I think it was way back in August of 2015 that I said I’d considered not contributing articles everyday like I do presently if Donald Trump were elected president—mainly because his presence in the race for the White House, or from the White House does much of what I have been doing with all this work. Well, after tonight’s performance in the East and the strong showing once again in five more states with clear indications of a strong finish in the biggest of all, California—it is clear that Donald Trump should be the Republican nominee for POTUS in 2016. Even with the silly little Kasich/Cruz alliance, the only hope they have is to get to a floor fight at the convention to be president—which won’t go over well as it goes against the popular vote. A lot of people never got over the Bush/Gore tie in 2000 where technically Gore won the popular vote, but Bush won the electoral votes. This Trump situation is much more flammable than even that, so I don’t see anybody but Trump running as a Republican against Hillary Clinton. And as for Hillary, she barely beat Bernie Sanders. She won’t be able to withstand a focused attack by Donald Trump every day. He will simply outwork her, and she won’t win a general election. So for all practical purposes, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States.
I am an excellent judge of character and it may take five or six years for others within the Republican ranks to see what I do in Trump, but history will agree with me. Conservatives are not going to win major elections trying to shift the country radically back to the political right after 100 years of liberal erosion—so you have to pick your battles. Trump is all about the economy, border security, and trade negotiations—which is an excellent place to begin. Real conservatives need to keep their eye on 2024 for all the social issues. You have to fix the economy first and sustain the integrity of our sovereignty before we worry about guys wanting to use the restrooms of girls. These are all big issues but moral depravity escalates when people don’t have money in their pockets. Morality is a lot easier to sell when people have something of value that they appreciate—and right now—we just don’t have that type of society.
Trump from the White House will utilize the power of positive thinking to unlock America’s potential. It won’t be Trump’s policies that do it—it will be his mouth and charisma, and I see a path where he can do a lot more from the White House than the slow trickle that I perform with all my articles trying to teach people to do the same thing in their private lives. The next four to eight years will be a whirlwind and situations will change—and a chapter of our lives will close as a new one begins. That means I need to shift my personal role as well.
I have talked prior about a rather epic novel that I’m working on and I have been flushing out the ideas for quite some time. The articles on this site have played a part of that. But now it’s time to put pen to paper and to pound out the manuscripts. Rather than write the 1200 to 1500 words each day that I do here, my efforts need to go into that commercial work. It’s not the writing itself that is the challenge, it’s the editing and working out the details that takes all the time and that is where I’m going to put my focus at this point That’s not to say that I won’t make any more contributions—I certainly will. But as for the daily articles, it is time to let the chain reaction that many of us in this marketplace have set forth to do their thing and to move to the next phase as we see it.
My path is clear and it will take everything I have to get there. It’s certainly time for me to make this decision. I’ve delayed my indulgence for about a year because of all the volatility at the presidential level. It is hard for people to imagine that one guy like Donald Trump might have such a large impact on our culture but I’d ask those who can remember to recollect the difference between 1979 and 1980. I think the switch from 2016 to 2017 will be much greater and there will be so much news flashing by in such a whirlwind that nobody will be able to keep up. Meanwhile, I have quite an encyclopedia of articles here to help people through that phase and to guide them into making the correct decisions. My next role will be context through art—not in the definition of interpretation—which is what I’ve been doing. Now we need the artistic effort to expand culture and that will be my new focus. For me the work will be similar, I will write everyday toward a known objective—only people won’t see it as they do now. They’ll see it in bulk when the projects are released. For me it is the work of the Great American Novel, something I have been thinking about for quite a long time. How that novel gets published I’m not sure at this time—because that industry has changed so much. But first, you just have to write it then measure how best to distribute it.
As for Donald Trump, I know his people have read here and I hope this site continues to be a source of inspiration. But it’s time for the student to leave the classroom and to utilize what they’ve learned—and I expect that to be the case for everybody—even those silent lurkers who depend heavily on my written words. I’m not going away—I’m just turning inward so that I can build up to the next great phase which we will see a few years from now. When we get there—we all need to be ready and I need to focus on getting it right. I am proud to have played my part in all the multiple fissures that are emerging along the front of establishment debacles. I consider all this a major mission concluded even if people aren’t aware of the explosions and dawn has not yet revealed all the damage.
Trump winning against the establishment—and I consider Cruz part of the establishment—the church wielding branch—I see an open window for a reiteration of the American idea in much the way that Henry Morgan led the pirates of the Caribbean toward the first free establishment of a constitutional republic without the influence of a king. I’m not saying that it will be a moral quest, but it will get us where we want to go as a country among the world. The situation is complicated beyond measure, but ultimately the power of positive thinking will go a long way to getting us there. So enjoy the victory for those riding the Trump train. For those not yet there, see you when you arrive. It might take a while but I trust that you’ll arrive in your own way in your own time. And as for this site, this won’t be the last article. But they won’t come as often as my focus will be on more commercial material—because that’s what’s needed at this point in time. When the smoke clears—all this will make a lot more sense.
Most religions believe in some form of reincarnation around the world—where the spirit of an entity returns to the world of the living in some other form, whether it’s a dog, cat, or another human being—it is something that is heavily revered around the world. Even George Patton believed that he was an ancient warrior from days long gone and that he had been on earth before. One of the things I have always liked most about Star Wars is that they took kid’s topics and wrapped them very carefully into modern religion. The nature of the “Force” is an unusual concept that combines many world religions into an updated moral grounding that I have always thought was healthy.
Star Wars for me was the gateway to Joseph Campbell’s teachings which I discovered during my college age days. I was so affected by Joseph Campbell that traditional college lost its meaning and it sent me into a five-year deep dive from about 19 to 24 years of age reading all his books, particularly The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God series from his work in Transformations of Myth Through Time. When I wasn’t reading Joseph Campbell I was listening to him. I had about twenty hours of lectures by Campbell on tape which I listened to at my various jobs for several years to the point where I knew the material backwards and forward. For another five years I spent reading all the supplement books which inspired Campbell—books like Finnegan’s Wake and Thus Spoke Zarathustra and studying great artists like James Joyce and Thomas Mann so that I could understand Campbell much better. I did all this essentially because Star Wars had inspired in me a desire to deep dive the material of myth and how it informed the human mind about the world we live in and the world that exists beyond four-dimensional living.
I probably could have become something of a museum curator or some world traveler doing work in this field of mythic interpretation—but instead I wanted to turn even further inward and read more and think more. I took jobs that would give me time to read and write yet still take care of my growing family. For me—for about twenty years—from age 20 to 40 years of age I was in my own version of Luke’s Dagobah—working hard, but intellectually developing myself rather intensely and I loved it. My mother told me that when I was one and two years old that I said strange things about the world around me as I was learning—as if I had always known certain things. I don’t think it had anything to do with reincarnation but instead being able to understand what pours forth from the eternal spring of life essence which is at the heart of everything—call it God, call it the “Force” it is beyond human definition. I’ve described my teenage years as being extremely fearless—because I felt I understood that the universe wanted me to live and I pushed my limits to the extreme to see how forgiving it was—and I turned out to be right—it wanted me to live. This evoked in me a strong sense about individualism because it takes such people to tap that well. So this life spent over the subsequent twenty years was designed to figure out the essence of that well the best I could—mostly through literature and artists from the previous 2000 years and a study through Joseph Campbell of comparative religions around the world. I felt that the Star Wars novels were some of the greatest explorations into the nature of life beyond life that I had come across and they were great contributions to the tapestry of mythology. The plot lines in some cases could have been better but the explorations into the “Force” were important in my view—and it was a shame to eject all that for some Disney commercial tripe.
However, in my view this revelation about Rey is something I think advances Star Wars properly—let me just say that. It’s a fairly high concept that will conceivably provoke in many young people hopefully a similar journey as I have been on over most of my life. I will say that if it turns out to be the case, that I will be impressed—which is likely why the information was leaked in the first place. I have been very down on Star Wars since The Force Awakens. Like I said, I haven’t played any video games, or even watched the television show Rebels since seeing The Force Awakens on December 17th 2015.
The mind bender which is pretty important and contrary to our lives is that a soul in whatever configuration that it entails isn’t necessarily the sex it was while it resided in a body during what we might call “life.” When first thinking about the possible direction of the next Star Wars movie, Episode 8, I thought it was a Disney attempt to appease gay rights advocates. But, it is deeper than that—and that’s important. I think it’s so important that I’d consider giving Star Wars another chance because it just might advance the human race—not into the sexual rolls that we play as human beings but into the essence of what we are all made of in the eternal aspect.
However, the roles we play as a culture is important too. Men are men, and women are women—nobody would think to walk into a Navajo tribe and start telling them to make sand paintings different or to rearrange their culture in some disrespectful way—and nobody should attack traditional American culture in a disrespectful fashion the way that progressives do. I would argue that only American culture could produce something like Star Wars in this modern age—because it requires freedom and financial resources to extrapolate from the depths of imagination and to put it in front of the masses in such a spectacular fashion where literally the Internet was buzzing around the globe at the leak about Rey’s parentage. So forcing gay subject matter down the throats of Disney fans is not what I’m talking about. But a sexless existence that is eternal is something I can get excited about. If Star Wars is knocking on the door to heavy mythic representations—then I will go in the door behind it. If not, I’ll be done with it forever. This news about Rey is encouraging to me. I could get on board with that. There may be hope for Star Wars yet.
Needless to say, the timing couldn’t be better for me. I have traveled a lot and been to many different places—around the world—but I can honestly say that there is no place on earth that I’d rather visit for vacation than Orlando, Florida. If I were given the option to take a $100,000 vacation to the Mediterranean or to have an all expense trip paid to Orlando to visit the several major theme parks there—I’d pick Orlando. I have said much about my love of those amusement parks in Central Florida and it looks like through competition the great minds designing new attractions at those parks are giving fans everything they could hope and dream of. I am of course talking about the Skull Island exhibit at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. I am absolutely enthralled by the prospect of that ride and attraction because when it comes to movie monsters—King Kong has always been my favorite—followed very closely by Godzilla. So this is exciting news to me. Then of course is the Star Wars land that is opening at Hollywood Studios over the next couple of years. I have my concerns about Star Wars—and my hope is that they’ll right their ship before that exhibit is completed—but I at least am hopeful at this time that they’ll do a great job.
It is a shame that Disney as a company has decided to take this exciting period and attempt to shove progressive ideas down the throats of their fans. When I showed my wife the footage of what Disney did on their ABC television show Once Upon a Time she declared that she would never buy anything from Disney again. It is one thing to put up with and not discriminate against gay people—but it is quite another to flamboyantly endorse the “lifestyle” and Disney is certainly guilty of that. Uncle Walt would be sick with rage at what his company is doing in regards to gay advocacy. It’s not at all a family friendly strategy and it’s an insult to those of us who wouldn’t otherwise think twice about spending a $10,000 vacation there to give our families a good—wholesome time. While at Disney World I don’t want ANY references to sex—especially gay sex. I want higher concepts and heroic effort—not gayness. I can tell Disney this—as much as I love Disney World—if they continue on with this gay pride crap—we won’t be spending voluminous amounts of money on their company any more. My family has been big supporters of the Disney Company over the years—as recently as last week. We attended a birthday party and it was all about Disney for gifts and balloons. If Disney doesn’t pull in the gayness—I won’t go to their parks ever again—even though I might want to see their latest inventions.
Universal Studios is not a conservative company—they have their progressive trends as well, but they avoid getting into trouble with it. Regarding the recent Jurassic World movie the characters were noticeably very traditional within reason. Chris Pratt was very much an “A” type male who had a clear relationship with women. If they had decided to muddy the water and have members of the same-sex involved with Chris Pratt from a sexual attraction standpoint—I would have a much different feeling about Jurassic World. Call it homophobic, call it the acts of a hater—call it whatever you want. I don’t want to see gayness in my stories. I don’t want to see it at my vacation destinations. And I don’t want it around me in public. Keep it in the bedroom and don’t put it in front of my face. With all that said, Universal Studios is certainly better at walking the line between social activism and traditional family behavior than Disney is—and their amusement parks currently are doing a better job of providing a safe environment for families. Maybe that is because the bar is lower for Universal than Disney—as Disney is known for its family friendly material. But I find myself much more excited right now for Kong: Skull Island than for the new Star Wars land at Hollywood Studios.
I have zero interest in seeing the new Avatar land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Avatar is one of the most progressive films I’ve ever seen and even though up to that point I was a James Cameron fan—he ruined his reputation with me on that project. Technically, Avatar was a beautiful film—but the anti capitalist message in the movie was just despicable. Avatar celebrated tribalism and the whole global warming environmental message—and it was just sickening. It is almost as gross as the gay agenda—the proposal that earth is a living conscience superseding human invention. Its one thing to appreciate nature—it’s quite another to worship it. Avatar is about worshiping nature—and I’m not into that. Mankind should look at nature and think of it as paint for which it can make magnificent art. Nature is a foundation for thought—not a dominate force against it. So I may never go to Animal Kingdom to see the Avatar exhibit. Not the best decision in the world for Disney execs.
But relatively safe from political contention is King Kong and the mythology of Skull Island. We don’t have to worry about homosexual sex and environmental messages with monsters wanting to kill us—so it makes for a nice comfortable, thrilling adventure that you expect while on vacation. Nobody wants to be lectured to about progressive politics if they are Midwestern conservatives spending many thousands of dollars on a vacation experience. And there are a lot more of those Midwestern conservatives than there are progressive homosexuals and urban rap artists. I understand that these large entertainment companies want to be as inclusive as possible so not to turn away the potential for making a good ol’ dollar, but in cases of politics, they have to pick their poison. They can’t have it both ways. Don’t put sexual lifestyles in front of us then expect good conservative Christians seeking strong family values to put up with the intrusion on their life. Nobody wants to spend $235 dollars a night to stay at a Disney hotel to see a bunch of rainbow gay people running around ruining the environment. At Skull Island, there is no fear of gay themes because it’s all about monsters and destruction, and that is something to look forward to.
So it is just a little exciting to have the prospect of visiting Skull Island at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure—and I hope to see the major improvements to their Jurassic Park section of the part rolled into the mix. It doesn’t get much better than dinosaurs and giant monsters and I will spend a lot of money to support that kind of thing. When I’m on vacation I don’t want to see a bunch of fairies, and gay people—and I certainly don’t want to be lectured to about environmentalism. That is why Universal Studios is pulling out in front of Disney in the theme park business. Even though Disney is a sentimental favorite—Disney has shot itself in the foot with their progressivism. Would Harry Potter be as popular as it is if Harry fell in love with a guy as opposed to a girl—of course not? With such love and fairy tales there is always the promise of happily ever after with children and a continuation of the family name when romance is developed in a story. But with gay people—it’s just sex—the love goes nowhere and as a plot device—is pointless. Universal has filled its theme parks with superheroes, robots, and stunning action rides that allow visitors to truly feel like they are getting away from the outside world. But more and more at Disney are the reminders of their pro-gay protests against state legislation in Georgia and North Carolina. They are too progressively active to appeal to the American conservative base and it is starting to show. I know if I feel the way I do about them, then others are not far behind. With that consideration, Skull Island is looking more appealing than Star Wars right now—because I have a very strong hunch that Disney is about to ruin Star Wars with a gay story line just as they are with their Once Upon a Time television series.
I don’t have to worry about gay plot lines with King Kong and that is wonderful. But if King Kong suddenly becomes about gay monkey sex—then I’m done with him too. I don’t care how cool the monsters looks—I’ll be done with King Kong the moment he wants to play with another giant ape’s ding dong. Because that kind of emotional stuff just isn’t cool. Monsters that want to kill each other for dominance is—and for that reason I’m really looking forward to Skull Island at Universal Studios, Florida.
Matt Clark needed to head out-of-town so he asked me to host his WAAM radio show at 1 PM on Saturday, which I accepted. For just such occasions I now have a home studio to broadcast from since with my busy schedule, it is nearly impossible for me to actually do so from a fixed location. It had been a very busy Saturday morning—so busy that there wasn’t even time to eat breakfast, so as I was doing show prep about a half hour before going on the air my wife brought me some Chick-fil-A to eat. While I ate I was watching the news on a studio monitor. This is what I saw:
WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Once I got on the air I unloaded all the connecting events that had happened just during that particular news week and finished off with the conclusion that America was at the end of its rope. We needed to take action right now to correct our treacherous conditions otherwise we wouldn’t get a second chance. This is what it sounded like. Click the link, sit back and listen—then share it with a friend.https://soundcloud.com/clarkcast/april-16-2016-guest-hosted-by-rich-hoffman-4-16-16-podcast
First I spoke about the Russian jets buzzing American ships in the Baltic. Putin has been openly challenging American interests around the globe. He calculated that under the Obama presidency that the military would not fire on his pilots and that he could flex his muscle in the Baltic region. He was right much to all of our embarrassments. America should have shot down those Russian jets. It is hard to take the life of other people, but the Russians shouldn’t have provoked our military.
Donald Trump is about to win New York big, which shouldn’t be a surprise. Running a populist campaign Trump is at a severe disadvantage to other political candidates who know the system better than him, because they helped create the rules. Trump needs a very dominating victory in New York otherwise this whole election process will linger on needlessly. Kasich is going nowhere, and neither is Cruz. For the sake of the Republican Party, it needs to get behind Trump. Otherwise Trump will need to start his own party so that the focus can shift to a general election victory instead of all the party oriented politics.
Hillary Clinton is running for president even though she’s under investigation by the FBI. Think about how amazing that is—we actually have the first woman running for president with a barrage of scandals on her coat tails—and she’s the expected front-runner. This would have been the story of the decade in the 80s or 90s, but with all the topics of our day, it’s just one element that is almost background noise.
We have over 19 trillion dollars in national debt which to me is the biggest story of all. We are actually talking about 21 trillion dollars within a few years of now, and that is unfathomable. On the radio show I proceeded to talk about all the regions of the country planning to file for bankruptcy to get out from under all this massive debt—but there is nowhere to run. At the current 19 trillion-dollar deficit it exceeds our national GDP and is big trouble for having any hope at actually paying it off in our lifetimes. This is the clear exhibition of incompetent management of our government and it demands immediate action to avoid default. The only way out is massive economic expansion of 7% to 10%–to have a chance at surviving with our national sovereignty.
Socialists around the country are demanding $15 dollars an hour for minimum wage which is insane. Money is a measurement of value—if money is just handed out indiscriminately, it loses its value and inflation is invoked. It is truly pathetic that more people do not understand basic economic concepts. Fast-food workers are not worth $15 dollars an hour by market measurement. The government backed increase will only cost jobs because it will force companies to automate their processes to cover their margins. To the socialists that are causing all these problems globally, they just don’t understand that money is a measurement of values which they don’t see or understand because their emphasis is on equality—which essentially is a unit of measure that throws out all judgment. You can’t have any kind of functional society without human judgment. One thing I do on this site is write abundant articles on archaeology, as I am pretty obsessed with the causes of demise regarding ancient cultures. I would attribute this tendency of demise to the Vico cycle which is a recurring theme given to human inclination hard-wired into our brains. It is up to us to rewire ourselves to think differently and to make a conscious decision to step away from that destructive cycle. The $15 dollar an hour minimum wage proposal is a promise to destroy our economy—which has always been the goal of socialists.
John Kasich is an unmitigated, delusional idiot totally out of touch from reality. Watching him run for president makes you wonder if that guy has actually retained his sanity. I think he has lost it somewhere over the last few years—he is certainly not the same person I knew back in 2010. He sounds like a babbling fool and he’s just embarrassing. He has no moral platform to even consider being nominated for president and he’s functioning under the assessment that he does. I get messages from his campaign every day talking about how he’s the only guy who can beat Hillary in a head to head election. Give me a break. I don’t think he could win at anything against anybody. He’s a buffoon obviously surrounded by complete idiots. His type of politician is exactly what has screwed up our government in the first place. It’s hard to believe that people like him are out there until you hear him talk and realize that he has so much support from the establishment. No wonder we are in so much trouble.
Bernie Sanders is actually beating Hillary head to head as a socialist—and that points to a radical shift in our country. Young people like Sanders, they are ready to embrace socialism because we’ve allowed the concept to be taught in our public schools and colleges, and now they are voters. As of now there is a strong chance that he could be the Democratic nominee and he has half the country at his back. Remember when Mitt Romney received all types of flack, which probably alone destroyed his 2012 campaign for president when he made the 47% comment? What he said was true and now just four years later those 47% are looking at an open socialist like Bernie Sanders and thinking hard about voting for him just so they can get free stuff. That is a serious problem—economically, and ethically.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg asked his employees this week if they should publicly denounce Donald Trump. I see Zuckerberg as just a stupid kid—a little midget boy who is about the same age as my kids who got lucky with some code that he wrote. His politics are consistent with other Millennials taught progressive ideology in public schools and George Soros activism from publications like MoveOn.org and Think Progress. Those publications then inspire more mainstream outlets like Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post. Zuckerberg even though he’s a billionaire is an open border socialist and he is the next great threat to our American Republican after George Soros finally dies off. The problem with Zuckerberg is that he has name recognition and a product that most everyone in America is using and loves. He is the Lex Luther of our real world—and he has to be stopped. For that reason, I am not on Facebook. As I explained on the radio, the people helping me with my book projects created Facebook accounts for those novels, but I personally don’t have anything to do with them because I reject Mark Zuckerberg in every way shape and form. He is an American villain.
The Ohio legislature is ready to throw in the towel to pro marijuana activists early in the fight to legalize medical pot before there is a vote in November. Again, as I explained on the radio, I am against pot in every way shape and form. I don’t take drugs, not even aspirin, so I’m dead-set against more drug legalization—especially medical marijuana. In Ohio, the legislators want to get their hands on the tax money that pot could bring to the state, because they are so miserably hungry for another revenue stream which will allow them to redistribute more tax payer money to people who don’t deserve it—that they’ll do and say anything—even create a marijuana bill avoiding tax payers at the ballot box in November. They are all villains as well, and they are selling out their state because they are lazy fools guilty of mismanaging our government.
And finally Puerto Rico wants to file for bankruptcy, it is $70 billion in debt and there is no hope of coming out of it. Democrats are against the proposed bill which is in front of Paul Ryan because it prevents a raise of the minimum wage in that territory as they push for socialist increases across America. If Puerto Rico is granted bankruptcy protection then following will be states like California and cities like Chicago who are all on unsustainable economic paths. So house Republicans have a major problem on their hands far worse than whether or not Donald Trump is their nominee. We have major, major, major problems and nobody is talking about it—because the consideration is so unpleasant.
So it was a busy one hour broadcast that rivals anything that you can hear on talk radio. Since Matt gave me an open opportunity on WAAM’s airwaves and I already had the hour blocked off, I took the time to make the case in a way that connects the dots for everyone listening not only to the live broadcast, but the podcast later. It’s valuable information that nobody in the mainstream news is able to provide to their supporters, because the complex nature prevents a correct understanding. But I have a unique background and an ability to tie it all together so I did. Hopefully you will enjoy the broadcast and will take the time to share it with someone you care about. Because we all have some hard decisions to make and we need good information to help us make them.
It takes a special kind of optimist to win consistently and it takes an even more unique personality to pull out victories when everyone else is ready to throw in the towel. I’m a sports fan for only this reason—I’m always on the search for the miraculous—because it sometimes shows itself in our games. But in real life, it is far harder to see—because we often do not have units of measure to capture such things since the ending of a clock and the parameters of success and failure are not so easily interpreted by rules everyone agrees on. That is why the Wollman Rink lingered in disrepair for so long in New York City until the big dreamer Donald Trump stepped up and provided the much-needed private sector miracle that everyone needed—and as the video shows, it restored a bit of happiness to those who didn’t have it three months earlier.
The mayor of New York at the time was Ed Koch—seen in the video speaking. He was a big time Democrat who didn’t like Donald Trump. Trump had no choice but to work with the mayor for his various building projects, so the two had a contentious relationship. It was with great reluctance that Ed let Donald Trump even touch the beloved rink—and to throw in the towel to allow the private sector to take a swing of the bat. Donald Trump being the big thinker that he was immediately went to work thinking outside the box and talking to the right people so that he could make the right decisions. If Trump was asked how he was going to do all the things needed before he did it, Trump couldn’t have told anybody because he didn’t know, just like a star athlete can’t put last-minute heroics down on a sheet of paper to show pin-headed bureaucrats how they can duplicate his success. That is because the success starts with a state of mind and optimism derived from past accomplishments. Then the execution of that optimism has to be communicated to others so that they can do the right things at the right time through unrestrained leadership.
Trump had no “plan” as politicians and other idiots at the back of the train regarding the “Metaphysics of Quality” CLICK TO REVIEW often require—he only had a trust in himself to do the right things at the right time—and that’s what he did the moment that Mayor Koch gave him the green light. The first thing Trump did was talk to an ice maker who was in the business of making it for a Canadian hockey team instead of the current outfit that was located in Miami, Florida. In hindsight it should have been obvious to the politicians involved that they should have had someone with great experience advising them on how to build the rink in the temperate outside climate of New York—but after seven years, they hadn’t yet figured it out collectivity. They make the same mistakes in the military all the time, overpaying for things because nobody is competitively bidding and sources are usually generated behind political donations. The same thing essentially happens to everything the government touches at any level—decisions are not made to work with the best and brightest because government is too focused on “equality” and opportunity to make decisions based on merit. So they are weak to identify elements of success when they need to.
It is that system of government that Donald Trump has had to contribute to for so many years, and in the very liberal New York area—a Republican like Trump has had no choice but to pad the pockets of politicians to fund them away from tampering with his projects. As Ted Cruz says, “Trump funded Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer—along with many other Democrats” he’s speaking from extreme ignorance. Well, that’s simply not true—Trump paid them to go away because that’s how politics work—they are second-handers always looking to take from those that have. The best way to get them off your back is to pay them off and if you give them enough money they’ll help you no matter what political party you’re from. In the field of battle there is no room for such ideological nonsense as Cruz utters. Here is a guy who has never built anything—never created a single job who only understands political theory applied in the vacuum of conservative thought and he thinks he actually has the right to judge someone like Trump—who has been doing things on a big scale for three decades and knows just how to work the system to get what he wants out of it. When Cruz speaks about this topic of political funding, it is disgusting because he has no experience for which to utter the words.
I don’t see any way out and I am an eternal optimist. I am that guy who wakes up every morning and always believes he can win no matter what the odds. I am all that and then some—and I’m saying America is at its end—we get this one election and that’s it. We are losing in the world and our enemies are sensing it. If we want the Republic of America to survive to 2020 we have to act now and hope that someone like Donald Trump can do for America what he did for the Wollman Rink. To him it is simple; it just requires more advisors to speak with which he loves doing. It will involve a whirlwind approach that has never been seen before in the White House. Trump will work day and night and he won’t take vacations—and our many problems will get fixed quickly—relatively—just as the Wollman Rink was. And if I’m the head coach trying to figure out who needs to be on the field in these last seconds—I want my best guy doing the job—not some political hacks who are responsible for us losing the game in the first place at this late stage. I want the private sector guy who has a track record of doing the impossible—and Trump is that guy. We just have to give him the opportunity and to get out of his way and hope for a miracle—because that’s where we are as a nation.
Trump was wrong when he declared that the process which robbed him of all the Colorado’s delegates without a single vote cast was not very democratic. He’s right about the democratic process, but America has never been a democracy—which is just a stepping stone toward open socialism. America is a constitutional republic which should be better but in this case isn’t. The voting process which was intended to select those representatives were sold to the public as being acquired through a democratic process—but in this case it was cut short and was sabotaged by the Republican Party. That revelation has only served to substantiate the intense level of anger that has intensified during the primary campaign season. Yes, the system is rigged, it always has been, and we all knew it. But we didn’t know what the cost was to us because we had never seen another viable alternative that had gotten so far in the process other than Ross Perot many years ago. Trump by his popular successes has forced the party leaders to outwardly show their protections for the first time to people who are learning about this whole process as it develops in front of them. We should have learned all this in our public schools, but instead kids learned to riot and vote for socialism—so people are shocked by what they are seeing.
Among the #NEVERTRUMP clan, there is a feel of superiority over Trump and his supporters because those constitutional geeks work really hard to understand the Constitution and are legitimate nerds in a lot of ways. They are like Star Wars fans who argue over little specifics of the movies because they know everything while the common viewer only see a fraction of what they do in casual viewings. The #NEVERTRUMPs like the rules of the system because they worked really hard to learn that system—it gives them a feeling of superiority over everyone else—they are specialists on that topic and they secretly want to protect that specialty. I know several of them personally. So it gives them quite a charge to see that Trump is furious at losing delegates to Cruz. They would argue that if Trump wanted to play the game, then he should have learned the rules. But, what those #NEVERTRUMP geeks have forgotten is that Trump’s candidacy represents a large faction of the American population that have no desire to learn the rules of the game—because they hate the game—and the Republican Party has just solidified that sentiment epically. They want a change in the rules, they want to play a different game, and they sure don’t have any desire to learn the old rules.
This notion that the Republican Party can do whatever it wants—that they can nominate anybody they care to is preposterous. Sure they have their little club and they seem obsessed with controlling who is in it with them and where they stand in the peaking order in relation to others. No question many of the party leaders want to be king makers deciding who county commissioners are, governors, and presidents—but that’s not the way it was supposed to be. What they want to control is ultimately representatives of “the people” who elect them into a representative republic. The Republican Party for instance isn’t bigger to me than myself, or my family, or my community. It’s just a group of people who I either agree with or don’t. I am not beholden to a sacrificial relationship with them in any way. So if they show themselves as philosophically deficient—as they are clearly in the run for presidency in 2016—I have a right, and obligation to reject them. The “Party” does not have authority over “me” and is not empowered to provide “me” with a representative vetted by them for their own purposes. Clearly the Republican Party interprets their role as such—but I along with many others completely reject that premise. I will not vote for Paul Ryan for anything. He screwed up in 2012 and he won’t get another chance by me. I will not vote for John Kasich. He is the governor of my state, and he has let me down—he’s turned out to be an idiot. I will not vote for Mitt Romney—he has been a failure. I will not vote for Ted Cruz—he’s just another attorney running for office. I don’t want any more legal geeks messing with laws any more. I’m tired of the same old mess offered by the Republican Party and they either want to represent my philosophic conservatism, or they don’t. If they don’t, I am not beholden to them to take whatever piece of crap they offer.
The Republican Party arrogantly believes that it is the end all of American politics—as if the matter has been settled long ago after the Civil War turned out in their favor. They’d be incorrect, each age has its own challenges and the party leaders are either aligned with those challenges, or they will fail to lead their party to a position where it can be beneficial to the constitutional republic for which we are all a part. That republic was always founded on the merits of individualism, not collective assimilation—and that is precisely where the Republican Party is going wrong—in assuming that the “party” is too big for any one individual.
Trump represents a public need to establish a return to individual association. He is the ultimate pronoun “I” and that is what the people who vote for him want to see emerge in this year’s election cycle and obviously the Republican Party has a problem with that declaration. That leaves Trump and his supporters without a party—which of course will give rise to a competing party to rival the Republicans and Democrats. If 30% of the voting public doesn’t have a political party which represents them—or seeks to—then what are they to do? Surrendering their beliefs to one of the two other options isn’t viable as individuals. Yet the Republican Party seems inclined to insist on such a thing. As Ted Cruz gloated about his legalese victories around the west, particularly Colorado—and the use of the party machine in Wisconsin to goad Donald Trump into throwing a fit because people weren’t voting for him—he is assuming that the masses are on his side. Show me one time that Ted Cruz can fill a stadium with supporters like Trump does. All Cruz has on his side are the political geeks, not the average people who make up our Republic. They aren’t–wait until Cruz gets to New York, and Pennsylvania. The masses are speaking, and they haven’t been picking Ted Cruz. Cruz has been playing the legal game, but not winning the hearts of the masses. When Kasich says that it’s the delegates that matter, he’s right from his perspective within the game of politics—but the party for which he belongs is supposed to serve the conservative interests of the republic and instead they serve a collective notion of consensus building which I would argue is un-American. Want to see a national consensus established by the will of the people where they generally agree—go to a Trump rally. Trump voters, me included, reject that collectivist philosophic position and the party should be listening, instead of working to hold society to a set of rules designed to protect a system they have learned to profit off of as public servants.
When the smoke clears, Trump will have won many more votes in the primary effort—yet the political party seeking to maintain their control of that system will attempt to ignore that fact and offer up the same old garbage as they have before. And now that many of us have had a taste of what could be, we aren’t going to swallow that pill again—because it leads nowhere and we’ve learned. It is not the voting public that has to learn a lesson here—it’s the Republicans. They either get with the program, or they will be replaced. It is they who are in the weakened position—the public holds all the cards because ultimately the “party” either serves the interests of the public—the conservative public—or they don’t. And given their behavior against the popular front-runner Trump—it is obvious where all this is going. When it gets there I’ll be joining that old man from Colorado. I’m not going to hold my nose and vote for another Republican loser. They either start winning—or I’m done too with them. And victories are measured by the popular vote in this primary race, not the legal gymnastics of lawyers and political geeks.
I’m at a point where I don’t think I could support Republicans even if they did get behind Trump all of a sudden. I think the process is so broken and the philosophies so displaced that there is no mending it. As the link above describes the Colorado situation from the point of the of the GOP, the issue remains that the party leaders have made a system that ultimately they control, because it is rule heavy and requires a full-time staff to learn all those rules. It puts the power of candidacy in pin-heads and political addicts instead of the best and most viable candidates and is the root cause for why the Republican Party has been so grossly ineffective for such a long time.
I was not a fan of The Force Awakens. I still think it was a rip-off fan film and it wasn’t very good. It’s obvious to me that Star Wars saw its best days under the control of George Lucas and that it will forever be in a declined state. I was a tremendous fan of Star Wars because under Lucas they had established a nice storyline that embodied several video games, novels, comics and of course the movies themselves into on giant mythology—and that mythology had a conservative lean to it—rooted in Ayn Rand oriented individualism. Now it is clear that when Lucasfilm under Kathy Kennedy released The Star Wars comic series about two years before the release of The Force Awakens that they were telegraphing what they were going to do with the many novels that had been written after The Return of the Jedi in 1983—they were going to rip them off and retell many of the stories because they thought they needed to be more Huffington Post oriented progressive stories instead of Ayn Ran. In that comic series Lucasfilm took George Lucas’ original screenplay and turned into a comic to show how rough the story had been compared to what ended up on screen—as a ploy to justify what they were about to do to the Extended Universe. Well, that’s all water under the bridge and Star Wars is forever ruined for me—because I had stayed with them through many years—and they let me down. Now that I know that, I can at least appreciate what telling some of those old stories from the books to cinematic vision can do for a new generation desperate for some positive mythology and after seeing the trailer for the new Rogue One film by Garth Edwards, I am encouraged. Lucasfilm might earn back a little respect with it because it looks nicely done.
The sad thing about that movie and premise is that it is essentially a retelling of the story of the video game Dark Forces and the name of the female lead is essentially a take on Kyle Katarn’s trusted ship captain. Dark Forces was the first video game I ever played with my oldest daughter and it was a special story for us, and now Lucasfilm is going to screw that up too—but I think Edwards will do the story justice. I suppose the sad thing for me is that there won’t be any new ideas coming out of Star Wars. But the value of what has been told is important and to a new generation that is seeing some of this stuff for the first time—these movies are good for them. This is consistent with the Disney Company that has taken stories told over time and put a modern take to them for their movies. There is value in retelling a story, so to that extent I’m glad to see Star Wars doing what it’s doing.
It gives me hope that the future stand alone films featuring Han Solo and Boba Fett will be very good and dramatic—even though the topics have been covered in the novels of the past. It is still fun to see these things put into a movie even if the story is better in the original novelizations. Let’s face it, not many people read any more, so at least these stories will get told. Rogue One, I would say will arguably in that case will be better than the original story of Dark Forces. So if that’s what Disney is going to do, I suppose it’s better than nothing. I see Star Wars as just another remake the way that Godzilla was recently retold with an updated spin on a classic story. I am looking forward to Rogue One because it tips the hat toward the spirit of the original trilogy and I trust that director to do a good job. It will be fun to visit that universe again by someone who obviously loved the original film as much as I did—if not more.
Still, I can’t help but think how special Star Wars could have been if they had stuck to the carefully planned books. But Hollywood in general has lost its creative impulse—very few filmmakers these days have any imagination and those that do can’t get funded for their projects because backers are caught in a static pattern that is dangerous to their own industry. All of Hollywood is stuck in this creative vacuum of copying off old books and comics to update stories for a more visual format. I had the benefit of seeing Star Wars when everything was truly new and original and I wanted that freshness for this new generation. But it can still be good. Just not as good.
Since The Force Awakens I have been pretty staunchly anti-Star Wars. My brother and kids have been a little sad that I can’t share my enthusiasm for it as I once did. To me the death of Han Solo was essentially the death of Star Wars. It will never mean the same to me, especially with the progressive direction that they are going. I don’t care about the minority roles or the strong female characters—but the collectivism push is something I just can’t get into—stories where the individuals take a backseat for the collective benefit of everyone. With Han Solo, everything was better, his selfishness epitomized Ayn Rand’s objectivist philosophy wonderfully. It may have been unintentional by George Lucas, but it was very pro capitalist leaving A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back the best two movies likely to ever be made for the Star Wars saga. It was exciting to see images of costumes, ships, sounds, and other elements of those two movies in the Rogue One preview—so I’m sure it will be enjoyable. I may not enjoy it as much as I otherwise would, but Lucasfilm has a chance to win me back just a little.
To put things in perspective, since I was like 10 years old I bought every single video game that was ever released for Star Wars the first week it came out. I loved every one of them, particularly the Dark Forces games, Force Unleashed, and Rebel Assault. That lasted until essentially The Force Awakens. I dropped Star Wars like a rock and pushed it out of my mind completely. It was so bad that when we finally bought a Playstation 4, I had the option of buying one with the Star Wars: Battlefront option, or with the Call of Duty bundle—I picked Call of Duty. I don’t want to play that game because I don’t want to play as a bad guy—because they force you to if you want to play online. And I refuse to play any game that makes me shoot at the Millennium Falcon or Han Solo flying it. So Battlefront is the first Star Wars video game that I haven’t bought. I’ve even bought game systems to play specific Star Wars games. I would love to play Battlefront as the rebellion. But I have absolutely no interest in playing as the Empire. To my mind, George Lucas was treading on shaking ground when he attempted to humanize the bad guys in his prequels. But I thought there were good points to make, and I personally liked Obi-Wan enough to hang with Lucas through those stories. But without a good guy to hang morality onto, Star Wars falls apart and becomes just another average story.
Fortunately, it looks like Garth Edwards understands what makes Star Wars good, so I am encouraged, and will likely see the new Star Wars film when it comes out in December. I’ll give it a second chance to win my respect. I think it was pathetic that The Force Awakens only made a bit over 2 billion dollars—it could have made more. I’m sure Disney executives are happy, but they are obviously unaware of their short-sightedness. So we’ll see. We were so serious about Star Wars that my family had been planning to go to London this upcoming summer to attend the Star Wars Celebration there in 2016. Those plans changed after Force Awakens quickly. We’re not going. It remains to be seen how good Rogue One turns out to be. If it is respectful to Dark Forces, then I might be able to like it. If it craps all over it, then that will likely be it for me. My opinion is pending successful implementation.
Three things happened within a year of each other which really sent me philosophically into a direction which requires a change of focus. Five to six years ago I had identified that socialists were running our education system in America and that private sector influence needed to be introduced to root them out from dominating the minds of our children. It took half a decade but now those discussions are becoming mainstream—they are discussed openly when prior they were considered conspiracy. We are now on a path within 15 years to correcting the behavior. It won’t be fast enough to help all the poor children raised currently, but it may be to help the next generation. Nothing happens fast when so many people are involved, but first you have to properly identify the problem. That is what I do; I identify problems then use dynamic resources to repair static patterns. CLICK TO REVIEW. I have done that all of my adult life—so I am always on the lookout for the next needed priority. I found it actually while traveling around Japan on business.
For a culture that had been plucked clean of the right to defend themselves first through a dominating emperor than under occupied presence—the Japanese were still very much in love with their ancient samurai culture and it made me ask myself why America had allowed itself to step away from its own cowboy culture so willingly—because I see cowboys and samurai as being symbolically similar to our respective cultures. Japan was conducting its society very well with some basic foundations of philosophy established during the feudal period of their history rooted in Shinto Buddhism. The other thing that happened to me was that my two daughters were both pregnant within a few months of each other and I have this nagging feeling that the world needs to be fixed so that those grandchildren can have a shot at a good life—and I’m not going to let them down. It is my mission in life—from a position of philosophy. Then I saw this old Mattel commercial for a cap gun that the toy maker made for our society supplied to me by some friends within a group that I adore and belong to, the Cowboy Fast Draw Association. This little commercial really says everything.
I didn’t worry about it too much when I was raising my daughters. My wife and I grew up under the optimism of Ronald Reagan and had our children at the end of his presidency and as George Bush took over in 1988. The world was in pretty good shape, communism had fallen in the Soviet Union, and Clint Eastwood was the top box office star in Hollywood. Then Bill Clinton became president and we watched our country fall to all the socialist hippies left over from the 1960s protests. By then it was too late. In our family we stayed very traditional as the world around us fell to progressivism and by the time our two children were married, I had committed myself to healing my nation through philosophy with this blog site—volumes of writing that I provide for free not for any hope of financial gain, but to actually help our country stay solvent by bringing up topics for discussion that nobody wants to talk about. It is a commitment to a survivable human philosophy for living in an emerging century where we either survive, or destroy ourselves following the Vico cycle.
Watching that little video about the Mattel .45 cap gun reinforced in me that an important ingredient to our American philosophy has been purposely destroyed by progressive propaganda and that we must renew it in our culture—perhaps for the first time. I’m not suggesting that America return to a time when women and people of color couldn’t vote—but that the chivalry that was introduced through mythology within the American western needs to be a staple that holds our society together. In Japan, the samurai culture goes a long way to assisting them in just about every aspect of their society. Our counterpart is the American Cowboy and I intend to make it my mission in life to restore it to its rightful place—with gradual infusion of my brand of philosophy. The first time through I don’t think we understood the magic that made America exceptional. But now we have a much clearer idea through the benefit of hindsight. We have seen what the progressives in our society intended for us—and that is the enemy of capitalism. As much as I liked the Teddy Roosevelt “Rough Rider” presidential persona, he was a progressive that established the anti-trust elements of an over-extended government and the roots of that failure need to be reversed all the way back to the period of 1870 to 1890, legally and morally.
It was in those years—after the Civil War was out-of-the-way and mankind was free for the first time in its long history—that giant steps toward human endeavor took place. No nation on earth was superior to America and finally the philosophy of the American Way had taken root to free the slaves. Not everyone was on board yet, but the laws of the land dictated the social evolution. There was still war among the collectivist cultures of the Indian against the frontiersmen—and that victory went to the individually based cowboys who settled westward expansion with great emphasis on personal freedom. While some may look to what the Indian lost and their reverence toward nature as tragedies what a nation gained was the type of society that could be built under capitalism—and it was in those years when railroads connected the nation and cities rose on the wealth created under Adam Smith’s capitalism that the most opportunities known to humankind showed itself for the first time truly.
Progressives have put an emphasis on the destruction of the Indians—(which they call Native Americans) because the nomads living in North America at the time of Columbus’s arrival reflected many of the mystical elements of a progressive culture—a Kantian philosophy rooted in blind trust in spirits, nature, and the individual’s insignificance among the heavens. While the Navaho sand paintings of the North American southwest were nearly identical to the practices of Tibetan monks in eastern China it never seemed to raise an eyebrow—whereas it should have—the many hours of delicate work that went into making such paintings were routinely and ceremoniously destroyed to reflect the point of the art in the first place. Once created into beautiful and complex pictures they were then mixed up into a collective powder to return to the earth as “one” element. The ritual is of course to emphasize that we are all just grains of sand that make up a beautiful life together but a reminder that at the end of our days we return to the earth to become part of the greater cosmos. It’s the old question, are we the light bulb or the light—from which do we associate? Does light come from the light bulb or does it come from the energy that flows through it? The collectivist says it’s the energy that flows through the bulb. The individualist says that without the bulb, there is no way for the energy to emerge into this world as a captured element. This is the philosophy of the modern progressive who hates the light but loves the light that comes from it and is why they love gay sex, abortion, orgies, broken families, dysfunctional relationships and other diabolical practices—because they don’t associate themselves as individuals (light bulbs), but as part of the “greater” universe.
Young boys who grew up on those westerns and the women who fell in love with them, married and had children, found that within the values established by the American western the foundation concepts of a thriving nation. When a young boy could wear one of those Mattel six shooting cap guns on their hip and play at being a western hero like they saw in the movies and on television they grew up to be good husbands, hard workers, and generally good neighbors. There were imperfections of course, but the basics were foundations which helped create the strongest economy in the world with the greatest GDP of any nation. Ronald Reagan essentially restored some love for the American western during his presidency and Clint Eastwood made a lot of money producing and directing them, mainly the great Pale Rider and Unforgiven.
Pale Rider has always haunted me; it is about two ways of looking the same problem. There isn’t an Indian in the entire story—it’s all about land rights and who has a claim to them—which is a rather strong premise for a typical western—the protection of private property. The film is about the argument of two aspects of capitalism—settlers looking for gold so they can get rich and live a fresh life on the frontier. The villains are crony capitalists who have industrialized the gold mining process with strip mining and the heroes are the little village of gold miners working the creeks panning for gold in a very traditional and non evasive way. Of course the industrialists are trying to force the underdogs off their land so they can mine it in the stripping process they are utilizing upstream. Clint Eastwood as a hired gun is brought on to protect the underdogs from the vicious strip miners. Both villains and heroes in the story are capitalists—certainly not collectivists. It was the perfect western to see at the end of the Reagan presidency which gave rise to people like Donald Trump. The movie was essentially about “responsible” laissez-faire capitalism and that brand of economic method is only possible with a culture that can defend itself from the natural greed that sometimes overtakes the overly ambitious.
The Indians and other mystics of the “East” have decided that material acquisition in this life is not important—which is essentially what their sand paintings were all about—the futility of achievement. What they were able to do was beautiful, but that nobody should fall in love with the products of their imagination—that at some point we all return to the dust and become of the earth. Progressives to this day still believe such things and their philosophy have virtually destroyed our human species. That needs to stop and the only way is to return to a period before their incursion of faulty philosophy.
That Mattel commercial spoke of a time when young boys walked a bit taller, strived to be a bit better, and desired to be a good guy with a gun fighting bad guys who use force and collective might to incite tyranny upon the world. The cowboy and their six guns spoke of justice that anybody who practiced with it could utilize to keep peace and order in the universe. It was a philosophy that evolved under the guidance of American Old West mythology but instilled more than just history into inquiring minds. The six-gun brought value to our society and kids couldn’t wait to use them so they could learn to grow up and be the kind of man who people wanted to hire, and the type of man women wanted to marry—and the type of man who their children wanted to grow up to become. Progressives have attacked that premise, and it’s time to reverse the damage.
So that will be the focus of this new stage, which I’ve said before will put a light on the aspects of our culture known as the American Gunfighter. If it takes five years to start changing minds toward guns and the American West, my new little granddaughter will just be entering her first year of kindergarten. 15 years after that, she’ll likely be starting to look to start a family of her own—and when she arrives at that time I want her to have a lot better options than she has right now. She doesn’t need to deal with “he/she girly men, lazy losers, and drug addicts. She deserves a real man, and obviously in our culture that starts with establishing respect for a gun and the people who properly teach young minds how to use them. The tradition of passing down a gun from father to son or cinematic hero to a hungry audience is important. And the use of the gun to protect capitalism from collective enterprise is a key to understanding America. For that reason, we were a better country in 1870 than we are in 2016—and to return to that level of awareness; we need to make the gun, especially the single action six-gun, more a part of our national mythology.
It is in that very simple symbol a major key to solving many of our contemporary problems, and it is time to express it in a way that makes philosophic sense to a society that has been flamboyantly lied to by progressives. To me, the heart of America is in that Mattel commercial. And it’s time that we properly defend it from enemies foreign and domestic. Japan has been through a whole lot more than we have as a country and they have held to their traditions. We have a lot more to be proud of, and there is no reason we shouldn’t hold our traditions dear to our hearts. That was the question and answer I had while leaving Tokyo recently, and the samurai culture that I had observed. I learned all about the West by traveling the East—and the clarity for me couldn’t be more profound.
In the political left’s insistent pursuit of “equality” there has been one group of people consistently cast out in the debate which needs to stop. Personally I notice this discrimination all the time and I think it’s disgusting. The same people who perpetuate this disgusting form of discrimination are the same people who tell us that everyone is equal and that we should make no judgments—that all sexes and their preferences should be given audience to the table of respect. It’s so bad now that we are actually having a debate in some places as to whether a person identifies themselves as a man or a woman in regard to which bathroom they use. It doesn’t matter if those people are men, or women—all that does is whether or not they “feel” like a man or a woman. As President Obama went on his South American tour of socialist countries trying to pave the way for an “American Union” which will demand that all countries within it function from the same economic engine—for instance Canada is being run by a socialist recently elected, Cuba is communist, Mexico is socialist, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and most of the smaller countries around them are all various degrees of socialist—the United States has had the burden of financially carrying all these countries from falling over the edge of civilized advancement. It could be argued that socialist based countries if they did not have the United States helping them would plummet into an archaic based society regressing back to a nomadic culture. We see it in the present day Middle East, all across Africa, and of course Asia. Therefore, it could be legitimately argued that this most disrespected group of people within the United States could be responsible greatly for the reaches of capitalism around the world and are therefore tasked with saving many lives just by their very existence. I am talking about beautiful women of course—it’s time we stop discriminating against them and to treat them with the respect they deserve.
I have been thinking about this topic a lot on the back of the obvious degradation toward Melania Trump now that her husband is the obvious front-runner who will battle Hilary Clinton for the White House. The formula is quite simple really, men like Trump—“A type” personalities who work hard and like to hear the praise of their victories, love beautiful women. I mean, who doesn’t. Love aside—because without it a marriage is pretty miserable—but nobody wants to share a bed with someone who looks and feels like a potato. Women don’t like sleeping with a man who is grossly over-weight and men really don’t enjoy it. When you are successful and have accomplished more than those around you, it is a good feeling to get out of a car at a big event and have a beautiful woman draped on your arm. It lets people know that you’ve done something to earn her. Beautiful women in American culture are the goddesses of capitalism—they encourage the nerdy pimple-faced twenty something who can’t get a date on a college campus to invent something—so that they can share their bed with a beautiful woman. The sum of such a transaction usually means economic expansion. When men learn that the way to get “hot chicks” is to become rich—they work very hard to do so. It is great for capitalism. It could be said that beautiful women drive the American economic engine that saves the world from itself. Men work hard to have beautiful women, and women work hard to look like beautiful women—the net result is that America makes money that carries everyone else through taxation.
In socialist countries or repressed cultures such as the one that Melania came from—upward mobility in society isn’t possible with just good looks. You have to know somebody to become successful because of the nature of their “managed” economies—or you have to sleep with someone and hope that you can become something more than a mistress. Unfortunately once a woman hits 30 years of age, they are usually thrown to the curb in those types of countries. Most beautiful women in socialist and communist countries are sacrificed at a very young age and never make it to midlife because they are forced to capitalize on their beauty when they are young just to survive—which is very much the case in Vietnam, India, and China—attractive girls work in the sex trade—get abused and end up in terrible situations by the time they are old enough to be mothers themselves. It’s really a terrible and vicious cycle.
Melania Trump is someone who I greatly respect. She left Slovenia on a hope and a prayer to become a fashion model and could have easily have been like any other beautiful woman around the world and fallen into bad hands. Lucky for her she met Donald Trump who greatly appreciated beauty and capitalism and the two started dated which gave her a bit of a refuge from the predatory fray of using her looks to make a living. Trump was dating her at the time that he loaned one of his private jets to GQ to have Melania take nude pictures aboard it chained to a briefcase. Trump honestly wanted to see the pictures as did most men. When Melania got out of a car with him at social events it let everyone know that he had made it in life—especially when all the men who compete against him have seen his wife nude in GQ. At the time he didn’t know if he wanted to marry her or not, they were just dating.
After spending time together they eventually decided to tie the knot and marry because she had become more than a sex kitten for him—she became a partner—and that has been great for everyone. There are few places in the world where Melania could have risen to the top of the world in such a short period of time but in the United States. Now as a beautiful woman she is poised to be one of our best spokespeople for capitalism from the White House as a first lady. Sure she used her looks to land a billionaire to her bed. Some women trap men into marriage by getting pregnant, or some other form of bondage. There is nothing wrong with a beautiful woman advancing under a capitalist system and becoming fabulously wealthy and successful using the natural gifts they were born with.
I know quite a lot of people with a great deal of money, and most of them have what is considered a trophy wife. Most of these guys over the years have been developers to some degree and have to attend a lot of charity social events—just like Donald Trump does. They spend a lot of their life trying to make buildings appealing to consumers and are often very concerned about appearances—so naturally as they try to build up their brand it helps them to have a beautiful woman on their arm. Women judge the successful competence of men based on the type of mates they attract, and of course men figure out where they stand in the peaking order of the human race based on similar factors. When a man sees another man married to a beautiful woman he usually thinks—that guy is more endowed than me–that guy is more successful than me–or that guy is tougher than me. When you are a powerful person you need to gain that leverage over a rival so that when you have to negotiate with them they are already thinking they are inferior to you—so for the powerful developer—or otherwise successful person enriched under capitalism—having a beautiful woman who you are married to that is twice your age younger says a lot about where you are in life—and it gives you a better seat at the negotiating table.
Looks are just one element to a good marriage, and honestly as you get older and sex becomes much less important, you want a good friend to share a bed with of the opposite sex. But a lot could be said about the value of beautiful women and their upward mobility within capitalist cultures which drive the economic engine of our entire civilization—and I don’t think we give them enough credit. Melania is a classy young woman and I think she deserves a lot more respect than she has been getting. The socialists among us know innately what it would mean to have Melania in the White House, so they are in a panic driven fury to demean her in every way fashionable. But what has been exposed in the process is the gross hypocrisy of the political left and their discrimination against beautiful women in capitalist societies. Their attraction to socialism after all is that they don’t want to compete with Melania and other beautiful women for attention. They want an “equal” society where beautiful people are just as abused as not such beautiful people—and that equates to substantial degradation in human achievement—but at least they don’t have to feel bad about themselves. I think it’s time that we end such thinking and recognize beautiful women for the hidden gifts they bring to all of us. When you see one, make sure to let them know how much they are appreciated. They are people too, and we should treat them with the respect they deserve.
Bill O’Reilly asked an important question when he wondered why members of his network, Fox News were so divided over Donald Trump. The same could be said about the different between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz—who are the clear front-runners in the 2016 presidential race. The divide is unusually deep because the two candidates properly represent the philosophic divisions that are taking place within the Republican Party. As much as hard-core establishment supporters would hate to admit it, Ted Cruz represents what they seek in a president, someone from within their political ranks that is a person of faith who gets their guidance from prayer and deity submission—religiously pious. They also hold that the presidency is America’s version of royalty, and they that take that oath of office very seriously. Trump on the other hand represents the fighters, the businessmen who have bent over backwards to one too many regulations–the financially independent—the self starters. Trump appeals to people who turn toward themselves first for an answer before soliciting government help or prayer to a deity whom has never physically manifested in a logical way. That last type of conservative has never really had a candidate—they have held their nose and hoped that they might get lucky because options were limited—which is often not how they do most things in their life. But with Trump, they finally have someone running for the White House who thinks like them for a change. To confirm my statement just read the linked article from Glenn Beck about why no Christian should vote for Donald Trump, and you’ll get the gist. Glenn Beck whom I used to like—has lost his mind.
Personally I liked that Thomas Jefferson answered the door to the White House in his night robe. I liked that Teddy Roosevelt skinny dipped in the Potomac River—just a century ago. I liked that Andrew Jackson would target shoot from the White House grounds. I’m not big on formalities and in regard to the President of the United States—I feel as Jefferson did, as an Anti-Federalist, such tokens of ordainment should be cast away in America and dropped from assumption. We should go out of our way to strip away formality anywhere we can in regard to the White House, not increase it. We don’t elect a king, we elect a public servant—and we should treat them that way.
We also need a president who makes decisions based on their life experiences and the use of cold hard logic. I don’t want a president who gets his decisions from “praying.” For instance, let’s look at the reasons that John Kasich decided to expand Medicaid—which he did in Ohio against an amendment to the Constitution passed to protect residence from the grips of Obamacare. Kasich claimed when he went against voters and the Ohio legislature that God told him to expand government so dramatically when pressed by reporters. Well, screw that. We didn’t elect “God” to run our public offices. With all the bad dreams and insanity that goes on in any civilization it is difficult to tell God’s providence from the claws of insanity. While I can claim many similar stories of providence—as miraculous as Andrew Jackson’s assassination attempt by the unemployed painter who tried to kill him with two guns—that both misfired—I don’t make decisions based on providence or the hope of it. You can only make decisions based on what you know or see. If God decides to help out, that’s fine. But such an ill-defined character cannot be a part of any strategic plan—because there isn’t enough evidence to count on such things. You don’t think with your heart—you do with your head—and having faith that things will just work out is not enough. When faced with a problem I want a president who works through it, not one that sits at the side of their bed and “prays.” I don’t care what George Washington did—if he prayed less and acted more—he probably would have won more often. If you want to pray, be a preacher or volunteer at church. If you want to lead a nation—come to the table with self-reliance.
Kasich, the closet liberal that he turned out to be could have misread his inclinations. We as a voting public have no way to know if what Kasich said about God’s desire is true or not. God did not have a press conference with us and tell us to expand Medicaid. And we didn’t elect a “leader” to be some ancient go-between between God and man in the form of a priest holding some kingship based on the merits of “godly access.” This is exactly why we were supposed to have a separation between church and state—not one where the church runs the state. If people want the church to run the state—as Glenn Beck seems to—you might as well sign up for communism. Capitalism requires self-reliance and logical thought—not altruistic sacrifice to divine will. The worst time to make a decision of any kind is after a bad dream where some figure speaks to you in the form of some disembodied spirit. The even dumber thing to do is to assume that the voice is “God.” It in all actuality could be anything—some ghost from the past, some vengeful demon, some inter-dimensional terrorist—or it could be the lingering effects of an emerging insanity where deep-seated insecurities manifest into a mythological story played out among the brain’s neurons. You never know. When we elect a president, we elect a manager and we expect that person to make hard decisions based on reality as we can observe it. That is the best that we can do given the limited scope of our human senses.
Then there is this ridiculous notion that the presidency should be beneath earthly squabbles. I watched Republicans for well over thirty years play the moral high ground game and lose every time—especially George W. Bush. He thought the office of the president was so elevated that he could not, or should not answer his many critics. Well, that was the old alcoholic coming out of him, and the kid who was in the Skull and Bones society who participated in embarrassing hazing rituals. When you are elected by the people for the people—you don’t surrender yourself to the political left by becoming a punching bag—using the “high office” excuse to mask internal fears. You don’t sit in the White House on my behalf and make yourself a “pussy.” You are expected to fight when attacked and to represent the constituency that elected you into office. The office is not a higher authority than the people who put you there. That kind of thinking leads to kingship—and we should not think of an American President as a king or as royalty. He’s just a manager.
Just a few weeks ago I had an opportunity to shake Donald Trump’s hand. I could have certainly had him sign any of my books–easily. But I didn’t do either—even though I love the guy for president. He’s on a job interview as far as I’m concerned and I’m the boss. The boss doesn’t seek autographs and tokens of friendship from the people they employ. Given that, if President Obama broke down in front of my house and needed to use my car jack or even the phone—I would tell that bastard to get off my lawn. I wouldn’t shake his hand; I wouldn’t be getting a selfie to show that I had managed to get my picture next to a “powerful” person. To me he’s just another person and in the case of his actions—he’s conducted his presidency as a domestic enemy that any constitutionally minded person is sworn to protect the nation from. Needless to say, I will never shake the hand of president Obama under any circumstances. He doesn’t rule over me, he doesn’t make decisions on my behalf, and he is a proven incompetent that has not earned the right to shake my hand. And to be fair, I feel the same way about George W. Bush—he blew it. I don’t care that he made some mistakes—but he was a lot like Glenn Beck—a former alcoholic who turned to “God” to straighten out their weak lives. I don’t fault them for their mistakes but they are smoking crack if they want to tell a person like me—who has never been addicted to anything, who doesn’t drink, has never smoked, has never done any drugs of any kind—who even avoids pain killers for surgery or at the dentist—and assumes that they have some place between me and the everlasting. Give me a break! They are not qualified to be in that position, and really, I can’t think of a single person on earth that is—even religious leaders. If they have my high standards on personal living, I might listen to them—but short of that—forget about it.
Ted Cruz is way too much of a “god boy” to me. I don’t want someone in the White House praying for answers. I want someone who can extract answers from reality by sheer will. I don’t want someone who will only enter the Oval Office with a jacket and tie on. I want someone who will work there for 14 to 16 hours straight if needed to accomplish whatever task is on the table. And I certainly don’t want a king—but I equally don’t want a self-sacrificial lamb that is willing to be plucked apart by the political opposition. So to answer Bill O’Reilly’s question about Donald Trump there are still too many Republicans who want a president for all the wrong reasons—all the types of things that George W. Bush represented—meekness, sacrifice, divine providence-and policy concocted by voices from God which in all actuality were their addictive pasts calling out to them to return to the bottle. For all those reasons I support Donald Trump—he’s a self-starter, he’s never been addicted to drugs or alcohol, and while he’s respectful of religion—he tends to guide himself before seeking the council of some otherworldly creature. That’s good because I don’t have to worry about him waking up and starting wars based on dreams he’s had about “weapons of mass destruction,” or expanding Medicaid because God told him in a dream to help people. I just want someone to do the job as president for the first time in the modern era. I don’t want a king—I want someone to do the job—and I certainly don’t want a politician with ties to any lobbyist. The deep divide over Donald Trump within Republican ranks is that not all conservatives quite understand what they want out of a public servant. They know what they’ve had and are basing everyone on those examples. But to me, what we’ve had was never good enough. And the answer is not in more of the same—but in an entirely new direction.
The Overmanwarrior 