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SpaceX Does it Again: Crawling out from under Cost-Plus restrictions

For perspective, you can go back through all my writing, millions and millions of words back to 2013 when I wrote an article from Florida about the essential end of the Space Shuttle program and that Obama’s vision for NASA was to partner with Russian cosmonauts for any future space missions.  I was very outraged at the policy, and if I never liked Obama for anything, it was his anti-growth attitude to suppress American exceptionalism as it often presents itself in space travel, that I hated the most.  We were going backward under Obama and Biden, and the only growth we have seen in over two decades came from the four years we had from Trump the first time.  So, I have been very excited about watching the civilian infrastructure for space develop, and anywhere I can help it, I certainly do.  So if I’m more excited these days and very enthusiastic for every day, as many people pointed out to me at a Jags get-together ahead of the inauguration of Trump, I’m sure eventually they’ll understand.  I don’t think people realize what a miracle the week of January 13th was in 2025.  Yes, SpaceX did it again; they landed their Superheavy booster rocket back on the pad it launched from after carrying another Starship into space.  They lost the ship due to a pressure problem that couldn’t gas out fast enough on a new second-generation Starship, and it ruptured the hull, causing the whole thing to break up in the atmosphere.   That was unfortunate but very correctable.  The real trick was repeating the landing of the booster rocket to show that the first time wasn’t an accident.  Watching that rocket capture chopsticks system work now repeatably was a fantastic thing to witness, and it takes us a long way from my complaints about when Obama ended the Space Shuttle program over a decade ago.

But that wasn’t all; just a few hours before SpaceX launched, Blue Origin put their own rocket into space, but this one was carrying a lunar lander from Firefly, a Texas-based company, that was returning to the moon.  Another personal problem I have is with NASA and governments around the world.  I don’t care what anybody found when we went to the moon the first time.  There was no excuse not to have a Hilton there by now so I could vacation on the moon with my family.  This raw, primitive embrace of backward thinking that came to us from both political parties has infuriated me to no end.  When people ask me why I have had my war against public education, it starts with this lack of preparation as a culture to advance people into space.  We should have been doing this since the original moon missions, and as I was growing up, it looked good.  But the Department of Education under Jimmy Carter and the socialist politics that held our society down through labor unions and liberal politics stopped that advancement and I have never been good with it.   If we don’t have a culture pushing for adventures into space, we are deliberately trying to suppress the ambitions of the human race in a very unhealthy way.  So, for me, watching all this space activity just a few days before President Trump’s return to the White House was fantastic and deserved as a subject of massive optimism.  For a culture to produce two space launches like Blue Origin and SpaceX produced, it would have taken NASA a decade to do one of them.  Let alone two significant ones.  We are dealing with good times, finally.

The amount of capacity and bandwidth is the real challenge, and that’s what is changing, which I’ll be pointing out often because I am pretty sure people don’t know what to think of these displays of monumental ambition.  It takes thousands of manhours and intelligence calculations to produce one rocket into space, especially when discussing complicated payloads.  But here we have a culture that did it twice in the same week. Additionally, there are several Falcon rockets that are taking constant payload into space, whether people or satellites for the Starlink system, we have come a long way from the Obama administration sending Americans into space through partnerships with Russia.  As soon as SpaceX realized that they had lost their Starship, they were already planning to pull another out of their manufacturing facility, where several others were waiting, and they were planning another launch next month.  SpaceX expects to launch at least 20 more times in 2025 to develop Starship further.  What they learned from this recent one, even though it burned up in the atmosphere, was extremely valuable compared to the traditional hindrances of a cost-plus company.  The way SpaceX is attacking the problem is the definition of how these things will be done in the future, and it embodies a whole new view of manufacturing that is escaping the clutches of global socialists like Obama, who were deliberately trying to hold back humanity.   It’s one of those situations in which small-minded people have been trying to destroy society to rule over the ashes.  And these new manufacturing methods being developed at SpaceX are a rebellion against that sentiment.  And it’s precisely what space needs for humans to colonize the stars.  Other companies are now moving in that same direction regarding the “rate of resolution.”

Cost-plus companies have been hijacked by all kinds of horrible forces that have held back the aerospace industry since the first moon landing.  When parasitic characters realized they could stall contracts and make money off ignorant governments for more congressional money to be thrown at the trolls to build something, trouble was clearly on the horizon.  That’s why space had to move into civilian care because there was looting politics in government control that held us back with people like Obama.  A setback like Starship had at SpaceX this week would have stopped advancement at a typical cost-plus company for a decade in the past.  Instead, Elon Musk said immediately that the plan was to roll out another Starship and get ready for a second try next month.  The only thing that will hold them back is the speed of government, which will increase dramatically once Trump is back in office.  There is a lot to be very excited about, and I am.  It’s not just about going to space that is exciting; it is about watching the human race crawl out from under a very oppressive political climate and an education system that has sought to cripple us purposely.  Not to inspire us to grow.  And due to all that, we see that the human race is doing big things again, and the American culture, which has produced the world’s wealthiest people, is putting that wealth to good use in adventure and enterprise.  As good as this past week was, and it was, I see under the incoming Trump administration launches like that happening every single day.  I don’t think people realize yet how important all this is and what it will do for us.  But I can see it and am very excited about what’s coming.   In many ways, it’s a dream come true. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Importance of Kari Lake Running Voice of America: What the world needs the most of

People will increasingly realize just how important communication is to a culture.  Out of all Trump’s picks for offices that need to work with a new government, I think Kari Lake’s being assigned Director of Voice of America is one of the best and most important.  After all, we just saw what radical leftists wanted for the world.  We saw their Brave New World authority concepts, and they tried to implement them and destroy our American Constitution along the way.  We saw them cancel the fireworks at Mt. Rushmore and any references to patriotism and memory of great American moments.  We saw flash mobs attack our heroic statues and attempt to overthrow our nation in every way.  So we can never forget how terrified our enemies are of the American message, and trying to keep it out of the mind of the world.  To perform what they wanted, the enemies of America, both foreign and domestic, needed to erase the idea of America and personal freedom from the minds of the many.  Luckily, one of Trump’s excellent skills as a builder of brands is an appreciation for the ability to communicate.  And he understands why selling the idea of America to the world is essential.  So he has appointed Kari Lake to do just that, which I think is a much more important job than a Senator or Governor, which she clearly would have been suitable for, but had both of those opportunities robbed from her through gross election fraud by criminals who wanted to hijack America and turn it into something else.  And how do we know they cheated? They kept counting individual ballot drops for weeks after these elections and contaminating the batches with percentages of mail-in ballots not verified by photo ID, and they kept counting fake ballots until they defeated her in the election.  Through election fraud, they kept Kari Lake from winning her last two races, because they know how good she is as a communicator.  So bad people conspired to keep her out of politics.

The Voice of America has a special place in my mind.  From my perspective in Liberty Township, I grew up looking at the three towers off on the horizon toward Mason and would listen to bits of it on AM radio.  I was an oddly patriotic kid growing up.  I listened to a lot of AM radio, especially WMOH, which was just down the road in Hamilton, on a CB unit I had that stayed on all the time.  Also near the Voice of America towers was WLW radio, which broadcasts 24 hours of freedom all over America, and I loved it.  My bedroom my mother painted in red, white, and blue stars by hand, which looked like a monstrosity about to perform at a 4th of July parade.  And she did all that because even at ages one and two years old, I had very patriotic inclinations.  I was one of the official Ronald Regan campaigners in grade school in the 7th grade.  I worked hard for Reagan, and I despised Jimmy Carter even though most of the kids in my school had no idea who those people were during that pivotal election of 1980.  I was a weird kid, and many people think I’m a strange adult.  But with my background, I understand all too well how important it is to sell the idea of America to the privacy of people’s lives, whether it’s while they are growing up or looking for entertainment at their homes.  There are many competing ideas out there for entertainment value, but I always thought America should do more to promote itself to the world, so they could learn to be more like us.  Because I have always loved the idea of “us”.  And I have spent much time trying to spread that love as much as possible.

Oddly enough, I grew into an adult who frequently appeared on WLW radio.  I loved the power of talk radio and have watched it evolve.  Because of my friendship with Darryl Parks, the old program manager at WLW radio, I moved away from corporate radio, as there was no future in it, and grabbed on to the independent media formats, which are now turning out to be the last refuge of such a vile conspiracy.  The bad guys believed that by taking over the corporate media controls, they would control America’s message, which turned out to be excessively wrong.  But the attempt at it shows the obvious danger. And Voice of America, like the Truckin’ Bozo Show on WLW, became captured assets to control the message of what America was.  During a particularly tough period in my life, one that probably would have killed most people, I was working 16-hour days five days a week and 8-hour days on the weekends.  My wife and I had only one car, so I rode a bicycle 12 miles each way to work for five years.  I was being sued by multiple people for multiple things, grotesquely unfairly.  But I was a hot-shot young person who was into lots of things, and there were a lot of bad people who wanted to pound me out of existence.  I learned to carry a chip on my shoulder that turned into a mountain after I survived all these things, always thinking in the back of my mind about that patriotic room my mom had painted for me and the goodness of fighting for the right to be happy, and free in the world. 

My only bit of happiness during that rough period was that Paul Harvey would come on WLW at 3:30  AM and do news and commentary, complete with his daily “rest of the story” broadcasts on the Truckin’ Bozo Show.  So that kept me going, believe it or not, when I had nothing else to look forward to.  I couldn’t afford legal representation for all those lawsuits, so I had to do the work myself.  Which I was successful at after more than three years of court cases.  So, I understand hardship, and I greatly sympathize with the pain that the entire world goes through for similar reasons.  Looking back on it, I think God pushed me to become very strong so I could help many people by understanding their perspective.  I loved Voice of America so much that even now, I visit the VOA Park several times a week to record my VLOG broadcasts, which I have found is much more potent than all the radio I listened to as a kid because there were no corporate controls to the effort.  So I get it with Kari Lake; she was very successful in traditional media.  Trump, who was very successful in media also, understands this importance.  Voice of America has become a captured asset of the enemy over the years, but now it will be the Voice of Maga.  And I know that over 300 million people are listening to it every day who are going through their life circumstances like mine, where there is no ray of hope but maybe a little 30-minute radio broadcast in the middle of the night, and that’s all they have to hang on to live for a few more minutes.  The world needs to hear more about how great America can be and is.  Kari Lake is just the person who will do it as the new Director of the Voice of America.  As history remembers it, this will be one of the most essential things that Trump does as President.  And we’ll reflect on how great it was that Kari was available to run VOA back to greatness for the many lives worldwide looking for a positive message.

Rich Hoffman

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Rats in MAGA Hats: The FBI has to be punished for what they did on January 6th, lying about their 26 paid informants at the heart of all the trouble

There is a lot that will change, and keep in mind that as hurt as everyone was over the CR from Congress, nobody has seen anything yet in that regard.  Congress should have never packed that bill entirely of so much nonsense; the CR should have been presented as one page and provided with it a plan.  When we talk about D.O.G.E with some of the wealthiest people in the world volunteering their time to bring sanity to the process, don’t expect there not to be broken eggshells.  This will not be politics as usual on any front.  And I would say to all those involved in putting together that 1500-page monstrosity full of garbage that the Democrats wanted, remember, they did not win the election.  America turned them away.  So act like it when thinking about spending money.  All the pain that everyone is going through is better than jail or worse.  So tighten up your belts, shut your mouths, and thank God a Constitution is protecting you from the punishment you deserve for the way you have screwed over all of us for years.  It will get very pushy, but it’s for everyone’s good.  This is why it is good for Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to be independently wealthy and to be attached to the Trump administration voluntarily because they can afford to be critical of horrible government efforts like this December CR that otherwise would have been passed mainly unnoticed by the public for over 100 billion dollars of additional debt to fund the government only for two more months.  In February, they’d all be back doing the same stupid stuff and looking for another global distraction to keep stupid media from reporting the details. And that whole process would continue, spending another trillion dollars in debt every 100 days and tying us all closer to the enemies of the world financially who want to destroy us.  No, it’s time to start saying no and sticking with it.

And that same mentality has to be enacted regarding the FBI.  Everyone is fortunate that we are talking about putting Kash Patel in a position to head the FBI and clean up all this mess.  Now we know for sure, beyond speculation, that the FBI had over 26 informants working the crowd for January 6th 2021 and that Christopher Wray lied about it to Congress. That’s why the day before that information was released to the public, the FBI Director announced that he would resign. Many people wanted him to stay on for his full ten-year term to shield them from further investigations.  But Wray doesn’t want or need any of that.  He’s already in trouble for participating in trying to destroy Trump, the guy who picked him to be in that role after Trump had to fire Jim Comey, and with Trump back in the White House, there is no future for Wray.  He played an evil, dangerous game of letting the Biden administration weaponize the government, and now they have all been caught.  His best option is to resign, take himself off the map, and run for the hills, which is what he’s doing.  That leaves a lot of bad guys exposed in the wake, and as to that, tuff tootles.  They did the crime; now they can do the time.  It’s not going to be nice; what happens to them?  And there will be a lot more media overall than there was over this continuing resolution that Congress tried to push through. 

January 6th, we always suspected, was a set-up job, standard practice for the three-lettered government agencies over many decades.  People were upset that there was election fraud and that they were going to lose President Trump to vast government corruption.  So they showed up to protest it, as they had a right to do.  The FBI decided to try to work the situation to its advantage by putting paid informants, 26 of them, at the Capitol and instigating trouble by leading the effort to vandalize and destroy property, which Ray Epps was essentially caught on camera doing.  Christopher Wray denied that he had any FBI assets at the site and that the accusations of such misconduct were purely conspiratorial.  Few believed him.  However, in December of 2024, we learned otherwise that there were 26 such people the January 6th committee had not interviewed or anybody for that matter.  We know the names.  We know what their financial compensation was.  We know everything except who told them to do what and what they told the angry mob to do to provoke violence and start a scandal they hoped would lay cover fire for their coup against a people’s picked government.  Trump was the pick of voters, and they played their part in running a coup against him to maintain control of the government against the people of our nation and the voting system we use to establish authority.  This is all nasty stuff to add to a series of horrendously terrible things.  That’s how it will be for a while; I’ll be reporting a series of horrible things that must be punished aggressively and without mercy.  Otherwise, we won’t have a future as a country. 

Yes, the FBI lied to us, as has most of the government.  And the January 6th prisoners have to be released as soon as possible, and they deserve recourse against those who put them in jail.  All those who participated in orchestrating that coup against Trump and then tried to incite violence to cover up the attempt and put the shoe of violence on the other foot have to be punished brutally.  And some out there will wonder if it needs to be that excessive.  Hey, it doesn’t matter if it’s a small or big culture; if people do wrong, they must be punished.  And pushing them out of their jobs and getting them out of the culture you want to fix is the first big step.  Many people have done wrong that has to be removed, starting with Christopher Wray.  But there will be many more to come and remember as you watch them cry and scream like little kids who didn’t get candy at the checkout line.  They are lucky we are so righteous.  Because they deserve it.  But continuing with the mess they created and expecting to slide fake money under the door to pay for it all is not how we will do things in the future.  Our government must work for our country’s people; it must serve them.  Not the other way around.  The people do not serve the parasites who have been running it.  And we are putting a stop to it.  That’s why we elected Trump, and he understands that.  And he has committed to the job.  And that’s how the spaghetti in the kitchen will be made with D.O.G.E.  Placating evil with friendships got us into this mess.  Now, there is going to be pain, lots of it.  And nobody has seen anything yet.  Get ready because 2025 is going to be a wild, historic year.  But more than anything, it’s all necessary because so many did so many bad things leading up to this.  And honestly, they are lucky to be alive after what they did. And in this case, they put rats in MAGA hats and tried to use that ruse to commit a vast series of crimes.  And they got caught.

Rich Hoffman

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Why Trump’s Economy Will Be Explosive: Too many government rules hold back financial opportunity

There has been a lot of consternation over the notion that Trump can wave a magic wand and fix so much in the economy so quickly.  It was as if everyone was delusional about wanting to return to 2017 when everything was going well and that Trump wouldn’t be able to do anything now, in 2024.  Well, here’s the thing: the inflation, the recession, and the depression that we have been experiencing are all a direct result of too much government tampering in the economy by people with too much micromanagement.  In general, the more freedom people have, the more that money flows, so when a government is too top-heavy, the flow of money is significantly reduced.  This is how economies have been since the beginning of time, and much of what we have been experiencing has been artificial, created by a government that micromanaged people too much.  The government under Biden was much more interested in micromanaging people and their behavior rather than letting the economy measure behavior and fuel the interests of various people.  So, when we talk about stagnant economic activity during the Biden years, it is because too much policy was intended to control behavior rather than supply happiness.  When a government takes the role of a parental figure, the entire society retreats into the state of a child dependent on top-down rule rather than self-initiated creation.  And in that way, an economy falters.  When we look at poor people around the world and study why they have a lack of money supply, the root cause will always point back to too much authority government getting in the way of happiness, which then is measured by economic activity.  The flow of money is directly proportional to a society’s level of freedom. 

The Biden administration was obsessed with micromanaging every aspect of people’s lives, and ultimately, when they study why they fell out of favor with the American public at every level of society, it will be because they were too involved in people’s lives, such as telling them they had to buy an EV car and that gas-powered cars would be a thing of the past, not because the market decided, but because of some pin-headed politicians worshiping some climate god of liberalism.  There were brownouts in very liberal states that got rid of fossil fuels in exchange for renewables.  While Biden staff members openly had sex in government rooms and recorded it, and many were promoted as transexuals, the illusion was that sexual behavior was the kind of behavior that would be tolerated and that decadence in the social rules would replace the yearning for economic viability.  People would forget about the cost of food and energy if they could have reckless sex without being judged by society.  And when those priorities became the standard, massive social unhappiness resulted.  And money did not flow properly.  It was the nanny state that Democrats put forth, going back to Obama.  Micromanaging social policy through regulations and then trying to distract mass society into sexual deviancy as a replacement for happiness turned out to be devastating, as reflected in economic output.  Of course, the communists in charge globally tried to hide the bad economic numbers with phony jobs reports and interest rate management by the Fed, but in truth, the damage was well done before Biden went too far and came up with a vaccine mandate where everyone would have to participate in buying medicine with a horrible alliance between government and big pharma. 

Trump’s economy will quickly supercharge the world because it will be fueled by pent-up energy.  Immediately, the amount of power held back in Biden’s war against fossil fuels will stimulate economic activity within weeks of taking office.  And it is that easy.  The desire of the Biden government to connect to the World Economic Forum socialists was artificial.   People want the lights to come on when they turn them on.  They don’t care if the energy comes from fossil fuels, solar, or wind.  They want things to work when they want them.  So, the conditions we have today are artificially bad due to government tampering with our power needs, not for practical reasons but policy rooted in crazy beliefs.  Trump is going to cancel the Paris Climate Accord and many other Democrat politics that directly carry over into economic behavior, and quickly, the money flow will return to the rate of necessity.  Only during year one of the Biden presidency were we told that the last gas-powered Mustang from Ford had been produced.  Who wants to rev up the engine of an EV car?  That doesn’t sound very cool.  For many, revving up a powerful car’s engine and attracting females sparks a lot of economic activity.  A lot of money is spent on clothes for a date and colognes. Going out to dinner.  And ultimately mating practices.  Something that the EV car robbed everyone of.  It just wasn’t the same kind of exciting experience.  When you artificially constrain supply with too many rules, the cost structure of everything will be disrupted, making money flow much less on a social scale.  Trump’s economy will flourish by eliminating the artificial rules created to control human behavior and allow market values to determine social happiness. 

These are rules for economic activity that are always true.  Financial stagnation is a choice, and in America, we had that choice robbed from us with election fraud in 2020.  The hope was that after just a few years, Americans would accept these new economic standards of replacing happiness with parental micromanagement.  And that’s not what happened. Instead, people held their breath and waited for their next opportunity to make a change, which came from the 2024 election.  People can’t wait to have the nanny state gone so they can buy cars, spend money on going out to eat, and enjoy Christmas again.  Putting up with a micromanaging government was not by choice but by capture, and people never accepted the new rules.  They planned to replace that government with one that reported to them rather than vice versa.  And under Trump, the fossil fuel economy will flourish, leaving the rest of the world committed to goofy climate change, unprepared, and at a severe market disability.  And it will happen quickly because the pent-up desire has always existed.  The EV mandates were never going to work, and most of the economic downturns we have been experiencing were by choice and not driven by market necessity, but the role that government played in the lives of free people toward social concerns shaped by sentiment, not logic.  When you hear someone giving a big engine Mustang some gas, the roar of the engine says a lot of things: that the owner has a powerful car, that he’s potent as a sex partner, that he will work hard to make a family, cut the grass on Saturdays, and build a new door when his woman wants one.  Because the powerful car says he wants to be influential, he’ll spend a fortune projecting that sentiment.  What the Biden administration did was cheapen all that with micromanagement.  And they replaced all that with sexual heresy, which took away the value of all the mating customs.  Which were drags on economic activity brought on by too much government regulation.  So when all that is taken away, the economy will flourish and do so explosively. 

Rich Hoffman

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Spiking the Football After the 2024 Trump Election: I never doubted what would happen, even if a lot of stupid people couldn’t see the forest for the trees

I don’t usually do it.  I don’t normally let myself feel the emotion to go out and spike the football on something.  I prefer to be calm, cool, and optimistic, even if the world is on fire.  I have learned over time how to build teams of people at all levels using my unique optimism and tendency toward tenacity to help people who are either too stupid, stubborn, or inexperienced to help themselves.  In the kind of government that we have, I have learned a lot from people like social manipulators and writers Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, and Thomas Paine.  Most people feel the same about similar topics but don’t always know how to achieve their objectives.  So I often take it upon myself to help them even if they can’t help themselves because if they take the help, they might just be able to do something to help the world around them instead of being a perpetual parasite.  So if you tell people what you think of them, and how frustrated they make you, you will destroy their communication with you and resist the opportunity to listen to good advice and to use it to make the world around them better, which is one of the key ingredients to a triumphant republic, as opposed to some flee-bitten, rotten democracy run by a bunch of slack-jawed losers.  I guess I help people subtly because I generally like them and want them to have good lives.  But they frustrate me most of the time, as a person, and working with them takes so much energy that I’d rather spend doing other kinds of things that are much more rewarding.  And that was never the case more than what we have experienced over the last four years since President Trump was removed from office.  I have worked hard to pour patriotic effort into the roots of a growing liberty tree, along with many others.  And after Trump won the 2024 election, and many of the things I have been saying all along came to be just as I said they would, I feel I have earned the right to spike the football and blow off some long pent-up steam. 

I never doubted the election that we would see in 2024.  I have produced thousands of videos talking about Trump, these election cycles, the legalisms discussed in the news cycles and written many millions of millions of words that have been read and watched by many millions of people.  And I get very little out of it, only that I want our republic to stand, and for that to happen, people need to be educated.  They don’t teach proper civics in schools these days and certainly don’t teach proper philosophy.  So, I put a lot of effort into giving people the tools they lack in life without letting them know that the effort isn’t of their own making because that’s how people tend to learn best.  But it’s always a painful experience because there is nothing people do that I can’t read and understand.  People and their lives are messy, and interacting with them is not a pleasant experience for me.  I don’t enjoy it.  People like Trump do enjoy it.  He loves people, which made him the perfect person to run for the presidency three times.  And he has a lot of similar qualities of tenaciousness that I understand, as do people like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, who commit their lives to these republic-building concepts to help the human race advance. 

But it was never lost on me what happened in 2020, and it was one of the worst things that ever happened to me.  Not that it didn’t happen to other people, too, but we all have life skills, and my particular skill is understanding things with great clarity.  And believe me, it’s a painful skill because it gives you no illusions.  To see things precisely as they are, friendships, business relationships, love lives, and even relationships with pets, is very painful.  But it can be used to a significant effect if you take it.  So I explained Trump’s return to the White House on day one of leaving it the first time, and I poured a significant part of my life into helping to make it happen by carefully watering the Liberty Tree of many influencers over a long period.  And along the way, I had to endure a lot of really dumb people who told me that Trump was never going to be back in the White House.  And that the Secret Service is saying that “they” will never let Trump back into the White House as if the bad guys in the world controlled us.  These were the positions of stupid people, but I had to work with them to build a team that would stick together to do what needed to be done.  And I had to do it so they wouldn’t realize it was happening because that is one of the keys to getting human engagement on any project.  People have to believe that they are making the decisions; otherwise, they won’t endeavor to do it in the future on their own.  A teacher teaches a hungry man to fish so you don’t create a perpetual welfare recipient dependent on you for everything.  They need to be taught to do things on their own.  And if you want a republic form of government to function, people need to want it and to maintain it from their own self-interest.

Yet Trump won this election just as I said he would.  I listened to many people who get paid a lot of money to know these kinds of things, yet just about everyone got it completely wrong and couldn’t see the forest for the trees, which was very frustrating.  So, I am happy to have lived through that dark period and what I did every day to help make it better.  It was at a significant cost to me personally, and nobody would appreciate it because most don’t have the mind to understand what happened.  However, for the strength of the republic and the future of America, we have punched through a firewall that has always held back the human race.   And it took a lot more than Trump to do it.  But what matters is that the thing was done, and it feels good to see it come about.  Even if I had seen it way before anybody else, I would have had to listen to their nonsense about what would happen and what anybody should be doing about it.  I heard every kind of negative comment about Trump that you can imagine.  And what I got back from all those people were diatribes about how I’m overly optimistic and that my flowery view of the world couldn’t see reality.  Nobody, not even the well-paid pundits, saw things clearly and could even consider that President Trump would be President Trump again.  They thought conventionally that he would be suppressed by some invisible system that ruled the universe instead of understanding that the nature of a republic is to initiate self-starters and empower them into the world.  And often, just like teaching children, the process was thankless and usually not rewarding.  But when you are trying to grow a republic, that incentive to create something new makes us do it.  When we get a big score like we did with this Trump election, spiking the football and celebrating a bit is perfectly justified.  And taking a break from all the stupid people of the world for a bit is certainly well-earned. 

Rich Hoffman

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What to Believe About 2024 Polling: The machine is protecting itself from a revolution against their control

Don’t forget that we are dealing with a massive criminal syndicate that has taken over the levers of government power and is using that power to stay in control.  And those looking for the easy money that comes with corruption are facilitating the enterprise, which is undoubtedly the case with the warnings The New York Times has been saying about election results.  Of course, they plan to cheat again when they say that we should not go to bed expecting a winner on election night.  It might look like Trump won, but as they did in 2020, the plan is to keep counting mail-in ballots, especially from overseas, until they reach the number to push Kamala over the top.   That’s what they did with Biden.  But this time, it will be much harder for them because so many eyes are on this election, and they won’t have COVID-19 as a cover for deviating from traditional election counting procedures.  But just as a baseline, we are a highly technical country; modern tools allow us to know and do things better than ever before.  However, suppose we can’t get a result on election night. We are witnessing incompetence driven by a need for theft and a whole bunch of problems that an established order has in controlling mass society with election fraud.  The New York Times is well aware of this.  Never forget that the company that owns The New York Times went about in the 1990s buying up a lot of media companies, particularly KFOR Channel 4 in Oklahoma City, which was investigating the evidence of a third terrorist after the Oklahoma City Bombing, the investigation was essentially shut down after the new owners showed no interest in pursuing the story and a massive desire to contain the evidence from the public.  The same thing happened in Cincinnati with The Cincinnati Enquirer when Gannett bought them, the same newspaper corporation that runs USA Today.  Independent media has been gobbled up by giant corporate conglomerates that are highly invested in global socialism, and they use the media to control populations on a mass scale.  Not to report the news to them but to control what they think.

So don’t expect that same machine to tell you the truth about what’s going on in the 2024 election.  I told everyone you’d see every evil effort during this election season.  And I’ve also said emphatically that Democrats can’t win if they don’t cheat.  And we are at that point in the election cycle where cheating occurs at the suppression polling level.  Suddenly, Kamala Harris, hiding from the world without doing much public engagement, is surging in the polls, creating the illusion that she is poised to win, frustrating Trump supporters with a cold reality that we might end up with a communist takeover of America.  Even Rasmussen has shown a much closer race between Trump and Harris than anybody thought was possible. Just remember, the machine does not want to give up power, and it is doing everything it can to suppress the Trump vote, so don’t take anything for granted.  Do not stay home on this one; get out and vote for Trump.  This is the chance of a lifetime to undo the machine that is visible when we see what BlackRock has done to the world.  There is a lot of money for this criminal class of people to rob us by the means they have been utilizing.  And that criminal class of global Marxists wants Kamala in the White House to continue that criminal enterprise. 

In all likelihood, Trump is doing even better than this. But polling doesn’t capture engagement very well. The date on this map is four days before this article.

It’s not that we can’t trust the polling.  The method is suitable for capturing trends; not everything is a conspiracy.  However, many of the polling companies want a particular outcome because they are part of the media machine, so they sample in the direction of the outcome they desire.  But saying that, Rasmussen is supporting Trump, so if they wanted to show him winning, they would sample more Republicans than Democrats, like many of the others are doing, of likely voters and report the results with the tip of the scales toward their desired outcome, to essentially make reality motivate action at the voting booth.  But as things are, even Rasmussen shows things moving in Kamala’s direction away from Trump, so what’s going on?    That’s why I say engagement is a far better definition for success than just a statistical sampling of likely voters who happen to pick up the phone from a pollster.   Polling how it has been done has significant limitations regarding the new trends from social media.  Traditional media that has been bought up by the globalist companies looking for international Marxism have not yet adopted the modes of new media and independent media that are driving modern culture, so their visibility into the support behind Trump is very alarming to them.  And traditional polling does not do a good job of seeing these trends because we are far from conventional politics here.  But they even say that Trump has the lead in the battleground states and can win the election with Pennsylvania alone.  I think Trump will do well in Wisconsin, Virginia, Michigan, and other Democrat strongholds.   But he doesn’t need to win them all.  It comes down to Pennsylvania this time, and Trump is poised well there because that was the location of the first assassination attempt against him, and looming in the background is a lot of anger toward the established order, thereby the first-time voters and freshly converted Republicans who are very energized to vote for Trump. 

Remember, it’s lot scarier for the Harris people.

If state polling or even national polling is showing a tie or Kamala Harris is pulling ahead by a few points, it comes down to the errors in sampling.  The number that will matter most will be the engagement factor, which is why Democrats are so concerned about mail-in ballots, especially from overseas.   If the election is close, it will be hard for them to steal the results, as they did in 2020.  But in truth, if the polling shows Harris close or winning, it is because polling only picks up a likely voter, not one who is voting for the first time because of Trump.  Their phone number likely won’t show up on a polling list to call.  Nor will they pick up if they don’t know who is calling them.  Traditional polling can give you an insight into trends, but it can’t pick up engagement, which is why polling wasn’t able to see how well Trump would do in 2016 or 2020, where Trump consistently did better than polling showed.  That’s because polling, even at Rasmussen, can’t pick up engagement, the people who are motivated to vote because the candidate is one they feel great excitement for.  But what polling can do is take the wind off of that excitement and hope through suppression results to keep people home believing that voting is pointless.  That is the kind of game we are dealing with here, and we see it every year when The New York Times publishes their probability of victory at the beginning of election night, which points in Trump’s direction by the end of the night.  But it doesn’t start that way.  These international organizations control elections in countries through suppression polling, giving the illusion that something is more popular than it is so that social mechanisms will provide them with the results they seek.  However, Trump functions outside that control, which is undoubtedly the case in 2024.  So keep that in mind when you see polling results, and don’t let them steer you away from voter engagement because that’s the point.  And don’t believe what you hear.  This won’t be easy at any level.  Get ready for a fight, because the enemy is dug in, and corrupt beyond belief.

Rich Hoffman

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Civilian Oversight is the Key to Everything: Without it, corruption rules the world

So, what’s at the heart of the world’s trouble presently, and how do we fix it?  What is the meaning of a book like Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia?  What can we possibly do about it all? How can we hope to fight it?  Well, that’s an easy question to answer.  And it is the key to all the political turmoil we are experiencing presently.  It all comes down to a respect of civilian oversight over governments and authorities.  Those who do not want to be under the scrutiny of civilian oversight run to groups to protect themselves from the results of their ambitions, like the Vatican, the mob, and even in government jobs who use the power of collectivism to hide their menace from the public, like the CIA.  It’s far more complicated than all that, but in Operation Gladio by Paul Williams, we at least get a good view of the problem and its history.  Operation Gladio goes back to formation just after World War II, when many bad things happened, especially with the formation of the United Nations.  Because those European countries and other places in the world do not have a notion of civilian oversight in their cultures, as promised by the American Constitution.  What makes the American Constitution so powerful is its admission that authority figures, if given power over others, will abuse that power 100% of the time.  So, civilian oversight is always needed to preserve integrity.  Without that scrutiny, corruption always happens.  It is the conflict to eradicate civilian oversight that the world is most hungry for presently because of what was revealed by President Trump’s presidency.  Respect for the people who put you in power is the core debate.  Many in the world, especially in the United States Washington D.C. culture, want to believe they can rule over the masses like some classed aristocracy rather than a jury of their peers. 

China has tried to pressure America into following communism because they say it’s more efficient.  Look what a government can do when it doesn’t have to deal with civilian oversight, and instead, the power of government can take a house and destroy a family through communism.  And do whatever it wants for society’s general good, as determined by those running it.  If any civilian or other familiar person thinks it has power over the government, the government will have the power to show them otherwise.  At the core of that debate is the attempt to grab guns in America and eradicate concepts of free speech and gun rights to protect that speech from government oversight.  Governments that want to function as top-down communist centralized authority wish to define, for instance, what speech is acceptable and what truth is, and they expect not to be questioned about it by ordinary, everyday civilians.  However, in American culture, our legal system goes way out of its way, as demanded by our Constitutional rights, to put limits on what the government can do because history reports that if left alone to their own devices, power corrupts everyone at some point and civilian oversight is the key to managing that corruption and keeping it from harm’s way.  The massive expense of American law is needed because people with power can’t be trusted.  They must be managed through civilian oversight.  The entire foundation of America’s approach to government, society in general, and preserving personal liberty is implementing civilian oversight to keep the government big enough to function but not powerful enough to function as a tyrannical force.

At its core, this is why Trump is so hated.  He was elected and ran his entire presidential platform on the promise of civilian oversight.  People picked him over the machine of Beltway politics.  He does what people want of him.  He openly consults the Constitution to settle disputes, empowering civilian oversight rather than trying to crush it out of existence, which is the campaign platform of Democrats.  They, in essence, promise free stuff given to people who vote for them, and that free stuff comes from the confiscated wealth that Democrats steal through the power of government.  Lately, there have been a lot of cases where civilian oversight has been horrendously disrespected so that a government narrative could be established, such as these mass shootings, whether the killer who tried to assassinate President Trump or the school shootings that occur by transexual kids who fell off the rocker, we find at the heart of all these cases provocations and failures of the three lettered agencies, such as the FBI and the CIA.  When the CIA was created to help fight communism around the world, supposedly, they desired to function without congressional oversight at all so that they could operate without civilian oversight.  Because ultimately, members of Congress represent the people who vote for them, and the CIA should be reporting to Congress to get its funding.  Instead, the CIA was set up to fund a large part of its activities, according to books like Operation Gladio, with sales from the illegal drug trade, which makes sense.  It also explains a lot of problems in the world when these various groups, whether it be the Vatican, the mob, or the CIA, fight against any civilian oversight into their diabolical mechanisms of doom and mayhem. 

And without that civilian oversight, corruption grows like weeds quickly because that’s a human condition.  The world needs its version of the American Constitution to manage the level of corruption it experiences as a society.  When the CIA is pressed for civilian oversight, they have played the “alien card” through the years, reports about alien spacecraft and the characters who fly them, to keep the public content behind a veil of secrecy, all for national security.  They say their need for black budgets is more critical than the need for civilian oversight.  That is why there is so much terror about Trump becoming president again because he has said he will release the actual report on the Kennedy assassination and that deregulation will take away the power of many government agencies to function without civilian oversight.  Yet, there has never been a society in the history of the world, anywhere, that was able to function without civilian oversight.  And the United States has been the best example, even at the tremendous cost of having it.  Checks on power are critical to the insanity, specific to those who get power and are tempted to use it in destructive ways.  And that is the problem with the CIA.  Without civilian oversight, which it has virtually none, not even in how it is funded, being funded by an illegal drug trade that feeds off the demise of the world’s population, the CIA has become a corrupt organization that can do whatever it wants to anybody it wants to, and if they make a mistake, there is nobody to correct them. And it has worked so well for them; every other three-letter agency has wanted to copy their example.  That is certainly the case with the FBI.  We are supposed to believe whatever they say, even though in all the mass shootings, there were red flags given to them that they did not act on, purposely or not.  Even Homeland Security, over the issue of President Trump’s security.  They didn’t understand why civilian oversight was so meaningful when they were drug before Congress to explain their failures, which ended in at least a significant resignation over office deficiencies.  The world fights against civilian oversight and the desire to rule over people, not to have people free of such constraints and to impose their judgment on their social betters.  The conspiracy against civilian oversight is the desire to rule over mass society and not to have ordinary people regulating government power for its own sake and creation.  And anything that does not have civilian oversight should be said to be abolished for good as useless and ineffective.  This then explains why people want power in the first place: to avoid oversight by those who might judge them and find their lives lacking in the opinions of civilian oversight.  The goal of those conspirators is to get rid of the judgments of the public and hide behind the power of government to conceal their worthless condition from the world.  And it really isn’t any more than that.

Rich Hoffman

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Australia’s Dumb New Law: Right to Disconnect

In the spirit of Labor Day, which is the holiday I hate the most, we need to have a talk about the ridiculously dumb Australian law, Right to Disconnect which they just passed there at the end of August 2024.  The world needs to be working more, not less.  And this socialist trend of encouraging people to sit around looking at the walls all day is a terribly destructive one.  The world doesn’t need more dumb laws like this one that enables the world to be lazier.  Labor Day, to me, is essentially a celebration of laziness, a union concept of work stoppages holding productivity hostage unless management recognizes the workers’ limits to performing tasks.  It is poison to the human race to think such things, and at the core of all these ridiculous laws are horrible people fighting for the right to be unproductive. Instead, I think we need to be going in the opposite direction.  We need to work harder and more often.  We need to extend our work day hours and work more days of the week than we do now because productive enterprise is very much needed.  Additionally, I think our five-day workweek is ridiculously short.  And I think people should work more than 8 hours per day.  I have always worked more than 8 hours per day.  I often work seven days a week, so let me say I am a happy person.  Leaving work undone is what makes me unhappy.  So, I can’t imagine a happy world restricting itself in productivity.  It’s the wrong message, and anybody suggesting such a lazy life should be ridiculed.  The Australians proposing this Marxist trend of disconnecting from work to produce a sane society shows just how out of touch they are with the needs of the world. 

What to tell lazy people using Marxism to get out of hard work.

As usual, free market enterprise should be at play here.  Those who work more often and spread out among the population should be rewarded appropriately.  If people want to work more, they should be rewarded with more stuff.  And again, this idea that “stuff” can’t make you happy is more communism and Marxist ideas from people who are at their heart lazy and not the kind of people anybody should be listening to.  It’s essentially the government restricting their productivity through mass collective effort.  Whenever workers propose less work or else, we see a terrorist incursion to our means of production, and the intention is to manage all such rights under the power of collective government to restrict output.  And if people want output, then demands under collective bargaining must be met.  However, not all people are the same.  Some people get tired of sitting around looking at the walls doing nothing, and they want to do more work.  They want to go out and earn money.  Because they want more stuff, they want to pay off their house.  They want a nice car.  They may want a more attractive spouse.  Who wants to be married to a slug?  Someone who would rather play video games all day rather than work and make money?  People need to work more so that a country can have a better GDP.  However, this Australian strategy encourages the world to work less so everyone can be less productive.  That’s the spirit of their new legislation.  No wonder they are an armpit down there and only have any population on the east coast.  What a waste of good land and space. 

Oh, I’ve heard it before: ” If not for the labor unions, those big mean companies would work people to death.”  Wrong. What kills people and society is less work, not more of it. People need to be productive to truly feel good about themselves. This notion that people need all this downtime is ridiculous.  I often love traveling in Japan; people there work hard.  Even when you have a taxi pick you up at the airport, the drivers universally run to open the door for you and make sure you get where you are going without much delay.  Because they appreciate hard work there, which is common in Asian cultures, don’t mind working hard, and usually, they have strong families as well because they work at it.  And that is never going to go away.  When people in the West profess to work less, they are cutting their throats, and the Marxists, I would say, are well aware of it.  Most still hope the globalist union movement will put them on top of world management and central government.  But what will end up happening is that they will end up behind as a result, and Asian cultures, through wealth redistribution, will fill the market void with actual hard work.  The human need for work can be filled with robots and AI, but the demand for things to happen will always be present.  The most successful cultures will be those who do the most work and can maintain their sanity best. Presently, especially in the West, there are too many lazy people playing video games and smoking pot, which is the point where we should consider it a national security risk under every definition.  Who needs a military invasion of a country when you can destroy it from within with more laws against work?  The primary reason America conquered other nations in World War II was that we could out produce against the rest of the world.  And that is still the reason America has the top GDP of any country, even though there are fewer people to do that work. 

I mentioned video games a few times here. I have been playing a lot of Call of Duty lately because I have grandchildren who like to interact with my wife and me through video games.  And I take time to play them to spend time with them.  But it’s evident to me how dangerous this modern video game culture is; we’re not talking about Pac-Man or Space Invaders here, where you play the game for 15 or 20 minutes.  Then you go back to your life.  No, these are all-day excursions, and people work hard to level up on these modern games.  People are taking the effort very seriously.  And I can’t help but think how misapplied it all is.  The natural state of the human being is to be thoughtful and productive.  Whenever you repress those notions about life, you find unhappy people who develop all kinds of emotional problems.  This video game culture represents the need for hard work in every human being’s life, which has replaced effort with waste.  Some people get good at these video games, but to what end?  Will they be able to buy a new house or a new car?  Put savings in the bank?  Of course not.  And for a government to tell its people to work less.  We will penalize employers for providing opportunities beyond eight hours of need per day or more than five days of working per week.  And when people go home, you can’t call them to harass them over work matters.  I’ve been on vacation in exotic places and always took the time to have a business call.  If my family was with me, they could do some shopping while I worked through issues.  After 20 minutes, we’d be back to our vacation and happy.  And work was done.  This idea that people should disconnect from work to be satisfied is insane.  But it’s what the Australians are proposing for their life.  And I would say in response that it’s no wonder they are such losers.  They don’t want to work, and no wonder they are an armpit of a country that is last in just about every category of human endeavor.  They need to be working more, not less, as is the case with most of the human race, except the Asian cultures, who aren’t going to pass “right to disconnect” legislation any time soon.  Likely for them, never. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why Thomas Hall is so Great: If only everyone was so lucky

Fight, fight, fight was the theme of the evening at the GOP tent at the VOA Country Music Festival, where several officeholders and some running for the first time gathered together ahead of the upcoming elections.  It was an excellent time to catch up with everyone. I could speak to many people in a way that I hadn’t done for a long time, which was good.  But what do we mean by fighting and winning in politics?  When I think of such a thing, I think of the young man Thomas Hall, who is the Ohio Representative in my district and is running to hold the seat he currently has.  But he wasn’t always in my district; he used to have the Middletown area, but now, in District 46, he represents Liberty Township and the surrounding areas, which I’m thrilled with.  I’ve seen Thomas Hall in the pressure cooker for a while now, and I supposed he’s not as much of a young man as when he first started in politics.  But I think a lot of him, and for good reason.  I have been meaning, and we didn’t quite get there during this event, to talk to him about his recent trip to Israel, which I am very interested in.  But behind the politics, Thomas Hall is just a good person, one of those cases where he’s better than the package you see.  He’s just a promising young man who has survived the fires of Hell and come out on top, and he looks poised to stay there.  This is a good thing for anybody he represents in the Ohio Statehouse.  He takes his job very seriously, and it shows.  I’ve seen him in Columbus work a room, and if he didn’t have a great foundation to work with, it would be easy to be swept away by lobbyists and other scandalous characters.  But with Thomas, you get the feeling with him that he’s always savvy and under control.  And that any malicious intent that comes his way can easily be handled. 

I’ve met his parents several times at some of these events, but we had more time to talk in August of 2024 than we have in the past.  In some of those previous times, things looked so dire that nobody was sure what would happen next.  Politics, as I have said, is a blood sport; things can and do get pretty wild.  Many people who came to the Country Music Festival at the VOA needed to talk to each other.  It’s been a tough four years since Trump left office, and people have lost focus in some respects.  It’s tough when you are trying to grow the tent of the party to accommodate more people, but those people don’t have the same foundations and strength; when the pressure of politics emerges and moral necessities come into play, it’s easy to drift into decay.  And as a political party, Southern Ohio Republicans needed to break some bread together.  A lot of people get into politics for different reasons, and it’s up to each person to find some reason to have common ground with others for the sake of party politics.  Authenticity can often get abused in such cases, but that was never the case with Thomas Hall, and in some of those times, I referred to his parents as good people who made a good kid.  Thomas’ dad was a former police officer, now a firefighter chief.  His mom is a wonderful enthusiast of the men in her life, her husband and son, and when I see them all together, it’s usually a big family affair.  Thomas has, of course, a love interest who I see around town a lot, and she is always supportive and doing the extra work it takes to run successful campaigns.  When you speak with them, you can tell that they all have good foundations that give them firm ground to stand on no matter what is happening in the world. 

So Thomas always tells me he’s grateful to me for getting through some of these tough times of turmoil where rough campaigns got very heated.  My help pushed him over the top and put him in office so he could do the excellent work he is doing presently and, I hope, well into the future.  And I tell him that he’s the one who did all the hard work, and indeed, there are very few people who work as hard at politics as Thomas Hall.  He gets out and knocks on doors and is very tenacious.  And I’ve seen him working directly with Governor DeWine on legislation that was difficult to make happen, so the elbow-twisting part of politics takes a hard worker, and he has deserved all the success he has had and more.  He doesn’t have to throw appreciation my way.  What I have done for him, I do for many people. He’s referring to a lot that goes on behind the scenes, but I’m happy to do it because I like seeing good people get a chance to do good things in the world.  Like a gardener who pulls up the weeds of a garden to protect the good plants, you are trying to grow while preventing the parasites from destroying everything.  I do what I do because I like seeing the good stuff grow.  And Thomas Hall has grown into a lot of good things. 

So when his parents thanked me for all I have done for their son, I had to tell them what I thought of them, which shows up in Thomas, and I think about it a lot.  They were good parents to him.  Thomas Hall has a great foundation that other people in the world don’t have because they, as parents, gave him a great place to start.  If things get too hot, at least Thomas has a nice family that cares for him.  And it shows.  So, while they intended to thank me, which they did, I would give the credit to all of them.  Thomas is a sincerely good person who is not wasting his talent.  But to his parents for raising a good kid who has grown into a good man, a lot of people would love to be so lucky.  The sense of service that Thomas has picked up from his dad is being applied to Ohio positively.  I’m happy to defend and support anybody like that, and there are others.  Perhaps not as good as Thomas, but in my experience with these kinds of things, a lot of similar personality traits emerge in these kinds of people who get involved in politics and want to represent people in government.  Not everyone has the advantage of a good family on which they can rely.  But Thomas Hall does, and as I told his parents, if anybody should be thanking anybody, the world should be thanking them for producing such a nice young and honest man in the world.  I am personally very proud of Thomas Hall.  But I’m also very proud of his parents.  I wish there were more people in the world like them.  And maybe in the future, there will be.  There is hope in the world that people will follow their example and do better for themselves and others.  Usually, when you meet people who are as well put together as Thomas Hall, good parents at the foundation make it all possible.

Rich Hoffman

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The Armor of God: Facing danger with coolness and tenacity

In many ways, it was a gift to President Trump to have that assassin attempt to kill him.  Watching him in that rally in Montana, it’s good to see Trump having fun with the issue instead of doing what globalists have been trying to advocate in our culture for a long time now.  This ridiculous Beta male approach to problems, crying about their feelings and destroying the concept of masculinity, to surrender to some child-like dependence on the government to be a perpetual parent has not been good.  As a man, it feels good to face a bullet and an attempt on your life from those who are jealous of you and want to destroy you.  Trump has spent his life building a tough guy image, and he has been challenged in business, of course, and has survived many things that have made him very successful.  But until death has come knocking on your door the way it did in Butler, Pennsylvania, you never really know how you will deal with it.  It’s a similar anxiety that young boys face when they worry about how they will do in their first fight.  And yes, that is a genuine problem for boys.  Girls don’t have those same challenges.  They have other challenges, but winning fights is something that young men worry about a lot.  And men worry even more about facing death with boldness.  And Trump, after a lifetime of building his tough-guy brand, was given the ultimate test with an assassin’s bullet.  And he passed, surviving and throwing his fists in the air triumphantly.  He will go down in history with some of the greatest presidents who have survived such a thing, which positions him well for the kind of leadership most needed now.

One of the things that made General Grant such a great battlefield commander was his coolness under fire.  All through the Civil War, he rode his horse through gunfire with projectiles flashing all around him, cannon fire nearly missing his head by inches, and surviving detriments that would have killed most people.  The Union Army won the Civil War because of General Grant’s tenacity and coolness under fire.  The same could be said of General George Washington, who had displayed similar traits of boldness on the battlefield, especially early in his life during the French and Indian War at Fort Duquesne, also in Pennsylvania.  Then, President Jackson engaged in many duels that could have killed him many times.  He was shot at and hit many times, sometimes to the point of nearly being killed.  And I think of Teddy Roosevelt, who wanted to go to Cuba with the Rough Riders to have an opportunity to shoot another man and to be shot at. It was very important to him to test his valor or to be killed doing it.  Later in life, after his first eight years as president, he was running for president again and was shot by an assassin.  He finished his whole speech before seeking treatment.  This is the kind of behavior that men endeavor to be in.  And I understand it very well.  I have lived my life in such a way. I have had many guns pointed at me and I know what bullets feel like as they pass near you.  And yes, it’s a great feeling to survive those occasions, better than life itself.  It’s even better to know that you can be calm under the pressure of fire and face death boldly.  You don’t feel like you’re living like a man until you do that a few times. 

It is essentially the problem that the Israelites had when God told them to leave the wilderness and attack the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, which is still a point of contention.  At first, the spies seeking a path into battle saw that Canaan was filled with giants, and they refused to attack because they feared what might happen to them against such a superior force.  So they turned away from the task as cowards.  And God punished them with 40 years in exile until a new generation would head into battle with the trust that God had their back.  That is expected in America, with masculinity displayed among the best of our leaders.  They did so when given the opportunity to put on the Armor of God and fight in the face of death boldly.  Washington did, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, and now Trump.  By not cowering in fear, which is the point of the exile story in the Bible of the Hebrew people, it points to an alignment toward God’s purposes, and a trust that you are there to do his work.  And you are not afraid for your own preservation.  Because God has your back.  For Trump, surviving that bullet gave him the assurance he needed to know that he was on the right path and that he dared to stand up to it.  And I’m sure he slept very well that night and ever since.  Because those are the fundamental rules of the universe.  Not this woke garbage of manhood that the progressive, communist, left has been trying to sell to the world.  For all the same reasons, Israel turned away from the challenge of attacking the land of Canaan the first time when God told them to. 

Behind a coward is to say that a person, especially a man, did not trust to put on the Armor of God and proceed with destiny boldly and without fear.  We should not be afraid because to fear is to say that you do not trust that God is with you and will let you perish before you accomplish your task of divine intervention.  The gunslingers of history, leaders such as Grant, Washington, and Jackson, threw caution to the wind often and faced down gunfire without blinking an eye for self-preservation.  We love the stories of Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral because he faced gunfire without fear and brought justice to the bad guys.  That’s why we like stories of Wild Bill Hickok, who often was the last to shoot in a gun duel but was the one who hit his target cooly and under tremendous pressure.  We don’t like men who cry like babies when danger is near.  Or who looks at their mother’s skirt for shelter from danger?  Or to a skirt of mother government.  We like bold, unshakable men, who will look down a bullet without fear and know that their destiny is in boldness.  And that they can face down fear without reservation and show great tenacity when challenges come knocking at their door.  They don’t sip on lattes and eat pastries when trouble shows itself.  They meet those challenges with courage and persistence.  The way that Trump did at Butler, Pennsylvania.  And in many ways, he shook off a dark cloud hanging over America for many years.  God’s plan was working; he trusted in it, and many people witnessed it in a way that would bring us all out of exile and meet the danger before us in ways that the world has never seen.  And when it’s over, we’ll all feel better about our place in history.

Rich Hoffman

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