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Television for Stupid People: Yes, the rats are jumping ship, because that’s what rats do

They were never Republicans, Kevin McCarthy, and many of the people at Fox News, certainly not the Murdoch family.  I have been wary of them all for a very long time, and we are seeing this same frustrated transition in our local Butler County politics.  People who thought they were staunch conservatives are now being kicked off slate cards because the Central Committees are pushing them in ways they’ve never been pushed before.  This is why I recently wrote the Parable of Weeds, to explain this process we are in now, where RINOs are being exposed who were always there, but hid in the background of politics when the media had a lot more control over the process than they do now.  So it doesn’t surprise me in the least to see the Republican House retiring and wanting to give the Democrats the majority back as Speaker Johnson is pushing to have an impeachment of Joe Biden.  These people were always controlled opposition folks, and they have been caught.  This is also why these last four years of not having Trump was necessary, even if it was painful.  Our political system was not set up for us, it was connected to all kinds of maniacal interests that did not have our best interests in mind.  But we didn’t know for sure.  Just remember, we never had a majority in the House; we had controlled opposition.  We needed to root them out to get accurate representation, and that process is happening as we speak as Kevin McCarthy has announced his retirement going into 2024.  He’s not wanted, and he’s not the first to leave.  Politics is a blood sport, but these guys thought they were going to control the score of the game, and they are learning that they bleed just like everyone else. 

I’ve never been much of a Sean Hannity fan, but I have had several chances to meet him. One time, I think it was around 2009, when he had a big rally at Kings Island ahead of the Tea Party movement, right after Obama was elected.  I didn’t make myself available even though it might have looked like a great opportunity at the time.  There were other times but my relationship with Clear Channel radio and Bill Cunningham sent additional cautions to me that I am glad that I listened to.  I always thought it was strange that a Democrat playing a conservative on WLW radio spent each Christmas with Sean Hannity down in Florida with other big-time radio personalities.  It was a kind of networking event that said a lot about the participants, and I have always kept my distance, even though the door flung open to that world for me many times.  As soon as Trump became available in 2015, I started looking in that direction for real results, while many of these fake characters further dug into the RINO lifestyle.  And that was never clearer than when Sean Hannity on Fox News hosted a debate with Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom as if to say to the world, that these two people are who Fox News thinks should replace Trump and Biden as presidential nominees, and that anybody would listen.  As if they knew who we should be voting for better than we did.  That arrogance was unmistakable, and the debate I thought was a disaster even though in the following week, everyone kept referring to it as a big “throwdown,” especially on the Clay and Buck Show, the “not conservative” replacement for Rush Limbaugh.  I understand perfectly well why Rush kept his distance from all these characters, and felt he needed to maintain intellectual distance. 

I remember well that I was in the New Mexican desert very near the Trinity test site when I heard on the radio that Rush Limbaugh had died.  That was a rough period because Biden had just stepped into the White House after a stolen election, and good guys like Rush and most of Trump’s team were falling away and under severe legal scrutiny.  It was a very dark time.  Yet Sean Hannity never seemed to be impacted.  He played everything loose playing his role of controlled opposition without upsetting his bosses at Fox News.  And to keep everyone watching, he’ll put President Trump on for an hour-long show, as he did after the DeSantis debate with the communist governor of California, Gavin Newsom.  And Trump went on because he’s a business guy who will talk to anybody about anything, all the time.  And that comes with the territory.  But boy, have we learned a lot about these various personalities over the last few years, really since that announcement of the death of Rush Limbaugh and the term of Trump for the first time ending in the White House.  As I write this I am finishing my reading of an early copy of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. book The Wuhan Cover-Up which is a jaw-dropping confession to many of our worst nightmares about how the Covid virus came about, how it was funded, and how tight the global network is in concealing and advancing information that ended up killing millions of people as a bioweapon.  And the biggest criminals in the whole matter were the same people telling us that we should be picking Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom as viable options, rather than Trump. 

With the writing clearly on the wall now with Trump and that Hannity debate with DeSantis and Newsom going nowhere, it showed how dumb both of those guys are.  I don’t get much of a chance to see Gavin Newsom and hearing him talk was extraordinarily alarming, as he’s an obvious con man who may make women blush with the opportunity to drink a bottle of wine with him, but he’s an overt communist that increasingly Fox News lusts after for the same reason that women do.  And the DeSantis brand is permanently destroyed, never to return.  We have big problems in the world, huge problems as revealed in The Wuhan Cover-Up, and these are the people Fox News presented as options?  The polling for Trump is clear: people don’t like the world that these RINO Republicans have provided, and they are done with it, much the way I have been since early in the 2010s.  I’ve always stayed away from the controlled opposition.  I’ll talk to anybody, but I don’t give them my support unless they show me there is more to them.  And for me, there has never been anybody but Trump, and now lots of the RINOs in Congress are learning that many feel exactly as I do.  Rush Limbaugh understood it, but Sean Hannity never did, nor did Bill Cunningham at Cincinnati’s WLW radio.  It was always fun for them to pretend to be conservatives, but we aren’t in that kind of world anymore.  And that kind of television for stupid people that Fox News has been providing with these alternative debates is a thing of the past.  We are at war with those perpetrators of the controlled opposition and we should be.  In the coming weeks, I will be talking a lot about The Wuhan Cover-Up book and election fraud, which Fox News knowingly played a part in.  And there is a lot of punishment coming toward those who brought great harm to the world on purpose.  And retiring from Congress won’t save them from what’s coming because they played a part in evil that must be punished.  And that’s not called “radical.”  It’s justice for the kind of world we deserve.  And if we don’t, the future will never forgive us.

Rich Hoffman

The Strategy of Making People Look Crazy: Or to drive them crazy in the process

There’s another arraignment at 9 AM on December 18th for Darbi Boddy, just for going to Lakota school board meetings as an elected representative.  You can see how ridiculous the case against her has been by Judge Lyon’s recent filing, trying to drive the point further for his client Isaac Adi from any public criticism, which is utterly ridiculous.  The first arraignment was to have occurred just after Thanksgiving 2023, but the judge, as all judges in Butler County, would have to because of the power of Isaac’s attorney, who is a long-standing common pleas judge, had to be delayed.  The Ohio Supreme Court then had to appoint a neutral judge.  So, of course, we are dealing with legal gymnastics that assumes that an abuse of legal authority comes by hiring a judge to process a case in which we are to believe that Darbi Boddy is such a threat to the Lakota school board that Isaac is terrified and is seeking help from the courts.  As ridiculous as all that is, Darbi is facing a potential of 6 months in jail and in the thousands of dollars in fines, not to mention the extraordinary legal fees.  Darbi’s first attorney has stepped aside and now there is a new one as this case continues to drag on for what would appear to be frivolous reasons on the surface.  But I’ve seen this tactic before, and it has a deeper meaning, as dumb as that reason might be.  It’s a strategy I have seen happen to men and women over many decades, primarily women.  I’m surprised Judge Lyons would participate as he has spent time around me and shown interest in constitutional individualism.  But then again, there are many like him over the years who have simply wanted to fit in, and in the dark places of their minds, resent individualists like Darbi Boddy so much, that they turn to the mechanisms of collectivism to exert a social control that drew them to the acquisition of power in the first place. 

There is nothing about the Darbi Boddy case that is legally correct, it’s a clear abuse of authority that started with attorneys for Lakota schools pulling the strings behind the scenes to get rid of Darbi as a school board member, for lots of reasons.  Most involve having a puppet school board easily controlled for upcoming labor negotiations with the teacher’s union.  Darbi, like President Trump, is a threat to that old order. Her prosecution is a clear message not to mess with these public unions, judges’ networks of brotherhoods, and bar associations.  There is a reason that weak people seek comfort in brotherhoods; it’s for the power they feel they can only get from group assimilation.  So what we have going on all over the country, especially at Lakota schools, is individualism against collectivism and the merits of those philosophies to public government.  But this didn’t all start with Darbi in 2023; this action against her is a common strategy and has occurred frequently over the years. It has occurred in over 20 women I have known.  Many started just like Darbi Boddy, young and in their 40s, raising children, attending church, finding the world’s evils repugnant, and wanting to do something about it.  But in the process of the fight against that system, the common strategy of collectively based villainous characters is to attempt to capture the definition of sanity and use it to make their opponents look insane or to drive them insane with the audacity of evil that is presented to them.  So far, Darbi Boddy has held up well over the last few years.  But adding all this up over a decade or two takes its toll, and the results are usually terrible.

I don’t think she would mind, but I normally keep these things quiet; I would call Judge Edelsten a friend, she is the person who had trouble in the Butler County courts that involved lots of legal issues with many of the same judges that are involved in the Darbi Boddy case, which is why she comes to my mind.  And she won her cases, just as Darbi should win all of hers.  But the cost to her has been enormous, and the system participants have built it that way.  The best way to explain what happens to these women, again men too, such as Roger Reynolds, the former auditor of Butler County, or Thomas Hall, the current Representative in Ohio, is that there is a network that protects itself from vivacious characters that drew them to power in the first place.  But specifically with women, some of them are now in their 70s and have been fighting the same corruption for over thirty years, and it wears them out.  They end up with their kids grown and hateful; their husbands usually end up running off with other women, women who are less politically active and much easier to make happy, and they end up alone, bitter, and angry.  And people like these Butler County judges know that their cases have little legal merit, but their control over the law can drive people crazy.  A good example would be when a man is looking to cheat on his wife with another woman, and he attempts to portray the effort by telling everyone how crazy his wife is so that he can justify the abandonment of his marital vows.  When collectivists attack individuals, they always turn toward manipulating public opinion so they can show themselves as the victim, which is the entire legal strategy behind the Darbi Boddy legal cases.  It’s the system looking to divorce Darbi by making her look like the crazy wife.  And if she’s not crazy today, fighting a corrupt system might make her and her friends turn out that way.

That’s not to say that fighting back against the system is a worthless gesture.  I would point to what’s happening in American politics with Trump against the never-Trumper movement as an example of this behavior over many years catching up to them.  Sure, there have been a lot of casualties. Some of the women I mentioned are now very bitter old ladies who never tasted justice even though technically they won in court.  The sheer evil of the systems they fight rots them from the inside out.  But along the way, the exposure of this vast evil has turned the public against it.  So, no matter how far down the well the Butler County courts attempt to attach themselves to yet another example of judicial activism to take out a political opponent using a corrupt court system to do it, the public is turning away from those kinds of abuses of power, because they are tired of it.  They see what has been going on all along.  I tell those older women that I’m thinking of, as their kids have grown up, to hate them for their crusades of justice, and for what, to eventually win a victory in the court of public opinion several decades later, that it was all worth it.  Their men would have left them for younger women anyway.  And kids often must learn life lessons from the totality of a life, not just the little kid years where a mom was a good mom because they gave them a popsicle from the freezer while watching their favorite show on television.  As Darbi Boddy is experiencing in real-time, most collective-based organizations, whether it’s the Lakota school board, the local attorneys, the judges, the political RINOs, or the Freemasonry network, that all the people join those memberships to gain power over their fear of individual merit.  Which is the root cause of much of what’s wrong in the world.  And in the end, the victory is worth it.  Even if it costs a lot to get there. 

Rich Hoffman

The Biden Push for EV Vehicles: A total disaster by a tyrannical government that tampered with markets with massive failure

I do find the Tesla Truck a desirable option, not because it’s an electric vehicle, but because it’s armored, and would be a good addition to my lifestyle.  It would have come in handy a couple of times last week.  The bulletproof windows for small arms fire and the stainless steel body would be great things to have.  But Tesla is a good car company. Aside from the new Tesla Truck, they are fancy golf carts with reasonable market options for a gasoline economy.  And they have carved out a nice little niche for themselves, supported by just enough public interest to be interesting.  The drawback for me is all the charging, and the frequency of it.  Around town, for the stuff under 20 miles, the Tesla Truck would be great for my lifestyle.  For anything over those short stints, charging becomes a problem.  I know where most of the Tesla charging stations are within a few hundred miles of my home, and they are pretty well thought out, so long as there aren’t a lot of other Tesla drivers looking to charge their vehicles simultaneously.  So, as long as Tesla vehicles stay in a small market where they are rare on the road, buying one is much more attractive than if they were common and had to wait in line to charge their vehicles during long-distance travel.  It’s hard to beat the way travel is now, where fuel stops take under 15 minutes.  We have a very busy economy, which makes sense because it is the world’s most productive.  So, anything added to that economy by way of transportation needs to observe the rules of the game, which is speed.  And electric vehicles don’t have it.  They take too long to charge, and you must charge them too often.  Otherwise, I would say that the Tesla Truck is a superior vehicle.

But don’t say I didn’t say so on this electric vehicle market problem that has hit us, because of government intervention.  The Biden administration, thinking it knew better than the consumers, imposed all these regulations on car manufacturers to make more electric vehicles in their war against fossil fuels, and now all these companies, like Ford, have produced electric cars that are sitting on lots that nobody wants, and panic is setting in.  All the major car companies listened to the Biden administration when it was declared by such and such date, within this present decade, that all cars would be electric.  Of course, we know that Biden didn’t come up with all this nonsense on his own.  Rather, he was told what to do by the global World Economic Forum communists and their cult of love for Mother Earth, an insidious love that would make Norman Bates jealous.  Their beliefs should be considered technically insane, nobody should be listening to them to construct any public policy.  This is a consistent theme with these global lefties; they are authoritarian types who view government as a kingly mechanism and everyone is their subject who must honor every kind of edict constructed by the court no matter how dumb it is.  People are to do what they are told and to appease their king.  And if that king, or kings, decide that people should be driving fancy golf carts, that is just how it will be.  So, a complete dedication to the EV marketplace was imposed by the American government through a stolen election, and like a bunch of dumb fools trying to appease their insane king, the car companies tried to make a switch to all EV cars to meet the target dates set by the government. 

But that’s not how it works, not anywhere.  There is a reason most of the world’s economies are not very effective: they have socialist and communist governments that impose too many constraints on their financial opportunities.  Constraints take time, and they cost money.  They make bureaucrats and administrators happy by feeling like they are doing work when all they do is slow things down, which then holds down a country’s GDP.  The government in America doesn’t like Tesla cars for all kinds of reasons, mainly because of the way Elon Musk has built his factories, which are largely automated.  Automated factories don’t need unionized labor that can threaten to strike every five seconds and sleep on the job while watching Netflix movies—so big labor combined with big government is often the same.  Communist labor unions influence most government jobs, so they start with the wrong thinking.  So, the government thought it knew best to ignore the one EV company that had worked to satisfy a real market value for electronic vehicles, then would impose on the other corporations that were doing fine making gas-powered vehicles that they would all switch over to electronic vehicles, where the batteries are made in China largely, creating single point failures everywhere.  It was a hugely dumb idea, yet the Biden administration committed to it in the first months of his presidency, and now, three years later, there is a panic from those car companies that nobody wants their product.  Americans aren’t buying EV cars, not to the point that they were expected to, and now there is all this investment in a market economy that nobody wants, which is a big problem. 

But what’s worse is that the plot looks even dumber.  Now that all the car companies are failing, the real intention of the plan seems to be to make personal vehicles so expensive that ordinary people couldn’t afford them, forcing people to move back into their cities where public transportation would become the dominant form of personal transit once again.  Again, the Biden government represents an authority approach where slowing down is their method of choice.  My children had just returned from Europe, where they took the bullet trains all over the place.  They are interesting, but when you get to a train station in Edinburgh or Paris, then what?  You walk, take a bicycle, hire a driver.  People quickly lose their independence, which was always the point.  In America, you drive your big car from city to city, and once you get where you are going, you take your vehicle.  You don’t wait for a train, Uber, or anything.  The minds of the insane have created all this micromanagement in these 15-minute city concepts.  And now we see the cost of their authority approach in billions and billions of lost economic opportunities.  Rather than meet Adam Smith’s invisible hand of market need, they thought imposing their vision onto financial standards was best.  And the result has been utterly disastrous.  And just in time for the next election, it’s all hitting the fan, as I said it would, years in advance.  If only they had listened.  But many fools followed each other over the cliff and now have themselves to blame.  Government should support the expansion of market economies, not get in its way and that is the real problem with all the EVs sitting around looking for customers that will never come.  The government tried to shape the market rather than adapt to the growing need for economic expansion.  It hasn’t worked anywhere, especially in the United States.  If EV cars were truly the best, and Tesla at this point makes the best, they would find their way into market consideration.  Instead, the government has decided to pick winners and losers, and if people didn’t like it, they could take a train, which is the answer all left-leaning politicians come up with, which has turned out to be predictably, and grotesquely wrong.

Rich Hoffman

What the 2023 Macy’s Parade Tells us About the Economy: It’s Back to the 80s

I watch the Macy’s Parade from New York on Thanksgiving Day as a measuring device for our public health every year.  I usually comment on the kind of balloons they have on the parade route and what type of music they feature creatively.  And also, what is the tone of the broadcasts, and the commercials?  There is usually a lot going on to report that provides a good indicator of other economic factors that say a lot about us as a culture.  And sure enough, the 2023 Macy’s Day Parade had a lot to say.  If I had to pick a theme that was decidedly a major part of the decision-making process in putting the parade on this year, it was “Remember the 80s.”  Because most of the musical acts and creative selections were attempting to rub off the magic and music of the 80s to bring happiness back to the consumer culture, in the past, it was always common to exhibit very progressive themes, like “gays teaching class,” “drag queens make a cake,” or some similar social intrusion.  But I’m telling you, and Disney is a great example of this; going woke has made a lot of corporations go broke.  And that’s more than a catchy tagline.  You can see in the behavior of most corporations that they are reeling from terrible advice from Larry Fink and the gang at BlackRock and, ultimately, the intruders at the World Economic Forum.  By this point in the global insurrection process, we were supposed to be on another currency controlled by the centralized banks, digitally, China was to have surpassed America as the dominant economy, and President Trump was supposed to be in jail, and have all his political capital removed.  So there is a lot of soul-searching going on that many people who thought they controlled the world are embarking on, and it’s not a pleasant experience for them.  And all that shows in the creative decisions at this year’s Macy’s Day Parade. 

I’ll go even further than that, this Taylor Swift lunacy with the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs is part of the story.  It’s a constructed monstrosity from a corporate brand that needs something to spark interest in the product, and predictably, because Taylor Swift is suddenly at NFL games dating a famous player, women are watching football.  European soccer has been appealing to this younger generation, and the NFL had to do something, so there is nothing better than a romance between the most popular “anti-Trump” pop star on the planet now, where they play her music during NFL games abundantly, and one of the premier players in Travis Kelce.  I noticed that this romance didn’t start until shortly after Taylor Swift played her concert series in Cincinnati, which is a kind of melting pot of heartland sentiment.  It just so happens that Travis used to be a Cincinnati Bearcat football player, so there is something of a connection with Cincinnati that they both have, in some ways, they are wholesome products of one of America’s most wholesome cities.  Some people measure such things as obsessions.  I believe the matchmakers who put these two together, such as Erin Andrews, played a role in understanding corporate politics through such imaging.  “Hey, you guys should date, it would be great for the game and for your careers.”  Taylor Swift and Kelce go on a few dates, talk about how great Cincinnati is, and pretty soon, they are swapping spit in the shower and sharing a towel.  A new corporate romance is born, meant to carry public sentiment positively.

The musical selections at the Macy’s Parade were along the same lines.  They had Cher, references to Back to the Future, and many Broadway plays with people in cowboy hats, as if they were trying to appeal hard to mainstream America but weren’t sure they knew what it was.  What they didn’t talk a lot about was progressive politics, to the point where it was avoided by everyone involved in the presentation.  At the beginning of the parade, a bunch of Palestinian protestors were blocking the route, and they were disposed of quickly so as not to impact the show, which I thought was great.  The show must always go on.  And if you were watching it on television, you never would have known.  It was interesting to watch Cher perform because she is one of the biggest Never Trumpers out there and would generally be one who would throw support to Palestinian supporters, but here was a 70-year-old all dressed up singing sexy songs from the 80s.  Later that day, I might add, Dolly Parton dressed up like a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader in her 70s, trying to show that age and sexiness were not lost during the Thanksgiving Day tradition of the Cowboys playing football during a halftime show.  The NFL could have picked thousands of other people.  Entertainment had millions of different options, but they decided on Cher, Dolly, and the safe music of Taylor Swift to sell their corporate image.  There were no Black Lives Matter references, no bending the knee at the National Anthem.  There was almost a desperate hope that these corporate images might politely be invited into the public trust again by giving audiences everything they sought and more. 

As I have been saying for a long time now, the BlackRock stakeholder capitalism idea was never going to work, all that goofy stuff they have been yacking about at Davos was never going to be accepted by the American public, and it is there that world cultures trend.  European rock bands and entertainment must export their art to America to make money.  Not China, as the entertainment industry used to think it was possible to sell to the public.  Not Africa, Russia, or Europe.  If you can’t tap into the greatest economy in the world, the one that every economist everywhere should be studying instead of trying to change into a socialist utopia, then there is no market.  And the ultimate feature of that art is the Mainstreet options seen in features like the Macy’s Day Parade.  This year, it was all about an olive branch to the MAGA voters.  Over the last three years of Biden, it’s evident that the public wasn’t seduced into the World Economic Forum monstrosities cooked up under their economic view.  And people wanted optimism in their art again, in their music, movies, and Broadway plays.  It wasn’t that long ago when Broadway was utterly shut down due to COVID-19.  Well, people moved on to other interests, and getting a ticket to a Broadway play isn’t so hard now, just like Disney Parks, where attendance is low.  People didn’t need the corporations.  They don’t need NFL football; all the progressive activism has hurt their brand.  They are turning to Taylor Swift to help them recapture the magic, but it looks like there is permanent damage to the NFL because of their anti-Trump activism that will never come back.  The Macy’s Parade of 2023 clearly states that significant changes were on the horizon, not the kind they politically support.  Yet that is the world of tomorrow, and they are trying to embrace it today.  Their actions are an admission of good things to come that they aren’t all that happy about, but if they want to be in business, they had better embrace it.

Rich Hoffman

Understanding the Game: The Attack by the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’

One of the most controversial books in the world. But not the work of the Jewish people.

The truth is, as the evidence points, is that the famous book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written anonymously by the Khazarian mob, attached to Freemasonry, and was distributed to the world from Russia shortly after the communist takeover in 1917, and was meant to turn the world against the Jewish people so to built what we see today, a one world government ruled by the United Nations. In these attached videos, I explain the story as briefly as possible, but the necessity of it now is the point of emphasis. The Protocols was so successful for the global insurgents, who we tied directly to the Mason movements around the world, that you can see the tactic employed even against that poor kid at the Kansas City Chiefs game dressed in war paint and an Indian headdress to impose politics into even a harmless sporting event. Because of the success of that strategy, the political left and global collectivists have been empowered to continue their campaign of destruction for all kinds of reasons, and you have to understand the method so that you can understand the madness. I’ve known about all these conspiracy theories and truther speculations for many decades, and I usually find them entertaining. At least that’s how I viewed that type of information before Covid was unleashed on the world, and all these government agencies were so quick to lie to our faces about election fraud, their purposeful overthrow of a sitting president in Trump, and, of course, the utilization of Covid as a delivery weapon of mass destruction that was far more deadly, and effective than a ground assault with actual troops and weapons into our communities. Conspiracy theories can be interesting information that I have found helpful until they have been confirmed, which is where we are now in 2023. Our institutions have disappointed us because they never tried to live up to our respect. Instead, they always intended to rule from the shadows, and the conspiracies came from people who could see enough to ask questions, seeking to find out more information in the great game of information keep-away.

You will find that the Khazarian mob is located in present day Ukraine

It’s not just in international games of political dominance that these problems arise, but locally, too.  Because of all the Darbi Boddy stories in my town of Butler County, Ohio, where there is an obvious institutionalized system to destroy her as a school board member for Lakota that is almost the same as the federal and global cases against President Trump, a lot of people want to know what the connection is.  I have been pointing out that the local Masonic lodges were the next social step beyond political brotherhoods that connected the world back to the antics of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which has been used to stir up war around the world for over a hundred years now.  Most of these organizations’ members have no idea what goes on outside of their bubble of influence and consider such thoughts way above their pay grade.  But they volunteer as mindless soldiers in the cause of collectivism and the evils that come with it all too often.  A loss of freedom resulted from each war, and the government expanded to meet the crises.  That is until 2020 when Covid was a bridge too far, and people could finally see the footprints of these maniacal figures tip-toeing through the wet paint they had put on the floor, painting themselves into a corner.  The rulers of our world behind all these various group associations, such as the Masons, was that ruling from the shadows wasn’t working anymore.  It’s easy to punch someone in the face when the lights are out, and you know where they are, but they don’t know where you are.  But once you turn on the lights, you can punch them in the face, too, which is the movement we are experiencing today.  Most of these conspiracy theories are no longer fringe conspiracies; they are facts. 

But it’s not the friendly Jewish people who are the problem, just as that little kid at the Chiefs game isn’t a monster, as the media attempted to make him out to be. Or that America is racist, when it was Abraham Lincoln who fought to free enslaved people as the leader of the Republican Party. Or that Trump was working with Putin in Russia to take over elections in America and win power when it was everyone but Trump who was committing the crimes. Or that Darbi Boddy in Butler County, Ohio, was harming the district when everyone else profiting off the chaos was guilty and attempting to accuse her of what they were doing. This game has gone on long enough, and people have wanted a means to understand it, so I put up these videos explaining this long story in the briefest way possible. One I did with music and some editing to make it more presentable in its long duration. The other two are the raw video so that the information can be listened to without distractions. There is a lot of information, and I have a feeling it’s going to get a lot of circulation because people are hungry for this kind of understanding, especially when trying to understand why Hamas is trying to kill innocent Jews. If you look in the backpacks of the terrorists who attacked by parachute at the start of October 2023, you will likely find some reference to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Or a quick search history on their computers would show that they had been reading it online, which is one of the most viewed documents in the world. It’s a real problem, but it didn’t come from the Jewish people or a religion of any kind. Instead, it was written by those who wanted to rule from the shadows and manipulate the masses with terror toward the protection of a big, global government. The kind of government they are always talking about at Davos and climate change summits in Dubai.

Information is great for deciding value

Clearly, most of these characters were not strong, so they hid in group behavior, such as Masonic memberships, Bar Associations, and even political parties. The questions have been coming at me in trying to understand why RINOs are so much like Democrats rather than the conservatives we’d like them to be. Well, that’s because most people lack individual courage, and they find the American Constitution uncomfortable in that it empowers personal liberty, and the movements of Freemasonry have been to steer society toward the value of group affiliations. So they are naturally at odds with each other and can’t possibly rule as a unified government, not when group affiliations are valued by one side and individual liberty by the other. Those things don’t go together. And the desperation to hide in groups is something that some of these people will kill over, which is the root cause of much of the Covid trouble, and the belief that it could be used to steal elections on a massive scale. That belief persisted for many decades and at a significant cost because everyone involved in the writing and distribution of Protocols of the Elders of Zion had never been punished, and the government had grown massively in reaction to it. And that will continue until those scams are stopped, and we gain freedom from such manipulators because there will always be such people. Our task is to keep them out of the shadows and into the light of day with the American Bill of Rights. A free press has brought many of these conspiracy theories to the surface and made them observable facts. But until we fully embraced such devices, we were left to the killers to interpret their intentions, which they stated were for our good and the benefit of all. As we have always seen, it was just global domination using mass media as the delivery tool. This is a topic I could write lots of books about, but hopefully, this little introduction will settle things a bit for now. Let’s win our elections, ask lots of questions, and do not trust the administrators of globalism on anything!

Of course mass manipulators would have been seduced by the power of media to attempt tyranny on a global scale

Rich Hoffman

I’m Happy to be Called a Radical: How lazy people hide the truth from the public

Let’s have an honest discussion. Otherwise, I would have just left it alone.  But over the last several weeks, since the previous election in 2023, I have had more people refer to me and people I know as radicals than I have ever heard.  Let me tell you what they really mean when they say such things.  They intend that they are too lazy to fight for their country and to do the right thing for themselves and their families.  Most of the world, all through history, is pretty lazy, and people would rather shmooze their way into a better life than work for it.  And I am the opposite.  And I find among other people who are also being called radicals because of our support of Trump, and of a dislike of RINO Republicans, and many other things such as abortion rights, pot legalization, homeschooling, and the economy, that the real frustration is that they are too lazy to do the right thing, and they are frustrated by other people who aren’t, and it exposes them for the losers they are.  If only they weren’t so lazy and soft-minded in intellect, the world would be a much different and better place.  The name-calling is in anger for those same people feeling exposed for being less than they should be.  They have let the universe down by not working to make it better.  Instead, they let some pin-headed loser of an attorney attempt to shape local politics with personal destruction so they can have an easier time with a labor contract with a radical teacher’s union.  Or they support little bits of Marxism in their businesses and political climates because they are too lazy to compete with other companies for market share, so they turn to lobbyists hoping to get an advantage through the power of government.  When someone calls someone like me a radical, what they mean is that they are too lazy to do the right things and always fall into evil because of personal failures they wish to hide behind a façade of social merit.

Let me explain another thing: some of the most vile characters that we are dealing with these days never turned away from a Christian nation calling them names.  People like Saul Alinsky, who wrote the handbook of left-winged politics, Rules for Radicals, put the title on his cover, embracing the term as a badge of honor.  Conservatives have been suckered over the years by church interpretations of Christ to turn the other cheek and focus their efforts on getting into Heaven. Actual Luciferian devils of all kinds have been assaulting us to our faces and literally trying to bring Hell all over the earth, and we have been too lazy and too complacent to do anything about it.  Allowing evil to spread like wildfire gives us this world of garbage we see today.  A place where public schools teach kids not to use their minds but to have sex in kindergarten and to be taught by a transvestite who wants to do a strip show in our city streets for children.  Yes, if you open Rules for Radicals to the very first page, the dedication page, you will see that Saul Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.  So, it’s not a conspiracy theory; it’s a fact and an audacious one.  And when I talk about the Blood Cult of Baal, this is exactly what I mean: it is easier for lazy people to sacrifice something of value to spiritual rulers than to actually do the work themselves to make the world a better place. 

Saul Alinsky used to hang around the mob of Al Capone in Chicago and learned from them how to defeat Mainstreet, Christian America, which would then become the playbook Democrats would use to destroy the Republic of America.  To do to the rest of the country what they did to Chicago has ruined the city to this day.  Republicans care too much about what people think of them as being considered good Christians, socially rather than at the level of their very souls, and they could be exploited with name-calling.  It has worked for the last hundred years to such an extent that it has gone overboard, well beyond what Saul Alinsky could have hoped for.  People like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have openly embraced this notion of being called “radicals” because that’s what they were.  They wanted to be.  And on the backs of that effort, Bill Ayers and his crazy Weather Underground wife launched the political career of Barack Obama, the kid born in Indonesia or Kenya by an unknown dad of communist origin (we at least know that much), to destroy America while the polite conservatives just sat there and avoided being called names.  Such people would rather see the world burn before anybody calls them a disparaging name because they are so concerned with external visuals that they are terrified that people might see what they are really all about.  That is how evil spreads in the world, and Saul Alinsky, through the gangster Al Capone, understood it and knew how to use it to destroy the concept of America; they have been doing it to us all this time, and some people like me are sick of it.  I was never OK with it, and I’m not signing up to allow Hell to reign over the earth. Instead, I am committed to making on earth as it is in Heaven.  And I’m not putting up with evil in any form.  And if that’s radical, then so be it!

We have an excellent restaurant in my local area called Son of a Butcher at Liberty Center across from Pies and Pints.  I recently had dinner with a large group, and there is a backroom for such engagements.  This restaurant is filled with very eccentric artwork, and this particular room is dedicated to criminal conduct; it has mug shots mainly painted over the table you eat of Snoop Dogg’s mug shot and that of Marylin Monroe.  And it has the antics of Bonnie and Clyde looming along one of the large walls as crystal skulls peer at you through their antics of hell and damnation.  I love the place!  Not so much in the reverence of such images but in the admission.  In another room at that restaurant, they have what they call the “Godfather” table, which is very large and meant to reflect the participants of that famous movie.  This artistic approach to a dining experience says so much about our current culture, which Saul Alinsky had figured out and Democrats have been exploiting for years, especially recently.  People, like the Cult of Baal, would instead work to be part of a mob and gain the strength of the masses rather than stand as an individual and work to make the world a better place.  If they could find power in group behavior where they only had to appease a mighty criminal overlord or some demonic entity from the netherworld, then they would do it because they were lazy and would otherwise be found to be detriments to the world because they feared being called names for fear that people might learn what they really were, so their public image was of utmost concern to them.  To the point where they were entirely controlled by it and by those who held judgments behind the name-calling.  But not everyone is trying to hide who they are.  Some people are proud of it.  And these days, when the bad guys call you a radical, we can all wear it as a badge of honor.  Because if we have made them angry enough to call us that name.  Then we know we are doing the right thing.  If doing good is radical, then I’m thrilled to be one and will be motivated to do a lot more of it.

Rich Hoffman

2024 is Time for Harvest: Separating Good from Evil

As romantic of a notion as conspiracies might be, and they are, ultimately, many of the dark rituals to come from the following of astrology were related to the acquisition of food, such as knowing when it was time for harvest and preparing for the upcoming winter. And specifically to food supply, the production of wheat, and its use in the human diet. We forget these days just how stressful it was to wake up every day and figure out where your food would come from because food is an assumption for us in these modern times. It’s easy for us and in all varieties. But for thousands of years, right up until around 100 years ago, food was a very stressful problem, even for the rich and famous. So nurturing a good crop of wheat to the harvest was a significant undertaking, and it’s why such societies were able to make judgments of good and bad more directly because, literally, their food supply depended on value judgments just to survive. This is what the Parable of the Weeds is all about in Matthew 13:24-29 when Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.” Jesus essentially said to let the weeds grow with the wheat and not try to pull them up together; otherwise, you will destroy your crop in the process. Jesus was talking about tares, which are weeds, and specifically darnel, which looks like wheat during the early stages of growth. In this case, the best way to save your crop would be to separate the weeds from the crop at harvest time, not necessarily during the growth of the good wheat. And under such a metaphor, we can look at our times and say, “It’s time for the harvest.”

Can’t let the weeds sink roots

We have allowed a lot of weeds to grow in our culture, largely out of compassion, because we live in a time when perhaps we thought we could let everything grow together. That we could co-exist with evil and that demands on our survival would not be challenged. But that was incorrect. Instead, we have allowed many weeds to take over our gardens of life and now we cannot separate good and evil so easily. Like the darnel, evil looked a lot like good, and now their roots have intertwined together as parasites threatening to kill the host crop if we were to attempt to remove those weeds as they have been growing. And like the darnel, the weeds looked like the wheat we wanted, so we left it alone to grow, unmolested. This is the problem with having a society that does not cast value judgments on the wicked and estranged intellect. Letting a multitude of terrible menaces grow into a healthy society has destroyed our culture and stunted its growth outrageously. Of course, we took it for granted because we have lost touch with the necessity of using value judgments for survival. We have entertained this fantasy that we could all get along if only we respected each other’s place in the garden. Yet in so doing, we have only harmed what’s good and allowed what’s evil to perpetuate and grow in strength, leaving our only means of dealing with such a problem to a hope that everything might survive until a harvest.

We have a lot of darnel in our society

I would point to the year 2024 and the re-election of Trump as the harvest time of our present generation.  Of course, the weeds who have been surviving as parasites of the good will have great anxiety as the intentions of the harvest are revealed, the separation of the wheat from the weeds.  The darnel of our culture, which is vast and in many forms, knows that their time as parasites is ending, and they are naturally terrified.  After all, they are a lifeform too, and they were created to be parasites living off the good, to disguise themselves to even look like the wheat of our desire so that we might not know what they are until it’s too late.  Until they are in our schools teaching children to be transexual maniacs and sexually obsessed losers.  Until our national deficit is over 34 trillion dollars, with 1 trillion added in the last business quarter of 2023.  That drugs would be sought after to numb our minds from the terrors we see, that hidden tyrannies hidden in our technology would give us no peace in seclusion.  The war against good and evil would turn everything we thought we could trust into a pitched-fork devil of ill intent.  Everywhere we look, we see weeds, and it’s so bad that we can no longer tell what is good for us or bad.  We can’t know the wheat for the weeds because, at this point, everything looks the same.  We have not tended to our gardens; we have let the weeds deceive us into thinking they were wheat, and we allow them to grow and wrap their roots around the roots of our good crop, daring us to pull them and, in so doing, to destroy everything we value.

But it’s harvest time, time to pull up everything, wheat and all.  It will be a messy process, but our fields must be cleared in the aftermath.  At that time, the darnel can be removed from the wheat, and we can distinguish value from the parasites.  Because we have yet to separate the weeds from our garden early in the process, the field has become overgrown, and there are more weeds than wheat.  So we have quite a mess to deal with.  But once the job is done, we have a clear field, and we have determined the wheat from the darnel, separating the good from the bad, we’ll have a chance to start over.  We nurture our crops by keeping the weeds out of our garden before they wrap their roots around what we value.  Always after harvest, when we see our clean fields and a healthy food supply, can perspective begin to bring sanity to our concerns.  And when it does, we must protect our wheat from infancy and not let evil wrap around our values to feed off them for its sustenance.  The weeds must be pulled before they can ever take root.  That is why we must tend our gardens and have value judgments on the good and the bad.  We must get rid of the bad before it matures into a parasite that is dangerous to the things we value, such as a food supply.  It is also in understanding such parables that evil wants to eradicate the Bible from a culture so that we can’t tell the difference, allowing evil to grow unmolested.  Such an idea was always a bad one, and during this time of harvest, one that we should never neglect again.  The Bible is full of such wisdom and has contributed to all productive human cultures.  And we’d be wise to listen before it’s too late.  

Rich Hoffman

People Are Going to Cry For President Trump and Darbi Boddy When they are Gone: What will come after them will be much tougher

The world is changing whether they like it or not. They are not in charge

I don’t like the guys on the Showtime show The Circus. I have talked about enjoying that show in the past, but that was during Trump’s first run for president and the world was a much different place. These days, everyone knows what everyone thinks of each other, so some pretense of fairness is no longer needed, as it was back then. But I find that The Circus is a good political show, even if I don’t like the people who put it on. It accurately reflects the political tides of the moment, which was alarming to them when they interviewed Steve Bannon and tried to interview Kari Lake but couldn’t even get enough material to do a segment with her. Astonishingly, as knowledgeable as they are about politics, they are missing the signals going into the 2024 election. They do not understand the MAGA movement, as most people obviously don’t. And they were nothing short of stunned when they heard Steve Bannon from the Warroom podcast, who used to be a chief strategist for the Trump White House, so he’s no slack-jawed loser, tell them that Trump was a moderate in the MAGA movement and that one day in the near future, they were going to wish they had Trump back. There was a kind of stunned silence, even for them. There has been an acceptance that we live in a world where co-existence with evil was always going to be the case, and increasingly, there are people in the MAGA movement who are supporting Trump, hell or high water, for militant reasons that defy conventional politics, to put it nicely. I’ve said it since before 2015 when Trump came down the elevator of Trump Tower, and just about every day since, I want to run campaigns against Trump as a liberal because, to me, he will always be a New York Democrat. That’s the world I’m fighting for.

It didn’t have to be that way, which was my thoughts when essentially all the Butler County judges had to recuse themselves on the Darbi Boddy case, which is a screenshot of the future of politics.  There are thousands of Darbi Boddys out there, the school board member at Lakota that I have talked about so much.  The belief was that the established order would play games and prosecute her with some power over the law and order society and that everyone would bow down and kiss some ring of party politics.  That is exactly what is wrong with the Republican Party in the wake of Trump.  That the Koch Brothers and Fox News still think they have some power to steer people away from Trump, that people are so stupid that they’ll vote for Nikki Haley instead of Trump.  These are all people smoking crack and are way off the political trajectory of modern sentiment.  They aren’t even in the room of consideration regarding reality.  I tried to warn everyone about the Darbi Boddy case.  These days, some lazy attorneys hiding in the background who are looking for an easy negotiation with the next unionized labor contract by getting rid of politicians who might stand in the way of that task with threats of jail, or even worse, are over.  That kind of local political abuse of power is what gave rise to Trump and the MAGA movement.  There is no control that the system of before has over people.  They have lost it, by their own incompetence.  That is what Steve Bannon meant when he said about Trump to the interviewers of The Circus that not far in the future, they will wish they had Trump back.

Darbi’s case in Butler County should have never even seen a courtroom, and now it’s going to go to the Supreme Court, and an impartial judge will have to be selected, and the party politics that has stuck its nose in all this business has screwed things up.  Darbi Boddy certainly didn’t do anything wrong.  And the judges involved in this case knew that from the outset. Instead, they played along with some assumption that they were in control and had a right to abuse their authority for some view of the world that has long been outdated.  And that is among people I know, that they have an entrenched view of the world that is not represented by reality that they refuse to see beyond.  I could have told them if only they had listened.  But the same could be said nationally and internationally.  Most people who work in politics don’t understand.  There will be a day when Trump is no longer in politics.  Right now, Trump has broad celebrity appeal, and he has a lot of Democrats voting for him.  He has broken down the blue firewall by changing how people can support political candidates.  I like that Trump ran his White House as a strong conservative, but he is way too liberal for my taste, and I am sure there will be a future with people much further to the right than he is, that I will happily support.  Yet people who hate Trump, Darbi Boddy, and thousands of politicians who are rising in the wake of all this, who will run and win future political offices, are mystified by this process and are refusing to deal with reality, as they did in Butler County, Ohio until it was too late.  The world will move on without them because they were never in charge. 

And it’s true, in just a few years, most of the people who have declared their hatred of Trump and fought so hard to keep him out of the White House with every legal maneuver available to them, and then some, are going to wish they had Trump back.  They will not like a world run by the Darbi Boddy’s of politics.  The Lakota school district will wish they had her back, too, when she’s not there anymore.  Essentially, what we have in government are radical labor union types deeply committed to Marxism who are using old tactics of resistance to stop needed changes.  And our political system has kicked the can down the road all this time to reach this point where there is no more road.  The belief that elections could be controlled to protect the thieves looting off it is over.  And Trump is viewed among MAGA Republicans, like me, as being entirely too nice.  I think of Trump as a liberal moderate.  I see him as a Democrat.  He is far better than the other alternatives and committed to stopping kicking the can down the road. And I am very supportive of that kind of talk.  But for me, he’s not even on the conservative radar.  Once he is done with politics, I will expect people far to the right of Trump to occupy positions in the Senate and the House and at state and federal levels; I plan to see the destruction of the Department of Education and many other assumptions of labor-controlled government that have ruined our country.  Trump is just the beginning.  Over the next ten years, I expect drastic changes.  Like Darbi Boddy in Butler County, Ohio, everyone has choked on the chicken over just one person.  The political world hasn’t seen anything yet, as the recent Argentina election indicates.  This isn’t just an American thing.  But it’s a sentiment worldwide, and it’s not going back to how it was…..ever.  History will never let people forget. 

Rich Hoffman

The Jewish People Should Learn from History: Stop trying to appease evil

Never forget, it was the Hamas terrorists who parachuted into Israel, like a cut scene from a Call of Duty video game, and purposely assassinated innocent Jewish people just because they exist. Since then, the people who support Palestine, the original occupants of the land of Canaan that God decided needed to be eradicated for their sinful ways and given to the people of Israel, have been claiming to be the victims and have been calling for a ceasefire from retaliation.  They attack, kill, and destroy, then immediately ask for peace.  The Jewish people are one of the oldest people living on earth to this day, with a culture that has survived many tough times.  They are God’s chosen people, yet all their history, persecution of their very existence has followed them wherever they’ve been scattered to, to the ends of the earth.  So, to some extent, they have survived by appeasing all the bad guys in the world, and for Bible readers who study the ancient texts without a preconceived notion, Yahweh has become very angry toward the Jewish people for their weakness and apathy toward conviction.  It was a source of much frustration for God that the Jewish people sought to appease their persecutors so much when he would have rather had them slay their enemies without remorse.  And we see that now, even as Israel is under attack by terrorist groups sympathetic to the PLO many Jewish people in America are registered Democrats and support liberal policies that are detrimental to their very existence and feed the power of their oppressors.  Which is a very dumb idea.  It’s one of the reasons that such villains exist in the world: nobody stops them from unleashing hell upon it.  God would prefer the Jewish people to defend themselves as a group of people.  Not seeking to survive by appeasing evil with timid social values.

You might have seen that Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood types support Joe Biden with a big fundraiser hoping to get the old man’s campaign moving in a positive direction.  Spielberg used to be a great filmmaker, but not so much anymore.  Like many Jewish people, his politics have not lined up with reality, and it shows in him as a person.  Many Jewish people in Hollywood support Democrats and have made themselves part of the problem by essentially making peace with their oppressors in a kind of Stockholm Syndrome.  It’s great to have an ancient connection to your past, but what good is it if your only means of survival is to embrace the bad guys?  It reminds me of the old stagecoach robberies where villains would get on a train with many passengers with a lot of money and stick them up.  I always wondered why people were so compliant and did so without fighting back.  Perhaps it’s because they believe material possessions aren’t worth dying over.  They think that they can always make more money or get more stuff.  So that their view of protecting their family is to do whatever they need to do to live another day.  My thoughts, however, are that when someone tells you to hold your hands up if you want to live, then that is the time that you pull out your own gun and defend yourself.  Appeasing evil strengthens their resolve and makes it easy for them to be evil.  This ties into a lot of God’s original problems with the Jewish people, as stated quite clearly in the Bible.  Why don’t people attack their enemies and trust that God will protect them from harm?  When God says to attack a nation and destroy it, do it, even if you are grossly outnumbered.  Trust God: he will take care of you. 

God was always frustrated with his chosen people because they did not attack, and they were always trying to appease the desecrators of their culture, such as the Baal worshipers who continued to corrupt them during their entire existence.  King Solomon didn’t just build temples to Yahweh; he built temples to other gods because he had thousands of wives and concubines who worshipped Baal and other regional gods and always tried to make them all happy.  It was about that time that God just gave up on the people and let Nebuchadnezzar have them through a vicious attack that oppressed the Jewish people for the next several thousand years.  If it wasn’t the Babylonians, it was the Romans.  Then, Islamic radicalism took over all the Holy sites from the Bible to essentially attempt to desecrate them beyond memory, and in doing so, tried to kill off the Jewish people entirely because the dispute was whether or not they should have ever existed in the first place.  What right did God have to give them the promised land, where the indigenous people were worshiping all these pagan gods and were considered the original owners?  Who was this God to come along and give their land away?  That is where morality comes into play and the right and obligation to pass judgment on the wicked and decide that a proper morality has more value than just surviving.  Defending the world from evil has more merit in Heaven than just giving up and appeasing evil so you can survive another day. 

And we see this same mentality in supporters of liberal politics, those who support Democrats in America, for instance, the Steven Spielberg types.  For them, the fantasy characters they created in Hollywood that did fight back represented the desire all people have to fight back against evil.  But then there is the ethical problem of saying, “It’s only money.  Give it to them so they don’t shoot us.”  And once that kind of appeasement has been entertained, Hollywood types like the Spielbergs of the world lose their audience because that’s not what MAGA Americans want their country to be like, appeasers to evil who don’t fight back.  That is the essential element of those against Trump.  To make America Great Again means fighting back against evil oppressors when so many Democrats and RINOs have decided that the best way to survive is to give evil what it wants, not to cast judgment against all the Jezebels of existence, and to make peace, not war.  Isn’t that what all the dope-smoking, communist hippies always said?  Going back to the movie Poltergeist, I always had a problem with Steven Spielberg putting that pot scene in the bedroom where the main characters were smoking a joint together.   No wonder the ghosts ran them off from their home because they were weak-minded losers.  But that was Steven Spielberg on a plate.  And that is why Hollywood isn’t what it used to be.  Like the Biden administration, which talks out of both sides of its mouth, not because it has any conviction but because its goal is to survive at all cost, the goal is not to fight evil, but to yield to it.  Even if it means appeasing the evil in the world when God wants people to fight against it, appeasing evil was never God’s choice.  Jesus came along and gave everyone an excuse to embrace peace, which has all kinds of Hindu elements to the approach that has only fed many villains in the world, appeasement, which has only encouraged them to rob more trains and take more people’s money without working hard to earn it for themselves.  And in that way, appeasement is the root cause of how evil spreads worldwide.  And when we look around at why there is so much evil thriving everywhere, it’s because we have too many appeasers who look to avoid conflict when they should be embracing it, as Yahweh always tried to convince them to do with his full support.

Rich Hoffman

An Amazon.com Pricebreak: A guidebook to capitalism to step out of the darkest period of American history

There is no shame in being good at what you do

I have had many of these over the last five years: super-secret meetings with people in the back of some restaurant or shooting range where people want to talk. Only this one was 30 or so people who were fans of my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and they wanted a little private class on the subject matter. I get the secrecy; I think of it as enslaved people learning to read during the Underground Railroad Period. People want to learn how to improve themselves in a world that doesn’t want them to accomplish such a task. These people were Chamber of Commerce types and were concerned about other people knowing they were meeting with me because it was a social taboo. But I was happy to attend the event and give a talk, which everyone enjoyed. But during the Q&A section at the end I learned something from the class, that my book was being offered on Amazon.com for $4.59, which is practically giving it away. Normally, most of the sales that I see come from the publisher’s website, is $16.99. When I get the sales report, it usually has a long list with all kinds of prices shown, and some of the lower numbers I had thought were likely Kindle downloads. So, I didn’t pay much attention to them. But at this little seminar, a fan told me about it, and sure enough, the book was listed by Amazon at that very low price, so low that it’s likely cheaper than what it cost to make the book. Yet I wasn’t surprised upon hearing this; it didn’t make me angry. I think it was meant to make me angry, to be very insulting to me. But my reaction is one that I’ll share here: if you can get the book for a cheaper price, then I’m happy to let you know about it.

A pretty good price

I personally like Amazon; I get a lot of books through them. I also am a frequent visitor to bookstores all over southern Ohio, going as far north as Dayton and Columbus regularly to get books that I don’t want to wait for to arrive in the mail. I read three or four per week on average, so it’s a major priority for me to have access to new books. For books that I must have that afternoon, I go and get them at an actual bookstore, the old-fashioned way. And I prefer hard copies of books because I don’t like the bad guys out there to know what I’m reading or looking at on the internet, because I am watched by just about everyone who wastes time watching people. And the algorithms set against me are outrageously difficult, for getting visibility. I frequently get offers from IT people wanting to “fix” my foundation links because my Google score is so low that people searching for me don’t find me on the top picks because of all the blacklisting I am listed under. I typically say no to all those offers because most of them are likely the same people doing the damage, and they’d love for me to make it easier for them to rob the stagecoach. Amazon does not like me politically, and they’d love to make me feel that I’m at the bottom of a well nobody could hear me from. That is a common strategy for them, so I never expected a fair shake from Amazon. They offer the book because they are a prominent bookseller and want to say they offer such books. Even if they hate that people want to read from someone like me. So I put them out of my mind and never really took the time to see what they were selling my book for, or to check reviews because they set algorithms on their server against me that obviously were not encouraging. So, I put my mind elsewhere. The sales listings tell a different story, so much so that I didn’t even notice the Amazon pricing.

There will be a major shift in the economy over the next decade

The book has been out for a few years now, so I don’t read it every day. When I wrote it, I had been thinking about the contents for a while, but after Biden was put in the White House and Trump wasn’t there anymore, admittingly, I needed to take a break from the world for a few weeks. My wife and I took our RV out into the desert of New Mexico to escape Biden and the COVID protocols that were such a dark period in American history. I knew the economy would take a hit and that corporations had been seduced by this World Economic Forum view of the world and would need a guidebook out of their wokeness. So I wrote The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, applying my favorite sport, fast draw, with a genuine love of history. I enjoyed touring all the John Chism and Billy the Kid sites in Lincoln County during the winter of 2021, which had a lot of snow on the ground, even in that part of the world. It was a very revelatory experience for me, and it shows up in the book, which, looking back on it after a few years, is very good. Like I said, I read a lot. I have just finished a few books by Johan Norberg which I think are great, but they aren’t as good in my mind as my own book. Not just because it’s my book but because the contents are revolutionary compared to the large amounts of Marxism that have taken hold in all corporations around the world. I wrote the Gunfighter’s Guide to give people a weapon to fight against that trend, which turned out great.

A large worldview helps see things more clearly

The book as I thought it would be, has been a slow burn. It’s not one of those books that makes a splash and then fizzles out. When I wrote it, I was thinking of a book I love called The Machine That Changed the World, which is about Lean Manufacturing and is filled with many assumptions about a Marxist world without ever naming the beast. I wanted to write an antithesis to that which businesses could use to improve their situations without destroying their essential character. I have read many hundreds of business books, and most of them make it a point to declare their hatred and unfairness of capitalism, which is quite obvious in the Lean Manufacturing movement, which seeks to centralize power to the people and is antagonistic toward management, which is consistent with the labor union view of the world, which is always socialist in origin. In 2020, with Trump out of the office and the world on lockdowns, corporations thought the best strategy was to play along to get along. But after three years of the Biden economy now, people are looking for answers, and many of those answers only come from a source like mine, who has made it a point to declare the answers in spite of the social poison that wants all such voices to hide for their lives under a rock somewhere. My point was never to hide but to engage the enemy as they present themselves, like a gunfighter. Fight the villains in a dusty street and gun them down metaphorically for their intentional destruction of the world. And to be proud of it in the process. As I gave my presentation to that audience, I couldn’t help but reflect on how good the book was. I’m very proud of it; it has helped people who have read it and applied it. I don’t just reflect on the times of the gunfighters during American expansion but also look to the future with AI and improved technology. It’s more of an attitude than a reverence. But the world for the next few decades is going to move much more toward capitalism and away from socialism, and already many corporate leaders see the writing on the wall. And they were looking for a translation, so we were all meeting secretly, not for my sake, but for theirs. But if I learn of a price break everyone can take advantage of to get the book, I’m happy to share it. It doesn’t hurt my feelings in the least. I like seeing people getting it, finding inspiration, and achieving success. That is, after all, the best compliment I can get and why I wrote the book in the first place, for people to enjoy and be helped by. So the more people who have it, the better it is in my mind. And at that price, it makes it very easy for people. I can’t promise that the price will stay that way, but when I hear of a price break, I certainly will pass it along.

Diversity, equity and inclusion was always going to fail in business because it’s not rooted in real social value

Rich Hoffman