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All The Money in the World: Bloomberg just wasn’t likeable, yet nobody dared to tell him that who wanted his cash

President Trump’s CPAC speech was the best thing to come out of the Saturday primary votes where Joe Biden won in South Carolina, which he should have. South Carolina is a state where even the liberals are more moderate along the political spectrum than in other places in the country. The people there were certainly not going to vote for a socialist in Bernie Sanders. And Sanders said the right things after he finished in a distant 2nd place, nobody wins all the states. Even Trump lost a few states to his rivals in 2016, but Super Tuesday likely won’t see much of a change in the dynamics. Sanders is going to have a good day; Biden is an alternative to those not ready to admit that the Democrat Party is and always was committed to socialism while everyone else is way behind in the horse race and will remain there. Yet it was Trump’s mimicking of Mini Mike Bloomberg that captured the day as something to note. As Trump nearly got on his knees in front of the CPAC audience to reflect on Bloomberg’s stage presence the statement about spending $700 million to get such bad election results is an important lesson. It takes a lot more than just television adds and media support to win elections, you have to have a message people can relate with, and Bloomberg just doesn’t have it, and all the money in the world can’t buy it.

It is very interesting that entering Super Tuesday that the Bloomberg campaign even with all their money to spend—way more than the other candidates—are in such denial as to their real position. Michael Bloomberg just isn’t likeable. He comes across as an intrusive micromanager trying to scam his way under the skirt of some poor woman trying to fend off the sexual advances of a creepy old man. And his attitude was framed well by his campaign when they said that Bloomberg is the only candidate to have campaigned in all the upcoming Super Tuesday states because of his wall to wall coverage of ad buys. Yet all he has managed to do is buy roughly 15% of the vote in all those states and is trending backwards in many of the Super Tuesday targets which means that by the end of the upcoming week, he will join Tom Steyer in being forced to leave the presidential race. The Democrats are going to end up choosing either the communist Bernie Sanders or the socialist/progressive Joe Biden who has attached to him massive corruption that will be exposed in any presidential run. Nobody else is even close to those two which is all the reason in the world that Democrats want there to be something to distract the world from their misery, such as the coronavirus.

This is essentially the problem that Hillary Clinton had where she thought in 2016 that she was going to win without doing all the work just because she had more money in her war chest to buy ads and get her name into the minds of people. The media of course is willing to take a candidate’s money, and that money might buy some support among commentators, but it can’t buy a message. And it can’t buy likeability. We all remember when Hillary Clinton was caught being propped up from passing out at that 9/11 ceremony where her team couldn’t hide her in a van fast enough. The truth of that day was that Clinton wasn’t prepared for a fight with someone with boundless energy like Donald Trump and ultimately the Democrats fear that the most in Joe Biden, that even if he were to win, there would be no way he could keep up with Trump and not come out sounding like a loser. So in some ways they were hoping that Bloomberg would get some traction. They went out and got some celebrity endorsements like Clint Eastwood and others who would say nice things about Bloomberg but just as with Hillary Clinton, it had been shown that nobody really cares what celebrities think about anything. They get paid to say what others think and that has not helped Bloomberg in the slightest. It didn’t help the flat campaign of Hillary Clinton and the political landscape is even less sympathetic now.

It’s a lesson for everyone that money can buy consultants, they can buy kind statements from the media whether its from actors or news commentators, but money can’t make anybody likeable. And Michael Bloomberg just isn’t likeable. His short stature is just part of it, but he’s short in all the worst ways, not just in height, but in his likeability. When Trump poked fun at how short Bloomberg was, it wasn’t just that the media billionaire who could barely see over the podium was physically small, but his thinking is and people can see it. They see him as petty, and overly authoritarian, and nobody wants another boss in life telling them what kind of soft drinks they can have, or where they are going to get their healthcare. People just aren’t that stupid and Bloomberg with all his money couldn’t figure that out, which is mystifying to an establishment that have built all their reputations on that flimsy premise.

And that will be the case when these billionaire candidates do drop out and get behind whatever candidate ends up getting the Democrat nomination. Their money won’t matter because the ads don’t matter anymore in this world where social media has equalized the election process. Money is important as a kind of pre-vote leading up to an election if a candidate can show support from a donor base, but it doesn’t do much to change the opinions of voters in a world that can get plenty of information about people outside of the official channels of mainstream media. Newspapers do not have the power they once did, and television news is so crowded with more interesting content that ad buys really don’t change minds, they just remind people of the name recognition once they are there on voting day to pull the lever for someone. Money can’t buy likeability, it can just get the name out, but if that name is attached to unpleasant thoughts, it can work against a candidate.

That is why Mini Mike Bloomberg will soon be on the way out blowing half of a billion dollars on nothing, and he will likely spend half that amount on the eventual Democrat winner trying to help them beat Trump in the November election purely out of spite. But it won’t matter because while the media won’t be honest with them and tell them how little their money really matters; I’ll be happy to. There is just too much competition out there for news. If a candidate is a phony, or a communist, people are going to find out about it, all the fancy ads won’t help at all. In a time where opinion was much more easily shaped, ads may have worked, but not in this day where media is consumed voraciously and in large doses. There just isn’t a way for an unlikable candidate to come across better by buying likeability. That isn’t for sale and in a free society with an open press, which includes all the Twitter feeds, blogs, and independent videos that are out there screaming for attention, all the money in the world can’t change an unlikeable person into a bastion of sentiment. And if that lesson hasn’t already been learned, it will be before 2020 is over, and Trump will still be the president.

Rich Hoffman

The Demon Democrats and their Below the Line Thinking

It’s one thing to have political differences, but something that was obvious about Joe Biden’s first campaign rally, which I didn’t think was very effective, was that it was a battle for the soul of America. Only for his Democrats, they were like demons inhabiting the body of America and the rest of us were exercising it out so we could go on to live our lives. The demon had become a parasitic entity, as they often are into our political life and this election, like the last one in 2016 was essentially an exorcism. And the differences are stark, and irreconcilable. A demon can’t share a body with its host, it has to be driven out conclusively, and with conviction. In saying all this, I don’t think Joe Biden will make it through the primary process. I think Democrats have moved too far to the left and the reason is really a simple one, it really comes down to above the line and below the line thinking. And the two do not mix.

I’ve had more exposure lately to below the line people than I’d care to, but the experience was conclusive in that it articulated this Biden situation and his attempt to appeal toward the union vote, which is as a culture a very below the line activity. When we talk about below the line thinking we are of course reflecting back to the great book, The Oz Principle which is a book on business that quite effectively defined these elements. Essentially below the line thinking is a victimization status, where the participants do not feel connected to their fate, whereas above the line thinking feels that fate is well within their control. This is why I say that the two are not compatible. Proactive measures and victimization do not go together—they cannot coexist successfully, so in that regard Joe Biden was right.

They are easy to see, these below the line Democrats, everything to them is the fault of someone else or of circumstances beyond their control, and they are quite happy about that. Their direct descendants are the rock chuckers and the rain dancers who as natives across the face of North America, Africa and just about everywhere south of the Equator attempted to appeal to the gods so that their crops would grow. It wasn’t up to them to grow good crops, it was up to the whether and ultimately the gods who controlled it, and thus, the Democrat mind was born otherwise known as a (liberal). Of course we can have sympathy for that age of people because they didn’t yet understand science and a means of overcoming droughts through irrigation. If a month came along that didn’t bring much rain we have learned as a species that human sacrifice on an altar ripping out the beating heart of some poor sap didn’t really help. Irrigation could easily solve the problem once an above the line approach to the occupation of agriculture was introduced. And that is pretty much how it is with everything. Science and thought can replace victimization and mystical input.

I would say I’ve known a lot of Democrats over time and something they all have in common is this tendency to blame everything but themselves for their circumstances and problems. And that is what defines their politics. They can be quite good at identifying their victim status, but they are terrible about overcoming them, because that is not their nature. If they were to ever become a different thinking type, they would evolve into conservatives. Conservative values are not Nazi or Jew hating. They do not hate Muslims and are not the actions of white supremacists which are all traits present in the Biden launch of his campaign, that he is out to stop President Trump on his remaking of America into a nation of white nationalism. None of those traits are of conservative values because they are all victim statuses. History if looked at honestly has all these answers if people would only look. How could Trump be antisemitic if he has been in full support of Israel, or even Trump supporters? They can’t be Nazis and Jew haters at the same time. But that doesn’t matter to Democrats because the only way they can see the world is through the lenses of victimization. It gets them off the hook for any responsibility and places it into circumstances beyond their control.

The union types who do support Democrats no matter who they are live their lives like the little birds in a nest waiting for mother government to show up with a worm to give it to them for sustenance. Conservatives go and get their own worm. I don’t see politics as a division of ideas as much as I see them as an evolution. Democrats to whatever degree they present themselves are unevolved and not yet ready to take command of their lives. In some cases they never get there and like those baby birds, they end up food for some other animal because they never learn to fly and do for themselves. They stay in the nest too long waiting for that worm from the mother to come, but at some point the mother stops coming and they are left to fend for themselves.

That is what Biden is trying to appeal to, he is essentially offering to let America stay in the nest longer and that he will feed them worms if only they’ll vote for him. Democrats desire more than anything to keep all their constituents in a victimized status because it’s essentially all they have to offer as a philosophy, dependence fulfillment. Trump’s message is to get out of the next and to get moving on your own life. Those two thoughts just aren’t conducive. The Democrat does not bring forth an equal point of view, but a parasitic one, they are looking to be taken care of, they want the world to come to them and to be responsible. They want nothing to do with personal responsibility. They must remain victims of their own fate otherwise they stop being Democrats which is why union membership is down all across the country from where it was. People learned that to be in the labor unions they had to surrender parts of their own self initiation toward life. It’s not a political point of view as much as it’s an emotional evolution of their own souls.

To that effect it is that simple and that is what this upcoming election is all about, is America going to retreat into a victim status, for which it never really has been? Or is it going to direct its own destiny and free its people to migrate above the line and to unleash the potential of life that is found there. We can’t have it both ways, and clearly I would say that this election is more above the line than the previous one. People are better off now than they were four years ago and that is going to be a tough sell for below the line Democrats to convince people otherwise. Yet that is their real fear, that they are losing that victimization appeal to the realities of above the line thinking that is emerging more and more politically. I’ve been at this stuff for a long time and I see a drastic difference. I understand that it takes sometimes a long time for regular people to see the same thing, but the shift is here now and Joe Biden hopes that nobody really notices. His way of looking at things is like that exorcism that we were talking about, and his grip on the soul of the host is about to give way and for him and them, it is truly terrifying—because when there is nobody to blame but themselves that crisis is something they are not equipped to handle.

Rich Hoffman

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Who Cares about Joe Biden When Revenge is the Sentiment of the Election?

I almost didn’t even feel that a comment or remark should be made about Joe Biden announcing his run for the presidency, however, there is an undercurrent of knowledge to pursue on the matter. While the rest of the world is happy about Joe Biden, because they need their horse race to drive cable news ratings, the reality of the situation is that my predictions about the Democrat party which I made on a live radio broadcast several years ago is coming true right on time. I predicted then an end to the Democrats as we knew them and nothing tells that story more than the candidacy of Joe Biden. The values of Democrats in general as I have said for years are tied to socialist causes, and Joe is all about that soft socialism appeal. But we are well past the un-naming of those thoughts and deep into the world of outright socialism that a guy like Joe Biden, whom I’d consider a radical far lefty, certainly not a centrist, is out for a cold reality on the campaign trail. He has no idea what he’s doing because the world that made him has already died. He just doesn’t know it yet. Joe Biden has no chance of becoming president. 0%.

For the Democrats to work they have to be unified, as they are natural collectivists. But their weakness is that their ideas are not conducive to passion, only sympathy. And if the sympathy isn’t working, they have nothing to run on, which is why I think as a party they are ending. I know there is a lot of concern about the nation turning to socialism especially now that most Democrats are open about their commitment toward that group oriented planter philosophy which has greatly limited the intellectual appeal of all culture from the dawn of the city-state. I see the situation differently, that we as a nation averted a complete disaster by naming socialism as the villain to our demise before it happened. The Obama administration for which Joe Biden was the Vice President did a lot to scare people away from the socialism they had been planning and that drove enough Republicans toward Trump to elect someone who would change the political landscape, and for good. What is going to happen over the next year and a half is something I don’t see the Democrats surviving, especially Joe Biden.

Watching Joe Biden’s campaign announcement was the first clue that he doesn’t have one. He’s talking to a Democrat base that went extinct two years ago and only their ghosts remain. And ghosts can’t cast ballots. Democrats do cheat at voting and dead people do vote all the time for them, but nowhere near enough to ensure any kind of victory. He, and the rest of the mainstream Democrats are in a lot worse situation than Republicans were in 2012 and 2013. Back then conservatives were split and Trump emerged from that fissure to fill it with action that is at the foundation of Republican philosophy. The only way that Democrats could meet that debate which resulted in the election of President Trump, was to cheat, because their thoughts on matters has very little appeal, except among really stupid people. Understanding that much the Democrats performed a far worse scandal than what Watergate was for the Nixon administration. But they never planned to get caught, because they did run everything at the time, the FBI, the Justice Department, the White House, most of and the Beltway Culture. Heck, at the time James Comey and Robert Mueller were even considered Republicans. As was the Speaker of the House John Boehner. Now we know better, Comey and Mueller were obviously pushing for Democrats to gain more leverage and they were willing to use the law as a way to assist Hillary Clinton into the Presidency. And John Boehner quit his job and became an advocate for marijuana. So much for conservatism.

I heard the story of George Papadopoulos who was working for the Trump campaign as a minor leaguer and how he was arrested after returning back to the United States after a foreign trip. The way the FBI talked to him and handled the entire case is something that in my mind provoked an open revolt. Rather than go peacefully with the FBI in my mind Papadopoulos should have kicked all their asses right there at the airport. Anybody speaking in such a fashion as they did to him upon the arrest doesn’t deserve compliance, they deserve their asses kicked and then some. No badge could overcome that basic understanding of a federal arm of government abusing its power than that case. It was quite clear after hearing Papadopoulos tell the story. And that kind of harassment didn’t stop there, it persisted into many people who were supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump, which then exploded when he actually won. Now its time for revenge for all that, and the politics of the Joe Biden crowd just don’t get it. That is obvious due to the nature of the announcement video that they put out, which was one that was edited after advisors approved it, not liking the first one. We are not in the days anymore where teams of advisors can navigate a candidate into the White House. That process is too slow for today’s news cycles, and Biden will wash out over that trait alone.

It will be the revenge for all these Democrat led investigations into Trump that will be the nail in the final coffin, and they all have it coming. Republicans are known for turning the other cheek, but that is the difference that all these Democrats are failing to understand, that is not the way it is now. In the revolution of the Republican party that took place early in this current decade, the more aggressive part of the party won out, and now revenge is very much part of the 2020 campaign, and there is a lot there to expose. And Uncle Joe had his dirty hands in the bowl too. He’s not going to come away looking pretty on this one. None of them will. The great thing about President Trump is he isn’t afraid to pull the trigger.

I thought as many did that Trump should have pushed to throw Hillary Clinton in jail right after he was elected, along with those who helped her run the biggest political scandal of all time. Trump wanted to live and let live. He won the Presidency and wanted to let bygones be bygones. But the Democrats went for his jugular and they didn’t make it. Now its his turn and those who support him. They won’t survive. Trump likes to win and they gifted him with the political timing of a party already on the edge that will have many of its leaders on the precipice of real jail time and that isn’t going to help Joe Biden go anywhere politically. And if Joe isn’t the guy for the Democrats, then who is? There are so many running and they all lack any kind of focus. The next best candidate is the open socialist Bernie Sanders and that doesn’t sit well for all the Democrats who still wish to conceal their socialist natures. Yeah, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the Democrats and I will have to say, they deserve everything that is coming to them. Including the loss of the House of Representatives.

Rich Hoffman

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