Category: President Trump

Put All The Drug Dealers and Terrorists to Death: Why Mexico needs a lot more guns

Watching how the system defends itself as an issue of much greater levity than the H-1B visa issue emerging in Mexico is interesting.  As we saw an obvious coordinated attack by terrorists in both Las Vegas and New Orleans on New Year’s Day 2025 there is a common theme behind it all. These are the anti-civilization people of global crime syndicates who hide behind a created weaponized religion from 600 AD to stifle the world under the tyranny of fear. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and stay focused here. One of the biggest stories that nobody is talking about is how Mexico, ahead of Trump returning to the White House, is trying to sue American gun manufacturers, specifically Smith & Wesson, for the border violence that their country is causing.  Essentially, they are saying that the gun violence that their out-of-control drug cartels are utilizing would not be possible if not for American guns.  It was an astonishing segment on 60 Minutes during the Holiday season of 2024, where the proposal to go after American gun manufacturers was presented as a proactive measure by the country that is most causing trouble, as Mexico doesn’t have an effective government.  They are run by organized crime from the drug cartels, which is precisely why we have to finish the wall and essentially go to war with those criminal syndicates.  It’s the typical leftist approach, which, of course, the official government of Mexico are hard-left socialists and has been for several years now, so they are a real problem.  For a lot of people, Mexico is a vacation destination where you can do things you can’t do in other places in the world, such as seeing women topless on the beach in some areas.  There aren’t as many social rules for vacationers, but some people find the lack of rules in Mexico fun.  But I’ve pointed out that there is a lot of crime just behind the veil, such as Cancun.  For years, on the way to and from the airport, there is a sex mall where you can get anything and everything, and the cartels run it.  And it’s all very evil and horrible and will continue as long as the drug cartels run the country. 

President Trump has made it quite clear that he is going to make drug dealing a capital offense and that tolerance for the drug cartels is over.  That American troops would be used to enforce justice among the drug cartels that have run wild for way too long.  And ahead of the mass deportations of the illegal immigrants that have occurred under Biden and Obama, the radical leftists of the world are trying to defend themselves from the change that is coming, and 60 Minutes came oddly enough to the defense of the drug cartels.  Instead, they found a different way to package their desire for gun control legislation.  To destroy the gun companies rather than to destroy the drug cartels because, after all, the drug dealers get their guns from America.  Mexico only has one gun store in the whole country, according to 60 Minutes, so they couldn’t be the problem in supporting the supply chain of gun violence.  It was pretty astonishing that they, as a representative of legacy media, could propose something like that with a straight face, given what we all know about the truth of the matter.  In reality, the real reason that Mexico has trouble with drug cartels is for that very reason: they don’t have enough guns.  If people had more guns, the drug cartels wouldn’t be the only ones who have them.  But in the world of micromanaging lefties, they think that if guns were eliminated, gun violence would stop. Instead, the reality of the matter is that vicious personalities, as people who choose to be in a drug cartel are, will always use violence to impose themselves on others, whether the object of violence is a brick, a rock, a knife, a stick, whatever they can get their hands on, they’ll use it.  And Mexico has made it hard to get guns for their legal population, and because of that, drug cartels don’t fear that anybody can fight back against them—even the Mexican government.  So, the 60 Minutes position favors the continued power and abuse of the drug cartels. 

Personally, and my local sheriff knows it, if he wants help busting these scum bags in Butler County, Ohio, he can call me any time of day or night.  I hate drug dealers; I hate drug use.  I hate people who do drugs, even soft drugs.  And drug dealers knowingly try to harm people when they sell drugs that are no good to anybody.  So, I fully support President Trump’s policy to give the death penalty to drug dealers.  And to invade Mexican drug cartels where they live with the American military and destroy them from the nest they reside in.  Taking guns away will never solve the problem.  Giving the Mexican people more guns is the direction everyone needs to go.  Ultimately, I think that the real solution to the Mexican problem is to make it a 51st state.  I have no problem making places like Mexico and Canada new states for the United States.  It would be optional of course, they could vote on it, but I think everyone would benefit from the relationship.  But before that, we have to have mass deportations to ship back the illegals and to build a wall to keep the values of the two countries separate.  Mexico is a dangerous place, and it’s run by a bunch of crazy communists and socialists that hide in the background, and they use the drug cartels as their version of a kind of brownshirt army.  Mexico is a mess, and we can’t have an open border with such a hostile country toward American ideas. 

Very, Very True

Mexico is friendly to American tourists as long as everyone stays within the tourist zones.  But if you travel extensively around the country, it’s not uncommon to be pulled over for a shakedown where you have to pay a bribe, be arrested, or even killed.  It happens all the time.  The Mexican government is deeply corrupt, and the drug cartels are even worse.  You can’t travel freely in Mexico like in America, and people should be able to.  The problem in Mexico is a lack of trust in their authority figures to protect people daily.  And it happens often, especially in Cancun; violence happens when rival gangs get into a turf war.  Mexico needs a lot of things that would make a lot of people better if they just became an American state under American law.  The people of Mexico wouldn’t be trying so hard to flee their Marxist governments for the freedom of America at significant cost to themselves.  Mexico could use American law to make their people safer.  And they could use a lot more guns in Mexico to fight back against the drug cartels and their corrupt government.  Between those two oppressive forces, the Mexican people don’t have a chance.  And it’s all been allowed to fester because the global Marxists wanted to overwhelm America with illegal immigration to bring socialism into America through an open border.  So, it’s not just the massive amount of drugs and violence that we are talking about coming from Mexico.  But the most dangerous element of all is political poison to destroy America from within.  So yeah, attacking American gun manufacturers is not the way to go, and 60 Minutes should be ashamed of themselves for even advocating for such a thing when the real problem is the violence that is allowed to happen in Mexico for all kinds of political reasons and the innocent lives that are destroyed in the process.  The best thing for everyone is that Trump gets back in office and gets tough on the drug cartels in ways they have never seen before.  And putting drug dealers to death is a good start.  But more than that, Mexico needs more guns for its private people so they can fight back the way that Americans can.  Private gun ownership and many more guns in Mexico are part of the solution.  And it can’t happen fast enough.

Rich Hoffman

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Making People Great Again: What would you do if you were Lot

It’s an unfortunate Civil War, and this whole issue of the H-1B visas is a problem, but everyone is missing the real point on the matter.  I don’t think the issue of looking for skilled immigrant labor over domestic skilled labor because they are cheaper is the issue.  That might be the fear of the labor unions and this is the danger of bringing people into the Republican Party who aren’t really conservative.  And we know Elon Musk was a Democrat for most of his life and was converted because of Trump.  And the people demanding only using domestic labor have more of a labor union view of the world on this issue.  The real issue isn’t financial; the quality of people available is the real problem.  You might want to hire domestic people for some enterprise, but there is a reason foreign labor is so attractive, and it’s not money.  Nor is it regional.  It’s value-based.  At least, that’s my experience.  And to cover the point, I think we need to reframe the premise a bit, which is an issue that has come up for me more and more: a personal story about my son-in-law that gets on my nerves often these days.  I have terrific kids, but that’s not by accident.  There was a lot of hard work that went into raising them, and there isn’t much in society that rewards good parenting the way it should.  All you get is seeing your kids grow up and becoming something good.  But social recognition is almost entirely nonexistent.  And worse, and this is the case every New Year, people who were very critical of how I raised my kids go way out of their way to surround themselves with them because they are such good people.  Not to get too personal about it, but it is such an unusual story these days; many of those same critics from over a decade ago are now the people who want to be the best friends of my oldest daughter and her husband, who married young, have stayed married for over 15 years, and have only ever dated each other.  As a result, they are raising a very nice family that everyone wants to emulate.  And the efforts lately have gotten in my way of having a schedule to enjoy my family, which gets on my nerves.  But is a story worth telling. 

I also got married at a very young age because I found the right woman.  But she was a very pretty young woman, and for men who get into those kinds of relationships, you understand what I mean by every male in the world who looks at a woman like that, wants to take her from you.  And when you are young, you don’t have much in life yet to fend them off but violence and tenacity.  Needless to say, I often saw the ugly side of human beings in ways that explain why that recent social media woman on TikTok slept with over 100 men in a day and that it was a story of fascination focused on the morality of the young woman.  But my issue would be with the men; how are there that many men not already committed to a relationship and would have sex with her right after some other dude had done the deed?  Yuk.  And to go at such a pace to do 100 men in a single day, there are only 24 hours in a day, so the math portrays a pretty cheap and loser woman and a bunch of disgusting men as a statistical sample addicted to a pornographic and destructive lifestyle.  So when you have a pretty wife who, of course, is going to produce pretty kids, you have a dramatic portion of society that is plotting and scheming continuously to stick stuff in them for their personal pleasure.  And when it comes to my family, this is a question that came up to me recently as I was talking about Lot from the Bible offering up his daughters to the mob to rape, to save his home guests, a couple of angels……I’m not Lot.  What would I do if I were Lot?  Well, I’ve been there, and many people know exactly what I’d do, I’d fight them.  And I’d fight them all to win, no matter how many of them there were. 

That left me with an unusual problem once my daughters started coming into their teens and wanted to date boys.  I’m sure there are nice young men on a farm in Iowa milking cows at 5 AM every morning and going to church on Sunday for their entire lives who might have been decent people for my daughters to date.  I hear success stories here and there where good men marry into a family and live happily ever after.  But the truth of the matter, which most women will tell you, is that the quality of men just isn’t very good.  They have bad parents and immoral lifestyles, and they certainly aren’t going to grow up with good leadership skills to make good husbands and fathers to my future grandchildren.  So, I was a hard no on the dating experience.  I instead advocated foreign relationships with online boys my kids found in England because they were polite kids from a polite culture.  And in one case, my future son-in-law had a very nice, traditional family with great values.  The other kid’s broken family eventually fell apart and didn’t work out, despite the best intentions.  But in one case, it worked great and continues to work wonderfully.

During this process, I received many criticisms that still exist today.  People didn’t get why I wouldn’t let my kids date some boy down the road.  Why did I think my stuff didn’t stink, and why did I think my daughters were so lofty that some average boy shouldn’t or couldn’t have access to her?  I feel so strongly about all this that I even wrote a book dealing with this issue called The Symposium of Justice, which is a very defined commitment for me.  So when some of those same critics want to think it was by some accident that my oldest daughter and her husband are such good and intact people, it makes me pretty furious.  It wasn’t an accident.  It was a good policy from me, and I turned out to be right about everything, as I usually am.  The rest of the world was wrong.  Dreadfully wrong.  I was never going to be Lot kicking my daughters out into the street to the mob that just wanted to rape them for personal pleasure.  And you don’t want to think of people having such low lives.  But when it comes to sex, they often are.  The quality of people is revealed very quickly, and because of my experience raising daughters, I can say that the quality of people out there is very low.  So now that I often said as they were growing up, I didn’t think any boys in America could date my daughters these days.  Maybe during the World War II generation.  But certainly not now. 

So, it was very controversial for me to only allow my kids to date boys from other countries.  And it wasn’t from some third-world nation like India or China because of cheap labor.  It’s because they had at least found one with whom they could date and build a family.  To further clarify, I don’t go to bachelor parties when other people get married.  My family invited my wife to a bachelorette party once, which caused a rift in our family that persists to this day and probably always will.  I’m rigid hardcore on this morality issue; I’m probably more conservative than Amish people are on this matter.  If you approach a marriage with such scandal in your mind from the beginning, you can’t expect it to last over the generations, and family building is impossible.  So people laughed and giggled about my approach, but they aren’t laughing so much these days.  As I said, I turned out to be right about everything.  I’d rather destroy the mob than turn my daughters over to their disgusting lust.  And I feel the same way about the workforce.  I think everyone has a chance to show that they are high-quality people.  But they don’t grow on trees, and America has been the target of attack by those wanting to destroy it person by person through the education system for decades now, and that has left our workforce a long way from the Right Stuff.  Being a good person and husband or wife takes a good thought process.  Or to raise good kids.  You can’t cheat it.  You can’t create a policy that makes it that way within a human resource department.  You either have good people, or you don’t.  And using the Bible reference, you are either the people in the mob trying to rape Lot and his home guests, or you are trying to defend something precious from the angry mob.  And knowing all that, you have to Make America Great Again somehow.  But it will take more than cheap talk about marriage. All the while, people see strippers at a bachelor party and giggle like a bunch of idiots under the desecration of value in front of an entire family.  Those aren’t the foundations of a good marriage.  And they certainly don’t make good workers, not to the way I think of things.  And when you are looking for workers who get married, stay married, show up on time, and can put their skills to good use, not just to have them, but to work hard enough to use them, often you find that the people you need for those positions are not produced by the culture you are recruiting from.  It might break your heart to be so discriminatory.  However, discretion often leads to much better decisions and more successful enterprises.  And to have a good society, you have to have good people in it.  And to make good people, you need good families.  And we just don’t have enough of those these days for all kinds of reasons. 

Rich Hoffman

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Potomac Fever: The cost of reforming government

We saw a bit about what Anthony Scaramucci meant when he warned Elon Musk over the Holidays of 2024 to stay out of the politics of Washington, D.C.  He specifically cautioned Musk not to get Potomac Fever as he had worked for the White House for a while, which caused a rift with Trump that has lasted to the present and he played like he didn’t want Musk to get that sickness.  Looking back on it, and I’m sure this time won’t be much different, there were many people that Trump liked and supported and tried to bring with him to Washington, D.C., that fell apart and off the rocker without too much time.  Steve Bannon was one of those who got caught off the reservation a bit and had to be removed from the administration.  At one level what Scaramucci said on cable news about Musk could have been viewed as a warning.  “Don’t let what happened to me happen to you,” kind of advice.  Politics is a bloodsport, as I say all the time, and things do get bloody around Trump for many reasons.  But looking deeper into the matter, and it only happened a few days later, when Scaramucci said to Musk to run his businesses and leave people alone in government, what happened to Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over the H-1B visa issue was just a tiny glimpse of things to come.  Surprisingly, the worst critics of Musk’s position were the MAGA people, some of the president’s biggest supporters.  But I wasn’t surprised.  It’s going to get a lot worse than that.  What happened with the H-1B visas was that the SWAMP defended itself from reform, which is what Scaramucci meant as a spokesman for the Beltway’s ruthlessness.  Enjoy your business.  Go live a good life and leave those government people alone.  Or they will ruin your life. 

If you want to do this kind of thing, you have a couple of ingredients that you have to bring with you if you want to reform the government away from the many parasites that are often in it.  You can’t care what people think of you, which Elon Musk doesn’t appear to do in the usual way.  You have to be independently wealthy because the bad guys in the government first pursue your ability to make money as a means to attack.  There are vast evils made daily by people who trade ethics for money, which is why Washington, D.C., has spiraled so far out of control.  That is also why there aren’t more Donald Trumps in the world.  You have to have independent wealth to fight the SWAMP.  When people complain that all these rich people are in Trump’s government, including the come lately types like Elon Musk, you have to understand that you really can’t fight this fight unless you have independent wealth, and in most cases, a lot of it.  If you have just average wealth, that’s not enough because you will be wholly cancel cultured at the bank faster than a bullet from a gun can leave the muzzle.  Yeah, there is a reason that things are the way they are, and the corrupt often end up ruling over everyone else.  Once the bad guys get control of a government and find that they can use the power of it to steal money from everyone through taxation, they aren’t going to give up that racket easily.  So, anybody wanting to challenge that system must be at a place where they no longer care what people think and where the world’s parasites can’t impact their income.  Because they have so much money, people are always willing to be their friends to get some of it. 

But to Scaramucci’s point, yes, these are ruthless and vile people, and if you want to have any kind of good life while fighting them, forget about it.  There is no upside except in doing the right thing; that is the not-so-well-spoken part of the message.  Looking at all the people who came and went within Trump’s orbit over the last decade is truly astonishing.  And when you see how many MAGA supporters were ready to blow up the whole thing over one disagreement over H-1B visas, the immigration issue that is the cornerstone of the entire Trump support system, you get a good idea of the scale of the problem.  To answer the question about America First, what does that mean if the American worker is a unionized slug not willing to do much work beyond the 40 hours a week and leaving a lot of unworked tasks still unfulfilled at the end of a week and call that a lack of capacity, rather than a lack of willingness to be productive?  You can’t build success in the world like that.  So that’s why there is support for immigrant labor, not because they are cheaper, but because they outwork all the unionized slugs, and there are a lot of government workers in Washington D.C.  Most of them belong to some union, and that’s where all the money goes, we pay too much money for too little work.  And because we have brought this big tent into the MAGA movement, there will be a lot of disagreements on policy items.  And if there is anything to exploit, the SWAMP will do so to preserve itself from reform. 

What Anthony Scaramucci said was essentially the old mafia utterance about minding your own business; otherwise, you’d be swimming with the fishes.  The government is no longer, or if it ever was, a representative government.  It’s organized crime under most conditions.  And the crime bosses essentially tell society that if you want a minimal government running your life as opposed to outright anarchy, then you have to pay the price.  A little bit of corruption isn’t going to hurt anything, from their point of view.  Just pay your fee through taxation, and we’ll leave you alone for the most part unless you get some funny ideas about being a hero.  Nobody wants to be a hero.  That is until someone wants to be a hero and save everyone from the system at any cost.  And that perspective often comes from wealth, the kind where they can have anything they want and aren’t concerned about being removed from the Christmas Party list where you get to flirt with the unhappy wives of their typical combover bootlicker husbands and call it high society.  Washington, D.C., is where the Lords of Easy Money set up their racket, and people pay for protection from the very thugs that run the whole outfit, just like the mob.  And Anthoney Scaramucci understands what Potomac Fever is because he’s had it.  And most people get it.  It’s that sickness that people get when they find out they can make friends with people who become powerful because of their access to confiscated wealth and can live a good, easy life if they only join the government union.  Fighting against that union takes a lot of effort, which comes from the defense of that system by those who most benefit from it.  To stand up to it, you have to have abundant wealth and not care about the social impact that comes with it.  What was said to Musk from Scaramucci was more than a warning; it was a vision statement for the government crime syndicate running things.  And that is where the real fight always was. 

Rich Hoffman

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Trouble With Reservations: How the Biden administration created a national labor crises

This was a hectic Holiday season for me, with many more social engagements than usual.  It’s usually pretty busy, but something happened this year that I have never seen before, and that is I had much trouble booking reservations for dinner engagements, which was very strange.   Because I am usually busy with this kind of thing during November and December, I have a base to say that this year differs from other years.  And that the occurrences were higher than usual indicates that statistically, we’re not dealing with an accident here, but statistical certainty.  But out of the 20 dinners I was involved in over the Holiday season, I had trouble with reservations on 18 of them.  This means that, on the first attempt, the restaurant I was trying to book for a holiday party for social engagements would not accept the reservation due to competing holiday celebrations.  I would have to make a few calls, and in all the cases, I could get a hold of somebody to overcome the apprehension.  But with that process, I also received an explanation that ticked me off.  It’s a trend toward the negative that I have been pointing out to everyone over these last few years, coming out of all the dumb COVID protocols.  That globalist poison attacked our American workforce, and now, under four years of Joe Biden, the impact on the average American worker has destroyed them to such a degree that it was showing up in restaurants and how they staff and handle their employees regarding pressure.  In all 18 cases I mentioned, the general managers explained that they were having difficulty staffing their businesses, especially their kitchens, and were very concerned about overloading them because they were afraid they might quit. 

My idea of a great restaurant is Gordan Ramsey’s signature restaurant in Chelsea, England, just to the south of London along the river.  There are a few great places in the world that I also think about regarding top-tier food.  A steakhouse in Kobe, Japan that specializes in Kobe steak, which is fantastic on every bar you measure.  But that 3 Michelin Star Chef Ramsey place in London is, I think, about as good as it gets.  They know how to prepare food and treat a customer.  And it is hard to make a reservation there.  They purposely have a tiny dining room because they are concerned about the high food quality.  It is an excellent experience if you ever get a chance to go, and it’s costly but well worth the money.  When I was there, they toured me through the kitchen, and I could see how things work behind the scenes, and it was all top-notch.  The workforce was clean, engaged, organized, and efficient.  I can say that I’ve seen the best in the world and understand what it takes to be that way.  That was why I could call shenanigans to many of these local managers in the Cincinnati area when they tried to tell me that they were hesitant to book reservations for fear that their staff might be overworked and start delivering poor food quality.  That was the case in one particularly dumb explanation: a very nice restaurant on the Ohio River overlooking downtown Cincinnati was almost empty on the night that I wanted to entertain guests, yet they were concerned about booking my reservation for more than 20 because they had during that same hour a party of 15 and a party of 10.   

After further probing, I got to the heart of the matter: many people who work in restaurant kitchens doing fine food have become very sensitive to pressure under the Biden administration and the COVID protocols that never disappeared.  While high-quality restaurants were able to hire those kinds of people, their ability to handle stress is much lower than they were just a few years ago, and if pressured in an environment where the demands were intense, these employees were prone to walk off the job rather than fight through the pressure.  So managers of nice restaurants were doing their best to keep that pressure off their kitchens in a rock, paper, scissors game of at least keeping the food quality high, even if it meant a loss of sales at the door.  Cincinnati and areas around the city, especially up in West Chester and Liberty Township, have restaurants that are as good as anywhere in the world, so I understand wanting to keep those high food quality standards by taking the pressure off the kitchen staff.  But the kitchen staff shouldn’t be such crybabies, either.  This was a big problem in my eyes because it’s not just restaurants; this is a major domestic service problem that is the direct result of bad government management by introducing minimum wage increases that were not market-driven and creating workforce shortages with government talk of universal wages and work from home policies of virus management introduced by socialist health departments.  It had taken a few years to get there, but the Biden administration policies had shown up in the reservation systems of high-quality restaurants. The artificial constraint of employees had impacted their businesses to the point where they couldn’t plan to maximize their dining room seating to maximum effect because their staff had become soft and unable to manage high amounts of stress. 

Knowing all this and keeping the managers happy with their dilemma, my approach was to let everyone take two or three hours for dinner so that the kitchens didn’t get stressed out too much and to allow the food quality to be reduced.  My logic to the managers is that they’ll make more money letting their guests wait for the food and buying appetizers and drinks than in trying to pace everything to the artificial constraint of the kitchen staff that was trying to figure out if they’d work that night or call off to play Call of Duty.  If employees are getting paid anyway, why would they work harder?  That is what happens when you take away incentives from the American worker to do more and to do it faster.  Most of these restaurants in Cincinnati are built for speed and large crowds.  This is not like Chef Ramsey’s restaurant in England, which had a purposely small dining room.  The places I was going to were meant to fill every seat, and if they could fit in a reservation, they could book it and keep their dining rooms full.  They needed to push their kitchens to perform.  However, “push” became a bad name under the Biden administration.  Employees have become radicalized and are “pushing back” by saying that they need an emotional safety animal to manage stress so they don’t cry when the pressure becomes too great for them.  The way I think, this is a national security issue.  You don’t see this from workforces when I travel around Asia.  They work hard. In the West, workers don’t work hard anymore, a change from just a few years ago.  Like I said, I do this kind of thing every year.  This year was the first time that I had reservations turned down on nights when the dining rooms were mostly empty, but the managers were purposefully trying to keep the pressure off their kitchens because their employees had become emotionally soft after four years of the Biden administration, and globalism employment practices in general.  And it’s certainly something we need to address as a nation.

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk the Reporter: Free speech will destroy tryanny every time

I figured it out long ago, and Elon Musk can now do it at a much larger level.  Free speech and citizen journalism are tremendously powerful tools and are the key ingredients to a prosperous society.  If left alone, in most cases, people in collective masses become corrupt and dangerous.  So all this anger toward Elon Musk is understandable, for the way he expressed himself during the budget battle in Congress over the continuing resolution that started at over 1500 pages and ended up being just a few hundred by the time it was all said and done.  I explained to everyone that this was how D.O.G.E. would be effective.  They didn’t need to have an office somewhere where they stamped approval in some bureaucratic way, like everything else in government.  No, D.O.G.E. initiated by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be more like reporters, doing the job the media should have been doing all along.  And because Musk bought Twitter and turned it from a three-lettered mind control device into a platform of free speech where he has over 200 million direct followers, a lot of this has caught the radical left and deep state establishment figures off guard.  No, they will not be able to control any of this.  They lost their power long ago and were only propped up by legacy media looking to do their dirty work.  But free speech was always the key to our personal Constitution in the United States, and it has been the killer of globalism for many decades now.  All people needed to do was figure out how powerful their opinions were.  This is why I put so much work into my own efforts; it has worked for many years and made things better where they otherwise would languish in obscurity. 

I used to participate in a lot of media, write for newspapers, and appear on television.  I did a lot of radio.  I was even in a few movies.  So, I understand the entertainment culture and news broadcasting that most people use to interact with information very well.  I am that guy who used to show up and give speeches at public gatherings, especially at school boards.  And there was just something wrong with speaking to people who gave you only 3 minutes to speak.  Newspapers would only give me 250 words to make my point.  Radio would only put you on for around a 15-minute segment.  Millions of people heard it, but the information was often lost to people before the next segment started.  I learned a long time ago because I saw how things were cooking in the kitchen, and letting the bad guys determine how long you speak in public and how much you could write regarding news and opinion was wrong.  And it kept people from speaking freely to other people.  So, I gradually started my own blog site and launched this news and opinion effort that has been very effective for over fifteen years.  I learned what worked and didn’t, and I gradually stopped appearing on other people’s radio and television shows and just started doing my own where I could write as much as I wanted and say as much as I desired about anything and everything under the sun.  If you didn’t care about making money that other people would pay you for the work, then freedom would become the primary currency, and people would get different perspectives from what they previously didn’t have. 

When Elon Musk bought Twitter and converted himself out of political necessity away from a left-of-center globalist to a MAGA Republican who has been accused of either being one of Trump’s kids because they have become so close after the election of 2024 or the president himself, Musk bought a free speech platform that had been used to shape public opinion and turned it into something that reflected what people actually thought.  And what tyranny cannot live up to is public scrutiny.  So, in many ways, Elon Musk became much more potent than any figure on planet Earth, including the President of the United States, because he could evoke what people thought about something instead of limiting what they could see and hear in a way to push them into a thought process that reflected the values of institutionalism.  It was never going to work.  The crazy authority figures of the world should have known better and learned their hard lessons from the Berlin Wall and the many control mechanisms they have in China.  Free expression is a powerful weapon, which is why it’s the first of the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution.  And if you are Elon Musk thinking about how to have governments functioning properly on faraway planets so human civilization can thrive, we must solve this problem once and for all here on Earth, here and now.   We can’t allow tyrants to rule through limited knowledge and control over opinion.  And that’s how these crazy, debt-ridden CRs have been passed by our government for years.  They are full of garbage that nobody knows about and sold to the public with a gun to the head, saying essentially, “Pass this bill to get funding for cancer research by ignoring the funding of bio labs in Ukraine and all kinds of other dangerous stuff that the lobbyists have stuffed in there with goodies and corruption galore.” 

The power Elon Musk used in December of 2024 was not the power of a president or a government insider.  It was the power of opinion, and he was using free speech in the way it was designed to educate the public and let them make decisions about things themselves.  And for all that, the Beltway culture withered in pain over the CR debate.  And people haven’t seen anything yet for all the pain it caused.  This is precisely how D.O.G.E. is going to work.  It won’t be from policymakers and long meetings with peer review that government reform will be done.  It will report what is happening and build public pressure to reform through free speech.  I can report on this matter from my personal experience.  There is nothing that any of the bad guys can do about it.  They won’t be able to stand up to it, and they won’t be able to stop it.  Short of turning to violence themselves, which I have had to deal with myself on many occasions.  Once they realize that violence won’t get them what they want, it will make it much worse for them, and they will become very frustrated with the results, much like the way many reacted to Elon Musk during the CR negotiations in 2024.  Musk doesn’t need to be president.  All he needs to do is allow people to have an opinion on something and give them things to think about through his X social media platform.  So what happens next will be bewildering to many people.  But there is nothing they can do to stop it.  Free speech is the check on power that it was designed to be.  Unfortunately, in years past, too much free speech was controlled through various corporate controls directly connected to the political structure.  And that allowed bad guys to do bad things.  Well, not any longer.  That is why 2025 will differ significantly from any other historical period.  The debate over the 2024 continued resolution for congressional spending hasn’t seen anything yet.  And it’s about time!

Rich Hoffman

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Air Taxis in West Chester, Ohio: The future is now, and its very exciting

The future is now

It’s going to happen at this point anyway.  My bringing it up now is more of a formality of connecting the dots and explaining to anybody who will listen how the future economy under President Trump will look.  I have conversations about making Ohio the number one state for business-friendly conditions all the time.  I attend many seminars on economic development and Chamber of Commerce incentives for depressed areas looking to rebound.  And when I say the only thing holding back this technology is the FAA, politics has changed.  Deregulation under Trump will get stuffy bureaucrats out of the way, and a second wave of aviation and aerospace development will be unleashed.  The other day, I talked a lot about Hyperloop and how and why a terminal should be built in Monroe, Ohio. But today, I’m talking about an old idea that is about to be unleashed and create an all-new transportation mode: skycars, or more technically speaking, VTOL air taxis.  I can say from personal experience that Joby Aviation, up the road from West Chester and Liberty Township, is at the front of the market.  They have air taxis ready to go, built, tested, flushed out, and prepared for delivery to market in 2025/2026; essentially, all that is standing in the way is the FAA approval process.  Joby Aviation is making a piloted version, but they will quickly become fully automatic and will work by calling one on your phone and having them pick you up and perform just like an Uber.  The future is here, now.  All that needed to happen was that politics would have to get behind it.  We don’t already have these air taxis in use because the Biden administration was a slow and Marxist micromanager that stalled all these efforts.  If Trump had stayed in the White House in 2020, these Joby air taxis would have been out for a few years by now.  So once we get a Trump administration back in the White House and install a pro-business mindset back into America, Joby and a few other companies are going to move quickly, and technical innovation on this front will happen at a blistering pace. 

Knowing all that, I would propose that we get all the minds together in West Chester and Liberty Township and become the first areas in the world to develop official Sky Ports.  Abu Dhabi and China are already deep in development.  And Europe is already all over it.  But they don’t have Joby Aviation right down the road and a stable environment to perform the early day development of the technology, which could make Ohio the first to fly again.  Here’s how and why it would work.  For instance, there is a nice little piece of property across from Ikea in West Chester that is just big enough for a sky port, a mini runway kind of helipad where these air taxis would land and take off like a helicopter, but much quieter and with much more stable flight.  This always happens to me; people come and see me from out of town.  They stay at the many hotels and have to get back and forth between CVG and West Chester, and their biggest problem is the traffic down I-75, which gets back to the airport to catch their flight when doing business in West Chester.  This air taxi system would take all that worry away and improve life for many people. 

For instance, when business guests were ready to leave their hotel, they would walk or catch a little transport from their hotel to Sky Port by Ikea. Theoretically, a sky taxi would be waiting for them.  In this case, a piloted version of the Joby VTOL vehicle would be waiting for them just like an Uber, dialed up by their phone with the ticket, and everything would be paid.  The guests would arrive and get into the craft like a car.  The sky taxi would fly them down to the airport at CVG and land at the front of the terminal, likely on top of the parking garage there, and fly over all the traffic, making the trip in about 15 minutes, which usually takes over 50 minutes.  Another problem I have is bringing people from West Chester who are in town without a car to sporting events.  I typically pick them up and drive to the Great American Ballpark to attend a game for the evening.  Getting downtown with all the rush hour traffic is a pain in the neck.  It would be much better to get into an air taxi and fly straight to the stadium, land in a nice, safe place along the river, and get to the game in about 10 minutes instead of an hour during those peak hours of 5 to 6 PM.  When the game was over, the passengers would just let the air taxi service know you were about to leave, and they would come and pick you up just like an Uber driver now.  Only it would be a VTOL instead of a car.  The same air taxi service could be set up to get to Kings Island from all over Cincinnati.  It could also be set up to serve politicians from their districts directly to the Ohio Statehouse.  There are a vast number of immediate applications that would benefit immediately from the low price of freshly poured concrete. 

After the FAA permit process, the next barrier would be to win over the public.  So, the sooner people see these vehicles working and overcome their fear of flying, the more the concept will expand rapidly.  At first, it would be similar to a helicopter ride experience that you see in very safe tourist areas.  Only this air taxi concept is even safer and much quieter.  It would be at a small volume, maybe a few flights every hour throughout the peak hours of a business day.  But enough people are interested now to make that happen with the Joby Aviation vehicles right out of the box.  However, the flight frequency would quickly increase to a flight every couple of minutes, and even several flights from several pads at the Skyport would come and go all the time.  It will also greatly enhance the business climate wherever sports reside.  So, I think Ohio has a unique opportunity to be the first.  West Chester, precisely because of its hotels and business traffic, could be the first in the world to demonstrate this technology and benefit economically from the visionary approach.  I’m just connecting the dots here for the many people I know in this business who need to know about each other.  And to explain that this isn’t some far off Jetson’s fantasy concept.  I’ve been involved in these Skycars for over three decades now, so when I say that they are here, I can say it with confidence.  Air taxis are here; they will happen and will be the hottest ticket in town for the next half of a decade.  People will find them very convenient, safe, and pleasant.  And they will become nearly as common as a personal car in a very short time.  The VTOL market needed a president like Trump in the White House.  The rest was waiting for the permit approval, which is about to happen as you read this.  If not sooner. 

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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Jesus and the Essenes: Regression theropy, past lives, extra planets and the slaughter of rebels

Sometimes, when you read as many books as I do, you run across some real treasures, and that was certainly the case with this old book by Dolores Cannon called Jesus and the Essenes.   It was written way back in 1992 and is considered a classic in New Age explorations, but I wanted to know more about the group that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and lived in a community at Qumran on the coast of the Dead Sea and hid their work in the caves once the Romans caught on to them and invaded to kill them all off for being such a threat to society—Roman society.  It was a case of cancel culture that took place in 70 AD and ended on the mountaintop fortress of Masada just a few miles down the sea, where the Essenes fled from the attacking Romans and were forced to commit suicide there before being captured by the authorities.  The Romans were putting down a Jewish revolt, and the Essenes were a radical offshoot who rebelled against the orthodox Jewish communities of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.  They were like the Tea Party of the modern Republican Party, which evolved into MAGA.  All the institutions at the time wanted to kill them off because of the threat they were to the natural order.  I like the Essenes for obvious reasons, and I wanted to learn more, so I read Delores’ book and was rather shocked by the contents.  The book’s point was to show archaeology differently, one that I think is explained by quantum entanglement, a field of study that still has a long way to go.  But Delores presented compelling evidence that she was communicating with a guy who was a member of the Essene community who taught John the Baptist and Jesus Christ at the magnificent library they had there at Qumran, which is what I was after.  And the results were quite remarkable. 

If you strip away the noise of the modern world and all the assumptions that people try to instruct upon your conscious mind for their own political and psychological motivations, we would all find that the way that Biblical characters interacted with the spirit world wasn’t so uncommon.  And that is what my conclusion was about the contents of Dolores Cannon’s fantastic journey and who she spoke with who were in some cases, long, long dead.  What is death anyway? Is it a measure of time, from a living form to one no longer confined to a body of physical embodiment?  Dolores Cannon is a regression hypnotist who was very good at her method.  Not everyone is receptive to it, but in the case of this book, Dolores ran into a young woman in her early 20s named Katie.  And Katie was a good subject for regressive hypnosis.  She seemed to have a personality that was much older than her body, and once Dolores got into her head over multiple sessions that went on for over a year, Dolores found that at least 26 different lives were living in this young woman, so it explained a lot of things regarding Katie’s personality.  I view the human body like a car; our souls drive those cars.  But there are sometimes other souls that ride in our vehicles and can take over if we don’t pay attention to what we are doing, or we give those souls the keys to our cars, and they do drive them.  I think that is a lot of what happens during intoxication when people you know act like people you have no idea who they become while drunk.  Through quantum entanglement, there are always competing spirits looking for a chance to take over and drive your car and we should be very cautious of them.  When someone brags that they were so drunk that they don’t remember what they were doing, there is likely more to it than just memory loss.

I would also say that some of the three lettered agencies, like the CIA, have figured out the political motives of some of these malicious characters, and they can inspire them to take over certain people and get the bodies of people to do whatever it is they want to be done.  However, in the case of this young Katie, who was given a name to hide her identity from her very religious parents, Dolores uncovered a lot of past lives living actively through the young lady.  Most of them were living boring, everyday lives without much going on.  Some of the personalities were men, some were women, and they lived at different times.  But one of the personalities turned out to be very fascinating.  His name was Suddi, and he was a teacher at the Essene community. Dolores talked directly to him during live time during many parts of his life through the host, Katie.  Sometimes, he was a young boy, an up-and-coming community member, and sometimes the teacher of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.  And sometimes, he was already dead and speaking from beyond the grave.  I think Dolores presented her testimony in a way that showed a diligent scientific method.  This Suddi character could have just been some demonic spirit hanging around in quantum physics wanting to mess around with Dolores and Katie, playing games with them.  But I don’t think so because of the amount of work that was done. Instead, I think it’s another situation where science has to catch up to an observed reality.  And the information was interesting and valuable. 

For me, the biggest revelation was that Suddi described the library there at Qumran, which is a subject of significant fascination for me, and it turned out to be much more elaborate than archaeologists have so far been able to get their minds around.  It was a large two-story enterprise with a working model of the solar system, according to Suddi.  And it had ten planets in it, which Zacharia Sitchen has been saying for a long time.  This idea about extra planets in our solar system is a New Age consideration, just like the impact of astrology on the human mind and other out-of-the-box thinking about what’s expected.  But much of what Suddi described through his host, Katie, live time across thousands of years of perspective has been confirmed by archaeologists in a way that a 22-year-old girl would know nothing about.  So, I found it a fascinating testimony recorded in a remarkable book.  And I think there is a lot to learn from such a method of scientific inquiry and that it’s not such science fiction as many would like us to believe.  I think many powers on Earth have figured all this out and used it to attempt to control mass populations.  They can’t be trusted to use this emerging science destructively because only they have figured it out.  I think in her lifetime, Dolores Cannon broke some of this regression theory code and reported some interesting historical evidence that begins to open the door to quantum mechanics, especially the entanglement that can appear bizarre to our living eyes but make a lot of sense once you start looking at reality, differently.  But what a fascinating place Qumran was, and the role it seems to have played in the life of Jesus and the future of all human civilization through Christianity—no wonder the Romans wanted to kill them all off so severely.  But no matter how hard those forces work to do so, the spirit of rebellion always emerges to challenge the static order.  In modern times, it’s not the Essenes but the MAGA movement.  Only this time, I don’t think we will all be slaughtered on the mountaintop of Masada.  But the slaughter will be on the other foot, and it’s taken thousands of years to reach this point.  And continuously residing in the background are many rebels and rogues living in our cars (bodies) and influencing what happens on an eternal quest for freedom the way a soul wants it.  Not necessarily a living body.  Merry Christmas!

Rich Hoffman

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A Hyperloop Terminal in Monroe, Ohio: The only thing holding back such an emerging technology is political will

I have been thinking a lot more of it since President Trump won the election.  But once the news started leaking out of Mar-a-Lago from people who would know, my thinking about it grew into genuine excitement.  My ideas about Monroe, Ohio, becoming the focal point of a new hyperloop terminal, grew some serious legs.  Most of the people involved probably don’t know what a hyperloop is, so I put together a pitch video to explain it to them and get some conceptual faculty behind the thought.  After all, why would little ol’ Monroe, Ohio, be such a hot spot for one of the great emerging technologies on Earth?  Once I learned that Jon Husted would be appointed as the Senate seat replacement for J.D. Vance, all the elements started clicking into place.  I like Jon because of a mutual friend we have, and I know he is very pro business.  However, it only got better once I learned that Trump was very concerned about the next governor of Ohio and wanted to clear the decks for a pick he wanted after DeWine was done in a few years.  After a few years of D.O.G.E., Vivek Ramaswamy was planning to be governor, which is pretty much a slam dunk on the election process.  And I know a lot of mutual friends regarding Vivek.  And, of course, his relationship with Elon Musk then became very important.  After all, J.D. Vance will be in the White House, and economic stimulation will be very important to the Trump/Vance White House.  It was likely that Vance would be in the White House for the next 12 years, 4 with Trump, then 8 with his own administration because people won’t want Trump to go away.  And things started to get hot on my idea.

A few days before all this information emerged out of Mar-a-Lago, Musk proposed a 20 billion dollar Hyperloop connection between New York and London.  Hyperloop is something I have supported for a very long time.  I even hired a few engineers from the University of Cincinnati open source program who worked at SpaceX to develop the emerging technology so I could learn all I could about the pitfalls of the technology.  And I realized what I needed to know.  Hyperloop is a very advanced high-speed transportation system that blasts passengers in a train-like pod at 700-1000 mph conceptually through a cushion of air through a tunnel with all the air removed, almost duplicating the vacuum levels of space to remove wind resistance.  Using magnets to pull the craft along, passengers can travel much faster than a commercial airline.  This trip from New York to London would happen in just a few hours instead of much of the day and would travel under the ocean through tunneling technology from one of Elon Musk’s companies, The Boring Company.  To many people, this all sounded like crazy science fiction from Musk.  But he’s serious.  They are already building a hyperloop in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.  They have also built a preliminary tunneling system in Las Vegas as a kind of test bed.  China is also hard at work as it has stolen the idea from Musk.  So far, nobody has had success, but it’s not because the science is wrong.  It’s because doing such a thing takes enormous political will.  Musk has all the money in the world.  What he doesn’t have is what was forming in Ohio in the Monroe area, the political will to pull it off, from President Trump himself, who wants to do something big during his presidency with a new highway system effort that would rival what we did in America during the 1950s under Eisenhower.  Hyperloop had the opportunity to be bigger than America’s national highway system, and once that was started as a massive infrastructure project, it happened very fast and became normal. 

Monroe makes sense for the first national terminal because if there is a line for 20 billion dollars from New York to London, another 500-mile hyperloop from Monroe to New York could feed the country’s interior to the east coast with a trip that would take about 45 minutes.  And Monroe is only an hour’s drive from Columbus, Indianapolis, Lexington, Louisville and is between Cincinnati and Dayton.  Many people can drive a short distance to Monroe, where they could pick up a few hyperloop lines that would take them to places like Las Angeles, Vegas, and Orlando within a few hours.   And with such a hyperloop hub comes massive economic activity, which would feed the economically deprived hometown of J.D. Vance.  An economic goal that the Trump administration has for many such cities in America, especially along the Rust Belt.  With Governor Ramaswamy in Ohio, many good things can happen with a revitalized Trump economy that could pay down the debt and still generate several hundred billion dollars for something on this scale.  Elon Musk is working with them all to do such a thing, and the technology of The Boring Company makes it all possible.  While there are technical issues to solve, the rate of innovation isn’t the problem.  Political support is, and under the conditions described, Monroe, Ohio, suddenly looks to be the best place in the world for such an effort.  It would revitalize Middletown, Ohio, nearby Hamilton, and, of course, Dayton.  All areas that had been husked out to globalism.  Suddenly, a lot was possible for a relatively small investment. 

Musk knows how to solve this problem, which he needs to do before humans colonize the Moon and Mars.  Living on other planets will require tunnels to protect people from large doses of radiation on planets struggling with their own atmospheres until they are terraformed into habitable planets through science.  Developing a hyperloop on Earth would give The Boreing Company the experience to perform the same on other planets.  So, such an effort has value beyond the convenience of high-speed travel between long-distance destinations on Earth.  As I was talking to my good friend Senator Lang about all this, we shared an intense desire to bring more technology and aerospace imprint along that particular section of the I-75 corridor to make Ohio one of the most business-friendly places in the world.  A hyperloop terminal would go a long way to making that instantly happen.  And suppose there was a President Vance in the White House, a Governor Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor’s mansion, and the wealthiest person in the world who would do anything to get to Mars. In that case, there are a lot of dots that are getting connected if the right people help steer the ship.  So this isn’t a typical article for my usual audience, but for the powerful people I know who read in the background and can help unify everyone behind this effort.  The first thing I thought of as soon as Trump gave his acceptance speech the night of the election was, “Now we have the kind of president who can make the hyperloop possible.”  For many years now, I have considered Monroe, Ohio, the premier place to build such a terminal in the large amounts of land behind the outlet mall.  It would look techy and destination-driven, like Space Mountain from Disney World, only much larger, and impressive.  And suddenly, America would do something that would improve the lives of everyone on earth for centuries.  If only we could align the politics, which is entirely possible based on how things are shaping up. 

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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