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Brazilian Communists Attack Jair Bolsonaro and 36 Others: The common strategy of leftists throwing their political rivals in jail and using election fraud to gain and keep power

While we have been celebrating the election of Trump, there is still a lot going on in the world that has significant problems, and it indicates that this fight is very much global and far from over.  We may have taken a stand against the tide of international communism, but it’s still very much a problem, as we saw the evidence of in Brazil with the phony indictments of Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others accused by the newly put in place communist government there of inciting a coup de tat against the official government, as indicated by the Federal Police in a 884-page report—(that’s why we can never allow police states to have too much power).  Bolsonaro is known worldwide as the Brazilian version of Trump, and the playbook they are using against him is essentially the same as the lawfare that was applied to Trump in the United States.  Now Trump, because we essentially have a Constitution that limits the power of government, was able to essentially beat the charges in America one essential element, and by a very narrow margin, by limiting election fraud in 2024.  And only that because Trump’s lead was too big to rig.  However, as we saw in many House and Senate races in the weeks after the election, the slow trickle of ballot counting of illegal voters continued to keep the margin of victory in those two houses of Congress to a minimum.  The seat gains could have been and should have been, much greater.  But globalism is still a problem everywhere, especially in states that don’t have control of the voting machines and have loose election laws that allow for cheating with a lack of voter ID.  In places like Brazil, the global communist mob is essentially the ones who are counting the ballots, so they removed Bolsonaro after the last election after they tried to stab him to death in public.  And now, because the polling shows that at the next election in Brazil, Bolsonaro will win easily, they are accusing him of all the same kinds of things they did to Trump, hoping to control the elements of the next election by essentially putting their political rival in jail. 

Don’t forget that to throw Bolsonaro out of office; they brought Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva out of jail to run as the communist representative.  All this action against Bolsonaro occurred right after a visit from Xi Jinping with Lula, where they discussed the future of Brazil and the need for them to suppress the populist movement rocking the world.  Next door in Argentina, they recently elected Javier Gerardo Milei, who has become another kind of wild man Trump, and he is reforming the country quickly with their version of MAGA, and it has global markets in a tailspin.  So there is an urgency for these global communists, who are led by centralized banking and the influence of the World Economic Forum, using the United Nations as their mask, to stop the bleeding.  The world doesn’t want communism, and it’s being rejected everywhere.  And their typical strategy is now evident for all to see.  If Trump didn’t have the American due process system of rights in the Constitution and enough free speech to dramatically force election fraud underground, he would be facing right now hundreds of years in prison for the made-up January 6th insurrection of 2021.  It was made up because it was heavily inspired by internal insurgents to provoke a mob of already angry protestors who were upset to see Trump go from his first term.  Trump wisely played by the rules and didn’t try to hold on to power through force, even though it was apparent what was happening.  Because he played the game the right way, and the people jailed for January 6th were so dramatically abused, people showed up and voted overwhelmingly, making it too big for the communists to rig, and they lost the general election.  But they did steal away several Senate seats and seats in the House, giving Republicans a very slim majority. 

That same game of election fraud goes on worldwide, and it’s how many of these South American countries have gained and held power.  From what we have learned now, we should never have voting machines connected to the internet in any fashion.  If we aren’t counting paper ballots from one day of voting by a person with a photo ID, we aren’t trying to secure our elections from fraudulent activity.  And for America, a very narrow window has opened to allow us to take back our country from this silent menace of global communism, and China is the face of that movement.  But don’t get lost in all the fancy utensils; the World Economic Forum is behind most of these global insurrections as they prop up the effort through finance.  That is the glue that holds global communism together, and it’s the real fight we are all involved in, whether or not we like it.  What is happening to Bolsonaro and the innocent people of Brazil, in general, is part of the communist playbook of unrestricted warfare.  They don’t care how it gets done so long as it does.  They mean to capture the means of self-expression to advance communism in every way possible, from free speech to elections.  And they don’t care if people’s feelings are hurt.  They have been performing a global insurrection to overthrow all forms of privately held capitalism and to replace it with centralized control of the United Nations as socialists like Antonio Guterres oversee it.  All roads to this behavior lead back to the work of Karl Marx.  Everything on the political left is rooted in Marxism.

Bolsonaro is supposed to attend Trump’s inauguration, and the pressure Trump is about to apply to the world may destroy the fingers of the Deep State that operates everywhere in the background again, controlled by international finance that wants communism as a stable means of protecting their investments from the human sentiment of personal fulfillment.  But because of these indictments, he’ll unlikely be able to attend.  I think the action in Brazil will be similar to what it was in the United States; people will show up overwhelmingly in the next election to elect Bolsonaro.  They picked him the last time, but it was only in certain areas where Lula pulled ahead in the aftermath to win the election, just as was done to Trump in 2020.  But because Trump won, the globalists are desperate, and they know the populist movement is coming for them, and people have a right to it.  The rights of individuals worldwide have not yet been established as they have been in the United States.  And because of that assumption, people did fight back peacefully with an election.  And if the election didn’t work, it was poised to get bloody.  And the globalists have lost their ground in America, even if they are still a big problem.  They will continue to be for quite some time.  But at least it has been established that they don’t have a right to our national sovereignty.  Just as they don’t in Brazil.  So, electing Trump is only part of the puzzle.  There is a lot more work to do.   We can’t let Bolsonaro be put in jail so that the communist forces there can stay in power.  They have to be destroyed, just as China must be destroyed as a communist power and asset to the World Economic Forum’s shadow government of manipulators from the mountains of Davos, pulling the strings of international finance.  Brazil will have its day to inspire a MAGA movement globally, but first, we have to see things as they are and support Bolsonaro in Brazil for the crimes that are being committed against him, to keep communism in power, against the wishes of people who had an election stolen from them the first time.

Rich Hoffman

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The Best Way to Show How Useless You Are, Work From Home: Ahead of D.O.G.E, it would be great if federal employees just resigned by the hundreds of thousands

There is no better way to show how useless you are than not being at work and nobody missing you.  And ahead of Trump becoming president and his staff moving into their positions, federal employees are threatening in mass to resign.  Around 2.3 million federal workers in roughly 24 civilian agencies employ about 98% of that number.  Just over half, 1.2 million, work in jobs that require them to be fully present. The remaining 1.1 million are eligible for remote work, or what they are calling “telework.”  Of those, around 228,000 are in remote positions and are not expected to work in person.  Of the remainder of those 1.1 million, they spend only 61% of their working hours at an office, meaning they report for work only sporadically during a work week. And for anybody working in a job that does not require you to be fully present or that you are off a lot, you only prove that your employer is wasting money on you because they have learned to function without you.  COVID and the work-from-home policies that came with it were some of the dumbest ideas in the history of the world and were a prequel to the concept of just giving everyone a universal wage just for existing, as the attempt was to redefine what productivity meant to an economic culture.  And now, even three years later, many of these federal employees, and many who work with government contracts at large companies, still believe that they can work from home doing a few Teams calls with people and to call that work.  Behind that lunacy is this assumption that we can get to a zero-emission world if people just stopped coming to work and stayed in their homes. The government would pay you to do a job they created without any value on a spreadsheet.  It was always a dumb idea.

Darryl Parks and I, from WLW radio back when he was the guy who ran the whole place, used to talk about this on air all the time: federal employees were useless and made way too much money for doing too little.  Most of them belong to labor unions. Everyone remembers the protests in 2012 when Senate Bill 5 in Ohio was put forth that would strip any government worker from belonging to a labor union and impose collective bargaining on taxpayers who had to pay the bill.  All government jobs created are essentially a tax.  They have created positions that only serve the growth of government, which often works against taxpayer interests.  Public school teachers were some of the worst back then, demanding extraordinary amounts of money for essentially working only 6 or 7 hours a day and having off all summer.  The anger that came from the idea of stripping government workers of their ability to join a labor union didn’t go over well politically, and many Republicans lost their way during the outrage.  And I was in the thick of it; I received a lot of radical union harassment ranging from death threats to open conflict everywhere I went publicly.  I was the face of the effort in many ways because I was on WLW radio all the time talking about it, which directed a lot of anger in my direction.  For which I have no regrets.  It got bad at times, and a lot of people got hurt. You would have thought they’d learn their lesson.  But 8 years later, when Covid came along, all they did was justify everything I said about them.  When they had a chance to shut down schools, attempt to keep people from attending church, and use the virus to stay home from work perpetually and still get paid, they proved how useless I had been saying they were all along.  And it was a redeeming moment that many people noticed and suddenly wanted to do something about. 

Since COVID-19, people who live everyday lives and don’t work for a lazy, bloated government getting paid too much money for doing too little decided they didn’t like this arrangement.  Federal employees typically made 30% more than regular workers, and voters were unhappy about it.  They might have listened to me back in 2012 when Darryl and I spent all those Saturdays talking about how dumb it was to have all those government workers charging too much against the taxpayers for useless jobs.  But most voters weren’t ready to do anything about it.  At the time, they thought it was a good gig if someone could get it, a federal job that was overpaid and didn’t require much performance.  So I was in the minority back then, along with other Tea Party-minded people.  But time proved our arguments extremely valid, and all the violence leading up to Covid was much warranted.  I had to hurt many people for a not-very-good reason just because there was a belief that collective bargaining had a right to overrule individual opinions.  And that if everyone didn’t just shut up and put up with their radical labor union mentality, they had a right to force you to think what they wanted you to think.  Well, that didn’t work out very well, and many of them who engaged in such violence learned the hard way what a bad idea it was to take that position.  But COVID only washed away their arguments and forced the masses of society to see just how dumb and worthless these federal positions were.

I’ve been saying during every government shutdown to call the bluff of federal employees who are always willing to strike if they don’t get to extort trillions of dollars from a budget that is entirely out of control.  Nobody will miss those workers if we shut down the government.  But politicians would get weak-kneed just as they did with SB5.  However, with the work-from-home policies from COVID-19 and the federal employees still working from home all this time later, people now see the truth, and politicians are starting to smell the roses.  If you are working in a job where you don’t physically have to be at the office talking to other people, you are not working in a real job, and you can and should be removed from the payroll.  A job is not a right, it’s a privilege, and usually, the people who provide the pay for those services are getting screwed over if the employee they are paying for doesn’t respect the job enough to be in an office working hard for the contents of that position.  But when it comes to the general federal workplace, we have too many people doing too little.  And the best thing they could do ahead of the efforts of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, D.O.G.E, is to quit.  Nobody will miss those workers.  When you work in a job where nobody misses you or knew you were ever there, you know you are working in a useless position.  And I think having millions of these workers suddenly unemployed would be great.  There are other things to do in an expanding economy.  And we don’t need to be paying people to work from home.  And if many of those people all simultaneously put in their resignations, nobody will miss them. They are proving once and for all that all the money we have spent on these federal employees was a waste of time and money all along.

Rich Hoffman

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Playing Poker with the Senate: The Art of the Deal with Pam Bondi

I think what we have going on with Trump is a lot of The Art of the Deal and a good sign of how he’s going to handle things in this next term.  This is the difference between a successful business guy and a bunch of people who sought political life because they couldn’t do anything else.  Over the years, this has been a real problem. Our current Senate has a lot of new people who lean toward the MAGA view of the world, but there are still RINO holdovers, and when J.D. Vance walked the proposed Matt Gaetz around to interview all the senators ahead of confirmation, it was like playing poker and walking around the table to see what kind of hands the other players had.  I thought Matt Gaetz was an excellent pick for Attorney General.  Probably the best pick.  But immediately after touring the Senate, Matt Gaetz mysteriously withdrew his name, and Trump announced that Pam Bondi would be the new pick, almost as if that were Trump’s plans all along.  He had talked to Pam about it, and a plan was playing out.  And what Trump learned was that there were 4 or 5 senators like Mitch McConnell who were hard no’s on Matt Gaetz and would not be convinced otherwise.  So rather than fight that uphill battle with great media fanfare, Trump just changed tactics and put a woman in that place to take off the edge for the more progressive senators and Democrats on the confirmation vote. 

Pam Bondi has done the Attorney General job in Florida during the Rick Scott as governor years.  Before that, Florida politics was a lot different as Jeb Bush set the standard, so these days, with Ron DeSantis, it’s a much different place, a much more conservative state.  When Pam Bondi was Attorney General there, she was pretty good.  My opinion is that she was more talk than action.  However, she has been loyal to President Trump and stood by an America First agenda, no matter what happened.  Is she the person who will kick down doors and drag the bad guys out for a hanging? I don’t think so.  But I think she will take on Trump’s personality in his administration, and I think that was always the gig.  I think Trump and Matt Gaetz have other plans looming in the background since he so quickly announced that he was leaving Congress during the next term.  His district is conservative, so that shouldn’t hurt during a special election.  But what we have going on here is a lot of poker playing that is not normal.  And the media doesn’t know how to report it.  And the political machines are not smart enough to understand what is happening.  Trump has a lot of senator confirmations that are going to be tough, but essentially, he put forth his most controversial pick, making all the rest seem very normal by comparison, and paraded him around to see how the Beltway would bet.  And he got his answer and gave the rest of his picks the ammunition they needed to pass confirmation in the Senate.  Although I was looking to Gaetz, Pam Bondi is about as good as we can get for a position like that, but it comes down to the Art of Making a Deal, which has always been Trump’s thing.  We will see a lot of deal-making that will come out very good for all of us.  Trump and the private sector are beating down the political machines of K-Street in a way they have never experienced before.

And that’s the name of the game in most things in life, especially poker.  I think it’s a great game, especially Texas Hold Em’ because it teaches players how to make a good hand win and how to recognize a good hand from a bad one.  Or, how to play a bad hand and still win.  Poker is about strengths and weaknesses and making the most out of personal circumstances.  It’s not about luck as much as manipulating the other players.  A player at the table could have the best hand in the world, and the person holding the bad hand can still beat them by coaxing them to fold.  And I think that’s what Trump did to the entire Senate, now led by John Thune, and appeasing the Mitch McConnell holdovers.  Trump looked at their hands and saw what he needed to do.  Matt Gaetz will be involved in something that does not require Senate confirmation but that won’t be announced until all the confirmations happen.  Once the Senate angers Trump, he’ll pull out Matt Gaetz and get things moving again.  If you are a fan of The Art of the Deal books or Poker, this is shaping up to be an exciting four years, and the established order of things is not ready.  The many media members who have learned to report political news a certain way are about to have the tops ripped off their business; there will be so much every day that nobody will understand how to process it all.  But this Matt Gaetz situation is just a hint of things to come.

You don’t always get things the way you want them.  But what’s important is that you turn unfortunate circumstances into victories however you can.  Seldom does anything work out the way you envision them.  And putting Matt Gaetz up for an AG nomination was an over-the-top bold move.  But not for the reasons people thought.  Rather than place him in a very contentious position as Attorney General, he used him to discover what the other players at the table were holding as cards.  Once J.D. Vance and Matt Gaetz learned who had what at the table, Trump put down his hand to blow them all out of the water.  And that was Pam Bondi, a pick just as good as Matt Gaetz, but she appears much more reasonable because of her polished personality after years of working in established administrations under challenging conditions.  She is the kind of person even RINO members of the Senate can vote for, if not for her politics, but because she’s a strong woman, and nobody wants to be on record going against that.  So Trump played the hand he had to best effect once he knew what the other players had.  And that’s how you win in these games, whether with a more substantial hand or a bluff.  Winning is the goal, and when it comes to getting Pam Bondi confirmed by the Senate in a way that will not harm his other picks, Trump just showed why we voted for him as the best option to Make America Great Again and why he was so successful throughout his life.  This is how business is done, and the world of useless politicians won’t be able to compete with him.  This is only the start of a lot of deals that will be made, and as Trump has shown over and over again in the past, making deals is his favorite thing to do in the world.  And he’s good at it.  And this nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General is just the beginning of many great things to come. 

Rich Hoffman

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Matt Gaetz is an Excellent Pick for Attorney General: People can have their faces melt all they want, but justice is coming–it has to

First of all, I think Matt Gaetz is an excellent pick for Attorney General.  He has proven to be one of the few in elected office who is fearless and ready to do the right thing for the sake of it in Washington, D.C.  To many, that makes him a joke, because he is an uncompromising figure.  This sex scandal talk is just an attempt to paint him with some controversy in having a relationship with an underaged girl; we are dealing with a Biden administration where gay people had sex and filmed it in government buildings.  Outrage is a false alarm with that Beltway culture.  First of all, I don’t believe the accusation; it is similar to the kind of high school politics that Trump has been a victim of, where witnesses lie entirely about the content in an attempt to drive a national narrative.  People have seen enough now to know how to distinguish that kind of thing.  People lost faith in politicians upholding some moral standards a long time ago; what they want now is people who will at least do the job they were elected for, and Matt Gaetz has certainly shown that he is.  Because of Gaetz, Speaker McCarthy was removed, and Speaker Johnson is there now.  But how would Matt Gaetz be any less severe than the radical Eric Holder and the more recent lunatic Merrick Garland?  The humor is that there are some standards to apply that would make Matt Gaetz appear like a fringe candidate for the highest office of the Department of Justice.  To my eyes, Matt Gaetz is one of the few who have committed to the rule of law, which is why many of those Beltway types have been trying to get rid of him from the start.  No, I think Matt Gaetz is a great pick and shows a deep commitment to fixing the Department of Justice from its present state, a weaponized organization that is one of America’s greatest present domestic enemies.  People have arrived at that conclusion based on what they have seen. 

I think picking Matt Gaetz is a negotiating move.  That doesn’t mean that Trump doesn’t want him, but he might want to use Gaetz to draw fire while some of his other picks benefit from less scrutiny.   As Attorney General, Matt Gaetz is the most controversial of all Trump’s picks for his cabinet.  So I could see trading Gaetz out later for a more conventional or less controversial pick, such as Mike Davis of The Article III Project. The message here is that a member of the WarRoom podcast will be the Attorney General because many wrongs must be corrected.  The Department of Justice has been very disreputable, and it’s time for all that to change.  Don’t forget what the Department of Justice under Biden did to their political enemies.  Much of that wrath was thrown in the direction of Trump’s most trusted supporters, his former White House members, who formed the WarRoom during his last year in office to help with his re-election.  Several of them were thrown in jail by Merrick Garland, and Trump himself was harassed ruthlessly.  Incredibly, he survived, given the amount of power and unchecked menace that the Merrick Garland Department of Justice utilized even up to this last election.  And what’s worse, so many Republicans sat by and allowed it all to happen, hoping that Trump and his team would be gone for good.  We still have the utterly unconstitutional holding of the January 6th prisoners from 2021 to deal with.  There is quite a mess to clean up; it will take a personality like Gaetz.  And perhaps, the way Trump thinks, people will be so outraged by Gaetz that they’d be happy to get Mike Allen, who may not be as controversial on paper because fewer people know him, but he’s every bit as committed to the rule of law and the protection of that standard under the Constitution.

But there is no going back to normal for the Beltway culture, where they commit significant crimes and then sweep them under the rug to be protected by favors and nonsense. An Attorney General who keeps the investigations out of Washington D.C. and then will act to destroy any challengers to their easy money shake and bake system of international extortion and sinful enterprise.  It’s not a matter of revenge for Trump, but what did anybody expect?  Trump was let down by Jeff Sessions during his first term and then later by Bill Barr toward the end.  Trump has had a lot of time to think things over, eight years, and he will make this Attorney General position count.  It’s one of his most essential picks, and he won’t waste it on a typical Beltway politician.  So even if it turned out not to be Matt Gaetz, there are plenty of names just as good that Trump will put in that job.  The expectation is going to be complete reform because Trump and the people loyal most to him have suffered terribly under previous corrupt AGs.  People voted for this kind of change; they want control of the Department of Justice, not what they have seen from that position over the last several decades of vast disappointment. 

Yes, Matt Gaetz is a firebrand who runs a podcast by that same name.  His political brand is all fire and brimstone, the way that the WarRoom audience expects it.  And knowing the situation the way I do, Matt Gaetz would never trade away his ability to use that firebrand to do good in exchange for some sexual temptation.  Many other people in Washington, D.C., would, but that isn’t the kind of person that Matt Gaetz is. Instead, people hate him because they know what they have done themselves and are guilty of.  And they know they won’t survive if Matt Gaetz is the Attorney General.  Few people will, and that’s the way things need to be.  Actually, for those who have been counting, there are a lot of Democrats in Trump’s picks, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy, the kind of people that many people would squawk at previously as “liberals.”  And that would include Trump himself.  But Matt Gaetz is the red meat that makes putting up with all those liberals worth it and is part of the deal Trump has with his voters.  Trump might have softened up the Republican party with a bunch of converted Democrats to make the tent bigger and much more challenging to beat, winning the black and Latino voters.  But he is doing all that to get to this election cycle’s real meat and potatoes: controlling the Department of Justice and making the rule of law Great Again.  On that front, we have a target rich environment where corruption has been ruling the day.  And Trump has been a victim of it for more than eight years now.  And now it’s his time to fix it for good, and he won’t waste that pick again knowing what he does now.  And people can have their faces melt all they want.  But, they brought all this on themselves.  Having Matt Gaetz or another WarRoom personnel heading the Department of Justice is the point of winning the presidency, and people gave Trump a mandate that he will not throw away to preserve a system that is obviously out of control.  And there is no way to reform them now, only to get rid of them and prosecute them ruthlessly, as they have shown themselves to be if left unchecked. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why its Great that Elon Musk will be the World’s First Trillionaire: When the rich get richer, everything tends to get better

It had to happen

I personally love wealthy people; most of the people I know well are very rich, and any hatred of them comes from lazy people who have accepted too much Marxism in their lives.  There is freedom that comes from wealth that gives them something very valuable, and I have found that some of the best people in politics are wealthy people who do those jobs without needing to because they don’t use politics to give their names meaning.  They participate in politics because they want to help in some way or another.  However, not all wealthy people are out for the same things.  And given how many billionaires were being led behind George Soros to support progressive, globalist policies, they are a factor in politics that can quickly erode the self-management of a country that doesn’t have significant wealth to express their points of view through a vote.  The Trump people, not just his family, but also people like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who have just been named to lead a branch of government called the Department of Government Efficiency, have a freedom most people don’t have because of their wealth that allows them to be objective on the role government plays in social life, and I trust them a lot more than I do people desperate to live their lives off government work.  I have met Vivek Ramaswamy many times, and one of those times, for the first time, came through an introduction with the Great Nancy Nix, the auditor of Butler County, Ohio, and I was able to hear from him very early in this political process what his motives were.  At that time, he had earned roughly a billion dollars privately as a CEO of several biotech companies, and he wanted to do something to help when he saw trouble forming, so he volunteered to get involved after participating in an event that involved me.   I believe him because of our private conversation even before his book Woke, Inc. was published.  I have watched Elon Musk undergo a process similar to Vivek Ramaswamy over the last few years.

Many government workers are still working from home, a continued Covid policy. If you work from home, your job isn’t needed.

One common thing about people who have a lot of money is that they are rich for a reason, so they tend to make money off changes in social conditions by the nature of investments.  Elon Musk was projected to be the first trillionaire before the election of 2024 when he suddenly became Trump’s best friend.  That is because of the value he created in his companies, not because he is making more money because of the government.  It was widely reported that Elon Musk made 30 billion dollars of net worth one day after the 2024 election, and many are pointing to his role in politics in the closing months of the Trump campaign as the reason.  But that’s not the case.  President Trump went through a similar investment recovery period when he was severely financially strained with prosecutions through many lawfare campaigns against him, and things were looking pretty bleak, even for a billionaire as he has been.  But then his social media platform Truth Social went public and Trump actually gained back much of the wealth that had been stolen from him during this harassment process, gaining a few billion dollars in value.  And that’s why it’s good to have wealthy people on your side in these constitutional debates: they can afford to fight those battles where others just can’t.  And many self-made people are independently rich in this incoming Trump administration, which gives them the freedom to do the hard things because they aren’t making their livings off the government.  They are free of that burden generally.

The method of attack by global Marxists has been to capture the means of production so that people can be controlled by their incomes.  And that has been going on to a large degree and shown itself to be most ugly during the darkest days of the Biden administration.  People were able to see just how dangerous a government run by such people indeed could be, and there were many billionaires committed to Marxism, like George Soros, who have used their wealth as a weapon of social policy.  The same could be said of Larry Fink of BlackRock and his relationship with the Federal Reserve, which has been very unhealthy and destructive.  Fighting these people requires other people with similar or more wealth to even the playing field and preserve a republic form of government that regular people can maintain.  And that is clearly what Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, seeks to do with an alliance with President Trump.  That is a relationship that few saw coming even a year ago.  I was at a lunch in February of 2024 with many progressive people were raving about the new Elon Musk biography they told me I should read and would love it.  They were making a case for why people left of center should be running the world and that Elon Musk would pave the way for that new view of the world.  I read the book and saw a much different person than they did in Elon Musk.  I saw someone trying to solve a complicated problem that few were wrapping their minds around; his problem was, what should a government on Mars look like?  What kind of government on Earth could send people to colonize the solar system?  Early in his public life he did vote left of center, for people like Biden and Obama.  But he had been going through a similar change as Trump and even Vivek Ramaswamy.  And I wasn’t surprised at all that as the election came, he was with Trump on Election Night and had realized that if Trump didn’t win, the human race would regress into Marxism for the foreseeable future, and humanity would never get to Mars. 

So it’s good to have rich people on your side in these political battles.  It takes more than money to win these things, of course.  And I wouldn’t trade my life for any of theirs any day of the week.  Wealth comes in many more forms than just money.  But money is a tool, and it’s good to have people on your side with the right tools to battle.  The fight is to free humanity to the most significant degree from those who want to impress upon ordinary people an aristocracy of value for the sake of a class structure that features the egos of very insecure people.  Logically, people like Elon Musk, and I know from Vivek Ramaswamy, that freedom from normal social conditions through wealth provides a perspective encompassing larger ideals.  I am sure Musk could care less about his money; he isn’t driving around in fancy cars and a loose playboy life.  He wears his Occupy Mars t-shirt and sleeps in a shack, more or less at Boca Chica, Texas, because his goal is much bigger than just making money.  I believe him when he says he will use his personal fortune of over a trillion dollars to get mankind into space, every last dollar of it.  He is totally committed to that endeavor. Yet, as this Trump administration fixes many things that are wrong in the world, they will make a lot more money because they already have investments that will increase as the economy improves.  But that is not what they are after, and I can say that with some personal experience with those types of people.  They would be the first to say that they want to see more people have better lives, and if a good economy can do it, then it would be fantastic.  But whatever it takes to improve the world, Elon Musk, I am convinced he wants to do it for mass society, because once that occurs, humanity will be prepared for the colonization of space.  And through the Trump administration, that is the best path to the kind of government that could sustain a Mars colony, with capitalism fueling the endeavor. 

I didn’t know at the time that this would be a big part of history. I like Vivek!

Rich Hoffman

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Spiking the Football After the 2024 Trump Election: I never doubted what would happen, even if a lot of stupid people couldn’t see the forest for the trees

I don’t usually do it.  I don’t normally let myself feel the emotion to go out and spike the football on something.  I prefer to be calm, cool, and optimistic, even if the world is on fire.  I have learned over time how to build teams of people at all levels using my unique optimism and tendency toward tenacity to help people who are either too stupid, stubborn, or inexperienced to help themselves.  In the kind of government that we have, I have learned a lot from people like social manipulators and writers Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, and Thomas Paine.  Most people feel the same about similar topics but don’t always know how to achieve their objectives.  So I often take it upon myself to help them even if they can’t help themselves because if they take the help, they might just be able to do something to help the world around them instead of being a perpetual parasite.  So if you tell people what you think of them, and how frustrated they make you, you will destroy their communication with you and resist the opportunity to listen to good advice and to use it to make the world around them better, which is one of the key ingredients to a triumphant republic, as opposed to some flee-bitten, rotten democracy run by a bunch of slack-jawed losers.  I guess I help people subtly because I generally like them and want them to have good lives.  But they frustrate me most of the time, as a person, and working with them takes so much energy that I’d rather spend doing other kinds of things that are much more rewarding.  And that was never the case more than what we have experienced over the last four years since President Trump was removed from office.  I have worked hard to pour patriotic effort into the roots of a growing liberty tree, along with many others.  And after Trump won the 2024 election, and many of the things I have been saying all along came to be just as I said they would, I feel I have earned the right to spike the football and blow off some long pent-up steam. 

I never doubted the election that we would see in 2024.  I have produced thousands of videos talking about Trump, these election cycles, the legalisms discussed in the news cycles and written many millions of millions of words that have been read and watched by many millions of people.  And I get very little out of it, only that I want our republic to stand, and for that to happen, people need to be educated.  They don’t teach proper civics in schools these days and certainly don’t teach proper philosophy.  So, I put a lot of effort into giving people the tools they lack in life without letting them know that the effort isn’t of their own making because that’s how people tend to learn best.  But it’s always a painful experience because there is nothing people do that I can’t read and understand.  People and their lives are messy, and interacting with them is not a pleasant experience for me.  I don’t enjoy it.  People like Trump do enjoy it.  He loves people, which made him the perfect person to run for the presidency three times.  And he has a lot of similar qualities of tenaciousness that I understand, as do people like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, who commit their lives to these republic-building concepts to help the human race advance. 

But it was never lost on me what happened in 2020, and it was one of the worst things that ever happened to me.  Not that it didn’t happen to other people, too, but we all have life skills, and my particular skill is understanding things with great clarity.  And believe me, it’s a painful skill because it gives you no illusions.  To see things precisely as they are, friendships, business relationships, love lives, and even relationships with pets, is very painful.  But it can be used to a significant effect if you take it.  So I explained Trump’s return to the White House on day one of leaving it the first time, and I poured a significant part of my life into helping to make it happen by carefully watering the Liberty Tree of many influencers over a long period.  And along the way, I had to endure a lot of really dumb people who told me that Trump was never going to be back in the White House.  And that the Secret Service is saying that “they” will never let Trump back into the White House as if the bad guys in the world controlled us.  These were the positions of stupid people, but I had to work with them to build a team that would stick together to do what needed to be done.  And I had to do it so they wouldn’t realize it was happening because that is one of the keys to getting human engagement on any project.  People have to believe that they are making the decisions; otherwise, they won’t endeavor to do it in the future on their own.  A teacher teaches a hungry man to fish so you don’t create a perpetual welfare recipient dependent on you for everything.  They need to be taught to do things on their own.  And if you want a republic form of government to function, people need to want it and to maintain it from their own self-interest.

Yet Trump won this election just as I said he would.  I listened to many people who get paid a lot of money to know these kinds of things, yet just about everyone got it completely wrong and couldn’t see the forest for the trees, which was very frustrating.  So, I am happy to have lived through that dark period and what I did every day to help make it better.  It was at a significant cost to me personally, and nobody would appreciate it because most don’t have the mind to understand what happened.  However, for the strength of the republic and the future of America, we have punched through a firewall that has always held back the human race.   And it took a lot more than Trump to do it.  But what matters is that the thing was done, and it feels good to see it come about.  Even if I had seen it way before anybody else, I would have had to listen to their nonsense about what would happen and what anybody should be doing about it.  I heard every kind of negative comment about Trump that you can imagine.  And what I got back from all those people were diatribes about how I’m overly optimistic and that my flowery view of the world couldn’t see reality.  Nobody, not even the well-paid pundits, saw things clearly and could even consider that President Trump would be President Trump again.  They thought conventionally that he would be suppressed by some invisible system that ruled the universe instead of understanding that the nature of a republic is to initiate self-starters and empower them into the world.  And often, just like teaching children, the process was thankless and usually not rewarding.  But when you are trying to grow a republic, that incentive to create something new makes us do it.  When we get a big score like we did with this Trump election, spiking the football and celebrating a bit is perfectly justified.  And taking a break from all the stupid people of the world for a bit is certainly well-earned. 

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Price of Power’: Mitch McConnell was always a loser and thankfully he is leaving the Senate, finally

Mitch McConnell has announced that he will leave the Senate in November 2024.  He has worked against President Trump all this time and, as revealed in his new book The Price of Power, what he thought of the MAGA movement in general.  As I read all this news, I saw a campaign ad for a local issue that Republican Sherrif Jones is involved in with Democrat Kathy Wyenandt over Issue 12 because they think it looks cute to show bipartisan support for an issue for the greater good, and this is the kind of politics ultimately that Mitch McConnell was involved in during his long term in the Senate.  There is a fine line between cooperative partnerships with people who are not politically like you and being a grotesque sell-out.  When McConnell said in his new book that MAGA was entirely wrong for the Republican party, he has a different view of what that party is, and he is leaving before he has to deal with Trump as president once again.  Mitch McConnell, like many politicians who get into that business for a long time, is not driven by ideological purity but rather as part of their business.  And when money gets involved, intellectual parameters fly out the window.  In the case of McConnell, a large part of his income has been wrapped around the family shipping business with China, so globalism is a very attractive business climate.  He might speak Kentucky and talk to voters on meat and potato issues.  But politics is their career, so they don’t have levity for big and personal ideas.  So they become just another corrupt politician nobody trusts and turn the office they hold into part of the problem.   Not a solution. 

Many people have wanted a change from this system where they truly get a representative government.  I am certainly one of those people and have a long history of voting for people who are more ideological than practical.  And often, it takes money to have independence, such as Ross Perot always was, and President Trump is now.  When you don’t have to make a living off politics, you can afford to be more of a representative than someone who has to cultivate a culture toward voters that benefits your income.  Again, locally, there are hoards of scandalous characters who work in the legal profession and are only into politics to get legal work done for politicians who need such alliances.  So it’s understandable that a long-term senator like Mitch McConnell would be jealous of someone like President Trump who is in politics for completely different reasons.  Trump wants to make things better, whereas McConnell wants to align politics with his need to be in business, the Chinese shipping business that his father-in-law is involved in.  When you look around at the kind of senators and even house members who make a large part of their income from government, it’s no wonder we have such a mess.  The amount of insider trading that enriches these people is bewildering.  But that has changed because people are sick of it, and Mitch McConnell has long worn out his welcome.  For the last decade, more and more politicians have been getting into the business for the right reasons rather than just being another leech of government enterprise.  The Senate will be unrecognizable to Mitch McConnell after this next election.  With new senators like Kerri Lake and Bernie Moreno, the old guard is finding an unwelcome home there, and it’s just a matter of time before they are all pushed out. 

Of course, in his new book, McConnell called Trump a sleazeball and said he was stupid and that he’s a narcissist.  People who don’t like other people always say things like that.  Enemies called me all those things before most people had breakfast today.  But why do people hate others, and how much is it our task to be liked?  From the local issue I discussed between Sherrif Jones and Kathy Wyenandt, I can say they measure political capital based on how many people like them.  And people often only like other people if there is something that one can do for the other, such as making them rich.  And so it is all too tempting to use the power of government to make people like you so that you can use that same power to make other people rich.  So this game of who likes who and for what reasons becomes the gateway to corruption.  But Mitch has often thought of himself as a master of that game and that he defined the rules of how the game was played.  Then, along comes Trump, who has a whole different perspective.  He doesn’t care if people like him, and he’s already wealthy, so he doesn’t need government power to make him that way.  So, what can you do to control such a person?  Control is why people like Mitch McConnell are in politics; if you can control the world’s economic conditions through the power of government, then you can make people like you and want to do what you say for your approval because there is ultimately money in it for them.

Mitch McConnell can never be forgiven for endorsing election fraud in 2020 when he had the power to stop it.  But he didn’t because he wanted Trump to fail, so they all conspired to make Trump look bad because they wanted him out of office.  It happens all the time.  Again, speaking personally, it happens to me way too often, usually before anybody has breakfast in the morning.  You can never let other people define who or what you are.  People’s opinions are a cutthroat endeavor, and when they are involved, people like Mitch McConnell will seek to take advantage of things for their benefit.  But they do hate people like Trump, who are independent and able to function from ideology.  And that lack of control over people like Trump is what people like Mitch McConnell hate most.  So when McConnell says that the MAGA movement is wrong for the Republican party, what he means, its bad in the way that people like him measures value.  Not as a representative of the people but a mechanism for gaining wealth from the marketplace with government power.  When a crime was committed with massive election fraud in 2020, Mitch was happy to turn his head away and allow it to continue.  Because he personally hated Trump.  He did not love the Republic for which our government stands.  He worked against it, to subvert it from threats that people like President Trump represent by their very nature.  And now, with MAGA, there have been people like J.D. Vance and Bernie Moreno, along with others who are changing what success means in the Senate.  People like Sherrod Brown are being removed from office, and new MAGA patriots are moving in.  So Mitch McConnell wrote a tell-all book that was timed to be one last hit as a Never Trumper against Trump before he left office and is disappearing without a whimper.  Nobody cares because nobody ever really liked Mitch McConnell.  They only wanted what he could do for them, using the power of government to sell to those throwing money around.  He also made a disgrace of the Senate, which voters have been changing over the last several decades.  And now that Trump is back, Mitch is leaving because the game is up.  And the only path of survival for him is to jump off the boat before it sinks forever. 

Rich Hoffman

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Steve Bannon is Out of Jail: What happens next is the fault of those who put him there, they can only blame themselves

I’m just going to say it bluntly, I will never forgive the people who put Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in jail during the year of 2024.  The congress that threw them in jail with a corrupt Biden DOJ were obviously crooked, but what was done, purely for political reasons was the loss of freedom for people of a respectable Trump White House.  When Bannon and Navarro were thrown in jail after spending many tens of thousands of dollars defending themselves from a prosecution that was completely politically motivated, only to end up in the disgraceful loss of personal freedom that they had to endure for more than four months in jail.  Nobody had ever gone that far before and had always respected Executive immunity when it comes to administration business.  What Eric Holder and Lois Lerner had done previously, even Barack Obama, was far worse than what Steve Bannon did, or Peter Navarro.  But the Democrats went there, and so did many Republicans who showed to the world that they might not agree with it, but did little to nothing to stop it.  These members of Trump’s Executive White House team were good people and they were thrown in jail like dogs to have to lose personal privacy completely.  Going to jail is no small matter, going to the bathroom in front of people all the time without a door to close would be terrible, and to have to do it day after day after day.  There was no reason for it and the people who did it to them can never be forgiven.  And I personally never will.  I personally like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, and I think the only way to make things right in the world is to prosecute their prosecutors because they started it and abused the government for their own political purposes, and they have to be paid back.

I know the Trump campaign doesn’t need nor want to get pulled into a lot of controversy, they have an election to win.  But logic says that Trump is going to be back in the White House and when he is, a lot of bad people have to be punished for what they did.  If people didn’t want a revenge tour, they never should have started it.  As I keep saying to everyone who is asking me, if they want someone to blame for what is going to happen to them, they only need to look in the mirror.  Steve Bannan as of today is now out of jail, October 29th 2024, and I’m very glad to see it.  Nobody has suffered really more than the people at the Warroom, people like Grace Chong, Mareen Bannon, and Natalie Winters who have done what they good to keep the popular podcast going while Steve, the primary host, was doing time in jail.  They have put on a brave front, but it hurt them what happened to their friends, just because they happened to run the most popular political podcast in the United States.  Looking back over the last four years, what happened to people like Sidney Powell, General Flynn, Roger Stone and Rudy Giuliani has been disgraceful, and it was all done for purely political reasons, to use the power of government to destroy people who didn’t agree with the party in power.  Never forget the mug shots of the people in Georgia for which Trump was one, who were being prosecuted for questioning the results of the election there.  And nothing more.  Remember Jenna Ellis crying like a baby in front of a judge and turning on Trump to appease those powers that were in office when we talk about revenge in the coming months and years.   It’s not just that they started it and now we have to finish it, but if we want to have a great country we must have justice and people must be punished for the bad things they did.  They don’t get to point at Trump and declare that he’s going to put his critics in jail and prosecute his political enemies when it was they who started it.  They have to be punched in the face, at the very least.

I had quite a few friends who attended the RNC Convention this year in Wisconsin and they wanted to know who I wanted them to get pictures with, and my only real response was that I thought Peter Navarro getting out of jail and going straight to speak at the RNC was one of the most important themes of this election cycle.  There are a lot of things that need to be fixed, but this weaponization of government is the key to so many horrible things that we must rectify.  When we talk about the basic Bill of Rights, they were written because humans have a tendency to do these kinds of things to each other when they gain power, and at the core of all arguments about leadership and the role government plays in society is mitigating the failure of human beings who fall off the rocker.  We cannot have a big government with too much power that can use that power against us for their own profit.  And that is what happened at the very least to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.  They were being forced to acknowledge a criminal government or be thrown in jail.  And to show that power over them and the general Warroom audience, they lost their freedom and were insulted with a lack of privacy.  It’s as bad as it gets aside from actually killing people.  And because the bad guys had to respect the law to some extent, they only managed to put Bannan and Navarro in jail for four months.  In other countries, they could have easily been killed.  This is exactly why we have a Second Amendment and free speech at the heart of all our law and order.  Because without those checks on government power, the government would be killing off their political rivals without fear of ever having the tables turn on them. 

It is too much to expect government to be honest.  And when people popularly elect an administration as they did with Trump and his team in the White House as Bannan and Navarro were and will be again, a government that attacks that pick of the people broke and  the law in the most fundamental way, they sought to override a government by the people for the people, and to change it into something else.  Something ominous and oppressive.  And I don’t want to hear the crying for all the paybacks that have to occur.  All those bad guys out there should thank God that so many people have been willing to turn to an election for their redemption and not grab guns and take to violence against their political enemies.  Of course, that threat is always looming in the background and it’s the only thing that keeps bad people honest.  People cannot be trusted to act on their own to do what’s right.  They must have the fear of personal destruction to keep them in check.  And in the case of what was done to the Trump team over the last four years, since the bad guys did go too far, is the tables have to be turned, otherwise there is no hope at justice for the years to come.  We cannot have a good country unless those who truly did wrong are punished.  And now that Steve Bannon is out, and the election is happening, what happens next must happen.  The bad guys are bad people for a reason.  And they cannot molest our society without consequences, and the fault for that is entirely on their shoulders.  They did it to themselves. 

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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