Month: September 2023

The Marxism in Our Finance Industry: Teaching people to smell their own bad breath

The answer to where all the dumb ideas come from is now quite obvious, the finance industry is dripping wet with Marxism and has now for many years.  It gets hidden behind polite conversation and golf games, but fundamentally, the entire industry is functioning from Marxist inspiration, from the works of Karl Marx and not the great work of Adam Smith from The Wealth of Nations.  So when you have the question, where do all these dumb ideas come from? Well, it’s relatively easy; it comes from what people are willing to do to get money from those who have it.  Personal politics are not so important to people until their financial needs are met.  Until then, they will sell just about anything to make a living, and the Marxist insurgents have figured this out over a long period.  Now, I know quite a few financial types: bankers, investors, and money movers.  As I’ve said many times, most people I know are very wealthy.  They don’t see themselves as Marxists and likely have never picked up a book on Karl Marx.  The grim reality for most is that people only have room for a few things: how they make money and what they spend it on.  Anything outside those parameters is considered useless, so we ended up with the philosophy of Marxism in our finance industry.  When most of the common talk is about golf scores and interest rates, there isn’t much room for a deeper discussion on the things that truly impact our culture, especially financially.  Most people who work in finance are like those who can’t smell their own bad breath; they don’t know they are Marxists.  They know the rules of the games they are playing.  They have no room for the question as to who made those rules up.  But the answer is global Marxists who purposely infiltrated the world’s money supply and have been the advocates for radical progressive politics across the globe, pushing people into outright communism as a result. 

They know that much; it’s easy enough to turn the ship back toward prosperity, just by understanding that more free-market ideas will inspire dramatic spikes in GDP.  However, removing the Marxists from finance is a bit trickier, and it will take several administrations of pro-capitalist growth to implement, well over a decade of work because the Marxism sickness that we see now is so embedded in our everyday lives that people can’t smell their own bad breath in regard to it.  They understand capitalist ideas when it comes to sports, talk about football games, and especially how to get a lower golf score.  But in the world of finance, they are lost to themselves to apply the same logic.  So until we have the same kind of discussions about Marxism and capitalism, people won’t see the problems they are creating in the flow of the money supply.  Most of our conversations have been about whether or not Marxism exists, while all these terrible things have been hidden in plain sight.  But the source of abuse of much power is in applying Marxism to what people will do to get access to money, instead of making it so that people will work harder and with more innovation in order to expand some market-driven necessity.   The tampering with that process by the financial industry has caused most of the damage we see today.

I was fortunate to have just about every kind of catastrophe in my life regarding finance, and at a tricky part of my life, a wealthy and influential figure in the Cincinnati economy gave me some great advice even though he was gloating at the time about his massive power and ability to crush anybody who stood against him.  He told me, “he who owns the gold rules,” as he was about to essentially destroy my life as much as he could because I was doing something that would cost his partners many millions of dollars at the time and put the politics of Cincinnati on its head.  But the lesson was worth more than any money I could have made at the time because I could put into practice ideas of capitalism and free myself of Marxism, which became quite clear to me in this experience.  He finished his advice to me by saying, “And you have no gold.  So you don’t rule.”  And that statement sent me on a path in life that has been very beneficial.  I have a bit of a temper, likely the worst anybody has ever encountered, but I have always learned not to show anybody the cards I’m playing with over time.  So to say the least, I took that conversation to heart and have spent the next thirty years fighting the things that made that guy have so much gold to rule over others because he was clearly a bad guy in the world.  But to hate money because of him was not the answer.  It was the way he thought and how the system was rigged to put money in his pocket to rule over others and not in the bank of people who otherwise deserved it, people of merit who had worked hard, done everything right, and made the world a much better place through capitalism.

We tend to incorrectly identify all wealthy people as greedy capitalists, which is part of the scam.  Most people who are very rich arrived with that wealth through Marxism and controlling markets for that philosophy, not through the free market associations of capitalism.  So, we never see the truth because we start with all the wrong definitions for what we are dealing with.  And without understanding what things are, people are easily seduced into some faulty philosophy that is essential Marxism hidden behind a veil of free market capitalism.  But in actuality, the truth of our economy is very far from what we thought it was.  And these radical leftists who have become very wealthy with this scam of brokering power to government in ways they could never otherwise dream of have put them into a position to force all of society to dance to their whims, to get their fingers on enough money to live on.  Few people are willing to stand for moral righteousness without cash in a bank account.  They tend to be bolder when they have full bank accounts, but often won’t do much publicly that might jeopardize that status, so the Marxists who now control most of finance have no incentive to change their ways because this system has worked for them.  Of course, in my personal story, I was able to get that guy back, and I profited quite a lot from that revenge.  But that’s another story all its own.  The purpose of this discussion is that I found it easy to destroy Marxists once you call them what they are by name and don’t allow them to hide in the background any longer.  President Trump has also figured that out over the years and is setting up a second term to do just that.  And in so doing, it will have quite an impact, for the better, on the finance industry.  So, there is plenty to be hopeful about.  It’s certainly not a done deal that global communism will ruin the world through finance, as it appears now.  There are a lot of changes coming.  But that is how we arrived here, and the lessons learned for America are pretty explicit.  And we can Make America Great Again. But first, we must remove Marxism from our finance industry as a top priority, which starts by admitting that the problem is far worse than we thought. 

Rich Hoffman

The Dangers of Marxism in California: Supply chain disruptions due to the electric truck mandates

The magic sauce anywhere in the world for successful government is not how much government can you make to create regulation but how much you can offer freedom to individuals and still have a stable society.  If the government becomes too large due to its expansion, you are failing as a society.  Of course, some government is needed, but when it is used as a crutch for creative enterprise, then the trouble starts.  And anywhere in the world this is true, in every country.  You can tell the success of the country and its measure of economic output, GDP, by this ratio.  Therefore, countries attempting to follow the false methods of the Masonic-driven experiment of Marxism where the government was created as a collectivist blob to replace the rulers of the world, then restricted economies are bound to occur, and that was never more obvious than in the movement against rationality with California imposing electric truck mandates that are starting to go into effect by next year, 2024.  There is no reason for the orders other than the government through its mass and force has decided that it wants to impose some limit on creative enterprise because, as a collective effort, they have a religious belief regarding climate change and its role in the universe.  A modern form of sun worship just like every other society of the past that has risen and fallen has embarked on.  Now, the government of California, and in general, the Biden administration, wants to force Americans into an electric car market one way or another.  And this government tampering shows up directly in economic health, especially in supply chain health.  Wherever supply chains slow down, look now to the size of the government and its not-so-well-thought regulations as the primary culprit. 

California has an increasingly hostile group of radical government believers. Once it is discovered that work is safest when laziness can be hidden behind government forces in size, they have decided to show their validity by disrupting supply chains to show their power to the world because they have openly embraced Marxism as a culture.  And that becomes obvious with their commitment to their power grid problems, and general approach to happy living in the world’s fifth largest economy.  California was always an obvious target for global Marxists who have infiltrated the government just as they do in the American government. Their next target is electric trucks to replace diesel semis by the middle of the next decade, starting with regulations for new truck registrations beginning during the next election year.   And they believe these regulations to be reasonable based on their purely fictional religious beliefs about sun worship.  Science or the marketplace is not driving these decisions, but the hunger for gaining the power of government rather than abusing that power to satisfy a mass religion of leftist values.  Even if the electric trucks were ready for prime time, the government’s radicalism into believing they can force society to live with the constrictions of the economy is truly dangerous.  And this is precisely the kind of behavior that has caused price increases at the grocery store during the Biden administration.  The lack of options and their price directly represent the amount of government regulating the behavior, and the result is slower supply chains and much less creative economic activity to meet the market needs of a free society.  When personal freedom is sacrificed to satisfy the power of government you get price inflation and slow supply chains in whatever industry you might be concerned with. 

Electric trucks could be an option under some conditions, but the marketplace must determine those conditions.  For instance, I have had exposure to electric forklifts for thirty years, and I generally like how quiet they are and how much instant power they provide.  But this is always the story with them; the charge rate requires at least an entire shift to utilize whereas their propane-driven counterparts can operate a total of 24 hours per day with the quick change of a tank.  So imposing electric forklift standards would force businesses to limit themselves to one shift per day where the forklift is charging and not doing work.  Or it would have to purchase another electric forklift that can operate while the other charges.  Either way, a restriction has now been placed on the business that it will have to pay for in some fashion, either in lack of output through production or the cost of more than one forklift that it will now have to maintain.  This is how the government causes inflation and disrupts supply chains, slowing the output to the end-use customer.  With the electric trucks of California, the essential same problem becomes apparent: the government assumes that employers will buy more electric trucks as an increase of the price of more than 30% each.  And that work schedules will be restricted to accommodate the lack of versatility to refuel.  Rather than make market decisions based on the logic of free enterprise, and in getting products to the consumer as quickly and efficiently as possible, the government has through force, imposed a religious belief that then limits the output of productivity.  And because they are a monopoly, there is no competitive means to measure success or failure based on competition. 

This is why Marxism generally does not like competition, because free markets expose their monopoly limits through comparison.  As a captured Marxist asset, California has all the other states in America to compete with, so the economic value can quickly become evident unless all forms, through federal mandate, are forced to do the same.  Therefore, if everyone is performing at the same level of insanity, then a better option will never be known to the public, which is their greatest present desire.  To hide their inefficiency behind government power, controlled free speech, and a lack of competitive criteria to measure against.  If electric truck manufacturers are forced to compete with other options, then their recharge time and other failings might be corrected through innovation.  But behind government force, there is no such incentive, and the limits rule the day.  And that is why the electric truck mandates in California are so disastrous and why government policy on them is so terrible.  Because of government intrusion in the free market of car manufacturing, many bankruptcies are on the horizon, and a significant impact on supply chains as old cars will suddenly become valuable because the new cars are so expensive and limited.  The electric vehicle market, in general, is representative of insanity because there are no power grid assumptions that don’t make electric bills horrendously expensive by forcing everyone to work with just another monopoly not using the best means of energy, the power companies.  We should be using nuclear power, but instead, the government has caused significant issues by going to war with fossil fuels and forcing solar energy and wind power, which is dramatically ineffective as a means of supplying energy.  And as a result, the economy of power becomes too expensive and under-supplied.  And society, in general, is much less vibrant because of the intrusions of a government that has too much power, and not nearly enough competition to keep it honest. 

Rich Hoffman

The Return of Masculinity by Mike Lindell and Corporate Culture: What to know about that is important about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift

You might have noticed that Klaus Schwab has a bit more authoritarian to his voice these days, a kind of panic a parent has over a child that isn’t listening, and they are about to reach for their belt to threaten swats of violence if the children don’t mind their betters.  You must understand why we feel things, why beliefs come to us in the first place, and by whom.  Why did this concept of toxic masculinity even occur?  Well, just trace it back just a little bit. In that case, you’ll find that it’s a European thing, a specific European Union kind of thing spawning from the World Economic Forum with the clear intention to destroy the American economy so that world domination by unelected bureaucrats could transform the world into communism.  They couldn’t pull off such a heist if American men were full of macho testosterone-driven diatribes of truth, justice, and the American way.  They needed friendly little compliant drones of social construct crying about the wind blowing on their face and blaming their parents for every sad day of their existence.  The Europeans invented the concept of a “beta male” to fulfill their communist desires by destroying their enemies before they were even born with policies that would be compliant to authority, not resistant.  So, this long march toward the destruction of masculinity has been a purposely manipulative one, and it exists for the same reason that their type is an advocate for the removal of gun rights.  It has been a bad social policy that has gone on too long, and people are tired of it.  It has not had the social results a healthy society would enjoy; even women are complaining about these modern beta males.  They want masculinity back in every way they can get it. 

That’s how you deal with these people

It’s something I have been thinking about for a long time. I get a chance to talk to many people, and women specifically have been not so happy with this modern version of what a “man” is supposed to be.  And an overt confirmation emerged recently while released video of Mike Lindell giving a deposition for an upcoming Dominion voting machine case.  There was a classic American CEO getting very upset at the passive-aggressive antics of the rival presenting an attack on MyPillow products through the backdoor of courtroom submissions, hoping that Lindell would be passive in his acceptance of such an intrusion.  But Lindell caught the episode for what it was and became very upset, and let the young fellow know it, and this is the point of removing masculinity from society all along.  But American businesspeople like Mike Lindell and President Trump are supposed to have been removed from society by now and replaced with guilt-driven CEOs who would allow globalism to rule their corporations for the easy kill of communist intention.  Mike Lindell was supposed to be submissive to authority and to cringe with fear at the incredible power of the Administrative State and the command that the beta males and their sissy-slapping undercurrents could impose on such unprepared aggressions.  Instead, Mike Lindell was letting the little punk know that he wouldn’t get away with the jab at his company, and he was prepared to fight for it then and there.  That is one of the reasons that out of all the pillows in the world, Mike Lindell’s MyPillow is so good; they have the personality of the CEO himself, so when people buy one, they know they are getting a quality product that the CEO will fight for over other products, and it shows in what people put their heads on. 

Like most things created out of a push for globalist communist control, removing masculinity from culture has not given people happiness. Instead, the quality of our entire society has been diminished, and women are not happy about it.  We aren’t talking about destroying masculinity so women can have more opportunities.  I have a wife I have been married to for a long time and children who are women.  Everyone wants women to have the best personal growth and freedom options.  But destroying the idea of a man has not been what women have liked, and society has become less valued.  Deep resentments toward the removal of men from society have emerged over the last several decades; the utopia that global communists were promising has not come true.  The replacement of a strong husband by a strong centralized government has not been fulfilling, and now that the damage is done, people of both sexes are unhappy about the results.  And support for Mike Lindell has emerged in a positive way that is inspiring people back toward traditional understandings of the role of masculinity in leadership and standing by their employees with the kind of reverence that quality is often represented with the concept of pride that is directly attached to the idea of a job well done.  These ideas of quality are exactly what the World Economic Forum was trying to get rid of so that global uniformity by a compliant public could best be achieved.  One pillow was supposed to be just as good as any other, and Mike Lindell was supposed to be too stupid and concerned about not offending his rival that he didn’t notice the sly remark tossed into the deposition to be read in court and have his company slandered by the authority of the Administrative State. 

Because of the massive failures of the woke agenda and the tampering of the human race by these global insurgents, the swing back to masculinity in our modern culture will be radical and even violent toward the advocates who created the problem.  The social trends will favor the strong leader, man or woman.  But precisely, the man, the intense alpha man as classically understood, will become the standard of the day.  You can see it already emerging in the relationship between Taylor Swift and the Kansas City tight end, Travis Kelce, with the football player showing all the classic signs of masculinity and advertisers wanting to benefit from them.  The entertainment industry wants to show the pop culture icon Taylor Swift embracing that masculinity in the traditional feminine reception without being disingenuous to women themselves.  Even a few months ago, such a relationship would have been ignored by the media, but now, as part of a global trend growing out of failure, a market recovery is deeply desired, and the world is steering toward masculinity as it has been classically defined.  And the architects of all this destruction, like Klaus Schwab, are very angry about it.  They can’t put the genie back in the bottle; it’s out for good, and they have been unable to stop it.  The public wants it, so suddenly, a relationship between Swift and Kelce is desired by the entire entertainment industry.  A tough guy and the feminine acceptance of it within a traditional family context, the representation of femininity sitting next to the mom of a Super Bowl champion gladiator.  Whether it’s Mike Lindell, President Trump, or a much younger man in Travis Kelce, masculinity is making a comeback, and tomorrow’s business climate will embrace it even more so than it has in the past.  Because the future is hungry for masculinity due to the failures of globalism and the sad loss of value left in its wake, society is looking to forget as quickly as possible the mistakes of the past and the suppression of masculinity that were part of it.

Rich Hoffman

Yes, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham Should Be Impeached: Gun rights are the keys to all successful economies

And she should be impeached, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.  I have been everywhere in New Mexico, and I can say with certainty most of the people there are not big supporters of her.  Her support primarily comes from the colleges around Albuquerque, where Marxism has infected the population in a population center that has given the illusion of a blue state mentality.  But that is not the case, and the governor has shown her cards in many ways by jumping offsides on a conservative hard count.  She never had the power to create an executive order limiting the Second Amendment in any way over what she says is excessive gun violence involving children.  The progressive trend to exploit children for the advancement of attacks on the American Constitution is not new, and it’s certainly what is going on with this latest attack on the Second Amendment.  Then, for that same anti-family Democrat party to advance talks of killing kids with abortion almost in the same sentences is perplexing and irrational.  But it’s not a surprise, given the state of their party politics.  The pressure to stop populism forces governors like Grisham to blink and give away their intentions when they would be better off holding their cards.  Democrats can’t afford to because their window on power is closing in on them.  Now, because of her outright attack on gun rights in New Mexico, many Republicans are calling for her impeachment, as her executive order limiting concealed carry where public places are concerned was such an overreach and abuse of power that Republicans are perfectly justified in attacking the governor for such outrageous actions.  I said it the moment she signed the order: Governor Grisham did not have the authority to act against gun rights.  Constitutional laws are “absolute.”  They are not subject to government interpretation or any progressive editing, which she had in mind when she signed her ridiculous executive order.

I think it’s great that we are finally having honest conversations about Constitutional law.  I have wanted to have these intelligent conversations for the last thirty years, and it’s only now, or really, since COVID came along, and all these big-time Democrats with Marxism clearly on their minds have shown the public what I have been warning about all this time.  People used to say, “No, they aren’t that crazy, (Democrats).  They aren’t Marxists, communists, and socialists.”  Well, yes they are, and they always have been.  They know that Marxism will never work in America so long as they can’t use physical force to impose compliance with the government, so they, of course, desire to destroy the American Constitution.  They aren’t looking to live within the law; they intend to break it, which Grisham’s Executive Order did.  Just as Biden’s Executive Order involving vaccine mandates clearly violated the law.  The American Constitution limits the powers of government; it doesn’t grant them.  Unlike Communist China, where they criticize all these limits on government power, the goal of Marxism as a philosophy is to have central state control over everything, and the people serve the state.  Grisham did as many progressives (Marxists) have been trying to do with their acquired power, abusing it toward the aims of global communism.  But they can’t hope to do that unless they can get people to fear authority, and that won’t happen if people are personally armed with gun rights.

The point of the Second Amendment initially, and to this day, is to limit the power of tyrants like Governor Grisham, who want to use government control to impose itself on the rights of individuals.  Government power is limited because of the tendency of authority figures to abuse their power throughout history.  With the long-established plans of Marxism to take over the world, and especially embedding itself into American culture under many disguises, they see where political sentiment is heading with MAGA and the support for President Trump, especially in New Mexico, so they are making their moves while they still can, while they still have power.  But in haste, governors like Grisham have shown ordinary people the game being played, not just speculated about.  And the reaction to her executive order is much more rambunctious than such actions have been in the past.  The government does not have the right to do what it did with Covid, and that is to suspend Constitutions.  That is why the scandal of Covid was so audacious and the political motivations so obvious, even if it’s hard for people to admit to.  COVID was about giving the government the power it wanted in the world for global communism.  It was not about health management. Otherwise, the government would have made emergency recommendations for Ivermectin upon the Covid outbreak.  Instead, they supported censorship.  They wanted casualties because it helped them advance their cause toward Marxism.  Just as Governor Grisham tried to exploit the death of children to take away gun rights and strike a blow at Constitutional limits to government power, these are scary examples of a government power grab. That is why we have a Constitution as we do, with the Second Amendment and the First to set up boundaries to check that power before it gets out of control.  An American society without guns will be a Marxist one, which is their goal, and when that power is abused, the natural reaction should be impeachment from office for the attempt.  There must be consequences. 

When people like Grisham say, “America is the only place in the world with gun laws that make gun ownership common.  Nobody else has them.”  Well, I’ve been all over the world, and I can tell you there is no place like America.  And why should there be?  It is no accident that the freest country on earth has the best economy.  And the areas that have the most centralized authority have the worst economies.  China is another Marxist con game where American investment has been tricked into believing that communism was the future, so they have moved in that direction, propping up the communist country into what history will quickly recognize as a dramatic failure.  Then, of course, why are guns needed? Well, wherever a good economy produces something of value, other people always want to take it, including the government.  So, that is why there is a Bill of Rights that protects gun rights.  And there is no negotiation on gun rights, none at all.  Gun rights are the key if you want an excellent economy, as most people worldwide do.  Where there is value, there must be a means to protect the value created.  Governor Grisham, like most from her Democrat Party, is attempting to take over the American economy with centralized planning, which will significantly restrict personal freedom and the amount of money such a country can generate regarding GDP.  So, people have a right to be upset about it, and more than ever, people are making the direct correlation between gun rights, safety, and economic viability.  The more guns and personal freedom, the more money a country can make.  And the more capital, the better the society and the options for the people living there.  Gun rights are the key to a productive and safe society.  Any intrusion on that deserves removal from government office, which Governor Grisham, at the very least, deserves for her vast examples of government overreach. 

Rich Hoffman

Control the Narrative, Control the World: Trump’s Speech in South Dakota

I have been traveling and talking to people who live outside the United States a lot, and many of these conversations have been carrying over to many political insiders who think they have their finger on the pulse of the political sentiment coming up in 2024.  And I’m telling everyone the same thing; they find it hard to believe.  It’s all about Trump in 2024.  And I have assured some very good friends in Japan who care that Trump would be back in the White House, as many Japanese are very concerned with.  The strength of the American dollar is significant to them, and they are looking for financial stability coming out of the leading economy in the world.  It wasn’t hard for me to see, but it was tough to understand for everyone else.  Perhaps I could see why.  As I travel and watch different behavior from so many other people, they are very plugged into various visual media, and much of that media has been hijacked by anti-Trump forces.  So, no wonder they don’t see the truth as it is.  When you turn on the TV or watch streaming video on phones at airports, and the media presented is all Trump-hating because that is the political establishment trying to protect itself from reality, the consumers of that media would have no other way of knowing.  So, to bring everyone up to speed, I keep telling people to go back and watch from mid-September 2024, the Trump speech in Rapid City, South Dakota, and the truth will begin to be very clear to everyone.  Trump is the leading Republican to recapture the White House, and all the insiders know it, even if the public has been slow to understand it, and that speech where Kristi Noam endorsed Trump is an excellent measure of American political reality.

My wife and I are at a place where we can do anything for Friday night entertainment; we could go out to a movie, a fancy dinner, or both.  We could travel anywhere, watching anything on our 10,000 different television stations and streaming services.  Every entertainment option in the world is available to us, but you know what we were most excited about recently: President Trump’s speech from one of our favorite destinations in the entire world, Rapid City, South Dakota which is just a few miles from Mt. Rushmore. Trump was planning to speak that night, so my wife and I ordered in Chinese and looked forward to watching him talk all day leading up to his prime-time delivery.  And it was worth it.  It was the best thing on television, and it was obvious that we weren’t the only people feeling that way.  As usual, Trump had a large crowd, and many people were watching as we were, from one of the many streaming services.  It was well attended, and evident that people love to hear President Trump’s talk.  And with Mt. Rushmore right down the road from the speaking location it was very easy for my wife and I to put ourselves in the heart of the action with our memories of traveling to the region.  When you visit the towns surrounding this part of the world, Rushmore, Deadwood, Sturgis, Wall Drug, just an hour to the east, you see America for what it is, which the rest of the world doesn’t get to unless they know where to look.  If you want to see the pulse of America, just like a patient in a hospital, you don’t check their heartbeat by taking their temperature.  You have to feel the blood moving through the body and for America, that is Rapid City, South Dakota.  Not the den of thieves, Washington D.C. and the New York media market, or Los Angeles.  All that has changed recently. 

I pay attention to all news, even those that I disagree with.  So, I’m not in an isolated bubble.  But these days my favorite news media comes from Gettr streaming services.  It was very recently when I told everyone that the most significant attribute of the 2024 election was that Trump started his own social media organization, Truth Social.  And Gettr, which Trump people created, is also taking off as a significant contributor to the media landscape.  Then of course Elon Musk has realized that he’ll never get to space, or put people on Mars with the kind of Marxist governments that the world has been seduced by, including the Biden administration.  So, he has bought Twitter, turned it into “X,” and is distributing free speech in ways that have never been done before.  The traditional forces are not controlling the media narrative, and people, perhaps for the first time in all human history, have a choice in their media consumption.  Control the narrative, control the world and the old forces just don’t control it any longer.  So, the coverage of this Trump rally in a relatively forgotten part of the world, as South Dakota is, was enthusiastic, to say the least.  But if you weren’t looking for it and were waiting for traditional media to carry it, you wouldn’t know otherwise.  No matter where I am in the world, I stream news off Gettr so I’m seeing what many aren’t yet, so the political trends are emerging quite clearly. 

Many who control those Beltway cultures hope that all this MAGA media is just a fad and that it represents a small part of the political world. Instead, I would say that the key to it is further engagement, the kind of people that traditional media has always overlooked, and never reached in the first place.  To think of someplace like South Dakota as the center of all political discourse is not the popular sentiment.  Yet that is the truth of it. Trump had previously, in 2020, done a spectacular speech there at Mt. Rushmore with Kristi Noam that I thought was one of the most significant political speeches I had ever seen. Ignored mainly by the mainstream outlets, it was fresh on the minds of this most recent one, a return of Trump and Noam on stage together that represented well the way most Americans want to see themselves, as morality-loving capitalists and not the godless heathens of a globalists Marxist movement.  And the entertainment options are so bad these days that even with thousands of other options, the best place to go was on Gettr streaming to watch six hours of Right Side Broadcasting of the Trump event in Rapid City.  Modern media, controlled mainly by Marxist sympathizers have ignored the desires of the media consumers and given them garbage that nobody wanted.  And that is mostly what the world saw who were looking for the headlines.  They don’t understand why the headlines are what they are; they are just passively looking at the contents without understanding how they are formed.  But for those so doing, they naturally are going to be surprised that they are missing the critical stuff altogether so they wouldn’t know how hungry most people are for Trump, a return to patriotism in America, a robust American economy, and an optimistic look at the future instead of some dark hole of globalism rooted in Marxism that doesn’t do any good for people, but is the dream of all the central planners and their utopia of the Administrative State.  People, in general, everywhere in the world, want the MAGA message.  And they are learning to get it with all these new media options, which makes it quite clear.  Trump is poised to win in 2024, even against all the opposition trying to stop him.  Because people finally have a voice, and they are using it. 

Rich Hoffman

Communists and Democrats are the Same Thing: Yes, there will be punishments, what did they think was going happen?

To answer a question honestly that came up recently between Sebastian Gorka and Hugh Hewitt regarding a likely second Trump term, the answer is yes to the punishment of communists.  It became obvious to Hugh while talking on a podcast that the inevitability of punishment for all that has been done is going to happen and is that how we really want to see ourselves, as the punishers of injustice instead of forgiving our enemies and moving on.  I would argue to Christian-minded people that God needs warriors who will fight for what’s right, against the impediments of the Divine Council as stated clearly in Psalm 82 and many other places in the Bible.  This idea of turning the other cheek and being weak and meek socially is an interpretation of history as given to the human race by those who wish to conquer it.  And now that evil has had its way against us all for far too long, it is time for a payback, so yes, this is going to be something that conservatives are going to have to deal with, and as it is measured what the moral position is, punishment of evil as it has worked its way into our world through the vile tentacles of communism has to be engaged and defeated.  And that starts by calling it what it is, and not just letting outright Marxism hide behind the name change of the Democrat Party in America.  We have fought many wars over communism, specifically in America, yet we have allowed it into our culture directly behind the Democrat Party, which does a disservice to all who have lost their lives in that fight.  It’s time to stop playing around and to call the communists what they indeed are in America.  They are Democrats.

As people like Hugh figure it out, it’s OK to punish the bad guys, all those who call themselves “anti-capitalists” We have to correct something that has been broken for a long time, which goes back to the McCarthy Hearings from several decades ago when the communist scare coming straight out of the FDR administration of the 1930s had found its way into the blacklists of Hollywood, and people were being accused of such scandalous, and subversive behavior.  Democrats cried about the name-calling and coaxed society, a very conservative society, to stop calling everyone communists and to adhere to some made-up rules of controlled speech that allowed this hidden menace to percolate behind the polite orthodox of mainstream society.  But the failure of that approach is all too obvious now, many decades later in our current woke culture.  Why is the World Economic Forum and its quest for global, corporate communism using woke rules to use in their battle cry?  Because it has worked.  They watched it happen in the McCarthy Hearings in America and have taken that message to a much larger, global scale.  So, to answer the question that a lot are asking because President Trump is using the term communism to describe his political opponents, and the political left is apocalyptic about it, and so are the RINOs.  They thought they knew the rules of “free speech,” and they were not able to deal with this sudden, “correct terminology.”  So, for clarity, anybody who follows the philosophy of Karl Marx, which is what Democrats do, they are rejecting Adam Smith and embracing Marx, then you are some form of communist. 

Communism is a political philosophy that spawns from under the umbrella of Marxism, which comes from the works of Karl Marx, books like Das Kapital, and The Communist Manifesto. There has been a long push by liberals and all left-leaning advocates worldwide for socialism and communism as defined by Karl Marx.  So, anybody supporting those positions is a functioning communist, and that is essentially a state-owned means of production and a rejection of free market ideas, which is precisely what Democrats advocate for.  To hide their intrusion, they use terms like “equity inclusion” to essentially take away value and merit from society so that the state would then be forced to be the arbiter of justice, “social justice,” and take over all means of production.  And they have been heading in that direction since before the McCarthy Hearings.  And people are tired of watching their country fall to these Marxist insurgents, hiding behind controlled speech guided by Marxist-leaning institutions and turning to populism for satisfaction.  This is how we ended up with Trump in the White House and this push for another term to drain the swamp.  The hair we find in the drain of that drained swamp is the swamp creatures of various breeds of Marxism that have been residing under the surface just beyond our site.  You might see their ripples on the water’s surface, but their contents have remained hidden by a veil of polite society controlled by a lack of free speech.  But when you see political affiliates concerned about the terminology of discourse, such as racism, sexism, or even anti-semitism, you know a monster under the water of the swamp born of communism is lurking.  And in a very modern context, the politics of 2023, Democrats and Communists are precisely the same thing.  When people say, “You don’t even know what communists are?”  Just have them read the works of Karl Marx, and you will discover the truth for yourself. 

So, of course, there will be punishment, and it will be harsh.  These insurgents have misrepresented themselves in our culture and overtly lied to us.  And now, we must pick up the pieces and deal with the reality of that vast destruction.  For all that has been thrown at Trump and his supporters and the many lies over the years about the Democrat Party’s commitment to outright communism, of course, there will be hell to pay, and the best advice I can give everyone is to pay it and stop trying to conceal it.  Deal with it, take the lick, and see if you have a place in society in the aftermath. What these people have done to our country is far worse than any effects of a war in some far-off land.  This was in our backyard, restaurants, zoning, and jobs.  Communists have embedded themselves into every aspect of our American culture, and it’s time to end it.  More and more people are recognizing that the only way to do that is to elect Trump as a true representative in the White House and rip globalism from its influence over our country.  It’s interesting; I do get to travel around the world and see other cultures, and when you consider how tiny Japan is, it’s the number two economy in the world behind only the United States, what does that tell you about how Marxism has limited the rest of the world’s GDP?  (China is not a real economy; globalists prop it up through financial institutions committed to a change in the communist economy.  And you can’t believe anything they report in the media.)  This has been a real fight, and it’s time to stop playing games with the terms and call Democrats what they are: communists.  And to defeat them with all the vigor we have fought them in many wars.  Yes, it will be painful for them, but they should have thought about that before doing all they have done.   They have it coming and deserve all they get and if they have any honor in them, they won’t cry about it.  They’ll pay and be thankful for at least that opportunity.

Rich Hoffman

Yes, We Have to Impeach Joe Biden: Give Democrats worse for all the trouble they have caused

Wait, you know they are bluffing, right?  The Democrats don’t want Republicans to impeach their puppet president, Joe Biden.  Senators like Fetterman and his little hoodie are talking tough as if seeking the impeachment of the criminal Joe Biden would boost his public support and ensure he will be in the White House for another term.  They know better.  They count on you being so much of a sucker that you won’t figure it out.  But they don’t want you to know that.  What they fear most is that you’ll figure out the truth, that they are all paper tigers of Marxism intent to bluff their way into an overthrow of America.  And they want you to think they are daring you to conduct your own destruction.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Democrats know they can’t win elections unless they can rig them, like Brazil’s elections have been going on in Russia, China, and Venezuela.  The Marxists are trying the same thing in America, and so far, gullible Americans have let them have their way, and we are supposed to believe that we are a 50/50 country right down the middle.  But that’s not at all true, either.  That is how the uniparty of globalists wants you to believe things to be.  That is not the actuality.  Democrats have only gained power by bluffing their way to it, and Republicans have been played as suckers for most of the last two centuries.  And until they fight back, Democrats will continue to steal power through nefarious means and laugh about how they keep getting away with it.  Democrats will never wake up one day and apologize for what they’ve done.  They intend to destroy our country and us with it and they don’t care about your feelings.  They are ruthless.  Never forget that they are what John Fetterman, the goofy senator from Pennsylvania represents. 

The first reason we must impeach Joe Biden is because he deserves it.  He has been caught lying to everyone and selling his office to foreign and domestic enemies for much of his life.  He’s certainly not the only one, and yes, many politicians on all sides are guilty of precisely what Joe Biden has done.  But he’s president of our highest office in America, and we must protect its sanctity for our preservation.  That means Joe has to go through the wringer, and it has to be embarrassing.  We have to do it because it’s the right thing to do, not some political calculation where we worry it might hand him the next election.  First of all, it won’t.  But if it did, it wouldn’t matter.  When anybody does something wrong, they should be punished for it.  And the more powerful they are, the more public their embarrassment should be so that others might learn a lesson and not do as Joe did in the future.  History needs to remember Joe Biden in a salacious and horrendously corrupt way, because in America, we must continuously pursue justice, no matter where it takes us.  Our fear, because so many other people are also dishonest, keeps Joe Biden from being prosecuted, which should have happened long ago.  But now we’ve caught him and we can’t turn away.  Patriotism does nothing if we have loved ones die in foreign wars, but we can’t even secure an election, keep corruption out of public offices, and allow ourselves to be suckered by government gangs like the one Joe Biden has been running for decades. 

But secondly, look what they did to Trump, a rightly elected Republican president.  They impeached him, and who thinks we will move on in our country without revenge?  Democrats have it coming.  Forget all this stupid turn-the-other-cheek stuff.  Joe Biden and the government thugs running in his crowd must be punished severely.  They took the shot at our politicians, so they have it coming back at them.  They did not worry about going after Trump, even trying to jail him, because they were playing hardball.  All this taking the higher ground stuff is nonsense.  When political opponents come after you and your team members, you take them out.  You give them back everything they’ve given you and more.  And for what they did to Trump, they all deserve a good beating, everyone from Chuck Schumer to Fetterman.  They are disgraceful, and they don’t care even to be caught.  They have lied to our faces, jailed our supporters, and deliberately tried to take out our representative in the Executive Branch.  They are fair game for the worst we can do to them because they’ll do it again if we don’t.  It’s not like we are waiting for them to punch us in the mouth.  They already have done it.  They wanted a fight, they picked it.  And their aggression has been what it was because they think Republicans won’t fight back.  They believe Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals tells them so based on his history of studying mob behavior.  This is a government mob, and there is only one form of expression they understand: force.  Force for the sake of power to eradicate our political enemies.  In the end, there should be so little left of them that they won’t even exist well enough to have a Netflix account. 

So don’t cry for them. They did all this to themselves.  They chose to live the way they do and to break all the many crimes they have committed.  Republicans can’t just talk tough; they have to be tough.  And they have to earn respect.  Democrats need to fear Republicans, starting with a history of follow-through.  Democrats don’t respect Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy, who is just being friends with people like Marjorie Taylor Green so that she can be controlled within the Freedom Movement.  McCarthy wouldn’t even speak to people like Margorie if not for that.  These are professional con artists, many of them who are drawn to government work because it’s a target-rich environment.  There is only one political calculation to consider regarding impeachment: the cost of not doing it when it’s so apparent that Joe Biden should be impeached.  We get criminals like Joe Biden because too many people in the past let him bully them into submission.  And he has brought a disgrace to our senate and Executive Branch.  Why do you think they want to drop the dress code in the Senate? Because they are trying to destroy it.  Not sustain it.  And do you think they care about integrity?  They are inspired to break the law because they want to overwhelm the law and destroy it and the country with it.  It’s too late to save them or to work with them in a bipartisan way.  Democrats declared war on America long ago, but people have been too slow to recognize it.  And that has empowered these domestic enemies to do their worst, and they have.  These are all the reasons and more that we must not only impeach Joe Biden but all those like him who have abused their offices at the expense of the public.  And to make it very painful in the process. 

Rich Hoffman

The Rest of the Story: Brian Thomas falls to the dark side

It’s time for a Paul Harvey moment with this West Chester Tea Party story.  After the horrendous hit job by Brian Thomas on 55 KRC, where he took the word of a very politically motivated rabbi at face value and joined in the condemning of that long-time group for antisemitism, there is, of course, a lot more going on.  The West Chester Tea Party and I’ve known them for a very long time, is a free speech group, and what we have going on with Rabbi Ari Jun is an attempt to capture speech as he defines it.  We have been seeing this a lot lately and the root cause all points back to one person, and one event: Lynda O’Conner deciding to run for school board for another term when she has been grotesquely unpopular over the last few years as she has gone after Darbi Boddy, a fellow school board member that she has been trying to have removed since the very beginning of her term.  The Rabbi is just playing his part in trying to politicize free speech, which I am surprised that Brian Thomas played along with.  But then again, maybe not.  The accusation is that a popular speaker who has done some excellent work, Harold Ziegler, went down the rabbit hole a bit historically at a recent West Chester Tea Party meeting and this Rabbi was tipped off to the contents, which talked about the Rothschilds being Jewish people who control banking and other conspiracies that are deemed off-limits by the big government crowds who want to use Chinese style communism to use speech to steer society in the direction that they decide is appropriate or not.  That should be very clear to Brian Thomas, so it was quite surprising that he didn’t provide any pushback on the Rabbi during their hit piece interview, where they rejoiced that the West Chester Tea Party lost their meeting venue over this controversy, a victory against free speech that Rabbi Jun was clearly aiming for. 

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Many people don’t know their history and use the same buzzwords as progressives regarding racism.  There are words you can or can’t say and these people in positions of institutional authority will decide what those things are; Rabbi Jun thinks he’s one of them, working on behalf of Lynda O’Conner, which leads us to the rest of the story, as I can fill in the blanks based on my knowledge of the people involved.  They will never admit to these things, but based on my history with Lynda, it’s pretty clear what’s happening.  A few weeks ago there was a meeting in Liberty Township, a Meet the Candidates event that Lynda was supposed to come to.  She declined, and I will provide a video of some tough questions going in her direction.  Lynda had another invite, which is traditional for the West Chester Tea Party, to have all the candidates for Lakota come and answer questions from the public.  Lynda has had a relationship with the West Chester Tea Party for over a decade, so she knows how things go, they would be more complex questions than she would get at the Voice of America candidate forum, which she prefers because establishment politics controls it.  What’s the best way to get out of having to appear? Well, to destroy the forum, which is what the Rabbi did for Lynda by using politically sensitive speech to attempt to destroy them as an organization. 

Yet to say that the Rothchild family isn’t up to no good would be to avoid the truth.  Just because they happen to be Jewish is not the issue.  But many criminals and globalist manipulators hide behind social safety nets of controlled speech to continue their crimes, and the control of the finance industry by the Rothchild family is a known condition that inspires much debate.  And that debate is healthy to keep the bad guys in the world in check.  So even though the Rabbi didn’t like the things that the West Chester Tea Party was talking about, he doesn’t have some social right to destroy them, even if it’s for a friend running for school board.  But that’s what happened; even 55 KRC played their part.  It is exciting to see how desperate all these entrenched political players are willing to abuse Constitutionally guaranteed rights for their own acquisition of power.  It’s exciting because it is revealing a truth about these people that I have been warning about for decades, and now they are desperate and showing where all the strings to the puppets go.  I love the Jewish people and have said it many times.  Jesus was a Jew; we have the Bible because of the Hebrew people.  Yet the Bible is a story of the Jewish people failing in the eyes of God and always falling short.  So, talking about those shortcomings, even if they fail to serve a higher cause and find themselves monopolizing international finance, isn’t dialogue forbidden from discussion.  Instead, we should be talking about it because it’s the only accurate checks and balances in society to keep the bad guys from doing worse.  The assumption that Rabbi Jun is making, which Brian Thomas backed up, is that if people are of a particular religious order, then the assumption is that they are doing good in the world instead of using that order as a mask for misconduct. 

Of course, batching everyone into the same category doesn’t account for the variability of human behavior, which free speech then should sort out, and the burden to prove otherwise falls on the accused.  And the Babylon trouble of modern factions dusting off the old pantheon of Mesopotamian gods isn’t a conspiracy; it’s at the heart of the climate change movement.  It’s the same battle God was frustrated with in the Bible, predating much of the biblical history that we tend to concern ourselves with.  The worship of Baal, Moloch, and Ishtar is at the heart of progressive politics, so the West Chester Tea Party references were made in that spirit, which is certainly worth discussion.  But we see the rules of politics being rewritten to penalize a group that wanted to broadcast the truth about the various school board candidates.  And because some nasty stuff was uncovered over the last few years, political candidates are trying to remove as much transparency as possible because they can’t hope to be elected any other way.  The goal of this event was to destroy the West Chester Tea Party forum to attempt to control a narrative that didn’t help the current political order.  And because the story is so bad for the incumbent candidates, they are trying to destroy anybody who might question them publicly, which is what the aggression from the courts toward Darbi Boddy is all about.  We see an abuse of power exposed through desperation to control an evil narrative.  And the willingness to manipulate speech to become weaponized against political rivals shines a light on the problem.  But only if you understand the rest of the story, that this West Chester Tea Party story is about one thing, and one thing only.  It was not a controversial speaker who asked questions about Jewish conspiracies.  But a political establishment that is trying to hold onto power through the destruction of the Bill of Rights because they never believed in it, to begin with.  And they are being exposed for what they were all along.

Rich Hoffman

Why Not Lynda and Isaac: I’d rather vote for Democrats because at least you know what you are getting

It has not been very pleasant. I have been traveling a lot across the world, and at each airport stop once arriving back into cell phone coverage, I have been flooded with text messages and calls wondering why I still defend the Lakota school board member Darbi Boddy and do not have the same kind of sympathy with current school board president, Lynda O” Conner, and member Isaac Adi. I understand the concerns, but neither Lynda nor Isaac are conservatives, and you know what I always say. I love all Republicans until they show me that they aren’t. There isn’t a situation where Lynda and Isaac give the illusion of a conservative school board. At the point I’m at now, I’d instead remove the illusion and let the Democrats have it so we can hang them on all the problems later. Playing this game with Lynda and Isaac is lying to ourselves, and I see no point in doing it. All it does is cause further brand damage to the Butler County Republican Party brand. My view on these silly disputes is that they are small-minded, who in their right mind cares about power on the school board except for people who don’t bring much value to anything else in their lives. Watching what Lynda has been willing to do to achieve such silly power has disappointed me. The school board is a part-time gig at best. It should never generate the kind of political games from Lynda’s camp, and I cannot support her or those propping her up. I have given them a chance. I’ve worked with Lynda, and that picture Isaac Adi has with Jim Jorden is one that I took. I have tried to help all of these people. But only one hasn’t lied to me, at least that I know of yet. And that is Darbi Boddy. The rest of them have been horrendous, and if that’s the best we get, we might as well vote for Democrats.

This coming from a guy whose son was sentenced to life in jail for pedophilia.

I’ve heard a thousand times, that Darbi lied to everyone during the vetting process, and represented herself as a calm, collective, friendly person willing to play ball. I’ve heard from even friends of hers that Darbi engages in personal outbursts and is very aggressive. I had experience with Darbi before she was elected, and I have had several complex discussions with her since; I can say that she has always been honest, even very Christian, much more so than I initially thought. She has values and she defends them. And she has never been crazy or violent around me, and maybe she had a right to be. I always liked Darbi Boddy, but I like her much more now after two years in office than I did the year leading up to the election where she and Isaac ran together as an endorsed Republican Party ticket. Darbi has been my favorite among all the people I have dealt with on the Lakota school board over the last decades. I don’t think she misrepresented herself during the fundraising and campaign stage. I think what happened was that Lynda used her to get the vote for the school board president position then quickly turned against her when the mask debates were getting heavy during Darbi’s first month after being sworn in. And that betrayal hurt her, and it has only gotten worse since, not because of Darbi, but the behavior of the other school board members.

Showing they have control of power while real crimes are abundant without their attention

You might have heard in the news that Isaac Adi won his restraining order against Darbi Boddy in court, where Lynda was nearby blowing on the fire to help it burn. Lynda is the one who lied and misrepresented what she was up to. Isaac indeed misrepresented himself to me and I am excessively disappointed in him. Darbi has not disappointed me. Lynda has. Isaac has. And the rest of the characters fall somewhere along those lines. My policy in all things in life is that I’ll give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but once I find out you’ve lied to me, it’s over. And it’s over forever. There is no forgiveness. So that is why I still support Darbi Boddy but am very much against Isaac Adi and Lynda O’Conner. Everyone knows that I do not like Julie Shaffer, one of the other school board candidates. Despising her is a more accurate term. I would vote for her before I would Lynda O’Conner because I think Julie is more honest, and at least I know what kind of Democrat radical I am dealing with. They all register as Republicans, but their actions always tell the truth about them. After watching that mess, which likely will be overturned on appeal, the protective order against Darbi from Isaac because his little feelings have been hurt by how aggressive she is, I’m willing to call it a day on the whole election for the Lakota school board. Think how absurd all this is; Sheriff Jones is threatening to arrest Darbi to help his buddies on the school board when he can’t even arrest all the people showing an interest in abusing children which caused all this trouble to begin with. All those who have helped Lynda will have to learn a hard lesson. Don’t call me because I will tell you I told you so. Out of all these characters the only one who has consistently told me the truth has been Darbi, which is why I still support her and have nice things to say about her. She has been very respectful to me, my wife, and conservative politics. And that is supposed to be what we are all fighting for.

Hey, everyone only has themselves to blame. Around 20 great young people wanted to run for political office, and the Republican party could have gotten younger with fresh people with long shelf lives.  What will Lynda do? Give Butler County 4 more years, of what?  And will Isaac be the future of the Butler County Republican Party?  He’s getting restraining orders against women!  People like Darbi make people want to go out and vote Republican, and several people like her would be good.  However, the Party decided to pick controlled assets they felt more comfortable with rather than people who would make the party better and represent the voters of Butler County.  Lynda and her gang have played the game of personal destruction and the damage left in the wake is her fault, and those who helped her along—trying to talk me into throwing Darbi in as an equal failure would be dishonest.  I think Darbi has every right to be upset at everyone who has been terrible to her.  People of value often find that their feelings get hurt, and she’s disappointed in other people.  Not the other way around.  With all that, it should be pretty simple why I support Darbi Boddy.  I would love to see a school board with four more like her.  But that won’t be the case this time around; Lynda is the one who went against the plan and misrepresented to everyone what she wanted.  And I’m not OK with that.  Darbi, in my experience, was a good person who was easy to work with until she was sabotaged with an effort a few months into her term to be removed from office.  And that kind of personal sabotage is just another form of election fraud.  The voters picked Darbi.  Lynda and others have worked to undo that election, and that is the worst of the worst in my book.  And why Darbi is not in the same boat as Lynda and Isaac.  And why I support her and not them. 

Rich Hoffman

Judas Pence and the Siren Songs of Populism: People expect Republicans to win, not to be controlled opposition

Of course, the answer to Mike Pence’s comment on the siren song of populism, which has so well defined precisely who he is, is that those aren’t beautiful women posing as conservatives trying to lure well-intentioned people to the rocks of their destruction.  No, those utterances toward populism result from many years of lies by a party, the Republicans, who pretended to be a small government party but are no different from the Democrats.  I could say that about my own Republican Party in my town, but that’s not a new story.  I’ve been dealing with this balancing act since Ross Perot ran for president, and I supported him because I would never get behind the CIA. George Bush or his haphazard son, “W.”  Ronald Reagan was pretty good for a while before his assassination attempt, and after the party establishment started getting to him, he was much less effective during his second term.  Then we had the Clinton years and the fake government shutdowns.  When my wife had a chance to meet Newt Gingrich at a Republican Party event a few years ago, she refused to shake his hand because she was still mad at Newt for caving to Clinton when Republicans had him on the ropes and could have saved a lot of us a lot of grief.  No, populism is a much bigger story than just some fad.  It’s more than a movement and undoubtedly more sophisticated than some siren song attached to lustful desire and short-term gratification. 

Populism is a political strategy that seeks to appeal to the interests and concerns of ordinary people, especially those who feel that the established political and economic elites are not meeting their needs. It often involves rhetoric that frames the people as opposed to a corrupt or self-serving elite and emphasizes the importance of direct democracy and the people’s will. However, populism can also be controversial and divisive, and its effects on society and politics depend mainly on how it is used and by whom.  The conservative tether that Pence is talking about is a leftover idea fresh off of wins during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 when the Constitution was still new and victorious wars rallied people to the value.  But this Republican Party that Mike Pence is talking about is like some Dallas Cowboys fan still wearing a Super Bowl shirt from the ’70s or ’90s.  It would be best if you kept winning, guys.  You have to earn respect; it doesn’t just grow on trees.  And that is the problem with Mike Pence’s view of what conservativism is.  Conservatives have been the turn-the-other-cheek party, the party of losers.  Who cares what your principles are if you will always get your ass kicked?  That’s not good for branding.  And because they have been soft on everything, corruption has grown into a maddening contraption.  People want wins, and the Republican Party has not given it to them.  Instead, they have been happy to lose, and people are tired of it. 

I remember it well: the night before the election in 1992, I was at the Ross Perot headquarters in Dallas, Texas, getting gifts from his daughters and enjoying the patriotism of a hard-fought campaign.  Many people were mad at me for not supporting George Bush, the elder.  I was proud that Perot got 19% of the vote then.  But I hated Clinton so severely that I supported Bob Dole four years later.  He turned out to be pretty smart; he would become a big Trump supporter.  He was a pretty good guy, even if it took him most of his life to figure it out.  I supported John McCain, and he lost to the communist Obama.  And a few years after that, I supported Mitt Romney, and I remember how it was in 2012.  A bunch of people who thought they had conservative ideas all figured out.  One of John Boehner’s proudest moments was bringing the Pope to the congressional floor as Speaker of the House, as he cried like a baby at just about everything.  Republicans have been like that football team that always loses but are in your hometown, so you support them unquestioningly, like some fool who accepts losers.  That’s not how it’s supposed to be.  Especially when the Democrats have shown such a propensity for evil.  Going back to the Perot election to be in Downtown Cincinnati with many political influencers and watching Clinton give his concession speech was a real gut punch.  Would Bush have been better?  No, Clinton only accelerated the eventual drive toward populism.  As would Obama and now Biden.  Populism would come along regardless because defending the Constitution would require political victories, and nobody was promising that until Trump came along.  And that’s where things stand today.  Americans were hungry for an American First party and wanted it to be Republicans, the Party of Lincoln, the party that freed the enslaved people.  And the party of small government.  Other people allowed globalism to seep into the mix and ruin the character of America as a nation.  They did so by deceit, and people know that now. 

Americans want more than a tailgate party from their Republican Party.  They want to win and destroy the evil Democrats.  To truly stand for small government and to be fiscally responsible.  We now have a band of thieves who run the Beltway culture with lobbyists and overpaid consultants.  And it makes people sick to see.  They want victory and are turning to populism to give it to them.  People like Judas Pence sold out our country, allowed an election to be stolen, and are trying to put the country back in the hands of the people who screwed it up in the first place.  And people aren’t going to stand for it.  I am surprised to see how quickly Republicans in my region have forgotten, and it’s obvious they probably never understood the Trump years.  They were holding their nose and hoping for a return to the low expectations of party politics and controlled opposition.  But that’s never what I signed up for.  I was always a populist and more than that, I expected to win.  Not just once or twice but every time.  And unless my political party is committed to that, I’m not with them.  I will work against losers every time.  This is why Mike Pence, with all his years in politics, should know better.  Yet he didn’t, and he said those words against populism anyway, showing he learned nothing in all those years with Trump.  None of that magic dust rubbed off on him.  Is he happy to be a loser so long as he stands by conservative ideas, even if they are always just ideas and not a reality?  No, people want winners in their lives, and without victory, populism will take on a life of its own.  And if Republicans aren’t committed to winning, they aren’t committed to conservative ideas.  Because they have to be willing to fight for those ideas, and fighting means winning.

Rich Hoffman