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March 6, 2016
The ‘House of Cards’ are Falling Down: People voting for Trump and Cruz likely because of the popular Netflix series
I have been asked so much over the last two years which role I played with my blog site here, that was comparable to the popular Netflix series House of Cards. Well, I couldn’t give an answer because I don’t watch much entertainment television. Movies haven’t been very good for the last half of a decade and television series have not been a priority. I can’t relate to most of the plotlines. I’ve lived too much life to feel sympathy for most plot devices—so the stories are often boring to me. I do enjoy that type of entertainment from time to time, but it’s not very often. I watch CSPAN a lot along the various news channels—and typically don’t get very much out of dramatic television. But the question persisted, what role did I play in the real life House of Cards? Well, my wife and I recently made an audio/visual upgrade and we were looking for something to watch that could stretch the legs of the new system. House of Cards was on my mind—it was broadcast in the highest current video format which was very colorful, so we watched the first couple episodes and enjoyed it. I found it to be pretty realistic, but too simplified to what really goes on in politics. But still, the writers of the show did something that was very difficult to do; they captured roughly how life in the Beltway really is through the Kevin Spacey character. And my role with this site was shown in several characters—primarily the conspiracy theorist web writer who was living in a trailer park, and the reporter for The Washington Herald who broke stories on her blog site that her bosses wouldn’t touch otherwise. It was an enjoyable experience to watch because it let viewers into a world that I have learned to understand all too well. And its effect on the popular electorate is quite obvious as the election results from Saturday March, 5th 2016 poured in late at night and the establishment candidates had bombed badly. Marco Rubio and John Kasich had barely hit the registered vote while Trump and Cruz ran away with the night.
The “Washington Establishment” is defined in the Netflix show. It’s not just one person leading the nation from a back room, or a conglomeration of bankers running the world from the basement of some ancient pyramid dedicated to gods long-lost to our written record. It is the Kevin Spacey character—a congressman who is the majority WHIP of his party who is manipulating Washington at every level, from the guy who owns the ribs restaurant in the hard streets of a black neighborhood to the President of the United States. House of Cards captures the culture of the Washington establishment quite well, and accurately. Obviously when Mitt Romney was sent out to do several hit pieces on Donald Trump, the scheme didn’t work. Trump withheld the barrage, although Ted Cruz certainly benefited. During the unique Saturday election, nobody ran toward an establishment candidate and that clearly baffled the Frank Underwood types. Fox News was mystified and several guests on the other shows literally looked as if they had been shot out of a cannon. The establishment and all their tricks were dead, and it may very well be the television show House of Cards that finally killed it.
Netflix has around 34 million paid domestic subscribers and roughly 6% to 10% have watched at least one episode of House of Cards which is the flagship show offered by the streaming company that essentially destroyed Blockbuster Video. That means that at least 3 million people have at least watched some of the House of Cards episodes at some point in their subscription. However, that is likely a very conservative number. The numbers are likely higher if the IMDb ratings scores are considered as a statistical sampling. House of Cards has over 275,000 votes which are much higher than other popular shows on more traditional networks. Since Nielson Ratings don’t have a good way to account for ratings on streaming services over the Internet all this is so new and game changing that nobody but Netflix really knows how many people are watching their most popular show.
The Tea Party has been around now for about seven years and it has certainly made its imprint on politics. As I’ve said before, even in the video game industry, anti establishment plot lines which deal with the nuances of corruption at the highest levels are typical. Assassin’s Creed comes to my mind regarding this topic. The story is a fairly complex one that takes game players to pinnacle moments in history that is being simulated against a dystopian future which makes classic stories like Brave New World and Animal Farm look overly simplified as a result. The world is moving very fast now technologically, and people from my age and older are missing it, because it’s all coming in so fast that classic media is resisting the implication—so they are under reporting it. If you add all this up you essentially get what voters have decided for themselves–they want to destroy the Washington establishment one way or the other. The only real difference is whether they want to do it with someone like Donald Trump who represents someone who could out-fox anyone in the Beltway for several years, or a constitutional anchor in Ted Cruz who would say no to everything. That is what came out of the really pivotal vote on March 5th.
When Mitt Romney came out against Trump just days before the big vote, on a day when Trump was facing down his rivals on the Fox News debate where Megan Kelly for the first time since a major feud with Donald Trump had erupted, would ask the New York billionaire hard questions in front of tens of millions of people—few thought the results would be as they turned out. The bets were on Marco Rubio to get a spike, followed by John Kasich and that hasn’t happened at all. In fact, Rubio was literally trounced on Saturday. With all that was said, Trump not only survived, he won his two targeted states and split with Cruz the other two. In the delegate count, Trump is just shy of 400 going into the winner take all states which he’s poised to do well with while the other candidates are well behind. The establishment really doesn’t know what to do because Ted Cruz is the closest to Donald Trump at only less than 100 back. This was not part of the plan. If this was the House of Cards, Kevin Spacey would be having a meltdown because these rules of power and politics were not from the world he understands. Everything has suddenly turned on its head and nobody in the know understands where it came from.
That is precisely why I have written so much on this topic for years. People watch these shows, they play these video games and the do research on the Internet to find out for themselves what’s really going on. The traditional media is not a part of that revolution so all this is happening outside of their control. But it is clear to me that shows like House of Cards is waking people up to a truth they may not have otherwise considered. They might come to a site like mine for additional information to validate their suspicions, but House of Cards is bringing the average person a level of insider sophistication that they didn’t know existed before by just watching CNN or reading The Washington Times. And America has made a decision to pull out the foundation of that house and to let the whole thing just topple down. They don’t want a House of Cards running their nation-and they have voted to move in that direction. Even the popularity for Bernie Sanders explains the same on the side of Democrats and other left-winged people. People are tired of the tricks and the manipulation, and they want to bust up the system at its very core.
This all brings us back to my role in all this. Well, my job isn’t really covered in the Netflix series. There are some characters that are similar, but nobody is doing what I’m doing for the reasons that I do within that story. To get to that, it would require several layers of sophistication more, but that is not the fault of the writers of House of Cards. They have done a wonderful job putting all these pieces together within Washington culture. They certainly deserve their Emmy Award victories. They have brought to life in the Frank and Clair Underwood characters, who unfortunately really do exist in all the viciousness that House of Cards shows, a representation of a truth—and American voters are ready to turn away. So they watch House of Cards on Netflix, or they play Assassin’s Creed and want to know more. That’s when they find me and all this voluminous material. Then they check the sources I list and watch the videos, and they start changing their minds about things because they have source material from several different places starting with art, and then seeking out validation with journalism, then in opinion by measuring their reaction to others. My job is to be that middle offering. That element is missing from House of Cards because in that world—not many people are watching television except for the news. But it’s close enough to make the needed changes that we are witnessing—and that is a very good thing.
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
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March 5, 2016
Standing up for Housewives: Melania Trump’s conservative crusade captured by Greta Van Susteren
As excited as it may be for me to get a private sector president in the White House with Donald Trump, I’m probably equally enthusiastic to see his wife in the role of First Lady. For so many years the First Ladies of the White House have been social apologists for an increasingly altruistic culture underlining an emphasis on sacrifice for the “greater good.” If you know anything about the philosophy and the writing of Karl Marx—American First Ladies seemed to have represented the claws of communism rather than the American flag draped beauties of American culture. I include Laura Bush in that discussion because part of her appeal was that she had been a librarian and that was used as a means to push agendas like “No Child Left Behind” in public education—which wasn’t very far from what the Bolsheviks supported in Russia during the 1920s. (Read We The Living.) What I find most appealing about Melania Trump representing America as a First Lady isn’t her supermodel Sports Illustrated swim suit edition good looks, or her soothing accent—but rather her firm dedication to being a housewife. Listen to Melania Trump talk about her commitment to her son Barron with Greta Van Susteren—which was a very good and revealing interview.
Melania is more than just a pretty face. Many would say that she’s a trophy wife and that it’s easy for her to say the type of things she is with the comfort of billions of dollars in assets always garnishing her. They might say that it’s easy for her to speak from such an elevated position atop her Trump Tower apartment laced with pure gold—about the merits of raising a child. But there is quite a lot that is important in what Melania is saying and it’s not easy for her. For instance, with the wealth that she and her husband have, they could afford to have a nanny raising their child. They could have an army of nannies and essentially be the family from any popular play or motion picture classic—like The Sound of Music or Mary Poppins. But with all their wealth and her personal time at stake, Melania has fully dedicated herself to raising their son Barron as a very happy housewife—which is a very “conservative” thing to do and a hard position to take in this modern media culture.
I think housewives have the most important job in the world—I believe that with every fiber of my being. Housewives are more important than any CEO position and have more value than even President of the United States. I was probably too aware at a young age largely because my mom was a stay-at-home mom and she put a lot of work into raising her kids. She certainly didn’t take it loosely. I can remember most everything from age three and four largely because I had a mother who didn’t handicap me with dumping me in a day care and letting the collective masses raise me while she worked at a career. In the late 60s and 70s staying at home with children as a woman was becoming increasingly taboo and I watched my mom go through a lot of pain because of it. She was socially ostracized for her decisions and I was aware of it enough to notice once I got to public school and started dealing with other kids who weren’t lucky enough to have moms home with them every day. I caught on to what was happening very fast and by the time I hit the fifth grade I had made my decision about what was wrong with the world and the women who were raising children to care for it. They were wrong and I would commit a significant portion of my life to solving that problem—even if it meant standing alone against such a swift tide of feminism that currently is washing our society into a treacherous cliff of anxiety and failure. As a reward to my mom, for all her hard work, none of her kids have problems. We all are self-adjusted adults who don’t have addictive personality traits or insecurities largely because in those formation years, from 1 to 4 years of age especially, we all had a mom home with us building the foundations that would last a lifetime. The kids I knew back then who had messy moms chasing the illusions of feminism all grew up with some sort of problem. They either melted down in college or hit a wall when they started raising their own families in their late 20s. There isn’t a single example of a successful person I can think of out of many thousands of examples where a child raised in a day care exceeded the general security and personal presence of a child raised by a housewife. Many reading this right now are failures and they know it. Just making money doesn’t make you a successful person. You have to be successful in every category—otherwise none of it means anything if your kids are all screwed up messes as a result of your decisions.
However, prior to the 60s, it was common for women to stay home with their children. Both of my grandparents did it—and every old person I knew back then was of the same mind. They all thought it was quite a destructive trend to see this spoiled generation of college trained idiots sacrificing their time with their children at home while they built careers for themselves as “liberated women.” That turned out to be a line of crap and it was obvious to me as a kid. Every child I knew wanted my mom to be their mom because their mothers were too busy to care for them correctly. And the World War II generation knew America was going down a dark road.
Here’s the big problem with how feminism has shaped this issue—and just about everyone has bit into it fully only to find that there was hot sauce inside that leaves them in quite a lot of pain. It was always one of the Planks of Communism, (CLICK TO REVIEW) to get children away from their parents and have them be raised by the state. This was a strategy formulated during the Cold War to spread communism to the entire world. So by marketing self achievement outside of the home, women became the instruments of American destruction by accepting that their lives were meaningless unless they put a career over their families. Men were forced to accept this notion otherwise they’d be called a “sexist,” (a Saul Alinsky tactic—CLICK TO REVIEW) and children were put in daycares, pre-school, then of course a public education system that has advocated socialism for well over four decades now. Feminism and the destruction of the American housewife was a military strategy against our culture. I was lucky enough to have a mom raising me as a traditional housewife who had the support of grandparents, who didn’t know otherwise at a time. I was also in public school before the creation of the Department of Education in 1979. I was able to watch with a clear head all these changes. It also helped that my favorite subjects for as long as I can remember was history. Even as a young kid I read a lot, watched lots of PBS documentaries and by the time I was a senior in High School I read USA Today each morning during homeroom.
I was living a very wild life—free of drugs of course and the usual teenage issues of insecurity. Rather, I was a very confident kid and that made me public enemy number one—because somewhere every adult I interacted with thought that being humbled and conquered was a prerequisite to adulthood. So the more they tried, the harder I went to war with them—and I left a mess in my wake, but I never wavered. Obviously that confidence made it easy for me to date girls and I met a lot of them. Probably too early I met my wife, but she was one of our literally hundreds at the time who really wanted to be a housewife as an adult. So we started a family right out of the gate and have stayed together in a traditional way ever since—over three decades now. Of course it wasn’t easy, but it was worth the fight. I admired that she wanted to be a housewife, so I paved the way for her. Presently we don’t know anybody who is doing the same type of thing. It used to be as common in America as grass on a spring day on a vast golf course—but these days we don’t know anybody doing it. I know they are out there. I meet women who are housewives in the Liberty Movement around town—who are staying home with their children in a traditional way. But I don’t know any families that are secure with it to the level that they don’t feel like Amish people dedicated to an archaic religion as modern society surrounds them to eventually crush them with sheer masses. My wife had a far more difficult time at raising our children than my mom did. It was often unbearable and incredibly grueling because of the social acceptance of other choices that were obviously wrong for growing children were so well rooted. Women had been told just as anti-gun advocates have convinced people to fear guns, that women were worthless unless they had their own paycheck and their own life outside of the home. The strategy of that kind of thinking should be obvious. To understand the intentions that gave rise to that strategy—from the KGB—watch the film Bridge of Spies. For younger people who don’t remember the Cold War with Russia, it’s a good film that shows the level of anxiety that was prevalent then. Feminism was slid under the American door in the same way that communism was sent to Russia by Germany to soften it up economically, as a rival power to Europe. These aren’t conspiracy theories—they are historical fact—just do a little research. Feminism was always intended to destroy American culture and the youth that might continue to advance capitalism into the 21st Century leaving Europe drowning in its commitment to Marxism.
The world needs more housewives. It doesn’t surprise me that Melania Trump as a foreign raised immigrant wants to have that role with her son. Most women around the world if given a choice would choose to stay home with their children if they had a husband who could take care of all the family income outside. Women are that way in Japan, through all of Asia, India, Africa—virtually everywhere—except when we get to Europe where the work of philosophers like Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx have deteriorated their culture exporting that failure to America through many means. Melania Trump is from Slovenia and watched the transition from a communist country to a return to European socialism. Off the eastern edge of Italy she comes from a family that has seen Italian fascism, the rise of the Nazi to the north and Russian communism to the east. The great unrest of Bosnia was to the south so she comes from a background that has been hard pressed into compliance. I don’t blame her one bit for taking off her clothes to use her natural beauty to get out of the limitation of her homeland and live the American dream in the United States. She caught the eye of the billionaire playboy Donald Trump and obviously grounded him. If not for her–I really doubt he’d be running for president. The moment she had a chance to do something good with her life, she has—and with all the concerns of money taken away from her mind—she has chosen to do one of the most conservative American things she could—and that is to become an American housewife.
From the White House, Melania could do a lot of good. She may look beautiful—but inside her is an intellect hardened by circumstance and a rebelliousness I have only seen in my own wife—who is precisely the same age as Melania and could tell similar stories. A young women with all the opportunity in the world to sun bath on the deck of a yacht all day in the Caribbean or hang on the arm of a very rich man in a Vegas casino—she has chosen to raise her child in a traditional way and doesn’t waver from the question when pressed. And it would be my hope that once inside the White House—that she would be the most magnificent First Lady in the history of America not only in beauty, but in her dedication to children—resistance to drugs crossing the border—and her resolute dedication to being a great American housewife serving as an example to millions of young, impressionable girls who really could use a person like her for a role model. I think it is because of her that Donald Trump is running. She has a mission to fulfill—and that is something I understand. America has lost its way and it needs to find its way back—and the key to that is through our children and the moms that make them.
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
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March 4, 2016
Shooting the Varmints in our Garden: The most peaceful way to end a civil war
I think in the context of history March 3rd 2016 will go down in history as a great battle within the American system of government. No lives were directly lost because of this battle, because at least in the United States elections still matter and people have them as an option. For instance there was a debate with Fox News that was on a very large stage nationally, and at each podium was a figure representing various fractured elements of American society. Marco Rubio represents the old guard establishment even though he came to be as a Tea Party insurgent. Donald Trump was there as a private sector success story who is ready to run the country as a CEO—which can be good or bad depending on the CEO. If the CEO is Jack Welch, then it probably won’t be good for everyone—likely just for the company. If that CEO is like Steve Jobs—which is what I think will happen, then it will be wonderful for every American. But it’s certainly not a traditional CEO position but it is a private sector presence in a high office that has not been there before. Ted Cruz represents the type of people who attend C-PAC each year and run the various Tea Parties. They have helped shape this whole election cycle. Really everyone on the debate stage got there pandering to the Tea Party—even John Kasich who now represents the type of compromise candidate we’ve had in the past with Mitt Romney and John McCain. My friend Ann Becker summed up the experience like this on Channel 12 News as she was pushing for some last-minute votes for her own run on the Ohio Central Committee which is on a scale as important as this presidential election—only in a different way. CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR MORE.
http://local12.com/news/local/gop-infighting-carries-over-to-butler-county
I have personally tried to work with establishment types for decades, but my summation culminated about this time four years ago into a rather large melt-down that still resonates in my community. Trump of course is experiencing what I’m talking about on a much larger scale, so I was curious how he’d deal with the severe abandonment of Mitt Romney the day of the Fox Debate. It was a rather historic occasion, a former presidential candidate whom Trump had supported openly during the 2012 campaign held a press conference type of speech just hours before the debate to discredit Trump in every way he possibly could as a last-ditch effort to destroy the GOP frontrunner to preserve the last remnants of the type of Republican Party that he helped shape. Trump had even held a very expensive fundraiser for Romney in his Manhattan apartment and had become fairly close to the man. In 2012 Trump even pushed right to the wire a very important flight to Scotland while Romney was debating Barack Obama because he didn’t want to miss a moment—even in the car on the way to the airport. So Donald Trump was fairly invested in Romney’s success, which of course history remembers was a failure. As Romney announced all of Donald Trump’s failures over the years—investments that didn’t emerge victorious—although plenty did—I’m sure Trump would have included Romney on that list.
But you break bread with those people; get to know their wives and you start to like politicians because you think that they are regular people. You think they are like you are because they sound like you, think like you, and share similar values. Only, they aren’t like you. Once they get into public office they turn into something else—because by the nature of a constitutional republic, success in that type of governmental position favors second-handers. Trump had just come off a week of great successes—Super Tuesday gave him a huge lead over everyone else in the GOP presidential filed and he was showing what a Trump White House would look like as he picked up endorsements of establishment Republicans at an alarming rate-provoking the GOP bosses to attack Trump to his very core in an attempt to knock him out of the race. That stress showed on Donald Trump at the Fox News debate. His rivalry with Megan Kelly was in front of him, and two hostile candidates who wanted to unseat him were on each side. Millions of people were watching to see if Trump would stumble—even world leaders watched terrified of having to deal with the unpredictable businessman from New York. Trump was pounded and pressed from every direction. Fox News used televisions to replay old Trump interviews in an attempt to catch him in a gotcha moment—which was hard obviously. But through it all Trump managed to stand in front of everyone and declare that he had a large penis—literally. It was the boldest things he could have done at that particular moment and it became the thing that everyone would remember out if this debate, and it was probably the only way out of a day where the establishment had thrown everything including the kitchen sink at Donald Trump ahead of the next round of states voting the following Saturday.
I know how that betrayal feels all too well. I’ve felt it many times so I felt for Donald Trump being on such a large stage and feeling those emotions. It won’t be the last time, but it does hurt each time it happens. The best thing that can be done in those situations is to fight through the disappointment and do whatever it is that has to be done. The stakes for so much were at full play and Trump did well to stand up there and shoulder it all—which is why I think he’ll be great as president. The more that moderators and candidates tried to press him from the vantage point of a traditional president, the more wore out Trump looked. Trump doesn’t plan to be a traditional president. He intends to run the country like a CEO—as a boss. America doesn’t elect kings and queens—and doesn’t like to be bossed around. However, Americans have devolved over the years and presently they do need strong leadership—because they don’t manage their own lives very robustly. At this particular moment, Trump is the only guy who can do the job. But it won’t be anything close to traditional. Trump will hire and delegate many of the presidential tasks because that is the strength of his skill set. Second-hander politicians do not understand that way of thinking. And because Trump represents an end to everything they know, they attacked him in the way that a cornered animal might fight for its very life.
I watched my father and grandparents shoot many varmints that tried to eat food out of our garden, or in their fields. I always felt sorry for the animals that were shot and killed. But over time, I learned that the animals were second-handers to the efforts of the person who planted the crops in the first place. The animals had to be destroyed to keep them from eating everything we worked so hard for. If those animals had not been shot and killed, they would have destroyed all our efforts. From the perspective of the animals, they just wanted to survive—and to feed their families. But, to the vantage point of productive output, they were enemies to that effort. So they had to be destroyed. The same can be said about the GOP. Donald Trump is our rifle that is picking off the varmints eating all the efforts of our careful labor. Out of desperation, the varmints like Mitt Romney know the end is near for them. Ann Becker can see it too as she presses on in her desire to unseat Patti Alderson—who represents those old GOP types like John Boehner, John Kasich, and Mitt Romney with financial backing and has helped shape the party into the disaster it currently is. Ann and I might disagree on how that gun should be fired, but we agree that the crops in our garden must be protected from the second-handed efforts of politicians who just can’t stop themselves from trying to eat and destroy everything. Donald Trump for me is the twelve gage shotgun; Ted Cruz is a .22 rifle.
If Trump was not running, there may well be an armed insurrection—the situation is that bad in America. I’ve been covering it for years on these pages. Trump is my hope of turning everything upside-down and re-organizing the mess into something profitable, and constructive. It’s my last hope before something more serious happens. It’s the last chance at an election to resolve a civil war within America—first between conservatives, then across the country in a general election where we are split 50/50 between socialists and traditionalists. Someone has to do that hard work of converting those socialists to capitalism and laws and executive power just aren’t enough. The varmints of Washington D.C. have to be eliminated—and Donald Trump is the weapon being presented to do the hard work, and the bloody evacuation of those Mitt Romney types which is required. But I could see the strain on Trump. It was hard for him-just as it is for all of us. And out of all the days of his presidential run when he looks back on it, March 3rd will go down as the worst. The good news is—it only gets better from here. Once you shoot the first animal to save the precious crops in your garden, it becomes much easier. And for Trump, he will learn to do that job very well. That’s because he’s not a second-hander—and that’s why he needs to be president—because of the chain reaction that will follow.
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
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March 3, 2016
A Brilliance in Strategy: Donald Trump’s dominance of the GOP
It continues to be astonishing how limited most people view the world. They look at a guy like Donald Trump and think that he’s only about rhetoric and bombastic WWF type speech—but fail to comprehend that in private he’s extremely articulate and serious. As seen during the Super Tuesday speech from Florida he can switch from a big time wrestler in the arena of life to a stoic presidential candidate really in the blink of an eye. Even as you are probably reading this, the presidential debate for the Republican party from Michigan is proceeding and again Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are lashing out with everything they have to try to knock Trump down—but the billionaire business mogul and entertainer has now seen the lay of their strategy and he’s prepared. Like any great strategist you must always get your enemies to reveal their plans and Rubio certainly did that in the days leading up to the debate. He put his whole game plan out in public for Trump to analyze and develop a strategy against. And now all that hard work is showing not to Rubio’s advantage.
Smartly, Trump has left Cruz relatively untouched pulling away all the establishment vote heading into the more mainstream states which Cruz isn’t playing out so well in forcing Rubio and Cruz to fight each other just for the possibility of getting delegates. Meanwhile Trump does his thing and continues to rack up respectable endorsements at key times leaving everyone else in the field to fight like dogs over his scraps. The Trump campaign has been brilliant providing a gift to establishment Republicans. They should consider themselves lucky that he’s on their team. They could learn a lot from him.
This all points to a showdown in Florida on March 15th which will likely put a stake through the heart of Rubio—I’m sure the fight will be hard, but it won’t be enough. There will be fights elsewhere and only Trump can cover them all with his private 757 and boundless energy. All the Superpacs in the world can’t outspend him and these days people flip through DVR recordings of their favorite television shows not hearing all the smear campaigns against Trump. Trump is the content that people scan through commercials to get to—and traditional politicians have not yet figured that out. But people do see his 757 flyovers and the big crowds on news reports and that is something the other candidates just can’t do—because they are not as personally successful as Trump has been. The Trump campaign is re-writing all the old rules and nobody is prepared for them. Rubio and Kasich are still using the old ones, and they are failing gradually.
The David Duke situation with Trump was clearly carefully calculated by him to lure his opponents into an easy kill. Trump denounced the KKK leader on a Friday night then stumbled through a question about Duke on Saturday provoking Cruz and Rubio to sense blood in the water—but it was blood Trump poured in—and they ended up looking petty and foolish for making much about nothing causing them to cry wolf one too many times. And that realization is present on the Detroit debate stage—a desperation in chasing after the wrong bait—this is the difference between a hardened professional—which Trump is—and a career politician who has learned to be skilled in raising money for the party—but not much else. Someone like Rubio can say all the right things but he’s powerless to implement anything. Cruz knows how to draw a line in the sand and not cross it, but often he’ll be the only one standing there. Trump is right, someone has to have the skill to draw a line and convince everyone to come over to where he drew it and cross it on his terms. Trump has a long history of that and he’s showing the Republican Party that presently.
The establishment showed from the outset a grim resistance to Trump but by March 15th most of them will be moving over into the Trump camp because everyone loves a winner. Trump will be doing the same type of thing to the rest of the world, with China, with Russia, the Middle East, South America, Mexico—everywhere. The trick of a good salesman is to achieve all your goals by making the customer feel privileged into accepting your parameters of success. Everyone in the beginning of a negotiation has their own vantage point—but by the end—the more successful salesman has to get everyone into their version of that success. That is what Trump is doing to the Republican Party—which has needed to happen for a long time. Once Trump wins the presidency, he’ll do it to the rest of the world convincing them to eat out of the hand of America—and they’ll thank us for it. That is the big difference between years past and years yet to come.
It should have been clear to all Republicans on Super Tuesday. But Rubio represents the old school politicians who think all this ability Trump has is a con game. They are like the European idiots who thought the world was flat in 1492—even though many had figured out that it was in fact round. There is a method of politics that has not yet been discovered that will greatly favor Republicans—but they do not yet understand it. Trump has been exhibiting it—but they don’t yet comprehend how it works. However, they will in time begin to see it. Trump will do what he does, he’ll create a whirlwind in Ohio and Florida that will culminate by March 15th and the spill over into other states will likely secure his nomination. All the old schoolers will be left looking at each other dumbfounded. When people ask how Trump will build a wall between Mexico and the United States making them pay for it—this is precisely how it will be done. Mexico will by the time all is said and done be thanking Donald Trump for letting them help build a wall. To lesser minds they may think this is the work of a con artist—because they don’t understand the skill. But, to those who know better, that is the work of an extremely skilled professional negotiator. And that is why Donald Trump will be a fantastic president.
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
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March 2, 2016
Panic and Statism in Butler County: Shooting at Madison High School
Not that it’s a massive government conspiracy, but such tragedies do play a role in the desire of all government workers to expand their influence with inflated drama in times of crises. The shooting at Madison Junior/Senior High School in Ohio—virtually in my backyard, is just such an example—which was a very minor incident that garnered national press. Here is how USA Today reported the issue.
Four students were injured and a 14-year-old boy was in custody Monday following a shooting at a high school in Butler County, Ohio, authorities said.
Madison Junior/Senior High School remained in lockdown for a short while, but all students were safe, the school said in a statement on its Facebook page. None of the injuries was life-threatening, the statement said.
Two students were struck by gunshots and two were injured by either shrapnel or while trying to get out-of-the-way, Butler County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Anthony Dwyer said. The shooting took place in the school’s cafeteria.
All schools in the district in Butler County’s Madison Township were placed on lockdown, which was lifted shortly after 12:45 p.m. Roads to the school quickly backed up with parents and relatives trying to get to the school to pick up students.
Bob Hollister, of Trenton, whose grandson attends the school, said he had been sitting in his daughter’s van for about 45 minutes when the lockdown was lifted. He has another grandchild in grade school. He described the morning as “chaotic.”
When he first arrived, Hollister said he saw police with shotguns and assault rifles.
Seriously, assault weapons—school lockdowns, and general crises and mayhem—over essentially a couple of kids having a fight? Sure a gun was involved, but it was a relatively harmless conflict that could have been resolved quickly and without so much fanfare. The kids weren’t killed and the shooter had much more systemic problems to deal with which provoked him to resort to a firearm to inflict harm that all the adults around him obviously missed and didn’t take the time to diffuse leaving all the public officials running around patting themselves on the back for being nearby and making much more of the incident to garner more national attention. Honestly, the case should have been diffused in the media as it was within moments with the on-site cop. The threat neutralized—which it was. And that should have been the end of it. Everyone should have stayed in class. All the schools should have remained open. Sheriff Jones shouldn’t have even been on the radio talking about the issue with Bill Cunningham on 700 WLW dramatizing the issue like it was the end of the world. Everyone wanted to be a hero as the situation was clearly blown up to make it part of a national effort by progressives to demonize guns and install fear into the weak.
Just a few days earlier I was doing some shooting with some people who don’t spend much time around guns. I was displaying my Cowboy Fast Draw set-up and how the wax bullets work in target shooting and everyone wanted to know if the gun was real. When I explained that the .45 Vaquero that I was using was in fact a real gun that would feed real bullets in its current form a slight fear washed over the observers. That fear was totally unfounded, but was put there by a media culture that has taken issues like this Madison Junior/Senior High School shooting and blown them out of proportion to inflict negative opinion against firearms for the progressive aims of banning them. Every little issue where shootings come up is highlighted to drive the point home and feed that fear into people not privy to their frequent use. This shooting at Madison was so small it shouldn’t have been reported outside of the immediate media market—because it was essentially a non story—a dispute among teenagers. But because it happened in a public school and the public police force needed to justify themselves—much more was made of the issue for the benefit of marketing government services to the public at the expense of Second Amendment freedom.
The fault of the issue is in the parents who obviously did not have control of their child and allowed the kid to think it was OK to take a gun to school and shoot some other kids. Somewhere the parenting broke down to allow the incident to occur, and that is the root cause of the tragedy. But since government has for many years designed their public school system to triumph over parenting leaving neither party to do the job very well—as parents now defer the responsibility to the schools and schools when something like this goes wrong on their watch defer to the parents—kids are raised by media to copy off movies, music, video games, and every panic driven estrogen laced diatribe on the nightly news. There is no mystery why this 14-year-old shot some kids at a school—it’s because he had terrible parents—and the school fostering peer pressure incessantly missed the opportunity to let some steam off the situation before something like this happened.
Parents of the Middletown School system were even more embarrassing. Many showed up to rescue their children from the clutches of danger imprinting on the minds of the youth forever the anxiety of that tragic day on a leap year February. What they should have done was explained to their children that there was nothing to fear, the situation was solved within minutes of the shooting. But the parents were guilty themselves of making too much of the situation because they wanted to go back to their offices and bloviate how their children were involved in a mass school shooting so that they could garner some sympathy and secret need for attention. The parents behaved abysmally.
Everyone abused the situation without diagnosing the cause of the quandary. Instead the situation was perpetuated for the furtherance of statism in all its grotesque forms seeking to profit off the misery of a diabolical tragedy. At the conclusion of the news cycle on the story guns were made to be feared even more, acceptance of more police presence in our lives made more fashionable, and schools had a chance to show themselves as the umbrellas of safety and decision herding around a bunch of panicky ill-equipped parents under the authority of the “state.” And the forces of government expansion had a field day exposing the misery of a small town school and a fight between a few teenagers for the furtherance of statism through a gradual decline of the American love of firearms. The whole scene showed why most people just aren’t intellectually equipped to manage a constitutional republic—and that is the fault of our public education system.
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
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March 1, 2016
Donald Trump the Alinsky Killer: How to protect the Constitution
So, it’s Super Tuesday and Donald Trump is well on his way to being the Republican nominee. Along that path, a lot of people have said some really stupid things—the entire process has devolved into a lot of name calling, and the remaining candidates are now lobbying for a brokered convention to justify all the wasted time they’ve poured into runs for president that were fruitless for months now—and were too stubborn to see it. Some from the Tea Party side of things who have had their eye on Ted Cruz have been mad at those of us supporting Donald Trump as if they knew something we didn’t about the Constitution—and had somehow not considered all avenues. It wasn’t one specific person, but was the typical Freedom Works crowd who have done wonderful work over the years, but have found themselves only looking at one side of the strategic fight. Things have not worked out the way they wanted and they are upset about it. But they better get over it pretty quick. Things are going to be moving very fast from now on. History is happening; we are in another American Revolution. Thankfully this time it’s not an armed revolt. This time—so far—it’s at the voting booth. If people let the process work, we should hope that everyone keeps their guns holstered.
The Constitution is just a bunch of things written down on paper if we do not have a society that is committed to honoring them. For the Constitution to work, American society must not reverse course back toward an aristocracy based on European history—but needs to evolve into its own after over 200 years of evolution. For the Constitution to work, we must have secure borders, a strong economic system, a sense of national pride, and a sincere resistance to the United Nations imposition that we have been experiencing for way too long. I don’t spend much time on conspiracies, but without question historically speaking, there is a global government that is trying to emerge and every candidate running for President but Trump is in on the game through finance. Our nation has been sold out a long time ago by many of the people who are angry at Trump now—people like John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Karl Rove and many others. (Boehner invited the Pope to address congress—who is obviously a global oriented socialist). I don’t think all those people are bad people, or are even malicious, but they don’t understand the game or how it’s really played. They only accept their role in Beltway politics and dare not to crawl out from under it. But someone needs to and it needs to happen in 2017 or we will lose our country forever. I am 100% sure of it. If we lose our country, the Constitution and all our history won’t mean a thing. You can’t be in debt as a country more than a collection of most countries yearly GDP and expect your country’s Constitution to hold value. Remember, he who has the gold, rules. If you don’t have any gold, you can’t rule—and if you aren’t in charge, you are subject to the whims of whatever governing body is—in this case the United Nations is positioning itself to become that entity much to American disadvantage.
Trump is capable of conducting himself in the most serious fashion, and I have no concern about him being presidential—and solving really complex problems. He is not a circus master. But remember dear reader, I put this dilemma out to area Republicans over four years ago when I said we needed to fight Saul Alinsky tactics with sheer aggression—and many people squawked at that. We have tried to put the book Rules for Radicals in the hands of John Boehner to read and understand what Republicans are fighting against—but he never embraced it. John Kasich ignored our warnings—and the Karl Rove Republicans continued to maneuver the party down a path toward continued failure—failing to understand what the real fight truly was. Again, I have talked about it often. I’m not the only one who has either. I’m hardly a conspiracy theorist. I am in all aspects of my life very good at identifying problems and knowing how the dots connect. When I was younger and without a track record I could understand that people might have been skeptical—but history has certainly been on my side.
I worked closely with Rob Portman when he was running for congress in 1992. I have the videos to prove it. He was full of fire and gumption and he was going to be a Ross Perot reformer. He reminded me of the type of person that Ted Cruz is now. I’ve seen all this before. Well, Rob won his seat in a spring 2013 election and for about four years he held his ground. After that he became part of the Washington establishment and now he’s pretty much worthless. He’s a nice guy, but he did not have the fight to hold his ground against the insurrection that is afoot—a silent killer of liberty that comes at conservatives from every side by way of the strategies of Saul Alinsky. I have watched these traditional Republicans get beat every way possible for three decades now and it’s time to put a stop to it. A carbon copy of George Washington won’t do it. We have to identify the fight that is before us in 2016 not 1775, and we have to implement a correct strategy to our current situation, not one from history. It is good to learn from history—but we also have to be cognoscente that we are living history right now.
As a Trump supporter, I think of him as an Alinsky killer. Saul Alinsky taught that the white middle class could be goaded into paralysis and indecision by using guilt against them—and that is exactly what has happened. Trump doesn’t feel guilt, or harbor regrets. He is very much from the power of positive thinking crowd and he sells it well to others. That is the best approach to destroying the way the political left has attacked America and it is the only way to save it. For years I have promoted the Overman concept, which is essentially a graduation of mankind from a kind of meager apologist into a new step—which some consider to be a “superman.” I’ve even named this site after the concept, Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom—which is now Cliffhanger Research and Development because of a project I’m working on which further develops the idea of an overman within human society. There is a need for these kinds of people to emerge and take charge of all management affairs across the world. Nietzsche hit on the idea in his wonderful book Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ayn Rand further developed the idea in her books on philosophy, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. I am going even further with it in my work which I expect to fully develop over the next twenty years. Donald Trump is the closest yet to this type of person to ever having a hope of getting into the White House so I am behind him on the endeavor 100%.
Donald Trump was not born an overman. He is not a perfect person. He has made many mistakes over time—so he is no John Galt from Atlas Shrugged. But he has learned from his mistakes and who he is after 70 years on earth getting better and better each year is very close to the kind of hero that readers of Ayn Rand know so well. Trump reminds me of a combination of Ayn Rand characters ranging from the pirate Ragnar Danneskjöld from Atlas Shrugged to the newspaper mogul Gail Wynand from The Fountainhead. I’d even go so far to say that Trump’s love of buildings is reminiscent of Henry Reardon’s love of metal and his need to buy “men” of Washington to stay in business. Ayn Rand libertarians hearing that will likely have their faces melting off because they see Trump in the way that Ted Cruz and Glenn Beck have painted him—as a circus conductor that uses boisterous presentation to overcome opposition. I don’t see Trump that way at all. I see a man who has lived an authentic hero journey and has arrived late in life at a certain place that positions him to be the first of his kind. And it is my strategic desire to see him give birth to generations of overmen by selling it to the American population over the next eight years. There is nothing to compare him to, and that is wonderful.
I would encourage those not behind him to get that way rather quickly. Trump is an opportunity to bring a real life Galt’s Gulch to America—for the first time. The Republican Party should rally behind him the way that they should have gotten behind Ayn Rand. For the same reasons—they fought her and the objectivist philosophy as they fight Trump now. I know many people who are objectivists—actually hard core—and they disagree with me emphatically. But, they are wrong. Time will flush all this out—trust me. Right now—we have to act—and Super Tuesday was just the start. Even to those who think this is the worst thing to ever happen to them—they will learn in time not to be so timid and to understand that what is happening is what’s best for the American Constitution. For the Constitution to be truly valid, we must have American sovereignty. And of all the candidates running for president, only Trump can give that to America. Overmen are sometimes born in nature—but only in America do we make them. Donald Trump was made by American capitalism—and its time that we have a president that reflects those values for the rest of us.
Ted Cruz needs to run for president in 2024. At that time we will need to fix a lot of things that have been broken for over a century. So it would be good for him and his supporters not to burn bridges. This fight is far from over—but before engaging, we all need to properly understand the nature of that fight and what it takes to win. In 2017 we need to dismantle the strategy the left uses that it learned from Saul Alinsky. That weapon of war needs to be taken from them, and Trump is that weapon. That is the first step. CLICK HERE TO LEARN A LOT MORE.
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February 29, 2016
Trump’s Health Care Plan: Remove the lines and open up the free market
There were a number of really shocking elements that emerged from the GOP debate with CNN recently, particularly the baffling ignorance that Rubio, and Cruz showed regarding the nature of competition. When Trump described his free market approach to health care, by removing the lines around states which now creates artificial oligopolies of a guaranteed customer base for those entities, Rubio behaved like a teenager who knew everything about how the world worked without ever having a job, a mortgage, or a family to be responsible for. His desire for a “plan” was rather ridiculous for someone like Trump who knows how to get things done. Plans are for people at the back of the train. Vision is for those at the front. CLICK HERE TO UNDERSTAND THE METAPHYSICS OF QUALITY.
When someone asks for a plan what they are essentially dong is demanding a report that their minds can follow. Plans are good to have to define a strategic objective, but someone like Trump knows that you can’t fall in love with anything because lots of other people have to provide their input from their perspective. By the time that happens and everyone arrives at some sort of consensus a “plan” will change a lot, and a lot of valuable time will have gone by—which is why government has such a difficult time accomplishing anything substantial–ever.
I can say from personal experience that when someone has asked “what’s your plan” it is a code term for a second-hander who wants to loot the effort of people who have a superior mind and perspective so that they can feel included in the process. People at the front of the train know where they are going. They are the bold daredevils who make the world work. People at the back are the cowards who perpetually plan so that they can pretend to be a part of the process. They can provide some value, but often they aren’t worth the cost of extracting it. Someone like Trump moves very fast from the top of his companies. He identified the problem with health care insurance and he intends to solve it with a free market solution—similar to what happened when phone companies were deregulated. Insurance companies today are very similar to how the phone companies used to operate. Once deregulation was introduced the path toward the modern cell phone was created and prices dropped along with all kinds of options that we presently enjoy.
Out there not yet invented is the iPhone of health insurance but to get to it you have to trust free market capitalism to extract it. There is no plan that can arrive at that destination—because nobody yet knows who will be the inventor. But experience understands that when you take away the regulations to an idea that free market solutions emerge and opportunities are thus created. Trump’s plan on health care is actually the best one out of all the candidates in the GOP—his plan is to get government out-of-the-way and let the free market create a solution. Then he is planning on some kind of spill over tax that will assist those lacking means to get the care they need because the profits will be so extremely good that the less fortunate will have access by default—kind of like getting free wifi at a Starbucks. Millions of people pay for Internet service in their homes, but they do have a need for free wifi at times. People who can’t afford the luxury of such vast coverage still have the opportunity to get what they need from free wifi. Wealth building exercises create opportunities not yet known and no plan can tell you what they will be because they don’t exist yet to list as an option.
Both Rubio and Cruz supposedly come from Tea Party backgrounds. Cruz claims to love the book Atlas Shrugged. He of all people should understand what Trump is thinking—yet both politicians piled on with some insistence that what Trump was talking about was socialized medicine and giant government mandates. That isn’t it at all. The real solution is to decentralize the medical insurance industry so they can sit back within their state borders and count the residents of those states and dived them by the number of insurance providers to calculate their profit—which is what they love about Obamacare because it dictates that everyone have by law health insurance. Once people are compelled to buy something, there is no work for the insurance companies to perform other than to divide up the revenue. The type of deregulation Trump is talking about will wreck that model and offer much lower prices because of the competition.
The answer is as easy as saying “remove the lines” and insurance rates will drop, plans will erupt with competitive options, and innovation will naturally take over so to take advantage of emerging markets. This ridiculous business of wanting to keep people sick and stuck to oligopolies of insurance providers locally selected is just as stupid as the idea of the government school that is bad but giving no choice to parents who happen to live there to just take what is offered because they are compelled by law to attend the nearest education institution. School choice is an option that terrifies public schools because it allows competition to drive up the quality of schools by allowing parents to vote with their feet. Teacher unions do not like that—so they fight that concept actively. Likewise, the insurance industry is concerned with the very same view-point. They want their customers to have limited options so they are stuck with their price increases.
Trump knows from the front of the train that this health care problem could be solved in one business quarter if he could only get politicians to buy into the solution. But most politicians are attached to insurance industry lobbyists and they don’t want the gravy train to go away. So they sent their little attack dogs after Trump in a really vicious way. I was surprised to see how Rubio and Cruz participated so actively in trying to destroy what Trump was offering. When the plan is deregulation there isn’t much paperwork to display. It just means, “take way the lines” and the prices will drop, and innovation will escalate based on free market capitalism. The moment health insurance is deregulated by the lines that divide up the country, insurance plans with great options and prices will pop up overnight like grass after a spring rain. It is very simple, but politicians like Rubio want to hold the status quo even as they are supposedly running as Tea Party darlings. Free markets are the plan, and it would work instantly. All that has to happen to have it would be to elect a president who understands such things. And sadly, only one presidential candidate does in 2016, and it isn’t Cruz or Rubio.
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
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February 28, 2016
Defending Donald Trump’s Labor Practices: Politicians don’t understand what makes a good worker
Even as a Trump supporter I was willing to give Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz a look if they were to become the GOP nominee eventually, but not after the debate on Thursday February 25th, 2016 on CNN. Cruz and Rubio showed a vast amount of ignorance when they tried to pin down Trump on hiring illegal aliens to build Trump Tower back in the 70s. Cruz and Rubio both of Cuban decent supposedly representing Tea Party type values tried to attribute Trump to committing to hiring only “American” workers on his many projects. Specifically they brought up Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach where he tends to hire foreign workers there for the seasonal social events that take place about four months out of a year. Reports are that over 300 people have applied, but they weren’t qualified because as Trump says, most American help doesn’t want the part-time work—and those that do—(and I’ll add this for him so he doesn’t have to say it) don’t bring the kind of energy for the job that such a resort requires. So he fills the vacancies with foreign workers with the right attitude who will do the seasonal work of one of the most exclusive resorts in the world. I understand completely and I am one of the most patriotic people on earth. But apparently, Rubio, Cruz and the entire media doesn’t understand the problem. So let me illustrate it for everyone on behalf of people like Trump who find themselves unfairly ridiculed for elements beyond their control.
http://mashable.com/2016/02/25/donald-trump-polish-workers/#A.uIWytlwkqr
Of course such a controversial piece requires context, so let me provide it from my perspective. If anybody does currently or ever has worked harder than I do, I’ve never met them—and I have met many thousands of people all around the world. I’m far from a hermit living under a rock or writing articles from my mother’s basement. Those descriptions do not apply to me in any way, shape or form. I know a lot about people and different countries, their religions, their histories, and their philosophic elements. I am very good at seeing what is in people’s hearts because over time I have learned to read them by the kind of work they produce. You can tell a lot about people by what they make in life—and work is something that most people reveal about themselves. If they don’t like to work, they are typically very lazy people who can’t be trusted. If they work hard they tend to be good people in all aspects of their lives. Hard workers therefore are good people, bad workers are not. I have spent thirty years working every odd job that I think exists at every level of society. I’ve at many times worked two full-time jobs at separate places for years on end, with only one car in our household. During those periods I rode a bicycle to work all year-long in every possible weather condition. Additionally I am seldom late or miss work, and I always give at least 100% to whatever I’m doing whether it’s flipping burgers or arranging multi-million dollar deals. I like to work, I like to make things, and I love outperforming the people around me. And I never let anything stop me from an objective—death, sickness—anything. I’ve actually been in fistfights with people who felt so guilty by my work ethic that they’ve wanted to fight me to bully me into not making them look so bad. This has actually happened a lot, and I’ve worked in some of the toughest types of places that there are—machine shops, union driven assembly plants, down-and-out fast food workers, janitors, tree trimmers, I actually did car repos for a time and have performed work as a body guard—so we’re not talking about powder puff golf club types or weekend warriors. I’ve hauled around popular sports figures and helped them through tough times at late night parking lot brawls when they ran their mouths too much—I’ve been there and seen it all. Saying all that, nobody from my past can come forward to say that they got the better of me in any way. Nobody was able to bully me into some sort of compromise—on any topic large or small, and nobody can say that they worked harder at anything than me. That may sound bold, and arrogant to people, but it’s a fact of life. At 47 years old there are no demons in my closet anywhere in the world who can say otherwise. That makes me uniquely position to say what I will next.
Just because some slob from a local trailer park who would rather watch Jerry Springer all day while on welfare applies for a job to keep their checks coming as a minimum requirement to receive their government money applies to a job like Mar-a-Lago it doesn’t mean they are qualified. A warm body does not constitute a good hard worker. Often you have to interview hundreds of people just to find one good worker. It is very tricky business and it takes a lot of discretion and personal honesty. Government people, and Rubio and Cruz certainly fall into that category now in my mind—assume that if an applicant applies for a job and they are American citizens that they are automatically qualified as a warm body for that position. Not so. Let me tell you. All workers are not equal, in spite of what the government and the laws they write try to pretend. Some are great, some are terrible, some workers are just flat-out lazy and want to collect a pay check for doing the absolute minimum. When you are at Mar-a-Lago, if you are Donald Trump you want someone who says, “yes sir,” “no sir,” holds the door open for people, is generally of good hygiene and competent. You expect quality. If all 300 of those reported applicants are not of good quality—they will not be good for the job. A lot of times these deficiencies force big employers like Donald Trump to look outside of the country for good help.
I personally love people from other countries because they remind me of my grandparents. Both my grandparents had working farms and they were very hard workers. I grew up with great examples of people who weren’t afraid of hard work and they judged lazy people as worthless. It certainly made an impact on me—I took many of those lessons to heart at a very young age. I never liked my teachers in public school or in college—but I always found I got along well with employers. Teachers were people who often couldn’t do things in the real word and I knew that—so I fought with them incessantly because I deemed them too lazy to face the real world outside of the classroom. Employers made things happen and I always respected that. The only people who I find these days, after two generations of complete social destruction by our education system who think the way I do about work ethics often come from other countries. Immigrants from Europe (East Germany, Romania, Poland), Africa, India, Mexico and Asia generally work their asses off, and they actually enjoy it because they feel it reflects the quality of person they are. They work hard in America because for most of them unlike their country of origin they get to keep their money—so they have no trouble working 12 to 14 hour days because they actually enjoy amassing wealth. Many foreign-born Americans I know who have only been in America for a decade or so have their cars and houses paid off, and they still work a full-time job and a part-time job while they put their children through college with cash. I love and respect that approach—like I said it reminds me of how my grandparents used to think—which is how all Americans should think.
But many Americans who were born and raised within the United States and went through public education only to be trained to think incorrectly about most things don’t get it. When they apply for a job, they think they are entitled to something. My generation starting getting bad about that attitude in the 1990s and the Millennials have taken it to a whole new level. I am of a mind that I don’t even think we should have weekends. If I had things my way Americans would have their companies operating three shifts per day seven days per week all days of the year except for perhaps Christmas—because that is a productive way to live life. Work, play, and a healthy lifestyle all go hand in hand in my life and I expect that to be the case with everybody. But too many people American born have been taught that a job is some kind of entitlement, that weekends are entitlements—and that sitting on their ass doing little of nothing but watching television is a right. They forget that leisure time is not a reward for hard work performed, they assume that it’s a right to the essence of their very souls—and that attitude was adopted from the socialist trends in Europe that are just now catching up to Americans in the States.
These days you have to interview a lot of American born people to find one good hard worker. The best way to find them are people who were raised on farms because there is a good chance someone taught them early in life to work hard to some degree. The worst tend to come from areas swarming with welfare recipients—it doesn’t matter their skin color. There are always exceptions and it’s good to try to find them, but as a basic rule, that’s the way it is. Politicians like Cruz and Rubio over the years have made labor laws assuming equality and opportunity to all—so there are legal restrictions to what you can and can’t do with employees especially ones that turn out to be less than spectacular. But reality dictates flexibility and some method of recharging our education system into producing good workers who learn to live in an American economy instead of becoming socialist activists for a new generation—as they are today and have been for about three decades—at least.
So you are Donald Trump and you need to complete a project ahead of time and under budget—you need workers who won’t drag ass like some dog with an itch. You need people who will buckle down and get it done and then some. Good work is worth more than money—finances are just a form of compensation. Trump needs people who will reach deep and pour their souls into one of his projects—and if you limit yourself to some limits a knuckle-dragging, banana eating political loser has established as the law from the perspective of know-nothings, who have never done anything productive in their lives—he might as well do as most people have and throw their arms up in frustration—buy a condo in Florida and play golf the rest of their lives—because unless you love to work hard—the pain in the ass that it is to make ANYTHING in America these days is unbearably difficult. You almost have to be insanely hard-working to even try.
When Trump says he wants to bring back jobs there is a two-part strategy that is far too complicated for someone like Rubio or Cruz to understand. Nobody in government understands unless they have been in the trenches and actually done private sector work. First you have to bring back the jobs that were sent overseas through corporate inversions. Then you have to change the education system to produce workers who can actually perform those tasks. It’s not so much about giving someone a job in America that Trump is talking about—it’s the wealth that comes with the productivity of those jobs. Jobs in themselves don’t make anything. But people do, and not all people are equal—even though politicians want to believe it because their pandering statements make the toothless chain-smoking, trailer trash, casino addicts think they are equal to a worker who wakes up looking forward to a productive day and hesitates taking a break because it makes them feel they are wasting precious time. Any successful person understands this basic discrepancy. Trump certainly does and he has worked within the law to find the best possible workers for his various projects. But back in the Trump Tower days, there was no other option with the way labor unions try to bend you over backwards every five seconds. You have to have competitive labor to protect yourself from socialist union activism. Politicians created that limited labor aspect through their laws and policy which using the Department of Labor, heavily favors labor unions. So if you want to build something, you have to think outside the box within legal parameters of course to find the best people for a project—whether the job is big like Trump Tower or small like job Mar-a-Lago. Productive enterprise cannot be constrained by law and political short-sightedness to believe that a job of any kind can be filled by any ol’ warm body. It can’t. Jobs are opportunities for productivity, and that is a magical thing—and not everyone is capable of comprehending that magic and the wonder it often brings when it’s done well.
Rubio and Cruz clearly didn’t understand the definition of good labor at that debate—but then again, few people really do. But they do know big labor and how to make a pitch for their monopoly on productive work and the ability to shut down effort to drive up costs due to a lack of competition by the more ambitious.
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
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February 27, 2016
The Last Days of a Dying GOP: Why Donald Trump scares the establishment–the game is changed forever
Obviously this is the end of the line for the traditional GOP who desperately desires to stay in charge of the political machine that controls Republican politics. After the historic Nevada win Trump showed the GOP establishment that he could break 45% of the vote in a victory so ahead of Super Tuesday the entire GOP put their faith in Marco Rubio’s mouth to change strategies and challenge Donald Trump during a CNN debate in Texas where the kid came out swinging hard. He made an impact on the weak-minded who took to Twitter to goad me as a Trump supporter within hours of the tag team event where Rubio and Ted Cruz were obviously trying to knock Donald Trump into another dimension with one last gasp. The following Tuesday could put everything out of reach for them within a week—as far as political ambition—so they fought like cornered losers—one last stand at the Alamo before being overrun completely. Here is what was sent to me on Twitter after establishment supporters of the GOP felt their puppets did well during the debate:
@overmanwarrior @TwRandy 4 bankruptcies, lying about his net worth, inherited a fortune, supported late-term abortion and universal healthcare.
For which I replied:
One way to stay safe in life is to do nothing and live as a politician. Life at the top touches a lot of people.
I thought Trump held his own in the debate so there was no reason to defend him. But the behavior of the GOP in obviously sitting down with Rubio and pressing him with their fate revealed a lot more than even I anticipated. Rubio completely changed from playing the role of a somewhat nice all-American kid—a Kennedy-type of candidate—to a petulant teenager who was unproven in the world challenging his father in a last-ditch effort to not be like him. As Cruz pressed Trump several times I couldn’t help but think—what has Cruz ever done in his life to justify any arrogance. Trump on the other hand has accomplished quite a lot. And like I said on Twitter, when you do things in life that touch a lot of people, there will be many who will not have a favorable impression of you. Especially if you have a track record of winning a lot. If you win, that means many people who have come into contact with you have lost, and that usually makes people feel bad about themselves. That said, if a person is a winner, they will have many enemies and Trump certainly does. Add to that his massive personal wealth earned the old-fashioned way and a lot of people who have lost to him in the past will do anything and everything to get back at him in some way. But Rubio—what has he done in his life to justify his arrogance on stage that day? He hasn’t done anything in his life to earn it—leaving him looking like a spoiled brat teenager full of gumption, but no track record to back it.
The GOP establishment did what they can only do, they studied Donald Trump on tape and goaded Marco Rubio into being the actor that he is—and mimic the alpha male the best he could with a last-ditch effort to knock the GOP frontrunner off the mountain and hopefully get some traction for really the first time now that Jeb Bush is out of the race. Marco Rubio isn’t a tough guy by any measure, but he is a typical politician—he will say anything and do whatever he is told by the establishment who desires to use his youthful looks and natural charisma to maintain their control centered in the Beltway and extending out into America and beyond.
What the GOP didn’t count on was that they were forced to show all their cards five days ahead of Super Tuesday and that all that was by strategic design from Trump. I thought it was odd that Trump mentioned Chris Christie several times during the debate with Rubio because he anticipated what was going to happen. Christie joined the Trump campaign early in the morning before the debate to essentially become a Rubio killer knowing that the GOP would put everything it had behind Rubio—and the kid showed everything he had in the debate for which Trump just studied for the first hour—like any fighter does—track the opponent and see what moves he has—before laying in to a final punch.
The media went wild that someone had finally challenged Trump. Cruz and Rubio were heroes to all the cowardly lions out there who were naturally intimidated by the manner of Trump—and they were hopeful that perhaps a lesson had been learned. To their minds Donald Trump represents every movie bully they had ever seen. They have no other context for a character like him against the backdrop of their little lives and all the little dreams they limited their mind to. So their hatred of Trump goes further than just political ambitions. Trump is essentially a grown-up unconquered child with the mind of a very young person—sharp, playful, ambitious and striving to learn and be challenged. For all the people who have sold themselves short in life with low goals and were too timid to hold the line to challenges that shook their belief system—Trump is a mirror they’d rather not look at. When they look at him they see everything they wanted to be, but dared not become. So the hatred of Trump runs deeper than just politics—and there are plenty of enemies who hoped they could buy success through him with Trump University and many other things avoiding the hardship of actually living and accomplishing endeavors. Trump tried to teach people how to become wealthy, but something even he didn’t understand at the time—you can’t make second-handers desire to become primaries with a couple of years of education. They either are people not afraid to be at the front of the train, or they are happy in the back. CLICK TO LEARN MORE. THERE IS AN ACTUAL SCIENCE TO THIS WAY OF THINKING THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT. Nothing can help people inclined to the back of the train, to be successful—and Trump learned that the hard way. It was one of his failures started with great ambition, but the psychology of mankind prevented its success. He’ll win his civil case without any problem. Trouble and the wake of it come with being a billionaire who has actively tried to help people all his life. Some people just can’t be helped.ultimately finding that they did not have the right stuff to become like him. Rubio studied Trump and mimicked him on stage at the CNN debate trying to turn the tables. Trump seemed to admire the effort a bit and even told Cruz and Rubio to keep swinging for the fences—but toward the end of the debate Trump had what he needed to crush Rubio in the days that followed. And that’s exactly what will happen.
That is the difference in this particular case ladies and gentlemen. There has never been a person like Donald Trump in history who has made it to this point in the political process and the machine which controls both parties and is run off the fuel of communism—established during the 1950s in America, knows that its very existence is in trouble. CLICK HERE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE USE OF COMMUNISM IN THIS CASE IS NOT AN INFLAMATORY STATEMENT, BUT IS OF HISTORICAL RECORD. This political machine will not be able to compete with Trump. It is over for them and they know it. The rules are changing day by day—and not to their liking. They have been exposed once and for all.
Trump has had a few things that didn’t work out, and he learned from them and is the person he is today as part of that history. I’m comfortable with his record, because for every failure are wonderful successes—great successes. But what has Rubio done—or for that matter any other person in the entire GOP? They are second-handers themselves—like those people who took classes at Trump University hoping to become like Donald Trump—but
Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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February 26, 2016
Make America Great Again
This is a worthy article in favor of Donald Trump. If you are on the fence, read this and get on the Trump train. It’s leaving the station and you don’t want to miss it.
It’s actually pretty simple ‘Make America Great Again’ and with a candidate like Donald Trump, you actually believe it will happen.
I have long held Libertarian ideals, yet in my private life I am very conservative. As a teenager I liked a lot of what liberals had to say, but that was during the Bush Administration, and I never really cared that much for Bush, though I did like some of his speeches. You’d have to be heartless not to get behind him after 9/11, but aside from that, I didn’t care for his expansionist government policies and reckless spending. The handling of the Iraq war still haunts us today.
The only time I really liked Barack Obama was when I first heard about him in 2006. I liked some of his speeches, and he spoke like the constitutional professor that he was. After that I never much liked him…
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