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Let’s Be Clear, Elon Musk Did Not Win the Election for Trump: The tempers of a dejected woman

Let’s get something straight: Elon Musk did not win the election for President Trump.  I like Elon Musk, and I want his companies to succeed.  But he’s a political lightweight who still has a lot to learn.  The money he spent, primarily on President Trump, around $290 million, was in his own best interest. If Trump had lost, it would have essentially cost Elon Musk many billions of dollars in lost opportunity cost.  So this big head idea he has that he won the election for President Trump, and that he put a Republican House and Senate into the majority, is ridiculously wrong.  I have a news flash for Elon Musk.  Trump was going to win, and so were those majorities going to happen, with or without Elon Musk.  We don’t owe him anything.  We welcomed his help.  But we were going to win regardless.  Trump was poised to win as far back as 2022, and I said so all the way.  Everyone knew what the internals were saying; Trump was never going to lose.  And I hate to say it, but that money Musk spent was mainly worthless.   People had already made up their minds about Trump, and they wanted him, because election fraud was the problem in 2020.  Elon Musk was a Democrat who helped other Democrats feel like they could switch over to the MAGA base and be a part of it.  However, the numbers were already in place long before Elon Musk became involved.  And to whatever degree Elon Musk has deluded himself with a power play to turn against Trump in the way he did, which will have a permanent impact on the rest of his life, it’s essential to clarify the truth of the matter.  President Trump would have won the 2024 election with or without help. 

There is a part of me, and it might yet be somewhat true that the calls for war that China and Russia have been beating on, making negotiations very difficult, were why Trump and Musk went into a tag team kind of Big Time Wrestling event where the world was temporarily distracted by the most powerful person in the world getting into a fight with the world’s richest person.  Trump has done that kind of thing with Vince McMahon before.  Those kinds of acts are what WWF wrestling is all about, and off stage, all the guys are friends.  But I think Trump is legitimately hurt by what Elon Musk did, and that what happened was a permanent condition.  I would place it among the stories of Omarosa, Michael Cohen, and Anthony Scaramucci, people who were once close to Trump but fell away in disgrace.  That’s a whole topic of its own, but in this case, it takes courage to stand by a person like President Trump, and some people just don’t have it.  Is it President Trump’s fault that there are so many people like that in his life, and extending well into the past?  No, I would say that influential people attract people who want to be near power.  And as people of their own, they have fantasies of being able to manipulate influential people into doing things they want, because they lack the courage to do it themselves.  So they fly too close to the sun, their wings melt, and they fall back to earth.  Elon Musk is just the latest to experience that. 

As it looks, Steve Bannon was probably more right than wrong about Musk being a Chinese asset.  China is Tesla’s second-largest market, behind the United States, with sales growing by 8.8% in 2024.  And state-controlled banks in China gave Tesla a $1.6 billion loan from Chinese state-owned banks in 2019 to build their gigafactory there, with a reduced 15% corporate tax rate.  I think the pressure on Elon Musk to exit politics was significant due to his numerous entanglements.  I was amazed that he was able to do as much as he did.  Like a lot of people, Elon Musk got caught up in seeing the extreme wrong behind the assassination attempt of Trump, and he joined the crusade out of a moral imperative, like so many others did.  But China has been using globalist money to buy people with leverage for many years, including most of our current government.  And they are trying to undermine Trump, as they did when they released the COVID-19 virus during an election year.  We cannot ignore the role China played in election fraud in America, but also in other places, such as Brazil, and most recently in South Korea.  Doing business with China is a tricky proposition; they can and will hold everything over your head if they decide to call in a loan.  That seems to be a common practice in the world these days, so I can certainly understand the pressure on Musk to distance himself from the White House and return to running his companies, which, unfortunately, involves being a political chameleon.  Most businesspeople have to adapt their approach depending on the country they are dealing with, and with a company like Tesla, China holds significant influence.  It’s nice that it’s an American car company and that it represents a necessary export.  But at what cost? Usually, it means that at the very least, the CEO of the company can’t have political opinions that work against the country they are building and selling cars to, when they are effectively a communist run enterprise hell bent on authority control over mass society.

I think the pressure got to him. There are a lot of leftists who work in executive positions at Musk’s companies, and they weren’t happy that he was suddenly one of the key Republicans in Washington D.C., attached so intimately to the Trump administration with direct, and open friendship.  For Trump’s part, it was good to have Musk as a friend.  In business, you keep your friends close, and if you can, you keep your enemies closer.  If you have your arm around them, it’s hard for them to stick a knife in your back, because your arm can control their movements to a greater extent.  But for people like Musk, and the long line of individuals who have tried to be close to Trump, to control him in some way, and then found out things didn’t go the way they wanted, it’s like the woman who marries a man to change him.  And after all the sex and laughing at his dumb jokes, he still doesn’t willingly cut the grass on Sunday, the woman feels dejected and angry.  And I think Elon Musk is like so many women who try such a thing only to realize they weren’t able to change the man they married, leaving them embarrassed and regretful.  And Musk wanted to make a clean break to get his companies back on track by using the protest against this Big Beautiful Bill as an excuse.  Because if you did want to help the Chinese stay in power, you would like to stop the Trump campaign bill from passing the Senate.  Passing the bill, as expensive as it is, essentially reduces China’s influence over American politics.  That’s why it’s so costly.  Debt can be leveraged to advantage.  But to make it work, you have to have something valuable to work with.  China has been trying to destroy that value, so this Big Beautiful Bill of Trump’s is all about leverage.  Not actual debt.  And Elon Musk found himself caught between those two worlds, and he had to pick.  And I don’t blame him.  It takes a lot of guts to stick to these kinds of things.  And it’s challenging at best, especially if you have a substantial amount of money and want to maintain it.  But let’s be clear, Musk didn’t win the election for Trump.  He was just lucky to have been a part of history.  He certainly didn’t make it.

Rich Hoffman

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Vote for Mark Welch as Trustee of West Chester, Ohio: The island of misfit toys wants to ride the success of good politics

Mark Welch, the long-standing trustee of West Chester, Ohio, has undoubtedly been one of the main reasons that the northern Cincinnati community is one of the best places to live in the world.  And that’s not just me saying that because I like West Chester, Ohio.  Years ago, some effective policies were implemented to limit government overreach and foster a free enterprise approach to the growing community. This was achieved through a collaborative effort, led by then-trustee George Lang, with Mark Welch subsequently elected to provide a much-needed second vote.  It used to be that George was always outvoted two to one, and he needed someone who could share his vision with him. The result was a period of prosperity in West Chester, Ohio, which has made it unquestionably one of the best places to live anywhere in the world.  As a result, many people have moved into the area, bringing with them political ideas reflective of their origins, which have evolved.  George is now Senator Lang of Ohio, representing the 4th District.  However, Mark Welch remains a trustee who is now up for re-election in 2025.  With his excellent track record, he should have an easy re-election to his seat.  But we don’t want to take anything for granted.  Another long-time holdout, Lee Wong, who is very sympathetic to Chinese causes, is also up for re-election.  He is the kind of person who a lot of Democrats vote for, so he tends to get support from the many moderate Republicans, and the Democrats so there is some concern that in a race that is introducing the long term police chief to the mix Joel Herzog, that if Republicans don’t work together, that damage could be done to the seats in West Chester. 

Most of the time, there aren’t many people who run for these spots, and it could be assumed that Mark would win his seat back and that there would be room for Joel Herzog to join him.  Lee Wong, under all considerations, is vulnerable for many reasons, but he plays nicely enough with Republicans to avoid drawing too much hate, which is part of his strategy.  In a three-way race for two seats, it can get tricky.  The ideal situation would be for Republicans to show up and support Mark and Joel, thereby putting Lee in third place.  However, as I mentioned earlier, Lee will likely draw Democrat votes without needing to do much campaigning.  And the way these elections work is that it’s the best of the candidates who get the highest vote count.  Therefore, the top two vote-getters will win the seats.  And if it were just between these three, I would say Mark Welch would have no problem retaining his seat.  Joel Herzog is a good guy who comes highly recommended by everyone who knows him.  I have mentioned that, as a former police chief, it would be challenging for him to negotiate police contracts as a trustee with impartiality.  But most people agree that the good stuff with him is so good that that’s not a concern in his regard.  To regain the support of two conservative West Chester trustees, it will require a coordinated effort to retain Mark and help Joel win without one of them losing to Lee Wong.  The current belief is that Lakota schools will attempt to put a levy on the ballot, which is expected to attract many big-spending Democrats, making the math for Lee much more favorable than in previous years.

Then there is the issue of Ann Becker. A couple of other prominent Democrat challengers, affiliated with the Kathy Wyenandt area Democrats, who are certainly in the minority, are also running. Still, they are organizing to tag-team their efforts with the Lakota school levy push, so they hope to have higher than normal voter turnout to capture some advantage.  Ann Becker is the third trustee who was formerly a Tea Party conservative, serving as president of the Cincinnati Tea Party and the West Chester Tea Party.  She used to have a show on 55 KRC to discuss Tea Party topics, but Ann Becker is long gone these days.  She used to be a good tag team vote with Mark Welch, but she has changed quite a lot over the years, to the point where she might as well be a Democrat.  Therefore, electing Joel and retaining Mark become that much more critical.  When I first met Ann, whom I have been good friends with for a long time, she was associated with the levy supporters of Lakota, and we were at odds politically.  However, I always liked Ann, and she made a transition into the Tea Party movement, where we saw many things eye to eye.  People would warn me that she used to be a Democrat.  But I liked her anyway.  I also like Kathy Wyenandt, too, as a person.  However, Democrats are not adept at handling money or policy, and the needs of West Chester require a particular kind of mind. Unfortunately, Ann has lost her way and reverted to the person she was before I met her, before the Tea Party movement.  These individuals might be friendly, but they shouldn’t be in government. 

The other two candidates stepping into the crowded race for those two trustee seats are both Democrats: Alyssa Louagie and Amanda Ortiz.  I don’t think either one of them has a chance, but they think they do because they plan to tag-team the Lakota levy, which many are counting on Ann to lend her support as well.  So, we suddenly have a lot of Democrats taking a calculated leap into the mix, hoping that something will stick.  There is also a risk of losing what made West Chester great and falling into the same trend that muddles so many other communities, which assume that their success stories can survive with Democrats moving into positions of leadership.  People see things going well, so they give the misfit toys a chance, out of the luxury of success.  Then democrats ruin everything, and they want to attach themselves to the success story of West Chester, and the game for the rest of us is to preserve that success by re-electing Mark Welch and adding Joel Herzog.  However, the Democrats want to capitalize on the success to fund their social engineering projects, which will then alter everything great about West Chester, turning it into just another typical community that has seen its success fade because it was taken for granted.  And if we let the Democrats have a greater share of the seats at the table, we could easily end up with three Democrats as trustees, which would be detrimental to the interests of the other parties. That provides some early math to put the situation in perspective.  I think it will be good for Lakota to put out their ridiculous school levy because it will bring out more MAGA, Trump-voting Republicans, who will only help Mark hold his seat.  I think the math works in Mark’s favor to pick up votes this year, given the anger at Lakota schools over their proposed tax increases.  But we’ll see.  What we do know is who is running, and it’s now that the strategies for preserving West Chester need to be developed, before it’s too late.  And taking a long view, Joel would be great, but the more strategic seat comes up in a few years. To protect West Chester, we need a strategy and a lot of players willing to support the long view, especially in a crowded field.

Rich Hoffman

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I Understand Why Warren Davidson Voted No: Going all in for America’s economic prosperity

I’m happy that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill passed the House and is headed for the Senate with just enough votes.  But I’m also excited to see that Warren Davidson, my congressman, voted no on it, as did Thomas Massie.  I understand the push from Trump to get complete unity on the House votes, and that stragglers and rebels send a bad message to whip up votes, because there is still more work to do in the Senate.  This bill is necessary for Trump to fulfill his second-term promises, and it is risky to pay for prosperity with massive additions to the debt.  Trump was close to pulling this off successfully during his first term in that last year, but the Covid shutdowns proved to be a strategic disaster in that it opened the door for Trump’s additions to the national debt to spiral out of control once Biden was put in office and things went off the rails.  I have been telling people for many years what Trump would do once he returned to the White House, which was best said in his book, The Art of the Comeback.  That is an excellent book that I recommend everyone read for themselves.  It is common for businesspeople to gamble big with debt to pull off a jackpot return.  If you’ve ever played poker or Blackjack, it’s the same rules, but this is what Trump was hired for by the American people and he needs this Big Beautiful Bill to pull it off, which makes the 2017 Tax Cuts permanent and puts forward the Jobs act, and introduces eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay, car loan interest, addresses border security, energy policy and spending cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.  But it also raises the debt ceiling by 4 trillion dollars, and it is at that point, Warren Davidson became a no vote. 

If I were in Warren’s shoes, and I’ll tell him when I see him next, I would have voted the same way he did.  It means you probably won’t get invited to the next White House event, but so what?  Right is right, and Warren Davidson, just as Thomas Massie and Rand Paul in the Senate, represent an area of Ohio and Kentucky that is done with government overreach.  So they represent the kind of people in those regions well, and no amount of whipping the votes will change that.  I don’t think Warren cares about a primary.  He’s been a congressman for a while and wants to do other things.  So if Trump gets mad at him, I think he will handle it.  It is risky business to fund prosperity with increased debt.  But, we did elect Trump to do exactly that, and if Trump wins his hand, which I think he will, America will see unheard of prosperity.  And it will happen fast.  But to pull it off, America will have to become the world’s dominant economy for the next twenty years, and that is indeed Trump’s intention.  By the time this bill passes the Senate, it will be midsummer, and that is why everything had to be put into that one bill, to get the Trump agenda off and going fast during that first year of his new term.  So that by the end of the year, and going into year 2, the economy will be red hot and people will see the benefits in their pocketbooks fast.  Playing it safe won’t get us there. 

We shouldn’t be in this situation; to Warren’s point, government spending should be much less.  We can’t trust some future Congress to be responsible and to do the right thing once Trump gets the economy moving in the right direction, after so many years of neglect.  Warren could have voted yes like everyone else to support Trump, but in his district in Ohio, people would have held it against him.  And he is supposed to represent the people, not to be strong-armed by Trump’s White House.  So it’s pretty tricky business to support something without supporting it.  But they had the votes, and Warren needed his name on the right side of history to remind future congressional people that we must return to cutting government spending very shortly.  But, to Trump’s point, as a business executive who has done this many times in his past, you can’t cut off your nose to spite your face, as many have done over the years to themselves.  Without realizing that they were doing it until it was too late.  I think it will take J.D. Vance to break the tying vote to pass the bill in the Senate.  There will be some theatrics, which Trump is trying to contain vigilantly, because he has put this on his back to deliver personally.  Trump knows how to work the executive ropes, which is why he’s so effective in the world, and I am confident that his vision for massive economic expansion to cover the increased debt burden will work.  At this point, the debt is so bad that it will take bold bets to recover a jackpot. Otherwise, there will be no chance to get out of it. We are in an all-or-nothing situation.

And to answer the question people in the media are asking about the checks on power, it had to be Trump.  The value of human capital is a currency not very well understood by the world, but it does emerge in business here and there.  Consultants try to capture the essence of human capital, but it comes down to personalities and how much people want access to them.  Trump has built his brand so that people want to know him; they want their picture next to him, and Trump is using that power to drive a narrative in ways that few others in the world could.  That’s why he can step into any negotiation in the world and have a positive impact.  I’ve read all of Trump’s books, many times, and I don’t think even he understands how that type of personality is developed in business.  Only that it is forged there; once a person has it, they can turn everything into gold.  I was playing Blackjack the other night and thinking about this very problem.  Trump is making big bets on this Bill, and using all the human capital he has built over the years to pull it off.  And with Warren’s vote he is saying, essentially that he has enough pictures with the President.  That he’s ready to move on and do something else, and while the lights are on him, he wants to remind people that fiscal spending needs to be pulled in once Trump is gone.  And this vote for him is a letter in a bottle he hopes gets found and acted upon shortly.  But first, Trump knows he has to place the big bets on 21.  And he has to force his way to beat the dealer.  And it’s not a win for him, but for America in one of the most spectacular political maneuvers the world has ever seen.  And we have to remember that we elected Trump to make this bet for us, and to play this game at this level, because it is all or nothing, literally.

Rich Hoffman

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A Warning for Trump: Be careful of the bootlickers and losers

This is the hard part, with the honeymoon essentially over, the Trump administration has to watch that it doesn’t lose its edge.  I’m not particularly worried about it, but it’s something Trump will have to be careful about because when it comes to deal-making, he loves doing it certainly more than the political process.  And we’re talking about falling in love with the people you negotiate with, like China, like Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, where people pander to him, massage his ego, and then slip the Shakespearian knife in Trump’s back when they think he’s not looking.  The bad guys in the world have no choice but to appease Trump. That is the case usually with my “gunfighter at the bar with his back-to-the-room” metaphor that I always talk about.  The enemy does not seek to kill valuable people if they think they can use them first, which is perfectly true with Trump and his natural ability to get leverage in just about any situation.  But it is because of this tendency that Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci lied straight to Trump’s face about COVID during the last administration, the Fed practiced Modern Monetary Theory with Larry Fink as their distribution center right under the nose of Trump.  This is the point in the story where the appeasers appease, and the suckers bite on the sweet candy and sicken themselves forever.  And Trump, if he wants to do well in this term and achieve all the things that are possible, has to be cautious about his nature.  “If you can’t beat them, join them,” is what the enemy is saying.  And adding, “then beat them when you have their trust by a last-minute betrayal.”  Trump has to resist falling in love with the bad guys under the pretense of compassion because the villainy they are capable of is far worse than his nature understands.  At heart, he has developed into a great negotiator by understanding how to read a room and its people.  And he generally does like people.  And the only defense that bad people have against such a person is to appeal to his good nature to keep him from destroying them.  And many of them need to be destroyed.

The caution comes from Pam Bondi at the DOJ, the handling of the Epstein files, and the public expectation that people will go to jail.  And James O’Keefe and Laura Loomer have been reporting that there are not so forthcoming reports on other elements, such as video of sexual exploitation of children involved in the Epstein Island personalities.  And when you play in the sandbox that Trump plays in, and Pam Bondi, it is likely that people you know are on that Epstein list, and the pain and betrayal of that can be pretty harsh.  This is the difference between campaigning and doing.  It is easy to talk about something, but not so easy to do it.  Ultimately, I think Trump will follow through on the challenges before him.  However, in trying to deal with people and salvage relationships, especially in the Middle East, sometimes his love of making friends is more than destroying an enemy, and it will be used against him.  We’re dealing with some evil people who must be dealt with harshly.  It’s what people expect and don’t necessarily want to make a deal with bad people, even if it doesn’t strengthen the American position in the world.  And Trump is going to have to fight through that carefully.  The best way to preserve Trump’s legacy is with America First and easy wins on the scoreboard.  We have the midterms coming up soon, and if Trump wants more than just a couple of years of cosmetic cooperation, he needs to put some bad guys in jail.

The judicial problem I thought was very well explained recently by Matt Gaetz on the WarRoom.  To become a judge in America, you have to jump through many hoops, belong to many clubs, and prove yourself to be a good caretaker of the BAR Association, which has shown to be very progressive and radical.  I have often pointed out, especially among older judges, their relationship to Freemasonry as a problem because of their commitment to altruism, which, for fans of Ayn Rand, is a deadly word in a productive society.  We elect Presidents, congresspeople, senators, all kinds of positions, but the hold outs to the MAGA agenda are these legal people who are connected to deep and malicious finance, and they do think they can appease the beast in Trump just long enough to crush him when his back is turned and that’s where we are.  People who survive the barriers to the judicial profession only do so by jumping through hoops of social formation that is truly devastating to the perpetuation of a productive, sovereign country, and that is what Trump is up against.  Appeasing them with kindness and good deals won’t stop the villainy of their nocturnal deeds, and their oaths to the corruptive nature of mass collectivism, through the sacrifice of self, for the benefit of others.  Many judicial types see their role in life as stopping materialists like Trump with everything they have in their very souls.  And there is no way to make friends and bring them to your side.  They have to be destroyed, and if they are on video doing nasty things with little kids on Epstein Island, they need to be torn to shreds in front of the public spectacularly because it’s what people want in our Representative Republic.

Glenn Beck ran the numbers recently through AI on the possible ways the American economy survives.  And let me say that I think most of them are wrong.   I am very optimistic about the future of America and our economy.  But we must listen to caution and do good things with the information.  However, those AI programs don’t have many scenarios where the American dollar will survive an economic collapse in the world by 2030.  And I know that’s where Trump’s heart is.  There is a good chance that the AI programs can’t see yet, because it’s more intuitive than practical, that America will lead the world in a capitalist revolution that will improve things for everyone.  But many bad people will gladly throw themselves in front of that train, and we have to have the guts to run them over.  Because those people have the wrong ideas about existence, there is no way to reform them.  And it’s through that kind of ruthlessness that America survives and thrives. But there will be a lot of casualties, and some of them will be friends.  And it will be painful.  And there is no way to negotiate away the pain.  And not fall in love with the office of the Presidency because the ceremonial routine is filled with appeasers trying to massage Trump’s ego, just long enough to outlast him.  Don’t ever lose your edge because the edge that matters is in the knife they are trying to stick in Trump’s back when they think he’ll turn his back just long enough because it’s the only move they have.  Be recklessly cautious.

Rich Hoffman

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The Attack on Ohio’s Energy Grid: The Lawfare that put Householder in jail was an assult, not justice

To remind everyone, Larry Householder, the former Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, is serving a jail term of 20 years.  And knowing now what I said then, the case was purely about politics and nothing about justice.  The same courts that have been trying to put Trump in jail are what’s at work here.  When you are in the Speaker position and you have to raise money for your party, what are you supposed to do when a company that supplies power to the energy grid in the form of two nuclear power plants in northern Ohio are being pushed out of business by that same government, the case from top to bottom was as dirty as it gets.  And it wasn’t Householder who was the dirty dealer.  The entire FirstEnergy case is about Democrats who were jealous of the power Republicans have in Columbus, and they used lawfare to attempt to break up that control and wrestle power back in their favor.  And they targeted Householder because he was trying to save an energy company that was targeted by the Obama administration for destruction as a progressive war against energy, which we saw during the Biden administration was purposeful and malicious.  Democrats and progressives wanted to reduce the power grid away from its known levels and shove everyone into solar and wind without having any real means to supply the demand that consumers needed.  Instead, the plan was to reduce the supply and force people to cut back on their needs.  The federal government targeted FirstEnergy to go out of business so that the Ohio power grid could not sustain the needs of consumers, and that was always the real story.  I wouldn’t call what Householder was doing to try to save the company bribery, a kind of pay-to-play scheme, politics.  The real problem was the attack on Ohio’s energy grid, which was the real menace in the story.

That’s not to say that Larry Householder and others in the Republican Party were squeaky clean.  There is a way to handle a situation like that correctly, and they did not handle the pressure or the temptations well.  Calling Householder a mob boss as if he were Al Capone or some other mobster is disingenuous, and only reflects that Democrats don’t have similar personality types in their party that can take control in Columbus.  However, when it comes to Republicans, taking Householder off the map only allowed other characters to fill the void, and that’s not a bad thing.  When we elect these people, we expect to get things done, and we expect the party we elect into power to keep that power, and sometimes the game can get messy.  But we want our people to win the game by whatever means necessary.  Where the line gets crossed is when you start accepting gifts and vacations, even if well-intentioned.  For people like Householder, the power can go to their heads, and they can get lost in the process.  But the forced lapse in judgment wasn’t caused by some power-hungry maniac as much as it came from a desperate power company under attack by the government itself, seeking help from the Republican Party to stay viable.  It wasn’t mismanagement that was causing FirstEnergy to go out of business and need a bailout, it was the purposeful government rules and regulations that were intent to destroy them so that all people would be forced to turn away from their power needs and manage a shortfall, just like what California has seen with its brownouts and the push to force them to run their air conditioners less in the summer, and make concessions to their power consumption.  The attack on the American energy grid is the real story and is what is hiding behind the optics of throwing the Speaker in Ohio in jail over pure politics.

This is a war by radical communists disguising themselves as “progressives” attempting to torpedo the American economy with regulatory policy meant to destroy our energy infrastructure, and it’s no different than if planes from China had attacked our homes with a bombing campaign.  If you trace the money in the way that the federal case against Householder was conducted, you would see George Soros’s money funneling into the Ohio Democrat Party by all kinds of back-door means, and many hostile agents against America like him.  Many of the Democrats who were crying foul in the Householder case, hoping to gain political power in the vacuum of leadership during the trial, are doing the business of countries hostile to America and seeking its destruction.  When you are against the American power grid and trying to make the intent to destroy it with a feel-good environmental concern, you are doing far worse than what the Speaker was accused of.  But the complicit media played along, hung a politician they didn’t like who was a leader in a party they wanted out of power, and they used the levers of corruption of our court system to perform the task of putting someone in jail to hide their complicity in destroying the power grid of Ohio.  I hear it every time I go to Columbus, where attorneys and lawyers brag about their role in implementing solar farms, such as the one outside Chillicothe, Ohio.  And strong-arming companies into EPA compliance that could come straight out of the Karl Marx playbook. No, the real bad guys didn’t go to jail.  They jailed the people standing in their way. 

While all this was going on with Householder, the same federal court system was trying to put Trump in jail. It was destroying Rudy Giuliani’s law practice for defending Trump.  And the now-famous mug shot of Trump was broadcast around the world as the real threats to America were showing their control over our court system.  So, Householder going to jail is nothing short of an exhibition of that abuse of power.  It is tough to stay completely clean in anything when so much money is involved, and you have to give Trump credit for running about as clean a ship as anybody in his position could, because nothing stuck to him.  But if he had not won the presidency again in 2024, he would have had similar charges thrown at him as Householder saw.  And Trump would have been sentenced to not just 20 years, but over 100.   And Big Tish James would be free of any scandals of her own, which she is now wonderfully drowning in.  It’s not enough to say that they are all dirty and that corruption should be cleaned up.  The real game is that the federal government thinks it can pick winners and losers, and it picked FirstEnergy to be a loser because they were trying to supply power to a state in need.  And the government run by Obama, then by Biden, wanted to destroy that power supply to force people closer to a zero-emission world with untested clean energy they knew wasn’t ready to replace the state’s energy needs.  And they used political power through the courts they control to remove their political opponents from the battlefield, and to put them in jail to warn others away from standing in front of them.  That’s the truth about Larry Householder’s case.  And not enough people defended him when they should have, because the next victim could be anybody.

Rich Hoffman

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Republicans Can Win A Super Majority: Democrats only won anything with election fraud

I keep hearing that Democrats are holding their noses trying to get to the midterms, where traditionally, voters pick the other party once the party in power has had a chance to do their damage.  Democrats think that automatically, they’re going to win back at least the House, that they will be able to stop the Trump agenda, and that everything will snap back to normal.  But I don’t think so.  Democrats, more than ever, have a terrible platform that Americans are rejecting.  And of course, you know what I always say, that Democrats can’t win anything if they don’t cheat.  In the last election, many of the close calls we saw in the House and Senate races came in areas where election fraud occurred.  So if Republicans had watched the election results better, there would be more Republicans in the House than there are, and the majority could be much larger.  I think Republicans, if they prevent Democrats from committing election fraud, can gain a super majority and take their current results to even better standings.  And I think that is because of the current temperament of the country.  I do not see Democrats picking up any seats, even in local elections.  Based on their performance, they have destroyed their brand and are struggling to find any message that resonates with voters, and they don’t have it.  This is a different time than anything we had seen, so historical precedent is entirely out the window.  I do not see a scenario where Republicans lose anything so long as they keep the elections honest, because it is that bad for Democrats.  And even among themselves, they have a lot of people who have crossed over and joined Republicans because the Democrat brand is so bad. 

Oh, you might say we can’t prove election fraud, that there is no evidence.  Here’s the thing: just because people refuse to look at the evidence doesn’t mean that it’s not there.  Our court system let us down with election fraud cases because lawfare is dangerous to our society.  In most of the places where Republicans lost seats to Democrats, they were in areas where voter ID laws allowed undocumented immigrants to vote.  In places where voter ID made it hard to cheat, Republicans generally won.  What does that tell you?  Are the places where there are measures against election fraud Republican areas?  That controlling election fraud is a Republican concern?  Or that by default, anywhere that Democrats can cheat, they have the opportunity where there are loose laws allowing them to do so.  Whichever it is, that is not good math for Democrats.  They don’t hold an equal presence at the ballot box, which is now more apparent than ever.  So there isn’t any hint that Democrats will pick up anything in the upcoming midterms.  The horse race the media likes to go through during each election cycle isn’t there.  The Democrats don’t have anybody who can win a national election because their platform has been rejected as a failure.  That’s why Trump has won three elections in a row, and what started a decade ago was the hint of things to come, that people were done with the kind of politics that gave us the socialist disaster of Barack Obama.  Building a platform off guilt just wasn’t a smart move, and now that people have seen an option, they will never go back.  And Democrats just aren’t prepared for it.

Did you see the sit-in that Democrats did on the steps of the Capitol?   My wife and I were just in Washington, D.C., and saw some of the typical protestor types there and down on the Mall, and they came out flat.  Nothing is resonating with Democrats, none of their usual talking points.  And I think it is mainly because President Trump is a kind of traditional Democrat who pulled away so many other Democrats from the party, like RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Elon Musk.  As a Republican, I’m not exactly happy about any of that.  I don’t like Democrats; I see them generally as broken people with broken ideas.  However, regarding party politics, I understand the need for a big tent party with many people who think different things.  That’s how you win elections, when many people want to head in the same direction.  So, an America First policy has allowed Democrats to join Republicans and for the GOP to expand its tent to accommodate all newcomers.  But you don’t see the same thing ever happening with Republicans joining Democrats.  We have been purging the RINOs from the party for several years now.  You don’t hear about the Mitch McConnell types or the Mitt Romneys.  Many party bosses who held the order of political theater together are gone, leaving Trump to control most political perceptions.  And as we visited Washington, D.C. this time with Trump in office, it was apparent everywhere.  The entire place felt different, even out by the airport.  No, this was a different kind of Republican Party than what we have had in the past, and suddenly nothing is appealing about any Democrat, leaving those most hopeful to leave the party in favor of the public sentiment. 

So, election fraud is the key.  We still haven’t properly prosecuted the election fraud that we know about.  The system hopes everyone will go back to sleep, but I don’t see that happening.  If Republicans make it hard for Democrats to cheat, especially on the voter ID issue, I’m saying that Democrats can’t win those elections, and Republicans will pick up many seats, even to the point of a super majority.  And a super majority is determined here by control of at least 60% of a body.  Looking at the math, Republicans could have come close in the last 2024 election to getting such a majority, but they went to sleep.  Everyone was watching Trump, and the momentum shifted so dramatically in his direction that even the fraudsters didn’t have the heart to fight anymore.  But a lot of those regional races where Democrats just barely beat the Republicans to keep it close in the House and Senate, most of those races were won by Democrats through fraud.  And if the mechanism were in place to prevent that fraud, the Republicans would have won.  This is why Democrats are so adamant about the illegal aliens.  They need them for voters, and they can’t afford for over 10 million illegals to be deported, because that is most of their voting base.  And even with them, people from other countries are voting for the America First position.  They aren’t voting for Democrats.  So don’t assume that Democrats will win back the House, or anything in the upcoming midterms.  I think Republicans can completely control their destiny if they take away the potential of election fraud.  And that if they do, Democrats may never win another election on any level, because their brand is so bad.  But now is not the time to play nice.  Reform elections so that voter ID is a requirement everywhere, and Democrats will not be able to win.  Republicans can win a super majority if only they support elections that prevent fraud with voter ID.

Rich Hoffman

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King Trump: He can stay as long as he wants

I personally wouldn’t mind if Trump ran again in 2028.  This past week, he officially put out merchandise that promoted the idea, but I think he’s just having a little fun with the radical left, who are afraid that they will never get rid of Trump again.  And that, like FDR, he might try to stick around beyond two terms, and that he’ll declare himself king.  I would be okay with Trump sticking around as long as he wants to.  I sleep better at night knowing Trump is in the White House and someone like him is making good decisions for our country.  But I don’t think Trump is all that serious about it.  I think he’d like to retire and play golf.  We are lucky to get what we have out of him, which in the end will be 12 years of a Trump presidency.  Two of those terms officially.  One of them unofficially.  But regardless of the measure, it will be a significant part of his life.  Democrats have much bigger problems besides Trump; they have made a hard turn toward open socialism, and that will hinder them from now on.  There is no longer a blurring of the lines as to where they stand, which is evident in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign swing these days.  She is the future of the Democrat Party, and she is a hard left person who won’t play well to a national audience, so Democrats have more trouble than just Trump.  But they fear that he just won’t ever go away, exacerbated by the Trump campaign merch indicating that he was already campaigning for 2028.  It will take a long time to fix the many parts of America that are broken, on purpose, by radicals we used to trust.  So I’m in no hurry to see Trump go anywhere.  If he wants to stay president for another twenty years, I’m perfectly fine with that.  I’m sure we could establish some legislative modification to accommodate him. 

But logically, we still have the unsettled matter of his stolen second term, and everything the government did to him to try to destroy him.  We’re not just talking about what he has done to offer himself to the office of the presidency, but the over-the-top attempts to kill him that took from all of us that critical second term, and inserted the loser Joe Biden in an obvious attempt to destroy our country.   People go to war over much less than what happened to Trump, where they clearly stole the election from him, put him on a plane, and exiled him from politics.  At least they tried to.  So I think everyone owes Trump some exceptional consideration.  No matter what anybody thinks about him politically, I think of him more as a reformed Democrat than a traditional Republican, but he’s a great executive.  He knows how to put the right people in place to get things done and to cheerlead things along with the power of positive thinking.  And the White House is a much better place with him in it.  I was just there a few weeks ago and can say that everything around the White House is better with Trump.  There is no way that Democrats are ever going to get the world back that they once ruled over.  Trump or not.  People picked Trump.  Trump is far from a king.  The American people wanted him, now for three elections, and they will want him as long as they can get him.  Trump can stay as long as he wants. 

Election fraud is serious business, and it has to be punished.  It’s not enough to have people sheepishly apologetic now that Trump won the election with so much support, even after all they tried to do to him, including the former VP, Mike Pence.  On that terrible day of January 6th, when the government certified that election, knowingly committing fraud, most of the key players who were involved were erased from the political landscape. People like Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney, and some of Trump’s most prominent critics are no longer relevant, politically.  That is something that nobody is really talking about.  It’s not so much about what Trump intends to do or can’t do as radical judges try to stall his administration out, hoping to outlast him in Washington, D.C., to ride out the election cycles.  But what matters most is that the opposition to Trump is much weaker than it has ever been, and it had its back broken on that day of the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 2024.  And I don’t see it ever recovering.  Rather, the Marxist insurgency, which Bernie Sanders and AOC have always been, was smoked out and exposed.  And if they are going to win elections ever again, as Democrats, it will be under much different circumstances.  In that case, it will be the Marxist and communist crowd rather than hiding those attributes behind progressive causes that define the future of politics.  And communism isn’t something they pick for themselves.  It is something that is taken, and Democrats have already blown that.  Their coup attempt was in 2020, and we lasted through it to get Trump back.  And they have no plan B.  Trump is redefining the presidency in America, which should have been happening for several centuries now.  Nobody has quite been able to make the Executive Branch as effective as Trump has made it; we are now in completely uncharted territory.

When Trump is done, all people will want to return to the kind of president Trump has been. His media engagements.  His tireless work ethic.  He has even been involved in the NFL draft this year.  Trump is everything to everybody, and he never stops doing the job.  And people, even his political enemies, will not want to return to the purely figurehead president who sat in the White House disengaged and only there for the photo op, while the lawyers ran the world.  However, there is a big difference between a king and what Trump is.  He is a successful guy who offered himself to do a job for America.  He’s even paying for the new flag poles at the White House out of his own pocket.  A king rules through power.  Trump is a representative of the American people, picked by them to do work on their behalf.  Trump is not now, nor will he ever be, a king.  We are lucky to have him.  We are fortunate to have Melania, too.  We are lucky to have the American system produce good people who can afford to represent us in the White House.  And I want Trump to do that job as long as he wants, forget about the norms.  Forget about the political theater of the media rat race, where they perpetually talk up candidates and make money off the advertising for new political offices.  I want someone to do the job, and Trump has set a new standard that Democrats will never be able to live up to.  Even Republicans will struggle to find someone as charismatic and practical as Trump.  And we are a much better country with Trump in the White House, which I would like to see extend well beyond 2028.   But I don’t think it will, by Trump’s own choice.

Rich Hoffman

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The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio Needs Money: One of the great sites in the world has fallen into disrepair

The thing about the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio is that it’s our version of Stonehenge, and that it has fallen into a state of ridiculous disrepair, and it shouldn’t be.  When you look at the great historic sites around the world, like the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, and Stonehenge, they all have significant commitments to tourism dollars that inspire people to visit, instead of trying to frustrate them from doing so.  I have talked about it before. I like what they did to Stonehenge to make it a positive visitor experience, and at least that level of investment should be applied to the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio because, in many ways, it’s more mysterious.  It may not be as technical in its construction, but the mathematical logic that went into the Great Serpent Mound, just an hour or so east of Cincinnati, is equally impressive.  Given what we do know about it, I would say that Serpent Mound is one of the most mysterious sites in the world, and Ohio should be showing it off a lot more than they do.   I recently made it part of a grand paranormal tour that I took with my family, and we made a point to stop by and see it.  It was good to see again, I’ve seen it a lot over the years.  But each time it has fallen into disrepair more and more, instead of anybody giving it a fresh coat of paint and advancing it.  The Great Serpent Mound has recently received much attention because of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse show on Netflix, which deserves a lot of respect.  Graham also discusses the site in the opening chapters of his popular and well-researched book, Before America.  I read it and think that Graham is onto something about ancient cultures in North America, way before dates proposed by modern archaeology.  And sadly, they have dug in on their previous assumptions because they don’t want to admit that what they put forth regarding the history of Serpent Mound was lazy and needed significant updates. 

There is a lot of mystery going on these days with archeoastronomy that dates Serpent Mound to the Draco constellation between 3000 and 5000 BC, similar to what we see with the Great Boar at Fortified Hill just outside of Hamilton, Ohio.  Or Fort Hill, just to the north of Serpent Mound.  As well as the many other ancient sites built all over Ohio.  None have survived as well as Serpent Mound, but they are much more complicated than we have assumed of Native American cultures.  We are looking at the remains of a very ancient and sophisticated culture and it is more likely that the Adena and Hopewell Indians lived in these locations more as squatters than as architects, following a well-known Vico Cycle that is inconvenient to historic knowledge that has already broadcast to the world a lazy explanation that is now very much refuted. Ross Hamilton has done a lot of good work at Serpent Mound that offers much older dates and sophistication for the building and use of the mound complex, and the archaeology community has only dug in deeper, almost wishing the site would just go away so they could stop answering questions.  There is now a policy that drones can’t be flown over the site because the caretakers of Serpent Mound don’t want their complex to be shown all over the world, as it has been, so they are frustrating efforts to do research in the area rather than embracing a continued understanding.  I understand why, but it’s not a good reason.   

My interest in these kinds of things is the next level of political discussion for me, which is the root cause behind many of the troubles in our world.  I am personally tired of the lazy approach to everything that has permeated all our institutions, this little shell game where it is said, “there is no evidence to support wild accusations,” but at the same time being too lazy to look for the evidence because you are afraid of what you’ll find.  To call such an approach a massive conspiracy is an understatement.  I do not hate archaeologists by any stretch of the imagination.  It takes a lot of hard work to dig in the dirt, discover things long buried, and figure out what they mean.  Serpent Mound is well known to have had reports of giant skeletons of people seven to eight feet tall coming out of the mounds at that site, and like the other sites I have pointed out, the reaction to this news has been to dig less. They excavated at the site when I was a kid to understand it better.   But over the years, like the Miamisburg Mound they have stopped looking for evidence so that they could then say that any proposal of giants in those burial mounds is not proof because they don’t want to find it and what they have discovered is shoved into the corners of museums and private collections, not released to the public for all kinds of political reasons.  If these are wild theories, well then, let’s prove it.  Let’s dig and learn the truth.  However, keeping away from the questions is not a good strategy.

I remember in 2003 when a crop circle of great sophistication was made into a soybean field across the street from the Serpent Mound complex.  It was far too complicated to be a hoax by some deranged teenage kids, and it was very similar to the kind of designs that are common outside of Stonehenge in England, which has many of the same types of sites there as well.  We are looking at a global culture of Mound Builders who were not just surviving hunters and gatherers.  I think that the growing understanding points to the remnants of the Atlantean culture that had migrants fleeing the well-known island that was overcome by water somewhere off the coast of Britain and north of the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.  Former island dwellers dedicated to the God Poseidon, who ruled Atlantis, took with them their knowledge of astronomy and duplicated it all over the earth, as well as many of the ancient sites we talk about today.  A lot was going on from the time of Göbekli Tepe to the proposed construction dates of the Great Serpent Mound, or the Great Pyramids and archaeologists, being a young science, got it wrong from the start and its time to revise our previous assumptions with the many new facts that have been discovered over recent years.  And why Poseidon?  Well, he had an attraction to Medusa and her hair of snakes, which makes a lot more sense for the snake worship of the constellation Draco than the explanations we have received so far.  And while that may sound wild and unbelievable, it makes more sense than saying that a bunch of hunters and gatherers had all this advanced mathematics and built all these mounds, but they struggled to catch a rabbit for food.  We need a lot more research and understanding, and all that starts with the preservation of that historic site with fresh funding, and I would even propose a tourist model to pay for it, similar to what they do at Stonehenge under the care of English Heritage.  We should be making Serpent Mound a big part of our state identity, because people worldwide fly to Ohio to visit Serpent Mound.  We need to treat it with that level of care because it is incredibly unique and requires much more research and debate.

I’m prepared to stake my claim with what I think is significant evidence, that a culture, like Atlantis, and even cultures older than that but have been lost because there wasn’t a Plato to record it in a way that survived, populated the entire world and that they were very tall people obsessed with worship of planets and their power, which still exists to this day in cults of magic and occult astrology attached to many secret societies who wish to rule mankind from the shadows gaining control of our political, educational, and financial institutions so they could set policies that would maintain their concealment.  And from 9000 BC to around 3000 AD, they ruled the world until a rebellion of ideas came along and toppled their empire, for which Yahweh played his part.  I propose that Serpent Mound is the remains of this very ancient cult that was preserved and restored by many generations of inhabitants, of which the Adena and Hopewell Indians did just as Egyptian society did and that was to build their empires around the structures that were already there for many thousands of years.  Not much remains of this ancient culture because time tends to wipe them all out if something is over 3000 years old.  But Göbekli Tepi and other sites around the world dating back to 10,000 years ago show that there were already very advanced cultures on Earth with a high understanding of mathematics.  And Ohio has a big piece of that puzzle, which should be preserved.  As I explained to my kids on this trip, there should be nice, paved trails, a nice restaurant, and an admission price to raise money for the preservation at the Serpent Mound complex.  But this whole native American sacred site stuff needs to go.  Science needs more evidence and a bigger picture to consider in the schemes of the universe as captured in sites like the Great Serpent Mound.  And I dare everyone who snickers at this claim to prove me wrong.  Because I don’t think they can.

Rich Hoffman

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I Missed the Lincoln Day Dinner for a Ghost Hunt: Strange creatures from beyond time and space

I didn’t make the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Butler County GOP this year because my family and I have been traveling all over the place, particularly in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia going to paranormal sites in a research project for my new book, The Politics of Heaven, and it’s all coming along very well.  I wanted to go to the dinner and do appreciate the offers to attend with people I know.  But almost to the moment, I was on a ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids that turned out to be pretty interesting, so I’m sharing it here for more than a bit of fun.  Both of my daughters are tuned in to ghostly encounters, and one is so interested in it that she makes a living painting about it, for which she travels all over the country, appearing at conventions, selling her art.  And my wife has had contact with all kinds of paranormal activity all her life; they chase her around like hungry cats looking to be fed after a hard night outside in the rain.  She’s kind, and disembodied spirits in whatever form they exist look for her, and she never fails to attract their attention.  So for my birthday this year, as research for the new book, I thought it might be fun to go to one of the most haunted places on planet Earth, the Moonville Tunnel in Vinton County, and do a ghost hunt.  The kids would get a kick out of it, and I was curious about several things that worked exactly as I thought they would.  So we went there during the day to warm the kids up to it.  Then we went back at night.  And while we were filming, we didn’t get much.  But after I turned off all the equipment, a green orb appeared, which was more than a little strange.  Made even more that way by the very remote location that Moonville is.

The Moonville Tunnel, one of the most haunted places on Earth

I tend to approach these subjects from the point of view of disproving paranormal activity.  We had gone to several locations during the past week, but I knew that the Moonville Tunnel was a prime location since something always happened every time we went over the years.  And that was the case when we walked back to the car after a reasonably detailed investigation.  When we turned off our ghost hunting equipment, my wife felt something next to her and told my grandson about it.  He took several flash photos with an iPhone, and sure enough, he was pretty freaked out by the green orb that appeared and was headed away from us back down a hill to Raccoon Creek.  I saw the image from the screen as I looked at those spots in real time, and there was nothing we could see there physically.  And I was ensuring there was no lens flair with our flashlights causing problems on the camera lens, or that light was bouncing off some bug.  It was as black as black night with no other light sources but our flashlights for many miles.  There were no homes nearby and indeed no porch lights.  The Moonville Tunnel is as far from other people as possible in Zeleski National Forest.  These kinds of woods are so remote that they have frequent bigfoot sightings, and other things, just because of the area’s nature.  The spirit world always spooked the Indians from the region.  The place feels haunted because of its lack of other human beings.  It stays that way because there is a single-lane gravel road that provides the only access to the area for miles and miles that runs deep into the hills. 

Green orbs are supposed to indicate a healing nature of the ghostly encounter, so who knows what kind of lifeform it was trying to emerge and interact with us?  I have seen this kind of thing before, so I wasn’t surprised as much as I was a little shocked at the repeatability of it.  Almost the same thing has happened to us several times over the years we have been to Moonville.  We do a ghost hunt, thinking that nothing happened.  We might have felt uncomfortable feeling that other people were around us, but we could see nothing we could physically see.  Sometimes, shadow people appear in the corners of our eyes, but disappear when we focus hard on them.  But later, especially when using cameras with a flash, because digital cameras mess up the color palette of the visual spectrum, things appear just outside the visual range of human eyes, and the cameras pick it up.  Because of this, I avoid flying bugs and light tricks while we are filming.  Or even moisture from breathing, so they don’t taint our experiments.  I would have been happy to do that ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids for my birthday and family time.  But what showed up in our photos was pretty good, especially since I was trying not to have anything like that happen.  But sure enough, my wife could feel something next to her.  We took a picture.  And something was there and leaving, which, given that area, was more than a little spooky and made for a long walk back to the car, knowing that these things were all around us but we couldn’t see them with our physical eyes.

Needless to say, I did get good material for my book.  I explained to everyone that the spirit, whatever it was, should be looked at as a stray cat that once you pet it, it won’t go away.  If you think about the nature of spirits living in such a place, lost in time and space, having us there was an extraordinary occurrence.  We were talking to it and giving it attention, which was probably the highlight of its existence, and you can start to feel sorry for these things when viewed that way.  I don’t think ghosts like that can do any harm; likely, they are stuck and probably aren’t very smart.  What makes them interesting is that they exist, but not in a way we understand, and the need to communicate with elements outside our perceived reality cuts through the limitations.  And I was happy that something like that happened while introducing my grandchildren to ghosts and the spirit world.  They see and hear so much on television and the internet, it was good for them to have their own experience and to approach the subject logically.  It was a long way to go to come back with nothing, and like I said, I gave up a chance to go to the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Republican Party of Butler County because of it.  And I was glad that something happened that deserved a lot of talk after.  I thought overcoming the fear of such a scary place would be good for my family, and I would have been happy if nothing happened.  But it did, leaving me scratching my head even more, but in a good way.  The spirit world is real; some creatures live in it, want to interact with us, and do much more than we’d like to admit.  But that doesn’t mean they have more power because they exist in a way that hides them from our knowing eyes.  They only have the power of concealment.  They don’t have the power of superior intelligence. 

Rich Hoffman

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Women Are Flying the Planes: What we have learned about the pilot who crashed the plane in Toronto

It’s not that women can’t fly airplanes.  I’m sure many can fly better than men.  But like the joke that women can’t drive cars, the assumption comes from somewhere, and it’s for a reason.  Men and women are different and have different priorities in how they live life.  Remember the experiment when NASCAR tried to make a driver out of Danica Patrick to satisfy some woke perception about the world?  She was a good driver, but there is a reason that more women aren’t in NASCAR.  There is a reason that girls play with Barbie dolls and boys play with cars and army men.  They are wired differently, and Danica never cracked into the championship column for sustained periods.  These days, she is an excellent conservative podcaster.  But even though NASCAR tried to make her into a star by following some ridiculous woke agenda, it was never successful. And she didn’t create a glass ceiling in NASCAR where suddenly there were a bunch of women driving in the sport.  We don’t have women quarterbacks for similar reasons.  The NFL has tried to find a role for women in the rough and tumble-NFL for all the wrong reasons.  But it has never worked out, and fans of football would never put up with it, including many women.  The attempts on most employment frontiers to defy biology and insist that there was no difference between men and women regarding social roles have been a disaster, and people aren’t happy with it.  So why would Delta make a decision to staff one of their airline divisions with mostly, if not all, women?  What evidence do they have that such a thing would work under any conditions? 

We should always seek to hire the best people for our positions, especially positions as important as flying airplanes.  We want pilots flying planes who have wanted to be pilots since they were fetuses, not going from an Easy Bake Oven and buying dresses for prom to flying people around in airplanes if you can provide a choice for yourself. Now we know from people close to the situation that the Delta pilot who crashed the plane in Toronto was Kendal Swanson, a 26-year-old without much experience.  Delta has been reluctant to release the names of the crew in that plane that day when a hard landing in Toronto busted the landing gear, shearing off a wing and sending the airplane over on its back in a flaming mess.  Luckily, nobody on the flight was killed.  They had a rough ride, but they made it to Toronto anyway, which says a lot about the planes’ safety.  The flight, operated by Endeavor Air (a Delta subsidiary), flipped upside down during a landing attempt at Toronto Pearson International Airport amid snowy conditions and strong winds. All 80 people on board survived, with 21 injured. Social media and some news outlets have linked the 26-year-old pilot named Kendal Swanson to the incident, alleging she was the first officer (co-pilot) to fly the plane. She reportedly joined Endeavor Air in January 2024, completed training in April, and received her Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certification on January 9, 2025. Claims suggest she had around 1,500 flight hours—meeting the federal minimum for an ATP—but her relative inexperience has sparked debate, with some speculating she struggled with the challenging landing conditions.  Delta and Endeavor have not officially confirmed her identity or role. Delta has stated that the pilots were experienced, with the captain hired in 2007 and the first officer exceeding federal flight experience requirements. The captain, said to be named James Henneman, was reportedly handling communications while the first officer flew the aircraft, though this remains unverified by the airline. Delta has also pushed back against what it calls “false and misleading” social media claims, insisting both pilots were fully qualified and that no training failures occurred.

So here we have a case where Delta, as an airline, got caught trying to put a square peg in a round hole and create job fulfillment for people who should not be flying people around due to her lack of experience.  The passengers were made to do a social experiment to fulfill some DEI worldview, which made that flight much more dangerous than it needed to be.  They dug in and denied the reports when they were caught, hoping they could contain the story.  But the flying public needs to know how many pilots are out there who are just like this young girl, Kendal Swanson.  It’s not just because Kendal is a woman. This has been a problem worldwide, and airlines are trying to make pilots out of people who have not spent all their lives as pilots.  In the United States, we have had a good military program where post-retirement pilots could make a pretty good living flying for airlines after they spent decades flying planes in the military.  And countries that don’t have the kind of military that we do struggle to find pilots for their airlines because they don’t have cultures that produce many pilots.  They go from Uber drivers to airline pilots because manufacturers try to make the planes as easy to fly as possible.  So, it’s hard enough to satisfy the market need under optimal conditions.  Putting 26-year-old girls in the cockpit to tell the world that the employer hired females becomes a big problem.  And that Endeavor Airlines themselves were seeking to hire women over men because they wanted it to be known that they were putting women in planes purely over gender politics. 

I always tell people that airplane pilots are the best examples of stress management.  When flying in a plane and bouncing around in turbulence, you don’t want a panicky pilot who shows panic on the intercom.  You want an incredible, calm voice even when the world is burning around you.  And that level of stress management comes from experience.  Inexperienced people panic, and as passengers on airplanes, we never want to hear panic in the voice of the person flying us around.  We like when we leave the plane to see an older man sitting in the seat that looks like he has landed on aircraft carriers in bumpy seas thousands of times.  Not a kid that looks like they are in a hurry to cash in a Target gift card.  And crashes like this, even though Delta has tried to cover it up, come when we lower the standards of employment to satisfy some ridiculous DEI political movement.  The result is many of the crashes of airplanes that we have been seeing, and they are happening now because, under Joe Biden, DEI was a priority.  They were undoubtedly mistakes, but now that there is pressure from an economy wanting to thrive under Trump, people are flying and doing things again.  The airlines weren’t prepared for it, and they are putting people like Kendal Swanson in the cockpits of their planes when, in truth, she probably needs another ten years of hard flying to qualify to fly other passengers.  And that hiring policy is blowing up in their face, and they tried to hide it. 

Rich Hoffman

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