Remember the Lockdown Lady: Amy Acton’s Devastating COVID Policies That Torpedoed Ohio

I’ve never liked Dr. Amy Acton. I had very little good to say about her back when she was Ohio’s Health Director under Governor Mike DeWine, and I haven’t thought much about her since those nightmare years of 2020 and 2021. I tried to push her out of my mind after all the damage she helped inflict. But here we are in 2026, with a primary right around the corner and a full gubernatorial election coming up, and the Democrats have talked her into running for governor. In my opinion, it’s one of the worst political decisions they could have made. It’s not just bizarre—it’s tone-deaf to what Ohio families actually went through.

I happened to be in Columbus recently, and within just a couple of days, I had two conversations that really drove this home for me. First, I spoke with Governor Mike DeWine himself—the man who’s been in the governor’s office through it all. We talked policies, what worked during his eight years, and what went horribly wrong. COVID came up naturally, his administration got challenged in court over the constitutionality of the lockdowns and orders pushed under her advice. At no point during those dark months were the things they were doing fully constitutional, and many smart people—including me—knew it at the time. The Ohio Supreme Court and lower courts eventually forced reopenings because the overreach was so extreme. DeWine knows he lost a lot of goodwill over it, and he’s still trying to make it up to Republicans.

A couple of days later, I talked to the future governor of Ohio—Vivek Ramaswamy. He’s a super nice guy, high-character, above-the-trench kind of person who wants to play well with everybody if he can. He’s smart, young, and genuinely wants to do good things for Ohio. He’s not the type to go down in the dirt and bodyslam somebody just for sport. But when we talked about Amy Acton, I told him straight: she deserves it. “Vivek,” I said, “she shut down our state. We’re still bleeding economically from the torpedo she dropped on Ohio under Fauci’s influence. You’re going to win the primary easily, and you’re going to have a new mop in your house because you’re going to mop the floor with her. That’s all she’s good for after what she did.” He laughed, but he knew I was right. He’s got people like Donald Trump Jr. and others who will remind folks of her record, so he doesn’t have to get his hands too dirty. She’s the Lockdown Lady, and Ohio must never forget.

This isn’t abstract history to me. I lived it. I saw families destroyed, small businesses wiped out, kids losing years of education, and people denied the simple joys that make life worth living—like tailgating at a Browns game or taking the kids to Kings Island. I remember driving to Kings Island that miserable summer of 2020. It was supposed to be family fun, but her policies turned it into a dystopian nightmare: rides taped off, masked staff barking orders, social-distancing enforcers everywhere, limited concessions, and zero joy. We couldn’t ride half the things, couldn’t buy souvenirs properly, and the whole experience felt like punishment for wanting normalcy. That’s what Amy Acton did to Ohio. And now she wants to run the whole state? No way. I’m here to lay it all out—from my perspective, with the background you need, the facts she can’t erase, and why Vivek Ramaswamy is the only choice.

How It All Started: DeWine’s Bipartisan Mistake and Acton’s Rise

Let’s go back to 2019 so you understand the context. Governor Mike DeWine wanted to reach across the aisle after winning in 2018. He’s a moderate Republican with a long career—U.S. Senator, Attorney General—and he thought putting a Democrat on his team would build coalitions. That’s how Dr. Amy Acton, a physician and researcher from Youngstown with a background in public health, became Director of the Ohio Department of Health. On paper, it looked like smart politics. She had worked on infant mortality issues and seemed qualified. What DeWine couldn’t foresee was COVID-19 hitting in early 2020 and the federal machine behind her.

During her tenure, Acton completely deferred to the CDC and to Dr. Anthony Fauci at NIAID. Their guidance—later proven flawed, contradictory, and largely politically driven—became gospel in Ohio. Her daily briefings had this folksy, almost hippie vibe: “hug your neighbor,” “support each other around the campfire,” “we’re all in this together.” But behind the warm words were iron-fisted orders: stay-at-home mandates, school closures, business shutdowns, mask rules, and capacity limits that crushed everything. Ohio was one of the first states to go full lockdown on March 22, 2020. Schools closed statewide. “Non-essential” businesses were ordered to shut down. Amusement parks, fairs, and sports—everything ground to a halt.

I watched it happen in real time. Acton estimated as many as 100,000 infections early on, scaring everyone into compliance. But as I’ve said many times, the virus was engineered. Gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology—funded in part by U.S. taxpayers through Fauci’s NIAID and EcoHealth Alliance—took a bat virus and made it transmissible to humans. That’s not a conspiracy; it’s documented. RFK Jr., now serving in the Trump administration at HHS, laid it all out in books like The Real Anthony Fauci and The Wuhan Cover-Up. China released it, the WHO covered for them, and Fauci stonewalled investigations. Bill Gates’ involvement and his Epstein ties added another layer of suspicion, but the core fact remains: this was a lab-created bio-weapon scenario that justified the panic.

Acton wasn’t smart enough to be in on the big conspiracy, in my view. She just followed the CDC memos like a good soldier. “Outdoor outdoor outdoor,” she’d say, then flip to full lockdowns. She sounded whacked out on something during those speeches—Grateful Dead concert energy mixed with authoritarian control. And DeWine empowered her. DeWine lost in court, had to reopen, and still carries the scars. Acton resigned on June 11, 2020, amid protests outside her home (some armed), legislative bills stripping her emergency powers, and public fury. She faded away—until Democrats dragged her back out in 2025, thinking we’d all forgotten.

The Human Toll: What I Saw and What Ohio Still Feels

The damage was catastrophic, and I saw it up close. Ohio’s unemployment shot from 4.9% to 16.4% in one month—the worst spike in modern history—small businesses, restaurants, gyms, and retailers closed by the thousands and never reopened. Hospitality and tourism tanked. Families who saved all year for Kings Island got a nightmare version: no lines near rides, masked everything, and a joyless slog. Mental health crises exploded. Overdoses rose 20% in Ohio in 2020. Kids lost massive learning—third-graders fell behind by a third of a year in reading, especially poor kids. Life expectancy dropped.

Critics on the left still say Acton “saved lives” by flattening the curve. But compare Ohio to Florida, which reopened earlier under Governor DeSantis. Adjusted for demographics, outcomes were similar or better without the economic suicide. The real scandal was ignoring natural immunity, the virus’s low risk to healthy people and kids, and the secondary deaths from isolation and delayed care. As I told Vivek, we’re still bleeding. Families lost homes. Communities—especially rural southern and southeastern Ohio—felt betrayed by big-government edicts from Columbus.

Acton didn’t invent the virus, but she owned the implementation here. She channeled Fauci’s flip-flopping on masks, overstated models, and suppression of early treatments like hydroxychloroquine. Congressional hearings in 2023-2024, plus RFK Jr.’s work, confirmed the gain-of-function funding, the lab’s military ties, and the cover-up. Trump’s administration has now banned such research and put the lab-leak theory front and center. Yet Acton never questioned it. She just locked us down.

The Tweets That Prove It: Resurfaced Evidence of Her Madness

Nothing captures her tone-deaf cruelty better than the tweets she posted in May 2020—tweets she later deleted but that have now resurfaced thanks to OutKick, Fox News, and Donald Trump Jr. I’ve shared them on my podcast, and they’re Exhibit A for why she’s unfit. These weren’t policy announcements. They were personal scoldings aimed at ordinary Ohioans desperate for a break.

Context: The Cleveland Browns, with Baker Mayfield as the new quarterback, were generating rare excitement in a sports-starved state. Fans dreamed of tailgates, playoffs, and packed FirstEnergy Stadium. Empty stadiums that year were already heartbreaking. But Acton inserted herself into Browns Twitter like a hall monitor:

• To a fan posting a Kermit the Frog meme about playoff hopes: “Please social distance.”

• To excitement about Baker Mayfield: “Please follow CDC guidelines.” Then, when the fan pushed back, “We should be discussing ways to prevent COVID.”

• To another fan saying Browns Twitter was “the only fun part of quarantine”: “Please stop.”

• To Super Bowl dreams: “No. Too many people.”

• To jersey talk: “We need masks and PPE, not jerseys.”

• And the kicker: “Grow up #StayAtHome” and “We are in a pandemic.”

These are direct quotes from her deleted account, resurfaced this week. She was lecturing fans for wanting to watch football, cheer their team, or escape the misery. She told people to stop influencing others “in a bad way” by hoping for games. This is the same woman who made Kings Island miserable and shut down so much else. People just wanted relief. She wanted compliance.

Her campaign now claims some were parody accounts, but the screenshots don’t lie. Trump Jr. amplified them. OutKick called it “bizarre harassment.” And she’s running for governor? In northern Ohio, where sports are religion, this stings. Cleveland Browns fans, Cuyahoga County union folks—they remember the empty stadiums she helped create.

Vivek’s Path

That brings me to Vivek Ramaswamy. I told him exactly what I think: he’s going to win the primary without much trouble, and the general, too, if we show up. Southern and southeastern Ohio—rural, Trump-flag country—will deliver huge margins for him. Those are the right kind of people: hardworking, America-first, sick of big government. Northern urban areas (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Cuyahoga counties) might tilt toward Acton with unions and Democrats, but the numbers won’t overcome the south. Recent polls show her competitive? Smoke from cherry-picked areas. I guarantee it.

Vivek has raised nearly $20 million, got Trump’s endorsement, picked Senate President Rob McColley as running mate, and has DeWine’s blessing. He’s a Cincinnati native, biotech entrepreneur, author—exactly what Ohio needs: innovation, tax cuts, merit over DEI, and manufacturing revival. He doesn’t want to “beat the heck out of somebody,” as I put it, but he doesn’t have to. Surrogates like me, Trump Jr., and others will remind voters she’s the Lockdown Lady.

DeWine endorsed Vivek the same day Acton picked David Pepper as her running mate. That timing wasn’t a coincidence. DeWine knows her record. Vivek is the future—opportunity, excellence, the American Dream. Acton is the past: fear, control, economic destruction.

Never Forget: The Lockdown Lady’s Legacy

Democrats bet on amnesia. They thought six years later we’d forget the empty stadiums, closed parks, lost businesses, learning loss, and suicides of despair. They were wrong. History has judged the lockdown crowd poorly, and Acton was at the center in Ohio. She followed Fauci, the CDC, and a corrupt China-WHO axis straight into disaster.

I’ve said it for years now: remember until November. She locked down Ohio. She destroyed lives following bad science from people who funded the gain-of-function weapon in Wuhan. Read RFK Jr.’s books. Study the tweets. Recall your own pain—whether it was a canceled wedding, a lost job, or a kid who never caught up in school. And when it comes to this election, never forget what she did.

Bibliography / Further Reading

• RFK Jr., The Real Anthony Fauci (2021) and The Wuhan Cover-Up (2023) – essential on origins and response.

• OutKick/Fox News exclusive on resurfaced Acton tweets (March 20, 2026).

• Ohio Capital Journal and Signal Ohio coverage of the 2026 race and endorsements.

• Congressional reports on gain-of-function and lab leak (House Select Subcommittee, 2023-2024).

• Economic data: Ohio unemployment spikes and lockdown impact studies (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).

• Guardian, Ohio Capital Journal, and Statehouse News Bureau on Acton’s 2020 resignation and protests.

• Acton for Governor campaign site (for her own words—or lack thereof on COVID).

• Governor DeWine’s endorsement statement (January 7, 2026).

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About the Author: Rich Hoffman

Rich Hoffman is an independent writer, philosopher, political advisor, and strategist based in the Cincinnati/Middletown, Ohio area. Born in Hamilton, Ohio, he has worked professionally since age 12 in various roles, from manual labor to high-level executive positions in aerospace and related industries. Known as “The Tax-killer” for his activism against tax increases, 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.

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Gavin Newsom’s “Knee Pad” Campaign: Backfiring theatrics at Davos

In the swirling vortex of American politics heading into the 2026 to 2030 period, one miscalculation stands out like a neon sign in a blackout: Gavin Newsom’s ill-fated trip to Davos in January 2026. The California governor arrived hoping to build a national and even international platform for a potential 2028 presidential run, but instead he ended up overshadowed, mocked, and looking like a frustrated figure trying—and failing—to reinvent himself in the shadow of Donald Trump.

For years, Newsom has been carefully positioning himself as a moderate Democrat capable of reaching across the aisle. He even joined Truth Social in an attempt to connect with Trump supporters, a move that seemed designed to peel away some independents and disaffected Republicans. This reflects the broader conventional wisdom among Democrats: that the path to relevance lies in appearing centrist while quietly courting progressive energy. Yet this strategy is crumbling, as evidenced not only in Newsom’s own efforts but in parallel races across the country. In Ohio, for instance, Dr. Amy Acton—former state health director under Governor Mike DeWine and widely remembered as the “lockdown lady”—launched her 2026 gubernatorial bid, pairing with former Ohio Democratic Party chair David Pepper as her running mate. Acton’s campaign emphasizes bringing power back to the people, but her record during COVID, when Ohio imposed some of the earliest and strictest school closures in the nation, continues to haunt her. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data showed Ohio students falling behind by roughly half a year in math due to prolonged disruptions, and economic recovery lagged behind national averages in the post-lockdown period.

Similar patterns appear elsewhere. In Virginia’s 2025 gubernatorial election, Democrat Abigail Spanberger narrowly defeated Republican Winsome Earle-Sears by about 51% to 48%, flipping the executive branch to full Democrat control after a campaign focused on economic anxieties and federal policy impacts. Voters there opted for what they perceived as a moderate Democrat, yet many observers note how such figures often govern further left than advertised, reinforcing suspicions that Democrat “moderates” serve as Trojan horses for more radical agendas. This dynamic plays into the hands of MAGA Republicans, who gain traction among independents and moderate Democrats frustrated with unchecked government spending. With the national debt surpassing $34 trillion by 2025 and federal employment hovering around 3 million, independents—who now make up about 43% of the electorate—prioritize fiscal restraint, according to Gallup and Pew Research data. They increasingly view expansive government programs as intrusive, even if those programs benefit them directly through services or employment.

The Democrat base, meanwhile, often rallies around figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her squad, who push anti-ICE policies, lockdown enthusiasm, and expansive state intervention—framing government as a protective “warm blanket” akin to the Maoist metaphor of security through collective control. Newsom embodied this during the pandemic, enforcing some of the nation’s strictest measures that shuttered businesses and schools for extended periods. Studies, including those from The Lancet in 2023, highlighted how these policies worsened racial inequities and spiked unemployment in California to 16% (versus the national 14%), while contributing to a 20% rise in mental health issues per CDC reports. Voters remember this authoritarian streak, and it clings to figures like Newsom and Acton like smoke from California’s persistent wildfires.

Newsom’s Davos appearance crystallized these vulnerabilities. He touted California’s progress on zero-emission vehicles, boasting 2.5 million sold, but the real story was his feud with Trump. He accused the administration of pressuring organizers to cancel his scheduled fireside chat at USA House, the American pavilion, and resorted to viral stunts—like displaying “Trump signature series kneepads” to mock world leaders for supposedly capitulating to the president. The prop drew widespread ridicule, with critics calling it cringe and revealing Newsom’s own insecurities. Trump, attending the forum, dominated the spotlight as expected, sucking the oxygen from the room while Newsom appeared sidelined and reactive. Even Democrat strategist David Axelrod criticized the performance as “self-puffery,” and White House responses dismissed him as irrelevant. Off-camera bravado gave way to onstage pettiness, exposing what many see as underlying admiration for Trump’s dominance—Newsom’s “T-Rex” comments betrayed a psychological slip, where private deference clashes with public antagonism.

This ties into broader critiques of elite financial networks. Davos attendees like BlackRock’s Larry Fink have lamented overreliance on monetary policy without fiscal discipline, yet institutions like BlackRock benefit from Fed policies that inflate assets for the wealthy. Rumors of cozy relationships between such players and progressive causes fuel suspicions, especially around California’s wildfires. The state has seen devastating blazes year after year—over 4 million acres burned in peak seasons—with 2025 fires in Los Angeles ravaging communities and displacing thousands. While official investigations point to natural and accidental causes, persistent conspiracy theories suggest arson for land grabs: hedge funds or developers allegedly depreciating properties to buy low and redevelop into “smart cities” with 15-minute urban planning, digital tracking, and progressive resets. Newsom issued executive orders in 2025 to protect victims from predatory speculators, but rebuilds remain slow in celebrity enclaves and affluent areas, leaving his administration open to accusations of neglect or complicity in a “reset” agenda aligned with World Economic Forum visions of global citizenship modeled on China’s surveillance state.

These weights hang around Newsom’s neck as he eyes 2028. Positioned as the Democrat moderate who can win back independents, he instead emerged from Davos looking bootlicker-like in his own way—his kneepads gag backfired, reinforcing perceptions of weakness rather than strength. Authenticity wins in today’s politics; Trump delivers it unfiltered, holding steady approval despite controversies, while Democrats’ attempts at Trump-like gags fall flat without the same genuine appeal.

Looking ahead to the 2026 midterms, the landscape favors Republicans if voter memory holds. Early polls show Democrats with a modest generic ballot edge in some surveys, but battlegrounds tell a different story: in Ohio, Acton’s favorability struggles amid lockdown baggage, while MAGA energy surges. Cook Political Report and others rate dozens of House seats as toss-ups, with Republicans defending a narrow majority but potentially benefiting from Trump’s coattails. Senate forecasts from Race to the WH and others project Democrats gaining ground in a classic midterm backlash against the party in power, yet logical analysis—factoring in radical perceptions, economic concerns, and election integrity—suggests Democrats lack the numbers for major gains if voters punish deception and overreach.

Ultimately, Democrats appear unprepared for the 2026–2030 alignment. Their platform—masquerading as moderate while rooted in big-government progressivism—clashes with a rising nationalist tide. Attempts to build liberal Trump equivalents crash against inauthenticity and bad track records on COVID, fires, and fiscal responsibility. Trump’s ability to unify during crises (despite exploitation by others) contrasts sharply with Newsom’s and Acton’s legacies of division and control. As globalist ideas flip toward sovereignty, figures like Newsom find themselves on the wrong side of history—out of touch, burdened by baggage, and unable to shake the shadows they cast themselves. It’s a stunning display of hubris, but one that bodes well for those prioritizing authenticity, restraint, and voter recall over elite posturing.

[^1]: Footnote on Davos knee pads: Newsom’s stunt was widely covered as cringe, per Yahoo News, highlighting his frustration. [^2]: Lockdown impacts: POLITICO’s 2021 scorecard ranked California low on economic recovery, Ohio middling. [^3]: Wildfire conspiracies: ADL reported antisemitic ties in 2025 L.A. fires narratives. [^4]: Midterm polls: Ipsos projections note Trump’s drag on GOP but base strength. [^5]: Independents: St. Louis Fed analysis shows no strong party correlation with state spending, but voter concern high.

Bibliography:

1. “LIVE: Davos 2026 – Gavin Newsom speaks at the WEF | REUTERS.” YouTube, 4 days ago.

2. “Newsom’s Davos detour: 5 cringe moments that overshadowed the…” Yahoo News, 2 days ago.

3. “Dr. Amy Acton for Governor.” actonforgovernor.com.

4. “2025 Virginia gubernatorial election.” Wikipedia.

5. “6 facts about Americans’ views of government spending and the deficit.” Pew Research Center, May 24, 2023.

6. “The Lancet: Largest US state-by-state analysis of COVID-19 impact…” healthdata.org, Mar 23, 2023.

7. “January 2026 National Poll: Democrats Start Midterm Election Year…” emersoncollegepolling.com, 4 days ago.

8. “Wildfire conspiracy theories are going viral again. Why?” CBS News, Jan 16, 2025.

9. “Directed-energy weapon wildfire conspiracy theories.” Wikipedia.

10. “Fiscal-monetary entanglement.” BlackRock, Sep 21, 2025.

11. “Nothing smart about smart cities falsehoods.” RMIT University.

12. “Cost of Election.” OpenSecrets.

13. “Influence of Big Money.” Brennan Center for Justice.

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Ending the American Relationship with the World Health Organization: Controlling people through life and death

Today is Sunday, January 25, 2026—a fitting moment to reflect on recent developments that closely align with long-standing concerns about a centralized global health authority. Just days ago, on January 22, 2026, the United States formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), fulfilling an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day back in office, January 20, 2025. This marks the effective end of a process that began with the required one-year notice period, severing U.S. membership, participation in governance, and funding contributions to the agency.

This step represents a significant victory for those who have argued against entangling American sovereignty—and taxpayer dollars—with an organization heavily influenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The withdrawal addresses core issues of accountability, national independence in health policy, and the dangers of ceding control over life-and-death matters to supranational entities.

The WHO’s role during COVID-19 exemplified the perils of centralized authority. Critics, including the Trump administration, pointed to the organization’s delayed declaration of a global pandemic, its initial downplaying of human-to-human transmission (echoing early Chinese government statements), and its perceived deference to Beijing. Funding dynamics further underscored the imbalance: Historically, the U.S. was the largest contributor to the WHO, providing hundreds of millions annually (often around 15-20% of the agency’s budget in assessed and voluntary contributions). In contrast, China’s contributions were far smaller relative to its economic size, yet its influence appeared outsized—particularly in shaping narratives around the virus’s origins.

Investigations and reports have raised concerns that U.S. taxpayer funds, through entities such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and subawards to groups such as EcoHealth Alliance, supported research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology involving bat coronaviruses. While debates persist over definitions of “gain-of-function” research (experiments that enhance a pathogen’s transmissibility or virulence), congressional inquiries and declassified intelligence have raised questions about biosafety lapses and potential links to the pandemic’s emergence. The lab-leak hypothesis—once dismissed as a conspiracy theory—gained traction in official assessments, with some U.S. government reports concluding it as a plausible or even likely origin scenario.

This pattern of influence extended to domestic responses. In Ohio, former State Health Director Dr. Amy Acton (often dubbed the “lockdown lady” by critics) implemented strict measures in early 2020, including stay-at-home orders that shuttered businesses and restricted freedoms. These aligned closely with federal guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which, in turn, drew heavily on WHO recommendations and modeling. Acton’s approach mirrored that of Dr. Anthony Fauci and national figures who emphasized lockdowns, masking, and social distancing—policies now widely debated for their economic devastation, mental health impacts, and questionable long-term efficacy against a respiratory virus.

The broader historical narrative reveals a recurring theme: those who promise—or appear to deliver—healing and protection from death wield immense power. Jesus Christ’s ministry, as recorded in the Gospels, centered on miracles of healing: restoring sight to the blind, curing leprosy, raising the dead (e.g., Lazarus in John 11), and casting out demons. These acts were not mere side notes; they built followership. People flocked to Him not solely for philosophical teachings but because He demonstrated tangible power over affliction and mortality. Without these demonstrations, the message might have lacked the visceral appeal that drew crowds and disciples.

Similar dynamics appear in modern contexts. L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics and Scientology emphasize auditing to eliminate “engrams”—traumatic imprints causing spiritual and physical harm—promising a path to “clear” status and optimal health. Followers are drawn by the promise of liberation from pain and dysfunction, much like ancient shamans, medicine men, or tribal healers who gained authority by curing ailments or communing with spirits.

Governments and institutions have long mimicked this model. Control over health equates to control over life itself. From ancient rulers who monopolized food distribution to modern states tying insurance to employment (ensuring dependency on employers for coverage), the pattern persists: promise extended survival, and loyalty follows. The WHO, during COVID-19, amplified this through global coordination of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and fear-based messaging—mechanisms that centralized power under the guise of public good. Critics argue this facilitated socialist-leaning policies, with China (a major geopolitical player) benefiting from economic advantages while the West endured restrictions.

Big Pharma’s role compounds the issue. The industry profits enormously from chronic illness management rather than cures. Historical examples abound: suppression of alternative treatments, prioritization of patentable drugs over natural or regenerative approaches, and lobbying for policies that funnel patients into dependency. Stem cell research, regenerative medicine, and activation of the body’s innate healing mechanisms (evident in infants’ rapid recovery) offer pathways to true autonomy—yet these face regulatory hurdles, funding biases, and corporate resistance.

The U.S. exit from the WHO opens the door to decentralized, competitive models. States can innovate without federal or international mandates—perhaps by emphasizing prevention, personal responsibility, nutrition, and emerging therapies such as those harnessing autologous stem cells or immune modulation. Data points support skepticism of centralized authority: Lockdowns correlated with massive economic losses (trillions globally), spikes in suicides, delayed cancer screenings, and educational setbacks. Excess mortality analyses continue to question whether benefits outweigh harms.

In essence, health freedom requires rejecting the scam of dependency. Governments, corporations, and global bodies thrive when people fear death and seek “miracles” from authority. True progress lies in empowering individuals to heal themselves, free from top-down control.

This withdrawal is a step toward reclaiming that sovereignty. It’s about time.

Bibliography and Further Reading

1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Fact Sheet: U.S. Withdrawal from the World Health Organization.” January 22, 2026. https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/fact-sheet-us-withdrawal-from-the-world-health-organization.html

2. The White House. “Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.” Executive Order, January 20, 2025. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization

3. USA Today. “US officially withdraws from the World Health Organization.” January 23, 2026.

4. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “Final Report: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation.” December 2024 (includes sections on gain-of-function research and origins).

5. The Intercept. “NIH Documents Provide New Evidence U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan.” September 2021 (updated context in later reports).

6. Bible (New International Version): Gospel accounts of Jesus’ healings (e.g., Matthew 8-9, John 11).

7. Hubbard, L. Ron. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 1950.

8. Various congressional hearings on COVID origins (2023-2025 transcripts, e.g., involving Dr. Robert Redfield and EcoHealth Alliance).

9. Think Global Health. “U.S. WHO Exit Could Expand China’s Influence.” (Analysis of funding and geopolitical dynamics).

10. Historical analyses of public health centralization: e.g., works on the Rockefeller Foundation’s role in modern medicine, or critiques in books like Rockefeller Medicine Men by E. Richard Brown.

Footnotes

¹ U.S. funding historically dominated WHO budgets; see annual WHO financial reports pre-2025.

² For Acton’s Ohio policies: See 2020 executive orders and media coverage of protests/resignation.

³ On Jesus’ miracles as basis for authority: Theological commentaries, e.g., N.T. Wright’s works on the historical Jesus.

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I Don’t Like England Anymore: Compliant people are dangerous to thoughtful innovation

I’ve decided that I don’t like England anymore. I did like England when Brexit was the rallying cry—a nation reclaiming sovereignty, shaking off the European Union’s bureaucratic grip. Nigel Farage embodied that spirit of independence, and I could respect that. But who they are now, or have really, always been? That’s a different story. Since COVID, my view has shifted dramatically, and not without reason.

The pandemic exposed something deep in the English psyche: a cultural obsession with compliance. During lockdown, police in England enforced rules with a zeal that bordered on authoritarian. They issued over 120,000 Fixed Penalty Notices for breaches of COVID regulations, ranging from meeting a friend outdoors to traveling without a “reasonable excuse.” Officers even had the authority to enter homes and forcibly return individuals to their residences if they were found outside without justification.¹ This wasn’t just about health—it was about control. It revealed a society that values safety over liberty, process over spontaneity, and certainty over courage.

And then came the social media policing. In England today, posting the wrong thing online can land you in handcuffs. Under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988, police made 12,183 arrests in 2023 alone for “offensive” or “grossly offensive” posts—a staggering 58% increase since 2019.² That’s about 30 arrests every single day for speech crimes. Think about that. In a country that once gave the world John Locke and the principles of liberty, people are now being dragged from their homes for tweets.

Consider the case of Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted. He was arrested at Heathrow Airport after returning from the U.S., his crime being posts critical of transgender ideology.³ Or the IT consultant who posted a photo with a shotgun during a Florida trip—police raided his home, seized his devices, and subjected him to 13 weeks of investigation.⁴ Then there’s Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, who faced a six-officer raid over a sarcastic WhatsApp message criticizing a school official.⁵ These aren’t isolated incidents—they’re part of a pattern. The UK now has elite police units dedicated to monitoring online speech for “hate” or “extremism,” often targeting those with anti-migrant views.⁶

This is not freedom. It’s thought control. And the cultural soil that allows this to grow is England’s love of process—its obsession with rules, procedures, and certainty. They plan everything: the route to the gas station, the tea ritual, the itinerary for a simple drive. It’s a society that trades spontaneity for safety, adventure for predictability. That might sound quaint until you realize what it means in practice: a population conditioned to obey.

Even their illusion of free speech is telling. London’s Speaker’s Corner is often romanticized as a bastion of open dialogue, but in reality, it’s a monitored zone—a symbolic gesture that says, “You can speak here, under our watch.” Outside that corner, the state’s grip tightens. Arrests for silent prayer near abortion clinics, for tweets deemed “offensive,” for Facebook posts criticizing politicians—these are not anomalies; they are the norm.⁷ The U.S. State Department has even flagged the UK for “serious restrictions on freedom of expression.”⁸ That should alarm anyone who values liberty.

And while the state clamps down on speech, another force reshapes the cultural landscape: demographic change. The Muslim population in England has grown from 4.9% in 2011 to about 6.5% in 2021—roughly 4 million people—and is projected to reach 13 million by 2050.⁹ This isn’t just a statistic; it’s a transformation. In urban centers, Islamic fundamentalism finds fertile ground in a society already conditioned to compliance. When a culture is beaten into submission by its own government, it becomes vulnerable to ideologies that demand even stricter obedience. That’s not diversity—that’s a recipe for cultural collapse.

Contrast this with America’s founding spirit. The United States exists because people rejected monarchy, hierarchy, and the suffocating weight of tradition. They fled Europe’s kingdoms for the unknown, embracing risk and adventure. That courage—the willingness to live without guarantees—is what built America. England, by contrast, never shed its psychological chains. Even now, with a “token” King Charles, the monarchy persists as a cultural anchor, a reminder that the people are subjects, not sovereigns. That mindset matters. A society that wants to be ruled already has something broken in its DNA.

Brexit was a flicker of rebellion, a moment when England seemed ready to reclaim its independence. Nigel Farage gave voice to that impulse, railing against the EU’s bureaucratic overreach. But where is that spirit now? Drowned in lockdown mandates, speech policing, and a nanny-state mentality that arrests citizens for jokes. Farage’s Reform UK party still fights, but it’s swimming against a cultural tide that prefers process to freedom.¹⁰

I’ve tried to rationalize some affection for England over the years. I admired their bookstores, their literary tradition, and their politeness. My own family ties made it tempting to look the other way. But honesty demands clarity: England today is not a beacon of liberty. It is a cautionary tale—a society that traded freedom for safety, individuality for compliance, and courage for comfort. And the world is watching. When London becomes the attack vector for global liberalism, when its cultural weakness enables ideological invasions, when its police knock on doors for tweets, we should ask: Is this the future we want?

America must never follow that path. Our strength lies in the unknown, in the willingness to risk, in the refusal to bow. England chose differently. And for that reason, I can no longer admire what it has become. I would say that England has always been this way, and it has only excelled as a culture when it has endeavored to be more like America, as it did with Brexit. But remember, this is the same culture that literally tortured and killed William Wallace, the Scottish rebel shown so well in the movie Braveheart. When they killed him, to quell any future rebellions, they gutted him in front of the crowd and burned his intestines while he was still alive. After they cut off his head after a very torturous death, they cut up his body and sent his arms and legs to the far reaches of the kingdom. And they put his head on a pike on London Bridge and kept it there for a long time. To remind people of what would happen to other rebels should they think to take the same path. And that same behavior is present in their policing of social media posts. Any culture that is willing to put up with that kind of oppression is not a good culture for the world. And that is the value system they seem to support most: compliance with authority over freedom of thought. English culture is built on compliance, and history shows us over an extended period what a disaster that is. Which is why I no longer like or respect England and its role in the world.

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Footnotes:

¹ UK lockdown enforcement: Fixed Penalty Notices and home entry powers 1 2 3

² Arrest statistics under Section 127 and the Malicious Communications Act 4

³ Graham Linehan case 5 6

⁴ IT consultant arrested over Florida photo 5

⁵ Maxie Allen & Rosalind Levine WhatsApp raid 4

⁶ Elite units monitoring online speech 7

⁷ Arrests for silent prayer and speech restrictions 8 9

⁸ U.S. State Department criticism of UK free speech limits 9

⁹ Muslim population growth and projections 10 11

¹⁰ Farage and Reform UK political context 12 13

Rich Hoffman

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Bill Gates Walks Back Climate Alarmism: A Reckoning Years in the Making

Even if Trump is playing nice with Bill Gates these days, I’m still firmly in the camp where the Microsoft founder needs to be in jail for all that he did. I remember it well, and I reported it here in a way that no other news outlet in the world did at the time, as it was happening. Even Rush Limbaugh was slow to see what was happening. But I said that it was a scam the day that Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci walked into the Oval Office and told President Trump to shut down the economy in the United States, which he did for a few weeks. But by then, the damage had been done, and lots of very liberal governors of states had taken the sucker bait and followed, and it was really terrible. Bill Gates needs to pay for his very active role in creating that crisis. Created I say because we know that Covid was created by gain of function research to jump to hosts in ways that nature does not provide, so it was a bioweapon that had roots running into the DOD that Dr. Fauci knew all about and a lot of people died as a result of this virus that was created in a Chinese lab and let loose in the world on purpose, not by accident. All the evidence points in that direction, and Bill Gates was one of the key insiders involved in the whole tragedy. Few figures have polarized public opinion in the 21st century like Bill Gates. Once hailed as a visionary technologist and philanthropist, Gates’ role during the COVID-19 pandemic and his aggressive climate activism have drawn intense scrutiny. However, politics have changed significantly over the last five years, and now Gates realizes he has been excluded from almost everything, and he wants to get back in. So he has been groveling to President Trump and is starting to walk back his ridiculous climate change proposals, which is quite extraordinary considering his level of tyrannical commitment. He tried to rearrange our entire society. So any walk back from him is astonishing, and very telling. Now, in late 2025, Gates has released a memo that marks a significant shift in his stance on climate change—one that critics argue is a strategic retreat rather than a genuine change of heart.

In October 2025, Gates published a 17-page memo ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil. In it, he argued that climate change, while profound, is not the apocalyptic threat many activists claim. He emphasized that:

• Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise.”

• The focus should shift from temperature targets to improving human welfare.

• Investments should prioritize poverty, disease, and economic development over emissions reduction

This pivot was immediately seized upon by climate skeptics and political figures, including President Donald Trump, who declared on Truth Social:

“I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue.”

Despite the celebratory tone from skeptics, Gates pushed back, calling Trump’s interpretation a “gigantic misreading.” He reaffirmed his belief that climate change is a serious issue, but argued that the “doomsday outlook” has led to the misallocation of resources.

“Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives.”

Gates’ reputation suffered a significant blow during the COVID-19 pandemic. His advocacy for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and digital surveillance tools, such as Microsoft Teams, was seen by many as overreach. Critics argue that Gates, alongside Dr. Anthony Fauci, played a central role in shaping a global response that devastated economies and civil liberties.

• Gates was accused of using the pandemic to push a technocratic agenda.

• His ties to gain-of-function research and vaccine monopolies raised ethical concerns.

• Public trust in Gates plummeted, with many calling for accountability and even criminal charges.

Climate Change: From Alarmism to Adaptation

Gates’ climate activism has long centered on achieving net-zero emissions. His 2021 book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster laid out a roadmap for decarbonization. But in 2025, Gates now argues that:

• The worst-case scenarios are no longer plausible.

• Technological innovation has already begun reducing emissions.

• Economic growth and health infrastructure are better defenses against climate impacts.

This shift aligns more closely with Elon Musk’s pragmatic approach to climate and energy—focusing on innovation rather than regulation.

Gates’ recent dinner with President Trump lasted over three hours and reportedly focused on global health, innovation, and pandemic preparedness. While Gates has criticized Trump’s cuts to USAID, he appears to be recalibrating his public posture to remain relevant in a political landscape increasingly dominated by populist skepticism of climate alarmism.

One of the most striking elements of Gates’ memo is his implicit endorsement of adaptation over mitigation. He suggests that humanity has the tools to thrive—even in a warming world. This echoes broader conversations about terraforming Mars and using technology to reshape environments, rather than surrendering to climate fatalism.

Critics argue that Gates’ technocratic worldview—where unelected billionaires shape global policy—poses a threat to democracy. The COVID response and climate mandates are seen as examples of how centralized control can override individual freedoms.

“You can’t let tyrants rule. You have to have market pressures and competitive elections to check power.” Rich Hoffman

Bill Gates’ pivot on climate change is not just a policy shift—it’s a reckoning. It reflects the limits of technocratic influence and the resilience of democratic accountability. Whether Gates is genuinely rethinking his views or simply repositioning himself politically, the public response underscores a broader demand for transparency, humility, and checks on power. If we had not elected Trump and put him back in office, people like Bill Gates would be running the world right now. A lot of hard lessons were learned, and we are a lot better off now than we were. Trump is the kind of person who can keep everyone close, allowing him to negotiate effectively with them. I think it’s very appropriate that President Trump is taking credit for this issue with Gates. He could do a lot more to embarrass the techno geek. However, this is a powerful position for Gates and the Climate Change hoax in general. The world is not coming to an end because of artificial intelligence. We could terraform the entire planet if we want to, as we are planning to do in other places around the solar system as we speak. For Gates, it was always about control. He wanted to control the management of the human race through techno tyranny, and he played President Trump as a sucker who trusted him during his first term. So Gates has a lot of embarrassment coming. And I would argue that there would be a lot of jail time. However, his admission is a significant development and a major shift in the world toward a much stronger economy. The walls on this ridiculous control mechanism are coming down, and people like Gates have lost power because of our free elections in America. That’s why managing elections is so important; you can’t trust anybody to do anything right. And if you don’t have secure polls or a way to elect someone like Trump to office, and Bill Gates clearly didn’t think that such a thing was possible, and that he’d get away with everything because he had enough money to insulate himself from that grim discovery, then these people will always threaten the entire human race. In this case, due to the Trump election, we dodged a major catastrophe, and we should feel pretty good about Bill Gates walking back his previous statements.

Rich Hoffman

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Under New Management: Why companies fail and how leadership works

All over my town of West Chester, Ohio, there are signs everywhere indicating that new management is running a business. Most of them are restaurants and bars, but they have been unusually placed in front of all kinds of companies, even manufacturing facilities. Which was another thing I said would happen as a result of the catastrophic stupidity of COVID, where a global Marxist strategy of micromanaging how people were going to do work was imposed on all of us through the ridiculous means of a doctor’s office. White coat losers in the form of health professionals were trying to scare us into open socialism, and it was always going to be a disaster. And now, five years later, the world has turned to populism, specifically to capitalism. If you really want to get philosophical about the Trump administration at this particular time, it’s because the human race knows what’s good for it, and all forms of Marxism have not been it. There was never a plan for Trump to be in any authority position. The plan was to take over mass society and make people afraid of a virus that was made in a Chinese lab, by people who wanted to make a bioweapon to use against the world, to steal elections, and take over economies. People saw this happening, and they put Trump in office as the rest of the world has been supporting their own version of pro-capitalist populism. Its not because they were that great of a candidate, but because people didn’t like the direction the world was turning, which brought about out of desperation, the Covid year of 2020 and the complete collapse of the global economy that was so tragic that most people didn’t even want to discuss what happened because they wanted so badly to put it out of their minds.

So the mindset of the economic shutdowns has taken a few years to recover from, and it has taken a while for people to get their feet under them again. And what we’re talking about are all the DEI hires and the work-from-home mentality that has been socially disastrous—social policy cooked up in a lab, with everyone’s books open to Karl Marx’s literature. Even Microsoft was in on the gag, trying to push everyone into Teams meetings from home in their pajamas. Nobody was betting on a complete economic recovery in those dark months of 2021, as Biden took office, Trump was forced into exile, and Covid protocols were imposing themselves on every one of us. People should have been more intelligent to see the obvious. We were under attack by an extensively laid plan of a complete Marxist takeover of the world. And I said it at the time, and said all this was going to happen. Nobody listened until it was too late. And I would go around town and talk about all the businesses that were working from home, and how they were going to fail, and all the fast food places that closed their dining rooms because they didn’t have enough staff to stay open. I told everyone what was going to happen, and now it is. And I saw it clearly because of the way I live my life, in front of the train. At the same time, most of the world lives in the back, where it’s safe. We’re talking about Robert Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality as he talked about it in the great book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s a very popular book, though largely misunderstood. Its sequel, Lila, has not been read by millions, but by a very select few in the world who are audacious rarities.

The metaphysics of quality, as I explained in my video with a train roaring by, is essentially a perspective on leadership and decision-making. Outstanding leadership is done at the front of a metaphorical train, where you can see what’s coming as it approaches. You can turn the train, slow it down, tell people what you see coming. But most people don’t dare to lead from the front. So they have built an administrative bureaucracy in the back of the train to provide analysis, which is useful. But it’s not leadership because by the time the moving train reaches the point of decision, the caboose has passed it entirely too late. Decisions have to be made at the front to ensure the quality people expect. That is why great generals who lead from the front are great. Great business leaders are so rare. And why political efforts succeed or fail. If leadership is at the back of the train, a management effort will likely fail every time. If, under scarce circumstances, an organizational leader is at the front of the train —where few people dare to be —then great success is possible. Success that is often beyond people’s wildest dreams. So when a business is failing and wants the public to know they are making changes, they put up signs saying they are under new management, hoping people will give them a second chance in the economy, implying that their leadership change will be different. After COVID, a lot of companies got suckered and put their leaders all in the back of the train, where it was safe, and it was a disaster for the world’s economy under a hostile takeover.

Karl Marx was always an idiot and a coward. He died broke because he was a back-of-the-train theorist. The world is full of them. But because there were a lot of cowards in the world who ended up in government, health care, and were second-generation titans of industry who didn’t have the same guts their previous generation had, they adopted Marxism to hide what losers they were. But in a marketplace where free will is expected, that kind of back-of-the-train micromanagement was never going to work. And I said so all along. And now that the money is flowing again and Trump is back in the White House, leading from the front, it has exposed this plan for the fraud it was. And now everyone is scrambling to find people at the front of the train, and their “under new management” signs are hopes that people will assume that there is leadership at the front of the train instead of everyone functioning from the back, where all the wimps hang out. And that’s why there are suddenly so many signs. At least the owners of these businesses are trying. But it shows clearly the danger that arises when we micromanage society, with back-of-the-train personalities who are not equipped to lead. Even in a bar or nightclub, where leadership isn’t even considered. People expect the lights to work and the beer to be cold. And when everyone is hiding in the back of the train, they often order those things too late to arrive for a Friday night gathering that nobody thought would happen because of COVID social distancing rules. Only people in the front of the train were ready, because they saw well in advance what a dumb idea everything was. And most businesses that lacked those unique personalities failed, are now trying to recover, and want the world to know they are looking for front-of-the-train management. And even if they haven’t yet found them, they are at least looking.

Rich Hoffman

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Gavin Newsom is Lost: Why Democrats have nobody like Trump

Gavin Newsom has been in the news frequently lately, and he has something to say about almost everything. And nobody believes any of it. As governor of California, and this isn’t a political comment, just a logical one, he lost all credibility during COVID and has barely managed to hang on despite several challenges in a state that leaned far left, when it was fashionable. But we are talking now about a world where Democrats have lost around 2.5 million registered voters and Republicans have gained about as many, and that is just a few months into Trump’s second presidency. Gavin Newsom is a phony, like many politicians who have gotten away with it over the years, and if politics hadn’t changed as much as we’ve seen, Newsom could probably be considered a candidate for president in 2028, which he clearly aspires to be. However, he has a poor track record, culminating in the LA fires. But it was the way he handled COVID that set his future in stone. The people in California won’t let him live it down, let alone a national campaign. COVID-19 changed many people and the way they think about politics. Today’s baby-kissing politician could be tomorrow’s lockdown governor violating all our personal rights over some virus released from China. And of all the lockdown governors, Gavin Newsom was one of the worst. It’s almost comical to watch him now trying to build a campaign for the Democrat Party’s presidential nomination. That is obviously what his plans are, but the political order changed under his feet, and he seems lost to capture any message, because all the old stuff just isn’t working. The buzzwords have died, and he has no new ones to offer. Leaving him bouncing around from topic to topic aimlessly.

The difference between President Trump and everyone else is essentially authenticity. Trump can drop an F bomb during a speech, and people can relate to it. Gavin Newsom can do the same, and people perceive it as insincere. And that’s what’s new now, Trump is a product of the times and the people. Politicians like Gavin Newsom are completely do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do types who count completely on manipulating the public to exist. And people are too battle-hardened to accept that premise anymore. And, there is too much media these days for shaky commentary. With all the podcasts and startup news shows, especially on Trump’s Truth Social media platform, politicians like Gavin Newsom cannot withstand the constant scrutiny. In the past, when there were only a few news stations and some talk radio to discuss these topics, Newsom got away with having a shiny exterior because there was never any time to get into the details. But not these days. And Trump has shown the world what a real person in a powerful position can accomplish. And nobody the Democrats have will be able to duplicate it. And Newsom is among the best that the Democrats have to offer. They have big problems that are worth considering. Watching Newsom try to adjust is actually very revealing because it points to a much deeper problem for all Democrats. Why don’t they have their own version of Trump? Well, because the new standards require authenticity as a person, not the kind of showboating that was once accepted as usual. And Democrats as a party have sought to exploit people through emotions. They have not actually done anything. The world is looking for doers, not more administrative types who lock down their states, then get caught at social gatherings drinking wine as the world burns down outside.

Gavin Newsom, in a remarkably short time, as he has been trying everything to capture a national audience, has appeared on the Charlie Kirk Show, attempting to appeal to Trump voters, and has since turned to the radical left, becoming as anti-Trump as anyone could be. He’s tried to be overly friendly, radically mean, even violent, trying to draw a crowd. And it’s just not working. And that’s the main problem. With Trump, nobody doubts what he’s thinking, and he built that brand over a long time with constant repetition. Gavin Newsom has changed many times, and nobody really knows who he is, because he’s so inconsistent on topics. I recall when Gavin Newsom was one of the first to join Trump’s Truth Social platform, going where voters who wouldn’t vote for him were, and trying to win them over. He has maintained a relationship with Sean Hannity to appear more appealing. He has tried to debate DeSantis, and that didn’t work well. He’s tried everything, and nothing has worked, leaving him scrambling now that the clock is ticking toward the midterms and Democrats are bleeding support. Not gaining any. And this isn’t just a Newsom problem, but a party problem that even Republicans have. Politics has changed a lot over the last five years, since establishment types tried to exile Trump and his supporters forever. And what ended up happening was that it strengthened, and a new standard was set that few politicians who came before could follow. What is going on behind the scenes is literally revealed in the nervous hand movements of Newsom, which are evident during interviews and give away a lot that nobody sees when the cameras aren’t rolling.

In sales, it’s a fine line between enthusiasm and overemphasis. And when someone knows they are selling something that people don’t want, they have to resort to body language to emotionally pull the people they are talking to past the doubt phase, and into the subconscious utterances of hand movements. Using the hands a lot in communication is an attempt to remind the person you are talking to that you could grab them forcefully and make them listen to you. Excessive hand movement is a big no in communication, as it forces the people listening to put up emotional barriers. And if the person using hand movements is trying to lie or manipulate an audience, it becomes quickly exposed by overplaying the situation. In Trump’s case, he believes in the products he has sold, so his communication works, and people can feel it. With Newsom, he clearly doesn’t, as he is constantly changing his positions and approach. He doubts it himself, so he tries to hide it with excessive hand movements. And instinctively, people think of his hands as something that is trying to attack them, so they put up barriers to that reception. It’s a major turnoff for people listening to a politician like that. In the past, the media would cover the distance, but they can no longer do so, as they have lost their power too. There are many differences now compared to when Newsom first started as governor. And it will only get worse for him and all Democrats. And Democrats have nobody else but Newsom. There isn’t anybody coming up in the background. All the buzzword politics have worn out, leaving them completely unprepared. And that desperation in messaging is now showing itself in rapid succession. All they have is an attempt to tear down President Trump and his accomplishments. They have nothing to offer as a replacement. And in knowing that, they have a desperate message that can’t go anywhere, and is losing support by the day. And even worse, their track record is horrendous, especially in California. Blue states and cities have performed poorly, so Democrats have a lot of huge problems. And after all that we’ve been through to get here, it’s actually fun to watch.

Rich Hoffman

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Bioweapons from China: Yes, they are planning a Covid part II

Just as a reminder, recently, there were a couple of incidents where Chinese nationals were caught trying to smuggle bioweapons material into the United States. One case involved two individuals, Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, who attempted to bring Fusarium graminearum through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Liu was Jian’s girlfriend and was sent back while he was arrested, as he held a position at the University of Michigan. Then there was the case of Chengxuan Han, who was also detained at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport for attempting to smuggle biological materials related to roundworm. She was from the University of Science and Technology in Wuhan and was charged with smuggling and making false statements after sending four packages containing undeclared biological materials through security. Many are saying that these were just accidents and that the materials they were trying to bring into America were intended for research at the University of Michigan, and were legitimate items for advanced study. I have told the story of a friend of mine who was recently apprehended in a similar way for bringing genetically modified strawberries back from Japan and into North America through Canada. The security in Toronto overreacted and made a massive deal of it, which was similar to how these Chinese nationals have been treated. So, not all cases are certainly terrorist attempts. However, some of them are, and given what recently happened in Wuhan, China, with COVID, which many people claim was an accident released into the public under innocent conditions. We can’t trust anybody at this point, and like clockwork, we suddenly have two suspicious cases emerging from our relations with China, right on time to attempt a strike at the new Trump economy, to preserve their investment in bringing the world under their control.

Here’s what we do know about China. They are malicious, and they have a deep network of Chinese nationals working for the homeland within the context of diplomatic relations in the United States. It’s a vast spy network of loyal Chinese who work and study in America, but would on the head of a dime turn into hostile antagonists for the communist Chinese government. And China can’t afford to come in second to a revised America First agenda. So, yes, would they do such a thing as release a bioweapon into America to throw a pause on all the great things that are happening under the new Trump administration? Yes, you can bet they would. And yes, it was fair to provide extra scrutiny for Chinese nationals trying to bring unusual items into the country, only to get caught and claim those items as research material by naive foreign travelers, as a cover story. I’d say that, at this point, we can no longer believe anything that comes from China, especially from the government. They are going to try to do anything to stop the good things that are happening because if they don’t, China is going to fall apart under its own weight. China has done it before, and they will do it again for sure. COVID-19, never forget, was not a legitimate virus accidently released from the Wuhan lab in China. It was a created bioweapon made through gain-of-function research and released at a critical time to take Trump out of office during an election year and gain control of our economy under the guise of a crisis. COVID was made and used as a bioweapon to stop what Trump was doing well in the first term. And yes, there are these same groups of people who are planning to do the same thing now. So we must be very vigilant.

I thought it was interesting to hear Ray Dalio discuss market volatility on MSNBC recently, and he’s starting to get it a bit. Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates and is a billionaire hedge fund manager known for global macro investment strategies. I think of him, and many of those guys, like Larry Fink, as pot-smoking hippies too in love with the 1960s era Flower Child politics, and that they are menaces to society, using money as a weapon to implement globalism. But I have read all Ray’s books and think he’s a smart guy, even if he is a diabolical globalist deeply committed to propping up the communist Chinese government. And Dalio sees where the market trends are heading and why central bankers are buying gold these days as a hedge against the volatility looming in the background. Those were the conditions that the enemies of the world attacking capitalism in general, exploited in 2020 to unleash COVID-19, wreck the world economy, and throw the world into a World Economic Forum Great Reset. Yes, there are a lot of people who think that the end justifies the means as long as the greater good is served, which makes all left-wing-minded people like Ray Dalio dangerous. Always make sure to listen to what people like him say and study what they do. People like him see the inevitable with the Trump economy; it is going to torpedo the rest of the world’s markets, and people who have invested in globalism through China’s communist model are going to lose in the massive power shift. So surely nobody thinks that China is going to give all that power up in a fair economic fight? No, they will try to sabotage the world again for their self-preservation. And many of these Chinese nationalist travelers are dedicated to the homeland, even if they live and work in America. And they are dangerous.

This is a far more perilous situation than people are willing to admit. The real danger that is looming in the world is not whether Iran has a nuclear weapon and must be destroyed. Or whether Russia will agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. Or, if China is going to move against Taiwan to capture our chip manufacturing capabilities, which fuel the American economy. Trump knows this situation, and he learned a lot from 2020 when they unleashed COVID on his watch to shut down the world with a bioweapon. The moment there is peace in the world, some of these globalists are going to try to do it again, and when they do, they will try to do precisely what the Chinese nationalists caught at the Detroit Airport were trying to do, bring in bioweapons to cripple the population of America with chaos to stop the progress of Trump in restoring greatness to all aspects of our society. The Chinese feel they have no choice in the matter, and they will kill to hold power. You can bet on that. So, for Trump, if he is playing the Art of the Deal to keep all these world leaders on their heels, many years from now, it will become clear what the real danger truly was. The moment there is a window of peace, China will try to unleash a bioweapon to stay in power. So as long as Trump keeps him close, it will be hard to get away with state-sponsored sabotage and terrorism. You have to see the game that is being played, not the one they are showing you. Because these cases of bioweapon material confiscation on American soil are just a hint to the real menace out there, and the moment they can, they are going to try again what they did with Covid, only this time with much deadlier intentions.

Rich Hoffman

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Joe Biden’s Presidency Was Illegal: They are using the cancer diagnosis to hide the crime behind sympathy

Just remember, when people say that my topics are too wild to be believed, because lately I have been talking a lot about Atlantis and the origins of ancient civilizations, remember that most of the time, if not every single time, I am right about the things I say. There is a reason by choice that I do not write for significant publications and flaunt academic credentials as part of a byline. That is because I don’t trust institutionalism because of what I understand psychologically about the people who make it up, and the limits it places on society. And I sometimes pick some of those complex and wild topics to stretch my legs. Because when the rubber hits the road, I am always there to say, “I told you so.” And that was certainly the case when it came to the origins of COVID-19. I would say I was the very first person out of all the media in the world to call it what we now know it was, which includes some of the wildest so-called “right-winged media” out there. And I was among the first to call the election fraud of 2020 what it was, and I turned out to be right about everything. I have covered many very controversial, far-reaching topics that seem insane at the time, but once the facts all come in, I turn out to be right. So I am having a little fun with the Joe Biden topic after the tapes captured by Robert Hur made their way into the mainstream media. I found it astonishing that news commentators like Laura Ingraham were shocked by what they heard, which was that Joe Biden was utterly unable to function in a mental capacity and was essentially a Weekend at Bernie’s presidency, propped up by handlers to appear to be in charge. It was all a complete deception, and once those tapes hit the news cycle, they announced that he had a ten-year-old prostate cancer diagnosis, hoping to use compassion to get the former president off the front pages. The Hur tapes bring up a much more catastrophic problem that few people can handle. But I will.

Joe Biden was illegally inserted and was never in command of the White House, leaving unelected personalities running his presidency completely in the background, and now many of those people have been caught. Now, the good thing is that this break in trust is healthy for people to experience. Society has been suckered by a group that we call “elites” who hold the power in our offices outside of elected representation. And it’s a hard learned lesson that will forever change the Democrat Party. I think they are destroyed forever, but we’ll see. I don’t see them ever returning from the damage they have inflicted on themselves over these last five years, starting with the Covid cover-up, and ending with the truth about the Biden presidency. They lied about everything, including his cancer diagnosis. It’s possible they even lied to Biden himself to keep him smiling for the cameras and standing at a podium with a stick up his backside to keep him from falling over. We are witnessing a grand deception on an epic scale that was massively illegal in the process, and people will never forget it. So as we hear the stories of the media sacrificing themselves now hoping to win back trust, and the Jake Tapper’s of the world come out with their books and are getting raked over the coals for what they knew but didn’t say about the matter, and Jim Comey is getting embarrassed in public at book signings by an angry public, and he smiles and takes it, because he has no other option, remember who told you first about all these things……….I did.

Trump may want to give Biden a pass, but the former president played right along with the plan, knowing the people behind it.

I run the blog because it gives me a chance to express trustworthy independent journalism, and because of how I live my life, it is free of outside influence. I can afford to do things almost no other journalist in the world can do. And that is a very valuable asset in a free speech environment. And people ask me all the time why I do it. Well, it’s for cases like this, the Joe Biden case, that I do what I do, even though many of the things I said were ridiculed extensively right out of the gate. Just as the things I am speaking about, like Atlantis, might seem too wild to seriously consider. When something is so far outside of a mainstream narrative, people have a hard time with it. But when that state of disbelief is part of the crime, to use that nature against people to perpetuate a knowing deception on the world, we should all have a significant problem with that type of conduct. And I certainly do, and that’s why I choose to produce the kind of media I do, in the form that I decided to do it. And the sum of the whole Biden story is that everything Biden signed as president is invalidated because of this massive cover-up, which is the real reason that the cancer diagnosis came out when it did, to use sympathy to hide the crime. These people have been caught in a major crime against the United States of America, which is all of us who are citizens of this country, and there is no forgiveness for that transgression. All the people involved in the Biden cover-up committed a significant crime that must now be punished.

I had to remind a few good friends I have in the media, who are very close to the White House, when the story broke over a mid-May weekend in 2025 that Biden’s cancer story was a ruse, and not to fall for it. He’s an old man, and most men will eventually get prostate cancer of some kind. There is no surprise by that diagnosis, so don’t go soft on Biden because he’s a dying man. I’ve been warning for a long time that when the crapola hit the fan with Biden, they would try to use a funeral to take people’s minds away from the seriousness of the crime. And that’s what they tried to do with the cancer diagnosis. Don’t be a sucker and fall for it. The real story is that everything Biden touched was illegal, including his nomination of a Supreme Court member in Ketanji Brown Jackson, the extremely liberal trainwreck that should be nowhere near a courtroom. But it wasn’t Biden who picked her, but rather Barack Obama, and Alex Soros, along with his terrorist father, George Soros. People we did not elect and had no legal right to the office of the Executive Branch. That means every bill signed was signed under illegal conditions and is invalid. Everything that Biden had been doing for four years was unlawful. And how do we know? We know they put him in place with election fraud. And if that story is too wild for you, then now you have the proof that the people behind Biden lied about his health. He had this cancer before he was elected president, and they lied about it to put him in office so they could essentially run him as a puppet in the background. They rigged the entire process to get a compromised puppet in the White House so that they could steal that power away from voters. Just let that sink in. This is a bigger story than most anybody could wrap their minds around. But there it is. And the damage from this will never allow things to return to what they were before. And a lot of people are in deep trouble for it. Jake Tapper and Jim Comey are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. And the Democrat Party has hit that iceberg, and is sinking very fast.

Rich Hoffman

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The United Nations is Going Bankrupt: They never should have been created

I’m thrilled to hear it. I used to go to meetings with my congressional representative, John Boehner, where he would do meet-and-greets, before he was Speaker of the House in 2010, and ask him to get the United States out of the United Nations. Most of the time, he wasn’t there, but had assistants who would take notes for him, but they’d giggle about the crazy right-wing lunatic who they were embarrassed to have as a neighbor. But I was serious. I didn’t see anything good coming out of the United Nations. Americans never wanted to be in the United Nations, even though President Woodrow Wilson wanted America to lead the League of Nations. Americans finally caved after World War II because nobody wanted to see another Hitler in the world, so we ended up with the ridiculous United Nations, and things have gone downhill for America since then. Americans want to be left alone and free from world problems. But we have all these nosey politicians who like to drink tea with their pinky out, and sip wine of specific vintages, and they want to be respected by Europeans, so they have been trying to drag America into a marriage with the rest of the world for generations. I would even argue that if not for sinister forces working in the background, we would never have had any World Wars, so it can be argued that the wars themselves were constructs meant to create a global government. Not to prevent hostile characters that might plunge the world into war. Hitler was a creation of a lot of bad people. And the United Nations was never the solution. Instead, the solution to many of the world’s evils was more Bible reading and independence from the world’s villains.

But finally, we have a President who gets it, and a political class that can at least understand what that President is up to and why. People aren’t laughing when they say they want to be separated from the United Nations like it used to be. Living in Liberty Township, Ohio, specifically Butler County, I think about the United Nations whenever I see a roundabout. Most people don’t know it, but many of the sustainable living implements introduced socially have come from the United Nations Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 flowdown plans, and our colleges accepted these communist traps hook, line, and sinker for years. When our township politicians hired people out of these colleges as community developers they brought Agenda 21 sustainable living priorities with them and we ended up with a bunch of sidewalks and roundabouts to adopt more European ideas of community building and environmental impact with the ultimate goal of keeping people in their homes more and driving cars less. And the whole thing has made me sick every time I go through a roundabout, which are almost as common in Butler County, Ohio, these days as they are in socialist run Europe. People argue about their worth; they say they are better at keeping cars moving, and they prevent accidents, which make insurance companies happy, who lobby politicians for ways to make society safer so that people will buy insurance but not have accidents to force payouts. So for all the tyrannical micromanagers out there, Agenda 21 would make them a lot of money, but the goal was to limit freedoms so that stuffy bureaucrats could have an easy time at managing society with a growing centralized government and encourage through policy fewer people to leave their homes, but rather to take a sidewalk everywhere, and to ride bicycles instead of cars. The roundabouts keep you moving, but also slow you down to go around those stupid circles. I like long straightaways that we used to have in America, where you could go fast, and even quicker if you could beat the yellow light at an intersection. Sure, there were more accidents, but life in general was better.

And never forget that COVID was the ultimate creation of the United Nations to implement their Agenda 21 projects and to set the world on the same page with 2030 priorities. And yes, COVID was a created virus meant to kill people to force acceptance of these ridiculous stay-at-home policies and conformity to centralized government rules. If people didn’t die, nobody would listen to an overstuffed government, so through the World Health Organization, a division of the United Nations, a virus was created that would set the world on a Great Reset, much of which still hasn’t recovered. COVID was planned and implemented using the Chinese system. The virus was leaked out of a lab in China under very nefarious circumstances. And immediately, the United Nations had the world on lockdown, micromanaging the economy globally, including America, and they thought that people would fall in line better than they did. Instead, we had significant pushback and a world angry at the policies of the United Nations, and now we have a President willing to push back against them. And to cut the money confiscated from Americans and redistribute it to the United Nations, to work against the nature of Americans themselves. Finally, we have politicians willing to stand up to that global tyranny and not play the game, which is great.

What’s better is the recent report that the United Nations is running out of money because, without the United States, that motley band of socialists, communists, and Marxists has no money. They can only loot cash from the only capitalist country in the world, America, to sustain themselves. And now, because we elected Trump, they have essentially been cut off. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people. So I’m pretty happy about their trajectory toward financial ruin. I have never liked the United Nations. I have never liked politicians who support them and wanted to join them. And I would say that without their desire to be created in the first place, we never would have had a World War. Those wars were created as a reaction to the globalist push that followed the Jekyll Island meetings that started the Federal Reserve, and if you trace all the money and influence to their sources, you will find that it all goes to centralized monetary policy, especially the banks of Europe. So, there was never anything good about any of this, and what upset them the most was that even after all this time, they never found a way to get Americans to comply with the United Nations willingly. Sure, we built some roundabouts and sidewalks. However, people have never embraced the United Nations’ globalist priorities. Instead, we elected people like President Trump to say no to the United Nations. And now they struggle to survive because they have nothing without American money. Because they are rotten, stinking, Marxist countries with bad leadership and horrible economic policies. And micromanagers without a clue. But they can name a wine from France in a dinner conversation. And they will drink it with their pinky out. I would say that the United Nations types and their supporters are worthless people in life, and I am glad to see them finally rejected for the losers they have always been. And the more miserable they are, the happier I am.

Rich Hoffman

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