Defeating China and the Linkedln Losers: The gunfighter at the bar with their back to the room

Let me say it again about China; I’ve been saying it for a long time.  That’s why my LinkedIn account has been suspended, and I don’t use it.  I don’t like LinkedIn, Facebook, and a lot of social media sites because of their globalist intentions and dedication to the construction of China, which was to make them into a superpower and compete with the United States on the world stage.  China is a dump.  I don’t like the communist country, and I don’t like getting things from them.  By default, many of the products we used to make in America were, by policy, pushed over into China for many reasons, most of them not good.  And I have never thought of it as a good idea.  So when I wrote my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and I did press for it, I was very critical of China because some of the people most attracted to my book were people who also supported the decoupling movement from China, as we had grown too dependent on a sworn enemy, and that needed to change.  The Chinese are propped up enemies, which could be said to be most of our enemies over modern history, including Hitler.  They are made villains, not the type of people who, through cunning and diligence, leaped onto the world stage and suddenly became relevant.  No, they were made, China was made, by wealth redistribution to be villains who would drive the back door effort at a one-world order run by the United Nations with socialist governments.  So I explained in my press how to defeat China in a decoupling effort, one that appeared on the LinkedIn platform, which is grotesquely pro-China, and they were so upset about it that they banned me from the platform.  Up to that point, I had reluctantly maintained a LinkedIn page. I get a lot of offers to do a lot of consulting work, and I do what I do.  But LinkedIn to me has always been a den of thieves and con artists who prop themselves up to be fluffier than they really are, and I don’t find those types of people who use the service very valuable in real life.  They are usually propped-up caricatures, just like China ironically. 

After interviewing with a decoupling PAC out of Los Angeles, who were very interested in my book and plastered it all over their social media, the LinkedIn people banned my page and demanded that I apologize for what I said about how America could trounce China in a new war.  I said the next war in the world would not involve tanks or troops but control over finance.  And Larry Fink and the gang of thugs at BlackRock were funneling looted Wall Street money from a Modern Monetary theory Federal Reserve straight into China to make them look better on paper than they actually were, and that they were highly vulnerable.  About that same time, I gave a speech to a bunch of Tea Party types of early MAGA supporters about the Gunfighter at the Bar theory, which is pretty much my summation of all business transactions.  When you have the leverage of something someone wants, you don’t have to be an appeaser.  And that stupid professional site of LinkedIn is designed for the appeasers in life, not the gunfighters at the bar.  And I further said that anybody who exploited that trait would have leverage over their enemy no matter how big they were.  China is a paper tiger propped up by the LinkedIn losers, and we don’t need either of them. 

I control the social media I use, which is how I am with everything.  I like to be in charge.  I don’t like hand-holding consensus building, and that’s all that LinkedIn is good for.  When you are the boss, you don’t need to network.  When you have something people want, your phone never stops ringing, and my phone never stops ringing, all hours of the day, all days of the week.  I have to be a little mean to people to get some time to myself, so I don’t miss the LinkedIn Losers and won’t ever ask them to restore my platform to me.  I said what I said about China and I meant it.   And now Trump is doing exactly what needs to be done to end China as a superpower and threat to the American economy.  And I’m enjoying the spectacle quite a bit.  Ironically, I didn’t write The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business for all the boot lickers of the world.  I wrote it for the gunfighters at the bar with their back to the room, because they can afford to do so.  It’s geared to a smaller audience, but it’s meant for the right people, and the fundamental business rules I learned the hard way.  It is not the kind of fake accolades from resume padding that are typical on LinkedIn.  Then once you hire those people, you find out they can only do a fraction of what they promised and are only one or two trick ponies when you need out of them 20 to 30, just like China.  So, to all those people worried about China cutting off deliveries of Boeing airplanes or cell phones and electronic equipment and upset at Trump’s tariffs, don’t worry.  Don’t be a boot licker.  China can’t win this war, and they know it, which is why they are crying so loudly now. 

Never forget what China did to us with Covid.  They released a bioweapon from a lab in Wuhan, and they killed people with it to destroy the American economy and help the World Economic Forum establish their Great Socialist Reset by shutting down the global economy with stupid work-from-home policies, while China kept chugging along uninterrupted.  They have over a billion people, so losing a few here and there wasn’t a big deal to them.  They are a communist country; they could afford the casualties that they created in the first place.  They were intent on ruining Trump during an election year, and they played their part in that rigged election that put Joe Biden into office.  China had their direct guy in our Executive Branch to directly control American policy, all of which were hostile acts of war.  And that’s precisely how China sees it, just read the book from China called Unrestricted Warfare.  That’s how they approach everything.  They declared war on us, not the other way around.  Trump is just playing the game to beat them in a way that they can’t defend themselves.  Without globalism propping up the Chinese, they are just a backwater country of massively starving people and a communist philosophy that they adopted from Europe in Karl Marx.  And they need to be exploited as the frauds that they always were, just like 99.999999999999999999999% of the LinkedIn losers who use that stupid platform to sell themselves to other losers to fluff themselves up to look smarter than they really are.  I won’t be restoring my LinkedIn account, and I very much support what Trump is doing with the tariffs against China.  They are not our friends.  We don’t need them.  And it’s time that we remove them as the hostile friends ready to stab us in the back at every moment.  And in this action, China can’t win.  And LinkedIn has been hostile to pro-American policy and is garbage now and forever in my opinion.  And I will never forgive them for what they tried to do to our country, Reid Hoffman and the rest.  Bad people deserve to be punished in the most severe way possible.  That’s why I’m not on LinkedIn to answer the questions of those who keep asking.  And that’s why what is happening to China is a great thing!  I do like Chinese food.  But I don’t like the communist country of China as a globalist superpower or any supporters of that movement.

Rich Hoffman

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Firefly Lands on the Moon: Another step toward a space economy

Never forget that at 3:34 AM on March 2, 2025, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon’s surface.  It’s the second time a private company achieved a soft lunar landing, indicating many good things to come.  The first was Odysseus from Intuitive Machines almost a year ago.  I know several people at Firefly and know how significant their company is growing in the right direction, and this landing was an important historical marker showing that a smaller commercial company can pull off something like this in a partnership with NASA.  It would take NASA decades to do these launches, and now we see these private companies in a profoundly competitive undertaking, and they are doing so successfully.  There will be many more good things to come from Firefly, which is very exciting, and this goes along with what I have been saying about space.  This landing occurred one day before SpaceX sent Starship 8 into space, and just ahead of Blue Origin, a ship full of women, like celebrity Katy Perry, going into space as if it were just another day at the office.  Space is becoming routine, which is what we want to see happen.  And the moon has needed much more attention than it has received; we should have never stopped going.  I don’t care if aliens were on the moon to scare off Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, pushing us never to return.  NASA moved into the Space Shuttle program after the Apollo missions, but we have never since the early 70s dared to return to the moon.  Now, we have private companies doing the job that governments were too slow to do themselves.  And it’s all very exciting.  Firefly is a great new company, and it will play a significant role in the expansion of a space economy that I have been talking about for quite some time now.

And while discussing it, I’ll make a few predictions.  Just as Elon Musk is pushing for humanity to get into space and settle on Mars, to ensure that humans survive, I would dare say that this isn’t the first time our species has encountered this problem.  I think we will find that the relics on Mars are from our history and that our move to Earth was for many of the same reasons that we want to now return to Mars.  Not to discover it for the first time but to return there and complete a story that began for us many thousands of years ago.  Elon Musk is simply fulfilling the hard-wired desires that are built into human consciousness to ensure the continuation of the species, in the same way a sperm knows to penetrate the egg within a woman.  We must penetrate space to move our species as a thinking consciousness into the universe, as we were meant to.  On earth as it is in Heaven.  We are meant to ascend into Heaven, to the kingdoms we know from our past, which are in the sky. Mark it on your calendar and remember who told you all this.  Once we move into space and start checking things out, that’s when we are going to learn about ourselves.  The proof is coming.  I would say that it is all around us, hidden behind our institutionalized history.  But that won’t last very long; the evidence is abundant and will be confirmed with a space economy.  I could go into quite a long discussion about hidden lifeforms behind a curtain of Dark Matter made of neutrinos and cold fusion.  But let’s save that for other times.  Instead, let’s talk about the excitement of this growing economy brought to us by commercial-driven space utilization.

At a recent Vivek Ramaswamy governor announcement event at CTL Aerospace, I must have had more than 100 people ask me why I love aerospace.  And I tell them that the future is there.  It’s been like panning for gold in a little mountain stream during the Gold Rush.  I get a lot of offers to make a lot of money doing many things, especially in communications.  But I like to stay close to where the gold is, and I like knowing people like the cool cats at Firefly and other companies.  I get very excited every time SpaceX puts up a new rocket.  From all I know about history and science, I see aerospace as the ultimate gold nugget, and I’ve been committed to it for over four decades.  To use a Western metaphor, I’d rather dig for gold in aerospace than sit in a comfortable job in town as a lawyer or communications expert.  It’s not the money that excites me; the growth of human intellect and what adventure can bring us is the ultimate treasure.  But that doesn’t mean that money doesn’t matter.  But on a scale that I think is better than just some average well-paying job.  The growth of the space economy will far outpace any technical time humans have ever experienced, whether it be steamships, early airplanes, trains, or automobiles.  The space economy will likely contribute hundreds of trillions of dollars to the first to utilize it.  And that, to me, is the best of the big gold nuggets.  But this time we should have learned some critical lessons, to keep the Marxists out of this business, as they dramatically crippled every modern industry that humans have invented.  The Firefly launch is more vital than past attempts when Trump is in office and cheerleading on all these efforts.  So, the resolution rate is much higher than at any other time in history.

I watched Brit Hume on Fox News the other night stumble around perplexed about how Trump thinks he will go into all these tariff wars, cut taxes, and still expand the economy.  As everyone was, he spoke about an economy that they think has seen the climax of its days and that all government management has to be wrapped around managing those fixed assets.  But that’s not where Trump is as he is facing down what we all are, a 36 trillion dollar deficit that is out of control.  If you want to fix that without touching the Social Security and Medicare concept, something dramatic has to happen.  And as I have been pointing out, it’s in this space economy.   With Firefly putting their lunar module on the moon after a drought of 50 years, a half a century.  Our economy has been held back by a lot of Marxist parasites who moved into administrative positions at NASA and the Pentagon and held back human civilization in a very catastrophic way.  However, the more private people have grown more powerful, and the more that government has lost it, the more companies like SpaceX and Firefly have grown and are now doing the big things.  And that is where the future treasures are.  And that is the only kind of treasure I care about in the long line of treasures in any economy.  The best to my mind is in space, and the adventures to come.  And when I see scrappy companies like Firefly have success, I am more than happy for them.  These are fascinating times! 

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Be A Wimp: What I expect society to be

Yeah, no, it was not acceptable for everyone to turn into babies over just 7 inches of snow and stay home like scared losers.  It was embarrassing to watch people in Cincinnati turn into cowards and display part 2 of COVID-19, where they let the experts tell them to stay home locked up until the snow emergency was over.  Most of Cincinnati listened to the weather terrorists as the first real snowstorm came through shortly after the New Year of 2025.  I watched the weather porn on television, too, especially Fox 19, and they had wall-to-wall coverage.  I understand their position; they are weather geeks and get excited about this kind of thing.  This is the time of year when the spotlight gets put on them, and they relish it.  They over-dramatize everything, and it is never as bad as they say it will be.  Seven inches of snow is a significant snowfall.  But it’s not something that can’t be managed.  I got up that day and did my usual thing unimpeded, as if there wasn’t any snow.  The snowstorm didn’t impact me at all, and I usually drive around through a week more than most people do.  I watched the same weather coverage as everyone else but did not listen to them tell me to stay home like a bunch of babies.  The weather porn was more entertainment than reality.  What we should have been doing was toughing through the snowstorm without impediment.  If it took an extra fifteen minutes to get to work, fine.  If people arrived a little late to where they were going, that would be fine too.  But to stay home, as the weather news told us, and to be unproductive, waiting for some little danger to pass by, is not how any American should be.  Productivity first, and management of safety elements with skill and innovation are expected as part of the process.  Just because people were scared to drive in the snow and were unskilled does not mean we should shut down our entire society.

Of course, many people were mad at me for my opinions and asked me what I thought was the appropriate level of safety over the matter.  A good example of what I believe is appropriate occurred just a few days ago.  A good friend of mine slipped and fell on some ice and split his head open.  He immediately noticed a lot of blood flowing from his head, way too much to rub away.  So, upon letting people know about it, he went to the human resources department where he worked, and they let him know that his skull was showing and that they needed to get him to the emergency room.  After quite an adventure of blood spilling over everywhere and coordination of people who needed to drive him to the hospital, they reported to him that he had a severe cut and that it was going to take nine stables to pull his head together again.  Not nine stitches, but staples.  They, of course, checked him after the patch-up for concussion protocols, which he passed.  He had a pretty hard head but was not displaying signs of a concussion, and they sent him on his way.  He insisted at the doctor that they keep him off light duty or any other impediment to his work schedule.  So, upon his request, he returned to his job with no restrictions.  And through all this, he did not miss a single minute of work.  He fell in the parking lot after his shift of work was complete.  He returned to his third shift position on time, without any excuses, and performed as if nothing had ever happened. 

The only measure he took that gave away that he had an injury was that he covered up his bandaged head with a baseball hat that he put over it to keep it somewhat protected from the elements.  Many people in his position would have sought to milk the system; they would have taken off weeks of work and tried to get out of doing as much work as possible.  But not him.  When there are problems in the world, this kind of guy always shows up and is there to solve problems.  And given the many excuses I heard about snowfall, it was good to see that there are still people like that guy in the world.  We need more tough people who don’t crawl into a fetal position every time something occurs.  I relate to people like that guy. I have done many similar things in my life, and it is bewildering to see such a lack of work ethic among anybody.  I have worked through even worse injuries and major surgeries and missed almost no work in the process.  I’ve had bones sticking out from severe cuts.  And on surgeries where they occurred on a Thursday or Friday and were projected to keep me bedridden for months, I reported back to work that following Monday after just a weekend of rest and recovery.  So, I expect to answer everyone’s questions all at once.  That’s what I am used to and the standards I have set for myself.  And I most relate to people like that guy who busted his head open and did everything he could to fix it and get back to work. 

If you leave your life to the panic porn people, the ridiculous experts such as we did with Covid, where we let them tell us to stay home and socially distance ourselves from the world, you should not be surprised when you fail at life.  Watching the Channel 19 broadcast the night of the snowstorm, I was shocked that those people told people to stay home and ride out the weather.  Who are they to say such a thing?  There is work to do in the world.  That mentality is a loser mentality, to yield to impediments instead of managing them.  I have never been that kind of person.  When I was in school years ago, I was the one who had perfect attendance for years on end.  I am never late for anything.  And if I say I will be somewhere, people can trust it will be so.  I don’t let silly snowstorms stop what I am doing or injuries that happen along the way.  As human beings, we invent tools to overcome nature.  We don’t yield to it.  We don’t let the snow beat us and keep us from doing what we need to do.  I never have, and I never will.  And I have no respect or sympathy for those who do.  People are free to do what they do in their lives.  But I am also free to have my opinion about it.  And I do.  Excuses make people weak.  That guy with the split open head could have leaned into his doctor to get all kinds of time off work and to milk it for everything he could.  But he didn’t.  And I could not have done anything on that snow day, too, and told the world I stayed home because the news told me to, and I would have been justified under some ill-defined definition of safety.  But I’m a great driver.  I can drive through the snow without any problem, so it would cheapen my skills to yield to the masses who aren’t so good just because the experts told me I could stay home like some kid in school yielding to an authority figure.  No, I had things to do.  I had a nice car to drive with good tires; it was well-maintained and had a nice, functioning heater to protect me from the cold.  And it was no problem to drive where I needed to go.  And everyone else had the same tools, too.  But they stayed home because the news told them to, which it was not in their authority to do so.  That is one of the many reasons we are trying to make America great again. People fear a little snow, and it’s not great now.  It takes great people to make anything great.  And being scared of snow or injuries isn’t what makes people great.  Tenacity and perseverance do. 

Rich Hoffman

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A Hyperloop Terminal in Monroe, Ohio: The only thing holding back such an emerging technology is political will

I have been thinking a lot more of it since President Trump won the election.  But once the news started leaking out of Mar-a-Lago from people who would know, my thinking about it grew into genuine excitement.  My ideas about Monroe, Ohio, becoming the focal point of a new hyperloop terminal, grew some serious legs.  Most of the people involved probably don’t know what a hyperloop is, so I put together a pitch video to explain it to them and get some conceptual faculty behind the thought.  After all, why would little ol’ Monroe, Ohio, be such a hot spot for one of the great emerging technologies on Earth?  Once I learned that Jon Husted would be appointed as the Senate seat replacement for J.D. Vance, all the elements started clicking into place.  I like Jon because of a mutual friend we have, and I know he is very pro business.  However, it only got better once I learned that Trump was very concerned about the next governor of Ohio and wanted to clear the decks for a pick he wanted after DeWine was done in a few years.  After a few years of D.O.G.E., Vivek Ramaswamy was planning to be governor, which is pretty much a slam dunk on the election process.  And I know a lot of mutual friends regarding Vivek.  And, of course, his relationship with Elon Musk then became very important.  After all, J.D. Vance will be in the White House, and economic stimulation will be very important to the Trump/Vance White House.  It was likely that Vance would be in the White House for the next 12 years, 4 with Trump, then 8 with his own administration because people won’t want Trump to go away.  And things started to get hot on my idea.

A few days before all this information emerged out of Mar-a-Lago, Musk proposed a 20 billion dollar Hyperloop connection between New York and London.  Hyperloop is something I have supported for a very long time.  I even hired a few engineers from the University of Cincinnati open source program who worked at SpaceX to develop the emerging technology so I could learn all I could about the pitfalls of the technology.  And I realized what I needed to know.  Hyperloop is a very advanced high-speed transportation system that blasts passengers in a train-like pod at 700-1000 mph conceptually through a cushion of air through a tunnel with all the air removed, almost duplicating the vacuum levels of space to remove wind resistance.  Using magnets to pull the craft along, passengers can travel much faster than a commercial airline.  This trip from New York to London would happen in just a few hours instead of much of the day and would travel under the ocean through tunneling technology from one of Elon Musk’s companies, The Boring Company.  To many people, this all sounded like crazy science fiction from Musk.  But he’s serious.  They are already building a hyperloop in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.  They have also built a preliminary tunneling system in Las Vegas as a kind of test bed.  China is also hard at work as it has stolen the idea from Musk.  So far, nobody has had success, but it’s not because the science is wrong.  It’s because doing such a thing takes enormous political will.  Musk has all the money in the world.  What he doesn’t have is what was forming in Ohio in the Monroe area, the political will to pull it off, from President Trump himself, who wants to do something big during his presidency with a new highway system effort that would rival what we did in America during the 1950s under Eisenhower.  Hyperloop had the opportunity to be bigger than America’s national highway system, and once that was started as a massive infrastructure project, it happened very fast and became normal. 

Monroe makes sense for the first national terminal because if there is a line for 20 billion dollars from New York to London, another 500-mile hyperloop from Monroe to New York could feed the country’s interior to the east coast with a trip that would take about 45 minutes.  And Monroe is only an hour’s drive from Columbus, Indianapolis, Lexington, Louisville and is between Cincinnati and Dayton.  Many people can drive a short distance to Monroe, where they could pick up a few hyperloop lines that would take them to places like Las Angeles, Vegas, and Orlando within a few hours.   And with such a hyperloop hub comes massive economic activity, which would feed the economically deprived hometown of J.D. Vance.  An economic goal that the Trump administration has for many such cities in America, especially along the Rust Belt.  With Governor Ramaswamy in Ohio, many good things can happen with a revitalized Trump economy that could pay down the debt and still generate several hundred billion dollars for something on this scale.  Elon Musk is working with them all to do such a thing, and the technology of The Boring Company makes it all possible.  While there are technical issues to solve, the rate of innovation isn’t the problem.  Political support is, and under the conditions described, Monroe, Ohio, suddenly looks to be the best place in the world for such an effort.  It would revitalize Middletown, Ohio, nearby Hamilton, and, of course, Dayton.  All areas that had been husked out to globalism.  Suddenly, a lot was possible for a relatively small investment. 

Musk knows how to solve this problem, which he needs to do before humans colonize the Moon and Mars.  Living on other planets will require tunnels to protect people from large doses of radiation on planets struggling with their own atmospheres until they are terraformed into habitable planets through science.  Developing a hyperloop on Earth would give The Boreing Company the experience to perform the same on other planets.  So, such an effort has value beyond the convenience of high-speed travel between long-distance destinations on Earth.  As I was talking to my good friend Senator Lang about all this, we shared an intense desire to bring more technology and aerospace imprint along that particular section of the I-75 corridor to make Ohio one of the most business-friendly places in the world.  A hyperloop terminal would go a long way to making that instantly happen.  And suppose there was a President Vance in the White House, a Governor Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor’s mansion, and the wealthiest person in the world who would do anything to get to Mars. In that case, there are a lot of dots that are getting connected if the right people help steer the ship.  So this isn’t a typical article for my usual audience, but for the powerful people I know who read in the background and can help unify everyone behind this effort.  The first thing I thought of as soon as Trump gave his acceptance speech the night of the election was, “Now we have the kind of president who can make the hyperloop possible.”  For many years now, I have considered Monroe, Ohio, the premier place to build such a terminal in the large amounts of land behind the outlet mall.  It would look techy and destination-driven, like Space Mountain from Disney World, only much larger, and impressive.  And suddenly, America would do something that would improve the lives of everyone on earth for centuries.  If only we could align the politics, which is entirely possible based on how things are shaping up. 

Rich Hoffman

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Playing Poker with the Senate: The Art of the Deal with Pam Bondi

I think what we have going on with Trump is a lot of The Art of the Deal and a good sign of how he’s going to handle things in this next term.  This is the difference between a successful business guy and a bunch of people who sought political life because they couldn’t do anything else.  Over the years, this has been a real problem. Our current Senate has a lot of new people who lean toward the MAGA view of the world, but there are still RINO holdovers, and when J.D. Vance walked the proposed Matt Gaetz around to interview all the senators ahead of confirmation, it was like playing poker and walking around the table to see what kind of hands the other players had.  I thought Matt Gaetz was an excellent pick for Attorney General.  Probably the best pick.  But immediately after touring the Senate, Matt Gaetz mysteriously withdrew his name, and Trump announced that Pam Bondi would be the new pick, almost as if that were Trump’s plans all along.  He had talked to Pam about it, and a plan was playing out.  And what Trump learned was that there were 4 or 5 senators like Mitch McConnell who were hard no’s on Matt Gaetz and would not be convinced otherwise.  So rather than fight that uphill battle with great media fanfare, Trump just changed tactics and put a woman in that place to take off the edge for the more progressive senators and Democrats on the confirmation vote. 

Pam Bondi has done the Attorney General job in Florida during the Rick Scott as governor years.  Before that, Florida politics was a lot different as Jeb Bush set the standard, so these days, with Ron DeSantis, it’s a much different place, a much more conservative state.  When Pam Bondi was Attorney General there, she was pretty good.  My opinion is that she was more talk than action.  However, she has been loyal to President Trump and stood by an America First agenda, no matter what happened.  Is she the person who will kick down doors and drag the bad guys out for a hanging? I don’t think so.  But I think she will take on Trump’s personality in his administration, and I think that was always the gig.  I think Trump and Matt Gaetz have other plans looming in the background since he so quickly announced that he was leaving Congress during the next term.  His district is conservative, so that shouldn’t hurt during a special election.  But what we have going on here is a lot of poker playing that is not normal.  And the media doesn’t know how to report it.  And the political machines are not smart enough to understand what is happening.  Trump has a lot of senator confirmations that are going to be tough, but essentially, he put forth his most controversial pick, making all the rest seem very normal by comparison, and paraded him around to see how the Beltway would bet.  And he got his answer and gave the rest of his picks the ammunition they needed to pass confirmation in the Senate.  Although I was looking to Gaetz, Pam Bondi is about as good as we can get for a position like that, but it comes down to the Art of Making a Deal, which has always been Trump’s thing.  We will see a lot of deal-making that will come out very good for all of us.  Trump and the private sector are beating down the political machines of K-Street in a way they have never experienced before.

And that’s the name of the game in most things in life, especially poker.  I think it’s a great game, especially Texas Hold Em’ because it teaches players how to make a good hand win and how to recognize a good hand from a bad one.  Or, how to play a bad hand and still win.  Poker is about strengths and weaknesses and making the most out of personal circumstances.  It’s not about luck as much as manipulating the other players.  A player at the table could have the best hand in the world, and the person holding the bad hand can still beat them by coaxing them to fold.  And I think that’s what Trump did to the entire Senate, now led by John Thune, and appeasing the Mitch McConnell holdovers.  Trump looked at their hands and saw what he needed to do.  Matt Gaetz will be involved in something that does not require Senate confirmation but that won’t be announced until all the confirmations happen.  Once the Senate angers Trump, he’ll pull out Matt Gaetz and get things moving again.  If you are a fan of The Art of the Deal books or Poker, this is shaping up to be an exciting four years, and the established order of things is not ready.  The many media members who have learned to report political news a certain way are about to have the tops ripped off their business; there will be so much every day that nobody will understand how to process it all.  But this Matt Gaetz situation is just a hint of things to come.

You don’t always get things the way you want them.  But what’s important is that you turn unfortunate circumstances into victories however you can.  Seldom does anything work out the way you envision them.  And putting Matt Gaetz up for an AG nomination was an over-the-top bold move.  But not for the reasons people thought.  Rather than place him in a very contentious position as Attorney General, he used him to discover what the other players at the table were holding as cards.  Once J.D. Vance and Matt Gaetz learned who had what at the table, Trump put down his hand to blow them all out of the water.  And that was Pam Bondi, a pick just as good as Matt Gaetz, but she appears much more reasonable because of her polished personality after years of working in established administrations under challenging conditions.  She is the kind of person even RINO members of the Senate can vote for, if not for her politics, but because she’s a strong woman, and nobody wants to be on record going against that.  So Trump played the hand he had to best effect once he knew what the other players had.  And that’s how you win in these games, whether with a more substantial hand or a bluff.  Winning is the goal, and when it comes to getting Pam Bondi confirmed by the Senate in a way that will not harm his other picks, Trump just showed why we voted for him as the best option to Make America Great Again and why he was so successful throughout his life.  This is how business is done, and the world of useless politicians won’t be able to compete with him.  This is only the start of a lot of deals that will be made, and as Trump has shown over and over again in the past, making deals is his favorite thing to do in the world.  And he’s good at it.  And this nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General is just the beginning of many great things to come. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Rebellion Against the Global Managerial Class: What causes all war

When the British were finally forced to leave New York after the Revolutionary War, as one of the final acts after their defeat at the Battle of Yorktown, they imagined that the Americans would fall apart as soon as they left the city.  But once on their ships, an officer remembered that he had left something behind in a home he had been occupying and returned to get it.  The ship landed, and the officer returned to the house and retrieved what he had left behind, which he had expected to be a dangerous enterprise.  But he was stunned, as was the rest of England, to learn that the Americans were capable of self-government and were better off with them gone.  The world in America was better without the micromanagement of an oppressive centralized force.  And that is still the fight we have to this day; a managerial class of bureaucrats is attached to globalism and wants every corner of the globe to submit to their authority.  People have a raw belief about other people and the role authority plays in their lives.  And the truth is, the kind of freedom demonstrated for the first time in the world, the creation of a new nation and a people who governed themselves was bound to occur at some point in time.  America was able to happen due to a unique period in history where shipping allowed for international trade and communication just enough to make a new country possible.  But it was still too big to have all these jealous managerial people poking their noses in everyone’s business.  For a few hundred years, America was left alone because, for one, it didn’t have much value.  So, most of the other countries in the world didn’t care much about what happened to America.  That is until it became one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and mass communications became possible. At that point, the same jealous people were thrust together into a conflict that is very much the story of our modern day.

When Barack Obama says that he doesn’t understand how we became so divided, as he did at a recent rally for Harris, as the poll numbers show his Marxist revolution in the American government is coming to an end, I don’t think he does understand his role in the mess.  He was brought into that micromanagement culture of government to be a kind of communist parent.  So, like that English officer returning to New York, this concept of self-government just doesn’t make sense to him.  And, of course, there are people within the United States and worldwide who are just as perplexed.  I would call them broken people who crave government to be a parent in their lives.  They are insecure people who do not sustain themselves properly, so they are attracted to group affiliations.  But what caused the Revolutionary War in the first place is the same desire behind the MAGA movement now.  Everyone is shocked by what they are seeing in global populism, much less government, because most people never dealt with the cause of freedom in the first place.  When we talk about a Deep State and an administrative state, we are talking about people who are personally insecure and who want to rule over people in a managerial class kind of way.  You see it at every level of society, where a superior bosses around an inferior for the joy of being in control over someone else.  And this is the essence behind all forms of globalism.  They want to control value so that they can rule over the people who want a piece of that value.  But they do not understand why people would not want to be governed by them.  Or why more value is created in a culture that rebels against a management class of overseers. 

Another common theme that has not been well understood is that the Revolutionary War was about who controlled currency.  One of the plans the English had for the newly found Americans was to crush their economy by flooding the market with counterfeit money, making all the pay and exchanges made to people worthless, and essentially destroying the effort of freedom because nobody could afford the basics in life, particularly on the frontier of private property.  This was a continued problem with George Washington, who had been very successful before he became involved in the war or the presidency.  For his efforts, he was paid with worthless money, just as everyone else was, and that misfortune lasted the rest of his life.  But Americans didn’t turn away from freedom over a lousy economy that perplexed the world and its managerial class overseas.  They never understood it, and that holds to this day.  The same kind of people who lost America to the Revolution are handling our money supply now, and they have been purposely trying to destroy our economy for the purposeful incursion of ruling over America from the newly created United Nations.  To answer Barack Obama’s question, this rebellion would always occur, even if it meant the destruction of our economy.  When that destruction was most utilized in a global policy with the creation of the Covid bioweapon that shut down the world economy, the opposite of what they thought would happen occurred.  Just as that English officer was surprised to see how Americans behaved once the managerial class of the English military packed up and left New York after that war of independence. 

The monetary policy of imposing control over those who were supposed to be happy as subordinates was never understood psychologically, so the world has made the same mistakes repeatedly.  And Americans were taught by all the wrong people about how the world was supposed to be.  What was ignored was how people wished to live, and those forces never reconciled.  And that is the heart of what we see in this current election.  People do not want to be ruled by a managerial class.  It doesn’t matter if it’s other countries, centralized bankers, aliens from space, the World Economic Forum, or China, no matter who it is. People don’t want to be controlled by a managerial class, and America shows the benefits of what freedom produces in people.  Even when attempts to destroy our economy were utilized, people did not rush back to the arms of global overseers; instead, they became more rebellious.  And are electing Trump to get the globalists out of our back pockets.  And the more managerial overseers try to keep their hands in our pockets, the more anxious we have become.  But none of this is new; it’s just that the world is finally catching up to the nature of all human beings.  They don’t want a micromanaging parental figure ruling their lives.  They want freedom from all that, and the next several years are going to be very surprising to those globalist types.  They never reconciled what that English officer learned that day in New York, which is just as accurate now as it was then.  There is nothing that this management class can do to change human nature.  Things will never be for them as they would like them to be because that is not the nature of human beings anywhere. 

Rich Hoffman

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The 400 Dumb Economists Against Trump: Destroying globalism and their wealth redistribution of looted American value is the top priority

I am happy to argue with any economist, especially the 400 or so who have come out against President Trump’s proposed tariffs on imported goods once he is in for another term of office, that they have no idea what they are discussing.  Or that their hatred of Trump’s tariffs is purely because it goes against their strategy of globalism, where the United Nations would control our managed economy.  Not the United States.  Just because 400 people say something, or even a thousand, it doesn’t change what something is.  And when they say that Trump’s tariff policy will destroy the American economy the first time around and in the future, some context is required to understand what they are saying.  Economics was one of my majors in college.   So was philosophy, and while in college, I thought both were disastrously stupid wastes of time.  I went to college knowing way too much for my good.  I had a very unconventional education up to that point, so it was easy to see what was happening.  Mostly because different kinds of people study economics and philosophy, it was easy for this globalist ruse to be concealed because nobody knew one from the other in their social circles.  But it was obvious to me that Marxism was written into the economic books even as far back as the late eighties when I was in college.  And I knew that because that’s all they taught in philosophy class.  For me, it started with a study of Eastern philosophy, which was meant to open the door to the Chinese way of thinking about the world, and of course, they were outright communists.  So once everyone was taught in college how smart the Chinese were, then students who didn’t know any better would adopt communism as their mode of managing people and, of course, economic activity. 

Western philosophy, starting with the Greeks, was rationalized into failure by discussing empire building, starting with Alexander the Great, and then studying the Decline of the West as Spengler proposed.  So I frustrated the professors of these classes infinitely because I had already read all these books before I ever stepped into their classrooms and had figured out what was going on even then.  And I recognized what was happening with the transition of the Reagan economy and the one George Bush was proposing when he talked about a “New World Order.”  There was money to be made in globalism, and by essentially robbing the capitalist economy of America and redistributing that wealth to other countries that were choking on their following of Marxism, which was detrimental to their economies.  Many people would make a lot of money off stealing American wealth and redistributing it to countries that didn’t have much of an economy, and that is how the communist government of China became such an economic powerhouse.  But it’s also why a country with over a billion people still struggles economically with the United States, which has only a fraction of that number producing goods and services.  The reason that America had so much money was capitalism.  The political left then, as they are now, was very committed to destroying the concept of capitalism so that globalism could occur and wealth would then be managed by a Marxist-oriented government in the United Nations.  Now, let’s fast forward to our present time and note that the head of the United Nations today is Antonio Guterres, who is an outright socialist.  So, things have been moving in that trajectory of thought for many years.  Rob the wealth of America and give it to the rest of the world through wealth redistribution run by Marxist, socialist, and communist governments orchestrated by the United Nations, with the World Economic Forum setting policy in the background.

When Mitch McConnell says that he is critical of Trump’s tariffs and supports “free trade” policies, he is essentially saying that he defines free trade as the looting of American wealth without any defense.  He’s speaking for his father-in-law’s shipping company, which is set up in China and is the source of much of his family’s wealth.  When you have Republicans like him, who needs Democrats?  But don’t forget, just because authorities don’t want to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China, doesn’t mean that they have a valid reason for it.  Don’t ask the investigators to investigate themselves.  They know as everyone does now, that Covid was a bioweapon constructed to destroy cultures with health regulations, and they were looking to bring down Western civilization with it.  During an election year in the United States, right after Trump clamped down on the trade tariffs against China, COVID-19 was released from China and spread aggressively into the United States.  China never locked down the way the rest of the world did, and they were pretty arrogant about it.  They convinced us to shut down our entire economy while they did very little because they knew the nature of the virus and why it existed in the first place.  And likely the most apparent straw that broke their back was Trump’s tariffs.  They needed to get him out of office so the trade imbalance between China and America would stay in the favorable category toward them, the looting of American wealth and redistributing it into the communist country of China.  It was Globalism 101, taught in the college classes I attended in the late 80s and early 90s.  And it was always an overt attack against America for the ultimately planned destruction of capitalism in general.

So when Kamala Harris says that 400 economists are against Trump’s tariffs against other countries to set things right in the United States, I would happily argue with all of them about how wrong they are.  Just because there are many of them doesn’t mean they are right.  The most valuable thing I learned in college was that most people are wrong.  Just because many people think something, it only means that they were taught all the wrong stuff.  And it only takes one person to set things straight.  But because of my background, there isn’t a single person in the world who can argue with me about the economy.  And Trump gets it; his tariffs are meant to reverse the destructive effect of trade imbalances with America and will restore sovereign wealth to everyone within the borders of the United States of America.  Globalism will fail dramatically because the Marxist minds running the idea must steal American wealth and destroy capitalism as a concept so they can rebuild America under the United Nations with a centralized digital currency they control from Davos or Geneva.  So those against Trump’s tariffs are those working against capitalism, which is essentially free trade driven by market conditions, not centralized socialist governments.  Those in America speaking out against Trump’s tariffs are looking to profit off the planned demise of America by skimming away wealth as a broker to redistribute it in the process.  When pressed, most people will say that they read Spengler’s book and were planning accordingly.  But Spengler’s Decline of the West was wishful thinking, not capitalist reality.  And they now fear what Trump is saying, and they will cry and scream about the tariffs against other countries.  However, it would be great for America if Trump put his tariffs in place quickly and aggressively; it’s not the American economy that would be destroyed.  Trump’s tariffs will destroy globalism and Marxism and put the value of American capitalism on the world’s stage in ways they have always feared.  And it will be great for the world.

Rich Hoffman

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Dope-smoking, slack-jawed losers are Running the McDonald’s in Hamilton, Ohio: A workforce that has never recoverd from Covid safety protocals

Another benefit from my grand jury service over the summer of 2024, which became a running joke among the other jurors, was what I did each day when we took a lunch break.  I don’t usually spend that much time in court, so my daily routine was tremendously interrupted for weeks at a time and during lunch, we seldom ever had time to eat a packed lunch, so I got into the habit of going to the McDonald’s across the street from the courthouse in downtown Hamilton to get a large Coke and a large Fry for a snack.  It was easy for me to get that kind of food and quickly take it back up to my desk to eat while we listened to testimony and examined evidence.  It’s not the most healthy thing to do in the world, but it was a way for me to bring a little fun to my life when there was so much negativity.  And the other jurors got a kick out of it, even when some of the afternoon cases were horrendous murders, and we had to look at crime photos of the carnage and hear from people in testimony who had gone through likely the worst thing in their life.  I enjoyed my French Fries and a Coke each day.  But what I didn’t enjoy was getting the food.  I picked that dietary expression because I didn’t want a complicated order that involved overeating food; I wanted it easy and convenient because sometimes we had a half hour for lunch, an hour, but sometimes it was as short as 15 minutes, it depended on whatever was going on that day.  But I didn’t want to wait long for the food, so I made it easy.  The food I got couldn’t get my fingers all messy because I often ate it while writing things down and talking to others. 

So, speed was not fully displayed at the McDonald’s in downtown Hamilton.  Out of the weeks that I was on the grand jury, I went to that particular McDonald’s well more than twenty times, and there wasn’t a single day where they were prepared for a lunch rush as the primary food option across the street from the Butler County Courthouse.  Not only are all the employees who work at the courthouse, which includes police officers and security, tempted to get lunch at McDonald’s, but so are all the residents who have to interact with the court.  So it’s a jam-packed store that sometimes has to push out a lot of food.  Now I know something about fast food restaurants; for many years, like the first two decades of my adult life, I worked full-time second jobs to make extra money my family needed.  Some jobs were at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Frisch’s.  I know what lunch and dinner rushes look like and how they must be staffed behind the scenes, away from the customer experience.  One of my offerings at these places was that I always handled pressure well and quickly.  I was often able to control two or three-line positions all by myself, which was an incredible benefit to them, and to say the least, I learned a lot.  One of these places was Wendy’s, known as “The Beach” location; it’s now a Mexican restaurant.  It was often understaffed because of the area.  There were many places for people to work, so this restaurant location was always in competition to acquire good employees.  The critical store was at the Fields Ertle location just south along I-71, which took up most of the prime labor, leaving The Beach to be perpetually understaffed but at times, one of the busiest stores in all of Cincinnati. 

To make matters even worse during these years, I was going through horrendous personal circumstances, including individual lawsuits against me, political problems that involved my stance against drug dealers that got me into a lot of trouble in my community as we lived in Mason, and some cops were making money running cover for drug dealing and I had taken a stance against that.  And my wife and I only had one car for several years because of all these problems.  So, I rode a bicycle everywhere so my wife could have a vehicle for our kids to get back and forth to school because we wouldn’t let them ride the bus with a bunch of loser kids with severe behavioral problems.  So I don’t want to hear about anybody’s problems.  I’ve been there and managed through them just fine and experienced the worst that can come to a human being.  However, the store by The Beach Water Park, closest to Kings Island, was busy during the summer months and required fast employees.  We had many call-offs, so I would typically cover the entire food line for the dining room and the drive-thru all by myself.  Nobody was faster than me in Cincinnati.  So, with that eye, I was very critical of McDonald’s in Hamilton, Ohio, which had a staff that never seemed too inclined to make sure the customers were serviced quickly and efficiently, or at times, even at all.  They gave off a pretentious feeling that we were lucky they were at work.  And it displayed several problems that I see in other places as well.  The service world has never recovered from the dumb protocols of Covid, and three years later, a fast food store like McDonald’s still had trouble recruiting employees to staff all their needed positions, and when they were short on labor, they would close their dining room and just put their efforts onto the drive-thru.  Something that no restaurant would have dared do leading up to COVID-19.  But after, it was a common practice. 

This labor problem holds in almost every field; many employees in large companies still work from home, or so they are trying.  Very progressive companies who are controlled by Democrats at BlackRock and other financial monstrosities have greatly empowered the slack-jawed losers of the world who are lazy and unambitious and have put them in charge of labor, and the effects are horrendous.  I usually don’t interact with fast food restaurants these days, as my wife usually gets us food from those places, but I’m too busy to get it myself.  So only because I was at court all those days did I see how this particular McDonald’s operated compared to what I have experienced in the past few decades through my efforts.  They had terrible management there, and the employees had a presentation of self-importance from the staff feeling lucky to have employees.  If I were ordering anything more complicated than French Fries and a Coke, the wheels of that place would entirely fall apart.  What had changed was the fast food approach to work, not the demand, and that happened because of the introduction of poor workplace conduct with the COVID protocols.   Like most industries, the pin-headed lazy losers of the world had made inefficiency normalized through a rules-based society, and the impact was a much less “capitalist” world.  It’s precisely what is happening with Elon Musk and the FAA.  The same types of people sink production in every industry, from space flight to getting fries during grand jury testimony.  And it’s a problem that has to be fixed for good with the prosecution of those who brought us COVID-19 and told us to socially distance, wear a mask, and work from home.  Those policies intentionally destroyed our economic viability, and people still need to pay for them three years later.   Because the Hamilton McDonald’s in Butler County, Ohio, has never recovered.  And the slow food by a bunch of dope-smoking, slack-jawed losers who work there is a crime against humanity and a treasonous attack against the sovereignty of the United States.  And can’t be endured. 

Rich Hoffman

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If You Like Your Money, You Better Vote For Trump: Trump Cash vs. Kamala Crash

The communist left in the world still thinks this way. And their economies are based on the same dumb ideas

Yeah, here’s the deal: If you like your money, your 401K investments, your real estate, your job, or anything connected to money, you better vote for Trump. It’s not a political thing; it’s a policy thing, which is what I have been telling everyone who has been asking leading up to the terrible jobs report in August, ahead of the global sell-off on Monday, 8.5.24.  There were a lot of reasons that the Asian markets opened poorly that morning, which started a chain reaction around the world.  Some of them are very sinister.  Some of them are just bombastically panic-driven and innocent.  There will always be a crash when free people have been manipulated the way that centralized banking has done to the public over the last century.  I mean, these are the same kind of losers who invented public education and can’t keep public toilets clean.  At least in the day of Morgan, Rockefeller, and the Rothschilds manipulating global currency, they were pretty good at it and driven not to fail by a sense of self-preservation that we all benefited from.  If the money supply were destroyed, they would lose all their money, and so would we.  So we were tied together in unhealthy ways, at least ways that gave us something to work with.  But here’s the problem: those who had the most money and wanted to hedge their risk invented this relationship with governments to insulate them from catastrophic failure, and the results have not been good.  This led to what I have been saying for several decades now: a financial climate in 2024 where the wheels are poised to come off in ominous ways.  Democrats are fully aware of this impending catastrophe because they have been hiding the terrible economic numbers every week of the Biden presidency, which were stolen in 2020 to preserve these global powers and prevent populist reforms.  And the writing was on the wall from 2016 to 2020 with Trump.  He showed just how phony the whole machine was during his term and currently is the only one with a plan to preserve the American dollar.  The global markets will still collapse, as we saw in Japan, just a hint of on Monday.  But America could preserve itself with a divorce from global markets, as much as is possible these days.  And to protect the American dollar from complete collapse, which is a planned exercise, especially if global communists can manage to slide Kamala Harris under the door.

Trump has a plan, and yes, the house of cards that global communism has built for the purposeful collapse of the American dollar can be averted by electing Trump.  But in so doing, a scab will be ripped off a wound that has been there for ages.  It’s a house of wet cards built in an earthquake zone that we are talking about, and also, as I have been saying, we are well into depression territory with the actual economic numbers under Biden.  It’s not much better worldwide, but this is part of a global strategy to push everyone into a digital currency that the central banks control.  It’s just as sinister as any military campaign that history has observed, for exactly all the same reasons.  And we are all attached to it through money management.  And if you have any hope of preserving your way of life, the investments you have built on all this phony pile of made-up cash, then you better vote for Trump.  Forget the ideological differences.  Forget about any other consideration.  To prevent a complete economic collapse, you had better vote for Trump.

The hints for this problem go back to the 2000s when the real estate crash in 2008 happened, after years of stagnant economic growth inspired by the terrorism of 9/11.  In reaction to that financial crisis, the American Fed printed up a bunch of fake money through quantitative easing and put in place a Modern Monetary Theory that they have been floating through big Wall Street firms like BlackRock, who have been buying up boards of most major companies with all that fake money, and turning them to communist woke practices.  Most Americans were too trusting to question this activity and didn’t care much as long as they had a car to drive to pick up their kids from soccer practice and grab a pizza on the way home to eat in their nicely air-conditioned homes.  If you get the chance to travel around the world, you will quickly find that most people don’t live like this and struggle mightily due to the mistakes their governments make with monetary policy.  What is truly terrible is that all these global markets are now attached through cooperative governments bound together through centralized banking with a communist view of the world as its primary outlook.  They have been making a lot of mistakes for many years. They have propped up with phony money organizations like the American Fed, printing money as they needed it and using it to buy fake value for an essentially phony economy.  And they were hiding it through their massive control of most media outlets.  And that House of Cards was poised to fail during the entire Biden presidency, which is why they put him in place through election fraud in the first place.

The hint of all this hitting the fan triggered the global sell-offs on Monday, early August 2024.  Some will say it’s fear of Kamala Harris winning the White House and prominent investors taking their money from the market before everyone else figures out how wrong everything has been and joins them with massive sell-offs.  I would propose that all this devious financial information is catching up to Democrats, and they can’t hide it from the public anymore.  The Fed has screwed up in its relationship with political activists like BlackRock and other Wall Street sharks looking to profit at the expense of the government providing the shield.  And when they get into trouble, they print more money and can do so as long as America controls the dollar.  But that control is now threatened, revealing horrendous economic mismanagement that goes back decades and is finally coming due.  Yeah, Trump is the only pick to stop what is planned to happen: the complete financial failure of the United States, which is currently over 35 trillion in debt and rising by 1 trillion dollars every 100 days.   This is a planned military attack by globalism against the sovereignty of the United States.  And literally, the only way out of it is Trump, which money-making policies could put America back into control of global markets, which is the only answer available here.  That’s also why they want to kill him, as we have witnessed recently, or put him in jail and destroy him in any way possible.  Globalists attached to central banking must control the American White House for their objectives.  Only now do people have a hint as to what they’ve been up to, which is revealed in the collapse of all financial involvement.  The cracks are now seen in some of these market crashes that are showing themselves presently.  However, much more is to come, and Trump is the only way out.  So if you like your life, even a little bit, and want to protect it from very hostile globalist forces, you better vote for Trump in the November election.  This week, we have seen the tip of a massive iceberg that is just out of sight but vast, deep, and very ominous.  More so than you can possibly imagine.

Rich Hoffman

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Just Because He Was Shot In The Head Doesn’t Mean He’s Going To Suddenly Become A Wimp: Trump and Divine Providence

I know a lot of people are worried about it, but I don’t think Trump’s going soft as a result of nearly being killed by an assassin’s bullet at his Pennsylvania rally in July of 2024. Instead, I understand that look of peace he has.  People on a mission often have a lack of worry once they realize they are covered with help over something critical, such as a life obligation.  Trump has been on a mission while he still has time on the clock in years to get back into the White House to save America from what we now know is a full-on communist invasion.  Democrats have called it other things, but there are a lot of hostile forces out there trying to destroy America, and Trump is one of those unique people who have built his life in a certain way to help it, and he’s been in a race to get through these years of government-imposed exile to perform the task.  And I do not doubt that in the back of his mind, all this time, he had been thinking of an overt assassination attempt, as he just experienced.  You go to all these significant public events and wonder who might ever try such a thing, so until it happens, you don’t know what you would do or react to it.  The killer was a kid, Thomas Matthew Crooks and there are all kinds of problems with him and the incident itself that deserve a lot of time and thought.  But from Trump’s point of view, a killer attempted and missed.  There were other innocent people killed and harmed, but it could have been a lot worse.  And as for Trump, he lived through it and could fight another day.  And that brings to mind a sense of peace on his face. 

I am speaking from experience when I say I noticed it, too, especially at the Republican National Convention leading up to his first speech since the assassination attempt.  I don’t think Trump had suddenly become soft and full of love. Instead, I think his personality just added a few new gears.  God was obviously on his side, and when you go through something like this, it relieves your mind to know that Divine Providence has your back.  Trump’s incident occurred on a big stage with the world watching, but I’ve had similar things happen, and it is quite a good feeling to know that when someone intends to kill you, you survive despite all their hard-laid plans.  If Trump had not turned his head ever so slightly at just the right moment, the killer would have had a headshot directly in the side that would have been devastating.  Some people afraid of everything that might happen next tend to get rattled in those moments in the aftermath, thinking of what might have been.  However, the look on Trump’s face is much different from that.  It’s the relief of knowing that God has your back even when the bad guys plan your menace.  Just because people intend to harm you doesn’t mean they will be successful.  And at this point, after all that Trump has been through, he now has very ostentatious confirmation that God is going to save him from unnecessary pain and suffering.  What pain he does have to go through is necessary for the task at hand.  But an inglorious end to his life’s pursuits, which many about to hit his 80s would naturally reflect on, is something that God will spare him from.  And that is a good feeling when you experience it. 

My comments on the behavior of Trump himself right after the shot were well told at the RNC convention during his speech.  It was quite an extraordinary experience that nobody in the world has ever witnessed. To have a president on the scale of Trump speaking to such a large crowd just a few days after a bullet nearly killed him live on national television was remarkable.  I kept thinking of when Reagan was shot.  I also thought a lot about the stories of when Teddy Roosevelt was shot during a speech but continued for another hour before seeking treatment.  Trump’s instincts at that moment when he was shot in the head, and there was blood everywhere, for him to stand up and pump his fist in the air the way he did, really not knowing what was going to happen next was extraordinary.  He knew he had been shot and that he might be dead within a few seconds.  But he wanted his shoes and to let the crowd know that he was defiant to the end.  And what we ended up with was the most iconic images the world has ever seen.  It was undoubtedly a gift given to him as a reward for the courage he had displayed through the most challenging times in his life with all that Democrats had thrown at him to keep him from ever speaking at another Republican National Convention.  It had the feeling of a “what if” scenario where Kennedy’s assassination seemed almost to be reversed.  The psychological trauma that the world experienced with that CIA-led endeavor seemed to be undone with this attempt against Trump.  A dark period of communism in America and around the globe was being dismantled through a miracle witnessed by the world, all at the same time, for the first time in all history.  And Trump’s reaction to it, with a bloody face and all, was to pump defiance to the sky and yell, “Fight!”

There are many good things to come, but for him, and he seems to know this, the greatest thing that ever happened to him just happened to him.  He survived in the face of great terror, and his natural reaction was to lead people through the horrible occurrence.  And that is a monkey off his back that few people will ever understand.  And when you show such great courage under pressure and live, it is the best feeling in the world.  It is confirmation that there is a God and that you have a partner in Heaven who does step in when it counts most.  Especially when you get up in age and wonder if there is a God and what happens after life is done, what’s the point?  The Divine Providence that Trump experienced on international television did the opposite of what was intended.  It was a great climax to a long, torturous process that showed the world a miracle they all needed to see.  And Trump dared to be the vehicle for its display.  Sure, some assassins will try again.  But like most things, once you survive such an occasion, you can trust that God has your back for all others, which puts your mind at ease, which is what I see on Trump’s face.  He is a bigger person than he was before.  And that comes from a person who had pushed himself to be as big as he could get without the powers of Heaven spilling over into reality in such magnificent ways.  Surviving that day confirmed that God loves what he is doing and wants America to survive into the future.  That Divine Providence is genuine, not just some hope from the hopeless masses who are cleaving to a higher power because they were too lazy to fight for what’s right otherwise.  Here was a miracle, as the Bible often tells.  And we saw it all together live through a character we have come to know well, who carried the world on his back for the salvation of the human race, wherever they reside. 

Rich Hoffman

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