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A Purple Tie: The Miracle of Stargate

You might have noticed that Trump is wearing a purple tie these days, which is quite important.  At the end of his first term, what was happening now was about to happen.  Democrats wanted to come into this new MAGA Republican Party, but it was an election year, and they weren’t quite ready to announce their intentions.  And in a panic, the globalists unleashed COVID-19 to destroy the American economy and destroy any prospect of Trump returning to the White House.  But you have to know the fight you are fighting, and most people have no idea what is going on.  And they thought Trump was gone forever after 2021, never to return.  But if you watched Trump’s press conference with Larry Ellison of Oracle, SoftBank, and OpenAI announcing Stargate, you watched something extraordinary.  It was one of the first things that Trump did on his second day in office, hinted at by a previous discussion with Masayoshi Son, which involved a possible donation of 100 billion dollars into the effort.  Trump famously challenged him to make it 200 billion.  The deal ended up being 500 billion and is on its way to essentially becoming a multi-trillion-dollar enterprise that will be uniquely American.  So what does that mean to you, you might ask.  Well, it’s essentially a cure for cancer, where AI will analyze the blood in your body and identify how to teach your immune system how to kill off the cancer cells through gene editing.  It’s one of many such announcements that are coming because Trump is now back in the White House, and many of these big ideas have been sidelined for many years, waiting for the proper political climate to return.  Which some thought would never happen.  And this is leaving people to wonder why all these wealthy people suddenly want to be associated with the Trump MAGA movement, even former enemies like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Cook. 

I personally love rich people.  I know a lot of them, most of the people I do know are very wealthy, and its always been that way, even when I was very young.  Not growing up, but in the kind of people I am most comfortable to be around.  And those relationships have given me a unique perspective that I see Trump clearly understands for himself.  Once you crawl all over all the bodies in the world to win at something, and money is the reward for having the highest score, there is a certain kind of freedom you gain that is uniquely American.  And even though many of these wealthy people are suddenly attached to the Trump White House in undeniable ways, I am pretty comfortable with it for reasons that should be obvious.  But we have a society where Marxism has been taught to people from a very early age.  They may have an instinct against what they are told, but they don’t understand how to manage what they are taught and how they feel.  Democrats are in a panic because they have held together their entire political party with victimization politics.  But when the focus changes to performance and freedom, the whole world for the radical Marxists fades into dust.  Many of these rich people, to maintain the victimization cycle, supported Democrat ideas.  However, the contrasts between Trump the first time and then Biden were enough to frustrate them to no end, which is what Larry Ellison touched on when the announcement for Stargate was announced—a genuinely fantastic press conference. 

I would say I am wealthy in different ways than it is typically measured.  I appreciate all the meals and get-togethers that sometimes cost tens of thousands of dollars, where people who all want the same things can talk and express their ideas.  I am happy that things I have to say are so well thought out that when the checks come to the table for many thousands of dollars, somebody is always grabbing it before I do and pay.  I appreciate it no matter how much money people have.  Because I see it for what it is, I see the same things on the faces of Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and even Jeff Bezos.  I won’t ever forgive Bill Gates for what he did with Covid.  But you can see something amazing happen that I thought should have occurred at the end of the 19th century; America should have come to the defense of its rich people and not turned the guns of the mob against them.  I want to see more rich people in America because wealth gives people freedom.  I like helping people become wealthy, and I want to do it over and over again because I feel it gives people personal freedom they would never have otherwise.  And we see what Trump has done with it.  He would have been crushed over the last four years if he wasn’t personally wealthy.  And because he isn’t worried about buying groceries, he can think about bigger and better things, which is why he’s a great president.  He has shown some of these other wealthy people how they can use their money to do great things, which is why I pointed out that most of the time, people offer to pay for costly things that I am involved in.  It’s not to buy off an idea but to show respect for the circumstances.  When rich people have tools, they usually want to use them for good. 

You have to understand that most of what we know about rich people was provided to us through left-leaning creative types seduced by Marxism at an early age, and this goes back to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.  The kids of Marx toured the United States, selling communism even to Buffalo Bill, so it ended up in our entertainment culture from television, radio, movies, and books from the beginning.  However, they were wrong about what made people wealthy and what it meant to produce such people in the American capitalist system.  We should want to make as many rich people as we can.  This so-called “middle class” was always intended to hold people back and to serve an aristocracy of politics who would steal from the rich and give to the poor.  But they needed poor people to exploit for the excuse, so they invented a “middle class.”  But people want a chance to be wealthy and independent and to have the absolute freedom that only money can provide them.  When given the opportunity, such as in the case of Vivek Ramaswamy or even J.D. Vance, they want to turn their good fortunes into a benefit that others can share.  I have seen it many times personally, and America is the only place in the world with a political system allowing anybody to have a similar chance.  And that is what I see most emerging from Trump’s second term.  And the reason for the purple tie.  Forget about red and blue; let’s think about being Americans.  That doesn’t mean that, as conservatives, we give some of that away to accommodate people who lean to the left.  But it means that if they want to work with us to cure cancer, travel to Mars, or start an entirely new industry, then let’s do it.  Trump is the path to take, and I think it’s terrific.  It’s so wonderful that Democrats will never be the same again.  Remember when I said that I could see a day when the Democrat party was destroyed?  Well, we’re there.

Rich Hoffman

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Good Leaders Don’t Share the Spotlight: What Elon Musk means by a Direct Democracy on Mars

I understood what Elon Musk meant when he expressed that a government on Mars should be a Direct Democracy as opposed to what we have in the United States, a Representative Republic.  Many people took that as a knock against our current form of government, which many would consider the best in the world.  But I think the point of the matter is to regulate what you want the government to do.  I would say that in America, we just voted for a strong CEO type, and coming from the wealthiest man in the world who runs a lot of companies, of course, that would be his recommendation.  When we set up a government on Mars, we should give people the right to vote for a strong CEO type of leader.  Not a government with checks and balances that are meant to keep the brakes on government activism by making it hard to pass things that can slow down your society.  A mature government in a fully functioning country will have different needs than a remote colony of struggling adventurers, so context is everything.   But it’s important to consider how leadership is advanced or suppressed in a culture, depending on the kind of government you want to have.  Personally, I get asked at least two or three times a week when I am going to run for elected office, and my reply is always that I don’t have the tolerance for all that hand-holding.  Politicians have to be patient and need to serve the task at hand.  Where I am a very imposing person.  I expect people to do things my way or to take the highway.  I am not very interested in people who don’t do what I tell them.  And I certainly am not a group consensus kind of facilitator.  Elected office would be very frustrating because it involves too much working with other people to get anything done. 

I certainly understand the need for a time and place to give everyone a seat at the table.  In my own family, I get very frustrated in trying to get anybody to agree on anything when we coordinate events together.  There is always somebody working, there is always someone sick, there is always someone who wants to do something else.  And when it comes to those things and community events, I tend to sit on my temper and let everyone talk until they figure it out.  At those times, I sit back and sit on my hands and wait for everyone to get their minds right.  It drives me crazy, but its what you have to do sometimes when the people you are working with want to think they are all equally able to express an opinion and desire for an outcome.  Our representative government in America is good because it only gives it limited powers to do the bare minimum.  However, innovation and exceptional output come from individual leaders who are very strong-willed and can put people on their backs and take them to the promised land.  That’s the kind of thing I’m interested in.  That is undoubtedly what America voted for in putting Trump back in the White House.  We didn’t vote for a continued bureaucracy of three branches of government checking each other’s power.  As  a strong CEO, we want Trump to impose his will on the executive branch and make everyone else see things his way.  Which is the way we voted for.  That is the kind of thing that Elon Musk is talking about setting up on Mars.  I would say he’s new to this kind of thinking and has the right idea.  But as to government, you don’t want your leadership on Mars to come from the government.  You want a bunch of innovative CEOs competing with each other to drive culture forward.  You want just enough representative government to keep the power and water supply flowing.  The basic infrastructure that the government can provide for a society.  But nothing more.  Our form of government was so powerful because it decentralized the concept of a king.  But in a strongly run company, a CEO is essentially a king.  So, one thing we have never quite figured out in a capitalist culture is how to have a decentralized government that empowers kings to run good companies and give people options through at-will employment.  If they don’t like one company, they can work for another.  If their king is a tyrant, they can leave and work for someone much better.  Meanwhile, the water works, the power runs, and the basic infrastructure needs of society are handled by a government just powerful enough to do so but not so powerful that it takes over everything. 

I fall asleep with all the consensus-building that has been imposed on us by collectivist-based philosophies because they were never going to work.  I’m glad people are doing those jobs for school boards, trustees, and commissioners.  But I am only ever happy when I can point at someone and tell them to do a task.  They perform the task, and everyone celebrates victory.  Rule by Consensus is an academic fantasy by the fans of Karl Marx.  It’s as practical as unicorns and dragons from fantasy and has no business being discussed along with leadership concepts.  Human beings follow strong leaders.  Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, knows through experience what a good leader looks like.  And when traveling to other planets and setting up civilization there, strong leaders will be necessary.  Stalled government concepts will only slow down progress. 

When we talk about why we can’t do things anymore, and everything costs so much money, it’s because our government approach has been wrong.  When we try to build a bridge or a highway, if we look to the past, there was always some strong personality type that was able to wrestle all the alligators and make boots out of them.  This is opposed to the consensus-building approach, in which everyone treats the effort like an Alcoholics Anonymous session.  That approach costs money and time and seldom ever gets anything done.  And I have never been interested in those interactions with other people.  And people who are good leaders check out and do something else.  If you want success in a society, you have to give a means to firm leadership to work their magic.  We didn’t elect Trump to get along with other people.  We elected him to impose his will that we voted for.  He told us what he wanted to do, and we empowered him to do it.  That is what Elon Musk is talking about for Mars and space travel in general.  You never want the government to have too much power.  Our current Representative Republic keeps elected officials talking while the real leaders of the world run companies that employ people for everyone’s best interests.  We don’t look to the government to provide that leadership level, and we never should.  Even though we admire people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ronald Reagan, they are exceptions to the rule of a government that needs to have its power regulated and stalled so that a centralized authority doesn’t encumber authentic leadership.  And that is a trick we are still working out on earth.  We see good examples here and there; Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of them.  Trump has always been a successful and influential CEO.  But he doesn’t share the spotlight with anybody.  He has always been the top dog in all his endeavors.  And people dealing with him know it.  I’ve never seen authentic leadership share the spotlight of authority and work.  Rule by committee does not work.  Only strong leadership by influential personalities works.  Typically, those are not the people you want running the government.  You want them out there making money and employing people so that society has options and innovation to build from. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Fued Between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk: Cybertruck saves Trump Tower Las Vegas from a Terrorist Attack

You can see what kind of war we’re in; the terrorist attacks were meant to be evident on the first day of the New Year ahead of the incoming Trump administration.  The radical elements out there are going to have their faces melt, and they are going to try every trick in the book to impose on us the same kind of disorder and chaos that have imprisoned the human race since the beginning of time.  I’ve liked the Cybertruck by Tesla since the first design was introduced, and I’ll probably get one myself once the dust settles on it.  It’s in high demand now, and I don’t want to wait for one.  So when it gets a little easier to get one, I probably will, and for all the reasons that a terrorist tried to use it to blow up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.  The Cybertruck was strong, contained the explosion, and didn’t even break any windows to the lobby of one of President Trump’s premier properties in the world. An obvious attempt to further divide Elon Musk and Trump on New Year’s Day with two terrorist attacks.  One at the Trump Hotel and another that killed and hurt a lot of people in New Orleans almost at the same time.  I’d say it is almost a non-existent coincidence that the two terrorists acted alone and that all kinds of characters have been behind the illegal immigration movement that do not want to see America Great Again, so as terrorists do, they try to scare people, into submission.  And there are a lot of terrorists under Obama and Biden who are operating in the background of our nation.  And there will be a lot more violent acts committed against innocent people in the days to come, so we’ll have to meet that violence where it lives and smoke it out into the open to deal with.  We don’t have time for personal feuds between Steve Bannon of the WarRoom and Elon Musk, which I think goes far beyond practicality. 

I like Steve Bannon a lot.  Without the WarRoom podcast, which was run by Steve Bannon, the MAGA movement wouldn’t have been as strong as it was.  We needed a pirate element, and Steve was John Paul Jones in our modern movement.  But saying that, I don’t agree with him on everything; I have found a few things deeply alarming about Steve Bannon, and those things have been emerging over this ridiculous H-1B visa issue.  It’s one thing to disagree on policy, which is bound to happen in a big tent party, which the Republican Party is these days.  But Steve’s position on foreign labor is very pro-union-like, and as we all know, unions are anti-capitalist and pro-Karl Marx in their design, and I knew it was going to be tough to have all these union people supporting Trump and then getting them to see things correctly regarding the definitions of labor.  Everyone should have to compete for a good job no matter where they were born.  Nobody should be given anything for nothing.  That has been the standard union idea out there: that America First meant good jobs for Americans just because they were born in America.  To me, America First means something very different relative to the way business is conducted in other places in the world, and once many of the jobs are brought back to America from where they presently are, America will be operating at very low unemployment, and we are going to want every last person working who can, and we’ll need immigration labor to fill the gaps in need versus supply.

That labor discussion about people who want to come to America and pursue the American Dream is different than the illegal immigration that has hidden criminal elements and terrorists into our country behind the chaos of open borders designed to give us precisely the kind of world we experienced on New Year’s Day, 2025, terrorism and criminal enterprise by those hostile to America.  They all have to be deported for the security of our domestic nation.  However, we will need an immigration system that accommodates all the work that will be done in returning to the United States in the years to come.  We will need more than 300 million potential workers to feed the economy Trump has in mind.  So, taking the side of labor unions with an America First attached to birthright citizenship of more entitled people who work far too little for way too much money is not a productive position, which brings up the other thing that has always concerned me about Steve Bannon, his dislike of Ayn Rand.  Coming from his background in finance, I would think he would appreciate the Ayn Rand message of producers versus looters more than he does, but he has been very hostile toward the American novelist and the people who support her, which is baffling considering Bannon’s support, of President Trump, a guy who could easily be one of the heroes of Ayn Rand’s books.  But that hatred of Ayn Rand is the same as why labor unions tend to hate those who run industry.  They believe in collectivism, which is the root of labor unions.  And an absolute hatred of the producers of the world of which Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of the best. 

Elon Musk, ironically has had a lot of excellent manufacturing capacity in his companies because he managed to fight off the labor union movements pushed on him by the Department of Labor radicals.  But for most of his life, Elon Musk has been a hard-line Democrat, certainly left of center.  This sudden love of MAGA is a late position for sure.  However, regarding labor union policy, Musk has been among the best, and Steve Bannon is far to the left of Musk on that topic.  So, it can confuse people trying to figure out where all these guys are and who is right about what.  Personally, and I say this affectionately, I see people do this all the time.  I think what Steve Bannon is doing is self-sabotage because his role in the future is confusing to him.  When you are a warrior who fights hard to win, what does that warrior do once they’ve won?  How do pirates define themselves when piracy is no longer needed?  Because the fight has changed, and suddenly, the values that made you a hero now make you a union-loving liberal.  You’re the same person, but the world changed, and it’s hard to figure it all out.  So psychologically, people, when faced with this kind of thing, resort to self-sabotage so they can at least get their identity to a place where they recognize the person they look at in the mirror.  That is sometimes far easier than adjusting to change, even if that change was something you fought hard to win.  In everyone’s minds, winning was a fantasy they never thought would come true.  Meanwhile, the real bad guys are out there, and terrorists are going to make Making America Great Again very difficult.  And Steve Bannon is needed for that fight.  And so is Elon Musk.  And so are labor unions, as they will need to do work, but they will need to change their approach to it.  We need everyone.  The goal of the parasites out there is to divide us with fear and chaos so they can continue to run their crime syndicates in government over us all.  If you thought New Year’s Day was bad, it will get far worse.  You can bet on it.  And we need everyone pointed in the correct direction and to put their differences aside because that’s what big-tent politics requires.  And to fight for what is truly needed as defined by an America First that can lead the world to a better tomorrow.  And we don’t have time for complex psychological issues that spawn from identity failures and quirky philosophies.  Let’s fight to win and surrender nothing to terrorism.  And let competition cover the employment issues, which is how greatness is born.  And evil is rooted out before it ever grows into a weed.    

Love it! Because it looks cool. And it’s tough!

Rich Hoffman

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Potomac Fever: The cost of reforming government

We saw a bit about what Anthony Scaramucci meant when he warned Elon Musk over the Holidays of 2024 to stay out of the politics of Washington, D.C.  He specifically cautioned Musk not to get Potomac Fever as he had worked for the White House for a while, which caused a rift with Trump that has lasted to the present and he played like he didn’t want Musk to get that sickness.  Looking back on it, and I’m sure this time won’t be much different, there were many people that Trump liked and supported and tried to bring with him to Washington, D.C., that fell apart and off the rocker without too much time.  Steve Bannon was one of those who got caught off the reservation a bit and had to be removed from the administration.  At one level what Scaramucci said on cable news about Musk could have been viewed as a warning.  “Don’t let what happened to me happen to you,” kind of advice.  Politics is a bloodsport, as I say all the time, and things do get bloody around Trump for many reasons.  But looking deeper into the matter, and it only happened a few days later, when Scaramucci said to Musk to run his businesses and leave people alone in government, what happened to Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over the H-1B visa issue was just a tiny glimpse of things to come.  Surprisingly, the worst critics of Musk’s position were the MAGA people, some of the president’s biggest supporters.  But I wasn’t surprised.  It’s going to get a lot worse than that.  What happened with the H-1B visas was that the SWAMP defended itself from reform, which is what Scaramucci meant as a spokesman for the Beltway’s ruthlessness.  Enjoy your business.  Go live a good life and leave those government people alone.  Or they will ruin your life. 

If you want to do this kind of thing, you have a couple of ingredients that you have to bring with you if you want to reform the government away from the many parasites that are often in it.  You can’t care what people think of you, which Elon Musk doesn’t appear to do in the usual way.  You have to be independently wealthy because the bad guys in the government first pursue your ability to make money as a means to attack.  There are vast evils made daily by people who trade ethics for money, which is why Washington, D.C., has spiraled so far out of control.  That is also why there aren’t more Donald Trumps in the world.  You have to have independent wealth to fight the SWAMP.  When people complain that all these rich people are in Trump’s government, including the come lately types like Elon Musk, you have to understand that you really can’t fight this fight unless you have independent wealth, and in most cases, a lot of it.  If you have just average wealth, that’s not enough because you will be wholly cancel cultured at the bank faster than a bullet from a gun can leave the muzzle.  Yeah, there is a reason that things are the way they are, and the corrupt often end up ruling over everyone else.  Once the bad guys get control of a government and find that they can use the power of it to steal money from everyone through taxation, they aren’t going to give up that racket easily.  So, anybody wanting to challenge that system must be at a place where they no longer care what people think and where the world’s parasites can’t impact their income.  Because they have so much money, people are always willing to be their friends to get some of it. 

But to Scaramucci’s point, yes, these are ruthless and vile people, and if you want to have any kind of good life while fighting them, forget about it.  There is no upside except in doing the right thing; that is the not-so-well-spoken part of the message.  Looking at all the people who came and went within Trump’s orbit over the last decade is truly astonishing.  And when you see how many MAGA supporters were ready to blow up the whole thing over one disagreement over H-1B visas, the immigration issue that is the cornerstone of the entire Trump support system, you get a good idea of the scale of the problem.  To answer the question about America First, what does that mean if the American worker is a unionized slug not willing to do much work beyond the 40 hours a week and leaving a lot of unworked tasks still unfulfilled at the end of a week and call that a lack of capacity, rather than a lack of willingness to be productive?  You can’t build success in the world like that.  So that’s why there is support for immigrant labor, not because they are cheaper, but because they outwork all the unionized slugs, and there are a lot of government workers in Washington D.C.  Most of them belong to some union, and that’s where all the money goes, we pay too much money for too little work.  And because we have brought this big tent into the MAGA movement, there will be a lot of disagreements on policy items.  And if there is anything to exploit, the SWAMP will do so to preserve itself from reform. 

What Anthony Scaramucci said was essentially the old mafia utterance about minding your own business; otherwise, you’d be swimming with the fishes.  The government is no longer, or if it ever was, a representative government.  It’s organized crime under most conditions.  And the crime bosses essentially tell society that if you want a minimal government running your life as opposed to outright anarchy, then you have to pay the price.  A little bit of corruption isn’t going to hurt anything, from their point of view.  Just pay your fee through taxation, and we’ll leave you alone for the most part unless you get some funny ideas about being a hero.  Nobody wants to be a hero.  That is until someone wants to be a hero and save everyone from the system at any cost.  And that perspective often comes from wealth, the kind where they can have anything they want and aren’t concerned about being removed from the Christmas Party list where you get to flirt with the unhappy wives of their typical combover bootlicker husbands and call it high society.  Washington, D.C., is where the Lords of Easy Money set up their racket, and people pay for protection from the very thugs that run the whole outfit, just like the mob.  And Anthoney Scaramucci understands what Potomac Fever is because he’s had it.  And most people get it.  It’s that sickness that people get when they find out they can make friends with people who become powerful because of their access to confiscated wealth and can live a good, easy life if they only join the government union.  Fighting against that union takes a lot of effort, which comes from the defense of that system by those who most benefit from it.  To stand up to it, you have to have abundant wealth and not care about the social impact that comes with it.  What was said to Musk from Scaramucci was more than a warning; it was a vision statement for the government crime syndicate running things.  And that is where the real fight always was. 

Rich Hoffman

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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: ‘The Right Stuff’ and H-1B Visas

I knew this would be a challenge; you can’t have a populist movement gain so much support, as it did behind electing President Trump, and expect all those people to get along.  There would always be hard truths that would come back at the mirror as we asked it, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all.”  And that the reply would come back, “foreign labor.”  And like the jealous queen from Snow White, we would have people from the MAGA movement try to poison Snow White with an apple we gave her to eliminate the pain of the reality that we had a rival and thought of them as better than us.  But I’m with Vivek Ramaswamy on this contentious issue regarding the exploded topic of H-1B visas.  The truth is, to bring back all the jobs on an America First agenda, there are not enough good workers to perform the task.  And yes, this system is trying to defend itself ahead of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy implementing D.O.G.E. upon Trump’s inauguration.  The media found a wedge issue to exploit.  There was no way to bring all these labor union types into the Republican Party and Democrats and have everyone holding hands through the complex process of managing mass society.  This is where the formula for success was always going to clash with the concept of populism, which has been the primary drumbeat of the WarRoom posse, specifically Steve Bannon and the gang.  I usually get along great with those guys, but they don’t understand this issue correctly.  The exact mechanisms that aligned everyone through populism behind President Trump won’t solve an inherently cultural problem.  And Vivek Ramaswamy hit the nail on the head in a way that hurt many people’s feelings.  And that will happen a lot over the next few years.  This labor issue is just the first in a long line of hard feelings that will be exposed to the surface.  Ironically, the first people who will have to deal with the challenges of an America First employment approach will have to face facts about the reality of our current labor market.  It’s not that cheap immigrant labor makes them so attractive, they aren’t so cheap these days.  It’s because they still have a work ethic in most cases, whereas several generations of bad culture have destroyed it in America and made it so that not enough people would want to work hard enough to make America great again.  They will have to learn to be great again, personally, before they can help anybody make it that way.  Being the best labor force in the world requires more than waving a Trump flag and electing a President.  It takes a lot of hard work, something most people these days just don’t want to do.  Saying that won’t make anybody popular, or sell books.  But it needs to be said for the harsh reality that is required.

Part of a quote from Vivek Ramaswamy that caused a lot of people some tough reflection.

I thought it was ironic that to make their point, WarRoom used one of my favorite scenes from any movie to frame their problem with the H-1B visa program, which essentially gives a way to bring in immigrant labor to fill skilled positions in the American labor market.  It was the scene from The Right Stuff where Chuck Yeager was offered to fly the X1 and break the sound barrier for essentially the pay the military gave him.  It’s a great scene, and there is a lot of truth in it, as Steve Bannon and others intended.  And I can say this from personal experience.  I met Chuck Yeager while he was alive on a few occasions.  And I knew people like Scott Crossfield.  And Neil Armstrong lived right down the road from me.  I understand these people, and they were not quite as heroic as portrayed in that Paul Kaufman version of The Right Stuff.  The real people were not as lofty as that movie made them.  But that’s not a bad thing.  The Right Stuff was an inspiring movie adapted from a great book by Tom Wolfe, and it was meant to do as Steve Bannon does in his WarRoom podcast, and that was to inspire people to greatness.  And when I was a little kid in that dark theater watching that movie, it spoke to me.  I became that version of Chuck Yeager.  My work ethic is very much how Chuck Yeager was shown to be in that movie, and there are lots of stories that people still tell about their antics with me that could fill many movies with the same level of inspiration.  Needless to say, I loved that movie and that specific scene for all the same reasons that Steve Bannon did. 

But I have found that reality was not shown in The Right Stuff.  Even within that movie, Kaufman puts his finger on it at the end of the film when all the Mercury astronauts were being celebrated with essentially unearned valor while the real hero of the movie, overlooked by everyone, was still pushing all the limits to drive aviation forward, with Chuck Yeager stealing the new hot plane, the Lockheed NF-104A to break a high altitude record.  Because that was the closest he was ever going to get to space.  He didn’t have a college education that fit the profile that the space program wanted.  Which was very much a populist message that the fake best and brightest were put on a pedestal when the real best and brightest were crashing from a failed attempt to climb that slick plane into space anonymously and heroically, where only his wife and a few friends knew what was going on. 

Most of the people I have found who are the hardest workers are people from other places in the world, and I interact with more people of foreign origin than just about anybody for that reason.  I have tried to help domestic people with their problems, and I have climbed out on a limb with them time and time again, even with them using a saw to cut everything down in an obsession with self-destruction.  And I will always try to help them.  But for several generations now, our American workforce has been destroyed through drugs, bad living, education, and an entitlement mentality that was dealt with in that movie using the pure character of Chuck Yeager and asking the question, what made the space program great, was it the Germans we brought in to build the rockets?  Was it the heroics of the test pilots who couldn’t keep their pants on and cheated on their wives all the time with their celebrity status?  Or was it people like Chuck Yeager who were flying for the joy of it and weren’t afraid to risk it all through obsessive competition and a desire to be the best and boldest pilot of them all?  The answer is obvious now that America is going through that very problem.  We must find The Right Stuff, and our education system makes The Wrong Stuff.  And it will take decades to fix that problem.  And while we are bringing all these jobs back under America First control, we need the people in the world who aren’t abusing themselves with high divorce rates, drug use, and a bad work ethic to sign up to do the work.  We need more Chuck Yeager’s in America as portrayed by that movie, not the kind that lived in real life and had all kinds of problems.  The movie showed us what we wanted to be.  But reality told us who we were.  And that is what is going to happen in politics.   We have to be honest and expect lofty results.  But we have to be willing to hire the people who want to do all the hard work of making America Great Again, even if their reason for doing it is chasing an American Dream that most people who were born and raised in America took for granted all their lives. 

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk the Reporter: Free speech will destroy tryanny every time

I figured it out long ago, and Elon Musk can now do it at a much larger level.  Free speech and citizen journalism are tremendously powerful tools and are the key ingredients to a prosperous society.  If left alone, in most cases, people in collective masses become corrupt and dangerous.  So all this anger toward Elon Musk is understandable, for the way he expressed himself during the budget battle in Congress over the continuing resolution that started at over 1500 pages and ended up being just a few hundred by the time it was all said and done.  I explained to everyone that this was how D.O.G.E. would be effective.  They didn’t need to have an office somewhere where they stamped approval in some bureaucratic way, like everything else in government.  No, D.O.G.E. initiated by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be more like reporters, doing the job the media should have been doing all along.  And because Musk bought Twitter and turned it from a three-lettered mind control device into a platform of free speech where he has over 200 million direct followers, a lot of this has caught the radical left and deep state establishment figures off guard.  No, they will not be able to control any of this.  They lost their power long ago and were only propped up by legacy media looking to do their dirty work.  But free speech was always the key to our personal Constitution in the United States, and it has been the killer of globalism for many decades now.  All people needed to do was figure out how powerful their opinions were.  This is why I put so much work into my own efforts; it has worked for many years and made things better where they otherwise would languish in obscurity. 

I used to participate in a lot of media, write for newspapers, and appear on television.  I did a lot of radio.  I was even in a few movies.  So, I understand the entertainment culture and news broadcasting that most people use to interact with information very well.  I am that guy who used to show up and give speeches at public gatherings, especially at school boards.  And there was just something wrong with speaking to people who gave you only 3 minutes to speak.  Newspapers would only give me 250 words to make my point.  Radio would only put you on for around a 15-minute segment.  Millions of people heard it, but the information was often lost to people before the next segment started.  I learned a long time ago because I saw how things were cooking in the kitchen, and letting the bad guys determine how long you speak in public and how much you could write regarding news and opinion was wrong.  And it kept people from speaking freely to other people.  So, I gradually started my own blog site and launched this news and opinion effort that has been very effective for over fifteen years.  I learned what worked and didn’t, and I gradually stopped appearing on other people’s radio and television shows and just started doing my own where I could write as much as I wanted and say as much as I desired about anything and everything under the sun.  If you didn’t care about making money that other people would pay you for the work, then freedom would become the primary currency, and people would get different perspectives from what they previously didn’t have. 

When Elon Musk bought Twitter and converted himself out of political necessity away from a left-of-center globalist to a MAGA Republican who has been accused of either being one of Trump’s kids because they have become so close after the election of 2024 or the president himself, Musk bought a free speech platform that had been used to shape public opinion and turned it into something that reflected what people actually thought.  And what tyranny cannot live up to is public scrutiny.  So, in many ways, Elon Musk became much more potent than any figure on planet Earth, including the President of the United States, because he could evoke what people thought about something instead of limiting what they could see and hear in a way to push them into a thought process that reflected the values of institutionalism.  It was never going to work.  The crazy authority figures of the world should have known better and learned their hard lessons from the Berlin Wall and the many control mechanisms they have in China.  Free expression is a powerful weapon, which is why it’s the first of the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution.  And if you are Elon Musk thinking about how to have governments functioning properly on faraway planets so human civilization can thrive, we must solve this problem once and for all here on Earth, here and now.   We can’t allow tyrants to rule through limited knowledge and control over opinion.  And that’s how these crazy, debt-ridden CRs have been passed by our government for years.  They are full of garbage that nobody knows about and sold to the public with a gun to the head, saying essentially, “Pass this bill to get funding for cancer research by ignoring the funding of bio labs in Ukraine and all kinds of other dangerous stuff that the lobbyists have stuffed in there with goodies and corruption galore.” 

The power Elon Musk used in December of 2024 was not the power of a president or a government insider.  It was the power of opinion, and he was using free speech in the way it was designed to educate the public and let them make decisions about things themselves.  And for all that, the Beltway culture withered in pain over the CR debate.  And people haven’t seen anything yet for all the pain it caused.  This is precisely how D.O.G.E. is going to work.  It won’t be from policymakers and long meetings with peer review that government reform will be done.  It will report what is happening and build public pressure to reform through free speech.  I can report on this matter from my personal experience.  There is nothing that any of the bad guys can do about it.  They won’t be able to stand up to it, and they won’t be able to stop it.  Short of turning to violence themselves, which I have had to deal with myself on many occasions.  Once they realize that violence won’t get them what they want, it will make it much worse for them, and they will become very frustrated with the results, much like the way many reacted to Elon Musk during the CR negotiations in 2024.  Musk doesn’t need to be president.  All he needs to do is allow people to have an opinion on something and give them things to think about through his X social media platform.  So what happens next will be bewildering to many people.  But there is nothing they can do to stop it.  Free speech is the check on power that it was designed to be.  Unfortunately, in years past, too much free speech was controlled through various corporate controls directly connected to the political structure.  And that allowed bad guys to do bad things.  Well, not any longer.  That is why 2025 will differ significantly from any other historical period.  The debate over the 2024 continued resolution for congressional spending hasn’t seen anything yet.  And it’s about time!

Rich Hoffman

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Rats in MAGA Hats: The FBI has to be punished for what they did on January 6th, lying about their 26 paid informants at the heart of all the trouble

There is a lot that will change, and keep in mind that as hurt as everyone was over the CR from Congress, nobody has seen anything yet in that regard.  Congress should have never packed that bill entirely of so much nonsense; the CR should have been presented as one page and provided with it a plan.  When we talk about D.O.G.E with some of the wealthiest people in the world volunteering their time to bring sanity to the process, don’t expect there not to be broken eggshells.  This will not be politics as usual on any front.  And I would say to all those involved in putting together that 1500-page monstrosity full of garbage that the Democrats wanted, remember, they did not win the election.  America turned them away.  So act like it when thinking about spending money.  All the pain that everyone is going through is better than jail or worse.  So tighten up your belts, shut your mouths, and thank God a Constitution is protecting you from the punishment you deserve for the way you have screwed over all of us for years.  It will get very pushy, but it’s for everyone’s good.  This is why it is good for Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to be independently wealthy and to be attached to the Trump administration voluntarily because they can afford to be critical of horrible government efforts like this December CR that otherwise would have been passed mainly unnoticed by the public for over 100 billion dollars of additional debt to fund the government only for two more months.  In February, they’d all be back doing the same stupid stuff and looking for another global distraction to keep stupid media from reporting the details. And that whole process would continue, spending another trillion dollars in debt every 100 days and tying us all closer to the enemies of the world financially who want to destroy us.  No, it’s time to start saying no and sticking with it.

And that same mentality has to be enacted regarding the FBI.  Everyone is fortunate that we are talking about putting Kash Patel in a position to head the FBI and clean up all this mess.  Now we know for sure, beyond speculation, that the FBI had over 26 informants working the crowd for January 6th 2021 and that Christopher Wray lied about it to Congress. That’s why the day before that information was released to the public, the FBI Director announced that he would resign. Many people wanted him to stay on for his full ten-year term to shield them from further investigations.  But Wray doesn’t want or need any of that.  He’s already in trouble for participating in trying to destroy Trump, the guy who picked him to be in that role after Trump had to fire Jim Comey, and with Trump back in the White House, there is no future for Wray.  He played an evil, dangerous game of letting the Biden administration weaponize the government, and now they have all been caught.  His best option is to resign, take himself off the map, and run for the hills, which is what he’s doing.  That leaves a lot of bad guys exposed in the wake, and as to that, tuff tootles.  They did the crime; now they can do the time.  It’s not going to be nice; what happens to them?  And there will be a lot more media overall than there was over this continuing resolution that Congress tried to push through. 

January 6th, we always suspected, was a set-up job, standard practice for the three-lettered government agencies over many decades.  People were upset that there was election fraud and that they were going to lose President Trump to vast government corruption.  So they showed up to protest it, as they had a right to do.  The FBI decided to try to work the situation to its advantage by putting paid informants, 26 of them, at the Capitol and instigating trouble by leading the effort to vandalize and destroy property, which Ray Epps was essentially caught on camera doing.  Christopher Wray denied that he had any FBI assets at the site and that the accusations of such misconduct were purely conspiratorial.  Few believed him.  However, in December of 2024, we learned otherwise that there were 26 such people the January 6th committee had not interviewed or anybody for that matter.  We know the names.  We know what their financial compensation was.  We know everything except who told them to do what and what they told the angry mob to do to provoke violence and start a scandal they hoped would lay cover fire for their coup against a people’s picked government.  Trump was the pick of voters, and they played their part in running a coup against him to maintain control of the government against the people of our nation and the voting system we use to establish authority.  This is all nasty stuff to add to a series of horrendously terrible things.  That’s how it will be for a while; I’ll be reporting a series of horrible things that must be punished aggressively and without mercy.  Otherwise, we won’t have a future as a country. 

Yes, the FBI lied to us, as has most of the government.  And the January 6th prisoners have to be released as soon as possible, and they deserve recourse against those who put them in jail.  All those who participated in orchestrating that coup against Trump and then tried to incite violence to cover up the attempt and put the shoe of violence on the other foot have to be punished brutally.  And some out there will wonder if it needs to be that excessive.  Hey, it doesn’t matter if it’s a small or big culture; if people do wrong, they must be punished.  And pushing them out of their jobs and getting them out of the culture you want to fix is the first big step.  Many people have done wrong that has to be removed, starting with Christopher Wray.  But there will be many more to come and remember as you watch them cry and scream like little kids who didn’t get candy at the checkout line.  They are lucky we are so righteous.  Because they deserve it.  But continuing with the mess they created and expecting to slide fake money under the door to pay for it all is not how we will do things in the future.  Our government must work for our country’s people; it must serve them.  Not the other way around.  The people do not serve the parasites who have been running it.  And we are putting a stop to it.  That’s why we elected Trump, and he understands that.  And he has committed to the job.  And that’s how the spaghetti in the kitchen will be made with D.O.G.E.  Placating evil with friendships got us into this mess.  Now, there is going to be pain, lots of it.  And nobody has seen anything yet.  Get ready because 2025 is going to be a wild, historic year.  But more than anything, it’s all necessary because so many did so many bad things leading up to this.  And honestly, they are lucky to be alive after what they did. And in this case, they put rats in MAGA hats and tried to use that ruse to commit a vast series of crimes.  And they got caught.

Rich Hoffman

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Why Trump Won: Brand building is the key to establishing and maintaining relationships

So many important lessons can be learned from the Trump election of 2024.  But, the reason Trump won has yet to be talked about much.  The assumption is that Elon Musk came in at the last minute, after the assassination attempt in July, and put many millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign as the world’s richest man.  But to assume that, you would have to believe that money wins elections and that those who raise the most money and spend it will win the election.  Of course, the media, which sells ads and makes its money off politics during elections, wants everyone to think that.  But it wasn’t true.  Kamala Harris spent on her 2024 campaign 1.5 billion dollars and ended up, at the end of it, millions of dollars in debt.  She spent more than she had, which was a lot.  Who in their right mind gave her money who had that kind of money?  I could have told them they were wasting their time.  Wait, come to think of it, I did tell them.  But they didn’t listen.  Reports say that Trump spent much less than that, hovering around the 1 billion dollar mark, which is what many think it takes to run for president these days, but I’m not even sure that is the case.  But the bottom line is that Kamala spent a lot of money and didn’t move the needle in any kind of positive direction.  So why?  That’s the most critical question.  If Trump and Kamala spent even more money, why did the money spent work more for one, not the other?  So you can’t say that Elon Musk bought Trump the election, that would not be accurate. Instead, something much more important happened, and Trump did a masterful job at it, as we would all expect. 

A person’s brand is one of the most essential attributes of their personality; it’s how people come to know you and what they think of you when you aren’t around them anymore.  In everything you do in life, you must build your brand and use it to gain cooperation from your peers.  I have a very strong brand presence on many fronts.  For instance, I was having a fancy dinner with many people with strong opinions about my brand.  We were all ordering dessert, and the people with us at this dinner were from all over the world.  So I ordered a cake with many special effects to demonstrate how extraordinary the desserts were at this dinner and encourage our guests to be a little daring.  After all, I figured my brand was so good that I could handle a little wildness.  So I ordered a special cake, which came out with dry ice spewing everywhere. A tree made of cotton candy came out on top of it.  Those combinations of things made my dinner guests laugh because of the contrasts.  They were not very “manly” things to do and seemed like something they would never expect coming from me.  But that’s also why the Trump Dance works for Trump at rallies; it contrasts his tough guy image.  That image is his brand, and it’s how people learn the nature of the values of the advocate.  Without a brand image to maintain, my ordering the cake and the reaction to it would have just been about food.  But I made it into something else to advance why we were having the dinner together in the first place, as a team-building event that people would not soon forget. 

Trump has been one of the best in the world at building and applying brands.  His family name, Trump, is recognized worldwide and establishes quality and luxury for those who see it.  Trump built the brand over a long period and, about ten years ago, decided to use it to put America on its back and to Make America Great Again.  When people saw the Trump Brand anywhere in the 80s and 90s, they think of wealth and luxury, which is a way for Trump to take The Power of Positive Thinking and apply it to wealth generation.  So when Trump decided to run for office in 2015, he just brought his brand with him and beat Hillary Clinton based on the strength of his brand, as he spent a fraction of the money most campaigns would to win such a high office.  When he disrupted the system and everyone in the world came after him, Trump used his brand to rise above the critics in a way only his extensive, positive brand would have allowed.  Like my story about the cake, if you have a strong brand, you can provoke much action that either supports or contrasts it.  For my dinner guests, expecting an uncompromising gunslinger to shoot anybody who does injustice is a sharp contrast to sitting there eating a chocolate cake with pink cotton candy all over the top.  Showing such a moment of comparison within my brand earns trust because it contrasts my customary behavior.  But without the brand, there wouldn’t be any opinions or jokes to evolve a dialogue of trust that was needed for such a moment.  On a much larger scale, Trump used his brand to carry the lofty goal of Making America Great Again into a value system people felt they could invest in.  And they did.

One of my favorite campaign items from the 2024 election is a Trump 2024 switchblade.  I obtained it under unusual conditions, and it was undoubtedly one of the best souvenirs of Trump I had ever seen during the election.  Trump’s name was on everything, from knives to hats to shirts, flags, glasses, anything and everything.  And that was because Trump had built a brand that gave value to obtaining those items.  That Trump knife would be just another knife if it didn’t have Trump 2024 written on it.  On the other hand, Kamala spent a lot more money trying to create an impression, but her brand didn’t have roots in which people could invest.  So, as she tried to make an impression on voters, she did not have a brand that people could understand and invest in.  Nobody was rushing out to buy a Harris hat or shirt.  But people were flocking to buy a Trump hat.  They couldn’t make enough of them.  And in the end, that is what ended up mattering most.  Even though Elon Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the MAGA movement and Trump himself, it was Trump who built a brand worth investing in.  Without the brand, the money was tossed to the wind like drunk gamblers in a casino late at night. The brand allows people to invest in the person who built it, for better or worse.  But once you have the brand, you can use it to sell ideas to people who have enough rooting to grab on and take action.  And the Democrats, they didn’t do any of that.  They tried to create impressions but had no substance behind their brand to sell an idea.  That caused them to toss much money at the effort only to have it wasted because there was no brand worth investing in.  So the ideas that Democrats had couldn’t be sold to a public so empty that they’d buy any impression.  When it came to Trump, people bought into a brand he had built for over 4 decades, and he put it all at risk to become president.  And as a result, the brand outlasted the attempts to destroy it.  Now, with that brand value, America can do as Trump’s brand indicates: to Make America Great Again.  When people see that term, they think of quality, wealth, and tenacity.  And the nation can rally to the cause because a brand can sell the idea and sustain the results.  Rather than just creating more false impressions that people have become long weary of.  And this will be the case for politics over the coming century.  It’s not enough to spend money. Instead, the money has to have a brand that people want to invest in and make it their own. 

Rich Hoffman

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We Need More Kids: Birthrates need to increase dramatically

I haven’t let myself get too encouraged by Elon Musk’s “Occupy Mars” campaign.  He’s been excited about it for more than three decades now, and he has made himself a multi-billionaire, with the projection to become the first trillionaire not for the love of money and fame that comes with such enterprises but simply because he wants to bring science fiction, that he loved as a kid, to reality through engineering excellence.  I didn’t think he had much chance until this last election, and I’m glad he did what he had to do to see his vision through.  It wasn’t enough to be one of the world’s greatest inventors.  I remember the stories of Edison, who was incredibly late in life trying to solve the riddle of manufacturing rubber for the upcoming car industry, which was a real problem.  What Edison never solved was the politics of the matter.  And, of course, Edison’s employee, Tesla, had all kinds of great ideas about energy and how it could be distributed.  Edison’s method won out because it required infrastructure, the government could manage it, and unionized employees could stick themselves right in the middle of the whole thing and give us the uninventive mess we have today.  Seldom do good ideas break through to the kinds of frontiers that Elom Musk is about to enjoy because he moved his politics toward the winning Trump administration, which is about to unload on the world all the best that science fiction could give us.  A significant boom to the aerospace markets for which SpaceX will be able to do all it ever thought about and more.  Suddenly, going to Mars and colonizing it is very viable, with real economic value coming directly from it, and it will all be very exciting.  I’m officially a major supporter of the Occupy Mars movement.  It is the most exciting thing we can do as human beings.

But a math problem has been at the heart of all our politics for centuries now.  The responsibility for adventure or the sacrifice to higher powers is at the heart of earth worship.  So, our next technical objective to overcome is not the engineering feats of getting to Mars, colonizing it, and terraforming the planet to restore it to a vibrant place that was likely full of life.  The problem now is with human beings being able to wrap their minds around the whole effort, and for that, I have found myself obsessed with reexamining King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and studying all the vast tunnels under the city and understanding the importance of the most contested piece of real estate on planet earth.  Because I’m one of those people who think the evidence all adds up to Jerusalem being necessary to the seeding of Earth from a distant point in history, more than 10,000 years ago, and the cave under the Holy of Holies which is now concealed by the Dome of the Rock under Islam control was there long before Abraham went to that spot to kill his son Isaac in a sacrifice to God.  I think we are about to make a series of earth-shattering discoveries that date many of these things to much longer than we typically measure them, and the ramifications will indeed be jarring to all involved.  That’s all part of the adventure.  Because what’s important here is at the heart of most of the world’s problems, do you advance life through sacrifice, as they did at that Temple?  Or do you advance life through science and thought?  The new incoming Trump administration will rule through thought.  He, Trump, has been given a divine mandate to fight back against the forces of evil that have held back the human race for many thousands of years.  And it’s going to get untangled over this next Trump term. 

That leaves us to talk about birthrates.  We have needed them to increase for several years.  We have a culture that has openly sought to cheapen life, to kill their babies much the way the ancient Canaanites did to their Mesopotamian Gods, especially Baal, who is the real villain of the Bible.  Baal, the dominating god of nature, is in constant combat with Yahweh, the God of the Hebrew people and author of the Ten Commandments.  One group wanted to kill their kids to prop up the sentiment to their deity of choice, the nature-worshipping cultures of Baal or the self-fulfilling, creative cultures of Yahweh.  We need many more children on Earth to migrate human beings into space, and that is considering the massive amount of AI that will be required.  We are talking about the plot of the movie Blade Runner here, the morality of the nature of life itself, and whether or not robots will have human rights as a form of intelligence.  These are significant issues, but the bottom line is that if we want to put 1 million people on Mars by the very near date of 2050, which we do, just 25 years from now, then we have to change a lot of our life policies from what they have been to what they need to be.  We need many more families having many more kids than they have been, and they need to have fun doing it. 

We need to get back to the birthrates of the past, where families often had five or more kids all the time.  My grandparents lived during such a time.  My grandmother was a twin, and her mom had so many kids that they traded them like baseball cards.  “Hey, I have an extra one of these. Do you want one.”  A family member took her brother because my grandmother’s family had way more kids than they could afford to take care of themselves.  Some of these families had more than ten kids each.  This kind of Western expansion mentality is essential to human growth stages, and we need to exceed even that in the next few years to expand human life into space the way we need to.  Depressing that ambition is simply a held sentiment to the old Baal worship of the Canaanites and other sacrificial cultures around the world.  Our low birthrates of today are caused by social sentiment toward earth worship, to keep humans attached to their mother, and not to grow up healthy and independent as a culture of adventurers.  But to cleave close to mother in an unhealthy way that stifles us permanently, and ultimately destroys our species for the good of the planet, and views humans as a virus upon that mother which needs to be destroyed.  Ultimately, human growth into space is to settle that long-residing dispute in Jerusalem. Do we kill our kids to sever the jealous whims of a broken-minded deity, or do we have lots of kids and treasure them all as representatives of human consciousness and the perpetuation of the creative spirit of humanity into everlasting life born from the earth, but to settle the cosmos on a series of many adventures that was the point all along.  And to that, I say, “Occupy Mars!” 

Rich Hoffman

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Why D.O.G.E. Will Be Successful Where Others Have Failed: Vivek Ramaswamy and I share close personal friends, and everyone gets it–this time

Vivek Ramaswamy and I share close personal friends.  I happened to have had dinner with a few of them the other day, and we had an excellent talk about D.O.G.E., this new Department of Government Efficiency, and what it was that would make it successful as opposed to every other attempt in history to reign in government overreach and waste at the expense of taxpayer budgets.  We also talked about their appearance in Time Magazine, a special commemorative to President Trump.  From my own experience, I have been pointing out government waste for a few decades now.  To take on a job like this, you have to have independent wealth to a certain extent.  Suppose you are making money off the system. In that case, it is nearly impossible to reform the system, and most of the political figures that have come and gone through the Washington D.C. culture may have had a lot of money, but they aren’t independently wealthy.  To manage something or to reform it, you can’t be a desperate fool trying to rub two dimes together that you found in a couch to make a penny.  You need to be able to insulate yourself to have objective thought.  That is what makes Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk unique at this point in history; they are independently wealthy.  Trump is independently wealthy.  Most people joining Trump at the White House are independently wealthy, and Democrats have taken notice.  They have an unnatural hatred of wealth which is part of the problem.  At the heart of all government waste are these anti-capitalist, money-hating unions that have a side story of collapsing the entire economic system of the United States, and that is certainly the philosophy behind the labor movement, which is at the heart of the problem.  So I was talking about this issue at a nice, intimate dinner, and I can just tell everybody, this D.O.G.E. thing won’t be like anything else ever done or attempted before.  And, it could only happen because of the independent wealth of the leadership.  Because to do the job correctly, you have to have the objectivity to avoid the face up against the glass perspective that most in government always have.  And solve the problem for good.   I know from personal experience that Vivek Ramaswamy is one of the few who are qualified and able to perform the task.

Of course, I’ve been involved in the background many times to try something like this D.O.G.E., such as SB5 back in 2012, where there was an effort to make public sector unions illegal in Ohio.  This has been a problem for a long time; unions are attached to government labor because you can’t have any meaningful discussions about budget reform with radical left-winged unions running the budgets.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a public school or the FBI.  Too many government agencies are locked in place, and too many labor unions pay people too much to work too little.  So, taking that problem on involves many people who make money off the chaos, including many politicians who built that system.  Many became very rich from insider trading, so once everyone drinks from that cup of corruption, there is no going back, and things get out of control.  The SB5 effort failed for many reasons, but it came down to independent wealth.  Too many people involved in the reform were in their key income-making years and could not be objective about the necessity of government operations.  They feared not making their own money out of that process, so they were too weak to perform the task when the rubber hit the road.

The Tea Party effort tried to work with the system for many years, but the SWAMP was deep, and the alligators and pythons wanted to eat you every time you tried to pull the plug, so they were very vicious.  That means you can’t be a swamp creature and still drain that swamp so that we can make something much better.  I remember when I first met Vivek Ramaswamy through the friends mentioned and others, and we talked about where he was in life.  I understood, and he asked me if I wanted a picture with him while we were talking.  I felt strange about it; I’m not the kind who does that very much.  But looking back on it, it was one of those pinnacle moments.  A year later, I had him sign a copy of his book Woke Inc. because I felt he was on to something unique and special.  He wrote in front of my book, “Speak Freely,” because at that time, he didn’t know what he was going to do.  Maybe he would be a senator or the President, but he would use his independent wealth to try and give something back and fix this government waste problem.  He understood that the way to do that was not to attack the problem where it was most potent, but in other ways, such as through free speech, so he wrote what he did in my book.  Vivek Ramaswamy had earned the ability to criticize the system through his private wealth because he wasn’t dependent on it for his livelihood. 

Ironically, that is precisely where Elon Musk is in his life.  What good is being the wealthiest person in the world if the world is declining in value?  It’s not the stuff you can buy, but it’s what the stuff is worth that matters.  And how D.O.G.E. will work was outlined in Vivek’s books.  I saw this early on and have been very excited about that approach.   I knew it would work and that Vivek was on to something that could have only come from his unique perspective.  And that D.O.G.E. will be very effective, not in the way that the government unions are ready for.  They are not prepared to fight on this front but believe me, we have tried to give them all a fair shake, and they spit in our faces.  Don’t try to befriend people who spit in your face.  If they want to destroy themselves, then let them.  And that, ultimately, is what will happen with D.O.G.E. and why it will succeed while all other attempts have failed.  When we’ve had government shutdowns in the past, it was always what labor took away to extort resolution through pain and suffering, the typical radical labor union perspective.  People are tired of that type of management method and are ready for a barrage of free speech on the matter, which only people who are independently wealthy can afford to utter.  In that way, government reform won’t be done through the front door of legislative control, which Congress can hide behind by saying that the rules of government labor tie their hands.  But that the foundation that all the rules were built to protect the very lazy and corrupt from the merits of judgment reside that will be dealt with, for really, the first time in the history of the world.  And I am thrilled to see it and that Vivek Ramaswamy is at the heart of the reform.  I know it will be successful because he and many others are also involved in very healthy ways in front and behind the scenes.  And it’s about time!

Rich Hoffman

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