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The Tragedy of Deadbeat Parents: Opinions from my expereince on a grand jury regarding child support collections

There was so much that I was able to learn from my experience as a foreman on a grand jury session for the summer of 2024 because it was a step onto the other side that you don’t get unless you are a professional prosecutor or attorney.  It was very good for me to see how the other side lives, and when it comes to a grand jury, you get to spend a lot of time there, as opposed to a regular jury that might hear one case for a few days and then be done with the experience.  And to see that many instances over some time, statistics emerge that are worth talking about.  Of course, there are a lot of cases that I was exposed to where the names and places can’t be talked about as they are pending, as well as the business of the people involved.  However, the root cause of the behavior that caused them to be in court, to begin with, is something worth talking about because it takes thoughts about things and carries them to an understanding due to the experience.  Something astonishing for me was to see how many cases of deadbeat parents there are in the world and to think what damage that does to the next generation.  I believe there is no such thing as divorce.  Once you bring a child into the world, you are committed to a family hell or high water.  There is no such thing as divorce.  From my perspective, I doubt many people have experienced hardships greater than me and lived to tell about it, let alone still be married.  Life is hard, which people over 40 realize, even under the best of circumstances.  And most people fight through it and live life.  Living happily ever after means living to the next day and still wanting to do it over and over again even when things seem bleak and hopeless.  But like most crimes, some people just never can get there, and in the wake is a mess that starts with the production of a child and ends in busted-up relationships that the courts have to sort through for some hope of a peaceful resolution that protects children from deadbeat parents.  

I have known a lot of people who ended up divorced, and I have heard of severe child support cases where people had to pay a lot of money to a spouse in the wake of a marriage.  And I never get too far involved because, to me, it’s always a sad story.  Two people, a man and a woman, got together and put a baby in the woman; she gave birth, and a wonderful baby came into the world that requires a lifelong commitment.  And the parents must dedicate themselves for life to that little character, hell or high water.  But when the marriage breaks up, there are all kinds of reasons why two people decide they can’t live together and raise that family, and usually, it comes from the fact that the two people never grew up into the responsibilities of adulthood.  The temptations of flesh to perpetually recreate the mating process, the fun part, never evolves into the hard stuff, the paying the bills, the cutting the grass, the buying of homes and cars, and the worrying about doing everything right that turns people from attractive young people into beat up demolition derby cars that look like by the time they are 50 into damaged assets headed for the junkyard.  People want pleasure without any of the pain, and in that pursuit, they end up destroying everyone associated with them along the way. 

I was astonished to listen to the many cases of a prosecutor trying to recover money from a deadbeat parent; it’s not always men.  Before I was on a grand jury, I heard the details of these cases and saw their commonalities; I had strong opinions.  But seeing the pattern emerge provided a much-needed perspective I am grateful to get.  To hear the testimony from professionals assigned by the courts to maintain the rulings of divorce was an absolutely stunning reality, and it left me thinking just how seriously we all must retake the building of family structure after years and years of failed progressive policies that essentially torpedoed the proper building of a family.  How some of these people could be $75K in debt to their child support was bewildering to me because, ultimately, bringing a child into the world is the responsibility of the parents, and not paying for those kids in either physical commitment or financial viability is reprehensible.  But what’s in common with all these cases is a disconnect from the reality of their role in the process.  The acceptance that the state is responsible for whatever kids are produced from a union and the state becomes the object of rebellion.  Most of the deadbeat parents, and in this case, primarily men, will pay one or two dollars every so many years when they owe tens of thousands of dollars because they think they are cheating the system that enforces the divorce conditions.  They don’t see what their actions are doing or what they will do to the future of civilization through the children they choose to bring into the world.  That disconnect to me was astonishing to witness in such mass quantities.  But the tragedy was in the acceptance that the state was really in charge of their lives, and they had no responsibility for the results of their life decisions. 

When a civilization no longer accepts responsibility for their very life, then there isn’t much anybody can do to help those people.  And they just become parasites to humanity.  Then, unfortunately, because of the way that children learn, the actions of the deadbeat parents are copied by the children only to do the whole thing over again.  And I saw how this entire process wore on the people working for the court.  I don’t want to say his name, but I was coming in from the parking garage one day where we were dealing with a whole list of flawed characters who weren’t paying their child support, and I saw the prosecutor smoking on the sidewalk outside of court, and he looked stressed out.  I’ve seen that look before, which is the kind of life where it’s hard to get up and go to work.  Because what you get when you get there is irretrievable pain and suffering.  But you punch through it like most people do.  It would be hard to look at these cases every day and collect evidence to present to a grand jury to get the indictments that might help somebody in these cases.  Maybe whoever has custody of the children will benefit from the money gained through the courts.  But likely not.  Most of what everyone was doing was only going to stave off the inevitable destruction of the children, which was the point of the policies, to begin with.  Those who have advanced the idea that families can be raised by the state and not by parents who sacrifice their very lives to give kids a decent shot in the world got it all wrong in their hatred for American culture.  They stuck their noses into the family building in our culture, and once those ideas sunk in, the government could raise our children while we ran around perpetually doing the fun stuff without the burden of the hard stuff made misery for everyone, including that poor prosecutor I witnessed smoking.  I came to know him as a great guy, and during my time in the court, I felt very sorry for him and all the people involved in child support collection.  They were trying to make something positive from literally nothing.  However, nothing could change the children’s reality when the parents failed to see the big picture and step into the role of mentorship.  Cheating the courts out of paying child support wasn’t sticking it to “the man.”   It was the perpetuation of the destruction of the American family, which was to attack the heart of America itself.  And in many cases, those enemies of our republic have succeeded and are very happy with the destruction they have left in the wake of their work.  And, of course, in the end, it’s the children who suffer.

Rich Hoffman

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Government Losers are Holding Up Starship 5: The trillions and trillions of dollars of lost opportunity that the Biden administration is costing American industry

For context, Starship 5 has not launched yet. This is the mission from SpaceX that will prove the landing of the booster rocket, Super Heavy with the Chopsticks in Texas upon reentry. The FAA has stalled the application for launch due to some ridiculous concerns over the water fire suppression system impacting the environment.  This is not unique to SpaceX and likely has more to do with why Elon Musk has become in 2024 a very fervent supporter of President Trump because he knows what a bunch of nonsense all this environmental talk is.  A year ago, he was a left-of-center World Economic Forum type who was the poster boy for “saving the earth.”  But trying to perform this Starship program, to which he has dedicated his life in partnership with the government, has proven to be a ridiculous proposal.  I can say with great authority that this is not unique to SpaceX.  But because they are such a great company, and they have done such a great job of engineering, this Starship 5 launch has exposed the government radicalism in ways that even bleeding heart liberals are now questioning.  And it’s why we are on the precipice of doing something very unique: for Trump to put Elon Musk on the efficiency board to make the government work better by cutting away all that fat that is getting in the way.  Starship 5 has been ready at StarBase in Boca Chica, Texas, for over three weeks and was set to launch at the start of September 2024.  All the mechanical issues are fixed; all that everyone is waiting on are a bunch of useless government pinheads from a Biden-led government that is upset that Elon Musk no longer supports the Democrats.  So, they are delaying the application process for purely political reasons by using the government’s power to impose political compliance on people at the expense of integrity. 

Yes!

Many people in government and behind the greenie weenie movement are not participating in environmentalism from a rational, scientific perspective.  Many were running around like drug-induced losers with their clothes off, acting like rabid animals at Woodstock just a month after man landed on the moon.  These people do not want humanity to go to space or to advance beyond their control.  They want as a government bureaucrat to preserve their useless jobs with fat pensions paid for by the taxpayer and to retire at age 55 and buy a condo in Florida so they can socialize with similar losers with a latte in the morning and a stiff mixed drink in the evening talking about nothing at a bar going nowhere.  They do not want people like Elon Musk changing their lives with all this going to space stuff.  They want a lovely, comfortable death after a long retirement to satisfy their lazy souls.  Because they are so lazy and worthless, they get jobs in government so they can have power over people like Elon Musk and others trying to do big things in the world.  We saw this conflict with the Woodstock music festival and its media coverage once Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins returned from the moon’s surface.  We could look at almost every industry and show this process of eroding innovation when it is asked why Boeing is struggling with its space program, as everyone is; it’s because of this essential desire of government types to expand government into this environmental religion and impose on the world its limits that have nothing to do with science, but the preservation of laziness by the bottom dwellers of the global economy. 

Most companies in the United States have overloaded their staffing with these compliance terrorists who serve no purpose at all but to stall out economic development, and President Trump has identified that he will be targeting this very aspect during his next term.  I think it is fair to say that this scam of government costs America trillions of dollars in opportunity costs each year and is bankrupting many companies, as we speak, from dried-up revenue waiting on the approval of application processes, which is what SpaceX is currently experiencing.  For years, there was a kind of polite cooperation between these two forces: those who wanted to go into space and invent and those who wanted a government job so they could take off their clothes like a bunch of animals and wallow in the mud like a pig, like what we saw with the Woodstock festival, and thousands like it since then.  The excuse of using unscientific environmentalism as a bureaucratic stoppage of work to control the pace of that work has been purposefully crippling and is one of the greatest dangers to our modern economy.   And I think putting Elon Musk in charge of dismantling that massive government machine would be the best thing that could be done, once and for all, in American business.  The rate of invention is critical to the survivability of the human race.  But of course, there are a lot of bottom feeders in government who could care less and are digging their graves happily, day after day, toward that latte sipped in early retirement.  I think the entire federal government needs to be cut down by 80%, just as Musk did with Twitter when he turned it into X, which works much better after he took over.  And that is one of the fears with Trump returning to the White House and putting people like Musk in charge of government efficiency.  Most of them will find they are out of jobs, which is terrifying.  But it’s what we have to do.

Speaking from personal experience, getting patents from the patent office is not like it was back in Edison’s day when he was getting them approved every week for most of his life.  Most people at the patent office work banker hours and are highly inefficient throughout the day.  The process takes way too long, and it forces you to deal with losers who are terrified of the natural world and seek refuge behind a government job with all the excessive benefits.  As a company, you can hire the best people to do all the right things for new inventions, but eventually, because you have to deal with the government, you’ll have to deal with some slug along the way that is slow and cumbersome and to get through them, you’ll have to throw millions of dollars of inefficiency at them to get through their opposition to your project.  And that is essentially all SpaceX is experiencing: a complete shutdown of their Starship launch ability because of political activism and a strategy imposed on the human race that essentially goes back to the Woodstock response to the landing on the moon.  They let Elon Musk play at launching Starships into space, but after that fourth launch, SpaceX achieved most of its technical milestones, which meant that the human race was close to leaving Earth forever and colonizing the solar system.  That would put human beings out of the reach of the government, which would terrify them.  How can governments live off taxpayers if they can get into a Starship and fly off to Mars?  Who is going to fund their early retirement then?  But that’s what we are dealing with, and with the election of Trump, we can expect dramatic changes in this crazy environmental application process in many industries.  And it can’t happen fast enough at this point.  It has already cost us trillions of dollars in lost opportunity costs.  And suppose we don’t dismantle this government machine. In that case, it will bankrupt us all with trillions of dollars more shortly and keep humanity chained to a jealous Mother Earth like a bunch of slack-jawed losers, lacking enough ambition to get up out of bed in the morning and do anything bold than stuffing our faces with useless food to fuel a worthless life.

Rich Hoffman

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Melania Trump’s New Book: The FBI should have never raided Mar-a-Lago

https://twitter.com/melaniatrump/status/1834937662207103146?s=46

You have to understand that the Trump people see the internals and the cross tabs, and they know.  J.D. Vance, when he says that some of the mainstream polling that shows Kamala with a lead or is gaining steam is all phony, is more than wishful thinking.  They know the truth, and that will become clear on Election Day.  These are bad, horrible people who have been running our government, and they have been using all kinds of tricks to stay in power.  However, they know the truth about the Trump campaign, and there is no arguing.  That’s also why Trump had some extra pop in his step at his New York rally.  He’s going after challenging Democrat areas because his polling shows how strong he is performing and is now swinging for the fences.  One of the best parts of the Trump campaign hasn’t even been revealed yet. I can assure you of one thing in this wild world: the moment Melania Trump’s book comes out, I mean, the moment that a printer puts ink onto paper into a published book, I will read her new book, Melania, the moment it is available, if not sooner.  I am very much looking forward to its October release, and I think this time around, she is going to be a much more active First Lady. I’ll say this: the FBI should have never gone through her underwear drawer in her home at Mar-a-Lago, Florida.  That raid on the Trump home to attack the President and his family was a dumb idea by the criminal thug Joe Biden and his corrupt Department of Justice, a captured asset of the bad guys.  They tried to provoke Trump into a firefight and trap him with a flashy attack, and Melania and her son were in the way of that one; it attacked Melania in a way that provoked her to be less quiet in the future, which looks to be the source of her new book.

https://twitter.com/melaniatrump/status/1834201664493891702?s=46

I’ve met Melania several times, as I have her husband, President Trump.  She is the same age as my wife, so I understand the period she grew up in, the 80s, and as a supermodel from the Paris fashion scene and her roots in East European communism, I can certainly understand the way a mind wired the way hers is works, because she’s a lot like my wife.  During one of those meetings I had with her, those two shared some mutual understandings, as people who are familiar with each other often do.  As a natural rebel of tradition, Melania didn’t see much of a way out of circumstances that were very negative in her home country of Slovenia.  At 18 years old, she became a model, which could be a rough way to go in Europe.  But she took her natural beauty and did something positive with it and entered a cutthroat modeling profession as a ticket to a better life, and for ten years, she became one of the top models in the world.  Ten years later, she had climbed to the top of her profession and had a chance to meet Donald Trump in high society in New York City. She had mastered her profession in ways that few people ever do.  Trump was with another woman that evening, but he wanted Melania’s phone number, so she gave it to him.  Eventually, they married and became Trump’s third wife.  Not exactly a story of tradition and purity, but with Melania’s stubborn heart, she took a nasty and rough world, steamrolled her way through it, and turned it into her positive vision. 

https://twitter.com/melaniatrump/status/1836375317646086533?s=46

As women typically do with their spouses, they seek to improve them with many subtle manipulations.  And if a man and a woman stay married for more than five or six years, the effects start to show.  And I think Trump, because he was married to a communist-hating rebel who was one of the most beautiful women in the world, had to do more than have a top-rated show on NBC for 14 seasons called The Apprentice.  Trump was pushed in the direction of the presidency by Melania in many subtle ways because she has a taste for improving the world around her but in a very remote and quiet way.  Once in the White House, this showed itself in the way that she decorated for the Holidays.  She is all class, loves people in all the right ways, and wants to bring joy to people in ways they don’t even understand about themselves, which is why she became one of the world’s top models.  Many people can look beautiful, but few can draw people out in a still photograph.  Melania brought those skills to the White House very positively, and the people who didn’t want to view the world in such an elevated way hated her for it.  And they tried to pretend that she didn’t exist, all the way up to that day when the FBI raided her home and violated her privacy and shook the foundation of her son, whom she had dedicated every last bit of her life to as a stay at home mother who cared for her son in ways that most mothers understand, but few personally commit to these days.  And when they raided Mar-a-Lago with a personal political attack, they attacked Melania in a way she would not stand for.  So, she wrote a book and set it for publication a month ahead of the election.  Melania is Trump’s October surprise.

https://twitter.com/melaniatrump/status/1831663511639851414?s=46

So, as Melania has been promoting the book, the way a top model sells an image in the media, Melania has been on the attack, talking about what to expect from the book.  One of her foundation statements has been about how insulted she was that the government raided her personal space with that raid and violated her Bill of Rights.  You have to understand something about people like Melania who come from other places in the world to get citizenship and the rights given by our American Constitution; they take it very seriously.  They appreciate the freedoms America provides in ways that people just born here don’t quite understand.  And being a First Lady who was minding her own business as she watched what the political forces in the world were trying to do to her husband, her ticket to American freedom and enough power to live in and raise a family after years of climbing to the top, to get away from the garbage that is at the bottom, most epitomized by communist society in East Europe, Melania was poised actually to do something about the tyranny she witnessed.  This is why I am so eager to read her book; I think it will be one of those barn burners and will have lasting historical significance.  As far as the Trump campaign, she is the delicious icing on a cake that they have been making since they left the White House on that dismal last day in office where the government essentially performed a coup against the American people for the perpetuation of power to protect their growth of government in genuinely destructive ways.  Melania Trump is authentic and has not lost herself over the years.  She has been in unique command of her life since she started as a model at 18.  Now, she has a platform and a voice to express the beauty of life, and she is determined to use it for the forces of good.  And I think it’s wonderful!  And very powerful.  Much more so than people are ready for no matter where they come from.

https://twitter.com/melaniatrump/status/1833476085998063741?s=46

Rich Hoffman

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The October Surprise of 2024: A future funeral of Joe Biden

I was probably asked yesterday 100 times what I thought the October Surprise would be this year, ahead of the 2024 election.  And leading up to that, I have probably been asked 1000 times.  It’s not that I want it to happen or that I’m trying to put the thought in anybody’s head.  But this isn’t a conspiracy theory anymore.  Even Melania Trump is talking about it before her new book’s release.  There is a lot fishy about the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life.  And I would say with much confidence that those same people who planned the assassination attempt of President Trump are thinking of ways to take old Joe Biden and turn him into a state funeral a few weeks ahead of the election in November.  I think for the October Surprise of 2024, the plan that they are talking about is to accelerate the death of Joe Biden so that the nation could be united with two weeks of memory of one of the longest-serving public servants and that the hope would be that the world would be united behind the death of a sitting president and that Kamala would be all that was left, and that people would vote for her out of sentiment, rather than policy.  When I say that, I get shocked looks and gasps of horror.  Do we have people working in our three-lettered agencies who are that diabolically evil?  Well, yes, of course.  And these people are desperate.  They will do anything to cling to power; nothing else has worked for them.  Many people have said that Joe Biden would be lucky to live long enough to get to the next election, so nobody would be surprised if it happened.  It’s not the same kind of assassination attempt that they did on President Trump, which, at this point, there was no way, based on the evidence, that the kid doing the shooting was acting alone.  This killing would be much more subtle. 

And by saying this, I hope to prevent it from happening.  I would like to see Joe Biden just go away quietly, but alive.  Nothing has worked for the Democrats, and they have thrown everything they have at Trump in every possible Hail Mary scenario, except for one.  And I think they will try this killing of an American president to control the media narrative in October in the traditional ways that people come together upon the death of American presidents.  After the debate with Kamala, I told everyone what would happen in the hours after that, and I turned out to be entirely correct in every detail.  Independents broke for Trump 2-1, which is more than enough for Trump to win the White House.  Under conventional polling, and nothing is traditional about this 2024 election, Trump is +2 over Harris nationally, post-debate.  So even though Harris didn’t come across as a babbling fool, with ABC controlling the narrative and all the help she had to stand up there with Trump and last for a few hours under heavy scrutiny, and surviving somewhat, Democrats got nothing out of it.  And all the stories of the globalists are falling apart, and they are feeling extremely desperate.  The kind of desperation that a football team is losing and, with one second on the clock remaining, throws a Hail Mary pass from their own endzone, hoping for some miracle.  That’s where the internal polling for the Harris people is right now, so what do they have left?  An assassination attempt not of their opponent, which they have already tried.  No, this time, they would sacrifice one of their own, the guy who is barely alive now and fading fast.

I would say it is easy for those who are professionals in this kind of thing to use chemicals or some other method to accelerate cell deterioration from a remote location and to move an older adult into a deceased person quickly.  If a body is already in decline, and that person is dependent on many people to keep them alive, I would say Joe Biden is very vulnerable to such schemes of evil.  It would be easy to poison his food or bombard him with energy waves intent on the destruction of cell tissue while he sleeps, especially on these public beaches.  And for trained assassins, it’s not a complicated science project for a person in such a depleted condition to make them pass away in the deep sleep of the night and appear just to go quietly.  And such a thing would provide wall-to-wall coverage, and the world would rally behind it like a royal wedding in England.  The ceremony would be spectacular, and it would all fall just a few weeks ahead of the election, even through it.  And, of course, probably 7% of all Americans would be moved to vote for Kamala because she was attached to Biden as a tribute to the last days of an American President.  People would suddenly not be talking about all the crimes of the Biden family or their follies over Afghanistan, their mishandling of Iran, and their bankrupt status of the American dollar.  Their radicalism on vaccine mandates, their open borders, and their grotesque power grabs in wanting to abolish the 2nd Amendment.  All that reasonable minds would forget during a state funeral where the world would pause, put away their differences for a few weeks, and come together as a nation. 

Yes, I think those plans are being put to paper as we speak, and they are serious about it.  Remember, these are the same people who brought us COVID-19, a bioweapon made in Wuhan under the loose regulations of communist China through gain of function research, into making a virus transmissible from bats to humans in ways that nature would never allow otherwise.  And they killed as many people in 2020 and going into 2021 as all the wars of the last century did.  And that’s the good story.  That’s what we know happened.  There is still a lot we don’t know that could be much more sinister, but being fair about it, Peter Navarro told that story from his perspective of the White House in his most recent book, which everyone should get and read, The New Maga Deal.  Navarro was assigned to the Covid cleanup by Trump, and from a public relations standpoint, Peter is very fair and proper about the intent.  The reality is likely much worse.  Now you know why they put Navarro in jail, and Steve Bannon is still in jail, members of Trump’s White House team.  If we have a government that would do that to people with the weaponization of the legal system that we have seen, then, of course, they would try to kill a sitting president to save all their skins from the massive investigations that are coming their way from a second Trump term.  You can bet on it.  These are evil, vile people, and they are in a desperate condition.  Joe Biden is weak and useless to them at this point.  Unless they can turn him into a state funeral and hit the pause button on the next election favorable to the Democrat who was in office.  Covid was used, after all, to control the last election in 2020 and manipulate the votes in the largest scale election fraud the world has ever seen, and few people have paid for all that either at this point.  So, the wrong people out there are empowered and encouraged toward evil in ways that have never been so tempting.  And I think their October Surprise is coming, but I wouldn’t be so surprised.  And neither should you.  Be ready.

Rich Hoffman

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Trump’s ‘Save America’: Quite simply, one of the most important books ever produced in the history of the world

To say Trump’s new book ‘Save America’ is one of the best books ever produced might seem unfair, but I can’t think of another time in the world when such a thing was ever made, which will be so significant in memory.  It’s not that the book is scholarly in what it says, but what it shows that matters.  The books the Trump family calls “coffee table books” have been riveting.  This latest one, Save America, is the third in a series that photographically chronicles the Trump presidency and is very optimistic in its approach, which reflects Trump’s outlook on life shaped by The Power of Positive Thinking.  Winning the Presidency was one of the most important and fulfilling things that President Trump has ever done, and he shows in these books what the office means to him.  I wanted to get my hands on Save America, which came out on September 3rd from Winning Teams Publishing, which Don Jr. is behind, and like all the books they produce, this one has just a few extra steps in quality that you expect from anything coming from the Trump Organization.  So it’s a bit more than just a book, it’s a statement about an optimistic vision for its contents.  Trump golf courses are not just golf courses but experiences beyond the game.  In everything he does, Trump always puts a bit of class into his work, and that is certainly what he did with the Presidency of the United States of America.  Trump wasn’t just president; he made the role of the Executive Branch an experience and took it into what Americans expect from the office while it’s now quite clear that the world has been cheerleading its demise.  So, a photographic journey of that experience says a lot more than words can.

What is stunning about this book is the context.  It was obviously in production to be a final statement of what Trump was offering to the public before the November election.  But during that production, a lot happened in the world that would be talked about for thousands of years in the future.  And when you consider that Google has been trying to erase the image of President Trump being shot in an assassination attempt from the internet, publishing this book with it displayed vividly on the cover was going to ensure that such a thing would never be possible.  Because of its quality and what it shows, this book Save America will have incredible relevance thousands of years from now as historians try to grasp what happened in the world around 2024.  Many things are going to happen because of this year, and many bad characters have been rooted out into the open.  The scope of all of this is captured wonderfully in Trump’s new book.  He is showing himself with most of the world leaders who are essential at this moment, which puts the presidency on a massive scale and shows it far superior to the United Nations.  In contrast, many of the Marxist schemes of the world seem small in comparison.   Trump has done something remarkable with this book, defining the American presidency as the leader of the world, and key to the future.  What might have started as a political contribution to the election season has become a statement against tyranny in response to the most ostentatious display of overt authoritarianism ever witnessed on a mass scale. 

The book opens ironically with the famous mug shot of Trump being arrested in Georgia over questioning what we now know is the most outstanding example of election fraud ever attempted.  And the authority figures of our time have used lawfare to prosecute a former sitting president and to throw him in jail for essentially capturing an office they thought they controlled.  And their anger at him was for interrupting their destruction of the American idea.   And for that, by arresting him, they were imposing upon all of us what they intended to do as authority figures on the heels of the COVID-19 virus, which we also know was created in a lab in China for the purposeful destruction of the human race as we know it.  That mug shot picture means so much, and Trump has put his arm around it and made it part of him in a positive way, which is something perhaps only he could have done.  Then, the book ends quite literally with the assassination attempt of his life after being shot in the head and with blood running down his face, which took place literally just a few weeks ago.  Historically speaking, it is a stunning chronology of world events captured in one book, which is why it will have a lasting impact well into the future.  It would be fantastic if historical figures who have endured a lot in their lives captured that power so visually.  But that’s what we have here where essentially the world, even Democrats like Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, have united behind Trump to propel his vision for what Making America Great Again means and what it means to the world.  Between those two events, Trump shows his optimistic vision and interaction daily through his presidency, the post-presidency, and then up to the campaign and election in November through the Republican Convention, making J.D. Vance his Vice President. 

I quite literally read hundreds of books per year.  I finish a new one about every two or three days.  So, I have quite a collection over the years and have seen a lot of production going into how books should be put together, from the binding to the quality of the paper.  If I could be said to have a particular love, which is a running joke in my family, it is for the smell of freshly printed pages and the quality of a binding.  Of all the books in the world, I especially like those produced by the English publishers Thames and Hudson, who do a lot of books for Stone Henge, the English Heritage site, and The British Museum.  They are heavy, meaty books that are designed to last for many hundreds of years.  Those are the types of books that Winning Teams Publishing produces and of the quality of Save America.  The little bits intend to last and make a bold proclamation to do so.  The joke in my family is that my grandchildren laugh when I say that I love the smell of books so much that I want Grandma to have a perfume that smells like a book.  And the joke is that I’m not kidding.  And that’s what is great about Trump’s book, Save America.  It has the substance of everything such a book would want to be.  But, it also has that quality that proclaims its importance in a personal library for many centuries to come and is a statement to the tides of tyranny that have loomed in the background since the beginning of time.  Only now, in this age of 2024, with the promise of a second Trump term in the American Executive Office, is there a chance that such optimism overcoming so much devastating tragedy would ever have an opportunity to grow.  Yet it is captured as such in this new book, and I can’t recommend it enough to anybody thinking about it.

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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That’s No Moon, It’s the United Nations: Democrats joining Trump to fight the Death Star of global politics

This is part of the movie shown in the very first Star Wars film, A New Hope, where they are flying in deep space, and Ben Kenobi says to Han Solo as he was chasing down a Tie Fighter headed for a small moon, or so they thought, “that’s no moon, that’s a space station.”  Han Solo says, “That’s too big to be a space station.”  Kenobi says, “Turn the ship around.”  Solo says, “I think you’re right.” But it was too late.  Their ship was caught in a tractor beam, and they were all prisoners because they didn’t recognize what had been hiding in plain sight fast enough.  The Empire had been growing quietly in power in the background, and nobody had thought they had weapons like a Death Star at their disposal.  It had been built secretly, being too big for people to assume it could be real.  And by the time they realized what it was, it was too late.  That’s why people across many generations so loved those old Star Wars movies.  People naturally have an uneasy consideration about power and what it can do through the influence of the government.  The more recent Star Wars movies don’t get it; they are primarily concerned with silly stuff like the color of a lightsaber.  It was not the content of the struggle itself, which few films ever managed to capture, but the first two Star Wars movies did.  People are always uneasy about what power can do to their lives, and those old movies dealt with that issue in a way that meant something to many people who couldn’t quite put their finger on what they fear most.  And that point in that first movie best articulates people’s true feelings about the natural world around them, presented in a fictional context. 

I talk about these things all the time; I have been exceptionally well aware that many space stations out there threaten the human race.  Most people don’t think about those things and will only let themselves consider such a possibility in the kind of fiction they consume.  But what we have been learning about Joe Biden and his replacement, Kamala Harris, is that there is a real menace functioning behind the scenes of the Democrat Party, and a lot of people are jumping ship because they realize that the menace is a form of Death Star, a machine of globalism that is threatening to destroy everything regarding the freedoms we hold dear.  So this election with Trump in the fall of 2024 is no longer a Republican versus Democrat kind of thing; it’s now a joint effort of rebellion against a globalist machine that has been in power for a long time.  But we refused to see it until we were caught by a tractor beam and pulled ruthlessly toward it.  As everyone knows, in Star Wars, after the heroes are captured, the rest of the movie is about escaping and destroying that ominous machine, and it’s a lot of fun watching them do it.  And that fun has now lasted for several decades.  But we are no longer talking about fiction here; the Death Star is real, and it has been against America’s choice in government and has been seeking to destroy it.  And the more President Trump was involved in politics, the more it forced them to reveal themselves.  They never planned for him to survive this long, but because he has, the plot of this movie has moved from conspiracy theory to fact, and that realization has been terrifying to people.

You could hear it in Nicole Shanahan’s and Robert F. Kennedy’s voices as they moved from an independent ticket after quitting the Democrat Party and running for president, only to join Trump in those efforts.  She was recently on the Glenn Beck Show explaining why California Democrats are joining the Republican Party behind President Trump, and it was fascinating to hear.  These are the people in that Millennium Falcon cockpit who are wondering if that small moon was a massive space station run by an oppressive galactic government.  And they are realizing now that it is, and they want to turn the ship around and escape.  But there is no escape.  Now they want to join people who can help them fight this menace.  The same could be said of Tulsi Gabbard, who has been turning away from the Death Star for several years, starting as a Democrat Congresswoman and evolving into an independent supporting President Trump with an endorsement and even helping campaign with him.  And we all know how this movie ends.  All the heroes are joining to fight a mutual enemy and save the day.  At this point, I think that is more than an optimistic appraisal.  Yes, the machine has been running in the background, but its power is in secrecy.  Once people know what’s going on, they can attack and destroy it, which is the essential plot of the Star Wars movies.  The power of the bad guys is in secrecy, and what they conceal behind masks, such as the character of Darth Vader or the Emperor, a Sith Lord pretending to be a typical senator serving his constituents, is the real threat.

The new Disney Star Wars movies don’t understand this because they are part of that machine.  Even in Star Wars, the bad guys think they are doing the right things, and we must know that many of the tyrants of the World Economic Forum and the United Nations think they are on the right side of history.  But what is at threat is something that everyone can agree on, and even Democrats are seeing it these days.  If people like Nicole Shanahan are seeing it, you know there are a lot of traditional Democrats who are also seeing it, and they are going to be voting for President Trump.  These aren’t the kinds of things that polling traditionally captures in its analysis.  Should we turn away from the Death Star or not?  That’s not a typical polling question, so what’s going to end up happening is that there will be a massive turnout for Trump that is not being noticed at this point in the movie.  But destroying the machine is something everyone can rally behind, and that is what the 2024 election has become all about.  And Kamala Harris and her cackling communists are the Darth Vaders who pose a threat to the world.  And that world is uniting behind President Trump.  It’s not that any of this is new.  But people see it for what it is.  Perhaps that is the point of the big picture: people had to go through all this to appreciate the real threat in the world.  Kamala Harris isn’t a person; she’s a machine, and Constitutional principles do not bind the people who run her.  So, to them, there is no Bill of Rights and no American sovereignty.  There is only service to the system of tyranny of global politics.  And nobody wants that, especially now that they see that was the threat.  We didn’t see it fast enough, and that machine captured us.  But the point of the movie and life is to escape from that machine and, ultimately, destroy it so it can never threaten us again.  When they raided him at his home, prosecuted him, and threatened him with jail, then they tried to kill him and missed, the Empire showed who they were.  And now people from all kinds of backgrounds and political beliefs are rallying behind Trump for the destruction of the Death Star, once and for all, before that threat turns on them too as it always does.

Rich Hoffman

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They Call Them Lily Whites: How Assassins are created by drug funded organizations hell-bent on Political Radicalism

They call them Lily Whites, the kind of people that were put in place to kill President Trump.  That’s what the intelligence community calls them; it’s a technique they have used for years to assassinate people they want out of the way.  Find a kind of fringy white kid already off their rocker a bit and push him off with some gentle or not-so-gental nudging.  And soon, you have a young white male full of discontent, ready to throw their life away for some social cause, knowing full well that they won’t walk away from the matter alive.  I could get into all kind of evidence based details of how this kind of international mob works, but to simplify it, the CIA utilizes this technique all over the world, best known as Operation Gladio, which goes back to World War II and is funded by black budgets not connected to congress, or any voter based oversight, and they operate as a fourth branch of government and have been in the business of killing people for decades.  This kid who tried to kill Trump, Mathew Crooks, fits almost the exact profile and mode of behavior as Timothy McVeigh did in the Oklahoma City bombing.  McVeigh didn’t just wake up one day and decide to kill a bunch of innocent people with a rented truck filled with explosives.  He had help, a lot of help, starting with a bunch of Iraqi radicals all juiced up by the CIA living as a terrorist cell in Oklahoma City.  There was in the truck with McVeigh, and escaping from the scene of the crime that horrible day of April 19th, 1995, a Middle Eastern terrorist who was there all along.  After the killing, there were more than 22 sworn witnesses collected by television reporter Jayna Davis from Channel 4 Oklahoma City, who saw a Middle Eastern man with McVeigh before and after the most significant terrorist act to happen on American soil at that time.  And guess who decided not to pursue all those leads and instead harassed the reporter for asking questions about the official narrative?  The FBI, of course, is looking out for their friends in the intelligence community who have plenty of candy to sprinkle around to plenty of agents not happy with their already inflated government pensions.  There is a lot of drug money that the CIA uses to fund their activities, and for people who play ball with them, it’s a quick way to get a lifetime of security and a free condo in Florida. 

Oh, and yes, it’s not a question any longer about these same characters using the Lily White model to nudge the killers in 9/11 to do their deed.  Many of the same kind of people behind the Oklahoma City bombing were involved in that one as well.  Just find a few people willing to die for a cause and push them toward the target.  We’d see the same kind of coverups in subsequent years, the San Bernadino Christmas shooting and the Las Vegas shooter, which we still don’t know much about.  Most mass shootings can be traced back to this Lily White terrorist approach of weaponizing young radicals without a lot of parental support and casting them into a situation of terror where they are killed at the scene of the crime or quickly captured and disposed of in other ways.  That’s what they did with McVeigh, who went to his grave, not telling anybody about his Iraqi friends.  The FBI didn’t want to know and covered up the tracks.  And McVeigh was so anti-government that he thought he was sticking it to the man even up to the day of his lethal injection execution. 

Many people have asked me over the years what the difference is between Timothy McVeigh and someone like me, who has a lot of opinions about government and how the world should work.  Well, this is a common motivation for the creation of Lily Whites, which the CIA and FBI are very well aware of to the point where it’s an internal joke among them.  They are easy to make and use for committing crimes toward political activism they want to see happen.  But I could never be a Lily White or be anything like Timothy McVeigh.  McVeigh became radicalized during his Gulf War experience and began to sympathize with the people under the thumb of the American military, and he took that anger out on the government.  I see the government as representative of the American people and as needing reform to perform the task.  Lily Whites usually end up wanting some form of anarchy, and their controllers can then push their psychological buttons to shove them in the direction to make that happen.  So the FBI will say about Crooks that he was obsessed with Trump and saw that day in Butler, Pennsylvania, as a “target of opportunity,” and they can get away with it because that part is genuine.  They don’t tell anybody the rest of the story, the part they played in the effort.  Crooks was talking to people before the shooting, and it looked like they had foreign connections. Some of the cell phone pings trace to a character in Washington, D.C., near the FBI building.  There is a lot of circumstantial evidence there, but the FBI is investigating the case, so nobody in the CIA is worried about anything tracing back to them.  They’ve done this many times before and got away with it.  And they will continue to do it so long as nobody busts them for their domestic terrorism and political manipulation. 

No, of course not; this is not a conspiracy theory.  After 9/11, serious journalism looked at this story about Oklahoma City and tried to break it loose.  Even Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly did pieces on it, using the excellent work Jayna Davis had done as a reporter, which uncovered all kinds of stones.  However, the story died in predictable ways, especially after 9/11.  Jayna wrote a book called The Third Terrorist, laying the whole thing out for a court to prosecute.  But The New York Times corporation did what is now a familiar story all over America when it comes to radical communism and characters like Larry Fink, who happens to run Blackrock when all he wanted to do in his life was be in politics as a young hippie from California, is they have bought up most of the media companies.  The New York Times is a corporation, and they bought Channel 4 in Oklahoma City in the aftermath of all this, and they went woke before anybody knew what it was.  I have seen the same thing happen in Cincinnati with the Enquirer bought by Gannett, the same company running USA Today.  Jayna quit her job at that station after the corporate takeover, and there was a court battle over the evidence she had collected on the Oklahoma City bombing.  Which she eventually won, but six or seven years later, nobody cared or remembered.  The world had moved on.  They built a memorial there in Oklahoma City, just like in New York.  People mourned for the losses but never punished the perpetrators.  They lived in terrorist cells around the world funded by a CIA that has no civilian oversight and is primarily funded by the illegal drug trade across the globe, and they are desperate to keep Trump out of the White House.  So they found a Lily White in Mathew Crooks to kill Trump.  They tried to assassinate another president so they could control the White House through terrorism and political radicalism, which is the complete platform of the Communist Harris campaign.  But they missed Trump, and now they are exposed in ways they are unprepared to deal with.

Rich Hoffman

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Visiting the Butler County Jail: What it takes to maintain a free society

It was great for me to get a chance to tour the Butler County Jail.  I have had a lot of questions about it and its use, how much it costs, and what its helpful role in society is.  The Butler County Jail is one of the most expensive in the state, and it’s certainly significant, with around 1000 inmates being held at any particular time.  As part of the obligation of a grand jury where I was the foreman, the prosecutor’s office in Butler County arranges for everyone to see where the people in the cases considered for indictment are going or being released.  For me, it was important to have context on several fronts.  And, of course, you can’t go to the jail without seeing Sheriff Jones.  Overall, my experience was very good, and I think in regards to Sheriff Jones, it has been a rough couple of years.  But I have seen in him a lot of seriousness in establishing himself as one of the biggest MAGA supporters in Southern Ohio.  We might have disagreements that have significant consequences on people we mutually know.  But I have seen him work hard to establish himself as an unquestioned supporter of justice and order.  Seeing him in his natural habitat, the jail, was also good for me.  And get a sense of what it’s like living in his shoes.  And why his appearance with Hulk Hogan at the Liberty Township Kroger significantly benefited the big picture of law and order in Butler County.  I’ve had a chance recently to see Sheriff Jones at his best, and I certainly have an appreciation for good work, which he has displayed with seriousness.  The whole experience was very beneficial in that I have an excellent understanding of what it takes to run a prosecutor’s office, what their challenges are, how it relates to the inmate system, and what it takes to essentially maintain the criminal conduct of a small percentage of a population of over 400,000 people.  Competition is good for everyone, and some people step into the challenge while others crumble under pressure.  And to that point, I am glad that Butler County, Ohio, hasn’t lost its way and has some of the country’s best people when the pressure is applied.  Politics is a blood sport.  It’s good to never get to a point where you can’t at least be friendly with people.  Because, in the end, it’s all about serving a public need.  And once the rubber hits the road, we can all be proud of our Butler County Jail.

The reality of any free society, especially when there are so many people in it, is that there will always be 1-2% who fall off the rocker and can’t live in a free society.  For whatever reason, they can’t function in a world where free people need to be free.  Crime threatens that freedom and has to be dealt with.  This means you either have capital punishment and get rid of those people, or you lock them up so they can’t hurt anybody and perhaps hope to reform them.  But if you do that, you must feed and house them.  And doing that with other people who are also on the fringe of society is difficult.  I’ve been to the Butler County Jail several times but only seen Sheriff Jones’ office, the conference room, and their press conference area.  I’ve never been past those front office areas into the booking area and the general population, which is a vast complex.  It doesn’t look like a county jail; it resembles a prison system on a large scale.  After visiting the jail, it is easy to see why the federal grants are essential and why the operation would cost over 80 million dollars.  It’s a prominent place with a lot of moving parts.  And you have to have it.  Police work is not like a school where you can debate the merits of education and what it provides to society.  When you have criminals who can’t be roaming around causing trouble, you must put them somewhere.

So, as I was walking around with the jail staff, I was thinking about how many people it takes to staff a place like that, three shifts a day, seven days a week.  I did tour the cell pods, specifically a cell within the pod where a couple of inmates were removed from their daily routine and placed in the laundry room to see how they lived.  Their cell was not much larger than a closet.  It had a little sink and a toilet, with a bunk bed beside it.  There was a tiny television and a little table where two people could sit and play a game or talk.  There is little room to walk around and do anything else.  And to imagine being in there for more than a few hours would be devastating to a human mind.  And there are many cell pods for as far as the eye can see.  Each of them has to have at least one officer to maintain the population of that triangular pod.  In each pod is a shower, a rec room, and a place where they can make phone calls to the outside world or receive visitors, all of which must be monitored by jail staff.  One thing that surprised me, and I was curious about, was the recreational areas attached to the jail pod.  They have a little screen window that allows fresh air into a half-court basketball court.  But there isn’t any accurate indicator as to the outside world.  An inmate could go for a long time without seeing if the sun was out or the day was sunny. 

Touring the jail, you could feel the hatred of the inmates.  They see you coming and going, but they have lost that freedom and hate you for it.  While I was touring, the inmates were placed in their cells, and they gazed out at the inspection with ruthless hunger.  It’s hard not to feel sorry for them, for everyone, even the jail employees.  It’s a rough job, but yes, somebody has to do it, and for the staff there, everyone I talked to, it takes a unique person even to want to do a job like that.  It’s not like they can call off work.  Somebody has to be there to deal with so many inmates, who are always just a fringe moment away from chaos and mayhem.  It does help that Sheriff Jones has such a big personality because it does take that to pull all those elements together.  Human beings and emotions can be messy, but intent goes a long way.  And to run the Butler County Jail and the criminal justice system so that ordinary people, the rest of the 400,000 people of Butler County who expect to roam about freely without impediment, without the Butler County Jail and a system of prosecution, there is no mechanism to have a free society.  If anything, the jail should be more prominent and have more employees because running a place like that takes a lot of time to hold so many people who have fallen off the rocker in society.  I spent a lot of time talking to the guards and getting my mind into their shoes, and I appreciate their work.  It takes money and personality to bring attention to these things.  I would like to see a lot more people going to jail.  But you can’t put everyone there.  And I’m glad people who want to do it work at the jail.  It’s essential work that is taken for granted all too often.

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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