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What Was The Point of the P Diddy Trial: Hiding a pornographic society in plain sight

The purpose of the P Diddy trial was not to pursue justice; it was to frustrate future prosecutors into case law that would make it so more sex trafficking cases cannot be brought to trial.  The graphic testimony shown all over the world in such bizarre ways was meant to normalize the conduct, not to put Sean Diddy Combs in jail as one of the most popular music moguls in Hollywood.  His lifestyle, as overly sexualized as it was, was complete with excessively pornographic freak-off parties of multiple sex partner actions that were as bad as it could get.  As this trial came to an end with P Diddy being found guilty on the utilization of prostitution charges, and not the more serious charges of sex trafficking under RICO statutes, a lot of people are upset that the Trump administration has not released and thrown in jail the participants of Epstein Island and the client list that we were all told there was, only for Kash Patel to come out and say that there was nothing there.  People are getting tired of not getting justice for these bizarre sex practices that have behind them elements of mass collectivism that leads to political activity centering on socialism and communism, the desecration of individuals and the sacrifice of the human temple to the malevolent joy of a spirit world that wants to deface the human race for its strategic ambitions.  The problem is, these sex freak-offs are not unusual to P Diddy, but most people want to participate in them in some way.  It’s just that Diddy had the means to do it, financially.  And ultimately, the way that Jim Comey’s daughter prosecuted the case kept many of the other people who attended Diddy’s parties a secret.  As the trial unfolded, we were warmed to the idea that Diddy is just one of many, and his lifestyle is just the tip of the iceberg. 

There is no way that the prosecution didn’t know that Cassie Ventura wasn’t a willing participant in the P Diddy freak-offs as his long-time girlfriend.  As a pregnant woman, she might have regretted some of what she did while in her relationship with Diddy, but as the testimony came forward, we are dealing with people with severe sex addictions and pornographic obsessions that are the type of people you see on the red carpet at celebrity events.  There was a voyeurism to the trial that Emily Johnson, Maurene Comey and Christy Slavik, the U.S. Attorneys from the Southern District of New York wanted the public to see not for the reasons of prosecution, but to signal that it is pointless to prosecute cases like this because all the participants were willing, and in this highly pornographic world, the standard of ethical behavior has entirely fallen over the edge.  And we are left with a world that cannot make any moral judgements on the behavior, because they either want to be doing the same thing in their private lives, or they are doing it. I know quite a few prosecutors so I have a pretty good understanding of how they form a case, and from that point of view, these federal prosecutors were not trying to throw Diddy in jail for his destructive pornographic lifestyle, but were trying to show what a waste of money it all was and how pointless.  It’s not that the utilization of sex workers to satisfy pornographic fantasies isn’t against the law, but what does it cost to throw those people in jail, and does any prosecutor out there want a loss on their record?  Because prosecutors prefer not to take cases to court where they might lose.  They want to build their careers with wins, not losses.  And many might say that people like P Diddy should be in jail for what he did and be punished with the death penalty.  In truth, most of the people judging the circumstances want to do the same things in their lives, so prosecutors aren’t going to sign up for a loss that nobody cares about. 

All through the trial, I kept thinking of the Lakota school superintendent a few years ago who got caught trafficking his wife on Craigslist while they were out of town attending music concerts.  I got to know her and her new husband, and she expressed a lot of regret for allowing herself to be in that kind of life.  In the context of a healthy relationship, only then do they see it in the rearview mirror, as with Cassy, who, as a young woman in Hollywood, tried to please her man by doing anything to get the work and attention she craved.  But then you end up with a husband, or serious boyfriend who has a serious porn addiction and wants to live out those events in real life and things fly off the rails quickly, because he had an important job in a large school district that is supposed to be teaching kids how to live good lives.  People were appalled to discover the kind of private life he led as a public figure.  The problem with that case was that too many people were doing the same thing, or they were thinking about doing the same thing, so they lost their moral judgment, and that has always been the intention to make pornography so readily available on the government-provided internet.  There is a whole mass of ritualistic components to it that could fill volumes of books.  However, for this topic, we must study its impact on the human race and how it emerges in mass society, as seen in the Sean Diddy Combs trial.

In the wake of the Diddy trial, for which he was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, but acquitted on three more serious charges of racketeering and conspiracy, trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.  There is a greater evil at work here, including the DEI hires as prosecutors, knowing that the Racketeer Influenced and corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) would fall apart once it was realized that many of the participants did so on their own, they volunteered, and that the case would fall apart as it was presented.  If the prosecutors didn’t know that would happen, then the Federal government purposely put female prosecutors in place to fail, allowing for the continued social standards. The entire trial seemed to be hiding something much worse. People have been saying, ‘What about Jay-Z and Tom Hanks’ as there are lots of rumors that surround people doing far worse than what P. Diddy was doing?  And that the federal prosecutors raided him to make an example out of his life, to draw cover fire from much worse cases.  Sometimes, the way to hide something is to put it on full display, so people overload on the information and, in the end, shrug their shoulders and talk about what a waste of money it all was.  Because most of the people watching the trial are thinking about doing the same things that Diddy did, to live out their porn fantasies allowing for the spread and continuation of those lifestyles, instead of the eradication of them.  And ultimately, that appears to be the purpose of the entire case: to deter future prosecutors from making such judgments, so that the spread of evil can continue to erode the human race in ways more destructive than many other crimes.  And to confront that, people have to face themselves in ways they aren’t quite ready. 

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk’s America Party: Democrats will never recover, Republicans will thrive

You can imagine how it was for Elon Musk. Many believe that he was befriending President Trump to ensure the future of electric cars. However, once Tesla suffered a significant loss in market share because Musk was associated with MAGA, the shareholders became very concerned.  Then, when the Big Beautiful Bill came out, it seemed as though Musk had not influenced Trump at all.  Musk has been a Democrat for years and has even called himself a socialist.  So all this MAGA stuff was new to him, and he was losing employees at his companies because of his political affiliation.  So I understand Musk’s need to distance himself from Trump because it was hurting his companies, and the fun wore off.  I do think he was sincerely a MAGA supporter, but the DOGE effort was much more difficult, and the government spending was much worse than he understood it to be. The criticism that there wasn’t a trillion dollars in savings found in those first couple of months was something he couldn’t deal with.  Tesla dealerships were being bombed by radical Democrats, people who had formerly supported Musk. Not that he felt Trump had abandoned him on the EV mandate.   From his point of view, it was all for nothing, and he lost billions of dollars in the process, with the added consequence of losing market share in his brand.  However, the EV car mandate was never going to be implemented during the Trump administration, and the critics of Musk were never going to let him live it down.  I understand his anger; it costs a lot of money to have values in the world, and that is a price that Musk just isn’t willing to pay.  He was a converted personality who moved from Democrat to MAGA.  So, none of this fighting is in his soul.  And when things got rough, he wavered. 

But with all this fear of a third party being created and that it’s going to rot out the Republican Party, that’s not how it is.  Elon Musk’s America Party is likely to turn out to be another DOGE, an ambitious project that has a lot more political reality to it than will ultimately work in his favor.  The Republican Party has already gone through a renovation period, and it is now the MAGA Party, and that’s how it’s going to emerge over these next four years.  It’s the Democrats that have the problems, and they are now going through what the Republican Party went through during the last thirty years.  I remember it well because I was part of that change in the Republican Party and I can say with confidence that Musk’s America Party will split the Democrat Party in two, and even then, many will not join because their lives will be so good under President Trump, that it will stay a fringe effort that never really gets much traction.  When George H.W. Bush was in the White House, right after Reagan, he wasn’t very effective, and the Reform Party started as a response under Ross Perot.  And I was one of the very first members, and I had a front row seat to how it formed.  And over the next decade, people like Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump joined the party to try to run as kind of independent candidates alongside mainstream Republicans.  As a result, Democrats had a period where they won majorities because Republicans were splitting their votes. 

The Reform Party evolved into the Tea Party, and again, mainstream Republicans attempted to co-opt them and pull them back into the mainstream.  However, it didn’t work, and that effort evolved into the MAGA party with Trump’s announcement that he would run for president in 2015.  And we know how hard that has been.  Up until a few months ago, it was a death blow socially to admit that anybody supported President Trump.  It wasn’t easy, and then some.  So these political parties are not for the faint of heart.  I remember in just the last election, the RINO label hung heavy on mainstream politicians, and most of them have been pushed out of office, people like Thom Tillis and Mitch McConnell, people who used to be political heavyweights, but were washed away by the tide.   Instead, you can see the kind of misfits who are talking about joining Musk in the America Party, people like Mark Cuban and Anthony Scaramucci, all former Trump rejects.  The next thing we’ll hear is that Omarosa is going to join, too, and perhaps even Stormy Daniels.  Putin might be next, and maybe the former country of Iran.  What the America Party is going to look like is the island of misfit toys who have fallen out of Trump’s orbit and are upset about it.  It will turn out to be the crybaby party and will run out of steam relatively quickly as everyone involved realizes how hard it is to accomplish these things.  I used to spend time with the Perot family during the early days of the Reform Party, and let me say, even brilliant people underestimate how difficult it is to beat the two-party system.  Because two parties emerge for a reason, by mathematical necessity, not sentiment, you could have in America many parties, as they do in Europe and elsewhere, but the problem is, nobody ever wins a majority, and those experiments usually fall apart quickly.

But when Musk’s America Party splits the Democrats in two and harms them much more than it will the Republicans, people in the MAGA movement will see the distinct benefit.  As I have been saying, if Trump can get election reform to prevent cheating, Democrats may have a hard time winning everywhere, because they have been counting on election fraud just to stay close for decades.  So I say let Musk have his America Party and bleed away Democrats.  Because the Democrats are destroyed right now as they are turning hard left toward open communism and socialism, they were always Marxist oriented, and now many of them are without a Party, and they aren’t happy about it.  And Musk is one of them.  It was fun to be “Dark MAGA” until he realized the cost of that, and for many people, it’s just too great a burden day to day.  It might be fun during elections, but politics is a rough life, and Musk will find that it takes more than an engineer’s mind to solve the problems, because they are primarily psychological.  I think the America Party, with MAGA, will only get stronger, and there will be greater majorities in Congress during the midterms.  So I think it would be a healthy exercise for the former Democrats to explore, let them fight it out between socialism and communism, and show the world what they have always been.  It won’t be MAGA Republicans who peel away, and the RINOs will stay where the tax burdens are least.  They won’t be joining Musk.  It will only be those who are already considered Democrats, as Musk has been.  His self-interest drove his conversion to the Republican Party, and it didn’t work out the way he had hoped.  So he was always at best a fair-weather fan.  And the creation of another political party only hurts Democrats.  I don’t care what the polling says, because they don’t know how to ask the right questions yet.  This is a new political climate, and the old models are not adequate measures.  With the creation of the America Party, it will destroy the Democrat Party and will leave many little disjointed parties grabbing for power for decades.  By then, Elon Musk will be living on Mars, and history will be blaming him for destroying what was left of the Democrats, because they will never recover. 


Rich Hoffman

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China Got Caught Tampering with the 2020 Election: How communism takes over countries

Well, it’s official now.  During June of 2025 FBI Director Kash Patel declassified documents showing the Chinese Communist Party scheme to interfere in the 2020 election to mass produce fake U.S. driver’s licenses and ship them to the U.S. to facilitate fraudulent mail-in ballots in favor of Joe Biden, these fake IDs were intended to create voter identities for Chinese residents in the U.S. to cast illegal votes.  The documents are now in the hands of Chuck Grassley in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and it is also noted that former FBI Director Christopher Wray recalled the initial report, as he was aware of the implications.  That means that when we look at the margins of victory of Joe Biden in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, the total votes that Biden won by were less than 45,000. Biden won by only 20,682 in Wisconsin, by 154,188 in Michigan, and by 11,799 in Georgia.  Arizona was won by only 10,457 votes.  So that’s how close it was.  In Pennsylvania, the winning amount was 80,555.  And that’s obviously why Christopher Wray didn’t want that report out, because it shows with evidence what the Chinese were up to in order to get just enough votes over the top to elect Joe Biden.  We are now aware of several other methods of voter fraud that involve the use of mail-in ballots.  But this driver’s license scam is complex, irrefutable proof of how China planned to install Biden over Trump for their self-interest.  And looking back on it now, the reason the election took weeks to resolve is that those swing states were allowed to continue counting mail-in ballots until Joe Biden had just enough votes, as shown, to be declared the winner.  This raises numerous significant legal issues. 

Even worse, this same method of election tampering has also occurred in presidential and congressional races.  Most of the close races that we have been watching over the last decade could be attributed to the same kind of election tampering.  Even in states like Kentucky, between Matt Bevin and Andy Beshear, the total vote difference was 5,136 out of over 704,000 votes, less than 0.37 percentage points in 2019.  And when they got away with it, the opposition parties connected to communist governments around the world, for which China is, they expanded it in a mass way during the 2020 election using the bioweapon of Covid as the cover story for mass election fraud.  Everyone needs to get this through their thick skulls.  The 2020 election cycle was a major crime against the United States that killed people and installed a puppet government from a hostile foreign actor, and many accomplices.  So, as we go out and buy fireworks for American freedom and celebrate all the significant military engagements that were put forth to make America victorious in the fights for freedom, understand that our elections have been under attack by lots of foreign actors who have been quite explicit in funding our destruction.  And in 2020, they were successful, and they got caught.  And they have to be punished.  It’s not a question of if, but to what degree.  Additionally, what this means is that Joe Biden’s entire presidency was illegal, meaning that everything he signed, or that others signed for him with an autopen, was also unlawful, including the DEI hire of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in 2022.  A lot of people were asleep at the wheel, and the bad guys in the world were tampering with our elections, putting Democrats in important seats, in the Senate, in Governor roles, in the House, and certainly in the White House.  The government we have today is essentially not the government we voted for; it’s the constructs of election fraud on a mass scale, with this Chinese scam being just one of them. 

In the first half of 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 20,000 counterfeit driver’s licenses coming from China and Hong Kong with the apparent intention of laying the foundation for election fraud.  Given the size of this discovery, the operation was much larger than what they actually caught and easily falls within the voter total that Biden won the election by in 2020, all by itself.  When you add all this to the other known election fraud methods, it is easy to see why Joe Biden won in 2020, and that once election fraud was more difficult to conduct in 2024 because everyone was watching carefully, Democrats could not repeat the 2020 performance.  Because many of the election fraud methods were incredibly frustrating.  In 2024, Trump received 77.3 million votes, while Harris received only 74.9 million after many weeks of counting, falling short of the 2020 totals by 7 million votes.  Simply put, the crackdown on the mail-in illegal votes was the difference in the gap.  Add to that all the voting machine irregularities, that also traced back to China, and we have significant problems in our elections, and it would not be hard to prove that many of the tight races that made the House and Senate so close along party lines are that way through similar forms of election fraud, in all close races where Democrats won by a slim margin, election fraud, like the election between Matt Bevin and Andy Beshear in 2019 took place. 

The reluctance to admit it, and the reason the declassification of the report by Kash Patel is so essential, is that it reveals the complicity of many people domestically in facilitating the tampering of a foreign government in American elections, as they benefited from the chaos.  So they let it happen, and those same idiots will be out buying fireworks and flying the American flag on July 4th just like everyone else, even though what they did was treasonous and overt acts of legal sedition.  And they were caught with hard evidence.  No, don’t kid yourself, America has also participated in election tampering through the CIA and other means in other countries around the world.  So when China does it, they do so for their own interests, and we were the dummies who let them do it to us.  We should expect hostile countries to try to topple us.  We are not all friends.  The lesson here is that many of our elections have been tampered with, and that the government we have had was not the one we chose through free elections.  The kind of House and Senate majorities that we have had were not actually as close as we have been led to believe.  And this evidence is very inconvenient to those who have allowed it to happen, because the blood is literally on their hands.  As we approach the next election in 2026, we need to tighten our election laws and make it significantly harder for China and other countries to exert influence over our elections.  If we do that, many Democrats will not be able to beat their Republican rivals because Americans do not like communists.  And communism is what the left has on the menu.  And they want to infiltrate the world in any way possible.  For them, stealing elections is much less violent than military engagement.  It’s what just happened in South Korea, where we fought against the spread of communism there half a century ago.  And now, people just had an election where the communist party sunk deeper roots into running that country.  And they want to do it in America, and have been getting away with it, until now.  Now we have the proof.  But what we do with it will decide the fate of all our futures, for better or worse.

Rich Hoffman

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The Killer Vance Boelter: They are a lot more common than people would like to believe

I know the type, the kind of killer that Vance Luther Boelter turned out to be.  Notice how that story dropped out of the news so quickly.  That is the preacher turned assassin in Minnesota who went to the home of state representative Melissa Hortman and killed her and her husband, and also went to the home of state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.  No relation to me, and fortunately, they survived the assassination attempt.  Boelter had a long list of people, all Democrats, whom he intended to kill, and fortunately, many of them were not home or easy to find.  So the damage was limited to these mentioned; it could have been a lot worse.  But the question that emerged out of all this was that Vance Boelter had been hired to kill U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar by Governor Tim Waltz, and that the former vice-presidential candidate had a relationship with this killer, and that there might be some merit to all these loose facts.  So here’s what I think, based on a lot of experience in this matter.  I know quite a bit about killers and politics, and when I was younger, I learned about many people who were professional assassins.   In fact, and this case reminds me of how the system works behind the veil, when I was young I had a get out of free card from a very popular judge in Hamilton County that when I showed it, no prosecutor in Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana would touch the case, even if it involved very violent occurrences.  And it worked too, in many cases that I would have expected it not to.  It was disappointing to me to learn all these things at a young age, but that information has served me well over the years, and regarding this case, I feel very confident to say that I think Vance Boelter fell off the wagon over the abortion issue and his close relationships with politicians as an advisor to the Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Tim Waltz made him feel he could get away with killing off of abortion activists in what he would consider going to war with evil, as a man of God. 

Most of the people I knew as professional killers were almost the same type of personality as Vance Boelter, people who had fallen off the rocker at some point in their life, and never made it back.  They weren’t always politically motivated to do hits on members of a political party as much as they wanted to be hired to be in control of situations they felt out of control to deal with.  And once they killed one person and got away with it, they felt invincible to do it again and again.  And the problem is, once you are close to people in politics, you think you can get away with literal murder; there isn’t anything to stop these people from doing their fantasy of process elimination, and soon enough, they offer themselves as a gun for hire. They perform assassinations in the same way that someone might hire a private contractor to build a new driveway.  And there are plenty of political people out there who are more than willing to kill off their opponents for an elected office, so that keeps people like Vance Boelter very busy.  However, in this case, I don’t think Tim Waltz was smart enough to hire Boelter to eliminate political rivals so he could secure a Senate seat. Instead, I believe Boelter hates Democrats and used his inside knowledge, gained through access to political figures, to try to set up Tim Waltz with an accusation, hoping to cause the current governor trouble. 

Boelter was a person who held a variety of jobs, most of which were low-level, a common occurrence among individuals who turn to assassinations for extra income.  It should be noted that Hillary Clinton has been associated with the death of many people, too many to be accidental, so these types of associations are much more common than people would like to admit to.  And most of them never make it to the news cycle, because there are a lot of cards out there that these people carry around with them that keep them out of jail, especially when they are political hits by those who are protecting a public office from rivals, or leakers.  We want to think of killers in this fashion as sophisticated, much like the characters we see in movies.  But most of the time, they are aimless slobs who bounce through life like pinballs in an erratic machine.  Boelter was, for a time, a manager at a Speedway gas station in Shakopee, Minnesota, and held roles in several major food companies, including Nestle, Del Monte, and 7-Eleven, focusing on operations and quality control.  He tried for a long time to start up a security firm that he had co-founded with his wife, Jenny, who was listed as the president and CEO.  He had fantastic ideas about being a kind of military type, as he had security experience in conflict zones, including Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North America, having trained with private firms and U.S. military personnel.  At the time of these shootings, Boelter was working in the funeral industry, splitting time between the Wulff Funeral Home and Metro First.

Looking at the work history of this guy, once you get a little military training, work with dead bodies and become desensitized to their essence, and get up close to the political class in all these various ways and realize just how thin of a reality most people live in, and how willing they are to turn the other way to maintain whatever illusions about life that they have, people like Vance Boelter lose touch with reality and can become very dangerous.  At the time of these killings, Boelter was living in an apartment away from his family, his wife of 16 years, and his four daughters and one son.  So whether or not Tim Walz was willing to pay a guy like this to create an open senate seat, Boelter was off the rails enough to do it for political reasons himself, or to get a boost in income since his life was such an unplanned mess, that not having stable employment over a long period was detrimental to him.  And that is the common trait for most personal assassins.  They are not well put-together people.  They are typically broken, desperate individuals who have lost their sense of purpose in life and have become desensitized to the rights of others to live a good life.  Because they don’t and can’t, they aren’t capable of living a good, everyday life.  Once they get a glimpse of the inside story, whether it’s in funeral homes, politics, or security details around the world, and you get that mall cop sense of power over others, things quickly spiral out of control.  So I would say this is a warning; there are a lot of these people out there.  There isn’t much desire in prosecution offices to put people like this in jail, because they are so unstable in life, yet at the same time, they are helpful to somebody important, so nobody ever tries to touch them.  That’s why it’s a good thing not to cross that line.  If you want to get rid of somebody politically, run an honest campaign and let voters choose for themselves.  Don’t try to eliminate political rivals with violence and force.  That is not the way to have a stable society.  Honest elections are.

Rich Hoffman

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Destroying Iran: The magnificance of capitalism

I’m not that surprised that President Trump attacked the Fordow site in Iran, along with two others, where the nuclear program was reported to be in the process of development.  From what Trump knew, taking away any leverage of fear from a nuclear power development plan from the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and the Revolutionary Army of the current regime was on their heels, the timing was right.  With this move, Trump can accomplish several essential things simultaneously.  Given this air raid of Iran, it might look risky to be pulled into a prolonged war.  But the reports told Trump what he needed to know in the wake of the conflict between Iran and Israel.  Iran was out of missiles.  They had been able to bomb Israeli cities like Tel Aviv and get through the Iron Dome defense network by overwhelming the system.  But missiles cost money, and Obama isn’t around anymore to sneak money to the Iranian government to antagonize Western civilization, and the rockets ran dry.  To make a show of continued force, Iran has still been launching missiles into Israel, but at a much reduced rate, leaving the Iron Dome to pick them off easily.  Iran was in trouble.  The Ayatollah was in hiding.  Many of the senior revolutionary leadership were killed off or in disarray.  So the time was ripe for a strike, and Trump did it.  If he had resisted, he would have lost an opportunity. Iran was already falling, so it was a good time to send a message to the rest of the world, pass the Big Beautiful Bill, and crush the Russian resistance to end the Ukraine war.  Cut the ties China has with Iran by taking them off the map.  And pave the way for the people of Iran to take back their country and remove it from being a Marxist stronghold in the Middle East.  With the bombing of those three sites, Trump was able to get a lot done, so the time to strike was open.

Trump could have crushed Iran just with his mouth, as he had been doing.  However, an opening was obvious, and people often need to see decisive action. Moreover, nothing unites people more than military action.  As controversial as it is, Trump needs the Big Beautiful Bill to pass the Senate because the tax cuts in it, if made permanent, are key features to the future of the American economy and the improvements we have been seeing in all our wallets.  With the Fed resisting a lowering of interest rates, the tax cuts become even more critical. To unify everyone in passing the Bill for a very nice Fourth of July in 2025, destroying a long-known enemy of America was a smart move to drive resistance to the Bill to act quickly and decisively.  For Trump, he will be remembered as the President who crushed Iran with a marvelous attack that was very successful.  However, for the rest of the world, it was a significant statement and a display of military force.  And it was just enough to get the war hawks on Capitol Hill engaged enough to cheerlead passage of Trump’s Bill, which will secure all his campaign promises.  It will also add a lot of debt to an already escalating pile.  But strategically speaking, this raid on Iran in the middle of the night was an all-in poker move, and Trump has been successful at those before. This is undoubtedly what I voted for, and so did many others.  Likely, even people who didn’t want Trump are suddenly quite happy that he’s in the White House.

Regarding Article II powers, Trump is well within his rights as President to call such a strike.  All this talk of impeachment by Democrats isn’t going to go anywhere.  Ground troops were not involved, so that kept things straight legally on the side of Trump’s decisive action.  For those who fear retaliation, and that, because of Trump’s actions, it puts everyone at risk, they have been deceived into believing that Iran was more powerful than it really was.  The fear is that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz, located between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.  The simple answer is that ships traveling through the area can hug the coast of the United Arab Emirates and avoid Iranian patrols.  However, in truth, Iran lacks the firepower to establish a blockade that would prevent ships from traveling through it.  These are not the Obama days when ships could be stopped by Iranian patrols and harassed.  The Iranians know that they can’t afford retaliation, so there isn’t any real way to provoke more trouble to pour on themselves.  So, any fear of such a thing is misplaced in those who thought of Iran as more potent than it was.  The media and their leftist partners in the world propped up Iran to be a bully so that Marxist ideology could thrive.  And Trump just took that leverage away from the world with that one act.  Ultimately, the fight was always between capitalism and various degrees of communism hidden behind religious fundamentalism, which is why Democrats are so unhappy with the attack because it exposes what they already know but were trying to hide from the world.  Iran was a paper tiger of antagonism that was keeping the world in a terrible state.  And that they used that leverage to spread big government socialism as a reaction to it.  And now that paper tiger is gone. 

When it’s said that nobody else in the world could have performed an attack like this, with B-2 Spirit stealth bombers dropping six GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators, (bunker busters) that could destroy targets 300 feet underground, every country suddenly has to perk up differently when Trump picks up the phone, especially China, and Russia.  And the European Union.  And all the bill whipping that Trump will do in the last week before the Fourth of July to pass his bill and seal his campaign promises, which will fund a repayment of the debt incurred, and then some, will take on a whole new meaning.  As China plans to replace the dollar as the world’s currency standard at the upcoming BRICS summit, set to take place on July 6, 2025, just a few weeks away, it will now have to reconsider all its thoughts.  And in that vacuum of consideration, Trump’s economic plans will have a chance to take flight, and the world will be reeling from their commitments to global communism and socialism.  And only capitalist governments will find success, with the United States pulling way out in front of everyone.  And all the posturing of China to antagonize Taiwan are suddenly not very attractive when America can send bunker busters from halfway around the world and devastatingly cripple a target, essentially ending the life of a country in a few minutes, and still be home in time for dinner.  No, this attack was about more than helping Israel.  It was a final blow against communism, forcing the world to compete in ways they weren’t ready for.  And it will be remembered as one of the most incredible achievements of any American president, not for the action itself, but for what came after. 

Rich Hoffman

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Trump’s Executive Orders for Sky Cars and Supersonic Flight: The future of America’s economy

I told everyone they were coming, and those who listened will profit from the information; those who didn’t, well, they’ll be trying to catch up with the rest of the world.  But on Friday, June 6, 2025, Trump did what I had been talking about for many years prior: he signed the Executive Order on Advanced Electric Air Taxis and Advanced Drone Operations, along with others involving U.S. Airspace Security Against Drone Threats, and lifting the ban on Supersonic Flights.  However, it was the air taxi order that was the most important and the quickest to market benefit.  As I have been saying, Joby Aviation, up the road from my house in Cincinnati, is building electric sky cars that were going to arrive on the market in 2025.  They are already being placed into the Abu Dhabi market and in China.  Japan will have them soon, as will Toyota, which is in a partnership with Joby, so I’ve been warning that America will be left behind.  And I also said that Trump would make it a priority, because America doesn’t want to be last in anything.  With this order from President Trump, the development of electric air taxis is promoted and commercial drone operations are expanded, which these air taxis essentially are – big, fancy drones.  The order directs the FAA to allow commercial users and public safety officials to fly drones beyond their line of sight, easing current restrictions.  It also supports a program to test vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which could enhance cargo transport, medical response times, and access to rural areas.  Additionally, it encourages federal agencies to prioritize the purchase of U.S.-made drones and directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote the export of American drones to other markets.  This is a significant step into a Jetsons-like world, and as I said, the technology was already there.  All that was needed was a regulatory environment to allow for that technology to be applied to society in general. It’s a big step in the right direction.

However, regarding the supersonic flight ban that has been in place over the United States for commercial aircraft, it has been frustrating to deal with such an artificial limit.  If you’ve ever had to fly across the Pacific Ocean on a 13-14 hour flight, no matter how long you spend in first class, it’s a hard flight.  It’s challenging to travel from airport to airport over 24 hours to reach the other side of the world.  It isn’t easy to fly from New York to Los Angeles routinely, because the airplanes are just too slow.  Boom Aviation has been in operation since 2014 and has been dedicated to developing passenger air vehicles that exceed the speed of sound. They have been successful and, like Joby Aviation, are poised for market entry.  Their Overture airliner can carry 64-80 passengers at Mach 1.7, which is 1,100 miles per hour.  That would reduce the six-hour flight from New York to Los Angeles to 3 hours.  They are working on lowering the transoceanic times to 3.5 hours, for instance, to London, which is a significant improvement from the current time.  They intend to have 1,000 supersonic airliners available for business class fares to make it economically viable, and they currently have 130 orders for aircraft from most major airlines, including United, American, and Japan Airlines.  So, Trump’s executive order is not a distant hope for the future.  It’s for right here, right now.  All we needed was a president who would embrace these innovations and nurture them forward.  All we needed was a Trump election to unleash the opportunities.

Speaking about the air taxi service for Joby, the pricing will be in the range of Uber Black, and initially, it will focus on airport travel.  For instance, as I have been talking about in my local area of West Chester, Ohio, the Joby partnership with Delta Airlines would allow passengers who arrive at CVG, which is about an hour away from West Chester, because of the traffic, its not very far away, it just takes time to get down I-75 at the rush hour times to get there, passengers could arrive from their flight, get to the skyport, and take an air taxi to West Chester to their hotel.  They could just about walk to everything they needed without having to rent a car; then do their business, and then fly back the same way.  On a business trip, which is something I see a lot of, it’s a real problem for a lot of business travelers, to catch a 5:30 PM flight, they essentially have to leave at 2:30 PM to beat the rush hour traffic, then deal with all the TSA nonsense wasting most of their day in the process.  I have people who come to see me who have to travel overseas, who deliberately leave for the airport to stay at a hotel there so they don’t have to deal with the traffic on the day of their flight, which is a massive waste of their time.  Therefore, there is a sufficient need for this service to become helpful immediately.  And it will be as common as taking an Uber within months once commercial utilization is accepted.  Uber Black pricing to CVG from West Chester would likely be around $142-$170, which is comparable to the cost of Uber Black when traveling from Manhattan to JFK, approximately 15-20 miles. 

The most important thing to consider here is not the technology itself, but valuing time.  There has been a concerning trend in the world to reduce all forms of travel and to encourage people to rely solely on Microsoft Teams, for instance, and avoid face-to-face meetings.  That was undoubtedly the unintended consequence of COVID, and it turned out to be a disaster, which the Biden administration only made worse with an anti-technology approach to the economy that was devastating.  There was no reason not to be first to market with sky cars or supersonic flight.  When you enable more people to accomplish more in a day, you expand the economy.  For businesspeople to be able to do more with their time rather than travel, the economic benefits are undeniable.  I know many people who would gladly pay $170 per person to fly over the traffic to CVG so they could work for an additional 2 hours on their Delta flight back to where they came from.  For most businesspeople, their time on the road is worth a lot more than that, and they should not be wasting it sitting around in airports or flying in slow crafts that are restricted to speeds under the speed of sound.  I would say that in just a few years, once people get used to accepting that a sky car is more useful than ordering a normal Uber to drive them around, the pricing will come down significantly and be much less.  It will take time for people to get used to the option, but once they do, lots of things will improve, including street traffic.  I see only good things coming from these Trump executive orders, and it’s about time somebody dares to implement them.  Many of these companies, like Joby and Boom, have been waiting for politics to catch up to them.  And now is the time. 

Rich Hoffman

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Let’s Be Clear, Elon Musk Did Not Win the Election for Trump: The tempers of a dejected woman

Let’s get something straight: Elon Musk did not win the election for President Trump.  I like Elon Musk, and I want his companies to succeed.  But he’s a political lightweight who still has a lot to learn.  The money he spent, primarily on President Trump, around $290 million, was in his own best interest. If Trump had lost, it would have essentially cost Elon Musk many billions of dollars in lost opportunity cost.  So this big head idea he has that he won the election for President Trump, and that he put a Republican House and Senate into the majority, is ridiculously wrong.  I have a news flash for Elon Musk.  Trump was going to win, and so were those majorities going to happen, with or without Elon Musk.  We don’t owe him anything.  We welcomed his help.  But we were going to win regardless.  Trump was poised to win as far back as 2022, and I said so all the way.  Everyone knew what the internals were saying; Trump was never going to lose.  And I hate to say it, but that money Musk spent was mainly worthless.   People had already made up their minds about Trump, and they wanted him, because election fraud was the problem in 2020.  Elon Musk was a Democrat who helped other Democrats feel like they could switch over to the MAGA base and be a part of it.  However, the numbers were already in place long before Elon Musk became involved.  And to whatever degree Elon Musk has deluded himself with a power play to turn against Trump in the way he did, which will have a permanent impact on the rest of his life, it’s essential to clarify the truth of the matter.  President Trump would have won the 2024 election with or without help. 

There is a part of me, and it might yet be somewhat true that the calls for war that China and Russia have been beating on, making negotiations very difficult, were why Trump and Musk went into a tag team kind of Big Time Wrestling event where the world was temporarily distracted by the most powerful person in the world getting into a fight with the world’s richest person.  Trump has done that kind of thing with Vince McMahon before.  Those kinds of acts are what WWF wrestling is all about, and off stage, all the guys are friends.  But I think Trump is legitimately hurt by what Elon Musk did, and that what happened was a permanent condition.  I would place it among the stories of Omarosa, Michael Cohen, and Anthony Scaramucci, people who were once close to Trump but fell away in disgrace.  That’s a whole topic of its own, but in this case, it takes courage to stand by a person like President Trump, and some people just don’t have it.  Is it President Trump’s fault that there are so many people like that in his life, and extending well into the past?  No, I would say that influential people attract people who want to be near power.  And as people of their own, they have fantasies of being able to manipulate influential people into doing things they want, because they lack the courage to do it themselves.  So they fly too close to the sun, their wings melt, and they fall back to earth.  Elon Musk is just the latest to experience that. 

As it looks, Steve Bannon was probably more right than wrong about Musk being a Chinese asset.  China is Tesla’s second-largest market, behind the United States, with sales growing by 8.8% in 2024.  And state-controlled banks in China gave Tesla a $1.6 billion loan from Chinese state-owned banks in 2019 to build their gigafactory there, with a reduced 15% corporate tax rate.  I think the pressure on Elon Musk to exit politics was significant due to his numerous entanglements.  I was amazed that he was able to do as much as he did.  Like a lot of people, Elon Musk got caught up in seeing the extreme wrong behind the assassination attempt of Trump, and he joined the crusade out of a moral imperative, like so many others did.  But China has been using globalist money to buy people with leverage for many years, including most of our current government.  And they are trying to undermine Trump, as they did when they released the COVID-19 virus during an election year.  We cannot ignore the role China played in election fraud in America, but also in other places, such as Brazil, and most recently in South Korea.  Doing business with China is a tricky proposition; they can and will hold everything over your head if they decide to call in a loan.  That seems to be a common practice in the world these days, so I can certainly understand the pressure on Musk to distance himself from the White House and return to running his companies, which, unfortunately, involves being a political chameleon.  Most businesspeople have to adapt their approach depending on the country they are dealing with, and with a company like Tesla, China holds significant influence.  It’s nice that it’s an American car company and that it represents a necessary export.  But at what cost? Usually, it means that at the very least, the CEO of the company can’t have political opinions that work against the country they are building and selling cars to, when they are effectively a communist run enterprise hell bent on authority control over mass society.

I think the pressure got to him. There are a lot of leftists who work in executive positions at Musk’s companies, and they weren’t happy that he was suddenly one of the key Republicans in Washington D.C., attached so intimately to the Trump administration with direct, and open friendship.  For Trump’s part, it was good to have Musk as a friend.  In business, you keep your friends close, and if you can, you keep your enemies closer.  If you have your arm around them, it’s hard for them to stick a knife in your back, because your arm can control their movements to a greater extent.  But for people like Musk, and the long line of individuals who have tried to be close to Trump, to control him in some way, and then found out things didn’t go the way they wanted, it’s like the woman who marries a man to change him.  And after all the sex and laughing at his dumb jokes, he still doesn’t willingly cut the grass on Sunday, the woman feels dejected and angry.  And I think Elon Musk is like so many women who try such a thing only to realize they weren’t able to change the man they married, leaving them embarrassed and regretful.  And Musk wanted to make a clean break to get his companies back on track by using the protest against this Big Beautiful Bill as an excuse.  Because if you did want to help the Chinese stay in power, you would like to stop the Trump campaign bill from passing the Senate.  Passing the bill, as expensive as it is, essentially reduces China’s influence over American politics.  That’s why it’s so costly.  Debt can be leveraged to advantage.  But to make it work, you have to have something valuable to work with.  China has been trying to destroy that value, so this Big Beautiful Bill of Trump’s is all about leverage.  Not actual debt.  And Elon Musk found himself caught between those two worlds, and he had to pick.  And I don’t blame him.  It takes a lot of guts to stick to these kinds of things.  And it’s challenging at best, especially if you have a substantial amount of money and want to maintain it.  But let’s be clear, Musk didn’t win the election for Trump.  He was just lucky to have been a part of history.  He certainly didn’t make it.

Rich Hoffman

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I’m Thinking of Getting a PhD: The mysterious Qesem Cave

I have been thinking a great deal about pursuing a PhD.  For me, it’s a debate of time; it’s hard for me to dedicate too much time to any one thing, and pursuing a PhD requires a significant amount of time in a specific field of study.  However, my reason for wanting to do it, and I think I will at some point regardless, is that I want to prove it can be done without losing your mind in the process.  I want to prove that if you look at the world with your face up against the glass, you can still see.  And I could do just that, and in the aftermath, I could be very dangerous.  However, typically, it costs around half a million dollars to pursue a PhD, and the time commitment is mind-numbing.  However, it could be fun if it were in a field that you enjoy. I want to pursue one in Bible Studies, Philosophy, or Archaeology because I am passionate about these topics and have many ideas on how to improve them for the betterment of human civilization.  But unfortunately, and this is just how things are in the living world, what you want to do and what you should, or could do, is not always the same.  And the skill that I am best at, which is specifically me, is consuming vast amounts of random information and solving problems outside the box.  And that is something I wouldn’t be able to do if I had my face too close to the glass for an extended period.  My reasons for pursuing a PhD are not the traditional ones, but rather to demonstrate that one can be obtained despite the institutional problems in the process.

The best example of this is in Qesem Cave, a topic I first learned about while reading my favorite magazine in the world, the November/December 2007 edition of Biblical Archaeology Review, which was available in print at the time.  Later, in December, I noticed a brief online article about Qesem Cave that had not been included in the print edition, and I thought it was astonishing.  Here, a cave was discovered just outside Tel Aviv, Israel, and about an hour’s drive to the west of Jerusalem, that had human habitation 420,000 years ago.  The cave was discovered while building a highway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the interior, and its existence was entirely a matter of happenstance, which I found alarming.  How many Qesem Caves were there in the world just waiting to be discovered, just short of the surface of the earth?  And the answer is an astonishing amount that we are just starting to wrap our heads around, especially in hostile zones like China, Russia, and all over the Middle East.  However, this discovery was so unusual and difficult to categorize that even in an archaeology magazine that typically reports on such issues, they weren’t quite sure what to say about it.  Because it didn’t fit any previous assumptions about the region.  And even then, it took seven years from its discovery for the world to learn about it.  And since then, it has been researched a bit here and there up to 2016.  However, much of the work has been relatively small in scope because the discovery process is overly bureaucratic and detrimentally procedural.  The most intelligent people on the planet who could study these kinds of things were too tied up in peer review commentary to even begin to think of something that was not within the box of their specialized fields of study. 

But Qesem Cave proves something I had long been thinking about in the specific region of the Bible lands.  I believe there was a very good reason why Abraham was instructed to sacrifice Isaac at the location he did, and that the Holy of Holies was situated where it was.  And that the skull of the first human ever, Adam, was buried in a cave under the site where Jesus was crucified.  Academics with their face up against the glass write off such stories as fictional apocrypha, but I think the desire to write such stories such as in The Book of the Cave of Treasures is because under modern Jerusalem is an ancient system of caves that were always there, and that Yahweh was very angry at the Canaanite culture which resided there for many hundreds of thousands of years, well outside our accepted timeline for the flood stories and evolution of the Biblical characters.  I tend to think that the story of Genesis compresses millions of years into the arrival of Abraham, allowing the plot of the Bible to begin.  And that its reference points reach too deep in the past to connect to historical anchors.  And Qesem Cave proves this to be true, not just because humans were using it as shelter from the outside world and the elements, but also because they were practicing shamanic practices there, which would be the oldest spot in the world where such activity was observed.  I think it’s just the tip of the iceberg.  And that the world is filled with such places.  However, the Holy Land is so well-documented that a discovery like this can’t be ignored in any historical discussion. 

Inside the cave were elements of apparent ritual activity using swan wings to mimic shamanic spirit flight while under the influence of hallucinogens, which the current argument is the foundation of all religious belief, the deliberate attempt for people to reach across known perception and talk to spiritual entities to assist with daily life.  And biblically, we have people talking to what they think is God a lot.  Qesem Cave reveals that this kind of practice has been ongoing for a much more extended period than previously understood.  And for me, that’s a big deal, which is why I’m considering getting a PhD.  I want to prove that you can achieve this without compromising your ability to think critically when new information is introduced.  As I am, I excel at solving complex problems because my knowledge base is extensive.  However, academia is designed against the broad acquisition of knowledge and is structured to be too specific, making it difficult to incorporate new information and advance understanding.  And that’s why Qesem Cave has been so little explored, and why the Indian mounds of North America, and the world, get so little attention, because they don’t fit a narrative that academics have staked a stake in, and many PhD papers were written.  I think the best and only way to shatter that assumption is to undertake one myself, so that I can conduct my thesis on the shortcomings of the current PhD process.  We should encourage people to think primarily about multiple matters, rather than focusing on a limited vantage point, and then make the process so complicated that, once you survive it, you are changed forever by the experience.  I interact with many people who hold advanced degrees every day, and I would say I know more of them than most people do.  And I like them, but they all share the same problem: they think too specifically and do not think large enough to deal with the vast world of knowledge that we have yet to unlock.  And in the process, they are often paralyzed by the procedure and cannot see the obvious.  And that is precisely what Qesem Cave, which I think is one of the most incredible discoveries in the world, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt.  And what is both scary and delightful is that it’s just the beginning.  As far as me getting a PhD, I would like to get to a point in my life where I could take a few years and just think about the things I enjoy thinking about.  It would be fun, and I could do a lot of good things with it.  I may not be at that stage in my life now, but if and when I could, I think I would.

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Worry About the Moody’s Downgrade: A fight that has to happen

Don’t worry about the Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.  Much of the problem starts with the Iranian apologist Mark Zandi and background anti-Trumpers like Warren Buffett using Berkshire Hathaway as a front for the story.  This is a game that has been ongoing in the background for a long time, and the concept is that you want them to want you.  Not where they want you to want them in the balance of power in a relationship, and the course Trump is taking with the American economy will force them to crawl like dogs into the Oval Office begging to be affiliated with the success story that is coming.  But for too long, a lot of weak, stupid people have groveled to these losers of finance who have giggled at the idea of American freedom in the background because they know they control everyone’s money.  And there has been peace, somewhat so, as long as the credit card works.  However, these are power-hungry entities, and this is a common strategy they employ in finance to exert control over domestic policy in favor of globalist intentions.  There are a lot of businesses that have been victims to just this kind of predatory lending and power struggle for control of those companies and what we are seeing applied to the Trump administration is a hatred for the America First policy of Trump and a refocus of their hatred for him and the MAGA movement in general.  The downgrade by Moody’s is not a surprise, and the result will be similar to everything the Never Trumpers have tried to do to Trump and those who support him.  They are attempting to regain control of the world, utilizing traditional financial tactics to achieve this.  And those tricks are baked into the system as it was built. 

This behavior from finance, not just by Moody’s but around the world, is a communist playbook that is precisely how China was set up as a communist country, propped up by these same financial, international monsters.  Their tongue-in-cheek statements about how countries should be run are that people can beat on their chest and declare independence all they want, but it would be central banking that would control people and their lives.  Like fish, they lure people into buying into their credit controls with the bait of easy money, then they snare them with a deep hook, allowing them to control every aspect of their lives.  And they make a lot of money from the debt of the countries to which they have loaned money.  And they believe that control has given them considerable power to override domestic policy on all fronts.  So they use credit ratings to control behavior.  It’s just another variation of the Chinese social media score.  If you exhibit behavior that the government dislikes, they will restrict your access to funds, which in a world where everything is paid for by credit card, could be devastating.  Which is why it has been set up that way, to get everyone addicted to easy cash at a low rate, so they could establish a deep-seated control hook in everyone’s life to run every aspect of their life.  And don’t kid yourself, they mean to do just that.  It’s a power trip that has always been a problem.  They are not our friends, these tyrants who work in finance.  They delude themselves about their actual value, and this impasse was always inevitable.  It has taken this long for a President to occupy the White House who truly represents the needs of the people, as the republic was designed. 

Moody’s cited the growing national debt, with projections exceeding $36 trillion, as one of its reasons, after it became apparent that Trump’s proposed budget would pass through Congress.  They also cited persistent fiscal deficits that are expected to worsen as government spending is outpacing revenue.  This is a shot at Trump’s tax cuts, aimed at extending the tax cuts from his previous term.  Moody’s people want more taxes on individuals, as they are unhappy about the lack of revenue.  They also don’t like that Trump plans to recover revenue by shifting it to tariffs, which has taken advantage of America’s economic power by reallocating wealth around the world to socialist and communist countries with unearned merit.  Moody’s wants that practice of unfairness to benefit them because globalism has set that system up to their advantage.  Moody’s also indicated that rising interest rates are crowding out other fiscal priorities.  However, those rates are directly tied to the Federal Reserve, which has painted itself into a corner with currency manipulation that it had counted on going in an entirely different direction.  Entitlement spending is expected to increase due to an aging population that lacks a sufficient birthrate to support the next generation, thereby requiring additional funding.  Most of what Moody’s indicated as justification for the downgrade are fears of what might happen.  But not so disguised is a hatred for Trump’s domestic policies that turn the power of the American economy back into a nationalist system that runs counter to all the manipulations of globalism have enacted to control all countries through fiscal policy.  It is the same communist controls they have in China and North Korea, even in Iran, where Marxism runs in the background of everything they do.  And in America, that was always the fate they intended for us, and they are angry that we aren’t doing what they expected us to do.

This fight goes back to even before the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, who I think was one of America’s greatest presidents.  The battle with the banks needed to happen, and all this time, there has been a kind of stalemate.  But in the finance industry, if you have had to work with them, there is an obvious power struggle that laughs at the Constitution and the premise that people can run themselves as a government.  Moody’s downgrade is essentially a social credit score designed to put pressure on Americans to comply with international expectations.  But Trump knows how to play this poker game, which essentially is what it is.  And the power of the American economy will force Moody’s to retract its position; it won’t be able to draw a hard line in the sand, as it hopes.  Because they will have a business need to affiliate themselves with success, don’t give a second thought to the Moody’s downgrade.  Those losers will have egg on their face in a much-deserved way for their pro-Communist China affiliation.  But remember that China would be nowhere if not for the money that has been stolen from the United States to prop it up as a communist state and example of the kind of government that central finance, with the option of a digital currency, always wanted.  They wanted to destroy the dollar, destroy American capitalism, and buy up all the debt so they could control all domestic policy around the world.  What these big banks have been doing is nothing short of a military incursion.  And they were out for blood, and Trump is taking all that away from them.  They are losing control, and all they have left is a downgrade to our credit rating.  But when you gain control of your economy so that revenue surpasses their fears, that power returns to the people who run the country.  And those banks and credit agencies will be forced to grovel at our feet.  And when they do, we’ll make a footstool of their cheesy haircuts and golf shirts.  They are going to lose control and there is nothing they can do to stop it.

Rich Hoffman

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I Feel Sorry for Elon Musk: CEOs build culture, and are extremely important

I do feel sorry for Elon Musk. I would say to him, the government is a very negative experience, full of losers.  And that fixing it will take a lot more work than he can give in short spurts.  People who choose to work for the government are quite different from those drawn to the private sector.  Government is filled with entitled losers who want to make a lot of money off taxpayers without the risk of earning it themselves.  Therefore, it will require significant reform, which is just getting started with the Trump administration.  But it will take decades to unwind the mess that has been given to us.  And I can see that Elon Musk began his DOGE campaign with a lot of bright ideas.  But making the cuts permanent that he has identified isn’t as easy as it would be at one of his companies.  The government is full of parasites, and you have to play the long game with them.  Elon Musk can do the world a great deal of good if he focuses on what made him great to begin with.  He needs to be back at SpaceX every day, sending Starships into space every three weeks.  It has been evident that he has been absent from those companies; they have been experiencing a decline.  The job of a CEO is often not well-defined; they create the culture.  It’s not the work they do but the culture they make in their wake.  And SpaceX has slipped significantly since Elon has been frequenting the White House daily since Trump’s return to office.  It will take more than CEO stunts to save the government.  However, some business success on the frontier of innovation is the best way that Elon Musk can make the world a better place and establish a civilization to save by going to Mars. 

I thought it was astonishingly short-sighted for Disney-run ABC to characterize the Starship 9 mission that launched this past week as a series of failed missions.  The process SpaceX uses for data collection involves launching these Starships to see what works and what doesn’t, so that every configuration of the problem can be witnessed and designed, modified in real-time.  Drawing on extensive experience with this very issue in the aerospace industry, the world is fundamentally flawed in its approach to manufacturing processes.  And SpaceX has taken a noticeably different approach, one that is much more akin to the Skunkworks at Lockheed Martin many years ago.  The world has learned the wrong lessons and incorporated them into its management systems, and the entire industry is in desperate need of an overhaul.  And if Elon Musk wants to change and save the world, he can do it most effectively with Tesla and SpaceX.  The big secret is that you can’t put engineers in a room and get everything right the first time, which is the assumption in aerospace that began with NASA and the need to avoid any accidents that would become public relations nightmares.  When you can automate flights, you can afford to have launches to measure cause and effect, and approach the whole process of technology development much more aggressively.  Even though Starship 9, which launched at the end of May 2025, burned up during re-entry, as did the booster rocket, much of what SpaceX needed to achieve was successful, leading to the technical adjustments that need to be made at the engineering level. 

However, the way the industry operates now is very risk-averse, and, of course, the least risky thing to do is to do nothing, which is why things are so slow in aerospace and why cost overruns are so common.  And when ABC says that the previous SpaceX missions were failures, they are speaking from the vantage point of the administrative state —the kind of world that the government has created for us, with over-regulation and a world shaped by insurance industry lobbyists.  From that world, exploding Starships are a bad thing.  For the innovative SpaceX world, they provide a lot of information, and when you look at the rate of innovation that is needed to build Starships, you need to collect a lot of data to get repeatability outside of engineering tolerances, because until you see all those inventions working together, there is no way to know how stable a process is.  When it came to the NASA approach, you get lucky with a design and then never deviate from it, fearing the unknown, and that is essentially how they built the space program.  SpaceX is seeking complete, automated redundancy that remains reliable after thousands of trips.  To achieve that, SpaceX needs to be launching a new Starship every week, which is why Elon Musk has been so crucial.  Since he has been at the White House, doing good work that often goes unappreciated, SpaceX has been addressing engine bay leaks that have compromised spaceflight, and the Starships have been exploding.  Not a great way to have a space program.  However, the best thing about this most recent Starship 9 mission was that much of it had become so commonplace now.  The Starship was able to undergo stage separation and space flight, solving many of the problems it previously had, so now the other lingering issues can be addressed. 

The best engineering is to do things and fix things as you see problems emerge.  And for something as complicated as Starship, it will take Elon Musk to foster a productive culture among the many great people at SpaceX, guiding them toward corrective actions to address the numerous problems that must be solved for stable space flight.  It’s fantastic that we’ve had only 9 Starship missions and that they’ve made getting them into space so routine.  Now, getting re-entry right, with stable space flight, will be the key, and it will take a full-time Elon Musk to pull it off.  However, when it comes to cutting the deficit, given the current state of affairs, the first step in fixing the American economy is to achieve magnificent growth through new market sectors.  The SpaceX Starship is the best way to reach that point.  China, in their wildest imaginations, won’t be able to copy SpaceX, because they don’t have a person like Elon Musk to act as the CEO.  Just like other considerations of the administrative state, people cannot be swapped out.  Great people are irreplaceable; when they take vacations or are absent from work, things don’t run smoothly.  Exceptionalism comes from unique people.  Not process controls that allow losers in life to be just as good as winners.  Exceptionalism matters, and Elon Musk needs to stay on the cutting edge at SpaceX for it to continue its success.  And if he wants to save the world, he can do it best in the private sector.  DOGE will still be a good idea that will do good work.  But it’s going to be a slow boil.  What we need most is Starship, and missions going to space so routinely that people take it for granted, as usual.  And with the recent Starship 9 mission, that is becoming the standard.  Normal is launching the biggest rocket humanity has ever produced into space, routinely.  Now, getting it to do what we need it to do time and time again is the next challenge, which is very close to being completed. 

Rich Hoffman

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