Category: Mystery

‘Magnum Force’ is the Best Movie to Understand in 2024: No, you aren’t crazy, it was the world that went in that direction

It wasn’t always how it is now; there used to be good movies, and they were far from woke.  And it surprised me when Steve Bannon brought up one of my favorite movies on his podcast, the Warroom, at the end of the year in 2023 because I don’t hear many people who even know what it is.  But it reminded me of several things, one of which is the answer to all the woke options out there.  Going into 2024, the best movie ever made that deals specifically with the 2024 election is Magnum Force, with Clint Eastwood from the five-movie Dirty Harry series.  It is a unique plot that deals with police corruption, crime and punishment, and doing the right thing while society is trying to drag you into doing all the bad stuff.  It also reminded me of how I raised my children; every year on New Year’s Eve to bring in the new year, we would watch the Dirty Harry marathon, where we watched three of the movies on New Year’s Eve, then two more on New Year’s Day.  But among them all, my favorite of the five, was Magnum Force, and still is.  So it certainly got my attention when Steve Bannon recommended the movie on the Warroom.  Magnum Force is about that fine line between right and wrong and features a group of cops who go rogue to eradicate the bad guys, which has evolved into real life dramatically in the current FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies as discussed through the Trump administration’s exposure of their various antics.  It’s much worse in real life than in 1974 San Francisco when the movie occurred.  But the problems are the same and people can watch those movies and see how things have gone wrong today because those movies were warnings all those years ago of what was coming. 

When people ask me, which happens every week, why I’m not in the movie business, the answer is that I wanted to make movies like Magnum Force, and Hollywood isn’t built to accommodate those movies anymore.  I think it’s great that there was a period when movies like Dirty Harry movies were made, and they certainly provide a quick check that we are not all crazy compared to how things are now.  I used to show the film to my kids and their boyfriends, then spouses, every year, not just for entertainment but to show them how values have evolved and that America was once a place that made movies like Magnum Force to express ideas through entertainment that were valuable to the audience.  When we look at what San Francisco has become, the warning signs were always right there, and they were apparent to me when the world was still good and made sense.  I was showing my kids these movies to close out a year and usher in the new one to teach them values, which looks to have worked.  They are emotionally solid people even now, even the tag-alongs who emerged from those relationships.  They might have thought of me as old fashioned at the time, a dad showing them old Clint Eastwood movies that were much slower than the quick-cut movies of today filled with woke messaging.  But they watched them to appease me and to spend time with me.  And even now that they are in their 30s, it’s become a running joke in our family that they still remember and value. 

What’s so special about Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post and written by excellent writers, is that it deals with corruption and how it happens, either by the side of the criminals or the cops who are supposed to enforce the law to keep society together.  Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character finds himself locked in a vice between those two forces, representing the very fine line that often presents itself in these cases that is more than realistic.  When I was growing up, I wanted nothing more than to make my movies using Magnum Force as an example.  But I was so frustrated with the business because it had changed so much that I moved to other things.  My brother lived in California for a while and has some producer credits, so we know what we are talking about when we say it; they don’t make movies like Magnum Force anymore for many reasons.  One big one is that movie writers are too busy getting lattes on the Santa Monica Pier rather than living life and letting that experience show in their art.  Most of these young people don’t even know how to shoot a gun because they have grown up in such a woke period.  They don’t have the experience to write a gritty crime drama like Magnum Force because they don’t understand the complexities of life, so how can they write about it?  But compared to what’s being made today, Hollywood is way off the mark.  But it wasn’t always that way.  If you want to see great movies, they used to make them.  You don’t have to put up with the crap they make now.  You can always watch the old films about real problems unfolding way ahead of their time. 

I did run into someone who knew about these old movies, even though it’s a mild influence.  But someone noticed that one of my carry guns is a Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum, the most powerful production handgun in the world.  It used to be the .44 Magnum by S&W back in the days of the Dirty Harry films, and I always found his reasoning for using such a large weapon for police work compelling.  I carry an S&W .500 Magnum with the extra long barrel, over 8 inches, because so many of the bad guys these days are wearing Call of Duty body armor they can get off Amazon, and they can get armor for their cars, so it makes sense.  You don’t want bullets bouncing off windows and off of people, even in populated areas where people could be hurt subsequently.  You have to hit what you aim at, which is a theme of the Dirty Harry movies in general, which are about so much more than movies made now are.  But for a sanity check, most of America used to think in the way that the Dirty Harry movies are represented, and I would argue that they still do.  Watching them now, they are much better than the garbage produced in Hollywood.  And I would say that you have options if you are looking for entertainment and a way to understand the themes and actions coming at us in 2024.  Watching Magnum Force will be far more valuable than the nightly news.  And you may learn something.  It had warnings that people scratched their heads at in the past, including John Wayne, who thought Clint Eastwood’s character was too cynical and not “pro-American” enough.  But as we have learned over the next 50 years, what the Dirty Harry movies were all about is what we see now.  And it can be scary unless you know how to walk that fine line, which is the point of the movies entirely.   

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota Trying to Run Out the Clock on Darbi Boddy: The revelation of wealth confiscation and business terrorism behind a vile plot of judicial activism

This is an important story because it’s essentially the same playbook happening nationally regarding politics and legal gymnastics.  Now that we’re in a new year, the Darbi Boddy case at Lakota schools is an interesting discussion because it involves local issues that are precisely the same as those being applied to President Trump, revealing a game plan that wasn’t so obvious.  That information is valuable for understanding all the various characters and what they are up to, which we would never have learned anything about if not for the election of Darbi Boddy.  But to catch everyone up, the media has gone cold on the story since the glitter has worn off over the last several weeks.  All through December of 2023, the thoughts were that Darbi Boddy, the Lakota school board member, was going to be thrown in jail for violating a court order to stay away from another Lakota school board member, Isaac Adi, who ran with her in a recent election with a GOP endorsement.  A lot has occurred since then to show lots of political tides and community sentiment that essentially had those two in conflict, resulting in a court action that required Darbi to stay 500 feet away from Isaac at all times, including school board meetings.  This left everyone scratching their heads as to what the motive was, and to fulfill her role as a school board member, Darbi has been fighting for her right to attend the meetings as she was elected to do, which has now caused a violation of this court order, which has attached to it jail time and all kinds of penalties.  Then, after an arraignment on December 18th, the plot became much more straightforward as to what everyone was after, which is where it stands going into January of 2024, where her next court date isn’t until the 29th.  The goal has been to keep Darbi out of school board meetings so that they can then enact a 90 day penalty applied to school board members who vacate their post and can then be removed from the board.  This court case has been a plan to do what they couldn’t do any other way, to try and remove Darbi from the school board by running out the 90-day clock with stalled court dates and judicial activism. 

This is the same method that the Secretary of State has been using in Maine, Sheena Bellows, with her case to attempt to keep Trump off the primary ballot there using the 14th amendment.  We’re seeing in 2024 a plan we long suspected, but now under pressure is being revealed in truly audacious ways, especially in the Lakota case.  The use that government unions have baked into the system to appoint judicial activism manipulations as a means to protect their confiscation of wealth from taxpayers.  After all, if you get to the actual reason that there is so much hatred of Trump, it all points back to a radicalism of government unions, which touch just about everything that flows from tax money, everything from the FBI to teacher unions.  They don’t want a Trump negotiating anything regarding their wages and benefits, and their goal is to put the dumbest people possible into positions to rubber-stamp their renegotiated contracts.  Trump has shown that he is perfectly willing to work with unions, and many union members have crossed over from Democrats to support Republican positions because the President has been very reasonable in working with them.  But the labor union leaders attached to government unions want only one thing: weak community representation that is easy to control so that the best labor contracts are possible, which benefits them.  They don’t like Trump because they don’t want to negotiate, so we see this level of radicalism applied to him using legal gymnastics to protect their stranglehold over taxpayer wealth confiscation.  And the media plays along because most are involved in organized labor in some form or other.  We can talk about the Deep State and the conspiracies of the World Economic Forum.  But once the rubber hits the road, it all comes down to controlling the people who decide how government money is spent.  And they don’t want a Trump or a Darbi Boddy representing taxpayers standing in the way. 

I knew it would be a tough job when Darbi was elected.  She was tough and persistent, but I wasn’t sure how it would go because we had never seen anything like it at Lakota.  Lynda O’Conner asked me for help, so I went to help her get two more votes on the school board to represent a conservative point of view, and Darbi was one of them.  With three votes, I thought seeing what would happen next would be interesting.  And what we learned was that the only conservative was Darbi, who represented a kind of Tea Party approach to school board management.  The hatred applied to her was unreasonable and about much more than personal ideological differences.  So, the government school forces on all political sides showed their cards and went after Darbi with such an unreasonable hatred that has been beneficial in pointing out what I have been saying about the public schools for several decades.  And we have learned a lot of valuable lessons.  In the Lakota case, of course, there is a lot more to the legal case between Isaac and Darbi, where third-party members have been blowing on the actions against Darbi, hoping to start a fire that would burn her role on the school board down, and one of the surprising directions has come from the legal firm of Frost Brown and Todd ahead of the upcoming teacher union contract negotiations.  Once you trace the origins of the legal case against Darbi, it runs right into their door because they work on behalf of the school board to negotiate with the teacher’s union.  It has been revealed that they have been behind the strategy to play this legal game in attempting to destroy Darbi’s life just because she is in the way of those 2024 labor negotiations.  Darbi asks lots of questions that many of them do not want on any public record.  This is all based on what multiple people who know the situation have told me and is well more than rumor.  Not the opinions of slack-jawed losers, but thoughtful people well-positioned who are deeply concerned by what they have been seeing. 

For those concerned, Darbi Boddy has a new lawyer and is fighting these charges in a way that should clear her completely.  The charges against her are made-up nonsense on the back of a wet napkin in a Waffle House at 2 AM and don’t carry much weight, which is why they have been stalling with all these hearings.  Their primary goal is to hope to kick Darbi off the school board using that 90-day clause.  Then they can appoint some liberal to replace her position.  Attempts at being reasonable by having Darbi attend school board meetings and still satisfying the distance requirements with Isaac have been avoided because Lakota does not want to work to find a solution to accommodate Darbi Boddy as a school board member.  They want to get rid of her.  The revelation there is that the teachers’ union wants to assert the level of control they have over the entire situation.  This is how they ultimately get inflated contracts with astronomical benefits; they remove people in management who might resist their demands and put in place a bunch of powder puffs who are happy to give out awards to kids and do all the cosmetic stuff that makes community pride seem alive and well, while in the background this sinister progressivism of wealth confiscation turns the whole ordeal into significant business terrorism.  With Darbi’s continued legal fights, she intends to return to school board meetings and finish her term over the next two years.  But regardless of all that, the revelation of these legal games has been very educational.  It has taken some of these beliefs about how taxpayer money is spent out of conspiracy theory territory and placed them into political strategy on both a national scale and a local one.  It’s all the same game plan, and in knowing that, the weaknesses in their progressive positions are apparent.  And something we are far better off knowing than we were before.

Rich Hoffman

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Mike DeWine, has lost Trump’s Support: Why did the Ohio Governor veto HB68 and what happens now

There has been a lot of confusion about Mike DeWine from the national media after he vetoed HB 68, which would have banned gender neutrality involving minors. As a conservative governor, supposedly, people were mystified. How could he do such a thing? What was he thinking? He’s listed as a Republican, and this is a serious, Democrat issue, Rocky Horror Picture Show nonsense. Well, I must remind everyone that this is the same governor who was horrendous during COVID-19 and was one of the first and most aggressive governors for locking down our economy, following precisely what the World Health Organization wanted us to do. My nickname for him during this time was Dummy DeWine because of his excessive and radical anti-constitutional attitudes during a health crisis, which the Ohio Senate had to rip away from him because he was so abusive and would not give back the power he had taken during that artificial crises, because we now know where Covid came from. As is proven beyond reasonable doubt, COVID-19 was manufactured through gain of function research under the direction of Dr. Fauci and let loose from a lab in Wuhan, China. And Bill Gates and many others conspired with World Economic Forum characters to suppress a cure for the outbreak for all kinds of nefarious reasons. This is all established with lots of evidence in The Wuhan Cover-up by Robert F Kennedy, a fabulous book everyone should read. And Governors like DeWine played right into their hands in horrendously destructive ways. DeWine gave these tyrants power over us in a similar way that he vetoed this bill, showing that he has an excessive weakness for medical personalities who advise him of dangers that might cause people death, no matter how irrational the statement may be.

Why centralized authority never works

Ohio House Bill 68 was comprised of two acts: the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” which would ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming medical care, and the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which would prevent transgender girls from taking part in girls’ and women’s sports. DeWine said at a press conference, “I truly believe that we can address several goals in House Bill 68 by administrative rules that will likely have a better chance of surviving judicial review and being adopted,” Meanwhile, the world contemplated his actions as stunning. In talking to some people on the matter in the aftermath of the veto, there are efforts to override his veto with a majority vote, which is unlikely given that the Speaker of the House is essentially a Democrat. Or that the sports ban portion of the bill can at least be saved since DeWine has now stepped into it severely. Politically, this was a dumb thing to do. But it just reminded me of the guy who shut down Ohio over COVID-19 as his very liberal Health Director, Amy Acton, essentially ruined the world as an Obama-supporting abortion activist. DeWine has a soft spot for healthcare people in a dangerous way, and some of the testimony against HB 68 talked about suicide potential for some of the kids involved. The governor loses all perspective in those conversations and develops a god complex where he considers it a fault of his personality that he can save people with government power. That is how they suckered him during COVID-19 and how progressives won him over on this gender neutrality bill that became a national story within moments of his veto. For progressives, it was a massive victory in a state that now had some of the lowest abortion laws in the country and has now legalized marijuana. And now it wouldn’t take a stand on gender neutrality, which is a major assault against the Christian right, who view the issue of gender mutilation literally as a desecration of God’s temple, the human body.

DeWine has lost Trump’s support

Since COVID-19, by some nudging of some of my friends, I have had a chance to meet Mike DeWine a bit, and I can say he’s a nice guy.  His wife makes excellent cookies.  And I do not doubt that their intentions are good.  But in essence, they are Yellow Springs hippies from one of the most liberal parts of Ohio.  At best, Mike DeWine is a Democrat, and it’s always been that way, even before COVID came along and made such a mess out of his tenure as governor in Ohio.  Many people held their noses and voted for him as governor; essentially, this is what you get.  The warning signs were all there.  DeWine has been good on gun issues over the last several years, but only because he needed to be re-elected coming out of COVID-19, and he had gotten himself into a lot of political trouble, especially with the other legislative bodies.  He was on his best behavior.  But as I’ve said to many people during all this, Mike DeWine should never be given power over the masses in any way because he can’t handle that power and will always abuse it. 

The Ohio legislature is not done with this gender neutrality issue.  While Mike DeWine was suckered by progressive testimony over emphasizing suicide among young people who are confused about their gender status, the truth is a much more systemic issue about social psychology, and leadership must be established, especially with the number of conservative losses that have now occurred during DeWine’s lame duck term, since he can’t run again and doesn’t have to appease anybody to stay in office.  But this is the danger of letting politicians have too much power because their bad judgment can destroy and harm many people.  Even if their intentions are good, that is undoubtedly true in DeWine’s case.  But his nightmares become everyone else’s reality because, through the power of government, he can become a tyrant through lousy judgment.  DeWine has suffered personal losses that he has never gotten over, which leaves him particularly vulnerable to healthcare workers and their testimonies.  As he says often, if he could save one life, then something should be done.  The trouble is, the bad guys then disguise ill intentions behind that threat, giving them emotional control over someone like DeWine, who can then ruin a state with his neurosis.  And this is all a problem because DeWine was never a conservative; he was always a wishy-washy Democrat who ran as a Republican to gain power but has always leaned toward big government solutions, no matter what they cost, to fill that empty void he has in him that has never recovered from personal tragedies.  That is how tyrants gain power and a good lesson for everyone to remember how DeWine was during Covid and now won’t take a stand on a controversial issue of gender mutilation that has as a wind in its sails an apparent evil driven by radically progressive politics and a desecration of our entire culture.  Yes, Mike DeWine is an embarrassment to Ohio and has been since the first day he was in office.  He may be a crafty politician who can tell you what you want to hear while his wife passes out cookies in the Statehouse.  But when it comes to leadership, he is a big government guy who punts policy to health tyrants who we now know tend toward maliciousness and even murder if it achieves their strategic objectives, which are more of a military assault on our culture than a concern over the suicide of confused kids who became that way due to bad parenting.  There are a lot of kids suffering under such conditions, and the best thing that would help most of them is good, solid, conservative politics.  A lot more lives would be saved if Republicans managed the world much more.  But in the world of Mike DeWine, that is too big of an idea for his tiny mind to grasp.  So he trusts the health experts, who have been the source of most of the trouble.

Rich Hoffman

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The Three Wise Men, The Elohim, and UFOs: What the heck was Tucker Carlson talking about

Tucker Carlson always did reports on UFOs, as he was interested in the subject when he was on the mainstream news. But now that he’s on X as a news platform, he has the freedom to cover subjects I knew would make him a much more powerful voice. And UFO subjects come with a kind of stigma where just mentioning them throws the conversation into a conspiracy territory that abandons rationality from the outset. It’s then that you know that many people have been up to no good because UFOs are probably the most significant story worth discussing. They undoubtedly exist; we can see them and often do. Yet for Elon Musk to say that humans will become an interplanetary species for the first time in 4.5 billion years invites scrutiny. How could a person like him not know, who has spent so much time looking into space, studying the surface of Mars and the Moon, and listening to every story from every astronaut who has talked openly about UFO encounters, especially Buzz Aldrin’s descriptions of what they found on the moon? Undoubtedly, much of the anxiety of our times is that these long-held secrets are getting out. Mass media and decentralized discussions have made it so, probably not part of the plan. And now, the world forces are scrambling to keep themselves concealed. Because in concealment comes power, people are always terrified of what they can’t see. Once they realize what something is, they are much more prone not to be afraid of it. So, the UFO stories have a natural inclination toward authoritarian rule by those who can broker such information. And that power has a lot of desire to be maintained. So what did Tucker Carlson, newly freed from Fox News, mean when he said that UFO stories had a spiritual element to them that he found terrifying?

Time and definitions are often shaped by tyranny

I read an excellent book over the 2023 Holiday season called The Magi, which was about the Three Wise Men, or instead, the people who brought three gifts to baby Jesus, and what the nature of the star that led them there was all about, and even how translations over time and various cultures, and languages can undoubtedly create a haze of folklore that means different things to different people.  Tucker Carlson is a good and serious reporter who has been doing investigative journalism for a long time now, so when he admits that his view of UFOs is that they aren’t necessarily coming from Mars and are very ancient, what could he mean?  This is a good reason why we should talk more about the Jewish word for God called Elohim rather than the other words we have misused.  The word “god” does not give us all the information we need to know about Divine Council politics, their motivations, and how they interact with humanity.  It even further gets interesting when you take the reports of ayahuasca users and apply their experiences to UFO abductees.  They have remarkably similar stories to tell, and I find it quite stunning that Peruvian shamans from remote villages high in the mountains paint descriptions of UFOs visiting them under the influence of psychedelics because they have no point of reference to draw from.  All this opens up a discussion I think we all need to have about what we know about these things and how long we have known it, particularly in how power has ruled over humanity, and the cost of that power toward human intellect.

I think there is enough compelling evidence to discuss the Bible as a chronicle of UFO stories during a time when nobody had a stigma about what they were, including the Three Wise Men story of Christmas.  We have defined what they are to keep humanity under control.  But if we are looking for the little Martian from Bugs Bunny cartoons, we will likely be very disappointed, and Elon Musk may be right about humanity with some wordplay added in.  What you see isn’t necessarily what something is if you have been convinced it is something else.  For me, the more proper way to talk about UFOs is to discuss the role that the Elohim have played in Jewish culture and to consider that supernatural events aren’t so unusual but have been expected.  It has been our experience that was limited and our vision suppressed so that what we did see and when we saw it and reported it through literature, art, or entertainment, skepticism followed so that those who wanted to maintain power, either through the spirit world, or the material world, could remain in power and pull their strings to make humanity dance at their whims, maliciously as has often been the case.  The first step in unraveling this story is to treat UFOs not as unusual but as standard and not recent but ancient.  And they may not be “something else” from “somewhere else,” but they are us as we have always been and continue to be everywhere.  It has been our wrong definitions, not our observations.  And they were unfit to control us and for no other reason.

As I said in Elon Musk’s statement on space, we will deal with these problems now. Going to space is the right thing to do.  With the freedom of speech that the X platform gives him, reporters like Tucker Carlson will be able to report these UFO stories in new and unusual ways.  Ultimately, we will discover that they are very ancient and that we have a past connected to the rest of the universe in very complex ways that all our mythologies and religions have failed to capture correctly.  When we get into space, we will learn what all these astronauts have been seeing, and we will have to deal with it from an archaeological perspective.  And it’s not something for us to fear because it was us all along, and we have been interacting with these Elohim since humanity could write things down to remember later.  The desire to continue to fear visits from outer space by aliens is a lust that governments have to grow and protect us from.  But the more we learn, the less there is to fear.  And the more we realize that all along, the powers of the world have been lying to us and having us worship ancient pagan gods and maniacal political figures from the Elohim who do not have our best interest in mind.  And they are losing their cover story of deceit, which has always been part of their interactions.  So what will happen then?  We will find out, as Elon Musk said, about Starship’s role in taking humans into space.  We’re going, and we need to.  And what we learn is what we should have known all along.  Our ancient past isn’t well understood, and the ramifications of that purposeful ignorance will undoubtedly play a role in the future of politics on Earth as it is in Heaven.  Heaven isn’t necessarily somewhere else far away on a cloud somewhere, but in our backyard, and it was always there, as Jesus said, that mankind did not see it because they weren’t looking at it correctly.

Rich Hoffman

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War from the Unseen Realm: How the Murder of good people paves the way the Politics of the Divine Council

I was disappointed to learn that Michael Heiser, the author of The Unseen Realm, had passed away in February of 2023. I do not want to go into massive conspiracy theory territory, but the first thought that came to my mind about his very rapid and specific pancreatic cancer diagnosis was that “they” wanted to get rid of him.  And by “they,” as we often refer when speaking about things just beyond our visual spectrum, have best been captured in literature and human thought by the Hebrew word, Elohim.  I am quite a fan of Dr. Heiser’s work, his series of books on the subject I came to as I was thinking about things along the same line for several decades, essentially going back to my Sunday School days and catechism.  His books started with success, selling around 100,000 to much more by the time he died.  Not exactly the New York Times bestseller’s list, which would be regarded as mainstream, but certainly successful among Christian authors.  The shame was that he was not an old man by any measure but relatively young, at just 60 years old.  His death reminded me of what happened to Michael Landin from Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven a few decades ago, who died of almost the same thing, and it brought to my mind an eternal war that is the actual theme of the Bible, which most everyone misses.  Best thought of as the Elohim they are rebelling against Yahweh’s plans for earth and the people on it; there are real wars between them and us humans that have been there from the beginning.  Most cultures seek to appease this unseen power and the politics of the Divine Council with some form of sacrifice, especially today.  If you dig enough, you will uncover that this very attribute is the core of the Climate Change radicalism of communist desire all around the world.  And yes, these Elohim, as the Hebrew Bible calls them, do kill people with premature diseases and other ailments because they have an agenda, and they don’t like whistleblowers who alert the world as to what they are up to. 

Of course, the CIA and other intelligence agencies have their way of killing people who are in their way, most notably what they did to President Kennedy and President Nixon, as well as President Trump.  Killing can come in many forms, and over time, because of the messy press, killing has morphed more into social castigation, the preferred method of communist governments, which China has been exporting for over 40 years now using The Art of War as their deployment method which has been chronicled explicitly in the book Unrestricted Warfare if you’d like to reference it.  The CIA has their heart attack guns that can put people into cardiac arrest, making the murder look like natural causes.  Steve Bannon from the Warroom thinks that the killing of Andrew Breitbart was a natural occurrence because he had other health issues.  But I’ve always looked at it as a combo murder, a spiritual weapon that loaded him with health concerns that were then triggered by physical weapons by assassins who thought they could get rid of him and mask the whole thing as death by natural causes.  What doesn’t get talked about is how all these good people end up with these mysterious diseases that they quickly die of, while truly detrimental people live wild, crazy lives of excess, and they never get sick by anything.  It’s a pattern of behavior that is impossible to ignore if you are paying attention.

I would go further to indicate that the Elohim are a wild group of characters who exist within our understanding of quantum mechanics and are every bit as stupid, power-hungry, and malicious as anybody we know in politics or business on Earth.  The point of the more than 1500 years of history indicated in the Bible written by many people over such vast periods is to tell a story about their downfall, even if it’s fictional in its overall plot line, hopeful in its delivery.  The point of the Bible is to complete the story of the fall in the garden with the resurrection of Christ and the forgiveness of that original sin, eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as opposed to the Tree of Eternal Life.  If you read carefully, what God is saying in the Bible over the entire span of it is that he very much wants human beings to be his partners in bringing Heaven to Earth but is perpetually frustrated that they never seem to listen and instead fall for all the lessor gods of the Divine Council and their politics of Heaven that is every bit as vicious as what we see on Earth.  And it doesn’t matter if you are a four-dimensional individual like we are or a character from the fifth, sixth, or eleventh dimension; we are all competing lifeforms fighting for either the right to goodness or appeasement toward unseen forces hellbent on control over all life, everywhere.  We are not wise to think that just because a menace comes from a dimensional space outside our experience, they are working toward our benefit.  I would say they are as power-hungry and malicious as any human counterpart.  And they maintain their power like our current shadow governments, beyond our visual spectrum.  And they like it that way. 

So my first thought, based on a lot of experience in seeing the same thing happen to many other people, was that Dr. Heiser was killed for what he was reporting.  His books take a scholarly approach to the subject of The Unseen Realm as indicated from the Bible in the ways that humans could understand the perpetual war that is quite vicious and on a scale that we don’t have terms to define.  I think it’s pretty remarkable that several people, under the weight of massive political pressure of empires and time, could capture such a vision as intact as it is in the Bible.  But in truth, we are just scratching the surface, and people like Dr. Heiser were unique, making him a target of the malicious.  And when the enemy from that Unseen Realm is threatened by what people do that might alter their plans for people on earth, they do as all governments do who think they have infinite power: they seek to eliminate them.  And one way to do that is to destroy people from the inside out.  After all, the Democrat Party and cancer cells work the same way, just on different scales.  Both pretend to be one thing while they overtake healthy tissue to destroy it from within.  On a quantum level, to kill a person, you just have to turn their immune system against the body it is supposed to be defending, and soon the body dies from an invasion of diseases that are always present but are defended against to maintain a healthy body.  After all, isn’t that what we see happening with the border invasion and the general policies of Joe Biden?  It’s the same method of murder, and the perpetrators aren’t necessarily human but vessels of deceit propagated from eternity for the elimination of goodness.  And God always warned us of them and wished to fight against them since appeals to their mercy were not followed.  But before you can fight them, you must understand them, and yes, they are killers.  Malicious, unsympathetic killers and they are everywhere all the time. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Epstein Island Client List: A Deep State game embracing sheer evil to take over the world

I don’t understand pedophilia at all; there is nothing that can make it acceptable in any way, especially in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.  This is the name of Jeffery Epstein’s flight to his private island in the Caribbean, which is the subject of so much talk going into the year 2024.  The talk is that around 170 names from the flight record are going to be released and that big names like Prince Edward and RFK Jr. are going to be on that list, naming them as attendees to the island known for its sex with underaged girls set up by Jeffery Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell who is currently in jail, convicted of sex trafficking.  You might remember that Jeffery Epstein, they say, was killed in prison.  Perhaps, but I believe he and Osama bin Laden are playing video games together somewhere in a CIA safe house after fulfilling their social roles of a scandalous nature.  After what we have seen out of these intelligence agencies with their open coup against Trump, the election fraud in many elections, and the release of the bioweapon COVID from a lab in Wuhan, China, I don’t trust a word that they leak to the media.  And if a list is released, you can bet that it’s a controlled leak, that the more detailed information is far worse, and that what we will find out is meant to take the edge off the truth.  They are throwing a bone at the public due to massive public pressure to attempt to control the expectations of what the government does.  Everyone already knows that Bill Clinton flew to the sex island with Jeffery Epstein, including many other big names like Bill Gates.  For me, with the number of people I talk to in a week, I’m likely dealing with people who feel the same way and enjoy that book, Lolita, and it bothers me a lot to realize that there is such an evil openly loose in the world and that so many people do accept it. 

I never understood why the book had such a following and that it seemed to empower the rich and powerful toward an almost rebellious propensity to scandal and evil.  In the book, a college professor becomes sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old girl who becomes his stepdaughter during the story.  I find it bizarre that such a thing would ever be published as it is more than controversial, but then again, with evil loose in the world the way it is, perhaps not.  And that the publication is purposeful, for the full effect that Jeffery Epstein looks to have been an intelligence agency asset intent to control society on the high end, and books like Lolita gave people the gateway admission to themselves that their feelings about pedophilia were perfectly alright, and that they could take that plunge into the abyss without fear of social castigation.  The situation is so bad that we now see this movement going mainstream and that the shock of this current link from the client’s list on the Lolita Express has another motive altogether: to normalize pedophilia the way that an illegal fourth branch of government views the world.   This is also why there is a war against Christian judgment and the Jewish people to eradicate the kind of judgments that would scold practitioners of pedophilia.  Instead, we are now being told by our government employees that such a thing is okay in our public schools.  That we are the ones who are sick in the head for having judgments.  This trend has gained momentum over the last several decades, culminating in this exact moment, and it’s on a collision course with a brick wall.  It’s OK to judge people for the evils they do, and we need to judge a lot more often and openly.  The scandal is wanting to have sex with underaged people.  Not in judging it as bad and ill advised.

But what was the point of the Lolita Express and the Epstein sex island, where young girls were recruited into underaged sex with hand-picked clients?  Well, I think the best example in entertainment is the movie The Firm with Tom Cruise from several years back, based on the excellent John Grisham novel.  Once the Tom Cruise character joins a respectable firm, his wife and he think they have made it big.  He is invited to a training retreat to some exotic island paradise and is treated like a king with his new company.  As things usually go at these kinds of things, which is the purpose, he ends up sleeping with a young woman who was there to seduce him and get compromising photos of the main character, all for the point of controlling him as a new member.  The plot line is that by the end of the story, Tom Cruise has to come clean with his wife because the secret is destroying him as a person, and the plot then continues into becoming an escape from the Firm rather than a member of it.  That is clearly what is going on at Epstein Island; members of an elite club meant to control the world through globalism were taken to the island to enjoy sexual fantasies in exchange for dirt on each other so they could all be trusted to support institutionalism rather than their individual morality. 

It’s the same kind of behavior that we see in hazing rituals, especially in college, where new members are expected to debase themselves as individuals and be resurrected as members of the group.  That is precisely the psychological effect of joining the military.  Once you get off the bus, get your head shaved, and put on the uniform, you are then the property of the United States government, and they let you know that in boot camp, explicitly.  As a result of all this, very few people make it into their 30s without having their individual character in some way crushed, and they behave as slaves to those systems for the rest of their lives.  This was clearly what Jeffery Epstein’s role was as a broker of sex to important clients who were seduced and utilized as participants in sinful undertakings.  The social stigma keeps everyone in a tight-knit group where secrets are necessary not to spook the public with sheer audacity.  But to open up that Pandora’s Box, the scandal of Lolita was the mechanism used to keep all these secretive members in check, just like in the movie The Firm.  There is no escape from this because we are dealing with the fourth branch of government, not just a law firm that is very prestigious.  We are dealing with a vast evil here that extends well beyond the client list of people who flew on that plane, names we all know who shape the world we see through entertainment and business.  What might have started as an innocent backrub by underage girls given to middle-aged clients looking to resurrect their corrupted lives with another chance at youth ends up as an extortion racket to empower a deep state illegally manifesting power in secrecy toward an apparent attempt to take over the world in foundations of sheer evil.  And if they are releasing the client list now, it’s for a strategic reason, not one of morality.  They have so little respect for us that they believe they can manipulate us at every level, and they are attempting to do so audaciously with this information, or lack thereof.

Rich Hoffman

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They All Have it Coming: The Beltway is preparing for the Trump revenge tour

With all the positioning propaganda against Trump that has come out in the 2023 election cycle, the purposeful Christmas Dinner conversation meant to steer people away from Trump to neocon losers like Birdbrain Nikki; the truth is lingering behind people’s actions. Most notably, the way Marco Rubio and others acted regarding the recent NDAA signage pushed recklessly through the House and Senate for continued spending.  The baseball insiders know what’s going on with Trump and understand that the media will not be able to shape stories as they have in the past and that all these attempts to knock Trump out of the 2024 presidential race will fall flat.  The SWAMP doesn’t want to be drained, and the alligators and snakes are fighting back with a brutal sentiment.  But they all know what’s coming, which is precisely why they put a provision in that latest NDAA bill that will prevent Trump from pulling out of NATO over support of Ukraine’s fight with Russia over border disputes.  They know Trump will be in the White House again, and they are already working to protect their nest eggs, so if it wasn’t already apparent to the world, it is now.  The inside baseball people in politics know that the inevitable is about to happen, and there is nothing they can do about it short of starting a Civil War, which is actually on the table from their perspective.  Before they hand over the reins of government to the MAGA political wave, they are going to pull every dirty trick in the book.  This NDAA thing is just an easy one to spot because it always involves Republicans like Marco Rubio, who are just whores for distributing government money confiscated from taxpayers and giving it to big globalist goals like the support of NATO, so long as America funds it while other countries don’t. 

These tricks have worked in the past because a level of trust came with them.  People trusted the media because they didn’t want to waste their time doubting them, and they trusted politicians enough to let them make up bills like the NDAA NATO supporting horror that it is because it didn’t affect ordinary people very much.  But we had a stolen election in 2020, and we had a bioweapons attack that killed people.  We shut them up in their homes, destroyed their businesses, and broke up families in a truly terrible year, and people have not forgotten.  The arrogant people who perpetrated this attack thought they had it all figured out.  Disney would help them create “global citizens” in America, the media would steer everyone into the slaughterhouse compliantly, and globalism would be well on its way to world domination.  And people wouldn’t be any wiser to it.  All the pinheads in media who can barely write 300 words without consulting an AI program thought they had it all in the bag.  The plan going into the election season would be that lawfare would keep Trump off the ballot, planted news stories around Christmas time would steer the public away from the troubled Trump during the Holiday of 2023, and the bad guys would win once again because the dumb, gullible public would be too busy watching football and unwrapping presents to understand what was happening.  The scam perpetrators, like Dr. Fauci before them, would get honorary degrees and peace prizes and be invited to Davos to speak at the World Economic Forum as celebrities. Leonardo DiCaprio might even sit next to them at a round table event. And globalism would continue to grow unimpeded.

But that plan blew up over that same period, the entire fourth quarter of the 2023 year.  The bad guys were going through the motions, but the results weren’t returning as intended.  Going through the Holiday season, Trump was pulling way ahead of Biden, leaving the other GOP competitors in the dust.  The Colorado story about taking Trump off the ballot was going nowhere.  The Supreme Court was signaling that it wasn’t going to support the Jack Smith insurrection case as a fast track to impact the primary season, which the Colorado story depends on for a Constitutional verdict, and Nikki Haley is not catching Trump the way Fox News tried to sell it.  People who saw these stories said, “We aren’t going to be suckered by you people again.”  And they turned the channel and watched something else.  People are ready to vote for Trump for one primary reason.  Globalism has cost them money, and they are tired of sending money to places like Ukraine while China continues to abuse old man Biden ruthlessly, indicating they are planning to take Taiwan back as a part of their country, putting all of us at risk of losing computer chip manufacturing.  The conversations I was in with people who never think about things like this are concerned about one thing: their money isn’t worth as much now as it was before that 2020 attack against American sovereignty.  When Trump was in the White House before, life was better for them.  What they have seen over the last three years has terrified them.  And they want their country back.  I’m not going to say, “I told you so, all of you,” But “I told you so,” all along.  I can think of many Christmases in times past where I was the only one talking about these things.  Now, everyone is. 

And the Beltway insiders know it too; everyone knows it.  This won’t be an average year for anybody.  People want Trump back in office for normalcy.  Continued ANTIFA riots are only going to make people angrier and less supportive of progressive politics.  Either way, a continuation of the radicalism of 2020 into 2024 is going to turn people away from Democrat priorities, or Trump moving back into the White House will set it in motion with a revenge tour that is perfectly justified.  Lots of people need to suffer for what they did to us all.  And we see it in our bank accounts.  All these globalists who thought they were going to crush the American economy to reset global expectations with their Great Reset forgot that there were people who would be angry about it.  And they were going to blame the globalists, people like Marco Rubio, who plays a Republican on television, but as a senator, sees his role in protecting global military police, NATO, and other partnerships that are grossly one-sided, to impose border disputes on nationalists to make them states of the United Nations.  All those flights of fancy in previous years sounded like ambitious plans that didn’t impact Hometown USA and everyone’s Christmas Dinners.  Plenty of presents were under the tree, and food was easy to get.  But this year, not so much.  Food is costly.  The cost of all goods and services is dramatically higher than during the Trump years, and people are furious about it.  So Little Marco and his gang of government thieves have stuck support for NATO into the NDAA while they still have the power to do so.  Because they know what’s coming, and they are bracing for impact.  And from my perspective, they will need much more than a seat belt.

Rich Hoffman

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Second Call Defense May Be the Most Important Thing You Do in 2024: Catherine Herridge thinks there will be a “Black Swan” event, and I think she’s right

Catherine Herridge is one of the only reporters I still respect from the mainstream news, and there is a lot of talk about a recent statement she made about the upcoming year of 2024 when she indicated that she thought there would be a Black Swan event at some point. I agree with her; there may be several. There are a lot of bad guys in the world that have been dramatically empowered by bad laws, weak politics, globalism, terrorism, and eroded values, and the power and money that have come from these activities are not going to be given up easily. I expect a lot of attempts to unleash violence into our society before power is given back or taken back by force. Whatever the case, the bad guys will not just ride off nicely into the night. That’s why they are bad guys; they do bad things and harm innocent people. So I think 2024 will be unusually difficult, much worse than 2020 when color revolutions were unleashed in the streets with a few phone calls from the rich and famous. Sheer whores who will do anything for a buck took over entire cities in 2020 and nearly burned Washington DC to the ground. The media and political figures responsible for the terrible things that happened in 2020 want you to think about the time that people pushed back on January 6th, hoping to erase from your mind everything you had seen and experienced and that some fantasy of normalcy could come from the Biden administration in those early days of 2021. But no, people didn’t forget, and they are voting for Trump anyway; populist movements everywhere are looking for revenge, using the law first to implement it. But that leaves the bad guys nowhere to go, and you can bet they will try every desperate thing to outrun justice.

One thing that has been on my mind is that I had to scold a few of our local news people from the network news who were trying to stoke riots from downtown Cincinnati to come up into West Chester to harass people outside the I-275 loop. A few did come, but it didn’t go very far. My response was similar to what I’m about to say, and in some cases, I walked people I know through the process of buying guns to defend their homes. These were people who don’t usually think this way but were not about to let a bunch of thugs ransack their homes, rape their women, and make a general mess of things in their community. But you can bet that George Soros and all his friends intended for all that to happen even more. What happened recently in Israel could quickly occur anywhere in the United States; the intention of the bad guys is undoubtedly there, and if they aren’t going to respect our laws and enforcement community, then what choice does anybody have? So I helped a lot of people get their hands on guns “just in case,” and the critical riots from Fox 19 News and Channel 5 fizzled out and moved back down the highway to hang out in Over-The-Rhine. Thankfully, it got close to being messy and never quite evolved into a crisis. But people learned from those events that it was possible and needed to be prepared. That’s why I’m recommending to everyone this time membership to Second Call Defense, which is insurance for gun owners who may need to make that second call after a defensive shooting to keep a very corrupt judicial system from destroying your life in the aftermath, which is one of their strategies against the Second Amendment.

We’ve seen how lawfare has been used against Trump, and before all these recent ostentatious displays of law abuse, it has occurred in many ways in our own hometown. Right now, I can think of how the law has been weaponized against Darbi Boddy, who has a bogus hearing on December 29th. She’s the school board member from Lakota who has so many radical elements trying to destroy her life just because she exists, and they want her in jail. And the local Republican Party has been stoking the fires to make it happen—hazardous stuff. I could say the same of what happened to Roger Reynolds, the former Butler County auditor. I just received a very nice Christmas note from Judge Elderstein, a story where the Butler County judges go after their own in really detrimental ways, and this story involves the prosecutor of Butler County, Michael Gmoser, and many other influential people in Ohio who have been engaged in lawfare against political rivals. These law enforcement types cannot be trusted and they are not the people you want to be dealing with after a defensive shooting. Ohio is a lot better on gun laws, particularly Stand Your Ground and Constitutional Carry as a result of our current government doing really good things to make them happen. I’m a permit holder and probably always will be. And yes, because of my lifestyle, it comes up more than you’d like. I had an incident just a few days ago where everyone made it to Christmas Dinner. But gun altercations are more of a reality in a politically charged society as we have now, where radical elements are empowered to bring harm to innocent people, and those innocent people have no choice but to defend themselves. We want to trust the law to do their jobs, but there are many reasons to understand that trust isn’t on the table.

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You will get benefits if you use my name to join Second Call Defense.  I know the people involved and I like them a lot.  I usually don’t bring up these kinds of memberships, but I would say, especially this coming year of 2024, to protect yourself with Second Call Defense or an insurance program like it.  I’m not here to sell you insurance.  I have been associated with Second Call Defense for a long time, around ten years now.  Over that span, there have been six times when I almost had to make that second call, counting the recent incident from the other day.  And believe me, before you pull the trigger on an attacker, it does run through your mind.  Because once you do pull that trigger and someone dies as a result, the political hellhounds who want to attack the Second Amendment will be all over you, trying to use that tragedy to destroy your life in every way they can.  With Second Call Defense, you let their lawyers handle your case as soon as the police arrive. They’ll help you get your gun back, and they help with bond money and the kind of procedures that a person without representation would find to be a nightmare.  You don’t want to become a January 6th prisoner or go through what Darbi Boddy is going through now because the law has targeted you for their acquisition of power.  A self-defense shooting is bad enough without having the legal system destroy your entire life for its display of power and political objectives.  So, as some friendly advice, I would recommend everyone who carries a firearm, even in a Constitutional Carry way, to join Second Call Defense, even if just for 2024.  I hope it’s not the case, but things will likely get very rough in 2024, and you want to be prepared on all fronts.  Putting up with detrimental behavior is not an option.  But it would be best to protect yourself with more than a gun.  Insurance certainly helps, and it will rest your mind in those times when you do have to use a weapon and pull the trigger against someone attacking you.  I can’t recommend Second Call Defense more; it may be the most important thing you can do for yourself in 2024.  It’s rough out there; access to good legal representation certainly needs to be part of any strategy that deals with the malicious intent of a society gone mad. 

Rich Hoffman

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“Decency is on the Ballot” The lying, cheating, sex-crazed Democrats and their need for power, to stay out of jail

When the “decency is on the ballot” statement is made by people like Jill Biden just as a family member of hers, Hunter Biden, her husband’s son, was called to Capitol Hill to testify on behalf of an impeachment query into multiple problems that their family has been involved in, you know you are dealing with some treacherous liars and scammers in a big way.  The Democrats represent below-the-line thinking and much more so than they used to.  These days, they are downright criminal and rely extensively on deceit to accomplish their task.  Just as Hunter Biden said to the public as he refused testimony showing obvious contempt for Congress, he was there to speak, just as he turned away and walked away.  We are dealing with people who need the power of government in order to justify their otherwise treacherous lives with deceit and scandal, which would otherwise not allow them to get out of bed in the morning due to all the guilt.  To say they are evil people is to slander the term “evil.”  They are horrendous.  And unfortunately, some people are suckers to vote for them, and Democrats have made it into a fine art to lie to them in every way possible and to toss away all guilt for their actions onto circumstances they say are beyond their control, just as Hunter Biden records himself taking bribes on a laptop from foreign governments, doing illegal drugs with physical evidence, engaging in sex acts with prostitutes, another illegal activity, then selling themselves as being virtuous.  For those who know the truth, it’s a bizarre thing to watch.  And to those who are too lazy or too stupid to know better, they are being suckered right in front of their faces.  Democrats think so little of their voters that they don’t even believe that anything they say and do should be rooted in reality. 

In truth, what is on the ballot is the economy.  The “Bidenomics” of the last three years has been in depression territory on spreadsheets.  But the system that put Biden in office and wants him to stay there for their consolidated powers denies that we are even in a recession, which would have been two negative quarters of GDP growth.  Probably the best measure for the economy was the gas prices because there has been a World Economic Forum strategy Joe Biden put in place to carry out, to end fossil fuels, destroy people’s reliance on car ownership, and attack the personal independence that people enjoy with a car in their driveway.  I have been to many places in the world, many civilized places, where people do not have cars.  Or they have to store their vehicles at some offsite facility because their apartments in the city can’t keep them anywhere, and if they did, they couldn’t drive them because the roads are too small and the traffic too intense for such a radical idea.  Americans generally have space.  Homelessness is a choice.  And you can be anywhere you want quickly, which is unique worldwide.  And that freedom has been under assault by globalist powers using Joe Biden to destroy it for a New World Order run by these same kinds of below-the-line losers.  The Biden administration has driven up gas prices into the 4-dollar-per-gallon territory to inspire people to give up their gas cars and switch to electric vehicles, conducting an attack against the very same oil companies that put the gasoline at our local pumps, hoping to destroy an entire market sector. 

But then, going into 2024 with the polls for Democrats down in treacherous ways, the oil companies conspired to bring down the price of their product to help Biden.  On the morning I did the included video, I was standing outside a gas station where unleaded regular gas was $2.62 per gallon, as just another form of deceit to the same gullible public.  When they win elections, those prices will return to the radical price fixes of an overly controlling government that seeks to put them out of business.  But some of these business executives for the gas industry are so afraid of Trump that they are willing to work with the Biden administration to keep him in power.  Because they’d rather have a puppet in the White House than free market competition, and they think people are too dumb to notice.  What is being done with the low gas prices is an attempt to get through the 2024 election season without the economy being the drag on re-election.  But even with lower gas prices, all the other consumer indexes are way off from what they were when Trump was in the White House, and people can feel that their lives have never recovered to pre-COVID optimism.  Unlike the first time, Trump ran for office with many promises, now he has a track record that even moderates remember as good.  And what Joe Biden has done to the American economy has created a lot of hate that won’t help them now because the damage is already done.  But they think so little of all of us that they believe they can fix everything with some artificially low gas prices and that the oil executives will play along toward their destruction like captured bank tellers hoping to live a few more seconds if only they comply with the bank robbers wishes and do what they say for their own survival. 

As evident as it is, the revelation of the scam is very telling.  We are being flooded with lie after lie after lie, topped with more bad conduct at a pace that the Democrats can’t lie about it anymore.  They have imposed themselves on the public in detrimental ways, and people not even curious about politics can now see it for themselves.  And Democrats won’t be able to lie out of this one.  The gas prices won’t even help them this time because decency is on the ballot in many ways.  People have seen just how evil and corrupt the Biden family is.  With all the horrendous evidence that was on that Hunter Biden laptop, people see what has happened to the guy who had possession of that laptop, Rudy Guiliani, who now is seeking bankruptcy protection from a false court settlement in Georgia that is trying to destroy him as a political enemy of the Bidens.  This is criminal activity on a scale never before witnessed in such a way that people can see.  They know what Hunter Biden is.  They see how ineffective Joe Biden is.  They know that Jill Biden is a soothsaying liberal who means the exact opposite of what she says.  How could a woman of any value be head of a family like the Biden clan and ever say the word decency in the same sentence?  People know.  This is why the 14th Amendment cases are being applied because Democrats know they have been caught, and they can’t lie their way out of this one.  So, they are trying to keep their opposition from appearing on the ballot.  Who doesn’t think this band of cheaters didn’t rig the 2020 election now?  The pressure has revealed who they really are and always were.  And the American public doesn’t like it. 

Rich Hoffman

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Speed and Risk Make Things Better: The nightmare of the By-Pass 4 interchanges

There is a silent evil that works in the world that I had to explain to a few smart people this past week, which deserves to be heard by everyone.  One of the great examples of this evil is a road I have driven on for many decades, the By-Pass 4 interchange in Butler County, Ohio, one of the largest arteries for industrial traffic in a very productive county.  It used to be that I could drive 100 mph down that road all the time, and it was never a problem.  But these days, there are too many lights at every intersection to get up any speed before you have to slow down again, which is, of course, by design.  Over the years, to answer all the upset families who lost people to car crashes, not to mention the complaints of the insurance industry who had to make payouts on all the minor fender bender claims, the answer to this overly managed world is to lower the speed limit, put up more stop signs and traffic lights to frustrate high-speed travel in the name of safety.  But safety has a cost all its own, and productivity usually gets sacrificed.  If you can’t drive 100 mph, you will arrive at your destination much later, and among the world’s bureaucrats, there is almost a delightful glee when they tell you that something is going to take time because “it’s better safe than sorry.”  But to my eyes, the question must always be asked, “Is it?”  I would argue, and do all the time, that things were much better when we could drive 100 mph down By-Pass 4.  Sure, there were occasional crashes and deaths as a result.  But drivers were noticeably better; they had to be. Whenever you dumb down a human population with over-processing, you tend to inspire them to think less, and high-speed driving makes people think more, and they are better people as a result.

The solution to the By-Pass 4 complaints by the central planners who tend to get involved in these political problems of traffic management was to slow everyone down to where it’s faster to ride a bicycle and to take as much risk out of the process to make it so that accidents rarely happened.  This might be fine if the goal is to remove automobile accidents in your culture.  But if productivity is the goal, and speed is associated with that objective, then the By-Pass 4 exchanges along its path are devastating, which I point out in my video.  Without question, a World Economic Forum or United Nations statistician could show that such an arrangement will save lives and property value by eliminating crashes, but ultimately, the safest thing anybody could do if they didn’t want to have a collision is never to leave their house, and that looks to be the intention behind the traffic pattern design of Butler County.  Without question, everyone had good intentions, but the result of all this activity has produced slow roads that greatly limit personal freedom and make driving a real pain in the neck.  It takes a long time to get anywhere because political problems have always been solved over time by addressing complaints of every crash with more traffic lights, speed limits, and stop signs.  In the case of By-Pass 4, presenting traffic in such a way that a driver-side door never faces oncoming traffic to eliminate crashes that statistically occurred often when traffic had to engage each other at 90-degree angles and human decisions had to be made for everyone’s preservation.  By taking that decision-making process out of human hands, we must now ask whether we are all better off.  Is a safe society better than a risky society if the result is dumber humans? 

Of course, this is about more than traffic, and you can find this same mentality in almost every industry, particularly manufacturing.  Whenever there is an employee accident or an engineering challenge, the trend of the college-trained European worshipper is to put up the stopsticks and slow down a process to make a safer world.  But is it a better world, and I would argue it’s not?  Safer does not make something better.  That may be one value, but it’s certainly not the entire value.  As I always say from my favorite sport, Fast Draw, you have to manage speed and accuracy with the amount of risk your skill level allows.  If people are forced to improve their skills rather than pandering down to their weaknesses, often the result will be much better because the process of thinking makes it so that you get a better human being in the process, rather than playing to those weaknesses so that anybody can do anything.  That is the trend in our highly regulatory environment filled with government bureaucrats.  Their answer to everything is to slow things down so they can get their slow-minded, feeble minds wrapped around the problem.  Once you accept that strategy, your entire society is filled with timid people who lose the skill to manage risk because their lives depend on it.  Instead, they only need to know how to follow the rules and follow the guy in front of them as designed by some centralized planner. 

The result is that you might have fewer accidents, and you may fix the problem of quality escapes in whatever business you might be operating.  But like the traffic patterns, the safest thing you can do is to do nothing, and all too often, that is what we get out of society.  We get things slow, but at least we live to get them.  But the process of getting it kills us.  Because we may be alive physically, but our minds are dying because we stop challenging ourselves.  Such is the case in Butler County, Ohio; due to hundreds and thousands of traffic accidents and residential complaints, there are now traffic lights at almost every intersection where people travel.  And it’s tough to get from one place to another.  Not because the roads are bad.  They are pretty good.  But because there is too much starting and stopping, you can never get a good flow from your commute.  That is because the political solution to traffic problems was to hire pin-headed European-oriented Marxists to solve a uniquely American problem. You embrace risk and manage it for personal fulfillment, resulting in productive output.  Not that safety isn’t necessary, but it doesn’t take priority over productive enterprise, whether it’s getting to your destination 4-6 minutes faster or achieving a higher sales objective in your company.  Managing risk is the way to improve output.  Slowing everything down only panders to people’s weaknesses and, as a result, makes your society much less dynamic.  Everyone might live in the end, but is that the goal of life?  If everyone is just a brain-dead slug, is that better than a society where you could drive 100 mph to rock and roll music with the window down and vastly enjoy the experience because you don’t have to stop?  I’ve seen it both ways, and I can say from experience that driving 100 mph is far better.  Speed is better most of the time.  Among the skilled, accuracy can also be achieved.  But when you pander to society down to the weaknesses of the participants, then you get a lot more of it, and the satisfaction of an enterprise diminishes incredibly, such as we see every day at the By-Pass 4 interchanges created by monsters of Marxism and their bureaucratic plots of doom.  It’s good to live a little dangerously; it makes you a better and much happier person.

Rich Hoffman

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