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I Understand Why God Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah: The mob outside Lot’s house were not worth saving

The city of Sodom

I’ve been thinking a lot about Sodom and Gomorrah this holiday season, 2024, and going over into 2025.  Not just in the usual things, like where they were as cities along the Dead Sea in the time of Abraham.  But I’ve been thinking a lot about Lot and his wife and daughters being warned that God was going to destroy the city and that his family needed to leave.  Because God couldn’t find one good person to save, he sent a couple of angels to retrieve Lot so he could destroy everyone else.  I honestly understand God’s frustrations and anger, and I have been thinking a lot about just pushing the button and erasing the whole thing.  I believe that, in my case, I know more than ten people in my life who are worth saving.  But I can understand Yahweh’s predicament.  I would say I am a very positive person. Extremely positive.  I have a personality that can carry risky relationships, so I have allowed in my life people here and there over the years who are very self-destructive in the hopes of pulling them up off the mat and giving them psychological access to a good life.  Wealth is measured in many ways, so I consider such an opportunity much better than handing someone millions of dollars.  A bankrupt personality will blow through money like hot butter right out of the microwave.  So before you can attempt meaningful wealth-building, you must fix what’s wrong with people deep inside themselves.  So, my policy for over four decades has always been to give a few wild characters a chance to do the right things and have access to a better life than they would ever get.  And to show them the way to a righteous existence. 

The angry mob that wanted to rape God’s angels. Driven by lust, greed, and animal motivations

This year, for whatever reason, I had to associate with a more extensive sampling of people during the Holidays, which was very tiring.  I tend to give myself a lot of time to think. I usually read three books a week, but through the Holiday season of 2024, I was having a hard time completing only one because the demands for my time were very intense between family engagements, professional contacts, and random chaos.  I saw more people than I cared too, which didn’t allow for a lot of room for me to have the patience to carry out some of the diabolical reform projects that I usually do without them impacting me personally.   And while all this was going on, I felt I could hear the voice of God whispering in my ear, “Stop wasting time on these losers.  Dump them and free yourself from the shackles of their pathetic existence.”  And I kept thinking about the losers who saw the two angels go into Lots house to warn him of what God planned to do.  And they gathered around it and demanded that Lot send his guests out into the street so that they could have sex with them and rape them against their will.  Lot, trying to be the peacemaker, instead offered to send out his two virgin daughters.  But these were homosexual men who gave the name to the process of sodomizing victims because of the debauchery of Sodom, the destroyed city.  And they wanted to rape the two beautiful angelic men.  There is a lot wrong with all of that, from the mob that wanted to rape the angels to Lot offering his virgin daughters instead.  I would never do that.  People have asked me what I would do in Lot’s case. Well, I would have made it so that every one of those mob members would never sit at a dinner table again.  Sending my daughters to a mob of rapists would never happen under any circumstances.  No threat of violence can’t be overcome with superior methods of aggression, to be nice about it.

The angels had no choice but to blind the aggressors working against Lot
And God eradicated the city because not one person was worth saving turning it all back to dust for which it came

The people I am referring to just wore me out were people who might otherwise be in the mob that Lot had to defend himself from.  If you know the story, the angels, seeing Lot’s predicament, took pity on him and just turned on the mob and blinded them so that they could all escape, which they did and joined Abraham in the desert before God destroyed the place.  Along the way, of course, Lot lost his wife because she looked at the destruction.  Then Lot was sleeping with his daughters, so there were other problems.  But the moral depravity of society, in general, is what we’re talking about here and whether or not members of the mob could have been reformed if only someone had tried to find the good in them.  And this hasn’t been a come-lately project for me.  I have done this as a policy, trying to help people who are just bad and rotten to their core; I’ve wanted to give them a seat at the table and teach them how to thrive there.  But in most cases, if not all, they always let me down.  And we’re not talking about a person here or there; we are talking about many hundreds, and in some cases, many thousands.  After many interactions with those types of people in my life in 2024, I had to reflect and ask if there was one worth saving or trying.  Or were the angels right about everything, and the only way to move forward is to blind everyone and leave them to ultimate destruction, and that we should never do like Lot’s wife, we should never look back, lest we destroy ourselves in the process.

Sodom before
Sodom after

I’ve never felt that trying to help these kinds of people took much away from me that I couldn’t replace with my upbeat personality.  And that’s the only reason I haven’t just pushed the button and dropped all those people from it.  I get to a point where I move on when people disappoint me.  And I try to help someone else, hoping that one or two good people can be found and reformed somewhere along the way.  But truthfully, once people are broken, they don’t come back.  They stay broken and try to destroy whatever is good around them.  And there is no way to help them, no matter how hard you try.  I think the tipping point for me occurred during the subway story of the woman who was lit on fire by an illegal immigrant.  I was sitting at a table in a nice restaurant with a party of people who were personal projects of mine, some working out well, some not so much so, and I caught that news story on the television over the bar.  I looked at the table before me, thinking about all the evil on display, and I realized that the Angels had the right approach.  In many cases, the people I was dealing with were already blind; I was trying to help them see.  But I decided that night to let them stay blind and stupid and leave them to their misery.  And I was going to move on from those people that history has known as the mob outside of Lot’s house.  And rather than trying to save them from desiring such depravity, God had the right idea when he planned to wipe them all out.  Because there was no way to save them, these were the same malcontents of Ham who laughed at Noah’s nakedness when the other children sought to save their father’s dignity by covering him.  There was no way to save such evil.  And that is an admission that is sometimes necessary.  I certainly understand why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and even to this day, nobody knows much about the ancient cities because they were so bad that there wasn’t anything left worth knowing.  And that is the same case with most people.

I get it

Rich Hoffman

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What Makes Terrorists Want to Kill People: In Islam, it all comes down to Ishmael

Although there is a lot wrong with the Matthew Livelsberger case out of Colorado Springs, the Shamsud Din Jabbar killer from New Orleans, where both terrorists took action on January 1st, 2025, to provoke a terrorist incident.  I am very suspicious of Livelsberger because he was found with a gunshot to the head in a car that can drive itself—so given that he has been a Trump supporter in the past, it’s not quite the same case of Islamic radicalism that we saw from New Orleans.  In both cases, we are probably dealing with third-party characters who used the misery of these two people to perform the terrorist actions, leaving people to ask a lot of questions, such as what is going on at Fort Bragg that causes all these ex-military people to have a switch go off in their head and to turn into terrorists.  There is a lot there to consider.  But the primary question, which is a global problem, is why young people are attracted to radical Islam, and how does that religion generate the kind of hate that causes suicide bombers intent to inflict mass carnage against entirely innocent people?  As I watched hours and hours of explanations about how to deal with the problem of terrorists running around in a free society, it was evident that everyone was missing the main point in the matter: an irreconcilable matter that allows terrible people to use broken young men to perform their dirty work while the real perpetrators hide in secret societies and law firms plotting the demise of the world in a way that they can profit off of.  I think we are seeing just the beginning of this kind of psychological war, and terror incidents like this, unfortunately, have to be expected.  Many evil people have settled into government power, and it won’t be easy to dislodge them.  And ahead of Trump coming back into office, this network of scum bags will be complex at work to terrorize people into not supporting President Trump’s government reforms, any way possible.   

Before its release date, I read Jordan Peterson’s excellent new book, We Who Wrestle with God, over Thanksgiving weekend 2024, and I thought it was just fantastic.  I like what Peterson is doing with applying psychology to the construction of the Bible and its meaning as a helpful articulation of the Western World and why it’s so successful while other places aren’t.  It supports a long premise of mine that started essentially with the great Joseph Campbell, where a society’s mythology determines essentially the quality of life for the people in it.  Someone sent me an advance copy to review, so by the time of these terrorist events at the start of 2025, I had time to think about the psychological side of social constructs that peek behind the curtain of organized religion in a way that I believe is at the heart of the problem.  But nobody wants to look at Islam with quite the same kind of analysis, which then causes us to not have answers to the questions as to why Islam is a religion that tends to generate a radical element that wants to kill people.  And why are they so much different than the Christian or Jewish version of some of the same Biblical characters?  Given that, I think it is time we admit to ourselves why young terrorists like Shamsud Din Jabbar or the guy from Colorado Springs would entertain such a thought as to become a car bomber and blow up one of Elon Musk’s Cybertrucks in front of the incoming President’s excellent hotel in Las Vegas.  And it comes down to the heart of Islam in a psychological way.  Not a spiritual one.  So when we ask the questions as to why, the first and most obvious place to look is at the story of Ishmael and Isaac, both sons of Abraham, but one was cast away and became the central figure of Islam.  The other became the central figure of the Jews and Christian faith.  It all flows from the institution of marriage to the core foundations of all Western civilization.

As I pointed out within minutes of both terrorist attacks to everyone asking me questions about them, both of the terrorists had problems with the women in their lives and had been rejected.  And to a man, that rejection from a family member can be devastating.  Also, as a primary consideration, Islam allows for the marriage of up to 4 wives so long as the husband can show that he can support them all.  So, Islam has a very different view of what a marriage is than what is traditionally considered biblical.  When Abraham couldn’t have children with his wife, Sarah talked him into having a son with her hand servant from Egypt, Hagar.  She soon gave birth to Ishmael.  But God stepped in and made it so Sarah could give birth, and she soon brought forth Isaac.  And Abraham, under God’s counsel, cast away his firstborn son and his mother and made Isaac his favorite.  This act of being rejected by the father is at the heart of the matter among all Muslims, including Barack Obama.  They all have in common worldwide: broken families and a sense of being rejected by orthodox Western Culture.  That was the primary problem during the Crusade period as well.  Not that all Muslims are from broken families.  However, as an identity, you find that fear of rejection and their anger at Western civilization is the root of all their actions and narratives.  Islam was built around the first son of Abraham, Ishmael. At the same time, Isaac was considered the father’s favorite because he was born within the institution of marriage. 

So, of course, young men like  Shamsud Din Jabbar are going to be drawn to religions that have at their foundation an explanation, or an off-ramp, for why society has rejected them.  And it doesn’t take long for such young men to start signing up for ISIS terrorist groups as a discharge for the pain in their lives.  Not that any of that is an excuse.  But it does explain why people who feel they are losing at life are so quickly radicalized by a religion that features at its heart the rejected son of Abraham, who was born from the bad decision of the couple when faced with the crises of not being able to have children themselves.  Then, once they could, they rejected the illicit birth that occurred outside of institutionalized marriage.  That would also explain why Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world, and it is proposed to have 3 billion people by 2060.  There are a lot of broken people in the world who do not have the advantage of being born to a loving mother and father under the warm blanket of institutionalized marriage as the West sees it.  And everywhere in the world that rebels against the notion of Western law and thought, they struggle with various degrees of Marxism, collective-based political movements that give the same kind of cover to broken people that the Muslim faith does.  Remember what I have been saying about Obama’s mom for all these years?  She was a lot like Hagar.  And like Ishmael, Obama had daddy issues.  And to hide that pain from themselves and the world, they become terrorists in lots of ways to fight back against the pain that haunts them.  In that way, they become monsters, and religious fights against them dominate our news stories.  But at its heart, it all comes down to affection for a father, and one was rejected because of an illicit relationship from which all of Islam was built to explain.  And the other became the father of all Jewish faith and the emergence of Christianity.  The hatred then becomes a kind of Cain and Able story where one brother wants to kill the other for all the jealousies that come from accepted institutionalism or to be cast aside and shunned from the love of a father where respect was so desperately wanted.  And is it that simple?  I think so.  And yes, there are lots of horrible characters out there who take advantage of these broken people and weaponize them for their causes because they are easy to manipulate in their depleted state.  And before you know it, they are blowing themselves up and trying to impose fear on what they think is a society that rejected them.  Then, with all the violence, power is distributed across the world in ways that many can’t get their minds wrapped around because they are so evil and audacious.  Ultimately, it is constructed out of jealousy and hurt feelings that trace back to why Ishmael and his mother were cast aside to fend for themselves.

Rich Hoffman

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The Fued Between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk: Cybertruck saves Trump Tower Las Vegas from a Terrorist Attack

You can see what kind of war we’re in; the terrorist attacks were meant to be evident on the first day of the New Year ahead of the incoming Trump administration.  The radical elements out there are going to have their faces melt, and they are going to try every trick in the book to impose on us the same kind of disorder and chaos that have imprisoned the human race since the beginning of time.  I’ve liked the Cybertruck by Tesla since the first design was introduced, and I’ll probably get one myself once the dust settles on it.  It’s in high demand now, and I don’t want to wait for one.  So when it gets a little easier to get one, I probably will, and for all the reasons that a terrorist tried to use it to blow up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.  The Cybertruck was strong, contained the explosion, and didn’t even break any windows to the lobby of one of President Trump’s premier properties in the world. An obvious attempt to further divide Elon Musk and Trump on New Year’s Day with two terrorist attacks.  One at the Trump Hotel and another that killed and hurt a lot of people in New Orleans almost at the same time.  I’d say it is almost a non-existent coincidence that the two terrorists acted alone and that all kinds of characters have been behind the illegal immigration movement that do not want to see America Great Again, so as terrorists do, they try to scare people, into submission.  And there are a lot of terrorists under Obama and Biden who are operating in the background of our nation.  And there will be a lot more violent acts committed against innocent people in the days to come, so we’ll have to meet that violence where it lives and smoke it out into the open to deal with.  We don’t have time for personal feuds between Steve Bannon of the WarRoom and Elon Musk, which I think goes far beyond practicality. 

I like Steve Bannon a lot.  Without the WarRoom podcast, which was run by Steve Bannon, the MAGA movement wouldn’t have been as strong as it was.  We needed a pirate element, and Steve was John Paul Jones in our modern movement.  But saying that, I don’t agree with him on everything; I have found a few things deeply alarming about Steve Bannon, and those things have been emerging over this ridiculous H-1B visa issue.  It’s one thing to disagree on policy, which is bound to happen in a big tent party, which the Republican Party is these days.  But Steve’s position on foreign labor is very pro-union-like, and as we all know, unions are anti-capitalist and pro-Karl Marx in their design, and I knew it was going to be tough to have all these union people supporting Trump and then getting them to see things correctly regarding the definitions of labor.  Everyone should have to compete for a good job no matter where they were born.  Nobody should be given anything for nothing.  That has been the standard union idea out there: that America First meant good jobs for Americans just because they were born in America.  To me, America First means something very different relative to the way business is conducted in other places in the world, and once many of the jobs are brought back to America from where they presently are, America will be operating at very low unemployment, and we are going to want every last person working who can, and we’ll need immigration labor to fill the gaps in need versus supply.

That labor discussion about people who want to come to America and pursue the American Dream is different than the illegal immigration that has hidden criminal elements and terrorists into our country behind the chaos of open borders designed to give us precisely the kind of world we experienced on New Year’s Day, 2025, terrorism and criminal enterprise by those hostile to America.  They all have to be deported for the security of our domestic nation.  However, we will need an immigration system that accommodates all the work that will be done in returning to the United States in the years to come.  We will need more than 300 million potential workers to feed the economy Trump has in mind.  So, taking the side of labor unions with an America First attached to birthright citizenship of more entitled people who work far too little for way too much money is not a productive position, which brings up the other thing that has always concerned me about Steve Bannon, his dislike of Ayn Rand.  Coming from his background in finance, I would think he would appreciate the Ayn Rand message of producers versus looters more than he does, but he has been very hostile toward the American novelist and the people who support her, which is baffling considering Bannon’s support, of President Trump, a guy who could easily be one of the heroes of Ayn Rand’s books.  But that hatred of Ayn Rand is the same as why labor unions tend to hate those who run industry.  They believe in collectivism, which is the root of labor unions.  And an absolute hatred of the producers of the world of which Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of the best. 

Elon Musk, ironically has had a lot of excellent manufacturing capacity in his companies because he managed to fight off the labor union movements pushed on him by the Department of Labor radicals.  But for most of his life, Elon Musk has been a hard-line Democrat, certainly left of center.  This sudden love of MAGA is a late position for sure.  However, regarding labor union policy, Musk has been among the best, and Steve Bannon is far to the left of Musk on that topic.  So, it can confuse people trying to figure out where all these guys are and who is right about what.  Personally, and I say this affectionately, I see people do this all the time.  I think what Steve Bannon is doing is self-sabotage because his role in the future is confusing to him.  When you are a warrior who fights hard to win, what does that warrior do once they’ve won?  How do pirates define themselves when piracy is no longer needed?  Because the fight has changed, and suddenly, the values that made you a hero now make you a union-loving liberal.  You’re the same person, but the world changed, and it’s hard to figure it all out.  So psychologically, people, when faced with this kind of thing, resort to self-sabotage so they can at least get their identity to a place where they recognize the person they look at in the mirror.  That is sometimes far easier than adjusting to change, even if that change was something you fought hard to win.  In everyone’s minds, winning was a fantasy they never thought would come true.  Meanwhile, the real bad guys are out there, and terrorists are going to make Making America Great Again very difficult.  And Steve Bannon is needed for that fight.  And so is Elon Musk.  And so are labor unions, as they will need to do work, but they will need to change their approach to it.  We need everyone.  The goal of the parasites out there is to divide us with fear and chaos so they can continue to run their crime syndicates in government over us all.  If you thought New Year’s Day was bad, it will get far worse.  You can bet on it.  And we need everyone pointed in the correct direction and to put their differences aside because that’s what big-tent politics requires.  And to fight for what is truly needed as defined by an America First that can lead the world to a better tomorrow.  And we don’t have time for complex psychological issues that spawn from identity failures and quirky philosophies.  Let’s fight to win and surrender nothing to terrorism.  And let competition cover the employment issues, which is how greatness is born.  And evil is rooted out before it ever grows into a weed.    

Love it! Because it looks cool. And it’s tough!

Rich Hoffman

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Making People Great Again: What would you do if you were Lot

It’s an unfortunate Civil War, and this whole issue of the H-1B visas is a problem, but everyone is missing the real point on the matter.  I don’t think the issue of looking for skilled immigrant labor over domestic skilled labor because they are cheaper is the issue.  That might be the fear of the labor unions and this is the danger of bringing people into the Republican Party who aren’t really conservative.  And we know Elon Musk was a Democrat for most of his life and was converted because of Trump.  And the people demanding only using domestic labor have more of a labor union view of the world on this issue.  The real issue isn’t financial; the quality of people available is the real problem.  You might want to hire domestic people for some enterprise, but there is a reason foreign labor is so attractive, and it’s not money.  Nor is it regional.  It’s value-based.  At least, that’s my experience.  And to cover the point, I think we need to reframe the premise a bit, which is an issue that has come up for me more and more: a personal story about my son-in-law that gets on my nerves often these days.  I have terrific kids, but that’s not by accident.  There was a lot of hard work that went into raising them, and there isn’t much in society that rewards good parenting the way it should.  All you get is seeing your kids grow up and becoming something good.  But social recognition is almost entirely nonexistent.  And worse, and this is the case every New Year, people who were very critical of how I raised my kids go way out of their way to surround themselves with them because they are such good people.  Not to get too personal about it, but it is such an unusual story these days; many of those same critics from over a decade ago are now the people who want to be the best friends of my oldest daughter and her husband, who married young, have stayed married for over 15 years, and have only ever dated each other.  As a result, they are raising a very nice family that everyone wants to emulate.  And the efforts lately have gotten in my way of having a schedule to enjoy my family, which gets on my nerves.  But is a story worth telling. 

I also got married at a very young age because I found the right woman.  But she was a very pretty young woman, and for men who get into those kinds of relationships, you understand what I mean by every male in the world who looks at a woman like that, wants to take her from you.  And when you are young, you don’t have much in life yet to fend them off but violence and tenacity.  Needless to say, I often saw the ugly side of human beings in ways that explain why that recent social media woman on TikTok slept with over 100 men in a day and that it was a story of fascination focused on the morality of the young woman.  But my issue would be with the men; how are there that many men not already committed to a relationship and would have sex with her right after some other dude had done the deed?  Yuk.  And to go at such a pace to do 100 men in a single day, there are only 24 hours in a day, so the math portrays a pretty cheap and loser woman and a bunch of disgusting men as a statistical sample addicted to a pornographic and destructive lifestyle.  So when you have a pretty wife who, of course, is going to produce pretty kids, you have a dramatic portion of society that is plotting and scheming continuously to stick stuff in them for their personal pleasure.  And when it comes to my family, this is a question that came up to me recently as I was talking about Lot from the Bible offering up his daughters to the mob to rape, to save his home guests, a couple of angels……I’m not Lot.  What would I do if I were Lot?  Well, I’ve been there, and many people know exactly what I’d do, I’d fight them.  And I’d fight them all to win, no matter how many of them there were. 

That left me with an unusual problem once my daughters started coming into their teens and wanted to date boys.  I’m sure there are nice young men on a farm in Iowa milking cows at 5 AM every morning and going to church on Sunday for their entire lives who might have been decent people for my daughters to date.  I hear success stories here and there where good men marry into a family and live happily ever after.  But the truth of the matter, which most women will tell you, is that the quality of men just isn’t very good.  They have bad parents and immoral lifestyles, and they certainly aren’t going to grow up with good leadership skills to make good husbands and fathers to my future grandchildren.  So, I was a hard no on the dating experience.  I instead advocated foreign relationships with online boys my kids found in England because they were polite kids from a polite culture.  And in one case, my future son-in-law had a very nice, traditional family with great values.  The other kid’s broken family eventually fell apart and didn’t work out, despite the best intentions.  But in one case, it worked great and continues to work wonderfully.

During this process, I received many criticisms that still exist today.  People didn’t get why I wouldn’t let my kids date some boy down the road.  Why did I think my stuff didn’t stink, and why did I think my daughters were so lofty that some average boy shouldn’t or couldn’t have access to her?  I feel so strongly about all this that I even wrote a book dealing with this issue called The Symposium of Justice, which is a very defined commitment for me.  So when some of those same critics want to think it was by some accident that my oldest daughter and her husband are such good and intact people, it makes me pretty furious.  It wasn’t an accident.  It was a good policy from me, and I turned out to be right about everything, as I usually am.  The rest of the world was wrong.  Dreadfully wrong.  I was never going to be Lot kicking my daughters out into the street to the mob that just wanted to rape them for personal pleasure.  And you don’t want to think of people having such low lives.  But when it comes to sex, they often are.  The quality of people is revealed very quickly, and because of my experience raising daughters, I can say that the quality of people out there is very low.  So now that I often said as they were growing up, I didn’t think any boys in America could date my daughters these days.  Maybe during the World War II generation.  But certainly not now. 

So, it was very controversial for me to only allow my kids to date boys from other countries.  And it wasn’t from some third-world nation like India or China because of cheap labor.  It’s because they had at least found one with whom they could date and build a family.  To further clarify, I don’t go to bachelor parties when other people get married.  My family invited my wife to a bachelorette party once, which caused a rift in our family that persists to this day and probably always will.  I’m rigid hardcore on this morality issue; I’m probably more conservative than Amish people are on this matter.  If you approach a marriage with such scandal in your mind from the beginning, you can’t expect it to last over the generations, and family building is impossible.  So people laughed and giggled about my approach, but they aren’t laughing so much these days.  As I said, I turned out to be right about everything.  I’d rather destroy the mob than turn my daughters over to their disgusting lust.  And I feel the same way about the workforce.  I think everyone has a chance to show that they are high-quality people.  But they don’t grow on trees, and America has been the target of attack by those wanting to destroy it person by person through the education system for decades now, and that has left our workforce a long way from the Right Stuff.  Being a good person and husband or wife takes a good thought process.  Or to raise good kids.  You can’t cheat it.  You can’t create a policy that makes it that way within a human resource department.  You either have good people, or you don’t.  And using the Bible reference, you are either the people in the mob trying to rape Lot and his home guests, or you are trying to defend something precious from the angry mob.  And knowing all that, you have to Make America Great Again somehow.  But it will take more than cheap talk about marriage. All the while, people see strippers at a bachelor party and giggle like a bunch of idiots under the desecration of value in front of an entire family.  Those aren’t the foundations of a good marriage.  And they certainly don’t make good workers, not to the way I think of things.  And when you are looking for workers who get married, stay married, show up on time, and can put their skills to good use, not just to have them, but to work hard enough to use them, often you find that the people you need for those positions are not produced by the culture you are recruiting from.  It might break your heart to be so discriminatory.  However, discretion often leads to much better decisions and more successful enterprises.  And to have a good society, you have to have good people in it.  And to make good people, you need good families.  And we just don’t have enough of those these days for all kinds of reasons. 

Rich Hoffman

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Potomac Fever: The cost of reforming government

We saw a bit about what Anthony Scaramucci meant when he warned Elon Musk over the Holidays of 2024 to stay out of the politics of Washington, D.C.  He specifically cautioned Musk not to get Potomac Fever as he had worked for the White House for a while, which caused a rift with Trump that has lasted to the present and he played like he didn’t want Musk to get that sickness.  Looking back on it, and I’m sure this time won’t be much different, there were many people that Trump liked and supported and tried to bring with him to Washington, D.C., that fell apart and off the rocker without too much time.  Steve Bannon was one of those who got caught off the reservation a bit and had to be removed from the administration.  At one level what Scaramucci said on cable news about Musk could have been viewed as a warning.  “Don’t let what happened to me happen to you,” kind of advice.  Politics is a bloodsport, as I say all the time, and things do get bloody around Trump for many reasons.  But looking deeper into the matter, and it only happened a few days later, when Scaramucci said to Musk to run his businesses and leave people alone in government, what happened to Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over the H-1B visa issue was just a tiny glimpse of things to come.  Surprisingly, the worst critics of Musk’s position were the MAGA people, some of the president’s biggest supporters.  But I wasn’t surprised.  It’s going to get a lot worse than that.  What happened with the H-1B visas was that the SWAMP defended itself from reform, which is what Scaramucci meant as a spokesman for the Beltway’s ruthlessness.  Enjoy your business.  Go live a good life and leave those government people alone.  Or they will ruin your life. 

If you want to do this kind of thing, you have a couple of ingredients that you have to bring with you if you want to reform the government away from the many parasites that are often in it.  You can’t care what people think of you, which Elon Musk doesn’t appear to do in the usual way.  You have to be independently wealthy because the bad guys in the government first pursue your ability to make money as a means to attack.  There are vast evils made daily by people who trade ethics for money, which is why Washington, D.C., has spiraled so far out of control.  That is also why there aren’t more Donald Trumps in the world.  You have to have independent wealth to fight the SWAMP.  When people complain that all these rich people are in Trump’s government, including the come lately types like Elon Musk, you have to understand that you really can’t fight this fight unless you have independent wealth, and in most cases, a lot of it.  If you have just average wealth, that’s not enough because you will be wholly cancel cultured at the bank faster than a bullet from a gun can leave the muzzle.  Yeah, there is a reason that things are the way they are, and the corrupt often end up ruling over everyone else.  Once the bad guys get control of a government and find that they can use the power of it to steal money from everyone through taxation, they aren’t going to give up that racket easily.  So, anybody wanting to challenge that system must be at a place where they no longer care what people think and where the world’s parasites can’t impact their income.  Because they have so much money, people are always willing to be their friends to get some of it. 

But to Scaramucci’s point, yes, these are ruthless and vile people, and if you want to have any kind of good life while fighting them, forget about it.  There is no upside except in doing the right thing; that is the not-so-well-spoken part of the message.  Looking at all the people who came and went within Trump’s orbit over the last decade is truly astonishing.  And when you see how many MAGA supporters were ready to blow up the whole thing over one disagreement over H-1B visas, the immigration issue that is the cornerstone of the entire Trump support system, you get a good idea of the scale of the problem.  To answer the question about America First, what does that mean if the American worker is a unionized slug not willing to do much work beyond the 40 hours a week and leaving a lot of unworked tasks still unfulfilled at the end of a week and call that a lack of capacity, rather than a lack of willingness to be productive?  You can’t build success in the world like that.  So that’s why there is support for immigrant labor, not because they are cheaper, but because they outwork all the unionized slugs, and there are a lot of government workers in Washington D.C.  Most of them belong to some union, and that’s where all the money goes, we pay too much money for too little work.  And because we have brought this big tent into the MAGA movement, there will be a lot of disagreements on policy items.  And if there is anything to exploit, the SWAMP will do so to preserve itself from reform. 

What Anthony Scaramucci said was essentially the old mafia utterance about minding your own business; otherwise, you’d be swimming with the fishes.  The government is no longer, or if it ever was, a representative government.  It’s organized crime under most conditions.  And the crime bosses essentially tell society that if you want a minimal government running your life as opposed to outright anarchy, then you have to pay the price.  A little bit of corruption isn’t going to hurt anything, from their point of view.  Just pay your fee through taxation, and we’ll leave you alone for the most part unless you get some funny ideas about being a hero.  Nobody wants to be a hero.  That is until someone wants to be a hero and save everyone from the system at any cost.  And that perspective often comes from wealth, the kind where they can have anything they want and aren’t concerned about being removed from the Christmas Party list where you get to flirt with the unhappy wives of their typical combover bootlicker husbands and call it high society.  Washington, D.C., is where the Lords of Easy Money set up their racket, and people pay for protection from the very thugs that run the whole outfit, just like the mob.  And Anthoney Scaramucci understands what Potomac Fever is because he’s had it.  And most people get it.  It’s that sickness that people get when they find out they can make friends with people who become powerful because of their access to confiscated wealth and can live a good, easy life if they only join the government union.  Fighting against that union takes a lot of effort, which comes from the defense of that system by those who most benefit from it.  To stand up to it, you have to have abundant wealth and not care about the social impact that comes with it.  What was said to Musk from Scaramucci was more than a warning; it was a vision statement for the government crime syndicate running things.  And that is where the real fight always was. 

Rich Hoffman

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Trouble With Reservations: How the Biden administration created a national labor crises

This was a hectic Holiday season for me, with many more social engagements than usual.  It’s usually pretty busy, but something happened this year that I have never seen before, and that is I had much trouble booking reservations for dinner engagements, which was very strange.   Because I am usually busy with this kind of thing during November and December, I have a base to say that this year differs from other years.  And that the occurrences were higher than usual indicates that statistically, we’re not dealing with an accident here, but statistical certainty.  But out of the 20 dinners I was involved in over the Holiday season, I had trouble with reservations on 18 of them.  This means that, on the first attempt, the restaurant I was trying to book for a holiday party for social engagements would not accept the reservation due to competing holiday celebrations.  I would have to make a few calls, and in all the cases, I could get a hold of somebody to overcome the apprehension.  But with that process, I also received an explanation that ticked me off.  It’s a trend toward the negative that I have been pointing out to everyone over these last few years, coming out of all the dumb COVID protocols.  That globalist poison attacked our American workforce, and now, under four years of Joe Biden, the impact on the average American worker has destroyed them to such a degree that it was showing up in restaurants and how they staff and handle their employees regarding pressure.  In all 18 cases I mentioned, the general managers explained that they were having difficulty staffing their businesses, especially their kitchens, and were very concerned about overloading them because they were afraid they might quit. 

My idea of a great restaurant is Gordan Ramsey’s signature restaurant in Chelsea, England, just to the south of London along the river.  There are a few great places in the world that I also think about regarding top-tier food.  A steakhouse in Kobe, Japan that specializes in Kobe steak, which is fantastic on every bar you measure.  But that 3 Michelin Star Chef Ramsey place in London is, I think, about as good as it gets.  They know how to prepare food and treat a customer.  And it is hard to make a reservation there.  They purposely have a tiny dining room because they are concerned about the high food quality.  It is an excellent experience if you ever get a chance to go, and it’s costly but well worth the money.  When I was there, they toured me through the kitchen, and I could see how things work behind the scenes, and it was all top-notch.  The workforce was clean, engaged, organized, and efficient.  I can say that I’ve seen the best in the world and understand what it takes to be that way.  That was why I could call shenanigans to many of these local managers in the Cincinnati area when they tried to tell me that they were hesitant to book reservations for fear that their staff might be overworked and start delivering poor food quality.  That was the case in one particularly dumb explanation: a very nice restaurant on the Ohio River overlooking downtown Cincinnati was almost empty on the night that I wanted to entertain guests, yet they were concerned about booking my reservation for more than 20 because they had during that same hour a party of 15 and a party of 10.   

After further probing, I got to the heart of the matter: many people who work in restaurant kitchens doing fine food have become very sensitive to pressure under the Biden administration and the COVID protocols that never disappeared.  While high-quality restaurants were able to hire those kinds of people, their ability to handle stress is much lower than they were just a few years ago, and if pressured in an environment where the demands were intense, these employees were prone to walk off the job rather than fight through the pressure.  So managers of nice restaurants were doing their best to keep that pressure off their kitchens in a rock, paper, scissors game of at least keeping the food quality high, even if it meant a loss of sales at the door.  Cincinnati and areas around the city, especially up in West Chester and Liberty Township, have restaurants that are as good as anywhere in the world, so I understand wanting to keep those high food quality standards by taking the pressure off the kitchen staff.  But the kitchen staff shouldn’t be such crybabies, either.  This was a big problem in my eyes because it’s not just restaurants; this is a major domestic service problem that is the direct result of bad government management by introducing minimum wage increases that were not market-driven and creating workforce shortages with government talk of universal wages and work from home policies of virus management introduced by socialist health departments.  It had taken a few years to get there, but the Biden administration policies had shown up in the reservation systems of high-quality restaurants. The artificial constraint of employees had impacted their businesses to the point where they couldn’t plan to maximize their dining room seating to maximum effect because their staff had become soft and unable to manage high amounts of stress. 

Knowing all this and keeping the managers happy with their dilemma, my approach was to let everyone take two or three hours for dinner so that the kitchens didn’t get stressed out too much and to allow the food quality to be reduced.  My logic to the managers is that they’ll make more money letting their guests wait for the food and buying appetizers and drinks than in trying to pace everything to the artificial constraint of the kitchen staff that was trying to figure out if they’d work that night or call off to play Call of Duty.  If employees are getting paid anyway, why would they work harder?  That is what happens when you take away incentives from the American worker to do more and to do it faster.  Most of these restaurants in Cincinnati are built for speed and large crowds.  This is not like Chef Ramsey’s restaurant in England, which had a purposely small dining room.  The places I was going to were meant to fill every seat, and if they could fit in a reservation, they could book it and keep their dining rooms full.  They needed to push their kitchens to perform.  However, “push” became a bad name under the Biden administration.  Employees have become radicalized and are “pushing back” by saying that they need an emotional safety animal to manage stress so they don’t cry when the pressure becomes too great for them.  The way I think, this is a national security issue.  You don’t see this from workforces when I travel around Asia.  They work hard. In the West, workers don’t work hard anymore, a change from just a few years ago.  Like I said, I do this kind of thing every year.  This year was the first time that I had reservations turned down on nights when the dining rooms were mostly empty, but the managers were purposefully trying to keep the pressure off their kitchens because their employees had become emotionally soft after four years of the Biden administration, and globalism employment practices in general.  And it’s certainly something we need to address as a nation.

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk the Reporter: Free speech will destroy tryanny every time

I figured it out long ago, and Elon Musk can now do it at a much larger level.  Free speech and citizen journalism are tremendously powerful tools and are the key ingredients to a prosperous society.  If left alone, in most cases, people in collective masses become corrupt and dangerous.  So all this anger toward Elon Musk is understandable, for the way he expressed himself during the budget battle in Congress over the continuing resolution that started at over 1500 pages and ended up being just a few hundred by the time it was all said and done.  I explained to everyone that this was how D.O.G.E. would be effective.  They didn’t need to have an office somewhere where they stamped approval in some bureaucratic way, like everything else in government.  No, D.O.G.E. initiated by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be more like reporters, doing the job the media should have been doing all along.  And because Musk bought Twitter and turned it from a three-lettered mind control device into a platform of free speech where he has over 200 million direct followers, a lot of this has caught the radical left and deep state establishment figures off guard.  No, they will not be able to control any of this.  They lost their power long ago and were only propped up by legacy media looking to do their dirty work.  But free speech was always the key to our personal Constitution in the United States, and it has been the killer of globalism for many decades now.  All people needed to do was figure out how powerful their opinions were.  This is why I put so much work into my own efforts; it has worked for many years and made things better where they otherwise would languish in obscurity. 

I used to participate in a lot of media, write for newspapers, and appear on television.  I did a lot of radio.  I was even in a few movies.  So, I understand the entertainment culture and news broadcasting that most people use to interact with information very well.  I am that guy who used to show up and give speeches at public gatherings, especially at school boards.  And there was just something wrong with speaking to people who gave you only 3 minutes to speak.  Newspapers would only give me 250 words to make my point.  Radio would only put you on for around a 15-minute segment.  Millions of people heard it, but the information was often lost to people before the next segment started.  I learned a long time ago because I saw how things were cooking in the kitchen, and letting the bad guys determine how long you speak in public and how much you could write regarding news and opinion was wrong.  And it kept people from speaking freely to other people.  So, I gradually started my own blog site and launched this news and opinion effort that has been very effective for over fifteen years.  I learned what worked and didn’t, and I gradually stopped appearing on other people’s radio and television shows and just started doing my own where I could write as much as I wanted and say as much as I desired about anything and everything under the sun.  If you didn’t care about making money that other people would pay you for the work, then freedom would become the primary currency, and people would get different perspectives from what they previously didn’t have. 

When Elon Musk bought Twitter and converted himself out of political necessity away from a left-of-center globalist to a MAGA Republican who has been accused of either being one of Trump’s kids because they have become so close after the election of 2024 or the president himself, Musk bought a free speech platform that had been used to shape public opinion and turned it into something that reflected what people actually thought.  And what tyranny cannot live up to is public scrutiny.  So, in many ways, Elon Musk became much more potent than any figure on planet Earth, including the President of the United States, because he could evoke what people thought about something instead of limiting what they could see and hear in a way to push them into a thought process that reflected the values of institutionalism.  It was never going to work.  The crazy authority figures of the world should have known better and learned their hard lessons from the Berlin Wall and the many control mechanisms they have in China.  Free expression is a powerful weapon, which is why it’s the first of the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution.  And if you are Elon Musk thinking about how to have governments functioning properly on faraway planets so human civilization can thrive, we must solve this problem once and for all here on Earth, here and now.   We can’t allow tyrants to rule through limited knowledge and control over opinion.  And that’s how these crazy, debt-ridden CRs have been passed by our government for years.  They are full of garbage that nobody knows about and sold to the public with a gun to the head, saying essentially, “Pass this bill to get funding for cancer research by ignoring the funding of bio labs in Ukraine and all kinds of other dangerous stuff that the lobbyists have stuffed in there with goodies and corruption galore.” 

The power Elon Musk used in December of 2024 was not the power of a president or a government insider.  It was the power of opinion, and he was using free speech in the way it was designed to educate the public and let them make decisions about things themselves.  And for all that, the Beltway culture withered in pain over the CR debate.  And people haven’t seen anything yet for all the pain it caused.  This is precisely how D.O.G.E. is going to work.  It won’t be from policymakers and long meetings with peer review that government reform will be done.  It will report what is happening and build public pressure to reform through free speech.  I can report on this matter from my personal experience.  There is nothing that any of the bad guys can do about it.  They won’t be able to stand up to it, and they won’t be able to stop it.  Short of turning to violence themselves, which I have had to deal with myself on many occasions.  Once they realize that violence won’t get them what they want, it will make it much worse for them, and they will become very frustrated with the results, much like the way many reacted to Elon Musk during the CR negotiations in 2024.  Musk doesn’t need to be president.  All he needs to do is allow people to have an opinion on something and give them things to think about through his X social media platform.  So what happens next will be bewildering to many people.  But there is nothing they can do to stop it.  Free speech is the check on power that it was designed to be.  Unfortunately, in years past, too much free speech was controlled through various corporate controls directly connected to the political structure.  And that allowed bad guys to do bad things.  Well, not any longer.  That is why 2025 will differ significantly from any other historical period.  The debate over the 2024 continued resolution for congressional spending hasn’t seen anything yet.  And it’s about time!

Rich Hoffman

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Air Taxis in West Chester, Ohio: The future is now, and its very exciting

The future is now

It’s going to happen at this point anyway.  My bringing it up now is more of a formality of connecting the dots and explaining to anybody who will listen how the future economy under President Trump will look.  I have conversations about making Ohio the number one state for business-friendly conditions all the time.  I attend many seminars on economic development and Chamber of Commerce incentives for depressed areas looking to rebound.  And when I say the only thing holding back this technology is the FAA, politics has changed.  Deregulation under Trump will get stuffy bureaucrats out of the way, and a second wave of aviation and aerospace development will be unleashed.  The other day, I talked a lot about Hyperloop and how and why a terminal should be built in Monroe, Ohio. But today, I’m talking about an old idea that is about to be unleashed and create an all-new transportation mode: skycars, or more technically speaking, VTOL air taxis.  I can say from personal experience that Joby Aviation, up the road from West Chester and Liberty Township, is at the front of the market.  They have air taxis ready to go, built, tested, flushed out, and prepared for delivery to market in 2025/2026; essentially, all that is standing in the way is the FAA approval process.  Joby Aviation is making a piloted version, but they will quickly become fully automatic and will work by calling one on your phone and having them pick you up and perform just like an Uber.  The future is here, now.  All that needed to happen was that politics would have to get behind it.  We don’t already have these air taxis in use because the Biden administration was a slow and Marxist micromanager that stalled all these efforts.  If Trump had stayed in the White House in 2020, these Joby air taxis would have been out for a few years by now.  So once we get a Trump administration back in the White House and install a pro-business mindset back into America, Joby and a few other companies are going to move quickly, and technical innovation on this front will happen at a blistering pace. 

Knowing all that, I would propose that we get all the minds together in West Chester and Liberty Township and become the first areas in the world to develop official Sky Ports.  Abu Dhabi and China are already deep in development.  And Europe is already all over it.  But they don’t have Joby Aviation right down the road and a stable environment to perform the early day development of the technology, which could make Ohio the first to fly again.  Here’s how and why it would work.  For instance, there is a nice little piece of property across from Ikea in West Chester that is just big enough for a sky port, a mini runway kind of helipad where these air taxis would land and take off like a helicopter, but much quieter and with much more stable flight.  This always happens to me; people come and see me from out of town.  They stay at the many hotels and have to get back and forth between CVG and West Chester, and their biggest problem is the traffic down I-75, which gets back to the airport to catch their flight when doing business in West Chester.  This air taxi system would take all that worry away and improve life for many people. 

For instance, when business guests were ready to leave their hotel, they would walk or catch a little transport from their hotel to Sky Port by Ikea. Theoretically, a sky taxi would be waiting for them.  In this case, a piloted version of the Joby VTOL vehicle would be waiting for them just like an Uber, dialed up by their phone with the ticket, and everything would be paid.  The guests would arrive and get into the craft like a car.  The sky taxi would fly them down to the airport at CVG and land at the front of the terminal, likely on top of the parking garage there, and fly over all the traffic, making the trip in about 15 minutes, which usually takes over 50 minutes.  Another problem I have is bringing people from West Chester who are in town without a car to sporting events.  I typically pick them up and drive to the Great American Ballpark to attend a game for the evening.  Getting downtown with all the rush hour traffic is a pain in the neck.  It would be much better to get into an air taxi and fly straight to the stadium, land in a nice, safe place along the river, and get to the game in about 10 minutes instead of an hour during those peak hours of 5 to 6 PM.  When the game was over, the passengers would just let the air taxi service know you were about to leave, and they would come and pick you up just like an Uber driver now.  Only it would be a VTOL instead of a car.  The same air taxi service could be set up to get to Kings Island from all over Cincinnati.  It could also be set up to serve politicians from their districts directly to the Ohio Statehouse.  There are a vast number of immediate applications that would benefit immediately from the low price of freshly poured concrete. 

After the FAA permit process, the next barrier would be to win over the public.  So, the sooner people see these vehicles working and overcome their fear of flying, the more the concept will expand rapidly.  At first, it would be similar to a helicopter ride experience that you see in very safe tourist areas.  Only this air taxi concept is even safer and much quieter.  It would be at a small volume, maybe a few flights every hour throughout the peak hours of a business day.  But enough people are interested now to make that happen with the Joby Aviation vehicles right out of the box.  However, the flight frequency would quickly increase to a flight every couple of minutes, and even several flights from several pads at the Skyport would come and go all the time.  It will also greatly enhance the business climate wherever sports reside.  So, I think Ohio has a unique opportunity to be the first.  West Chester, precisely because of its hotels and business traffic, could be the first in the world to demonstrate this technology and benefit economically from the visionary approach.  I’m just connecting the dots here for the many people I know in this business who need to know about each other.  And to explain that this isn’t some far off Jetson’s fantasy concept.  I’ve been involved in these Skycars for over three decades now, so when I say that they are here, I can say it with confidence.  Air taxis are here; they will happen and will be the hottest ticket in town for the next half of a decade.  People will find them very convenient, safe, and pleasant.  And they will become nearly as common as a personal car in a very short time.  The VTOL market needed a president like Trump in the White House.  The rest was waiting for the permit approval, which is about to happen as you read this.  If not sooner. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Evil of Sandbagging: Why a $359 Steak is good and well worth it

For many reasons, the problem of sandbagging came up over this last week on several fronts, and as I say in my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and everywhere I go, all the time, one of the most evil things you can do in life is under commit and over perform, or at least, intend to.  Even under the most optimal conditions, people never end up overperforming once they realize their efforts’ expectations have been removed from them.  In short, this practice is called sandbagging, which I have never done as a person, and I never will.  Even under conditions where I was the only person doing the work, just good enough, or putting forth a lackluster effort was never acceptable.  This topic came up as people were telling stories of my past and why I used to ride bicycles to work while sick, through the snow, and under all kinds of horrendous conditions.  And from their point of view, it might have looked a little wild.  There are a lot of stories from my past that people like to tell because many of the things I do and have done are considered excessively pro-work.  So, of course, this provoked biblical reference because people seem to understand them as a common source of information, and I went on a long explanation that seemed to explain things well to those listening.  Keep in mind, the reason I hate organized labor so much is that they come from communist backgrounds, and, of course, they have a very anti-Christian view of the world.  Their practice as a communist organization is to withhold work from an employer to gain leverage for their financial position, and that is what Marxism is all about.  They are God haters and withdraw work to get some advantage in negotiating their terms.  This is why I call it evil; a lack of work is detrimental to the human race. 

I think a lot of people go to church, and they read the Bible.  But I don’t think they understand the point of many stories.  They learn the basics and believe that Jesus died on the cross for their sins so they can do whatever they want and still get into Heaven.  Which, of course, isn’t true.  It’s a fantasy for bad people to continue to be lazy slugs.  Most people do not understand the story of Cain and Able, the first kids of Adam and Eve, and why God was so insistent that the land of Canaan, named after the son Cain and all his descendants, why God wanted to punish the kid so emphatically.  It all started with two sacrificial offerings.  Able was a shepherd who offered God the best of his flock.  And God saw that he put that extra effort into what he dedicated to God and that Able was good.  On the other hand, Cain threw together just any old sacrifice as a farmer.  And what he gave to God was not the best of himself.  Sure, he gave what he was required, but he withheld his sacrifice, and that angered God immensely.  Something he never got over, as Yahweh of the Bible.  Now, God wasn’t mad because he wanted more.  He was the creator of the universe; he could have anything he wanted.  What he was angry at was the effort between the two boys.  One gave everything he had.  The other held back and sandbagged the efforts, keeping the best for himself.  Of course, Cain didn’t like being shown up by his brother Able, so he killed him, and this is something we see even today.  People who sandbag their efforts seek to destroy those who want to work hard and do well in the world.  And from this straightforward sentiment, most of the evil in the world is born.

Even in sexual practices, much of the evil in the world comes from the basic notion of sandbagging.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to have a wife.  So he hires a prostitute or goes to a strip joint.  Or develops a porn addiction.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to earn a woman’s attention, so he drinks too much and seeks to get her drunk so that she lowers her standards of him.  A person can’t deal with reality because they shrug away the pressure of responsibility, so they turn to drugs and alcohol for relief from social judgment.  Essentially, most of the evil done in the world comes from a sandbagging mentality.  And this is why each time God had to deal with the vile evil of the original sin, from Adam and Eve and their kids, it is the efforts of Cain that Yahweh sought to destroy.  Because Cain was lazy and a sandbagger, all his descendants had the same trait, which led to the massive amount of evil in the world before the flood came and tried to wipe them all away.  But then again, they would rise into Sodom and Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, and even the Giants in the Land of Canaan that God told the Hebrew people to destroy completely.  The evil God was mad at was the lazy, sandbagging nature of the descendants of Cain.  Jesus, on the other hand, was born from the line of Seth, a third child that Adam and Eve had to replace their murdered son, Able.

That is always how I have seen work and why I say that lazy people who sandbag, those who hold back their good work for better pay or some social leverage, are evil.  I’ve never been a sandbagger in any way, and I find the trait repulsive in people.  Those who withhold their effort are like the descendants of Cain, and I don’t like them.  I may put up with them in the world.  But I don’t respect or enjoy them as people, and I think of them like Yahweh did in the Bible.  I understood the story of Cain and Able as a very young person and took it to heart, and I have always worked hard because there is goodness in the effort.  But people who like the bad guys in the world are the sandbaggers, and they defend their position by withholding good work for leverage in the world that is essentially evil and leads to most of the bad things humans do to each other, some of which have been described here.  Sandbagging leads to evil.  People who don’t like good work tend to desire to be bad and sell it like cheap cologne at a flea market.  And justify its cheapness as a bargain.  Rather than enjoy something at full price because they worked hard for it.  They are always looking for a way to give as little amount of something as possible, which makes the effort evil. 

This particular story of Cain and Able came up while I was dining with friends at the excellent restaurant Son of a Butcher at Liberty Center in Butler County, Ohio.  There are a lot of great steak restaurants in the city of Cincinnati, but many are saying the steaks at this place are the best.  These guests were well-traveled as we discussed nice restaurants in India, London, China, Paris, and Japan.  These people traveled everywhere and were used to the best. They told me that the steak they had at The Son of the Butcher was the best they had ever had.  I recommended one that cost over $359 each, and we bought a whole table full of them.  So we talked about why that steak was so much better than other steaks in nice restaurants worldwide.  And if you’ve ever been to the S.O.B. restaurant, you would know it’s a pretty crazy place.  But what it all comes down to at that restaurant is that they work hard in the front of the house and the back, in the kitchen.  The food shows they do a good job and give their best.  It’s worth $359, and a check for around $3k instead of a trip to Dollar General and a hamburger at Burger King.  It’s all food, but some comes from hard work, and some from just doing the basics and barely getting by.  So I told them the story of Cain and Able, and they understood, even if they hadn’t been thinking about hard work in quite the same way.  In many ways, it all comes down to embracing evil to make the least effort in the world.  Or to put forth the best and to expect the best, not because it’s expensive or fancy.  But because it is moral and sound, it represents God’s good intentions in the world and a people worth making an effort to do work in the world that everyone can and should be proud of.  Evil people, like Cain, would hear that people worked hard and went to a place like S.O.B. for a $359 steak, and they would plot a way to steal from them, just as Cain killed Able for making him look bad instead of giving their best and earning their right to get a nice steak dinner.  They would put more effort into plotting and scheming for collective bargaining contracts to do the least work to get as much for nothing as possible.  And they would do that because they are the bad guys in the world.  And for me, they deserve to be wiped away just as Yahweh has done in the past because they are worthless hindrances to the perpetuation of the human race. After all, they are evil sandbaggers.

Rich Hoffman

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Jesus and the Essenes: Regression theropy, past lives, extra planets and the slaughter of rebels

Sometimes, when you read as many books as I do, you run across some real treasures, and that was certainly the case with this old book by Dolores Cannon called Jesus and the Essenes.   It was written way back in 1992 and is considered a classic in New Age explorations, but I wanted to know more about the group that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and lived in a community at Qumran on the coast of the Dead Sea and hid their work in the caves once the Romans caught on to them and invaded to kill them all off for being such a threat to society—Roman society.  It was a case of cancel culture that took place in 70 AD and ended on the mountaintop fortress of Masada just a few miles down the sea, where the Essenes fled from the attacking Romans and were forced to commit suicide there before being captured by the authorities.  The Romans were putting down a Jewish revolt, and the Essenes were a radical offshoot who rebelled against the orthodox Jewish communities of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.  They were like the Tea Party of the modern Republican Party, which evolved into MAGA.  All the institutions at the time wanted to kill them off because of the threat they were to the natural order.  I like the Essenes for obvious reasons, and I wanted to learn more, so I read Delores’ book and was rather shocked by the contents.  The book’s point was to show archaeology differently, one that I think is explained by quantum entanglement, a field of study that still has a long way to go.  But Delores presented compelling evidence that she was communicating with a guy who was a member of the Essene community who taught John the Baptist and Jesus Christ at the magnificent library they had there at Qumran, which is what I was after.  And the results were quite remarkable. 

If you strip away the noise of the modern world and all the assumptions that people try to instruct upon your conscious mind for their own political and psychological motivations, we would all find that the way that Biblical characters interacted with the spirit world wasn’t so uncommon.  And that is what my conclusion was about the contents of Dolores Cannon’s fantastic journey and who she spoke with who were in some cases, long, long dead.  What is death anyway? Is it a measure of time, from a living form to one no longer confined to a body of physical embodiment?  Dolores Cannon is a regression hypnotist who was very good at her method.  Not everyone is receptive to it, but in the case of this book, Dolores ran into a young woman in her early 20s named Katie.  And Katie was a good subject for regressive hypnosis.  She seemed to have a personality that was much older than her body, and once Dolores got into her head over multiple sessions that went on for over a year, Dolores found that at least 26 different lives were living in this young woman, so it explained a lot of things regarding Katie’s personality.  I view the human body like a car; our souls drive those cars.  But there are sometimes other souls that ride in our vehicles and can take over if we don’t pay attention to what we are doing, or we give those souls the keys to our cars, and they do drive them.  I think that is a lot of what happens during intoxication when people you know act like people you have no idea who they become while drunk.  Through quantum entanglement, there are always competing spirits looking for a chance to take over and drive your car and we should be very cautious of them.  When someone brags that they were so drunk that they don’t remember what they were doing, there is likely more to it than just memory loss.

I would also say that some of the three lettered agencies, like the CIA, have figured out the political motives of some of these malicious characters, and they can inspire them to take over certain people and get the bodies of people to do whatever it is they want to be done.  However, in the case of this young Katie, who was given a name to hide her identity from her very religious parents, Dolores uncovered a lot of past lives living actively through the young lady.  Most of them were living boring, everyday lives without much going on.  Some of the personalities were men, some were women, and they lived at different times.  But one of the personalities turned out to be very fascinating.  His name was Suddi, and he was a teacher at the Essene community. Dolores talked directly to him during live time during many parts of his life through the host, Katie.  Sometimes, he was a young boy, an up-and-coming community member, and sometimes the teacher of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.  And sometimes, he was already dead and speaking from beyond the grave.  I think Dolores presented her testimony in a way that showed a diligent scientific method.  This Suddi character could have just been some demonic spirit hanging around in quantum physics wanting to mess around with Dolores and Katie, playing games with them.  But I don’t think so because of the amount of work that was done. Instead, I think it’s another situation where science has to catch up to an observed reality.  And the information was interesting and valuable. 

For me, the biggest revelation was that Suddi described the library there at Qumran, which is a subject of significant fascination for me, and it turned out to be much more elaborate than archaeologists have so far been able to get their minds around.  It was a large two-story enterprise with a working model of the solar system, according to Suddi.  And it had ten planets in it, which Zacharia Sitchen has been saying for a long time.  This idea about extra planets in our solar system is a New Age consideration, just like the impact of astrology on the human mind and other out-of-the-box thinking about what’s expected.  But much of what Suddi described through his host, Katie, live time across thousands of years of perspective has been confirmed by archaeologists in a way that a 22-year-old girl would know nothing about.  So, I found it a fascinating testimony recorded in a remarkable book.  And I think there is a lot to learn from such a method of scientific inquiry and that it’s not such science fiction as many would like us to believe.  I think many powers on Earth have figured all this out and used it to attempt to control mass populations.  They can’t be trusted to use this emerging science destructively because only they have figured it out.  I think in her lifetime, Dolores Cannon broke some of this regression theory code and reported some interesting historical evidence that begins to open the door to quantum mechanics, especially the entanglement that can appear bizarre to our living eyes but make a lot of sense once you start looking at reality, differently.  But what a fascinating place Qumran was, and the role it seems to have played in the life of Jesus and the future of all human civilization through Christianity—no wonder the Romans wanted to kill them all off so severely.  But no matter how hard those forces work to do so, the spirit of rebellion always emerges to challenge the static order.  In modern times, it’s not the Essenes but the MAGA movement.  Only this time, I don’t think we will all be slaughtered on the mountaintop of Masada.  But the slaughter will be on the other foot, and it’s taken thousands of years to reach this point.  And continuously residing in the background are many rebels and rogues living in our cars (bodies) and influencing what happens on an eternal quest for freedom the way a soul wants it.  Not necessarily a living body.  Merry Christmas!

Rich Hoffman

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