Month: May 2025

Michael V. Ryan is Running for Butler County Commissioner: There is no reason to put up with wilted flowers

It was a surprise that so many people attended the Michael V. Ryan press conference at the Courtyard by Marriott in Hamilton, Ohio.  The current Vice-Mayor of the city and city council member announced that he was running for Butler County Commissioner, and it was good to see such a diverse group of people coming out to show him support on a Monday afternoon.  There were people of all ages and a nice, even number of men and women from all kinds of backgrounds, which showed broad support early in the process.  When I first heard about it, I thought it was a great idea that someone from the group of anti-liberal rebels on the City Council would migrate into the commissioner seat that is coming up, where the incumbent, Cindy Carpenter, is up for re-election.  Recently, she had been caught in Middletown, Ohio, campaigning for Democrats, and that pretty much sealed her fate among the many who have been unhappy with her over the years and have been calling her a RINO.  Well, now people had more than speculation on the matter, and they were looking for alternatives.  And Michael Ryan was making himself available, and people were excited about it.  It was also surprising that several officeholders also showed up to lend their support.  When you see Bruce Jones at a political event, you know something significant is brewing, because he tends to associate with emerging vigilance over the years that I have come to trust for several decades now.  And as I peeked around the crowd to the back of the room, I saw Mark Welch, the West Chester trustee there, whom I wanted to talk to.  It was a good crowd that had run out of seats, leaving many standing in the background and doorways to hear the future commissioner speak.

After the announcement, I took the chance to speak with Mark because I knew he was also thinking of running for commissioner, so it showed some significance that he was willing to come out and support Michael Ryan running.  The other two seats for the commissioner have a few years left on them, so for Mark to show public support this early in the process was very admirable.  And as we discussed, he has challengers for his trustee seat, which is up for re-election this year.  And he is committed to protecting that seat, which I thought showed great teamwork by the GOP to help in several races, which I’d like to see more of.  West Chester has been great because it has had some significant policies from the trustees over the years, which worked best when George Lang and Mark Welch served in West Chester simultaneously.  The best path forward, which has made West Chester one of the best places to live in the world, occurred during this period.  But since then, George has moved on to become State Senator, leaving Ann Becker to fill that void, which we all thought was going to be a good thing, as she used to be the President of the West Chester Tea Party, and the Cincinnati Tea Party, and she was a good friend.  She was on 55 KRC all the time announcing on the radio Tea Party events and was a key to implementing fiscal small government ideas back into the Butler County Republican Party.  But time has a way of eroding at people, and the person she once was isn’t quite so much anymore, and she has been siding with Democrats a lot these days, which has been a concern.  Because the other guy, Lee Wong, is a known Democrat.  So the trustees have moved more toward the Democrat side of things in dangerous ways.

Mark knows the situation, and he doesn’t feel like he can step away from the West Chester Trustee race because he needs help, so things don’t get out of control.  At a minimum, Mark needs to win one of the two seats this year, with Lee also up for re-election.  So while everyone is excited about Michael Ryan running for commissioner, the Republican Party needs to protect some of the best spots, which in West Chester is how the MAGA movement evolved in the Butler County area and set the foundation for what a prosperous community with good politics should look like.  Ann Becker and I used to be close during all this, and I was very supportive of her in that other Trustee spot George left behind.  And back then, we all planned to keep West Chester conservative by tag-teaming who would run and maintain a two-vote majority.  It meant a lot that Mark was doing that with this Butler County Commissioner race because that’s how you get good management at these positions.  It doesn’t do any good for everyone to beat each other up in primaries only to wonder why some knuckle-dragging Democrat ends up winning in the end, pretending to be a Republican, such as what we had for a long time in Cindy Carpenter.  I can say that in Ann Becker’s case, she didn’t start badly.  She and I parted political ways a bit when Trump came into the picture, and I was in full support of him early, while it took others a while to get there.  Ann eventually did, but over the coming years, it got increasingly complex to hold the same Tea Party political philosophy, as life has a way of chipping away at our foundational beliefs.  And at times like that, political challengers are healthy and needed.  But knowing when to work together and when to challenge for the betterment of a party that serves the needs of a representative government can be tricky, and takes good people to do things for the right reasons. 

Many great things are happening where Michael Ryan, as a commissioner, could be inspiring, especially given that Vivek Ramaswamy will soon be the governor of Ohio.  Butler County is one of the biggest counties in Ohio, with high population density, so having Michael Ryan as one of the commissioners is a rare opportunity.  Trump in the White House setting economic policies flowing down into all levels of government is showing great promise, which Vivek’s future administration will take full advantage of.  Then, having an enterprising commissioner like Michael Ryan engage in that excitement is a great opportunity.  What he has done with the City Council of Hamilton has been fun to watch; they have done things that have brought life back to the city that I never thought I’d see in my lifetime.  And he could do so much more as a commissioner.  But we don’t want to lose the West Chester seats, because that would be a step backward.  So it was good to see some teamwork at key positions, covering each other with support where it counted.  Elections are always opportunities.  It’s rare to have such good people running for politics simultaneously in the same room, but that was certainly the case here.  Michael Ryan and his very nice wife, Amanda, are good, solid people who bring a lot of pride to Republican politics and have a very bright future that is well deserved.  But authentic leadership doesn’t just come in election wins; it comes in setting the table for victory on many fronts.  It was also good to see that happening in the background at the Michael Ryan announcement for County Commissioner on a bright day in May 2025 was unfolding a new strategy, where so many opportunities were blooming everywhere.  And in the Republican Party, several flowers have lost their luster and are wilting.  Cindy Carpenter is one of them, and she needs to go.  There is no reason to put up with wilted flowers who are Democrats in disguise when we have so many good, solid Republicans who are aligned with the MAGA movement.  But everyone will need to support each other in these efforts. 

Rich Hoffman

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My Committment to Atlantis and Its Technology: A problem we have to solve before we get to Mars

It’s only fair to take a minute from all the political coverage to make an official statement that I don’t think is new.  But that I intend to contribute a significant amount of my time to in the years to come, and that is to prove that the fabled civilization of Atlantis was real, and that the contents of it, the proof of its existence became the original Native Americans, settling in the Americas and what is left of them is what we have in the mound cultures of the world.  In Atlantis, as Plato described, they had fallen to sorcery and witchcraft and declined well before they were destroyed by catastrophe, and I think the proof of that technology is what we see in the mound-building culture, especially in the Ohio Valley along the Ohio River.  Mounds are worldwide, and I think they are evidence of a society thriving globally around 50,000 BC until around 9500 BC.  And it’s one of the greatest conspiracies ever to be perpetrated against the human race for all kinds of political reasons.  This isn’t something I just woke up thinking about, but something that has bothered me for decades.  I grew up around the mound cultures of southern Ohio, and it started for me when, as a young person, I was given some inadequate explanations about them being burial methods. Instead, as it looks to me after looking at a lot of evidence, which I’m putting together for a new book project called, The Politics of Heaven, I am ready to put a stake in the ground on Atlantis being represented on earth by the destruction of their survivors through the mound building culture and the revelation of their celestial technology which I attribute to occult utilization as a science to perpetuate their society forward, best represented to our historic eyes in Egypt and expressed in the conflict of God with Pharaoh when Moses came to free his people and there was a kind of dual with the magicians of Egypt, the Hermetic order that were the remains of the previous long standing civilization of Atlantis.

The most significant resistance to such a proposal is transportation; the current lazy science understanding about the Clovis culture, of how humans came into North America through a land bridge through Alaska, hasn’t held up under further scrutiny.  Now, with LiDAR technology, we can see under the canopy of the Amazon, for instance, and all over South America, formations of mound-building that are just like what we see popularly in North America.  And that Pythagorean geometry in a very occult way are consistently utilized everywhere, for the same reasons.  This very sophisticated culture used positive relief geometric shapes to communicate with spiritual planes of reality, for which they had full knowledge.  Some aspects of this technology are revealed to us through the Bible, so it doesn’t take much to expand that understanding to this broader conception.  Most eerily, we see the evidence of this kind of ritual technology at Portsmouth, Ohio, where, just like at Stonehenge, they have a series of mound structures that are intended to communicate beyond terrestrial concerns with an avenue that extends from Ohio across the river into Kentucky.  The purpose and location of this construction defy logic, for its location is a glimpse into a much deeper technology that spoke to the spirit world in much the same way that we use electrons to turn on a light.  There are many more of these mysterious sites all over, but the site at Portsmouth is bewilderingly overlooked for its relevance to a profound understanding of a specific astrological technology used as an everyday level of culture descended from great sophistication. Indeed, not primitive hunters and gatherers who could barely rub sticks together to make fire or catch food for the day.

The most obvious evidence of this global trade, which descended from Atlantis and Mu, a raised area in the Pacific Ocean, is the evidence in Egyptian mummies of tobacco and cocaine, which we know were only grown in the Americas.  So any traces of these things would have come from knowledge of trade with society in North America for tobacco and South America for the coca plant.  And specifically to those items, it also shows the obvious connection with drug stimulants to the creation and use of religion, and to communicate in a hyper mind state with assistance from the spirit world.  But it all started in America and not in other places.  That’s not to say that places like Antarctica were not once tropical paradises when the Earth’s poles were otherwise shifted, and those plants weren’t in other places, according to a record of known botany.  But as we understand the modern world, post Ice Age, those plants only came from North America and South America and when traces of them show up in mummies from around the world, you know they had contact with what we call the New World, many thousands and thousands of years before Christopher Columbus rediscovered for Europe, the concept of a new place.  We find more truth in this kind of global population in stories like the Tower of Babel that we think of as regionalized in the Mesopotamian Valley, but likely has roots in a much larger tapestry. 

So why is this important?  Well, institutionalism has been lying to us.  And new characters in the world seek to use this kind of Atlantean technology to have power over others.  Keeping people disjointed and on their heels as rulers keep challengers from attacking their power base through deception.  We see that happening in American politics, and when you study how institutionalism has processed information and used it to control mass populations, a much clearer story begins to emerge.  That is why I have recently been talking a lot about the book by David Price called Weaponizing Anthropology. Anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists, botanists, all the sciences have shown a delineation of logic in saying whatever they have to based on the source that is giving them money.  And by that method, a vast conspiracy has been concealing the truth of human origins, which we need to understand to plan our future.  And so far, we are finding ourselves victims of a power base of politics hiding the past so they can have power in the present.  So I see it as a significant, engaging, and technologically practical consideration.  The secrets of the Lost Continent of Atlantis are not buried under the Atlantic Ocean.  They are in the mounds of North America, at places like Portsmouth, Ohio, Serpent Mound, and hundreds of other places.  And their technology wasn’t mechanical the way we see it, but occult-driven, and completely different.  We see whispers of it everywhere, especially in astrology horoscope readings.  And that doesn’t make that technology superior to what we have today.  Just different, and a method of approaching problems working in the background that reflects our politics of the here and now.  Why do people believe what they do about things?  That is why studying these things is important and extends beyond psychology or history.  But the hows and whys of a culture long suppressed.  A current political order that uses hints of that technology to stay in power today can do so because people don’t even know it exists. After all, the evidence has been hidden.  Even though, as Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas, “the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it.”  Jesus wasn’t talking about the tiny part of the Near East where he lived, but he meant the whole earth, as it was well known from a long and deep history at that time.  Well, we see it, and it’s time we have a serious discussion about it and take that power away from those who seek to abuse it at the expense of all civilization’s past, present, and future.  And we have to do it now before we find ourselves on Mars and facing a harsh reality about ourselves, that we find there archaeology of a past that existed long before Atlantis appeared on earth.

Rich Hoffman

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Jim Comey Needs to be in Jail: Trying to intimidate the Supreme Court, and others to outlast Trump’s administration

Jim Comey knew what he was doing when playing with seashells on a beach and took a picture of an arrangement he made for his Instagram account.  That he denied he didn’t know what “8647” meant shows now, in hindsight, what a pervasive liar he has been on everything.  This is something that Democrats have been doing for a while to send a signal out to their deranged base of lunatics to do something stupid with a dog whistle meant for them.  Jim Comey was calling for the removal, by the understood means of assassination, by using the number “86” and putting it on his social media to connect with people who would do just that.  And by itself, it’s a serious matter.  But Jim Comey is on the outside now because he actively tried to remove Trump himself with all kinds of illegal activity, making up dossiers and passing them off as fact, faking FISA warrants, lying to congress, lying to the President and voters, Jim Comey, as I told CNN long ago, was a no good loser who was corrupt and took the FBI down a dark path for which it will never recover.  And given his history, and the known assassinations that were already attempted against Trump, the context of this recent case of Comey getting caught doing it is unforgivable, and he should be in jail for his misdeed.  It doesn’t matter that the FBI interviewed him and his intentions. Comey is a known, professional liar, and he knowingly put up a mark on his social media account as the former Director of the FBI, and the consequences for that action should be jail time at a minimum.  His intent is well chronicled and can be supported in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt. 

But there is a bigger problem looming in the background, and this is about the Supreme Court ruling against Trump’s Article II powers to deport criminal thugs and cartel members operating in the United States.  On the same day we learned about Comey’s activism, we also learned that the Supreme Court, including all of Trump’s picks, went against him on deporting the illegal alien gang members, that have been hotly debated.  Seeing the Supreme Court punt with a 7-2 decision surprised everyone.  Well, I’m not surprised.  I was just at the Supreme Court recently, and know the vibe there firsthand.  There is a lot of pressure on them to distance themselves from the Trump administration because, after all, the polite society types know that Trump is temporary, and judges tend to wait for a lifetime appointment.  They will be around long after Trump is gone, so the assumption goes, and what the Supreme Court doesn’t want are people like James Comey, who are all over the intelligence community, putting out “86” hits on them to be performed by some crazy hitman lunatic driving by on a scooter outside their home and erasing them from existence while they are getting their mail.  Because that’s what’s bad about this hit request from Comey, is that he knows as an insider, that baked into his actions is an unprovably assumption about an underbelly of criminal conduct that works continuously in the background and turns the timid types, like judges on the Supreme Court into cowards worried about their future as the system itself will dispose of them at their first chance.  In this way, Comey commanded from his former title, showing that he’s like a mob boss still calling the shots from jail.  Members of the Supreme Court are afraid of these people for good reasons. 

Obama was the autopen

Trump’s picks are going out of their way to show they are independent of the President because the pressure on them is intense.  And when Comey put that message on his Instagram account, he didn’t mean it for Trump.  He meant it for the people who work for Trump and around him, as a rallying cry to resist him.  He will be gone and won’t be able to protect them at some point.  So they better get with the program.  We’ve seen Chuck Schumer beg a mob of malcontents to attack members of the Supreme Court for their previous rulings, and we’ve seen other assassination attempts against Trump where the FBI practically left the door open for the killers to kill.  This isn’t an accident; it’s a method of behavior that Democrats are counting on.  And they are bold about it.  And based on Comey’s past behavior, we were aware that he openly worked against the taxpayer selection of a representative in the White House; there is no way to deny what Comey was up to.  He and “they,” the Democrat mob who have found themselves out of power, are showing emotional leverage of the Supreme Court through well-planted acts of potential violence to steer them away from hard rulings and to punt this deportation case back down to the 5th circuit to stall Trump’s efforts, which won’t work in the end.  There are other ways to skin this cat.  However, the Supreme Court invalidated itself in the process because of the apparent threats from the hard left, of which Comey is a part.  There are a lot of his type in the law and order community at all levels, and they are arrogant because they think the rest of everybody is too stupid to know what they are up to.  Well, people see it, and they know what was going on in this case, and nobody believes what he’s saying.  It was this same Comey FBI that hid the Anthony Weiner laptop, whose wife is the new woman for little Alex Soros, and the Hunter Biden laptop, which showed all kinds of legal infractions.  And did not move to put Hillary Clinton in jail for her email scandal, but instead ran cover for her, because they were trying to keep Trump out of office. 

When you have people like Comey in the intelligence agencies, even when Trump has picked better people to run the Department of Justice now than we had, you still have these people on the payroll, and they are just holding their nose and waiting for Trump to be out of office once more.  And messages like Comey’s seashells are obvious intimidation tactics to show the masses that the mob is really in charge, and even members of the former administrations are always just a call away.  That insurrection through mob rule still dominates this material world.  Isn’t that the message of Hiram Abiff?  What say you, Master Masons?  The mob kills, and we must surrender this world and keep our eyes on the next.  So that cowards can justify turning their cheek away from evil and not face it, even when it presents itself on a beach by the former Director of the FBI.  And when caught, he lied and said it didn’t mean what we all know it meant.  Jim Comey is a dirty cop who wants crime to exist so that Democrats can stay in power.  And they want to tie up the Supreme Court so that violence can overthrow the order of a Trump administration before it can do all the great things promised during the 2024 campaign.  These are not lovers of America; they want to overthrow it, and their best weapon of choice is to inspire derelicts to action, which was what Jim Comey intended.  He needs to be put in jail and made an example of. 

Rich Hoffman

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A Wonderful Expereince: Playing the new Indiana Jones game on PS5

I wasn’t going to play the new Indiana Jones game on PlayStation 5, but after much encouragement from my wife, I did, and I’m glad.  Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was an excellent experience with a great story, and was a throwback to the kind of entertainment I think we need a lot more of.  I was skeptical of Lucasfilm doing anything with Indiana Jones these days under the ownership of Disney.  I like the character and the kind of science spawned from those movies over the years.  But I wasn’t sure if they could pull off a good story without George Lucas.  But my wife has been pressing me to play more video games with the grandchildren, because that’s what they like to do.  But my life is so busy, I don’t have time to hang out online like most video games require, with a very social experience.  These days, video games are a way for kids to interact socially.  Games like Fortnite and Call of Duty put you in contact with thousands of people daily.  Kids who play these games for hours will interact with thousands of people in real time, so video game playing these days is a very social experience, and I’m not at all crazy about that.  I talk to way too many people throughout the week to want to spend my downtime talking and playing with more people.  So I haven’t been playing video games very much, and my wife thinks I need to do more for stress management.   So I listened to her, wives can be good for many things, and when the new Indiana Jones game came out in April of 2025 on the PS5 console, I thought I’d try it. 

Because I’m a fan of the character and raised my kids on the optimism of those movies, as a baseline for other things, I bought the Collector’s Edition of the game, which came with all kinds of neat stuff.  But once I started playing the game, I enjoyed the story as it takes you through the character of Indiana Jones to Peru, the Vatican, Giza, the Himalayas, Thailand, Shanghai, and Iraq.  It’s not an online game, so you can play it without interacting with others and have a nice story-driven experience.  And much to my surprise, this game was very much in line with the Indiana Jones movies, and it had a tone similar to the most recent one, the Dial of Destiny.  So it was true to the original character and didn’t have the woke stuff, which is such a problem these days.  There were a few things, but not enough to tarnish the game.  It was a good adventure story that was much longer than a typical movie.  I spent 60 hours playing the game, with about 12 hours of that time just doing the story itself, so it turned out to be a long movie experience that took place for me during April 2025, which was a good break from all the other things I typically do.  And it was good for the grandkids to see me doing something besides reading books, as I’ve said before, I read 4 to 5 books a week.  Some weeks, more than that, so I cover a lot of content that is very personal.  You can’t share the content you read with your family very well because reading is such a private thing.  But ironically, there is a scholarly element to this Indiana Jones game that was very refreshing.  

The game itself is about the “giant” controversy, which I think is the most important in the world right now, the idea that an ancient race of giants who lived before Noah’s flood inhabited the earth and had a very advanced culture.  I read a lot about this evidence, and it was a surprise that the modern debate drove the game’s plot.  We live in a time when people ask tough questions, and authority figures in authority positions have been caught lying to us, right to our faces.  At the center of this Indiana Jones story are many problems that played out during the Second World War.  Playing the Indiana Jones character you get to deal with actual historic characters such as Bonito Mussolini and the obsession with the occult that the Nazis were investing in and when you put the biblical narrative of the Fallen Angels of God, the Nephilim at the heart of a massive modern conspiracy theory, you have all the contents of a fascinating story, and it was.  Because I read so much about many different topics, the story of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle felt like it was produced and made just for me, including all the items that came with the Collector’s Edition.  I spend a lot of time thinking about these things through books and online lectures.  So it was a pleasure to play a video game about that kind of storyline.  And to have the material compelling, educational, and entertaining.  The game makers really loved the story, and it showed.

They first announced this game in 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis.  I wanted to like the news, but I was so down on Disney and Lucasfilm for what they had done to Star Wars that I would have rather they just left Indiana Jones alone.  As a literary character in our culture, Indiana Jones does so many good things that I figured Disney would only damage that character, as they have so many other things they’ve mishandled.  For instance, the pressure seen on a recent Joe Rogan Podcast with the Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass probably wouldn’t have happened without an Indiana Jones character in popular, mainstream literature and filmmaking laying the foundation to apply the pressure.  So many people have been inspired by the character that they have correctly challenged established norms in a very healthy, academic way.  And when a game like this comes out and a mainstream audience plays it in such a mass way, good things tend to happen, and you see that with the questioning of independent investigators, questioning the institutional narrative of things to evoke the truth, which is what we should all be concerned about.  Stories like this light intellectual fires and usually have great significance for those who experience them.  So a game format, as opposed to a movie or a book, was very appropriate.  And I had a lot of fun with the game.  I’m glad I listened to my wife.  I like playing video games, but don’t think I’ll play them often.  But I am so happy to have taken the time to play this one, and it ended up being a positive thing for my entire family.  And I wish it could have gone on forever in many ways.  But playing through the whole story was an enjoyable experience that was a nice break from my day-to-day.  And I look forward to similar experiences to come along that kind of storytelling frontier.

Rich Hoffman

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Getting Woke Politics out of the NFL: Jon Gruden introduces the Buccaneers schedule

There is a good reason for me to talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as several interesting things have happened regarding them.  I haven’t changed my mind about the NFL product being prone to rigging games to cover betting odds.  The referees have problems, and it’s pretty evident that they give the Kansas City Chiefs a lot of help in winning the games they do.  So wherever there is money, there are temptations for corruption.  But I enjoy the NFL product, and out of all the teams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are my favorite.  And Raymond James Stadium is my favorite place to watch NFL football games.  The Cincinnati Bengals are my local team, but I am not crazy about the Brown Family ownership.  I like the Glazer Family and how they try hard every year to create a winning product.  It might not always work out, but they do try.  And I was very impressed with the coaching staff’s picks in the NFL draft this year.  There were several positions that Tampa Bay went out to get unique players for, most notably and most exciting for me, was Desmon Watson, the biggest NFL player ever drafted at 6’6” and 464 pounds.  I like what the Bucs are doing and looking at their schedule, where they have to play teams with running quarterbacks, like Josh Allen, who are big, and teams that like to go for a fourth down if they are under two yards, Tampa Bay invested in being disruptive of this emerging trend.  Almost every game is a playoff game this year because Tampa has won its division for five straight years.  And it could be expected that they would move to the bottom of the pile, the way the NFL leverages things.  But getting Desmon Watson to play next to Vita Vea at the DT position is a run-stopping combination that could be the most exciting and effective in the NFL.

With teams like the Detroit Lions, the Eagles, San Francisco, Buffalo, and many other teams known for their aggressive ground game, having Vita Vea on the Bucs team has been very effective.  To put the largest person ever to be in the NFL right next to him is an excellent strategy by the Bucs coaching staff, and it certainly shows me a commitment to win.  And I like that.  But I’m not just interested in football or this year’s draft class, but something that shocked me this past week, as the Bucs released their 2025 schedule.  Remember a few years ago when I made comments about the Buccaneer organization removing their old coach Jon Gruden off the Ring of Honor that was in the stadium at Raymond James because the woke NFL did not like that the Raiders coach got caught by email sending pictures of cheerleaders to his brother who was coach of the Washington Football Team.  This was the ridiculous woke nonsense that China was trying to implement in our society, and Gruden was treated terribly for essentially making comments about NFL cheerleaders that were very natural.  As punishment, Gruden was removed from the NFL in a lot of the same ways that Pete Rose was removed from baseball, and it was all over woke garbage.  I was unhappy that the Glazer Family played into the Biden administration’s woke censorship of people and removed Gruden from his history with the Buccaneers.  Gruden was a Super Bowl-winning coach, and pulling his statue from the lobby of One Buc Place was horrible in many ways and very hard on the fans.  But if you’ll remember, I said this whole thing would blow up and that the Gruden decision was a mistake. 

Given where he was then and where he is now, it was remarkable that the Buccaneers had Jon Gruden release their 2025 schedule on the official website.  So this was Gruden talking about the Bucs, not as a fan of the NFL product, but as an official spokesman for the Buccaneers organization.  After Trump won the presidency, it didn’t take long for everyone to realize that the woke stuff was garbage and the American people weren’t going to buy into it.  That was a communist China strategy, and people weren’t adopting it in America.  So, within a very short time of being essentially banned from NFL football, Jon Gruden was invited to talk about the Bucs’ schedule as the Glazer Family wanted to heal the damage done and restore their relationship with their old coach.  And it was good to see that Gruden was willing to do so.  That makes the video he did talking about the Buccaneers’ schedule remarkable. Even if people aren’t fans of the Buccaneers, it indicates a trend we see worldwide—the Trump effect of breaking old strategies for a much more optimistic future.  And when the Glazer Family, who were Biden supporters, are moving in the healthy direction of restoring their relationship with Jon Gruden, you know the same thing is happening in every industry in every country worldwide.  This gives a lot more perspective, for instance, on Trump’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia and his very popular reception there.  People in the world like winners, not woke politics.  And Trump is a winner.  And so is Jon Gruden. 

So much more than about NFL football, there is a lot of news coming out of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that is highly significant.  Most importantly, they recognized that their support of woke policies was driving a wedge in their fan base, and they backed off their wrong position, even to the point of putting their arm around Gruden again, and he gracefully accepted their outreach.  And as a result, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers product is much better and a lot more fun.  And this is a trend we will see everywhere now with Trump in office.  It’s a good measure of the pressure to step away from woke corporate policy and to make decisions based on market viability.   This makes this year’s draft picks even more critical because the Glazer Family is aware that they want to win at all phases of public relations, including winning another championship to make their city of Tampa proud.  The woke values of progressivism are the kind of things people who go to NFL games are trying to get away from.  And the NFL itself has been slow to realize that.  However, the Bucs organization quickly corrected its mistakes, a sign of many things to come under the new Trump White House.  It didn’t take long for the Bucs to go from a complete ban of Jon Gruden and their past with him, to a full-throated supporter, which I thought may never happen, as bad as it was.  But it was good to see, and fun.  Woke politics has no place in our entertainment culture; it’s a communist strategy that should have never been introduced to anything in America.  From CEOs to NFL head coaches, woke politics has been horrible.  And I am thrilled to see my favorite NFL team step away from it noticeably and to repair their relationship with Jon Gruden, one of the best coaches ever to be in the game.  And like most men, if he wants to talk about the boobies of NFL cheerleaders, that’s perfectly OK with me.  That’s why the NFL has cheerleaders.  People like to look at them, which certainly makes the game a little more fun. 

Rich Hoffman

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A Warning for Trump: Be careful of the bootlickers and losers

This is the hard part, with the honeymoon essentially over, the Trump administration has to watch that it doesn’t lose its edge.  I’m not particularly worried about it, but it’s something Trump will have to be careful about because when it comes to deal-making, he loves doing it certainly more than the political process.  And we’re talking about falling in love with the people you negotiate with, like China, like Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, where people pander to him, massage his ego, and then slip the Shakespearian knife in Trump’s back when they think he’s not looking.  The bad guys in the world have no choice but to appease Trump. That is the case usually with my “gunfighter at the bar with his back-to-the-room” metaphor that I always talk about.  The enemy does not seek to kill valuable people if they think they can use them first, which is perfectly true with Trump and his natural ability to get leverage in just about any situation.  But it is because of this tendency that Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci lied straight to Trump’s face about COVID during the last administration, the Fed practiced Modern Monetary Theory with Larry Fink as their distribution center right under the nose of Trump.  This is the point in the story where the appeasers appease, and the suckers bite on the sweet candy and sicken themselves forever.  And Trump, if he wants to do well in this term and achieve all the things that are possible, has to be cautious about his nature.  “If you can’t beat them, join them,” is what the enemy is saying.  And adding, “then beat them when you have their trust by a last-minute betrayal.”  Trump has to resist falling in love with the bad guys under the pretense of compassion because the villainy they are capable of is far worse than his nature understands.  At heart, he has developed into a great negotiator by understanding how to read a room and its people.  And he generally does like people.  And the only defense that bad people have against such a person is to appeal to his good nature to keep him from destroying them.  And many of them need to be destroyed.

The caution comes from Pam Bondi at the DOJ, the handling of the Epstein files, and the public expectation that people will go to jail.  And James O’Keefe and Laura Loomer have been reporting that there are not so forthcoming reports on other elements, such as video of sexual exploitation of children involved in the Epstein Island personalities.  And when you play in the sandbox that Trump plays in, and Pam Bondi, it is likely that people you know are on that Epstein list, and the pain and betrayal of that can be pretty harsh.  This is the difference between campaigning and doing.  It is easy to talk about something, but not so easy to do it.  Ultimately, I think Trump will follow through on the challenges before him.  However, in trying to deal with people and salvage relationships, especially in the Middle East, sometimes his love of making friends is more than destroying an enemy, and it will be used against him.  We’re dealing with some evil people who must be dealt with harshly.  It’s what people expect and don’t necessarily want to make a deal with bad people, even if it doesn’t strengthen the American position in the world.  And Trump is going to have to fight through that carefully.  The best way to preserve Trump’s legacy is with America First and easy wins on the scoreboard.  We have the midterms coming up soon, and if Trump wants more than just a couple of years of cosmetic cooperation, he needs to put some bad guys in jail.

The judicial problem I thought was very well explained recently by Matt Gaetz on the WarRoom.  To become a judge in America, you have to jump through many hoops, belong to many clubs, and prove yourself to be a good caretaker of the BAR Association, which has shown to be very progressive and radical.  I have often pointed out, especially among older judges, their relationship to Freemasonry as a problem because of their commitment to altruism, which, for fans of Ayn Rand, is a deadly word in a productive society.  We elect Presidents, congresspeople, senators, all kinds of positions, but the hold outs to the MAGA agenda are these legal people who are connected to deep and malicious finance, and they do think they can appease the beast in Trump just long enough to crush him when his back is turned and that’s where we are.  People who survive the barriers to the judicial profession only do so by jumping through hoops of social formation that is truly devastating to the perpetuation of a productive, sovereign country, and that is what Trump is up against.  Appeasing them with kindness and good deals won’t stop the villainy of their nocturnal deeds, and their oaths to the corruptive nature of mass collectivism, through the sacrifice of self, for the benefit of others.  Many judicial types see their role in life as stopping materialists like Trump with everything they have in their very souls.  And there is no way to make friends and bring them to your side.  They have to be destroyed, and if they are on video doing nasty things with little kids on Epstein Island, they need to be torn to shreds in front of the public spectacularly because it’s what people want in our Representative Republic.

Glenn Beck ran the numbers recently through AI on the possible ways the American economy survives.  And let me say that I think most of them are wrong.   I am very optimistic about the future of America and our economy.  But we must listen to caution and do good things with the information.  However, those AI programs don’t have many scenarios where the American dollar will survive an economic collapse in the world by 2030.  And I know that’s where Trump’s heart is.  There is a good chance that the AI programs can’t see yet, because it’s more intuitive than practical, that America will lead the world in a capitalist revolution that will improve things for everyone.  But many bad people will gladly throw themselves in front of that train, and we have to have the guts to run them over.  Because those people have the wrong ideas about existence, there is no way to reform them.  And it’s through that kind of ruthlessness that America survives and thrives. But there will be a lot of casualties, and some of them will be friends.  And it will be painful.  And there is no way to negotiate away the pain.  And not fall in love with the office of the Presidency because the ceremonial routine is filled with appeasers trying to massage Trump’s ego, just long enough to outlast him.  Don’t ever lose your edge because the edge that matters is in the knife they are trying to stick in Trump’s back when they think he’ll turn his back just long enough because it’s the only move they have.  Be recklessly cautious.

Rich Hoffman

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It’s Great That Trump Surrounds Himself with Rich People: The scoreboard matters

There continues to be a lot of discussion about all the wealthy people who are around Trump in the White House, and to express that condition as if it were a bad thing.  Those criticisms are mainly coming from communist Democrats like Bernie Sanders, who have openly embraced the philosophies of Karl Marx and are inherently un-American.  I love that so many wealthy people associate with President Trump because it shows that successful people are around him.  How do you know they are successful, because they are wealthy?  Wealth is a measure of success.   It’s the scoreboard of life.  When people say you can’t take your wealth with you, why try? You are hearing a loser’s point of view, where someone wants to erase the scoreboard and use other value judgments that don’t make them look so lazy and dumb.  Wealth is a measure of success.  It’s not the only measure, but if a person has built independent wealth, the chances are that they have been very successful in life.  So when wealthy people surround Trump, it shows that he is surrounded by people who know what they are doing, and that’s a good thing.  I like and trust wealthy people because the scoreboard shows they know what they are doing, which is why a society of wealthy people is good.  Critics of this system tend to be losers trying to justify bad decisions they have made in life with some social condition that hides their incompetence.  So they hate the wealthy and disparage the wealthy as some immoral embodiment of social erosion, instead of representatives of the best that a person can be by being a winner at life.  Wealth lets people know of those victories with measures that truly matter. 

That’s not to say that all wealthy people are good, but it does give a measure to put next to the value of a person.  Someone like Nancy Pelosi, who has gained a lot of wealth off government information with insider knowledge of the markets, is not the same.  Some people cheat in life to get wealth.  But even in that condition, you learn much about the people involved based on how they play the game.  Because the scoreboard matters.  The pressure to put points on the board makes people do all kinds of things to show a winning score.  However, the pressure to play the game was what Karl Marx was trying to build a society to avoid.  Even in a biblical context, when wealth is discussed, the writers who have spent their lives writing and thinking philosophically about things tended not to have very much money, so there is always a little jealousy when they look at the scoreboard and see that they haven’t put up many points of their own.  To get through life and say it’s not whether you win or lose at life, but how you play the game, is to try to substitute the game with another value system that embraces other ways of showing success at life.  I see great morality in wealth earned because it forces people to compete and win at life, which shows that they did something of great value somewhere along the line.  And if you want to hire the best person for the job, how else do you determine their value?  If you are building a new driveway and you quote the job to two different contractors and one shows up in a barely running pickup truck looking like they just rolled out of bed, and the other shows up in a brand new dual wheeled truck with a nice paint job and advertising painted on the door, who do you think will do a better job?

While it’s true that the contractor with the beat-up truck might be a diamond in the rough, generally speaking, if people have been successful in life, they tend to show it in their social interactions.  If you go to a fancy restaurant on a Friday night and a man smelling like expensive cologne gets out of a bright red supercar, with a date that looks like she just climbed off the cover of a fashion magazine, what do you think about him?  He’s successful at something because he has acquired assets that society would consider the best of what can be gained in life from the perspective of living.  Can you take all that with you into the afterlife?  No, just like people forget the score of a football game they watched on Sunday, by Monday.  But that doesn’t mean that the players shouldn’t try hard to play and win the game.  To say the game isn’t worth playing because the score doesn’t matter is a loser position in life, and lazy.  And to be envious of the person who has a lot of wealth because they won at life a lot is petty, and a bad foundation for measuring the value of life.  Wealth is a good thing, and it’s better in life to win and to have a scoreboard that shows it than a value system that avoids the competition altogether.  Those like Bernie Sanders, and other socialists, communists, and Marxists from the Democrat party want to get rid of the scoreboards in life so that there is no measure of how much of a loser they are.  They aren’t looking to help people experiencing poverty, but to exploit them so that they don’t look so bad themselves. 

The reason Trump is getting respect around the world, especially during this Saudi Arabian visit, is that the world likes scoreboards, and America has been for them that guy getting out of the fancy car at valet parking with the hot chick on his arm smelling good for a night on the town.  And everyone else has fallen into a measurement system of a loser mentality.  They disparage wealth because they are too lazy to play the game to win themselves.  Most of us root for our favorite sports teams when they play, and when they win, we feel good.  When they lose, we get upset about it.  And the difference between those two things is the scoreboard.  We might like the players, but if they can’t win the game as measured by the scoreboard, they can’t be considered outstanding players in that sport.  The scoreboard matters, it matters in life, and in death.  The wins and losses a person has tell others they should listen to you.  How else would one generation know to listen to a previous one?  It all comes down to the scoreboard and what people do to win or lose.  Even if they cheat to win, it shows the world what they are, which is much better than saying that the scoreboard doesn’t even matter, which is the Marxist proposal.  When it comes to the Trump White House, which I just recently visited, it is good to see the displays of wealth around President Trump.  And it shows in the wins we are now getting out of the Executive Branch.  And losers like those in the Democrat Party don’t get to hide their detrimental status from the world with social criticism of a system, so they don’t look like the fools they are.  We must see it for ourselves and measure its value to the world. 

With all that said I know a lot of people who have made a lot of money by being boot lickers, con artists, and general social lowlifes who have traded their very souls to have a full wallet.  Just as in sports, our favorite teams don’t always win.  Sometimes the refs rig the game, people cheat, or luck doesn’t point in the direction of success.  Even among the very rich, most of them have not been entirely ethical along the way.  But the game itself evolves the value, and that value has great worth in its own context, one win at a time.  And it is in the pursuit of victory that life improves for everyone, and the drama of competition brings out the truth in people that would otherwise not be seen.  And behind all the merits of wealth building, there is a desire for quality, whether it’s fake or genuine, that forces a value judgement where values are very much in need of definition.  And the world is a lot better off with those judgments. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Fate of Atlantis: Letting the CIA shape a narrative through federal money on college campuses–controlling what people know and believe

I have a mission in life that involves the mounds of Ohio, which was why I was reading the older book now by David Price, Weaponizing Anthropology. Price is a professor of anthropology at Sait Martin’s University in Lacy, Washington, and is well known to poke a stick at things.  Even though he is noticeably interested in the fictional concept of social justice and radical progressive causes, he is also a free speech advocate who was pen pals with Julian Assange during the heyday of WikiLeaks.  I was also interested in what he had to say about CIA penetration into the field of anthropology, which we are all very familiar with now as a problem in all sciences.  So I slugged through the anti-Bush diatribes, because he was also pretty hard on President Obama, as the book was published around 2011.  So it’s not exactly up-to-date current events, but it does show to what extent the danger of providing federal money to science has been, which can then be applied to just about anything.  Thinking about the pre-COVID world, the ability to purchase scientific opinion was a real problem that is essentially the caution of a book like this, so it was a bit odd to read about it now, knowing what we do about things.  But for me, I don’t like being lied to, and the mound culture analysts that have come from the fields of archaeology and anthropology are ripe for exposure, and I was interested to see just what extent my thoughts on the matter were relevant as it turns out, its far worse than I thought.  The problem is how a government can control the flow of information and how much it costs to purchase the truth.  The CIA has been very interested in doing just that, and when you get this kind of evidence, the magnitude of the problems comes into focus fast.

For instance, if you look at the coastline of Florida, well into the Gulf of America, now would have been a vast span of land that took up most of it, all the way over to where the Mississippi River is now, which would have all been above water 15,000 years ago.  And the real definition of Native American indigenous people is not what we found when Columbus came to America, but was the remains of a previous culture that was advanced and very organized, and had been around longer than the established Clovis assumptions of post-Ice Age habitation.  Ocean levels were more than 400 feet lower because ice displacement from the glaciers locked up massive amounts of moisture at the poles.  That means that North America had a very different coastline, and the evidence of people living in America is well preserved miles offshore of our current coast.  Divers have found all kinds of good things to research, so it’s not controversial to observe and prove.  As I said to an investigator the other day who explores these kinds of things, as a science, we have been looking for the car keys under a parking lot light at night, because that’s where we can see.  But we lost the keys in the bar, which is now closed.  So we look where we can, and conclude things based on that minimal vantage point.  This is the case for all the mound builders; thousands of sites exist in the United States.  In Ohio, you can’t go even today more than 10 to 14 miles in any direction and not find evidence of this previous culture.  To get to the point, I think that the last culture was ancient Atlantis, as reported by Plato in his famous writings on the matter, which were historical, not elements of fantastic fiction.  The proof is everywhere, but we don’t look at it.

But why?  That’s where the CIA and other government forces come into the picture.  Why would the CIA want to create an official narrative within the field of social sciences to shape a domestic opinion?  Well, there is a political narrative of anti-American sentiment attached to the exploitation of indigenous people that shapes our political order, and any talk about Atlantis being destroyed, 50,000 years ago or even 10,000 years ago violates the narrative that the CIA has been able to inject into the official narrative to explain that Clovis people came into North America during the Ice Age and migrated as hunters and gathers as happy nature worshippers until the mean Europeans arrived and took their blissful life away from them with the exploits of capitalism. Instead, the Atlantis discussion shows the catastrophe of a failed government with advanced abilities that crumbled into nothingness for many detrimental reasons.  And we should understand, as a modern culture, what those reasons were, so we don’t make the same mistakes ourselves.   So, rather than deal with the facts, the CIA was able to capture the reporting of the facts through funding and penetration into campus scientists and force them to support a CIA-directed narrative, by controlling the nature of federal funding.  When the government can make loans for expensive educations available cheaply, they can control the terms of the education and, by clause of contract, force borrowers to say and do anything they want.  And it has been a massive problem that has massively compromised the field of anthropology.  We saw all the sciences exposed in raw form during COVID, where so many scientists said what the world governments wanted them to say.  In this way, David Price has been an insider whistleblower. 

The evidence of science should take us where the evidence goes.  And whatever it is, it is what it is.  I don’t talk about the Atlantis theory as a hope or wishful, and fanciful thinking, I say it because the evidence takes us there.  But hidden in front of that evidence is this government control of an official narrative installed by elements like the CIA, who have a massive desire to control the populations of the world, which is why they have been interested in anthropologists being on their payroll.  Through black budgets unregulated by Congress, these people have been able to shape the truth they want society to establish so they can control how people feel about it.  And there is an obvious political motivation behind the victimization narrative.  The CIA signed up for the globalist agenda at least since Kissinger was working to bring China into the fold.  A lot of history is hidden in plain sight all through China and Russia, and down into that vast territory in the Near East, to the familiar sites of Iraq and Iran.  And in all those areas, the same earth structures are seen in North America from a mound-building culture that came from somewhere and was everywhere, much deeper into history than we have been previously told.  And the motivation for these deceptions was control over the current population and what they know about history.  The Native American narrative is a Democrat plot against the creation of America to begin with.  And the forces of the world that currently want to be in power, as they showed during the self-made Covid crisis, are to erase the truth.  That, well before the Archaic period, there was a global civilization that suffered a catastrophe and fled to all corners of the world, resulting in the mound-building cultures that had with them a technology that was more occult than physical science.  And that society had failed long before Columbus discovered that ancient land.  Which, of course, would violate the narrative the modern CIA wanted to project.  And their ability to capture a version of the truth that the mass population would accept is the real result of government control over finance and the ability to know what the truth is and whether or not anybody can be trusted who accepts federal money, for anything.

Rich Hoffman

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A Teacher of the Year Getting 30 Years in Jail: Another cover-up case at Lakota Schools

It should be shocking, but it isn’t, as news of the San Diego Teacher of the Year Jacqueline Ma pleading guilty to sexually grooming two of her students, one 11 and the other 12 for an extended period, that Lakota schools had another incident, which was quietly wiped away from the news cycle.  Where is Karin Johnson from Channel 5?  And with that, San Diego teacher, what gave her away as a young 36-year-old prototype that was given their highest honor?  She was the kind of teacher they wanted to say to the world that she was the best, and that parents could feel safe sending their kids to her with all their trust.  Was it the nose rings?  At Lakota, about a month before Jacqueline Ma cried like a baby in front of the judge, throwing all her guilt on the table, Lakota schools had plain clothed police officers escorting out a male teacher from the East Freshman building because the mother of a young girl caught the guy watching porn with her daughter.  And previously, that same teacher had a series of complaints trying to get into the girls’ locker room, to the point that they had to move him somewhere else once people knew what he was up to.  But to keep the story out of the news and to protect the school’s image, especially with this recent lawsuit in Columbus, where Lakota, along with 300 other plaintiffs who have joined the EdChoice lawsuit, want to pretend that they are something they aren’t.  So they can keep the trust of tax-paying parents, instead of admitting what they really are, a breeding ground for Democrat politics with serious sexual deviancy issues.  The media never reports on the issue until there is a confession, which is rare.  And before action is ever taken, as in the case of the Lakota case and the San Diego case, it takes a nosy parent to ask questions and insist on an investigation, which then turns up diabolical behavior discovered too late.

It should be evident by now what is going on; these public schools only care about their reputations so they can continue to steal money from taxpayers to fund their monstrous meat factories of sexual molestation and disastrous grooming of innocent kids.  These cases are so common that, statistically speaking, if you look at those who aren’t getting caught, it’s an astonishingly high number, so much so that all students would be able to report some creepy teacher they have to interact with who has boundary problems.  The schools cannot detect it through their teacher union contracts because they don’t ask for or tell about concealment policies.  Jacqueline Ma was given everything and had an incredibly bright future if only she could keep her shirt on.  Yet she had such bad judgment that she was taking her clothes off in class to show the young boys her boobies and was sending them text messages with all kinds of incriminating content because when people, any people, get into authority positions, it is very difficult not to abuse that relationship.  Obviously, for teachers of the year like Jacqueline Ma, it was tough to keep her clothes on, and her mind out of the gutter when she had a class full of students under her power, not to abuse it.  And back to the EdChoice case in Ohio, or Trump’s position to strengthen School Choice and eliminate centralized education methods, favoring more competitive approaches, it’s because of these stories that no public schools in the country can say that they are efficiently teaching children. Instead, they are abusing them sexually and ruining them for the rest of their lives, in many cases. 

I pick on Karin Johnson because I have a history with her.  She’s always there too late and supports the public school experience with blinders on.  I know her from my WLW days, when she was friends with Scott Sloan, the radio host.  I talked a lot about public school problems on his show until Scott got in trouble with his wife, a real estate agent, and those segments on a big radio station were what she thought was damaging to the real estate value of the school districts where she was selling.  So things went south, and Karin Johnson showed herself as a former cheerleader using the news as a pro-school advocate.  Only when a story completely collapses does she do a story on these dangerous public schools.  Instead of digging up the problems, they turn their attention to the people trying to bring all this to the surface, to protect the public schools for many of the reasons that were behind WLW radio getting out of that business.  The advertisers want to think well of these schools, whether they are good or not.  And now people hear too many of these stories that they want to pull their kids out of the schools and send them somewhere private.  And they want choices in education because the public option is far from reform-worthy.  Many people who have pushed these terrible stories under the radar want the public option to work for one reason or another, psychological or financial, and it’s hard for them to face the facts.  However, parents are sick of having to do all the work, and if it were not for them, the school would never admit to these transgressions.  And everything would continue to be swept under the rug.

It’s a problem in every workplace: the abuse of power by those who have authority over others, whether students or employees.  You cannot have a system of efficient teaching when a school system in San Diego gives a teacher like Jacqueline Ma a Teacher of the Year award, because they are measuring all the wrong values.  I would have told them that the nose ring should have been a disqualifying attribute.  You can’t be Teacher of the Year with a nose ring.  And if you take your clothes off in front of your students and send them pictures of you in sexual conditions, you can’t work as an authority figure in the school.  Or like in Lakota, where these cases are pretty much daily, if you watch porn with your students, grooming them, you are fired.  And if this young girl’s mom didn’t stick her nose into the situation, that teacher would still be employed, even though the other teachers know all about the problems.  They don’t say anything because they care more about the school’s reputation.  Not in actually being good and performing well.  The public school experience is inefficient, expensive, and corrosive because it has bad teachers instructing students in vulnerable positions, doing all the wrong things.  And it’s out of control because the checks on that power are more interested in keeping the stories from the public to hide it, because of some financial or emotional interest, that they have made the problem far worse.  It’s so bad that whistleblowers, like that girl’s mom at Lakota, are viewed as troublemakers, instead of the teachers caught doing the dirty deeds.  The assumption from the public school supporters is that we should all keep in mind the greater good of public education, even if that good is only in bad teachers continuing to get a paycheck stolen from property owners for a service that is horrible in general to an entire generation of kids.  And when it comes down to it, nobody but a few parents who care are looking out for the kids.  Not the news, not our politicians, not our business world, nobody.  Not even our churches.  Nobody cares because the evil under the rug is so vast and horrible that people would rather not find out about it until some tenacious parent catches someone guilty, and they cry like a baby, hoping to get a plea deal to cut 30 years of jail down to a lesser sentence.  By that time, their lives are already ruined. 

Rich Hoffman

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Public Schools Are Going To Lose on EdChoice: Free legal advice on how to beat this case in court

In early May of 2025, oral arguments for the joint lawsuit by over 300 affiliates attached to public education funding made their pitch for why school vouchers harmed them and needed to be made unconstitutional.  Lakota schools in my district have recently joined this lawsuit with some horrendous legal advice from their counsel, but here’s the deal, and it’s quite clear after listening to the plaintive side of the case.  I had friends who went to provide testimony for the defense, for the position of the state to continue with the expansion of the school voucher program, in this case specifically, EdChoice.  I don’t think there was any question going into it how it was going to evolve.  But the position of the presenters, the public school argument, was incredibly weak.  Pathetically weak, and I guess you would expect them to be better prepared.  Here’s the deal: Public schools have left people wanting something better because they have performed terribly over a long period.  And parents want choices for their kids.  We’re not talking about not having education here.  We are talking about better education made that way through competition.  These pathetic public schools run by these ridiculously lazy teacher unions have destroyed the public education prospect as it was initially conceived.  Because most parents need the free babysitting service, they hold their noses and just put up with it.  But increasingly, parents don’t want to send their kids to public schools, and they want access to private schools, so they look for options like EdChoice to do so.  For many parents who currently send their kids to private schools, the system is really unfair to them.  They already pay property taxes to a local school attached to their zip code, and the full tuition for the private alternative.  Now, more people want the same option; they only wish that the tax money they pour into the system would be used to help give them an option instead of wasting it on a poorly managed local school they have no choice in.  Other than picking up and moving somewhere else.  It’s an evil system that is in deep need of reform. 

This is a common occurrence in public education institutions, and is why in Ohio, they can’t meet the ‘efficiency’ standard. This is a recent case out of state, but shows the system itself is broken and Ohio has plenty of their own cases.

I’m happy to do it. I usually do it twenty times a week for somebody somewhere, and I’ll give everyone some free legal work in this case.  This is an easy case without much drama because of the wording in the Ohio Constitution, which I think is a remarkable document.  I love the Ohio Constitution.  For fun, I read it at least once a week.  But for the plaintiffs in this EdChoice case, they are way off the rails on their argument.  And for the defense, here is how you win this case with an end zone dance.  The Ohio Constitution from 1851 says, “the General Assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation, or otherwise, as with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state; but no religious or other sect, or sects, shall ever have any exclusive right to, or control of, any part of the school funds of this state.”  The problem with the teacher union-run public schools with an operating management system straight off the pages of the Democrat Party is that they have let their costs get away from them, and that nobody manages the efficiency of the product they produce, no matter how you manage “efficiency.”  We could measure efficiency by the output, student quality, and ability to navigate adult lives.  Or get jobs that they are well prepared for.  Or we can measure efficiency by the cost per pupil, how much money it takes to produce a good student, “efficiently.”  In all the cases, the public school presentation of their point of view falls short because of the wording, “efficiency.”  They want and expect an exclusive monopoly of state funds, which has caused them to be wildly inefficient.  And it is in this failure that there is a court case at all.  Public schools, six at this Columbus hearing, but a lot more in the background, are trying to stave off what they caused for themselves. 

People want choice from the public school system because it has proven itself to be incredibly inefficient in allocating funds to the proper education of Ohio students.  So the burden of proof in this case is on the plaintiffs to show how they have presented an efficient product worthy of state money, rather than their assumption that they are promised state money just for existing.  They have not met the minimum Constitutional threshold for their base argument.  That’s why the Supreme Court has found the Ohio school funding model unconstitutional up to this point and why it has lingered in indecision.  That word “efficiency” is a real problem for how public education evolved, and the writers were wise to put it there.  You could also say the same about the word “thorough.”  How can public schools say they provide a “thorough” education when the evidence shows that they do only what they have to do to get state money and use it to pay overpriced labor markets ridiculous amounts of money for perpetually poor performance?  The plaintiffs really sounded foolish in this constitutional regard at the Columbus oral arguments.  Even I was embarrassed for them.

I know it, the public school types claim that they are held to different standards than the private schools are not held to, and there is money in that compliance.  But that is again part of the problem of inefficiency, even if government standards have made the public school experience less efficient.  It contributes through their argument of the facts that the public school experience is unreasonably inefficient because of the standards the state has put on them to make the use of the money they get less effective.  Which only makes it worse for them.  This kind of back and forth is why more and more parents want an off-ramp to the public school experience.  Parents wish to choose whether it’s in a private school or to homeschool their kids so they don’t have to send their kids to a factory of Democrat politics, which is what modern education has evolved into.  Public schools are not teaching kids to grow up and become Republicans, which would make sense if it were fair both ways.  But they are actively trying to teach kids to grow up and become Democrats.  And what parent wants to pay for that if they don’t want to lose their kids to radical politics?  Which happens a lot in the public school experience.  And when you go to school board meetings to complain, and the school board cuts off the mic to shut everyone up, what do they expect to happen?  People will want to pull their kids out of those schools and will not want to waste their money on an inefficient school just because it happens to be in their zip code.  The public schools have shown that they waste the money and continue asking for more.  Because they are a bad product made that way through a monopoly status.  And the best thing for them, to make them Constitutionally viable, is to force them to be more efficient in a competitive marketplace, which is why EdChoice and many other voucher programs will increase in number in the years to come.  The teachers’ unions will not win this case, because they can’t show that they contribute an efficient and thorough product.  And with that, the case is over.

Rich Hoffman

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