Category: Progressive

The Trouble with a Police State: A “swatting” strategy designed to test the fences

Over the last few years, there have been several times that I thought it was time for a very unpleasant experience involving the police. This started around the time of the lockdowns in Ohio, where I was one of the only people still behaving normally as it looked like road checkpoints might be a genuine concern to keep people off the roads and complying with a corrupt governor’s insane mandates. I lived my life mostly normal generally during the Covid lockdowns, and for a few weeks, it wasn’t clear if, at any moment, there might be some shootout with corrupt forces trying to impose on society a direct violation of the Bill of Rights. I kept playing the mistakes made by the FBI at Ruby Ridge and Waco through my head and considered how I might approach that problem differently. And probably because of the region and the type of people in it, that checkpoint problem never happened, and everyone eventually lived happily ever after. But those same concerns returned on Christmas Day this year as reports of swatting were being reported everywhere, where someone calls the police against a political target and reports that person as being dangerous. It has happened to Steve Bannon on the Warroom several times, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Laura Loomer, and on Christmas morning, it looked like it was happening to me. As my children were coming over to have Christmas at my house, two police vehicles sectioned off my road in front of my house with their noses of their squad cars blocking the road, pointing into traffic, and it looked like that was going to be it. So, figuring that to be the case, since I am on several “political enemy” lists, I did what I did. As it turned out, a few minutes later, they were leaving, which I was not unhappy about. They indicated they were looking for a place to hang out because it was Christmas Day, and they had nowhere else to go. Well, hanging out in front of my house wasn’t a good idea. So we parted ways for that day.

As we get further into 2024, I think this will become a much more prevalent problem as very desperate political characters turn to the police, who serve whatever administration is in power, and use this swatting strategy to harass political opponents.  There have been increased incidents between both Republicans and Democrats of this “swatting” strategy, and they have certainly become more aggressive since the days of Covid, where the apparent problems of a massive police state showed us just how dangerous it is to have too many police on the payroll reporting to corrupt politicians not following the Constitution and honoring our American Bill of Rights.  The Bill of Rights explicitly limits what a government can and cannot do, and for me, there is no compromise, especially regarding the Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.  I did a radio show many years ago over this topic on WLW with Darryl Parks about the dangers of the newly written NDAA that Congress passed back then and how the military could be weaponized against the people who were supposed to control it.  I have a pretty good relationship with my local law enforcement.  I will always say that we need law enforcement.  But I am always weary of their power and the tendency to abuse it.  I call it the “mall cop” syndrome.  Even the best-intentioned people can turn into maniacs once they gain the ability to carry a gun and kick in someone’s door for the “safety of society.”  This policy idea that your Bill of Rights is suspended until they determine that you are not a threat is completely wrong as far as I am concerned.  And when someone “swats” you, the assumption is that the police then have a constitutional breaking mandate to violate your rights until they prove to the contrary, which is at the heart of the problem.   

I would go even further and discuss this as a strategy of sheer evil that steps beyond the veil of conscious reality, which is why I have been writing a lot lately about the hostility of the spirit world and those occult practices that seek an alliance with help from the quantum realm.  My interest is in what makes people do bad things and why they think the things they do, especially under a crisis management scenario.  I took the incident on Christmas Day at my house as the raptors testing the fences to see what they could and couldn’t get away with.  But what made them want to try?  Those are the things I spend a lot of time thinking about.  Behind that concern is this push to continuously expand the reach of government with more police with prominent stories that we hear about all the time, where police brutality causes race riots, and it forces society to pick one side or the other.  The Democrats come up with a “defund the police” strategy to decrease police killings of innocent people.  Republicans want to fund more police and “back the blue.”  But the real menace is the political characters, both spiritual and terrestrial, who want to play these forces against each other with the result of getting people screaming for more police protection and submission of their Bill of Rights over to a police state of massive government expansion so that when they do come and arrest you in the middle of the night by kicking down your door and you suddenly have to “prove you are not guilty” before they let you go, you won’t expect anything else.  You’ll want police brutality so that you can be “safe” when the real bad guys are out there causing the trouble to begin with.

This isn’t, after all, a conspiracy strategy; we have seen lawfare applied to President Trump, a former president, so the blueprint is out.  Big governments run by corrupt people expect that they can raid your home, go through your wife’s underwear drawer, and push your face into the ground with your hands behind your back whenever they decide to.  They might apologize later, but they genuinely do intend to embarrass you in front of your friends and neighbors to show that they have domination over you.  They don’t care about the arrest; they care about letting people see how much power they have so that you’ll be ready to submit if they decide to use it.  And when they want to go after political targets, one way to diminish them in the eyes of their followers is to show the world how little power they have.  This is why conservatives have been getting swatted a lot lately.  And I think it will continue to increase as the insanity of the communist left realizes they are losing power and that crimes they have been involved in will now have to be paid for.  While they can, they plan to abuse their power for all its worth.  So we should expect to deal with these things accordingly.  No matter what party you are affiliated with, this is a problem for everyone because it is a strategy of the Deep State that has no respect for the American Constitution, and they intend to cause trouble that we beg for more police so that the police can then become an extension of government power who then give them the right and ability to violate your rights with just a phone call and to take out political enemies so that the state can grow and gain public power as a net result.  We saw during COVID-19 that this is a real problem; the bad guys were testing out what they could and could not get away with regarding massive abuses of authority.  And since then, this swatting strategy has become much more frequent.  And on Christmas Day of 2023, I thought my knowledge of the Constitution would be tested.  Which everyone knows there is no compromise on.  We live in that world, and I advise everyone not to take the bait.  Keep government as minimal as possible, including the amount of local police you have.  Because with just a phone call, they can indeed become your enemy at a moment’s notice.

Rich Hoffman

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What We Are Fighting For: Adventures that show more than curiosity

I don’t do it often, but sometimes the occasion is right, which is undoubtedly the case here.  I recently did a little article on one of my daughters who had just started a line of coffee that complimented her art business.  While doing the video for that daughter, I talked a bit about my other daughter, who, at that time, was at Loch Ness with her family doing neat things.  Out of curiosity, many people have asked me about elements of my personal life, including my kids.  They must not know what to think about the kind of children I would have raised, expecting something outlandish to come from me.  So, there is a lot of curiosity about the type of people who would come out of my family, not to take anything away from their attributes as individuals.  But to say the least, I am proud of my kids.  Life isn’t always easy, but they handle themselves well and are good people.  I expect that out of them, but given the various doubts about how to have a good family and raise good kids, there are many curious people.  While those questions have been coming in, my oldest daughter returned from her trip to Scotland with her husband and their son (one of my grandsons), and they cut together a nice video of their trip.  And when I say that, I’d say it’s not just a regular home video of their many adventures, but done with a professional flair with the idea of maybe starting a YouTube travel channel kind of show.  They travel a lot, their 7th trip of the year, and spent two solid months on the road going to various places.  Their trip to Scotland, much of it shown in the video, was several weeks in November and was interesting enough to show off here so people could see a bit about my family in a nonpolitical setting to satisfy their curiosities. 

I like my family, and if given a choice, we often travel together.  We were with her on most of the seven trips I mentioned that my oldest daughter had been on this past year.  My wife and I took a few trips, especially regarding competitive shooting schedules.  I have another daughter and more grandkids often included in these trips.  I prefer to have them all come, including their dogs, lizards, and whatever else is part of our family.  Just before the trip to Scotland, we spent the end of September together in Florida at Disney World.  Before that, I had just returned from Japan, which followed several other weeks in places like Mammoth Cave and Land Between the Lakes.  With all that I write here, it’s a small part of my life, as there is always a lot going on, and everything moves quickly.  But I think the pace and the amount of things we all do together showed well in my daughter’s video on Scotland.  My son-in-law and my grandson even excitingly contributed to the video, illustrating what a pleasant, healthy family experience should look like.  When I watched the video, it reminded me of what is essential in all these adventures.  And I was proud of them for living outside the box and showing what a good life and family look like.  Which, as a parent, is all you want for your kids. 

All my grandchildren are homeschooled by their parents, my kids.  And on these trips my oldest daughter views as homeschool experiences.  Even though they were traveling, they still had school on the road.  When they travel in their RV within the states, they often set up a class for a few hours per day in a little room while on the road.  In that way, education is always the key to travel, learning many new things, and treating every day like a field trip to an exotic location.  So literally, as my youngest daughter was doing a video with me about her new line of coffee, my oldest was at Loch Ness touching the water there, as shown in the video, which puts a bit of continuity to the various conversations where little bits of my personal life spill out for the audience to see.  All this reminded me of how inferior the public school experience is compared to what we do as a family.  It always reminded me how little we value the public education graduation experience, as my kids spent their senior years in high school in Europe.  They graduated, of course, but they left school early to get to living life, which has always been essential for me.  They never missed that public school experience, which has carried over into adulthood.  They are unique people, and I would argue they are much better prepared for life than most people coming out of the public school experience.  Additionally, my wife was an honor student in school until she met me.  When we were dating, I told her how stupid the whole school experience was, and she graduated early, just like her daughters, without going to her formal graduation with the cap and gown ceremony.  On the day she was supposed to graduate, she and I were on a road trip, traveling very fast on our own journey during a romantic getaway. 

The point here is this: people assume that my position on things, especially very conservative politics, might produce little monsters of anti-compliance. Instead, I would say my approach to parenting made very thoughtful young people who know how to get around safely in the world.  And to get up in the morning, always looking to expand their intellects.  It’s not always apparent as kids go through their biological progression, but once things settle into their thirties, you see what neat people they often grow up to be.  And in the case of my kids on that Scotland trip, I am very proud of them for being good people in a big world, showing that they are in control and not being swept away by it.  Traveling in that style is no big deal for them, and I think people would be interested in their travel channel on YouTube.  We indeed take enough trips to make it enjoyable.  That was the first time she approached the subject as a travel vlog with full commentary.  Which I thought was very good. But it reminded me of the skills it takes to live such a life and how grateful I am that we did not listen to all the noisy people who tried to get us to raise our children like all the other poor kids running on the treadmill of public school and going through the ridiculous motions of college life.  My kids shown in that video have been married for around 15 years, which often shocks people.  They are good, solid people with good jobs, a good work ethic, a nice home, and the ability to create a functional family.  And it’s nice for me to see them doing good things.  And for the curious who wonder, it’s fun for them too. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why The Bad Guys Want to Destroy America: Because they want to hide their massive crimes by getting rid of those who will prosecute them

It’s time to admit to ourselves that America, as we have thought of it, has been lost for a long time. We have always thought of it as something that would always be there for us, an immovable monument of truth, justice, and a way of life that the rest of the world envied for a good reason. We have been played for suckers by people who obviously don’t respect us for designs of evil perpetuated by extremely corrupt people, and we have been born and raised to think it is our obligation to always turn the other cheek and forgive those intentions. When Trump says that if he is not re-elected that he thinks America will plunge into a great depression, one that will make the one from the 1930s look easy by comparison. I would argue that we are already in a depression, everything costs over 30% more and our dollar is about to be wiped away on the world stage. Additionally, they have been lying to us about the recession and depression numbers as it has all been propped up with the same kind of phony money that BlackRock has used from the Federal Reserve to prop up investments that were never made to represent real commercial interest, but only the tampering of a corrupt government intent to print money and buy their way into continued power and a media that will whore themselves to any Democrat position to facilitate the destruction of America so that a new world government can rise in the aftermath. Yes, the moment that people no longer believe in our elections and that they can get Trump back into the White House, all the air would come out of the balloon and anything left of consumer confidence would dissipate into vapor. It’s not an inflationary statement to say such a thing, as it is true today. We just haven’t admitted it to ourselves yet because we have been holding out hope.

I watched the Trump speech in Iowa carefully, the very long one he did in Newton. I was thinking about a couple of things as I watched it, the first was one of Trump’s books, The Art of the Comeback which is a roadmap of what he intends to do when he gets back into office. He’s been way over the cliff before, so he knows how to handle the pressure and there is a plan to get out of it. When he says that we can wipe out our 34 trillion dollars in debt, he’s right. We can solve all our problems, and we can do it pretty easily with the right kind of guy in the White House. And I would argue that America needed to arrive where they are now to get behind a president who needs to do what he needs to do. We can do this, but it will take an overwhelming election and the kind of mind that is specifically like Trump’s to pull it off. Because the other thing I was reading was the monstrosity of a letter that Dr. Fauci was behind that convinced the White House to pull off the ridiculous plan by Richard Hatchett. The paper Hatchett wrote that caused the lockdowns and promoted the China strategy, not for health reasons but to crush the concept of the Bill of Rights. It’s on pg. 382 of The Wuhan Cover-up by RFK. Then on pg. 386, he makes his recommendation to the Chinese, “There is a literature which I would certainly encourage the Chinese authorities to review.” Which was his direct attack on the Bill of Rights from a 2007 study and a 2006 Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan, which he wrote. Once the Chinese bit on the plan they then turned it toward the White House and put it into Trump’s lap, knowing it was an election year and he would have to listen to them.

I have always said that Covid was an attack by the World Economic Forum that controlled policy in China to use them as a military weapon against America for its complete destruction. I have always said that the World Economic Forum through centralized banking has been an acting hostile nation working against America as a sovereign nation and that they intended to use the Covid bioweapon which is what it was, as coordinated by Peter Daszak from the CIA controlled asset EcoHealth Alliance, Ralph Baric who was Dr. Fauci’s premier gain-of-function researcher out of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who purposely, and audaciously utilized ligation technology to hide the human tampering which made Covid more transmissible to humans from its normalized state, to make it a bioweapon. And of course, there is Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates, all of China, Klaus Schwab, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, there is a whole list of characters who committed treason against the United States in a very deliberate way and they thought they could get away with it because of Baric’s fingerprint removal process in the manipulated viruses. Only, researchers from Duke University and the University Clinics of Wurzburg found a way to see these invisible identifiers and they have been able to trace back that manipulation into SARS-CoV-2 which was proof that Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates was counting on never getting out to the public. Or a former president like Trump learning what was done to him and his administration that caused 16 trillion dollars in losses in America alone and destroyed over a million small businesses. Who is going to pay for all that? Not to mention the many lives that were lost in the many millions and millions as a direct result of this scandal. Then as if that weren’t enough, all these same characters pouring straight out of the World Economic Forum were involved in the greatest election fraud the world has ever seen in the 2020 election.

This has been an attack on our culture to hide massive crimes behind their ridiculousness

All these bad guys thought we would never see what they did, but they had no choice.  They were so in trouble over Covid that they had to put a puppet president in office to control the future investigations into their massive crimes committed with Covid, the release of a bioweapon created by Americans, connected to the strategic intentions of the World Economic Forum, pawned to the low regulatory environment of China so that they could use their communist cover to keep it all a secret and to use that leverage to unleash a long hatched plan conceived by Richard Hatchett to destroy the concept of a Bill of Rights in all Western Cultures.  Trump now knows all this, but he certainly didn’t in January of 2020.  But Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates knew what they were doing and they did it purposely, and maliciously, and now we have all paid dearly for it.  So yes, there needs to be a revenge tour, and Trump is just the kind of person we need for it.  But before we can ever make America Great Again, and pay off the massive depts committed by these horrendous thieves and criminals who deserve to be put on trial and convicted for mass crimes against humanity.  Remember, we know they tampered with that virus and can prove it.  But so far, people have not had the guts to admit to themselves what happened, we must put things in perspective.  And before we can fix it, people must get their minds wrapped around it, starting with Trump’s re-election.  And what then must come next has to be proportional payment for the massive crimes that have been committed against us with the intent to destroy us utterly, and completely.

Rich Hoffman

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I Support George Lang Emphatically for Senate in the 4th District of Ohio: Staying strong under intense fire in 2024

With George Lang’s term as an Ohio senator coming up this year, he’s up for re-election in 2024, I happily endorse him for another term.  George Lang has done a great job in the 4th District of Ohio, and I wish every politician were like him.  If they were, we’d be a lot better off as a country.  Yet, many people, especially my readers, have developed a healthy distrust of politicians of all kinds, and I know many wonder why I like George Lang so much, even though he is considered a mainstream politician.  After all, Candace Keller had filed to run against George, which she had done before when it was for a representative seat, and the campaign took a turn for the worse in the mudslinging.  I personally like Candice, her husband, and her family.  I tend to get along best in the world with people like her.  On most things, our politics are very much aligned.  But because she has filed and intends to run against George, I must talk about a few things as to why I am such a supporter of the very powerful senator for the 4th District and explain why he’s not a RINO as is so common a designation for a mainstream politician.  While I am certainly no fan of RINOs, I must set the record straight going into this election year as to why I have always supported George, which sometimes mystifies people.  But from my perspective, it’s an easy decision, because George Lang is a very good person from the ground up and I have known that side of him for a very long time now, around 15 years.  And he’s very much the same person now that I have known all that time, which brings to mind three examples that would put some rationality behind the decision-making process.

Yes, George Lang associates with compelling people and has for many years; John Boehner comes to mind as he was marching toward the Speaker of the House role in Congress.  Along the way, George and I formed a friendship as fellow Tea Party members who were very upset by the direction Barack Obama was taking our country, which goes all the way back to 2009.  Well, all this was before President Trump came along, but in 2012, I had a significant negative news story designed to push everyone away from me.  I was okay with it, but there were a lot of Judas types who were perfectly willing to kiss my cheek in public to be thrown to the wolves, to say it nicely.  We had an event in the back room of a local LaRosa’s restaurant to rally support for me in the wake of intense fire.  Guess who stood with me under the fierce fire in public.  There is a picture of us all at this event, but guess who took the picture?  George Lang came, probably on the same afternoon he was having lunch with John Boehner, Speaker of the House at the time.  My name was all over the media, on all the primary sources so he had a lot to lose.  But he came anyway and was even willing to be in the picture.  It was my suggestion that he take the picture and that we keep him out of it.  So we took the picture, and I learned a lot about George Lang that day, which has lasted for over a decade.  He’s the real deal and he will stand with you under intense fire.  He had much to lose being associated with me, especially by the donors.  But as I have seen many more times than once, George is strongly inclined to do the right things, especially under great fire.

I can also say that I have seen George work with Governor DeWine with the door closed and the pressure very hot.  My thoughts on any management, especially politics, is that you get much more done with the door shut than with dueling press conferences.  And George has been highly influential in these kinds of meetings. A lot goes on in the senate in Columbus, Ohio, that has George Lang’s name all over it, but he never seeks the credit.  And I’ve witnessed it several times personally with Governor DeWine, where just a few people were in the room, and George had to make his point.  These are no powder puff conversations; George is stern when he needs to be and knows what to say and when.  And as professionals should be, George and the Governor were able to shake hands and get things done at the end of the conversation.  I would point to the recent flip-flop by DeWine on the transgender surgery ban for kids as one such example.  DeWine does listen to people when he steps in it.  And George has been one who can shut the door and talk to him without compromising who he is politically.  This is a skill that many people never develop in their lives.  It comes easily to George.  Many people in his position get washed away by the giant waves when you spend time with some of these prominent personalities; it’s easy to happen.  But George can play at a very high level and never lose himself in becoming a RINO.

George has such an excellent personal foundation and can do the things I am talking about because he sincerely loves his wife.  I have known that side of them, and I can say that one of the reasons George and I have maintained a friendship all this time is because he has a great relationship with his wife, which I respect.  I don’t know many people who love their wives and kids like George Lang.  And it has been my observation that this is the key to George’s success.  When you can love a spouse the way George does of his wife Debbie and your kids the way he does, then you can love your country, your political party, your Constitution, your commitment to business, everything with that strong foundation.  And that’s ultimately why I like George so much.  I know a lot of politicians, but I don’t know of many who have such strong foundations as George Lang does.  If you can love a wife the way he does her, and she does him, then you are doing something fundamentally right at the start.  And that can then translate into many good things you do in life.  So, when it comes to other politicians, it may not be their fault that they aren’t as skilled as George Lang is.  And people frustrated that they don’t have those skills might assume that he possesses some voodoo magic in his associations with the very powerful.  But I know him very personally and know that his secret sauce is the love of his family, which allows him to play big ball without losing himself along the way.  Because at the end of the day, no matter what happens, he has his family, which is really all George wants in life.  And that makes him very good as a senator and someone we are lucky to have in the 4th District in Ohio.  I wish we could have him forever, but for now, at least one more term.

Rich Hoffman

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China’s War with America and the West: An economy of deception meant to completely destroy us

I must point to several articles I did on Unrestricted Warfare, as indicated by China several years ago, for the present context to be understood. But for all those peace lovers out there who think there is some concession that can be utilized in the world to have good relations with China, you are all smoking crack. China has been at war with America for years, and our politicians have been too stupid and compromised to do anything about it. But this is a different kind of war, one that attacks explicitly our weaknesses, with the same intent of social destruction, but to exploit our love for attention, security, and peace. And the most dangerous characters in a war like that are not the Chinese nationals who might work at your local Chinese food restaurant making you sweet and sour pork. It’s your neighbor who slept with a Chinese honeypot disguised as a political intern who turns out to be a Chinese spy. Or the businessman looking for a World Economic Forum invite to the next event in Davos because they planned their business expansion around the communist Chinese economy. Or even the local newspaper, which is owned by a big conglomerate that has been looking at the market opportunities in a country that has over 1 billion people in it, who all are like slaves to overly imposing parents. The best war and the most effective tactics are to fight your enemy in ways that are so deceptive that your targets don’t even know they are at war. To say we have all been gullible is a vast understatement. The war that China has waged on us has taken advantage of the greed of weak people and turned them against our nation for the purposeful destruction of it. And we’ve let it happen primarily unchecked.

You can look at the massive amount of drug use that is going on, which is purposely embraced by our political culture these days because they are all compromised in some way by the hidden war of globalism that has put China at the head of the table for all kinds of tactical reasons. These are not the days of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign, where drug use was understood to be dangerous to society. In the war of today, that is the point. Poison people in a trade-off for quick and easy feel goods, and watch your enemy destroy themselves with attrition. You don’t even have to fire a shot. And with the open borders that we have, there is little to no restriction of that poison coming into America, primarily from the weaponized drug cartels that are flooding our streets with deadly poison meant to kill us. In almost every cultural category, you will see the aggressive influence of China penetrating that field, buying up our assets so that they can manage the decline. I’ve pointed out that you can see this influence most in Hollywood, especially Legendary Studios, where China became the owner of that traditional Warner Bros. branch to make communist propaganda movies, and people have noticed. They’ve stopped supporting the Hollywood product, but one way or the other, China was going to either destroy Hollywood or the consumers of the product, hopefully both. They have conducted a purposeful campaign of destruction to kill outright everything resembling Western culture, and they are purposefully deceitful in their actions. But when China tells Biden that they are going to attack Taiwan right to his face, you can bet that they will. They had planned to all along. And Biden has no choice but to let him because if not for China, Biden would not be in office, and his family would likely be in jail prosecuted for their many crimes against our nation.

To comprehend their viciousness, all anybody has to do is look at the medical trade journals, such as what we saw with the Lancet during COVID-19. There has been a lot of talk about Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci using trade journals to manipulate the public away from COVID treatments and toward their vaccine development, which was meant to gain control of society in general with centralized regulation. The vaccine push as we know it now in 2024 was to convince people that they would need the government vaccine to stay alive if they wanted to live. China, in partnership with deceitful traitors in the American government who leaned left and wanted communist China-style politics, built Covid as a bioweapon. They maliciously manipulated COVID through gain of function to become transmissible to humans, which was the whole debate between Dr. Fauci and Senator Rand Paul, so that their deadly virus could spread to humans and bring the entire world under the foot of a communist government led by China. All this and much more is chronicled in the excellent book by Robert F. Kennedy, The Wuhan Cover-up. We’re not talking about a conspiracy theory book here; we’re talking about a severe presentation of a legal prosecution against American traitors, by the thousands, who have been working to bring us all under the submission of the Chinese military intentions. And they have been using their wealth, given to them by money managers like BlackRock, to conduct a war of destruction against every living American through their manipulation of our colleges, finance institutions, and particularly trade journals like the Lancet, which allowed Gates and Fauci to use advertising dollars to trade reputation for military effectiveness so that Covid would do maximum destruction as a bioweapon, and prevent society from learning they could have taken hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to stop it.

When it was observed that every news organization and trade journal followed the “established norms” of the Lancet during the Covid crisis, you can see China’s massive influence in owning so much of corporate America.  Employees at those organizations needing a paycheck quickly fell under complete compliance and would determine that the truth could be shaped to be anything that China wanted it to be.  And when anybody said “trust the science,” what we were seeing was China exploiting our messaging with their propaganda to destroy our society essentially, and they didn’t care if people died along the way.  This is not a war that most people are prepared to deal with.  But it’s the kind of war that China, which is still a backwater economy only propped up by globalist investors with leftist ideology fantasies of a centralized authority utopia, wants to fight.  It’s the only war they are prepared to fight, and they have now been conducting it for a long time by targeting weak people of power in America and buying them off with easy money and sexual compromise, and they have been doing it by the millions.  The worst troops in this war are not the troops marching in the square in Beijing.  They are your neighbors with a full bank account and a retirement pension built off confiscated wealth from Chinese money.  And the intent is ruthless and deadly.  And we saw just a hint of their intentions with Covid and their network that is well at work in America for our ultimate destruction.  Compromised assets like Joe Biden will do anything they say because, as the Biden laptop has shown, the Biden family is a compromised asset.  That’s how China does it: they buy up senators and members of Congress with a tradeoff, such as sexual favors or money that comes easily to those willing to steal to get it, and in trade for those fun and nice things, lowlifes like Biden will become their loyal servants.  And we’ve seen the result, which is purposeful and intentionally destructive at every level.  Their intent for our destruction is even worse than you can imagine, and then some by using an economy of deception conducted by research whores to destroy us from within, without firing a shot.

Rich Hoffman

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“Your Mom is a Whore”: How government grows and why people let it

One thing we don’t talk about enough, and we should, is the cause of big government in the first place.  It’s one thing to point it out, and to complain about, and to blame some secondary condition, such as the evils of the World Economic Forum or the secrecy and malice of the CIA.  But in truth, I would say the number one reason that Bill Cooper was killed on his front porch by a couple of Arizona law enforcement had more to do with one of the most intelligent statements I have ever read in a book, which William Cooper accurately put his finger on as the root cause of all conspiracy theory, and the evils that follow.  In his book Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper pointed out what caused most of the problems in the world, which was devastating to all the people and groups out there who want those problems to continue so that they will have power over people in general, especially from government expansion and the abuse that comes with it.  And it wasn’t the talk about UFOs enslaving civilization, which is undoubtedly in that book, or the secrecy of power groups who operate in the shadows with a tax-eating shadow government.  Those are all true things, but not the reason I think they killed Bill Cooper. Instead, what he said about the natural psychological state of children and their parents that was the secret sauce that resides behind all government power.  And it is the biggest challenge to creating a country like America.  And that the way to destroy America was to exploit this weakness.  To strengthen it would be to help people with this essential problem of self-fulfillment and reliance on individual behavior instead of social collectivism.  Bill Cooper’s analysis in that famous conspiracy theory book is one of the most intelligent and powerful statements ever put on paper regarding mass society. 

The essential problem is this, and it’s a specific human issue in that people spend 18 years learning things, and most adults don’t live stable lives raising children over those 18 years.  They may do well at raising kids initially when all the rules are straightforward, and children depend entirely on their parents to function.  This is as opposed to other animals, such as young deer, that can stand up and run around just minutes after birth.  Humans have vast, complicated intellects not designed to be the drivers of mere animal behavior, basic sustenance, the acquisition of food, procreation, and shelter during heavy rains.  Humans take time to make, not their biological bodies but their minds.  At any point during those 18 years, even though their bodies may be ready to reproduce at 12 to 13 years old, their needs for thoughtful expression and social function continue into their 20s.  It takes a long time to build a human being, and then they don’t last very long after all that emotional investment; they are usually dead by age 70 to 80, with all that effort lost to time and what insecurities that bring to the effort of such an endeavor.  Many adults look at life and say, “Why try so hard if it’s all going to be over so fast.”  So they don’t do their jobs in instructing the youth, and the youth end up carrying on that trait to their children, then their children, and more children perpetually for infinity, leaving the world in the mess we have been talking about throughout human history.  Almost nobody gets this process right, which is the root cause of most trouble in the universe.  Suppose we were talking to aliens from the other side of the galaxy living in a type 1 or 2 civilization. They likely would have the same frustrations that they have been unable to overcome in their highly advanced technical society. 

We have tried to compensate for this problem in various ways, but none have worked, especially on the education frontier.  The social answer to this problem is to have the state educate society for its perpetuation of power as a collective entity of its own, viewing the people of society in much the way individual people might look at the cells of their body, as communal heaps of life that work together for the function of a living being.  The government was created to fulfill these needs and insecurities and thinks of itself as an individual, as “the state.”  And it expects people to fall in line to the service and maintenance of it as an organism in the plots of life as we know it, everywhere in the universe.  And as much as people talk about personal freedom and self-expression under Constitutional law, most people never develop individually to live that kind of life because they grew up with unhealthy relationships with their parents.  They often do not get the type of security and reliability of thought that humans require from their insecure parents, so that trait of confidence is never passed on to the children.  And they grow up to perpetuate the mistakes of their parents, who essentially got where they did in life through the same flawed method. 

Often, kids get loving parents who confuse their role in providing security with being afraid of everything that threatens it.  Then, by the time those children become teenagers, their puberty hard-wired behavior becomes their escape velocity only to become independent of their parents to learn life is hard, and they fall flat on their faces only to run back to the arms of a parental figure that can help them.  Since they can’t run back to their parents for that security, often, they create a big government and its various tyrannies to duplicate that infantile parental experience to give them a barrier to the dangers of life.  And those who want to be perpetual parents, always telling people what to do to mask the fact that they don’t know much themselves, use government to continue this dysfunctional relationship to keep the solution off the table.  We have identified the problem in works of philosophy, such as the founding documents of America clearly express.  But often, the people’s minds are not prepared for the responsibility of self-government because of all this sabotage of the parental role that produces such dependent children perpetually in need of parental roles that the government seeks to grow and expand for their own survival.  By weakening children’s minds, the defective parent can disguise love for the menace of keeping those children dependent on their parental fulfillment, realizing that the children never grow up and move away or that the children might surpass them in some way or another.  This vital part of the human relationship between parents and children sets up all the world’s tyrannies.  While parents might grow old and die away, freeing the children of their bonds to the traditional terror of low-intellect relationships, the government only changes the roles of the parental players.  The personalities might come and go, but the entity itself only continues to grow from one generation to the next, worsening until it either collapses or forces rebellion against its tyrannies from the minds who learn better what should be and refuse to accept what is, which is where we find ourselves on this razor thin precipice with the future gazing at us as a challenge.  How we handle that challenge is the cause of some of the most ostentatious fear that permeates the universe, which is conducting itself into a grand fortissimo in this current time in a fascinating way to watch.  What made Bill Cooper such a threat to the order of things was that with him essentially pointing out to his readers that their “mom was a whore,” he was undercutting the desire that mother government had to continue a relationship that benefited her at the expense of all the children.  Which couldn’t stand, so she plotted to get rid of him so that her children would never learn what she was doing to them with dependency disguised as safety.  And at the center of it all is the cause of most problems in the world.

Rich Hoffman

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‘Magnum Force’ is the Best Movie to Understand in 2024: No, you aren’t crazy, it was the world that went in that direction

It wasn’t always how it is now; there used to be good movies, and they were far from woke.  And it surprised me when Steve Bannon brought up one of my favorite movies on his podcast, the Warroom, at the end of the year in 2023 because I don’t hear many people who even know what it is.  But it reminded me of several things, one of which is the answer to all the woke options out there.  Going into 2024, the best movie ever made that deals specifically with the 2024 election is Magnum Force, with Clint Eastwood from the five-movie Dirty Harry series.  It is a unique plot that deals with police corruption, crime and punishment, and doing the right thing while society is trying to drag you into doing all the bad stuff.  It also reminded me of how I raised my children; every year on New Year’s Eve to bring in the new year, we would watch the Dirty Harry marathon, where we watched three of the movies on New Year’s Eve, then two more on New Year’s Day.  But among them all, my favorite of the five, was Magnum Force, and still is.  So it certainly got my attention when Steve Bannon recommended the movie on the Warroom.  Magnum Force is about that fine line between right and wrong and features a group of cops who go rogue to eradicate the bad guys, which has evolved into real life dramatically in the current FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies as discussed through the Trump administration’s exposure of their various antics.  It’s much worse in real life than in 1974 San Francisco when the movie occurred.  But the problems are the same and people can watch those movies and see how things have gone wrong today because those movies were warnings all those years ago of what was coming. 

When people ask me, which happens every week, why I’m not in the movie business, the answer is that I wanted to make movies like Magnum Force, and Hollywood isn’t built to accommodate those movies anymore.  I think it’s great that there was a period when movies like Dirty Harry movies were made, and they certainly provide a quick check that we are not all crazy compared to how things are now.  I used to show the film to my kids and their boyfriends, then spouses, every year, not just for entertainment but to show them how values have evolved and that America was once a place that made movies like Magnum Force to express ideas through entertainment that were valuable to the audience.  When we look at what San Francisco has become, the warning signs were always right there, and they were apparent to me when the world was still good and made sense.  I was showing my kids these movies to close out a year and usher in the new one to teach them values, which looks to have worked.  They are emotionally solid people even now, even the tag-alongs who emerged from those relationships.  They might have thought of me as old fashioned at the time, a dad showing them old Clint Eastwood movies that were much slower than the quick-cut movies of today filled with woke messaging.  But they watched them to appease me and to spend time with me.  And even now that they are in their 30s, it’s become a running joke in our family that they still remember and value. 

What’s so special about Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post and written by excellent writers, is that it deals with corruption and how it happens, either by the side of the criminals or the cops who are supposed to enforce the law to keep society together.  Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character finds himself locked in a vice between those two forces, representing the very fine line that often presents itself in these cases that is more than realistic.  When I was growing up, I wanted nothing more than to make my movies using Magnum Force as an example.  But I was so frustrated with the business because it had changed so much that I moved to other things.  My brother lived in California for a while and has some producer credits, so we know what we are talking about when we say it; they don’t make movies like Magnum Force anymore for many reasons.  One big one is that movie writers are too busy getting lattes on the Santa Monica Pier rather than living life and letting that experience show in their art.  Most of these young people don’t even know how to shoot a gun because they have grown up in such a woke period.  They don’t have the experience to write a gritty crime drama like Magnum Force because they don’t understand the complexities of life, so how can they write about it?  But compared to what’s being made today, Hollywood is way off the mark.  But it wasn’t always that way.  If you want to see great movies, they used to make them.  You don’t have to put up with the crap they make now.  You can always watch the old films about real problems unfolding way ahead of their time. 

I did run into someone who knew about these old movies, even though it’s a mild influence.  But someone noticed that one of my carry guns is a Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum, the most powerful production handgun in the world.  It used to be the .44 Magnum by S&W back in the days of the Dirty Harry films, and I always found his reasoning for using such a large weapon for police work compelling.  I carry an S&W .500 Magnum with the extra long barrel, over 8 inches, because so many of the bad guys these days are wearing Call of Duty body armor they can get off Amazon, and they can get armor for their cars, so it makes sense.  You don’t want bullets bouncing off windows and off of people, even in populated areas where people could be hurt subsequently.  You have to hit what you aim at, which is a theme of the Dirty Harry movies in general, which are about so much more than movies made now are.  But for a sanity check, most of America used to think in the way that the Dirty Harry movies are represented, and I would argue that they still do.  Watching them now, they are much better than the garbage produced in Hollywood.  And I would say that you have options if you are looking for entertainment and a way to understand the themes and actions coming at us in 2024.  Watching Magnum Force will be far more valuable than the nightly news.  And you may learn something.  It had warnings that people scratched their heads at in the past, including John Wayne, who thought Clint Eastwood’s character was too cynical and not “pro-American” enough.  But as we have learned over the next 50 years, what the Dirty Harry movies were all about is what we see now.  And it can be scary unless you know how to walk that fine line, which is the point of the movies entirely.   

Rich Hoffman

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Mike DeWine, has lost Trump’s Support: Why did the Ohio Governor veto HB68 and what happens now

There has been a lot of confusion about Mike DeWine from the national media after he vetoed HB 68, which would have banned gender neutrality involving minors. As a conservative governor, supposedly, people were mystified. How could he do such a thing? What was he thinking? He’s listed as a Republican, and this is a serious, Democrat issue, Rocky Horror Picture Show nonsense. Well, I must remind everyone that this is the same governor who was horrendous during COVID-19 and was one of the first and most aggressive governors for locking down our economy, following precisely what the World Health Organization wanted us to do. My nickname for him during this time was Dummy DeWine because of his excessive and radical anti-constitutional attitudes during a health crisis, which the Ohio Senate had to rip away from him because he was so abusive and would not give back the power he had taken during that artificial crises, because we now know where Covid came from. As is proven beyond reasonable doubt, COVID-19 was manufactured through gain of function research under the direction of Dr. Fauci and let loose from a lab in Wuhan, China. And Bill Gates and many others conspired with World Economic Forum characters to suppress a cure for the outbreak for all kinds of nefarious reasons. This is all established with lots of evidence in The Wuhan Cover-up by Robert F Kennedy, a fabulous book everyone should read. And Governors like DeWine played right into their hands in horrendously destructive ways. DeWine gave these tyrants power over us in a similar way that he vetoed this bill, showing that he has an excessive weakness for medical personalities who advise him of dangers that might cause people death, no matter how irrational the statement may be.

Why centralized authority never works

Ohio House Bill 68 was comprised of two acts: the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” which would ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming medical care, and the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which would prevent transgender girls from taking part in girls’ and women’s sports. DeWine said at a press conference, “I truly believe that we can address several goals in House Bill 68 by administrative rules that will likely have a better chance of surviving judicial review and being adopted,” Meanwhile, the world contemplated his actions as stunning. In talking to some people on the matter in the aftermath of the veto, there are efforts to override his veto with a majority vote, which is unlikely given that the Speaker of the House is essentially a Democrat. Or that the sports ban portion of the bill can at least be saved since DeWine has now stepped into it severely. Politically, this was a dumb thing to do. But it just reminded me of the guy who shut down Ohio over COVID-19 as his very liberal Health Director, Amy Acton, essentially ruined the world as an Obama-supporting abortion activist. DeWine has a soft spot for healthcare people in a dangerous way, and some of the testimony against HB 68 talked about suicide potential for some of the kids involved. The governor loses all perspective in those conversations and develops a god complex where he considers it a fault of his personality that he can save people with government power. That is how they suckered him during COVID-19 and how progressives won him over on this gender neutrality bill that became a national story within moments of his veto. For progressives, it was a massive victory in a state that now had some of the lowest abortion laws in the country and has now legalized marijuana. And now it wouldn’t take a stand on gender neutrality, which is a major assault against the Christian right, who view the issue of gender mutilation literally as a desecration of God’s temple, the human body.

DeWine has lost Trump’s support

Since COVID-19, by some nudging of some of my friends, I have had a chance to meet Mike DeWine a bit, and I can say he’s a nice guy.  His wife makes excellent cookies.  And I do not doubt that their intentions are good.  But in essence, they are Yellow Springs hippies from one of the most liberal parts of Ohio.  At best, Mike DeWine is a Democrat, and it’s always been that way, even before COVID came along and made such a mess out of his tenure as governor in Ohio.  Many people held their noses and voted for him as governor; essentially, this is what you get.  The warning signs were all there.  DeWine has been good on gun issues over the last several years, but only because he needed to be re-elected coming out of COVID-19, and he had gotten himself into a lot of political trouble, especially with the other legislative bodies.  He was on his best behavior.  But as I’ve said to many people during all this, Mike DeWine should never be given power over the masses in any way because he can’t handle that power and will always abuse it. 

The Ohio legislature is not done with this gender neutrality issue.  While Mike DeWine was suckered by progressive testimony over emphasizing suicide among young people who are confused about their gender status, the truth is a much more systemic issue about social psychology, and leadership must be established, especially with the number of conservative losses that have now occurred during DeWine’s lame duck term, since he can’t run again and doesn’t have to appease anybody to stay in office.  But this is the danger of letting politicians have too much power because their bad judgment can destroy and harm many people.  Even if their intentions are good, that is undoubtedly true in DeWine’s case.  But his nightmares become everyone else’s reality because, through the power of government, he can become a tyrant through lousy judgment.  DeWine has suffered personal losses that he has never gotten over, which leaves him particularly vulnerable to healthcare workers and their testimonies.  As he says often, if he could save one life, then something should be done.  The trouble is, the bad guys then disguise ill intentions behind that threat, giving them emotional control over someone like DeWine, who can then ruin a state with his neurosis.  And this is all a problem because DeWine was never a conservative; he was always a wishy-washy Democrat who ran as a Republican to gain power but has always leaned toward big government solutions, no matter what they cost, to fill that empty void he has in him that has never recovered from personal tragedies.  That is how tyrants gain power and a good lesson for everyone to remember how DeWine was during Covid and now won’t take a stand on a controversial issue of gender mutilation that has as a wind in its sails an apparent evil driven by radically progressive politics and a desecration of our entire culture.  Yes, Mike DeWine is an embarrassment to Ohio and has been since the first day he was in office.  He may be a crafty politician who can tell you what you want to hear while his wife passes out cookies in the Statehouse.  But when it comes to leadership, he is a big government guy who punts policy to health tyrants who we now know tend toward maliciousness and even murder if it achieves their strategic objectives, which are more of a military assault on our culture than a concern over the suicide of confused kids who became that way due to bad parenting.  There are a lot of kids suffering under such conditions, and the best thing that would help most of them is good, solid, conservative politics.  A lot more lives would be saved if Republicans managed the world much more.  But in the world of Mike DeWine, that is too big of an idea for his tiny mind to grasp.  So he trusts the health experts, who have been the source of most of the trouble.

Rich Hoffman

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The New War in the World: Bioweapons, corrupt governments and health care tryanny

War is no longer what we thought it was.  We have always thought of war as tanks, troops, and aircraft with arrangements on a battlefield to suppress an enemy into capitulation.  But a new kind of war is upon us, and we all knew it was coming since 2010 when Obamacare was seeking to take over 1/5 of the American economy and control whether people lived or died by a new Administrative State of mindless government pinheads.  Just like in war, the goal is to make enough people die to cause their opposition to lose the will to fight.  And that is precisely what we are dealing with now with health care.  By controlling whether or not people live or die, these modern attackers gain control over human behavior and can then get them to do political actions they otherwise wouldn’t consider.  This presents us with the biggest threat to modern society, the Healthcare Alliance, and the prevalence of bioweapons that are now part of joint globalist efforts at creating weapons of terror that kill more efficiently than a bullet or a bomb.  We are dealing with a new kind of enemy here, fighting over government funding and allocation rather than governments against other governments.  Our biggest enemies are not China, Iran, or South Korea.  They are the various biolabs who are making weapons of war that destroy a person from the inside out without them even knowing that they are sick.  And to live, then you will have to take the medicine they make to keep you alive.  Once that relationship is established, people are conquered in ways they never previously thought possible. What would people be willing to do to live life?  Would they give up all their freedoms and independence?  Of course, they will, and we certainly saw that strategy play out during the most recent Covid outbreak. 

The first thing that people need to realize is that Covid-19, as we saw it unleashed on the world from a Wuhan lab in China, was not an act of nature.  It was manufactured through gain-of-function research, of which Dr. Fauci was fully aware, along with many others, and the battleground was about funding.  Dr. Fauci gained power as the government bureaucrat who could distribute the government’s funds for research.  And once those researchers knew who was paying them, their loyalties were driven in that direction.  Our first mistake was thinking that all these government scientists would behave ethically.  That there would be checks and balances on ethics.  But, unfortunately, there are research whores who are every bit as unethical as a street walker, and they will do just about anything for a new condo in Florida or a boat.  To have easy money for their bank account, even if that means killing off a large portion of the population.  And that is what Covid was: a bioweapon designed to control behavior, and it was a test run.  Some people would be driven toward government compliance and would take the government medicine to stay alive, and some wouldn’t, and those people would be quickly eliminated once the manufactured virus strain was released to the public.  For Covid, also chronicled in The Wuhan Cover-up by Robert F. Kennedy, the Department of Defense was very interested in bioweapons to control nations.  It didn’t take long for the Administrative State to realize that an unelected Deep State could gain power over governments, which then controls funding stolen legally from taxpayers, and then distributed to this new threat in the world, the white-coat tyrants who run the Administrative State through the unique power of government health care. 

It started in America at Fort Dietrick under American efforts but quickly jumped into an international partnership with China once it was realized that there was too much regulatory burden in the States.  China had their hand up, and Dr. Fauci and the gang set up shop there knowing exactly what they were doing, even purposely misleading presidents of the United States to build their bioweapon, with the intent to control the world and, in that effort, to gain control of the funding streams provided by governments.  In the past, there were always fights over natural resources, such as oil, gold, or access to a harbor.  This new war doesn’t care about things like that.  The latest fight is over government funding; the money governments take from their people under great power is allocated to these various forms of government healthcare.  Of course, someone, or in the case of Covid, many people were going to figure out that the best way to secure all this government funding was to make people terrified of death, then all the money these research groups could ever hope to get would be easy.  Because governments were pretty dumb by themselves, they had the power of taxation, so they could easily be made to throw massive amounts of money at health care, even though those same researchers were making the most significant threats in the world.  It is all about terrorizing the public into throwing money through their governments at health care, which they are always motivated to do to avoid dying.  The attack zone, even for the media manipulations that took place during the COVID crisis, is that significant advertisers spend money on their reputation, which is more accessible for all involved to build up brand recognition as a savior for the viruses that are being created as bioweapons.  Without the bioweapons and the threat of doom that comes from them, nobody cares about vaccines and big pharma companies. 

In war, everyone always thinks their side is justified in what it does.  And that is the case of this new warfare as well.  People like Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates think they are interceding into people’s lives who will be better off if only they are forced to listen to them.  The money spent on research will ultimately improve science, from their perspective.  So, if many people are harmed along the way, the ends justify the means.  From their point of view.  The greatest danger, however, is no matter how maddening such a thought is, when they gain leverage of mass society to enforce their view of the world with dollars confiscated by governments and then allocated to research whores, scientists who will do anything for money, who will say anything in a report, make any bioweapon, and is willing to lie about it to get more money than they’d ever get through legitimate means.  Our mistake was assuming that these people had our best intentions in mind.  Just as the error of forming the CIA has turned out to be one of the greatest threats in the world.  We always assumed they had our best interests in mind and were passionate about defending American sovereignty.  But what we learn, as a secretive organization filled with globalist sympathizers, they work aggressively to undermine America altogether, including their associations with the COVID-19 virus, President Trump’s overthrow, and election fraud in 2020.  The danger is when these people who have way too much power think they know better than the rest of us, and they have access to money that only governments can take from people, to be used against them as weapons of war in the form of bioweapons, which Covid-19 certainly was.  What might be considered madness that market competition will sort out, now we have artificially empowered forces who can unleash their insanity on mass populations that they wouldn’t otherwise have.  And it’s the most dangerous thing in the world and is undoubtedly the new kind of war on the world stage. 

Rich Hoffman

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Speed and Risk Make Things Better: The nightmare of the By-Pass 4 interchanges

There is a silent evil that works in the world that I had to explain to a few smart people this past week, which deserves to be heard by everyone.  One of the great examples of this evil is a road I have driven on for many decades, the By-Pass 4 interchange in Butler County, Ohio, one of the largest arteries for industrial traffic in a very productive county.  It used to be that I could drive 100 mph down that road all the time, and it was never a problem.  But these days, there are too many lights at every intersection to get up any speed before you have to slow down again, which is, of course, by design.  Over the years, to answer all the upset families who lost people to car crashes, not to mention the complaints of the insurance industry who had to make payouts on all the minor fender bender claims, the answer to this overly managed world is to lower the speed limit, put up more stop signs and traffic lights to frustrate high-speed travel in the name of safety.  But safety has a cost all its own, and productivity usually gets sacrificed.  If you can’t drive 100 mph, you will arrive at your destination much later, and among the world’s bureaucrats, there is almost a delightful glee when they tell you that something is going to take time because “it’s better safe than sorry.”  But to my eyes, the question must always be asked, “Is it?”  I would argue, and do all the time, that things were much better when we could drive 100 mph down By-Pass 4.  Sure, there were occasional crashes and deaths as a result.  But drivers were noticeably better; they had to be. Whenever you dumb down a human population with over-processing, you tend to inspire them to think less, and high-speed driving makes people think more, and they are better people as a result.

The solution to the By-Pass 4 complaints by the central planners who tend to get involved in these political problems of traffic management was to slow everyone down to where it’s faster to ride a bicycle and to take as much risk out of the process to make it so that accidents rarely happened.  This might be fine if the goal is to remove automobile accidents in your culture.  But if productivity is the goal, and speed is associated with that objective, then the By-Pass 4 exchanges along its path are devastating, which I point out in my video.  Without question, a World Economic Forum or United Nations statistician could show that such an arrangement will save lives and property value by eliminating crashes, but ultimately, the safest thing anybody could do if they didn’t want to have a collision is never to leave their house, and that looks to be the intention behind the traffic pattern design of Butler County.  Without question, everyone had good intentions, but the result of all this activity has produced slow roads that greatly limit personal freedom and make driving a real pain in the neck.  It takes a long time to get anywhere because political problems have always been solved over time by addressing complaints of every crash with more traffic lights, speed limits, and stop signs.  In the case of By-Pass 4, presenting traffic in such a way that a driver-side door never faces oncoming traffic to eliminate crashes that statistically occurred often when traffic had to engage each other at 90-degree angles and human decisions had to be made for everyone’s preservation.  By taking that decision-making process out of human hands, we must now ask whether we are all better off.  Is a safe society better than a risky society if the result is dumber humans? 

Of course, this is about more than traffic, and you can find this same mentality in almost every industry, particularly manufacturing.  Whenever there is an employee accident or an engineering challenge, the trend of the college-trained European worshipper is to put up the stopsticks and slow down a process to make a safer world.  But is it a better world, and I would argue it’s not?  Safer does not make something better.  That may be one value, but it’s certainly not the entire value.  As I always say from my favorite sport, Fast Draw, you have to manage speed and accuracy with the amount of risk your skill level allows.  If people are forced to improve their skills rather than pandering down to their weaknesses, often the result will be much better because the process of thinking makes it so that you get a better human being in the process, rather than playing to those weaknesses so that anybody can do anything.  That is the trend in our highly regulatory environment filled with government bureaucrats.  Their answer to everything is to slow things down so they can get their slow-minded, feeble minds wrapped around the problem.  Once you accept that strategy, your entire society is filled with timid people who lose the skill to manage risk because their lives depend on it.  Instead, they only need to know how to follow the rules and follow the guy in front of them as designed by some centralized planner. 

The result is that you might have fewer accidents, and you may fix the problem of quality escapes in whatever business you might be operating.  But like the traffic patterns, the safest thing you can do is to do nothing, and all too often, that is what we get out of society.  We get things slow, but at least we live to get them.  But the process of getting it kills us.  Because we may be alive physically, but our minds are dying because we stop challenging ourselves.  Such is the case in Butler County, Ohio; due to hundreds and thousands of traffic accidents and residential complaints, there are now traffic lights at almost every intersection where people travel.  And it’s tough to get from one place to another.  Not because the roads are bad.  They are pretty good.  But because there is too much starting and stopping, you can never get a good flow from your commute.  That is because the political solution to traffic problems was to hire pin-headed European-oriented Marxists to solve a uniquely American problem. You embrace risk and manage it for personal fulfillment, resulting in productive output.  Not that safety isn’t necessary, but it doesn’t take priority over productive enterprise, whether it’s getting to your destination 4-6 minutes faster or achieving a higher sales objective in your company.  Managing risk is the way to improve output.  Slowing everything down only panders to people’s weaknesses and, as a result, makes your society much less dynamic.  Everyone might live in the end, but is that the goal of life?  If everyone is just a brain-dead slug, is that better than a society where you could drive 100 mph to rock and roll music with the window down and vastly enjoy the experience because you don’t have to stop?  I’ve seen it both ways, and I can say from experience that driving 100 mph is far better.  Speed is better most of the time.  Among the skilled, accuracy can also be achieved.  But when you pander to society down to the weaknesses of the participants, then you get a lot more of it, and the satisfaction of an enterprise diminishes incredibly, such as we see every day at the By-Pass 4 interchanges created by monsters of Marxism and their bureaucratic plots of doom.  It’s good to live a little dangerously; it makes you a better and much happier person.

Rich Hoffman

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