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Juneteenth is a Dumb Holiday for Lazy People: It was Republicans who freed the slaves

We have too many holidays as it is; we certainly don’t need one more where everyone stays home and looks out the window.  People need to work more, and not emulate the lazy Europeans and their excessive time off lifestyle.  I was pretty surprised to learn this year, in 2025, when June 19th arrived, that it was a federal holiday and all the banks, along with many large companies, were closed.  It was a Thursday, essentially in the middle of the workweek, and everyone was gone from the office, which I found shocking.  The Juneteenth Holiday was in effect from when it was passed in 2021, and for some reason, it became a thing this year.  Last year or the year before, I didn’t notice it much.  But this year, it seemed oddly out of place, being placed alongside other holidays like Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the Fourth of July.  Juneteenth is a holiday created by lazy people using racism as a mask to hide their lack of engagement.  Democrats made it to hide the sin of their slave holding past in an attempt to appease their current desires to work less and follow the Marxist trend to have as many days off a year, and to follow Europe, where all the countries have some level of socialism to them, into a stagnant economy with short work weeks and very little productivity.  I hear it all the time from people I deal with in Europe, they think Americans work too much and are constantly stressed out.  They think it’s smart to take more days off, have more extended vacations, and stay home from work every time they have a runny nose.  I disagree vehemently.  I think people should work much more than they do now and for far more extended hours.  We can’t have the most GDP and strongest economy in the world unless you are willing to outwork everyone else.

It was stunningly irresponsible for many of the large companies I was aware of, including Juneteenth as a day off for their employees.  You have to be kidding.  It’s part of that whole DEI push that has been so destructive.  As if by recognizing the holiday created by the Biden Administration to appease voters they think would vote for them because of the color of their skin, to honor the end of slavery, those companies would prove that they weren’t racists.  By bending the knee to radical Marxism and communism that have been exported into communities of color to take advantage of any past hard feelings, the belief is that unearned guilt can be relieved.  But that is the fool’s perspective who doesn’t know their history.  It was Republicans who freed the slaves.  It was Democrats who kept them, so those of us who were never supportive of slavery, and I am certainly one of them, were never guilty of slavery.  Instead of a name like “Juneteenth,” it should be Frederick Douglass Day or General Grant Day.  Or “thank you, Republican Party Day.”  “Not Juneteenth.”  The name itself is embarrassing, and comes from a Marxist background from radicals within America who hate the country and want to bring it down from the inside out.  By recognizing the holiday with a lazy day off, we give Democrats cover for the sins they committed with slavery and allow them to gain merit in appeasing minority communities hoping to win votes by giving them a day off in remembrance of what they want to establish as the unwarranted start to a country built on slavery. 

Marxist groups are behind all this as their ideology from Karl Marx established the attack of communism throughout the world to attempt to stir up the disenfranchised to rise against their current governments.  And that is the case in just about every corner of the world.  And in America, the Marxist groups behind the Juneteenth holiday are part of that ridiculous 1619 Project that was popular at the time to rewrite history around the premise that America and its economy should have never been created because it was built on the back of slavery.  When the truth is that, without America coming along, slavery would likely still be practiced commonly in the world.  It was the creation of the American Constitution that paved the way for the world to remove the practice of slaves in all economies, which had been going on everywhere up to that point for many thousands of years.  It was the American North and specifically the Republican Party that emerged to end slavery.  It was highly controversial at the time.  It wasn’t just America practicing slavery. Instead, slavery had been inherited from the English, the French, and the Spanish in the regions they controlled in North America.  And it was the Revolutionary War that created the conditions for America to be born as a nation, and to take those territories away from those other countries that practiced slavery.  Once the federal government could be elected to use a political party to create a mass movement against slavery, it was the Republican Party that led a war against southern Democrats to free the slaves.  We shouldn’t call the ending of slavery Juneteenth Day; it should be in honor of the Republican Party.  And specifically, President Grant, a great war general and president who was too fair to everyone. 

It was The New York Times Magazine that launched this idea in 2019, marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans in the English colony of Virginia, and attempting to reframe the creation of America as a country, thereby undercutting its foundation.  The Juneteenth holiday is a way to trick people into buying into this ridiculous nonsense with a day off work to celebrate, then validate their argument.  But it’s just another excuse for people who don’t like to work to create another holiday to justify being unproductive under the guise of a good cause.  The world doesn’t need more time off work.  It needs to work harder.  And people need to know their history.  Republicans freed the slaves, and if not for America, there would still be slaves.  It took a free country for the world to see what free people would be like.  Until that occurred, nobody understood what “freedom” meant.  And it took another century for the Republican Party to come along and challenge a long-term European standard of slave labor to provide work for economies.  During the age of invention, as machines could perform work relieving humans of tasks, the human race could finally have that debate.  So, if we are going to celebrate something, it needs to be that Republicans freed the slaves in the newly created nation of America.  But we already celebrate freedom on the 4th of July, so we don’t need another useless holiday for people to sit around and eat nachos by the pool.  People need to get back to work.  We need to dump this useless Holiday of Juneteenth so that we can get to the banks when we need them.  How dare those idiots think that it was appropriate to shut down all the banks in the middle of a work week?  What a stupid and reckless thing to do.  That tells you a lot about just how woke our banking system is when they take off for Juneteenth.  And that is a whole problem of its own. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Bike Paths of Agenda 21: They cost a lot of money and very few people use them, especially in conservative West Chester

I’m probably the last person not to like bike paths.  I use the newly created bike paths and trails in the West Chester and Liberty Township areas extensively for the videos I make with these articles I write.  I have spent thousands of hours on them filming these videos, so I would say it’s safe to say I am an extensive user and have walked every mile of all of them many times over.  However, I understand why West Chester Trustee Mark Welch is not a fan of the proposed connecting bike path that has been discussed for running through West Chester, from the Mason area, aiming to link the Little Miami River to the Great Miami.  There is a long-planned fantasy to connect those rivers through this part of southern Ohio, and logic is not at the center of any considerations.  This issue recently arose when I was writing an article about vertiports in West Chester, and Mark and I discussed the bike paths and parks that are part of the United Nations’ Agenda 21 and 2030 sustainability plans, which end up in local planning offices across the United States.  The blind commitment to bike paths from foreign planning commissions that cost a lot of money is going to be a centerpiece to the re-election of Mark Welch and whether we embrace a future off the lessons of the past, or we follow the mindless dictates of foreign influence and their radical ideas about climate science that are at the heart of building more green space to inspire humans not to use their cars so much, and to get healthier lifestyles that don’t put too much burden on the top heavy cost health care industry that is corrupted by labor unions and pharmaceutical company monopoly status. 

The current dream is to connect bike path infrastructure along Tylersville Road, West Chester and to meet up with the existing bike path built near the Trinity Pub in Port Union.  Before I outline my next comments, I see numerous positive uses for these bike paths. I have a grandson who is riding them all over the state.  He and his dad are planning a trip to Cleveland from their home along the Loveland Bike Trail, which is used pretty extensively. However, proportionally speaking, we are still talking about under 2% of the population that uses them at any particular time.  They are not being used in the way that Agenda 21 sustainability planners envisioned in their communist fantasies.  Nothing ever works out as planned.  However, I think they are pretty neat in a luxury-oriented culture.  It’s nice to have them, but they are not used by most taxpayers, not even occasionally.  So Mark’s position in West Chester is to put the issue to a vote, and if people vote in favor of spending money on the bike paths, then he’d be all for it.  However, paying good money from the current tax base is not a good idea, as it is using government power in the wrong way.  Bike paths are not a core competency of government, and for the trustees of West Chester, it’s too much to ask them to take on.  But for the bottom feeders who are trying to knock Mark out of this race and to take his seat, completing these bike paths with taxpayer money will be one of the foundations of their campaigns as a feel-good sentiment that does not have broad appeal, but might sound like a good idea without context. 

The bike path that starts at Port Union, near the Trinity Pub, cost approximately $13.8 million to construct.  It was relatively easy because it runs along the property that used to be part of the Erie Canal, which ran from Hamilton down into downtown Cincinnati through the Mill Creek Valley.  Before there was even a railroad, or I-75, there was the Erie Canal.  That’s why Port Union is named that way, because that was a port of entry for getting on the canal.  So, what was left of it was open, unused land that was perfect for building a bike path to preserve parts of it for historical perspective.  The land was relatively easy to acquire, and to the north of it was raw farmland with minimal residential properties to contend with.  And that is the constant theme of most of the bike paths that have sprung up all over Ohio, including the one my nine-year-old grandson plans to use to ride to Cleveland and back.  I think it’s a pretty bold and cool idea for him and his dad to do, as I show them here using the bike paths for training for that adventure together.  But most of those bike paths are built along rivers and railroads, and don’t involve much eminent domain.  However, to cut through West Chester, it will be costly to create the bike path because there is a lot of private property to acquire, and numerous eminent domain cases will be a significant issue.  So it’s nowhere near as easy as building the bike path at Port Union.  Bike paths, under the best conditions, cost approximately $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 per mile.  The cost increases significantly when private property is involved, as it would be in West Chester, Ohio.  A concept that the Agenda 21 planners never anticipated, given that their monetary policy was based on Modern Monetary Theory, where they planned for governments to print fake money. In Europe, the concept of private property often takes a back seat to state needs and desires.  The people who want bike paths in West Chester are those kinds of Democrat thinkers. 

So, I spend a lot of time at the one by Trinity Pub, and I hardly ever see anybody there.  When the Trinity Pub was built, it was intended to be a hub for the bike path, and it would be a great idea if people used the trail.  But that little restaurant has barely hung on and is under its latest set of owners, who are trying to get things going there, but without much success.  I’d like to see them make it, but the bike path hasn’t helped them at all because nobody uses it.  So with all this expense involved, why do them?  Although I like and use them, the cost does not make sense.  Especially when private property acquisition is involved, these bike paths form an extensive network, and I was surprised to see how nice they are, even in remote areas between Middletown, Ohio, and Franklin, along the Great Miami River.  They are nice to have, but they are part of a luxury culture that can afford them.  They will never be used in the way the Agenda 21 planners envisioned, as a means to replace cars, save the planet from human beings, and keep people from traveling on vacation because they had plenty of parks in their neighborhoods to visit.  All the central planners involved in America got suckered by this European fantasy, and Mark Welch has declared himself not to be one of those suckers.  If voters want to raise their taxes to pay for something that they will never use, then fine.  But in the back of all logic, it says that people don’t care.  Especially if they have to pay for it out of their own pockets, and when it comes to the West Chester Bike Path to connect the Little Miami River to the Great Miami River, they just won’t. 

Rich Hoffman

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In Florida, You Can Run Protestors Over: Fighting communists rioting against ICE deportations

You did notice that there are no mass protests in Florida, where communists trained in our colleges take to the streets in one of these anti-ICE deportation mobs to block traffic with their bodies.  In Florida, if people throw their bodies in front of your car to stop you, you are allowed to run them over.  There are some technical and legal gymnastics involved, but in essence, protesters are not allowed to block traffic in Florida.  Because drivers won’t be prosecuted for driving over their scummy, dirty, communist bodies, and that’s how it should be in every American state.  It’s nice to have Free Speech, but that speech cannot impose itself on other people and cause them discomfort or even harm.  And blocked traffic is reprehensibly disruptive.  But there’s more to it than that, even.  We are not obligated in America to tolerate enemies of our nation.  And to hide hostile, treasonous intent behind any form of Free Speech.  And this is what the social Marxists, communists, and open socialists want to do by working against the values of America while using the values of Free Speech to attempt to undercut the foundations of society itself.  We must recognize what is truly happening with these individuals. Suppose they show up to a rally outside of Sheriff Jones’ jail in Butler County, for instance, as they have been doing, wearing a t-shirt indicating membership in a socialist organization. In that case, they are openly declaring war against the United States and the self-governed people of that nation.  And actions worse than legal prosecutions are more than justified.  Those people are declaring war on our way of life, and we need to treat them that way.  We have no obligation to be accommodating to people who are trying to overthrow our country, and these protestors against the ICE deportations are with their stated intent.

There is a lot to unpack behind the supporters of these protestors who have blocked traffic in Los Angeles and made themselves into a menace to society.  Having different opinions on a matter and expressing them openly in the marketplace of ideas is one thing.  Impeding people’s lives with those opinions, with the explicit intention of using force and inconvenience to convey their point, is not acceptable.  And for the people who are financing these protests, there is a lot of action that we must take against them.  Everyone needs to stop thinking of the government as something separate from themselves, done by some mysterious people in power.  Self-government means we elect people into positions that need to be filled, and they work on our behalf to accomplish the tasks assigned to them.  So we must protect that government from attack when it does happen.  In this case, Trump was elected to do our work.  And we must preserve his ability to do that work on our behalf.  That work cannot be stopped by a bunch of lifetime appointed judges with both feet into Marxist causes as they have been lured into that political philosophy during their Friday night wine tasting social gatherings, and they have learned to drink the brew with their pinky out to disguise from their spouses detrimental elements of porn addiction and diabolical life choices they want to hide behind collectivist living.  The people who are attacking our country are attacking us, and they use these mindless, dumb kids right out of college, and the old hippies of the Flower Child generation who are still alive to provoke them into antagonisms against all things American.  Even in some of these protests, the American flag was burned while the Mexican flag was hoisted with reverence as if domination over occupation were a forgone conclusion. 

Most of the wars that Americans have fought over the last century were against socialist, Marxist, and communist forces and their attempts to overthrow our capitalist system of economics.  We have gone to war, for instance, to prevent Korea from being overrun by communism.  We did the same in Vietnam.  What’s left of the Soviet Union, which Vladimir Putin is trying to unite Ukraine back under the home country from its fall from communist power, is at the heart of the modern conflict.  China is a communist nation that is exporting communism all around the world, including providing financial backing for many of the ICE protests.  The conflicts in Central America have been over the spread of communism.  Communism took over and ruined Cuba, creating a lot of trouble for the United States.  And the military action of choice by these communist groups has been to change their tactics from open aggression to legal challenges.  For instance, rather than go to war again with the United States in Korea recently, the communists just penetrated society to the point where they rigged elections so they could steal the government as they just did in South Korea, and took over the country without firing a shot.  They have tried to do the same thing in America.  The Joe Biden presidency was a good example of that very intention.  A presidency was stolen and given to a communist supporter, which Joe Biden was.  They did the same thing in Brazil with Bolsonaro.  They used election fraud to remove him from office, then lawfare to strangle him in court.  This is how the communists, who are the enemies of humanity, work in the world.  They have changed their approach, and in America, they attempt to conceal themselves behind free speech, expecting not to be identified as hostile agents of the American way of life.  And when they show up to a protest wearing socialist membership t-shirts, they are making it easy to identify who they are and what needs to be done to them.

There has been considerable debate about the role of communism in a free society.  For a long time, people on the left assumed they had an equal right to express their opinions in that free society.  But Democrats, socialists, and communists of Marxist thought are a political party that is hostile to American values.  When we discuss the political right and the political left, we are referring to support for Adam Smith’s economics on the right and Karl Marx’s on the left.  One is hostile to the other, and they can’t all coexist in the world, which is the moral of the story behind all the conflicts we have had up to this point and the blood that has been spilled, defining those parameters.  And that is what they are protesting with the immigration issues, open supporters of overthrowing America are trying to import communist ideas into the nation to change the voting standards of a free country, so that they can topple the nation with the pressure of the policies.  So, illegal immigration is an invasion of our country by hostile agents trying to hide their radicalism behind loopholes in the law, which think only countries can declare war on our nation, and that we can’t fight them if a nation hasn’t openly declared war.  But Mexico has come pretty close to it by supporting illegal immigration into America and all the violence and chaos it brings.  But to the protestors themselves, who were taught in our public education system and colleges to become agents of Marxism, we have been too friendly and accommodating to them.  We should be openly hostile and even violent when they show up in our communities with t-shirts showing an affiliation with socialism, communism, and Marxism.  And if they block our road with their communist bodies uttering Marxist values and expect to stop our progress from point A to point B, we should run them over and not look back for a second at their broken bodies and hippie rantings.  It is more valuable to acquire our gallon of milk from the store than to consider for a moment the fractured lives of those hostile protestors and their ill intent toward our great nation.  Their destruction would be an improvement to the quality of our country, and we should defend it accordingly.  We aren’t required to put up with communists in our society under the guise of free speech.  When we see them and they identify themselves as such, we should always be at war with the basic premise of their diabolical existence.

Rich Hoffman

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The Magnificant Army Parade: Smoking out the domestic enemies

I’m happy that my wife and I recently visited Washington, D.C., and saw all the key places along Constitution Avenue in front of the White House, where the great Army Parade took place on June 14th, 2025.  We had spent a lot of time in the precise location where the stage was set up for President Trump and others to view the celebration, so it was extra special for me, given the context of that visit.  It was a very patriotic event that we much needed, and it’s so good to see President Trump back in the White House.  This is the kind of thing many were unsure would ever happen again in America, especially after the 2020 election theft and the COVID-19 lockdowns.  It seemed at the time as if we would never see such celebrations in America again.  However, this one was the first of its kind, where Army sentiment was on full display with tanks and troops marching in full patriotic fanfare, which occurred very early in President Trump’s second term, and the world was watching.  And it couldn’t have come at a better time; the country certainly needed it.  With the world plunging toward war, with lots of hostile characters trying to create chaos in the background, whether it was the fights in Iran, the war in Ukraine, or China posturing to attack Taiwan, the many Marxist groups were gathering for No Kings marches all over the United States at the same time.  And without this epic Army parade, things would have looked pretty bleak.  However, it was so successful that it made it very clear who the world’s villains were, and they seemed rather foolish by comparison.  Something that would not have been so obvious if Trump had not thought of celebrating the 250th birthday of the creation of the Army before America was even born. 

For anybody to protest that parade was pretty foolish.  Trump has never sold himself as a king of any kind, so the desperate attempts to paint him as a tyrannical dictator only indicate just how much of a threat law and order are to the chaos of destruction that the political left intends for us all, which has been hidden carefully behind polite society.  However, when a majority of society views something like an Army parade and enjoys it under the common appreciation of our nation’s flag, radicals against it appear much worse than they typically do.  It’s hard to preach against something so positive, yet that was the position of the anti-American protestors who have been attacking ICE deportations, American support of Israel over the PLO, and now a resurrection of appreciation for military recruitment and career advancement.  The combined efforts of many hostile characters working in the background were aimed at eroding the idea of America and turning our country into a collective entity of the United Nations, thereby losing all sovereign control to foreign, centralized banking.  It was never more apparent just how bad the messaging is of these radical groups than by June of 2025, when they still haven’t figured out why Americans voted for President Trump again in the recent election.  The bottom line is that they don’t understand what makes people work, and believe that they are so stupid that they would just mindlessly follow the Marxists trying to stop America from existing.  Trump was never trying to position himself as a king; he was popularly elected to do a job.  And he is doing it very well. 

But imagine what the rest of the world must have thought.  Again, I frequently get the chance to travel and talk to people from all over the world, so I have a perspective that isn’t confined to what people are doing in my own backyard.  And the world isn’t a very good or safe place.  Most governments are lacking because they are centralized and driven by administrative controls.  So people have come to accept deficiencies in expectation due to this collectivist nature.  Most places in the world have some degree of socialism, communism, or overall Marxism at the core of their society.  That has been tried in America and can easily be found on most school boards, corporate boardrooms, finance institutions, the medical industry, and all labor unions.  However, people themselves have rejected those traits and have been hungry for an alternative, which the free market in America has been able to nurture, and to significant effect.  And the reminder of why that is was on full display with the Army Parade.  Tyrannical ideas can’t take hold in America because of the Second Amendment, and because we have an all volunteer military that keeps bad guys out, leaving some of the most hostile forces in the world to fund radical demonstrations like what was seen by the No Kings protests, primarily financed by Marxist groups and figureheads like the billionaire Neville Singham.  We usually talk about people like Alex and George Soros for that kind of thing, but in truth, there are many handfuls of these Marxist types who use their money to pay for their own sort of army, the disenchanted youth, to be their ground troops of destruction.  And the poor kids are too stupid to understand how they are being used as a disguised military overthrow of our government by Marxist protestors.  And in the background, constantly, they have hidden themselves, because there weren’t better things happening in the world that exposed them.  This Army Parade was so positive and impressive that it made what they had been doing look insignificant by comparison, and the contrast is stark.

As a result, people are finding that they like the world President Trump is presenting, much better than the stringy-haired hippies of public education advocating for Marxism.  People like those in the military wanted to celebrate it with the President in such positive fanfare.  It was such a nice event.  As I mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed my recent trip to Washington, D.C., with my wife.  It was great to have Trump back in the White House.  But it was even better to take that area between the Washington Monument and the White House and have a military parade to show the world the miracles of capitalism, and a solid, well-funded Army with a deep, sustainable history, controlled by popular elections under self-rule.  Quite the opposite message from what the protests were trying to sell, that came out flat and jaded.  Unlike in the past, when people would give their opinions the time of day.  There is now a lot of history that people are ashamed of, so the communist playbook of protest and discontent isn’t registering.  However, a military parade in front of the White House was something the world could rally behind, demonstrating that Trump understands all too well how to project America’s values to the world in ways that no modern-day consultants could comprehend.  That display was pure Trump, and understanding the market value of freedom, and how it helps keep the world in check.  And it dwarfed all the rallies cheered on by the Marxist and socialist groups in cities all over America.  The Army parade dominated the news cycle and deflated the Marxist balloon, just in time, too.  And I think it started a new tradition, which is about time.  The first months of Trump’s second term have been great.  But I think we are just seeing the beginning of many great things to follow.

Rich Hoffman

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Putting Out the Fires of War: No, there won’t be a World War III

You have to see the big picture here and understand the motivations that are being exposed, as we speak.  I was surprised that Benjamin Netanyahu was so bullish on attacking Iran’s nuclear capability and taking out the heads of the Iranian revolutionary forces.  In the chess game of war, it’s a pretty bold one, and when you add to that the antics of Ukraine and Russia, and China moving in on Taiwan, there is a lot of talk about World War III.  And about the United States getting dragged into it.  But lurking in the background of all this chaos are the forces of globalism, who are starting these fires to cover up their many crimes.  And they are looking for a diversion.  All these characters didn’t just get these warlike ideas on their own as single-minded personalities.  Numerous factors are at play in the background, and many global crimes are being brought to light for consideration.  So the hope here is that wars, even if it means World War III and mass casualties everywhere, can’t be avoided. Suppose the bad guys out there can start a war and destroy the world to cover their many, vast crimes.  You can bet that they will do it in a New York minute.  We are dealing with a vast evil that is as malicious as the human imagination could consider.  And it has always hidden itself through death and violence.  So, while there is a lot of concern about America getting pulled into a war, remember, this is just another Covid story, an attempt to derail the news cycle and hide the perpetrators of evil who move the mouths of the characters involved.  And hope that nobody notices.  But of course we do see, and are onto the truth of the matter.

In Israel’s case, I don’t feel that enough revenge has been put in place for the malicious attack that occurred against Israel at that music festival.  The way they were attacked was reprehensible, and to say that America can’t get dragged into a Holy War is ridiculously insufficient.  Globalism is a layered topic in this case because Israel was a creation of globalism, of the forces being realigned after World War II.  There are forces of the western world who want to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and the ancient fight with the residents of the Land of Canaan, and of the Mesopotamian Valley feel they are fulfilling a prophesy the same as Jesus riding a donkey into the ancient city as the Son of God to be the King of Kings to a chosen people.   There is no peace in this process because there are more than terrestrial forces at play, blowing on the winds of war that have been present for many tens of thousands of years, if not millions.  Not to become distracted here, but you have to understand the level of evil in the Middle East that we are discussing, which has been chronicled in literature as long as humans have been able to record their observations and thoughts.  So with all that in mind, I love Israel, I love the Jewish people, and I think that it’s essential to understand why that part of the world was chosen to be a Promised Land.  There is no way to appease the Iranians and their history against the Jewish people, going back to the beginning.  To have peace with them, they will have to be destroyed.  And they showed those fangs when they attacked all those kids at that music festival, and raped all those poor girls, and tortured those family members.  We can’t tolerate that kind of evil in a world of mass communication, where people have a responsibility to be aware of these things.  We can’t turn away from evil, and I tend to think that the Jewish people should rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem for the third time. 

However, we are also discussing the majority of the known world being in a perilous circumstance, from Russia to China, which threatens to disrupt chip manufacturing and, in turn, impact the American economy.  Trump has done a great job getting on the phone with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and maintaining a relationship with them that would make waging war difficult in their minds with free justification.  The winds of war were being blown on by globalist forces trying to hide their crimes as Trump took away the embers with diffusing telephone calls that only a top executive would understand how to do.  Thank goodness Trump is in the White House because I don’t see World War III happening in the way that most people fear it will, with a ground war and mass casualties all over the earth.  As I look at it, the world can’t afford to be at war.  The world is broke, and they can’t maintain war as it is traditionally viewed.  All they can afford to do is sponsor various elements of terrorism.  Russia is broke.  China is only propped up with globalist money, trying to hide itself behind a wall of communism.  And in Iran, they hide Marxism behind Islamic Fundamentalism, but the truth is that they are the top sponsor in the world of terrorism.  Or as they define it, “revolutionary support.”  When they talk about revolution, they are talking about the fight of indigenous people to push out the Western world from their ancient practices that go back to the time of the Tower of Babel.  And they will never stop.  But they have also been propped up by globalism, remember all the cases of money that Obama left on runways during his administration to sponsor the terrorism of that region against the Western World.  Against the Christianized West. 

However, none of those countries can afford to go to war; what we are seeing on the news are the attempted fires of those forces hiding within the policy of those places, trying to throw everyone off the scent.  But without globalist money, Iran can’t maintain its regime.  The Ukraine War falls apart.  And China can’t do anything as they are completely attached to the greedy hands of the World Economic Forum as their government of choice for corporate manipulation.  And America doesn’t need to get pulled into any war.  It’s perfectly fine to shoot down the missiles going into Israel and to run Iran dry.  And let the people rise and overthrow the Revolutionary forces there in Iran, and install a new government.  America doesn’t need to lift a finger, only to support the fight against evil wherever it shows itself.  However, a ground war is not in the cards, as it’s not necessary.  Trump has already discharged the steam, leaving the globalist forces exposed and desperate.  And we have to realize that’s what is going on.  The world that doesn’t want peace is losing its hiding places, and they know that America is going to outpace globalism and make them irrelevant.  All the talk show pundits are getting the war talk wrong because they don’t want to admit the economics of the situation.  There isn’t money for the kind of war they fear, due to the way globalism has entangled so many forces.  They can’t afford such a fight. Instead, the bad guys have been stripped naked, and their marionettes have found themselves talking peacefully to Trump, putting out the fires faster than they can be started.  Leaving them all exposed without any hiding places, in full view of a public waking up massively, perhaps for the first time, in the history of this world.

Rich Hoffman

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Being Replaced by AI: If you have time to play on the internet all day, you are in a job that can easily be replaced by new technology

Let’s take the concerns about AI replacing jobs seriously for a minute.  Here’s a good measure that I use to determine the value of a job.  If you have time to play on the internet and are ordering your lunch at 9 AM, you are probably working a job that AI could replace. We don’t create jobs just for people to have.  You need to be doing something with that job.  So, if you have a lot of time to do other things while you’re at your job.  Or you are doing a job that people think can be done from home while you are in your pajamas, your job can be done by AI. I have explained that I don’t worry about AI taking away jobs from people. Instead, I think AI will expand our economy where it’s applied and make humans more efficient.  Our economy will grow proportionally.  And when we are talking about GDP growth of more than 3%, human jobs just aren’t going to get you there.  There are not enough people, and there are not enough births.  There aren’t enough people in the world to fill all the jobs that we currently have.  Measuring a country’s success in job creation is a thing of the past and has been for quite some time.  I understand the anxiety, but really, and you know who you are, if you aren’t very busy at your job, then you are doing a job that AI can replace, one that doesn’t show up late or call off.  Or bring in a doctor’s note looking for an excused absence.  AI works all night and doesn’t require overtime.  It doesn’t get out of focus on the topics being worked on.  It simply does work, and that is essentially what economic value is measured by: the amount of work required to drive economic activity. 

It is baffling to hear what people who are supposed to be smart think would happen with the new administrative state’s view of the world.  Even this past week, I have heard some ridiculous comments from people who are supposed to be experts on labor practices.  The notion that the world should stop because so-and-so has called off is a preposterous idea.  And the general idea is that work is something that should be regarded as valuable.  I continue to hear what I’ve listened to all my life about Mondays, when people say stupid things like, “can’t wait to Friday.”  Or, “TGIF,” associating sadness with Monday mornings, where people have to return from time off and report to jobs that they hate.  And they rebel against those jobs with frequent call-offs and expect their job to be there for them once they’ve done all their leisure activities, as if we are supposed to build our lives around being off work.  Hey, AI never complains.  It does work, and a lot of it, and is, in general, far better than humans doing those same jobs.  It is much more reliable.  So, are we supposed to avoid using AI and insist on using a human being who is much less efficient at a task, to preserve the feelings of some lazy slug who is on their third marriage and has kids by all different spouses, who call off work every time the sun is out?  Because that’s the reality of the labor market.  However, it’s not just the typical slugs we’re talking about.  It’s just as common for white-collar jobs.  And you can see it while visiting any city.

It is astonishing to visit places like Washington, D.C., where traffic is heavy from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.  Everyone is going to work, and the parking garages fill up fast.  But by noon, those parking garages start to open up because people are not working full 8-hour days.  They are going home after just a few hours in the office, and in many cases, they are not working even five days a week.  We saw this mentality clearly during COVID, where medical professionals insisting on government-imposed lockdowns had no connection to the amount of work that needed to be done globally.  Labor being a measure of productivity, most of the COVID planners thought that the world could all stay home and only communicate with each other via Teams meetings.  And we’re talking about people we think of as brilliant.  They believed that the way to get to a zero-emission world was for all humans to stay home and not drive anywhere.  If you have ever attended one of these climate conferences, such as those held in Rio or Davos, you will hear these same types of people microplanning mass society with the belief that humans could all stay home and visit parks built in their backyards, rather than traveling across the nation to visit a place like Yellowstone.  The same people who are now complaining that AI is going to take away human jobs are the same people who have tried to keep human beings from leaving their houses. I say that, knowing a great deal about the Agenda 21 goals of sustainability and how those misguided ideas infiltrated community planning. 

I have a lot of political friends who have to deal with Agenda 21 fantasies straight from the messed-up minds of the United Nations.  These kids learn a variety of skills in school, then they get hired into a township planning office, where they bring with them designs to build parks, roundabouts, and bike paths.  I live in an area where all these things have happened in abundance, and I look at them in wonder.  Why should people have so much free time to spend in all these parks and have the time to ride a bike on a bike path?  Where do the people who frequently visit there work?  Even with online gaming, many kids are playing those games 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, when they should be learning skills at the local McDonald’s drive-thru.  However, we have many people who have been running our society, teaching it all the wrong things about work.  So if you have time to walk on a bike path all the time, or sit around in a park looking at nature.  Or, you order lunch three hours early, and you have time to play on the internet all day at a white-collar job. You are working in a job that could and should be replaced by AI, which can do it better because it has no time for leisure.  When traveling through Europe, it’s always a source of amusement to observe their work ethic, which is characterized by very few hours per week, excessively long vacations, and an abundance of them.  When dealing with a large company these days, they often adopt a European view of work, which can be devastating to productivity.  I’d rather not waste my time trying to get someone to come to work and convince them to be productive while they’re there.  I’d rather replace their job with AI so that the things that need to be done can get done.  We don’t create jobs for people’s convenience.  We do it because we need work done, and people should work hard to do it, rather than complaining about it.  And we must admit to ourselves that most of the opinions people have had about work were incorrect.  And they led our society down the wrong path, introducing all the bad ideas about it.  To correct that behavior while expanding the economy, AI is a valuable asset, and I find it very useful because it is always available and never complains.  There are many things that I do that AI could never replace.  So I don’t look over my back at it, worried it will replace my value. Instead, I see it as helpful because it allows me to do the kinds of things that I’m good at, and to do more of them.  Rather than waste time on stupid stuff.  But if you are looking over your shoulder at AI replacing you.  Then that’s probably because you aren’t doing anything important enough to be replaced so easily.  And that is your problem. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why The World Needs Tesla Semis: There is just too much regulation in the trucking industry

It was unfortunate that Elon Musk went sideways with President Trump, because there are enough problems in the world without something like a minor scuffle to derail what are otherwise fantastic opportunities.  Inflation is down, as predicted, and the economy is expected to boom.  And a lot of the debt we are currently incurring will easily be paid off with growth, if you can keep foreign and domestic terrorists from shutting the world down again with another COVID-type bioweapon.  The relationship Elon Musk has had with the White House has been positive so far in 2025, and there are many people who would like to see that optimism end.  And because of Elon Musk’s embrace of the MAGA movement and the great work he did with DOGE, I have been planning to get a Cybertruck.  I think it’s the best vehicle in the world being made right now.  I don’t mind that it’s electric.  I like traditional fossil fuel vehicles, but the power that these electric engines produce is an excellent example of fantastic engineering, so I am very interested in all Tesla products.  And I want them to continue to grow in market share.  But when Elon Musk got upset and supported an impeachment of President Trump, I dropped those plans for a Cybertruck faster than a New York second.  If Musk isn’t supporting MAGA, I’m not supporting Musk.  I might like him.  I might cheer him on as an innovator.  But I’m also not going to go out of my way to buy a Tesla if I can’t believe in the creator himself.  I only looked at Tesla vehicles because of Musk’s embrace of President Trump.  So we’ll see if any reconciliation lasts, or if it’s just a matter of personal survival.  Always judge people not by what they say, but by what they do.

But speaking of Elon Musk, self-driving vehicles, especially the Tesla semi trucks, and MAGA, there is a lot of fear that the self-driving aspect of these modern vehicles is just another way to steal jobs away from Americans.  But I don’t see it that way at all.  I’ve pointed out before that electric semi-trucks don’t have the range to replace full-time, diesel over-the-road trucks.  The concern is that self-driving trucks will replace the jobs of professional truck drivers.  However, I believe it will only benefit them, as the transportation industry is overly regulated. Therefore, when asked, “Why the Tesla semi?” the answer is a solution to overregulation that makes being a truck driver a challenging occupation. And that if you could change the nature of the over-road part of it, then we might find more drivers who would want to enter that field.  The problem with shipping products from the West Coast to the East, for instance, is that drivers are forced to be on the road too long.   They have to stop every 11 hours within a 14-hour on-duty window after 10 consecutive hours off, and all of this has to be recorded in a logbook. It’s just a pain in the neck for the driver.  It forces them to be on the road longer and away from their families needlessly.  The regulators will say that it prevents accidents from driver fatigue.  I know a lot of truck drivers, I’ve dealt with thousands of them over the years and for them there is nothing worse than driving all across the country with all the regulations involved only to get to their destination and have to sit in the parking lot waiting for a manufacturing plant to open, to unload them, further wasting their time.  Transportation times across the country are ridiculously long due to excessive regulations and a lackadaisical approach to labor hours in manufacturing these days. 

Where the Tesla semi trucks come in is that they can drive automatically across the boring states, such as Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, and drop their loads off at designated drop lots outside major cities.  And from there, a live driver can get up and work an 8-hour day picking up that trailer and taking it the rest of the way to the destination.  I think it would create more truck driving jobs to use the self-driving trucks to haul loads over the vast distances where there isn’t much traffic.  Self-driving trucks could operate outside of that 11-hour window, significantly reducing delivery times and making the live driver’s time much more productive.  However, to impose all those restrictions on a live driver and force them to stay on the road for over a week due to regulatory burdens is unreasonable.  It is no wonder, then, that there is a shortage of drivers.  It’s fun to be on the road for short spurts, but day after day, year after year, it wears out families and makes life challenging.  We should be making the profession easier, not harder.  The Tesla semi would work well with a drop lot system, which would make more commerce available by removing the capacity ceiling.  With capacity being determined by the regulatory burdens.  The safest thing to do to a truck driver is to keep them from driving.  However, we want drivers to drive more and haul more product from one place to another, and that limit should not be confined to human driving hours. 

One of the most attractive aspects of Tesla vehicles to me is that they are self-driving.  I enjoy driving cars probably more than most people.  But I can think of a million things to do with my time than driving when I am just trying to get from one place to another.  And I could use that extra half hour in those drives around town to do other things if the car is driving itself.  I could improve my efficiency significantly if the car drove itself.  And I see that being the significant benefit to the Tesla line of products.  They enhance time management, which will undoubtedly benefit the trucking industry.  I always feel sorry for truck drivers at rest stops, forced to wait out their 11-hour driving window when they are still 2,000 miles from home, heading in the opposite direction.  If I were them, I’d want to drive for 16 hours straight and cut down my time on the road, so I could either spend more time with my family or have the opportunity to make more money with additional routes. However, as things stand, a significant amount of trucking capacity remains underutilized due to drivers being constrained by excessive regulation.  The Tesla Semi would help make those long routes much more manageable, making it more achievable to give drivers a regular 8-hour workday and the ability to get home to their families each night.  And to let the Tesla Semi handle the long over-the-road hauls, driving way past the 11-hour maximum.  I see an expansion of the trucking industry, making it more attractive for human drivers to become truck drivers, as the automated Tesla semis could handle the heavy lifting that is currently discouraging market entry.  And that part of making America Great Again is in making truck driving great, maybe for the first time.  Tesla’s innovation in self-driving vehicles can give human beings a great gift, greatly expanding economic opportunities in the future.  And that has more value than money, most of the time.

Rich Hoffman

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Rich Hoffman Derangement Syndrome: Solving problems people don’t want solved

This has arisen recently due to the fallout between Elon Musk and President Trump, during which he discussed Trump Derangement Syndrome.  However, I understand why people dislike President Trump.  And here’s the deal: it’s not his job to change the opinion of those who hate him.  I know that hate all too well because it’s a personality thing.  There are a lot of people who hate me; they have Rich Hoffman Derangement Syndrome for sure.  And I know why people have it.  So I get Trump, and I understand why Elon Musk self-sabotaged his relationship with the President.  I see it all the time, every single day.  And there isn’t anything anybody can do to change that status.  People are going to feel what they are going to feel, and that’s just the way it works.  In Trump’s case, there are many people, including Elon Musk, who fall out of favor with the President due to the factors that contribute to the development of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  And the burden for change is on the people who hate, knowing that people like Trump set a bar too high for weak people to live up to, and they hate the person who sets that high bar because they are too lazy to live up to it.  That is the start of the hatred, but of course, it runs deeper than that.  But for some dumb reason, people have been taught that society owes them some unearned merit, to make them feel less bad about themselves, and when people don’t give them that, they grow to hate the targets of their anxiety.  And that relationship often descends into hatred.  One of the reasons President Trump has been as successful as he has in life is that he developed the ability to not care about changing his status against him, but to embrace it and live with it.  And once that happens, a certain freedom is experienced which allows for exemplary leadership and personal virtue. 

The Rich Hoffman Derangement Syndrome, which is a very real thing, is completely unprovoked by me.  I am about as friendly to people as anybody could be.  Yet I have a list of people who hate me for a reason.  And I understand it all too well, and I can therefore see it in other people with the same ease, such as in President Trump.  I don’t go out of my way to harm people at all, yet there is no shortage of people every day, at a different level than President Trump, of course, who lose their minds just by hearing my name.  And to maintain your level of happiness, you have to develop the ability not to care what people think of you.  President Trump has certainly created that over the years, which is why he can be such a good President.  But the same could be said of the head of any company or a family.  If someone had to pinpoint the most essential ingredient in any successful enterprise, I would say that it resides in Trump Derangement Syndrome, and how he deals with that derangement as a person.  Most human beings have an innate desire to be liked.  So they find themselves going out of their way to appease those around them, which gives people who don’t deserve it unearned merit, more power than they deserve to have, because they get to decide whether or not they like you.  And if you want to be liked, then you give people who don’t deserve that power, power over you, because you want something from them. 

It’s a psychological problem from people who have significant, destructive personality traits that they desire to hide from the world through this little game of popularity.  One thing that people, for the most part, do is introduce problems into the world so they can hide their insecurities behind them.  It’s a deep psychological problem that most people have in their lives to some extent.  So, when you bring someone into their life who likes to solve problems, and they solve those problems easily, of course, for those with the problems, that’s the worst thing in the world.  Because they want to hide behind problems with no prospect of ever being solved, those types of people dislike individuals who solve problems, as they want the problems to persist so they can conceal deeper issues within themselves that they seek to hide from the world.  That is why there is, and always will be, Rich Hoffman Derangement Syndrome.  Solving problems comes very naturally to me, and I do it everywhere I go.  I see through people to who they are, and when I see problems, I solve them.  And people hate me for it.  And since I don’t give them unearned merit just for breathing, as they have been taught, society should not be structured that way. As a result, they have no barrier to reality to insulate themselves from the truth. So they hate me.  And they hate anybody who shows an inclination to solve their problem because they want the problems to exist so they can hide behind them.  We’re talking about the kind of people who create problems in the world so they can hide their insecurities behind them, protecting themselves from needed reforms, and putting pressure on them to be good people.  To avoid that fate, they create problems as a barrier to the pressures of judgment.

So if you are a problem solver who sees easily through these smokescreens of issues, you will be hated.  Just as a child wants to hide under the covers to avoid the monsters that they think are in their closet, they will hate the person who rips away the covers and forces them to see what is hidden in their room.  And when you show them that there is no monster, they will not be happy, but sad, because they liked to hide under the covers, as it simulated a primal desire they have to be back in the womb of their mother, all cozy and warm, and cared for.  Because life is tough, and they aren’t adamant, or smart, and they fear most of all the world knowing that about them.  And with me, I see everything, I know everything, I can read a person just walking down the sidewalk and tell you just about everything you need to know about them.  Solving problems comes naturally to me.  And when I do, some people want the issues to remain, for their own needs of concealment.  And over time, if you want to be successful with such a talent, you learn not to care what other people think.  Because you don’t give those people the unearned merit to leverage friendship for compliance, people who don’t deserve it don’t get to use their control over relationships to keep problems intact as an extortion strategy.  And when that doesn’t work, as seen with Elon Musk maintaining a relationship with President Trump to gain leverage over a NASA administrator, or some EV mandate in the new Big Beautiful Bill, you find out real fast who your real friends are and what they want out of a relationship with you.  And when you couldn’t care less what they think, of course, they will develop a hatred for you and will suffer from a Derangement Syndrome.  And there is nothing you can do to help them.  I have certainly learned not to get pulled into other people’s problems.  But to solve them, regardless of their feelings about it.  And when they learn they can’t use friendship to retain their problems.  Of course, they will hate you for it, so if you want to be a successful person, you need to solve problems.  You have to learn not to care when people develop a hatred for you. Instead, you learn to accept and even embrace that hatred.  There is nothing I can do about Rich Hoffman Derangement Syndrome.  Except learn not to solve the problems people want to hide behind.  And we all know that’s not going to happen. 

Rich Hoffman

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Vote for Mark Welch as Trustee of West Chester, Ohio: The island of misfit toys wants to ride the success of good politics

Mark Welch, the long-standing trustee of West Chester, Ohio, has undoubtedly been one of the main reasons that the northern Cincinnati community is one of the best places to live in the world.  And that’s not just me saying that because I like West Chester, Ohio.  Years ago, some effective policies were implemented to limit government overreach and foster a free enterprise approach to the growing community. This was achieved through a collaborative effort, led by then-trustee George Lang, with Mark Welch subsequently elected to provide a much-needed second vote.  It used to be that George was always outvoted two to one, and he needed someone who could share his vision with him. The result was a period of prosperity in West Chester, Ohio, which has made it unquestionably one of the best places to live anywhere in the world.  As a result, many people have moved into the area, bringing with them political ideas reflective of their origins, which have evolved.  George is now Senator Lang of Ohio, representing the 4th District.  However, Mark Welch remains a trustee who is now up for re-election in 2025.  With his excellent track record, he should have an easy re-election to his seat.  But we don’t want to take anything for granted.  Another long-time holdout, Lee Wong, who is very sympathetic to Chinese causes, is also up for re-election.  He is the kind of person who a lot of Democrats vote for, so he tends to get support from the many moderate Republicans, and the Democrats so there is some concern that in a race that is introducing the long term police chief to the mix Joel Herzog, that if Republicans don’t work together, that damage could be done to the seats in West Chester. 

Most of the time, there aren’t many people who run for these spots, and it could be assumed that Mark would win his seat back and that there would be room for Joel Herzog to join him.  Lee Wong, under all considerations, is vulnerable for many reasons, but he plays nicely enough with Republicans to avoid drawing too much hate, which is part of his strategy.  In a three-way race for two seats, it can get tricky.  The ideal situation would be for Republicans to show up and support Mark and Joel, thereby putting Lee in third place.  However, as I mentioned earlier, Lee will likely draw Democrat votes without needing to do much campaigning.  And the way these elections work is that it’s the best of the candidates who get the highest vote count.  Therefore, the top two vote-getters will win the seats.  And if it were just between these three, I would say Mark Welch would have no problem retaining his seat.  Joel Herzog is a good guy who comes highly recommended by everyone who knows him.  I have mentioned that, as a former police chief, it would be challenging for him to negotiate police contracts as a trustee with impartiality.  But most people agree that the good stuff with him is so good that that’s not a concern in his regard.  To regain the support of two conservative West Chester trustees, it will require a coordinated effort to retain Mark and help Joel win without one of them losing to Lee Wong.  The current belief is that Lakota schools will attempt to put a levy on the ballot, which is expected to attract many big-spending Democrats, making the math for Lee much more favorable than in previous years.

Then there is the issue of Ann Becker. A couple of other prominent Democrat challengers, affiliated with the Kathy Wyenandt area Democrats, who are certainly in the minority, are also running. Still, they are organizing to tag-team their efforts with the Lakota school levy push, so they hope to have higher than normal voter turnout to capture some advantage.  Ann Becker is the third trustee who was formerly a Tea Party conservative, serving as president of the Cincinnati Tea Party and the West Chester Tea Party.  She used to have a show on 55 KRC to discuss Tea Party topics, but Ann Becker is long gone these days.  She used to be a good tag team vote with Mark Welch, but she has changed quite a lot over the years, to the point where she might as well be a Democrat.  Therefore, electing Joel and retaining Mark become that much more critical.  When I first met Ann, whom I have been good friends with for a long time, she was associated with the levy supporters of Lakota, and we were at odds politically.  However, I always liked Ann, and she made a transition into the Tea Party movement, where we saw many things eye to eye.  People would warn me that she used to be a Democrat.  But I liked her anyway.  I also like Kathy Wyenandt, too, as a person.  However, Democrats are not adept at handling money or policy, and the needs of West Chester require a particular kind of mind. Unfortunately, Ann has lost her way and reverted to the person she was before I met her, before the Tea Party movement.  These individuals might be friendly, but they shouldn’t be in government. 

The other two candidates stepping into the crowded race for those two trustee seats are both Democrats: Alyssa Louagie and Amanda Ortiz.  I don’t think either one of them has a chance, but they think they do because they plan to tag-team the Lakota levy, which many are counting on Ann to lend her support as well.  So, we suddenly have a lot of Democrats taking a calculated leap into the mix, hoping that something will stick.  There is also a risk of losing what made West Chester great and falling into the same trend that muddles so many other communities, which assume that their success stories can survive with Democrats moving into positions of leadership.  People see things going well, so they give the misfit toys a chance, out of the luxury of success.  Then democrats ruin everything, and they want to attach themselves to the success story of West Chester, and the game for the rest of us is to preserve that success by re-electing Mark Welch and adding Joel Herzog.  However, the Democrats want to capitalize on the success to fund their social engineering projects, which will then alter everything great about West Chester, turning it into just another typical community that has seen its success fade because it was taken for granted.  And if we let the Democrats have a greater share of the seats at the table, we could easily end up with three Democrats as trustees, which would be detrimental to the interests of the other parties. That provides some early math to put the situation in perspective.  I think it will be good for Lakota to put out their ridiculous school levy because it will bring out more MAGA, Trump-voting Republicans, who will only help Mark hold his seat.  I think the math works in Mark’s favor to pick up votes this year, given the anger at Lakota schools over their proposed tax increases.  But we’ll see.  What we do know is who is running, and it’s now that the strategies for preserving West Chester need to be developed, before it’s too late.  And taking a long view, Joel would be great, but the more strategic seat comes up in a few years. To protect West Chester, we need a strategy and a lot of players willing to support the long view, especially in a crowded field.

Rich Hoffman

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Photographing Transdimensional Creatures: Assassins from beyond the veil

My favorite things to think about are those things that are least normal.  I am not a big fan of normal, and increasingly, I find a lot of adventure in those things least common, especially regarding transdimensional reality, which I think is as common as air.  What kind of lifeforms inhabit four-dimensional space, with time being one of them?  Because we assume we know things based on the rules of conduct that we all live by, which are measured in length, width, height, and time.  And with time, we assume we understand it enough to measure it.  But we know that time moves differently for people depending on their relationship to gravity.  Time is not a standard unit of measure that is one for one, regardless of our location.  And it is within time that many characters reside, which impact our life, as we have come to define it, in the spirit world.  And no matter where you go in the world, or what religion you study, there is an attempt to have a relationship to beings we might otherwise call gods, who live in a hyperreality that we might be tempted to call Heaven.  But to close the deal on our sanity, we rely on faith to rationalize everything to ourselves.  And we say when we die that our body is put in the ground, our spirit goes someplace, and we sort of hope that it all works out in the end.  We pray, and we hope, but we don’t actively seek answers in a “normal” way.  Well, that’s not enough for me; I want to know more than what’s normal about everything.   And it is in the pursuit of that very thing that I ran across what I think is one of the scariest photos I’ve seen in a long time.  And I understand and believe it because I have had similar experiences in photos that I have taken myself. 

When I see him sometime, I am going to ask Andrew Collins about the picture he took at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, a place I have been to.  My family has camped in that region and understands its high strangeness as more than government experiments for developing military technology.  Skinwalker Ranch is one of those well-documented places in the world where paranormal activity is widely acknowledged.  Understanding it is another matter, so when Andrew Collins conducted his investigations and took pictures around what is known as Homestead #2, what he captured was quite extraordinary.  Collins didn’t see the image that later appeared in the picture, which is a kind of thunderbird-like creature that easily resembles what people might call Mothman or Birdman, a phenomenon common in North American Indian cultures.  There are numerous negative emotions that people experience at Skinwalker Ranch, yet the perpetrators remain unseen. This raises the question of what we can see and what we cannot, which serves as a measure for defining reality.  But for people who study these things, that measure of reality is not sufficient, and pictures like the one that Collins accidently achieved prove it beyond any reasonable doubt.  What is significant about this particular picture, which I don’t think is getting nearly enough attention, is that the excellent, hard object found in the sky was not visible to the naked eye under the accepted reality viewing circumstances, as recorded by our eyes and brains.  This raises a point I make more frequently as the evidence becomes increasingly apparent.  And I just had a similar experience at the Moonville Tunnel with my family while on a ghost hunt.  Sometimes, pictures taken record more of reality than takes place because of the still-frame nature of acquiring the information.

Images from the book, ‘Origins of the Gods’

This is why this is important, most cultures around the world use shamans of some kind to deal with evil entities that try to cast spells on people and harm their health from beyond the veil of the living.  And I have found that treating these problems with normalized medicine and pharmaceuticals is not nearly enough.  There are a lot of voodoo doctors also throughout the American south who routinely deal with medical issues at their root source, some curse that has been placed on a human being’s soul outside of everyday reality.  When I talk about the use of psychedelics, such as Ayahuasca, to produce in the mind a hyper reality, I think that the science behind it is not illusory, but the ability to increase the shutter speed of a mind to see more of what is always there. And that the reason we don’t bump into these substantial objects more is because their dimensional reality does not have enough mass to interact with our physical reality, much the way we don’t think about all the Internet signals and remotes to our televisions that pass through our bodies all the time without slowing down to interact with our cell structure.  And the reason Andrew Collins’ picture is so spooky is that what he captured was certainly there, yet with their own eyes, they did not see it. This is because cameras usually record video at a rate of 30 frames per second, or for motion pictures, at a rate of 24 frames per second.  And the object captured might only appear in one or two of those individual frames, because they live at a different rate of time than we do.  And our ability to see them is limited by our frame of perception, which is likely why some people see cryptid creatures like Bigfoot, ghosts, or Birdpeople (as depicted in that photograph), while others don’t. 

Very spooky

The reason we don’t see these characters under “normal” conditions is that our minds perceive the world in the same way as video, as individual frames of material that we fill in the gaps with our perceived understanding.  When we watch a movie, we don’t see the black spaces between the frames of film because our minds fill in those gaps with our perceived knowledge of reality.  But creatures who live in a hyperreality where they exist at a much higher rate of time than we do, and can only be seen by a camera accidently capturing them moving in and out of our current time, have the advantage of interacting with us, but we not so much with them because our frame rate of perception is much slower.  So we perceive them as invisible when, in fact, they are living in a hyper-reality.  To me, a picture like the one Andrew Collins included in his book, Origin of the Gods, is jaw-dropping proof that is easily explained by science.  We might be disappointed by what we discover about these creatures we call gods, that they don’t live up to our lofty expectations.  But if you are struggling with a cancer diagnosis or a significant health issue, just speaking from experience, the way to treat it is to visit the hyperreality that these things live in and get them off your back.  I would recommend a voodoo doctor from New Orleans, for instance, because usually it is some curse that some political enemy puts on you that is slowly killing you, when in truth, it’s just one of these losers sitting on your soul from beyond the perceptual reality of conscious, terrestrial thought.  And for thousands of years, most of our cultures sought to appease these creatures through sacrifice, because they lacked the tools of understanding to deal with them.  But we can see them sometimes.  And we can deal with them if we know they are there.  Which they surely are.  And they often try to manipulate us to serve their own needs.  And when they are asked to kill us, they do attempt to do so, from the inside out.  It’s not bad luck that bad things happen.  But bad luck often can be traced to these characters, and to deal with them, you have to reach beyond the veil and kill them before they can get you.  I’m saying this for a reason.  Don’t let evil characters hide behind a veil of perceptual reality, like assassins from beyond.  Reach beyond the veil and kill them where they live, so they don’t kill you.  Because they hide their malice beyond the term “normal,” so you can’t see them coming, and they can dispose of you before you even know they are there.  Yet they are.

Rich Hoffman

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