It was wonderful for me to watch the battle between Republicans and Democrats at the RNC in Cleveland. It was as if my many words here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom over the years finally emerged into action by several people at the highest and lowest levels of the war we have fighting. Finally, conservatives–or at least those voting for the Republican Party under the banner of Donald Trump—are fighting back—and they are winning.
As Donald Trump gave what I thought was an epic speech taking on global intrusions against American sovereignty, Alex Jones and the former campaign manager for Trump—Roger Stone, crashed the set of the vile liberal show Young Turks. I really hate those guys—especially that loser progressive Cenk Uygur who has made fun of my brand of conservatism for years without being checked for it. Those days are over. Watch this!
It is nice to finally see other people joining, and winning at this fight. Now all you have to do is join it! I’ve been here for a long time. Finally, it’s a winning position and that is a big first step into solving a lot of problems.
It is important to listen to the other side—these stringy haired, flat-assed, dick head, sons of bitches—these maniacal losers who produce and appear in front of the camera on the show, Real Time With Bill Maher. During their show which took place after the third night of the Republican National Convention, admitted communists, Bill Maher and Michael Moore predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidency and they showed their fear of what might become of their erosive progressive society. Personally I hate these people. It shames me that they breathe the same air that I do—they certainly don’t think the same way. As miserable as they are, I would suggest that they move to some other country more applicable to their political values, like South Africa. But since they are fighting for a right to sit at the big table in America and have shown themselves to be domestic terrorists undermining traditional American philosophy—we need to know who we are fighting. So watch their show and learn who the enemy is.
One of the takeaways from the Republican National Convention in Ohio which obviously scared the national media were the calls from the floor demanding that Hillary Clinton be locked up. It stunned the mainstreamers that people would actually say such a thing about a rival presidential candidate. What’s different, and what many of them have not yet admitted to themselves, is that Hillary Clinton is an actual criminal who has been trying to hijack the American government after she worked in the 70s to impeach Richard Nixon.
I’ve known for a long time that I was going to support Donald Trump for president. I made the case for him way back in 2011—I had read many of his books and I understand the way he thinks. I also understand his parenting style—because I have pretty much have the same manner. I also have a very similar management style professionally so I am not stunned by what a great success the Trump children are—but a lot of people apparently are. So let them get to know just how great Trump’s children are starting with Donald Trump Jr.—the oldest son.
Great speech! But we expect nothing less from a Trump.
For those not at the RNC convention, or watching it on television, the Chris Christie prosecution of Hillary Clinton was striking. The New Jersey governor and the former presidential candidate pointed out many of the highlights of Hillary’s failures which can’t be disputed by the progressive left. So here it is as he delivered it—and use it wisely to help a friend learn more about why they are stupid if they vote for the vile criminal, Hillary Clinton.
Now this is the way an American president should enter an RNC convention—and this is also how a first lady should look and behave. This is what I expect out of my representatives and why I have been for Donald Trump from the start. But the important stuff that has been happening has not been part of most of the media broadcasts and many of them involve the Alex Jones portion of the Republican Party. Probably the two best things from day one of the Republican Convention in Cleveland, Ohio 2016 was the “Hillary For Prison” banner flying over the entire city and Jones confronting establishment Bush Republican, Karl Rove at the airport baggage claim—who has been anti-Trump fervently.
Then of course there is Dinesh D’Souza showing off his new movie, Hillary’s America and suddenly as you look around the convention and it is obvious that Republicans are finally starting to stick up for themselves—and that is what the media is not reporting on any outlet. It starts with Trump’s entrance on stage and ends with people like Alex Jones fighting with Karl Rove at the airport. So here are some videos of that first day which paints a picture everyone should see of a new Republican Party emerging with a vengeance.
The Nathan Drake adventures on the Playstation game systems have reminded me often of my experiences from 1983 through 1988. I love the games and the character of Nathan Drake. Up until recently I thought Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was one of the greatest video games ever made. The video game company Naughty Dog actually did something unthinkable, they are challenging great movie characters like Indiana Jones for the right to be king of the storytelling venue, and up until Uncharted 4: A Thieves End—which just came out in May of 2016 I thought they were scratching the surface. However, I have given myself some time recently to play the 4th game, with great anticipation on my part. Even though in my life I have shelved many of the traits about Nathan Drake’s life which remind me so much of my early years I deeply wanted to see how Naughty Dog would end the story of that very likable character—as this is slated to be the end of the series as we know it. After playing Uncharted 4 let me report that it is jaw dropping great. I had high expectations but even so, it far exceeded those in every way. By the time the credits concluded I had a very similar feeling as I did the very first time I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, only this was better, because the game was much longer and had time to jump into the lives of the characters in a storytelling fashion that I think was Academy Award winning. The acting and pacing was so good that it rivals the best films Hollywood has ever produced—like Citizen Kane for set design and drama, or James Bond for sheer action and scope of circumstance. As just an example of how good the game is, how it looks and how magnificent it is the video below is actual game play. It looks like a movie but I can confirm that everything you see is a playable element. It is quite astonishing.
If you have not yet played the game you may want to return to this article once you have as spoilers will follow. I thought there were a number of elements about Uncharted 4 that were quite extraordinary story wise, and those items will be discussed—so if you don’t want to know, stop here.
Was I happy with the ending? Actually, I was amazed by the ending. It was so refreshing, that an entertainment company actually produced a story that featured strong characters with healthy relationships. It was good to see that Nate and his wife actually lived happily ever after—that the events of the previous games were really about Nathan Drake coming to terms with his past and living a healthy future. And it was nice to see that they gave birth to a daughter who was living a successful life with them. Nathan Drake managed to also maintain positive relationships with his brother and his father figure mentor Sully as the years after Uncharted 4 progressed. It was the happiest ending I’ve seen since the conclusion of the very first Back to the Future movie—it was satisfying in every way. My wife and I kind of looked at each other after the story concluded because honestly it was like Naughty Dog had been spying on our own lives together over the years even down to the characters of the new daughters. I was certainly able to relate to the ending—to say the least. I was so pleased that millions of video game players were able to experience these Nathan Drake adventures which featured such positive role models and outcomes. No wonder the game is so popular—the ending showed me that video games have become the dominate form of storytelling in our modern culture surpassing movies and novels finally. In a lot of ways Uncharted 4 is the greatest story ever told—it is certainly the greatest treasure hunt surpassing Raiders of the Lost Ark or even Humphrey Bogart’s Treasure of Sierra Madre. The people at Naughty Dog knew what they were doing and they pulled it off with sheer audacity. Such a good ending to the story of Nathan Drake—especially for those who have spent the last ten years enjoying the Uncharted franchise. Hollywood would have never dared to give fans such a positive ending.
What started as a rip off of the Tomb Raider franchise—which was a female rip-off of Indiana Jones, Uncharted had evolved into its own thing by the third video game. Even the makers of the Tomb Raider games had realized that Uncharted was literally going someplace nobody had thought previously possible. So by the time Naughty Dog set out to do Uncharted 4, they were truly in “uncharted” territory for any storytelling medium. The game designers appeared to be aware that they were laying foundations that every video game and movie company in the future would have to live up to and they were enjoying it. There were times where they were actually showing off their technical abilities just because they could.
Libertalia was very interesting in that it actually fits politically into the discussion of our times—really the philosophic difference between libertarians, and the Tea Party movement. What a lot of people don’t know is that the American Revolution was ignited by the actions of these very pirates central to the Uncharted 4 story so I consider the narrative an important one which shaped the actual Libertalia which become America. But for the founders of Libertalia, what a concept, a utopian paradise founded by renegades from all the world governments and all the possible problems that might arise from it. I found the entire concept extremely compelling. Then to walk around that environment in a 3D world was really something to behold. The sense of scale was truly incredible. These Uncharted makers obviously have experience with real world adventures as their physics through caves, with rappelling and climbing and geography was spot on—nearly real world in their feel. If not for some of the over-the-top gun battles, and climbing, Uncharted 4 could be a simulation of real life.
It’s really hard to pick a favorite part of the game for me, because after I was finished, it seemed like a really long journey. I took my time getting through the game—spending about three weekends completing it. Ironically, I think the chapter where Nathan and his brother break into the old mansion to get back their mother’s personal possessions was the most compelling, which I didn’t expect. Nathan’s mother supposedly committed suicide when he was very young forcing him to grow up in an orphanage run by nuns. Uncharted 4 opens with Drake and his brother in a Panamanian jail and it is very gritty. Through the series Drake is in many jails yet he’s highly intelligent walking a very fine line between ghetto thug and world-class traveler. So it was interesting and realistic to learn that Nathan’s mother was a genius scholar who had obviously brushed elbows with powerful people and something bad happened to her. Her absence in the lives of her children obviously sent them down a dark path leaving them with relationship troubles later in their lives as they had been a relatively happy family. As young children that happiness was ripped from them and they spent the rest of their days trying to get it back which culminated around the secret treasure of Henry Avery—a character of obsession for their mother. I thought that the Naughty Dog team went so much further than Spielberg could in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in taking such an interesting globetrotting adventurer and grounding him into something internally driven by overbearing parents and childhood disappointments. Even in the Panamanian jail, Drake and his brother seem too smart for their circumstances, but psychologically damaged by their upbringing. Apparently they got just enough from their mother to be smart and inquisitive young people, but not enough to stay out of trouble. The story was to me, deeply intelligent.
And that is the triumph of Uncharted 4, not just as a Playstation only video game, but as a mechanism for storytelling. It is a shame that such a magnificent story doesn’t have the ability to reach everyone, but it certainly does justify the expense of buying a PS4 just so that people can play this video game. It is worth every penny the cost of not only the game at $60 dollars, but the $300 cost of a PS4. I haven’t played many of these types of games over the last five or six years. Previous favorites were Red Dead Redemption and of course Star Wars: The Old Republic. But this Uncharted game is just another step in creating virtual realities and telling stories in those realms. Recently after buying a Samsung 4K 70” television the first thing I wanted to do was get an updated gaming system so I could catch up on some of the new titles that have been produced in the video game world. The highest on my list was Uncharted 4 which was coming up at the time. With that said, the game was gorgeous blown up big and in 4K—nearly flawless. It really was a game that hit every mark on a high note and was something truly to behold and enjoy. If you get the chance, take the adventure. It’s not the only reason I spent 5K on an entertainment system, but I would do it again just to play Uncharted 4 once. It will last in your mind for a lifetime. It is my new favorite video game, and one of my most beloved adventure stories. It has the depth of an adventure novel, the action of a summer blockbuster, and the romance of an Academy Award winning motion picture. I really don’t think Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn could have ever imagined the type of storytelling exhibited in Uncharted 4. It is a new gold standard that will certainly stand the test of time and is one of the greatest adventure stories EVER told. What a great experience Naughty Dog! Thanks!
Do yourself a favor and watch the videos included above. The effort put into Uncharted 4 is just incredible, and it certainly shows—an A+ in every single category.
By the way, I know many of the people who were at the $2,700 a plate dinner which was conducted before the Sharonville rally, and take heart that it was well attended. Trump has no trouble with either large or small dollar donations.
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Don’t take your eye off the ball ladies and gentlemen. The story of the day on July 8, 2016 is that Hillary Clinton committed perjury in front of congress which was revealed during the James Comey hearing the day before. The media seeking to help their candidate hide in the shadows of an offense that has jail time attached to it responded by playing the murders of two African-American men by police in graphic detail which stirred up the Black Lives Matters communists into a predicted froth which exploded in downtown Dallas by nightfall, leaving 5 police officers dead and many others wounded. But make no mistake about it–that is not the lead story of the day. It is Hillary, because once again it was the political left’s mismanagement of government resources that has caused all these problems in the first place—so don’t become distracted by the sadness of the tragedy in Dallas.
Cops are not the bulk of the problem here, and believe me, I’m not an open apologist for them. I think the mistake that police departments make during their recruiting is that they all too often put young men hungry to prove their manhood in positions of infinite authority—and often the cops don’t handle that responsibility very well at all. Let me provide two recent examples that I observed firsthand. On the Fourth of July I had a massive fireworks display that went on for over an hour. For me, the 4th is all about celebrating defiance and reminding those in authority that if they get out of control, that we will remove them from power with force if needed, and take back our country from the clutches of tyranny. So I could care less if the fireworks I had were legal or not. With that said, I was firing them off and they were loud. Near my home is a trailer park which I consider to be an eyesore to the fine community that I live in. Not everyone, but most of the people living there are drug fueled losers doing the bare minimum in life that is required and they live pathetic existences. When I see them at the local gas station where I often get fuel and meet them at the cashier’s counter they often stink–they smell like cigarettes and undeodorized sweaty malcontents. As I pay for my gas they pay for cigarettes, beer for breakfast, and lottery tickets. I don’t like them and they don’t like me. With that relationship in context, they called the cops on me over twenty times during my firework display and after the big climax which filled up the sky with fire; a young cop came into my backyard asking if I was done yet.
It’s a really stupid idea to walk into my backyard unannounced—in fact, it’s dangerous. That cop should have known better, he should have come to the front door–very dumb to walk on a man’s property in the dark and to come up behind him—especially at my house. But the young kid thought he had the right as a cop to go anywhere he wanted and if we weren’t so happy with our firework display he might have caught me in a bad mood. Smartly, he read my face and didn’t push the issue. He said the right things about the idiots who called the police which took off the edge and the exchange was friendly. But I could tell the kid was ready for a fight until he thought differently about the situation once he met my family—and probably Googled my name. He left trying to make himself sound important by saying that he hoped he wouldn’t have to come back out again. My thoughts were—what better thing did he have to do—really? Play on his phone in his police car? He was a cocky little guy untested and looking to use his badge as a way to show his social status of authority to others. If I had been a different kind of person, a different color, social class, or even just a little less legally knowledgeable, that exchange would have been much different.
Just a few days later I was with my wife at the Donald Trump rally in Sharonville, Ohio. Of course there were police everywhere, Hamilton County sent out a lot of troopers as did Butler County and the Highway Patrol. Most of the cops were nice people who were trying to help. But on the way out after the event was over I happened to have parked near the route where the Secret Service was planning to take Trump and his assembly back to the airport. So the Highway Patrol shut down the road while the motorcade prepared to go by. A little 5’, 5” kid dressed in a Highway Patrol outfit with the typical buzz cut on his hairline was very animated in the road yelling at people to get out of the road otherwise Trump’s Secret Service people would run “their asses over.” The kid was drunk on power and using the circumstance to justify his ego boost acquired by the position his badge gave him over others. He was using the power granted to him by the state to abuse people under a crises situation. If someone around me had even looked like they were going to pull out a gun they would have been shot dead in less than a second because cops like that kid are looking for any excuse they can get to prove their valor in the face of danger. It’s a real problem these days in a culture that has shit all over masculinity pushing insecure little guys like that into serving as a Highway Patrolman so that he might get the opportunity to prove that he’s not a little pussy. Once Trump went by all the cops got into their cars and cleared the road, and we all moved about our business. I know better around timid types like that little cop than to scare them in any way. They are jittery and trigger happy and they shouldn’t be given so much authority. But the management of our Highway Patrol actually recruits these types of people, so that’s what we get on the roads. Most of the time I’m glad the cops are there, because they prevent outright social anarchy, but in times of crises—or the hint of crises, they use their acquired power to prop themselves up in psychological stature.
As an intelligent, cultured white male, I know how to deal with timid cops. I don’t challenge them while they have the power position—I know when dealing with them that I have thousands of other ways to skin a cat, and after talking to me for a little bit they realize it, and back off their eagerness to draw a gun and shoot someone to prove that they are men. It might be remembered that we had an issue of police violence in good ol’ West Chester, Ohio—one of the nicest communities in the world—and even there, several cops took the opportunity to beat up a drunk guy after hours at a local sports bar. It’s in the nature of other human beings when they have power that they abuse that power. When dealing with cops, because most of them are not intellectual giants, the most powerful weapon you can have is intelligence. But if you challenge them power to power—they will kill you, because they have the authority of the state to do it. Even that kid who came into my backyard. If I had threatened him in any way he would have seized the opportunity to abuse his authority in less than a second. Like I said, there are other ways to skin a cat, and I use them all. But you just don’t challenge police directly—because they’ll shoot anybody at the slightest provocation.
Black Lives Matters protestors and the culture of inner city people community organized by people like Barack Obama over the years actively have created a culture that wants to challenge the police with physical violence. Like that trailer park trash I spoke about earlier they often live despicable lives making bad choices and getting a bunch of silly arrests on their records so when police show up to investigate a disturbance, the cops are already fingering their triggers. All the cops need is an excuse, and all too often, these Black Lives Matters communists give it to them viewing the killings as a sacrifice for the greater good. The whole problem is a creation of the political left’s incredible mismanagement. On the side of the cops, the progressive labor unions have given police a feeling of entitlement and unity when one of them goes rogue. Then on the side of the Black Lives Matter protestors, the political left has made many of them into dependents on the government and kept the intellectually ill equipped to deal with the world. So when the two forces are brought together bad things happen—like they did in Dallas on 7-7-2016.
Yet notice how quickly the liberalized media even as the Comey testimony revealed that Hillary Clinton had lied to congress during the Benghazi hearings that they played the obvious murder of two black males by cops at point black range. Those types of videos are filmed every day—and while they are bad, they are actually expected. Yet the media played them graphically halfway through the Comey testimony and the lead story of the day due to the stoked media fires that had been heating up all day, became the Dallas massacres by morning. Do you see dear reader how this game is played? So be sure not to take your eyes off the ball. Don’t fall for the laser light on the wall like some dog barking at nothing. Keep your eye on the prize and ensure that Hillary Clinton not only isn’t elected president, but that she go to jail for her crimes—because that’s what she deserves. Shootings between cops and the citizens they are supposed to protect happen every day. Statistically, blacks challenge cops more than whites because of the cultures they are raised in.
The cop that came to my house wasn’t too keen on the type of people who live in that trailer park which gave us some common ground to work with—because the trailer trash live bad lives that makes his job a lot harder. Domestic violence, drugs, prostitution and other despicable enterprises are common around people with low intellect and low ambition no matter what color your skin is. And when such people challenge the authority of the police, they end up shot and that is the way it will always be until we recruit police differently and take away the collective bargaining they enjoy through their FOP unions—which are progressive organizations. And before we do any of that, we need to put in jail a real criminal—someone at the top of the food chain—Hillary Clinton.
A lot of right thinking people believe there is something wrong with Barack Obama’s roots to Islam. When he was first elected president discussion about his religious past was forbidden by the press because they wanted a black president at any cost. They put reason aside and all the facts that were emerging to get him elected. Well, now in hindsight the cost of that debacle is evident. I wouldn’t say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, but it is clear that he is sympathetic toward the religion because of his deep family ties to it. Bill O’Reilly did a good segment on the facts of the matter seen here:
Obama is actually a hybrid of all kinds of screwed up ideas provided to him by his globetrotting, man-jumping mother. Obama’s childhood was filled with Muslims and as O’Reilly stated, it is obvious that the president is too sympathetic toward the Islamic faith to take decisive actions against ISIS—which is a dereliction of duty. As an adult, Obama attended the church of Jeremiah Wright’s religion of “god-damn-America” which is a Chicago hybrid of Christianity, Islam and ghetto politics. It is because of Wright that Obama thinks he can get by with calling himself a Christian.
But his version of it and the rest of America are quite different. However, Obama wouldn’t know that because he is after all not from here. He may have been born in Hawaii even though there is still controversy about even that. Obama was raised in Indonesia by a step-dad who like his actual father was a Muslim. That is if you believe that his real dad was the man who was married to two women at the same time and not the communist Frank Marshall Davis. Obama was a screwed up little boy who grew up into a screwed up man whose sympathies toward Islam has helped fuel the rise of ISIS.
And those are the facts. Pass them along to a friend because Obama has injected himself into the 2016 race, and that makes him fair game once again.
