witnessed from my performance over the last two business quarters.  While I would never cheapen those efforts with a simple rationality by saying Star Wars was responsible—it did help shape my young mind into thinking big about things and conceiving of ideas that would later develop into quite beautiful ways of thinking—which Bezos and Musk are also utilizing.  When we were all kids, we played with the same toys and I can see the effect in a positive way that it’s had on our culture and the stuff that’s out now for kids is many times better—so I can only imagine what impact that will have on tomorrow’s children who will take what Musk and Bezos are saying today and make it happen tomorrow.  From that vantage point Star Wars can make you better, it can make you think better, act better, and provide mythic direction important to subconscious yearnings key to behaving as a functional adult.  By the high standards set by the orchestral Star Wars music in these movies and video games to the advent of various propulsion systems to make the ships fly, to the artificial intelligence represented in the various robots shown in the Star Wars mythology there is a lot of room to provoke thought in that science fiction, fantasy epic that I see dramatically expanding the consciousness of the human race.  Given that, I’ve told the story of how my wife and I took a few years and played Star Wars: The Old Republic online for nearly two full years—and had a lot of fun doing it.  So when I sat down and finally let myself play Battlefront by a joint partnership between the video game companies DICE and Electronic Arts I was more than a little astonished by the result.

The negatives for me in getting into it in the first place were that I didn’t want to play as an Imperial player—because I never play bad guys—in anything.  I don’t even let my mind go there and in the multiplayer mode of Battlefront they often queue you into both Imperial and Rebel players randomly.  During one game you play as a Rebel and in the next you’ll be an Imperial.  I had to find a way around that just to play Battlefront—and it’s a little bit of a pain in the ass—but the results have more than been worth it.  The other drawback for me was that there was not story mode in Battlefront.  It’s what they call a “sandbox” game where you just show up and play like you would on a playground—only this is quite literally set in the worlds of Star Wars.  I didn’t think that would be enough for me, but as it has turned out, I actually love the format.  Here’s why.

Back in the 90s—and I’ve told this story before a little bit—my favorite game was a space simulator called X-Wing based on the Star Wars missions from the original film.  It was a DOS based game and I played it religiously.  I simply loved it—still do actually.  I loved it so much that it has essentially become the measure of every game thereafter for me—because it did so many things well.  At that time my kids were babies and they learned about video games by watching me play that one, and I had a nephew I was very close with who was a little kid then and played it with me all night some nights, and we never forgot the experience.  It was certainly a very special game for a very special time and the contents of the experience would evoke great discussions between us that greatly enriched our lives even to this day many decades later.  So a great video game done right can have a wonderful impact on people—much greater than what a classic novel once had on our society—because the experience can be shared with other people.  There were a few more editions of that X-Wing game that came out in the late 90s as the Internet became more of a factor in computer use—which seems like an odd thing to say today—but back then the Internet was expensive and clunky, and wasn’t much good beyond communication through email and web browsing.  It couldn’t stream the amount of data that it takes now to play massive battles in high-definition between 60 players at a time like we can now see in Battlefront.  I remember being extremely impressed by the third X-Wing game, X–Wing vs Tie Fighter that allowed for online play against real life opponents which I was very interested in.  Because I wanted to test myself against other pilots around the world—I’ve always played combat simulations on computers—everything from Microsoft’s Flight Simulators which are very realistic to the old Dynamix World War II aerial combat sims, and X-Wing took the realistic stalls out of the mix common to old propeller driven planes but kept the classic dog fighting elements which was a marriage of two styles of fighter combat that was very enjoyable.  X-Wing fighters were like the old World War II warbirds—such as the P-40 and the P-51, but they had technology that was ahead of our time such as shielding and hyperspace travel which puts your mind onto ideas which force it to lean into the future just to bring all those elements together—which is the correct function of a proper mythology.  Over time a few games have come and gone that I was impressed with—most recently the Old Republic version of its starfighter gameplay where online matches were something I did religiously for about a year—but none of them really got to the meat of what I liked about the original X-Wing where you had to take on massive squads of Tie Fighters, take down Star Destroyers and really challenge yourself to fulfill the mission parameters.  Some of those missions were quite challenging—tactically.  Of course I’m a huge believer that once you work out things in your mind—even on a simulator—then you can achieve it in reality because honestly the mind doesn’t know the difference.  Reason can tell the difference, but the process of thought works whether what you’re doing is real or fantasy.  So I think video game play can be very healthy for producing positive thought.

With that context explained I finally purchased Battlefront after Matt Clark sent me a series of texts over the course of about six months coaxing me into playing online with him.  I was busy at the time and playing the Uncharted series, so I didn’t have time for one more thing.  But when I had an open window to do it, I did and I was amazed at what I had been missing.  My favorite mode in the Battlefront sandbox is Fighter Squadron which is essentially a modern update to the old X-Wing game and once I realized that, I was off to the races.  Quickly I was able to hold my own against even the most experienced players averaging 20 to 40 kills per match—which is pretty high.  The graphics are incredible, the frame rates astonishing—the scope of the battles simply unfathomable even to my most fantastic imaginings of two decades ago.  If that was all there was—I would have been happy.  But that’s only the tip of the ice berg.  There are in fact too many things to talk about in how cool Battlefront is, but really the most telling essence of the game is probably the Walker Assault mode which to me is a really fancy version of the old Atari 2600 game Empire Strikes Back where Imperial Walkers threaten to get to your power generator and you have to fly around and shoot each one of them 48 times to kill them before they reach their objective.  As a thirteen year old kid, I was good at that game—which was a take on the classic Defender video game I played a lot in the old arcades.  But on Battlefront the game mechanics are photo realistic, especially on the Endor modes where the Imperial Walker trounces down a creek bed through a dense forest and you have to bring it down before it gets to your troop transport.  The leaves on the trees are extremely detailed.  There are clouds of mist in the forest as well as insects—the amount of programming to pull off all those elements is insane and I often find myself just staring at the screen wondering if it’s all real or not.  It is crazy ambitious and cool beyond lunacy.  Simply jaw dropping to a guy like me who has watched all these video games evolve over the years into what I am seeing now with Battlefront is inspiring.

It was only a few years ago that I was so excited about the video game Battlepod which came out as a Dave & Busters exclusive from Lucasfilm.  That year my family celebrated my birthday there so we could all play it together.  I thought the graphics on that were spectacular.  But now, after playing Battlefront a lot, I recently went to the Main Event in West Chester where my oldest grandson is now discovering Star Wars for his first time.  He had been watching me play Battlefront for countless hours so he saw the Battlepod game so we played it.  He loved it, but to me it looked clunky and old because my eyes had adjusted to the realities of Battlefront and a few years ago I didn’t think that would be possible.

As I’ve said, I’ve been busy so I kept my experiences with Battlefront to myself for the most part.  There are after all a lot of things going on in the world, and I’m playing my part in a lot of them.  But then Battlefront released its Deathstar update a week ago with the promise to release a Rogue One expansion by the end of the year and suddenly I found myself overwhelmed with the sheer coolness of the Battlefront game.  Finally in real-time you can do battle with live players all over the world around Star Destroyer capital ships, and bring them down fulfilling tactical objectives and really do things that the original movies could only dream of as far as graphics and coverage and I have found my enthusiasm bulging ready to explode with excitement.  Star Wars: Battlefront is a really cool game in every respect.  It is simply astonishing.  In a lot of ways it has healed my hatred of Star Wars that I felt after watching The Force Awakens because through the games I see a bigger picture coming into frame—one that is carrying a new kind of mythology directly to the minds of so many millions of people and connecting them in ways that were only fantasy a short time ago in a galaxy that now seems far away—only it wasn’t.

I have to thank Matt Clark for his persistence.  If not for him I probably wouldn’t have even picked up the title and I would be missing out.  But because of him, I have a front seat onto something truly special that a lot of people who grew up recently don’t have a proper context into just how amazing it really is.  For the first time in a long time I have hope in what this very important mythological tool will unlock regarding the future of the human race and our eventual expansion into space—and beyond.  It all starts with a thought and Star Wars: Battlefront makes thinking beyond our terrestrial limits commonplace in a world brought to us by movies, but made real through virtual reality.  And more than anything I shudder at the day where I think of Battlefront with the same disappointment that I know look at Battlepod because the new edition is so much better.  Because for me it is hard to imagine how a game could be any better than what Battlefront really is—yet I am excited to see how they will be.

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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Paying Taxes is Not Patriotic: What Hillary Clinton and O’Hare International have in common

For me personally, the big takeaway from the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was not when Trump declared himself “smart” for not paying huge amounts of federal tax—it was Hillary’s reaction the next day—and that of the media which actually sent me into a rage for which I have not yet recovered.  As everyone who knows me understands—I hate taxes and it disgusts me to see my hard-earned money wasted on government inefficiencies that the private sector does much better.  When I’ve been to Japan on business it amazes me to see their people so industrious working in their public parks picking up the tiniest bit of litter—happily.  Here in the states whether it’s the Great Smokey Mountains or Huston Woods, the government workers there are often lazy, bitchy, and entitled, and those are often the ones I like the most compared to IRS workers or the employees at the BMV.  It literally makes me sick to give money through force to entitled people whether those recipients are welfare zombies or government workers like socialist teachers and other monopoly driven union entities who make 40% more than everyone else for doing far less productive work than a majority of our country.  So when Trump said he was smart for not paying a lot of federal tax, I was so excited I almost leaped into my television to high-five him—because he was speaking my kind of language.  But Hillary, what a pathetic socialist mess she is.  I thought her husband was a leftist scum bag.  She is far, far worse—a Lenin ideologue representing the zombies of our society and hearing her squawk like a broken chicken with a cold actually made me quite angry when she insinuated that paying taxes was a patriotic duty.  Boy is she wrong!

It is not patriotic to pay taxes.  It has become for the last hundred years a perceived obligation that the political left has formulated through public education to seem patriotic, but it’s really a fool’s premise.  It is at best an illegal confiscation of wealth by the federal government for the use of idiots who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to put their hands on that kind of money—if not by the force of government.   With the kind of wealth that Trump has, if he found a way to pay zero percent of it in taxes, I would think of him as a genius, and I would admire him a lot more than I do right now.  That is exactly the kind of president I want in the White House, someone who understands the tricks of the “federal reserve” and is against higher taxes while supporting a simpler tax code.

Yet progressives need taxes to pay for all the “stuff” they have given away over the years to win votes.  They have enjoyed their success in life by literally stealing money and giving it to people who keep them in high paying government jobs—and it’s a pathetic racket.  What government workers do for our society is not worth the cost and I would point to the fine Japanese people who work hard at everything they do as the example of what I expect.  Just a few months ago I sat on a park bench waiting for my entourage to finish dining and I watched not just a few very diligent female workers picking up liter in a park with little devices that looked like chop sticks.  A small army of those people did that job daily in the town of Himeji—and they didn’t look like homeless despots that crawled out of a cardboard box.  They didn’t look like our park rangers and national park employees in the United States—typically fifty pounds overweight and looking like they had their eyes only on quitting time.  Those workers in Himeji worked their asses off and they actually looked prideful about doing it. I told one working closest to me how much I appreciated their effort and they bowed deeply in thanks and resumed their work.  When flying into Tokyo from Chicago it’s literally like landing on another planet.  The airport workers in Tokyo treat you with respect to your time because they assume whatever your doing—it has some value.  They move you through the immigration lines quickly and the luggage handling is efficient.  I recently approached a line and thought I would have to stand in line for two hours.  They moved through all those people in about twenty minutes.  If the same line had been present in New York, Chicago, or Atlanta—it would have easily have been two hours.  The work ethic in the United States these days is pathetic and compared to others around the world, it shows and it became that way with this ridiculous entitlement culture that progressives like Hillary Clinton has nurtured along for the last century—and I don’t want my money feeding that system.

I don’t blame Trump one bit for his comments, because they reflect my own.  If government wants to help people, do it through natural economic growth, not through punishing personal income tax that never should have been implemented in 1913 with the 16th Amendment put in place by the progressive politics of the age—which should be repealed at the earliest possible date.  It is not our patriotic duty to pay for the garbage we get from our federal government, the bad service, the terrible attitudes of the employees from the TSA to the IRS agent that is impossible to fire.  To the Chicago school teacher that makes six figures for 9 months of work and goes on strike every two years.  I’ve seen better around the world and I expect Americans to be better than those examples, and until they are—I don’t want to pay for the lackluster behavior of the government entitlement class.  I wish I could take everyone in the world to Himeji, Japan—or anywhere in that country—and let them see people who work their asses off not for money or prestige, but because they enjoy the internal benefit of doing a good job for the sake of doing it.

Hillary Clinton in her refute of Trump missed the point of many of her arguments against him.  If someone does a bad job—should they still get paid?  If a waiter gives me bad service, I don’t tip them.  If a company tries to rip me off, I go somewhere else.  Competition is the key to instilling quality in the marketplace and without it, you get bad service.  Trump understands this.  He’s not obligated to paying for bad work in his buildings and he’s certainly not obligated to share his accumulated wealth on losers like Hillary Clinton—government employees who clearly don’t get it.  I can’t think of a single job in the world that I’d hire a loser like Hillary Clinton for largely because she has that pretentious snobby attitude of entitlement—a ruined mind made lazy by years of unchallenging government work which she lawyered herself through in a climb for power to spread progressive philosophy to the masses—which has made her a detrimental menace.  I am embarrassed by people like her because she makes Americans look bad around the world—especially in places like Himeji, Japan.

I hate landing at O’Hare International airport—especially after a trip from Japan.  Immediately you can feel the entitlement from the employees at the airport—especially the unionized TSA agents.  Most of them are slow, and fat—and I say that because being overweight symptoms is a sign typically of overabundance and lack of effort—and those are the people in charge of whether I catch my connecting flight back to Cincinnati or get stuck in Chicago for the night wasting my time with more inefficiency—which costs me even more money.  Time and money are not elements that progressive liberals understand—or respect and when I see these slugs in action I think of people like Hillary Clinton.  O’Hara International airport is the land of Hillary Clinton—fat, unambitious, lackadaisical, greasy, broken, and entitled without a care in the world to how much time of yours they waste or how much it costs.  They could care less.  In Tokyo complain to someone at the airport that you had to wait for ten minutes and they bow deeply and a team of people rush to make you happy—because they honor the essence of your time.  At O’Hara, or at the IRS—they tell you to take a number while some Jabba the Hutt character tells you to talk to the hand.   It is that kind of thinking in America that we have to fix and paying taxes blindly to a bunch of government losers isn’t the way to get there.   Trump however is the way to start that journey by first looking in the mirror and calling things the way they are—whether they are fat, stupid, slow, or just plain wrong—and then solving the problem from there.  Trump is that solution—or at least the start of it.  Hillary is an insult.  My time is valuable, and many of Americans have better things to do than to work hard just to give their money away for bloated government entitlements that actually make our country much weaker.

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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