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The Smoking Gun of Windover: What NAGPRA was meant to conceal

I have been reflecting deeply on this as April 9th rolls around—my birthday—and I decided this year I would give myself something truly personal, something that excites me at the core of my being and ties together years of my own research, political observations, and that relentless drive to uncover truths that the system tries to bury. It is not some flashy gift or a day off from the work I do for everyone else; instead, it is this deep dive into what I consider one of the most important archaeological revelations of our lifetime, a site that serves as a smoking gun for so many historical narratives that have been twisted, politicized, and deliberately constrained. I am talking about the Windover archaeological site in Central Florida, that extraordinary bog cemetery near Titusville, just up the road from the Kennedy Space Center, where an accidental discovery in the mid-1980s peeled back layers of prehistory in ways that challenge everything we have been taught about the peopling of North America, the sophistication of ancient cultures, and the very foundations of modern political narratives about land, history, and who truly belongs here. I have poured over the rare academic book that documented it all—Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Archaic Florida Cemetery, edited by Glen H. Doran and published by the University Press of Florida in 2002—and it has become my birthday present to myself because it represents a narrow window into truth before the doors slammed shut with laws like NAGPRA. I invite everyone who reads this to share in that excitement with me, because this is not just dusty bones in a pond; it is evidence of a sophisticated society that predates the standard Beringia migration story by thousands of years in meaningful ways, and it exposes how politics, not science, has been driving the suppression of our deep past.  

I first came across references to this site years ago in my own independent studies of ancient American history, the kind of reading I do late at night after dealing with local politics here in Butler County, Ohio, or after watching the national scene unfold with all its layers of deception. Back then, I was already skeptical of the official timelines pushed in academia—the neat little story that indigenous peoples crossed the Bering land bridge around 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, spread south as hunter-gatherers, and that everything before European contact fits neatly into that box with tribes like the Iroquois, Lakota, or Sioux representing the “original” inhabitants. But Windover blew that open for me in a way nothing else had. Discovered accidentally in 1982 or early 1984 when a backhoe operator for a housing development called Windover Farms scooped up a human skull while digging in a small peat bog pond, it quickly became clear this was no recent crime scene. County medical examiners dated the remains as ancient, and that led to Florida State University anthropologist Glen Doran stepping in as principal investigator. From 1984 through about 1987, his team excavated roughly half of this half-acre pond cemetery under challenging wet-site conditions, uncovering the remains of at least 168 individuals—men, women, and children, from infants to elders around 60—buried in a deliberate, logical manner that suggested a thoughtful, organized society. What made it extraordinary was the preservation: the acidic yet neutral-pH peat bog acted like a natural time capsule, keeping not just bones but also soft tissue intact. We are talking brain tissue still present in 91 skulls, some with cellular structure preserved enough for DNA extraction; skin on the bodies; even the last meals still identifiable in their stomachs. They had clothing woven from plant fibers—some of the oldest and most complex textiles ever found in the New World, requiring looms or advanced weaving techniques that nobody expected for an “Archaic” period people 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. Wooden artifacts, bone and antler tools, a bottle gourd—evidence of a culture far more advanced than the simple hunter-gatherer label academia slaps on prehistory.  

An amazing book!

I have that Doran book—it is a thick, technical volume, the kind produced in limited academic runs, probably only a few thousand copies worldwide, and I feel fortunate to have one because it captures every multidisciplinary angle: environmental analysis, radiocarbon dating pinning the site firmly to around 6000-5000 BC, mortuary patterns showing bodies often placed with poles or stakes to keep them submerged, facing north with heads turned west in what looks like a deliberate ritual orientation toward the setting sun and perhaps some spiritual reverence. The people themselves were robust; average adult males stood about five feet nine inches, taller and healthier than many later prehistoric groups, with some individuals pushing six feet or more based on femur lengths and bone density—enough to fuel those early newspaper reports of “giants” in North America before institutionalized science dismissed them as hoaxes or exaggerations. There is no wild conspiracy in Doran’s work; it is straight, careful archaeology by scientists who genuinely loved the field and rushed to document everything because they sensed the political tides turning. Half the cemetery was left untouched, and today the site sits under a plaque in a wooded subdivision, a National Historic Landmark with no further major digs. That is the tragedy I keep coming back to, and it is why Windover feels like the smoking gun for me. 

What hit me hardest when I dug into the details—and this is where my own political experience from years fighting school levies, local corruption, and national narratives in Ohio gives me a unique lens—is how perfectly timed this discovery was before the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) slammed the brakes on American archaeology. NAGPRA passed Congress on November 16, 1990, right after the Windover excavations wrapped up and right around the cultural frenzy sparked by Dances with Wolves, that Hollywood epic romanticizing the Sioux and framing Western expansion as pure theft of indigenous land. I have studied how bills get written, who lobbies them, and the closed-door intentions behind them, and NAGPRA was loaded with progressive language designed to solidify a specific narrative: America as stolen property from “Native Americans” defined by a very shallow historical scope. It required consultation with tribes for any remains or cultural items, mandated repatriation, and effectively shut down large-scale digs because developers and archaeologists alike knew that uncovering bones could halt projects, tie up land in legal battles, and invite tribal claims. Developers started burying finds quietly rather than reporting them, and grant money in academia dried up unless you played along with the official story. Windover happened in that narrow window before the law fully kicked in—Doran and his team worked fast, funded in part by the curious developers themselves, who paused their subdivision to allow proper science—and the result was this irreplaceable snapshot of an 8,000-year-old culture that does not neatly fit the Beringia-to-modern-tribes pipeline. 

The DNA analysis of the preserved brain tissue is what really undermines the premises on which NAGPRA was built. Studies showed genetic markers linking these Windover people to ancient Asian populations via the Beringia route, as expected—haplogroups like A, C, D, and even the rare X that pops up in some Native contexts—but crucially, they do not align closely with any living Native American tribes or even many known prehistoric groups. It suggests either their lineage died out, experienced a severe bottleneck, or represents a distinct early population that predates or diverged from the groups we retroactively label as “indigenous.” I am not here to take anything away from what we have been calling Native American communities or their cultural heritage; I respect the reverence for ancestors. But when you have remains this old—older than the pyramids, older than Mesopotamian civilizations in some contexts—and DNA that does not match the shallow 300-400-year tribal samples used to justify repatriation claims, who exactly do you hand them back to? The law assumes a direct, unbroken chain to contemporary tribes, but Windover proves the timeline, and the populations were far more complex. These were not simple hunter-gatherers; they had advanced textile production, implying looms; thoughtful burial rituals suggesting religion or cosmology; trade networks possibly reaching far beyond the region (given certain materials); and a settled community life in a resource-rich Florida environment when sea levels were lower and the coastline extended miles outward. Villages and mounds now submerged offshore hint at even broader Archaic networks. This site forces a reevaluation: the “Native American” designation under NAGPRA was built on politically convenient assumptions that ignored deeper prehistory, and that ignorance was weaponized to challenge the legitimacy of Western expansion and the founding of the United States itself. 

I see this as part of a larger pattern I have observed in my own work on politics and history—the way organized systems, often with roots in spiritual battles that play out in the terrestrial realm, rewrite narratives to maintain power. My upcoming book, The Politics of Heaven, dives straight into this because sites like Windover provide the hard evidence that legends, mythology, and even biblical accounts of ancient sophistication are not fairy tales. Think about it: these people knew how to weave delicate fabrics thousands of years before we associate such technology with the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, or Egypt. They cared for their sick and dead in a mass cemetery with ritual precision. Their stature and health suggest a robust population living in a stable society. And all of this at a time when the Ice Age was ending, sea levels were rising, and cultures we now call “Atlantis” in Platonic accounts or other global flood myths were supposedly migrating and seeding knowledge worldwide. Plato described Atlantis as an advanced civilization destroyed by catastrophe, with survivors spreading to Egypt, Britain, the Americas—places where we find sudden leaps in sophistication that do not fit the slow Beringia crawl. Windover fits as one piece of that puzzle: evidence of pre-Mesopotamian complexity right here in North America, with possible ties to shamanic or spiritual practices seen in even older Near Eastern sites. Take Qesem Cave near Tel Aviv in Israel, for example—an ancient site showing early humans (or pre-modern hominins) with innovative tool use, controlled fire, and communal activities dating back hundreds of thousands of years, far predating the standard timelines and hinting at organized, intelligent societies communicating with or revering something beyond the material world. Similar patterns appear in Natufian or shamanic contexts in the Levant around 13,000-10,000 BC, with ritual fires and early communal structures. These are not isolated; they point to a deep, sophisticated human history that institutional science, constrained by funding and politics, has been reluctant to explore fully. 

Here in North America, we have the same suppression at work, only dressed up as “reverence for indigenous rights.” Cahokia Mounds near St. Louis is another example I have studied closely—a massive Mississippian city around 1000-1400 AD with more people than London at the time, featuring the famous Birdman tablet and legends of Thunderbirds that echo across Native oral histories. Yet St. Louis was literally built on top of it, and we still vaguely associate it with later tribes despite clear discontinuities. Mound builders, Adena, Hopewell—earlier cultures with advanced earthworks and trade—get shoehorned into the same narrative, ignoring how each generation builds over the previous one, claiming territory like animals marking trees. Human nature drives this, but laws like NAGPRA freeze it artificially at a politically useful point: 1492 onward, with Europeans as the sole thieves. The reality, as Windover shows, is layered theft and migration going back millennia—groups taking from older groups, sophisticated societies rising and falling. If we had unrestricted digs, we could map this properly, learn from mistakes, and avoid repeating cycles of conquest and cultural erasure. Instead, the law—passed in that post-Dances with Wolves glow of guilt—created incentives to hide discoveries, starved archaeology of funding for controversial sites, and prioritized a narrative that undermines the Christian-influenced Western foundation of America. I know how these bills are crafted from my own experiences fighting local and state politics; the closed-door intentions are rarely about dead ancestors and always about power, land claims, and reshaping history to favor certain ideologies.

Glen Doran himself, who passed away in 2021, and his colleagues captured their frustration between the lines in that book. They knew NAGPRA was coming; they rushed the work because they understood the profession was about to be handcuffed. The peat chemistry, the pollen, the paleoethnobotany, the DNA—all of it documented before the repatriation machine could intervene. Yet even today, the remaining half of the pond sits largely untouched, and broader Florida bog sites or offshore mounds from lower sea-level eras go unexplored because developers fear land seizures and archaeologists fear grant denials or tribal vetoes. This is not reverence; it is concealment. I love true archaeology—the kind done in England on shows like Time Team, where they dig openly, analyze bones without mandatory handover, and let evidence speak. Here, the human need to know has been subordinated to politics, which is why Windover feels like such a miracle: it slipped through just before the gates closed. It validates folklore, Plato’s hints at Atlantis, global trade networks in deep antiquity, and even the idea that our origin stories—whether biblical, mythological, or shamanic—involve advanced pre-flood or pre-catastrophe civilizations that revered higher powers, appeased spirits, and built societies with ritual purpose. The Windover dead faced north, heads west toward the sunset—symbolism that screams cosmology, not random burial. They were not “cavemen”; they were part of something older and wiser than we have only breadcrumbs of now.

This all ties directly into the spiritual warfare I explore in my work—the fallen entities at war with creation itself, imprinting their influence on earthly power structures to erase God’s narrative and replace it with controlled ignorance. Laws like NAGPRA are not neutral; they serve to keep humanity deficient in knowledge, allowing modern political orders to maintain authority built on false premises. Western expansion brought a Christian viewpoint and free civilization that disrupted older pagan or shamanic systems, but if deeper evidence shows sophisticated pre-Columbian (and pre-Beringia in practice) cultures with their own complexities, the “stolen land” story loses its moral absolutism. Everyone stole from someone; history is layered conquest. The real crime is preventing inquiry that could reveal this, because it threatens the power base. Windover proves it in my eyes: 8,000-year-old brains yielding DNA that does not fit the 1990 legal template, textiles requiring technology we associate with much later eras, and a cemetery showing care and ritual in a society predating known tribes. It is the perfect example for my book because it shows how politics cascades from heavenly rebellion into terrestrial control—concealing evidence so the deficient knowledge keeps people dependent on the current narrative.

I have met enough people in politics over the years, from Tea Party rallies to local commissioners, to recognize when good intentions get co-opted by larger agendas. Archaeologists like Doran wanted knowledge; the system wanted control. That is why I judge these things rigorously in my own life and work—if you cannot manage truth at the foundational level, you cannot lead effectively elsewhere. Windover demands we repeal or heavily reform NAGPRA, not to disrespect anyone but to prioritize the human need to know over artificial constraints. We need more digs, more funding for wet sites in Florida and beyond, and more open analysis of offshore mounds from Ice Age coastlines. Only then can we bridge the gap between legend and evidence, avoid repeating past mistakes, and understand our true place in the deep timeline. This site, with its preserved last meals, woven fabrics, and unclaimed DNA, hints at Atlantis-like migrations, shamanic connections to the spirit world (echoing Qesem Cave’s early innovations or Cahokia’s Birdman symbolism), and a history far richer than the shallow one politicized in 1990.

As I celebrate another year on this earth, I find real joy in holding this truth close. It reinforces why I fight the battles I do—not just local levies or national elections, but the deeper war for accurate history. The Windover people were real, sophisticated, and part of something vast. Their story survived by accident in the bog, preserved long enough for us to glimpse it before the political machine intervened. That is my birthday gift: the excitement of knowing more is out there if we demand the freedom to look. I will keep pushing in my writings, my podcast, and my life because evidence like this changes everything. Share it, study it, and let it provoke the larger discussion it deserves. The republic, and humanity’s understanding of itself, depends on refusing to let politics bury the past any longer.

Footnotes

1.  Primary source details on discovery, excavation, and findings from Glen H. Doran’s edited volume and supporting analyses.

2.  DNA results and non-alignment with modern tribes were summarized from peer-reviewed studies referenced in site reports.

3.  NAGPRA legislative history and timing relative to Windover drawn from official records and archaeological critiques.

4.  Stature and artifact sophistication (textiles, rituals) from bioarchaeological chapters in the Windover investigations.

5.  Broader connections to global prehistory (Qesem Cave, Cahokia) informed by my independent cross-referencing of Paleolithic and Mississippian sites.

6.  Political motivations behind NAGPRA are tied to the cultural context of 1990 (Dances with Wolves) and observed patterns in bill-making from my experience.

Bibliography for Continued Reading

•  Doran, Glen H., ed. Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Archaic Florida Cemetery. University Press of Florida, 2002.

•  Wentz, Rachel K. Life and Death at Windover: Excavations of a 7,000-Year-Old Pond Cemetery. Florida Historical Society Press, 2012.

•  National Park Service. “Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.” Official NPS overview and regulations.

•  Plato. Timaeus and Critias (translations discussing Atlantis).

•  Various reports on Qesem Cave: Barkai et al., publications on Lower Paleolithic innovation in Israel.

•  Pauketat, Timothy R. Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi. Penguin, 2010 (for Birdman and mound-builder context).

•  Biblical Archaeology Review and related journals on Near Eastern shamanic/ritual sites predating Mesopotamia.

•  My own forthcoming The Politics of Heaven for expanded spiritual-political synthesis.

•  National Geographic and Florida Museum archives on Windover preservation and public exhibits.

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About the Author: Rich Hoffman

Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

The Wonderful Dinosaur Store on the Space Coast: What good economies produce

The Dinosaur Store in Cocoa Beach, Florida, stands as a remarkable testament to personal passion, entrepreneurial spirit, and the enduring human fascination with the ancient world. Nestled at 250 West Cocoa Beach Causeway, just a short distance—literally a football’s throw—from the iconic Ron Jon Surf Shop, this family-run establishment has evolved from a modest fossil and mineral shop into one of the Space Coast’s most captivating attractions. For decades, it has drawn families, tourists, and enthusiasts alike, blending commerce with education in a way that feels refreshingly authentic in an era often dominated by corporate chains.

The story begins in November 1996, when the store first opened its doors as a small retail space focused on fossils, minerals, geodes, and related curiosities. Founded by Steve and Donna Cayer, it capitalized on a surge of interest in prehistoric life sparked by cultural phenomena like the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park. Visitors flocking to Cocoa Beach for sun, surf, and the nearby Ron Jon Surf Shop—a massive complex synonymous with Florida beach culture—would often wander over to pick up unique souvenirs: polished ammonites, shark teeth, or perhaps a necklace strung with genuine dinosaur bone fragments. The location was ideal, perched in a high-traffic tourist corridor along State Road 520, where beachgoers and space enthusiasts from nearby Cape Canaveral mingled.

What set the Dinosaur Store apart from typical souvenir shops was its authenticity. The family didn’t merely resell imported trinkets; they traveled extensively during the off-season, when summer crowds thinned and families headed to Disney World or other attractions. Steve and Donna ventured to fossil-rich sites across the globe, including the badlands of Montana, where heavy rains routinely erode sedimentary rock and expose new specimens. They collected ethically, often from permitted digs, and brought back high-quality pieces: Spinosaurus teeth, Allosaurus claws, brachiopods, and meteorites. These items formed the backbone of their inventory, supplemented by jewelry crafted from dinosaur fossils—pendants, earrings, and rings that turned ancient remnants into wearable history. Customers could purchase a Spinosaurus tooth or a slice of petrified wood table, items that carried a tangible connection to deep time.

Over the years, the store thrived. The post-Jurassic Park boom turned it into a lucrative family business, profitable enough to support not just daily operations but ambitious dreams. Rather than resting on success—perhaps buying a condo, a boat, or indulging in lavish vacations—the Cayers channeled their earnings into something far more enduring. They acquired property and constructed a multi-story building dedicated to their passions. What began as a single-floor operation in a strip mall setting expanded into a three-story edifice, transforming the ground level into a sprawling gift shop and adventure zone while reserving the upper floors for something extraordinary: the Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures.

The museum opened to the public in April 2017 (on Earth Day) after roughly eight years of planning and development, following the store and Adventure Zone’s launch on the first floor in March 2009. It occupies approximately 20,000 to 26,000 square feet across the second and third floors (sources vary slightly on exact footage, but the scale is immense for a private venture). It operates as a nonprofit entity, with proceeds supporting preservation, education, and ongoing exhibits. Entry requires a ticket purchased downstairs (around $16 for adults, with discounts and combo options including the Adventure Zone downstairs), and last admissions are timed to ensure a full experience before closing.

The museum’s design is ingeniously immersive. Upon taking the elevator up, visitors enter a vast, open space where the second floor soars to the ceiling, allowing for life-sized dinosaur skeletons and models that dominate the view. A standout is the 46-foot Giganotosaurus skeleton, one of the largest theropod displays in a private setting. Floor-to-ceiling mounts include roaring recreations, fleshed-out models, and over 60 dinosaur skeletons alongside more than 80 taxidermy specimens spanning 200 million years of natural history. The layout encourages looking upward, with necks and heads stretching toward the rafters, creating a sense of awe akin to standing beneath towering Jurassic giants. Authentic fossils abound—real bones, claws, and teeth sourced from the family’s expeditions—blended seamlessly with high-quality replicas for educational impact. Additional features include a Mineral Cave with ultraviolet-reactive crystals and a Dawn of Man section with paleolithic tools and hominid skull casts.

The third floor adds a mezzanine-like platform that zigzags through the space, offering elevated views of the dinosaur exhibits below while transitioning into human history. Here, the focus shifts to ancient cultures, bridging paleontology with anthropology and archaeology. Dedicated galleries showcase regions worldwide: ancient Egypt features a detailed replication of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, complete with replicas of artifacts and mummified animals; China includes a diorama of Terracotta Army soldiers; Mesoamerica highlights Aztec and Mayan elements, such as Chichen Itza-inspired structures; and additional sections cover tribal Africa and New Guinea. Authentic artifacts—pottery, tools, jewelry—sit alongside taxidermy from relevant regions, creating a narrative that connects prehistoric life to the rise of human civilizations. The exhibits emphasize how cultures emerged over millennia, often in relation to the natural world preserved in the fossil record.

This integration is what makes the museum unique. While major institutions like the Field Museum in Chicago, the Smithsonian, or the British Museum boast world-class collections, they are often vast, bureaucratic, and spread across enormous campuses. The Dinosaur Store’s museum achieves comparable quality on a more intimate, privately funded scale. It feels personal—born from passion rather than institutional mandate. The Cayers’ love for digging, collecting, and sharing shines through: they didn’t stop at selling fossils; they built a bridge between dinosaurs and the ancient peoples who might have encountered similar wonders in myth or reality. In doing so, they’ve created a place where visitors can ponder the history of life on Earth—from extinct megafauna to the ingenuity of pyramid-builders and terra-cotta warriors.

For many families, including my own, the Dinosaur Store has been a recurring touchstone. Over the years, trips to the Space Coast—often tied to Kennedy Space Center visits or beach days—included obligatory stops here. My daughter once bought me a Spinosaurus tooth as a gift, a small but meaningful token that still sits on my shelf, evoking memories of laughter, wonder, and the simple joy of discovery. We’d browse the shop, admire the geodes and meteorites, then head out with a new trinket: a dinosaur bone necklace or a polished fossil slab. Those visits built family traditions, turning a roadside attraction into something heartfelt.

A decade passed without a return—life shifted to other pursuits, including following developments in the space program during periods of stagnation. But with renewed activity under recent administrations, the pull of the Space Coast returned in 2026. Stepping back into the store felt like greeting old friends. The family behind the counter remembered familiar faces, sharing stories of their travels and the museum’s growth. Ascending to the upper floors revealed the jaw-dropping evolution: the towering skeletons, the meticulous cultural dioramas, the seamless flow between prehistory and antiquity. It surpassed expectations—better than many celebrated exhibits elsewhere, achieved through private ambition and capitalist ingenuity.

This success story underscores a broader point about passion in free economies. In places like the Space Coast, with its vibrant tourism, surf culture, and proximity to high-tech endeavors, individuals can turn hobbies into legacies. The Cayers could have cashed out comfortably, but they invested in education and wonder. Their museum doesn’t just display bones and artifacts; it invites reflection on deep time, cultural continuity, and humanity’s place in the cosmos. In a world where many pursuits prioritize profit alone, here is a rare example of going above and beyond—creating something magnificent not for acclaim, but because the topic demands it. The project reportedly cost around $3.7 million to develop, with an estimated $3 million in artifacts at opening, underscoring the scale of their commitment.

If you find yourself near Disney, the beaches, or Cape Canaveral, make the detour. Park (free, conveniently located), grab a Ron Jon T-shirt if you like, then step into the Dinosaur Store. Browse the ground-floor treasures—perhaps snag a Spinosaurus tooth or a fossil necklace—then head upstairs. The museum awaits: a private passion project that rivals global institutions in ambition and execution. You’ll leave with a renewed appreciation for the ancient past, the power of dedication, and the simple thrill of discovery.

For those eager to explore further, the official website offers details on hours, tickets, and exhibits. Reviews on platforms like TripAdvisor and Google (consistently 4.4+ stars from thousands) echo the sentiment: it’s a hidden gem worth the trip. Academic resources on paleontology provide deeper context on fossils, while studies on ancient cultures offer complementary reading. The museum itself serves as an accessible gateway, proving that wonder can thrive in unexpected places when fueled by genuine enthusiasm.

Footnotes

¹ The Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures opened in April 2017.¹

² The museum spans 20,000–26,000 square feet, with variations in reported size across sources.²

³ Development took approximately eight years, following the first-floor openings in 2009.³

⁴ Estimated cost of $3.7 million, with $3 million in artifacts at opening.⁴

⁵ Founders Steve and Donna Cayer.⁵

⁶ Giganotosaurus skeleton measures 46 feet.⁶

⁷ Over 60 dinosaur skeletons and 80+ taxidermy specimens.⁷

⁸ Nonprofit status supports preservation and education.⁸

⁹ Google rating of 4.4 stars from over 2,300 reviews.⁹

Bibliography

•  The Dinosaur Store. “Home.” Accessed March 2026. https://dinosaurstore.com/.

•  The Dinosaur Store. “Museum of Dinosaurs & Ancient Cultures.” Accessed March 2026. https://dinosaurstore.com/museum.

•  The Dinosaur Store. “About Us.” Accessed March 2026. https://dinosaurstore.com/about-us.

•  Wikipedia. “Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures.” Accessed March 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Dinosaurs_and_Ancient_Cultures.

•  TripAdvisor. “The Dinosaur Store (2026).” Accessed March 2026. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g34145-d2285722-Reviews-The_Dinosaur_Store-Cocoa_Beach_Brevard_County_Florida.html.

•  Visit Space Coast. “Museum of Dinosaurs & Ancient Cultures.” Accessed March 2026. https://www.visitspacecoast.com/profile/cocoa-beach/things-to-do/museum-of-dinosaurs-ancient-cultures.

•  Florida Today. “This Cocoa Beach spot pays tribute to dinosaurs, ancient cultures.” October 9, 2025. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/hidden-gems/2025/10/09/beachside-brevard-building-houses-massive-ancient-cultures-dino-exhibit/86170682007.

•  USA Today. “Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures opening in Cocoa Beach.” April 20, 2017. (Referenced in Wikipedia citation).

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A DARPA Weapon Hitting Trump Zones: Would the government want to kill innocent people–the evidence says yes

I’ve seen what a category 3 or 4 hurricane can do inland, a hundred miles or so from where they hit. One of my many job experiences was working as a clean-up person when Hurricane Fran destroyed Wilmington, North Carolina. I flew into Raleigh, Durham, and the University of North Carolina to clean everything up.  I personally love Tampa Bay.  I love the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the city quite a lot.  My wife and I have great memories there.  And a direct hit by a hurricane like what Hurricane Milton is poising to do is just terrible.  Now, I’m not typically skeptical of hurricanes.  But I am of this one, Milton.  The way it went from an obscure tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico and quickly jumped up to a category 5 in a very short time to travel east from a west position is highly unusual and has prompted a lot of people to wonder if this particular hurricane, as well as the previous one that just hit Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, is a DARPA weapon, I have to reply that I think there is a lot of evidence to that suspicion.  Our first act is to investigate the DARPA program and see if we don’t have there, as we have discovered at the head of the FBI, a lot of anti-Trump activists who have their hands on such a terrible weapon and would use it to punish people they know will be Trump voters.  There would be no greater election tampering than to frustrate potential voters and completely wipe out their infrastructure and their homes in general.  And that is what looks to be happening in Tampa.  Kamala Harris will not do well along the coast of Florida; those are Trump voters.  And three weeks before the election, they will be wiped out.  I’ve seen too much in life to think that these are all coincidences. 

So, let’s prioritize answering the first question. With cloud seeding technology, could DARPA or some other scandalous government enterprise create hurricanes to level 5? I would say yes.  Hurricanes traditionally come from the coast of Africa and, under certain conditions, form hurricanes just as they have for thousands of years.  But maybe over the last 20 years, especially the last 10, plenty of technology could agitate those hurricane conditions when they are forming under human control of their growth.  It takes a lot of energy to make a hurricane, but if you’ve ever made a whirlpool in an above-ground circular pool, you have seen how manipulating the flow of the water quickly can multiply the force into a massive effort.  By heating elements of the upper atmosphere where hurricane conditions are close, warm water in the gulf and cool nights in the atmosphere, hurricane conditions should be able to be manufactured with a push by human hands.  To me, this one, Milton, looks like the election fraud of 2020.  It was made by desperate people motivated by politics to punish an area that is poised to vote for Trump ahead of an election that is quickly getting away from Kamala Harris.  If you study the weather for an extended period, these two hurricanes that have hit so close to each other in Florida look politically motivated and not a natural disaster.  But how can we say such a thing?  The evidence says we should consider such a terrible thing a reality.  And by the way, the government reacted to Hurricane Helena destroying so much Trump country and wiping out Ashville, North Carolina, with the complete lack of FEMA support, something very fishy has been emerging. 

It sounds like science fiction, but we must be cautious of a government that builds technology under a cloak of secrecy and then uses it to drive political motivations.  And I’m not talking about hurricanes now; I’m referring to COVID-19, created in a lab in Wuhan, China, for a bioweapon made for globalism and unleashed in an election year to impact global politics.  We know that was the case because the evidence has been uncovered, and people are still trying to wrap their minds around such an evil intention.  Could people work in our government, at the DOD precisely, and with Dr. Fauci knowing all about it and Bill Gates being involved who wants a zero energy world, would they kill people with a purposeful bioweapon?  And the answer is yes.  They did.  COVID-19 is a case that still needs to be prosecuted for what many people did to purposefully kill people for political reasons of control over mass populations.  Most of the people involved are radical communists, socialists, and American globalists trying to tip the scales of the economy toward a Great Reset by the World Economic Forum, governed by the United Nations.  And while that might sound like the plot of some menace from Atlas Shrugged or the main villain in the first Star Wars movie, it’s a real thing that was so vastly evil that it has remained hidden from people who can’t imagine anybody being that terrible.  But that is part of the disguise.  The only reason that Covid has not yet been prosecuted is because people just can’t imagine that humans could make such a thing to kill other humans.  And that any part of a government would be that malicious. 

But then you see how the government reacted with FEMA in a known Bible Belt town of west North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee where the people are Trump-supporting Appolacians.  FEMA didn’t rush to rescue anybody when hit by a devastating hurricane.  And Kamala Harris was slow to make a campaign stop, which was bizarre behavior for a state she supposedly wants to win.  We saw from the Biden administration a strange disconnect on one of the most devastating tragedies in modern times.  And the government was happy to let people rot without services for maximum impact.  And then things start adding up.  And on the heels of all that, another hurricane was brewed up in the Gulf and sent to one of the country’s most populated and economically prosperous areas, Tampa Bay, Disney World in Orlando, and the space coast between Cocoa Beach and Daytona Beach.  So when asked if I think DARPA could be behind these hurricanes, I think it’s very possible.  We certainly know that the intent to harm Trump regions is there and that radicals in government with their hands on such weapons, as with Covid, will use those weapons for political reasons if they kill a lot of people and cause billions of dollars in damages.  They certainly didn’t care. When COVID was unleashed, the global economy was shut down, and millions of people died from the gain of function virus that was made to transmit from animals to humans artificially.  The same could be said of hurricanes; they exist but can be tampered with to be made worse and to act purposefully rather than randomly.  And that these devastating occurrences are more than accidental.  They are purposeful and yet more evidence of a government that has become weaponized and dangerous.  This Hurricane Milton is, for many, a loss much more significant than the damage it will do.  It has irreparably damaged people’s trust in these fields of science, which are only exacerbated by the vast disappointments left in the wake of COVID-19.  But that is what we are dealing with in these people.  These are truly evil people, and they cannot have access to these kinds of weapons.  Because they are in political turmoil, they will use them to attempt to change the world or punish those standing in their way.  And no matter what damage it causes, they don’t care.  And before we do any cleanup in Florida in the wake of these storms, we should investigate DARPA and their affiliates for whatever actions were taken ahead of these storms and deal with the true menace as the root cause. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Desperation of Indicting Trump: When the prophet Zechariah was stoned to death and why

There is no case against President Trump, these indictments and attempt at public embarrassment are the same kind of qualities that authority figures have inflicted over innocent challenges to that authority all through time. The prophet Zechariah comes to mind from 2 Chronicles 24:21-22 where King Joash had him falsely charged with a capital crime, resulting in the stoning to death of the man on the temple court next to the altar. Jesus specifically talked about these kinds of assassinations in Matthew 23:29-35 and Luke 11:47-51 where he charged the present generation with the responsibility of all the righteous martyrs throughout Scripture, “Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah.” So, I took the spectacle in Miami, Florida, in that regard, as an attempt by the power structure in control to abuse its authority the way power has since the beginning of time in order to remove rivals with deadly force. It won’t be the first time that a powerful person abused the law to kill off a threat to them, and that is the only thing that came to my mind with this latest indictment of President Trump. But these aren’t the days of Zechariah, or even Jesus, where murders and plots of destruction were commonplace among society’s kings and high priests. The hapless old man Joe Biden and his henchmen, the corrupt Jack Smith at the embarrassing Department of Justice, are just the latest to attempt it. But if we step back a bit from the situation, we are witnessing some things in history that have never been done before, and in a lot of ways, this was the best thing to have happened to the movement of freedom around the world. Trump is bigger than his attackers, and this event has been a kind of call to arms to stand up to tyranny in ways that otherwise would not be considered. 

These charges against Trump only confirm what I have said from day one of the 2020 election, which was that it was rigged. And it also confirms much of what I have been saying my entire adult life, that we have an ostentatiously corrupt government that has always been up to no good, and now we have absolute proof of it. We used to shake our heads at the reports of election fraud in places like Russia, China, Venezuela, and other tyrannical places at phony elections that did not allow the opposition to be put in power. The elections were only conducted to give the impression that the public picked their representatives. The people who actually picked those in power were those who had already seized it and used rigged elections to keep power. We assumed that those kinds of rigged elections were happening everywhere in the world but in America, but then they got caught doing it in the middle of the night. Trump was leading in the election of 2020, but then while everyone was sleeping, Biden was the chosen one. You could even trace back the selection of Joe Biden to the primary for Democrats. Biden was running far behind the rest of the pack, with Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg consistently outperforming Biden until South Carolina. That is where Biden was picked, a deal was made with the others to get behind the hapless buffoon, and we have what we see now, a selected president, not an elected one. And much of the criminal indictments leveled against Trump are intent to cover up these crimes that are punishable by death. It would be the only punishment acceptable for such high crimes as election fraud, especially with all the globalist mechanisms that are working behind the scenes through finance. 

Traditionally, the target of such attacks, a political figure like Trump or a prophet like Zechariah, they’d just be killed, much the way President Kennedy was in 1963 in what we now know through the declassification of documents from that period, 60 years later, that the CIA was critical in killing an American president. They didn’t want him around, challenging their power, so they killed him. And he wasn’t the only person they did that to. These guys are playing for keeps, it’s serious business, and the attack on Trump now that he’s running for president again, after the intelligence agency coup that removed him from office the first time, is the choice form of punishment. Rather than a messy killing as they have done before, they are performing a kind of public hanging on a massive world stage to send the message to all others who might follow what could happen to them if they dare interfere in the schemes of those in power, the real power that the globalists think they are entitled to. Just like the rigged elections, the message here is that they control the interpretation of law and order, and if they can come after Trump, they can come after anybody. So, everyone better watch out. But by stripping Trump of his public power with public shaming and death by a thousand cuts, like the stoning of Zechariah, these global forces who are running the Biden administration hope to send a message that stops populism in the world, for good. This is why this indictment in Florida is so radically abrasive to common sense. 

Yet I’m grateful that there is someone like President Trump out there, who is actually bigger than the situation and expects to win under this type of scrutiny. I could write thousands of books and not show the world such an example of corruption as that applied against Trump, who is being treated like the many killed prophets from the chronicle of Biblical text. We rarely get to live history in this fashion or cross a juncture such as this. Because, unlike those many prophets that were killed so that the powerful could preserve their power, there is an assumption in America that the powerful have no right to rule. Yet they are exerting their power anyway and don’t care how it makes people feel, which has an element of panic to it. If Trump doesn’t go quietly away into the night, what happens then? There has never been such an occurrence in history. Nobody knows; it’s never been done before, especially on such a large stage. I’m just glad we have President Trump to dispute this assumed world of the powerful and their fantasies that they have a right to rule over everyone, even in America. It has forced them to come out of their hiding places to attempt an execution of Trump, as has always been the preferred method of holding power, as history clearly shows. But this time, it’s different. This time it takes someone with a unique personality and independent wealth to challenge that system and force them to show their cards. And the effort is teaching all of civilization the reality of their oppressors. That makes Trump more than a martyr for the cause of freedom but an instrument of war against such tyranny. And it’s too late to put all that back in the bottle again. People are watching and learning, which has all confirmed the ugly truth about the nature of power in America. It violates our laws and the core essence of our country. And now, many more people are prepared to stand up to it, perhaps for the first time in human history, which is a significant development. 

Rich Hoffman

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President Trump for 2024: Ron DeSantis is great, but without Trump, he would be nothing; the bad guys would have destroyed him in 2019

I really want Ron DeSantis, the re-elected and very popular governor of Florida, to retain his brand past 2024. The very dumb Paul Ryan nobody RINO position of challenging President Trump for the 2024 nomination to retake the White House is a loser strategy. After the midterm elections, Ryan immediately made his intentions known about pushing Trump out of the Republican Party with comments about losing the House, the Senate, and the White House after four years of the President’s first term. Well, it was because of Ryan, who was a weak and progressive Speaker of the House, and the sold-out leadership of Mitch McConnell that lost the House and Senate. And it was election fraud that lost the White House, and people like Ryan, his poor advice to Fox News, and other mainstreamers continue to fall short of understanding reality when they speak about politics. The worst thing that could happen to people like Ron DeSantis would be to ruin his brand in a conflict with Trump. Trump is going to run for the White House, he has revenge in mind, and the MAGA Republicans are there to back him up. New Republicans to politics, like Ron DeSantis and the upcoming Kari Lake, are where they are because of Trump. Trump is the kingmaker, unlike Paul Ryan. And there won’t be any 2024 challengers to Trump as the controlled opposition would love to see to take the steam out of the MAGA Republican Party.   The truth is, without Trump and Trump’s work over the last two years, the Republican Party was poised to lose everywhere, and Democrats were set to turn America over to globalism. And people understand that and are loyal to Trump. There is no other replacement candidate for what the future holds because there is unfinished business at the White House and Trump is determined to spend the rest of his life fixing it. 

You don’t see people selling Ron DeSantis t-shirts and hats on the corner of random streets in Kansas, but you do for Trump. Ron DeSantis has undoubtedly been the model every governor should utilize when running a state. He has shown governors everywhere what a great governor can be. And I am sure Ron DeSantis could take those skills into the White House and do just as good of a job. But there is much more to it. DeSantis has been great because Trump has drawn much of the media fire. Without Trump in politics, candidates like Kari Lake would never get off the ground. We have more candidates than ever because Trump in politics draws cover fire. And the Presidency’s branding has new respect worldwide because Trump knows how to play that game. He has spent his life building that reputation, which is what is most valuable as an occupant of the White House. The SWAMP must be drained; without the big Trump train out there to clear the tracks, DeSantis would be destroyed. Without Trump to soak up all the media negativity, DeSantis would not have been so free to run Florida as well as he has. These great new government faces are emerging because Trump has cleared the way for them. The unity of the party with diversity is because of Trump. The support of labor unions is because of Trump. And there just aren’t people in the world who can turn back the clock on globalism with foreign nations and get away with it except a billionaire like Trump, who has his own plane engraved with his name in bold golden letters for all to see and not feel the least bit shy about it. Or the reputation of living in a golden tower in New York City. Trump has been great because he has been divisive, and there were 6 million more voters in this election that were Republican because of Trump. If Trump were just playing golf in Florida, the Republican Party would have been done for after 2020. Nobody is showing up to anything because of Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, or even Ron DeSantis outside of Florida. 

When Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul ran against Trump in 2016, they never recovered their brand. They will always be good political figures, but to be able to run for President, that brand has to be in a special category, and for them, it was destroyed forever when running against Trump. The same will happen to Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and any other Republican candidate who tries to stick themselves into the 2024 race. And I disagree with many very smart people who think that Trump should wait past November 15th for the announcement for President. The answer as to why there were 6 million more Republican voters in this last election of 2022 but not huge waves of pickups in the House and Senate and various governor races is because of election fraud. There are not enough Democrats out there to compete with that, and they still have so many tight races in Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado. Because of the strength of the Trump ticket, Republicans are more competitive against this rigged opposition than they ever have been. And if anybody followed the bad advice of the sell-out to Atlas Shrugged, that is, Paul Ryan, then they would find themselves on the losing end of politics in general.  Republicans picked up the House away from Nancy Pelosi. They are competing for control of the Senate, especially with a chance at a runoff in Georgia. If they can stop the cheat there, which Mike Lindell captured in real-time, Herschel Walker can easily beat the communist Warnock. The evidence is quite clear on what happened in Georgia and other places. These voting machines are a real problem, and Democrats can’t win if they don’t cheat. That is obvious in the ground numbers. Playing the Paul Ryan game is how Republicans lose. To fix the problem, you have to understand the problem, and the problem is Democrats cheat at many levels in all elections. That is why Republicans lost the House, the Senate, and the White House in 2020. Because Paul Ryan and other RINOs were playing the part of controlled opposition, not a party that actually wanted to win. 

People understand that there is no Republican Party without Trump. There is no way to beat the forces of a global nature that are determined to destroy the sovereignty of the United States. People of color would not be joining the Republican Party without Trump. Because of Trump, women are joining the Republican Party and gaining many powerful seats in government, from school boards to congressional positions. Immigrants turn to Trump as their best option, not the Democrat Party. And significant political figures are doing well in the wake Trump leaves behind. Because of Trump, DeSantis is better and allowed to be all he can be. Without Trump and his “bigness,” the media would have crushed DeSantis by 2019. He would not be able to do all the bold things he has done in Florida to show the world how good government can work if Trump didn’t soak up all the political attention along the way. The key to Republican victories and success is to have Trump take down the opposition and create a politically safe space that otherwise would not exist. The greatest threat to our modern political order is globalist Democrats, who have gained the ability over time to cheat in elections to gain power for the Desecrators of Davos. And until people like Paul Ryan admit or accept that, instead of helping those negative forces, Republicans will always struggle. Without Trump, they will lose. But with him, many more will win when the odds are always stacked against them. And with Trump, all three federal government houses and many states will be Republican. And only because of him and nobody else.

Rich Hoffman

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More Conservatives Win School Board Seats in Florida: We need more Darbi Boddy types at Lakota

Just because the conservative experiment at Lakota has not turned out well doesn’t mean it’s a failure across the country. I would say the problems we have at Lakota are natural and part of the transition process. Not the result of failed intentions. When I signed up to help elect a conservative school board at Lakota with a 3 to 2 vote on issues, that, of course, assumed that we were getting conservative candidates. But through the rigors of the day-to-day operations, sometimes people find out they aren’t so conservative. They may have thought they were conservative in the safety of GOP meetings, but when the rubber hits the road, and process bureaucracy starts to take effect, people learn a lot about themselves that they may not have known. And people fall off the wagon. In that case, we just need to look for more candidates and keep putting them on the school board. I signed up for a Darbi Boddy type of school board, not a bunch of softies who would let the superintendent rule the world. I expect the school board to be in charge, not to let radical employees rule the day, and so far, in 2022, that is what has happened. Once things started to get tough, we discovered that Darbi was the only one showing up for work. And that is why we have a lot of the problems that are going on at Lakota now. I wouldn’t say it’s a failure of an effort as much as we are learning what kind of people make good school board members, and we are getting a definition of conservative values that is challenging people’s belief systems in themselves, which will ultimately be good for the community, even if it’s painful now. And as usual, what goes on in Lakota, a big government school in Northern Cincinnati, in the community where I live, so goes much of the rest of the nation. 

In the recent elections in Florida, Republicans showed up to vote for school board members 3 to 1. The more states in America that start to run their states as Ron DeSantis does, the more this trend will continue. Ohio isn’t quite there now. There are a lot of RINO Republicans who still think of themselves as Bush conservatives and Reagan admirers. But Trump is a bit too much “solution” for them, and when the pressure is on, they crack like eggs over an omelet. School boards should never have been considered “politically” neutral. The goal in politics isn’t for everyone to get along.

Public schools are radical institutions conceived by liberalism for teaching liberal arts. They have not produced children that grew up into happy Americans, quite the opposite. Many parents are seeing that they are unhappy with the product of public schools and are finally inserting themselves into possible solutions. For years people have asked me to be a school board member at Lakota for several decades now. Over time, the idea of public school has absolutely made me sick. I don’t think they are good at anything they do. But I have offered my help, especially these last few years, to help make them into a solution. I was quite aware that the people I was dealing with were professional community conversation types who befriend you to win you over, like a timeshare salesman. But I helped anyway because the school of Lakota was already in my home district. I personally pay thousands of dollars a year into that mess. So, I was open to the idea if it could be saved somehow. So, I helped where I could to see what might happen. It was worth a shot.

Other Darbi Boddy types are out there, and school boards across America have elected them by popular vote. It’s part of the trend of populism that is migrating to form the modern political movement that is going to sink all the mistakes of the administrative state finally, as it was conceived by communist and utopian socialists like John Dewey when they came up with the dumb idea of public education in the first place. Sure, it’s been a good free babysitting service for busy parents, but it has raised disasters in people who are failures of the 7 liberal arts in every way they could be measured. Even the best students of the public education system have turned out to be disasters of people and what is bad about the whole institutional approach is that public schools led by liberal-leaning school boards have developed the habit of protecting the bad conduct that goes on in the schools, rather than managing those problems for the betterment of the children involved. It’s all been a disaster from top to bottom, and finally, people are starting to admit to it and are offering themselves as options to get elected and help the way Darbi has been in Lakota. Even if the vote count at Lakota isn’t as conservative as it should be, it’s still better than what we had before. And future elections can certainly smooth that ratio out and will naturally match the national trends toward populism. 

Ultimately, however, my opinion hasn’t changed, even with this trend toward conservatism on school boards. Public education as a concept is doomed. It’s too expensive, inefficient, and doesn’t produce good people. It’s just a trainwreck in the best of cases. It certainly has not been a replacement for good parenting. After the behavior I have witnessed so far in 2022 regarding school board behavior and how the big liberal administrations behave toward it, it’s obvious to me that public education is doomed to complete failure. Suppose they think Darbi Boddy is bad and that the only acceptable Republican on a board is some wishy-washy RINO who will go way out of their way to get along in a “nonpartisan” kind of way, always bending the knee to radical liberals empowered through the teacher’s unions. In that case, there is no hope for them. If they are having trouble now, what will they do in the next elections when more Darbi Boddy types get elected and replace the stale old establishment types who covered up way too much bad behavior just to protect the school from outside opinion? They aren’t going to make it. I remember in April when the news story was all about Lakota might lose their superintendent over the radical school board member, Darbi Boddy, as if we needed to get rid of her to keep him and his $200,000 salary. Well, I don’t think he’s worth it, especially after watching his performance through Covid and recently over several things. We would do better with a much more engaged and less progressive person. I know they fear teacher shortages and bad state report cards, and the public relations of the superintendent are meant to put rosy glasses on all that for the illusion of goodness. But when a district is garbage, it is garbage. You can’t put perfume on it to make it smell better. The fact that the public employees of Lakota want so badly to get rid of the best school board member, Darbi Boddy, says that they aren’t ready to deal with the national trend in public education that is happening everywhere. And that fault is their own for failing to adjust to a changing world and holding on to a failure from the progressive past. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Liberal World Order Attacks Populism at Mar-a-Lago: The intent behind going through the underwear drawer of Melania Trump to show power over President Trump

It could easily be said that the federal government intended to desecrate the underwear of Melania Trump, the most beautiful First Lady America had ever had. For all the theater presented when the FBI raided the home of President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida under cover of gathering evidence for a phony federal trial meant to keep him from running for President once again, there was more to this raid than just court proceedings. Empowered by the radical Jeffery Epstein connected judge Bruce Reinhart, who thinks a lot of the communist economist Robert Reich and liberal journalists like Dan Rather, the raid was signed off on purely with political sabotage in mind to be shown to the world many times worse than Watergate was ever conceived of. And all caution was thrown to the wind in the act of desperation. Of course, the attack was meant to hide the mounting controversy of Joe Biden’s many family problems, most of which is the relationship his crack-addicted son Hunter Biden has with China and known prostitutes, which everyone has by now seen filming himself doing illegal drugs with. Then there is Paul Pelosi’s DUI which has put Nancy Pelosi in a public relations nightmare. Add to that the complete global failure of the Liberal World Order as the Desecrators of Davos have been selling it, and John Kerry is connected to it through the Biden administration. The high gas prices, the inflation, the open borders, the high crime, the complete destruction of American life advocated by the political left, and what was most on their mind on the day of August 8th, 2022, was the underwear of Melania Trump which they searched through for over 9 hours. 

Scum bags that must be defunded. The FBI is a criminal organization meant to protect a massively corrupt government

The Trump lawyers were kept out of the rooms that the FBI searched. Essentially the FBI took over the residence of the President of the United States, who was legally elected twice but only allowed in office once by the same perpetrators who were conducting this August raid. The intent was a classic one, to desecrate Trump’s life in the way that many pillagers of the past would rape the wife of a hated rival in front of them before ultimately killing them as the final blow to their social footprint and to remove a menace to whatever order was conducting the latest evils upon the world. The raid was meant to let Trump know that he wasn’t in charge and that the federal government could do what it wanted whenever it wanted, and there was no power on earth that could stop them. And if they wanted to go through his wife’s private things, they would, and nobody could stop them. The FBI went into Trump’s private place and office and even broke into his safe just because they wanted to show their power over Trump. After all those hours of ransacking one of the most beautiful estates on earth, the FBI took 12 boxes and whatever else they could smuggle from the residence and left the place a smoldering heap of disgrace. The raid was a message to the world that their populist leader was helpless and could be brought down just like anybody else. An evil, corrupt government hijacked by the worst that politics could produce had shown itself in all its ugliness, proving so many conspiracy theories right in the light of day. Only now, the political left no longer cared. They were out for blood and were intent on finishing the coup they started before Trump was ever elected the first time, and they were done fooling around. 

The FBI has a long history now of helping crime succeed and covering up terrorism

Watching the proceedings, I found it astonishing that the secret service allowed the raid to happen at all. That is the difference between good people who still believe in the rule of law and those who are willing to take advantage of people who do to get the drop on them. The Biden administration had to sign off on the raid, and they managed to get a liberal judge in Reinhart to cast it forth, and the good people, the Trump security, and the political figures in general figured there was an election coming, and that rule of law was worth supporting. I suppose that’s all true. As far as I’m concerned, the FBI lost its legitimacy over the Lisa Page, Jim Comey collapse, which I talked about on CNN at the start of President Trump’s first term. I was right then, and I was even more right now. The FBI is no longer a relevant body that serves the people of our republic. Instead, they are a hit squad for the Democrat Party intent to protect the implementation of the Liberal World Order. And they aren’t hiding it from the public anymore. They are evil, from the top of the ranks down to the field officers. The culture of the FBI is bad, from recruiting to the daily culture in every American city. They are not the good guys. I don’t know that they ever were, but especially over the last few decades, going back to 9/11, what they allowed to happen in that terrorist attack should alarm everyone. Also, their investigation over the Oklahoma City bombing should further raise concerns. Who was the third terrorist, and why hasn’t the FBI or CIA been more forthcoming about that element? During the 90s, it all seemed like conspiracy theory when we used to have a lot more trust in the FBI. But looking back on it now, the third terrorist conspiracy looks more fact than fiction. Then we must consider the FBI’s bizarre reaction when they allowed the media into the shooter’s apartment in Pasadena during that terrible Christmas shooting, where it took way too long to announce to the world that the act had been a terrorist act not a case of workplace violence. The FBI let the media into the house just a few days after the mass shooting at an office complex, which destroyed a lot of evidence and is a major no, no in any investigative work. Yet the FBI tried to cover up the terror act by Islamic extremists for some mysterious reason, and that was before we even knew Trump was running for President. Then we learned so much more. 

The raid comes straight from the White House. Far worse than Watergate

All this and more makes the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago an attack by a hostile enemy rather than even a political hit job. It certainly isn’t an investigation. It’s a crime committed by the government to protect itself from a growing population that trusts it less and less. This act was meant to put fear into the population and desecrate a very popular First Lady by showing that nobody is safe and implying fear to an entire population that still flies Trump flags in their yards, on the back of their trucks, and from their boats. A criminal class was now in charge of the American government, put there by hostile foreign forces, like China through the compromised Biden crime family. And even the reaches of the Jeffery Epstein mystery machine were still at work through Judge Reinhart, showing the controls of the criminal class rooted in liberalism runs deep. We are in a civil war; only the battlefield is not defined traditionally. It’s hidden in the halls of law and order. The terrorists are hiding in procedure to take advantage of good people who follow the law, by people who have no intention of following the law but exploiting the gullibility of the law-abiding so they are forced to stand around and watch as the FBI ransacked the underwear drawers of Melania Trump and show their power over her and the President for all to see and send a clear message to the world that the Liberal World Order is in charge. If people didn’t know that from the recently stolen election, then this raid on Trump’s home would seal the deal. And they could care less who was insulted by the act.    

Rich Hoffman

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DeSantis Standing up To Disney: Government as the good guy in an evil world

Maybe the most valuable thing that will come out of this post-Trump period and now the debacles of the Biden administration is putting to rest many speculations that have existed since the beginning of time, is what does good governance look like and why is bad government the perpetuation of all that is evil in the world? Because of the Trump administration, we had several examples of great government. We saw firsthand what bad government was in contrast to the aftermath of Joe Biden and the reaction the bad guys out there in the world had to the prospect of good government. I have spent much of my adult life looking and fighting for the prospect of good government like a good sheriff wants to bring justice to the town they live in, only to find it ripe with criminal elements profiting off misfortune and chaos. When Trump was elected, he accelerated the plans of a vast criminal underclass that had been eroding our country for many years. But finally, with a new sheriff in town, we could take theory and put it to practice. The result was what good government should look like, protecting individual rights and the safe foundation for a prosperous country. One of the creations of this new kind of good government with a new sheriff in town kind of mindset was Ron DeSantis, who has redefined what a good governor of a state looks like. He’s certainly his own man, aside from President Trump. Still, Trump brought executive-level leadership into vogue in politics. Desantis from Florida was the first to fully utilize those gifts in a way that has now shown a light for all the future to see, which of course, led to a clash with the Disney Company that has turned out to be like the Shootout at the OK Corral with legendary figures like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. But this shootout wasn’t with guns; it was over finance, and the massive impact that money management firms have over modern corporations, and the way the bad guys have now tried to attack America through woke policies and desecrating social impacts meant to take down what used to be one of America’s top family-friendly companies, the entertainment company that Walt and Roy Disney built to remind America what America was always meant to be.

The “Don’t Say Gay Bill” is the kind of legislation that a good government should propose in any healthy society to protect families in their development. Nobody in their right mind believes that it is a good idea for children to be exposed to sexual elements in their early years, from kindergarten to the third grade. No child should be thinking about sex in those years; there are millions of other concerns. They shouldn’t have so many enemies to legislation intended to protect kids from discussions that are already on the wrong side of history. But what was shocking was just how committed Disney as a company showed itself to these kinds of social desecrations. When we think of Disney, we think of Main Street USA, which is the way Walt Disney intended it. The kind of America where you could buy fancy chocolates in Victorian-style buildings with white picket fences and the glory of private property ownership looming over everything. But over time, we have seen the Disney company, and lots of other big corporations for that matter, descend into extreme left-leaning politics intent to undo everything that America stands for.

To some extent, we put up with it. Getting what was good out of Disney while holding our nose at what we saw was becoming bad. But quite shockingly, which is part of the woke culture of most corporations these days that left-leaning activist money managers control, like BlackRock and State Street, the control of money through publicly traded companies have become the weapon of choice to attack America and the lives Walt Disney meant to preserve, undoing them from within with radical boards of directors and executives that nobody would have considered hiring a few decades ago. Now they were radical political extremists who were running everything, and their social intention was to introduce gay sex and perverse sexual lifestyles to children as early as possible, with only one purpose in mind, the destruction of their minds for a social cause that is as anti-American as one could possibly conceive.

The balancing act in good government, as opposed to bad government, creates conditions where businesses and the lives they feed can thrive. But when they are working against those individual lives, to step in and provide protection. It’s like the difference between a Wild West town overrun by cattle rustlers and scandalous gamblers, prostitutes, and killers until a good sheriff comes to town to clean it up. Of course, the bad guys won’t be happy with the effort, and they will fight back for their own preservation. But in America, the classic gunfighter who comes to town with only a gun and the law at their back often did such a thing which allowed the town to survive and give the people living within it a chance at a happy and productive life. That concept carried America into being the world’s top economy. And it is that which the bad guys in the world want to undo, desperately. They have infected the Disney Company through the many investment firms of BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street and imposed on them ESG scores which have removed the traditionalists loyal to the Walt Disney vision and replaced them with what I call the purple-haired people eaters, the Desecrators of Davos types who want global communism and a one-world order starting with the icons of American industry. They don’t care if Disney is destroyed in the process; they just want to see the sheriff run out of town so they can have an easy time at crime and malice. Good government, in this case, stays in town and enforces the law on the bad guys, and that is precisely what Ron DeSantis had done in Florida by threatening to remove the special privileges that Disney had enjoyed there and fighting back when the economic powerhouse showed its intentions to attack the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” after the legislature supported it as represented by the people of the state.

The plan all along by these liberal attackers was to embed themselves into our corporations and force us to accept their ways of desecration to get some little memory of what they once meant to us. The desecrators want to destroy the idea of all American life and the families of its creation. Under those conditions, we need government to preserve the constitutional intentions of life in America from the influences that invade our country in ideas and trojan horse style influence. The surprise that the woke political left has now had is Ron DeSantis standing up to Disney instead of doing what most all other governors would do, which would be to cave to one of the biggest economic influences in American life. Most governors would be eating out of the hand of Disney. Instead, DeSantis is doing what all good executives would do, and that’s always keeping in mind the big picture and the constitution for which he serves. And in so doing, it has brought to Florida something far more valuable than Disney as a tourist resort. He has confronted the bad guys in the street and brought them down for all to see, and people are standing behind DeSantis, not Disney. And this clear message is being noticed by the attack vectors of the Desecrators of Davos, who did not think such a thing would happen, and it has them in a bit of a panic.   The government was being a good referee, which should have always been its function, not an active player on the field tipping the scales toward the corrupt influence who wanted to win the game without playing by the rules. I’ve seen this process developing for a long time, but now it is in practice, and it’s not President Trump who is doing it. Instead, it’s the next generation of a new kind of politician. And it is one of the best examples of good government that we have seen in America to date. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Will Smith Hit: “Welcome to Earth” Part II

After hitting Chris Rock at the Academy Awards, the only thing Will Smith did wrong was apologize for doing it. The world needed some old-fashioned face-to-face combat. I thought it was a little wimpy to slap Chris Rock for making fun of his wife with an off-color joke about G.I. Jane part II because she had shaved her head due to an illness. A good punch would have been better, but in our overly legalized world of lawyer parasites, the difference between an open hand and a closed fist is a premeditation assault that indicates an intent to inflict harm. So, a slap it was, and it was good for the soul of America to see on what is supposed to be the biggest entertainment show on earth. However, ratings have been down. Hollywood has moved a long way away from Main Street, USA, thinking they could drag everyone with them as they bent the knee to China and a new middle-class there of over a billion people. I’ve been following this kind of thing for a long time. For many years, I really wanted nothing more in life than to make movies in Hollywood. So I know it from behind the curtain more than most do. As it turned out for me, I was way too conservative for the Hollywood of the 90s and the early 2000s. I would have fit in a lot more during the 70s and 80s, but Hollywood had gone woke way before the rest of the nation. America’s enemies targeted it for that very reason, and the attack always came from finance. Will Smith knew all that as he decided to go up on stage and hit Chris Rock. I didn’t just see the action, but many actions behind the move. It was a very interesting thing to do. 

Surprisingly many conservatives in the aftermath openly called for Will Smith to be arrested for assault. It was the standard law and order argument. How many young people now that they witnessed Will Smith hitting another human being on live television and repeatedly replayed on social media would now do something similar? A message had to be sent. That was the conservative rationalization. But as many know, I welcome this kind of thing. I would love to return to a world where we had duels in the streets over disagreements. And slaps in the face are harmless enough. What’s important is the protection of our individual sanctity, of our honor. Our integrity. And at face value, Will Smith protecting the honor of his wife, his woman, his family property was a great thing that many women yearn for, which was confirmed in polling taken after the incident. Despite what destructive woke culture says about men and women, the sexes are what they are, yearning for the same things they always have. Will Smith is no dummy; he has his finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the world. Despite being a great actor, he’s also a producer, and he knows the country’s temperature and where it’s going. Most good Hollywood types do, even if they deny it. They see the trends, and there is a tremendous hunger for American Main Street in the world. Not an America caving to global woke impediments. 

Meanwhile, down in paradise, Disney World, Florida, some radical employees took exception to the Ron DeSantis “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which doesn’t even say “gay” in it. But they were upset that there wasn’t going to be gay indoctrination of little children in public schools, and they were outraged, leaving Bob Chapek, the Disney CEO, with a heck of a pickle to be in. He couldn’t afford to have a massive employee walkout at the happiest place on earth. But he also must stand for what Disney is, a representation of Main Street USA. That is kind of the point of Magic Kingdom, after all. Guests going there don’t want to think about gay sex and rainbow flags. They want to see family values, the American dream, and good winning over evil. Of course, the enemies of America want to see all that brought down, so a small percentage of radical ESG score employees from Disney were attacking those aspects of the Disney product publicly, and it was having an impact on the brand. This is a fight that is happening everywhere. It is most notable in Disney because it’s a brand that interacts with so many Americans. But in general, it was present very much at the Academy Awards and Hollywood in general.  Americans have been turning away from Hollywood, and the people who make the movies know it. Aside from their feelings of abandonment that Main Street America has for the Hollywood product these days, as the realization over liberalism settles over them that America is a Trump-voting nation. Americans will never fall for progressivism when it is spelled out to them directly. So, what happens next? How does the entertainment industry continue on, especially if the China gamble doesn’t pan out as globalism fails everywhere? Main Street USA is still where the money is, and now Hollywood has alienated itself from them. 

Enter the hit by Will Smith against Chris Rock on national television, shocking the world. The incident may have been staged. It may have been pure outrage. But what it was, in essence, was a significant member of Hollywood trying to appeal to mainstream Main Street America and recognizing that the nation hasn’t changed at all from what it’s always been. Hollywood changed. Globalism changed. Finances changed, but people really haven’t, despite the efforts of many to change those people. Americans want to see their private property defended, women want to be protected by their men, and justice must be swift and sure. The way Will Smith marched up there on that stage was a call-back to hundreds of movies over the years where a good guy punished the bad guy, and Will Smith was playing that modern version of the “good guy.” It was very similar to when Will Smith punched the alien in the face in the movie Independence Day and said, “welcome to earth.” Hey, these guys aren’t stupid. They have their finger to the wind, seeing what’s coming. Trump is going to be re-elected. Globalism is failing everywhere. China is closing its markets more, not expanding them, and Hollywood knows it needs Main Street to live and survive. And more than that, Americans understand a duel in the street more than a bunch of sissy slapping passive-aggressive nonsense ran by corrupt governments and paid off judges. A man-to-man fight is much preferred, and if we returned to it, we’d have a much more honest society. That is how Main Street America feels, and ultimately, that’s what happened at the Academy Awards. It was a concession by them to what they’ve become and an olive branch to what they need to return to. Justice, Americans want justice. They don’t want excuses. They don’t want to surrender their life’s work to a mob of collectivists. There needs to be a point in life, and the fight against evil by the good is a goal worth pursuing. Will Smith obviously understands that and felt it was the time to do something to win people over because if he didn’t, Hollywood was headed for irrelevancy anyway. So why not do something? And he did.

Rich Hoffman

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Companies Aligned with China are Failing: It’s not a good idea to bet against America

There has been panic which I’ve explained before to those concerned about the amount of power corporations have.  The worry is that corporations will force us to accept vaccine passports to move around the country, that they’ll push us out of amusement parks if we don’t get woke policies, and that they’ll regulate our lives by generally denying us fun and happiness.  It is essentially the Chinese model that we are seeing play out in the opening days of the Biden administration. Companies like Disney and Coka Cola, who have global aims, have placed their bets that the way to those international markets is through the communism of China.  That is essentially the bet of the NBA, an organization made up of socialist players to go global China style.  So, they are ignoring American markets treating us like garbage because they are going for what they think is a bigger prize in the world of tomorrow under a one-world government ran by the United Nations and influenced by communism. That’s how we arrived here, but I have explained it a different way, and my bets are placed opposite of the international trend.  Those who are betting against America are going to pay for it in a big way. 

Now I love traditional Disney.  I think Walt Disney is one of the great entrepreneurs of our American history.  I have no problem sharing Disney with the rest of the world.  If Disney is broadcasting American values, it’s a great thing.  Disney the Man.  Not Disney, the corporation that woke leftists and Democrat presidential hopefuls now run.  I would offer that these new leaders of corporate Disney, Coke, and the NBA—among others—don’t know what they are doing and have over-leveraged their influence over the American population.  For instance, Disney thinks people are so hungry for their Disney+ service, their amusement parks, and their many restaurants and hotels that they will put up with crazy, radical communist policies in trade for fun.  I would offer that people reject those services in favor of freedom and that market pressures will shift away from those corporations to other options.  Such as Facebook and Twitter assumed that they would have control over the flow of information, but instead, options are erupting everywhere.  The Facebook model is now dying as we speak as well as Twitter.  Their influence is waning due to their activism against President Trump and his 70 million voters.  Disney is suffering the same fate; they are losing billions of dollars in their commitment to wokeness, and I don’t ever see them recovering.  Their decision to leverage their entertainment assets against American traditions is costing them as they speak, and the brand damage is incalculable. 

I have wanted to return to Disney World for a vacation, so I occasionally watch video vlogs of people who cover the parks in Orlando, and what they are reporting is embarrassing compared to my experiences in the past.  Disney World as a vacation spot has been one of the best locations on earth for entertainment.  Not only do they have a collection of the best rides that are anywhere, but they have great employees who carry the company message of happiness and enthusiasm for life.  But this move by the company to go full woke, to empower all the radical leftwing causes, the Black Lives Matters types, the gun grabbers, the rainbow gays on Disney characters, the transgender policies have ruined that positive employee interaction.  I didn’t help to shut down for Covid and never fully restaffing.  With the theme parks at a much-reduced capacity, waiting times excessively high only to be greeted with more and more Covid restrictions, the brand of Disney has been whittled away during the election year of 2020, and their gamble will not be paying off.  You can see it most in the many specialty shops that are closed and appear to be gone forever, the little chocolate shops and souvenir spots that are seldom ever open anymore because of the declined attendance.

This past week, Ron DeSantis in Florida removed all emergency Covid restrictions, so Disney cannot blame the government for its temperature-taking and mask mandates.  That is a liberal policy from the management of Disney as a company that wants to see central government restriction to get the payoff of a culture shift from America to China, where they placed all their bets.  And those bets are now in the multibillion dollars.  That is why they are trying not to show panic, but they look to have lost their pre-2019 market share forever.  The evidence was in the fan reaction to the Gina Carano firing from the Star Wars Mandalorian series because she came out on Twitter as a conservative.  The way that Disney fired her showed they have no idea what is driving market forces these days, and when Star Wars fans rebelled by canceling their Disney+ memberships, the company had to attempt to fix it by hiring her back, or at least to let the fans know they were thinking about it.  With Florida now without Covid restrictions, yet Disney insisting on keeping them going costing themselves even more billions by the month, there are many more Gina Carano-like concessions they will have to make in the future to attempt to regain market share.  That might help.  I might revisit the parks, but I’m not going to spend a lot of money there to see a bunch of closed restaurants, lines that are socially distanced, and having to wear a stupid mask in the hot Florida sun over a communist attempt at insurgency by the management of the Disney Company. 

That has been my message from the beginning of this woke attempt by companies to steer us into political directions.  Money rules, and they can’t cheat that vote.  People ultimately have the power over their corporations, and the best way to make them honest again is by hitting them in the pocketbook. Don’t buy their crap and watch how fast they give up their communist dreams.  They should have never listened to the China playbook.  The market share was never going to come from the East, and stealing it from America was never going to work.  It might have looked good on paper to people too stupid to ask the obvious questions.  But now, the dollars and cents are telling the story quite well.  It’s not just Disney either.  They make an excellent example because their brand is so well known and significant.  Watching them fall the way they have provides a glimpse into smaller corporations that are just as bad off but not obvious to the public.  The NBA gained popularity because of Larry Bird and the great competition with Michael Jorden.  People will be turned off by athletes taking up communist causes.  The corporations themselves do not set public policy; they are created to fulfill a public need.  And so long as they do that, they will make money.  When they think they can steer that policy, they will fail every single time.  The NBA has seriously damaged their brand, likely forever also.  It took a long time to build and only a few years to destroy.  Good luck in China, where they don’t have the money to support those types of endeavors, and they never will.  So, fret not; you have a lot more control over this wokeness than you think.  It’s already coming apart, so let it fall apart.  There are plenty of other things in life to do.  We don’t need companies that aren’t pro-American.

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior


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