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A Trump/Kennedy Ticket: The Way to Beat the Deep State with an Election

As far as I’m concerned, the primaries have been over for months. Clearly, the Trump-hating Republicans who are in name only will do anything that stops Trump from getting back into the White House, which includes running a third-party candidate to help Joe Biden with all his diabolical problems. I know Kari Lake is working really hard to position herself as Trump’s VP, and she would be great. She’s certainly earned it and will undoubtedly cheerlead the MAGA message. But we are talking about general elections here, not the primary, and we are talking about global forces who have embedded themselves into our election process, where the Deep State is very much seeking to remain in control. And if these arrests of Trump don’t do the trick, don’t expect them just to shrug their shoulders and say, “Golly gee, we tried.” These are killers; they have killed people all over the world and continue to do so to acquire power. Rigging elections is a way of life for them, and there are trillions and trillions of looted money at stake. They will not let Trump get re-elected and walk back into the White House to dismantle them. I would go so far as to say that they will do anything to hold power, and yes, that means anything. The easiest thing for them to do would be to run a third-party candidate to bleed off 15% of the Republican vote, the Never Trumper types to keep them from unifying with Trump by the convention. I would remind people, Trump supporters especially, that we haven’t seen anything yet as far as maliciousness regarding the 2024 election. The very bad in the world literally view this as their version of the Alamo. If they lose control, there is no tomorrow. 

That’s why I like this idea of a Robert Kennedy ticket with Trump. Trump has been saying nice things about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as a Democrat. And Kennedy has been saying nice things about Trump. I think what most represents America these days, which would genuinely bust up the international cabal that has taken over our government, is a “unity ticket” where there is a Republican and Democrat on it that could pull from both sides to completely overwhelm the rigged election system and the media apparatus that supports it. Kennedy is much more of a union supporter than I am, but that is a fight we can have another day. I like Kennedy in most other populist positions, especially from what I have read from him in his books on Covid. The story is very much populism against globalism, and when it comes to presidential candidates, Trump and Kennedy are the two biggest options on the world stage. And the Democrats aren’t going to let Robert Kennedy have a seat at the table. They want Biden not because he’s smart or is a great leader. The globalists want Biden because he’s compromised, and if you haven’t been paying attention, the cocaine story is great for them. The goal, after all, is to convince America that their means of government are ridiculous. Look at the monkey in the White House. And they hope that we will all turn to communism in the form of the parental China model out of frustration from all the negative news.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden leaves them alone and does what he’s told. The bad guys will not give that up, so if Biden is still alive, they want him. If he’s not, they want the next best stooge who can barely walk that will be utterly obedient to them. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not that guy. 

So rather than waste Robert F. Kennedy, he would do well to be on the Trump ticket. I’ve said it from the beginning; I would like to live in a world where President Trump is considered a liberal. Because to me, he is. He and Kennedy are both East Coast liberals, from my point of view. I’m well to the right of Ron DeSantis, who is getting a lot of criticism about his position on marijuana. I’m against marijuana even as a medicine, so the debate and pot lobby is not on the table for me personally, so I always have disappointments in all these people. When Trump was pressed hard during his time in office, he did become a big-spending Democrat by default. I will never say that Trump is ultra-conservative in any way. But he did show me that he was willing to govern as promised, as a conservative, which he certainly did, and will do again. For this 2024 election, I don’t get hung up on the Ds and the Rs so much as the fundamental objective is to stop globalism. We are not talking about an issues-based Fox News election on policy. So, we need a Republican ticket that genuinely represents what Americans really are if we want to maintain the hope of recapturing our ability to vote. That means the results have to be much larger than our intelligence agencies can rig elections, and that means drawing from Republicans and Democrats in the general because the third-party option will be put in place in 2024 to erode away independents. To stop that from happening, there needs to be a VP with Trump that represents American populism in a big way and get voter enthusiasm from frustrated Democrats out to vote as if their lives depended on it because, in many ways, it does. 

Supporting such a ticket would not mean a surrender of conservative values. I want a day when I can run against Trump, where Trump is considered the liberal in politics because, functionally, he is. But you must have a country even to have that debate, and we are fighting to stop the corrosive effects of globalism internationally. You can see it all over the world from the World Economic Forum types, this is a rigged game, and they control most of the board. I’ll be the first to say it, the World Economic Forum if it were a country we would be going to war with because of their stated intentions against Americans’ lives. But because they are a government without a country, they have presented themselves as a menace, unlike anything the world has ever seen. That is the corrosive effect of globalism: the threat does not come from one country and its government but the kind of people who run governments through finance behind the scenes. These factions have burned Trump, and he wants revenge for the election they stole from him. Kennedy had his father and his uncle killed by the Deep State, and he has a restoration of his family name in mind. I see only good things happening if they join together. It would split the ticket in ways that globalism is not prepared to deal with and would provide the results that would disrupt the rigged mechanisms that dominate politics at every level. We must remember that the fights between parties is part of the scam; it’s how globalism works everywhere in the world. They create the conflicts, then pick up the mess from all the loose change that falls out of everyone’s pockets during the fight. Then when both parties are exhausted, they come in and eliminate them both and rule from the easy conquest. It’s a bloodthirsty game that is far worse than most people want to admit to. But it’s what we’re up against.

Rich Hoffman

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The 4th of July is all About Defiance: It lets the world know that the government works for us, not the other way around

Without question, the 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays throughout the year. I always talk about my love of The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers; why wouldn’t I love the celebration of starting a new country built on that philosophy? Yet this year was different. In years past, there is a lot we didn’t know, perhaps suspected, about the motives of government and some of the diabolical characters that make themselves known through traces of corruption. It’s always been a problem, but now, more than ever, the hostile forces against America have been caught doing their ill will. China, specifically, and their parents in the World Economic Forum have been caught buying off politicians, attempting to change rules, such as in California, where celebrating American patriotism is under experimental regulation. We have just survived the attempts of a global takeover of the entire economy where many millions of people died from a bioweapon built by governments for the purpose of centralized control through communism in Covid-19. The compliance threat has been baked into our culture through government-run healthcare and governors who grade well under China’s spy network that ranks them according to their compliance with global communist standards. We are seeing attacks on our culture and country, unlike any other time in history, whether it’s the Revolution itself, the Civil War, the War of 1812, or the Spanish American War; this modern warning of passive-aggressive communism introduced to us through those we’ve hired to protect us, our politicians, our corporations, our media consumption is a real threat. We have just witnessed the coup by our intelligence organizations of an American president who lacked the blood of the Kennedy Assassination but was more arrogant and culturally destructive in many ways. So many were correct to wonder what we were actually celebrating on the 4th of July. But I wasn’t one of them because it’s all obvious to me.

The 4th of July is all about defiance, which ultimately, all these attempts against our culture will fail because the Chinese, the World Economic Forum terrorists, and the finance activists for progressive Luciferians of their sacred Morning Star do not understand the nature of the 4th of July, as Gavin Newsom learned by trying to regulate 4th of July celebrations in California only to see from a flyover anywhere in the state a lot of people from all political persuasions defying the mandate with personal firework shows in their back yards. Fireworks displays are not about community-organized events where everyone comes out and wastes a whole evening sitting on a blanket to watch other people blow things up. The 4th of July is about defiance. About buying illegal fireworks and lighting them off and letting the police and all authorities know that there isn’t anything they can do about it. The message is that we are a nation of laws, but only to a point. And in 2023, we are at that point. The attackers of American culture are expected to capture our nation like in a game of chess. They would capture our country and win the game if they captured our king. But in America, we have a representative government. If our king gets captured, we just find another one. We don’t work for the government. The government works for us, which is different from other places worldwide. And on the 4th of July, people buy fireworks happily to send this message to the government, which is probably one of the only things people generally agree on. That defiance is the key to American culture, and it is something we celebrate with great enthusiasm.

These global attackers, after all, had just tried to suppress Americans under stupid Covid rules, with mask mandates, with social distancing, with government-driven vaccine mandates of dangerous medicine, which has caused people great harm and has the government in trouble due to liability for its terrible decisions in breaking constitutional law for a grab for power, we would be a very different world right now if not for the American trend toward defiance. Of course, we gave the government a chance by listening to them up to a point. But once we realized how dumb everything they were doing was, people rebelled and stopped following the law with the mask mandates; they found ways to push back against the vaccine mandates and conspired to undercut the government that works for them as a natural reaction. And during that critical year of 2021 going into 2022, Americans had been tested, and they held up and destroyed the plans of Bill Gates and his World Economic Forum terrorists. And we discovered that China had been behind the release of the virus from the beginning and did so knowingly. The attack on America had been an expectation of human behavior and that if our “leaders” were captured, then Americans would fall into a line of compliance and do what they were told. But what actually happened was entirely on the opposite side of the expectation scale. Americans expect to be free, and anything that takes that option away from them, they work to undermine in their lives. There is no way to capture American culture with communist tyranny in the same way it has been done in China and elsewhere in the world, and discovering that these modern attackers have forced the globalists to hit the pause button on their diabolical plans.

I have my favorite fireworks store that my wife and I like to go to; it’s the one on the border of Indiana and Ohio in Richmond, Indiana. I enjoy the drive, we usually stop somewhere in Eaton, Ohio, for a bite to eat, and we make a nice day of our journey every year to that fireworks store where I don’t mind paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars just to blow stuff up in our driveway. I enjoy the experience of buying them, they are so happy at that fireworks store, and we usually go a few days before the 4th of July when the parking lot is full. What’s interesting about that particular Shelton’s fireworks store is that the parking lot is actually in Ohio, but the store where you actually buy the products is in Indiana. They have a line about 15 feet from the door across the whole length of the parking lot that makes it clear that after you buy the fireworks, that you are breaking the law in transporting them across state lines. Breaking the law is part of the fun and a gentle reminder to the government that they are not in charge. Ultimately the people are. They govern by our consent. But the 4th of July reminds them that they are ultimately not in charge and will never be. I never get tired of seeing all the different people there spending small fortunes just to prove that rather large point. The buying, transporting, and discharging of fireworks is not just a useless enterprise from a rich society that can afford to spend expendable income on such a destructive pastime. It’s a message of defiance that laws are followed up to the point that the people decide they are either too stupid or too corrupt to follow. And that the ultimate check on power out of control is defiance, a culture that rejects the power of their politicians even as they have now been brought under the control of foreign interests. And that makes blowing up fireworks, and buying them, one of the great treasures of any culture that I never get tired of.

Rich Hoffman

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The Miracles of Free Market Capitalism at Put-in-Bay: When the market seeks to satisfy customers, good things happen

My wife and I have a great appreciation for the RV life. With our fast-moving lifestyle, it is the method that works best for us, and it’s uniquely American in that we have as part of our lifestyle an expectation of freedom that is certainly dominant with RV travel. We like taking part of our house with us when traveling, which we do extensively throughout the year. It is great to have your own bathroom, your own refrigerator, tools, and storage. And as far as camping, I prefer it to the static existence of hotel life where you depend on everyone else for everything, from food to rest. My camper has my own pillows and sheets that my wife keeps very clean. It makes travel much less stressful when you have your own stuff while staying in places far away. And that’s how we found ourselves up near Put-in-Bay, Ohio. I was at a competitive fast draw competition near that area, so my wife and I camped in our RV for a few days to participate. Then in our downtime, we went over to South Bass Island, where Put-in-Bay is, to look around. I wanted to go to the Perry Museum because I love the Oliver Hazard Perry story of stopping the English during the War of 1812, so because we were camping, we had the flexibility to do that kind of thing while in the area. Plus, there was a really nice campground over on South Bass Island that we have been thinking about as a family trip, as a way to explore all the area islands in the near future, so we wanted to see how the ferry system worked for taking RVs over to the island. 

Of course, Put-in-Bay is very nice, they call it the Key West of the North, and as everyone knows, I like Key West for the audacious independence that it expects, as related to other island lifestyles elsewhere in the world. What’s astonishing about Put-in-Bay is that it’s so close to the border of another country, yet it’s in Ohio, and it has all the island vibes of Hilton Head Island and Key West all wrapped up into a kind of Charleston presentation. It’s a very unique place, and my wife and I enjoyed our visit after doing well in the competitions. For me, it was a rare down day that I greatly appreciated. But what was most impressive to me was the Miller Ferry system itself. I have had the benefit of traveling worldwide and have seen many ferries, many of them creatively stuffing as many people as possible onto their boats to make as much money as they can. But the Miller Ferry had the added complication of maintaining a high American lifestyle. South Bass Island has cars and, as I said, RVs. There is a really nice campground where you can RV camp, and people take their big rigs over to the island routinely. While going over and coming back, I watched the Miller Ferry crew completely load up one of their craft with many millions of dollars in personal RVs, and I couldn’t help but think of the complexity of insurance risk. Most places in the world, especially communist countries, would discourage such travel, where people expect to haul their own personal property over to a tiny island with such an expectation of freedom. That expectation is a particular trait that you find at RV campsites all over the United States and is very consistent as opposed to the type of people who stay at hotels and are dependent on that type of entertainment structure.

Those elements came together nicely on the Miller’s Ferry, where dozens of RVs, many of them over 53 feet long, loaded onto the ferry quickly and traveled across the lake as casually as people ride an elevator up a skyscraper. It was astonishingly competent to watch the ferry crew, which are all very good, load and unload the many millions of dollars of personal equipment so casually. Most organizations and countries that govern them would be much slower and more regulatory-bound. But within moments of landing, the ramp came down, and giant RVs of great worth were leaving the ferry to resume their journeys wherever they intended to go. I found it an astonishing display of competence driven by high personal expectations of customer service based on a lifestyle of freedom. It was audacious to have the ability to take your house to an island to stay for an extended period. Most places in the world would have a lot of regulatory burdens to overcome, and by the time they did, the option would have just been thrown out the window. Why do all that just so people could take their RVs over to a little bitty island? Why couldn’t people just rent a hotel room or stay in a condo? Why did people have to haul their RVs over to a place for such audacious expectations of freedom that were clearly the core of the lifestyle? The island is so tiny, only a few miles across in any direction, that golf carts are the most dominant form of travel. People do drive their cars around, but golf carts are the way to go. The exhibition displayed the difference between government-run facilities and private ones.

The Miller Ferry organization, a private one that has grown to meet the market demand, had no trouble handling even the most complicated loads they did all day without incident. People loaded onto the ferry without crashing and causing other people any trouble, and they did it day in, day out all day, well into the evening. The crew wasn’t overly regulatory and panicked, as you see in many government facilities when they have to deal with crowd management. With the Miller Ferry and the culture of South Bass Island, the expectation is to take care of the customer experience as well as possible, which certainly is not the case with any government-run endeavor. The market serves the consumer and doesn’t seek to control the consumer. If the consumer wants something, then the market finds a way to satisfy that market need, even if it’s as audacious as taking your own home over to a remote island for a day or two so that the traveler can enjoy the comforts of home in their own private way. The amount of cost and investment needed for that experience to happen is ostentatious. Yet they facilitate that life at South Bass Island with the option of the Miller Ferry. As we were experiencing all this, I had to think of where in the world such a display was shown in this way, the level of competence, the expectation of delivery with such a large payload, and people’s private homes. Europe and Asia do not facilitate lifestyles that even have those options as tangible. Their roads aren’t big enough for our RV lifestyle in America. Let alone have a ferry that can take those big vehicles over to an island for vacation. And if the governments were in charge of the ferry, it would take all day to just run through all their regulatory checklists. But at the Miller Ferry, everyone loads up in minutes. They are off just as fast. Nobody crashes. Nobody fights. Nobody worries. People just do what they do and enjoy doing it, which is a wonderful example of how it should be everywhere in the world if only free market capitalism were as vital as it is at South Bass Island.

Rich Hoffman

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A UFO Over Middletown, Ohio: Right where I said one should appear

It’s always news when a UFO appears in the sky in your community, especially a well-defined one as occurred on June 21st, 2023, in precisely the location that I had dared one to appear just a few days earlier. One of my locations for recording VLOGs for my website is the LeSourdsville Lake Park near the campus of Butler Tech. I had been covering the increase in the news of UFO sightings, precisely the one in Las Vegas recently where reportedly a UFO crashed in the backyard of some witnesses, and 10-foot-tall aliens were running around trying to conceal the crash by driving around construction equipment. All this was reported to the police, captured on video, and had multiple witnesses. As I report these things, I say that UFO encounters are much more common among many more people who typically don’t get recognition for them, so it was odd that there are many more reporting than usual and that they are occurring with more frequency with multiple witnesses. My purpose for talking about it wasn’t the phenomenon itself but that the government was admitting to it. And my offering was that the government was in trouble with all these other scandals, horrible inflation, globalism gone bad, a Covid story that wouldn’t go away, election fraud, and abuse of the Department of Justice; there is a lot that the American government would like to get out of people’s minds, and usually when you see a rash of UFO stories, that is the card that governments hide under their sleeve for just such emergencies. 

So to take the edge off the story, I pointed to a spot on the ground and dared a UFO to appear, and a few days later, just a few hundred feet away, a really good UFO appeared in the sky to multiple witnesses who were able to record it on their cell phones. The UFO hovered in the sky near the Speedway, which is nearby with very defined lights turning in a counterclockwise direction before jutting off to the northeast at impossible speeds for conventional physics. Early offerings on the matter were that it could have been a drone or a series of drones. But whatever it was, it was certainly something, and many people saw it. Of course, my first reaction was that someone had seen my video and had the idea to create the situation to answer my challenge. Because there were too many coincidences to consider, out of all the latitude and longitude coordinates in the world, this UFO appearance was just too perfect considering my challenge. And out of all the times in the year, this one appeared just a few days after I had asked it to. That left the question of who and why because the UFO that appeared in the sky was undoubtedly a what and a where. I have recorded UFOs in this general area before, but this one was very well-defined and had all the cinematic elements that are typically associated with UFO technology, spinning, colorful lights, impossibly high speeds, and the ability to hover in place. It was a classic UFO sighting that was entirely too perfect to be real, yet there it was. 

I wondered about it being a drone, about it being an experimental craft from nearby Wright Patterson Airforce Base. One of the reasons that there may be many UFO sightings in the Southern Ohio area is the many Indian mounds. This precise area has many markers in the shape of mounds, as I have talked about them being references to points in time that were created to help a navigator understand due to star alignments with them “when” in time a space traveler might want to know. Specifically, in this case, the nearby Fort Hill alignments that are over 5000 years old align to the constellation Aries and involve the Pleiades star system at a time when people shouldn’t have had such ideas about astrology. And just a few miles to the north of that UFO sighting is the Middletown Mound which is related to the massive Miamisburg mound just upriver a few miles. So, these UFOs aren’t as uncommon as people might think, nor are their reasons for appearing in the Southern Ohio skies. No matter how advanced onboard equipment might be, even for a society that is millions of years further along technologically than we are present, there is nothing like a good signpost in the ground to tell you when you are somewhere because space travel can get funky, as time does not move the same way for everyone, everywhere. It helps to know “when” you are, not just “where.” Most of the UFOs I have seen are very high up. One of my daughters is very tuned in to these kinds of things and always finds them. Most recently, there was one she recorded and sent to me right over my house, but very high up. I remind people that there is a lot of advanced technology that people have, governments, crime syndicates, pedophile rings within the World Economic Forum, crazy lunatics obsessed with bizarre sex practices where they drink adrenochrome, which could simulate a UFO occurrence with holographic projections, which is what I think this UFO reported on August 21st actually was. We are dealing with very hostile people who have gained the advantage in recent years of a technology-based world that is easy to manipulate through images. And those who control what you see are prone to abuse that power.

Understanding all that, my statement on UFOs and all other potential hostilities, no matter where they come from, is that the American Constitution is a philosophy that is the law of the land and that we do not suspend it just because aliens from other planets happen to show up. It’s the same kind of debate that we had when the government purposely mismanaged Covid by denying victims of proper medicine such as hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin as treatments, allowing people to purposely be killed by the virus released by the lab in Wuhan through government cooperation globally. In America, they tried to suspend our Constitutional rights over Covid and implied the same regarding UFO encounters. If we come face to face with an alien species, then we are expected to cleave to the government to save us, and under such conditions, our Constitution would be suspended. My argument is that “no,” we never suspend our Constitution and turn our lives over to the government, which is what I had been saying was the root cause of these increases in UFO appearances. The fact that they were happening, and more frequently, was the government’s way to corral people behind their cause, to get them to seek the safety of the government’s skirt like a frightened child. I would further offer that our American Constitution would be valuable to teach aliens from space.

Just because they are technologically further along than us doesn’t mean they are smarter. They could learn a thing or two from the American Constitution. But we don’t suspend it just because of some emergency or visits from an alien species. And ultimately, that’s why I think the UFO sightings are happening. To remind people that government is there to protect them from unknown forces and that those forces are just hovering around anywhere, anytime. What defense do we have if not for the government? Well, my statement is that the government does lie and that they are far more dangerous than the aliens. If the aliens want to come, go ahead and land, and let’s have a chat. But suspending the Constitution, or our investigative First Amendment that looks at all the bad dealings of this corrupt government isn’t going to happen. Based on what we know now, the government isn’t something we should be running to for protection. They are what we should be running from, aliens and all. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Government Endorsed Attack on America: Sexual Perversion and drug poisoning to destroy our entire society

I can just say that I’m not going to put up with the kind of garbage that went on in Middletown, Ohio, over the last weekend of June 2023. There was a drag show in public that went on, which is shown in the pictures here, that was just disgusting. But these went on nationwide, this assault to desecrate sexuality with unhealthy lifestyles that this current government in America fully endorses. I see what these sexual deviants are doing as an assault. It’s one thing to have sexual lifestyle choices behind closed doors; it’s quite another to weaponize it and to stick it into all our faces as an assault on the very foundations of civilization. So on the very next day, I met with some friends down at the Courthouse in Hamilton, Ohio, for a stake in the ground of goodness to March for Children as a moral position as a response to these horrendous intrusions. It was nice to see so many people there, and I was surprised that there were so many officeholders present who weren’t afraid to put their names next to the issue. Essentially after some speeches, shown here, in front of the Courthouse, we marched around the old building three times, just as in the attack on Jericho. In this case, after three times, we didn’t want the Courthouse to fall, as did the walls in that Biblical city, but for the barriers to law and order to fall away so that justice could be established to protect children under full assault.

Without question, the most emotional speech of the day came from Mark Murphy, who is part of the leadership of the Republican Party of Butler County. Mark recently lost his daughter due to a fentanyl overdose. It only took one time for it to happen, and if it can happen to Mark, it can happen to anybody. What a lot of people fail to realize is that a lot of these evils that we are seeing, whether it’s the drag queen shows or the drug cartels deliberately poisoning our youth with drugs like fentanyl, these are military attacks against American culture. They are deliberately targeting the youth of our culture to destroy them and, as a result, American culture as a whole. Listening to Mark talk, the number of people losing children to fentanyl overdoses is astonishing. The silent killer is the biggest threat in the world today. If ground troops did these deaths with tanks and guns, we’d be outraged by the attack and would seek revenge for the aggression. But the attack is coming in a way we don’t typically think of as an attack, but as a leisurely activity, drug use. Yet the intentions couldn’t be more obvious. We have a media culture and a government that is actually helping the situation along, and there is no other excuse for it. Drugs have always been a problem for the attackers of Western Civilization; the motive is to exploit the free culture with poison so that the competing cultures of the world can then thrive without comparison. Usually, we’d hear about these stories as soldiers who died in the field somewhere. But this attack is on our doorsteps, in all of our neighborhoods, and is all too common. Unfortunately, Mark’s story is not unique. It is so common that people are numb to it that they’d instead think about everything else but this topic. That’s why it was nice to see so many people show up for the March for Children because until we admit that there is a problem, we will continue to be vulnerable to these globalist attacks run by the organized crime arm of that effort, the drug cartels. 

Who in their right mind wouldn’t want to stand up for children, but that is precisely the threat in our schools these days. Public education has become a predatory environment, which is most publicly articulated in the PRIDE event in Middletown. The outlandish behavior seen there is being bred into kids in public schools, and very few people are standing up to it, and apparent evil that is an all-out assault on cultural norms. Darbi Boddy was at the March for Children event as politicians like Jennifer Gross and Todd Minniear spoke about the challenges of doing what’s appropriate for kids despite grotesque social behavior that the masses have now accepted as a reality. But the kids are counting on the adults in their lives to protect them from these predators. And what else could you call people so obviously addicted to a sexual deviation with the intent to engage with underage children? It’s a clear case of evil as far as I’m concerned, and when we are confronted with such things, we must do something about it. There is no common ground with these types of people who have only destruction and mayhem on their minds. A purposeful corruption of the youth toward a life of ill-advised sex addiction; nothing good comes from such a lifestyle, yet we are expected just to take all this desecration politely and without anger? I don’t think so. Everyone who facilitates these types of activities, from officeholders to teachers in the schools, are accommodating sheer evil. It’s not tolerance to accept destructive sexual lifestyles; it’s irresponsible. 

For me, it’s not an option to be accommodating. If we are going to see these kinds of attacks against our American culture, then it should be expected to have an equally hostile response. When the attack vector is so apparent, and the death and mental destruction of an entire nation of people is the target, then nobody should expect to be treated nicely in their desecrations. We are not obligated to kindness when faced with such evil and the intentions of malcontents. If they are free to express themselves in such grotesque ways, then we are also free to have an opinion about it and to let them know that we are judging them on their bad behavior, at the very least. We are not obligated just to take it and accept it out of some guilt by a leftist definition of privilege. Sexual addiction is bad under any condition; nobody should be thinking about it as much as the trans show in Middletown clearly is. But the point isn’t health; it’s destruction. They are selling our own destruction to us through the temptation of pleasure, the most ancient door to evil known to all civilizations. Whether it’s through drug abuse or sexual lifestyles, our current government is helping America’s enemies destroy our country from within, and the casualties are real. And it’s not just the adults they are targeting, but our children. These days, they aren’t even bothering to hide any longer. They do it because they don’t respect us or think that we’ll do anything about it. So the effort is on us in this present time to engage the enemy and redefine the terms of destruction. We cannot co-exist with evil, nor should we expect to. Instead, we must make our opinions known, judge the bad behavior for what it is, and commit ourselves to save children to save our nation because the attack couldn’t be more obvious.

Rich Hoffman

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Isaac Adi Gets Violent Again: An Interview with Darbi Boddy

It has been interesting to watch the trajectory of two school board officeholders who essentially started at the same place but took two different paths upon being elected to satisfy the parameters of accomplishment. Obviously, there is more to the conflict this past week between Isaac Adi and Darbi Boddy on the Lakota school board, where the police investigated a condition of assault, where Isaac, yet again under pressure, lashed out at someone trying to record his public behavior. Darbi is a tough young lady who can handle conflicts just fine. But what’s interesting is how RINOs are created because once elected, Isaac went into an appeasement mode of the very kind of people he was supposed to be engaging with, whereas Darbi has stayed faithful to her campaign promises. I talked to Darbi about all this while we were both at a March for Children rally in downtown Hamilton, Ohio. Darbi never advertised herself as anything but a fighter for children’s rights, whereas the same was expected from Isaac. But once elected, what was witnessed was an instant barrage of influencers who often inject themselves into the newly elected person’s life, and the temptation to appease these new faces is powerful, and most people never develop resistance to it. When I see these clips of Isaac Adi acting violently toward people who put cameras on him to record aggressive behavior, I see that conflict in his actions. Isaac is not alone in this problem. Being authentic has a freedom of its own which was quite apparent when I was able to talk to Darbi on camera about her first few years as a school board member at Lakota. You can see freedom of conscience in her because she has stayed true to herself. But others have not, and that often leads to the kind of obvious frustrations on the face of Isaac Adi in the footage of him lashing out at Darbi.

I worked with both Isaac and Darbi during their campaigns because many of us wanted to help Lynda O’Conner have conservative votes to work with on the Lakota school board. We felt sorry for Lynda and tried to help her. Isaac and Darbi essentially ran together as a package during the campaign, and they won their elections easily. But as soon as the election was over, Lynda started talking about controlling the school board members in ways that didn’t sound very Republican. And immediately, the OSBA (Ohio School Board Association) started to do its work; it’s like a club. They invite new school board members into the warm embrace of friendship, and it doesn’t take much for that type of romance to entice lonely people or people with a natural personality to want to please others. Admittingly, that was a concern I had about Isaac during the campaign; he was so friendly and so outgoing that I was concerned that he would find the desire to appease the other school board members too lucrative when conflict was the best approach. One thing that we did talk about that didn’t make it on camera was Darbi’s support network, with Kelly Kohls at the National Leadership Council (NSBLC), which offers an alternative to the support of the more labor-union-controlled OSBA. Lynda O’Conner and I have talked specifically about the OSBA; she thinks it’s a good organization. I think along the lines of Darbi and Kelly on the matter. But the obvious results are in the influences that led to Darbi doing what voters expected on the Lakota school board and Isaac looking to appease all these new friends, which is the game of politics that happens at every level.

As I explained to Darbi, I am proud of her, as many are. I’ve been doing this kind of thing, supporting candidates in many ways, for many years, and most of the time, it results in a dud. It’s like going to the fireworks store for the Fourth of July and buying a bunch of fireworks that never blow up. You have great expectations, but they just fizzle out when you light the fuse. Whereas with Darbi, she has exploded in all the right ways that were very satisfying and surprising. Every now and then, your hopes and expectations are met, which is the case with Darbi. She was not seduced by all the forces that have taken public education in the wrong direction, and that has been great to see. The ratio for me is about 10 to 1. Of every ten candidates I have worked with over the years, you occasionally get one Darbi. Of course, I knew when such an honest person like Darbi, who simply wanted to do an excellent job as a school board member, confronted a system with so much bad behavior in it, and that bad behavior was hidden from the public through friendships that were designed to conceal it; then there would be conflict. I get emails from people all over the country from people who are political moderates who are jealous that they don’t have someone like Darbi Boddy on their school board. I am very proud of her and would love to have three or four more like her, people who could resist the temptations of group consensus at the expense of voter responsibility.

I brought this up during our talk, how one player for the Reds inspired many others to get better. In many ways, Darbi has been that person for Lakota

We don’t elect people into politics to get along, which is becoming more evident in national politics. We don’t expect physical altercations either, but one of the problems that lead to so much corruption is the appeasement of peers, which is at the heart of the problem at every level. At Lakota, at the fundamental community level, we can see two people who started in the same place and quickly went in entirely different directions. From both perspectives, they had good intentions, yet during our talk, Darbi hit the nail on the head; much of the evil that starts in the world of politics doesn’t come from some pitch-forked devil; it’s often the friendly face who wants to buy you dinner and treat you like a king or princess. Of course, they expect something in return. But it’s often hard to see because it feels good to be liked. Some people will do anything to be liked; once others know that about you, they own you. And at that point, elected representatives often go bad when they fall in love with being loved because, just like a manipulative spouse, once they start jerking around your feelings, you lose the authenticity of why people voted for you in the first place. And at the heart of the conflict between Darbi and Isaac, two people who ran for office together and had been friends, is this villain of appeasement. The lucrative nature of being accepted in the warm embrace of friendship within institutional confinement is a nector all its own. And thankfully, in our community, Darbi didn’t fall for it, much to the frustration of those who wanted to seduce her into it. That’s why people tell me they are jealous of us in Lakota because they see the clear value in elected representatives like Darbi Boddy. The controversy only comes from those who want to steer her in a different direction. But she has stayed with the voters authentically, and people appreciate that, as they do with all people who do so. And with Isaac, it’s frustrating when you can’t please everyone, and that comes out in these outbursts caught on camera twice now. As Darbi said to me, she gets tired of how people talk behind closed doors and speak in public. That duality is the source of the problem because an honest person would be the same in any format. 

Rich Hoffman

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No, Trump Will Not Be Going To Jail: People won’t put up with it

At this point, it’s pretty much a joke; anybody with half a brain sees what’s going on with the election of 2024. Jack Smith and the corrupt DOJ, the Democrat asset FBI, and the mechanisms Beltway politics have weaponized the law to keep Trump from being able to even run for president because they know what they did. They cheated in the 2020 election, Biden never had 81 million votes, and they hoped everyone would forget about it and move on by now. But the Republican Party did not return to a controlled asset of Democrats, it has stayed the party of Trump, and now there is a lot of panic among those who have been committing all these crimes using the power of government to do so. Now that they are desperate beyond anything that public relations firms can manage, they are showing just how bad they really are. We are dealing with a corrupt criminal government that is struggling to hold power, and they are using that acquired power to destroy their political opponents. And the hope is that Republicans will play along like they always do and get punched in the face and won’t punch back like Democrats and their radical communist advocates do. And those big government types are hoping that Trump will go to jail over this classified document situation, which isn’t going to happen. Trump isn’t going to be in trouble over anything for a lot of reasons. There is no possible path for putting Trump in jail. No power of a corrupt government that can do it. No, Trump will not be in handcuffs and be led to jail by the Biden administration or their minion, Jack Smith, and the DOJ. It simply can’t happen.

The first reason it won’t happen is that Trump was president, and unlike the classified documents cases of Pence, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, none of them were ever president.  Trump was, and he had a right to classify or declassify anything he wanted to. Don’t listen to a word that goofy Bill Barr has to say on the matter; several problems with the Presidential Act presents major issues for the Biden case. First of all, notice how the Attorney Generals for Trump were both anti-Trump and were not activists in the way that Merrick Garland has been for Biden. Jeff Sessions talked tough but was far more interested in appeasing Democrats than in doing the work of the Trump administration. Then to show the Swamp creatures in the Beltway that Trump wasn’t going to put someone loyal to him in the Attorney General spot, he appointed Bill Barr to appease the RINOs, which obviously was a mistake because, like many of the bootlickers in the Trump administration, Bill Barr was working against Trump as much as the Democrats were, and he doesn’t see the law the way rationality expresses it. The obvious abuse of the law is there for all to see; with Republicans, they are supposed to be fair, but Democrats can do anything they want with their Departments of Justice. No, if they make a big deal about this records act, then there aren’t many Democrats who can live up to the case law, and suddenly the can of worms will be fully opened, which is a standard nobody can live with. Sure, Democrats and Rino Republicans like Barr are more than willing to go there for the short-term goal of stopping Trump. But in doing so, they’ll destroy themselves because they won’t be able to live up to the standard they will have created for themselves. 

Then there is the other issue that nobody wants to discuss. Who in their right mind thinks that roughly 30% of the population is going to allow such an obvious injustice of the law to go on without violence? For the people who believed that January 6th was the worst thing that ever happened in America, they need a history lesson. There is no instance in a free nation where an authority-driven government got away with such a blatant coup without violence checking the action. This China model that these globalists are using think that the same methods used in Asia will work in America. Not even close. Asians are a collective-based culture where people tend to follow orders from centralized authority, the way a village chief used to.

In America, there has been an assumption of freedom, and now that reality has shown people otherwise, many hotheads are ready to boil. They have remained peaceful because they assumed that elections were open and honest. But now it’s obvious that they have been rigged and that many of our federal politicians have sold us out and think they are going to get away with continuing to support that kind of system. And people are mad. Trump gives them a peaceful option to return our country to a representative nation. But if it’s not, which is clearly the assumption of the Biden White House, well then plenty of people are ready for a fight in the street. And there aren’t enough radical leftists to perform that task of fearful enforcement. We’re talking about a government that can’t even install a water fountain. How are they going to bring over 300 million people under their rule without manipulating them from the shadows? They have a slight problem; people used to give them the benefit of doubt. But not anymore. The assumption of good deeds and that we are all on the same team as Americans is no longer a motivating tagline for peace and justice. If this government tries to put Trump in jail to keep him from being elected, then people are going to lose their cool really fast. 

It’s actually pretty funny how stupid some of these globalists and big government types are. They obviously don’t understand how regular people think. There was no way to pull off this tyrannical, Chinese-style coup without having complete control of the media and of guns. And this government has done neither, nor will they ever. They have shown their intentions to do so and to copy the Chinese in every way. But America is not China. People in America are a lot more hot-tempered, and the only thing that has maintained the balance is the assumption that people could pick their own representatives in government. On January 6th, 2021, a very small percentage of the population became angry when they felt their government slipping away from them, so they protested at the Capitol Building. But that was nothing, and I said so after the event. I heard what the political left was saying about it and had to shake my head. What did they think would happen if people really got upset and Trump wasn’t even on a ticket to vote for? Or that their vote didn’t matter at all. That’s where a lot of people are now, and before they just put up and shut up, a large percentage of the population will look for other options. And it wouldn’t be their fault.

America’s founding documents clearly establish that tyrannical governments must be dismantled from time to time, and this is one of those times. Trump is the peaceful means to do so. Throwing him in jail will only unleash a level of anger that has never been seen domestically in America. Other places in the world, perhaps. But radical communists are not the only ones who can play hardball. And before people in America become mind numb compliant, there will be expressions of anger, to say the least, toward these perpetrators of corruption, in a method that history will certainly take note of. When people can no longer fly their Trump flags to protest a corrupt government, what does anybody think will be the next thing? It won’t be rainbows and smiley faces, that’s for sure.

Rich Hoffman

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People Want a Winner in Trump: We have a right and obligation to change our government, and elections are the most peaceful way to do it

There seems to be a lot of mystery as to why so many people support President Trump, even with over 70 criminal counts against him, multiple indictments from several states, and is facing almost 600 years in jail. Yet he’s the choice pick for president in 2024 because people get it. They understand what’s going on even if the details are too complicated or evil for them to grasp fully. We have suffered for all too long under the kind of sell-off that Speaker McCarthy just tossed America’s way with that ridiculous debt ceiling deal, an obvious loss to a feeble old man in Biden. McCarthy just signed up, without much pushback in negotiations, to 50 trillion dollars in debt by 2030. Republicans, even with a majority, never do anything when they have power, they are controlled opposition at best, and America ends up losing time and time again to radical leftist Marxists and open warfare communists. The perks are too good in government, and the temptation to become corrupt far too great, and we lose most of who we send to those positions. That is, until President Trump. He’s independently wealthy and can afford to be truly independent. So, he is free from corruption in the way it typically occurs. And people see in him an opportunity to have a real representative in the Executive Branch. They know the government is corrupt, and they have tried again over the years to find solutions to these problems, and nothing has worked except for voting for President Trump. So they are standing behind him no matter what these criminal government conspirators throw at him because they are tired of losing. People want Trump because he is a winner, he expects to win, and they understand that all these criminal indictments are simply a government that wants to take out their rival before they must compete with them in an election that will be harder to steal this time around. 

We are dealing with people who have no respect for American sovereignty and have rigged global politics to their mobster-style governing practices. When people like Jim Comey, the former FBI Director, say that Trump does not follow the Constitution, they mean in the way that they have interpreted it for their benefit. I have read the Constitution many times; I always have a copy near me within a few feet. Two of my favorite books are The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers, so I have an excellent grasp on what the Constitution says, and it doesn’t point to the reality that Comey and this Jack Smith loser think it says, where the government makes up rules on the back of a napkin and then expects society to enforce the laws, they create to hold power. No, the Constitution is all about limiting government and its tempting abusees from doing precisely what this Biden government has been doing. If we were not a country with over 300 million guns in it, growing daily, this government would go door to door as they wanted to during Covid and impose power on people in abusive ways. Just over the weekend of June 10th, 2023, the White House, seeing how they are getting killed with information leaks that directly tie Biden to bribery deals to Ukraine, and China are hoping to resurrect Covid protocols at the White House for no other reason than to exert power because the proof from a lot of investigations is closing in. And the government is doing the only thing it knows how to do; they are exerting power to warn people off coming after them. Because they fight, lie, cheat, and steal power so they can abuse it. Yet the Constitution is designed to protect people from that power, and ultimately, that’s why they are struggling now, to maintain the illusion of power, because they can’t go door to door and harass people, and that elections are supposed to be free, and they have been caught tampering with them. 

Who doubts now that President Trump was removed from office with a government-organized coup in 2020? With all these indictments by a corrupt government, its evident that what we are seeing is an attempted Marxist coup in America by dedicated lefties who work in the FBI, the CIA, and the entire Democratic Party, RINOs who come along for the fun of it, similar to what we witnessed in China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil recently. Only in America do we have an expectation of Constitutionally guaranteed free speech and the rights of guns to defend ourselves from such ostentatious exhibitions of power. The Marxist enemy that wants global communism through corporate capture and finance expects people just to take it. But Trump is their peaceful resolution to the matter, their attempt to recapture their government Constitutionally from insurgent forces that have now shown their hand. Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans continue to lose to these globalists losers? People are tired of losing to such people and will vote for President Trump because they are tired of it. And I’ll go on to say that if this election does not represent the people’s will, there will be a lot of trouble. If people don’t have Trump to vote for and that hope for a peaceful resolution is taken away from them, then there will be serious trouble for this government, and the people will have a right to do it. 

It says clearly in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence signed by Congress on July 4th, 1776, that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, (toward personal freedoms of the people involved) it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government.” With all this talk about the National Archives and presidential acts, and who can have classified information and that kind of thing, you can read that for yourself on the documents kept there. It’s the fundamental right of all Americans. If they don’t like their government, they can get rid of it and make a new one. And that’s the plan with Trump. People would prefer a peaceful end to all this mess, but we are not supportive of 50 trillion dollars and a government that tries to destroy former presidents just because they don’t like them. What we are dealing with in America is a government not accountable to the people it’s supposed to represent, so of course, Trump is at the top of the charts for another term. And people don’t care a bit about the charges a corrupt group of Marxists come up with to attempt to stop Trump. For most people, Trump is better than an armed removal of this corrupt government, and if anybody wants to refer to the National Archives, they are welcome to. It’s the law in America to limit the powers of government. Not to give them a blank check as Kevin McCarthy just did, and the other soft-shelled RINOs in Congress that thought playing nice with communist radicals was more important than representing the interests of the people and losing to them over and over again like a bunch of fools is not it. People want winners, and in Trump, they have one. And they want that kind of person running their government, even the independents. The Biden people and their malicious attachments know how bad they are and what they have been doing, and they are hoping to control the wrath of the people they have screwed over. But not this time. Punishment is coming for them, one way or another.

Rich Hoffman

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The Way to Have Honest Elections: Just call Frank LaRose in Ohio, and he can show you how

How could anybody not think that election fraud is a real problem? After all, look at the amount of money that is at stake, the enemy countries out there who want to put people sympathetic to their cause in our government for leverage. Likely, election fraud has been a significant problem the entire time that mass media has been involved in the conduct of our election cycles. We should be looking for cheating everywhere, all the time. And to maintain secure elections, we must take the process seriously, and that just hasn’t been happening. The election fraud of 2020 goes way beyond hurt feelings that Donald Trump didn’t win and that Republicans didn’t maintain control of the White House. The fraud was so ostentatious that it was no longer speculation of election fraud but a grim reality and to what extent it was occurring. Obviously, there were political class members on both sides who wanted to see election fraud happen to maintain their control over the government institutions themselves. Mitch McConnell comes to mind, as do people like Bill Barr: the FBI, the corporate boards of major media companies. What we had once suspected was now a confirmed reality, and now in the wake of all that a few years ago now, there are still those who want to deny that it did happen so that they can continue to benefit from the rigged system and allow global influences to manipulate American interests for the goals of insurgents hostile to the American idea.

Yet the solution is relatively simple now that we know what we know, and rather than argue with people about election fraud and deal with all the many court cases that are required to fix it, there is no hope of such a thing happening by the time of the 2024 election. So what is anybody supposed to do? With such a massive election fraud machine that literally has millions and millions of greedy hands in it to manipulate toward controlled advantage, what options can a government that is supposed to be ruled by the people utter to save its election system from the barbarous pirates of finance and political discourse? Well, I happen to know Frank LaRose, the Ohio Secretary of State, a bit, and I would gladly put you in touch with him to learn what he has done in Ohio to secure elections. I would say that what Frank has done in Ohio toward the goal of election integrity should be the standard for the rest of the nation to follow, and it’s all very simple. Of course, the bad guys are suing him left and right because they know how good his policies are for secure elections, and they are hoping to see his methods overturned in court by the 2024 presidential election because, in the game of “lawfare” the way liberals like to fight, they have no chance of winning any Democrat seats in Ohio without election fraud. So they are in a bit of a panic. The two best things that Frank LaRose has done to secure elections is to mandate a photo ID that is government issued. That can be a driver’s license or just a card issued for free by the BMV. Very easy to get and is the basic way to ensure that the person voting is who they are. The second thing that is done in Ohio is probably the most important, which is a real problem in this modern age of early voting, is that vote counts need to be counted by election day, not many days after. 

The way the game works, and it’s a well-thought-out scam that Democrats and some Republicans have fully endorsed over the years under the banner of “fairness,” is that mail-in ballots were ripe for fraud because they could be added or subtracted depending on what the final vote count margin actually was. In Ohio, there is early voting, but the general rule is that everyone must put their pencils down by election night, and the vote counts are due. Ohio achieves this by inputting those votes into the system as they come in so that by election night, they can be part of the vote. States like Pennsylvania don’t start counting those votes until election day, which is how this mess of counting votes days after the election began, and election results were not known on election day but days later. States that continue counting after the election, which was the case in several state races involving congressional seats, already know the margin they need to put their favorite person over the top, so they keep counting mail-in ballots until they reach their target. And if they don’t have enough actual mail-in ballots, they make them up until they do. That’s simply no way to manage any accurate election, and it has purposely opened the door to rampant election fraud. Remember when Pennsylvania, over the weeks after the election came up with a million extra votes to put Joe Biden over President Trump? And the courts didn’t want to touch the case because it would open up the entire system to a complete lashing, and nobody had the stomach for it. Frank LaRose was brought in to testify how Ohio managed, and many in the process know this little trade secret. But admitting to it would essentially commit thousands of well-respected people to a guilty plea of sedition against our country. Election fraud is serious, and many people went way too far and got caught doing it. The most recent example is the monstrosity in Arizona with Katie Hobbs, who essentially managed her own election. Good election security essentially comes down to having a good secretary of state. If you don’t have one, you can forget about it. It’s that serious.

But rather than cry about it, just fix it. If everyone wants to prove they have honest elections, then at least ensure that early ballots are counted by election day, like in Ohio. And that will stop this trend of counting votes after election day, as we have seen becoming a major problem over the last two elections. Democrats knew what they were planning to do to cheat the 2020 election; they warned us ahead of time that Trump would appear to win in a landslide and that over the following weeks, Joe Biden would pull out the win. Well, they did that because they knew what the voting margin was that they had to come up with regarding fake votes. And that was their strategy all along, and why they allow their candidates to run their campaigns in their basement because they really think people are so stupid that they won’t see what they are up to. The best thing is to remove the temptation to cheat by ensuring that results are counted by election day and not after the results are known. The gap was so significant in Pennsylvania that this problem became apparent. So in the future, for those who want honest elections, just let me know, and I can put you in contact with Frank LaRose, and he can help your state run a fair election. And you better do it before 2024 because Democrats are planning to cheat again wherever they can. It’s part of their campaign strategy disguised as some “get out the vote” effort. But in reality, it’s just planned fraud, and the way to keep them from doing it is with some simple ground rules. And by doing as Ohio has, voter integrity will become much better. And the election results will be noticeably improved. 

Rich Hoffman

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Getting Away into Natural Bridge, Kentucky: The ultimate kind of Rebellion, Kindness, and Defiance

April is my birthday month and is always a positive benchmark for me. It’s always been my favorite month with all the life that returns from a long winter, and I always use the month as my own gauge into successes that need to be celebrated and things that need to be improved. But as a treat to myself, I wanted to go on a camping trip to Natural Bridge with as many of my family who could go and get off the grid for a few days in a place I grew up enjoying. My grandparents were from that region of Slade, Kentucky; during prohibition, my grandpa and his family ran moonshine, which I respect. I view moonshine differently than drug dealing for several reasons, even though I dislike intoxication of any kind all the time. I like to see independent and free people pushing back against a tyrannical government, and during prohibition, the government was out of control and deserved to have pushback, and that my grandfather and his father certainly did. Currently, we have a very dangerous government that is way beyond acceptable tyrannical tolerance, so for my birthday, I wanted to revisit a state park from my youth nicely nestled in the foothill mountains of the Appalachians and recharge. Over the last few years, my favorite mode of travel has been RV camping, so I wanted to take ours and live out of it for a few days, which is precisely what we did, and it was a wonderful experience. One of my sons-in-law brought their own camper, so we had a nice little family get-together down in the hills of Natural Bridge, Kentucky, and get away from the government for a bit.

Slade, Kentucky, where the Natural Bridge State Park and the world-famous Red River Gorge are located, is unusual because they have a particular hostility toward big government. Many census takers have found it impossible to do their job because the local residents simply don’t like government. So when you want to get away from big government and deal with people in a traditional Christian background setting in the Bible Belt, there aren’t many places in the world better. I’ve been to Natural Bridge a lot over my life, especially as a little kid. It’s been about ten years since my last visit. It’s not that it’s hard to get to; it’s very close to Cincinnati, Ohio, where I live. But my schedule has been busy; since my last visit, I have traveled around the world a few times, been to many countries, and experienced unique cultures. My opinion about the Slade, Kentucky region isn’t for lack of knowing anything else. But instead, it’s because I’ve seen a lot of other places that I appreciate that one of the best travel destinations there is, in my opinion, one that I knew well from my youth, was literally in my own backyard. It was a lucky experience to have, out of all the places in the world I could have gone, to have such a relationship with literally one of the best places there is. Our camping trip was wonderful, we had a nice campsite nestled in the hills, and we lived off the bare minimums and were able to let the world go for a bit, which was the present I wanted to give myself this year for a well-deserved birthday.

My wife and I started RV camping during Covid, and we will likely never do anything else again. I like hauling around my hotel room, bathroom, and refrigerator. It makes traveling so much better to step away from the grid as much as possible. I have a TV in my RV that we can stop and have a snack to take a break from driving and relax. Camper traveling with an RV has been a great experience, so doing that kind of camping at Natural Bridge brought together parts of the world that are favorites. It was all a gratifying experience. A lot of my family was able to come along, so it was nice to be around them and celebrate life while stepping away from the world of problems that traditionally come from government interference in our lives. Living out of a camper for a week in April of 2023 was enormously rewarding and recharged my spirit considerably. As a family, we had a good trip, and we were all grateful to have it. 

My wife and I had an interesting experience, a few actually, but one that reminded us just how good the world is without government in it. And people still live and get along without the stupid government imposing themselves into our lives. People left alone by government tend to do the right things without having a parental authoritarian in the form of government looming over our shoulders. For example, we went into town for some ingredients for smores and other snacks. And one of the items we needed was more firewood. So we were going to pick some up from a gas station down by the Mountain Parkway with a nice store. But the nice clerk there was a mountain woman from Appalachia, of course, and she told us that the wood that the gas station was selling was too expensive and you didn’t get very much. So she told us to go down the road around 400 yards to a tire mechanic with a little shed behind a Subway restaurant. He was selling a whole-wheel barrel of firewood for ten bucks. So we went down there to see him, and he loaded us up with firewood for our campsite. He had a rough mountain man accent; I would have needed subtitles to understand what he said. But we paid him the ten dollars, and he gave me a very large wheel barrel of wood to load into the back of our hatchback.

We couldn’t understand each other, but we quickly became good friends. That region is famous for many campfires, so he has many customers for his little enterprise due to the many campers who come to climb the world-famous Red River Gorge. It’s kind of a hippie culture, the rock climbers. More libertarian than anything. We probably wouldn’t agree on presidential picks or even drug usage. But we all do share a love of independence. Many of them come and camp with four people in a one-person dome tent with hundreds of others who can barely rub two dimes together in their pockets. And I find them refreshing, especially at Miguel’s Pizza, where they hang out. I’ve had pizza from everywhere, and the pizza they have at Miguel’s is a real treat. It was wonderful to pick some of it up and take it back to our campsite, where I had my reading chair set up next to the fire as all the kids played and enjoyed each other, and I had a stack of books to read well into the night as the sun set outlining the mountain tops and the dark sky stars made themselves obvious. It was a nice place to be, and it was certainly a great birthday present for me. No matter how much money you throw at recreation, it never gets better than that. 

Rich Hoffman

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