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Vote Yes for Issue 1 in Ohio: Something that has finally brought people together in politics

If you are not a dope-smoking, baby-killing, overly sexed loser Democrat, you need to go out on August 8th and vote in Ohio in favor of Issue 1. Say yes to making it more difficult to amend the very great Ohio Constitution. Currently, it only takes a 50% vote from the legislature to amend the Constitution, and radical Democrats are targeting that threshold to impose many liberal amendments to erode away the value of our state in the years to come. Issue 1 makes it harder to amend the Constitution; it will take that threshold from 50% as it is now to 60%, which would quell tempers and prevent radicalism by essentially forcing a supermajority to change anything, which would then be much more reflective of the state, politically. So why now? Why August? Well, it’s been revealed that radical progressives, especially the Soros types of money activism, are headed for Ohio for the November election, and they are looking for some easy victories because Ohio has such a low threshold and that it’s a hard red state now entirely in Trump’s corner, and they want to chip away at that. Ohio is a very conservative state; the radical left needs headlines and is coming for upcoming elections. So that made Issue 1 much more of a priority than it might have been in other years. And it is undoubtedly needed going forward. Some hard years are coming, and the Ohio Constitution needs protecting. There have been amendments in past years, but they flew under the radar because Democrats weren’t thinking too much about that kind of activism, so until recently, there wasn’t as much of a concern. But the buzz is out, and radical progressive Democrats are frustrated and turning their attention to Ohio. And they must be stopped.

But why now, you might ask. Since the Trump time in the White House and the strengthening of the Supreme Court, the radical left has seen a number of reversals at the high court that they assumed would be off limits forever, such as Roe v. Wade. And most of the cases, not just the abortion cases, but marijuana laws and other progressive intrusions meant to either kill members of society or destroy their minds so they’ll be dumb enough to vote for Democrats, have been sent back to the states from the federal courts, the way they always should have been. That is, after all, what the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights asserts. Democrats, for most of their existence, have assumed that federal powers were ultimate powers, and if they could erode away the Federal Constitution with judicial activism, then they wouldn’t have to worry about state’s rights because federalism would overrule the states. As if the Executive Branch was a king who could rule by mandate. I don’t know that they didn’t understand the way the rules are in America, but it’s obvious they thought they could change them by threatening to kill or harm Supreme Court members in their homes so that they’d rule in their favor and create case law that would give the federal government more power than it really had. But years of this activism have stacked up, and now we have a Supreme Court, because of Trump, that is willing to give that power back to the states where it always belonged. That’s how we have found ourselves in this present situation in Ohio and why Issue 1 is suddenly needed. This level of judicial activism was always in the background, but nobody really wanted to admit to it, and Democrats wanted to focus their efforts on one state instead of attacking 50 states to create progressive policy. 

Now that the Supreme Court has established a clear precedent toward state’s rights, there is no turning back. And the Biden White House has overplayed its hand several times with Executive Orders trying to bypass the legislature only to be overturned in the courts, the desperation of progressives everywhere, and their money men are attacking states, and Ohio is a big target. If they could strike in Ohio, they could hurt the GOP on a national level, so suddenly, we are getting a lot of attention on the progressive battle map. They certainly want to put abortion in the Ohio Constitution, and they have legislation ready to go on legalizing marijuana. But it only gets worse from there, and if they can desecrate Ohio, a clear Trump state before he gets back in office, they will have achieved a victory that they haven’t been able to get at the federal level, and they are hoping that they’ll catch everyone asleep to pull it off. The best measure to protect ourselves from this kind of activism is to increase the minimum threshold for amendment changes to 60%. Democrats might get their numbers in surge elections, but maintaining that over 50% will be very hard, especially in Ohio. What Issue 1 will do will protect Ohio from short-term activism and protect the long-term interests of true voter representation.

I was proud to learn that many Republicans from my area of Butler County have shown support for Issue 1, and they gathered at the Butler County Board of Elections to make their opinions known. It takes guts for Don Dixon, TC Rogers, Nancy Nix, Mike McNamara, Dan Crank, Mary Swain, Rodney Creech, Sara Carruthers, Thomas Hall, Jennifer Gross, George Lang, Gary Cates, Debbie Lang, Mark Welch, Steve Schramm, Todd Minniear, Tom Farrell, Lisa Mannix, and Greg Wilkins to get behind Issue 1. Even Sheriff Jones and Bruce Jones showed up, which is pretty amazing. It’s hard to get that many people to agree on anything, so for them to put their names next to this issue says a lot about its importance. If you don’t protect the Constitution, then you don’t have any way to protect the values of society, and those are certainly under attack by the radical left. So, it shouldn’t be a hard decision. But that’s how important this topic is. August elections are low voter turnout results every time they are done. So, if you want to protect Ohio from George Soros money, make sure not to stay home that night, August 8th. I might say we should do as Democrats do: vote early and vote often, but Republicans tend to play fair. So that is always a disadvantage. That means every vote will matter, and there isn’t room to sit this one out. Take a friend, vote YES on Issue 1, and raise that threshold for amendment changes to Ohio’s Constitution. Because if there isn’t an increase in the threshold, then every progressive group in the world is going to target Ohio for progressive legislation that people won’t like. And the time to stop it would have long passed. But we aren’t there yet; a simple election can stop their plans. However, it will require people to go vote when there are lots of other “summer things” to do. But if you are a progressive diabolical menace to society who wants to kill babies, smoke pot all day, and live off the government like some pathetic leech, stay home on August 8th and watch something dumb on Netflix. The world will be a lot better off without you.

Rich Hoffman

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It’s More Like the Great Mistake, Rather than the Great Reset: My Review of Glenn Beck’s new book ‘Dark Future’

Of course, Glenn Beck’s new book Dark Future is great. Most of Beck’s books have been over the years as they speak to people about scary things that are going on in politics, and he has been kind of a Paul Revere consistently over a long period of time, and the previous book in this series, The Great Reset, did an excellent job of alarming people to the dangers of ESG. Before that book came out, few people understood what ESG was, Modern Monetary Theory, or even who Klaus Schwab was from the world economic forum. Dark Future continues the dive into the efforts of the World Economic Forum and swims deeper into The Great Narrative, which explores the liberal radicalism behind advisors to the World Economic Forum, such as Yuval Harari. The book came out on Tuesday, July 11th, and I grabbed a copy and read it over the next two nights. It was a fast and easy read; it’s a bigger book than The Great Reset, as there is even more to say a few years into the greatest attack against mankind that has ever been attempted by a malicious group, which was The Great Reset launched behind Covid, which should be viewed as a military attack against our country more than anything else. But there was a central theme that kept coming up to me as I was reading that is paralyzing a lot of other people when it comes to discussing the weakness of the World Economic Forum’s position. And as a result, it felt like Beck’s new book was about six months too old because much more has been revealed that’s happening in the world since before he first started writing.

The Great Mistake is more like it, the problem behind everything they have been doing with The Great Reset.  They believe in technology too much and hope it will do more than possible.  Technology is the new god of Yuval Harari, Klaus Schwab, and the attackers from the World Economic Forum like Bill Gates.  Yes, the scary stuff talked about in Dark Future are all things that they truly want to do.  But their big mistake is that they did not understand the nature of work, just as Karl Marx, their mentor, never had figured it out.  They confused monitoring work, which is what computers largely do, to performing work.   That was the big problem during Covid with all the dumb work-from-home policies.  The members of The Administrative State, who serve the Deep State, assumed that people sitting at computers all day meant that work was happening.  And that they could easily control that work as the central means of controlling production if they could only get everyone onto Microsoft Teams to perform their meetings from their homes.  Pants weren’t required in those meetings, and the effort turned out to be a diabolical disaster, just as most things coming from the World Economic Forum will prove to be over the coming years because as geeks, losers, and social misfits themselves who attempt to hide their social awkwardness from the public through monied assets, their lack of understanding about human nature has been their downfall.  Just as Karl Marx wanted to control the means of production through a centralized authority, that is the fantasy of the World Economic Forum aggressors in using technology they control to take over the means of production.  It is a big Marxist plot that was doomed from the beginning because they didn’t understand the nature of what work was.    

Work is still about making things, where hands onto creation is still the important ingredient.  And this hope by the Desecrators of Davos, as I call them, the people who want to be “elites” in our culture through some long-dead aristocratic order, is that through Modern Monetary Theory, the printing of fake money to represent a fake value which can then buy up everyone’s property, all their efforts, and all their labor was somehow going to fill the void created by the real need of economic value.  Such as the small vendor who labors at a craft that other people want, so they make the goods with their hands and sell them at a market somewhere, and people buy it because they like it.  This kind of social behavior is a mystery to the geeks at the World Economic Forum because they always misplaced the value of work in technology rather than understanding that technology would only ever serve the human imagination for expanded economies to make more things that humans want to consume.  That is the market value and the real key to economic input.  Work is produced to sustain human needs as created by humans for human purposes.  A.I. might help support those needs or expand a 19 trillion-dollar economy made with only 300 million people into a higher value.  But to replace that value with technology and force all people into the background while the new gods of A.I. rule the world is a fantasy missing a few screws. 

I’ve watched all the Davos events over the years and listened carefully to all the interviews they’ve provided over a long time.  And the constant theme from them is one that I have seen professionally at all levels of society.  They have been suckered by the promises of technology that it might cover up the skills in life that they don’t have, the ability to understand human beings and the work that is generated by their existence.  Because they are psychologically awkward in public and lack many of the social traits that might make them appear to the human race as “human,” they have built this false assumption around a philosophy of hatred of the human race and sold it as a fact.  When really, it comes down to that girl who turned them down for a dance in the 8th grade, and now they want to rule the world to punish her and those like her.  Now that they are rich and famous, they can get anybody they want, so their trust in technology is along those lines.  That is certainly the case with people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.  These aren’t ordinary people happy and healthy; they are deranged lunatics who have been given a lot of money for the software applications that might make other socially awkward people, like Klaus Schwab, more powerful than they otherwise are if only the world were run by Terminators from the famous film franchise by Jim Cameron.  A lot of this weakness by the World Economic Forum has been exposed over the last several months as more people are waking up to what really happened with Covid and who was behind it.  There is a populist movement of anger and revenge brewing in America over these characters that haven’t yet found their way into Glenn Beck’s books.  I think even a year from now, Dark Future will continue to wake people up to these things.  There is a lot of danger out there, but the characters committing it are much more exposed than I think Glenn Beck thought they would be before publishing this new book.  Things are moving rapidly, and the World Economic Forum’s assumptions about technology have shown just how flimsy their plans have always been.  And the exposure rate is something they will not survive, which is a great thing.  But there is still a long way to go, and books like Dark Future will undoubtedly show people where we are going and why we need to get there.  But this story will not end the way the World Economic Forum thought it would.  It won’t be good for them.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Does The CIA Use Mind Control: How our thoughts work and for what purpose

Don’t you ever wonder where your thoughts come from, those random little ideas that pop into your head like, “Why don’t you jump” while standing next to a high space? Or “Why don’t you just punch that guy in the face.” How are such thoughts produced, and where do they come from? Are they from demons who reside in the background and jump from body to body, depending on their flavor of the moment? Or are those thoughts of some deep subconscious production? Or even yet, are they productions of the CIA who have found a way to implant thoughts into a mind much the way a radio receives information from a radio wave? We tend to think of our minds as off limits to the outside world, as our ultimate safe place. Nobody can read our thoughts; if we want to shut out the world, our minds are our last refuse. Nobody has a right to our thoughts, so we have built up a false sense of security over time regarding our minds, what they can do, and how secure they are. But the CIA has displayed an over-interest in mind control in the distant past, during the 1960s, and we should not just assume they weren’t successful. Instead, I think their lack of publication of results says that they were all too successful and that mind control is much easier than we have been led, on purpose, to believe. This idea of mind control often arises when we wonder about false flag events and other mass shootings. A radical government looking for someone to blame for something would find it safest to use people in ways that mass society has not yet accepted as a reality. So, of course, they would use such a method, and as we have seen in all aspects of their lives, they will abuse any power given to them because it’s a temptation beyond their ability to control.

Now when we talk about mind control, that doesn’t mean we lose self-control. But people most susceptible to mind control from some third-party government hostility are those less in control of their thought processes, like drug users, dumb people, highly emotional people, and people without a strong resolve. People who are intoxicated are particularly vulnerable to outside influences on their minds. So controlling people’s minds isn’t as easy as just turning on a radio or speaking into a microphone to broadcast a message. Getting a message into a mind is only part of the battle. Getting people to act on it is quite another. That’s why it’s crucial to understand mass school shootings; for instance, most of the gunmen are from broken homes, have a history of drugs, and are likely taking medicine for depression. If you are a hostile government, for instance, and you want to inspire a false flag event through a mass shooting that will consume the news cycle to keep people from talking about other problems in the world, then such depleted, weak minds are the kind of people you’d be interested in influencing. But assuming that such a thing isn’t happening because we don’t believe the technology is there yet is preposterous. While people debate the feasibility, it provides easy cover for the malicious to perform their malice, which is all too common nowadays.

Every time you witness a magic show, you are seeing a form of mind control, a purposeful deception in a mass audience where mind manipulation is a shared experience. Most good salespeople are naturally good at mind control. And it used to be difficult to ask a girl out for a date before the Internet made things all too easy by turning a no or a shy opposition into a yes. Influencing the mind is a common practice among human beings, so naturally, the governments of the world would be very interested in developing mind control technology for their own survival. And from what we’ve witnessed from our government and other governments and their financial powers that prop them up, there is a strong desire to control people’s minds. Advertisers try to do it every minute of every day through mass media ads. And when government gets in trouble over some issue or another and needs a deflection, or they want to inspire gun confiscation legislation, then some drug-using menace to society might then find the thought of performing a mass killing popping into his mind, either through a direct message broadcast to his weak mind from a government agent seeking a cover from the shadows. Or perhaps some evil spirit is conjured up through some mass ritual of occult reverence, and that spiritual assassin fulfills the request by jumping into the seat of an unoccupied mind. Why else would there be government policy on marijuana, an obvious mind-altering drug where intoxication is so openly embraced? I would say that it makes it much easier to control a society that doesn’t have strong thoughts, and drug use makes it easy for governments to rule over weak people. But does it happen at all? Well, you bet it does. It happens much more often than we believe it does. The mind is a receiver of all kinds of information, and we still don’t understand well how thought is produced in the brain. So the ability to manipulate a thought is one of the most valuable traits a menacing government addicted to world domination would strive to utilize. 

With all the talk about 5G, our minds are constantly being bombed by radio waves, internet signals, signals bouncing all over the earth from satellite communications. Our cell phones are continually broadcasting and receiving information, and all those waves of information are passing through our minds. So, it should be obvious to conclude that those many random thoughts, like “punch that person” or “call that person a name,” or even worse, are coming from outside sources from our own minds and that our minds aren’t so secure. If you have noticed, when you pick up your phone, it knows when you are looking at it. Our mind broadcasts information that goes to our extremities, but do we think it stops there, within the confines of our bodies? I would think not. And as of yet, we have only assumed that our privacy is a priority based on biological science. Yet it’s time to think seriously that there are lots of influences out there that have cracked the code. And your best defense against those forces is to have sanity as your best defense. The ability to override those random messages that come into your mind to rationally discard them. But once that rationality is lost to stupidity or drunkenness, then the mind is fair game for all kinds of maniacal purposes. And don’t be silly; the CIA cracked the code to mind control many years ago. They use it for their needs, which, as we have seen recently, are not the domestic needs of national security, but the efforts of globalism among a drug-induced population of victims being used for sheer evil and purposes of global conquest. They may not be able actually to make people commit a crime, but they sure can push a button and make many think about it, which is the first step to action. And the less resolute a targeted mind is, the easier it is to get them to do what you want them to do.

Rich Hoffman

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The Real Tim Ballard: Is it all just a CIA case of misdirection

It is lazy to just mindlessly trust anything, especially authority figures, and I was wondering while watching the new very good movie, The Sound of Freedom, how the real-life Tim Ballard did it, blending in with the cartels to act like one of them so that trust could be earned to break open the pedophile rings of modern slavery that are so much a modern problem.  You’re hanging around drug dealers and the scum of the earth, and you are trying to win them over.  There would be no way to pull it off being straight as an arrow; otherwise, they would never trust you.  You’d have to show an interest in kids and pretend to be attracted to them, which Tim Ballard had to do at the beginning of the film when he was trying to get into the mind of a significant pedophile consumer.  The movie lightly touched on that kind of life and focused excessively on the Christian side of reality.  It purposely made Tim Ballard into a hero and glorified his efforts almost to the point of a John Wayne movie.  I personally enjoyed the results.  I wanted to see a hero.  I wanted to see someone who was so firm in their convictions that it could make the tough subject matter of the movie go down easier.  But I’ll have to admit; I had doubts that Tim Ballard’s life was so heroic.  He’s likely had to see and do many things that are very embarrassing to gain the trust of the world’s scum bags.  And I’m sure those things didn’t feel very heroic to him.  But would we ever catch any of these people if he didn’t do those things? 

I gave Sound of Freedom a great review; I think it was a top-notch movie, and it’s worth seeing, for the subject matter was very serious.  But I’m also proud of many people who have let me know that there is a serious possibility that this entire movie has been a CIA operation to attempt to restore their tarnished brand with the targeted religious right.  And it would be a common trick by those types of intelligence agencies to hide much more serious crimes behind misdirection efforts.  After all, the criminals in Sound of Freedom are nobody, dime-a-dozen scum bags from Columbia and Mexico.  Nobody will miss them if they are arrested and thrown in jail forever or killed in a gun fight upon arrest.  The sex trafficking of children would continue, and life would continue as we know it.  And that was the entire point of the Tim Ballard true story, to show how deep undercover and into the danger zone he was willing to go to save a couple of kids from that terrible life.  But people have been quick to point out that the money trail does trace back to Clinton supporters and that when the CIA asked Tim Ballard to become part of Homeland Security to take on this human trafficking role because he was a person of faith and they felt that would give him a lifeline out, and back to reality without falling apart, its entirely possible this is the kind of chess game they had in mind all along.  That the story Sound of Freedom would give the religious right some red meat and hope it appeases them and makes them go back to sleep.  Because the actual crimes were in the Beltway among the rich and famous.  The Hollywood culture that likes to consume adrenochrome for its pursuits of immortal life, their own Epic of Gilgamesh in Beverly Hills.

In that regard, The Sound of Freedom played it very safe.  The bad guys were terrible, and everyone could agree on who they were.  And the entire movie was about chasing down a few of those types of people to the ends of the earth.  But it didn’t deal with John Podesta’s Pizzagate controversy and the high-end user debacles of Epstein Island that are undoubtedly major problems in the news, and to what role the CIA plays in feeding this criminal network, just as they have been caught doing with the illegal drug network.  The cartels have risen to fill a market need.  So why is there a market need?  Sound of Freedom points out the problem in a way that essentially says, “hey, look over there, at those bad people deep in the rebel-held territory of Columbia.  But don’t look at the safe house in Washington D.C. that is feeding these kids to consumers in Chevy Chase, Maryland, while dad sneaks away from the home, telling the family he’s working late.  But what he’s really trying to do is have sex with kids hoping to psychologically turn back the clock before he has made a bunch of unforgivable mistakes in life.”  And then how do intelligence agencies and corporations use such compromised people to gain power in the world through extortion?  Some huge questions in Sound of Freedom are deliberately pushed off to the side for narrative convenience.  If the movie did tackle those topics, it would likely be very depressing, and it would be hard to justify the price of a ticket. 

I personally think the CIA uses people like Tim for just these kinds of purposes.  And the role that Angel Studios plays in the distribution of this movie I think is sincere.  I love The Chosen and think the family who set up that studio are good people trying to do good things for all the right reasons.  But are they all being used to contain the message of child trafficking to acceptable limits determined by the CIA?  Well, probably.  This is a story that props up government efforts against sex trafficking and makes you want to cheer on the good guys punishing the bad guys.  But it’s pretty safe in the stereotypes.  The CIA has no problem throwing a few lowlifes under the bus for their own preservation.  And I’m glad people are talking about the Sound of Freedom in such an “awake” way.  It’s good to be skeptical.  And it’s good to question Tim Ballard’s and his wife’s integrity.  I want to believe there are people like him in the world and that we aren’t all being played for suckers.  But experience says that such people don’t exist.  Either way, The Sound of Freedom is a movie worth telling to an audience that needs to hear it.  But trust in government and government workers in Homeland Security and the CIA is a bridge too far.  There is a lot more evil going on in the world besides the terrible circumstances of this movie.  And when the CIA starts standing for good in the hard cases and busting the rich and famous on moral grounds of right and wrong, we can have a different conversation.  But as of now, we must scrutinize everyone because institutionalism tends to corrupt everything it touches, even the good people who work within it with an “ends justify the means” mentality.  Playing nice with the bad guys usually means doing bad things too.  And that’s not something to celebrate.  It’s something to punish. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why International Banking Worships the God Baphomet: It’s all about Isaiah 14:12

We must talk about the ancient God of Baphomet, the devil-like creature that comes up a lot, who is essentially the God of finance. When you dig into the religious motives of international banking and its historical connections to the Knights Templar, it’s critical to understand how all this mess started. My current goal for talking about these things is to take them from the realm of conspiracy theory, where they have been doing a lot of damage, and putting them into a historical perspective. The scary stuff is what people don’t understand, giving these kinds of things their own life. For good Christian people, any type of worship besides the pursuit of Jesus Christ can come across as very terrifying. Yet the higher up the ladder of international finance that you go, the more of a relationship with the old pagan gods of Sumerian civilization that you’ll find emerge, and when it comes to finance, it’s Baphomet that they worship. Now, I can say with certainty that your local banker, your political treasurers, and auditors probably aren’t worshiping Baphomet. I know that to be the case with the very good auditor in my town of Butler County, Ohio, Nancy Nix, that it’s Christ in the traditional way that she seeks religious merit from. But the more risk, the more international that banking gets, the more supernatural aid that is sought out, and by their own traditions, Baphomet is the Luciferian deity of worship, the goat-headed lunatic with a male right arm, a female left, a star on its forehead usually depicted with children at its feet. It’s another of the gods that come from the Baal worship that is so much discussed in the Bible. For much the same reasons today as in biblical times, when people consumed with risk seek to manage it with supernatural aid, it’s the God Baphomet that they turn to, not Yahweh or Jesus Christ. Jesus is for the ordinary people the way the worshippers of Baphomet think of him. From their perspective, they have higher knowledge than the typical religious consumer, and they base that on their history.

The story goes that the Knights of the Crusades were hungry to impose Roman-style Christianity on the conquered lands of the Middle East, a conflict that the descendants of the Knights Templars are still very active in, which has led directly to the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, and technically Ukraine. So understanding this essential Baphomet problem is critical to solving the current global turmoil, which is purposeful in its military desires for global domination and one world religion. The religion of the Muslim was created as a counter force to the rise of Roman Christianity to maintain regional power in the Holy Land, which is why the Quran has many of the same characters in it that are in the Bible. However, where the Bible would represent Western Civilization values, the Quran was noticeably oriental and much more collectivist in its assumptions. During the many fights of the Crusades, the Knights Templars became associated with their Muslim enemies and started to find themselves converted to the views of the enemy. And hidden behind Allah was an attempt to consolidate all the ancient gods of the region of Babylon of polytheism and unite them under a monotheistic approach, essentially to defeat the attempts of Christianity to simplify things and their single god approach. The Quran covers this polytheism problem quite explicitly throughout its text, and it was how the Knights Templars learned about the secrets of Baphomet, which they took back to Europe with them like rat poison going back to the nest. The best way to defeat an enemy is not always with armed conflict, but to poison what they believe, which is what the Muslims did to the Knights Templars to destroy them and their monotheistic God.

The King of France and the Pope at the time of the early 1300s were getting tired of all the power that the Knights Templars had acquired in Europe due to their conquests and looted treasure from the Holy Land during the period of the Crusades. This is how centralized banking came about through the Knights Templars, who created a network of banknotes that could be redeemed far away from the original source, which was a radical concept at the time. But the King of France had accumulated a lot of debt and wanted to eliminate it and the political rivals that the Knights Templars had become. So they exterminated the Knights Templars and forced them underground, where they became the Masonic order over the next 300 years. And from there, many other secret societies emerged as well. The Masons made it their mission to destroy the kings of Europe, which is how the American Revolution started, and how the French Revolution came to be. The kings of Europe lost their power to a large degree, so the secret societies were doing their work and achieving their goals. And along the way, they learned that it was much more effective to control the debt of nations than to actually have an army and ride off into battle to live or die on a battlefield. And with this new military approach to the world, it wasn’t Jesus Christ or the father Yahway that they were worshipping; it was the consolidated God Baphomet that they felt gave them good luck in managing the risks of finance. Jesus preached against money and wealth, so obviously, he wasn’t a good god for worshipping the risky business of international finance.

If you’ve ever been in a business meeting and someone says, “Knock on wood,” they often do that because they report a series of good luck events that they hope they don’t jinx by publicly discussing. It’s a superstitious belief that is rooted in raw beliefs passed down through the human race for many thousands of years. But as I always say, “When you’re good, you’re good,” who needs superstition when skill is the determining factor? Yet that is why many people turned away from God and worshipped Baal and his pantheon of deities, because they sought good luck from the spirit world, which is how the Knights Templars learned from the Muslims of Baphomet, and why to this very day they seek to appease that aphroditic creature, even with the push from the World Economic Forum for transexual politics, the drunken lifestyles of excess, and the defilement of individuals as a sacrifice to Baphomet, the fallen angel of Lucifer and the true hero of ancient times, according to them. And before we can solve any of today’s problems, we must understand why people believe what they do and why they are different from the rest of us. Essentially we are dealing with the same evils we have always dealt with, which the Bible chronicles very well. It never went away and is now closer to us than ever before because the worship of Baphomet is connected to us, with international financing becoming such an essential part of all our lives and technology forcing us to deal with people we otherwise would avoid. Now they are in our business and imposing their beliefs on us in ways we are uncomfortable with, bringing about a clash of cultures that was never dealt with initially. It has only brewed until now in the background.

Rich Hoffman

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Should We Worry About the Rothchilds: International finance has declared war on the United States

I’m not the kind of person who chants outside the Bilderberg meetings and screams at the sky, like Alex Jones and his supporters might. I have no tolerance for the Rothchild family’s influence over finance. As far as I’m concerned, anybody who messes with American money and value should have the wrath of the American people brought down on it. If they aren’t going to follow our laws, then they aren’t protected by them either. It’s pretty much as simple as that. I do not see any of these wealthy oligarchs as superior, as a ruling elite, even if they do have the blood of aliens in them, which they seek to preserve to rule over the entire earth. Their view of themselves I see as insanity, and once they step into trying to influence our lives and liberty with mass media manipulations through the backdoor of finance, they have attempted war and must be punished accordingly. So, when I hear the name Rothchild, which is coming up more and more these days as all those old conspiracy theories are coming true right in front of our faces, the trend is to view them as a menace, but to me, they are just criminal scumbags who deserve punishment. They do not have a right to rule over anybody. They are not smarter than we are, and they are not going to be able to rule the world with centralized communist authority. People falsely assume that our Constitution is meant for nations, our own and other countries, as a base for law and order. But no, it also holds true for individuals, such as the Rothchild family. They don’t get to attack America through finance, without a country, and escape the act of war for which it is. It just surprises people, and they have been slow to react to such an audacious assumption.

It’s the same attack patterns we have seen throughout history; it’s just coming from a direction most people don’t associate as a threat. But the people who make up the World Economic Forum and own the assets that make up the world’s most powerful banks have openly expressed their intentions to make war on the United States. And until recently, nobody took it all that seriously. But after Covid and as we witnessed how so many politicians have already been bought off to global communism, after the China model, and the globalism in general of the World Economic Forum losers like Klaus Schwab, open warfare against America is clearly the objective. So we must treat them appropriately, as hostile agents toward our way of life and our country. There is no fight for freedom anywhere in the world against any other nation that is more important than standing up to the World Economic Forum and the world’s central bankers, who are every bit as hungry to take over the world as a historical figure like Napoleon was, or Alexander the Great. What the bankers are doing now is just as menacing, and the Rothchild name, along with the Rockefellers and many others, are naturally associated. It’s not a conspiracy theory to say such a thing; it’s a fact in raw form in front of us. These globalist attackers are just the latest of a long line of tyrants who bring their own version of insanity to the world governments; if only we’d listen to them, everything would be great from their perspective. When we talk about the values of freedom, we are talking about being free of these kinds of influences, and we have been willing to look the other way so long as we have assumptions of freedom. But more and more, people are seeing that those freedoms are considered an illusion by these menacing globalist characters, and they are making their move which has scared people.

I would say do not be afraid of the Rothchild family. There are many ways to destroy people who seek to impose themselves the way we see the World Economic Forum people attempting to do to bring about global communism, run by them, of course. The purpose of our Constitution is to prevent these very kinds of actions, so use it to fight back against this international tyranny. Most of us have been untested in our lifetimes, so we weren’t ready for a fight like this. We were locked and loaded when it came to an armed assault. But in our credit culture, where everyone, for the most part, is in debt to these centralized bankers, we did not think about a war happening regarding finance. I’ve talked about it a lot before, first with Thomas Jefferson, then with Andrew Jackson, the fight against central banking has always been a challenge since the start of the country. Not many people know that the Rothchild family primarily funded the South during the Civil War. They were trying to split up the new nation with an internalized conflict to stop the Republicans under Lincoln from gaining political power. Lincoln’s assassin, Booth, didn’t just climb out of bed one day and kill the president. There were lots of people involved, including the Order of the Jesuits, ultimately funded by the Rothchild family and others. That same kind of backdoor manipulation can be seen today with Black Lives Matter protests. Antifa terrorism. The news stories that fail to report the cocaine in the White House properly or suppress the Hunter Biden laptop. If money influences why people do things, and you are wondering why people do things they likely wouldn’t otherwise do, then tracing the money to who is giving it usually tells you who your villains are. And with all the trouble in the world today, George Soros and his kid Alex are coming up more and more. Alex Soros has been to the White House having personal meetings with Biden to use their money for domestic terrorism because they don’t think anybody will catch them on it. And, of course, this is why the Rothchild name is being tossed around so much; people are learning.

Yet, in truth, these are not powerful people. Money is only a weapon in that it can unlock the greed of lazy people who desire easy money, so evil comes with the package, and to good people, these actions can be terrifying. However, our American Constitution was written to protect us legally from these very kinds of attacks. And that’s how we need to view all these groups who want to end America and have used our monetary system as their means of attack. But always remember that they do not have a right to attack us. They think they are pulling over a fast one and that we are too slow and stupid to figure out what they are up to. They are conducting war to destroy our nation and replace it with the United Nations they rule over. And their weapons of mass destruction is finance. This attempt to use finance as a weapon goes back to the start of America, which was why the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. The wealthy families never wanted to do what was right for America. They wanted to eliminate competition to their family lines, just like all the rulers of Europe had done for thousands of years. But in America, we outgrew that immature notion. It has just taken us a while to act on that knowledge. 

Rich Hoffman

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It’s Not the Fault of Indiana Jones: Disney listened to BlackRock and they’ll never recover

Indiana Jones is a great movie, but Disney mismanaged it by listening to the wrong people

One of the reasons I do these articles on this blog is because people are hungry for real information. Not the kind that the media has grown to give us, usually laced as propaganda to fulfill some NWO vision of centralized control using the China model of communism to determine reality. And there is something really menacing looming behind the various box office results that I say all the time are the ways that people vote for value in our culture. The Sound of Freedom movie is a category by itself, and as far as I’m concerned, there’s room for all these great movies that are suddenly coming out. But the way that the communist left has gained control of the marketplace is by placing the number 1 weekly horse race to movies, all in an effort to make or break their box office results. It’s a baked-in trick by the World Economic Forum types and their media apparatus to pick winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas with the illusion of industry reporting. And I say that as a guy who has read The Hollywood Reporter for three decades. I used to get the magazine version of that publication as an industry guide of great value. So I am quite aware of the switch to this new way of manipulating numbers to tell the kind of story that the financial controllers of communist activism want to tell. And a target early on was the new Indiana Jones movie, The Dial of Destiny. The WEF types wanted to see Disney kill off one of the great American heroes from the 1980s. Early screenings showed that the public didn’t like that. So Disney had to scramble to give the public the ending they wanted, which went against the desires of the BlackRocks of the world. And as a result, Bob Iger and the gang at Disney found themselves between a rock and a hard place with snakes and spikes in between to kill them with a thousand cuts.

See the problem. Even with inflation, this cost structure is ridiculous and not sustainable.

When I look at the box office numbers for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, I see a pretty good movie that performs well day to day, even on weekdays. It’s consistently good with the other movies that were done in the 1980s, back in a time when those movies stayed at the movie theater for most of a year. But these days, with movies barely staying in a movie theater for more than 60 days, a film has to have a lot of pop on the front, most of this due to failures of liberalism. The movies are controlled by labor unions who want inflated budgets with unlimited money spent. And if a studio complies, they are rewarded with good press that will take them close to a good box office score. Disney got caught trying to appease everyone, including BlackRock, and they made everyone mad with a movie that had its budget out of control. If George Lucas was producing this Indiana Jones film, he would have kept the budget under 100 million, or he wouldn’t have made the picture. Kathy Kennedy let the budget spike up to around 300 million before advertising. So the standard is the problem, and the controllers expect to rule the marketplace. And Disney has damaged their own brand, so anti-Disney people started campaigning against this Indiana Jones movie several years ago. Then there was the political agenda from BlackRock and Vanguard about replacing Indiana Jones with a woman and killing off the Western hero for global communism. Disney picked the fans for its own survival, and the industry pounced, writing many negative articles against Indiana Jones, hoping to sink the film and punish the studio for not complying with the globalism mandate. 

Ultimately, this Indiana Jones film will be well respected and could have been financially successful if Disney had managed the budget. But it got out of control, and they thought they could spin it into a billion-dollar grosser. But without the support of the industry analysts, who are communist in most of their approaches to everything, the World Economic Forum activists worked overtime to ensure that it would never get there. They would have talked the movie up if Disney had killed off Indiana Jones. But they resorted to punishing the movie because it was a good hero story with a classic character living to see a happy ending. That was a good move for Disney in the long run because Indiana Jones will be around longer than the World Economic Forum. I’m not sure that Disney will make it. I’m telling people to go to the parks now while they are still there because I don’t think Disney will survive what they’ve done to themselves, which they are now the Bud Light of entertainment. When people think of Disney, they no longer think of Mickey Mouse but woke monsters who want to groom children. And once you lose that brand, it’s gone forever in this climate. They played the game wrong, and now it’s going to cost them.   They fixed the Indiana Jones movie in time to save it. But they should have done the same to themselves several years ago instead of committing to the World Economic Forum’s woke agenda of gender desecration, which started to become evident with the killing of Han Solo and that terrible Buzz Lightyear movie. 

It’s not an Indiana Jones problem; over the coming year, most people will watch the movie and like it, whether at the theater or at home on a streaming service. It’s a good family movie, but it’s too late for a course correction by Disney to save it at the box office. Because Disney is having problems everywhere. People are rejecting them as a company. That doesn’t mean that they’ll never have another billion-dollar film again. But they have lost permanent market share because of their woke commitment. And now their woke bosses at BlackRock are punishing them in the trades if they don’t stay committed to the continued desecration of American heroes. So the news isn’t good for Indiana Jones, but it’s not because the movie is bad. But there are undoubtedly many bad characters who are politically motivated on both sides, and Disney mismanaged the whole thing to their detriment. The lesson for everyone is not to pick against the audience, not to feed the everlasting hunger of the trade unions with inflated budgets, and to never align yourself with global activism against good stories and heroes who stand against evil. This is why I said it was a bad idea for Bob Iger to come back. I don’t know what he was thinking about taking a job that was bound to be a loser. There was no way to fix this Disney problem. And instead of being viewed as a pretty good CEO over his years, he’ll be remembered as the guy who let it all fall apart. But the truth is, this started a long time ago when the board started listening to global activists for communism and bending their films toward the China market. All that was a mistake that is showing itself at the box office. And it has nothing to do with Indiana Jones as a movie. If anything, people are supporting the movie more than they otherwise would. The problem is Disney, and I’m afraid that it’s a condition that will never correct itself.  

Rich Hoffman

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A Review of ‘The Sound of Freedom’: God’s Children are not for sale

Boy, that was a good movie, the Sound of Freedom. I intended to see it on the 4th of July when Angel Studios released it, a bold move considering they were putting a critical box office movie in the middle of summer between the new Indiana Jones film and the latest Mission Impossible project. I like these Angel Studios guys; I’ve worked with independent studios in the past, namely the Atlas group for the Atlas Shrugged films, so I have an appreciation for how difficult it is to make a movie in the first place, especially one with a big message like the Sound of Freedom has. But that’s only half the battle. Getting a movie distributed through the theaters is the biggest hurdle, and it’s been in that way that finance has been able to take over the movie industry. Putting this movie out on the 4th of July was hard because it competed with other big studio films with big marketing budgets. I think we should see this kind of thing more often because people hunger for good movies. And it’s usually not an either-or kind of decision. There’s room for Indiana Jones. And there is room for Sound of Freedom. I honestly didn’t expect much from the Sound of Freedom. I thought the movie would have a good message and was important to support. So when I tried to buy tickets for the film on July 3rd and 4th when my wife and I had some free time to see it, I wasn’t too disappointed that I couldn’t find any theaters that weren’t sold out in my area, or if they did have open seats, that we couldn’t find two together. We weren’t going to go to the movies and not sit together; that was ridiculous. So I waited until the following weekend, and we had the same problem. But we did manage to find two open seats for a Saturday afternoon in the third row, which I usually wouldn’t do because it’s too close to the screen. But we bought the tickets, went to see the movie, and were both blown away by what we saw.

The Sound of Freedom was actually, technically, a great film. It reminded me of Schindler’s List, one of my all-time favorite films. But pacing-wise, it reminded me of the Clint Eastwood-directed American Sniper. The Sound of Freedom was of excellent quality, on the level of those kinds of movies, and at a different time, this would undoubtedly be the Best Picture of the Year for the Academy Awards. The director, Alejandro Monteverde, put a lot of love into this film, and it sure showed. It was more of an action-adventure picture, more like Taken, rather than a documentary on child sex trafficking. To be honest, after seeing lots of clips from Jim Caviezel, I thought this film would be more of an activist movie. It certainly was; this film was made by really good people for good reasons, from top to bottom. But it was a far better movie than what usually comes out of those intentions. The director Alejandro Monteverde made a great movie with Jim Caviezel and the cast based on the real-life exploits of the Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard without knowing how the movie would get to the public. The movie has been done for five years; it was first going to be distributed by Fox, then Disney owned the rights, and they sat on it for a long time. Eventually, this new studio, Angel Studios, came along and picked up the rights. They are the studio behind the very well-done television show, The Chosen. So they picked it up and brought it to movie theaters.

Since most of the film production was Mexican, it brought the life of the cartels into sharp focus in ways that I hadn’t seen before. It was a very gritty movie that put viewers into the world of sex trafficking without being oppressively difficult to deal with. The Sound of Freedom walked that very fine line between being tasteful and hopeful, with Jim Caviezel playing the real-life Tim Ballard with such optimism that it wasn’t hard to fall in love with these people. I say all the time about movies, one of the biggest problems is that the writers of these things often don’t have much life experience. You can see that in big studio pictures where the writers clearly hang out in Santa Monica, and their perspective is from that world. The Sound of Freedom was written and directed by people who know the world’s dark underbelly but have not become hopelessly lost in it. What ended up on the screen is really something stunningly special. A movie everyone can enjoy that is much more optimistic than I thought it would have been. And not to give away spoilers, but I think it’s important to note because I honestly wasn’t fighting too hard to see this movie because they are usually depressing. While you want to know about these problematic subject matters, who wants to experience a depressing story? But I can say this movie has a very happy ending. I will likely see it many more times because it really was inspirational, hopeful, and bold. 

At the end of the movie, Jim Caviezal came on and gave a little speech, which was very appropriate, during the credits. They also put up a QR code which I took a picture of for this blog site. They encouraged people in the audience to buy tickets for people who couldn’t afford to go to the movie with a Pay it Forward campaign, which I thought was pretty clever and smart marketing on behalf of Angel Studios. There is a lot to like about this entire enterprise that will undoubtedly give hope to anybody who goes and sees it. For those who feel pretty hopeless about the world’s condition, I would strongly recommend The Sound of Freedom as soon as you can get to a theater and see it. I would recommend buying tickets and sending them to someone who might be on the fence. Not only for the box office need for a film like this, because this is how these kinds of movies get made. If they do well at the box office, it impacts the rest of the industry, which is precisely what is needed now with the amount of genuinely sinister aspects of culture that are on our nightly news. This movie is a ray of hope and deserves all the credit that can be given to it. I would personally like to see a lot more out of Angel Studios because this project is a real treasure. And the world could use a lot more from them. But it takes money to tell these kinds of stories, and this is a movie that was done on a high level as a kind of leap of faith. And we are lucky to have it. The world is better because of it. And maybe people will become educated enough from this movie to do something about sex trafficking and the amount of it that is destroying the lives of the innocent before they ever have a chance to live life for themselves. 

Rich Hoffman

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In Politics Friends Come and Go: But why do political parties exist in the first place

When it comes to politics or anything in life, get a dog if you want a friend. Dogs are programmed to serve our human needs for friendship. But don’t expect friendships in politics ever to sustain some deep seeded need. There is only one purpose for politics, and that is the management of community resources. Finding meaning in it of some social value is a path in life that will obviously have many challenges, most of which will be unfulfilling. Even on the best day of political exchanges, there will be disappointments because it never works out how you might want it to. Yet one of the many traps that emerge in politics is when a person involved finds that they get to sit at the table with all the cool kids, which is how the lobby system works at the federal and state level. That appeal to be accepted by your peers can be very alluring. And all too often, it causes good people to go bad relative to what people think they voted for. This is how we end up with RINOs in the Republican Party. They may not start out that way, but they certainly turn out to be far off their original position over a number of years, and it’s at that point they have to figure out if they can still be useful to a voting public. But we are dealing with people here, and I can think of a few politicians that I have known for a long time and may personally like. But, due to life circumstances, they are not as conservative today as they were ten years ago or even five years ago. And when that happens, they have to figure out if they are in politics to serve some deep seeded need they have or if they are only doing it to gain some joy in social acceptance, presenting themselves one way, when ideologically, they have drifted into a more liberal view of the world. 

In politics, I still stand by former Speaker of the House Larry Householder, who was just sentenced to 20 years in prison over the FirstEnergy scandal. I found that case much like Sheriff Jones and Attorney General David Yost went after Roger Reynolds, the former Butler County Auditor. I feel sorry for the FirstEnergy people; they provide energy through a couple of nuclear power plants, and the political left is looking to destroy those companies and replace them with solar farms and wind power. I don’t think there was any justice in putting Householder in jail, I think its 100% politics, using rules to destroy your political rivals, and in that case, the FBI was weaponized just like it has been against Trump and the road to the start of the corruption leads to Mike DeWine’s door, the governor of Ohio who likely didn’t want a rival power in Columbus at the Speaker position. Look at the drama with the coup they had just this last year with the Speaker, so politics is a dirty game. People on the out go to jail, and millions of dollars get wasted in the name of acquiring power. I can say that as I just recently saw DeWine and his wife at a social event, and he’s turning back to his liberal ways again now that he’s in his last term and Trump hasn’t been in power for a while. And mentioning Sheriff Jones, you might remember all the drama between him and Representative Thomas Hall. They had been bitter enemies, but now they are getting along quite well. People move on positions all the time; the question always remains, can they actually do the public who votes for them any good, or is everything they show the public fake while what they do behind closed doors a different representation along the political spectrum? 

And that’s certainly the case of a few names within the Butler County Republican Party presently. Life happens, and people find that their political views of the world change, sometimes quite a lot. But when you hold leadership positions and hang on to those positions, why would they do it if they aren’t that conservative anymore? Politics is one thing, and it’s easy to have political opinions in a vacuum of reality, in an untested environment. But when you love your kids and the kids move in a direction that challenges those conservative beliefs, do you try to take the party to a hard left position, or do you give up the leadership roles to take care of your family? Loyalty isn’t the question, but it’s what is expected in public office that does matter. Because votes expect the brand of conservative opinion that reflects them, this is how the RINO problem began initially. I’ve been involved in many meetings where powerful politicians became upset with being called RINOs. Because they didn’t see that they had become more “liberal” in their political discourse. John Boehner, who lives in my neighborhood and is good friends with several people I know very well, comes to mind. He used to be Speaker of the House, but he had to resign due to heavy calls from people in the Tea Party who thought he was a RINO. It hurt him. I hurt for him, so I never really jumped all over him too much. The world wanted a more conservative representative, and he wasn’t it. So, he needed to step away. And that is certainly the case for other area Republicans who find themselves in a similar situation.

Doing the right thing is hard. But ultimately, politics isn’t for the representatives; it’s for the brand of the party, and the party exists for the people who vote. This fantasy that people have that Ron DeSantis might fill the void of Trump is ridiculous because the move toward Trump is because people have become frustrated with RINOs, and they are looking to purge them from their party. And the same thing will happen in the Butler County Republican Party if RINOs emerge and take leadership positions; the voters out there will work to get rid of them, just as they did John Boehner. There may be perfectly valid reasons that people become RINOs. John Boehner cries a lot, and once people learned that about him, it changed how they saw him. Voters want tough people, not compromised people who have lost their confidence socially, who have made mistakes that are embarrassing, and who seek to hide those things socially through party leadership. It ends up not helping anybody but worst of all; it weakens the voter impression of their Republican Party representation. The most important thing is to protect the brand, and forcing voters to accept more liberal leadership isn’t going to help engage voters in the polls. Telling Darbi Boddy to calm down and play nice with RINOs won’t help the party brand. It hurts it. Because people want more Darbi’s and fewer John Boehners. I’ve heard the complaints, and it’s a topic in need of perspective. Essentially, I do have friendships with people who have moved to the hard left. And I will still like them even if I disagree with them politically. But protecting the Republican brand should be something everyone can agree with. Sure, there will be political squabbles. But they come and go. In the end, what ultimately matters is whether voters have a party that represents them. And if they don’t, why does it exist in the first place?

Rich Hoffman

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