Category: Honor

The Terror Act of Burning Down Los Angeles: Hiding an evil ahead of the Trump DOJ

We know enough at this point to say with confidence that the LA fires that have destroyed the Pacific Palisades, the Hollywood Hills, and Brentwood and are still raging is an act of terrorism just as much as the killings in New Orleans were, and the attempted Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was.  Arsonists started the fires, some of them were caught, and the policies of California made it ripe for the terror act to commence, destroying the lives of many people in the process.  The only thing we don’t yet know is why.  Some speculate that LA wants to build a “smart city,” as was the speculation behind the wildfire burning in Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui.  This looks to be a modern strategy from the radical left, especially in areas that typically have a lot of Democrat support with soft social policies toward fiscal management; they are more vulnerable to policy terrorism than other places.  And when we say policy terrorism, we are talking about the purposeful weakening of infrastructure so that it can be exploited for a more significant cause by radical terrorists.  Such as hiring too many DEI employees who are not competent enough to do the job.  Or giving away the budgets for their fire departments to Ukraine.  Or deliberately not having water reservoirs filled for use to chase some ridiculous environmental concern.  Nothing kills all the turtles and fish more than a raging fire.  So, there was a lot wrong with Lahaina, which is still a mystery.  And the same lessons appear to have been exploited in Los Angeles just a week away from President Trump re-entering the White House.  Logic would say that there is an attempt here by financial types to torpedo the Trump economy with the same zest that they unleashed COVID-19, a known bioweapon during the first Trump term, to halt the economy and force everyone into globalism.  But what we know about the LA wildfires was that they were purposefully caused by stupidity and terrorism because they caught the arsonists running around burning tossed-out Christmas Trees after the holiday season.  The fires weren’t started naturally.

So this is where things get fuzzy, and you have to fill in the gaps based on what you know, and that is why the policies of LA were so mismanaged, deliberately not to be prepared for a fire that would so quickly destroy entire cities. Indeed, nobody is as stupid as the people running LA proposed to be.  The mismanagement of fire resources and water management is astonishingly dumb.  Dumber than dumb people would perform under any conditions.  Which only contributes to the terrorist plot.  Who gets paid for these kinds of things? Who profits from the enterprise?  We have to view this through the lens of war, not through accidental environmental degradation.  The Pacific Palisades looked like a bomb was dropped on it during wartime activity; it had the same effect.  And I would offer that was the point all along.  Bomb an American city ahead of Trump’s return to the White House to derail his incoming administration with a crisis.  But I think personally it goes further than that.  And Mel Gibson, who I think a lot of personally, lost his house during these fires and wasn’t very happy about it, is digging into the truth of the matter regarding terrorism being hidden behind purposeful leftist mismanagement of resources.  So incompetence could take the blame for the property ownership change; when one party wants to acquire property but doesn’t want to fight things in court over eminent domain issues, they destroy the property, making it useless so that others can take over the financial rescue and change how the land is used. 

But I think it’s even worse than all that, and this goes back to the Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons partnership with L. Ron Hubbard. Occult worship in that town has always been a problem.  Many people, even to this day, get wrapped up in the adrenochrome cults and child pedophilia parties that are being revealed by the Puff Daddy arrest.  And what we know about Jeffery Epstein and the way they harvested undocumented children for use as sex slaves and blood sacrifice.  Mel Gibson got it and was talking about that topic on the Joe Rogan podcast as his house was burning down in the Pacific Palisades.  While these kinds of topics have been kept in conspiracy theory circles and away from the topics of polite society, nothing splashes it into common knowledge like a devastating court case with lots of evidence from people’s homes who are doing these kinds of things in much higher concentrations per population density than the people outside of these burnt out communities.  The question is, would evil people be that cruel to destroy entire neighborhoods to keep the sex trafficking and adrenochrome cults out of the news and the answer is an emphatic yes.  Of course, they would. P. Diddy is being prosecuted for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution, and many of his party friends live in just the area that was burnt down by a raging fire, ahead of a Trump DOJ that is not going to sit on the story and let Combs off the hook and toss him back into the world.  People like LeBron James and Leonardo DiCaprio are attached to Combs, and that could bring down the entire Hollywood industry that has been corrupted with this kind of occult activity, fully embracing evil since Crowley’s days.  I know much more about all this than I should; I used to be a frequent contributor to L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future efforts.  So I know the characters very well and understand why they do what they do. The occult actions in the Hollywood Hills and house parties in the Pacific Palisades are not conspiracy theories.  There are many people in the entertainment business who are far more terrified of aging than they are of the law.

They think you are too stupid to notice

One of the areas destroyed by the fires was Mulholland Drive, the subject of the great David Lynch film.  And I say great because it was a good, honest look at the kind of people who live and work in Hollywood and the kind of activity they get themselves wrapped up in.  To say they openly embrace evil is an understatement.  If you know that movie, it’s a good look behind the veil of the Hollywood glitter that many people who work in the industry understand all too well. Once you know that, you can understand why embracing the occult, even for a young 22-year-old actress who has run away to Hollywood to make it big and doesn’t care what she has to do to gain wealth and power while her looks hold up.  Never underestimate what a person in their 30s will do once they feel that youth and opportunity are leaving them.  What kind of deals with the devil will they make?  And once you understand that, you’ll understand why people were running around starting fires in key places upstream of the raging winds, creating arson conditions to destroy evidence of many massive crimes.  And to hide the destruction of evidence behind the tragedy of so many people impacted by the devastation.  Look at the effects of the destroyed city, not the crimes it was intended to hide.  And suddenly, it all makes a lot more sense under such understanding.  The Trump DOJ should look at the people who created the policies that made the act of terrorism possible.  For example, why was the water reservoir empty?  Who made that decision? From there, things will become a lot clearer.  Don’t let all this be a conspiracy theory.  Instead, make it factual testimony of a massive crime that needs evidence, which starts with the behavior of those who created the circumstances for which this vast evil occurred.

Rich Hoffman

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Jesus and the Essenes: Regression theropy, past lives, extra planets and the slaughter of rebels

Sometimes, when you read as many books as I do, you run across some real treasures, and that was certainly the case with this old book by Dolores Cannon called Jesus and the Essenes.   It was written way back in 1992 and is considered a classic in New Age explorations, but I wanted to know more about the group that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and lived in a community at Qumran on the coast of the Dead Sea and hid their work in the caves once the Romans caught on to them and invaded to kill them all off for being such a threat to society—Roman society.  It was a case of cancel culture that took place in 70 AD and ended on the mountaintop fortress of Masada just a few miles down the sea, where the Essenes fled from the attacking Romans and were forced to commit suicide there before being captured by the authorities.  The Romans were putting down a Jewish revolt, and the Essenes were a radical offshoot who rebelled against the orthodox Jewish communities of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.  They were like the Tea Party of the modern Republican Party, which evolved into MAGA.  All the institutions at the time wanted to kill them off because of the threat they were to the natural order.  I like the Essenes for obvious reasons, and I wanted to learn more, so I read Delores’ book and was rather shocked by the contents.  The book’s point was to show archaeology differently, one that I think is explained by quantum entanglement, a field of study that still has a long way to go.  But Delores presented compelling evidence that she was communicating with a guy who was a member of the Essene community who taught John the Baptist and Jesus Christ at the magnificent library they had there at Qumran, which is what I was after.  And the results were quite remarkable. 

If you strip away the noise of the modern world and all the assumptions that people try to instruct upon your conscious mind for their own political and psychological motivations, we would all find that the way that Biblical characters interacted with the spirit world wasn’t so uncommon.  And that is what my conclusion was about the contents of Dolores Cannon’s fantastic journey and who she spoke with who were in some cases, long, long dead.  What is death anyway? Is it a measure of time, from a living form to one no longer confined to a body of physical embodiment?  Dolores Cannon is a regression hypnotist who was very good at her method.  Not everyone is receptive to it, but in the case of this book, Dolores ran into a young woman in her early 20s named Katie.  And Katie was a good subject for regressive hypnosis.  She seemed to have a personality that was much older than her body, and once Dolores got into her head over multiple sessions that went on for over a year, Dolores found that at least 26 different lives were living in this young woman, so it explained a lot of things regarding Katie’s personality.  I view the human body like a car; our souls drive those cars.  But there are sometimes other souls that ride in our vehicles and can take over if we don’t pay attention to what we are doing, or we give those souls the keys to our cars, and they do drive them.  I think that is a lot of what happens during intoxication when people you know act like people you have no idea who they become while drunk.  Through quantum entanglement, there are always competing spirits looking for a chance to take over and drive your car and we should be very cautious of them.  When someone brags that they were so drunk that they don’t remember what they were doing, there is likely more to it than just memory loss.

I would also say that some of the three lettered agencies, like the CIA, have figured out the political motives of some of these malicious characters, and they can inspire them to take over certain people and get the bodies of people to do whatever it is they want to be done.  However, in the case of this young Katie, who was given a name to hide her identity from her very religious parents, Dolores uncovered a lot of past lives living actively through the young lady.  Most of them were living boring, everyday lives without much going on.  Some of the personalities were men, some were women, and they lived at different times.  But one of the personalities turned out to be very fascinating.  His name was Suddi, and he was a teacher at the Essene community. Dolores talked directly to him during live time during many parts of his life through the host, Katie.  Sometimes, he was a young boy, an up-and-coming community member, and sometimes the teacher of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.  And sometimes, he was already dead and speaking from beyond the grave.  I think Dolores presented her testimony in a way that showed a diligent scientific method.  This Suddi character could have just been some demonic spirit hanging around in quantum physics wanting to mess around with Dolores and Katie, playing games with them.  But I don’t think so because of the amount of work that was done. Instead, I think it’s another situation where science has to catch up to an observed reality.  And the information was interesting and valuable. 

For me, the biggest revelation was that Suddi described the library there at Qumran, which is a subject of significant fascination for me, and it turned out to be much more elaborate than archaeologists have so far been able to get their minds around.  It was a large two-story enterprise with a working model of the solar system, according to Suddi.  And it had ten planets in it, which Zacharia Sitchen has been saying for a long time.  This idea about extra planets in our solar system is a New Age consideration, just like the impact of astrology on the human mind and other out-of-the-box thinking about what’s expected.  But much of what Suddi described through his host, Katie, live time across thousands of years of perspective has been confirmed by archaeologists in a way that a 22-year-old girl would know nothing about.  So, I found it a fascinating testimony recorded in a remarkable book.  And I think there is a lot to learn from such a method of scientific inquiry and that it’s not such science fiction as many would like us to believe.  I think many powers on Earth have figured all this out and used it to attempt to control mass populations.  They can’t be trusted to use this emerging science destructively because only they have figured it out.  I think in her lifetime, Dolores Cannon broke some of this regression theory code and reported some interesting historical evidence that begins to open the door to quantum mechanics, especially the entanglement that can appear bizarre to our living eyes but make a lot of sense once you start looking at reality, differently.  But what a fascinating place Qumran was, and the role it seems to have played in the life of Jesus and the future of all human civilization through Christianity—no wonder the Romans wanted to kill them all off so severely.  But no matter how hard those forces work to do so, the spirit of rebellion always emerges to challenge the static order.  In modern times, it’s not the Essenes but the MAGA movement.  Only this time, I don’t think we will all be slaughtered on the mountaintop of Masada.  But the slaughter will be on the other foot, and it’s taken thousands of years to reach this point.  And continuously residing in the background are many rebels and rogues living in our cars (bodies) and influencing what happens on an eternal quest for freedom the way a soul wants it.  Not necessarily a living body.  Merry Christmas!

Rich Hoffman

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Why Trump Won: Brand building is the key to establishing and maintaining relationships

So many important lessons can be learned from the Trump election of 2024.  But, the reason Trump won has yet to be talked about much.  The assumption is that Elon Musk came in at the last minute, after the assassination attempt in July, and put many millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign as the world’s richest man.  But to assume that, you would have to believe that money wins elections and that those who raise the most money and spend it will win the election.  Of course, the media, which sells ads and makes its money off politics during elections, wants everyone to think that.  But it wasn’t true.  Kamala Harris spent on her 2024 campaign 1.5 billion dollars and ended up, at the end of it, millions of dollars in debt.  She spent more than she had, which was a lot.  Who in their right mind gave her money who had that kind of money?  I could have told them they were wasting their time.  Wait, come to think of it, I did tell them.  But they didn’t listen.  Reports say that Trump spent much less than that, hovering around the 1 billion dollar mark, which is what many think it takes to run for president these days, but I’m not even sure that is the case.  But the bottom line is that Kamala spent a lot of money and didn’t move the needle in any kind of positive direction.  So why?  That’s the most critical question.  If Trump and Kamala spent even more money, why did the money spent work more for one, not the other?  So you can’t say that Elon Musk bought Trump the election, that would not be accurate. Instead, something much more important happened, and Trump did a masterful job at it, as we would all expect. 

A person’s brand is one of the most essential attributes of their personality; it’s how people come to know you and what they think of you when you aren’t around them anymore.  In everything you do in life, you must build your brand and use it to gain cooperation from your peers.  I have a very strong brand presence on many fronts.  For instance, I was having a fancy dinner with many people with strong opinions about my brand.  We were all ordering dessert, and the people with us at this dinner were from all over the world.  So I ordered a cake with many special effects to demonstrate how extraordinary the desserts were at this dinner and encourage our guests to be a little daring.  After all, I figured my brand was so good that I could handle a little wildness.  So I ordered a special cake, which came out with dry ice spewing everywhere. A tree made of cotton candy came out on top of it.  Those combinations of things made my dinner guests laugh because of the contrasts.  They were not very “manly” things to do and seemed like something they would never expect coming from me.  But that’s also why the Trump Dance works for Trump at rallies; it contrasts his tough guy image.  That image is his brand, and it’s how people learn the nature of the values of the advocate.  Without a brand image to maintain, my ordering the cake and the reaction to it would have just been about food.  But I made it into something else to advance why we were having the dinner together in the first place, as a team-building event that people would not soon forget. 

Trump has been one of the best in the world at building and applying brands.  His family name, Trump, is recognized worldwide and establishes quality and luxury for those who see it.  Trump built the brand over a long period and, about ten years ago, decided to use it to put America on its back and to Make America Great Again.  When people saw the Trump Brand anywhere in the 80s and 90s, they think of wealth and luxury, which is a way for Trump to take The Power of Positive Thinking and apply it to wealth generation.  So when Trump decided to run for office in 2015, he just brought his brand with him and beat Hillary Clinton based on the strength of his brand, as he spent a fraction of the money most campaigns would to win such a high office.  When he disrupted the system and everyone in the world came after him, Trump used his brand to rise above the critics in a way only his extensive, positive brand would have allowed.  Like my story about the cake, if you have a strong brand, you can provoke much action that either supports or contrasts it.  For my dinner guests, expecting an uncompromising gunslinger to shoot anybody who does injustice is a sharp contrast to sitting there eating a chocolate cake with pink cotton candy all over the top.  Showing such a moment of comparison within my brand earns trust because it contrasts my customary behavior.  But without the brand, there wouldn’t be any opinions or jokes to evolve a dialogue of trust that was needed for such a moment.  On a much larger scale, Trump used his brand to carry the lofty goal of Making America Great Again into a value system people felt they could invest in.  And they did.

One of my favorite campaign items from the 2024 election is a Trump 2024 switchblade.  I obtained it under unusual conditions, and it was undoubtedly one of the best souvenirs of Trump I had ever seen during the election.  Trump’s name was on everything, from knives to hats to shirts, flags, glasses, anything and everything.  And that was because Trump had built a brand that gave value to obtaining those items.  That Trump knife would be just another knife if it didn’t have Trump 2024 written on it.  On the other hand, Kamala spent a lot more money trying to create an impression, but her brand didn’t have roots in which people could invest.  So, as she tried to make an impression on voters, she did not have a brand that people could understand and invest in.  Nobody was rushing out to buy a Harris hat or shirt.  But people were flocking to buy a Trump hat.  They couldn’t make enough of them.  And in the end, that is what ended up mattering most.  Even though Elon Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the MAGA movement and Trump himself, it was Trump who built a brand worth investing in.  Without the brand, the money was tossed to the wind like drunk gamblers in a casino late at night. The brand allows people to invest in the person who built it, for better or worse.  But once you have the brand, you can use it to sell ideas to people who have enough rooting to grab on and take action.  And the Democrats, they didn’t do any of that.  They tried to create impressions but had no substance behind their brand to sell an idea.  That caused them to toss much money at the effort only to have it wasted because there was no brand worth investing in.  So the ideas that Democrats had couldn’t be sold to a public so empty that they’d buy any impression.  When it came to Trump, people bought into a brand he had built for over 4 decades, and he put it all at risk to become president.  And as a result, the brand outlasted the attempts to destroy it.  Now, with that brand value, America can do as Trump’s brand indicates: to Make America Great Again.  When people see that term, they think of quality, wealth, and tenacity.  And the nation can rally to the cause because a brand can sell the idea and sustain the results.  Rather than just creating more false impressions that people have become long weary of.  And this will be the case for politics over the coming century.  It’s not enough to spend money. Instead, the money has to have a brand that people want to invest in and make it their own. 

Rich Hoffman

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Dealing with the Bullies of the Political Left: What happens after the election

Probably the biggest thing that everyone is concerned with after this November 5th election of President Trump is what will happen after.  Let’s face it: Democrats are the party of bullies and criminals, and to hide their intentions from the public, they resort most of the time to violence. And that is what people ultimately are afraid of.  So, they elected President Trump to return to the White House.  What happens then?  How do we deal with the radical left and the violence that is part of their interaction with the world?  Well, that just so happens to be my specialty.  As an adult now, I have the unique position of being in a lot of violent fights and coming out well in all of them.  That includes my childhood, which was unusually violent even though I grew up locally in Butler County, Ohio, and went to a good school.  I have always been uncompromising toward evil, so conflict was bound to happen.  For instance, when I was in the first grade, there was a really nasty bully that everyone was afraid of.  And he wanted to fight me right in the middle of class in front of everyone.  He was a big, scary kid who beat up everybody.  And I wasn’t very big at all at the time.  So I knew a fight with him would be tough.  So, as we started the fight, I poked him in the eye with my scissors, and it was a mess.  I got into a lot of trouble, of course.  But it was worth it because I gained something far more valuable: a reputation.  And that reputation would last the rest of my days in school, even up to the present.  When I fought with someone, the people involved often got badly hurt. 

When I was in the 6th grade, there were many fights between these, however, some of these show a pattern of behavior throughout my life; I got into a big fight with a kid much bigger than me right in the hallway in front of the principal’s office.  Most of the school was watching the fight because it was near the locker area right in front of the school in the morning while everyone was arriving.  So they formed a big circle and were watching, so I knew I had to make it good.   It wasn’t going well for the kid, so I needed to do something really dramatic to make sure I made a point. I pushed the kid through the principal’s office doors so hard that he fell into the doorway, and a few teacher assistants were residing there and being knocked away like bowling pins.  I followed it up by rushing him as he was getting up, colliding with him, which forced him backward even further and into the principal’s office where the guy was sitting at his desk.  I figured I was already in trouble, so I made it count.  I got into a lot of trouble, but again, my reputation bloomed as almost everyone in the school had witnessed or heard about it immediately.  It was worth the trouble I got into as a result.  Let me say that.  One thing you learn in these kinds of fights is that fewer people build up the courage to fight you because they know they are going to get hurt.  I was never a bully, but I had a policy not to take any crap from anybody over anything.  And that provoked people who like to give out crap, to try and make a trophy out of me, leaving many of them hurt in destructive ways and certainly damaged for life.  It’s gone forever once you lose a reputation, as with most things.

When I was a junior in high school, there was a group of bullies and a series of conflicts ensued through the winter that year with three of them, and it started over a girl.  I was always a sucker for helping girls when bullies pushed them around.  A trend that is as current as yesterday.  I still do this kind of thing a lot.  But then it was a matter of cafeteria warfare, and it got so bad that during one of these engagements, I punched a hard plastic plate that immediately cut my hand open in several places and exposed my bone and ligaments in front of the entire lunchroom.  Knowing I was severely hurt, I made the most of it and stayed calm even though my bones were sticking out of my hand.  I made a point to continue eating my food even with blood pouring out, taking my time to get to the nurse.  I had to be rushed to the hospital to have emergency plastic surgery because my hand was cut up badly.  It took a few months to heal, but the moment I could close my fist, I agreed to meet three of these guys at the Screaming Bridge, a local haunted spot in Liberty Township back then, for a fight.  And it was going to be a big one.  My friends were going to go and watch me fight these three guys who showed up to the fight location early to set booby traps they intended to push me into.  This was confirmed later in court when all this blew up into a significant headline, as the evidence of their intentions was nothing short of murderous. 

Fortunately for me, and this is why I can confirm Providence as a hidden hand that often shows up when you least expect it; I was with the police when one of those kids was shot and killed by a friend of mine after a car chase.   My reputation being what it was, I was not at the fight when it was supposed to start, and these kids I was supposed to meet told my friends that they had already thrown me down the hill into a series of booby traps they had set there, which frightened my friends because they couldn’t believe it.  So they gunned those kids down and chased them down the road, and a bullet hit one of the provocateurs, killing him.  Of course, the whole school knew I was supposed to fight those kids that night, and the story was all over the news.  So, I was the prime suspect.  But as it occurred, the police had apprehended me for another event that happened the weekend before, so they were questioning me at the exact moment on a Saturday night in late February 1985.  The point of all this is that, yes, I have a lot of experience dealing with bullies and violence.  And I enjoy these engagements.  I have had more guns pointed at me directly over the years than most police officers experience over their entire careers.  Most of the people I knew from back then didn’t make it very far into adulthood, and some had very violent deaths.  But I can say that I’ve seen enough of that behavior to know what will happen after this election. The Democrat bullies are out of gas and are beaten.  Do not be afraid of them.  They are defeated people, and their past has caught up with them.  And you don’t have to take any crap from them.  They are not scary or more powerful and can easily be beaten.  So don’t worry about what they will do after Trump wins the election.  They have only one play in the playbook and that is to bully people into submission.  But if you don’t submit, they don’t know what to do, and based on my experience, they don’t have what it takes to push people around, especially when they are losing as they are now politically.  There is only one path for them, and victory is not it.  And having the ability to bully people around, they have lost forever.  All you have to do is stand up to them.  God will take care of the rest. I’ve seen it all my life, and it happens like clockwork.  So don’t yield to the bullies from the radical left.  Stand up to them and expose them in ways they are unprepared to fight because they can’t.  Be like Joshua when he led the Israelites into Canaan.  God will take care of you if you fight in his name and do what’s right even when it seems scary and unwinnable. 

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Price of Power’: Mitch McConnell was always a loser and thankfully he is leaving the Senate, finally

Mitch McConnell has announced that he will leave the Senate in November 2024.  He has worked against President Trump all this time and, as revealed in his new book The Price of Power, what he thought of the MAGA movement in general.  As I read all this news, I saw a campaign ad for a local issue that Republican Sherrif Jones is involved in with Democrat Kathy Wyenandt over Issue 12 because they think it looks cute to show bipartisan support for an issue for the greater good, and this is the kind of politics ultimately that Mitch McConnell was involved in during his long term in the Senate.  There is a fine line between cooperative partnerships with people who are not politically like you and being a grotesque sell-out.  When McConnell said in his new book that MAGA was entirely wrong for the Republican party, he has a different view of what that party is, and he is leaving before he has to deal with Trump as president once again.  Mitch McConnell, like many politicians who get into that business for a long time, is not driven by ideological purity but rather as part of their business.  And when money gets involved, intellectual parameters fly out the window.  In the case of McConnell, a large part of his income has been wrapped around the family shipping business with China, so globalism is a very attractive business climate.  He might speak Kentucky and talk to voters on meat and potato issues.  But politics is their career, so they don’t have levity for big and personal ideas.  So they become just another corrupt politician nobody trusts and turn the office they hold into part of the problem.   Not a solution. 

Many people have wanted a change from this system where they truly get a representative government.  I am certainly one of those people and have a long history of voting for people who are more ideological than practical.  And often, it takes money to have independence, such as Ross Perot always was, and President Trump is now.  When you don’t have to make a living off politics, you can afford to be more of a representative than someone who has to cultivate a culture toward voters that benefits your income.  Again, locally, there are hoards of scandalous characters who work in the legal profession and are only into politics to get legal work done for politicians who need such alliances.  So it’s understandable that a long-term senator like Mitch McConnell would be jealous of someone like President Trump who is in politics for completely different reasons.  Trump wants to make things better, whereas McConnell wants to align politics with his need to be in business, the Chinese shipping business that his father-in-law is involved in.  When you look around at the kind of senators and even house members who make a large part of their income from government, it’s no wonder we have such a mess.  The amount of insider trading that enriches these people is bewildering.  But that has changed because people are sick of it, and Mitch McConnell has long worn out his welcome.  For the last decade, more and more politicians have been getting into the business for the right reasons rather than just being another leech of government enterprise.  The Senate will be unrecognizable to Mitch McConnell after this next election.  With new senators like Kerri Lake and Bernie Moreno, the old guard is finding an unwelcome home there, and it’s just a matter of time before they are all pushed out. 

Of course, in his new book, McConnell called Trump a sleazeball and said he was stupid and that he’s a narcissist.  People who don’t like other people always say things like that.  Enemies called me all those things before most people had breakfast today.  But why do people hate others, and how much is it our task to be liked?  From the local issue I discussed between Sherrif Jones and Kathy Wyenandt, I can say they measure political capital based on how many people like them.  And people often only like other people if there is something that one can do for the other, such as making them rich.  And so it is all too tempting to use the power of government to make people like you so that you can use that same power to make other people rich.  So this game of who likes who and for what reasons becomes the gateway to corruption.  But Mitch has often thought of himself as a master of that game and that he defined the rules of how the game was played.  Then, along comes Trump, who has a whole different perspective.  He doesn’t care if people like him, and he’s already wealthy, so he doesn’t need government power to make him that way.  So, what can you do to control such a person?  Control is why people like Mitch McConnell are in politics; if you can control the world’s economic conditions through the power of government, then you can make people like you and want to do what you say for your approval because there is ultimately money in it for them.

Mitch McConnell can never be forgiven for endorsing election fraud in 2020 when he had the power to stop it.  But he didn’t because he wanted Trump to fail, so they all conspired to make Trump look bad because they wanted him out of office.  It happens all the time.  Again, speaking personally, it happens to me way too often, usually before anybody has breakfast in the morning.  You can never let other people define who or what you are.  People’s opinions are a cutthroat endeavor, and when they are involved, people like Mitch McConnell will seek to take advantage of things for their benefit.  But they do hate people like Trump, who are independent and able to function from ideology.  And that lack of control over people like Trump is what people like Mitch McConnell hate most.  So when McConnell says that the MAGA movement is wrong for the Republican party, what he means, its bad in the way that people like him measures value.  Not as a representative of the people but a mechanism for gaining wealth from the marketplace with government power.  When a crime was committed with massive election fraud in 2020, Mitch was happy to turn his head away and allow it to continue.  Because he personally hated Trump.  He did not love the Republic for which our government stands.  He worked against it, to subvert it from threats that people like President Trump represent by their very nature.  And now, with MAGA, there have been people like J.D. Vance and Bernie Moreno, along with others who are changing what success means in the Senate.  People like Sherrod Brown are being removed from office, and new MAGA patriots are moving in.  So Mitch McConnell wrote a tell-all book that was timed to be one last hit as a Never Trumper against Trump before he left office and is disappearing without a whimper.  Nobody cares because nobody ever really liked Mitch McConnell.  They only wanted what he could do for them, using the power of government to sell to those throwing money around.  He also made a disgrace of the Senate, which voters have been changing over the last several decades.  And now that Trump is back, Mitch is leaving because the game is up.  And the only path of survival for him is to jump off the boat before it sinks forever. 

Rich Hoffman

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‘Melania’: A book review, the power behind the President

I said I couldn’t wait to read Melania Trump’s new book, so when it came out during the first week of October 2024, I read it just for pleasure.  Then, I reread it a few more times for the perspective it was trying to communicate because I think of it as something quite extraordinary.  Not just because it is the hottest-selling book in the world right now but also because it was a well-placed October surprise of its own from the Trump campaign, a brilliant strategy to soften Trump’s image to women and independents.  Without question, the purpose of the book Melania was to be a campaign platform from her perspective to say to the world, “Vote for Donald Trump; if things get a little too crazy, he listens to me.  And you can trust me.”  I believe he does listen to her more than anybody has been led to believe.  I’ve had a chance to meet Melania a few times and have wondered about her marriage to President Trump.  Melania is the same age as my wife, so I understand her background.  My wife was also a model, so I knew what that work was like.  Melania took the business to a new level in high society by modeling in Paris and New York, which put her in contact with one of the world’s most successful people, Donald Trump.  But Trump was the age of my wife’s parents, so it would be weird to have the in-laws over for dinner but to have them be the same age as the husband.  So I, along with everyone else, wondered what there could be for a woman like Melania to have a husband like Trump, given the age difference.  And I’d say that this book, Melania, answered all those questions quite well.  And it said a lot more.  However, she is very optimistic about why she married President Trump when she could have had access to just about any man on earth. What attracted her to Trump is that he is one of the best examples of the power of positive thinking in the world.  And as a couple, that is what brought them together.

When he met Melania, Trump collected beautiful women like baseball cards and lived his best life as a New York high society playboy.  However, at that time, Trump was going through a maturing phase.  That playboy life is good for telling your enemies what a magnificent person you are with beautiful women on your arm to convey the sentiment, but it doesn’t make a very good life partner.  In Melania, Trump saw in her a beautiful woman who was very smart and optimistic and who he could partner with.  She made him better, which is quite evident in the book, as what Melania got out of the relationship is a path to inner peace, as she is very private.  Trump also got someone who was very positive, had never been crushed in life before, and who he could bounce off of in positive ways.  She was not a drag on his active lifestyle but enhanced it.  And that relationship carried over into the White House in very positive ways.  President Trump’s White House was very classy, and because of Melania, she maintained an administration that allowed him to be everywhere all the time and still have a White House that broadcast excellence to all who visited and certainly raised the level of expectation as to what it meant to America. 

Here’s a poll for you. They can’t keep Melania’s book in stock at Target. But they can’t give away Kamala’s or Hillary’s. I took this picture the day of this article and watched this shelf all week. Melania’s has refilled several times. None of the other books moved.

Melania is an immigrant who is very proud to become an American citizen and achieve what she has in life.  What’s unique about a couple like Trump and Melania is that older relationships usually don’t center on the value of being bedmates but on actually helping each other achieve common goals.  Marriage has been so trashed by the vile elements of our present society that very few people in the modern media can relate to what a healthy relationship even looks like.  So they assumed Melania slept her way to the top because she was beautiful.  But that was not the case.  Melania Trump is not just another pretty face.  She’s very classy, sophisticated, independent (fiercely), and she’s brilliant.  And again, knowing she’s the same age as my wife, and I see it in her eyes, Melania is still a rebel fashion model from Slovenia who has always nurtured a spark of defiance that she never put away.  She has raised her son Barron and is now an empty nester with a husband who has been harassed and nearly killed many times now. After the FBI raided her home and invaded her privacy, she decided to be more of an active part of the campaign.  And with a fashion sense for the extraordinary, she waited until now to pitch herself for the White House, to finish what she started in her own right.  The book Melania is a job application, taking readers through her many experiences and asking voters to give her a chance to do much more in a second term, which she wants to do.  Trump isn’t dragging her along.  Melania Trump likes helping people, and now, with a grown son, she is ready to be a mother to America and bring health to a country that could use pure love and care. 

This book was distinctly different as I read Melania, which is put together like many books from former first ladies I have read over the years.  Because Melania is such a unique person, it was interesting to get her report of some of the world’s most extraordinary events, especially in the final year of their first term, from the perspective of the White House, the year of Covid and election fraud where Melania showed that rebel side of herself more than a few times.  By the time you add the assassination attempts against her husband, the lawfare, the impeachments, the January 6th incident, and her first-hand report on most of the influential people around the world, you come away from this book with a real sense of something extraordinary going on in the world.  And Melania Trump, through her good looks and grace, has been able to elevate the human race in ways never before.  It all points back to the power of positive thinking, as represented by Melania Trump’s Be Best initiative.  Melania wants to help the world be better and looks forward to President Trump’s second term in the White House.  She isn’t being drugged into it, but I would say that if not for Melania, President Trump would still be Donald Trump, the entertainment mogul and splashy media personality.  He’d be successful.  But he wouldn’t have ever been president.  Nor would he be trying to do it again.  Melania Trump is the secret sauce in the background with very high standards.  She wants those high standards returned to the United States because she genuinely loves America as an immigrant.  And she wants to bring that love to many people for all the right reasons. Her book, Melania, is an extraordinary collection of thoughts and a strategic necessity for the Trump campaign in the final weeks of a long election journey.  And I can’t recommend it enough. 

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Government Losers are Holding Up Starship 5: The trillions and trillions of dollars of lost opportunity that the Biden administration is costing American industry

For context, Starship 5 has not launched yet. This is the mission from SpaceX that will prove the landing of the booster rocket, Super Heavy with the Chopsticks in Texas upon reentry. The FAA has stalled the application for launch due to some ridiculous concerns over the water fire suppression system impacting the environment.  This is not unique to SpaceX and likely has more to do with why Elon Musk has become in 2024 a very fervent supporter of President Trump because he knows what a bunch of nonsense all this environmental talk is.  A year ago, he was a left-of-center World Economic Forum type who was the poster boy for “saving the earth.”  But trying to perform this Starship program, to which he has dedicated his life in partnership with the government, has proven to be a ridiculous proposal.  I can say with great authority that this is not unique to SpaceX.  But because they are such a great company, and they have done such a great job of engineering, this Starship 5 launch has exposed the government radicalism in ways that even bleeding heart liberals are now questioning.  And it’s why we are on the precipice of doing something very unique: for Trump to put Elon Musk on the efficiency board to make the government work better by cutting away all that fat that is getting in the way.  Starship 5 has been ready at StarBase in Boca Chica, Texas, for over three weeks and was set to launch at the start of September 2024.  All the mechanical issues are fixed; all that everyone is waiting on are a bunch of useless government pinheads from a Biden-led government that is upset that Elon Musk no longer supports the Democrats.  So, they are delaying the application process for purely political reasons by using the government’s power to impose political compliance on people at the expense of integrity. 

Yes!

Many people in government and behind the greenie weenie movement are not participating in environmentalism from a rational, scientific perspective.  Many were running around like drug-induced losers with their clothes off, acting like rabid animals at Woodstock just a month after man landed on the moon.  These people do not want humanity to go to space or to advance beyond their control.  They want as a government bureaucrat to preserve their useless jobs with fat pensions paid for by the taxpayer and to retire at age 55 and buy a condo in Florida so they can socialize with similar losers with a latte in the morning and a stiff mixed drink in the evening talking about nothing at a bar going nowhere.  They do not want people like Elon Musk changing their lives with all this going to space stuff.  They want a lovely, comfortable death after a long retirement to satisfy their lazy souls.  Because they are so lazy and worthless, they get jobs in government so they can have power over people like Elon Musk and others trying to do big things in the world.  We saw this conflict with the Woodstock music festival and its media coverage once Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins returned from the moon’s surface.  We could look at almost every industry and show this process of eroding innovation when it is asked why Boeing is struggling with its space program, as everyone is; it’s because of this essential desire of government types to expand government into this environmental religion and impose on the world its limits that have nothing to do with science, but the preservation of laziness by the bottom dwellers of the global economy. 

Most companies in the United States have overloaded their staffing with these compliance terrorists who serve no purpose at all but to stall out economic development, and President Trump has identified that he will be targeting this very aspect during his next term.  I think it is fair to say that this scam of government costs America trillions of dollars in opportunity costs each year and is bankrupting many companies, as we speak, from dried-up revenue waiting on the approval of application processes, which is what SpaceX is currently experiencing.  For years, there was a kind of polite cooperation between these two forces: those who wanted to go into space and invent and those who wanted a government job so they could take off their clothes like a bunch of animals and wallow in the mud like a pig, like what we saw with the Woodstock festival, and thousands like it since then.  The excuse of using unscientific environmentalism as a bureaucratic stoppage of work to control the pace of that work has been purposefully crippling and is one of the greatest dangers to our modern economy.   And I think putting Elon Musk in charge of dismantling that massive government machine would be the best thing that could be done, once and for all, in American business.  The rate of invention is critical to the survivability of the human race.  But of course, there are a lot of bottom feeders in government who could care less and are digging their graves happily, day after day, toward that latte sipped in early retirement.  I think the entire federal government needs to be cut down by 80%, just as Musk did with Twitter when he turned it into X, which works much better after he took over.  And that is one of the fears with Trump returning to the White House and putting people like Musk in charge of government efficiency.  Most of them will find they are out of jobs, which is terrifying.  But it’s what we have to do.

Speaking from personal experience, getting patents from the patent office is not like it was back in Edison’s day when he was getting them approved every week for most of his life.  Most people at the patent office work banker hours and are highly inefficient throughout the day.  The process takes way too long, and it forces you to deal with losers who are terrified of the natural world and seek refuge behind a government job with all the excessive benefits.  As a company, you can hire the best people to do all the right things for new inventions, but eventually, because you have to deal with the government, you’ll have to deal with some slug along the way that is slow and cumbersome and to get through them, you’ll have to throw millions of dollars of inefficiency at them to get through their opposition to your project.  And that is essentially all SpaceX is experiencing: a complete shutdown of their Starship launch ability because of political activism and a strategy imposed on the human race that essentially goes back to the Woodstock response to the landing on the moon.  They let Elon Musk play at launching Starships into space, but after that fourth launch, SpaceX achieved most of its technical milestones, which meant that the human race was close to leaving Earth forever and colonizing the solar system.  That would put human beings out of the reach of the government, which would terrify them.  How can governments live off taxpayers if they can get into a Starship and fly off to Mars?  Who is going to fund their early retirement then?  But that’s what we are dealing with, and with the election of Trump, we can expect dramatic changes in this crazy environmental application process in many industries.  And it can’t happen fast enough at this point.  It has already cost us trillions of dollars in lost opportunity costs.  And suppose we don’t dismantle this government machine. In that case, it will bankrupt us all with trillions of dollars more shortly and keep humanity chained to a jealous Mother Earth like a bunch of slack-jawed losers, lacking enough ambition to get up out of bed in the morning and do anything bold than stuffing our faces with useless food to fuel a worthless life.

Rich Hoffman

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Why Thomas Hall is so Great: If only everyone was so lucky

Fight, fight, fight was the theme of the evening at the GOP tent at the VOA Country Music Festival, where several officeholders and some running for the first time gathered together ahead of the upcoming elections.  It was an excellent time to catch up with everyone. I could speak to many people in a way that I hadn’t done for a long time, which was good.  But what do we mean by fighting and winning in politics?  When I think of such a thing, I think of the young man Thomas Hall, who is the Ohio Representative in my district and is running to hold the seat he currently has.  But he wasn’t always in my district; he used to have the Middletown area, but now, in District 46, he represents Liberty Township and the surrounding areas, which I’m thrilled with.  I’ve seen Thomas Hall in the pressure cooker for a while now, and I supposed he’s not as much of a young man as when he first started in politics.  But I think a lot of him, and for good reason.  I have been meaning, and we didn’t quite get there during this event, to talk to him about his recent trip to Israel, which I am very interested in.  But behind the politics, Thomas Hall is just a good person, one of those cases where he’s better than the package you see.  He’s just a promising young man who has survived the fires of Hell and come out on top, and he looks poised to stay there.  This is a good thing for anybody he represents in the Ohio Statehouse.  He takes his job very seriously, and it shows.  I’ve seen him in Columbus work a room, and if he didn’t have a great foundation to work with, it would be easy to be swept away by lobbyists and other scandalous characters.  But with Thomas, you get the feeling with him that he’s always savvy and under control.  And that any malicious intent that comes his way can easily be handled. 

I’ve met his parents several times at some of these events, but we had more time to talk in August of 2024 than we have in the past.  In some of those previous times, things looked so dire that nobody was sure what would happen next.  Politics, as I have said, is a blood sport; things can and do get pretty wild.  Many people who came to the Country Music Festival at the VOA needed to talk to each other.  It’s been a tough four years since Trump left office, and people have lost focus in some respects.  It’s tough when you are trying to grow the tent of the party to accommodate more people, but those people don’t have the same foundations and strength; when the pressure of politics emerges and moral necessities come into play, it’s easy to drift into decay.  And as a political party, Southern Ohio Republicans needed to break some bread together.  A lot of people get into politics for different reasons, and it’s up to each person to find some reason to have common ground with others for the sake of party politics.  Authenticity can often get abused in such cases, but that was never the case with Thomas Hall, and in some of those times, I referred to his parents as good people who made a good kid.  Thomas’ dad was a former police officer, now a firefighter chief.  His mom is a wonderful enthusiast of the men in her life, her husband and son, and when I see them all together, it’s usually a big family affair.  Thomas has, of course, a love interest who I see around town a lot, and she is always supportive and doing the extra work it takes to run successful campaigns.  When you speak with them, you can tell that they all have good foundations that give them firm ground to stand on no matter what is happening in the world. 

So Thomas always tells me he’s grateful to me for getting through some of these tough times of turmoil where rough campaigns got very heated.  My help pushed him over the top and put him in office so he could do the excellent work he is doing presently and, I hope, well into the future.  And I tell him that he’s the one who did all the hard work, and indeed, there are very few people who work as hard at politics as Thomas Hall.  He gets out and knocks on doors and is very tenacious.  And I’ve seen him working directly with Governor DeWine on legislation that was difficult to make happen, so the elbow-twisting part of politics takes a hard worker, and he has deserved all the success he has had and more.  He doesn’t have to throw appreciation my way.  What I have done for him, I do for many people. He’s referring to a lot that goes on behind the scenes, but I’m happy to do it because I like seeing good people get a chance to do good things in the world.  Like a gardener who pulls up the weeds of a garden to protect the good plants, you are trying to grow while preventing the parasites from destroying everything.  I do what I do because I like seeing the good stuff grow.  And Thomas Hall has grown into a lot of good things. 

So when his parents thanked me for all I have done for their son, I had to tell them what I thought of them, which shows up in Thomas, and I think about it a lot.  They were good parents to him.  Thomas Hall has a great foundation that other people in the world don’t have because they, as parents, gave him a great place to start.  If things get too hot, at least Thomas has a nice family that cares for him.  And it shows.  So, while they intended to thank me, which they did, I would give the credit to all of them.  Thomas is a sincerely good person who is not wasting his talent.  But to his parents for raising a good kid who has grown into a good man, a lot of people would love to be so lucky.  The sense of service that Thomas has picked up from his dad is being applied to Ohio positively.  I’m happy to defend and support anybody like that, and there are others.  Perhaps not as good as Thomas, but in my experience with these kinds of things, a lot of similar personality traits emerge in these kinds of people who get involved in politics and want to represent people in government.  Not everyone has the advantage of a good family on which they can rely.  But Thomas Hall does, and as I told his parents, if anybody should be thanking anybody, the world should be thanking them for producing such a nice young and honest man in the world.  I am personally very proud of Thomas Hall.  But I’m also very proud of his parents.  I wish there were more people in the world like them.  And maybe in the future, there will be.  There is hope in the world that people will follow their example and do better for themselves and others.  Usually, when you meet people who are as well put together as Thomas Hall, good parents at the foundation make it all possible.

Rich Hoffman

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