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The Failure of Eric Swalwell: When danger always lurks behind power

I’ve always said that Eric Swalwell was a crook. From the moment he burst onto the national scene as a freshman congressman from California back in 2013, something about the guy never sat right with me. He was Nancy Pelosi’s right-hand man in so many ways—her attack dog on Trump, her reliable vote on every progressive cause, and the guy who seemed to relish every opportunity to grandstand against conservatives like me who just wanted honest government. Remember how he behaved during the Supreme Court nominations? The way he went after Brett Kavanaugh with that smug certainty, or how he hammered away at Trump for years on everything from Russia to January 6th? It was all so performative, so self-righteous, while the man himself was hiding a mountain of personal failings that made those accusations look tame by comparison. 

I mean, let’s start with the elephant in the room that everyone on Capitol Hill has known about for years: the Chinese honey pot named Christine Fang, or “Fang Fang” as she was affectionately called by those who knew her. This woman wasn’t some random flirt; she was a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who embedded herself in California politics like a tick. She helped Swalwell with fundraising for his 2014 reelection campaign, placed an intern in his office, and had what can only be described as an uncomfortably close relationship with him. The FBI briefed him on her in 2015, and he cut ties—publicly claiming he cooperated fully and that the case was closed. But come on. A congressman on the House Intelligence Committee sleeping with a foreign agent who was actively cultivating access to American politicians? That’s not just reckless; it’s a national security red flag the size of the Golden Gate Bridge. And yet, the media gave him a pass. Pelosi and the Democratic machine circled the wagons, and Swalwell kept rising through the ranks, preaching about ethics and women’s rights while his own conduct screamed hypocrisy. 

Fast forward to early April 2026, and suddenly the mask slips in spectacular fashion. Between April 9 and April 11, four women came forward accusing Swalwell of sexual misconduct—unsolicited explicit photos sent to their phones, non-consensual encounters while they were intoxicated, abuse of power with staffers and interns, and offers of political access in exchange for sex. The San Francisco Chronicle and CNN laid it all out: one former staffer detailed how he raped her when she was too drunk to consent, leaving her bruised and bleeding. Another spoke of waking up in a hotel room with no memory after a night out, only to realize what had happened. These weren’t random accusers; they were people who worked for him or crossed paths in his professional world. Then, just a week later, around April 14 or 15, a fifth woman, Lonna Drewes from Beverly Hills, went public with her story of a 2018 incident where she believes she was drugged and raped—classic Cosby-style horror, complete with choking and loss of consciousness. She described it in harrowing detail at a press conference, standing with the other women and vowing to report it to law enforcement. By then, Swalwell had already suspended his campaign for California governor—the race he was leading as a top Democratic contender—and soon after resigned from Congress altogether amid a House Ethics investigation and calls for his expulsion from both sides of the aisle. 

I wasn’t surprised one bit. I’ve been watching this guy for over a decade, and the pattern was always there. The same Eric Swalwell who loved to lecture America about Donald Trump’s alleged mistreatment of women was allegedly drugging and assaulting young women in his orbit while holding positions of immense power. The irony is thicker than the fog rolling off the Bay. He positioned himself as a progressive champion, a defender of the vulnerable, all while his staffers and associates whispered about his behavior behind closed doors. And let’s not forget his wife—how does someone in that position not know or at least suspect? The whole thing reeks of the kind of entitlement that comes with unchecked power in Washington. You get elected, you surround yourself with ambitious young interns and staffers in their 20s and 30s who are hungry for advancement, and suddenly the lines blur. It’s not hard to see how it happens: a late-night drink after a long day on the Hill, a flirty text on Snapchat, an offer to “help” someone’s career. But when it crosses into coercion, assault, or exploitation, it becomes something far darker. 

What really gets me—and what should scare every American—is the timing and the coordinated silence until it became politically convenient. These women didn’t just materialize out of nowhere in April 2026. Rumors had been swirling on Capitol Hill for years about Swalwell’s personal life. Everybody knew, or at least suspected. Nancy Pelosi, his longtime ally and mentor in the California Democratic machine, suddenly developed amnesia? Please. The same Democrats who rushed to defend him during the Fang Fang scandal years earlier turned on him like a pack of wolves the moment he became a threat to their control of the governor’s race. California Democrats were already scrambling in a crowded field with no clear frontrunner—Katie Porter, Tom Steyer, Xavier Becerra, and others jockeying for position. Swalwell was polling strongly, and his presence was complicating matters, especially as Republicans like Steve Hilton were gaining ground. I picked Steve Hilton early on; I even had him at my place of business here in Ohio to announce aspects of his run alongside other conservative voices. I told folks over a year ago that this shakeup was coming. Now, with Swalwell out, Hilton’s leading in polls, and the race is wide open. Coincidence? Not a chance. This was a calculated hit from inside the party to clear the field and protect their power structure. 

I’ve seen this playbook before, right here in my own backyard in Ohio. Take the Cindy Carpenter case in Butler County— a local commissioner who couldn’t handle the power and got called out for misconduct. Republicans didn’t circle the wagons; we held her accountable and moved on to someone who could do the job without the drama. That’s how it’s supposed to work. But Democrats? They protect their own until the political math changes. Swalwell wasn’t exposed because of some noble pursuit of justice for these women. He was exposed because he was running for governor and threatening the status quo. The media that had ignored or downplayed his ties to Fang Fang for years suddenly amplified every accusation. The same outlets that spent years attacking Trump over Access Hollywood or Stormy Daniels looked the other way on Swalwell until it suited the narrative. It’s selective outrage at its finest, and it erodes trust in the entire system.

Think about the broader culture this reveals. Politics attracts ambitious people, especially young staffers and interns flooding into state capitals and Washington, D.C. They’re in their 20s and 30s, working long hours, volunteering for campaigns, hoping to climb the ladder. Some are genuine public servants; others see it as a shortcut to power, money, and influence. How do you stand out in a sea of thousands of eager faces? Exceptional work is one way, but too often it’s by compromising—attending the right parties, accepting the “extra” invitations, blurring professional boundaries for that extra boost. I’ve talked to enough people who’ve been through it to know the temptation is real on both sides. Power is intoxicating. You’re no longer “Dad” or “Husband” at home; you’re “Congressman Swalwell,” the guy with staff calling you “sir” and donors throwing money at you. Your family doesn’t worship you like the political machine does. It’s easy to fall into the trap of late nights, flattery, and affairs that make you feel alive again. But it takes real integrity to resist, and Swalwell clearly didn’t have it. The same goes for plenty of others—Anthony Weiner sending explicit photos while married to a Clinton insider, or the countless scandals we’ve seen from both parties. It’s human nature amplified by proximity to power. 

Swalwell’s hypocrisy on this front is what sticks in my craw the most. He spent years weaponizing accusations against Trump—impeachment after impeachment, endless hearings, public shaming—all while allegedly engaging in the very behavior he condemned. He preached progressive values, women’s empowerment, and holding the powerful accountable, yet treated his own staff and associates like personal playthings. The unsolicited explicit photos, the drugged encounters, the abuse of authority—it’s the kind of thing that would have ended any Republican’s career instantly. But for Swalwell, it took a gubernatorial bid and internal party pressure to bring it to light finally. Even then, he categorically denied everything, calling the claims “flat false” and vowing to fight them. Fine, let the investigations play out—due process matters. But the pattern, combined with the Fang Fang mess, paints a picture of a man who was always more interested in self-preservation and advancement than in serving the public. 

And don’t get me started on the media’s role. For years, they carried water for Swalwell. They platformed him as a fresh face against Trump, ignored the spy scandal’s implications, and only turned when the Democrat establishment signaled it was time. It’s the same machine that protected Biden’s obvious decline until it couldn’t, or that downplays scandals on their side while amplifying anything on the right. This isn’t journalism; it’s narrative control. The public deserves better. We need a vetting process that actually works—real scrutiny of candidates’ personal lives, financial dealings, and associations before they get near power. But in a system where the press picks sides, that rarely happens until it’s too late or politically expedient.

Looking back, I remember watching Swalwell’s rise and thinking, “This guy is too slick for his own good.” He went from local prosecutor to Congress, landed on the Intelligence Committee despite the red flags, and became a fixture on cable news attacking conservatives. His wife had to have known about the wandering eye; the staffers whispered; the Hill insiders joked. Yet nothing stuck until April 2026. Now, with him out of Congress and the governor’s race in chaos, California Democrats are scrambling, and Republicans like Steve Hilton—who I backed early—are poised to capitalize. It’s a reminder that power corrupts, and absolute power in one-party strongholds like California corrupts absolutely. The women who came forward deserve justice, not to be used as pawns. But the real scandal is how long the system protected one of its own.

This isn’t isolated to Swalwell. It’s systemic. From local capitals to D.C., the temptations are everywhere. Young people enter politics with stars in their eyes, only to learn that climbing requires compromises. Staffers trade favors for access; politicians leverage their positions for personal gratification. Politics should be about service, not a lifestyle upgrade. When you see someone like Swalwell preaching against Trump while allegedly living the exact opposite, it confirms what I’ve long suspected: many in that bubble can’t handle the power. They’re weak, entitled, and dangerous to the republic.

The Fang Fang connection adds another layer of recklessness. A suspected Chinese spy with direct access? Helping pick interns and raise money? And Swalwell on Intelligence? It boggles the mind that he wasn’t removed sooner. The FBI knew, briefed him, and yet he stayed. Now, with fresh scrutiny amid the scandal, calls are growing to release those old files. Why the resistance? If he has nothing to hide, let it all out. But transparency has never been the Democrats’ value.

In the end, this whole saga should be a wake-up call. We can’t trust the process when it’s this rigged by insiders. The women spoke out when it mattered for the party machine, not necessarily for justice alone. Everybody knew, but nobody said anything until it served their interests. That’s the real betrayal—of the public, of women seeking fair treatment, and of the democrat ideals they claim to uphold. I’ve been saying it for years: Democrats like Swalwell aren’t just misguided; they’re often operating with a different set of rules. The hypocrisy, the cover-ups, the selective amnesia—it’s all part of maintaining power at any cost. California voters, and the rest of us watching, deserve representatives with integrity, not predators in suits. As more details emerge from the investigations, I hope the truth finally prevails over the politics. But based on history, I’m not holding my breath. The machine grinds on, and guys like Swalwell are just symptoms of a deeper rot.

Footnotes

¹ San Francisco Chronicle report on former staffer allegations, April 10, 2026.

² CNN investigation detailing four women’s accounts, including unsolicited photos and non-consensual encounters.

³ Axios original reporting on Fang Fang ties, December 2020 (updated context in 2026 coverage).

⁴ Coverage of Lonna Drewes press conference and fifth allegation, April 14-15, 2026.

⁵ Reports on Swalwell’s resignation and governor campaign suspension.

Bibliography for Further Reading

•  “Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell,” CNN, April 10, 2026.

•  “Ex-staffer says Rep. Eric Swalwell sexually assaulted her,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 2026.

•  “Woman alleges violent sexual assault by Eric Swalwell,” CalMatters, April 14, 2026.

•  “How a suspected Chinese spy gained access to California politicians,” Axios, December 8, 2020.

•  “Eric Swalwell’s exit shakes up chaotic California governor’s race,” BBC, April 13, 2026.

•  “Trump endorses Republican Steven Hilton for California governor,” Washington Post, April 6, 2026.

•  Various AP, NYT, and Politico reports on the timeline of allegations and investigations, April 2026.

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About the Author: Rich Hoffman

Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

The Terror Act of Burning Down Los Angeles: Hiding an evil ahead of the Trump DOJ

We know enough at this point to say with confidence that the LA fires that have destroyed the Pacific Palisades, the Hollywood Hills, and Brentwood and are still raging is an act of terrorism just as much as the killings in New Orleans were, and the attempted Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was.  Arsonists started the fires, some of them were caught, and the policies of California made it ripe for the terror act to commence, destroying the lives of many people in the process.  The only thing we don’t yet know is why.  Some speculate that LA wants to build a “smart city,” as was the speculation behind the wildfire burning in Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui.  This looks to be a modern strategy from the radical left, especially in areas that typically have a lot of Democrat support with soft social policies toward fiscal management; they are more vulnerable to policy terrorism than other places.  And when we say policy terrorism, we are talking about the purposeful weakening of infrastructure so that it can be exploited for a more significant cause by radical terrorists.  Such as hiring too many DEI employees who are not competent enough to do the job.  Or giving away the budgets for their fire departments to Ukraine.  Or deliberately not having water reservoirs filled for use to chase some ridiculous environmental concern.  Nothing kills all the turtles and fish more than a raging fire.  So, there was a lot wrong with Lahaina, which is still a mystery.  And the same lessons appear to have been exploited in Los Angeles just a week away from President Trump re-entering the White House.  Logic would say that there is an attempt here by financial types to torpedo the Trump economy with the same zest that they unleashed COVID-19, a known bioweapon during the first Trump term, to halt the economy and force everyone into globalism.  But what we know about the LA wildfires was that they were purposefully caused by stupidity and terrorism because they caught the arsonists running around burning tossed-out Christmas Trees after the holiday season.  The fires weren’t started naturally.

So this is where things get fuzzy, and you have to fill in the gaps based on what you know, and that is why the policies of LA were so mismanaged, deliberately not to be prepared for a fire that would so quickly destroy entire cities. Indeed, nobody is as stupid as the people running LA proposed to be.  The mismanagement of fire resources and water management is astonishingly dumb.  Dumber than dumb people would perform under any conditions.  Which only contributes to the terrorist plot.  Who gets paid for these kinds of things? Who profits from the enterprise?  We have to view this through the lens of war, not through accidental environmental degradation.  The Pacific Palisades looked like a bomb was dropped on it during wartime activity; it had the same effect.  And I would offer that was the point all along.  Bomb an American city ahead of Trump’s return to the White House to derail his incoming administration with a crisis.  But I think personally it goes further than that.  And Mel Gibson, who I think a lot of personally, lost his house during these fires and wasn’t very happy about it, is digging into the truth of the matter regarding terrorism being hidden behind purposeful leftist mismanagement of resources.  So incompetence could take the blame for the property ownership change; when one party wants to acquire property but doesn’t want to fight things in court over eminent domain issues, they destroy the property, making it useless so that others can take over the financial rescue and change how the land is used. 

But I think it’s even worse than all that, and this goes back to the Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons partnership with L. Ron Hubbard. Occult worship in that town has always been a problem.  Many people, even to this day, get wrapped up in the adrenochrome cults and child pedophilia parties that are being revealed by the Puff Daddy arrest.  And what we know about Jeffery Epstein and the way they harvested undocumented children for use as sex slaves and blood sacrifice.  Mel Gibson got it and was talking about that topic on the Joe Rogan podcast as his house was burning down in the Pacific Palisades.  While these kinds of topics have been kept in conspiracy theory circles and away from the topics of polite society, nothing splashes it into common knowledge like a devastating court case with lots of evidence from people’s homes who are doing these kinds of things in much higher concentrations per population density than the people outside of these burnt out communities.  The question is, would evil people be that cruel to destroy entire neighborhoods to keep the sex trafficking and adrenochrome cults out of the news and the answer is an emphatic yes.  Of course, they would. P. Diddy is being prosecuted for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution, and many of his party friends live in just the area that was burnt down by a raging fire, ahead of a Trump DOJ that is not going to sit on the story and let Combs off the hook and toss him back into the world.  People like LeBron James and Leonardo DiCaprio are attached to Combs, and that could bring down the entire Hollywood industry that has been corrupted with this kind of occult activity, fully embracing evil since Crowley’s days.  I know much more about all this than I should; I used to be a frequent contributor to L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future efforts.  So I know the characters very well and understand why they do what they do. The occult actions in the Hollywood Hills and house parties in the Pacific Palisades are not conspiracy theories.  There are many people in the entertainment business who are far more terrified of aging than they are of the law.

They think you are too stupid to notice

One of the areas destroyed by the fires was Mulholland Drive, the subject of the great David Lynch film.  And I say great because it was a good, honest look at the kind of people who live and work in Hollywood and the kind of activity they get themselves wrapped up in.  To say they openly embrace evil is an understatement.  If you know that movie, it’s a good look behind the veil of the Hollywood glitter that many people who work in the industry understand all too well. Once you know that, you can understand why embracing the occult, even for a young 22-year-old actress who has run away to Hollywood to make it big and doesn’t care what she has to do to gain wealth and power while her looks hold up.  Never underestimate what a person in their 30s will do once they feel that youth and opportunity are leaving them.  What kind of deals with the devil will they make?  And once you understand that, you’ll understand why people were running around starting fires in key places upstream of the raging winds, creating arson conditions to destroy evidence of many massive crimes.  And to hide the destruction of evidence behind the tragedy of so many people impacted by the devastation.  Look at the effects of the destroyed city, not the crimes it was intended to hide.  And suddenly, it all makes a lot more sense under such understanding.  The Trump DOJ should look at the people who created the policies that made the act of terrorism possible.  For example, why was the water reservoir empty?  Who made that decision? From there, things will become a lot clearer.  Don’t let all this be a conspiracy theory.  Instead, make it factual testimony of a massive crime that needs evidence, which starts with the behavior of those who created the circumstances for which this vast evil occurred.

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The Dangers of Marxism in California: Supply chain disruptions due to the electric truck mandates

The magic sauce anywhere in the world for successful government is not how much government can you make to create regulation but how much you can offer freedom to individuals and still have a stable society.  If the government becomes too large due to its expansion, you are failing as a society.  Of course, some government is needed, but when it is used as a crutch for creative enterprise, then the trouble starts.  And anywhere in the world this is true, in every country.  You can tell the success of the country and its measure of economic output, GDP, by this ratio.  Therefore, countries attempting to follow the false methods of the Masonic-driven experiment of Marxism where the government was created as a collectivist blob to replace the rulers of the world, then restricted economies are bound to occur, and that was never more obvious than in the movement against rationality with California imposing electric truck mandates that are starting to go into effect by next year, 2024.  There is no reason for the orders other than the government through its mass and force has decided that it wants to impose some limit on creative enterprise because, as a collective effort, they have a religious belief regarding climate change and its role in the universe.  A modern form of sun worship just like every other society of the past that has risen and fallen has embarked on.  Now, the government of California, and in general, the Biden administration, wants to force Americans into an electric car market one way or another.  And this government tampering shows up directly in economic health, especially in supply chain health.  Wherever supply chains slow down, look now to the size of the government and its not-so-well-thought regulations as the primary culprit. 

California has an increasingly hostile group of radical government believers. Once it is discovered that work is safest when laziness can be hidden behind government forces in size, they have decided to show their validity by disrupting supply chains to show their power to the world because they have openly embraced Marxism as a culture.  And that becomes obvious with their commitment to their power grid problems, and general approach to happy living in the world’s fifth largest economy.  California was always an obvious target for global Marxists who have infiltrated the government just as they do in the American government. Their next target is electric trucks to replace diesel semis by the middle of the next decade, starting with regulations for new truck registrations beginning during the next election year.   And they believe these regulations to be reasonable based on their purely fictional religious beliefs about sun worship.  Science or the marketplace is not driving these decisions, but the hunger for gaining the power of government rather than abusing that power to satisfy a mass religion of leftist values.  Even if the electric trucks were ready for prime time, the government’s radicalism into believing they can force society to live with the constrictions of the economy is truly dangerous.  And this is precisely the kind of behavior that has caused price increases at the grocery store during the Biden administration.  The lack of options and their price directly represent the amount of government regulating the behavior, and the result is slower supply chains and much less creative economic activity to meet the market needs of a free society.  When personal freedom is sacrificed to satisfy the power of government you get price inflation and slow supply chains in whatever industry you might be concerned with. 

Electric trucks could be an option under some conditions, but the marketplace must determine those conditions.  For instance, I have had exposure to electric forklifts for thirty years, and I generally like how quiet they are and how much instant power they provide.  But this is always the story with them; the charge rate requires at least an entire shift to utilize whereas their propane-driven counterparts can operate a total of 24 hours per day with the quick change of a tank.  So imposing electric forklift standards would force businesses to limit themselves to one shift per day where the forklift is charging and not doing work.  Or it would have to purchase another electric forklift that can operate while the other charges.  Either way, a restriction has now been placed on the business that it will have to pay for in some fashion, either in lack of output through production or the cost of more than one forklift that it will now have to maintain.  This is how the government causes inflation and disrupts supply chains, slowing the output to the end-use customer.  With the electric trucks of California, the essential same problem becomes apparent: the government assumes that employers will buy more electric trucks as an increase of the price of more than 30% each.  And that work schedules will be restricted to accommodate the lack of versatility to refuel.  Rather than make market decisions based on the logic of free enterprise, and in getting products to the consumer as quickly and efficiently as possible, the government has through force, imposed a religious belief that then limits the output of productivity.  And because they are a monopoly, there is no competitive means to measure success or failure based on competition. 

This is why Marxism generally does not like competition, because free markets expose their monopoly limits through comparison.  As a captured Marxist asset, California has all the other states in America to compete with, so the economic value can quickly become evident unless all forms, through federal mandate, are forced to do the same.  Therefore, if everyone is performing at the same level of insanity, then a better option will never be known to the public, which is their greatest present desire.  To hide their inefficiency behind government power, controlled free speech, and a lack of competitive criteria to measure against.  If electric truck manufacturers are forced to compete with other options, then their recharge time and other failings might be corrected through innovation.  But behind government force, there is no such incentive, and the limits rule the day.  And that is why the electric truck mandates in California are so disastrous and why government policy on them is so terrible.  Because of government intrusion in the free market of car manufacturing, many bankruptcies are on the horizon, and a significant impact on supply chains as old cars will suddenly become valuable because the new cars are so expensive and limited.  The electric vehicle market, in general, is representative of insanity because there are no power grid assumptions that don’t make electric bills horrendously expensive by forcing everyone to work with just another monopoly not using the best means of energy, the power companies.  We should be using nuclear power, but instead, the government has caused significant issues by going to war with fossil fuels and forcing solar energy and wind power, which is dramatically ineffective as a means of supplying energy.  And as a result, the economy of power becomes too expensive and under-supplied.  And society, in general, is much less vibrant because of the intrusions of a government that has too much power, and not nearly enough competition to keep it honest. 

Rich Hoffman

The Political Climate Change Hoax: Yes, the Great Lakes are draining and will soon be gone

Climate Change is Rediculous

Oh my gosh, Greta Thunberg, an 18-year-old girl from Europe, is challenging Joe Biden on climate change. And California realizes that with all their hack and slash economic policies; they think they will save the earth; they won’t reach their emission goals until the next century. Meanwhile, the socialists of the world are making climate change the centerpiece of all their concerns displaying to everyone how little any of them know about actual science. To the smart people out there, they have seen the shell game. It’s the same stupid game that the left has been playing with Covid, phony statistics, phony scientists who are no better than whores on K-Street, that will say and do anything for a federal grant. They’ll “love you a long time” for the right price, and they’ll put anything you need in an Excel spreadsheet. But it came to a point for me while I was doing some additional research into the origins of life across North America. Hint, the Indians were not indigenous people in America; that too is a made-up lie meant to despair the creation of America in the first place. As I have reported in many places, some of the best archaeology we have in North America points to the mound-building culture that looks like it dates to the periods of Stonehenge. As it so happened, I was reading some of the books I recently bought at my last trip to Stonehenge and comparing them to the investigations into what is called “The Giants of Ohio,” and America in general, and that drew my eye to some of the radical swings in sea levels over just the last 10-15 thousand years. Yes, advanced people could easily have come into North America during the Archaic Period, and it’s pretty clear that they did, bringing with them a world economy that nobody has been thinking about over the last hundred years of academic study. 

Since I live in Ohio, the Great Lakes are a real treasure to the state that I think about. Most people know what they are and think of them as a kind of inland sea. Also, people might think of them as very old, but the truth was that they formed during the Ice Age, really in geological terms, was just yesterday. Humanity was building advanced societies, such as Göbekli Tepe in modern-day Turkey. At that time in the world, the Great Lakes of Ohio and Michigan were former river valleys where massive glaciers were taking the path of least resistance, moving along slowly there. The weight of the glaciers was so great that they actually pushed down the earth’s crust in those locations displacing the curvature of the planet itself. As the ice melted, without the aid of global warming by manufactured contraptions, mind you, the water stayed in those low spots and formed the Great Lakes. The weight of the water and ice was negligible. However, when the mass changed, the water began to flow toward the St. Lawrence Seaway at an increased rate.

Fairly recently, scientists have discovered that the Great Lakes are actually draining at a rate faster than the rivers can supply them. Many in the region know that Niagara Falls is the point where all that water flows from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. They also know that where the falls are currently will continue to move all the way down to Buffalo, New York, year by year by a few feet each time. It won’t take long before the falls are gone altogether. In fact, the whole of the Great Lakes, except for most of Lake Superior and Lake Huron, will be gone entirely in a few thousand years. Chicago will sit in the middle of nowhere with vast farmland to the east where people could walk over to Michigan. The same with Detroit and Cleveland. They, too, will be sitting on land that extends far into what used to be the lakes but will by then be vast expanses of farmland. The lakes are draining because the earth’s crust is trying to push up from under the weight of the water from where it was pushed down by the ice from the Ice Age. The more shallow the water gets from the lack of weight, the faster the landmass pushes up. In our lifetimes, we will see a significant loss of shoreline in those city areas because of this effect. Of course, none of this climate change results from a single human being. It’s just part of the lifecycles of the earth.

One thing that struck me when studying my books from Stonehenge and is something I learned about while visiting Dover on the east side of England facing France across the English Channel is that; just as the future of the Great Lakes, people used to be able to walk across the great body of water there. Back in the Ice Age, sea levels were several hundred feet below where they are now. Looking at the English Channel today, it seems impossible to consider such a thing. But that is what the latest science says. Ocean levels have constantly been changing, well before there were ever any people. My daughter and I had a wonderful time hiking Dover’s Cliffs, and I often think about it. We told my son-in-law and my wife that we were going to use the restroom and take a few pictures of the cliffs there and the massive English Channel. We’d be back in a few minutes, so they waited for us in the car. We came back seven hours later. It was an excellent adventure, but what made me lose track of so much time was in learning about these little details and how they have played out against the many changes the world has seen in geologic time. 

The point of the matter is that the climate change activists are phonies looking to convert capitalist cultures into communist ones and count on our ignorance to believe them. But reading a few books on the matter and just some casual investigation will prove that manmade climate change is a thing of politics. Climates have been changing on earth for millions of years. As humans, we have been lucky to have had our entire civilization spring up so quickly between these geological catastrophes, able to leave for space within a few thousand years. That is a miracle, and that is science. Trying to bend our economic system to some made-up whims of worshiping the earth is just downright stupid. And anybody who believes what these political hacks of climate science advocates say is ridiculous. Whether by accident or on purpose, the information to refute climate science activism is abundant. But like Covid, the government is seeking to exploit ignorance in favor of political power. And that is a game where the enemies of capitalism need to be defeated spectacularly. And just consider how pathetic their cause is, where they have an 18-year-old nobody as their spokesman. She’s not a scientist. She’s not the next Albert Einstein. She’s just a teenage girl. And that is the best thing that the climate change movement has going for it. Because the facts are not on their side, and anybody willing to look at them can see that quickly.

Rich Hoffman

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Larry Elder is Going to Win in California: Its all about punishing Gavin Newsom, and more will follow

Larry Elder is going to Win in California

Hey, don’t fret so much. Don’t let the opposition to America make you feel like the situation is desperate.  Remember, I told everyone at the start of all this, the day after the Election of 2020, that we’d sort all this out and things would make sense.  But the panic, purposely driven, would outpace the solutions.  It would take time to untangle the mess, but we certainly would, and now we are starting to see some of those sentiments emerging.  Gavin Newsom is losing in California; everything points to a recall of his terrible state handling.  He knows it, the Biden administration knows it, and the media knows it, which is why the pressure against Larry Elder is cranking up so intensely.  But I’m saying it’s too late.  Short of the actual election and the very real reality of election fraud, the hatred of Gavin Newsom in what he created himself is set in stone. That’s why there’s a recall election because Newsom has done such a terrible job as governor, and he abused people too much during the Covid pandemic.  He used his power, and now it’s time to pay for it.  Even though what the media is showing is the latest from Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry,” the truth is that good people are finally getting a chance to stick up for themselves with a vote.   Even Democrats are jumping away from Newsom in these final days of his administration.  And because of that, and no matter what Larry Elder may or may not have done in his life, he’s the one with the name ID, and in a race with over 40 other contenders, he’s by default going to be the one who gets the most votes in that California system.  So he’ll likely be the governor within a few weeks, and California can join Texas, Florida, and South Dakota as some of the best Republican-run states and save themselves from liberal doom, endless forest fires, degrading economics, and an out of control social safety net. 

Newsom is poised to be the first of many governors to pay for their mistakes made during Covid.  Americans are tolerant because they are free, and they are law and order types who will do what’s right so long as they trust the people defining right.  When Trump was President, and he locked down the economy because Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates told him he needed to, people listened.  They did the social distancing.  They put on the dumb masks.  They did what the government led by Mike Pence’s special team told them to do.  The Trump team wanted to solve the problem of Covid, and they bought the CDC approach of spending 15 days to stop the spread at the time.  Trump was trying to get the economy opened by Easter of 2020. People followed out of their good nature because they sincerely believed that Covid was a legitimate issue needing government supervision.  But as we quickly learned, Covid was an invention of the World Health Organization guided by China itself who had our own NIH wrapped around their finger.  Covid wasn’t about a virus at all, but it was all about the Davos plan to provoke a great economic reset, as they termed it, and several liberal governors knew all about it ahead of time.  Gavin Newsom was one of them, and he quickly took his state in a radical left direction.  Mike DeWine from Ohio was another, surprising only that he called himself a Republican.  Other governors such as Andrew Cuomo from New York also turned full tyrant. These governors locked down their people and their economies in unreasonable ways well into the summer and into the fall, well past the election. 

We all learned too late that the goal in America was to use Covid to change the rules of the election, which gave Democrats an opportunity to cheat in massive ways.  Earlier in the year, Mike DeWine did that very thing with a Republican primary that he was indifferent to the cost to the candidates, which sent chills down the spines of people who could see what was happening.  It was a dark time indeed and was very scary.  It still is because we learned that we couldn’t trust people we thought we could.  In Newsom’s case, he might have been a Democrat. Still, the hypocrisy that he displayed and his hunger for power went well beyond party lines and into the soul of the average American who distains that kind of display publically.  It scared people, the influence these governors utilized so quickly under the guise of Covid safety protocols.  And people went to their corners to plot the demise of these governors because they weren’t going to put up with that kind of behavior any time.  For the governors, they had bought the momentum of the Great Reset and thought that the change state of Covid would be permanent and that there would be a new normal for which they would escape prosecution.  But in Ohio, the senate got together early in 2021 and took away DeWine’s power through emergency health orders which are why Ohio hasn’t been forced to adopt all the current CDC nonsense.  And other states are doing similar acts to cap off the power of their out-of-control powers.  Last week, Andy Beshear of Kentucky had to remove his mask mandates due to the Supreme Court stepping in and forcing him to do so.  Now California, out of all places, which is a stronghold of liberalism, is turning against their governor to remove him from office. 

When California goes down, and New York has already lost their governor to sexual abuse issues, think what that will do to Democrats everywhere.  When Kamala Harris doesn’t hit the campaign trail to help Newsom out, it tells you everything you need to know.  Of course, the Biden administration wants to hide behind a mask and the debacle of Afghanistan.  The honesty of their incompetence is too much for them.  Not that they screwed Afghanistan up so badly on purpose, but like in the case of Andrew Cuomo getting busted for sexual harassment, it is better than being removed from office for nursing home murders.   Nobody wants to think of the families of their loved ones who had to watch behind windows forbid to even hold their hands into death because of CDC Covid restrictions.  Cuomo getting out of office over grabbing some ass is a concession that is too good for any governor.  But justice is happening; it’s just not occurring in some cinematic fashion.  We expect things to be tied up in a nice knot as we see in our movies, but in reality, it’s more like a book.  The endings are complicated over several chapters, not just the last 15 minutes of a 2-hour film.  I knew we’d get to this point, and the bad guys are going to be punished.  In the case of Newsom, his state will recall him from power because he abused his authority.  And the people do and will exercise that power within the law if they have the chance.  If that chance is taken from them, then they’ll do it at gunpoint.  January 6th was nothing.  And the government has grossly abused its power in holding people without due process in that case.  These things are only stacking up, but payment will be demanded by those who employ these politicians.  They won’t put up with being pushed around.  California is just the first.  There will be more, and that is the state of the future.  

Rich Hoffman

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Arsonists Arrested Setting Fires on the West Coast: More acts of terrorism by Gavin Newsom and communist insurgents behind the Green New Deal

Wait, don’t be a sucker.  In case you can’t tell, Gavin Newsom and the other liberals of the Left Coast are using the forest fires that often break out there to push their climate change agenda for the next century.  The problem is, just as the Covid-19 virus outbreaks were, the politics behind the story was the real danger.  And now we know there have been arsonists running around California, Oregon, and Washington, setting fires that has really exacerbated the raging blazes that are destroying so much of the west coast of America—for purely political reasons.

We know the names of several people arrested for arson, but there are obviously many more and now Google, and Facebook are at it again just as they were with Covid-19 censorship pretending that the fires have all been started by climate change, and not Antifa terrorists setting them for political insurgency.  Surely you don’t think that the same people who have been burning down their cities and busting out storefronts looting the merchandise are not resistant to setting wildfires off all over California all in the name of destroying the effects of capitalism that has marked up the land from their point of view?  Surely you aren’t that stupid.

California has a wildfire problem largely due to massive government mismanagement.  They don’t take care of their forests by taking out all the underbrush leaving lots of garbage laying around to catch on fire, which is a natural process.  But when you build houses and cities, mankind has an obligation to maintain forests to prevent volatile conditions, and because of the progressive green agenda of the Left Coast, a get back to nature policy legislatively has made it so more undergrowth in forests are a real problem.  Compound that issue with the fact that the push for underutilized energy needs are driving green renewables like solar and wind shoving more powerful fossil fuels off their grids causing massive brownouts because the new energy methods just aren’t powerful enough to provide customers with the energy needs they require.  The message to California residents is that they must sacrifice their power consumption to the limits of the technology instead of forcing the technology to live up to the needs for power by the consumers.  That all sets the stage for the average amount of yearly wildfires that California is experiencing.

But to make matters worse, politicians like Gavin Newsom who continues to use Covid-19 as a political platform for climate change strategies are creating the environment where radical leftist arsonists feel entitled to set fires all over the three western states and to aggravate the situation so that the crises can be made even worse during the election season.  For Newsom to stand in the smoking ruins of his state and proclaim that the cause of the fires is climate change, and not massive government mismanagement is criminal at best.  Then to aggravate the story even more, to know that there are members of his own political party that are committing arson to make the story bigger is much worse.  He knows just as everyone else does of the arrests of the arsonists, just as we know who the people of Antifa are in Portland who are committing all the trouble in hijacking the city to anarchist control for months on end, but the terrorists are being used by the highest levels of government to drive political change and to use that chaos to drive their agenda even when everyone knows it’s a flat out lie.

Think of how many people have lost their homes and even died in these fires, and consider that government does no why its happening, yet they are blaming it on something that isn’t the problem in favor of using the crises to move sentiment.  It is terrorism for sure, but its not some radicals acting on their own, they are working in conjunction with Newsom and others to destroy property, destroy lives, just as they have with Covid-19 at any cost to move the political goal posts where they want them, and they’ll stop at nothing to do it.  The audaciousness of Gavin Newsom in his campaign ad for climate change is a measure of just how evil these people can be.  They know they are lying to you, yet he can say with a straight face to anybody watching that the cause is something completely different than what it really is.  Climate change is simply another act of terrorism and all supporters of it have looked to lies and manipulation to advance their cause and if lives are destroyed in the process, they are alright with that cost.

If renewable technology can be made to provide proper electrical needs for an advanced society, that would be great.  But the people of California are being forced to live with poor government performance all in the needs of nature as politicians like Newsom yield to the limits of technology in an effort to hold markets down below those limits which is just a thin mask of communism that has been the fantasy of the political left for over a century.  Newsom is right in his ad; California is the future of America if we follow them over the cliff.  The smoking embers of a once great state that was known as the Republic of California now controlled by liberals who are literally burning it to the ground in an attempt to force a climate change agenda that is completely fake.  The fires are real, but they are being set by people, not nature, nor climate change.  But by activists pushing the far left agenda.  And they are getting away with it even as Google and Facebook know full well of the scam.  The ends justify the means as Karl Marx has said, and these new communists of California believe it whole heartedly.

Would the radical left terrorists burn down everything in California to win an election or advance their communist green agenda?  Yes, they’ll destroy any amount of property, kill anybody who stands in their way, and they have no respect for what mankind has built.  They figure the trees will grow back, but if the people can be erased, then the world can go on living.  For the political left, it’s a kind of chemotherapy to save the planet, even though the planet isn’t asking for it, its done by the small minds of people like Gavin Newsom who want to be president some day on a green agenda platform, and he’ll literally do anything to accomplish the task.  Lying is not even an afterthought, and if we let them get away with it, they will bring the exact same measures to the rest of America, and our future will literally be up in flames.  That is how extreme the political left is.  They will do anything as is obvious by the present state of California.  Terrorism is the means of the modern political left and their target is you.  They intend to terrorize you into submission hoping that you aren’t smart enough to see what’s really going on.  But you aren’t a sucker, are you dear reader?  Because they think you are.

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Trump Could Win California: Going for the kill shot when you get it

One thing that we can do on sites like this one, as opposed to establishment television and newspapers is talk about the obscure truths that are out there instead of desired outcomes that are attached to advertising dollars and political affiliations. And to that end they aren’t talking about the truth of this 2020 election year as President Trump wins the White House for the second term. They would have you believe that Trump is unpopular, because he is a threat to the natural order of things, but it was and has always been that order that has caused all our problems and now after a presidential term where they threw everything they had at him, and he’s still going strong, their brand is down big time, while Republicans are up. That means good things going into this election cycle to such an extent that I think Trump could win California if he put forth a little effort there.

The numbers are obvious, between 2008 and 2016 Democrat registration climbed by 1.1 million while the number of Republicans dropped by almost 400,000. In 2016 Hillary Clinton won California with 8,753,789 votes while Donald Trump only received 4,483,810. Yet there are over 25 million voters who are registered and many more out of their population of over 40 million who could be energized to vote. Based on the 2016 election results with everyone accounted for, even the third-party candidates like Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, the total amount of voters who went to the polls to vote was 14,237,884. That means that there were over ten million votes on the table that didn’t even show up, and likely many more who could become voters. The trend from 2016 to 2020 has likely changed as voters have seen what Democrat leadership has brought, wildfires due to forest mismanagement, blackouts due to not reeling in the over zealous courts, and massive amounts of poverty due to attracting homelessness to their featured cities.

This is the reason that Democrats are pushing so hard to make illegal aliens voters because the trends of election wins does not favor them, especially now. If they were able to convert all 22 million illegal aliens in America into registered voters, which is a preposterous concept, then they could win back some of the losses they have incurred over the years by their own bad conduct. The way they have kept themselves from being blown completely off the electoral map is due to their activism in turning Republicans inward toward guilt and not showing up to vote in major elections. Yet, in California, it looks like the opposite will be happening. The tree there is ripe to garner Republican fruit. The Democrats have poisoned their own baskets and the trust level is very low, and could easily be taken by a strong personality like Trump.

When Michael Moore is worried, all Democrats should be also. He sees that the current crop of Democrats is not strong enough to take on Trump. Impeachment attempts have been seen for what they were, a scam by our government to overthrow the election results of 2016, to attempt to take the spin off any potential victories for Republicans in 2020. Not to ease off the gas in Republican camps, but the momentum is certainly in their favor. With the Mueller investigation by the FBI falling flat, the economy roaring in record breaking ways, and a fired-up manufacturing sector with record low unemployment, Democrats have nothing to run on except unexciting below the line victimization. And that doesn’t inspire voters to put on their coat and brave the day to actually cast a ballot.

Republicans however have a lot to vote for, and are energized to protect the wins they have witnessed. And many of them still live in California and would like to be included in the national dialogue instead of having Republicans just surrender the state due to the overwhelming threat of immigration voters who tend to at least vote Democrat the first time they can, because they are still learning how things work in this country and Democrats represent most closely the socialists they most recently fled from wherever in the world they emerged. Its not that immigrants want socialism in America, but in many cases, its all they have previously understood, so until they’ve lived in America for a period of time and learn of the magic of capitalism, they tend to vote Democrat. But their hearts can be won with just a little effort.

California is very much at play yet nobody on the Democrat side of things will dare to speak the thought. Imagine the terrible press when it comes closer to the State of the Union speech that Trump is supposed to give to congress in January of 2020, after all the games that the House of Representatives has just played with impeachment. Nancy Pelosi will have to invite the President to speak, yet her party will not want him there after they have just worked against him in such a public way. Talk about awkward. Its like bad mouthing a family member on Facebook in a passive aggressive way to third parties, then finding out you must have dinner with that person and that you’ll be sitting right next to them. Trump can handle that kind of pressure, but the Democrats won’t be able to. They’ll try to hide under any rock they can find, but there won’t be any, and they’ll be exposed for what they are. Impeachment was the best gift they could have given Trump. Its insulting that they did it, but for energizing the base, I would say that even California could go for Trump after all this, which for Democrats would be truly a final blow.

I often say that you should have courage to go for the kill shot. Well, Democrats certainly have made a profession behaving in such a way and now the shoe is on the other foot. The kill shot for the Democrat Party would be if Trump won California. So why not try for it, put all Democrats for every position in the country, even the regional trustee races permanently on their heels by having to defend the indefensible, California and its many problems caused by Democrat leadership which is embarrassing to them. It would be better to attack than to sit around and be victims of places like Texas that are going more purple as a result of massive investments moving out of California to more conducive states. Even Republicans in California would be considered Democrats in Texas, so there is a real risk of a strong red state turning colors because of it. So why not keep those voters in California by giving them some options and an open door into the Republican Party? What do they have to lose in the process when forest fires, blackouts and extreme poverty are common life for them along with high taxes that are wasted on garbage social programs? California is ripe for the taking so why not in 2020? It would be the ultimate victory for a party that has tried to do everything they can to destroy those of us who call ourselves Republicans. It would be most deserving.

Rich Hoffman

The Tree of Global Warming: California’s schizophrenic relationship with exsistance

I have to give President Trump credit for doing the unpopular thing and that is criticizing forest management in California while the wild fires were still blazing and destroying massive amounts of property and killing people in live time. Many thought it was insensitive to the firefighters who were still battling the blazes and sentiments quickly retreated back into the patriotism and sacrifice of those fighting the fire, but to Trump’s point, there shouldn’t have been wildfires to begin with. Like most things that he is dealing with in his presidency, everything from empowering North Korea and Iran to be boogeymen in the world to be feared to insurmountable debt attached to socialist legacy costs, Trump with his business background looked at the wildfires and determined the cause, which most people aren’t used to hearing from the political arena.

The cause of the multiple wildfires in California isn’t just the dry conditions due to extended droughts toward the end of each calendar year, its in the regulations that California has put on itself to preserve the habitats of plants and animals but allowing way too much underbrush to exist in forest regions which then become kindling for any fire that might arise. The environments for the species the laws were meant to protect end up killed anyway, but with it millions of dollars of property and lives who have built homes in those tree hugging regions only to be removed from the connection to begin with. We live in the modern world, wildlife management, especially near populated areas should be removing all the underbrush under a forest canopy to remove the fuel for any potential wildfires. That they didn’t is the cause of these massive fires ultimately. And regarding the dryness of the plant life, there are underground aquifers that could be tapped in to in order to act as a natural sprinkler system should the need arise in population centers. Not taking those proactive measurements is precisely what President Trump was talking about.

Even though part of me felt sorry for them it was almost comical to listen to the governor of California insist that the cause of the problem was global warming as celebrities stood among the ruins of their homes in Malibu. I mean they are the ones who built their homes in an area known for wild fires, and they are the ones who have taken positions favoring the preservation of nature against the efforts of mankind. You can’t have it both ways. If you build homes in the paths of hurricanes, earth quakes and forest fires, eventually you are going to get bitten. Especially if no measures are taken to prevent the tragedies in the first place. It’s insane to have regulations against preventative action because California is trying to preserve wildlife when by the lack of prevention causes more death and destruction not just for the humans involved, but the wildlife they were trying to save. The situation is an insane approach built by a schizophrenic society.

Like most backward thinking people who ironically in this case call themselves “progressives” they have regulated logic back to the actions of mystics, the blame they contend is the mythic realm of the gods, in this case “global warming.” That is the only way that California can get away with trying to have their cake and eat it too, by building their homes and businesses in areas where they are always in danger of natural disasters. And I say natural even though accidents often start these fires because they do exist in nature. If it isn’t a careless campfire or power company that starts the fires its often lightning. In their most primal function, forest fires exist to destroy competing undergrowth in a forest. It’s an act of nature and sometimes nature can be cruel and lots of innocent plant life and animals get caught in god’s often tragic stage play. But to build in an area and put mankind’s stamp on the effort but refuse to manage the volatile elements is a recipe for disaster.

This whole issue is nearly as stupid as when the media tried to make an issue of the poor people in Hawaii who had their homes destroyed by lava flows when a volcano erupted on the big island and destroyed so much property. Hey, they built their homes on a volcano. What did they think was going to happen? This is what progressives do all the time, they test the temper of nature then when they feel the sting of the mistake blame it on a lack of appeasement to the gods. Mother nature in the world of liberal politics is just another god coming from mankind’s mystical past. Rather than accept that mankind was put on earth to tame nature, we are told that we are to live in harmony with the rules of nature. But those rules are brutal and unsentimental. Nature doesn’t care if Lady Gaga’s home burns to the ground in a forest fire, especially if the wildlife growth is allowed to grow out of control.

Trump gave credit to the firefighters and other supporter services that were fighting the fires, but to Trump’s point, the fires should have never started to begin with. They should have been managed so that if a fire started, it would never have spread so quickly and out of control. Part of what makes those fires so deadly is that they simply have too much fuel to drive them, and if forest management had done their jobs, that undergrowth would have been removed well before a danger ever occurred. As forest management employed by the government, they aren’t used to hearing criticism which is quite common in private industry, but they need to get used to it. What Trump is saying is that they didn’t do their jobs and that caused the loss of life and the destruction of a lot of property, not some god of global warming. Its one thing to believe in supernatural entities because humans want to neglect their responsibilities to existence, but it’s quite another to let those beliefs actually kill people, and that is what has been happening in California, not just this year, but every year over many decades now.

If humans are going to build a house in a region known for wild fires, then preventative action is part of the process. You can’t impose yourself on the land then back off and call yourself a preservationist. If you make the decision to do something, do it. Do it all the way, not half in and half out. A large part of the problem with everything in California is that they want to be everything, they want to be the occupants of one of the world’s largest economies, but they also want to be a leftist utopia, a literal Garden of Eden. But if you remember that story, Eve listened to the snake and that was what got her, and Adam cast from the garden. And in politics there are a lot of snakes always trying to get people to eat from the fruit of their trees. The Tree of Global Warming is one of them and California has eaten from it and thus have lost their ability to live in paradise because they refuse the responsibility of managing it. So thus, they have the problems that they do, and it certainly wasn’t President Trump’s fault for pointing it out.

Rich Hoffman

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The Need for Leadership: The trial of Arnold Schwarzenegger

This move by Republicans in Ohio and Wisconsin to end collective bargaining is not a new issue. It’s certainly not revenge. That’s the way union leaders position their argument because they can’t argue actual facts.

Back in 2004 Arnold Schwarzenegger was the shining star of the Republican Party. Listen to his speech here.

But over his entire 8 year term, with all his celebrity, power, ability to reach across the aisle to Democrats, public sector unions blocked every attempt to get the escalating costs of California under control. Unions and state workers in general showed no desire at all to budge on any budget issues. Even small issues were “epic” battles.

This is the result to California.

This is a fantastic, closer look at California’s trouble.

Here is a closer, ground level look at California’s trouble. Look at the culture that has emerged there. You can see this in any state in the union.

Here’s what’s going on now, on February 19, 2011. This isn’t about Republican revenge on all the money Democrats have used to defeat Republican candidates with funds gained from public sector union dues. That’s a small minded analysis. The reason there are so many Republicans in office in State Houses like Ohio, and Wisconsin, and now at the Federal level, is because the entire country has watched our action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger fail to stop the bleeding in California. And the other states do not want to follow the path of California.

That is why there are collective bargaining reforms now after the last election. The ONLY reason union leaders want to negotiate now is because they know there are majorities in Ohio and Wisconsin that can actually eliminate these unions, and now they are scared. But they have showed NO sign of negotiating until we arrived at this point. They certainly didn’t look at the economic situation and offer ANY leadership.

The residents of these states put Republicans in office to get the costs under control. Nobody wants to become the next California, and we all will, if we don’t make major changes now. Those are the facts.

The original sin in all this is when President Kennedy signed through executive order to make public unions legal in the first place. Click here to read the history for yourself. That was a major mistake, and now must be undone, if we are to survive as an economically viable country in the marketplace of tomorrow.

So drop the emotion and get on board. There’s room for all of us. But we can’t afford public sector unions. They bankrupt states because it is not possible to always increase taxes to justify public union demands. So the whole concept has to be erased and rebuilt once the country regains the ability to control its own destiny, which it currently does not have.

If Arnold couldn’t make any ground in negotiations, there isn’t hope for anybody to. That is why Governors like Chris Christie, John Kasich and Governor Walker have emerged, because the public needs those types of people now, before it’s too late.

It’s much bigger than just politics. It’s about survival.

Rich Hoffman

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