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How To Get Rid of Jerome Powell: One thing we must have is civilian oversight of America’s money supply

This is something that has never been resolved in America, and it has always been headed for a collision course.  The question hasn’t been asked well for over a century now, because we allowed too many presidents to be picked for us by the established two-party system controlled through international finance and foreign tampering.  But if you heard Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell the day after President Trump was elected, you get a sense of where it’s going.  President Trump was the people’s pick, as it should have always been.  But not since President Jackson has a president been willing even to challenge the authority of the centralized banks, and based on what we know about how they have mismanaged our affairs, it’s long overdue.  However, this problem goes back to Alexander Hamilton and his great fights with Thomas Jefferson, who advocated for a strong federal government and a centralized bank to run the money supply.  Many will say that America would have never gotten off the ground without Hamilton’s policies.  However, to Jefferson’s point, Hamilton only made it so that a country of free people would always be ruled over by those who control the money supply.  So, this problem was never solved in the American Constitution and has been kicked down the road to our present time.  Ultimately, this is one of the reasons that Trump has so much support.  However, in regard to the Federal Reserve and its creation in 1913, it might have had good intentions.  Someone has to manage a country’s money supply; it can’t just be ruled over by chaos.  But, there must be rigid civilian oversight of the economy by the nation’s people, which was never the intention of the Federal Reserve. 

To answer the question for all the legal people out there, I’ll be happy to provide it; if there is going to be a Federal Reserve, it must be managed by the Executive Branch, a president picked by the people to do their business.  A president does not just appoint someone to it to appease the people; the Executive Branch must manage the money supply.  Even if the Constitution doesn’t spell it out word for word, the spirit of the Constitution indicates that the president has the responsibility for the nation’s security, and nothing makes a country more vulnerable to foreign attack than control over the money supply.  However, when a reporter asked Jerome Powell if he would step down if President Trump asked him to, Powell quickly (too quickly) said no, that his term was in place through 2026, and that was the end of the story.  The implication is that American Presidents are free to deal with other issues in running the nation; they can ask for more money for a military or crusade to save a turtle trying to cross the road in California.  But they are designated by mandate to stay out of the money supply, and we are all supposed to sit on the edge of our seats and wait for the Fed Chairman to tell us whether or not the economy will have interest rates raised or lowered based on what the central banks decide in Jackson Hole at the annual retreat that the Federal Reserve has there to discuss these matters.  As I said, the intentions for creating the Federal Reserve may have been good, but it has turned out to be catastrophic for our national security and sovereignty.  Even though Trump appointed Jerome Powell during his first term, Trump’s lack of control over him quickly caused the President to consider firing him.  However, there was much ambiguity over whether Trump had that right.  So Trump needed another term to deal with the issue, which was taken from him with the insertion of Biden in the Presidency.  In many ways, to preserve these central bank-run institutions like the Federal Reserve, they don’t want a meddlesome president asking too many questions. 

But as often happens, the people who end up in these positions are bleeding-heart liberals who support globalism, and the Fed has dug itself into a deep hole that it hoped nobody would ever get into the details enough to manage.  But this is the heart of the argument of Ron Paul and his End the Fed campaign that has only gained steam over the years.  There has been an increasing desire to attack the premise of Alexander Hamilton’s fiscal policies and to start all over, and that is where Trump is heading.  The Federal Reserve is not independent of American management; it is to be ruled over by the Executive Branch.  Not just appointed, then turned loose like some dog in the field.  But managed and fired should they stray away from the needs of the country they are to serve.  One of the reasons that the Broadway play institutionalists advocated for Hamilton during Trump’s first term was to attempt to prop up Hamilton’s stature as a Founding Father and tear down Thomas Jefferson and his Anti-Federalist ideas.  They didn’t just pick that Founding Father to feature out of thin air, they had a point to it.  It’s that same preservation of institutional value as opposed to civilian oversight behind Jerome Powell’s refusal to step down should Trump ask him to once he returns to office in January 2025. 

Over the last few years, a lot of smart cookies have asked the right questions about the unreasonable imposition of central banking connected to international finance that has eroded our sovereignty in the background, and they aren’t going to let the Fed stand unmanaged, as it has now for over a century.  Jerome Powell and his predecessor Janet Yellen, who was the economic advisor for Joe Biden and is a contributor to the World Economic Forum in Davos, have made terrible financial arrangements with Larry Fink of BlackRock to funnel money printed through Modern Monetary Theory and washed through Wall Street 401K plans that have allowed those prominent money managers to buy up many of the largest corporations in the country which were spelled out very well by Vivek Ramaswamy in his book Woke, Inc., And Vivek is going to be a part of the Trump team in the White House.  So, this issue is coming back to the table and is not in favor of the globalists.  Larry Fink, through his arrangement with the Fed and Jerome Powell specifically, should have never gained the kind of power he has over people, which is quite evident if you’ve read Larry’s ridiculous letters to the CEOs of America that are worth less than used toilet paper.  But the intent to run America through its money supply and force companies to hire more liberal CEOs to appease the gods at the Federal Reserve through Larry Fink and the gang of Democrat-minded thugs from Wall Street, going back to the accusations that were leveled at Hamilton, to have the nation’s money ran by speculators and gamblers for the moral impurity of womanizers and con artists, which was undoubtedly the case.  Those kinds of people need civilian oversight, not just a cosmetic president, and Trump was not put back in the White House to be just an ornament.  No, a real standoff will happen, and the rule of law says that the elected President must manage the money supply for the nation’s security.  And for Jerome Powell, he doesn’t get a vote on the matter.  If Trump wants him gone, he will go because people are backing Trump and putting him in the White House to do this job and many others.  And it’s either this, as was evident by the recent landslide election against all odds, or the physical removal of people like Jerome Powell by an angry public.  And I don’t think he wants that.  So the way to get rid of Powell, just for those paying attention, is to exploit the irresponsible management of money through Larry Fink and Jerome Powell’s involvement in that scam, with full knowledge of what he was doing, which ultimately was criminal in destabilizing American sovereignty. 

Rich Hoffman

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Some of the Worst People are the Nicest: When murderers, scum bags, and thieves use kindness to hide their crimes

Many people are being very nice to Trump now that the election is over.  Trump gets it and so do people who enjoy my book and my statements on one of its most essential parts.  It’s the gunslinger in the bar metaphor that I tell the story of dozens of times a week to countless people.  It’s how people of real value must navigate the treachery of day-to-day life.  When you have something other people want, no matter what it is, you will find that they are very friendly to you.  But when you have nothing they can take, they are mean to you.  Generally speaking, when people are mean to others, the targeted personality doesn’t seem to have anything that the other person deems valuable.  But when you’ve been through all that Trump has, and so many people have openly come out against you, and suddenly you have power, well, that’s when the bootlickers come out and clean all the dust off your shoes.  If you managed to watch Saturday Night Live right after the election, for instance, where for years they have worked to destroy Trump in every way that a media enterprise can, you’ll see a good example.  However, after all their efforts, Trump was elected president again, showing the SNL crowd that they were no longer the popular kids.  And they want to be, so they are trying to appease Trump so as not to feel his wrath, which they fear, because they are guilty of trying to destroy him and hope that he’ll forget about it.  And that’s the case with just about everyone who has worked against Trump over the last 8 years.  Suddenly, they are being very nice to him.  Why do you think that is, other than my metaphor on the gunslinger at the bar with his back-to-the-room example?  They don’t try to kill you when they hope they can get something out of it.  In many ways, when that assassin’s bullet almost hit Trump in the side of the head on July 13th, 2024, it wasn’t just Trump who was saved; for America, it was the best thing to ever happen to us.

If you’ve ever been involved in murder cases where you investigate or interview the suspects of a murder, you see this kind of kindness all the time.  Usually, when people kill someone, they have regret and wish they could go back and do things differently.  They aren’t usually like Aaron the Moor from Shakespeare’s play Titus at the end of the story just prior to being hanged for the many crimes he committed during his life.  Most criminals have regrets and become very friendly, hoping that someone will give them a second chance, not because they are good people but because it’s their only option.  I saw that kindness at a jail I toured recently where all the inmates were very nice, as they were looking for a chance to change their circumstances and used kindness as a bridge to opportunity.  Many of those people were killers and rapists, and worse in many cases, but they were very nice while speaking about their current condition.  The situation would have been much different if they were on the other side of a gun in the comfort of their own initiative.  I had the opportunity to interview people involved in a horrible murder where they cut up their friend to kill them and put them in a garbage can so that they could hide the body.  They didn’t even go into trouble to take the body very far.  They put the trash in the back of the house and left it to decay for weeks before anybody noticed.  The cause of the murder was a dispute over drugs, which they were all on as they occupied a drug house together. 

When you talk to people like that who have essentially ruined their lives with horrible life choices, they have regrets, and they suddenly become very nice because it’s all they have left.  But don’t let that deceive you.  And Trump gets it.  His idea to help the Democrats pay for their massive debt after the election isn’t kindness; it’s leverage.  He says to them, “We beat you, and we still have money left.  You lost, wasted over a billion dollars, and you are still millions in the hole.  So here’s a little money, don’t say we weren’t nice to you.”  I’ve been saying it for a while since that assassin attempted killing in Pennsylvania. Trump won a lot more than his life that day.  He won the cooperation of all the horrible people who have been planning his death or, thinking about it, who are now on the wrong side of history.  Trump would do far better if he used that to his advantage and turned to what he does best: sell positive ideas to people to see vision for the optimism that it is.  Since he did that, Trump has been unstoppable.  That is how going into his next term will be for him and America.  Trump proved everything he had to prove; many people have eggs on their faces.  And to Trump’s benefit, his enemies have no choice but to be nice to him. 

The trick with this understanding is that many people want to be liked, which gives terrible people leverage over the outcome.  Because of the human need to be enjoyed and loved, criminals have learned over time that the best way to appeal to others when it’s their last resort is to turn to kindness for relief from conviction.  Appeal to the judge, appeal to the jury, appeal to everyone you interact with so that they might doubt that you did all the horrible things you did to get in trouble.  Mass society is going through that with Trump after an unquestionable election in which Trump was the most influential politician in the world.  That’s what we meant when we said all along that support for him needed to be too big to rig.  And that happened: Trump will win the popular vote by an astonishing millions of voters, pushing his final count into the upper 70 million.  A ceiling that Democrats really couldn’t hit with anybody on their team if they wanted to, under any conditions.  That leaves all of them who have plotted and schemed against Trump and the MAGA movement in general with no choice but to be nice to the victors and hope that compassion will give them some second chances.  But make no mistake about it: they hope for a second chance that they don’t deserve, just like those murderers I referenced.  All of them participated in cutting up their friend and putting them into a trash can but regretted it.  But the deed was done; there was no coming back from that horrible evening under the influence of a drug-induced frenzy. Flawed life choices last.  And the only path to a second chance is kindness.  So, in that regard, some of the worst people in the world are the nicest people.  This is a lesson many people would be wise to observe and preserve their senses from an assault of villainy hiding behind a smiling face.  Never, ever, trust it.

Rich Hoffman

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Where Voter ID Was Required, Kamala Harris Didn’t Win: A trend that emerged that tells a story of massive election fraud over a long period of time

Generally speaking, a trend emerged during the 2024 election cycle that shows a need for significantly simplifying the election process in federal elections, where all the states will have to hit a requirement.  They can manage their elections as they should, but a standard has to be set so that we don’t have what we essentially saw happen with Kamala Harris.  Other people saw it too, and the lunatics on the left quickly tried to water down the observation, but generally speaking, Kamala Harris only really won in states where voter ID was not required.  And in states where voter ID was required, she didn’t win, or she struggled.  And the problem with voter ID looks to be such a problem that Democrats have figured out that they can get a 5-point swing based on just the rule on voter ID.  Where Kamala lost by a few points where voter ID was present, she won by a few points where there wasn’t any voter ID.  What’s good about this particular election year was that most other forms of fraud had been rooted out, especially in the early drop boxes.  So, a trend toward how Democrats have been cheating for years centers around the lack of ID during elections or the manipulation of them in states with weak laws.  It shows why we can never have another election without correcting these basic problems. We need to get back to same-day voting, and they need to be on paper ballots, and every state must require voter ID with a picture.  Based on what we know now, after the 2024 election, that is the only real way to understand what voters genuinely want in their representative republic. 

Of course the generalities about Kamala Harris and the trend toward voter ID or a lack of it has caused a lot of consternation, so here are the detailed breakdowns to explain the situation.  There are 36 states that require voters to show some kind of identification at the polls to prove they are who they say they are.  Fourteen states don’t require people to show an ID when they vote in person.  Of those states, Kamala won 12 of them.  And as it turned out, Harris won 19 states and, of course, Washington D.C.  There are coastal areas that are just too far gone toward communist Democrat positions that Kamala won anyway.  They weren’t big, consequential states, but they do fall outside our observable standard expressed here for voter ID.  In Pennsylvania, first-time voters must show identification with an optional photo standard.  No photo ID is required in Nevada, but signatures must be provided.  All voters must show identification in Colorado, but it doesn’t require a photo.  In New Hampshire, if a voter does not have a picture, the poll worker can take one for them and attach it to an affidavit.  There are nine states, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, that are stricter and require all voters to show a state-issued photo ID.  Trump won all those states in that case, and Kamala didn’t win a single one.  So there is a bit more to it than just saying Kamala won where voter ID wasn’t.  But generally, where voter ID was required, Democrats struggled.  This has been the case for years, but with the push by Democrats to vote easily, to not have scrubbed voter rolls, to have mail-in ballots that were easy to tamper with, to have a postal service that was destroying votes in transit that did not support big government ideas, there was just too much room for Democrats to cheat and they have been doing so for quite a long time. 

There has also been a lot of talk, as people have noticed what I pointed out would be a problem for the last three years. The Democrats cheated in 2020 because they are 12 million short of those numbers.  Trump performed similarly, and if you look at how Republicans performed in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024, the excitement for Trump’s building a big tent was consistent.  However, Democrats have around a 69 million threshold consistent unless they can create extra votes not attached to actual people.  Because everyone was watching closely during this election, Democrats were forced to stay within their 69 million ceiling.  And even that, when voter ID is considered to add around a 5-point contamination on the same day voting, which could be illegal aliens or any number of Democrat voting apparatus, Democrats would perform even worse.  This explains why they had no genuine desire to have a message that people could buy into and instead relied lazily on voter fraud to gain and keep power.  When they were challenged, as they were with Trump, who had a big tent message and vision for America as a sovereign country, Democrats couldn’t compete.  Now, in the world of globalism, where communists have rigged elections all the time, there is nothing new about any of this.  Democrats were a party built for globalism and the destruction of American sovereignty, so they weren’t prepared for a fair fight with a fair election.  Their party has been built on rigged elections and a tilted battle against voters before the election ever started.  It’s always been this way, but they weren’t ready for this particular election, and it showed.

I don’t think the Democrats will survive this modern realization.  And as to the trend of switching every few years from Republicans or Democrats controlling the House, I’m telling you, if you get control of your elections in all the states so that they are genuinely free and fair, Republicans will win everywhere, and the House will gain a majority.  Democrats have only kept things close through massive election fraud.  Let’s go to a federal standard of same-day voting, paper ballots, and voter ID with a government-issued photo. The real intent of American voters will be represented truly.  This mess that went on in Arizona and Nevada is incredible in any modern sense.  It’s like watching the Flintstones dig a hole with a dinosaur.  It is ridiculously primitive and inefficient, and with all the time it has taken them to count their votes, are opportunities for election fraud because, like what happened in 2020 where the counters waited for everyone to go to sleep so they could slide some boxes into the mix for Joe Biden, and again what they did in Arizona to keep Kari Lake from becoming the governor, loose rules make it easy for criminals to steal elections.  And if we want to be serious about elections, we need to set a standard and have everyone do the same for federal election representation.  Because of the loose rules, Democrats have made a living from gaining power by exploiting good faith and using it as a club to destroy the concept of American life in favor of globalism and the global citizen movement.  With much of the noise removed in this election, a clear trend emerged, and with that knowledge, we have a chance to fix it for good in the future.   We must adhere to this mandate to preserve our republic so it can stand. 

Rich Hoffman

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Proof of 2020 Election Fraud: Where are over 12 million voters

No, we’re not just going to move on.  I told everyone what would happen, and it did exactly how I said it would, and now millions of people have a lot of egg on their faces because of it.  But yes, we have to talk about it because as Trump releases the January 6th prisoners, who never should have been put in jail in the first place, everyone needs context to one of the most significant crimes ever to be perpetrated against the human race.  January 6th, 2021, was caused by a hostile government performing a coup against the American people they were supposed to serve, and they certified an election people knew occurred through election fraud.  So as a legal foundation, that has to be understood.  It is not a polite society thing to accept theft and crime.  It is not our task to look the other way when our government commits a crime, such as removing someone from office they don’t like and putting someone we didn’t in office.  I pointed out precisely what would happen in the 2024 election, including the storyline of Biden beating Trump where Kamala couldn’t.  Kamala Harris was put in place to hide election fraud because everyone knew what they did to make Biden win in 2020, and they knew they wouldn’t be able to duplicate the results.  So, as soon as Kamala lost, the media narrative was, “Maybe Biden should have stayed in the race because he had success where Harris didn’t.”  But here’s the deal: Democrats never had 81 million votes because Kamala Harris, as a woman of color, and a woman, wasn’t able to outperform Joe Biden anywhere in the country just four years later.  Why, you ask, because in 2024, it was much harder to cheat than what they did in 2020 when COVID gave them cover to change the rules to allow them to insert Biden in office rather than to be elected by free choice. 

Essentially, Trump gained the same votes in 2024 as in 2020, hovering just over 73 million people.  However, Harris never made it out of the 60 millions, which is about where traditional elections with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had been.  Everyone seems shocked that Trump won the popular vote by 4-5 million voters.  But I’m not.  He performed as he had in previous elections.  But Democrats had won those previous elections through election fraud, and we know now, aside from the vast evidence brought forth, that they couldn’t duplicate the results anywhere because the mechanisms for cheating had been largely taken away from them. Now, all these news outlets and pundits are trying to explain it away as if Harris did something disastrously wrong.  See, I told you they were all going to throw her to the wolves to hide the crime they know was committed all along.  Where are the votes? Everyone is asking.  They never existed.  And in an election where poll watchers were everywhere and we knew where to look because of the election fraud investigations that had taken place over the last four years, the Democrats couldn’t come close to duplicating their 2020 numbers, giving Trump a clean sweep on the popular vote.  But he had that same mandate in 2020, and if he had been president, think of all the misery we wouldn’t have had to deal with.  Think of all the illegal signatures on Biden’s documents that he signed, which have no meaning because he was not the rightly elected president.  And this, again, is what the protestors of January 6th were angry about, and here is the proof. 

The proof of a major crime is right here. How clear does it have to be?

The prisoners were kept in jail, and anyone who questioned the results of the 2020 election were prosecuted, harassed, and deplatformed in terrible ways, and the message was that the government had counted the votes and picked your president.  Shut up and go away if you want to live.  And we were stuck with massive inflation, terrible energy policy, and a tyrannical government nanny state of criminal-minded despots who were willing to sell America out to any country paying money, especially communist China.  Keeping the J6 prisoners in jail deliberately violating their Constitutional rights to a speedy and fair trial was intimidation with the intent of submission to a law-breaking culture.  And when that assassin’s bullet did not kill Trump, the bad guys knew Trump was going to win the election not because of the great campaign that he was running but because he was going to still get around 75 million votes in 2024.  But the Democrats, under any candidate, wouldn’t get out of the 60 millions.  I think Kamala had around 69 million once all the smoke cleared, and the illegal immigrants of California were counted because they didn’t have to show voter ID.  But without the drop boxes and the half a billion dollars of Facebook money paying for votes under loose COVID rules, Democrats knew they wouldn’t win that election.  That’s why they had to keep Trump from running again because it would expose the crime they committed to knock him out of the Presidency the first time.  And look at all they did to him to essentially hide their crime of election fraud.  They could not afford a rematch between Trump and Biden because it would always expose them.  And as it turned out, Trump performed precisely as he had.  And Harris fell way short. 

People have to pay for these crimes, so no matter how nice they are now because of the election results, they are still guilty of terrible things in 2020 that must be fixed.  They ruined many lives because of their crime, especially the January 6th prisoners.  And there isn’t any amount of forgiveness that is permissible.  Nobody let us have Trump back for 2024.  He had to work hard, and many people had to have much courage to continue to support him when a very oppressive government was showing that they were willing to use the power of government to commit crimes and rule over people with intimidation.  It was a dark chapter in American life that we will never forget.  But now, because of the election of 2024, they have been caught and must pay for what they did—starting with the election results.  Someone, actually, many people, have a lot of explaining to do.  Where are the lost 12 million votes?  How did a woman of color perform so much worse than an almost 80-year-old man at the time?  If it was a few thousand votes, you might say people liked him more than her.  But you can’t explain millions of votes because the number is so large that it skews all the previous numbers regarding analysis.  For example, there wasn’t a single place where CNN put up an extensive board comparison of where Kamala outperformed Biden in the country.  That’s not because Kamala was bad; it’s because Biden never had those lofty results.  And in that way, every comparison between the two elections will always be tainted with insufficient data.  Because the data was never accurate, and remember, I told everyone so all along.  And I turned out to be entirely correct.  This Biden government lied to us, and they committed many crimes, and they have to be punished for what they did, and then some.  What they did is not forgivable.  And every complicit sucker in the media is just as guilty.

Rich Hoffman

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When George Lang Stood Between a Radical Protestor and Trump: The Left is out of gas

I know it’s scary, and many people are very worried about what they’ll learn after the 2024 election, which is essentially, do we have a government accountable to the people?  Or is it an out-of-control oppressive monstrosity that we’ll have to fight a revolution to bring back to our control?  People have seen too much of the communist machine that has been working in the background for a long time, and they doubt that an election will be enough to take back our country.  And I can understand why they think that way.  But consider a few things about this Democrat machine that is on a trend nobody can ignore.  And it’s growing against them year by year, even to the point where now there are Democrats who are jumping off the ship and voting for MAGA, like Elon Musk.  I’ve enjoyed that guy’s life for a long time, but could only go so far because he was such a left-leaning progressive.  Nowadays, he sees the light and sounds even more conservative than me.  But that comes from reality; when trying to build businesses, that nasty word reality tends to make itself known.  It has also been a challenge with Elon Musk and his attempts to run some of the most successful businesses in the world without partnerships with governments.  For a while, he played along to get along with the World Economic Forum, China, and the Obama and Biden administrations, all oppressive, centralized authority regimes.  But it became apparent in the 2020s that without an open government run by actual people and not Marxist philosophies that didn’t embraced capitalism, the possibility of going to space was just impossible.  Space travel requires massive amounts of capitalism.  Colonies on the moon and Mars would stall away under bureaucratic nonsense, and Musk has been living his own kind of Atlas Shrugged novel. his conversion has been an exciting reality I have covered extensively, more so than anybody else.  So, it hasn’t surprised me, it’s all part of a more significant trend. 

Seems like a long time ago.

I do not doubt that overt election fraud is planned for the 2024 election.  The political left cannot lose; they hold much of the government under their power and are the ones who ultimately count the votes and certify them.  But they played that game in 2020, too, and people are very well aware of it this time, and Democrats are being caught all over the place.  The discussion about Harris being on Saturday Night Live breaking FCC rules to try to slide her under the door with an extensive public relations skit at the last minute without giving Trump equal time caused a major uproar.  People are talking about the poor pet squirrel and raccoon that were confiscated during a home invasion in New York and euthanized for no real reason, and they are outraged.  People are seeing things that have always been there, but they are now allowing themselves to see the gross reality of it.  It’s not just Alex Jones and Hard Right conspiracy theorists anymore.  Since COVID-19 and the four terrible years of Biden, people have been waking up, and believe it or not, the Democrat/Marxist machine has been running out of gas and showing signs of weakness.  For the first time they actually fear being toppled from power.  There isn’t any amount of money in the world that can prop up something that just isn’t working anymore. One obvious thing with the Harris campaign was that their machine was broken and couldn’t win people over to give them a cover story of representative government.  If they do manage to capture the public, it won’t be under the illusion of self-rule.  It will be against the people like every other communist armpit of a country in the world.

So what’s different now compared to four years ago or even eight?  Well, remember all the Trump rallies in 2016 when there were paid provocateurs who would show up and try to make it look like people were against Trump when, in reality, it was quite the opposite.  I know this subject well because I watched it from a front-row seat.  I was part of a Trump rally in 2016 where I was in the VIP section with Senator Lang, and we were talking about what to do if someone broke loose from the audience to try to storm the stage with Trump on it, as had been happening often during that time.  I had a pretty good friend who was caught on film punching some radicals at a Trump rally that same year, and open fights and the harassment of Trump supporters with violence were commonplace.  There was no peace and lots of radicalism during Trump’s first term, where the mechanisms of the left were on full display.  The Rules for Radicals playbook was incredibly audacious and on full utilization.  And while George Lang and I stood there just a few feet from Trump, a provocateur rushed the stage right next to us, and security quickly put him down.  I thought of my friend who had punched some of those same types of leftists in the face, and he was in big legal trouble, so I did not touch the guy.  But let me tell you, George Lang did.  He blocked access to the stage with his body until security grabbed the guy and hauled his worthless body off.  And Trump looked at us for a second but didn’t even break his conversation but to tell the loser to go back to mommy.  I could tell lots of stories like that for people who don’t get to see that side of George, who represents Ohio much better than most people will ever know.

But here’s the thing: the left has been running out of gas now for over 8 years.  And you could see that this year when the fever started to finally break with that ridiculous lawfare case against Trump in Georgia just for questioning the election results that resulted in that now famous mug shot.  Then, a few attempted assassination attempts.  Trump never stopped, or even slowed down, and he has had more public rallies since then and notice what’s missing.  Yeah, it’s the provocateurs.  It’s the harassment of Trump supporters coming and going from rallies that used to be expected.  Now, none at all. The communists are running scared, and they have been exposed, and they don’t know what to do.  They can only rule through fear and control over the election process.  But the decentralized media in America, with forums like this one on one end and the Joe Rogan Experience on the other, and all kinds of stuff in between, they even put Steve Bannon in jail to keep the Warroom off the air during this period, and nothing has worked.  Nothing they have tried has succeeded, and in the process, they have lost support in significant ways, which Elon Musk is a fine example of.  If they lost him, they have also lost millions of others who aren’t so well seen.  So, as I know, everyone is worried about this 2024 election.  Remember, the power is clearly in your hands.  All you have to do is show up and vote to make this election too big to rig.  You don’t yet have to grab firearms to take back your country.  At this point, you can break the machine by overloading the support for Trump beyond their ability to cheat.  And if everyone does that, we can end this nightmare peacefully.  But the yearning of the people won’t be suppressed any longer.  People want what they do, and they are going to have it.  And this Marxist government of the Barack Obama types is a thing of the past, and they know it because they are out of gas.  Their tricks have not worked, and everything they have done has only caused them to lose more power, precisely where they are on election day.

Rich Hoffman

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The Brand Damage of the CIA: They will never recover from all their mistakes

The brand damage that the CIA has is their fault.  Based on their performance, we would all be better off without them.  They are supposed to keep America safe, but as it has turned out, they are the advocates for globalism and the destruction of American sovereignty.  And their dysfunction is because they don’t have proper civilian oversight.  Since they don’t get a lot of their funding through Congress, but rather through black budget enterprises like the drug trade, they don’t have any accountability.  And when we have tried to pin them down, they point to aliens or some other enterprise and declare that their secrecy is for our own national security.  But as Trump is promising to release the Kennedy assassination report, which Mike Pompeo encouraged him not to do during his first term, after the assassination attempt against Trump over the summer of 2024, the public needs to know.  I understand why Mike Pompeo didn’t want more bad press for the CIA, which he was in charge of at the time under Trump.  He did a good job and didn’t like the additional bad press.  But truthfully, nothing good can come out of the CIA at this point.  Their reputation is terrible, and there isn’t any evidence that they are acting in a way that is best for our country.  So, they have strayed way off the mark.  And I get Mike Pompeo as well, I have been able to ask him directly about what he thought of the 51 intelligence agents who declared that the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.  He didn’t want some citizen journalist disparaging the department he was in charge of, so he just smiled politely and hoped that I would go away.  But it was an honest question with no good answer, and we both knew it.  There is no saving the CIA.

This all came to my mind because I was playing the new Call of Duty Black Ops Six video game, and this CIA plot is central to the game.  For context, Call of Duty is one of the most significant cultural entertainments that we have in the world these days.  Millions and millions of people play the game and they do so all hours of the day and night.  It’s a viral mainstream activity.  People over 50 may not understand that, but Call of Duty is one of those shared experiences for most adult households.  But in the campaign mode for this particular one is a rogue CIA agent who has gone off the grid to expose a big globalist scandal that involves the mainstream CIA as a contributor to plots against domestic sovereignty, which is pretty serious stuff.  In recent years, we have seen several movies go in the same direction, such as the Mission Impossible movies and even James Bond.  People have developed a genuine distrust of all these intelligence agencies over time to the point where they are no longer helpful.  Trump understands the game better than anybody in politics and how best to make America safe.  It’s not with a bunch of secretive agents of doom advocating a destructive political platform when, in reality, the best weapon in the world is economic.  If you control the money supply of any country or any people, then you control them much better than with direct CIA involvement toward border destruction.  What you end up with instead are radicals advocating for a borderless world and globalist intentions because they don’t have to report anything to Congress or answer to anybody for that matter. 

And they have been working against all the ways that the fictional game of Call of Duty portrays, not because conspiracy theorists have won the day with speculative talk, but because art has become a free expression of socially deep concerns.  It also shows up in mainstream entertainment, such as Call of Duty.  As I was playing this most recent one and thinking about Jack Posobiec’s new book Bulletproof, there is no statistical way that the killer, Thomas Crooks, acted alone.  No mathematical analysis could be done over that event where his acting alone could be the case.  Likely, as the evidence points out very well in that book that is very well researched, the FBI and CIA were behind the assassination attempt, just as they were with Kennedy and the coup against Nixon.  If you do a little digging, it’s easy to see that the CIA was created in 1947, right after World War II.  And since then, they have not made America a better place, but far worse.  There may have been well-intentioned people in it, like Mike Pompeo.  Trump may have wanted it to work.  But in truth, the CIA can’t be trusted, and at this point, they never will be.  They have such a horrible reputation that they will never be able to repair it.  Their very creation works against the concept of an American Constitution and needs to be reconsidered.  Adults over 50 who do not play Call of Duty may still want to think the CIA is salvageable, but when pop culture reveals how they feel about it, there is no going back.  Millions and millions of people have grown up not trusting the CIA because the government entity hasn’t done a very good job of justifying what they do and why.  And that is their fault.  People’s opinions of the CIA come from their experiences. 

When you read the Constitution and all the talk about standing armies and civilian oversight, you quickly realize that the CIA was created for all the wrong reasons and that its purpose in the world works against American sovereignty.   So, of course, when Trump came along to make America Great Again, the CIA has been working against him, even getting caught up in the many scandals of performing the same kind of coup on Trump that they do with other leaders around the world over time.  And we know that because of the 51 agents and the Russian dossier.  And the Kennedy assassination report.  From Watergate.  But what’s worse is the many times we suspect what they do is wrong but have not been able to prove it essentially because they lack proper civilian oversight and control of the evidence that might be used against them.  So, with a lack of evidence, they can make up any narrative they want, which they have done.  But it doesn’t change how people think about them, which comes out in art and entertainment, such as in this new Call of Duty game.  The CIA only had relevance to those around for its creation and had some sentimental hope that they were good people who wanted to do what was right.  But in reality, the CIA has proven to be a bunch of anti-American terrorists who work against the Constitution, seeking to subvert it at every opportunity, and they have been controlling our elections for many years, as they have been caught doing with Trump on several occasions.  And it’s not unfair for people to have an unfavorable opinion about them.  However, for accountability and making America great again, the CIA is one of those departments that should be on the chopping block during the next Trump term and reconfigured into something else.  The CIA was rotten from the beginning, and it has never been good.  If they are not accountable to voters, they shouldn’t exist.  And that’s all there is to it, especially now that their reputation has proven irretrievable.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, the Media is Filled with Stupid People: If you want the job done right, sometimes you just have to do it yourself

It seems like I am answering many questions lately from people who have long wanted to ask.  Such as, why have I put so much effort into writing a 1200-word article every day on this blog site, much of the time, accompanied with video for over 15 years.  The answer is that I can do a better job than anybody else in the media, and I say that because over the last 20 years, I have known the kind of people who end up in media, and if we want to tell the story by reporting media, then you can limit the news to the type of people who are typically picked to be in it.  And I say that because I would know.  There was a large part of my life where all I wanted to do was to be a film director and movie producer.  If you go through my writing over the last 15 years, you’ll see a very distinct break by me from all media outlets around the first election for Trump.  Once I came out in favor of Trump, everybody turned on me.  But before that, people in the business tolerated me.  They even invited me to movie sets with A-lits actors and charming dinners in Glendale and Santa Monica, California, to discuss brewing projects.  But there came a time around 2009 when Barack Obama was president when we all had to decide.  The Tea Party movement needed the modern version of Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, and even John Paul Jones, who could work a revolution from the background.  I also got to know good people who broke away in the media, and I was one of them.  Of all my contacts, I knew quite a few people at Clear Channel Radio, which I utilized to advance Tea Party causes, who would eventually move over to Glenn Beck’s Blaze.  So yes, I have had a lot of opportunities in media. Still, I found through personal experience that people who make a living in media are a particular kind of person. If the truth were going to be told about things, then I would have to take away those elements myself, which is what I have been doing now for quite a long time.

So, doing the blog for me is similar as to why Trump wants to run for president.  It costs him money to run for a political office, and everyone knows what he has been through to do it.  We need the same kind of commitment from people who can afford to, at all levels of society, if we want to make America Great Again.  I gave up on the idea of being one of them in media by identifying myself with the Tea Party movement, and I found over the next five or six years that I could do a lot better on my own.  I know the kind of people who read my blog and do it because they get better news than they do from newspapers and broadcasts, and they get it every day in a way that tells a whole story on a topic instead of some little fragment.   And I don’t do it for fame or opportunity, but because it’s a job that needs to be done. It could only happen if you didn’t care what people thought and didn’t need anybody to pay you to do the job.  So, from top to bottom, I know media personalities at all levels and understand the personality types who survive in the business, and I determined that I would do the job myself if I wanted it done right. 

I would say most media types are whores.  I found it reprehensible what Clear Channel did to Doc Thompson, a pretty good friend who worked directly for Glenn Beck after quite a lot going on behind the scenes.  For a long time, I was careful not to call people out too much because chances were, they would call me to be on a show.  I’d write a book, and my publishers didn’t want me to rock the boat personally with things, so I tried to keep personalities out of my comments.  But during Trump’s last term, when I saw how everyone treated him, especially in the media, I just tossed all that out the window and stopped answering the calls or appearing anywhere.  Of course, I alienated people at a significant personal cost to me.  But that’s OK.  I have done what I think is a good job on a desperately needed topic.  Because most people who are in the media, and survive there, aren’t very good people for many reasons.  In Cincinnati, there was a time about a decade ago when I knew most every media personality on a first-name basis, and I had their phone numbers and would send them text messages often throughout the day.  Even in 2019, when I was on vacation with my wife at the Epcot Center in Florida, I had the media people at Channel 12 wanting to know the latest on the Trump front in Butler County, and I reluctantly took the call because I liked the guy.  But it was a nowhere story to feed a narrative they didn’t really want to get.  All the media personalities were cheerleading for the removal of Trump, and I lost any desire to correspond with them. 

So because the media is such a mess, and when Trump calls them “fake news,” I know all too well what he means.  He understands it because he was a media darling for a long time, and they invited him into their world.  Trump used that knowledge to be president and started to untie all the shoes of the rat-infested substructure of all media during that first term.  There were a lot of people who had to make hard decisions, and I was certainly one of them.  And I’m glad I did.  I think if I hadn’t poured millions and millions of words that people needed to hear into this AI-infested media climate, there are a lot of influential people who would only have had Fox News and some conservatives from New York writing books to help shape their courage where it matters in day to day matters.  I have always been good at media, like many people.  But what was different about me was that I could do other things, too.  I didn’t have to eat out of the hand of some money investor who wanted to drive a media narrative, especially once Trump became involved in the story.  I was free to talk about Trump any way I wanted.  Many might remember the radio broadcasts I did out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 2016 to 2018.  It was a privately owned radio station where I frequently hosted Saturday shows.  I would talk about the benefits of the Trump presidency, and even they were reserved because it was the culture of media that was a problem, and they needed advertising dollars to stay open, and they were always worried about being shut down by the FCC and their advertisers.  So, I have been writing this blog for a long time now.  I am happy with the work that has been a slow trickle working in the background for a long time.  And I have done it because I wanted to, because I wanted people to hear at least a critical opinion that was not at all whored out to any money tied interest.  I’m glad all that occurred.  But yes, from my knowledge, I can say it: the media is filled with people who are not very smart and incapable of seeing the big picture.  And the big picture is where the story always was.  Telling that story takes a perspective of freedom that cannot come from an insider.  Of course, the cost to all that is lost opportunity, financially.  But the value exceeds money by a lot because, in truth, there is an expansion of the human race for which we presently sit on the precipice in ways that seemed impossible just a few years ago.  Yet, here we are.  And yes, it was all worth it.  Things don’t always work out the way you think they will.  But often, because you do things for the right reasons, things work out for the better.

Rich Hoffman

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Democrats Do Not Respect Civilian Oversight: The disaster of Kamala Harris skipping the Al Smith Dinner

As we get down the stretch of the 2024 election, the big takeaway and primary reason that many Democrats have peeled away from the party only to join Republicans is that a ruse has been exposed that was long concealed.  Democrats with a foundation of Marxism never respected voters’ opinions.  They ultimately adopted the globalist policy of rigged elections to gain and hold power.  They never intended to win people over with a compelling argument about their political platform.  Their entire political strategy has been essentially high school politics; you were either a cool kid or weren’t.  And if that were the case, then you would be cast from society, a society they controlled.  No, what they lost most over the last four years has been their brand.  Nobody wants to be one of the cool kids if what you get is a Democrat.  That was particularly revealing when Tulsi Gabbard announced at a recent Trump rally that she was joining the Republican Party.  Trump has been fantastic at opening up the big tent of the Republican Party in ways that no other Republican in history could have, leaving it indeed a party of the Americans.  When you consider that Robert F. Kennedy joined Trump’s campaign with the intention of a critical position in the White House and Elon Musk suddenly became a Tea Party kind of Republican, the Trump campaign has just been fantastic down the stretch.  Trump has done everything that could be done to bring people into support of him, especially with people of color and among the immigrant population.  There have been a lot of great moments, but I think one of the best will be remembered by the Al Smith Dinner of 2024, where Trump was brilliantly funny.  Most of all, he showed up, but Kamala Harris didn’t. 

Democrats are playing a game they thought would work, and it is consistent with their actions over the past three or four decades.  But Trump exposed it with all his persuasive live performances, especially at the Al Smith Dinner.  When Trump went to the one in 2016, Hillary Clinton was there, and she went and spoke.  She didn’t do very well, but she figured it didn’t matter at that time.  The machine would win for her, so she showed up and did her part.  Trump was great that year, too, but this time, he was outstanding.  But Kamala Harris didn’t show up, and instead sent in a video with a kind of Saturday Night Live skit to help carry Kamala over the top.  Democrats are like that kid who didn’t study for the big test and showed up expecting to cheat on someone’s paper.  Democrats weren’t prepared to run a real campaign for power in America.  They counted exclusively on election theft to win, like all the other Marxist countries in the world presently do, and they were so disrespectful about it that they picked a candidate in Kamala Harris who would do whatever they told her to and run her campaign from concealment the entire time.  Because they have such little respect for the democratic process and the self-government concept of Americans in general, they were not able to compete when Trump made the campaign truly about competency and representation.  The strategies of personal destruction suddenly didn’t work at all with Trump because he didn’t need the Democrats to crown him one of the “cool kids.”  He already was one.  Trump has changed the definition of a cool kid over the last eight years.

The Al Smith Dinner was embarrassing for Kamala Harris because it was so out of step with the nature of the 2024 campaign.  There was no compelling argument to make on behalf of Democrats, causing them to leave the party, such as what Tulsi Gabbard and many others have done.  Just think about how many people have done the same thing all across the country, and they know what will happen in this election.  Now that the close of the election is near, even the big media outlets understand what will happen.  They tried to run the same closet campaign for Kamala that they did for Biden the first time, but people aren’t buying into it.  There is no COVID to cover for their massive attempts at election fraud, and most anybody who isn’t a crazy lunatic of anti-American sentiment is voting for Trump.  And as I have said all along, it will all come down to engagement.  Trump has engaged voters who are excited to vote for him.  Kamala Harris has a few fringed cat ladies and a hamster.  But nobody else.  Trump will break into the seventy millions.  Kamala will be lucky to get out of the sixties.  Trump will win the popular vote because there won’t be the same opportunities to cheat that were so common in 2020.  And the Democrats are panicking over it.  Even CNN has figured out that they will have egg on their face if they support Kamala, who had a particularly disastrous performance there, too, with Anderson Cooper.  When the smoke clears from this one, people will wonder how so many people got it all wrong, and they’ll point to that disastrous Al Smith Dinner with the video contribution by a weird Saturday Night Live skit as the root cause. 

I know quite a few Secret Service Agents, and they report that they can’t see the forest for the trees.  Even with all that I have said, they fear that Kamala Harris will win anyway because they genuinely think the “machine” of politics is truly in charge.  And I tell them they are too close to the situation to be objective.  But plenty of people want to argue with me and believe that Kamala Harris will win as a propped-up asset of the machine, and she thinks so, too.  That is until she was heckled at a recent rally where people broke out into a Trump chant, and she became furious about it.  I hear what everyone says about the machine being in charge.  But in America, that is not acceptable, and Trump has done everything that can be done to unite the country behind the Republican Party, which will have a significant impact up and down the ticket in general for all races.  I see significant losses for Democrats that will wipe them out generationally and even perhaps as a viable political party.  After all this, they may join the Whigs in history as they don’t represent the American people but a globalist ideology that most people find repulsive once they find out what it is.  And the Democrats were exposed through competition for really the first time.  Voters have been looking for someone like Trump to expose this shell game for a long time, and essentially, this is the first time that the stress fractures exposed Democrats for what they have always been hiding.  And it was never more evident than when Kamala Harris skipped the Al Smith Dinner in 2024, even with Chuck Schumer sitting right next to the podium where the speeches were given.  In a friendly venue, she couldn’t even perform there.  But Trump did, and did it very well, leaving no doubt who the winner of the presidency would be.  And history will never forget it.

Rich Hoffman

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The Ruthlessness of Smiling Faces: What people are really up to

First of all, even though I am talking about a recent fast draw competition with the Ohio Fast Draw guys in Ohio, I am not talking about that event, but many other things that are relevant in ways that aren’t always so obvious.  Human nature is what it is, and all things are applicable.  But this particular example is appropriate across the tapestry of competition.  And to that point, I am used to extreme ruthlessness in human nature.  I don’t see the smiles that people provide to disarm your sensibilities as being innocent.  I see the worst in people because that’s my experience based on years of opinion.  So, when I attended a recent Ohio Fast Draw competition in Cleveland, I went out in support for the group because the attendance was dropping, and I wanted to boost the membership with my presence.  But from my point of view, it was hard in the second half of the year to attend the events, starting with the one in August, which I missed.  It was a late night with many good GOP people, including Bernie Moreno, Warren Davidson, George Lang, and many others, and we stayed way too late listening with a VIP perspective to a Jason Aldean concert.  I didn’t get on the road in time to get to Cleveland, which broke my routine for the year.  Up until that point, I had attended all the Ohio Fast Draw competitions.  But August, September, and the rest of the year until Christmas are too busy for me.  My goal for the year was to get to all the Ohio Fast Draw competitions and show my support for them.  But once I missed the one in August, it bothered me to have that intention disrupted.

My gun minutes before a competition

I learned at the next event I did manage to get to that other shooters were not unhappy that I did not show up.  I had been winning many trophies, and people felt that because I wasn’t there, they’d get a better chance to win themselves.  I didn’t let it bother me because I like the people who are typically in Fast Draw.  I understand and respect the ruthlessness of human nature.  So, I put those thoughts into a category of their own to deal with as I saw fit.  Even so, I tried hard to make the next competition to support the organization.  I didn’t have time for it.  I didn’t need any more trophies for the year.  I just wanted to see attendance grow, not recede.  I think Fast Draw should be a sport that more people participate in; it’s better than golf, bowling, or other competitive events.  But a lot of young people these days don’t know much about gun fighting because it’s not part of their cultural experience, as more woke activities have become part of their lives.  So, I am interested in seeing organizations like Ohio Fast Draw survive well into the future, and I would like to see them grow in popularity.  But when I showed up to the most recent Cleveland event, I was already strung well too thin, and didn’t have the time to give.  I attended to support friends.  I was disappointed that I wasn’t very welcome and that many of them hoped I wouldn’t show up.  Now, things get murky because people often don’t say what they really mean.  And they usually hide malicious intent behind appearing helpful.  So people think that what they believe deep within themselves is hidden from the outside world and that nobody really knows what’s going on if they don’t admit to something.  Well, I know everything that goes on.  I understand every aspect of human nature, so nothing stays hidden from me.  I know what is going on with everyone at all times.  And it wasn’t hard for me to figure out what was happening when I arrived at the Cleveland competition. 

In Fast Draw, severe rules for activity on the firing line, safety, and other considerations are rigorous.  Some of the more competitive people in these events go crazy when they hear a cell phone and people whisper in the background while shooting.  They get mad at every little distraction.  So, given that context, I thought it was highly unusual that at my gun check at this event, there was so much concern over my gun having a sticky trigger.  I didn’t ask for any advice; it was the same gun I had used to win several competitions that year, and it worked well for me.  But many Fast Draw shooters perform a lot of work on their guns, hoping to give themselves a slight edge in speed.  So it mystifies them that I use a mostly stock gun and that it has a heavy hammer pull.  Now, given some of the people involved in volunteering to tear my gun apart looking for a problem that wasn’t there, I thought being friendly and respectful was more important than showing anger that I was missing the opportunity to practice before the competition started.  I think they were genuinely trying to be helpful.  But I also felt that something more malicious was going on, and the longer it went on, the more angry I got. 

At the end of a lot of work, several shooters offered to loan me a gun to shoot with that day, which, on the surface, appeared helpful.  But they all know what distractions and changing anything on the firing line do to the process.  So, I found it disrespectful to see that they had made a point to look like helpful behavior to sabotage my approach to shooting in that competition.  I didn’t ask for help.  I didn’t want any help.  And I would have rather been left alone because there was more going on than trying to appear helpful.  The combined efforts were an attempt at sabotage because as the day progressed, it became pronounced that I was the center of many of their thoughts, and they had prepared for that event with an intention against me personally.  Here’s the deal: I won a lot at these competitions because of my shooting method, not because of the tricks of the gun or luck.  My times are consistently good because I shoot close to the hip in a fashion that looks slower to go fast.  And the frustration against me has been that I look like I’m not trying to go fast all the time and shoot in the .300s and even .200s.  I could, but in Ohio Fast Draw, missing the target would become more common, and you would get penalized for missing.  You are judged on speed and accuracy.  I ended up doing OK for the day.  The worries about my gun and the overall process of the day did have an impact, but I worked through it.  Part of the benefit of competitions like that is that learning to manage stress under tremendous pressure is the real takeaway.  So I thought it was a positive experience.  But I was very disappointed to see that so many of those other shooters were happy to see me having a bad day.  They wanted it, which was a good lesson that applies to most things.  It’s the way people are.  You hope that people will overcome that natural tendency.  But Fast Draw is meant to be ruthless, and people being friendly to each other is only a cosmetic ruse for their true intentions.  While I wanted to think more about people, it wasn’t enjoyable to see where their minds were.  The main rule in gun fighting competitions is that you don’t point out every little rule that might distract a shooter on the line, then break all those rules to gain personal advantage.  That behavior might help a person win a few times here and there.  However, it will destroy the initiative of any future shooters who want to take up the sport and grow in a positive direction.  This is precisely why attendance this year has been light and is only getting worse.  When it comes to human behavior, I don’t miss anything, and the moral to the story in this case is that a short-sighted win only hurts the future, which is becoming obvious to everyone.

I expect ruthlessness out of people.  And again, I’m talking about more than my experiences with the Ohio Fast Draw Association.  I would like to relax and spend time with people of common interest in shooting sports.  But often as it is in most things in life, you don’t get what you want.  You get what you get, and you either deal with it, or you are crushed by it.  So with that in mind, don’t try to hide ruthless behavior through a thin veil of helpfulness.  I see it all for what it is, at every level that it’s presented.  There is nothing about human nature, or action, that I do not see. And I see it in ways that most people even hide from themselves. There’s a reason I don’t say much to anybody, it’s because I am perpetually let down by other people all the time and I don’t expect much out of them.  And I don’t ask much of anybody because I don’t want them to have to lie to me when they have no intention to live up to my expectations. I have to manage my disappointment in people by limiting how much I interact with them.  But never think I’m not going to see the truth that is really there looming in the background.  Even if it’s just a shooting sport in recreation, or if it’s millions of dollars at stake.  It’s all the same game played by all the same kind of people for all the same reasons.  People in life want the least path to success with the least effort.  And they hate people who work hard and develop themselves skillfully.  As I have said many times, which is a big feature of my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, “Rules are made by the losers of the world to give them an advantage over the competent.”  And as much as I know that rule to be the fact of life, it does bother me each time it is confirmed true by reality. 

Rich Hoffman

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