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Trump’s Executive Order ‘Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections’: The size of AOC’s caboose

They have no choice, and this is always the case when it comes to unearned merit.  The best way to root out bad behavior is to prevent it from being masked by good conduct.  And that is what the Democrat party has been doing for many years.  People didn’t know what Democrats believed since they hid the Bernie Sanders types behind people like Hillary Clinton, who were every bit as radical, but they knew how to put on a little show to con people into thinking they weren’t what they were.  There have been some alarming concerns that large crowds have been attending Fight the Oligarchy rallies, which Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been holding in various college towns, and whether these gatherings will inspire a similar movement among Democrats.  The answer is no.  They do not have the numbers.  What they are doing is smoke and mirrors by carefully picking sites where lots of broken people and college kids are concentrated with their overtly socialist message.  They couldn’t get those kinds of crowds outside of very specific areas, but it looks good for the cameras.  And it has alarmed some Republicans who keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for the pendulum to swing the other way.  But that is loser thinking.  The facts of the matter are that Democrats had no choice, and this has only further uncovered them in ways that they have been trying to hide.  Their party is a radical branch of European communism, a left-wing form of populism they tried to hide from the public, just as Republicans tried to hide the pro-capitalism of their party by resisting Trump.  Bernie Sanders was their form of populism, which they wanted to control and conceal, as they needed the illusion to trick voters into supporting them.  But now the cat is out of the bag, and everyday people can see what they have always been, all along.

The only thing I have learned recently regarding these Bernie Sanders rallies is just how big the caboose is for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  I thought she was thinner than that, but she is carrying too many potatoes in her rump, to put it nicely.  And if she is the best that they have, they have some real problems.  But that’s where they find themselves.  When they had a chance, they turned away from Bernie, who had been drawing good crowds during his two recent runs for President, along with Trump.  And the Democrat machine turned away from him and instead invested the party brand behind Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris because they thought sex and skin color were enough to convince people to vote for socialism, that Americans could be guilted into supporting overt communism.  And that turned out to be completely the wrong strategy.  I could have told them otherwise.  I did tell them.  But nobody listened, and they arrogantly did what they did, and Democrats, finding they didn’t have a home any longer, peeled away and joined Trump and the MAGA movement.  I said as much during Bernie’s first run for office when the Democrats rigged the primary in favor of Hillary Clinton and pushed Bernie aside.  Those same disjointed crowds support Bernie, but the problem they have is one of math.  They don’t have the numbers.  If they had stuck with Bernie in 2016 and 2020, they might have done better, but even then, they didn’t have the numbers.  However, what has happened since the 2024 election is party-destroying numbers, which is why there is so much theatrical presentation by them that comes across as so phony.  Because of Trump unifying the Republican party so resoundingly over the last 9 years and essentially three terms as an American President, Democrats had no response, and it has essentially destroyed them as a political party.

What we are seeing in these crowds are the communists and overall Marxists, who have always been there.  College campuses teach Marxism, so there are a lot of confused kids with weak relationships with their parents who are easy to sell socialism, communism, and Marxism to.  Kids are not very confident in their life skills and are prone to being misled by a victimization cycle message.  But one thing that happens to people as they get older is generally, they become much less Marxist and much more Republican because as they work in life and have to run their families with responsibility, their political views come back to reality and they vote more conservatively.  We observe a pattern among school levy supporters in local districts: young parents tend to vote yes for higher taxes because they are uninformed.  They aren’t yet very sophisticated about how the world works, and they want to believe in a massive social safety net, especially since that’s what they were taught in school.  But the older they get, the less that sounds like a good idea, so they peel away and move to the political right with each year that goes by.  And if a community has a large number of people over 50, then school levy issues tend to fail.  That is the same condition with general political sympathies.  The crowds Bernie is attracting are those who have had their safety net disrupted, so they seek the comfort of a crowd to validate their feelings.  Not to show support for a more independent and self-initiating capitalist government, the way it is with the MAGA crowd. 

The solution is straightforward, and President Trump is already addressing it. On March 25, 2025, he signed an executive order titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.”  This order aims to overhaul election processes in the United States, focusing on tightening voting regulations through the implementation of Proof of Citizenship, Election Day Ballot Deadlines, Federal Oversight of Funding Conditions, Prosecutions of Election Crimes, and Voting System Standards.  Democrats, especially those embedded in the Bar Association of lawyers, such as Marc Elias and organizations like the ACLU, will try to sue citing this order as an unconstitutional power grab, because they know, as everyone has come to figure out, that Democrats can’t win if they don’t cheat in elections.  Just like Bernie and the gang have had to try and use smoke and mirrors to make their numbers look better with rallies on college campuses.  The truth is, Democrats never had the numbers, and now they have had stripped away from them, polite society they can no longer hide behind.  Reasonably moderate Democrats who could win a few votes to the Marxism of their foundation without scaring people off.  Now they don’t have that, and they can’t hide it from the public.  And Democrats know, because they have been trying to hide it for years, if they can’t create so many opportunities to cheat elections, they will likely never win another one, and their party is done.  So Trump’s executive order gets to the point.  And that is why Democrats are suddenly so desperate, and it will only get worse for them.  They have to put out to the public the best that they have, and for them, that is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, the old man who is a sympathizer of the Soviet Union and a socialist.  And they can’t even hide from the public any longer, the size of AOC’s caboose, because they can’t afford to.

Rich Hoffman

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Dismantaling the Department of Education: Our current system values all the wrong things

It doesn’t matter what kind of technicality some opposition to the Trump executive order that dismantles the Department of Education hides behind; the reality is that education in the United States needs to change.  And no amount of foot-dragging will change the minds of people tired of a losing product.  When Trump issued his order to initiate the process of eliminating the Department of Education and returning policy to the states, he did something that no Republican had the courage to do since it was created in the first place.  Reagan was supposed to eliminate the DOE in early 1981 or 1982.  Then he was almost killed by an assassin’s bullet and was never quite the same.  And the George Bushes were part of the problem, and made things worse.  So, until Trump came along, nobody had the guts to undo what Jimmy Carter had started, a big government approach to a very intimate concept of education and how society approaches it.  Knowing what we do now, competition is the best and really only method of reform, and the way teacher unions have embedded themselves into the education profession, they have done to the minds of children what unions typically do to everything they touch, whether its steel, car manufacture, or even food production and movie making.  Unions only benefit the losers at the expense of the good, and that brings down the quality of the entire effort.  So, it’s no wonder America is not even in the top ten on most education charts, despite being the wealthiest country.  Public education was a noble concept, but the government’s funding of a subpar product has diminished its appeal and has not served our society well.  When you examine the literacy rate among graduating students, it’s clear that if we continue on our current path, our society will crumble into dust.  And we can’t have that.

And I don’t say what I do in a vacuum.  Even as I write this, people are urging me to run for the school board in my community, because the schools there have received a significant amount of funding, yet they are failing in detrimental ways.  And I know what needs to be done, but I don’t want to help facilitate a failed system. Joining a five-person school board that defends a system I am ready to scrap isn’t a good way to spend my time.  I think a society should have an education system, but I think Dewey was way off in the means of delivery.  I would be in favor of a highly competitive model that is more merit-based, similar to the one Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing in Ohio as a future governor.  Currently, school boards act like a moderator for government money allocation, and that entire system, in my thinking, needs to be scrapped.  And for context, I work with many people who hold PhDs and have multiple advanced degrees, and I do not see them offering a solution for the future.  In my opinion, academia has not been very effective and has never been in the history of the human race.  While specific knowledge is honorable, it often comes at the expense of general knowledge, which is far more useful.  I don’t see people with advanced degrees as any different from the geeks at Comic Con who gain particular knowledge about a topic and then build their lives around that specificity at the expense of logic.  No matter what it is, when people lose touch with reality and seek to prop themselves up in a social context with the merit of group acceptance, the results are never positive.  And doing that very thing is the goal of our current education system, so in its current form, I see no hope for it.

And Trump doesn’t have the answer either, nor does Vivek Ramaswamy, nor does Mike DeWine; people who are currently in the midst of redefining what public education means in America, and specifically in Ohio.  Achieving a high academic honor only benefits the system that created that honor. For instance, receiving an Academy Award for a movie used to be considered an outstanding achievement, but woke politics have undermined the entire enterprise.  Now, after years of witnessing Hollywood failure and Democrat political positions, the concept of an Academy Award means nothing to anybody.  And the same has happened in all fields, especially the sciences. I was on a phone call just a few days ago with the head of the EPA and a panel of experts who were trying to explain the rules of conduct for a future project.  And there were reasonable people involved until there was that one guy who wanted to make sure everyone knew how smart he was and how he had built his entire life around making rules and then explaining to people how to live their lives around those rules, rather than dealing with the grim reality that the world didn’t want to deal with his dumb rules.  I am not mad at the guy because he was essentially getting in the way of something I needed to do.  But because he was uselessly in the way of things that needed to be done, which he thought had value and merit, when in reality he was the kind of guy who likely had a mom who put a bicycle helmet on him one too many times.  And his wife and kids were probably miserable with his views about life.  They were built on a bad foundation that the rest of the world could have cared less for.  It’s the same kind of people who are always encountered at the patent office.  Or with a new scientific discovery, especially with this new news about what’s under the Giza plateau in the form of tunnels and a Hall of Records potentially at the feet of the Sphinx.  Academia has become a public validation for individuals who rise in these fields, as they protect their status through stonewalling and bureaucratic rules, believing their social standing is respected.  And they are terrified of that status ever changing because, as people, they are timid at the prospect of competition and have built their lives around that insulation, hoping that nobody ever discovers how worthless they are. 

The first thing that people think who build their lives around such a social enterprise is that Trump is acting in an anti-educational way, and they are agitated and even hostile to the idea of removing the Department of Education which sets social policy for the bench marks of education achievement in the far away land of Washington D.C.  And people who have spent their lives chasing those made up standards want that system to continue because they are personally terrified of competition.  As I’ve experienced with high-degree personalities, they are often shocked in a competitive discussion to discover that they are not the most intelligent people in the room.  They have a paper that shows that someone told them they were.  However, reality has other opinions, and those become apparent in a competitive environment.  Every child in America needs a unique set of educational goals to achieve, as the current benchmarks are mainly ineffective.  If our schools were producing students like Elon Musk, I would have a different opinion.  But what we get are kids who think going to a Tayler Swift concert is a great thing and they grow up to become terrors of the world dropping their kids off at child care while they pursue a life on a second marriage and run like bats out of hell to pay their next car payment and achieve a social status to other people who mean absolutely nothing as well.  I want to see an education system that inspires more people to achieve great things in the world at all levels of society.  Because what has been produced so far has not been very good, and it needs to change dramatically in the years to come.  There is nothing anyone in the world can do to make public education work under the current Department of Education priorities.  It can’t be saved, and the sooner everyone realizes that, the sooner we can have an intelligent discussion about what comes next.  But saving garbage is not it.

Rich Hoffman

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The Mansions of Fairfax County: Understanding just how worthless the CIA is

Like most things surrounding Trump’s election and occupation of Washington, D.C., I like the government much more than I did prior, especially regarding the CIA, where Trump’s appointee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was sworn in on January 23, 2025, John Ratcliffe.  I still think the CIA is a ridiculous organization of unpatriotic losers who cause trouble in the world, lie to the American people without accountability too often, and blame their habit on “national security.”  However, I think Trump has a better handle on them than any other president, so as I did all around Washington D.C., my wife and I spent a lot of time checking out the CIA from the employees’ perspective.  I wanted to live where they lived and shop where they shopped; I tried to eat where they ate and see the world through their eyes as much as possible.  In general, because it always comes up regarding politics, I wanted to understand the politics of Fairfax County, where the CIA is located, and understand what being the wealthiest county in the United States looked like. Loudoun County just to the northwest of Fairfax, is the richest, but we wanted to be as close to the CIA headquarters in Langley as possible so my wife and I camped our RV at Fairfax Lake for over a week and used that as our base of operations for exploring Washington D.C., since it was so close by from that location.  These affluent areas are not from mass productivity and a diversity of economic output.  It comes from employees with high-paying but otherwise useless government jobs, especially at Langley and the Pentagon just down the road.  I can’t say enough about the benefits of RV camping to investigate areas like this, where you have all your stuff and resources, and can get far enough away from the topic to gain an objective opinion.

Every day, we would take the Washington Memorial Parkway into the city, so we got to see a lot of how Fairfax County lived from our base camp, essentially at Tyson’s Corner.  We shopped at that Walmart for our stay, visiting there several times, which I enjoyed as it was the first one in a skyscraper I had ever been to.  Walmarts are generally prominent places with big parking lots outside of cities.  So we expected a Tyson’s Corner Walmart to be one of the biggest and wealthiest stores in the country.  But this one was smashed into the first floor of a high rise, and all the parking was in a parking garage, so it was different.  I enjoyed going there to get our groceries, which prevented us from wasting a lot of time eating out during our stay, which is a giant time killer.  You don’t get to do nearly as much when you waste time on necessities like food.  On road trips, which we do frequently all over the country, we usually eat in the morning at our RV, in the comfort of our own space, and then again once we return to the camper that night.  Everything is much more comfortable than a hotel room, and it’s incredible how much you can get done when you decouple from excess human interaction.  But to feed that, you need access to a good grocery, so the Walmart at Tyson’s Corner took care of all our needs and gave us a nice window into the kind of people who lived there.  We were camped as close to the CIA headquarters as anybody could get, and I could begin to see what daily life was like for those employees. 

And let’s say I have never seen so many mansions in all my life, anywhere in the world.  The drive to Washington, D.C., from our campsite was under 20 miles, and it didn’t take long to go back and forth.  But if I had to compare it to a region, such as Indian Hill in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is the wealthiest area in that location, the mansions in Fairfax County went on for dozens of miles consistently, whereas Indian Hill is only a few miles with some hodge podge real estate here and there that was less than optimal.  In Fairfax County, the people were swimming in loot and had a skewed impression of life and the government’s role.  They were being paid a lot of money to be part of a big machine with questionable value.  You could see how much people would have been threatened by the proposal of President Trump and used the power of government to protect their jobs in the Deep State because they weren’t going to replace their careers with a private sector one of equal value because they were being paid way too much to do way too little.  Driving down their streets and seeing how they lived in very opulent settings, all that government power would and had gone to their head.  However, the area was also much smaller and less scary once you could see everything from a reasonable perspective.  I measured such things, for instance, by traveling from the Breitbart Embassy, where Steve Bannon and the gang do the WarRoom podcast, and driving back to our campsite, going right by the Pentagon and the CIA headquarters, and suddenly, some of the biggest influences of the world are put in perspective relative to each other. 

Yes, the Deep State was real.  But it comprised of people in big government jobs who had created a fourth Branch of government to protect their high incomes.  Not to take over the world so much.   But to maintain an illusion given to them by being brokers of the broken world of too much government power funded by looted tax money and not actual industrial enterprise. Prominent celebrities and ostentatious personalities did not own most of the mansions I saw in Fairfax County, as you might find in Beverly Hills—or even people you see reporting on the government with news coverage on television.  No, there were way too many mansions for that.  Most of the occupants were high-level employees at the CIA and Pentagon who were making a lot of money brokering in national security, and they were able to hide their worthless jobs behind a need for “national security.”  Whenever taxpayers questioned their worth, they would release another UFO story so that our fear of an alien attack would keep us from pulling support for the CIA, which was getting most of its money from black budgets without congressional oversight because of the need for “national security.”  However, they shop at Walmart just like everyone else, hoping nobody notices that what they do isn’t all that important.  And America could do wonderfully without them.  That was my perspective from our campsite and our RV, considering many hours of contemplation from our experiences.  It was a town built on looted money, and a branch of shadow government had formed to protect the illusion of value they were hiding from even themselves.  But the truth is all those government jobs could go away tomorrow, and the people throughout the rest of the country wouldn’t even notice.  So, to pave the way for their continued illusion, they spend their confiscated wealth on lavish furnishings and residences, hoping that reality never comes knocking on their door to tell them just how worthless they are.  Which is why they hate and despise the President and his supporters.   

Rich Hoffman

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‘Serpent in Eden’: Whats really behind all the foreign meddling and partisan politics

I read a great book while on my recent trip to Washington D.C.  It wasn’t a book specific to Washington politics and history, and it is generally available by Tyson Reeder called Serpent in Eden.  I found it at Mt. Vernon, Washington’s home, and it seemed like something I’d be interested in since it dealt with foreign meddling and partisan politics in James Madison’s America, a kind of not much talked-about period between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.  A lot of political activity during this period got lost in the various wars that essentially shaped America as a new nation that is worth discussing.  I think people assume that they know American history if they know the basics of the Revolutionary War, that the Constitution was signed soon thereafter, and that George Washington was the first president.  But that really doesn’t begin to cover it all.  The Serpent in Eden is a really remarkable, tightly packed book with a lot of detail and would take a general understanding of history before really absorbing it.  It views the world through the eyes of James Madison, the tiny man but brilliant mind who shaped the Constitution and served as the fourth president of the United States.  But he was writing the Constitution as America was trying to figure itself out, and Washington was trying to preside over everything as a country was trying to start from scratch on an idea of individual liberty, which was a completely foreign concept at that time.  In many ways, it is because of one straightforward term: “We the People.”  The world didn’t understand what that meant, so they didn’t have much respect for the new country.  They did respect George Washington, but they didn’t understand the idea of willfully giving up power and returning to the farm after service to the people was completed. 

To understand the problem we have today with foreign meddling, which George Soros would be a good example, and just one of many, this particular period at the start of the country is an interesting story.  Because America had its original 13 colonies that it was trying to make a country out of, but there were still French holdings along the Mississippi River, Spanish in Florida, and England smarting from their Revolutionary loss and plotting to retake its colonies once a few years wore down the rebels hanging out in Canada, where the French were still hostile and had alliances with the many Indian tribes.  All those forces were plotting and scheming to use America to leverage their enemies, specifically the French against the English, and all early politics centered around these factions of Anti-Federalists, who became Republicans against Federalists, the early version of the big government advocates.  The trick was how to have a big enough government to deal with all these hostile countries that weren’t too big to suppress the will of the people it was supposed to serve.  The English and French thought such a concept was hilarious, so they posed a constant threat by looming in the background attempting to tamper with elections to swing policy in a direction of their liking.  There are a lot of lessons in the truly remarkable story of how America survived all this tampering to win the War of 1812 with Madison in the White House and having to escape before the British burnt it from the inside out.  It was a tight walk on a razor’s edge to build the kind of government we see today, and given the ambitions of globalism and not wanting America to exist at all, you can understand the real problems of our day by seeing how people saw things from the very beginning.

I was in the right mood to read Tyson’s new book, as it had just recently come out.  It was available at all the leading book outlets, but Mt. Vernon has a wonderful gift shop, as you would expect, and it was the kind of book you could get as a souvenir that captured the area and circumstances of America’s birth.  I was at Mt. Vernon trying to see the start of the country the way that George Washington would have seen it.  Not the way that historians with a very shallow grasp of history would have.  These were real problems that reside in the hands of our current Supreme Court as they try to keep our country as close to that razor’s edge as possible.  But it’s hard on a good day because America was never respected, and it still isn’t today.  What is respected is our version of capitalism, which produced a lot of wealth, and people around the world wanted a piece of that wealth.  But our system of government for the people was never understood.  Because nations were built around the concept of sovereignty, such as Napoleon Bonapart, who was Emperor of France, he could speak as a representative of the whole French people.  Or King George in England.  If George Washington was going to give power back after two terms in office, then who represented the government?  These fighting politicians in Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and others?  So, of course, in the chaos of all that political contemplation, the nations of the world plotted our demise, as they still do because they don’t understand how a government can serve the people rather than the people serving the government as one people who then dealt with the world.  It was not an easy idea to flush out.

So, the Serpent in the book is all these foreign whispers trying to steer America in a direction beneficial to them, just as the serpent tempted Eve to eat from the apple.  So, too, is the business of foreign lobbying, which is a big problem today and is at the heart of the tariff war Trump puts forth.  But there’s a secret in the background of all that, which really emerged from this period with Madison and the War of 1812.  And the Louisiana Purchase and Westward expansion in general.  The world does not know what to do with free people, who a regional monarch or emperor can’t control.  It hadn’t ever been done in the world, and it’s still perplexing to all nations.  And their only defense against it isn’t armies, but in political narrative.  They had infiltrated both political parties in America. As a result, essentially leaving “We the People” without any accurate representation, violating the Constitutional merits Madison and others worked so hard to perfect and for our Supreme Court to hold so tightly to the vest, as a matter of principle.  The defense against the various serpents in our political system of foreign meddling and influence was that the American concept was too big to alter.  That’s how Jefferson ended up with the Louisiana Purchase.  Napoleon never thought America would survive long enough to do anything with the land, so he thought it was a safe bet.  But he lost power before America fell.  The English were trying to push everyone into decline and never thought a country without a military could win a war against them, but Andrew Jackson ruined all their days, and the Spanish too.  All the hostile elements, including the conspiring Indians, were betting on America to fail, but it survived anyway.  Because the brilliance of the Constitution made us too big as a country to fall into such minor grabs of power.  The idea was more significant than the military plots of conspiring nations, which makes us more important than other nations.  Our ideas for personal freedom are more lofty than any other government on the face of the earth or in human history.  It is extraordinary and a big step for the human race.  And it was a real work of a miracle coming from human minds during a very tumultuous time.  

Rich Hoffman

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Why The Department of Education Had To Go: The hidden zombie army going after Elon Musk–the anti-George Soros

Yes, Trump did what I told everyone for years was going to happen, he has signed an executive order getting rid of the terrible Department of Education.  I’ll have a lot more to say on this issue but first we have to take a look at the kind of people who will be upset by it.  Essentially, what America needed were billionaires who would peel away from the destructive tendencies common to people who acquire that kind of wealth and power to become champions for self-government and represent people who didn’t have that kind of power—the anti-George Soros types.  The Soros family, and many like them, have been spending their vast sums of wealth on the destruction of the United States as a country in favor of a globalist idea, and the assumption was that they were going to get away with it.  So the MAGA movement formed out of the Tea Party’s response to all this background manipulation, putting Barack Obama in office with the power and force of George Soros and his many friends, which gave us President Trump and now Elon Musk.  Musk, the current richest man in the world, had been a champion of the political left, but I watched him over time grow into what he is today, which is one of the most prominent representatives of the MAGA movement because he’s a smart guy, and things started adding up for him.  And when billionaire defectors were stepping away from the Soros-backed globalist agenda, that was the only path to restoring a representative government.  Because going back to President Jackson’s fights with central banking, the freedoms guaranteed by the American Constitution could not be paid for in real dollar currency.  As I have been told many times, well-intentioned enterprises alone do not make success.  It’s always he who owns the gold who rules.  If you don’t have any gold, you don’t rule in the world; therefore, you can’t have freedom.  So, from the vantage point of a political movement, if you don’t have any gold, you don’t rule a world that does.  You can write fancy things down on a piece of paper, but unless those with gold are willing to finance freedom, your political movement isn’t going to go anywhere, allowing people like George Soros to rule always in the background.

Elon Musk’s interview with Sean Hannity at the White House in mid-March 2025 was interesting.  I had just returned from Washington D.C. and stood just a few feet from where Elon Musk gave that interview.  I enjoyed my trip to the White House with my wife.  I enjoyed seeing President Trump fill the Oval Office with portraits of many American presidents to give historical context as people visited him.  And hang the Declaration of Independence right next to his Resolute Desk.  Trump was enjoying himself in this stage of his life.  He had spent his life gaining gold so he could rule, as the game goes, and he was taking that power and genuinely giving it back to the people in an almost Christ-like way, completely sacrificing himself for the fulfillment of humanity’s destiny as a free and self-asserted people.  This is a truly remarkable statement in the context of history.  He has also inspired other billionaires, like Elon Musk, to join him.  But you could see the pain on Elon’s face during that interview.  And I call him Elon as if I know him because, in many ways, I do.  I have been watching him for many years and know a lot about him even though I haven’t personally met him.  There have been a lot of people we mutually know, and we have almost met many times.  But the closest I have come to that was my recent trip to the White House, where we were only a few hundred feet from each other.  But I could feel the momentum shift, even if it was painful for Musk.  He was making a tremendous difference in the world with DOGE, and he had the power to do it because he had won gold in the world and could then hand over the control for people to self-rule because of it. 

But in this process, we have uncovered the root cause of a lot of evil in the world.  The truly defective people tend to vote in favor of all the things that George Soros wants to do because he has used his power and money to do something they desperately want, and that is to live an unearned life of victimhood to provide a veil for globalism.  By taking advantage of mentally unstable people and spending money to make as many of them as possible, billionaire activists like Soros have created a mini army, which no state in the world could create because they have no sovereign connection to official power.  They are difficult to manage, but they can create flash mobs such as they did with the George Floyd incident, send ANTIFA thugs into the streets to develop destabilizing anarchy, and now vandalizing and harassing owners of Tesla cars to attempt to wreck the stock and bring great harm to Elon Musk because Musk had defected and used his power and wealth to empower America toward self-government.  The anger was purely over using DOGE to take money away from the victimization groups who depended on government waste to function.  In military terms, this would be like severing a railroad feeding an army along a campaign against a faraway land.  Losing the railroad would mean they couldn’t get their supplies to the front to feed the army, and the troops would then perish and be easy to conquer. 

I was down at the Lincoln Memorial as many of these government workers were upset about DOGE cutting the waste out of government and protesting the science of Elon Musk.  I saw them up close and noticed their common ambition: a lack of sanity.  These were broken people made more so by the life of easy government money that had corrupted their minds for, in some cases, decades.  Drawing them out of polite society to protest Elon Musk, the Trump administration, and DOGE in general only made them look worse because the usual cover stories were no longer there to hide their antics.  Stories that used racism to drive the narrative instead of the content of the character.  Or kids to hide teacher union radicalism in public schools, made even more urgent because President Trump signed an executive order eliminating The Department of Education, which had to happen.  These are methods that anti-American forces like the Soros family have used to destroy America in the background, to send money to these desperate people now protesting Musk, and turn them into an army of the desolate, almost like a zombie army.  But they had no cover story this time because they couldn’t get to Musk.  They couldn’t get to Trump because, under the rules of humanity, they had their gold and right to rule.  And they chose to give that power to the people of America, which Soros and the many other anti-American forces have been trying to destroy since the very beginning.  But they had lost their cover and were now exposed, and they hated Elon Musk for doing it to them.  But all Elon did was turn off the bad behavior’s funding and expose their unearned merit.   And when you see those people in person, it’s even worse than it looks on television.  And people like George Soros should be prosecuted for purposely making people like that function so poorly in the world.  For intentionally crippling them with easy money given so that they would be a menace of chaos to mass society and they would fight for radical communist causes rather than work to earn real money for themselves.   With the MAGA movement’s billionaires peeling away from the globalist agenda of George Soros and the gang of international thugs who have been ruling because they controlled all the gold–America, for the first time, has a chance to be truly free.  And because Elon Musk joined that movement, they hate him because it pulled away the veil and exposed the rot that was always there.  But now people see it for themselves.  Our education system was built to make these crippled protestors and champions for anti-American causes.  And to fix them, and free them, we had to destroy what made them the messes they are today.  Education must be sent to the states and made much more competitive because the products of public education have only served as the army of centralized finance and hostile agents in the world who have controlled vast sums of personal wealth and were willing to spend it on the destruction of our country.  That’s why the Department of Education had to go.

Rich Hoffman

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The Hidden Menace Behind 16th Street: Marxist radicals behind labor unions

First, let me explain what is wrong with labor unions. They allow bad employees to hide behind good employees, and as a collective practice, they water down effectiveness. They view as work the entire enterprise of labor as being for the worker, not the work being done.  And it has been a disastrous experiment from the mind of Marxist thinkers.  I know in this new big tent MAGA movement that lots of union workers crossed over and voted for President Trump, so debate about labor unions is on the back burner these days, and Right To Work legislation in the states is less of a topic, even though its still a big deal for employers, because business enterprises don’t want to be stuck taking all the risks only to have a radical Marxist enterprise of low performing workers take control of labor management with a bunch of dumb, ineffective rules.  For Ohio to be a proper pro-business state, employers will need the assurance of a Right to Work state like Indiana has just to the west.  Otherwise, it’s not an apples-to-apples offering.  From my point of view, I don’t see anything good about labor unions.  They are the heart of the problem of school funding and have been a disaster since they were introduced in the middle of the 19th century, right along with Marxism.  The two things are tied together and have been horrible for the world.  So, with all that in mind, I wondered about the Black Lives Matters plaza painting on the ground on 16th Street in front of the White House before President Trump had it removed this past week.  I wanted to see it before it was gone forever, and what I found there was even worse than I had imagined.  The root cause of the problems was, of course, labor unions. 

During the hostile 2020 election year with all the Covid lockdowns and radical Soros backed color revolutions that were trying to burn down the church at the end of 16th Street, and vandalize Lafayette Square while the FBI, CIA, and many fourth branch of government Deep Staters plotted the destruction of the people’s pick for President, Trump, lunatics from the known Marxist group Black Lives Matters painted their logo on the street in giant letters to let the White House know that the aggressors of political destruction was on the doorstep of the White House.  All this activity was evident from inside the White House, and it was meant to intimidate Trump and his supporters into bowing down to a proposed fight that was highly aggressive.  Later, I learned that this was not just a painted road but that the letters “Black Lives Matter” were actually embedded into the blocks of the street itself, so just painting over it wouldn’t get rid of the message.  We also later learned that the taxpayers were on the hook for the vandalism that cost over 8 million dollars and was personally endorsed by the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser.  The painting was an intended message of aggression attempting to hide actual terrorism behind some guilt-driven sentiment left over from the years of slavery, which were always a Democrat issue.  Republicans freed the enslaved people and do not harbor guilt in maintaining the institution.  One of the most excellent Republicans in the history of politics was Frederick Douglass, who was very well-known during President Grant’s reconstruction period after the Civil War, a very prominent person of color and proud Republican member of history’s politics.  Democrats have tried to capture the issue over the next hundred years to attempt to erase their guilt from it, creating many of the modern tensions we see today.

Republicans have learned a lot from the experience and are pushing back, led by President Trump.  As my wife and I visited the city recently, it is being cleaned up everywhere.  Trump has set a high bar that should have always been in place, and other Republicans, such as Representative Andrew Clyde, are pushing to withhold federal transportation funds unless Bowser gets rid of the Black Lives Matter painting and renames the plaza “Liberty Plaza.”  So, a lot is going on that I wanted to see for myself, and upon arriving, a clarity that had not been explained in the news reports became very clear.  Because all through this, my thoughts were, “What do these businesses in the area think about this stupid, Marxist painting?  I wouldn’t want to look out my windows down onto the street and see such a think with crazy radicals looming from the shadows to take over the city on a moment’s notice essentially.”  And that’s when I saw that there on 16th street were many of the big unions, the Labor’s International Union, the AFL-CIO union, and the Motion Picture’s Association of America.  These are all radical Marxist groups and the reason we haven’t heard about them is because many of the people who are in the news reporting industry belong to an entertainment union of some kind, especially the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, (AFTRA) which is part of SAG, (the Screen Actors Guild), so they can’t be too critical of labor union activity.  This allows these horrendously radical progressive groups- and when we say “progressive,” we mean “communist” in their sentiments to cause trouble in the background without recourse.  Now we know why nobody talked about the kind of businesses that allowed for that painting to be painted on the street in the first place. 

The real fight, clearly on display on 16th Street looming over the President’s house, that we put our representatives into, is that massive international unions are fighting for power and are proclaiming that they are in charge.  They used the George Floyd issue to blow into the Marxist minds of the fans to hide violence and intimidation behind a race war; they were trying to get Trump out of office and to remove any influence that voters had over the city of Washington, D.C.  The unions were in charge, and they let everyone know about it.  But the key to fighting them is not confronting them directly, as we have in the past.  Labor unions consume a considerable amount of tax money to exist.  So the way to beat them, which is why President Trump has not worried about them too much and even appeals to their members, is to take away their power, which is fed by confiscated taxpayer money.  That’s ultimately what got Muriel Bowser’s attention, pulling away her federal funds for sponsoring acts of terrorism disguised as race concerns.  Democrats caused race concerns in the first place.  That painting has been like a planted flag in front of our house for years and is only now being removed.  But before it was, I had to see it for myself, so my wife and I visited it a few days before the road crews came in and ripped it out of the ground.  But those labor unions are still hiding behind the public noise, waiting for another chance to strike.  They are the fuel in the background that stirs up these terrorist acts, just as they are all over the world.  And are the root cause of most of our problems of domestic terrorism in American society.  And to deal with them, we must remove their funding so they have nothing to work with.  Because the longer they exist, they will always be causing trouble toward America’s destruction, which is their objective.  They will never be our friends; as a general rule, they should be illegal in every form they present themselves in. 

Rich Hoffman

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George Lang Tried to Tell Them: Woke politics is why Lakota is losing money

To answer the question that was asked at the March 12th special meeting of the Lakota school board, why were they losing around 9 million dollars out of their quarter of a billion dollar budget to Ed Choice vouchers and could they sue the state for money they assumed was guaranteed to them, a little fog has to be removed from the subject.  I was in Columbus for Governor DeWine’s State of the State speech, and there were education protesters in the rotunda making a lot of noise and looking horrible doing it.  Legislators were working on the new budget, and the fear was that public schools would lose money, which is the trend across the country.  Now, I warned everyone this day was coming, that Jimmy Carter’s Department of Education would be dismantled, and education funding would be built in a more competitive direction.  What we have been doing has not been working.  People worried about the future should be happy that Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be the next governor of Ohio, wants to pay teachers more.  He is a lot nicer on the issue than I am.  And for that matter, my personal friend Senator George Lang is too.  They believe that public education can be saved in some way, whereas I do not.  I think institutional learning is beyond help, but that’s why there are debates in government and education. Employees should at least be happy that Vivek and Lang are of like mind and want to preserve public education somehow.  Yet the protesters at the Statehouse were not the kind of people that made you want to dig deep into your pockets and give them more money.  They all looked pretty ragged and as though they needed to skip a few meals.  They sounded like entitled losers demanding more money in the budget from Ohio taxpayers who have not been given a good product that makes society better. 

So I was outside the Representative’s Chamber talking to several of our area politicians of Butler County and they were asking me if I was going to the emergency Lakota meeting where the plan was for them to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit against the state because Lakota was losing funding due to parents choosing to use the voucher programs already in place to give education options to their children.  When they asked me, I was already thinking about it; my phone had been lighting up for the previous 24 hours from people asking me to go because it was an emergency.  Lakota was already trying to build the foundations for a tax increase to pay for a facility project they were planning to vote for soon, for many millions of dollars for what was turning out to be a pretty crappy product.  And the kind of people who plan to work against that tax increase wanted me to see for myself just how ridiculous Lakota schools had become.  I was reluctant; I have not paid much attention to Lakota schools since they ran off just the latest conservative school board member the previous year.  I have worked to give Lakota a school board of reasonable people to deal with the coming education challenges, and their reaction was more radicalism like the idiots I saw in the rotunda, so I wasn’t too keen on the idea.  I was talking to Representative Jennifer Gross and Thomas Hall, among other people who were equally concerned about the invite they had to join in this special meeting.  And as we discussed in Columbus, my comment was that it was a hit job by the school board to set up our representatives so they could have an excuse to blame them for why they had to join the lawsuit.  I will credit them: Senator George Lang, Representative Thomas Hall, and Representative Jennifer Gross all attended the meeting by phone because they were either still in Columbus or, in George’s case, out of the state.  But they lent their voices in surprisingly effective ways.  I decided to return from Columbus and attend the meeting in person because it seemed like a good chance to see the new school board and administrators.  After all the mess over the former superintendent, Matt Miller and a purge of personnel since then my attitude toward public funding of schools was that Trump was going to be re-elected, he was going to dismantled the Department of Education and all education issues were going back to the states where people like Vivek Ramaswamy was going to have to figure out how to compete against other states.  The teacher’s union-run public education system was a thing of the past.  I tried to warn everyone, but they didn’t listen. 

And I was right about the meeting.  Our area representatives did a nice job providing comments about whether or not school vouchers were here to stay in public education or whether it was a fad that would fade away.  After the remarks were given, the school board did what they went there to do: they voted to join the lawsuit to get money from taxpayers they had not earned.  It’s the case that will lose in court a few years down the road because people can’t be compelled to purchase a bad product, and public education has shown itself to be deficient in every way it is measured.  The school board’s plan was to blame the politicians who had not secured funding for their bottomless pit approach to school budgets.  However, the representatives did so well that it wasn’t easy to blame them for the existence of school vouchers such as the Ed Choice program. 

George Lang told them that the cause of parents wanting to leave Lakota schools through a voucher was the fault of the school itself for accepting woke politics that those parents didn’t want their kids exposed to.  It was a blunt statement, but it was given with as much love as could be provided in that circumstance.  And the large audience attending, representing the teacher’s union mentality, the same kind of people protesting at the Statehouse rotunda earlier that day laughed and heckled George with boisterous sentiment.  As Doug Horton wanted to put on a show to fight George, as did another school board member and the new superintendent, the comment was the truth behind the matter.  Increasingly, Lakota schools would have to compete for every kid enrolled there, and their funding approach was dependent on their ability to be an education destination instead of funding attached to the zip code.  And the bottom line was that people who wanted to take their kids out of Lakota schools and drive them across town to another school was because more and more parents didn’t want to share space or time with the kind of people who were giggling at George Lang.  We just watched that same school board run off Darbi Bobby, the previous school board member representing a percentage of the Lakota population.  And she was just the recent.  This has been the practice of Lakota’s school board, to control the message by eliminating dissenting opinions because the system isn’t designed to deal with actual management.  And if only 4 to 12% of the total Lakota population found they didn’t want to deal with transgender politics, or essentially the Democrat party platform which comes with just about all public education enterprises, then given a choice, which is only going to expand under President Trump and future governor Vivek Ramaswamy, parents would take their kids out of Lakota so not to deal with people like Doug Horton and the rest of the school board.  Their desire to fight George Lang over the truth that he tried to give them, bluntly, was the same thing driving away the dollars they thought they were entitled to have in the form of a budget.  Just a preview of that court case: the courts will not favor these collective schools joined under the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit because you can’t compel people, such as taxpayers, to buy a bad product.  And public education has become a lousy product over time with gross mismanagement everywhere.  We also saw examples of bad management at that Lakota school board meeting with clueless people and their very liberal politics.  Parents don’t want to share space with people who don’t share their values, and they are picking up and moving to other options because of woke politics.  The blame for that falls on the people who dug in and retained that system, which never worked—and instead insisted on throwing more money at a failed approach.  Rather than looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for the issue, they tried to blame everyone else for why they were being rejected under a competitive approach.  And that of course, won’t solve the school funding problem.  You can’t pave over the problem with more money.  You have to actually solve the problem, which are the people in public education themselves.  Parents want to reject having to deal with people who don’t share their values.  And if Lakota wants to survive into the future, it is going to have to make itself more competitive in attracting dollars, like everyone else in the world has to.

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If you listen to the school board meeting from March 12, 2025, included here, you will hear the audience get into an uproar whenever George Lang spoke, as he became the target of the teacher union types due to his opening statements about wokeness in Lakota schools.  George was speaking his opinion on the matter, and those people in the audience, and some of the school board members themselves, fed into that communication.  So for Doug Horton and the rest of the mystified cast of characters at Lakota schools, that is your answer as to why parents are looking for School Choice options.  Think of the soccer mom who voted for Trump at a Friday night football game. Or a Republican is at an art show for their child at school, and they are interacting with these liberal radicals advocating for transgender bathrooms. Do you think they want to be made fun of like that audience did to George Lang?  Senator Lang is a professional who is used to that kind of thing and likes it. But does the average family attending schools at Lakota want to deal with people like this?  Of course not.  Do they want to fight with people like that?  They saw what they did, including that school board, to Darbi Boddy and other conservative school board members from the past.  Rather than fight those people, they look for a school voucher and take their kid to a school they think is nicer and better for them and their children.  That is why people are fleeing the Lakota district, and George was trying very nicely to tell the Lakota school board that to survive in the future, they need to make it so people want to attend Lakota.  But not that people who have different ideas about things are going to be beat over the head with Democrat politics and that they have to take it because there are no other education options.  Parents want options and don’t want to deal with political radicals who do not share their fundamental social values.  That’s why Lakota lost that 9 million dollars out of their budget and why they are projected to lose a lot more than that.  It’s because they have mismanaged the district with the assumption that the children were theirs and not managed by the parents who want the best opportunity for their children.  And by choice, parents have reasoned that Lakota is not it for them.  It’s Lakota’s job to convince them otherwise. Not to sue for money they did not earn. 

The trend of today, with D.O.G.E. and the massive cuts to the Department of Education, and the election of Trump and others to office positions, George Lang included, as well as the future of Vivek Ramaswamy, are because the employees of government, such as Lakota schools, failed.  Protesting against voters’ choices will not solve the problem of how people came to feel the way they did.  Government employees, including school teachers and administrators, did not provide a good product, and people have come to admit that their service was not worth the money.  That is the environment in which Lakota schools and many other school districts find themselves.  And it won’t get better for them.  They thought that the politics of guilt would last forever and the entire levy structure of using children to acquire more tax revenue to feed greedy, liberal unions would always continue.  But the truth is, as we know it today, public education is a thing of the past, and it’s never coming back.  People, if given a choice, will not choose to spend their time around people who are hostile to them.  The way these radicals shut down opposition at school board meetings in general is why the Trump administration is opening up School Choice options and sending their management back to the states.  The radicals had five decades to figure it out, and what they gave us is embarrassing at best and certainly not worth the money we’ve spent on it.  So, who is to blame?  Attend a school board meeting and witness the quality of the people screaming for more money, and the answer will quickly become apparent.  The current school structure, where money is attached to a zip code rather than the child, is like the Berlin Wall trying to kill people attempting to escape to the West.  The mentality is the same, and the more the teachers’ unions dig in, the more people want to be as far away from them as possible.  And the people they vote for in office are those who will give them options away from those radical government employees.

Rich Hoffman

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DeWine’s State of the State Speech: Lakota schools plots their own demise

Oddly enough, while I was in Columbus to attend the Governor’s State of the State speech, it was Lakota schools that everyone was talking about, and they wanted to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit.  But in many ways, that wasn’t surprising, and it was confirmed again in Mike DeWine’s speech that day.  Years and years of kicking the can down the road in all these public schools were catching up to them, and the bill was due, and nobody knew what to do about it.  Governors like DeWine have done for decades what they were now doing at Lakota schools around 91 miles to the south in Butler County, Ohio, they were writing tax payer checks for a product and service that fewer and fewer people wanted, and now with Trump in the White House, the warnings I have been giving everyone about what was going to happen are coming true.  Instead of getting out in front of these funding problems, Lakota schools dug in and became more woke.  Senator Lang tried to tell them on a call later that day after the Governor’s speech, but the school system had dug in the opposite direction.  Others and I have tried to give Lakota conservative board members a chance to deal with this issue, and their response as a school board was to run them all off, and that extends beyond Darbi Boddy, the most recent that they found some way to push out of management.  And like things are where liberal types run things, everything costs too much money, and now Trump was cutting back the Department of Education and gubernatorial candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy was talking about significant reforms in education with merit pay, leaving schools like Lakota to join lawsuits with other schools having the same problem, hoping that some sixties flowerchild protest might recover for them a silly little 9 million dollar loss that has come out of their budget due to students utilizing Ed Choice vouchers that are now expanding under the Trump administration and flowing down through the states.  For perspective, Lakota schools in Butler County, Ohio, has a quarter of a billion dollar budget, and that’s still not enough money to fund education the way they want to.

And you know what makes me the angriest about all this? I didn’t get any of Fran’s cookies this year. Fran is Mike DeWine’s long-time and very dedicated wife, who typically gives them out to attendees of her husband’s speech in the rotunda.  This year, activists were there chanting for more money as they felt the pinch from a social disconnect from the standard old traditional funding model of public education.  To avoid the activists, DeWine was ushered away underground to safety, leaving the rest of us to watch their bizarre and out-of-touch rituals with curiosity. The Lakota situation was the topic of conversation because they are one of the largest districts in Ohio, and so went them, so went everyone.  And that was kind of a proper metaphor for DeWine’s State of the State speech.  A do-gooder Governor tosses money at public education and hopes that everything will work well for the kids.  But its these crazy labor unions with woke politics that have screwed up the funding model because people don’t like the product.  And school vouchers, much less restricted these days and growing more so, are giving parents the choice away from their zip code schools where they pay enormous property taxes to fund a political movement they hate essentially.  And Lakota schools were right in the middle of the spectacle leaving DeWine to give just another empty speech about the value of education, and sending books in the mail to students to help with literacy, when the real problem was significant and ominous, and far beyond at this point just passing out cookies in the Statehouse Rotunda to ease tempers.  Legislators were in the middle of the budgeting process for public education at the time of this speech, but the government unions want to cry and protest for money that just isn’t there and aren’t willing to deal with the reality of the coming changes.  And those legislators were mad at what Lakota was thinking of doing then, which they did later that evening.  So it wasn’t a good move by the Lakota School Board.  But I tried to warn everyone, and they didn’t listen.  Much more on that to come.

The main thing in DeWine’s speech was that the Governor came to the speech like an old grandpa that went out to dinner the night before to eat barbeque ribs and still had on a bib from that experience the next day when he thought he was showing up for dinner in a nice suit and tie.  DeWine was out of step and slightly behind the rest of the world for his sixth year in office, most of which had not been very good, especially during the COVID-19 years.  But watching him speak, I thought of him as a nice guy who has been constantly suckered by the same kind of losers who protest education funding, like the people who greeted him upon leaving the State of the State peech.  The old flowerchild strategy of crying like some baby bird until mother government drops a worm in its mouth has long been exhausted, and DeWine never understood it.  He’s a good man from a political generation that caused all these problems and doesn’t know what to do about it.  We have to wait another year or so before we get Vivek Ramaswamy and tackle some of these key issues because just throwing money at problems is not what voters will do in the future. 

The best thing about DeWine’s State of the State speech was the expansion of business enterprise in Ohio, specifically the Andruil factory just south of Columbus and the Intel facility to the north.  There was a lot to talk about, and for DeWine’s credit, many people have been working in the background to make Ohio a much more business-friendly state.  At least DeWine hasn’t stood in the way of those efforts; he’s been willing to tag along.  We’ll get a lot more with Vivek Ramaswamy as Governor, but since DeWine was able to part ways with Amy Acton, the stringy haired hippie who used to be the Health Director during Covid, Ohio has grown more business friendly to make up for their position of lockdown politics that so crippled just about everyone.  Over the last couple of years, DeWine has at least not shut the door to companies like Intel, even though it has largely been members of the Senate that paved the way.  That’s how government works, and it’s very fascinating.  But once the good news was talked about regarding Ohio and DeWine’s speech, the topic went back to the tired old view of the world, and the chants outside could be heard in the chamber, and the reality of places like Lakota schools was coming to fruition.  The days of easy money stolen from taxpayers to fund woke causes were over.  And many people at the State of the State speech in the Ohio Statehouse were struggling with the ramifications of decades of trying to appease the screams of the teacher union types.  But reality has a lot more in store for them than they realize.  The result will be more anger at the people running public education and politicians like Mike DeWine ending their terms dismayed while much more innovative people replace them with reforms that will change all the rules.  The Lakota School Board, in its current form, is just not prepared to deal with it.

Rich Hoffman

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Why the Museum of the Bible: To understand good government you have to understand what “good” is

Why the Museum of the Bible?  Well, that’s a long story, but as I always say about good government, whether managing a family, a business, a community, or a country, you have to understand what good is.  And there has been no more extraordinary human achievement than the Bible emerging out of Western Civilization to define goodness as it applies to mass society and personal integrity.  I’ve read all the significant works of the world’s religions and studied them in some detail, and I am pretty confident in saying that the Bible and its history have achieved more along the lines of defining good government than any other work to emerge from human culture.  So, once Trump was elected back to office, my wife and I wanted to return to Washington, D.C., and give it another chance with fresh, knowledgeable eyes.  I have never been a no-government guy or an anarchist in any way.  I would say that I have always loved government.  But what I didn’t like were the people who were drawn to it.  And years ago, during the Clinton years, I took my family to a literary conference at the Smithsonian, where I was a big part of their presentation, and the trip was a disaster.  Everywhere we went, there was some horrendous evil that ruined the trip for my wife and kids.  So any interactions I have had with Washington, D.C. over the years had to be without her because she refused to give it a chance after the city let her down so badly in the past, which was unfortunate for me. After all, once I saw the Museum of the Bible open in 2017, during Trump’s first term, I really wanted to go and check it out.  But I did not have a cooperative spouse willing to go and see it. 

But once Trump won in 2024, before his speech was done acknowledging his election victory late on election night, my wife turned to me and said that we should celebrate by going back to Washington D.C.  That’s all I needed to hear, so I started planning and we decided to go once the weather broke in early March of 2025, so we could walk around in comfort.  Since that first Washington trip, we have been to some of the world’s biggest cities and seen plenty of evil in all of them.  But what hit home regarding Washington, D.C. was that it was our city and our government, and we couldn’t stand to see how corrupt it all was.  So it was a lot more personal; other cities were other people’s places.  But with Trump back in office, a key constitutional element had been fulfilled: we did have a Republic that could correct evil by merit of votes, and the system could work and did.  Looking at the city itself from a long perspective, we see that it had the mechanisms to do everything it was designed to do, and we had survived a significant challenge never yet achieved within the human race.  And that deserved a celebration.  So for me, that means something that involves lots of books and time to read about topics many people find boring.  But I get very excited about it, which is the foundation of all law and order.  Specifically, one of the Bible’s main themes is how government should be set up. In the Book of Judges, the Israelites were supposed to have self-government, but the judges kept letting everyone down, leaving the people to cry out for a king.  So God eventually gave them one, and they let everyone down too.  And God became so angry with them that he allowed their destruction by their enemies.  A lot like what had occurred in the American city of Washington D.C. 

The Founding Fathers, especially Washington himself, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, a whole host of characters were trying to create in America a restoration of the Book of Judges, in my view based on the reportings of their voluminous studies, which I think is a very noble effort and one that does take many thousands of years to figure it out.  I felt that the election of Trump during this second term was the first real opportunity for that lofty idea to take hold.  And I think the Green family had a sense of this early in the last decade as Trump was still doing The Apprentice television show and thinking about running for President when they were looking for a place to put their idea for a museum dedicated to the Bible.  The place for it to be would be Washington D.C. along with all the other fantastic museums they have there.  But this one would be the most important because the Bible is the foundation of all Western civilization and the pursuit of good government.  The Bible is the foundation of all law and order, starting with the Ten Commandments.  Such a concept has been successful, and Washington, D.C. was the direct result of that long-established pursuit.  So, if you are thinking about such things, which I do very frequently, when there is a Museum of the Bible, I must see it.  So, upon our visit to America’s capital city, we made the Museum of the Bible our first stop for a long week, and we ended up spending two days there because there was so much to see.

I’ve been to many museums, including some of the best in the world, such as the British Museum and the Louvre in Paris, and I consider the Museum of the Bible to be among the best there is.  It’s right around the corner from the Capitol building itself and was exceptionally well done.  The whole place was put together with much love and passion for the topic.  It was very scholarly and was the perfect way to start a trip to Washington D.C. because once you understand what our government is supposed to be doing, you can’t avoid the Bible in that discussion.  So, a museum dedicated to the history and value of the Bible in human culture is the first criterion for understanding the need for good government at any level.  I could write an entire book about the value of the Museum of the Bible, but to sum things up as concisely as possible, I knew it was a special place when I entered a traveling exhibit they had called the Mosaic of Megiddo which came straight from Israel and was a large floor found in an early Roman building acknowledging Christ as a god around 200 A.D, over 100 years before Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.  To see something like that outside of Israel and so significant only established how vital the Museum of the Bible was in the scheme of things.  As I always say, my favorite thing in the world are my Biblical Archaeology Review magazines I have read since I was a little kid.  And going to the Museum of the Bible was like stepping into that quarterly magazine and living in that world three dimensionally.  It is an incredible place, and I don’t think it will be the last time I go there.  My wife and I are members and must find more reasons to return.  It is a fantastic place worth multiple visits, and a lot of time spent there each time.  It is undoubtedly one of the world’s best and most significant museums on a topic that is the foundation of all good government, and because of that, it is infinitely important to the human race. 

Rich Hoffman

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Apoorva Ramasway is a Really Good Person: One of the big reasons to support Vivek Ramaswamy for governor of Ohio

There was never any question about supporting Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor of the State of Ohio.  But after meeting with him at his launch ceremony in West Chester, Ohio, I feel even better about it.  Of course, he is a great talent that can speak the peel off an orange.  But so can a lot of con artists.  The question everyone always wants to know about these kinds of things is how can they know they can trust him?  What makes a person trustworthy, even if they have the gift of gab?  After all, there are a lot of salespeople out there who can sell you just about anything who aren’t worth 2 cents as people.  So what makes Vivek Ramaswamy a good person, good enough to be made Governor of the State of Ohio?  Well, I have a proven tactic that I use to qualify people, especially adult people, that has worked for me over the years: I measure a person’s worth based on what kind of spouse they have.  They can sell pretty words to the public all day, but if they partner with a terrible person as a spouse, you should always question the person’s validity.  As a general rule, good people tend to attract other good people.  And bad, toxic people tend to do the same.  You don’t often find a toxic person choosing to be married to a high-quality person.  They are attached to them for a reason.  So judging a person based on the worth of their spouse is quite good as an accurate measurement, and I am thrilled to say that Vivek Ramaswamy’s wife is top-class and a very good person. Upon meeting Apoorva Ramaswamy, I found that I liked Vivek even more.  They are a nice couple who work well together in ways that are bigger than the jobs they do in life.

I don’t mind saying it, and there are certainly more that I can think of, but at this Vivek Ramaswamy event were some very good friends of mine who were part of setting up everything in the background.  And we are friends for a reason that goes beyond political considerations.  I know a lot of people, but I put more trust in these people for a lot of reasons, most of which start with their spouses.  For instance, when people ask me, “How can you trust George Lang?  He’s a RINO establishment figure.”  I can say to them that I can trust him in ways I wouldn’t trust other people, largely because of what I know him that is different from other people, especially people in a decisive Senate role.  Why George?  He has a wonderful wife in Debbie, who is just as solid as a person can get.  They are a good couple, and they are at an age where they travel a lot, and the fruits of a lot of hard work are emerging, and they are living a good life.  They work well together, and things were not always as good as they are now.  I remember when the political left was trying to throw George in jail just for knowing John Boehner.  Even in the toughest of times, Debbie has always been loyal to George, and as a couple, they are always trying to do the right thing, and I have come to know both of them pretty well over the years in ways that far exceed politics.  If George Lang had never been a senator and never was again, he and his wife would still be friends with me and my wife.  They are good people to know.

And why do I like her so much? People always ask me about Nancy Nix.  Well, what’s not to like?  She is as good as they get.  She comes across as a good person as a politician due to her many sincere desires for the world to be a better place, and I have come to know her over the years as a person with profound convictions toward biblical goodness.  But I’ll say that her husband Bob Leshnak is perfect for her.  Sometimes, it takes a while to find people who can work with them instead of against them.  When you are a person like Nancy who is naturally attractive and has a very outward projecting personality, you can attract a lot of bar flies.  But as a naturally good person from a good family, she knows how to sort through all that to find a great spouse in Bob.  He is good for her and doesn’t work against her, and they just come out as a good couple when you talk to them in any setting.  How can people be expected to manage your government financially or ethically if they can’t manage their own homes?  I could say that I know Fran DeWine a bit, enough to see that she makes the current governor of Ohio a far better person than he would otherwise be.  They are childhood sweethearts, which makes him a person that can at least be brought to reason because he has managed a long marriage to a good person.  I have met Melania Trump on several occasions and always said she is the key to why President Trump has become the kind of good person he is at this stage.  Spouses say a lot about the people we know, publicly. 

At Vivek’s West Chester event, I got to talk to him in great detail, but that wasn’t new.  I could also walk around with his wife and talk to her one-on-one.  And I found it interesting that she had a good relationship with Representative Jennifer Gross, who is too Tea Party for many people.  It says a lot about Apoorva in a good way and about Vivek with the doors closed.  Apoorva was a very classy woman, full of life and spirit, and I kept thinking she would be an ideal First Lady of Ohio.  She comes across well in all the right ways.  But what is most apparent is that she and Vivek are a power couple that feeds off each other.  We’re not talking about a couple of people climbing through social power to achieve a status through won elections.  These people are personally good and want to share that with others in a leadership way.  This is a much different set of standards than the traditional power couple that only share their desire for public power, and once that is not in their lives through a lost election or bad financial times, their relationship breaks apart.  Spouses aren’t helping each other if they plot divorce behind their spouses’ backs and are always jealous of the other people in their lives because they are insecure in the foundations of their relationship.  When you meet people who have people in their lives that they are building families with and who are willing to walk through all the fires of life together, you can know that there are unique qualities you can trust in them as public servants.  And that is undoubtedly the case for Vivek Ramaswamy and his wife, Apoorva.  They will still be a good couple once the days of politics are done, a few decades from now.  They will be defined by what they do together rather than what they convince people to give them in the form of trust and social management.  They are good because they are good, and they work together, which is the best trait of all.

Rich Hoffman

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