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All Unionized Labor Should Be Illegal if Tax Money is Involved: They want to be highly paid without the results to justify it

There is, of course, more to the story.  I certainly heard the exasperation in the Louder with Crowder team as they investigated the horrendous story of the massive mishandling of a Butler Tech intern at the Butler County jail, which led to sex and the corruption of a minor in really disastrous ways.  As the story unfolded and all the adults involved pointed at each other for the blame, I saw on people’s faces and could hear in their words that they were exasperated by the lack of responsibility provided by the adults.  And here’s the thing: just a few days before this story broke, I had a chance to talk to Sheriff Jones quite a bit, and I am sure he and I agree on much more than we disagree with.  If we watched a bunch of old westerns on a Saturday afternoon, we would likely like the same things about them and share a sense of justice that would be enjoyable.  As people, as it is with most people, we agree on most things.  If we had a Thanksgiving dinner together, along with a bunch of other random people, I know there would be a lot more in common than not.  Differences occur when individual people try to bend themselves toward group-oriented consensus, where they toss their values out the window in trade for the power of group rule.  And that is what is going on with this Butler County case and why all the adults are complicit.  And why is the little girl being prosecuted while all the adults slither into the background to hide behind their labor unions and collective bargaining agreements?  This is why they are in labor unions so that the power of the group can leverage responsibility away from them in case something goes wrong, which it certainly did in this case. 

Probably the most guilty person in all this is the Butler Tech teacher, Aaron Fitzgerald, who ran the criminal justice program and was responsible for putting that 17-year-old girl unsupervised into a jail with a bunch of criminals and murderers, so often that she established sexual relationships with them.  Even more, some of the inmates were claiming her as a wife and were trying to “lock her down,” so we aren’t talking about a casual mistake that happened once or twice.  It happened repeatedly, systemically, and it was how Aaron Fitzgerald ran his program and the dangers he put the kids in with his permissive attitude. I would further blame the board at Butler Tech for their permissive, progressive attitudes about sex and their behavior in public, such as Julie Shaffer from the Lakota school board has shown to all the adults in charge, and the breadcrumbs of the blame certainly fall at their doorstep.  The Louder with Crowder crew went to Aaron’s house to talk to him about this case, and he freaked out.  But what was revealed was that he had a nice home in a very nice neighborhood.  That in itself isn’t uncommon in Butler County, Ohio.  But his sense of entitlement is something we had just witnessed on the whole Lakota schools superintendent issue, where reckless sexual lifestyles destroyed that guy once the public learned just how bad they were.  These are unionized employees with a sense of entitlement that is common in most labor union activity, where they want to be paid top dollar for some of the worst results that come from any labor activity.  They want all the money without any responsibility.  And when they get into trouble, as they certainly have in Butler County, Ohio, they circle the wagons and blame everyone who isn’t in the union.  In this case, the only person without a labor union relationship is the little girl. 

Over the years, I have argued this point extensively, and the impact of the disaster hasn’t changed.  I think it should be illegal for any labor union to be connected in any way to a taxpayer dollar.  We went down that path in 2012 when we thought we had a good governor in Kasich before everyone got a hold of him and destroyed him into just another progressive.  Sheriff Jones and I were on opposite ends of that issue, and they managed to hang on to their government unions for a while longer.  These days, President Trump has the labor union vote, so everyone is in a big Republican tent these days on the issue.  But it doesn’t change what labor unions are.  And what you get with them is too expensive, and the performance is terrible.  In this Butler Tech case, the measure of success is whether they have kids to put in the program.  Not what they learn or what happens to them along the way.  Unionized labor attached to government has been a disaster, and what you get from them is a horrendous performance with a perpetual sense of entitlement, like they are owed their jobs.  And they don’t feel they have to compete with anybody else to have them.  Then, when something goes wrong, they collectively circle the wagons and protect each other from the results.  Their goals are not in performance but in concealment and protection from expectations in results. 

Sheriff Jones, the same guy who talks to me about law and order and not putting up with terrorists coming into our community, took the union position on this Butler County jail case, saying that their prosecution of the girl was based on her admission.  And that all the kids sign a waiver (I don’t think sodomizing kids was on the sheet) and that she was almost 18, so that’s close enough.  She could be hired into the jail in a few months anyway.   And he said these things to reporters, thinking they were perfectly acceptable statements in a sane world.  And I know he doesn’t believe any of those things, yet he was saying them, as all brotherhood members do when one of them gets into trouble.  That’s why those kinds of people seek union membership.  And labor unions aren’t just a disaster in government occupations.  In the private sector, if you call up a supplier looking for your thing, and the person you are talking to can see it on a shipping dock through a window, waiting for someone to put it on a skid to be loaded onto a truck.  But they can’t load it themselves because they need a union guy to do it, so they have to wait for him to come off his 4-hour break, watching Loony Toons on his cell phone to load the truck.  That is how it is with all unionized labor and why they aren’t competitive in the world marketplace.  They cost too much, do too little, and when you need to know who’s responsible, they never admit to anything.  When they get into trouble, they rally behind their brother and sisterhoods to protect each other from judgment.  And that is why everyone involved gets away with horrendous behavior.  The only people who pay are those who are not in the union.  The union members, or those who directly benefit from the unionized labor, get away with everything because it’s part of their collective bargaining strategy.  If you try to pin them down on something then they take the labor away completely, making enforcement of policy nearly impossible.  So everyone just avoids punishment and discipline from bad decisions.  And it’s so disgraceful that it takes logic and good people and turns them into grotesque monsters who perpetuate evil to get easy and unearned paychecks, as is the case with Aaron Fitzgerald and many others.   

Rich Hoffman

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Dave Yost for Ohio Governor: The world needs people wearing more cowboy hats

I think it’s a great idea, with Attorney General Dave Yost of Ohio becoming the next governor.  I thought it was even better when I attended a recent event for Yost where the announcement was formally made, and I saw that he was wearing a cowboy hat.  That’s what the future of Ohio needs, and America in general in a post-Biden, second term of Trump, are more people wearing cowboy hats because, to me, cowboy hats stand for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.  Growing up, that was always the mantra of Superman, and I knew there was trouble in the 1990s when comic book publishers and entertainment producers stopped letting anybody say that term because they knew what they were up to.  Globalism was about destroying personal references of excellence, whether individual or national, and Superman’s statement was undoubtedly against the new rules of global citizenship.  But when I wear a cowboy hat, that is what I think about and want to project to the world: Truth, Justice, and the American Way.  And when Trump is back in office, that is on the menu, and it will need to be for many years.  I would consider it the top issue of our modern times.  And the entire world is looking to us to be all that and, even more, to carry a light for them to follow into eternity.  But first, we must survive the present and a dark menace that has permeated the human race since the dawn of time.  And to beat it, the world needs a few more cowboy hats.  And I was thrilled to see many people, including the Attorney General, wearing a cowboy hat to this event in Butler County in the middle of June 2024, just a few months ahead of the Trump election for a second term. 

It’s been a while since I spoke to Sheriff Jones, one of the people at the Yost event.  Over the years, we have gotten along on some issues very well but not so much on others.  However, as it has come up often recently, as there have been a lot of contentious fights within the Butler County Republican Party, the trick is that we want a big tent.  And with a big tent, there are many people who come from a variety of backgrounds and commitment levels.  There are some very passionate people in the Republican Party, especially at the Central Committee level, who live, breathe, and will crawl through broken glass naked to fight for what’s right, and they have very little tolerance for a political class that is in it for the money, fame, or power that comes with holding a public office.  But, we do need money, fame, and some level of ruthlessness to solve many of the problems that we have in the world, which is why I have been saying since 2015 that Trump would be the best representative for the head of the Republican Party.  Getting here has been a long journey, and I want to see a big tent Republican Party.  I tend to find things I have in common with people when I do team-building activities.  I stay away from the things I disagree with.  When Sheriff Jones and I talked a bit, we agreed on a lot, especially in law and order.  Which I think will be a significant theme in America over the next decade.  I want a strong sheriff in my community, a big, imposing guy, and a gunslinger, to be honest.  And one who supports gunslingers to ensure that we have Truth, Justice, and the American Way preserved for future generations, no matter what.  Defenders of the Constitution need to be ruthlessly vigorous toward committing to justice for all.  I also want a strong attorney general.  I want strong members of the Senate and representatives.  And I want a powerful governor on the frontier of law and order.  Crime and illegal immigration that have expanded the drug trade are core problems that will take vigilance in lofty quantities.

I am even more strict than the Sheriff regarding the death penalty for crimes. But Jones is pretty close to my own thoughts. Save money with the trial and court lawyers. Justice is what matters most.

I was proud of Sheriff Jones and his bit on Fox Nation, which was very good and played at this event.  That is what all sheriffs in America should strive to be.  Jones projected on a big stage how I wanted Butler County, Ohio, to be known to the world, and he has managed to maintain a big platform that projects that commitment to law and order to a corrupt world that might think better of bringing their mess to our community.  But if they do, we must be ready to deal with them.  Jones has a plan for that, too, which we talked about.  I am perfectly fine with discussing philosophical differences in a big-tent Republican Party with people all over the spectrum of ideology.  But to do that, we have to beat the bad guys, which the Republican Party can certainly rally behind and will need to do in the coming months and years.   And if Sheriff Jones calls me, he has my number, day or night, and requires some community support to pursue law and order, I am there, by the bucket load—no question or hesitation.  I am happy that we have him as a sheriff and a police force to deal with threats to our lives and livelihoods.  But sometimes they need our help, and he knows from me that he has that help anytime, especially if diabolical terrorists are running around from dumb, dumb Biden’s open border policies intent on the destruction of America by hostile domestic enemies, such as George Soros and his mega-donors of billionaires from the World Economic Forum.  Failure is not an option when it comes to law and order. 

I have heard about this Dave Yost for Governor ticket for a while now, and I like how it is shaping up.  I don’t know who else from the Republican Party is planning to make a serious run; the Attorney General is the first to make his intentions known, as it does take a few years to build up the brand for such a thing.  And I like some of the people becoming part of that Yost ticket.  I am becoming increasingly excited about it day by day.  By the time that election happens, Trump will be in year two of his second term, and there are a lot of bad guys in the world who need justice brought to their doorsteps. I want Ohio to be one of those states.  As I saw Dave Yost greeting people in his cowboy hat, and tall, imposing body, I could see a future that looked much brighter than the one we had been dealing with.  These dark days of Biden could be coming to an end along with all the domestic terrorism of Barack Obama and his band of misfits from the Weather Underground.  I want someone like Dave Yost working with the Trump administration in that governor’s seat.  Sheriff Jones is on board and has been working with Trump for a long time.  Butler County is covered, but we need all of Ohio headed in that direction. So yes, we put our disagreements aside and put the party first, and we had a group hug.   We needed it because justice is required; there are plenty of bad guys to go after, and we will.  And on that, we can all agree. 

Rich Hoffman

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The War on Porn and the Hustler Store in Monroe, Ohio: How the political left lied about sex and sophistication–and economic development

Yes, they lied to you when they said that sex peddling was a victimless crime.  When the great argument between Simon Leis and Larry Flint in Cincinnati, Ohio, over smut in the country’s cleanest city became the talk of the world in the 1970s, the crazed owner of Hustler would go to jail for his industry of indecency.  The political left has always tried to use sex as a free speech topic, just as they are doing with pot and transgender issues now.  The radical sex education that we are now seeing in public schools started a long time ago, and the more we let them get away with it, the more they kept coming.  We ended up with a Hustler of Hollywood store in Butler County, Ohio, right down the road from my house.  Larry Flint wanted revenge for all that happened to him as he was prosecuted by Leis and driven in the media over the edge of existence by Charlie Keating.  Flint would do then as he did with President Trump and put out a bounty for any dirt he could get on political figures who stood against him.  And in the case of Keating, he put out publicly, with free speech, a bounty for the rape of Keating’s daughter, which occurred on April 12th, 1977, in Burnet Woods on the University of Cincinnati campus.  I had a front-row seat to all of it, and I remember why Flint said he wanted to put that Hustler of Hollywood at our Butler County Monroe exit.  It was to attack the morality of Cincinnati that they couldn’t stop the porn advocates under the banner of using the First Amendment to undermine our entire society.  And when people traveled down I-75 from the north into the Cincinnati city limits, the first thing they would see was a porn shop run by Larry Flint, which is still standing.

But the story doesn’t end there.  What many people don’t know is that the mob bankrolled Larry Flint, the same crime families that had been running the sex shops and strip clubs in Newport, Ohio, and Covington across the river from Cincinnati.  I have talked about my employment by the mob before, from restaurants on Chester Rd in Sharonville to Mike Fink’s on the river of Ohio, and I can say that even in the 80s, the mob was still very active in cleaning their crime money through legitimate businesses.  The smut business was an easy cover for their other crimes because it attracted the attention of the public.  The FBI was in on the game, too; over time, the mobs became tired of running from the FBI, so they became the leaders, and it all went back to the first top cop, J. Edger Hoover, Bobby Kennedy, and the Beverly Hills Supper Club.  But what kept everyone from digging into the blood-soaked streets that might scare away convention businesses across the river in Cincinnati was that people like Larry Flint were valuable distractions so the mobs could operate without fear of prosecution.   It was just another form of a Cloward and Piven strategy that we see now happening on such a grand scale.  That’s because they learned it from the mobs in Cincinnati and the battles with Larry Flint during the early 70s, 80s, and 90s.  But as Clinton was in the White House, the smut kings felt untouchable.  The internet was coming along but was not yet the free porn provider that it is now, so another business moved in next to the Hustler property in Monroe with the same kind of intentions.  It was Bristol’s topless strip club that was right in the heart of Butler County, off the highway, and became an embarrassment that still permeates to this day. 

From around the mid-1990s until 2010, Bristol’s was a little strip club intent on destroying community values in one of the most family-friendly areas of the entire state, and it was an attack.  I knew many people who went there, and I knew people who worked there.  So, I know pretty explicitly what went on.  In the back of the place, there was a sizeable outside playground where clothing was optional, and anybody could play volleyball with topless young girls.  The place was a major blight on our community in Butler County, and it all started with Larry Flint wanting to desecrate the Cincinnati area’s family values purposely.  But even more so, behind all that was organized crime using porn and compromised men to control them politically.  Because who in their right mind could resist the temptation of 22-year-old girls and their boobies?  Not many, and to this day, most people drive by that location and pretend it’s not there.  Because they are ashamed of what they did there, and they’d love to forget about it; these days, with the government learning from the mob how to control mass populations with porn, it’s free and easy to get on the internet.  But that is another story of destruction that we haven’t yet dealt with.  But when we drive by the Hustler Store in Monroe, Ohio, it’s doing what Larry Flint wanted to do, and that reminds everyone that he was in charge because he was the provider of the forbidden fruit human beings couldn’t resist.  And ultimately, he could control society through their vices.  That’s why the mobsters put Larry Flint up as their front guy.  And he did his job well for them. 

By 2018, the Bristol property had closed and was torn down.  Despite being one of the country’s hottest commercial real estate properties, it remains empty.  Every time I look at it, I think it would be an excellent location for a Love’s Travel Center.  I have been everywhere in the country, and few highways stops are as great as that one in Monroe.  I think I have been to every exit up and down I-75 from Michigan to Florida, I-71, and many along I-70, I-80, and I-90.  And the old Bristol property next to the Hustler of Hollywood location is enormous.  There has been talk of a car dealership moving into the site, but there has not been much activity.  Why? Because it’s a scar from the past when strippers compromised many Butler County men away from their wives and families.  Most people now stop by that highway access port and avoid looking in that direction to avoid shame.  And that is the price of smut on economic activity.  What the political left sold as sophisticated free speech was just a mobster’s position of hiding their crime syndicates with vice and immorality.  And you always end up with a society that has fallen from grace and is empty of resolve, which ends up in a degraded state.  People like Larry Flint were purposefully evil and looking to turn the American Constitution on its head for the destruction of our country and to desecrate anybody who might try to save it from people like him.  And to this day, the effects of that war are still constant reminders of what happened in Monroe, Ohio.  Instead of being a thriving place, which Monroe deserves, it has a haze of guilt over it that makes it come across as just another truck stop exit catering to the needs of lonely truckers and their dirty need for unregulated sex.  And it’s messy, and Larry Flint stuck his sign of smut in the ground for us to forever see.  And he laughed at us as he did it while many men who might have stood against it snuck away from their homes to enjoy the temptations of misspent youth playing nude volleyball within view of the southbound ramp to I-75.  And there was nothing any moralist could do about it because it was a legally protected operation.  The mob had moved into the government, and before anybody could dig too deep, most people were compromised and could not stop it.  These guys played for keeps, and we have the kind of government we do today, primarily because of those efforts by Larry Flint and his Hustler enterprise.  There were a lot of casualties in that smut war, and the guilt of that war is still very much alive and well by the lack of good development at that Hustler site, which continues to hold back economic growth in Butler County that otherwise would have thrived.  Which, of course, answers the question about morality and economic activity.  The political left indeed lied, just as the Bible said they would.  But only too late did anybody realize just how much.

Oh, sure, we’ve all heard it before.  Mind your own business.  Don’t stick your nose of morality into my life.  It’s all about free speech and freedom of choice.  Well, I care about my community, and the decisions of these smut peddlers have lowered the value of property in my community, and I have always taken it personally.  As a legal premise, there is no legal “greater good” over “individual value.”  There is case law that leans away from individual value and favors the greater good, but those arguments are rooted in interpretive mistakes.  Because the same kind of thing is going to happen with pot legalization.  There are consequences for bad decisions, and porn was always a bad decision.  And we can see the results of that bad decision at that Monroe exit.  Sure, people own the property and have a right to do what they want with it.  Until they impact the lives of other people, which is what that history of porn in Monroe has left us all tarnished with.  And is a lesson we should all be learning from and applying to legislation and zoning in the future.

Rich Hoffman

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Sheriff Jones on Glenn Beck: Talking out of both sides, especially when it comes to Darbi Boddy

As much as I think we all want to get behind Sheriff Jones’ terrorist watch initiative in Butler County, Ohio, I couldn’t help but wonder if the same guy talking on the Glenn Beck Radio Show was the person who had stripped away the CCW of school board member Darbi Boddy, over a bogus civil protection order filed against her.  Anybody with any logic knows that Sheriff Jones has played his part in allowing another school board member, Isaac Adi, to file a motion of protection against Darbi Boddy essentially over pure politics.  The lawyers who run the Lakota school board don’t want someone like Darbi, a staunch conservative MAGA type of community representative negotiating labor contracts with the radical leftist teacher’s union, so they have all worked in the background to find some way to remove Darbi from the school board by some legal nonsense such as this civil protection order that Isaac filed against Darbi, constructed on the back of a napkin and abused by several political figures in the know.  This is a clear case of abuse of government power to subvert the will of the voters who put Darbi in office.  But because these political figures, and their legal handlers reject who the voters put in their political club, they have turned toward the power of abusive government to edit that decision in a vile and disgusting way.  So when Sheriff Jones, who is at the center of the case, says to Glenn Beck, “The sheriffs work for the people, and if the people don’t like the job they do, they can vote them out.”  That clearly isn’t the message in the Darbi Boddy case.  The unsaid statement from politicians like Jones is that we control the law, and we can come up with anything to destroy you, including taking away your CCW over a phony political charge meant to keep an elected officeholder off her duties for 90 days so they can appoint some weak loser they can control for contract negotiations.  Essentially, the local version of Joe Biden, to join the others they have allowed on the school board.  Wherever there is a lot of money, we should expect this kind of corruption.  But what is new is that we learned the lawyers are actually the activists behind election fraud, which is what all this is: the removal of a public pick for office to manage the affairs of the community. 

Sheriff Jones had a pretty good meltdown at a nomination interview with the Central Committee types at the end of 2023, where he did not get an endorsement.  His response was anger in stating that he didn’t need a party endorsement, and his response for his upcoming re-election was to go it alone.  So he has picked this immigration issue, which we all agree on, and booked himself on several big national shows to bring celebrity representation into Butler County, which we also like.  I like seeing my sheriff on the Glenn Beck Show and other places discussing important counter-terrorism topics.  But we also expect to walk the walk and not just talk about it.  Jones was in trouble with the Central Committee people because of how he handled the Darbi Boddy situation and Lakota school politics in general, especially the behavior of the previous superintendent.  Then there is the Roger Reynolds case; Jones has been caught many times trying to destroy his political rivals over the last several years, so there wasn’t an option to vote him out of office.  He destroys anybody who might try.  After I learned from several people who knew what happened between Jones and the Central Committee, I thought we probably should have put up someone to run against him.  But people liked him enough to give him the benefit of the doubt, so in that way, Jones sabotaged any rivals before they could be put forth. 

So, the guy we heard on the Glenn Beck Program was not the same person we are dealing with in our community.  I wish it were. I like that Sheriff Jones who can do media and represent us nicely to the rest of the world, and I’ve told him that directly on more than one occasion.  But this activist who uses the power of office to abuse that power and take down political rivals, such as what is happening against Darbi Boddy, is what makes the world a much worse place.  In Darbi’s case, the sheriff who pulled her CCW is a sheriff by the name of David Duchak from Miami County.  But all these sheriffs know each other, especially on this issue. Sheriff Jones has allowed it to happen and done all he could to blow on the embers of discontent, only not directly to maintain plausible deniability.  My statement on who cares about a Concealed Carry Permit, we are a Constitutional Carry state for just this very purpose.  We can’t ultimately trust the government not to abuse its power, so gun rights are a check on that power, and the police don’t get to use the machine of politics to disarm the public.  I view a CCW as a good practice and will continue to maintain one.  But in Ohio, it’s not necessary.  This is also the problem with red flag laws.  When it can abuse its power, as it is against Darbi Boddy, to remove her from an elected office they don’t want her in, the government can use the law to destroy people, including disarming them under some bogus suspicion generated by that same government.  Who believes a big man like Isaac Adi is terrified of a 110-pound Darbi Boddy dripping wet?  (Which is why most women don’t like her) Yet because Isaac made an accusation, the powers of government have been allowed to ruin the life of Darbi Boddy in very destructive ways, particularly on gun rights. 

Meanwhile, the terrorists are a real threat, and we do need to do what Sheriff Jones is saying, at least to the media.  Private people are the fine line between success and failure, which we just recently saw when young thugs at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl party opened fire into the crowd of a million or so and were stopped by private citizens bold enough to put an end to the senseless violence.  The police were then called to come in and clean up the mess.  And now that the Biden administration has allowed many terrorist cells into our nation through his open border policy, we have a lot of similar threats that are undoubtedly going to continue.  And our best hope of minimizing casualties from this threat is to have private people helping law enforcement manage the danger.  And Darbi Boddy is one of those people with whom Sheriff Jones should be aligned, not antagonizing over political power.  You can’t talk out of both sides of your mouth.  You either want to stop terrorist threats with community involvement, or you just want to go on Glenn Beck and other shows to talk a good game to get re-elected so that you can just abuse the power of elected office to bring meaning to a life otherwise lacking.  But you can’t have it both ways, which is why the Central Committee was hesitant to endorse him in the first place.  Sheriff Jones’ performance had come into question, and people have been thinking about firing him.  Yet it’s not nearly as simple as he tried to make it sound to Glenn Beck.  But we don’t have anybody to rival him because he has used government power to push away rivals and maintain himself as the only choice.  But if anything, that lack of community unification has made us much more vulnerable to terrorism than anything else, and Sheriff Jones has undoubtedly played his part in that discontent. 

Rich Hoffman

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Stopping Terrorism in Butler County, Ohio: The FBI is warning about the danger, and it will be up to us to prevent it

Regarding Sheriff Jones, my local sheriff in Butler County, Ohio, I prefer to have a good relationship.  We do not always see eye to eye on things.  But, in 2024, he is a supporter of President Trump, and so long as he is on the good side of Nancy Nix and a few other people who share a common interest, we are in a decent place.  I happen to love Nancy Nix, so as a political foundation, everything starts from there.  If he’s good with her, we can find common ground to work with.  These are not the times to focus on political differences but on what we have in common and as I would expect my sheriff to do, Jones, who is up for re-election, went to Washington D.C. to meet with the head of the FBI, Christopher Wray to get a briefing on the obvious, the very real possibility that terrorism will be unleashed in 2024 as yet another form of election interference from the radical left that put Obama and this goofball Biden in the White House, to bring so much misery and destruction that we have been witnessing.  I’m not a fan of Wray, the FBI, or the other intelligence agencies.  I’m not particularly trusting of any law enforcement, as the temptation to abuse their power is a thin line that often fails.  But law enforcement, like our government in general, is something you must have to maintain a civil society.  You want them to have the power to do their jobs but never enough power to become an authoritarian regime where their power goes to their heads, which is certainly the case with the FBI.  They are out of control, untrustworthy, and dangerous.  But when they are worried about domestic terrorism, we should all listen.  And they are worried.

The problem, of course, is the apparent border invasion that the Democrats in America have unleashed with the help of the George Soros Open Border Society to expand globalism as a military endeavor, to destroy national concepts all over the world, and to replace them with corporate communism.  With more than 10 million illegal migrants flooding the American southern border, there is always going to be a percentage of them who are prone to terrorist activity, and they are now lost by the many thousands within America as sleeper cells ready to do their malice.  So Chris Wray is warning sheriffs all over the country to be on the lookout and to do what they can to stop terrorism from these border insurgents wherever possible.  Of course, the most significant danger to this well-intentioned alliance is that the FBI’s suggestion is to violate more constitutional rights for the safety of all and to expand the government and resources that money can buy through taxes to deal with the incursion.  That’s the old Cloward and Piven strategy as provoked by the left, overwhelm our system with dangerous malcontents and hope they erode away our concept of safety and run for the skirts of mother government for protection.  Well, as much of a danger as that may be, that is not what Sheriff Jones is proposing.  Jones is generally good when it comes to protecting Constitutional concepts, he was good during Covid.  We may disagree on other things along the lines of how much power police should have and the abuses that come with police work when power is abused, and mistreatment in society is unleashed.  But in this terrorism case, he has a similar view to the one he has with firearm carry policies.  He wants to help people help themselves so we can help them and law enforcement keep our society safe.  If you see something, say something, and know what to recognize and when. 

To that point, Jones is getting behind terrorist recognition classes to help educate communities on recognizing potential terrorist activity, which I think is a good idea.  I believe that there is a very probable chance that we will see not just one terrorist activity in America, perhaps more significant than 9/11 during 2024, but several.  And we cannot lose our minds as a country when we experience them.  We have to keep ourselves together and put Trump back in office so we can get this country back under control.  The immigration policy of the left has been a military attack, and that’s how we must see it.  The purposeful displacement of multicultural insurgents hidden within the ranks of the hungry and innocent is a malicious attack meant to destroy our society.  And it will be a painful process to clean up.  But you can bet that these same characters will do anything to stop Trump, including unleashing terrorist cells to invoke crises of such a magnitude that elections will be disrupted, and the government can unleash emergency orders to change how we do things Constitutionally.  We will not have the luxury to spend 20 years dealing with a terrorist attack like 9/11 or the Oklahoma City Bombing.  We will get about 5 minutes.  Without question, there are plans to implement several of these horrendous acts, and the FBI is telling us they don’t have control.  The CIA has been caught all too often tampering with other people’s governments, including our own.  They were involved in the document of 51 agents who stated that the Biden laptop was Russian propaganda, so they are looking for a way to erase their sins in all this as well.  Nothing unifies the country like pain and death, so beware.  There are a lot of sins that bad people are perfectly willing to cover up by keeping Trump out of the White House and the world on lockdown, even worse than we saw in 2020. 

We must stop terrorism person to person

This crisis of magnitude demands our best as a culture and community.  And I would highly encourage as many people as possible to take the classes Sheriff Jones is making available.  Work with law enforcement as much as possible to help them be better.  I think it’s unrealistic to prevent terrorist activity from happening.  I believe the best we can hope for is to minimize the damage from terrorist intentions, much like the rules we have with concealed carry.  Just because you carry a gun, that doesn’t mean you can stop aggressive shooters who seek to kill first.  But we can minimize the casualties by halting the bloodshed when we see it—the same with terrorism.  The object is to terrorize people, so the best way to prepare for that is not to let them terrorize our society.  Detect it, report it, and stop it where you can ahead of time.  But when it does happen, don’t become neutralized by fear.  Be ready to engage it appropriately and root out the villains by supporting law enforcement so they can do what they are designed to do.  We’ll have time to have political debates later.  But we need to survive as a culture first, and some hostile sleeper cells have crossed over into America with crime as their goal in life, who want to destroy everything it means to be an American.  So it is our task to pull together to stop them and to put that aggression in the other direction, and make them, the antagonizers, the terrorists, and the cutthroat criminal syndicates, flee for their lives.  I am often critical of too much police, and I have been very critical of the upcoming police levy in Liberty Township.  I see too many cops sitting around looking for things to do.  But as I say too, you need a certain amount of law enforcement to have a civil society and the point of politics is to figure out that sweet spot, how much is just right.  But putting up with crime is not an option. I was on my way to Tractor Supply a few days ago and I saw a car pulled over in front of the Elk Run Golf Course with about four police vehicles and five ratty-looking scum bags pulled out of a car with all its doors open and drug dogs sniffing out corruption from drug-induced lunatics.  And I was thrilled to see the police doing a good job.  I wanted to get out of the car and give them all high fives because that’s how you keep evil characters from harming our communities.  Don’t put up with bad behavior.  When you see it, call it out and give it back to them before they can give it to you.  And if we do that a lot more in 2024, we might get through it with minimum casualties. Hopefully, everyone will get through it.  But at the very least, diligence will save lives, and we should work together to do that. 

Rich Hoffman

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Vote No on the Liberty Township Police Levy on March 19th, 2024: There is nothing more dangerous than bored cops with a lot of power

No, I’m not voting for more money to go to the police in the Liberty Township Police levy that everyone is voting for on March 19th. If President Trump were talking to me, I’m sure he would say, “back the blue.” And most people, especially where I live, will support the police no matter what they ask for, really beyond rationality. But I’m not one who falls for the whole “they run into danger when we run out” diatribe. If the police want my help, anytime, I’d be happy to do anything dangerous that they are asked to do. I could tell them right now where all the drug dealers are. I know where most of the scum bags live. And where a lot of the crime is of a general nature, and I would love to be deputized to bust all those losers, if that was the actual game everyone was into. I’m not a “no cop” guy by any means. We need them in society, but to what level? I’ve lived in Liberty Township, Ohio, longer than most people have been alive, and we’ve managed quite well when we had next to no police presence at all. What makes a society safe is good people, not more unionized cops. So when the police ask for a 3.3. mill levy I think they are only worth the .3 to me. If you want a couple of cops to fill out paperwork when there is an accident or something, then fine. But do we need 40 cops full-time and a bunch of bureaucratic leadership? I don’t think so, especially after my experiences with them, which I talked about on Christmas morning of 2023 when it looked like I was about to get swatted and had to run them off from gathering in front of my house. They said they were there just killing time and dispersed. But I’ve seen a lot of that behavior out of the police in my area, and I think from my experience that we’d be better off without them. I’d rather have volunteer law enforcement, which I could get excited about. I don’t want another expansion of a government union because they are too expensive and often too lazy.

Everywhere I go, at all hours of the day, I see these police officers sitting around looking for something to do, just as they did in front of my house on Christmas morning. A lot of people are more sympathetic to police sitting in front of their houses and would say, “Aren’t you happy to have the police keeping you safe while everyone is all nice and cozy in their houses?” I say no. Cops are there for the paperwork. But I could see why people who don’t know how to shoot guns or are timid personalities would want to hire out their safety to a bunch of people who should be spending their time on a diet plan. Most of these guys have had a Twinkie too many and don’t represent the best the human race offers. I’m not very proud of how many of them look or act. I see too many employees sitting around with very little to do, and to me, that makes for very dangerous people. There are few things more dangerous in life than a bored cop with nothing better to do than to try to make themselves look useful. Cops can get into all kinds of mischief and become detrimental to the public trust. And that is not a price worth paying for, because it often causes more trouble than they are worth in social misery.

As corrupt as it gets

But it was the Liberty Township cops from the Sheriff’s department that really dropped the ball on the administrator misconduct at Lakota schools where they rationalized away a truly dangerous situation when it came to administrators from another government union, who had stated fascination with sexual encounters with children. And when I tried to help them out, they referred to me in a police report as the “bald guy with a bullwhip,” which everyone knows about, but it was very disrespectful. They should have been busting all the administrators who showed an inclination toward child pedophilia, especially those working as employees at the school, but they brushed it off as the fantasy of adults and that the activity wasn’t illegal. They have time to sit on the side of the road and harass people for speeding and traffic violations, but they do not have the time to investigate reported and possible crimes against pedophilia properly. No wonder Mike Gmoser, the prosecutor in Butler County, had a family member involved in one of the most significant child pornographic cases that saw him get life in prison—or at least until the story cools down and he can pull some strings to get him out early. These crimes happen right in front of all these cops’ faces, and most of the time, they can be found on the side of the road playing on their phones, not doing real police work or detective work. They do all too often as they did at Lakota schools; they clean up unionized messes that might get out to the public and put caps on the story. They aren’t protecting kids. My experiences with some of these cops as they interacted with Lakota schools were embarrassing at best and not worth the money they wanted for this March 19th Levy in Liberty Township, Ohio.

The police are there to pick on people to protect political power, but when it comes to real crime, they are too busy playing on their phones.

Some police were there to enforce a corrupt law that Judge Lyons got involved in at Lakota by issuing a citation to Darbi Boddy, the famous school board member, to play their part in trying to remove her from the school board.  As Darbi reported to her elected duty to attend a meeting recently, some police were there to escort her off the property and issue her a citation that she is still dealing with.  She has another hearing on January 29th 2024, and is on her second lawyer on this grotesque abuse of power.  They threatened her with jail, which is still a possibility, and have worked to keep her away from Lakota schools to perform what she was elected to do over a phony charge that traces back to the legal firm Frost Brown and Todd and an upcoming teacher union contract negotiation.  They are tough guys to pick on a local mom while her husband serves overseas and she’s alone most of the time to defend herself.  Why would we want to pay for more people like these guys who obviously serve whatever political power has power?  If they were serving law and order, they might make a case.  But I have seen too much corruption out of this group to pay them 3 million dollars’ worth of a taxpayer’s budget.  Like my incident on Christmas morning, why would I want to fund agents of antagonization, people who would fight on behalf of my political enemies?  Because that’s what they have been doing.  Where the danger has genuinely been, they have been playing in their cars on their phones all night doing nothing.  But when there is a threat to the political order, suddenly, they are removing people like Darbi Boddy from school boards and prosecuting the innocent with their grotesque abuses of power.  No, I will be voting no on that ridiculously expensive levy.  That’s too many cops that we are paying too much to sit around and get themselves into trouble.  And I would suggest a community volunteer force instead.  It would be far more effective.

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota Trying to Run Out the Clock on Darbi Boddy: The revelation of wealth confiscation and business terrorism behind a vile plot of judicial activism

This is an important story because it’s essentially the same playbook happening nationally regarding politics and legal gymnastics.  Now that we’re in a new year, the Darbi Boddy case at Lakota schools is an interesting discussion because it involves local issues that are precisely the same as those being applied to President Trump, revealing a game plan that wasn’t so obvious.  That information is valuable for understanding all the various characters and what they are up to, which we would never have learned anything about if not for the election of Darbi Boddy.  But to catch everyone up, the media has gone cold on the story since the glitter has worn off over the last several weeks.  All through December of 2023, the thoughts were that Darbi Boddy, the Lakota school board member, was going to be thrown in jail for violating a court order to stay away from another Lakota school board member, Isaac Adi, who ran with her in a recent election with a GOP endorsement.  A lot has occurred since then to show lots of political tides and community sentiment that essentially had those two in conflict, resulting in a court action that required Darbi to stay 500 feet away from Isaac at all times, including school board meetings.  This left everyone scratching their heads as to what the motive was, and to fulfill her role as a school board member, Darbi has been fighting for her right to attend the meetings as she was elected to do, which has now caused a violation of this court order, which has attached to it jail time and all kinds of penalties.  Then, after an arraignment on December 18th, the plot became much more straightforward as to what everyone was after, which is where it stands going into January of 2024, where her next court date isn’t until the 29th.  The goal has been to keep Darbi out of school board meetings so that they can then enact a 90 day penalty applied to school board members who vacate their post and can then be removed from the board.  This court case has been a plan to do what they couldn’t do any other way, to try and remove Darbi from the school board by running out the 90-day clock with stalled court dates and judicial activism. 

This is the same method that the Secretary of State has been using in Maine, Sheena Bellows, with her case to attempt to keep Trump off the primary ballot there using the 14th amendment.  We’re seeing in 2024 a plan we long suspected, but now under pressure is being revealed in truly audacious ways, especially in the Lakota case.  The use that government unions have baked into the system to appoint judicial activism manipulations as a means to protect their confiscation of wealth from taxpayers.  After all, if you get to the actual reason that there is so much hatred of Trump, it all points back to a radicalism of government unions, which touch just about everything that flows from tax money, everything from the FBI to teacher unions.  They don’t want a Trump negotiating anything regarding their wages and benefits, and their goal is to put the dumbest people possible into positions to rubber-stamp their renegotiated contracts.  Trump has shown that he is perfectly willing to work with unions, and many union members have crossed over from Democrats to support Republican positions because the President has been very reasonable in working with them.  But the labor union leaders attached to government unions want only one thing: weak community representation that is easy to control so that the best labor contracts are possible, which benefits them.  They don’t like Trump because they don’t want to negotiate, so we see this level of radicalism applied to him using legal gymnastics to protect their stranglehold over taxpayer wealth confiscation.  And the media plays along because most are involved in organized labor in some form or other.  We can talk about the Deep State and the conspiracies of the World Economic Forum.  But once the rubber hits the road, it all comes down to controlling the people who decide how government money is spent.  And they don’t want a Trump or a Darbi Boddy representing taxpayers standing in the way. 

I knew it would be a tough job when Darbi was elected.  She was tough and persistent, but I wasn’t sure how it would go because we had never seen anything like it at Lakota.  Lynda O’Conner asked me for help, so I went to help her get two more votes on the school board to represent a conservative point of view, and Darbi was one of them.  With three votes, I thought seeing what would happen next would be interesting.  And what we learned was that the only conservative was Darbi, who represented a kind of Tea Party approach to school board management.  The hatred applied to her was unreasonable and about much more than personal ideological differences.  So, the government school forces on all political sides showed their cards and went after Darbi with such an unreasonable hatred that has been beneficial in pointing out what I have been saying about the public schools for several decades.  And we have learned a lot of valuable lessons.  In the Lakota case, of course, there is a lot more to the legal case between Isaac and Darbi, where third-party members have been blowing on the actions against Darbi, hoping to start a fire that would burn her role on the school board down, and one of the surprising directions has come from the legal firm of Frost Brown and Todd ahead of the upcoming teacher union contract negotiations.  Once you trace the origins of the legal case against Darbi, it runs right into their door because they work on behalf of the school board to negotiate with the teacher’s union.  It has been revealed that they have been behind the strategy to play this legal game in attempting to destroy Darbi’s life just because she is in the way of those 2024 labor negotiations.  Darbi asks lots of questions that many of them do not want on any public record.  This is all based on what multiple people who know the situation have told me and is well more than rumor.  Not the opinions of slack-jawed losers, but thoughtful people well-positioned who are deeply concerned by what they have been seeing. 

For those concerned, Darbi Boddy has a new lawyer and is fighting these charges in a way that should clear her completely.  The charges against her are made-up nonsense on the back of a wet napkin in a Waffle House at 2 AM and don’t carry much weight, which is why they have been stalling with all these hearings.  Their primary goal is to hope to kick Darbi off the school board using that 90-day clause.  Then they can appoint some liberal to replace her position.  Attempts at being reasonable by having Darbi attend school board meetings and still satisfying the distance requirements with Isaac have been avoided because Lakota does not want to work to find a solution to accommodate Darbi Boddy as a school board member.  They want to get rid of her.  The revelation there is that the teachers’ union wants to assert the level of control they have over the entire situation.  This is how they ultimately get inflated contracts with astronomical benefits; they remove people in management who might resist their demands and put in place a bunch of powder puffs who are happy to give out awards to kids and do all the cosmetic stuff that makes community pride seem alive and well, while in the background this sinister progressivism of wealth confiscation turns the whole ordeal into significant business terrorism.  With Darbi’s continued legal fights, she intends to return to school board meetings and finish her term over the next two years.  But regardless of all that, the revelation of these legal games has been very educational.  It has taken some of these beliefs about how taxpayer money is spent out of conspiracy theory territory and placed them into political strategy on both a national scale and a local one.  It’s all the same game plan, and in knowing that, the weaknesses in their progressive positions are apparent.  And something we are far better off knowing than we were before.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Tipping the Scales Toward Equity for All: The legal strategy to destroy Darbi Boddy who stands in the way of those tipped scales

I have people tell me a lot of things. A lot of things. You should see my email inbox, and regarding notifications on my cell phone, my battery life usually only lasts for a few hours because the screen stays on so much with people sending me texts, calling me, or notifying me that I have a new email on one of my three accounts that average over 300 new emails per day each. I try to answer as much as possible, but it’s impossible. I must pick what I listen to, and out of all that information traffic, I have a lot of very well-connected people who give me a lot of valuable information every day, all days of the week. That’s how I know what is really going on behind the scenes at Lakota with Darbi Boddy and the phony prosecution of her by essentially the same kind of people who have been using the same legal gymnastics to go after Trump. For instance, Sheriff Jones has been coming up a lot lately because of the Butler County Republican Party’s desire to pull together after the defeat of Lynda O’Connor on the Lakota school board, who has her fingerprints all over this talk of sending Darbi to jail for six months and a fine of $1000 just for showing up at a school board meeting. We’ll get into that more in a moment. But the details are pretty explicit, and these people are well placed, and they aren’t slack-jawed, dope-smoking losers. But very responsible, and respected VIPs. And their comments would hold up in court with no problem. Anyway, these sources told me the story of three of them who asked Sheriff Jones directly how he could support a candidate to run against Thomas Hall, and against the nomination of the Republican Party, where he became very defensive and told them all to “bring it.” He was questioned why he thought he could be a leader in the Republican Party and behave against the endorsed candidates. He didn’t care what the Republican Party thought and was audacious to throw his weight around. And by itself, that is not a very exciting story. But it does lend value to what I’m about to say regarding a conspiracy by the Lakota school board to remove an elected representative in Darbi Boddy, which has all kinds of things wrong with it. Details matter, and I get plenty of them that add up to the kind of stories you don’t get from the local press.

The real villains behind the RINO political philosophy is behind this door

I know the law firm’s name and the person who told Lynda O’Connor how to remove Darbi Boddy from the school board by making Isaac Adi the vehicle. At this point, the name isn’t as important. However, lots of people already know about it. I’m interested in the intent. This is not a story about Darbi Boddy going to jail for violating some bogus court order controlled by Judge Lyons and all the Butler County network of hive-minded bureaucrats; this is about judicial activism by one of the area’s most respected law firms to destroy every way possible the life of an office holder elected by the public to do community business. And their deliberate tampering with that effort maliciously is where the real meat and potatoes are. I was livid when I found out that another attorney was being introduced to Darbi’s legal defense before her November 29th hearing to answer a citation given to her just for attending a school board meeting, and this guy wanted a $5000 retainer. The goal is obviously to put Darbi on her heels, destroy her economically, and consume her supporters with a rat race that the real bad guys were controlling. So I was just a little angry about it, let’s say that politely.

These law firms are very politically manipulative. Here is a screenshot of a big one in the Lakota area. Their words, their actions.

I had heard for weeks this revelation from many sources, well-placed sources who are close to all these people, how this law firm got involved and schemed with Lynda O’Connor to essentially override the voters by destroying the life of a fellow school board member.  And this is what lingers in the background with all these cases.  These law firms are very progressive and lean far left of center most of the time.  So if you are trying to manage a school district and they essentially own the minds of the school board, which is the case here, then you can elect all the school board members you want or put up elected representatives to handle our business, but it won’t matter.  Because in the background, these lawyers think they are in charge.  We see that with these multiple cases against Trump, and in Butler County, Ohio, Darbi Boddy is our local Trump, and they have pulled out all the legal stops to destroy her in all ways possible.  But why?  Well, teacher union contract negotiations are coming up next year, and the school board will want everyone to get along and not go on strike.  And guess who negotiates those contracts?  They brag about how many labor contracts they negotiate successfully, but many times, they take the position of labor against the taxpayers, and the best way to make that work is to get rid of those who oppose labor.  The taxpayers have plenty of money to give; they need to figure out how to take it from them and give it to the radical labor element.  So having a loose cannon like Darbi Boddy on the school board isn’t in their best interest, to be polite about it.  Based on what people have been telling me.

History is good to study because it explains the actions of the present

Now, I’m not at all impressed with this. I argued with several of their people during the Covid lockdowns about the correct course of action, and they turned out all to be wrong. Lawyers seldom give good advice; they usually only give answers that drag the clock out for another six minutes and line their pockets with gold they steal from you with a comprehension of Latin that they think you don’t understand. I was right then about the Supreme Court cases defeating all the lockdowns, and they were grotesquely wrong. So, as I hear this story about Darbi Boddy’s attackers, the unelected types who hide in the background all the time and destroy the Republican Party from the erosion that takes place in those types of relationships, I know we aren’t dealing with people of intellectual superiority. This scam of using Isaac as the fall guy while all these insiders pave the way for easy future labor negotiations makes perfect sense to me. It sounds like what lazy people on cruise control in life would do. And to mask it all, they have turned Darbi into the vehicle of collaboration. There’s an old Metallica song about this very kind of transference. I told Darbi personally to drop all these losers and let Lakota die on the vine. I don’t want her to be hit by friendly fire in the coming months. But she told me that she wants to help the kids and was elected to do a job, so she is dug in to do the right thing, which I admire. But for her to defend herself by this constant stream of court cases that these bad guys keep throwing at her is not the right strategy. The fight has to go where it belongs, where the real trouble is up to no good, to the real influencers controlling everything from behind a fragile curtain. We don’t need Toto to pull back the curtain to see them or what’s happening. Plenty of people know. They don’t know yet how to do something about it. But admitting to the problem is the first step, and after the conversations, I have had with people, talking to me about it has been part of that first step of admission, something they never thought they’d have to do.

For many in the world, they find safety in collectivism. It’s too scary to be an individual.
Sad but true, mass collectivists are at war with individualism in Butler County, Ohio

Rich Hoffman

The Cheating Spouse: Sara Carruthers Called Us”Extremists”

I wasn’t going to talk about what I’ve been saying to all the mostly guys in the Republican party of Butler County, Ohio in the wake of Lynda O’Connor’s loss from the Lakota school board until I read the comments from Sara Carruthers in the Journal News. Obviously, she was referring to me and some of the core team around me who are considered radicals where she said she hated the “extremism in the party.” And that she said, “I think it’s sad to have other Republicans fighting against you.” Well, she’s up for re-election and my message to her is, she’s next. And all those like her. We can’t fight Democrats when we don’t have Republicans in the party. So, we must go through this process to make things honest before we can ever consider winning in politics. Otherwise, it’s all an illusion. Everyone has probably seen the video that Candice Keller took of Butler County Commissioner Cindy Carpenter campaigning for a Democrat on election day. There are a lot of RINO Republicans operating in the Butler County GOP, and they have made their voices known more ostentatiously since Trump has been out of the White House. And many of us, just aren’t going to put up with it. I’ve never given any illusion that I would. I work with people. I listen to their point of view and give people an honest shake. But politically, I’m to the hard right of the Tea Party, and that isn’t going to change. Obviously, I’m interested in politics for different reasons than other people. So my comment to people who have been asking me why I can’t support these RINOs when we learn about them is that I always say, “I love all Republicans until they show me they aren’t. Then I hate them.” There is no middle ground.

One of those cheating spouses

Further, I have been saying to lots of people an obvious metaphor that is directly relatable. Political relationships are a lot like marriage, with marriage being something everyone can relate to in some way or another. And most of the people I have been talking to have been men. I have said this to women, but the context is from a male perspective. When you catch a woman climbing out of the window to sleep with someone else on the other side of town, don’t go out and buy her a diamond ring. It would be best if you were looking for ways to get away from her, not deepening the commitment. And in regard to Lynda O’Connor, I feel she cheated on me, and my way of dealing with that isn’t to profess my love for her, or even to hold my nose and pretend like we have a happy marriage. Once it’s over, for me, it’s over. Forever. My policy is to let the cheaters have their loves, their forbidden fruit. I won’t play happy family with tea on Sundays like there isn’t a problem. A lot of people with low self-esteem are afraid that they won’t ever find another spouse, or maybe there are kids and property that are all wrapped up in the marriage, so it’s just cheaper to put up with all the cheating and play happy family. I think a lot of people find themselves in this situation, and it rolls over into their political lives. Well, that’s not where I am. I want to believe in the people who represent us politically, and those are my standards and the standards of a lot of people I know and associate with. What I hear from all these crybabies after this 2023 election are complaints that we have standards and that we should give those up and put up with the cheating wife who crawls out the window to multiple lovers across town, to keep the kids together, essentially.

To people like Sara Carruthers, it is considered “extreme” to have values.  The Trump MAGA movement is considered “extreme” because it does not want to put up with the politics of the past, where values are thrown out the window, and concessions with evil are endorsed.  In those kinds of statements, I hear a lazy person who doesn’t want to do the hard work of representation and upholding the values of the community she represents.  That certainly was the anger at Lynda O’Connor.  She did not express the community’s sentiment; she worked against it, even working to silence the community from having an opinion.  And that is what many of the insiders in the wake of the 2023 election have been expressing: frustration that they couldn’t control the narrative and impose some low bar that the rest of the community would put up with so they could compete with low-level Democrats for office seats.  If that is what we have to do to compete with Democrats, to play their dumb game, then the answer is, no. I know many people who will be a hard pass on that approach.  What’s the difference then between a Democrat and a Republican if the brand is destroyed by becoming one of them?  When Cindy Carpenter (Sheriff Jones’ budget girl) is campaigning for Democrats on election day.  I’ll pass if that is the kind of teamwork Sara Carruthers is talking about.  Like I’ve also been saying a lot lately to the soft-shelled tacos of the Republican Party, “With Republicans like you, who needs Democrats.” 

Here’s the deal: everyone can do what they want, I’ll only tell you once, Trump will be back in office.  There is going to be a very violent and tumultuous four years coming up while we clean up years and years of neglect.  And anybody who wants to ride that political train, get on and fasten your seat belt.  I know many people willing to fight for what’s right, and they will either do it arm-in-arm with a political party or work against you.  So, you better catch up if you want to do anything political.  It’s not extreme to have “high expectations,” and we are talking about that.  The anger at Lynda, Sara, Cindy, Sheriff Jones, and many of the business owners of Butler County who are only in politics to protect their investments is that they do not match the high expectations of those interested in politics that represent their values.  The message is that everyone should lower their values to accommodate the cheating spouse just to maintain the façade of marriage.  Which a lot of people do.  But these “extremists” that Sara is referring to are not those types of people.  Sincerity and honesty are not bad traits, and it is those traits that these aftermath losers are indicating are holding back the Republican Party.  I know many bright young people who would run for some of these future political offices.  But they will not kiss a ring or play nice with their morality.  This is why we end up with losers who lack ethical standards in some positions, which is why the Republicans are losing.  Not because the expectations are too high but because the kind of people they want are too lazy and too compromised to live up to those standards.  The future of politics will force that issue to be addressed, ready or not.  And in Butler County, Ohio, many are not. 

Rich Hoffman