Category: Nature

The Secret to Elon Musk’s Success: An obsession with risk and the management of its destructive elements

It’s certainly worth a discussion, although I had been avoiding reading the book Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, mainly because it was a Time Magazine view of the world, and I tend not to enjoy books like that very much.  I’ve read other books by Isaacson and enjoyed them enough to learn new things.  In this case, Isaacson was given access to Elon Musk for the last few years to study him and learn all he could.  So, it was worth reading about the daily life and details of a person who is often the wealthiest in the world and runs some of the most successful companies.  But politically, I think of Elon Musk as a Barack Obama fanboy and a global greenie weenie.  But I do admire how he built Tesla.  I’m certainly not a EV fan of electric cars, but Tesla has carved out a nice little niche for themselves that I think is valuable.  SpaceX is an incredible company that is doing wonderful things.  I’m a tremendous fan of the Starship program and what has been done with Falcon 9 and the Dragon program.  I appreciate them for what they are, and I think Musk is just a unique personality to continue healthily pushing society places it needs to go.  I think of him as a great case of “dynamic intellectualism” that I talk about with the Metaphysics of Quality and the philosophy of Robert Persig.  But Elon Musk smoked pot on the Joe Rogan Show and wanted to put fart apps into his very expensive Tesla cars, so he’s not my kind of guy and people like Isaacson tend to get the surface qualities of his subjects, but not the real intellectual gist of their value.  However, after reading Elon Musk by Isaacson, the unavoidable trait of the secret to success did emerge without question, which is why I kept hearing about the book from friends and respected business leaders. 

Since the book came out in the fall of 2023, I have had at least someone once a week asking me if I had read the book since I usually read everything that comes out.  But I typically avoid the trendy stuff and lean more toward big-picture things.  I wasn’t interested in another get-rich book by people fascinated with wealth creation viewed through a popular cultural lens.  But so many people were getting the book and passing it out to their management teams, looking for some secret sauce that Musk obviously has.  So when I was at dinner with some very important people at Son of the Butcher at Liberty Center in Ohio, and under great encouragement from those people indicated that I would love the book, I left that dinner, stopped by the bookstore, and bought it just before Barnes and Noble closed for the night, and I promised them the next time I would see them, I would have read the book and told them what I thought of it.  That was on a Thursday night, so by Monday, when I would see some of them again, I had read the book, it’s a pretty big book with a lot of details in it.  Many people had bought the book, but they hadn’t made it very far through, and they wanted to know my opinion on whether to continue slugging through it.  In truth, it was a good book; Walter did a good job for a Simon and Schuster publication intended for static society audiences.  And I would say it’s one of the most important books of our time, for a lot of reasons, which I’ll spend separate articles covering.  But the secret sauce, yes, it was there and in all its glory.  I understood it, and it’s something I relate to. 

Throughout the book, I couldn’t help but think of President Trump when I think of Elon Musk and how wealth has been projected over time.  Trump’s Art of the Comeback from 1997 was about knowing influential people, supermodels, wives, exotic cars, and tall skyscrapers.  And in the part of the book where Elon Musk went through his period of wealth acquisition, Walter Isaacson seemed to be on comfortable ground.  However, in the cover inserts were exciting value changes for Elon Musk.  The things that Musk thinks are successful and what Trump thought was successful have changed a lot over time.  Musk had exhibitions of massive engineering feats displayed in his book, where Trump featured the building of skyscrapers and the New York skyline.  But while the things that wealth could buy as a value may have changed, getting there had not.  Most wealthy people have some prevalent traits they share in common, which is the concern of Walter’s books, especially with Steve Jobs.  What makes successful people successful?  And everyone talking to me about the book wanted to know this.  “If I read this book, will it make me successful?  Can we pass this book on to our super managers and sales teams and learn something from Elon Musk to help us be more successful?”  The answer is yes.  However, knowing how to be successful doesn’t mean most people have the guts to do so.  You can’t cheat that, even though that is what causes most of the corruption in the world—the desire to take the easy way to wealth to have the benefits without the downside. 

The downside with Musk and Trump, along with many others who have done similar things, even Jeff Bezos, is that they are addicted to risk and obsessed with it.   Elon Musk is a classic riverboat gambler who loves risk.  But has the unique personality to be very intelligent enough to know when and how to mitigate risk.  But yes, he is an obsessive gambler who would play Texas Hold ’em’ by pushing all in for every pot, blowing a lot of money in the process.  But in so doing, he would also get the biggest jackpots.  And that’s clearly how he achieved success at the level he did.  Anybody wanting to succeed would have to learn to bring more risk to their lives to have the success that comes from winning big.  A gambler like that might spend a fortune on betting.  But mathematically speaking, people like Musk and Trump know that eventually, things will swing in your direction.  What separates them from everyone else is how much you can take until you fold up on yourself, broke and destitute.  Musk certainly has a personality that could be homeless and poor beyond any reasonable scale because he is a person obsessed with risk.  I get it; I have many of those same traits.  It’s not the money someone like him is interested in.  But its success in risking and surviving, that is.  And without that risk, there would be no success.  Elon Musk would be just another person with Asperger’s and too much brain power, applying it to a static society that is not interested in risk.  They wanted everything safe and predictable and would push themselves by nature as far from the Elon Musk types as they could, to maintain their safe lives.  That’s what makes Walter’s book so good because it indeed chronicles this risky behavior in ways that the public usually doesn’t get to see in people.  But just buying the book wouldn’t make people successful by itself.  What it could do, though, was let people understand that risk is critical to business and how risk is managed is the key to all successful enterprises, which is my general opinion of the book.  Yes, people should read it.  However, they should learn from it how to put more risk into their lives without becoming destructive.  Because there is no way to cheat risk, you either develop a healthy relationship with risk or get standard, predictable results that stagnate and rot you and your culture from the inside out.  Luckily for us, there are people like Elon Musk out there who are making things exciting.  But, there should be a lot more, and maybe yet, there will be.

Rich Hoffman

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Sam Randazzo Committed Suicide: When a corrupt FBI, Marxist Democrats, and radical anti-America terrorists are after you, don’t run away, fight them

I hated to hear that Sam Randazzo had committed suicide the day before the State of the State speech of 2024, apparently connected to his upcoming court cases attached straight to the Governor over H.B. 6 and all the drama around FirstEnergy.  Sam was appointed as utilities director for the Governor’s office and got caught up by default into defending FirstEnergy, which the communists were after, and like many Republicans who got caught up in that entirely legitimate business relationship, they retreated from the fight by activists courts, an FBI that was weaponized for progressive administrations, and an Obama administration that had set terrorist motions forward before President Trump entered the White House, that was intended to destroy the energy grid of Ohio and convert the entire industry to solar and wind power.  Yeah, I’m not a believer that the FirstEnergy bribery scandal in Ohio was nothing more than Democrats who did not have a majority in Columbus crying about how unfair it was that FirstEnergy had no choice but to try to get members of government from the Republican Party, to build their majorities with campaign donations so that they as a company could stay open for business.  The radical left had attacked two nuclear power plants for closure in Ohio, and FirstEnergy was trying to keep them open.  As I received the news in the dome with Mike DeWine standing about 8 feet from me taking pictures with people, I had a new perspective on why the Governor’s speech was so flat that day.  This was the second recent suicide from someone involved in H.B.6.  The first guy, Nick Clark, had recently shot himself in the head while wearing a DeWine for Governor shirt in Florida, awaiting his trial over the same fundamental issues.  And supposedly, in a warehouse just down the road from the Statehouse down Mound Street, Sam hung himself, leaving behind a phone number for his wife and concern for his family’s well-being.  But he couldn’t deal with the pressure.  Pressure that he shouldn’t have had to deal with in the first place.  This was the same case over FirstEnergy, where the former Speaker of the House, Larry Householder, was rotting away in jail for essentially doing what all politicians have to do, especially in his position: make sure the party holds power with campaign donations to expand majorities.  If the Democrats could, they would do the same thing, but they aren’t very well-liked in Ohio.  But that hasn’t stopped progressive politics and outside influences from trying to rot Columbus from the inside out, which is essentially what H.B.6 was all about, starting with destroying Ohio’s power by attacking FirstEnergy with Marxist climate change policies that were extraordinarily expensive to force them into wind and solar, and to abandon fossil fuels.

Before they pulled all his information off the internet, I looked up what Sam was saying about himself as a professional who was listed as retired.  So, I put it here to counter what has been said about him.  Does this sound like the kind of guy who would want to kill himself by hanging in a lonely warehouse just a few hours before Governor DeWine’s 2024 State of the State speech?  Listen to his own words: “For more than four decades, I helped businesses on both sides of the meter, elected officials, associations, and regulators identify and thoughtfully address issues that affect the delivered price and availability of energy, communication, and other goods and services essential to a well-functioning and forward-looking economy. In doing so, I was often recognized as one of the best lawyers in America, and I combined my legal skills with a deep understanding of how accounting, finance, economics, and engineering principles must be appreciated and integrated to effectively navigate (often in a political context) towards a sustainable and practical solution. After retiring from the practice of law at the end of 2018, Governor Mike DeWine appointed me to the post of Commissioner and eventually Chair of the PUCO, and on April 11, 2019, I returned to the agency where I started. As Chair of the PUCO, I was Chair of the Ohio Power Siting Board. During the COVID pandemic, I also served as Chair of the Stay at Home Order Dispute Advisory Commission and on the Governor’s business advisory task force. On November 20, 2020, I resigned from government service for reasons expressed in my resignation letter. Since retiring, I have been blessed to have the love and support of my family and friends.”

Smiling for the camera is just another way of hiding from the real villains of our power grid

I’m not a fan of many of these Republicans; some of them, such as Matt Borges, I think are complete idiots, and I’d have no problem telling him that to his face for his anti-Trump activity within the Republican Party trying to keep losers like John Kasich in power.  But those are party disagreements on strategy.  Republicans should have never taken the bait by Democrats even to allow for any donations from FirstEnergy to be construed in any way other than what they were.  To let an activist FBI make it all a case of corruption and bribery hoping to erode Republican control in Columbus was ridiculous for a problem Democrats caused in the first place: an attack on Ohio’s energy grid.  Republicans should have stood their ground, fought and beat these losers in court, and made other people want to hang themselves in empty warehouses.  Not simi-retired lawyers like Sam Randazzo.  He should be taking his family to some nice vacation resort instead of preparing for a funeral.  It wasn’t fair to his family.  But as I say, politics is a blood sport, and the Democrats love blood, and Republicans never match the intensity because they are too nice.  They shouldn’t be. 

After hearing all this about Sam, I watched Governor DeWine, who caught my eye a few times.  Part of me felt terrible for him.  He’s a nice guy trying to play this blood sport the only way he knows how with Yellow Springs hippie liberalism and extensive government control over the levers of power.  He has learned over the years to appease these vile forces rather than fight them directly, and in the State of the State speech, he sought to appease those monsters on 3rd Street by making the whole speech about children and nothing else.  Governor DeWine signed H.B.6, which was talked about by Marxist media as a 1.3 billion dollar bailout of FirstEnergy.  Well, of course, Democrats were upset about it because they wanted to sink FirstEnergy and force them to go all in on windmills and solar panels.  They tried to kill Ohio’s energy policy, so yes, they were upset that Republicans were helping out FirstEnergy.  That is how Sam Randazzo got wrapped up in the scandal, as he found 4.3 million dollars coming at him from FirstEnergy.  But what was FirstEnergy supposed to do?  Sit around and be destroyed by climate activists and Marxist, America-hating despots?  Because that’s the real issue on the table that DeWine didn’t want to tackle, and his inability to defend Columbus Republicans left them hanging.  It’s that kind of classic Republican run-and-hide technique that has so many people supporting Trump.  And to answer a question Matt Borges brought up after the Access Hollywood tape about Trump trying to disparage him, was that locker room talk?  Yes.  That’s how people speak; if he didn’t know that, he should have.  Republican voters are going for Trump and not Mike DeWine types.  They want to see FirstEnergy thrive; they want nuclear power and fossil fuels to provide cheap electricity.  And they want the government to leave them alone.  And they certainly don’t want to see their representatives going to jail and hanging themselves in warehouses as the only option left to them in an activist, Marxist-controlled court system led by a corrupt FBI working for the Biden administration, and before them, the radical terrorist Obama.  If we’re going to play this blood sport, let the Democrats feel the pressure.  Not good people trying to stand up for the industry and Ohio’s power grid.  They knew what they were doing; when the government is prosecuting you, and it’s run by radicals who have endless money to throw at you, and you have to pay for parasite lawyers and are still facing jail time in your retirement years, what was old Sam supposed to do?  Who was going to defend him when all the other Republicans were running for the hills, trying not to be accused of bribery?  This is the same garbage they have been trying to do with Trump.  But he didn’t run away.  Mike DeWine and many others have, and that has only fed the desire for blood by the ruthless Democrats and their communist supporters at the expense of our great state. 

Rich Hoffman

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Ding Dongs in Columbus: A Review of Governor DeWine’s State of the State speech

Before I get into the obvious homeless guy on 3rd Street in Columbus who was standing on the corner a block south of the Statehouse, completely nude, with his ding dong and buttocks clear for all the world to see, as if he were getting ready to shower at a YMCA, I have to talk about the fantastic book I bought from the Statehouse gift shop that I have had my eye on for several years now, The Art and Artistry of the Ohio Statehouse by Dayna Jalkanen.  Every time I go to the Statehouse, I think about getting it, but time is always short, so I never do.  I love the Statehouse and the intentions of the work that is supposed to be done there, of republic-style representative government, and I had just told a story to similar people about my thoughts on Governor DeWine’s speech where I stood in the rotunda with DeWine giving out pictures with a lunch buffet set up in the middle of the room where senators, representatives, lawyers, lobbyists, cutthroats and even media personalities were at work saving the world from their perspective.  Even the “Rooster” was there dressed in his backpack and poorly attired shorts, deliberately showing disrespect for the process as he runs a government blog checking the antics of the powerful with a kind of Marxist mentality of “bringing them all down.  During this visit, I had a little more time to make it to the bookstore, where I was there with Jennifer Gross, the Ohio Representative from the 47th District, and her son, a brilliant young man.  I explained to many people that DeWine’s speech this year was horrible, worse than usual, and uninspiring.  And there was a thick blanket over the whole State of the State address as Columbus conspiracies were awash in speculation and scandal.  But as I have said before, the Statehouse is there, grand and has deep roots in history.  It intends to inspire people to greatness even if they fall short, as was apparent under this current flock of politicians.  So, I wanted to get the book to remind myself of the worth of it all.

As I checked out the book at the counter and spoke to Jennifer about all the perils of progress during legislative proceedings, I reflected on what I had just said about DeWine’s speech and why it was so bad.  Governor DeWine was clearly in a lame-duck stage of his term.  He was on the outs with the Trump campaign over several controversies.  But the biggest one is that DeWine isn’t a Republican, especially not a Trump Republican.  He’s a product of FDR’s New Deal and some Johnson version of a Great Society where the government was there to do what parents couldn’t or wouldn’t.  And that was the entirety of DeWine’s speech on the State of the State on 4.10.24.  The whole thing was about how the state of Ohio could take care of children in ways their parents would fall short of, and everything he mentioned required more legislation and tax money spent without scrutiny on the next generation without any real expectation of success.  As I had just said in the rotunda, everyone in that room thought they were doing the right things, including DeWine.  They all had the best of intentions.  Nobody thought of themselves as evil.  Yet there was evil everywhere, and why?  It’s a challenging game where you must go to Columbus to work with others to make things happen.  You have to build relationships and get things done.  But in compromising with other people to get things passed, most people find themselves changed forever in the process, and they aren’t the same people who were elected, and they don’t survive the meat grinder of politics intact. 

Whenever I attend a State of the State speech, I always like to sit in the gallery where all the lawyers, aides, and lobbyists sit because I want to hear how they talk to each other.  They all have some specific thing that concerns them most about the government.  It might be renewable energy, social programs, or even Rob Portman’s retirement status, and how many boards he is sitting on for advice.  I was sitting next to one of his former aides who went on and on about how much influence the former senator still had in the business world, which I had to snicker about.  I’ve known Rob Portman for a long time, especially at the beginning of his political career when he was in his 20s.  Rob Portman shouldn’t be advising businesses about anything; he doesn’t have the horsepower to understand the field or how it works.  But in that gallery, I heard many stories about things those people wanted to impress upon each other as they were caught up in the moment.  All dressed up to listen to the Governor give a speech about saving children from their parents.  I explained it later by identifying the problem for what it is: all those people at the speech had the power of government at their fingertips, and they had to decide how to use it to help people.  And that’s where the evil comes in: when people don’t have the right thoughts about things, how can they decide to use government the way it’s supposed to, not how their feeble minds interpret it?  DeWine intended his speech well, as everyone listening did.  But where can they apply government power to the right purposes?  That’s what I wanted to think about as I bought that book and why I took a little extra time talking with Jennifer about those kinds of challenges this time. 

But the answer to that question was at the corner of 3rd Street, just one block south of the Statehouse as I was leaving.  There was security everywhere around the Statehouse because of the governor.  I was leaving the Senate, and there were plenty of police.  But then there was this 6’ 6 man of color standing there with his pants pulled down around his ankles, underwear, and all oblivious to the world around him.  I don’t think he knew his ding dong was hanging out in full view to all the cars and pedestrians moving by him.  I’ve seen homeless people all over the world, and they are caused by too much government destroying the personal initiative of individual people.  And here was this guy, an apparent creation of a nanny state government rotting away in full view of everyone just a block from where all the rules of Ohio were made.  And nobody was doing anything about it.  He was violating public decency standards.  He was probably violating many drug laws.  But he was a person of color, and nobody wanted to be called a racist for pointing out his bad behavior.  So, everyone just ignored him and went about their way.   No doubt, several children that day had their lives ruined by seeing that naked guy on the street corner on a sunny April day in 2024.  With all the grand ideas proposed by many governors over the years, the reality is that the quality of life for people only gets worse the more that the government tries to replace good personal conduct with more laws, which aren’t even enforced a block from where DeWine gave his speech.  And all the people talking about big, fancy ideas in the gallery were already in their cars on their way home, driving past all the problems none had the guts to deal with.  Which is how evil works in those kinds of gatherings.  Well-intended people who use the power of government to do what they lack as people, and it migrated into society to show itself in that homeless guy so disconnected from reality he was nude on a street corner in the capital of Ohio, which should be a showpiece of excellence.  The Statehouse certainly lives up to the lofty expectations.  But the people in it, inhabiting it, don’t.  And they hide their lack of courage behind procedures and fancy speeches.  Yet they always fall short because their minds aren’t up to the task, and they don’t have the guts to increase their intellect where they can help people like that guy instead of making more of them by default. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Chinese Communism of Godzilla X Kong: Their anti-capitalist messages are obvious and dangerous to our youth

I was happy to have the chance to take my family to the new movie Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire.  That’s what movies are all about, that film.  Fun, adventurous, made for a big screen with the lights turned out and lots of popcorn to eat.  For my grandkids, they’ll say that this new Godzilla movie was their favorite movie ever.  And why not, from their perspective?  For what it was, this new Godzilla movie with King Kong was a classic, fun film, and to have an experience like that with my family is a treasure beyond average measures.  However, I am not at all happy with the Chinese ownership of Legendary Studios because there is a lot more behind the scenes that indicates a pro-communist message that cannot be ignored.  I’ve discussed it before, returning to an early entry in these Godzilla/Kong movies with Skull Island.  Under the Chinese owners, they took the raw and crazy primitive humans from Skull Island and turned them into wise natives living in harmony with nature.  A strategy that the Chinese have utilized on many fronts to promote anti-capitalist sentiment and advance their brand of communism to the rest of the world by attaching that message to young people who would grow up to accept such notions.  So, over time, the way that the native inhabitants of Skull Island have been viewed has changed from a Western position to a far Eastern one.  And under Legendary Studios, there was undoubtedly politics behind the message.  Was it too much for a movie like this?  I don’t think it ruins it completely.  But it is undoubtedly something to notice and understand what and why it’s happening.  It’s always great to watch giant monsters destroy significant human landmarks.  But, under Chinese ownership of Hollywood studios, we can’t ignore what they are trying to do under the soft sell of a monster movie intended for children. 

Featured in this movie, and introduced in the first Godzilla v. Kong movie, is the last of her race, a little girl from the Iwi tribe who can talk to the giant ape with sign language because she is also deaf.  She’s a friendly kid and a likable character, and taking it alone isn’t a big deal of conspiracy. But, the way the Iwi are portrayed in Godzilla X Kong is pretty ridiculous, tapping into this notion that I see quite often in the markets of mysticism and New Age mentality, where ancient cultures like Atlantis and Lemuria had it all together and were far superior to modern humans because they lived in harmony with nature, and now we have lost all that to our detriment.  And that lost in the core of the Earth is the lost tribe of the Iwi, this little girl’s ancestors who keep all these things balanced with nature as if nature had a logic far superior to the human race.   They even went so far in this movie to indicate that this lost wisdom allowed the descendants of the Iwi to make the giant pyramids we see on earth today by moving rocks around through gravity manipulation by working with nature, not against it.  The science presented in Godzilla X Kong is essentially the agenda for any climate summit of progressive radicalism seen anywhere in the world, from Dubai to Rio and all fancy vacation destinations in general, and is grotesquely out of step with reality.   But they figure that in a world where education is so poor and people so gullible to the truth, why not present such things as facts?

I like the old versions of Skull Island, not just in the 1933 original King Kong movie but also in Peter Jackson’s 2005 movie with the same title.  The way the West sees natives is great.  But the way communists see natives is not.  There is a political agenda to indicate that the collective notions of complete submission to authority rule are superior.  In the case of the communists, and as shown in Godzilla X Kong, there is a kind of queen of the tribe that represents complete submission of individual will toward the collective group as the ideal society.  Whereas in the classic versions of the Skull Island inhabitants, they were shown to be cannibals and primitive beyond help.  It was a tragedy in those films to sacrifice a pretty woman to the beast to appease their god, hoping to leave them alone.  Such ignorance was looked down upon.  But not in these modern Legendary Studios monster movies.  Complete irreverence to individuality is their goal, not a matter of terror.  Of course, the message is not hidden; communist governments want to sell to the public the benefit of being submissive toward centralized government at the cost of all individuality.  In the end, the message of these modern monster movies is that all the great things humans have built, like the city of Rome and the pyramids at Giza, can quickly be brought down by these giant monsters.  And they are acts of nature meant to be submitted to, not fought against.  So why bother?  The human race’s efforts are discouraged in these movies, and we discover that even with all our technology, we were never in charge, so most of our efforts were wasted from the start.  The Iwi tribe always had it right. 

Of course, that is all wrong, and so long as we look at these things with the kind of reverence that we would a show like Gilligan’s Island, this is harmless entertainment.  But never mistake the Chinese government’s purposeful intentions in buying Hollywood studios and their desire to capture the message given to us in a darkened theater and kids too young to know any better.  We should not have allowed the Chinese to buy up so much of our American assets, especially in entertainment.  If ancient cultures had it all together, they wouldn’t have gone extinct, such as Atlantis, and other societies would have long been wiped away.  I think there was a lot lost in the past, but politically, the cause wasn’t more collectivist behavior but in less of it.  In any society that turns toward centralized government to alleviate their fears of the unknown.  That looks to be the cause of much of the trouble in the past and in what has been lost and found again time and time over.  It is not the reverse, as presented in these Legendary Studio movies.  In truth, there is a lot of archaeology that needs to be done in China, but under their closed system of communist tyranny, that isn’t even on the table.  So who are they to say anything about ancient cultures but to feed the pot-smoking belief that the hippies of history knew more than our greedy capitalists of the modern world about how to live within its rules and regulations?  But they say it anyway to poison our youth with ideas of ideal society run by communist governments, even as those communist governments sit on some of the most fascinating ancient monuments in the history of the world. It is concealed behind a veil of communism to analyze the outside world.  And the understanding only free people can interpret.  But that’s a story for another day. 

Rich Hoffman

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Puff Daddy and the Rap Music Industry of Marxism and Mayhem: They always intended to destroy American culture

Whatever they call him, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, or whatever it is that the famous rap star is in trouble with, it’s not that the music industry is saturated with sex trafficking and child molesters that is the problem.  Everyone knows what Puff Daddy has been up to, and loose sex with lots of crazy women and underage kids is part of their lifestyle. The record industry has made a lot of money over the years, pandering to the worst of the human race, the typical losers who used to worship Baal in the Bible and sacrifice their firstborn children in trade for sex and glory.  If Puff Daddy is in trouble now, it’s likely because he has fallen out of favor and he’s being offered as a sacrifice to the gods of chaos by a corrupt FBI trying to appear like they are doing their job in an election year where they are trying to divert attention from President Biden, the inserted president, not the elected one.  No, the worst thing about this recent story is the origin of rap music to begin with, as a deliberate attack on American culture by Marxists looking to undermine our culture through the inner cities and to make ground troops out of the discontent with a communist revolution.  Don’t ever forget that Black Lives Matter was a Marxist organization that many corporations openly embraced.   But not before the rap music scene came along to pave the way for that nonsense and guilt people into believing they had to embrace that hate music to prove that they weren’t racists left over from the Civil War.  Also, never forget the Republican Party was created to end racism, and it was the Democrats who fought that effort, a mistake that would hurt them until they tried to use the Civil Rights Movement during the communist 60s to rebrand their image. 

People who are not very well educated in history have let pop music define their political parameters, so they have no context.  But the truth is, rap music was introduced to American music to destroy our culture and usher communism into communities of color to rot us from the inside out.  And Puff Daddy and all his other child-molesting rap buddies, like the dope smoker Snoop Dogg and even the whitewash sucker Eminem and the Beastie Boys, were creations of the music industry meant to be weapons of destruction to rot the minds of the youth and turn them against the culture of their parents for the destruction of America as a nation.  It was just one aspect of the globalist plans to attack America without tanks and troops and instead attack the minds of the youth so they wouldn’t be able to defend their culture from those vile enemies beyond our shores, let in by finance who promoted the effort.  What?  Do you think all those great Motown hits disappeared overnight?  Think of all those great songs that came from Detroit record labels.  Are we to believe they all disappeared during the 1990s only to be replaced by these losers, Puff Daddy and the gangster rappers of hate and destruction daring us to call them out for their blatant racism baited through politics to paralyze judgment and promote a drug-induced society of criminals and cop-hating thugs.  Is anybody surprised that Puff Daddy is in trouble or that the law is being selectively enforced?  Or was he allowed to break the law to get the goods on compromised people attending his parties for extortion rackets later? 

The damage is already obvious, I was at Liberty Center, Ohio a very nice shopping complex recently enjoying a nice day with my family.  And while in the food court was a bunch of thugs obviously raised on rap music using horrendous language and treating each other like gangs from the video game Grand Theft Auto.  And they didn’t care who heard them or what anybody thought of their social conduct.  They were obvious Lakota school students and they looked like they belonged in a music video for Puff Daddy.  I’ve warned everyone if you don’t run these losers out of these shopping complexes, then the same fate that happened to Forest Fair Mall, and Tri-County Mall will happen to Liberty Center.  Nice moms and family people don’t want to share space with these gangster rappers and their bad conduct.  They will just stop going to such places.  They don’t want to hear the bad language and witness the sorry attitudes and they will find alternatives.  Everyone has to understand that those kids were taught to be that way by Marxist elements of our culture.  It has nothing to do with racism.  If it did, then the Republican Party would be the refuge for all such discussions.  Instead, the American way of life has been under attack by the music industry to make such kids weapons of their war against America.  And instead of drafting our children into service to defend our country from the communists, the communists have drafted our kids through music to kill the concept of family.  And in so doing, to destroy the foundation of American life, the youth of tomorrow.  Those young Lakota kids have been radicalized to be weaponized terrorists against good people.  And that was the purpose of Puff Daddy and his FBI, CIA friends who empowered him.  They knew what they were doing all along.  They knew about the young girls, and the sex trafficking.  Heck, they helped facilitate the crimes, until it was to their advantage to cash in their investment and throw Puff Daddy under the bus.

If it was just about making money, the music industry would still be making music like they did with Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, and Prince.  Marxists infiltrated the music industry purposely to weaponize it, and Puff Daddy was one of those weapons.  And they used him until they wanted to close up a loop in their story.  Puff Daddy was a creation of those who hated America, as the entire rap culture was.  It was intended to destroy a whole generation with victimized sentiments and attempt to assign to mainstream America all the sins of the Democrat Party leading up to the Civil War.  And like the mechanisms of evil everywhere, the devil lies to all and twists the words of fate to their advantage to souls entirely too trusting.  And while we accepted this rap culture to erase away sins the Democrats caused, they used that guilt to destroy our nation’s youth with gangster rap that only now people see the proper strategy, entirely too late.  And think of all the poor kids who have had their lives destroyed by Puff Daddy and his friends of malcontents.  Rap music wasn’t created as a free market necessity but as political activism by Marxists looking to steer more losers toward the Democrat Party to keep themselves in power while trying to erase their guilt in the process.  And while kids were distracted by easy sex, drugs, and anti-American culture, the true motives were shaping our political world for the worse.  And Puff Daddy was just one of the losers; the record industry itself was ripe for the corruption it unleashed.  And the weapon of war was guilt; if they could make us feel shame, just like those dumb Lakota kids at Liberty Center, nobody would do anything about it.  And allow them to destroy our culture to prove they weren’t racists.  Meanwhile, massive numbers of underaged kids have had their lives ruined forever by these destructive rap stars and their record producers.  And only now is the whole destruction apparent to see, making it necessary for us to judge once and for all. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Communist Left is in a Panic Because Trump Doubled His Wealth: Why capitalism always beats communism

In the rock, paper, scissors game of life, capitalism beats communism 100% of the time.  It doesn’t matter that the world has been taught communism in their universities, public schools, and government centers of inefficiency.  When in direct competition with capitalist elements of any society, communism always loses.  So, as we prepare to become a space-fairing species as if we ever stopped being one, capitalism should be at the center of every culture that participates.  And there was never a more obvious example of this than in the battle to destroy President Trump by the SWAMP gas of the communist left of the Washington D.C. beltway culture.  They planned to bankrupt Trump with a bunch of corrupt courts and leftist judges and keep him from being able to run for President of the United States by the fall of 2024.  In the minds of the “left,” the political affiliates of Karl Marx, Trump would be serving 700 years in jail, have all his vast assets confiscated by the state, and his family would be broke and begging on the street.  That was their American-hating fantasy.  But what ended up happening was that President Trump, to defend his right to free speech, started Truth Social, and his total wealth value doubled to a present level of over 6 billion dollars. This infused Trump with more cash to fight all these Marxist criminal cases and took the air completely out of the plans of his political enemies, who are also our political enemies, and they are pretty desperate now.  They bet everything on this plan, and now it’s falling apart in front of their faces, as I said all along that it would.  Even a few months ago, when people said that Trump was done for in politics, I reminded them that he was far from finished.  And that he was going to win and win big.  Because capitalism always beats communism, and by the time all this work against him was done, the communist left would bankrupt itself in a way they would never recover.  Everybody laughed.

But news report after news report showed the anxiety of those who had bought into different levels of communism injected into American life, in a panic over their entire political philosophy falling apart right in front of their faces.  Where they thought the New York court cases were the end of Trump and that Trump Tower was going to be confiscated by the state, the opposite happened.  And there was plenty of desperation to go around on their part.  But America was set up so that people like President Trump could exist.  I gave an excellent little talk this past week to a group of people after I read the book about Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, which I thought was astonishingly good, and I compared it to the Trump book The Art of the Comeback which I have been saying was the guidebook for the 2024 election.  If you want to know what Trump will do next, it’s all in that book published in the 1990s.  But the point of my talk, which I told them was likely the most crucial thing anybody would ever tell them, was that while how we measure wealth might change, the creation of it still has some essential ingredients that are important to the human race.  Wealth creation, specifically capitalist systems, requires the propensity of the human race to create new things out of risk.  To take chances.  And when you hit it big, the win may be celebrated differently.  Back in the 1990s, Trump was all about supermodels, fast cars, and tall buildings made of gold.  Elon Musk in 2024 has some compelling pictures of his most valued treasures on the covers of his book, one showing Starship stacking on SuperHeavy.  Then, on the back cover is a Tesla factory with a robot working in a nice, clean facility.  Both examples show the company’s success and how the people behind the enterprise measured that success.  But what made that success was always a risk and the ability to manage it for the betterment of all. 

Communist systems are all about averting risk.  They are the antithesis of creation.  It takes risk to do anything, so when you take the risk out of life, you take away the creation of things that are positive for the human race, which is why communist cultures, such as China, Cuba, Iran, and other places, are hellholes that depend on stealing from rich countries to sustain themselves.  That is why governments have to have massive taxes; they exist in at-risk environments that must be subsidized off the looted wealth of productive people who take many risks.  The more tolerance for risk a person had, and the better they managed it, the more successful they were.  Of course, those who don’t like risk and want a mother government to take it out of their lives will resent those who can handle it.  But what leverage can they inject into the world if they don’t bring any real value to an enterprise?  While the displays between the way Elon Musk displays his wealth as one of the world’s wealthiest people and President Trump may be different, it is similar to how they can handle more risk than others and use that trait to improve the world.

That was the swagger President Trump brought to his court cases.  When he was being hit from all sides by the communist left, he had the thought to use his money to start his own social media company, and I am proud to say that I was one of the first few hundred to sign up for it, which is how I was able to get my actual name in my username, @rhoffman.  And when Truth Social went public in March of 2024, it gave Trump access to plenty of cash to deal with all these pesky communists.   Trump could have spent these last few years working to be the wealthiest man in the world if he wanted to.  Instead, he doubled his billionaire status enough to stay alive for this presidential race, and the communists, because they count on systems to protect them from risk, were no match for someone very successful in managing risk and thrived in that environment.  This is why communism will never beat capitalism, even as much as the fantasy might wish such a condition to be so.  That’s why Karl Marx died broke.  That’s why the movement of Freemasonry in Europe failed to inject the entire world with socialism; group affiliations were intended to disguise people’s aversion to risk.  But it is always the risk-takers who succeed in life.  And there are always people who instead take risks to live the safe life of bootlicking their tribal leader in exchange for food from the confiscated wealth taken by mob rule.  It is that crucial designation that indicates why capitalism will always beat communism and why Trump has succeeded so well against these communist plots against him.  Most good things in life are created by risk, including asking out a pretty girl for a date.  Or driving a car that you just spent all day cleaning up for a night on the town, starting a new company, and making a profit.  People like Trump were successful because of their comfort with risk.  And what they create with that success makes the world a better place.  Which is why he’s winning, and the communist left is losing so spectacularly. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Third Term of Obama: What a dumb fundraiser they had for Biden in New York

To add the ultimate failure to the Biden term we have been experiencing is to acknowledge it for what it is.  No, this was not a freely elected man who spent his life in public service and made good on the people of Pennsylvania to help them from the Executive Office. Instead, this is a crime lord put in office by conspirators who want to topple America and wanted a third term of Barack Obama, a continuation of the Weather Underground terrorism that gave us two terms of that communist insurgent, who was never qualified to be president in the first place.  But they got away with a lot with Barack Obama, and so, of course, they were going to steal an election and put Obama in place and use a compromised person and old fool in the White House so they could move his mouth and make him say anything they wanted him to.  They were willing to break the law for the good of their communist revolution, which they suckered so many into embracing, in a push for a global world order under the rule of China, the propped-up impoverished country that only gained wealth because it essentially became the 401K plan for the billionaires of America.  It’s been a sucker game all along, but you know what’s funny?  It hasn’t been working.  Biden is trying to run for president after trying to be Fidel Castro for his first term essentially, and people are sick of him.  So, at a fundraiser in New York, they brought out all the old tricks, Obama being one of them, and they looked like a bunch of out-of-touch fools.  Supposedly, they raised 26 million dollars at that fundraiser, as two former and one current president were raised dramatically out of the stage.  But in many ways, it was a perfect metaphor for what they had done to America and were now losing. 

Essentially, this has been Obama’s third term.  Hillary Clinton was supposed to carry the torch in 2016, but Trump won.  And the globalists who had put so much effort into the destruction of America were angry about it; after all, that was Obama’s first mission, to “remake” America.  To “transform” it into something else, from a capitalist country into a communist one.  That was why the newcomer Obama had his political career launched in the living room of the American terrorist Bill Ayers.  We were told to ignore that little news story; it was no big deal.  Neither were the problems with the Obama birth certificate, which turned out to be a digital fake made on a modern computer.  They got caught trying to fake one during Obama’s terms in office to shut up all the “truthers” out there who were onto the many problems with where Obama came from and who his daddy was.  Many still don’t know, but we do know that they lied to us about a lot of things.  But they got away with those lies, and the media, already taken over by this communist globalist plot, were willing to carry water for Obama and keep him propped up.  But they never wanted him to go, so they were angry with Trump for interrupting their communist takeover of America.  So they conspired and plotted and manipulated to extremes to destroy Trump, his supporters, and any notion of the Make America Great Again political platform.  Because for them, that was the worst thing in the world.  They wanted to destroy America.  Not make it great again.

But who are “they,” you might ask, dear reader?  Who are they?  Well, it’s the international finance community who were allowed into our money supply with that stupid Jekyll Island mess that created the Federal Reserve.  The secret societies of Europe have been plotting and scheming the decline of the West since it was essentially started.  The globalists have their people in the European Union and the United Nations.  It’s the billionaires who invest so much money into China-style communism for the entire world, using that paper tiger to look like the sales face of managed communism success by tying the hands of all the other countries in the world with ridiculous economic policy and climate change standards.  And “they” keep their politicians in office to destroy the world to their liking with massive election fraud, which they utilize all over the world.  Why do you think they were so upset that people were onto the scam with digital voting machines in the United States?  Because that was their most accessible means of election fraud.  That’s how they do it in communist countries like China, Russia, and South and Central America.  Don’t forget that Mexico and Cuba are socialist countries.  All of Europe are socialist countries.  The head of the United Nations is a socialist.  The head of the World Health Organization was a socialist.  Everything about COVID, created in a Chinese lab in Wuhan by human beings as a bioweapon, was about bringing socialism and communism to the world through mass manipulation of our health care system where they could get access to all people without the stigma of a political movement.  Oh, yes, “they” have been naughty, and they’ve killed a lot of people along the way.  And they didn’t care who it was or under what conditions.  They just wanted power and were willing to do anything to have it, including keeping Obama in the background and pulling the strings to Biden to keep their plans for globalism intact.

However, those efforts have spectacularly failed, and they are pretty well aware of it, which was apparent when they tapped into Obama and Clinton thinking that putting them on stage with Biden would help him.  The effort showed how tone-deaf many globalist consultants are to reality.  When forced to come out of the shadows and reveal who they are, they are bland, even out of touch.  Putting many old men on stage whom many Americans hate together shows how regional their thinking is and how little they respect ordinary American voters.  And that’s why they are losing any notion of a fair fight.  Without election fraud, they are desperately exposed.  And out of all that 26 million they raised, they couldn’t move the needle with a billion dollars.  The media might want that money wasted on them, so of course, their will whore themselves out to the Democrat Party, America’s version of the communist party in the West.  But people have been lied to, killed, harassed, abused, and manipulated in every way by both parties.  And “they” are sick of it.  Trump was never supposed to be in this position, the frontrunner as President once again.  I’ve been telling everyone since January of 2021 that he would be.  I understand the guy.  I knew he’d be back.  And he’s going to be president again, and many of us are going to aggressively undo all these communist plans that have been pressured upon us for many years, including all the terrorism that came from Barack Obama.  We will undo their corrupt world right in front of their faces, and they will deserve all the pain that comes with that.  And they should consider themselves lucky that their punishments won’t be more severe for all they have done to us.  In my mind, they are getting off too easily.

Rich Hoffman

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President Trump and the Lee Greenwood Bible: The Key to Making America Great Again

I have always had a relationship with the Bible, starting when I was very little.  I love to read books, and it is one of the world’s most essential books of literature. It has undoubtedly had a great impact as the foundation of Western Civilization.  But I’ve generally had a policy on religion not to impose it on other people because not everyone was fortunate enough to be born in America or under Christianity, so they are already starting in life with an impediment to success.  And I was willing to try the whole separation of church and state thing in the way that the destroyers of the world proposed it.  But due to the way the world is now, and what happened with COVID-19, the government coups around the world, and the general murder of innocent people, I began to explain things to people in a biblical context because that was what it took.  I’ve told the story before, and there have been many times since, but after Biden was put in office and Trump flew away for the last time, my wife and I headed into the desert and did some thinking.  A lot of thinking.  I bought a Lee Greenwood Bible shortly after because I thought he was onto something, and after reading it and sharing it with other people, a clear strategy became very obvious to me, which would defeat many of the villains in the world.  They were exposed, and a path to their destruction was clear to see.  And all it took for us, as Americans, was to reestablish a connection with the Bible.  That is why Lee Greenwood published a God Bless the USA version.  I have many Bibles, but this one was unique, and I thought upon receiving it, that every American should have one.  Within the text of the Bible is just about everything you need to know about building a successful society.  This Lee Greenwood Bible was a great place to start if America wanted to find its way again.

In 2024, President Trump is putting his name behind this effort and is partnering with Lee Greenwood to sell the God Bless the USA Bible, which comes in the back of it: the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and other patriotic documents.  I love all those things, so to have them all in one place makes perfect sense, as American law was formed around biblical principles.   For me what I had to overcome in the desert that year in 2021 was an answer to what the attackers of America were really after.  It’s one thing to talk about and write about, but admitting it to yourself at a fundamental level is something else.  Removing the Bible from our legal system as a basic foundation was the key to the plan of our attackers, the globalists looking for a one-world government rule through the United Nations.  These perpetrators were the socialist and communist heathens of Europe and Asia who wanted to make God the government, not a reference to a biblical past.  To achieve their victory over America, they had to change us from a Christian nation to a heathen one, something that had happened before in Israel when they had fallen from grace and turned back to the worship of Baal in the land of Canaan, and other places throughout the Near East.  Yahweh was just one competing God when the Bible was written, establishing himself as the creator of Western civilization, overcoming the pantheon of Greek gods, the Romans, and all the deities along the Silk Road.  Yahweh was older than many, but it was a long journey to work out social interaction correctly, which took many thousands of years to figure out. 

Then, in our modern times, the latest band of despots and global crime syndicates wanted to overthrow America and steal all its vast wealth by taking from us the basic morality of the Bible and splitting our legal system on its head for apparent destruction.  And we have seen over these past three or four years that this obvious strategy and its implications play out.  There is no longer guessing what these people were trying to do to us.  What has been challenging is to admit that people were willing to be that evil.  And they have been.  So, to understand that level of evil, a relationship with the Bible is essential in the context of the human race and its development.  The Bible has been the best at communicating those values, better than any country in the world, and the fact that America was built on that foundation was simply magnificent.  The concept of natural law and these ideas were, for me, the key to working all this out, so I was in Indian territory thinking about whether America had a right to impose its freedoms on the collectivist-based cultures that happened to be in North America at the time, and much like the reason God wanted the Hebrew people to inhabit Canaan, the same moral justification was present in the founding of America.  And people needed to understand that context.  The enemies of America wanted us to doubt that enterprise, so they sought to steal our reference point, our Bibles.  So, to beat them at their game put the Bible back into the center of American culture, and it would essentially be like Holy Water applied to the demons of existence.  So, it was brilliant for President Trump to get behind in selling this Lee Greenwood Bible.  It is also wise of him to make this upcoming election a resurgence of Christian Nationalism.  Not in the negative way that the enemies of America want to portray it as a derogatory position where we are supposed to give up our lives and lifestyles to accommodate the heathens of the world and all their dumb gods.  No, we only need to return to the basics and learn from history.  And use as a foundation for our civilization the tools that work, the rule of law built on the back of Biblical principles.  It’s one thing to have compassion for people who do not have the Bible as the backdrop of their entire culture and to be respectful of their beliefs.  But to destroy your belief system to make those heathens happy is not an intelligent idea, only to then have the United Nations redefine values based on a Karl Marx definition where communism makes government the new God and that the goal of our lives is to redistribute wealth using that new God as the arbitrator of justice.  And what the government gets is power and prestige, which has always been the downfall of civilizations, to repeat a cycle we know doesn’t work.  And to achieve that, they have to convince us to give up on the elements of society that do work.  President Trump getting behind the Lee Greenwood Bible is one of the most brilliant things he has done so far, and the media is melting down over it, like the Wicked Witch at the end of The Wizard of Oz.  I would recommend getting at least one Bible to pass out to friends and family.  The Bible is the battle plan to Make America Great Again, and we should not be shy about it.  This story has happened many times; the Bible captures those events well.  And for our present circumstances, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.  We need to understand how to use it, and the Bible, especially the Lee Greenwood Bible in partnership with President Trump, is a great place to start.

Here is a link to that Bible:   https://leegreenwood.com/product/god-bless-the-usa-bible/

Rich Hoffman

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Bernie Sanders Dumb Idea for a 32-Hour Work Week: Socialists and Communists are Lazy, dope-smoking losers

This is a long-term gripe from me and one of the most significant reasons to never listen to socialists and communists.  Communists are lazy people by nature; that’s why they want big government to confiscate the wealth of others and redistribute that income to them while they sit around all day smoking pot and playing video games.  We can see socialists a mile away, and their work ethic exposes them.  Lazy people tend to favor the works of Karl Marx.  So it is unsurprising that Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who has been in the news a lot over the last several years, has proposed a 32-hour work week.  I missed the news in a form I could comment on because I was traveling through many airports and happened to be in Japan waiting on a driver sent to pick me up when I heard the news.  I watched a video clip of this ridiculous proposal as my Japanese driver ran down the road to get our car.  He was running because he didn’t want me to wait an extra 15 to 20 seconds and to be guilty of giving me an inefficiency problem that day.  So, the news was particularly powerful at that moment because of the excessive contrasts.  They like to work in Japan, and they want to work hard.  So do I.  Out of a 24-hour day, 17 of them are dedicated to working.   I don’t have much time for silly chit-chat and wasting time on stupid things.  And I also work Saturdays and Sundays most weeks.  And I like it.  I love Mondays, I see Fridays as just another day in the week.  And I expect the people around me to work hard, too. Otherwise, I don’t get along with them.  No matter what people think about politics, sports teams, or religion, I can find common ground to build a relationship if a person likes to work hard. 

They work hard in Japan

But this idea of Bernie Sanders was one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.  America was trying to dig out of several years of bad economic policy during the third term of Obama’s presidency.  During Trump’s first term, America had three years of prosperity, but Biden quickly turned all that into a disaster, and America needs to work its way back to greatness.  And here is this idiot saying we must work a 32-hour workweek.  What will people do in all those other hours? Look out the window.  Have more leisure time.  How long must people sit on a beach and look at the water?  It reminded me of the many things that I don’t like about Europe.  They have too much vacation and have a daily expectation of doing too little.  It’s common in Europe to only work three days out of five and to have frequent breaks.  And to be honest, it disgusts me to my very soul.  What a wasteful existence.  America has been great in the past because the people weren’t afraid of hard work.  It was hard work that built a great country, and it was hard work that made any culture prosperous.  And here is an old hippie socialist advocating for Americans to work less.  It’s probably the dumbest idea in the history of dumb ideas.  It’s a general attitude you can easily observe in communist and socialist countries; their social centers are often crowded with people walking around aimlessly eating food and sitting anywhere available because they aren’t working enough.  And they wonder why they have poor GDP numbers. 

That isn’t unique; in my experience in Japan with the driver, it’s expected.  Japan has the third-largest economy in the world for a reason.  They work hard there, and they don’t complain about stupid things.  When there is work to be done, they pull together and get things done quickly, and they aren’t in love with the hours of the day.  If it takes longer to do a task than the usual hours of a business day, they stick around and finish it, making tomorrow always filled with completed work, waiting on new opportunities.  I am always impressed by even ordinary people on the street who are overtly ambitious and gratified for an opportunity to work.  Whether it’s a clerk at a convenience store or an attendant at the airport, when work is faced, or the chance to do business with another person presents itself, they honor that opportunity with a deep bow to revere the work and the opportunities that come with it.  You are in for a treat when you fly to Japan on any Japanese airline with an all-Japanese crew.  They work hard and treat everyone very respectfully.  They really care about the work and it shows as they enter the work zone, they bow to the public and bring real diligence to the effort.  But often, when you return home on Delta, United, or some other American airliner, you get a menagerie of lazy characters brought to you by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and they are ridiculous to deal with, especially on a long flight.  Even in premium seating, they make the experience miserable because they are usually lazy, overweight, and can barely fit between the seats, and you can tell they are always in a hurry to sit back down and waste their life away somewhere.  With the Japanese airlines, everyone is in a hurry, but for the opposite reason, so they can do more work. 

Bernie Sanders lists himself as an independent who caucuses with Democrats.  And he’s had a few good runs at the presidency, headed off by the Democrat’s cheating machine who would not let him near the White House.  But as a result, Democrats have steered hard left on Bernie Sanders types of communist policies.  Sanders is technically a socialist, and there are many like him in the Democrat Party; they don’t refer to themselves as such.  Much as in the Republican Party, there are Democrats who know they could never get elected if they called themselves what they were.  Socialists and communists in America have been changing their name to Democrats, trying to hide their real nature.  These days, they feel more comfortable revealing what that nature is than they were in the past.  And it’s communism that is behind the effort to have America work a 32-hour work week.  I think Americans need to work a 70-hour work week, at minimum.  I never have any compassion for someone who says they don’t have enough money when they are barely working 40 hours a week.  It was labor unions who gave us the stupid 40-hour work week, and that just isn’t enough when you have a productive culture filled with opportunity. What are people expecting to do with all that time off?  Why not work and make more money?  In my life, I have often worked two full-time jobs of 40 hours each, and held a part-time job on weekends, four or five hours a day on Saturdays and Sundays.  And I always spent time with my family.  I had time to play video games, read books, and watch movies.  People waste a lot of time in life, depending on the political philosophy that governs their society.  And if Americans want to Make America Great Again, they need to learn to work hard again.  And to stop listening to ridiculously stupid socialists, Marxists, and communists who just want to sit around smoking pot, living off welfare, and wasting their lives away with scratch-off lottery tickets, hoping to hit it big so they can work even less.  Those kinds of people are the slugs of society, and any culture that wants to be better needs to make fewer of them. 

Rich Hoffman

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Trump Was Always Protected Under the 8th Amendment: Playing chicken with the federal government, and winning

All you need to know about America’s domestic enemies and that they are a Marxist insurrection is in the case against Trump in New York, where the attorney general, Letitia James, pushed for an obviously unconstitutional bail amount in an effort to enforce a default and confiscate the President’s property.  This is a funny story, even as sinister as it is, because it’s the guide for how all these cases will go against Trump, but it holds for any of us.  Luckily, Trump, with the amount of wealth he has amassed over the years, is willing to play chicken with these guys and expose them from the platform of the American Presidency.   His willingness to do so has brought to the surface this obvious communist strategy so audaciously, that everyone can understand it.  However, this notion that Letitia James was going to be able to take Trump’s property and bankrupt him was never going to work.  As the radical left made up the scam, they assumed that people would abandon the American Constitution well before now, but that hasn’t happened.  By the time everyone entered the last week of March 2024, and the media speculated on the awesome power of the federal government, with all its infinite resources and ability to destroy people’s lives, the truth ended up as a lesson in civics.  Trump was, and has always been, just as we all are, protected from the government under the 8th Amendment.  This indicates that any excessive punishment imposed by the government, along with outrageous bail, was prohibited.  And given that Letitia James and Judge Engoron set the bail for Trump’s real estate case at 454 million dollars, essentially half a billion dollars, it showed that they weren’t serious about the law but were trying to do something they were legally prevented from doing.  There has never been such a bail cast against an individual before, so the definition of “excessive” was easy to establish. 

It’s pretty clear

Of course, the appeals process reduced the bail amount to something more manageable, although still excessive, but it was easier for Trump to get his hands on raw cash.  And once that occurred, the New York case fell apart, and the theatrics were concluded.  It is actually funny that Biden began to call Trump “broke” on the campaign trail because his handlers wrote it that way, according to the Marxist script they had all been following.   Trump’s attornies pleaded during the ruling because they had to, that Trump didn’t have $454 million lying around and that it was an unusual hardship.  The appeals court lowered the amount to $175 million just as Letitia James moved in to put a padlock on Trump Tower in New York to accommodate the ridiculous bail amount.  The abuse couldn’t be more apparent to the world and it ended up being a great example of the Marxist invasion of our country that a lot of people were not willing to acknowledge.  However, during this process, Trump received considerable money from his social media platform, Truth Social, so he quickly had the cash to pay the lowered bail amount and move on.  Even though even that amount will be considered “excessive” and unconstitutional in the end.  For now, Trump just pulled out a wad of cash and paid off the communists and, in the process, doubled his wealth.  Any hopes that the radical left had about Trump going broke and being forced to sell off his assets along the New York skyline were averted, and Trump entered a new era in the world of politics that nobody had ever seen before.  He had won the standoff with the federal government, which nobody had expected. 

Except I had been saying for a few years now that the 8th Amendment prevented the government from doing precisely what they were doing to Trump.  I knew what the Trump legal team was doing when they declared hardship on the excessive fine imposed by Engoron because they had to get it on the record for the appeals process.  Trump could have paid the fines and fees, but should he?  That was the real question.  But the political left gave away their fantasy of a communist world with an out-of-control government running loose and, taking people’s property and throwing them in jail without due process.  This happens everywhere, especially with the Peter Navarro case and what happened to Alex Jones, Rudy Guiliani, and Sidney Powell.  All the J6th protestors.  I find it astonishing that more lawyers didn’t catch on to the unconstitutionality of these impositions quickly.  However, before the March 2024 property confiscations, the Trump legal team finally got specific about the 8th Amendment.  And once they did, the appeals court had no option but to reduce the bail and favor in the direction of Trump.  I think this whole argument could have been destroyed in the New York case months ago by citing the 8th Amendment protections, but Trump likely wanted to bait them along like the excellent negotiator that he is, for as long as he could get away with it, pushing them to overplay their hand.  Which they did, only to drop the bomb with them at the end of the case to make a point.  And in that process, the political left salivated at the destruction of Trump and showed the world who they were. 

I would have advised Trump to destroy his enemies in the very beginning and to never let them up for air.  All these cases against Trump have the same primary objective and fall under the same constitutional protections.  But Trump is playing this as a sportsman who might fish for those big guys in the water deep under a rockface.  The point of the Constitution that is important is that it limits government and takes away the kind of power the left is addicted to, which is Chinese-style communism centrally controlled.  The entire American legal system, including all Supreme Court cases, uses the Constitution to prevent the government from doing things it might want to do against people, with property rights and wealth creation being the center of proper social norms that sustain a functioning economy.  Without that stability, you end up with an out-of-control government, which Trump wanted to show with all these theatrics.  The Trump legal team let the dumb Letitia James make a fool out of herself with excessive abuse to show the world what she was really up to.  Then, when things got serious, the Trump team played the 8th Amendment card, and that essentially destroyed the case.  But Trump was never in trouble.  Trump played the situation wonderfully and took the criticism in the media to full effect, letting everyone speculate on his destruction, even as Letitia James coordinated all this government abuse with the Biden White House.  Because they were communists, they assumed that society would “progress” beyond the Constitutional limits of the American rule of law in favor of some ridiculous United Nations model of law and judgment.  But that’s not how it is in America, and now Trump has established a new value on that law that will solidify these court battles for many years to come.  For this reason, we are all much better off. 

Rich Hoffman

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