Beating the Drums of War: Time to take North Korea away from the stupid fat kid

Obviously I’m not a dope smoking libertarian who wants the United States to be a live and let live Constitutional Republic which allows for the legalization of pot and ignores threats around the world hoping everyone just behaves. While I like the Constitutional Republic part I am an expansionist—I think the world would be a lot happier if they’d just become another state in the United States. They can keep their integrity and culture so long as the pledge allegiance to our flag. The world is simply too small now to allow lunatics of theocracy like Iran, North Korea, and Syria to host tyrannical dictators. I knew what I was getting with Donald Trump and he’s doing exactly what I wanted him to do—flexing the muscle of American military around the world fixing the numerous problems that 28 years of weak American presidents let brew out of control. I understand that the only way to get to the kind of prosperity America enjoyed in the past is to be the top dog on the world stage—and we should be. We are the best country with the best ideas and we are open to sharing those ideas with places not so fortunate. But the bad guys need to be taken out-of-the-way.

I’ve written and written, and written about the effects of Socialist International around the world and how dominate it is really everywhere. Russia has a former KGB agent from their communist days as their president and China is an all out communist nation. Europe is all diseased with socialism and all the poor countries of Indochina are rotten with communism. Stop by Cambodia sometime and walk the streets and 12-year-old girls will throw themselves at your feet offering sex because that’s the only way they can make enough money to eat. The same in Kenya, Vietnam and the east European nations still trying to develop economies after the collapse of Russia—the world is unstable and many people are suffering for it. So the grim reality is that nobody in the world is a reliable trading partner with the United States until these problems are solved. The biggest difference with Trump is that he’s not in love with United Nations group hugs approach. He’s fine to let NATO and the UN ride on America’s back as long as they shut up and do what he says. The minute they don’t, they lose their United States funding and they’ll drown with the rest of Europe. That is the Trump message to the world and as my representative, that’s what I sent him to Washington to do, along with about a 1000 other little things.

America can’t have peace so long as North Korea and many other countries empowered by the 20^th Century failed experiments of social engineering remain alive—and that means cleaning up on all the unresolved issues started by past American presidents and getting back to polices that put North America the center of the world, not Brussels. Since the Korean War ended in 1953 North Korea has been a pain in the neck and the excuse of many United States presidents to have reasons to have military spending as a cover story for their other failures. And now there is this fat kid who runs the country like a spoiled brat teenager who was given a Lamborghini by his dying dad and he has nuclear warheads which can threaten United States partners in South Korea and Japan. For the uneducated in the ways of geography, South Korea makes Samsung phones and televisions as well as Kia cars. So right now, they are a very important partner in the United States economy, so we do have a major interest in the area. Then of course there is Japan who we fought in World War II, and beat. We took away their weapons and now they are completely dependent on United States protection to produce one of the most powerful economies in the world—so we gave ourselves the responsibility to protect them from China and North Korea both of which have been making moves against that tiny little island in Pacific Ocean. The American general Claire Lee Chennault warned what would happen if America left the region after World War II and our stupid government allowed communism to spread into China, the Korean peninsula and down into Indochina. That pulled us into two major wars and essentially a half century stalemate which needs to be broken before there will ever be peace in the region.

This mess extends right in front of the Himalaya Mountains across the impoverished continent of India and into the chaos of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran which then borders Iraq and Syria. The average dope smoking American anti-war pacifist couldn’t find any of those countries on a map, so they have no idea what the dangers are in leaving those places free to produce dictators and theocratic nightmares. There is a tremendous economic cost to the United States in addition to the moral cost of turning away and letting millions of people rot or rush American borders so they can try to escape. Melania Trump happens to be one of those East Europeans who were lucky to have perfect super model features, like long legs, the proper height and facial features to be a top model in Paris. If she had been two inches shorter she would have had to be a prostitute of some kind to escape the poverty of her native country in Slovenia. People who don’t travel much and see the world for what it is who preach legalization of pot and think they can play video games through life leaving everyone alone, have no idea how bad things are out there beyond the borders of the United States. And open border progressives love all this chaos because they want refugees of the wars they have caused to over burden our American capitalist system and to change it from the inside out. Just listen to the average American college professor who preaches to our youth to hate those “rich white guys” so that the displaced refugees will flee to America and replace freedom with the only thing they’ve ever known, domination by dictators and failed economic opportunities.

So I say to hell with North Korea. Let them send their “pre-emptive” strike. Because I’m tired of hearing about them—it’s time to call the bluff of that ruling family. The solutions have always been there in these hostile countries—we just didn’t have the political will to do anything about it. But now we do and the world needs to see what will happen to North Korea. Let them try to fire a missile at the VP in South Korea or at any of the American Navy vessel parked in the waters off North Korea—and the THAAD system that is now in place will shoot them down and that fat kid running things will learn a hard lesson. Trump can take that victory and negotiate all kinds of good stuff with China and Russia for the first time in over two hundred years of American foreign policy, which is exactly why I supported and voted for Donald Trump for president—to end these problems instead of just letting them simmer from one generation to another.

The best way to put America first is to defend American ideas around the world and to stand up to the bullies who want to end it everywhere. The human race has to make a decision—will it be freedom or tyranny, because the world is too small to have both. The world must pick—and they have to do it now. Smoking another joint and listening to old Led Zepplin songs won’t solve the problem—instead, America must have peace through superior firepower and let bad guys know it when they step out of line. That’s the way it has to be for a while until all those untied disputes are finally settled. And based on Trump’s performance as Commander and Chief—it won’t take long.

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Last Jedi’ Movie Preview from Celebration, Orlando: Ending the Vico Cycle philosophically

I cover a lot of Star Wars news because, as I’ve said before, it’s the best mythological tool that the human race has right now—which sets it clearly apart from other movies. It’s special and even though Star Wars these days is made by people who likely voted for Hillary Clinton 100%–the people who work at Lucasfilm are the best in the business of making movies on a commercial-scale. The stories of Star Wars clearly extend beyond modern politics. I think they are extremely important to our status as a culture on planet earth. So I pay close attention to Star Wars and enjoy very much when they have their Celebration activities. It just so happens that this year Celebration is in one of my favorite cities in the world—Orlando, and I find it creatively refreshing to hear the latest news from the Star Wars universe. And this year, there was a lot of news, some of which is shown below. But the biggest news was the release of the movie trailer for the next film due out this Christmas.

I’ve loved Star Wars most of my life—it actually opened a lot of doors for me. I completely understand that Star Wars was intended for 12-year-old children, but in a lot of ways that part of me is still very much alive. Even if I didn’t have grandkids, and my own kids didn’t still love Star Wars, I’d spend a considerable amount of time enjoying the art and ideas that come out of the Star Wars stories. I understand why George Lucas made the films and what his source material was and I plunged myself into that world quite dramatically, not as the 12-year-old material for which became Star Wars, but the great literature of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Joseph Campbell and many great literary figures for which Star Wars was based—including the Holy Bible. Star Wars for me was the gateway to much more serious literature and it has enhanced my life greatly. So I’m quite open for my joy toward all things Star Wars.

Specifically, what I see in this new trailer for the film that is called The Last Jedi, is a philosophic contemplation on ending the Vico Cycle which is something that was heavily featured in the great literary classic Finnegan’s Wake. I talk about the Vico Cycle a lot, because our present civilization is at one of those points in our history, so it doesn’t at all surprise me that Star Wars is addressing that very challenging philosophic concept. George Lucas always said that if there were more Star Wars movies beyond Episode 6 that he’d deal with the philosophic challenges of the life battle between pairs of opposites. It’s a motif that is as old as human civilization—probably longer. So yes, Star Wars is all about making movies for kids—but there is more to them than that. Adults could learn a lot too.

Obviously Han Solo is my favorite character and there is a lot of that guy in me. I saw Star Wars 40 years ago with my parents as a third grader and it stuck with me—especially the character of Han Solo. I knew that was who I wanted to be when I grew up—and that is largely what happened. As it turned out, I’m a lot smarter than Han Solo, but I can certainly relate to him. For my recent 49^th birthday my youngest daughter made me the picture featured above, which is what she does. She’s a marvelous illustrator and this picture of Han Solo fighting it out with stormtroopers using dual pistols is an original picture that can’t be found anywhere else and to me it was quite an astonishing work of art. She knows I’m excited for the new Han Solo movie coming up within a year or so, where the character is much younger—so she made the picture as a tribute to a much younger Han Solo. As I’ve said many times also, Han Solo is essentially an Ayn Rand character within Star Wars—and that’s why he’s so popular. George Lucas may have wanted to have Han transform into a compassionate human being by the end of the series, but the best elements of Han Solo are his Ayn Rand hero traits of acting out of self-interest. And that is the brilliance of Star Wars—lots of competing ideas can fit into the storytelling and still have a role to play because they are grounded in historical motifs specific to the human race.

When Luke Skywalker says that it’s time for the Jedi to end—he’s talking about a very large idea of taking mankind beyond the pairs of opposites battle that has always been a part of our culture from the beginning. I’ve been thinking about that for a very long time because it is essentially the Vico Cycle, theocracy, aristocracy, democracy, anarchy then rebirth. And that is a bigger concept than just making a movie for kids. This stuff is important because it has the potential of taking us all to a new level—as a species. It’s much more than just a movie or a way for Disney to make money.

For me it’s fun to see my grandkids getting into Star Wars because it at least gives me something to share with them. My oldest grandson without a whole lot of encouragement has already gone to great lengths to learn all he can about it—which is a great way to have discussions about other topics. During my birthday celebration, he couldn’t pull himself away from TV where I had Rogue One playing. As a little boy the hand to hand battles with guns had his mind racing and he was running around the house pretending to shoot at invisible villains—which is very healthy and natural. It’s a primal concern—especially with little boys. I’ve spoken in the past also about the great little miracles that Nerf makes as far as Star Wars guns. These are a lot better than what I grew up with and I have to say that my Han Solo Nerf Blaster is one of my favorite things that I play with around the house. I will have countless hours of fun with my grandchildren shooting those things and if not for Star Wars—they wouldn’t exist. The guns and action are part of the Star Wars experience. Once you get into those, the deeper aspects of the stories become accessible, and if you really go down the rabbit hole—like I did—a whole new world of fresh ideas emerge—and that is a wonderful thing. Even though I’ve been hard on The Force Awakens, my favorite part of that movie is the Rathtar scene and when my grandson comes over he wants me to play the Lego game as Han Solo to beat the Rathtar level because the monsters are scary to him and he likes to see me defeat them. He amazes me at all his observations even though he’s only four.

I’ve watched all the old Zorro movies and Flash Gordon serials that Star Wars was based on. I’ve seen all the Akira Kurasawa movies that inspired the Star Wars movie, A New Hope. But what George Lucas created and these new filmmakers at Lucasfilm under Disney’s ownership are doing is quite a lot more sophisticated. I think most of the credit goes to Joseph Campbell than anybody—or even John Williams who has created so much wonderful symphonic music for our modern generations that Mozart and Beethoven aren’t even relevant any longer. Our culture is much richer because of Star Wars than it otherwise would have been, and by the premise of the new movie, there is a lot to look forward to.

Rich Hoffman

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Bomb the Towels Right off the ISIS Heads: The joy of getting a bag of chips out of a vending machine

Obama would have dropped apology letters with a bundle of cash… #MOAB pic.twitter.com/I9D8LpU7fb

— Educating Liberals (@Education4Libs) April 13, 2017

It continues to be a topic of fascination how the world of politics deals with Donald Trump. They are just bewildered by him, one minute he’s for dismantling NATO. The next he’s for it. One minute he’s anti-China—the next he’s shaking hands—palm up with the communist leader and talking about trade. Then there are the accusations of a “bromance” with Vladimir Putin—then the hammers of war being beaten in the direction of Russia. The people in politics and those who cover it are literally about to explode with frustration because they don’t understand what Donald Trump is doing. But I do.

It’s a long story but today marked something of a personal milestone in achievement. I bought a bag of potato chips out of the new vending machines of a beautiful new manufacturing facility that I along with many other people breathed to life. Whenever I do something like that I like to do little things like enjoy a bag of potato chips from there because it tastes very sweet due to all the effort it takes to get such a monumental task accomplished. The road to get to where you actually put vending machines into such a place is a long one, and many pitfalls and challenges have to be navigated, so once you get the vending machines installed, you always achieve something tremendous. But to get there you are constantly negotiating with other people, you are always employing some kind of strategy, you are always fighting something—because you have to remember that the world of government looks down on achievement—so you are always fighting various aspects of government corruption to do anything productive. It could be zoning, unfriendly socialist trustees such as in the township where I bought the aforementioned potato chips. There are three trustees there. George Lang is a good one. Mark Welch is another one. But then they have a socialist who is always trying to build some sidewalk with tax payer funds, or yacking about his military record in the same breath as declaring himself a minority candidate. He doesn’t understand business at all, so lucky for West Chester, there are two votes against that guy so business can happen. But not every place is so lucky. Many places around the world, especially in California, Seattle and other progressive areas, the good guys get outvoted by the bad guys (the anti-business people) most of the time. So it is always a good feeling to get to a point where you can buy a bag of chips out of a vending machine because it’s nearly a miracle these days to get to that point.

TRUMP: I will bomb the SH*T out of ISIS. There will be nothing left!

Campaign promise: fulfilled! #MOAB #ISIS pic.twitter.com/VO9trlMKR7

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 13, 2017

But the administration part is only the beginning, there are deals that are constantly being made with other human beings to move a project along, and for someone like Donald Trump who has operated most of his life as a high-end developer, the chance to buy a bag of chips out of a vending machine is a very tall road to climb—indeed. The kind of person that does these types of things has to be unique because often it’s the thrill of accomplishment that drives such people—not necessarily the payday. And for a person to master those skills means they can operate at many human levels of communication and are masters of negotiation, manipulation, and strategy. Donald Trump is certainly all those things and I think he will be viewed by history as the unquestionably best president we’ve ever had in America because what he will produce during his time in office will be something that is rare.

You have to understand dear reader that for most of human history mankind didn’t have much of an economy that was driven off free market ideas. Always there was some king or emperor in the way skimming off the top of any national endeavor—and this effectively put the shackles on human production because people just don’t do much unless they are free. They may work in the fields all day to pick rice, but they don’t think of better ways to pick that rice unless they can have the opportunity to get rich off it. So without the free market system—innovation just doesn’t happen. People don’t invent better ways to do things so some ruler can take their idea and live well off it. If there isn’t some concept of reward, human beings keep their thoughts to themselves which is why socialist societies just don’t make it very long.

Now for complex economies where many people are pushing and shoving other people for a chance to win big, things get very complicated. In order to navigate any project where many such people are a part of your success you have to learn how to read everything about them to get some leverage that is mutually advantageous. I say that because if you screw people over you may win once, but they won’t deal with you in the future. So you must learn to read every non-verbal sign of body language, every variability of sentence structure, every hidden motive to learn how to move people to where you need them to be—where they also come out smelling wonderful. And that is hard. Very hard.

This is what we might call a “dynamic personality.” They tend to see things well ahead of other people, and are also personally courageous—perhaps to the point where they are thrill junkies who thrive off great risks. Without them invention and economic expansion doesn’t happen. Most people in the world are very static. They learn the routines of their days starting with their very first experiences as human beings and once they level off in adulthood they are quite comfortable taking orders and falling in behind the leaders of society because it allows them to live within a framework of routine that is comfortable. They don’t like risky behavior because it might make them late for dinner—that kind of thing.

Politics is built around static people—very predictable and having their roots back to aristocratic days when clear social levels could mandate what kind of home you lived in, what types of sexual encounters you might experience, and what the fate of your children might be. But when you introduce dynamic people suddenly the lives of the static people are always in jeopardy—because they don’t like change and dynamic people are all about change. For many centuries, political people have prevented dynamic people from holding offices. They allowed them to somewhat thrive in business so long as they could tax and control them through some legal means—but they didn’t allow them into politics. That makes Donald Trump the first of his kind to break through that invisible barrier for the long-span of the human race—and this dynamic has made the static order very uncomfortable.

That is why Trump’s negotiation skills are so frustrating to the static order of today’s politics—because the sheer dynamism of Trump threatens the future of the entire political system. As a businessman, Trump may want China to put an end to North Korea’s threats while closing the gap between the trading deficit. So he does what he needs to in order to achieve that objective. He may need to threaten war, or he may offer a bottle of wine—whatever is needed at that moment. To the static political culture used to predictability—in fact their entire existence depends on it—this is a nightmare. But for Americans in need of an American renaissance—its precisely what is required. Just today Trump dropped a massive bomb on an ISIS hideout in Afghanistan. Guess he wasn’t joking about ending ISIS—and the capital earned off that bombing will help with Russian deals, Chinese negotiations over territory and trade, and stop the butchering of innocent people in Syria. In the end, everyone will get what they want because that’s what deal makers do. And that really is the only way you can get to a bag of chips in a vending machine—you have to navigate very complicated engagements to arrive at such an opportunity. With that in mind, for the first time in the history of the world such a person is running things on the political levels, and the dynamism of that reality is shattering the static world of politics—likely forever. And that is such a wonderful thing.

Rich Hoffman

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The Terrible Customer Service of Airlines in America: United’s horrible public relations nightmare is just the tip of an incberg

We’ve all heard by now about the Poker playing doctor who was dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago because the airline company had overbooked the flight. The policy is ridiculous, the mistakes made by everyone numerous, and the degrading condition of airline travel in the United States made embarrassingly clear. For what we pay for an airline ticket, the airlines should be a lot more appreciative. Instead, they have come to treat the experience—especially in the economy class—as a miserable endeavor. And it was on full display for everyone to see.

Here’s the main problem, that doctor should never have even been flying from Chicago to Louisville—it would have been quicker to drive the distance. The only time I’d fly such a short flight would be a connecting flight after a much longer journey—which often occurs when traveling overseas. When doing such a thing most flights arrive domestically in Charlotte, Chicago, or Detroit then you have to catch a transfer flight to your home destination. But for just flying from one city to another within the United States such as from Chicago to Louisville—a car is much faster by the time you waste all your time with the TSA and the booking process. Airlines have lost their way and become entirely too callous to the service of their passengers. Flying now is like riding on a public bus—and that is just a miserable state of affairs for something that should be a luxury experience. So if I were that doctor who was singled out to lose his seat on an overbooked flight which the airlines have a right to do unfortunately—I would have taken the money and rented a car—and just drove down to Louisville. I wouldn’t have allowed myself to be stuck in Chicago one more night waiting for another flight the next day. That is just a ridiculous waste of time. It’s only a four to five-hour drive from Chicago to Louisville taking your time—so the people on that flight had options that were much better than the violence that eventually occurred.

And that’s what I would suggest that people do—just don’t fly unless you have to. When I need to travel overseas, there isn’t much choice but recently on a trip back from Europe I noticed that the British Airways flight crew was top-notch while the American Airlines crew just sucked. They had bad attitudes and were miserable to deal with—and that comes from their labor unions and essentially the lack of competition that the airlines have enjoyed for half a century. Well, those days are coming to an end, other transportation modes will be competing with the airlines soon and that will change things significantly—such as the upcoming Hyperloop. But even while in Europe I watched the flight attendants union for British Airways protesting at Heathrow for better wages and benefits which looked terrible. All the employees in the commercial air professions have a lot to relearn about customer service—because presently it is just terrible and that is the first problem that United had with their policy which failed so spectacularly in Chicago.

The other major issue is the authority that the TSA and the airlines now have over individual sanctity—which is a direct cause of over-reaction to terrorism. The United States response to terrorism after 9/11 was just wrong to become a bunch of scardy cats afraid of their own shadows. What should have been done then is what Trump is doing now—single out the terrorist activities and throw aggression at them making them think twice about attacking us again. Airline travel should be as easy as the air shuttle is at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati. The air shuttle there flies people to New York, Chicago, and Charlotte at just a little bit over what a commercial flight costs—but the hassle is much less. They are very respectful of your time and person at Lunken and that makes it a much more desirable option. They still work for people’s business there and don’t take it for granted that you have to do what they say.

On another flight, recently from overseas a flight attendant who thought she had way too much power was harassing a young couple who were trying to keep their baby quiet with videos on their smart phone. It was working and the noise level was next to nothing. But that didn’t stop the woman from telling the young parents that they needed to put head phones on the baby because open sounds were not allowed on the plane. Their response was that what they were doing was quieter than a screaming baby. The stewardess very nearly pressed the issue—which under the airline rules, she had the authority to do. Luckily, she let the situation slide, but not before tempting the desire to throw her weight around—which was considerable as she was an obviously union protected monstrosity who could barely fit down the aisle of the plane. Not a good image for the airline to begin with. Obviously, the tendency toward customer service was missing—customers these days are treated as a nuisance when they fly. They are practically raped before getting on the plane and once there you are at the mercy of questionable pilots and power-hungry stewardesses who are well into their 40s and miserable because they feel guilty leaving their families behind to fly around the world for a living. I mean really, if I want my mom to serve me drinks I can go to her house—part of the flying experience should be to be pampered a bit and to get where you want to go with a bit of adventure and zeal to it. Not misery and some menopausal deformity with hairs coming out of their noses pouring you a Coke on a bumpy plane. It’s a lot more palatable to have an attractive female in her mid-twenties tell you to fasten your seatbelt than some angry relic from the baby boomer generation. I’m just being honest. For what we pay, airlines are not giving us customer service and the issue is not looks—it’s just respect for the whole experience. Ugly people as employees are just the icing on the cake—airlines don’t even go that far as to care about such things. They are too busy overbooking flights and ripping people off airplanes to cover their management inefficiencies while the TSA is pulling down the paints of little boys and checking them for bombs they know aren’t there. But the little pedophile in them hope to find something—likely unrelated.

I hate flying these days unless it’s in first class. Even then, the last time I flew overseas on a United flight in the nice seats they gave me a gay guy as an attendant. My ticket cost as much as a car and that was all they could give me? I mean it’s not about sex, it’s about taste—it is much nicer to have an attractive woman passing you drinks on a psychological level and working around you while you are trying to sleep than the hairy arm of some guy who acts like he wants to molest you. Even for women, a flight to Japan or to a destination in Europe that isn’t encumbered with a PC culture of old people is more pleasant with a 25-year-old women full of wonderful estrogen handing you food—purely from a sanitation point of view because they at least care about their appearance so you can deduce that they at least washed their hands. And if airlines can’t at least give you decent looking people to serve you, then they should just leave you alone. But flying is extremely intrusive and personally violating so with the uncomfortable burdens of jet lag and time zone adjustments—these added problems are just not worth the experience. So whenever possible, I find some other way to travel these days—and that’s the best way to correct the behavior. Take money out of their pockets and they’ll have to adjust.

For passengers of that United flight where the guy was drug off screaming like a trapped raccoon, they all should have been taking a car to Louisville—because the distance just doesn’t justify the extreme hardship of flying. By the time most of those passengers arrived at the airport, checked their baggage, went through security, found their gate terminal in that large airport—they could almost have driven to Louisville from Chicago. Then there is the time it takes to taxi out and take off and actually fly to Northern Kentucky along the Ohio River, which is very fast—but still part of the process. But that’s not all, once you land, find your bags, get a car—you could have long been at your hotel if you had just driven the distance. And if I were you dear reader, that’s what I’d start doing. Don’t give those slugs at United your money for a terrible experience. Don’t reward terrible behavior. If they can’t give you something special for your time and money—then don’t give them the money. It’s that simple, and if everyone did that United Airlines and the rest of them would be forced to become more customer friendly. And from my vantage point—that is long overdue.

Rich Hoffman

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The Morality of Confronting Evil: Donald Trump’s Indiana Jones moment

I’ve listened to the critics of Donald Trump’s Syrian airstrike for several days now and it’s time to put some clarity to the matter. While I’m an America first kind of guy, the solution to many of the world’s problems is not to live and let live the failed cultures of the globe, but to impose on them our values for the sake of our own preservation. Many would say “who are we to do such a thing when those places are sovereign countries?” But here’s the reality, when people want so badly to come to America to the point where it might threaten our own sovereignty, then we have an obligation to confront evil around the world so that it’s effects don’t spill over our borders into our country. Put another way, when you are the best and everyone wants what you have—you must expand your territory not only for your own preservation, but for the assistance of those who would love to join the American team only from their own homelands.

I have many times gotten myself into a lot of trouble “getting involved” in other people’s business for the sake of confronting evil. When I know something bad is going on around my house, like drug sales, abused women, neglected children—or just scum bags living as parasites against others—I do get involved. I’m not going to say what I do obviously—because that would be stupid to put down in writing. But in short—bad guys don’t do well near my home. If I see some dude beating the crap out of a woman—I don’t care how interventionist it might be to stop him—I do it and have done that for as long as I’ve been alive. It’s a morality situation that does not fit well under the written laws of our societies. The need to do the right thing does not fit well under the umbrella of the law because such a thing requires context and context can vary depending on what culture we are talking about. What’s good for one culture may not be so for another.

Yet, there is a morality to the human race that is well-known at our most biological instincts which is perceived rather than learned under institutions of law. When I saw what Donald Trump had done in Syria I thought of a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where a little child was being whipped. Jones sees what is going on and even though he could have served himself well by minding his own business and leaving with his treasure he instead threw a rock at the villain not thinking of what might happen next. This is an instinctive element to heroism which we all have and the Indian Jones movie articulated it well at a primal level. Obviously Donald Trump was having his Indiana Jones moment and he was doing what was obviously right without thinking about what the world might say about it. Kids were harmed by the Syrian government. Trump had a rock to throw to stop it—so he did it. I would have done the same thing.

When you walk down the street and you see a couple being robbed, do you just keep walking to mind your business? Of course not, you step in and beat the shit out of whoever is doing the robbing and you save the people from harm. That’s what human beings should do for each other. That doesn’t mean you become a busy body always poking into other people’s business, but when you are confronted with evil as it is defined within our biological essence—you must fight it wherever it appears. If I’m in a position to help someone I do it 100% of the time. If you live under a code of valor—which everyone should—you can’t just turn your back to evil just because our laws don’t have a good way to define the context of how evil moves from culture to culture under the umbrella of sovereignty. If America is generally accepted as the most moral country on earth—not defined by religion, but by individual values—then we have an obligation to spread that influence to those not so lucky to live in North America—because honestly we can’t support the whole world. But we can teach the world to support itself. That means that tyrannically charged regimes that stand in the way of that freedom will have to be deposed so that good people can live freely.

So how do we go about determining who is good and who is bad? Well, it’s really not that complicated. In Assad’s case, under no circumstances should chemical weapons be dropped onto innocent children. The kids didn’t do anything to deserve such a thing and there is no way to justify it. I often get accused of being judgmental regarding other people’s families who obviously don’t put as much into life as I do—and I really don’t care if it pisses them off. If adults are openly ruining the lives of their children by putting stupidity into their heads, then I make it known my disdain and if those kids want my help—I help them. I’ve gotten into a lot of trouble over that kind of thing but I never regret helping. It is my moral duty to help those who cannot help themselves if through my actions I can improve their “individual” state. Ultimately, I want people to be able to thrive as individuals no matter where they come from, so I always help if the situation arises—even when it’s not convenient.

In Syria, if people are so desperate to leave because Assad is such a terror, then his problem becomes Europe’s problem and America’s problem because refugees will flood our borders trying to get away. If you turn them away as we must because we can’t risk terrorists hiding in their midst’s then you must stop the evil they are trying to run from. If you see a robbery, you have an obligation to stop it. If you see a 14-year-old girl prostituting herself out on K-Street—you have an obligation to hunt down her pimp and end the threat to her. If you know a drug dealer is ruining the minds of kids down the road from your house—you have an obligation to stop the behavior—by whatever means—preferably legally. And if a country is killing its people for some collective cause—America is the only place on earth capable of making a moral judgment on the matter—and it must step in and act.

The Syrian situation was clear. There was no reason children should have been attacked with nerve gas. Trump did what I expect him to do—he attacked the evil that perpetrated the villainous behavior. Yes, Rand Paul is right; congress must give permission for war—“legally.” But sometimes when you see evil being conducted and you have access to a rock and can stop it—even temporarily—you do it. Because it’s the right thing to do. Doing what’s right isn’t always “legal.” But it is always right. And helping kids have a potential for a good life is always right. In those cases you have to live and let die because there is good and evil in the world, and you must stand for what’s good. There is no middle way in such matters.

Rich Hoffman

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The End of Hollywood: Why the movie industry is dying

When I say that Hollywood is done my point of reference is from a business perspective and as a person who spent twenty years writing and pitching screenplays, attending film festivals, and sometimes working as a stunt coach. Films were something I was very interested in—and still am, but the business of Hollywood motion pictures was something I used to spend a lot of time thinking about so I know it quite well. Well enough to say that the time has finally come—Hollywood’s studio system movies are coming to an end and its right on time to what I said would happen over five years ago. Hollywood’s current filmmakers do not represent most of America and like the national media companies, are much more interested in being a liberal propaganda machine. Now that the costs of making a movie have intersected the declining box office receipts—such as in the case of Ghost in the Shell—the latest embarrassment with Scarlett Johansson—it’s just a matter of time now before the entire industry folds.

I suspect that Disney will always do something with film, as will Warner Bros. and a few other companies, but they will have to drastically change their habits. After I watched the Blue Rey interviews for Rogue One—which I couldn’t wait to watch, it became very obvious—the filmmakers who are in the story group now replacing George Lucas have no idea why Star Wars movies work. They only know to follow the basic formula that he created and that means they can get some semblance of a Star Wars movie—which is better than nothing, but not the whole experience. I thought Rogue One was a fabulous movie, but it was missing the pop of a George Lucas production. The San Francisco hippies who now work at Lucasfilm cited during the Rogue One interviews the fact that George Lucas had originally written that the “Force” was called “The Force of Others,” meaning mass collectivism and that kind of 60s communist philosophy. Under tremendous pressure from Twentieth Century Fox Lucas had to whittle down his script and movie down to the bare necessities so he ended up following more of a Walt Disney approach to the themes of the movie which led to a great story rooted in Joseph Campbell myth interpretation.

But the “hero’s journey” is not a collective one. Red State Americans do not think in collective terms and they cannot be made to. We aren’t all better “together” and teams are not the supreme law of the land. When North Carolina recently won the NCAA championship game over Gonzaga it wasn’t a “team effort” but actually the five to six guys who spent most of the time shooting the ball and the few individuals who shot clutch shots at just the right moment. All the bench warmers sitting on the sidelines didn’t contribute equally—yet as members of the collective team they all celebrated as a single unit. The cinematic story in telling such a movie would have been in the individuals—not the collective whole otherwise the mythic theme gets lost in the circumstances. Luckily for the Rogue One people they killed everyone at the end so that washed out the ineffectiveness of the lack of individual performances. By that I mean the mass collective sacrifice that all the members of Rogue One committed to save the Rebellion. If the Star Wars story group continue to make those Lucasfilm projects with the progressive values of their San Francisco culture—they’ll see their Star Wars product losing its mythic effectiveness. It’s still a good product, but it’s certainly less effective as a storytelling device than it was under George Lucas’ care. Just as the current collective decision makers at the Disney Company don’t understand what made Walt Disney work—they copy the formula and sometimes they get lucky.

Recently while I was in England for an extended period of time I noticed that there were a lot of westerns on television. England was playing a lot of our old 50s era westerns because their society was fascinated by the individualism on display in American cinema. They had committed themselves already to socialism for most of the 20^th century and were looking for ways out of that mess—and American westerns were doing the trick. They weren’t making much that was originally good as far as cinema in England, so they played old American westerns—and that seems to be a theme around the world. And the best westerns are not about mass sacrifice for the greater good, but in individuals standing up against the masses in the name of suppressing collective evil—such as a band of cattle rustlers taking over a town and one gunman standing alone to face them down—or some bounty hunter like Clint Eastwood getting individually wealthy by killing all the bad guys and riding off into the sunset. The best movies find some way to tell an individualized story about love, wealth, or power. But movies lose their luster when they become instruments of statism.

Let me put it like this, when Wolfram Von Eschenbach wrote his King Arthur stories in the 12^th century his subject was the individual casting off the limits of the collective. The same kind of thing occurred with the Twin War Gods story of Navaho legend. The society is in trouble and the individual must go out into the world to save everyone with their acts of heroics—alone. When Hollywood adds all this “team” crap—and this “force of others” idiocy, the product on the screen gets watered down. American audiences are by their nature individualists. They don’t accept collectivist messaging in movies. They might endure them if there are cool action sequences or the leading lady takes her top off—but they won’t go out of their way to see the movie. Now that China has bought up Legendary Pictures they are learning the hard way. Their movie with Matt Damon about the Great Wall of China bombed in America big time. And even the latest King Kong movie fell short—which I wanted to like badly.

I knew Kong: Skull Island was in trouble after the scene where the natives on the island were a bunch of utopian hippies who didn’t have any personal property or individualized desires. They were autonomous robots who had learned to love serving King Kong as sacrificial elements. As a result the movie only made 150 million in the domestic market but it did very well in communist China taking the film up and over the 500 million mark worldwide. That paid the bills for the movie, but just barely considering that King Kong has almost 100 years of film history to build from. It should have made a billion dollars—and could have if the filmmakers made a movie about individuals instead of collective salvation. Audiences don’t attend movies as a collective. They might share that experience with others—collectively, but they watch movies as individuals.

I watched with pain studio executives trying to explain why Scarlett Johansson couldn’t make Ghost in the Shell work. With a production budget of 110 million it only had a domestic take of 26 million dollars. The studio thought that Johansson did well in the Avenger movies so obviously she’d bring 100 million dollars to Ghost in the Shell? No. People don’t go to movies to see stars—you’d think that Hollywood would have learned this by now—they go to see stories about individuals. At least that’s how it is in America—which then drives the world market. And if Ghost in the Shell would have been cast by a Japanese woman—it would have done even worse—just for the record. The content of the film is what hurt it—not that Scarlett Johansson was “white.”

Here’s the bad news, kids growing up today are interested in other things. Their video games and phone apps are much cooler and individual based storytelling then modern movies and they just aren’t going to be there as adults giving Hollywood money. The labor unions have driven up the cost of making movies to the point where small budgeted risky projects can’t be made. For instance, you never see today movies like Days of Thunder or Top Gun being made where a Tom Cruise character who is over-the-top individually confident but loses his nerve after some tragedy, and the whole point of the character is in overcoming his individual fears and returning to the glory of being an arrogant son-of-a-bitch. But that’s what American audiences want and Hollywood isn’t giving it to them so the movie industry is on life support held up by my generation who still goes to movies out of nostalgia. The generation after mine will do something else because these movies don’t speak to them as individuals. And those are the cold hard facts.

Rich Hoffman

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The Art of a President: Donald Trump’s brilliance is the best gift I could ask for

Donald Trump must have known that it was my birthday because I couldn’t have received a better gift. After all, the world has been poking the fences since his election.

China has been advancing in the South China Sea against Taiwan and Japan. North Korea is threatening to lunch missiles into America with their constant tests—Russia has continued to buzz American naval vessels in contentious waters. Iran is sponsoring terrorism everywhere they can, Democrats are fighting everything Trump tries to do in the White House including trying to block the Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Supposedly Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner are fighting it out in the Oval Office in front of Donald Trump and we’ve discovered that Susan Rice under Barack Obama’s direction had spied on the Trump transition team—illegally. The CIA, FBI, and all connecting intelligence agencies have been caught in a DEEP STATE scheme that has them all looking horrible and in the face of all that—Trump launched an airstrike against Syria while hosting the Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Winter White House in South Florida. After the press conference announcing the strike you could almost hear Trump say (nonverbally) “Xi, if you don’t straighten out North Korea—you’re next. And by the way—I’m going to tax your exports. Have a nice day. Would you like some more wine?” This was the art of the deal at its finest and I can say that this is my most satisfying birthday in my life—because I’ve been waiting to live in a country with this kind of winning record since the beginning.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and the U.S-China trade imbalance as well as other points of tension between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are being overshadowed by the U.S. missile strikes on Syria.

Nonetheless, the two leaders are meeting for a second day at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as planned Friday. Their first-night summit dinner wrapped up shortly before the U.S. announced the missile barrage on an air base in Syria in retaliation against Syrian President Bashar Assad for a chemical weapons attack against civilians caught up in his country’s long civil war.

The US military fired more than 50 tomahawk missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield at 8.45pm EDT Thursday

Moves comes just hours after Trump said ‘something should happen’ following Tuesday’s gas-attack atrocity

Trump took action after more than 80 were killed and many more were injured in the sarin poison gas attack

‘Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack,’ he said after launching the strike

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a furious response calling airstrike an ‘illegal act of aggression’

US says airfield was used to store toxic weapons and was the base for the aircraft involved in the sarin attack

Claims that nine were killed, and more were injured, in the strike which has severely damaged the airbase

US told Moscow it was launching an airstrike about 30 minutes in advance – but did not ask for permission

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4388834/America-launches-airstrikes-Syria.html

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-xi-meet-again-in-shadow-of-missile-strikes-on-syria/ar-BBzvF6Q?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=iehp

I know Constitutional purists like Rand Paul are upset at the Syrian airstrike—but when America is the only country in the world capable of taking an authority position against bullies—there is an ethical obligation to act when we see poor little children suffering under the failures of politics—and that’s what happened in Syria. It was the right thing to do under any circumstance. But, if Trump had to pick a target to pull the world in behind him and dispel the rumors of his alliance with the Russians—Syria was it. Even as Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court even Chuck Schumer was singing praises for Trump’s decisive move. It was rather astonishing.

Trump has not suddenly become a globalist. He’s not about to become an interventionist. But he needed to take a shot to set the stage for all the challenges going on around the world—especially with China and North Korea. And he had to set up the relationship with Russia. Nobody ever thought Trump was going to eat out of Russia’s hand—as I have been saying for a long time. It will have to be the other way around—and this was the first step. Trump had the moral high ground and he took it—and now the world is wondering how they didn’t see it all along.

This is how it is different having a real executive in the White House as opposed to a typical politician always sticking their hand out looking for campaign donations. Trump doesn’t care if Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner want to kill each other. He’s more interested in the result of their conflict—he needs different points of view to flush out a truth. That’s what good leaders do, they don’t necessarily want everyone to get along. They want a competition of ideas and through conflict truth justice and reality are defined. So the Trump White House thrives in conflict. It doesn’t want everyone sitting around a campfire singing songs and giving each other reach-arounds. It wants action, and when it comes time to make hard decisions, Trump can make them because he can see the truth through the combat of opinion. He has a wife for the softer times in his life. But at all other times, he loves the battlefield of conflict because that’s where life thrives and honesty, bravery, and valor emerge.

I’ve been waiting for this all of my life. The closest I’ve seen to this kind of American decisiveness was when Ronald Reagan sent an airstrike against Libya—and I remember the effect that had on the world. Trump has had his moment and now he can negotiate with everyone from a position of strength. It had to come sometime and now that he has done it there are many more opportunities for peace than there was before the attack. Without this bombing the chances for violence by North Korea against South Korea is much greater. The threat of China moving against Japan has much larger odds. And Russia would continue to buzz American ships without wondering when or if Trump would react. Now he has and even considering more aggression against America might provoke war. So Trump has captured the high ground against every single one of his global rivals including his political ones with one swift stroke. And it was just a brilliant time and place to do so.

I’m sure this won’t be the last time and I’m also sure that all this new power won’t go to Trump’s head. Why—because he is used to being at the top of everything he does and he’s battle hardened to the perils of success. Out of all the people in the world who could do this very difficult job as a modern American president with all the factions that are ankle biting out there, only Trump presently is qualified to perform the tasks. This is precisely why I voted for Trump and I am very proud to see him doing such a very excellent job. I feel very sorry for the kids involved in all the evils around the world who are suffering under bad people. And this bombing in Syria won’t save them all. But many more will be safe because of it—and like all good things in life—there are many more positives than negatives with the action. For us in America—it’s good to see a president who finally knows how to juggle all these bananas—because it’s long overdue.

Rich Hoffman

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Rush Limbaugh Says We’re In A Civil War: He’s right, and what we need to do about it

I listen to Rush Limbaugh when I can, but not as often as I’d like. If I miss the show I try to catch the podcasts in my shop where I practice target shooting and doing gun repairs—which is soothing. A long time ago when I worked at the “Mill” (Cincinnati Milacron in Oakley) Rush Limbaugh was on every day in every building on the shop floor. You couldn’t go to the restroom without hearing Rush from 12 to 3 PM during the Clinton Years—so I have a point of reference to go on here. But during yesterday’s broadcast Rush said something that I didn’t think he’d ever say. I had said it about five years ago, but Rush finally said it and he was right. Rush in my mind is mainstream. Even though the radical loons from the left think Rush represents the “hard right” Limbaugh is in fact a moderate in my mind so for him to say that America was in another “civil war” was quite a statement. Listen to the broadcast above specifically the second hour. I consider that admission to be a turning point in this long war—because before you can fix something, you have to identify it. Admitting that America is split into a civil war condition is the first step in solving the current national problem. However, the next is in determining who wins—because obviously both sides are too far apart to ever come to agreements. The philosophic positions are just too great and the political left isn’t interested—as they have demonstrated during the opening days of the Trump administration—at living peacefully together.

Rush asked a very hard question—how do you know who wins a civil war? Well, it comes down to one side recognizing the authority of the other and presently the political left is unwilling to do that—as Republicans have been so gracious in the past. So there is no shame in pushing Democrats out of the political process because we gave them the table under the Obama presidency and they showed us what they were made of. They abused their power and that caused Trump to be elected—to correct all those mistakes. But Republicans can at least say they played by the rules. Democrats have no such intention—and Limbaugh did a good job of pointing out the case as it stands.

That means that we have to not only beat Democrats in elections, but we have to beat them at their fundamental philosophy. To win this war we cannot have a “live and let live” attitude toward them in movies, music, and culture—we must challenge them at every phase of life and we must have a focus on “winning.” Not just compromising, but beating those idiots into a pulp to the point where they must capitulate—or be utterly destroyed. There is no reasoning with those people on the political left so we must beat them into submission intellectually until they either adopt our positions, or they are put to an end. It’s as simple as that.

I’m not saying that we must impose physical violence on the political left, but when they start the fight, we must finish it. Otherwise, intellect is the weapon of today. They cannot fight smart people, so it must be the smartest of the conservative base who must be the knights on this battlefield because it’s not cannons and arrows that will win—its superior strategic positioning and philosophic concept. “The pen is truly mightier than the sword” as I’ve demonstrated repeatedly. But that is only one weapon of war. The use of the Second Amendment is one of the most powerful aspects of our position—because not even Hollywood can use the guilt game against conservatives—because without the gun, Hollywood would go bankrupt, which ironically is already happening. Guns aren’t just for shooting, they are symbols of self-reliance and the political left hates that concept. So just having a gun does a lot to undo the political left. Using a gun as part of your recreational life does a lot more. So one of the best ways to destroy the political left is to destroy their soft, snowflake sensibilities with “in your face” audacity. They have certainly used that tactic on the abortion issue and many other leftist topics. Now is the time to turn that tide against them with conservative vantage points for a change—and the gun is the most effective weapon in that battle—not for shooting and killing—but for the self-reliance that they represent.

The political left does not represent America. They represent the stagnate old remains of Europe. Recently while I was in Europe I saw clearly why progressives in America love Europe’s centralized control so much. You could see it everywhere—Europeans are heavily encumbered by ridiculous rules intent to govern every part of their lives. For instance, if you go to Burger King in London and you get a large drink with your meal—it’s like the size of a kids drink in America—because in England—and the rest of Europe there are many rules on serving sizes and ingredients designed to take the strain off their socialist health care systems. Everything is small and served in reduced amounts—as opposed to America. No wonder Michael Bloomberg thought he could limited the size of soft drinks in New York with similar rules that they have in the United Kingdom. From his point of view Europe was already doing it and it really is all progressives want to do—is control other people’s lives.

From my little shop at my house I could make endless amounts of ammunition and maintain many firearms without the outside world having anything to do with any of it. I don’t need a store or a gun manufacturer to make guns. A simple machine shop can make everything needed—and that is nice to know. As I work out there I think about the political left and their stupidity in thinking that they can destroy the firearms market by taxing ammunition and putting tight restrictions on firearms manufacturers hoping to put them out of business—because that’s their intention. That mentality doesn’t come from Americans it comes from European sympathizers who happen to have moved to America and been trained to think in a progressive fashion. The best way to challenge them is to put it in their face and make them realize that there is nothing they can do to stop firearms in America—because the need for them arises from a philosophy that is specific to our culture. It is not part of European culture, or even eastern culture—it is specific to America.

Just keep in mind that to win this war that you must do something. Letting the other side off the hook with silence won’t win the day. You must engage them with a shameless position toward your American philosophy and let them perish under its light like the devil might melt under Holy Water. Whatever you do, don’t hide anymore. Don’t give them the illusion that they are the only ones brave enough to be on the battlefield. Join them there and outshine them. Force them to retreat to their little liberal campus groups and pull out their hair in frustration. Because Republicans—“conservatives” must now focus on winning this war. It’s not enough to have Trump in the White House. Now is the time to run liberals off the field of battle and force them into hiding for a change—and to bend to our will if we hope to save humanity. That’s what’s at stake and what must be done.

Rich Hoffman

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Being Fearless: What the Democrats are truly terrified of–people who don’t need them

I’ve already provided all the reasons that the Democrats are losing ground and how they are making themselves into an extinct political party. I have also covered how the Trump administration is innocent as to charges of collusion with Russia and how it is actually the Democrats who are guilty of that action as they were the party that was in power and had the relationships with Russia. But at this point all of that is irrelevant because something much deeper is going on for which everyone is missing. The great desperation of the Democratic Party that they are revealing presently—that last gasp of the dying donkey as I’ve described it, is the realization that their methods of incursion have forever been vanquished and as I look back on it—I’m very proud of the role I played in it.

I was a very “rambunctious” little boy in grade school. Don’t ask me how or where I got it from but I had a rebellious streak that was extremely mature, even at a very young age. I’ve told some of these stories before, but I’ll put them together for context—in kindergarten I went toe to toe with my teacher in a way that was sometimes excessive. I hated her and she set a pace for my entire public school experience—right out of the gate. She threatened my mom to fail me from kindergarten after just a few months of attending Liberty Elementary School on Princeton Road way back in 1973 and all that started because I dressed up a bear for a class assignment in jeans when the pants were supposed to be corduroys. She literally went insane over the issue and was institutionalized shortly after I moved on through her class. In first grade I poked the class bully in the eye with my scissors because he threatened me. He was a lot bigger than me and much stronger—so I did whatever I had to do to win that fight. It was in class in front of everyone, including the teacher. For the next four years I was constantly in trouble and getting “swats” from the principal’s office—but my behavior and love for fighting never changed. In fourth grade a pack of kids tried to shove the drug “speed” down my mouth on the school bus and I spit it out of the window causing a massive fight on the bus. I have always had a policy of no drugs in my life which holds to this day. There were many fights after that as I had a reputation with the druggies and they wanted to conform me. At this point I was good with the jocks because I was the fastest kid in school and I won the pull-up category in the winter Olympics in my fifth-grade year. But in sixth grade I had many more problems with several more teachers and was in constant fights with 7^th and 8^th graders. One eighth grade kid who was a lot bigger than me by almost half jumped me at my locker and I literally shoved the kid through the principal’s office door and the fight ended up in his office. Since the kid was again bigger than me and a lot stronger I had to find some leverage point, so I took the fight into the principal’s office literally with blood everywhere which was really the only way to win that one. I gained a reputation for being crazy which suited me just fine. My nickname back then was “Animal” from the Muppet’s character—because that’s how my peers saw me. In high school is where I started to pull out ahead of my classmates in every category. No longer were kids bigger and meaner than me and I had learned martial arts so I could block anything anybody threw. I started winning everything I did and some people on the other side ended up dying through these actions and I went into my senior year pretty much invincible. Nobody at Lakota challenged me to anything so the fights went over into other school systems at drive-ins, arcades, and just about anywhere I went. My reputation was such that I was hired several times as a body-guard and a bouncer in places where I wasn’t even old enough to attend. I was employed by the Chinese mob from Chicago and my next job after that was at a car dealership where I sometimes did repo work for the bank—and they sent me to all the ugly jobs—because I was the only one crazy enough to do them. Luckily, I met my wife about this time and she gave me a reason to evolve into a different direction. Most of the people I know from that time are dead or are in jail—so meeting my wife was a very positive experience for me. Anyway, the sum of that little story is that I was never afraid of anything—and I’d fight anybody anywhere on any terms—and I’m still like that. Schools are places where they pound you into conformity. The places were never about learning—they were about learning your place in society and I was one of those rare people who came out of it unbroken. If you add to all these experiences my expert use of bullwhips and a love of guns I really don’t worry about any threats to my person, or my loved ones. I have a long history of keeping the bad guys at bay and looking back on it I’m a little shocked that I managed through it all from my earliest years completely pure as to my resistance to bullies. I never liked them or bent over backwards to yield to them no matter where they were in our society—adults, mean kids, druggies—thugs, killers, dead beats—anybody. And at almost 50 years old, I’m pretty proud of that—and I’m certainly not going to change now.

So when it has come time to make a stand for something I’ve always done it and in politics I knew what I was doing. Like for instance with the teacher’s union at Lakota when I put myself on the front pages of the Cincinnati newspapers over that issue way back in 2010. My dad was very concerned when I went on WLW radio and called out the teacher’s union at Lakota for driving up the costs of running the school forcing property tax increases. Like I told him—“what are they going to do to me?” He knew what I was talking about but he thought I went overboard—because he had trouble with unions in the past even over unimportant things. Unions like most liberal concepts always use the threat of force to sell their “altruistic” ideas. My strategy on the Lakota issue from the very beginning was to take that threat away from my opposition—like I do in most things. I mean I’m not a maniac who runs around threatening people all the time. Generally, I’m pretty nice and can use many forms of communication to convey a thought. I don’t have to threaten to kill people all the time to get my point across. But I do have a reputation, and that gets around when people start checking you out. And I knew that the union wouldn’t be able to do anything to me that I couldn’t easily swat away—so I got involved and my presence changed things.

I only tell that story because it takes a certain kind of person to break through the ice of fear that usually governors people in their daily lives because unfortunately they learn in their public schools to keep their mouths shut and not to stand for much of anything. You are taught what to think and when to think it and the peer groups form to be the enforcers—and those categories usually last a lifetime. I’d say that Donald Trump likely could tell a similar story as I just did. I’m not saying I should get an Eagle Scout award or be put on a pedestal of Christian orthodoxy—but if you want someone who will stand up to bullies solving problems, then a background like mine is probably the kind of person you want for the job. As I did things I wrote down the why and how and other people started utilizing the same strategies. Other people started sticking up for themselves and the liberal advocates out there were seeing for the first time that their Rules for Radicals book wasn’t working anymore on conservatives. Really, for the first time since Al Capon’s mobsters in Chicago, Democrats were being challenged in ways they weren’t used to and panic began to set in. All this opened the door to Donald Trump’s run for president in 2016. I may have started the snowball rolling along with other people. The net gains from the conservative movement that was no longer afraid that union leaders would show up to their houses and string up their family in the dead of night was beginning to embolden politicians to throw John Boehner out of the Speakership and to put a wide field of Republicans into the race for the White House starting in 2015. Since conservatives were no longer afraid of the Democratic bully, they put their support behind Donald Trump as a way to finally strike back.

And that’s where we are. As people observed some of us early pioneers challenging the establishment and standing up to the threat of physical violence—it emboldened more people to fight back as well. At Lakota when the union tried to impose fear against me—the results were not favorable. It was laughable really. Nobody is going to attack me to my face and get away with it. And once people saw that on a mass level, more people realized that they too could fight back—and that the liberals weren’t so scary. Now, today, Trump is in the White House and he doesn’t put up with anything and Democrats literally don’t know what to do because their only playbook is the Rules from Radicals approach by Saul Alinsky. The way to beat liberals is to take away their threat to violence. Once you do that, they are lost.

I don’t go out of my way to be tough. I don’t work out obsessively or watch my diet to the point where I need to maintain a certain image. I just do my thing and enjoy my life and I seldom think about fighting other people. However, I internally know how to deal with anything that someone imposes on me and I have a long history of not taking any crap—and I’ve had it all my life. I never remember a time when I didn’t behave this way so the best I know is that I was born this way. That made me into an adult who was completely free of ever yielding to another human being under any condition. I can honestly say that I’ve never been coerced to do something against my will at any point in my life and I’m sure Donald Trump is the same kind of person. And now that those kinds of people are now involved in politics, it completely defangs the Democrats because they have nothing else in their arsenal but the use of fear to recruit members to their political philosophy. When they don’t have the tool of fear, they are lost. And that is what they really fear now that Trump is taking the White House—and America, to places they can’t follow. That is the air behind their screams as their party dies, and to me, it is music to my ears.

Being free is not something any government can give you dear reader. You can only give it to yourself. There is no law that can make you safe. Only you can learn how to be essentially invincible protecting yourself from the intentions of others. If you are the smartest person in the room, nobody can beat you. You don’t have to be the biggest, the smartest by IQ, or even the best—you just have to have the skills to keep anybody else from getting at you—strategically. And once you master that you can promise yourself success 100% of the time. You can’t promise that you can win over others 100% of the time, but you can keep them from beating you 100% of the time. For a liberal to be successful they must get at you and if you deny them of that—they are utterly powerless, which is exactly where the Democrats find themselves in 2017. The best way to make yourself free is to make it so that in your life nobody can attack you—and once you’ve done that you can begin to taste a life without fear—and adversely, a life without Democrats. With Trump, his polling numbers won’t drop below 35% and when all this first started—say back in 2010—it was much lower as to those who were willing to stand tall and live fearlessly in the voting booth. And four years from now that 35% will be even higher and that is the indication which is terrifying those who live off the fear of good people everywhere.

Rich Hoffman

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sassypatriot

March 31, 2017 at 12:50 am Edit

Well said. One baby momma said she had three babies at home. I would bet she is on full welfare. She had no business being in that cesspool. She should have been home taking care of her babies.

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  March 31, 2017 at 1:16 am Edit
  
  What a pathetic mess that whole story is. These idiots behave like this then wonder why we don’t want to associate with them. They call us racist just for having values. Just pathetic. Watch the videos of those people and you can see the cause of all their problems.
  
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“Snitches get Stitches”: Why black on black crimes go unsolved

I think we need to talk about something seriously, because as Michael Bennett of the Seattle Seahawks reminded me with his stupid Tweet regarding Tom Brady’s Super Bowl Jersey—the police in Cincinnati are chasing ghosts in regard to the Cameo Night Club shooting, which is the same kind of thing witnessed in the killings that Bennett brought up. With all the cameras at the Cameo Night Club on Saturday March 25^th 2017 and the off duty cops outside, nobody seems to know who opened fire into a hip hop dance crowd shooting 17 and killing at least one. The shooters got away and nobody is talking. All police know as of this writing is that there were a few of them, but what’s unexplained is how the guns got into the club when people were scrutinized through security and why nobody has any real leads when it was also reported that the shooting appears to have erupted after a scuffle earlier that day between two groups of people. Surely, we know the names of the people in those two groups? Surely the bartenders, owner, and other people present knew somebody who knew somebody, who knew somebody.

This is a remarkably stupid thing to say. https://t.co/2jkadbcDHN

— Rich Hoffman (@overmanwarrior) March 30, 2017

The sad answer is that police do know who was involved, as does everyone at the club. Correctly the owner of the club surrendered his liquor license that following morning, so that Cameo Night Club is now officially out of business. It should be remembered that as the global media pounced on the story that day before the sun even came up, they were talking about gun violence in an American night club in India for God’s sake. CNN, FOX—everyone was covering the story in Cincinnati and to my knowledge I was the very first person in the world who told the real story early that same morning—because I’m from the area and know something about the history of Cameo. It wasn’t guns that caused all the violence—it was the hip hop culture the club itself that did—and once that became evident—the story virtually died on the spot. Nobody in the mainstream media wanted to talk about black on black violence for all the same reasons they don’t want to talk about it in Chicago or any other urban neighborhood where hip hop culture percolates. When guns couldn’t easily be blamed, the media lost interest and that was that.

I stated the problem quite correctly on Sunday morning what the issue was and the police confirmed it as the investigation drug on for the entire next week. The people in the club were reluctant to rat out the shooters is basically what it came down to. What do they say in da’ hood? “Snitches get stitches” and so nobody said anything with any meaning pointing to an arrest. It is utterly astonishing that police couldn’t gather up enough evidence to pull people into a series of arrests for the massive violence which did occur. Instead what we got was a half-hearted vigil heavily promoted by the local news trying to pull on people’s heart strings in the suburbs enough to drive some sort of narrative against social gun violence. But it didn’t work.

It’s not racist to say it—even though modern politics would seek to say otherwise—but people lost interest in the story because we have become used to violence associated with hip hop culture and normal people recognize that the thug culture that was commonly attending the Cameo Club were asking for trouble and when it happened—nobody was surprised. It’s not that everyone involved was black in skin color—it’s the behavior they exhibit which gave clear indications that violence is an expected part of the hip hop lifestyle and that for many in that culture, it’s a badge of honor. So why would anybody rat out someone who gunned down a bunch of innocent people when that kind of behavior seems to be the goal of their movement. Just listen to their music, the whole story is quite clear as to their social intentions.

So what is Michael Bennett referring to when he stated that Tom Brady managed to get his jersey back but there are still black on black crimes still not solved? Well, he’s assuming that when a rich white guy married to a supermodel wants something the world will bend over backwards to give it to him—which propels the myth about all this “white privilege” nonsense. What Bennett is ignoring is that in “white” culture people generally cooperate with the law and seek to live with some sense of tolerance toward each other. So getting Tom Brady’s Super Bowl jersey back from some Mexican peddler had a beginning, middle and end to that case that the FBI agents were able to focus on. But in the case of the Cameo Night Club there was a beginning—people were shot dead innocently likely in most cases—but there was no second and third part.

There is no obvious way to identify the shooters because there were so many like-minded people present and the survivors were protecting the identity out of their urban culture code against cops. So step two is very difficult. But even if police do find out who the shooters were, what then? The shooters won’t be able to obtain a lawyer so there isn’t any money for the legal system to make off the situation meaning all the costs of a trial will go to the state. Then when they are prosecuted they’ll just go to the prison system where the cells are literally overflowing with people just like them for the same stupid stuff. It is far less costly to keep them on the streets killing others of their kind unfortunately. If they move out into the suburbs, then that becomes another matter. But if the killings are in the “hood,” in our society it is an acceptable casualty statistic because the cost is great either way. Whether the violence takes place in prison or on the streets, it is less cumbersome on our legal system to have the violence occur on the streets because there isn’t any solution in arrests. If arrests are made the behavior won’t change and you stick tax payers with a burden they don’t want to pay for. So the police are in sheer limbo so inaction is what happens.

To answer Michael Bennett, we don’t know who killed Tupac because the answer takes you to a bottomless pit of violent subhuman behavior that cannot be managed by our current legal system. It’s as simple as that. If you are a cop, by the time you sort through all the “baby mommas” and hostile welfare recipients who shut the door in your face all day long and get to some honest leads—you run into little street thugs who think it’s cool not to talk to police and they’d rather not rat out a member of their community—even if they are a rival. Remember, snitches get stitches in their hip hop culture—so nobody talks. Then when you do make an arrest some liberal loser becomes their public attorney and case-law ends up being written that screws up the legal system forever because of the case you are working on, so in a really dysfunctional way, the best thing to do is to let the villains stay free so that the responsibility for their correction doesn’t fall on state authority powerless to do anything about the situation.

Yeah, I know, what I said was really mean—but it’s the truth. Nobody wants to deal with a pain in the ass and the members of the hip hop community are just a huge pain in the ass that nobody can sympathize with. When you try to treat them fairly they want more tax money, and they want reparations for slavery which was banned over a hundred years ago. When you move out of their neighborhood because you don’t want to park next to a purple Cadillac with inner tubes on for tires and dressed out in all brass and gold trimmings they call you a racist. Then when they are all together they shoot each other over baby momma rights and turf boundaries. I can promise that the people at the Cameo Club were not NRA members, and even after we have thrown millions and millions of tax dollars at the people who were in that club its likely most of them there couldn’t have even spelled the name of the popular gun lobby group. That is why Mr. Bennett that the black on black murders continue and nobody does anything about it. Because when Tom Brady got back his Super Bowl jersey at least he said thank you. When it comes to unsolved murders like Tupac or the shooting at Cameo’s—everyone just clams up and makes the job impossibly hard. So the police lose interest because they are caught between a rock and a hard place both of which the politics of our day have put them in. And that’s why nothing ever gets fixed and never will under this present system.

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