On the day of the shooting in Alexandria, Virginia by a radical left-winged terrorist by the name of James Hodgkinson, the special counsel investigation into the made up Trump/Russia collusion story announced that it was widening its investigation against Trump for obstruction of justice over the firing of James Comey. If that is the case and the old FBI agent Mueller thinks that such an investigation is even appropriate—and that is the standard–then Loretta Lynch and Hillary Clinton need to be prosecuted immediately, because the evidence has already been produced against them. The hatred that caused the simpleton fool Hodgkinson to do what he did in attempting to assassinate congressional Republicans begins and ends at the feet of the extreme leftists who are currently being protected by people like Mueller, Comey and the other members of the Deep State. Then there is the media which has empowered the furtherance of real crimes, such as Comey’s illegal leaking of classified information as the Director of the FBI, which caused this special counsel investigation to begin with—they collectively created the vile creature that was James Hodgkinson. The following video and information reported after the shooter was identified came right off his Facebook page and clearly tell the story. I don’t know about you dear reader, but I’m not going to put up with it. These are villains and they are attacking everything that America stands for—and they won’t stop with some liberal loser like James Hodgkinson. They are desperate and they are killers. They seek to use idiots prone to quick tempers and intellectual stupidity to do their bidding, but make no mistake about it—behind James Hodgkinson are the puppet masters of the political left—and their desire to commit violence to stay in power—at whatever cost–drives their every breath. Before Trump endures anything close to an investigation into “obstruction of justice” Lorretta Lynch needs to be convicted for her proven actions in that category.
James Hodgkinson was a 66-year-old from Belleville, Illinois. On June 14th, he opened fire at several Republican lawmakers practicing for the Congressional Baseball game.
Political Views
James’ Facebook profile shows support for Bernie Sanders, FDR, and progressive causes while containing several posts that were hateful toward President Trump and his administration.[11][3]
His favorite television programs include Last Week Tonight, Democracy Now, The Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher and The Daily Show.[3] James was a part of a number of left-leaning Facebook groups such as The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans, Join The Resistance Worldwide!!, Rachel Maddow For President 2020, The Democrats, etc.[3]
James volunteered for Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Campaign. He viewed Hillary Clinton as Republican Lite and wanted Bernie to be the Green Party candidate when he lost.
On the morning of June 14th, Republican Congressmen and their staff were practicing for the Congressional softball game in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia. Around 7 am, Hodgkinson opened fire on the baseball field. Five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and two Capitol Hill Police Officers, were injured. Scalise was shot in the hip. Hodgkinson was also shot and died from his injuries. The weapon he used was an M4 assault rifle and witnesses report hearing 50 gunshots. The duration of the incident was between 5-10 minutes.
Look, this is a real war, these people are playing for keeps–and you better not turn the other cheek on them. Its time to fight back, shoot back, and legislate back. Hit them harder than they are hitting us–because its the right thing to do. Failure to do so will only breed more James Hodgkinsons.
Since this has been “workplace development” week for the Donald Trump White House it would be proper for me to contribute a few cents to the value of this discussion. As our economy functions from ever-increasing unemployment numbers—which is a wonderful thing—many people out there in the position to hire workers get stressed out in how to acquire new talent. Just a few months ago when discussing supply chain challenges downstream from me, I suggested that by opening up a second and third shift that they could dramatically increase their productive output. So the question came back to me–how would we go about doing that? I looked at them for a moment mystified that they really didn’t comprehend how to do something so simple—and the more I speak to people all across America, they are really lost as to how to acquire new talent and how to get proper productive output out of all 24 hours of a day. It just happens that this is another one of my specialties and given this week’s White House emphasis, I’ll share a few things to help those most in need given the urgency created by such a booming economy such as what we now have—thanks to President Trump.
I get each week dozens and dozens of offers from job recruiters who offer to help solve a company’s recruiting needs—because honestly this is one of those things that most companies are terrible at. It’s hard to know what kind of people to hire and how to build teams out of those people once you’ve hired them. As I’ve stated before, some of the past occupational fields that I’ve been inclined to besides archaeology—which is a study of human cultures, so it’s related to these modern enterprises, was psychiatry. I’ve always been interested in what makes human beings tick, so when it comes to interviewing and recruiting the right people for the right job-it’s always been something that comes naturally for me. Then team building with those individuals brings another level of challenge because people often resent being placed together in ways that are not authentic to their experiences—so given all those dynamics, most employers just throw up their hands and hope that other people can be hired to handle those problems for them—the way an attorney might handle all the legal issues. However, I would say that recruiting is the most important thing a company does aside from figuring out what their product is and how to deliver it to the marketplace.
There are a lot of these “Theory X” people out there who have been taught for two generations that the best way to work with people is with this kind of authoritarian relationship where essentially workforces are communist camps full of Marxists and whatever the “superior” says is what the mass collective must do for the health of the company. I have sat stunned in many meetings where people who call themselves conservatives politically have this archaic relationship with their workers who actually believe that people should give up their individual rights for the good of the company they work for—and that this is somehow productive for the end use intentions of the organization. Not at all. Theory X motivations get a rebellious work force that will tell you one thing to your face, but they’ll do everything they can to drag ass something without constant cattle prodding and discipline to evoke productive results. People who are obsessed with Theory X are terrible at managing multi-shift production needs.
Theory X
Theory X is based on pessimistic assumptions of the average worker. This management style supposes that the average employee has little to no ambition, shies away from work or responsibilities, and is individual-goal oriented. Generally, Theory X style managers believe their employees are less intelligent than the managers are, lazier than the managers are, or work solely for a sustainable income. Due to these assumptions, Theory X concludes the average workforce is more efficient under “hands-on” approach to management.[1] The ‘Theory X’ manager believes that all actions should be traced and the responsible individual given a direct reward or a reprimand according to the action’s outcomes. This managerial style is more effective when used in a workforce that is not intrinsically motivated to perform. It is usually exercised in professions where promotion is infrequent, unlikely or even impossible and where workers perform repetitive tasks.[2]
According to Douglas McGregor, there are two opposing approaches to implementing Theory X: the “hard” approach and the “soft” approach. The hard approach depends on close supervision, intimidation, and imminent punishment. This approach can potentially yield a hostile, minimally cooperative work force that could harbor resentment towards management. The soft approach is the literal opposite, characterized by leniency and less strictly regulated rules in hopes for high workplace morale and therefore cooperative employees. Implementing a system that is too soft could result in an entitled, low-output workforce. McGregor believes both ends of the spectrum are too extreme for efficient real world application.[3] Instead, McGregor feels that somewhere between the two approaches would be the most effective implementation of Theory X.
Overall, Theory X generally proves to be most effective in terms of consistency of work. Although managers and supervisors are in almost complete control of the work, this produces a more systematic and uniform product or work flow. Theory X can also benefit a work place that is more suited towards an assembly line or manual labor type of occupation.[4] Utilizing theory X in these types of work conditions allow the employee to specialize in a particular area allowing the company to mass produce more quantity and higher quality work, which in turns brings more profit.
Theory Y
“Theory Y is almost in complete contrast to that of Theory X”. Theory Y managers make assumptions that people in the work force are internally motivated, enjoy their labor in the company, and work to better themselves without a direct “reward” in return.[5] Theory Y employees are considered to be one of the most valuable assets to the company, and truly drive the internal workings of the corporation.[6] Also, Theory Y states that these particular employees thrive on challenges that they may face, and relish on bettering their personal performance.[2] Workers additionally tend to take full responsibility for their work and do not require the need of constant supervision in order to create a quality and higher standard product.[4]
Because of the drastic change compared to the “Theory X” way of directing, “Theory Y” managers gravitate towards relating to the worker on a more personal level, as opposed to a more conductive and teaching based relationship.[5] As a result, Theory Y followers may have a better relationship with their higher-ups, as well as potentially having a healthier atmosphere in the work place. Managers in this theory tend to use a democratic type of leadership because workers will be working in a way that does not need supervision the most.[4]
In comparison to “Theory X”, “Theory Y” adds more of a democratic and free feel in the work force allowing the employee to design, construct, and publish their works in a timely manner in co-ordinance to their work load and projects. A study was done to analyze different management styles over professors at a Turkish University. This study found that the highly supervised Theory X management affected the research performance of the academics negatively. In general, the study suggests that the professional setting and research based work that professors perform are best-managed with Theory Y styles.[5]
While “Theory Y” may seem optimal, it does have some drawbacks. While there is a more personal and individualistic feel, this does leave room for error in terms of consistency and uniformity.[3] The workplace lacks unvarying rules and practices, and this can result in an inconsistent product which could potentially be detrimental to the quality standards and strict guidelines of a given company.[1]
I’m not particularly in love with Theory Y either, because of the last paragraph of the explanation above, but it is far superior in the modern marketplace—especially in this climate where unemployment is low and workers have a lot of options to work with. So new inventions are needed and that’s what I spend most of my time working on professionally, such as what we might call a Theory H, for “Hoffman.” Employees take on a job for many reasons, primarily so that they can make a living—they exchange their time for money—which they naturally resent at an instinctual level. But, an opportunity to do a job that has structure and purpose bring with it a currency that often isn’t acknowledged in economic measuring patterns. So I would suggest that while hiring, hire the best people by determining in the interview if they are working just for a paycheck, or if that is just one aspect of their desire for a job. If there are other elements to their job seeking desires, such as “getting out of the house to have their own thing,” or they are hungry to build a life for themselves as a young person, if you can see a light on behind their eyes there is usually something you can work with if you are willing to coach them along. I wouldn’t say that a democratic process is the optimal one because as everyone who reads me knows, the collective is not superior to the individual, but you can’t have a bunch of individuals running around doing whatever they want either. So you have to get individuals to bring their magic to the table without killing their ambition with too many collective considerations. As a manager you have to pick and choose what you’re points of emphasis will be, unlike the Theory X person who acts like a communist dictator and tries to make a job into a work camp in Siberia. Once you’ve defined your critical path points the individuals you’ve hired will go to great measures to help you get where you want to go—because all people like to be a part of something successful. So let them share in that success and most of your employment needs will be solved. It’s not always about money with most people, often it’s about having the opportunity to feel pride in the work they do and not have that pride robbed from them by a Theory X tyrant.
It is one of the great privileges in life to be able to offer a job to someone. They get a chance to do well for their families and you get contributors to a vision that is the engine to productivity in the nation’s GDP. Each employee should be treated as an asset with life potential with whatever company they happen to work for. Team building comes naturally out of setting the proper objectives for a workforce so that they can be a part of a winning opportunity. Once they see that they will often do great things to achieve a victory and be a part of a winning team. It is not enough to ask them to be a part of a team and to sacrifice their individuality to the group enterprise. They must want to win for their own selfish desires. When they do that the team does win, so when recruiting, hire people hungry to win at life. Then, and only then can productive exploits on second, third and weekend shifts be properly explored with all the new opportunities coming forth from this new Trump White House—the hiring process is only scary to the Theory X people. They need to retrain themselves to think properly in this modern economy. The recruiters out there exist essentially to help all the out-of-date Theory X types—but that’s not necessary if you understand who you are bringing in and give them the opportunity to be successful. If give that chance—most people will thrive if they still have that glimmer in their eye left over from childhood that still has hope that they can be a part of something that’s great so they can sleep well at night knowing that they aren’t just on a job—but are a part of something really magnificent. It doesn’t matter if the product is just making straws for Burger King or if you are making spaceships for commercial flight—greatness is in doing extraordinary things with everyday events and once you establish that, everything else takes care of itself.
It was strange recently getting yet another notification from the Ohio courts of Butler County that I’ve been selected for jury duty because my name ends up in the hat so often due to my voting patterns. I noticed while filling out the form which included my wife and kids that none of them have what you might call—“traditional” jobs. My wife is a happy housewife, my oldest daughter a professional photographer who is very highly sought after and my youngest is an illustrator. As I write this she, (my youngest) is doing a commission piece on the Batman villain The Joker shown below. But none of the ladies in my family have a “traditional” job where they go to work, punch in and sell away their day for cash. I know that’s the typical way that we measure economic success, but I’ve always been a big supporter of that type of freedom—especially for women because they tend to invest more into children, households and the emotional nurturing of a family as a whole. When people are free of that primary concern of having to sell away their time for money, it allows them to invest in less tangible aspects of family building, so it makes me proud to see that among the women closest to me, they are all on that type of path. They don’t have a “boss” out there they must yield to, and that is something I think is very important to family development, because it makes them the authority figures of their own lives which is why that question is asked on a jury selection form. Attorneys obviously want to know that the people in their pool are “normal” people miserable like everyone else—so the way I answered that question likely will knock me out of the selection process.
My photographer daughter has really impressed me; she is taking her business to a new level as seen in these included videos. She’s doing something called the 52 Weeks Project where each week she is picking a subject to photograph then she shows how she comes up with the shots and how the editing process goes on arriving at the final product. She’s a full-time mom, but on both of these efforts she was up at dawn before her little boy woke up wanting breakfast and conducted these pictures for her project squeezing in a lot of creativity into an already packed day. She’s been busy with booked appearances for several weeks now and coming up shortly after this publication she has a photo shoot in Chicago. So what you see here is a very developed photographer who is expecting herself to be one of the great ones. What she does is out of pure passion which I liken back to having the ability to be free of having a “boss” in her life who governs her away from home while on a time clock. That freedom has allowed her to expand her personal life in ways that I think are quite extraordinary—and necessary to achieve the level of art that she is shooting for.
Even her subjects are unique in the scheme of the photographic community. Her first entry into the 52 weeks project was “A Call to Adventure” which I thought she managed to squeeze a lot out of while working in a very limited area within Cincinnati. For those who don’t understand why a “Call to Adventure” is important it’s a classic motif most appropriately defined by Joseph Campbell in the telling of mythologies. Usually after the first act of a movie or the introductory phase of a novel the main character is faced with a jumping off point from the static patterns of their normal life and into the promise of adventure provoked by some dynamic force. For some people the “Call to Adventure” might be as simple as a stranger approaching you from the back of a cab at a stop light while you’re walking to work in New York and asks you to help them get to the airport. You must then decide to help or not because if you do, the static patterns of your day will be disrupted and that could have unpleasant consequences. Then for others it might be an opportunity to fly to Cambodia to do sex traffic rescue work in some steamy jungle nightmare, but while there you make a new archaeological discovery that changes the world perspective on our knowledge of history. The “Call to Adventure” is often how you can dramatically enrich your life for the better with vast experience, but to do so you must step away from your static patterns and allow dynamic forces into your life.
For instance, a friend of mine who worked on the Trump campaign in 2016 called me on a very busy day last week and asked me if I could appear on CNN the next day. I had scheduled a lot of events and I really didn’t have the time. After all I had an oversea meeting planned at the very same moment I was supposed to be on with Anderson Cooper. So did I answer the call and go on CNN which was likely just going to do a hit piece. As it turned out the CNN people were very gracious and were not the kind of gotcha people who Rush Limbaugh surmised when he talked about the event on his show. I did the CNN segment along with some other peers and it got people talking and was fun to do. I still managed to get all my work done—although it was different from my usual day and I could point to many times in my life where answering the “Call to Adventure” directly led to some very unusual experiences which ultimately enhanced my life.
I have learned over time to never get too rigid about things. The “Call of Adventure” is something I consider so important that I often go out of my way to find it with a very laissez-faire approach to living and personal management. I may start the day with all kinds of planned activities but by the end of it, I end up doing things I never thought I would at the start and that comes from saying yes to the “Call of Adventure.” So it made me particularly proud to see my photographer daughter out there capturing not only dramatic photos but articulating that difficult concept artistically. She, standing at the entrance of a forest goes back to some of the great Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages where the knights would all enter the forest of their various adventures at different points basically to establish that no two paths of adventure were the same for other people. People must pick their own paths in life to be living truly authentic lives so here was my kid showing this rather difficult concept to explain with a simple photograph. But as you can see from the editing process, it’s not so simple.
This brings me back to the importance of my girls not being encumbered with a traditional job—especially while raising their children. If they put their children in daycare, there would be many fewer opportunities for the kids to experience the wonder of a life lived authentically, because the static schedules of daily living prohibit it—and true intellectual learning is often crippled in children as a result. But for a mother who is there ready to answer that “Call to Adventure” at the slightest provocation a simple trip to the grocery store on a sunny summer in July might lead to a lifetime of discoveries that stay with young people forever because if the schedule of acquiring food is relaxed there may be opportunities for adventure that come up along the way—someone might need help changing a flat tire or a snake may be caught under a car in the grocery store parking lot and need help getting over to the cool grass before somebody runs it over. You just never know—but there is tremendous value in following the “Call to Adventure” and it makes me feel very good to see that my daughter has matured to a point where she can understand it well enough to photograph. That takes talent!
Before anyone says that the legal opinions provided here are not valid, because I’m not a practicing lawyer, let me just say this. It is not good to be overly specialized in one particular field of endeavor. Every person should make themselves well versed in many aspects of human society and its inventions—and law is one of those inventions. It is just as good to know the basics of the legal profession as it is to know how to change the oil in your car. The declaration that one should not have a legal position because they aren’t playing golf with county judges on Saturdays doesn’t mean that opinions of great merit cannot be made. But in my case I do have quite a lot of legal experience in law even to the point of representing myself in court because I deemed legal counsel ill-equipped intellectually to do so on my behalf. And I have always been successful in these endeavors even when the other side threw in a lot of resources hoping to tip the scales of justice. In that context I can say with certainty that Donald J. Trump absolutely can never be prosecuted, impeached, or in any way penalized for obstruction of justice in the White House over the James Comey termination. Trump is free of guilt 100%–unequivocally. Here’s why.
Putting Comey’s account into direct comparison with Donald Trump’s—if I were the judge sitting in a chamber debating the legal positions put forth I would have to conclude that Comey was insecure with his job performance during the fall of 2016 and his new boss was a merit based individual which was terrifying enough to the FBI Director. So Comey hoped to keep his head low and avoid any confrontations with Trump. To secure his job he let it float that he was going to conduct an investigation into the Russian connection to ensure that Trump would never fire him for fear that the optics would look terrible. This is why Comey agreed to help the Obama administration spy on Trump’s transition team hoping to gather up some evidence to use in case the new president decided to pull the plug on Comey’s remaining six year’s appointment as director of the FBI.
Upon meeting Trump, Comey realized that dealing with the star of The Apprentice for 14 seasons was going to be a lot tougher than the former community activist, Barack Obama was. Obama had to completely rely on other people to make value judgments making Comey much more important in discussing matters of intelligence gathering. Trump on the other hand had his own opinions about things—and knew how to read people and make value judgments completely free of other people’s opinions. This really worried Director Comey because as a person—he was functioning from deep insecurities regarding his masculinity—likely cultivated through his years working closely with other Washington D.C. types in that bubble of the Beltway where rules were known and unconsciously followed. Trump was a departure of that thinking and had earned his way through life on his own merit which made Comey very uncomfortable due to his own lack of such experiences.
This is why Comey felt he could clear the room in a December meeting for a one on one discussion with the new President—because the FBI director had the institution of the FBI at his back and felt he could trust it to protect him from someone like Trump. But with each subsequent meeting thereafter Comey realized that Trump was reading him too well. The dinner invites and other discussions on the phone and elsewhere revealed that the now President Trump had doubts about the Obama appointee. Making matters even worse, likely, Comey had been listening to the Trump people at Trump Tower in New York and knew Trump’s true opinion of the FBI Director. Trump, like he would anybody in business, was sizing up Comey to decide if he wanted to continue having his FBI led by such a guy—because he wanted to make his own mark and put his own kind of person in place. So when Trump shook Comey’s hand where Trump would say—“you’re doing a good job,” Comey suspected otherwise either by direct evidence from spying on Trump, or from his own knowledge that this new president had the skills to sniff him out in a crowd for being not very effective in his job.
Trump appears to have been vetting Comey from the start. He was willing to give the FBI Director a fair shake because some of the timing of the Comey comments on the Hillary Clinton email scandal did help Trump in the election. But Comey obviously was not a Trump supporter and the way the big man avoided eye contact and shook hands concerned Trump. Comey was too sneaky to be trusted so Trump’s many personal meetings with Comey were like the boardroom on The Apprentice—to assess the merit of the FBI Director to decide what to do with him. The assurances that Comey had been doing a good job were to put his mind at ease so that Trump could really get to know the man on a basic competency level. Through those meetings Trump learned that most of what Comey was had been purely show and that competency at the level of his job heading the FBI just wasn’t there. Obama might have liked Comey—but what did he know? Trump wasn’t a fan and by February was leaning away from keeping the Director on as an appointee to the President.
When Trump asked the room to clear in the Oval Office to speak directly to Director Comey just days after Trump had to fire General Flynn, at one level the President was seeking relief for his friend—who had been through enough of a witch hunt from the press over the whole Russian thing. Yes, Flynn had lied to get the job, but Trump being a loyal guy wanted to let the General recover in peace from further scrutiny. Plus Trump didn’t want dark clouds to interrupt all the optimistic things he wanted to do as president. But more than anything, Trump wanted to strip away the various institutions that people like Comey rely on to hide their lack of competency and he wanted to speak to the man one on one knowing that many of the leaks that had been coming out of the various intelligence agencies were pointing directly to Comey. So having all that stripped away, Trump wanted to be sure that the man standing in front of him was really a sleaze ball who was still very sympathetic to the Obama administration and had botched the case with Hillary Clinton to make his Beltway friends happy with him during cocktail hour with back slaps and future dinner invites. Comey knew enough about people to know that the president could see through the careful façade he had constructed over his many years of public service—so he was naturally uncomfortable.
After the meeting Trump made up his mind—he just needed to find the right time. Trump and Comey never spoke together again after April 11th. And it was after the Comey testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3rd that Trump had heard enough. During that testimony Comey admitted that it made him “mildly nauseous” to think that the FBI had affected the 2016 election and that he failed to prosecute Hillary Clinton because of pressure he had received from Loretta Lynch. Comey’s testimony showed a FBI Director who made bad decisions based on political pressure and that was all Trump needed to terminate Comey’s employment which occurred on May 9th—a few days after the Senate testimony. Trump had given Comey a shot and the news just kept getting worse the more the President had dug—really leaving no other choice.
Thus, the termination of James Comey from the FBI had nothing to do with the Russian case. By Comey’s own testimony to the Senate on June 8th 2017, he stated that his termination would have no impact on the Russian case—that the FBI work would still be done with or without him. That means that the termination could never have been about the investigation, but was always about the merit of the work Comey had done as director. If the termination had no impact by the admission of the person who had been removed, and his own testimony revealed that Trump had never asked to have the Russian investigation terminated—then there was never anything close to obstruction of justice. Trump had simply rooted out a drain in the swamp that once he pulled it, a lot of things hidden were suddenly visible. Comey was one of those drains holding back a lot of swampy water and once removed, the slimy water of the Beltway went down the drain exposing a lot of crazy critters who needed concealment to survive. And now they didn’t have it. They screamed “obstruction of justice” to regain those hiding places, but nobody was biting and now they all have a lot of trouble. So with all that said, only five months into a new presidency full of contention and conflict from the other political side, Trump successfully found the drain on the swamp—and he pulled it—and James Comey turned out to be a big part of what was wrong. It didn’t take the new president very long to figure it out—just as James Comey had feared after the first direct meeting he had with President-elect Trump in December.
Trump is innocent of obstruction of justice, and Comey is guilty of leaking classified information with access to the highest office and placing it in the hands of a Columbia college professor to leak to The New York Times. If Comey thought his termination was a bad day—he hasn’t seen anything yet. There are many more bad days coming because the person who broke the law wasn’t Trump—it was Comey and his swamp who have now been exposed like never before—and it is an ugly sight indeed.
I almost felt sorry for them, the team at CNN who came to Butler County, Ohio to gloat over the Comey testimony ended their day rattled to their basic foundations. If there is a place in the United States harder core Trump—I can’t think of where that might be except out in the fringes of the cityscapes to the east of Ohio and West Virginia. Butler County is special because it’s a strong hold of Republicanism. It’s the home town of John Boehner—had been a huge supporter of John Kasich for governor and eventual presidential candidate. But most recently it was responsible for helping Trump stamp out a 9 to 10 point edge over Hillary Clinton during the last election. Given that CNN had spent so much political capital on a smoking gun emerging during the Comey testimony they invited a lot of those Trump supporters down to Rick’s Tavern in Fairfield to witness the public execution which was later filtered out on the Anderson Cooper show later the same day. Their assertion at CNN was that there was smoke and that Trump was guilty of something. But all that smoke ended up being where smoke grenades thrown by them and others in the media to make it look like there was some fire. Even though I’m not big fans of the people at CNN, it was embarrassing to see them up close when they came to realize it on live television.
Comey wasn’t fired to hide an investigation into Russian hacking. He was fired because he went on just a few days prior to give senate testimony and admitted he was a befuddled, insecure person who didn’t know how to proceed and he had lost the confidence of the FBI as an institution due to his show boating during the Hillary Clinton events of 2016. Here was a guy whose claim to fame was putting Martha Stewart in jail, who made himself into a national sensation for trying to withdraw a wire tapping order while John Ashcroft was in the hospital but was beat to the punch by the Bush White House. Comey had a history of working against the White House when Obama nominated him to lead the FBI four years ago and obviously thereafter the same standard of prosecution did not apply. If you put Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton side by side, case by case-Hillary Clinton should have had the death penalty thrown at her compared to Stewart. Here was a woman in Clinton who really committed crimes at the highest level, shared classified secrets and destroyed evidence—and she was running for president. Comey fumbled the case and sought to cover up his tracks with a lot of legal talk which nobody understood to hide his incompetence. And he got caught. He let the Democrats nominate a criminal for the White House and when they lost the election, it has all but destroyed their party. So Trump’s loyalty comment was in that line of thought.
The entire day all CNN wanted to do was point to the loyalty question as if it indicated guilt over Russian collusion—and that this story was bigger than Watergate. Only there was no collusion. Trump isn’t the kind of guy to share the spotlight with anyone—especially Russia, and as a business executive, he wants his own people to be around him—not some Obama holdover in the FBI. But Trump knew he had to give the guy a chance—because it would look bad to come into office and fire all of Obama’s people. That left Trump to do what a lot of head hunters who slip into executive slots as head of corporations do—you watch and listen to who does what. Then you replace the weak links with your own people as you learn the ropes. Comey admitted to the senate that he made judgment errors when he indicated he was “mildly nauseous” that he might have swayed the 2016 Election. After that comment from my own vantage point I knew he had lost the hard line officers at the FBI as they were surely eye rolling the Comey statements and if I had to guess, that was the moment Trump decided to fire the FBI director and make him a “former.”
I don’t think Comey is a villain in this case—he was just over his head. The character he made himself out to be—an Eliot Ness type of FBI agent—couldn’t hold up when the media no longer liked him. He was fine so long as the people he was going after were the Bush White House and Martha Stewart—but when the villain was Hillary Clinton whom the entire Washington D.C. establishment supported—he found him stuck between a rock and a hard place—and he didn’t handle the pressure well. When he shouldn’t have, he went on the air and gave extensive press conferences and spoke too freely which exacerbated the situation beyond redemption essentially forcing Trump to fire him.
Comey’s comments about feeling anxious to be alone with Trump are classic emotions when a guilty incompetent person is left defensively with a superior boss. When other people are in the room it takes the edge off—but when you know you are guilty of not doing a very good job and you are alone with someone who can see through you—of course it would make a person like Comey nervous. CNN wanted to make that story into one where Comey thought Trump was corrupt and the purity of his nature wouldn’t allow him to deal with the president one on one. That is pure fantasy—in reality, Comey knew he was guilty of screwing up the Clinton case and he hoped to stay out of trouble long enough to keep his 10 year appointment by Obama. He knew that Trump would soon learn that Comey wasn’t the best man for the job, so he had no desire to spend time alone with the president. That caused Comey to do two more stupid things; give a public speech about how everyone was stuck with Comey for another 6 years hoping to put pressure on Trump to keep the FBI director on for fear of political backlash. Then he gave his senate testimony mentioned above where he gave a number of statements that were just embarrassing. Trump did the right thing and fired Comey—then he stood by his decision without a lot of politicking. He simply said that Comey was a showboat—which was true, and that he hadn’t done a very good job. End of story.
It’s one thing to watch these stories from afar, but to see CNN up close trying to wring out a nothing story was absolutely fascinating. But they came to my town, to my community to catch Trump supporters live on the air with what they hoped would be administration ending testimony—and they didn’t come close to getting it. I didn’t feel sorry for them because they were after all part of the insurgency against traditional America. But they were people, and however wrong they were philosophically, they were still human beings suffering under a false premise that had not carried the day. They were part of a losing, and declining effort in America and they knew it. They took one last shot in the dark hoping to score a hit in Trump Country, and all they got were a bunch of supporters like me and several others who defended Trump valiantly. And it wasn’t hard. The truth has a way of showing its own majestic presence, and the CNN people were trying to make something out of nothing. The world is literally on a precipice, given the elections in England today, the terrorist attacks in Europe, the events of the Middle East—the strange chess game in the east—the world is changing dramatically. But for CNN, the pivot point was with the Comey story and they went all in on it—and they came up with nothing. And they chose to do it in Butler County, Ohio—which was a mistake for them. I enjoyed being a part of it, and I enjoyed watching them lose. But as people I know it was painful. However in war—who cares. Move on and prosper.
I was more than a little embarrassed for Megan Kelly during her big NBC Sunday night show debut interview with Vladimir Putin. I’m not a big fan of her anyway with how she conducted herself at Fox News previously—but I understand she’s a power climber and is on that path hell or high water. But walking into that interview with Putin on his home turf—on ground he controls—was pretty stupid. As she tried to push that NBC, New York Times, Washington Post Russian conspiracy story against Donald Trump she came out looking very unprofessional by the former KGB agent who was obviously outmaneuvering her with every question. Putin knew what she was going to ask and he was more than prepared for her—which worked very much to her disadvantage.
Anyone who has read my book Tail of the Dragon knows I’m not a blind supporter of law enforcement. To me they are just people and I have a real problem with authority figures because honestly, I’m smarter than they are and I don’t trust my life to people not as capable as I am. But I’m not an anti-cop dissident like the communist Ferguson rioters either. Now that Trump is president I’m starting to like the White House again—but for the other branches of government—they have a long way to go before they earn my respect. So regarding the “Deep State” which is essentially the mosquito infested waters of the swamp Trump wants to drain I don’t trust any of them. Vladimir Putin may be a ruthless old KGB agent who has spent most of his life working against our own CIA—but I trust him much more than I do people like James Comey, Barack Obama, and James Klapper. When Putin says that Russia wasn’t involved in the American election and looked at Megan Kelly wondering why she would even ask the question, I believe him over them all day long. I think our American intelligence has been corrupted beyond recognition and I wouldn’t trust them to tell me that there was a door in front of me even if I had my hand on the knob to open it. They are pathetically corrupt and the Trump presidency is bringing that into a full light.
I knew Megan Kelly had lost the interview when she tried to assert that the American media was in consensus with American intelligence that Russia had colluded with the Trump campaign. That word, “consensus” assumes that just because a majority of people believe something that the facts of it are altered into the tapestry of reality. This mechanism is currently being used to justify the religion of global warming—if a majority of scientist (who receive federal grants and will believe like prostitutes anything told to them so long as a check is involved) believe that the climate is changing based on man-made influences rooted in capitalist endeavors—then it must be true. However, such a belief is foolish, a fact is not changed just because a number of people believe it to be true. Belief has little influence on the physical nature of molecular structures—so physical reality cannot be altered magically with the mind. It is fun to think of Disney movies where you can have a pleasant thought experiment and reality changes allowing people to fly around—or in Star Wars where physics is altered so that people can move things with their minds—but these are just fantasy ideas lazily built around the concepts of science fiction and fantasy, where reality is challenged by the imagination—which can be healthy. But physical realities cannot be ignored when serious thought is applied to science. The power of a mass democratic belief system cannot overtake reality—and essentially the political left—here represented by NBC News, hopes to believe that just because people believe Russia won the election for Trump that the facts of reality would be altered to fit that line of thinking. It doesn’t, and Putin obviously had a good time making a western journalist look completely foolish.
Yes, Megan Kelly got her big interview, just as she did when she tried that prime-time slot with a Trump interview months ago on Fox. That didn’t work out either—so landing the big gig isn’t the same as being successful in the results. With all the bad press that Megan is getting out of this Putin interview, she would have been better off not doing it at all. NBC should have known better, but they are obviously desperate these days to stay relevant in a changing television market—so they spent all their pennies on this big interview only to come away looking pretty stupid. These are not the days of good journalism that I remember from the CBS Evening News and 20/20 which I used to watch religiously as a kid on ABC. We used to make fun of publications like the National Enquirer for being all about tabloid news, but now they look like a legitimate organization in comparison to what NBC is producing. Sharyl Attkisson, Barbra Walters, oven Diane Sawyer—but Megan Kelly—not at the same level, and Putin expertly tore her to shreds. Such an embarrassment for NBC news. Their hatred of Donald Trump has harmed them irreparably. They obviously hired Megan Kelly for her feud with Trump during the campaign and they are hoping they will get the same kind of attack dog from her at NBC. They forgot to check her actual talent level as a journalist. Megan used sex to sell herself—to climb out on top of the many other women who are equally capable. But sex can only take you so far and now she is being exposed. With Barbra Walters, nobody thought about what she looked like. We watched her because she was competent and asked the kind of questions we all wanted to know—and she was personable enough to get people talking.
Megan Kelly’s interview with Putin only pulled in about 6.1 million viewers which was really embarrassing for her key demos. She should have been able to break through 10 million with her name recognition and having one of the highest profile interviews on planet earth. That tells me that people really aren’t interested in her or the way she frames her news stories—which is so anti-Trump. Her entire interview was an attempt to set the stage for the Comey hearings this Thursday where the network producers really think that they will uncover this mythical Russian connection. Putin certainly didn’t help their case leaving Megan Kelly looking desperate—and then the Trump administration announced that it would not evoke “executive privilege” during the Comey testimony before the senate. Obama did in regard to “fast and furious,” and other things—which is as good as an admission of guilt. Trump didn’t which is really a big story when placed alongside these other headlines. NBC is in real trouble. Once the legs on this carcass finally stops moving with their life support—they’ll be left with nothing to work with, and Putin could tell. That’s why it was so embarrassing.
I expect to have the best country on earth represented better in our news media. I have nothing against Megan, until she represents me poorly, and she did. I’m also embarrassed at our American intelligence agencies. I have little faith in them to do anything right. The Deep State has ruined the integrity of all our institutions and that isn’t alright with me. If the federal government were filled with employees like Perry Mason, or the Dragnet guys with Joe Friday doing the investigations—I might get excited about our team. But these federal guys these days are a bunch of losers. I wouldn’t trust them to microwave popcorn let alone handle the security of my life and family. And it’s obvious to me they were willing to do anything with a compliant media to bring great harm to Donald Trump even if it meant starting World War III with Russia to achieve their Deep State desires. As I’ve said many times in the past I am something of a very proficient judge of character and after watching Putin in action I think he orders hits on his reporters and rules with an iron grip—but that he’s honest in his involvement regarding the American election. He didn’t have the resources for it, or the political will. In some cases, he would have been better off with Hillary because he could push her around the way he did Megan Kelly—not because they are women, but because they just aren’t that mentally acute beyond surface conversation. But for the good of a sustainable world, Trump was the hard choice everyone had to make—even Putin. But as far as putting themselves as a country out there—there wasn’t much they could have done. Hillary did all the work herself. If we learned anything from the Megan Kelly interview it was that Putin had nothing to do with Trump’s election—and for NBC—that is a bad sign for them over the next four years. They’ve put themselves on the wrong side of history and Megan Kelly’s looks won’t save them from stupidity.
It should be obvious by now dear reader, usually when I write something here you are peering about 24 months into the future. I’ve explained it before how that works but if you need a review, just search for The Metaphysics of Quality here on this site and the science is explained clearly. But all this stuff happening to the Democratic Party is occurring right on schedule. Now it’s time to go for the jugular and eliminate them as a political rival.
The Republicans are already split and it will be between them that all the new politics of the United States emerge. What’s left of the Democrats now is this insane lunacy that we’ve been seeing from their most vocal activists—and it’s just not going to hold water with the American people. Of that lunacy Maxine Waters is one of the worst—she is the one calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump and advocating the Russian conspiracy which has no evidence to support it at all because she has nothing else to point to. The Democrats have taken a sharp turn further to the left because the Donald Trump presidency has pushed them to it and that puts them firmly in the grip of Maxine Waters. For the sake of America it’s time to just put a dagger in them and be done with the Democrats, and for that this video done by Alex Jones on Mad Maxine is just the right approach.
After some of the dumb things that Democrats like Maxine have done over the last couple of weeks, nobody in their right mind is going to give them money. Already after just two quarters of fundraising Democrats are down in revenue and they aren’t looking good for having money for the midterms in 2018. They really need to start putting money in their war chests now but instead they are getting wrapped up in all these conspiracy theories and standing against the new President Trump. Meanwhile the stock market is closing at all time highs and Trump is starting to sink roots with foreign policy success. Roughly a million jobs have been created and unemployment is way down—so the Democrats are going to have nothing in the tank once it’s revealed that there is nothing to the Russia story. The Democrats are literally following people like Chuck Schumer and Maxine Waters over the cliff and as a Republican, that’s what we want to see.
The liberal media is already in trouble, cord cutters are canceling their cable subscriptions and more people are turning to social media to get their news now than they ever have before. That means sites like this one have more news influence than what CNN and others have enjoyed in the past, so their time is done regarding control of the narrative. So now is the time to strike Republicans and you must do it without the usual guilt and compassion displayed. Hit them hard and do it fast. Democrats are vulnerable. They are losing elections and moderates have to make a choice against them—Trump has given them that out—so the Democrats can’t recover. And their public relation problems of late will be the end of them. After losing the elections of 2016 there isn’t any prospect of picking up seats in 2018 because their platform is stale, then of course there is the money problem that they have.
Don’t feel bad in going after Mad Maxine and Kathy Griffin, and all these other liberal losers. It’s OK to sweep them away from the political discourse because their essential philosophy doesn’t have any relevancy in the kind of America we are going to be. After six more months of Trump these Democrats will be even worse off. They have to act this way because their ideas just can’t compete. The Russia story that Mad Maxine is proposing is really their only hope, and that one is a fleeting one.
As we’ve discussed before, this is a war. In war one side loses and the other side wins. Having compassion for a fallen enemy isn’t good in the realm of strategy and I think we all have to agree that the Democrats are the enemy—they stand for death—abortion is still the leading cause of death in America—not guns. Democrats stand for the destruction of the American family, they support compassion for terrorism and they are against economic development. Democrats are idiots and they are vile creatures who don’t belong in America. They are more inclined to be like our European neighbors which is fine if they want to go and live there. But to change America into some European hell-hole—that just isn’t permissible.
When Maxine Waters is one of the leaders of the Democratic Party that’s when you know that you are out of weapons, so now is the time to pounce. Don’t hold back—destroy the Democrats and their liberal media. Suck up their ratings, knock them off the air and don’t let up. Look what they did to Bill O’Reilly and are continuing to do to people like Sean Hannity. They’ll do it to you too if you let them. They have been playing for keeps so now is the time to do the same to them. Letting these idiots stick around means danger in the future. Hollywood is on the ropes, all the people who have come out against Trump are finding it hard to sell their movies—ticket sales are way down. All the networks on television are struggling—and that means donations to Democrats will continue to drop in the coming months exacerbating the situation for them. There is no hope short of a major mistake by Donald Trump and the Republicans that can save the Democrats now. It’s like a football game where the score is 72 to 3 in favor of the Republicans in the fourth quarter with 2 minutes left on the clock. If Republicans could get Trump’s agenda done before Labor Day there would be no legislative accomplishments for Democrats to run on in 2018 because all these things, Obamacare being repealed, and tax cuts are popular with people—more than 50 percent of the country. Then there is the deregulation that Trump has implemented through Executive Orders and the assurance that stepping away from the Paris accord would save American businesses from their crippling effects. So there’s a lot to like and all the Democrats have are failed policies and conspiracy theories. They are far worse off than Republicans ever have been—and they have no money to change their terrible situation.
Hillary Clinton’s meltdown this past week was somewhat justifiable from the Democratic point of view. She had been the major mechanism for fundraising for Democrats and the entire party was built around the connections she and her husband built during the 90s. Essentially all these liberal media types are the creation of the Clinton White House from 1992 to 2000. The Hollywood machine is part of that same creation which is why so many of them are liberal now as opposed to how it used to be. Democrats and their supporters planned this long magnificent presidential run for Hillary starting the moment her husband left office. She moved to New York so she could become a senator. Then she tried to run for president on time in 2008 but she lost to a person of color because the party felt that was more important at the time. She signed up as Secretary of State for the experience so that she could run in 2016—so this was a long time and coming. The investments by the Democrats was always a double whammy, a black president then the first woman president—built with 16 years of nearly pure socialism. The nation would be unrecognizable by the end of that—and that was their plan at all levels. But then Trump happened and in just three months he erased all the gains progressives had made over 24 years of holding the White House and the champion of Democratic fundraising was now a vanquished soul roaming the woods distraught and clueless—and all the Democrats have left in the tank is Mad Maxine. What we are seeing from Democrats, especially this week after a very successful foreign policy trip by Trump is listless desperation on their part to stay relevant. However nothing they are doing is working and they know it. The more they try actually the worse it is for them.
So do them in, end the Democratic Party and let’s move on. There is enough political division among Republicans to quell any concerns about being too one-sided politically. I really think Trump represents the new left whereas real conservatives will emerge as the opposing party—which is likely how it should be in the United States given the kind of demographic variety that we do have—the essence of our nation is one that is rooted in capitalism and the appreciation for life—all life. The means to get there is where the differences come from, but I think the nation as a whole can agree on those basic fundamentals once Democrats are out of the way and moving back to Europe. With that in mind Republicans, put them out of business for good—because they’d be happy to do it to you. And there’s more at stake than just taking the moral high ground. We have to destroy the enemies at our gate and on that list of insurgents is Mad Maxine Waters—not because she’s black, or because she’s a woman—but because she’s an idiot.
I don’t really feel like writing about another terrorist attack, or the stupidity of Democrats. In America, especially among the shooting sports, we have a means of dealing with both and that insanity is completely avoidable. I’m talking about the Cowboy Way which is an evolved philosophy of conduct born from the notion of individual freedom and property rights defense—and its very unique to the world. By day, I get the opportunity professionally to deal with a variety of international cultures and through my love of mythology I have a means of gaining more understanding than the typical person visiting an airport in Tokyo might experience. For a good culture to survive or even thrive, you have to know what you are—and in America at the heart of our fundamental philosophy is the Cowboy Way. To be a part of it, or to understand it in some fundamental way, becoming involved in a shooting sport of some kind will usually evoke the basic elements. That is why for the last two years I have been learning a new skill—Cowboy Fast Draw. Well, it has taken a little time and a lot of investment but I’m getting ready to do a little competition shooting so I was taking some video of my form to slow down and analyze, and I thought I’d share that video so that my readers can have an understanding of something I think is important. I’ve set up a target range for Cowboy Fast Draw in my garage and it’s where I go to dump away stress and to fine tune a mild obsession for me in the realm of speed and accuracy. How fast can a person really shoot and hit a target in the micro seconds of judgment? Before I elaborate, here is a bit of my practice session from Friday evening this past week. I like the results, but in all honesty, I’m pushing to be twice as fast as what is seen in this video. These shots are in the .450 to .470 range—which is pretty good. But not where I want to be. However, what matters most is the experience of developing the Cowboy Way through this art and that is truly something very special.
Working with the western arts for over 25 years as a bull whip artist I often ran into these quick draw guys and I always enjoyed watching them. But time and the initial investment to get started were certainly barriers of entry. There are a number of different fast draw organizations out there and most of them were pretty loose and hadn’t really done anything to advance the sport in a way that was respectable. That is until I learned more specifically about the CFDA, (Cowboy Fast Draw Association). They had their act together and from what I could tell was doing great things in advancing the concept of the Cowboy Way.
Around this time of getting started in Cowboy Fast Draw I was involved in two international cultures professionally, one in Japan where the samurai is still very important to their business climate. And the other was in Europe where the virtues of the Crusades and King Author’s adventures as a knight of the Round Table are the soil that all their roots emerge from. I couldn’t help but think that for America to really mature into its own thing—which is essentially where we are—we needed to embrace our own philosophic—warrior past and roll it into our business culture. In a tremendous way, Hollywood had already done that and our society flourished enormously during the 1930s to the 1960s when movie and television westerns were most of what Hollywood put out. A lot of the movies made in this period I was surprised to learn were shown on television in Europe and Japan as they were fascinated with the idea of the American cowboy and the values which poured forth from it. Recently while staying in England for an extended period I counted at least five television channels that were showing American westerns during a Saturday afternoon—and they were old westerns. Nothing produced within the last five decades.
Additionally I was coming under a lot of criticism for my very reckless ways of doing things—or what appeared to slow minded people as reckless. I often get accused for “shooting from the hip” as if that were some kind of bad thing by rivals. This is in reference to my tendency to make decisions on my own—without a lot of group involvement, and to make those decisions quickly. I don’t sleep on much but instead usually draw and fire at that moment. To me it doesn’t seem so fast, but that’s because I’m already thinking in a very fast way so what might seem like forever to me is very fast to the people watching from the outside. So I got involved in Cowboy Fast Draw for other reasons too, and that was to prove that you could draw and fire from the hip quickly and accurately and that it wasn’t so reckless—but rather quite precise.
The safe thing for me would be to not get involved in this type of thing. After all, I had been one of the best bull whip artists in the world and I had often used my experience with that endeavor to explain many complicated business concepts—such as putting out the flame on a candle with the crack of a whip like I did for the SB5 Bill before Governor Kasich went to the dark side and was still trying to do good work in Ohio, to demonstrate how to cut fat out of the budget with precision. To hit a specific target with the tip of a bull whip is difficult and not many people in the world can do it—but I can and I could use that calling card forever and nobody would blame me. Taking up Cowboy Fast Draw and joining a sport that already has so many lightening fast people competing in it doesn’t make much sense to most because it’s harder to be unique in such a field, if that is what you are going for in life. Yet for me it’s about the things that happen in a fraction of a second that sends my mind ablaze with wonder, and obsession.
I hit a major milestone with some of my professional work a few years back and came into some expendable cash so that’s when I bought my fast draw rig and my new Ruger Vaquero. The very first thing I did, because I had been thinking of it for over twenty years, was find a fast draw organization that I could join up with and master the art. That’s when I noticed that the Cowboy Fast Draw Association really had everything figured out—the targeting system you could buy from them and it came all ready to set up and use and the ammunition was easy to get. The wax bullets I get for a good price from CFDA and the shotgun primers I get at Cabela’s about every few weeks in boxes of 1000. To get good at something like Cowboy Fast Draw you have to practice a lot and to do that you have to get the economics lined up correctly. The way they have things set up in the Cowboy Fast Draw Association it costs about .06 per shot. To get to where you see me in the video above I have fired about 10,000 rounds at the target shown which is about $600 of investment in ammunition which might sound like a lot, but for shooting it really isn’t. It’s almost as cheap as BB gun shooting, but Cowboy Fast Draw is much better. By the time I get to my next 10,000 shots, I will likely get my times down by .100 of a second. Perhaps by the next 50,000 shots, I may even do better than that. If you watch the video in slow motion taken from many angles, the areas for improvement are the time reacting to the light and the time from drawing the gun and actually pulling the trigger. We are all taught that the way to shoot is to aim with the targeting bead carefully so the tendency to get the gun out in front of you is very instinctual. But to get the fast times you really need to fire right out of the holster. When I bought that holster I commissioned it from Bob Mernickle who makes holsters specifically to the stringent rules of the Cowboy Fast Draw Association just to be safe, and I have to say that it is my favorite thing in the world. When I come home from a hard day, nothing feels better than putting on my fast draw rig and practicing a little fast draw. There really isn’t anything better in the world than the smell of gun smoke, Hoppes gun cleaner, and finely worked leather to the sounds of talk radio giving you the news of the day. I’ve had a very good life and I have owned many things that made me very happy, but my fast draw rig and the Ruger Vaquero that rest in it is the best thing I’ve ever owned. There is great symbolic meaning which is very important to me patriotically as well as philosophically that come with them.
Until I shot that video the other day I wasn’t sure how I was doing. I didn’t worry about the form or how it looked; I just practiced with an eye on being able to compete within a few years. I talked about it here when I started and I have been having fun with it. I was pretty happy with the video I saw. Everything happens so fast that it’s difficult to tell what is going on until you slow things down for analysis. But so far so good, and I share it just in case some of my readers out there want to use it as an entry point into the sport for themselves. It’s an all American past time and just the function of it is important to the philosophic development of the Cowboy Way which is something everyone would do well to learn—especially young people. Other cultures—especially the Japanese, certainly are proud of their artistic warrior arts which put their societies on the map of relevancy. In America, gunfighting is a martial art of our own invention and I think it’s time we embrace it—formally, not just in old movies. Cowboy Fast Draw is a great way to do that. You can practice at your own home relatively cheaply and it really gets you close to the spirit of America. For me, it’s that quest to show how accurate a person can be shooting from the hip. As those who have been so critical of my way of thinking about most all things, the proof that it’s possible is obvious. But I’m not done yet.
Kathy Griffin did make me laugh, which is what she says she aspires to, but not for the reasons she desired. I laughed because her press conference was so insane that it was out of this world funny. Griffin and her ridiculously idiotic lawyer, Lisa Bloom made absolute assess of themselves which provoked in me more laughter than I’ve had in years over their astonishing claims of victim hood.
It was Kathy Griffin who put herself in that situation by filming a scene of her holding the severed head of Donald Trump—a sitting president—obviously attempting to provoke enough anger among her base to trigger someone into committing an assassination attempt. If the political left’s standard of social responsibility is to be gauged the way that they did when Sarah Palin used gun targets on her website as a way to indicate elected positions that needed to be challenged by Republicans and was blamed for instigating assassination conjecture against Gabrielle Gifford—then what Kathy Griffin did can in no way be taken as anything but a direct threat against the President of the United States where jail time is mandated at the very least. Yet here were these two lunatic women—people I traditionally refer to as latté sipping prostitutes because of my own experience with people like this who hide their crazy terrorism behind a social shield of femininity, actually held a big press conference and attempted to play the victim. It was amazingly ludicrous.
You remember all that don’t you dear reader-the situation with Sarah Palin. Well, the social norms for this kind of thing were established by the media on the political left during that debate which really hurt Sarah Palin. She never did really recover over what was technically an innocent use of a graphic to draw focus onto political districts up for grabs in future elections—yet the left insisted that what Palin did was wrong and grossly immoral. So using that same standard what other bases do we have to go on over the pop singer Madonna’s threat to blow up the White House and now this celebrity comic seeking to incite an assassination attempt ISIS style against a sitting president because she doesn’t like the election results which literally just happened a few months ago?
How can we take what Kathy Griffin did as anything but a direct threat? It wasn’t funny in the least and she looked quite serious when she did it. There are a lot of crazy people out there and all we can conclude was that she was trying to set one of them off with this reckless publicity stunt to kill the president. So yeah, the Secret Service has a right to investigate her and probably prosecute her. What she did was not only in bad taste, it was technically illegal. The Trump family had a right to be upset about it and they acted with a lot of class in response. The fault of the entire situation rested with Kathy Griffin and her handlers which Lisa Bloom was obviously part of and they all deserve what’s coming due to their loss in credibility.
Comics, actors and liberal lawyers don’t get to swipe at a lion then wonder why the lion eats them by screaming for the 1st Amendment to protect them. Comics are not a protected class. If it’s good for them, then they can get it coming back. Kathy Griffin did destroy her career this past week when she held up that head of what was supposed to be Donald Trump. If anybody had done something like that during Barack Obama’s presidency the person who did it would have been the subject of Ferguson style riots and they likely would have been lynched on the spot by the political left and their street level minions. I remember being on 700 WLW radio with Doc Thompson several years ago when Obama launched a website called Attack Watch which people like us were on just for showing an opposition toward the president’s policies. Listen below for review. We remember how it felt to be the opposing party of a sitting president—and we remember how close we all came to tyranny in America. Using the political left’s own criteria Kathy Griffin should be in jail right now, she certainly shouldn’t be having a press conference espousing victim-hood.
And that’s what’s so funny about this case, it truly shows how loony the political left really is. I mean we’ve seen it for years and conservatives have sort of laughed it off—we certainly did when they went after Sarah Palin over the website controversy already mentioned, and we did when Obama showed how insecure he was with the Attack Watch threat to put people like me under the threat of government enforcement for just having a different political view. I was always very careful not to do anything that could be construed as a threat even in my own home because I knew they were always listening waiting for me to make a mistake which they could twist into a prosecutable offense. If Kathy Griffin felt she could hold up a severed head in front of a camera imagine what she and her friends talk about at dinner parties and other places where they think nobody on the outside is listening? I’m sure they’ve said things that would put them on a watch list for the Secret Service
We put up with the losers the left has given us for many years and occasionally I would speak with people who wondered why nobody had tried to kill Barack Obama—because we all hated him. The guy didn’t represent us and he was constantly trying to use the power of the federal government to weaken our nation and intrude on our lives. If you look back to that period where the political left made such a big deal about Sarah Palin—which was only 5 to 6 years ago as of this writing, we are a completely different nation now. Even when I had my famous “latté sipping prostitute” scandal in that 2012 time frame we are not the same kind of nation now than we were then. Many more people would agree with me today than they were prepared to admit even back then. That was about as far as any of us on the political right would have went—none of us would have held up a severed head of Barack Obama and thought it appropriate. Even the craziest Alex Jones antics on the air would have refused to have made a direct threat against a sitting president because we at least were that civil. Instead we focused on using the election process to replace all these idiots—which is what we’ve done—and how things are supposed to work. Making threats to kill someone is not appropriate under any condition. And you can’t hide behind “art” hoping to provoke some loser out there into doing the dirty work for you. Kathy Griffin should have known better and her crazy lawyer Lisa Booth shouldn’t have even been near a camera trying to defend what the comedian had done.
At some point the political left and right will cease to be—one side is going to win and one side will lose. The Overton Window will move in one direction and stay there as a reflection of American culture and the left can see that they’ve lost their ground made psychologically over the many years of their insurgency. I didn’t even know who Kathy Griffin was two days ago—but now she put herself on the radar of many conservative people—that vast red space on the political maps of our country that voted for Donald Trump. Kathy is only funny in her groups of liberal friends or with people just as dumb as she is. At least half the nation doesn’t find her brand of comedy funny in the least. I thought it interesting that Jim Carry came out in defense of her—notice he’s not in movies anymore. Nobody wants to see him since he did his hit piece on the memory of Charlton Heston over gun rights. That event pretty much ruined his career and what Kathy did was so much worse. Yet these idiots keep doing these things thinking that they can take shots, but that the shots won’t come back at them. No, that’s not how it works.
For those angry that Donald Trump is the president I have news for you. He’s there because we put him there. He represents people like me. I got sick of the insanity and I wanted a politician in the White House who represented me and the type of people I know to fix the mess that the political left infected us all with. I don’t want to live in their world with their rules. I don’t want to associate with Jim Carry or Kathy Griffin’s wrinkled up old ass in any way. I don’t want them on my television or in my movies and I certainly don’t want their advice. And like I said over seven years ago on a video I did, I don’t think they should even be in America. If they want the kind of society that is typically found in Europe, then move there and live that life. Leave us alone. But Trump isn’t president because of any other factor than that we put him there as the other half of the nation that was just tired of people like Kathy Griffin being in our elected offices. We had enough and voted for someone different and the political left doesn’t have an answer—and we know that.
We didn’t threaten to kill any of your people—not to your faces anyway—and we remained pretty civil even when we had a right to take many things very personal. But we never did what Kathy Griffin did. She did a lot more than cross the line—she showed just how terrible the political left is—and how normal lunacy is on her side of the political aisle. She not only ruined her career, but she inspired many people to snap out of the spell that the political left has on their minds and made them see the light. There are more people leaning right today than left because of Kathy Griffin—but that’s not what’s funny. What made this whole thing such a laughable enterprise was that she actually expected to get away with it revealing the true insanity that was always there but hidden behind social convention. But then to defend it as if she were a victim—now that was hilarious.
Pride is the primary emotion in reaction to my representative in the White House, Donald Trump, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord. It had to happen and was one of the reasons I fought so hard for Donald Trump to win that election. Climate change is a fictional religion that the political left has adopted to replace Christianity and they are really more of a cult than science. Mankind’s impact on the environment is negligible. It was only 15,000 years ago that the sea levels were so low that you could walk from where London is now to Paris on dry land. Then at times even more distant, huge parts of North America were at the bottom of the sea—which is why we have so many fossils in Ohio that are of sea creatures. You can’t save the cities of Miami, New York and Venice by throwing token sacrifices of environmental concern to the gods of the sky and hope that sea levels will always stay the same. Nothing stays the same regarding climate which is why if mankind is to survive, it must move to space. This little geological window that has given rise to all humanity opens and closes quickly and no Paris agreement will stop that. Climate change is a cult and nothing more which is why I am so proud in Donald Trump for starting the process of getting America away from it.
I applaud the efforts of people who want clean air and energy—particularly at Tesla and other Elon Musk endeavors. But their grip on science in the case of climate change is really infantile. The way that the political left melted down after Trump’s announcement can only be described as a group of people who had their religion stripped away—because nothing about their reactions were rooted in science. The Paris agreement as Trump said was always about crippling American industry and redistributing its wealth to other counties which is why Obama signed up for it—and now that the reality of that not happening has set in, those countries hoping to receive that wealth are upset about it.
As I’ve said many times over the last few months, I just came back from Paris in February of this year and the place is a dump. They have no right to even have their name on anything instructing the world on how to behave. Paris is a joke of a city—dirty, broken and stuck in its ancient past. They have some nice art—but that’s about it. There is nothing bright and new about Paris so they are in no position to lead the world toward anything. It was arrogant of them to even assume such a role—they are a socialist country not that far behind Venezuela in complete collapse—and now they seek to appease the nature gods with this silly climate cult. Give me a break!
It really isn’t about science or even politics, the global climate people are just another religion competing against Christianity for the philosophic position of universal relevancy. Is mankind the instigator of all thought and all the resources of the world at their disposal, or is man just another animal of nature under the rainbows of Mother Earth—and it is the task of humans to worship the goddess the way that Hindus have cherished Shiva? The Paris accord was always a gateway to a new religion that is in direct competition with Christianity—which is also why the same supporters of climate change support methods of destroying Christianity through radical Islamic terrorism, or by becoming atheists in a way themselves so to allow for people to seek out their new religion to replace the old crusty one from Rome. We were never talking about science—we’ve always been talking about a cult with figures like Al Gore being the modern version of Joseph Smith.
To step against the Paris agreement is to separate church and state—because that’s all that leftists have been trying to achieve—religious impression not much different from the Catholic rule of Europe during the Middle Ages. The political left wanted a new aristocracy of church clergy running the world from government positions using the huge umbrella of Earth Mother worship as the foundation of their cult and that was to instigate a transfer of wealth from America back into Europe and the Asian countries all the while crushing the only capitalist country left on earth. It was a military insurrection all in the name of religion—just like the Crusades—but this time it was set in modern times without swords—but with new laws and a promise of imprisonment. The radical aims of the cult were no different from any religious crusade throughout history. This time however, the cult was busted before it could take full effect.
The Hollywood actors and even entertainment producers like Disney’s Bob Iger are the mindless spokesmen for this new age religion. They don’t think—people think for them which is why they are in entertainment. And their reaction to Trump’s speech was violent—the way any cult followers would react once the cord attaching themselves to their foundation material was cut leaving them feeling vulnerable. These are people whose understanding of science is about five minutes deep. It is unlikely any of them can even fathom events that occurred four thousand years ago let alone 15,000 years ago when the English Channel was a vast meadow with flowers, trees and wildlife—all of which is now underwater.
I also recently visited the very nice little city of Brighten, England which is a kind of tourist destination at the south looking out over the Channel toward France. It’s common for Hollywood actors homesick from the beaches of L.A. to go south from London to Brighten to play on the weekends while filming movies up at Pinewood.
As I sat sipping on a beer near the pier I watched the people and they had no clue that in a relatively short period of time geologically that there was no water brushing up against the coast of Brighten, but only a long hill that went about 10 miles out then back up again into what is now France and that under all that water was likely many ancient towns from people long gone, erased from memory because they had built their entire civilization along the coast, just as Brighton was now—only to be displaced because of rising oceans—and back then there were no factories, coal plants, or cars creating contaminates dangerous to “Mother Earth.” The people of Brighton I doubt even knew that the entire coastline of south England was a recently new phenomenon.
Climate science is simply an ignorant cult sponsored by modern political activists who lean left and quietly support economic communism using the goddess Mother Earth as a deity to sacrifice our economic means to. It is an intrusion of religion into state affairs by seeking to sabotage science to sell communism pure and simple. That is why the Paris accord favored the communist state of China while penalizing the United States economically. It’s a scam, and I’m so glad that we finally have a president who was willing to do the right thing and stand against this cultish global incursion. In the fight for American sovereignty, this is just one step—but what a big step it was. Bravo Donald Trump, you did good.
