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One Person in Jail is Not Near Enough: Much of what Democrats have done against America, and God, deserves a terminal sentence

In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton was attempting to paint a negative picture of all the people Trump would throw in jail for a revenge tour.  A tour that Democrats have embarked on themselves.  So there is a real fear by her, and many others, that Trump will target them for jail next, once people elected him for a third time to the White House.  The crimes from the coup against Trump are just the tip of the iceberg in denying the people the pick they made for President of the United States in 2020.  All the efforts Hillary Clinton made to destroy the life of President Trump, the corruption by the Obama administration, and, of course, Biden working actively to put Trump in jail for hundreds of years and millions of dollars in fines to keep him off the campaign trail.  These are not the actions of innocent people who know they had 81 million votes and won the presidency legitimately.  These are criminals who broke the law and have attempted to destroy our country and worse.  And now the shoe will be on the other foot, and they are terrified.  Well, when Hillary Clinton says that one person going to jail once Trump is in office and can then put his political rivals in jail for what they have done to him, I would say that one person would not be nearly enough.  As I write this, Steve Bannon, the former Chief Strategist for the President, has lost his appeal and is facing jail time, joining Peter Navarro, another Trump White House official who is currently in jail, put there by hostile Democrats at all levels of society.  Hey, they started it.  But we won’t be happy with just one or two obvious criminals going to jail, I would say it needs to be in the thousands. 

This is no time to feel sorry for any Democrats who have broken the law and are now facing the wrath of Trump.  I personally think Trump is too nice.  He says the right things and, as an executive in business, naturally understands the tough decisions it takes to get things moving in the right direction.  I think during his first term, he should have drawn first blood and put Hillary in jail because they were always going to try to do it to him anyway.  There was no harm in putting them all in prison because that’s where we have been in politics for a long time.  The politeness in politics between political parties has only worked against Republicans because Democrats have a proven track record of brutality.  That is the foundation of their entire political platform, and we have to admit that all gains they have been making are the tactics of Marxism and not American capitalism.  They are hostile to the American way of life and have no intention to preserve our nation well into the future.  They are criminals and cutthroats at best.  So, giving them the benefit of the doubt as Trump did was devastating.  That’s why they thought they could get away with destroying the American economy with Covid by walking into his office and lying to him about a potential death count, where Covid was made, who was involved, and what the plan was all along for socialist lockdowns and a push to more centralized governments all around the world.  They knew behind all the tough talk Trump was a nice guy, and they did what Democrats always do, they take advantage of Republicans who present themselves as suckers. 

I’m sure Trump would not like to have that tag stuck to him, that he was a “sucker” to Democrats.  But he was.  That doesn’t mean I won’t vote for him again in 2024.   Considering the ominous globalist forces at work here, I think he played the game as well as it could be.  I mean, Fusion GPS wasn’t just Hillary Clinton; it involved John McCain, a well-known Republican at the time, and much of the FBI and CIA who were in on destroying an American president with the same kind of vigor that we now know went on behind Kennedy and Nixon, by many of these same types of characters.  American voters were considered not relevant.  And when COVID was made and released during an election year to provide a cover story for a stolen election, which was the plan all along because they knew what the poll numbers said, Democrats had no fear of revenge for being caught doing what they were doing.  They had no concern that what they were doing to people, by the millions, would put them in jail because they had no respect for Republicans in general.  Republicans talk about fairness and justice.   But when the rubber hits the road, they put up with crime and corruption with the best of them.  They do so because they seek comfort in life; they trust that God will be the one who issues judgment, so they stay out of the business.  And since Democrats hate God and seek to destroy religion, replacing it with state power, then Democrats always have an advantage over Republicans.  They don’t confine their evil to their thoughts because they don’t believe there is a God to punish them. 

I view this effort as being the hands of God in this world, and we were created in his image to inflict justice and bring heaven to earth, wherever possible.  And that starts with punishing people who break the law and harm innocent people.  I think absolute ruthlessness in this category is essential to a civil society that functions well.  When bad people do bad things, the righteous should viciously punish them.  But who is the “righteous?”  Well, those who follow God’s law and the Ten Commandments.  Those who are following Biblical principles.  With Trump, it was good that he embraced the Bible when Marxist thugs were attacking a church right outside of the White House and were trying to burn down Washington.  But he should have done more, and I would expect him to know that he has had a lesson in radical Marxist movements who are not cheerleaders for America.  I would like to see the perpetrators executed for treason against our country, not just thrown in jail.  And so many millions of people are involved that they can’t all be punished.  Well, yes, they can all be punished, and if we have it my way, there will be many thousands, if not millions, who will be punished with more than jail time.  I would hope that after all this, Trump would be more ruthless than he was in his first term and that he would not hold back the power of his office to severely punish those who came after him and his administration so horrendously.  I want to see blood paid for these sins by the truckload.  I do not want to forgive and forget; I want to see the enemies of America punished in a way that would discourage all future action.  And I think many Americans feel the same way, especially after watching what they were willing to do to Trump.  Americans don’t want to see the bad guys get away with all this yet again.  And that is a world that Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand.  But I feel they are all about to learn a lesson in justice that will shock the world.  And they deserve everything and then some, that is coming their way.

Rich Hoffman

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Democrats are Planning Not to Certify President Trump’s Victory: The domestic enemies of America are vicious and daring us to fight them

Let me explain something to you fools out there: that little show of solidarity that Speaker Johnston and others from Washington showed behind President Trump on May 14th, 2024, is about three years too late.  Sure, it’s better late than never.  But it clearly shows that many people don’t understand the fight we are fighting.  The Democrats are viciously evil.  They are not your friends.  Even as we speak, they are already making plans not to certify the election for President Trump should they win enough seats in Congress to take back the House.  Or, they are counting on enough RINO Republicans to get squishy and vote their way to not certify the election once Trump wins this November, which he is poised to do, and then some.   Yes, remember all that nonsense about Mike Pence doing the right thing, and certifying the 2020 election with the deciding vote, which put Trump out of the White House and gave us this stupid fool, the criminal Joe Biden, who just this week, his daughter proclaimed that the contents of her diary were true, and that she did shower with her dad as a young girl.  This was not a conspiracy theory.  These are bad, horrendous people, and they are playing for keeps.  And they are not planning to give back the reigns of power over a silly little ol’ election where the people pick their favorite representatives.  No, they are plotting and scheming our destruction moment by moment, and they think you are all suckers.  Even as people from the Trump White House are in jail or going to jail, and now, after many years, there are still many January 6th prisoners rotting away with no prospect at being released.  While Republicans sit around looking for fairness.  They play by the rules while the entire Democrat Party platform exists to break them. 

There are a lot of conservatives who have known for a long time that the game is rigged against us, and we are tired of it.  This placating evil thing has not worked out well, and think about what I’m saying here.  With all the spectacle that there was about getting Trump out of the White House, how Democrats used the rules to essentially establish a coup against a popularly elected President.  Knowing that they will lose power by that same voting system, they will attempt to block that certification process at every step of the way.  When Trump wins in November, the election, Democrats are not going to do what Mike Pence did and go through the routine of certifying the electors toward the politician who received the most votes in the electoral college.  They are going to attempt to burn down cities and send illegal immigrants home to home with a show of violence, hoping to cause as much chaos as possible to punish people for not voting for them.  Democrats are like the mobsters of old.  That’s why we don’t hear about the mob anymore; they went from illegal businesses into government, instead of fearing prosecutors.  They became the prosecutors.  They became the members of the House.  They became the President.  And if you don’t obey them, they will cut off a horse’s head and put it in your bed if they think they can get away with it.  They are ruthless, vicious, and plotting maniacal fools.  They are bloodthirsty.  And they have no intention of giving back power over a silly election.  That power will have to be ripped away from them.  And they will have to be punished tenaciously.

They aren’t intimidated by any Republican solidarity that was shown to President Trump forty years too late; they aren’t shaking in their boots.  They are laughing, because they know what they are willing to do, and they know Republicans won’t do it.  You watch.  It will be the day after the election in November of 2024 and the story will be that Democrats are planning not to certify the election of Trump for a number of reasons.  But it will be their only play after all the court attempts to destroy him have failed.  And all the attempts by the media to disparage him will have shown that Trump even won in heavily Democrat areas and that Joe Biden lost the election so badly that Jimmy Carter will have finally lost that title to the word “landslide.”  Everything will have failed for them, and they will have nothing else but to attempt not to certify Trump to the White House.  They will try to tie it up as much as possible, and in many ways nobody has ever seen before.  Because that is their nature.  They are vicious.  And they have every intention of showing their teeth and doing to us what they accused us of thinking of doing when we had the power not to certify the election and send it back to the states to keep Trump in office.  Democrats won’t just talk about it.  They’ll do it.  And they won’t feel one bit guilty about it as they do.  They will force us to fight them in the streets.  They will be happy to destroy our Constitution because they don’t like it anyway.  They are globalists.  They are communists.  They are thugs, liars, cutthroats, and, on a good day, criminals.  And they have no respect for Republicans because they have observed us for a long time and think they can get away with anything.

Way back in 2015, when people laughed about Trump entering the presidential race when he made the now-famous descent down the escalator at Trump Tower, I would explain all this to them, and they would look at me like I was just a disgruntled rebel who wanted a fight.  That our political system was sophisticated and righteous.  And I explained how far gone everything was to anybody who would listen, and they just giggled under their breaths and thought they knew better.  Well, it had to be Trump for all the reasons we have been seeing, and only now do people seem to understand these domestic enemies that we know as Democrats, finally.  Only now did Republicans show up to show support for President Trump during his New York trial with Fat Alvin and the gang of communist thugs who are running our judicial system there.  Punishment for the crimes that Democrats put forth and intend to utilize in the months to come can only go one way.  It has to be ruthless.  You can’t sit around crying about it, about unfairness, and how sad it is.  You have to get tough.  And you have to be willing to fight it out.  And when Democrats try to steal this election, too, as they did in 2020 when dumb Republicans thought that the real value was in following the rules and preserving our system of a peaceful transfer of power.  When Democrats refuse to leave the White House and all the other power positions they’ve managed to capture, they will dare us into violence, knowing we don’t have the stomach for it.  Which is why it will be likely that it will be our only option.  They’ll make it that way, and as we contemplate that inevitability, they are plotting our destruction with every breath of every word of insurrection that can be applied against the United States of America.  Because they don’t care about the country or its survival.  They only want more power so they can commit more crimes.  That is what we are dealing with, and that’s probably too nice. 

Rich Hoffman

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Roger Reynolds Has His Conviction Overturned on Appeals: When people like Fat Alvin use the power of government to destroy political rivals

It was a rigged, political case in Butler County. And the prosecutors wasted a lot of tax money on a personal hit job.

I wish people would listen.  I feel like that frustrated parent who has all the answers but has to stand by and watch their kids make dumb mistakes that cause them much pain and suffering anyway.  And if you care about everyone, it can be a harrowing experience.  But essentially, from the beginning, the prosecution against Roger Reynolds, the popular Butler County Auditor, was as flimsy of a case and motivated by the same intentions as the Fat Alvin case in New York against President Trump.  These are purely political cases where the prosecutors are trying to use legal warfare to take out political rivals.  In this case, it was elements of the Republican Party in Butler County, even extending into the Attorney General of Ohio to exert power and position within the party.  It had nothing to do with any actual crimes committed.  Roger Reynolds found himself having the law used against him in a weaponized format, something that happens more often than people would like to think, over disagreements regarding family connections and how tax money is spent, just theorizing on such spending.  And for that Roger Reynolds has had to pay a fortune in legal bills, lose over three years of his life professionally, during his prime income-building years, and was popularly elected into a very powerful auditor position only to be removed from office because of a conviction on a last minute charge tossed over the fence to attempt to get anything to stick against him to get a jury to put him in jail for 30 days and ruin his political career for the rest of his life.  The case had nothing to do with justice but everything to do with power, who controls the legal system, and how they can then use it to take out political rivals.  And nothing more.

On Monday, May 13th, 2024 after many years of fighting for his innocence, a 10th District Court of Appeals in Columbus reversed the conviction against Roger Reynolds from a few years earlier, bringing somewhat to an end the long ordeal that started for him back during Covid when some of the people from Roger’s office as auditor stopped coming to work over Covid rules.  Now I get Roger’s position. I’ve talked to him about it, and I am even more traditional regarding the COVID rules for employment.  Doctors don’t run our economy and when they stuck their noses into our business with all these new globalist Covid rules, they were way over the line.  It was the job of science to figure out how to stop COVID-19 and its spread with science.  Not to shut the world down with a bunch of new rules to establish a new normal.  And some of these kids then, and now, thought that meant they could all work from home to avoid spreading the virus.  When Roger had to deal with that trend in his office, he let people go for not coming to work, and that made people mad.  People then promised their family members that they had the power of the law at their back and could get revenge on Roger.  At that point, an attendance issue then became a big labor one where communist policies seep into the assumptions of a government workforce, and the power of government is then weaponized against that assumption. 

At that point, Sheriff Jones made it his mission to go after Roger Reynolds, spend money on investigations, and waste a lot of money in court proceedings to destroy Roger Reynolds’s life in court.  Many different charges were thrown in Roger’s way, with the power of the Attorney General being added to the mix, trying to make the former auditor look like a corrupt official who had abused his power of office for personal gain.  But nothing was sticking, and Roger was found innocent of all charges.  At the last minute, this issue with Lakota schools and a country club golf connection came up, and Roger suggested to the treasurer that some tax money being returned to the school be applied to a venture that he thought would be a good idea.  It was just a discussion about how to spend tax money.  But Sheriff Jones and the prosecutors threw the weight of their office to destroy the life of Roger Reynolds in precisely the same way that Fat Alvin has been doing to Trump.  Over the last few years, we’ve seen it happening more and more as these same tactics have been used nationwide.  It has been the collision of why people pursue big government jobs to have immense power over innocent people, which is the problem.  When government is sought and used to give power to people who otherwise wouldn’t have it, abuse of government then becomes the subject, and the warning of why we never want to give any people, no matter who they are, too much power through government to abuse others over a quest for power.  In most cases, even if the prosecutors get a conviction, they are being overturned on appeals.  But by the time a defendant spends years trying to prove their innocence, their lives are destroyed in the process.  So, even if they don’t go to jail, they are destroyed in the process.  Now that Roger Reynolds has had his conviction overturned, where does he go to get his reputation back?

I am proud to call Roger Reynolds a friend through all this.  I’ve told him this when I’ve seen him throughout this process.  I am proud of how tough he has stayed in proving his innocence.  I want to see him get back into elected office and do good work because when political enemies see you as that much of a threat, I want to see people like Roger sticking it to those powers to keep things honest.  I would hire Roger Reynolds before and after this appeals ruling because Roger is one of the good guys.  And in a world run by evil and malicious people, like Fat Alvin in New York is against Trump, they are the ones who need to be punished and be fired from government work whenever possible.  I remember the day the indictments came down against Roger and the people who called me to talk about it, very haughtily.  These were small-government conservatives who were impressed with Sheriff Jones’s power to drum up charges to essentially take down a rival within the Republican Party.  And I was surprised how many people played along with it because it was wrong.  I knew it was a crooked case from the beginning because I knew all the people involved and understood the rivalry in ways that weren’t reported in the media.  But what surprised me was how vicious the ordeal became, where the lawyers were the only ones who profited.  They are pleased to have millions of dollars wasted on their services over an issue that essentially was just a family rivalry within a political party.  And this is why we must always watch how people use government power, and why we can’t give too much of it to any one person.  Because they can’t handle the temptation to abuse it.  However, in the case of Roger Reynolds, he was always innocent of those ridiculous charges.  And it’s fantastic that the appeals court saw the case for what it was and reversed the conviction.  Justice still works, even if it takes a while, and a lot of money has to be spent on it to get it.  Let’s go back to dueling, as I say more often.  It was a lot cheaper, and the real bad guys usually went away, saving taxpayers a lot of money in the future.

Rich Hoffman

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The Lies of the Biden Economy: Claiming Covid jobs as economic credit for a Marxist government

Calling someone a liar and a typical political thief is one thing.  But in the case of Joe Biden and his Marxist handlers, to have proof of it is something else.   The economic numbers for Biden are not good and, in many ways, getting worse because not even the communist media will carry water for him as they have.  When they try to tell us that he was legitimately elected, remember what I did as the very first thing.  My wife and I packed up in our RV and went out into the desert to think and get some perspective, which I needed.  I remembered some of this as recently, my wife and I traveled to Cleveland for a fast-draw competitive event and lived out of our RV for an extended period.  We were watching Trump’s speech in New Jersey, where he indicated that he would make a play to win some of those heavy Democrat areas.  It was raining outside, and we had an exceptionally cozy evening together.  We were talking about Trump returning to office and thinking of the first few months of the horrendous Biden presidency, where the shoe was on the other foot.  Since we were so political, we were among the hundred ones, which had been made clear to me.  So we went to the desert of New Mexico to consider what to do next.  I made some adjustments to my life as a result, and then there we were, watching Trump from that same RV a few years later with the rain pouring down outside after a day of shooting and lots of gunsmoke, and the truth was all coming out on Biden.  We knew Biden didn’t win the election with 81 million votes because we had traveled extensively, and they were nowhere to be found.  The Biden people had lied about their election and their presidency, and we were the first to see it.   Now, it was obvious to everyone. 

That same process occurred with Biden’s economic numbers.  We all know we had a much better economy with Trump until the Covid virus was created in a Wuhan lab and released to the world by not only the Chinese but the global communists at the World Economic Forum who wanted to distribute the China model of communism to the world with a Great Reset had wanted to stop that excellent Trump economy hurting him during an election year.  According to Department of Defense reports now, COVID was a bioweapon, and they released it during that year, as they had been planning to destroy Trump’s economy and make their power move for global domination.  Things didn’t work out as they had imagined, and world domination wasn’t happening. All those lunatic billionaires retreated to their hiding places in Davos, and the world tried to somewhat return to normal, hoping everyone would forget about it, even though millions of people had died along the way.  We are all still coming to grips with that tragedy and our government’s role in the scamdemic.  The contents of that contemplation are still considered a massive conspiracy theory, even though the proof is all around us and was all along.   Those same forces wanted a puppet president and found one in Biden. They put him in place with massive election fraud done behind the veil of COVID-19, which allowed them to do so.  This is an element they would not have in 2024, as people are just waking up to deal with all this terrible news, most evident by the Biden economy, which was harming people at every level of society.

Oh, I know, these are hard to think about for people who want to take their kids to soccer practice and buy their next steak dinner off Amazon.  I had a front-row seat, and I think about these things in ways others don’t, so it doesn’t matter when people realize that they have been scammed by a massive government conspiracy centered around the United Nations trying to push Chinese communism to every corner of the world through corporate influence and international finance.  But the truth is easy in this case: the Biden administration has been lying about their economic recovery, saying they had created more jobs than any president in the history of the world, and even skeptical people have been scratching their heads, wondering where they were.  Well, they were the jobs destroyed during Covid, when these same con people convinced President Trump to turn off the economy to save lives, which he did—resulting in the biggest con job the world had ever seen.  And once Trump was out of office, and all the political rivals of Biden had been hunted down, prosecuted, or thrown in jail, the Biden people had to finally give up on Covid as a cover story because the world was coming apart in anger over the issue.  If the Biden people could have, Covid lockdowns would still be happening, with the “new normal,” as they used to say.  But people realized there was a thing called the Constitution, and the lockdowns were illegal.  And the governors across the country were losing their cases and had to reopen the economy. 

Along the way of that reopening, the jobs that the COVID lockdowns had destroyed became open again, and those are the massive job creations that Biden is now claiming his administration has created.  They are saying all this with a straight face and expect the public to accept it without question.  That’s how stupid they think we all are.  And how malicious they are and how much they have lied to everyone.  Even with all the scrutiny, they believe they will get away with lying about their job numbers without the context of a pre-Covid lockdown reality that returned to normal in the years following during the Biden administration.  The Biden economy has been a disaster, as any socialist economy would be, and that has been their policy, and the measures have been obvious.  Their lies about the job reports are much worse because people know better.  But think that if they will lie about these job numbers, what else they have been lying about that is that much harder to prove?  The only thing preventing people from seeing the truth is that they won’t believe it because they can’t imagine that people are that evil and malicious.  Yet, they are, the Biden people.  They are cruel and malicious.  And slowly, people are realizing it.  That’s why people were camped out in New Jersey to see Trump give the same speech over and over, and even Fox News carried the whole thing from beginning to end.  There were over 100,000 people at that Trump event, and it did terrify the political left and the uniparty.  Even with all the crazy court trials, nothing was stopping Trump, and the writing was on the wall.  People knew they had been lied to about Trump and many other things.  And they wanted a change; they wanted their good economy back.  And they were done with Biden and his con artist lies.  They have started to admit to this, which was the first step in solving the problem for good. 

Rich Hoffman

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We Must Save America: Flying the red, white, and blue over the destruction of our enemies should make everyone very happy

For most of my life, people I would speak with thought that America was a permanent thing that required no maintenance.  They took for granted that the concept of a country would always be there, that we would win all the wars and have the best economy, and all they had to do about it was pop popcorn in the microwave and watch the whole thing go like a movie on a streaming service.  America would be great whether or not they participated in its greatness.  But now, things are much different, people have seen a level of viciousness they didn’t know the enemies of America were capable of.  And it has pushed people to understand just how fragile the concept of a country really is and why we must all work hard to keep a great country great.  After all, a country is just a set of ideas; some ideas are better than others.  However, in the pursuit of global communism, many want to run the world with a centralized bureaucracy through the newly created United Nations, and they don’t like the concept of one country being better than another.  They want communist sameness, especially the corporate communists who are lazy and don’t want one market in the world to have different rules for them than other countries.  They want everything as uniform as possible, and of course, they will try to destroy America to satisfy their own needs in the world from their perspective.  They aren’t out there fighting for America.  They have been working against America, and they have no shame in it.  Many people now reflect on this impasse by understanding that we must Save America because America is in danger, as a concept and Constitutional Republic. 

When I was little, 3 to 5 years old, my mother realized that I was a very patriotic kid who gravitated to parades and shows of national pride.  So she painted my room in stars and stripes of red, white and blue.  As the years passed, I wore an army hat everywhere, so much so that I wore out the bill of the cap with my fingertips.  I never took it off.  I have been intent on fighting for the red, white, and blue in my country for as long as I can remember, and there is no other outcome for me.  There is no, “coexist.”  There is no “not American.”  There is no “global citizen.”  Some people are better than others.  Some families are better than others.  And certain countries are better than others.  Now, fighting for our country does not include military life for me.  I see them as part of the problem; the structure of military life is built on a rules-based aristocracy that I find repulsive.  I’m happy to go anywhere and fight anybody over anything as a contractor.  However, giving up my rights as an individual citizen and being owned by a government is not my idea of patriotism.  Many people think that military service is the only kind of patriotism.  I think of it as one kind, not a very good one.  Patriotism isn’t about dying for your country and giving it all away like some sacrifice to the maniacal forces of existence.  I am way too strong-headed to take orders from anybody.  It just was never going to happen.  Many have tried and found out just how difficult that is with me.  So military life was never in my cards.  But if some attorney generals want to give me a free get-out-of-jail card, I am happy to take care of any problem for free.  We all know where all the bad guys are; we must decide to move on them.  It’s purely out of patriotism.

The next time I see President Trump, I will tell him that if he needs anything, sign me up as a contractor, and I won’t charge any money for it.  But I would be happy to make other people die for their country or for their commitments to collectivist groups in whatever menace they present themselves.  Once Trump is president again, many bad guys in the world will have to be put down, and I’m happy to help out wherever possible.  But the aristocracy of military life is not for me.  But patriotism, in general, is.  With all that said, I was certainly never going to let America be destroyed without doing something about it.  As I have said many times, I will follow the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the general practice of law established by the American Supreme Court. However, being pushed around by some corrupt WHO director or United Nations diplomat isn’t going to happen.  Nor will putting up with sellouts in our Senate and Congress.  If a bunch of communists take to the streets to cause trouble in my country, then in my view, they are behaving against the law and will have to be put down.  There is no compromise with people who want to destroy America.  They must be killed themselves for posing the threat.  And this isn’t just something I thought of a few days ago.  This has been at the core of my life, my whole life.  And I have lived it with every cell of my body, well beyond the traditional reverence to military service. 

In that context, there are domestic and foreign enemies, and all of them must be destroyed when in conflict with the idea of America.  Any notion of communism, given the fact that we have spent most of the last century fighting communists, is not going to rule over America.  All these foreign and domestic enemies have gained a lot of strength because people have not protected America the way they should have.  And now we have a situation where violence is very likely on a mass scale.  But accepting this communist, globalist view of the world is not in the cards.  This is not just from my point of view; now, many people are just realizing how precious and delicate the concept of a good country is.  They took it all for granted, and now they see the threats to their country, and they are angry.  Well, they should be.  There is a lot to be angry about.  But it’s not too late to Save America.  America is a set of ideas that are better than the ideas of other countries.  In a competitive world, good ideas are apparent, and bad ideas are snuffed out due to the pressure, which is how it works.  Artificially, propping up ideas to make globalism work isn’t possible.  I’m not going to let it happen.  Many more people are increasingly aware of this trend and are poised to stand against it.  So, any fantasies that the globalists out there had about a one-world government rooted in China-style communism are going to see those dreams shattered.  I have been ready to fight these people all my life, so I’m excited about it.  But yielding to any of them.   Well, that’s just not going to happen.   The only thing on my mind is their destruction, entirely and with great fanfare.  And I intend to fly a red, white, and blue flag over them to rub their faces in the majesty of their destruction and warn others in the future what is coming their way. 

Rich Hoffman

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It Shouldn’t Take Kristi Noem to Teach America How to be a Man: The future will be far tougher than just shooting a sick dog

The story about Kristi Noem’s dog doesn’t change anything for me regarding her qualifications to be the Vice President with President Trump.  There are two main things that a VP will need to do for Trump: defend his plan for MAGA, which she has been doing.  And to establish a continuity culture that will continue for another eight years after Trump leaves the White House this next time.  Someone will need to work with the Trump family for the future of politics and everyone out there with the right brand to do so; it is Kristi Noem who is the best for that need and its fulfillment.  The Guardian newspaper in England is aware of where Kristi’s name is on the selection list, so they read her new book No Going Back and twisted the story around about the dog that she had shot many years ago, hoping it would have an adverse reaction from the public and steer Trump away from picking her.  Based on everyone’s response to that story, I think Trump should pick Kristi Noem more than ever.  Reading that section of the book myself and comparing it to what the radical leftists out there think about it, it’s clear that Kristi Noem is just the right person for the VP job, and this character assassination thing against her needs to backfire in a spectacular way.  I personally like Kristi Noem.  And I like the idea of Kristi Noem being close to the White House and having the potential to be the first woman president.  We know someone will be the first, and the way that Kristi Noem represents America, she would be a great opportunity.  She has been a fantastic governor in South Dakota.  And she knows how to present herself on a national, even an international stage. 

People’s reaction to the Noem story about the dog was most astonishing, though.  Kristi had a dog that was out of his mind and not getting better.  That happens sometimes, especially on farm life, where many animals come and go, and sometimes you get a dog that just doesn’t get it.  And you have to get rid of the dog.  Both of my grandparents were farmers, so I understand farm life better than other people; I know what it’s like to bale hey and what it feels like to get a call in the middle of the night to give birth to a calf.  And I’ve seen many hundreds if not thousands of animals killed either for food or to prevent them from eating the products of a farm.  But farmers are some of the best conservationists in the world, and many animals have a far better life on a farm than they would in the wild, so in the context of farm life, Kristi Noem’s story about her problem causing dog is consistent with all of rural America.  And that America is part of Making America Great Again, which is why Kristi told that story.  The dog was killing other animals and biting people, so she had to do what was done at the end of the movie Old Yeller, and that was to take the dog out back and shoot it.  It used to be people could watch the movie Old Yeller, produced by Disney, and they could relate.  But now, there are lots of these urban dwellers who have grown up as dependent Democrats who have just lost touch with reality, and that Guardian story was intended for their ears as much of the American media picked it up and ran with it.  I’d say that what happened only proved a point I have been making about the differences in those who support Trump are far different from those who have global communism in mind, and the Trump supporters far outnumber those who want big daddy government communism to rule their life from top to bottom.

But it was Clay Travis who had the most surprising reaction to the Noem story for me.  Here is a guy who was picked to fill in the radio void of Rush Limbaugh and lives in Nashville, well outside the media loop culture of Fox News, where he is very well respected as a voice of the future. He loves sports and is a classic man by today’s standards.  But he was really emotional about this dog story.  For him, it was a deal killer.  I listened to him talk about dogs and his love of them, and I was shocked that he was such a beta man.  Not that shooting dogs prove your manhood, but it’s an urban context.  Don’t people realize how cruel the world is for dogs?  How many dogs end up in shelters?  I have picked many dogs from the pound over the years; some worked out great, and some did not.  But I have had to put a lot of dogs to sleep.  Now I live in an area where putting dogs to sleep is easy.  It’s more preferred than shooting a dog when they get sick beyond repair or go bad mentally, which happens as it did in the Old Yeller movie.  But when you live in rural America, as Kristi Noem has on her ranch, and the nearest medical facility for dogs is an hour or more away, shooting the dog on the farm is the most humane way to deal with it. 

Clay Travis, as a modern man, didn’t know that.  He thought that if Kristi couldn’t make the dog work out, she should have given the dog to someone else.  As if dogs were a precious resource.  Hey, there are a lot of dogs in the world, and most of them are not in good homes.  Most of them are being abused to some degree or another.  And there are lots of poor dogs at the pound being put to sleep every day because nobody wants to care for them.  And you know what’s worse? There aren’t enough homeowners these days to even give dogs a proper home because too many people are renting.  And the more that the United Nations gets its way with its Agenda 21 policies that every trustee in America has to deal with, where communities are more urbanized, there are fewer homes for dogs, so many more of them will be killed as communism runs our communities as they have been.  It is not a dog-friendly world, and Clay Travis, out of all people, should understand that.  But the modern left and manhood have shaped his perspective and been defined in new ways that are far from classic American farm life.  And I would say that was Kristi Noem’s point with the dog story.  She certainly set herself apart from the rest of the pack.  Many would say not in a good way.  But based on the reaction of so many people like Clay Travis, I think it was good.  Especially men, need to find a way to be Great Again.  Not by shooting dogs, but it shouldn’t take a woman to tell you how to be a man, and that is a problem in our modern times.  People have lost a connection to the harsh realities of where their food comes from, and how hard farm life can be, which is one of the backbones of American life.  To get too emotional over a dog is to be too emotional to save America from the communist losers who are far worse than that dog Kristi Noem shot on her ranch.  There are a lot of decisions over these coming years that will be far harder.  And people are going to have to have the stomach to do the hard things when required.  Kristi Noem gets it.  But many people need to learn to be tougher, especially those like Clay Travis. 

Rich Hoffman

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Who is Behind the Pro-Palestine College Protests: It’s a global communist movement looking for a smokescreen to hide their many crimes

It was certainly the case in the 1960s with the campus protests that defined that generation, and we see part two of it now. The same forces are at work, even if the demonstrations are over different issues. Columbia and other schools are following their example with a pro-Palestine message, always lingering behind the diatribes all this time is Marxism.  Marxism with various degrees of socialism and communism, was not an organic occurrence but a strategic device meant to usher in a globalist management system centrally controlled for a global currency.  It was never not a plan.  It was an attempt to take over the sovereignty of the entire world by corporate interests.  It was exported from Europe with Lenin and stimulated throughout Asia in the 50s and 60s.  If you want to understand the process, investigate how Ho Chi Minh, the busboy who later turned communist leader in Vietnam, became a communist radical.  It was at the end of World War I when Woodrow Wilson and others were dividing up the world where many of today’s troubles started, including the creation of Hitler.  Ho Chi Minh wanted help to remove the French from his homeland, and of course, the French hosted the Treaty of Versailles.  You could tell a similar story about the rise of communism in North Korea, China, and especially Russia.  Lenin was sent to Russia to be “disruptive” and get the youth to turn on their country.  And it was the KGB working with the CIA to do the same in America years later with the campus protests over the Vietnam War that “they” created.  Who are “they,” well we got to know them better in 2020 when “they” stole an election and “they” created Covid to give the World Economic Forum a “Great Reset.”

There is no “right” to campus protests; they are not a fundamental expression of “free speech.”  Our education institutions have been infiltrated now for over 100 years by Marxists, and they are implementing a plan of radicalism intent to overthrow all capitalist countries for global communism.  And these Palestinian protestors against Israel are all about the destruction of Western civilization.  It’s far more complicated than a bunch of communists in China who are the personal handlers of Joe Biden, who they put in the White House over trade deal disputes.  In America, calling campus protests acts of free speech is just a way to attempt to use the American Constitution as a vehicle to destroy the culture itself.  All campus protests that seek to make noise for their interests disturb the peace, which is not permissible in a free society where values are protected.  People can support Palestine, but they do not, through the force of a mob, have a right to impose those beliefs on innocent people by canceling classes and holding up traffic patterns.   The anti-Israel movement is all about destroying the concept of God and the creation of America so that centralized power can shift to the communists who want to rule through the United Nations.  It can be a complicated story, but to understand it, you have to understand the kinds of people who rejected Ho Chi Minh at the Ritz, who put Lenin, a leader in exile, on a train back to Petrograd to overtake the ruling class in Russia, and who propped up communism in China with Mao Zedong.  FDR knew what he was doing when he allowed Pearl Harbor to be bombed by the expanding Japanese forces because all the carriers were out at sea.  And he only gave Claire Lee Chennault 100 old P-40s to fight the entire Japanese invasion of China.   Chennault was never meant to win the war; it was just to hold off Japan so that China’s government would be strained of resources and communism exporting out of Russia could gain power by 1949.  Meanwhile, years earlier, they needed a World War II, and in jail sat Adolf Hitler, watching the depletion of his country economically. Some anonymous writers slipped him a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was a book of conspiracy that blamed the Jews for all their tampering with global finance.  Nobody knows who wrote the book. It was probably people who wanted to run global finance but wanted to blame it on some group of people they wanted to knock off as rivals.   He had a target for his misapplied youth to the follies of his country, which was destroyed economically at that same Treaty of Versailles, where Wilson turned down Ho Chi Minh only to walk down the road to the communist recruitment center to work on their behalf.  We could tell a similar story about Cuba, how Castro was encouraged to invade it, and how the political left in the United States who wanted to see Cuba go communist worship at the feet of the killer Che Guevara.  Bill Ayers, the guy who launched the political career of Barack Obama and was a convicted terrorist for the Weather Underground, loves Che and was inspired by him for the Marxist movement that all these globalists have always had in mind.  None of this is “organic.”  None of it happened or was designed by “self-expression.”  These are tactical inconveniences meant to shake mass society off their love of capitalism and to steer them into the arms of communism by brute force and capture of the youth movement to destroy a country’s traditions and, at the root, the families who produced those kids.  For the communists, it’s like picking up the weeds in a garden by the root.  It’s purposeful, malicious, and flows into a culture through money and finance.  It finds advocates for their cause by Marxists like Bill Ayers and most of the political left in the world who gather at the World Economic Forum. 

No, these campus riots didn’t just spring up during an election year, while the previous three years were peaceful.  Just as the riots against Trump in 2020 were creations by the same manipulative forces.  They didn’t protest because they felt something; they were driven to it like scared cattle provoked by a rancher to move in a direction by the crack of a whip.  These campus protests may be harming President Biden politically, but they are saving the back sides of the communist infiltrators in the world who are under scrutiny for the many crimes and lives lost by their antics.  And they need a smoke screen.  Those Palestinians in October didn’t just parachute into an Israel rock concert and start killing people and raping young girls for the heck of it.  It was planned, and the aftermath was meant to start a war in the Middle East.  But why, and by whom?  The same background characters who are always causing trouble: the people with the money to give it who don’t want to be the front face of a movement but are happy to pay others to do their dirty work.  They never get in trouble because they never actually do the crimes.  And people who want easy money never want to burn a bridge by busting the funders of these terrorist activities.  They’ve been doing this kind of thing in favor of communism since mass communications were created at the end of the 1800s.  Remember the stories I have told about how Karl Marx’s daughter and her socialist husband were fans of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show during this period, and how socialism was spread in all the civilized circles, and they studied how Buffalo Bill used his show to communicate American values.  The political left would learn lessons and apply the same toward their movement of Marxism, and they have been doing so ever since.  These protests on college campuses are not the students’ rights, and they are not expressions of free speech.  They are criminal acts against the nation of America and “disturbing the peace,” at a bare minimum.  They should be met with jail time and, worse, significantly, when they impede the happiness and freedom of property owners and their intentions to manage a free society.

Rich Hoffman

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Getting Rid of Herbie: Why Trump’s economy will be so much better than Biden’s

This will likely be one of the most valuable things I will ever tell you.  It’s worth a lot of money to many companies all over the world, but not for the reasons they think.  But on the topic of why Trump’s economy will be better than Biden’s or that Biden and Obama’s economy was worse than Trump’s and why, you have to understand the very nature of all communist and socialist governments.  It’s why, even with over a billion people in China, they still have a GDP that is less than America, with 2/3 fewer people. It is one of the most significant crimes happening in the world; it is not strictly against the law, but laws are created to preserve its nature.  That trend is expressed in the classic book on efficiency called The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt, which deals with the Theory of Constraints and how to deal with them.  Goldratt is the Jonathan Cahn of business books, and he has a series of them that many companies worldwide have sought to improve their lives in some way, and for all the same reasons that people pursue religion.  They don’t necessarily want to fix anything, but they go through the motions, hoping to trick God into letting them into the Heavenly Gates at some point.  And that is the approach that many people have with The Goal.  On the surface, it’s a pretty good book with a fictional narrative about a plant manager with minimal time to turn a company around to start making a profit.  But behind the scenes, it’s a soft sale on communism that has infiltrated the marketplace over the last several years.  The goal is to identify the constraints in your manufacturing process and manage them instead of trying to jam things through them. 

When I talk about The Goal to people, which happens all the time actually, I tell a story from the book where a bunch of backpackers are hiking to a destination, and they have a big fat kid named Herbie who is holding up the rest of the hikers from reaching their destination on time.  Since Herbie is fat, not as strong as the other kids, and has a hard time carrying a heavy backpack through the wilderness on a long trail, the kids behind him bunch up to his back while the kids in front of him pull way out ahead.  They arrive at the destination many hours ahead of Herbie and those behind him, and the goal of the exercise is to have process flow built around team cohesion.  So, the story’s purpose is to find ways to lessen Herbie’s burden on the group and to pace all the activities to those limits.  For instance, don’t force Herbie to carry the heavy backpack because it will just slow him down.  Have those who can take the backpack do it for him because, as the communists say, “those who can, each by their means,” and all that.  Once you realize that people reading the book, especially government types, are using this Theory of Constraints to hide their laziness and incompetence and trying to sell it as an efficiency tactic.  Without question, constraints are a genuine thing.  But how you deal with them is something I’m afraid I have to disagree with most of the world emphatically.  Constraints are meant to be managed, not yielded to, and the point of The Goal is to find out what they are and build everything around them. 

See the problem here, lower your expectations and live with the limits of Herbie

In my worldview, I advocate for removing Herbies from the process. I believe in finding individuals who are about 100 pounds lighter and can carry a heavy backpack. I don’t believe in forcing the rest of the group to slow down for slow old Herbie.  I say remove as many constraints as possible with good, competent people.  But to do that, we must acknowledge that all people are not equal.  Some people are better than others, and in a business environment, this is the opposite of what political trends have tried to create in the world. They emphasize equity and inclusion, not performance and competency.  And you can see this in the performance of the world today, from your local drive-thru to the store stocker at your local grocery.  In my view, the Biden administration is all about creating a society of Herbies. In my world, I would encourage them to be the first to be fired or pushed out of your work culture.  Rather than building around the Herbies, I would say to get rid of them and replace them with someone faster and better. This goes against almost every unspoken rule of our modern world.  However, the government, especially under Biden and Obama, is all about putting as many Herbies into your system, so it’s no wonder their governments are much less efficient and covered with slowness and waste.  They have made it pretty much illegal even to judge the performance of the Herbies of the world. When you want to understand what has happened in the world to slow everything down, The Goal, as a book, has captured the problem well.  But not for the reasons it intended to define the Theory of Constraints.  Lazy losers in the world and incompetent people afraid of competition have been empowered by it to prevent performance from being the measuring criteria and instead made group cohesion the mode of operation as a central value. 

Don’t learn to live with constraints. Improve them or get rid of them all together

During his first term, Trump thinks about Herbies the way I do.  He brought free market capitalism back to the markets where competition drove expectations for about three years until COVID-19 was invented and released to tamper with the 2020 election and get a Great Reset to all global markets influenced by the communists at the World Economic Forum.  And the American economy flourished under Trump.  But the policy of Obama and Biden, which is attached to global communism, China style, and corporate control superseding elected governments, wants a society of Herbies that they feed with welfare checks and entitlements because it gives them more centralized control over mass populations.  If they can sell that inefficiency to the public as “efficiency,” you can bet they will try.   So few people understand why Trump’s economy was, and will be, so much better than Biden’s.  Most economists don’t understand it; they have been taught only one way of viewing economic value, so they are oblivious to what Trump will do, which differs from Biden.  However, the real difference is that any good economy or company trying to implement a process will seek to eliminate as many Herbies as possible. And if they do have them, to mitigate the damage they cause to others by slowing everything down.  Speed is our friend in a thriving economy and successful business.  And rather than manage around our Herbies, we should get rid of them whenever we spot them and replace them with someone much faster and more competent.  That holds of a machine or even a business model.  If speed is not the emphasis, then incompetence becomes the breeding ground of fools, and you end up with horrendous economic numbers, such as we have seen with Biden.  The fix is easy, but it is something the government doesn’t want to see happen as they attach themselves to the global communist movement where Herbies are made, not managed.

A much better world, one without Herbies

Rich Hoffman

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After Trump Wins, Democrats Will Get Violent: Be sure to utilize concealed carry or at least, Constitutional Carry a firearm

Of course, just as I said it would, Trump is going to be re-elected, and all the schemes that the Democrats have used over the years to manipulate the mass public aren’t going to work.  And it’s going to get ugly.  I don’t think there is any way around it; this is what happens when you let Marxist radicals into your country, into your corporations, and your communities disguised as Democrats.   It would never end well, but at some point, we would always arrive at this juncture.  No matter what happens, even if they somehow manage to keep Trump out of office, there will likely be violence on a mass scale.  Appeasing them won’t help, it will just make it worse.  They are planning violence one way or another.  For the rest of us, the best-case scenario is to use the laws and follow them to the very end.  Trump needs to win the White House properly because it will force the Democrats to reveal all the horrible things they have been up to over many years.  But yes, we are in a civil war, and there is no way to stop it now.  We couldn’t have stopped it in the 1950s.  America was always on a collision course with the radical communists in the world who were openly working to subvert American laws built on the foundation of the Constitution.  The only reason violence hasn’t happened yet is that good people turned the other cheek for decades and empowered these losers to think they had more power than they did.  And now it’s playing out daily.  Trump isn’t using some magic power to find power again.  A lot of what is happening in the MAGA movement is revenge for what Democrats have been doing, and there is no way to put all that back into a bottle and forget about it.

I recommend that everyone who can start to conceal carry, or at least Constitutional Carry.  Get as many firearms as you can and learn to use them.  Be prepared.  When Trump wins, the most likely scenario is something we have seen before.  Remember when Madonna said that she “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” and several other celebrities like Johnny Depp suggested that killing the President was something we might think about doing?  This is how the left thinks, and when we say left, we mean communists, as Karl Marx defined them.  I talk to politicians all the time who think they can have lunch with Democrats and get along.  I know several Democrats who present themselves as friendly people who would be nice to talk to in a backyard cookout.  But make no mistake about it: they are plotting the doom and death of America with mass global collectivism.  And when they realize, which is happening now, that people are onto their game, that they have lost the ability to manipulate the public through media and entertainment, and that people are turning away from communist ideas, they will turn to violence because it’s all they have left as a strategy.  And in many cases, they have no interest in working with Americans.  They only think to suppress America, and it’s been going on since before the 1930s.  The Great Depression, never forget, created a crisis by applying communist policies to the tremendous economic machine of American capitalism.  And Democrats and progressives have been selling communism to anybody who would listen for over a hundred years now, hiding it behind racism, feminism, environmentalism, social reforms of all kinds, and children in schools.  It’s been a long process, and as Trump continues to increase in polling, there is panic forming among these communists presenting themselves as Democrats and RINO Republicans.  People have been on to them and are showing support for an alternative that was never part of their plan.  And they will fight to keep their plan alive through violence because that’s what every communist revolution has done around the world.  But like the last time Trump was elected, they will take to the streets to start riots and mobs of chaos incited by the many billionaires who have invested in global communism, of which America is just a part.  They never had a plan B. 

Many people, I remember it from 2020, hesitated to admit that they were voting for Trump because they worried that the mob of agitators would arrive at their house and bring violence to them.  So they either voted in favor of Biden or denied that they voted for Trump.  Either way, they felt they had to suppress their opinions to save themselves from a violent outcome by a radical leftist mob.  That is not how it should ever be in America, and I think we will have to fight for it in ways many never thought they’d ever have to.  We read about other people fighting for our freedom, but most never thought we’d have to do it ourselves.  I believe, in a lot of ways, our time will be the worst because the mob of violence is loose on our streets, and they are in our neighborhoods, and it’s going to get chippy for a long time.  And a lot of people are going to get hurt.  Sure, it will be needless violence.  Sure, there are lots of ways to solve problems besides violence.  But we have been trying for a long time, and it’s only been our side who have given an inch only for Democrats to take a mile.  And they aren’t going to give that mile back out of kindness.  It will have to be ripped from them.

At this point, there is no peaceful scenario.  If Trump doesn’t return to the White House, people are going to turn to violence to remove the communist government that is impacting our lives at every level of American life.  And if Trump does end up back in the White House, the Democrats are going to cause every kind of trouble you can imagine.  They will attack and do so viciously.  I would advise you all to be well-armed and stand firmly behind the Constitution, the rule of law, the Supreme Court, and the White House with Trump in it.  And dig in for the fight and expect violence to come your way.  But we aren’t just talking about people’s feelings here; we are talking about outright communism.  We have gone to war in other countries for far less than we are seeing coming out of the Uniparty, especially where Democrats are concerned.  And we won’t be able to call up the military to attack on behalf of a civil war.  No, this is a fight we will have to win ourselves, and it will likely get messy.  I hope not, but there is nothing in me that thinks there’s any way out but violence.  And if there’s violence, make sure you’re the one who wins on behalf of capitalism against communism and defend the flag from enemies, both foreign and domestic.  It will take courage, but it all starts by voting Trump back into the White House, and from there, Democrats will do what they have always done: stand for violence to propel communism on their enemies.  And there’s no soft way to land that plane.  It’s happening regardless of what people hope to avoid.  The longer we put it off, the worse it will get.  But it’s going to happen regardless.

Rich Hoffman

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A Perspective on the Value of Money: What a long marriage can teach you

Perspective is an important thing, especially when its based on experience. And unless you live in a culture that can produce experience, it will be difficult to create a society that embraces any hope of wisdom.  Recently, I think it was a combination of the Kentucky Derby and all its festivities, where invites to that event created challenges to our schedule and the 36th anniversary of my marriage to my wife.  Many things get said, and stories are told, especially when people discover how long my wife and I have been married.  There are just assumptions that nobody stays married that long these days for any reason.  Our perspective on social values is very traditional, as well as our opinions on money, how it’s made, and what it says about people.  One story about our early days is worth some perspective and sharing, which is the point here.  I’ve told many stories about my past; it was unique.  To put it mildly, I worked for the mob, not because I wanted to work for mobsters, but because it was an excellent job to get some experience in Sharonville, Ohio, along the Chester Road corridor, which back then was the entertainment zone for the entire city of Cincinnati.  I was a very ambitious young man who wasn’t afraid of anything, which was very attractive to my employers.  I came to know many influential people in Cincinnati politics very early in my life, and some of the wealthiest people were people I called friends.  I was the private chauffeur for many local celebrities, especially team members of the Bengals at that time, so I had an early education about the value of people unique to my circumstances.  I was making more money before I turned 18 than my parents had, and I was just getting started. 

Naturally, once I left that job for something more traditional, income was a prime concern and I wanted to make as much as I possibly could at 18 years old as I was moving out on my own.  And again, I would make more money at this time than my parents which was important to me.  I was in a race to conquer the world the way that the world measured it.  I would go as far as to say that I was ruthless and was intent on having millions of dollars of hard-earned money in my bank account within a few months of working as a car salesman at a local Tri-County front group for money laundering.  That was common in those days and why I know so much about the current Ukraine operation that the government is involved in, and why I said that the mob moved into government.  I was on the front line of that movement and watched it happen up close.  My job was legitimate: sell new and used cars to people and make a commission off that effort.  Even if the job itself only existed to wash money from organized crime efforts at that time, the ownership and upper managers were all in on the effort.  And yes, at all these jobs, the police were involved, and judges, and I knew everyone.  Or, instead, they knew me and were proud to tell people they did.  As I have said before, I had a get-out-of-jail-free card in several communities that lasted as long as I made people a lot of money.   But the moment I didn’t, it was a different story. 

But I had moved out of the house and made more than most adults in the Cincinnati area.  However, along the way, I met my wife.  The timing was inconvenient.  I wasn’t looking for a wife then; she had everything you would look for.  She was a fashion model, her family was wealthy, and they were prominent Beckett Ridge Country Club members nearby.  So our relationship got serious quickly, and soon, she visited me at my job for lunch dates.  On one particular day, she came to my desk just as I was sending over one of the most significant commissions this dealership had ever seen; it was an older man I was selling a used truck to for over $5,000 over invoice and to show how strong I was at the sale, I had him going across the street to the bank to take out all the cash to pay for it with a pile of money.  It was a big deal, and it set the men from the boys in the sales world in that particular culture, and I thought my wife would be impressed.  But she wasn’t, she started crying.  She already knew many successful people and wanted to get out of that life.  She was being set up to be the trophy wife of some doctor in that Beckett Ridge Country Club who was older than her dad, and she wanted off that train at 17 years old.  And I was that rebellious ticket.  So, to make her happy, I redid the deal and gave the guy the truck for just a bit over margin, and he was pleased.  I went from hero to zero in that dealership within an hour, and many life lessons were learned that set the course for many years.  Just making money isn’t enough, especially with people like my wife.  How you make it matters more, and this will be a theme for us over the next four decades. 

It was hard; I went from living high on the hog and being the center of every social circle to the opposite life.  To make my wife happy, I worked at a series of complex manufacturing jobs to earn money as honestly as possible, and I learned a lot of precious experiences from that perspective.  My wife’s requirement to earn money honestly seriously crippled my lifestyle, and it has been challenging over the years.  But that standard has allowed me to have a perspective that few ever get or survive in life—especially the Kentucky Derbi crowd, where the goal is to see and be seen in the crowd.  But most of it is cosmetic and not what my wife values in people.  And naturally, with those values, we have a concise list of people we associate with.  Because most people are still at that phase I was in at 18, where money is the measure of your worth, so you do whatever you can to make it.  To advance beyond that is a journey that few ever get to.  But obviously, we have been married for 36 years for a reason, and if she hadn’t pushed me the way she did, I might never have learned some of those hard lessons about money and value sometimes, when someone gives you a 7 figure opportunity, its better not to take that job but to do something that fulfills other requirements in your life.  But before you can do that, you must have standards to live up to.  At an early age, we were both blessed to have had the chance to get that kind of life out of our systems.  By age 19, I was married, and we were working hard to start a life of our own together, which continues to this day.  But when I say that making money is easy, how you make it matters most; that is the context.  I have never been impressed with people who make a lot of money.  But money is a good measure of people’s value because it tells you a lot about the quality of the person making it.  If they are cheats or cutthroats, money will reveal it, as opposed to some communist centralized government that is entirely built around who you know and how much they like you.  My perspective comes from that critical experience at the dealership and the highlife that came with it.  And the value of an great woman to chase after took me on a wild ride that brought experiences wealth itself could never provide alone. 

Rich Hoffman

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