Tag: America First

Defining America First: Employers can’t be great if workers are on drugs and don’t want to work

In the swirling debates of American politics, few phrases resonate as powerfully as “America First,” especially when applied to the global marketplace and the thorny issues of employment, immigration, and worker opportunities. Under the Trump administration, this slogan has been invoked to rally support for policies prioritizing U.S. citizens, yet its practical application—particularly regarding H-1 B visas and the definition of an American worker—reveals a complex reality. Patriots may cheer the rhetoric of control and sovereignty, but the actual test lies in whether these policies genuinely empower native-born Americans or inadvertently perpetuate systems that favor entrenched interests. The question is not just about acquiring workers but about fostering a competitive environment where the best opportunities go to those who earn them through merit and drive. In a world where talent flows across borders, seeking the highest rewards, America First must mean more than slogans; it demands a clear-eyed assessment of who gets access to the nation’s top jobs and why. The global economy draws ambitious individuals from every corner, hungry for the American dream, but domestic policies rooted in outdated labor assumptions often stifle this potential. Consider the automotive industry, where union dominance once symbolized strength but now exemplifies stagnation. Growing up amid family members deeply entrenched in union life, the dinner-table conversations were revealing: complaints about competition from faster, more efficient workers, both abroad and domestically, were met with defenses of collective bargaining that prioritized equality over excellence. Unions argued that protecting the slowest workers ensured fairness, but this all-or-nothing approach dragged down productivity, making American manufacturing less competitive. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics underscores this: union membership has plummeted from 20.1% in 1983 to just 9.9% in 2024, with private-sector unionization at a mere 6.9%. While unions boast a 15.9% wage premium—$1,263 weekly for union workers versus $1,090 for non-union—this comes at the cost of slower economic growth. Studies from the Mercatus Center show that powerful unions, acting like monopolies, secure short-term gains but hinder long-term employment growth, investment, and productivity. In states with right-to-work laws, union membership has declined further, yet wages adjusted for cost of living are comparable, and job creation is higher. Illinois, with strong union protections, added 27,000 members from 2022 to 2024, while right-to-work states shed nearly 200,000 members, illustrating how union density correlates with economic rigidity. This isn’t patriotism wrapped in the American flag; it’s a communist-inspired model that equalizes mediocrity, stifling the marketplace for decades.

The root problem extends beyond unions to a broader erosion of the American work ethic, decimated by cultural and political forces from within. Progressive politics have targeted traditional demographics—think Appalachian descendants—with messages that undermine motivation: questioning gender roles, promoting pronoun changes, and eroding the provider instinct that once drove men to build strong families. When society tells young people that toxic masculinity is the enemy, it strips away the ambition to rise early, work hard, and secure a legacy. Add to this a drug culture that normalizes intoxication, particularly marijuana legalization, and the result is a workforce plagued by unreliability. Personal hiring experiences bear this out: when seeking employees, the smoke clears to reveal specific demographics struggling to show up consistently or pass drug tests. Marijuana’s effects on productivity are well-documented; a 2025 study from the National Safety Council linked recreational legalization to a 10% increase in workplace injuries among 20-34-year-olds, attributing it to impaired cognition, attention, and motor skills. The U.S. Drug Test Centers reports that businesses lose $81 billion annually to drug use, with $25 billion in healthcare costs and the rest in lost productivity. States like Colorado saw positive drug tests rise 20% post-decriminalization, far outpacing the national average. Video games, endless leisure promises, and government dependency exacerbate this; young adults, medicated since kindergarten for hyperactivity, lack the grit to commit 40 hours weekly. Gallup’s 2023 Work in America Survey found that 77% of workers experience work-related stress, with 57% reporting burnout symptoms like emotional exhaustion—trends that worsen as well-being declines. The labor force participation rate for prime-age men (25-54) has dropped 2.2% since 2000, per the Heritage Foundation, driven by demographics but amplified by these cultural shifts. When families fracture—fourth or fifth marriages, child support draining incomes—motivation evaporates. Employers face a stark choice: hire unreliable locals or seek immigrants eager for opportunity.

This brings us to the heart of America First: does it mean excluding global talent to protect underprepared Americans, or fostering competition to elevate all? Critics scrutinize support for foreign interaction, fearing it undermines native workers, but experience shows otherwise. Immigrants pursuing the American dream often outshine those eroded by entitlement. H1B visas, designed for skilled professionals, exemplify this tension. Under Trump, policies like the September 2025 proclamation imposing a $100,000 fee on new petitions aim to curb abuse by restricting entry unless paid or exempted. This follows earlier reforms, including a December 2025 rule that, effective February 2026, weighted the H-1 B lottery toward higher-wage applicants to prioritize merit. Yet data reveal H-1B benefits: the American Immigration Council notes that they fill STEM gaps, complement U.S. workers, and expand jobs. From 1990-2010, foreign STEM inflows accounted for 30-50% of U.S. productivity growth, according to economists Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih, and Chad Sparber. NFAP estimates Trump’s policies could reduce legal immigration by over 600,000, slashing workforce growth by 6.8 million by 2028 and economic development by one-third. H1B holders earn a median of $118,000 (2022), contributing $86 billion annually to the economy and $35 billion in taxes, per FWD.us. They own 300,000 homes, boosting local demand. A Harvard study found that each H-1 B creates 7.5 jobs, with no significant native displacement. Critics argue for wage suppression, but restrictions push firms offshore: a 10% cut in the number of college-educated immigrants costs natives $2.9 billion in welfare annually, per Richmond Fed research. In tech, H1Bs fuel innovation; over half of the billion-dollar startups were founded by immigrants. Trump’s base demands America First, yet blocking talent risks stagnation. The alternative: train Americans, but current demographics—decimated by drugs and demotivation—struggle. Employers can’t succeed with workers who roll out of bed sporadically, burdened by erratic personalities and short-term plans.

The degradation of society compounds this. Progressive messages confuse youth, eroding family structures that once motivated providers. Government safety nets foster parasitism, not self-reliance. Studies from Pew Research show Gen Z prioritizes work-life balance over advancement, with union support at historic highs (70% public approval, Gallup 2025), yet membership is low due to perceived irrelevance. Labor force declines aren’t just demographic; Eberstadt’s “Men Without Work” highlights that there are 4 non-working men for every unemployed one, a 60-year trend. Post-pandemic, hours worked dropped, per Gallup, amid rising detachment. To rebuild, competition is key—tough love pushes excellence. Immigrants, undeterred by such barriers, embody the drive that natives have lost. Born Americans, schooled in entitlement, arrive unprepared; foreigners fight for spots, enhancing productivity. America First shouldn’t mean handouts but standards that demand the best, regardless of origin. If locals falter, it’s not discrimination—it’s reality. Employers thrive with motivated talent; restricting H1Bs ignores this, as Trump’s fee may deter startups while empowering offshoring. Berenberg lowered 2025 growth estimates to 1.5% post-fee, citing brain drain. JPMorgan warns of 5,500 fewer permits monthly. True reform: reclaim motivations through family values, anti-drug policies, and education emphasizing grit.

Yet, political answers evade the core: societal rot. Degrading ambitions from grade school—diagnosing disorders, promoting leisure—creates unemployable adults. When hiring, reliability trumps nationality. America First means building strength from households: tough, drug-free, family-oriented. Competition drives this; coddling doesn’t. Trump’s challenge: balance rhetoric with action. His administration’s H-1 B tweaks signal intent, but a broader overhaul is needed. Deport criminals, yes, but skilled visas fuel growth. To make America great, start with people: out of bed, off drugs, competing fiercely. That’s the path to prosperity.

Bibliography

•  American Immigration Council. The H-1B Visa Program and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy. Washington, DC: American Immigration Council, 2025.

•  Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Union Membership (Annual) News Release.” U.S. Department of Labor, January 2025.

•  Clemens, Michael. “The Economic Impact of High-Skill Immigration.” Center for Global Development, 2025.

•  Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve. American Media, 2010.

•  Hoffman, Rich. Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, 2021.

•  Illinois Economic Policy Institute. The State of the Unions 2025. La Grange, IL: ILEPI, 2025.

•  National Foundation for American Policy. The Economic Impact of the Trump Administration’s Immigration Policies. Arlington, VA: NFAP, 2025.

•  National Safety Council. “The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Workplace Safety.” Itasca, IL: NSC, 2025.

•  Paul, Ron. End the Fed. Grand Central Publishing, 2009.

•  Peri, Giovanni, Kevin Shih, and Chad Sparber. “Foreign STEM Workers and Native Wages and Employment in U.S. Cities.” National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013.

•  U.S. Drug Test Centers. “How Does Marijuana Use Affect Employee Productivity?” 2024.

Footnotes for Further Reading

1.  On H1B economic benefits: See American Immigration Council (2025), pp. 6-7, for data on job creation and wage impacts.

2.  Marijuana and productivity: NSC study (2025) details 10% injury increase; in contrast, NBER Working Paper 30813 (2023) shows muted labor effects from legalization.

3.  Union trends: BLS (2025) for membership data; Mercatus Center (2025) on monopoly effects.

4.  Work ethic decline: Heritage Foundation (2022) on participation rates; Gallup (2023) on burnout.

5.  Immigration and growth: NFAP (2025) on productivity; Richmond Fed (2025) on welfare losses from restrictions.

6.  Hoffman (2021) for business insights; Paul (2009) on economic critiques.

Rich Hoffman

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The Cracker Barrel Remarketing Plan Was A Horrible Decision: Betting on the wrong horse, which the Board who hired Julie Felss Masino certainly did

I think there needs to be context to this whole Cracker Barrel thing and the hiring of Julie Felss Masino, the CEO who has caused so much trouble.  The board of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. consists of a board of directors that includes, Carl Berquist, Chairman a former Marriott CFO with decades of financial experience, Jody Bilney who just joined in 2022 and as previously a senior executive at Humana and Bloomin’ Brands, Steve Bramlage, just elected to the board in May of 2025 and current CFO at Casey’s General Stores, Gilbert Davaila who joined in 2020 and runs a multicultural marketing firm and has Disney experience, John Garratt, who joined in 2023 and is the former CFO and president at Dollar General, Michael Goodwin, who joined in 2024 and was a retired PetSmart tech executive with cybersecurity expertise, Cheryl Henry who joined in 2024 and is the former CEO of Ruth’s Chris Steak House.  Julie Felss Masino, the current CEO, was appointed to the board in November 2023, and Gisel Ruiz joined in 2020 as a former executive from Walmart and Sam’s Club.  Since 2019, traffic through Cracker Barrel restaurants has been down 20%. They have never fully recovered from their previous pandemic numbers, and this very woke board obviously wanted to try to boost sales and freshen things up to recover that lost traffic, which they thought was dying off.  A large portion of the Cracker Barrel customer base is literally aging out and dying off, and young people have not replaced them.  This group of characters set out to figure out how to return to the good old days and attract new customers.  Hiring Masino, who had 30 years of experience, including leading Taco Bell’s international growth to over 1000 locations, and had roles at Starbucks, which made her what they thought of as a good fit for driving innovation to the Cracker Barrel brand, came in with a lot of ideas that the customers just don’t like.   

So, it’s not enough to blame the current CEO of Cracker Barrel for the truly radical makeover that Old Country Stores have been experiencing.  Changing the paint scheme of the traditionally log cabin look of the restaurants from dark brown to a kind of soft white was a bad start.  And the interior decorating, rooted in tradition, was not a good move because it took away the ‘going to Grandma’s house’ kind of vibe that made going to Cracker Barrel while traveling far from home such a positive experience.  Comments about the Country Store entrance being less congested with stuff have fallen into the joke category because the response is that the store is less crowded. After all, it has fewer customers, and as a result, that’s what’s going to happen to the Cracker Barrel brand now that they have the perception of going woke.  So of course it’s less crowded.  I assess that Cracker Barrel hired too many woke individuals and let them onto the board, and that they are getting what they deserve.  That cast of characters, the Board at Cracker Barrel, mostly come from very woke backgrounds, and people of tradition would reject any change they would make. They underestimated what their real problems were.  Many companies have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, which is something that we don’t discuss nearly enough. The answer that people trained in woke leadership, who are often the who’s who of corporate America, are not intellectually equipped to deal with the real problem.  In the case of Cracker Barrel, they are pricing themselves out of the market.  I go there frequently, and I can’t make a stop without spending $100 to $200 with my family every time.  And the price of the food should be around 30% less than that. 

Most of Cracker Barrel’s customer base is blue-collar and does not have a lot of money to spend on price increases, which is one reason for their declining traffic.  Financially, they are in trouble, with revenue at $3.47 billion but a net income of only $40.9 million.  And this overhaul, which has sparked widespread anger, will cost $700 million through 2027, with $180 million allocated through 2025 alone.  This is a board of directors that bet big on the wrong attributes and now their mistake is going to cost them tragically.  They have now far bigger problems than just some bad press.  They picked the wrong things to stimulate their customer base, which was obvious when Julie Felss Masino tried to go on Good Morning America and say that Cracker Barrel wasn’t going away, they still had the fireplace, the rocking chairs on the front porch, and the little triangle game to play while everyone waits for their food.  If those are the things she thinks Cracker Barrel is to customers, then she wildly missed the mark, and based on their financials, it’s a gamble that Cracker Barrel couldn’t afford to misdiagnose.  Cracker Barrel hired Masino to do just what she is doing.  The problem is that they all missed the heart of the real problem and pushed away their old audience in favor of a new one that would reject the product anyway.  Young people from many broken homes do not have traditional experiences with grandmas’ house, as previous generations did, so they are not attracted to the family tradition appeal.  However, many of them wanted that experience, and for them, going to Cracker Barrel was the only way they could achieve it. 

Many of those board members had no idea that Trump would be elected as president in 2024.  These decisions to change all these Cracker Barrel stores were already in place when he stepped back into the White House.  So, to the minds of many corporate types, nobody could have predicted that America was going to turn so hard toward the MAGA political movement.  Nobody really knew what was going to happen.  Well, I take that back a bit.  I knew what was going to happen.  But very few people listened much to their doom.  I predicted everything 100% correct, just for the record.  And if Cracker Barrel’s Board had listened, they would not be in the trouble they are in now.  The best thing for them to do would have been to dig into their traditional appeal and openly cater to the MAGA political base, because those are their customers.  To regain 20% of the lost customers from 2019, it’s essential to focus on pricing and expansion among conservative types who cannot afford to dine at the restaurant while traveling.  Going for a new demographic group was not the right move here.  And now, because they have adopted the woke approach, which many of the board members are trained to be very woke, and they hired their CEO to embrace the Biden and Obama-era political movements, they are getting what they thought they would.  But people don’t like it.  And there is no way to repair that now.  Once you lose a brand, such as what Disney is currently experiencing, and many other companies that have aligned themselves incorrectly with the MAGA movement and Trump as an America First president, you can never truly regain it.  And Cracker Barrel will lose a lot more than 20% of its customer base.  With a profit of only $45 million to deal with, they don’t have enough margin to lose 1% more.  So this reaction to their marketing plan to overhaul their image is much more disastrous than the media is reporting.  And it’s a shame because I have liked Cracker Barrel more than any other brand in that market sector.  But, I will find other alternatives, just as many others will too.  This was a poor decision by the Cracker Barrel Board to be so tone-deaf about changing political circumstances.  They bet on the wrong horse and will now lose big. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Best Way to Show How Useless You Are, Work From Home: Ahead of D.O.G.E, it would be great if federal employees just resigned by the hundreds of thousands

There is no better way to show how useless you are than not being at work and nobody missing you.  And ahead of Trump becoming president and his staff moving into their positions, federal employees are threatening in mass to resign.  Around 2.3 million federal workers in roughly 24 civilian agencies employ about 98% of that number.  Just over half, 1.2 million, work in jobs that require them to be fully present. The remaining 1.1 million are eligible for remote work, or what they are calling “telework.”  Of those, around 228,000 are in remote positions and are not expected to work in person.  Of the remainder of those 1.1 million, they spend only 61% of their working hours at an office, meaning they report for work only sporadically during a work week. And for anybody working in a job that does not require you to be fully present or that you are off a lot, you only prove that your employer is wasting money on you because they have learned to function without you.  COVID and the work-from-home policies that came with it were some of the dumbest ideas in the history of the world and were a prequel to the concept of just giving everyone a universal wage just for existing, as the attempt was to redefine what productivity meant to an economic culture.  And now, even three years later, many of these federal employees, and many who work with government contracts at large companies, still believe that they can work from home doing a few Teams calls with people and to call that work.  Behind that lunacy is this assumption that we can get to a zero-emission world if people just stopped coming to work and stayed in their homes. The government would pay you to do a job they created without any value on a spreadsheet.  It was always a dumb idea.

Darryl Parks and I, from WLW radio back when he was the guy who ran the whole place, used to talk about this on air all the time: federal employees were useless and made way too much money for doing too little.  Most of them belong to labor unions. Everyone remembers the protests in 2012 when Senate Bill 5 in Ohio was put forth that would strip any government worker from belonging to a labor union and impose collective bargaining on taxpayers who had to pay the bill.  All government jobs created are essentially a tax.  They have created positions that only serve the growth of government, which often works against taxpayer interests.  Public school teachers were some of the worst back then, demanding extraordinary amounts of money for essentially working only 6 or 7 hours a day and having off all summer.  The anger that came from the idea of stripping government workers of their ability to join a labor union didn’t go over well politically, and many Republicans lost their way during the outrage.  And I was in the thick of it; I received a lot of radical union harassment ranging from death threats to open conflict everywhere I went publicly.  I was the face of the effort in many ways because I was on WLW radio all the time talking about it, which directed a lot of anger in my direction.  For which I have no regrets.  It got bad at times, and a lot of people got hurt. You would have thought they’d learn their lesson.  But 8 years later, when Covid came along, all they did was justify everything I said about them.  When they had a chance to shut down schools, attempt to keep people from attending church, and use the virus to stay home from work perpetually and still get paid, they proved how useless I had been saying they were all along.  And it was a redeeming moment that many people noticed and suddenly wanted to do something about. 

Since COVID-19, people who live everyday lives and don’t work for a lazy, bloated government getting paid too much money for doing too little decided they didn’t like this arrangement.  Federal employees typically made 30% more than regular workers, and voters were unhappy about it.  They might have listened to me back in 2012 when Darryl and I spent all those Saturdays talking about how dumb it was to have all those government workers charging too much against the taxpayers for useless jobs.  But most voters weren’t ready to do anything about it.  At the time, they thought it was a good gig if someone could get it, a federal job that was overpaid and didn’t require much performance.  So I was in the minority back then, along with other Tea Party-minded people.  But time proved our arguments extremely valid, and all the violence leading up to Covid was much warranted.  I had to hurt many people for a not-very-good reason just because there was a belief that collective bargaining had a right to overrule individual opinions.  And that if everyone didn’t just shut up and put up with their radical labor union mentality, they had a right to force you to think what they wanted you to think.  Well, that didn’t work out very well, and many of them who engaged in such violence learned the hard way what a bad idea it was to take that position.  But COVID only washed away their arguments and forced the masses of society to see just how dumb and worthless these federal positions were.

I’ve been saying during every government shutdown to call the bluff of federal employees who are always willing to strike if they don’t get to extort trillions of dollars from a budget that is entirely out of control.  Nobody will miss those workers if we shut down the government.  But politicians would get weak-kneed just as they did with SB5.  However, with the work-from-home policies from COVID-19 and the federal employees still working from home all this time later, people now see the truth, and politicians are starting to smell the roses.  If you are working in a job where you don’t physically have to be at the office talking to other people, you are not working in a real job, and you can and should be removed from the payroll.  A job is not a right, it’s a privilege, and usually, the people who provide the pay for those services are getting screwed over if the employee they are paying for doesn’t respect the job enough to be in an office working hard for the contents of that position.  But when it comes to the general federal workplace, we have too many people doing too little.  And the best thing they could do ahead of the efforts of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, D.O.G.E, is to quit.  Nobody will miss those workers.  When you work in a job where nobody misses you or knew you were ever there, you know you are working in a useless position.  And I think having millions of these workers suddenly unemployed would be great.  There are other things to do in an expanding economy.  And we don’t need to be paying people to work from home.  And if many of those people all simultaneously put in their resignations, nobody will miss them. They are proving once and for all that all the money we have spent on these federal employees was a waste of time and money all along.

Rich Hoffman

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Bernie Moreno is Poised to Win Ohio: Among voters over 50, he holds a 2-point lead

While discussing polling, let’s discuss the Bernie Moreno senate race in Ohio against Sherrod Brown, the entrenched Democrat who many have thought is unbeatable.  Based on current polling in August of 2024, there is a lot of very encouraging news ahead of significant media buys by Moreno in the fourth quarter to seal the deal.  Among voters over 50, Bernie Moreno is ahead of Sherrod Brown by 2.  Across the state, with all voters considered, Brown is up by 4, but he has had to spend many millions of dollars to lose a lot of ground to Bernie essentially.  I’ve talked about all that before, but these tight polls this early are very encouraging.  Because the over 50 numbers fall into what I have been saying are the keys for Bernie to beat Sherrod Brown and take from the Democrats that long-held senate seat.  If we’re going to make an honest pitch to defeat globalism, defeating Sherrod Brown’s seat in Ohio is essential.  So this is good news because when it all comes down to boots on the ground, and the too big to rig campaign that all MAGA Republicans have to understand is a factor that works against them, we know that people over 50 tend to vote more than those under.  So when we look at total voter engagement, things look very good for Bernie Moreno to swipe that senate seat away from the tentacles of the Democrat party.  Trump hogs all the air when talking about politics, but stories like this one in Ohio with Bernie Moreno say the most about what is happening.  When thinking about Bernie Moreno and the long history of Sherrod Brown, the first thing people think of is whether Bernie can win.  Is he worth the campaign donation?  Should I even knock on the doors trying to advocate for him to win?  Should I even put out a yard sign?  The answer is yes because not only can Bernie Moreno win, but he can win big, and the Sherrod Brown people know it. 

There is a lot going for Bernie Moreno.  He got into this race through his friendship with J.D. Vance who gave him an endorsement early in the process, well before Charlie Kirk and other national names did the same.  Bernie also has a personal relationship with Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle that extends beyond politics into a real friendship.  These are good names to know and point to a MAGA senate that would be unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes as far as accountability and competence.  When you look at some of the other senate seats across the country and what J.D. Vance has already been able to do during his first few years, many Trump family picks could make a Trump White House spectacular.  Nothing like what was working against Trump in 2016-2020.  I mean there is a reason that “they” want to kill him.  Nothing else has stopped Trump and he is poised to win as his own polling shows him beating Kamala Harris without much of a fight.  There is some media fanfare, but again, when we talk about the reality of engagement, many more people are excited to vote for Trump than Kamala Harris.  She is a media creation designed to sell ad revenue to a horse race that appears much closer than it is.  And on the back of that effort, there are many senate seats that will get Trump voters to vote for them, like Bernie Moreno.  And there are opportunities for Republicans to pick up a massive majority in this upcoming senate. 

If the media doesn’t try to keep these political races looking closer to reality, they will lose a lot of ad revenue they count on for their sustainability.  And in Ohio, the close race between Brown and Moreno will be one of the most expensive in the country.  But at this point, the Moreno team has not spent much money.  I spoke to Moreno about this the other day, and he told me their plans for September and October, but Sherrod Brown will not be able to match them.  The Democrats have already spent a small fortune in Ohio to get the weak results we discussed in the opening of this article: a 4-point lead across the state but with voters over 50 leaning toward Bernie by 2 points.  And among independents, about a quarter of them are over 50.  So, in an election where engagement between the parties is not equal, Democrats don’t have much to be excited about, whereas Republicans do; they just had the head of their ticket almost killed on live television, and being the tough guy he is, took the shot to the head in spectacular fashion and got up and pumped his bloody fist in defiance to the sky.  And that guy has personally endorsed Bernie Moreno who is very close to the Trump family.  Sherrod Brown is distraught, perhaps for the first time in his long political career.  People are excited about Bernie Moreno’s potential.  But they know what they get from Sherrod Brown and the Democrat achievements over this last decade is something people are running from, not running to.

During the summer, I do a lot of traveling for competitive shooting events, most weekends through September, and early on, I have seen Bernie Moreno signs all over the place in what I think is too soon for politics.  However, it shows how excited people are for Trump and Trump-endorsed candidates.  There are not many Sherrod Brown signs.  I’ve seen a few here and there, but nothing like what is behind the Bernie Moreno movement, starting in July and moving into August.  I have been to every interstate exit along the Ohio highway system, except for the turnpike, which I avoid in upper Ohio.  So the Bernie Moreno signs are consistent, not just regionalized in Southern Ohio.  One day, I wondered about all this when I noticed a neighbor putting out his Bernie Moreno signs early, so I asked him why.  I hadn’t put mine out yet because I hadn’t been home really enough to do so.  And he said he couldn’t wait to get Bernie Moreno into the Senate with Trump in the White House.  And for him, that process started by putting a sign in his yard three months early.  You do not see people doing that kind of thing for Sherrod Brown.  Like I said, people know who he is.  Bernie is the opportunity for something better, and if everything is pretty even now, by election day, Bernie will only get better, while Brown will have a lot to lose.  Playing not to lose is not playing to win, and that’s where all Democrats find themselves.  So yes, things are looking well for Bernie Moreno.  We can’t take anything for granted, but as things are shaping up, Bernie Moreno has a great chance of beating Sherrod Brown and gaining that critical senate seat.  There is a lot to be excited about.  But take nothing for granted.  And do all the work it takes.  But in the end, everything will work for the better and be well worth it.

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Take Your Eye Off the Ball: The Bad Guys Will Do Anything To Cheat this 2024 Election

I told everyone that these last few months of the 2024 election would display every evil imaginable and that the Democrats would literally do anything and everything to stay in power.  Power they stole with a stolen election helped by the same radical elements of our government that made sure there was an assassin on the roof of a Trump rally to assassinate him.  These are bad, vile people who do not play fair, and they are playing for keeps.  And it all might end up in a street fight before it’s all said and done.  But at this point, even with all the crazy tricks that the Democrats are trying to utilize to make Kamala Harris look like anything but a fourth-place loser during her own primary, Trump is fully in command of this election.  He has all his average base; he has the unions, people of color, and immigrants who want the American dream, and Trump has a massive following that is on pace to be a landslide on election night in November of 2024.  All factors point well in his direction.  But beware, do not take your eye off the ball, such as Republicans did with the Red Wave in 2022.  Don’t assume that you can afford to sit out on this one.  Vote like your life depends on it because it might be the case.  The best way to put down these vile animals, the communists from the left, the Democrats, is to vote so big that they can’t cheat the results.  Too big to cheat is the best strategy because if they can keep someone close and keep counting ballots until the next election in 2028, they’ll do it.  You always know you are dealing with a bunch of losers when they start crying about capacity, and in Pennsylvania, they are doing just that, indicating that the postal service won’t be able to keep up with the demand from all the mail-in ballots. This is why we need one day of voting at a polling location on a paper ballot.  Democrats can’t win if they can’t cheat, and they know it. 

So don’t assume that this one is in the bag for Trump.  They put Kamala at the top of the ticket and pulled down old man Joe because they looked at their internals and saw blacks peeling away, young people, suburban moms, and even illegal immigrants.  And yes, they are in a panic, and they think that at least Kameltoe can make TikTok videos dancing like some marijuana-smoking loser to appeal to the worst of our society and get some votes that Biden couldn’t.  So you can bet that every derelict, slack-jawed loser, drunk, deadbeat, and whimsical criminal will vote for Harris, and every dead person who has been off the voter rolls for centuries will suddenly show up and vote.  These Democrats are going to throw everything they have at this and then some.  And they will turn to violence if they must because these are terrible, vile people tied to international finance, and they have trillions of dollars at stake if Trump wins.  They control a Deep State cabal that flows straight to the doors in Davos of the World Economic Forum and many jealous minds in the United Nations who count on Americans to be suckered once again into giving them more power and further erosion of our unique style of self-government that they have been exploiting for well over a century since mass communication has become possible. 

Even with the media-driven suppression polling, they can’t make Kamala Harris look any better than Joe Biden with raw numbers.  So I’m telling you, and everyone who can hear my voice from the mountaintops of Mars, this election isn’t about a 500 or 1000 sampling of likely voters who, when polled, still point to Trump.  It’s going to come down to voter turnout, boots on the ground, and real people showing up to overcome massive cheating by an out-of-control federal government that intends to count illegal votes until they have enough to stay in power.  And if they get caught, as they already are, they will want a street fight.  So if you want peace, vote, vote, and I mean in the numbers of 80 million or more.  Trump is proposing the kind of radical changes to the system that we all want, except the deeply entrenched government workers, and you can bet that the mail carriers will be tossing millions of Trump mail-in ballots on the side of the road as they did in 2020.  Only this time, they will be more desperate.  The electronic voting machines will be hacked, and tampering will occur, as it did in 2020 and has been disputed ever since.  Why? Because China doesn’t want the trade deals changed, that allows them to rip off America by the bucket loads.  Trump in the White House will cost China and other countries trillions of dollars in economic value.  They will do anything to stop Trump.  Wall Street will lose trillions of dollars of value, especially BlackRock.  BlackRock is facing extinction, which they deserve to have happen if Trump is in office this time.  They will do ANYTHING to keep that from happening.  Don’t underestimate them in the least.  Evil is at work in the background, and they will stop at nothing to spread their wrath to every corner of the globe.  They do not respect free elections by free people and ultimately think they can control the counting process.  And they have bet everything on it.

So don’t think you can roll out of bed on election day, November 5th, 2024, and go vote, and everything will be alright.  Vote early.  Make sure you take people with you to vote; make a party out of it.  Don’t leave anything on the table.  Don’t take anything for granted. Understand that evil is at work, and they have voluminous conspirators within their ranks at every level of society, and they do not want Trump in the White House representing us all.  If you think you’ve seen a lot up to this point, wait for the next couple of months.  But the simple math is that Kamala was a loser before they tried to prop her up as the Second Coming of Christ.  And she’s still a loser, too dumb to perform when it matters.  Wait until Trump debates her.  Like Biden, she will never recover from that.  But at least she’s not too old; she can dance and talk about smoking pot, so the losers out there who want a life of low expectations will vote for her, and maybe, from a communist Democrat perspective, that will get the numbers close enough for their cheating abilities in the battleground states.  Never forget how five states, on election night, turned off the election in the middle of counting and sent everyone to bed with Trump in the lead.  But in the morning, they put Biden on top for weeks after that.  It was outrageous, and it points to a Deep State that won’t allow Trump into the White House by assassination, election, or any other means because we don’t have a free election system.  That is very much possible. So, to avoid a fate of violence, we must vote in such massive amounts that there can be no dispute.  That is the only way to have a peaceful end to all this and hope that nobody gets hurt.  Because evil is at work, it expects to win by any means possible.  And they are playing for keeps. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Third Term of Obama: What a dumb fundraiser they had for Biden in New York

To add the ultimate failure to the Biden term we have been experiencing is to acknowledge it for what it is.  No, this was not a freely elected man who spent his life in public service and made good on the people of Pennsylvania to help them from the Executive Office. Instead, this is a crime lord put in office by conspirators who want to topple America and wanted a third term of Barack Obama, a continuation of the Weather Underground terrorism that gave us two terms of that communist insurgent, who was never qualified to be president in the first place.  But they got away with a lot with Barack Obama, and so, of course, they were going to steal an election and put Obama in place and use a compromised person and old fool in the White House so they could move his mouth and make him say anything they wanted him to.  They were willing to break the law for the good of their communist revolution, which they suckered so many into embracing, in a push for a global world order under the rule of China, the propped-up impoverished country that only gained wealth because it essentially became the 401K plan for the billionaires of America.  It’s been a sucker game all along, but you know what’s funny?  It hasn’t been working.  Biden is trying to run for president after trying to be Fidel Castro for his first term essentially, and people are sick of him.  So, at a fundraiser in New York, they brought out all the old tricks, Obama being one of them, and they looked like a bunch of out-of-touch fools.  Supposedly, they raised 26 million dollars at that fundraiser, as two former and one current president were raised dramatically out of the stage.  But in many ways, it was a perfect metaphor for what they had done to America and were now losing. 

Essentially, this has been Obama’s third term.  Hillary Clinton was supposed to carry the torch in 2016, but Trump won.  And the globalists who had put so much effort into the destruction of America were angry about it; after all, that was Obama’s first mission, to “remake” America.  To “transform” it into something else, from a capitalist country into a communist one.  That was why the newcomer Obama had his political career launched in the living room of the American terrorist Bill Ayers.  We were told to ignore that little news story; it was no big deal.  Neither were the problems with the Obama birth certificate, which turned out to be a digital fake made on a modern computer.  They got caught trying to fake one during Obama’s terms in office to shut up all the “truthers” out there who were onto the many problems with where Obama came from and who his daddy was.  Many still don’t know, but we do know that they lied to us about a lot of things.  But they got away with those lies, and the media, already taken over by this communist globalist plot, were willing to carry water for Obama and keep him propped up.  But they never wanted him to go, so they were angry with Trump for interrupting their communist takeover of America.  So they conspired and plotted and manipulated to extremes to destroy Trump, his supporters, and any notion of the Make America Great Again political platform.  Because for them, that was the worst thing in the world.  They wanted to destroy America.  Not make it great again.

But who are “they,” you might ask, dear reader?  Who are they?  Well, it’s the international finance community who were allowed into our money supply with that stupid Jekyll Island mess that created the Federal Reserve.  The secret societies of Europe have been plotting and scheming the decline of the West since it was essentially started.  The globalists have their people in the European Union and the United Nations.  It’s the billionaires who invest so much money into China-style communism for the entire world, using that paper tiger to look like the sales face of managed communism success by tying the hands of all the other countries in the world with ridiculous economic policy and climate change standards.  And “they” keep their politicians in office to destroy the world to their liking with massive election fraud, which they utilize all over the world.  Why do you think they were so upset that people were onto the scam with digital voting machines in the United States?  Because that was their most accessible means of election fraud.  That’s how they do it in communist countries like China, Russia, and South and Central America.  Don’t forget that Mexico and Cuba are socialist countries.  All of Europe are socialist countries.  The head of the United Nations is a socialist.  The head of the World Health Organization was a socialist.  Everything about COVID, created in a Chinese lab in Wuhan by human beings as a bioweapon, was about bringing socialism and communism to the world through mass manipulation of our health care system where they could get access to all people without the stigma of a political movement.  Oh, yes, “they” have been naughty, and they’ve killed a lot of people along the way.  And they didn’t care who it was or under what conditions.  They just wanted power and were willing to do anything to have it, including keeping Obama in the background and pulling the strings to Biden to keep their plans for globalism intact.

However, those efforts have spectacularly failed, and they are pretty well aware of it, which was apparent when they tapped into Obama and Clinton thinking that putting them on stage with Biden would help him.  The effort showed how tone-deaf many globalist consultants are to reality.  When forced to come out of the shadows and reveal who they are, they are bland, even out of touch.  Putting many old men on stage whom many Americans hate together shows how regional their thinking is and how little they respect ordinary American voters.  And that’s why they are losing any notion of a fair fight.  Without election fraud, they are desperately exposed.  And out of all that 26 million they raised, they couldn’t move the needle with a billion dollars.  The media might want that money wasted on them, so of course, their will whore themselves out to the Democrat Party, America’s version of the communist party in the West.  But people have been lied to, killed, harassed, abused, and manipulated in every way by both parties.  And “they” are sick of it.  Trump was never supposed to be in this position, the frontrunner as President once again.  I’ve been telling everyone since January of 2021 that he would be.  I understand the guy.  I knew he’d be back.  And he’s going to be president again, and many of us are going to aggressively undo all these communist plans that have been pressured upon us for many years, including all the terrorism that came from Barack Obama.  We will undo their corrupt world right in front of their faces, and they will deserve all the pain that comes with that.  And they should consider themselves lucky that their punishments won’t be more severe for all they have done to us.  In my mind, they are getting off too easily.

Rich Hoffman

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Who Should Trump Pick as His VP: It’s all about continuing the MAGA movement beyond 2028

Now that we know Trump will return to the presidency in 2024, people are wondering who his VP should be.  Yes, don’t take anything for granted.  We still have to win the election in such an epic landslide that the political left will be knocked off the face of the planet in the aftermath.  Don’t take your eye off the ball.  But as things stand, after the Iowa Caucuses and the blowout Trump won there, it’s evident that people want Trump back in the White House to finish what was started, then robbed from us.  Even China realizes what’s happening, and they won’t be able to cheat so easily this time.  They will try, but it won’t be as easy as it was in 2020, that is for sure.  Remember, Trump, did not lose that election in 2020, in which polling in Iowa asked voters what they thought about Biden and 2/3 of them believed that Biden was put in the White House for election fraud.  He was inserted as president, not elected.  I have verified this political sentiment over these last three years, and it’s true.  There was no mathematical way that Joe Biden could have had 81 million votes.  Even Fox News, reluctantly, now that they know there is no Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis in 2024, is jumping on the Trump Train for their own relevancy, even though they now have to discuss all the forms of election fraud that did take place, particularly with the ballot stuffers directly connected to the loose Covid rules.  So without that same kind of chaotic mess as we saw in 2020 and a push for as little voter fraud as possible, there simply is no way Biden can generate enough votes to beat Trump.  To answer Kamala Harris when asked about Trump’s Iowa results, “no dummy, you did not beat President Trump the first time; you cheated.”  And 2024 is going to expose that racket, especially.

So, of course, the next logical question is who the VP will be. And instantly, Kari Lake’s name comes up because she is like Trump in many ways. It would be my advice, and yes, quite a few people who read from me carefully and do care about and influence these kinds of things, that we keep Kari Lake as the hot hand in the Senate. Once Trump is in the White House, he needs a counter punch in the Senate to Mitch McConnell, someone who will give that old establishment a Trump-type person in those hallowed halls. Bernie Moreno is one of those future Senators who will dramatically improve the landscape. But Kari Lake needs to win the Arizona seat and use it to change how the Senate works. She would be best used not to play a second fiddle to Trump, who will soak up all the attention. With Trump, we only get to have him for four years, so we also need to set the stage for the next few decades. That means whoever is positioned for VP this time is simply placing the stage for a presidential run in 2028. Which at this point is not very far away. That VP pick will carry the Trump MAGA platform to the next level. Trump will retire, but the political movement must continue, and that is where things can get tricky. I think Kari Lake is there for the fight, but for how long? How long does she want to do this kind of thing? It’s one thing to fight for the injustice done to Trump. But we’re talking about the rigors of day-to-day management here, so whoever the VP is needs to be ready for at least eight years in office and to normalize the Trump agenda into a change state United States policy.

My first pick would be Kristi Noem for a lot of reasons. She has run a good state in South Dakota and is loyal, but she also knows how to take the lead. She has been very helpful to Trump and could certainly run for president on her own as a continuation of the MAGA movement. She is the kind of person who could keep the machine running once started with the second Trump term. Not that it matters so much, but it would be great for the Republicans to be the party that put a woman first in the White House and to take that away from the Democrats for history to remember. Just as it was Republicans who freed the enslaved people during the Civil War, I don’t care about identity politics in the least. But I always did think that Elizabeth Dole should have run for president in the past, along with a few others who were great in public and could give Republicans a woman in the White House. Kristi Noem would be excellent as she represents the rough-and-tumble cowboy image that America currently needs. After what she did a few years ago when riding that horse through Deadwood and onto the stage holding an American flag, Kristi Noem would be an excellent support to the Big City Trump and make a fantastic VP. A perfect “one-two punch.” And something that wouldn’t end after Trump’s second term.

The other pick and I think that Trump is already leaning in that direction, is Vivek Ramaswamy. I happen to know Vivek a bit. I’ve met him several times, and we know many of the same people, so I was not concerned about the “anti-Vivek” talk before the Iowa Caucuses. I had a pretty good idea about Vivek and what he was trying to do before he finally dropped out of the race after the election results from Iowa came in. Vivek wants to do good things, and he’s young and can speak very well. During this campaign, he would be a perfect VP attack dog, setting him up nicely for 2028. A guy his age who is, like Trump, independently wealthy is how you lay the foundations for a continuation of the MAGA political platform. I know how Vivek became wealthy; he had learned a lot in his young life, and I was present with him when he made a political transition. So, I can say that I trust Vivek in ways other people might not understand yet. You know, you get into some of these situations as Vivek did when he was a biotech firm CEO and worked closely with Wall Street and your perspective changes as you win the game and see what’s really going on. Elon Musk is going through a similar process right now, where you gain the kind of money that gives you freedom enough to see things clearly, and Vivek is one of those guys. I’ve personally talked to him about it, so I know where he’s at. And he would be a fantastic VP. And a great president, another person who could take from Trump what was created and carry it far into the future to not only Make America Great Again but to keep it that way, even grow it over the coming decades. But to do that, we have to have the right person, and if I had to pick, it would be one of these two people, Kristi Noem or Vivek Ramaswamy. But no matter what happens, Vivek has to be part of the economic recovery. He has some of the best ideas regarding that vital category of anyone on earth. And the real fight we are facing, which is the needed destruction of BlackRock and its grotesque global influence, Vivek is the guy who must be part of the oncoming Trump White House.

Rich Hoffman

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Ken Paxton Acquitted: Revenge is coming, justifiably so

The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, has been acquitted of the charges of impeachment levied against him by the former Bush political machine. This should be a lesson that everyone should take note of. The old Republican Party, the one of Mitt Romney, and other RINOs like him, John Kasich comes to mind, is over. For anybody who wants to survive in politics going into the future, you better get right with the direction of the world.

The case against Paxton began back in 2015 when he was indicted on three counts of securities fraud and one count of failure to register with the state securities board. The charges were related to Paxton’s involvement with a company called Servergy, which he allegedly promoted without disclosing that he was receiving commissions for his efforts.

Despite the accusations, Paxton maintained his innocence throughout the trial. His defense team argued that the charges were politically motivated and that he had not broken any laws. In the end, the jury agreed with Paxton’s defense and found him not guilty on all counts.

While some people are celebrating the verdict, others are frustrated and disappointed. Many believe that the justice system has failed to hold Paxton accountable for his actions and that he has gotten away with a serious crime, as the Bush family had hoped to use against him. 

There are also concerns that the verdict could set a dangerous precedent, sending a message that public officials can get away with unethical and illegal behavior without any consequences.

Despite these concerns, Paxton has maintained that he is innocent and that justice has been served. He has thanked his supporters for standing by him throughout the trial and has vowed to continue fighting for the people of Texas.

Get ready, there will be a long string of these types of MAGA acquittals in the year to come.  And Trump is going to win in a landslide election.  And all those who performed as bad guys across the world will have revenge coming their way, as is perfectly justified by their own actions.  That revenge will come nationally, statewide, and locally.  And many will be in shock.  But they have it coming because of what they did.

Rich Hoffman

Without the Bible, There is No America: Lee Greenwood’s fantastic version

I read a lot of books, and I have a lot of experience with Bibles. I remember getting my grandmother a fancy Bible made just for her when I was a little kid that was huge in downtown Hamilton, Ohio, which she cherished all her life. I went to Sunday school, then catechism until the 8th grade, and read the Bible many times over during that duration. And the Bible has come up a lot for looking up research specifically over the last 40 years at least once a week. To go along with my Bibles, I have a very unique set of books that my grandmother gave me which is the Encyclopedia of the Bible, published in 1968, the year of my birth that extends into many volumes, which goes into explicit detail about the events and characters of the Bible which I have rifled through for over 45 years now. They are some of my most cherished books. But I’ll have to say, after all the experience and exposure to the Bible, I have never had one that I like as much as the new Lee Greenwood King James American version. I wasn’t sure what to think about it because it has the American Constitution in the back, along with the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance, along with a signed page with the Lee Greenwood song, “God Bless the USA.” I bought it because it reminded me of this period in time when election fraud postponed the MAGA movement to some extent, and that song reminds me of Trump because he plays it whenever he does a public event. “God Bless the USA” has become the song of the Trump presidency, so I thought I’d give the Lee Greenwood Bible a chance. 

The battleground is set, and here is the guide to victory!

When it arrived, it felt magical. It is built well; it’s compact yet very vast like you expect Bibles to be. But it’s made of a very durable vinal with images of the American flag, which takes the religious feel of Sunday church services that are too ornate and puts the document of western civilization comfortably in your hands. It far exceeded my expectations, and I have found that I love it very much. I love the way it feels in my hands. I love how soft the pages are. I have a thing for well-crafted books with especially high-grade pages. I have a complete works of Shakespeare book that my wife gave me three decades ago that I love a lot. I often get it down just to rub my fingers through the pages. I also like the smell of books, which is a running joke with my grandchildren. I never hold a book without smelling the pages because I like how books of fine quality smell. And this Lee Greenwood Bible is made of some really good stuff that makes you want to interact with it. I was astonishingly impressed with its quality. If you were going to make a Bible representing Trump, MAGA, and the overall America First Agenda, Lee Greenwood impressively hit the target. 

This is my America and I pledge to fight all communist scum bags 7 days a week 24 hours a day until every one of them are gone. It’s time to go Old Testament on their very existence.

I’ve spoken many times about keeping copies of The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers next to my reading chair, which I reflect upon often. Both copies have the Constitution and Bill of Rights in the back, and I find myself reading them all the time, just for fun and reflection. But the way this Lee Greenwood Bible is set up, it’s very easy to read the Founding Documents, which is quite purposeful. Not only is the extensive story of the Bible there for reflection, but connecting it to the American Founding documents is immensely satisfying. It’s very easy to read them; the spacing is well done and clear. It may be the best presentation I’ve seen of the Founding Documents outside of a museum, such as what you can see at the National Archives. But these are in the Bible, so everything that gave birth to America is right there to study in a very troubled time. And no matter what anybody thinks of religion, there wouldn’t be an America without the Bible. The attacks on that relationship with the separation of church and state arguments, the Larry Flint Hustler challenges in the Supreme Court, the foundation of America is the Bible, a collection of philosophy that is the root of all western civilization that has led to the most prosperous nation in the world. It’s nothing to be taken lightly, and the Lee Greenwood Bible doesn’t; it’s very respectful and offers itself as a good friend when the mind of mankind needs it most. I absolutely love it. Living in Cincinnati, I followed the Hustler case, and eventually, before his death, Larry Flint managed to get a Hustler store put in near my home in Monroe, Ohio. It bothers me every time I see it. It’s a spit in the face of Christian values and a mark on my community, like some dog pissing on the values of America. And there has been a lot of that going on, where the world has been working hard to destroy America by removing it from its foundations. So in many ways, Lee Greenwood understood the need for an American Bible that put everything in one place. And it works far better than I would have thought. 

You better believe it; we are at WAR!

I’ve been thinking about this problem for a long time, the long progressive war that has not involved bullets and troops but the essential values of our families and personal intellects. So many people are beaten up intellectually; they are addicted to porn and have had their childhood curiosities destroyed by the empty promises of a progressive society. And people need to turn off the TV more often and read a book of some kind for their own good. Because if people lose the ability to think or have fundamental values, there is no way to have a society of any kind. If we are ever to Make America Great Again, people need to learn to read again and have the fundamental values that church on Sundays typically provides. But Lee Greenwood has made it easy, he has put in that one Bible the essence of Making America Great Again, and as we are ready for the Midterms and the long march out of a time of great sadness, characterized by the Biden administration and its criminals of misconduct, and globalists insurgents, and hostile Liberal World Order maniacs, only a sharp intellect can fight the mischief of the vast evil intentions displayed in front of us to assault our senses, and to make fighting back seem hopeless. I can report that holding the Lee Greenwood Bible and reading from it will help solve these ills. It will restore you in ways that you probably didn’t know you needed to nurture. And it will undoubtedly positively enhance your life. I think it has the potential to restore America to a greatness we previously took for granted, such as when I was little, and we were buying a Bible for my grandmother, a grand endeavor that she loved dearly. I’ve seen the positive effect Bibles can have on people firsthand. But now we need it more than ever, and Lee Greenwood certainly has delivered. I have all new respect for him for doing what he has done, and this Bible is undoubtedly one that will be near me at all times as we fight the battle that is before us now. And it will make such a battle much more endurable. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Death Penalty for Drug Dealers and Traffickers is a Great Idea: That includes Big Pharm companies and the governments that shield them from responsibility

President Trump has been talking about the death penalty for drug traffickers and dealers, and I couldn’t be more supportive of the idea. I think it’s the only position and answer for the future. I have a long-standing policy of no drugs, at any time, for any reason, and that includes alcohol. Our level of consciousness makes human beings unique in all the universe, separate from all other lifeforms. And altering that conscious process with drugs to alter it is a crime against the values of the natural order. Getting drunk, stoned, or “smashed” isn’t cute. It is, and always has been, a military-grade attack on social order, and there are no circumstances for it that are justifiable. We may have come to accept drugs socially or medically as part of our lives, but I see them all as a menace to the human soul and reprehensible. I’ve wanted a much more aggressive social position against drugs than anything Nancy Reagan came up with in the 80s with the Just Say No campaign. I didn’t think that was near enough, so this death penalty idea Trump has been talking about is a great start. Drug traffickers and their gangs should all be eliminated from the public scene as they intend to destroy the mind, and we should value intellect much more than we do. And consider it just as serious as a crime as the intent to murder someone else. Because what other purpose is there for the destruction of  a mind than to consider it an attempt at murder?

Saying all that, I do see lots of value in science. Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine should not be prescription drugs; we should be able to buy them over the counter at Walgreens or Wal-Mart. We watched medical authorities enter into a partnership with government to push vaccine distribution for illnesses they built in a lab to create mass panic and gain new controls through pandemics. The solutions were in those drugs, and the government purposely prevented society from those drugs so that they could perpetuate sickness. Ivermectin and other drugs have shown themselves to be effective in fighting cancer. But our medical industry is supported by pharmaceutical companies who want cancer to spread and for a society of sick to pay anything for their products so that they can live the rest of their lives in misery. That is not science, it is deliberate harm to mass populations with government assistance, and it is every bit as bad as what drug cartels impose on our country. You can’t take a hard stance against illegal drug cartels when the big pharma companies also poison our society purposefully. It’s so bad that governments are actually shielding them from harm with protective legislation that keeps them from legal responsibility for their many mishaps, such as Phizer enjoys with this latest Covid vaccine. Many people worry that the vaccine is dangerous, and plenty of evidence indicates that people have been dying or suffering ill effects from the mandatory vaccine. But at the very least, there has been a lot we don’t know about the vaccine because it was rushed to market, and we need time to witness its effects. The fact that we don’t know yet the government has been pushing society into a mass; mandatory vaccinations show deliberate recklessness with an intent to commit harm on a mass scale.

Additionally, I see a lot of value from a religious point of view for using Ayahuasca and other psychedelic drugs. I have come to accept that the effects of these types of widely used mind enhancers common with shamans all over the world are filter removers to our conscious minds allowing us to see more than what we usually would. I’m not so sure that what people see with Ayahuasca is actually the spirit world; I would attribute its effects to seeing a broader spectrum of nonmaterial life forms. Whatever the case, these creatures interact with our conscious reality, and not dealing with them is a severe hindrance to the proper governance of our social order. You can’t deal with a world that is only partially visible to the tools of our senses. At the same time, all these other influences roam free into our thoughts, utterly immune to the laws of our nations and the positive effects of sound philosophy. I would fully support a shaman class of religious leadership who used tools like Ayahuasca to help society navigate the negative influences that hide in the shadows of our senses. Just because our eyes cannot see them and our ears cannot hear doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Our four-dimensional existence requires a lot of details to deal with, so we put filters on our minds at birth to comprehend those needs. But just because we have limits, that doesn’t mean all of existence will cater their desires to those limits. Suppose you want to manage those influences properly. In that case, the human race must grow in intellect, not to expect all of existence in all dimensional planes of reality to respect our limits. Instead, they will do as they have been, exploit our weaknesses for their gain, just like criminal drug cartels do, and nations like China, when they make fentanyl then smuggle it into America through the southern border to poison our entire society, will go unpunished because we did not recognize the threat as it was occurring. Ignorance of what those influences are can be every bit as deadly as the drugs themselves, and it’s a topic that requires a new strategy for the many thousands of years of future that are before us.

So it’s not enough to say that drugs are harmful. My general position is that any kind of mind-altering drugs, including beer, should be severely punishable. It’s not a libertarian thing that often comes up with the push for widespread marijuana use commercially and medically. There is nothing funny about getting “stoned.” Anytime you limit your intellectual ability, you are committing a crime against life itself in my way of seeing things. So fighting for the right to “party,” as the Beastie Boys have always sung the song, is not cute, funny, or cool. It only gives the enemies of the world the fuel of their intentions to destroy rivals so that they might have an easier time at implementing their diabolical plots of doom. China loves to see us poisoning ourselves with fentanyl. That’s why they make it. Europe loves that we are legalizing pot and calling it natural and beneficial. They have been trying to get Americans to take the French weekend for the last century, which is off by Wednesday. Back to work the following Monday while only working 4 hours on Monday and Tuesday. The world is lazy, and they love to hide their lack of ambition behind drug use, which is the cause behind most of it. But the government is not capable of fairness, they pick winners and losers, so they are not the ones who can make a great society. Only we can do that. We can’t prosecute drug cartels in Mexico while ignoring the deaths caused by Phizer or Moderna just because they are in league with the government. Poison is poison; we have to call it all what it is. And we cannot allow government to stand between us and all the other influences impacting the human race as just another class of priesthood that seeks to maintain the limits of the primary religions and thus to control the whole human race with severe limitations on intellect and spiritual comprehension. But putting to death those drug dealers who purposely commit so much harm through the drug trade is a great place to start. I fully support President Trump’s position on this very critical topic, probably the most crucial subject in politics. Because if people were fully aware of what was happening to them with the various drugs they were taking by choice or by force, they would be furious at the deceit that has been placed upon them by governments clearly functioning with criminal intent.

Rich Hoffman

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