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The Attack of Illegal Immigration: Why Democrats are willing to die on the hill of defending an MS-13 gang member

Now, everyone sees just how important, as a military incursion, the open border policy has been to those who want to destroy America.  When Democrats are willing to die on that hill, to make as their next George Floyd some loser gang member in El Salvador a sympathetic character, hoping that by making him the face of the illegal immigration movement, they might hold off fate from bringing their movement to an end.  You have to remember that it does come down to politics; most of the source countries of illegal immigration are socialist, communist, or some form of Marxist, and the hope has been to overwhelm America with these political ideas so that American capitalism would all come crashing down.  It’s the same intent of the World Trade Center terrorist attack.  They were never intent on saving our country, but to overthrow and destroy it.  And every advocate for our destruction should be managed as the threat they showed themselves to be, with serious charges of treason and sedition.  But to make this MS-13 gang member their hill to die on tells you everything you need to know about the contents of their Democrat minds.  They have no other plan but our destruction, and Trump is stopping their plans, and they are terrified of what happens next.  Kilmar Garcia, the MS-13 gang member with the tattoo of that designation on his fist, is the best the Democrats have in hopes of stopping Trump’s deportation policy, which is quite astonishing, since the 29-year-old is such an obvious case of gang violence that comes from these immigration policies.  The best that the lawyers on behalf of Garcia could claim was that he didn’t have any priors, but of course, the reason for that was that he was undocumented to start with.  And he operated off the grid of conformity, so he wasn’t exactly the kind of guy who was easy to pick up.  He was deported for the crime of being an illegal alien, whereas Democrats don’t view breaking immigration law as a crime at all.

Of course, the tactical goal of this escapade is to keep this gang member front and center and highlighted in the courts so that Trump will be tied up from further border enforcement by deporting another 10 million people that Democrats hope will destabilize America from within and topple the whole system.  For Democrats, illegal immigration is a Trojan Horse, and American destruction is their goal.  And violent criminals are their military hope, the poisoning of our society with drugs that come from the long arms of gang activity.  So Democrats have put all their hopes and dreams on people like Kilmar Garcia.  And Democrats are hoping for more color revolutions like they achieved with the George Floyd case a few years back where the death of that drug abuser would incite a destabilizing riot from the mobs of discontent and burn down entire cities and align corporate America behind Democrat politics like a bully stealing the lunch money of innocent people.  Democrats know, as I have said many times, if Democrats can’t cheat in elections, they can’t win, and they need these 10 million illegal immigrants to give them a cover story in hopes of voters who will keep them in power with free government giveaways.  Democrats know that many of these people come from hostile countries rooted in Marxism, so as long as Democrats remain the Marxist representative of a political party in America, they hope for either votes from these illegals, or the hope to at least have a head on the voter rolls that might lean in that direction.  But the problem with that is that many illegals have been supporting Trump, even against their best hopes of being shielded by Democrat politics, which has been surprising.  One thing that people from other places have as an admirable trait is that they like their families.  And Trump is better for families than the Democrat Party.  Democrats are the anti-family party.

When we talk about the election fraud from 2020 many point out that Trump lost his court cases in court because the processing of those cases took longer than the constitutional parameters for inauguration of a new president, so the game was rigged in a way that favored insurgents, and that’s what George Soros and his little boy Alex have been exploiting all along.  They have invested a lot of money in the downfall of the American judicial system, starting with Attorney Generals all over the United States, and regional District Attorneys, such as Big Tish James in New York, who is a great example, as well as the regional prosecutor Alvin Bragg in New York City.  Where just a few years ago, there was a lot more trust in the courts than what we have now, there is always lingering a sense of violence among judges who do not rule in favor of the mob, so the Soros types have been exploiting that to destructive effect and that is what is behind all these Democrats visiting an MS-13 member in El Salvador.  This playbook of sentiment has worked for them many times.  And it’s all they have, while they have it.  The Supreme Court is worried about being firebombed in their homes and by radical Democrats, so that’s why many of those election fraud court cases did not stick in court.  And that is what is behind this push on illegal immigration.  They couldn’t care less about the gang member Garcia.  They are worried about the flood gates opening for the next 10 million who are awaiting the status of these proceedings. 

The real argument centers around enforcement.  Democrats propose that illegal immigration should not be enforced, so when they talk about the criminal background of Kilmar Garcia, they are not considering his illegal status as a criterion for deportation.  They assume that the same rights given to all American citizens also apply to all the world’s people, which isn’t the case.  And just because there has been a lack of will to prosecute gang members like Garcia, Democrats think he should be considered available to all the protections that American citizens enjoy as a fundamental right.  So, as is typical with most Democrat ideas, law enforcement is reluctant to prosecute gang members connected to illegal immigration because the courts have been reluctant to prosecute, due to the radicalism of the courts.  Police know where the gang members are, but the mountain you must climb to get a prosecutor to present those cases to a grand jury is very steep.  It is much easier to arrest someone for spitting on the sidewalk if they are white and are American citizens because the work will stick.  The undocumented status of the illegal immigrants opens up all kinds of additional problems that prosecutors would rather not deal with.  So many criminals have to do terrible things even to get court consideration.  Because once you arrest them, what do you do with them?  What jail can hold them in an illegal status?  So they fly under the radar, and Democrats indicate that they haven’t been arrested because they played the refs on both sides.  That doesn’t mean that crimes weren’t committed, but like the election fraud cases, Democrats have made it difficult to prosecute them and then claim that the targets weren’t charged.  Just as they do with the Supreme Court when Chuck Schumer suggests that the mob attack members of the Supreme Court at their homes, then claim legal victory when that same court avoids making a hard ruling that might incite a mob.  That is what is going on with this MS-13 case; unlike times in the past, people can see the game better than ever. Essentially, because Trump has been willing to have these public fights, where before, no Republican dared to touch the issue.  When they should have been doing it all along. 

Rich Hoffman

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Big Tish James is in Trouble: But David Yost did the same thing

Big Tish James, the Attorney General in New York is in a lot of trouble, not just from what she actually did, misrepresenting property transactions in Real Estate, but that she created a precedent with President Trump when she used her office to attempt to destroy him and his businesses over much less serious charges.  In the Letitia James case, in one particular charge, she stated that her father was actually her husband, which was knowing fraud.  As the New York AG, she was the prosecutor of the Trump case that threatened to put him in jail for the rest of his life, and then some.  And destroy his businesses with millions of dollars in legal fees, not just destroying him, but the rest of his family and employees.  Of course, the way she behaved toward Trump has everyone showing little sympathy for her case, now that the White House has referred it to Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice.  We can’t turn away from this one.  Clearly, James planned to abuse her power to destroy people’s lives, and she was guilty herself of worse, so she has to be dealt with harshly.  Ruthlessly, with no compassion given to her attempt to manipulate the legal parameters of her situation, even if legal experts claim that her infractions were things that everybody does.  She is the New York AG, and she did those things knowingly.   Never forget that Letitia James filed a civil lawsuit against Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization for engaging in fraudulent business practices by misrepresenting asset values to secure favorable loan terms and tax benefits.  Judge Engoron, under the push of James, found Trump guilty and ordered him to pay $454 million in a judgment, and he was barred from running a business in New York for three years.  Trump is appealing the case, and this behavior by James is needed as part of his appeal process, because the point of the appeal is to prove that the entire case was politically motivated. 

But worse than any of that is the temptation to abuse power, which we should all be concerned with after seeing how the system was thrown at Trump.  Obviously, Big Tish James was coordinating her efforts with Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, when he pressed 34 felony counts related to hush money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels.  Trump was convicted on all 34 counts on May 30th, 2024.  Two months later, Trump was shot in the head by an assassin, so looking back on all these cases and conditions, it’s not hard to see how serious the opposition was to Trump returning to the White House, and Letitia James was at the heart of all of it.  While she was doing it, she was doing far worse than what she was accusing Trump of, which is a common theme among people who are given too much government power over others.  This happens all the time, and as I heard about the Big Tish case, I couldn’t help but think of our Attorney General in Ohio, who abused his power to take down the Butler County Auditor, Roger Reynolds. Roger recently held a press conference naming Yost and stating his direct involvement in trying to put Roger in jail, essentially over some political disagreements.  Severe stuff done with the same level of malice.  These are charges that most people would roll their eyes at and not consider to be a big deal.  But in all these cases, significant fines and jail time were on the table, and it was terrifying to see the massive abuses of power going on.  Roger Reynolds will never fully recover what he lost due to the case Yost put against him politically.  I am greatly relieved that Vivek Ramaswamy put his hat in the ring to be governor of Ohio and give us a good option away from Yost, who wants to run for governor and is losing terribly to Vivek.

The lesson is that we cannot give these people too much power.  Because it’s not just Letitia James abusing her power, but we’ve seen it from another Attorney General in the State of Ohio.  And it makes you wonder how many AGs in various states have the same problem.  This is why we cannot have a government that is too big, because the members will abuse their power if given half a chance.  So we should never let off our scrutiny and always be suspicious of government people.  If their office has power, you can bet they will be tempted to abuse it.  And likely will at some point.  There are just too many cases where it happens, and there is no deterrent unless they are caught, as Big Tish has been, with severe punishment.  Letitia James planned to use her knowledge as the top cop of New York, of the law, to manipulate it to serve her real estate needs.  There is no defense in her case that she knowingly lied, indicating that her father was her husband.  That’s not a clerical accident; that was purposeful fraud.  And we can’t have AGs thinking they can get away with that behavior.  So, prosecuting her is more than a political stunt or revenge for all that she did to Trump.  It’s the only means we have to keep the system somewhat honest. 

If Trump had not won the election of 2024, he would be in jail and broke right this very minute.  All his wealth would have been confiscated, and his businesses destroyed.  And he would never leave jail alive again.  That is what Letitia James did to him, and she got her rigged conviction to hang over Trump a felony that state control could then use to their advantage over a political rival.  David Yost did the same thing to Roger Reynolds for holding an improper interest in a public contract to destroy a political rival over what Roger says was a disagreement over property tax assessments.  When we allow attorney generals to split hairs like that and destroy people with their positions, they better be squeaky clean.  And that is not the case with Big Tish.  She is guilty and deserves to have the book thrown at her and then some.  And a strong message has to be sent to all those like her who are thinking of doing precisely what she did to Trump.  This is exactly why we can never support a large government that gets away from our control.  While we need people to do these jobs, they need enough power to do them.  But we cannot allow them to get so powerful that they feel entitled to do what Big Tish did to Trump, while over the same period, she was lying on legal transactions in a far worse way, and thought she would get away with it because she was the Attorney General.  The power went to her head, and she fell to corruption.  And for the Department of Justice to set things right, they need to use Letitia James’ words against her since she set the precedent for prosecution with her actions against Trump.  The same rules apply now to her.  Only in her case the written evidence in own her hand is to the point where nobody else could be guilty.  And that is how justice must be applied.

Rich Hoffman

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Harvard Does Not Have the Right to Federal Money: Rethinking College Completely

Harvard is making a fool of itself with its legal action, or intent, against the Trump administration for withholding federal dollars over progressive policies being taught at that institution.  Remember, he who owns the gold rules.  The beggars in need of money do not have the leverage to command policy.  They must do what is required to get the money if they want it.  They don’t get to set policy.  Those are the rules, and they will be now, and forever.  Harvard University does not have the right to federal money.  They must do what the federal government requires to obtain that money.  And that’s the end of the story.  But let’s have an honest conversation about colleges in general, as we should be cutting off federal funding to all of them.  We should not be funding the education of people with federal dollars, which goes for all public education in general.  Education has not given us an enlightened society.  Rather, they have been recruiting centers for Democrat policies that damage kids badly in the critical years of their lives, generally.  Some kids escape into adulthood if they have good family support at home.  But most have their minds destroyed for the first twenty years of their adult lives because of our education system and we are at a point where we need to ask questions like the one at Harvard, why are we spending federal money on such a waste of money, and should we continue to use the college system as a form of higher education.  Or should education be obtained in other ways?  Because the way it is now is a complete waste of money, and kids are learning all the wrong things.  Not only would I call it a worthless experience, but it’s damaging to people the way it has been set up, and we need to change it if we want to fix what’s wrong at the core of our society.

I don’t discriminate against college-educated people.  But I have found that our current education system teaches people to think in a box when learning to think out of one is most needed.  I would point to Robert Persig’s Metaphysics of Quality for a really solid philosophical and psychological analysis of our current education system from top to bottom.  To use his metaphor, we teach people to live in the caboose of life, not to be in the engine room at the front of the train of leadership.  And that’s where we need all people to be.  Trump clearly gets it, and he doesn’t care at this point in his life if people get mad at him by protestors from Harvard or any other legacy school.  The question we have before us is whether or not a college education is effective, and the evidence shows that it’s not.  And a lot of people are functioning as adults with crippled intellects because they had their intelligence robbed from them during their college experiences.  To succeed in the college environment, they have to learn to think in a structured box of information when the real problems are out of the box, and require people to solve problems there.  People who do not have college backgrounds can get into a useful state quicker than those with a lot of college.  But those critical years up to age 22 set people up for most of their lives, and mistakes made at that point in their lives usually last a lifetime.  I have seen people reform themselves by their late 40s and 50s.  But the amount of pretentious time they spend as entitled in the box thinkers, usually cripples them for life.  And it is a real problem.  Just having education funded by the government is not the question.  It’s what people teach, at the heart of Trump’s withholding federal funds from Harvard over DEI policies.  In our culture, as it should be, you pay for what you value.  You shouldn’t have to pay for it if you don’t value it.  Harvard, or any other educational institution, is not promised money for producing a bad product. 

This came up as I was at another one of those lunch meetings, with some people who would call themselves very powerful, and we were talking about this topic and people specifically and one of these people said that so and so was a Man from Purdue University, as if that said everything that needed to be said.  This person had a predisposition to hire applicants who came out of Purdue University, which I think is profoundly dumb.  But it’s what he believes as an employer.  And his comment sparked quite a debate.  I am usually polite about my thoughts, so we had a good conversation.  But to compress two hours of talk into a few sentences here, he maintained a completely irrational hiring practice of hiring people from a university system that produced bad results that he constantly complained about.  And when I suggested that maybe he should hire from the University of Cincinnati, Dayton, or Ohio State, he acted like I was asking him to put on a rival team’s jersey on NFL Sunday.  His belief system was part of the problem in why he couldn’t find good recruits to fill his job requirements.  And when I told him for his technical positions, he would do better to hire 12-year-old kids who hadn’t been taught to fail than kids who have spent the next 10 years of their lives learning to appease liberal college professors, because they would bring those same practices into the work place, which would make them useless, he thought it was the craziest idea he had ever heard and was quite animated by the suggestion.  But it was true and he knows it.

And that’s how it is for most people.  We fund education on hope and beliefs built on feelings rather than facts.  We like our favorite college sports teams, so we support the entire institution teaching Marxism to the next generation. We don’t say anything about it because we might have won some money on a March Madness bracket.  And that is part of the shell game.  We root for college sports, which entertain us.  But we ignore what they are teaching until we find our kids coming back from college as unrecognizable Democrat ground soldiers for liberal social policies that they spend the rest of their lives trying to unlearn.  And a lot of parents save up a lot of money to throw their kids away, essentially into a system that is broken and addicted to federal taxpayer money.  Trump has every right to withhold those funds, and no lawsuit can force the public to pay for its own demise, which is what that Harvard issue will come down to.  It’s the same problem for every college education system and public school.  We have to have an intelligent discussion about what education should be, and what we should do to pay for it.  Not just unthinkingly throw money at it and hope everything works out OK.  Because it hasn’t been working, and in the state it’s in now, the best thing we could do for education is to stop funding failure.  And force education institutions to compete to see what works and what doesn’t.  Because as long as they are fat, dumb, and happy off federal dollars, Harvard and the rest of them have no incentive to change.  And they need to change a lot!

Rich Hoffman

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The Bible is Making a Comeback: Democrats have been advocating for the spread of evil, but they are losing

It’s very impressive to see, but in 2025, the box office performance of King of Kings from Angel Studios and The Chosen: Last Supper has shown that people really want movies that resonate in value.  Even better, Bible sales are doing very well, and a new trend that is very good is emerging.  With Trump in office, people are feeling a lot less secular.  Probably the best thing that could have happened toward any Christian-based movement was the near assassination of President Trump on live television for everyone to witness.  It was clearly a miracle that Trump was not killed and was a great example of what putting on the armor of God really means, which is very specific to the Western civilization Bible as a general theme.  Do not worry about being outnumbered.  Fight anyway and don’t worry about being killed or punished by the mob.  God will have your back.  And when Trump survived the assassination attempts in 2024, people saw what they could only explain as the hand of God, so they are turning toward religion and away from secular influences now more than ever, which I think is a good thing.  Over the years, I have generally had tolerance for other religions and the people who come from them.  So long as people work hard to be good.  But this secular God hating movement that we have been dealing with in America has not been acceptable, and I have never liked it or supported it.  Being mindful of other places in the world that do not have the benefit of biblical scholarship is not the same thing as being anti Bible, and we have seen from God hating Democrats the truth of their position as hosts of evil, and people have been miserable because of it.  One of the most essential things that Trump has done so far as a president, both past and present, is restore to society a love of religion as a guiding principle and put his arms around celebrations like Christmas and Easter. 

Hollywood has been anti God for many years, but ironically, the best material they have produced has had great respect for the Bible, such as The Ten Commandments, and Little House on the Prairie.  I was surprised to see that mainstream actors gave voice to the Angel Studios film, The King of Kings, because typically, actors are afraid of being blacklisted by other studios, for religious involvement.  That’s how bad it’s been, so it is pretty remarkable to see the great box office performance of these Christian films get mainstream Hollywood support for a change.  It’s not just the impressive money that they are generating in theaters, but in the acceptance within the culture of Hollywood itself that has shifted.  It’s not an accident that Mark Wahlberg and Chris Pratt are openly praying to Jesus, both A-list actors who are purposefully not running from God, so these are significant shifts in culture that ultimately is the best way to fight the vast evils of the world that have been hiding behind polite society.   People are willing to pay good money to see a story about Jesus that they have heard repeatedly during the Easter season of 2025, which shows how much the shift in entertainment has moved in a positive direction.  It starts with a president not being afraid to express faith openly, but with people witnessing a miracle with the assassination attempts.  And for answers, people are turning back to the Bible for context, which is excellent for perpetuating American society.   America was built on the Bible, and to keep it sustained, religion has to be at the core of the belief system of a majority of the people. 

Even more, the Amazon Prime project House of David has been hovering around number two among all the streaming options on that very popular platform, and it has been a surprise hit for them.  It’s not a surprise that The Chosen director Dallas Jenkins has been an advisor for the story of the rise of King David and his season 1 fight with the famous giant Goliath.  People watching the show are surprised by the Game of Thrones level of political intrigue attached to King David’s life.  Only that is real; the Bible is part of history and not a fictional story like The Game of Thrones, so it has much more meaning.  People are finding that they love biblical stories.  It’s true, they are very compelling, even among all the world’s religious doctrines.  The Bible, which came from the Jewish and Christian faith, is very persuasive as a work of literature.  When Hollywood worked best, it used it as its storytelling foundation.  When they have been at their worst, they worked to undermine it in American culture with a desire to secularize the people toward evil intent.  And that has not been something that people wanted to experience.  People wish for lofty, value-driven characters in their stories and turn to these Bible films and streaming platforms for content far better than what the studio system of Hollywood has been giving them.  And theater owners are happy to see a little light at the end of the tunnel.  The central breaking point was COVID and the anti-Church lockdowns we all experienced.  Rather than break the foundation of religious faith, the crises drove people more toward the arms of God in day-to-day considerations. 

It also helps that there have been real commitments on the museum front with The Ark Encounter in Kentucky giving people a real amusement park experience with biblical content.  Then, of course, I was so excited about the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.  From many independent sources, we are seeing a replacement of the evil worshipping culture of Hollywood with a faith-based entertainment movement that is not running from God, but to him.  Now that there are good examples of how compelling stories can be told visually from the Bible, more and more creative types are moving in that direction.  After The Chosen is finished with Season 7, and Mel Gibson does his sequel to The Passion with The Resurrection, which I think will be fantastic, Dallas Jenkins is turning to the subject of Moses, which will be from his hand, incredibly powerful.  I would even throw in the very popular video game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, in for good measure, which is a very mainstream game that is one of the most popular out there right now.  Its central story objective deals with the giants I always discuss and their relationship to humanity as Watchers before Noah’s flood.  So the Bible is undoubtedly making a comeback where it had been looking to be shoved out of every entertainment venue with a communist push to eradicate it from our culture.  But it’s not just alive and well, but thriving in ways many thought they would never see.  However, I would say that we are seeing just the tip of the iceberg here.  There are a lot of compelling stories in the Bible, and there is a lot for creative types to work with now that they have seen what success looks like with the examples mentioned here.  And I think Bible stories will become the norm, not the fringe.  And that the garbage that Hollywood has been producing will continue to be rejected at the box office in favor of more Bible stories and the sales of the most popular book the world has ever known.  A new generation is putting their arms around it, which is very good for the future of civilization.

Rich Hoffman

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Judge Boasberg is Out of His Mind and Should be Impeached: When throwing rocks at glass houses, make sure they can’t come back

Republicans should have already referred James Boasberg for impeachment for his judicial lawfare against the Trump administration for gross overstepping of his authority, an attempted erosion of the President’s Article II powers, and made an example of him.  We did not elect these judges into their positions; they were appointed, and if they don’t do a good job, there needs to be a mechanism to eliminate them.  And that is the complete case with this goofy judge thinking he has the power to stop the President from sending prisoners and violent criminals out of America, to an El Salvadorian prison.  And it’s not just in America but across the world. We recently saw judicial tampering in France to knock off a political rival there, who was up in the polls and poised to beat Macron.  We also saw judicial overreach in South Korea to remove President Yoon through impeachment.  What we are seeing on the world stage is essentially a replay of the Book of Judges from the Bible where flawed personalities are positioning themselves to have kingly power, which they abuse, and to use that power to remove the ability of people to vote for their representation, rather than having an authority system imposed on them.  This judicial loser, Boasberg, in Washington, D.C., is way over his skis, and he should be thrown out of his office by Republicans defending the President.  But this lawfare system evolved to protect the establishment from the will of the people, not to enforce their will, and we see it in literally every country.  The problem goes back to before the Bible, not just in the United States.  And too often, Republicans have their hands dirty from their own antics in the cookie jar, so when they need to defend a judicial topic, they can’t, because they played the game themselves and can’t cast stones against the glasshouse they live in.  Another thing I say all the time is make your life so that you can cast stones and shatter people’s glass houses.  And be sure to judge often.  And be sure, while you’re doing all this, to live in a house made of bricks and that it’s impenetrable to any rocks coming back at you.  You can afford to throw rocks at other people and break their glass houses, but they can’t do the same to you.

All this judicial radicalism reminds me of a local issue, and it comes up every week as a question given to me about why I don’t want to run for the Lakota school board, even though I get asked about it every week, many times a week.  One of the big reasons I have watched over a long period of time is that being elected into a school board position is useless because lawyers run the public school in my neighborhood, which was never clearer than in the case of Darbi Boddy.  To help with the school board issue, I have put my name behind several people to be elected or to sit on the school board and to help get management there that could represent voters and give kids a decent place to attend school.  But in the case of Darbi, one that I recently worked with to be on the school board, who I thought was doing an excellent job was removed from her seat by the lawyers who protect their system from the crazy voters who might want to manage their school system and the tax money that feeds these schools.  When they couldn’t get rid of Darbi any other way, a judge, who I know, stuck his nose into the situation and pitted one school board member that I worked with to get elected against the other one and imposing a restraining order that essentially kept Darbi from doing her job and getting her off the school board on a technicality.  So, for all those people wanting me to be on the school board and to do what I do to help voters have real representation, I live by a few rules, and I would never put myself in one of those positions where some stupid judge could throw rocks at me.  I throw the stones so that they never come back.

I felt so bad for Darbi because she wants to help politically and could be good in politics.  But the system wants to protect itself just as it has been doing with Trump, which is why you don’t see Republicans rushing to Trump’s defense in that Boesman case.  They like having these lawyers in control because it gives them fake power that is always enforceable by the invisible overreach of the judiciary.  And it’s in every local consideration.  Even I, knowing all the players, did not know just how bad the situation was until I watched that process work against Darbi Boddy.  Nothing changes because the lawyers run the schools, and the only people who survive on these school boards, no matter what they are, stick around because the lawyers let them.  The lawyers want easy money, and taxpayer-funded schools are ripe ground for exploitation, and there are always court cases when many thousands of people are involved, from students and their parents to unionized staff.  Lawyers run public schools, and I don’t like lawyers.  I do legal work for fun.  I think only con artists do it for a living.  And if I were on the Lakota school board the way it is now, it would be a glasshouse with a foundation of lawyers who keep it all held up, and that is not something I’m interested in. 

It’s good to have this conversation.  I love the idea of judicial oversight.  For fun, I spent considerable time a few weeks ago at the Supreme Court, so I’m certainly not talking about anarchy.  I know a lot of judges and have known a lot of lawyers over the years, and the key to those positions is that to do their jobs, they have to be good people.  And most people in legal work are not good people.  They are trying to hide from the world that they are bad people, trying to hide it with long black robes and legal scholarship.  However, the system itself is poised toward corruption, and you can hear that in the Boesman case, where he thinks he has authority over Trump’s Article II responsibilities as an elected office holder.  Boesman is out of his mind, and I would like to see my congressman, Warren Davidson, move to impeach Judge Boesman immediately for tampering with Trump, our elected representative.  But then again, many Republicans saw this all happen to a local politician, Darbi Boddy, and they hung her out to dry.  And let me say this, that would never be me.  And when we work to find people who want to be on that stupid school board, good, quality people are not running and staying on the school board because the lawyers keep proper management of the school, or the Executive Branch, from happening.  And until we deal with the problem of judicial overreach, where judges want to be unelected kings, we will always have a broken system.  And it won’t be reformed because the lawyers protect themselves with legal technicalities, so good work can’t be done because their targets are always in court, from shattered glass houses.  Don’t live in a glass house; be sure the rocks only go one way.

Rich Hoffman

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Defeating China and the Linkedln Losers: The gunfighter at the bar with their back to the room

Let me say it again about China; I’ve been saying it for a long time.  That’s why my LinkedIn account has been suspended, and I don’t use it.  I don’t like LinkedIn, Facebook, and a lot of social media sites because of their globalist intentions and dedication to the construction of China, which was to make them into a superpower and compete with the United States on the world stage.  China is a dump.  I don’t like the communist country, and I don’t like getting things from them.  By default, many of the products we used to make in America were, by policy, pushed over into China for many reasons, most of them not good.  And I have never thought of it as a good idea.  So when I wrote my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and I did press for it, I was very critical of China because some of the people most attracted to my book were people who also supported the decoupling movement from China, as we had grown too dependent on a sworn enemy, and that needed to change.  The Chinese are propped up enemies, which could be said to be most of our enemies over modern history, including Hitler.  They are made villains, not the type of people who, through cunning and diligence, leaped onto the world stage and suddenly became relevant.  No, they were made, China was made, by wealth redistribution to be villains who would drive the back door effort at a one-world order run by the United Nations with socialist governments.  So I explained in my press how to defeat China in a decoupling effort, one that appeared on the LinkedIn platform, which is grotesquely pro-China, and they were so upset about it that they banned me from the platform.  Up to that point, I had reluctantly maintained a LinkedIn page. I get a lot of offers to do a lot of consulting work, and I do what I do.  But LinkedIn to me has always been a den of thieves and con artists who prop themselves up to be fluffier than they really are, and I don’t find those types of people who use the service very valuable in real life.  They are usually propped-up caricatures, just like China ironically. 

After interviewing with a decoupling PAC out of Los Angeles, who were very interested in my book and plastered it all over their social media, the LinkedIn people banned my page and demanded that I apologize for what I said about how America could trounce China in a new war.  I said the next war in the world would not involve tanks or troops but control over finance.  And Larry Fink and the gang of thugs at BlackRock were funneling looted Wall Street money from a Modern Monetary theory Federal Reserve straight into China to make them look better on paper than they actually were, and that they were highly vulnerable.  About that same time, I gave a speech to a bunch of Tea Party types of early MAGA supporters about the Gunfighter at the Bar theory, which is pretty much my summation of all business transactions.  When you have the leverage of something someone wants, you don’t have to be an appeaser.  And that stupid professional site of LinkedIn is designed for the appeasers in life, not the gunfighters at the bar.  And I further said that anybody who exploited that trait would have leverage over their enemy no matter how big they were.  China is a paper tiger propped up by the LinkedIn losers, and we don’t need either of them. 

I control the social media I use, which is how I am with everything.  I like to be in charge.  I don’t like hand-holding consensus building, and that’s all that LinkedIn is good for.  When you are the boss, you don’t need to network.  When you have something people want, your phone never stops ringing, and my phone never stops ringing, all hours of the day, all days of the week.  I have to be a little mean to people to get some time to myself, so I don’t miss the LinkedIn Losers and won’t ever ask them to restore my platform to me.  I said what I said about China and I meant it.   And now Trump is doing exactly what needs to be done to end China as a superpower and threat to the American economy.  And I’m enjoying the spectacle quite a bit.  Ironically, I didn’t write The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business for all the boot lickers of the world.  I wrote it for the gunfighters at the bar with their back to the room, because they can afford to do so.  It’s geared to a smaller audience, but it’s meant for the right people, and the fundamental business rules I learned the hard way.  It is not the kind of fake accolades from resume padding that are typical on LinkedIn.  Then once you hire those people, you find out they can only do a fraction of what they promised and are only one or two trick ponies when you need out of them 20 to 30, just like China.  So, to all those people worried about China cutting off deliveries of Boeing airplanes or cell phones and electronic equipment and upset at Trump’s tariffs, don’t worry.  Don’t be a boot licker.  China can’t win this war, and they know it, which is why they are crying so loudly now. 

Never forget what China did to us with Covid.  They released a bioweapon from a lab in Wuhan, and they killed people with it to destroy the American economy and help the World Economic Forum establish their Great Socialist Reset by shutting down the global economy with stupid work-from-home policies, while China kept chugging along uninterrupted.  They have over a billion people, so losing a few here and there wasn’t a big deal to them.  They are a communist country; they could afford the casualties that they created in the first place.  They were intent on ruining Trump during an election year, and they played their part in that rigged election that put Joe Biden into office.  China had their direct guy in our Executive Branch to directly control American policy, all of which were hostile acts of war.  And that’s precisely how China sees it, just read the book from China called Unrestricted Warfare.  That’s how they approach everything.  They declared war on us, not the other way around.  Trump is just playing the game to beat them in a way that they can’t defend themselves.  Without globalism propping up the Chinese, they are just a backwater country of massively starving people and a communist philosophy that they adopted from Europe in Karl Marx.  And they need to be exploited as the frauds that they always were, just like 99.999999999999999999999% of the LinkedIn losers who use that stupid platform to sell themselves to other losers to fluff themselves up to look smarter than they really are.  I won’t be restoring my LinkedIn account, and I very much support what Trump is doing with the tariffs against China.  They are not our friends.  We don’t need them.  And it’s time that we remove them as the hostile friends ready to stab us in the back at every moment.  And in this action, China can’t win.  And LinkedIn has been hostile to pro-American policy and is garbage now and forever in my opinion.  And I will never forgive them for what they tried to do to our country, Reid Hoffman and the rest.  Bad people deserve to be punished in the most severe way possible.  That’s why I’m not on LinkedIn to answer the questions of those who keep asking.  And that’s why what is happening to China is a great thing!  I do like Chinese food.  But I don’t like the communist country of China as a globalist superpower or any supporters of that movement.

Rich Hoffman

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I Missed the Lincoln Day Dinner for a Ghost Hunt: Strange creatures from beyond time and space

I didn’t make the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Butler County GOP this year because my family and I have been traveling all over the place, particularly in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia going to paranormal sites in a research project for my new book, The Politics of Heaven, and it’s all coming along very well.  I wanted to go to the dinner and do appreciate the offers to attend with people I know.  But almost to the moment, I was on a ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids that turned out to be pretty interesting, so I’m sharing it here for more than a bit of fun.  Both of my daughters are tuned in to ghostly encounters, and one is so interested in it that she makes a living painting about it, for which she travels all over the country, appearing at conventions, selling her art.  And my wife has had contact with all kinds of paranormal activity all her life; they chase her around like hungry cats looking to be fed after a hard night outside in the rain.  She’s kind, and disembodied spirits in whatever form they exist look for her, and she never fails to attract their attention.  So for my birthday this year, as research for the new book, I thought it might be fun to go to one of the most haunted places on planet Earth, the Moonville Tunnel in Vinton County, and do a ghost hunt.  The kids would get a kick out of it, and I was curious about several things that worked exactly as I thought they would.  So we went there during the day to warm the kids up to it.  Then we went back at night.  And while we were filming, we didn’t get much.  But after I turned off all the equipment, a green orb appeared, which was more than a little strange.  Made even more that way by the very remote location that Moonville is.

The Moonville Tunnel, one of the most haunted places on Earth

I tend to approach these subjects from the point of view of disproving paranormal activity.  We had gone to several locations during the past week, but I knew that the Moonville Tunnel was a prime location since something always happened every time we went over the years.  And that was the case when we walked back to the car after a reasonably detailed investigation.  When we turned off our ghost hunting equipment, my wife felt something next to her and told my grandson about it.  He took several flash photos with an iPhone, and sure enough, he was pretty freaked out by the green orb that appeared and was headed away from us back down a hill to Raccoon Creek.  I saw the image from the screen as I looked at those spots in real time, and there was nothing we could see there physically.  And I was ensuring there was no lens flair with our flashlights causing problems on the camera lens, or that light was bouncing off some bug.  It was as black as black night with no other light sources but our flashlights for many miles.  There were no homes nearby and indeed no porch lights.  The Moonville Tunnel is as far from other people as possible in Zeleski National Forest.  These kinds of woods are so remote that they have frequent bigfoot sightings, and other things, just because of the area’s nature.  The spirit world always spooked the Indians from the region.  The place feels haunted because of its lack of other human beings.  It stays that way because there is a single-lane gravel road that provides the only access to the area for miles and miles that runs deep into the hills. 

Green orbs are supposed to indicate a healing nature of the ghostly encounter, so who knows what kind of lifeform it was trying to emerge and interact with us?  I have seen this kind of thing before, so I wasn’t surprised as much as I was a little shocked at the repeatability of it.  Almost the same thing has happened to us several times over the years we have been to Moonville.  We do a ghost hunt, thinking that nothing happened.  We might have felt uncomfortable feeling that other people were around us, but we could see nothing we could physically see.  Sometimes, shadow people appear in the corners of our eyes, but disappear when we focus hard on them.  But later, especially when using cameras with a flash, because digital cameras mess up the color palette of the visual spectrum, things appear just outside the visual range of human eyes, and the cameras pick it up.  Because of this, I avoid flying bugs and light tricks while we are filming.  Or even moisture from breathing, so they don’t taint our experiments.  I would have been happy to do that ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids for my birthday and family time.  But what showed up in our photos was pretty good, especially since I was trying not to have anything like that happen.  But sure enough, my wife could feel something next to her.  We took a picture.  And something was there and leaving, which, given that area, was more than a little spooky and made for a long walk back to the car, knowing that these things were all around us but we couldn’t see them with our physical eyes.

Needless to say, I did get good material for my book.  I explained to everyone that the spirit, whatever it was, should be looked at as a stray cat that once you pet it, it won’t go away.  If you think about the nature of spirits living in such a place, lost in time and space, having us there was an extraordinary occurrence.  We were talking to it and giving it attention, which was probably the highlight of its existence, and you can start to feel sorry for these things when viewed that way.  I don’t think ghosts like that can do any harm; likely, they are stuck and probably aren’t very smart.  What makes them interesting is that they exist, but not in a way we understand, and the need to communicate with elements outside our perceived reality cuts through the limitations.  And I was happy that something like that happened while introducing my grandchildren to ghosts and the spirit world.  They see and hear so much on television and the internet, it was good for them to have their own experience and to approach the subject logically.  It was a long way to go to come back with nothing, and like I said, I gave up a chance to go to the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Republican Party of Butler County because of it.  And I was glad that something happened that deserved a lot of talk after.  I thought overcoming the fear of such a scary place would be good for my family, and I would have been happy if nothing happened.  But it did, leaving me scratching my head even more, but in a good way.  The spirit world is real; some creatures live in it, want to interact with us, and do much more than we’d like to admit.  But that doesn’t mean they have more power because they exist in a way that hides them from our knowing eyes.  They only have the power of concealment.  They don’t have the power of superior intelligence. 

Rich Hoffman

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People Should Be Working More: At least 70 hours per week

It’s interesting. I put a video I did on YouTube about work ethic, which has received many opinions in the form of comments, which have stirred people.  But as I have always said, what better use of time do people have?  Why do people think it’s OK to rush home from work only to sit in front of a television and rot away?  Most people waste their free time thinking about really dumb things, and I would argue that the world would be a lot better off if people worked more, rather than less.  I think one of the dumbest things we have ever done as a society is to devise a 40-hour work week because it’s an artificial constraint that we have imposed on ourselves, and for what?  People are not better off for it.  Often when they don’t work enough in life, they don’t have the money they need to do everything, and having too much leisure time is the devil’s playground, and they end up doing dumb, unstructured things with their time.  Most people are better off working for a boss that knows how to do productive things in life, and if people would just work more, they would have much better lives.  This notion that people need to be away from work is a destructive one and was brought to us by the communist movement that came to America through labor unions.  So why is saying that people should work more so controversial?  Well, it hits a nerve because it challenges a previous assumption that a lot of people don’t realize they have adopted, that has been bad for them.  Too much free time for people who don’t know how to do good things with it is terrible for people, and making money is a good way to overcome personal problems and work toward goals.  And that most people would be much better off if they only worked a little more, around 70 hours per week.

I never celebrate Labor Day because it’s a union holiday, and they have brought society too many artificial constraints.  People were far better off when they worked more, especially on farms where they worked from sunup to sundown and sat around the kitchen table tired at the end of it.  And talking about their shared experiences together as a family.  I would add that people were even better off after all that when they shared Bible verses and fell asleep next to a roaring fire in the fireplace, never turning on the television, because they were too tired to do so.  What was attacked through the union movement was the American work ethic, which was an import from Europe and all their Marxism, and it never had any place in the American workplace.  The whole notion that the owners and industrialists are evil because they want to make money, and should be stopped by radicalizing the work force, was a weapon against American capitalism, and it was terrible from the start.  It never had a constructive place in our society and was always meant to destroy a foreign rival with an export of ideas that would cripple our industrial capacity, an artificial constraint on our manufacturing ability.  Especially after World War II, how we responded to the global war effort was terrifying to our enemy because of how Americans willingly approached their work.  Back then, America was fresh off the hard work of American expansionism. Many people who worked in the factories then were fresh off being raised on farms by good, structured families.  And the result was terrifying to the lazy of the world who didn’t have a very good work ethic. 

Many people these days rush home from work only to do what?  Sit in front of the television and waste their time.  It’s not like they are sitting at the dinner table with their families talking about their day.  They have adopted ideas that were bad for them by the very lazy Marxists in the labor movement who purposefully wanted to cripple American manufacturing with artificial constraints intent to limit American production capacity. I have never worked a 40-hour work week in my adult life.  I work on various things about 90 hours per week and still spend a lot of time with my family.  But I don’t waste much time doing things that aren’t productive.  And I find that is the way it is with most people who are successful in life.  They work a lot and don’t have much time to waste.  When Elon Musk says similar things, it’s not because he’s a billionaire looking to exploit labor.  He’s a billionaire because he doesn’t personally waste time—the same with Trump.  President Trump has always had a good work ethic.  That’s why he has been a successful person.  One of the keys to success is not to follow the time-wasting imposed on our culture by foreign adversaries, and to work more in life, instead of less.  And people who do are a lot happier.  Not only do they make more money, but they can also use it for private enterprises.  But they have a sense of purpose in life because they are doing good things with their life instead of wasting them.

This is important to think about because if we want to Make America Great Again, it comes from more than just bringing jobs back to America from foreign markets that they fled to in the first place.  We have to admit to ourselves one of the reasons those jobs left, and it was because Americans accepted stupid labor practices given to them by Marxist infiltrators in the labor movement that were destructive to a good, productive society.  And those jobs were left for places where people worked hard and were happy to do it.  Hard work is good for the mind, not bad.  Too much leisure time is destructive if not filled with other productive behaviors, unless you work hard to build family relationships.  Or working hard to build community improvement.  You are wasting your time if you aren’t being productive at something, and when the proposal for the 40-hour work week was presented, it assumed that work was something our society shouldn’t be doing, so they were looking to do the least amount of it possible.  And the results have not been good.  So, for my part, I think people should be thinking about doubling the amount of work they do in a week to keep their minds on positive activities and toward something instead of giving themselves artificial constraints.  If you are broke because you only work 40 hours per week, that’s on you.  You should be working more on other things and filling your life with productivity.  Not working at least 8 hours per day, rushing home to sit in front of the television, and eating things that make you sick anyway.  You should work longer and more days of the week and do positive things toward self-improvement, all hours of the day.  You will find a better family life and be a better person.  People have many problems because they don’t work hard enough at more things in their lives, and things tend to crumble around them.  And that was the intent of the enemy when they infiltrated our labor practices from the start.  And it’s up to us to correct it now.

Rich Hoffman

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Hansel and Gretel: The danger of the Oedipal Mother complex

We would do better to teach kids about fairy tales so they wouldn’t be so gullible in adult life.  People need to understand that all governments tend to become the famous Oedipal mother and that if we continue to feed it, it will seek, due to its unconscious directives, to become a destroyer of our very existence.  Government has to be managed and cannot be left alone.  Doesn’t everyone remember the story of Hansel and Gretel?  The story of the kids being taken into the woods and left there to die by a trusted caretaker?  Why are people so trusting?  Well, the answer to that one is that they are too lazy to scrutinize because action requires effort, and it is easier for the lazy person to trust everything will work out OK than to do the work of managing it.  When I see all this criticism of DOGE and Elon Musk, I hear people’s desire not to think about just how bad some government figures are.   When we used to tell fairy tales to children they were stories meant to help them see the truths of life, and to make them better people which is certainly the case of the Hansal and Gretal story of a couple of children living with their father, the woodcutter, deep in the woods with a second wife who was jealous of his children from another marriage.  Something that kids these days are undoubtedly worried about, since so many families have divorces in them and marriages to step-parents that are not as satisfying as their biological ones.  But this was a case where the woodcutter’s first wife died, and he married someone else, but they weren’t living so happily ever after.  The new wife wanted to erase the first wife’s memory, starting with the kids. 

So while the woodcutter was working in the woods, the stepmom took the children out into the forest disguised as helping their father, to lure them into her scheme, and left them there.  But the resourceful Hansel had put rocks in his pocket, knowing the stepmother was up to no good, and he left a trail back to his house in case they got lost.  And by following the trail of rocks, they could return to the house to their father.  The angry stepmom did the same thing the next day, and this time Hansel left breadcrumbs.  When the crazy woman left the children alone in the forest, the brother and sister thought they would return the way they had the previous time.  But this time, forest animals ate the bread, so the clever trail was gone.   Now the kids had a big problem.  They searched and searched but could not find their way home.  But they found a gingerbread house, and they were very hungry, so they endeavored to eat from it, which provoked from within its contents the classic Oedipal mother, who invited them inside to care for them with great kindness.  But the kindness wasn’t because she was a good woman; it was meant to hide her great evil desire to eat the children, because she was a psychopath.  Her gentle kindness was a lure to lower the defenses of the children and earn their trust so that she could bring their demise to her profit.  And many kind people like this evil woman who lived in the gingerbread house exist, everywhere.  The kids were hungry and distressed, missing the comfort of their strong father.  But what choice did they have? They were lost.  And when people are in such a condition, there is always someone trying to take advantage of them.

The Oedipal mother complex is a classic case of the overbearing mother who saturates a child with too much love, not because she loves the child, but because she wants to consume them for her own needs.  In this case, the crazy woman was very kind because she wanted to fatten up the children with too much food and coddled them so they wouldn’t want to run away from her.  But her intentions from the start were evil and exploitive.  There are many parents, especially women, who will try to give their kids everything not because they love them, but because they want to use them as a mask for their insecurities, so they hide their malice behind kindly motherhood to cripple the kids so they never want to move away from her and live their own lives like Norman Bates’ mom in Psycho.  Their goal, these evil mothers, is to create failure-to-launch kids, kids who hang around the house and can never leave.  Their intent is not to raise friendly, healthy kids who function well in life.  But to make dependents.  And from there, everyone knows how the story ends.  Thinking the kids are fat enough, the kind woman tries to put Hansel into an oven to cook him.  Gretal sticks up for her brother and pushes the woman into the oven instead.  And they kill the woman and escape with their lives.  Eventually, the father finds the kids, and they live happily ever after.  But not before the father gets rid of his problem, the other woman who has been plotting the demise of his children.  And once he does that, everyone lives happily ever after, but not before death and divorce. 

And that is what DOGE is uncovering with our government, and there isn’t any way not to avoid pushing her into the oven and killing this crippling Oedipal mother.  Our government has been trying to make us into dependents not to help us, but to cripple us.  And it certainly wasn’t for our own good.  To understand these things, we have to be willing to admit that everyone isn’t looking out for our best interests, and that the best thing to do would be to have healthy skepticism as Hansel and Gretel did, about the adults in their lives and to take precautions regarding their motives.  In the world of fairy tales, we have told stories designed to help children recognize deceit in their adult landscape, to teach them how to manage such a crisis when they see it.  But the government, wanting to exploit the world for its designs, wishes to conceal why it intends to make dependents from all its subservients.  Not to help people, but to harm them.  To eat them.  And as we uncover all the waste, fraud, and abuse that DOGE finds, we learn that we should have never trusted any of these people.  And that the over-coddling mother complex of government was not for any reason but to eat us and live off our carcasses.  This is how we should view taxation and the role of government in general.  Just because we have women in our lives as mothers, or wives, and they appear kindly, we can’t trust them.  They very well could be trying to eat us.  And often, at best, they are trying to lure us out into the woods to leave us for dead so they can replace us with a new man, a sturdy character who works all day chopping wood, and the women do not want to share the food earned with the children. So she plots to kill them so she can have the man all to herself.  Given what DOGE is uncovering, we would do well to return to fairy tales for guidance.  Because obviously, a lot of people need them. 

Rich Hoffman

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If Trump or Any Politician Supports Pot Legalization: Smoke shops produce stringy haired losers and depreciated value

To answer a question that should be obvious at this point, but it needs an updated clarification, I am more than 100% against pot, or any marijuana support, and I will not endorse or support in any way a politician who is in support of marijuana legalization.  This came up in a recent discussion about political endorsements, and I had to explain to several people that just because pot was legal in Ohio, I did not recognize it as such and that I am more against pot sales and use than I ever was.  For me, it’s a Jesus in the temple against the money changers kind of thing.  I do not see marijuana as anything good for anybody, and it’s certainly not a free market right.  And to go to that next step, which evolved out of the question, would I feel the same about President Trump if he proved to be supportive of a federal policy on marijuana legalization?  The answer is that if Trump became pro-pot, that would be the day I work against him.  Everyone knows how supportive of Trump I have been over these last eight years, but the line in the sand would be pot legalization from his administration.  On that day, I would never be supportive of Trump again and would actively work against him.  That’s how serious I am about the matter, and life would go on if that turns out to be the case.  I know there are lots of discussions, especially from the Roger Stone crowd, to bend Trump’s ear to federal legalization.  If he did that, in my opinion, he would become the enemy, and I would actively look for his replacement.  That might be good news for people looking to drive a wedge between Trump and his base.  But because of all the talk in the background, I have to say it before it’s too late.

I don’t think Trump would do something so stupid.  He’s a states’ rights guy, and federal legalization would go against that position.  If states are that stupid to legalize pot, that’s their problem.  Now, Ohio just legalized pot, but not without some progressive gymnastics on constitutional technicalities that were very disingenuous.  There was a significant amount of outside money and influence that needed to be removed from the system, and I will certainly apply my efforts in that direction.  Just because radical leftist losers slid the issue under the door in Ohio, it does not mean I accept it.  And yes, there are a lot of Republicans who think that being pro-pot is being pro-business.  They tell me that the former Speaker of the House, John Boehner, supports the legalization of pot as a lobbyist.   My response is that I don’t like John Boehner; he cries too much and has smoked like a train chugging up a long hill for way too long.  Even though we share mutual friends, that does not mean I like what everyone does, nor do I endorse it.  I am not a libertarian.  I do not believe in the ‘live and let live’ philosophy, where you do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t impact me.  I believe in free markets, but I also think that we need rules in society that can make for a civilized nation, such as people shouldn’t have sex with kids under 18.  People shouldn’t drink until they are 21.  If I had it my way, people would never drink.  Kids shouldn’t drive a car until they are 16.  And people shouldn’t do drugs.  Any drugs.  I’m even against marijuana for medical use.  I hate the stuff and see it as the gateway drug to a weak society poised to collapse on itself.  Nothing good comes from pot legalization. 

As far as it being a pro-business stance, since pot was legalized in Ohio, we have all these embarrassing smoke shops everywhere.  They always have beat-up cars and stringy-haired losers coming and going from them.  Sure, plaza owners love them because they don’t want to see part of their buildings empty of a paying tenant. However, the quality of those tenants is detrimental to a community.  Smoke shops and dispensaries are no different than porn shops like the Hustler Store in Monroe are.  Nobody of any quality wants those reminders of human garbage around their homes.  They are bad businesses that lower the quality of our society; they certainly don’t enhance it.  To the short-sighted, smoke shops and pot sales might represent an expanding economy, but at the cost of other profitable aspects of society.  You might sell more pot to a bunch of losers, but those losers aren’t going to be inventing the next great thing, so in the long run, you cost business opportunities by having a pro-pot society of lazy slugs who adopt political socialism to feed their entitled personalities.  The billions of dollars of revenue that keep being passed around regarding the legalization of pot come at a cost of much more than that, primarily in the hard-to-define opportunity cost of a society that spends its recreational activity pursuing intoxication.  The same type of people pushing pot legalization are also advocates of a 40-hour work week, so they can stop work as soon as possible and hit the bottle or smoke more pot sooner, and the way I think about things, if they worked more and worked harder, they’d be intoxicated less.  And that is probably good for them, rather than giving them more leisure time that they will waste anyway. 

Would I throw away all that time I spent investing in Trump over just one issue of pot legalization?  Yes.  That’s how strongly I feel about it.  Pot is a nonstarter for me; there is nothing good to come out of it but short-sighted gains built on the backs of stupidity.  Strategically speaking, this is, of course, what the enemies want: to put Trump in a corner, make these tariffs a chopping block where he seeks an approval rating spike by pandering to the pot heads.  And if they can separate Trump from people like me, they would love it.  But it’s not too late, and I don’t think Trump will do it.  But there are politicians I like quite a lot who have embraced the legalization of pot in Ohio, and support a nationwide deregulation of it.  They compare it to the prohibition period against liquor and want to think that the two are the same, that if you have a society of alcohol abuse, then pot consumption is the next logical step.  But I say you have to draw a line somewhere, and for me, that is between alcohol and pot.  Ultimately, we shouldn’t have a society that embraces drug abuse no matter when or where.  That this is an issue at all says a great deal about our culture, which needs significant reform.  And there are a lot of people in the world that I have alienated just over the consumption of pot.  And I’ve always been this way, and I’ve no intention of ever changing my position on it.  I dislike the substance and the people who use it.  And in most cases, once I find out about it, I never speak to those people again.  So needless to say, when it comes to endorsements, if a politician, even if it’s Trump, supports the legalization of pot in any way, our relationship will literally go up in smoke. 

Rich Hoffman

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