Category: Progressive

Controlling Demons to Try to Destroy the Trump Administration: The Lesser Key of Solomon

Among many things, I am an expert on the occult, not a practitioner.  Long before the established religions we have today, there was a cult of planet worshippers who sought the help of supernatural aid frequently, and they had sacrificial cultures designed to appease them.  I don’t even pray to God for myself, let alone conduct magic ceremonies.  I see those types of people as weak and diabolical.  I have written a lot about the evil of Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons, one of the founders of NASA, and they believed in the help of supernatural aid to help them accomplish their desired tasks, and they were often successful.  When you study the Bible, there is a lot of communication with spirits, angels, and demons to help with earthly desires, so we should not assume that all that desire went away. Instead, I would say that the desire to have relationships with entities outside our terrestrial boundaries is as intense as ever.  If you’ve ever been to the Denver International Airport, you will start to get a good sense of it, and as is predictable, Democrat politics has festered into that specific area purposefully.  Like with Aleister Crowley and the Denver Airport, Masonic lodges are part of the story, and of course, with them, we are talking about their reverence for the ancient builders of King Solomon’s Temple, and specifically Hiram Aboff, of Tyre, who was said to be the architect of the famous temple.  And this is where I think we have to think about these supernatural entities when we ask the question about why so many evil things are happening now against the Trump administration, such as terrorist attacks, airplane accidents, and political upheaval.  To understand all those motivations, I think you can look to a simple book such as The Lesser Key of Solomon and remind yourself that many thousands of people turn to books like that in an attempt to conduct the armies of darkness against the forces of good and that many are putting curses on the Trump administration as we speak, to stop him.

This is a very ancient practice passed down over a very long period of time

Speaking of curses, just because someone intends harm on you, even from the spirit world, doesn’t mean they will succeed.  Take me, for example. I am speaking to you after four decades of ill intentions cast upon me by almost every malicious character you can imagine.  So, there are always countermeasures.  And I have studied the world’s occult practices to understand the enemy’s weapons.  But I would never use them myself.  To me, asking for help from anybody or anything is weak.  I don’t even ask for directions to a gas station from GPS.  So witchcraft or practicing magic is off the table.  I see them as just as foolish as ancient practices of demonic appeasement with human sacrifice.  But with all that said, my daughters were traveling recently and found themselves in Salem, Massachusetts, which is covered with reverence for witches and all those who think Harry Potter sorcery are a good idea.  They were in an excellent bookstore filled with books on the occult, so they took a picture and sent me an extensive sampling, asking if I wanted any of them while they were there.  I spotted one that I have had my eye on for a long time: The Lesser Key of Solomon, edited by Joseph H. Peterson.  I have read different versions of that book, allegedly written by King Solomon himself and transferred through time to the present through oral traditions and esoteric references.  So they picked it up for me, and it is quite an interesting book, to say the least.

I am working on a line of thought that I have on the Kofun tombs of Japan and how they connect to the empire of King Solomon.  These tombs are all over Osaka. I have seen them by the hundreds, and I think Solomon’s influence ended there at the Pacific Ocean along the Silk Road in ways that nobody has adequately studied or understood.  In Japan, they communicate with good and evil spirits all the time, on just about every street corner, and they call these spirits kami.  In Islam, they call them jinn.  In Western cultures, we call them angels and demons.  In Japan, it always amazes me how people openly seek to appease these spirits and help them in some way or another with incense and prayer.  So I think The Lesser Key of Solomon is one of the reasons that they built all those kofun tombs in the shape of a keyhole, as a way to lock away the people buried there from the evil menace of a hostile spirit world that might harass them in death.  You might recall, dear reader, that the story goes from the Apocrypha text removed from the Bible called The Testament of Solomon, for which The Lesser Key is an extension, that King Solomon was given by God a ring that could seal away demons and actually employed them to his wishes.  It’s an old take on the Arabian Nights stories of the Genie.  The story goes that Solomon captured all these demons to help him build King Solomon’s temple which is why Master Masons and people were so inclined to seek The Lesser Key of Solomon so that they could also command spirits like King Solomon did to build the temple and conduct his business of an empire that extended far away from ancient Israel.  That’s how Aleister Crowley and many like him from the occult practitioner sciences that predate the Hebrew people by many thousands of years get involved in all this demon worship by trying to command spirits as Solomon did for the perpetuation of some terrestrial cause. 

The critical point to remember here is not the conduct of morality attached to discussions like this but understanding the intent.  There are many people in the world, especially practicing Democrats, who seek supernatural aid to help them achieve some political cause.  And the demon world is hectic trying to grant their requests.  And I can assure everyone that all over Washington D.C., wannabe witches, and occult practitioners are trying to put a curse on everything that the Trump administration tries to touch.  So when we see all the crazy stuff in the news and wonder why so many people are doing so many bad things, it’s not always the CIA conducting some coup attempt or the FBI trying to do the same to keep Kash Patel from becoming their boss.  It goes even deeper than that to why people think what they do and how those thoughts pop into their minds.  To deal with this occult menace, we have to admit that it exists in the first place, which many are reluctant to do.  But when I see the kind of news stories that have been common since Trump was elected, I see occult attempts to stop the political tide that so many desire.  But many scandalous characters are seeking the aid of the spirit world to overthrow our political order with a lot of personal investment.  And I think it will get much worse. Yet that doesn’t mean that all these evil intentions will be successful.  All it does mean is that we must look at where the problems are and see the threats for what they truly are.  And not illusively of their origins.  And fight those fights at the doorstep of the enemy. 

What amazes me about all these images is that they look so much like Indian art, crop circles, and ancient mound construction

Rich Hoffman

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‘Conception Begins at Erection’: The rediculous communism of people like Represenative Anita Somani

To understand why the Ohio bill by Anita Somani is so stupid, “Conception Begins at Erection,” you have to understand that flower child Democrats who want the communist world of John Lennon’s “Imagine” are anti-family and have been working to dismantle it as the focus of their political platform from the beginning.  Their basic premise is that sex is their seductive tool to dismantle society and prevent good families from being created at any level.  So they need open, loose sex to perpetuate their intentions of social destruction, which is why they love abortion so much.  For a woman to be equal to a man and to have consequence-free sex, she must have access to abortions.  Nowhere in the Democrat platform does it question whether sex should be practiced at all without the institution of marriage being applied because sex itself is used as a tool of destruction, as introduced by the communists of Europe who migrated to America to bring down their rival generation by generation.  The communists of the hippie movement needed free love, free sex, and a lack of possession of a single-sex partner to usher in their concept of a no-possession world where nobody owned anything, especially each other.  And sex was their tool, a temptation that most human beings care a lot about and feel some urge to practice.  To achieve this hostile act, women needed to have the means to destroy the ramifications of a bad decision, whereas, in a healthy society, they would be gatekeepers of value.  If they didn’t want some scum bag, smelly dude crawling all over them jobless and with no future prospects, who was to judge.  Maybe he had tattoos, and some body piercings, and her dad wouldn’t like him, so in a flight of fancy, the young girl sleeps with the reckless despot.  Only to get pregnant and tied for the rest of her life to the mistake of a bad decision through pregnancy.  To promote further destructive social behavior, the communist left known as the Democrat Party in America needed abortion to implement their means of family destruction.

Anita Somani is one of those radical medical professionals along the lines of people like Ohio’s Amy Acton, the lunatic who shut down the State during Covid, and Dr. Fauci, who is so well known for his disastrous social policies that harmed and killed many millions of people through horrendous healthcare advice.  Too many of these healthcare professionals who have radical communist ideas have shown themselves to be destructive, and that is certainly the case for Representative Anita Somani.  She is an old hippie chick who calls female rights the right to use sex as a torpedo for bad behavior and to destroy family creation through the temptations of loose sexual practice.  Traditionally, a woman might turn away a man who didn’t have their act together for sexual interaction, and she might get pregnant as a result, a mistake that would last the rest of her life; with abortion, those mistakes were promoted.  A woman could set the reset button and try to forget that the error ever happened.  She just might be tempted to make more mistakes, which would further erode the desire to start a family, and instead would enter the workforce and compete with men for jobs and head of household status socially.  Always in the back of their plans, and in the focus of people like the Ohio Democrat Anita Somani, is the notion that all people belong to each other, that children, if produced, belong to the Democrat-controlled state, and that families should be destroyed in favor of a communist commune of social, pot smoking, despots. 

We’re now at a point where this merging of social roles has been vastly accepted, so most people think such talk sounds almost Amish in tradition.  Equality was the priority, and to make women equal to men, they had to be slugs and even reckless.  How else would women be used to be instruments of destruction when traditionally, a man would have to work hard to win the affection of a woman, especially a pretty one?  There is another problem that arises: in such a merit-based system, pretty women have an advantage over those not so attractive, and Democrats couldn’t have that.  That would mean attractive people would merge to have beautiful babies, further causing the problems of equality that Democrats were so obsessed with, making equality impossible until everyone was equally ugly.  So, to further drive home the point of irresponsible behavior, the man-hating culture of Democrats like Anita Somani wants to punish men for bad sexual decisions just because they engage in activity that results in discharging semen without the intent to produce a baby with it.  Ohio isn’t the only place where these kinds of satirical legislative proposals are being introduced.  This is a pro-abortion movement that Democrats think is cute as Trump and Republicans settle in to dismantle everything that progressives have built over the last century.  And Democrats believe this is the way they are going to win people back to their party instead of watching them bleed away and become Republicans.  Anita Somani is so tone-deaf from communist propaganda over the years, the hippie vantage point of sexual utilization to form a borderless world where nobody owns any private property, that she can’t see how dumb this proposal is under any consideration.  People are turning away from this kind of thinking and are very open to more traditional views on sexual relationships because what we have been doing has left a lot of people miserable and unfulfilled.   Several generations of this destructive behavior have alarmed society to the point where they want to make some changes.  They are moving away from people like Anita Somani, not toward them, as might have been the case during the 1970s to 2000s. 

I’ve bumped into Representatives like Anita Somani in Columbus more than I’d like to.  They are all over the place, and when you talk to them, they are as stupid as you’d think.  They have those empty eyes of social propaganda that look at you with a kind of blank stare because they only have one gear of thinking: social destruction disguised as rights and equality.  And they just can’t be reasoned with.  They are so out of touch with people that they think political stunts like this ridiculous bill will rally people to their cause of more man-hating family destruction to perpetuate their communist political platforms.  They don’t understand that the world has been turning away from them for a long time, especially now that Trump is back in office.  People want standards.  There is no higher form of government than the management of individual families.  First comes a family, then comes your community, then your state, then your country.  Only after all other things are taken care of can we worry about the world.  Not the other way around.  When you dig into the lives of people like Anita Somani, you find miserable people with lots of unhappy spouses and kids because they put their efforts into everything but their families and it shows in their homes and careers.  To cover those mistakes, they dig even deeper into communism to disguise their mistakes with social restructuring because if the rules of good conduct are changed, nobody will judge them as losers.  Which, of course, they are, and that is why their political movement is falling apart as it was always destined to do. 

Rich Hoffman

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It Takes “Big Balls” to Reform Government Efficiency: To have a job, high performance matters

To answer a question that has come up recently from government workers shocked by the DOGE exploits of a 19-year-old young man who is known as “Big Balls,” this debate is already too late to have.  The wasteful practices of the federal government and all the massive amounts of terminations that need to be made to make government much smaller and to push those workers into the growing private sector employment will not be fought in the courts, as many hope.  It will be fought in public relations.  For instance, the poor-performing government workers at USAID will not be able to hide behind polite society and continue to underperform for the American taxpayer without exposure any longer.  I’ve been warning about this day for decades, and here it is.  Everyone was told, and they chose not to listen.  So, don’t be surprised when some wiz kid that Elon Musk hired right out of high school can come in and eliminate many government jobs with the push of a button on a laptop.  Nobody in the world is better at finding overachieving engagement from employees than Elon Musk right now; he has been very successful at finding those types of people at Tesla, SpaceX, and just about everything else he has touched.  And, of course, we see the same practices from people like this: Edward Coristine, the young man who has the world melting down as he calls himself “Big Balls.”  Well, it takes a lot of guts to step into a very corrosive work culture with the power of government behind it and tell them all that they are worthless and that they need to go.  They have been underperforming, and in the case of USAID, the Pentagon, and many other places that DOGE will be analyzing for President Trump, if you want to be great as a nation or at anything, you can’t accept underperformance.  There must be standards that define winning, and employees must meet or exceed those standards.  But coming up short was never going to be acceptable.

I’m not surprised that Musk has hired many bright-eyed young people to perform these analysis jobs, such as in the case of Edward Coristine.  I know many young people like this “Big Balls” kid.  They remind me of the old hot rod culture we used to have in America, where kids coming of age to drive could get their hands on an old car and hot rod it up so they could race on the weekends.  That kind of car culture has been taken away from kids so they have turned to computer coding.  Getting computers to do things better and faster than stock options right out of the store is what many kids like Big Balls spend all their time thinking about.  Elon Musk has given those kinds of kids homes in his companies.  They can take their passion and put it to good use right out of high school.  So, they end up with a pure view of the world that makes things easy to see.  Edward Coristine has an advantage as a young person who has not yet learned to fail.  Many people who have failed a lot in life seek a government job to hide those failures even from themselves, and they hope all their lives that nobody notices.  So, government employment has become a joke over time, and nobody feels confident in criticizing it because the power of the government might crush them for doing so.  I’ve been through all that myself, where I have been very critical of the government and have seen its wrath firsthand.  Not that it did them any good.  But I can see why Musk has people like Big Balls on his team.  It takes a person who has not lived long enough to accept failure sometimes and the ambition to change the world without learning to hold back so as not to hurt other people’s feelings to walk into a roomful of government employees and tell them they are all worthless and could be removed immediately and all their jobs could be done in the corner of the room with one guy and a second-hand laptop.  It takes Big Balls to be that honest.

I have received a lot of hate mail these last few weeks, much more than usual, which is usually quite a lot.  But the hate comes in the form of an almost mirror mirror on the wall complex where they are trying to convince themselves of their point more than me.  They think government jobs are protected and the courts will protect them from the realities of performance measures, a standard labor union fantasy.  Through mass collectivism, they can be insulated from the rigors of reality.  But of course, I say to them, generally politely, that these fights won’t be conducted in the corrupt courts, but in the realm of public opinion.  The next time we get to a government shutdown, for instance, and Congress has to vote for more appropriations, how are they going to do that when it is a PR nightmare now that people know how useless a lot of these government workers are?  They aren’t worth the money wasted on them, and the fear of continued services lost because those employees aren’t there will be removed. 

The low-engagement people will lose whenever you have a high-engagement culture fighting against a low-engagement culture.  You can’t fight against people who work 7 days a week, 24 hours a day because they love their job with people who barely work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, even if they still report to the office, which many of them have been working from home.  Those low-engagement people will get slaughtered in the process, which DOGE brings to the table.  Not just in the one young man, Big Balls, but in many like him.  And behind him is a vast army of like-minded people who don’t want some stuffy adult government worker culture holding back their future from them.  They have more than a few reasons to be angry about how they approach their job of performance revolution.  If people are going to be in a government job, we always expect performance.  Not to hide behind some social constructs like a worthless college degree in basket weaving so that they could get into one of these government union jobs and sit on their butts for the next thirty years until they retire with a ridiculous benefits package for essentially doing nothing that whole time.  Those days are over and have been for many years.  But it’s catching up now because it took people like Big Balls to expose how useless those government workers were.  They need to be removed from that comfortable, expensive position and put into the private sector, where they must compete for a job every day.  And if they fail there, it is because in competition, they didn’t make the team.  If you want a great country and economy, you have to make it so that the people doing the work are the best.  And those who don’t work so hard are not just sitting around milking the system from the taxpayers who worked so hard to provide the funds.  Regarding Big Balls and the kind of people Elon Musk typically surrounds himself with, they are not losers who have learned from society to lose.  They are rebelling against that premise, which I think is fantastic.  This is why I have been a fan of Musk for a long time.  And I love what he is doing with DOGE.  We don’t want losers doing these government jobs; we want winners.  And the best way to do that is to put people in place to analyze these jobs who have not yet learned to lose.  Big Balls has yet to learn how to lose, much to his credit.  And we need in the world a lot more people like him.

Rich Hoffman

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I’m Very Proud of J.D. Vance: Why he’s the best pick for 2028

It’s fair to say that I am very proud of J.D. Vance.  Now that he’s the Vice President in the White House, I can’t help but think of the various interactions I’ve had with him leading up to this opportunity, and I can’t help but think of it all in some divinely inspired way. It’s one of those things that you knew in the back of your mind, but conscious reality had no clue, and when those things come together, it’s just nice to look at, such as the Grand Canyon, Mt Rushmore, or the Washington Monument.  I like thinking about Washington, D.C. more these days since Trump is back in the White House. I think my wife and I are actually going to visit it soon and enjoy it with a fresh perspective.  But what’s different this time, and when I first met him, J.D. Vance already had celebrity status because of his book and Netflix movie, The Hillbilly Elegy, but to watch J.D. move up through obscurity and into the White House the way I remember it was quite a story and I have been reflecting a lot, almost as though I witnessed the hand of God move him as a chess piece through a wild and dark time.  And it took a lot of good people to make that chess move happen, and it’s a miracle.  But also an important lesson.  As I said well before Trump was re-elected, and back in July, a few days after being shot in the head from an assassination attempt, I said that people were going to be so happy with Trump that when his term was up in four years that nobody would want him to leave.  But J.D. Vance was a promising young man who would best be able to pick up the administration and continue it for another 8 years.  There will be many good people in the Republican Party who will run and offer themselves for the job.  But as J.D. Vance said to Maria Bartiromo on the first Sunday of February 2025, nobody has a front-row seat on how to be Trump in the White House other than this current Vice President.  He’ll be the best and most apparent pick to carry on what Trump started, and I’m just proud of him.

I first met J.D. Vance in the back of Nancy Nix’s yard, by her pool.  During the primaries, I was most supportive of that new senate seat for Josh Mandel because I knew he was a Tea Party kind of guy, and I was tired of RINOs in the Republican Party and didn’t want to support one more.  J.D. Vance back then had said bad things about Trump, and I wasn’t about to forget about them.  But Nancy was lobbying me to support the young man because, in a tight primary, I could have some critical things to say that might get people to vote one way or another.  So she called me and told me she would have J.D. Vance over at her house, and I should meet him.  I wasn’t excited because my wife and I were swamped then.  However, I always give Nancy time when she brings something up because she has excellent political instincts, so I went to her house to hear out J.D. Vance.  By her pool, I had a chance to talk to the future Vice President and communicated my reluctance to him and why.  I asked him why he thought he could be a good senator and withstand the temptations of all the corruption that goes on in Washington, D.C., for which he explained to me that he just wasn’t that kind of guy and that he would fight hard to represent us all well in that high office.  My first thought was that everyone says that.  But with J.D. Vance, it took on a bit more meaning, and I believed him and decided to support him.  It’s more for Nancy Nix than anything else.  But that would soon change into a life of its own.

Once J.D. Vance won, I saw him many times and always treated those times without much shock.  He was just another politician doing the work we needed him to do in Ohio, and I was happy with him.  But he was very accessible.  I was involved in a side event that involved many people for J.D. Vance to tour as part of his role as senator to bring attention to some crucial topics.  While I was talking to these people, we were talking about shared interests in the upcoming Lincoln Day Dinner, where Ron DeSantis would be the featured speaker.  I thought it might be a good idea to talk to J.D. Vance personally about other off-site things, but his people told me that Vance wouldn’t be going to the popular Butler County dinner because he didn’t want Trump to think he was endorsing the Florida Governor for President.  At that time, many people were pushing DeSantis to replace Trump in the 2024 election.  I admired that J.D. Vance was that much loyal to Trump when just about nobody else was.  And, of course, it would pay off later, down the stretch.  When it mattered most, Trump picked J.D. Vance as his VP because, under tremendous pressure, the future VP showed what he was made of when just about everyone, except for Nancy Nix, thought otherwise.

I’ve seen J.D. Vance quite a lot with Don Jr. and Bernie Moreno and had a nice front-row seat to see his political capital rise.  Looking back at all the hard work and the people who helped him along the way, with the best of intentions, he seemed pretty crazy at times to be so loyal to Trump and not appear at a very popular Butler County event to make sure his support was evident.  Nobody, except for me, thought Trump had a chance of returning to office.  But now that he has, I am pretty sure nobody will ever want to go back to the stuffy politics of a Republican in the White House again in the ways they were before Trump came along.  They will wish for Trump II, and right now, J.D. Vance is being personally trained to do that job.  And he has been doing it all the right way.  He’s from my area, there was always something special about him, even when everyone talked in their shorts under the hot summer sun in the back of Nancy Nix’s house by her pool.  And when I watch Vance on TV now and think of all the steps it took to get there because I was able to see many of them up close, it does display the hand of God reaching in and molding politics to build on earth the intentions of Heaven and to grant upon America the best that God can give to people he has picked to represent him.  So, it’s not too early to discuss J.D. Vance for 2028.  As we do, I have to say that I am proud of J.D. Vance for having the courage to accept God’s hand and not waiver when it would have been easy to do so.  He never did; he is as true to our cause as anyone on Earth.  I am proud to see him as a direct member of the Trump White House.  And the future looks very bright, and for all those reasons that he arrived there and more.

Rich Hoffman

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The Tariff’s on Mexico, Canada, and China: Stopping the looting of Marxist countries and their unearned merit

Let’s do some basic math to understand the genius of Trump’s economic proposals of using tariffs to replace internal taxation, and to put the wealth that America generates back to the people who make it, not the leeching socialists, communists, and Marxists who have been living off America for over a century with unearned merit.  President Trump is talking about getting rid of the ridiculous Jekyll Island progressive income tax system that was devised in 1913, which generates around 2.4 trillion dollars a year.  The new proposed tariffs for Mexico and Canada are around 25% to deal with a trade deficit of around 200 billion dollars for each country.  DOGE is discussing cutting around one trillion dollars from the budget, which I think is a very conservative start.  There is much more to get, but it’s a good beginning.   And with China, Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on top of an already maintained limit of roughly 10.1%.  So there is a long way to go to get all these countries up and over 20%.  And we haven’t even started talking about Europe, specifically the EU, and the lack of support they all have poured into NATO, which we have almost funded at 100%.  Socialist economists, just about everyone coming out of the university system, can’t get their minds around this.  But essentially, enough money would be generated to take America back to wealth levels before the creation of the Fed and the Internal Revenue Service.  Enough money will be generated to create an External Revenue Service, allowing us to eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with better revenue generators. 

The problem with Jekyll Island was that it was created by very wealthy people who were globalists in their assumption about where the world was headed, and it essentially planned to use the United States to fund a one-world government off the backs of Americans.  And even if America were left a carcass in the end, it would be, from the socialist point of view, for the greater good.  And that’s where we find ourselves today.  Only, they never planned for Americans to ever put someone like President Trump in office with a promised platform to undo it all.   I think the Jekyll Island participants were trying to do what they thought was right when they came up with the Federal Reserve and the Progressive Income Tax system.  But most murderers could also justify their crimes in the same way.  It sounded like a good idea then, but upon reflection, over a century later, it was a disaster.  And we’re tired of it.  What Trump is talking about doing is brilliant and well-needed.  It will be earth-shattering for the world.  It will cause some short-term disruptions in the supply chain and profit margins.  It will drive up prices a bit, but that’s OK.  There are a lot of costs that will snap into shape quickly, and people will be pleased with the result.  We have needed as a nation to cut ties with all these socialist and communist countries who, by design, were set up to loot and pillage American capitalism to choke it off and destroy it and call it good, friendly international relations. 

Watching Justin Trudeau speaking from Canada about the pending tariffs was quite a spectacle.  That Canadians would cry over tariffs from America, which would undoubtedly be painful for them, indicates how out of touch they have always been.  They have existed off the good work that America has produced, which has allowed them to spread Marxism to every corner of the planet while not paying the price for too much-centralized government.  In many ways, Mexico has enjoyed the same liberties, which is why the country is run essentially by drug cartels.  Their trade imbalance with the United States has allowed them to make bad economic decisions because if they stumbled and fell, it was the United States that always picked them back up.  It is through the theft and looting that China has gained superpower status from emerging as essentially a third-world backwater armpit of a country, as it was during World War II and would have easily been conquered by Japan if America had not intervened.  The same people who put together the plan for Jekyll Island are the same type of investors who propped up China to become a world power of dominant communism and the global, centralized government model.  And these efforts are over a century old, but they didn’t just start there.  They emerged with the Marxist movement as soon as transportation allowed for easy travel and communication from country to country.  Globalism planned to loot off the success of America, steal American wealth, and redistribute it through centralized government to every corner of the world.  That is the hard fact of centralized banking and their intentions at Jekyll Island.  It was an early form of predatory lending to destroy the host for some lofty investment in social construct.  China didn’t earn its wealth; it was created by the very same global investors who purposely tried to destroy America without firing a single shot in a military campaign.  And President Trump is doing as he promised he would upon re-election; he’s stopping the carnage. 

America’s best years were around 1870 to 1913.  After that Jekyll Island mess, everything started going downhill from there.  And it is back to those policies that President Trump is proposing to return.  This is the period of western expansion, gold coming out of the west, railroads, and great optimism.  It’s why progressives want us to think of that period as an imposition on the American Indian.  At that time, boatloads of Marxists were stepping off ships in New York from Europe and trying to convince everyone what a brilliant idea Karl Marx had.  Because Americans were personally wealthy, compared to other places in the world, they could afford to listen, and the poison was injected into our political system, which has stayed there for more than a century now.  However, President Trump is finally starting to remove that poisoning from our political and economic systems.  And it will happen quickly because the value of what is made in the world primarily comes from America—and consumed.  So goes America, so goes the world.  It might take a minute to untangle the mess given to us.  However, Trump’s tariffs are the first step toward a much more excellent economic recovery package.  Not one that looks at the 80s and wants to replicate Ronald Reagan.  However, one that steps back to the 1870s, the period of Reconstruction, where more people of all places and colors could elevate their lives through personal wealth than had occurred at any point in history.  The economy Trump is proposing to build and do it quickly will be the greatest that history has ever seen anywhere in the world at any time.  But best of all, these countries getting tariffs to cover trade imbalances are all losers who have adopted Karl Marx’s thoughts about economic development.  America is turning away from that garbage, and it will force those other countries to do the same, or they won’t be able to compete.  They have avoided that fate up until now because America funded their communist fantasies.  But with Trump’s moves, that isn’t happening anymore.  And that is great news ahead of an exciting future.

Rich Hoffman

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Regulations are a Form of Domestic Terrorism: The way government workers slow everything down to rule over society

The reason I say that all these accidents and fires that we see tragically destroying people’s lives and even killing them are acts of terror is that some admissions must be made before the situation can be corrected.  Trump is disrupting a lot of government workers with terminations, and D.O.G.E. is going to cut into a lot of sacred cows, and there is a percentage of those employees who will imply terrorism to the system they control to force the world to see things their way.  For instance, whenever there are air traffic control accidents, the sentiment is to slow everything down and pander the workload to the worker’s feelings, not to make the worker step up to the job’s demands.  To protect this subconscious contract, regulators come up with more rules of conduct that keep the focus off personal performance and instead slow the world down to the weaknesses of the workforce.  In the case of all these airplane accidents, as has been the case in the past, a premise of safety first will force everything to slow down and encourage a population to throw money and more employees at the problem to deal with the compliance aspects of bad regulation rather than challenge the premise of them.  And if people complain, all federal employees will go slower, just like at your local BMV.  This attitude has flowed essentially down into every regulatory environment, from restaurants to tire making, and it’s a big problem.  The reason we have so much waste in government and way too many employees that can easily be removed is that we have allowed radicalism to rule over our labor without the expectation of good performance being a factor in any way.  Instead, our focus has been to make all jobs equal for all people. We have allowed these people to use regulations to hide dysfunction, and that is where we find ourselves today.

I have vast experience in this kind of thing; I have seen every type of ugly thing that human beings can do to each other.  I watch the Davos meetings every year, and this time, of course, all the talk was about Trump and his concept of deregulation to get the American economy moving again, which had them in a panic.  Many forces have been using regulation to artificially stop the American economy so globalism could sink in and empower other countries, such as China, to overtake it.  So whether people die in plane crashes or have their homes destroyed by fire, rules and regulations have been hiding for a pretty long time the true intentions of radical, socialized labor sponsored by an increasingly large government.  And the more that Trump’s administration proposes to cut federal workers and to get rid of ten regulations for every new one created, the more accidents will happen, and much more damage to private property will occur because terrorism is baked into the system.  So, to answer your question, dear reader, are some of these workers that radical? Would they kill their fellow human beings by short-staffing an air traffic control tower?  Yes.  Would they use technology to take vehicle systems over to cause life-taking accidents?  Yes.  Would they purposely start wildfires and destroy entire neighborhoods with arson?  You bet they would.  They will do anything and everything if they have the power to do it, and they will hide their crimes behind do-gooder rules and regulations that put the burden of proof on the compliance side of all business, leaving the provocateurs free to conduct devastating mischief.   This is how we ended up with the completely useless TSA after all, and if you tried to get rid of that unionized menace now, you would undoubtedly see an uptick in domestic terrorism involving airplanes, planned and perpetrated by them.

How do I know?  I could tell you many stories, dear reader, that would make your skin crawl.  However, one easy one comes to mind: I was involved with a rag-tag group of investors and treasure hunters to open a business that involved changing the use of a current location.  Keep in mind that I was in my mid-twenties and learning a lot.  But these lessons would last a lifetime.  I had to hire an engineer for this project to build a fire escape and a few other items that would require a drawing involving this “change of use,” so there were HVAC systems, handicapped accessibility ramps, plumbing, lighting, all kinds of compliance elements that were taking the cost of the project out of the range of the investors, so I had to push back and challenge all these crazy rules.  Because it was a simple business that didn’t need millions of dollars.  But to be compliant, the system required vast amounts of money to throw at the trolls.  I told the engineer and several lawyers that we wouldn’t spend 30K on a new air conditioning unit. And we were not going to do a 100K staircase for a third-floor building.  And we wouldn’t spend 20K on a new handicapped accessibility elevator.  We would challenge all those rules in court and with the Cincinnati Building Commission at City Hall.  Well, the engineer got mad; he was friends with all the CBC guys, and they were used to jacking up the price on entrepreneurs to milk the system for all the money they could get.  The scope of this project’s total budget was only 20K, so the numbers were way off.  However, the engineer and all the lawyers involved were upset that I wanted to bypass the system they had set up.

Long story short, I was involved with other people in this thing and it was a miserable experience that ruined a lot of lives in the process.  We ended up firing the engineer, and I essentially took over his job and all the legal work. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do to deal with those people.  I found loopholes in their giant regulatory book, which was 3000 pages long, and we got our change of use permit without all those extra costs that the engineer proposed.  It was challenging, and when we overcame all the objections the CBC guys had about our project, they laughed and moved the project along.  They knew and could have told us how to move the project forward.  But we had to figure it out or throw money at the problems through the expert class.  I ended up in court representing myself as legal counsel for the next two years, and it caused me all kinds of horrible trouble.  But we did get the permit at a significant cost.  I would say that for every federal job eliminated, there will be that level of trouble that will stick its head out of the sand, and the Trump administration will have to fight all of them in court.  It’s as bad and worse than you can imagine.  I would see much worse radicalism over the next three decades, and all the rules that come out of the compliance culture are every bit as horrendous and a real drag on any business enterprise.  Rules by themselves can make a project good if they are well thought out, and that’s what Trump means by saying that for every regulation created, you have to get rid of ten.  That doesn’t mean we have a worse society that is dangerous.  But we write rules better and do not impose them just to empower a radicalized workforce to nonproductive efforts and to be terrorists to the free market system.  Which they currently are.  And yes, they will kill and destroy anybody who gets in their way to preserve their power.  When you see an accident, do not assume, when it comes to federal employees and other government workers, that there isn’t an element of terror behind it.  Because there probably is.

Rich Hoffman

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When Stupidity and a Lack of Skill are Deliberate Acts of Terrorism: The radicalism of federal employees

We may see significant accidents like the one in Philadelphia every day, and we should look at them all as acts of terrorism, purposeful attacks on our American culture.  That plane was registered in Mexico, and we are seeing the effects of DEI policies and globalism in general everywhere, which is likely a massive contributor to this most recent plane crash in Pennsylvania, unskilled pilots from another country getting lost in the clouds, or having their vehicles taken over due to too much automation by a third party for the act of sabotage and destruction to push a political agenda, such as trying to stop the Trump administration with PR nightmares that consume all their time and resources.  But let’s not forget about the strange plane crash in Washington D.C., where a military helicopter ran straight into a landing commercial airliner over the Potomac, killing all on board, for no good reason at all.  The aircraft should not have been at that flight altitude of 400 feet.  It should have been much lower.  There is a lot wrong with the military helicopter because even if the air traffic control people messed everything up in managing all the aircraft in the air over Ronald Reagan International that night, the pilots would have clear visibility at the 11 o’clock positions of the passenger jet, and could have stopped well in advance.   They flew right into the plane and did nothing to try to swerve out of the way, leaving many to suspect that the helicopter was being flown remotely.  And the passengers flying it may not have been conscious.  That the voice heard talking to the air traffic controllers was A.I. driven because it did not lend credence to the observed reality.  There would be no way the pilots wouldn’t have seen what they were about to face. 

But all these things now, these purposeful terrorist actions of sabotaging flights to make them crash, just ahead of President Trump’s executive orders forcing all federal workers back to work, are more than a coincidence.  I listened to the news outlets talking about these crashes with wall-to-wall coverage, shaking my head at all they were missing.  This is the kind of Saul Alinsky strategy that the radical left globalists expect out of good, loving, everyday people.  They think we are gullible, even stupid, and we won’t see the truth behind all this evil because we cannot process it.  There is a lot more to the story of the air traffic control tower at Reagan International that needed to be staffed with 30 people, and only 19 were working that night.  The quality of the people working in all these jobs were DEI hires, meaning that the priority for employment was their skin color or handicap condition, which gave them priority over other qualified applicants.  Being understaffed is not an excuse when your work’s policies make it so that everyone is dealing with an utterly artificial constraint of only hiring certain people, broken people, under the disguise of fairness when the intent is genuinely sabotage.  To sabotage the merit-based society of America and to have it fall apart with the push of a button.  Yes, when you have so many automated systems that do not require skilled people to do the jobs, don’t be surprised when it all goes wrong.  But why now, and why almost every night?  Well, for that answer, you have to understand the radicalism of the average federal worker, including those at the FBI and CIA who belong to radical labor unions and have gained way too much power and, when pressed, are perfectly capable of abusing it.

As I watched the various clips of all these crashes, especially the one in Washington, D.C., it looked very similar to the Tesla Cybertruck bombing in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.  Notice how that story disappeared?  Or the massacre by the Islamic radicals in New Orleans at almost the same time on New Year’s Day.  In the Tesla case, these vehicles can drive themselves.  So you could kill the driver and put him in the seat so that the body gets the blame when the explosion happens, and all the investigators are happy to have at least found some believable evidence of the culprit.  Only in the Cybertruck case did we see the driver moving right before the explosion, which brings up a whole new layer of problems.  Can people be remotely controlled? The answer is yes, especially if they have military backgrounds where mental conditioning can turn them into compliant soldiers incapable of free thought with the flick of a mental switch.  All these characters have the same characteristics as the Las Vegas shooter at the concert venue during the first Trump term.  When the military is involved, as it was in the Washington D.C. plane crash, or we are dealing with open borders and exchanges with globalism, as was certainly the case with the crash in Philadelphia, we are seeing terrorism purposefully concealed within systems of trust so that we can never know the intent hidden behind assumption.  The assumption is that equality is more important than skill, which then leaves always a back door open for the terrorists to exploit the unskilled and unleash terror.  While everyone is trying to figure out what happened and are looking at control towers understaffed, the real terrorists stay hidden behind their push-button concealments and get away with the crime. 

To find these terrorists, we need only to look at the conditions for which these tragedies are presented and to know what federal workers are motivated by.  The traditional action behind a tragedy is to throw more workers at a problem, but the attack against this Trump administration that is firing people in massive amounts is to create a crisis that indicates that fewer federal workers will lead to more tragedy.  And that the more federal workers we fire, the more these kinds of accidents will happen.  Leaving everyone to consider whether or not such an evil proposition is even possible.  And I would say, based on lots and lots of experience, that yes, this is very possible and highly likely.  If we were to look beyond the investigative veil of the dead pilots in the seats of crashed aircraft, cars, and control towers, we would most likely find angry, radicalized leftist Trump haters who are using automated systems to hack into them and cause accidents hoping to stop Trump and his crusade to remove such employees from our federal government.  Yes, crazy people will kill the innocent for what they think is the greater good.  And too often, by these types of people, the greater good is defined by John Lennon’s song “Imagine.”  When you have millions of federal employees, there are always a percent or two who are off their rocker, especially when the Biden administration prioritized hiring practices through DEI.   The current number of incompetent, radicalized workers is much higher.  Terrorism was always baked into those politics so that if they ever needed push button terrorism, they would have it.  And I think that’s what we are seeing, push button terrorism driven to stop Trump’s policy and panic the public into a sense of unease.  As we strive to make America Great Again, we will increasingly see the people who want to prevent that from happening conduct an open war on our trust and try to bomb us back into the stone age through the embedded DEI policies and excessive reliance on automated systems to make DEI even remotely possible, but taking skill out of consideration and making it easy to exploit the stupid for acts of terror.  To see all that, it only requires the next layer of questions of the observable reality to be noticed.  It’s not a coincidence; it’s an attack.

Rich Hoffman

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The Reality Beyond the Blue Pill: It costs a lot to live a red pill life

I have had to explain many things this year because the questions keep coming.  I have a sales gear where I can go around a room and talk to people.  But anything beyond the first layer of conversation I usually stay away from because it essentially comes down to a blue pill versus red pill kind of thing, and there is a cost to the latter.  In the movie The Matrix, which I have referred to a few times over the last couple of decades, I think they best explained the difference between a blue pill life and a red pill.  For the blue, it’s all about the feeling of connectedness with other people that blue pillers strive for.  A sense of being plugged into the world around you comes with a nurturing feeling.  Knowing what Jake down the road is doing with his new lawn mower comes with a sense of belonging, and most people in the world want and need that feeling.  In the movie, we call those people blue pillers.  But if you want to see what’s really happening, you take the red pill.  And it’s then that you realize that all humanity is a giant computer program and that the forces that want to control you use this kind of matrix to harvest your mind and thoughts and that the roots of all tyranny come from this exchange.  For most people, they don’t want to know.  They enjoy being plugged in and could care less about actual reality because the illusion makes them happy.  But then you have the red pillers always looking for the truth.  And once they know the truth, they can never go back to the blue pill life.  One interesting thing about President Trump, which is evident after his second inauguration, is that he genuinely likes people.  He is a very social creature, and you would have to be for a job like that.  There’s a lot about Trump that I personally understand.  But for me, anything beyond the surface of talking with people gets very painful, very fast. 

Usually, in a crowd, I stay in the back of the room and just let people talk because there is no way to turn off the firehose once I start talking.  That is another reason I write these articles every day.  I care enough about people to give them whatever truth from my perspective they can handle and at whatever rate they choose.  But I go cold quickly to engage in a conversation about the details of human interaction.  I’m not interested in how to make a brisket or what social compliance score someone’s kid has managed to gather toward social acceptance because, as far as I’m concerned, those things are all part of a grand illusion connected to living life.  But I’m only interested in what real life is about beyond that connection.  And in that way, the reality is different for people depending on whether they are blue pillers or red pillers.  If you take the red pill, you can see a lot of stuff behind the scenes.  You will have great insight into the truth of reality.  But the cost is that you can’t often share it with people.  When people would rather talk about the illusion, such as the cost of a new lawn mower and who just bought one, or where little Suzy is going to attend college after their parents saved their money for more than 15 years to send her there, there isn’t any room for discussions about the matrix they are all plugged into which prevents them from understanding the forces that are working against them. 

Due to the end of the year and all the social engagements that come with Christmas, New Year’s, and Inauguration parties, I was often asked what kind of music I like to listen to.  The discussion usually spawned from classic rock examples, and people noticed my indifferent face.  They’d ask me, “who’s your favorite band?”  And then there is an awkward pause.  “I don’t like anybody.  I don’t listen to music.”  At least not in the way that they do; I see music as a purely blue pill experience.  There is a reason that so many songwriters are druggies and seem to be inspired by some hidden hand felt only through intoxication.  And that the political order of a massive civilization of ultra-terrestrials that exist outside of our four-dimensional reality feeds off our sentiments and passions in ways nobody seems to understand and that the way they harvest off our emotions is through popular engagements like music, where people feel compelled to dance to a catchy beat.  That’s when the eyes go blank, and everyone looks at you disdainfully because they don’t want their blue-pill reality shattered.  The correct answer would have been, “I like Led Zepplin or Stevie Ray Vaughan.”  I can never give an answer like that.  I put up the most recent viewership to my blog site, which is up over 80 million these days.  I get a lot of emails for which I only have time to read or answer less than 1% daily.  But people usually take a peek, or they follow diligently.  But they don’t have much to say in response because it comes down to a red pill thing, and it’s not for everybody. 

I wouldn’t trade away a red pill life for anything.  The insight you can have from that perspective is extremely valuable.  But to have it, you do have to disconnect from the illusions that we all are born under.  I think of it best from the Book of Ephesians in the Bible.  It is one of my favorite parts of the Bible because it was written by people who were functioning from the red pill life and trying to display it for the blue pillers.  The Matrix movie puts it successfully into crayon for everyone, which is artistically functional.  I know a lot of people these days are starting to want to peek behind the curtain into the psychedelics of the ayahuasca experience.  The football star Aaron Rogers has been going to South America during the off-season to speak to the plant teachers and give people the firehose of reality just lurking outside our reach, which makes him sound pretty crazy.  People naturally think he’s fallen off his rocker.  And people, through intoxication, get a sense of that reality just beyond our site.  And I would say it’s very dangerous, but if you peel back the layers just a bit, most people agree that something mysterious is beyond their reach, which is terrifying.  To hide from it, we have developed reality, which essentially is being plugged into the blue pill life.  Sports scores, music, food, the consumables of culture.  And it provides insulation from an actual reality.  But I can’t do it; those lives just aren’t compatible.  And there is too much that is valuable in the truth of reality.  But most people don’t want to know about it, or they can’t afford to learn.  They might be interested in small doses.  But they blank out if there is anything more than they can handle.  So, there isn’t much to say under those conditions.  And that’s why I usually don’t have much to say when the content is a blue-pill conversation.  Once you peer at reality for which it is, which also the Dune books do a good job of considering, the world of the Bene Gesserit order, who built a kind of Matrix existence to rule all humanity while the actual reality existed outside their manipulations.  There is a cost to seeing beyond that order.  And I wouldn’t trade it away for anything.  But the price is that most of the time, you have to sit in the back of the room and keep it to yourself because to speak too much only shatters the illusion people want to live with, and they get very mad when that happens unless they are incredibly ready for the content.  So, there isn’t much to say until their minds are correct, which doesn’t happen too often.

Rich Hoffman

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Trump is Back: When they can’t kill you, everyone wants to be your friend

It’s a statement I always make and live by: if people aren’t trying to kill you, you aren’t doing a good enough job.  The goal in life isn’t to make friends with everyone; they should want rather to kill you instead, and when they fail, as we are seeing with Trump, then they’ll want to be your friend.  And when everyone is wondering where the resistance is to Trump this time, in 2025 as opposed to 2017 at this same time of year, at the Inauguration for another four years as president, my old gunfighter analysis of the bar and the room certainly applies.  And I know that Trump doesn’t want to send the wrong signal and let the bad guys out there know he had to take measures to protect himself.  Even as risky as I am, I would never advise someone like Trump to give a speech from the steps of the Capitol, where for miles around there are thousands of places within a mile or so that could take a shot at him out in the open or for a drone to lock on his position and do its menace.  It’s always a good idea to move locations and schedule times when you have a lot of bad guys out there who want to kill you; it is just as good practice. 

Just because they want to do something doesn’t mean you let them do it.  After the last eight years, they have thrown everything they could at the President, and Trump is still doing what I have wanted to see for many years now: return to the White House.  His enemies were reduced to a whimper, certainly not a roar like last time.  This time was very different, and Trump played it all right.  When you conquer your enemies, keep them close and let them serve you, as was the obvious case with Jeff Bezos, Snoop Dogg, and Mark Zuckerberg, along with many others who made sure they were making friends with this new power, rather than fighting against it, as they had in the past. 

But even with all that said, moving the Inauguration into the Capitol Rotunda was brilliant because of the bitter cold.  As if Trump needed a reason to say it, the cold weather was setting up a no-win situation for the crowd that traveled all over the country to share in the Inauguration experience.  Having a million people in the mall would look great for the cameras, but there are always people who would freeze, even if the percentage was less than 1%.  Once everyone starts using porta potties outside in temperatures below zero, you will have big problems, and it was better to avoid all those for obvious reasons.  The crowd would either be huge, but you would lose some people in the cold, or it would be smaller than usual because of the cold, and Trump would be criticized for a smaller crowd.  When you take all that and consider that there are people from all over the world who do want to kill Trump so he doesn’t change things in a way they can’t deal with, it was best just to move everything inside.  All that matters is that Trump gets sworn in, and we start to fix the mess that a lot of flawed characters put forward to destroy our country.  Trump’s swearing-in makes everything official and corrects a course that should have never been disrupted in the first place. 

But let’s answer the question that everyone who was an enemy is now asking: where is the resistance to Trump?  Well, I said all this initially, the first time around in January of 2021, when Trump won clearly and decisively, and we witnessed a coup in America, but a lot of evil people who stole the election, sent Trump packing, then inserted Joe Biden into the office.  And they never let him make the decisions. Instead, the White House was run by a globalist committee, and a lot of bad stuff was started, like canceling the Keystone Pipeline, undoing all the patriotic events Trump had planned, disgracing our offices with transgender radicals, Marxist kingpins, and an energy policy that robbed money right out of our wallets. 

I understand Melania. And yes, she has great taste in fashion. She gets it.

It was a war against us all by a few very manipulative soothsayers who were committed to globalism and a China-first policy.  And it was raw and malicious.  They never dreamed there would be a day that Trump would return to the White House with the full support of a country that came together for the effort.  But here we are.  I said it all along and am very proud to see it all come together exactly as I said.  Yes, I was invited to several VIP events in Washington, D.C.  I did other events but decided not to go to Washington because I didn’t think I’d get close to Trump this time.  It’s much more complicated than it used to be.  And I’m not the second fiddle type.  So, knowing it was going to be so cold, I stayed regional so I could enjoy all the festivities from relative comfort because I had been waiting for this for a long time.  I never just liked to be a face in the crowd; that is essentially what traveling to Washington, D.C., would have been like. 

I have several friends who did go, and they had a good time.  But when it comes to something like this, which is truly historic, I like to see everything, and watching it on television was the best way to see the details.  And I couldn’t get enough of it.  I watched the coverage all weekend, especially on Monday, without taking my eyes away, except to shake hands with people I barely recognized because I enjoyed the Inauguration so much, every incredible detail.  After Biden was put in place in 2021 with COVID lockdowns imposed everywhere, I was so angry that I packed up my wife and my RV, and we headed out into the desert to write a book and get my mind right.  I stayed out there for weeks and returned with a fresh perspective on how to fight this battle.  And what happened at the inauguration was a dream come true.  And it was gratifying to see all of Trump’s enemies licking his shoes.  That’s what real power is, the kind of power that makes people want to kill you.  And when they fail, and only when they fail, do they want to be your friend.  But Trump isn’t a sucker.  He knows this game, and the bad guys won’t sucker him.  Instead, we will see what we deserve for sticking with Trump through tough times.  We earned the good things that are coming because we had the guts to vote for it.  But this time, we didn’t let them steal it from us as we had done in the previous election.  And the world should be concerned.  They know what they did, and now they are caught, and the shoe is on the other foot.  And justice is coming as it always should have.

Worth a celebration!

Rich Hoffman

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I Really Like Palmer Luckey: What the new Anduril Plant in Ohio means to global manufacturing

Stories like this one are my favorite because they get down to the fundamental issue of why I do all the things I do socially.  I get pretty frustrated with people sometimes, and a few times in 2024, I came really close to just closing up my tent flap and not opening it again for anybody and letting them rot away.  To be honest, I don’t try to help people because I want to help them with their lives.  I do it because I have to share space with them and I get tired of their limitations holding back the kind of world I want to live in.  So, I try to teach as many people as possible how they should live so they don’t hold back so much from the world I want to live in.  But when they stall out and don’t listen to what I tell them, I come close to just letting them rot away and turn to things that make me personally happy, and forget about them.  But sometimes it is worth it, and stories like the announcement in mid-January in Ohio about Anduril, the defense contractor, investing a billion dollars to a south of Columbus campus led by Palmer Luckey, the inventor of the Facebook Oculus virtual reality headset, are a ray of hope.  The plan is to build a giant campus to build autonomous drones for a direct market defense need that is going to arise during the Trump administration in the year 2027.  So, this manufacturing ambition will be over 90 football fields long and host over 4000 jobs. It will be quite an addition to the loop around Columbus, Ohio, and will join the new Intel factory that is being built just north of the city.  And as exciting as all this is, I can say from inside knowledge that this is just the tip of the iceberg in Ohio. 

Many people have worked hard to lay the political foundation for something like this Anduril project.  They could have gone anywhere in the world that they wanted, but they picked Ohio, a spot just above Washington Court House for a reason.  I know all those reasons, and there is a reason I have been saying the things I have about vertical takeoff taxi markets, regenerative medicine, and hyperloop.  I told everyone weeks ago that Vivek Ramaswamy would be the governor and Jon Husted would be appointed to J.D. Vance’s senate seat.  And that Bernie Moreno would be the other very pro-business senator.  Many very good people have been building this political structure to facilitate massive growth in Ohio, which I think will be the next Silicon Valley, but only much more significant.  Ohio is the place to be and I’m not surprised by any of this news.  More people are out there, like Palmer Luckey, a wonderful young man who was homeschooled full of ambition, so he knows how to think outside the box. I think he’s fantastic.  He is proposing essentially with this Anduril ambition to be the SpaceX of the defense industry.  He is a massive Trump supporter.  He gets what is coming, and he is building this fighter drone technology to meet a change in state war obligation that is looming from information that is well known.  Trump will try to negotiate us away from a war with China.  But odds are, all that will fall apart; they will lose their power and won’t like it.  And they aren’t going to just turn the world back over to the sovereignty of America.  No, they are going to want to fight it out.  And Palmer Luckey is doing what he needs to do to get out in front of it with this Anduril factory. 

But this is where things get interesting.  The defense industry is filled with cost-plus companies and a structure that protects it from innovation, so what does this young man Palmer Luckey think he will do to change things?  Luckey is talking about shipping drone units in 2026 ahead of a 2027 need date.  And things just don’t happen that fast in the defense industry.   Well, they will now.  The people behind Anduril, including the investors, understand what the game is, and that is the destruction of the cost-plus model that has long hampered the defense industry.  You see it everywhere: the old legacy companies and their suppliers all act like trolls under a bridge, charging extraordinary amounts of money to do basic things.  Most of these cost-plus companies have radical labor unions whose costs are way out of alignment with reality, so you must throw a lot of congressional money at delayed schedules to get mediocre results.  Anduril is proposing to take the cost plus out of the equation and to become the SpaceX of the defense market, and they will change the way business is done.  And the Trump administration will be very supportive, so Anduril’s timeline is not far-fetched.  Anduril has the money.  They have the vision.  They have a political structure that wants them to succeed.  They have all impediments out of their way.  And it makes me happy because I want to see more people like Palmer Lucky and companies like Anduril born into reality.

The way it works at SpaceX and Andruil is that to avoid the cost-plus supply chains; they vertically integrate so they can work around the compliance loops that protect cost-plus companies and their sandbagging techniques that are designed to prevent the product from hitting schedule targets so they can always drive congress to more funding through the extortion of the schedule.  Cost-plus suppliers constantly force expedited fees based on their purposeful limited capacity because that is how the cost-plus game has always worked.  Companies like Andruil and SpaceX are just doing everything themselves, which is why Andruil is building such a large facility: for self-reliance and vertical integration.  The trend was to get as many people in a supply chain as possible in as many countries as possible.  However, globalism put that trend into motion to protect the cost-plus scam.  And that is all coming apart now under this new Trump administration and Ohio politics.  And people like Palmer Luckey are some of the first to see it.  That’s also why Intel is building a plant in Ohio out of all places.  Innovation needs to be fast and vigorous.  Not slow and stupid.  And I am very encouraged that there are companies like Andruil out there and that there are young people like Palmer Luckey who want to do good things in the world.  I want to see a lot of companies, preferably all companies and education systems, adopt approaches to business like Andruil and SpaceX.  It’s the rate of resolution that I can get excited about, and while the industry hopes Andruil will fail in its ambitions and slip schedule like all the other fools in the world, I am betting they won’t.  I think Palmer Luckey understands in a way I have been working to teach people for many years.  And he’s doing it, and once people see his success, they will all want to copy it. And for me, that is the best news of this century!  I can live in a world with people who think like Palmer Luckey.  But I have no desire to deal with the losers of the cost-plus structure of stalled ambition and lazy labor that has emerged from the defense work scams that have been so embarrassing.  With this announcement from Andruil, I see a lot of hope for the future.

Rich Hoffman

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