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Its Just Another Communist Trick: Vote No on Issue 1 in Ohio

Probably the most asked question I get is on Issue 1 in Ohio during 2024, the gerrymandering issue proposed by a group called Citizens Not Politicians.  I haven’t heard anybody from any side on that Ohio Constitutional Amendment adequately explain what Issue 1 is.  Maybe they don’t know or are afraid to say it because they might incite inflammatory rhetoric.  I’ve heard countless hours of proposals advocating for Issue 1 and against it, and I suspect that the Citizens Not Politicians group themselves don’t understand what role they are playing in the attempted destruction of America.  People who favor Issue 1 in Ohio during 2024 are the same kind of people who supported the legalization of pot last year and who supported drive-through window abortions after Roe v. Wade went down in flames at the federal level, so that should tell you all you need to know.  However, there is some menacing intent behind Issue 1 that everyone should be talking about, and that is the communist intentions of the proposal, which essentially states that corrupt politicians are gerrymandering electoral constituency to favor one party over the other.  And that this Issue One proposal will make everything more fair in the future.  The accusation is that once they gain power, politicians can keep power by manipulating congressional districts and other boundaries on a map to favor a powerful party. And in Ohio, Republicans have super majorities that don’t look to change anytime soon.  Democrats just aren’t very well-liked in Ohio, and it has nothing to do with gerrymandering, but that they are a terrible party that does not represent what people want.  So the gerrymandering has turned out to be an excuse for the rejection of Democrats in Ohio, and the hope is that if they can redraw some of the districts, more Democrats might have a chance to get into political office. 

So when I say that this whole process is a communist scheme, I mean it in that it’s the philosophy of Karl Marx that has given birth to it, even if the perpetrators have no idea what’s going on. Making things “fairer” sounds nice. After all, we can’t trust those pesky politicians. They are the evil bourgeoise, an aristocratic class of our betters who do everything out of greed and malice.  But in truth, what the Citizens Not Politicians group is proposing is to attack our style of government itself and replace it with another committee of worthless bureaucrats to make decisions about congressional districts under a mask of fairness, but an intention of eroding our representative government in its essential design.  We already have a system that does what they propose to do: elections.  And they are blaming Republicans for the lack of Democrats in elected positions because people don’t want what the Democrats are offering.  But to avoid that issue, the Citizens Not Politicians are offering a 15-member committee of 5 Democrats, 5 Republicans, and 5 Independents to make the decisions our elected representatives should be making.   And, of course, when they try to make it appear fair by including Republicans, they aren’t talking about MAGA Republicans, as the trend is pointing, but Liz Cheney types and soft-shelled tacos like John Kasich.  What is being proposed by Issue 1 is ridiculous and a blatant attempt to change our representative style of government to benefit insurgent personalities who can use just another worthless committee to weaken our constitutions at the state and federal levels. 

I will vote no on Issue 1 in Ohio.  You must always be suspicious of any government activity that proposes more government to solve the problem, and in this case, why would we add 15 more people to perform a task that our elected representatives were elected to perform because we can’t trust them to do the job?  If you don’t like the job your politicians are doing for you, then vote them out of office.  But look here what is really behind this gerrymandering strategy. In that case, the real issue is a political platform that people rejected with their vote, which is how Republicans got so much power in the statehouse to begin with.  That is the nature of politics: to gain and stay in control.  Democrats are looking for a way to erode that power without trying to win over voters to their terrible position.  So that is what is behind Issue 1 and the intentions of Citizens Not Politicians, who publicly state that they are bipartisan.  When, in fact, their intentions are straight from the pages of Karl Marx and would be more suited in communist China than in a freedom-loving America.  When the word “fairness” gets tossed around, it is always the word “communism” because, essentially, it’s the same trick they use in China to sell communism to the public, such as in “The People’s Republic of China” where it is stated that communism is for the people, not those craving centralized government.  In the case of Ohio, the goal is to weaken our representative government and put people in charge under the mask of fairness to erode the power that people have elected into place because of their preferred Republican policies over Democrat monstrosities.  The desire for government to grow is the entire point of Issue 1 in Ohio and to weaken our constitution along the way.

I hate to be that guy who is pointing out communism these days behind every darkened hallway, but that’s what it is.  Chinese communism is the strategy of the globalist world, and it is intended for every corner of the globe.  And because it’s a big no, no word in America, they disguise it with names like Citizens Not Politicians, to make it sound like something else.  But what it is is garbage, maliciousness, and an attack against our constitutional republic and representative government as it was intended.  If people want to win more seats, then win more honest elections and stop trying to rig them in all kinds of ways to put communists in power in ways that the elected government would prevent.  For the bad guys, it’s far easier to control five Republicans on a committee than the randomness of hundreds of politicians who are always coming and going.  The Citizens Not Politicians group wants to put the gerrymandering issue into the same approach we have on our state school boards, and we’ve seen what a failure that has been.  What Issue 1 offers is just as stupid.  But what’s worse is their intent and willingness to lie to themselves and everyone else about what they want.  They are crying for communism and a big nanny state where the government becomes the parental role of society.  The message here is that those mean, greedy politicians are out of control, and the “people” need to take back control over them with another worthless committee.  Ignoring that we elect those politicians in the first place, why do we need another committee?  See the problem?  And the intention.  All communist insurrections start this way by making it sound like “the people” are taking back their government from the greedy politicians of the aristocracy.  And some people are too stupid to know better.  But we set up our government with this whole decentralization of government in mind, where elected representatives “represent” the people.  And that is the trick at play here; the bad guys are pretending to represent the people when the people were always in control.  And they picked Republican supermajorities.  And Democrats have no answer, so they are supporting Issue 1 to erode our constitutional system, which is yet another grab for power and an expansion of government toward perpetual ineffectiveness so that people eventually will give up on it altogether and fall to the whims of communism and the skirts of a jealous, government mother. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Astonishing Trump Rally at Butler, Pennsylvania: Christopher Macchio gave the MAGA movement a soundtrack

It’s been a few days since the event, but I think it was one of the most pivotal events in all political history, President Trump’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassin tried to kill him and almost succeeded.  Shots were projected, and people were hurt in the crowd, and a person died.  It was serious stuff, and in this overly litigious world where the safety nazis are ruining everything with a mind-numbing existence of compliance to the authoritative experts of the world, it just doesn’t happen where tragedy is overcome by dramatic optimism.  But that was the message Trump brought with him for this return to the site on July 13th, 2024.  For Trump to return to the scene of the crime and dominate it with an optimistic speech that was attended by a larger group than before was breathtaking.  This second speech on October 5th, 2024, was something America needed to see, and it was probably expressed best by Elon Musk, who attended and spoke, jumping around on stage like a little boy happy to go to a baseball game with his father.  There was an innocence to the wealthiest man in the world and one of the most successful acting like a young kid happy about the future.  It was a sincere moment that history will never forget and Trump set it all up by returning to a place of doom with an optimism very few people in the world could ever hope to achieve.  Yet that is what Trump has been offering: a way to defeat the machine of communism that is present in our current captured government and to rise above it by pushing fear aside and leading the world back to health.  But in the wake of it all, there are a few things to think about that are unique and life-changing and that everyone should be aware of. 

First of all, the crowd defied modern conventions.  It was like the day of the assassination attempt, with bullets flying around everyone, and nobody knew where the shots were coming from or even how many shooters there were.  Essentially, in the middle of a large crowd, there was a shootout because a well-placed sniper did get the shot off that killed the assassin.  People in the audience were hit and killed, and there was blood everywhere.  It was a significant tragedy.  But the Trump supporters didn’t run from the area like a bunch of cowards.  Instead, they ducked, they looked around, and they remained calm.  This is a reaction that years of Hollywood productions by skinny pants losers from Santa Monica screenwriting don’t understand about real Americans.  Not the latte-sipping sissies of Democrat areas, but the meat and potatoes people from the flyover states who aren’t afraid of their own shadow.  People under fire weren’t cowards and did not leave Trump’s side when, at that time, they had to assume he was killed.  Elon Musk was watching from afar and had the same reaction that everyone else did once Trump stood up and pumped his fist to the sky, saying fight, fight, fight with blood running down his face in defiance of the killer’s intentions.  That is the American spirit, and it was at that moment, Elon Musk decided to endorse President Trump, which was something I didn’t think would ever happen.  Given that Musk is a Democrat and had been trending toward Republicans over the last few years, supporting Ron DeSantis early in the process.  Trump’s courage under fire and real danger inspired Musk and many others to join the effort to reelect the president, which was a story that Musk retold while on stage to a captivated audience. 

But knowing what happened the first time, why would people want to come back and stand in line for more than 24 hours only to hear the same speech repeatedly?  Why would people even want to risk their lives to attend an outside rally where there are people who want to kill Trump, and they might be killed themselves in the process?  This was like having people return to the Kennedy assassination after it had happened and give a motivational speech about America from the spot of the killing.  What would provoke people to want to do such a thing?  Most people, including conservative commentators, had no idea how to answer that question.  Yet the rally had people there, many more than the previous time in July, as far as the eye could see.  People wanted to be there and tried to put danger on notice.  They were not going to be afraid.  They wanted to support Trump, be near him, and be a part of history, which was a magnificent occasion after all that has happened over the last several years.  The event was live-streamed to over 5 million people on social media, but millions would see it and witness a unique historical event in the days that followed.  The plans for America’s demise were failing, and people could feel it in the air. They wanted to play their part in recapturing our country from the clutches of vile globalism.  It was more of a military occasion without the bullets flying toward an enemy, but the impression was the same.  If global communism ruled with fear, these people defied that intention by attending and participating in that rally. 

However, Trump understood that he had brought something new to his typical rally format before the rally started.  He invited the noted tenor Christopher Macchio to perform before and after the speech in a display that I thought was jaw-dropping audacious.  And for Trump to flex that celebrity muscle then was ominously bold.  Macchio has performed for Trump before, most recently at the RNC event in Wisconsin, but again at the White House.  However, for Macchio to perform at the Butler, Pennsylvania Trump rally was a touch of class that could only come from the Trump Organization as a statement.  It was a statement that wasn’t needed, yet Macchio brought opera to a culture that doesn’t usually get exposed to that kind of thing.  And Macchio performed several songs after the rally; once the typical YMCA song ended with Trump dancing on stage, Christopher sang “Nessun Dorma,” “How Great Thou Art,” and “Hallelujah” to a stunned crowd.  I was stunned.  I thought it was incredibly classy and bold.  Obviously, like Musk, this very talented and rare individual and a top New York celebrity was full-throated in support of Trump.  Christopher Macchio was jumping around on stage in his own way with a compelling performance that was cheerleading Americans in the ways of the Power of Positive Thinking to overcome years of massive tragedy and to restore America to health in ways that people are just now coming to understand.  That was essentially what Trump was offering with this rally: not just returning to the spot to overcome the attempted fear but also overcoming it and overwhelming it by laughing at danger, even dancing on top of it.  But boldly, we continue our triumph over evil the way only opera as an art form could even be conceived.  Yet there it was, and now the MAGA movement had a soundtrack to march to, to take back our country from those who have been stealing it away for a long time.  Now, there was music to give life to the movement captured so wonderfully by Christopher Macchio.  And the world will never be the same. 

Rich Hoffman

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The FAA Has Held Up SpaceX Too Long: Government is holding the human race back from going to Mars

Just a little memo for everyone out there, especially those who thought compliance with government authority was going to be the future trend, they were wrong.  I’ve listened to complete idiots tell me for more than two decades now that compliance with government authority was only going to increase year by year, and I have argued with them to the contrary.  COVID destroyed people’s tolerance for government pinheads forever.  Government power had been abused, and people were finally pushed too far.  And that’s why Elon Musk was on stage with President Trump in Pennsylvania, cheerleading on a Republican administration that promises to cut down on government red tape dramatically.  Musk is not a Republican or a conservative.  However, the FAA process denying him approved applications for his next space flights for Starship 5 has pushed him into Trump’s corner.  Just as they have with many Democrats who have now crossed over and joined supporting Trump, a common theme has emerged.  The government has become too big and has all the wrong values, and people are tired of interrupting their lives needlessly.  That is certainly the case with Elon Musk, who has to file a lot of permits for the launch of each of his Starships which he is working through his company, SpaceX, to prove the landing of the largest vehicle to ever enter space and return to earth.  What the Starship 5 mission proves to do is re-land the Super Heavy Booster rocket back at Boca Chica with their chopstick system.  From there, refueling and reentry into space will become a common occurrence.  But first, SpaceX has to stick the landing of the Superheavy rocket to prove the whole capture system works.  So, there is a lot of urgency to increase the innovation rate to meet the missions’ needs because Starship is a key to NASA’s programs of returning to the moon, and this application process with the government is holding everything up needlessly. 

To make matters worse, and to my point, you can’t put the heads of lazy people in compliance authority to the genuinely heroic efforts of manufacturing.  It was never a math problem that would work, and Elon Musk has tried to play nice his whole life.  And the Federal Aviation Association did pretty well with SpaceX until the second part of 2024 when Elon Musk formally endorsed Trump for president.  Two iconic photos tell the complete story of the 2024 election cycle and precisely, this problem.  The first is the attempted assassination of President Trump, where he is pumping his fist in the air with blood running down his face after just being shot in the head.  Within moments of that picture hitting the public, Elon Musk formally endorsed President Trump for president, stepping away from years of supporting Democrats such as Joe Biden and Barack Obama.  Elon Musk is hardly a conservative.  But then again, neither is President Trump traditionally.  But what they all have in common is the difficulty in dealing with government bureaucracy where entire groups of worthless people get mall cop authority over the titans of industry with the stroke of a pen.  From there, the FAA stopped approving Musk’s applications for SpaceX flights, as if to punish him for supporting President Trump in any fashion.  It all essentially started with that photo of Trump right after the assassination attempt, which has backfired massively in the intention of getting rid of Trump.  Instead, it solidified him into the world’s consciousness in ways no political campaign could have done otherwise. 

The other photo to come out of all this is when Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, to finish what he started, which was interrupted by that assassination attempt.  This time, Elon Musk came on stage to speak on behalf of President Trump.   And Trump was in the picture standing at the podium calm and resolute, in the same spot where an assassin’s bullet had narrowly missed him just a few months earlier.  And there he was, standing boldly to the possibility of death.  Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world and one of the smartest who has declared himself to the task of carrying human civilization to space to colonize other planets, was jumping around on the stage like a little kid, excited about being there.  The picture that was instantly famous is of Musk jumping in the air with joy at the prospect of Trump winning and deregulating his industry to the point where it has crippled his efforts in a way government pinheads only can.  The joy is evident on Elon Musk’s face, the empowerment of taking back the government from the hands of the truly terrible, the people who are worthless in life and have only defined themselves as demanding that good people adhere to some government mob. Otherwise, punishment will follow.  If you look across the world, especially across the regulatory industry, this communist push to make centralized government appeased has gone too far.  And now there was proof that even the friendly and compliant Elon Musk would be punished if he didn’t support the tyrannical mob in government to the point that they would stonewall the permit process for his life’s work.  That is why you can never give the government too much power over you; they always abuse it. 

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We’re not talking about making the world unsafe.  There will always be a need for the government to provide some regulatory bumpers to hazardous conduct.  However, the lesson everyone has had to learn is that capitalist practices are a far better regulator than government pinheads.  Market conditions are far more potent because failure has a more significant impact than some regulatory committees.  The case of the FAA holding up the next Starship flight has to do with concerns over the water system used for fire suppression having an environmental impact on the local wildlife.  People have had it with this EPA argument.  The earth serves humanity’s needs, not limit them to appeasement like a bunch of primitives sitting around a campfire throwing sticks at every noise in the dark.  And that is what the government has been offering with its ridiculous rules centered around EPA concerns, which has just turned out to be a cover story for outright communism.  And the mob mentality of the government these days who put their political opponents in jail and deny permits as punishment to those who don’t support them politically.  Over the last four years, Biden has pushed too far and tyrannically, and his relationship with a former supporter, Elon Musk, has shattered.  Musk was so happy about the revelation that he was glad to be on stage with Trump and put his entire support behind electing the President back into office so that he could get his company, SpaceX, moving again and not sitting around like a bunch of idiots waiting for the FAA to approve their launch application.  If the permit process for these launches takes more than a few hours, it’s too long.  And that holds in every industry.  More compliance to senseless mobs of government power is not the wave of the future—quite the opposite.  When Trump wins, he will put Musk in charge of improving the government’s work, including the ridiculous permit process holding SpaceX back.  Elon Musk will finally be able to solve that problem directly.  And he is jumping for joy, literally.  And who will there be to blame in the end, the government that pushed too much and too far to advance tyranny and compliance to a bunch of worthless people who should have never been part of the process, to begin with?  They will only be able to blame themselves for what they did.

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Art of Survival’: Winning as Americans

After the last election, I knew that people were scared and needed a voice through the darkness.  And I can write and talk even under the worst circumstances.  So, every day since that stolen election in 2020, where Biden was inserted to push out Trump with an obviously government-sponsored coup, I have written an article every day and filmed a video to go with them, and many millions of people have directly benefited.  If you have been paying attention, if you listen to a lot of talk radio on AM stations all over the country, podcasts, and cable news segments, it’s pretty normal for them to pluck ideas off my blog postings, which many influencers watch every day.  They need content, too.  I have been writing these blogs for many years, and I have put up an article every day, now for over 14 years, since 2010.  It was so successful that since about 2014, I just stopped doing personal interviews as a guest on radio and television; I just put my energy into being a content creator with my eye on providing a voice of reason to producers looking to fill airwaves with material that could help America get going again because the bad guys out there were playing for blood.  I thought about quitting the daily articles a few times during Trump’s first term.  But after he was removed from office, I doubled down to do everything I could in the background to keep the roots of our republic healthy because people, even the strongest people, have needed it.  But now that it’s coming to an end, now what?  I’m not sure, but I aim to do everything I can to help win this election, especially for Trump.  So, I have been reminiscing a lot lately and going back through all the Trump books I have read over the years, which inspired me to support Trump in the first place.  As I was watching Trump return to Butler, Pennsylvania, for a rally after the assassination attempt was applied to him there, I kept thinking of a much more little-known book of his called The Art of Survival, which is one of my favorites.  And I think many of you would enjoy it right now.  Because America is about to knock out its rivals, foreign and domestic, and a new day is dawning for us, it’s important that everyone understand what’s happening.

When The Art of the Deal happened, Trump was at the top of his industry, a very successful businessman, and he had crossed over to become one of the biggest celebrities in the world.  However, the wheels came off shortly after that book published in 1987.  After Reagan left office, the economy tanked.  I was so mad at George Bush Sr. as a 19-year-old kid that I began a crusade looking for a replacement, putting me in the Ross Perot house with his daughters on adventures that would fill several books themselves.  Along the way, I met people like Rob Portman, who I set up on a big town hall debate on WLW radio that helped him win his first congressional seat.  I did many other things to help, too, which could be an entire book of success similar to Trump’s writing about his life experiences.  But during this period, the wheels came off in life for many people.  Me included.  Trump lost his first wife, he lost several businesses, and he was looking like he was going to be bankrupt and broke for the rest of his life.  Later, in 1997, he wrote The Art of the Comeback, which I have said is the playbook for this second Trump term and an essential book that describes how he went from being many millions of dollars in debt, much poorer than a typical homeless person, and climbed back on top to become one of the world’s wealthiest people.  There was a book called The Art of Survival that was infinitely fascinating, and I saw that attitude fresh and again on the stage at that Butler Rally, and with the musical contributions of Christopher Macchio, which were just jaw-dropping fantastic.  Stunning!

Trump didn’t need to write another book or open a door to his personal life while everything was falling around him during this period.  But The Art of Survival is such a marvelous book about perseverance that even in his darkest hour, he wanted to help people pull themselves up when they were down and be better people.  It inspired me during that period to keep fighting, and fighting, and fighting, which I have always done in my life, too, including writing these articles every day, even when I don’t feel like it.  Because I see the hits I get on all this stuff, and hundreds of thousands of people per week consume my material daily.  And over a month, millions.  That’s a lot of people looking for a light in the dark.  And Trump always felt responsible for being that cheerful voice, even when it wasn’t good for him.  You can make some money with books, but not a lot.  So he didn’t write that Art of Survival for himself; he wrote it for people who look to him for leadership. 

Essentially, The Art of Survival is a lesson on why “The Eye of the Tiger” from Rocky III is an essential song for the American consciousness.  One of the prominent features in that book that was devastating for Trump was the fight of Mike Tyson losing to Buster Douglas.  It was devastating to Trump, who was getting into the business of promoting the young Tyson as he looked to be invincible.  And now he was a loser, and it hurt Trump.  I would say that out of everything that was happening badly to Trump during this period, Mike Tyson’s loss to Buster Douglas was the worst because of the psychology involved in winners becoming losers.  But Tyson would fight again and win most of his fights.  Trump would claw himself back from devastation and marry one of the most beautiful women in the world, and they would live a good life in a golden palace overlooking Central Park in New York.  Trump would become more successful than he achieved in the 80s under President Reagan.  As an older man who had seen the worst that the world could throw at him many times over by a powerful and corrupt government to keep him from running for president once again, he was there in Butler, Pennsylvania, as a champion of the world, and he was spiking the football in a much-deserved way.  That power of positive thinking caught the ear of the wealthiest person in the world, Elon Musk, who was excited and very boyish in his enthusiasm for supporting a second Trump term.  And I thought of that book.  If you can get a copy, you might want to read it because we live in an exciting moment in history, and I think you will find in The Art of Survival the critical ingredient for what comes next, and we will all enjoy it quite a lot.

Rich Hoffman

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Slump Busters: Setting aggressive targets, and hitting them

It comes up a lot since the dumb and ridiculous Covid rules of employment, but Slump Busters are every bit as much of a thing now as they have always been.  People didn’t decide to loosen up their target acquisition consciously.  The human race still expects excellence even though the New World Order is clearly trying to make it easier for losers to succeed in the world at the expense of excellence and competency.  Setting low targets that are easy to hit has become the norm in the world regarding political expectations, and that trend has had disgusting consequences.  I have been talking about those observations for a while now, and they are most evident in drive-thru windows, which have become incredibly slow as Gen Z has become so much slower and cumbersome as they were taught during their education years by a society that has been infected by Marxist political movements to severely lower their expectations on what can be achieved in life.  People are still people and always will be, and it’s most evident in the sexual practices of a society what their true essence is regarding expectation.  And to that point, I have been talking about slump busters a lot lately.  I don’t participate in the slump-buster mentality and never have.  I set aggressive targets for myself in all aspects of my life, and I hit them.  Thinking like a shooter, I aim for the bottlecap at 100 yards.  Not the side of the barn, to make it easy to be successful.  Even though I have been married for many decades, almost 40 years, I remember the mating game well enough when I would go to a bar or nightclub with friends and watch the process unfold of slump busting, and it is precisely what we are seeing in our economy now, along the same lines, and it’s a disgusting reality that needs significant reform.

It’s not sexist to talk about this topic as it’s all-natural biology.  Women can pick any sex partner they’d like any time they want to.  All they have to do is let the male of their choice know they are interested, and men are designed always to be ready.  So these rules don’t apply to women as they are in the role of biology, the target that men must hit.  It’s up to the women to set aggressive targets and make things difficult for men.  And the more beautiful they are, the more motivated men are to attract the woman’s attention for the necessity of success.  When a wealthy man has an attractive young woman on their arm, they are communicating to the world that they are good at what they do and can attract a prime female to their bed.  So when going out to the meat market, I remember well enough how the game was played and still is.  People didn’t change; only the approach to politics by radical Marxist forces setting policy at the level of the United Nations to micromanage the way people interact with each other with new woke rules that are not applicable to the desires of all human beings.  When picking up women at a bar, the rules never change.  There are eight o’clock girls.  Then, some are still available at 2 in the morning.  And those are the slump busters.  If a woman is still available late at night, nobody wants her, and taking her home would be very easy and much less rewarding.  But if you are trying to knock the rust off social engagement with the reward of sexual conquest, then a slump buster may be the thing.  I would add that it’s a loser mentality to lower yourself to that level, but those lacking confidence in hitting a target may need to hit the broad side of a barn to make themselves feel better.

When you first get to a bar, if there are pretty girls there at all, because they don’t need to go to those places to get male attention, they can pick anybody off the rack at the grocery store.  But if they do end up at a bar or nightclub and are intent on finding a sexual partner for the short term, then they might be there at 8 PM, but they’ll be leaving with someone of their choosing by 9.  They don’t last long.  But the ugly people are still around late at night, and the most hideous of the ugly are all that’s left at 2 in the morning. Nobody will be bragging the next day that they ended up with a slump buster at the end of the night, just as nobody who thinks of themselves as a good shooter is bragging about hitting a barn from 100 yards.  Slump busters are confidence builders.  But for a person with a lot of confidence already, they would be disgusted in selling themselves short of a true victory in the realm of conquest.  Slump busters might satisfy the need to hit a target, but the quality of the effort isn’t worth sharing with the public.  I never liked the game, so I was married to my wife by the time I was 19.  I had seen enough very early in my life.

I met my wife while she was in the car with another guy.  I saw her at a traffic light and followed her boyfriend’s car to a parking lot, pulled up next to her side of the vehicle, and asked her for her phone number.  I was very aggressive with dating whoever I wanted and did not have any restrictions on confidence.  On the confidence front, I still shoot at very aggressive targets.  I shoot at the printed details on a bottlecap from 1000 yards.  I’m not just happy hitting the bottlecap.  And that’s what I expect from the world around me.  And when they indicate they are only excited to hit the side of a barn from ten feet, I naturally get very mad at them.  I would walk up to random women and ask them out, even in groups of four or five.  I had no fear of failure, and most of them said yes on the spot and if they were indifferent, they said yes a few weeks after.  And that’s still true to this day.  My wife was very beautiful, and everyone wanted to go out with her.  So, if you want to target pretty people like that, you must be bold.  So I took her from her date and married her.  And I can say that I never had a slump buster.  I never settled and never will, which is valid for everything.  And just because a bunch of pinheaded globalists suddenly think the human race is going to lower their expectations for what is possible in the world and that slump-busters will become the norm, not the exception, well, they have another thing coming.  I would say that people are embarrassed by their slump-busting trends over the last few years. Making America Great Again with high expectations and the kind of women who are off the market at 8 PM instead of building the world around the losers at 2 AM is coming back in style.  And the business world better accommodate for it because, ready or not, here it comes.  Slump busters are for losers.  And people don’t want to be losers.

Rich Hoffman

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Vote No on the MidPointe Library System in Butler County, Ohio: They only do well for diabolical Democrats and Marxist losers intent on the destruction of America

No, I’m not supporting the MidPointe Library System tax levy in Butler County, Ohio.  They want too much money for a product that is only good for Democrats.  Libraries these days tend to be breeding grounds for liberals so I tend not to like them anyway.  And I say that as a person who probably loves books more than anybody, locally, regionally, or this side of the Mississippi River.  I would say that books are my number one love in the world, I read around three books per week and on all kinds of different topics.  I think they are excellent ways to advance human civilization and the perpetuation of knowledge.  And in their infancy, I would say libraries were a good idea so that people who couldn’t afford books, or couldn’t get access to them any other way, could get access to vast amounts of information.  But those days are long gone. These days, libraries are meeting centers for radical Democrats who are plotting to take over the world one child at a time.  And they just aren’t worth the money.  There is a strong socialist vibe to libraries where sharing is their centerpiece.  I haven’t been to a library for three decades.  I did have one summer, my first one after graduating high school where I went to the library several times a week to read lots and lots of books.  But I hated to take them back, and since then I have just bought all my books each week.  I had wished that I had been able to keep all those books that I read out of the library, rather than taking them back because for me reading is a conquest, and I like to look at them later.  And to refer to them often.  So even though the books at the library are free, you don’t get to keep those adventures after and can’t refer to them over the years as brain development grows because ownership isn’t the key feature of libraries.  Sharing knowledge is, and that’s not really what book reading is all about.  It’s about transferring knowledge from one person to another, not in some socialist utopia of mass understanding.  That might have been a noble concept, but certainly not the reality. 

The cost of the MidPointe Library system in Butler County, Ohio, is $43.75 in taxes per $100,000 of home.  But who lives in a $100K home these days? Such a place would be a shack by today’s standards.  So, the actual cost of the levy to the average resident is around $150.  The library system will tell everyone that they serve around 600,000 visitors annually.  There are 400,000 people in Butler County, so we are talking about a lot of people, but with all that activity, we have not seen much of an increase in literacy or proper political thinking.  Libraries have become, over time, gathering places for Democrats because of their free access to information that brings out the degenerates into one place.  Most of the time, Republican-minded people don’t gather at the library to talk about a book.  They gather there to meet on below-the-line topics that work against individualism, which is why, even as an avid reader, I have not been back to a library in decades.  The MidPointe Library System does have a presence in Liberty Center Mall, which looks good from the food court.  I prefer a bookstore like Barnes and Noble to a library where moochers are attracted to the free aspect of getting a book, taking it home, reading it, and then bringing it back for someone else to share in that experience.  I like that people want to read books, but I like it better when they want to buy them and turn knowledge into a possession.  Not a shared experience. 

The MidPointe Library System says that for every dollar spent on a library, there is a return to the regional economy of $5 to $9 as if to justify the enormous expense of justifying them for the public. But I don’t see the massive expansion of intelligence that such a return on investment projects.  Literacy is way down where it clearly shouldn’t be.  Our education system for kids is a trash heap that carries over into the library system; people are learning all the wrong things.  It’s not enough to have an education; somewhat, what we learn truly matters.  And the kind of books that libraries offer are not exactly bastions of conservative value.  So, even if the return on investment is high, we have to question whether it’s the right kind of dollars for the correct type of investment.  We live in a time where the Internet has been the most significant decentralization of information in the history of the world, and more people have access to information that way than through a library card.  The rate at which people can consume information is much higher than it has ever been.  So why do we have literacy problems when just about every human being these days reads more than ever through online services and texting between associates? We value this kind of knowledge because places like public schools and libraries steer people toward the wrong thinking process.  People need physical assets to remind them of what they experienced.  Not taken back to the library and stored for some other slack-jawed loser to come along and have equal opportunity to acquire that knowledge.

The value of the library isn’t knowledge as individuals possess it; it’s in the shared community values of sameness.  They are essentially communist concepts because of their shared trait.  I was reminded of this the other day while at Half Priced Books, which I love.  But usually, they deal with books from personal collections and libraries that have failed somewhere, and they have a similar feel to libraries, where the books have been previously owned and have the emotional residue of other people on them.  Half Priced Books is an excellent place to find treasures that have been forced underground or out of print.  But like most things of value, we don’t share our food, we don’t share our spouses, and we don’t share our books, our traveled knowledge acquired through a lot of work and personal investment.  After you’ve read a book, you should keep the book as a trophy of the journey.  You don’t share it with some other slug; never to return to it later.  I have found that I reread many books at different periods of my life as my intellect grows.  What you read in your twenties tends to modify when you are forty or fifty because of brain development.  So, for all those reasons and more, I would like to see the MidPointe Library System go away and the people who typically go there fade away into the distance.  Libraries tend to make more Democrats by facilitating their socialist whims and are significant impediments to the kind of proper emotional growth that healthy human beings would otherwise evolve into.  Just because something is free doesn’t mean it’s right.  Experiences are not the same as possession of knowledge.  And reading a book is only a small part of gaining experience.  Taking an experience back to the library so somebody else can “experience” it too is a concept of Marx and the rest of the below-the-line Europeans who got information sharing wrong right out of the gate as the printing press was invented.  Libraries might have been a benefit initially when people couldn’t afford books, but the marketplace has made books so easily accessible that owning books is better.  And why I will vote No on the MidPointe Library Tax Levy in the 2024 election. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Lessons of Pleasure Island: Why the rats are fleeing a sinking ship ahead of Trump’s election

It’s not at all impressive that Puff Daddy, or P Diddy, or whatever that rap guy calls himself, is now in jail and under suicide watch.  Celebrities everywhere are in a panic over what might be revealed now that Puff Daddy is in prison over sex trafficking and what he might say to expose the people at his wild parties who likely did a lot of terrible things.  It almost has an Epstein Island feel to it.  But I think it’s safe to say that justice isn’t being served with Puff Daddy’s arrest, but rather, all the criminal elements behind his wild parties, including the government conspiracy parts, are looking to tie up loose ends while they still can.  Because here’s what’s going to happen: there will be a very knowledgeable Trump Department of Justice coming into power in the White House who knows who did what and to whom and when, and the mandate by the voting public is to clean house everywhere.  I’ve seen this before, so I know the type.  For a while, I wanted nothing more than to work in Hollywood as a film director, and I did get to meet many celebrities.  I never went to any of their wild parties, although I was invited to several.  I know what they do there and why and understand how financing controls the entertainment industry. I also know how that money traces back to BlackRock radicalism, directly connected to the World Economic Forum.  It’s not that any of these people are particularly smart.  But the network of acceptance that they have functioned under for decades is built on crime and scandal, and if the American people put a law and order president back in the White House without the fear of having to run again, after all, that has happened to him personally, well, then, that means they are in deep trouble. 

So what happens when pressure is applied to those who have been up to no good? They throw each other under the bus because they want to appear on the law’s right side.  In the case of the gangster rap industry, the CIA was all over its creation as a way to control the mass population.  The globalist narrative was to undo America from within by populating the music industry with a dangerous form of below-the-line thinking in gangster rap.  I’ve explained in detail how the CIA obtained their black budgets through large amounts of drug sales.  That’s how they function with independence from government oversight because Congress does not control the funding to them, so they are aligned with criminal efforts for their power without having the burden of voters looking over their work.  They declare secrecy for national security when, in reality, it’s about their strategic desires to steer all the nations of the world toward global communism.  That isn’t how the CIA started; they were supposed to be communist fighters, but as time progressed and leadership became more radicalized by government unions at the top, the goals shifted toward the global citizen movement, the same kind of radicalism that Bob Iger at Disney fully embraced, and everyone went all in on this criminal life represented by gangster rap for which people like Puff Daddy were created to lure in compromised people that were easy to extort due to access to lots of drugs and sex through known trafficking. 

I’ll go even further with all this: if you go to Cancun, there is a sex mall, or at least there was. I’m not sure about its current status, but it was on the way from the airport to downtown Cancun, where all the tourists go, and in it are lots of sex-trafficked girls who are there to satisfy any of the fantasies of travelers visiting.  Everyone knows about the drug cartels who openly run the city and conduct crime out in the open.  They leave the tourists alone primarily so that they’ll come and make fools of themselves as part of the very profitable sex trafficking industry.  Of course, there are plenty of cameras to capture who comes and goes, so those pictures can be released to embarrass the participants if needed.  If someone got the idea to go on a moral crusade against the criminal trends of the world, then they would be exposed for dipping their wick into lots of forbidden fruit.  And nobody cares about the girls; they are, to the political left, no better than an aborted baby.  They have no interest whatsoever in the lives involved.  They throw away people who likely won’t make it far into their 20s.  Most girls in those places have no chance at life, especially after living that lifestyle.  That is essentially what people like Jeffery Epstein and Puff Daddy did for high-end celebrities and influential people.  Bait them into the Pleasure Island discussed in the old Disney movie Pinocchio.  Remember when they lured all the kids to Pleasure Island with the promise of alcohol and cigarettes, only to turn them into donkey-enslaved people?  Since that movie in the 1940s, our culture has lost a lot of innocence in sex malls like the one in Cancun, parties at Puff Daddy’s house, thousands of college hazing rituals, and high school politics that are every bit just as cruel and maniacal. 

People supporting Trump, like myself, expect the destruction of that world, and Trump knows how this process works.  I’ve had many personal experiences where I was doing significant projects with critical people, but I was not a compromised person.  There would be no photos of me doing something terrible somewhere I would be ashamed of.  The example of how bad this situation is came to me with an illuminating experience involving the Banks Project in downtown Cincinnati, which involved the mayor, the council members, and several of the most important area builders.  I was there with a friend making the pitch in 1993 on how to conduct the Banks Project to the public, which is essentially what we see today between The Great American Ball Park and the Bengals Stadium.  My friend made the best pitch of the day out of all the fancy developer plans, and at the end of the presentation, everyone got together for a little party.  And not a single person came up to us to thank us for pitching the concept that would become the Banks Project.  We were there as a few 25-year-old kids that nobody knew.  Nobody had dirt on us, and nobody felt they could work with us without the foundation of filth that comes with most enterprises.  Trump knows how it is; he had to work on many significant projects to build all those skyscrapers.  There are videos with him and Jeffery Epstein because you go to these parties and hang around with some of those people, and there are always people taking pictures.  And if you take the forbidden fruit and hope you can trust everyone with the secret, you often spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.  You cannot join these fights because you are usually just as guilty of the behavior as everyone else.  Well, I never did, and if Trump had, they would have exposed any dirt they had on him.  Instead, he married a good woman, and she kept him focused in the right direction.  Enough so that he can clean up the behavior as a presidential option, once and for all, and because the rats know the implications of that danger, they are fleeing for all the corners of darkness they can find and trying to hide.  But they won’t be able to hide.  We know all about them, where they are, and what needs to happen to them.  As voters, we are putting Trump in power to do what we have always wanted to do: clean this mess up and restore people’s lives before Pleasure Island’s mistakes.  And return to the world of civility and courage for all, go after crime wherever it resides, and punish them thoroughly for all their diabolical efforts.

Rich Hoffman

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Kamala Harris Couldn’t Dunk if She Were Standing On A Ladder: The Week Trump Won the Election

Polling always has a lagging effect by several days once something momentous by a political candidate does something, and once the patterns are studied of the 2024 election cycle, it will be the third week of September that will be remembered as the week that President Trump sealed the deal.  Kamala Harris had been showing better in the polling.  Obviously, their strategy has been to keep her from talking so that she could adopt any MAGA position and sell peace and harmony as a party in hopes of hoodwinking enough low-information people into being suckered along to vote for her.  And the Democrats and the globalist citizen network of Marxist radicals might get away with pushing her over the top on election day.  But they seriously underestimated the intelligence of people and their desire to have a successful country. With all their efforts at manipulating to keep away from inquisitive journalists, Trump responded with a very defining week, closing the deal on what people can expect with his second term in office.  Specifically, his town hall with Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Michigan was an all-access stroke of public relations genius that few people could have pulled off.  Then, a few nights later, while Harris was trying to interview with Oprah, Trump stopped by Greg Gutfeld on Fox News, who is the hottest ticket in comedy these days and did an hour-long show-off script in what defined the 2024 election cycle.  Trump was brilliant in talking to anybody about anything and being willing to do it as much as was required, and it threw cold water on the communists behind Harris.  A media-driven strategy of propping up some loser like Kamala Harris wasn’t going to be able to compete with a guy as good as Trump with the media to beat him in public opinion.  Trump is not the same old flat Republican that Democrats have dealt with in the past, and they had no way of overtaking him.

I’ve discussed polling, how Trump typically overperforms, and why.  And with all that considered, Trump is virtually tied with Harris up to this point.  But once this third week settled in, even the polling started to pull away from Harris.  Keep in mind that the goal of most of the sources reporting polling needs the results to look close.  They are in the business of selling advertising, and if it seems hopeless for the other candidates and the down ballots, then they will lose the valuable ad buys that they count on every election cycle to generate.  I wouldn’t say that they purposely lie and mislead.  Certainly, in some cases, they do, but the technique of acquiring polling data is the problem.   To mislead, a pollster can knowingly sample several voters who are known Democrats over Republicans if they want to make the results juicier toward their favorable outcome.  But in general, the issue isn’t statistically sampling as much as engagement, which is always hard to measure in any industry.  Voter engagement is the key to this particular decade in voting, and Trump is great at inspiring people to participate in the voting process, which polling struggles to understand because they can really only call known voters.  Not voters who are voting for the first time or switching parties and voting for someone else, like many Democrats, especially teamsters, are willing to do for Trump.  So the cable news sites can try to talk up the horse race of politics so they can get ad buys, but the truth of the matter is that a more significant number of people are excited to vote for Trump than are excited to vote for Harris and she is unable to do anything about it. 

A lot has changed since 2015, when Trump started running for president, especially on late-night television. The landscape has shifted significantly, with the late-night talk show hosts who were anti-Trump losing their market share as they turned people off. This shift has led to a change in people’s entertainment options, with many switching to other options, such as Greg Gutfeld, who has filled in the void left by the other late-night talk shows.  The modern equivalents don’t have it and come across as network-driven YouTubers.  They don’t have the same power as they all once did because the market has changed beyond technological innovations and access to it.  If the old game of keep away was what worked in the past, then this new way of Trump defined the new approach; the new decentralization of communication has made all candidates more accessible.  Many more people saw Trump on a night on Gutfeld than a traditional live broadcast, and the clips played from it resonated for weeks in one-minute to two-minute soundbites that were quickly passed around social media.  The Harris campaign could not match this with a traditional keep-away game where political advisors send press releases, and the network stars would take it from there.  Their approach to the 2024 campaign shows an arrogance and lack of knowledge of the true nature of media in the modern world.

Trump, as he did for network television on The Apprentice, does understand how to use these tools to his advantage, and in the rock, paper, scissors game of modern politics, he was able to beat the keep-away game with much more social engagement and was much better at doing it than anybody else in this decade long election cycle.  If the Harris people were vast and in the business of micromanaging every aspect of her campaign, then Trump was headed in the opposite direction; he did what he wanted without a lot of campaign advisor manipulation.  He could walk into a room and just dominate it with sheer charisma and fresh ideas shooting from the hip, and he could adapt to whatever was being said at spontaneous events.  Kamala returned from her night with Oprah weaker, looking unprepared for the world even with all the cheerleading that Oprah has done for people over the years.  She couldn’t even dunk the ball standing on a ladder.  But Trump, going on Gutfeld, pulled down the whole basket with such a vicious dunk that the backboard shattered with the force of it all.  And in the days after, a clear winner emerged: Trump.  I’m sure he isn’t done; he didn’t come all this way and put forth so much effort to lose.  He was always a closer in business and is proving himself to be a closer in politics.  Ultimately, it’s up to the voters if you can have an honest election.  So, a political person can only present their case; voters will decide who they want.  But in the wake of all this, the third week of September 2024 will always be the week Trump won the election.  He closed the deal on a long journey of political theater and showed the flaws in the traditional approach that the Harris people weren’t prepared for.  And it was good to see for a change.  Trump is the first candidate to run for the White House who is a true insider and representative of the people that America produces.  And the Democrats had no answer and miscalculated horrendously, as they were always poised to do.  They did not match the trajectory of history; instead, they tried to control it much to their detriment.

Rich Hoffman

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The “Passive Aggressive” World War: Domestic enemies like the Soros family, intend to reduce the Executive Branch as one of their key strategies of American destruction

This is probably the first passive-aggressive world war anybody has seen, but don’t kid yourself. The world is at war with the United States, and they have their recruits within our nation as domestic enemies.  And they reveal themselves by their actions, mainly when you see that these villains have been purposely trying to dumb down the Executive Branch for many years now, overtly, to demoralize us into complacency and a turnover of our country to the hands of the United Nations as a one world government.  Their goal has not been to bomb us into submission with physical bombs or ground troops landed as they did in Red Dawn.  They have been seeking to undermine us with erosions of our Bill of Rights and to loot our patriotism with the reality of defeat, which they have been organizing in the background for several decades now.  Who are these villains, you might ask, who are seeking to take us over?  You can start with the radical group of globalists at the World Economic Forum.  And you can see them in the Open Border Societies that are directly connected to George Soros and his rinky dink little son.  If you have to put names next to actions, that’s an excellent place to start.  But then you would meet them directly in the people behind giving Joe Biden those little presidential podiums that look like a cheap television studio for comments on the meat and potatoes of the severity of this war.  Because those actions have a purposeful psychological desire, and they are warfare just as clearly as any other act of it has ever been defined to a human mind.  And because it is war, we must deal with these attackers as we would any other military enterprise and not be accommodating of their “rights” as citizens of America, if that’s what they are.  When they act against the flag, they surrender the rights and due process of the American way of life. 

There has been a lot of talk about how Joe Biden presents big news to the public from that little podium they have been giving him as opposed to the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office or some other location in the White House that projects strength and power.  They have been using Joe Biden to present information to the public to take the power of the Executive Branch as the leader of the free world and make it all look like just another global consultant firm with a back seat on world affairs.  This process started with Barack Obama and Glenn Beck when he was still at Fox News used to make a big deal about it.  The purposeful use of removing the glamour of the Executive Branch and suppressing it in the eyes of the world to look like just another leader.  Not the main one that leads the world in every topic, which is how it has been in the last century.  Knocking the American Executive Branch down to size then was an apparent campaign of demoralization of the American people to show them that they did not have a right to pick a leader of the world and to impose that leader on them financially.  When you shake the raccoon out of the sleeping bag here, it all traces back to centralized banking and their desire to run the world’s governments by controlling the fiscal policy of all nations.  So this is an overt turf war that many didn’t know was happening, but it is one of the worst wars we’ve ever fought, and no army on earth can win it for us because the enemy has deliberately turned to emotional passive-aggressive warfare instead of overt warfare, which is represented in tangible assets.  But it is war just the same.

I have always been aware of this war, but it came to a fine point for me on two occasions recently; first was the excellent book by Trump called Save America, which is a collection of photos from his years in office and campaigning for this next term of service before the 2024 election.  No wonder they hate him so much, reflecting on that book, because Trump does what he does with everything, and that elevates it in the public’s minds with positive branding.  It is a remarkable book if you look at it the way the enemies of America do.  That book is the opposite of what they are trying to project upon the United States to fulfill their military objectives.  Trump’s book Save America is on the New York Times best-seller list, which doesn’t make them happy.  If you take the sales from Winning Teams Publishing, the group producing all these new Trump books, and the bookstore sales that the New York Times is tracking, Save America is the number one book in the country, a remarkable achievement.  It also reveals how hungry people subconsciously are to have an executive branch, picked by the people, to run America and the world.  That is the offering that Trump is proposing for his next election. The Soros money that believes they can purchase the seat away from the American people with Kamala Harris are frustrated by the efforts because they thought Trump was done. They thought the nation’s people were conquered assets to centralized banking and the desires of the United Nations. 

But deeper than that, and I am so glad that we did it, I took my family on a big trip out west a few years into the Biden administration, and one of our big stops was Mt. Rushmore.  It was like a religious event; we arrived early, and I immediately, with my daughters and grandchildren, went down to the spot of the previous 4th of July ceremony where Trump and Melania gave an excellent speech motivating Americans toward patriotic endeavors.  Upon standing there and visiting the location extensively that day, I understood all the fuss and why the inserted Biden administration wanted to cancel the fireworks at the famous monument.  It was to diminish in the public’s minds their impression of patriotism.  They did not want people to revere the Mt. Rushmore site; there aren’t Democrats on that wall of rock.  Mt. Rushmore does not embody the goals of the globalists, which is to conquer America and replace their enthusiasm with sex, drugs, and dumb minds made that way through public education and college hazing rituals.  And they certainly don’t want a Trump to give strength again to the Executive Branch and to restore in the mind of the public a sense of patriotism that they have been working to destroy for many years now.  What do you think the kneeling during NFL games during the National Anthem was all about?  It was an attack, like any other, and the perpetrators should be punished in a capital way because of their malicious intent.  None of this is by accident.  It has been purposeful, and from my perspective upon these stated observations, there is nothing accidental about any of it.  Destroying the impression of the Executive Branch, which Trump is promising to Make Great Again, is to stop a military incursion by borderless hostilities functioning from the façade of the United Nations toward a one-world government of tyranny and injustice for all.  And we can’t tolerate that, not in the least.

Rich Hoffman

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Dope-smoking, slack-jawed losers are Running the McDonald’s in Hamilton, Ohio: A workforce that has never recoverd from Covid safety protocals

Another benefit from my grand jury service over the summer of 2024, which became a running joke among the other jurors, was what I did each day when we took a lunch break.  I don’t usually spend that much time in court, so my daily routine was tremendously interrupted for weeks at a time and during lunch, we seldom ever had time to eat a packed lunch, so I got into the habit of going to the McDonald’s across the street from the courthouse in downtown Hamilton to get a large Coke and a large Fry for a snack.  It was easy for me to get that kind of food and quickly take it back up to my desk to eat while we listened to testimony and examined evidence.  It’s not the most healthy thing to do in the world, but it was a way for me to bring a little fun to my life when there was so much negativity.  And the other jurors got a kick out of it, even when some of the afternoon cases were horrendous murders, and we had to look at crime photos of the carnage and hear from people in testimony who had gone through likely the worst thing in their life.  I enjoyed my French Fries and a Coke each day.  But what I didn’t enjoy was getting the food.  I picked that dietary expression because I didn’t want a complicated order that involved overeating food; I wanted it easy and convenient because sometimes we had a half hour for lunch, an hour, but sometimes it was as short as 15 minutes, it depended on whatever was going on that day.  But I didn’t want to wait long for the food, so I made it easy.  The food I got couldn’t get my fingers all messy because I often ate it while writing things down and talking to others. 

So, speed was not fully displayed at the McDonald’s in downtown Hamilton.  Out of the weeks that I was on the grand jury, I went to that particular McDonald’s well more than twenty times, and there wasn’t a single day where they were prepared for a lunch rush as the primary food option across the street from the Butler County Courthouse.  Not only are all the employees who work at the courthouse, which includes police officers and security, tempted to get lunch at McDonald’s, but so are all the residents who have to interact with the court.  So it’s a jam-packed store that sometimes has to push out a lot of food.  Now I know something about fast food restaurants; for many years, like the first two decades of my adult life, I worked full-time second jobs to make extra money my family needed.  Some jobs were at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Frisch’s.  I know what lunch and dinner rushes look like and how they must be staffed behind the scenes, away from the customer experience.  One of my offerings at these places was that I always handled pressure well and quickly.  I was often able to control two or three-line positions all by myself, which was an incredible benefit to them, and to say the least, I learned a lot.  One of these places was Wendy’s, known as “The Beach” location; it’s now a Mexican restaurant.  It was often understaffed because of the area.  There were many places for people to work, so this restaurant location was always in competition to acquire good employees.  The critical store was at the Fields Ertle location just south along I-71, which took up most of the prime labor, leaving The Beach to be perpetually understaffed but at times, one of the busiest stores in all of Cincinnati. 

To make matters even worse during these years, I was going through horrendous personal circumstances, including individual lawsuits against me, political problems that involved my stance against drug dealers that got me into a lot of trouble in my community as we lived in Mason, and some cops were making money running cover for drug dealing and I had taken a stance against that.  And my wife and I only had one car for several years because of all these problems.  So, I rode a bicycle everywhere so my wife could have a vehicle for our kids to get back and forth to school because we wouldn’t let them ride the bus with a bunch of loser kids with severe behavioral problems.  So I don’t want to hear about anybody’s problems.  I’ve been there and managed through them just fine and experienced the worst that can come to a human being.  However, the store by The Beach Water Park, closest to Kings Island, was busy during the summer months and required fast employees.  We had many call-offs, so I would typically cover the entire food line for the dining room and the drive-thru all by myself.  Nobody was faster than me in Cincinnati.  So, with that eye, I was very critical of McDonald’s in Hamilton, Ohio, which had a staff that never seemed too inclined to make sure the customers were serviced quickly and efficiently, or at times, even at all.  They gave off a pretentious feeling that we were lucky they were at work.  And it displayed several problems that I see in other places as well.  The service world has never recovered from the dumb protocols of Covid, and three years later, a fast food store like McDonald’s still had trouble recruiting employees to staff all their needed positions, and when they were short on labor, they would close their dining room and just put their efforts onto the drive-thru.  Something that no restaurant would have dared do leading up to COVID-19.  But after, it was a common practice. 

This labor problem holds in almost every field; many employees in large companies still work from home, or so they are trying.  Very progressive companies who are controlled by Democrats at BlackRock and other financial monstrosities have greatly empowered the slack-jawed losers of the world who are lazy and unambitious and have put them in charge of labor, and the effects are horrendous.  I usually don’t interact with fast food restaurants these days, as my wife usually gets us food from those places, but I’m too busy to get it myself.  So only because I was at court all those days did I see how this particular McDonald’s operated compared to what I have experienced in the past few decades through my efforts.  They had terrible management there, and the employees had a presentation of self-importance from the staff feeling lucky to have employees.  If I were ordering anything more complicated than French Fries and a Coke, the wheels of that place would entirely fall apart.  What had changed was the fast food approach to work, not the demand, and that happened because of the introduction of poor workplace conduct with the COVID protocols.   Like most industries, the pin-headed lazy losers of the world had made inefficiency normalized through a rules-based society, and the impact was a much less “capitalist” world.  It’s precisely what is happening with Elon Musk and the FAA.  The same types of people sink production in every industry, from space flight to getting fries during grand jury testimony.  And it’s a problem that has to be fixed for good with the prosecution of those who brought us COVID-19 and told us to socially distance, wear a mask, and work from home.  Those policies intentionally destroyed our economic viability, and people still need to pay for them three years later.   Because the Hamilton McDonald’s in Butler County, Ohio, has never recovered.  And the slow food by a bunch of dope-smoking, slack-jawed losers who work there is a crime against humanity and a treasonous attack against the sovereignty of the United States.  And can’t be endured. 

Rich Hoffman

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