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The Way to Beat Secret Societies: Hidden power gained through hidden rules to create the illusion of knowledge

Usually, when people talk about secret societies, there is a level of dread that is associated. Secret societies seem ominous because, as human beings, we think of the things we don’t know about as being powerful and godly, which is part of the appeal that drives people into secret society membership. And this is a problem when you are trying to run a transparent society where you understand the characters and their motives. In an honest world, there shouldn’t be any desire for secret societies. There shouldn’t be any secrets. But as we have learned over the last several years, many secret societies work in the background and are attached to many of the messes that are part of our modern problems. The quest for secret knowledge to leverage power over others is a strong aphrodisiac to the kind of personalities who want to rule over others. That has made secret society membership a menace to society because it keeps people from dealing squarely with one another. If so many secret societies ask for supernatural, occult aid, how should a straightforward, election-based culture operate? And that is where we currently find ourselves, especially in Europe and America–those who want to be like Europe. I know of many secret societies, and I know the kind of people who are members, and they aren’t very secret, especially in a society that has as much information access as we do these days. Secret societies aren’t so secret anymore because everyone knows where everyone else is and what they’re doing. Which leaves the question pending, why join one in the first place? What could they possibly do for anybody? 

Well, I have a very different take on secret societies that I have formed over a long period of time. And what helps that perspective is that I have never wanted to be in one. I tend to like to be in charge. I was like that as a little kid, so working my way up in a secret society, like the Masons, or some other group, was never for me. I never liked being told what to do, and I always required full autonomy for my independence. So, it was easy for me to say no to those kinds of membership offers. I once had quite a fight with an entire fraternity because I went there to see a friend of mine with my wife, which apparently there were all kinds of rules against. And on our way up to the fraternity house, she walked across the seal on the sidewalk for their membership. There were house rules on how to serve that seal best, and not knowing anything about those rules as a visitor, she didn’t know she wasn’t supposed to walk over it. The entire house rallied to assault us, but I have an unyielding personality, so a stalemate ensued because they really didn’t want to fight. They were obligated by the fraternity charter to conduct themselves in such a way, but they were all wimps who really didn’t want to fight that they were forced to stew; as I visited my friend, he toured me around the house, and we left uneventfully. My friend was removed from the fraternity after we left, which is a common passive-aggressive action that low-conflict threshold people perform when faced with a challenge to their invisible authority. 

This is what the weakness of all secret societies have, whether it’s just a college fraternity or the Skull and Bones Society that the Bush and Kerry families were members of. The training for this way of thinking often starts early for people so that by the time they are fully functioning adults, they are largely governed by secret social rules that aren’t openly expressed, which then makes managing a stable society a challenge because you have people worshipping lots of rules that are not part of the ethics of a social construct. And I have found all such people to be weak and easy to beat in whatever the engagement is, whether it’s physical, legal, or purely social. People drawn to secret societies want secret rules and power to protect them from their insecurities, which is why they are attracted to such powers in the first place. The power is an illusion because other people can’t know what those powers are. And this little shift in social engagement gives the illusion of power. In some ancient cultures, a high priest might acquire such power by understanding when an eclipse would occur and might point at the sky and declare power over the heavens. And because the information about how eclipses occur was secret to the society, who did not have access to that information because of some tyrannical regime, the high priest appears to have a secret power over the heavens. But the whole gag is about a lack of knowledge, not in full disclosure. And this is what draws people into secret societies, invisible rules to create the illusion of secret power. 

There is also a strong desire for weak people to hide in the herd to not be independent. They fear being singled out in society, so they seek membership in groups to hide in the safety of the masses. Group membership tells the world that people value them enough to be associated with a secret handshake and an exchange of some fundamental shared values. One of the most insecure things for people is to grow up and away from their parents; most people never develop that ability. So to fill that void, they seek a brotherhood and create a new family out of secret society membership, such as the Masons. Companionship is one of human beings’ most primal needs, so group consensus associated with limited access is a very persuasive motivator. And that is all innocent enough until those mentalities are brought into elected politics, where you expect representatives to perform on a job based on a platform they were elected to. Not following some rules of the secret handshake in the Skull and Bones Society which dominates Beltway politics within the intelligence agencies and operates to social practices that the rest of society that pays for their government through taxes has no idea about, like my story about the fraternity seal. To the outside world, the seal meant nothing. But to the fraternity brothers, it was everything; it represented their secret fears glazed over by symbols and rules only they knew about, which gave them the illusion of security in a scary world. And that is the key to beating such groups. If they were secure people, they wouldn’t seek group membership. But they do because they aren’t powerful people. They depend on numbers to hide their timidity as individuals. Once that is known and exploited, they fall apart quickly. Just as the scam of the high priest predicting an eclipse. If other members of the society understand how to read star alignments and know the cause of eclipses, the phony power of the high priest will lose all its influence. Because the power is based on ignorance and group association to maintain that illusion, but once that curtain falls, the power of the secret society is gone, which is where we find ourselves in the modern world. Many high priests are making their livings off secret society membership to rules only they know about. But the public isn’t as ignorant as they once were, because of the vast amounts of available shared information. And because of that and the need for independence in people who are not timid, the powers that have ruled the world in secrecy are desperately vulnerable and not nearly as scary as they once were.

Rich Hoffman

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The SAG Strike with the Writers in Hollywood is a Dumb Idea: But I predicted it years ago, and here it is, which will destroy them forever

The strike from the Screen Actors Guild is probably the dumbest thing we’ve seen in a long time. Many things are colliding simultaneously that will essentially kill the Hollywood industry. Yet, they seem brain-dead and numb to how the world sees them. As I always remind people, labor unions are all communist organizations, so the idea of stopping work through collective bargaining comes straight from Karl Marx. There is nothing “redeeming” or “American” about what they are doing. It’s essentially one set of radical lefties fighting against a bunch of New World Order studios who dance to the tune of BlackRock and the lefties of finance. One of the main reasons that Hollywood is so radically left is because that is what it takes to be one of the elites working in Hollywood. If you are a lefty, the studios might give you work if you are lucky. There are really very few actors and actresses who can make a living off acting in Hollywood. I know from personal experience and have seen this problem unusually close. And many years ago, I saw this collision coming, and here it is. Labor unions make motion pictures and television too expensive for a studio to produce. The residuals of production are too much of a pain in the neck, and essentially, we have arrived at a place where that cost just isn’t worth it to a studio. What it costs to make a movie and everyone involved just doesn’t justify the revenue stream. After Covid happened, this whole mess was exposed. Hollywood would need some kind of reset for their cost model. Yet the actors and writers who are now both on strike want things to be as they have been, which was never sustainable.

I’ve told some personal stories about Hollywood in other places, but not in this context. For most of my adult life, I wanted to be a film director, actor, writer, and producer. It was really the only thing I wanted to do from age ten to forty. And there were many times when I came really close to getting into that line of work. For years I had to pay fees to the Writers Guild and interact with that side of the business, which I didn’t like. Things were less political back then, so the politics of it was less of a concern. But there was one project with A-listers who were doing a project for RealD 3D that I met while at a film festival, as I was providing stunt work involving bullwhips as I was a member of the World Stunt Organization at the time. So they flew me out to Hollywood for a project involving some of the people from the Twilight movie series and Beverly Hills 90210. They gave me my own trailer, so I was being treated as the featured talent on the project with many veteran producers and actors, so I had a chance to see things behind the scenes. And what I learned, painfully, was that Hollywood was not for me. It was the union attitude that I had no tolerance for, and it was at that project in 2008 I realized that I was never going to work in Hollywood because of my disdain for unions. I couldn’t be in them and didn’t want to work with their rules. And the entire town was built on unionized labor. I had several conflicts on that particular project with unionized staff, and it became obvious to me that the unions had taken all the fun out of making movies. 

Ironically, I was there because of my hatred of unions because I was one of the only people in the world who had a very unique skill set that was willing to let RealD 3D screen capture my work, which would then go on to provide animation for films like Ironman 2 and the Immortals. The precise issue that the SAG members are striking on now is concerns over A.I. taking over acting and a loss of revenue regarding streaming services. Many people told me that if I did this project, I would never work in Hollywood again because once you gave the studios what they wanted, such as screen captures of me using firewhips, I would be done as a whip consultant for all future movies. After all, they wouldn’t need a person to perform that since they had all the footage from me that digital animators could then use for future projects. Well, my love was for telling stories, and if I could help make that easier, I was all for it. Many union members were on the set, but it was a nonunion enterprise because it was established as a pitch session. So I was nonunion showing what a potential pitch might do for a studio. The union people were there hoping to tag on to the project’s development. I was pro studio and certainly pro-RealD 3D. And as much as I liked the experience of being in Hollywood and working with people important in the industry, I grew very frustrated with the union mentality on that film set. So, when it was over, I made a decision that I would refocus my efforts. Barack Obama had just been elected; I joined my local Tea Parties in Cincinnati and put my efforts into those types of things. Largely because I witnessed the terrible burden that labor unions had placed on an industry I loved. But the problem had carried over into just about every element of politics in general.

When I saw the reasons for this latest strike of the SAG members being led by Fran Drescher, I knew it was the collapse of something that had been artificially propped up for many years. Movies cost too much because labor expected too many things, and studios had become too liberal over time because of their interaction with these communist unions and their liberal world order masters in finance. Conservative ideas weren’t even a consideration, and those are the people in the world buying tickets. So there was no way that the movie industry and television would last, and this strike would kill them. It will kill Hollywood, and it was a dumb thing to do. But it’s been brewing for a long time, and I have seen it from the other side and knew it would never last. Ultimately it is part of the collapse that is going on everywhere. People will not miss Hollywood. But Hollywood will miss the business. YouTube, in many ways, is far more influential. Some very serious people contacted me a few years ago about my life and wondered why I wasn’t making movies. And I explained to them that the entire industry needed to go through a reset period; this was before Covid. I told them that producing a movie wasn’t good business, and that I was doing other things that made much more sense. If you want to make a movie, you have to deal with unionized labor to get it into distribution, and that just wasn’t worth it to me. I told them that I’d see how things shaped up in the future. But under the union rules, it wasn’t fun, and I wanted no part of it. And now the industry is exactly where I said it would be. This is a sign of what will happen to the Liberal World Order and the Deep State in general. All these communist groups that have hidden in plain sight are falling apart. And the pain of it is their own doing.

Rich Hoffman

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Communism in our Culture: What we learned from the Darbi Boddy interview

The failure on all fronts is the breakdown of the logic of communist philosophy as it has been accepted and taught to us through our public education system. This question has been asked of me many times since I did the video interview with Darbi Boddy, the Lakota school board member that the institution itself wanted to eliminate before she ever had a chance to do anything in the job. This idea that the system is in charge and not the voters is obviously a problem that was witnessed with President Trump, as the Deep State worked aggressively to get rid of Trump before he even had a chance to get into the White House. On a more local level, the same approach came at Darbi Boddy; it’s baked into the assumptions we have as a culture, one that slowly, over many years, accepted a communist view of the world as opposed to the efforts of a meritocracy—talking to her and hearing her point of view it’s easy to hear where the problem is. When she was first a school board member in those opening days, the institution aggressively sought to romance her into friendship, and the goal was then to use that friendship toward the aims of group consensus. Actually, the entire education system, as Dewey designed it, is designed to break students down into their forever social compliance roles; whether they would be the popular kids, the scrappy worker bees, or the garbage heap bottom-of-the-barrel types, public education was meant to break kids down into their social roles, and the same application would, of course, be applied to the leadership to get the same results. We weren’t teaching kids or their teacher’s exceptionalism; we were teaching sameness and class structure. The goal was class and to put people in those classes so they’d be easy to control.

After that interview with Darbi, I had a number of people call me and warn me of the terrible thing that I had done; I had given her a platform to speak from. I had allowed her to function outside of the class structure they felt was necessary for the maintenance of a public school, and it was determined that she was going to be smoked out because she had resisted the compliance culture of sameness that was expected in public education, especially on the school board level. Of course, I answered that was precisely why I ran an alternative news and opinion site because I hated communism and wanted more people like Darbi to be able to get their word out and let people see who they were, not what some communist caricature of her interpreted for the audience. It was a good interview with her, and you can know how much by how many people were upset by it. It wasn’t anything she had said, but that she had the means to say it that they were so angry with. And within that sentiment was the solution and fix to the entire problem. The weakness of communism, of course, is a society that functions on merit. When people earn their reputations and aren’t controlled by the consensus builders based on behavior, that’s when the system breaks down quickly because communists never figured it out. They simply implemented it as Karl Marx designed it, then put it out for society to follow in every way that institutions had formed in relation to the communist position. But that’s what we are dealing with. That is the goal behind globalism in general and why they expect to run the world with China-style communism as the tool.

I’ve studied this topic for a long time, including tracing the footsteps of Karl Marx and his studies in the British Museum. I had to see it for myself where the most destructive philosophy ever introduced to the human race was created. It has only been recently that communism has lost some of the stigmas that it naturally had against it in American culture because now the cat is out of the bag, and the China model is not a well-kept secret anymore. I pointed this out to everyone when Lakota schools started an exchange program to send teachers to China to learn how the communist China model would work. I was against it, and many bellyached about my comments. After all, China was our friend. I’ve openly talked about communism in our culture for my entire adult life, and the mechanism it uses is this consensus-building method that you see on every school board, every board room meeting, and every approach that involves groups of people working out common problems. You especially see it in politics, where sameness is expected. The message is that people come and go. What we need is institutional stability by taking away the peaks and valleys of performance. It was the institution that mattered more than individual input. That was the communist message to America, and by now, almost everyone involved in group activity utilizes those methods to maintain control of the institutions they serve. 

Of course, people like Darbi were elected by people who expect a more free market approach to the social management problem, which is the same for Trump as well. The public has not accepted that communism maintained through social interactions (friendships) is as big of a problem as it really is. Because they believe in America as a merit-based society, they still believe that individuals can move mountains if allowed to utilize the best and brightest ideas among them. At the same time, communism seeks to protect the institution from those pesky fluctuations of individualized input. This is why the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s were so critical and criticized by those trying to bring communism to America. The reason communism is dangerous is that we have fought several wars trying to protect ourselves from removing social interactions with individual input into a compliance structure where inputs are interchangeable and worthless. Darbi was elected to bring her individual character to the school board to represent the voters who put her there. But the school board itself, from the OSBA and down to the president, which is a person I know personally, was to get control of her. And once they realized they would never have control of Darbi, the resolve was to use the institutional protections of communism to get rid of her, with group pressure. And so many people who call themselves conservatives fell in line with the communist way of thinking. They were so far gone they could no longer see the situation objectively. And that made them hate Darbi even more because she made them realize how anti-capitalist they were in their lives. The way that communism expects to command the world through centralized authority is by controlling the expectations of what institutionalism actually does. When individuals spend their time on institutional compliance rather than the contributions of individual merit to a group debate, the power structure has shifted to centralized authority rather than merit-based input, which is the root cause of many of the world’s problems presently. It’s easy enough to fix once people realize that’s what’s going on. And in my own school district, the reaction to the Darbi Boddy interview told the story clearly for all to see, which is why she has been so good as a school board member.   We are working to get communism out of our public life, and schools are the first place to start. And to do that, we need good school boards and many more people like Darbi to bring value to managing these public assets. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Adrenochrome Sex Cult: Protecting Children from diabolical evil

Before 2020, when Covid was unleashed as a biol weapon upon the world, I would be interested in the kind of books that Joachim Hogopian writes, but I would consider them about 30% accurate and the rest speculation by people who are drowning in life with too much red pill. This a reference to the Matrix movies, where the blue pill gave people appeasement and the red pill the truth. The first book in a series of five, Pedophilia & Empire: Satan Sodomy and the Deep State Book 1, is the kind of book that is hard red pill wall-to-wall conspiracy theory stuff. I would say it’s not for everyone, but I think everyone needs to read it. I can say that the accuracy ratio is likely now in a post-Covid view of the world more like 70% accurate, with 30% still speculation. I agree with Joachim Hagopian on most things, but it’s obvious that he’s heavily jaded by reality to the point where his books come out as angry. But why shouldn’t they? A few years ago, many debated on whether or not there was actually a Deep State, but after the Trump presidency and everything they have done to him as a freely elected person, and the rest of us who elected him, the footprints in the wet paint have been obvious. There are many things to think about in the world, but one thing I can’t put up with is this obvious tendency to sacrifice children with blood cults. And for me, a couple of things happened; the Biden border policy that has empowered the drug cartels so aggressively that it has only increased cases of human trafficking points to valid opinions about the nature of many adult people in powerful positions that desire the abuse of children. Then to further drive the point home, I had a personal experience with Lakota schools in my neighborhood that involved the abuse of children, and it was shocking to see how casual the adults were in the matter. Something I would not have believed prior. But as it was happening, it showed how the abuse of children was happening on a mass scale and proved, because I knew all the people involved, just how prevalent such abuse really was. 

I have been saying it more and more because that’s where the evidence takes a mind seeking answers, never to underestimate what middle-aged people with wealth would do to turn back the hands of time and to pursue some touch of immortality. Of course, they would take drugs like adrenochrome if they thought it would inject some youth into their aging bodies, and they’d pay a lot of money for it. And the government is already in the drug dealing business; the policies on drugs now in America and around the world are clearly being run by drug syndicates using government power to distribute their products. Such a drug like adrenochrome which is produced when terrified children release adrenaline into their blood, then that blood is extracted for consumption. As I said, I knew about these things before the Covid lockdowns, but based on the world’s behavior after, it’s clear that people like Joachim Hagopian are on target as to the real problems. We have returned as a society to the kind of blood sacrifices that the people of Israel and Judea got into so much trouble with God, and why God wanted to conquer Canaan, to begin with. The cults of Baal worship and of Moloch required the consumption of the flesh of children and the drinking of their blood to get the euphoric high that comes from adrenochrome. And it looks like most people these days, as it was in the biblical times of Israel’s fall, are willing to always take the easy way out to live a more comfortable life and achieve success without working hard to have that success.

The third thing that did it for me was the press for the upcoming film by Jim Caviezel called Sound of Freedom. Mel Gibson has been promoting it, and Jim was on the Warroom with Steve Bannon talking about how prevalent adrenochrome was in our society and how many millions of children had to be taken to fill that market, to harvest the blood so that the consumer class could have access to it. When you start asking questions, especially among people who can afford it, this belief in having blood transfusions with children’s blood is not at all uncommon. Many people believe that it gives them youth in their aging bodies. And after the Lakota story involving a mass wife-swapping culture and a complete irreverence toward the abuse of children in a public school, then you must listen to what the evidence says, not what you’d like it to say. In that process, it would be easy to drown in that knowledge; after all, who can go down and enjoy a baseball game when you know that millions and millions of children are being trafficked and killed for their blood, but not before being used as sex slaves? If you know the history and the cults of Mesopotamia, and realize that Baal worship is very much the center of belief from the World Economic Forum types, and you realize to what extent they were willing to kill off a mass population with Covid, we have to face the facts of the level of evil we are dealing with. And once you open your eyes to that, there is no way to function normally in society again, knowing those terrible things are happening. 

I’m not OK with the abuse of children in any way. They all deserve a chance at a good life, and I consider any adult that gets in the way of that the worst evil we deal with. And if you want to understand the depth of this blood cult culture, I recommend Joachim Hagopian’s books. I can say that my reading of his books came after my own vast research, so reading him is like a review of my own personal studies, which I didn’t seek out to fill some preconceived picture. Instead, I let the facts go where they went, and ironically, Joachim Hagopian had much the same conclusions as me. And we’re not talking about just a few years of history; we are dealing with more than 432,000 years of human interactions in the Mesopotamian Valley and likely many millions of years on Earth. I read the other day that some scientists are willing to say that humans lived alongside the dinosaurs. So, history, as these same insane people have taught us it, has not been accurate. I wish a lot of this weren’t so. The blue pill can be nice on a Saturday afternoon, watching a baseball game with the family. But when you realize just how terrible and bloodthirsty these ancient beliefs are and understand that they are happening today in more grotesque ways than they were when the worship of Baal and Moloch was being reported in the Bible, then we have a big problem. And it’s on our watch that we must do something about it. Going along to get along is not an option, but punishment for the desecration of children is.

Another thing that happened was the Pride Rally that I saw in Middletown, Ohio, where sexual grooming of children was the priority. Coming from their mouths, they say they are coming for our children. So, it’s up to us to take a stand on this evil because it’s an aggressive evil, and it is in front of us now, daring us to act, which we must. The truth is, no matter how crazy it might sound to a blue pill mindset, we are dealing with diabolical killers who have captured government offices to fulfill an adrenochrome drug trade that makes cocaine and marijuana look casual, socially. And this evil is in our faces right now and quite aggressively. History will judge us accordingly. And in my life, I won’t endorse this level of evil in any way. 

Rich Hoffman

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They Aren’t in Charge, We Are: Violence is the only form of communication the political left has to express themselves, because their ideas are horrendous

Here’s all anybody needs to know about the present situation around the world, the desire for radical lefties to have a one-world government and the conflict of that imposition running up against a country with over 300 million guns owned by people with really short fuses.  Unlike in the past, where a benefit of doubt would have been applied to people in government management positions, in this post-Covid world, where this push for a one-world government crossed many lines, the skepticism that traditionally has been applied to government has switched into open hostility.  There is a broken trust now loose in the world that wasn’t there before, an assumption of guilt instead of forgiveness.  We have seen what the radical left wants to do, and now in the aftermath, the Saul Alinsky book doesn’t work quite the same way because that innocence that it required to exploit in people is gone forever.  Instead, in a world where information is open, and it has to be, the truth of what the radical communists of the world always intended is exploited, and now, because we are an information-based world that rejects centralized control of that information flow, the word is out, as it has been moving for many years.  The same trajectory that put President Trump in office in 2016 is the same one that is now much further along around the world in 2023, and now they have history at their backs instead of just suspicions.  And that grim reality for the communists who want the China model in every branch of government worldwide is that the political left always only had one playbook: to use force to impose compliance.  But if that doesn’t work, which it isn’t, then what?  What happens when you have a world where people have information and weapons to defend themselves with?  Well, the Liberal World Order falls apart, which is where we find ourselves presently in history.

I said it to someone yesterday who was asking me about it.  The political left is ruthless and violent.  Their entire political platform is built around fear and compliance.  They aren’t trying to win people over to their way of thinking.  They want to destroy your options, rob you of choice, and impose on you a life they control by removing all other alternatives.  And they expect to keep you in line with sheer fear.  That is why there is only one way to deal with them, with more ruthlessness.  They don’t deserve a fair shake, a turned cheek, and a sentiment toward coexisting.   They deserve what they have been giving to the rest of the world dished back at them and then some.  Don’t feel sorry for them; they will exploit it as a weakness.  Crush them politically, socially, and financially, and smash them into dust because they deserve it.  Their intentions for the world is one that cannot be forgiven now that we know.  These communist plots have been playing in the background since the mid-1850s, not that long ago, and they have spread around the globe as communications increased and made sharing information easier.  But what kept the world safe was distance from each other, so it was a slow burn over the next century.  Yet for all the same reasons, the stupidity of communism has been exploited and shared in real-time, and people have decided they don’t want that One World Government strategy and they are looking for elected representatives who will defend them from it, which is why Trump, even with all the lawfare that has been thrown in his direction, is only getting more popular, not less.

The trick was to create the illusion that a radical few could control the many with sheer intimidation, the way cows or sheep are herded with the sound of the crack of a whip.  The communists of the world thought people were that stupid.  The people that the media calls obligingly “the elite.”  The original aristocracy has been trying to stop a revolution against their existence for thousands of years.  But those revolutions failed because it was too slow to communicate with other countries.  The American Revolution happened because of that sweet spot in the world coming closer together but was yet still too far apart for mass communication.  Now information is instantaneous, and the communists thought that would work to their advantage.  If they controlled the internet to dumb people down with pornography and trivial nonsense, then we would all be easily corralled like simple-minded animals with every bio-lab-created virus they could unleash to shove the world into a Great Reset.  But instead, that compression of information and the rate of sharing it has worked against communism, which they should have seen coming.  Their plans were always going to fail, and the acceleration of that failure becomes very clear when it is realized that they are very few trying to control the many who do have the means to fight back, and the only reason they haven’t yet is because they still assume that they have free elections where they get to pick their representatives.  However, since 2020, when election fraud was blatant, the media’s complicity in election fraud was seen by all, and we were given Joe Biden almost as a slap in the face of our republic form of government to show us that we were not in charge, the assumption was the same as it is in all communist countries where the people have been conquered, such as Brazil, Venezuela, China, Iran, Europe and many other places where the words of Karl Marx have become their social foundation. 

Yet when those same communist ideas have tried to be implemented in America, the big difference has been the expectation of a Bill of Rights, of free speech to criticize the liberal effort, and guns to stop the only method the left has to communicate their message, through force and violence.  It’s one thing to host a demonstration with a bunch of pot-filled youth on a college campus or in a town that looks bigger than it is on television.  But spreading that force out across a vast country of 300 million people is a bit more complicated.  It’s like spreading butter on toast.  You can taste the butter well if you just eat the part where you applied it, but if you spread it across the whole piece of bread, it thins out rapidly.  And this fantasy of taking over the American military and going door to door to impose some leftist orgy of martial law is preposterous.  The truth is that there are a lot more of us than them, and they now know that we know that.  And we now know that their intentions for us have been hostile, and any presumption that we had previously had about playing nice together in the sandbox is gone.  With the tools of modern society, the message of freedom is much easier to sell, especially when the message of communism has failed so spectacularly, and people have realized that it’s relatively easy to stand up to.  The communist movement doesn’t have enough butter to spread across the bread, and they aren’t recruiting more to their cause.  The only grounds they have ever made were through force and manipulating things in the background.  Now that there is no longer a background, they have been exploited and are losing ground, recruits, and their message.  The old games will not work in the future, and those who have been caught deserve the hell they will have to pay because that is the trajectory of political sentiment, which will never go back to the polite society of the past.  They aren’t in charge; we are.

Rich Hoffman

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Hidden River Cave: One of the Great Treasures in the World

Looking up and out of Hidden River Cave

We happened to be in the Mammoth Cave area to show my grandchildren what caves were all about. I’ve always loved the Cave City exit off I-65 and have been to Mammoth Cave many times over the years. But I had not been back there in around ten years, certainly before Covid, so my wife and I were very surprised to find their new reservation system clunky. Granted, Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world and is quite a treasure in the United States. It’s a top-class national park, and if there is something I love, it’s National Parks. So the Mammoth Cave National Park is a busy one. But unlike in the past, where you could show up the same day you wanted to tour the cave, now you have to schedule your tour weeks and months in advance. And ahead of our trip with the grandkids and all their parents, we found out a week ahead of our visit that all the tours were booked up. However, during June and July, Mammoth Cave does offer self-guided tours, which is all I was interested in anyway. My kids were not interested in listening to someone talk for two hours. They wanted to go and explore things at their own pace. So we did that tour and gave the kids exposure to one of the greatest cave systems in the world, so they could say that they had been there and done it, essentially.

Sometimes the cave floods, but not in a dangerous way

Yet, many caves in the area extend outside the National Park borders. So I planned to take the kids to some of the privately owned caves, which I hoped would be much more customer friendly. And that’s precisely what happened. In addition to exploring Mammoth Cave, we went to Onyx Cave, which is right off the exit in Cave City. It was very nice, and the kids could get much more adventurous with the cave system itself. The tour guides were much looser than the stiff-necked Mammoth Cave guides, who have too many rules to have fun and are way too wrapped up in hippie conservation talk. Every time you breathe in a National Park cave, some government employee is crying about humans’ impact on the earth that might affect cave growth. But not at Onyx Cave. It was a very enjoyable experience, and the grandkids could learn a lot about caves and get adventurous without stepping into the actual category of “spelunking.” They were too little for rough cave exploring yet, complete with lights on helmets and crawling through passages on your belly. The trail at Onyx Cave was great; it had a lot of steps, and we could see many stalagmites and stalactites up close. And the tour was just long enough to be interesting without getting boring. After those two experiences, I wasn’t satisfied that the kids had explored caves sufficiently enough to be educational, not in the ways they needed to. So the whole trip required a climax, and I found it just a few miles up the road from our campsite in Cave City at Horse Cave. Horse Cave is the actual name of a town, and it’s two miles off I-65 and features a cave system that runs under the town called Hidden River Cave. I wasn’t sure what we were getting into, but it sounded promising. So on the last day of our visit, we arrived there in the pouring rain and had a fantastic little adventure.

My granddaughter enjoying an adventure

Hidden River Cave was everything I had been looking for regarding a cave experience. It was privately owned, but the investment was better than what we had just seen at Mammoth Cave. They had almost a whole city block of cave tourism that was very well organized, complete with a fantastic museum. And it was all right in the middle of town. It is so well hidden that most people coming to the Mammoth Cave site have no idea it’s even there. But after visiting, I would say anybody going to Mammoth Cave should make Hidden River Cave part of their journey. It’s so good that really I would say it’s better than going to Mammoth Cave. It’s much easier to deal with as a visitor, and the cave interaction is much more adventurous. The cave tour itself takes visitors back into the system as it runs directly under the town of Horse Cave, around ¾ of a mile. It’s not a long tour, but just long enough to be interesting. My kids weren’t bored at all; the cave isn’t as well lit up as Mammoth Cave which is a big plus because it allows you to get your own flashlights out and use them to see. But the path you walk on is fantastic, exceptionally well built and features the longest underground suspension bridge in the world that spans across a deep underground gorge where the Hidden River rages by underneath. Because it’s a river, it floods often and did flood over after all the heavy rain just a few days after we left the area. That is why the trail is so good because it’s built to withstand flooding. So, there was nothing rickety and unsafe about it. But it didn’t feel too touristy either; it was an adventurous experience without being uncomfortable or hazardous for little ones.

It’s a deep cave that runs right under the town. A literal secret passage way into the underworld

Three hundred million years ago, the Mammoth Cave region was the coastline of an inland ocean. The equator was in a different place, to the north, so the sea did its work to carve out all these cave features by working through the sandstone layers and getting down into some of the intense limestone, which is why there are over 400 miles to the Mammoth Cave system, and all these exciting pockets of private cave tours like Hidden River Cave that are so conveniently off the highway. Visitors can get up close and personal with adventurous tours without getting dirty and spending an entire day going spelunking, which are options offered at Hidden River Cave. They had a whole adventure course with zip lines and canopy ropework behind the tourist entrance. This cave experience was created by adventurers for the purpose of exploration, and it had the right vibe I was hoping for. But what was missing was that stiffness you get at the National Parks. We have been to many of them, including Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and the Badlands, and while those places are very nice, they have a kind of government bureaucracy to them that was completely gone at Hidden River Cave. In the context of some of the best places in the world to go, Hidden River Cave is one of the best, and it’s so easy to get to. I would highly recommend it. It’s worth a trip by itself. As I said, the cave does flood, so it’s very adventury down in it. But when it rains heavily, it fills up after a few days. It’s not like people would be caught down there in a flash flood. It takes a few days to fill and a few days longer for all the water to run out. But the result of the cave itself is that it’s just wild enough to experience caves in an adventurous way, without the dangers of exploring caves that this level of interaction actually entails. The Hidden River Cave experience is a wonderful option showing how private ownership often gets the best results, which is undoubtedly the case here.

There is nothing better than teaching young people the path to a good life

Rich Hoffman

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The Government Endorsed Attack on America: Sexual Perversion and drug poisoning to destroy our entire society

I can just say that I’m not going to put up with the kind of garbage that went on in Middletown, Ohio, over the last weekend of June 2023. There was a drag show in public that went on, which is shown in the pictures here, that was just disgusting. But these went on nationwide, this assault to desecrate sexuality with unhealthy lifestyles that this current government in America fully endorses. I see what these sexual deviants are doing as an assault. It’s one thing to have sexual lifestyle choices behind closed doors; it’s quite another to weaponize it and to stick it into all our faces as an assault on the very foundations of civilization. So on the very next day, I met with some friends down at the Courthouse in Hamilton, Ohio, for a stake in the ground of goodness to March for Children as a moral position as a response to these horrendous intrusions. It was nice to see so many people there, and I was surprised that there were so many officeholders present who weren’t afraid to put their names next to the issue. Essentially after some speeches, shown here, in front of the Courthouse, we marched around the old building three times, just as in the attack on Jericho. In this case, after three times, we didn’t want the Courthouse to fall, as did the walls in that Biblical city, but for the barriers to law and order to fall away so that justice could be established to protect children under full assault.

Without question, the most emotional speech of the day came from Mark Murphy, who is part of the leadership of the Republican Party of Butler County. Mark recently lost his daughter due to a fentanyl overdose. It only took one time for it to happen, and if it can happen to Mark, it can happen to anybody. What a lot of people fail to realize is that a lot of these evils that we are seeing, whether it’s the drag queen shows or the drug cartels deliberately poisoning our youth with drugs like fentanyl, these are military attacks against American culture. They are deliberately targeting the youth of our culture to destroy them and, as a result, American culture as a whole. Listening to Mark talk, the number of people losing children to fentanyl overdoses is astonishing. The silent killer is the biggest threat in the world today. If ground troops did these deaths with tanks and guns, we’d be outraged by the attack and would seek revenge for the aggression. But the attack is coming in a way we don’t typically think of as an attack, but as a leisurely activity, drug use. Yet the intentions couldn’t be more obvious. We have a media culture and a government that is actually helping the situation along, and there is no other excuse for it. Drugs have always been a problem for the attackers of Western Civilization; the motive is to exploit the free culture with poison so that the competing cultures of the world can then thrive without comparison. Usually, we’d hear about these stories as soldiers who died in the field somewhere. But this attack is on our doorsteps, in all of our neighborhoods, and is all too common. Unfortunately, Mark’s story is not unique. It is so common that people are numb to it that they’d instead think about everything else but this topic. That’s why it was nice to see so many people show up for the March for Children because until we admit that there is a problem, we will continue to be vulnerable to these globalist attacks run by the organized crime arm of that effort, the drug cartels. 

Who in their right mind wouldn’t want to stand up for children, but that is precisely the threat in our schools these days. Public education has become a predatory environment, which is most publicly articulated in the PRIDE event in Middletown. The outlandish behavior seen there is being bred into kids in public schools, and very few people are standing up to it, and apparent evil that is an all-out assault on cultural norms. Darbi Boddy was at the March for Children event as politicians like Jennifer Gross and Todd Minniear spoke about the challenges of doing what’s appropriate for kids despite grotesque social behavior that the masses have now accepted as a reality. But the kids are counting on the adults in their lives to protect them from these predators. And what else could you call people so obviously addicted to a sexual deviation with the intent to engage with underage children? It’s a clear case of evil as far as I’m concerned, and when we are confronted with such things, we must do something about it. There is no common ground with these types of people who have only destruction and mayhem on their minds. A purposeful corruption of the youth toward a life of ill-advised sex addiction; nothing good comes from such a lifestyle, yet we are expected just to take all this desecration politely and without anger? I don’t think so. Everyone who facilitates these types of activities, from officeholders to teachers in the schools, are accommodating sheer evil. It’s not tolerance to accept destructive sexual lifestyles; it’s irresponsible. 

For me, it’s not an option to be accommodating. If we are going to see these kinds of attacks against our American culture, then it should be expected to have an equally hostile response. When the attack vector is so apparent, and the death and mental destruction of an entire nation of people is the target, then nobody should expect to be treated nicely in their desecrations. We are not obligated to kindness when faced with such evil and the intentions of malcontents. If they are free to express themselves in such grotesque ways, then we are also free to have an opinion about it and to let them know that we are judging them on their bad behavior, at the very least. We are not obligated just to take it and accept it out of some guilt by a leftist definition of privilege. Sexual addiction is bad under any condition; nobody should be thinking about it as much as the trans show in Middletown clearly is. But the point isn’t health; it’s destruction. They are selling our own destruction to us through the temptation of pleasure, the most ancient door to evil known to all civilizations. Whether it’s through drug abuse or sexual lifestyles, our current government is helping America’s enemies destroy our country from within, and the casualties are real. And it’s not just the adults they are targeting, but our children. These days, they aren’t even bothering to hide any longer. They do it because they don’t respect us or think that we’ll do anything about it. So the effort is on us in this present time to engage the enemy and redefine the terms of destruction. We cannot co-exist with evil, nor should we expect to. Instead, we must make our opinions known, judge the bad behavior for what it is, and commit ourselves to save children to save our nation because the attack couldn’t be more obvious.

Rich Hoffman

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Isaac Adi Gets Violent Again: An Interview with Darbi Boddy

It has been interesting to watch the trajectory of two school board officeholders who essentially started at the same place but took two different paths upon being elected to satisfy the parameters of accomplishment. Obviously, there is more to the conflict this past week between Isaac Adi and Darbi Boddy on the Lakota school board, where the police investigated a condition of assault, where Isaac, yet again under pressure, lashed out at someone trying to record his public behavior. Darbi is a tough young lady who can handle conflicts just fine. But what’s interesting is how RINOs are created because once elected, Isaac went into an appeasement mode of the very kind of people he was supposed to be engaging with, whereas Darbi has stayed faithful to her campaign promises. I talked to Darbi about all this while we were both at a March for Children rally in downtown Hamilton, Ohio. Darbi never advertised herself as anything but a fighter for children’s rights, whereas the same was expected from Isaac. But once elected, what was witnessed was an instant barrage of influencers who often inject themselves into the newly elected person’s life, and the temptation to appease these new faces is powerful, and most people never develop resistance to it. When I see these clips of Isaac Adi acting violently toward people who put cameras on him to record aggressive behavior, I see that conflict in his actions. Isaac is not alone in this problem. Being authentic has a freedom of its own which was quite apparent when I was able to talk to Darbi on camera about her first few years as a school board member at Lakota. You can see freedom of conscience in her because she has stayed true to herself. But others have not, and that often leads to the kind of obvious frustrations on the face of Isaac Adi in the footage of him lashing out at Darbi.

I worked with both Isaac and Darbi during their campaigns because many of us wanted to help Lynda O’Conner have conservative votes to work with on the Lakota school board. We felt sorry for Lynda and tried to help her. Isaac and Darbi essentially ran together as a package during the campaign, and they won their elections easily. But as soon as the election was over, Lynda started talking about controlling the school board members in ways that didn’t sound very Republican. And immediately, the OSBA (Ohio School Board Association) started to do its work; it’s like a club. They invite new school board members into the warm embrace of friendship, and it doesn’t take much for that type of romance to entice lonely people or people with a natural personality to want to please others. Admittingly, that was a concern I had about Isaac during the campaign; he was so friendly and so outgoing that I was concerned that he would find the desire to appease the other school board members too lucrative when conflict was the best approach. One thing that we did talk about that didn’t make it on camera was Darbi’s support network, with Kelly Kohls at the National Leadership Council (NSBLC), which offers an alternative to the support of the more labor-union-controlled OSBA. Lynda O’Conner and I have talked specifically about the OSBA; she thinks it’s a good organization. I think along the lines of Darbi and Kelly on the matter. But the obvious results are in the influences that led to Darbi doing what voters expected on the Lakota school board and Isaac looking to appease all these new friends, which is the game of politics that happens at every level.

As I explained to Darbi, I am proud of her, as many are. I’ve been doing this kind of thing, supporting candidates in many ways, for many years, and most of the time, it results in a dud. It’s like going to the fireworks store for the Fourth of July and buying a bunch of fireworks that never blow up. You have great expectations, but they just fizzle out when you light the fuse. Whereas with Darbi, she has exploded in all the right ways that were very satisfying and surprising. Every now and then, your hopes and expectations are met, which is the case with Darbi. She was not seduced by all the forces that have taken public education in the wrong direction, and that has been great to see. The ratio for me is about 10 to 1. Of every ten candidates I have worked with over the years, you occasionally get one Darbi. Of course, I knew when such an honest person like Darbi, who simply wanted to do an excellent job as a school board member, confronted a system with so much bad behavior in it, and that bad behavior was hidden from the public through friendships that were designed to conceal it; then there would be conflict. I get emails from people all over the country from people who are political moderates who are jealous that they don’t have someone like Darbi Boddy on their school board. I am very proud of her and would love to have three or four more like her, people who could resist the temptations of group consensus at the expense of voter responsibility.

I brought this up during our talk, how one player for the Reds inspired many others to get better. In many ways, Darbi has been that person for Lakota

We don’t elect people into politics to get along, which is becoming more evident in national politics. We don’t expect physical altercations either, but one of the problems that lead to so much corruption is the appeasement of peers, which is at the heart of the problem at every level. At Lakota, at the fundamental community level, we can see two people who started in the same place and quickly went in entirely different directions. From both perspectives, they had good intentions, yet during our talk, Darbi hit the nail on the head; much of the evil that starts in the world of politics doesn’t come from some pitch-forked devil; it’s often the friendly face who wants to buy you dinner and treat you like a king or princess. Of course, they expect something in return. But it’s often hard to see because it feels good to be liked. Some people will do anything to be liked; once others know that about you, they own you. And at that point, elected representatives often go bad when they fall in love with being loved because, just like a manipulative spouse, once they start jerking around your feelings, you lose the authenticity of why people voted for you in the first place. And at the heart of the conflict between Darbi and Isaac, two people who ran for office together and had been friends, is this villain of appeasement. The lucrative nature of being accepted in the warm embrace of friendship within institutional confinement is a nector all its own. And thankfully, in our community, Darbi didn’t fall for it, much to the frustration of those who wanted to seduce her into it. That’s why people tell me they are jealous of us in Lakota because they see the clear value in elected representatives like Darbi Boddy. The controversy only comes from those who want to steer her in a different direction. But she has stayed with the voters authentically, and people appreciate that, as they do with all people who do so. And with Isaac, it’s frustrating when you can’t please everyone, and that comes out in these outbursts caught on camera twice now. As Darbi said to me, she gets tired of how people talk behind closed doors and speak in public. That duality is the source of the problem because an honest person would be the same in any format. 

Rich Hoffman

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Not Even Aliens Can Save The FBI From Public Wrath: Why Jim Comey says it can only be Joe Biden

Now there is a proper context to the recent interview with Jim Comey, the former FBI Director when he said that only Joe Biden could be president in 2024. With all that we know about Biden’s health, his scandals, and his ineffectiveness, now everyone can see just how radicalized the FBI has been for a long time. Too many people gave them the benefit of the doubt and wanted to think they were a patriotic group. But now we know, and it’s especially obvious with the latest indictment case against Trump with Jack Smith and the monstrously corrupt Department of Justice, how the game has been played for a very long time, and to keep all those sins from the past concealed, they have to have a dummy in the White House who will do what they say, and won’t go poking around in all the vast evils committed by the 4th branch of government, which believes its totally unaccountable to the voters of America. Comey said the quiet part out loud, which was a bit redeeming. I couldn’t help but reflect on the spot on CNN where I made my prophetic utterances about just how corrupt Jim Comey was after Trump fired him in 2017. To much controversy, I told CNN that Comey was a liar, a practitioner of falsehoods, which they found repulsive. How could I say such a thing? It was a different world back then; America was much more innocent about how out of control the intelligence agencies were. Some people talked about the NSA’s massive power and that FBI agents were spying on people. That the CIA was behind the killing of JFK. But just a few short years later, in 2023, much of what conspiracy theorists had been thinking about turned out to be true. We now know the CIA was behind the JFK killing because it’s in declassified documents; we know that the FBI has been involved in a lot of nefarious scandals because they have been caught working with Democrats to keep them in power, and they have been aggressively engaged in a coup to remove President Trump from office. 

To keep the FBI safe from the wrath of the public, they must have Joe Biden in the White House; otherwise, the whole house of cards is built on lie after lie after lie for the fulfillment of Democrat globalism, an alignment with communist China, will come crashing down. And Comey knows it. For them, it’s Joe Biden or bust. The corrupt old man can’t do anything but run because behind him are so many crimes that he must sell to the public through a kind of grandpa image that the entire system that is hiding behind him would otherwise be exposed. They have no other choice; they are so vulnerable that their activism over the years is finally catching up to them. There is nothing to this Jack Smith story. It will be lucky ever to make it to court. The entire effort was in the back pocket of the Department of Justice for when the heavy stuff about Burisma bribes totaling over 5 million dollars hit the news, where the Biden family was caught in a shell corporation game of influence peddling during his Vice President days. A few hours after that news story hit, they launched this indictment of President Trump, the leading Republican player poised to dethrone the illegally installed Joe Biden into the White House. The system knows that if they hope to survive public scrutiny, all the sins that have been committed, they must keep Joe Biden in office, one way or the other. Who still thinks that there wasn’t election fraud in 2020? 

And you know it’s bad when the alien stories start to emerge; whistleblowers are coming forth to talk about all the alien craft that our military has that they have been experimenting on. And that the military has alien bodies in their possession. This has been on the mainstream news recently, along with an alien crash in Las Vegas where 8-foot green visitors from another planet struggled to conceal their cloaked craft after it left a mark in a parking lot. One of the aliens actually tried to get into a piece of construction equipment to drive it. As I heard these reports, they have a lot of credibility. I’m not one who doesn’t believe in space aliens. I actually think they are quite common, and the Vegas story, as well as the military leak, doesn’t surprise me in the least. I think aliens are as common in the world as Chinese people or Russians. Interacting with them might be a novelty from a foreign culture, but they are just living beings like the rest of us—no big deal. The conspiracy part of it is that the various intelligence agencies have tried to create a narrative about them that controls what people think. Such as acknowledging that they exist and that anybody who thinks such a thing is a massive conspiracy theorist. However, when the FBI needs to shake people away from investigating them, the alien stories hit the networks who obligingly remind the public that we might be facing a menace from outer space and that we need the FBI and the CIA to keep us safe. 

An alien invasion from forces beyond planet Earth is much less of a threat than our FBI. The American intelligence agencies are corrupt beyond repair and have shown the dangers of trusting people like Jim Comey too much. And I’ll go ahead and say it, once all these indictments go nowhere, and Trump is still the leading candidate for the GOP to run against the hapless Joe Biden and the mountains of corruption that the FBI is attempting to hide to keep him in power, there is going to be a very violent panic from these people, once they have to face the facts that they are not in power. They were never in power. Americans employed them to do a job, and they did not do that job. They let us down. And the stacks of lies they have been hiding behind all this time are coming apart rapidly. I said Comey was a crook well in advance of all that we have learned, and I’m saying now that the entire mechanism of the administrative state are on the ballot in 2024. Yes, they will attempt to cheat in massive ways because they have no other way to stay in power. But people are finally waking up to just how bad a lot of these people have always been.

The FBI was not our friend. The intelligence agencies have not been working to preserve the American Constitution. They have been conspirators, malicious agents of destruction. And they have been caught and only have Joe Biden’s presidency to shield them from punishment. Not even the alien stories can save them any longer. Which is quite a thing to consider; that’s how bad it is. They have been lying to us for years to acquire power and steer America in a hostile, globalist direction, intentionally misleading the public toward their destruction. And now their fate rests behind the efforts of one beat-up, corrupt old man. Yes, the desperation is showing.

 

Rich Hoffman

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The Achilles Heel of The Administrative State: Why to Pick Trump over DeSantis

Political theater aside, there are very declarative reasons to pick President Trump over Ron DeSantis in the upcoming election in 2024. And people are on to it. It’s rooted in the audacious statement by Trump about his former White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, when he called her out for not properly representing him on a Fox News segment, declaring her an asset of the globalists. It’s the Achilles Heel of the entire globalist movement and the politics of the Beltway, the thing they don’t want anybody ever to learn because they think we are all too dumb to see it. It’s the concept I talk about in my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, where the gunslinger walks into a saloon in the pouring rain and drinks with his back to a room full of killers. But nobody makes a move because their first priority is to measure if they can use the stranger to their advantage before any other consideration, and the gunfighter uses that knowledge to destroy them all before they even realize what’s happening. Every great executive understands the concept, which, naturally, Trump does with his experience in private enterprise. People like Kayleigh McEnany, or Ron DeSantis, and the Beltway supporters hope to keep it a secret, but they need people like Trump. Trump doesn’t need them. And that is the true terror that is exploiting globalism all over the world presently. And in order to suppress that reality, if they lose control over election fraud and the media, they will find themselves in a world where they are not in charge, which is becoming glaringly obvious. People have always known these things in the back of their minds, but the promise of the Administrative State, the core of our education system from the beginning, was that communism would enter into the decision-making process, and group consensus would rule the day. Leadership by individuals would be replaced by consensus building. Which, of course, has turned out to be a disaster. And Trump knows it and exploits it to his political advantage.

The Fox News support of Ron DeSantis then becomes much more apparent. As a news organization, they cover the horse race of politics and are not interested in the solutions of political debate. They like the problems of politics and never anticipate that answers will ever come. That is how their business model is, to talk about the game, not the actual results of the game played. Fox News is all about providing color commentary in the days and hours leading up to a game, to use a sports metaphor, but once that game is over, they move on to the next big game, the next horse race. For them, it’s all about revenue generation, just like the Beltway culture is. They want people like Ron DeSantis, who need donors’ money and want to control what kind of color commentary Fox News will be discussing. And for them, it’s all security for their origins for making money because it provides a stable environment politically for their business interests, which have thrived under the illusion that consensus building by the Administrative State would be the method of the future, which they invested in. The big difference between Ron DeSantis is that he’s essentially broke. Without money in his pocket, it’s like going to a gunfight without a gun. He’s young and doesn’t have very much money. He has to make money for many years in his life, so that makes him much easier to control than someone like Trump, who makes it clear that if anybody betrays him, he will drop them like a rock into the ocean and never look back. 

Without Trump’s independent wealth, we would not have questions about the actual validity of the Administrative State and its controllers, the Deep State, which are globalists involved in finance. They built a rigged system, and they have a layer of bureaucracy that protects them from the impact of negative results. And that rigged system would have stayed intact if an independent person like Trump had never made themselves known to politics. Trump cannot be controlled because he is independently wealthy. Ron DeSantis might talk like Trump, but he can never act like Trump.   Someone will always control him because he needs someone to give him money in some way or another. Ron DeSantis could never walk into a room with his back to it and have people not trying to take him out because the rules of consensus building were never going to protect people from each other’s ambitions. But the good executive knows the value of leadership and can afford to alienate those who are ineffective, disloyal, or malicious. They know a million Kayleigh McEnanys are out there, people looking for a chance that only Trump could give them. But there’s only one Trump. And that is the source of the panic that is moving through politics with the new global populism that is reshaping the world currently. The political system was built to put money in the pockets of donors, lawyers, and consultants, with the eventual outcome producing something of a horse race for the media like Fox News to talk about but never to resolve. Because if the problems were resolved, then there would be nothing new to talk about in the media. A solution-based society does not help the social parasites fake that their Administrative State is effective. Only that the goal is to raise money to spend on the horse race, and that is the reality of the Deep State as they have been trying to hide it. 

Ron DeSantis ultimately made the same dumb mistake that most people do these days; they felt they were never going to get anywhere in life unless they sucked up into the Administrative State. Even Kayleigh McEnany fell for the bait. And the reason is that they don’t understand how executive leadership works. They understand the sentiments of the press. They know how to say the right things. But they don’t understand how the right things are determined because they are not independently wealthy and free to live on their own terms. But Trump is, which is why he’s such a terrifying prospect to the efforts of an Administrative State to continue selling themselves as useless solutions to a world that expects results. Nobody in the Beltway of politics or the media that reports on it is worried about Ron DeSantis. Without a Trump to hide behind, he’s all talk and can quickly be controlled by the forces who have always controlled politics. And those protections are built into the rules of polite society, that you don’t call people names, that you put up with deception by not discussing the real problems. But the only solution to the real problems is through directness, and that only comes from the independence of social interactions, where you don’t need others to validate your existence. And Trump doesn’t. People want to be near him because they want something from him. As a top executive, he knows that and can use that leverage in all his relationships, which ultimately is the essence of leadership. Aligning people with self-interest is the actual method of success. Consensus building is meant to hide the lack of results behind making everyone else feel important when they clearly aren’t. And that is ultimately what the entire election of 2024 is all about. Which only President Trump is an option for the future. 

Rich Hoffman

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