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Superman, Batman, Zach Snyder and ‘The Fountainhead’: How to define a Trump supporter

With all the press over the new Batman vs Superman movie the director, Zach Snyder told The Hollywood Reporter that one of the next projects he’s working on is an updated version of The Fountainhead.  The faces of nearly everyone in the liberal community of media and entertainment nearly melted off.  Snyder is a highly respected film director and is at the top of his game.  But it doesn’t surprise me that he and a growing contingent of Warner Bros. directors and screen writers are showing themselves as Objectivists—Ayn Rand’s philosophic dispute against Kantian collectivism.  It’s no secret that I was very supportive of the film makers of Atlas Shrugged, which I thought was a successful cliff note to the great American novel—Atlas Shrugged.  That book is what America is all about and could have only been written here by our culture.  Ayn Rand was onto something with her work and I personally think The Fountainhead is one of the greatest novels ever written and I’ve read Finnegan’s Wake—and I understand it—just for reference.  Finnegan’s Wake to me is probably the greatest novel in the history of mankind as far as its scope—but within it there are way too many Kantian limits.  Ayn Rand takes away those limits and delivers us to a time before Plato and Aristotle’s great debate—to a time when mankind was contemplating that it was not the gods of Mt. Olympus who ruled the universe, it was the minds of mankind.

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This is extremely important to understand because the candidacy and potential presidency of Donald Trump is the kind of story which might be a sequel to one of those Ayn Rand classics—he is a clear combination of characters from both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.  Trump’s popularity is very similar to the popularity of Ayn Rand’s novels even to this day nearly 60 and 70 years after their release.  Atlas Shrugged is the most reviewed book in the Library of Congress behind only the Bible for a reason—people are curious—but the life around them built largely in the summation of Kantian philosophy doesn’t assimilate well to what they feel in their heart and souls.

I know people from every side of the argument regarding Donald Trump.  I know the Glenn Beck Tea Party types, I know hard-core Objectivists, and I know traditional Republicans and I see their difficulty in understanding Donald Trump and his supporters.  Some of them like Glenn Beck and even Ted Cruz are staunch Atlas Shrugged supporters—they love Ayn Rand—yet they don’t understand her—because religion clouds their thinking on the philosophy of the matter.  Ironically, that is their same aversion to Donald Trump—that he’s a godless heathen who lives for himself counseling only himself not seeking the advice of God in times of crises.  Trump declares that he relies on his own mind to make decisions—which is a very Ayn Rand type of thing to say—and Beck along with Cruz followed by a contingent of Tea Party supporters are frazzled by such a proclamation.  Establishment Republicans hate Trump because he isn’t Kantian enough—meaning he doesn’t think in a Platonic fashion deep enough for them.  (If you don’t know what I’m talking about CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES)  Then of course Objectivists aren’t sure what to think.

Not long ago I compared Donald Trump to Howard Roark from The Fountainhead and Objectivists sent me private messages concerned about my sanity.  They declared that Trump was not ideologically pure enough to be an “Objectivist,” and he certainly wasn’t the hero Howard Roark.  But a real life examination into the way that Trump has lived proposes a direct comparison.  Trump has always had a very Roark-like certainty about hm.  I don’t claim to be an Objectivist.  Personally, I think mankind is at a stage where we need to deep dive Rand’s thoughts expanding on Aristotle’s original concepts—but perhaps either going back to a time well before Greek philosophy or into a new period that mankind has never been before.  I am personally concerned with flushing out these kinds of thoughts over my years.  I see Objectivism as a first step in that process and Ayn Rand was certainly onto the scent.  However, Rand’s books were relatively simple-because they are exploring complex concepts and needed a host of adult characters to drape those concepts off of—for instance, there are no children in Rand’s books, The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged—which makes it easy for the characters to act on their authentic natures.  The world is neatly aligned in a way that represented Ayn Rand’s time period and her personal decisions which was to not have children with her husband and to carry on lavish affairs of her own with other men and force her husband to watch essentially.  In the end Rand was a bit broken-hearted with some of her decisions and it hurt her following regarding Objectivism.  That doesn’t mean she was wrong—it just means she wasn’t completely right.

I think the life of Donald Trump would be a sequel to Ayn Rand’s classics—and I think his third wife Melania is the key to his present success.  I think Donald Trump fits right into the pages of Rand’s heroes with John Galt and Howard Roark and that is essentially why people are so bothered with his presidential candidacy.  Objectivists would obviously disagree, but they share with most religions an almost sanctimonious relationship with the purity of Ayn Rand’s characters that they have become Holy figures to them similar to religious fanatics who insist that the life of Jesus Christ as it was written in a book 1700 years ago is testament to the precise way that we must all live today—and that the interpretation provided over the years and nurtured along by Immanuel Kant followed by many others—like Karl Marx would formulate political philosophy around the values of altruism.  Donald Trump was a great person before he met Melania—but after she became his Lady of Tubber Tintye.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  She was his hero’s journey much the way Dagney was brought to such a figure in John Galt in Atlas Shrugged.  In that case Galt was the type of treasure found in the classic story of The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island.  In real life, Melania was the treasure that Donald Trump found and what we have today is a presidential candidate who has successfully completed a hero’s journey equivalent to a classic novel and he is here to bestow upon mankind the boons of his adventure.

While many people think their version of reality is the correct one, the established political people have their Kant, while Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz and their Tea Party followers have their Bibles and the Ayn Rand at war within their very souls trying to fit a square peg into a circular entrance.  Conservatism to many of these people means “obedience to God.” The education class has their Marxism—which was formed by Kant to proclaim that Trump is too stupid for the right to “rule” because that is how archaic they still think of mankind—as a species that needs to be ruled over by an aristocratic elite.  And Objectivists hate all of the above, but they don’t think of Trump as equivalent to John Galt or Howard Roark.  Yet to know Trump through his many years of work, he is clearly willing to stand his ground for the authenticity of his creations, like Roark did at the end of The Fountainhead.  There aren’t any other people on earth in any positions of authority or wealth that have ever done as Trump is doing now—and that is to risk it all for a chance to fix everything for the sake of American authenticity.  He’s not retreating from the world the way that John Galt did to let the system collapse on itself the way that Ayn Rand suggested.  His stand is a much more masculine one—and one not yet defined by any art or literature—at least those known in establishment circles.  Donald Trump is the next step in that eventual evolution.

Trump supporters have been lied to and manipulated by all the groups mentioned above, religious groups, political groups, activism groups—everyone, and they still see things sliding into an abyss.  They have been told that they are bad because they are a particular color, that they are bad if they think well of American sovereignty, and that they are bad if they aren’t willing to give the skin off their very backs to those too lazy to make their own way in life—and they are the majority.  People like Trump were allowed to the table of power so long as they brought their check book, but they weren’t invited to help fix anything.  For Donald Trump I think love brought him full circle and into this political theater and the instincts of the American people understand it in spite of what everyone is telling them.  Trump has great love for his wife, his children, and of course himself.  People don’t comprehend it yet, but they know to trust it because literally everyone else has let them down.

From what I know of the new Superman movie with Batman, the debate is going to be precisely what I have been talking about.  Superman represents the type of Ayn Rand hero that evolved under American philosophy—essentially Objectivism.  Batman represents the law and order of a Platonic society—which migrated from Kant to Marxism riding on the back of organized religion—all denominations.  Can Batman simply let society fall in line behind a man who is superior in every fashion—and could destroy the world if he cared to in a moment?  That is the theme of the new Zach Snyder version of Batman vs. Superman—arriving in theaters soon as of this writing.  But filmmakers must make their livings looking five years into the future to anticipate the trends of that future time.  Given Trump’s impact on the world of politics it does not surprise me that Warner Brothers is looking to Snyder to provide an update to The Fountainhead.  Even though many might fight the words I’m saying about Trump today, our civilization will be looking for answers in the years to come and only Ayn Rand has offered a plausible explanation into the nature of Donald Trump so far in the entire history of the world. 

 Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche before Ayn Rand likely started the chain reaction—but prior to them in all of known history only gods of some mystic realm held such power of mankind.  It was the job of human beings to appeal to the egos of their deities.  Trump is not that kind of offering.  He is something else that nobody has ever seen before in politics—or philosophy—and Trump supporters feel innately that they can trust it—because they still hope that its possible in America to step beyond the shackles of Immanuel Kant—even if they’ve never heard the name before—and live their lives as free people for the purposes ascribed in Ayn Rand’s classic American novels.  Zach Snyder as a filmmaker has his hands on that pulse—and is working on The Fountainhead to show it to us for later analysis.  For decades in the future we will still be coming to terms with this time period—and it will be through our art that we understand what has happened.  In hindsight, we’ll be glad that it did.  But we will rely on art—as we always do—to define it in our lives—even if the Trump train is moving too fast now to do anything but vote in favor of that gut we have in our stomachs.  That is the very definition of a Trump supporter.

Rich Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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Stupid People Hate Trump: Why Fighters can’t function under rigid plans

I say it a lot; I would never in a million years if given a chance go back in time to a period where I was younger.  I love every year of my life and I regret nothing along the way.  Yet with that said, I consider every new year to be like a graduation.  You earn a reputation with age and wisdom that gives a guy like me the ability to do more.  Donald Trump, because of a supportive father was able to jump into life with his natural gifts very early, so he didn’t have to suffer through much of what I’m about to say.  But it has also positioned him uniquely to run for president with an amassed wealth that nobody could have understood which he has acquire during a lifetime.  Now, I’ve also explained this too, because there is a very scientific reason that Donald Trump is wired the way he is, and why he’s successful.  CLICK HERE FOR THAT FORMAL UNDERSTANDING.  But for the purpose of this article, let’s just say that most people are stupid and they need certain things to navigate through life—from raising children to running a business.  They are intellectually handicapped—likely by no fault of their own.  People like Trump are a rarity—and when you meet one, you have to make special accommodations to utilize their very special talents.   This is precisely why Donald Trump does not get into specifics when he identifies a problem.  Below is a fascinating news story from Sky News which explores the Donald Trump phenomena from all fair sides which will help everyone understand along with this text why Trump is the perfect job applicant to run our American Republican—and also why nobody can outmaneuver him.

It has only been very recently—within the last six or seven years that the people who work with me have stopped asking for a “plan.”  I am the kind of person who can’t stand being held down to the limits of a plan.  Stupid people need plans—for me, they greatly encumber my thinking.  I can walk out in front of any number of people and give a speech with no notes and speak for hours.  I’m a person who can multitask at many levels with a wide array of people to accomplish a strategic objective.  I take only random notes—usually only one or two word entries to remind me of things—but in general notes slow me down too much.  I enjoy thinking on my feet quickly and dynamically—and increasingly it’s the only way that I will endeavor into something.  Prior to these last few years I didn’t yet have a reputation that allowed me to say to very important people, “trust me,” and they would just do it.  Investors, employers, politicians even family members want to know what the “plan” is.  But I could never give it to them because I learned very early, that plans were not dynamic enough for reality.  What is better is to understand the objective then trust your skills as a person to achieve the end result in spite of whatever obstacles present themselves as barriers to achievement.  A banker certainly doesn’t understand that type of thinking—without a plan, they’d have a heart attack.

When I was a kid I got into a lot of fights.  I was always the type who resisted the established authority of the masses, because to me, the people who formed that authority were not as smart as me.  So why would I listen to them?  I have a very long history of breaking the rules of collectivism with a complete disregard—and of course that has caused me to be in a lot of combative situations.  For instance, when someone who is committed to collective enterprise is challenged in such a way they have no other recourse but violence to pull people into their way of thinking.  As an example, way back in my early twenties my wife and I went to visit a friend of ours at his college fraternity.  I didn’t recognize all the “brotherhood” rules of this “frat” house, I simply walked in—stepped across a seal they had on their sidewalk that supposedly meant war to anybody who did, and asked to see my friend who then took me around his fraternity house with my wife for a tour—which infuriated these structured little bastards.  They were so angry with me being there with no regard for their rule driven little fraternity that they couldn’t contain themselves with anger after I left.  But while I was there, they didn’t say or do anything.  The reason was that I had been in many conflicts and people can read confidence in a person—and there was nothing for me to worry about, and it scared them.  I showed no fear of them in the least and they didn’t understand how to “manage” me and it scared them.

The worst thing a fighter can do is go into a fight with a plan.  If you think I’m going to do this, and he’s gonna’ do that, then the moment those things don’t happen—you’ll be lost and you’ll hold your feet into position too long and you’ll get pummeled by the other guy.  You have to know and trust through your training that you can counter anything that anybody throws at you.  Better yet, your only plan needs to be in beating the other guy—and like the great Bruce Lee, you have to be like water—to take any form to achieve the task.  So you step into the ring, you watch what the other guy offers, then you take all your vast skills and utilize them anyway you can to come out on top and win the match.  Early in my life, like 7 through 10 years of age if I had to fight someone after school—I worried about it all day—it made me absolutely miserable.  But after you win a few times and get your confidence under your feet you begin to trust yourself and you realize that the other guy is often thinking in a very rigid way—which makes him easy to beat.  He has in his mind how the fight is going to go and the moment you take that away from him—he is on a path to losing.  By the time I was around 13 to 16 I had mastered the confidence to trust myself in any situation and could think quickly on the balls of my feet.  I’d get into these fights with a formlessness that gave me great liberty in achieving victory, and it worked great.  By then, if I had a fight after school I was actually able to enjoy myself free of worry.  For instance, even though the result was very tragic, CLICK HERE TO REVIEW, leading up to it should have been very scary. Before a big fight, I was supposed to fight three guys at once at a very menacing location.  These boys had spread the rumor that they were going to literally kill me and it was all over school.  Before the fight, I went to see a girl I liked and spent time at her house before picking up some friends and going to see Nightmare on Elm Street at the theater and having a really good time—for some it might have been the best time of their lives—even still.  For me it was just another day in my life—but for them it was the stuff of the best movie they had ever seen.  I was very loose and happy–sincerely enjoying my life.  I was 16-years old at the time and had reached my peak for that kind of thing, and the results were tragic for the other people—which was regretful.  But the point of the matter was that I knew what the objective was going to be and I had a very loose plan on how to achieve it.  Reality presented a whole host of variables that I had to work around—but in the end I achieved my objectives in spite of the obstacles.

I’ve had the same approach in just about everything in my life.  I’ve had some really stupid people that have worked over me try to intimidate my style into falling in compliance with the way they understand things—and I have never complied.  After watching me for years they are no closer today to understanding how or why I do things and why those things turn out so well than they were in the beginning.  I don’t take many notes, I don’t seek the counsel of other people—I don’t ask advice about anything—because why would I?  I trust myself in every situation.  I don’t need to be guided or steered in any way.  Now that I’m older people have learned to just shut up and do what I tell them to, and things always work out for them.  If they don’t listen—then I just drop them and go do something else.  But working in collaboration, or in shared partnerships—forget about it.  It doesn’t work and I don’t have any interest in those types of things unless I’m 100% free to do it my way exclusively.  Of course I have great communication skills so I give people the same respect that I expect and they can thrive as well—but it takes time for people to understand how to trust me.  Without a reputation to go on—which no young person has—it’s hard for people who don’t think in these fashions to understand how to deal with a guy like me.

I see in Donald Trump many of the same traits—reading The Art of the Deal he introduces himself as a multitasker who doesn’t take notes and is quick on his feet.  He is certainly a fighter in his own right that is similar to me in the way that he thinks.  Trump was fortunate to have a father who didn’t try to crush that spirit out of him.  Basically Trump was given a good million dollar loan after proving himself early in life to make his way in the Big Apple.  Of course things worked out for him and he exploded into the kind of person that he is now.  But essentially, he is a street fighter who squeezed the most out of the opportunities that were presented to him.  Most people are not as smart as he is—they are functionally stupid because they don’t understand how he works—so they ridicule his talents for a lack of understanding.  It is odd for me to watch him go through this campaign process because he is a person at the top of his game who is now being scrutinized by a very static political system with the dynamism that infuriates virtually everyone—from voters all the way down to the staunchest supporter of the political establishment.   I would not want to do what he’s doing because it would be infuriating to deal with so many stupid people.  Even getting into his nice 757 airplane you really can’t forget the dumb people around you who just don’t get it.  Donald Trump knows how to make America great again—but he also knows that it will be a fight and the path to get there isn’t known.  What he does understand is that no matter what anybody throws at him—that he can counteract it, and that he will be successful in his objectives—whether it’s building a border wall, or improving the economy.  Unfortunately, most people need a rigid plan to understand how to get there and in politics—the system has been designed as a collective enterprise—which by nature is functionally deficient.  I trust Trump because I trust myself.  Politics will never be the same after his run—that is for sure—but it pains me to watch him be scrutinized by people who clearly aren’t of the same caliber as he is.  I know how painful it is and he is doing it on such a large scale that it has to be difficult.  But I’m glad that he’s willing to do it—because it will take someone like him to pull off the job.   Things are so messed up globally that it will take such a mind with the kind of resources he has to have a chance of fixing things.  But a rigid plan will never get us there—and thankfully, Trump supporters have a good instinct to know that something special is going on even if they don’t quite understand it.  That is the clear message in the news report above—and is the key to understanding Donald Trump and his vision for America which will actually benefit everyone in some way or another toward a destiny only he and a few others can see.  But he can’t put it down on paper for stupid people to see—because they’ll never understand.

Rich Hoffman

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A New Hope in Warren Davidson: Thoughts, stategy, and recollection on retaking Capital Hill

With all the recent excitement there hasn’t been much time to congratulate Warren Davidson for winning the seat John Boehner left behind in Ohio’s 8th District.  Butler County Republicans did not support Davidson, so thankfully the district was big enough to not be swayed by the party bosses as the Troy native picked up enough votes north of Preble County to push him over the top in a race with double-digit challengers. I was a supporter of Davidson and he had the endorsement of Ann Becker of the Cincinnati Tea Party so he was our best hope for a congressional representative who would go to Washington D.C. and represent Tea Party type values, fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.

I met Warren during the campaign and he was my clear pick over everyone else.  There were other people who were good, and decent, but they were missing that magic ingredient of a total package that Davidson had hovering over him.  It is my best hope that he will be able to retain that sincerity as he mixes into the Washington culture of deals and despots soon.  If it isn’t obvious by now, things are going to change after this 2016 election in every aspect of politics.  The Ted Cruz and Donald Trump supporters are insisting on it.  Establishment politicians are less afraid of Ted Cruz than they obviously are of Trump—but the writing is on the wall for them and hopefully Davidson is coming along as a freshman congressman just at the right time.

Anywhere that Bill Ayers is protesting you want to make sure that you are on the opposite side of him.  Ayers, the terrorist friend of Barack Obama was spotted at the Trump rally in Chicago helping to instigate terror throughout the ranks of middle-America with a show of leftist unity that has been nurtured in our education system against American terrorism.  George Soros has been funneling money to insurgents against Trump for reasons that should be obvious.  Trump represents a complete destruction of the political system that most politicians have grown used to supporting. If Trump can manage to stay afloat, his presence along will dominate Washington politics in ways that I have only dreamed of, and Warren Davidson will have the benefit of being a good person not yet corrupted thriving in the wake of that turmoil.  Now that the reality of a Trump candidacy is setting in, the bandits are clinging to desperation.  Soros also tossed money at John Kasich to keep his campaign alive to soak up delegates in an attempt to block Trump from the nomination.  His reason is obvious to all those who know the Soros history.  As an open border advocate, Trump will put an instant end to that practice and restore national sovereignty, which the Hungarian billionaire has spent the last three decades trying to destroy.  All the villains are out against Trump and all at the same time.  Most people would have long been destroyed—so the fact that Trump is still unfettered by all the attacks from both within and outside the Republican Party is quite something to behold.

John Boehner did put out a nice message to Davidson congratulating him on the victory of being the next to hold the seat of the former Speaker of the House.  Years ago I received an exclusive invite to meet with Boehner at a special event in Butler County—and the people who extended the invitation were to me very powerful people in their own right.  I couldn’t figure out why they treated Boehner as a celebrity the way they did.  My in-laws knew John Boehner when he was a bright-eyed boy about a decade younger than Warren Davidson is now—and they liked him a lot.  John Boehner was a hard-working nice boy who had small town charm and common sense.  We all thought that he was going to be something special when he became Speaker of the House—the third most powerful position in the world regarding government. But obviously all the years on the Hill changed Boehner and he wasn’t able to do as we hoped.  So I skipped the event much to the dismay of the invitees—I really didn’t feel like shaking his hand and breaking bread with him.  Just the other day Boehner proposed that at a brokered convention in Cleveland during the hot months of July that the party nominate Paul Ryan to the presidency ignoring Trump and Cruz after all the work and pledges to the party that had been made.  It was just a little shocking that Boehner tossed his opinion in the ring because it showed his real intentions.  Boehner had retired from Congress to do essentially one thing—and that was to become a lobbyist on K-Street a year after.  Trump and his methods of management threaten to make that world of lobbying a much less stable enterprise and for people like Boehner—who are counting on that revenue stream based on those who have come before him—people like Trent Lott—Trump is terrible news for them—because a lot of money gets wasted on K-Street that nobody knows anything about.  I never considered Boehner a celebrity or even somebody I’d want to breathe the same air near.  To me he was just another failed politician.

I had given Boehner two chances not to be a complete loser and he failed at both.  First was a time when I went to one of his town hall events to express the concerns I had for the 8th district.  This was back in 2010. I had prepared a Power Point exhibiting how K-Street needed to be reformed, our involvement in the United Nations scaled back, and how taxes needed to be lowered.  Boehner wasn’t there of course—he was too big of a celebrity by then to deal with constituents directly—so he sent underlings to handle things on his behalf.  I received a nice form letter from him a few weeks later thanking me for participating in the democratic process.  It looked like it was signed by him, but I wasn’t impressed—so I threw it away with the rest of our garbage that day.  A few years later after Obama had worked appointees during congressional recess acting in an illegal fashion I stopped by Boehner’s office with a very carefully worded letter pressing the Speaker to use his power to stop Obama from pushing around the Republican Party.  REVIEW THAT LETTER HERE.  On that I heard nothing from Boehner’s office and that was it for me.  I was ready to see the guy knocked off his perch and replaced with someone who really wanted to do the job of representing our district.

Area Republicans were much divided about Boehner.  The Tea Party types looked for ways to challenge him in a general election as party bosses schemed to keep Republicans aligned under the Speaker.  As Judy Shelton and many others yelled to those who could hear them—that the Tea Party would be destroyed within a year of 2014 they missed that across the county there were more eager young limited government types emerging in the House and Senate that were beginning to challenge Boehner’s leadership driving him to resign in October of 2015.  Republicans in the House were deeply divided, there were many who were trying to represent the Republic in the proper way while many old timers like Boehner were just trying to bide their time until they could become a lobbyist and make a lot of money moving bills around through Capitol Hill.  Unlike Judy Shelton’s Butler County dreams of holding the party together under the old system challenges continued to dominate the political scene and the Tea Party influence expanded.  The old guard had to yield and it did culminating with the resignation of John Boehner.  He figured that he could get out while the getting was good and he could make some serious money as a lobbyists for a decade or two—before reform really kicked in.  But Trump is threatening that entire system in a much shorter timeframe.  Boehner at this rate may not even get to achieve his dream.  So establishment Republicans are more than a little concerned—their gravy train appears to be leaving the station with each new Trump rally and it sincerely scares them.

Meanwhile Warren Davidson will have Boehner’s seat.  He’s a smart young considerate man and you can tell when you shake his hand that he’s politically pure—meaning his idealism is conducive to a constitutional republic.  He has not yet accepted the vile evil that Bill Ayers is protesting in favor of at Trump rallies or the open border policies of George Soros.  He has not yet taken money the way that Kasich did from the Hungarian financial terrorist so he doesn’t yet know the sting of standing up against those forces.  Everything in the 8th District of Ohio makes pretty much sense until you get into that Washington D.C. culture and they bend back your arms to make you play ball.  Hopefully, Davidson can hold up long enough to get a Tea Party president in the White House which looks to happen one way or another.  Trump is my kind of Tea Party candidate, Cruz is Ann’s—but both are hardly the type of people who will stand for politics as usual.  That’s why they are winning and the establishment guys are losing—badly.  In many ways Warren Davidson’s election was just in a nick of time.  I have high hopes for him.  But he will have to use all that West Point strategy and discipline to hold up over the next few years as the establishment transitions over into the kind of government that a new president will bring—with clear Tea Party values.  The writing is on the wall even if establishment politicians don’t want to see it.  Things are changing rapidly—and when it does—we’ll have a great guy holding a valuable seat in Washington D.C.  Thank goodness!

Rich Hoffman

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Ann Becker Wins, Patti Alderson Loses: A new dawn for a Constitutional Republic–not turning the other cheek

For me it was the best election I’ve enjoyed in quite some time.  All my people didn’t win but the one I most supported did—and that was Ann Becker knocking out Patti Alderson off the Ohio State Central Committee.  Patti is part of the party establishment that speaks about Republican values but behaves like a Democrat and she along with several like her gave us John Kasich.  There were several Tea Party challengers to the establishment State Central Committee candidates who are all just as bad as Patti relative to political philosophy—and few of them broke through like Ann did—but now Becker can begin to do valuable work from the inside that will help guide the Republican Party back toward real conservatism instead of just RINO namesake—using the party to win elections then run like their more progressive rivals.

It never fails to shock me even knowing all that I do about how things work—to learn to what extent the Republican Party led by John Kasich in Ohio had a lock on voters through the machine of politics.  I have been supporting Donald Trump for president and was happy with his wins on Tuesday, March 15th.  I was hoping he’d get Ohio but based on the feedback I had from area Republicans attending a Trump event recently I was continually baffled to hear them talk about how they feared to let it be publicly known that they liked Trump.  I mean these were grown adults and they were fearful of the wrath of some little hunchback progressive who could get his ass kicked by a falling leaf.  There is nothing to fear about John Kasich.  Yet politicians afraid of harming their rise to power within the party did not want party leaders to know that they were at this epic Trump event but only to get an autograph of the celebrity.  The head of the Republican Party was supposed to be seated next to me, but he never showed up because obviously the party was in the bag for Kasich and he was expected to strong-arm his party members into supporting the current governor over Trump.  That is precisely what is wrong with politics.  Those politicians didn’t represent the people who elected them—they represented with real anxiety the desires of the party bosses and largely that temperament has been shaped over many years by people like Patti Alderson.  So it was wonderful to see her go down in flames to someone I know will truly steer the State Central Committee into the direction of a constitutional republic.

As the nationwide results came in I was embarrassed for Ohio and the Republican Party that was so proud of their ability to turn out votes for John Kasich—in spite of him being an extreme loser who has no chance nationally of winning anything outside of a complete insurrection at the National Convention.  Trump and Cruz are the clear favorites among voters leaving all the establishment types in the dust of recollection.  Listening to Kasich talk you’d think he just won the Super Bowl.   What was painful to me was what many of those area Republicans and their donors said to me just a few days prior at the Trump event.   If given a choice, they’d vote a different way.  I’d say to them that nobody knows how you vote when it’s just you in the booth.  That’s when they’d say to me—“yes they do.”  They didn’t want it to ever be discovered that they supported anybody but Kasich for President in 2016—even though the guy had no chance to do anything nationally. With all that strong-arming by party bosses Kasich won a measly 66 delegates.  To date he has barely broke 100 which is deplorable.  Only career politicians would think such a thing was something to celebrate.

Patti Alderson in spite of the people who will tell me and you dear reader that she’s a pinnacle of virtue is exactly the type of person who is bad for the Republican Party.  She supported increases in taxes—has used charities as a means of extortion against children by blocking out people who actually tried to help then smeared the people who were really trying to point a light on what she was doing with the unionized educators embedded deeply in our community.  I know firsthand what she’s like behind the smiles and the charity—and she went after my name rather viciously once all other means of stopping my anti-tax group ran out.  In a lot of ways what she did locally was a lot like what the Republican Party is doing now to Donald Trump.  They don’t know how to stop him so they are attacking him.  And like him I have a similar social policy—I never forget, I do hold grudges and even if it takes 100 years, I look to get even against those who have done me wrong.  There is nothing wrong with that type of animosity—it is the difference between winners and losers.  All this turning the other cheek stuff in my view is a stupid position to take on anything—it certainly isn’t a path to any kind of victory.  If they hit you, you always hit them harder and harder until they stop and give up.

It was four years to the day that I had to dig in like Trump and defend my record by an onslaught of media and public sentiment coordinated by Patti against me to essentially preserve all that she had built connecting the Republican Party to Lakota Schools and the tax increases that she wanted.  I encouraged all my Republican friends to stand with me, that what Patti was doing with her tax increase support around the community using charity to help sell it would lose in the end in spite of the mudslinging—that all she was trying to do would backfire if everyone would just hold their ground.  But they listened to her because she was a party insider instead of me and history told the rest of the story.  I am proud to be the first that I know of in modern politics to do as Trump is now on a national stage.  I tried to tell area Republicans to dig in and stand for something and some did.  Most continued listening to Patti—like Judy Shelton who was strong-arming local Republican members to hold the line of the party even if the party was wrong philosophically.  (CLICK TO REVIEW)  Thankfully good people have been challenging the Republican establishment ever since and many have broken through.  Ann is only the most spectacular and recent example.  But many before her have been pounding away at those fences and now they are starting to break through.

Trump is a result of that offensive strategy, he would not have had the kind of success he is now prior to 2012.  I said to an NPR reporter for WVXU at that Trump event standing in front of the Bernie Sanders supporters that politics was changing forever.  Trump was paving the way for a new kind of politician—part entertainer, part private sector success story, and part WWF.  It takes those entertainment attributes to break the party lines and establish yourself independently from any collectivist rule.  I proved that 100 days after an onslaught that Patti Alderson led against me within the Republican Party to remove me from her plans by using a little authentic theatrics to gain supporters away from her way of thinking. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  I was astonished by all the people who were happy that my methods had actually worked—they stopped me everywhere and thanked me for what I had done—which was simply to stand my ground when everyone else literally abandoned me at Patti’s direction.  I wrote about my experiences extensively and now many thousands of people have read about that strategy.   I said it in 2012—the way to win as a Republican was to hit back at Democrats harder than they hit you.  Many being good Christians couldn’t get their mind around it.  But the Saul Alinsky playbook exposes that tendency among Republicans to turn the other cheek and that’s how liberals have continued to beat conservatives time and time again, and there has been no end in sight, until that moment in 2012.  So it gives me great satisfaction to see Ann Becker beat out Patti Alderson and to see Donald Trump using that same strategy on a national level.  Not that Trump adopted any of my ideas; he’s certainly his own man.  But enough people have been thinking about these things and a chain reaction within politics has taken on a life of its own.

It was quite enjoyable for me to watch Trump’s speech after he won essentially all the states on the March 15th election except for Ohio—knocking out Marco Rubio from the presidential race.  Trump attacked the media, the GOP establishment and showed that he was standing by his campaign manager when there were calls for his head—and he did it with a smile on his face to the outrage of the media.  I remember how it felt for me March 12th through March 15th of 2012 when Patti Alderson led her group of people to attack me in every way that she could without actually getting her hands dirty.  I remember my hatred of Michael Clark from The Cincinnati Enquirer, the betrayal of Scott Sloan at WLW, and my supposed friends within No Lakota Levy who abandoned me while speaking to hundreds of thousands of people on the air in the moment when I needed them most.  They did what they did because Patti had led them to their actions—I have the emails to prove it–still.  But I stood my ground as hard as it was.  Professionally, if I had been anyone else I would have been finished as a person in Butler County—but people like Patti didn’t care in the least.  For her the needs of the many out-weighed the needs of the few and if I was getting in the way—even if I was technically correct—then disposal was the option.  It was a hard period of time for me.  But I dug in and stood my ground and people thanked me for it.  And now, just four years later my friend Ann Becker has replaced Patti Alderson from her Central Committee seat and Donald Trump is running for president and is essentially using the same methods I did to advance his tactical position.  And this time the Republican establishment can’t stop him.  Because those of us on the cutting edge have seen the weak spots in the party system and now it is coming apart.  And that gives me great satisfaction for really the first time in over thirty years of political observation.  March 15th was a good day for our Constitutional Republic.  And things are just getting started.  It’s not that anger and flamboyancy are the proper means to defending a republic, but when fear is used to keep party members in line and to force people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t on their own—the best way to deal with it is to throw it back in the perpetrator’s face and stand up to the bully—whoever it is.  There is one thing in this world that I have no tolerance for and that is a bully.   Trump isn’t the bully—it’s the people who use party members to hold people to a worthless vote that goes against the voters.  And of that class—Patti Alderson was one of the most frequent violators.  She didn’t bully people with force—she does it with a smile on her face and a large check book.  But the methods are conducted under coercion nonetheless—and that has to end at every level of government, from local to international.

So how did Ann win that important election—well, I’ll tell you.  She was at the Trump rally in West Chester even though she’s a Cruz supporter—she went where the people were and she talked to those many thousands who were standing in the rain trying to get into the packed venue.  Those were people who were definitely going to vote in West Chester for Trump and she gave them her name on the ballot.  Most people reading through such ballots have no idea who Patti Alderson was, but they knew Ann because she handed them literature with her name on it working the crowd.  She went door to door.  She was on the nightly local television news.  She had write ups in the newspaper.  She was on the radio.  And she had commercials on 55 KRC.  In short, she took nothing for granted and she actively worked every angle possible to the largest extent possible.  She simply out-worked the incumbent Patti Alderson who sat back and expected her reputation to carry her through the election.  That is how you beat these incumbents dear reader.  You simply outwork them.  That is how Trump is doing it, and that is how Ann won.  If everyone who is a freedom lover did the same—the establishment would cease to be.  You don’t have to play party politics and fall in line with the leadership.  You simply outwork everyone else and stick by your guns no matter what.  That is the best path to success in any endeavor—and it needs to become the standard mode of operation in politics.

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John Kasich is a Functioning Democrat: Read the facts by Chris Littleton before being tricked into voting for the Ohio Governor

Chris Littleton is an old friend of mine who left Ohio essentially because he knew too much about the trouble John Kasich was putting the state through as governor.  He has written an excellent article about why you should not vote for Governor Kasich on March 15 2016 that is so well written—and detailed that I must offer it to last-minute voters ahead of the primary election across the state.  Chris wrote the article as a warning, and as many people as possible should see it.  I’ve included the link at the end of the text portion seen below which has some wonderful supporting data to go along with it—Chris has always been, and continues to be very thorough.  So, I’d suggest that you visit Littleton’s site to get the whole picture.  Essentially, Chris was an insider who worked closely in Columbus with key Republican members to acquire this information.  He became increasingly frustrated with Kasich as time went on and eventually moved to Tennessee because he didn’t want to watch the state die a slow economic death.  All the statistics that Kasich has been citing as evidence of his great governance are false—conjured up with borrowed time.  Kasich is a functioning Democrat and is a menace to anything involving a check book.  There is no wonder he worked so well with Bill Clinton during the 90s—because he is essentially by philosophic affiliation—just like him.  Kasich should not be running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.  He should be running against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic opportunity instead.  Kasich is NOT, a conservative.  I know it first-hand, Chris has provided the facts, and the GOP has tied itself to a sinking ship democrat as the leader of their party in Ohio—which is a gigantic mistake.  Here is the precise supplemental material as provided by Chris Littleton.

Why Conservative Ohioans oppose John Kaisch

By  Chris Littleton

As someone who was deeply involved in the Republican and conservative political scene in Ohio for many of the Kasich years, I want to shed some light on John Kasich’s history as Governor. It’s important to note that not a single item below is my opinion. This is a simple telling of the facts.

I do not work for any political party, candidate, campaign, committee or advocacy group of any kind. In fact, I’m not asking you to support any specific candidate. What I am asking, is that you NOT vote for John Kasich, and in the paragraphs below I will tell you exactly why.

Why am I telling you this story while many others who know Ohio have not? Because so few of those involved in Ohio politics will risk speaking up due to Kasich’s stranglehold on Republican politics in the state. Bottom line – no one wants to pay the price of picking a fight with a sitting Governor.

When looking at John Kasich, there are two distinct stories that can be told – one is that of an Obama-like policy agenda, and the other is the story of a man who has run Columbus with intimidation and threats rather than consensus and coalition building.

For now, I’m going to stick with what I know best, and focus on his policies that declared war on personal and economic freedom in Ohio.

The unfortunate truth about John Kasich is that he has advanced wealth redistribution while spending taxpayer money at record levels, and has actively inhibited the economic opportunity Ohio so desperately needs.

We can explore that statement by asking questions John Kasich should be forced to answer on 3 of the most important issues of our time:

  1. Governor Kasich on Obamacare:You advanced Obamacare in Ohio, turning over 600,000 healthy, working age adults into government dependents, costing taxpayers billions of dollars and expanding the largest long term obligation in Ohio history – all against the will of the Republican controlled Ohio House and Senate.

Given that these 600,000 Ohioans would not be government dependents had you not bypassed the legislature and vetoed their wishes so you could accept Obamacare funding and conditions – how can you say you oppose Obamacare while unilaterally championing its single biggest component?

Ohioans, let’s be brutally honest about this Kasich decision to expand Obamacare in Ohio. You and your children are being indebted by billions of dollars all to redistribute this money to healthy, working age adults. Not children, pregnant mothers or truly medically fragile people, no. The people Kasich added as government dependents were healthy adults.

The inarguable fact is that – this is Ohio’s largest state based expansion of socialism since Lyndon Johnson was in office, and John Kasich used his executive power to override the legislature to make this happen. He holds sole responsibility for this massive problem.

  1. Governor Kasich on Spending:You talk about balancing the state budget, but every Ohio Governor balances the budget every year as it’s a Constitutional requirement in your state. Democrat or Republican – every Ohio Governor does this, as it is regular and expected. This is not a unique accomplishment.

Of greater interest is that Ohio’s job and economic growth has lagged behind the national average during your time in office. As we all know, the national economy has improved since the crash of 2008, so tax revenues have increased in both Ohio and across the US. But, as Ohio state tax revenues increased, curiously, so did your spending at a much faster pace.

Governor Kasich, how can you justify increasing spending by greater amounts than any Ohio Democrat or Republican Governor since 1990, outpacing both inflation and population growth, but still call yourself fiscally responsible?

Yes, the exploding expenditures in Ohio are real. Read more about record state spending under John Kasich

  1. Governor Kasich on Unions and Big Labor:Every US state with a Republican Governor and Republican controlled Legislature has ended compulsory payment of fees to unions and become a “right to work” state with the exception of Ohio.

As the Ohio border states of Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia have all become “right to work” states during your time as Ohio Governor, not only have you failed to make Ohio a “right to work” state, but you actively pushed Michigan’s Governor Snyder to oppose right to work legislation, you have killed Ohio right to work legislation in committees multiple times and you proactively worked to stop Ohio donors from funding a citizen’s initiative to make Ohio a right to work state through a vote of the people at the ballot.

Ohio’s current ranking is a dismal 38Th in job creation, so while you fought against ending forced union dues payments, right to work states dominated job growth across the country. How can you call yourself someone committed to an environment conducive to job creation when your actions and results  in Ohio have protected unions and inhibited job growth?

On three of the biggest issues for Republicans and conservative voters: Obamacare/Wealth Redistribution, Fiscal Responsibility and Jobs/Economic Opportunity, John Kasich fails miserably.

If you are looking at someone strictly on their recent record and actions – the heartbreaking and terrible truth is that John Kasich is indistinguishable from a Democrat governor. In fact, he said so himself in New Hampshire this February:

I ought to be running in a Democrat primary, I got more Democrats for me — you have any Republican friends? – John Kasich, February 2016

What makes the list of policy disasters above even more intolerable to so many Ohio Republicans and conservatives is that Kasich ran for Governor as someone else. He looked us in the eye, often one on one, and promised to be different than the Democrats, but we got just the opposite – more spending, more government dependents and the same union protection we get with Democrats.

Maybe the average Republican voter could forgive the abandonment of principles if they were actually productive, if they were actually yielding results. Instead, Ohio has below average job growth, terrible workforce participation and is staring down the barrel of multi-billion dollar obligation that will only hit the state when Kasich has left office.

Ohio taxpayer – when Kasich is long gone, it is you and your children who will be left with the mess he has created. It is you who John Kasich has left holding the bag.

On March 15th, choose anyone but Kasich.

If you haven’t had enough Kasich-led craziness in Ohio, keep reading…

I won’t go into such detail on his other failed policy and positions, but here is a brief list of a few other items where Kasich is out of sync with most voters who identify as Republican, conservative, libertarian or generally center right in any way.

  1. Increasing taxes or ignoring tax cuts

– Kasich has shifted taxes around the state, so property owners and small businesses now pay more taxes than before he took office. Ohio recently ranked #42 in Tax Foundation’s “2016 State Business Tax Climate Index.”

– Kasich is pushing to increase the tax on oil and gas extraction in Ohio by over 300%

– Kasich has publicly advocated and encouraged increases for local school taxes

– All this with a Republican controlled legislature, so there is no excuse for not advancing better tax policy.

  1. Crony corporate favors with taxpayer money

– Kasich created a non-auditable 501C4 called JobsOhio which uses revenue from state liquor taxes to offer incentives, loans, etc to chosen businesses. Remember Obama’s Solyndra mess? This is the same thing, but it’s not even auditable. This entity picks winners and losers with taxpayer money with absolutely no accountability.

– This crony entity was created by John Kasich, and he considers it top achievement.

The perceived necessity to create such an entity, to effectively bribe businesses to work in Ohio, acknowledges how terrible a business climate Ohio really has. Businesses aren’t looking to grow or move to Ohio. They have to be bribed to do so, and even then – the results show that it is not working.

  1. Long standing defense of Common Core in Education

– Multiple bills have been offered to address the Common Core mess in Ohio, and not only has Kasich refused to address the issue – he has defended it, and believes opposition to the Common Core State Standards is, in his words, “hysteria.”

http://chrislittleton.com/opposekasich/

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Donald Trump’s Visit to the Savannah Center: West Chester becomes the center of a new day in American politics

Trump4Of course it was a spectacular day in West Chester when Donald Trump came to speak at the glorious Savannah Center.  The whole event was born while I was getting yard signs down at the Cincinnati office and happened to meet Robert Scott who is the Ohio State Director for Trump’s campaign.  It should be noted to those who were there how the elements came together the way I suggested they would many months ago—even down to a local Sheriff Jones endorsement and opening speech.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  But it wasn’t so smooth to get it started—there was a lot of looseness of feet needed to make it all happen and I can only say that I was very proud of all the people it took to pull the event off, starting with Robert Scott.  I don’t normally get very excited about these kinds of events, and I hate the security, and formality—but for this occasion I was willing to put that all aside so that Donald Trump could make one last big impression in Ohio prior to the March 15th vote where he is poised to beat Governor Kasich..  

It was surreal all day on Saturday, just 24 hours ahead of the big town hall with Trump. John Boehner had come out with an endorsement of Governor Kaisch, which was understandable.  After all, that was John’s golf buddy who famously lost to Barack Obama and Joe Biden in that now illustrious golf game in 2011 where the four played each other in the way that the game is really played.  It wasn’t so much about who hit the ball in the hole with the fewest strokes—it was who gained leverage over all future deals between Obama’s desires and Speaker Boehner’s.  Obama clearly won. Boehner became a lapdog for the president while Kasich betrayed us all, including the Ohio legislature and chained our state to Obamacare ignoring the Health Care Freedom Amendment that was passed just a few years prior by the same people who put the governor in power in 2010.  The day was surreal because area republicans were obviously not supportive of the arrival of Trump to their bastion of conservativism—Butler County.  Area GOP leaders would have rolled in the mud like pigs at the trough if Mitt Romney were coming, but Donald Trump represents all the things that they fear.  For instance, when Trump plays golf with whomever in the future as President, you can bet that the GOP won’t be losing on the deal the way Boehner and Kasich did. That is precisely why with only 24 hours of advanced notice the venue at the Savannah Center filled to a bulging crowd without any official backing by area GOP members.  I get emails from the GOP about every time some politician sneezes–looking for money or time—but there was nothing about Donald Trump put out by the party ahead of the Savannah Center Town Hall.  If I had not been close to the situation—I wouldn’t have known until after it happened.  Even so there were lines over a mile long in the drizzling rain and most people couldn’t get in–and those people showed up three hours early–and still couldn’t get inside. Trump3

It was a big deal years ago when Mitt Romney came to speak in West Chester roughly just a mile south of where Trump spoke.  I was not excited about Mitt Romney in the least, and I did not attend—even with VIP invites to be there.  I thought he was a lot of what was wrong with politics.  He was another do nothing guy who would show up and speak, then turn away from the microphone and do nothing about anything.  During that speech Kasich was there, Boehner was there, and several popular Republicans from all across the country came to show their support of Mitt Romney.  With Donald Trump—there wasn’t the same type of establishment enthusiasm—and that was precisely why I went out of my way to attend—because this speech from Trump was different.

That is not to say that Trump didn’t have GOP support from winners within the party.  Sheriff Jones endorsed Trump, which wasn’t a surprise.  But so did George Lang, the area hero who has managed to create a wonderful business environment in West Chester making it one of the finest communities in the nation with such a large demographic population.  Lang did it with all the means that any defender of capitalism should, and it shows.  The Savannah Center is a representation in many ways of Lang’s rise within the Republican Party.  It is a practical place built during his tenure as an area trustee—yet it’s opulent to best represent the community it is in the center of.  It has a feeling of hope within it—and in many ways Donald Trump and the Savannah Center were made for each other.  After a series of hard rallies where communist insurgents sought to derail Donald Trump ahead of securing the presidential nomination, the Savannah Center and the crowd was an obvious relief for him—and a chance to really put a period at the end of the sentence as to why he should win Ohio ahead of Kasich.  It looked great on television and represented our community to the nation in a really spectacular way,  and the GOP leaders who normally run everything didn’t play a part in its fruition at all.  Which is why they win a lot of elections but do absolutely nothing once they obtain the seats—and is why such a large venue was able to fill up just by word of mouth in favor of Trump.Trump 2

The crowd which gathered up to well over a thousand inside for a “small” town hall experience was poised with so much pent-up energy that I hadn’t seen such a thing since I was at the football game where the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Seattle Seahawks in OT during the regular season.  In Cincinnati with regard to the Reds baseball team and the Bengals football team, we have become all too accustomed to losing in critical moments.  The GOP in southern Ohio reflects that trend unfortunately.  People get excited about things, but often get let down at the end—just like the quadruple overtime game that the UC basketball team played against UConn on Friday—where the Bearcats just ran out of gas. 

Cincinnati fans of politics and sports have witnessed so many near misses that they get rapturously excited when they begin to taste victory—but are always a bit reserved expecting to be let down at the end.  For them, seeing Donald Trump in person was just too much to handle—and they were obviously emotional about it.  Trump is a winner and that in itself is something to behold.  He may not win every single time he does something but what’s different about him is that he “expects” to win.  That presence was even more intense in person than it was on television.  Trump loves to win, and gives off an impression that he expects it in everything he does—which is very unique for any person over 60 years of age.  Trump at nearly 70 has the energy of a teenage kid—and the swagger of one who has never yet lost and learned to accept it.  Trump is obviously an unconquered soul who has not yielded in life to defeat—and the crowd knew it.  They went way out of their way to be near such energy—and that enthusiasm was certainly on full display at the Savannah Center.Trump 1

It was a good day for West Chester not only because a presidential candidate came to our town to solicit votes—but because Trump is a massive celebrity who is on the front of a movement against traditional politics for the preservation of our country.  For a community and Cincinnati in general, it was a chance for our friends and neighbors to actually be near a person who expects to win in everything he does—and that was exciting.  I remember the Kasich rally that was conducted at the Ronald Reagan building just a few miles to the north from where Trump spoke.  That was a fairly small room and Kasich couldn’t even fill that—and he is the current governor.  I was at another event with Kasich in 2011 and the fields of Carriage Hill in Liberty Township were filled with cars eager to hear him speak.  But Kasich lost a series of important issues starting with that golf game with Obama—and the writing was on the wall.  Governor Kasich was just another do nothing politician who talked a good game, but couldn’t deliver in the end.  Kasich in the same area couldn’t fill up a McDonald’s let alone the Savannah Center—and that is precisely why Donald Trump coming to West Chester was such a big deal. 

Because even with a skeptical crowd used to hearing a lot of tough talk but always being let down at the very end—Trump is different.  People were able to be near him—which they needed.  And by the look on his face—I think he needed it too.  For a few short hours during an emerging spring a battered warrior candidate for President of the United States and a skeptical public fed off each other for the better.  And a new dawn for America broke just above the horizon—and we all had a sense that soon that bright sun would be high in the sky with a scorching heat and that America would be great again—because Donald Trump for a change would be at the front to inspire victory where nobody previously thought it was even remotely possible.

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Thomas Dimassimo’s Terrorist Intentions: Meet the radical who attacked Donald Trump in Dayton, Ohio

Who was the guy who attacked Donald Trump in Dayton, Ohio on March 12th 2016?  Well, he was a saggy assed-communist inspired, Black Lives Matter, anti-American radical who desires to fundamentally change the nation into an extremely progressive—open border utopia of socialist extremity.  His name is Thomas Dimassimo and he was and is an extreme radical who went to that rally with terrorist intentions—because he forecasted those plans on Twitter ahead of time.  Here is the video proof of the radical along with information provided about him which the media needs to cover.  The link below goes into much more elaboration.  The great thing about Donald Trump’s campaign is that he is forcing these scum bags out of their hiding places and pushing the media to cover them.  Watch these videos of the attack and antics of this socialist loving Bernie Sanders supporter and get a taste of the kind of revolution that modern colleges like Wright State University is promoting—and consider why we give these education institutions any money at all for producing the kind of hatred that make young people like Tom Dimassimo so dangerous.  Take special note of the video shown below that Dimassimo directed of the torture of a man of color.  Interesting where his mind is—his art reveals his menace to society.

A protester has been arrested after he tried to rush the stage while Donald Trump was speaking during a rally Saturday morning, authorities say.

Thomas Dimassimo was charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic, according to Montgomery County Jail records.

Dimassimo was released from custody and is due in court on Monday. His age is listed as 32, but it is not clear if that is correct. His social media pages and public records indicate he was born in 1993, not 1983.

Video, which you can watch above, show a man being taken down by Secret Service agents as Trump spoke at Dayton International Airport.

The incident came a day after protesters caused Trump to cancel a rally in Chicago.

Here’s what you need to know:

http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/thomas-tom-tommy-dimassimo-donald-trump-rally-rush-stage-secret-service-protester-twitter-younglionking7-photos-video/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HeavyTV+%28Heavy.com+%C2%BB+TV%29

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Donald Trump in West Chester, Ohio: Get your tickets to the free event on March 13th at 2 PM

I am proud to announce that Donald Trump will be conducting a town hall type meeting at the Savannah Center in West Chester at 2 PM March 13th 2016. Congratulations to Robert Scott, the Ohio State Director for setting this up along with many others.  This will be a unique opportunity to touch the face of history.  It’s not just about Trump—it’s about all of us and those who want to Make America Greta Again!  Get your free ticket quickly at the link below.  They will go fast.

 

– SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2016 –

CINCINNATI, OH

Savannah Center

2:00 PM

Town Hall

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The Facts About Trump University: Ambulance chasers and political hacks trying to stop history at the expense of truth

Many people from the Republican establishment hope and pray that the legal issues surrounding Trump University will sink Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.  However, unlike them, Trump has put himself into contact with thousands and thousands of people who want to sue him at the slightest provocation—because he is so incredibly wealthy.  Public sector politicians really don’t understand that kind of risk—yet Trump has thrived in spite of that treacherous trend.  Even so, it is hard to find people out of literally the many tens of thousands who have been in direct contact with him as either employees, or customers who can say anything bad about him.  I’m a really good person and it would be easy for people to find two or three hundred people who hate me and would love to bury me anyway they could.  Trump runs an even greater risk of that kind of attitude, yet even on such a large stage, very few can actually step forward and say anything against him.  Those that do are obvious ambulance chasers and that is the situation surrounding Trump University.  Here is Trump explaining the situation with evidence to provide clarification to the controversy. 

When it comes time to vote for Trump in your state—do it!  It’s not just a vote for a really good guy who doesn’t say enough about all the people he’s helped.  It’s a shot in the hull of a really corrupt band of pirate outlaws holding the GOP hostage—and they need to be driven out.  Trump is our best shot at doing it—so don’t waste the opportunity.  Send this to someone you know who wants to learn more about Trump University and Donald Trump in general.  If they are on the fence—get them off it and into a voting booth to vote in for Donald Trump.

Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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Black Ops III: Life in 2065 and the future of human evolution

It’s been a while since I have played console games.  For several years now my wife and I played Star Wars: The Old Republic on our PC and loved it, until the new Star Wars movie pretty much ruined my love of that George Lucas creation.  So I was looking for options and finally picked up a PS4 for all the obvious reasons, and the unit I bought happened to be a Black Ops III bundle specific for the popular Call of Duty video game series.  I know Call of Duty is a very popular title, but I haven’t played it before primarily because I thought it would be too “military” based, which I hate.  I can’t stand the mission dialogue about sacrifice and duty trumping personal honor and all that crap—so the title to the popular console game turned me off.  However, since Star Wars is now off-limits I’m willing to try a few other things, so I thought I’d give it a try to could quickly see why it’s so popular.

These video games continue to impress me with their immersive science fiction stories that are quite sophisticated.  Going all the way back to the first person shooter Half Life, things have come a long way to this latest Call of Duty offering.  But what continues to impress me is the exploration of science within these games and the possibilities of what life will offer us over the next one hundred years.  I was surprised to find that the story was set in 2065 and it involved several elements of advanced robotics and nano technology.  It also weaved a fairly sophisticated political plot within a story suitable for a House of Cards episode.

My life is unique in that I do things in the real world that are considered, “important.”  I have hobbies that are very, “physical.”  Yet I enjoy quite a lot to step behind a technological veil and explore worlds bridging the best of modern science fiction, science and art and mixing them all with contemporary politics and a Millennial skepticism of authority—and viewing the world from that vantage point.  Not many people my age successfully go back and forth like that.  They evolved in their thirties to playing golf by their forties.  It is difficult play a round with important people on a Friday afternoon, then go home and play some Black Ops on PlayStation for the evening.  I can do it, but not many can.  I find that the ability to enjoy all aspects of modern life to be more valuable than just specializing in one particular thing during sectional moments of a lifetime.  I value the childlike playfulness of harboring many interests and not regulating those passions due to a social context.  Given that, I find the stories of modern video games to be very important mythologically into preparing our society for the massive changes that are about to occur over the next two decades.

For many years I have played video games and we’ve had just about every system since the Atari 7800 back in the 80s.  I raised my kids on video games and I have played them a lot.  Over the last few years, I’ve been very busy and I haven’t kept up with the big technological breakthroughs largely because I wanted to see where everything was going.  4k televisions and these incredible sound developments from Bose were poised to change the home entertainment industry a few years back, so I sat on the fence to sort of watch things before making big investments.  A few of our family members have personal home theaters with projection televisions, which I thought were fantastic, but I was skeptical that they’d hold out to the strong resolution that gaming systems, and streaming services like Netflix were offering, so we held on and didn’t get a PS3 or an Xbox One.  My big problem with the Xbox One was the emphasis on online content and downloadable offerings.  I like to own things and if you lose your hard drive—which happens, then you lose your downloads.  And I’m not a big fan of cloud storage systems, because they don’t exist within my control.  So it was a bit of a treat to play a PlayStation 4 for the first time.  It’s probably been three or four years since I last touched a PlayStation controller—so it was nice to turn it on again and see the throbbing lights which are new on the PS4 as it came to life.

In that regard, the story of Call of Duty Black Ops III pulled me in instantly and I found it to be a great adventure.  The robotics and the ability to simulate reality I found most compelling.  I really don’t think we are that far away from a day when we can download ourselves into new bodies or machines—whichever we see fit and that we as a human species will exist not as biological entities, but as an essence.  In that way I found the story of Black Ops III to be extremely compelling.  As I played it I couldn’t help but think of how these video game stories are changing the way that Millennials see the world.  As of this writing, we are on the cusp of commercial space travel and nano technology as things are changing very quickly.  It’s easy for me to see just in watching the evolution of PlayStation from the PS2 which I played like crazy during the first decade of the new century to the PS4.  The creative use of lights on the console and controller along with the evolution of storage leads the mind to easily see a day where the stories in these video games will actually manifest into a reality—whether its alien life as seen in Half Life, or the future tech of warfare in Call of Duty Black Ops III, the options to us are going to be quite extraordinary.

The best science fiction of our age isn’t coming from books, or movies—it is coming from video games.  I know a lot of young people buy Call of Duty for the online multiplayer content, but seriously, the campaigns on those games is very interesting.  The science is “compelling.”  It’s one thing to read these kinds of things in science fiction novels, but it’s quite another to interact with high science concepts in a 3D environment.  In the case of Call of Duty, I’m glad that I have been mad at Star Wars, because I gave Black Ops III a chance I might have otherwise not had given it.  While it would be fun to take a few weeks of my life and just sit around playing video games–it’s not very practical for me.  I have to manage my time very carefully to fit everything in, and that kind of luxury is hard to find.  So I appreciate a good gaming experience when I can get it and Black Ops III was certainly that.  The science alone does it—the empowerment of interacting with objects within a virtual environment ahead of actual scientific invention is a marvelous attribute—and a necessary step toward the fulfillment of the next leap in mankind’s long evolution.

Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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