Category: Organized Labor

Steve Hilton For Governor of California: With Trump, state competition is the key to Making America Great Again

It’s not just Vivek Ramaswamy, or Byron Donalds who are Trump endorsed candidates running for governor of their respective states in 2026, but I learned at Vivek’s West Chester event from Vivek himself that the Fox News personality Steve Hilton was also planning to run for governor of California once Gavin Newsom terms out after this current term.  Steve Hilton is best known for his show, The Next Generation, which he had on the 9 PM time slot on Sunday nights and was popular; it ran from 2017 to 2023.  But I hadn’t heard what Steve was doing since then, other than showing up here and there as a guest on various shows.  He’s a very positive person and is part of the next generation of political commentators that I have been talking about lately, and that is certainly the case here.  Once Vivek arrived at CTL Aerospace to speak about his announcement to run for governor, I learned that Steve Hilton was flying out from California to speak for two minutes to give Vivek Ramaswamy a warm announcement.   I realized that a very positive pattern was emerging, leading straight out of the Trump White House.  Trump was building a brand in politics that would carry others to succeed him, and once he put his name on that person, the Trump machine would get behind that person and take them to victory.  Steve Hilton has become good friends with Vivek Ramaswamy, and now that Vivek has put his hat in the ring, Steve told us all at that West Chester event that he was planning to do the same in California, which provoked a long conversation with me backstage after he concluded his speech for Vivek. 

If you haven’t noticed Fox News lately, even they can’t ignore the world trend that eluded them for the previous decade as they wanted to turn more to the center and not be known as a right-winged network once Roger Ailes died.  The Rupert Murdoch kids are not conservative at all, and the wives of the boys wanted to take the station toward New York high society politics rather than conservative populism that was put forth by personalities like Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, and Tucker Carlson, and it hurt them.  Then, their position against President Trump was outrageously radicalized.  Again, when discussing left/right politics, the “left” represents Karl Marx’s ideas.  The “right” represents capitalism.  So, being called one or the other is a more profound indication on the political scale of right and wrong, and Fox News was trying to move to the “left” while Roger Ailes had built the network toward the right.  It was not something Rupert Murdoch was politically inclined to, but it was popular, so he went with it as long as the channel made money.  But the kids don’t care so much about making money; they were more concerned with social status, so they made a bad business decision, parted ways with top talent at Fox News, and drove a wedge with Trump himself that they thought they could survive.  They falsely believed that they were the news, not that they reflected their audience, a common mistake everyone is learning from now that Trump is back in the White House.  Woke is out, and common sense is back in.  Even in NFL football, my favorite team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, have reinstated their old coach, Jon Gruden, back into their Ring of Honor.  They took him down after a fake scandal was invented to drive him out of football over leaked emails Gruden had written.  The whole premise was that Gruden could be kicked out of the NFL just for thinking and saying something, and that trend has gone the other way, leaving the Buccaneers under this Trump administration to get with the program and to reinstate Gruden to their Ring of Honor. 

That’s kind of what has happened with Fox News, many of the people who were frequently on Fox News are now in Trump’s cabinet and are doing very well, and it has been good for Fox as a business and they are having to make decisions to step away from their commitment to left winged politics.  The Trump family was pushed away from the network before the election, but now they can’t get enough of Trump, leaving Lara Trump to have her own show on the weekends like Steve Hilton did.  So Steve, always an upbeat personality, talked to me about all this as Vivek was speaking in West Chester, and we talked about this trend, the kind of people Trump was building to extend his government beyond the reach of any critics and to destroy conventional politics on its face.  And specifically with California, everyone thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to be a good Republican governor, but he turned out to be a RINO loser who could never stand up to the unions and ended up disgraced.  And at that point, California turned radical left and is currently miserable.  A prime time for someone like Steve Hilton to run and win the state and bring the fifth largest economy in the world back to sensibility.  Trump had a plan to make America Great Again, and that started by decentralizing the presidency and moving things back to the states where his hand-picked people would be running those states two years into this current administration, and through state competition, Trump was going to change the political landscape forever.

Remember when NBC tried to replace Trump on The Apprentice with Schwarzenegger because they thought the whole success of that show was a tough guy telling people they were fired?  Well, Schwarzenegger bombed, just as he did as governor because he was an actor, not a leader.  Trump is a battle-hardened leader who learned how to be successful in show business.  And these picks for governor positions are similar; they were privately successful but have learned to master the media to convey authentic leadership.  And Steve Hilton could do what Schwarzenegger or Gavin Newsom could never do in California.  Those personalities knew how to manipulate an audience behind the camera but were paralyzed regarding real-world activities.  And Democrats don’t have any other personality that can step forward and explain the massive failures that the people of California have suffered under Gavin Newsom.  So, another endorsement of Steve Hilton by Trump could easily carry him into a win there, too.  The world is changing for the better, and as I told Steve, you can see a pattern emerging that he is undoubtedly a part of.  And he would be great in California.  Like Vivek Ramaswamy, Steve Hilton is an excellent public speaker who can convey a message.  But more than that, he understands how to identify problems, which he always did on his Fox show.  And like many of the successful personalities on Fox, they need a chance to show their stuff on a political stage.  So, California won’t be left behind in all the fun regarding governor races in 2026.  I think it’s excellent, and the radical political left of Karl Marx won’t have a way to deal with it.  Trump endorsements are a new brand in politics that Democrats have no plan for, especially in states they have ruined, like California.  Once he announces, Steve Hilton is poised to win there in a big way. 

Rich Hoffman

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Steve Bannon Pleads Guilty to Fraud: Why people like outlaws, but not criminals

It can get pretty murky whenever money is involved as to the final outcome, which to me was the case with Steve Bannon, the popular WarRoom podcaster and former strategic advisor to President Trump.  He recently pleaded guilty to defrauding investors on a private effort to fund the southern border wall in the U.S.  The hitching point for prosecutors was that the investors believed that 100% of the money was to go to construct the wall, so if some of that money goes to buying a pack of gum for instance, or some administrative cost such as buying paper for a copier, then that could and would be considered fraudulent behavior and a political enemy could then use that technicality to call the behavior fraudulent.  It can get pretty wild and scary with all the emails that start dealing with money.  I have a standard policy of keeping any money out of it when I do something with others to avoid the pitfalls Bannon found himself in.  When you find yourself a prominent national figure, some people will always seek to sink you on any technicality.  So, of course, the radical leftists think this admission of guilt from Bannon is going to hurt him in the eyes of his very vast podcasting public, and I hate to break it to everyone, but America likes bandits and outlaws, so long as they are not bad guys themselves and are seen as fighting against a corrupt system.  In that case, people will find the criminal behavior to be good and will punish the bad guys who attempt to get control of the law so they can define good and bad behavior.  People still have a sense of justice that extends beyond what some central authority tries to impose, which is exactly how President Trump ended up back in the White House and where the mug shot he received from the Fulton County Jail over the case there regarding overturning the election of 2020 is now seen hanging outside the Oval Office in the White House.  People are pretty smart and not just compliant followers, and they could smell a rat in that case; the more Trump’s political enemies dug in, the more they supported Trump and, of course, people like Steve Bannon.

A good soundboard on this strange mystery can be seen in my favorite steak house in Cincinnati.  I think it’s the best steak house in the Midwest, and it is certainly on par with any restaurant, wherever they are, in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London, or anywhere else.  It’s called Son of a Butcher in Liberty Township, Ohio.  Growing up in Liberty Township, I never imagined in my wildest fantasy that something like Son of a Butcher would be located where it would be and that some of what went on in that location would be some of the most essential things in the business and political world.  But we’re talking about bad guys here and can’t stray too far off the mark.  If you have ever been to Son of a Butcher, it is known for its very wild interior decorating with lots of art painted all over the walls and crazy chandeliers hanging from the ceiling everywhere.  Every room in the restaurant has a kind of artistic expression reflecting contemporary pop culture.  For instance, in one room looming over what they call the Godfather table, indicated so from the popular movie series, is a painting of the Joker from the Batman movies.  Another room is filled with paintings of books from popular literature.  It’s a wild place artistically and looks more like a kind of dive bar in New York than something you’d find anywhere in Cincinnati, let alone Liberty Township, Ohio. 

Of course, the food is even better than the decorations, as they know how to pack a punch for food preparation.  They have some very expensive steaks at the S.O.B., as it’s known, and a couple of people eating there could very easily spend 1K per couple.  Some of the food items are moderately priced, but they are on the high end of the menu offerings and is often one of the most interesting places I find myself in routinely. It’s the perfect place to meet people for complicated conversations, to say things appropriately.  When I am there, I am usually put into a back room, which is my favorite place, that seats about 8 to 10 people, has crystal skulls all over the place and is pretty wild in a place of wild rooms.  They call this place the Criminal Room, and it has pictures of famous outlaws popularly known.  Painted on those walls is a large mural of Bonnie and Clyde.  Around the circumference of the room are two large paintings of very well-known pop culture icons, Marylin Monroe and the other Snoop Dogg.  Marylin Monroe was arrested several times for driving without a license and driving too slow in one instance.  Another time, it was for a peaceful protest.  The room paints her with a mug shot, illustrating that just about anybody can be seen as an outlaw if people dig far enough. Then there is Snoop Dogg, who lately has been trying to change his image into something more kid-friendly and popular rather than the thug gangster rapper who advocated for lots of recreational pot use.  Snoop Dogg was arrested for his role in a murder investigation, the details of which have just been sealed from public record in 2024, about the time that the popular rap star and Corona beer commercial spokesman started to change his image to a broader audience.  The murder was a 1993 case that didn’t quite get to prosecute him for extended jail time, but the charges were severe.

The point of the matter is that even with the murder charge hanging over Snoop Dogg’s head, the public didn’t care.  They bought his records anyway, turning him into one of the world’s superstars in music.  And I probably wouldn’t know much of that story if he wasn’t painted on the Son of the Butcher walls that I see at least once a month.  That is certainly the case with Steve Bannon and even President Trump.  Republicans have been harming themselves with their brand by trying to push out the bad boys that all the women like and put in place all the embarrassing stiff pencil necks that they think adhere to the law, but when they get pushed around by the political left, they end up being seen as George McFly from the Back to the Future movies.  Steve Bannon sees himself more like John Paul Jones, the popular pirate from the Revolution, so he understood all this well before others did in the GOP.  But the lesson is, if you want to win people over to your point of view, a background as an outlaw only helps you.  Being a criminal, however, hurts you, so there is a very fine line to walk. The difference is public judgment; if the public sees lawfare occurring, they will support the victim if they stick up for themselves, which is why having those celebrities in that room at the S.O.B. is so artistically revealing. We love people who challenge the law that corrupt people use to hold back our society.  But people do not love criminals who unfairly seek to exploit people in a weakened position.  And the more that the bad guys have tried to prosecute Steve Bannon, who just stepped out of a jail term right before the election of 2024.  The more popular and influential they have made him.

Rich Hoffman

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The Evendale Nazis: Occult attempts to get leverage over political rivals hidden behind historical perspective

I know a lot of people, so I think I would know somebody who would be connected to the Nazi group that tried to cause some trouble in Evendale, Ohio, displaying swastikas and other Nazi imagery in an attempt to ignite a race war.  With their masked faces and an apparent effort to look like Hitler’s followers with nicely pressed clothes that looked fresh off the rack from Party City, my very first thought was that these were a bunch of government workers, probably public school teachers trying to inspire hatred by stirring up people of color to rise and fight against the daily barrage of change from the Trump administration.  It was a pathetic attempt by people who don’t know their history or understand why America is turning away from all this name-calling control and back toward tradition, to cause the kind of social unrest that the national news would cover and convince people to go in a different political direction.  It’s not working; the Marxist left is trying to portray the Trump administration and his conservative supporters as racist Nazi lovers.  The Nazis were always convenient bad guys as established in our culture, and they were, by European standards, socialists and certainly weren’t freedom-loving patriots of small government as the Tea Party movement emerged, and from that, MAGA, which put Trump in office.  These were people who didn’t know their history and who were trying to take the shame of Nazi imagery and control the public narrative of that ignorance.  There is a lot more going on with the Nazis and the administrative state population control behind the memory of that occult-based military takeover of the world that runs much deeper than modern politics.  The swastika, for instance, is one of the oldest occult symbols in the world and has been seen in just about every culture at a time when people weren’t supposed even to be able to build boats large enough to cross an ocean.  The oldest known swastika in the world so far that we have found has come out of Ukraine, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, in the village of Mizyn.  So there was a lot more going on with these Evandale Nazis than just some government workers trying to cause a media dispute to stop the Trump administration.  It was older, occult-driven, and much more sinister but every bit as stupid.

I know more about the Marge Schott story than I would otherwise care to.  When in 1996, the owner of the baseball team The Cincinnati Reds at that time, Schott, said during an ESPN interview that “Hitler was good at the beginning, but he just went too far,” a crusade to remove her from society began, and all rational thought went out the window.  A decade before she made these comments, I knew Marge Schott through a guy who claimed to be her grandson so that he could try to date my wife, which was a whole story of its own.  Well, Marge didn’t have any kids, and in those days, I knew many people in Marge Schott’s circle of influence, so I could root the guy out for the fraud he turned out to be.  Not that he was any competition to me, but he certainly wanted my wife, and the best way to show what a deceitful liar he was, was for me to show that he was lying about who he was and connect him to a more extensive network of con artists who were pretending to be connected to powerful, wealthy, Cincinnati families to take advantage of innocent, beautiful young girls in the modeling profession.  Through all this crazy activity, I got to know Marge Schott a bit, and I always felt bad for her after the comments she made were used to essentially destroy her publicly and force the sale of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team to a different owner.  It was a clear early sign of woke behavior in using controversy to make public opinion adhere to a political message meant to control the mass population.  Marge said some things that were her genuine opinion, which were being used to control social politics and status in society in general. 

The truth is that many people supported Adolph Hitler, including the royal family of England.  After World War I, after the Treaty of Versailles, the powers that wanted to form an alliance against sovereign nations tried to use the League of Nations to rally everyone to the cause of globalism, and they went too far with the German people.  And that gave rise to Hitler, and many people followed him as a pushback against the first attempt at globalism, just as many of those same forces have tried to do with modern-day Putin and even Trump.  Not that any of these people are alike, other than they run the countries they come from, but the sticking point is that they all received public support for supporting national sovereignty over globalist trends.  When Hitler went “too far,” as Marge Schott meant, he had moved toward mass extermination of the Jewish people, for a whole list of new bad ideas that came from the power that had gone to his head. 

But what is most concerning about the Nazis and Hitler was how they connected the political party to occult practices.  This is why I have been talking a lot over the years about how much of the occult is wrapped into our modern politics, even to the point where the Elohim who work against God are political assets for modern-day Marxist incursions into an otherwise peaceful, and successful society.  The occult use of ancient symbols, such as swastikas, is an attempt to cover up just how much of a relationship many people in the world try to use from the spirit world to invoke their menace on the face of the earth.  Imagine the Genie from the popular Disney movie Aladdin being able to serve whoever rubs the magic lamp and grant wishes to the master.  To occult practitioners, that is a secret weapon they seek diligently. You find it all over modern political movements, a desire to use occult efforts to get leverage over political opponents, and the Nazis showed success in this alliance. Still, because it all went bad, the nature of that relationship was being pushed underground, so general people wouldn’t make the connection.  That’s when things start falling apart socially; in the past, these types of people have been able to invoke Nazi imagery to steer people toward some emotional catastrophe and manipulate society toward those sentiments rather than reveal their true intentions of occult concealment for mass social control.  I saw this happen up close with Marge Schott more than twenty years ago, and now well-ironed cosplay Nazis were running around Evendale trying to start a race war ahead of Trump closing down The Department of Education.  This trick had worked in the past, but people were growing tired of it because the historical references of swastika use were very shallow in the scheme of things.  The Nazis were only the most recent to use them for a relationship with something much more significant and terrifying, the religions of the world that predated human civilization as we know it today, to a time before the earth began, and the ramifications of that are horrendous to those with shallow intellects.  As I say all the time, look where there is war, such as in Ukraine, with many hidden secrets of the past that are there, and you will find people trying to hide that past through violence and emotional diatribes.  And in the case of the Evendale Nazis, we are seeing terrified radical Marxists trying to use events of the past to conceal the real problem that has been exposed by the light of day.

Rich Hoffman

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‘Conception Begins at Erection’: The rediculous communism of people like Represenative Anita Somani

To understand why the Ohio bill by Anita Somani is so stupid, “Conception Begins at Erection,” you have to understand that flower child Democrats who want the communist world of John Lennon’s “Imagine” are anti-family and have been working to dismantle it as the focus of their political platform from the beginning.  Their basic premise is that sex is their seductive tool to dismantle society and prevent good families from being created at any level.  So they need open, loose sex to perpetuate their intentions of social destruction, which is why they love abortion so much.  For a woman to be equal to a man and to have consequence-free sex, she must have access to abortions.  Nowhere in the Democrat platform does it question whether sex should be practiced at all without the institution of marriage being applied because sex itself is used as a tool of destruction, as introduced by the communists of Europe who migrated to America to bring down their rival generation by generation.  The communists of the hippie movement needed free love, free sex, and a lack of possession of a single-sex partner to usher in their concept of a no-possession world where nobody owned anything, especially each other.  And sex was their tool, a temptation that most human beings care a lot about and feel some urge to practice.  To achieve this hostile act, women needed to have the means to destroy the ramifications of a bad decision, whereas, in a healthy society, they would be gatekeepers of value.  If they didn’t want some scum bag, smelly dude crawling all over them jobless and with no future prospects, who was to judge.  Maybe he had tattoos, and some body piercings, and her dad wouldn’t like him, so in a flight of fancy, the young girl sleeps with the reckless despot.  Only to get pregnant and tied for the rest of her life to the mistake of a bad decision through pregnancy.  To promote further destructive social behavior, the communist left known as the Democrat Party in America needed abortion to implement their means of family destruction.

Anita Somani is one of those radical medical professionals along the lines of people like Ohio’s Amy Acton, the lunatic who shut down the State during Covid, and Dr. Fauci, who is so well known for his disastrous social policies that harmed and killed many millions of people through horrendous healthcare advice.  Too many of these healthcare professionals who have radical communist ideas have shown themselves to be destructive, and that is certainly the case for Representative Anita Somani.  She is an old hippie chick who calls female rights the right to use sex as a torpedo for bad behavior and to destroy family creation through the temptations of loose sexual practice.  Traditionally, a woman might turn away a man who didn’t have their act together for sexual interaction, and she might get pregnant as a result, a mistake that would last the rest of her life; with abortion, those mistakes were promoted.  A woman could set the reset button and try to forget that the error ever happened.  She just might be tempted to make more mistakes, which would further erode the desire to start a family, and instead would enter the workforce and compete with men for jobs and head of household status socially.  Always in the back of their plans, and in the focus of people like the Ohio Democrat Anita Somani, is the notion that all people belong to each other, that children, if produced, belong to the Democrat-controlled state, and that families should be destroyed in favor of a communist commune of social, pot smoking, despots. 

We’re now at a point where this merging of social roles has been vastly accepted, so most people think such talk sounds almost Amish in tradition.  Equality was the priority, and to make women equal to men, they had to be slugs and even reckless.  How else would women be used to be instruments of destruction when traditionally, a man would have to work hard to win the affection of a woman, especially a pretty one?  There is another problem that arises: in such a merit-based system, pretty women have an advantage over those not so attractive, and Democrats couldn’t have that.  That would mean attractive people would merge to have beautiful babies, further causing the problems of equality that Democrats were so obsessed with, making equality impossible until everyone was equally ugly.  So, to further drive home the point of irresponsible behavior, the man-hating culture of Democrats like Anita Somani wants to punish men for bad sexual decisions just because they engage in activity that results in discharging semen without the intent to produce a baby with it.  Ohio isn’t the only place where these kinds of satirical legislative proposals are being introduced.  This is a pro-abortion movement that Democrats think is cute as Trump and Republicans settle in to dismantle everything that progressives have built over the last century.  And Democrats believe this is the way they are going to win people back to their party instead of watching them bleed away and become Republicans.  Anita Somani is so tone-deaf from communist propaganda over the years, the hippie vantage point of sexual utilization to form a borderless world where nobody owns any private property, that she can’t see how dumb this proposal is under any consideration.  People are turning away from this kind of thinking and are very open to more traditional views on sexual relationships because what we have been doing has left a lot of people miserable and unfulfilled.   Several generations of this destructive behavior have alarmed society to the point where they want to make some changes.  They are moving away from people like Anita Somani, not toward them, as might have been the case during the 1970s to 2000s. 

I’ve bumped into Representatives like Anita Somani in Columbus more than I’d like to.  They are all over the place, and when you talk to them, they are as stupid as you’d think.  They have those empty eyes of social propaganda that look at you with a kind of blank stare because they only have one gear of thinking: social destruction disguised as rights and equality.  And they just can’t be reasoned with.  They are so out of touch with people that they think political stunts like this ridiculous bill will rally people to their cause of more man-hating family destruction to perpetuate their communist political platforms.  They don’t understand that the world has been turning away from them for a long time, especially now that Trump is back in office.  People want standards.  There is no higher form of government than the management of individual families.  First comes a family, then comes your community, then your state, then your country.  Only after all other things are taken care of can we worry about the world.  Not the other way around.  When you dig into the lives of people like Anita Somani, you find miserable people with lots of unhappy spouses and kids because they put their efforts into everything but their families and it shows in their homes and careers.  To cover those mistakes, they dig even deeper into communism to disguise their mistakes with social restructuring because if the rules of good conduct are changed, nobody will judge them as losers.  Which, of course, they are, and that is why their political movement is falling apart as it was always destined to do. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Bible Says Earth is Roughly 6000 Years Old: Understanding water displacment

I really like people like Mel Gibson and Ken Ham, one the famous actor, the other the creator of The Ark Encounter just south of Cincinnati.  However, both believe in the scriptural understanding of the earth’s history, that it is roughly 6000 years old.  I would argue that they aren’t wrong if you measure years differently than we do on Earth, but that is an entirely different discussion.  Regarding earth sciences, it says that life on Earth is billions of years old and is at apparent odds with scriptural timelines.  Within these kinds of debates, the truth gets concealed from people, which is partly on purpose and other parts unfortunate.  It’s challenging to put science into a belief system, just as it’s hard for people who build a belief system in science to alter a previous assumption because of their emotional investment.  I don’t hold it over Mel Gibson in any way; I can’t wait for his new movie on the Resurrection of Christ.  That will be a life-changing movement for all human history and change the world.  I believe God’s hand has pointed his life in the direction of making this movie the whole time.  So I can’t wait for it in 2026 or 2027 when they finally finish the movie which is a sequel to The Passion.  Because I love the Bible and have had a relationship with it all my life, it comes up a lot more now. How can you love the Bible and love science? The two are incompatible.  I hear all the time that Earth is only 6000 years old and that Charles Darwin was an absolute idiot.  I also hear a lot that we never landed on the moon.  But I think there is compelling evidence in both categories that will erase any doubt very soon, so people believe what they believe, and if it holds them together as people, that is the important thing.  But that doesn’t make everything a fact.  

Mel Gibson is a very smart person who is very passionate about many things, making him a great actor and creative director.  But he has lived a very rocky life, living hard and going through many women.  For a period in the 80s and 90s, he was the sexiest man alive by many considerations, and it was hard for him to maintain his sanity, I think, being a hand of God and having every woman in the world throwing themselves at his feet already undressed.  So, I don’t blame him at all for holding onto scripture like a disabled person holds on to the handrail while going down the steps.  But he recently said something on the Joe Rogan Podcast that was very interesting and part of the movement of trying to fit science into scripture, which is popular these days.  However, I argue differently because I see science trying to force understanding into the same problem, where new evidence is ignored to maintain a scientific narrative.  I’m just going to say it; everyone is going to be screwed up in a few years once we get out into space to discover that humans came from out there, not through Darwin’s evolution, and that many of the things we believe are going to be shattered with new evidence.  That doesn’t make scripture any less relevant or some scientific method.  It just means that discovery gives new evidence and that we must let that evidence tell the story.  Not to make the story fit our assumptions. 

I think these tunnels under the Temple Mount are older than when Abraham went there to sacrifice Isaac to God. And is why the politics of religions are designed to make real excavation impossible.

Anyway, Mel Gibson was telling Joe Rogan that he doesn’t believe the idea that the ocean levels weren’t lower during the Ice Age, as I have been saying, 400 feet lower.  Mel Gibson said that if you put ice in a glass of water when the ice melts, the water doesn’t displace itself over the rim of the glass.  The level of the water doesn’t change.  And from the point of view of mass and how we measure it, he’s got a point.  But he was missing that during the Ice Age, massive amounts of Earth’s water were tied up in glaciers, and those giant blocks of ice were coming down over both poles and were mostly over land.  The weight of the ice itself is what caused the Great Lakes in North America.  The weight was so great that it flattened the earth’s crust in that location, which is still rising back up to a circumference, pushing the water out and into the St. Lawrence Seaway and, ultimately, the Atlantic Ocean.  Another several thousand years, and the Great Lakes won’t even be there.  So because of this massive effect of glaciers displacing large amounts of water over the land masses, the world’s sea levels were 400 feet lower.  At that time, you could have walked from England to France without getting your feet wet, except for a few ancient rivers.  And the Persian Gulf was above water all the way down to Dubai.  Most of Florida extended well into the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula.  If you have read the Book of Morman, there were old civilizations in North and South America that the Nephites and Lamanites interacted with when they migrated from Jerusalem around 600 B.C.  Even then, it looks like land mass was lost to the sea. 

I would further offer that if you look at the previous shorelines of water levels that were oceanfront during the Ice Age, we will discover a lot of ancient civilizations and that the assumption science has of linear technical development is ridiculous.  Rather, we are dealing with the Vico Cycle here, where human civilization has started and stopped throughout history.  And that history goes back millions of years.  Not just 10 thousand years.  And likely goes out into space.  I think there is compelling evidence that Jerusalem goes back to settlement with a cave system under Mt. Moriah and that the Temple Platform that King Solomon built his temple on, and the current Dome of the Rock was significant, perhaps even millions of years ago.  And many of the world’s religions have purposely been put at each other’s throats to conceal the truth, which we’ll likely figure out once we start colonizing Mars.  Much of what we know now about everything will change with new evidence, and we have to be willing to look at that evidence without losing the importance of our belief systems.  It can be tricky business, but it’s not impossible.  Everyone must understand that the bad guys out there purposely seek to pit people’s beliefs against each other to conceal or use the truth to their advantage.  So, because Mel Gibson doesn’t quite understand water displacement concepts and how they relate to ocean levels, that doesn’t mean that what he says in his movies, especially the upcoming Resurrection, is false.  It’s just perspective.  The art says what it says.  And that is the same whether we are talking about the Bible, the Book of Morman, or the Quran.  I find them all very fascinating, and there are certain truths there.  But there is a lot else that science is unpacking, and our scope will increase with new information.  We must have the guts to look at that information and not hide from it, which is the case with science and what we look at regarding previous ocean levels.  And what we will discover under the water, especially off the coast of Cuba, India, Japan, and the Persian Gulf.  It’s going to be a mind-bending few years of upcoming adventure.  And we will all be better off for it.

Rich Hoffman

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Good Leaders Don’t Share the Spotlight: What Elon Musk means by a Direct Democracy on Mars

I understood what Elon Musk meant when he expressed that a government on Mars should be a Direct Democracy as opposed to what we have in the United States, a Representative Republic.  Many people took that as a knock against our current form of government, which many would consider the best in the world.  But I think the point of the matter is to regulate what you want the government to do.  I would say that in America, we just voted for a strong CEO type, and coming from the wealthiest man in the world who runs a lot of companies, of course, that would be his recommendation.  When we set up a government on Mars, we should give people the right to vote for a strong CEO type of leader.  Not a government with checks and balances that are meant to keep the brakes on government activism by making it hard to pass things that can slow down your society.  A mature government in a fully functioning country will have different needs than a remote colony of struggling adventurers, so context is everything.   But it’s important to consider how leadership is advanced or suppressed in a culture, depending on the kind of government you want to have.  Personally, I get asked at least two or three times a week when I am going to run for elected office, and my reply is always that I don’t have the tolerance for all that hand-holding.  Politicians have to be patient and need to serve the task at hand.  Where I am a very imposing person.  I expect people to do things my way or to take the highway.  I am not very interested in people who don’t do what I tell them.  And I certainly am not a group consensus kind of facilitator.  Elected office would be very frustrating because it involves too much working with other people to get anything done. 

I certainly understand the need for a time and place to give everyone a seat at the table.  In my own family, I get very frustrated in trying to get anybody to agree on anything when we coordinate events together.  There is always somebody working, there is always someone sick, there is always someone who wants to do something else.  And when it comes to those things and community events, I tend to sit on my temper and let everyone talk until they figure it out.  At those times, I sit back and sit on my hands and wait for everyone to get their minds right.  It drives me crazy, but its what you have to do sometimes when the people you are working with want to think they are all equally able to express an opinion and desire for an outcome.  Our representative government in America is good because it only gives it limited powers to do the bare minimum.  However, innovation and exceptional output come from individual leaders who are very strong-willed and can put people on their backs and take them to the promised land.  That’s the kind of thing I’m interested in.  That is undoubtedly what America voted for in putting Trump back in the White House.  We didn’t vote for a continued bureaucracy of three branches of government checking each other’s power.  As  a strong CEO, we want Trump to impose his will on the executive branch and make everyone else see things his way.  Which is the way we voted for.  That is the kind of thing that Elon Musk is talking about setting up on Mars.  I would say he’s new to this kind of thinking and has the right idea.  But as to government, you don’t want your leadership on Mars to come from the government.  You want a bunch of innovative CEOs competing with each other to drive culture forward.  You want just enough representative government to keep the power and water supply flowing.  The basic infrastructure that the government can provide for a society.  But nothing more.  Our form of government was so powerful because it decentralized the concept of a king.  But in a strongly run company, a CEO is essentially a king.  So, one thing we have never quite figured out in a capitalist culture is how to have a decentralized government that empowers kings to run good companies and give people options through at-will employment.  If they don’t like one company, they can work for another.  If their king is a tyrant, they can leave and work for someone much better.  Meanwhile, the water works, the power runs, and the basic infrastructure needs of society are handled by a government just powerful enough to do so but not so powerful that it takes over everything. 

I fall asleep with all the consensus-building that has been imposed on us by collectivist-based philosophies because they were never going to work.  I’m glad people are doing those jobs for school boards, trustees, and commissioners.  But I am only ever happy when I can point at someone and tell them to do a task.  They perform the task, and everyone celebrates victory.  Rule by Consensus is an academic fantasy by the fans of Karl Marx.  It’s as practical as unicorns and dragons from fantasy and has no business being discussed along with leadership concepts.  Human beings follow strong leaders.  Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, knows through experience what a good leader looks like.  And when traveling to other planets and setting up civilization there, strong leaders will be necessary.  Stalled government concepts will only slow down progress. 

When we talk about why we can’t do things anymore, and everything costs so much money, it’s because our government approach has been wrong.  When we try to build a bridge or a highway, if we look to the past, there was always some strong personality type that was able to wrestle all the alligators and make boots out of them.  This is opposed to the consensus-building approach, in which everyone treats the effort like an Alcoholics Anonymous session.  That approach costs money and time and seldom ever gets anything done.  And I have never been interested in those interactions with other people.  And people who are good leaders check out and do something else.  If you want success in a society, you have to give a means to firm leadership to work their magic.  We didn’t elect Trump to get along with other people.  We elected him to impose his will that we voted for.  He told us what he wanted to do, and we empowered him to do it.  That is what Elon Musk is talking about for Mars and space travel in general.  You never want the government to have too much power.  Our current Representative Republic keeps elected officials talking while the real leaders of the world run companies that employ people for everyone’s best interests.  We don’t look to the government to provide that leadership level, and we never should.  Even though we admire people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ronald Reagan, they are exceptions to the rule of a government that needs to have its power regulated and stalled so that a centralized authority doesn’t encumber authentic leadership.  And that is a trick we are still working out on earth.  We see good examples here and there; Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of them.  Trump has always been a successful and influential CEO.  But he doesn’t share the spotlight with anybody.  He has always been the top dog in all his endeavors.  And people dealing with him know it.  I’ve never seen authentic leadership share the spotlight of authority and work.  Rule by committee does not work.  Only strong leadership by influential personalities works.  Typically, those are not the people you want running the government.  You want them out there making money and employing people so that society has options and innovation to build from. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Fued Between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk: Cybertruck saves Trump Tower Las Vegas from a Terrorist Attack

You can see what kind of war we’re in; the terrorist attacks were meant to be evident on the first day of the New Year ahead of the incoming Trump administration.  The radical elements out there are going to have their faces melt, and they are going to try every trick in the book to impose on us the same kind of disorder and chaos that have imprisoned the human race since the beginning of time.  I’ve liked the Cybertruck by Tesla since the first design was introduced, and I’ll probably get one myself once the dust settles on it.  It’s in high demand now, and I don’t want to wait for one.  So when it gets a little easier to get one, I probably will, and for all the reasons that a terrorist tried to use it to blow up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.  The Cybertruck was strong, contained the explosion, and didn’t even break any windows to the lobby of one of President Trump’s premier properties in the world. An obvious attempt to further divide Elon Musk and Trump on New Year’s Day with two terrorist attacks.  One at the Trump Hotel and another that killed and hurt a lot of people in New Orleans almost at the same time.  I’d say it is almost a non-existent coincidence that the two terrorists acted alone and that all kinds of characters have been behind the illegal immigration movement that do not want to see America Great Again, so as terrorists do, they try to scare people, into submission.  And there are a lot of terrorists under Obama and Biden who are operating in the background of our nation.  And there will be a lot more violent acts committed against innocent people in the days to come, so we’ll have to meet that violence where it lives and smoke it out into the open to deal with.  We don’t have time for personal feuds between Steve Bannon of the WarRoom and Elon Musk, which I think goes far beyond practicality. 

I like Steve Bannon a lot.  Without the WarRoom podcast, which was run by Steve Bannon, the MAGA movement wouldn’t have been as strong as it was.  We needed a pirate element, and Steve was John Paul Jones in our modern movement.  But saying that, I don’t agree with him on everything; I have found a few things deeply alarming about Steve Bannon, and those things have been emerging over this ridiculous H-1B visa issue.  It’s one thing to disagree on policy, which is bound to happen in a big tent party, which the Republican Party is these days.  But Steve’s position on foreign labor is very pro-union-like, and as we all know, unions are anti-capitalist and pro-Karl Marx in their design, and I knew it was going to be tough to have all these union people supporting Trump and then getting them to see things correctly regarding the definitions of labor.  Everyone should have to compete for a good job no matter where they were born.  Nobody should be given anything for nothing.  That has been the standard union idea out there: that America First meant good jobs for Americans just because they were born in America.  To me, America First means something very different relative to the way business is conducted in other places in the world, and once many of the jobs are brought back to America from where they presently are, America will be operating at very low unemployment, and we are going to want every last person working who can, and we’ll need immigration labor to fill the gaps in need versus supply.

That labor discussion about people who want to come to America and pursue the American Dream is different than the illegal immigration that has hidden criminal elements and terrorists into our country behind the chaos of open borders designed to give us precisely the kind of world we experienced on New Year’s Day, 2025, terrorism and criminal enterprise by those hostile to America.  They all have to be deported for the security of our domestic nation.  However, we will need an immigration system that accommodates all the work that will be done in returning to the United States in the years to come.  We will need more than 300 million potential workers to feed the economy Trump has in mind.  So, taking the side of labor unions with an America First attached to birthright citizenship of more entitled people who work far too little for way too much money is not a productive position, which brings up the other thing that has always concerned me about Steve Bannon, his dislike of Ayn Rand.  Coming from his background in finance, I would think he would appreciate the Ayn Rand message of producers versus looters more than he does, but he has been very hostile toward the American novelist and the people who support her, which is baffling considering Bannon’s support, of President Trump, a guy who could easily be one of the heroes of Ayn Rand’s books.  But that hatred of Ayn Rand is the same as why labor unions tend to hate those who run industry.  They believe in collectivism, which is the root of labor unions.  And an absolute hatred of the producers of the world of which Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of the best. 

Elon Musk, ironically has had a lot of excellent manufacturing capacity in his companies because he managed to fight off the labor union movements pushed on him by the Department of Labor radicals.  But for most of his life, Elon Musk has been a hard-line Democrat, certainly left of center.  This sudden love of MAGA is a late position for sure.  However, regarding labor union policy, Musk has been among the best, and Steve Bannon is far to the left of Musk on that topic.  So, it can confuse people trying to figure out where all these guys are and who is right about what.  Personally, and I say this affectionately, I see people do this all the time.  I think what Steve Bannon is doing is self-sabotage because his role in the future is confusing to him.  When you are a warrior who fights hard to win, what does that warrior do once they’ve won?  How do pirates define themselves when piracy is no longer needed?  Because the fight has changed, and suddenly, the values that made you a hero now make you a union-loving liberal.  You’re the same person, but the world changed, and it’s hard to figure it all out.  So psychologically, people, when faced with this kind of thing, resort to self-sabotage so they can at least get their identity to a place where they recognize the person they look at in the mirror.  That is sometimes far easier than adjusting to change, even if that change was something you fought hard to win.  In everyone’s minds, winning was a fantasy they never thought would come true.  Meanwhile, the real bad guys are out there, and terrorists are going to make Making America Great Again very difficult.  And Steve Bannon is needed for that fight.  And so is Elon Musk.  And so are labor unions, as they will need to do work, but they will need to change their approach to it.  We need everyone.  The goal of the parasites out there is to divide us with fear and chaos so they can continue to run their crime syndicates in government over us all.  If you thought New Year’s Day was bad, it will get far worse.  You can bet on it.  And we need everyone pointed in the correct direction and to put their differences aside because that’s what big-tent politics requires.  And to fight for what is truly needed as defined by an America First that can lead the world to a better tomorrow.  And we don’t have time for complex psychological issues that spawn from identity failures and quirky philosophies.  Let’s fight to win and surrender nothing to terrorism.  And let competition cover the employment issues, which is how greatness is born.  And evil is rooted out before it ever grows into a weed.    

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Rich Hoffman

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The Evil of Sandbagging: Why a $359 Steak is good and well worth it

For many reasons, the problem of sandbagging came up over this last week on several fronts, and as I say in my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and everywhere I go, all the time, one of the most evil things you can do in life is under commit and over perform, or at least, intend to.  Even under the most optimal conditions, people never end up overperforming once they realize their efforts’ expectations have been removed from them.  In short, this practice is called sandbagging, which I have never done as a person, and I never will.  Even under conditions where I was the only person doing the work, just good enough, or putting forth a lackluster effort was never acceptable.  This topic came up as people were telling stories of my past and why I used to ride bicycles to work while sick, through the snow, and under all kinds of horrendous conditions.  And from their point of view, it might have looked a little wild.  There are a lot of stories from my past that people like to tell because many of the things I do and have done are considered excessively pro-work.  So, of course, this provoked biblical reference because people seem to understand them as a common source of information, and I went on a long explanation that seemed to explain things well to those listening.  Keep in mind, the reason I hate organized labor so much is that they come from communist backgrounds, and, of course, they have a very anti-Christian view of the world.  Their practice as a communist organization is to withhold work from an employer to gain leverage for their financial position, and that is what Marxism is all about.  They are God haters and withdraw work to get some advantage in negotiating their terms.  This is why I call it evil; a lack of work is detrimental to the human race. 

I think a lot of people go to church, and they read the Bible.  But I don’t think they understand the point of many stories.  They learn the basics and believe that Jesus died on the cross for their sins so they can do whatever they want and still get into Heaven.  Which, of course, isn’t true.  It’s a fantasy for bad people to continue to be lazy slugs.  Most people do not understand the story of Cain and Able, the first kids of Adam and Eve, and why God was so insistent that the land of Canaan, named after the son Cain and all his descendants, why God wanted to punish the kid so emphatically.  It all started with two sacrificial offerings.  Able was a shepherd who offered God the best of his flock.  And God saw that he put that extra effort into what he dedicated to God and that Able was good.  On the other hand, Cain threw together just any old sacrifice as a farmer.  And what he gave to God was not the best of himself.  Sure, he gave what he was required, but he withheld his sacrifice, and that angered God immensely.  Something he never got over, as Yahweh of the Bible.  Now, God wasn’t mad because he wanted more.  He was the creator of the universe; he could have anything he wanted.  What he was angry at was the effort between the two boys.  One gave everything he had.  The other held back and sandbagged the efforts, keeping the best for himself.  Of course, Cain didn’t like being shown up by his brother Able, so he killed him, and this is something we see even today.  People who sandbag their efforts seek to destroy those who want to work hard and do well in the world.  And from this straightforward sentiment, most of the evil in the world is born.

Even in sexual practices, much of the evil in the world comes from the basic notion of sandbagging.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to have a wife.  So he hires a prostitute or goes to a strip joint.  Or develops a porn addiction.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to earn a woman’s attention, so he drinks too much and seeks to get her drunk so that she lowers her standards of him.  A person can’t deal with reality because they shrug away the pressure of responsibility, so they turn to drugs and alcohol for relief from social judgment.  Essentially, most of the evil done in the world comes from a sandbagging mentality.  And this is why each time God had to deal with the vile evil of the original sin, from Adam and Eve and their kids, it is the efforts of Cain that Yahweh sought to destroy.  Because Cain was lazy and a sandbagger, all his descendants had the same trait, which led to the massive amount of evil in the world before the flood came and tried to wipe them all away.  But then again, they would rise into Sodom and Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, and even the Giants in the Land of Canaan that God told the Hebrew people to destroy completely.  The evil God was mad at was the lazy, sandbagging nature of the descendants of Cain.  Jesus, on the other hand, was born from the line of Seth, a third child that Adam and Eve had to replace their murdered son, Able.

That is always how I have seen work and why I say that lazy people who sandbag, those who hold back their good work for better pay or some social leverage, are evil.  I’ve never been a sandbagger in any way, and I find the trait repulsive in people.  Those who withhold their effort are like the descendants of Cain, and I don’t like them.  I may put up with them in the world.  But I don’t respect or enjoy them as people, and I think of them like Yahweh did in the Bible.  I understood the story of Cain and Able as a very young person and took it to heart, and I have always worked hard because there is goodness in the effort.  But people who like the bad guys in the world are the sandbaggers, and they defend their position by withholding good work for leverage in the world that is essentially evil and leads to most of the bad things humans do to each other, some of which have been described here.  Sandbagging leads to evil.  People who don’t like good work tend to desire to be bad and sell it like cheap cologne at a flea market.  And justify its cheapness as a bargain.  Rather than enjoy something at full price because they worked hard for it.  They are always looking for a way to give as little amount of something as possible, which makes the effort evil. 

This particular story of Cain and Able came up while I was dining with friends at the excellent restaurant Son of a Butcher at Liberty Center in Butler County, Ohio.  There are a lot of great steak restaurants in the city of Cincinnati, but many are saying the steaks at this place are the best.  These guests were well-traveled as we discussed nice restaurants in India, London, China, Paris, and Japan.  These people traveled everywhere and were used to the best. They told me that the steak they had at The Son of the Butcher was the best they had ever had.  I recommended one that cost over $359 each, and we bought a whole table full of them.  So we talked about why that steak was so much better than other steaks in nice restaurants worldwide.  And if you’ve ever been to the S.O.B. restaurant, you would know it’s a pretty crazy place.  But what it all comes down to at that restaurant is that they work hard in the front of the house and the back, in the kitchen.  The food shows they do a good job and give their best.  It’s worth $359, and a check for around $3k instead of a trip to Dollar General and a hamburger at Burger King.  It’s all food, but some comes from hard work, and some from just doing the basics and barely getting by.  So I told them the story of Cain and Able, and they understood, even if they hadn’t been thinking about hard work in quite the same way.  In many ways, it all comes down to embracing evil to make the least effort in the world.  Or to put forth the best and to expect the best, not because it’s expensive or fancy.  But because it is moral and sound, it represents God’s good intentions in the world and a people worth making an effort to do work in the world that everyone can and should be proud of.  Evil people, like Cain, would hear that people worked hard and went to a place like S.O.B. for a $359 steak, and they would plot a way to steal from them, just as Cain killed Able for making him look bad instead of giving their best and earning their right to get a nice steak dinner.  They would put more effort into plotting and scheming for collective bargaining contracts to do the least work to get as much for nothing as possible.  And they would do that because they are the bad guys in the world.  And for me, they deserve to be wiped away just as Yahweh has done in the past because they are worthless hindrances to the perpetuation of the human race. After all, they are evil sandbaggers.

Rich Hoffman

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Mitch McConnell is Out in the Senate: Making a point, and making a difference

I thought it was a pathetic speech, Mitch McConnell’s last one as a senator in any leadership position.  He gave it right before Christmas in 2024, and it came across as petty but very revealing.  As I say all this, I get high-level politics and understand all too well how tough it can be working with people who disagree with you.  I am used to spending most of my time overcoming the objections of people who disagree with me and working hard to turn them into my way of thinking.  Not through force, but by showing them how much they would benefit from doing so.  Some of my best friends are powerful politicians who have to do that every day.  They work with everybody and anybody.  And for that matter, I understand Trump because he has all these traits naturally.  And since he first ran for office, or talked about it, back in the late 1990s with the Reform Party, I thought Trump would be great in a political role because he knows how to get things done and overcome people’s objections while showing them the benefit of agreeing with him.  That’s more of an Art of the Deal than a political thing.  However, that is what Mitch McConnell talked about in his last speech.  Instead, he referred insultingly to what he thinks people in politics are or should be doing.  And he narrowed it all down to two key ingredients that everyone who gets into political office seeks to do, based on all his vast years of experience in the Senate.  He says there are two kinds of people who go to the Senate: people who want to make a point, and those who want to make a difference. 

Mitch came across as an old man trying to learn to play video games.  What I heard from him was a frustrated person who realized that the game had changed from underneath him, and he had no idea how to adapt to it.  He was at the end of his career and wouldn’t be a part of anything under these new rules, and he was frustrated.  The world was going to move on without him, and he was not being revered as a great Senator who had been a leader for many decades.  He was being viewed as an Anti-Trump loser who sold our country out and was the kind of person who put his name on that CR at the end of 2024 that had been 1500 pages and lost the battle to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on the X platform in getting the bill crushed before a vote could be made.  What replaced that bill was a much more narrowly focused CR with many bells and whistles removed, which bothered Mitch McConnell.  And that frustration came out in his speech when he referred to those against his way of doing politics as just getting involved to make a point.  I think what he said revealed why so many members of the Senate and the House have problems because they never did understand what getting into politics was supposed to be.  I find Mitch McConnell revolting, not because he was anti-Trump but because he had so much power, but he never used that power to build a replacement bridge on I-75 going over from Cincinnati into Northern Kentucky.  At one point in 2012, he shared the powers of government with John Boehner, who was Speaker of the House and lived right across the Ohio River and was just as motivated.  But both men dropped the ball and got caught up in the Washington game of Beltway politics where the lobbyists rule the day, and they became part of the problem.  Certainly not a solution. We still don’t have a bridge after decades of trying.  And they had all the levers of power to make it happen.

It’s not like I don’t know the type of people I think should be in the Senate.  I would say I know J.D. Vance pretty well.  He’s from my area, and I’ve met him often.  He’s nothing like Mitch McConnell.  I also know the newly elected Bernie Moreno.  I was one of his very first supporters and was invited to have lunch personally with him in the early stages of his campaign, and I was able to talk to him about why he was running.  He did not run for the Senate to make a difference or a point.  He wanted to be a good manager in the Senate, representing Ohio along the way.  When we voted for him, we were not voting for a MAGA disrupter who just wanted to make a point.  We wanted President Trump’s management support in the Senate so he could be a better president.  I also asked J.D. Vance and Bernie Moreno the same question privately.  I said, “If you get in, are you just going to be another louse hanging out on K-Street making deals with scum bags who want to destroy this country in trade for the benefits of some whore standing on the street corner?”  In both cases, they said to me “no Mr. Hoffman.  Absolutely not.”  J.D. Vance kept his promise so far and was an excellent Senator until Trump picked him to be V.P.  So we know the difference between a J.D. Vance, who was new, and an old corrupt politician like Mitch McConnell. 

And yes, when I spoke to both of those guys and many others in the House and Senate, that was my typical question to break the ice.  I am always interested in how they answer, and I can tell a lot by nonverbal communication, whether they are lying to me or sincere.  That’s my way of doing things, and it’s always why I tend to be in a position to ask those questions in the first place.  People respect my opinion and like it when I’m part of the process, especially on the front end.  In doing this kind of thing for several decades, I have known Mitch McConnell, and many have liked him over the years.  And they take the easy way out and listen to all the lobbyists when they shouldn’t.  And they played their role in jacking up our debt to over 35 trillion dollars and adding another trillion in wasteful spending every 100 days.  And they do all that calling the effort compromise.  When what they are doing is packing vast amounts of evil in these bills, passing them so everyone can get what they want, and selling that corruption as a good government that compromises with the bad guys.  Then, they say to their critics that compromising is more virtuous than standing your ground on anything.  And those who do are the kind of people who want to make a point.  They don’t understand how government works, and they certainly don’t understand the Senate.  But to my eyes, all that McConnell said on his way out the door sounded like a 90-year-old grandpa with one foot in the grave trying to learn to play Fortnite with a 7-year-old, slow, crusty and complaining about how fast the world was moving because he didn’t have the skills to play the game.  And that is why Mitch McConnell is out of the Senate, and we are all happy that he is.   

Rich Hoffman

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The Importance of Kari Lake Running Voice of America: What the world needs the most of

People will increasingly realize just how important communication is to a culture.  Out of all Trump’s picks for offices that need to work with a new government, I think Kari Lake’s being assigned Director of Voice of America is one of the best and most important.  After all, we just saw what radical leftists wanted for the world.  We saw their Brave New World authority concepts, and they tried to implement them and destroy our American Constitution along the way.  We saw them cancel the fireworks at Mt. Rushmore and any references to patriotism and memory of great American moments.  We saw flash mobs attack our heroic statues and attempt to overthrow our nation in every way.  So we can never forget how terrified our enemies are of the American message, and trying to keep it out of the mind of the world.  To perform what they wanted, the enemies of America, both foreign and domestic, needed to erase the idea of America and personal freedom from the minds of the many.  Luckily, one of Trump’s excellent skills as a builder of brands is an appreciation for the ability to communicate.  And he understands why selling the idea of America to the world is essential.  So he has appointed Kari Lake to do just that, which I think is a much more important job than a Senator or Governor, which she clearly would have been suitable for, but had both of those opportunities robbed from her through gross election fraud by criminals who wanted to hijack America and turn it into something else.  And how do we know they cheated? They kept counting individual ballot drops for weeks after these elections and contaminating the batches with percentages of mail-in ballots not verified by photo ID, and they kept counting fake ballots until they defeated her in the election.  Through election fraud, they kept Kari Lake from winning her last two races, because they know how good she is as a communicator.  So bad people conspired to keep her out of politics.

The Voice of America has a special place in my mind.  From my perspective in Liberty Township, I grew up looking at the three towers off on the horizon toward Mason and would listen to bits of it on AM radio.  I was an oddly patriotic kid growing up.  I listened to a lot of AM radio, especially WMOH, which was just down the road in Hamilton, on a CB unit I had that stayed on all the time.  Also near the Voice of America towers was WLW radio, which broadcasts 24 hours of freedom all over America, and I loved it.  My bedroom my mother painted in red, white, and blue stars by hand, which looked like a monstrosity about to perform at a 4th of July parade.  And she did all that because even at ages one and two years old, I had very patriotic inclinations.  I was one of the official Ronald Regan campaigners in grade school in the 7th grade.  I worked hard for Reagan, and I despised Jimmy Carter even though most of the kids in my school had no idea who those people were during that pivotal election of 1980.  I was a weird kid, and many people think I’m a strange adult.  But with my background, I understand all too well how important it is to sell the idea of America to the privacy of people’s lives, whether it’s while they are growing up or looking for entertainment at their homes.  There are many competing ideas out there for entertainment value, but I always thought America should do more to promote itself to the world, so they could learn to be more like us.  Because I have always loved the idea of “us”.  And I have spent much time trying to spread that love as much as possible.

Oddly enough, I grew into an adult who frequently appeared on WLW radio.  I loved the power of talk radio and have watched it evolve.  Because of my friendship with Darryl Parks, the old program manager at WLW radio, I moved away from corporate radio, as there was no future in it, and grabbed on to the independent media formats, which are now turning out to be the last refuge of such a vile conspiracy.  The bad guys believed that by taking over the corporate media controls, they would control America’s message, which turned out to be excessively wrong.  But the attempt at it shows the obvious danger. And Voice of America, like the Truckin’ Bozo Show on WLW, became captured assets to control the message of what America was.  During a particularly tough period in my life, one that probably would have killed most people, I was working 16-hour days five days a week and 8-hour days on the weekends.  My wife and I had only one car, so I rode a bicycle 12 miles each way to work for five years.  I was being sued by multiple people for multiple things, grotesquely unfairly.  But I was a hot-shot young person who was into lots of things, and there were a lot of bad people who wanted to pound me out of existence.  I learned to carry a chip on my shoulder that turned into a mountain after I survived all these things, always thinking in the back of my mind about that patriotic room my mom had painted for me and the goodness of fighting for the right to be happy, and free in the world. 

My only bit of happiness during that rough period was that Paul Harvey would come on WLW at 3:30  AM and do news and commentary, complete with his daily “rest of the story” broadcasts on the Truckin’ Bozo Show.  So that kept me going, believe it or not, when I had nothing else to look forward to.  I couldn’t afford legal representation for all those lawsuits, so I had to do the work myself.  Which I was successful at after more than three years of court cases.  So, I understand hardship, and I greatly sympathize with the pain that the entire world goes through for similar reasons.  Looking back on it, I think God pushed me to become very strong so I could help many people by understanding their perspective.  I loved Voice of America so much that even now, I visit the VOA Park several times a week to record my VLOG broadcasts, which I have found is much more potent than all the radio I listened to as a kid because there were no corporate controls to the effort.  So I get it with Kari Lake; she was very successful in traditional media.  Trump, who was very successful in media also, understands this importance.  Voice of America has become a captured asset of the enemy over the years, but now it will be the Voice of Maga.  And I know that over 300 million people are listening to it every day who are going through their life circumstances like mine, where there is no ray of hope but maybe a little 30-minute radio broadcast in the middle of the night, and that’s all they have to hang on to live for a few more minutes.  The world needs to hear more about how great America can be and is.  Kari Lake is just the person who will do it as the new Director of the Voice of America.  As history remembers it, this will be one of the most essential things that Trump does as President.  And we’ll reflect on how great it was that Kari was available to run VOA back to greatness for the many lives worldwide looking for a positive message.

Rich Hoffman

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