Category: Honor

Don’t Ever Turn the Other Cheek: Seeing and knowing everything

I would say I’m an easy person to get along with.  As long as you don’t smoke pot, drink too much, cover yourself in tattoos and body piercings, don’t cheat on your spouse, don’t live off the government as a welfare recipient, aren’t a Democrat, didn’t compromise yourself in college hazing rituals, aren’t a sexual deviant, aren’t a godless heathen, aren’t a lazy loser, if there are any people left in the world at that point, I’m very easy to deal with.  But love is not promised, it’s earned, and if people abuse their relationship with me, I hold it against them.  And I have to say that because over the Memorial Day weekend, I heard at least three times that I’m a controlling lunatic who is too difficult to deal with.  I wouldn’t say that. Instead, the people complaining, from friends and family who expected something out of me over the holiday weekend, were unhappy at my lack of appeasement of their wishes.  And that comes down to my very rigorous schedule and people who clearly don’t respect it.  I don’t make time for people who have let me down.  And when I get to that point with people, I don’t even care enough to explain it to them.  I drop them, never to look back, and many people find that unsettling.  But to answer the statement that was brought up to me, that I am so hated that when I die, nobody will come to my funeral, I say, that is fine.  I don’t lower my standards for anybody, and if nobody comes to my funeral, which I have no plan to attend anytime soon, I’m okay with that.  I don’t think it’s important to be liked in the world because to do so, you have to compromise to the weaknesses of others.  I’d rather be alone in the world and have nobody come to my funeral than to lower my standards in any way. 

And to that point, I have instructed my wife that should such a day ever occur, to burn my body and disperse it somewhere so people can’t spit on my grave and have access to me in any compromised way.  I don’t talk about it much.  People wonder what it’s like to be as opinionated as I am, and how it works out.  I would say it isn’t easy at best.  But it all comes down to expectations, how people manage their lives, and whether I choose to make time for them when they want me to.  But here’s the thing: nothing is done in the world that I don’t understand, especially regarding people.  I know all the causes and effects of why people do what they do.  Nothing surprises me.  I see through every scheme, deceit, and misplaced non-verbal communication.  I know everything they try to hide from the world, every wart on a person.  Call it a gift I have from God.  To what purpose can I use it to some good enterprise? It would be easy to abuse that talent.  It takes quite a lot of discipline to keep a skill like that pointed toward justice.  But when you have that ability, people can’t snowball you.  And when it comes to family engagements, where many people just haven’t lived very good lives, and as a result, they aren’t very good people, I see and understand why they do everything they have done and they shouldn’t expect a free pass from me. 

I genuinely let people live their lives the way they want to.  But when they show me they don’t care what their actions do to my loyalty, I show them that I care so little for them that I’ll drop them off the earth without a second thought.  That is a long-standing policy I have, and it wouldn’t bother me if it resulted in nobody coming to my funeral or inviting me to do things.  However, that is not the case; I have too many people in the world who want me to do things with them, and my phone never stops receiving text messages and emails from someone wanting something from me.  But the same thing has been happening to my immediate family, and the kind of advice I give them about people in the world.  When my family members ask me what I think of this and that, I tell them.  I tell them everything, and it turns out to be painfully right every time.   And that makes people trying to do bad things in the world very upset that they can’t operate in the shadows, because I so easily shine light on everything.  And when they can’t manipulate people I care about easily, they get angry with me for removing the illusion they have built their lives around.  I don’t go out of my way to do it.  But if I’m asked, I tell it all.  And it’s always right.  Call it a gift from God.  And I use it effectively and in the way that God designed a skill like that.  But saying that, I’m not like Jesus, I don’t turn the other cheek on anything.  I carry grudges for decades and never get over things when bad things have been done to me.  And I’m not about to start doing so. 

There is a long line of very parasitic people.  I would say most people are.  And when people I care about ask me what I think, and I warn them to watch out for people who want to associate with them because they want to loot off their essence, because they are good people and those looters aren’t good people, to beware that they don’t take your soul away from you.  Always manage the eternal component of yourself with the understanding that you can’t undo a compromised self.  And when people try to control people I care about, and my advice keeps it from happening, there will be a lot of anger.  Tough tootles.  If you don’t want the ramifications of that behavior, don’t do the behavior.  But there is nothing I don’t know about human nature.  And I have no cell in my body that seeks to appease people who have done bad things.  So if that upsets people, I don’t care.  I never forget.  I do hold things against people.  And I don’t turn the other cheek only to have it slapped again.  And if that makes me a bad person, I would say that the value system of the people who feel that way is all messed up.  Of course, a log being burned in the fire thinks the fire is evil.  I can live with that because there are a lot of people who have made themselves worthless so that they can easily be tossed into the fire to be burnt up and disposed of without a thought in the world.  And that might upset them.  But I genuinely don’t care.  People who have done bad things to themselves, I don’t forgive.  And I don’t ignore it when they’ve done it to me and people I care about.  Too many people have lived bad lives, made bad decisions, and wished to hide those things by associating with good people to keep their conduct concealed with mass collectivism.  But that doesn’t work with me.  Never forget, I see everything.  I can read the contents of people’s souls, and I know what’s really there and I use that information with great success in life.  That might make people very angry that I can do that.  But they can only blame themselves for being bad people.  You can’t hide it with money.  With community service.  Or snacks at a family gathering.  I don’t have a tolerance for bad people, and yes, I do judge and judge often.  I never signed up for this stupid notion of not judging people.  That is a dumb political position created by bad people to hide their conduct from the world.  I have the opposite view.  I judge and hold it against people forever.  And that might seem unfair to people who are too far gone. But they should have thought about that before they went there.  Don’t be a bad person, and we’ll get along just fine.

Rich Hoffman

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The Future CEO: They won’t come from the Linkedln losers

When I was in college, I majored in economics and philosophy, and it was apparent even then that a significant shortage was headed our way: a CEO shortage of strong, viable leadership.  And that the attack on our culture that was creating that shortage was purposeful and malicious.  And now we see it everywhere, from failed companies ranging from everything, whether we are talking about the collapse of the Frisch’s restaurant chain, Tupperware, or the Hollywood movie industry.  In every form of business, we see a class of CEOs who were taught weak politics, put in place over those reasons alone, and have choked off and killed huge portions of business sector economies.  I used to warn everyone back then, and people would laugh and giggle and call me a conspiracy theorist for what I was saying.  But as it turned out, everything was true.  We are not making Jack Welch-type CEOs anymore; clearly, people are yearning for it, which is one of the reasons why President Trump was elected back into the White House.  People don’t like the lack of leadership in the world, or what has happened to their businesses.  But if you talk to company heads from top to bottom worldwide, especially in the United States, you find these trained monkeys who don’t know what they are doing and couldn’t lead an ant colony to a breadbasket at a picnic.  Reflecting on my college days, they were only teaching Marxism as an economic viability which I thought was ridiculous and it didn’t take much to figure out that an entire generation learning that kind of garbage was of course going to be crippled in their adult lives, which is precisely the case we are seeing now.  The biggest challenge in the modern age is not returning our economy to our hands, which is occurring rapidly under Trump’s policies.  The shortage of leadership is coming out of the CEO class now, who aren’t prepared to lead companies into healthy sustainability.

Another thing that I am very critical of, just as I was of the college teaching methods, is the new trend of LinkedIn, the professional networking site.  There is a lot wrong with it, which was designed to pull leadership-oriented professionals toward a social score of acceptance that is very China-like.  It’s more about uniformity than exceptionalism, and the deficiency is certainly showing up in our culture today.  We can bring back our jobs from the impact of globalism, but can we put CEOs in place to run those companies in time to run them?  I have a lot of faith in the adaptability of human beings, especially when they are under pressure.  And I would say that we can.  However, the current recruitment method and implementation of a leadership culture, as seen on LinkedIn, is not where the future is.  Consensus building with other losers hiding behind professional titles will be smoked out quickly under the scrutiny of marketplace competition.  And companies that have gone down that road are finding themselves lacking, which is evident in the failures of so many companies these days, who followed the rules of the Obama administration and found themselves closed and bankrupt, which was always part of the plan.  Who needs an army to attack an enemy country when you can train a generation of leadership to lead their economy down the drain?  It could be argued that many of the failures we are seeing from older companies are because they are at the end of their business cycle, and new opportunities are squeezing out the old-fashioned companies with tired brand recognition.  But I would say it’s more than that.

I used to get a lot of flak for my interest in philosophy, even when majoring in it, from the same type of losers today who think LinkedIn is their key to networking salvation.  But I will say now what I said then: what you think matters, and why you think it.  Not following the orders of what some professor committed to Keynesian economics and Marxist social diatribes tells you will be important when it wasn’t going to be.  Probably the best thing I have ever done was spend those college years reading so much philosophy independently, without being told to do so by anybody.   And if more people had prepared themselves independently of the established institutionalism, they’d be better prepared for this significant change in leadership necessity, now.  And I am enjoying a certain satisfaction now because of all the criticism I endured.  The world will find a way for sure.  But it won’t come from those most trained to do it.  The market rejects bad CEOs in favor of innovation, hard work, and merit. It is not the LinkedIn values of a fancy profile picture and a padded resume that looks and sounds impressive, but it is essentially representative of a trained failure made that way by institutionalism to hit the market as a failure and bring down our entire society.  When what you learn philosophically leads to ruin, don’t be surprised when bad leaders ruin companies.  As I say that, I’m thinking of Bob Iger at Disney, who has pretty much ruined that company with bad social philosophy and a reckless assumption that the power of the company would always remain, and would never feel the effects of competition.

The world’s future leaders will not come from institutionalism; they will come from the pressure cooker of life.  Those who have survived the pitfalls of globalism with their take will be the most viable to adapt to these rapidly changing economic standards.  The marketplace will find leaders to run all these new companies.  But it won’t be by the old networking ways, but in the philosophy of success that is at the foundation of all endeavors.  Process fulfillment can’t allow group consensus to hide Marxism in the shadows, which is what has been happening.  It can’t allow the losers of LinkedIn to pad a resume and say some fancy things here and there without actually leading people to victory.  No, in a competitive environment, good leadership will be driven by a proper philosophy of success that wins the day.  Not the CEO who wanted to check all the DEI boxes and led their companies to ruin following it, as Bob Iger did at Disney, and many other huge companies suddenly struggling to maintain their markets.  The brownnoser, the boot licker, the social appeaser will not find a world conducive to their back-footed strategy.  Only the strong and wise will adapt to this rapidly changing market.  There will be a lot of failures, but those who do succeed are those who weren’t taught by institutionalism to fail, purposely.  But those who didn’t listen.  And as I look around, I am happy that I never did.  It’s easy to criticize now with hindsight being what it is.  I feel a little sorry for those who thought they had a handle on all this, because the suffering is hard on them.  But that’s how the ball bounces in a wild and woolly world.  Competition will root out the bad.  Marxism can’t hide them from the world as they have been doing.  But we will be far better off for it. 

Rich Hoffman

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Big Tish James is in Trouble: But David Yost did the same thing

Big Tish James, the Attorney General in New York is in a lot of trouble, not just from what she actually did, misrepresenting property transactions in Real Estate, but that she created a precedent with President Trump when she used her office to attempt to destroy him and his businesses over much less serious charges.  In the Letitia James case, in one particular charge, she stated that her father was actually her husband, which was knowing fraud.  As the New York AG, she was the prosecutor of the Trump case that threatened to put him in jail for the rest of his life, and then some.  And destroy his businesses with millions of dollars in legal fees, not just destroying him, but the rest of his family and employees.  Of course, the way she behaved toward Trump has everyone showing little sympathy for her case, now that the White House has referred it to Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice.  We can’t turn away from this one.  Clearly, James planned to abuse her power to destroy people’s lives, and she was guilty herself of worse, so she has to be dealt with harshly.  Ruthlessly, with no compassion given to her attempt to manipulate the legal parameters of her situation, even if legal experts claim that her infractions were things that everybody does.  She is the New York AG, and she did those things knowingly.   Never forget that Letitia James filed a civil lawsuit against Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization for engaging in fraudulent business practices by misrepresenting asset values to secure favorable loan terms and tax benefits.  Judge Engoron, under the push of James, found Trump guilty and ordered him to pay $454 million in a judgment, and he was barred from running a business in New York for three years.  Trump is appealing the case, and this behavior by James is needed as part of his appeal process, because the point of the appeal is to prove that the entire case was politically motivated. 

But worse than any of that is the temptation to abuse power, which we should all be concerned with after seeing how the system was thrown at Trump.  Obviously, Big Tish James was coordinating her efforts with Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, when he pressed 34 felony counts related to hush money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels.  Trump was convicted on all 34 counts on May 30th, 2024.  Two months later, Trump was shot in the head by an assassin, so looking back on all these cases and conditions, it’s not hard to see how serious the opposition was to Trump returning to the White House, and Letitia James was at the heart of all of it.  While she was doing it, she was doing far worse than what she was accusing Trump of, which is a common theme among people who are given too much government power over others.  This happens all the time, and as I heard about the Big Tish case, I couldn’t help but think of our Attorney General in Ohio, who abused his power to take down the Butler County Auditor, Roger Reynolds. Roger recently held a press conference naming Yost and stating his direct involvement in trying to put Roger in jail, essentially over some political disagreements.  Severe stuff done with the same level of malice.  These are charges that most people would roll their eyes at and not consider to be a big deal.  But in all these cases, significant fines and jail time were on the table, and it was terrifying to see the massive abuses of power going on.  Roger Reynolds will never fully recover what he lost due to the case Yost put against him politically.  I am greatly relieved that Vivek Ramaswamy put his hat in the ring to be governor of Ohio and give us a good option away from Yost, who wants to run for governor and is losing terribly to Vivek.

The lesson is that we cannot give these people too much power.  Because it’s not just Letitia James abusing her power, but we’ve seen it from another Attorney General in the State of Ohio.  And it makes you wonder how many AGs in various states have the same problem.  This is why we cannot have a government that is too big, because the members will abuse their power if given half a chance.  So we should never let off our scrutiny and always be suspicious of government people.  If their office has power, you can bet they will be tempted to abuse it.  And likely will at some point.  There are just too many cases where it happens, and there is no deterrent unless they are caught, as Big Tish has been, with severe punishment.  Letitia James planned to use her knowledge as the top cop of New York, of the law, to manipulate it to serve her real estate needs.  There is no defense in her case that she knowingly lied, indicating that her father was her husband.  That’s not a clerical accident; that was purposeful fraud.  And we can’t have AGs thinking they can get away with that behavior.  So, prosecuting her is more than a political stunt or revenge for all that she did to Trump.  It’s the only means we have to keep the system somewhat honest. 

If Trump had not won the election of 2024, he would be in jail and broke right this very minute.  All his wealth would have been confiscated, and his businesses destroyed.  And he would never leave jail alive again.  That is what Letitia James did to him, and she got her rigged conviction to hang over Trump a felony that state control could then use to their advantage over a political rival.  David Yost did the same thing to Roger Reynolds for holding an improper interest in a public contract to destroy a political rival over what Roger says was a disagreement over property tax assessments.  When we allow attorney generals to split hairs like that and destroy people with their positions, they better be squeaky clean.  And that is not the case with Big Tish.  She is guilty and deserves to have the book thrown at her and then some.  And a strong message has to be sent to all those like her who are thinking of doing precisely what she did to Trump.  This is exactly why we can never support a large government that gets away from our control.  While we need people to do these jobs, they need enough power to do them.  But we cannot allow them to get so powerful that they feel entitled to do what Big Tish did to Trump, while over the same period, she was lying on legal transactions in a far worse way, and thought she would get away with it because she was the Attorney General.  The power went to her head, and she fell to corruption.  And for the Department of Justice to set things right, they need to use Letitia James’ words against her since she set the precedent for prosecution with her actions against Trump.  The same rules apply now to her.  Only in her case the written evidence in own her hand is to the point where nobody else could be guilty.  And that is how justice must be applied.

Rich Hoffman

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Harvard Does Not Have the Right to Federal Money: Rethinking College Completely

Harvard is making a fool of itself with its legal action, or intent, against the Trump administration for withholding federal dollars over progressive policies being taught at that institution.  Remember, he who owns the gold rules.  The beggars in need of money do not have the leverage to command policy.  They must do what is required to get the money if they want it.  They don’t get to set policy.  Those are the rules, and they will be now, and forever.  Harvard University does not have the right to federal money.  They must do what the federal government requires to obtain that money.  And that’s the end of the story.  But let’s have an honest conversation about colleges in general, as we should be cutting off federal funding to all of them.  We should not be funding the education of people with federal dollars, which goes for all public education in general.  Education has not given us an enlightened society.  Rather, they have been recruiting centers for Democrat policies that damage kids badly in the critical years of their lives, generally.  Some kids escape into adulthood if they have good family support at home.  But most have their minds destroyed for the first twenty years of their adult lives because of our education system and we are at a point where we need to ask questions like the one at Harvard, why are we spending federal money on such a waste of money, and should we continue to use the college system as a form of higher education.  Or should education be obtained in other ways?  Because the way it is now is a complete waste of money, and kids are learning all the wrong things.  Not only would I call it a worthless experience, but it’s damaging to people the way it has been set up, and we need to change it if we want to fix what’s wrong at the core of our society.

I don’t discriminate against college-educated people.  But I have found that our current education system teaches people to think in a box when learning to think out of one is most needed.  I would point to Robert Persig’s Metaphysics of Quality for a really solid philosophical and psychological analysis of our current education system from top to bottom.  To use his metaphor, we teach people to live in the caboose of life, not to be in the engine room at the front of the train of leadership.  And that’s where we need all people to be.  Trump clearly gets it, and he doesn’t care at this point in his life if people get mad at him by protestors from Harvard or any other legacy school.  The question we have before us is whether or not a college education is effective, and the evidence shows that it’s not.  And a lot of people are functioning as adults with crippled intellects because they had their intelligence robbed from them during their college experiences.  To succeed in the college environment, they have to learn to think in a structured box of information when the real problems are out of the box, and require people to solve problems there.  People who do not have college backgrounds can get into a useful state quicker than those with a lot of college.  But those critical years up to age 22 set people up for most of their lives, and mistakes made at that point in their lives usually last a lifetime.  I have seen people reform themselves by their late 40s and 50s.  But the amount of pretentious time they spend as entitled in the box thinkers, usually cripples them for life.  And it is a real problem.  Just having education funded by the government is not the question.  It’s what people teach, at the heart of Trump’s withholding federal funds from Harvard over DEI policies.  In our culture, as it should be, you pay for what you value.  You shouldn’t have to pay for it if you don’t value it.  Harvard, or any other educational institution, is not promised money for producing a bad product. 

This came up as I was at another one of those lunch meetings, with some people who would call themselves very powerful, and we were talking about this topic and people specifically and one of these people said that so and so was a Man from Purdue University, as if that said everything that needed to be said.  This person had a predisposition to hire applicants who came out of Purdue University, which I think is profoundly dumb.  But it’s what he believes as an employer.  And his comment sparked quite a debate.  I am usually polite about my thoughts, so we had a good conversation.  But to compress two hours of talk into a few sentences here, he maintained a completely irrational hiring practice of hiring people from a university system that produced bad results that he constantly complained about.  And when I suggested that maybe he should hire from the University of Cincinnati, Dayton, or Ohio State, he acted like I was asking him to put on a rival team’s jersey on NFL Sunday.  His belief system was part of the problem in why he couldn’t find good recruits to fill his job requirements.  And when I told him for his technical positions, he would do better to hire 12-year-old kids who hadn’t been taught to fail than kids who have spent the next 10 years of their lives learning to appease liberal college professors, because they would bring those same practices into the work place, which would make them useless, he thought it was the craziest idea he had ever heard and was quite animated by the suggestion.  But it was true and he knows it.

And that’s how it is for most people.  We fund education on hope and beliefs built on feelings rather than facts.  We like our favorite college sports teams, so we support the entire institution teaching Marxism to the next generation. We don’t say anything about it because we might have won some money on a March Madness bracket.  And that is part of the shell game.  We root for college sports, which entertain us.  But we ignore what they are teaching until we find our kids coming back from college as unrecognizable Democrat ground soldiers for liberal social policies that they spend the rest of their lives trying to unlearn.  And a lot of parents save up a lot of money to throw their kids away, essentially into a system that is broken and addicted to federal taxpayer money.  Trump has every right to withhold those funds, and no lawsuit can force the public to pay for its own demise, which is what that Harvard issue will come down to.  It’s the same problem for every college education system and public school.  We have to have an intelligent discussion about what education should be, and what we should do to pay for it.  Not just unthinkingly throw money at it and hope everything works out OK.  Because it hasn’t been working, and in the state it’s in now, the best thing we could do for education is to stop funding failure.  And force education institutions to compete to see what works and what doesn’t.  Because as long as they are fat, dumb, and happy off federal dollars, Harvard and the rest of them have no incentive to change.  And they need to change a lot!

Rich Hoffman

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The Fed Was Always Illegal: Getting rid of horrendous preditory banking practices

I keep hearing that the stock market lost over a trillion dollars in value on this particular day, or that the trade war with China cost them a lot of money.  For which I will tell you, the money was never real.  And remember something, he who owns the gold rules.  And we have all the gold.  China is a propped-up paper tiger, and they have been exposed.  And again, remember what they did to us.  They unleashed COVID from a lab in Wuhan.  The White House is willing to say it was an accident in an experiment they should never have done with Dr. Fauci.  But I would say that they did it on purpose during an election year to tamper with our election system, and to insert Joe Biden into the White House, because they wanted Trump out, and all this tariff talk during the first administration.  The stock market has largely been propped up with phony money from the Modern Monetary Theory movement of progressive politics, and the Federal Reserve made it all possible with unholy alliances with radical leftists like Larry Fink at BlackRock, to wash the money.  And the whole inflation game was caused by making too much money chasing too few goods.  This happens when you have an independent money manager in the Federal Reserve who thinks they get to run everything without having representatives who must answer to the public.  The only concession the Federal Reserve has made on behalf of centralized bankers is that they allowed a President to appoint a chairperson just to shut up the masses.  However, this is precisely what President Jackson warned about during his war with the banks.  You can’t have a representative republic that works correctly if you have an independent organization managing your money from the perspective of global, centralized banking.  It just doesn’t work, and never should have been applied.

Fake money by an illegal money management system

Trump appointed Jerome Powell, the current head of the Federal Reserve, during his first term, and Powell has turned out to be a disaster.  They essentially printed too much money to hide the bad Biden economy and washed it through Wall Street, making inflation in the process, then dug in because so many people have made investments in the phony profits that they dare not reveal their scam.  However, someone had to reset the clock to the real value, which is what Trump is doing.  Remember when the Dow Jones was under 18,000 before Trump’s first term, after 8 years of the socialist Obama?  They weren’t doing Trump favors with Fed policy during those years that propped up massive increases in stock values. Instead, they were trying to put the genie back in the bottle to regain control of the Executive Branch.  Because they were concerned that they tried to keep Trump out of office, but people elected him anyway, three times now.  When the Fed was created in 1913 at Jekyll Island, what happened to Trump was never supposed to occur.  What we saw was an attack on America coming from centralized banking, and they intended to run our country without ever firing a shot.  While it’s true that someone needs to manage our money supply, we should have elected representatives who do it, not some independent group of bankers who essentially control our country with monetary policy.  Jerome Powell turned out to be just as worthless as Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, all of whom have made unholy alliances with lefty radicals like Larry Fink at BlackRock since even before the 2008 housing collapse.  You cannot give a government the ability to print endless money to pay for ever-expanding government and expect everything to work out all right. 

The Federal Reserve was always a scam, and it should be removed in the form it’s in now.  We need to rethink the whole concept, so when Jerome Powell says it is illegal to remove him as head of the Fed, he’s essentially saying that the game is rigged so that no elected representative can manage them once appointed.  They are independent of civilian oversight.  And if anybody does tamper with them, they manipulate the interest rates, wreck the stock market on a whim, because they control the money that goes into it, and bring great pain to people who get in their way. If you have dealt with many bankers, most of them are pretty ruthless, horribly unethical, and power hungry.  Predatory banking is the theme of our society, just beyond the reaches of polite discourse.  If you recall Mr. Potter’s banking relationships in It’s a Wonderful Life, I would say that’s a rated G impression of the truth.  People who control monetary policy today are ruthless and generally unethical.  And they are filled with flat-out lying manipulators like Larry Fink.  He didn’t become so powerful because he was more intelligent than everyone else.  But because he was dumb enough to put himself as a middleman between centralized banking to wash money through quantitative easing and then buy up the assets of American companies through their boards to run them with woke politics.  And the Fed made it all possible.  So Trump needs to run Powell off his post.   Or, to make his life so miserable that he doesn’t want to do the job.  Most predatory bankers are nothing more than terrorists who play golf, rather than run around kidnapping innocent people and killing them like the Palestinians do with Hamas.  They are all the same.

The Fed was illegal when created, and it’s just as bad today.  And I say unlawful because it works against the Constitutional framework the Founding Fathers of America intended.  Even though monetary policy was not explicitly defined in our Constitution, it should have been.  Centralized bankers worldwide found a workaround legally, which is why the Jekyll Island meeting happened in the first place.  I’m not going to say that it was a vast conspiracy; I think the Jekyll Island participants wanted to do what they thought was right from their perspective.  But it was the wrong thing to do, and the Federal Reserve should never have been created.  It was a mistake that put our country’s fate in the hands of predatory banking.  And we had to stop the cycle at some point in time, and that is one of the reasons we elected Trump.  That’s also why these tariffs will work: they force value where value actually resides and take the power of centralized banking away from them to determine winners and losers with propped-up phony money printed to saturate markets with bad fiscal policy.  They printed money and drove up your 401K plans to shut you up while they stole your country from you.  And now we are taking it back, and they violently oppose it.  Which we would expect them to do.  But don’t think you have to appease the Fed to have a good life.  They should never have been in charge of the financial policy of free people because that freedom is an illusion.  And they are losing that ability during this Trump administration, and it’s about time.  I think our government needs to eliminate the Fed completely and rethink monetary policy.  Someone needs to manage our money supply.  However, they need to be elected and managed by the public through elections.  They are not independent of government management, so they can rule in the background to manipulate the whole thing with phony money.  We have to put an end to it all which is what we are in the process of doing presently.

Of course, I’m not writing this for a general audience, but for those who know who they are and can help with the situation.  With all this talk about Jerome Powell spending tens of millions of his own money to defend the Federal Reserve from questions coming out of the Trump administration, the key to that battle is in the complicity of the Fed and their policies on Modern Monetary Theory, which they deny, but are very guilty of.  And their relationship to BlackRock and what BlackRock has done with the money provided by the Fed through horrendous monetary policy.  They are guilty and they know it.  And they can’t defend that guilt, so they will do whatever they need to do to divert people’s attention from the real matter.  So don’t allow them to set the terms for the battle, take it away from them, and keep the focus of the discussion on what they are most guilty of.  And let them choke on it. They won’t win in court.  The Fed is guilty during 2008 of losing control of its balance sheet, by buying up bonds to fund deficits and using BlackRock to clean the money through Wall Street.  The balance sheet in 2008 was $900 billion.  By 2022, it grew to $7 trillion.  Ladies and gentlemen, that is a purposeful mismanagement of the US monetary system and criminal neglect by any definition.  And that is where the real fight is, and of course, to wash his hands of the complicity, Jerome Powell will spend millions of his own money to defend himself in court because his only hope is to go on offense and attack the attacker.  But he is as guilty as guilty gets.

Rich Hoffman

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The Secret of Hiram Abiff: Sacrifice is not the highest form of self and for over 5 million years, humans have had it wrong

People have an ancient need, most people do, to belong.  They need to feel attached to other people, which is likely the case for the last 5 million years of human evolution.  Likely, it goes back much further than that, and if we dig deep enough in the earth and the mounds of antiquity, we would discover the limits of our carbon dating method in that it can only give us results for items that don’t decay away into nothing within a few thousand years.  And that the evidence for the Vico Cycle elements of human existence has been shed off the Earth’s back many times.  The evidence of this history is physical, and it’s so disturbing to institutional knowledge that it rocks the foundations of human belief systems so it has emerged underground to those who want to think of themselves as only the wisest to see it, and that personalities like Pythagoras and Hermes were the carriers of this ancient knowledge from the mystery schools where the initiates were given this vast knowledge to be carried like bricks of a wall into the tapestry of human purpose and existence, which leads to all the conspiracy theories of Freemasonry and the happenings that go on in Masonic lodges.  I happen to know a lot of masons, master masons, and the type, and I am what many would call an expert on the occult.  That’s not something that they give you college degrees for; it’s only something you can acquire by reading vast amounts of very esoteric material.  But I am not a Mason.  I have been offered to be.  Just as saying that I’m an expert at the occult doesn’t mean that I’m sacrificing chickens to some demon god from beyond time and space.  I would argue that they are all wrong in what their application to life is and has been, and my opinions are very much alone in this regard.  So I’m willing to argue the merits, but I understand the need, and in saying that, I understand why there is so much anger and fear over the Trump presidency.

When I say that human existence has evolved over millions of years, I say that because it would have taken at least that long to develop the religion of astrology and to calculate all the math that has emerged into the mystery schools for which Egyptian society was built, and even Jewish, Greek and Roman society.  There is a lot of talk about the necessity for numbers that are hidden in the text of the Bible for instance that point back to the alignment of the planets and how long it takes to develop a thought process of observing the powers of an all knowing God through the placement of stars in the sky so that a belief system can emerge.  This is also why there is so much terror over humans traveling to Mars, because the night sky will be different there, and many of the astrology mystery schools that have emerged from what Masons believe to be Atlantean origins for all life on Earth will mean completely different things in a Mars night sky.  So these mystery schools are very timid about modern society, and they see it as a vast evil because it’s selfish and materialistic, and that the point of Freemasonry is to give up all those things and to die of the self, and be initiated into the whole, the root cause of mankind’s actual failure, the need to belong to others and to limit themselves to a collective whole.  It is in that statement that subconsciously, we see Freemasonry as evil and corrosive, while they see altruism and giving up oneself as the ultimate merit of a life well lived.  To live for others, not to ever utter that others might not be worth living for. 

Most of the heroes of these mystery schools have never outgrown the need for sacrifice and appeasement to the ultimate forces we call God in the universe.  And back to the occult worship, I study why they want to be occultists, I would never seek the help of supernatural aid to achieve something I want to do in the world, which is what all forms of sacrifice are, the sacrifice of life to a God and hoping that the god will grant some wish to the person doing the sacrifice, it’s an immature desire to appease the master parent of life that people never grow out of as children.  Children want to appease their parents, whom, when they are little, see as very strong and bigger than they are.  So too are adults and their occult gods.  The need to sacrifice to them is of the same mentality.  But slowly, humanity has outgrown that desire, and what is happening with the Trump presidency is quite an extraordinary transition.  It’s a kind of “Who is John Galt” approach to the ancient mystery schools of yielding to the forces that need to be sacrificed to, which for Freemasonry is the point of their existence, represented in the architect of King Solomon’s Temple, Hiram Abiff.  In Freemasonry, initiates learn about the murder of the Temple’s architect on the steps of rising knowledge and wisdom within the Temple by three ruffians who demanded to know the secret of the order.  But Hiram refuses, so he is killed over it, where Freemasonry sees this as a highly moral act of defiance to the materialistic forces of heathen behavior.  The ultimate secret that Hiram died for in refusing to disclose about the masonic order is that altruism is the highest form of life for which all should live and sacrifice to. 

Like the John Galt character from the famous book Atlas Shrugged, President Trump is a materialist who has dedicated himself to American capitalism and its advancement as a moral obligation.  Many Freemasons lean toward socialism, but because of the nature of their belief systems, there is a struggle.  Most of their heroes, like Pythagoras, were killed by aggressors, which points to the problem of the psychology of the belief systems at their heart.  Socrates was killed.  Jesus was killed much like Pythagoras, at the hands of the mobs and political elements of their times, so for people of those mystery school orders, those are necessary sacrifices that must be made to live a good life, and not to fear it.  Give back to people while you still can and die to the nature of the self. At the same time, Trump expresses living a good self that spills over through the power of positive thinking, encouraging others to live better for themselves for the sake of themselves.  And when an assassin’s bullet failed to land in Trump’s head, killing him, this rocked the subconscious of more than 5 million years of mystery school thinking, which has been wrong from the beginning.  So the universe is pretty upset that Trump is president.  And its acolytes, as well, are not happy that sacrifice is losing its power over human existence.  And this has been the cause of the many Vico Cycle failures of civilization throughout that duration, even the fall of Atlantis, as the Greeks told the story, ending in corruption and sorcery well before the island continent sank under the Atlantic Ocean.  Their civilization was dead long before that happened, and they took their poison with them to the far reaches of the earth to start new civilizations that we now dig up and see their ancient ruins. But in the scheme of things, they are just recent events compared to the long struggle to grapple with them.  But for the first time, sacrifice isn’t the core belief system. Instead, productivity is what has rocked the foundations of every collectivist organization that ever existed.  And they are very terrified of that emergence. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Mothman Monster: One of the most myterious places on Earth

So, what do I think the Mothman Monster is?  I believe it is Stolis from The Lesser Keys of Solomon, or one of the 26 legions of demons that he commands, likely conjured up by the occult rituals of some maniacal lunatic in the region of Point Pleasant, West Virginia during the years 1966 to 1967.  Hundreds of people saw the Mothman Monster during that year, leading up to a bridge collapse that killed a lot of people transporting themselves over to Ohio from Point Pleasant.  Of course, demons and spiritual monsters are not regional to the Near East, nor are they concerned about what time they are in, as they seem to exist outside of our dimensional limitations.  Many described the Mothman as it appeared over seven feet tall with glowing red eyes and wings that allowed it to fly and harass innocent people.  I think the case with a lot of elements of cryptozoology is that these creatures are timeless and have been captured in classic literature, the mythologies of the world, particularly Greek and Roman myths, and of course the demonology of Europe exported to the world as the Bible grew in popularity and people wanted to figure out what the heck Paul was talking about in Ephesians.  I certainly believe in the cryptids that are reported. I have been to many sites where they have been found, particularly Sasquatches, which are again chronicled in books like the Lesser Keys and evoked through occult practices.  I think someone in the Point Pleasant region called on a monster from the Stolis family tree, and the thing ran around haunting people in a truly terrifying way.  I enjoy these topics a lot, so when my family asked me how I wanted to spend my birthday, we discussed a ghost hunt at Moonville, which I have spoken of.  But my main thing was that I wanted to go to the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

I’ve been there before, and so have some of my kids at different times, but I wanted to go again and spend some time there with my family all in one place, and we had a great day.  The Mothman story is genuinely creepy; all those people weren’t conspiring to lie about what they saw, the entire town was substantially haunted, even to this day.  The latest Mothman sighting in Point Pleasant was as recent as 2016.  It also shows up in Chicago now and then.  And that’s not all.  I think this Stolis character is the same one that the people of the pyramid of Cahokia worshipped, just outside of St. Louis, at the giant mound works there.  And it’s what the Indians called the Thunderbird.  I love the topic. We spent over 1,000 dollars in the gift shop there, part of the cool museum I wanted to visit so badly.  It’s cheesy, and very pulpy, but that is because the truly terrifying aspect of this giant creature that flies around foretelling doom to people so mysteriously has to have some psychological means of dealing with the crises.  And it’s a kind of wet blanket hanging over all of eastern Ohio, even the ghost hunt at Moonville I was talking about.  We’re dealing with a very ancient civilization in that precise location with all the mounds of West Virginia and Ohio up and down the Ohio River that have a very creepy vibe to them even if you didn’t know the stories of the various monsters that appear often to many people, even now. 

Truth be told, that day at the Mothman Museum was one of the happiest days I’ve ever had in my life.  Trump was in office doing good things.  And I had my family to myself living out of our RVs and visiting places like the Mothman Museum, thinking about the kinds of things I like to think about, the politics of demons and spiritual manipulators who plot and scheme against humanity with terror and temptations.  Even better, the Mothman sightings, well documented at the museum, were accompanied by Men in Black visits, a CIA and FBI kind of conspiracy theory.  Only the reports were that these guys were never quite human who visited people at their homes after Mothman sightings to tell them they weren’t seeing what they were seeing.  There were also UFOs all over the place abducting people and doing experiments on them, so we are dealing with a lot more than just the haunting of a monster upon innocent people along the Ohio River.  But we are touching on a phenomenon that traces back to why so many mounds were built by ancient people in the region in the first place.  Those kinds of fears are always buzzing in the background of how a conscious society builds itself, and in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, there is something to these strange occurrences.  As we were there, I thought of the mound complexes up in Marietta, Ohio, and down the river at Portsmouth.  Then, up the road to Newark, where I discussed discovering the Ten Commandments in America inside a giant mound.  Then there are the graves of all the various giants found in the area, chronicled as evidence by early newspaper reports and a kind of Men in Black conspiracy to tell people that they never existed.  Something was going on, and it was fun to think about, and that was how I spent my birthday this year.  Giving myself fun things to think about that are likely significant to the human condition. 

Outside the museum, right in the middle of town, is the Mothman statue; of course, we had to get a family picture by it.  I think The Mothman Prophecy is one of the scariest books I’ve ever read about these events, written by John Keel, a reasonable journalist who didn’t intend to uncover some of the greatest mysteries of modern times.  After his experiences at Point Pleasant he went on to write several books, all of which I have read many times and I do not doubt that there is a lot more to the story of which he was reporting, that there is a political rule over humanity by creatures from beyond time and space that causes us a lot of trouble.  The story of King Solomon commanding these creatures with a ring given to him by God is just one example that has been attempted to be understood by the mind of humanity over the terrors of roaming spirits intent on evil designs.  And sometimes occultists make deals with these demons for benefits that can’t be obtained through some supernatural trade.  And most of us deal with that pressure by just ignoring the problem.  But not me, I want to know all about it. We had a great day at the Mothman Museum and spent significant time in the area thinking about Mothman Monsters and other cryptids who terrorize people worldwide.  Most of them were captured by the writers of The Lesser Keys of Solomon, which lists many similar characters.  There is a lot for us to learn about these creatures, but to say they don’t exist is only a means of avoiding the problem with rationality, because it wasn’t just the Mothman sightings in that region during a particular period, 1966-67.  But it has always been with us, especially along the length of the Ohio River, from Pittsburgh to St. Louis, in what I think is one of the most mysterious places on earth.  And the monsters still roam the night to terrorize the innocent. 

Rich Hoffman

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I Missed the Lincoln Day Dinner for a Ghost Hunt: Strange creatures from beyond time and space

I didn’t make the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Butler County GOP this year because my family and I have been traveling all over the place, particularly in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia going to paranormal sites in a research project for my new book, The Politics of Heaven, and it’s all coming along very well.  I wanted to go to the dinner and do appreciate the offers to attend with people I know.  But almost to the moment, I was on a ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids that turned out to be pretty interesting, so I’m sharing it here for more than a bit of fun.  Both of my daughters are tuned in to ghostly encounters, and one is so interested in it that she makes a living painting about it, for which she travels all over the country, appearing at conventions, selling her art.  And my wife has had contact with all kinds of paranormal activity all her life; they chase her around like hungry cats looking to be fed after a hard night outside in the rain.  She’s kind, and disembodied spirits in whatever form they exist look for her, and she never fails to attract their attention.  So for my birthday this year, as research for the new book, I thought it might be fun to go to one of the most haunted places on planet Earth, the Moonville Tunnel in Vinton County, and do a ghost hunt.  The kids would get a kick out of it, and I was curious about several things that worked exactly as I thought they would.  So we went there during the day to warm the kids up to it.  Then we went back at night.  And while we were filming, we didn’t get much.  But after I turned off all the equipment, a green orb appeared, which was more than a little strange.  Made even more that way by the very remote location that Moonville is.

The Moonville Tunnel, one of the most haunted places on Earth

I tend to approach these subjects from the point of view of disproving paranormal activity.  We had gone to several locations during the past week, but I knew that the Moonville Tunnel was a prime location since something always happened every time we went over the years.  And that was the case when we walked back to the car after a reasonably detailed investigation.  When we turned off our ghost hunting equipment, my wife felt something next to her and told my grandson about it.  He took several flash photos with an iPhone, and sure enough, he was pretty freaked out by the green orb that appeared and was headed away from us back down a hill to Raccoon Creek.  I saw the image from the screen as I looked at those spots in real time, and there was nothing we could see there physically.  And I was ensuring there was no lens flair with our flashlights causing problems on the camera lens, or that light was bouncing off some bug.  It was as black as black night with no other light sources but our flashlights for many miles.  There were no homes nearby and indeed no porch lights.  The Moonville Tunnel is as far from other people as possible in Zeleski National Forest.  These kinds of woods are so remote that they have frequent bigfoot sightings, and other things, just because of the area’s nature.  The spirit world always spooked the Indians from the region.  The place feels haunted because of its lack of other human beings.  It stays that way because there is a single-lane gravel road that provides the only access to the area for miles and miles that runs deep into the hills. 

Green orbs are supposed to indicate a healing nature of the ghostly encounter, so who knows what kind of lifeform it was trying to emerge and interact with us?  I have seen this kind of thing before, so I wasn’t surprised as much as I was a little shocked at the repeatability of it.  Almost the same thing has happened to us several times over the years we have been to Moonville.  We do a ghost hunt, thinking that nothing happened.  We might have felt uncomfortable feeling that other people were around us, but we could see nothing we could physically see.  Sometimes, shadow people appear in the corners of our eyes, but disappear when we focus hard on them.  But later, especially when using cameras with a flash, because digital cameras mess up the color palette of the visual spectrum, things appear just outside the visual range of human eyes, and the cameras pick it up.  Because of this, I avoid flying bugs and light tricks while we are filming.  Or even moisture from breathing, so they don’t taint our experiments.  I would have been happy to do that ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids for my birthday and family time.  But what showed up in our photos was pretty good, especially since I was trying not to have anything like that happen.  But sure enough, my wife could feel something next to her.  We took a picture.  And something was there and leaving, which, given that area, was more than a little spooky and made for a long walk back to the car, knowing that these things were all around us but we couldn’t see them with our physical eyes.

Needless to say, I did get good material for my book.  I explained to everyone that the spirit, whatever it was, should be looked at as a stray cat that once you pet it, it won’t go away.  If you think about the nature of spirits living in such a place, lost in time and space, having us there was an extraordinary occurrence.  We were talking to it and giving it attention, which was probably the highlight of its existence, and you can start to feel sorry for these things when viewed that way.  I don’t think ghosts like that can do any harm; likely, they are stuck and probably aren’t very smart.  What makes them interesting is that they exist, but not in a way we understand, and the need to communicate with elements outside our perceived reality cuts through the limitations.  And I was happy that something like that happened while introducing my grandchildren to ghosts and the spirit world.  They see and hear so much on television and the internet, it was good for them to have their own experience and to approach the subject logically.  It was a long way to go to come back with nothing, and like I said, I gave up a chance to go to the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Republican Party of Butler County because of it.  And I was glad that something happened that deserved a lot of talk after.  I thought overcoming the fear of such a scary place would be good for my family, and I would have been happy if nothing happened.  But it did, leaving me scratching my head even more, but in a good way.  The spirit world is real; some creatures live in it, want to interact with us, and do much more than we’d like to admit.  But that doesn’t mean they have more power because they exist in a way that hides them from our knowing eyes.  They only have the power of concealment.  They don’t have the power of superior intelligence. 

Rich Hoffman

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More Kristi Noem Please: The best torture of drug cartel members is to have to look at the Secretary of Homeland Security in those tight pants

I was surprised by Megan Kelly’s obvious girl jealousy of Kristi Noem when the Secretary of Homeland Security went to the El Salvador Terrorism Confinement Center maximum security facility and stood before the recent prisoners there, just dropped off by Noem and the Trump administration for their terrorist connection to the government of Venezuela in the form of drug cartels.  I thought it was great; one of the reasons I wanted Kristi Noem to be Trump’s VP was that she has a great sense of style.  I will never forget how proud I was of her for riding her horse onstage at the town square in Deadwood, South Dakota, during the Sturgis motorcycle rally, carrying an American flag and waving it proudly in the air.  Kristi Noem gets it, and I am glad that President Trump put her in a position to utilize her talents for the security of America.  After all the controversies over those prisoners and whether or not a district judge had the power to intrude on President Trump’s Article II powers, Kristi Noem had the guts to visit the prison personally dressed in skin tight jeans, a very tight shirt to highlight her female attributes, while wearing a $50K Rolex and forced all those shirtless, tattooed drug gang members to look at her from behind knowing they weren’t going to have any female company for a long time, and listen to her spike the football right in front of their faces.  As I like to say, that is how you make spaghetti in the kitchen.  That’s the only kind of language that these violent drug cartel members understand, and it’s about time that we start playing the game better than them.  Kristi Noem was wearing lip gloss and had her hair nicely styled, further demonstrating her excessive femininity. As a result, the world came unglued, including Megan Kelly, the former Fox host and current podcast commentator. 

Let me go on to say that with all the talk about Noem’s costly Rolex watch, there is much more to that than anybody wants to admit.  The jealousy among various members of the media society, raised on Marxism, was overtly ostentatious.  Kristi Noem is a successful person who has survived numerous hardships, and she is now in her grandmother years, looking like a pretty hot tamale.  She hasn’t let herself go like many women of her age, and to all those who have, and look like rotting potatoes left two weeks too long in the cellar, Kristi Noem has exposed the heart of the problem.  That when we talk about girl power and all this equality nonsense, the real motivation isn’t for excellence, but it’s to bring down all the pretty women in the world to the level of most everyone else who don’t look so good.  It’s a communist assumption that expresses jealousy for those who have and the mob’s ability to take it and to destroy it, or redistribute it under the flag of equality.  Where everyone is equally ugly.  Megan Kelly’s reaction was the jealous socialite who is concerned that a woman like Noem might steal her man with expressions of feminine charms, so she thought she needed to pile on to all the left leaning media attacks, because as the head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem looked like too much of a woman and not enough of an authority figure.  Sure, Noem could have worn a baggy jacket to cover her body, but she wanted to show off a bit, just as she does at rodeos and public appearances like motorcycle rallies.  She knows what America likes, and they like women with very tight jeans, tight shirts, long hair, and lip gloss.  And to rub a little salt in the wound, Kristi wore her charming Rolex watch.

Who are we trying to impress with a less-than-excellent appearance anyway?  Playing down to the crowd and trying to look more “professional,” which in this case is the same as saying, “more average” lets other people know that you are just like them, butt ugly, lazy, and broke.  But that’s not the message here.  Kristi Noem is a good-looking woman who knows she’s attractive, and she took to the streets to lead raids against dangerous drug cartels, helping to make America safe again.  Most of the prisoners she was standing in front of are dangerous people.  It sounds like there were a few mistakes mixed into that prisoner population, but so what?  What matters is that we commit Homeland Security to get rid of drug cartels who are operating as a hostile foreign insurgent within our borders and openly trying to poison Americans for conquest.  Sheriff Jones once tried to get me to do an article to show just how bad the border violence is, where these drug cartel members are in open war with border property owners and openly cut off the heads of people who stand up to them and stick them on fence posts.  And if they see a woman they like, they take her and rape her and dare anybody in law enforcement to do something about it.  And it happens every day along the border.  That’s the kind of stuff that Megan Kelly should be worried about.  Not how good Kristi Noem looks as a very hot grandmother.  When I see Kristi Noem, I think of American pride.  When I see Megan Kelly, especially after her reaction to Noem, I see a woman who appears to be jealous and insecure about her ability to keep the men in her life interested in her, which is at the heart of the criticism.

I told the Sheriff that I couldn’t use the violent pictures he showed me, because they were just too horrible.  As a media contributor, that is my editorial judgment because it crosses the line.  I don’t mind writing about it, but the visuals are horrible and more people should see them.  There are ways to do so, but the media’s responsibility is to let people know that the border violence that happens with these drug cartels is open warfare.  And it’s not just on our borders anymore, it’s in the middle of America, in just about every city in North America.  They are a purposeful invasion of our country, and we should rub it in their faces when we catch them, deport them, and put them into maximum security prisons for containment and punishment.  And yes, for a bunch of dudes stuck in a rigorous prison system, having to bunch together with a bunch of shirtless dudes and stare at the back of Kristi Noem’s tight jeans is torture in a good way.  And I’m glad Kristi Noem had the guts to do it, and the showmanship.  The Secretary of Homeland Security has written best-selling books and achieved great success in life.  What else is she going to spend her money on?  A Rolex is a symbol of success, and she should wear it proudly and audaciously.  Especially if it makes lazy people jealous and insecure people reveal who they are. Which is what Megan Kelly revealed about herself.  Women, no matter who they are, tend to be very jealous of women they think are prettier than they are, and they adopt levels of Marxism in their lives to make things “fair” for them.  So they can go to the grocery store without makeup and dress in sweatpants and a dirty old T-shirt without feeling bad about themselves, until Kristi Noem walks by in a cowboy hat, tight jeans, long cowboy boots, and a perfumed body, complete with gleaming lip gloss.  And when their men look and admire how attractive Kristi Noem is, women like that punish their men for all the things they didn’t do, and want the world to be just a little bit lazier so they don’t have to feel bad about themselves.  Nope, that’s not how we make America great again.  More people like Kristi Noem do, however, and I am very proud of her for what she has done and plans to do in the immediate future.  More Kristi Noem, please!

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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