Category: Drama

The Lords of Phony Money: A Dow Jones at over 40,000 is due to inflation, not actual wealth

It’s by logic more than choice that we have to look toward mobster activity as the playbook for modern tyranny.   It’s not just governments that get away from us that is the concern, which has happened.  However, the genuine concern is the behavior of organized crime and their ability to get away with making easy money at the expense of social peace.  People who are lazy but want to maximize their income through force seek collective associations, whether in unionized labor, elected office, or outright theft.  And this is a problem in any society, especially communism, where the government behaves like any organized crime family.  Only there isn’t a free society to dispute the actions.  In a free society, we can at least talk about it, which is what we do in the United States.  But organized crime goes back to when primitives conspired to bring down a woolly mammoth during a big game hunt for food.  When people realized they could work together to make labor more accessible, they naturally would head in that direction, no matter the endeavor.  Criminal thugs developed during Western expansion to rob trains and banks.  When the government became extensive and organized and started making rules people didn’t want, organized crime formed to meet the public demand at the expense of proper government, as a rival crime family, and the mobsters as we traditionally think of them were born.  But then, progressive society wanted a one-stop shop that would muscle out the crime families as Lords of Easy Money.  Of course, they had good intentions, but who could resist the temptation of money manipulation to satisfy the whims of the wicked and lazy?  And in that case, with an extensive criminal syndicate operating without the scrutiny of a free society, the illusions of power have become quite ostentatious.  And we see the level of corruption that is our present problem. 

Specifically, we’re talking about the money supply, and this is something that too many people, like pornography, enjoy the benefits of to criticize it properly.  However, this current scam of the Dow Jones closing at 40,000 is not good.  It’s a long series of mistakes and lousy policies catching up with us and being sold as a benefit when, in reality, it’s a massive crime no different than a classic bank robbery.  The government is playing the role of Jesse James and the gang of bank robbing barrons.  We shouldn’t expect the government to be anything less than an organized crime syndicate of collective-based losers seeking the easiest path to money and security through force as possible.  It’s human nature.  But here’s the gig on the Dow Jones, the 40,000 number that is preparing to break all records since the Dow opened first in 1885.  It’s an inflationary number propped up by an out-of-control money supply where too much money is chasing too few goods.  So it’s a record indicating a big problem, not an excellent report for everyone concerned about their 401Ks.  It’s like those classic bank robbers who break in and steal all the real money in gold and other assets, then leave behind a bunch of phony funds for the bank to give out to the public to keep them off the trail of the actual theft, and it’s a grave matter.  When Biden tries to claim credit for such a massive theft, done because of organized crime that moved from the local syndicates into the halls of government to commit just these kinds of crimes, he thinks he is throwing us off the trail of the truth. 

The Federal Reserve wasn’t a bad idea when it was first proposed in 1913, but under the best of conditions, it would require diligent management, and that just has not been the case.  The government learned it could print phony money with quantitative easing and apply that to a progressive Modern Monetary Theory, which is essentially the same as the transgender movement of claiming a man and a woman can be whatever sex they want any time they want to.  Modern Monetary Theory believes in debt maintenance by over-saturating the money supply by a government that doesn’t have to live by any rules but can make them up as they go.  This led to this crisis in 2008 with the too-big to fail in Housing that, failed.  So the Fed under Obama pumped a lot of fake money into the system and washed it like the crime families from the mob always did, through legitimate businesses, and pumped all that mess into the local economy.  In this case, the Fed printed a lot of money and dropped it into Wall Street to clean up, which was the role that Larry Fink, the political activist turned money manager for BlackRock, played.  And poof, just like that, a lot of money flowed into our economy, made up essentially on the back of a napkin and distributed as truthful.  But that game only works so long, as inflation is the direct result.  When President Trump took office in January 2017, the Dow was at 19,000 and had been going up since 2015, when it started to become evident that he might become president after years of stalled economic growth by the socialist actions of Obama’s administration.  The prospect of Trump did inspire a legitimate money movement in a positive direction.  But the number of 19,000 itself was phony as a carnival game on a hot July state fair. 

This is how BlackRock, Blackstone, Vanguard, and the rest of these popular money managers have gained so much power that they are buying up many companies with that phony money.  It’s a communist plan to make all property state-run, and this is one way that the organized crime elements of government-run enterprises can inflict a political philosophy into the money supply.  And don’t forget, Janet Yellen is Biden’s advisor on these things, and she is undoubtedly a communist sympathizer from the radical left.  She ran the Federal Reserve for a while and is a member of the World Economic Forum, behind the Covid release and centralized planning for a great reset.  This is all inconvenient to know, just as the porn hustling mobsters used to do behind the 22-year-old topless stripper in a peep show plaza.  People don’t want to think about why she is there and are putting twenty dollar bills in her G-string.  They want to enjoy the sights and sounds of sexual temptation.  Just as they want to believe that their 401K plans are making them a lot of money, but it’s all phony money, run by the Lords of Phony Money, the Fed, and its ties to globalism through international banking.  They have stolen real wealth and left us with fake bank notes and a fake economy propped up by a government that has fallen to the temptations of organized crime.  And to hide their efforts, they hope that full 401K accounts will keep the anger of pitchforks from coming after them until after this next election.  So before you get too excited about any economic news coming from government reporting, you must understand that the game is a crime and they are trying to get away with it.  Not profitability from the stock market participants.  The Lords of Easy Money have been hard at work robbing our wealth from our monetary system. They are not making it better.  And eventually, it’s all going to catch up to them.  Which, to my eyes, has already happened.

Rich Hoffman

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Merrick Garland Needs To Go To Jail: The organized crime of a government run by thugs, criminals, and murderers

Yes, Merrick Garland needs to go to jail.  This procedure to hold him in contempt is important, which Congress is going through now.  Or, however, things turn out, to hold him accountable for his actions in weaponizing the DOJ in favor of Biden, a criminal president in his own right.  The only defense that any of these characters have as a defense against jail is that their political position of anti-Constitutional sentiment seeks to move the goalposts out of the arena, so they are no longer applicable.  Marrick Garlan, Obama, Eric Holder, Hilary Clinton, Mayorkas, Wray, Fauci, Pelosi, Biden, under any premise of a law and orderly society, people like these should be punished in the harshest way possible for their lack of respect for the American voter.  And their purposeful participation in crimes against America and the way they have knowingly used the law as a weapon against their political enemies while daring people to apply those same standards to them.  There has been so much wrong and under normal conditions, especially in the pre-progressive era politics imported from Europe on banana boats and immigrants with Harvard degrees.  It doesn’t get much worse than what Merrick Garland has done against President Trump and against the rest of us who voted for Trump.  There must be punishment for those who commit crimes.  We can’t let criminals use the law to hide crimes, much like mobsters have done throughout history.  What the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, and many other three-letter agencies have done as controlled by modern Democrats in a manner we might point to and call the Deep State has been horrendously corrupt and manically vicious.  In the context of some history, it was purposefully exploited.  When a thug like Merrick Garland becomes the top cop in America, directs the law in a corrupt way, and gets caught.  Then, the law in every manner of justice must be thrown in his direction.

To understand a bit of history here, when mobsters got away with killing JFK and their primary target, Bobby Kennedy, with cold-blooded murders, a new standard was set for government partnerships where the mob essentially moved into government to control the prosecution of their many criminal enterprises.  Suppose you know how Bobby Kennedy went after mob bosses to prove his worth as an Attorney General, the exact role Merrick Garland has now. In that case, you will understand how personal crusades and power abused in that office can quickly get out of control.  Even though I agreed with what Bobby Kennedy was trying to do for his brother’s administration in cracking down on mob activity in America, the abuses of power were ostentatious and quite overt.  J. Edger Hoover, the cross-dressing FBI director who started it all, hated the Kennedys and denied that there was even organized crime occurring anywhere.  He wanted to fight communists, which the mob was happy to see because it got the government off their back.  But as history washed out the results, they were all the same kind of menace. China proved that organized crime hidden behind a communist government could take mob control to national levels, and that is what has been happening in America for most of the progressive political movement, starting with the turn of the last century.  When Hoover had to report to Bobby Kennedy as attorney general and had to go after criminal thugs in the mob, like labor union bosses and shadowy figures in Newport, Kentucky, he was targeted for assassination.  And yes, the FBI knew about it and helped facilitate the killers as a means to perform the task.

Now that we know that Biden’s White House, through Merrick Garland, had plans to invade Mar-a-Lago with deadly force, meaning they hoped that Trump and his people would fight back and be drawn into a shootout, we see years of this behavior culminating in a very modern way.  But when the mob burnt down the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Newport, as a result of all this mob behavior, the media carried the story as some faulty wiring, a playbook of criminal activity using the government and the mob control of the media to divert attention from an unsuspecting public was well underway.  The passive-aggressive position against voters and mob behavior started there, with the killing of the Kennedys, where the powers of government in the White House, where people picked their representative every four years, were manipulated by mob activity that evolved into government power acquired by organized crime.  What Joe Biden has done with his office in selling it, as we see in evidence through his children, is no different than the mob crime bosses known from the rough and tumble days of Newport, Kentucky, where so much mob behavior started.  People associate Chicago with mob mentality, but it was Newport, Kentucky, where much of the practice for the rest of the nation began.  And why it was wrapped up in the killing of President Kennedy and his brother, the Attorney General.  I used to work at the Mike Fink floating restaurant in Covington and the Islands in Newport, and I got to know some of the characters left over from that time.  Just because many people don’t know these stories and don’t want to admit that such corrupt monsters run their legal system doesn’t mean it isn’t happening and that it’s all a conspiracy.  It’s far worse than the conspiracies. The top floor of the FBI has always had a soft spot for organized crime, which the government has become against the wishes of tax-paying voters. 

Merrick Garland has abused his power to cover the crimes of this Biden White House in grotesque ways.  And it’s all been far worse than the killing of the Kennedys and the destruction of the Beverly Hills Supper Club in 1977, which killed many people and was done right out in the open.  Government and organized crime have been locked arm and arm all along.  And we are seeing the results of that relationship explode in front of us to this day, with just some of these characters mentioned.  And it will continue until we stop it.  Merrick Garland has done what he has because he knows this history and thinks he can get away with it because now, in 2024, the most prominent organized crime family are these national communist movements.  China is the largest.  And one trying to form in America which performed a coup against President Trump and is now being led, with the help of the FBI and CIA, by Merrick Garland and his Biden-controlled DOJ.  We know Bobby Kennedy abused the office of the Attorney General to prove to his brother that he was worthy of that lofty job. In that case, you can imagine what low-life characters like Garland, Obama, Biden, and the Clintons would do with all that power to their political enemies.  And knowing all that, we can’t permit it to persist. Otherwise, we have no country or premises from which they have already accepted and are operating.  While many of us still cling to classic notions about law and order and constitutional principles, most people seeking government power do it for the same reasons people joined the mob.  They wanted power and the lifestyle of easy money because they were generally lazy and didn’t want to work too hard at life, so they wanted power to steal money from other people.  And because of that conscious decision, people like Merrick Garland, once caught, and he has, must be punished severely and without remorse so that any concept of justice can live into the future.

Rich Hoffman

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Just How Good is Don Jr.: Don’t be surprised to see the campaign signs for 2024 saying “TRUMP/TRUMP”

Not that he needs to hear it, but one of the big topics I talk about in my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, is the concept of “ghosting.”  If you are valuable, do you need other people to know it?  It would be best if you were secure enough in yourself to be good at what you do, whether or not you get recognition for it.  And that is undoubtedly the kind of person Don Jr. is.  I don’t think he gets enough credit for just how good of a patriot he is, and how history will remember him.  His dad soaks up all the headlines, naturally.  But I’ve seen enough out of Don Jr. now to know that he’s doing the things he is for all the right reasons.  And he is certainly secure enough in himself to not be the headliner.  Donald Trump Jr. does things because they need to be done by somebody, and I would argue that without him, his dad, President Trump, probably wouldn’t be able to do what he has been doing.  But for the sake of fairness, I see it.  And so do many others.  When all the smoke clears from these turbulent times, and history is trying to figure out what happened, I think Don Jr.’s name will be one we talk about for many years to come, and how important he was to helping to make things right.  It would not surprise me at all if Don Jr. ends up being the VP pick because as I have said from the beginning.  It’s not enough to win in 2024.  We have to set up 2028 and 2032.  There are horrendous forces out there in the world who want us all dead so we have to get control of our government so it can do the job we need it to do.  And Don Jr. is in this game for keeps at this point.  And he would be perfect to take over and finish what his dad has started.  Don’t be surprised if the campaign signs for 2024 end up being TRUMP/Trump. 

I’ve had a chance to meet and see Don Jr. in person several times now, the latest at Lori’s Roadhouse in West Chester as he was campaigning for Bernie Moreno.  He is very good at what he does and interacting with the public.  But what’s missing from him is the usual pretentiousness of a person born with a silver spoon in their mouth.  Recently, a bunch of knuckle-dragging slugs questioned my judgment, asking me why I thought a person in the business world was worth as much as I said they were.  I didn’t talk about the many businesses this person had started and made much money at.  I didn’t talk about the many community affiliations they were members of.  I didn’t talk about the kind of car he drove or the size of his house.  I replied that he had raised eight children into adulthood, all good kids.  That was the most valuable thing he had done, which was why he succeeded.  You can’t cheat being a good person.  You have to be one.  And you can say the same about all of Trump’s kids.  I’ve met them all at some point, except for Tiffany and Barron.  But what you don’t see coming from Trump, even with all the marriages to different women, is him producing slack-jawed hippie slugs.  A lot of people these days follow the social mandates in parenting much to their detriment.  Don Jr. is undoubtedly his own person, but you know what, he’s a good person, sincerely.   And the MAGA movement is much better because he’s in it. 

Look at Joe Biden’s kids; they are all messes because their father was an idiot.  Many people look at their kids and blame their failures on something that the kids did.  But if you have crappy, no-good kids, it’s likely, (primarily likely,) that they are terrible because you did a lousy job as a parent.  That doesn’t mean that you have to be a perfect person.  Trump would never claim to be an ideal person.  But if you care and work healthily with kids, teaching them right from wrong, they can grow up and be fantastic, as Don Jr. is.  His brothers and sisters are, too, and Eric and Eric’s wife Lara are just wonderful people who are working hard to make the Republican Party better than it was.  And the public does not see much of what they have been doing.  There is very little pretentiousness in any of them.  You don’t hear from any of the Trump kids, “Do you know who I am?”  They show up at places and do the work year after year and have built an excellent network supporting their father, the frontman.  But when President Trump isn’t doing it anymore and finally retires, those kids’ work will resonate well into the future.  And I feel they will always be involved in politics because they want to Make America Great Again, whether in front of or hidden like ghosts in the pages of history.

Don Jr. could be doing a lot of things with his life.  But he spends almost every hour of his day making America Great Again.  I catch him doing his podcast and giving interviews on other podcasts throughout the week at all hours of the day because his heart is really in it.  He’s not hoping to get his dad into the White House so he can become “richer.”  The good thing about the Trump family is that they have already tasted success in life.  Daddy Trump prepared his kids for life on top of the social pyramid, and they didn’t lose themselves the way so many other children of successful people did.  When success is the focus, not the family, it ends up screwing up the kids.  But when you are sincere in what you do, and success is the byproduct, the kids learn the right things along the way and can handle it.  And because of the way that President Trump raised his kids, we are fighting to save America today in ways that wouldn’t otherwise happen.  Don Jr. has quite a cast of characters working in the background while his dad draws all the cover fire.  And it’s not lost on me just how vital those background characters are to the future.  Democrats do not have such a network of characters.  They are hanging onto the past, while the Republican Party has all the new growth.  And a lot of that new growth can be attributed to Don Jr.  President Trump didn’t just roll out of bed and have all this great network of support that has pulled together in such a healthy way as we are seeing.  The most significant trait of a leader is to do as Don Jr. has done.  Whether or not you get the social credit for the action is irrelevant.  Who cares what some dumb fool thinks of you?  The question that must always be answered is, did you do what you did because it was right?  And Don Jr. can always say yes.  And his father taught his kids the difference, which good parents tend to.  But when kids go wrong, as Joe Biden and his kind often do, there is always a good reason.  It’s not a mystery.  It’s because they were terrible people.  And bad people make bad kids.  You can never cheat the results of a child who spends so much time with you in their life.  You can’t hide it from them if you suck.  When you look at Don Jr. and meet him, you learn a lot about how good his dad was.  And you naturally want America to have the same opportunity.  The ghost is always the most powerful position on the chessboard.  We play the pieces.  But the ghost plays the game. 

Rich Hoffman

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Beating the Government Mob: It’s all about the down-ballot races

Yes, Trump is going into areas where typically Democrats have dominated, such as his massive rally in New Jersey.  Trump is going to do a rally in New York and other places Republicans gave up on a long time ago, not just as some vanity project, but because he’s working on a more significant issue, and going into those areas is how you bolster not just the Executive Branch, but the House and Senate too.  I verified it myself, as I have been saying since the last election.  I’ve been to heavy Democrat areas and do not see any enthusiasm about President Biden anywhere.  It’s one thing to say that there was election fraud.  It’s another to prove it, and there is no way to explain why a person who was supposed to get 81 million votes can’t be found to have any enthusiasm from the public.  Well, that’s because the public didn’t pick him.  Biden was picked for people, and they resent it even more now than they did in those cold first few months of 2021 when Biden replaced Trump in the White House.  Lots of people who count the votes and are hostile to America put Biden in place with election fraud, and to understand that, I will tell stories about Cincinnati in the weeks and months to come where the mob ran just about everything, specifically the battle between Simon Leis and Larry Flynt which come to mind.  The two men were military veterans, but in Leis, he was a patriot who bleeds red, white, and blue to this very day.  Flynt wanted to destroy America after his term in the military, and he spent his life on an openly destructive crusade to kill our nation in any way possible.  Living in Cincinnati, I had a front-row seat, but to understand election fraud and the forces that put Biden in office over Trump, the efforts are the same.  The only difference is the scale, and this is why Democrats want power and want to keep people off their turf.  And why Republicans typically don’t go into hostile territory.

Even though the mob-controlled much of the entertainment activity in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati through most of the war years, from the Red Scare of the 30s in post-prohibition times, and the government imposed Great Depression, through World War II and Vietnam, until the period where the mobsters got tired of fighting prosecutors like Simon Leis, and decided to move their operations into government, which is why you don’t hear about them in quite the same way now.  They permeate behind communist efforts and global socialism, but the concept is the same.  And this must be talked about to understand why nobody supports Biden, yet he’s in office and Trump isn’t.  When I think about the situation, I think of how Simon Leis stayed in office as a patriotic prune that the progressives who wanted global communism behind the hippie movement wanted to destroy completely.  That was because people understood that the mob was in control, and Leis was willing to fight the mob and win.  And it was the mob who bankrolled Larry Flynt as a front for their many other crime organizations.  In many ways, we are fighting the mob in a modern form as they have given up their turf wars and have now joined together within the context of our government.  But it’s the same game as it always was.  And where Simon Leis remains alive and well in Cincinnati going into his 9th decade, Trump has become the same kind of patriotic character for the entire nation.  And what we are up against is much worse than what was going on between Cincinnati and Newport, where even Bobby Kennedy targeted the Cleveland Four as his national crusade against the mob who certainly could care less about our right to self-rule and the rules of our Constitution.

Trump had to battle crime families and labor unions in New York, so he understands how to deal with this government mob.  And he knows that their power comes from turf control of regional areas where blue cities count the votes.  So the goal is to inject enough patriotism into those areas so that you take away the ability to cheat in those regions.  Looking at precinct maps of the previous election, the percentage spikes are obvious where election fraud occurred.   So, by disrupting those areas and their control over the regional population, Trump may not win those areas against Biden. Still, he can help the down ballots, where all the meat and potatoes are in this election.  We know there was election fraud, and the power of these government mobsters is in control of the regional areas, which is how they stack the deck.  However, the Trump and MAGA movement, in and of itself, is very similar to the fight between Simon Leis and Larry Flynt.  In that case, smut and pornography were used to hide the other criminal elements of the mass amount of normal mob business.  In this modern sense, it is progressive causes, such as racism, woke values, and trends of communism, as conducted by China through finance.  While many of us are looking at one thing, such as the unfairness applied to Trump by this far-left legal system, going all the way into the Bar Association, the real crimes of power occur in broad daylight, such as the fake war with Russia and Ukraine all to clean money through the effort toward the aims of territory control of those regions.  It’s the same game. 

Republicans could pick up at least ten seats in Congress in 2024.  And the Senate is a pretty wild ride.  It is leaning Democrat for now, but there are at least 5 or 6 races that could give a firm majority to MAGA Republicans.  But we need every last one to get those elected, like Bernie Moreno in Ohio and Kari Lake in Arizona.  That’s why it would not be wise to take a person who might otherwise be a good Republican senator, like J.D. Vance, and make them a VP pick, which takes them off the table for controlling the Senate.  We need to do more than elect Trump back into the Executive Branch.   We have to take control of the mobsters who run the Deep State.  Trump can best help himself in that effort by campaigning in areas controlled by that mob to free the people there in much the way Simon Leis did in Cincinnati in his smut war against Larry Flynt, which he mostly won.  Cincinnati is the model for how to save America from those same forces.  And in the coming months, I will spend a lot of time telling those stories so people can relate to the modern context.  The only difference is scale.  So, Trump’s campaigning in Democrat-controlled areas is more than a novelty.  It’s about overcoming the cheating machines in those areas to keep Democrats in office with high-engagement voters.  Trump has the personality to do that.  And in so doing, he will help take over the House and make a significant play for the Senate.  For those who think that voting doesn’t matter, the mob wants you to believe that.  That’s how they have continuously operated, taking hope away from innocent people who want to live their lives.  But they aren’t all-powerful, and their mechanisms can still be defeated, as they were in the past.  It just takes good people to stick up for themselves and to run these hoodlums back into the shadows to which they belong.

Rich Hoffman

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The Surprising Humanity of the 11 People Killed by Jim Ruppert: The Essence of Karen Holcomb’s new book ‘The Easter Sunday Massacre’

There is absolutely nothing good about the James Ruppert murders that occurred on Easter Sunday, 1975, where 11 people, from aged 4 to grandma aged innocents, were killed ruthlessly by a jealous younger brother who snapped shortly after all the kids had enjoyed an Easter Egg hunt.  But somehow, in the new book by Karen Holcomb, ‘The Easter Sunday Massacre,’ the surviving daughter-in-law of the prosecutor John Holcomb managed to write a book about that horrendous enterprise that found a spark of humanity I never expected.  I was seven years old at the time, and this murder, along with a few other significant events, such as the terrible rape and murder of poor 73-year old Mrs. Ruth Dench at her Taylersville home, very close to my home and well on the way to my grandparents farm that I traveled all the time, and the Beverly Hills Supper Club arson by mobsters that killed 165 innocent people and injured many others, these were events that shaped me in so many ways, that my 7 to 9-year-old self observed and asked a lot of questions of the grown adults at the time, but that I internalized and positioned for my 50 something tools and intellect.  I was not a usual kid; I remember details from that period of my life extremely well, including what it smelled like in our kitchen as I watched press coverage of the Ruppert murders in 1975 at the little house in Hamilton, Lindenwald, on 635 Minor Ave.  I wasn’t looking for another book to read, but while visiting my parents for Mother’s Day, a day late because I had just returned from a competitive firearms shoot in northern Ohio, my dad gave me a signed copy of Karen Holcomb’s new book that he had received at an event she had at the local library.   I knew the story of the Rupperts well, but through some interesting form of quantum entanglement with myself, I had asked many questions as a young person of my older self that still required answers.  So this book was something that caught my attention quickly.  I grabbed it from him and read it in a few days, putting everything else on hold over that duration, including sleep. 

The house is still there

What’s interesting about this case is that I know so many people who were involved, some still alive, such as Michael Gmoser, our current Butler County prosecutor.  But there are politics where I get asked several times a week why Gmoser and Sheriff Jones aren’t harder on pedophilia and that they select their cases in oddly political ways.  I like Gmoser personally; he was with me at a Trump meeting at Lunken Airport not very long ago, and I like knowing that people like him are part of our legal system in Butler County.  But it’s people like him who are part of our political noise that I like, without knowing the details, and I was very interested in it.  I also remember the reputation of John Holcomb and several of the judges who have come and gone since then.  So Karen’s book was a real treasure for me.  As I grabbed it to see who published it, which is something I always do first when obtaining a new book, I immediately recognized that it was from the Chilidog Press out of Milford, where all of Peter Bronson’s books are published, which I am a tremendous fan of.  So much so that I think I’m ready to talk about them in more relevant detail.  Some of the information in those books is so personal to me that I felt some background noise needed to be filtered through reality, and these last four years of Biden have been just such a contextual faculty, to say it nicely.  Good people who want to take care of their kids and live their lives need to understand how much mob and organized crime, in general, have impacted their lives, even today.  But needless to say, when I saw that Karen’s book was a “Chilidog” book, it became an instant priority for me.

Jim Ruppert, the 41-year-old who fell off the rocker in life, was jealous of his older brother and a mother’s love that did not go in his direction, and the wife of his brother and their eight kids that were constant reminders of his life’s bad decisions, so he grabbed three of his guns and loaded them up entirely, and proceeded downstairs to shoot them all in cold blood multiple times in the chest and head.  It’s a tiny house, so there was no way not to have bodies lying over most of the floor with blood pooling up and dripping into the basement in grotesque ways.  Ruppert had been ping-ponging aimlessly through life with an above-average IQ but had no success matching it.  He had apparent guilt over a homosexual experience that, at that time, was a real stigma since people knew about it, and he had lost a lot of money in the stock market, only to be constantly reminded about it through debts he had with his older brother.  And at 15 years old or so, he found himself in bed with his naked mother, with her putting his hand on her in obvious sexual ways.  Lots of things happen to people over a lifetime, but sometimes social stigmas and the expectations of performance can crush a personality, and Jim Ruppert was one of those lost people who did a horrendous thing to innocent people who didn’t deserve it.

Reading this book took me down memory lane; I had never been to the house, but I spent much of my early life around that location, especially at Chester’s Pizza, just a few blocks east of the Lindenwald home.  My family used to get a large pepperoni, sausage, and onion pizza from Chester’s almost every Sunday night before watching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as a family.  Chester’s Pizza also sponsored my famous soap box derby car, which I ran against Brent Dixon, the current commissioner, Don Dixon’s son.  So I found it interesting that the Rupperts liked the nearby Chester’s Pizza, which is still there.  So, I returned to get a pizza this past week; it was the first time I had tasted it in over 30 years.  And the building still looks the same.  While waiting for them to make the pizza, I went to the house where the murders happened and was surprised to see it was still there.  The pizza was good, and there was a lot to think about. Mainly how much Pete Rose was mentioned in the book, which reminded me how vital the Big Red Machine was to Cincinnati back then.  Even from a jail cell, knowing his life was over as he knew it, Jim Ruppert would ask the guards what the latest Reds score was.  Just as the prosecutors sifted through this messy case, they filled their time with standard everyday stuff, such as Reds games, to manage their stress.  There is a surprising humanity in this book about one of the most grotesque murders in American history that Karen managed to capture.  It helped that she married into the Holcomb family and that John had given her a diary of his time on that case, which she could use to tell this story about the Ruppert Murders that was different.  And I think it started a process I had been looking for to answer those questions from my 7-year-old self.  Karen Holcomb wrote a good book, and I’m happy she did.  The world is far better off because of it because she captured something in it that is difficult to do.  And it’s undoubtedly well worth the read.

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Rich Hoffman

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The Definition of War: Yes, there are many enemies at war with America, and us

Before you can fix something, you must admit there is a problem.  One of the concealment strategies utilized against our nation is the reality of what has been done to us.  No matter what level of evil we are talking about, which I would say is innate and subconscious, well beyond the scope of human interaction, reality is well-defined if you apply the correct definitions to things.  And that is that America has been at war with many characters who run various groups intent on our destruction, and it’s been that way from the beginning.  And like the Trojan Horse of Troy, the villains purposefully disguised their efforts to catch us all off guard, and they have done that by hiding their malice behind polite society.  And the war they have declared on us resided beyond our social definitions of human behavior.  But yes, we have to understand what’s been happening to us with definitions that matter, and that is grappling with the concept of war and the fact that our enemies are numerous and vicious.  And they are plotting our doom moment by moment and quickly if they can’t make a lot of money off us.  They seek to destroy us for all we’re worth.  Classically, the definition of war is “to overcome the enemy’s will to resist.”  As I saw the stock market results for the second week of May 2024, I didn’t see good news for 401Ks and family planning.  I saw a strategy to put people back to sleep because Joe Biden is losing in the upcoming election, and the enemies of America are attacking our culture with a clear strategy to remove our desire to resist what it is they want to do to America, and that is to convert our entire culture to globalism, Chinese communism style.  And the stock market is just one of their many weapons in the ways that the world is at war with America, and us as its caretakers. 

This is money created through inflation. Not the actual profit of true value. Fake money printed by the Fed to protect Biden from the reality of horrendous fiscal policy in an election year.

Now I get it; people just walking their dog and thinking of a two-for-one special at their local smorgasbord think of war as our involvement in Vietnam.  Or, Iraq.  War involves military action by governments intent on that purpose.  In the past, a general representing a nation or some other sovereignty directed soldiers on a battlefield toward suppressing the enemy and designing victory from a surrender once an overwhelming force had been established and utilized toward victory parameters. Upon such wins, people fly their flags and feel good about their nation’s victory against other countries, much the way we think about sports teams that we cheer on who win.  In that way, war is thought of as something that happens “over there” and is done by “other people.”  We don’t think of ourselves and our lives as being at war because our enemies use the concealment of the true definitions of things to perform their malice.  One way to do so is to subdue people away from their defense of a nation by changing their definitions of what war actually is and why people would be or would not be interested in having war to defend something they value.  The enemies of America, as we have seen often recently, overtly out in the open, is to destroy our desire to resist anything, such as in the transgender movement where even the concept of a boy and a girl is in dispute.  To our enemies, it’s not the sexuality involved that is the issue but the ability to corrupt even simple definitions so that significant attacks are never seen by a society that has lost its ability to have a conceptual faculty.

For instance, the good news that is not such good news on the Dow Jones closing at over 40,000 for the first time in history is a kind of Trojan Horse intent to sneak the enemy deeper into our culture while disguising it as something beneficial to us.  Many people do not realize how powerful BlackRock as a financial institution is in the performance of this scandal, which is relatively simple.  The Federal Reserve, through monetary easing using a clear strategy of Modern Monetary Theory, is doing precisely what crime syndicates have done since the beginning of time, and what is happening now with the war machine pumping large amounts of money into Ukraine behind a fake, and provoked war effort with Russia, and that is to wash illegal money through a legitimate business to give it the illusion of validity.  Not to mention that this practice is the cause of inflation, which is too much money chasing too few goods, and that even with more money in your pockets, it is worth less in what it can buy.  The sudden jump of the Dow over 40,000 isn’t about making money but printing more to represent the same value at a much lower value.  But it’s all disguised to give the illusion of profit by hiding the inflation behind a historic milestone.  In this case, the Fed dumped money into BlackRock and other Wall Street firms to have them distribute the money as if it were real into the economy through person-to-personal investments in the form of 401Ks and other financial strategies to prop up the economy with fake numbers to help Biden not take the blame for the impact that globalism has had on American sovereignty. 

This financial game is just one way in which the enemies have sought to suppress American understanding of the war that has been conducted against them.  Another means of such vile menace is in pornography.  Through the internet, porn has been made accessible to the public to weaken our resolve toward a just and moral society.  By attacking those values and the family creation that often comes from successful family relationships and the production of children who are healthy and independent, the governments of the world have purposely sought to corrupt our intellects so that we wouldn’t be able to resist them in war.  But would instead be addicted to vices of destruction meant to take away our will to resist their intentions.  When you understand how “they” are attacking us, you can know that much of what we do and what happens to us is the result of war, and the intentions of our enemies are pretty vicious and maniacal.  Most of what we experience daily is an act of war against us hidden behind definitions meant to conceal their strategy and keep us from seeing what they have been up to.  And we are stopping them from doing it.  For them, the best thing to do is take away even the reality of seeing what had to happen to resist their desires, which is our destruction, after they have made a lot of money off us in the process.  This has been going on for a long time, and it’s certainly not just a current thing.  Only the plot has been revealed in ways they have lost control of the narrative, and people are talking about it in ways they never dared to before.  But war is our reality, and it’s not something we can hide behind some soldier’s ethical code of battlefield conduct.  This is coming into our homes and neighborhoods disguised in ways we don’t think of as threats of war.  But you can bet they are every bit as such and worse. 

Rich Hoffman

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Fighting the Uniparty: Appeasing evil only makes it stronger

When Marjorie Taylor Green made a motion to vacate the Speaker seat in Congress, it was more than a cosmetic gesture.  The boos and hisses that commenced when she did so were what she indicated as the “uni party,” a combination of Republicans and Democrats who have joined together to benefit from the offices they were elected to for the power that comes with it and the money that can be made in its wake.  The bottom line is that Johnson has been getting pushed around, letting the Democrats run the House anyway, making Republican majorities just a token footnote.  Democrats want a pacifist like Johnson as Speaker because it allows the Democrats to hide their communist plots behind the responsibility of Republicans, which has been a trick of the “uni party” for many years now.  Remember what I did at the end of the 2020 election when I sat down with everyone and read the works of Cleon Skousen, the old FBI agent who wrote The 5000 Year Leap and The Naked Communist, and I showed you the plan to inject communism into both parties.  And that process became the uni party where Republicans and Democrats essentially divorced themselves from those who elected them and rolled like pigs in the mud to the power and money that came their way by matters of corporate communism.  I mean, what else are you going to call it?  Corporations wanted Chinese-style communism, adopted those measures, used the money to buy off crooked and corrupted politicians, and built a “uni party” to facilitate the Lords of Easy Money.  And poof, you get what we have in Washington, D.C., now.  The kind of people who conspired to get rid of Trump through a government coup.  And a way to keep the easy money flowing with ineffective government and a lack of voter representation. 

But Green had a point, and it was now that Republicans should be demanding authenticity of office, and if Johnson wasn’t going to be the guy, then Republicans needed to find out who it would be.  It doesn’t do any good to elect Trump and put him back in the White House only to have a uni party still in control of the House and Senate.  Sure, on paper, you might show a Republican majority, but that has been all an illusion.  They are not in office to do the people’s work, the way that Marjorie Taylor Green is, or other freedom caucus types.  They are there for the easy money and power from those positions.  And we have to smoke that out before we can even hope to have a government that legitimately works for us again if they ever did.  The other day, I told a good friend as we were talking about lofty things; he’s a powerful politician, and we were contemplating the universe.  I was reflecting on a book I have from the Statehouse of Ohio that I love and what I said about it, “People might fall short of the lofty expectations of government, but at least we try.”  Our government buildings are often better than those of us who fill them as elected officers.  But some do try to live up to those lofty expectations.  Yet many others fall for every temptation that comes their way and seek to make a lot of money off the chaos.  And in essence, that is what the uni party is.  In other ways of making a living, they are worthless.  But the power of government makes them somebodies.  And they exploit it without much coaxing. 

Not that Speaker Johnson is corrupt.  I think he’s a nice guy.  But surrounded by the kind of vipers he is, he’s too nice.  If you want to be the hand of God, you can’t be a wimp.  You have to fight like you want to bring Heaven to earth, not to appease the evil of Hell.  Playing to get along with evil only gives power to evil, and soon, you have a government out of control and running off the rails.   Of course, the media wants a corrupt government because it makes it spicy for them to work in.  Plenty of bread crumbs fall off the table, which they can enrich themselves with as well.  Most media members are lazy, and they are not fighting for the Constitution or God.  They, indeed, aren’t fighting for America.  At best, they are looking for a free drink and an easy bed partner under intoxicated circumstances in a hotel with a half-burnt-out neon light so they can tell the story on Facebook to a bunch of worthless people who could care less other than to gossip about.  The “uni party” is filled with these kinds of people who don’t care that they let down the people who voted for them.  They are missing their moral compass and are always on a quest for easy money, which comes from the various communist forces around the world who want to bring down our country with greed and laziness.  When money is easy, the courage to fight for our country is very low, evident in the creation of the uni party.   Because he’s weak and friendly, Speaker Johnson only facilitates the evil of the uni party as it exists now in Washington, D.C. 

Trump is only part of the puzzle in eradicating that uni party.  We don’t want Democrats and Republicans working together if the Democrats are working for communism and the destruction of our country.  That may not have been what Democrats were over 50 years ago.  But it’s what they are now, and I would say that most Republicans aren’t too far behind.  The 45 Planks of Communism showed in that referred book, The Naked Communist, are very real.  They are motivated by globalist forces to destroy the concept of America, and they exploit weak-minded people to facilitate their aims.  So yes, the “Uniparty,” as it exists, is something we should actively eliminate.  And if we have to have the motion to vacate the Speaker seat yet again, then so be it.  We don’t just need a token Republican majority that will work with Democrats to help destroy our country one policy at a time.  We need people fighting for it and working with Trump to form an America First Policy.  And to take away the power of the Lords of Easy Money, starting with our out-of-control Federal Reserve and its maniacal connection to international finance.  I can promise those bankers are not walking around with copies of our American Constitution that they intend to preserve at all costs. Instead, they have a lift pass for a ski slope in Switzerland on their mind, and as 50-year-old men, they have 22-year-old girlfriends hanging on their every word, perfectly willing to trade sex for an easy life, all hours of the day.  That is the world of the “uni party.”  That is what Speaker Johnson is trying to appease with his soft manner and gentle ways, hoping God will throw him a bone.  No, you must fight for things in this life and stand by good in defeating evil, especially in government and the Uniparty.   They can’t be reasoned with.  They must be destroyed and nothing else.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Process Efficiency Through Fast Draw Shooting Sports: How to eliminate communism from any culture

There is a root cause of big government and communism in general, and it essentially all comes down to laziness.  The best hedge a country could have to protect itself from communism is an emphasis on hard work and personal improvement.  If you have an efficient society where personal conduct is rewarded, you will have a better society generally.  And they will not vote for communism and all the various follies of Marxism.  I have figured out that over time by participating in Cowboy Fast Draw, particularly a great group of people I have known for quite a while, many years before I started shooting with them, The Ohio Fast Draw Association.  I think of it as one of the best sports that the human race has come up with, but in making it an actual sport that has very rigid rules and regulations, as most shooting sports do that involve real guns and ammunition, the drive toward speed and accuracy has created a window into the purity of human intellect that I find endlessly fascinating.  And that’s what was on my mind as my wife and I had a wonderful meal at the Punderson Manor overlooking one of the deepest lakes formed by glaciation near downtown Cleveland, Ohio.  We were camping across the lake and preparing for one of the first Fast Draw competitions of the year just a few miles to the north, and economic systems and process efficiencies were most on my mind as I thought about current events over pork covered in honey and garlic sauce.  Out of all the educational institutions and means of human intellect, I think the best representation of efficiency matched with risk formed out of Cowboy Fast Draw and America’s fascination with Western arts and entertainment. 

It was something most obviously revealed during Covid, which we all know now was created in a Wuhan lab and released by China and a lot of other nefarious governments for a Great Reset by the World Economic Forum to spread communist-style government micromanaged by a massive, leftist, Administrative State.  And so many companies and governments were ready to jump on and sign us all up for it by a media poised to spread the news as fast as television broadcasts could put up death graphs on the side of their visuals.  This was the theme of my 2021 book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, which I wrote and published during the first year of the Biden presidency, on the heels of the most ostentatious takeover by governments over private industry using Covid as their excuse.  But I wasn’t happy just pointing it out; I wanted to understand why human beings did this to themselves because that is where the real answers to life are.  That is why people were so quick to wear masks during the Covid crises, which were artificially created.  More specifically, when you look at a process for a big company, you will find that they have too many administrative employees and entirely too many rules.  Incompetent people use rules and large administrative practices to hide their incompetency from the eyes of a competitive world.  And you really don’t see that in people until you hang around people addicted to speed like there are in Cowboy Fast Draw events.  Human beings create a lot of rules and drag on any innovation system because they are timid and weak as personalities who look to shield themselves from risk through legislation.  And it is those kinds of people who make governments restrictive and crave communism and the security of a perpetual nanny state.

Of course, the sport of fast draw, especially The Ohio Fast Draw Association that I shoot with several times a year, is to shoot at a target when a light flashes on it and to draw a .45 caliber single action pistol with a wax bullet, as fast as you can from a holster at various distances.  What I like about the Ohio Fast Draw guys is that they have a variety of combat scenarios that are part of their competitions, and it forces you to find the fastest means to achieve the objective within some rigid rules that are always part of shooting sports.  The endeavor aims to manage risk and competence toward the stated goal.  Not to run and hide from it, as most organizations do where this problem of individual merit isn’t addressed.  In my real life, outside of shooting sports, which I consider a real vacation from the sluggish minds of bureaucracy and considerable government inefficiency, I would say that most people have some element of timidity in them that is open to government expansion over improved processing, I see how a lack of management over personal risk drags the world down in unhealthy ways.  People love their rules, their regulations, and their slow rate of completion in things because they are terrified of the actual responsibility of accomplishment.  At Cowboy Fast Draw events, all people generally agree that the goal is to shoot fast, hit the target, and find the most efficient process to perform the task.  That means drawing the gun from my holster in fractions of a second and shooting as soon as the barrel clears the leather.  There is no hiding the intent behind process rules disguised to protect the incompetent from the expectations of performance.  And I never get enough of it.  There are usually six or more events per year, and I always get a lot out of all of them, but what I get most is time away from the sluggish people of the world and their slow obsessions with administrative practices that hide their grotesque lives from competitive expectations. 

Since my last competitive event with these Ohio Fast Draw guys, I have been to Japan twice to deal with real-world issues of efficiency and competence necessity.  In Japan, they do not run from competitive expectations; they fully embrace them as a mass culture.  They are not in love with the process flow that protects themselves from competitive expectations, which is part of their samurai culture that is still alive and well there.  As my wife and I ate our meal and looked out over that lake, this was May of 2024, and my last competition was September of 2023. During that time, I had a chance to observe Japanese culture up close and personal, including how they eat.  Many lights came on for me as to the cause of human society leaning toward communist governments and why corporations of all kinds were so quick to do so.  Those elements of the fast draw and Japanese society painted across the current events of our times revealed a nasty sentiment holding back the human race for many years.  But the sport of fast draw had purged it out and away from its hiding places, and I have found myself obsessed with the results.  It was the root cause behind all the Lean work that had been developed in Japan with the Toyota efficiency standards, into why people behaved the way they did when work was presented to them, and responsibility for success fell on their shoulders.  It would take America’s gun culture to match up with the most successful economy in the world to evolve the sentiment, which I always cherish at competitive shooting events that tell more than just the story of American tradition.  But peel back the veil to the most wonderful elements of human intellect, the ability to use risk to produce efficiency and innovation that otherwise would never come to be.

Rich Hoffman

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A Love Letter to America: Season 5 of ‘Yellowstone’

Now that I have watched the Yellowstone series it has confirmed something that I had suspected, which made it a more urgent project.  There is a lot more going on with it than just an entertaining television show.  Taylor Sheridan and the gang are making a point and they know who their audience is, which was obvious at the start of Season 5 if you know what you are looking for.  Of course, Yellowstone is the popular television show for Paramount Plus, which many have called a love letter to the MAGA political movement.  Over the various seasons, Sheridan and the gang obviously struggled with this impression.  After all, they are Hollywood lefties and they didn’t want to be viewed by their peers as a bunch of radical right-winged lunatics.  However, the show has become increasingly popular over the five seasons because the topic of a modern Western has captured the hearts and minds of an audience hungry for content that represents their concerns.  Taylor Sheridan has become a scorching commodity since all the shows he’s producing suddenly are doing very well, not just with Yellowstone, but also the spin-off shows like 1883, 1923, and Bass Reeves.  There are more in the works, but these are all excellent shows, and in my wildest dreams, I never thought I’d see them on television.  They remind me of the old westerns I grew up with, like Gunsmoke and Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie, and I didn’t think Hollywood could produce anything like that ever again.  However, with Taylor Sheridan and Kevin Costner, along with others, there is a revolt against Hollywood that has been going on in Montana and Texas, which has its own kinetic energy that is giving voice to America, which is crying out for its own existence. 

If you’ve ever dealt with Hollywood types you will know that they are cosmetically, outright Marxists.  But around the catering truck, they are like everyone else.  They are mostly Marxists because they have to be to get work, and the financiers of their projects want global communism; otherwise, their projects don’t get greenlit.  But on rare occasions, sometimes you can flip the script on that process, and when someone like Taylor Sheridan is successful, the greed factor takes over, and the finance people forget about Marxism and turn to the glitter and glory of massive profit, which is one of the great attributes of capitalism.  Yellowstone is not a show that could have been made for state-run television.  It is a love letter to the foundation of America, and it is oozing in patriotism.  With the success that Taylor Sheridan has found with these projects, he is moving in a more obvious direction politically, which is similar to what we’ve seen with Elon Musk, President Trump, and Joe Rogan, all people who voted Democrat but have changed over time, based on what they have seen.  At the beginning of Season 5, when John Dutton becomes governor of Montana to essentially save his ranch from developers who want to build an airport, during the swearing-in scene, there is a long pause before putting his hand on the Bible, where Kevin Costner is throwing obvious red meat to the Hollywood community.  The purpose of the scene was to show that the Yellowstone production had not gone native and thrown their lot in with God, even though Kevin Costner does end up doing so and swearing to protect the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.  But the scene’s purpose, even if Taylor Sheridan will never admit to it, was to throw the Hollywood Reporter types into a tailspin of doubt.  Because the rest of the season, the next eight episodes are a love letter to American life that I never thought I’d see in a Hollywood production again. 

In real life, Sheridan and much of the cast have found themselves enamored by the majesty of the flyover states, which has rarely happened to famous Hollywood personalities.  And rather than hiding from it, they have embraced it more.  In the case of Sheridan, he has bought ranches and is desperately trying to tell the story of everyday Americans in this struggle with a true phantom menace of Marxism without calling it that.  There are many parts of Season 5 in Yellowstone where Beth Dutton, the daughter of John Dutton and the apparent future of the show, delivers some of the best pro-American lines that have ever been done in entertainment, on the level of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne.  And they were possible because of that setup of ambiguity at the start of the season with the Bible.  Usually, with these kinds of projects and the success that comes with them, any romantic notions that a producer like Taylor Sheridan receives take the ambition out of the projects, and they become more corporate as more people are interested in attaching themselves to the success.  But not here; Yellowstone has become more authentic.  And even though they probably find the idea repulsive, Yellowstone is more MAGA in the notion of Make America Great Again.  They may not want to admit that they like President Trump.  However, they are after the same things Trump and his supporters wish for in life.  We want our country, and we want to love it.  America is speaking and doing so loudly at the heart of the Yellowstone series and all the Taylor Sheridan projects. 

I don’t think Yellowstone planned to be this way from the beginning.  But what it has ended up becoming, and Taylor Sheridan himself, is an authentic love letter to the creation of America.  As I became more interested in these Taylor Sheridan shows, I caught him on a podcast with Joe Rogan talking about the western 1883 and the genuine plight of a new nation needing to fulfill the needs of Manifest Destiny, where advertisements around the world were begging people to come and settle America for a piece of it.  And much of the world, under various forms of tyranny and the early versions of Marxism, wanted more than anything to have a piece of their own life, even if it meant having to come and fight Indians to the death just for the opportunity.  Taylor Sheridan, throughout his various television series, is grappling with this problem, and it all leans toward the reasons America needed to exist in the first place and is stepping away from the Hollywood Marxism that has so ruined entertainment to its present condition.  And because of all that, people love Yellowstone and the other Taylor Sheridan projects.  I am indeed a fan.  There is some real heart in what is being produced around the Yellowstone series, much better than The Godfather or Dallas, which it has been compared to.  Yellowstone is a love letter to America that has needed to happen for a long time.  And it’s a story told by people going through their own transformation into patriotism.  I have always been conservative.  But I am happy to see more people becoming that way as they learn the real history of America, even if it takes success to free them enough to have that point of view.  Watching Yellowstone is worth the effort to get to Season 5.  And whatever happens in the future with the show, what has happened up to this point can’t be undone.  It’s part of America’s story now; and many people will be better because of it.

Rich Hoffman

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