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Trump’s West Point Speech: Its all about gaining “momentum” in life

I thought Trump’s speech to West Point for their commencement was remarkable and not discussed enough.  The theme of the entire speech was momentum, which was excellent advice that you usually don’t hear coming from a President of the United States, nor do you hear such a thing discussed at any military academy.  Military endeavors, like political experiences, are typically about conformance to a static norm.  Not gaining momentum in life by challenging that static order.  And as examples of capturing momentum in life, Trump mentioned military figures like Billy Mitchell, who was court-martialed and forced into retirement for insisting that the army adopt aerial strategies that utilized the airplane.  Trump mentioned Patten and others who openly challenged the static norms of their day to gain strategic momentum for a tactical advantage, which was excellent advice.  As he was speaking, I thought of the way the great Claire Lee Chennault, the leader of the Flying Tigers, was treated by the military.  There is a long history of clashes between inside-the-box thinking and challengers from the outside.  Yet what is being celebrated at any graduation ceremony is conformance.  The school you are graduating from sets up rules you must learn and comply with, and if you successfully do so, you get a paper from them saying you graduated, and that the world can trust you to play by the rules that are set up.  That’s what employers think they are looking for when they hire people through their human resources department.  If they want a college graduate, they want someone who will follow the rules and not challenge them, and their graduation from an educational institution provides that proof.  However, instead of celebrating compliance, Trump was advocating for rebellion. 

Trump told the inspiring story, but with a sad ending, of William Levitt, who developed Levittown with his family’s company, Levitt & Sons, on Long Island from 1947 to 1951. This development defined the concept of a planned community that has been copied all over the United States ever since.  Bill Levitt was known for walking his building sites picking up nails to save money and pushing his teams to be very frugal on expenses, and Trump indicated that the key to the success of Levitt was his strong work ethic that captured momentum in life and that through that momentum, he achieved a lot of success.  However, Levitt found it challenging to sustain that momentum after achieving success, and by 1968, they were facing mounting debts and struggling to manage the company’s growth.  They got too far out over their skis and started failing with everything they worked on, leaving Levitt as a crumpled-up old man by the time Trump met him in the 1980s at a party with other very influential real estate developers.   Trump found him in the corner of the party of the big shots, sitting alone, with nobody talking to him.  And when President Trump spoke with him, Levitt told him regretfully that he had lost momentum in life and didn’t have it in him anymore, which is an unfortunate story, but it’s essential and motivational because of what it means to the human race.  Playing it safe is not the path to success.  Neither is doing what other people tell you.  Most people who experience the most tremendous success in life work very hard, take a lot of risks, and manage those risks with significant momentum, riding one success story to another with sheer force.  And if they lose their edge, they start to find all their projects failing. 

Remarkably, Trump discussed the momentum killers in life that impacted Bill Levitt, such as his three marriages, most of which were under the strain of collapsing financial circumstances, and the sale of Levitt & Sons to ITT in 1968 for $92 million.  Levitt had gone from that frugal construction site leader picking up nails to buying lavish mansions and purchasing a yacht.  Then, he moved to a house in southern France.  And he blew through his money quickly and wanted to get back into the game, but had to wait ten years due to a non-compete clause preventing him from developing any real estate in the U.S. until 1978.  And after this period, Levitt tried to make his comeback, but failed miserably, until he was the crumpled mess that Trump saw at the party of tycoons in New York City, broken and pushed aside.  And when Trump asked him what happened, the old man said that “he had lost his momentum.”  This was very valuable information for a group of graduating students from a military academy.  Not the kind of things they typically teach in places like West Point.  However, it is very accurate, and one of those topics we should study more.  And Trump would know.  His life had gone through many of those same types of momentum killers.  However, Trump, guided by his basic philosophy of the Power of Positive Thinking, never lost his momentum.  No matter how bad things got, Trump never stopped being that guy on a construction site who picked up nails.  And he always worked hard and long.  Sure, he married three times, but the women could wait until he was done with work for the day, long after most people go to bed.  Rising early and working until everyone else is sleeping is a great way to maintain momentum in life.

And that’s the point of Trump’s commencement speech to the graduates of West Point in 2025.  It’s one thing to bring in a motivational speaker who says these things, and many consultants out there talk a big game, but they don’t stick around long enough to fight through things and do real work.  The world is starving for these kinds of people who say lots of pretty words, but lack the work ethic to be on a job site picking up nails to save money.  I receive numerous offers to be one of those talkers.  But to Trump’s point, you have to do more than talk in life.  You must be genuinely successful, and one key to achieving this is maintaining momentum.  Not to get sidetracked with fancy boats and expensive vacations, or to live in a house in the south of France.  But to think out of the box and break the rules with an all-in bid to gain momentum.  And once you get it, to keep it, you must work harder than everyone else.  And not listening to the negative people who want to break your momentum so that they can compete with you.  Trump’s West Point speech was wonderfully anti-institutional to a group of people who were graduating from a very rigid institution.  The advice about success is one that few people ever realize in life, but Trump, as a President who had to overcome a lot to even be in that position, gave free advice that was worth many millions of dollars.  And it is valuable to anyone who listens, and it is the key to making America Great Again.  Greatness is not achieved by doing what people tell you to do.  It is achieved by capturing momentum and using it to achieve success where others fail, and avoiding challenges to momentum that might stop it and force people to be just like everyone else in life, stuck in the mud, and complaining that their life is meaningless.  Some people gain momentum in life for a short period, such as when they are teenagers moving out of their parents’ home.  Or as business leaders who happen upon a good thing.  But few people ever get it and maintain it.  And Trump’s advice to the West Point graduates was good in that it told them how to keep it so that their graduation ceremony wouldn’t be the best thing to ever happen to them, but rather, just the beginning of an extraordinary life to come. 

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Worry About the Moody’s Downgrade: A fight that has to happen

Don’t worry about the Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.  Much of the problem starts with the Iranian apologist Mark Zandi and background anti-Trumpers like Warren Buffett using Berkshire Hathaway as a front for the story.  This is a game that has been ongoing in the background for a long time, and the concept is that you want them to want you.  Not where they want you to want them in the balance of power in a relationship, and the course Trump is taking with the American economy will force them to crawl like dogs into the Oval Office begging to be affiliated with the success story that is coming.  But for too long, a lot of weak, stupid people have groveled to these losers of finance who have giggled at the idea of American freedom in the background because they know they control everyone’s money.  And there has been peace, somewhat so, as long as the credit card works.  However, these are power-hungry entities, and this is a common strategy they employ in finance to exert control over domestic policy in favor of globalist intentions.  There are a lot of businesses that have been victims to just this kind of predatory lending and power struggle for control of those companies and what we are seeing applied to the Trump administration is a hatred for the America First policy of Trump and a refocus of their hatred for him and the MAGA movement in general.  The downgrade by Moody’s is not a surprise, and the result will be similar to everything the Never Trumpers have tried to do to Trump and those who support him.  They are attempting to regain control of the world, utilizing traditional financial tactics to achieve this.  And those tricks are baked into the system as it was built. 

This behavior from finance, not just by Moody’s but around the world, is a communist playbook that is precisely how China was set up as a communist country, propped up by these same financial, international monsters.  Their tongue-in-cheek statements about how countries should be run are that people can beat on their chest and declare independence all they want, but it would be central banking that would control people and their lives.  Like fish, they lure people into buying into their credit controls with the bait of easy money, then they snare them with a deep hook, allowing them to control every aspect of their lives.  And they make a lot of money from the debt of the countries to which they have loaned money.  And they believe that control has given them considerable power to override domestic policy on all fronts.  So they use credit ratings to control behavior.  It’s just another variation of the Chinese social media score.  If you exhibit behavior that the government dislikes, they will restrict your access to funds, which in a world where everything is paid for by credit card, could be devastating.  Which is why it has been set up that way, to get everyone addicted to easy cash at a low rate, so they could establish a deep-seated control hook in everyone’s life to run every aspect of their life.  And don’t kid yourself, they mean to do just that.  It’s a power trip that has always been a problem.  They are not our friends, these tyrants who work in finance.  They delude themselves about their actual value, and this impasse was always inevitable.  It has taken this long for a President to occupy the White House who truly represents the needs of the people, as the republic was designed. 

Moody’s cited the growing national debt, with projections exceeding $36 trillion, as one of its reasons, after it became apparent that Trump’s proposed budget would pass through Congress.  They also cited persistent fiscal deficits that are expected to worsen as government spending is outpacing revenue.  This is a shot at Trump’s tax cuts, aimed at extending the tax cuts from his previous term.  Moody’s people want more taxes on individuals, as they are unhappy about the lack of revenue.  They also don’t like that Trump plans to recover revenue by shifting it to tariffs, which has taken advantage of America’s economic power by reallocating wealth around the world to socialist and communist countries with unearned merit.  Moody’s wants that practice of unfairness to benefit them because globalism has set that system up to their advantage.  Moody’s also indicated that rising interest rates are crowding out other fiscal priorities.  However, those rates are directly tied to the Federal Reserve, which has painted itself into a corner with currency manipulation that it had counted on going in an entirely different direction.  Entitlement spending is expected to increase due to an aging population that lacks a sufficient birthrate to support the next generation, thereby requiring additional funding.  Most of what Moody’s indicated as justification for the downgrade are fears of what might happen.  But not so disguised is a hatred for Trump’s domestic policies that turn the power of the American economy back into a nationalist system that runs counter to all the manipulations of globalism have enacted to control all countries through fiscal policy.  It is the same communist controls they have in China and North Korea, even in Iran, where Marxism runs in the background of everything they do.  And in America, that was always the fate they intended for us, and they are angry that we aren’t doing what they expected us to do.

This fight goes back to even before the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, who I think was one of America’s greatest presidents.  The battle with the banks needed to happen, and all this time, there has been a kind of stalemate.  But in the finance industry, if you have had to work with them, there is an obvious power struggle that laughs at the Constitution and the premise that people can run themselves as a government.  Moody’s downgrade is essentially a social credit score designed to put pressure on Americans to comply with international expectations.  But Trump knows how to play this poker game, which essentially is what it is.  And the power of the American economy will force Moody’s to retract its position; it won’t be able to draw a hard line in the sand, as it hopes.  Because they will have a business need to affiliate themselves with success, don’t give a second thought to the Moody’s downgrade.  Those losers will have egg on their face in a much-deserved way for their pro-Communist China affiliation.  But remember that China would be nowhere if not for the money that has been stolen from the United States to prop it up as a communist state and example of the kind of government that central finance, with the option of a digital currency, always wanted.  They wanted to destroy the dollar, destroy American capitalism, and buy up all the debt so they could control all domestic policy around the world.  What these big banks have been doing is nothing short of a military incursion.  And they were out for blood, and Trump is taking all that away from them.  They are losing control, and all they have left is a downgrade to our credit rating.  But when you gain control of your economy so that revenue surpasses their fears, that power returns to the people who run the country.  And those banks and credit agencies will be forced to grovel at our feet.  And when they do, we’ll make a footstool of their cheesy haircuts and golf shirts.  They are going to lose control and there is nothing they can do to stop it.

Rich Hoffman

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I Feel Sorry for Elon Musk: CEOs build culture, and are extremely important

I do feel sorry for Elon Musk. I would say to him, the government is a very negative experience, full of losers.  And that fixing it will take a lot more work than he can give in short spurts.  People who choose to work for the government are quite different from those drawn to the private sector.  Government is filled with entitled losers who want to make a lot of money off taxpayers without the risk of earning it themselves.  Therefore, it will require significant reform, which is just getting started with the Trump administration.  But it will take decades to unwind the mess that has been given to us.  And I can see that Elon Musk began his DOGE campaign with a lot of bright ideas.  But making the cuts permanent that he has identified isn’t as easy as it would be at one of his companies.  The government is full of parasites, and you have to play the long game with them.  Elon Musk can do the world a great deal of good if he focuses on what made him great to begin with.  He needs to be back at SpaceX every day, sending Starships into space every three weeks.  It has been evident that he has been absent from those companies; they have been experiencing a decline.  The job of a CEO is often not well-defined; they create the culture.  It’s not the work they do but the culture they make in their wake.  And SpaceX has slipped significantly since Elon has been frequenting the White House daily since Trump’s return to office.  It will take more than CEO stunts to save the government.  However, some business success on the frontier of innovation is the best way that Elon Musk can make the world a better place and establish a civilization to save by going to Mars. 

I thought it was astonishingly short-sighted for Disney-run ABC to characterize the Starship 9 mission that launched this past week as a series of failed missions.  The process SpaceX uses for data collection involves launching these Starships to see what works and what doesn’t, so that every configuration of the problem can be witnessed and designed, modified in real-time.  Drawing on extensive experience with this very issue in the aerospace industry, the world is fundamentally flawed in its approach to manufacturing processes.  And SpaceX has taken a noticeably different approach, one that is much more akin to the Skunkworks at Lockheed Martin many years ago.  The world has learned the wrong lessons and incorporated them into its management systems, and the entire industry is in desperate need of an overhaul.  And if Elon Musk wants to change and save the world, he can do it most effectively with Tesla and SpaceX.  The big secret is that you can’t put engineers in a room and get everything right the first time, which is the assumption in aerospace that began with NASA and the need to avoid any accidents that would become public relations nightmares.  When you can automate flights, you can afford to have launches to measure cause and effect, and approach the whole process of technology development much more aggressively.  Even though Starship 9, which launched at the end of May 2025, burned up during re-entry, as did the booster rocket, much of what SpaceX needed to achieve was successful, leading to the technical adjustments that need to be made at the engineering level. 

However, the way the industry operates now is very risk-averse, and, of course, the least risky thing to do is to do nothing, which is why things are so slow in aerospace and why cost overruns are so common.  And when ABC says that the previous SpaceX missions were failures, they are speaking from the vantage point of the administrative state —the kind of world that the government has created for us, with over-regulation and a world shaped by insurance industry lobbyists.  From that world, exploding Starships are a bad thing.  For the innovative SpaceX world, they provide a lot of information, and when you look at the rate of innovation that is needed to build Starships, you need to collect a lot of data to get repeatability outside of engineering tolerances, because until you see all those inventions working together, there is no way to know how stable a process is.  When it came to the NASA approach, you get lucky with a design and then never deviate from it, fearing the unknown, and that is essentially how they built the space program.  SpaceX is seeking complete, automated redundancy that remains reliable after thousands of trips.  To achieve that, SpaceX needs to be launching a new Starship every week, which is why Elon Musk has been so crucial.  Since he has been at the White House, doing good work that often goes unappreciated, SpaceX has been addressing engine bay leaks that have compromised spaceflight, and the Starships have been exploding.  Not a great way to have a space program.  However, the best thing about this most recent Starship 9 mission was that much of it had become so commonplace now.  The Starship was able to undergo stage separation and space flight, solving many of the problems it previously had, so now the other lingering issues can be addressed. 

The best engineering is to do things and fix things as you see problems emerge.  And for something as complicated as Starship, it will take Elon Musk to foster a productive culture among the many great people at SpaceX, guiding them toward corrective actions to address the numerous problems that must be solved for stable space flight.  It’s fantastic that we’ve had only 9 Starship missions and that they’ve made getting them into space so routine.  Now, getting re-entry right, with stable space flight, will be the key, and it will take a full-time Elon Musk to pull it off.  However, when it comes to cutting the deficit, given the current state of affairs, the first step in fixing the American economy is to achieve magnificent growth through new market sectors.  The SpaceX Starship is the best way to reach that point.  China, in their wildest imaginations, won’t be able to copy SpaceX, because they don’t have a person like Elon Musk to act as the CEO.  Just like other considerations of the administrative state, people cannot be swapped out.  Great people are irreplaceable; when they take vacations or are absent from work, things don’t run smoothly.  Exceptionalism comes from unique people.  Not process controls that allow losers in life to be just as good as winners.  Exceptionalism matters, and Elon Musk needs to stay on the cutting edge at SpaceX for it to continue its success.  And if he wants to save the world, he can do it best in the private sector.  DOGE will still be a good idea that will do good work.  But it’s going to be a slow boil.  What we need most is Starship, and missions going to space so routinely that people take it for granted, as usual.  And with the recent Starship 9 mission, that is becoming the standard.  Normal is launching the biggest rocket humanity has ever produced into space, routinely.  Now, getting it to do what we need it to do time and time again is the next challenge, which is very close to being completed. 

Rich Hoffman

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Getting Rid of the Wolves of the World: The perfect family

It comes up because holidays traditionally are times when family and friends gather.  And this year, for many reasons, I received a lot of criticism from many people for my family-first approach.  And to be blunt about it, which I usually let slide because we only see some of these people for a few hours each year, this year a lot of vacant people were very critical of me.  But, as I mentioned regarding the new baby in my family, who is my fourth grandchild, there are many people who see happy and successful individuals and, by nature, want to associate with them by default.  However, I don’t like to see my immediate family exploited by people who invest a lot less in building good families. For me and the people in my immediate family, we put a lot of work into it every day.  Much more work than most typical families do.  My wife, for instance, will do anything for her family, or, to put it another way, for her immediate family, including her kids and grandkids, and even the spouses who come with them.  And I work like a madman to make sure that my wife can dedicate more than 100% of her life to that kind of endeavor because I think that is the most critical job in the world, being a loving, and dedicated mother and a patrilocal leader that the next generation can look up to, and emulate while nurturing their traits.  It’s pretty hilarious when people who don’t put in nearly the amount of work that we do insist on sharing my family with a bunch of derelicts who want pictures of everyone with them standing next to them for their Facebook profiles.  They want the looks of a happy family without doing the work.  Given our busy schedule, we often make decisions about this or that, and those who were left out of the process were upset and critical of me, which doesn’t fly.  This year, because we were so busy, we skipped one of the holiday events that had at the center of it a crazy lunatic who is on her fourth husband, has been getting and encouraging her kids to get tattoos, she smokes dope, and her husband is in jail for at least decades over sexual molestation.  And that idiot wants to be in a picture with my wife and kids just to call it a happy family?  I don’t think so.  We don’t waste our time on people like that for a good reason. 

I wouldn’t say I am not compassionate to people who have spent over 50 years making terrible decisions, and that they have to live in that bag of bones they call a body for the rest of their lives, I might feel a little sorry for them.  However, as the leader of my family, I put in the work at a level that I don’t see anybody else doing, and it shows.  For a good example, even though it’s something I consider private, I am posting a video of a recent ghost hunt my family did at Old Man’s Cave in Hocking Hills, Ohio.  I share it because I think of it as the perfect family environment for everyone involved, and we do things like this all the time.  Most people, like the person I described, and those around her, do not come close to building good families.  That train wreck of a person, my wife and I tried to help when she was younger.  She was always a mess, and she would take it out on her kids.  We’d tell her not to hit them in the head as a way to demean them when punishing them.  She took it personally and would be upset with our criticism, especially since it came from me.  And she has always tried to do the opposite of whatever I told her, purely out of spite.  So it’s no wonder now her life is such a disaster. 

However, choices have consequences in life, and many people no longer know what a good family is supposed to look like.  They don’t know what a good person is supposed to be, let alone a family full of them.  However, in my family, I would say that my wife and I put in significantly more effort to create a good family, and it shows.  And a lot of people who don’t put in all that work grab on to them like life rafts in a raging sea for their own benefit.  It might help them out, but it pulls down my kids, and I don’t like it, and I let people know about it.  So if they get upset, that’s fine.  I might write an article like this to explain it.  I wouldn’t say I don’t care at all, I at least care that much.  But you can’t bring people into a family setting like that broken person, with all the connections to her broken life, and expect everything to be okay.  You can have compassion for those who are broken.  But you can’t let their bad decisions cascade into the lives of people who still have a chance.  My policy is that if we are swamped, we prioritize social engagements where all the participants are genuinely engaged and have something to give back, rather than taking from us and leaving us feeling depleted for weeks afterward.  We avoid looters who only care about the pictures so they don’t feel like such failures in life.  But for my family, it’s like crawling through the mud only to find that there isn’t a shower at the end of it, and it’s hard to get clean.  We get nothing out of it but getting dirty.  And we don’t like getting dirty.

It’s not usually a problem worth talking about.  But this year, because we have a new baby in the family, and because of the holidays where people invite us to come, but we don’t, and they get mad about it, I get the blame for having standards that are too high for them to live up to.  They say that I am a super controller and that I keep my family hidden away on an island.  We don’t send our kids to public schools to interact with other delinquents, and since I’m the leader of the family, I get the blame.  But I say to them, don’t live bad lives and be a bad example to my kids and grandkids.  Yes, my kids are adults now and can make their own decisions about things.  But they care what Dad thinks, and I let them know the truth and the whole truth to help them make decisions.  And they usually make the right choices.  However, those who make a poor choice often become upset that I point out what a loser they are, and that I judge them, which, according to them, I shouldn’t.  And as said to me over the Memorial Day weekend of 2025, “Jesus said not to judge.”  And my comment was, “Well, that’s fine for Jesus.  But look what happened to him, they hung him on a cross and killed him.  That’s not going to happen to me.”  And ultimately, if you are leading a family, they count on you to be there for them at all times.  Not just to send text messages a few times a year and to show up for family pictures on holidays.  You can’t just appear to be a good person; you have to be one.  And you can’t use money to hide what garbage you are as a person, and expect people not to see it.  I see everything.  And I offer advice to help people have better lives.  And if they don’t listen, that’s on them.  But don’t expect me to open my doors to the wolves of the world.  My policy is to shoot them on site, because if left alone, they will eat all your children.  And that doesn’t make an outstanding leader in a family.  Some of the people who are most critical of me at this point in their lives let the wolves into their house.  And the consequences are obvious and can’t be undone now.  I can feel sorry for them.  But that doesn’t mean I have time to waste on them, especially if they showed me in the past that they won’t listen anyway.

To put to rest a popular misconception advocated by Hillary Clinton and other progressive, anti-family global communists, it doesn’t take a village to raise a family. It takes two parents, a man and a woman, who are long-married and keep as many corrosive elements from social decay away from the growing minds of children. And encourages the adults to live happy, and healthy lives. And the village can’t do that. Only strong parents and great examples can. If left to society as a whole, it will destroy all in its path, 100% of the time. In nature, life consumes life, and society will sacrifice your children to the chaos of the universe. Stopping that process is an intellectual decision, that only humans seem capable of performing. Which allows a person to grow in ways that otherwise, would never be possible.

Rich Hoffman

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The Reality of P Diddy’s Freak Offs: A society of porn addicition that has lost its moral compass

Regarding the P Diddy trial and the preponderance of guilt he’s associated with, the testimony is almost precisely what we have seen from public school superintendent cases, which should be disturbing for everyone.  And before I get into this I need to remind everyone of something that happened over twenty-five years ago, when I cancelled an in studio interview with Bill Cunningham on 700 WLW radio making his producers very angry with me because of his Friday night sex shows where he would bring in local strippers and have them undress completely naked and party in the studio.  As a conservative radio shock jock at that time he was going for ratings gold and trying to mimic locally in Cincinnati what Howard Stern was doing with his radio show in New York, and I wasn’t about to be affiliated with him if Cunningham was going to cross the line like that.  I was a paid advertiser then and could not have my name associated with that behavior.  And the reason why is what we see now, all these years later, in the breakdown of society from top to bottom.  And also to point out that I have never been a supporter of that kind of pornographic behavior.  As a young, attractive couple, my wife and I have been offered countless opportunities to live the kind of life people are learning about with the Diddy trial, and unfortunately, it’s all too common.  And we said no to that life, where unfortunately, too many people have said yes, and dipped their toe into that pool of trouble only to regret it later in ways people seldom ever think of beforehand.  So this is a long policy of mine, not something that I just developed yesterday because I have a deep love of history and building successful cultures and porn addiction is probably the worst thing a society could do to itself.  And it’s horrendously anti-family.  And I love family.  To go back to that Bill Cunningham incident, his producers at the time were very upset with me and said that I was much worse to deal with than the Citizens for Community Values conservatives who were constantly protesting Cunningham’s show, which I took as a badge of honor, and a major compliment, because all these years later, we see where it all leads. 

So, as disgusting as the testimony has been regarding the Freak Off parties that Diddy did, his relationship with the singer Cassie Ventura reminded me of Prince and Apollonia from the Purple Rain days.  It’s what happens when an influential person in the music industry gets access to a young girl and exploits her as a young woman trying to make it into the industry, which is filled with people exploiting each other.  But in these days of major porn addiction and access to it that is far too common, there was nothing to restrict Sean Comes exploiting the young Ventura for a very long period of her life, and grooming her to satisfy all his perverted fantasies that have been grotesque to say the least.  While there might be a primal fantasy to behave in all this public sex display, logic should guide everyone otherwise.  There is no way to build a positive relationship when sex is opened up to public consumption in such a pornographic way.  Couples have to draw the line somewhere and manage their sex lives with the kind of respect and discretion that accompanies everything in life.  What P Diddy put Cassie Ventura through, and the physical abuse that was well documented, is illegal in many regards.  But it doesn’t quite hold up to the federal charges of sex trafficking, as it could and would be prosecuted.  Hearing all these details reminded me almost exactly of the former Lakota schools superintendent, who acted similarly with his wife, dramatically abusing his relationship with her, which I came to know firsthand because she told me personally all about it.  Like Cassie Ventura, this superintendent’s wife moved on from him and remarried.  And once free of the abusive relationship, she was able to reflect on what happened to her and make a change.  Cassie Ventura was in the courtroom talking about all these horrendous sex practices with multiple partners and escorts peeing in her mouth, while being very pregnant.  All this testimony will be around when her baby is born, forever embarrassing her. 

Most couples, at least one of them, have regrets later once they bring other people into their sex lives.  But this isn’t unusual behavior based on my experience over the years.  It’s common. When we moved to prosecute the Lakota superintendent, he had no idea why people were so upset with his lifestyle when it involved he and his wife, because his mind was so gone from a social acceptance of porn addiction that as a superintendent of a public school, he couldn’t tell right from wrong anymore.  And to the point of prosecutors I talk to about this case, bad decisions aren’t illegal.  And not everyone believes in God, or being right or wrong.  But they should be.  And that is undoubtedly the result of the P Diddy trial.  There were lots of A List actors involved in the P Diddy parties, but it doesn’t sound like they participated in the Freak Off sessions.  That those were known to everyone, but that they were separate things P Diddy did as part of his porn addiction and had the power and money over others to do as much as he wanted, no matter who got hurt in the process. 

The point of the matter is that much of P Diddy’s behavior wasn’t necessarily illegal.  It was highly abusive and is the result of a society that has let extreme evil in the form of primitive sex practices into their lives and perpetuated an extreme decline in social behavior that leads to a collapse of all society.  But I would say the same thing to Bill Belichick with his breakup of his marriage, then his sexual obsession with a 24-year-old girl, Jordon Hudson. What is he thinking?  There is nothing good that can come from that relationship except sex, which is as empty a gift as there ever was.  It’s a biological trick that logic should always override.  It’s meant for young people to have babies.  Not to turn into a degradation of the human experience.  And once you start peeing in each other’s mouths, in full view of everyone else, you are no better than a dog licking the ass of another dog.  You’ve lost your humanity by embracing a surrender to nature and its yearning to crush the individual spirit of life’s inhabitants.  And at what cost, nobody will ever look at Bill Belichick again and think of him as a “smart coach.”  Because everyone knows what a bad idea it is for a 73-year-old man to hang around with a 23-year-old kid, nothing is innovative or logical about it.  Yet we produce in society the impression that sexual perversion is ok and natural.  And that we should yield to our animal instincts at all times. Which, of course, is a horrendously bad idea.  As a society, we should have better values than what we do.  P Diddy is a celebrity because we approve of his behavior, which everyone knows about.  And he’s far from alone; he is pretty standard, and you don’t have to look too far to find a lot more of it.  In the case of my local community school, we experienced this same kind of sexual deviancy from the school superintendent, and not nearly enough people were outraged about it.  Because they were just as guilty, if they weren’t doing it themselves, they were thinking about it, and couldn’t throw stones in the glass house they were also living in.  And that is a massive part of the problem. 

Rich Hoffman

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Mexico is a Dump: Where is the arrest of the killer of Valeria Marquez

So, where are the arrests? The killer showed his face on the livestream on TikTok when he killed the 23-year-old Mexican beauty influencer on May 13th, 2025.  The Mexican government promised justice, so where is it?  With all the face recognition software there is in the world, why haven’t they gone to his home and arrested him spectacularly for such a horrendous crime?  Because they can’t, because the drug cartels run Mexico and the token government there, just like globalists were trying to do to the United States, won’t allow it.  In Mexico, it’s a dump, and the government facilitates that kind of violence.  Valeria Marquez was trying to escape her drug cartel boyfriend, be a good girl, and turn her life around as a social media beauty consultant.  And when her old boyfriend saw that men were sending her gifts because she was very popular and had quite a large audience, he decided to send a hit man into the salon, right in front of everyone, and while the livestream was running, assassinate her while she clutched a cute little stuffed animal.  And in those moments where her life was stolen from her, she looked like a little girl who, just ten years prior, would have been a little girl thrilled to get such a stuffed animal from a trusted adult.  But she was brutally murdered because she wanted independence from a personal tyrant, and it has turned out to be a terrible story.  But you know what is most sad about it?  You would have never heard about this story if she weren’t a popular social media star.   Because they happen all the time, and in Mexico, they happen every few minutes.  Mexico is a dump, and the criminal elements who run these governments in the world want to keep it that way, because it gives them power over the degradation.

Violence in Mexico is so bad that the other day I saw a Family Guy episode where Peter Griffin made a joke as his head had been cut off and stuck on a pike, bleeding profusely.  And he said, “I took one step away from the resort,” meaning that’s how it is in Mexico.  The drug cartels leave the resorts alone most of the time to give the illusion that things are safe enough to have a tourist economy.  But if you step out of the lines they give you, it’s anything goes, and tourists end up dead all the time.  But more than that, young women like Valeria Marquez know they have no choice.  Once they hit puberty, if somebody sees them and they look reasonably attractive, the cartels will take them away from their families, and there isn’t much they can do about it.  When people wonder why she was dating a gang banger, she had no choice.  If she wanted to live, she had to play the game; her family could do nothing about it.  If you have a pretty daughter, in places in the world where crime rules, which is most places, the world will take her and use her until they are done with her.  And at that point, they might let her return to an everyday life.  But in the case of Valeria Marquez, she was just too pretty.  At 23 years old, her shelf life for sexual exploitation was expiring.  It’s the young girls that these drug dealers want, and at that point, they are starting to get old.  So she tried to turn her life around with a social media account that took off, and hoped that the high profile would save her.  But her ex-boyfriend figured if he couldn’t have her, nobody else would, so he had her killed.

The problem in Mexico is so bad that not even the latest Rambo movie dared to deal with the situation as we needed to.  In the last Rambo movie with Sylvester Stallone, even the famous movie star bent the knee to the cartels’ power.  Otherwise, Mexico wouldn’t have considered allowing that production company to film there.  The Mexican government pretends that it wants to put an end to cartel violence when, in truth, it wants the world to know just how bad it is so that it will be afraid and be very compliant.  Rambo in the movie I’m talking about, Last Stand, went to Mexico to save a young girl, much like Valeria Marquez, from the cartels, and he ended up getting beaten up pretty bad, which is not the way the Rambo movies were supposed to go.  Rambo, in true American fashion, should have gone to the stronghold of the cartel members and killed every last one with a spectacular gunfight.  But instead, he had to barely escape Mexico with his life to retreat to his home in America, where the cartel came to kill him on his home turf, to show the power and control they have even in America.  And Rambo managed to live as they destroyed his home.  But the whole movie was flat because it failed to solve the problem.  What the movie did show accurately, even if it’s really what the Mexican government wanted out of the deal, was to show how the grooming process works for young women, and what the substructure of the organized crime was really like.  And not even John Rambo was strong enough to confront it.

The power of these drug cartels even extends into our Supreme Court, where they have refused to get behind Trump’s war against the cartels, because there is real fear that some hit man will come to their homes and kill them, just as they did Valeria Marquez.  And that’s the point.  Not everyone has the kind of security that President Trump has, and they don’t want to be killed for fighting back against the drug cartels.  These criminals want to make a product that poisons its targets, and we are supposed to let them do it, which is what the Supreme Court decided in its attempt to stop Trump from deporting criminal thugs.  The people Trump has been deporting were the kind of people who killed Valeria Marquez.  And they terrorize the world, especially in socialist countries like Mexico, where the government exists to facilitate organized crime.  There is no concept of private property, so there is no reason to defend it, even if it’s a daughter.  If you have a pretty daughter, you aren’t allowed to have a gun to protect her from criminal thugs.  Instead, you are supposed to surrender her over to them and let them have their way.  And if you don’t, you will be killed too.  It’s so common that it’s even joked about on the popular show, Family Guy.  It’s not even a secret; everyone is in on it.  And the bad guys in the world, many who find themselves in government and getting kickbacks from allowing the crime to occur, facilitate the violence to keep the easy money coming, because they are too lazy and stupid otherwise to earn an honest living.  That is the truth of Mexico.  They don’t want to catch the killer of Valeria Marquez because they want the fear of such killings to keep people under their power and dependent on the government for their safety, which has only perpetuated the problem into the mess we see now.  There are a lot of young women like Valeria Marquez.  And there aren’t enough good people in the world to save them.  And that is a shame. 

Rich Hoffman

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Hitting the Lottery: My feelings about family are closer to the Amish

This is going to sound bad, but I don’t care.  I’m not humble, and I have no plans to be.  When I say that my fourth grandchild was lucky to be born into the family she was, I mean it for how it sounds.  I always like to see little kids born into the world. And as far as I’m concerned, nothing in the world is more important than family.  Our job as human beings is to emerge from the void and to fill it with consciousness.  And long after the shell of a living body dies away, the spirit that emerges lives eternally for all kinds of purposes.  And even though that spirit has its characteristics and is immortal in its conduct, the experience of a physical existence profoundly shapes the content of that eternal character. As I visited one of my daughters in the hospital giving birth to my fourth grandchild, that was what I was thinking as I visited the hospital wing full of optimism, as other families were giving birth also.  And it was a generally happy floor full of hope for the future, and I enjoy places like that.  But as I was holding this new baby, I couldn’t help but think that she had hit the lottery relative to the other families on the floor.  Out of all the random chances of landing in a body that gave birth in such a family as she had, she was one of the luckiest creatures in the universe.  And it made me sad for the other little kids who will never get such an opportunity.  I wish I could be a parent or grandpa to more kids.  Because most of them have terrible families that cripple them usually before life ever starts to get going and its just not fair to them.

I say that because I don’t spend much time slowing down.  I live a fast-paced life full of high stress and chaos.  So a moment alone with family to talk to each other doesn’t come often.  But for us, a couple of holidays are the best; the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving give us great moments that carry us through the rest of the year.  There are many more throughout the year, but those two are benchmarks that we value more than others.  And they are usually very positive experiences.  But when a new child is born, of course, that is an even rarer occurrence, and we take those kinds of things very seriously in my family.  Because we like life and all the opportunities that come with it.  I want kids more than the average person, and I like them a lot until they start showing signs of becoming adults, and if they start taking on the signs of becoming just another loser in the world, then I lose my enthusiasm for them.  I can’t say I like people, so when kids trade away their childhoods for adult behavior, I think they give away a fortune, and the rest of their lives are wasted.   But with kids, those dumb decisions haven’t been made yet, so knowing them is usually full of optimism.  And for my daughter and her new little daughter, there are many very supportive people in their family, and no matter how bad life gets, there is always room to grow and recover in our family activities.  But compared to the rest of the world and their approach, it almost feels like we are an Amish family.   I can relate to them much more than a normal family these days, because we have similar beliefs about the value of family. 

As I was pushing my granddaughter around the hospital floor to keep her entertained while her mother recovered a bit from birth, I had a good look at the other families also having babies.  Especially the dads.  And by their look, they weren’t ready to have a baby.  You could see the fear in their eyes as they held their newborn children at the tremendous responsibility they suddenly found themselves in.  Most of the dads having new babies were going to let down their families in some way, and they would never get the chance to understand what I’m talking about.  Most people probably won’t.  But to see that fear in the faces of people during such an optimistic time in their lives is sad to see, and I instantly feel sorry for the kids born into such a weak family with bad dads who aren’t up to the rigors of the task.  Most moms at least get a connection to a child who grows with them during the pregnancy.  But the men don’t get to have a baby or bond with it during the pregnancy.  So they aren’t so flat-footed when the baby is born; they have made at least some psychological transition that has prepared them for having a baby.  But the men must go deeper to get there, and most never do.  And the kids end up without a positive primary influence.  I am pretty standoffish with most people because I find them insulting that they don’t take the parenting process more serious, and I know that if they screw that up, then most things they do in their lives will also be screwed up and the kids will grow up to be bad people.  And most of those kids being born with my granddaughter don’t have a chance at a happy life, just by looking at their parents’ faces. 

I wouldn’t say it’s challenging to be a good parent or a grandparent, but unfortunately, most people fall short.  I was thinking about this recently during my birthday in April, when we were all at Hocking Hills doing a ghost hunt at Old Man’s Cave with the grandkids.  It was a lot of fun, and as we were doing it, it was nice to see the lights of discovery light up on the little kids’ faces, and many of those memories with family will shape them for a lifetime in everything they do.  And I enjoy my role in that process, and I always give as much as possible so they get the best opportunities out of it.  But most kids are born randomly into life, and they get the parents they get, which is usually not very good.  And most of the time, they are doomed before they ever get started, and that was certainly the case with all the kids born with my granddaughter.  There are always exceptions, of course.  But for the most part, most kids born that day were born into families where the adults raising them would disappoint them greatly.  And I feel sorry for the lack of chances they will have in life because of it.  I don’t think there is a better or more important job than being an adult mentor for a little, emerging child.  But what’s sad is that so few adults feel that way.  And when I have to see and talk to them, it just reminds me how few there are, and I feel sorry for the kids.  I want to help them all, but unfortunately, I can’t because of how families work.  But for my new grandchild, she hit the lottery. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Hard Costs of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: Healthcare costs too much and does all the wrong things

As President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill passes through its steps, with budget hawks jumping rope with reality, it’s worth talking about some of our expectations on fixed cost maintenance, things that people have come to expect the government to provide, such as Social Security and Medicare.  I hate those programs; they were part of a growth of government that started essentially in the 1930s and has communist sweat dripping from them in horrible ways.  I’d rather have the money that goes into Social Security to invest myself because the government doesn’t do a good job of making money.  And the cost of health is horrendously out of control, so throwing more bad money at a bad system is just ridiculous, with Medicaid expansion as has been done over the years, especially in reaction to Obamacare, the takeover of a fifth of our national economy.  Unfortunately, healthcare is directly attached to big government, and it’s fair to say I despise it.  I have several family members who work in healthcare, and I try hard to keep my opinions to myself, for their sake.  But our meetings end with dramatic tension because I hate healthcare so much at its foundational principles.  Few things make me angrier than when someone gives me a doctor’s note for not attending their professional occupation, as if the doctor has some exclusive management rights over me.  In my family, the discussion of healthcare is a significant problem that sets me off like a bomb quickly.  And I try very hard to avoid confrontations for the sake of the people I care about.  But I think we should be performing regenerative medicine and not just maintaining declining conditions, which our entire healthcare costs are built around.  And ultimately, that’s where the costs are. 

I was reminded of just how much I hate the healthcare industry recently when one of my daughters was having her second baby, my fourth grandchild.  Of course, as she was having the baby, we gathered at the hospital to welcome the little girl into the world, and it was a generally happy occasion.  Most of the time, birthing is a happy time to go to the hospital, as opposed to all the other times, where someone you care about is stuck there over some physical health issue for which they seldom ever fully recover.  Our healthcare system is about maintaining declining conditions.  Where birth is about growth and opportunity.  So I hate hospitals.  I hate their parking lots.  I hate their receptionist desks, their elevators.  I hate their bathrooms.  I hate hospitals because they are primarily about declining conditions, where the authority over individual lives is surrendered to an administrative state.  So as we were parking to see our new grandchild, my eyes were wide awake to the massive costs associated with the social venture of a hospital culture.  It was a busy place full of people living off the healthcare industry.  And from where we are now, there is no good way to reform anything in healthcare because, in doing so, you would eliminate so many jobs where people serve some small, bureaucratic function in the managed decline of civilization.  What’s broken in our current model is our expectations of what healthcare is and what it should cost.  For our society, it’s one of the things we encourage our children to invest their lives in, like being lawyers, school teachers, and doctors.  We expect those are good, well-paying jobs, and deep down inside, we are committed to preserving them even if they aren’t the best way to approach the growth of a civilization.  So changing it would take a lot of time, gradually.  Not suddenly.

But the waste was evident to me everywhere as we visited our daughter, giving birth to a wonderful young grandchild with her whole life ahead of her.  I felt sorry, though, for all the people at the hospital stuck in that horrible system, either as employees or as victims of some health ailment that could easily be cured by regenerative medicine.  It was hard for me to listen to the conversations about the placenta disposal that were taking place as we welcomed a new baby into the world, because there are enough stem cells in that placenta to fix a lot of the people in the hospital of their health problems.  But fixing them would mean that many of the employees at the hospital would be out of a job, and essentially, a vast majority of our economy would be torpedoed.  So we are a long way away from fixing the horrible problem of healthcare, and Obamacare was never the answer.  But these days, even President Trump is taking credit for helping to keep the socialist approach to healthcare provided by the government somewhat functional, which means people have some medical coverage to throw at this ridiculously wasteful system of health maintenance.  It’s a two-problem condition, the system itself is built to keep people sick and employees employed.  And where the money comes from comes from sources outside of private insurance because the costs are so out of control that only the government can afford to sustain the ridiculous enterprise.  So our expectations of what medical care should be are at the heart of the problem, and we have come to look at the government as a way to keep us alive, which was the goal of communism all along.

President Trump has brought a lot of Democrats over into the GOP and made it a huge tent party.  So, to the budget hawks, trying to drive down the spending in this Big Beautiful Bill of Trump’s, this is a fight for another time.  We need to attack healthcare expectations before we can peel away funding for it, much like education debates.  We have to get the government out of education and healthcare before we can reform them and make these things better.  Because too many people are wrapped up in the system itself, they make their living off the decline of other people.  That’s why I don’t even bring it up to my family members who work in healthcare and its maintenance.  I’m at the scrap the whole thing level and don’t want to spend one cent on it.  Regenerative medicine is the way to go, nobody should ever die of cancer.  And people should be able to live into their hundreds, and keep working as long as possible.  So, all the Social Security processing and health insurance talk infuriates me at the basic level.  And seeing my new granddaughter, it was nice to welcome her into the world, but it reminded me of how much I hate hospitals.  The people there reminded me of hamsters running on the hamster wheel, pointlessly, aimlessly, and only to provide incomes to people for jobs they shouldn’t even have.  There are many better things to do besides health maintenance of declining conditions.  And the authority we have given doctors over our economy, which was most notable during Covid when they made a power grab through the World Health Organization to take over the global economy.  I am proud of Trump for standing up to those losers, but that’s where the fight is, in the social construction of the current healthcare system.  People aren’t ready to cut the funding to a failed model yet, because they work for that system with comfortable jobs that they like too much.  But the time for that discussion is coming, and I can’t wait for it.

Rich Hoffman

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Joe Biden’s Presidency Was Illegal: They are using the cancer diagnosis to hide the crime behind sympathy

Just remember, when people say that my topics are too wild to be believed, because lately I have been talking a lot about Atlantis and the origins of ancient civilizations, remember that most of the time, if not every single time, I am right about the things I say.  There is a reason by choice that I do not write for significant publications and flaunt academic credentials as part of a byline.  That is because I don’t trust institutionalism because of what I understand psychologically about the people who make it up, and the limits it places on society.  And I sometimes pick some of those complex and wild topics to stretch my legs.  Because when the rubber hits the road, I am always there to say, “I told you so.”  And that was certainly the case when it came to the origins of COVID-19.  I would say I was the very first person out of all the media in the world to call it what we now know it was, which includes some of the wildest so-called “right-winged media” out there.  And I was among the first to call the election fraud of 2020 what it was, and I turned out to be right about everything.  I have covered many very controversial, far-reaching topics that seem insane at the time, but once the facts all come in, I turn out to be right.  So I am having a little fun with the Joe Biden topic after the tapes captured by Robert Hur made their way into the mainstream media.  I found it astonishing that news commentators like Laura Ingraham were shocked by what they heard, which was that Joe Biden was utterly unable to function in a mental capacity and was essentially a Weekend at Bernie’s presidency, propped up by handlers to appear to be in charge.  It was all a complete deception, and once those tapes hit the news cycle, they announced that he had a ten-year-old prostate cancer diagnosis, hoping to use compassion to get the former president off the front pages.  The Hur tapes bring up a much more catastrophic problem that few people can handle.  But I will.

She knew, among many who did

Joe Biden was illegally inserted and was never in command of the White House, leaving unelected personalities running his presidency completely in the background, and now many of those people have been caught.  Now, the good thing is that this break in trust is healthy for people to experience.  Society has been suckered by a group that we call “elites” who hold the power in our offices outside of elected representation.  And it’s a hard learned lesson that will forever change the Democrat Party.  I think they are destroyed forever, but we’ll see.  I don’t see them ever returning from the damage they have inflicted on themselves over these last five years, starting with the Covid cover-up, and ending with the truth about the Biden presidency.  They lied about everything, including his cancer diagnosis.  It’s possible they even lied to Biden himself to keep him smiling for the cameras and standing at a podium with a stick up his backside to keep him from falling over.  We are witnessing a grand deception on an epic scale that was massively illegal in the process, and people will never forget it.  So as we hear the stories of the media sacrificing themselves now hoping to win back trust, and the Jake Tapper’s of the world come out with their books and are getting raked over the coals for what they knew but didn’t say about the matter, and Jim Comey is getting embarrassed in public at book signings by an angry public, and he smiles and takes it, because he has no other option, remember who told you first about all these things……….I did. 

Trump may want to give Biden a pass, but the former president played right along with the plan, knowing the people behind it.

I run the blog because it gives me a chance to express trustworthy independent journalism, and because of how I live my life, it is free of outside influence.  I can afford to do things almost no other journalist in the world can do.  And that is a very valuable asset in a free speech environment.  And people ask me all the time why I do it.  Well, it’s for cases like this, the Joe Biden case, that I do what I do, even though many of the things I said were ridiculed extensively right out of the gate.  Just as the things I am speaking about, like Atlantis, might seem too wild to seriously consider.  When something is so far outside of a mainstream narrative, people have a hard time with it.  But when that state of disbelief is part of the crime, to use that nature against people to perpetuate a knowing deception on the world, we should all have a significant problem with that type of conduct.  And I certainly do, and that’s why I choose to produce the kind of media I do, in the form that I decided to do it.  And the sum of the whole Biden story is that everything Biden signed as president is invalidated because of this massive cover-up, which is the real reason that the cancer diagnosis came out when it did, to use sympathy to hide the crime.  These people have been caught in a major crime against the United States of America, which is all of us who are citizens of this country, and there is no forgiveness for that transgression.  All the people involved in the Biden cover-up committed a significant crime that must now be punished. 

I had to remind a few good friends I have in the media, who are very close to the White House, when the story broke over a mid-May weekend in 2025 that Biden’s cancer story was a ruse, and not to fall for it.  He’s an old man, and most men will eventually get prostate cancer of some kind.  There is no surprise by that diagnosis, so don’t go soft on Biden because he’s a dying man.  I’ve been warning for a long time that when the crapola hit the fan with Biden, they would try to use a funeral to take people’s minds away from the seriousness of the crime.  And that’s what they tried to do with the cancer diagnosis.  Don’t be a sucker and fall for it.  The real story is that everything Biden touched was illegal, including his nomination of a Supreme Court member in Ketanji Brown Jackson, the extremely liberal trainwreck that should be nowhere near a courtroom.  But it wasn’t Biden who picked her, but rather Barack Obama, and Alex Soros, along with his terrorist father, George Soros.  People we did not elect and had no legal right to the office of the Executive Branch. That means every bill signed was signed under illegal conditions and is invalid.  Everything that Biden had been doing for four years was unlawful.  And how do we know? We know they put him in place with election fraud.  And if that story is too wild for you, then now you have the proof that the people behind Biden lied about his health.  He had this cancer before he was elected president, and they lied about it to put him in office so they could essentially run him as a puppet in the background.  They rigged the entire process to get a compromised puppet in the White House so that they could steal that power away from voters.  Just let that sink in.  This is a bigger story than most anybody could wrap their minds around.  But there it is.  And the damage from this will never allow things to return to what they were before.  And a lot of people are in deep trouble for it.  Jake Tapper and Jim Comey are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg.  And the Democrat Party has hit that iceberg, and is sinking very fast. 

Rich Hoffman

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Michael V. Ryan is Running for Butler County Commissioner: There is no reason to put up with wilted flowers

It was a surprise that so many people attended the Michael V. Ryan press conference at the Courtyard by Marriott in Hamilton, Ohio.  The current Vice-Mayor of the city and city council member announced that he was running for Butler County Commissioner, and it was good to see such a diverse group of people coming out to show him support on a Monday afternoon.  There were people of all ages and a nice, even number of men and women from all kinds of backgrounds, which showed broad support early in the process.  When I first heard about it, I thought it was a great idea that someone from the group of anti-liberal rebels on the City Council would migrate into the commissioner seat that is coming up, where the incumbent, Cindy Carpenter, is up for re-election.  Recently, she had been caught in Middletown, Ohio, campaigning for Democrats, and that pretty much sealed her fate among the many who have been unhappy with her over the years and have been calling her a RINO.  Well, now people had more than speculation on the matter, and they were looking for alternatives.  And Michael Ryan was making himself available, and people were excited about it.  It was also surprising that several officeholders also showed up to lend their support.  When you see Bruce Jones at a political event, you know something significant is brewing, because he tends to associate with emerging vigilance over the years that I have come to trust for several decades now.  And as I peeked around the crowd to the back of the room, I saw Mark Welch, the West Chester trustee there, whom I wanted to talk to.  It was a good crowd that had run out of seats, leaving many standing in the background and doorways to hear the future commissioner speak.

After the announcement, I took the chance to speak with Mark because I knew he was also thinking of running for commissioner, so it showed some significance that he was willing to come out and support Michael Ryan running.  The other two seats for the commissioner have a few years left on them, so for Mark to show public support this early in the process was very admirable.  And as we discussed, he has challengers for his trustee seat, which is up for re-election this year.  And he is committed to protecting that seat, which I thought showed great teamwork by the GOP to help in several races, which I’d like to see more of.  West Chester has been great because it has had some significant policies from the trustees over the years, which worked best when George Lang and Mark Welch served in West Chester simultaneously.  The best path forward, which has made West Chester one of the best places to live in the world, occurred during this period.  But since then, George has moved on to become State Senator, leaving Ann Becker to fill that void, which we all thought was going to be a good thing, as she used to be the President of the West Chester Tea Party, and the Cincinnati Tea Party, and she was a good friend.  She was on 55 KRC all the time announcing on the radio Tea Party events and was a key to implementing fiscal small government ideas back into the Butler County Republican Party.  But time has a way of eroding at people, and the person she once was isn’t quite so much anymore, and she has been siding with Democrats a lot these days, which has been a concern.  Because the other guy, Lee Wong, is a known Democrat.  So the trustees have moved more toward the Democrat side of things in dangerous ways.

Mark knows the situation, and he doesn’t feel like he can step away from the West Chester Trustee race because he needs help, so things don’t get out of control.  At a minimum, Mark needs to win one of the two seats this year, with Lee also up for re-election.  So while everyone is excited about Michael Ryan running for commissioner, the Republican Party needs to protect some of the best spots, which in West Chester is how the MAGA movement evolved in the Butler County area and set the foundation for what a prosperous community with good politics should look like.  Ann Becker and I used to be close during all this, and I was very supportive of her in that other Trustee spot George left behind.  And back then, we all planned to keep West Chester conservative by tag-teaming who would run and maintain a two-vote majority.  It meant a lot that Mark was doing that with this Butler County Commissioner race because that’s how you get good management at these positions.  It doesn’t do any good for everyone to beat each other up in primaries only to wonder why some knuckle-dragging Democrat ends up winning in the end, pretending to be a Republican, such as what we had for a long time in Cindy Carpenter.  I can say that in Ann Becker’s case, she didn’t start badly.  She and I parted political ways a bit when Trump came into the picture, and I was in full support of him early, while it took others a while to get there.  Ann eventually did, but over the coming years, it got increasingly complex to hold the same Tea Party political philosophy, as life has a way of chipping away at our foundational beliefs.  And at times like that, political challengers are healthy and needed.  But knowing when to work together and when to challenge for the betterment of a party that serves the needs of a representative government can be tricky, and takes good people to do things for the right reasons. 

Many great things are happening where Michael Ryan, as a commissioner, could be inspiring, especially given that Vivek Ramaswamy will soon be the governor of Ohio.  Butler County is one of the biggest counties in Ohio, with high population density, so having Michael Ryan as one of the commissioners is a rare opportunity.  Trump in the White House setting economic policies flowing down into all levels of government is showing great promise, which Vivek’s future administration will take full advantage of.  Then, having an enterprising commissioner like Michael Ryan engage in that excitement is a great opportunity.  What he has done with the City Council of Hamilton has been fun to watch; they have done things that have brought life back to the city that I never thought I’d see in my lifetime.  And he could do so much more as a commissioner.  But we don’t want to lose the West Chester seats, because that would be a step backward.  So it was good to see some teamwork at key positions, covering each other with support where it counted.  Elections are always opportunities.  It’s rare to have such good people running for politics simultaneously in the same room, but that was certainly the case here.  Michael Ryan and his very nice wife, Amanda, are good, solid people who bring a lot of pride to Republican politics and have a very bright future that is well deserved.  But authentic leadership doesn’t just come in election wins; it comes in setting the table for victory on many fronts.  It was also good to see that happening in the background at the Michael Ryan announcement for County Commissioner on a bright day in May 2025 was unfolding a new strategy, where so many opportunities were blooming everywhere.  And in the Republican Party, several flowers have lost their luster and are wilting.  Cindy Carpenter is one of them, and she needs to go.  There is no reason to put up with wilted flowers who are Democrats in disguise when we have so many good, solid Republicans who are aligned with the MAGA movement.  But everyone will need to support each other in these efforts. 

Rich Hoffman

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