Category: The Delphi Technique

A Review of ‘Rise of the Fourth Reich’: Dealing with the worst holocaust in the history of the world

I’ve been looking forward to this book for a long time, Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism with a New Nuremberg Trial, So This Never Happens Again, by Steve Deace and Daniel Horowitz. It came out on Valentine’s Day, 2023, and it did not disappoint. There are many powerful chapters, mainly Chapter 19, where David Martin’s statements about the plandemic are precisely the type of talk we should be having two years after the worst bioweapon attack in the history of the world was unleashed. We have to answer the aggression. Otherwise, it will happen again, and the next time will be worse. Martin names the direct perpetrators of a known crime were Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, Anthony Fauci, the former secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, and many others knowingly committed multiple crimes understanding that death would result. They are the four with the most blood dripping from them. But then you have the organizations that funded the mess, such as Welcome Trust, the Gates Foundation, the Open Philanthropy Foundation, and EcoHealth Alliance.   Then there is the WHO, where Harry Truman signed an executive order that gave the WHO the directive to control the surgeon general of the United States. That needs to be removed immediately. We have a lot of work to do, and a lot of people will have to be punished severely, very severely. Google knows what role it played in preventing information on treatment from getting to the public. So did Facebook, which continues to this very day. They expect to get away with literal murder. I would immediately propose trust-busting hearings on them, far worse than what Teddy Roosevelt did over a hundred years ago to the railroads and other monopolies that needed to be broken up. Or what the government had to do with Microsoft during the 1990s. Trust busting is the least of what needs to happen next due to gross complicity of Big Tech, the media in general, and their unholy relationship with Big Pharma as their personal PR firms. What was done with Covid is now an irrefutable attack on the world by an unseen enemy who hides in finance and the medical industry and is still a threat to us all. Covid was a test for them, and now they’ve seen what they can get away with and how exactly to go about it. I consider the contents of that book by Deace and Horowitz to be the most important topic in the world right now, and I would recommend everyone read it for themselves. 

Now, my position on Covid has not changed from the beginning. You can go back in searches on this site and see that from day one, early in 2020, as Covid was becoming known as a threat, that I called Covid a bioweapon meant to instill climate change values upon the overly trusting masses. Even Rush Limbaugh at the time thought it was a conspiracy theory to say such a thing. But I knew these people who were involved from my own personal research, and I saw a coup against President Trump, and the enemy was desperate to remove him from office during an election year. They had tried everything else, and Covid for them had been in development for over 20 years, so if they were going to unleash it on the world, 2020 was the time to do it. I knew what this was from the beginning, and it has been frustrating to see it take two additional years for the world to catch up. But I knew Steve and Daniel were writing this book, and there are others, especially by Robert Kennedy; some have already been written, but that the research into what happened was going to happen, and those books would come out, and people would start getting the proof they needed to make major changes in their lives. And when it comes to our government, they have been seduced into a new kind of corporate communism based on the China model of society management, and they have attacked us militarily with terrorism through our corrupt government, not with tanks and troops, but with white coat bureaucrats and a takeover of our health care system to essentially threaten all our lives unless we do what they say. Rise of the Fourth Reich provides plenty of testimony to this situation, and it is backed by actual voice recordings of the witnesses who could easily be brought in for congressional testimony.

It is not too much to call what happened with Covid a Holocaust or to draw conclusions about it regarding comparisons to what Hitler did to the Jews. I have been thinking that very thing since I watched Fauci and Gates trick President Trump into shutting down our entire economy with stay-at-home orders and use Operation Warp Speed to roll out a Pfizer and Moderna vaccine that was already secretly in development; that was the real killer. The manufactured Covid virus under American influence in a Chinese lab in Wuhan was just the delivery system. It was the excuse to put innocent people into a gas chamber to exterminate them. And our government played a role in this terrible mass murder all around the world. We’ve seen these kinds of aggressions in history before. But never before was it attempted in such a significant way and indiscriminately to so many innocent people. It is so evil that most people do not have context to what happened. They are happy that Covid is over to some extent, that they have returned to their lives in many ways. But the effects are already in place around the world. The government policies driven by Covid have already destroyed much more than economies that have never really been restored. And the aggressors have gone unpunished because they think they are immune to prosecution. They control the wealth of the world. They control our governments in the world. And they run the media through many corporate connections and have been very audacious about it. 

I had been on the preorder list for Rise of the Fourth Reich since the summer of 2022 when I first learned that these guys from Glenn Beck’s media group, The Blaze, were putting it together. Surprisingly the book arrived in my hand on the same day it was released to the world on February 14th, 2023. The Amazon truck literally put it in my hand as I was standing in the driveway to receive it. I opened the delivery box and literally started reading it as I walked back to the house. I have since read it twice and listened to the audio version once, and I’m not done. The book does a great job laying out the case of how this massive crime should be handled congressionally. I’m in a bit of a hurry because I know there are a lot of very influential people who read this blog. They are looking for answers too, and there so far has not been a better case for indictment of many characters connected to this Covid crime. It needs to happen fast before someone like Bill Gates gets a chance to try it again, which he clearly plans to do now that he’s seen, and his partners have as well, just how people will react and how information flows through governments, the media, and to the people. Covid was just step one; they have many planned steps in mind, so there is some urgency on our part to meet the challenge. And by reading this well-researched book, Rise of the Fourth Reich, we can begin to accept what happened to us and just how evil some of these people were from the start, and they don’t even hide it any longer. Even a few months ago, a lot of this kind of discussion would be considered tin foiled hat conspiracy, but the facts tell a different story. We witnessed with Covid a holocaust, and we lost a lot of innocent people in the process. It was the danger we all feared most when Nancy Pelosi said about government healthcare that we had to pass the bill to read the bill. Now we are seeing the start of why these kinds of tyrannical people wanted government healthcare so much. Because they had mass exterminations in mind for the human population for all kinds of crazy climate change reasons. And now, there is proof of their activity, and this book is a foundation for doing something about it. Of course, we must not fall into a false sense of security that the threat has been averted and we can all return to normal life again.   We, of course, can’t.

Rich Hoffman

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The Most Powerful Weapon in the World: Yahweh as a rebel and representative government as opposed to dictatorships

I enjoy reading the Bible for reasons that aren’t typically discussed, primarily because it exposes what the enemies of America miss every time, which is our form of government. It’s common for us to complain about our government, which is part of its appeal because in America, government is a necessary tool, not a part of some ruling class, and it’s unique in that regard. I sometimes get invited to events at the Ohio Statehouse. I never get tired of thinking about the many hidden meanings displayed there for the various politicians who find themselves as part of a class to conduct the people’s business and witness the ornate décor that is part of the ceremonial structure of its Greco-style architecture. It’s a republic that all the statehouses around America represent, and our federal government in Washington is just a further expression of a lot of mythology and occult practices but a purposeful dedication to the purpose of government in America, something that started with the advent of western civilization and is the best weapon we have against tyrannical governments around the world, and that is our representative government as it evolved along the lines of biblical understanding and is without question the best in the world. Our government is meant to put on the breaks to hot ideas from those most power-hungry, and in that way, it frees up the ambitions of people to produce the most productivity. And whenever I am at the Ohio Statehouse, I am reminded of this very unique aspect of government from the American perspective. 

I was in the gallery for the State of the State speech for Governor DeWine early in 2023. Some people had gathered around me to hear a conversation I was having about the history of the Statehouse and what some of the symbolism meant. It seemed like a good thing to share with this audience, especially when every night we turn on our televisions, we hear only bad things about it. There is quite a push around the world to frustrate the American people with their form of republic government and to tempt them to abandon it in favor of corporate communism, which is the latest threat coming out of China and the World Economic Forum, who want strong CEO types of leaders to rule everything and for countries like America to get frustrated and give up their republic. That strategy was most apparent during Covid where the design of the bioweapon attack was clear, to strengthen central government, make dictators out of all the state governors abandoning the legislatures, and to use an emergency to completely change our government into communism because communism was quicker and more decisive. As I told my witnesses in that gallery that day of the 2023 State of the State speech, the ornate symbolism in the Representative chamber was purposeful to remind the participants that this form of government was there before they arrived. It would be there long after they were gone. And the place itself was a stark reminder to them to do good work, to elevate their game in the name of the law and the constitutions of our republic, and it’s just such a beautiful thing. 

The Bible is key to America in how forms of government evolved over time in purposeful ways, distinguished from the many failures at the time. As God picked his chosen people to be freed of slavery from Egypt, the rest of the world worshipped some form of Baal, which we can see is still happening. Those who were not the chosen people whom Moses freed by the hand of God from the clutches of Pharaoh in Egypt are today just as jealous and cantankerous toward the teachings of the rebel Yahweh. The Bible became a rebellion against many thousands of years of a failed government. Various societies ended up with strong kings or Pharaohs, such as Ramses, or Nebuchadnezzar, or Xerxes, but their influence was always top-heavy and prone to failure once they died, leading to a social collapse in their wake. What Yahweh did against the other religious influences at the time; specifically the long lineage of Baal worship that goes back tens of thousands of years, and was most recently spotted in Hollywood with the Grammys, both from the audience and from the Sam Smith performance, was rebel against that tendency. Behind those efforts is a real push to have centralized rule. But what Moses learned in the wilderness from his father-in-law Jethro was a new way of government that God tried to get everyone to commit to, a representative republic. Jethro explained to Moses that the way to rule so many people was to create judges and regional governors to represent him so that he wouldn’t have to hear the personal complaints of many thousands of people. That way, people could more easily get their needs met while distributing the responsibilities for leading people across many helpers, where Moses could then be a kind of supreme court and only deal with the subjects that could not be satisfactorily met regionally. America is unique in that it has worked to fulfill the biblical goals of a republic rather than a dictatorship, which is at the core of the Bible. 

You can always tell a culture that is choking on too much liberalism when they complain about supply chains and being too busy because everything is funneled through them. Moses had that problem too, until his father-in-law helped him develop a new kind of government. God provided the Ten Commandments to create a legal foundation for judgment, then judges and regional governors would divide up the labor of adhering to justice. And in that way, something new was formed that the Greeks and Romans touched on, but it was only the United States who successfully implemented it, a representative government that solved the needs of the people but kept tyrants from becoming single-point failures over their respective societies. That is the primary problem in China; after all, so much runs through their communist dictatorships that the capacity for social development is limited to the ability of just a few people at the top, which makes the people miserable and suppressed. This is a problem in every culture with too much of a top-down management style, and it’s the only thing our modern media understands because they have all been taught the wrong values. But in America, our greatest weapon against the world that has not made such an evolution themselves and is very jealous of how things are done in America, the Bible and its success is the best blueprint for good government, and those influences are evident at the Ohio Statehouse and other statehouses all across the country. I never get tired of visiting them and thinking about how different America is from other places that have not unlocked that unique form of government. The concept that in the Ohio Statehouse, or any statehouse for that matter, has personal representatives for the people of those states and that local government is so respected is a hedge against tyranny that has set America apart in the world in a way that no other country has yet figured out. And we take it for granted because we’ve always had it. But as we also saw with Covid and anywhere that we use the Constitution as the basis of our law, the best way to defeat our attackers is through the rule of law and, precisely, our republic form of government. Because the pressure on our rivals is forced through the constraints of their dictatorships, and it always proves too much for them to handle, and they collapse in the process. America’s greatest weapon against the world is in its government and not in its military power, which is why it is so attacked in the way it constantly is by those who don’t understand it.

Rich Hoffman

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A New Kind of War by a New Kind of Enemy: Covid was a bioweapon and its just the start

As a reminder regarding Covid, from the very first day, and it would be easy to go back on this site and see what I said, I thought of the Covid virus as a bioweapon. I have studied enough history and am familiar with enough different subjects to see the signs and when Covid was introduced, I knew right away what it was and said so. I was even ahead of Rush Limbaugh then, which was a very lonely position. But over the months to come, more people would join me in understanding what was happening, and now a few years later, a large portion of the global population is ready to admit that Covid was a military attack on the world by a new kind of enemy, and they are acting accordingly. It must never be forgotten what happened with Covid and how many people died because a bioweapon was created in China, distributed by people like Bill Gates, who was fully aware of what he was doing, and a small group of billionaires in the World Economic Forum attempted to completely change the way we conduct human life on planet earth by using that created bioweapon to paralyze the world’s governments all at the same time. Now that it hasn’t worked and people are calling the plan what it was all along, these enemies behind the veil are trying to move on from what they did, and they have succeeded to some degree because we don’t yet have in our human language definitions that we can measure the evil of their actions. So our task now is to make those definitions by calling Covid not a virus that happens but a weapon that was created to impose fear on the global populations for the same age-old objective that war is always concerned with, domination over others. 

In the modern sense of war, we will likely never see anything like the two world wars or the Civil War ever again. Tanks, planes, and ground troops will never be the means of fighting that our countries will use to dominate each other, as we’ve studied in history. And I would go as far as to say that our enemies are no longer countries but the financial class that benefits from various countries and the money that makes them work. Today, we have the nightmare scenario that Thomas Jefferson warned about with his constant arguing with Alexander Hamilton over fiscal policy. It was also what Andrew Jackson’s presidency was essentially about. And the efforts of the early American presidents who had the Bill of Rights in mind worked pretty well until the world shrank a hundred years later, and a new kind of enemy loomed on the horizon, one that could make China dance to whatever tune they wished to play. Or any country, for that matter. It’s a villain that goes beyond globalism, and we must embrace it entirely because it’s an evil many of the world’s religions have always struggled to understand. Yet that evil is on our doorstep, and this time it came to us in the form of the coronavirus, modified by humans for a takeover of global politics. It was one of the most malicious destructive endeavors in the world’s history. It’s so bad that no political system will dare call it what it is because to admit such a thing would be to admit their complicity in it, even if it were accidental. Yet almost everyone who failed to see Covid for what it was is complicit in its mass destruction and horrendous effect.

One of my favorite movies of all time is the excellent Spielberg movie Schindler’s List, which deals with the Holocaust of the Jews and is so wonderfully filmed to tell that terrible story. I think of it as a masterpiece. It’s not a war movie like Saving Private Ryan or some other film that involves graphics of war on the battlefield. Instead, Schindler’s List deals with the more obvious problem with war, people’s tendency to comply with a superior force. Why did the Jews allow themselves to be harassed by the radical Nazis? Well, because they hoped for peace and that if they just did what their oppressors required, they might live to survive the ordeal. But why did the Nazis feel the way they did about the Jews. And why did World War II happen at all? Or any war, for that matter. Usually, we find that all wars are caused by a few people here or there trying to impose their beliefs on others. In the United States, we made a formal declaration against the world to be free of that kind of thing, and it worked well until telephones and air travel shrunk our borders into almost meaningless barriers. The tyrants of history are alive and well, and they live beyond governments now, not as kings and emperors, but as financiers just as insane often, but with unlimited financial resources to impose their will on the innocent, just as the Jews were treated during the Holocaust and with the same indifferent reverence. All that has changed is the means of delivering weapons to a proposed enemy. Power players no longer need to take over nations to exert war. All they need to do is fund it.

And that was what we saw in 2020, America elected a president that was wrecking the liberal world order, and those forces that have so far been generally ill-defined sought to remove him. So they did use Covid as a crisis to stage an attack on the world and its economy. China was propped up as they always are to shield the actual attackers, but the intent was unquestionable. And the same evil that killed so many Jews in World War II was on display again, only this time on a much larger scale. On such a big scale, nobody had any previous belief system to see evil for what it was. A bioweapon is much more dangerous than a nuclear attack or some Red Dawn invasion. We witnessed, and are still experiencing, and likely will for the rest of Earth’s history, the way wars will always be waged in the future. Who needs troops and nations with large militaries when all you need to do to subdue an enemy is a bioweapon that could kill them effortlessly while they sleep? It’s not expensive compared to ground wars. It travels from person to person easier than a Trojan Horse. And it’s with us to stay; there is little that any country can do to stop this new menace in the world. But before we can stop anything, we have to admit that it exists in the form that is so threatening, which is where we are now. We suspect there is more to Covid, but we have not let ourselves think of the people behind it as evil as they’d have to be to do such a thing. Yet we have seen this kind of evil before. It was undoubtedly captured well in the Schindler’s List movie. But this is even worse because we don’t have the convenience of a Nazi party to point to and say, “that’s the enemy.” We can’t even do that with the Chinese, even though all evidence suggests that Covid was made there and distributed maliciously. Instead, the real villain is still out there, hiding in the shadows, and they have control of the most powerful weapons in history, the power to make people live or die without firing a single shot in aggression. 

Rich Hoffman

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Darbi Boddy is Right Again: The SAVE Students Act seeks to separate students from their parents

When I was watching the Lakota school board meeting from February 6th, 2023, on video, I heard the statement from Darbi Boddy regarding the suicide watch program that was being proposed and didn’t think there was anything controversial about it. I also listened to some of the public debate and the counter statement by Julie Shaffer, who is up for re-election this year, and I would expect those types of big government types to find what Darbi was saying disturbing. In the wake of the meeting, there were apparently a lot of people confused about why the topic was even brought up, which in my view, was just a regular topic for a typical school board meeting where the Matt Miller drama was no longer the centerpiece. Then toward the end of that same week, I heard a constant barrage of negative articles in the media done on the story, Darbi’s position on mental health initiatives by Ohio’s SAVE Students Act on suicide watch. She had really hit a nerve because the stories just kept coming. And on Friday of that week, there were top-of-the-news discussions on Clear Channel radio stations discussing it and how there was a petition to remove Darbi from the board again with a signature drive. Several people approached me and said, “your buddy Darbi Boddy is in trouble again; it doesn’t look like she’s going to survive this one. What’s with her?” My reply to them is the same one I’ll address here, “she’s fine. This is the kind of topic they should be talking about in school board meetings, and she brings up a great point, how much parental involvement should there be in these programs, and what role should a school have in the personal lives of the children who attend?” 

Regarding Julie Shaffer, the fellow school board member who offered a counter comment to Darbi’s statement on the SAVE Students Act, I learned about her a long time ago that she represents all the things I personally hate. She and I had debates on WLW radio many years ago about the nature of education in general, and she and I agree on pretty much nothing. And since it’s an election year, there will be time to tell lots of stories about her personal conduct that shows why she thinks the way she does about things.   But the bottom line is that she represents the kind of parents at Lakota who do not have much confidence in their ability to raise their own children, and they want to lean on the crutch of a big public institution to help them deliver good kids into adulthood. I don’t get freaked out about it because she represents a portion of the Lakota population with the same issues with their personal parenting power. And Darbi also represents a significant portion of the Lakota population that believes in old-school parental roles and that the debate they had in a school board meeting regarding the SAVE Students Act was a healthy exchange of ideas which Darbi put forth as a concern from her point of view. Darbi’s argument was that nowhere in the proposal for suicide watch was there a protocol for calling the parents. The fundamental assumption was that the school knew best what to do with the kids, and the parents were thought of as a kind of nuisance or perhaps even the cause of suicide concerns. And by Darbi pointing all that out, it ripped the scab off a concern that all those big government school types have about everything, and that’s the security blanket they all have in the back of their minds. Can they be bad parents and still raise good children if institutionalism can come in like Superman and save everyone? It’s a liberal fantasy that most Democrats have about big government, and essentially what Darbi said popped that bubble of a fantasy in a very public way, and people reacted very violently to it. 

I listened to Darbi’s comments several times and put them here for others to listen to. Darbi is simply saying that the SAVE Students Act should have as a priority a relationship with the parents. As its written, it assumes that parents are part of the problem, which is implied in the text, and she was concerned about the direction it was going, and she brought it to everyone’s attention during the meeting. Her references to the Salem Witch Trials and to Nazis are historical in context and weren’t mentioned just to be an eye-popping revelation. The way that public schools view parental relationships is very much in line with mistakes from history which she pointed out, in separating parents from their children through institutional controls. We have well-recorded incidents of those mistakes from the past, which is why she mentioned them. The fact that we can never talk about Nazi behavior in public unless it is referenced to conservatives is a topic all its own for many other articles. But for this one, the state sponsored the Hitler Youth movment historically and those same sentiments were clearly present in the SAVE Students Act as it was proposed. Parents were not at the center of suicide watch concerns, and they should be. In terrible situations where kids want out of a bad situation so severely that they are thinking of taking their own life, their school relationships would likely be the cause, and parents should know about it. Not to be assumed that bad parents were the cause. Darbi simply wanted to point out that mental health conditions in public school atmospheres should involve a relationship with the parents. The parents might cause the depression, and the school may help those kids. But often, and likely, the situation would be the other way around, and such conditions should trigger parental involvement to provide resolution. Not castigation. 

The violent reaction to Darbi from those on the liberal side of things makes perfect sense; again, I didn’t see anything wrong with it. Obviously, there are strategic reasons for their violent reaction. We just went through six months of drama where the school superintendent admitted in a police report that he had sexual fantasies of drugging, molesting, and videotaping kids who went to the school he managed, and nobody had any problem with that. But their faces melted when Darbi suggested that the parents be the center of any public school interaction with children. It’s obvious what’s going on. There is a political push behind all this to separate children from their parents, with the government stepping in as a kind of gooish blob of liberalism and taking over the parental role. That was the warning Darbi was making, which is perfectly valid. People who want that transfer of power don’t want any opposition to that transaction for whatever reason they think that way.

In many cases, in their own lives to be fair, they lack confidence in their ability to be good parents, and they hope and dream that a taxpayer-funded school will bridge the gap in their parental abilities. They love their children; they just don’t have the confidence in themselves to be a “super parent.” But that is the topic for a school board debate, which is all I saw it to be. Healthy and fruitful. All the rest was political revenge for what happened to Matt Miller. And to those negative participants, I think they will learn that making such a big deal over little issues will only bring forth more like Darbi Boddy, who will want to run for school board and join her on a much-needed crusade to restore parental rights in public education, which is obviously in short supply and in much need of change.

Rich Hoffman

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Beating the Liberal Playbook: Behind the scenes, it’s the labor unions who cause all the problems

I don’t think many people know that most of the problems in politics they have come from labor unions and that when you wonder about corruption and how things connect, it usually involves labor unions in some way or another. For instance, despite the Joe Biden’s statements that the economy is good, we are seeing massive layoffs in entertainment and big tech. There are reports this week involving Disney laying off 7000 employees due to bad performances driven by economic realities. And NBC has many workers threatening to walk off the job because job cuts are looming. It’s their entertainment union that is the problem behind the mess. So when it is wondered why the police seem never to punish the bad guys as we think they should, or if the media is supporting a local school board and their desire to hide bad behavior from their unionized workforce, the smoking gun always points back to labor unions. At the federal government level, its labor unions who run most of Washington D.C.’s culture. Most of the FBI agents are in a union. IRS workers are in a union. Most government workers are in a union or want to be in one. Even if your local news anchor isn’t in a union, they all want a chance to work for a big outlet, and to do that, they’ll have to join a union, so they adopt in their lives lots of liberalisms; otherwise, they will never get a chance. I’ve said it for years; labor unions are communist organizations straight out of the pages of the radical leftist Karl Marx, and always hiding behind the scenes are these labor unions who impose leftist-leaning viewpoints. The members themselves might not identify as Democrats or liberals, but the function of their labor unions forces them to keep their opinions to themselves unless they are overtly liberal, where then it’s fine to be a crazy radical. 

A perfect example of how this liberal playbook formed by labor unions was seen at Lakota schools recently, where the superintendent had to resign due to his crazy sexual lifestyle that got out into the public, was just exposed. If you held up his case and compared it to Hunter Biden, the President’s son, you could almost match them task for task. Hunter Biden goes on drug rampages, breaks the law, and displays behavior that clearly compromised him. The FBI helps to cover it up. The media contains the story in favor of protecting the Biden family name. And a mob of lawyers tried to intimidate critics from using their Constitutionally protected free speech to criticize the President’s son. There was a lot of complicit behavior that all had the common connection of labor unions and their radical leftist membership requirements that united the effort to defend one of their own in the White House. Then if you look at the local story involving Matt Miller, who I have said reminds me a lot of our own Butler County version of Hunter Biden, he has a crazy sexual lifestyle that, by his own admission in a police report, involved kids in a fantasy aspect, the labor union rallies to his defense, the school board tries to contain the story. The police, also in a labor union with their brethren in the teacher’s union, do everything in their power to suppress the story. The local media picks up the police position and uses it to stop further inquiry. All the players were either in a labor union or they wanted to be. In order to do big coverage news stories for a major network, whether it’s NBC, CBS, Fox, or ABC, the on-camera talent has labor union requirements. Even for conservative broadcasters. So for anybody in the media, either entertainment or from the news desk, if they have any ambitions for further opportunities, they do not tick off the labor unions; otherwise, it will disqualify them from further opportunities. So in that way, we see with a local story or a big national story like the Hunter Biden spectacle has been, the same liberal playbook being used by the same people for all the same reasons and outcomes locally.

The good news was that in Lakota, with a good team of citizen activists, that liberal playbook was exploited and beaten. Even though the police wanted obviously to protect Matt Miller, the leader of a major labor union in the Lakota school district with over 17,000 kids and hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds specific to just that zip code, the liberal playbook was able to be exploited for the failure that it was and overcome. The way it works with superintendents is that they are usually recruited from the teacher’s labor union pool of possibilities. So even if they aren’t members of the teacher’s union, they work as administrators to protect those liberal values as they are promoted, and it becomes their most fundamental concern, protecting the labor union from outside opinions. So that is how the labor union of the local sheriff’s office gets pulled into defending such bad behavior when it was discovered. They may not personally agree with it. They might have strong opinions in a conservative direction. But to stay good in their union, where their pay and pensions are protected from management changes, they remain silent on controversial matters because they don’t want to rock the boat in their union. So they end up going along with the bad behavior. Then, of course, the same holds true in the local media; if the participants aren’t in a union, they often want to be so they can have a chance at better opportunities, which holds true for the newspaper reporter. They may not be in a union, but their editors are owned by larger media groups who are in unions, so the rules flow downhill. The threat that unions espouse is that people who stand in their way will either be beaten up or denied employment opportunities. Once those two things are exposed for their lies, the unions lose their power.

But the story in Lakota got out anyway. Despite the opposition, the threats, and the snowballing that occurred to protect the local LEA union from outside opinions essentially, a large group of parents were able to unite behind a common cause of protecting children from blowing open that liberal playbook and defeat the firewalls that typically protect all these bad employees. That same playbook can be used on the White House or at any level where it is being applied because it has all the same weaknesses. When there is scrutiny, and people use Constitutional protections to manage their concerns, the liberal playbook fails every time. Because their sentiments of liberalism are built on Karl Marx’s communist radicalism, they cannot hold up to the scrutiny of true debate, and their positions fall apart quickly. Many were bewildered that the machine that protected Matt Miller was so unjust, and so many people worked together to suppress information that was critical to the community. But that was seeing a big national problem up close when we wonder the same about Hunter Biden and other liberals who get caught doing terrible things, but they feel they will get away with them because labor unions will rally to their cause every time to protect their employment. We aren’t dealing with rationality here, the kind of world the rest of us live in. We are dealing with a radicalism that has penetrated our government at every level, and as long as they are attached, we will have massive corruption. But at Lakota, that liberal playbook has failed, and the lessons learned can be applied everywhere that such corruption is seen. And for those who do use those methods, the labor union position will lose 100% of the time because they cannot stand up to scrutiny and Constitutional law. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Lawsuit Game in Public Schools: Don’t feed the dogs at the table, send them outside and chain them on a short leash

The word on the street is that Lakota is a soft target for lawsuits because they are all too happy to settle, so they do not reveal how little responsibility they take for anything on the school board. And that is clearly a strategy Matt Miller, the superintendent who just resigned, planned to utilize as he called the school board itself a hostile work environment attempting through the media to set up his case through his lawyer, Elizabeth Tuck. I know a bit about Elizabeth because she ostentatiously threatened to sue me. But more than that, as a small army of ground soldiers have reminded me over the last several weeks, it looks like Elizabeth Tuck is the same person who represented another big settlement case at Lakota schools for Laura Kursman, the former public relations handler. Back in those days, she went by the name of Lisa Loring. So the plot thickens considerably when the dogs start getting around the dinner table looking for some table scraps to be thrown their way by a school board without much legal experience under pressure and are prone to throw the dogs some treats just to keep them happy. And there are plenty of lawyers around the dinner table because they know this school board throws meat to the dogs to avoid the public embarrassment of actual courtroom revelations. It gets rough when people you’ve known well get up on a stand in cross-examination and start telling the public things they thought would never be heard in the light of day. Lawyers know that people would like to avoid those circumstances, so most of the time, especially when it comes to public schools, it is smarter just to settle, throw some bones to the dogs, and get on with life. When there is a lot of money involved, which is always the case with big taxpayer-funded schools with lots of liberals running them, lawyers are looking to continue the story of Matt Miller with methods that have worked in the past. There are a lot of lawyers involved in the background, and they see dollar signs because of the school board’s history of desiring to settle everything before it gets to court. But in this particular Matt Miller case, the school board should not settle because there is a lot that the public would benefit from during an actual court testimony involving the superintendent and all the reasons the public had a problem with him.

There was an interesting media report from Channel 12 about the search for a new superintendent that shows how stories are shaped in the background, which I’ll cover at a later date because of the audacity of it. There is also a story about Darbi Boddy again from the Monday, February 6th meeting too, which is for another day. But it was specific in discussing a replacement for Matt Miller and the kind of environment that the Lakota school board is for potential employment. Clearly, the minds of the board and the body of administrators at Lakota who are thinking seriously about moving away and quitting the Lakota experience want another very progressive, mask-wearing, Matt Miller type to protect everything they think public schools are, which are radical political activists for Democrat causes. But no person in their right mind who thinks like that wants to be the next Matt Miller. Suppose the school board hires another progressive-minded activist who brings with them support for LGBT sexual lifestyles, as the Channel 12 report tried to make it sound like Miller was a champion for, or in teaching kids CRT, which was another hot-button issue that actually started all the controversy to begin with. In that case, there will be continued debate from the community toward those Lakota employees. We are in a very different place here, something that hasn’t happened in the history of public education, something I have been watching develop for more than four decades of direct experience. So the tricks of the past aren’t going to work. Lawyers, public relations people, and a compliant school board aren’t going to be able to sweep this one under the rug. 

The real answer to all this is to hire better people. Recruit the next superintendent who reflects the community values and sets a high bar that shows similar scrutiny on all employees hired at Lakota. Sure, there will be some who are not willing to live up to that high bar, and they can leave. But if the school board sets a high bar, everyone will find that better applicants will want to work at the school, and in that way, the institution’s quality will improve dramatically. That’s why Lakota should not settle any future lawsuits, especially regarding Matt Miller and his attorney Elizabeth Tuck. Even though some of the court proceedings would be embarrassing for many involved, with a defeat in the courtroom, it would go a long way to stopping the kind of recklessness that is such an incursion on the public budget that taxpayers would appreciate knowing. There are good and bad lawsuits, but all of them reflect the liability of having a large school with many employees with performance problems. The way to avoid lawsuits is to hire better people who work at a much higher level of competency. 

There are several people I know who are out there who have justifiable problems with the Lakota school board procedurally over First Amendment issues, and sunshine laws, public disclosure, and all kinds of things that school boards need to be good at. The solution to holding back a mob of lawsuit-happy dogs isn’t just giving them more meat from the table. That only makes them hungrier. They need to be put outside and chained with a short leash so they don’t bite the innocent children who might happen to walk by. Meanwhile, Darbi Boddy is exposing some of the chaotic elements that cause all these problems to begin with. It might sound a bit odd without context, but Darbi’s mission is all about restoring the parental role with their children in the school to a healthy relationship where the public school forces over the years have been to separate them by default. And when things get a little wild, some lawsuits cost a lot of money that settle the matter and cause school boards to always walk on eggshells of bad legal advice that only feeds the dogs at the table and makes them hungrier. But to restore a positive relationship with the public or gain it for the first time, it is probably more appropriate to say that Lakota needs not to settle these lawsuits involving outgoing employees. Take them to court and fight it; the taxpayers will remember and appreciate it. The disclosure learned in the reports from those court trials will be extremely valuable. Throwing money at the dogs won’t make the actual problem go away. It just protects the embarrassments that were made in the process. And that is a significant number that has to be figured into the general waste in public schools. The employees already cost too much money, especially when you look back at the Laura Kursman case, which I covered extensively, with much more detail than the local media, such as Channel 12 does, or 5, 9, or 19. The real story that often never gets told needs to be said, and better employees need to be hired to avoid those contentious escapades in courtrooms. But to solve the problem, just throwing table scraps to the dogs won’t help, which is clearly the goal of the Matt Miller resignation.

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What Happens Next At Lakota: Let the labor union strike, quit, and take their six-figure paychecks with them–then hire better people

At Lakota schools, people have tasted what fighting for the right things can provide. With the community support that decided that they couldn’t deal with Matt Miller’s behavior as superintendent of Lakota schools ending with him resigning under tremendous pressure, there is a feeling of victory that, for many, feels pretty good. A few months prior, everything seemed pretty bleak; the system was rigged against the taxpayers, and we would be forced to put up with bad behavior while our kids were held hostage by the teacher’s union. But the community behind the efforts of their representative, Darbi Boddy, the first-year school board member, had a high standard that the employees like Matt Miller found they couldn’t live up to or simply refused to. So he turned in his resignation letter and complained about a hostile work environment, hostile because there were community members who just couldn’t deal with the sexual lifestyle he exhibited during a messy divorce, and against significant opposition, they could taste victory. So what happens now? We all hear the threats from the Matt Miller supporters, the threats that the teachers are all thinking of quitting. That Matt Miller’s friends and staff at Lakota are going to soon be joining him and leaving the district, and of course, the worry there is that nobody will want to work at Lakota schools, and the report card will be devastated from the state and if the school district goes down, so will the community’s real estate. If the school isn’t any good, then people won’t want to move to the area, and everything will fall apart, and it will all be Darbi Boddy’s fault! That’s what they are saying, anyway. So what do we do now?

Well, I’ve heard all this before, and all those fear tactics are labor union strategies that they worked out a long time ago when their pal John Dewey came up with the progressive idea for public education to begin with. They never intended to just teach kids about reading and writing; they were purposely intent on social engineering. They wanted to get kids away from their parents and reteach them how to be liberal-minded activists. They used to hide it more than they do these days, but that is what Critical Race Theory is all about, and why suddenly, sex education is so important to them as early as possible. Anybody who thinks about sex as much as these educators do has serious mental problems, and they shouldn’t be teaching anybody anything. But people in a community believe after years of propaganda that a public school is a key to their real estate value, so they turn a blind eye to these crazy liberal losers who run these palaces of deceit and mistrust and roll the dice hoping that everything will turn out OK. Well, I have totally different ideas about these kinds of things and how to manage them, and it’s taken a while for enough people to have the desire to try something different and they want to have more success, leaving them hungry for what’s next. To that point, I would say that electing Darbi Boddy to the Lakota school board was a great success for the kind of parents who want what’s best for their kids and want a really high standard for their community. Not some fake PR campaign that hires some radical leftist superintendent who gets a bunch of awards and national recognition for the same reason that Sam Smith got a Grammy for performing a devil-worshipping ceremony on a broadcast sponsored by Pfizer because they advance a liberal radical agenda that wants to support mask mandates and openly gay lifestyles in public school. I think people want real quality in their schools, and perhaps, for the first time in their lives, they can get a taste of what that might look like. 

Believe Sam Smith when he says he’s not here to make friends. Trying to be their friend is a waste of time.

To that point, we first need to elect more school board members like Darbi Boddy. I have learned about Darbi over this past year, aside from any political viewpoints, that she really cares about the kids of all families. Every time I have spoken to her, that’s the first thing she always talks about, no matter how crazy the events around her have been. She cares about our community’s children and wants what’s best for them. If only we could get a few more school board candidates like that, then I think we could get the band back together and run a campaign like we did when Darbi was elected the first time. But of course, the most significant opposition to that will be the LEA labor union. They have been very hostile toward Darbi. If there are more school board members like her, there will be trouble, a lot of staff and administrators will leave, and there will be drama. I would say to everyone that it would be great if they left. If they did, there would be room for better employees to join Lakota who genuinely wants to work for a quality district, and that quality starts on the school board. When a culture of quality is established, then the employees follow, and there are a lot of teachers and administrators who are forced to hide their conservative values, and they would love to work for a school board that reflects their personal values. So I think we’d end up with the opposite situation to the fears espoused by the union. 

Without question, there will be a standoff with a truly conservative school board during the next contract negotiation. The union will strike. They don’t care at all about the kids of Lakota schools; for them, it’s all about politics and a paycheck. They are not like Darbi Boddy and any board members that might be able to join her in a future election. I’ve been down this road many times professionally, and the roadmap for dealing with it is quite clear. Let the teachers strike and show who they really are. We’ve already had work stoppages due to Covid, so the parents will support the school board if they push the union into a strike. The most radical employees will leave and take their six-figure paychecks with them. That would be great. That would allow Lakota to hire younger teachers who make half as much money and don’t have all the liberal radicalism built into them after years of union activism. And Lakota could recruit truly better people who want to live in a conservative area run by a conservative school board and have teachers teaching the basics of education like math, science, and real history instead of how to put a condom on a banana in the first grade and how to be a gender-neutral satan worshipper jamming to Sam Smith in class while they should be learning things. Failure to do things like stand up to the Matt Miller types in the world will just destroy kids anyway, so there is no harm in shaking things up a bit and making a public spectacle of it so that word gets out across the country about what kind of place Lakota is, and the right employees will be drawn to it. And that’s what happens next. By getting more school board members like Darbi Boddy, Lakota could truly become an outstanding school instead of a fake one on paper while swinging lifestyles are taught to the children by the administrators who have loose sexual desires and a social value system that is in all actuality, reprehensible. Running liberals off won’t destroy the school; it will make it far more desirable than any zip code in the nation. Because the little secret that nobody talks about in real estate in the open is that the primary driver of all real estate transactions is due to politics, not schools. People move away from liberals and to areas of conservative value 100% of the time. And they’ll do it at Lakota once the line is drawn in the sand with a firmly conservative school board. It will help the school and community. It certainly won’t hurt it.   

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Proof of CRT in Public Schools: Accuracy in Media has gone undercover and exposed this massive problem in schools like Lakota and many others

I don’t blame Isaac Adi for not seeing Critical Race Theory in Lakota schools. The first-year school board member ran on a platform of driving CRT out of the government school from a northern suburb of Cincinnati but found once he was in office, things were a lot harder in reality than they are on the campaign trail. People lie, and many people guilty of committing CRT with students have not been honest about what they have done, and for good people like Isaac; that is a harsh reality. His first year as a school board member has been tough. As a good, honest person, he has found his path to goodness barricaded by many deceitful characters. Because he does not stray from the truth, he believes people, even when they don’t deserve it. And for those people, it has been kind of a cat-and-mouse game to discover what they are up to. In truth, the only way to see CRT in public schools is to get up from your chair as Darbi Boddy did at Lakota and see it for yourself behind the union firewall that protects radical leftist teachers from public opinion. After all, that caused all the mess with the Matt Miller situation, the recent superintendent who just resigned due to a lot of public pressure for actions discovered in the process. Radical, purple-haired people eater types of liberal teachers who want to be the next candidates for a Sam Smith music video are not going to tell the truth about what they want to do to our kids hidden away in the classrooms. The way to catch them in their lies is to get up and go see what they are doing for yourself. You cannot take their word for anything.

But this isn’t just a Lakota thing; it’s a big problem all over the country where radical Democrat-minded activists are intent on rewriting the history of America and corrupting our young people while they feel protected from the public with heavy security put in place out of fear of school shootings. The more protected “public” schools have become, the worse the problem has evolved. Darbi gets it; she knows what the real fight is about and has been doing a good job in Lakota schools. Her former friend joining her on the board has had a tougher time. He wanted to get along with these people, and they’d been playing him for a sucker. That happens to nice people. I think it says a lot about him that he is so trusting. But when it comes to discovering the truth from many very deceitful characters, those are not traits that will help him.

On the other hand, Darbi caused a lot of stir and had many hostile elements wanting to eradicate her.   Which I would say are all the ingredients for a good school board member. Parents should be able to trust that their school board members are protecting their interests and listening to what the ill-minded are up to, and believing them, doesn’t fit that criterion.   But it’s not just Darbi who has been unraveling this not so concealed mystery. There has been a media group called Accuracy in Media, connected with Project Veritas in several ways, who have gone undercover and recorded the little game teachers and administrators have been playing against parents. And it’s in several schools in Ohio that they have recorded the evidence as discussed on 55 KRC with Brian Thomas. And Southern Ohio has been one of their biggest areas of investigation in the schools surrounding Lakota schools. And what Accuracy in Media discovered is that CRT is typical, not unique and that the teachers think it’s a game of radicalism that they are entitled to play on taxpayers out of spite for a social agenda they are far more committed to than teaching kids how to read, write, and do basic math.

To determine CRT as a reality is simple; if teachers are promoting racism among the population, if they are teaching a revision of American history, they are teaching Critical Race Theory. CRT is meant to undermine an entire generation in their belief of goodness regarding their country, and it’s dangerous on every scale. Its been around for a while, my wife and I could both tell stories from our own college days where college professors would want a report done on the Whiskey Rebellion, for instance, but the report would need to be done on the impact on slaves from the time period instead of the emphasis on the evolution of government standards in a free society. Back then, 30 years ago, they tried to disguise their efforts. But these days, it’s all out in the open, much like Sam Smith’s devil-worshipping forays in front of millions of people at the Grammy’s, sponsored by Pfizer. To continue denying what they are doing in public, they count on good people like Isaac Adi to give them the benefit of the doubt while manipulating everything behind the scenes and often bragging about it. But that’s where personal verification comes into play, such as the media group Accuracy in Media, and goes undercover to reveal what’s really going on. And what they have discovered is that the problem is even worse than I have been saying it is. 

We are not living in an honorable society; if we were, Isaac Adi would be the perfect person for it. Instead, Darbi Boddy, a young lady with a lot of experience in how the human race can fail, knows that you can’t take the word of radicals when they say they aren’t doing something like CRT. When Darbi got into a lot of trouble going into two Lakota school buildings to take pictures for herself, you would have thought she was performing an exorcism among demonic spirits demanding that they bring Christ into their lives, and their heads were spinning backward, and they were fully spitting explosive vomit. Darbi captured images of gay pride artwork that was proudly displayed where very young people would see it, and there were plenty of references to CRT, where racism was being defined in the minds of the school as a reality shaped by politics and not by real history. If you want to really teach black history in America, they will talk about the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves. And how Ulysses Grant tried hard to integrate the freed slaves into American society, but Democrats were violently against it. The KKK wasn’t a bunch of Republicans; it was southern Democrats who were fighting against reformation. That’s the real history, and what they are teaching with CRT is a version of history that breeds Democrat voters by denying the past. And by corrupting the minds of millions of young people behind their parents’ backs, Democrats who run these labor unions hope to sustain themselves as a political power in the future by erasing their complicit past. And when it all comes down to the truth behind the menace, that’s all liberals care about, power at the expense of intelligence. Yes, CRT is being taught in all public schools. Thank goodness we have school board members like Darbi Boddy to expose it. And media outlets like Accuracy in Media to do the work all media should have been doing all along, and that is exposing these dangerous elements that are so corrosive to young minds. 

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Richest Man in Babylon’: Real wealth creation in Ohio won’t be possible until it’s a ‘Right to Work’ state

Whenever I go to Columbus, Ohio, I have a few bookstores that I go to every time. I consume a tremendous number of books, about three large books a week. If they are smaller, under 200 pages, I read five or six. It’s probably my favorite thing to do in the world, and I often read very early in the morning, between 3 AM and 6, and after the hours of 7 to 11 PM. Between those hours, I work hard, really hard. And reading settles my mind and keeps everything from fragmenting. On the weekends, I usually read for around 8 hours daily, starting around the same time and ending around noon. Then I spend the rest of the day with my family doing whatever comes up in those engagements. But it had been quite a few years since I last read The Richest Man in Babylon, published in 1926. I read it in my twenties, so I thought it was odd that while I was talking to people at the Capitol during the Governor’s State of the State speech for 2023, I was sitting in the gallery waiting for everything to start when a person made a great effort to sit next to me and ask me to sign a copy of that book. It was a nice paperback copy that  was a miniature version that could fit easily in the jacket of a nice suit. This person told me he was a fan of my blog, recognized me because of my big white hat, and wanted me to sign his copy of the old George Clason book. So I signed it, and he was very happy about it. He sat down near me, and before we all left after the speech was over, he came over to shake my hand again enthusiastically before departing back downstairs, where all the members of the Representatives and Senate were gathering in the rotunda to have lunch with Governor DeWine. 

I’ve signed many books over the years, but they are usually the ones I have written; it’s not usual to sign other people’s books. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense as I talked to various legislators at the after-event. Once I left the Ohio Statehouse later that day and visited my bookstores, I bought a modern copy of that book and reread it later that evening to connect with that enthusiastic personality. After my talk with everyone that day, it all made sense. If you have not had exposure to that very famous book, The Richest Man in Babylon, it’s typically found in the business section of a bookstore and is a foundation for how wealth is created. It takes place in Babylon to take the edge off any modern references, but the idea is that wealth is created by effort, and it is beneficial not just to the people who have the wealth but to their community as well. If we have a society of many people who have created wealth for themselves, we will have a better society. It is very much the opposite of this “tax the rich” culture that we get from the various socialists and communists embedded in our American culture these days, which has become much worse under the economic policies of Joe Biden and Democrats in general. And when you get behind the scenes, away from the cameras and newspaper reporters who never cover significant political events correctly like a Governor’s State of the State speech, wealth creation is the number 1 concern because it’s the thing that makes everything in society go. 

One of the big topics that emerged from Governor DeWine’s State of the State speech was the effort to bring businesses and jobs to Ohio and that there would be spending investments to do so. But on the checkered floor of the Statehouse were lots of discussions about how exactly to do that. And I love these kinds of discussions. Some people see lobbyists, corrupt politicians, and maniacal lunatics when they talk in those places. Yet, I generally see the kids all these adults grew up to be trying to do something good from their own perspectives with the same enthusiasm that kids build new things with Lego toys. No matter the political ideology, I find everyone eager to conduct some version of a childhood dream of saving the world one law at a time. And you don’t get that unless you get the chance to be behind the scenes and talk to people who are actually making the sausage. I usually come away from those events encouraged. But the efforts typically fall short because the real problems never get dealt with.

And regarding Governor DeWine’s efforts to bring more business to Ohio, the truth is that we can spend all the money we want. But until Ohio is a Right to Work state, the big multi-billion-dollar investors will not bring their big corporations to Ohio because of their fear of labor unions taking over the management of their facilities. Ohio will continue to lose opportunities to South Carolina and other places until we join them in becoming the Right to Work states that protect business investment from the socialist encroachment of the labor union movement, which never should have been allowed in American politics. To understand these basic economic truths, I would recommend everyone to read The Richest Man in Babylon and come to your own conclusions. But until people have a basic understanding of wealth creation, it’s a pointless debate with the kind of communist labor union advocates who think that the value of labor unions is in more sick time, the 40-hour work week, and weekends and holidays off. All those things mean less productive work, less output, and more paid time off for a company trying to make things.  

The sum of many conversations on that topic was that Right to Work was dead in Ohio until President Trump returned to the White House, and likely longer because Trump likes labor unions. In his big MAGA party, labor union members have been voting for Trump. So suddenly, we have friends in the Republican Party from the labor movement, and nobody was going to dare push those friends away at the expense of dividing voters away from Trump. And Governor DeWine, for all those reasons, had no stomach at all for Right to Work discussions. But eventually, and not decades away, but just three or four years, Ohio will have to be a Right to Work state if it wants to be the next Silicon Valley in a 21st-century economy, which I think is entirely possible. Ohio is a great place to live and work. The business corridors between Cincinnati and Columbus, and Columbus to Cleveland, especially on the east side, and even all the way up from Cincinnati and Toledo, are some of the best in the world. There is room for plenty of country living and rock-and-roll businesses that create vast wealth for everyone involved. But what’s preventing that investment isn’t a lack of input from the state to develop the infrastructure to do it; it’s the protection of investment from those looking to do so from the greedy hands of the communist labor movement. Nothing kills wealth-building faster than a labor union. It might get union members paid off days where they don’t have to work, but it doesn’t help a country be competitive while the rest of the world in Asia is working seven days a week, 24 hours a day, for a rice cake. And that is what we are competing with. Ohio needs to be a Right to Work state, and the sooner it is, the quicker real investment into Ohio can begin. Until that happens, speeches like the Governor’s State of the State are just enthusiastic dreams that are held back by reality. 

Rich Hoffman

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MAGA is a Big Tent Party: Understanding Republican Party Politics in Butler County, Ohio

There seems to be a lot of confusion from liberals who thought they understood the political landscape and who have learned recently they didn’t understand anything about it, especially regarding the Republican Party of Butler County, Ohio, where the Lakota drama unfolded during the presidency of Joe Biden. After all, they see pictures of politicians they know, watch their behavior, and think they understand politics. But their assessments have been all wrong. For instance, they think Darbi Boddy, the first-year school board member at Lakota schools, represents the fringe extreme right-wing politics that is so scary to the purple-haired people eaters of the communist LEA labor union. When, in fact, all those sympathetic to the labor movement from the police unions, the teacher unions, the electrical union down the road, all the moderates, the RINOs, and the many, many Democrats who run for office in our very conservative county who put an R next to their name because a D would get them thrown out of their local Target while buying socks if people knew. The political landscape can be pretty confusing to the latte-sipping prostitutes I’m always talking about who are out there trying to save one child at a time with screams for more safety, vaccination status, and bicycle helmets worn to get the mail out of the mailbox. The confusion comes from the scope of the political movement, not its limits, and that is where all the mistakes are made, which for Democrats is catastrophic.

When we were vetting candidates for the Lakota school board, I knew that Isaac Adi had some liberal sentiments. We had a campaign event at Jags Steakhouse, where it came out several times while he sat beside me. But I thought Isaac would be great on the Lakota school board anyway. He was softer-shelled than I am, but I thought it would be much better than the liberals we had been dealing with at that point. So I put my differences aside and got behind him anyway. For me, it was about presidential politics instead of the local disputes that I was after. MAGA is a big tent party, much bigger than traditional Republicans, who were thought of as rich white guys represented in the past. MAGA is all about women, diversity, immigration, and people from diverse backgrounds and beliefs. At that time, Isaac would say to me that he was “MAGA,” and I was okay with that. I still am, even though the confusion is apparent, such as at the Republican Christmas Party, where Isaac took a picture with the black-hatted villain himself, Sheriff Jones, who was at the center of the Matt Miller controversy. Jones who has been a big supporter of President Trump especially over immigration issues played his part in assisting bad behavior at Lakota schools while trying to destroy members of the Republican Party for personal reasons.  We call people like Sheriff Jones people playing Battleship with political rivals rather than chess, and it sends the wrong message to actual political enemies, that is very confusing for them.  Those labor union brothers stick together, even when they do the wrong things. But Isaac is honest and believes what people say to him because he isn’t a person to mislead himself. I look at the picture of those two guys and see voters and supporters for President Trump. But I also see a Democrat and a person thinking about being a Republican. They are about as conservative as Joe Manchin from West Virginia. Relative to the rest of the Democrat Party, they look conservative. But compared to the Tea Party types who are really behind Republican Party politics at the grassroots level, the politics aren’t even close to being consensual.    Now liberals trying to figure out who are Republicans and Democrats in the county would look at that picture and think they have the Republican Party all figured out, and those two are what they are dealing with. So, of course, their lives will be shattered when they find out that just referencing them as MAGA Republicans isn’t the same as legislating as a conservative.

Another good example was a recent photo of West Chester Township Trustee Lee Wong at a Chinese New Year type of event getting a selfie of himself with Joe Biden, giddy as a schoolgirl. Lately, because the political sentiment has demanded it, Lee has voted more conservatively, more along the lines of my friend Mark Welch than toward the liberal leanings of the past. I would not call Lee a Republican, ever. But he has voted more conservatively than another friend of mine who is another fellow trustee, Ann Becker. I’ve known Ann for a long time as she was president of the Cincinnati Tea Party and openly campaigned against John Boehner for being too much of a RINO while he was the third most powerful person in the country as Speaker of the House. These days, however, next to Lee Wong, Ann looks like the liberal. So that gives a little perspective to how things can change over time as the political tides roll in and out. But then you learn what a person is really about when they get a chance to meet President Biden. I wouldn’t be caught under any circumstances shaking his hand under any condition. Biden represents the worst in politics. But you can see from the picture that Lee was enchanted to have a picture with Biden, which says everything about his political motivations. 

People only casually concerned with politics to preserve their wild sex lives and extracurricular social nonsense wanted to think that Lee Wong, Isaac Adi, Sheriff Jones, and others represented the Republican Party because they see them at the same kind of events, so they misplaced their strategies. Many real conservatives in Butler County never go to social events because the people are too liberal for them. If they get a candidate to vote for like Darbi Boddy, they will show up on election day, the same as they will for Trump. But if they get just another RINO, they will probably not vote. And when it came time for the rubber to hit the road with the Matt Miller drama at Lakota, there was a surprising level of support for Darbi, who is considered a radical right-winged Republican as opposed to the much more moderate Isaac Adi. Liberals looked at the situation and thought they could work with Isaac. But not Darbi, so they endeavored to get rid of her and made quite a show of it. But they didn’t understand that much of what they thought was the Republican Party was an illusion. They were looking at the big tent MAGA party with all kinds of people coming to it because MAGA means wins. Being associated with President Trump means winning in politics. Obviously, people thinking of running want to be associated with MAGA politics, despite what the liberal news media wants to believe. But when it comes down to personal beliefs, people are generally conservative; they lean much more toward Darbi Boddy than toward Isaac Adi. And Democrats, to them, is a very dirty word. So is working with them. While the moderates, the RINOs, and the communist union supporters all talk about working together, what the voting public wants is a fight. They want fighters who will sort out all the nonsense and represent them in government. Darbi Boddy certainly does that, and so does President Trump on a national level. But the mushy middle is what gives politics a bad name because politicians who claim to be more conservative than they really are just to get elected end up disappointing everyone. And in a world of lies and misleading action, those are unforgivable sentiments. It might win a vote under the big tent of MAGA. But it certainly doesn’t win the hearts of the public. 

Rich Hoffman

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