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The Arrest of James Comey: Bring a sword, don’t turn the other cheek

I feel like spiking the football on the James Comey indictment and arrest that occurred just shy of his statute of limitations expiring after five years, at the end of September 2025.  His crimes are actually far more extensive than the obstruction of justice and lying to Congress that they put his way.  And once again, I think one of the best experiences I have ever had in life was the period I spent as the foreman of a grand jury, so I know very well what kind of cases prosecutors bring forth and how the evidence is presented and discussed.  And how a grand jury handles multiple cases, not just one.  You get a chance to talk to a lot of legal people and see how different prosecutors react to other cases.  So I can understand why there was reluctance to prosecute James Comey.  There is a whole Deep State of career political people who could make life very difficult for future administrations, because in their minds, Trump will come and go.  Many of these individuals believe they will have entire careers in government and will last through many future presidents, so they approach them with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, as if our system of management from the White House were an inconvenience that they sneer at.  And they treat the rest of us the same, as if the power of the Administrative State was far superior to the voters whom they are supposed to serve.  James Comey and the government workers like him think they are superior to the basic intellect of the average American and that they can lie to our faces and not face any punishment for the deceit.  And with James Comey, I called him out a long time ago, in May 2017, just a few months into Trump’s first term, where I was one of the first people in the country to call him a liar.

CNN was looking to dislodge Trump supporters from the new president at the time, so they came to Butler County to speak to a hard-core group of Trump advocates.  We met at a local sports bar and watched live on television, with CNN producers, as Comey testified after Trump fired him from his role as FBI Director.  This was an all-day event, and later that night, we would gather on Anderson Cooper’s show to share our reactions to the testimony.  CNN hoped that Butler County would start to doubt their support for Trump with the horror of firing Comey, who at the time was thought of as America’s squeaky-clean Boy Scout, beyond refute.  But what I said shocked the producers, and they let me know it after the cameras were off and the live feed had concluded.  I said when asked on the air that I thought James Comey was more like Eliot Ness from the famous Al Capone mob cases in Chicago.  But what he turned out to be was more like Ian Fleming, the James Bond novelist.  And that the FBI Director was more inclined to fiction, which I thought was a nice way of saying that he was a liar.   Well, at that time, that was a shocking statement, and that was one of the last television interviews that I ever did.  Before that, I appeared frequently on radio and television; producers would seek my opinion on various topics, and I would offer it.  But after that, things changed dramatically.  I didn’t care because my own media efforts were much more potent.  I found it much more rewarding to express my thoughts than to try to fit into a producer’s narrative.  However, that fracture indeed occurred that night after the CNN segment.

That was 8 years ago, and the information was self-evident.  It took that long to reach justice in indicting James Comey.  And like most deceitful people who get caught in these terrible scandals, he sought mass collectivism to shield himself from personal judgment.  To show what a manipulative loser he really is before this indictment, which he knew was coming, he put out a video attempting to get support from Taylor Swift’s audience, hoping to manipulate pop culture soothsayers to his side, and to pit them against Trump.  This is actually a much more dangerous trait that indicates a deeper problem at the FBI and how they handle cases in a mass society.  We’ll talk about the way the FBI planted 274 agents into the J6 crowd to accelerate activism and cause trouble.  The FBI has been picking winners and losers for a long time, grossly abusing its authority in multiple cases.  Which is why they thought they’d get away with this Russian story on driving Trump out of office.  So yes, I saw it well in advance and I said so on national television, and I turned out to be right about everything, even when the world took a hard turn toward regime suppression just a few years later in 2020 with Covid and election fraud to throw Trump out of office.  It seemed that the bad guys truly had the kind of control that James Comey thought shielded them from reality.  And that he and the FBI could abuse their power to maintain a political order that they thought was more appropriate, a Taylor Swift kind of progressivism, they were going to impose on us whether we liked it or not.

So this is actually a grave crime, not just an FBI Director who went bad and abused his power to throw out an elected official from the White House that he disagreed with.  This is about a fourth branch of government that thinks it exists beyond voter approval, and this goes back to the killing of JFK and the getting rid of Richard Nixon.  And that’s why it was so absurd to everyone when Trump was elected that he would actually last, let alone serve a second term.  The CNN guys that night told me in the parking lot that we were all living in a bubble with our support of Trump, and that it was a regional issue.  That the rest of the world would disregard us as backward and out of touch.  And it made me so angry that I stopped answering calls from media producers and participating in their shows, because they all pretty much thought the same way as these people at CNN.  And after eight years, they all turned out to be very wrong, and I was right.  And they are all on the way out, and my position is stronger than ever, and it all feels pretty redeeming.  So I’m thrilled to see bad things happening to James Comey, and I want to see even more happen to people who are just as bad as he is.  Those who believe that an unelected form of government should be allowed to hold power need a reality check, and that’s what’s happening now.  It’s not revenge for what these same people did to Trump and many of us who supported him.  Although revenge is very appropriate, I would encourage people not to turn the other cheek, as Jesus said in Matthew 5:39, but to do as Jesus said in Matthew 10:34: ‘Do not bring peace, but a sword.’  We must fight evil wherever we find it, and James Comey was a facilitator of evil, hiding behind a deceitful façade.  And he has to be made an example of, and I am thrilled to see that day arrive.

Rich Hoffman

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Joe Biden Was A Disaster: If you want to destroy your enemies, make them compete with you

Whatever anybody thought about putting Joe Biden on stage for a June debate, there would never be a good outcome.  With the White House disputing even facts everyone could see and calling them Deep Fakes or “Cheap Fakes,” having that beat-up old compromised man on stage for 90 minutes against one of the best communicators in modern history wasn’t very smart.  It was even arrogant because the belief was that the people who did put him on stage thought they had such control over all things in the Administrative State that they might get away with it.  No, it was a bloodbath, even more so than anybody had hoped.  Even Democrats had to agree, even if their enthusiasm for that disaster was the hope that Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer might take over at the last minute.  The truth of the matter is that Joe Biden is the best that the Democrats had to put up, and he fits the needs that globalists have for domination over both American political parties, which they have sought to control.  Biden was a puppet president who was inserted.  And whatever they thought about doing the debate, and doing it in June as opposed to the fall season closer to the election so they could make adjustments before the August convention, nothing can salvage that performance.  It was probably the worst debate performance in the history of debates, not because I wanted it to be, but because it was what it was.  Joe Biden looked horrendous.  There were no Deep Fakes or Cheap Fakes in the editing.  He looked terrible, and everyone at the end of the debate knew it.  At least, Biden did one good thing: he brought the country together to agree that he lost that debate and was horrible for the Democrat Party.  And that the Democrats were now stuck with him. 

What was more critical was Jill Biden’s little speech at the end, where she looked even worse.  The screen captures of her crazy face, forever reminding everyone what has been happening.  Jill Biden is a product of the system, a person of social titles, and exactly what America wanted to get away from regarding European aristocracy.  How will she keep her family out of jail if she loses power?  She clasped onto Joe Biden, looking like he was a kid in the Willy Wonka factory, much as she did the trial of Hunter Biden on the gun charge, flying in from France to show her support in the courtroom.  But the minute she wasn’t somebody in public office, she was a nobody with no talent, and that was scary to her.  It showed up in her speech when she realized that Biden had all but lost the election after that debate performance.  Her dreams of keeping her family out of jail for their years of crimes depended on staying in public office.  That was the only way out for them.  While her husband, Joe, might not live very long, the Hunter Biden stories and the Ashley Biden diary revelations will continue to destroy her family for years to come, and she will end up a disgraced wreck.  Her husband might have avoided that embarrassment through death, which looked to be at their door with his performance, but she had more life to live. Without the presidency or a prominent place in the Democrat Party, she would drift into obscurity quickly.  And she realized it with the cameras rolling. 

This is kind of a thing for me; all I can say is that these are the benefits of competition.  Everyone who kept their powder dry could pat themselves on the back.  If you don’t play by the law, you can’t use the law.  And many of these crazy lunatics from the communist left would have hoped by now that the whole country would have been a January 6th.  The Masons had experience with this when they provoked the French Revolution, which got out of hand.  The only way out for many of these Democrats, after what they had done in the decades leading up to this debate, was to create massive unrest.  They wanted more violence than what they ended up with on January 6th.  And I still can’t blame people for getting angry on that day.  It could have been worse.  We witnessed a government stealing our election to stay in power.  And those in power are lucky that all they received was the little protest of January 6th.  It could have been far, far worse.  But I think the best way to beat your opponents is to make them compete and not let them hide behind some administrative veil.  Make them stand on stage and perform.  And because Trump and the rest of us did not riot or give up on the Constitution, the Democrats had to have that debate and show what a fool Biden was to the world.  The pressure of the expectation to perform legally forced them to do what they were not prepared to do.  As I say all the time if elections are protected from cheating, Democrats cannot win an honest election.  And if forced to perform in a competitive endeavor, they can’t, not at any level, win. 

And that is the lesson: if you want to defeat globalism, don’t fall for all their shiny toys.  Don’t let them mesmerize you with illusion.  Make them perform, and watch them fall apart.  You won’t have to fire a shot.  They will destroy themselves, just as Joe Biden did on that debate stage where everything was in his favor, including that CNN was the host.  Trump walked into enemy territory where everything was against him, and he dominated, which was the point.  Everyone was so worried that Trump was going to fall into a trap.  He’s a good executive; if you are good at anything, you should be able to walk into hostile territory and do well.  Trump needed to show the world what losers all these people were.  And just by showing up, it forced Democrats to put their best person on stage, and yes, Joe Biden is their best person.  That’s how bad they are.  Without all the illusion of The Wizard of Oz, with the smoke and fire, there is a weak little man behind the curtain who is powerless.  And they put him there to pull the levers because he was harmless and would let lesser people rule the world.  That is until people realize what an illusion it always was.  And anybody who wanted to believe in that illusion had that ripped away from them with this debate, which will likely be the last one.  Joe Biden could never afford such an exhibition of incompetence ever again.  And nobody is ever going to give him a chance.  If you want to win at life, make your enemies perform before you go crazy, grab guns, and turn to lawlessness.  The way we handled some of the most significant crimes in human history has been good.  It might not have been fun.  But it has been effective, and the proof was in this devastating debate performance.  We are just getting started on the dismantling of the administrative state.  This was just one little brick. 

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Not Even Aliens Can Save The FBI From Public Wrath: Why Jim Comey says it can only be Joe Biden

Now there is a proper context to the recent interview with Jim Comey, the former FBI Director when he said that only Joe Biden could be president in 2024. With all that we know about Biden’s health, his scandals, and his ineffectiveness, now everyone can see just how radicalized the FBI has been for a long time. Too many people gave them the benefit of the doubt and wanted to think they were a patriotic group. But now we know, and it’s especially obvious with the latest indictment case against Trump with Jack Smith and the monstrously corrupt Department of Justice, how the game has been played for a very long time, and to keep all those sins from the past concealed, they have to have a dummy in the White House who will do what they say, and won’t go poking around in all the vast evils committed by the 4th branch of government, which believes its totally unaccountable to the voters of America. Comey said the quiet part out loud, which was a bit redeeming. I couldn’t help but reflect on the spot on CNN where I made my prophetic utterances about just how corrupt Jim Comey was after Trump fired him in 2017. To much controversy, I told CNN that Comey was a liar, a practitioner of falsehoods, which they found repulsive. How could I say such a thing? It was a different world back then; America was much more innocent about how out of control the intelligence agencies were. Some people talked about the NSA’s massive power and that FBI agents were spying on people. That the CIA was behind the killing of JFK. But just a few short years later, in 2023, much of what conspiracy theorists had been thinking about turned out to be true. We now know the CIA was behind the JFK killing because it’s in declassified documents; we know that the FBI has been involved in a lot of nefarious scandals because they have been caught working with Democrats to keep them in power, and they have been aggressively engaged in a coup to remove President Trump from office. 

To keep the FBI safe from the wrath of the public, they must have Joe Biden in the White House; otherwise, the whole house of cards is built on lie after lie after lie for the fulfillment of Democrat globalism, an alignment with communist China, will come crashing down. And Comey knows it. For them, it’s Joe Biden or bust. The corrupt old man can’t do anything but run because behind him are so many crimes that he must sell to the public through a kind of grandpa image that the entire system that is hiding behind him would otherwise be exposed. They have no other choice; they are so vulnerable that their activism over the years is finally catching up to them. There is nothing to this Jack Smith story. It will be lucky ever to make it to court. The entire effort was in the back pocket of the Department of Justice for when the heavy stuff about Burisma bribes totaling over 5 million dollars hit the news, where the Biden family was caught in a shell corporation game of influence peddling during his Vice President days. A few hours after that news story hit, they launched this indictment of President Trump, the leading Republican player poised to dethrone the illegally installed Joe Biden into the White House. The system knows that if they hope to survive public scrutiny, all the sins that have been committed, they must keep Joe Biden in office, one way or the other. Who still thinks that there wasn’t election fraud in 2020? 

And you know it’s bad when the alien stories start to emerge; whistleblowers are coming forth to talk about all the alien craft that our military has that they have been experimenting on. And that the military has alien bodies in their possession. This has been on the mainstream news recently, along with an alien crash in Las Vegas where 8-foot green visitors from another planet struggled to conceal their cloaked craft after it left a mark in a parking lot. One of the aliens actually tried to get into a piece of construction equipment to drive it. As I heard these reports, they have a lot of credibility. I’m not one who doesn’t believe in space aliens. I actually think they are quite common, and the Vegas story, as well as the military leak, doesn’t surprise me in the least. I think aliens are as common in the world as Chinese people or Russians. Interacting with them might be a novelty from a foreign culture, but they are just living beings like the rest of us—no big deal. The conspiracy part of it is that the various intelligence agencies have tried to create a narrative about them that controls what people think. Such as acknowledging that they exist and that anybody who thinks such a thing is a massive conspiracy theorist. However, when the FBI needs to shake people away from investigating them, the alien stories hit the networks who obligingly remind the public that we might be facing a menace from outer space and that we need the FBI and the CIA to keep us safe. 

An alien invasion from forces beyond planet Earth is much less of a threat than our FBI. The American intelligence agencies are corrupt beyond repair and have shown the dangers of trusting people like Jim Comey too much. And I’ll go ahead and say it, once all these indictments go nowhere, and Trump is still the leading candidate for the GOP to run against the hapless Joe Biden and the mountains of corruption that the FBI is attempting to hide to keep him in power, there is going to be a very violent panic from these people, once they have to face the facts that they are not in power. They were never in power. Americans employed them to do a job, and they did not do that job. They let us down. And the stacks of lies they have been hiding behind all this time are coming apart rapidly. I said Comey was a crook well in advance of all that we have learned, and I’m saying now that the entire mechanism of the administrative state are on the ballot in 2024. Yes, they will attempt to cheat in massive ways because they have no other way to stay in power. But people are finally waking up to just how bad a lot of these people have always been.

The FBI was not our friend. The intelligence agencies have not been working to preserve the American Constitution. They have been conspirators, malicious agents of destruction. And they have been caught and only have Joe Biden’s presidency to shield them from punishment. Not even the alien stories can save them any longer. Which is quite a thing to consider; that’s how bad it is. They have been lying to us for years to acquire power and steer America in a hostile, globalist direction, intentionally misleading the public toward their destruction. And now their fate rests behind the efforts of one beat-up, corrupt old man. Yes, the desperation is showing.

 

Rich Hoffman

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The Proof of Fake News: Corporate Media shows its cards and intent to destroy America

I am very good friends with several people in the arena who are legislators in state and federal House and Senate positions.  I am also very good friends with people who consider themselves Sovereign Citizens and are so upset with the corporate takeover of America that they renounced their citizenship and exist as “non-people.” I understand their arguments; they have tried to recruit me to their cause many times, declaring that all the property we own doesn’t really belong to us, but to this global corporate cabal, which we have seen emerge out into the open since President Trump was in the White House and was driven out by election fraud in 2020.  Based on what we learned from the Maricopa County, Arizona election audit, we can easily say now there is more than enough proof that fraud was committed on such a scale to insert Joe Biden and remove President Trump illegally.  This has only fed the argument of those who believe as the Sovereign Citizens do.  Of course, the next step in the process is that they’ll take back their property at will, our homes, our cars, our jobs.  But as I’ve told my friends, both up and down the political spectrum, I’ll stand and fight my ground to protect my property.  My property is my property, end of story.  I don’t share.  I do not recognize any global power or any corporate alliance.  When I wrote my new book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, I had all these kinds of people in mind.  Corporate structures can be brought down and disabled, so don’t be afraid of them.  They should instead be afraid of you. Don’t feed them with your fear. 

Yet, I could only think of the Sovereign Citizen argument about corporate structure in the wake of what we learned from Maricopa County in Arizona.  I wondered how or if Fox News would even cover it, which they didn’t much.  Even Sean Hannity kept his shows focused on the border crises and not the election fraud because it was a corporate decision not to open that can of worms, which existed whether anybody acknowledged it or not.  Instead, all the news outlets covered was that Biden gained more votes in the recount than in the original count.  Everyone from CBS News, ABC, Fox, and CNN all covered the Maricopa County results in the same way, pointing to the corporate conspiracy that Alex Jones and the Sovereign Citizens are always talking about.  They say that the corporate cabal is run by a band of demonic hellhounds using the blood ritual of abortion to fuel their evil menace across the earth.  I might otherwise squint with a description like that, but suddenly, it made more sense than any other explanation for the obvious cover-up that mass media was engaged in. 

It’s one thing to say that all news that you disagree with is fake news.  But here, we had obvious evidence that anybody paying attention to could see was an obvious cover-up.  All the news outlets who deliberately tried to mislead their viewers with a faulty count of illegal ballots participated in a crime against America; it was sedition and treason at best, and many worse things.  And it pointed back to the Sovereign Citizen position that nothing we have is ours, that corporate stakeholders could call in our debts anytime they want and enslave us to their will.  And they simply no longer recognized America as anything sovereign.  They didn’t care about our Constitution.  They didn’t care about us.  They were all signed up to this global view of things and were going to take us all there kicking and screaming if need be, and there was nothing we could do about it.  Patriotic Americans did not own these corporate media types after all.  They could care less what happened to America.  They had sold us all out long ago, and the way they covered and participated in election fraud during the 2020 election was proof, all the evidence we needed. 

I waited for a few days after the results were announced to see how the coverage played out. Still, by the middle of the following week, no mainstreamers talked about the election fraud case in Maricopa County, Arizona.  It was, after all, the biggest story in the world, yet nobody wanted to acknowledge it.  The argument that it was a partisan audit was tossed around, but what is happening when primarily Democrats run the elections in blue cities? Isn’t that partisan?  But arguing that the Arizona audit was conducted by conservatives only opens the door to ask whether we should allow Democrats to run any aspect of an official election.  Based on that assumption, we have a lot to talk about regarding what we know.  Yet nobody wanted to discuss the matter where people get their news the most.  Instead, all topics were about getting the jab, about Covid, about the border crises, all of which were problems created by the Biden administration to essentially direct our attention from the real crimes at hand, election fraud that they knowingly participated in to undermine our republic.

It’s one thing to be angry at the media because they don’t cover what we think they should, but election fraud is an issue everyone should be concerned with because there isn’t a country without voter integrity.  And maybe that’s the point. Instead, it’s the most logical point.  Alex Jones and the Sovereign Citizens have been right about that acquisition all along; most of what we see and hear is controlled by a corporate entity for the ownership of some unseen bosses.  But I would say that we don’t have to accept that.  Honestly, we own this country, not some corporate pinheads showing themselves only at Davos every year.  And if anybody thinks they are going to take anything from me, well, that works both ways.  I can break the rules too.  We all can.  We will not be conquered by many corporate hacks using the rules to steal our country and our wealth while we comply and stay in the lane following the rules they gave us.  If they break election law, they deserve to be prosecuted.  Because we either have law and order, or we don’t. 

What we learned from Maricopa County was extremely valuable.  It convinced me that Joe Biden was not elected.  Take away all the emotion, and the facts of the audit speak for themselves.  There were illegal votes counted.  Votes made up in a Wal-Mart parking lot in the back of a van by a couple of dope-smoking losers don’t count.  Dead people can’t vote.  People can’t vote twice.  You can’t tamper with evidence by hacking the voting machines the day before an audit and expect everyone to be OK with it.  Any one of these would have flipped Arizona from Biden to Trump, and everyone in the media knows it.  Yet they all chose the same lie, even Fox News.  And we are better off knowing it now because when you are fighting a hidden enemy who refuses to show themselves in the light of day, this is the way to smoke them out into the open.  And by doing what they did, they are out in the open.  They exist beyond speculation and conspiracy theory.  We can see their network and the menace they intend for our country. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Myth of American Racism: Why Lebron James is an idiot

 

There is a reason that liberals are so upset about Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie Death of a Nation. Not that I think of it when I see Dinesh, but the last time I checked, he’s not a white guy, yet his movie and books of recent describe exactly why blacks have been used by identity politics as a kind of modern slave for the socialist Democrats as a last hook into the power of manipulation that persisted in the United States essentially up until the election of Donald Trump. Under Trump all the excuses have been removed, black unemployment is at record lows as black pastors gathered at the White House this week to advance black causes and empower individuals to achieve anything they want under the American flag. No president has done more to make all individuals equal than Donald Trump yet people like CNN’s Don Lemon and NBA star LeBron James see the gas leaving their stronghold on the black population and they are rushing at every opportunity to continue the myth that being black in America is a negative thing. Of course, Donald Trump took a shot at Lebron James after this pathetic interview on CNN. The kind of world that Lebron James is talking about doesn’t exist. Racism is an excuse for blacks to not achieve. It’s not real in America. There is no country on earth that has more tolerance between the races than the United States of America and James should know better. But maybe he’s not very smart, after all he did vote for Hillary Clinton. But to use his platform to perpetuate that racism is one of the number one problems in America only speaks to the Democratic platform that Dinesh D’Souza addressed in his recent film—Democrats need blacks to believe in racism and victimization so that they can have a unified political party, and that’s all they essentially care about.

The ”N Word” is an excuse that Democrats use to not perform at life. It was always Democrats who were the racists, who lynched black people and lobbied to make them slaves, which is well told in Dinesh’s new movie. Trump has every right to call Don Lemon and LeBron James “dumb” because they continue to insist that white Republicans are their enemy and are the cause of all racism in the world when in fact it was and always has been their own political party of Democrats that have advocated racism and victimization as a reason to reach continuously for bigger and bigger government to seek protection from those made up bandits that are always after them. LeBron in his interview with CNN’s Lemon used skin color as an excuse to perpetuate victimhood as a political platform, and they do it by essentially saying that all white people can never know what its like to be black, so we are never supposed to criticize them or question them in any way. And sports are supposed to be left alone to continue advancing progressive ideas to our nation’s children without any kind of debate, and when it does occur these Democrats cry racism in an attempt to shut down the conversation so that the truth can never be found. That truth is shown in blistering detail in the movie Death of a Nation.

It was never Donald Trump and the Republicans who were racist. I’m certainly not racist, and I’m as Republican as Republicans get. I can say that I have never in my life done a racist thing. I’ve probably in fact been close friends with people of color than I have of whites, not out of any kind of identity politics but only because I had more in common with the hard workers and striving intellects of those trying to make the most out of America as opposed to the mailbox money people who fill out job applications only to fulfil a government criterion to get money from a welfare check because they are too lazy to work. Some of the best people who I have known over the years are people like Dinesh D’Souza, who came to America and used the freedom of our Constitution to do great things in life.

LeBron James should be grateful to the United States, he gets paid a lot of money to throw a ball in a hoop. He’s obviously not very smart otherwise he would know that it has been his party of Democrats that still to this very day seek to hold down the black population through victimization. That’s why some blacks who want to be the leaders of modern black victimhood were so mad that Donald Trump held a meeting of black pastors at the White House, because it undermines the myth that the president is a racist that wants to hold down minority groups. It is the Democrats that are trying to do that, including Lebron James. By using his platform to declare that racism is alive and well, and that it is coming from Republicans is to lie to millions of children who look up to him for the pure political purpose of trying to prop up Democrats as the answer to the “N Word.” But it has only been them who have used that word to hold blacks down socially and intellectually.

The Nazis were socialists, not Republicans. Why is Lebron James and Don Lemon considered dumb by the president, because they either don’t know that, or they do know it yet they are trying to sell the “N Word” victimization anyway as a way to corral more dumb people into their Democratic party. Democrats are the political party that Adolf Hitler followed to create his own Third Reich. Hitler copied his party off of Woodrow Wilson, and how Franklin Roosevelt ran America as president. Of course, film critics of Death of a Nation were aghast to learn these things in the new Dinesh movie and they let everyone know it in their film reviews. But that was the truth, and LeBron James is trying to corral more blacks into the party of politics that committed all these crimes to begin with, and that is dumb. We all know he didn’t take school too seriously, and that he used his natural talents to throw a basketball into a net as a platform to success. But if he’s going to open his mouth and talk politics and try to use his celebrity to advance a party over another one, then he should know his history. But he doesn’t, and it’s obvious.

Generally, most people who supported Hillary Clinton and the continued Democratic Party are lazy intellectually, and they don’t want to know or admit that it was Democrats who were always the racists and have tried to separate that truth by shoving their history onto Republicans who ironically were responsible for freeing the slaves and giving blacks equal rights. Donald Trump in the modern age is doing just as Lincoln has done and Teddy Roosevelt did in his first term, he is treating blacks as equals and giving them a shot at the American dream, acquired through their ambitions, not a mailbox check. The only people guilty of using the “N Word” are Democrats trying to put a different kind of chain on the black population, not one of literal chains but intellectual ones. And more often than not, those are the worst kind.

Rich Hoffman

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Samuel Ronan the Progressive Extremist: What we learned at Lakota by the CNN star about why teachers should be armed

I didn’t know who Samuel Ronan was when he stepped up to the microphone at the very contentious Lakota school board meeting on February 27th 2017. My first impression of him was that he was just another overly emotional kid speaking against arming teachers in our public schools. The typical thing in these types of exchanges is to be respectful of the audience, even if they don’t agree with you, because it is the battle of ideas which sifts out the truth of a matter. When I spoke nobody heckled me or made comments from the audience, so I provided the same sentiment and that’s how it should be. However, there was something very fishy about the young man who quickly provided an address that didn’t seem to match anything within the Lakota district and instead of addressing the school board, the kid turned and addressed the crowd. We all sat stunned that he had crashed an otherwise civil meeting on a contentious topic. He had to be stopped because he went over the three-minute speaking limit. After Ronan spoke, the kid disappeared quickly before I had a chance to talk to him, which was fully my intention. I went out into the hall to see if he was anywhere about. He had left as quickly as he came. So I did a little checking to see who he was and what I discovered was rather revealing.

https://www.ronanforcongress.com/

My desire to confront the kid stemmed from a couple of things he said during his speech, namely what I took as a challenge when he said that he was trained on the AR-15 platform and he doubted that any teacher would want to face him during a rampage. Those aren’t his exact words, but that’s what he was essentially saying. I’d have to watch the tape of the meeting to get the exact dialogue which actually may have been more suggestive. Of course my answer to him is “hell yeah” I’d be willing to engage an active shooter—especially if it was a kid like him—disrespectful, aggressive, showing a disregard for the rules of conduct of the established practice of a forum—those are all alarm signs that such a person is up to no good. Now, you wouldn’t shoot someone like that without provocation, but if a person will bust in on a school board meeting and not reveal what their true intentions were, taking it for granted that everyone around him would be too nice to confront him, then he made the precise argument as to why we should arm teachers. That’s what I was going to tell him until I realized after he had left that the kid was actually a progressive Democrat from Springboro, not even from Lakota, and that he had switched parties to run against Steve Chabot in the upcoming 1st Congressional District race. Even more, this wasn’t just any progressive Democrat upset about the national trend toward gun rights—especially arming teachers in schools from domestic terrorist threats—this guy ran for the Democratic National Committee Chairman seat. Not your typical anti-gun protestor.

I typically have a soft spot for young people, especially charismatic young people who involve themselves in the events of the world—but there was something creepy about Ronan that came across as startling. He wasn’t a listed speaker for the evening, he simply took the opportunity during the public comments portion, after the scheduled speakers had concluded, myself being one of them, and proceeded on with an uncomfortable rant that was misplaced for the event.  He wasn’t even speaking to the crowd, the board, or even a single individual–he was only interested in the cameras.  What was odd was that he gave his camera to a Muslim woman sitting in the middle of the crowd to record his video, then when he took the podium he addressed the crowd directly instead of the board and during his speech he edged as I said on confrontational language talking about his military background and how he knew how to use such dangerous weapons giving him an advantage over average teachers. It was an odd mix of euphemisms that had what to me contained ominous undertones. As he was talking I just took it as the talk of an overly anxious and political kid looking to be the next Dave Hog, maybe to get on the many television cameras that were present. Then for some apparent reason he included discrimination against Muslims which had no place in the discussion—only that he injected it out of nowhere. It wasn’t even relevant to the topic. Those of us present were mystified by his behavior which left us scratching our heads as he left.

It was only after that I did some investigation into the kid and discovered that he was quite a national activist, and that his presence there at Lakota showed to what extent the school district in my neighborhood was going to play in national politics yet again. Being one of the largest schools in the state of Ohio in a state that Donald Trump won by 11 points, which went his way even with the establishment Republicans at the time led by John Kasich working against him, the district of Lakota is conservative even for conservative standards. It would be Lakota where the issue of guns in schools would live or die, and this progressive activist put his sights on Lakota to leave his national mark. My instinct said to engage the kid, which I tried to do after the meeting and find out what his story was. And as it usually is, my instincts were correct—this was a kid up to no good.  Yet he hadn’t done anything overtly bad enough to mandate a confrontation.  We all just politely let him ramble on hoping he would come to reason on his own, which of course he didn’t.

He misled people about who he was to speak that night at Lakota. He stepped into the heart of Lakota management and trusted that we’d all be too nice to really engage him, and he was right. Even I was so respectful of his right to speak that we let him go on for over 3 minutes breaking all the rules that such public speaking at Lakota required. But even more than that he was misleading people on his printed campaign literature, listing himself as a Republican of the 1st District which includes the equally conservative Warren County, Ohio. He knows he stands no chance of winning a congressional seat unless he runs as a Republican in his town of Springboro. Yet just last year he ran for the DNC Chairman seat—the head of the whole enchilada and was on many debates on CNN. He was bold, and audacious—and very experienced at an early age in the art of radicalism. If you took away just a few layers of sanity from such a person, he might be the next school shooter—a person who pretends to be an innocent visitor to a school to get past the first layer of security, then when everyone was content that he was a safe person, that would be when the guns come out and a rampage would begin. If he was bold enough to crash a board meeting that has pretty strict rules of conduct and behave like he did, a similar person would work their way through official security protocols to unleash their ill intentions. That’s why we need that extra layer of security—a teacher comfortable with firearms discreetly hidden from view could engage such a radical saving so many precious seconds which likely would mean the difference between life and death.

That’s not to say Samuel Ronan is a terrorist—I think he’s a very progressive radical looking to make a name for himself. But if you consider his behavior and the way he exploited goodness, and the trust of good people there in the room with him at Lakota—a seriously deranged person would use the same tactics to get to kids in a school to satisfy whatever instability might inspire them into such a dire action. And instead of making the case for why teachers shouldn’t carry guns in the school, Ronan showed us why they should. When people can’t function on the basic elements of trust, our protocols rooted in honesty make us all vulnerable to villains who don’t observe such rules of conduct, and that is the way of our modern world, like it or not. People like Ronan who don’t tell you honestly who they are and pretend to be something when they are really something else are obviously up to no good—otherwise there would be no reason to mislead people.

The reason we are required to give our name and address as speakers before the board is to protect the process of debate for just this kind of outside intrusion of politics, and Ronan was no small-time flunky from Springboro. He was a regular on CNN who had no intention to address the school board of Lakota—he went there to record himself on a stump speech trying to cause trouble. And he came and went largely without confrontation. The point of the matter is that good people trusting that everyone attending that night had good intentions either for or against the debate in question and were operating with a basic level of respect. What Ronan taught us at Lakota is that–it is that very trust a school shooter would exploit to make a menace of our children contained within our buildings. And by the time we figured out who they were, it would be too late. That’s how 17 people died in Parkland, Florida and many other places, because there wasn’t someone there on point to stop a hostile agent of terror—even as they stand sometimes right in front of us with an offering of peace and civility, when they really intend carnage.

Rich Hoffman

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I Was Right About James Comey: When my appearance on CNN illustrated the FBI scandal before anyone else imagined it was even possible

I have to say I’m just a little proud of myself. It was the beginning of June in 2017 when a friend of mine called to invite me to be a part of a group of CNN viewers to watch the James Comey testimony in front of Congress. The whole things was set up at Rick’s Tavern in Fairfield, Ohio. The CNN producer Stephen Samaniego had picked a place on the map in the heart of Trump country and wanted to gauge audience reaction to what they thought would be really damning testimony from the recently fired FBI Director. I knew what I was saying yes to and understood that CNN was hoping to catch us flat-footed with overwhelming evidence that President Trump had obstructed justice by firing Comey to stop an investigation into some mystical collusion with Russia to win the American election. So I showed up with about 8 or 9 other people early in the morning as CNN was setting up the popular sports bar as a viewing center. When the testimony started the CNN team was kind enough to buy us all lunch and film us as we watched the hearing unfold. It was an interesting experience. Throughout the testimony most of the people left before it was done leaving me and one other woman there until the conclusion.

I love that kind of thing. I have a busy life professionally, but I usually take time for big national events like this testimony. Even if CNN hadn’t invited me on the air to talk about it, I would have taken the day to watch it, so I was quite happy to stay for the entire event and speak with the CNN people afterwards. As anti-Trump as their network was, the crew with me were pretty neutral guys. We talked about regional bubbles which is why they wanted to come to Trump country and how different regions of the country had different perspectives, which I agreed with. We talked about the signs that something was wrong with John McCain who just a few months later would be diagnosed with a serious terminal ailment. We talked about what a great location Rick’s Tavern was for an understanding of the typical Trump voter. I was with CNN for another hour or so after the event ended and they seemed interested in my perspectives.

We were all told to come back later that evening for the Anderson Cooper show where we’d give live feedback to questions asked of us about the Comey testimony. I had taken copious amounts of notes during the testimony and there were a lot of fishy things said that gave me very strong opinions about the nature of James Comey—who up to that point I had been willing to give the benefit of the doubt. I thought he was an honest cop who had gotten caught in a political cross fire—but his testimony revealed holes that apparently only I could see, because the CNN guys thought the evidence against Trump was overwhelming in an obstruction of justice case. Again, the attribution to our differing points of view at that moment was thought to be regional. But to me it was just pure logic, so I had a feeling that I was going to be called on as a feature during the Cooper segment.

The mood of that night was against Trump supporters. On the surface Comey came across as a nice guy who was believable. I have however a built-in bullshit detector that had serious alarm bells going off inside me, and my instinct told me that Comey was up to no good. That bullshit detector is something I have learned to trust over the years as it is almost always correct. I don’t always let the people know whom I’m dealing with that I know they are giving me bullshit. There are tactical advantages to not saying so, and given that this was a CNN event, I didn’t come right out and announce my thoughts to the producers—rather I let them talk most. When they called on me during the Anderson Cooper segment I was free to articulate the situation the way I truly felt about it, which was to compare Comey to the fiction writer Ian Fleming of the famous James Bond series. James Comey to me after his testimony was a radical hiding behind a good old American façade who fancied himself as some kind of secret agent saving the world from itself, so I said as much to the millions of people watching and in hind-sight, I’m very proud of it.

On the cusp of the congressional memo announcing in grim detail how the FBI abused its power to spy on the Trump transition team inspiring a phony Russian conspiracy to shield the real criminal behavior that our top law enforcement agency in America had actually conducted—I am happy to say that when it mattered most, I called it correctly. Now the rest of America is about to learn what I’ve been saying for many years, and the proof is right there in front of everyone to deal with—just as I told you it would be many years ago. The only real collusion that occurred during the 2016 election was between the Democratic Party and our very own FBI. And Comey was the ring leader. When I stated to CNN that Comey was more inclined to fiction than the truth it went against all conventional thinking on that early June day in 2017.

After the show was over and the CNN guys were packing up their equipment we spoke for a little and I wondered if they’d be angry with me for saying what I did. After all, I thought I was pretty kind in how I said it—and as it turned out, they liked the statement and even went so far to feature it on their YouTube site. Rush Limbaugh picked it up the following day and I felt I had done a pretty good job. It was however only over the coming months that slowly I would be proven right. As it usually is, people who make bold predictions or say things that aren’t yet accepted as reality are ridiculed and at that time saying that Comey and the FBI were up to fictional testimony to hide a crime they committed was very scandalous and was an extraordinary thing to do. But now we are all learning that what I said wasn’t at all outlandish. It was rather, quite factual.

Like I said, I have a built-in bullshit detector. I know a lot more about people than I let on because once you say something, you can never take it back, and often that’s not the way to communicate most effectively with others. With the CNN guys, I had a chance to tell millions of people my thoughts about James Comey just hours after his testimony and without question because I made it easy for others to follow, I played a small part in shaping the defense of Trump in some critical hours when the White House needed it most and now that the FBI has been caught—I am extremely proud of my position so early on. That’s certainly not the first time for me nor will it be my last—but it feels good when the current seems against you to stand up to the pressure and trust your instincts—then to be confirmed correct. If I had been a rambling partisan, they likely wouldn’t have put me on television and who knows what would have happened next. Its one thing to be right, but if you really want to communicate it’s not always best to rub the nose of your opponent into their own excrement. Sometimes you have to let them come to things in their own way. Sometimes you do want to rub their face in it, but usually that’s not the best thing. But when it comes to standing up to the FBI and going against an icon of justice that James Comey was before that day of testimony, it wasn’t easy to sit there in Rick’s Tavern and declare that the former FBI Director was lying. But he was, and I’m very glad to have been one of the first to say so. Now, when I say that the Democratic Party is about to destroy itself, maybe you’ll listen to my thoughts a little more carefully dear reader.

Rich Hoffman

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Sea World Needs Your Support: Don’t let CNN, PETA, and other radical organizations destroy it

It is a shame that the same forces who are attacking this present Trump administration and the positive outlook he has for a thriving America are the exact same attacking the Sea World Entertainment.  The attendance in the many parks they have around the nation, especially Orlando are down and have not recovered from the CNN hit job created by the PETA film Blackfish which has played on Netflix for several years now and has taken a major toll on park optimism.  In the case of Orlando specifically, as the competition from Universal Studios, Disney World and many other attractions in central Florida where people have to shell out $100 a ticket and spend over $1000 on a vacation experience they have steered away from Sea World because of all the negative press.  People don’t go to amusement parks, which Sea World is to feel bad about things.  They want optimism if they are going to spend that kind of money and the PETA crowd and their liberal sympathizers in the media have taken optimism away from the Sea World experience and put the very good company that does so much good for marine research on their heels foolishly.

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We all know what PETA is, it’s the crazy chicks that take off their clothes in public and put on ridiculous displays of extreme foolishness to make their point of saving wildlife from the terrors of mankind.  They are usually kids right out of high school or old pot smoking hippies who are part of that “Earth First” crowd that wonder why Al Gore’s new movie An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power bombed at the box office.  That movie was so bad that it only made $1,495,661 during its opening two-week period starting on July 28th. It was a piece of crap propaganda film meant to evoke the heart-strings of the radical capitalist hating progressives.  The movie bombed because it sucked and was essentially a movie of progressive evangelicalism making nature a god to be worshiped with the same kind of flimsy justification of scholarship that those same people make fun of in Bible thumpers.

Sea World however doesn’t suck—it’s a really good company that does great things for the preservation and understanding of marine habitats.  They do a good job of balancing the needs of scientific understanding using capitalism to drive research—which is how things are supposed to work in America.  I’ve been to many of the Sea World parks and have always loved them.  Their presence in Orlando enhances that city tremendously.   I love visiting the Orlando airport where all the amusement parks scream for attention.  I cannot imagine a Orlando without their buses and signs painted up with the images of killer whales.   With all the fantasy offered by Universal Studios and Disney, Sea World offers a nice blend of entertainment and science which heightens the intellectual experience of the entire Orlando area.  Unfortunately times have been tough in Orlando.  People are still spending money and visiting the parks there but Universal Studios has been literally killing it with their Harry Potter attraction and other very good offerings such as Kong: Skull Island which is simply a phenomenal experience worthy of a trip to Florida all by itself. Then of course Disney has their Avatar Land which just opened this year and the promise of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is coming rapidly.  Those parks have done a great job of staying fresh as the entertainment market for amusement parks has shifted dramatically in recent years to these “experiences.”  Meanwhile Sea World has had to fend off these crazy attacks essentially by CNN who has went on mission to literally torpedo the company to appease their PETA base of supporters at the left leaning cable company.   Instead of fighting CNN, Sea World should have been doing their own versions of those experiences and they are late to the party.  Finally they will have a Sesame Street Land in 2022 which will help, but that’s just too far off for them at this point.  They needed to be opening something like that in 2018 to maintain their market viability.  This attack on them really has not been fair to the good work they have always done in bringing marine life to millions of children over many decades.

To understand this “experience” trend in amusement parks and how big it is for market share it was obvious to me at my local park of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio.  Their newest attraction is a wooden roller coaster called Mystic Timbers which has a kind of Indiana Jones meets the Blair Witch theme to the experience and it’s very effective.  Kings Island has done a good job of keeping itself fresh over the years and has really blossomed under the care of Cedar Fair Amusements which runs Cedar Point up in northern Ohio.  The benefit that Cedar Fair has is that their business is purely thrill rides whereas Sea World is actually about education.  Sea World has some great thrill rides such as the Kraken which reopened just this year with a major overhaul featuring a VR ride that is quite spectacular.  But the essence of their market is education based which is a tough sell these days with all the glitter offered to consumers with extremely short attention spans and not much money in their pockets from wage stagnation.

Sea World used to be a destination vacation experience.  When I was a kid we went to the one in Aurora, Ohio well before it was closed down and I looked forward to it all summer.   It was a big deal to me and I loved the Orca shows and learned a lot about marine life that is still my foundation for that topic to this day.  Now that I have grand children I want to be able to take them to the park in Orlando and give them a similar experience.  However, Sea World is falling behind in the competitive battle to stay relevant in a capitalist society because of these attacks against it which is a shame.  Clearly we are not all one America and so long as these radical losers exist in our society who would even think to attack such a good company then there will continue to be strife over every little thing between us—just as there is under the Trump presidency.  All this started when that other side felt empowered under the Obama White House.  Sea World had an accident that was truly difficult for them and is part of the danger of their business.  But instead of providing support the radicals attacked and sought to put the company out of business and that is just despicable.

I would say that if you are thinking of taking a vacation and are going to the Orlando area dear reader, or any of the other locations that Sea World has around the country, you should make a point to visit them and put some money in their pockets.  Sea World could use the help.  The work they do is too valuable to ignore and it costs a lot of money to run an operation of live sea creatures the way they do.  Disney World at the end of the day turns off their rides and powers down their attractions. Sea World has to feed all those animals so their expenses are much different from other thrill park attractions yet that is the market they must compete in.  I’ve never been to Sea World where I didn’t have a good time and learn something fresh—or felt that the cost of admission wasn’t worth it.  So if you love optimism, science and capitalism—then you should support Sea World.  They are the Donald Trump’s of the theme park world and are being attacked essentially for being good.  And we shouldn’t allow that to happen to them.

Rich Hoffman

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CNN in Butler County, Ohio at Rick’s Tavern: From Eliot Ness to Ian Flemming–Comey is in trouble

IMG_4642Of course when CNN came to Butler County to do a piece on the James Comey hearings seeking the reaction of Trump supporters I wasn’t going to pass up on the opportunity.  CNN has been hostile to Trump and they were coming to my turf—and I got an invite.  So I spent the day with several other Trump troops from southern Ohio at Rick’s Tavern in Fairfield watching the Comey hearings which CNN set up as a kind of watch party and we stuck around to give our live reaction on Anderson Cooper’s show later that night.  The CNN people were very professional and accommodating so the event went off without any contention.  We originally were supposed to be on the Anderson Cooper show for two 15 minute segments, but because of the busy news day that was whittled down to a 4 minute piece at 9:35 PM.   So we had a problem, we had nine Trump people at Rick’s Tavern to do live television and we all had a few pages of notes that we had taken from the testimony to fill a half hour of air time.  But somehow we had to narrow all that down into a 20 second statement.  So when the camera turned to me I wasn’t sure what I was going to say or even where to start about my various thoughts–I said this.

I’ll get more into the details of the Comey hearing itself in the days to come but for this occasion, I’ll share my notes for future reference and focus on the positive experience we had with CNN at Rick’s Tavern as Americans.

Comey Notes taken on 6/8/2017:

  • Mark Warner made a dangerous assertion with the resolute conclusion of the Russian investigation as his foundation argument. How would he know that?

  • In a world where international cooperation and compromise are praised, it is interesting that working with the Russians is even something that would cause suspicion in the first place.

  • Comey says that the impression of the FBI was not in dismay, which is a purely emotional response. Saying something doesn’t make it true.

  • Russian cyber intrusion by the Russians according to Comey, started in 2015 under Obama.

  • Comey said that Trump lied about him and the FBI. That perspective comes from a guy who was in charge at the time and is now an ex-employee speaking from hurt feelings.

  • Judgment of Trump’s character was that Trump might lie about him—based again purely on feelings.

  • Comey assumes that the Trump dinner was a way to get something on the FBI director to use his job as a bargaining chip to control Comey’s investigations. Again, this was purely emotionally based.   Comey made a lot of assumptions.

  • Don’t remember that Comey specifically said “chose to defame me.”

  • How did Comey know he needed to write down everything—the premise was rooted in mistrust from the beginning? The interesting thing is that Comey did not have the same level of conviction when Attorney General Loretta Lynch told him to handle the Hillary Clinton case as a “matter.”  Lynch was clearly trying to shape the FBI case, yet Comey did not respond with indignation the way he did with Trump.  He obviously had made up his mind about Trump before the president took office.

  • Comey said he was uncomfortable with Trump after the meeting with him on January 6th.

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  • Trump and Comey never spoke after April 11th.

  • Comey said he’d be “honestly loyal,” to Trump.

  • Comey didn’t do his duty because of the pressure from Lynch. Shows a history of bad decisions by over thinking things.

  • FBI leadership team didn’t want to speak with Jeff Sessions.

  • “Gut feel of the nature of the person I was interacting with.” This is how Comey referred to Trump.

  • Comey asked a friend that is a professor at Columbia school of journalism to leak his personal notes to the press hoping to invoke a special investigation.

  • Comey says that Russia actively participated in American elections with a great level of sophistication. But that’s nothing new, the United States does the same.  The problem is with the DNC letting themselves become victims with loose information.

  • Why would the president kick everyone out of the room—because business guys know from experience that it’s a good way to communicate and size people up—not letting them hide behind other people.

  • What is the difference in speaking one on one in a private setting and speaking on the phone with someone. This is something that Roy Blunt brought up—why would Comey feel different in person than on a phone call?

  • Comey leaked info to a friend—guilty of activism—seeking a special counsel to do what he didn’t have the courage to do himself. While he showed caution in not having a special investigation occur with Hillary Clinton, but had no problem letting one happen to President Trump.

  • Comey established a pattern of very weak behavior which likely has more to do with his firing than anything otherwise contemplated.

  • Likely, notes leaked to The New York Times are still in the possession of Comey’s friend. Seriously bad judgment.

  • Case is on obstruction of justice only if the intent was to cover up the Russian investigation. It assumes that job performance was not a factor.

  • Comey referred to himself as “captain courageous.”

As we went on the air many other Trump supporters showed up to fill in the background of the bar—specifically the Biker’s for Trump guys—so there was an ambiance of positivity that was distinctly patriotic.  The news coverage all day long had been very negative for Trump, but I didn’t see things that way, which is why I answered my question the way I did.  Clearly Comey wasn’t an honest Boy Scout as he had been playing.  He was in fact one of the big Washington Beltway leakers and he was doing it from a very high level.

He was in trouble—serious trouble and that wasn’t lost to me during the testimony.  When Comey had said he leaked his memo to a friend who then leaked it to the press, I made eye contact with the CNN producer Stephen Samaniego and he knew it too.  This wasn’t a partisan issue or a group of Ohio Trump supporters living in the bubble of regional conservatism.  Comey had admitted to something that was very serious and Trump had nailed him to the wall with Comey’s own show boating.  Once the smoke cleared from the day’s events, to the time we went on live with Anderson Cooper—that was the story.

As I watched the CNN guys and the live show on the monitor as we were finally set-up for our official shots it was clear to me that this was all part of making America Great Again.  The epic showdown on Capital Hill with Comey–flushing him out as a leaker, getting him to reveal what Loretta Lynch had revealed about the Hillary Clinton case—which we all suspected—was all part of this new Trump approach to things.  Now we had proof—testimony anyway—it all occurred because of the way Trump does things. None of this would have happened with any other president.  The Iran Contra hearings nearly destroyed all the good things that Reagan did—and here was Trump plowing through everything relentlessly and the political left was making major mistakes under the pressure of Trump.  And here was CNN honestly soul-searching for an understanding of how people think from the heartland of the Trump voter—Butler Country, Ohio with some of the leaders of the ground game there to talk.

They were truly curious whether or not we’d still be with him and they picked Rick’s Tavern with its big America flag hanging out front to understand why. They asked good questions and we answered them the best we could in 20 seconds.  When it came to me I said what I did, Comey portrayed himself as an honest Eliot Ness FBI agent from the Untouchables.  But what he ended up being was just a 6’8” cowering bureaucrat who knew how to talk a good game, but when the rubber hit the road, he was lost.  Trump was exposing that month by month making it so that Comey couldn’t hide it any more.  Barack Obama had no idea what competency was but here was a real businessman who knew value in people and Comey knew he was in trouble. So he decided to become the villain of a spy novel and go about passive aggressively leaking information about Trump to take down the new president—and Trump sniffed him out.  That’s when Comey made the biggest mistake of his life—he leaked his notes to a Columbia professor friend to leak the story to The New York Times.  That’s how I came up with the Ian Flemming reference—because Comey was far more interested with images and storylines than substance and facts.

I think there were around 5 million people watching CNN at that time slot so I was very proud of the opportunity to defend President Trump in the trenches, even if it was only 20 seconds—the comments did what they were supposed to do.  And for those who read here everyday, they know that there is a lot more where that came from.  I’d do it again in a second.  Trump is doing a great job, and I appreciate it, and will fight for him all day long so that he can keep doing that job.

Rich Hoffman

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The ‘House of Cards’ are Falling Down: People voting for Trump and Cruz likely because of the popular Netflix series

I have been asked so much over the last two years which role I played with my blog site here, that was comparable to the popular Netflix series House of Cards.  Well, I couldn’t give an answer because I don’t watch much entertainment television.  Movies haven’t been very good for the last half of a decade and television series have not been a priority.  I can’t relate to most of the plotlines.  I’ve lived too much life to feel sympathy for most plot devices—so the stories are often boring to me.  I do enjoy that type of entertainment from time to time, but it’s not very often.  I watch CSPAN a lot along the various news channels—and typically don’t get very much out of dramatic television.  But the question persisted, what role did I play in the real life House of Cards?  Well, my wife and I recently made an audio/visual upgrade and we were looking for something to watch that could stretch the legs of the new system.  House of Cards was on my mind—it was broadcast in the highest current video format which was very colorful, so we watched the first couple episodes and enjoyed it.  I found it to be pretty realistic, but too simplified to what really goes on in politics.  But still, the writers of the show did something that was very difficult to do; they captured roughly how life in the Beltway really is through the Kevin Spacey character.  And my role with this site was shown in several characters—primarily the conspiracy theorist web writer who was living in a trailer park, and the reporter for The Washington Herald  who broke stories on her blog site that her bosses wouldn’t touch otherwise.  It was an enjoyable experience to watch because it let viewers into a world that I have learned to understand all too well.  And its effect on the popular electorate is quite obvious as the election results from Saturday March, 5th 2016 poured in late at night and the establishment candidates had bombed badly.  Marco Rubio and John Kasich had barely hit the registered vote while Trump and Cruz ran away with the night.

The “Washington Establishment” is defined in the Netflix show.  It’s not just one person leading the nation from a back room, or a conglomeration of bankers running the world from the basement of some ancient pyramid dedicated to gods long-lost to our written record.  It is the Kevin Spacey character—a congressman who is the majority WHIP of his party who is manipulating Washington at every level, from the guy who owns the ribs restaurant in the hard streets of a black neighborhood to the President of the United States.   House of Cards captures the culture of the Washington establishment quite well, and accurately.  Obviously when Mitt Romney was sent out to do several hit pieces on Donald Trump, the scheme didn’t work.  Trump withheld the barrage, although Ted Cruz certainly benefited.  During the unique Saturday election, nobody ran toward an establishment candidate and that clearly baffled the Frank Underwood types.  Fox News was mystified and several guests on the other shows literally looked as if they had been shot out of a cannon.  The establishment and all their tricks were dead, and it may very well be the television show House of Cards that finally killed it.

Netflix has around 34 million paid domestic subscribers and roughly 6% to 10% have watched at least one episode of House of Cards which is the flagship show offered by the streaming company that essentially destroyed Blockbuster Video.  That means that at least 3 million people have at least watched some of the House of Cards episodes at some point in their subscription.  However, that is likely a very conservative number.  The numbers are likely higher if the IMDb ratings scores are considered as a statistical sampling.  House of Cards has over 275,000 votes which are much higher than other popular shows on more traditional networks.  Since Nielson Ratings don’t have a good way to account for ratings on streaming services over the Internet all this is so new and game changing that nobody but Netflix really knows how many people are watching their most popular show.

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The Tea Party has been around now for about seven years and it has certainly made its imprint on politics.  As I’ve said before, even in the video game industry, anti establishment plot lines which deal with the nuances of corruption at the highest levels are typical.  Assassin’s Creed comes to my mind regarding this topic. The story is a fairly complex one that takes game players to pinnacle moments in history that is being simulated against a dystopian future which makes classic stories like Brave New World and Animal Farm look overly simplified as a result. The world is moving very fast now technologically, and people from my age and older are missing it, because it’s all coming in so fast that classic media is resisting the implication—so they are under reporting it.  If you add all this up you essentially get what voters have decided for themselves–they want to destroy the Washington establishment one way or the other.  The only real difference is whether they want to do it with someone like Donald Trump who represents someone who could out-fox anyone in the Beltway for several years, or a constitutional anchor in Ted Cruz who would say no to everything.  That is what came out of the really pivotal vote on March 5th.

When Mitt Romney came out against Trump just days before the big vote, on a day when Trump was facing down his rivals on the Fox News debate where Megan Kelly for the first time since a major feud with Donald Trump had erupted, would ask the New York billionaire hard questions in front of tens of millions of people—few thought the results would be as they turned out.  The bets were on Marco Rubio to get a spike, followed by John Kasich and that hasn’t happened at all.  In fact, Rubio was literally trounced on Saturday.  With all that was said, Trump not only survived, he won his two targeted states and split with Cruz the other two.  In the delegate count, Trump is just shy of 400 going into the winner take all states which he’s poised to do well with while the other candidates are well behind.  The establishment really doesn’t know what to do because Ted Cruz is the closest to Donald Trump at only less than 100 back.  This was not part of the plan.  If this was the House of Cards, Kevin Spacey would be having a meltdown because these rules of power and politics were not from the world he understands.  Everything has suddenly turned on its head and nobody in the know understands where it came from. 

That is precisely why I have written so much on this topic for years.  People watch these shows, they play these video games and the do research on the Internet to find out for themselves what’s really going on.  The traditional media is not a part of that revolution so all this is happening outside of their control.  But it is clear to me that shows like House of Cards is waking people up to a truth they may not have otherwise considered.  They might come to a site like mine for additional information to validate their suspicions, but House of Cards is bringing the average person a level of insider sophistication that they didn’t know existed before by just watching CNN or reading The Washington Times.  And America has made a decision to pull out the foundation of that house and to let the whole thing just topple down.  They don’t want a House of Cards running their nation-and they have voted to move in that direction.  Even the popularity for Bernie Sanders explains the same on the side of Democrats and other left-winged people.  People are tired of the tricks and the manipulation, and they want to bust up the system at its very core.

This all brings us back to my role in all this.  Well, my job isn’t really covered in the Netflix series.  There are some characters that are similar, but nobody is doing what I’m doing for the reasons that I do within that story.  To get to that, it would require several layers of sophistication more, but that is not the fault of the writers of House of Cards.  They have done a wonderful job putting all these pieces together within Washington culture.  They certainly deserve their Emmy Award victories.  They have brought to life in the Frank and Clair Underwood characters, who unfortunately really do exist in all the viciousness that House of Cards shows, a representation of a truth—and American voters are ready to turn away.  So they watch House of Cards on Netflix, or they play Assassin’s Creed and want to know more.  That’s when they find me and all this voluminous material.  Then they check the sources I list and watch the videos, and they start changing their minds about things because they have source material from several different places starting with art, and then seeking out validation with journalism, then in opinion by measuring their reaction to others.  My job is to be that middle offering.    That element is missing from House of Cards because in that world—not many people are watching television except for the news.  But it’s close enough to make the needed changes that we are witnessing—and that is a very good thing.

Rich “Cliffhanger” Hoffman

 CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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