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History Will Remember How ‘Truth Social’ Saved Free Speech: The Home of President Trump

There was quite a stir when President Trump posted for the first time on X, or whatever Twitter is called these days. Trump put his mug shot on there, and the numbers exploded upon seeing it. I thought it was a great move, but I don’t think it says anything about Trump returning to Twitter as much as it indicates what he will do to win back the White House. Essentially, Trump is all in; he will do anything, and I mean anything, to beat these Marxist losers and kick out the crooked Biden crime family from the White House. I did not see it as abandoning his personal social media site, Truth Social. Later, President Trump assured everyone that Truth Social was his home and that he would stay with it. That doesn’t mean he can’t post what he wants on other social media outlets. Only that Truth Social remained true to his heart, and it should. I think when the smoke clears from this period of history, there will be one common thing that everyone will point to and say, “That saved America.” And I think that thing will be the creation of Truth Social. It was a very dark day; I remember it well. It was the closest thing we have ever seen to a hostile regime change in America, involving thousands of people hostile to Trump and his supporters. After January 20th, 2021, Trump left the White House for the last time, and essentially, he was openly banned from all social media, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google search engines; the writing was on the wall. We didn’t just have an election that was in dispute; we had a government assassination much the way we did with Kennedy and Nixon. And it happened right before our faces in a way nobody expected. Well, very few people did expect it. I expected it. But the results were shocking to a lot of people.

I don’t talk about a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff.  I put out my social media, and lots of people see it.  But there is a lot of shadow banning going on, and with me, that has been the case since social media started.  In many ways, I may be one of the most shadow-banned people on planet Earth.  I noticed it on YouTube years ago, well before President Trump joined politics.  You can look at videos I did 15 years ago and see that some have less than 100 views.  Some people put videos of hamsters drinking water, which get millions of hits, so for videos that old, what in the world was going on?  Well, it’s the same on my Twitter account and even my blog.  There are many ways that the people who control those social media platforms, apparently low-level people, can suppress the algorithm to your material for search engines, which many people know about.  But they can also tamper with social media counting, such as viewing results, followers, subscribers, and how your overall reach reaches.  To get a little sample of what I’m talking about, look at the views on my Rumble account videos compared to my YouTube account, and you will see what I’m talking about.  I see one set of numbers on my blog on my administrative page.  But on the display page, it’s a much-suppressed number.  Occasionally, when the software that the social media companies are updating and their algorithm scanning software is on pause, I get an accurate picture of how many people visit my sites.  That’s when I usually take a photo to validate the results.  But to put it mildly, the bad guys control the internet, let people see what they decide, and manage the transaction.  That is the purpose of the internet: more power, not more freedom.  And that game plan was never more evident than on January 20th, 2021, when the world of media, on all fronts, tried to make President Trump, the guy who just spent four years in the White House leading the free world, a “nonperson,” as Rupert Murdoch at Fox News clearly stated.  They were in control, and anybody they wanted to target they felt they could paint out of existence. 

The payback will be harsh, as it should be

In reaction to it, I was looking over my shoulder a lot.  There were a lot of shadowy characters popping into my life, and I was prepared to have a shootout with those hostile forces at any moment.  The crackdown was in full effect, and I was indeed a target.  My wife and I hooked up our RV and headed for the deserts of New Mexico to get things straight.  It was probably one of the best decisions in life that I have ever made.  There, I finished my book The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and figured out what to do next.  And in the following months, the resistance movement against these tyrannical, election-stealing terrorists in the White House was taking shape.  Trump wouldn’t allow some third party to control his next campaign or the freedom movement in general.  As many others did, we would create our own social media companies and turn the tables on the bad guys.   And it would be painful for them. 

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110956433200421966

I still watch and listen to everyone, even the bad guys on cable news, like MSNBC and corporate-run talk radio, just to understand what those idiots think. Most of my information comes from the live streams on Gettr. And once President Trump started Truth Social, I was among the first accepted accounts. And there is quite a lot to that story, too. I have had a lot of trouble with Truth Social, but it is not their fault. But there has been a lot of tampering that has locked my account many times. But, the social media element has undoubtedly forced the entire industry to change. Under Elon Musk, I have given Twitter a bit of a chance. It’s better. My account shows few social media impressions because it is so heavily shadow-banned. But I routinely get many tens of thousands of views when I comment on an account that isn’t so heavily shadow-banned, which is very effective. Social media, like their communist partners in China and the World Economic Forum, will let a few controlled people present the appearance of free speech. But the hostile anti-free speech people try to suppress them in every way possible. Truth Social was the first to break that wall down brick by brick, and it was brilliant of President Trump to utilize. Ultimately, it will likely be what won the war because it took the clamps off free speech and forced the alternatives to adjust their approach. And it broke the model of tyranny behind the creation of the Internet. As a result, the message of Trump and the rest of us can get out to others, and the government and the hostile agents that control our government now cannot stop people from hearing other opinions. And the planned communism that was always part of the Internet plan is falling apart. Truth Social opened the door to Free Speech on the Internet because it was the home of the most famous person on earth. And that pressure may save the world yet.

Rich Hoffman

Bill Barr’s Comments About Trump: A “Horror Show” is exactly what the American people want

Chaos is good when you have a culture that needs change. Chaos is only harmful to those being affected by the change. For those seeking change, chaos is their best friend. So in that context, the comments by Bill Barr, the former Attorney General for President Trump, who was a known RINO from the start, left over from the Bush administration, when he talks about chaos negatively and indicates that a second Trump term would be a horror show, are understandable. I’ll go on to say that there is a lot of evidence that our intelligence agencies, working with many forces, were behind the rigged election of 2020, and that is not an acceptable condition, and Bill Barr is fully aware of it. But they felt justified in what they did because they wanted to do it to preserve a gig they have in the Beltway that employs so many people. Bill Barr went on to say that President Trump had some good policies but would not be able to implement them because Trump was incapable of thinking in a linear fashion and working with other people to get things done as the system allowed.

So regarding the comments, I was grateful that Barr said them because it is a kind of smoking gun over the entire issue of whether we actually have free elections or not in America and who is motivated to rig elections. Bill Barr played his part by refusing to investigate the obvious problems in voter counts that were being reported to the Attorney General.  Trump picked Bill Barr because Jeff Sessions had not been effective as a representative of the President’s positions, as other Attorney Generals had been. Trump picked Barr to appease his critics, as he was under continuous investigation; otherwise, he might have picked someone more representative of his positions. Regarding all that, a lot was revealed in Barr’s statements that is worth considering. 

Trump has a proven track record for solving problems, which was most evident in his television show, which nobody has been able to duplicate, The Apprentice, which is nearly impossible to find in syndication anywhere. It was only the top-rated show on television for 14 years, and when Trump ran for President, NBC tried to use Arnold Schwarzenegger instead of Trump, and the show crashed quickly. Nobody could do what Trump had done on that show that was so popular with audiences. And that is because human beings create static cultures for themselves to protect known assumptions, especially when they discover that they benefit from those assumptions. Therefore, when a culture is said to become corrupt, it is because a system becomes rigged to help the participants at the expense of innovation and general culture investment. And in almost every company in the world, from a small business mom-and-pop shop to a giant corporation, a static culture will always grow for good or evil, and the measures of those designations decide the success or failure of the enterprise. Trump as a business person, a very successful one, understands these kinds of things, so Americans clearly picked him over the Beltway desire of Hillary Clinton. The intelligence community obviously had other ideas, this fourth branch of government was filled with unelected bureaucrats, and in 2020 that election had many obvious problems that are still unresolved. It was noticeable in our free society as opposed to places around the world that aren’t so free, and Bill Barr found himself stuck between loyalty to the office of the President, which he takes seriously, and the preservation of the Beltway culture that is isolated from the concerns of the rest of the world. 

If you’ve ever been to Washington D.C., you will have seen that the region around that capital city is filled with extremely wealthy people, most of them working in the structure of Beltway culture. They live off taxpayers’ efforts and are hedged from the concerns of diabolical economic decisions created by that same Beltway culture. For them, the value of their existence is the Washington D.C. culture which employs them with bureaucratic jobs, rates of pay that are entirely too high, and there are too many people working in that system taking money. Government is way too big, employs too many people, and costs too much for what they do. And to preserve themselves, they need to keep out opinions to the contrary, who see the situation as a bloated monstrosity of inefficiency and corruption. Someone who has worked in the world at solving those very problems cannot be allowed in to disrupt that culture, which is what Bill Barr was saying as a protector of that system. Washington, D.C., is filled with hundreds of thousands of people just like Bill Barr, so any reform to that culture is a significant threat to their very existence. And that is what a second term of Trump would bring, chaos and destruction to that “Drain the Swamp” mentality, and to be honest, many people in the swamp want to remain hidden. And our intelligence agencies, who have been caught killing presidents, rigging elections around the world, overthrowing governments, and causing a lot of disorder everywhere for the benefit of the Beltway culture, were not just going to allow people to pick their President and bring disruption and chaos to their lives. What Bill Barr was warning about to the audience that he was speaking it to is precisely the kind of thing that the American people want to see happen. 

I would say that the Beltway culture could be reduced to 10% of what it is presently. (meaning a 90% layoff of the present employee structure) The recent acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk is a good example of a micro-culture that had a lot of top-heavy costs sucking off the company in devastating ways to that culture. It was good for them as a job but bad for the efficiency of the company and the end user, the consumer. Musk was able to remove most of the employees and still run the company effectively, and that has stirred up a lot of people who are upset with Musk as an employer because he embraces chaos so intently. But to any executive who gets it, chaos is a manager’s best friend regardless of politics. It shows you where the problems are and indicates how to fix them. And in successful cultures, Trump has managed chaos to significant effect, and people voted for him to go to the Beltway culture, slash many of the jobs there, and drain the swamp. But the Beltway, with all their highly paid useless government jobs, don’t want that chaos because they are hiding behind it with all their jobs that are essentially destroying our government. It’s great for them, but not good for the country. So when Bill Barr was critical of the “horror show” of another Trump presidency, which looks to be evident at this point, that is what he and others are so worried about. The American people want the corrupt employees and politicians of the Beltway culture to be scared. So a horror show is precisely what we want. We don’t like corruption. We don’t like that they don’t represent us. And we are sick of paying for a mess and want a change. And that is why a Trump Horror Show is exactly what voters want, and more!

Rich Hoffman

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Its All About Space Force: Why Trump will be the nominee again in 2024

You can tell how worried Rupert Murdoch from Fox News is now that we’re in that final stretch that after all the efforts he and many other Never Trumper types, like Paul Ryan, have asserted against President Trump, that when the smoke clears, it will still be Trump at the head of the Republican Party.  DeSantis is making his moves with his book tour in Iowa, and he’s even coming to Butler County, Ohio, in a few weeks to soft-land a presidential platform—he, along with several other challengers to President Trump.  I read Ron’s book the day it came out, and it’s good.  It is undoubtedly the story of a great governor in Florida, and it shows that many opportunities are forming in the future of politics for a redefinition of what a good governor and a good president looks like.  We are not the same country that we were in 2016, and there has been a less obvious war that the media tycoons like Murdoch have not been reporting, even though the impact on the world is much more severe than anything experienced during World War II, or any other global conflict and that is the fight between the Deep State and the desire for globalism across the world, as forecast in the book Tragedy and Hope, which I have talked about before, and a republic like what we have in America.  More than all that, I would say the top campaign issue for 2024 will be Space Force and nothing else, which many media types and political people have not yet come to realize.  The path to economic recovery is in space, and its at the center of all geopolitical discourse, the actions with China and Russia, and agreements with Saudi Arabia and Iran.  A lot is happening across the world that has not been discussed because of the distraction of Ukraine and the general failure of the Liberal World Order everywhere.  And the only way there hasn’t been a run on global governments, whether in France, Hong Kong, or Brazil with waves of populism, is that the media conglomerates, like Fox News, run by the Murdoch family, have not been covering it. 

The Straw Poll at CPAC in 2023 tells the whole story; people get it; Trump won 62% of the vote, DeSantis had 20%, and Nikki Haley was at 3%.  Everyone else went down from there, which is how it will be in the upcoming primary in the end.  The Never Trumper types have filled Ron DeSantis’ head with their dreams of him dethroning Trump, it’s their last gasp as members of the Republican Party to fulfill their objective, and they are starting to worry.  I think the obvious cracks that have always been there can actually be seen in the Kellyanne Conway divorce from her long-time Never Trumper husband, George Conway.  The hatred of internal politics is most evident in those kinds of public relationships, and Trump’s reaction to it was very appropriate.  He has no love for George Conway, and it’s obvious that Kellyanne’s husband, or soon to be, “ex-husband,” is very jealous of Trump.  That is generally the case for all Never Trumpers, including John Kasich in Ohio, and they all have the same fate coming for them.  They may not like Trump, but they certainly don’t represent what the Republican Party has become.  Without question, Ron DeSantis is to the political right of Trump.  But could DeSantis get voter engagement from 75 million people like Trump can?  Not even close.  Hard conservatives might really like DeSantis, but one of the biggest successes Trump has had was his ability to pull over Democrats to the Republican Party, to get minority voters to support Republicans over Democrats.  And that is something none of the Never Trumper, country club types of Republicans were ever able to do, so of course, they hate Trump.  Trump has his own country club.  He has his own fundraising reserves.  Trump has his own social media.  Trump is the media, and without him, nobody has a chance.  So the fissures have formed along those jealousies, and in the end, people pick their people, and they love Trump and will continue to.

The Deep State is very much wounded; they have been caught with their election fraud tampering around the world, and they also have their hand in Covid and the many deaths that occurred.  And people have revenge on their minds.  Many of the occult leaders behind the Deep State have fled for places where people aren’t and are trying to go underground to avoid the wrath that is coming.  That is most obvious in the Covid case moving through congress presently.  People want to know who, what, why, when, and where regarding Covid, and that was never supposed to happen with the Deep State’s role in it.  They had gone all in out of desperation to get rid of Trump, they were not ready for their global lockdown strategy, and people revolted against their controls, and now the facts are coming out.  Fox News might not be covering it.  CNN clearly isn’t interested in covering it.  But remember the Georgia Guide Stones that were destroyed this past year.  The globalists are running for the hills.  When history looks back on this period, it will be obvious that it was Space Force that they were all against, why they wanted to get rid of Trump, and why they committed the massive crimes they were caught in.  And now they are running and hiding, not pulling the strings of power as they have been doing for several decades. 

This will not be an election on policy and success as running a state might otherwise be.  This is a fight for control over free elections and Deep State manipulations.  And Space Force is the biggest threat to the current Deep State.  This is why Elon Musk has shifted his political position and is now rooting for Republicans.  There has been a lot going on away from the Fox News-controlled news coverage, which I would consider far left to where most of the world is.  Tucker Carlson has been doing good work on January 6th, and the Never Trumper types are upset about the coverage because it shows the truth about who lied to whom.  But that is really just a distraction at this point.  The coup to remove Trump during his last term in office is far worse than any of that, and people understand it.  It’s nothing against Ron DeSantis or anybody else who thinks the water is warm enough for them to swim in regarding a Republican nomination for president.  Unfortunately for them, they risk damaging their own brand along the way, which is unfortunate.  Candidates like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio never recovered from their presidential runs; that is how it will be for Ron DeSantis.  He should be pushing to be Trump’s VP, not fighting against him on behalf of the Never Trumpers.  Because people will remember that, and DeSantis will lose all the tremendous political capital he currently has.  The 2024 race is about one thing, Space Force and using it to defeat globalism and the controls of the Deep State that has been controlling everything from behind the veil.  And who created Space Force?  President Trump, which is why he will be the nominee once again in 2024. 

Rich Hoffman

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No More Kings in the World: The light at the end of the tunnel to end all known conspiracies

I have absolutely no reverence for bloodlines, kingships, or family rights to the efforts of previous generations. When we talk about the leaders of the Deep State being a global cabal of the Illuminati, with the mask of the World Economic Forum, the 13 original families, 10 of which came from other planets leaving 3 to develop on earth, the Krupps, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, I have zero sympathies for their task at ruling over others. Whatever their beliefs, whatever their history, I see it as entirely irrelevant. They have no right or obligation to rule the earth, its people, its nations, its companies, anything. They have no right to black budgets, self-rule, or a vision for the future. All they have is a corrupt understanding of the past and a love of Lucifer, their sun god, the villain Baal from the Bible. The real solution to peace and goodness in the world is to end the perception of entitlement that they have as kingly roles as history has now shown us a vast chronicle. In America, which I think was created as a false flag event to suppress kingly functions in Europe, for a competing bloodline conflict for power within those original 13 families, the idea of decentralizing the kingly role took hold, and now they can’t put it back in the bottle. And it was quite an accident that people learned that they liked the idea of self-rule instead of the compliance to authority that has always constrained society. This is, of course, the central theme of the politics of our present time, the original bloodline families want to remain in control, and most of the world wants to be free of their power. Now that we have the internet, open communications around the world, and can get around the world in less than a day, that power structure is collapsing fast, and the rulers behind the curtain have found themselves exposed in ways they aren’t comfortable with.

It’s all about decentralization; ruling families do not have the bandwidth to deal with a human race that needs to grow. They can only hold power by holding down that growth, which is precisely what we are seeing playing out in global politics presently. Suppose you really go back to the root cause of the Holocaust, for instance. In that case, there is still very much hatred of the Jews that goes back to Mordecai not bowing to Haman and how Esther convinced king Xerxes of Persia to allow the Jews to destroy all their oppressors in books like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was written by an anonymous writer out of Russia intent to convince opposition forces that the Jews were plotting world domination. In truth, the conflict goes back to the original bloodlines in conflict with the rebel Israelites who defied those ruling classes, which culminated ultimately in the story of The Book of Esther. The Protocols, as I’ve said before, have been used to create conflict for a very long time, including being passed around the recent Caliphate movement in the Middle East as recently as yesterday. But who writes these books, and who distributes them, and why? The answer to that is those who want to continue to rule as a centralized power where the world centers around them. If there is anything that has held back civilization, its this ridiculous notion of power and control over others from the beginning, likely starting with those original bloodlines and carrying through to this present time, where the pressure of decentralized government, decentralized economies, decentralized academia, is colliding with necessity in violent ways that are all too obvious now. 

As bad as things look today, in these election cycles, with international conflicts, I see one thing happening for certain: the birth of the human race as it is breaking free of these kingly shackles. In America, we had a brief period of independence from those ruling families where the colonies were too far away from the mainland of Europe to control. But it didn’t just start there. The secret societies allowed for some discourse if it gave them revenge over the kings of Europe and the Church for their massacre of the Knights Templers purge of the 1300s. I’ve told the story of Friday the 13th, 1307 before, which drove that whole Gnostic tradition underground, where it stayed. They plotted the downfall European kings and were successful well before America came along. But America was the bright idea of revenge for the whole plot. But it only lasted until immigrants from  Europe brought with them their tradition of love of kings and being ruled by a centralized authority. Once global communication became possible, and flight, and the world shrank, we were destined to have this very modern conflict that would erupt over self-rule instead of centralized rule.   Rule by kings only worked so long as people couldn’t share information and weren’t very smart, to begin with. Or the people were smart, but through their education systems, made ignorant in order to let those bloodline families stay in power the way that slave owners from the Democrat south in America would cut off the feet of slaves to keep them from running away, or would deny them the ability to read so that the slaves would never figure out how to free themselves from the authority figures in their lives. We see the same trend in every corporate environment, every cubicle, every cry to work from home, the desire of all humans to either rule or be ruled in the traditional ways of the bloodline descendants, and the fantasy of the few to rule over the many. To make themselves single-point failures for the purpose of control and nothing else. 

I remember watching Oliver Stone’s movie with Kevin Costner, JFK, with great interest at the obvious allegation against the FBI and CIA and their role in the assassination, which we now know in 2023 was a CIA operation; our own government took part in the killing of an American president, and a popular, and powerful Democrat from an influential family. We watched over the years as members of that family were systematically killed off or encumbered in many accidents that forever tarnished their public image. And we could tell similar stories of mystery and mayhem regarding 9/11, election fraud to remove Trump from office, Nixon’s innocence in Watergate. The Tik Tok UFO that has been shown so much. The billions and billions of dollars that have gone to Ukraine for mysterious reasons while Biden traveled there on Presidents’ Day of all places, as New Palestine, Ohio, suffered from a major train derailment. I would offer in the wake of all these massive tragedies, and the bombardment of all the crazy news that looks like Armageddon is upon us, the Book of Revelations is happening now, and we all play a role in its outcome; I would offer that the wheels are coming off quickly for those original 13 families, the inevitable reality is blowing up in their faces, and they are pulling every string of chaos to attempt to stay in power, just as the corporate executive does in their feeble attempts to hold a corner office as young challengers seek to knock them out of that office and the prestige that goes with it. We are seeing the great undoing of that power structure and all the conspiracies they have used to stay in power. Mankind is doing more than walking on the moon, it is reclaiming its rightful place as a creator within the universe, and the power structure of kings, which is more ancient than ancient history itself, is falling apart and coming to an end, which is why our times are so violent and chaotic. But fret not; there is light at the end of the tunnel, and something new and better is just beyond. We won’t be able to experience it until the kings are out of the way and not trying to funnel the efforts of human imagination through their limited means to grapple with the pressure of innovation and imagination. And once they fall and their roots into the past to preserve their rights to dominate all society have expired, we will find a new day filled with great optimism and a chance for a future that has never been contemplated in all of human history.

Rich Hoffman

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The Twitter Conspiracy: When they all come true, then what?

It is an amazing time, and as terrible as things look today, much of the reason is that for first-time in history people see things for how they really have been.  Since the start of the television era, people have wanted to believe what they saw on television and trust the commentators there. They heard people speak on the radio and wanted to believe they were authority figures who knew what they were talking about and wouldn’t lie to them. Then, of course, we had a whole generation of thieves and crooks who figured out how to game such a system. They moved into legal professions and PR firms to assist the criminal in dressing up their public image with a con job that would make even the most proficient pickpocketer from yesteryear blush by the audacity. The temptation to abuse the relationship that people would have with mass media was too tempting not to exploit. The worst people of the human race migrated to that field of endeavor for that very reason, to exploit an unsuspecting public through a new media consumption device. Unlike a newspaper, where you had to work to get the information, television and radio gave you the information and the interpretation of its merit. All you had to do was look at it. Then, when the next media revolution came along through the internet, we should expect more of the same on a much broader scale. This is precisely what happened, and all this came to a smashing stop in 2020 when those scandalous characters in the media made a power move that was the ultimate abuse of authority; they tried to make an alliance with big government to sell the lie that was Covid-19 and that disguised behind the virus released from a Chinese lab in Wuhan to bring about the Great Reset from the World Economic Forum, which consists essentially of all the world’s biggest media corporations, they stole an election so they could get rid of a president they didn’t like, and the evidence of all that is in the Twitter files that were released after Elon Musk purchased the company and opened things up for everyone to see.

When Elon Musk recently said that all the conspiracy theories about Twitter turned out to be true, he wasn’t speaking in riddles or trying to be funny. People knew there were problems with Twitter and they had never seen censorship China style in America on that scale before, which was shocking. It was stunning to see them remove an American president from that social media platform the way they did and to ban others who were very influential in the MAGA movement. We had never seen Twitter make such a move in other places in the world, especially the various color revolutions or even the caliphate movement in Egypt, where the museum of Cairo was being ransacked, and the efforts were coordinated on Twitter. Or when Antifa took over cities with violence, and Twitter was the information carrier. Twitter had built up a reputation as a free speech platform, so people had learned to trust it; then, we saw the truth during 2020 that Twitter was only free speech as long as they were driving a political agenda they agreed with. For political opposition, they would become active in destroying them, which is exactly what Twitter did to members of the MAGA movement. I was undoubtedly on that list, so when conspiracy theories formed about the relationship Twitter had with the government, I found them credible in the context of the evidence being concealed from us. 

And because Elon Musk purchased Twitter, he was able to do something very unique, and that was to reveal all the information that had been suppressed, such as in learning that Twitter was essentially an intelligence agency manipulation tool that the CIA could use against political parties in America to stay in power. And why wouldn’t anybody think that would have happened? Did they think they could trust these people not to abuse their power? When in history has such a temptation been managed? I would say never. If you give anybody too much power over your life, they will abuse it 100% of the time. It’s just the way all minds think, even artificial intelligence. It’s the nature of the power-hungry to protect themselves from the judgments of others. So corruption will happen 100% of the time, and the only recourse is the judgment of peers in the matter. I was never surprised by what Twitter did and how wrapped up they were in the corrupt nature of American intelligence agencies like the FBI and the CIA. Twitter made their jobs easier, so the temptation to abuse it was way too enticing, and they did. There is no dispute now whether abuses of power occurred or how much. The conspiracy theories about Twitter and their motivations are no longer concealed, and a unique problem has been placed in our lap for the first time since mass media emerged. Before, we might have rationalized that it was all too big for us to do anything about; we wanted the illusion, so we fed the mess. But now we have proof of our greatest fears regarding big government and what it expects out of us, and it has scared people.

Then, consider that Twitter is just one little media company in the scheme of things. The same conspiracies were formed about Facebook and all of Google, showing the same behavior trends with Deep State actors from the global Administrative State. For all those who chastised those who ushered conspiracy theory as a response to the emergence of Big Tech, I would refer everyone to the story I told while on the set of a film project in 2008, while at the catering truck. There were a bunch of actors there; Peter Facinelli was there as well as his wife from the popular show Beverly Hills 90210, a football player from the Carolina Panthers, an actress fresh off the set of Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and many tech heads and producers from RealD 3D who were working with Jim Cameron on camera concepts for the new Avatar film that was coming out soon. And the push at that table where I was talking to all these people was to get on the hot new platform called Facebook, and everyone was mystified that Mark Zuckerberg was a billionaire at the ripe age of 21. Many of those actors were solicited to get on the platform to lend credibility. And I told all of them that Facebook was an intelligence operation that was being created to gather up private information on billions of people. Otherwise, how would a free service to the public make a dating app into a multibillion-dollar company so quickly and make one of the wealthiest people in the world out of a kid? I told them I wasn’t going to get on it, and they all laughed and rationalized that I was just a conservative from Cincinnati who would catch the Hollywood trends ten years too late. That the future was happening right then and there, and they were all excited about it. They meant it all in good fun when they called me a conspiracy theorist. Well, who turned out to be right more than ten years later?

Rich Hoffman

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The Elon Musk Pronouns: Yes, “prosecute Fauci” is the most viable next step in regards to the Covid bioweapon

Of course, Elon Musk was right when he said on Twitter that his pronoun was “prosecute Fauci.” That statement has received much attention since the world’s richest man said it, and it’s a consistent theme I have been stating from the beginning. Covid was a bioweapon attack by competing world governments that was facilitated domestically by sympathetic agencies who clearly committed treason and sedition in the process of unleashing it upon the world, which killed lots of people and destroyed economies. At the very least, Dr. Fauci lied to Congress about his role in gain of function and his email strings of who knew what about the man-made virus and what his role was in it. That by itself would be enough for prosecution. But by this point, the evidence is abundant that Covid was a malicious and purposeful attack and Anthony Fauci, a top-level government employee, purposely kept medicine away from the sick with hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, which could have helped people get over Covid, and stop spreading the virus. Instead, what Fauci recommended, and what the CDC followed was the most destructive path possible for the Covid 19 virus that was made in China under the supervision of Dr. Fauci and those he controlled through finance, and the ultimate sugar daddy in the whole escapade, Fauci’s partner Bill Gates. Their many crimes were outlined in the very good book by Robert Kennedy, The Real Anthony Fauci, published in 2021. Just about every page of that book is yet another indictment on Anthony Fauci. Of course, the lawyers on the government side have been threatening Kennedy about the book’s contents, which include the complicity of the Department of Defense as some of the guilty parties. They would love to sue Kennedy for his tell-all book about the prosecutorial details of what was revealed about what Dr. Fauci did wrong and to what extent. But they can’t. Courts have a funny way of revealing the truth, and when the perpetrators know that they are guilty, they certainly can’t go to court and admit to it through cross-examination. 

And there is a sequel coming out to that book by Kennedy at the start of 2023 called The Wuhan Cover-up. The first book sold millions of copies and was exceptionally well-researched and written in the language that lawyers can use for prosecution. I thought the first book was plenty, but this second book has taken Kennedy a while. He has pushed back the release date a few times to get everything right, and when it comes out, Dr. Fauci will be happy to have been retired and out of the public eye. It won’t stop the court proceedings. For the rest of his life, Dr. Fauci will answer questions in court. At 80 years old, he likely will die before he is officially prosecuted for what he has done. And, of course, he is denying everything like all these government workers do who have no accountability to the public, as they have been trained to expect. But the truth has been coming out for a while, and long after Dr. Fauci is gone, for decades, people are still going to be putting their minds around what happened with the Covid virus and just how sinister it all was. How many of the government’s actions on it destroyed people’s lives, then the cover-up after that? Kennedy has really earned my respect, as a Democrat, with his work on this issue. Other books have told the true story of what Covid was and who knew what and when. But the Kennedy books are the dreams of prosecutors because they lay out the cases as they can stand in court, and Dr. Fauci knows it. That’s why he’s retiring. 

I remember the day that Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates personally advised President Trump on the lockdowns in America. It was an election year. China wanted to hit Trump hard for the trade deficit talks. And the established world of politics wanted Trump gone. Trump was wondering what to do, and here come these trusted people, Fauci and Gates, who proposed severe lockdowns to deal with Covid. Trump did what they didn’t want: to shut down flights from China to stop the spread. But it was already too late. At that time, I was in an airport in Orlando, Florida, in a room full of thousands of people waiting for delayed flights and trying to find somewhere open and safe for an oversea call on business. The Covid story was breaking, and it at that time looked like the work of a bioweapon during an election year, and I was looking at the weapons of that political war all around me. People from all over the world who flew in to go to Disney World and give innocent people Covid to carry back to their communities to infect other people and spread this virus to conduct the kind of war Fauci knew he was playing from the beginning. So yes, he was guilty, and he knows he’s guilty. The receipts say so, which is why Dr. Fauci has not been able to bring a lawsuit forth to shut Robert Kennedy up from writing these tell-all books. 

What’s interesting about Elon Musk buying Twitter and now revealing all the documents that were behind Covid is which American intelligence agencies were aware of what was going on, and they weren’t making moves to save us; they were looking to perpetuate the virus to escalate the danger and use that danger to gain control of the population politically. In Kennedy’s new book, it states that US Health Officials, like Dr. Fauci, conspired with the Chinese military to hide the origins of Covid-19. And like the first book, the new book will be filled with prosecutable proof. But worse than all that is what we learned about Twitter and its role with these same intelligence agencies, which have now been caught in the big election frauds of 2020 and 2022. The way that Twitter censored information about Covid that might cause people to ask the obvious questions was detrimental to people’s protections under the Constitution and how free speech keeps bad characters in check. Knowing what we do now about Twitter’s relationship with the Deep State, we can now see that other players, like Facebook and Google, were equally involved in the crimes as our government, represented most obviously by Dr. Fauci, threw gas on the fire, on purpose to contribute to the destruction of America as a country. Dr. Fauci is not a hero like the liberal media would like to pretend. He is the face of a government that lied to people and threatened them with any means possible to shut them up and intimidate them into suppression.

Meanwhile, people died, and their lives were ruined to facilitate that Great Reset that Klaus Schwab and the Desecrators of Davos purposely planned across the world to destroy sovereign economies in favor of a new universal currency which they controlled through the China Model. Covid was a military attack, and Dr. Fauci was one of the field generals and was well aware of what he was doing. If he could get justice in court, he would have. But he can’t, which Elon Musk knows now that he has purchased Twitter and turned it from a government propaganda asset to an actual utilizer of free speech, which is what it should have always been. But now, unlike the past months from the start of Covid until the present, we know the crimes and who perpetrated them. And what Musk said about Fauci was true, and then some. There is plenty of punishment to go around, but in this case, it starts with Anthony Fauci and those he supervised.   Then extends to much worse characters from there. 

Rich Hoffman

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We Need 16 Billion People, Not just 8: The genocide from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum that desire a much lower number

I’m prepared to call it what it is, what we are dealing with on planet earth, and that is a cult of death, a purposeful genocide to kill the perceived enemy over the classic motivation of religious persecution, that is essentially as old as time. And the intent comes from the Desecrators of Davos, the members of the World Economic Forum who have an occult love for Mother Earth and wish to remove any perceived threats to it to satisfy their view of the world. Bill Gates comes to mind when thinking about this subject because he is on record for wanting to reduce the earth’s population to help make a more sustainable world. And this is the same kind of language we hear from the United Nations, a more “sustainable world.” Well, sustainable for who, and who will decide such things for us? Who are they to decide on what is sustainable or not relative to what you or I might think? And what you will find when you ask that question is that Gates and many others, such as the people who built the Georgia Guidestones or created the art at the Denver airport, show an obvious apocalypse. Many of the images that foretold the government’s approach to Covid-19 many years before it happened, as if it were a plot against humanity, the intent by those serving the cult of Earth Worship are purposely committing genocide against the world’s population in all the classic ways that those intentions have been utilized throughout history. And now that it has been announced that there are 8 billion people on earth, those factions are expressing themselves with increased desperation, which has given away their game plan all along. 

Before calling it genocide and the intentional murder of billions of people, the climate change activists behind the earth worship movement are seeking to reduce the earth’s population to much less to take the pressure off the earth and its support of human beings. They view it as thinning the population to benefit earth. Certainly not for the humans who live on it. I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last few years, especially due to what we learned about the Phizer vaccines and the government’s role in forcing its consumption to shorten people’s lifespans dramatically.  (Moderna is no better)  You may or may not have noticed that reported deaths are getting lower, where people dying in their 50s and 60s are increasing in our post-Covid world. There has been a flood of Tik Tok celebrities and other notable young people in their 20s and 30s who are dropping dead for no apparent reason. The media is reporting it as if it were a naturally occurring thing. The perception of saving every life until that life can’t live any longer has changed to deciding how long is enough. If a person gets elderly and is going to put too much of a burden on a country’s health care system, then it makes sense to let them just die with assisted suicide, from the point of view of these kinds of people. There has been a decided shift in sentiment towards life and death by this earth worship cult, and the cover for them has been the bioweapon that Covid was. Remember what I always said from the beginning: Covid was a bioweapon created in a lab in China, Wuhan. It was distributed around the world to control human populations by the governments controlled by the Desecrators of Davos, who hide behind their billionaire fortunes and spend their money on their religion of earth worship and the destruction of threats they perceive are happening to that world. The Covid virus gave the means to inject the population with dangerous medicine that is having an effect on lifespans, and the blame will then go to other factors instead of the actual villain, which essentially is a form of religious genocide that is just as dangerous, and likely, more dangerous than any previous attempt in world history.

My conclusions on the matter have been in thinking about the original dispute over the land of Israel when God promised the people of Moses freed from Egypt the land of Abraham. God had promised the Israelites the complete destruction of the people of Canaan and that he would pave the way for their occupation of the land. And why Canaan? Well, because of the nakedness that Ham had witnessed in Noah for which Canaan, Noah’s grandson, had to pay for the wrath of what looks to have been a sexual assault case of Ham against Noah while the elder was drunk, sons against the father. And so the people of Canaan were forever the target of that wrath by God, and they deserved to be eradicated by any means necessary. From there, many holocausts have occurred that have been justified by religious persecution using the Bible as justification, such as Cortez destroying the Aztecs and Mayas, the foundation of America as a country against the Indians, or the Catholic Church destroying Protestants, or any trace of the Gnostics. And to this day, different versions of the Abraham religions are at war with each other at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. So from that perspective, people who see the human race as a virus to the world energies of planet Earth could easily say they did it, so we are justified to apply the same techniques back in their direction. Which when you talk to those types of people at a dinner party, like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and their cult of doom in Davos, those are the kinds of justifications they have for abortion, for mandated vaccines, and government-imposed violence for which they pull the strings with finance. 

So we must fight them knowing what they intend, and regarding the earth’s population, I would argue that we need twice as many, 16 billion, or even more. The earth is here to serve the human race, not the other way around and our job as a species is to get off the planet before something happens that will destroy the earth anyway, like some naturally occurring cataclysm floating around in space that has killed many planets not just in our own solar system, but throughout our galaxy and others. If Elon Musk’s political attitude has made a noticeable shift over this same period of time, it’s clear that he understands the math. Human beings need to be growing as a population, not retracting. To move into space, we need a lot more humans to expand our economies with more products to make it possible to do such an ambitious thing. And he can see that government-imposed controls will not allow that to happen. So he is working in that direction these days, towards more freedom for more people and divorcing himself from the China model, which has been at the core of the Desecrators of Davos strategy for many decades. The goal of governments is to make things easier on them, which means fewer people to manage, especially if the Desecrators of Davos rig elections and those are the masters they learn they must serve to stay in power. But everything points back to the same essential problem that we must name to gain the ability to solve the problem, its genocide that the World Economic Forum has in mind, and they are looking at history as its justification. Now, I can make an argument in favor of the Israelites and for Christianity in general, and we certainly will in the coming months and years. But for now, understand that the fight of the day is for the United Nations types who worship climate change and, in general, the ancient gods of earth worship, to reduce the world population from what it is now, over 8 billion people. For the pro-growth types, 8 billion isn’t near enough. But the climate change fanatics want the number to be under 4 billion, and they are willing to commit genocide through many methods to get there. 

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Happy We Are Going Back to Mars with Starship: The evidence points to lots of human interaction between the Red Planet and Earth many years in the past

Well, I mean exactly that when I say I’m looking forward to returning to Mars. I do indeed mean, return. I’m very excited for the next SpaceX mission into space with its Starship orbiter. Going to Mars is important, even if the Biden administration isn’t at all excited about it. In fact, the entire Liberal World Order isn’t excited about it, and for a good reason. Options take power away from them, and they want limited options for the human race to give themselves more power. It’s the classic problem of those in communist countries trying to flee those places for freer destinations. That is the same reason the Biden administration and Liberal World Order are generally not excited about commercial space travel. They want a centralized government controlling everything, and humanity moving into a space-oriented civilization only complicates that for them. So, of course, the FFA is slow to give SpaceX permits, and that will have to change for Elon Musk to do what he wants, which is to send hundreds of Starships to Mars and the Moon soon so that mankind can finally take that giant leap that started with the moon, but stopped when NASA became overrun with mindless bureaucrats, congressional funding based purely on politics, and a world order that wanted to make Earth the center of the universe so they could maintain power, and to keep it that way. But SpaceX has their permit for the orbital launch, which will happen in late October or early November, which is very exciting. Mars awaits. 

I live in mound country, and there  is a mound near my home that I have talked about a lot, the Middletown Mound, which is essentially a twin to the one up the Great Miami River called Miamisburg Mound. I’ve been to the Stonehenge site with Avebury to the north and saw firsthand that their Silbury Mound is almost identical in height to the Miamisburg Mound and the Middletown Mound before it was looted in the late 1800s, and further excavation was mysteriously abandoned. Knowing the mounds well from my home in the Ohio Valley and seeing several along the Mississippi Valley over the years, when I saw the ground structures of Stonehenge and Avebury, I immediately recognized them as the same culture, meaning they had been communicating across the Atlantic Ocean well before Christ was born which meant that shipping that could make the voyage was possible. And since then, I have been looking for answers to the many questions that arise when those possibilities are considered. Then the problem gets even more complex when it has been photographed that on Mars, in what many call the remains of a city near the now famous face, there are complex mound structures too, much like Miamisburg, Middletown, and Silbury. So rather than speculate based on what we see in pictures photographed from a long way away, I am looking forward to capitalist-driven archaeology to investigate as part of the Elon Musk population of Mars plan that will finally have an opportunity to check these things out with eyes on the ground and figure out what really happened, and where the human race actually started.

This is all speculation but based on hypothetical knowledge based on the evidence that we have so far been able to gather, Mars, around 17,000 years ago, looks to have been hit by a very large planetary object from the southern hemisphere pushing up toward the north. The impact was so significant that the crust of Mars in the northern part of the planet was punched away, nearly destroying the planet entirely. The debris field between Jupiter and Mars is likely evidence of the intended killer. And still, on Earth, a lot of debris continues to fall each year as it is still floating around in space, only to be eventually caught in our gravitational pull. It might take several more thousand years for it all to fall on Earth and surrounding planets. Science fiction movies don’t do a very good job of capturing the timeline of geology in space.

Along with this cataclysm, the atmosphere was ripped away, and the oceans of Mars evaporated into space, never to return and what we see now is a husk of a planet once thriving with life, just as life on Earth is now. Understanding what happened and how it may very well be that life left that planet for a safer place, perhaps millions of years ago, or even during the last Ice Age, to become the Atlantis culture that is much talked about is undoubtedly worth an investigation. Pretty cool stuff if you aren’t in love with the silly modern interpretation of things, the same scientists who told us not to take Hydroxychloroquine during the manmade Covid outbreak of 2020. You must always be careful of science that gets paid by funders who demand a narrative and not what science actually produces with hard evidence. Speaking of evidence right in front of our faces, I was just in Michigan looking at the impact crater that made Saginaw Bay to confirm the evidence about the Younger Dryas cataclysm that took place 11,600 years ago, roughly. It looks like that large comet very likely could have been pieces of the hard impact that nearly destroyed Mars just a few thousand years earlier. The puzzle pieces begin to go together pretty fast when you look at all the pieces, not just what governments give us to look at based on their desire to control our assumptions, for many reasons.  The mound cultures in the Ohio River Valley have always been associated with Indians. Still, it’s evident that these were not a culture of primitive hunters and gatherers. Still, within their body of knowledge, they had concepts of advanced geometry and calculus and a very detailed mythology involving stellar bodies. They had a relationship with the stars that exceeds what hunters and gathers would otherwise have reason to nurture, other than looking up and seeing that they were there. This is particularly obvious at Serpent Mound in eastern Ohio and the Newark Mound complex just outside of Columbus, Ohio. The Newark Holy Stones found there in 1860 are rationalized now by lazy scientists as a hoax, but I don’t think so. And I don’t think so based on the Cincinnati and Wilmington Tablets also found in mounds around Ohio that do not connect directly to what we know of Indian cultures.

They depict an early version of the Ten Commandments in a place where nobody in an Indian tribe would know anything about a Biblical context. The controversy reminds me of a discussion I had with an employee at the British Museum over the Crystal Skull they have there. He stated to me that the skull had to be a hoax because nobody in Europe had come up with the ability to cut quartz so smoothly until much later than the dating proposed for that Crystal Skull found in Mexico. So everyone just wrote it off as a hoax because it didn’t fit the narrative. But what if the narrative didn’t have all the words, I proposed back to him. What if some cultures had developed such methods while other cultures were thousands of years behind in evolution, and we just haven’t discovered the connection yet? To assume that Europe evolved at a certain pace and everyone else in the world followed that trajectory is not very smart. But that was the suggestion. And as we know from the Vico Cycle, that may be the case for the human race over many millions of years, not just the most recent thousands. There is still a lot of evidence to collect to put the story together, but what we do have does not point to the history we know but one we are yet to discover. And when we get to Mars, it looks like many more pieces will be discovered, and we’ll learn a whole lot more about ourselves.

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Elon Musk Voting for Republicans: There is no way an intelligent person can support Democrats for anything

The sudden shock of Elon Musk saying that he is now a Republican or that he’ll vote Republican in the upcoming midterms is not a surprise. Actually, as a guy now in his 50s, he’s right on course for where many people arrive during their lives if they have reasonable intelligence. You really can’t be an intelligent person and be a Democrat. It’s impossible to reconcile intelligence with liberalism. Liberalism is a feeling not founded in logic, so anybody who has some level of intelligence will eventually figure out that liberal ideas are ridiculously stupid. Elon Musk has tried to make liberal ideas work. He was successful young and enjoyed the company of idealistic young people. He even smoked pot on the Joe Rogan podcast. But he has never been good with the Biden administration. Biden wants electric cars with massive government infrastructure. Musk has built several companies that are very independent of government influence, even if he did take government subsidies to start those companies. Ultimately, Musk has learned a hard lesson in life that the government wants to run private industry and their means to do that is always through labor unions under the protection of the Department of Labor. So the Biden administration has targeted Tesla with its wrath to protect their own investment into Ford and General Motors, hoping to use high gas prices to drive consumers to buy those dumb electric cars, the fancy golf carts. Tesla was the first, but the government wants them and Elon Musk out of the way because Musk won’t allow unions to run his shops, and a hard lesson has been learned that has caused the billionaire to look to Republicans for sanity.

This path that Musk is on, a gradual conversion over to Republican thought, isn’t new. Ronald Reagan went on a similar track. So did Donald Trump. There are lots of people who used to be Democrats who get to their 40s and 50s and life and realize that Democrats are takers, looters, and every kind of parasite that you can imagine. And they grow up and away from liberalism and become more conservative as they get older. Musk has been saying that he has stayed the same but that the political spectrum has moved radically to the left, which is true to a certain extent. The political left we see today is what I have been saying for decades was always beneath the surface.

But additionally, there comes a time when you realize that doing business with Democrats is impossible unless you give over everything you own to their view of collectivism. With Musk doing so well with Tesla and SpaceX, it’s clear that he will not be able to control those companies and still continue to vote as a Democrat. The illusion that Democrats are anything but professional looters in the world comes to anybody who lives long enough to reconcile reality. You hear a lot of Democrats who become Republicans. But you don’t see a lot of Republicans turning into Democrats. When you look at an electoral map of America, there aren’t many Democrat blue areas. There are massive groups of dependents made that way due to Democrat socialism, but people generally don’t choose to penalize themselves with liberal ideas. That is another reason why Democrats are always looking for young people and illegal immigrants to keep their political base intact. Democrats need people without much life experience or understanding of the American way of life to buy into their collectivist political philosophies because they lose many of their members to Republicans, especially later in life. For Democrats, the political game is just smoke and mirrors. 

Musk’s journey was inevitable. Traditional conservatives may not want to let Musk have a seat at the table due to his beliefs in transhumanism and non-Biblical thoughts. But in the world of ideas, all conservatives have some basic concepts in common, the understanding that government doesn’t make jobs. It simply loots off what others do create. For Musk, there is no way to go to Mars and have a human race that moves into space to live. No socialist community on Mars will be successful, so when you look at things like that, the only way to fulfill Elon Musk’s dreams of going to space and living on Mars is to embrace capitalism aggressively because there is no other way to start a prosperous society or to maintain it without capitalism. All the variations of Karl Marx’s philosophy were always rooted in failure, which is to say all of the modern Democrat party and anybody in the world who calls themselves a progressive. Many people go to college and learn a liberal education. They do all the dumb liberal stuff like party too much and listen to all the wrong kinds of music. They try to dedicate their lives to altruism. But once those people start having families and those families grow up, it becomes quite apparent to most intelligent people that Democrats are the wrong way to go, and they gradually turn into Republicans. I would go so far as to say that you cannot call yourself smart and not be a Republican. It’s not a matter of team politics; it’s simple logic. A person’s journey along a political spectrum is driven by what works in the world and what doesn’t. 

The contrasts between a Trump presidency and now the Biden mess will produce many more Elon Musk types who used to walk the fence between liberals and conservatives. I never liked the murky middle because it allows the looters of the world to hide among the good and hard working. Liberals are like the water boy on a football team that wins the Super Bowl. They get to be part of a winning team without doing much work at actually producing a win. Liberals suck the life out of everything they do, and when you build great companies like Elon Musk has, who are doing great things in the world, the problem moves from cosmetic lip service to liberalism to downright hatred.   Especially when you are the first to actually make electric cars to make all the environmental climate change fanatics happy, only to be shoved out of the market because the local labor union isn’t running the management of your company, once you realize how the game is played and what Democrats actually stand for, there is no way a reasonable person could call themselves one. I watched Donald Trump go through the same basic trajectory in his life. When he was doing The Apprentice for NBC, he was much like Musk, playing on the liberal side of things. But Trump married a conservative woman who pulled him in the right direction, and over time, during his marriage, he had no choice but to move toward the Republican Party. Many people were like Trump and Musk; they might be fiscally conservative but socially liberal. However, life has a way of demanding that fiscal and social policy must be aligned; there is no way to cheat the system. You can’t behave like a liberal at a dinner party and still run great companies, or a great country, or even raise a good family. You have to be conservative to do things well in life, which means that those who want to do well must become Republicans. Elon Musk is a smart guy and, late in life, has figured out the obvious. So it’s no miracle that he’s planning to vote Republican. And behind him are a whole lot of other people too, who have come to the same conclusions. They always do.   

Rich Hoffman

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We’re Not Anti-Government, We’re Anti-Stupid: Government needs to be the refs, not the players in the game

We’re not Anti-Government, Just Anti-Stupid

I’ve heard what Steve Bannon has said about Elon Musk on the War Room podcast, and I understand it to a point. Yes, Elon Musk has made deals with China, and knowing what we do now, in hindsight, it was a terrible idea. It’s the same situation with other billionaires like Ray Dalio. He has invested heavily in the prospect of an expanding middle class in China, where corporations think all the new money in the world will come from. I would not say Steve is wrong. But he’s only partly correct. People evolve their beliefs over time depending on good and bad ideas that transpire through the course of events, and they do change their minds; and I see in Elon Musk a mind that is evolving in the correct direction. Our job as change agents is to allow changing minds into our tent for tactical reasons, but without losing ourselves in the process. For instance, during the ESPN2 Manning podcast of the Monday Night Football game, Aaron Rogers abruptly started talking about Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged. Here we have a sports jock speaking in popular culture about Ayn Rand, one of the most controversial writers in American history and world history. Many of the ideas discussed on the War Room and here on the Gunfighter’s Guide are percolating into popular culture, which is a great thing. But with new interest from people who may not have been thinking about such things in the past come all their past mistakes. So, I think it’s a good idea to bring them into the camp, allow them to get warm by the fire, and keep our eye on them as to misdeeds. But in the case of Elon Musk, he said something recently that is irrelevant to his patriotic status and is entirely accurate and worth talking about as a critical strategic need within the freedom movement.

I heard it in a couple of different interviews; one was with Musk and the satire website The Babylon Bee. I can understand the skepticism of Bannon in what Musk’s intentions are since he has been so profitable in relations with communist China. But I see other things going on with Elon Musk. He is a problem solver, and he’s looking at the potential for a Mars colony and thinking about what kind of government will allow it to thrive, based on what we all know now from history and what is working up-close here in the present. He has been told no on several permits to fly Starship into space on test flights due to environmental concerns, so he is seeing the negatives of a communist type of government up close and personal. He may have profited from those relationships, but he has also learned some valuable lessons that are worth listening to. These days Musk is saying that governments should be more like referees in society than players in the game. That, in essence, has been the goal of the Tea Party movement for years, and it is undoubtedly the intention of the MAGA movement. Musk said it nicely in a way that many have struggled to put words to for a long time when talking about limited government.   What is it, and why does it work better? 

People have always associated me with an anti-government movement. That is how they often see the freedom movement in general, whether we are talking about the Tea Party, MAGA, or the current America First Policy Institute. The people who make up the name-calling are usually significant government types who love Karl Marx so that less government would be detrimental from their point of view. And by default, whether it’s a sports jock like Aaron Rogers, a political strategist like Steve Bannon, or an eclectic engineer with vast financial resources to make what he wants, the name-calling by the left usually defines the political reality because all the names mentioned are too busy being productive to work together on a counter-punch. But Musk and his need to solve the problems of interplanetary sustainability must figure out the puzzle of good government, and it has taken him more toward the freedom movement than toward communism. For that, many should be grateful. Because once thought like that enters popular culture, to the point where Aaron Rogers is talking about Atlas Shrugged on a football broadcast, there are significant cultural shifts on the horizon that few are really prepared for. Arbitrary definitions of people are not as crucial as proper utilization of the sentiments.

I would never have called myself “anti-government.” Instead, I have always been “anti-stupid.” There are many stupid people in the world, and the bigger the government is, the more of a chance that stupid people will end up in government, causing all of us a headache. So, it’s quite natural not to want stupid people to be in charge of our lives, so in that way, we want the small government to weaken the impact that stupid people will have on our lives. But what Elon Musk said was more on target. Government is there to make sure that the rules of the games we play in managing our society occur to bring about the best outcomes.   As I say in the video above, we can look at an empty field and consider it without value until we decide to play a soccer game or football game on it with all the rules that have been created to allow the drama of such an event to transpire. Government should referee those games; they should not be the players themselves. Because many of them are stupid and valueless types of people, our current government wants to use the protection of the referee position to rig the games for wins instead of letting the games play out and evoking a winner and loser based on skill and persistence. 

And that is the real goal; we aren’t trying to get rid of the government; we need the government to make sure that things work right in society. But we must distinguish that government is not a player on the field but are just there to make sure the game is fair. In essence, the heart of all our problems is that too many in government presently want to be the players, not the referees, and they got into politics for all the wrong reasons. From Elon Musk’s point of view or Aaron Rogers, they have previously functioned quite well in the world with the political rules bent slightly toward corruption. Still, nobody cared as long as they got what they wanted out of the deal. But upon success, and continued frustration in dealing with the government, whether it’s over a permit to fly into space or Covid restrictions and vaccine mandates, the bug of awful play-calling has affected just about everyone these days, and they are looking for solutions. Our task within that movement is to find them a place around the campfire and expand the reach of our shared objectives, which is to see that our games in life are fair so that we can then concentrate on being the best we can be within those rules. And in any healthy society, whether on earth or Mars, that needs to be what we spend our time on, and not trying to fend off referees who want to be the players of the game, without the risk of being exposed as unskilled and stupid.

Rich Hoffman

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