Category: Drama

Firefly Lands on the Moon: Another step toward a space economy

Never forget that at 3:34 AM on March 2, 2025, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon’s surface.  It’s the second time a private company achieved a soft lunar landing, indicating many good things to come.  The first was Odysseus from Intuitive Machines almost a year ago.  I know several people at Firefly and know how significant their company is growing in the right direction, and this landing was an important historical marker showing that a smaller commercial company can pull off something like this in a partnership with NASA.  It would take NASA decades to do these launches, and now we see these private companies in a profoundly competitive undertaking, and they are doing so successfully.  There will be many more good things to come from Firefly, which is very exciting, and this goes along with what I have been saying about space.  This landing occurred one day before SpaceX sent Starship 8 into space, and just ahead of Blue Origin, a ship full of women, like celebrity Katy Perry, going into space as if it were just another day at the office.  Space is becoming routine, which is what we want to see happen.  And the moon has needed much more attention than it has received; we should have never stopped going.  I don’t care if aliens were on the moon to scare off Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, pushing us never to return.  NASA moved into the Space Shuttle program after the Apollo missions, but we have never since the early 70s dared to return to the moon.  Now, we have private companies doing the job that governments were too slow to do themselves.  And it’s all very exciting.  Firefly is a great new company, and it will play a significant role in the expansion of a space economy that I have been talking about for quite some time now.

And while discussing it, I’ll make a few predictions.  Just as Elon Musk is pushing for humanity to get into space and settle on Mars, to ensure that humans survive, I would dare say that this isn’t the first time our species has encountered this problem.  I think we will find that the relics on Mars are from our history and that our move to Earth was for many of the same reasons that we want to now return to Mars.  Not to discover it for the first time but to return there and complete a story that began for us many thousands of years ago.  Elon Musk is simply fulfilling the hard-wired desires that are built into human consciousness to ensure the continuation of the species, in the same way a sperm knows to penetrate the egg within a woman.  We must penetrate space to move our species as a thinking consciousness into the universe, as we were meant to.  On earth as it is in Heaven.  We are meant to ascend into Heaven, to the kingdoms we know from our past, which are in the sky. Mark it on your calendar and remember who told you all this.  Once we move into space and start checking things out, that’s when we are going to learn about ourselves.  The proof is coming.  I would say that it is all around us, hidden behind our institutionalized history.  But that won’t last very long; the evidence is abundant and will be confirmed with a space economy.  I could go into quite a long discussion about hidden lifeforms behind a curtain of Dark Matter made of neutrinos and cold fusion.  But let’s save that for other times.  Instead, let’s talk about the excitement of this growing economy brought to us by commercial-driven space utilization.

At a recent Vivek Ramaswamy governor announcement event at CTL Aerospace, I must have had more than 100 people ask me why I love aerospace.  And I tell them that the future is there.  It’s been like panning for gold in a little mountain stream during the Gold Rush.  I get a lot of offers to make a lot of money doing many things, especially in communications.  But I like to stay close to where the gold is, and I like knowing people like the cool cats at Firefly and other companies.  I get very excited every time SpaceX puts up a new rocket.  From all I know about history and science, I see aerospace as the ultimate gold nugget, and I’ve been committed to it for over four decades.  To use a Western metaphor, I’d rather dig for gold in aerospace than sit in a comfortable job in town as a lawyer or communications expert.  It’s not the money that excites me; the growth of human intellect and what adventure can bring us is the ultimate treasure.  But that doesn’t mean that money doesn’t matter.  But on a scale that I think is better than just some average well-paying job.  The growth of the space economy will far outpace any technical time humans have ever experienced, whether it be steamships, early airplanes, trains, or automobiles.  The space economy will likely contribute hundreds of trillions of dollars to the first to utilize it.  And that, to me, is the best of the big gold nuggets.  But this time we should have learned some critical lessons, to keep the Marxists out of this business, as they dramatically crippled every modern industry that humans have invented.  The Firefly launch is more vital than past attempts when Trump is in office and cheerleading on all these efforts.  So, the resolution rate is much higher than at any other time in history.

I watched Brit Hume on Fox News the other night stumble around perplexed about how Trump thinks he will go into all these tariff wars, cut taxes, and still expand the economy.  As everyone was, he spoke about an economy that they think has seen the climax of its days and that all government management has to be wrapped around managing those fixed assets.  But that’s not where Trump is as he is facing down what we all are, a 36 trillion dollar deficit that is out of control.  If you want to fix that without touching the Social Security and Medicare concept, something dramatic has to happen.  And as I have been pointing out, it’s in this space economy.   With Firefly putting their lunar module on the moon after a drought of 50 years, a half a century.  Our economy has been held back by a lot of Marxist parasites who moved into administrative positions at NASA and the Pentagon and held back human civilization in a very catastrophic way.  However, the more private people have grown more powerful, and the more that government has lost it, the more companies like SpaceX and Firefly have grown and are now doing the big things.  And that is where the future treasures are.  And that is the only kind of treasure I care about in the long line of treasures in any economy.  The best to my mind is in space, and the adventures to come.  And when I see scrappy companies like Firefly have success, I am more than happy for them.  These are fascinating times! 

Rich Hoffman

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A D.O.G.E. Savings Clock: Telling the story as the level of corruption seen in government employment continues to be uncovered

The Department of Government Efficiency will be known as one of the most important things ever done in government.  The amount of money wasted through government employment has been staggering.  And it has been so corrosive that it has set the bar entirely too low for the rest of the world, regarding expectations of what a job is supposed to be.  When Elon Musk sent emails to government workers asking them to name five things they did last week, many couldn’t. You can see a hint of the waste paid out for very little work.  I’ve been screaming about this for years, and people have been interested but very slow to react.  Only now that a Trump administration is willing to save money, and making money a theme of their administration, has something like a D.O.G.E. been an option.  Then, it would take a unique personality that was good at both digging up the dirt and selling it to the public, which is what Elon Musk is all about.  Of course, Trump let Elon Musk speak at his first cabinet meeting, where everyone at the table was excellent in their own right.  But for all of them, what Musk was doing with D.O.G.E. was the most important thing because it captured and controlled the narrative.  Nobody can defend the worthless nature of the average government worker, and now that so much waste is evident, we can see why many of them vote Democrat in elections: only Democrats are dumb enough to rubber-stamp so much waste and corruption.  Just in this first month of D.O.G.E., the numbers have been staggering.  For me, this was not surprising, but for many, there was an assumption that government workers were busier than this.  And when they can’t even report five things that they did that were useful, you know you could eliminate their positions, save the money, and not ever miss them.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

However, we are at a saturation point.  At first, the reports were shocking.  But there is so much of it that everyday news of the amount of waste is starting to glaze over in the public’s eyes.  And I think there needs to be a D.O.G.E. clock, which is the opposite of the well-known Debt Clock that we are all familiar with, that shows the amount of debt America is racking up by the second, minute, hour, and day.  We need a D.O.G.E. clock that displays the savings stacked up in the opposite direction. Otherwise, people might forget or grow numb to it.  They need to see the big picture, and it should be on a sidebar on the X platform and Truth Social.  People need entertainment value in the reporting because the engagement level needs to be high.  While D.O.G.E. can’t actually control the amount of money being spent, Congress needs an easy understanding of what is going on to control the purse strings.  People need to quickly understand what their representatives need to be doing to control costs. Without a proper context, much of the waste that is being discovered will blend into the background noise.  What is needed is a D.O.G.E. clock that is easily referenced so people can see the score of savings as it is discovered and measure the length of the voluminous problem.  It’s one thing to shock people, and D.O.G.E. has, but it’s another to create information that substantiates permanent change.  Once the shock of something like this wears off, keeping that momentum going is a tough challenge unless people can be fed the information in quantities and formats they can digest quickly. 

I was talking to an old friend who was hardly a wild conspiracy theorist or crazy lunatic of political ideology the other day.  This friend, Susan Mclaughlin and I were at a political event talking about old times, the early days of the Liberty Township Tea Party where another old friend, Katy Kern had just passed away, and we were reminiscing about her and all the old times when the IRS came after us specifically in 2010 under the Obama administration.  And we were pinching ourselves that such a day 15 years later where something like a D.O.G.E. would even be possible.  I had been doing what D.O.G.E. is doing now with my blog site, but on a much smaller scale.  Now, there was Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, empowered by President Trump to expose government waste on such a massive scale after all he had been through.  It was everything we wanted out of the Tea Party all those years ago, and we joked that Katy would have never believed it.  In those days, even today, I played the Elon Musk role, and people hated me and wanted to eliminate me.  Hearing Elon Musk talk about this issue recently on the Joe Rogan Podcast was interesting because I know what it feels like.  However, on a scale such as this, there needs to be a proper narrative because raw data will water down the effectiveness of the information.  There must always be a little show business to these things, and D.O.G.E. needs some daily glitter to help sell the story.

But as Susan and I continued to talk, neither of us ever thought there would be a day where all this government cost would be exposed on such a mass scale.  It was a dream many of us had but couldn’t see a path to get there.  I stepped away from the traditional GOP types several times over the years, and I was hoping through Trump back in 2015 that some of this might have been possible.  But what we see ten years later, in 2025, wasn’t on the radar.  However, Trump has earned the right to turn someone like Elon Musk into the point person for government waste.  And as the wealthiest person on earth who doesn’t care about his social status because he wants to live on Mars anyway, there couldn’t and wouldn’t be a better person who could deliver such a D.O.G.E. message.  And that’s what it was going to take.  The government had grown too big and too corrupt, and that started with low expectations of what government employment meant.  It should be an honor to have a government job, but it had grown into a monstrosity of horrendously wasteful spending where the value of money was thrown entirely out the window.  And now we have a mass culture of this kind of thing that has had to be dramatically reduced.  However, as this continues in the coming months, people need an easy way to measure the success of D.O.G.E. hour by hour, day by day, and month by month.  A D.O.G.E. clock would help people see the value of the savings narrative and drown out the crying voices of government workers who are losing their cushy positions with such low employment expectations.  Most government positions must be eliminated, and we will have a better government.  Those workers must be in the private sector and learn to compete.  To keep everything going, people must watch success easily and measurably.  Because regarding the amount of waste there is, we are only scratching the surface. 

Rich Hoffman

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Dave Yost Has No Chance: Calling me a fraud won’t make an unlikable person appealing

I support Vivek Ramaswamy for the Governor of Ohio in any way possible.  I was all in before I had a chance to talk to him the other day, and after spending some time with him, I’m more convinced than ever.  For me, he’s like getting Trump to run Ohio.  But Vivek is great on his own, and he is what I would call the next generation of MAGA political candidates.  I have liked Dave Yost, the current attorney general.  But there are a lot of reservations that put him in the clear RINO category.  In a head-to-head matchup between Yost and Ramaswamy, I see it coming out like it did in 2016 with Trump against Jeb Bush.  And in the end, I think a political fight with Vivek Ramaswamy will destroy the career of Dave Yost, and I didn’t want to see that, at least until they sent me a nasty letter the other day complaining about my support of Vivek through a video I did.  I usually get a lot of hate mail, and I never come close to answering them all, but this one was different due to the content of the political fight to come, and it changed any sympathy I had for Dave Yost into primal aggression and a desire to see him destroyed.  I have been keeping thoughts about Dave Yost and what he did to the former Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds tucked away, and this whole event resurrected it for me as a primary concern.  I’m not running for office, so I don’t have to be as nice as Vivek wants to be to his political enemies.  And as good as he is, he’s going to win the governor race of Ohio without too much difficulty.  But as I have done in regard to Trump, reporting things in context so people can feel good about voting for Ramaswamy when critics say otherwise is something I will certainly do for the future Governor of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy.  

So the Yost Campaign insinuated that I’m some fraud for the video I did discussing the announcement of running for governor by Vivek Ramaswamy a day before the event occurred.  They thought that was a misleading tactic because I couldn’t have possibly known that the event would be packed with supporters on the day before the event occurred.  Now, I have a lot of experience with the media, and if I wasn’t good at so many other things, I would probably have carved out a career in media myself.  But to be truthful, and I know this from many friends in the media that I have who were major superstars, the pay isn’t that great.  So I do a lot of other things; media for me is for the good of it.  Not the pay of it.  But it’s common practice to pre-write articles before a deadline and even to shoot a promo video ahead of an event when you want the material to reach audiences near or right after the event you are discussing.  And that was the case here.  In West Chester, Ohio, at CTL Aerospace, we had a big announcement rally for Vivek Ramaswamy that ended around 6:30 PM.  My blog is read daily by many people who want to know my thoughts on the latest topic. It goes up every day at 7 PM.  So I had to have most of it ready to go to beat my deadline.  I could adjust any changes to the reporting beforehand.  But for that article and video, I talked about the things that I knew were going to be true.  And I would know because I was one of the organizers of the event.  

A pretty dumb idea on their part. But it’s a free world.

Before the weekend of Vivek’s announcement on the following Monday, the 24th of February, I knew that there were 1200 RSVPs who had gone online to indicate they were coming and to be put on the list.  I also knew the space we had set up for Vivek was only supposed to hold 500 people.  So, doing the video announcement I did for the event, I knew it would be very crowded.  And as it turned out, it was worse than I said.  There was a line down and around the building and as people were trying to get in I had more than 500 text messages and phone calls between the hour of 4 PM and 5 PM, which I couldn’t take, because I was talking to Vivek Ramaswamy along with a few other people about what was going to happen during his speech.  It took me two days after the rally to answer most of them.  I never got to some because I wasn’t sure who they all were. But the ones I did know, I eventually, at least, answered.  I was at the Dave Yost announcement for Governor when he did it at the Elks Club near my home in Liberty Township, and it was nothing like this.  Dave had difficulty getting more than seven or eight people to stand in line to get a picture with him.  There may have been a few hundred people who came; honestly, I felt sorry for him. To support him, which I planned to do until Vivek came along, I knew that Dave Yost would have a significant enthusiasm problem.  He just wasn’t very exciting.  He acted like an out-of-touch politician who put on a cowboy hat to appeal to the meat-and-potato people, but he had an assumption of doing the time and a pretention of entitlement that he deserved to be Governor and that the Republican party owed it to him.

Senator Lang, and Secretary of State Frank LaRose endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy at CTL Aerospace

There is a lot of good stuff to discuss regarding Vivek Ramaswamy, and I certainly will.  I’ve met him several times, and at this event, he had a good memory of some of our history together.  The reason he chose CTL Aerospace is because of a story he shares with me, and Nancy Nix, George Lang and a few others at the start of his decision to get into politics, which I knew before his speech, was why he was coming back to start his run for governor at that location.  So we had a good talk, and I got to know his wife a bit more than in the past, and let me say, she is solid goodness in every way you can imagine.  She is sharp and very friendly.  I like the Ramaswamys as a family and as people, and it is those kind of people, if they want to, who should be in tough jobs like the Governor of Ohio.  Vivek is the kind of political figure I have been looking for in these positions for years, so I’m going to get fully behind his campaign, and that’s why I was one of the event coordinators and venue providers.  I personally liked Vivek before his announcement, in a very personal way.  And I am more supportive after hearing his speech if possible.  And to my way of thinking, Vivek is a lot nicer than I am.  And I would say a lot more forgiving; anybody who gets in the way of him running Ohio must be destroyed.  And if Dave Yost wants to go there, or his not very smart people, then that’s on them.  They can deal with the aftermath. 

Not to get into personal details, I normally don’t talk about things I say in private with people, but this is probably important in regard to Vivek Ramaswamy.  When we were talking, he asked me, “Rich, what do you want from me?”  I said to him, “I want 16 years out of you.  8 years as governor of Ohio.  And 8 years as President of the United States.  And at the end of it, you won’t yet be 60.  That sounds like a pretty good life to me.”  And he said, “Yes it does, let’s see how all this goes.”  And to all that, I will do my part to help see that it all goes well.

Rich Hoffman

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Under Jerusalem: Why Trump has a right to build wonderful hotels over the Gaza Strip

I have a mild obsession with the city of Jerusalem, so there is a lot to talk about regarding the modern Middle East policy where that ancient city is concerned.  The claims that Islam has over it are very recent, and it’s a simple math problem to work out as far as territory rights.  The Arabs of Islam didn’t come along until about 600 A.D., after the fall of the Roman Empire, so claims to the area had long before been erased by the Greek and Roman Empires over a thousand years before.  But before Islam indicated any claim to the area, especially around the Temple Mount, the most hostile piece of real estate on planet earth, the Hebrew people were in the region over three thousand years ago, 1600 years before the creation of Islam as a religion.  I believe there was a very technological civilization in the area before any of them, including in North America, as it was global, and the only remnants of it are in our modern understanding of astrology. These people were large- what we call giants and had a very advanced civilization before and during the Ice Age. They used an astrology-like scientific approach to conduct a society that our history books do not yet understand.  And they were at the Mount Moriah area for tens of thousands of years before the Jews considered settling it.  One of their obvious artifacts of reference is Rujm el-Hiri, or Gilgal Refaim, “The Wheel of Giants,” which is so big you can see it from space, and it’s just west of the Sea of Galilee in the Golan Heights.  When we talk about Goliath and his family of giants, who King David killed in battle, we are talking about the last of their ancient species, which is how Jerusalem was founded to start with, as David built his city there and started the location that would eventually become the temple of his son, Solomon. 

I have a very nice map that shows the small mountain range that runs between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and all these mountain peaks that are now covered by three thousand years of human history, built one on top of another, take up those high lands.  The caves under the Temple Mount and Jerusalem were there long before anybody else.  There are biblical kings, and others, who added a human touch, but there is a lot going on under Jerusalem that is very ancient, and doesn’t get talked about much at all.  And is at the heart of the dispute in the Middle East.  Do the Palestinians have any claim to the land?  What is behind the aggressive talk Trump has put forth about making the Gaza Strip into an American free enterprise zone?  Should the nation of Israel have ever been created after World War II?  The argument is that we are violating the indigenous claims of the Arabs in the area, and they use the aggressive stance of Islam to drive away legitimate claims to history that the Jewish and Christian people clearly have a right to.  More than that are the even more ancient cultures that we should be studying, but we can’t because of modern religious territorial squabbles that have no relevancy in the context of things.  The history of understanding isn’t on a scale of acceptable criteria.  Buried under all this religious history is a truth that is earth shattering and is at the heart of the whole problem.  And it’s in those caves under the Temple Mount where Mount Moriah held significance long before Abraham tried to sacrifice Isaac there on that Foundation Stone, or from Islam, Ishmael.

I had the rare privilege of reading the book Under Jerusalem by Andrew Lawler, The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City.  I’m not one who constantly complains about how dumb archaeologists are and how they deliberately cover up the past with their discoveries.  I get the game. They have to hustle to get funding, and the people giving them money want specific validation discovered with the digs.  So, there is a lot of politics in archaeology.  My favorite thing in the world is my Biblical Archaeology Review magazines, which I have been getting since childhood. I love reading about what archaeologists discover in the Holy Land.  It is stunning how many feet of earth have been built up after three thousand years of people walking the streets of Jerusalem, and just how far under the modern city are the remains of the walled City of David.  In some cases, we are dealing with 30 to 40 feet of ancient dirt, sewage, and garbage that has built up to become the modern ground.  City streets in Jerusalem are not at the same level as they were during the time of David or earlier.  And to get to the foundation layers of Solomon’s Temple, you would have to dig deep.  The Second Temple period by Herod was 1000 years later, and many feet under even that period.  Dirt comes in off people’s shoes over time, and it builds up slowly.  And that’s just how old these sites are.  But I’m saying that even with all those considerations, there are tens of thousands more years of history in that area.  So we should be digging a lot more, giving archaeologists a lot more respect and money, and we should be openly prepared for what we learn during the adventure of discovery. 

As to the Islamic claim of the Temple Mount and their abuse of the Jewish people who had the first claim on the land after they conquered it from the pagan worshipping Canaanites, they are just the most recent culture to claim it for themselves.  They won’t let archaeologists dig under and around the Temple Mount to provide proof of the Jewish heritage.  But then they claim that there is no proof of that Jewish heritage because it’s buried under 40 feet of soot because their time on Mount Moriah is so ancient that nearly two thousand years had to pass before Islam became a religion.  The conflict and claims over the territory are entirely based on historical perspective, not a pursuit of the truth that is buried under layers of history on a range of small mountains that have been occupied for tens of thousands of years and of which the proof is in those caves under the Temple Mount.  What we know about Derinkuyu, just to the north in Turkey, is that that underground city was dated to the same period as Solomon’s Temple and even much older in some layers of it.  And, of course, the nearby Gobekli Tepe, dated in the 10,000 BCE range, has the same kind of math technology as the Rujm el-Hiri at the Golon Heights to the south.  So what does all this mean?  Well, Islam doesn’t have a legitimate claim to the area, not where they can demand that their heritage is more important than all this ancient history.  And when they say, show me the proof, they can’t play games by denying dig permits and funding for the truth to be found.  I would say that under the Mount Moriah complex is all the proof anybody needs.  But Islam doesn’t want to know because then it would erode their political claims in the area and destroy their modern aggressions.  Because they don’t want to see the truth.  As many don’t because they are afraid of what they suspect to be the case. Giants ruled the earth and had a technology that was far more sophisticated than what we are achieving in a modern way.  It was a different technology but undoubtedly very sophisticated and global.  Eventually, we must admit to it if we want to advance. 

Rich Hoffman

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I’m Proud of Sheriff Jones: Its time to put an end of the drug cartels

I am proud of Sheriff Jones; I had a nice chance to talk to him at the Nancy Nix fundraiser as he had just returned from Washington, D.C., with a mission straight from Tom Homan, the border czar himself.  The Sheriff was told to make room in his jails because they would fill up quickly during March.  The Trump administration was done with Mexican drug cartels that were hiding in plain sight behind illegal immigration, and they were about to do what had been promised by Trump on the campaign trail.  They were going to be at least arrested and deported with what should be called, mass law enforcement.  The media will call them raids, and crackdowns.  But whatever anybody calls them, the illegal aliens, especially those hosting a criminal element, are toast.  And Sheriff Jones is more than ready to do his part in Butler County, Ohio.  He has been waiting his entire life for just this opportunity and a president willing to do what the law states: we must protect our borders from hostile people not committed to the American cause.  The only way to describe the previous immigration policy was a purposeful attack on our nation and the concept of a free people, with the hostilities of a criminal element seeking to overrun our legal system.  It wasn’t amicable, so the remedy must be more resilient.  Sheriff Jones warned us that the days to come would have a lot of stories of rounding up these villains and that people needed some context for the voluminous incidents that would be reported in the news during March, which was good news to my ears.  It couldn’t come soon enough.  One of the promises Trump had made during the campaign was the death penalty for cartel drug traffickers, which, to my mind, is too good for any of them.

Butler County has a very good police department.  This past year, I have been able to work with them a lot.  I served several weeks on a grand jury in 2024, where I met many of them and toured around the jail Sheriff Jones oversees, so I acquired an appreciation for what good law enforcement is and what it isn’t.  And I again was able to get to know some really good members of the Sheriff’s department at an event I was a part of organizing for Vivek Ramaswamy where they served as security.  Good guys, all of them.  They are excellent guys.  And tough guys too.  Which is what you want.  But when I saw Sheriff Jones, and we spent a little time catching up, I told him, and I meant it, that if he wants to deputize me to help round up all these punks, losers, despots, and crime-addicted lunatics hiding in illegal immigration, give me a call.  I would be more than happy to help.  I know the Butler County Sheriff’s Department has it all covered.  But I would enjoy the work and do it at the drop of a hat because let me explain something.  I hate drug dealers.  I hate drug use.  And I hate the drug cartels.  I hate them so much that I don’t think hate is a strong enough word.  Drug dealing, to me, is the deliberate poisoning of a person’s mind, which I consider one of the worst crimes.  What makes rape so terrible is it displays an intent to take away from a person their consent to sex and to display complete dominion over them, robbing them of the decision-making process.  Drugs do all that and more through a subterfuge of the intellectual process of thought. And for me, it all falls under the same category.  I feel so strongly about it that I don’t even like drinking at sports bars and social events.  If you aren’t protecting a mind, you are proposing that animal acts rule in society, non-thinking application of life energy.

As usual, Sheriff Jones is always a good talk. I’m all for him taking on the cartels with Trump

And as I said all that and more to Sheriff Jones, I was proud of him.  I like knowing that my local sheriff was called to Washington, D.C., to be a part of cleaning up national drug cartel violence.  I’ve known Sheriff Jones for years, and he doesn’t tell the stories of all the death hits on his life that the drug cartels have called for against him.  But there have been many.  More than many, and all of them, should be considered an act of war declared against any American citizen.  Remember when President Trump talked about the way he was going to apply to all law enforcement like Tom Homan and sheriffs like Jones, the need to punish these criminals.  And now they would be conducting that task over the next several weeks.  When drug cartels announce that they want to kill you, that’s not something to be taken lightly.  The thug mentality that was proposed should be considered hostile and purposeful.  They started it, and it’s our task to correct the behavior.  For too long, these horrible people in the drug cartels, neck tattoos and all, have been insisting that they exploit human weakness with drug use, knowing that their product was poison and that the result would be catastrophic to America as a nation.  They purposefully engaged in the destruction of innocence with a deliberate intent to destroy America as a country, and socialists around the world cheered the effort on with great enthusiasm.  Never forget that.

Jones was giving me a hard time because I didn’t have my hat this time.

Not to kiss and tell, which I don’t like to do, but I think in the case of Sheriff Jones, it is needed for context regarding what is about to happen.  The Sheriff and I were sitting together about 15 years ago at a political event.  I remember it well; it was in the barn for a Tea Party event that was going on at the Niederman Farm, and we were showing off a video I had done with Sheriff Jones talking about the problem of illegal immigration.  That was the same year many of us, myself included, were purposefully attacked through the IRS by Lois Lerner, and I was named as one of the targets along with my personal friend Justin Binik-Thomas.  Jones and I were trying to decide whether or not to use pictures of headless people who were decapitated along the border by the drug cartels.  Sheriff Jones encouraged me to use them because he thought it might wake people up.  They were nasty pictures that showed many innocent people killed in horrible ways.  Women were raped and had their bones ripped away from their bodies afterward, and they were awful to look at.  I was going to use them for my media platforms, and ultimately, I decided not to use them because I figured they’d be banned for their graphic content.  But we looked at hundreds of these pictures together while everyone else enjoyed a nice party atmosphere of hamburgers and hot dogs on a beautiful summer evening.  My wife and I had just returned from Mexico with a video from some rough, drug cartel-controlled areas, so I knew firsthand how bad the situation was.  And I know what Sheriff Jones wanted to do about it then, but Obama was in office, and his administration was encouraging drug cartel growth and not looking to punish it in any way.  So this isn’t a new thing.  But finally, I think we are going to see justice applied to the drug cartels.  And they have it coming, all they will receive and then some.  And Sheriff Jones is ready.  And if he needs help, I am more than willing.  I have hated the cartels for a long time and would be happy to see their destruction for good.  For our purposes, it’s the month of March that is only the beginning.

Rich Hoffman

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Governor Rally at CTL Aerospace: Over a thousand people showed up to see Trump’s pick for Ohio

There’s a whole story on this, that is worth telling on its own.

It was never a question for me if Vivek Ramaswamy was running for office; now that Trump has regained the White House, I’m all in.  He is a unique talent and part of what I consider a new generation of political class.  He’s been close to Trump for several years now and as an original D.O.G.E. founding member, he is driven by the same kind of concern for American preservation as Elon Musk.  So when I got a call to help connect the dots for Vivek’s announcement for governor, I was immediately supportive and excited to lend that support.  When I was showing Vivek’s coordinators possible sites to host an announcement rally, I took them to a spot that would hold around 2000 people, which they thought was ambitious.  They were looking for something more intimate, for around 500 people.  After all, this was just a governor’s announcement race for a state.  How many people could show up?  Before Vivek got into the gubernatorial race, I had supported David Yost, the current Attorney General.  Yost is a good guy and, under normal conditions, would be a good pick as an office holder.  However, these are not normal conditions, and we are looking for an exceptional officeholder because George Lang’s Business First Caucus has planted the seeds for Ohio to become the number one economy.  And knowing what I do about Trump, he has put eyes on Ohio to go from a rust belt state to a tech giant quickly.  So, many things are lining up to unleash greatness that isn’t being discussed on the nightly news.  And I knew before he did it that Vivek Ramaswamy was planning to run for governor of Ohio and would be stepping away from D.O.G.E., from people at Mar-a-Lago who told me in early December of 2024. 

So, I wasn’t surprised to get the call from Vivek Ramaswamy to make his big announcement at CTL Aerospace.  There’s a backstory to it that could fill a book, but when my phone rang, I was somewhat expecting it.  So we settled on a spot with his coordinators to hold around 500 people because that would be considered a good crowd for something like this.  But within a few days, my thoughts about 2000 people suddenly got much more attention.  The RSVP for the event quickly shot to over 1000 people; by the time everything started at 4:30 PM, there were people everywhere.  It was more like a Trump rally than anything else.  Seeing all this, I instantly felt a little sorry for David Yost, the only GOP challenger to Vivek for that governor seat.  When I was at his launch announcement, it was hard even to set up a photo line because there weren’t many people.  I attributed it to being too far out; Yost wanted to stake his claim early to ward off possible challengers.  But with Vivek in the race, Yost doesn’t have any chance.  Without question, Trump wants Vivek Ramaswamy to run for governor of Ohio, so any endorsements going to anybody will go in that direction.  Yost is holding on to hope that because Trump was supportive of him in the past, he would support him for a run for governor.  No, Vivek is Trump’s guy, and he has the support of the MAGA crowd, who showed up to a spillover event to put their excitement toward an exciting opportunity.  And it turned out to be quite a media spectacle that traveled quickly around the world.

I don’t talk about it much; my approach to all these things has been to put my head down, push through the opposition, and defeat my political enemies.  I’ve been doing these things for a long time, and as I was telling old war stories to the organizers of Vivek’s event because it was all about the backstory of when Vivek came to CTL Aerospace five years before when almost nobody knew who he was, and I was very involved in the Tea Party, Trump didn’t always get these massive crowds.  I would see Trump here and there as a member of the Reform Party, and he’d have a decent crowd at those events because he was on television and had written a few books.  But it was nothing like what we saw with his GOP presidential run in 2016, 2020, and 2024.  And I was seeing the same kind of trajectory for Vivek Ramaswamy.  We’re not discussing just four years of Trump in the White House representing the MAGA movement.  We’re looking at those four years, plus another 16 years between Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance, who could easily make all the Executive Orders that Trump has been signing into law.  This was all about momentum and planning for the future.  Not a short-term pop, Vivek would apply what he would do as a future president to the State of Ohio to show the world what it could look like.  At this point, he had written four great books about economic health in society in general, and he was eager to put all that into practice.  And that was being announced at CTL Aerospace in West Chester, Ohio, for the world to see. 

As I talked to people a few nights earlier at the Nancy Nix fundraiser, I was given a hard time because I wasn’t wearing my cowboy hat—especially from Sheriff Jones.  Usually, at those kinds of events, two people wear cowboy hats: Jones and myself.  But this time, people noticed I just showed up in my suit, not some ostentatious gunslinger outfit.  And they wanted to know why.  Well, that’s because we are winning, and when you are in such a condition, you don’t have to sell ambition to people; they are already there.  It is fun for a change to see all these great things happening, with Trump every day, with Elon Musk, and now with Vivek Ramaswamy essentially being governor of Ohio, where all of George Lang’s challenging work will finally pay off for the people of the formally known rust belt state.  As I explained my lack of a hat, I offered everyone a feeling of contentment with where our nation was going.  The woke monsters of our world have not gone away, but they have been defeated, and people are showing that they have no desire to return to their ominous tyranny.  And I think that people like Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio Statehouse, then in the future White House, will take what Trump has done and expand on it for a goodness nobody can yet see.  But I see it.  I had significant time with Vivek at this West Chester event, and I can see it in his eyes.  Yes, we have many good things coming, and people see them.  It showed up in the massive crowd at the West Chester announcement, and I feel content for the first time in years as if all the work everyone puts into these kinds of things was suddenly worth it.  And as to my lack of a hat, it’s not that I will change my appearance publicly.  But sometimes, I want to enjoy myself, which I did at Nancy’s event and Vivek Ramaswamy’s announcement rally.  Great things are coming, and it feels good to witness them up close and personally, and to just take it all in and enjoy the journey.

Dave Yost, Amy Acton, or anybody, would not get a line like this. Vivek is the runaway favorite. The crowd was very Trump like.

Rich Hoffman

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What a Miracle to see RFK Jr. Confirmed: The hidden war against Americans through poisoned food

It was different this time, whenever I go to political fundraisers, there’s always hope lurking in the background that if only we could get this person elected, or that, that maybe, just maybe, we might save the world.  But a kind of dismal smoke always makes everything political seem out of reach, even diabolical.  Things never quite work out how you want them to, and the political efforts always come out feeling short on the results.  However, the atmosphere was dramatically different this year at the Nancy Nix fundraiser for February of 2025.  Trump had been back in the White House for a month, but things were already feeling dramatically different.  Kash Patel had just been confirmed as the new Director of the FBI, which I never thought possible, and it is a topic of its own.  Most of Trump’s presidential picks had received confirmation votes in the Senate.  But the one I think is astonishing, and that I thought was even less of a possibility than Kash Patel, is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  The Senate confirmed RFK Jr. into his new role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and I am very excited to see what he can do with our food supply.  After reading his books on Anthony Fauci, I never thought he’d be in any government role.  It just seemed like a fantasy that could never come true.  But he did get confirmed, and that will be his new job, and I think great things will happen from that position.  Not that I am suddenly about government regulations or supportive of Democrats.  But in a tough time, when I was reading Bobby’s books about the origin and villains of COVID-19, I thought it took a lot of guts to say what he did and that all those things have stood up to time legally. 

Let’s not play patty cake with this issue; COVID was the most diabolical menace created as a bioweapon that has so far been unleashed on the human race within the context of mass scale. It was created in a lab in Wuhan and released to the world during an election year when China was very upset about Trump’s trade tariffs, and there is only one way to view that kind of thing: as a terrorist weapon meant to drive a World Economic Forum Great Reset of the global economy into a communist-controlled menace.  And that’s saying it all nicely.  For those who think we can turn the page and forget what Covid was, who made it, and why, forget about it.  Those involved in creating and distributing COVID-19 must be punished for what they did. The pharma companies that perpetuated the destruction must also be dealt with.  We can’t let it go.  Time and distance can’t make the guilty less guilty.  They have to pay, and RFK Jr. laid out the case in his two books on the subject, The Real Anthoney Fauci and The Wuhan Cover-up.  As the new HHS secretary, the author of those books gets to drive health policy in America, knowing what we do now about all the diabolical forces in the background who used health care as a global power grab to install a one-world government driven ultimately by the United Nations, through their sub-tier, The World Health Organization.  These are all bad people from socialist and communist countries, and they have been trying to destroy our nation through policy regulation for years, and with COVID-19, they went too far.  Trump knows it, and his new HHS secretary wrote the book on the matter.

Regarding poison, I have become very skeptical of our food supply and how our water is treated across America.  Watching what many evil characters without refute did during COVID-19 has opened the door to everything, such as fluoride and corn syrup, as known catastrophic mechanisms of doom.   Even if the government pinheads did everything on accident, just trying to meet the market needs of a capitalist public, allowing known killers to poison our food just can’t occur.  As an example, a good friend of mine just traveled to England, where a week there lowered his blood sugar dramatically as he has diabetes, just through diet.  I have had a similar experience and complained about it a lot.  The food in Europe has all kinds of regulations and doesn’t taste nearly as good as it does in America.  Usually, after I take a trip to Europe or Asia, I look forward to my layover flights in either Chicago, Detroit, or Charlette upon re-entering the United States because I pig out on double combo meals from the nearest Burger King just to get my usual food intake levels back to what they are used to in America.  But maybe that shouldn’t be the case.  Our food is making us unhealthy, and not that Europe or Asia is doing something better than us with tight market controls over the food supply, but perhaps in this case, their admission to the health crises is far more than just being a nanny state over their citizens.  We’re at a point where you can’t have any discussions about healthcare policy without dealing with the poison that is in most foods, hidden behind our free market system with the same intentions as drug dealers seek to poison our citizens slowly.  Who needs war to kill off your enemy when you can just encourage them to poison themselves with drugs and poorly constructed food? 

I was with a large group of affiliates at the P.F. Chang’s in West Chester where we were talking about this very issue, and we were all sharing some lettuce wraps and talking about all the harmful ingredients that were in American Chinese food that you wouldn’t find in the country of origin.  And my attitude was, “Who cares?” because this food had to be good for you because I wouldn’t be eating a leaf if not for all the good stuff that you poor over it to make it taste good.  So, indeed, the leaf had health value.  But, when you think of the vast amounts of food we eat where those kinds of concessions are constantly being made, our bodies can’t keep up with all the lousy processing, destroying our population.  So we needed to have a serious discussion on food, and we need to set some standards that are going to be rough on companies taking advantage of the freedom they have had because we can’t poison our population and hide laziness and a lack of innovation behind a mask of capitalism, and to call it good.  Because so many companies have gotten away with literal murder, the pharma companies thought they were going to get away with COVID-19 and the vaccines that caused so much trouble with ridiculous immunity deals from any prosecution.  The solution to all in RFK was to be in some position to help.  And to have a Trump administration that would have the guts to turn him loose.  And now he is, Robert F. Kenndy Jr. is getting the chance of a lifetime, and he won’t waste it.  Which, of course, we will all benefit from.   Our food might taste different, but we’ll get used to it.  Because ultimately, we all want to be healthier and not let our enemies laugh at us while we poison ourselves recklessly and without regard for a prosperous future.

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk and a Gold Chainsaw: The destructive force of the D.O.G.E. flood of information is saving humanity

When Elon Musk is on stage at CPAC with Argentina’s wild president Javier Milei waving around a gold chainsaw like a madman, you know the dark curse holding back all of human civilization has been broken.  Never under any condition a year ago would such a bizarre concept be considered even remotely possible.  Yet there it is.  It really happened and they were serious about it.  Of course, the chainsaw was intent on cutting costs as Elon Musk has been leading the charge for cutting government waste spending in a dramatic way, and within a month, has caused a sensation worldwide.  The whole scene was like a screenplay that I would have written under the most fantastic considerations, only to have an audience confirm that everything was just too unbelievable to put into a movie sequence.  Even our wildest fantasies would never lend credibility to such a series of events, which can only mean one thing: that a curse looming over our lives all these years is finally ending.  I’ve been talking about this stuff for dozens of years; the amount of government waste from our progressive tax system and this flood of D.O.G.E. information is terrific, if not timely.  We weren’t going to make it much longer under the previous system, and as a response, now that Elon Musk has been red-pilled into this perspective that he showed off on stage at CPAC, the world will have no choice but to follow.  D.O.G.E is likely the best thing to ever happen to America and it started on day one of the new Trump administration and has been justified by every bad thing that was done to Trump, and anybody who got caught up on the bad side of politics because they wanted to stop the kind of waste that goes with every government project. 

When we talk about floods, we often think of the force of water pressure that carries away all the debris from a river valley and dumps it far away, leaving behind a fresh surface, as all the weak garbage of society has been removed.  Floods, like raging fires, can clean things up, even if their initial implementation is violent and destructive.  And for many people who have been working in government jobs with outrageously good pay and benefits, but doing very little to actually deserve it, this D.O.G.E. process is terrible and destructive.  But for Musk to parade around with a chainsaw and laugh about cutting away all the government waste is a much-needed revenge for every time some loser politician said to us that we had to pay our fair share.  We were supposed to dump all this money into the mouths of a bunch of lazy thieves and pay more of it to feed their worthless souls.  Elon Musk probably is the most burdened taxpayer on earth, paying more than anybody else.  But that’s not why he is doing this; he’s the wealthiest person in the world, can pay all his taxes, and still has more money in a lifetime than anybody could ever spend on themselves.  But there is one thing that money can buy that they don’t talk about in the Bible, regarding threading the needle of goodness.  Money buys personal freedom, and because Musk is a free person, he can express himself as a person broken away from this matrix of government oppression because of his wealth.  Trump, in many ways, is in the same position.  When they tried to destroy him, it was his vast wealth that saved him and put him in place to do what he is now as president, appointing people like Musk to lead D.O.G.E., which is ripping the top off government corruption for the first real-time in history, with dramatic effect. 

There is no way to put this Genie back in the bottle; now that it’s out, it’s here to stay.  The argument about paying more to a worthless, expensive government will never return because of this flood of D.O.G.E information from a Department of Government Efficiency.  Cost cutting is back in our daily dialogue, which seemed to be gone forever just four years ago when the world government proposed endless spending like there was no tomorrow.  The evil that fuels the beast of the kind of government that brought us the COVID lockdowns and trillions of dollars of debt is the one that steals our tax money and uses it for globalists’ garbage.  And that game ended the day that Trump was re-elected and then sworn in on January 20th, 2025.  I remember how immensely angry I was on a cold day in March just 5 years ago when COVID was starting to shut down everything and a friend and I were trying to go to lunch at P.F. Chang’s but couldn’t because they had closed the dining room over Health Department safety concerns.  For people who have seen me mad, I scared even them that day, and I swore to myself that I would punish every last person involved in keeping me from getting my lunch because it was an attack on me and my community and country.  And I wasn’t going to stand for it.  And apparently, I wasn’t the only one.  Five years later, the battle has turned in our favor dramatically, and what happens next will be magnificent and well-deserved.

The video I did for this article is an appropriate metaphor. I was speaking about this topic in a snowstorm next to the flooded Great Miami River, and that’s how these years have felt.  I was in a storm, and a mess needed to be cleaned up.  However, as a result, there was a flood that couldn’t help but carry away all the carnage from that battle.  And with just a month of D.O.G.E. with Elon Musk leading it, and President Trump doing what he has always done best, to use executive leadership to empower many people to do many great things, as he has done in his companies, and was featured on the television show The Apprentice.  All this wouldn’t have been possible without the element of revenge that gave us all more than enough firepower to shoot back at those trying to suppress us.  That day, I stood in front of P.F. Chang’s with my friend, angry at the closed dining room imposed on us by the Dr. Faucis of the world; the revenge tour of today is more than earned.  We don’t need to feel bad for this flood of information converting our government back into something useful, perhaps for the first real-time.  As bad as our enemies have been to us, both foreign and domestic, they showed their wrath.  They didn’t manage to kill us.  And now, it’s time for righteous revenge, which is what is happening now.  And everyone is involved this time, even Elon Musk.  Going back even further, when I was on WLW radio with Darryl Parks on those Saturday shows, we never thought something like Elon Musk running around on a stage at CPAC with a chainsaw would have been remotely possible.  Yet, there it is, and we have much more to look forward to.  It almost makes all our pain and suffering worth it…………almost.

Rich Hoffman

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Family is the First and Most Important Form of Government: The Truths of Vivek Ramaswamy

You might have noticed a theme with the incoming Trump administration.  It was very obvious at the Daytona 500, where Trump walked around the track with his granddaughter.  Or with Elon Musk bringing his children into the Oval Office to play while doing press conferences.  I told my very good friend, Senator George Lang, how I thought so much about how he and his wife work together so well and enjoy doing many things as a couple.  A lot of people don’t get to see that side of him, but George has a great family. They love their kids and are just good people from the ground up.  And that seems to be a constant theme regarding people I tend to think are doing a good job in government; they do a good job in their homes, starting there.  That was certainly the message with J.D. Vance at the inauguration, where his children were crawling all over the place during the parade ceremonies.  It was very nice to see.  As I was reading Vivek Ramaswamy’s new book Truths recently, ahead of a big event with him where he is going to announce he’s running for governor of Ohio, he spent a whole chapter on the topic of family and how important it is to the constructs of a good society and good government.  In almost every case, you can’t expect to govern other people well if you don’t have a good family life.  So more and more, the way to sell good government to people is to show everyone that you know how to run a good family, because it all starts in the home.  We have been lied to when it has been suggested otherwise.  To be Great Again, America needs to make families great again as the first layer of good government; from there, everything else flows forward. 

I tell my wife every year that it is her birthday, in late February, to which I always hold my breath and which I most look forward to.  I’m not crazy about the weeks between Christmas and her birthday.  I enjoy the holiday season–Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year.  There is a lot of optimism that the human race has created for itself during that time of year, and I do love it.  But once the cold of winter hits and there are several weeks of very short days of daylight, I sort of hold my breath for her birthday, which always comes after it, the optimism of spring.  So we usually do something fun as a family for her birthday as a mile marker through a winter hard won.  This year, we celebrated by going to the Fuji House at Bridgewater Falls, and we had a wonderful evening there as a family with my kids and their kids.  It was her pick; it’s an open hibachi-style Japanese place where they cook in front of you.  I get to do that a lot. I’ve been to Japan a few times recently, and they do a lot of that cooking style there, so I’ve seen it firsthand. I have to say, they do a great job at the Fuji House.  It’s the only place my wife wanted to go for her birthday dinner, and everyone had a great time together.  The little kids loved it.  My kids enjoyed the treat, as they work hard, and life has a way of chipping away at people in their thirties and forties, they needed the break.  So my wife’s instincts were correct on that particular place on that particular night.  One thing you always get with Japanese society, in any form, is that they are very family-friendly, and the Fuji House in Butler County, Ohio, is undoubtedly family-oriented, making it fun for everyone. 

As I was watching our cook doing his warrior-like slicing up of our food with fire dancing all around in front of us, I kept thinking about Vivek’s book, about Trump and his kids and grandkids, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, my friend George and his wife Debbie and there isn’t any way to hide it.  Family is the first foundation for everything; you can’t have a culture of success without it.  Everything starts at home.  You manage your family well.  Only then can you think of managing anything in your community.  I know most of the trustees in the communities I work with, and I can say that in all their cases, family is essential to them.  Most of them have functional relationships with their spouses.  If you control that, you can think about state government.  Then, from there, the federal government.  And if there is anything left after all that, you can think about what’s happening in the world.  But never do any of those things at the expense of your family.  Family is everything, and any experiment from the past that has been said otherwise is a catastrophic failure, and we are paying for it now on many levels.  Sitting there watching our cook put all that well-prepared food on our plate for us to eat with chopsticks, I thought about all the great family moments we have had over the years, and really, those are the only things that ever mattered.  I’ve done many neat things, but time with our family has been the most important.  When I talk about good government and its needs, I always utter it from the perspective of a good family foundation first.

All suggestions otherwise have been wrong and should be viewed as an attack on our basic social structure.  Anything that attacks the pursuit of a happy family attacks the basic premise of values in that culture.  Thinking more about our own experiences, especially over this last decade, as we have traveled a lot as a family, usually with a caravan of RV campers, we have had many great experiences that indeed show up in the little children.  And that is the task of someone like Trump to give his grandkids an idea of what a good life should look like.  Otherwise, how would they know?  If you can’t have a good life at home with your family, how will you do it for community members, state, or nation?  That is what the borderless world people have gotten wrong from the beginning; they are trying to erode this essential Truth, as Vivek Ramaswamy calls it.  The government doesn’t start from the world as a global citizen and then work down to the family.  It’s the complete opposite, which is why Disney as a company has been failing.  They used to understand the family first concept.  But through radicalized politics, they tried to turn that basic structure on its head, attack the premise of family membership, and replace it with being a global citizen.  And that’s just wrong at every level.  So, I again enjoyed my wife’s birthday and dinner with our family to celebrate it.  There was a time not that long ago when we all got on a plane and flew to London to have her birthday dinner at Chef Ramsey’s premier restaurant in Chelsea, which was fantastic.  But in the scheme of things, Fuji House was better.  Not so much in the quality of food, but in the atmosphere.  The family-friendly environment there was just conducive to a good evening; many families there doing the same thing we were, and I saw a lot of evidence of good government in the home and people ready to take those values into their community, which was terrific.  There is hope for the world yet–through the children.  And if the adults let them down, that is a real tragedy.  And the signs of a future lousy government. 

We did it last year; I had just stepped off a plane from Japan.  And I was going to take our whole family to Disney World.  We were planning to spend a whole week at the Fort Wilderness Campground.  It’s a trip I had wanted to do before the grandkids got too old for Disney.  And I wanted them to experience it before the park started to fall off the rails due to their woke politics.  Since I was traveling late from Japan, the rest of my family headed to a little campsite in Georgia with their RV, and the agreement was that my wife and I would meet them there, just south of Atlanta.   I stepped off the 14-hour plane ride from Tokyo and literally got right into our SUV to pull our RV trailer to that Georgia campsite to catch up with my kids, who were already there, to drive 8 hours per day over the next couple of days.  And that evening, when we met up at a table set up between our two RVs, I brought them little treasures from Japan, and we had a great evening together, ahead of a week at Disney World and a Park Hopper pass to all four of their amusement parks for the week.  It was a wonderful day, the best we could ever hope for in a government experience.  Seeing it firsthand, I can say that I know what it looks like and what other people should be doing to get to similar happy places.  And it’s not up for debate. 

Rich Hoffman

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Steve Bannon Pleads Guilty to Fraud: Why people like outlaws, but not criminals

It can get pretty murky whenever money is involved as to the final outcome, which to me was the case with Steve Bannon, the popular WarRoom podcaster and former strategic advisor to President Trump.  He recently pleaded guilty to defrauding investors on a private effort to fund the southern border wall in the U.S.  The hitching point for prosecutors was that the investors believed that 100% of the money was to go to construct the wall, so if some of that money goes to buying a pack of gum for instance, or some administrative cost such as buying paper for a copier, then that could and would be considered fraudulent behavior and a political enemy could then use that technicality to call the behavior fraudulent.  It can get pretty wild and scary with all the emails that start dealing with money.  I have a standard policy of keeping any money out of it when I do something with others to avoid the pitfalls Bannon found himself in.  When you find yourself a prominent national figure, some people will always seek to sink you on any technicality.  So, of course, the radical leftists think this admission of guilt from Bannon is going to hurt him in the eyes of his very vast podcasting public, and I hate to break it to everyone, but America likes bandits and outlaws, so long as they are not bad guys themselves and are seen as fighting against a corrupt system.  In that case, people will find the criminal behavior to be good and will punish the bad guys who attempt to get control of the law so they can define good and bad behavior.  People still have a sense of justice that extends beyond what some central authority tries to impose, which is exactly how President Trump ended up back in the White House and where the mug shot he received from the Fulton County Jail over the case there regarding overturning the election of 2020 is now seen hanging outside the Oval Office in the White House.  People are pretty smart and not just compliant followers, and they could smell a rat in that case; the more Trump’s political enemies dug in, the more they supported Trump and, of course, people like Steve Bannon.

A good soundboard on this strange mystery can be seen in my favorite steak house in Cincinnati.  I think it’s the best steak house in the Midwest, and it is certainly on par with any restaurant, wherever they are, in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London, or anywhere else.  It’s called Son of a Butcher in Liberty Township, Ohio.  Growing up in Liberty Township, I never imagined in my wildest fantasy that something like Son of a Butcher would be located where it would be and that some of what went on in that location would be some of the most essential things in the business and political world.  But we’re talking about bad guys here and can’t stray too far off the mark.  If you have ever been to Son of a Butcher, it is known for its very wild interior decorating with lots of art painted all over the walls and crazy chandeliers hanging from the ceiling everywhere.  Every room in the restaurant has a kind of artistic expression reflecting contemporary pop culture.  For instance, in one room looming over what they call the Godfather table, indicated so from the popular movie series, is a painting of the Joker from the Batman movies.  Another room is filled with paintings of books from popular literature.  It’s a wild place artistically and looks more like a kind of dive bar in New York than something you’d find anywhere in Cincinnati, let alone Liberty Township, Ohio. 

Of course, the food is even better than the decorations, as they know how to pack a punch for food preparation.  They have some very expensive steaks at the S.O.B., as it’s known, and a couple of people eating there could very easily spend 1K per couple.  Some of the food items are moderately priced, but they are on the high end of the menu offerings and is often one of the most interesting places I find myself in routinely. It’s the perfect place to meet people for complicated conversations, to say things appropriately.  When I am there, I am usually put into a back room, which is my favorite place, that seats about 8 to 10 people, has crystal skulls all over the place and is pretty wild in a place of wild rooms.  They call this place the Criminal Room, and it has pictures of famous outlaws popularly known.  Painted on those walls is a large mural of Bonnie and Clyde.  Around the circumference of the room are two large paintings of very well-known pop culture icons, Marylin Monroe and the other Snoop Dogg.  Marylin Monroe was arrested several times for driving without a license and driving too slow in one instance.  Another time, it was for a peaceful protest.  The room paints her with a mug shot, illustrating that just about anybody can be seen as an outlaw if people dig far enough. Then there is Snoop Dogg, who lately has been trying to change his image into something more kid-friendly and popular rather than the thug gangster rapper who advocated for lots of recreational pot use.  Snoop Dogg was arrested for his role in a murder investigation, the details of which have just been sealed from public record in 2024, about the time that the popular rap star and Corona beer commercial spokesman started to change his image to a broader audience.  The murder was a 1993 case that didn’t quite get to prosecute him for extended jail time, but the charges were severe.

The point of the matter is that even with the murder charge hanging over Snoop Dogg’s head, the public didn’t care.  They bought his records anyway, turning him into one of the world’s superstars in music.  And I probably wouldn’t know much of that story if he wasn’t painted on the Son of the Butcher walls that I see at least once a month.  That is certainly the case with Steve Bannon and even President Trump.  Republicans have been harming themselves with their brand by trying to push out the bad boys that all the women like and put in place all the embarrassing stiff pencil necks that they think adhere to the law, but when they get pushed around by the political left, they end up being seen as George McFly from the Back to the Future movies.  Steve Bannon sees himself more like John Paul Jones, the popular pirate from the Revolution, so he understood all this well before others did in the GOP.  But the lesson is, if you want to win people over to your point of view, a background as an outlaw only helps you.  Being a criminal, however, hurts you, so there is a very fine line to walk. The difference is public judgment; if the public sees lawfare occurring, they will support the victim if they stick up for themselves, which is why having those celebrities in that room at the S.O.B. is so artistically revealing. We love people who challenge the law that corrupt people use to hold back our society.  But people do not love criminals who unfairly seek to exploit people in a weakened position.  And the more that the bad guys have tried to prosecute Steve Bannon, who just stepped out of a jail term right before the election of 2024.  The more popular and influential they have made him.

Rich Hoffman

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