Month: April 2019

The Josh Gates Fabulous Broadcast of ‘Egypt Live’

It was a remarkable evening that I looked forward to all weekend. At 2 AM in Egypt, 8 PM Sunday night April 7th, Josh Gates from Expedition Unknown and Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass opened up the 2,500-year-old tomb of a high priest preserved perfectly on live television. It was simply a fantastic broadcast that did a world of good for archaeology in general and science as a field still very much in its infancy. I often talk about the need for more large-scale programming like this on television. I was quite impressed with the efforts in England while I visited there of the English Heritage group and the Time Team which produced lots of fantastic episodes of excavations on television with great enthusiasm. The funding from the shows allowed them to do enormous amounts of archaeology all over Great Britain which inevitably has advanced the sciences tremendously. Josh Gates is the closest we have in the United States to being able to duplicate such a magnificent feat, so I was rooting for his success. But what he and Dr. Hawass managed exceeded my expectations. I’ve watched the two-hour program three more times since and enjoyed every moment. As Josh said at the end, Egyptian society was around for 3000 years and as scientists there is still a long way to go to uncovering everything we need to know. We are very much looking at the very early infancy of the field of archaeology and there is a lot to learn. And for perspective, we are talking about in Egypt a span of time that they were successful that pretty much eclipses the entirety of our known history in the west or east. We have a lot to learn about Egypt and the cultures that came before it, and we aren’t going to get there by playing it safe and not asking the hard questions about the origins of the human species.

There is growing evidence that the Egyptians or at the very least the Phoenicians were global cultures that had in influence in North America and were crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans thousands of years before Christ was born so more investigations into the field of archaeology are important. The field itself is very young, around 100 years and we were too quick as a culture to accept all the discoveries made in the early days as the final testament to a long story that still needed to be uncovered. I tend to think very differently about these kinds of things largely because of the great novel by James Joyce titled Finnegans Wake which framed the whole concept of the Vico Cycle for which all cultures rise and fall and have for the entire span of human consciousness. We have been taught incorrectly in our schools across the world that mankind evolved directly from generation to generation with a kind of thoughtful evolution but that simply wasn’t the case. There were periods of high civilization all around the world at different periods and they fell for similar reasons wherever they were attempted. Egypt was one of the more successful and longest lasting, but there were others after them and before them who scratched at greatness but resided back into themselves and they all followed a similar pattern.

My interest in politics is very much connected to my interest in cultures and what makes success and failures. Society isn’t something that just happens, it is something that must be managed and how and what we do to manage it is very much the million-dollar question. Based on my understanding of world history, which is much deeper than the average curiosity seeker, I have my political preferences that are well on the political right in American culture which of course puts those ideas well to the right around the world. Even left leaning political beliefs in America are rather conservative around the world presently, and I see no reason why this has to remain so. The way to have a successful society is to follow the path of success that works. You can’t just throw any hodge podge idea into something and make it work. For a society to thrive there has to be elements of success in it, and to understand that, we have to be willing to admit such a concept to ourselves from the perspective of academia. Presently academia is in denial and is very unreliable.

I think the best thing to happen to the science of archaeology and the sciences directly connected to it is the Indiana Jones movies. It’s safe to say that Josh Gates was influenced by those movies, but so is most of those working successfully in the sciences today. Indiana Jones made science exciting for a new generation which is why there is this explosion of discovery going on these days largely by amateur explorers. In my own life I received most of my instruction on world history and comparative religion from Joseph Campbell who was something of a maverick academic. He was the guiding light of Star Wars by shaping the direction George Lucas took in creating modern mythology. I loved Star Wars and wanted to know more, so it took me on a 30-year journey that is still very much alive today into the realm of mythology, psychology, philosophy, archaeology, the arts etc. Joseph Campbell taught a very maverick class on mythology at Sarah Lawrence College and gained some fame with his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces which then became the unofficial guidebook for Star Wars—the most modern mythology of our culture. Having proper ideas in the form of mythology is one of the keys to having a successful culture. Mankind needs to understand its relationship to the universe, and once it starts to lose sight of that, the culture will begin to decline, no matter how much wealth or political prestige it has managed to acquire over time. More recently the television show Game of Thrones is a mythology that people are finding a relationship to that is very powerful. Even though the situations are fictional, the content of the story is very much representative of our current culture and it is when this happens that human civilizations thrive the most.

Science works best when it is explored without too much rigidity, and the Josh Gates Expedition Unknown was very much along those lines. The goal of science should not be in making a discovery for the school a scientist teaches at, but in uncovering the past so that we can make decisions for the future as quickly as possible. In understanding the myths of the past so that the myths of our future can help carry us all to a future state of prosperity and understanding. But titles in science such as an archaeology, or a paleontologist, or a geologist don’t do much for science because what we need to learn often crosses over into other fields and if scientists are functioning with too much specialization, they’ll miss the forest for the trees, which happens all too often. Joseph Campbell was very successful because he was able to explore many different fields of the sciences and allowed the evidence to take him wherever it went. He did not function within the parameters that scientists created for themselves, he went where science was. And that is a lesson that we all need to keep in mind these days. Josh Gates certainly gets it and hopefully he can continue to take archaeology and entertainment and push them into the realm of public consumption the way he did with his Egypt Live broadcast. Because there is a lot more to learn and we are just scratching the surface. And that is the thrill of discovery for which drives all successful cultures—which always starts with a question and ends with adventure and realization.

Rich Hoffman

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“Sawed Off Shotguns”

Sure you have a right to be angry dear reader. They have been lying to you. All these climate losers who are trying to propose that the world is coming to an end in just 12 years from this point in time are the types of people who are the premier examples of why drugs in our society should be illegal. Because they are dumb. Dangerously dumb. They don’t understand climate science, they trust scientists are part of the problem and don’t see how academia has been corrupted by a lift leaning political class. To understand the type of people who are falling for these schemes I wouldn’t go so far to make fun of them, because I honestly don’t think they understand much about life. To understand them I recommend listening to the song by The Glorious Sons titled “Sawed Off Shotgun.” Those types of people reflected in that very below the line song are those who are getting suckered by the climate change advocates. They have grown up stupid and crippled intellectually making them victims to every little ailment and its sad to see, but it is they who are now functioning as voters and democratic participants in our culture, and a lot of them, way too many of them are hooked on OxyContin just as the song states.

Even if the United States adopted all the climate measures proposed by these radical new Green Deal advocates, China and Russia as well as most of India and the rest of the world all the way over to the Mediterranean Sea will continue polluting at an alarming rate and none of them, especially China is about to give up anything to halt the expansion of their economies. They are going to pollute in great abundance. The only thing that needs to be understood about the entire Green New Deal nonsense is that the goal is to attempt to stop the American economy so that the other economies of the world can gain strength. You won’t see any of these green advocates protesting China, because communism is their goal anyway. They aren’t protesting Russia, if they did most of them would be killed. No, they protest America because that is the big dog economy and they want to end it. That is the game and to get everyone to forget how the game is played they have created a society of drug induced losers who know they are being played but don’t know how to step away and to end the cycle.

I had a pretty good day a few days ago, it was nice outside so I took the long way home and drove about 100 MPH down the road listening to the “Sawed Off Shotgun” song on my car stereo while I listened to Sean Hannity on my phone. It was an interesting contrast of thought processes that came together quite nicely. Watching that music video for that song I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the audience. They know they are being manipulated and toyed with politically. They know they have been drug induced to be suckers in a society that has hostile elements trying to penetrate it for the destruction of all American influence, but they don’t know how to deal with it but through more cigarettes and alcohol to drown out the effects. I’ve noticed this trend in other musical artists of this generation, they understand that there is a game being played, but they don’t know who to trust, literally. Their minds have been robbed from them and they are defenseless in a scary world. If someone tells them the world is coming to an end in 12 years of course it scares them. They are purposely too stupid to know better.

But that’s the only way it works. You have to be stupid and deliberately void of an understanding of current events to believe that liberals really want to save the planet from a path of 12-year destruction. It’s as much of a hoax as saying that Santa Clause will be president of the United States in 2028. It’s just not in the realm of possibility. The only way anybody could believe such a thing is to get hooked on some drug and to numb your mind to such a degree that you can’t process any real information. And currently much of the youth, people under 30, are in the state represented in that music video and they are truly victims of reality, because they have been taught to be that way. They are losing it and they want to protest but they have no idea where to direct their anger. They have been lied to by everyone and now they are supposed to participate in our republic to keep it going and all they can think to do is to take another drink and talk about getting a sawed-off shotgun. For what we have no idea, but the idea of it gives them a little strength to even pose the proposition.

And so it was in my experience in listening to that song while Sean Hannity laid out the case of the phony Mueller investigation that if I didn’t know better, I could see how people would fall into that trap of believing all the Green New Deal garbage. So since those people don’t know any different I feel confident to assure them that the earth will still be here 12 years from now. Humans don’t have much of a measurable impact on any climate conditions. Climate change is a natural condition that will happen long into the future and it occurred long before humans were ever on the scene. The goal in attempting to connect climate change with powerful economies is only to stop the growth of capitalism so that the world will turn toward communism. Communism is the way of life in China and the left still hopes that it will take root in the West so that is all there is to the climate change arguments. They (the left) hope that enough people are hooked on so much OxyContin and are afraid of the tax man that they won’t question the nature of the Green New Deal. They’ll just follow along and direct their sawed off shotguns at the Trump administration instead of the liars and cheats that are so dominate in the Democrat party.

But the anger is real, the way that young people feel, it is not misplaced. They know someone is lying to them. They are at least that smart even though their minds have been deliberately clipped just like some caged bird so that they can’t fly away. I don’t like the words of that song, but I do like the spirit. People understand that something is happening and they literally don’t know who to trust. So I offer this much, you can trust that the world will be here at 2030 and climate change will have no impact on the state of it. Rather, we’ll be traveling to Mars and settling other destinations in space. And things will be better tomorrow than they are today, especially if you let the Trump administration do their work. The entire premise of the climate change argument is to gain power and I think people are rebellious enough to see through that. Maybe not consciously, but their innate instincts are correct, and so long as they keep asking those questions, everything will be alright. Just make sure to stay away from OxyContin and alcohol and the world will make a lot more sense.

Rich Hoffman

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We Are All Being Suckered

Among the protestors at the border wall visit by President Trump at El Centro in California was a person holding a sign referencing that “love had no borders.” It reminded me of the hippie mantra that has been around for quite some time about how private property in America should be abandoned so that communism ideas could be utilized in a giant fenceless world like it was when the Indians had the run of the planet and were dancing just to make it rain. The premise of this borderless world that is being proposed is nothing short of ridiculous, and it ignores many basic foundations that are part of any relationship with reality. The truth is quite the opposite from what was on that sign from the Trump protestor. Love demands borders, not the other way around. Borders indicate value in something and a means to protect it from a lack of value. Without a border, there is no value, and that is precisely the same conditions present in all relationships. There needs to be a barrier of some kind to keep out the rif raf. If everything is always open, then there is no value for what is the foundation of any relationship.

This actually says a lot about liberalism in general. Where conservatives get into trouble is when they start accepting the same premise, as we all get that exposure in our basic religions. I grew up pretty involved in the Christian ideas for things but had to draw a line once I realized how bad and socialist many of the ideas about a mainstream religion were at the foundations. To be a good Christian means that you have to be a bit of a socialist. I wouldn’t say that I gave up religion, only that I outgrew it. I personally couldn’t live with the schizophrenic nature of religion, so I had to move on to more individualized concepts. The idea that is proposed in most religions is the same nonsense advocated in most political societies, a non-value judgement in loving your neighbor as yourself. The whole turn the other cheek ridiculousness is just stupid. It says that no matter what someone does we are not supposed to judge them for it and that we are supposed to provide love without consequence. That of course doesn’t make any sense so I have abandoned all those foundations of thought in my life. And you have to in order to understand the necessity for a border wall. This is exactly how Republicans have been suckered into helping the borderless world advocates advance their cause, by accepting the Christian ideas of loving our neighbors as ourselves no matter what value the neighbor brings to the table.

Democrats are quite audacious when they are proposing that California be a sanctuary state, that the illegal nature of immigration be ignored completely and the laws that are currently in place be looked over as if they weren’t even there. It’s laughable really. What makes them thing that they can ignore rules about the American border but that the rest of us are going to obey their rules on something like gun control? They have completely advocated for breaking the law in regard to immigration yet every time there is an excuse they seek more rules on gun control thinking that somehow we are all going to just fall in line and obey a bunch of new rules that they propose. It’s all very ridiculous, and ignorant. They think what they do about us because of their experience, that we tend to be nice law biding people and even when they act poorly we forgive them and let them off the hood from their bad behavior. This as every spoiled brat knows is how respect is lost for all authority and the value is cheapened to the point of chaos. The Christian teachings for which the Roman Empire first fought, then advocated for enjoyed the idea because it made it easier to control the people of their empire under common themes, but it certainly didn’t help individuals have value for each other.

Just imagine if someone wanted to go across the border in China, or Russia? Wouldn’t anybody advocate for open borders there? Absolutely not. Does anybody think they could swim over into Japan and just start walking around unchecked? 100% not. The only reason illegal immigration is advocated in the United States if due to the fact that the Democrats want them in their political party and they want to undo the premise of value for which the United States has been built. Democrats are not for America, they are for its undoing. But before conservatives can act on that knowledge they have to understand the nature of the open border concept.

Love can’t happen unless there is value behind it. Nobody can tell another person that they love them without a basic understanding of the value behind those words. It’s not by any accident that when communists were trying to penetrate American culture at the level of our college campuses that free love was the means of establishing roots in our culture. People like sex so if the idea of sex without value could be established then Americans would accept other quandaries of the same nature, and eventually this whole borderless world concept might be accepted. But people learned as they still are, that relationships without value do not work, even if it’s just sex that is the foundation. Anybody at anytime can’t just walk into a bedroom and start having sex. Generally, among humans there has to be boundaries of trust that are proposed and the walls to personal access are only lowered when those boundaries are trusted, then sex can happen. But to say that everyone should just love their neighbor and love them no matter what that neighbor does is just stupid. It ignores all the basic laws of value which is then defined by love.

Like that protestor, most of us function every day with a mix of messages that we get from various aspects of cultural development. Some of those ideas come from our religions. Some from our political nature, from our entertainment, from our upbringing. But in most of those cases these days the influence of long generations of war have left us fragmented in what we believe. The staunch Republican who understands the need for private property and capital investments into making our economy grow are also those who go to church on Sunday and are told to act like socialists and to chastise those who make money and if you do have a lot of money that the only way you can get into Heaven is to give it all away. So we are also told that these illegal immigrants are poor and that we are supposed to all welcome them with open arms and ignore that ridiculous border. But while we are focused on all that we don’t pay attention to why those people were poor to begin with, that they were made that way by the political systems currently in place to attack our border and our concepts of civilization for the advancement of valueless ideas. And once we accept that nutty idea we would accept the political structure behind it. A destruction of the foundations America was built upon and the acceptance of a one world nation ran by liberalism. That is their dream, but to get it we have to accept that love has no meaning or borders and that to be good Christians we must give everything up, including our country for the betterment of a world in need so that we can all get into Heaven. And for that we are all being played as suckers.

Rich Hoffman

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The Very Unfair Treatement of Boeing by Loser Politicians

As I said when this all first started, Boeing was being treated very unfairly when it had its planes grounded for the 737 MAX after the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 which killed 157 people. As is the trend of the world, those most responsible for everything are those doing something and in this day and age in vilifying corporations to the whims of every below the line thinker in existence, Boeing has been getting a very raw deal. I have contended that the cause of the crash and that of the Lion Air 737 which crashed in October of 2018 was not the fault of the plane, but of the pilots who were grossly inexperienced due to their countries of origin. It’s not as if the pilots in these developing countries have had the benefit of a great military career as fliers to become pilots of these giant flying buses. In a lot of ways they are training for these jobs in the way that some people train for a new fast food job in the United States. The pressure to fulfill the market needs of countries that do not have a deep history with emerging technologies, such as airplane flight, is to put more computer automation into the flight scenarios. We expect too much out of the automation and as in the case of these two 737 MAX 8 crashes, the pilots just weren’t experienced enough to overcome faulty sensors that threw off the autopilot capabilities of the craft. An over reliance on computers is the real problem, and that will happen again in the industry. When mechanical things fail, as they often do, there needs to be a good pilot on hand to help overcome the situation, especially on a big complicated craft hauling around so many people. There are just too many opportunities for error not to have experienced, well-trained pilots flying these airplanes and the countries where these airlines are located just don’t have a history of working with technology, so it’s quite a challenge.

Granted Airbus has the same challenges, and they haven’t been exposed to crashes like what Boeing has experienced. If Boeing is guilty of anything its in expecting that pilots reading their manuals would know how to overcome simple in cockpit problems such as autopilot malfunctions because in the United States most of the airline pilots have a history in either military or civilian aviation. There is a culture in place in America that produces pilots and Boeing is used to servicing the industry from that vantage point. However, the airline industry is growing tremendously over the next 20 years with a predicted rate of need for roughly 37,400 new aircraft to be built over that time span and most of that growth is in emerging markets, so if Boeing wants to compete in that global demand, it has to build planes that very average pilots can fly, and that is the real cause of these tragedies, trying to compensate for massive inexperience and the airlines needs to put pilots in planes that can essentially fly themselves. Airbus has perhaps been more successful in achieving that demand, but Boeing pushed their 737 MAX technically adding to the variables. The Boeing plane is a great product, but is it ready to fly itself without a pilot, probably not.

But as I said three weeks ago when the planes were first grounded, the financial cost to Boeing is and will continue to be catastrophic and what’s pathetic is that nobody seems to care. Certainly not the loser politicians who have been advocating law suits and further punishments against Boeing. The company itself is losing billions of dollars with this grounding in cancelled contracts and the hefty price tag of $60 million per day in lost revenue across the industry with the roughly 400 so far delivered 737 MAX jets sitting on the ground doing nothing. There are orders for 5000 more 737 MAX planes to be built over that 20 year span, and if those orders convert over to Airbus, it will be devastating for the Boeing Company, because their preparation for this next generation of aircraft sales has been this particular market approach.

What has been so foolish is the assumption that Boeing is so rich as a company that they can afford this grounding, and all the law suits that are being tossed in their direction due to the deaths of the people on those two crashed flights that have caused this grounding. Boeing reported $10.5 billion in profits in 2018 which is consistent with previous years, but what nobody seems to understand is that playing the airplane building game is expensive. Sure $10 billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, but it evaporates quickly in a publicly traded company that has so many top-heavy expenses. Boeing sells each MAX 8 aircraft at a price tag of $92.2 million each. It only takes ten airplanes to generate $1 billion dollars. But we aren’t talking about selling popcorn here, there are massive expenses into building these planes and the margins have to be decent to leverage the company against the enormous costs of when things go wrong during the manufacturing process, such as labor strikes, supply shortages, and delivery problems. It doesn’t take long to suck up $10 billion dollars in profit when the scale of manufacturing is so high. So when people say that Boeing is a rich company that can afford to give up their profits for every little complaint, they don’t understand the situation at all. The cost to the company isn’t just another excuse for liberal wealth redistribution hidden behind a veil of safety, it is a perilous drain of projected financial resources that the company has been counting on to justify decades of investment that they have made to bring this MAX 8 plane to life so that countries like Malaysia and Ethiopia can have an opportunity to even have an airline industry. It is very disingenuous to put all the blame on Boeing and expect them to pay the price for what essentially amounts to poorly trained pilots by the airlines operating in these developing countries who themselves rushed to market without being truly prepared.

There isn’t room for airline crashes and they should never happen. When people purchase a plane ticket, they should never expect to crash and die. The regulations in the industry are understandably rigorous, and that is part of the enormous cost of compliance that also eats into the profits of a company like Boeing just for being in the business. If the FAA had become a little cozy with Boeing that is not the fault of anybody. Without Boeing, the FAA has very little to do, they need each other so understandably relationships need to be productive. To expect a regulatory agency to impose itself further on a company like Boeing is ridiculous. Only people not used to making anything in life would think a tighter regulatory environment is productive. The bottom line in this case of the grounded 737 MAX 8 planes is that Boeing was trying to deliver a plane that needed to essentially fly itself because the pilots were not able to do it themselves. The pilots were too dependent on automated systems, and that may be the demand of tomorrow’s market, but it should be understood that the learning curve is going to be demanding and mistakes will happen. When mistakes do happen, experienced and well-trained pilots need to be there to save the day. And in the case of these crashes, they weren’t which was the fault of the airlines which put those planes in the air. Boeing isn’t making yet planes that fly themselves. They are trying, but the technology just isn’t there yet. But the cost of these political groundings to them has been catastrophic and very unfair to. And it’s a shame that more people just don’t understand what all this has done to a great American company. But then again, maybe they do.

Rich Hoffman

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Why Socialism Fails Every Time

Even though I have been talking about the great socialist conspiracy for years, well before anybody wanted to admit that it was the goal of public education and government to bring it about. Why else do you think dear reader that most of Washington D.C. wants open borders, because they want socialism in America, even Republicans. Socialism puts centralized government as a top priority, and they work as leaders in government, so just like that, they have been advocating for socialism. So, with that understanding nobody can point and say that identifying the truth of the matter, as I have for many years under conditions not so pleasant, was a tin hatted conspiracy. It was always the goal for government to embrace socialism because it gave them something to do and made elections seem more logical and achievable for them to win. Make people more dependent on government and the voting patterns that promised re-election would be easier to understand. So why is it that socialism doesn’t work, such as in the most recent tragedy of Venezuela? That is the purpose of this article, to identify that hidden ingredient that often decides success or failure in everything, and for our purpose we can name it properly as leadership.

It was only a few years ago that my wife and I had been planning a nice vacation to Angel Falls in Venezuela. The country just isn’t’ stable enough so it’s not worth the trouble. When people become as desperate as they now are in Venezuela you have to watch your back constantly to keep your assets in tact, and that just isn’t worth it just to go see a natural wonder. But Venezuela should be capitalizing on its natural resources better than they are, such as tourist attractions like Angel Falls, but they can’t because they have pushed all vision and leadership out of their country. I mean how else does a loser like Nicolas Maduro who was just a bus driver end up president, it takes a lot of dumb people in a democracy to even allow such a thing in an open vote. Then there is the other president Juan Guaido with whom the United States officially recognizes as their leader who is running the country from the city streets. Venezuela is now a mess in every way that it could be and it all happened within a decade. The country continues to be one of the best examples of what a lack of leadership in a culture really does when it’s not present. When leadership is lacking, it can be said that nothing happens in the world. It’s not people and their labor that makes things move, its in the vision of leadership that effort is focused and made into something which generates cultural growth that economies work and governments emerge. Not just the will of the masses and their whims represented by a mass vote. Without leadership involved in the emergence of anything, the task itself will always fail.

Unfortunately, leadership is one of the least understood attributes of modern culture. Yet it controls the success or failure of everything. As a society we are sort of happy if leadership happens yet we don’t understand they whys and hows. We just know it when we see it. Fortunately, in America we find lots of leaders emerging in a variety of fields because it tends to occur when individuals are empowered to act with great autonomy. The more rules and restrictions to individual behavior, the less leadership emerges in a culture. For instance, we can see the lack of leadership in the sports world when LeBron James fails such as he has on the L.A. Lakers basketball team. The evidence is obvious when we see the best basketball player in the world sitting at the end of the bench cast aside by his teammates because they aren’t buying what he’s selling, and the record of the team shows it. We can see the results of leadership in sports all the time and we enjoy it in American culture. Yet we fail to find ways to generate leadership in our education system so most people grow up not understanding the value of it or how to bring it about.

When leadership is not present its obvious. A culture like Venezuela happens when leaders are put in jail because they are perceived threats to the current administration and the goal of the country is power through popular vote rather than the antics of leadership. Once the competency of any leader is lost to the cultural castigation of leadership than whatever the endeavor may be, failure is soon to follow. Leadership can further be broken down into a couple of categories. Direct leadership which is what happens when a person is in the field building a reputation for themselves which other people are quick to ride on their coattails. Such as Michael Jordon had as a young start out of North Carolina with a knack for hitting game winning shots as the buzzard sounded. Direct leadership is results based and it inspires in others the desire to follow that influence. Then there is influence leadership, such as what I do with this blog. Once you have a reputation that is beyond the control of any established state or organization, you can then use that reputation to carry others to lofty considerations. In that way an entire culture can be elevated with just a few simple words, even if only very few leaders are inspired to act directly. Without those basic elements of leadership in a culture nothing happens. Work, art, science, nothing happens in life without leadership.

Venezuela sitting on massive oil reserves and other avenues to great wealth can’t even play on the world stage because they lack leadership. Their culture through socialism has pushed away all their old leaders and stifled the growth of new ones. When leadership is pushed away from any process, failure is soon to follow. Leadership is the most important ingredient to any hope of cultural advancement whether or not we are just talking about sports, industry or even entertainment. If leadership is missing, what is being down will fail, 100% of the time with no exceptions. But to accept such a premise a culture has to be willing to recognize that it’s not equality that a society should value, because leadership is a value judgement that must emerge when exception is what drives activity and people show a willingness to follow the best in an effort to improve themselves.

Leadership is not a group decision, it’s what happens when a group follows someone who has a history of rising above the norm. Leadership inspires others to become more than they have been, but when that element is missing there is nothing to encourage others to do anything above and beyond their circumstances, so mundanity occurs and so does the efforts of the masses. This is the case under every example of socialism and why it fails. It puts an emphasis on equality among the masses instead of recognizing the basic fact of all nature and that is that leadership among human beings is the engine that drives all aspects of culture. And that is a truth I have yet to hear anybody else discuss. But if it takes leadership to bring it about, then so be it.

Rich Hoffman

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Why the American Border Has Value and Why We Should Judge Others

Of course, what nobody will say is that the border of the United States has a value that has been lost in the countries where immigrants are coming from and they desire that value intensely. But of course, that value must be protected otherwise it won’t be there for anybody else in the future. What the open border advocates won’t say is that their plan is precisely that. In order to see their goals of global fruition come to light they must remove value from the politics of immigration so that everyone is equally lost to bad philosophic values. In that way the Republic that is the United States represented by capitalism economically would have millions of socialists within it from other failed countries that could vote an insurrection into place giving rise to those global goals. The problem is why those other countries produced such bad results to inspire people to flood the American border. The reality is that all that pain and suffering was done on purpose to invoke the insurrection, and that is the real problem.

A few years ago I had a niece, (I supposed I still do) who started running around with a bunch of bad people. She started smoking, doing drugs and getting all tattooed up like a lot of dumb kids do these days. I tried to pull her aside and tell her what a mistake she was making. At the time she was still around 15 so there was time to save her. But her parents were idiots and had programmed all the wrong kind of things into her mind for which she couldn’t possibly escape. We had a big family fight, for which she was the cause and we haven’t spoken since. Her parting words to the rest of us were that we weren’t supposed to “judge” her.

I thought her plea not to judge was mystifying. Where did she get the idea that society wouldn’t judge her if she made a complete idiot of herself and essentially ruined herself for life? Here was this little baby who 15 years prior we welcomed to the world with open arms and love. And what she did with all that love was toss it out the window on a self-abuse tour that was absolutely destructive and disrespectful to all that we had given her up to that point in her life. Of course, we were going to judge. Every right-minded person does who values what they do. Judgment is an essential navigation tool through life, and without it you end up with a mistake prone idiot, like what she had become.

She learned it from her parents who never took responsibility for anything they did. Everything in their life is the fault of someone else. I refer to those types of people as below the line people, because they are perpetual victimizers of their own fate. Somehow along the many years liberals had embedded this idea of victimization into their political platform and it ended up as part of our public school curriculum which people like my niece learned growing up. So as they entered those tough adolescent years where escape velocity from their parent’s arms seem like the most immediate need any of them ever have their belief was that no matter what they did, nobody would judge them for it. Well, she and all the rest of them were wrong. I judge everyone, and for good reason.

When I first could smell smoke on her at a family gathering, I took the opportunity to let her know I was concerned for her. She told me all the things I wanted to hear then climbed into the back seat of some loser’s car that very night to roll in the debaucheries of low lifes. Before we could blink she was getting tattoos and her mom was playing along with it because she didn’t want to be judged as a failed mom. So to be cool she failed to pass judgment. Before anyone knew it, a solid middle-class family who had just a few years before been considered economically to be a successful family unit were not barely qualified to be trailer trash. Their family went from good people to bad in a matter of a few years leaving them to this very day to be the example of all the things you shouldn’t do in life.

This whole story isn’t about my family, or a little branch of it that failed. It’s about how bad ideas and a lack of judgment can destroy what’s good easily and with great finality. Even if she wanted to, my niece could never restore her good name within the family and return to the days she enjoyed prior to her fifteen years on earth. And that is very sad, for everyone. But actions have consequences and love can be lost if it is abused. Love for all matter of definitions is a value judgement. Once the value has been robbed then the statement has no meaning. We can say we love our country, but if the value of that country is robbed, then what do we love? Nothing. And in the manner of families the possessive tendency of saying its “my family” indicates a value for what you love. But if the love is abused or even removed, then there is nothing to hold the family together and everything falls apart into debauchery and bad behavior—especially among young people trying to escape making the same mistakes as their parents, but are guaranteeing that they will become just as big of a loser as they were through the child’s bad actions.

The same is true of nations. All these countries outside of the United States have been told by their governments and culture that they could have socialism, that they could have kids by the dozen with no job or income to support them, and that they could live in dirt huts and have a good life living under authoritarian rule. Then when it doesn’t work out who could blame them for wanting to flee to the American border where at least they might have a shot at a good life? The question is, why was their home country so bad to begin with? Well, it’s because their countries were led by all the wrong decision-making parameters and they produced a bad society destined to fail, much like my niece. Judging bad decisions from good ones is the key to understanding. But you simply can’t talk about immigration without first discussing values, why people want to flee from one country and go to another. I would declare that the philosophy of the failed country was on purpose, to inspire desperate people to flee to the American border and to flood it with socialist voters who would collapse the capitalist system for the sake of global socialism. But in that transaction, Americans have every right in the world to declare a value judgment which could result in their own ending. It’s not out of compassion that we are obligated to drop values and judgments to those who are living failed lives. It is out of an obligation that we do pass judgment and force value back into the discussion, because that is the only way other countries, or other people will learn the error of their ways, and correct the behavior.

Rich Hoffman

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Guns Teach Responsiblity, if we want a safe world, ban liberalism

I was just a little impressed that my youngest grandson wanted desperately to see what I was doing at my workbench and decided to help me reload some ammunition for my Cowboy Fast Draw practices. It’s kind of a reload 101 type of thing that isn’t difficult for an adult to learn, but for a 2-year-old, I wouldn’t expect him to put a wax bullet into a .45 caliber casing then put a primer in place for shooting. I thought it was just a little advanced. But the young guy wanted nothing to do but what I was so he sat up on my bench stool and went to work helping me eventually taking over all together loading up 50 rounds all by himself. We had a great experience together and so it has been like that in American life really since the beginning. Young people learning from older people the basics of survival in the world and having fun with the exchange of information. It was a reminder to me exactly what guns mean to our culture and how important they have traditionally been in teaching young people basic values and skills in life.

Guns have been in a lot of talks lately and most of the diatribes I have found disgusting, especially the case where the liberal Colorado legislature has voted in a Red Flag law for which the governor is expected to sign. Sheriff Steven Reams from Weld County has indicated that as a member of law enforcement, he will refuse to enforce the law even if he must go to jail for it. I would hate to see that happen, but the Sheriff’s position is the correct one, the Colorado Red Flag law is an abomination of legal abuse, grossly anti-American Constitution in its premise and deserves serious scrutiny on a national level. The premise for the Red Flag law is that judges would be allowed to take guns away from people who are found to be a danger to themselves or others. The provocation of such a status would purely be the word of mouth of family, friends or neighbors. So if some such person recommends that you are a menace in some way, a judge can take away your guns and put you as a gun owner in a position to prove your innocence just to maintain them.

This law literally comes from a state that has gone to pot. Colorado as everyone knows by now has turned into a state turning toward recreational marijuana to raise additional revenue but also to fulfill a long time progressive dream, the legalization of mind altering substances such as pot which in my opinion is far more dangerous than any gun would be. Sure, guns shoot bullets that could kill people, but destroying a person’s mind is far more catastrophic toward the ambitions of mankind than any gun could or would be. That makes this Red Flag law in Colorado that much worse because it likely won’t be a sane person making assessments about the danger of an individual and whether or not a judge should get involved in gun ownership, but the chances are it will be some drug crazed lunatic high on life with a barely functioning mind induced by the effects of marijuana. Imagine the illusion this gives the typical stoner, handing them judicial power over their neighbor so that protection of private property would be stripped away in favor of the loser hippie and their fenceless world view of free love, free education, and free money. All these pieces fit into the same ugly puzzle so its good to see a sheriff willing to put up a fight. But the real punches have to come from the nation at large. Colorado used to be a nice state, but it is becoming like California more and more, just a cesspool of liberalism that is going out of fashion, but not fast enough to leave behind some residual damage.

Ohio is getting gun laws right with its own approaches which is moving toward not even needing a permit to carry a gun. I personally don’t see any danger in guns, they are the paramount foundation of western civilization and they protect intellectually the premise of our republic. (We are not a democracy) Gun ownership has typically been the foundation of good family upbringing and served as a natural bond between generations such as the example I proved regarding my grandson. That activity is a normal thing for an American family to do together and it has been since the start of our country. The people who are against guns happen also to be against families and are pro-abortion. They are for drug use. They are for wealth confiscation and redistribution. They are for open borders and a loss of American sovereignty in the world. Essentially, they are against everything that makes America a great country because they want to undo the nature of it and change it into something much more European.

Guns should be carried everywhere and used when needed to stop bad guys from ruining the world. Sure there is great responsibility in gun ownership but that’s part of the beauty of it. The act of learning about guns from a responsible adult has been paramount in shaping the young minds of particularly boys in our culture. When things go wrong such as they do during mass shootings it’s not hard to identify why people become lunatics and use guns to hurt people maliciously, the failures are often in liberalism, in defunct fatherless homes where a loose mother loses control of her son because there is no father, or the men in the young boy’s life are losers that can’t help the young person affirm himself into adulthood. Or that the people who have lost their minds put too much trust into public education, public wealth redistribution, and functioning as a mindless automaton high on drugs and not taking responsibility for their own lives. The real solutions to a dangerous society is to ban liberalism, inspire families to stay together for the sake of the family as a whole unit, and to put guns in the hands of children as soon as possible and teach them how to use them and make that understanding one of their first acts of responsibility in the world. Once they learn to handle guns correctly from a father, a grandfather, an uncle or even a family friend, they will then as young men and women be able to go out into the world and act responsibly in other aspects of life. That’s how things are supposed to work and Colorado is going in the wrong direction.

It was for me nice to see the lights coming on in my grandson. For him sitting at his grandpas work bench reloading ammunition and watching me shoot a bit was a treasure he’ll carry with him for the rest of his life and he’ll likely continue to want as much of it as he can get. And it is my job to make sure he gets it and gets it right. Guns aren’t dangerous, they are great teaching instruments of how to live responsibly in the world. We can’t look to government to decide what kind of world we should live in the way that liberals propose it. It’s not a judge’s responsibility to take away guns off the whim of some pot head’s opinion. And it’s not for government to step into a family and rob them of the intellectual discourse that often does happen when the older generation teaches the young how to live in the world with the basic skills learned during the transaction. At the heart of the gun control debate is on how we control danger in our world. Liberals want more centralized control. Conservatives want more individualized control. But what we end up with shouldn’t be a combination of the two which most case-law on the Second Amendment comes to. There is a right and wrong answer. Both sides aren’t partially correct. And you can see that correct answer on my grandson’s face, and that is all lawmakers need to know.

Rich Hoffman

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An Open Letter to Alan Horn at Diseny, More ‘Solo’ Please

This article is a bit different from my usual quandaries into the depths of human imagination, behavior, and cultural ramifications because it’s not directed at a general readership, but as a person I admire quite a lot, Alan Horn, the Chairman of The Walt Disney Studios Film Division. Horn unlike me is a liberal in Hollywood functioning from his known parameters which I was thinking about a lot yesterday as I was at a Tractor Supply. To a large degree the surface of our political natures comes from our regional influences. I grew up around guns, farmers and old westerns on television so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I am now very much a Trump country conservative. Horn and his Hollywood friends have spent most of their lives around people who want to save the planet and protest straws in the ocean. But getting deeper into the motivations of the human race I find that I have a lot in common with people like Alan Horn. I have known them and still do when I was active with the Joseph Campbell Foundation years ago, because it is in my real love of mythology that I respect the work that Horn does. And it is in that regard that I want to ask him to climb out on the limb and find a way to make a few more Han Solo films. Solo: A Star Wars Story was a great movie, it has held up well over this year and deserves another crack at becoming a major part of the Star Wars cannon. I don’t care about it so much for myself, but for my grandchildren. One of my grandsons is absolutely obsessed with Solo: A Star Wars Story and I think for his sake, more myths from the line of stories would be a wonderful thing and Horn is in a position to pull the trigger on that type of endeavor.

I have had my problems with Disney’s handling of the EU in Star Wars, but I’ll make another one of my big predictions, the Episode 9 that is currently wrapping up for a December release is going to be a champion that will heal a lot of the Star Wars trouble that has erupted over the last several years. I have been paying attention to the Fantasy Flight Games X-Wing game and of course the projected opening of Galaxy’s Edge at the Disney Parks and thinking about my background in mythology and comparative religious studies, I see a great enlightenment movement emerging that is unparalleled in all of human history. Star Wars and the films that come from them as I have said many, many times over multi-thousand word articles is many people’s gateway to the sciences. Every day I deal with very smart people all over the world, especially well-educated engineers and they all have in common a love for Star Wars, for the most part. The concepts introduced to them in those movies inspired them to get into the field of engineering, so that they could figure out how to build all the cool things they see in those movies. And of course on the serious side of economics and politics, our culture requires more smart people with playful spirits to emerge into careers that develop new technology. And the way those people are created is with films like Star Wars, so I view what Alan Horn does to be very important to the building of our culture.

My grandson which I referred to, has an obsession with the Millennium Falcon which has carried over into actual space travel. His favorite current activity at the age of 2 going onto 3 is in watching rocket launches on YouTube. When he’s not watching those rocket launches he watches over and over and over again the Kessel Run from the movie Solo: A Star Wars Story. I can see igniting in him all the things that will make a future genius and it starts with that childlike love that is generated by a good story full of new ideas. Even as my wife and I plan to visit Disney World at the opening of the new Galaxy’s Edge to see the full-scale Millennium Falcon and to actually go into it and fly it is to me mind-blowing considering the evolution of myth through human experience from stories told around a campfire to actual experiences like what Disney will offer in their new Star Wars land. It is putting thought on a scale that we’ve never seen before on earth. I think of that kind of thing often because I spend most of my time contemplating about mythologies, religion, and politics. To me they are all connected, they are what build culture. And to have such young minds able to participate in myth the way that young people currently do is very, very exciting.

There were lots of reasons that Solo: A Star Wars Story didn’t make a billion dollars at the box office. Mary Poppins Returns didn’t even come as close to a decent ROI than Solo did, so for Horn, the film business is tricky. The real problem, especially with the oversea markets was the rejection of a Star Wars film that was so rooted in the values of Western Civilization. That was the reason China rejected the film, but so what. A good film finds a way and through Blue Ray sales and Netflix, Solo has done a great job for the Star Wars franchise. I’m sure that other kids are doing just as my grandson is doing, watching it over and over all day long for weeks on end. They aren’t doing that with other movies, that’s for sure. I think J.J. Abrams will fix a lot of the Star Wars problems in the next film and on the backs of that, there is room for more Han Solo stories that can unleash so many countless adventures and other movies.

The end result of all this of course is the expansion of the human intellect which is and has always been an obsession of mine. I think we are all better and smarter when we have good things to think about, and these Star Wars movies are good foundations for thinking about the right kinds of things, such as exploring Mars, what kind of religion we will all have once we discover that there was life there and that the moon has been visited often by life from far away destinations. When we are no longer calling angels from our Bible stories such superficial references and come to understand that there were always life forms that our primitive people encountered but had no name for, a lot of those problems get explored in science fiction. And with Galaxy’s Edge about to open with a new Star Wars film this year on the back of a great Solo movie playing on Netflix for kids to watch over and over again, I can see a lot of these problems being solved by our civilization of tomorrow. The ability to go and touch that Star Wars world that is going to be offered by the Disney Company is a technical achievement that mythology has never had the ability to render up to this point so effectively.

So Alan Horn, I hope you will get another Solo movie into the pipeline. There is room for it and I still think it could be a billion dollar winner at the box office. If the fan base can be united behind Episode 9 and the problems of the EU fixed, there is great opportunity for more Han Solo movies, and many others. But for my grandson’s sake, he would greatly benefit from more exciting adventures in the Millennium Falcon. And I’m sure he’s not the only one out there. It’s probably the safest bet you could make.

Rich Hoffman

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There Will Not Be A Recession in the United States while a Trump is in the White House

There is a reason while after all these years so many smart people read this blog and follow its advice, it’s because you can trace back through history and see how many times I was correct about something that nobody could yet see on the horizon. And that trend continues to this very day. Stupid people look at my articles and they think they are too long, because essentially people don’t read any more so long articles are discouraging to lazy people. But I don’t write for the stupid and passive, but for the aggressive and wise which of course pays off for the right kinds of minds. So with that little prelude I am happy to state that there will not be a recession economically so long as there is a Trump in the White House, which will probably be for the next 12 years or so, after the 2020 election which readers here know I have already predicted will go to a second Trump term. After the next four years of Donald J. Trump I predict that Don Jr. will run and win the presidency and the economic foundations that have been planted in these early first term strategies will pay off tactically in 2020 and beyond. These fears of recession are simply that, and based on no evidence other than political hopes by the other side that something will stop the Trump administration. With the Mueller investigation out of the way, there is nothing to stop Trump in the White House and the red-hot economy that has come with him.

Many people just don’t understand what makes up an economy, including many economists who have learned all the wrong rules about market fluctuations. The expansions and contractions of economic behavior are not set in stone by the rules of academia, but are rather quite reflective of the cultural temperament of our world. By studying any culture ancient or modern their rise and falls are determined along a known trajectory of over tightened regulation or loose autonomous freedom. There is a reason that great minds for instance come to the United States to develop projects from all over the world while China has to steal technology just to compete in the marketplace, it’s because of the nature of human beings and the cultures they create. Economic expansion is a reaction to those cultural elements, not the ebb and flow of emotional responses to it.

So to put it simply, so long as mankind is advancing, not regressing, which has been quite a danger in the past—just as any great culture rises and falls, somebody in the world will be the benefactor of that expansion. For a number of years Europe and Asia have been propped up by overregulation in the United States which allowed for explosive growth in China. But under the Trump administration which is an America first platform, the economic expansion is occurring at the point of consumption. It is in North America where a vast majority of economic transaction is taking place making it once again the provider and consumer of expanding economic activity. With space markets emerging and traditional markets moving from eastern to western manufacturing the United States is in a safe spot to enjoy continued economic expansion. Countries however that have been artificially propped up by global markets, such as communist China are vulnerable and will see declining influence. But that influence is not indicative of the markets in general, only in the artificial manipulation of those markets by wishes to make communism appear more effective than it is. In all reality, that desire has been a restraint on our global demands for products and services. By transferring those elements back to the United States, markets can increase based on true demand, which will then unleash more economic expansion.

In Europe their economic expansion has been limited by their commitment to socialism. All the major economic contributors to the EU are of some brand or another socialist in nature. That has had a devastating impact on economic growth as all socialist countries experience. The growth that Europe had seen, as small as it was, had more to do with United States policies to raise taxes and burden on itself to push companies into Europe and China. The actual growth was not real, it was completely artificial created only by stealing the value from America and sending it overseas. It had nothing to do with actual market forces. It was simply wealth redistribution. The wealth was created by a cultural demand among human populations. The fulfillment of that wealth need was artificially distributed. It wasn’t Europe that created the market need so watching forecasts which indicate growth or decline in those markets will not tell any investor anything, other than Europe isn’t a safe place to put money, which is why they are declining.

Literally there is nowhere else in the world that is producing positive market growth due to their overly regulatory elements. China doesn’t care about poisoning the planet at all, but under their communist rule, they limit the development of autonomous people who will become the next great drivers of economic activity. The kind of people a society produces has a lot to do with continued economic expansion. Of course, any economy needs people to buy cars, purses and fast food—a consumer class. But if a society is top-heavy in those kinds of people, they will have big trouble if they aren’t artificially propped up in some way by a friend or neighbor. What a strong economy needs most are people who design those cars, purses and new kinds of fast food. Engineers, entrepreneurs, and a business class level of bankers and investors. In cultures who hate banks and money it should be no surprise that they have limited economic opportunity, especially if the politics of financial transference is shut off from their consumption rate.

For an economy to work well, it needs freedom, people need to be free to think and create then market their attributes to the elements of economic expansion. I would recommend to anyone who can to visit the great Louvre in Paris and to witness all the great works of art there. From that one museum you can essentially witness much of the cultural activity of the last 2000 years. It is quite a phenomenal place. But you can also see the cracks that have formed in Western Civilization that are the direct result of socialism and communism, of overly managed societies and their impacts directly on the world around them. The Louvre for all its greatness of collections and majesties doesn’t have enough bathrooms, and its dining options are severely limited. They need to learn a thing or two from Disney World where customer service and options are among the best in the world. In France they don’t understand their history, they only know that it happened. They clearly don’t understand the rise and decline of their culture and the museum pieces they have on collection. All they know is that those things happened, they don’t know why.

Just yesterday I was with my family at Chick fil-A at Bridgewater Falls in Butler County and at 2:30 PM well past lunch and well before dinner, the place was packed, the dining room full and the drive thru was wrapped around the building in a double line. Why? Because Chick-fil-A goes the extra steps of above the line thinking, they put out fresh flowers on the tables, are polite to their guests and they are willing to fight for that market share by giving people what they can’t get at home, attention. Some good conduct at the business end of anything can generate market share all its own and it really is that simple.

To understand where the American economy is going and why a recession is not even on the horizon is to understand the rate for which our human culture is expanding and the limited cast of characters on the world stage that can actually participate on the supply side. As consumers, there is virtually an unlimited supply of need, but there has to be contributors to actually building those economies. And under the Trump administration and policies, there is no place on earth more friendly to economic expansion than the United States. China will continue to hemorrhage value because they never created it to begin with. It was given to them as part of a smoke and mirror show to support communism. It was never a real value. And Europe is in the same situation. Yet the market need for economic expansion is real, and so far only the United States has endeavored to fulfill that need. And so long as that is the case, which certainly is true for the foreseeable future, there will only be positive growth in the United States. And you can take that to the bank.

Rich Hoffman

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Trump Wins Re-election in 2020

Congratulations to President Trump for winning re-election in 2020. He deserved it but for what he went through during his first two and a half years, we should all consider ourselves lucky that he wanted to even run. Oh, you are right dear reader, it’s only 2019 and there are still many months of election process to endure but this game is over before it even started, the Democrats have nobody and who they do have is about to be pulled into the criminal conduct list of bad activity centering around trying to pull all the people close to Donald Trump in jail just for him winning an election, and for their participation in trying to bring so much great harm to the president himself with all these phony scandals that were 100% politically motivated, they deserve everything they are about to get. Let’s see, when was that when I predicted on live radio that the Democrat party would come to an end? Somewhere around 2020, 2021? Yeah, the reason I’m talking about this now is because its easy to see what’s coming by listening to the people close to the President on Judge Jeanine’s show on Fox News this past Saturday night. With the Mueller Report finished and no more bullets left in the metaphorical gun, it’s the President’s turn to punch back and given his reputation, he won’t hold back. For those who want to see the Swamp drained and have for a while now, it’s about to happen.

Of course President Trump needs to actually run for re-election and do all the campaigning work. And we will have to do our part in going out to vote for him. The Democrats aren’t done with their lying, cheating and out-right scandal driven lunacy. But, and it’s a big but indeed, Robert Mueller who was no fan of President Trump and had poked the bear aggressively only to find him locked in the cage with that bear as the stick broke in his hands had to release the report now. He’s known for many months now, perhaps even years, that there was nothing to the Russian story and that Trump won the election of 2016 fair and square. If he waited even longer it would be too close to the next election and his case had run out of gas. When Roger Stone failed to turn up anything meaningful, the Mueller investigation sputtered to an anti-climatic end right then and there and many of us knew it all along and have been saying so. But now the rest of the world will now see it and it will be a life changing moment.

We’ve always thought about it, but never had the evidence regarding the “Deep State” been so obvious, its like trapping for some elusive animal that has been eating all our food in the garden while we slept and one morning we woke up and see the animal locked in a cage and could get up close and study the creature. That is what its like now with these bad characters abusing their authority within our government suddenly being caught. They overreached in trying to pin a criminal case on a sitting president because they thought they’d always be in power so if they failed, nobody would be left standing to come after them. But what does a 73-year-old man who has a reputation of punching back once punched have to lose in completely unleashing Hell upon the Democrat party when he has all the power to do so, and justification for it have to lose? And he has an election to win with all these gifts to use during a re-election campaign, where even after everything that’s happened, he’s at 50% approval?

I’m not a cart before the horse kind of guy, but when everything is going downhill, you really don’t need a cart to pull the horse, gravity does all the work. And that is where Trump finds himself knowing that the battle has turned. In all great wars you can tell when the other side loses momentum. You can even see it in sports, even though two teams are playing one side is clearly winning while the other will lose. So it is in politics, all those connected to the false narrative of the Russian story and came after all the President’s men with such aggressive fanfare are now very vulnerable and won’t be able to survive what happens next. They are so used to being in power and having the power of fear over everyone on the conservative side of things that they won’t know how to handle this situation. I can’t tell you how many people have come up to me over the last year concerned that President Trump wouldn’t make it to a second term because of the way things looked politically for him. They came to me knowing I was a staunch Trump supporter and that I might know something that could show them a light at the end of the tunnel, which I have provided. Now the enemies of the President know what that light was, it was the Trump train coming to run them over as they stood there looking stupid. For a moment I was worried that Trump might let off the gas but judging by his post Mueller Report actions, it looks like he’s about to give that train all the gas it has, and why shouldn’t he? They’d do it to him.

And that is the only way out of this, Trump has to run them all over and win his re-election easily because the world is watching. The pivot point has transpired whether or not everyone realizes it, and the stagnation of global socialism and the communism of China will have no fuel to fill its continuation. I have written about these topics everyday not because there is nothing else to write about, I can think of thousands, if not millions of things. I’m in no danger of writer’s block, that’s for sure. But this fight to keep President Trump in office and motivated to keep doing that job I think is the most important thing in the world right now. His re-election is and has been the key to the future of the United States and for our country to continue, all these Deep State villains had to be exposed. For those of us who have been fighting this fight for a long time we literally had a Trump card in the White House, and he’s not afraid to use it. They threw themselves in front of the Trump Train and they need to be run over spectacularly, and with great finality. It was they who acted maliciously, and that intention deserves definitive life changing justice, and the President is in a position to have his turn and not squander it all away. The reason Trump is in this position is specifically because a Mit Romney or any other standard conservative party member didn’t have the heart for it. They tried to polite their way out of these fights with the Deep State, which of course never worked, but fueled them to becoming even stronger. But not this president, not President Trump. His re-election has pretty much been given to him on a gold platter and we should all be thankful that he knows what to do with it. And by the sound of those closest to him he’s about to unleash Hell, for which the Democrats won’t survive, and they deserve the fate they will find. Every bit of it.

Rich Hoffman

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