Category: Progressive

The Brand Damage of the CIA: They will never recover from all their mistakes

The brand damage that the CIA has is their fault.  Based on their performance, we would all be better off without them.  They are supposed to keep America safe, but as it has turned out, they are the advocates for globalism and the destruction of American sovereignty.  And their dysfunction is because they don’t have proper civilian oversight.  Since they don’t get a lot of their funding through Congress, but rather through black budget enterprises like the drug trade, they don’t have any accountability.  And when we have tried to pin them down, they point to aliens or some other enterprise and declare that their secrecy is for our own national security.  But as Trump is promising to release the Kennedy assassination report, which Mike Pompeo encouraged him not to do during his first term, after the assassination attempt against Trump over the summer of 2024, the public needs to know.  I understand why Mike Pompeo didn’t want more bad press for the CIA, which he was in charge of at the time under Trump.  He did a good job and didn’t like the additional bad press.  But truthfully, nothing good can come out of the CIA at this point.  Their reputation is terrible, and there isn’t any evidence that they are acting in a way that is best for our country.  So, they have strayed way off the mark.  And I get Mike Pompeo as well, I have been able to ask him directly about what he thought of the 51 intelligence agents who declared that the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.  He didn’t want some citizen journalist disparaging the department he was in charge of, so he just smiled politely and hoped that I would go away.  But it was an honest question with no good answer, and we both knew it.  There is no saving the CIA.

This all came to my mind because I was playing the new Call of Duty Black Ops Six video game, and this CIA plot is central to the game.  For context, Call of Duty is one of the most significant cultural entertainments that we have in the world these days.  Millions and millions of people play the game and they do so all hours of the day and night.  It’s a viral mainstream activity.  People over 50 may not understand that, but Call of Duty is one of those shared experiences for most adult households.  But in the campaign mode for this particular one is a rogue CIA agent who has gone off the grid to expose a big globalist scandal that involves the mainstream CIA as a contributor to plots against domestic sovereignty, which is pretty serious stuff.  In recent years, we have seen several movies go in the same direction, such as the Mission Impossible movies and even James Bond.  People have developed a genuine distrust of all these intelligence agencies over time to the point where they are no longer helpful.  Trump understands the game better than anybody in politics and how best to make America safe.  It’s not with a bunch of secretive agents of doom advocating a destructive political platform when, in reality, the best weapon in the world is economic.  If you control the money supply of any country or any people, then you control them much better than with direct CIA involvement toward border destruction.  What you end up with instead are radicals advocating for a borderless world and globalist intentions because they don’t have to report anything to Congress or answer to anybody for that matter. 

And they have been working against all the ways that the fictional game of Call of Duty portrays, not because conspiracy theorists have won the day with speculative talk, but because art has become a free expression of socially deep concerns.  It also shows up in mainstream entertainment, such as Call of Duty.  As I was playing this most recent one and thinking about Jack Posobiec’s new book Bulletproof, there is no statistical way that the killer, Thomas Crooks, acted alone.  No mathematical analysis could be done over that event where his acting alone could be the case.  Likely, as the evidence points out very well in that book that is very well researched, the FBI and CIA were behind the assassination attempt, just as they were with Kennedy and the coup against Nixon.  If you do a little digging, it’s easy to see that the CIA was created in 1947, right after World War II.  And since then, they have not made America a better place, but far worse.  There may have been well-intentioned people in it, like Mike Pompeo.  Trump may have wanted it to work.  But in truth, the CIA can’t be trusted, and at this point, they never will be.  They have such a horrible reputation that they will never be able to repair it.  Their very creation works against the concept of an American Constitution and needs to be reconsidered.  Adults over 50 who do not play Call of Duty may still want to think the CIA is salvageable, but when pop culture reveals how they feel about it, there is no going back.  Millions and millions of people have grown up not trusting the CIA because the government entity hasn’t done a very good job of justifying what they do and why.  And that is their fault.  People’s opinions of the CIA come from their experiences. 

When you read the Constitution and all the talk about standing armies and civilian oversight, you quickly realize that the CIA was created for all the wrong reasons and that its purpose in the world works against American sovereignty.   So, of course, when Trump came along to make America Great Again, the CIA has been working against him, even getting caught up in the many scandals of performing the same kind of coup on Trump that they do with other leaders around the world over time.  And we know that because of the 51 agents and the Russian dossier.  And the Kennedy assassination report.  From Watergate.  But what’s worse is the many times we suspect what they do is wrong but have not been able to prove it essentially because they lack proper civilian oversight and control of the evidence that might be used against them.  So, with a lack of evidence, they can make up any narrative they want, which they have done.  But it doesn’t change how people think about them, which comes out in art and entertainment, such as in this new Call of Duty game.  The CIA only had relevance to those around for its creation and had some sentimental hope that they were good people who wanted to do what was right.  But in reality, the CIA has proven to be a bunch of anti-American terrorists who work against the Constitution, seeking to subvert it at every opportunity, and they have been controlling our elections for many years, as they have been caught doing with Trump on several occasions.  And it’s not unfair for people to have an unfavorable opinion about them.  However, for accountability and making America great again, the CIA is one of those departments that should be on the chopping block during the next Trump term and reconfigured into something else.  The CIA was rotten from the beginning, and it has never been good.  If they are not accountable to voters, they shouldn’t exist.  And that’s all there is to it, especially now that their reputation has proven irretrievable.

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, the Media is Filled with Stupid People: If you want the job done right, sometimes you just have to do it yourself

It seems like I am answering many questions lately from people who have long wanted to ask.  Such as, why have I put so much effort into writing a 1200-word article every day on this blog site, much of the time, accompanied with video for over 15 years.  The answer is that I can do a better job than anybody else in the media, and I say that because over the last 20 years, I have known the kind of people who end up in media, and if we want to tell the story by reporting media, then you can limit the news to the type of people who are typically picked to be in it.  And I say that because I would know.  There was a large part of my life where all I wanted to do was to be a film director and movie producer.  If you go through my writing over the last 15 years, you’ll see a very distinct break by me from all media outlets around the first election for Trump.  Once I came out in favor of Trump, everybody turned on me.  But before that, people in the business tolerated me.  They even invited me to movie sets with A-lits actors and charming dinners in Glendale and Santa Monica, California, to discuss brewing projects.  But there came a time around 2009 when Barack Obama was president when we all had to decide.  The Tea Party movement needed the modern version of Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, and even John Paul Jones, who could work a revolution from the background.  I also got to know good people who broke away in the media, and I was one of them.  Of all my contacts, I knew quite a few people at Clear Channel Radio, which I utilized to advance Tea Party causes, who would eventually move over to Glenn Beck’s Blaze.  So yes, I have had a lot of opportunities in media. Still, I found through personal experience that people who make a living in media are a particular kind of person. If the truth were going to be told about things, then I would have to take away those elements myself, which is what I have been doing now for quite a long time.

So, doing the blog for me is similar as to why Trump wants to run for president.  It costs him money to run for a political office, and everyone knows what he has been through to do it.  We need the same kind of commitment from people who can afford to, at all levels of society, if we want to make America Great Again.  I gave up on the idea of being one of them in media by identifying myself with the Tea Party movement, and I found over the next five or six years that I could do a lot better on my own.  I know the kind of people who read my blog and do it because they get better news than they do from newspapers and broadcasts, and they get it every day in a way that tells a whole story on a topic instead of some little fragment.   And I don’t do it for fame or opportunity, but because it’s a job that needs to be done. It could only happen if you didn’t care what people thought and didn’t need anybody to pay you to do the job.  So, from top to bottom, I know media personalities at all levels and understand the personality types who survive in the business, and I determined that I would do the job myself if I wanted it done right. 

I would say most media types are whores.  I found it reprehensible what Clear Channel did to Doc Thompson, a pretty good friend who worked directly for Glenn Beck after quite a lot going on behind the scenes.  For a long time, I was careful not to call people out too much because chances were, they would call me to be on a show.  I’d write a book, and my publishers didn’t want me to rock the boat personally with things, so I tried to keep personalities out of my comments.  But during Trump’s last term, when I saw how everyone treated him, especially in the media, I just tossed all that out the window and stopped answering the calls or appearing anywhere.  Of course, I alienated people at a significant personal cost to me.  But that’s OK.  I have done what I think is a good job on a desperately needed topic.  Because most people who are in the media, and survive there, aren’t very good people for many reasons.  In Cincinnati, there was a time about a decade ago when I knew most every media personality on a first-name basis, and I had their phone numbers and would send them text messages often throughout the day.  Even in 2019, when I was on vacation with my wife at the Epcot Center in Florida, I had the media people at Channel 12 wanting to know the latest on the Trump front in Butler County, and I reluctantly took the call because I liked the guy.  But it was a nowhere story to feed a narrative they didn’t really want to get.  All the media personalities were cheerleading for the removal of Trump, and I lost any desire to correspond with them. 

So because the media is such a mess, and when Trump calls them “fake news,” I know all too well what he means.  He understands it because he was a media darling for a long time, and they invited him into their world.  Trump used that knowledge to be president and started to untie all the shoes of the rat-infested substructure of all media during that first term.  There were a lot of people who had to make hard decisions, and I was certainly one of them.  And I’m glad I did.  I think if I hadn’t poured millions and millions of words that people needed to hear into this AI-infested media climate, there are a lot of influential people who would only have had Fox News and some conservatives from New York writing books to help shape their courage where it matters in day to day matters.  I have always been good at media, like many people.  But what was different about me was that I could do other things, too.  I didn’t have to eat out of the hand of some money investor who wanted to drive a media narrative, especially once Trump became involved in the story.  I was free to talk about Trump any way I wanted.  Many might remember the radio broadcasts I did out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 2016 to 2018.  It was a privately owned radio station where I frequently hosted Saturday shows.  I would talk about the benefits of the Trump presidency, and even they were reserved because it was the culture of media that was a problem, and they needed advertising dollars to stay open, and they were always worried about being shut down by the FCC and their advertisers.  So, I have been writing this blog for a long time now.  I am happy with the work that has been a slow trickle working in the background for a long time.  And I have done it because I wanted to, because I wanted people to hear at least a critical opinion that was not at all whored out to any money tied interest.  I’m glad all that occurred.  But yes, from my knowledge, I can say it: the media is filled with people who are not very smart and incapable of seeing the big picture.  And the big picture is where the story always was.  Telling that story takes a perspective of freedom that cannot come from an insider.  Of course, the cost to all that is lost opportunity, financially.  But the value exceeds money by a lot because, in truth, there is an expansion of the human race for which we presently sit on the precipice in ways that seemed impossible just a few years ago.  Yet, here we are.  And yes, it was all worth it.  Things don’t always work out the way you think they will.  But often, because you do things for the right reasons, things work out for the better.

Rich Hoffman

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The Secret to Elon Musk’s Success: His high score on the video game Diablo

I could tell Elon Musk was expanding his intellect as much as a few years ago, and I covered it as I witnessed it.  It was in the kind of books that he was reading, and because of that, I’m not surprised by his support of President Trump.  The only way you can remain a Democrat with Marxist foundations is through ignorance.  When you start learning things, you can’t support dumb politics.  While Elon Musk has always been intelligent and very successful, his political positions are more a result of knowledge than of upbringing or regional considerations.  For him, the realities of running his businesses have driven him to learn more to survive and, ultimately, provide him with a political point of view that facilitates productivity.  Having compassion for other people is one thing.  Destroying the world over compassion is quite another, and I could tell that as Elon Musk dealt with the realities of politics through his businesses, especially the Department of Labor trying to push him to unionize his Tesla plants, he was heading toward more small government than an imposing, all-powerful government that could take everything you own, and sit on FAA permits because you weren’t supporting their political party to stay in power.  For that matter, President Trump also went through the same kind of conversion throughout his life.  That doesn’t make all these people suddenly conservative the way I would be.  I grew up in a conservative area around a lot of conservative people, so I started that way.  As I learned more in life, my roots in conservative thought deepened.  But logic dictates that we all get to the same place once we figure out how the world works and the people in it strive to live in it. 

So, with all that said, people wonder why Elon Musk is so successful and why those who work for him are so engaged.  Now, I talk to many people at a consulting level.  If people listen to me, they are successful.  If they don’t, then they fail.  There isn’t any muddy middle.  There is no consensus on where everyone gets a participation trophy; success is a very rigid standard, and I always get asked about it by compelling people worldwide.   My joint statement toward any successful enterprise is that engagement is the most important and challenging thing to manage in a business.  You can see it in sports when two NFL teams play football.  Usually when one team wins over another given that all the players are the same essentially, they all weigh the same, they are all just as tall and have talented players at all the positions.  The element that determines winners from losers is the coaching staff and their ability to get good engagement from their players.  Labor unions tend to be unproductive because people aren’t motivated to engage in the business through collective bargaining.  They are always fighting the company management they work for to do as little as possible and still get paid wages at a highly engaged value.  Getting people engaged in a project or company is elusive, and the easiest thing that most management turns to is wages, hoping that people will be motivated to make more money and that they might work harder as a result of how much they are paid.  But of course, as I always say, money is not a good motivator.  Throwing money at people does not get people to be more engaged; most of the time, it lowers it as more money often destroys the things that make a person good and strive to be better.  Once a person stops striving for goals in their life, they tend to be less engaged in the things they do, from raising children to buying a new car. 

I thought it was interesting that Elon Musk during the middle of October 2024 had launched new Tesla products, the Tesla Bot and the Tesla Taxi, then a few days later launched with SpaceX, the first Super Heavy Booster into space carrying a Starship, then landed it back at Boca Chica right on target to be captured by the giant chopsticks, to be reloaded with fuel and to launch again.  It was a remarkable feat of engineering by thousands of people, and Elon Musk had created the culture that performed it.  But Musk wasn’t done.  The next day, SpaceX used a Falcon Heavy to launch the Europa Clipper, which is going to Jupiter to study a moon there, and it came off without a hitch.  That launch alone a few years ago would have resulted from a decade of work at NASA.  But after all that, do you know what Elon Musk was most proud of?  He leveled up in the Diablo video game, which he does quite a lot playing video games.  With all his success, he lives in a little shack at Boca Chica, runs around in t-shirts, and plays video games with his co-workers.  He’s one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the richest, and he has no pretense of measuring success the way we traditionally do, with great wealth hanging from him in a social context.  And he cares about his high score in a popular video game. 

What is expected at Elon Musk companies, and I know this personally, is that he recruits and retains highly engaged people. Business schools have yet to unlock this mystery because everyone learns the same wrong things.  Elon Musk does a lot that goes well beyond Lean Manufacturing techniques, and no consulting firms in the world have yet figured it out.  But I’ll tell everyone here for free because I like you.  The secret to Elon Musk’s success is that he does not, as a management culture, rob his employees of their emotional investment in their work.  By providing a job, they have a means to make a living.  But he does not impose himself on their work and instead removes barriers to success.  Not success measured in monetary value.  Once people can pay for their lives, families, homes, and social engagements, they want to do work they feel good about.  Elon Musk gives them jobs in which they can invest to create high-engagement cultures.  Cultures where people want to work and express themselves through good work.  If you watch employees at SpaceX, you see them highly engaged at all hours of the day, 7 days a week.  Because they like their work, and it shows in what they do. Most companies miss these traits altogether because engagement is challenging to measure.  But once it is unlocked, the results are apparent.  Elon Musk showed how he gets high engagement by not being pretentious at so much success, especially after a week where he started it on stage with President Trump at that now famous rally at Butler, Pennsylvania.  Musk was equally impressed with his high score on Diablo; people see that in him and can relate to him.  When an owner or job provider does not rob people of the value of their work through social conditions that impose a static order upon them, people will then invest in themselves into a project because they want to, for all the same reasons that people play video games with no monetary compensation provided, at all.  People do things because they feel good doing them.  The world is far better off for a business or capitalist enterprise when people are engaged in their jobs because the products produced reflect that engagement.  And when people are allowed to invest in themselves and not be robbed by some cultural stigma, success always follows.   And winning becomes expected, not just some fantasy folklore from some island that time forgot.  But it is available to all who dare to tap into its vast secrets and opportunities for the curious and hardworking.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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The FAA Has Held Up SpaceX Too Long: Government is holding the human race back from going to Mars

Just a little memo for everyone out there, especially those who thought compliance with government authority was going to be the future trend, they were wrong.  I’ve listened to complete idiots tell me for more than two decades now that compliance with government authority was only going to increase year by year, and I have argued with them to the contrary.  COVID destroyed people’s tolerance for government pinheads forever.  Government power had been abused, and people were finally pushed too far.  And that’s why Elon Musk was on stage with President Trump in Pennsylvania, cheerleading on a Republican administration that promises to cut down on government red tape dramatically.  Musk is not a Republican or a conservative.  However, the FAA process denying him approved applications for his next space flights for Starship 5 has pushed him into Trump’s corner.  Just as they have with many Democrats who have now crossed over and joined supporting Trump, a common theme has emerged.  The government has become too big and has all the wrong values, and people are tired of interrupting their lives needlessly.  That is certainly the case with Elon Musk, who has to file a lot of permits for the launch of each of his Starships which he is working through his company, SpaceX, to prove the landing of the largest vehicle to ever enter space and return to earth.  What the Starship 5 mission proves to do is re-land the Super Heavy Booster rocket back at Boca Chica with their chopstick system.  From there, refueling and reentry into space will become a common occurrence.  But first, SpaceX has to stick the landing of the Superheavy rocket to prove the whole capture system works.  So, there is a lot of urgency to increase the innovation rate to meet the missions’ needs because Starship is a key to NASA’s programs of returning to the moon, and this application process with the government is holding everything up needlessly. 

To make matters worse, and to my point, you can’t put the heads of lazy people in compliance authority to the genuinely heroic efforts of manufacturing.  It was never a math problem that would work, and Elon Musk has tried to play nice his whole life.  And the Federal Aviation Association did pretty well with SpaceX until the second part of 2024 when Elon Musk formally endorsed Trump for president.  Two iconic photos tell the complete story of the 2024 election cycle and precisely, this problem.  The first is the attempted assassination of President Trump, where he is pumping his fist in the air with blood running down his face after just being shot in the head.  Within moments of that picture hitting the public, Elon Musk formally endorsed President Trump for president, stepping away from years of supporting Democrats such as Joe Biden and Barack Obama.  Elon Musk is hardly a conservative.  But then again, neither is President Trump traditionally.  But what they all have in common is the difficulty in dealing with government bureaucracy where entire groups of worthless people get mall cop authority over the titans of industry with the stroke of a pen.  From there, the FAA stopped approving Musk’s applications for SpaceX flights, as if to punish him for supporting President Trump in any fashion.  It all essentially started with that photo of Trump right after the assassination attempt, which has backfired massively in the intention of getting rid of Trump.  Instead, it solidified him into the world’s consciousness in ways no political campaign could have done otherwise. 

The other photo to come out of all this is when Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, to finish what he started, which was interrupted by that assassination attempt.  This time, Elon Musk came on stage to speak on behalf of President Trump.   And Trump was in the picture standing at the podium calm and resolute, in the same spot where an assassin’s bullet had narrowly missed him just a few months earlier.  And there he was, standing boldly to the possibility of death.  Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world and one of the smartest who has declared himself to the task of carrying human civilization to space to colonize other planets, was jumping around on the stage like a little kid, excited about being there.  The picture that was instantly famous is of Musk jumping in the air with joy at the prospect of Trump winning and deregulating his industry to the point where it has crippled his efforts in a way government pinheads only can.  The joy is evident on Elon Musk’s face, the empowerment of taking back the government from the hands of the truly terrible, the people who are worthless in life and have only defined themselves as demanding that good people adhere to some government mob. Otherwise, punishment will follow.  If you look across the world, especially across the regulatory industry, this communist push to make centralized government appeased has gone too far.  And now there was proof that even the friendly and compliant Elon Musk would be punished if he didn’t support the tyrannical mob in government to the point that they would stonewall the permit process for his life’s work.  That is why you can never give the government too much power over you; they always abuse it. 

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We’re not talking about making the world unsafe.  There will always be a need for the government to provide some regulatory bumpers to hazardous conduct.  However, the lesson everyone has had to learn is that capitalist practices are a far better regulator than government pinheads.  Market conditions are far more potent because failure has a more significant impact than some regulatory committees.  The case of the FAA holding up the next Starship flight has to do with concerns over the water system used for fire suppression having an environmental impact on the local wildlife.  People have had it with this EPA argument.  The earth serves humanity’s needs, not limit them to appeasement like a bunch of primitives sitting around a campfire throwing sticks at every noise in the dark.  And that is what the government has been offering with its ridiculous rules centered around EPA concerns, which has just turned out to be a cover story for outright communism.  And the mob mentality of the government these days who put their political opponents in jail and deny permits as punishment to those who don’t support them politically.  Over the last four years, Biden has pushed too far and tyrannically, and his relationship with a former supporter, Elon Musk, has shattered.  Musk was so happy about the revelation that he was glad to be on stage with Trump and put his entire support behind electing the President back into office so that he could get his company, SpaceX, moving again and not sitting around like a bunch of idiots waiting for the FAA to approve their launch application.  If the permit process for these launches takes more than a few hours, it’s too long.  And that holds in every industry.  More compliance to senseless mobs of government power is not the wave of the future—quite the opposite.  When Trump wins, he will put Musk in charge of improving the government’s work, including the ridiculous permit process holding SpaceX back.  Elon Musk will finally be able to solve that problem directly.  And he is jumping for joy, literally.  And who will there be to blame in the end, the government that pushed too much and too far to advance tyranny and compliance to a bunch of worthless people who should have never been part of the process, to begin with?  They will only be able to blame themselves for what they did.

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Art of Survival’: Winning as Americans

After the last election, I knew that people were scared and needed a voice through the darkness.  And I can write and talk even under the worst circumstances.  So, every day since that stolen election in 2020, where Biden was inserted to push out Trump with an obviously government-sponsored coup, I have written an article every day and filmed a video to go with them, and many millions of people have directly benefited.  If you have been paying attention, if you listen to a lot of talk radio on AM stations all over the country, podcasts, and cable news segments, it’s pretty normal for them to pluck ideas off my blog postings, which many influencers watch every day.  They need content, too.  I have been writing these blogs for many years, and I have put up an article every day, now for over 14 years, since 2010.  It was so successful that since about 2014, I just stopped doing personal interviews as a guest on radio and television; I just put my energy into being a content creator with my eye on providing a voice of reason to producers looking to fill airwaves with material that could help America get going again because the bad guys out there were playing for blood.  I thought about quitting the daily articles a few times during Trump’s first term.  But after he was removed from office, I doubled down to do everything I could in the background to keep the roots of our republic healthy because people, even the strongest people, have needed it.  But now that it’s coming to an end, now what?  I’m not sure, but I aim to do everything I can to help win this election, especially for Trump.  So, I have been reminiscing a lot lately and going back through all the Trump books I have read over the years, which inspired me to support Trump in the first place.  As I was watching Trump return to Butler, Pennsylvania, for a rally after the assassination attempt was applied to him there, I kept thinking of a much more little-known book of his called The Art of Survival, which is one of my favorites.  And I think many of you would enjoy it right now.  Because America is about to knock out its rivals, foreign and domestic, and a new day is dawning for us, it’s important that everyone understand what’s happening.

When The Art of the Deal happened, Trump was at the top of his industry, a very successful businessman, and he had crossed over to become one of the biggest celebrities in the world.  However, the wheels came off shortly after that book published in 1987.  After Reagan left office, the economy tanked.  I was so mad at George Bush Sr. as a 19-year-old kid that I began a crusade looking for a replacement, putting me in the Ross Perot house with his daughters on adventures that would fill several books themselves.  Along the way, I met people like Rob Portman, who I set up on a big town hall debate on WLW radio that helped him win his first congressional seat.  I did many other things to help, too, which could be an entire book of success similar to Trump’s writing about his life experiences.  But during this period, the wheels came off in life for many people.  Me included.  Trump lost his first wife, he lost several businesses, and he was looking like he was going to be bankrupt and broke for the rest of his life.  Later, in 1997, he wrote The Art of the Comeback, which I have said is the playbook for this second Trump term and an essential book that describes how he went from being many millions of dollars in debt, much poorer than a typical homeless person, and climbed back on top to become one of the world’s wealthiest people.  There was a book called The Art of Survival that was infinitely fascinating, and I saw that attitude fresh and again on the stage at that Butler Rally, and with the musical contributions of Christopher Macchio, which were just jaw-dropping fantastic.  Stunning!

Trump didn’t need to write another book or open a door to his personal life while everything was falling around him during this period.  But The Art of Survival is such a marvelous book about perseverance that even in his darkest hour, he wanted to help people pull themselves up when they were down and be better people.  It inspired me during that period to keep fighting, and fighting, and fighting, which I have always done in my life, too, including writing these articles every day, even when I don’t feel like it.  Because I see the hits I get on all this stuff, and hundreds of thousands of people per week consume my material daily.  And over a month, millions.  That’s a lot of people looking for a light in the dark.  And Trump always felt responsible for being that cheerful voice, even when it wasn’t good for him.  You can make some money with books, but not a lot.  So he didn’t write that Art of Survival for himself; he wrote it for people who look to him for leadership. 

Essentially, The Art of Survival is a lesson on why “The Eye of the Tiger” from Rocky III is an essential song for the American consciousness.  One of the prominent features in that book that was devastating for Trump was the fight of Mike Tyson losing to Buster Douglas.  It was devastating to Trump, who was getting into the business of promoting the young Tyson as he looked to be invincible.  And now he was a loser, and it hurt Trump.  I would say that out of everything that was happening badly to Trump during this period, Mike Tyson’s loss to Buster Douglas was the worst because of the psychology involved in winners becoming losers.  But Tyson would fight again and win most of his fights.  Trump would claw himself back from devastation and marry one of the most beautiful women in the world, and they would live a good life in a golden palace overlooking Central Park in New York.  Trump would become more successful than he achieved in the 80s under President Reagan.  As an older man who had seen the worst that the world could throw at him many times over by a powerful and corrupt government to keep him from running for president once again, he was there in Butler, Pennsylvania, as a champion of the world, and he was spiking the football in a much-deserved way.  That power of positive thinking caught the ear of the wealthiest person in the world, Elon Musk, who was excited and very boyish in his enthusiasm for supporting a second Trump term.  And I thought of that book.  If you can get a copy, you might want to read it because we live in an exciting moment in history, and I think you will find in The Art of Survival the critical ingredient for what comes next, and we will all enjoy it quite a lot.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Kamala Harris Couldn’t Dunk if She Were Standing On A Ladder: The Week Trump Won the Election

Polling always has a lagging effect by several days once something momentous by a political candidate does something, and once the patterns are studied of the 2024 election cycle, it will be the third week of September that will be remembered as the week that President Trump sealed the deal.  Kamala Harris had been showing better in the polling.  Obviously, their strategy has been to keep her from talking so that she could adopt any MAGA position and sell peace and harmony as a party in hopes of hoodwinking enough low-information people into being suckered along to vote for her.  And the Democrats and the globalist citizen network of Marxist radicals might get away with pushing her over the top on election day.  But they seriously underestimated the intelligence of people and their desire to have a successful country. With all their efforts at manipulating to keep away from inquisitive journalists, Trump responded with a very defining week, closing the deal on what people can expect with his second term in office.  Specifically, his town hall with Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Michigan was an all-access stroke of public relations genius that few people could have pulled off.  Then, a few nights later, while Harris was trying to interview with Oprah, Trump stopped by Greg Gutfeld on Fox News, who is the hottest ticket in comedy these days and did an hour-long show-off script in what defined the 2024 election cycle.  Trump was brilliant in talking to anybody about anything and being willing to do it as much as was required, and it threw cold water on the communists behind Harris.  A media-driven strategy of propping up some loser like Kamala Harris wasn’t going to be able to compete with a guy as good as Trump with the media to beat him in public opinion.  Trump is not the same old flat Republican that Democrats have dealt with in the past, and they had no way of overtaking him.

I’ve discussed polling, how Trump typically overperforms, and why.  And with all that considered, Trump is virtually tied with Harris up to this point.  But once this third week settled in, even the polling started to pull away from Harris.  Keep in mind that the goal of most of the sources reporting polling needs the results to look close.  They are in the business of selling advertising, and if it seems hopeless for the other candidates and the down ballots, then they will lose the valuable ad buys that they count on every election cycle to generate.  I wouldn’t say that they purposely lie and mislead.  Certainly, in some cases, they do, but the technique of acquiring polling data is the problem.   To mislead, a pollster can knowingly sample several voters who are known Democrats over Republicans if they want to make the results juicier toward their favorable outcome.  But in general, the issue isn’t statistically sampling as much as engagement, which is always hard to measure in any industry.  Voter engagement is the key to this particular decade in voting, and Trump is great at inspiring people to participate in the voting process, which polling struggles to understand because they can really only call known voters.  Not voters who are voting for the first time or switching parties and voting for someone else, like many Democrats, especially teamsters, are willing to do for Trump.  So the cable news sites can try to talk up the horse race of politics so they can get ad buys, but the truth of the matter is that a more significant number of people are excited to vote for Trump than are excited to vote for Harris and she is unable to do anything about it. 

A lot has changed since 2015, when Trump started running for president, especially on late-night television. The landscape has shifted significantly, with the late-night talk show hosts who were anti-Trump losing their market share as they turned people off. This shift has led to a change in people’s entertainment options, with many switching to other options, such as Greg Gutfeld, who has filled in the void left by the other late-night talk shows.  The modern equivalents don’t have it and come across as network-driven YouTubers.  They don’t have the same power as they all once did because the market has changed beyond technological innovations and access to it.  If the old game of keep away was what worked in the past, then this new way of Trump defined the new approach; the new decentralization of communication has made all candidates more accessible.  Many more people saw Trump on a night on Gutfeld than a traditional live broadcast, and the clips played from it resonated for weeks in one-minute to two-minute soundbites that were quickly passed around social media.  The Harris campaign could not match this with a traditional keep-away game where political advisors send press releases, and the network stars would take it from there.  Their approach to the 2024 campaign shows an arrogance and lack of knowledge of the true nature of media in the modern world.

Trump, as he did for network television on The Apprentice, does understand how to use these tools to his advantage, and in the rock, paper, scissors game of modern politics, he was able to beat the keep-away game with much more social engagement and was much better at doing it than anybody else in this decade long election cycle.  If the Harris people were vast and in the business of micromanaging every aspect of her campaign, then Trump was headed in the opposite direction; he did what he wanted without a lot of campaign advisor manipulation.  He could walk into a room and just dominate it with sheer charisma and fresh ideas shooting from the hip, and he could adapt to whatever was being said at spontaneous events.  Kamala returned from her night with Oprah weaker, looking unprepared for the world even with all the cheerleading that Oprah has done for people over the years.  She couldn’t even dunk the ball standing on a ladder.  But Trump, going on Gutfeld, pulled down the whole basket with such a vicious dunk that the backboard shattered with the force of it all.  And in the days after, a clear winner emerged: Trump.  I’m sure he isn’t done; he didn’t come all this way and put forth so much effort to lose.  He was always a closer in business and is proving himself to be a closer in politics.  Ultimately, it’s up to the voters if you can have an honest election.  So, a political person can only present their case; voters will decide who they want.  But in the wake of all this, the third week of September 2024 will always be the week Trump won the election.  He closed the deal on a long journey of political theater and showed the flaws in the traditional approach that the Harris people weren’t prepared for.  And it was good to see for a change.  Trump is the first candidate to run for the White House who is a true insider and representative of the people that America produces.  And the Democrats had no answer and miscalculated horrendously, as they were always poised to do.  They did not match the trajectory of history; instead, they tried to control it much to their detriment.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Dope-smoking, slack-jawed losers are Running the McDonald’s in Hamilton, Ohio: A workforce that has never recoverd from Covid safety protocals

Another benefit from my grand jury service over the summer of 2024, which became a running joke among the other jurors, was what I did each day when we took a lunch break.  I don’t usually spend that much time in court, so my daily routine was tremendously interrupted for weeks at a time and during lunch, we seldom ever had time to eat a packed lunch, so I got into the habit of going to the McDonald’s across the street from the courthouse in downtown Hamilton to get a large Coke and a large Fry for a snack.  It was easy for me to get that kind of food and quickly take it back up to my desk to eat while we listened to testimony and examined evidence.  It’s not the most healthy thing to do in the world, but it was a way for me to bring a little fun to my life when there was so much negativity.  And the other jurors got a kick out of it, even when some of the afternoon cases were horrendous murders, and we had to look at crime photos of the carnage and hear from people in testimony who had gone through likely the worst thing in their life.  I enjoyed my French Fries and a Coke each day.  But what I didn’t enjoy was getting the food.  I picked that dietary expression because I didn’t want a complicated order that involved overeating food; I wanted it easy and convenient because sometimes we had a half hour for lunch, an hour, but sometimes it was as short as 15 minutes, it depended on whatever was going on that day.  But I didn’t want to wait long for the food, so I made it easy.  The food I got couldn’t get my fingers all messy because I often ate it while writing things down and talking to others. 

So, speed was not fully displayed at the McDonald’s in downtown Hamilton.  Out of the weeks that I was on the grand jury, I went to that particular McDonald’s well more than twenty times, and there wasn’t a single day where they were prepared for a lunch rush as the primary food option across the street from the Butler County Courthouse.  Not only are all the employees who work at the courthouse, which includes police officers and security, tempted to get lunch at McDonald’s, but so are all the residents who have to interact with the court.  So it’s a jam-packed store that sometimes has to push out a lot of food.  Now I know something about fast food restaurants; for many years, like the first two decades of my adult life, I worked full-time second jobs to make extra money my family needed.  Some jobs were at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Frisch’s.  I know what lunch and dinner rushes look like and how they must be staffed behind the scenes, away from the customer experience.  One of my offerings at these places was that I always handled pressure well and quickly.  I was often able to control two or three-line positions all by myself, which was an incredible benefit to them, and to say the least, I learned a lot.  One of these places was Wendy’s, known as “The Beach” location; it’s now a Mexican restaurant.  It was often understaffed because of the area.  There were many places for people to work, so this restaurant location was always in competition to acquire good employees.  The critical store was at the Fields Ertle location just south along I-71, which took up most of the prime labor, leaving The Beach to be perpetually understaffed but at times, one of the busiest stores in all of Cincinnati. 

To make matters even worse during these years, I was going through horrendous personal circumstances, including individual lawsuits against me, political problems that involved my stance against drug dealers that got me into a lot of trouble in my community as we lived in Mason, and some cops were making money running cover for drug dealing and I had taken a stance against that.  And my wife and I only had one car for several years because of all these problems.  So, I rode a bicycle everywhere so my wife could have a vehicle for our kids to get back and forth to school because we wouldn’t let them ride the bus with a bunch of loser kids with severe behavioral problems.  So I don’t want to hear about anybody’s problems.  I’ve been there and managed through them just fine and experienced the worst that can come to a human being.  However, the store by The Beach Water Park, closest to Kings Island, was busy during the summer months and required fast employees.  We had many call-offs, so I would typically cover the entire food line for the dining room and the drive-thru all by myself.  Nobody was faster than me in Cincinnati.  So, with that eye, I was very critical of McDonald’s in Hamilton, Ohio, which had a staff that never seemed too inclined to make sure the customers were serviced quickly and efficiently, or at times, even at all.  They gave off a pretentious feeling that we were lucky they were at work.  And it displayed several problems that I see in other places as well.  The service world has never recovered from the dumb protocols of Covid, and three years later, a fast food store like McDonald’s still had trouble recruiting employees to staff all their needed positions, and when they were short on labor, they would close their dining room and just put their efforts onto the drive-thru.  Something that no restaurant would have dared do leading up to COVID-19.  But after, it was a common practice. 

This labor problem holds in almost every field; many employees in large companies still work from home, or so they are trying.  Very progressive companies who are controlled by Democrats at BlackRock and other financial monstrosities have greatly empowered the slack-jawed losers of the world who are lazy and unambitious and have put them in charge of labor, and the effects are horrendous.  I usually don’t interact with fast food restaurants these days, as my wife usually gets us food from those places, but I’m too busy to get it myself.  So only because I was at court all those days did I see how this particular McDonald’s operated compared to what I have experienced in the past few decades through my efforts.  They had terrible management there, and the employees had a presentation of self-importance from the staff feeling lucky to have employees.  If I were ordering anything more complicated than French Fries and a Coke, the wheels of that place would entirely fall apart.  What had changed was the fast food approach to work, not the demand, and that happened because of the introduction of poor workplace conduct with the COVID protocols.   Like most industries, the pin-headed lazy losers of the world had made inefficiency normalized through a rules-based society, and the impact was a much less “capitalist” world.  It’s precisely what is happening with Elon Musk and the FAA.  The same types of people sink production in every industry, from space flight to getting fries during grand jury testimony.  And it’s a problem that has to be fixed for good with the prosecution of those who brought us COVID-19 and told us to socially distance, wear a mask, and work from home.  Those policies intentionally destroyed our economic viability, and people still need to pay for them three years later.   Because the Hamilton McDonald’s in Butler County, Ohio, has never recovered.  And the slow food by a bunch of dope-smoking, slack-jawed losers who work there is a crime against humanity and a treasonous attack against the sovereignty of the United States.  And can’t be endured. 

Rich Hoffman

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