Category: Progressive

SpaceX Does it Again: Crawling out from under Cost-Plus restrictions

For perspective, you can go back through all my writing, millions and millions of words back to 2013 when I wrote an article from Florida about the essential end of the Space Shuttle program and that Obama’s vision for NASA was to partner with Russian cosmonauts for any future space missions.  I was very outraged at the policy, and if I never liked Obama for anything, it was his anti-growth attitude to suppress American exceptionalism as it often presents itself in space travel, that I hated the most.  We were going backward under Obama and Biden, and the only growth we have seen in over two decades came from the four years we had from Trump the first time.  So, I have been very excited about watching the civilian infrastructure for space develop, and anywhere I can help it, I certainly do.  So if I’m more excited these days and very enthusiastic for every day, as many people pointed out to me at a Jags get-together ahead of the inauguration of Trump, I’m sure eventually they’ll understand.  I don’t think people realize what a miracle the week of January 13th was in 2025.  Yes, SpaceX did it again; they landed their Superheavy booster rocket back on the pad it launched from after carrying another Starship into space.  They lost the ship due to a pressure problem that couldn’t gas out fast enough on a new second-generation Starship, and it ruptured the hull, causing the whole thing to break up in the atmosphere.   That was unfortunate but very correctable.  The real trick was repeating the landing of the booster rocket to show that the first time wasn’t an accident.  Watching that rocket capture chopsticks system work now repeatably was a fantastic thing to witness, and it takes us a long way from my complaints about when Obama ended the Space Shuttle program over a decade ago.

But that wasn’t all; just a few hours before SpaceX launched, Blue Origin put their own rocket into space, but this one was carrying a lunar lander from Firefly, a Texas-based company, that was returning to the moon.  Another personal problem I have is with NASA and governments around the world.  I don’t care what anybody found when we went to the moon the first time.  There was no excuse not to have a Hilton there by now so I could vacation on the moon with my family.  This raw, primitive embrace of backward thinking that came to us from both political parties has infuriated me to no end.  When people ask me why I have had my war against public education, it starts with this lack of preparation as a culture to advance people into space.  We should have been doing this since the original moon missions, and as I was growing up, it looked good.  But the Department of Education under Jimmy Carter and the socialist politics that held our society down through labor unions and liberal politics stopped that advancement and I have never been good with it.   If we don’t have a culture pushing for adventures into space, we are deliberately trying to suppress the ambitions of the human race in a very unhealthy way.  So, for me, watching all this space activity just a few days before President Trump’s return to the White House was fantastic and deserved as a subject of massive optimism.  For a culture to produce two space launches like Blue Origin and SpaceX produced, it would have taken NASA a decade to do one of them.  Let alone two significant ones.  We are dealing with good times, finally.

The amount of capacity and bandwidth is the real challenge, and that’s what is changing, which I’ll be pointing out often because I am pretty sure people don’t know what to think of these displays of monumental ambition.  It takes thousands of manhours and intelligence calculations to produce one rocket into space, especially when discussing complicated payloads.  But here we have a culture that did it twice in the same week. Additionally, there are several Falcon rockets that are taking constant payload into space, whether people or satellites for the Starlink system, we have come a long way from the Obama administration sending Americans into space through partnerships with Russia.  As soon as SpaceX realized that they had lost their Starship, they were already planning to pull another out of their manufacturing facility, where several others were waiting, and they were planning another launch next month.  SpaceX expects to launch at least 20 more times in 2025 to develop Starship further.  What they learned from this recent one, even though it burned up in the atmosphere, was extremely valuable compared to the traditional hindrances of a cost-plus company.  The way SpaceX is attacking the problem is the definition of how these things will be done in the future, and it embodies a whole new view of manufacturing that is escaping the clutches of global socialists like Obama, who were deliberately trying to hold back humanity.   It’s one of those situations in which small-minded people have been trying to destroy society to rule over the ashes.  And these new manufacturing methods being developed at SpaceX are a rebellion against that sentiment.  And it’s precisely what space needs for humans to colonize the stars.  Other companies are now moving in that same direction regarding the “rate of resolution.”

Cost-plus companies have been hijacked by all kinds of horrible forces that have held back the aerospace industry since the first moon landing.  When parasitic characters realized they could stall contracts and make money off ignorant governments for more congressional money to be thrown at the trolls to build something, trouble was clearly on the horizon.  That’s why space had to move into civilian care because there was looting politics in government control that held us back with people like Obama.  A setback like Starship had at SpaceX this week would have stopped advancement at a typical cost-plus company for a decade in the past.  Instead, Elon Musk said immediately that the plan was to roll out another Starship and get ready for a second try next month.  The only thing that will hold them back is the speed of government, which will increase dramatically once Trump is back in office.  There is a lot to be very excited about, and I am.  It’s not just about going to space that is exciting; it is about watching the human race crawl out from under a very oppressive political climate and an education system that has sought to cripple us purposely.  Not to inspire us to grow.  And due to all that, we see that the human race is doing big things again, and the American culture, which has produced the world’s wealthiest people, is putting that wealth to good use in adventure and enterprise.  As good as this past week was, and it was, I see under the incoming Trump administration launches like that happening every single day.  I don’t think people realize yet how important all this is and what it will do for us.  But I can see it and am very excited about what’s coming.   In many ways, it’s a dream come true. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Terror Act of Burning Down Los Angeles: Hiding an evil ahead of the Trump DOJ

We know enough at this point to say with confidence that the LA fires that have destroyed the Pacific Palisades, the Hollywood Hills, and Brentwood and are still raging is an act of terrorism just as much as the killings in New Orleans were, and the attempted Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was.  Arsonists started the fires, some of them were caught, and the policies of California made it ripe for the terror act to commence, destroying the lives of many people in the process.  The only thing we don’t yet know is why.  Some speculate that LA wants to build a “smart city,” as was the speculation behind the wildfire burning in Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui.  This looks to be a modern strategy from the radical left, especially in areas that typically have a lot of Democrat support with soft social policies toward fiscal management; they are more vulnerable to policy terrorism than other places.  And when we say policy terrorism, we are talking about the purposeful weakening of infrastructure so that it can be exploited for a more significant cause by radical terrorists.  Such as hiring too many DEI employees who are not competent enough to do the job.  Or giving away the budgets for their fire departments to Ukraine.  Or deliberately not having water reservoirs filled for use to chase some ridiculous environmental concern.  Nothing kills all the turtles and fish more than a raging fire.  So, there was a lot wrong with Lahaina, which is still a mystery.  And the same lessons appear to have been exploited in Los Angeles just a week away from President Trump re-entering the White House.  Logic would say that there is an attempt here by financial types to torpedo the Trump economy with the same zest that they unleashed COVID-19, a known bioweapon during the first Trump term, to halt the economy and force everyone into globalism.  But what we know about the LA wildfires was that they were purposefully caused by stupidity and terrorism because they caught the arsonists running around burning tossed-out Christmas Trees after the holiday season.  The fires weren’t started naturally.

So this is where things get fuzzy, and you have to fill in the gaps based on what you know, and that is why the policies of LA were so mismanaged, deliberately not to be prepared for a fire that would so quickly destroy entire cities. Indeed, nobody is as stupid as the people running LA proposed to be.  The mismanagement of fire resources and water management is astonishingly dumb.  Dumber than dumb people would perform under any conditions.  Which only contributes to the terrorist plot.  Who gets paid for these kinds of things? Who profits from the enterprise?  We have to view this through the lens of war, not through accidental environmental degradation.  The Pacific Palisades looked like a bomb was dropped on it during wartime activity; it had the same effect.  And I would offer that was the point all along.  Bomb an American city ahead of Trump’s return to the White House to derail his incoming administration with a crisis.  But I think personally it goes further than that.  And Mel Gibson, who I think a lot of personally, lost his house during these fires and wasn’t very happy about it, is digging into the truth of the matter regarding terrorism being hidden behind purposeful leftist mismanagement of resources.  So incompetence could take the blame for the property ownership change; when one party wants to acquire property but doesn’t want to fight things in court over eminent domain issues, they destroy the property, making it useless so that others can take over the financial rescue and change how the land is used. 

But I think it’s even worse than all that, and this goes back to the Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons partnership with L. Ron Hubbard. Occult worship in that town has always been a problem.  Many people, even to this day, get wrapped up in the adrenochrome cults and child pedophilia parties that are being revealed by the Puff Daddy arrest.  And what we know about Jeffery Epstein and the way they harvested undocumented children for use as sex slaves and blood sacrifice.  Mel Gibson got it and was talking about that topic on the Joe Rogan podcast as his house was burning down in the Pacific Palisades.  While these kinds of topics have been kept in conspiracy theory circles and away from the topics of polite society, nothing splashes it into common knowledge like a devastating court case with lots of evidence from people’s homes who are doing these kinds of things in much higher concentrations per population density than the people outside of these burnt out communities.  The question is, would evil people be that cruel to destroy entire neighborhoods to keep the sex trafficking and adrenochrome cults out of the news and the answer is an emphatic yes.  Of course, they would. P. Diddy is being prosecuted for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution, and many of his party friends live in just the area that was burnt down by a raging fire, ahead of a Trump DOJ that is not going to sit on the story and let Combs off the hook and toss him back into the world.  People like LeBron James and Leonardo DiCaprio are attached to Combs, and that could bring down the entire Hollywood industry that has been corrupted with this kind of occult activity, fully embracing evil since Crowley’s days.  I know much more about all this than I should; I used to be a frequent contributor to L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future efforts.  So I know the characters very well and understand why they do what they do. The occult actions in the Hollywood Hills and house parties in the Pacific Palisades are not conspiracy theories.  There are many people in the entertainment business who are far more terrified of aging than they are of the law.

They think you are too stupid to notice

One of the areas destroyed by the fires was Mulholland Drive, the subject of the great David Lynch film.  And I say great because it was a good, honest look at the kind of people who live and work in Hollywood and the kind of activity they get themselves wrapped up in.  To say they openly embrace evil is an understatement.  If you know that movie, it’s a good look behind the veil of the Hollywood glitter that many people who work in the industry understand all too well. Once you know that, you can understand why embracing the occult, even for a young 22-year-old actress who has run away to Hollywood to make it big and doesn’t care what she has to do to gain wealth and power while her looks hold up.  Never underestimate what a person in their 30s will do once they feel that youth and opportunity are leaving them.  What kind of deals with the devil will they make?  And once you understand that, you’ll understand why people were running around starting fires in key places upstream of the raging winds, creating arson conditions to destroy evidence of many massive crimes.  And to hide the destruction of evidence behind the tragedy of so many people impacted by the devastation.  Look at the effects of the destroyed city, not the crimes it was intended to hide.  And suddenly, it all makes a lot more sense under such understanding.  The Trump DOJ should look at the people who created the policies that made the act of terrorism possible.  For example, why was the water reservoir empty?  Who made that decision? From there, things will become a lot clearer.  Don’t let all this be a conspiracy theory.  Instead, make it factual testimony of a massive crime that needs evidence, which starts with the behavior of those who created the circumstances for which this vast evil occurred.

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Ever Get Drunk: If you offer youself as a leader, you can never compromise your mind

This is a bit controversial, but it’s a fact of life that needs to be understood.  If you offer yourself up as a leader of a position of any kind, you cannot allow yourself to be mentally impaired at all.  People do not want to see their leaders in an intoxicated state, ever.  I say this because of questions I have had to answer during this holiday season ahead of the Trump inauguration, and people are doing a lot of soul-searching and talking about things that they previously wouldn’t.  And at some of these Christmas parties, people were urging me to drink, and I didn’t.  I don’t like alcohol; I don’t like how it makes my mind feel.  I never have.  It slows me down, and I don’t want to go slow.  So when the drinks are being poured, I don’t participate.  There isn’t anything good that comes from social drinking other than making other people feel better that you don’t present yourself as “high and mighty.”  And honestly, we live in a world now where people need to be more mighty.  One thing that I can promise is that nobody will ever see me in a drunken state.  You can’t do so and offer to be a leader of any kind.  Human weakness is not a merit, it’s a liability.  And when people get drunk, they show the world that they cannot command themselves, let alone other people.  It doesn’t matter if it’s legal.  There are a lot of legal things that shouldn’t be.  A choice to impair your mind with intoxicants displays a weakness of character that is unforgivable among leaders, and you can never do it.  So, to answer everyone all at once, that’s why I am not keen on drinking much at these holiday get-togethers and other social gatherings.  I might sip on a wine or a mixed drink to taste it.  But that’s all.  I will never let them impact my mind in any way because I require too much of myself to be encumbered, mainly by choice.

Nothing good comes from drunken group engagements

I think President Trump is a good example of a good leader.  He doesn’t drink, and he has said that if he did have that bad habit, he would probably be a disaster.  People who are very much A-type personalities have to manage their ambitions, and if they invest in degrading behavior, they tend to succeed more at those diabolical tasks than regular people do.  Trump has worked through his life to manage vices, and he has arrived at this stage of his life with great moral authority because he has not done much that people could use against him.  He had a reputation as a playboy for a good part of his adult life, which has held him back a bit, and we can all see how that has been used against him.  But the key to the story is that you must maintain moral authority by not degrading yourself to the shared ambition of slugs who are extremely unproductive and not very good people.  Trading their opinions for valor does not do the human race any good.  People want to know, even if they are critical of the effort because it makes them feel guilty not to do it themselves; they want to know that the leaders in their lives have a firm hand on the wheel and will not waiver under pressure.  It’s reassuring to them to see that somebody has the strength to stand up to diabolical weakness and overcome temptation.  That is one of the many reasons Trump can do what he does in negotiations.  A strong person with their mind uncompromised always has leverage over compromised people.  And there are far more of those in the world than good leaders, making it relatively easy for Trump to overcome just about anybody with firm moral authority.  Nobody has ever seen President Trump drunk, and they never will and can never use a mutually embarrassing moment against him.

2025 is shaping up to be a period of self-reflection, which is why this is an important topic.  Moral authority is it’s own kind of capital.  We have allowed the socialists and communists of the world to sucker us into this depleted state where we would numb our brains and present it as merit.  It let the world know we weren’t more significant and better than everyone else because everyone was equally compromised.  Then, for most people who didn’t want to work very hard to be good people, it was a tempting fruit to eat.  Social drinking shows vulnerability among friends and puts everyone on equal footing, which is what the socialists always wanted.  It kept the lofty-minded grounded in the realities of the average.  And, of course, those people who don’t want to feel bad about their condition want company.  They are willing to be your friend if you compromise and get them off the hook of having to maintain a lofty self-impression.  We have allowed ourselves to believe that drunkenness is a merit and that it’s a gateway to social acceptance.  Because it took the pressure off other people to conduct their lives as more lofty participants of intellectual value, and that kind of talk comes across as prudish and unrealistic.

But we see failures everywhere in the world from a lack of leadership and connected directly to this trend toward drunkenness and a weakened mental state due to intoxicants, legal or illegal.  It has become fashionable to be incompetent, so many more people are surrendering to that temptation.  And it has become more stylish than ever to drink too much in front of other people to show them that your stuff doesn’t stink and that you don’t think of yourself as better than anybody else.  But you see the problem, that was the game all along, to bring down the good and spread them among the weak.  As Marxists have always wanted, weakness should be presented as merit.  So, in that way, getting drunk or high and not being very smart became a merit in a culture of misfits looking for sameness rather than exceptionalism.  And we have the kind of loser world we see now.  That’s something I have never embraced and never will.  I would not say it’s an accident that President Trump doesn’t drink, even under social conditions, for many reasons that aren’t the same as the reasons I give.  But the merit of the effort is the same.  Not being a drunk or intoxicating whore gives him emotional leverage over his enemies, and you better believe it in life, that enemies are a fact of life.  And you want leverage over them.  And that is the future trend now that we see where the Marxists have tried to take us all along.  And why, when the drinks get passed around at Christmas parties, I pass and drink water or something without alcohol in it.  A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and we have too often traded it in favor of consensus building with malcontents who don’t care about us; they only care that we don’t grow out of their reach.  And for the good of the world, we should never give them the satisfaction and relief from a mind intact while they have inebriated theirs and live as compromised people of a diabolical sameness that is a sin against humanity’s efforts.

Rich Hoffman

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George Soros Gets the Medal of Freedom: As they burn down Hollywood to hide the evidence of their many crimes

It shouldn’t be surprising that President Biden gave George Soros a Medal of Freedom award at the White House, the highest civilian honor our government can provide. Biden was put in office to be a terrorist and destroy the American way of life, and George Soros has been the ultimate terrorist.  So if you want to spit in the face of Americans, especially MAGA Americans, you would do something that grotesquely insults them.  And with that same evidence of disbelief, you can bet that the fires in Hollywood are terrorist-driven.  They were no accident.  They were set to destroy what the antagonists think of as an American icon, the industry of telling stories in America from a culture that can afford such a luxury.  The Hollywood Hills, where the big sign is so well known, didn’t just catch fire by itself.  My first thought about it, which is looking more and more accurate, is that if you are dealing with a mass pedophilia culture, one sure way to get rid of the evidence is to burn it all up.  It doesn’t matter to a terrorist or a criminal if innocent people are harmed in the process.  All they care about is the destruction of our nation and its symbols.  So, in that regard, it should be no surprise that George Soros and Hillary Clinton both received awards from the outgoing president.  And that they meant it to be an insult should come as no surprise.  These bad people hate us.  And they are losing power.  But what we see is no accident; it’s quite on purpose—and meant to be an insult.  They are daring you to have an opinion about it and want to show you that they have had control of our government all along.  And while they still can, they are going to award George Soros and others the best they have with the same malice that the eco-terrorists burned down Hollywood for all the same reasons. 

But even to further cheapen the experience, they gave many people those Medal of Freedom awards, not just George Soros.  The whole event came across as a visit to the Island of Misfit Toys from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  Even Michael J. Fox got one as an actor struggling with Parkinson’s disease.  Who can argue the merits, but that’s how these characters operate.  They hide their maliciousness behind conventional orthodox.  By tying George Soros to Michael J. Fox, they make it so that you can’t criticize one without insulting the other.  Just as they have done with the arson case, Trump is coming into office to attack their communist structure in California, so they create a crisis that justifies big government, and things get out of control.  And to sell it, they have to harm good people as well as bad people, bad people defined as those who facilitated the sex parties that are going to be prosecuted under a Trump DOJ.  And because the goal is to destroy evidence and make it impossible to arrest people and search their homes for evidence of these escapades, you have to burn out everyone so that it doesn’t look so obvious.  You might take out critics like James Woods in the process.  Then, blame it on climate change and try to capture the narrative as Trump is put back into office.  We’ve seen this all before, and that’s what the people do.  It’s how they think.  And it’s how they award George Soros for all the money he has funded into American domestic terrorism while disguising it behind people like Michael J. Fox and other actors that people might like to see getting an award. 

There with his dad was little Alex Soros, who many think will be able to pick up where his old dad left off.  And with the amount of money that they have to complete the task, many are worried.  But I would say to all those many, don’t worry.  These people are losers.  George Soros was only able to do what he did because he suckered people into thinking he wasn’t as evil as he was.  This is why people have a hard time admitting that the Hollywood fires were really arson instead of some environmental accident inspired by climate change.  Out of all the women Alex could date, he’s dating Hillary Clinton’s handmaiden Huma Abedin; the used-up has been of the pornography junkie Anthony Weiner.  Little Alex picked her out of all the women that money can buy.  That shows these people’s terrible judgment and explains why they are currently on the outside looking in.  Why are they losing power, and, ultimately, why were they not able to stop Trump and the MAGA movement once everyone caught on to what they were up to?  And it was that same lousy judgment that provoked them to give the Medal of Freedom award to a known American terrorist.  And that same stupidity that caused arson in Hollywood.  And caused riots over George Floyd, the drug user that they tried to exploit to start a race war.  These are all bad things from bad people who are really a small group of people, which is why Alex is keeping his relationships within his tight little circle of malcontents who want to destroy America using George Soros’s money to do it.  But with all that money, the best that little Alex can get as a potential wife is Huma Abedin.  That goes to show you what money can buy and can’t.

The same as trying to burn down America

What money can’t buy is trust, and the only way all these criminal enterprises have gotten this far out of control is because American people living their nice, comfortable lives have a default mode of trust that people like George Soros have been willing to exploit.  And knowing that, his son, little Alex, their mutual friend Hillary Clinton and a handful of other malcontents who thought they could buy the trust of Americans even as they spit in their face thought they could sucker everyone into looking the other way while they put Joe Biden in office through pure election fraud.  Or burnt down Hollywood to erase the sins of their past as angry justice is returning to the White House.  And with all the terrorism that George Soros sponsored to stop Trump and put him in jail for hundreds of years, he failed.  They had nothing left to do but give themselves awards and have a party while they could.  Out the door, the fire in Hollywood was their giant paper shredder, used to get rid of all they had done and hide it behind a true tragedy.   It’s their playbook for everything, including the disastrous Covid crime that is still pending punishment.  I know it bothered people to see Soros get the award, but consider the circumstances and what it means.  And we have a bunch of misfits who have lost power and aren’t getting it back.  And as spiteful as they are, they are trying to cheapen the award by giving it to themselves as a final parting shot while they still can.  And what that says about them is far more valuable than the cost of the award itself.  And the revelation of the genuine hatred they have for America at the core of every hostile act they have funded and fueled toward the destruction of our country behind a thin veil of trust they no longer possess.

Rich Hoffman

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Getting Back to Mars: Why the CIA is leaking that giant people built pyramids on that remote world

The evidence is underwater on Earth

We are far enough along to make some general statements of a reasonably large magnitude.  We have enough evidence to understand why the CIA is leaking some of their regression hypnosis experiments, which include a species of large people who built pyramids on Mars.  And that the proof that they migrated here to Earth many years ago, likely well before the last ice age, is abundant everywhere.  It’s just not where people have been looking.  It’s like looking for your lost car keys under a parking lot light when you left them in the restaurant.  But the restaurant is closed and dark and you can only see under the light.  So that’s where you look for your lost keys.  Since I have seen some of the unusual stonework in Ishi-no-Hoden, Japan, and started thinking about just how ancient the Silk Road was from the Near East to Japan, it is evident that the world’s prime real state property from that period is underwater.  So the evidence of what came likely from Mars, and even more likely, many other places in the galaxy, forces us to completely re-think our previous assumptions on the evolution of humanity.  We did not evolve linearly, migrating from one invention to another, but we have witnessed many tens of thousands of years, perhaps even millions, of rising and falling cultures creating significant stone monuments all over the earth, much of it buried under the water along coastal regions now, were the result of a lost technology that is waiting to be rediscovered and were the result of a race of people who could and did make the journey from Mars to Earth for some needed reason.  This culture was global and abundant worldwide, as we are discovering with LiDAR readings revealing massive amounts of civilization thousands of years ago that were trading with each other culturally over vast spaces. 

This global culture was having a crisis and built their entire civilization from a mythology of their homelands.  In the Mediterranean region going down into what we now call northern Africa, among the Khemetians, Malta, and even into Crete, they revered the Dog Star Sirius as if this global stone-working culture yearned for home desperately.  They brought technology and an understanding of advanced mathematics that would have taken tens of thousands of years to develop.  These were not hunter-gatherer groups but very sophisticated people with most of their culture erased, except for the stonework they left behind.  Everything else has decayed into oblivion and was only captured in oral traditions of subsequent cultures, like the Egyptians, Sumerians, and throughout the Indus Valley.  What happens to all cultures, as we are seeing presently in the United States, is that detrimental ideas usually destroy the advancement of civilization.  That is, after all, what we see Democrats attempting to do in the modern age, to climb back into a primitive state where they can rule over the ashes.  And that is the real secret and reason for the massive cover-up: the admission to the sciences that humanity doesn’t progress along a straight line of continuous achievement.  But it can all be wiped away repeatedly by bad decisions and poor government.  And in the case of what we have seen on Earth, it can be wiped out and, in many cases, wholly forgotten.  When I saw Ishi-no-Hoden for myself, after visiting places like Stonehenge and Chichen Itza personally, and touched the rock as opposed to just seeing pictures of it, I am confident that the culture that made these things were far more advanced than we are today about certain kinds of things.  Their roots came from other places besides Earth because their religions and philosophy, captured in passed-down myths, have a crisis of abandonment that always points back to the stars, like Mars and Sirius. 

And many authorities know what we will find once we return to Mars, which is happening rapidly now.  As I said, the CIA has done remote viewing on these subjects, and much of what we know is going to be declassified under the Trump administration; they are trying to leak out long-held secrets because the psychological impact is going to be tough for the entire human race to deal with.  But Elon Musk made it so that humanity can return to the stars, and once we get out there, we will find ourselves in the process of rediscovery.  That’s the primary reason we never returned to the moon.  We will see archaeology everywhere, which is from our previous cultures.  Just as we see all over the earth now, we have not given it much thought because the coastlines have changed significantly since those early times.  The ocean levels were more than 400 feet lower during the Ice Age and off the coast of Japan, the entire area of the Persian Gulf north of Qutar, large spans of territory south of Italy down into Malta, and all across the Atlantic, around Florida, Central America, everywhere, the evidence of this very ancient culture is there and tells the story of migration from Mars to Earth, and they brought with them their advanced culture that had been moving about the galaxy with great activity.  But they were somewhat abandoned on Earth and yearned to return home to the stars.  

As I have said in the case of Deloris Cannon, I believe quantum mechanics can explain remote viewing and is a valid science. What the CIA experimented with revealed startling information that became power over the rest of the branches of government that they tried to justify as national security.  However, it ended up being detrimental to the human race because the psychology of such knowledge could and would be catastrophic.  And that so many institutional powers invested their reputations in a line of dialogue that just has not been accurate but instead was self-centered and empowering.  We came from a creation story so that we didn’t have to admit the truth, that we came from the stars and are now returning.  And that much of what we have been doing for tens of thousands of years is striving to get back to where we came from.  And the secrecy the CIA has been trying to hide from us all is coming undone with that same trajectory.  The jealousy that the institutions tried to guard against this global realization of the evolution of humanity is now falling apart among all known governments; they have lost the ability to contain the truth.  The truth is in places like Ishi-no-Hoden, the assumed age is 14,000 BC.  Or on Malta, building temples to the star of Sirius in 3,600 BC, over 5000 years ago.  Think about Sirius Radio.  The signs are everywhere; humanity knows, even if they don’t consciously have a way to connect that knowledge to their terrestrial realities passed down through institutional sciences that were always wrong.  The human race makes terrible decisions and regresses to acting like Stone Age malcontents, always hunting for food and warmth around a campfire.  That doesn’t mean that society didn’t develop into something lofty that could travel between planets at times in the past or well into the future, as we are doing now.  And if you want the proof, I would say it’s at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.  It is under Mount Moriah, where the Temple of Solomon was built over some of that ancient past.  God wanted Abraham to sacrifice Isaac upon that Foundation Stone there.  There was a vast history at that spot that the world’s religions have been trying to mask.  But we see it in the tunnels under the Holy of Holies where the current Dome of the Rock resides.  History is there for all if only people could look at it.  Or to look for their car keys where they last left them instead of where it was most convenient to look.  The proof is everywhere, especially along the ancient coastlines when the oceans were much lower than today’s.  And what we see there is a culture that we will visit again on the surface of Mars once we start settling there again.  Then we’ll admit the obvious: it wasn’t aliens that came from Mars and the stars to visit us and bring us technology.  It was us all along. 

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

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Rich Hoffman

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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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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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