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The Liberal, Anti-business Big Spender, Joan Powell: Like a cockroach, she wants to loot off the good things produced by West Chester

Don’t be fooled by a person who has been doing it for years as a public figure at Lakota as money grabbing liberal.  Joan Powell is not a Republican, her behavior is indicative of a typical Democrat that has ruined entire cities with their tax and spend policies and now she’s at it again trying to get elected as a West Chester Trustee.  While she brags that she was a Lakota school board member for 16 years she neglects to say how divisive she was while serving in that role.  You can hear all about that situation because I covered her antics on 700 WLW.  That podcast is still available for you to listen to, so enjoy it at the clip below.  Like a typical Democrat, Joan attempts to use transference to impose on others what she herself is guilty of.  It’s not the current West Chester Trustees who are divisive; rather it is Joan the Hutt.  Click here to learn why I call her that—the name is quite appropriate.

Butler County, Ohio where West Chester has become one of the hottest places to live and conduct business in the entire country is distinctly a very Republican place.  There are of course a few bleeding heart liberals here and there who either have government jobs, smoke crack, or take on welfare payments who will vote for Democrats when they run for office, but the numbers just aren’t there to win—so one of the big challenges candidates have is that they often have to pretend to be Republicans so that they can get a fair shake at the ballot box.  Two of the people running for West Chester Trustee seats this year who are certainly Democrats are current board member Lee Wong and now his trustee sidekick Joan Powell, the beat up relic from Lakota’s past.  If they didn’t put an “R” next to their name, they would never get consideration in Butler County and Joan the Liberal Hutt knows that.  However by looking into her past you can tell—for instance she supported Hillary Clinton during the last election even doing a television ad for her.  While Lee Wong associates with people accused of being traitors providing secrets to China, Joan the Hutt was hiding from her many years at Lakota where she served as a union lap dog to the radicals who wanted endless raises for which she had every intention of given them.  When she ran out of money she turned right around and asked the public for more tax increases—which is likely her entire reason for running for a trustee seat.  Money has been tightly controlled under Trustee Mark Welsh who is up for re-election and George Lang.  The public sector unions want a third liberal vote on the board to dump more money into their pockets and Joan is their girl.

But what’s truly disgusting about Joan is her very Hillary Clinton-like election strategies.  Below I have selected three things that she has said on her own website about reasons she is running for this seat that deserve some clarification.   In these three statements Joan the Hutt proves that she is anti-business.  Pro-union—meaning she is willing to put on blindfolds to managing them—just as she did at Lakota schools where she jacked up the costs of payroll to the point where she consistently lived beyond  the budget provided to her by the community.  But worse than anything, she essentially put up Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign strategy against Donald Trump where she stated that one of the reasons she wants to be a trustee is to improve the “tone” of our community.  Here is what she has said about herself.

Joan is concerned about the tone of West Chester’s elected officials during the past year.  In order for our township to prosper, West Chester needs leaders that care about the residents – all residents – and their wants and needs.  The name-calling and disrespect is not the way local leaders should behave.  You can count on Joan to conduct herself with integrity and treat all with common courtesy.

 

Current trustees have done a good job with businesses.  But recently a trustee was cited in the media as saying:  “West Chester puts businesses first.”  Businesses are critically important to any community but residents are the ones who draw the businesses here in the first place.  They need a voice in the direction of the township. 

 

West  Chester needs leaders who are here to serve the township and its residents, not just their own political agendas.  The Right-to-Work movement that two trustees placed as their top priority for 2017 was not really about improving the business climate here.  It was about making their own political statement. 

http://joanpowell4wc.com/why-joan

I always tried to explain to Joan the Hutt some basic economics which she never understood while at Lakota.  Like all Democrats she had no idea where money came from, how people got it and how it goes to work for civilization.  All she knew to do was how to spend money and when she wanted to use it to solidify her base she would raise taxes so that she could give more away to her groups—just like Hillary Clinton.   Without question there will be a sizable number of slugs who want less managerial control over their public sector incomes who will show up to vote for Joan the Hutt on election day not because they like her so much as Joan has a reputation of being very free with budgets in favor of labor unions.  That’s why two of her statements above essentially are talking points right out of labor union literature for which she is more than willing to rubber stamp for a chance to get elected.

But the worst thing Joan the Hutt said in her own literature is this Democratic position of being anti-business. What Joan never understood and obviously still doesn’t is that businesses are what build a healthy community.  It’s not the people first that do it as she suggests.  It is the value of what industry brings that builds a community.  Without jobs there is nothing to do in West Chester, no way to live, work, or pay the enormous tax bills it takes to run all the public sector jobs.   Without businesses West Chester would just be an average community in the country, but because of the wide variety of thriving businesses the people who have moved into West Chester have options.  People don’t move to places like West Chester to be near a sidewalk, or a public library like Democrats like to believe.  Lee Wong is certainly one of those liberals who have never understood basic economics.  When he gets pinned into a corner on any kind of debate on the matter he starts talking about how he was in the military hoping that people won’t further criticism his liberal attitudes.  And Joan is essentially no different.

I was in more than one meeting with some of the leading business people in our community when Joan was the president of the school board at Lakota and I’ve seen her disrespect for business up close and personal.  She truly believes that people just magically appear out of nowhere and start living in homes without some way of building a culture that lures them in the first place.   Joan the Hutt is one of those people who think the entire real estate market at West Chester thrived because of the good Lakota schools, but she’d be wrong. People like her used the schools to make easy sales on new homes which were built and brought to the area through business people.  But it was those people she turned on first when she wanted to raise taxes and they hated her for it.  Like I said, I was in more than a few meetings with those people and I know what they think of her.  That attitude would carry over on a much larger scale if Joan the Hutt were to become a Trustee.  Joan Powell is as anti-business as they get.  She’d be more at home in bankrupt Detroit or Chicago than in West Chester, Ohio.

Like all Democrats when they see budget surpluses, such as what we are seeing now in West Chester because of the good work done by Mark Welsh and George Lang, they arrive like cockroaches and other undesirable insects to loot off the excess.   Joan the Hutt years ago lobbied to make West Chester into a city because she’s a big government advocate who thinks all the answers in life come from more tax money extracted from the public and given it to an ever expanding government.  She is clearly not a Republican.  She has been openly against President Trump and supported Hillary Clinton, and she doesn’t understand basic economics into what makes a community thrive with an anti-business stance that is dangerous to a West Chester that has been very successful at luring in great assets for people to enjoy—which makes them want to spend a lot of money to live in a community that essentially has it all.  West Chester has been successful because it has kept the looting politicians like Joan the Hutt at a distance allowing it to thrive.  People like her will always show up to steal what she can as most typical politicians do, especially liberal ones—but it is up to voters to keep them in check.  That is why she calls herself a Republican when in actuality; she is very far from it.

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Discriminate Against Melania Because She’s Beautiful: Texas needed what the Trumps delivered

You would never know it from the news reports but people were very enthusiastic to see Donald Trump visit the hurricane zone in Texas. I watched Fox News most of the time that Hurricane Harvey was striking the Texas coast with historic rainfalls flooding so many people out of their homes. I thought it was extraordinary that most people held their cool and grabbed their fishing boats to rescue people from the rising waters. The people and their monster trucks, four wheelers and various aquatic craft that went from bored driveways into the action of rescue was far better than anything the federal government could do at that moment and it was private enterprise that was mostly saving lives. The National Guard and police departments of course were important, but in most cases when it came to quick action it was neighbor helping neighbor that essentially meant the different between life and death. When president Trump visited with his wife Melania they seemed to understand that fact better than anybody and they dressed to inspire those people. Melania left the White House in high heels and a bomber jacket while the President dressed as if he were about to be a test pilot for a new style of aircraft. Obviously, their approach was of defiance against the forces of nature that had inflicted so much pain and suffering, and for the people of Texas, it was the right approach.

President Trump hit just the right notes during his visit and the people loved him for it. For the media not to cover his visit in the proper context was very dishonest. Everywhere I turned for news on Tuesday 8/29/2017 it was all about Melania’s shoes as the mostly female journalists were obviously very threatened by the first lady’s grace and beauty under those tragic circumstances. I thought her approach was extraordinarily appropriate, when people are faced with misery and destruction they want to see hope and beauty. Melania went to Texas to give them that—and they loved it. Because many of the women reporting the news couldn’t compete they lashed out in hate toward the FLOTUS which was very unfair to her—it was discrimination on a vast scale. They are always telling us not to judge people based on skin color or sex—but here they were hating Melania Trump for being too beautiful. It was a new kind of discrimination that was utterly disgusting. Melania wasn’t dressing that way for the rest of the country, but for Texas. Just because there’s a tragedy it doesn’t mean we must sacrifice our style and grace. Sometimes, that’s just when such things are needed.

It was an act of defiance for the human race to build a city in Huston, and everywhere along the Texas coast. The whole area is a flood zone and will over geologic history experience many tragedies. To put cities there is in defiance of nature, not yielding to it, and people generally understand those things during tragedies. By Melania wearing those high heels on the way for the cameras to capture I took it as a reminder that part of being human is to defy nature and command it. Not to bow to it like a bunch of animals. Nature had bitten back at humans in Texas and the whole purpose of the President and FLOTUS in going there was to inspire them back to health for the long road to recovery that would be involved for years to come. Trump needed to inspire people to consider that doing such a thing was worth it even though at the moment the tragedy seemed futile. People needed inspiration more than money and that’s what Trump offered through he and his wife.

But the Left went crazy because there wasn’t enough sadness, there wasn’t enough drama to satisfy the Lifetime Channel crowd. And really, that says a lot about the people who stand against President Trump. They don’t like that Trump is a positive person who believes in selling why America is a good place—because they have dedicated their lives to complaining and selling how bad America is to them. They have expected that sour stance to solidify and destroy the last remaining superpower on earth with negativity. Yet Hurricane Harvey isn’t so much of a disaster story. Yes people died, about 20 so far, and yes, there are billions of dollars in damages that will take decades to rebuild. But look how people pulled together and faced down the villainy of Mother Nature pushing back with the hardy human inclination of survival. Think of the boats that took to the streets to rescue people as the riders ducked under street lights. It was a remarkable sight in part because many of those people had enough expendable income to buy boats in the first place—to have them just in case of such a crises. Trump didn’t do that, the people of Texas did. What they needed from Trump was an encouraging voice after days of hard work—and that’s what they got.

When Trump says that he thinks the media is the most dishonest element there is, this is what he’s talking about. The facts they choose are counter to the natural desires of the American public. Yes, people love a car wreck, yes, they love tragedy and soup operas—but they also love to persevere and they elected Trump because they wanted to feel great about their nation again. Not because they wanted to cry over every little bit of spilled milk. People want hope, they want to feel good, and they want to win. Even when a hurricane comes and destroys everything they’ve spent a lifetime building, they want to win and even strike back. They don’t want to hear about climate science and how we need to appease the gods of nature to keep such a thing from happening again. They want to dominate nature and use the human mind to overtake the sorrow in defiance of the circumstances.

That’s why it was important for Melania Trump to where those nice, tall high heels on her way to the flood zones. It is unfair to her to cast so much anger in her direction simply because she is a beautiful woman. Perhaps this is an argument against why we should have so many women in the news reporting business because if they can’t look at Melania and see the beautiful woman she is, inside and out—they can’t report stories like this. They don’t have a right to discriminate against her just because she’s beautiful. Texas needed her, and she went. That is the story and that’s what the Trumps delivered.

The hatred of Trump is pathetically small-minded and I am getting more and more resentful of that constricted thought pattern by the people committing the act day by day. As I’ve said for many years, I’ve put up with other people’s view points for a long time—and they have screwed up a lot of things. Now my guy is in office and I expect them to show him the same courtesy. If it doesn’t work out, then they can try again in some future election. But he deserves a chance to do a good job and his wife certainly shouldn’t get scrutinized just because of her looks. If Melania wants to wear high heels, then she should be able to do it. Some women love their shoes and as a fashion model I’m sure she has shoes that make her very happy to wear. Likely she needed to pump herself up a bit to have the energy to face such devastation and still put on a happy face. I know when I have to do difficult things I like to wear my favorite shirt or a hat. For her it’s probably shoes. There’s nothing wrong with that, and If I have to be honest, she looked great wearing them. She can wear them on the moon as far as I’m concerned. And that is honest reporting. Sadly, the media refused to cover this story honestly instead looking under every rock for some negative—and Texas or Trump wouldn’t give it to them. And they showed their ugly teeth in the process of something that was actually quite a good American story.

Rich Hoffman
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Transference: The woman in the kitchen

People really should read Dinesh D’Souza’s new book The Big Lie.  It’s truly well done and surprisingly packed with information. I say that because I have read a lot of these types of modern political books and I seldom learn much from them but in this one I have learned quite a lot.  I would attribute that to something that D’Souza has uncovered that is exploding before our eyes, and that is this propensity of our collective society to function from a mass psychological trauma induced onto us from our early educations and that is to function from a gross case of mass transference.  Transference psychologically speaking is when a villain claims to be the hero or vice versa and shockingly it was on full display at the C-SPAN event shown below where Dinesh debated on stage with two members of the Alinsky Institute, David Alinsky son of the infamous Saul Alinsky and Ralph Benko.  Benko in particular who claimed to be a “right winger” was using transference to sell the merit of his institute which was incredibly interesting.

On a mass scale what the Donald Trump presidency has exposed is something we all knew was there from the beginning. The villains who are really guilty of serious crimes are attempting to pass those off onto passivist Republicans which has worked for many years but because Trump won’t accept that guilt a major clash is ensuing.  This is exposing the Democratic Party because there is nowhere to hide their crimes if Republicans won’t allow them to transfer that guilt to the GOP as has been going on for over one hundred years that I can tell.  For instance, it was Democrats who supported the KKK and slavery.  I was Democrats who inspired Hitler to give rise to his Nazis.  It was Democrats that colluded with Russia.  It was Democrats that destroyed evidence.  It was Democrats that issued many terrible pardons to enemies of the United States.  It was Democrats who want to use the power of the state to control all our lives in every way imaginable.  Republicans are against all those things yet by the psychological trick of transference they have accepted the sins of their rivals because they were defenseless against the way Saul Alinsky used his tactics to take command of the entire party giving people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton power they otherwise wouldn’t have had. Watching Benko and David Alinsky not be able to defend the things Dinesh D’Souza said about Saul Alinsky was truly fascinating.  They spent most of their time trying to defend the dedication of Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals to Lucifer than in defending the acts of transference that the Democratic Party has been using to beat Republicans through the media they control by associating their guilty acts onto an innocent party using Alinsky tactics to apply it.

To put the situation in a way that most people can understand transference would be when a man who is cheating on his wife quite audaciously comes home with perfume from another woman on him, and lipstick smeared on his collar then starts yelling at his wife who is just there cooking dinner accusing her of sleeping with other men.  The woman knows she hasn’t slept with other men and that she has been busy getting food for the meal she’s preparing yet now she has to defend the accusations of her husband.  If she fails to answer her husband’s criticisms she’ll look like she’s hiding something.  If she does answer them then she gives value to the charge by acknowledging it.  Either way, she is forced to make a move of defense or silence, both of which will get her accused of the act.  It’s an old liberal trick that has been going on for a long time and it’s odd that an entire political party could use a psychological mechanism to advance such an evil.

One of the primary themes of the great American novel Atlas Shrugged is the idea of making innocent people an accomplice into mass, group evil through transference.  This is done by getting people who are the movers and shakers of the world to admit to some level of selfishness if they won’t share their gains with people in need—without addressing why people are in need.  This is essentially how Mitt Romney lost his election against Barack Obama.  Democrats painted Romney as selfish, rich, and under using women as a role under his management.  Romney in fact was far from selfish and he had a history of being very fair to women, but when Democrats put that transference application to him he couldn’t defend it because he did feel guilt about his wealth.  That hook along froze him into inaction and allowed Obama to win the presidency.

Years ago when I was doing a radio interview on a popular daytime talk show I was involved in a lot of controversy and the host was trying to get me to apologize on the air.  It was baffling to me why this person cared so much to get an apology and this is something that is going on constantly these days—where people are being encouraged to apologize for everything.  Well, I meant what I had said in spite of the public backlash, and I knew all this psychology of transference so I stuck with my guns much to virtually everyone’s professional sensitivities.  To apologize to an unidentified group of women whom I said had asses the size of car tires and diamond rings to match would be to admit guilt.  Well, I wasn’t guilty.  What I said was a factual statement in the metaphorical application of it and the circumstance for which I said it.  By apologizing because it sounded harsh or was politically incorrect as determined by the reality of Democratic transference I would have undercut my entire platform—which I wasn’t about to do.  The Republicans around me at the time instinctively wanted to apologize and wanted me to do so—which I wouldn’t so we all went our separate ways.  They should have listened to me then because a few years later Trump became president doing essentially what I had done—not allowing the transfer of guilt from one Party to the other by accepting responsibility for it.

The only thing the woman in the kitchen could do when her husband came home to accuse her of cheating was to point out that he was the one with the signs of cheating for which his only comeback from that would be to rant, rave and threaten her with violence to shut her up—and that is what the political left is doing now that Donald Trump is refusing to apologize or accept any guilt from the Democrats.  Republicans on the Hill simply don’t know how to play the game any other way.  The way to beat the political left is to not accept the transference of their guilt.  If they threaten violence, then we must be willing to crush them just like the woman who is the victim of being cheated on must do against her husband.  Whatever she must do she must implement, like having a gun, or a can of mace—something that can overtake her husband if he attempts violence against her because she won’t accept his transference of guilt.  Donald Trump understands this issue, and I have been trying to teach it to people for years—and thankfully people are starting to listen.  But even I am shocked by the level of transference articulated in D’Souza’s new book.  I suppose I never really thought much about the Nazis and why they hated the Jews, or how they have more in common with Democrats than Republicans.   But they do and the reason why is transference.  Democrats are guilty of many crimes, but Republicans have come to their rescue so many times—it has enabled such a vast evil to be unleashed through good intentions.

The way Republicans have behaved was similar to the wife in saying, “honey, no, I haven’t been with anyone.”  You can check my cell phone, you can put a camera in our room, you can ask our neighbors—I haven’t even been out of the house.”  Meanwhile the husband has naked pictures of many girls on his cell phone and his wife doesn’t even know the password—so she could never check him out.  That dysfunction has to stop for Republicans.  They should be thankful that Trump is fighting on their behalf this physiological deficiency.  Because it happens far more than most people want to believe and each occurrence is a function of evil.  By endorsing such evil through shared responsibility—Republicans perpetuate it.  The moral thing to do is not to accept any guilt, even though we were all taught from infants up to the present to do so, and to keep the blame where it belongs—on the Democratic Party and their vile soldiers of disinformation.

Rich Hoffman

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The Story Behind ANTIFA: Republicans are destroying Democrats in fundraising

I really think everyone should read D’Souza’s new book The Big Lie.  It’s not like it’s some fringe book from a crazy right-winged lunatic.  The real conservatives in America aren’t even on the political scale the media uses these days—the only politics they know are varying degrees of socialism which is explained clearly in D’Souza’s book.  Reading such books is the first step in understanding how anybody could justify a bunch of young punks dressed up in black masks and outfits—very close to the KKK I might add, in their public demonstrations—and make them out to be heroes rather than the anarchists that they truly are advocating Marxism.   These stupid ANTIFA kids are mostly a bunch of soft, fat-assed kids who spend too much time on the couch eating Doritos.  Their clashes with their brothers and sisters on the left—the White Nationalists, the KKK and the neo Nazi-s are being staged by the media to be like a Harlem Globetrotters game against a fake opponent who has already been pre-determined to lose.

https://twitter.com/AntifaBoston/status/898958986824777728

If those stupid kids came out of those cities which Democrats control—and tried that shit in God’s country—the Red states that support Trump-they wouldn’t get very far and would be embarrassed immensely.  It’s all a rigged show that has nothing to do with real American politics–but everything to do with fund-raising.  The Democrats are drowning right on cue as I said last year at this time that they would be, and they hope that these protests will solidify their base—convince some candidates to emerge for the 2018 elections—and persuade the money men to give them some money.  The Republican Party under jus the first seven months of Trump is outpacing Democrats by double in fund-raising efforts and for the leftist political activists out there they are now desperate to do anything to stop the bleeding—leaving Tom Perez in a very bad, losing position.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/347240-rnc-raises-millions-more-than-dnc-in-july

Just in July of 2017 with all the bad news flooding the Trump presidency from all the media outlets, the Republican Party  raised $10.2 million dollars compared to the DNC who raised only $3.8.  The RNC is operating without a debt while the DNC is adding to it sitting right now at $3.4 million.  That for Democrats is catastrophic considering they have their mouth pieces at every movie studio these days, every news outlet, they have Facebook, Google, they own the government institutions such as the Deep State, the IRS, they have their radicals in the CIA, the FBI. They are everywhere but they can’t convince people who have money to give them some to fight on behalf of liberalism.  Why do you think that is dear reader? Because it’s all a big lie just like D’Souza so wonderfully puts in his new book with the same title.  Like I said Dinesh D’Souza isn’t some radical loser selling his books out of the back of a car at a flea market—I bought his latest at Costco.  As I looked around there weren’t any rival books by liberal authors—and it’s not because Costco favors conservative authors.  Costco is a pretty liberal organization themselves—they give money to Democrats—not typically Republicans.  The reason there aren’t liberal books at Costco on display side by side with D’Souza’s The Big Lie is because they don’t sell.  Nobody buys liberal books because half of the idiots in their party can’t read.  Look at those stupid ANTIFIA fat-ass kids; they are lucky if they can read a candy wrapper let alone a book about history.  Donald Trump is a very successful business person who made a hit show out of a flimsy idea where Mark Cuban and Richard Branson struggled mightily.  Running the Republican Party is a cake walk for him.  His message and personality are something that people feel they can invest in—look at the stock market.  This helps Republicans up and down the ticket.  Slowly they are learning—stick near Trump and money will come your way for elections.  Stand apart, there won’t be any money and you will eventually lose your seats.  That’s politics folks, and the Democrats are losing and that won’t get any better in the months to come.

Through August of 2017 as the frantic news outlets see what’s really going on; more money has flowed to Republicans under Trump’s administration.  They know their polling has been phony about the President’s approval ratings.  They know their samplings have been taken with skewed numbers of Democrats contributing as opposed to Republicans to make things look better—they know they have been lying to the American people and it’s just a matter of time that the truth comes out—which it is in their balance sheets.   The frantic attempts to destroy the Trump administration by encouraging riots in the streets with the ANTIFA losers and wall to wall coverage of some Russian conspiracy—or attempting to put Trump’s name next to the socialists White Nationalists that were creations of the political left to begin with can’t hide the fact that through August of 2017, from the time Trump took office just seven  months prior the RNC has $86.5 million in contributions while the DNC has managed to acquire only $42 million.  The GOP has a huge advantage in cash on hand also with $47.1 million as opposed to the DNC reserves of only $6.9 million.  That’s not enough money for Democrats to run one race for a dog catcher in most communities let alone a congressional seat or even a new federal senator.  The Democrats are going into 2018 broke and that won’t get any better for them and everyone in the know, knows it which explains their fanaticism every day on the news.

I used to wonder why Republicans weren’t better at asking for money in email chains and other online outlets like the Democrats were and I think it really came down to methods.  Democrats have no problem asking for money while most Republicans are too busy making it.  But since Trump has taken over at the top of the GOP I get emails every day asking for money and I don’t mind at all because that’s what it takes.  The Trump people know how to market and that is helping the GOP immensely.  These are the hidden little ways that Trump is dramatically helping the GOP brand.  He’s certainly not hurting it the way the liberal media wishes with controversial Tweets and wild press conferences that everyone supposedly hopes will be brought under swamp control by a firm Chief of Staff.  Trump knows what he’s doing and he’s playing everyone—and people who have money like the work he’s doing—and they don’t mind giving him some of it to fight on their behalf.  At this rate by the close of the year the Republicans will be in great shape to provide money to candidates to acquire more seats across the country while the DNC will be further in debt even with all the wall to wall media coverage they enjoy from virtually every celebrity.   Not even George Soros can help Democrats now.  The only tool they have left is to hit the streets and throw urine and feces at people from behind a mask harassing war veterans and burning American flags.  The Democrats are literally out of ideas and have nothing left but these intimidation games and that’s not going to convince people to give money to a bunch of anarchists who want to tear down history and harass people on the streets.

Personally I’m fine with the fight either way they want to do it.  We can do it the legal way which is what’s been happening.  We elect our guy, he beats the Democratic guy or gal and we run the country under the control of the GOP which we’ll keep honest among ourselves always searching for the right people. Or we can fight it out in the streets without the protection of the law to keep losers like these ANTIFA radicals above ground.  I mean if liberals are going to break the law to stay relevant as a political power in America then why should people like me not break the law to fight them?  If they can break the law, why can’t I?  What do they think is going to happen if they don’t have the protection of the police, or a court system to keep everything honest?  Do they really think they’ll come into my neighborhood and have success—on my turf?  No way.  There is nothing scary about a bunch of snot nosed kids throwing rocks and urine who look as out-of-shape as the Pillsbury Dough Boy.  I personally have the means of stopping thousands of them all by myself—and I’m just one of millions with the same capability out in the Red States of Trump Land.  Violence isn’t going to work for them, let me tell you that.  And traditional fund-raising isn’t any more either.  They’ve scammed everyone for decades and their reputation as thugs and con artists has finally caught up with them.  So what are they going to do?  Well, they’re going to lose—that’s what, and they know it.  The media knows it.  The movie stars know it.  They are out of time and money—and ideas.  But more than anything, Trump knows it and he is not afraid to go after their jugular.  That’s why people like me send money to the GOP.  We like to bet on a winning horse for a change.

For a fine example of what I’m talking about have a look at the Trump newsletter I just received in my email box.  I have no problem sending $20 or $30 to them at the link provided, because I like seeing my money at work fighting forces I know to be corrosive to the American style of life.  Feel free to pass this along to a friend and to pour on the thrusters and really give Democrats something to worry about.  For what they’ve done to us over the years, they deserve it.

TRUMP PENCE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
8.19.17

CONDEMNING HATE

President Trump’s heart goes out to all those affected by the events in Charlottesville last weekend. The President condemns in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in America. No matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God. We must love each other, show affection for each other, and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry and violence. We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans. Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.

Make America Great Again
 

EXPANDING APPRENTICESHIP AND WORKFORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS

President Trump held a workforce and apprenticeship discussion in New Jersey. Under this President, we began a historic initiative to expand apprenticeship and workforce training programs in all industries. But that was just the start, the administration is taking additional steps to expand apprenticeship programs, especially for women and minorities in STEM fields where these groups have been truly under-represented. In the past seven months, we’ve made enormous gains in getting Americans back to work. The stock market is at record highs. Unemployment is at a 16-year low, and manufacturers have never expressed more optimism about the future.

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IMPROVING HEALTHCARE FOR OUR VETERANS

President Trump is making veteran healthcare a priority of his Administration and has moved quickly to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system. When President Trump signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act, he gave veterans a choice in the healthcare they receive so they can receive the right care, at the right time, from the right provider. “In just a short time, we’ve already achieved transformative change at the VA—and believe me, we’re just getting started,” said President Trump.

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REAFFIRMING THE PRESIDENT’S COMMITMENT

Vice President Pence traveled to Central and South America to meet with leaders from government and the business community to reaffirm the President’s commitment to deepening bilateral trade and investment ties with the region and to build on the good work that has been done to bolster our shared economic and security goals. Vice President Pence made it clear in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and Panama that America first does not mean America alone. Our interests are aligned. Our values are the same. And the birthright of freedom belongs to both our people.

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PROTECTING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND ITS WORKERS

President Trump is taking the first step to ensure we protect American innovation and the intellectual property (IP) of American companies. IP theft directly harms the American economy and American workers. Reports suggest that China has greatly benefited from the theft of American IP, in some cases forcing American companies to transfer their innovation to benefit China. President Trump is following through on his promise to the American people to protect their IP so they can benefit from their innovation.

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REBUILDING AMERICA

Infrastructure is a priority to the President and he took action this week to rebuild America by signing an Executive Order establishing discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects. With regulatory red tape to jump through, major infrastructure projects are held up for years at significant cost to our economy. Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, and railways gleaming across our beautiful land.

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LET PRESIDENT TRUMP DO HIS JOB

President Trump’s plan to Make America Great Again is working! One million jobs created, unemployment is at a 16-year low, the stock market at an all-time high, and the military is at its strongest. Let our President keep doing his Job and watch our new campaign ad by clicking here.

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Rich Hoffman

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Cool Kids and the Geeks: Why Republicans are wimps who grovel at the feet of the media

I remember when I went to John Boehner’s office to inspire him to impeach Barack Obama for some bad behavior the president had conducted under a congressional recess, which was a valid issue. It certainly deserved a rebuke from the Speaker of the House who happened to be my congressional representative at the time. Of course, Boehner did nothing and ignored my suggestions so to maintain order in the swamp letting Obama off the hook completely. He let Democrats know that they could do anything to Republicans and there would be no retaliation. Yet when the shoe was on the other foot and we had a Republican in office and the Democrats were looking for any little thing to impeach him Rep. Steven Cohen put forth a formal proceeding to impeach Trump over quite valid comments made in the wake of Charlottesville. Where the Republicans tried to play it above the fray with Obama, Democrats have no trouble throwing out the impeach word and that is the essential difference in why those liberal losers think they even stand a chance in this new civil war in America.

What? You didn’t know we were in a civil war dear reader? Well the signs have always been there and now they are extremely obvious. No, it’s not between the alt-left and the alt-right—those are made up terms by the media to attempt to put us all consciously into those two book ends for which both are a means to socialism. They’d have us all believe that we are all somewhere between those two leftist groups. But we aren’t, the real civil war is between those who had their educations before the liberalized media took completely over and those who have grown up under its far-reaching umbrella. It wasn’t that long ago that radio personality Matt Clark and I did several radio shows on how communists took over the media industry starting in the 60s and by the 2000s had infiltrated nearly every aspect of it. Now with financiers like George Soros gathering up his anti-American friends for the purpose of using the media as a hammer that thrusts by his funding the leftist influence of both the Nazi and the Russian communists are basking in the theater of debate as if they were a majority. But they aren’t—otherwise Donald Trump wouldn’t have won the presidency.

When polling comes out against Trump the samplings are usually all the members of the CNN phone banks for which the criteria is established. The same with CBS and ABC, especially NBC who are still angry that Trump left The Celebrity Apprentice tanking their leading show so that he could become president. They aren’t calling me, or my wife, or my neighbors out in Southwestern Ohio for polling—where the buckle on the Bible belt is large enough to deflect a speeding bullet. No politician could go to an arena anywhere in the country like Trump can and fill it up with enthusiastic people. And no media personality could either—as Arnold Schwarzenegger learned when he tried to step in and run the boardroom on the show Trump left. That’s what terrifies them. They know their polling is wrong. Trump has more than 50% of the country and they dare not let that information get out—so they are doubling down doing anything and everything they can to attempt to seduce us all away from the truth.

I was awakened in the middle of the night by an urgent report from my iPhone. The Hollywood Reporter was telling me that Tina Fey and Seth Meyers was going to return to Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” and that they were going to “slam” Trump. The 20-something reporter writing for that trendy publication couldn’t hide her hope that her progressive media celebrities might change the course of history with some crafty insults which might end a presidency. But to our sane eyes her enthusiasm was equivalent to a child thinking that they could pluck the moon out of the sky without understanding anything of the science of why it hangs there in the night. That same Tina Fey first really exposed this extreme liberal bias when she made outrageous fun of Sarah Palin only for being the first woman to run for vice president on the John McCain ticket. The former governor of Alaska was panned by every liberal activist in the media for a solid five years and the effect did take its toll on Palin’s family. Some of the meanest things I’ve ever heard from anybody came in her direction from people like Tina Fey who was protecting NBC’s social activism position on ever-expanding audiences through global communism. The same broadcasting company that ate out of the hand of Trump for his hit television show used people like Tina Fey to politically assassinate anyone who dared to stick their neck out against the trend. If Tina were to come out as a Republican the same knives would come after her as well. But so long as she was one of the “cool kids” as established by the group mentality of the orthodox media mechanisms—she will have success in life. So long as she does what NBC and the other MSM types desire—to destroy Republican no matter who they are, she gets to be a celebrity with all the frills that come with public acceptance. It doesn’t matter if they are women. It doesn’t matter if they are former stars of their network. If they stand against the tide of progressive liberalism—then they must be destroyed and it is the job of people like Fey to advance her network on their strategic advancement of social change.

This behavior reminded me of the root cause of all this evil. Our public education system after all is guilty of paving the way to all this insanity. People like Tina Fey and the Saturday Night Live comedians represent the popular kids in every school. They set the trends that all public-school cultures must adhere to—as part of the MSM for which The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, MTV and all of network television function driving the cultural trends of our society harnessed and communicated to the masses through group assimilation taught to us in our public government-run schools. I remember how it was to get on the school bus. Every kid there would have on a KISS shirt, or Def Leopard or some rock group that was popular at the time and they were invited to be part of the warm blanket of the group. I would step on the bus wearing my Han Solo shirt from Star Wars and I was made fun of incessantly. Unlike most people, I liked to fight and antagonize people especially in group behavior patterns so I did more of what caused all the ruckus. I’d make fun of them back and when they turned to violence to make me conform, I beat the shit out of them-literally, especially by the time I was in high school. But usually people cave to the pressure and that is how such things are communicated into our culture and that is clearly what is at play with the Trump presidency. Lucky for us, Trump likes to fight too—because that’s the only way to beat these evil collectivist slugs.

The impeachment suggestion is s sign of their extreme frustration on the political left, because the cool kids can’t use peer pressure for compliance of the individual to group assimilation. Obviously, all this is over the heads of most Republicans. John Boehner and his team thought I was out of my mind for suggesting that Obama be impeached. Most of our orthodox Republicans were in some way or another the cool kids in school—or they wanted to be and they are now paralyzed as adults to act against the MSM because what they want more desperately than anything in the world is to be considered one of them. And that’s how good individuals sacrifice their very lives to be marginalized into group behavior losing forever their personal ethics for the sweet delight of other people’s approval. But little do the political elites and the MSM know that the trend is changing and has been for a long time. It’s now cool to wear Star Wars shirts to school and to geek out at Gen Cons. The cool kids aren’t so cool anymore and personal individuality is more cherished than ever before which is showing up in that polling that everyone is trying to hide from the public. But Trump is the proof of it no matter what anybody tries to say. The results speak clearly for themselves.

Rich Hoffman

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The World is not Enough: Thank, God for Hasbro, Sphero, and Nerf

Every now and then I like to cover lighter topics that shed some hope for the human condition.  Occasionally I have written about my observations regarding the new cosplay phenomena and some of the very unique toys being made for kids from really great companies like Hasbro, Nerf and Sphero.  I have no problem admitting that when my wife drags me to the store for whatever reason—usually because she wants my company–that the place I always like to go first is the toy section to see what’s new there.  I have always enjoyed the inventiveness that comes with play and I think the world would be far better off if kids played more and for a longer period of time instead of rushing into puberty too quickly.  They should develop their minds longer than they do and after several discussions with my daughters who are now in their mid twenties I do have some hope that some of the inventiveness that is coming out in the toy markets and cosplay endeavors are the millennial’s generational self correction.

Any analysis into my love of Star Wars as a grown man would conclude that I find the people in those stories more interesting than real people.  The mythology of Star Wars as a whole has in it people I enjoy more than actual interactions.  Now some people might say that my view is unhealthy—that I shouldn’t set my bar for human interaction so high.  I would argue that society doesn’t set its bar for achievement high enough.  As a young person I always measured myself against the unrealistic expectations of the silver screen—not off the terrestrial limits of the real people in my life who I always felt were striving to be, “only human.”  They didn’t think big enough for me—the world they were offering was not enough.  And to a large degree millennials have grown up in broken homes with divorced insecure parents.  Their educations have been a joke and generally the world around them has been a tremendous let-down.  I mean who wants to grow up to be like John McCain? Anybody?  Or Maxine Waters?  How about a news anchor on any network?  Anybody want to be Chris Wallace?  If you have half a brain dear reader, you get my point.  So for their own survival millennials are doing to a larger degree what I always did, they turn to mythology where heroes and villains are larger than life and they base their standards for living off them instead of real people-because they innately recognize that they must do something to overcome the low expectations given to them by the lost generations which came before.

So that is the who and why all these fantastic toys and cosplay devices have emerged and specific to my interest is the Star Wars items from Nerf, Hasbro, and Sphero.   With Force Friday II coming up on September 1st 2017 where all the new Star Wars toys hit the shelves at Wal-Mart, Target and Toys R Us inventories that have been out there for a while since last year’s Rogue One movie is now at a very reduced price so my wife and I have been buying up things we’ve long been watching.  Specifically for me is the Hasbro At-ACT which came out last year for Rogue One but was over $300.  Hard for me to justify spending that kind of money on a toy, but lately it was marked down to $150 so we picked it up.  Another big thing we were able to pick up was the Sphero BB-8 robot which is driven off your smart phone.  In fact that’s what the AT-ACT and BB-8 have in common—both can move around on their own controlled off programming inputted into your iPhone which I think is just phenomenal.   The BB-8 robot from Sphero I think is a remarkable device and after finding it at Wal-Mart for half of its original $150 price tag I thought was a bargain.

For us, even though I enjoy the creativity on display in these new age toys if we didn’t have our grandkids over so much I wouldn’t have much of a desire to get them.  But, the kids are over a lot and I enjoy them immensely so when they are at my house we have all these very epic and expensive things to play with.  I remember how it was as a parent where luxuries were hard to come by and having all these expensive things to play with for the kids was difficult.  But as a grandparent we can afford to give the kids access to those kinds of things so we do, and I enjoy playing with the kids as they build up their brains with positive things I know will last a lifetime.  When kids play they don’t play to be a worthless bureaucrat or an average loser—they play to be a hero that saves the entire galaxy, that is the fantasy and it sets up in their minds the objective to reach for that high bar—even if it’s unrealistic.  It’s better to aim high than to not aim at all.  I also remember what it was like being a kid and I was a unique one.   I built models in the basement of our house very late into my teens and I had a large Star Wars toy collection that I played with until past the 8th grade.  I had a younger brother who had friends come over on Friday nights and we’d have massive Star Wars battles and honestly I found that a lot more fun than what was going on in real life.  I didn’t have any desire to drink, do drugs, use cuss words or play with girls.  The world I had in the basement of our house was far more interesting.  One of those younger kids who came over had a sister my age who was trying to fix me up with one of the prettiest girls in the 8th grade. She wanted me to go to the big homecoming dance with her after the football game.  This girl liked me a lot and had let me know that if I went to the dance with her that she’d let me do anything I wanted to her.  She was two years older than me and could drive.  Guess what I picked?  I chose playing Star Wars with the younger kids rather than messing around with that girl.  I never went to a single school dance until I was in my senior year and that was only to get a picture for my mom to put on her wall.   Many of my parents’ friends thought I was a weird kid so she wanted something to show that I wasn’t so strange.  In reality the toys were more interesting and I still love them to this day.   I can understand fully what cool toys and the freedom from guilt in playing with them can do for children.  I would say that now as an adult I am extremely well-adjusted and a very good problem solver.  I attribute a lot of that to developing my brain with a lot of play as a kid without the hassle of social pressure—like girls in the 8th grade and dances after football games.  Now as an adult with financial means, I do spoil my grandchildren for specifically those reasons—so they can feel the boundless joy of being a kid and discovering so many new things for the first time before life starts clamping down.  When life does clamp down, I want them to intellectually be ready.

And that’s why these toys are so much better than the toys from my youth, because Hasbro and Sphero aren’t just making them for kids.  They are making them for the many adults who now get past their 20s and aren’t interested in what the world has to offer.  As I think about this interesting aspect of our culture I can’t help but think of the James Bond movie The World is not Enough by the musical group Garbage.  That song captures this issue very well, the world is not enough because it doesn’t offer a big enough tapestry to project our hopes and dreams against—so many people find a relief from those limits by fulfilling their imaginations with these very sophisticated toys and these very creative companies understand and are rushing to fill that market need with some really spectacular offerings.  I always loved that song.  Needless to say I am impressed and continue to look forward to the next great thing to come from Hasbro and Sphero. That AT-ACT and the BB-8 droid are just fabulous and will bring a lot of joy to my house.  And I continue to look forward to what they come up with this year for Force Friday. I waited for some of these items for a few years so that the price would come down, but given the great utilization on display, maybe I won’t wait so long next time.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Dow Jones Hits 22,000: Donald Trump, ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and video games

I continue to be amazed at how stupid people are. Of course dear reader you are not stupid because you are reading here, but most people have the intellectual depth of a gold-fish and are clueless about the ways of the world around them.  It was the great American novel Atlas Shrugged which clearly predicted what would happen if a hero from the pages of that wonderful classic were to be in the White House.  Donald Trump has only been president for six months and the stock market pushed up over 22,000—an unheard of amount of money flowing into the American economy—and why, well, it’s purely from the promise of deregulation and tax cuts.  Human beings were never intended to be held under the financial constraints and philosophic parameters of an aristocratic leadership—they were always meant to free themselves of that intellectual bondage and we are seeing it happen under the Trump administration in really spectacular ways.

I will take credit for getting this right from the very beginning. Donald Trump will be the best president we’ve ever had and our economy will bloom in ways it’s never before experienced because of all the reasons established in Atlas Shrugged many years ago by Ayn Rand.  Free people of the burden of an aristocratic government that wants to micromanage every little thing in their lives and you will see explosive growth economically and culturally.  That was essentially what Atlas Shrugged was all about and it’s an idea that could have only been invented within the United States of America and the capitalism that drives the most financially prolific nation on earth. Money isn’t just something that happens in nature where aristocrats can then distribute it to the people—it’s made by human beings out of productive output and is built out of thin air.  The economy of the Stone Age people who built Stonehenge in England is not the economy of our global culture today.  The wealth that some people experience is created out of ambition and hard work and that is how the Dow Jones ended up at over 22,000 on August 2, 2017—at the close.

Stupid people who have criticized Donald Trump’s presidency over irrelevant issues, and ironically are the same idiots who have criticized Ayn Rand’s novels can at least see that everything they have put their “faith” into is coming apart, just like at the end of Atlas Shrugged—the story.  People are getting a taste of what it feels like to have a Fountainhead in the White House and they like it.  They are opening up their wallets and investing big into a future that suddenly looks like it has unlimited potential.  All Trump had to do was show up and remove a few regulations and everything has taken off explosively.  As I watched the Dow close I knew the human race had just punched through an invisible barrier of economic development that was significantly larger than breaking the sound barrier.  Humans have been trying to do something like achieve 22,000 at the Dow Jones since the dawn of time—economic independence not controlled by a hierarchy, but rather a free and open market.  Trump is just getting started—there is much more opportunity to come—because our markets are hardly free—but they are getting better.

Those stupid people are that way because they aren’t intellectually curious about things—they tend to believe what people tell them—and when those people are Marxists in the media and within their schools, they are starting with a bad foundation to begin with. But many of those people do find pleasure in video games and within that framework they understand capitalism very intently.  The same anarchists who protest the Trump presidency and break out windows over Sea World’s Orca shows are the same people screaming at EA Games message boards that they are at level 100 on Battlefront and are looking for more in-game goodies to inspire them to maintain their subscriptions to the PS Network.  The video game industry is all about capitalism from their stories to the wealth they created from both actual currency and virtual currency. Money in any form it takes is about representing value, so when something has value, money can be said to represent it’s ethereal worth.  The best video games keep their players engaged for months at a time—or even years by continuously creating incentives to be productive in the game which then benefits the culture that emerges through the programming.  I mentioned Battlefront which is an EA game for the Star Wars saga being made under the guidance of Disney.  Like a lot of people who are still playing that two-year old game, I’m at level 100, which is as high as you can go.  I have more credits than I can spend on the game in a lifetime so what keeps me coming back for more?  Well—for me it is the competition and intense fighting that you can do there against people all over the world.  But already Battlefront II is about to come out and replace the old Battlefront and they are already trying to get me to pre-order it with all kinds of incentives to entice me to do so.  Of course I will because I’ll want a competitive jump on everyone else in the world and so will millions of other players—most of them are under the age of 30 and probably hate Donald Trump.  But they understand capitalism within the framework of the videogame industry.  Once Battlefront II comes out, I will likely play it solid for a full solid six months because there will be so many objectives to perform that it will be fun for me—even though in the real world none of it means anything.  I mean I can’t take all my Battlefront credits and buy a new car, or a house.  But I play because it is a free environment that awards competency and persistence—and that’s why video games are often better than reality.

Just think what would happen if our government just got out-of-the-way and let us all play at life-like we do in video games? That is essentially what Donald Trump is proposing and why those who like to play the stock market are blowing the top off the previous record-breaking ceilings.  It’s no question that since Election Day 2016 that just the promise that people could play at the game of economic development opened up the hopes and dreams of a lot of people and that has directly impacted our economy already.  For many years I have driven to work in the morning passed many businesses either going out of business or barely hanging on.  This morning on my way to work I counted 32 help wanted signs that were not there last month.  That is a lot of opportunity that has so far come out of a stock market that jumped from 18,000 to 20,000.  Wait until the results of this latest jump yields.  It is very optimistic to consider.

Just imagine what would happen if government got out of healthcare and the people in the medical industry were allowed and encouraged to make as much money as they could? Think how much wealth they could create.  Jeff Bezos is now the richest person in the world—he alone invented an industry that changed everything in Amazon.com.  How do we find the Amazon.com of healthcare if the government is in the way of discovering it?  We won’t.  Government only makes it so that people don’t want to play at the games of life—and building wealth is a kind of game to the people who have the mind and resources to do so.  If they are overly restricted, they’ll sit on their money and spend their money trying to get away from government—or buying it off to keep them out of their pockets.

Atlas Shrugged answered all these questions many years ago yet people are still surprised that Trump has had this kind of effect on the economy so quickly.  And that shock will continue for quite a number of years until history solidifies the results so that the stupid people will finally accept it all as a reality.  Right now the stupid people want what they know, the selfish aristocracy that claimed to have mystical powers over religion and matters of money.  However, smart people know better, and they know that once people see how much fun life can be and how much money they can make in it—they’ll want to play too—and this global push for socialism will lose its audience—and Donald Trump will still be president and the Dow will be up over 30,000.

How much do you wanna’ bet?

Rich Hoffman

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You’re Fired in the White House: The good done by the 2% while the 98% watch

Why is it so surprising that Anthony Scaramucci was fired from the White House communications director job? Given the fact that he only did the job for 11 days, he was effective and assisted on bringing in General Kelly at the chief of staff position.  Scaramucci shook things up during his short tenure, he did a good job and now other people get a chance to do work in his wake.  Yet the perception of these government jobs is that they should go on forever and that the measurement of success isn’t in effectiveness of job performance but in how long a person can manage to hang around in the Beltway.  Trump has brought a business ethic to his White House based on performance—for which the media calls “chaos” and there will be many other firings before all is said and done.  Don’t people remember The Apprentice?  This is that same guy—Donald Trump, who made his mark on celebrity by firing people.  What did people think was going to happen?

What’s different in Trump’s case and virtually everyone who came before him is that this new president is part of that elite 2% club of people who essentially support the entire 98% portion of the human population in productive output. That’s not the same as declaring that Trump is “rich.” Not everyone in that 2% club is “rich” yet, but they typically become that way by their very nature. When anarchists used the Occupy Wall Street group to protest the wealthy 1% they were attacking the visible portion of that 2% who essentially do everything in our economy—who have the inner drive to move mountains of opposition for the sheer pleasure of it—for the boon of being productive.  They are not like the sheepish 98% who are happy to just live life and graze like cattle in the fields of dreams waiting for the inevitable end.  People like Trump are driven by their own energy—and it never ends for them.  That energy is now in the White House and has been misdiagnosed as chaos by those lazy 98% types.

That is why I have no concern over the lack so far of a legislative slate of accomplishments because I never thought congress would work with this president until things got rough—and they are about to. I have no doubt that Trump will end the subsidies on the congressional health care plans putting them equal with the rest of us and that the Obamacare money would be block granted back to the states.  Experts would say that if Trump did such a thing that all his other legislative objectives would be in jeopardy, such as his infrastructure plan, and his tax cut—but that is only thinking from the perspective of 98% of the population.  Thinking like the 2% types, you take it to the objectivists and make them feel the pain, and you pour it on until they break or an opportunity to fire them emerges.  That is the way of Trump.  His legislative agenda will happen one way or the other.  Inactivity won’t be acceptable not under a 2% oriented president used to accomplishing things.  Trump will not stop until he gets what he wants like a lot of driven people are—the 2%.

That was what the plot to The Apprentice really was—discovering the 2% out there who would do almost anything to be successful and having them compete for the right to win.  Most people are content to ride through life and watch these 2% people fight it out.  But then that is the major problem with democracy—is that the 98% feel they have legislative control over the natural drive of the 2%–and that will never work.  In America we have found an economy that frees the hands of the 2% and lets them build industry and invention to the limits of their imagination. The 98% benefit completely from these efforts but they do very little to contribute—except maybe work a job.  They aren’t like Elon Musk who is inventing the Hyperloop on a napkin or Jeff Bezos who is now the richest person in the world who continues to push Amazon.com to new levels of productivity.  As I mention these people they are not conservatives—but they are part of that 2% way of thinking—they are driven internally to always reach for success in any form they can find.  Anthony Scaramucci is another one of those 2% types, and no, he doesn’t have time to dance around an issue just to make the flock of sheep that make up the 98% of the population happy. Trump hired him, used Scaramucci’s efforts, to sniff out the leakers, fired the leakers and then ushered in a new chief of staff who then fired Scaramucci—that’s life in the fast lane.  Scaramucci will still be rich because it’s in his nature to be rich.  You could strip that guy of all his belongings and drop him off on a deserted island and five years later he’d be rich again after having built a thriving sea port on that island.  It’s the survival nature of the 2% and the American system to give them a voice above all others that is most responsible for the country’s GDP.  98% work under contracted hours to perform some of the tasks, but the essential elements of achievement occur by the 2% who seldom ever sleep, love their work and are always thinking and pushing for excellence.  To have a discussion about the proper nature of productivity, these factors must be considered.

The Washington Beltway culture that has emerged for over 200 years has proven unrepresentative of what America actually needs.  It follows a roughly European model of aristocratic behavior that just isn’t conducive to our needs as an economy.  The arrogance of John McCain to theatrically put his thumb down on the critical healthcare vote just a few days before Scaramucci was terminated demonstrated beyond doubt that the Senate is not a representation of what Americans want in their government.  Through natural evolution of observation during many trials and errors of voting patterns we finally elected a 2% type into the White House to break loose the elements that have not been working—ever, on Capitol Hill. Things will not go back to where they were just because John McCain is refusing to adopt to those changes.  Waiting out the clock from the power players in congress will not stop the forward trajectory of our economic expansion because most Americans recognize the necessity for a major change, and Trump is just the first step in that change.

The essence of that change is that it is the 2% who make America great and always have.  The 98% just go along for the ride.  They benefit from a great America but they don’t collectively make it so shattering that long-held government belief that democracies are the foundations of freedom.  No, it is the inventor who creates a new type of vehicle that gives individuals freedom of movement over vast spaces.  It is the computer programmer who writes a code that quickens the pace that human beings can think—therefore expanding their leisure time. It is the 2% who give the 98% their freedom through innovation and effort.  Not the other way around.

As I write this the Dow Jones is hovering near 22,000—which is stunning considering that just 6 months ago it was considered high at 18,000. That is nearly 5 trillion dollars of new money flowing into our American economy and that money doesn’t come from everyone.  It comes largely from the 2% who have worked so hard in life and thought out of the box to a large extent that they have the money to invest. They see in Trump a fellow 2% type.  With deregulation and a White House running more like a business, they are confident that the John McCain losers won’t have access to their money and that its safe to take risks.  The 2% don’t mind risks—that’s part of their nature—but they don’t like to have their backs turned toward looters like John McCain who largely represents the 98% people who struggle through life due to their inherit laziness.  Now that the 2% people have their own kind in the White House, they feel they can invest and act without the artificial restriction of looters always trying to steal their efforts for the 98% people to take the credit for.  There is nothing more deflating for a 2% person than to have the 98% people take the credit for all the hard work and risk through institutionalized democracy.  When that barrier is removed then all bets are off.

In that context I like to see all the firings at the White House and so do the other 2% types. It says that things are being managed and when something doesn’t work, this president is willing to keep trying until he gets what he wants.   And that is precisely what Trump will do in regard to healthcare.  It’s going to happen and if congress has to feel the pain and wrath of it, then so be it. It is nice to see all this for a change and now that people in the 98% see the results of a 2% guy in the White House they won’t vote the other way ever again.  The benefits are just too great and even many of the stupid people in that 98% can see that.  Firings are good and healthy and are done often by the people who are in the top 2% of the population.  Because decisive action is a fact of life in the context of Washington politics which has sought for so long to bend the 2% to the needs of the 98%.  Reality demands however that it is the real minority of the 2% which should always be respected for what they give the 98%–a life worth living and a freedom to pursue because decision makers and leaders fight for the purity of capitalism and the merit of competition which makes things wonderful for everyone.

Rich Hoffman

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Think Like a Billionaire: Trump’s great classic explains how things will be under General Kelly

 

This situation is so unusual, it was humorous to listen to the Sunday talk shows this week put all their hopes into the new chief of staff General John Kelly in utilizing a proper “chain of command” at the White House.  They hope that Kelly will eliminate the “chaos” at the White House as if the Republicans had their act together.   Who are they to give Trump any advice?  What they really mean is that they hope that General Kelly will use a chain of command structure to slow down the Trump administration into something the bureaucrats are more comfortable with.   Well, again, I have news for them and I’m really surprised that more people haven’t picked up on the past writings of Donald Trump because much of what the president is doing now he’s talked about before and the future is quite clear by studying that past.  As I’ve said, recently I’ve been reading many of the old Trump books from his last couple of decades of business activity and it’s been very revealing.  But in regard to this issue of assigning General Kelly to the chief of staff position the manner of Trump’s thinking can be best seen in the 2004 book Think Like a Billionaire.

I read Think Like a Billionaire when it first came out.  At the time I didn’t think much about it.  It had some good motivational stuff in it, but it read to me more like a blog posting in novel form.  I did get the feeling from it that Trump wanted to inspire people into more successful lives—which made me think well of him.  When he wrote that book he was about to marry Melania, Ivanka Trump was still in college and The Apprentice was just entering its second season.  Jeff Zucker was eating out of Trump’s hand because the new television star was nearly singlehandedly rescuing NBC from financial ruin.  Trump was hosting Saturday Night Live and had his picture proudly displayed on their wall of fame in that historic theater.  In 2004 Trump was one of the most sought after celebrities anywhere and the NBC network was very protective of him—because he was their guy.

Re-reading Think Like a Billionaire thirteen years later in 2017 was haunting because so many things have changed since then.  Jeff Zucker is now the head guy at CNN.  Saturday Night Live hates the Trump presidency and NBC was one of the first networks to go to war with Trump once it became obvious that Trump just might beat Hillary in the election of 2016.  Obviously, The Apprentice tried to continue with Arnold Schwarzenegger  but it didn’t work because the show needed Trump’s business sense.  An actor couldn’t fake it, the person running the board room had to be someone like Trump and the show died quickly into its new season without a business guy in the seat.  The New York Times which Trump spoke so highly about in Think Like a Billionaire is now one of the fake news outlets because they absolutely hate Trump now that he is president.   Even Mark Cuban was spoken about favorably in Trump’s book.  So many who were literally kissing Trump’s ass in 2004 now are his mortal enemies and for some strange reason they actually think it will put a stop to the forward progress of Donald Trump.

One thing that is quite clear about Donald Trump in Think Like a Billionaire is that he thrives with a flat line management style and that is clearly what he’s doing now in his White House.   The reason for the success of The Apprentice is clearly due to the amount of people Trump has feeding him information for which he can then make final decisions as the point man.  The Trump Organization has always been a very dynamic force where everything flows to Trump as directly as possible.  A chain of command is not his style because he likes to be hands on with everything.   By having a flat organizational chart it allows Trump to jump from department to department enacting his influence and that is how Trump has been so successful and why he has never been duplicated even though he has put down the blue print for anyone to follow.  Trump has been unique because only he has been willing to work so hard to excel under that management style.

Cowardly people often hide behind a chain of command structure so that they can appear to do important things without having the responsibility of making hard decisions.  The military loves chains of command because it hides the sometimes bloody evil that occurs in the killing of the enemy allowing individuals to function clean of personal responsibility for institutional assassinations.  But the same chain of command allows losers and ladder climbers lacking merit to appear more valuable to an organization without having to actually do anything.   You can always sniff out a loser—by their strict adherence to a chain of command structure because it gives them cover in the peaking order of human existence.  They are the type of people who fear the sunlight of standing alone in the arena with the audience looking at them waiting for action.  Since they tend to not know what to do under those circumstances they seek the cover of a chain of command.

Strong people who are highly competent want the flexibility of moving wherever they need to as objectives are sought to complete resolution.  They don’t like chains of command because it slows down their natural leadership ability.  Imagine having to play chess by selling a board of directors on the merit of each move.  A good chess player wants to be able to move their pawns, rooks, kings and queens depending on what the game gives them—they certainly don’t want to be stuck explaining things along the way.  They just want action so they can win the game.  Trump has been successful using this method and he will continue to use that flat management method with General Kelly helping him do so.  If anything it will free Trump to move more quickly—it certainly won’t slow him down.  Kelly’s job is to help increase that lateral mobility while scooping up the leaks in the fast-moving White House.  So Republicans hoping that Kelly will slow down Trump need to get their grip on reality.  The move to Kelly was to speed things up, not to slow Trump down.

Think Like a Billionaire was a sequel to How to Get Rich—and these are books which essentially give readers a chance to tag along with Trump on all matters of his thinking from choices in cars to women.  Trump is very honest and open about his life and thinking with the intention that the reader might learn something to help them also achieve success in life.  But essentially the key to both books are that Trump’s management style is extremely flat—as most successful people are.  People who struggle through life are those who depend on chains of command.  Trump isn’t going to change anything at this point—he thrives under pressure so that is what Republicans better get used to.  I would recommend to them that they go back and read these Trump books, especially Think Like a Billionaire.  It is an extremely fascinating book now that he is president.   Historically, there really isn’t anything like it—it’s a book that has tremendous insight into a person who is president of the United States before he was serious about running.   But what it tells best is what is about to happen.  It shows a person who is always thinking and always working and now that he’s in control of the Republican Party only people who love hard work will survive.  The lazy people will lose their jobs—and that’s how it will be in the Trump White House.

Rich Hoffman

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