Month: December 2023

The Trump Revenge Tour: Justice has to happen and the bad guys should consider themselves lucky

There has been all this talk about Trump being a tyrant once he gets back into office and what he will likely do as part of a Trump Revenge Tour once he has acquired power once again.  Hey, he didn’t cause all these problems.  The political left caused a lot of trouble on multiple fronts, and who in their right mind would have ever thought that they would get away with it?  You can’t behave as badly as they have over the last eight years and expect anything but a revenge tour.  And just in the current news, the Colorado Supreme Court is seeking to keep Trump off the ballot as a hail Mary to the federal Supreme Court with an unprecedented attempt they hope might trigger Democrat Secretaries of States all over the country to try the same strategy hoping to keep that revenge tour from actually happening.  What do they think the logical conclusion will be?  People have been using the system to fight the system as they should.  But do they believe they can prevent revenge for what has been done, the murders with Covid released as a bioweapon, the election thefts to acquire power for officeholders who clearly shouldn’t be there—and we’re talking about more than Joe Biden, the radicalism of the various intelligence agencies who have conducted violent coups against the people’s pick for president.  These third-world tactics have only two outcomes: we are either a nation of laws or not.  And if not, what keeps the bad guys safe from the people’s wrath?  If we don’t have law and order, then what protects them from the anger of the people of the nation?  Because so far, the prospect of getting Trump back in the White House is the only thing that has kept the peace.  Take that away from people; things won’t turn out well for a civil society. 

Even considering the case just last week with Rudy Giuliani, where a Georgia court case awarded by jury 150 million dollars to a couple of election workers, the judge did not allow evidence by Rudy to be appropriately admitted.  The court wanted headlines to outpace the appeals process because it was the perception of the law they were after, not the actual substance. I just so happen to know a few Supreme Court judges in Ohio, and I can attest to them being real people with real emotions.  When they put on the robes and act in their capacity within the Constitution of Ohio, they are supposed to transform themselves into agents of the people.  But it would be easy for ordinary people to become radicalized and fall from grace in the way that the Colorado court has.  From their perspective, knowing the full implications of the Trump revenge tour that is destined to happen and not wanting to pay for all the terrible sins that Democrats have committed, this last gasp from the courts is all they have, the gross abuse of power that they hope foolishly will protect them from being caught in the radicalism they have participated in.  Did they think that people like Rudy Giuliani and President Trump were going to be thrown in jail and bankrupted in court so that they would be harmless in the future and that all the people who have supported them would say, “Well, golly geez, looks like they beat us, Wally.”  And that everyone was going to go back to sleep and support Democrats in their grabs for power and control to support a rotten political system of personal enrichment at the expense of taxpayers?  And that black budgets would continue unchecked by a bunch of hamsters running on the economic machine without a care about the world except for their next meal?  If that’s what everyone thought, well, that’s on them.

There have been so many bad things done by the government in the United States against the people’s will, and much of it has been grossly disrespectful.  Trump is the vehicle to carry that anger, and they have supported him all through these turbulent times, and everyone should be happy about it.  Rather than turn to lawless, criminal conduct, people have turned to the law and their Constitutions to get revenge for what has been done to them.  But if that vehicle is taken away, it is naive to think all that anger will disappear.  Where does anybody think it’s going to go?  Do progressive Democrats think that Americans are going to put up with a Marxist takeover of all their institutions, which is what has been happening, particularly in the courts?  And liberals have only gotten away with it because they took advantage of people’s trust.  But that trust has been broken forever.  Democrats have gone too far too often for forgiveness, and they aren’t going to be allowed to hold power unchecked.  And if the Constitution is tossed out, the way Democrats act like they want to see it happen, then what protects them from complete anarchy?  They may think they want that, but they don’t want that.  Those Marxist fantasies of the few taking over the many, as was done in Cuba, Russia, China, Korea, and Vietnam, are not going to happen in America.  Suppose they take over our courts, as they have revealed of themselves since 2020, and our politics, and think they will control our corporate structure. In that case, they should expect revenge from the people they have exploited, at the very least. 

They should consider themselves lucky that most people who are supporting Trump for the White House for a second term are willing to let the law take effect, that the Deep State will be dismantled.  That our courts will be reformed.  Those involved in the Biolabs leaks of COVID-19 will be punished.  Those crimes will be paid for, and many people will go to jail.  Millions of government workers will be unemployed as the size of the government is dramatically reduced.  That is a good story that people are willing to work through patiently as Trump returns to the White House.  But keeping that from happening to protect all these criminal nest eggs that so many corrupt people have spawned out of government isn’t part of the consideration.  Because without Trump, there is a real need to take our government back forcibly and redefine Constitutional limits on the powers of these corrupt despots who have now been caught.  And the only thing keeping justice from coming their way is thin pieces of paper that most people still believe in.  Without that protection, there is nothing that protects Democrats from the wrath they have caused in the world.  A payment they may have hoped would never occur because they didn’t have the level of respect for people that they should have, which is evident in how these court cases have audaciously presented themselves out of sheer desperation.  They don’t have a plan beyond these abuses of power, a “what now” scenario.  And for them, that is truly dangerous, and in the end, they will cry desperately for the law to protect them.  The same laws they have spit on, as well as the people they have been taking advantage of.  The Trump Revenge tour is their best option.  Because without that legal mechanism, the raw anger is not something they are prepared to deal with.

Rich Hoffman

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The Whoredom of Taylor Swift: Alex Soros owns her and the NFL is using her for political activism

It was Taylor Swift who decided to get political, and she has very much made herself just as anti-Trump as LeBron James. When I say that her behavior is no different than a whore, how could anybody think differently? Perhaps people don’t know the story, but since the summer of 2023, Taylor Swift has been purchased to be a political weapon by Alex Soros in order to attack the election trajectory for 2024. When Alex Soros said that he was worse than his dad regarding the level of progressive radicalism he was willing to fund for the benefits of anti-American globalism, this is the kind of thing he had in mind. According to some great reporting by Laura Loomer, the Soros family, among others, own the rights to Taylor Swift’s music, and she has been struggling to regain control. Even though she is a billionaire on paper and people think that makes her very powerful, her kind of money is not dangerous. Instead, it’s meant to prop up the lives of celebrities to make them enticing to the public and give promise to the kind of life that fills the mind of a gullible public about a perpetually easy life if only they could become their spouse. People like Taylor Swift, aside from some real talent, are “allowed” to make that kind of money because they serve a social message that people like Alex Soros use for political objectives. And that is certainly the case here; Taylor Swift is owned by Alex Soros in the same way that a common whore can be purchased to appease the ego of the consumer. And the whore has to do whatever is desired of those who pay the money. What Taylor Swift has been willing to do since this struggle over music ownership, to regain some control of her own is the same type of justification that all whores use to sell their services to a public willing to pay for it.

Don’t be a sucker; all this romance with Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs didn’t just happen. It was arranged because the NFL needed to fix its image with young women, and there is nothing better than a royal romance with a pop icon and one of their premier players. And what does Alex Soros get by allowing this romance to brew? Well, the NFL moved in a bad direction with the Black Lives Matter campaign, and kneeling at the National Anthems still has left a bad taste in people’s mouths, so they are looking for a way to fix their corporate image. It has taken a hit from their wokeness, and they feel the revenue slip. So Travis Kelce is a good spokesman to appease all parties. He is, as Aaron Rogers has said about him, “Mr. Pfizer” because he supported the vaccines and his open support of Joe Biden for President. Ironically, when the Mr. Pfizer comments came out at the start of the NFL season this year, Taylor Swift started dating Travis Kelce, apparently arranged by Erin Andrews the sports reporter, and she started showing up in the box during games with Kelce’s parents. As a result, women are happy to watch NFL games with their male partners now, whereas before, they weren’t so pleased about it. Young people have been moving toward socialist soccer rather than American football due to the campaign to demonize it over concussion protocols. So this arrangement with a couple of very progressive young people willing to do and say whatever is needed for liberal politics to utilize as a weapon has been more than beneficial.

It might also be recalled that around the same time all this was happening there is a recording of Taylor Swift talking to her dad about her mission to be more vocal about President Trump in the upcoming election, and to use her power and influence to stop him. That is where the whoredom really comes into play. Up to this point, Taylor Swift has stayed somewhat politically neutral, where she didn’t want to alienate members of the other political parties; she just wanted to make music and perform for audiences. But this was something different, this was part of an anti-Trump move declaring that she would use her celebrity to stop Trump at the voting booth. And that is pure Alex Soros and this leverage he has over her music rights, which is how the Soros family has manipulated politics for years. That makes this Kansas City romance with Travis Kelce even more phony, because for them both, it’s a power move to appease the progressive political forces that look to be shaping the world, from their perspective, and they are willing to do whatever they need to do to appease that power. Travis Kelce made that clear in his recent visit to the White House at the start of the NFL season, again at the same time all this activity with Taylor Swift started. I think they probably actually like each other, but it’s more of an appeasement relationship for both of them. And that is what whores do for money. It’s not always about the sex, which, in this case, it is, too, but it’s about giving a buyer attention when they otherwise wouldn’t have it. Taylor Swift is selling access to herself just like the Biden family has been doing to foreign instigators, and the whole show is being displayed across the NFL platform as a woke, corporate whorehouse for progressive politics. Alex Soros is the pimp who is letting the woke NFL carry the message of his political activism so long as he can attack Trump with the celebrity of Taylor Swift and one of the NFL’s most popular players during an election year. And it was a bad move for Taylor Swift. In the end, she will be viewed in the same way that prostitutes are after their actions with those paying the money, without much respect and as a cheapened commodity. But she is willing to trade that lack of respect for her music rights, which Alex Soros owns. Either way, it’s not a good situation for her. But this romance with Travis Kelce is more of an arranged marriage than a self-fulfilling romance, and she doesn’t have a choice. Sure, many women can feel for Taylor Swift and identify with her through her music, but she is not in control, and by making herself a vehicle of the anti-Trump movement, she will destroy her brand in the process. Alex Soros doesn’t care, neither does the NFL. They are seeking political outcomes and don’t care about the lives of the people they destroy in the process. They’ll use them in the same short-sighted ways that got them into trouble in the first place. But don’t think all this wasn’t planned out for this upcoming election year. This Taylor Swift romance is another form of mind control that is often part of mass marketing. It’s not authentic; it’s purely manufactured. And indeed, in this case, it’s a strategic weapon against the soft-minded who want to believe in the romance among progressive royalty. Just like the person who pays for sex wants to believe that the person with them loves them, when all they really get out of the deal is money to pay their rent and buy some food.

Rich Hoffman

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The Alex Jones Interview with Tucker Carlson: Freedom from the Octogone that Elon Musk is providing, purposefully

I’ve watched what is happening to Elon Musk happen to a lot of people over the years.  I watched it happen to Trump during the last half of his many seasons at The Apprentice television show.  It’s where financial security gives people freedom from public opinion.  Because most of the tyranny of our modern age comes from the peer pressure controls of peer pressure mechanisms, the kind of stuff they have been teaching in public schools since the late 1970s.  Usually, for people like Elon Musk, who happens to be the richest person in the world, it takes them time to realize what that wealth really means.  What does it mean to have so much money, and to flaunt it to the public?  Well, the answer is that wealth audacity means independence from the heard, and to get the flaunting of that wealth to show other people that they do not have control over you is usually a lifelong passion that few people ever get to experience, let alone, develop themselves beyond that desire to earn the respect of their peers by making them jealous with the kind of wife you have, the car you drive, or the amount of wealth you have acquired.  At this point, a new type of wealth becomes much more important, and only a few people who have ever lived gain the ability, and that is the luxury to measure wealth not in dollars but in independence from social norms.  Trump acquired that kind of wealth shortly after he married his third wife, Melania, after hitting the heights of his success with that television show, The Apprentice.  I could see it in the books he wrote, the transition.  And it’s why he can run and do so well as President now.  He has an independence in his life that he wants to share with others, especially his family. He doesn’t want to see an oppressive government rob people of that chance. 

I know what has happened to Elon Musk, he has sought to acquire wealth for an entirely different reason: to move civilization into space.  So much of his life has been dedicated to that cause, including the acquisition of money to perform the task.  But to balance himself out, he has purposely sabotaged his public appeal to be the opposite of someone like President Trump.  He doesn’t like to be associated with wealth. Instead, he’d prefer to be viewed as the cool dad video gamer who looks like he can barely dress himself.  That is to show himself, and the world, that money has not corrupted him.  Maybe someday I will get a chance to talk to him directly about this need, but it’s essential to our present situation in many ways.  But I understand it because I have been in a similar place for most of my life.  Money is necessary to pay for lawyers and put tires on your car.  Making sure everyone has Christmas presents—the tools of living life.  But as I have said before, I see myself as one of the wealthiest people in the world not by financial measures but by my independence from the mechanisms of society, and their opinions of me.  In that regard, I earned my freedom from the peer pressure society back in my twenties, under enormously hostile pressure that would have and should have killed anybody with just a fraction of what I experienced.  But in that process, I acquired a different kind of wealth that put me where many of these billionaire rebels are now enjoying and acting upon to make the world a much better place. 

The final straw for Elon Musk wasn’t just to be a pitchman for the World Economic Forum so that he could soothe people over to the dark side in exchange for the way he became wealthy in the first place, through government subsidies and relationships with communist China. To get where he wants to go in life, and that is to make Mars one of the neighborhoods of Earth, is a change in the state of world priorities. So he acquired Twitter, knowing it would be a loss. And he has sought to use his power and independence to unleash the same in others. So he gave Tucker Carlson his show on the newly renamed Twitter platform now called “X.” And one of the first things that Tucker did was something that Fox News would never have let him do, which was to interview Alex Jones, the wild conspiracy theory guy who had just been de-platformed by everyone, especially YouTube, and was ordered to pay the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting over a billion dollars in damages. By putting Alex Jones on the air, Tucker, Elon Musk, and even the Warroom with Steve Bannan, an official Trump White House strategist, they made Alex Jones “mainstream.” And they did it with this power of independence new to Musk and Trump and something I have experienced over the last thirty years. And moving into the back half of the 2020s into 2025, these types of people aim to make the world more accessible to this kind of wealth. Not so much the full bank account, which is undoubtedly part of it, but it’s the social judgment that drives capitalists to overcome their circumstances and become independent of social controls.

The greatest, and most precious freedom in the world is to not be tied to the clutches of collective based social norms controlled by these losers

When you understand this fundamental concept of independence, you can see how important this one thing that Elon Musk did, by putting Alex Jones back on X after he had been banned from every media platform that there was, that declaration of independence was much more potent than what created America in the first place. And the radicals of Marxism know it. They had built their entire society around the control of people through social pressures; it started at the front of the progressive movement itself and involved Carl Jung and Sigmond Freud, who helped the vile despots learn to control the mass population not through superior firepower, but through social sentiment, to the point where they could gain control of the kinds of conversations that occurred at Thanksgiving Dinner. Peer pressure had been weaponized in society, and people who wanted to be free of it would do anything, including making deals with the devils they created, to acquire wealth so they could show their freedom in the process. But few ever acquire the personal wealth to become a President Trump or an Elon Musk. I would put Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance in that category as well. I’ve met them both more than once, and I can see it in their eyes; they are still very young men. And watching these various people come together toward the building of the same kind of wealth, not the bank account kind that feeds the power of the World Economic Forum radicals and their global insurgents, but the type of wealth that makes people free of those clutches so they can indeed have something that is the most valuable element in the universe. And develop the ability for others to feel it, too, for the benefit of all civilization. When Elon Musk put Alex Jones back on a big social media platform, it was out of more than compassion. It was a military attack going the other way to destroy the controls that very tyrannical people have over social systems. And to set Alex Jones loose when all intents were to kill him and those like him completely and utterly. And saving Alex Jones, Elon Musk essentially saves the world in a way only a truly free person understands. And as a result, millions and millions of people will gain the same result. It was quite an extraordinary moment in human history, the Tucker Carlson/Alex Jones interview on the social media platform that Elon Musk bought to make happen. Boy, the Octogone has lost its power, and as a result, those many mafias of social collectivism, most of which reside in the shadows, are losing their power in ways they are not prepared for. And as a result, absolute freedom has an opportunity to grow in ways nobody has ever thought possible.

They are everywhere, including your local police. Unified by the need for human affirmation, one of the greatest tyrannies the world has ever experienced

Rich Hoffman

Mind Control Technology as Revealed in the Gateway Project: Of course shadow governments are working in the background to rule the world

If you go back to the beginning of my news coverage, many thousands of videos and millions of words ago, you will see a pattern. In that case, it will be established that I have been preparing people for a very hard reality, which they now seem to be ready for. A culture that could produce a guilty verdict and 150 million dollar financial compensation against America’s Mayor, Rudi Giuliani, such as what occurred on 12.15.23, is capable of quite extensive evil, looming in the background, and it does get much worse than that. But these things have been hiding in plain sight behind a very polite, Christian society. Sheer evil has become haughty and shown itself in ways that have finally taken people out of their comfort zones. But some people have seen this reality and been well prepared for it all along. So, for many years, I have been building up to this moment, slowly and carefully, so as not to spook the horses, until it was time to move. And now is that time. Perhaps you are not quite ready. Then, in that case, I would suggest my old articles from the beginning and start up toward today’s actions for the proper context. But for those who have prepared their minds, we are going to get into some wild waters here, and for good reason. We are going to beat these bad guys, but to do that, you have to understand who and what the bad guys are. In the coming weeks, I will talk extensively about the bioweapon plans that have come directly out of the CIA, of which all evidence points to Covid as a bioweapon designed for mass change state culture, where centralized authorities would be in control, and you will be shocked how evil they have always been, and how they routinely dispose of people who get in their way. But to understand that level of evil, you have to understand programs that have been out there for a while, such as the Gateway Process which shows clear intent to control human beings through multidimensional manipulation as was released to the public on June 9th, 1983.

Do you ever wonder where you get your thoughts? Some random ones that pop into your head seem out of character. It could be just what you think it is, some accidental brain provocation produced by chemical imbalances or the moment’s emotions driven by stress hormones and the need for self-preservation. But according to a report issued from the Department of Army that sounds pretty legitimate, the Gateway Project is a CIA/military application that reads like a science fiction story and may even perhaps be complete disinformation. Coming from the CIA or having them involved in any way likely is total disinformation designed to steer their targets in the desired direction, to look here and there for the bad guys when, in truth, the fear is what they were after, and a means to tie the strings of a puppet to your arms, legs, and mind. What does matter in such a report is that it shows that a fourth branch of unaccountable government has been working to establish freedom from the Constitution to gain control of masses of people, essentially for their own objectives and motivations. The truth of the matter is that the CIA has done extensive research into mind control and has developed various means to perform the task, and we are seeing it employed massively in this current mass media culture where trust in authority figures compels the mechanisms to work at least until it doesn’t.

So people have been asking me a lot, from many sources, what I think of the Gateway Experience. My answer is that the desire to rule over people has always been a desire of evil people, and if bad people could tap into ruling from the shadows, from beyond 4-dimensional space, then they would surely do it. But in the case of the Gateway Project, which you can get online pretty quickly, look it up (Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 Department of the Army and addressed to the Commander of the US Army Operational Group at Fort Meade, MD 20755), and you’ll see it all for yourself. The real goal may only be to do what Star Wars did to the Russians under the Reagan administration when it was leaked to them that the way to beat their nuclear capacity was to shoot them down from space. The technology at the time may have just been science fiction inspired by a famous movie series and used by a president to defeat global communism. But it conceptually developed into the ability we see today, where such technology is possible. We should, too, view the Gateway Process report as the hopes and dreams of an aggressive central controlling agency that is seeking power for its own sake at the expense of people’s sanity, weaponized against them because they do not understand the forces upon them and the method of warfare that is being applied. And that the technology now exists for just such branches of weaponized government funded infinitely by black budgets and congressional incompetence. Just look at what Marco Rubio did with the NDAA to prevent a future President Trump from pulling out of the European Alliance. It is easy for mass manipulators to take advantage of such people when the bar to intelligence is so low.

I would add that the CIA and general support of the drug trade by all governments is directly connected to the hopes and ambitions revealed in the Gateway Process, which makes a society function with less intelligent ability so that the methods of mind control are much more accessible. This is well established from several sources that I will use to tell the story further, but it is most recently articulated in the terrifying book by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, The Wuhan Cover-Up and the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race. Saturating a population with drugs that weaken a mind toward outside influences, such as 5G impediments disguised as internet signal coverage, can have a massive effect on behavioral applications. For instance, if you look at the lifestyle of most school shooters, you will find that they were all marijuana users. And under the influence of that drug, the brain loses its judgment ability and can be much more open to 3rd party manipulations. In the same way that by drinking alcohol, a happily married person might lower their resistance to the idea of sleeping with someone else. Then, when caught, they might say, “But I was drunk.” The school shooter or other mass killer might say on the stand in court that they hear voices, that it was demons and devils that haunted them. In truth, it was mind projection weapons developed over the last 70 years that work best on minds that are already weakened by lifestyle choices that open the door to attack through state governments and 3rd party hostilities. There is certainly a long history of intent. And if a fraction of that intent has manifested into reality, then we have a mass culture under the influence of mind control, violating their constitutional rights extensively. And people have a good reason to be concerned and ask questions about it now. My answer is yes; mind control is a priority of unaccountable governments. It’s not as powerful as those attackers would like it to be. But ruling from the shadows is their plan, and your mind is not locked to them. They can get to it, manipulate it, and use it for their purposes. Often. If you want to secure it, you can. But it is difficult, especially when it is realized that your thoughts are never your own and that the source of the information in your brain is not always in your possession. And it can and will be used against you, as much as they can get away with it.

Is it hopeless? Are you defenseless?  Of course not.  There is always a way to fight back.  But to understand the history, I suggest following the progress of the MKULTRA program, especially the activity at Fort Detrick, and suddenly, all this mess of our modern times makes a lot more sense.  Unchecked power might start with good intentions, especially among shadow government types such as the CIA.  But people are easily corrupted, especially when they feel god-like power over otherwise clueless people.  And they will abuse that power 100% of the time.  And they have been abusing their power for a long time. 

Rich Hoffman

Signs of the Future: The duel between Bob Iger and Elon Musk

In so many ways the duel between Bob Iger and Elon Musk is indicative of the future warfare that is the key to everything.  Here are two CEOs at the top of their game representing two different directions, and one is distinctly on the wrong side while the other is thriving.  As I say all the time, don’t judge people based on what they say, but on what they do.  And Elon Musk has been evolving slowly for a long time.  This happens to a lot of people as they get more information.  I also say a lot that it’s nearly impossible for a person to have a lot of intelligence and to remain a Democrat.  People might be born into a certain region with specific parents and have certain beliefs.  But through living life and doing things, you learn what works and what doesn’t, and it’s natural to evolve feelings.  And for Elon Musk, it doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that the kind of world he wants to live in, an interplanetary civilization cannot be anything less than a capitalist enterprise.  Centralized governments are too slow and sabotage their society to stay in power, which isn’t good for getting to space.  So Musk has moved in a MAGA direction without calling himself that out of pure necessity, and logic.  Then there is, of course, Bob Iger, Mr. Global Citizen, who has been the CEO of Disney, which has essentially committed suicide to accommodate woke World Economic Forum politics.  Musk has moved away from the World Economic Forum, and Bob Iger has fully embraced it, even giving it a deep French kiss to the doom of his company.  So, it was only a matter of time before these two public personalities would have a very obvious clash.

This new war that we are fighting is one where it’s easy to win against. But the way people are wired exploits them at a very personal level. It is essentially what everyone learned in public school, with the cool kids, the geeks, and the loser social groups and children knowing which one they would all be in, and how social pressure, the need to be liked, would control those behaviors into joining one of those three groups. Because Musk is one of the richest men in the world, of course, he has a lot of parasites looking to live off his efforts, so Disney thought it had leverage on him to pull advertising from the X platform to force Musk to embrace more World Economic Forum strategic goals. Musk responded with an “F You” to Bob Iger and others and made a decidedly sharp turn politically. It was a decided check mate in the chess game of these kinds of activities. Within a few days, Elon Musk facilitated a new show for Tucker Carlson and there was a massive interview with Alex Jones, which resulted in him being reinstated on X, where he had been deplatformed when it was Twitter and a series of events that would spell doom for the World Economic Forum types cascaded into irreversible damage for the big centralized global citizen types that Bob Iger represented. Musk was clearly on the side of tomorrow, whereas Iger was without question on the losing team. But the signs have been stacking up for a while now. The public results were just a matter of time. Disney used to be the center of innovation, but now it was SpaceX and what they have been doing on several technical fronts. Instead of warring with Musk, Disney should have sought to have a relationship with them. Instead, they chose politics, which, as a CEO, was a nail in the coffin for Disney that is quickly sinking the company.

Months before all this occurred, I had taken my family to Disney World for a very large vacation.  I was not crazy about the woke direction of the company, but as I have been saying for several years now, I don’t think that Disney is going to survive as a company, and I wanted my grandchildren and my kids to see it while it is still a great thing.  I love all four of their parks very much, but Epcot Center has always been something special, an optimistic city of tomorrow that showcased all the opportunities of tomorrow.  But tomorrow is today, and many of the things that are showcased at Epcot now look old and out of date.  Disney Parks have become too political; they have not adapted to the true frontier of human need and it shows.  Disney, mainly as Bob Iger has run it, is a looking-back company, not one that is embracing the future.  Bob was all about the World Economic Forum controls from centralized governments that looked to establish equity and inclusion through force and manipulation by those in charge, whereas Elon Musk was embracing the kind of technology that would free people of those methods, and he was looking at capitalism as the means to do it.  Elon Musk wasn’t precisely a Trump guy during his first term.  He wanted to give Joe Biden a chance.  But that quickly changed over the last three years, and now Musk has moved well away from the World Economic Forum view of the world, and that difference is dramatically apparent when you watch SpaceX work and perform a side-by-side analysis of their view of the world with the Epcot Center. 

The trip to Disney had the effect I wanted.  My crew had a really magnificent time at Epcot Center. We went there on two different occasions and used the monorail as our primary means of transportation to get there.  It was great for my family.  But I could see the ghost of a place I used to love, looking old and inward thinking.  It was essentially what the world was trying to do with authoritarian, centralized governments, such as China and the European Union.  That was not the future we were going to experience, and Bob Iger had gambled everything on it.  And when he went to call the bet against Musk, everything went in the opposite direction.  The result was it forced Musk to stop trying to put one foot in and one out on so many topics and go all in toward the future, which means the collapse of central government tyranny.  Putting Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson on X was the reason Musk bought Twitter in the first place.  For the same reason, Trump created his own social media platform, Truth Social.  The future requires a decentralized competition of ideas without the restraint of slow-minded authority figures.  And the results will be very similar to what happened between Musk and Bob Iger but on a truly global scale.  The peer pressure leverage Disney attempted to pull on X is the same kind of backfire that all corporations and political sentiments will experience in the years to come and on a much more ostentatious scale.  Like the Epcot Center, the World Economic Forum’s view of the future was dying and outdated.  It was SpaceX that represented all the opportunities that were coming from a future being designed by capitalism.  And now Elon Musk was fully committed.  Disney had lost that final battle toward forcing the world to become a global citizen at the cost of innovation and freedom.  And if there was any indicator of the things to come, it was that.

Rich Hoffman

The Hidden Benefit of ‘Godzilla Minus One’: Understanding Budgets and Costs Imposed by organized labor and anti-capitalist Activities

There is another essential attribute of the new Godzilla film, Godzilla Minus One, at the heart of the global populist movement that is important to talk about.  Probably the most important thing in the world that has lingered always in the background and is now apparent for all to see.  In talking about how good Godzilla Minus One is, the obvious question everyone has is how could Japan produce a movie like this when the same kind of blockbuster produced by Disney in America would cost 300 million dollars.  The average moviegoer could watch Godzilla Minus One, Indiana Jones, and the Dial of Destiny and think they are of the same quality in every category: acting, special effects, music, writing, scale of production, everything.  So how was Godzilla Minus One so profitable, whereas all the current Hollywood productions or movies anywhere in the world these days, especially where the financial influence of the World Economic Forum has its hands in the production, are not able to compete?  Well, this is something I have been talking about for many decades and I said this was going to happen to the film industry for many years.  Unionized labor has destroyed the financial models of movie production, shown dramatically when a foreign film like Godzilla Minus One is shown in a movie theater along with the latest blockbusters produced by Hollywood and other markets.  Because of many market conditions unique to recovery from COVID lockdowns, theater owners are desperate to show anything that the public might want to see.  Just two or three years ago, a movie like Godzilla Minus One would not have played in a movie theater in the United States.  People would never see it, but in today’s market, where Hollywood products can’t keep up with demand, a movie like Godzilla Minus One gets a chance to be seen, which has burst down the door to an issue that can only be revealed by direct competition.   

Much of the way we are told about success in the world has been shaped by labor unions attached to the film industry, the mainstream media, and government reporting.  The ultimate solution to broken budgets and general performance everywhere in the world, no matter the product, is to make labor unions illegal, especially in government work and situations that prevent a competitive environment.  America has gone through just this sort of thing when it comes to the car industry, or most sectors of manufacturing that can’t compete with cheap foreign labor.  Well, it is not that the labor is cheap in foreign markets, but instead that the communist labor unions, all of which were formed out of elements of Marxism, have driven up the cost of labor not just in the increases in headcount but in how much each one actually costs.  When the government reports the numbers, as they do in American and European markets, of course, they will give a spin that suits them, not necessarily one that is reflected in reality.  Then, when the trade journals are either in unions themselves or are very sympathetic, the coverage has been how much studios spend on movies to make, not on their quality.  This has certainly been the case with Disney where to satisfy their radical employee base, all connected to labor unions, the approach has been to just outrun the costs, which have crippled them in 2023.  When it costs 500 million dollars to get a blockbuster out the door and into a theater, disaster is not far behind.  For a lot of these Hollywood productions, a movie budget to satisfy all the labor demands that you see at the end credits of every motion picture, 200-300 million on actually making the movie, then another 200 million in marketing to feed the machine, a film has to make a billion dollars at the box office to get into a profit category, and that just isn’t realistic, as Disney has discovered in 2023. 

Then, to make matters worse, these Disney movies have been loaded with content people don’t want to see.  The filmmaking has been lazy, and the product is lackluster when it gets to the screen.  It shows when all the people making the movie are only in it to get paid.  A film like Godzilla Minus One was created by hungry filmmakers full of passion, evident in what ended up on the screen, shocking many people.  But this is the exact reason why government reforms never happen and why budgets get wrecked in all production environments where Marxist labor unions have driven up costs and taken away the ambition of good merit from the products they produce, such as in public education in America that has become useless to most people for all the same reasons.  The labor costs too much and doesn’t do enough of what it’s supposed to.  When labor unions take over the management of an endeavor, they determine the pay rate and how many people need to be involved in the process, which then blows up all the financial attributes.  In a situation like this, where a side-by-side comparison isn’t usually available, the problem becomes apparent in the movie industry.  But this same rot is in just about every endeavor that involves money and financing, even in American intelligence agencies.  I will have some serious horror stories to provide about the CDC and how President Reagan was thinking of cutting the entire department, giving rise to Dr. Fauci’s radicalism.  Most bad things happen when lazy people seek funding not based on performance but emotion, such as fear of a new virus that can be manufactured in a lab and released from Wuhan, China.  That’s a topic all its own. 

The trick in hiding all this from the public has been to control the narrative, and the labor unions have been attached to most of the reporting.  But in 2023, because the declining Hollywood product has most abused theater owners, they have had to turn to direct competition to survive, which has set up this obvious matchup.  The same occurred when the Japanese entered the car market, and the Big Three in America found they could not compete in cost and quality because unionized labor took away competitive factors that could keep the costs down for the consumer.  Most of the problems in the world, including the CRs that Speaker Johnson is trying to work through Congress to keep the government open, are due to the outrageous costs of supporting all those expensive government employees.  Even the funding of Ukraine, which has been a topic, is to spend billions of dollars to pay for the massive administrative state government there to support this globalist employment structure.  All of them are failing under their weight; what they do for the world isn’t worth the money it costs to keep them.  Populism is rising everywhere because people would rather see Godzilla Minus One than the latest holiday offering by Disney and the other major studios.  The labor unions seek to destroy competition to justify their outrageous costs and sluggish performance.  But because of their actions, they have forced competition to overtake them to satisfy the market demands of a hungry public that wants to see a good movie, buy a nice car, or have a government that works for them and doesn’t get in the way of what society needs.  I know we are in a time when union supporters are moving toward Trump, and Trump is pro-union, and it’s not as much of a political issue for Republicans as it has been or should be.  But when you want to know why things are so expensive, why so many useless people perform the work, and how they keep their jobs underperforming constantly, the source is the Marxist labor unions that have embedded themselves in the process.  Where they aren’t, the quality and profit improve dramatically.  And if we are ever going to drain the swamp, the government unions will have to be made illegal.  And any future budget controls taken out of their hands, from the local public school to the control of the FBI and CIA.  Organized labor has destroyed them all. 

Rich Hoffman

‘Godzilla Minus One’: The best movie in the world

Simply stunning

Before you think to yourself, oh, there are so many things going on in the world, why do I care about a movie review for a new Godzilla movie? Well, this is something different, this Godzilla Minus One movie. It makes quite a statement, and it is currently destroying the rest of the films being produced in the world, from Bollywood to Hollywood, all places where the World Economic Forum financing has influenced movie content. I’ve been asked several times this year why I’m not out there producing and making movies, as I have wanted to most of my life. And my explanation was that the whole machine is messed up, it costs too much for unionized labor, so the budgets are wrecked. To get funding for the movies, you must have progressive messages in them. The entertainment media has been filled with more progressive political activists who set limits as to the kind of messages that get out to the public, and the theater owners’ associations are often too sensitive to all these politics to back releases. But then there are times when the market is desperate, theater owners are drowning for good content and Hollywood hasn’t given them the kind of movies that people want to see. Online streaming content is eroding the enthusiasm for in-theater distribution. So a foreign film like Godzilla Minus One gets made under the radar and gets into theaters with great passion and enthusiasm, and people get surprised. This is exactly what Godzilla Minus One is: a magnificent surprise, and what I think is the best movie in the world presently, and certainly one of the best to come along in recent memory. On a budget of only 15 million dollars, it’s everything a movie should be, and audiences are reacting to it in very positive ways, for good reason.

I wasn’t exactly planning to see the movie in theaters, I was going to catch it on Apple+ or whatever streaming service was carrying it around Christmas time.  But my grandchildren love Godzilla; it’s been a big part of their childhoods. They were talking to me about the new Godzilla/King Kong movie by Legendary Studios coming out in 2024, probably in March, and they were very excited about it.  That’s when I said, “Well, you know, kids, there is a Godzilla movie playing at Liberty Center right now.  Do you guys want to go see it?”  And I was surprised that my oldest grandson knew everything about it, and yes!  He wanted to see it right away.  So off we went to watch a movie that I thought might have some cool monsters in it.  But it would be filled with subtitles, and I didn’t know if they’d like it much.  But, being Godzilla fans, they could at least say they saw it.  Well………………what a surprise we were in for.  This wasn’t just a great movie, it was a masterpiece.  It reminded me of the many past films I have loved, particularly Yojimbo, the great Akira Kurasawa classic.  This wasn’t just a movie about Godzilla destroying Tokyo once again.  This was a very emotional film about the state of the world and the perseverance of human civilization to overcome the mistakes of governments and live their lives honorably, nobly, and without fear.  Godzilla served as the device that brought this out in people and it was Biblical in scope and magnificent in its execution.  When the movie ended, I just sat there, stunned by what I had just witnessed.  My grandchildren were thrilled, of course, but this was undoubtedly a benchmark in history that I fully realized.  Wow!

Now, I get to go to Japan, and I like to share as much of that experience with my family as possible.  I love Western culture for all its variety, but I love going to Japan because the Japanese are honorable people with self-confidence and a spirit of perseverance.  No matter how many different people I interact with from Japan, that is a foundation assumption about them.  When I need to go to the grocery store to get food and snacks while traveling, the people I deal with bow deeply when doing business and treat the meeting like it’s the most important thing they’ll ever do.  Even at the airports, everyone you deal with is highly respectful.  Walking around Tokyo or any big city, there is no crime, and everything is spotless.  The world could learn a lot from their culture, which I talk about occasionally.  Japan is a good country with good people who are persistent and honorable.  And I enjoy dealing with them on their turf.  Godzilla Minus One is a uniquely Japanese film about their culture and the value of honor as an individual.  The entire point of the movie was about living up to honorable expectations and being a good person, which has been missing so much from all modern movies filled with progressive political messages imposed by the influence of the World Economic Forum.  All that was removed entirely from Godzilla Minus One, and the film had a wonderful sense of freedom that was jaw-dropping in its relief.  I didn’t care that the entire movie was in subtitles.  It was delightful to watch. 

The main character is a Kamikaze pilot who lacked the killer instinct to fulfill his mission, so he ducked out of a fight just as the war ended.  He felt tremendous guilt about this, and it haunted him deeply.  In the aftermath of the war, he ends up moving in with a young lady and her adopted little girl, all war orphans.  None of them are related.  But the girl and the guy sleep in the same house but in separate beds.  And there is no sex.  They lived like this for over three years.  That’s not to say there wasn’t love; they grew to love each other deeply.  But no sex.  In a World Economic Forum-financed film, the girl would have left the guy after three months of no sex, which would have been the dumb plot of the entire movie.  Godzilla Minus One is about much more than sex and relationship problems.  It’s about overcoming self-doubt, becoming great, and earning the right to lead a family by conquering personal demons.  This was great stuff; people lost in the world are soaking up this message like a dry sponge.  And you know what’s best about the film?  The filmmakers had the guts to give it a happy ending, a real happy ending in every way that an audience could hope for.  The movie is undoubtedly about Godzilla, but he served almost like a godly figure, much like Job’s story from the Bible.  Without Godzilla, Job would have had no reference point.  But because of that reference, greatness had an opportunity to grow, and it brought people together as individuals to achieve beautiful things.  What a great message in a world filled with failure.  Along comes this little ray of light that is turning out to light the way for the world in ways nobody thought was possible.  Yet, there it is.  I can’t recommend it enough!

Rich Hoffman

Ohio State Central Committee Members Show the Trend in Modern Politics: Sara Carruthers did not get endorsed by the Republican Party, among others

It’s not just the cosmetics on corporate television; we are seeing some real trends in politics that everyone should take notice of.  What we learned after 2020 was just how much control an invisible sector of a ruling class had over our elections, and in America, we were very far away from a real republic.  It was a kind of dictatorship run by corporate conglomerations who thought that communism China style was the wave of the future and that everyone else should get on board with it.  I read countless books, particularly by people like Ray Dalio, who had already committed to this World Economic Forum view of the world from the power players at Davos early in the last decade, so for them, it was all a done deal.  But as mystified that many are that Trump is headed to be the nominee for the Republican Party and that Ohio was one of the first states to fully endorse him officially, there are a lot of perplexed faces out there from the mainstreamers who thought they had it all figured out.  They didn’t, and the evidence of all that was obvious in a recent Central Committee meeting in Butler County, Ohio, where the actual trends were showing themselves quite obviously.  The mainstream candidates found that they weren’t so mainstream and that the baked-in opposition party approach to mass collectivism, such as the local Sheriff’s commitment to unionized labor, was dramatically out of step with the coming political trends.  No surprise for me, I have watched this evolution since before the Tea Party movement started in 2009, as a direct reaction to the implantation of Barack Obama as a terrorist selection of the Weather Underground party, which many of us pointed out but were not listened to.  It was the same kind of denial that resulted in local politics in 2023 as the Central Committee picked new faces for party endorsements to replace the old ones. Suddenly, the political world took on an entirely new meaning. 

For instance, there has been a lot of talk lately about Sara Carruthers, a state representative for the 47th district in Ohio who had just been censored for not supporting the Speaker of the House that should have been elected, but instead worked with Democrats to put in place a known RINO, last year.  After the defeat of Lynda O’Conner off the Lakota school board in 2023, Sara expressed her views about extremism in the Republican Party to the Journal News quite explicitly, saying that she found them alarming.  For a long time now people have been frustrated by Sara’s obvious leanings toward the Democrat Party and there has been a desire to purge the party of RINOs, (Republicans in Name Only) and that has most percolated within the Central Committee meetings.  Over the last decade, better people have joined these Central Committees and have sought to reform the Republican Party from the inside out because they were frustrated with the kind of Republicans who were running the party, people like John Kasich and John Boehner.  But there was always a lot of strong-arming and intimidation that went with these meetings, so it has taken a while for many members to find their courage and conduct themselves the way that party politics was designed to best represent the voter base of a community.  So Sara didn’t get an endorsement for the Republican Party this time; instead, it went to Diane Mullins.  Shocking in the traditional way of viewing politics, where those who raise the most money tend to have the most power.  That shift has changed since Trump entered politics. Gradually, the Central Committees have grown the courage to fill their roles appropriately instead of being intimidated into voting a certain way. 

Another emerging trend is in MAGA candidates, like Bernie Moreno, who J.D. Vance has endorsed as a partner over Secretary of State Frank LaRose.  Frank LaRose only received 30% of the vote among the Ohio State GOP Central Committee, whereas Bernie Moreno received 70%.  Remember the story about Sheriff Jones, who went on a personal vendetta against State Rep Thomas Hall? It looked like the young man was done in politics because the powerful sheriff targeted him for destruction, along with several other people as well.  Thomas received 100% of the vote.  But when it came time to endorse the sheriff, he did not come highly recommended, which is a direct result of his activism against the very popular Butler County auditor Roger Reynolds, whom the sheriff falsely prosecuted for purely political power-playing reasons.  At this last meeting, according to those there, the Sheriff was very upset about his weak vote and decided to pull his name from the endorsement process.  I recently had a pleasant conversation with Sheriff Jones about his new car in the parking lot of an event we were both at.  It was a nice car.  We also joked about our hats because we both wear cowboy hats in public.  And we kept the conversation light.  The vice mayor of Hamilton, Ohio, was there, and the meeting was a “lofty” occasion.  I may like the Sheriff personally, but he has not shown himself to be a Republican these last few years since Trump left the White House.  And that exploded at this recent Central Committee meeting.  Without a full-throated endorsement, he decided he was done with the whole political party endorsement process and didn’t need it.  After all, who was going to run against him?  As angry as he was, who else could he blame?  He was using the political party to strong-arm the Central Committee for years, and finally, they stood up to him, and he didn’t like it.  But it was based on his actions, not theirs.  It’s in subtle ways like that which politics is changing all across America, and many have not yet figured out just what kind of impact that will have.  Which I say will be dramatic. 

People are tired of corruption in politics, and many good people have joined the Central Committees in their communities to help root it out.  For too long, powerful political characters and their donor backing imposed their will on Central Committee members without much respect.  But that has changed.  Central Committee members in Ohio endorsed President Trump in these same meetings, so the trend is moving in an obvious direction.  And if I had to bet money on it, I would say that all this has the attention of Jack Smith’s case in Washington, D.C.  He knows his case is going nowhere and now he’s looking to shift the blame to the Supreme Court by accelerating the trial for insurrection.  The goal was to prevent Central Committee members from endorsing Trump ahead of the primaries coming up.  But now that Trump is so far out early, these court cases won’t do what they were intended, so Smith is looking to get out of it and place the blame on the high court to protect his reputation.  I’m also sure that there is a way for Sheriff Jones to get back into everyone’s good graces.  He was good in Butler County when Trump was in the White House for the first time.  And now that Trump is running again, the Sheriff can get behind that effort and people can come together again.  But the days of forcing big labor RINOs who would otherwise be Democrats if they ran anywhere else are over.  Central Committees are doing their jobs, not just rubber-stamping some of these political candidates.  And when they do wrong, such as Sara Carruthers has, they endorse alternatives, which is about time and a sign of good things to come.

Rich Hoffman

The Government is Not in Charge: 2024 is all about rebellion against overbearing parents

I have been quoting from the book Behold a Pale Horse a lot more lately for a lot of reasons.  For one, after reading the recent book, The Wuhan Cover-Up, it is obvious that many of the predictions Bill Cooper talked about are true, much more true than anybody would have wanted to believe in the 90s.  The second thing is that a breakthrough that has never happened before, a central media distribution outlet run by one of the world’s wealthiest people, has reinstated Alex Jones to the world of media, now as a mainstreamer.  This is a massive achievement and one that very few people saw coming.  Alex Jones, similar to Bill Cooper, identified threats to the system of government that we have been dealing with for many years.  Cooper was killed in a gunfight on his front porch.  Alex Jones has been killed socially in as many ways as a person can be.  Yet, he has risen again through Elon Musk’s efforts, which I think is completely out of self-interest.  Yet, it is genuine and should be an answer to everyone wondering what comes next.  The other is that Bill Cooper had a brilliant commentary in his book Beyond a Pale Horse that describes the current time very well: that all people grow up to become adults.  As rebellious teenagers, they think they know it all, but by the time they start paying for their own things, a car payment, a house, or giving birth to children, the pressure of those experiences takes most people back to a desire they had as kids for a parental figure.  So they seek a parental figure in government, and they vote accordingly.  These government types have fallen in love with their role as parents rather than representatives, and we have the world we see today.

I am not the kind of person who has ever looked to the government for a parental role.  I have always been the kind of person that many parents hated.  All my friends and girlfriends’ parents growing up hated me.  I mean, they absolutely hated me.  I didn’t do drugs or cuss; I always worked and had jobs, I read books, I did all the things that you’d think people would relish.  But when parents found out that their kids were hanging around with me, which is true in adulthood, they also freaked out.  “Don’t waste your time around Rich Hoffman, he’s a killer; he gets in fights all the time, and he’s dangerous!”  All those things were true, but the perspective was wrong, and I became so used to it that nothing that authority figures have done surprises me because essentially, it all boils down to that little quirk that people have which Bill Cooper identified in people, their lack of confidence in themselves to stand up to overbearing parents who move into government positions so that they can have control over people because they are power hungry tyrants that didn’t get enough satisfaction in such a role when they were parents.  It was so bad for me that many of these tyrant types would prefer people like Bill Cooper and Alex Jones into the media world as conspiracy figures because they at least showed some form of acceptance of parental role models in their lives. Bill was a Navy guy, and Jones was at least a good son.  So when authority figures assess such people and how to deal with them, at least those guys showed signs of being tempered socially if things spiraled out of control, which they eventually did. 

Glenn Beck, of course, has well-known problems; he was a drug addict for several years and reformed himself into the radio host he is today, which is very popular.  And when I heard him recently wondering if the government would even allow us to have an election in 2024, he was speaking from that same role of a child wondering if their parents would let them spend the night at little Jimmy’s place if only he ate his oatmeal.  And I shook my head because millions of people were concerned that the government would take away President Trump again and that the big nasty people at the World Economic Forum might release a new virus to evoke the Great Reset part II.  So let me tell you the dangerous part out loud, that few people in the world understand for all kinds of psychological reasons and something I’ve been telling people for more than 50 years.  Humanity is growing up.  Elon Musk is growing up, which is reflected in his decisions when running his companies.  President Trump grew up from a compliant child who listened to his father to overtake him, and now he wants to bring that same mentality to the government to free people of the dependent nature of a child complaining about an overbearing parent in government.  Our Constitution was written assuming that we didn’t want to spend our lives as groveling children listening to their dominating, worthless parents.  I used to say to kids when I was growing up, about their parents, “do you want to grow up and be like those losers, afraid of everything, fat, slow-minded, filled with fear?”  Or do you want to be your own person?  For that, I was the most hated person on earth, and I learned to like it. 

The government, no government, is in control of us.  We are free people and will decide what we do or don’t do.  Not some parental government.  And that is what 2024 is all about.  Read it.  Think about it.  And watch what happens.  This is a time of graduating from high school and moving out of our parent’s house to live on our own.  To take responsibility for our own lives.  And to be all that we want to be without nosy parents sticking their fearful attributes into our freedom-loving minds.  We are not victims of their stupidity; we are in charge and have a right to be.  I am essentially doing today what I have done all my life: encourage people not to become their stupid parents.  But to be free and live their own lives in their own way.  Don’t listen to your timid governments.  Rebel, live free, and become the subject of your dreams instead of just another fearful adult who got a taste of life and responsibility and cleaved to move back in with your parents for security.  Most of the world has moved back in with their parents, and as they move into their thirties and forties, they try to, but their parents are old and no longer able to give them that childhood security.  So, they turn to the government as the new parental figure.  But guess what, those idiots aren’t in charge, they don’t have any real power.  And they won’t be able to stop what’s coming.  Do you know why?  Because their power only comes from the timid children.  Once the children figure out how much power they have all along, then rebellion is inevitable.  And that is precisely what the political situation will be going into in 2024.  And there is nothing the parents in government can do to stop it.  Only timid children wonder if mom and dad’s government will get mad at them if they don’t arrive home by curfew and eat all their soup. 

Rich Hoffman

Guns Are All That Stops A Tyrannical Government: The Lessons of Wounded Knee

The more you look at how bad our current government is, the more we have history to reflect on because it will be rough over the next few years for context.  And I must remind everyone why we have the Second Amendment, and for that consideration, the Battle of Wounded Knee serves a lesson we should all reflect on.  Government power unchecked often leads to bad results.  We certainly have seen some of those bad results in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and one that I think is a topic all its own, the assassination of William Cooper in 2001.  I hate to say it, but since COVID-19, I have been expecting a shootout with some tyrannical force in one form or another every day, and that certainly shouldn’t be the case.  That tyrannical force might only be an empowered criminal element driven to boldness by Democrat politics.  But a government out of control will seek to hide its complicity through sheer power and intimidation.  And the Battle of Wounded Knee is one of those times in American history where government power over innocent people evoked disastrous results.  And when pressed, such behavior is the standard foundation of all government activity.  That is why we never want government to get too big, and that they must always have their power checked with at least, equal and opposite ability.  An unarmed population is the foundation of corruption because government types cannot resist the temptation to abuse that power for their own whims and security. The Indians involved in The Battle of Wounded Knee were Americans and had a right to own guns for their own protection.  Sitting Bull had been a member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and was working to assimilate into American culture, so his killing was even more of a tragedy that we should all learn from as we prepare for another phase of government failure where desperation will logically drive their actions.

In August 1890 Daniel F. Royer became head of the Pine Ridge Agency; he arrived at his post in October. Many of the Oglala Lakota on his reservation had become passionate Dancers, and he was both displeased with and fearful of their religion. Whereas some federal agents and officials were more tolerant of the practice, Royer was convinced that the Ghost Dancers were militant and threatened to destroy the U.S. government’s decades-long effort to “civilize” the Lakota. When the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) requested a list of Indian “troublemakers” to be slated for relocation, Royer placed influential Dancers at the top of his list and demanded that the military address the matter.  In November the U.S. Army arrived on Lakota reservations with the goal of stopping the rise of the Ghost Dance. One source indicates that it was the largest deployment of federal troops since the end of the Civil War in 1865. Sitting Bull lived near the Standing Rock Agency, a powerful Hunkpapa Lakota chief and spiritual leader who had led the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne to victory in 1876 against the U.S. Army at the Little Bighorn. Many of his 250 followers were Dancers, and, though he was not a practitioner, he refused to let the federal government repress them any further. Maj. James McLaughlin, the reservation’s agent, resolved to arrest Sitting Bull for his role in permitting the spread of the religion. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles commanded U.S. Army forces on the Lakota lands and hoped to take a peaceful approach to removing the Hunkpapa leader from the reservation. McLaughlin chose to undermine that plan, instead dispatching 43 tribal police officers to Sitting Bull’s cabin on December 15. Sitting Bull was compliant, but his followers would not relinquish him without protest. A vicious struggle ensued, and roughly 300 Indians were killed; among the dead was Sitting Bull.

Of course, the Indians had a right to fight against a tyrannical government.  The government was abusive and trending in the same direction that many similar personalities are trying to place on Trump supporters today.  What has been happening with the January 6th protestors is even worse than the infractions at Wounded Knee.  This brings up the question of what you are supposed to do when the government breaks the Constitution and you comply with authority only to be thrown in jail to rot away, against your natural rights.  Julian Assange comes to mind. I remember going to the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2018 to see him, and as I was there, I wondered what he could do if the police and military decided to storm the embassy and take him by force, which essentially is what happened shortly after.  And should he comply and go peacefully because he has lost any rights to a trial and self-defense?  And that was what was intended with Sitting Bull.  Once a powerful government finds that you are keeping it from what it wants, it will abuse that power to protect itself.  So the debate goes: what role does a person have in peace if the attacker is hell-bent on violence and intimidation?  History shows that compliance with such forces ends up in either false imprisonment or death.  So why not fight back?  To my way of thinking, fighting back is the only correct choice because the government has shown time and time again that it is irrational in its processing of risk assessment.  It doesn’t matter if it’s in a historical context or a modern one; the base behavior of government abuse is to cover that abuse with brute force.

For all these reasons and more, the worse that government gets, drunk on its power, the more guns that society must have to take the temptation out of their heads that they can abuse that power.  They restrict their behavior to something more logical when they fear a cost to the engagement.  In the case of Julian Assange, the embassy was just a block down from the east entrance to Harrod’s, the famous department store, which was constantly crawling with tourists.  The fear of a public incident was all that kept them from raiding Julian Assange, and once they peacefully took him, he lost all rights to a defense.  And back to Sitting Bull, he was a national celebrity, and he tried to comply with the authorities, but the trigger-happy military was looking for an excuse, so everyone ended up dead as a result anyway.  We have to think about these things because the Biden government is dripping with criminal conduct that has too much power.  And their only way to keep that power is with force.  They aren’t just going to give it back through a “fair election.”  So we must think about what might happen.  We can hope it doesn’t.  I certainly do.  But also, we must be ready because, as history has taught us, a government with too much power cannot be trusted, and that’s being nice about it.  The only thing that has kept us safe so far has been the Second Amendment, the fear they have of stepping over the line and having power used against them equally.  Otherwise, they would, could, and certainly will abuse our rights at every opportunity, and death or imprisonment is OK with them so long as they get to go home at night and live their lives unimpeded.  They behave civilly when they, too, must fear losing that security.

Rich Hoffman