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We Have Free Elections Because of Guns: Criminals know who has them, and who doesn’t

When on Meet the Press recently, President Trump was asked why Democrats didn’t steal this election, too, as they had the one in 2020, as if to insist that his statements about that previous election were a provoking conspiracy theory.  Trump said simply that he thought the election was too big to rig this time, which is a good, honest statement.  But it’s not the rest of the story.  It’s only part of the reason why Democrats were not able to steal this 2024 election the way they had 2020, and likely, many other elections leading up to Trump’s first term in the White House.  The truth is, it’s guns that make a free society possible.  Without the threat of guns, our government, especially this last one run by Joe Biden and his gangs of thugs and criminal-driven losers, would have taken over everything.  Without a society of guns, there would be no freedom.  The bad guys would move to take over all of society and rule from fear if given even an inch of opportunity.  So, to answer the rest of the question regarding Trump’s Meet the Press interview, why didn’t Democrats steal this last election, or that they tried but couldn’t get away with it this time?  Or, why was the election too big to rig?  What kept the election too small to overcome Trump?  And that answer is guns.  A society that has high gun ownership and is willing to use them at a moment’s notice.  Guns force the government to stay somewhat honest, not because they are inclined to do so, but because they fear a public that shoots and kills them the moment they get out of control.  We cannot have honest elections without the bad guys fearing an angry public that is willing to use guns to stop their evil intentions.

I had the opportunity to host many people this past week who are not from West Chester.  They came from all over the country, and guns were in the news.  One of the news stories was the UnitedHealthcare CEO, who was gunned down in the streets of New York.  That provoked a conversation about West Chester, Ohio, considered one of the safest areas in the nation.  But there was an attempted break-in and the resident shot the perpetrator just for standing on his balcony at an apartment complex.  And the comments were, “West Chester isn’t very safe because there was just a shooting.”  And speaking from much experience, I clarified that guns were critical in both cases.  There are many criminals who would love to break in and rob people blind in Butler County, Ohio, and Mason, places criminals know have much money and lots of things to steal and innocent lives to ruin.  But they don’t because they are respectful of the law, leaving everyone alone.  No, they are bad, vicious people who would rob, rape, and murder anybody, anywhere, anytime, if they could get away with it, just as there were plenty of people who would have stolen this 2024 election if they could have gotten away with it.  But the bad guys know that fundamentally, Americans have many guns, and if they do break the law, it’s not the prosecution of those crimes that is their most significant risk; it’s surviving the crime.  And that West Chester is safe because guns provide a deterrent.  I had just returned with my guests from downtown Cincinnati, and they were talking about the news stories they had noticed upon visiting. I had driven them through some of the worst neighborhoods in the city to show them the policy contrast.  Places where there was a lot of gun ownership.  And places that had policies against guns that had allowed, by default, crime to grow in the power void. 

The killing of the  UnitedHealthcare CEO was another example.  It is foolish, no matter how civil you think society is, to walk down any street, anywhere, without a gun.  Now, in the case of  Brian Thompson, the killed CEO, he was shot in the back deliberately, and it’s hard to defend against that kind of attack.  He was just walking along the sidewalk, and he was shot unexpectedly and without warning.  He should have been more aware of his surroundings.  But part of the scouting report on making a killing like that is whether the shooter believes they will get away with the crime if they perform the task.  The shooter was not concerned that Brian Thompson would have turned around and shot back if he missed or didn’t hit his target ruthlessly.  People are not honest; you cannot have a lawless society based on trust.  To have rules, you must be able to enforce them immediately at the point of occurrence.  The court system is not fast enough to deal with all the crimes, and the criminals know it.  Too many criminals work hard to be bad people and hope to take advantage of your trust to commit crimes and enrich themselves at your expense.  It isn’t brilliant to expect otherwise.  There should always be a preparedness for violence against you by anybody.  And the best way to stop it is by carrying deadly force everywhere.  And forcing the bad guys to stay honest and to leave you alone.  If Brian Thompson had been carrying a gun and were willing to use it, he would probably be alive right now.  When the target is armed, it is much harder to shoot them for many reasons. 

That goes back to our discussion about why one region is safer and why the ratio isn’t that one place has better laws than others.  It comes down to how much gun ownership is available and to what reach people have them.   Gun-free zones are hazardous places, statistically.  The more guns you have in society, the less violence you have.  And to my point, that story about the break-in in West Chester was good.  It reminds other criminals of what they already know but makes it fresh in their minds.  That if they are just standing on someone’s balcony at an apartment complex, they could be shot and killed.  Protection of private property is the key to a civil society, and the word gets out quickly.  Don’t abuse people’s property and their sense of self-preservation.  Or they can, and will, be shot and killed.  So that news story was helpful.  Occasionally, bad guys do need to get shot to remind the hoards of other criminals that they should not break into people’s homes or inflict violence upon them in any way.  Because without guns around under the care of private citizens, criminals get pretty bold.  And that is the same regarding honest elections.  Those who would seek to steal a vote and alter the nature of a free people to pick their government will try to steal elections if they do not fear people with guns preventing them from doing it.  And that this 2024 election was too big to rig because there were too many guns from angry people who were onto the scam.  So, Democrats couldn’t get enough votes to steal this election as they had others in the past.  The limits to their power were in gun ownership, and that kept the bad guys from stealing this last election, and why we finally have President Trump going back to the White House.  We have free elections because of guns. 

Rich Hoffman

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Jill Biden Has Eyes For Trump: What could have been if only she had the courage

For good reason, there has been a lot of talk about that picture with Jill Biden and Trump at Notre Dame.  With her daughter, Ashley Biden, sitting next to her, the camera caught a moment that Jill revealed a lot in just a look.  And wonderfully, Trump turned it into a new body fragrance ad.  But there is a lot to talk about that is essential here.  Here was Jill Biden, an older woman now, with a daughter who had been sexually abused by her father, gazing at a man who was authentic and unlike anything they had ever met; even though, as First Lady, she had met some of the world’s most brilliant and influential people.  There was nobody in her life like Trump—a conqueror who had defeated her husband in the last election.  Being close to the same age, Biden seemed so much older, whereas Trump was almost childlike, and ambitious.  That look by Jill to Trump, who was sitting next to her at the re-opening of the Notre Dame cathedral, has the kind of flirty look that a 4th-grade girl might have before her first kiss.  Many wonder why that was and what she would see in Trump to provoke such a gaze.  And is it that rare in the world for political enemies to put aside their differences for just a minute and enjoy each other?  The answer is obviously “yes,” but it brings up something that is a long and desperate yearning in the human race, and that is the female quest for the best that they can get as a sexual partner based on the fantasies of attraction, which everyone is hard-wired for.  Yet life and its quality come down to a person’s choices, and women often find themselves victims of bad decisions.  And even after a lifetime of them, that innocent girlish smile of first experiences never gets old.

Like many women, Jill Biden had men come and go in her life.  It is entirely possible that she had never met a person like Trump.  There are other men like Trump in the world, very confident, self-assured people who are conquerors in their own right over their destinies, and women tend to love such men for all that they can be and to fulfill the fantasy of using sexual power to have a relationship with one.  But often, it takes personal courage to even entertain such an antisocial relationship, because the rules of society are meant to favor the losers of the world.  And for men, many of our social rules have come about with the expectation that it would allow them to be louses and perform poorly in the world.  So, when a woman meets a man who does not function from such rules, she is going to feel the joy of such elation even if she has been associating with the world’s top people from a social perspective and has acquired the highest social status that a human being could ever hope for.  And it’s highly likely, because of her terrible choices throughout her life, that she had never met a man like Trump.  Because it takes courage to do so, and most women turn away from those opportunities early in their life, yielding to the pressures of social acceptance.  As sad as it is, loser husbands like Joe Biden, who took inappropriate showers with his daughter, and permanently damaged her psychologically, are expected in this world.  Probably because of the kind of social circles that Jill Biden functioned in her entire life, she only met men who would do such a thing and think it okay.

Trump, on the other hand, has had to learn how to beat down all the female advances that come his way.  And it took most of his life to learn to do so.  But yes, when you are an unconquered spirit, you are the fantasy of almost every woman, and that is a power that must be managed carefully.  It can be very tempting to yield to every whim for the affections of a woman who wants to make a lasting impression for a night, a day, a week, or years.  It’s a primal passion that comes from more than just smelling good.  But Trump understands the power of a picture like that and has smartly had fun with it to take the edge off reality, “Buy my new cologne, Fight, Fight, and it will win over your enemies.”  But the truth is that Jill was thinking about all the losers in her life and was wondering if she could even taste such a man for a fleeting second with her husband gone in an exciting city at a place of history, even at her age.  Turn off the cameras.  Get a room someplace.  Could she have such a moment with an unconquered man?  A man who had the entire world try to destroy him, and he bravely brushed away all the danger to sit there next to her, a hero, the most admired man in the world.  And the most hated.  Yet he didn’t feel the pressure to yield to the hate.  Oh, what a look Jill Biden let loose in front of her sexually abused daughter, an abused country, and a world under the thumb of tyranny to think of stealing away a kiss while his wife was not with him. 

It’s not like this would be the first time with Jill.  She left her first husband after he wrote Joe Biden one of his first campaign checks for elected office.  Like most women who find they can use sex to gain power, she jumped from one man to another because Joe looked like he was going to be a winner.  He drove sports cars and was rising in politics, so she left her husband and ran off with Joe.  And likely, she has thought of doing the same thing with many other men over the years.  As a result, she has only known evil men her entire life and never met someone like Trump until that moment in Notre Dame.  And like the long-repressed school girl wondering if the guy she liked might kiss her and that her entire life might be changed at that moment, she joined the millions of other women who have made the same dumb mistakes, and that was to join with just another, average, loser man.  Joe Biden was President of the United States.  He was head of a crime family that sold influence with elected office, going back to selling his office as a senator and Vice President.  But to Jill, he was just another used-up, broken man falling asleep on the beach, waiting to die.  And there was Trump, full of life.  He had beautiful things around him and had the world dancing to his every move. Yeah, she wanted to kiss him. To run away with him.  To undo all her life’s missteps and throw them away for just a moment of impropriety with Trump.  And she couldn’t hide the thought from her face.   Many women secretly go through the same process.  They look on the couch and see their beat-up, lazy husbands hiding behind the feminist movement because they are too lazy to be good.  They become victims to the times and then declare that the day’s fashion is to yield to their women and do whatever they say.  But Trump is his own man, and a few others out there think the same way.  And most women, in some way, wish they could access one.  But most, especially Jill Biden, never had the courage to go on such an adventure in her youth.  And now, as an older woman with all the best things in her life behind her, she could only wonder what could have been.

Rich Hoffman

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We Are Fighting A Revolution: Celebrities are finally understanding the Banana Republic that we have already become

Don’t mistake the situation; we are fighting a revolution and nothing short.  A lot of celebrities, like Elon Musk and Mel Gibson, are saying these days that if Trump isn’t re-elected, America will fall into a Banana Republic.  I hate to break it to everyone, but we have been a Banana Republic for several years already.  What has happened is that the pretense of communist thought that has always been lurking in the background on just about everything we do has been realized due to its massive failure.  The only thing that has changed is the blankets most people have been hiding under for most of their lives.  As long as they were living well, they didn’t pay much attention, and they could afford to flirt with left-of-center compassions without truly understanding the impact of those decisions.  So long as we were a rich country, we could flirt with evil temptations as there was food on the table, a nice car to drive, and a school to drop off our children.  That is why after Trump was removed from office right after the 2020 election, I sat down and read to everyone from the pages of Cleon Skousen’s famous book, The Naked Communist, because that was the reality of our condition.  And I wanted people to be comforted by that knowledge because what he had to do was nothing short of a Revolutionary War.  We were being tested, and we were going to have to dig deep and find our resolve to take our country back from these evil people.  It wasn’t that we were going to lose it in future tense.  We had already lost it, past tense. When people seem surprised to learn this, they only indicate that they are just now realizing something that has been a fact for a long time. 

Once the smoke clears from all this, history will remember it as a major revolution, and we can only hope that we can fight and win it with a legalized voting process rather than by force.  If you understand the conditions of the American Revolution, it was a lot like what we are seeing today, except the villain is not just an oppressive English rule over some remote colonies, but globalism and its communist intentions by using China as the model everyone else is supposed to follow.  Even a few months ago, Elon Musk was flirting with left-of-center ideas because he could afford to.  Like many celebrities, especially when they are financially well off, they become socially left of center because they have the luxury of compassion, which is one of the perils of success.  How do you keep the “Eye of the Tiger” attitude at winning in life with a full bank account and the realization that there are a lot of needy people in the world, and it makes you feel good to help them by throwing money at them?  It is more of an exploitation of a human need to belong to other human beings than any practical sentiments that might spawn from the exchange.  When people become successful, they naturally want to share that success with their peers so that they will be liked.  And with America’s prosperity, many people have felt guilty for that success compared to other places in the world that are struggling for the basics.  Left-leaning policies are commonly adapted to cover that gap because people feel they have the luxury of excess to entertain those thoughts. 

But when people don’t feel they have an excess, they quickly turn to themselves and their immediate needs for survival.  And that is what we are seeing now ahead of the 2024 election, and people are saying this time, as opposed to at times in the past, that if President Trump is not re-elected as President of the United States, we will fall into a Banana Republic.   Inflation is high, it’s hard for many people to buy gas and food, and their compassion for left-leaning ideas has eroded quickly from 2020 to 2024.  And I said it then, and I’ll continue to say it: COVID scared people because it was the first time that people saw what I have been warning about for years: the intentions of FEMA camps and having their Constitutional rights wholly taken from them.  And to have their jobs taken away, their president, their entire way of life.  It was very traumatic for many people; then, to add to all that an overt stolen election by invisible hands intending to cash in on all the communism that had been imported into our government structure, people were ready to hear what I had been warning about for decades.  Finally, it was natural for them.  And those communist plots are so well entrenched that they believe that in America, the same kind of communist controls were going to be acceptable, which was the whole strategy behind launching Kamala Harris in the first place as an alternative to Joe Biden.  People are finally seeing behind the skin color tricks and the ridiculous notion of the “first female president” when they see what that means during an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News.  It’s silly to think that anybody expected a closet campaign for President to work and that they would have control of the entire media to shape the story.  But they did; it was all in The Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen from the late 1950s. 

To answer the question about voting, yes, we can have this revolution where America retakes its power back from the globalists.  I have been reviewing President Trump’s books on his previous presidency and looking at all the pictures he has put in those books, such as the best-selling Save America which I think is just extraordinary as a work of art.  There are more pictures from that presidential perspective in Melania Trump’s new book too.  What’s unique about those books is that they give the world a seat at the table about who is running things because Trump met them all and knew them.  And what those pictures capture that the conspiracy theories miss is that the people in the world behind the globalist movement are frail and not very smart, which is why they gravitated to communism in the first place as a refuge to their personal deficiencies.  That is what has come out regarding Kamala Harris, who has now been forced to do interviews and abandon the hiding campaign that worked for Biden during Covid in the previous election.  The people behind globalism are not very smart or sinister once you get into a room with them and get them talking.  They are pretty easy to beat.  Their only real weapon has been concealment.  And now they have lost that.  So now that people have confirmed what has been going on with their country, they are willing to fight for it.  This is good because when President Trump is re-elected after what all these evil people have done to them, the American people will reward Trump with the kind of support he did not have the first time around.  Fundamental, revolutionary changes will be made because they have to be.  There must be penalties for trying to take over a country with communism.  And now that people see the truth for what it has always been, without the rosy lenses of compassion clouding their judgment, people are finally ready to do something about it, not just in supporting President Trump for president, but in helping the actions he will have to take to take back our country from the clutches of global communism.  I would say one of the most significant indicators of all this was how quickly the FAA gave SpaceX their permit after the last round of polling came out to show that Kamala Harris had no path to win the upcoming election, and essentially Elon Musk, the guy they had been punishing with government regulation, was going to be their new boss.  So they better stop with the games and give him a permit.  There are many millions of tyrannies like that which impact most Americans, and it’s time to put them all to an end.  And that end will come whether by vote or by force.  But it will come because people finally see its necessity and are ready for a much-needed change.

Rich Hoffman

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6 Out of 10 Employers Want to Fire Their Gen Z Employees: If you want good productivity, you have to think out of the box

I wouldn’t just say I love foreign people from other places; I don’t think that tells the whole story.  I love people who like to work hard.  I work hard; I always have.  I love good work and people who want to do it.  I don’t care what their skin color is or their sex; if they like hard work, I will likely have something in common with them.  Even political differences aren’t so different if I feel the person I am talking to is a hard worker.  It just so happens that people from other places work harder than Americans.  And this isn’t something recent for me.  My kids are from the Gen Z generation, and I was so upset about their dating choices when they were teenagers that I encouraged them to date boys from places that still worked hard.  To me, it is reprehensible to be lazy.  I hate lazy people.  But I love hard-working, polite people, and that is how my oldest daughter managed to marry a young man from Canterberry, England.  Going to their house in Liberty Township these days is a real pleasure for me because I get to see the benefits of a couple of people who work hard together.  The results are obvious.  But to say the least, I understand what 6 out of 10 employers say when they indicate they would like to fire their Gen Z employees because they are too lazy and pretentious.  If we want to Make America Great Again, we must start by making Americans want to work again.  Because for many reasons, especially Gen Z, they have been poisoned as children into growing up and becoming problematic as employees.  And so much so that they threaten our current national security.

Not that all Gen Z types are wrong, but most of them are victims of a terrible public education system and college experience that was not academically inclined.  Most education produced in the United States these days has been infected with radical leftist politics.  That doesn’t mean that kids will all be corrupted.  If a kid comes from a good family, that might mitigate some of the impact.  But for children from broken homes or homes where the parents are just stupid, many of the kids from the Gen Z generation don’t have a chance.  I watched this problem start brewing while my kids were growing up.  Now, my wife and I were fantastic parents.  Kids always find something to complain about, but to a large degree, we kept the infection of social conformity from ruining their minds while they were growing up.  They turned out to be pretty good kids with sharp minds and intellect.  But it has been challenging for them to deal with other people from their generation who are just too lazy and pretentious to have a decent relationship.  It’s not just about dating and marrying different people but about having basic social interactions.  Gen Z, in my eyes, are the poor victims of a global menace rooted in globalism that intentionally poisoned American youth in detrimental ways to cripple our economic engine.  Like many things I have been pointing out going into 2025, every kind of attack that could be imagined upon the intellect of the average American youth has been let loose, and their poor, miserable lives show it for the sad tragedy that it is. 

My advice to the employers out there who are looking for labor for their enterprises is that you can find Gen Z employees who will do a good job.  But don’t just look in their direction.  I would say that many of the foreign immigrants who are legally trying to be a part of the American way of life will do a far better job than the kids coming out of American high schools and colleges these days.  It’s not about cheap labor that foreign employees have the most significant benefit.  If everyone is paid the same and fairly, the foreign employees, compared to the domestic ones, will far outperform expectations.  That is because foreign employees usually have a better family structure behind them, which leads to healthy living.  When people know family members love them, they tend to be less insecure in their relationships, even with co-workers.  So, when hiring new workers, one qualifying characteristic is family life.  If a potential employee can at least have a healthy family relationship, they are inclined to work well with a team of co-workers.  Gen Z in America were trained to grow up and be political weapons.  They were taught to be activists toward leftist, communist causes, like climate change, or to rally against toxic masculinity, and to toss young women into sexual deviancy to destroy their ability to raise proper American families.  I had several people this week ask me why I like to work with so many people from all over the world, and my reply to them was that they reminded me of the work ethic my grandparents had.  But I have very little personal respect for the slack-jawed losers of the subsequent generations, including the baby boomers from my parent’s generation.  The mess started with them.  But Gen Z is just ridiculous.

No wonder our federal government costs so much; they hire anybody with a pulse and turn them loose with high-cost burdens to do very little work.  And that trend is why so many employers are looking to dump their Gen Z employees wherever possible and replace them with automation.  I’ve worked with many Gen Z kids over the years, and out of every 100, I can usually get two or three of them to do good in the world.  The rest are just disasters.  It’s not like I haven’t tried, but if people don’t have the basics, a stable family life with parents and grandparents who have set them with a proper foundation of thought, the chances at success in life are scarce for anybody, especially Gen Z that has had just about everything placed against them from the start.  Bad families, horrible education, detrimental entertainment options, terrible diet, faulty philosophy, and confusing religious assumptions, everything about Gen Z has political radicalism in it, so to grow up to be helpful in anything is a far cry.  That doesn’t mean that we should stop trying with these kids.  I certainly do.  But 98 times out of 100, you will be disappointed by the results.  To cover what you need, we will have to look to people from other places where the foundations of family are much better.  When I travel to Japan, I am constantly reminded that success starts with the family structure.  They love their kids in Japan much better than in the United States or Europe.  And much of that comes from radical left politics that has sought in America to destroy the family structure for military reasons.  So, there is no quick fix to it.  Japan is largely successful because it raises children in somewhat healthy family structures.  And success follows those types of people accordingly.  But you can’t, as an employer, hire some slug from Gen Z and expect productivity to be good.  If you want good things to happen in your companies, you must hire good people; Gen Z doesn’t have them.  Maybe the next generation who grew up in the Trump years will be better.  But as of now, it’s not a surprise that so many employers are disappointed with the Gen Z generation and are trying to figure out how to get decent employees from them.  And to tell the truth, if you want good employees, you’ll have to think outside the box.  Because regarding Gen Z, what’s in the box is mostly garbage and frustration.

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Art of the Deal’: Trump’s magnificant historical significance

With Trump about to re-enter the White House, after all that he has been through, and all of us, I am thinking about the road that brought us all here quite a lot lately.  A lot of it feels providential.  Especially when I think back on the many books that Trump wrote that were self-help in nature.  And if the question had to be answered as to why Donald Trump wants to be president, I think he told himself and everyone else the answer to that question in his very first book and his most famous, The Art of the Deal.  That is a book that I love a lot, and I have read it many times over the years.  The copy I have in the video is one I bought in 2015 when he was running for president, and I’d carry it around with me in case I had a chance to get him to sign it, which I had an opportunity to do at least twice.  In 2015, it wasn’t so hard to get access to him.  It was nearly impossible after he became president.  But in 2015, when nobody, including most area Republicans, thought he had a snowball’s chance, I was one of his early cheerleaders. I was heavily involved in his early rallies, especially at the Savannah Center in West Chester, Ohio.  Then again, I was at the Sharonville Convention Center, where I was given VIP access to that event.  But I’m never that guy who worships celebrities.  Later, I would learn my lesson on being so discreet with Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance on getting my books signed.  If I get another chance, I’ll have Trump sign my current copy of The Art of the Deal because of its enormous historical significance.  I read a lot, and my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, and their children will most likely remember me for my books and love of reading as they go through my things over the next hundred years; I think some of these signatures will be important to them.  Perhaps inspire them to reach their own levels of greatness by example.  And President Trump’s signature on anything will say a lot about this current age. 

The Art of the Deal is a book I have loaned out to many people over the years who have asked to borrow it.  I have an extensive collection of books that have always been the ones people ask me to read.  But it’s also the book they are least likely to bring back.  The 2015 edition was released after Trump left The Apprentice and launched his presidential campaign.  But since then, publishers and media companies have been trying to pull Trump’s books off the market by not replacing the ones out there so they can pretend that one of the most well-known celebrities in the world doesn’t exist.  But with that one, I didn’t complain much; I would buy another one after people didn’t bring it back because I felt that more of those books floating around out there were good for the country.  This is, of course, before Trump was president and why I was an early supporter.  I first read The Art of the Deal when it came out and was on the top of the charts at number one in the fall of 1987, which was an extraordinary time for me.  It was my first year out of high school; I was engaged to my wife and trying to find ways that I could bring success to our family.  Trump was the hottest ticket in the world toward self-help success and the embodiment of achievement during Reaganomics.  My wife and I would spend most of our evenings at her parent’s house, and they were very successful.  So there was a lot of pressure on me by the nature of expectation so I had to learn a lot, fast.

We were planning a fancy wedding at the Beckett Ridge Country Club, where they were members.  There was more going on here than just kindness.  My wife was a fashion model at the time, and she was being groomed for New York society in that industry, and I was in the way of that.  So, the expectations for me were very high, so I would sit each night and read many books about success and how to get it because that was the world I was stepping into to have a wife like that.  Trump had some wise words based on his personal experience.  Out of all the books on success and finance, I read that year under those conditions, it was The Art of the Deal that most spoke to me and gave me the impression that it would be an essential book someday, even beyond the measure of a New York Times bestseller.  As I read the book, I thought this guy would be a good next president.  The Reagan years were ending, and George Bush offered to continue the goodwill.  But I was suspicious.  It would take someone with a lot of energy who loved talking to people and making deals who would need to continue Reagan’s excellent work.  That line of thinking would later encourage me to step away from Bush and the other Republicans at the time and go on quite a young adventure with Ross Perot and his daughters down in Texas, but that’s a whole story of its own. 

What is most evident in The Art of the Deal is that Trump is doing all this running-for-president stuff for more than revenge after all that has been done to him.  He is one of the most positive people functioning in the world today, and he has a unique sense of business and communication that few people ever master, and he loves bringing people together.  He likes people a lot more than I do.  He enjoys making deals, so The Art of the Deal was an important book.  Before Trump came along, I didn’t know that any successful people enjoyed making deals like Trump did.  As President of the United States, he would get a chance every day to have the life he talked about at the beginning of that now-famous book.  Trump is happiest when every minute of every day is filled with talking to people and helping them succeed.  And making deals with people doesn’t mean screwing them over, but finding mutual benefits in working together that they might not see themselves.  And that Trump could invent that role for himself lent directly to this idea that he would be a great president.  And as the years would tell, he was.  And now he’s poised to do it again.  And if I had to do it again, I don’t have many regrets, but the times that I met Trump, I just stood there cooly, not getting wrapped up in his celebrity; in the context of history, I’d get him to sign The Art of the Deal for me.  It’s been a long history, and the significance of that book can’t be underestimated, especially in the context of this second term.  I think I do love President Trump.  I don’t feel that way about many people in the world, and my support of him started with that book many years ago.  Ross Perot was the next best thing for me in those early years, which began with The Art of the Deal and my need to be successful in life because I was expected to be successful because of the person I married.  But more than all that, The Art of the Deal was an insight into the future before the rest of the world realized how important it would be and how the future of all human civilization has formed around it uniquely.  And it’s been a journey I have enjoyed being a part of.

Rich Hoffman

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The “Passive Aggressive” World War: Domestic enemies like the Soros family, intend to reduce the Executive Branch as one of their key strategies of American destruction

This is probably the first passive-aggressive world war anybody has seen, but don’t kid yourself. The world is at war with the United States, and they have their recruits within our nation as domestic enemies.  And they reveal themselves by their actions, mainly when you see that these villains have been purposely trying to dumb down the Executive Branch for many years now, overtly, to demoralize us into complacency and a turnover of our country to the hands of the United Nations as a one world government.  Their goal has not been to bomb us into submission with physical bombs or ground troops landed as they did in Red Dawn.  They have been seeking to undermine us with erosions of our Bill of Rights and to loot our patriotism with the reality of defeat, which they have been organizing in the background for several decades now.  Who are these villains, you might ask, who are seeking to take us over?  You can start with the radical group of globalists at the World Economic Forum.  And you can see them in the Open Border Societies that are directly connected to George Soros and his rinky dink little son.  If you have to put names next to actions, that’s an excellent place to start.  But then you would meet them directly in the people behind giving Joe Biden those little presidential podiums that look like a cheap television studio for comments on the meat and potatoes of the severity of this war.  Because those actions have a purposeful psychological desire, and they are warfare just as clearly as any other act of it has ever been defined to a human mind.  And because it is war, we must deal with these attackers as we would any other military enterprise and not be accommodating of their “rights” as citizens of America, if that’s what they are.  When they act against the flag, they surrender the rights and due process of the American way of life. 

There has been a lot of talk about how Joe Biden presents big news to the public from that little podium they have been giving him as opposed to the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office or some other location in the White House that projects strength and power.  They have been using Joe Biden to present information to the public to take the power of the Executive Branch as the leader of the free world and make it all look like just another global consultant firm with a back seat on world affairs.  This process started with Barack Obama and Glenn Beck when he was still at Fox News used to make a big deal about it.  The purposeful use of removing the glamour of the Executive Branch and suppressing it in the eyes of the world to look like just another leader.  Not the main one that leads the world in every topic, which is how it has been in the last century.  Knocking the American Executive Branch down to size then was an apparent campaign of demoralization of the American people to show them that they did not have a right to pick a leader of the world and to impose that leader on them financially.  When you shake the raccoon out of the sleeping bag here, it all traces back to centralized banking and their desire to run the world’s governments by controlling the fiscal policy of all nations.  So this is an overt turf war that many didn’t know was happening, but it is one of the worst wars we’ve ever fought, and no army on earth can win it for us because the enemy has deliberately turned to emotional passive-aggressive warfare instead of overt warfare, which is represented in tangible assets.  But it is war just the same.

I have always been aware of this war, but it came to a fine point for me on two occasions recently; first was the excellent book by Trump called Save America, which is a collection of photos from his years in office and campaigning for this next term of service before the 2024 election.  No wonder they hate him so much, reflecting on that book, because Trump does what he does with everything, and that elevates it in the public’s minds with positive branding.  It is a remarkable book if you look at it the way the enemies of America do.  That book is the opposite of what they are trying to project upon the United States to fulfill their military objectives.  Trump’s book Save America is on the New York Times best-seller list, which doesn’t make them happy.  If you take the sales from Winning Teams Publishing, the group producing all these new Trump books, and the bookstore sales that the New York Times is tracking, Save America is the number one book in the country, a remarkable achievement.  It also reveals how hungry people subconsciously are to have an executive branch, picked by the people, to run America and the world.  That is the offering that Trump is proposing for his next election. The Soros money that believes they can purchase the seat away from the American people with Kamala Harris are frustrated by the efforts because they thought Trump was done. They thought the nation’s people were conquered assets to centralized banking and the desires of the United Nations. 

But deeper than that, and I am so glad that we did it, I took my family on a big trip out west a few years into the Biden administration, and one of our big stops was Mt. Rushmore.  It was like a religious event; we arrived early, and I immediately, with my daughters and grandchildren, went down to the spot of the previous 4th of July ceremony where Trump and Melania gave an excellent speech motivating Americans toward patriotic endeavors.  Upon standing there and visiting the location extensively that day, I understood all the fuss and why the inserted Biden administration wanted to cancel the fireworks at the famous monument.  It was to diminish in the public’s minds their impression of patriotism.  They did not want people to revere the Mt. Rushmore site; there aren’t Democrats on that wall of rock.  Mt. Rushmore does not embody the goals of the globalists, which is to conquer America and replace their enthusiasm with sex, drugs, and dumb minds made that way through public education and college hazing rituals.  And they certainly don’t want a Trump to give strength again to the Executive Branch and to restore in the mind of the public a sense of patriotism that they have been working to destroy for many years now.  What do you think the kneeling during NFL games during the National Anthem was all about?  It was an attack, like any other, and the perpetrators should be punished in a capital way because of their malicious intent.  None of this is by accident.  It has been purposeful, and from my perspective upon these stated observations, there is nothing accidental about any of it.  Destroying the impression of the Executive Branch, which Trump is promising to Make Great Again, is to stop a military incursion by borderless hostilities functioning from the façade of the United Nations toward a one-world government of tyranny and injustice for all.  And we can’t tolerate that, not in the least.

Rich Hoffman

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Fentanyl is a Weapon of Mass Destruction: Countries that Hate America are purposfully trying to kill us through the drug trade

If I had to pick a president who most resembled the United States as a personality, I would say it would be President Grant.  Grant was a great president and man, but his memory has been shaped by those who hate him.  There were quite a few people who sought to take advantage of him because he was friendly and honest.  There is nothing that we can do to make the world love us or even like us.  There is a seething hatred of America by many in the world that is just a fact of life, and they have been planning our destruction aggressively since we started.  That is a tough admission for many, but they must make it so we can solve these problems. We have talked about illegal immigration as a weapon of purposeful war, attacking America as a Cloward and Piven strategy of overwhelming the system so that it would force the overthrow and change of that system.  The current fentanyl crisis on the drug abuse front is, without question, a military-scale attack that is the deliberate poisoning of our culture, intent for destruction.  Like many people sadly can claim these days, I know many people who have lost someone they have loved to an overdose of fentanyl.  However, the scale of the problem became apparent to me during the summer of 2024 when I was serving as the foreman for a grand jury in Butler County, Ohio.  Out of the hundreds of cases I heard with a grand jury, most of them were drug cases that directly involved possessing and trafficking in fentanyl, and from that perspective, there is no doubt about the reason that poison is flooding our streets.  It’s not a market fulfillment problem by mind-numb soothsayers seeking recreation through drug use, the way society has been framed to believe.  It’s not a libertarian fantasy of “my body, my right” kind of thing that is protected by constitutional limits on government to crush individual desires.  It’s a purposeful poisoning of American culture by the Mexican government in conjunction with the Chinese government and globalism behind those efforts to destroy their rivals on the world stage by wiping out entire generations of people.

If the purpose of war is to kill more of the other guy’s troops than you receive, and whoever says “uncle” first is determined to be the loser of the fight, then the drug saturation of American markets is the modern version of wartime activity against a nation that the aggressors are seeking to destroy.  There is nothing patriotic about drug abuse, but we have been tricked into thinking so, much the way all kinds of well-seeming people scammed President Grant during his gullible lifetime.  President Grant was friendly and honorable, and he couldn’t imagine that people would be up to no good because he never was.  And throughout the emergence of American life, that is how the world has also come to know us.  And they do hate us for it.  So when they think about Americans, they plot and scheme for ways to deceive us and to wipe us from the face of the earth.  That is the only intention of flooding our country with fentanyl, which hides behind a culture that uses our freedoms to prevent the military attack for what it truly is.  The amount of fentanyl that is killing people maliciously because it’s a dangerous drug that is quickly passed around the party scene is genuinely alarming.  It is the number one killer of adults 18 to 50 and has killed more people each year than all the wars we have had combined typically do.  Nobody is talking about it because that is part of the plot, so the people they want to kill off don’t even realize it’s happening.  So it doesn’t get much coverage, just as Kamala Harris doesn’t get scrutinized in the press.  These are all people who hate us and want us dead.  And fentanyl is one of their weapons of war. 

We go through the motions of law enforcement regarding drug trafficking of fentanyl as if we were trying to tell our children not to touch a hot oven.  As if we were teaching them a lifestyle choice that might prevent them from acquiring pain by their choices.  Fentanyl distribution is far more dangerous than that.  Hostile financial insurgents who have captured the governments of violent countries have purposely produced fentanyl to destroy those who consume it, and that is one of the significant dangers of an open border with a Marxist country in Mexico and why Canada is so dangerous.  The desire to overthrow a capitalist rival for them is too tempting.  China, as the largest communist country in the world, is certainly motivated by the same outcome.  Fentanyl starts in China and is then mass-produced in Mexico by the cartels and then shipped straight into the United States through open borders seeking to attack the production-aged people and to cripple them with death and mind-destroying weapons of war distributed through a “party culture” that has its roots in the communist movement of corrupting the youth for state control.  This trend was started by the Bolsheviks under Lenin while saturating Russia with communism at the turn of the last century. Drug use and distribution in this party culture was always the plan, and the mass killing of people was the known objective.

The worst thing that happened to President Grant at the end of his presidency was that after all his years of fame, he was easily hoodwinked by those he trusted who wanted to make money off his name.  He ended up bankrupt at the end of his life; he trusted people with his investments, who lost them all in pyramid schemes that led to his destruction.  And those seeking to deceive his excellent name and trust in other people essentially wiped away a life of much success.  Many are at war with us in the world disguised as friendships, and they use that relationship for their strategic desires.  They think the world has too many people, that we are a burden on the earth itself, and that we must be eliminated.  And they control the governments of China and Mexico and are behind the globalist push for Marxism.  And we have not met that aggressor for what they are worth.  For me, seeing the massive amount of destruction fentanyl brings to our communities from the perspective of criminal conduct can only be viewed in one way: as a weapon of war.  One of the things I am most looking forward to under the next Trump term in office is categorizing fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction because that is precisely what it is.  We must fight it on those terms and no others because there is no other way to understand the use of fentanyl to destroy the cultures they are distributed to.  China knows what they are doing and is purposely seeking to kill Americans.  Mexico certainly sees it that way, and they are not our friends.  These are hostile countries toward the United States, and they are looking at us all as suckers who will be too nice to them and allow them to be complicit in the murder of many of our people in a purposeful attempt to destroy our country from the inside out—disguised as a recreation, when in fact, it’s all been a weapon of war declared on us not from governments, but from the people who run them.

Rich Hoffman

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Australia’s Dumb New Law: Right to Disconnect

In the spirit of Labor Day, which is the holiday I hate the most, we need to have a talk about the ridiculously dumb Australian law, Right to Disconnect which they just passed there at the end of August 2024.  The world needs to be working more, not less.  And this socialist trend of encouraging people to sit around looking at the walls all day is a terribly destructive one.  The world doesn’t need more dumb laws like this one that enables the world to be lazier.  Labor Day, to me, is essentially a celebration of laziness, a union concept of work stoppages holding productivity hostage unless management recognizes the workers’ limits to performing tasks.  It is poison to the human race to think such things, and at the core of all these ridiculous laws are horrible people fighting for the right to be unproductive. Instead, I think we need to be going in the opposite direction.  We need to work harder and more often.  We need to extend our work day hours and work more days of the week than we do now because productive enterprise is very much needed.  Additionally, I think our five-day workweek is ridiculously short.  And I think people should work more than 8 hours per day.  I have always worked more than 8 hours per day.  I often work seven days a week, so let me say I am a happy person.  Leaving work undone is what makes me unhappy.  So, I can’t imagine a happy world restricting itself in productivity.  It’s the wrong message, and anybody suggesting such a lazy life should be ridiculed.  The Australians proposing this Marxist trend of disconnecting from work to produce a sane society shows just how out of touch they are with the needs of the world. 

What to tell lazy people using Marxism to get out of hard work.

As usual, free market enterprise should be at play here.  Those who work more often and spread out among the population should be rewarded appropriately.  If people want to work more, they should be rewarded with more stuff.  And again, this idea that “stuff” can’t make you happy is more communism and Marxist ideas from people who are at their heart lazy and not the kind of people anybody should be listening to.  It’s essentially the government restricting their productivity through mass collective effort.  Whenever workers propose less work or else, we see a terrorist incursion to our means of production, and the intention is to manage all such rights under the power of collective government to restrict output.  And if people want output, then demands under collective bargaining must be met.  However, not all people are the same.  Some people get tired of sitting around looking at the walls doing nothing, and they want to do more work.  They want to go out and earn money.  Because they want more stuff, they want to pay off their house.  They want a nice car.  They may want a more attractive spouse.  Who wants to be married to a slug?  Someone who would rather play video games all day rather than work and make money?  People need to work more so that a country can have a better GDP.  However, this Australian strategy encourages the world to work less so everyone can be less productive.  That’s the spirit of their new legislation.  No wonder they are an armpit down there and only have any population on the east coast.  What a waste of good land and space. 

Oh, I’ve heard it before: ” If not for the labor unions, those big mean companies would work people to death.”  Wrong. What kills people and society is less work, not more of it. People need to be productive to truly feel good about themselves. This notion that people need all this downtime is ridiculous.  I often love traveling in Japan; people there work hard.  Even when you have a taxi pick you up at the airport, the drivers universally run to open the door for you and make sure you get where you are going without much delay.  Because they appreciate hard work there, which is common in Asian cultures, don’t mind working hard, and usually, they have strong families as well because they work at it.  And that is never going to go away.  When people in the West profess to work less, they are cutting their throats, and the Marxists, I would say, are well aware of it.  Most still hope the globalist union movement will put them on top of world management and central government.  But what will end up happening is that they will end up behind as a result, and Asian cultures, through wealth redistribution, will fill the market void with actual hard work.  The human need for work can be filled with robots and AI, but the demand for things to happen will always be present.  The most successful cultures will be those who do the most work and can maintain their sanity best. Presently, especially in the West, there are too many lazy people playing video games and smoking pot, which is the point where we should consider it a national security risk under every definition.  Who needs a military invasion of a country when you can destroy it from within with more laws against work?  The primary reason America conquered other nations in World War II was that we could out produce against the rest of the world.  And that is still the reason America has the top GDP of any country, even though there are fewer people to do that work. 

I mentioned video games a few times here. I have been playing a lot of Call of Duty lately because I have grandchildren who like to interact with my wife and me through video games.  And I take time to play them to spend time with them.  But it’s evident to me how dangerous this modern video game culture is; we’re not talking about Pac-Man or Space Invaders here, where you play the game for 15 or 20 minutes.  Then you go back to your life.  No, these are all-day excursions, and people work hard to level up on these modern games.  People are taking the effort very seriously.  And I can’t help but think how misapplied it all is.  The natural state of the human being is to be thoughtful and productive.  Whenever you repress those notions about life, you find unhappy people who develop all kinds of emotional problems.  This video game culture represents the need for hard work in every human being’s life, which has replaced effort with waste.  Some people get good at these video games, but to what end?  Will they be able to buy a new house or a new car?  Put savings in the bank?  Of course not.  And for a government to tell its people to work less.  We will penalize employers for providing opportunities beyond eight hours of need per day or more than five days of working per week.  And when people go home, you can’t call them to harass them over work matters.  I’ve been on vacation in exotic places and always took the time to have a business call.  If my family was with me, they could do some shopping while I worked through issues.  After 20 minutes, we’d be back to our vacation and happy.  And work was done.  This idea that people should disconnect from work to be satisfied is insane.  But it’s what the Australians are proposing for their life.  And I would say in response that it’s no wonder they are such losers.  They don’t want to work, and no wonder they are an armpit of a country that is last in just about every category of human endeavor.  They need to be working more, not less, as is the case with most of the human race, except the Asian cultures, who aren’t going to pass “right to disconnect” legislation any time soon.  Likely for them, never. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why Thomas Hall is so Great: If only everyone was so lucky

Fight, fight, fight was the theme of the evening at the GOP tent at the VOA Country Music Festival, where several officeholders and some running for the first time gathered together ahead of the upcoming elections.  It was an excellent time to catch up with everyone. I could speak to many people in a way that I hadn’t done for a long time, which was good.  But what do we mean by fighting and winning in politics?  When I think of such a thing, I think of the young man Thomas Hall, who is the Ohio Representative in my district and is running to hold the seat he currently has.  But he wasn’t always in my district; he used to have the Middletown area, but now, in District 46, he represents Liberty Township and the surrounding areas, which I’m thrilled with.  I’ve seen Thomas Hall in the pressure cooker for a while now, and I supposed he’s not as much of a young man as when he first started in politics.  But I think a lot of him, and for good reason.  I have been meaning, and we didn’t quite get there during this event, to talk to him about his recent trip to Israel, which I am very interested in.  But behind the politics, Thomas Hall is just a good person, one of those cases where he’s better than the package you see.  He’s just a promising young man who has survived the fires of Hell and come out on top, and he looks poised to stay there.  This is a good thing for anybody he represents in the Ohio Statehouse.  He takes his job very seriously, and it shows.  I’ve seen him in Columbus work a room, and if he didn’t have a great foundation to work with, it would be easy to be swept away by lobbyists and other scandalous characters.  But with Thomas, you get the feeling with him that he’s always savvy and under control.  And that any malicious intent that comes his way can easily be handled. 

I’ve met his parents several times at some of these events, but we had more time to talk in August of 2024 than we have in the past.  In some of those previous times, things looked so dire that nobody was sure what would happen next.  Politics, as I have said, is a blood sport; things can and do get pretty wild.  Many people who came to the Country Music Festival at the VOA needed to talk to each other.  It’s been a tough four years since Trump left office, and people have lost focus in some respects.  It’s tough when you are trying to grow the tent of the party to accommodate more people, but those people don’t have the same foundations and strength; when the pressure of politics emerges and moral necessities come into play, it’s easy to drift into decay.  And as a political party, Southern Ohio Republicans needed to break some bread together.  A lot of people get into politics for different reasons, and it’s up to each person to find some reason to have common ground with others for the sake of party politics.  Authenticity can often get abused in such cases, but that was never the case with Thomas Hall, and in some of those times, I referred to his parents as good people who made a good kid.  Thomas’ dad was a former police officer, now a firefighter chief.  His mom is a wonderful enthusiast of the men in her life, her husband and son, and when I see them all together, it’s usually a big family affair.  Thomas has, of course, a love interest who I see around town a lot, and she is always supportive and doing the extra work it takes to run successful campaigns.  When you speak with them, you can tell that they all have good foundations that give them firm ground to stand on no matter what is happening in the world. 

So Thomas always tells me he’s grateful to me for getting through some of these tough times of turmoil where rough campaigns got very heated.  My help pushed him over the top and put him in office so he could do the excellent work he is doing presently and, I hope, well into the future.  And I tell him that he’s the one who did all the hard work, and indeed, there are very few people who work as hard at politics as Thomas Hall.  He gets out and knocks on doors and is very tenacious.  And I’ve seen him working directly with Governor DeWine on legislation that was difficult to make happen, so the elbow-twisting part of politics takes a hard worker, and he has deserved all the success he has had and more.  He doesn’t have to throw appreciation my way.  What I have done for him, I do for many people. He’s referring to a lot that goes on behind the scenes, but I’m happy to do it because I like seeing good people get a chance to do good things in the world.  Like a gardener who pulls up the weeds of a garden to protect the good plants, you are trying to grow while preventing the parasites from destroying everything.  I do what I do because I like seeing the good stuff grow.  And Thomas Hall has grown into a lot of good things. 

So when his parents thanked me for all I have done for their son, I had to tell them what I thought of them, which shows up in Thomas, and I think about it a lot.  They were good parents to him.  Thomas Hall has a great foundation that other people in the world don’t have because they, as parents, gave him a great place to start.  If things get too hot, at least Thomas has a nice family that cares for him.  And it shows.  So, while they intended to thank me, which they did, I would give the credit to all of them.  Thomas is a sincerely good person who is not wasting his talent.  But to his parents for raising a good kid who has grown into a good man, a lot of people would love to be so lucky.  The sense of service that Thomas has picked up from his dad is being applied to Ohio positively.  I’m happy to defend and support anybody like that, and there are others.  Perhaps not as good as Thomas, but in my experience with these kinds of things, a lot of similar personality traits emerge in these kinds of people who get involved in politics and want to represent people in government.  Not everyone has the advantage of a good family on which they can rely.  But Thomas Hall does, and as I told his parents, if anybody should be thanking anybody, the world should be thanking them for producing such a nice young and honest man in the world.  I am personally very proud of Thomas Hall.  But I’m also very proud of his parents.  I wish there were more people in the world like them.  And maybe in the future, there will be.  There is hope in the world that people will follow their example and do better for themselves and others.  Usually, when you meet people who are as well put together as Thomas Hall, good parents at the foundation make it all possible.

Rich Hoffman

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World War II would have Never Happened if not for Tom Lamont of J.P. Morgan Bank: Why Making America Great Again is the only light the future has for the world

It’s an easy catch-all to think of banks as evil entities that control the world through mass manipulation.  But it’s inevitable that without banks, the world would still be digging through dirt to make a mud hut in which to reside.  The problem with banks is that the further away they get, like most things, from individualized control, where unique personalities drove them to goodness or detriment, the more evil they became.  Today’s trouble is that they are so big, powerful, and global that they no longer respect a sovereign nation.  This is why my emphasis on things is to reflect to the beginning, toward western expansion for our national identity, as I point out often in my book The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, because the mistakes that banks have made over the years have only compounded on top of each other as more socialism and communism seeped into their practices, and golf swings became the measure of individual merit more than wisdom, and social utility.  And that was certainly the case with Tom Lamont, one of the leading partners at J.P. Morgan, who would eventually run the whole bank.  The banks caused most of the last century’s wars and created the blueprint for all future wars, which ultimately would become all about debt maintenance and not national values defined by borders.  And keep in mind, the banks were best when people like Tom Lamont ran them.  What we see today is far worse and demands a complete rethinking of how we maintain the value of our currency and how people protect it and use it for capitalist endeavors.  But before we can fix it, we need to understand it, and many people don’t.  When you start talking about monetary value, people’s eyes glaze over with boredom.  Yet, it is one of the most important aspects of modern society, and to have a well-managed banking relationship with the rest of the world is a challenge.

There would not have been World War I if progressive globalists weren’t trying to push everyone’s buttons to form a League of Nations for global government.  However, the debts incurred by that war caused forever trouble with other nations and started to erode the sentiments of everyone involved in the mess we see these days, which many have assumed was a forever condition.  But we can’t accept that, and if we want to Make America Great Again, we have to start with a good, sound policy. Out of all the people involved in politics these days, Vivek Ramaswamy has some of the best ideas on how to restore the financial sovereignty of the United States and to start the process of undoing the many mistakes made by financial institutions as they began to dig themselves in a hole during Tom Lamont’s time.  Like most things in life, the big banks that the Morgans and Rothschilds ran did some great stuff and many evil things, but the path to Hell was undoubtedly paved with good intentions.  To say that World War II was caused essentially by Tom Lamont of the J.P. Morgan bank would not be wrong.  Much of it was in reaction to massive bankruptcies that started on collapsed fiscal policies from World War I, especially in Germany and Italy.  Tom Lamont was personally involved with Bonito Mussolini, the rise of the Nazi party, and the Emperor of Japan as they were all cash-strapped, and J.P. Morgan Bank tried to help manage them to keep them sovereign and independent. 

The mistake happened when Tom Lamont thought he knew more about market conditions than the market itself.  That is always the problem with banks: they try to micromanage their limits of vision into a more productive economy.  Instead of serving the economy, they try to see themselves as super managers, and soon, they are putting constraints where they don’t belong, and things start getting out of hand.  And that was the mistake with Tom Lamont and the Axis Powers during World War II.  I have a problem that always comes up that causes me to think about this issue.  I often talk about the Flying Tigers, the AVG group led by Claire Chennault to protect China from an aggressive Japan seeking to take their property.  And how globalists at the time wanted to soften up China for a communist takeover after the defeated rebellion of communism occurred in 1926.  So by the thirties, the Red Scare was spreading to all corners of the world, set afire by secret societies managing the decline of currencies everywhere.  And the J.P. Morgan group out of New York wanted to save the world from this happening.  However, they also behaved with too much socialism and micromanagement which was the trend of the time, thinking they could control banking enough to keep peace between everyone.  But they tampered with market conditions and helped keep the Germans, Italians, and Japanese afloat when they should have collapsed under their mismanagement.  Competition should have picked winners and losers, not banking relationships.  And so it went that Japan had many hundreds and hundreds of planes financed by the banking industry intent to keep the peace, but instead cause the massive atrocities that were seen in the early days of World War II, and during it until it was eventually concluded with a nuclear bomb. 

And the world never recovered from these mistakes.  And instead of dealing with the errors, they have dug in and gone in the other direction, giving rise to an administrative state that is now ruling the world far worse than the days when Tom Lamont was giving money to the fascists of Italy and the Nazis of Germany, and making it so that the Japanese could build all those planes and navy to create a global monstrosity that could only be settled by war, in the aftermath of all that was the creation of the United Nations, which caused monumental problems on the world stage.  However, they care only about creating a global government, not the impact it might have on individual people.  The problem all these large institutions have is that they tamper with the markets rather than serving market needs, which is the heart of free market capitalism and the concept of the invisible hand, which hints at God managing the affairs of humanity, not institutions, which has always caused massive consternation.  However, the fact remains that the banks were wrong from the beginning.  They have done a lot right and a lot more incorrect.  People like Tom Lamont should never have as much power over individual lives as they did.  But the administrative state is a far worse creation than the power the banks had initially because they followed a wave of communism built off a Marxist ideology that ruined everyone’s approach from the very beginning.  It’s not that modern society can’t live without banking relationships.  But how they interact with the world needs to be much more Adam Smith and much less Karl Marx.  In the beginning, nobody truly understood how market conditions were created and maintained, and a few individual tycoons like the Morgans, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts rose to meet the challenge.  However, over a very short time, their failures migrated into the market and created disasters on a scale that nations couldn’t even deal with, but with war and carnage.  It is an important lesson to consider as we fix the many problems of today, to Make America Great Again, and why that is the only hope for the world.

Rich Hoffman

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