Category: Organized Labor

What Was The Point of the P Diddy Trial: Hiding a pornographic society in plain sight

The purpose of the P Diddy trial was not to pursue justice; it was to frustrate future prosecutors into case law that would make it so more sex trafficking cases cannot be brought to trial.  The graphic testimony shown all over the world in such bizarre ways was meant to normalize the conduct, not to put Sean Diddy Combs in jail as one of the most popular music moguls in Hollywood.  His lifestyle, as overly sexualized as it was, was complete with excessively pornographic freak-off parties of multiple sex partner actions that were as bad as it could get.  As this trial came to an end with P Diddy being found guilty on the utilization of prostitution charges, and not the more serious charges of sex trafficking under RICO statutes, a lot of people are upset that the Trump administration has not released and thrown in jail the participants of Epstein Island and the client list that we were all told there was, only for Kash Patel to come out and say that there was nothing there.  People are getting tired of not getting justice for these bizarre sex practices that have behind them elements of mass collectivism that leads to political activity centering on socialism and communism, the desecration of individuals and the sacrifice of the human temple to the malevolent joy of a spirit world that wants to deface the human race for its strategic ambitions.  The problem is, these sex freak-offs are not unusual to P Diddy, but most people want to participate in them in some way.  It’s just that Diddy had the means to do it, financially.  And ultimately, the way that Jim Comey’s daughter prosecuted the case kept many of the other people who attended Diddy’s parties a secret.  As the trial unfolded, we were warmed to the idea that Diddy is just one of many, and his lifestyle is just the tip of the iceberg. 

There is no way that the prosecution didn’t know that Cassie Ventura wasn’t a willing participant in the P Diddy freak-offs as his long-time girlfriend.  As a pregnant woman, she might have regretted some of what she did while in her relationship with Diddy, but as the testimony came forward, we are dealing with people with severe sex addictions and pornographic obsessions that are the type of people you see on the red carpet at celebrity events.  There was a voyeurism to the trial that Emily Johnson, Maurene Comey and Christy Slavik, the U.S. Attorneys from the Southern District of New York wanted the public to see not for the reasons of prosecution, but to signal that it is pointless to prosecute cases like this because all the participants were willing, and in this highly pornographic world, the standard of ethical behavior has entirely fallen over the edge.  And we are left with a world that cannot make any moral judgements on the behavior, because they either want to be doing the same thing in their private lives, or they are doing it. I know quite a few prosecutors so I have a pretty good understanding of how they form a case, and from that point of view, these federal prosecutors were not trying to throw Diddy in jail for his destructive pornographic lifestyle, but were trying to show what a waste of money it all was and how pointless.  It’s not that the utilization of sex workers to satisfy pornographic fantasies isn’t against the law, but what does it cost to throw those people in jail, and does any prosecutor out there want a loss on their record?  Because prosecutors prefer not to take cases to court where they might lose.  They want to build their careers with wins, not losses.  And many might say that people like P Diddy should be in jail for what he did and be punished with the death penalty.  In truth, most of the people judging the circumstances want to do the same things in their lives, so prosecutors aren’t going to sign up for a loss that nobody cares about. 

All through the trial, I kept thinking of the Lakota school superintendent a few years ago who got caught trafficking his wife on Craigslist while they were out of town attending music concerts.  I got to know her and her new husband, and she expressed a lot of regret for allowing herself to be in that kind of life.  In the context of a healthy relationship, only then do they see it in the rearview mirror, as with Cassy, who, as a young woman in Hollywood, tried to please her man by doing anything to get the work and attention she craved.  But then you end up with a husband, or serious boyfriend who has a serious porn addiction and wants to live out those events in real life and things fly off the rails quickly, because he had an important job in a large school district that is supposed to be teaching kids how to live good lives.  People were appalled to discover the kind of private life he led as a public figure.  The problem with that case was that too many people were doing the same thing, or they were thinking about doing the same thing, so they lost their moral judgment, and that has always been the intention to make pornography so readily available on the government-provided internet.  There is a whole mass of ritualistic components to it that could fill volumes of books.  However, for this topic, we must study its impact on the human race and how it emerges in mass society, as seen in the Sean Diddy Combs trial.

In the wake of the Diddy trial, for which he was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but acquitted on three more serious charges of racketeering and conspiracy, trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.  There is a greater evil at work here, including the DEI hires as prosecutors, knowing that the Racketeer Influenced and corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) would fall apart once it was realized that many of the participants did so on their own, they volunteered, and that the case would fall apart as it was presented.  If the prosecutors didn’t know that would happen, then the Federal government purposely put female prosecutors in place to fail, allowing for the continued social standards. The entire trial seemed to be hiding something much worse. People have been saying, ‘What about Jay-Z and Tom Hanks’ as there are lots of rumors that surround people doing far worse than what P. Diddy was doing?  And that the federal prosecutors raided him to make an example out of his life, to draw cover fire from much worse cases.  Sometimes, the way to hide something is to put it on full display, so people overload on the information and, in the end, shrug their shoulders and talk about what a waste of money it all was.  Because most of the people watching the trial are thinking about doing the same things that Diddy did, to live out their porn fantasies allowing for the spread and continuation of those lifestyles, instead of the eradication of them.  And ultimately, that appears to be the purpose of the entire case: to deter future prosecutors from making such judgments, so that the spread of evil can continue to erode the human race in ways more destructive than many other crimes.  And to confront that, people have to face themselves in ways they aren’t quite ready. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Brilliance of Pete Hegseth: Why the Big Beautiful Bill is so strategically important to bomb resistance to 4-5% GDP growth

While we are going through a process of transition, as we consider the signing of the Big Beautiful Bill and the amount of debt being added to it to fuel extraordinary growth, which on the surface appears irresponsible, but rather, and this is the case with the criticism of Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve, everyone has to understand the attack on American culture that has taken place to grapple with the need to spend trillions of future dollars to jump-start an economy that has so many parasites in it.  We have to look at what the BBB is poised to do as Trump campaign promises, such as NO TAX ON TIPS, or NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and making the Trump tax cuts permanent, to get the big picture implications.  The philosophy of big spending is similar to how we would approach a military engagement.  Bombs, missiles, and troops cost a lot of money, and whenever you fight a war, on any level, it is usually an inspiration for debt, because very little that is profitable comes out of war.  For instance, the recent bombing of Iran, which most people generally support and attribute to Trump being very successful, and people are very proud of its success, cost around $500 million.  The B2 operations cost alone is $38.85 million, the GBU-57 bombs are $280 million, the Tomahawk missiles are $48 million, and all the supporting assets are $15 million.  That’s a lot of money to spend on one bombing campaign, and a prolonged war can quickly exceed all possible revenue sources and throw everyone into massive debts.  That’s why I said there would be no war with Iran, because Iran simply can’t spend money at that scale to fight a war.  War costs money, and if a country doesn’t have access to cash, it can’t fight a war.  Looked at another way, what’s the value of a gun if you can’t afford the bullets? 

I do, and I get it! Let’s get GDP growth over 3%, 4-5% at least!

And that makes Trump’s appointment of Pete Hegseth from Fox News into the Defense Secretary position that much more appropriate because in the past when we have spent this kind of money on military operations, we always had some stiff who would stand in front of a hostile socialist media and try to explain why what we did was a good thing.  However, Trump understands these situations very well; his knowledge comes from many sleepless nights of worrying about how to make deals and knowing how to get the most bang for his buck, so to speak.  In order to force peace in the Middle East, the threat of nuclear war had to be taken off the table.  Iran had to lose that leverage point in the conversation.  So Israel opened the door to a military attack, targeted at limited casualties and mostly cosmetic, to take that piece of hostility off the world stage.  So Trump sent in the B-2s at the extraordinary cost mentioned, around $500 million.  Anticipating the tremendous success and knowing that Iran can’t outspend anybody in a prolonged war, because they don’t have many missiles left to shoot and nobody in the world can give them new ones at the rate they would require, they had no choice but to play nice and sit at the table and talk about peace with Israel.  But even all that wasn’t enough; Trump had to have someone like Pete Hegseth, who understands how the media works and can talk on their terms, to explain it all to the world appropriately.  Otherwise, all that money spent on success wouldn’t mean anything in the end. 

Pete Hegseth, when he gave his press conference briefing to explain the effectiveness of the B2 raid, which essentially took Iran off the map of world terrorism sponsorship, was brilliant.  If that were all he did from now on, that would have been enough.  Pete Hegseth was fabulous, and I think it will go down in history as one of the most fantastic explanations of military endeavor in the world.  It’s not just the cost involved, but the human ingenuity that usually goes unsaid, for which Pete Hegseth was able to communicate.  To have the ability to take off on a secret mission from Missouri, at the fantastic Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noter, just 70 miles south of Kansas City and to fly non stop to Iran on the other side of the world and drop bombs to such a precision that these guys did, then be headed home before anybody in Iran even knew to look up in the sky, was a remarkable feat.  Astonishing actually.  And the group landed back at Whiteman without a scratch, for which Pete Hegseth was able to provide a correct explanation.  If you’ve ever been to that part of the world, you know just how far away from anything that it is.  To have that kind of reach demonstrates to the world not just the monetary ability to conduct such a raid, which costs roughly $500 million every time, but also to have that kind of reach under stealth capabilities is a terrifying prospect for the rest of the world.  Nobody in the world could have pulled that operation off, and when Trump did it, he took the gas out of the winds of fire from the minds of the world and their hostilities.  So, yes, the money spent was worth it, even if it generated short-term debt, because the prosperity of peace will create many more opportunities for revenue. 

And that same mentality is what is in this Big Beautiful Bill.  I understand it; I love Warren Davidson, he’s my congressman, and I get not trusting anyone from the future to cut spending that’s done today.  It doesn’t make sense under any rules of responsible spending practices.  However, we are discussing military engagement against the hostile economic forces in the world that have been impacting our economy, and the scale of the cost structure is a result of their imposition.  And Trump is looking to dismantle those constraints with growth, in the same way that he is attacking the Federal Reserve for foolishly sitting on interest rate hikes under the guise of prudence and patience, when boldness and spontaneity are needed for the massive growth Trump intends.  The purpose of the Big Beautiful Bill is military; it is meant to cut revenue and reduce spending by exposing all those with their hands in the cookie jar, and to promote manufacturing growth among the people who do the work. The opportunity cost generated will be substantial.  The deficit generated, much like a B2 attack, will be measured in dollars up front.  But the intangibles that have a much higher value will be exploited for great opportunities that wouldn’t be achieved any other way.  The optimism created by the Big Beautiful Bill will far outpace the actual cost in dollars, which is controlled by so many hostile agents in the finance industry, and it will change the scale for how we measure debt.  So, the achievements of the passage and the first year of the Trump presidency in this second term will far outweigh the cost once the threats to our economic security are eliminated through capitalist rules of engagement.  When the other economies of the world collapse, due to their reliance on socialism, communism, and Marxism, the scale shifts for all considerations.  And revenue sources that cannot be considered at this point will become available to backfill any debt produced in the short term.  And, just as putting Pete Hegseth in position well before he was needed, the same kind of experience has gone into the mechanics behind this Big Beautiful Bill.  It’s not about money; it’s a military attack against the Lords of Easy Money and their control of the process of debt spending that is much more of a threat in the world than Iran ever was.  And it’s a way to bomb them where they hide in ways that take them off the map as the parasites that they always were.  And massive prosperity will follow in the wake of their destruction.

Rich Hoffman

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China Got Caught Tampering with the 2020 Election: How communism takes over countries

Well, it’s official now.  During June of 2025 FBI Director Kash Patel declassified documents showing the Chinese Communist Party scheme to interfere in the 2020 election to mass produce fake U.S. driver’s licenses and ship them to the U.S. to facilitate fraudulent mail-in ballots in favor of Joe Biden, these fake IDs were intended to create voter identities for Chinese residents in the U.S. to cast illegal votes.  The documents are now in the hands of Chuck Grassley in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and it is also noted that former FBI Director Christopher Wray recalled the initial report, as he was aware of the implications.  That means that when we look at the margins of victory of Joe Biden in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, the total votes that Biden won by were less than 45,000. Biden won by only 20,682 in Wisconsin, by 154,188 in Michigan, and by 11,799 in Georgia.  Arizona was won by only 10,457 votes.  So that’s how close it was.  In Pennsylvania, the winning amount was 80,555.  And that’s obviously why Christopher Wray didn’t want that report out, because it shows with evidence what the Chinese were up to in order to get just enough votes over the top to elect Joe Biden.  We are now aware of several other methods of voter fraud that involve the use of mail-in ballots.  But this driver’s license scam is complex, irrefutable proof of how China planned to install Biden over Trump for their self-interest.  And looking back on it now, the reason the election took weeks to resolve is that those swing states were allowed to continue counting mail-in ballots until Joe Biden had just enough votes, as shown, to be declared the winner.  This raises numerous significant legal issues. 

Even worse, this same method of election tampering has also occurred in presidential and congressional races.  Most of the close races that we have been watching over the last decade could be attributed to the same kind of election tampering.  Even in states like Kentucky, between Matt Bevin and Andy Beshear, the total vote difference was 5,136 out of over 704,000 votes, less than 0.37 percentage points in 2019.  And when they got away with it, the opposition parties connected to communist governments around the world, for which China is, they expanded it in a mass way during the 2020 election using the bioweapon of Covid as the cover story for mass election fraud.  Everyone needs to get this through their thick skulls.  The 2020 election cycle was a major crime against the United States that killed people and installed a puppet government from a hostile foreign actor, and many accomplices.  So, as we go out and buy fireworks for American freedom and celebrate all the significant military engagements that were put forth to make America victorious in the fights for freedom, understand that our elections have been under attack by lots of foreign actors who have been quite explicit in funding our destruction.  And in 2020, they were successful, and they got caught.  And they have to be punished.  It’s not a question of if, but to what degree.  Additionally, what this means is that Joe Biden’s entire presidency was illegal, meaning that everything he signed, or that others signed for him with an autopen, was also unlawful, including the DEI hire of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in 2022.  A lot of people were asleep at the wheel, and the bad guys in the world were tampering with our elections, putting Democrats in important seats, in the Senate, in Governor roles, in the House, and certainly in the White House.  The government we have today is essentially not the government we voted for; it’s the constructs of election fraud on a mass scale, with this Chinese scam being just one of them. 

In the first half of 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 20,000 counterfeit driver’s licenses coming from China and Hong Kong with the apparent intention of laying the foundation for election fraud.  Given the size of this discovery, the operation was much larger than what they actually caught and easily falls within the voter total that Biden won the election by in 2020, all by itself.  When you add all this to the other known election fraud methods, it is easy to see why Joe Biden won in 2020, and that once election fraud was more difficult to conduct in 2024 because everyone was watching carefully, Democrats could not repeat the 2020 performance.  Because many of the election fraud methods were incredibly frustrating.  In 2024, Trump received 77.3 million votes, while Harris received only 74.9 million after many weeks of counting, falling short of the 2020 totals by 7 million votes.  Simply put, the crackdown on the mail-in illegal votes was the difference in the gap.  Add to that all the voting machine irregularities, that also traced back to China, and we have significant problems in our elections, and it would not be hard to prove that many of the tight races that made the House and Senate so close along party lines are that way through similar forms of election fraud, in all close races where Democrats won by a slim margin, election fraud, like the election between Matt Bevin and Andy Beshear in 2019 took place. 

The reluctance to admit it, and the reason the declassification of the report by Kash Patel is so essential, is that it reveals the complicity of many people domestically in facilitating the tampering of a foreign government in American elections, as they benefited from the chaos.  So they let it happen, and those same idiots will be out buying fireworks and flying the American flag on July 4th just like everyone else, even though what they did was treasonous and overt acts of legal sedition.  And they were caught with hard evidence.  No, don’t kid yourself, America has also participated in election tampering through the CIA and other means in other countries around the world.  So when China does it, they do so for their own interests, and we were the dummies who let them do it to us.  We should expect hostile countries to try to topple us.  We are not all friends.  The lesson here is that many of our elections have been tampered with, and that the government we have had was not the one we chose through free elections.  The kind of House and Senate majorities that we have had were not actually as close as we have been led to believe.  And this evidence is very inconvenient to those who have allowed it to happen, because the blood is literally on their hands.  As we approach the next election in 2026, we need to tighten our election laws and make it significantly harder for China and other countries to exert influence over our elections.  If we do that, many Democrats will not be able to beat their Republican rivals because Americans do not like communists.  And communism is what the left has on the menu.  And they want to infiltrate the world in any way possible.  For them, stealing elections is much less violent than military engagement.  It’s what just happened in South Korea, where we fought against the spread of communism there half a century ago.  And now, people just had an election where the communist party sunk deeper roots into running that country.  And they want to do it in America, and have been getting away with it, until now.  Now we have the proof.  But what we do with it will decide the fate of all our futures, for better or worse.

Rich Hoffman

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ohio Campaign for Governor is all About Family First: Getting rid of red tape in Liberty Township

Vivek Ramaswamy discussing taking the red tape out of a red state!

It was good to see Vivek Ramaswamy again.  Mark and Leslie Williams had a nice, private event for him to talk about the campaign status and the going-forward steps and probably the best thing I have heard in politics so far was what Vivek said about Ohio, that it was a deep red state, but that it would not be the state of red tape.  That his run for governor was committed to restoring Ohio to the nation’s greatest status in wealth generation among all the states.  And given his understanding of things and personality, I think it is very much possible.  The moment I found out that he was running for governor, I was excited about it.  And since he launched his campaign just a few months ago, he has turned his efforts into a nice running machine that will cascade into many exciting opportunities that many have never thought possible.  Vivek Ramaswamy understands, and as I have watched these GOP events develop over the years, there was something very different going on that was exciting —a festivity to it that was not politics as usual.  But before we get into all that, I have to say, Mark and Leslie did a great job with the event, including the fantastic food table set up with finger foods that they had in the middle of the gathering space, established for this meet and greet for Vivek.  I took a picture of what was left of it after a few hours, but it was quite something to see.  All the little things in the event were done with just a little extra flair that makes spending time with people on a Saturday night of political talk more enjoyable.  And once Vivek gave his speech, took pictures with people, and had to get on to the next thing, people stayed around talking and catching up because they didn’t want to leave such a wonderful occasion.

When this started it was quite an exhibition. It was a lot of food!

I was one of them, I was happy to see so many people I like to talk to all in the same place.  I enjoyed seeing most of Nancy Nix’s family there, mom, sister, aunts, grandchildren, her husband Bob, we all like each other naturally, and it was nice to catch up under those conditions.  Everyone knows I love Nancy Nix; she is one of the best for a reason, and a lot of it is that she has a nice and loving family, which is evident to everyone who can see.  I had just spent time with one of my favorite trustees, Todd Minniear, a few nights before.  With his wife Jamie, they are a couple of my absolute favorite people and they were there.  Thomas Hall and his family were there too.  His mom and dad are good, solid people, and if you haven’t noticed, there is a pattern to my accolades.  I often judge the value of people by the kind of families they come from and are creating for themselves, and for me, it was a great evening because I had a break from the broken dysfunction that often comes with associating with a lot of people from diverse backgrounds and social structures.  Here, almost everyone shared the same strong family values that I greatly appreciate, making it a great evening for me.  My wife doesn’t always get to come to all these events.  When we launched the campaign event for Vivek a few months prior, she had to miss it due to other family commitments that we had.  However, this time we were able to coordinate things in a way that allowed her to attend, and she enjoyed herself as well.

As usual, I always enjoy seeing George and Debbie Lang when they are in a place where things go as well as the Williams event allowed.  Where the accommodations are set up thoughtfully, so that people can easily discuss essential political matters.  As a critical Senator in Ohio, everyone wants to talk to George, so my time with him is often spent with me looming in the background to discuss as many important things as possible.  However, in a large group like that, it’s not easy to convey everything in brief statements, as time may not allow.  But when people wonder why I like George and Debbie so much, it’s that core value system again. They are a great family that really loves each other, and I value their sincerity, both with each other and with the world around them.  When people wonder why George Lang is good at his job, a common theme among those who have come out in early support of Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor of Ohio is that they see the state in the same way they see their families, with love and care.  And those are their primary political motivations.  No matter what personal success they have had in life, and I know that is the case with Mark and Leslie Williams too, who hosted the event, they want to put that same effort into making Ohio the top state in the country, and the world, for people to live in and raise good families.  If you are a family-first kind of person, knowing these kinds of people makes sense.  And I enjoyed myself for all those reasons.  One of the primary values that everyone I knew shared at this event was a love of family, and they all did just a little bit more than average to have good families. 

I enjoyed catching up with Darbi Boddy.  People have been wondering about her since her time as a Lakota school board member concluded in legal gymnastics.  People have asked me a lot why I like Darbi so much.  She is a good mom who talks to God frequently.  And since she left the Lakota school board, she has been hanging out with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.  My wife noticed the pin she was wearing, and it was the same one that she had.  Let me say, Darbi is doing some great things that will manifest into goodness in a few years.  She is more deeply engaged in politics than ever, and I am very happy and proud of her for all that she has accomplished.  A common theme I have been discussing is that many people are unaware of Darby: she loves her family, and her involvement in politics is aimed at helping more families emerge in the world. I have a lot of respect for her hard work in this regard.  I like her kids, and I like her husband.  I want to see people like that succeed in the world.  I also enjoyed catching up with Bob Hutsenpiller.  We have a long history together. Similarly, he and his wife have been together for a long time, and his business has been a family affair throughout his long career.  And he’s just a good person trying to make things just a bit better in the world.  My joke with Bob is that he usually comes to these political events with work shoes because he is always on construction sites and has worked hard all the years I have known him.  And I would say that was the common theme among all the people I mentioned, and many more that there isn’t enough time to discuss.  But Vivek Ramaswamy makes it easy, just as President Trump has; these are all people who value family, and they are treating their state and country with the same love they pour into their families.  And it shows.  I met Vivek’s parents and got to know his wife at the event we had at CTL Aerospace, and I was happy that he recognized me out of all the people he has spoken to over the last several months.  But Vivek loves his kids.  He loves his wife.  He loves his parents.  And anyone who is that caring about the people in their life can show the same love to the state they are running.   And for me, that’s why I care so much about the people who were at that event.  The common theme was family first, even if nobody explicitly stated it.  You won’t catch any of the people I mentioned in some sex scandal where they are cheating on their spouses for power and prestige.  In most cases, everyone at that Vivek event already had power and prestige.  But what they were fighting for was something much more important: the power of family and the values that come from it, and carrying that attention over into political office, where it can genuinely make a significant impact.  And for me, being around such people is the best evening I could hope for.  I’m very much looking forward to Vivek Ramaswamy being the governor of Ohio.  That will be a good day!

Rich Hoffman

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Greeks and Ancient Atlantis: I was the only one in the world who got it right regarding the war with Iran

This may seem like an odd topic, given the current state of the world, but I believe we are uncovering a vast conspiracy that’s deeply rooted in institutionalism and has been impacting the world as a whole.  And to further validate that entire statement, and not to brag, but I was right.  More correct than anybody in the world regarding the war with Iran.  There might be somebody out there who said it as clearly as I did, but out of all the big players in the media, they got it all wrong regarding what Trump was doing with Iran.  As usual, I was the first to say precisely what would happen, and it took days for the rest of the world to figure it out.  So when I say that Atlantis, as a lost civilization, ended up in North America, and the mound builders specifically, it’s more than a fanciful expression of fantasy and fun.  We are discussing institutional failure and why experts can’t be trusted even to tell us the truth about history, let alone advise us on medical issues, or run our lives through government.  When we say that we need freedom from government, the answer to the whys and hows requires an institutional understanding of failure modes.  So when I say that Greek mythology is the evidence of a previous, global civilization of Atlantis I say it to demonstrate that the root cause of much failure in the world can be traced back to mistakes that go back to that ancient civilization, and that we took many of the failures that destroyed that culture and migrated them into modern life.  And our lifeline into that understanding is the stories preserved through Greek, Norse, and Egyptian mythology within the Hermetic tradition.  

So when you understand how ancient civilizations either succeeded or failed, you can avoid the same mistakes in our present cultures.  And in understanding that, I can see clear trends that many people miss completely, or don’t understand until it is way too late.  With that said, I have been re-reading the Greek myths so that I can better understand Atlantis as a civilization, because one of the Greek gods, Poseidon, was in charge of that society, and obviously, the hints at what Greek mythology would reveal were more than the fantastic wonderings of human culture.  The stories themselves, like all stories, reveal things about us as a species that are infinitely important in the decision-making process of modern governments and how much of it we need or want.  I don’t like any of the Greek gods of Mt. Olympus, or their children, such as Apollo, Hercules, Achilles, or Hector; they are all overly flawed people who bring great destruction to the lives around them.  And as we look around the world and consider that these stories are far older than the period of the famous philosopher Socrates, from 470 BC to 399 BC, likely by thousands of years.  That would place them in the time of the societies all around the Mediterranean Sea, especially in Malta, and the Minoan worship of the Minotaur, a creature of the famous labyrinth.  We must also pay attention to the Greeks, as without them, the Bible would not have been preserved for us to read today.  And how many stories in the Bible are re-told stories from the very ancient past, put into modern context?  With “modern” representing the latest biblical chronology.  As the story goes, Atlantis was destroyed by a catastrophe, but it was already in a state of prolonged decline, having been overrun by witches and magicians who corrupted the society’s structure in detrimental ways, long before it sank into the sea, as reported by Plato. 

Moral corruption is the element of concern here, and it was analyzed as the failure mode of Atlantis. As people fled that society, they migrated all over the world, taking their stories with them and their study of the stars in attempts to restart society many times over.  We are currently working on doing this exact thing with Mars.  Leaving one society for another is a common theme among all human beings; therefore, we must apply the same logic to the people of Atlantis, who migrated to North and South America, as well as to the Far East, and settled with their technology and religions intact.  However, it would need to be changed subtly, not over a few thousand years, but over tens of thousands of years.  We may find out with a lot more digging, that the Tower of Babel is a summary of what happened to the entire world during this crises period where Atlantis was destroyed and its inhabitants that survived became the North American Indians, or the civilizations of Egypt, Malta, or of Scandinavia, and the British Isles.  And we didn’t see the connection because we made the wrong assumptions about how humans migrated across the globe.  We came up with the idea of human evolution emerging out of Africa without verifying the reliability of that theory, and we constructed a time scale for human development incorrectly.  And now, generations of scientists have gotten everything wrong because they refused to correct each other as new information was presented that contradicted their findings. 

Given that history, it’s essential to understand how cascading failure is an accepted norm in our expert class of modern institutionalists.  Rather than challenge the static norm, they are more prone to adopt it.  Such as what happened with assuming that Trump bombing Iran would start World War III.  Rather than looking at the economic conditions for Iran, we thought we understood the nature of war to the point that we did not address the situation correctly, until Trump bombed them and ended their terror regime in a single night on June 21st, 2025.  The same flawed logic has dismissed Atlantis as a fantasy from the past, from the kind of minds that wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad, without considering that the stories themselves provided valuable insights into the human mind, which would long be gone as physical evidence through the process of erosion otherwise.  Very little of anything built 10,000 years ago would remain unless it were preserved in the manner we have witnessed at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey.  And when we study the North American mound builders, or the creators of Stonehenge, Avebury, or the entire South American continent, we are seeing what was left of a civilization from long ago that is only preserved in the stories they passed down through generations, that were perhaps organized by the Greeks, and other Mediterranean cultures in their quest for culture.  So, they wrote down everything they could preserve, including the Bible.   To understand ourselves in a modern context, it is essential to understand the past, not the one taught in school.  Because much of that is all wrong.  However, instead, we get glimpses from sources such as the Greek myths.  And what strikes me most about them is the amount of sex in them.  These were not cultures that hunted and gathered; they were concerned with human emotions and relationships, as well as luxury items, in any society that has advanced beyond the necessities.  That means, if the Greeks had time to think about such things 2,000 years BC, or even 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, the stories came from a culture that had mastered the means to luxury, where they had free time to think about such things.   This says a lot about the history we are studying, as it provides a very accurate window into the past, much better than carbon dating.   

Rich Hoffman

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Bioweapons from China: Yes, they are planning a Covid part II

Just as a reminder, recently, there were a couple of incidents where Chinese nationals were caught trying to smuggle bioweapons material into the United States.  One case involved two individuals, Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, who attempted to bring Fusarium graminearum through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.  Liu was Jian’s girlfriend and was sent back while he was arrested, as he held a position at the University of Michigan.  Then there was the case of Chengxuan Han, who was also detained at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport for attempting to smuggle biological materials related to roundworm.  She was from the University of Science and Technology in Wuhan and was charged with smuggling and making false statements after sending four packages containing undeclared biological materials through security.  Many are saying that these were just accidents and that the materials they were trying to bring into America were intended for research at the University of Michigan, and were legitimate items for advanced study.  I have told the story of a friend of mine who was recently apprehended in a similar way for bringing genetically modified strawberries back from Japan and into North America through Canada.  The security in Toronto overreacted and made a massive deal of it, which was similar to how these Chinese nationals have been treated.  So, not all cases are certainly terrorist attempts.  However, some of them are, and given what recently happened in Wuhan, China, with COVID, which many people claim was an accident released into the public under innocent conditions.  We can’t trust anybody at this point, and like clockwork, we suddenly have two suspicious cases emerging from our relations with China, right on time to attempt a strike at the new Trump economy, to preserve their investment in bringing the world under their control. 

Here’s what we do know about China.  They are malicious, and they have a deep network of Chinese nationals working for the homeland within the context of diplomatic relations in the United States.  It’s a vast spy network of loyal Chinese who work and study in America, but would on the head of a dime turn into hostile antagonists for the communist Chinese government.  And China can’t afford to come in second to a revised America First agenda.  So, yes, would they do such a thing as release a bioweapon into America to throw a pause on all the great things that are happening under the new Trump administration?  Yes, you can bet they would.   And yes, it was fair to provide extra scrutiny for Chinese nationals trying to bring unusual items into the country, only to get caught and claim those items as research material by naive foreign travelers, as a cover story.  I’d say that, at this point, we can no longer believe anything that comes from China, especially from the government. They are going to try to do anything to stop the good things that are happening because if they don’t, China is going to fall apart under its own weight.  China has done it before, and they will do it again for sure.  COVID-19, never forget, was not a legitimate virus accidently released from the Wuhan lab in China.  It was a created bioweapon made through gain-of-function research and released at a critical time to take Trump out of office during an election year and gain control of our economy under the guise of a crisis.  COVID was made and used as a bioweapon to stop what Trump was doing well in the first term.  And yes, there are these same groups of people who are planning to do the same thing now.  So we must be very vigilant. 

I thought it was interesting to hear Ray Dalio discuss market volatility on MSNBC recently, and he’s starting to get it a bit.  Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates and is a billionaire hedge fund manager known for global macro investment strategies.  I think of him, and many of those guys, like Larry Fink, as pot-smoking hippies too in love with the 1960s era Flower Child politics, and that they are menaces to society, using money as a weapon to implement globalism.  But I have read all Ray’s books and think he’s a smart guy, even if he is a diabolical globalist deeply committed to propping up the communist Chinese government.  And Dalio sees where the market trends are heading and why central bankers are buying gold these days as a hedge against the volatility looming in the background.  Those were the conditions that the enemies of the world attacking capitalism in general, exploited in 2020 to unleash COVID-19, wreck the world economy, and throw the world into a World Economic Forum Great Reset.  Yes, there are a lot of people who think that the end justifies the means as long as the greater good is served, which makes all left-wing-minded people like Ray Dalio dangerous.  Always make sure to listen to what people like him say and study what they do.  People like him see the inevitable with the Trump economy; it is going to torpedo the rest of the world’s markets, and people who have invested in globalism through China’s communist model are going to lose in the massive power shift.  So surely nobody thinks that China is going to give all that power up in a fair economic fight?  No, they will try to sabotage the world again for their self-preservation.  And many of these Chinese nationalist travelers are dedicated to the homeland, even if they live and work in America.  And they are dangerous. 

This is a far more perilous situation than people are willing to admit.  The real danger that is looming in the world is not whether Iran has a nuclear weapon and must be destroyed.  Or whether Russia will agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine.  Or, if China is going to move against Taiwan to capture our chip manufacturing capabilities, which fuel the American economy.  Trump knows this situation, and he learned a lot from 2020 when they unleashed COVID on his watch to shut down the world with a bioweapon.  The moment there is peace in the world, some of these globalists are going to try to do it again, and when they do, they will try to do precisely what the Chinese nationalists caught at the Detroit Airport were trying to do, bring in bioweapons to cripple the population of America with chaos to stop the progress of Trump in restoring greatness to all aspects of our society.  The Chinese feel they have no choice in the matter, and they will kill to hold power.  You can bet on that.  So, for Trump, if he is playing the Art of the Deal to keep all these world leaders on their heels, many years from now, it will become clear what the real danger truly was.  The moment there is a window of peace, China will try to unleash a bioweapon to stay in power.  So as long as Trump keeps him close, it will be hard to get away with state-sponsored sabotage and terrorism.  You have to see the game that is being played, not the one they are showing you.  Because these cases of bioweapon material confiscation on American soil are just a hint to the real menace out there, and the moment they can, they are going to try again what they did with Covid, only this time with much deadlier intentions. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Bike Paths of Agenda 21: They cost a lot of money and very few people use them, especially in conservative West Chester

I’m probably the last person not to like bike paths.  I use the newly created bike paths and trails in the West Chester and Liberty Township areas extensively for the videos I make with these articles I write.  I have spent thousands of hours on them filming these videos, so I would say it’s safe to say I am an extensive user and have walked every mile of all of them many times over.  However, I understand why West Chester Trustee Mark Welch is not a fan of the proposed connecting bike path that has been discussed for running through West Chester, from the Mason area, aiming to link the Little Miami River to the Great Miami.  There is a long-planned fantasy to connect those rivers through this part of southern Ohio, and logic is not at the center of any considerations.  This issue recently arose when I was writing an article about vertiports in West Chester, and Mark and I discussed the bike paths and parks that are part of the United Nations’ Agenda 21 and 2030 sustainability plans, which end up in local planning offices across the United States.  The blind commitment to bike paths from foreign planning commissions that cost a lot of money is going to be a centerpiece to the re-election of Mark Welch and whether we embrace a future off the lessons of the past, or we follow the mindless dictates of foreign influence and their radical ideas about climate science that are at the heart of building more green space to inspire humans not to use their cars so much, and to get healthier lifestyles that don’t put too much burden on the top heavy cost health care industry that is corrupted by labor unions and pharmaceutical company monopoly status. 

The current dream is to connect bike path infrastructure along Tylersville Road, West Chester and to meet up with the existing bike path built near the Trinity Pub in Port Union.  Before I outline my next comments, I see numerous positive uses for these bike paths. I have a grandson who is riding them all over the state.  He and his dad are planning a trip to Cleveland from their home along the Loveland Bike Trail, which is used pretty extensively. However, proportionally speaking, we are still talking about under 2% of the population that uses them at any particular time.  They are not being used in the way that Agenda 21 sustainability planners envisioned in their communist fantasies.  Nothing ever works out as planned.  However, I think they are pretty neat in a luxury-oriented culture.  It’s nice to have them, but they are not used by most taxpayers, not even occasionally.  So Mark’s position in West Chester is to put the issue to a vote, and if people vote in favor of spending money on the bike paths, then he’d be all for it.  However, paying good money from the current tax base is not a good idea, as it is using government power in the wrong way.  Bike paths are not a core competency of government, and for the trustees of West Chester, it’s too much to ask them to take on.  But for the bottom feeders who are trying to knock Mark out of this race and to take his seat, completing these bike paths with taxpayer money will be one of the foundations of their campaigns as a feel-good sentiment that does not have broad appeal, but might sound like a good idea without context. 

The bike path that starts at Port Union, near the Trinity Pub, cost approximately $13.8 million to construct.  It was relatively easy because it runs along the property that used to be part of the Erie Canal, which ran from Hamilton down into downtown Cincinnati through the Mill Creek Valley.  Before there was even a railroad, or I-75, there was the Erie Canal.  That’s why Port Union is named that way, because that was a port of entry for getting on the canal.  So, what was left of it was open, unused land that was perfect for building a bike path to preserve parts of it for historical perspective.  The land was relatively easy to acquire, and to the north of it was raw farmland with minimal residential properties to contend with.  And that is the constant theme of most of the bike paths that have sprung up all over Ohio, including the one my nine-year-old grandson plans to use to ride to Cleveland and back.  I think it’s a pretty bold and cool idea for him and his dad to do, as I show them here using the bike paths for training for that adventure together.  But most of those bike paths are built along rivers and railroads, and don’t involve much eminent domain.  However, to cut through West Chester, it will be costly to create the bike path because there is a lot of private property to acquire, and numerous eminent domain cases will be a significant issue.  So it’s nowhere near as easy as building the bike path at Port Union.  Bike paths, under the best conditions, cost approximately $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 per mile.  The cost increases significantly when private property is involved, as it would be in West Chester, Ohio.  A concept that the Agenda 21 planners never anticipated, given that their monetary policy was based on Modern Monetary Theory, where they planned for governments to print fake money. In Europe, the concept of private property often takes a back seat to state needs and desires.  The people who want bike paths in West Chester are those kinds of Democrat thinkers. 

So, I spend a lot of time at the one by Trinity Pub, and I hardly ever see anybody there.  When the Trinity Pub was built, it was intended to be a hub for the bike path, and it would be a great idea if people used the trail.  But that little restaurant has barely hung on and is under its latest set of owners, who are trying to get things going there, but without much success.  I’d like to see them make it, but the bike path hasn’t helped them at all because nobody uses it.  So with all this expense involved, why do them?  Although I like and use them, the cost does not make sense.  Especially when private property acquisition is involved, these bike paths form an extensive network, and I was surprised to see how nice they are, even in remote areas between Middletown, Ohio, and Franklin, along the Great Miami River.  They are nice to have, but they are part of a luxury culture that can afford them.  They will never be used in the way the Agenda 21 planners envisioned, as a means to replace cars, save the planet from human beings, and keep people from traveling on vacation because they had plenty of parks in their neighborhoods to visit.  All the central planners involved in America got suckered by this European fantasy, and Mark Welch has declared himself not to be one of those suckers.  If voters want to raise their taxes to pay for something that they will never use, then fine.  But in the back of all logic, it says that people don’t care.  Especially if they have to pay for it out of their own pockets, and when it comes to the West Chester Bike Path to connect the Little Miami River to the Great Miami River, they just won’t. 

Rich Hoffman

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Re-elect Mark Welch to West Chester Trustee: The excitment about the future of air taxis

It began with a discussion about the new Trump executive order on air taxis and exploring how West Chester, Ohio, could become part of this exciting new trend.  But halfway through our conversation, it became apparent to me that Mark Welch was up for re-election, and it would be a good idea to continue the discussion on camera so that people could see how the spaghetti is made politically, because West Chester is at a critical time.  It has been very prosperous, and Mark, as a trustee, has been exceptionally effective in contributing to that success.  He is what remains of a long-standing government relationship that balanced power and innovation in just the right way over an extended period, resulting in great success.  I don’t think he will have a difficult time re-winning his seat.  However, there are challengers, and quite a few of them lean toward Democratic politics, and we all know what that means.  It’s a second-generation kind of thing, where the governing we do ends up being second-generation concerns.  They know they like the success, but they don’t know how to earn more of it for themselves.  And under the traditional campaign platform approach, there isn’t much opportunity for someone with extensive experience and success, like Mark Welch, to demonstrate why he is so much better than everyone else.  During our conversation, I suggested to Mark that we record the rest of our talk on camera so people could listen in and see what goes into being a good trustee.  These kinds of races cost a lot of money, because you have to buy print media, do the yard signs in a big district, and do radio and television to maintain a brand expectation that the public has for a front-running political figure.  However, the best thing Mark Welch has in his favor, campaign-wise, is his own experience, allowing people to hear it for themselves without interruption. 

One thing that Mark has always been good at is understanding the passions that business owners have and embracing a go-forward path toward fulfillment, which is why we were discussing flying cars and a vertiport in West Chester.  Over the last 14 years or so, there were numerous decisions made, including Mark’s election as a trustee, that contributed to West Chester, Ohio, becoming one of the best places to live in the world. Welch knows his stuff.  Every time I speak with him, he rattles off an enormous amount of detailed information about the subjects we’re discussing, and he finds a way to get along with just about everyone.  So he was undoubtedly the right guy to talk about an abandoned property that I had been thinking about that could use a repurpose to be a vertiport for the new Joby Air Taxi service which would take visitors to and from the local airports, CVG to the south, and Dayton International to the north, to avoid the heavy traffic that is typically associated with both routes.  Joby Aviation has relationships with Uber, Toyota, and Delta Airlines to advance personal transportation along these frontiers. All they needed was a presidential administration like Trump’s to sign an executive order allowing them to proceed, and FAA certification to advance.  Mark and I were talking about what a shame it was that Saudi Arabia and, specifically, Dubai, were going to be the first to market for this exciting new transportation system.  This is no longer science fiction, like the Jetsons cartoon or Back to the Future.  These vertical takeoff vehicles are real, very efficient, and can safely transport up to four passengers right now.  All they need at this point is the FAA certification, which they are expected to receive later in 2025.  Now was the time to discuss how West Chester, Ohio, could become part of this exciting new trend.

The reason West Chester would be a great place to start an American hub is that Joby Aviation has a manufacturing facility where it will build thousands of these sky cars in the Dayton area for many years.  And as it stands, Toyota has invested over $500 million in a partnership with Joby, which means that Japan will be using these sky cars soon, as will China.  It would be a real shame to have all these far-away places using something that was being built right down the road from West Chester.  I have people who come from all over the world to see me often, and their number one complaint is that it takes too long to get to the area airports from West Chester.  They’d rather not worry about renting a car once they get to Cincinnati to visit a business associate in West Chester.  They’d like to fly in on Delta, catch their direct shuttle service to the Joby air taxi at the Delta hub, and fly directly to West Chester, so they can walk to their hotel without worrying about traffic.  West Chester has a lot of hotels, but the other complaint is that they are always booked, so there is a genuine business need to solve this transportation problem.  It’s great to have such excellent highway access as West Chester does.  But the hour spent either to the north or the south getting to the airport could be used in a much better way, and these Joby Air Taxis are just the right thing. 

Air taxis will play a significant role in the future American economy.  The best way to deal with traffic is to fly over it; as a result, many parts of America will likely utilize air taxis after just visiting Washington D.C. I can say that they will be instrumental in flying people in and out of the city from many directions, as the traffic on the highways is always so thick.  People don’t travel long distances for business meetings only to sit in traffic.  And it happens all the time in West Chester: people from out of town want to go to a Reds game, but everyone has worked all day at their business and doesn’t have time to drive down to the stadium to sit in traffic for an hour and a half during rush hour.  If they could take a Joby air taxi to the stadium, they would do it without hesitation.  Mark and I were discussing that old building in West Chester that would make a great skyport for the southern Ohio region.  Because establishing those would be the very next problem that Joby Aviation would have to overcome, they had the technical parts worked out.  Now they had the political support.  Now, all they needed were vertiports to create a network of use that these flying cars could be a part of, so that commercial travel could begin.  But that was new information.  Mark has been down this kind of road before, with many thousands of similar enterprises that just needed a friendly place to set up shop, which is why West Chester became one of the best places in the world to live.  Mark Welch embodies the perfect politician, and if we want to protect what is so good about West Chester, Ohio, re-electing Mark Welch to his trustee position is crucial and a wise decision.  There is a lot of fun coming on the horizon for those bold enough to put their arm around innovation.  And when it comes to government leadership, Mark Welch excels at doing just that.

Rich Hoffman

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Trump’s Executive Orders for Sky Cars and Supersonic Flight: The future of America’s economy

I told everyone they were coming, and those who listened will profit from the information; those who didn’t, well, they’ll be trying to catch up with the rest of the world.  But on Friday, June 6, 2025, Trump did what I had been talking about for many years prior: he signed the Executive Order on Advanced Electric Air Taxis and Advanced Drone Operations, along with others involving U.S. Airspace Security Against Drone Threats, and lifting the ban on Supersonic Flights.  However, it was the air taxi order that was the most important and the quickest to market benefit.  As I have been saying, Joby Aviation, up the road from my house in Cincinnati, is building electric sky cars that were going to arrive on the market in 2025.  They are already being placed into the Abu Dhabi market and in China.  Japan will have them soon, as will Toyota, which is in a partnership with Joby, so I’ve been warning that America will be left behind.  And I also said that Trump would make it a priority, because America doesn’t want to be last in anything.  With this order from President Trump, the development of electric air taxis is promoted and commercial drone operations are expanded, which these air taxis essentially are – big, fancy drones.  The order directs the FAA to allow commercial users and public safety officials to fly drones beyond their line of sight, easing current restrictions.  It also supports a program to test vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which could enhance cargo transport, medical response times, and access to rural areas.  Additionally, it encourages federal agencies to prioritize the purchase of U.S.-made drones and directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote the export of American drones to other markets.  This is a significant step into a Jetsons-like world, and as I said, the technology was already there.  All that was needed was a regulatory environment to allow for that technology to be applied to society in general. It’s a big step in the right direction.

However, regarding the supersonic flight ban that has been in place over the United States for commercial aircraft, it has been frustrating to deal with such an artificial limit.  If you’ve ever had to fly across the Pacific Ocean on a 13-14 hour flight, no matter how long you spend in first class, it’s a hard flight.  It’s challenging to travel from airport to airport over 24 hours to reach the other side of the world.  It isn’t easy to fly from New York to Los Angeles routinely, because the airplanes are just too slow.  Boom Aviation has been in operation since 2014 and has been dedicated to developing passenger air vehicles that exceed the speed of sound. They have been successful and, like Joby Aviation, are poised for market entry.  Their Overture airliner can carry 64-80 passengers at Mach 1.7, which is 1,100 miles per hour.  That would reduce the six-hour flight from New York to Los Angeles to 3 hours.  They are working on lowering the transoceanic times to 3.5 hours, for instance, to London, which is a significant improvement from the current time.  They intend to have 1,000 supersonic airliners available for business class fares to make it economically viable, and they currently have 130 orders for aircraft from most major airlines, including United, American, and Japan Airlines.  So, Trump’s executive order is not a distant hope for the future.  It’s for right here, right now.  All we needed was a president who would embrace these innovations and nurture them forward.  All we needed was a Trump election to unleash the opportunities.

Speaking about the air taxi service for Joby, the pricing will be in the range of Uber Black, and initially, it will focus on airport travel.  For instance, as I have been talking about in my local area of West Chester, Ohio, the Joby partnership with Delta Airlines would allow passengers who arrive at CVG, which is about an hour away from West Chester, because of the traffic, its not very far away, it just takes time to get down I-75 at the rush hour times to get there, passengers could arrive from their flight, get to the skyport, and take an air taxi to West Chester to their hotel.  They could just about walk to everything they needed without having to rent a car; then do their business, and then fly back the same way.  On a business trip, which is something I see a lot of, it’s a real problem for a lot of business travelers, to catch a 5:30 PM flight, they essentially have to leave at 2:30 PM to beat the rush hour traffic, then deal with all the TSA nonsense wasting most of their day in the process.  I have people who come to see me who have to travel overseas, who deliberately leave for the airport to stay at a hotel there so they don’t have to deal with the traffic on the day of their flight, which is a massive waste of their time.  Therefore, there is a sufficient need for this service to become helpful immediately.  And it will be as common as taking an Uber within months once commercial utilization is accepted.  Uber Black pricing to CVG from West Chester would likely be around $142-$170, which is comparable to the cost of Uber Black when traveling from Manhattan to JFK, approximately 15-20 miles. 

The most important thing to consider here is not the technology itself, but valuing time.  There has been a concerning trend in the world to reduce all forms of travel and to encourage people to rely solely on Microsoft Teams, for instance, and avoid face-to-face meetings.  That was undoubtedly the unintended consequence of COVID, and it turned out to be a disaster, which the Biden administration only made worse with an anti-technology approach to the economy that was devastating.  There was no reason not to be first to market with sky cars or supersonic flight.  When you enable more people to accomplish more in a day, you expand the economy.  For businesspeople to be able to do more with their time rather than travel, the economic benefits are undeniable.  I know many people who would gladly pay $170 per person to fly over the traffic to CVG so they could work for an additional 2 hours on their Delta flight back to where they came from.  For most businesspeople, their time on the road is worth a lot more than that, and they should not be wasting it sitting around in airports or flying in slow crafts that are restricted to speeds under the speed of sound.  I would say that in just a few years, once people get used to accepting that a sky car is more useful than ordering a normal Uber to drive them around, the pricing will come down significantly and be much less.  It will take time for people to get used to the option, but once they do, lots of things will improve, including street traffic.  I see only good things coming from these Trump executive orders, and it’s about time somebody dares to implement them.  Many of these companies, like Joby and Boom, have been waiting for politics to catch up to them.  And now is the time. 

Rich Hoffman

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Vote for Mark Welch as Trustee of West Chester, Ohio: The island of misfit toys wants to ride the success of good politics

Mark Welch, the long-standing trustee of West Chester, Ohio, has undoubtedly been one of the main reasons that the northern Cincinnati community is one of the best places to live in the world.  And that’s not just me saying that because I like West Chester, Ohio.  Years ago, some effective policies were implemented to limit government overreach and foster a free enterprise approach to the growing community. This was achieved through a collaborative effort, led by then-trustee George Lang, with Mark Welch subsequently elected to provide a much-needed second vote.  It used to be that George was always outvoted two to one, and he needed someone who could share his vision with him. The result was a period of prosperity in West Chester, Ohio, which has made it unquestionably one of the best places to live anywhere in the world.  As a result, many people have moved into the area, bringing with them political ideas reflective of their origins, which have evolved.  George is now Senator Lang of Ohio, representing the 4th District.  However, Mark Welch remains a trustee who is now up for re-election in 2025.  With his excellent track record, he should have an easy re-election to his seat.  But we don’t want to take anything for granted.  Another long-time holdout, Lee Wong, who is very sympathetic to Chinese causes, is also up for re-election.  He is the kind of person who a lot of Democrats vote for, so he tends to get support from the many moderate Republicans, and the Democrats so there is some concern that in a race that is introducing the long term police chief to the mix Joel Herzog, that if Republicans don’t work together, that damage could be done to the seats in West Chester. 

Most of the time, there aren’t many people who run for these spots, and it could be assumed that Mark would win his seat back and that there would be room for Joel Herzog to join him.  Lee Wong, under all considerations, is vulnerable for many reasons, but he plays nicely enough with Republicans to avoid drawing too much hate, which is part of his strategy.  In a three-way race for two seats, it can get tricky.  The ideal situation would be for Republicans to show up and support Mark and Joel, thereby putting Lee in third place.  However, as I mentioned earlier, Lee will likely draw Democrat votes without needing to do much campaigning.  And the way these elections work is that it’s the best of the candidates who get the highest vote count.  Therefore, the top two vote-getters will win the seats.  And if it were just between these three, I would say Mark Welch would have no problem retaining his seat.  Joel Herzog is a good guy who comes highly recommended by everyone who knows him.  I have mentioned that, as a former police chief, it would be challenging for him to negotiate police contracts as a trustee with impartiality.  But most people agree that the good stuff with him is so good that that’s not a concern in his regard.  To regain the support of two conservative West Chester trustees, it will require a coordinated effort to retain Mark and help Joel win without one of them losing to Lee Wong.  The current belief is that Lakota schools will attempt to put a levy on the ballot, which is expected to attract many big-spending Democrats, making the math for Lee much more favorable than in previous years.

Then there is the issue of Ann Becker. A couple of other prominent Democrat challengers, affiliated with the Kathy Wyenandt area Democrats, who are certainly in the minority, are also running. Still, they are organizing to tag-team their efforts with the Lakota school levy push, so they hope to have higher than normal voter turnout to capture some advantage.  Ann Becker is the third trustee who was formerly a Tea Party conservative, serving as president of the Cincinnati Tea Party and the West Chester Tea Party.  She used to have a show on 55 KRC to discuss Tea Party topics, but Ann Becker is long gone these days.  She used to be a good tag team vote with Mark Welch, but she has changed quite a lot over the years, to the point where she might as well be a Democrat.  Therefore, electing Joel and retaining Mark become that much more critical.  When I first met Ann, whom I have been good friends with for a long time, she was associated with the levy supporters of Lakota, and we were at odds politically.  However, I always liked Ann, and she made a transition into the Tea Party movement, where we saw many things eye to eye.  People would warn me that she used to be a Democrat.  But I liked her anyway.  I also like Kathy Wyenandt, too, as a person.  However, Democrats are not adept at handling money or policy, and the needs of West Chester require a particular kind of mind. Unfortunately, Ann has lost her way and reverted to the person she was before I met her, before the Tea Party movement.  These individuals might be friendly, but they shouldn’t be in government. 

The other two candidates stepping into the crowded race for those two trustee seats are both Democrats: Alyssa Louagie and Amanda Ortiz.  I don’t think either one of them has a chance, but they think they do because they plan to tag-team the Lakota levy, which many are counting on Ann to lend her support as well.  So, we suddenly have a lot of Democrats taking a calculated leap into the mix, hoping that something will stick.  There is also a risk of losing what made West Chester great and falling into the same trend that muddles so many other communities, which assume that their success stories can survive with Democrats moving into positions of leadership.  People see things going well, so they give the misfit toys a chance, out of the luxury of success.  Then democrats ruin everything, and they want to attach themselves to the success story of West Chester, and the game for the rest of us is to preserve that success by re-electing Mark Welch and adding Joel Herzog.  However, the Democrats want to capitalize on the success to fund their social engineering projects, which will then alter everything great about West Chester, turning it into just another typical community that has seen its success fade because it was taken for granted.  And if we let the Democrats have a greater share of the seats at the table, we could easily end up with three Democrats as trustees, which would be detrimental to the interests of the other parties. That provides some early math to put the situation in perspective.  I think it will be good for Lakota to put out their ridiculous school levy because it will bring out more MAGA, Trump-voting Republicans, who will only help Mark hold his seat.  I think the math works in Mark’s favor to pick up votes this year, given the anger at Lakota schools over their proposed tax increases.  But we’ll see.  What we do know is who is running, and it’s now that the strategies for preserving West Chester need to be developed, before it’s too late.  And taking a long view, Joel would be great, but the more strategic seat comes up in a few years. To protect West Chester, we need a strategy and a lot of players willing to support the long view, especially in a crowded field.

Rich Hoffman

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