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TikTok is a Deployment Weapon for China Against America: Social media was never supposed to be our friend, but it can be used to serve us

The thing that is obvious about all social media, especially China-owned TikTok, is that it must be viewed as a deployment weapon for war-like strategy. China uses TikTok to do what military weapons can’t, and we’ve let it into our country like a bunch of fools. That was, of course, the entire intent of the various social media platforms. I’ve told the story before, Facebook was never meant to be good for us, to keep us in touch with loved ones. It was meant to collect information on us that could be used against us. I was in California at the time when Facebook was buying up influencers to propel their product away from the social media platform Myspace at that time. I refused and never did open a Facebook account. Twitter, YouTube, and Google would head in the same direction. When you talk about algorithm control I have videos that have been there for 15 years, but since Google bought YouTube, my views have trickled to a complete stop, especially political videos. It could be argued that I am one of the most shadow-banned people on Earth. I had the exact same experience on Twitter until Elon Musk bought it, which improved it a bit. But my account is still heavily shadow-banned. It’s obvious when you compare views between my Rumble account and YouTube. One gets many thousands of views whereas videos I did on those heavily controlled platforms still only have 15 to 20 views almost two decades later. So, social media was always about information collection and propaganda distribution. And Facebook was so obvious that I deliberately never signed up. How did Zuckerbucks come up with over a billion dollars in value for a dating app before he was aged 21? Intel money made him rich, not the market-driven product itself.

I have learned to use social media as a powerful tool anyway.  My messages do get out in spite of the shadow banning and tight controls on message content that many have had.  I was one of the very first people on Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform.  And I nearly exclusively use Gettr as my source of news these days because of their excellent streaming offerings.  Twitter’s conversion to X has been better for free speech.  I still see many problems with it and am not completely convinced that Elon Musk is on the “free speech bandwagon.”  Musk is more of a Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy kind of guy, so I think he sees for himself a better future under the merits of pure capitalism than when social media first came out and China looked like it was going to rule the world, so everyone better start kissing the ring.  Social media was designed to spy on us, manipulate us, and cut us off in the direction of social scores based on our behavior.  If we didn’t do right by the administrative state, we would have our profiles turned off and be cast out of society, which the World Economic Forum clearly stated was their intent.  If they could control and monitor social behavior combined with finance participation, where they could turn your credit card off in a cashless society because of your social media dialogue, they were intent on doing it, which is why China owns TikTok.  It’s not for fun and sharing.  It’s to destroy our culture in America by poisoning our youth with low IQ level behavior that would be devastating to the next generation. 

TikTok is so effective that it has a lot to do with abortion and pot smoking becoming legalized in Ohio.  Republicans have been very slow to realize just how powerful social media is.  In my area, my blog site is much more popular with people who know about it than local news sources, and I have an excellent track record for being an influencer despite the massive shadow banning.  But TikTok is a thing all its own, and it is how social messaging from political parties gets straight to them, which was undoubtedly the case with Issues 1 and 2 in Ohio during the elections of 2023.  And you can bet that if left unchecked, they plan to influence 2024’s elections significantly.  The use of sexual images and social silliness that is the foundation of TikTok in the United States is meant to be poison for the youthful generation.  China would never allow such behavior to occur in their own country, and they do turn it off.  Always remember, anything that is free, you are always the product.  Nobody gives anybody anything for free.  You might be able to turn the tables on their intentions.  But understand what the game is and know who the game’s players are.  Nobody, giant corporations, and countries do anything, unless it gives them more power over you.  There may be some rag-tag rebels who can use social media for good.  But don’t ever count on it.  From China’s point of view, like the drugs that cross into America from open borders, it’s poison meant to destroy America from within.  If you rot a mind and a body, there is nothing to resist communist tyranny through the slow cook of increased heat and pressure.  Social media should have always been viewed as a military strategy of a significant threat and nothing else. 

However, just like all military endeavors, a plan seldom goes as intended, which is undoubtedly the case here.  Plenty of good social media uses have turned the tables on our aggressors.  I think of the Libs of TikTok as a great example.  There are the Charlie Kirks and Steve Bannons out there who have broken through the firewall and can get their content to millions of people, and they are doing the opposite of what China wanted to do with their control.  They are freeing people and decentralizing the social message that used to be controlled by the establishment press.  I have learned over the years because I have seen the direct administrative views of my page counts, book sales, and new media from Rumble that I, too, get millions of visitors, even if the reporting mechanics are entirely controlled by intelligence agencies who purposely want people like me to feel socially isolated and disconnected as if my voice was thrown into the bottom of a deep well that nobody could hear.  That is real, but over time, I have learned that there are soft spots in the prison walls, and getting your voice out isn’t as hard as they’d like you to believe.  Their control is an illusion at best, more perceptual than actual.  But the intent is certainly malicious.  They let a few celebrities through to give an illusion of social freedom in messaging.  But for most, if their message is dangerous to the administrative state or the Deep State, especially my kind of messaging, then shadow banning by controlling the algorithms is part of the mechanics.  Yet, despite that, I have found the format to be a powerful delivery system that can be used against the bad guys in ways they never intended.  Social media, such as TikTok, is dangerous and here to stay.  But they can be used against the enemy in productive ways.  However, make no mistake about it; they were designed and introduced to control society and destroy those against their tyrannical messaging.  And as we move into the next election cycle, understand the tools being used against us because that’s their purpose by design. 

Rich Hoffman

Bernie Moreno and J.D. Vance in West Chester, Ohio: Making Hard Work Great Again

I always enjoy the optimism of an early campaign effort, and Bernie Moreno’s is undoubtedly one of those good ones, early on. He’s running for the Ohio Senate seat against Sharrod Brown, but first, he has to win a primary, so he and J.D. Vance were at Lori’s Roadhouse in West Chester, Ohio to make a pitch, and it was full of optimism and an approach to politics that is full of more than empty promises. I like seeing people like Bernie getting into politics, people who have been personally successful and know what it looks like, and who want to do good things for all the right reasons. So, I was enthusiastic about seeing the two of them together, a current senator, and the one who would be his partner representing Ohio in the Swamp we want to drain. We are looking for MAGA Republicans who can work with a Trump administration, unlike the last time. If there has been anything good about losing Trump to exile for a while, it has been that it gave us a chance to knock out the firewall that the Congress and Senate had in preserving the Swamp. If you want to drain it, there must be cooperation from the other branches of government. Otherwise, it just won’t happen. And things are shaping up in a very positive way. I am pretty excited about the future, for a lot of reasons, and one of them was a book I had been reading that very day when I was going to see J.D. Vance again. It was Johan Norberg’s Capitalist Manifesto and it was strange to read a quote in it about J.D. Vance, from a Swedish perspective. Norberg’s book is not an American outlook on capitalism. Instead, it’s a European globalist view and a fascinating process to watch. But he was using J.D. Vance and an example about Middletown, Ohio to make a point that I thought was well made. So, it was weird to have all those elements come together in one Friday morning spectacle.

The point made was haunting me a bit because I am a bit older than J.D. Vance, and I watched Middletown, Ohio, go through its transition from a wonderful blue-collar town that ran off of an Armco economy, a steel mill that told a similar story to those in Pittsburg up the road.  They were the centerpieces of the town, and it’s where everyone worked.  But through lots of influences, particularly communist globalism, the steel mill lost its power, and the economy of Middletown tanked, and never recovered.  It went from a thriving town to something that looked like a third-world hell hole within a few decades.  By the time J.D. Vance came along and was a young person, his experience was captured nicely in the book The Hillbilly Elegy and the movie of the same name by Ron Howard.  That popularity and the association that J.D. Vance now has in the Trump MAGA movement, which Bernie Moreno was now a part of, got Johan’s attention to make a point about globalism in general.  J.D. Vance had said, which Norberg quoted, that neither he nor his friends wanted to have a blue-collar job.  They were all told to grow up and move away to some white-collar job, and that America was going to move to a kind of service-oriented economy.  I remember hearing my dad’s speech, “Do you want to grow up and dig ditches?”  Blue-collar work was frowned upon, even discouraged.  So, no wonder so many of those good jobs picked up and moved to places like China.  It wasn’t so much bad policy that moved them, but the education system, the entertainment culture, and political priorities that had it all wrong, or right if you consider that they were all in on a scheme to destroy America, that caused so many young people to grow up and not want to work.

If you want to destroy America, convince their young people to grow up and be lazy.  This wasn’t the point of Johan Norberg, and indeed not where J.D. Vance was politically.  But it was the underlying reason all the steel mills picked up and moved to other places through globalism.  It was getting harder and harder to find good employees to do these jobs; the labor unions certainly didn’t make it any easier, so those corporations moved to places with better workers and more of them.  And the natural poison pill to cultures like Middletown, Ohio, was that nobody wanted to grow up and work as hard as they had to watch their parents’ work.  Those kinds of blue-collar jobs were looked down upon as if they were part of a lower class.  It wasn’t enough to own a home, a few cars, and a bass boat.  Kids watched their parents be put down by culture in general for working in a steel mill, so they grew up wanting nothing to do with any of it.  And now that America doesn’t make much anymore, people are seeing firsthand how valuable manufacturing is to a culture and rethinking how they value those jobs.  That is the primary driver of the MAGA political movement.  People were told many things over the years; now that they see where it has all been going, they don’t like it.  And they want to improve the situation dramatically. 

I would offer that for those who profess that they want to make America Great Again, the best place to start would be to make Hard Work a Priority Again.  It is not so much a throwback to how things used to be, but to look at the grandparents and their parents who made up towns like Middletown, Ohio, promising to begin with and value what they did and to emulate that hard work in the future.  Americans were suckered by globalism into being lazy; they were told that they could grow up and make lots of money in a useless white-collar job where they ordered pizza at 9 am for lunch three hours later, doing very little in between.  And that everything would be great.  And it hasn’t been.  Americans need to get back to working hard and working often.  We need to stop listening to the rest of the world that wants more socialism, which consists of more breaks, more government handouts, and much less freedom.  The globalism we have experienced was a disaster and has been terrible for places like Middletown, Ohio.  Not because globalism was evil in itself, where capitalism would have an opportunity to lift everyone to a higher living level.  However, what globalism turned out to be was an attack on the American way of life toward conversion to global communism; that attack came in the form of convincing an entire nation that hard work was beneath them and that whole generations would grow up to be lazy, entitled, and dependent on globalism for their necessities.  The kind of MAGA movement politics that J.D. Vance and Bernie Moreno were pitching and the type of globalism Johan Norberg was trying to sell to the world involved an appreciation for hard work at its core.  Something that would undoubtedly make Middletown, Ohio, Great Again.  We want the future J.D. Vance kids and their friends not to grow up and sleep on the couch but to go to work and do great things with a lot of ambition through their actions.  And through that embrace of values, America and the world can be great again because it all starts with hard work and people willing to do it for the betterment of humanity.

Rich Hoffman

‘The Capitalist Manifesto’ by Johan Norberg: Admitting to the only economic system that helps people the most

The change of view of economic fundamentals from the political left

After reading Johan Norberg’s book The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World, I’ll admit to a substantial flood of satisfaction. I mean this wasn’t Ayn Rand, it was a kind of Ikea view of capitalism, but the message was quite clear. I’ve read other books by Johan Norberg and he’s pretty good for what I’d consider a lefty. He’s conservative by European standards, but in America, we have very different ideas of what a liberal is. But to Johan, a liberal means less restriction in market economies in a region that has always been about tyranny, the tyranny of the church, the tyranny of some maniacal king, or secret societies trying to undo everything in the background. The lunatic Karl Marx conceived in Europe the birthplace of socialism and communism. I would never have read the book if I hadn’t seen Elon Musk recommend it. I’m not a fan of Elon Musk. I want him to do well with SpaceX. He makes a good car, but he’s not my idea of a good leader. But he is the richest person in the world, and I have thought it interesting to watch him grow his political perspective to accommodate his needs to move humanity into space and set up a colony on Mars. He has learned quite ostentatiously that a socialist Biden government with Barack Obama still whispering in his ear is never going to get Musk where he wants SpaceX to go. It takes too long to obtain permits, and the Department of Labor constantly harasses him because Musk doesn’t allow unionized labor to manage his manufacturing facilities. So Musk has evolved over time and seems to have fully embraced capitalism now in ways that are pace setting. There are a lot of very interesting observations in The Capitalist Manifesto that are quite delicious and well worth talking about. I think it may be one of the most important books of 2023, and it is undoubtedly impactful to the world’s current circumstances.

A very important book

I’ve been talking about this kind of stuff for many years so the change in tone is not lost on me.  What The Capitalist Manifesto is by Norberg is a confession intended for liberals to read that undoes over a century of lunacy in following Karl Marx.  This is not a book intended for the MAGA crowd in America but the many socialists and communists around the world who still are trying to work The Communist Manifesto into political sustainability.  I remember how vicious that media, in general, was when I worked with the producers of the movie Atlas Shrugged to get the message out about their film version of the Ayn Rand books that were famous around the world but were labeled conspiracy theories of the radical right.  So this Johan Norberg confession is no small matter.  It wasn’t written for me or the fans of Ayn Rand, it was written to the college liberal, the Keynesian economist and the diabolical politician getting rich off the Swamp and all its globalist mechanisms.  Norberg has figured out something that the political left has been very slow to admit to: socialism of any kind doesn’t work.  And it was never going to work, and that capitalism, by free people, the freer, the better, is the key to unlocking the powers of any economy.  This is a CATO Institute view of the world that offers a flood of statistics to show just how much better the world is because of capitalism than it is under any other kind of authoritarian approach.  Norberg presents a dizzying display of real-world examples that everyone needs to come to grips with because we now have enough data to make some sobering judgments.

The Capitalist Manifesto was Norberg trying to explain to global liberals that if they want globalism and if they’re going to fight populism, they had better embrace capitalism and do it quickly.  He’s certainly no fan of President Trump, who he sees as a threat to the global order because he’s a nationalist who wants to close the borders of America to outside influence, to turn in instead of migrating out.  But the impact of financial systems driven by political sentiments couldn’t be more obvious.  This book was a white flag from the radical leftist points of view that capitalism was the only solution to global problems such as poverty.  There is no other economic approach that has improved the lives of so many, and as if to solidify critical opinion about capitalism, Johan Norberg cites many instances where Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx himself admitted that capitalism is the best and only way to approach economic theory.  And to argue against any notion that centralized planning does anything but harm people economically and is a background contributor to many of life’s many miseries.  This was a book attempting to capture the MAGA message of free markets in America and stamp liberalism to it as if it was their idea all along.  Again, Norberg has kind of an Ikea view of the world; I wouldn’t call Sweden a bastion of capitalism.  They only look that way because the rest of Europe has the heavy fog of communism and socialism hanging over it in such a devastating way.  America has an expectation of freedom that Europe does not have.  But to even say the word “capitalism” in Europe is taboo, similar to saying that your father has a mistress or that mom is wearing red panties under her white dress to church.  Nobody has been willing to admit these secrets in public until now. 

As I closed the book, I realized I had just read something that would set the tone for the next several decades.  It was a victory in many ways that the enemies of the world understood that they would never win against capitalism.  And that even liberal-minded people like Musk and Norberg, who are poster children for the World Economic Forum, or at least had been until the realities of populism rising around the world forced them to look in the mirror and give up on Marxism wholesale.  The Capitalist Manifesto is not an American book.  I tried to buy a copy at my local Barnes and Noble, but they didn’t have it.  The book ships out of the United Kingdom, so we’re not discussing an American product trying to explain capitalism’s values to the world.  This is coming from a European perspective, where socialism was born and raised to the detriment of most of the world.  Johan Norberg understands that only capitalism has worked to solve many of the problems that Democrats and their many versions regionally are concerned with.  The only way to help people is to find a way to put more money in their pockets that doesn’t involve the government stealing it from people who have made money and giving it to people who were too lazy to work for it.  I can’t recommend this book enough; it’s an avalanche of admissions that culture must embrace.  And within its pages, we can see the future, where liberals are finally going to get on the side of conservatives because they must.  They may even try to steal capitalism as their own, which would be expected of them.  But whatever the case, the world will change for the better as a result, and things will look a whole lot different economically, in a good way, in the decades to come because of the admissions in this book. 

Rich Hoffman

In the 2024 Election Trump Wins Big: With Kennedy in the race, he pulls votes from Biden

They aren’t brilliant on the Clay and Buck Show. They talk about politics, but they just don’t have the sage advice that Rush Limbaugh always had, and I think corporate media wants it that way. They lack the Metaphysics of Quality as I like to term it from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. They are not at the front of the train but do all their radio work from the caboose, at the back, where things have already happened. So, their thoughts about Robert F. Kennedy getting into the presidential race as a third-party candidate have been way off and the record needs to be set. I have had a lot of people concerned about what they heard on that show, and a few other media sources that all are getting it wrong as to who Kennedy would draw from. The initial impression has been that Kennedy would pull away votes from Trump, similar to what happened in 1992. It would be the opposite: Trump would win easily and it would be Biden who would lose voters to Kennedy, precisely the much-needed independent voters that everyone is always so concerned with. If it happens it will play out very similarly to when Ross Perot ran as a third party, but instead of the Democrat winning in Clinton, it will be Trump winning over Biden, by similar margins. Which would be fitting in many ways, a proper bookend to a period of nightmarish government scandal. A lot of bad things happened along the lines of globalism when Bush entered office on the coattails of Ronald Reagan so people like me couldn’t support Bush. So I worked for the Ross Perot campaign and he peeled away 19%, and Clinton won, and we ended up with not just eight bad years of him, but all the government expansion after 9/11, then the Obama terrorism mess. It’s been rough.

If the election were held today, Trump would win easily in a head-to-head with Biden. Trump is beating Biden in six of the seven battleground states and is tied with Biden in Michigan. The corporate media has been shy about reporting this pronounced trend, but that’s how it’s shaping up. People want Trump back mainly because the economy has been so debilitating. I did notice in my area that gas prices have fallen below 3 dollars per gallon. Well, that is globalism trying to stay in power, it’s not because of Biden, other than all those types of people are fearful of what will happen when Biden is not there anymore. The wrath of the American people is at a full baritone and a quiet fear is emerging regarding the next day, after the next election. Suppose it’s Trump and all the economic policies from Biden suddenly get reversed, which will essentially be the end of the globalist experiment. In that case, many people are going to have a terrible day. So they haven’t been talking about how well Trump is doing this far out, even with all the legal cases. Trump by himself is fine against Biden. People want revenge for what happened in 2020 with the election problems, and they are ready to put their foot down and vote with excessive anger. This globalist economy has been paralyzing for many people, and they are furious about it. So without Kennedy in the race, it’s poised to be a bloodbath against Biden and artificially low gas prices won’t help. It’s too little too late, people have already made their decision. And the EV market problems aren’t going away. The stories will get worse in the coming year, especially in Michigan so there is a lot on the horizon that low gas prices won’t fix for Biden and his globalist insurgents.

Yet with Kennedy in the race, Trump wins easily, perhaps every state.  And if you are Bobby Kennedy Jr., that makes sense to do.  Because for the Democrats to go through the kind of populist alignment that the Republican Party has gone through, they have to take down all their corrupt hawks, and Biden is representative of that era.  So, Kennedy will run, whereas Bernie Sanders was open to a deal to sideline him.  Kennedy’s run in 2024 would be the launch of a 2028 campaign to put his family back in control as the kingmaker of Democrat politics.  And I wouldn’t mind that.  I like Kennedy for many reasons.  I look forward to his next book on the Wuhan Cover-up in December.  I have been waiting for that one for over a year now.  His previous book, The Real Anthony Fauci, has been excellent, and people are slowly learning how wrong and corrupt everything about COVID-19 was.  Kennedy has been great on that front.  He’s not so great on other things, but fantastic on Covid, and we will continue to see fallout as people learn the truth.  This new book will expose the connection of the DOD to the Wuhan lab in China, which is why every month it has continued to push out.  But it looks like December will be the last delay.  And it will be a ball buster, especially going into election season and exposing how much of the Biden administration was involved in the Covid cover-up and using the virus created in a lab in China to seize power they never deserved to have.

But essentially, Trump’s base support will at least be 39% after all the court cases come and go.  Those people will never leave Trump over anything.  Biden, on the other hand, has a base support of around 32%.   The Democrats stick together, but their base support isn’t as significant.  Usually, they make up their numbers with independents who cover that gap.  But if Kennedy is in the race, he will suddenly get around 22% of likely voters, with the remainder sprinkling around the other candidates.  And Trump will get his share of those, putting him quickly into the 40% range, making it impossible for Biden to beat Trump anywhere.  And such a blowout will be fitting, considering how they took power.  It will be the only thing that can heal our nation, and people are poised for it.  And I think Kennedy is so committed to the anti-vax message that has defined Biden’s presidency that he will run to put the issue at the core of the 2024 campaign.  All these horrendous things that came with the Biden administration are coming to a head. They have been trying to outrun them, but it collapses in 2024.  That’s why we have elections on things every four years; it’s just enough time to try something without giving elected leadership time to destroy our country.  So either way, Biden is losing; Democrats have ostracized their best next chance in Kennedy because they tried to crush populism instead of embracing it, and either way, Trump will win.  Campaigning from the basement just isn’t going to work without Covid to shut the world down again, so all the corporate media so profoundly committed to global communism and Marxism are going to be vulnerable, and that revenge people have been wanting is going to get its chance.  And that will be a great day to witness.  That’s how things look one year out from the next election, but it will only get better for Trump over that short period.

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

Decoupling from China: Global communism was always only a drug-induced teenage fantasy

It wasn’t that long ago that I told the story about my LinkedIn account, which I no longer have because of an interview about decoupling from China once I released my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business.  LinkedIn is a bunch of communist China-supporting advocates on the wrong side of history, so I don’t miss them at all, and that’s a topic all its own.  However, the fear of China taking over America is on many people’s minds, and I have assured people that such a possibility is unrealistic.  Even as much as the set-up goes back for many decades by domestic enemies in America who propped up China to become that device for a one-world government run by communism.  Now that people realize that was always the strategy, there is a lot of talk about decoupling the American economy from China.  And now that the cat is out of the bag, there are a lot of lost globalists out there who have no idea what to do next because their entire lives have been planned around this China model taking over the world and collapsing the American market.  People like Larry Fink and Ray Dalio have been moving a lot of money in that direction, and Wall Street has been betting on it for decades, significantly impacting people’s private 401K plans.  But I cover in my book how easy it is for America to defeat any enemy, or any individual can defeat global thugs like gunfighters defeated lots of nasty bad guys in a dusty street for personal preservation and the perpetuation of law and order for a thriving civilization to flourish.  As we speak, the China model is dying, propped up by phony economic numbers and corporations terrified the public will figure out what a lousy bet China has been for them.  So far, the media culture has prevented that knowledge from getting out, but reality is spectacularly showing itself. 

It all goes back to that dumb John Lenin song, “Imagine,” and the high school days of many of the characters causing so much communist trouble today.  It’s not hard to reflect on the young antics of Larry Fink way before BlackRock was created for him by the Federal Reserve looking to dump a bunch of phony money in the market to start a chain reaction toward a collapse and to prop up the China model of global communism.  These current billionaires, like Ray Dalio, smoke dope in the backseat of a car and listen to classic rock and roll songs in favor of communism and how dead America was, such as America Pie.  “They drove their Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry.”  Once they got out of college, many drunken binges later, they were ready to cheerlead America’s destruction while at the same time calling it “smart investments.”  But their minds were never right and always filled with ill intent from their ideological teenage days where their lifelong philosophies of destruction and American hating sentiment solidified as they learned to take off the bra of the next pimple-faced girl in their back seats masked by marijuana smoke.  I could even go back even further as to how those songs, teenage customs of rebellion, and what those young people learned in school were given to them directly by the KGB as their parents watched old westerns on television at home and couldn’t see the bad guys riding into town.  They were looking for people on a black horse in a black hat.  Not a bunch of communists hidden behind popular culture dressed like the Beatles. 

None of this happened quickly, but it is coming apart very fast.  Now that the globalists are in prime time and have been caught on COVID-19 and many other horrendous enterprises, the world economy has been turning away from tyranny for several years, and that decoupling effort is well underway.  And I would offer that trust in China as a global partner is never coming back.  All the corporations that have invested in this merger with globalism are left at the altar as the timid Chinese are losing power by the day.  Their entire strategy depended on secrecy and intimidation, and that has not been the American public’s reaction, suddenly all too aware of the threat.  President Trump certainly wasn’t the cause; he was the effect of this awareness.  And after his previous term, the mask of China has been ripped off, and all those previous business efforts are failing.  Doing business with China has a stigma that was never there previously, and they will never be able to repair that impression now that people have it.  China and the global communists who have infiltrated American politics never had a plan B.  And as scary as it is to hear that China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil are all moving away from a dollar-controlled currency, the sentiment in America, where most of the world’s productivity is centered, is to pull back and internalize, not to partner with hostile communist countries leaving them very vulnerable as a result.  That is why decoupling from China is something most Americans now want to do, meaning all those investments toward China becoming the next dominating centralized government are disintegrating in front of their faces.  So many American billionaires have spent money in that direction, yet the scam is coming apart rapidly.

It won’t happen overnight, but the trend will be anti-China for many future decades until the communist government there, and in other places, is defeated.  Not just cosmetically but economically.  China has difficulty concealing that information from the world, and their state-controlled media has helped them.  But the writing is literally on the wall, so all these corporate alliances where globalism controlled by China was utilized are already considered busted investments.   And if you lose a lot of money because of it, don’t say you weren’t warned.  I warned everyone for several decades now, and just because the Chinese-loving LinkedIn people have essentially employed a strategy of “keep away,” the reality was eventually going to catch up to them.  The teenage fantasies that many of these modern-day losers have been trying to fulfill were never originally ideas built on the hopes and dreams of human ambition but on the backs of the compromised, drunken fools and overly sexed counter-culture druggies who bought the KGB message hook line and sinker only to find themselves dinner of the globalist communist effort.  And they have been slow cooking for several decades now, thinking they were the ones doing the cooking.  But actually, they were the ones being cooked, and now it’s time to eat.  And Americans, those who haven’t become domestic enemies in support of global communism, are the ones at the table with hungry stomachs.   And corporate America, which has fallen for this scam, is on the wrong side of history.  None of what happens next is what anybody thought would happen.  Of course, I’ve been saying it, and those who listened will prosper greatly.  But most didn’t, and the tough times will be their own.  They were warned but didn’t listen because they thought all that rebellious music and drug use they did as teenagers was the wave of the future, instead of the communist propaganda that it was all along. 

Rich Hoffman

Remember When Eddie Was Going to Marry Myrtle for $10 Million: How Larry Fink Bought up the whores of corporate America

The latest news about Best Buy intending not to hire any white managers falls under the term I like to use for these things, which is quite accurate, that they are latte-sipping prostitutes. And that is how Larry Fink and many others have managed to take over the world while everyone was sleeping. Or, to put it more accurately, doesn’t everyone remember the episode of Family Matters where Erkle’s relative Myrtle, the very ugly woman that her father was paying a groom 10 million dollars to marry, turned out to be a disaster? Yet Eddie, the person who was set to marry Myrtle because her father couldn’t find a husband for her any other way, because she was so ugly, declared that he had ethics and standards. That is until the father indicated the amount of money he’d be paid. Which he then said, “OK.” Ahhh, the power of easy money, the scam where the Federal Reserve printed a bunch of fake money based on Modern Monetary Theory through quantitative easing and dumped it into Wall Street to filter and distribute. People like Larry Fink at BlackRock, being the political activist he always wanted to be could then buy up majorities shares of stock and impose on those corporations liberal standards that nobody would ever vote for. Yet through the power of money and the tendency most people have toward whoredom, companies like Best Buy, and even Chick-fil-A will dance to the money that people like Fink control because, like Eddie, it’s all too tempting to take. And that is how the biggest scam of the modern world was born globally, and especially in the United States. Freedom sounds great until someone dangles a lot of money in front of your face, and at that point, like Eddie from Family Matters, financial security tends to make whores out of the people who think they have the utmost in integrity.

I have always been hard on the Latte Sipping Prostitutes that are so common in the world. I understand why Oliver Anthony has turned down the many record deals for his “Rich Men North of Richmond” song, which is currently making quite a splash across America. A corporate deal comes with strings. My wife and I have crossed that juncture many times, and every time we have turned away vast amounts of money to maintain our personal freedom. Freedom is more important to us than the cosmetic things that come from physical wealth. So, my opinion about people who sell out easily is rather harsh. Having something that people are willing to pay for is only part of the story. Maintaining personal freedom while making money is much, much harder. And those who sell out might make it big, but then they also end up with some boss like Larry Fink running their lives with political activism, which is far more common than you might think. When we talk about RINOs in politics, this is usually the cause of their condition. They want to be Republicans but end up compromised somewhere along the way. They have whored away their integrity and are no longer free to make their own decisions. So they have to bend the knee to some political radical, like Fink, who gained all his power through an alliance with the government to print fake money to have fake power, to do what government never could do on their own, and that is to use that fake money to make whores out of business titans and make them dance to the fingertips of corruption and malice. Most people are like Eddie in that Family Matters episode. They say they will never take the money until the money is in front of them. Then they take the money and sell away their freedom.

Biden is the distraction. The real villains hide in the background.

The next corporate trend will be the lessons learned from this time when so many people were suckered.  Eventually, in that Family Matters episode, Eddie’s girlfriend stops the wedding and prevents him from making a big mistake.  Perhaps in America, that is what Trump is doing for corporate America, saving it from a terrible marriage to the World Economic Forum.  Larry Fink has been Myrtle, the ugly woman that the dad, (the Fed) would pay anybody any amount of money to marry, only to give them ultimate control over every part of your life.  Including what color the members of management have to be.  Too many dumb CEOs took the easy money and sold out their companies to globalism concepts because it initially looked good.  But the catch was misery in losing control of their very lives to those paying them the money.  It’s not good to be a whore for money because people are too lazy to do things the old-fashioned way.  I don’t have much respect for people who sell out.  I never did, and I had plenty of opportunities to do so, including several chances last week.  The kind of money you could retire 20 times over with.  But then, to take the money, you lose all your freedom.  Freedom is far more important than just financial security.  Just like the whore could do lots of things to make money.  But selling your body just for someone else’s gratification is pretty lazy.  And that is exactly what most CEOs in the world today have been caught doing.  And the world is far worse for it.

The Best Buy story came and went; it wasn’t a very enticing story, because so many people are guilty of doing exactly the same thing.  Now that BlackRock owns so much majority share of corporate influence, what would their CEO do, complain to the press, the same press that has BlackRock owning most of their majority shares?  Most people have sold out to the easy money because they were too lazy to make money the old-fashioned way.  And through hostile corporate takeovers by BlackRock and others who received money from the Fed’s fake printing press, they did like Eddie and said yes to the dad.  “Yes, I’ll marry your ugly daughter for $10 million.”  For many, looking back on these last few years, I think they regret it.  There are a lot of Best Buys out there who might otherwise be bankrupt if not for BlackRock money propping them up to lead the corporate front with woke politics.  While the consumers shake their heads at the lunacy, the real villain has been the tendency of people in charge to whore themselves out so easily.  Which my term, I think, captures so accurately.  There are a lot of people who would gladly sip lattes at Starbucks and complain about their lives rather than to take proactive steps to make their lives better.  Easy money for them looks enticing, and it opens the door for the real scammers in the world, people like Larry Fink.  If people weren’t such whores, Larry wouldn’t have had so much easy success.  But he has, and they are, and that is why the world is the way it is.  However, I think there will be a lot more Oliver Anthony types in the future.  And far fewer Best Buys.  Truly the best measure of a good economy isn’t how strong the corporations are, built off phony wealth, but in their personal freedom to create upward mobility for their employees, incorporating the greatest personal freedoms.  The lessons have been tough, but perhaps we are finally at a point where we’ll have fewer whores running our economy and more integrity from those who see value in more than in printed goods or digital currency but in the quality of a life driven by freedom for the betterment of all.

Rich Hoffman

Who is Blackstone and Why do they Want to Buy Your House

Like Blackrock, why do all these hostile WEF-linked companies all have “black” in their title, such as Blackstone, the investment firm that is buying up huge amounts of personal homes to make Americans from owners to renters, to fulfill the strategy of the World Economic Forum, “you will own nothing by 2030 and be happy?”  But many people don’t have time to know who these companies are or how they are attacking their way of life.  So here is a bit of history about Blackstone so that everyone can have some basic foundation as to who they are and what role they play in trying to take over the world for the World Economic Forum through a strategy by the Federal Reserve to print fake money and flow it into Wall Street to essentially give artificial buying power to all the WEF linked investment companies that are involved in the Great Reset, with the help of their representative, the Biden administration.

Blackstone is one of the most influential investment firms in the world today. With a long and storied history that dates back to the mid-1980s, this company has become a household name in finance and investing circles. But what exactly is Blackstone, and what makes it so special?

At its core, Blackstone is a private equity firm that specializes in alternative investments. This means that the company invests in assets that are not typically available to the general public, such as real estate, private equity, and credit. By doing so, Blackstone is able to generate significant returns for its investors, often outpacing more traditional investment strategies.

But what sets Blackstone apart from other private equity firms is its size and scope. With over $500 billion in assets under management, Blackstone is one of the largest investment firms in the world. And with offices in over 30 countries, the company has a truly global reach.

One of the keys to Blackstone’s success is its focus on long-term investments. Unlike many other investment firms that are focused on short-term gains, Blackstone takes a more patient approach to investing. This allows the company to identify opportunities that others may overlook, and to build long-term value in the assets it invests in.

Another important factor in Blackstone’s success is its team of experienced professionals. Led by CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone’s team includes some of the most talented and respected individuals in the finance industry. With decades of experience and a deep understanding of the markets, these professionals are able to identify opportunities and manage risks in a way that few others can.

But while Blackstone has achieved great success over the years, it has not been without its challenges. The company has faced criticism from some quarters for its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and has also been accused of profiting from the misery of others through its investments in distressed debt.

Despite these challenges, Blackstone remains one of the most important and influential investment firms in the world today. With its focus on long-term investments, its team of talented professionals, and its global reach, Blackstone is well-positioned to continue generating significant returns for its investors for many years to come.

In conclusion, Blackstone is a unique and powerful investment firm that has achieved great success over the years. With its focus on long-term investments, its team of experienced professionals, and its global reach, Blackstone is a force to be reckoned with in the finance industry. While it may face challenges in the years ahead, there is no doubt that Blackstone will continue to be a leading player in the world of investing for many years to come.

Rich Hoffman

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The World Economic Forum Has Declared War on America: Under all rules of engagement, they are guilty

A few years ago, I covered the day I was with my family at the Kings Island Amusement Park, and there was quite a lot of commotion upon learning that they would go completely cashless. Where did that decision come from? Suddenly, there was no other option to use at a popular tourist destination than a credit card. And that credit card company was fully involved in the efforts of globalism as defined by the World Economic Forum, a shady group of anti-American activists hell-bent on global domination through controls of finance and centralized banking. If a country attacked our power grid to raid the lives of Americans in some way, we would openly declare war on the aggressor. The same would happen if China amassed a military force in the Gulf of Mexico intending to invade New Orleans. Maybe they want to take control of the Cajun food market. The declaration of war would be evident and committed. We have gone to war for other reasons, supposedly to protect Iraq from the aggression of Saddam Hussain. We have gone to war in Vietnam to protect that country from the encroachments of communism—the same in Korea.   We went to war in Afghanistan to combat the recruitment and training of terrorists. We went to war in World War II to help our friends deal with a global menace in Europe, primarily because they kept attacking our ships and pushing our buttons to drag us into the war, finally with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. You could go down through history and look at the reasons America has been pushed into war with other countries and see a clear pattern, which all involve threats to our sovereignty which were clear and obvious.

And as ridiculous as it has become, the premise of the whole war in Ukraine is supposed to be over border violations between Russia which used to hold the territory, and Ukraine, which is an obvious United Nations asset strategically implemented to fulfill the goals of a New World Order. Both characters are pretty unsympathetic and up to their own maniacal schemes, yet we are supposed to care one way or the other as Americans about the outcome and to spend countless amounts of money on them in the process of war that has been declared. But when it’s evident that America has been attacked at its financial roots, such as what happened at Kings Island, and most prominent public venues, such as sporting events which suddenly wouldn’t handle cash, we were supposed to be fine with all these centralized bankers suddenly gaining control over our entire economy. A vote by the people of America didn’t decide the push to have a cashless society. It came from a collection of corporations at the World Economic Forum who suddenly revealed that they thought they were in control of the world’s economies and were announcing, without saying the obvious, that they were in control and people would do what they told them to. And a cashless society was their goal, and people would have to deal with it. Our politicians didn’t agree to it. And people certainly didn’t want it. I mentioned it then and predicted it would cause trouble, which it has. But something much more sinister than just inconvenience has emerged. The World Economic Forum has declared war against life in America and is disrespectfully imposing itself on our nation, which has threatened national security. 

Every time we talk about classified documents being a threat to national security, or the military declares something as classified, such as a UFO because it could be a threat to national security, but we watch the World Economic Forum openly plot the end of America right in front of our faces by controlling the American economy, and nobody gets upset about it, the same people who want to go to war with every country which threatens us in some way, then you know something is very wrong. What the World Economic Forum has done to America openly has been to plot war against American sovereignty, and every politician that has helped them do it, and every company who has worked with them for that cause, are guilty of treason and sedition. Under all the classic definitions, any action threatening the health and happiness of the American people would constitute war and the destruction of the threat. And the World Economic Forum has done more than threaten us. They have taken aggressive action to control our way of life by controlling the money we use for economic opportunity. It’s not different than attacking our oil supply, invading some port, sinking a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, or killing American tourists in some faraway land.   Attacking America’s money is an attack on our country and its people. The World Economic Forum has declared war on America, and we have yet to meet the challenge for a number of reasons. One of which is that many of our own people have been seduced by the prospect of easy money from those who control the mechanisms of finance. So we have quite a tangled web of deceit and mayhem here to deal with.

A large part of the problem is who do you declare war against? The World Economic Forum doesn’t really exist anywhere, it’s just a collection of people, just like a country is, but it lacks physical assets to attack. This isn’t a war over bridges, railroads, and highways. But it is over banking, the internet, and how money flows from one place to another. It requires us to redefine where threats come from because the World Economic Forum is currently hiding its aggression by not having a physical country to rally against. The big secret of globalism is that they exist without borders and are openly attacking all concepts of nationalism in an obvious effort to topple them. The most obvious example which affects everyone is the cashless impositions. Most people assume that the decision was made by people smarter than them in the nefarious world of finance, and they don’t care much until they realize that their credit cards can be turned off to control social behavior once most people have been pushed into the system through these aggressive actions. And the World Economic Forum has clearly indicated in public these strategies.

And to make matters worse, as has been extremely obvious with everything associated with their Great Reset, Covid was a military tactic by them that harmed many millions of people and has only been hidden because the aggression came from a corporate collection of hostile agents using our governments as their agents of destruction. We’ve never dealt with this type of menace in human history, so the lack of definitions clearly creates chaos and confusion among the voting population. Nobody is voting for these things, yet they are happening against our consent. And nobody is stopping any of it from happening, even though under all definitions of aggression, America should have gone to war with the World Economic Forum a long time ago. They are hostile to American interests and think they are protected from retaliation because they lack a country to call their own, and countries can only declare war against other countries. I’d say no. War can be declared against hostile individuals too. And when it comes to the World Economic Forum, there are a lot of hostile individuals working against the American way of life, which calls to order retaliation over severe examples of duplicity and terror that have been quite purposeful.

Rich Hoffman

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Charm at the Farm in Lebanon, Ohio: What a post-corporate world could look like

My daughter knows a couple of nice young ladies from out in Lebanon, Ohio, who are the organizers of the Charm at the Farm shopping experience. It’s where southern Ohio craftspeople who want to offer their creations to the public get together in a field north of Lebanon on the way to Springboro and shop under some tents in the open air. My wife and daughter wanted to go and asked me to come along. One of my grandsons was going, so I decided to go along to spend time with him. To me, the whole event was a very girly affair where there wasn’t anything manly to do. It’s all shopping for crafts and clothes, the kind of stuff you would find in a Cracker Barrel gift shop, but it was an entire field full of those types of items. I had spent the morning checking stock drops for Target, Disney, and even Bud Light as woke politics was killing their value. ESG was ruining those companies, so the financial frontier did not look promising. Politics was also bleak; there wasn’t much good news anywhere. Things were starting to look like the plot of a Mad Max movie out there; so after a bit of thought, I was actually looking forward to spending time with my family at the Charm at the Farm, for whatever came of it. And I’m happy to say I was very pleasantly surprised. Where I thought it would be boring, I was actually quite impressed. It was quite an enterprise and was a good lesson to all those at the World Economic Forum who think they have the plotting of world domination figured out. The lesson of events at Charm at the Farm was that no matter what happened in the world, people were going to do what people wanted to do. 

I expected the event to be something of a fancy yard sale. It was on someone’s Farm with a big empty field serving as the parking lot. It reminded me of the Niederman Farm experience near my home, where they do a similar kind of thing every year, and I pick up a healthy stash of apple cider that is much better than what you can buy at the store. Only Charm at the Farm was much larger, and they were selling all kinds of unique items. For instance, my wife and I have been all over the United States in some of the best hat stores that there are. Well, I have a fast draw competition coming up and my wife is going with me, and she wanted a new hat. She has literally turned down many hundreds of hats as she was holding out for just the perfect one. She almost found one she liked in Jackson, Wyoming, but ended up putting it back because she didn’t “click” with it. But she found one she loved at Charm at the Farm. The attire was classy, upper tier. The kind of outfits and home decorations suitable for the wealth of outside the I-275 loop communities, for which Lebanon was so well known. But that wasn’t all we found that day. I was very pleasantly surprised by how much money we actually spent. I found some gourmet pickles from a vendor who was there from Miamisburg, and they were fantastic. There were so many handcrafted, quality items that we could have easily spent a lot more money. I didn’t expect it to be such a well-put-together event.

It was evident to me that I was seeing what a world where if all the corporations failed what it would look like. The maniacal planners at the World Economic Forum, who have gained control of most of the world’s corporations through BlackRock, thought they could control everything if only they controlled all the corporations. But rather, people would always choose alternatives, even if that meant setting up a shop in someone’s field and selling directly to the customers. Who needed corporations when private enterprises would do a much better job? And that is the truth in America, where small businesses make up most of the jobs anyway. If corporate America failed, then our economy would go on without them. We didn’t need corporations, not when we had the innovative spirit shown so brilliantly at Charm at the Farm. All the people I saw there were well put together. There were no beat-up cars in the parking lot. Many people from different races were represented appropriately to the actual world demographics. It was a non-political event in that no representation of woke politics was present. No hint to it. What was happening with the outside world was not a thought during that shopping experience. So even though much of the material was geared toward women, I enjoyed it for the window into a possible future that it provided. Corporations needed Americans. Americans didn’t need corporations. If people decided that the World Economic Forum’s control of our businesses was too much for them, then they’d find another way. But one way or the other, another way would always be the case.

This wasn’t the liberal apocalypse of Mad Max, where crazy Antifa transvestites were riding around trying to steal gas and rape women casually like a bunch of Democrat barbarians. Those people lived in the cities, and if they showed up out in areas outside the I-275 loop, they found themselves unwelcome. Out in Lebanon, people still fly their Trump flags, they still go to church, and they aren’t going to drink Bud Light cans with the gay little Pee Wee character on them. Everything at Charm at the Farm was nice, even the food, and showed what a post-corporate world would actually look like when the government got out of the way and left people alone. People like nice things, and they want to sell nice things to other people. That was the actual state of the world without political activism by radical Democrats who are always trying to ruin everything for everyone. In a vacuum of safety, being so far away from cities like Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus, Charm at the Farm was a nice little secret that I was happy to be let in on. If not for my daughter, I probably wouldn’t have known about it. But she thought I’d like it, and she was right. It gave me great ideas for what the future would look like if Democrat policies were removed and people could be left to their own devices to make a living. They wouldn’t have to sacrifice their lifestyle of nice things if all the corporations moved out of America or went out of business. America would go on, and so would the people. But we wouldn’t descend into chaos and become a bunch of barely living heathens. People could still live high-quality lives without any corporations because they were inclined to do so because of the desire for nice things. What Charm at the Farm showed me was that the best of what America has to offer is very much still alive. It’s much easier to see when corporations are removed from the shopping experience because it is then that the tenacity of the human race is truly on display. And we learn that centralized authority from a one-world government is even less possible than we previously thought.

Rich Hoffman

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