This is what negotiations look like. I have wanted to see this for years and I watched most of the day with all the wonders that my new iPhone 7 could provide. Let me just say that the iPhone 7 Plus is a fantastic device. It literally gives me the world in the palm of my hand better than anything ever has. I’m extremely impressed with it. Anyway, because of it, I was able to watch my president wine and dine the Japanese Prime Minister Abe nearly all of Friday and Saturday. After two days of observation, I gave President Trump an A+ on his accomplishments. Whoever was worried about tearing up the TPP deal severely underestimated Donald Trump. The man worked a magic that maybe a handful of people in the entire world understood as it was happening and it was a beautiful site. Let me explain.
After a day of treating Prime Minister Abe and his wife to the extensive trappings of the White House with a joint press conference around 1 PM Trump used the tax payer funded quarters to rain dignity on his Japanese guests. If the visit had ended there it would have matched the best of all previous efforts by other presidents not so gifted with Donald Trump’s other accomplishments, and the meeting would have been a success. But Donald Trump was just getting started. Here’s where things get interesting.
For dinner Trump didn’t hang around the White House to have a big banquette style state affair the way one might have expected—he flew in Melania who greeted them at the airport for a trip down to Mar-a-Lago—the “winter White House” as its now called for a very luxurious dinner in a much more exotic setting—which was fully owned by the President. The symbolism of this was quite stunning. Trump turned toward his own luxurious properties, not the tax payer funded White House to show Abe and his wife a nice weekend—which no doubt deeply impressed the Japanese Prime Minister. One thing you can say that is stereotypically complementary about the Japanese is that they admire personal achievement and the trappings of wealth won through extremely hard work—and Trump obviously understands that after years of successful negotiations. The best foot to stand on in negotiations isn’t fluffy exuberance exhibited on the coattails of those who came before you; it is through your own merit. That is a huge difference.
From there the two couples sat down for dinner at Mar-a-Lago and were joined at that table by Bob Craft, the owner of the recent Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots as they were surrounded with Trump’s luxurious personal resort and many truly successful people from American industry. After a day of Washington D.C. cold and fairly confined quarters within the few city blocks the White House sits on Trump had put Abe into the lush tropical reassurance of a warm Florida evening surrounded by competence—in the same day. The psychological impact of this is that this American president was bigger than just the tax payer supplies provided by the people and was functioning off the merits of his own personal successes.
After retiring for the night enchanted Trump took Abe out for some golf on his private course on Saturday further driving home the point that this American president was something special and brought with him into the White House vast experience and great wealth. After all, Abe had dinner the night before with a supermodel first lady, the winner of the latest Superbowl and the man who had just won the most shocking presidential election in American history at a resort not owned by some big donor friend—but by the president himself. He was his own man and everything around him had been built by him. And now Abe was out in the nice Florida sun playing golf with that same man leisurely talking about big, big things in the world from the psychological comfort of one of the best golf courses in the world.
How about all that trouble with North Korea—what to do about the currency devaluations in China, and how to apply a squeeze play on them over the South China Sea aggressions? Take a sip of water, admire the sun on the horizon of the well tended grass of the course and line up a shot for birdie. How about getting more Japanese investment into the “safe” lands of America as opposed to the very crowded mainland of Japan with aggressive neighbors and potential earthquakes threatening those investments back home—“how about making Japan the 51st state and we can do this all the time—just kidding.” (cough) “maybe not, let’s get to the next hole, nice shooting.”
It would be impossible for Abe to leave back to Japan with his wife without this trip to visit Trump as being one of the best things he had ever done at any point in his life. A weekend visit to the White House then Mar-a-Lago under the premise of a very successful rock star celebrity like Trump and all the trappings of success earned well before the man ever became president of the United States would have been enough. But to walk away as friends who shared such an exuberant, and honest experience together are the kind of bonds that extend well beyond signatures on a treaty of any kind. There was honor earned in the experience which extends well into the diplomacy that runs the world and it was simply beautiful to witness.
There are lots of tactical reasons the United States would want to earn the real friendship of Japan. The Japanese are very hard working people and it’s always good to know such people on a friendly basis. And along the Asian corridor which is mostly communist led countries, like Vietnam, China and North Korea all united in the region toward collectivist—and hostile aims—Japan is the most like us. Also, a good friendship with them launches respectable relationships with Russia. And if friendship with Russia is achieved then China is cut off in its influence to the north and North Korea loses some of its important cover—and so does Iran. So there’s a lot going on with that simple golf trip on a Saturday afternoon at Mar-a-Lago.
But no president but Trump could have done it in the history of our republic and that makes it vastly different than the many golf trips Obama took where people were invited to play with him, but it was more out of celebrity than productivity. With Trump, he has been there and done that and Mar-a-lago served like an exhibition of a great hunters’ trophies on the wall to prove that the man talking had been to wonderful places and done great things providing a foundation for negotiations that were well beyond the earning trust phase—which Obama never achieved with any world leader in his entire eight years, or Bush achieved in his eight years—or Clinton ever hoped at any point. Each of those previous efforts came out looking like tax payer funded exuberance whereas Trump doesn’t even take a paycheck for this job he’s doing and Mar-a-lago was his own property, so essentially the expense was on him—at least the way it looks to a foreign dignitary. And the world was watching closely, in every corner of it—just as I was on my wonderful iPhone 7 Plus. It was really something to see for those with the wherewithal to examine what was happening and how different it was on the world stage this early in the 21st Century.
To be fair, not just because when I look at her I see spit—a skanky broken record that looks like a used up K Street whore disguised as a rabbit in that ridiculous white pant suit designed to hide her thunder thighs not from the world, but from herself—but that speech Hillary Clinton gave on the last night of the DNC was one of the worst displays of acting I’ve ever seen. Not even Morgan Freeman could make it palatable. It was a professionally written speech by others designed to hide her many crimes—and only the really stupid would believe any of it. The weakness of Hillary Clinton, which I’m sure Donald Trump will exploit gloriously—is that when she opens her mouth, bad things come out of it. That broken chicken voice she has comes across like peeled back fingernails across rusty metal sheeting and broken glass. And what she says sounds like a nightmare against traditional American values. Yet what cannot be ignored is that many of the problems in the world right now she has had a hand in, and she sold herself as though she could fix everything—when it’s not even believable that she could fix one thing. A thieving, murdering drunk has more credibility than she does.
There are so many things to hate about Hillary Clinton. Watching her speech, the media covering it, and the idiots crying during it—I came to one conclusion. America cannot support all ideologies under free speech—it cannot support a world where Republicans and Democrats both live in debate from Capitol Hill and manage the country’s affairs the way that Tipp O’Neal and Ronald Reagan did thirty years ago. No, there is no getting along with Democrats. They have to be destroyed within our American borders and sent someplace else for their “progressive” intentions. That was after all the grossest aspect of Hillary’s speech—where she said she planned to work with both Republicans and Democrats in the house and senate which is a pipe dream without any roots in reality. Hillary Clinton is one of the most divisive characters in American history, perhaps even more so than Barack Obama and she has no chance of rallying anyone to her cause except those roughly 43% of the population who are so brain-dead from years of pot smoking and welfare addiction that they have lost the ability to think.
What Clinton’s speech showed, which not even Morgan Freeman could hide with his heavenly words—who is known best as the person who made prison sound palatable in the Shawshank Redemption, is that progressives were making a move and hidden behind their last-minute efforts to buy and distribute American flags to the rally goers so they’d look more patriotic on television after Republicans shamed them into doing so—was that the real intention of their movement could be seen outside the arena on the streets of Philadelphia. There, communist revolutionaries showed their cards and few in the media covered it. Luckily a few did, which you can see below. Those are the people of tomorrow and the ones that embody most “Hillary’s America”—shown so eloquently in the new film that is presently out at theaters across the country.
The communists in the videos from outside the DNC convention are the type of people America fought decades ago in wars across the world and now they are domestic terrorists bred in our public school system by many of the idiots who were in the room at the DNC convention and were crying over Hillary’s speech because finally for their minds—they had arrived at the moment of insurrection—the overthrow of America by a crime syndicate known as the Clinton’s. For those who support Hillary Clinton and the progressive platform, there is your evidence that our public schools do not work—they simply make surrogates who will sign up for a lifetime of government assistance under a federal job advancing progressive thought into a borderless world and global vision worshipping Mother Earth instead of anything beyond.
No one has worse judgement than Hillary Clinton – corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes.
The two sides cannot live together under one flag. The progressives have to be defeated and pushed from our American borders. Even if they eventually do outnumber the right-minded, America is not their country. We are not a “DEMOCRACY” we are a republic and the masses will never rule from a communist mob the mind of the truly righteous. A good mind can destroy the efforts of a million communist “progressive” bastards and it will be those who continue to challenge the attempts by the left to destroy America from within. What we saw in Hillary’s speech was one last unadulterated attempt to erect a ruse which has worked in the past to keep their party, and their progressive movement alive. But what I saw was a party poised for destruction—because beneath the words of the speech are the cracks of not a glass ceiling, but of a floor that is about to drop out on their very efforts plunging them into an abyss for which they will never return. A political party where Hillary Clinton is the best that they can offer—and that is obviously deficient—there will be no going back from this. We are on the brink and only one side can have the nation. The losers will have to either be destroyed, or retreat to more sympathetic regions of the world—because America cannot hold both political parties situated this far apart diametrically.
I do feel sorry for Jo Cox from the British Parliament and all the gay people in Orlando caught in that shooting, but in the wake of all that tragedy are some very alarming elements which have shown themselves. First of all, England has some very vigorous “weapons” controls, yet Mrs. Cox was still murdered in the streets of England by a conspiracy laced madman supposedly out of dedication to England voting to leave the EU. Honestly, that story is a little too convenient—good thing I’m not a conspiracy theorist—because the numbers don’t look good for England to remain in the EU. Regardless of the motive, leftists were quick to use the tragedy of Jo Cox to rally sympathy toward the efforts to keep England bound to the rest of Europe—at least for now. And the same thing happened in Orlando. Look, that Pulse nightclub was not a happy place—it was a gay bar intending social debauchery. That aspect of course was covered by the murder of 49 people but it was a place of detriment to begin with. However, in the wake of the tragedy, the world is broadcasting rainbows in solidarity with gay rights activists and before you could blink, liberals everywhere were promoting gay lifestyles and attacking guns—rather than the root cause which was Islamic terrorism.
It is precisely this kind of madness which is why we have the right to not only guns, but assault weapons of every kind. In all these tragedies, the governments have really screwed up, and we need the means to remove them from power if elections prove unsuccessful. That is why we have guns of every kind covered under the Second Amendment—from muskets to rocket launchers. England with all its laws couldn’t keep a deranged person from killing one of its rising stars in parliament and no laws in the United States would keep lunatics like that ISIS pledging scum bag in Florida from killing masses of people at will. (I find it astonishing that nobody in that gay club rushed the shooter between weapon loads. The killer had time to call people, make posts on Facebook and keep fresh magazines in his weapon without anybody challenging him. To me, that is a bigger problem. The issue certainly isn’t gun control, it’s the ridiculous notion that in a room full of men—nobody had the guts to charge the assailant.) As a nation, we have really destroyed the valor of our young people through public education. And even worse than all that, the Pulse nightclub had all their exits locked up with only one way in or out. Who would ever think that a “gay” club would even metaphorically block up an “exit.” They love exits, I would think they’d have them open everywhere—if they did, a lot more people would be alive right now, that’s for sure.
The real villains are these idiots calling for gun control before the smoke even cleared the barrels in Florida. Within two days Jo Cox was killed by a gun—and a knife—in a country where even thinking about those kinds of things are outlawed. Gun control laws do not work or make our country safer. But what they do perform is taking the light off the idiots who created all these problems, and when they refuse to leave office and continue to run our police, and military, there may come a day where we have to have those weapons to maintain our country from domestic enemies—as well as foreign. In that spirit, I want not only AR-15s, but bazookas, rocket launchers and whatever I can get. Because idiots are running our government and in the wake of the tragedies they created, they are demanding we trust them more and give up our guns. Sorry, that is not going to happen. Government couldn’t keep a bunch of gay people safe with proper fire codes, they raised through government schools a bunch of wimps, and they let radical Islamic fanatics roam the streets after two FBI investigations and who knows what collected through the NSA. I am likely higher on the terrorist watch list than the Orlando shooter because I’m a white guy and Tea Party supporter in the way government profiles people. No, government has made plenty of mistakes and giving up our guns to them—even machine guns—would be a mistake.
Once again dear reader, I’d encourage you to join the NRA today, then Second Call Defense. Buy a gun—no buy two or three guns. Learn to use those guns, get a concealed carry permit and learn to be a good guy with a gun. One thing is for sure, we’d be safer with you carrying a gun than relying on these stupid people running our governments to provide even basic security. They can’t even keep the exits open in a gay nightclub—and that is the ultimate failure.
The world has gone mad. We need guns now more than ever.
The media set the stage and our current political system has cast the insurrection—so what happens now is their fault. The people in the following video and those like them are not Americans—they are invaders provoked by progressives to overtake us all and attack our way of life. At the now famous Trump rally in San Jose, California you can see dear reader how bad the situation really is. A Trump supporter ganged up on badly stood her ground the way a fan might at a typical football game when surrounded by supporters of the opposite team. But what happened to her is a hint of the intentions of these insurgents. This is the video the news media did not show you—it was of her being egged violently and spit on by a mob of illegal immigrant supporters built by the open border policies instituted by those around the world—including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—to end American sovereignty and our economical means of capitalism. They are the ones who declared war. Most of us have been very kind up to this point.
Of course we’d all be stupid to take this laying down and to just surrender ourselves to these angry mobs. It is my hope that a Donald Trump election will further root out the insurgents and help set the course of the country back toward success. But you have to understand, the people behind this movement are thieves and extreme liars—just look what Kati Couric did just the other day with her video against gun owners, or the State Department against James Rosen at Fox News. They will do anything to advance their progressive agenda and when something challenges them, they resort to violence such as they did in San Jose at the Trump rally. Or they resort to criminal acts to hide their acts even at the highest levels, and they don’t care because the media is eating out of the palm of their hands. This criminal action is clearly mainstream now, the evidence is all around us—just look at these videos from stories done the exact same week as the San Jose protests.
This November election may be the last one we have without actual warfare occurring between the insurgents and the residents formed in America under the United States Constitution. It is my hope that the election will solve the issue. But don’t be naive. Violence will occur because the political left has no other recourse. What they don’t expect is for the good people of America to stand up for themselves—which they are about to learn—is going to happen—just like that young lady did in the Trump jersey as she was harassed. If she had not been standing in front of a Marriott in a nice neighborhood within America with hundreds of cameras recording every incident, if that mob had been in Venezuela, Mexico City or anywhere in the Middle East, she would have been raped repeatedly and butchered violently. These are the villains we are dealing with, and they are now in our country trying to take it over with sheer force. And we just can’t let that happen. Hopefully, an election will solve the problem. But if that doesn’t work, we will have to dish it out instead of just taking it. These vile idiots will be coming to your back yard soon no matter where you live—and this is what they are really like.
Obviously, Obama lost a Obamacare lawsuit, and it was embarrassing. So his administration wanted to change the news cycle. Literally, within hours of losing the court case Obama exceedingly overstepped his executive powers once again by imposing a ridiculous transgender rule against public schools.
Remember what I have said about public schools. If you vote for a school levy you are stupid. If you send your kids to public school, you are taking a serious chance of destroying their minds forever. If you love them, you should home school them, or send them to a private school. Public schools are dangerous, lazy, and obviously corrupt, and by Obama’s actions–are a part of the transgender psychosis promoting the advancement of mental illness as a substitute to logic.
I don’t say things until I’ve considered the evidence intently and one of the reasons I’ve been most insistent to write The Curse of Fort Seven Mile with an emphasis of late is because of a realization that I’ve discovered through quite a lot of research. These rumors of some type of life on the Moon of our earth have some weight to them. From the 1976 book written by George Leonard Somebody Else Is on the Moon (linked below) compelling evidence from actual NASA photographs open the topic profoundly. It’s an expensive book to get, but well worth it. Additionally I think it is the remarks of the astronauts who have actually walked on the moon, people like Edger Mitchell and Buzz Aldren who have provided such virtuous testimony—some intentionally, some not so much so. The evidence points more to the fact that there are constructions on the moon that shouldn’t be there and that there is presently, or has been, an alien race active on its surface. If you can’t afford the old Leonard book feel free to watch these following videos for some supportive evidence to the fact.
One of my first big memories as a kid was visiting the Neal Armstrong museum at Wapakoneta, Ohio while my family went on a trip to Put-in-Bay—I was around four years old. Years after that, my class went on a field trip to the museum there while in grade school and I oddly enough remembered most everything because I had been there before. I was the kid who always read the literature on the exhibits, so I felt very much at home compared to the other kids who had seen the place for the first time. Armstrong was a professor at the University of Cincinnati—which was in my hometown and his life occurred very much around me—and I was aware of that growing up. Aviation was born around me as well, so I’ve always taken some pride in the Wright Brothers and old test pilots like Neal Armstrong who was obviously the first person to walk on the moon—at least that we know of. What always bothered me about Armstrong was that he had turned inward after the experience. He wasn’t like Buzz Aldren—Armstrong didn’t relish the celebrity of being the first man on the moon—he had a secret which he avoided talking about and obviously took to his death.
Given Armstrong’s Midwestern roots, I think the guy didn’t like lying to people about what he saw on the moon when NASA switched to a private broadcast while he and Buzz were standing on the surface in July of 1969. I was one year old at the time and my parents were standing me up in front of the television to see the event. All I remember of the occurrence was the shape of the ship and the sounds of the transmissions which I recognized at the museum years later in Wapakoneta. I didn’t understand the context at the time, but the layers of memory solidified it in my thinking for years to come. While everyone was impressed that mankind was standing on the moon, Armstrong had confirmed much of what NASA wanted to see, which wasn’t filmed with cameras that were made public. We were not alone—not by a long shot—and it haunted him for the rest of his life—apparently.
Given all that evidence, it’s just a matter of time before we have to go to the moon and discover what NASA has been avoiding to tell us. Private space companies are headed to the moon and within just a few years of now, there will be hotels on the surface—and by then we’ll learn the hard truth—it won’t be a secret any longer. There is a presence of some life other than our own on the moon right now and they watch us from there for reasons that we’ll discover. I would propose that it’s a kind of interplanetary base camp and they find our civilization interesting and likely some kind of social experiment that they check up on frequently. Just yesterday I drove by the Serpent Mound site in eastern, Ohio and scientists are no closer to figuring out the reason for that strange mound than they were twenty years ago. In fact, they have more questions now than answers. If our science cannot figure out the meaning of things in our own back yards, then they surely aren’t prepared to deal with what’s on the surface of the moon—an entire celestial body that has not had any of its history covered yet by modern development. It’s an open text-book of mankind’s past and whoever was a part of helping to shape it from inception. And it floats there above our heads—all the answers we seek—yet we do not dare to uncover. Actually, you and I might dear reader—but our governments want to hold onto their power for just a while longer. The evidence is there for us to investigate and when we do we have a lot of hard questions to answer about ourselves. Of course the first step will be in returning—and I can’t wait for that to occur. I’d rather know the truth than live with illusions.
Europeans did not discover America–the giants in the Ohio mounds prove that. They were in North America before there was ever an Indian or a Christopher Columbus voyage. And we did not first walk on the moon. Someone was there before us and they are still there. ………………………………
Sometimes you readers here ask me my advice on financial matters, and when I give my opinion and you listen you profit wonderfully, and everyone lives happily ever after. But as I watched with some level of horror that the Disney owned company ESPN fired the great baseball pitcher Curt Schilling over his social media disgust about transgender politics while my third grandson was being born at the hospital I have decided to give this advice for free before being asked. If you have any Disney stock in your portfolio, then you should dump it now. Not only does the Disney Company need to be taught a lesson due to their bad management and advocacy of progressive politics using their extensive entertainment vehicles to attack traditional family values—but it’s just good sound financial policy. Disney is running all its companies in the ground—most people just don’t see it yet. So for your own good, you should stick by Schilling—who is a real man, and dump Disney. Perhaps they’ll learn something and fix their company, but as of right now, they are headed toward a miserable end as they have attached their star to progressive politics. CLICK HERE TO READ PREVIOUS EXAMPLES OF THIS FAILURE. Here is why Disney stock is headed for troubled times.
Disney has bet a lot on Star Wars, but those best days are now behind it. With The Force Awakens breaking $2 billion dollars at the box office and falling short of Avatar, future movies will be disappointments up until 2020. There are other Star Wars movies that will do well from now until then, and the merchandise sales will be healthy, but the Star Wars mythology is on a downward trend and losing steam quickly. By 2021 Star Wars will be half the value socially that it is now. It will still be considered successful compared to the other properties that Disney runs, but it won’t be enough to carry the whole company.
The Marvel films are in their fourth quarter of effectiveness. The superhero films are losing their appeal and Marvel is the latest “has been.” DC Comics is the new fresh face and even those films will have run their course by the start of the next decade. New films will not hold the same appeal that they have over the last decade and this will seriously damage Disney’s market intentions.
Disney is leaning toward making a gay protagonist and Frozen is on the radar to launch that attempt—they experimented with the idea in that popular musical. It will be a devastating attempt that will be greatly rejected and severely damage the animation division at Disney. So far they have been dancing around the surface, but there is a lot of pressure politically for them to commit more deeply to gay protagonists as primary characters. Once they do that, there will be serious market backlash, and you won’t want your money in the Mouse House at that point in time.
ESPN is going down the tubes with the destruction of cable television. With streaming services taking over the home television markets, ESPN is one of the first major casualties. Baseball is already having trouble keeping ratings during summertime broadcasts and with the poor PR issues regarding concussions within the NFL, professional sports are having a hard time attracting a younger audience. There are too many options for young people and sports are becoming decentralized at a key time and ESPN will find itself on the way out quickly in the years to come. The problem that professional sports face is similar to what the music industry has suffered from in recent years. Studio music has been weakened as options have given more people outlets, but taken away the extraordinary profits that have been enjoyed in the past.
The Disney Parks are getting killed in the Orlando market, even in the Hollywood region. Universal Studios has been far more innovative and has not attached their image so intensely to progressive politics. They have wisely kept a lot of the politics to a minimum where Disney has chained themselves to rainbow-colored castles and flamboyant employees. The Disney parks have taken a noticeable dive over just the last few years looking more like an apologist of the Obama White House than an entertainment company. While Universal Studios was building the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and many other updates Disney was focused on attracting more girls while alienating boys. They have heavily invested in Frozen and their new Fantasyland area. Universal’s attractions are appealing to both boys and girls while being equally thrilling to adults as well. But Disney has alienated boys while focusing on girls and ignoring the adults. They hope to fix that situation with the new Star Wars land at Hollywood Studios, but that will be a few years away toward the end of the Star Wars appeal. It will arrive at market too late and will lose steam by the mid 2025 time period.
It has long been known that the great Howard Ashman of Disney died of aids because of his gayness, but he was smart enough to write songs to musicals that featured romance between men and women—because they have mass appeal. Because of Ashman’s talent Disney has been forgiven by the public. Yet when Disney goes after a strong sports figure like Schilling—who won a world series bleeding from a last-minute surgery to his ankles–because he doesn’t think that men and women should be sharing a bathroom, Disney has crossed the line. They believe that by employing Shilling at ESPN that they control all aspects of his life. Where Disney employees like Ashman were allowed to have a homosexual lifestyle that led to his death—Disney supported that lifestyle. When it came to Schilling, a man known as a conservative who has taken stands on Muslim troubles and gay rights advocacy during his private life—Disney has shown that it discriminates against conservatives while giving free passes to progressives to express themselves any way they wish. The double standard is an attack on conservative value, and that of course is a terrible business decision on their part. So in spite of their social activism, they are making decisions that guarantee their future failures.
What Disney is doing to Curt Schilling is showing conservative America that they have the power to tame a big conservative lion-like the pro athlete and Hall of Famer. They were supposed to be hiring Schilling for his inside baseball knowledge as one of the greats. But what they really want is to control society’s behavior by taming one of the great male idols within professional sports. And that is not the decision-making ability of a great company—but a bunch of idiots and soon to be failures. For that reason, and many of the others mentioned above, and many, many others not even yet talked about—you should sell your Disney stock today, because you’ll wish you listened tomorrow. That tomorrow may not come for another ten years, but it will come—and you’ll wish you had spent it somewhere else instead of a progressive company riding the coattails of a truly great man, “Uncle Walt,” to use the company to change America instead of motivating it to greatness.
It was just a few years ago that the Chicago Teacher’s Union had a strike that lasted for quite a while and now those radical, socialist, ungrateful, overly paid baby sitters are at it again walking off the job completely for one day to protest state funding—which does not exist—and giving 400,000 students no place to go but libraries, churches and other “contingency sites,” while their parents slaved away at a job to pay for college which is often the intellectual final nail in their youthful coffins. Sadly, as much as teachers—especially those protesting in the streets of Chicago stopping traffic and being an extreme nuisance and burden on society—the kids were let down by every adult in their lives. Their teachers were socialist activists, their parents too busy to stay home and care for them, and the media missed the entire point of the whole matter. People wonder why kids grow up so stupid, why they become activists themselves for Bernie Sanders socialism—well, they learned it in their public schools—socialist brothels of intellectual destruction and left-winged propaganda. The March 2016 one day strike by the teacher’s union in Chicago was one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen this year—and it should be a lesson to all what we’ve allowed to happen.
I say it quite a lot and have for quite a number of years—children would be far better off if parents just left them alone at home playing Playstation or Xbox all day instead of going to the socialist oriented public schools that our nation has given us. It’s a hard reality most people can’t get their minds around—because it’s such an inconvenient truth—but we should have always known what was coming, as the whole operation was ran by a giant public sector labor union. The only real goal of the teacher’s union has been to make students into left-winged radicals. Luckily, not everyone grows up to become a socialist, and not all teachers individually are bad people. There are many in that Chicago protest crowd who likely have no idea what socialism is, or understand what their role in this whole debacle has been—but history defines it for us and shows the direction we are all headed.
As this protest raged there were some startling statistics about the demographic nature of a future America by 2050 which came out. Leftists are absolutely addicted to diversity implementation—mixing different cultures together to change the nature of constitutional law within the United States which is how labor unions and other progressive groups always intended to overthrow America without firing a single shot in a second, un-named revolution. So their emphasis has been on skin color, sex, sexual preference and lots of other superficial aspects not even encompassing the essence of what makes a human being human. They see public schools as melting pots of diversity raising children to have no barriers to sexual attitudes, acceptance of those who “look” different than they are, and completely ignoring actual behavioral characteristics because they have misidentified the key ingredients of a successful society.
Even though I have said many good things about the filmmaker George Lucas he obviously has lost his way over the years—probably because he attended too many democratic fundraisers and the politics of San Francisco liberalized him over time—but the “bearded one” has called Chicago his adopted second home. He loves the progressive nature of the city which he considers doing important work toward achieving a more “fair” society. This is one of the main reasons I no longer like Star Wars. When Lucas made the first films—back in the 80s, they were quite good and had characters that would have been most at home in an Ayn Rand novel. This is partly because Lucas believed much about the world at the time that I do now—best exemplified by his truly great film, THX-1138. But after a divorce that he never really got over, hanging around democratic socialists within the Hollywood community that finally embraced him after many years of trying, then biologically changing in his later years becoming increasingly liberal as his testosterone levels dropped off—he is unrecognizable now and his films reflect his mental status. Now Star Wars is about “diversity” more than it is about throwing off a tyrannical regime hell-bent on destroying individualism. As great as Lucas was as a businessman and filmmaker, he now fails to identify attributes that have contributed to the complete failure of Chicago to operate as a responsible city. As a city it is unofficially bankrupt, living off tremendous debt. When the current mayor finally leaves—who has been extremely progressive all along—the next person will have a huge mess to clean up and that will likely lead to a similar fate as has been witnessed in Detroit. The lines between a capitalist society and a socialist one have been blurred to the point that nobody any longer understands—even our most “educated” and most artistic—like Lucas.
What’s the point of teaching children anything if what they are learning in public school is socialism? The argument is from the left that compassion for others is the most important thing in a human society. They believe as many of those Chicago protesting teachers do, that social equality is more important than individual gains—which is why the teachers are protesting the state to bestow upon them more tax money extracted from private property and thrown in their direction. They have become happy little socialists in the same way that Bernie Sanders has gained in popularity. Kids supporting the socialist presidential candidate will tell you that their reasons are to gain access or debt relief from their college tuitions—which they have been told will be free. Yet the teachers and professors within those professions often push up and over the six figure salary territory after obtaining tenure. The left-leaning advocates for public schools, including college, have signed up their lives to the cause of socialism because the pay was so extraordinarily good. Average people like these teachers couldn’t hope to make so much money anywhere else than they do in the teaching profession. Yet the debate against my position has always been that teachers are valuable people giving wisdom to the next generation and that without them society crumbles. Well, I’d say with them society is guaranteed to fail—without teachers—strictly on their own—kids have a better chance of succeeding in life. That is how destructive socialism is to individual minds.
The belief in public schools is that individual achievement is vile and that group associations are vastly more important because equality between all parties is utilized—and taught. The position of the “left” is that individual conquest is only for the physically, and intellectually strong and that it is a “caveman” mentality which society should overcome. What they forget is that advancements in society are not induced by “fairness” but by hunger. For instance, with as much money as our American civilization has poured into public schools and colleges, kids have not statistically become more intelligent. If you talk to anybody under 30 years old today—you’ll see quickly what I’m talking about. Most young people have been deliberately intellectually handicapped by the public school system to make the best and brightest no better than the sluggish and stupid. When you build your society around the weakest links, you obviously will get a weak society—which is why socialism is so detrimental to any civilization. Teachers have been unable to increase their effectiveness around the world no matter how much money has been spent on them essentially because their emphasis is on “equality and group assimilation” as opposed to individual achievement. In a capitalist society, not everyone can be rich, smart, and powerful—but everyone has a chance to if they work at it. The net result of that effort and success then benefits all of society. There is no way to blend the two together. George Lucas tried with his Jedi concept in the Star Wars films—but had to rely on mythical superpowers to blur the lines of what any human could possibly achieve. Essentially Lucas like most on the political left turned toward Plato’s Republic as justification for their philosophic society—in the case of Star Wars, the Jedi are the council of wisdom that governs society without any individual desire. If a Jedi does let personal desires drive their needs, then their superpower attributes become dangerous to society at large and the organized mass of collective consciousness will desire to have a rebellious overthrow of the renegade individual—that is essentially the message of the movies without the Han Solo element added to the plot. I always liked Han Solo because he was an Ayn Rand conservative that functioned so well to keep saving everyone and advancing the Star Wars story. But without Han Solo, Star Wars is just another examination into Plato’s Republic—which is the opposite side of the coin of Aristotelian logic for which Ayn Rand associated and evolved her thoughts on the matter.
All this contemplation about how we arrived at National Socialism without realizing it is good for understanding how a bunch of overpaid and ungrateful teachers from Chicago ended up in the streets demanding even more money than they are already being paid to essentially destroy the lives of the students they were supposed to be teaching. Politicians looked at that protest and shuddered at all the voters who had nowhere to take their children because nobody does the job of parenting anymore—leaving the task of raising children to the state. So when the teachers wanted to protest to show the world how much power they had through “collective bargaining” they had a monopoly on the children and used them as extortion pieces. That is the “compassionate” side of George Lucas’ ideal society, and the ultimate failure of the entire political left—especially those who have bankrupted the once great city of Chicago. I’d encourage you dear reader to watch all the videos shown above for more information and proof. It’s not an easy admission, but it’s one that we all need to grapple with. Public schools are not good for our children. They might someday become that way if the right market forces were applied, but in the state they are now, they are detrimental to our children. Kids would be safer and their minds kept more intact if we left them alone at home with just a T.V. and a video game system. They’d learn more about capitalism there than in school, and in American society—that is what they should have always been striving towards. These problems will continue until our society recognizes the source of the problem—that it is socialism that drives these large teacher unions and they do not have our national sovereignty or our American economy in high regard. By contrast they wish to continue to extract wealth from the haves, and redistribute them to the have-nots as if the mechanisms of productivity were a finite resource not driven by capitalist invention.
To prove it, each one of those teachers should have been fired from their jobs and replaced. Children would not notice, and the parents would see no drop in scholastic performance, and that is the big secret that the teacher unions are terrified of. It’s only a matter of time before we have to call their bluff—because the money isn’t there for them. Chicago isn’t alone in their debts—most of America is going through the same crises. Only when we finally do—and break the back of the teacher’s union and get their left-leaning political influence out of our schools and the Department of Education can we hope to reverse the trends we are seeing today—a nation slipping into socialism at an alarming rate. Personally, I’m not willing to fund our own destruction. How about you?
If Donald Trump needs any help fulfilling his promise to build a wall along the U.S-Mexico border, he’ll find a volunteer in Ohio.
Jim Spurlino, owner of Middletown, Ohio’s Spurlino Materials and a candidate for Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, offered to send his company’s “mobile concrete plants” to the border to build a barricade that prevents immigrants from coming across illegally.
“The nation needs a concrete-strong border to protect patriotic Americans from foreign terrorists and illegal job-snatchers,” Spurlino said in a statement Monday.
I thought that was great, but then out of nowhere Spurlino released this information:
“These professional politicians must fear me,” Spurlino said. “I’m not perfect, but I’ll be honest with the voters.”
Spurlino, the owner of Spurlino Materials in Middletown, did not elaborate on what details could have ruined his reputation. He did say it stemmed from the end of a previous marriage.
Spurlino has been divorced twice, according to court records. His most recent divorce came in 2013.
“I would hope that this campaign and my opponents would stick to the issues,” he said. “That’s what I know the voters want to hear about.”
Spurlino called the tactics “cloak and dagger crazy stuff,” before alleging one of his opponents also has stalked his 16-year-old daughter on social media.
“I really can’t believe that kind of stuff happens,” he said.
Spurlino says in his campaign website he and his current wife have raised eight children together.
Neither Spurlino nor anyone on his campaign staff was immediately available for comment.
Talk about mixed messages. On one hand Spurlino appeared to be a Trump-like candidate, who was ready to fight, but then he was a victim of blackmail playing a sympathy card. It seemed like two different people who is a huge alarm to me. I was relieved in a way to find that the situation wasn’t some kind of embarrassing sexual indiscretion because that is a major no, no for me. If a man can’t keep his house in order at home, they won’t be worth anything as a public candidate. Child support can be a serious issue as well, but often that kind of thing can be screwed up by government accounting, which happens more than people might think. I have a big problem with our social trend toward the courts mediating in family affairs. I mean just recently a Butler County judge favored a swingers club in West Chester ruling against the trustees—so the courts can be just as screwed up as anybody. The best way to avoid it is to not get divorced. Spurlino has been married three times and that is a problem, but so has Trump—who I do support. So if I believe in the candidate, I can overlook some things. But once you let the government-run your family and divide up finances, it’s over, they rule over your family and its affairs and I can see how someone could end up in trouble with a government-run child support agency controlled by incompetent employees like those found at the BMV.
I spoke to Jim’s campaign manager for a while and we talked about a lot of things, including who he thinks sabotaged Spurlino with the alleged blackmail and I can believe it. If Spurlino brands himself as a Trump-type candidate strong on immigration, there are a lot of establishment types in Butler County who would have a big problem with him. I can see them trying to destroy a candidate who made big news for a local race in USA Today. I remember when I made it into a Forbes article over a political issue and saw how the other side reacted with an eye bleeding vengeance filled with panic—there was never a more ruthless attempt to destroy a person just for being a good person. If Spurlino could evoke that kind of anger against the establishment, he’d do a good service to conservatism. But he can’t do that if he puts out a couple of campaign videos trying to apologize for something to get out ahead of a story that appears not to be a very big deal—it’s a family issue that looks like it’s been resolved within the family. The courts might be in a fuss, but that is likely because they are idiots. By trying to deal with the issue in a clandestine fashion it provoked a liberal Dayton Daily News reporter to do a lot of digging to find out what the big secret was—which turned out to be far less scandalous than it might have otherwise been.
Just a bit of advice and this goes for anybody. If someone slips an envelope under your door trying to hang you for something—well the best thing is to be as squeaky clean as possible so you never have to worry about such a thing. But if it does happen, attack. Attack, attack, and attack until the person who did it to you is having nightmares about you. Never let up and drive them into the ground so that they can never get up. That is my policy and a lot of people have had to learn the hard way. They read here every day hoping that somehow some way that I’ll stumble and fall so they can peek their heads above the ground in some way once again. And I’d say to Spurlino, if you are a tough guy, then be one. Don’t play politics with losers and let your aggression fly loose. If you have what it takes to work in Trump’s wake, then be bold and hit hard. If you don’t get elected this time, so what. Just don’t play it safe. We have enough people who have been elected to the 8th District who were just pacifists looking for a stable job. We need fighters in modern politics and the best test of that is in how you deal with people who try to challenge you on the campaign trail. If someone did you wrong—destroy them. Don’t complain about it, just take care of it.
I never mind helping people who are not as fortunate as me. I was born with certain gifts and over many years I developed them in a very unique way through a lot of hard work and unusually tenacious endurance. As I had the little breakfast shown in the following picture I understood why the great American novel Atlas Shrugged was one of the best stories ever told. It told the story of a philosophy which had emerged under Adam Smith’s relatively new economic considerations and properly identified the essence of culture in the United States. Sometimes you only know things innately, which I always have—well before a writer like Ayn Rand was able to put definitions to some of those thoughts. But at times such as the moment I took that picture, literally on top of the world, literature—especially good literature—provides a refuge for people of thought to associate with the greatness they are primarily inclined to. It’s one thing to say that Atlas Shrugged is the great American novel—probably the best that has ever been produced primarily as a product from the United States—but it’s another to consider it within a foreign culture on the other side of the world. I can only appreciate the benefits of having a hobby like the one I do where books are my most valuable possessions as I cut into an egg with such a magnificent view.
It is easy for me to love Atlas Shrugged, because I identify with most of the main protagonists. If I couldn’t, Atlas Shrugged would be an insult. I would say that the novel was not written for the masses, or even what the Occupy communists consider to be the 1%. Atlas Shrugged was written for the 1% of the 1% who completely understand the concept of Atlantis as proposed in the novel—and I am clearly one of them. I’ve always known it, but on that particular day in that very different place, it was clearer to me than it ever has been. Not everyone gets it and I spend a considerable amount of my time trying to help those who don’t—not out of some altruistic motivation, but simply because I feel sorry for those not born with the gifts and the mind that I have. Even though I have worked hard to have that mind, and I’ve taken action over a lifetime to preserve it with an emphasis on authenticity, I do feel sorry for the people in this world who by no real fault of their own read Atlas Shrugged and can only identify with the villain—James Taggart.
Most public education institutions and advanced degrees around the world produce the villains of Atlas Shrugged. Most families nurture their children into the values which most embody James Taggart—yet he is certainly the vilest villain of the classic American story. Yet if a scholar or philosopher really wanted to get into the nitty-gritty of what Thomas Paine and Adam Smith were considering with the American experiment it was to construct a world where the top 1% of the very top 1% of intellectual aptitude could bring to the world through their natural inclinations advancements in human civilization—which is essentially what Atlas Shrugged is all about. It’s about what the world could be like if people like James Taggart were removed from holding society to the vile Vico cycle of European thought—which has likely plunged thinking minds into primitive contemplation for millions of years. So I sipped on my orange juice, let the waitresses properly pamper me as royalty—because in that culture-they instinctively understand what drives the motor of the world, and I watched the world below with a glad reservation that I won’t soon forget as I thought about all the James Taggart’s who were out there holding the world back from its true potential.
James “Jim” Taggart (1977-2020?), in Ayn Rand‘s novelAtlas Shrugged, was President of the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad. But instead of being a productive businessman, James Taggart sought to profit by obtaining and trading various government favors. But his actual motive was not so much the effective mulching of the public, or even of businessmen more productive than he. His motive was the destruction of the productive, a motive that stemmed entirely from jealousy. He carefully hid that motive even from himself, until the day came when he caught himself attempting to inflict pain on another man when that act had no profit in it. On that day, he suffered a complete neuropsychiatric collapse. Whether he lived or died immediately after that, is unclear.
Taggart is an example of a corporatist businessman of the sort who nearly destroyed British industry under the system that operated from 1945 until the election of Margaret Thatcher.
James Taggart was born in 1977, the son of the President of the TTRR and the descendant of Nathaniel Taggart, the original founder. But even as a child he showed that he was not made of the same stuff of which Nathaniel Taggart was made.
His sister Dagny definitely was, and he knew it and resented it. He once told her that, though she was named after their (great) grandmother Dagny, wife of Nathaniel, in temperament she better resembled Nathaniel than Old Dagny. Young Dagny took that as a compliment, a thing that James Taggart perhaps never understood.
One particular episode from their adolescence both illustrated his attitude and served as a prelude to things to come. His father made him a present of a motorboat, and the dockmaster at the Taggart family compound started to teach him how to drive it. The lesson did not go well. Then, in frustration, James turned to Francisco d’Anconia, a boy nearly three years younger than he who was visiting at the time, and challenged him to drive the motorboat. Francisco not only drove it; he demonstrated almost as much proficiency as an adult might be expected to have. James Taggart resented that encounter, and Francisco, ever since.
James Taggart attended college at the age of sixteen. When he graduated (1998), he took his first job with the railroad—in its Public Relations department. In sharp contrast, his sister Dagny, five years his junior, started working as a night telephone operator at a local railroad station. From there she would work her way through the Operating Department.
The John Galt Line, with its rails and even an entire bridge made of Rearden Metal, opened on July 22, 2017, with a highly successful first run. Again Jim was able to take credit for it in the public mind, so much so that a young woman, Cherryl Brooks, actually fell in love with him because she thought that he was the productive genius behind the line.
Jim saw in Cherryl a woman trying to better herself, a thing with which he had no patience. And he saw a way to make her pay for that error: he would marry her and make abundantly clear that she could never be good enough to be a railroad president’s wife. And so he courted her and eventually proposed to her.
In the meantime, he saw the economic boom that Colorado was enjoying, due entirely to the excellent transportation afforded by the John Galt Line, now once again part of the TTRR system. And he determined, with the help of a number of unions and other like-minded organizations, to destroy it—by proposing a series of burdensome and often contradictory regulations.
The regulations went through in November of 2017. They produced the result that Jim Taggart had hoped for. But not all the results were as he predicted. The most spectacular result was one that worried him, at least to some degree: Ellis Wyatt, who had developed a method for extracting oil from shale, set fire to his oil fields and vanished without a trace. Those fields, referred to as “Wyatt’s Torch,” continued to burn for the rest of the period in the narrative.
James Taggart is the chief villain in the novel. More to the point, he is a type of every small-minded individual who, jealous of the talents or productive capacities of those who can do things better than they, seeks to demean or even destroy such persons. They pretend to be serving the greatest good for the greatest number, but in fact their motives are far more dire. They pretend to be altruists; in fact they are spiteful.
Ayn Rand considered altruism and spite to be two sides of the same evil coin, and almost considered them a distinction without a difference. Almost, but not quite—the man known as “Non-Absolute” is an altruist who comes to realize that the policies he is supporting do not support the public good, and rebels against them, at the cost of his own life.
Jim is definitely worse than all the other villains, with the possible exception of Floyd Ferris. All the other “looters” do what they do in the pursuit of short-term gain. Ivy Starnes, daughter of Jed Starnes of theTwentieth Century Motor Company, did what she did in the pursuit of control. But Jim Taggart does what he does in order to destroy. He carefully hides this motive even from himself, until he can no longer hide it, and at that moment, his mind collapses completely.
There is of course much more to the story of James Taggart, and for most people who read the book, they will only understand him. Other characters that they might understand would be the government lobbyists, the various second-handers within the story and the general people in the street wondering when something might happen for some miraculous reason. Because they don’t understand the motor of the world—the primary driver of all things—they are left praying to deities the way primitives idolized the sun for making crops grow. America—as told by Atlas Shrugged—was designed from the outset to find the best and brightest that was produced within the philosophy of freedom the United States offered and let them emerge unhindered to advance civilization. Such people are rarer than gold and to find them; we must as a culture mine for them deep and with great patience only occasionally discovering a cherished gold nugget justifying all our hard work. Most people digging for such gold will fail-they’ll die trying. But that’s worth it because when such treasures are found—they lift everyone up.
That is easy for me to say, because I am certainly one of them. I love Atlas Shrugged because Ayn Rand was essentially writing the story for the few people like me—and I appreciate it. Even though the novel is quite popular and people try to relate—most of them end up being like Jim’s wife in the novel, Cherryl Taggart. I meet a lot of “Cherryl Taggart’s at places like the symphony, the downtown theaters, and at high-end shopping centers and they are often miserable. They always strived for greatness but were taught that it came from people like Jim Taggart-the well-connected, the popular ones who were liked by the most people. Only once it’s too late do they realize they were scammed and they often end their lives extremely resentful. When Cherryl realized in Atlas Shrugged that Jim wasn’t what she thought he was, she killed herself. A lot of women are slowly killing themselves through dietary abuse, intellectual torture, and acting as social parasites toward others for the sheer spite of it.
My feelings about the many Jim Taggarts that I know are that I treat them like insects stuck in my pool during the summer months. If I see them kicking around and alive, I usually take the time to scoop them out to let them live one more day. I consider them lucky to be near me at that particular point in their lives, so I help them. I live my life as a motor of the world. I carry everyone around me with a boundless energy that comes with the type of person that I am. So I don’t mind if the Jim Taggarts come along for a boost in their life. They never appreciate it, and they always take credit for being the masters of industry—but I know that without me they can go nowhere and if I can bring them a moment of happiness—just a little gold nugget to make the Cherryl’s in their life not want to jump off a bridge—or their kids desiring to grow up and be idiots—then I try and try again. I know they don’t appreciate it, but I never lose hope that they might. That is the difference between being an engine of the world and a parasite—which most people relegate themselves to.
When I watch the questions asked of Donald Trump—how will you do this or that, Mr. Trump—I think of Jim Taggart. They don’t have a mind to understand what it means to be a motor of the world. I was glad for that particular breakfast because it was a culture that did understand—and they also understood that they were always on the lookout for such an engine. They innately knew that American culture had a tendency to produce such people so the odds of discovering the 1% of the 1% were greater with every American who sat down at their tables with a finely pressed suit and a little swagger to their walk. They worked to impress such people with the same effort I’ve seen people drive across a state border for a billion dollar lottery ticket, or play the odds at a gambling table—hoping to hit it big even though the odds were desperately against them. Other places in the world outside of America hope with all hope to run into an American who is one of Ayn Rand’s heroes—a product of Adam Smith’s capitalism. Nobody can understand Donald Trump but other Atlas Shrugged protagonists. Trump can’t begin to explain his positions than Dagny could explain to her brother Jim why she was so much better than he was.
Yet, it was the people like Jim Taggart who made up the modern institutions, such as the brand of crony capitalism now known in American, or the socialism of Europe, and the communism of the East. The feared organizations such as the “vile bankers,” the Masons, the Illuminati, the whoever—are made up entirely of people like Jim Taggart. All of Washington D.C. is made up of Jim Taggarts and his wife Cherryl. Yet capitalism was never intended to make those people feel good about themselves. It was meant to sift through them to find the rarest of the rare—the gold nuggets that are so often buried deep within the organized elements of society.
I know it’s hard for all those Jim Taggarts out there to accept that they are not equal to the engines of the world. The people of the world are not equal. Some people are better and more important than others, just as gold has more value than the dirt that often surrounds it. And it’s for that reason that I help the Jim Taggarts that I know. I let them ride my coattails because I know without me; they will likely die miserable deaths prerequisite with a parade of personal failures. And I hate to see that in anybody if it’s avoidable. All I ask is that they respect what I offer. If they don’t, then like insects in my pool, they can drown if they are stupid enough to fly back into the deep water after I have fished them to safety. It’s not my obligation to waste my time-saving them from themselves. But if I happen to be in the right place at the right time, they should consider themselves lucky. The best thing they can do is to shut their mouths, and enjoy the ride because the engine does all the work anyway. And when it comes to Donald Trump, putting such an engine in the White House has no downside. It’s never been done before and that is something that the Jim Taggarts of the world do not understand.
Atlas Shrugged is a work of genius, and that becomes more evident outside of the United States. All nations of the world should study it intently and consider its message when constructing their societies. This Karl Marx obsession with equality needs to be abandoned in favor of Ayn Rand’s quest to discover the exceptional. Mankind needs to step off the Vico cycle for the first time in history—and to advance. For that to happen the Jim Taggarts of the world need to get out-of-the-way and let the engines do their work. They can go along for the ride, but they can’t take the credit with assumptions. They may be able to provide fuel for those engines which they should do out of respect. But otherwise they bring nothing to the table. And they should consider themselves lucky to be in the right place at the right time. Atlas Shrugged is all about potential, and the world could use a lot more of it.
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