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Turning off Lynda O’Conner’s Mic: When the excuses are removed, you see what people really are

Well, of course, the criticism of Lakota School Board President Lynda O’Conner is perfectly warranted, and a couple of political PACs have formed to speak out against her.  A campaign to “turn off her mic” is perfectly justified, which is a reaction to her behavior over the last year, where she has sought to completely control public speech and criticism of her performance as a management body at Lakota.  Too often, people involved in politics forget that after all the election stuff, political people are supposed actually to do a good job.  If it’s a first-time office holder, there is usually some forgiveness for not knowing what they are doing.  But for someone who has been around for 16 years or more, such as Lynda O’Conner has, good performance is expected.  This is a political problem; getting elected is a kind of popularity contest with the ultimate social euphoria, like being elected homecoming king or queen.  The public affirmation is addicting, and it’s nice to be picked by the public to do something.  But then there is the actual problem of doing the job.  This is what is going on with Congress these days, where people are tired of lip service from the Speaker of the House role.  People are tired of broken promises and lackluster performance in their representative government. Over the years, the trend has been pointing toward increased scrutiny as more people are paying more attention to political topics than they used to, especially in public education.  There used to be an assumption that public schools were okay, that kids were getting good, respectable instructions.  Not the actual reality that they are learning centers for Hamas and abortion activism.  Now that people have had to reluctantly admit, in the post-Covid years, public schools have not been tolerant of conservative values when school board members get caught in that crossfire by default, they don’t want to get seen carrying water for liberal causes, which is precisely what Lynda O’Conner was found doing.

One of those political PACs that has come forth against her during this election of 2023, where Lynda is on the party ticket for re-election after doing the job for a very long time, has produced a video showing the primary problem. In the footage, Lynda had the mic turned off of a local advocate giving public statements. Lynda was functioning from bad legal advice from the same kind of people who caused the problem, to begin with, school administrative officers who had behaved detrimentally in public and caused great harm to the school’s reputation. To cover up that damage, Lynda became the most prominent advocate for getting rid of free speech, which is critical to the maintenance of public schools, where the taxpayers fund the entire process. A community representative, which all school board members are, does not get to limit the public’s opinions and openly keeps those beliefs quiet to preserve an idea of Lakota schools, which it did not earn. There exhibited many problems regarding abuse of power that Lynda O’Conner showed during 2022 and 2023 when much of this public drama unfolded, but the biggest problem is found in that video: how she managed public crises that Lakota administrative employees caused. That was enough to cause a lot of people who formally supported her to withdraw that support. And if Lynda wanted to do what was right for the local Republican Party, she never would have put them in this awkward position by running in the next election after all the controversy.

Of course, the problems extend well beyond the cosmetic trouble of abusing power by attempting to cut off public criticism of school board management. And this is more where I am on this topic. Lynda was given a three-vote majority and completely screwed it up with uncovered activism. Before that last election, which saw the successful campaigns of Darbi Boddy and Isaac Adi elected as endorsed Republican representatives, Lynda was given by “us” members of the community who wanted to help her what she said she wanted, which was a majority vote on the board so she wasn’t always the lone victimized voice. For context, many people would tell me about my relationship with Lynda, that she was a RINO and was a liberal. Of course, I would reply, “I will stand by Lynda until she proves otherwise.” Lynda would complain that she was the only one willing to vote for conservative ideas on the Lakota school board in a conservative district. So, some of us got together and gave her the requested help. But rather than rejoice over the matter, Lynda had been exposed as the liberal everyone warned me she was. Because now that she had the votes, she would be uncovered. She was pleased to double-talk with Julie Shaffer and Kelly Casper while having public spats with Brad Lovell to sell her conservative brand to the community. But it was all show business. When Lynda was handed the President role with a majority vote, she had no further excuses for performance, so she immediately picked a fight with Darbi Boddy over nonsense political issues and moved to separate Isaac Adi from Darbi, which has resulted in a lot of chaos meant to disguise her liberal inclinations.

Darbi Boddy became the scapegoat for Lynda’s sins as a liberal posing as a conservative to win public support between election cycles. As long as Lynda was a victim, she could always say, “Look, I’m being outvoted. I can do nothing to stop the out-of-control spending, the genderless bathrooms, and social degradation from the teacher’s union.” But once those excuses were taken away, suddenly the new reason was, “Darbi isn’t professional and is bringing harm to our efforts through negative news stories,” which, of course, Lynda and Julie leaked to their contacts to drive the narrative, all while turning off the microphone to the public so they could attempt to contain public opinion. Truthfully, the Republican Party endorsed her out of friendships, the kind of sympathy formed by the challenges of the popularity contest of elected office. And compassion that politics is changing and the public expects a decent performance from their representatives. So Lynda put them all in the wrong place, and being so politically astute, she should have known better. I don’t see any political difference between Julie Shaffer and Doug Horten, who is also running. The only school board candidate I can support in this election is Russ Loges, who seems sincere and willing to work hard. But we know what we are getting with Lynda. And I didn’t suddenly become a Julie Shaffer fan. Everyone is asking me why I haven’t put up the video on so many phones of bad behavior showing Julie in compromising positions. You can’t pay me enough to look at that trainwreck in such compromised states. I’d instead rather not think about it personally, everyone by now knows the stories. These people are disasters, and we could do a lot better as a community, and we did have options. And instead of those options working for the Republican Party healthily and productively, they are now on the outside working to expose bad behavior, which is expected from politics once the elections are over. We hope people actually to be conservative and stand for constitutional values. And Lynda hasn’t done any of those things.

Rich Hoffman

Thinking of Steve Bannon: Pirates, values, and the foundation of American life

I decoded a long time ago what was on Walt Disney’s mind when he designed the Magic Kingdom, along with specific themes hidden behind the current culture of management that conceals it. And so I took an afternoon to really relish it; after all, it was my vacation and I was thinking about a lot of big stuff. And I was catching up on time with my daughters, one of whom had an obsessive need to ride Pirates of the Caribbean with me to fulfill a quest from her youth. It had been twenty years prior when I had taken all the kids, nieces, and nephews onto several late-night rides of that particular attraction and she had missed it due to a personal problem. And she is the one who grew up with a powerful love of pirates probably as a result of it, because she missed that opportunity. Both of my daughters have extreme reverence for piracy because a lot of what I taught them as little girls was respect for rebellion, leaving them obsessed with skulls. To this day, skulls are a massive part of their lives and mine, and much of that interest traces back to my love of pirate history, the ride at Disney World Pirates of the Caribbean, and many, many, many hours of me talking to them about the need for pirates in the world and what role they played in the formation of the United States. For instance, one of my favorite founding fathers is John Paul Jones, who is also the inspiration for Steve Bannon, the current popular podcaster and former strategist for President Trump—and many other things. And while one of my daughters was doing something extraordinary with her daughter, my granddaughter, I went off with my other daughter to put a bookend to that formally broken Pirates of the Caribbean experience. And I thought about Steve Bannon the entire time I was on that ride.

I have a lot of Steve Bannons in my life, several in my local neighborhood and I value them in the same way I do pirates. That doesn’t mean I support state-sponsored terrorism from which piracy was born, but I see them, as Walt Disney did, as critical to a free society because they are natural hedges against tyranny. Disney when he designed his park, put entirely on purpose the Pirate ride next to his Frontier Land and Liberty Square to remind people of these things for the sustenance of American life. And I had a chance to experience how Disney designed all this on this particular day with my daughter alone at the Magic Kingdom for the first time. The rest of our group, my wife, the rest of the kids, and my daughter’s husbands were back at our camp at Fort Wilderness preparing dinner and swimming to refresh themselves while we took my granddaughter to buy a dress so she could be photographed at the castle. For those who don’t know there is a famous dress store just behind the castle, and for little girls fortunate enough to attend that place with parental figures with deep pockets, you can buy a princess dress and wear it around the park, and the employees know to refer to her as a “princess” whenever they interact with her. And this was what we were up to, for her very young mind. She’s under ten, and this is the prime time of her life to set big goals for herself and create standards that would last a lifetime.

Standards are critical for young people, especially young girls. Women have tremendous power, primarily based on their sexual nature, so good decisions are massively important to their future, how they pick people in their lives, and the consequences of those decisions. So, to get it right, I encourage the young girls in my family to set very high standards in their lives, and this was a day my granddaughter would never forget. A day when she was an actual princess and treated that way by every employee at Disney World. I wanted her never to ignore it, so my daughter and I went out of our way to elevate that experience for her. So we let her buy a dress, put it on in the bathrooms between Frontier Land and Adventure Land, and had quite an excellent time soaking up the exotic environment while my granddaughter was gushing with pride and excitement. High standards—live a good life. While my granddaughter’s mother wanted to go and photograph this experience in front of the castle, a few feet away from all this, my other daughter wanted to catch up on that Pirates of the Caribbean ride. While all this was happening, I was in a texting frenzy with many of my pirate cells all over the country working on real projects that could only be described as rebellions against the established order, modern piracy perfectly and healthily. As we rode that ride, I was glad to think about Steve Bannon and his inspiration of John Paul Jones doing wonderful things that reminded me that after all this smoke cleared, America was going to be much better and so much healthier, not because of the rules and procedures of Washington D.C. but because of the pirate nature of the founding of the country itself and the continued actions of just such people.

It was a special day; we enjoyed the ride, and I had philosophy pouring through my mind, which is when I am happiest. I answered another 25 text messages from many pirates at many levels of society doing great work, and my daughter was elated to have had that personal, one-on-one experience with me, which was beyond her dreams. She had thought about that moment for two decades, and it came out better than she expected, so it was all great. We finished our business there and then left the Magic Kingdom to catch the monorail for the Epcot Center, where we met up with the rest of our group for an ambitious night in that park, which was a wonderful experience. For context, we had spent that entire morning at the Animal Kingdom, so that was our third park of the day, so everyone’s heads were spinning. And it is just such a pace that I am happiest. But the best part was seeing this whole cycle of value and defense of that value. First, you set in an individual’s mind a personal goal, a heightened awareness of expectation. Then, you create a political system that removes barriers to that heightened state. Pirates must constantly push against static methods to allow dynamic personalities to advance culture. And in that way, pirate activity was critical to the formation of America. And it is also crucial to keep exceptional people free to move society in productive ways, which is what Steve Bannon and the Warroom are doing on the national and international stage. And what other rag-tag patriots are doing in their local communities nationwide, which I am very proud to know of. The Pirates of the Caribbean is more than a ride to me and my daughter; it’s a temple. And on that day at that particular time, it was just the recharge I had been looking for.

Rich Hoffman

When Too Many Rules Destroy Happiness: Observations from a Disney World vacation experince

For most of September, I have been traveling. It has only been recently that travel restrictions regarding COVID-19 were lifted in places I needed to go professionally, like Canada, and Japan so these needed visits had been stacked up and a long time required. That was also the case for a family vacation to Disney World, which I had intended to do for the last three years while my grandchildren, mostly close in age, were prime for the experience. Covid restrictions and mask mandates ruined all those plans, so we waited for them to be removed before committing to anything. In September 2023, a slight window opened to do everything, so I stayed swamped catching everything up. By the end of September, I got off a flight from Tokyo, parked my car, hooked up our RV, and towed it to Florida for a week in Disney World to stay at their wonderful campground, Fort Wilderness. We almost canceled it again because of all the new policies at Disney, but we determined that this was the time if we were ever going to take the family to Disney World. Because as I have said many times over the last decade, I don’t think Disney will survive as a company. And after going there again and comparing the experience to just three years prior when my wife and I went there to see some of the new options they had, there is no question, that Disney is failing everywhere behind the veil of happiness, and I can see the entire thing completely falling apart for many reasons they will never tell you about in the media. But the Fort Wilderness Campground, an official resort for Disney was fantastic, at least from the façade of a vacation experience, and I was happy we went when we did.

From the area I walked around in my video of Fort Wilderness, we could take the boat over to Magic Kingdom and get to all the other parks, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and Epcot Center with the park hopper option. It was all costly, but I could show my children and grandchildren many exciting things over three days, and camping at the Fort Wilderness Campground was one of the best experiences I have ever had. It was comfortable, luxurious, convenient, and splendid in everything you expect from a lifetime vacation experience. When I think of Disney I think of a media empire built on family values, and of Fort Wilderness itself, I think of the Davy Crockett television show and Zorro. These days, Disney is more of a princess place, but there are still all the excellent references to Americana that I found very refreshing, such as the clear statement at the entrance to Liberty Square, “The hope for freedom for all. And the courage to fight for it at any cost.” Walt Disney never wanted people to forget what a miracle America was, and he dedicated several parts of his amusement parks to that very service. I wanted to take my family there while the parks were still in their heyday. As for what I wanted out of the trip, I am thrilled with the results. The children were happy even though we averaged about 6 miles of walking daily with the park hopper passes. We saw a lot, experienced a tremendous amount of information, and we had a great six days at Fort Wilderness Campground going to the pool, hanging around the restaurant and trading post, and enjoying camp in one of the best in the world. We purposely picked the 100 loop, which requires a lot of advanced planning so that we were a close walk from the boat dock which had us coming and going constantly.

Yet, to my eyes the mistakes were obvious. Disney, because it’s a giant corporation with many thousands of employees to maintain has destroyed itself by the weight of its own success, like many major corporations do, and this goes way beyond the recent woke policies from BlackRock that have seriously destroyed their business model for good. The current park attendance will soon be a thing of the past because of their killed market share worldwide. Bob Iger, the current CEO should have never returned, and I’m sure he’s realizing that now. Disney needs to constantly produce fresh content that makes a billion dollars each at the box office, and those days are mostly over for them because of the status of the current youth, YouTube options, and their alienation of conservative Americans. For instance, most of the vacationers are Trump supporters at the Fort Wilderness Campground. However, the employees are mostly Democrat-leaning and to offset this discrepancy, Disney has a lot of rules they impose on their workforce to keep everyone lined up correctly. But what they end up with is something much like their rides, everything is great so long as you stay on the rails. But the illusions fall apart quickly if you step out of the boat.

And that became most obvious when we were all exhausted one night. Nobody felt like cooking, so we went to Crockett’s Tavern and the Trail’s End Restaurant to get some pizza. On one of them, we asked for a half and half, one side being deluxe, the other completely cheese because none of the little ones like toppings yet. You’d think that we asked those Disney employees to commit murder, they had a meltdown that involved discussions of being fired and all kinds of drama. It was like being in West World where the robots suddenly started shooting the customers. It was odd, but that wasn’t the only time. What was clear to me was that the expensive façade of the Disney vacation experience was thinner than it had ever been and it wasn’t taking much for that illusion to be shattered for the consumer. Disney had adopted many rules to keep their radical workforce in line and on the message that they had destroyed that personal touch that happy individuals bring to work with them. I’ve been to Disney World many times, and this most recent time showed clear signs of stress behind a radicalized workforce that was coming out against the customers such as we saw over that simple pizza. The pizza was good, and we had a fantastic time with our family. But after some old timers still working at Disney are gone, the next generation is not there to pick up the task and carry it into the future. Disney could hide this from the world so long as they could throw money at the problems. But they can’t even do that anymore. In the news this week, right after we left, Disney had to raise their ticket prices to their parks and there are reports that the CEO is seeking a peace treaty with the Republicans of Florida. The woke battles have left Disney permanently damaged as most people inclined to spend a lot of money at Disney World are also MAGA supporters. Disney joined the wrong politics in a volatile economic environment, which has been costly to them. We enjoyed ourselves. I am glad we made the trip now for the historical value of such a Disney experience in American culture. But given many of the things I observed, it won’t be there forever. It’s failing even worse than I had thought it was.

Rich Hoffman

The Mystery of Ishi-no-Hoden: foundations of Any Successful soceity

It is one of the most mysterious sites in the world, the megalithic site of Ishi-no-Hoden just south of Osaka, Japan. And I happened to be in the neighborhood and wanted to see it myself. The dates are ridiculous; many say it is 14,000 years old, which would put it in the Ice Age period and that of Gobeki Tepe in Turkey. There is plenty of evidence, and Ishi-no-Hoden is one of them, of a global culture that mass communicated and worked with large stones for purposes we are just beginning to scratch the surface of. Our previous assumptions have been pretty much shattered on this idea of evolutionary science that progressed through trade and a slow awakening of the human race. Ishi-no-Hoden shatters those beliefs, which is why it is one of the holiest sites in Japan and certainly one of their most mysterious places. So I wanted to see it for myself. Some of the most pervasive thoughts were that the creators tried to mimic a spaceship that landed in that part of the world many years ago but never finished carving it out of the rock. In that region of the world, a few miles south of Kobe, in a very dense area of suburbs along the coast, as bullet trains flash across the landscape, this strange enigma reminded me of the monolith from the 2001 Space Odyssey. It was there, and nobody understood it, so the people of Japan set up a Shinto shrine to worship it, which I witnessed several people do while I was present. It consisted of washing your hands outside from a dragon’s mouth; then you stepped into the shrine, clapping a few times, bowing a bit, and then clapping again before stepping inside. And to what god, to what force? That much isn’t all that important to the people of Japan. But showing respect and reverence was necessary, which is the real takeaway of this spectacular mystery.

I haven’t been to everything I want to see in life, all the things I have read about in books. But I’ve been to enough far-flung places in the world to see a pattern emerging that you get through diverse and voluminous reading. Then, it is validated through an actual site visit, which was undoubtedly the case with Ishi-no-Hoden. We are looking at a lost art of working rugged rock and transporting it over vast distances for unknown reasons. There are plenty of places in the world where these things have been significantly studied, but not so much in the oriental cultures of Japan, China, the Koreas, and down into India. Due to political currents and their religious nature, they don’t approach these kinds of mysteries like we do in the West, so putting the puzzle together has been slow. But the path to Ishi-no-Hoden is essentially a single-lane road that zig zags through numerous suburbs of very compact living by the Japanese people. Access to such an area is intended for tiny cars without much traffic. But once we did arrive at the site, it was pretty unspectacular from the outside. Not much of a parking lot and some industrial buildings in the surrounding vicinity. Ishi-no-Hoden was a project of carving this massive structure out of the mountainside, as many such quarries have been conducted in that precise region to get the foundation stones for the many castles and temples built all over Japan. If such a site had been in America or England, it would have had an amusement park entrance, much like Stonehenge. This site is just as spectacular as any place in the world. Yet, it is undoubtedly not presumptuous.

I love the amusement park-like tourism at Stonehenge. I think it’s good for science to make it so that so many people can visit it and get involved in its mystery. But there is nothing like that at Ishi-no-Hoden. There is nothing much on its history or relevancy. Only a shrine, the emphasis was on worship rather than understanding, which is good and bad, depending on what you want to take from the experience. During my visit to the area and interacting with the people, knowing what was happening around my home, I distinctly appreciated this site and its Japanese reaction. Ishi-no-Hoden has no relationship to modern-day Japanese culture, and they have not claimed it. Only to pay it respect, which says a lot about them as a people. It is just as logical to say that aliens landed from the planet Sirus, which many believe because of the high diet of ocean goods and reverence for dragons that are distinct from Western viewpoints, or to say that a race of giants was making some mechanical device that was to be used in some vast structure. When you see Ishi-no-Hoden and put your hands on it, its dimensions are exact and purposeful. And not applicable to the kind of cultures we have been studying throughout our historical understanding. Which is why I wanted to visit this site mainly. It is one of those places where you can still put your hands on the object and consider it as it was constructed, not as humans have attempted to interpret it meagerly.

I’ve been to Japan before, but this particular time, I couldn’t help but compare it to other places in the world that I’ve been and notice how polite and together the people of Japan are. As I interacted a lot with Kobe just to the north of Ishi-no-Hoden, I saw a lot of shrines with incense burning right in the heart of town. And the people are so polite, crime is way down, and the people themselves are good to deal with. These are cultural traits that come straight from their Shinto-Buddhist beliefs. I get along best with these people because I understand their firm convictions. In the West, we should have the same kind of reverence for our Bible. It’s not so much in believing that what you believe is correct but that you have some foundation of thought rooted in a belief in something. Visiting Ishi-no-Hoden and seeing these beliefs play out with so many people was interesting. The function of their rituals gave their souls comfort, leading to a productive society in all aspects, from business to buying a Coke in Chinatown. All the transactions with the Japanese people were respectful and effective, which comes directly from their belief systems. It doesn’t matter that Ishi-no-Hoden is connected to their Shinto religion. But what matters is that it is an object of mystery and deserves respect. Which they then functionally give it. And in that transaction of care, the essential elements of their culture are revealed in very productive ways. For them, it doesn’t matter where Ishi-no-Hoden came from. What does matter is that they honor its existence with respect, which comes from a culture that believes such things are essential because they are. The lesson of places like Ishi-no-Hoden, which can be applied worldwide, and to many different religions, isn’t the truth about the past, but in respecting what it has taught us, and using that knowledge for our future. And that belief is always paved with respect as the basic foundation, and from there, whatever happens, will at least be rooted in value.

Rich Hoffman

I Endorse Bernie Mareno for Ohio Senate: The necessity of Defeating the radical Democrat Sherrod Brown

I had been thinking about Frank LaRose for the next senate seat in Ohio, where Sherrod Brown, the long-time extremely progressive Democrat, is vulnerable.  There are three Republicans looking to take a shot at taking on Sherrod Brown, and because he was Secretary of State and I knew the most about him, Frank was well positioned to defeat Sherrod Brown, which will be a tough job under optimal conditions.  I remember how tough it was when another person I supported, Jim Renacci, tried to do it a few years back but fell short.  Jim left some opportunities on the table, so this has been cooking in the background for quite a while.  Winning this seat would significantly impact the balance in the Senate from Democrat control to Republican.  But it needs to be a good Republican, and there was an upgrade when Rob Portman stepped down and J.D. Vance won that seat opposite Sherrod Brown.  Rob Portman had essentially become a Democrat, and between him and Sherrod Brown, Ohio was not being represented in the federal Senate with conservative values.  So, this next chance at Sherrod Brown was critical, and I thought only Frank had a chance.  The other guy running is another person I have met a few times, Matt Dolan.  He’s a good guy, but he’s a traditional country club Republican who doesn’t think much of Trump supporters, and nobody is going to win anything in Ohio if they don’t have the Trump base.  Plus Matt is one of the owners of the Cleveland Guardians baseball team in Cleveland and people haven’t forgotten how he caved to woke pressure to change the name from the Indians, which people miss.  So he is damaged goods.  Then there was this guy Bernie Mareno, who I didn’t know much about until I met him at a fundraiser for Nancy Nix.

I was surprised that Nancy Nix had already come out in favor of Bernie at that point.  But the special election in August hadn’t happened yet, and the loss on Issue 1 essentially damaged Frank LaRose for the foreseeable future.  And I couldn’t help but think how funny Bernie Mareno was at that event, which featured comedians for entertainment. That was quite a nice touch by Nancy.  Nancy usually has a great sense of people in politics, so I pay attention to who she supports and why, and suddenly, Bernie Mareno looked a lot better for that senate seat.  So, I was already leaning in the direction of Bernie when I had a chance to have lunch with him and get to know him better.  And I’m glad I did because there are things I learned that I wouldn’t have otherwise come to know about him personally, which makes him to me an emphatic yes on an endorsement. Bernie Mareno is undoubtedly the best Republican to take on Sherrod Brown, and after hearing from his team, they have the best game plan I have heard yet for taking down the long-time Democrat.  Bernie was good on all the conservative boxes, great on Ukraine support, great on business first in Ohio, and great on MAGA positions.  He has been a successful businessperson, so he has an independence that I find very valuable in political figures.  After spending some time with Bernie it was clear to me why Nancy came out so early in endorsing him.  Bernie was likable, brilliant, and getting into politics for all the right reasons.  Essentially, and I understand completely, he’s at a place where he has been very successful and wants to leave the country in good hands to the next generation. 

Unlike Frank LaRose, who is now damaged goods politically because of the Issue 1 failure, and Matt Dolan, who does not like Trump supporters and is best known for changing his name under woke pressure, Bernie Mareno is a well-connected fresh face.  He has a great relationship with J.D. Vance, the current senator.  I had met J.D. under similar circumstances in the backyard of Nancy Nix, by her pool, ironically.  So, it has been interesting to watch this new generation of politicians emerge and build a new teamwork network.  And Bernie is undoubtedly part of that because with J.D. Vance also comes relationships with the Trump family, especially Don Jr and Kimberly Guilfoyle.  Bernie also told me that he had formal endorsements from Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA, so these were all great things, and there are many more to come.  Bernie Mareno had quietly put together all the pieces for a successful run against Sherrod Brown that he would need, which certainly consolidated the Trump MAGA base in Ohio without ostracizing all the other degrees of Republicans along the way, which can be a tricky balance.  And he’s full-time committed to running for this seat, which means a lot of leg work across Ohio, which he has already been utilizing, with a lot more work to do.  But it’s a tough job, even with great endorsements, and one obvious thing was that Bernie Mareno was a hard worker who was faith-based.  We talked about God and moral perspective on the Washington D.C. culture, which he was great at.  And he had the right mindset for what it would take and the energy to put it all to work. 

I endorse Bernie Mareno for the Ohio Senate seat.  I would give it based on what I know about Bernie himself.  All the other good stuff is just reassurance.  To beat Sherrod Brown, you must be able to tap into his union support in the northeast, and only the Trump base can do that with the percentages needed.  There are a lot of union people who support Trump and are willing to vote for Republicans on anything, so long as Trump is part of the story.  Then, of course, the rest of the puzzle is that Bernie will have to perform with significant margins in the southwest.  Only Bernie has a chance at any of this.  I worry about Frank being stubborn and not repairing his brand before another run because he could easily make himself a future Ron DeSantis.  You lose a lot of political capital when you suffer a loss, and Frank needs to be part of some wins before he attempts anything like a state race again.  And, of course, the MAGA base won’t turn out for Dolan, and at this stage, there is no way to be who he isn’t.  Dolan will get soft support and nothing better, and that won’t peel away any votes from Sherrod Brown.  Only Bernie Mareno has a plan and personality to pull that off, which is exciting.  I’ve heard a lot of happy talk over the years about taking on Sherrod Brown, but nobody has had the gas in the tank to do it.  Bernie Mareno does.  And I’m looking forward to watching it happen over the coming race.  Replacing Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown with J.D. Vance and now Bernie Mareno would be excellent for Republican politics and change the face of the Senate into a much more conservative body of representative government.  And it is what Ohio deserves after several long years of the wrong people representing us.  We all deserve better, and Bernie Mareno is what we should have had all along. 

Rich Hoffman

The Biden Administration is Guilty of the Hamas Attack on Israel: If you want to be safe and protect your family, carry a gun

A very ancient evil was evident on the faces of the Hamas attackers in Israel, and they wanted the world to see it. A lot is going on with that attack, but the key takeaway I think best came from Jack Posobiec when he talked about the quality of actual intel people who should have warned the world that this attack was coming. Jack is a frequent contributor on the WarRoom podcast and has some background in military intelligence, so he should know, and it’s been my experience as well. Intel agents aren’t what we’d like them to be, which are Jason Bourne and James Bond types of characters; all too often, they are hipsters standing around the office in hiking tennis shoes sipping on coffee. What we see in the movies is a myth; it’s what we’d like to aspire to. But reality is a long way from such ambitions. And it’s because of this that the world is such a dangerous place. We invest a lot of money in government to make us feel safe, yet something like this attack on Israel can still happen. So, it has all been an expensive illusion and is a very sobering reminder of why we have a Second Amendment. Those poor people in Israel, where entire families were killed when Hamas decided to make a move of outright terrorism against their sworn enemy, the creation of Israel in the first place, would have been far better off if they had been carrying guns and could have shot back. Because in the end, that’s the only answer to such evil, which is very much a part of the world, especially the dangerous world of liberalism as radical Marxists everywhere have made it. Many evil people were blowing on the fires of that Hamas attack in the background, and the lesson is that the world is not safe, and the government is not there to protect people. Instead, the opposite is the case.

The Biden administration knew this attack was coming, and so did everyone else. That is why the border policy of the Biden people suddenly wanted to build Trump’s wall, a reversal from them that had a lot of people scratching their heads. They know what they have done, and without question, there are many sleeper cells of Hamas and other terrorists operating within the United States, hiding in the density of our cities until they decide to perform a similar attack. The only reason something like that hasn’t happened yet in America is because of the amount of guns that we own. It is significantly more challenging to behave as Hamas did in Israel when the public is as armed as in America. Gun-free zones still have a lot of danger, but the house-to-house raids, the checkpoints where entire families were slaughtered, and the young women raped next to their husbands and parents wouldn’t occur without bullets flying in the other direction. And when you see that blank look on the faces of the Biden people in the American government, and the mindless clinging to sending more money to Israel to show support is their only answer of reassurance, that’s how bad it is. Only gun ownership can protect people from such an audacious attack. And that would be my advice to everyone in the world who can; as the Administrative State continues to fail and the Deep State withers under the pressure of their destructive policies that they can’t hide from the public any longer, the animals of the world, groups like these Hamas terrorists, are going to emerge and do what humans have done for thousands of years when values are removed from their core conduct. And the danger is never far behind.

The Biden and the Obama administrations before them are to blame; they have been paying off terrorists in Iran, supporting the terrorist state with money infusion at every subversive opportunity, including the 6 billion recently that has many people talking. But rather than let the radical Marxist elements hiding behind the Quaran whither away under their weight, these progressive globalist groups have sought to keep Iran alive and well to support state-sponsored terrorism worldwide. So that is why there is a Hamas terror cell, to begin with, and as many of those Palestinian sympathizers said in New York rallies in the wake of this devastation, they see themselves as the resistance to evil and imperial Israel, which they are determined to destroy. I’ve given the history before; Islam was a tactical invention of the Arabs from the last days of the Roman Empire to push back against Christianity in the region. I’ve read the Quaran many times and know it very well, and my opinion of it is not one of divine revelation but of political intent to undermine Roman influence at that time and the Crusades that followed. It was always a creation to hide the old gods of Mesopotamia and Canaan behind a solitary figure and attack the very premise of Western Civilization. So, there isn’t any peace, as many initially supported Israel’s creation through secret societies. The people of the Near East and the East would never allow such a power to emerge, so they would always plot and scheme its destruction. The only thing that keeps them in check is the threat of force, a strong United States supporting Israel, or personal power from gun ownership.

I would say that many of the evil forces captured on video wanted the world to be outraged.  But the people committing the acts are too stupid to do much of all this alone.  They have a network of influence that empowers them, and when you pay terrorists to be terrorists, as the Biden administration has done, those malicious animals will be inclined to do what they did.  But the message to the world is frustrated fear, just as it was with Covid.  In election-year politics, the globalists are grabbing for straws now as they see where populism is going.  Ukraine hasn’t been working to unite the world behind a cause, which taps into ideas of biblical apocalypse and diverts people from the economic depression that is getting ready to hit the books.  Or the antics of the Biden crime family.  China’s desire to attack Taiwan while the world is watching the tragedy of the biblical homeland and has their minds occupied by audacity.  Everyone needs to know that you are on your own regarding safety and security.  The CIA, the FBI, and other intel agencies supposed to keep everyone safe are filled with the wrong people.  Not the tough guys of our movies but the social rejects who couldn’t get a real job doing real things.  We saw that failure during 9/11 where the CIA and FBI didn’t compare notes, and we ended up with a bunch of panicky politicians throwing money and more government at the problem as if that would solve everything.  But it only made the world more dangerous because when you pay terrorists, even with appeasement, you get more terrorism. After all, they see it gets their attention.  The guilty parties were always saying peace at all costs when the maniacal evil we could see on the terrorist faces of Hamas was so raw and quickly displayed that it continues unchallenged.  Ultimately, the only thing that keeps the world safe, somewhat so, is gun ownership, which everyone should be pushing for, not just in the United States. 

Rich Hoffman

Senator George Lang and SB 132: Ohio is open for business, and the marketplace will reflect value

I have been getting a lot of questions about Senator George Lang’s support of a bill moving around in Columbus, SB 132, which involves all the gender neutrality talk that is so prevalent in politics these days, and why I still support him because of it. While I have strong ideas about social responsibility and behavior, I have known George Lang for a long time and know his mind and family. And I know his politics. I reached out to talk to George about this controversial bill and understand where he’s at on it, which I can sympathize with. Because when you deal with a lot of people and are functioning from a broad base, you go into it knowing that there are lots of people from lots of different backgrounds and beliefs that you are going to work with, and you must be secure enough in your integrity not to become corrupted by the exchange. And to understand George Lang, and this is kind of a running joke in Columbus in a good way, George is all about business first. His second concern is business first. His third concern is business first, etc. I certainly understand that George Lang is primarily concerned about bringing more business opportunities to Ohio. Having an excellent economy allows us to have deeper conversations about political discourse. And to attract businesses, you must address all their concerns, which presently are formulated by BlackRock and many other progressive influences. And when you are dealing with businesspeople, you are dealing with Chamber of Commerce types.

Chamber of Commerce people are different than other people, and when you are working to bring business into Ohio, you will deal with them.  Most members of the Chamber are not the kind of people writing philosophy books; they have room in their lives for how they make a living and maybe two other things: raising their families and a hobby, like golf.  They do not have the time, mental capacity, or even a remote desire to deal with political philosophy.  They want employees, they want to be in legal compliance, and they are interested in checking all their BlackRock boxes.  That is George Lang’s interest in SB 132, to stay consistent with his Business First Caucus and address the concerns of the Chamber types.  The SB 132 Ohio Fairness Act aims to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes under Ohio’s anti-discrimination laws, which employers are concerned about.  If Ohio has restrictions along these lines, investing the money it takes to bring business into Ohio is not attractive since people who run companies come from all kinds of political backgrounds. 

This move has been met with mixed reactions from both sides of the political spectrum. Supporters argue that this is a necessary step towards equality and fairness for all Ohioans, while opponents claim that it infringes religious freedom and could lead to legal battles.  The Ohio Fairness Act would provide legal protections for these individuals in areas such as employment, housing, and public accommodations.

The bill has also been endorsed by several prominent organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Human Rights Campaign. These organizations argue that protecting LGBTQ+ individuals from discrimination is a matter of fundamental human rights and dignity.

On the other hand, opponents of the bill have raised concerns about the potential impact on religious organizations and small businesses. They argue that these groups could be forced to violate their beliefs or face legal action.

However, the Ohio Fairness Act includes provisions that protect religious organizations and small businesses from being forced to violate their beliefs. The bill also has exemptions for religious schools and organizations, allowing them to continue operating according to their ideas.

I think the marketplace will determine the value of a product or service, such as Chick-fil-A, which maintains Christian values in its business model, such as not being open on Sunday.  People value those types of positions, and they tend to support businesses that reflect their values.  But it is up to the company to figure out its way; it is the government’s job, in this case, to remove the barriers so that the discussion can occur.  I’m certainly the type who would want the government to regulate sexually oriented businesses and businesses that embrace drug abuse.  I’d even support bans on alcohol because I see very little good that comes from a culture that seeks intoxication.  But some people like that, so I respect what people want to do within reason, so long as they don’t drag me into it.  Which is the balancing act on SB 132.  George is certainly a conservative, but as a legislator, he tells the world that Ohio is open for business.  And we may not like the kind of businesses wanting to come to Ohio.  Yet, we are opening the door to investment and the variety of projects people want to invest in while trusting that the marketplace will sort out the good from the bad.  I don’t want government to get into the business of deciding morality.  I like the government to remove barriers, even if walls might be desirable to my philosophy. 

Which is essentially what SB 132 does.  It will be the marketplace that determines the kind of culture we have.  If a potential business has employees or plans to hire employees from all sorts of diverse backgrounds, then that concern must be addressed at the point of investment, which is George’s interest in this bill.  Suppose a company is concerned about its ESG score, which those of us who are politically astute find objectionable and know that those ESG scores will not be in the future of American politics. In that case, most Chamber of Commerce people have already accepted that they will be a forever concern.  And if Ohio is not accommodating, they won’t get the opportunity to give a business ground to sink roots into.  And that’s the trick: how much compromise is appropriate in politics, a little, a lot?  And how do you not get lost in settlement to where you are just another political hack?  The George Lang I know stays out of those debates, even though people are concerned that he is losing his way, by staying focused on business first in Ohio and letting the morality of the marketplace determine success and failure, which I agree with.  We are free to debate the matter which will ultimately influence market share.  And to my eyes, and knowing enough about George to know his conservative feelings on these things in ways many people haven’t had the opportunity to, I can say that he hasn’t lost his way.  I would have much harder lines, but I also have the freedom to express my opinion more than he does, who needs to reach a broad base as a representative.  President Trump would have similar thoughts as George’s as a businessman.  You never want to create artificial limits for productive endeavors.  The philosophy and ethics will be worked out every time by the morality of the marketplace, which is where this discussion resides. 

Rich Hoffman

Lynda O’Conner, the Spokesperson of Moral Depravity: Darbi Boddy’s attorney on the Bull Dog Show

One thing you never want to do, and I think I am excessively fair to the people around me.  Even if I disagree, I give people a lot of latitude in how they live their personal lives.  You never want to make me an accomplice to moral depravity, which is precisely what Lakota school board member Lynda O’Conner had done with me in how she handed Darbi Boddy, a fellow school board member and other members of the Lakota staff during the year of 2022.  I can deal with disagreements over topics and people who think ultimately differently than I do.  But don’t ever think that threatening me in any way possible to hide bad behavior will have some profitable outcome.  And that happened on an August afternoon while I was with my family in St. Ignace, Michigan, after spending a long day on Mackinac Island, getting ice cream and trying to enjoy a charming day.  I was reminded of just how bad the Lakota situation has been, and still is through an interview with Eric Deters and Darbi’s attorney Robert Croskery.  I have a history with both people, so it captured my interest when I saw that they had done an interview together.  And in so doing, it reminded me of that August day, and specifically my entire relationship with Lynda O’Conner up to that point, which I would have said was a friend.  Early in the process before there were ever tag-alongs, I was trying to help Lynda get a majority vote on the school board because I liked her and felt sorry for her situation, this was before there were any other people who invested in Darbi’s political efforts when it was early, and people were trying to save the world. 

I don’t get involved in such things quickly; getting me on someone’s schedule for anything is hard. I’m a very busy person and in these last few years, I have traveled a lot, including that referenced time in St. Ignace where I was on a family trip in our RVs and my phone was lighting up with all this panic from the police report I suggested the Butler County Sheriff’s department look at before anybody jumped to crazy conclusions about the previous superintendent at Lakota schools. I’m not the one who was involved in all the bad behavior, but once I know that such horrendous things are happening in my community, it’s my business. I’ve lived in Butler County longer than most people have been alive, certainly longer than the Skippy types who are always whispering in the ear of Lynda O’Conner from the Rinos for Lakota groups that she would tell me about. But what was obvious to me early in the process as all these forces decided they were going to “get Darbi” much the way those same types of people in politics are trying to “get Trump” you realize that the efforts at personal destruction are to hide the horrendously bad and immoral lifestyles of a lot of people in the Lakota school system. And they feel entitled to destroy the lives of anybody they choose to preserve their lust for moral depravity. I already think public schools are horrible for children, but when there is evidence that the adults are advocating for moral corruption with taxpayer money, making me part of the process, fury is going to be the natural reaction, and everyone should understand that going in, especially Lynda O’Conner who is the current school board president running for re-election. The dirty tricks that have come from her and efforts at personal destruction have been unforgivable. To what degree was obvious in hearing Darbi’s attorney once again on the Bulldog Show with Eric Deters.

Outside a Lynda O’Conner fundraiser October 7th 2023

So there we were; I had my kids and grandkids in St. Ignace getting ice cream on an excellent double-decker bus converted to a restaurant with a nice view of Lake Huron and Mackinac Island. The word was coming to me as we were distributing those ice creams to the kids, and they were all fighting for my attention in healthy ways, that legal action was headed in my direction by a bunch of scandalous characters who were emerging from that police report as having done some evil activity. And I was not OK with that. That’s when I got a call from Darbi’s attorney, Robert Croskery, which I took reluctantly. At that point, I was tired of talking to lawyers, which interfered with my travel. A few calls were fine, but this was nonstop for several days. So, by the time Robert called, I had my guard up, figuring that it would be a careful conversation in legalese. I was not enthusiastic about talking to him. But by the time we were finished, I realized just how good some people can be, and Robert was undoubtedly one of them. Darbi was, too. Many good people were getting pushed around and bullied over actions that Lynda O’Conner was directly responsible for, and I wasn’t going to turn my back on any of them. Even if I only wanted to read the police report and eat some ice cream with my grandchildren on a nice day in upper Michigan.

Lynda has brought a clown show to Lakota. It has been her leadership that has done it.

And the ridiculousness has continued, but it hasn’t been Darbi that was the problem; it has been an effort led by Lynda O’Conner to hide truly moral depravity behind legal action Lakota thought it could hide behind to intimidate private people into shutting up about it.  Once I returned from this trip and read the contents of what the police had reported about their investigation, which was very much watered down to protect the Lakota people, I was infuriated that Lynda could have read the same report and then chosen to be the spokesperson for moral depravity in our community—many of the losers surrounding her, who were advising her very badly I understood.  The swingers, cheaters, and personal scum bags who will do anything for the free babysitting service Lakota offers neurotic, lazy parents too busy to care for their children felt entitled to bizarre liberal lifestyles they expected the taxpayers to fund.  And I was not OK with it.  So, I have supported the only school board member who has been honest with me during all this, Darbi Boddy.  As Lynda has been a friend, I will not maintain friendships with people who chose to be spokesmen for moral depravity in my community or anywhere.  For the swingers and casual drug users who decide to participate in destructive social lifestyles, that’s a personal choice until you drag me into it.  And once I find out about it, I’m then involved.  But don’t ever think that I will be intimidated into turning away from that awful behavior, masking itself as some altruistic conservative movement, all this “greater good stuff.”  Don’t hire derelict employees; get rid of them when you find out how bad they are.  And don’t ever try to make me part of the story.  I’m glad that people like Robert Croskery are out there defending good people like Darbi Boddy.  And I like seeing that people who supported Darbi are willing to stand up to moral depravity when it certainly wasn’t to their social advantage to do so.  But I wouldn’t say I like seeing what Lynda O’Conner has been willing to do when faced with such vast moral depravity.  Rather than reject it, she became one of its strongest advocates.  And to the way I see things, that is reprehensible. 

Rich Hoffman

‘Irresistible Revolution’ by Matthew Lohmeier: Marxism is everywhere and people are just now willing to admit to it

I was having a perfect top-grade Kobe steak in Japan with a friend of mine, a retired colonel in the military when the next layer of discussions started to happen. Usually, in polite conversation, you talk about all the surface stuff from the time you order until the food arrives, between 15 to 20 minutes. And in those conversations, you talk about family, hobbies, and general interests that are usually neutrally driven, and non-political. I typically have many of those where the actual talk of anything never has time to hatch. Yet these days, more often, that polite conversation is not happening and people are discussing with me the heart of most matters, the actual survival of the human race in what appears to be the apocalypse as described by John in the Book of Revelation. Usually, among military people, people who work all their lives with ranks and procedures have typically kept their opinions to themselves. But growing among this group is a concern that they have had for a long time, accelerated by their observations of woke policies advancing into the military, they are not happy about it, and they want to do whatever they can to save it. My advice to them is to vote for Trump in the next election. But our dinner conversation went further than that, and a book recommendation came my way which I then read quickly once I returned to my room, and finished while on the plane back to the States. I was surprised by it because I usually get recommended these types of books, and I don’t learn much new. But the book Irresistible Revolution by Matthew Lohmeier was excellent and current. It’s only a few years old, but as I read it, I was surprised by the content because it went down the rabbit hole on Marxism in America in ways I had not seen before from what I would consider a mainstream, military personality.

Honestly, this is the talk of the world; people aren’t happy, normal, regular, everyday people. They ask me about the crazy politics in the United States and their first concern is “When will Trump be back,” because the world wants a strong dollar, and they want a political defender of it because most of the world sees what’s been happening now that the trouble has arrived at their front door by way of altered supply chains, the hidden tax of inflation, and the moral depravity of the current generation. And especially military people, once they achieve a high enough rank to express their opinions, they are concerned by what they see, which is the case of this author has a very respectable military career that migrated into the recent Space Force and has several advanced degrees. He’s not Alex Jones or Glenn Beck, who is known for conspiracy theories; he is a regular guy who has been among the best that the military produced, and I was surprised to hear other knowledgeable people beginning to talk about the cost of woke policy to American policy generally, and how destructive it has been. It was something that they wouldn’t have been caught doing before 2019, which was the last excellent year for America in most categories before Covid came along, and the unmasking of Marxism overtly showed itself to an unsuspecting public. What was unique about this particular book, Irresistible Revolution was that it was saying about Marxism much of what I have, but it was coming from another reliable source with a cutting critic that was very refreshing, and helpful to many people who are now clamoring for some sense of sanity, wondering what is wrong with the world.

It’s true, even though the Illuminati only lasted for just over a decade as a secret society political movement, before it was eradicated, dissolved under its own pressure, or went underground and stayed underground behind the Masonic activity disguised as something else, what political people would in the future call globalism, Marxism was a creation by them to perform precisely what we are seeing today, the overthrow of all the world’s governments so that a one world government ran by these secret society orders could then run everyone from the background. The culmination of all these plans over the last several centuries was in Covid, used as a bioweapon of terrorism to stun the world into global compliance. But the goal was always the spread of Marxism to every corner of the world to gain control of powerful countries’ governments in an international chess game meant to confiscate the world’s wealth into a centrally controlled power. Don’t forget Karl Marx and his friends at the time were Masons, and it was through that order that Marxism spread behind the many social masks they wore in public to advance the old aims of the Illuminati, which created the policies of Marxism and then spread them. How does anybody think that Vladimir Lenin was in exile and suddenly, by train, was sent to St Petersburg to overthrow Russia, and it did it on its own? That sounds pretty wild to regular people who don’t read many books and get their news from CNN or Fox News. But that is part of the mask that has hidden Marxism from everyone’s views because it was too wild of an idea even to be accurate. Yet, now we know it was all too real all along.

I have known these things about Marxism in our culture for the last three decades.  It has only been recently, though, that all the dots connected into how Marxism became the weapon of choice by the global insurgents and how they were able to spread their message, which was particularly appealing to low-level masonic initiates who thought they were studying the workings of Christ and not the ancient wisdom of Thoth and the seeding of the earth by an experiment of the gods contained in hidden history that isn’t so hidden these days.  The government of the world by these people using selected biblical passages to soft sell it to an unsuspecting public was Marxism, and we have it dripping wet all over American culture because nobody knew what they were dealing with.  The names were changed, and the motivations sold as wholesome and fair, until those masks have come off over the last few years to show what they were all along.  And in that crisis, we have very good people like the colonel I was talking about and military people like Matthew Lohmeier, who are heroically ringing the bell to alarm others to their discoveries.  I read Irresistible Revolution and thought it was about time for this level of conversation.  People just weren’t ready to admit to it before Trump came along and exposed this maniacal scheme.  But the truth is what it is, and Matthew Lohmeier hit the nail on the head.  And I can’t recommend enough to people his excellent book on Marxism.  But I would add, that it’s not just in the military, but in all levels of society, especially in corporate culture.  And Marxism will have to be destroyed everywhere in the world.  It’s the current world war.  It’s wrapped up in finance, entertainment, and politics; Secret societies spread it, not so secretly, and now the damage is apparent.  And before us for time to judge our reaction to it.  And with all that said, that Kobe steak was delicious, as was the conversation afterward.

Rich Hoffman

The Trump Hurrican is Coming: Yes, they think you are stupid

Here’s what you need to know about the Hunter Biden indictments: it’s a bone of sacrifice to the gods of politics hoping to appease them in the same way that ancient Canaanites would sacrifice their firstborn children to Baal and Moloch hoping good fortune might be granted to the perpetrator of death and doom.  And these people think we are all stupid, and we will take the sacrifice and move along, and all things political will return to control of the SWAMP.  No, it means that Trump has a sizable lead over Biden a year away from the election, and the media is finally catching up to what I’ve been saying all along.  If ABC, owned by Disney, is willing to admit that Trump is winning by 10 points now, you know that the internals are much worse for Democrats, and there aren’t too many with their hand up willing to take on the bloodbath that is coming.  If Democrats can’t cheat to win elections, and this one has a lot of eyes on it, and they know it, they will lose massively everywhere.  I just finished several trips worldwide, across the United States and back again, and it’s the same question: when will Trump fix everything that Biden broke?  Nobody is looking at Biden and thinking he represents anything for the future.  He represents destruction and mayhem, and people are onto the game.  They aren’t taking the bait of a sudden set of meaningless indictments sent toward Hunter Biden, especially after all we know about him.  Much more serious charges should be sent in his direction, but nobody expects anything to come of those.  We are dealing with a rigged justice system built to keep corrupt politicians in power, and people are tired of it. 

That same kind of oblivious sentiment was evident over the talks of the CR that Kevin McCarthy signed up with to join Democrats in further funding the country’s destruction, breaking the essential promises he made when he obtained the Speaker of the House earlier this year.  Those days of cosmetic hugging on the house floor and crying politicians seeking compassion over logic have put our country into dangerous inflation as the crooks that made people like Hunter Biden spend us all into desecration like drunken sailors on one last heist.  And Merrick Garland thinks he can lecture us all about an ” impartial ” Justice Department and not working as the personal attorney for President Biden.  Of course, McCarthy should lose his Speaker role.  He lied to his people and made deals with the Devil in the vile Democrats.  The price of milk is high, we are dealing with $6 eggs, everyone is being crushed by the hidden tax of poorly run government, and the pitchforks are about to come out, and Democrats and RINO Republicans know it.  They see the internal polling and understand what the actual numbers are saying.  Trump is poised to win every state in America in the next election by margins that are not even close.  And many people will be out of power unless they turn to violence, which they are contemplating as we speak.  But first, they will try the old trick of lying to us, as they have gotten away with in the past, and see if we are still all suckers who will go away and leave them alone.  And to take the edge off the many indictments thrown at Trump to keep him out of the race, they have tossed these silly charges at Hunter Biden, hoping to make things look fair when the opposite is true.

The scam was always proposed behind a mask of civility.  We were supposed to believe that middle-class suburban moms wouldn’t vote for Trump because of his mean tweets and harsh opinions about his rivals.  That the world wanted fair treatment of political opponents, not hostile bloodletting.  And we were supposed not to judge Hunter Biden; he could be anybody’s kid.  We all make mistakes, don’t we?  And Matt Gaetz should not seek to remove Speaker McCarthy from his Speaker role because the Speaker was working in a “bipartisan way,” after all, Matt doesn’t have the votes.  We are all supposed to take this level of corruption because the system is too rigged to change, so we should send this ridiculous government our taxes and shut up and mind our own business.  The bad guys out there think these things about us because they think we are as stupid as they are and corrupt.  We are guilty of trusting them as much as we might trust a neighbor with a lawn mower.  They have lied to us, and we are hurt by it, and now it’s time to pay all these losers back.  And they fear what kind of world that’s going to look like.  I don’t know that anybody has ever seen such a thing.  But I can say that after all my traveling, people are just holding their noses with Biden until they can get Trump back, and they can’t wait to vote for him.  That is what the Biden crime family indictments are really about appeasement, not justice, to protect a corrupt system beyond repair. 

The politics of the future in America and the world will not be as it has been in the past.  What gave us this world of over 30 trillion in debt will not last in the future, and those who have blown on that destruction for their strategic aims are caught as well.  The world that allowed them to do so much terror behind charities and altruistic press releases differs from where real value dictates behavior; people must be what they sell themselves as.  The forked tongue of the Kevin McCarthy types is precisely the kind of purge that the Republican Party will have to endure.  And there are no Democrats that can be saved, aside from a few unique people like Robert Kennedy.  The entire Democrat Party has been built on a beach of lies, and the testaments of their ambition are but sandcastles facing a hurricane.  And that Hurricane is Trump, a category five that is about to hit in the middle of their plans.  I have been watching all these old politicians who thought over the last three years that things would snap back into some pre-2016 political mode run by lawyers, consultants, and corrupt magistrates.  That was never going to happen.  Yet many people believed it, and the flimsiness of their plans is evident in their actions and the depth of their corruption shows in the Hunter Biden indictments as if they thought that would shake the world off the justice that is coming in these upcoming elections.  Sorry, everyone, but the Trump hurricane is coming, and you can only blame yourselves.  You should have listened.  I have been warning every day for more than three years now.  The government is not in charge; the people are in America, and these government people have been caught not reporting to the boss.  And there will be a lot of Hell to pay, so get out your wallets and purses.  Its time.

Rich Hoffman