Tag: Labor Unions

The No Kings Protests Are Going Nowhere: Simon and Garfunkel can no longer save the communist movement from free market needs

The No Kings Protests that were pushed uphill over this past weekend are really quite telling.  It’s the same communist losers from the George Soros side of the fence, the Simon and Garfunkel crowd of old pot-smoking hippies and lazy teacher union types who, like trained seals, look for an easy paycheck, show up with their dumb signs and beg for food like common dogs.  As I have said before, several of the biggest labor unions in the world have buildings just outside the gates of the White House, and they really want to think they have power over the means of production in the United States, and they clearly don’t, and won’t.  They have had a lot of influence in the past because people didn’t know that they were essentially the actions of Karl Marx himself.  On a good day, they wanted European socialism, but what they wish for, policy-wise, is outright communism in the style of China.  Their protests were far from organic as the media tried to shape them.  And as a footnote, most members of the media, primarily on the national level, are members of a labor union, even Sean Hannity, who is a member of SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio artists, and an AFL-CIO affiliate that represents broadcasters, journalists, and media professionals like radio and TV hosts.)  That is why so many media types are soft on coverage of these kinds of communist activities.  All labor unions are communist organizations, and they seek to rule by the mob and to take out the management of any organization.  And that’s precisely what’s going on here, with Trump.  He’s a strong executive type that union membership hates, and they are seeking to apply Karl Marx to the success America is seeing and to try to turn people against the good management we are witnessing in the White House.

I have to pick on Simon and Garfunkel for a minute because maybe one of the big keys to this new awakening we are enjoying in modern life is the degradation of the music industry.  Generally, I think the transition of contemporary music and entertainment has been a bad thing.  People used to share a favorite movie at least and a favorite song, and with the decentralizing of so many broadcasters and musicians, free markets have destroyed the common experience.  Everyone can have their own YouTube channel, and everyone can make a hit song.  But not everyone will hear it, so the chances of Simon and Garfunkel writing and singing some modern version of a hippie folk song about smoking pot and free love are much less influential. For instance, many people over 50 will know their song “Feelin’ Groovy” and the Bob Dylan song, “Rainy Day Women.”  People under 50, especially closer to 20, will get most of their information from YouTube, and the content likely won’t be repeated because it comes and goes so fast.  A lot of people might enjoy the entertainment experience, but it won’t be shared in the way that Simon and Garfunkel did, and it won’t be passed from generation to generation as a cultural staple.  So the ability for someone like George Soros to capture people’s minds through music has been greatly diminished in this new entertainment generation, which has as much to do with the sudden rise of the MAGA movement as anything.  A kind of spell has been broken from the capture of our entertainment culture over a long period of time.  Music was used to rally the masses toward communism throughout the latter half of the last century, without question.  And now no musical artist has that kind of influence, so people are waking up and away from those detrimental influences.

And that kind of brain-dead numbness was evident at the No Kings rally, which was as mad at Trump as the teacher’s unions are at moms and dads who insist that they run their children’s lives rather than the mob rule of the public school.  Trump has signed a lot of executive orders to undo essentially the progressive agenda.  There is a lot of legislative support that a supportive House and Senate will undoubtedly follow.  But to undo the mess that many of these embedded communists have imposed on our way of government, Trump has had to sign a lot of them.  And that’s what we voted for.  Trump was a successful executive who brought to the White House all the elements that made him great in the private sector.  And he hasn’t disappointed people. Instead, people have had to come to terms with the roots of their own past.  Many people think in the way that MAGA does, the Make America Great Again movement.  But what does that mean when people are listening to songs from Jefferson Airplane about overt free love, which was causing them to tap their feet to the music while going to work and trying to hold together a marriage?  When the common experience of entertainment gives them a contrary thought, they will likely produce in society, contrary values.  But people are waking up from that fog of contradiction and are enjoying the success Trump has brought to our White House.  And the communist labor union types are being lost in the dust as their influence is vanishing like fog on the horizon of a rising sun. 

So the coverage of this communist No Kings movement around the world was biased toward Karl Marx and not the free market influences of a society independent of the previous tyranny.  In America, we look to empower individuals to achieve above and beyond group associations, so leadership is a high-value enterprise.  We like innovative CEOs and entrepreneurs, like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.  And Trump made his living being a shining example of outstanding business leadership.  That’s why we wanted him in the White House.  We wanted our government to run like one of his businesses.  And we don’t like the stringy-haired bra burners to weaken our society with the kind of communist drivel we have had to endure for many years, which has delivered us to so many global embarrassments.  At the end of his term, Trump will leave and turn everything over to someone else, which is how the American republic was designed.  We are moving away from the tyranny of the masses, where the common losers of society can have equality with the best and brightest.  We want the best to produce wonderful things we can all enjoy.  But without the exceptional, we get a society of the average, and that was never what America was going to be about.  And why the MAGA movement is moving away from influencers like the communist supporting George Soros and his little son, Alex.  Their money has been weaponized to shape our culture through old mechanisms like music and movies.  But not anymore.  That spell has been broken and will continue to be well into the future, as options have given people independence from the unifying communism of artistic control over the entertainment industry.  The labor union movement put out the call for their members to show up and carry signs against Trump, but it’s an old, tired crowd of people going nowhere.  And their communist movement is slipping through their fingers as the success of the Trump White House continues.  And there is nothing they can do about it, which is a joy to see.

Rich Hoffman

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The Hidden Menace Behind 16th Street: Marxist radicals behind labor unions

First, let me explain what is wrong with labor unions. They allow bad employees to hide behind good employees, and as a collective practice, they water down effectiveness. They view as work the entire enterprise of labor as being for the worker, not the work being done.  And it has been a disastrous experiment from the mind of Marxist thinkers.  I know in this new big tent MAGA movement that lots of union workers crossed over and voted for President Trump, so debate about labor unions is on the back burner these days, and Right To Work legislation in the states is less of a topic, even though its still a big deal for employers, because business enterprises don’t want to be stuck taking all the risks only to have a radical Marxist enterprise of low performing workers take control of labor management with a bunch of dumb, ineffective rules.  For Ohio to be a proper pro-business state, employers will need the assurance of a Right to Work state like Indiana has just to the west.  Otherwise, it’s not an apples-to-apples offering.  From my point of view, I don’t see anything good about labor unions.  They are the heart of the problem of school funding and have been a disaster since they were introduced in the middle of the 19th century, right along with Marxism.  The two things are tied together and have been horrible for the world.  So, with all that in mind, I wondered about the Black Lives Matters plaza painting on the ground on 16th Street in front of the White House before President Trump had it removed this past week.  I wanted to see it before it was gone forever, and what I found there was even worse than I had imagined.  The root cause of the problems was, of course, labor unions. 

During the hostile 2020 election year with all the Covid lockdowns and radical Soros backed color revolutions that were trying to burn down the church at the end of 16th Street, and vandalize Lafayette Square while the FBI, CIA, and many fourth branch of government Deep Staters plotted the destruction of the people’s pick for President, Trump, lunatics from the known Marxist group Black Lives Matters painted their logo on the street in giant letters to let the White House know that the aggressors of political destruction was on the doorstep of the White House.  All this activity was evident from inside the White House, and it was meant to intimidate Trump and his supporters into bowing down to a proposed fight that was highly aggressive.  Later, I learned that this was not just a painted road but that the letters “Black Lives Matter” were actually embedded into the blocks of the street itself, so just painting over it wouldn’t get rid of the message.  We also later learned that the taxpayers were on the hook for the vandalism that cost over 8 million dollars and was personally endorsed by the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser.  The painting was an intended message of aggression attempting to hide actual terrorism behind some guilt-driven sentiment left over from the years of slavery, which were always a Democrat issue.  Republicans freed the enslaved people and do not harbor guilt in maintaining the institution.  One of the most excellent Republicans in the history of politics was Frederick Douglass, who was very well-known during President Grant’s reconstruction period after the Civil War, a very prominent person of color and proud Republican member of history’s politics.  Democrats have tried to capture the issue over the next hundred years to attempt to erase their guilt from it, creating many of the modern tensions we see today.

Republicans have learned a lot from the experience and are pushing back, led by President Trump.  As my wife and I visited the city recently, it is being cleaned up everywhere.  Trump has set a high bar that should have always been in place, and other Republicans, such as Representative Andrew Clyde, are pushing to withhold federal transportation funds unless Bowser gets rid of the Black Lives Matter painting and renames the plaza “Liberty Plaza.”  So, a lot is going on that I wanted to see for myself, and upon arriving, a clarity that had not been explained in the news reports became very clear.  Because all through this, my thoughts were, “What do these businesses in the area think about this stupid, Marxist painting?  I wouldn’t want to look out my windows down onto the street and see such a think with crazy radicals looming from the shadows to take over the city on a moment’s notice essentially.”  And that’s when I saw that there on 16th street were many of the big unions, the Labor’s International Union, the AFL-CIO union, and the Motion Picture’s Association of America.  These are all radical Marxist groups and the reason we haven’t heard about them is because many of the people who are in the news reporting industry belong to an entertainment union of some kind, especially the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, (AFTRA) which is part of SAG, (the Screen Actors Guild), so they can’t be too critical of labor union activity.  This allows these horrendously radical progressive groups- and when we say “progressive,” we mean “communist” in their sentiments to cause trouble in the background without recourse.  Now we know why nobody talked about the kind of businesses that allowed for that painting to be painted on the street in the first place. 

The real fight, clearly on display on 16th Street looming over the President’s house, that we put our representatives into, is that massive international unions are fighting for power and are proclaiming that they are in charge.  They used the George Floyd issue to blow into the Marxist minds of the fans to hide violence and intimidation behind a race war; they were trying to get Trump out of office and to remove any influence that voters had over the city of Washington, D.C.  The unions were in charge, and they let everyone know about it.  But the key to fighting them is not confronting them directly, as we have in the past.  Labor unions consume a considerable amount of tax money to exist.  So the way to beat them, which is why President Trump has not worried about them too much and even appeals to their members, is to take away their power, which is fed by confiscated taxpayer money.  That’s ultimately what got Muriel Bowser’s attention, pulling away her federal funds for sponsoring acts of terrorism disguised as race concerns.  Democrats caused race concerns in the first place.  That painting has been like a planted flag in front of our house for years and is only now being removed.  But before it was, I had to see it for myself, so my wife and I visited it a few days before the road crews came in and ripped it out of the ground.  But those labor unions are still hiding behind the public noise, waiting for another chance to strike.  They are the fuel in the background that stirs up these terrorist acts, just as they are all over the world.  And are the root cause of most of our problems of domestic terrorism in American society.  And to deal with them, we must remove their funding so they have nothing to work with.  Because the longer they exist, they will always be causing trouble toward America’s destruction, which is their objective.  They will never be our friends; as a general rule, they should be illegal in every form they present themselves in. 

Rich Hoffman

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When I Tell You Something, Shut Up and Listen: Getting rid of The Department of Education

Of course, the crazy lunatics on the political left are upset, and locally, after this 2024 election, they are very angry with me.  And that’s fine.  If those derelicts are mad at me, I consider that a job well done and am very happy about it.  But don’t say I didn’t warn everyone.  I’ve been pointing to this 2024 election for a long time as something inevitable, and it happened just as I said it would, to nearly every detail.  There are people out there who get paid a lot of money who didn’t come close to my predictions, and I get it; there is a lot of anger out there.  But tough tootles.  Maybe from now on, when I tell everybody something, they’ll shut up and listen.  There is a general mental problem with people who support left-leaning causes, and that is a belief that they can alter reality by controlling the message.  And anything coming from me that deviated from a message they wanted to be communicated was forbidden so they could give themselves the illusion of changing that reality.  That’s how so many angry people arrived at this moment, and it’s their fault.  All the cheaters of the 2020 election did was put off the needs that were very well present throughout the 2010s.  It reminds me of how the radical labor union types behaved back in my No Lakota Levy days when I’d go on WLW radio to talk about how our yard signs were being stolen.  The crazy belief was that the tax increase would pass if people didn’t see the message.  And because I would talk about them stealing the signs, I was to be eliminated so they could control the message.  Well, that didn’t work out too well for them.  Fifteen years later, I advise a lot of people about a lot of things, and I do it for a lot of tricky topics.  And I do it for free because it’s not even my most valuable skill even though I am usually right about everything.  For me, it’s like helping a child open a gallon of milk, but they just aren’t quite strong enough to do it themselves.  And as it stands now, after that 2024 election, everyone would do well to listen carefully. 

After my experience with the Lakota school system, especially after the superintendent debates centered on school board member Darbi Boddy, I backed off the school board discussions.  I realized many years ago that Lakota was going nowhere, as with public education in general, as John Dewey proposed originally.  There was too much Marxism in it to survive in a country like the United States.  I’ve tried to play along all these years to be supportive, but I told important education officials back in 2010, before Trump became a politician, that the future of public education was School Choice.  That’s how Doc Thompson and I met on WLW radio and became fast friends. We were together with some big-name politicians at a School Choice conference, and things were pretty obvious.  Around that same time, Doc and I both worked on promoting the Atlas Shrugged films, and they had all kinds of ridiculous labor problems where the same anger that always followed me around was draped all over those movies, which was so bad that none of the actors came back for all three movies because the blacklisting was so intense.  But by the time they got to Atlas Shrugged 3, and they covered the schooling of the children in the Atlantis colony hidden in the Colorado mountains, I understood the anger quite clearly and knew that the political left was just going to have to be drug into reality one way or another.  I warned them there was no way to preserve their public education model, and they could choose to listen or be destroyed.  But they were not going to control the message. 

I’ve had countless people beg me to be a school board member for Lakota schools or to do some other political job, and I have stayed out of that business because I knew fighting them from that direction was useless because a day of reckoning was always coming on the horizon.  And that time came with the re-election of President Trump back to the White House after trying to stall the effort in 2020 with a stolen election and an attempt to destroy him utterly.  Thankfully, he had the guts and the brand to endure everything they threw at him, and he emerged victorious on election night in 2024 in ways that seemed to surprise many people, including supporters.  But I wasn’t surprised one bit.  And here’s what’s coming next: the Department of Education that started in 1979 is going to be eliminated by President Trump.  He would have done it during his first term, but it would be controversial, so he would wait until his second term.  Well, this is his second term, and he will do it early, so the smoke will clear by 2028.  But it will happen, and nobody can do anything about it.  That was ultimately the solution to the education problem in America, by getting rid of the kind of worthless losers who were causing all of the issues through institutionalism.  The Department of Education never should have centralized education policies lecturing the states through federal funding to drive a ridiculous teacher’s union wage rate and grotesquely liberal education topics to brainwash our children into the next generation of Democrats. 

It was all the people advocating hate now who have been lying to themselves as if the future where they had to pay for all their misdeeds over the years would never come.  It has arrived.  And regarding education, School Choice will replace The Department of Education; money will follow the student, not the zip code.  Schools like Lakota will have to operate cheaper and competitively with their neighboring school districts because parents will have the choice of where best to send their child.  And the labor unions are going to lose control of the liberalized education process, which they should never have had in the first place for a glamorized babysitting service that isn’t worth the vast amounts of money we spend on it only to get a bunch of purple-haired losers who would vote for Kamala Harris so they could have a right to an abortion, do drugs, and work from home yielding to some virus made in a Wuhan lab by global terrorists to control the global economy and to obey without question what the white coated losers of the administrative state said to do.  Nobody on this topic probably values education more than I do.  But what we have been doing since Dewey came up with it and using the government to fund it has been a disaster in every way it could be.  And it’s time for it to end.  I told everyone this day was coming, and they didn’t listen.  Maybe you’ll shut up and listen for your own good the next time I tell you something.  As to the people who have worked against me all these years and smeared my name so often, all it has done is motivate me to destroy them.  I enjoy fighting, and I love to have someone always to fight.  I would be bored if I didn’t have enemies in the world.  So, I am not warning some of these people for their own good.  I want to see them crying in pain because I hate them.  If Jesus wants to turn the other cheek, have at it.  I don’t.  And I will enjoy all the face-melting that will go on in these next few years.  But never say I didn’t try to warn everyone.  They chose not to listen, hoping the day would never come.  But it has. It’s here.  And there is nothing any of them can do about it.  They showed themselves for what they always were, and now they must pay for it.

Rich Hoffman

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All Unionized Labor Should Be Illegal if Tax Money is Involved: They want to be highly paid without the results to justify it

There is, of course, more to the story.  I certainly heard the exasperation in the Louder with Crowder team as they investigated the horrendous story of the massive mishandling of a Butler Tech intern at the Butler County jail, which led to sex and the corruption of a minor in really disastrous ways.  As the story unfolded and all the adults involved pointed at each other for the blame, I saw on people’s faces and could hear in their words that they were exasperated by the lack of responsibility provided by the adults.  And here’s the thing: just a few days before this story broke, I had a chance to talk to Sheriff Jones quite a bit, and I am sure he and I agree on much more than we disagree with.  If we watched a bunch of old westerns on a Saturday afternoon, we would likely like the same things about them and share a sense of justice that would be enjoyable.  As people, as it is with most people, we agree on most things.  If we had a Thanksgiving dinner together, along with a bunch of other random people, I know there would be a lot more in common than not.  Differences occur when individual people try to bend themselves toward group-oriented consensus, where they toss their values out the window in trade for the power of group rule.  And that is what is going on with this Butler County case and why all the adults are complicit.  And why is the little girl being prosecuted while all the adults slither into the background to hide behind their labor unions and collective bargaining agreements?  This is why they are in labor unions so that the power of the group can leverage responsibility away from them in case something goes wrong, which it certainly did in this case. 

Probably the most guilty person in all this is the Butler Tech teacher, Aaron Fitzgerald, who ran the criminal justice program and was responsible for putting that 17-year-old girl unsupervised into a jail with a bunch of criminals and murderers, so often that she established sexual relationships with them.  Even more, some of the inmates were claiming her as a wife and were trying to “lock her down,” so we aren’t talking about a casual mistake that happened once or twice.  It happened repeatedly, systemically, and it was how Aaron Fitzgerald ran his program and the dangers he put the kids in with his permissive attitude. I would further blame the board at Butler Tech for their permissive, progressive attitudes about sex and their behavior in public, such as Julie Shaffer from the Lakota school board has shown to all the adults in charge, and the breadcrumbs of the blame certainly fall at their doorstep.  The Louder with Crowder crew went to Aaron’s house to talk to him about this case, and he freaked out.  But what was revealed was that he had a nice home in a very nice neighborhood.  That in itself isn’t uncommon in Butler County, Ohio.  But his sense of entitlement is something we had just witnessed on the whole Lakota schools superintendent issue, where reckless sexual lifestyles destroyed that guy once the public learned just how bad they were.  These are unionized employees with a sense of entitlement that is common in most labor union activity, where they want to be paid top dollar for some of the worst results that come from any labor activity.  They want all the money without any responsibility.  And when they get into trouble, as they certainly have in Butler County, Ohio, they circle the wagons and blame everyone who isn’t in the union.  In this case, the only person without a labor union relationship is the little girl. 

Over the years, I have argued this point extensively, and the impact of the disaster hasn’t changed.  I think it should be illegal for any labor union to be connected in any way to a taxpayer dollar.  We went down that path in 2012 when we thought we had a good governor in Kasich before everyone got a hold of him and destroyed him into just another progressive.  Sheriff Jones and I were on opposite ends of that issue, and they managed to hang on to their government unions for a while longer.  These days, President Trump has the labor union vote, so everyone is in a big Republican tent these days on the issue.  But it doesn’t change what labor unions are.  And what you get with them is too expensive, and the performance is terrible.  In this Butler Tech case, the measure of success is whether they have kids to put in the program.  Not what they learn or what happens to them along the way.  Unionized labor attached to government has been a disaster, and what you get from them is a horrendous performance with a perpetual sense of entitlement, like they are owed their jobs.  And they don’t feel they have to compete with anybody else to have them.  Then, when something goes wrong, they collectively circle the wagons and protect each other from the results.  Their goals are not in performance but in concealment and protection from expectations in results. 

Sheriff Jones, the same guy who talks to me about law and order and not putting up with terrorists coming into our community, took the union position on this Butler County jail case, saying that their prosecution of the girl was based on her admission.  And that all the kids sign a waiver (I don’t think sodomizing kids was on the sheet) and that she was almost 18, so that’s close enough.  She could be hired into the jail in a few months anyway.   And he said these things to reporters, thinking they were perfectly acceptable statements in a sane world.  And I know he doesn’t believe any of those things, yet he was saying them, as all brotherhood members do when one of them gets into trouble.  That’s why those kinds of people seek union membership.  And labor unions aren’t just a disaster in government occupations.  In the private sector, if you call up a supplier looking for your thing, and the person you are talking to can see it on a shipping dock through a window, waiting for someone to put it on a skid to be loaded onto a truck.  But they can’t load it themselves because they need a union guy to do it, so they have to wait for him to come off his 4-hour break, watching Loony Toons on his cell phone to load the truck.  That is how it is with all unionized labor and why they aren’t competitive in the world marketplace.  They cost too much, do too little, and when you need to know who’s responsible, they never admit to anything.  When they get into trouble, they rally behind their brother and sisterhoods to protect each other from judgment.  And that is why everyone involved gets away with horrendous behavior.  The only people who pay are those who are not in the union.  The union members, or those who directly benefit from the unionized labor, get away with everything because it’s part of their collective bargaining strategy.  If you try to pin them down on something then they take the labor away completely, making enforcement of policy nearly impossible.  So everyone just avoids punishment and discipline from bad decisions.  And it’s so disgraceful that it takes logic and good people and turns them into grotesque monsters who perpetuate evil to get easy and unearned paychecks, as is the case with Aaron Fitzgerald and many others.   

Rich Hoffman

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The Collapse of the Communist Left’s Expert World: Never stay in your lane, always challenge the “experts”

Another one of the reasons that the communist left will never recover from their present condition, which they put themselves in, is that trust in an expert class will never return.  The grand failure was in what they tried to do with COVID-19, but the general attitude toward a credentialed class of experts has been falling apart for many decades.  The fantasy that communists had of a world run by experts has blown itself apart in America, and the rest of the world is following our example.  And that is a power that will forever be gone from society building.  During COVID-19, we were told to “trust the experts,” and the experts then ran us all over a cliff toward social destruction.  America was designed as a decentralized country that promoted people within its society through merit, not expert status.  In America, being good at many things is very fashionable, not just one specific thing.  Of course, Dr. Fauci was the ultimate example of an expert society people put too much trust in, who abused that leverage for personal reasons and became a menace to society.  That was the last straw for many people in the wake of that activity.  But the first began a long time ago as the labor movement tried to apply to society, in general, this ridiculous notion they have afflicted culture through labor unions, where only specialists in work performed a task.  An engineer didn’t do labor.  Labor didn’t do engineering.  And management stayed in an office somewhere and practiced for the next golf game.  Everyone had a specialty, and they stayed in their lane.  But the needs of human beings are much more dynamic than that.  And people are not happy with such a cap on limited knowledge.  People are happiest when they know many things and can approach life with curiosity and vigor. 

My personal approach to life is based on the 9 Ways of the Samurai from The Book of Five Rings, which says, “develop intuitive judgment and understanding for everything.”  And “know the Way of all professions.”  A long time ago, I worked as a machine refurbisher at Cincinnati Milacron down in Oakley, Ohio, in its prime years, and I had a big toolbox that had those 9 Ways attached to my toolbox lid, where most of the other guys had cutouts of nude women from Penthouse Magazine.  They thought I was a weird young man, but I loved my samurai books and read them every day on my breaks during those years, and it used to drive them crazy that I wasn’t interested only in my primary job.  They used to tell me to “stay in my lane” all the time and not to disrupt the apple cart.  Make your living, go home, sleep on the couch like everyone else did, and don’t try to change it.  Well, that was never good enough for me; I wanted to know something about everything, so I read many weekly books on various subjects.  Technically, these days, I could claim to be an expert in more fields of endeavor than I have fingers on my hands.  And I think that’s how the human condition wants it to be.  We have curious minds and want to learn as many things as possible.  At least we start that way as kids.  Most people hit puberty and throw that curiosity away forever once they start chasing after sexual pursuits.  But that is more of a biological surrender than the mind’s condition.  But to pull off their grand scheme on the world, global communists needed people to stay in their lane, do only what they were good at, and wait for an expert to tell them all the other things in an interdependent society of specialists trained in liberalism at the local college.  And to stay that way forever. 

By decentralizing information and making it so that people could acquire as much knowledge over a lifetime as they dared to pursue, the concept of an expert class has collapsed.  In frustration, you could see them draw that line in the sand in late 2019 when they unleashed COVID-19.  I was sitting at a bar in Orlando, Florida, watching the news of the unleashing of Covid from Wuhan, China, and I knew right away what it was because my base of knowledge was not expert-driven on a single source of wisdom but was applied over many interconnecting fields from psychology, philosophy, to essential medicine, law, politics, strategy, and military history.  And I knew it was an attack by a frustrated group of experts who were like union stewards in a typical manufacturing facility, upset that someone not qualified to do mechanical work picked up a wrench to fix something themselves instead of waiting on the union worker to stop watching television during his long break, and come and perform the work as needed.  Trump was in office and shaking up this world of experts, and they unleashed COVID-19 out of frustration to get the world to listen to them, the experts in the medical profession.  All it did was make everyone frustrated and angry because, in America, we had access to all the information we could ever hope for, and people could learn more about COVID-19 than the “experts” wanted us to know.  And they lost massive amounts of power during this period.

That was always one of the keys to the success of the United States as opposed to other countries that were much less dynamic.  Waiting for a class of experts would not work in an impatient world where progress was measured in seconds, not days and years.  The complaints about this fast-moving world always come from the sluggish communists who want a world of experts to stay in their lane and provide specificity on only the topics they are credentialed for from a local university.  I hear it probably a thousand times a week; “what makes you think you have a right to provide expert opinions on law, medicine, or political strategy?  What university did you attend that provided you with a degree in those fields?”  And my answer is that I have done more work in those fields than most people with six-year degrees combined perform over their entire lifetimes.  And that real-world experience doing real things that matter is a far better education than a liberal arts major in a specified field that limits you for the rest of your life.  And more people are figuring that out for themselves, and they are much happier.  Doing for yourself is much more rewarding than hiring an expert.  America used to be known for its self-reliance, for the backyard mechanic, and the craftsman who could build a dining room table on the weekend for their family.  The world of experts has not been rewarding, and most people who have stuck to the rules have grown into miserable adults and boring spouses.  Look at the divorce rates of most people, and you will find that most of them are drowning under the burden of an expert life where they learn their little things, stayed in their lane as they were told to all their lives, and end up brain dead by their 40s because they lose interest in life because they are so bored.  So they develop sex addictions and other detriments to fill their vacant lives with something interesting, which never works because all the effort is misapplied.  That is the world the communists wanted to give us, and it has been soundly rejected in America.  And that movement is moving to the world as a whole.  And not a moment too soon. 

Rich Hoffman

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Let the Communists Leave America: Nobody will miss you

It’s comical to watch, and we all deserve the pleasure of it.  But the communists are threatening to leave when President Trump is re-elected, and they think we care.  As in the threat of it will frustrate the America First political movement.  So, for context, let’s review how we arrived here.  For years, the communists, because that’s what they always were on the political left, communists, planned to conquer American capitalism with guilt by exploiting race tensions and gender roles to advance their Karl Marx agenda.  We can say what we couldn’t before because they have revealed their agenda in the wake of the stolen 2020 election.  The communists thought that their capture of the legal system would put Trump down for good and that the MAGA movement was gone forever.  And it’s not just Democrats; in Ohio, it was Speaker Stephens and the Blue22 coalition who have been working against state central committees to put Matt Dolan on the slate cards across the state over Bernie Moreno, which is just as dumb as when Governor Kasich, ignored the political sentiment of the state and continued to run for President, just as Nikki Haley just did.  The people they are talking to all believe they understood how politics worked in America and that they would continue to enjoy this left-leaning version, even in the Republican Party.  So it’s not just a few dumb people going through all this.  But in the face of the reality that Trump is coming back to the Executive Branch, and this time, there will be a lot more support in the House and Senate to support his administration, those same communist personalities are turning toward their narcissism as their last resort revealing the inherent insanity of their position, that people actually care what they think.  If they threaten to leave the country, people will miss them.

I would be completely fine with all communist-oriented people would leave America after this next election.  Go!  Please do us all a favor and leave.  Go to some other communist country and ruin their lives.  Please leave us alone in America.  We don’t want you!  Nobody will miss you!  If all the communists leave America because of the Trump election, then our country will be a lot better off.  And yes, communists is the right word.  Anybody who has sympathy and a yearning for anything Karl Marx advocated should be said to be a communist.  Those standing against the MAGA movement are functioning communists and that’s not an inflationary statement.  Even the soft-shelled Republicans like the Dolan supporters are functioning communists because they support a government form of collectivism and state controls that Karl Marx advocated for.  And that people are so willing to reject the communist plan is shocking to them.  That the race-baiting and exploitation of the sexes have run its course.  People are no longer sympathetic to the dumb messages in the NFL endzones, “stop racism,” and those types of propaganda.  They got suckered before, and people were burned when they watched the communists ruin their country with a communist insurrection in 2020 and endure the constant criticism the previous four years.  Now, we have had eight years of outright communist propaganda, and people are finally done with it.  Their economy is ruined, their jobs are infected with corporate communism, and life has been horrible.  But those same people finally see what I’ve been warning about for thirty years.  Communism has been loose in America through the Democrat Party and the Republicans who want to make deals with those communists, and it has been a good gig for those playing the game.  But it has been horrible for America, and people are finally ready to admit to just how bad it was.

Part of the communist plan was to control the media; it was one of their goals starting in the 1930s, during the “red decade.”  What kept communism in the background was the outbreak of World War II.  But it was communism that was behind the hippie movement and that dumb peace sign.  It was communism that was behind the Rap music radicalism of minority communities seeking to destroy America.  It wasn’t an organic movement but an attempt to overthrow the values of American culture.  And Americans put up with it for a long time because they were living somewhat decent lives.  There was bread on the shelf at the grocery.  They had March Madness to watch.  And they had easy access to gasoline.  Even though the communists continued to turn down the screws of their plan a little bit each year, the pace of change was slow enough for people to ignore.  That is, until the communists got desperate after Trump was elected, and they increased their radicalism, showing the world what they always had been.  In so doing, they exposed their scam all along.  People were shocked by what they saw happening, and those who doubted that communism was a real problem in America suddenly were seeing the light.  Which is about two decades too long, but who’s counting?  Communism has no place in America, not as a mixed economy, not as a social enterprise.  Communists must be destroyed just as McCarthy was trying to establish in the 1950s.  The threat was always there, but only recently were Americans forced to face the facts. 

I also talk about the public school system being designed by communists wearing the mask of progressives to avoid the stigma.  In public schools, children are introduced to the class system of a communist society.  To get into a higher class, you must appease the members of it to be accepted into their collective membership.  So they are used to setting the terms for their appeasement.  Such as, “I won’t like you if you don’t wear Nike tennis shoes.”  And some people become very stressed about these parameters.  Over time, the communists in America have gotten used to setting the priorities for their appeasement because they controlled a political class, and like dummies, Republicans and Democrats crawled through broken glass naked to appease them.  “No, I’m not a racist.  See, I voted for Obama.”  Or, “See, I’m not a sexist or a member of toxic masculinity because I wore a pink dress shirt with rainbows on it.”  And in so doing, we have worked to undo our country and its values and to usher in a society of communists. That is, until now.  Knowing that the class setting the standard was communists, Americans are now changing their tune and are not working to appease those people.  And now the communists, in a fit of anger, are threatening to leave, as if we ever really cared.  What they fear is that people don’t care because that was the only leverage point that they had was that people would want to appease them for acceptance into the communist class in a social structure.  In that context, what we are seeing now was something that it took us over a century to admit to, and I think we will be far better off for it.  The communists have been exploited and shown for what they always were.  And finally, people are ready to confront them honestly, instead of trying to appease them.  This means there is a lot of hope for the future that we are just now beginning to understand. 

Rich Hoffman

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People Are Going to Cry For President Trump and Darbi Boddy When they are Gone: What will come after them will be much tougher

The world is changing whether they like it or not. They are not in charge

I don’t like the guys on the Showtime show The Circus. I have talked about enjoying that show in the past, but that was during Trump’s first run for president and the world was a much different place. These days, everyone knows what everyone thinks of each other, so some pretense of fairness is no longer needed, as it was back then. But I find that The Circus is a good political show, even if I don’t like the people who put it on. It accurately reflects the political tides of the moment, which was alarming to them when they interviewed Steve Bannon and tried to interview Kari Lake but couldn’t even get enough material to do a segment with her. Astonishingly, as knowledgeable as they are about politics, they are missing the signals going into the 2024 election. They do not understand the MAGA movement, as most people obviously don’t. And they were nothing short of stunned when they heard Steve Bannon from the Warroom podcast, who used to be a chief strategist for the Trump White House, so he’s no slack-jawed loser, tell them that Trump was a moderate in the MAGA movement and that one day in the near future, they were going to wish they had Trump back. There was a kind of stunned silence, even for them. There has been an acceptance that we live in a world where co-existence with evil was always going to be the case, and increasingly, there are people in the MAGA movement who are supporting Trump, hell or high water, for militant reasons that defy conventional politics, to put it nicely. I’ve said it since before 2015 when Trump came down the elevator of Trump Tower, and just about every day since, I want to run campaigns against Trump as a liberal because, to me, he will always be a New York Democrat. That’s the world I’m fighting for.

It didn’t have to be that way, which was my thoughts when essentially all the Butler County judges had to recuse themselves on the Darbi Boddy case, which is a screenshot of the future of politics.  There are thousands of Darbi Boddys out there, the school board member at Lakota that I have talked about so much.  The belief was that the established order would play games and prosecute her with some power over the law and order society and that everyone would bow down and kiss some ring of party politics.  That is exactly what is wrong with the Republican Party in the wake of Trump.  That the Koch Brothers and Fox News still think they have some power to steer people away from Trump, that people are so stupid that they’ll vote for Nikki Haley instead of Trump.  These are all people smoking crack and are way off the political trajectory of modern sentiment.  They aren’t even in the room of consideration regarding reality.  I tried to warn everyone about the Darbi Boddy case.  These days, some lazy attorneys hiding in the background who are looking for an easy negotiation with the next unionized labor contract by getting rid of politicians who might stand in the way of that task with threats of jail, or even worse, are over.  That kind of local political abuse of power is what gave rise to Trump and the MAGA movement.  There is no control that the system of before has over people.  They have lost it, by their own incompetence.  That is what Steve Bannon meant when he said about Trump to the interviewers of The Circus that not far in the future, they will wish they had Trump back.

Darbi’s case in Butler County should have never even seen a courtroom, and now it’s going to go to the Supreme Court, and an impartial judge will have to be selected, and the party politics that has stuck its nose in all this business has screwed things up.  Darbi Boddy certainly didn’t do anything wrong.  And the judges involved in this case knew that from the outset. Instead, they played along with some assumption that they were in control and had a right to abuse their authority for some view of the world that has long been outdated.  And that is among people I know, that they have an entrenched view of the world that is not represented by reality that they refuse to see beyond.  I could have told them if only they had listened.  But the same could be said nationally and internationally.  Most people who work in politics don’t understand.  There will be a day when Trump is no longer in politics.  Right now, Trump has broad celebrity appeal, and he has a lot of Democrats voting for him.  He has broken down the blue firewall by changing how people can support political candidates.  I like that Trump ran his White House as a strong conservative, but he is way too liberal for my taste, and I am sure there will be a future with people much further to the right than he is, that I will happily support.  Yet people who hate Trump, Darbi Boddy, and thousands of politicians who are rising in the wake of all this, who will run and win future political offices, are mystified by this process and are refusing to deal with reality, as they did in Butler County, Ohio until it was too late.  The world will move on without them because they were never in charge. 

And it’s true, in just a few years, most of the people who have declared their hatred of Trump and fought so hard to keep him out of the White House with every legal maneuver available to them, and then some, are going to wish they had Trump back.  They will not like a world run by the Darbi Boddy’s of politics.  The Lakota school district will wish they had her back, too, when she’s not there anymore.  Essentially, what we have in government are radical labor union types deeply committed to Marxism who are using old tactics of resistance to stop needed changes.  And our political system has kicked the can down the road all this time to reach this point where there is no more road.  The belief that elections could be controlled to protect the thieves looting off it is over.  And Trump is viewed among MAGA Republicans, like me, as being entirely too nice.  I think of Trump as a liberal moderate.  I see him as a Democrat.  He is far better than the other alternatives and committed to stopping kicking the can down the road. And I am very supportive of that kind of talk.  But for me, he’s not even on the conservative radar.  Once he is done with politics, I will expect people far to the right of Trump to occupy positions in the Senate and the House and at state and federal levels; I plan to see the destruction of the Department of Education and many other assumptions of labor-controlled government that have ruined our country.  Trump is just the beginning.  Over the next ten years, I expect drastic changes.  Like Darbi Boddy in Butler County, Ohio, everyone has choked on the chicken over just one person.  The political world hasn’t seen anything yet, as the recent Argentina election indicates.  This isn’t just an American thing.  But it’s a sentiment worldwide, and it’s not going back to how it was…..ever.  History will never let people forget. 

Rich Hoffman

The Danger of Masons and RINOs: What we learned from the Judge Edelstein case and how it’s being applied to Darbi Boddy

I didn’t want to bring up the whole Mason connection to the Butler County judiciary, but there is a pattern that has emerged that reminds me a lot of the case with Kim Edelstein, the former judge of Butler County who ran sideways with Judge Stevens. All this drama against Darbi Boddy, the Lakota school board member who has now had the legal brotherhood turning its wrath toward her through Judge Lyons, has brought all this to the surface. Because most people have an assumption of constitutional law protected by our judges. But we have judges who belong to all these brotherhoods, such as the Masons, who behave as if their international order superseded constitutional law. I learned much more than most people have the stomach for regarding some of these cases, such as why Judge Stevens let his assistant waste over 500 hours playing the video game Candy Crush when she should have been working, according to witnesses. After the human resource conflict between Judge Stevens and Judge Edelstein erupted into her moving to another county to get work, Butler County prosecutor Mike Gmoser called Wood County to pursue the case further. Now I like Mike, he has said to me that he’s a MAGA guy. But then again, so did Isaac Adi. A lot of mystery only makes sense when considering malicious intent. And the more you look, the more you discover that many of these people are seduced by the temptation to abuse authority. They care about power too much, and it’s evident that they are more interested in employing losers and malcontents instead of qualified people who might show them up. And to hide such incompetence they seek out these brotherhoods to protect them from public scrutiny. I want to believe in these judges, I know many of them, and I want to like them. But this antagonism against Darbi Boddy forces a lot of unsaid things to the surface which we must explore if we want honest government.

Most Masons lean toward political Marxism

It’s not a matter of conspiracy theory to talk about the Masonic lodges’ membership and the judicial activists’ desire to seek an alliance in brotherhoods. If you peel back the apparent layer of politics that most people agree on, when it comes to trying to understand the mentality of RINOs then you have to consider the desire of these people who call themselves Republicans to belong to collective-based brotherhoods, such as labor unions, and Mason Lodges, or even membership to the Eastern Star. These have been networking tools for gaining access to better jobs for a long time. And by the looks of things, Mason membership is a criterion for the legal profession, especially at the level of judges and prosecutors. This is a problem because these international organizations think of themselves as succeeding the American Constitution. That’s a long story in itself, considering that it was Masons that largely formed the American Constitution, or at least debated it. So many people don’t see a problem with it. But then again, when it comes to Butler County, Ohio, and Ohio, we know of several 33-degree Masons who hold public office, such as Judge Powers, and State Rep Scott Lipps of Franklin who were announced in the Journal News. Memberships are only necessary when they say something about the people who seek membership, which takes them away from their public duties should they decide to serve the public. At that point, what they believe can become very dangerous. And by all indications, it looks like it is by these means that we end up with what we call RINOs in Republican politics.

These memberships are important to many public officials.

To understand why Masons and RINOs are almost synonymous, all we must do is look at the words of one of the most famous Masons, Albert Pike. If you’ve ever seen the Masonic Lodge in Washington, D.C., where George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were prominent members, it’s a magnificent structure. In that case, you can see how those people might think of themselves as a government independent of the rest of America, that their brotherhoods were more important to them than their Constitutional duties. I’ve been in several Mason lodges, particularly the one in Cincinnati by the old Taft house, and I understand all too well the purposes and the stars painted on the ceiling. Let’s call it a “research project” not an invitation to membership. Albert Pike was famous for saying, “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us…what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Otherwise, Karl Marx would have said these kinds of statements, which makes sense because he was a Mason, just as the Masons organized Vladimir Lenin to come out of exile and raid Petrograd for the communist revolution that destroyed Russia. And when you listen to the political positions of RINOs and the legal gymnastics that have emerged in the Darbi Boddy case in Butler County in 2023, then it is pretty clear that these Mason memberships are a problem because the members are more loyal to their brotherhood than to their constitutional oaths. And from there the contents of the SWAMP and their hatred for Trump and MAGA Republicans starts to make a lot more sense. These are people who are insecure and want to touch the face of immortality, as was articulated by Albert Pike.

33 Degree Masons is as high as you can go.

I’m not against Masons. Andrew Jackson was one of my favorite presidents, and he took on the epic battle that we need to have again with centralized banking. All members are not joined at the hip in political strategy, and membership doesn’t make them all bad. But it does say a lot about their character and the problem of Marxism failing all over the world and populism moving to the far right of Karl Marx, and away from this scam by the Masons that goes back hundreds of years to the Friday the 13th murders of the Knights Templars, forcing their movement underground in secret so that they could rule from the shadows. But for these timid types, there is safety in numbers, which is the origin of their desires for power and their tendency to abuse it. Such was grotesquely obvious when the Judge Edelstein case was occurring, and in many ways, it is still happening. The way this judicial network seeks to personally destroy people they think is a challenge to their authority is a real problem, showing itself in the Darbi Boddy case. For them, it has nothing to do with constitutional law. It’s all about protecting the brotherhood, and that’s not something we talk about when we elect these judges. If their memberships in brotherhoods keep them from behaving like Republicans, small government constitutional supporters, then we need to know all about it. Because we can’t have a representative government if we aren’t talking about why these people seek the memberships they do and to what extent it impacts their social judgment. As Albert Pike indicated, it’s all about the collective where immortality resides, and these older adults are very concerned about life after their deaths. So they turn out to be more loyal to their order, which lives on, than the merit of their individual decisions, which is at the heart of the modern MAGA movement. Voters have shown they want more Darbi Boddy’s, fewer Judge Powers, and their 33-Degree Mason memberships. I usually am pretty proud of Butler County law enforcement, but I have too much information that calls into question all these characters. And when they think they are going to abuse another person, such as Darbi Boddy, without it impacting their sacred safe places, well, they have a lot to learn about the future.

That’s a lot of memberships. What’s that say about the individual person you vote for? Who are they more loyal to?

Rich Hoffman

Beating the Liberal Playbook: Behind the scenes, it’s the labor unions who cause all the problems

I don’t think many people know that most of the problems in politics they have come from labor unions and that when you wonder about corruption and how things connect, it usually involves labor unions in some way or another. For instance, despite the Joe Biden’s statements that the economy is good, we are seeing massive layoffs in entertainment and big tech. There are reports this week involving Disney laying off 7000 employees due to bad performances driven by economic realities. And NBC has many workers threatening to walk off the job because job cuts are looming. It’s their entertainment union that is the problem behind the mess. So when it is wondered why the police seem never to punish the bad guys as we think they should, or if the media is supporting a local school board and their desire to hide bad behavior from their unionized workforce, the smoking gun always points back to labor unions. At the federal government level, its labor unions who run most of Washington D.C.’s culture. Most of the FBI agents are in a union. IRS workers are in a union. Most government workers are in a union or want to be in one. Even if your local news anchor isn’t in a union, they all want a chance to work for a big outlet, and to do that, they’ll have to join a union, so they adopt in their lives lots of liberalisms; otherwise, they will never get a chance. I’ve said it for years; labor unions are communist organizations straight out of the pages of the radical leftist Karl Marx, and always hiding behind the scenes are these labor unions who impose leftist-leaning viewpoints. The members themselves might not identify as Democrats or liberals, but the function of their labor unions forces them to keep their opinions to themselves unless they are overtly liberal, where then it’s fine to be a crazy radical. 

A perfect example of how this liberal playbook formed by labor unions was seen at Lakota schools recently, where the superintendent had to resign due to his crazy sexual lifestyle that got out into the public, was just exposed. If you held up his case and compared it to Hunter Biden, the President’s son, you could almost match them task for task. Hunter Biden goes on drug rampages, breaks the law, and displays behavior that clearly compromised him. The FBI helps to cover it up. The media contains the story in favor of protecting the Biden family name. And a mob of lawyers tried to intimidate critics from using their Constitutionally protected free speech to criticize the President’s son. There was a lot of complicit behavior that all had the common connection of labor unions and their radical leftist membership requirements that united the effort to defend one of their own in the White House. Then if you look at the local story involving Matt Miller, who I have said reminds me a lot of our own Butler County version of Hunter Biden, he has a crazy sexual lifestyle that, by his own admission in a police report, involved kids in a fantasy aspect, the labor union rallies to his defense, the school board tries to contain the story. The police, also in a labor union with their brethren in the teacher’s union, do everything in their power to suppress the story. The local media picks up the police position and uses it to stop further inquiry. All the players were either in a labor union or they wanted to be. In order to do big coverage news stories for a major network, whether it’s NBC, CBS, Fox, or ABC, the on-camera talent has labor union requirements. Even for conservative broadcasters. So for anybody in the media, either entertainment or from the news desk, if they have any ambitions for further opportunities, they do not tick off the labor unions; otherwise, it will disqualify them from further opportunities. So in that way, we see with a local story or a big national story like the Hunter Biden spectacle has been, the same liberal playbook being used by the same people for all the same reasons and outcomes locally.

The good news was that in Lakota, with a good team of citizen activists, that liberal playbook was exploited and beaten. Even though the police wanted obviously to protect Matt Miller, the leader of a major labor union in the Lakota school district with over 17,000 kids and hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds specific to just that zip code, the liberal playbook was able to be exploited for the failure that it was and overcome. The way it works with superintendents is that they are usually recruited from the teacher’s labor union pool of possibilities. So even if they aren’t members of the teacher’s union, they work as administrators to protect those liberal values as they are promoted, and it becomes their most fundamental concern, protecting the labor union from outside opinions. So that is how the labor union of the local sheriff’s office gets pulled into defending such bad behavior when it was discovered. They may not personally agree with it. They might have strong opinions in a conservative direction. But to stay good in their union, where their pay and pensions are protected from management changes, they remain silent on controversial matters because they don’t want to rock the boat in their union. So they end up going along with the bad behavior. Then, of course, the same holds true in the local media; if the participants aren’t in a union, they often want to be so they can have a chance at better opportunities, which holds true for the newspaper reporter. They may not be in a union, but their editors are owned by larger media groups who are in unions, so the rules flow downhill. The threat that unions espouse is that people who stand in their way will either be beaten up or denied employment opportunities. Once those two things are exposed for their lies, the unions lose their power.

But the story in Lakota got out anyway. Despite the opposition, the threats, and the snowballing that occurred to protect the local LEA union from outside opinions essentially, a large group of parents were able to unite behind a common cause of protecting children from blowing open that liberal playbook and defeat the firewalls that typically protect all these bad employees. That same playbook can be used on the White House or at any level where it is being applied because it has all the same weaknesses. When there is scrutiny, and people use Constitutional protections to manage their concerns, the liberal playbook fails every time. Because their sentiments of liberalism are built on Karl Marx’s communist radicalism, they cannot hold up to the scrutiny of true debate, and their positions fall apart quickly. Many were bewildered that the machine that protected Matt Miller was so unjust, and so many people worked together to suppress information that was critical to the community. But that was seeing a big national problem up close when we wonder the same about Hunter Biden and other liberals who get caught doing terrible things, but they feel they will get away with them because labor unions will rally to their cause every time to protect their employment. We aren’t dealing with rationality here, the kind of world the rest of us live in. We are dealing with a radicalism that has penetrated our government at every level, and as long as they are attached, we will have massive corruption. But at Lakota, that liberal playbook has failed, and the lessons learned can be applied everywhere that such corruption is seen. And for those who do use those methods, the labor union position will lose 100% of the time because they cannot stand up to scrutiny and Constitutional law. 

Rich Hoffman

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A Coup in the Ohio House: Lessons to remember about Democrats, treat them like raccoons always digging through your garbage

There is an important lesson that everyone needs to take notice of regarding the Democrat coup in voting for Jason Stephens as Speaker of the House in Ohio. Republicans who hold a substantial majority in the Ohio House thought they had the Speaker role all mapped out, and it was going to be Derek Merrin. Being outnumbered the way they were in the newly elected body, RINOs and Democrats decided under the chaos of the Holidays to join together to “stop far-right policies.” The communist left sees them precisely as education issues centering around the “Backpack Bill” which allocates funding per child, not per district, which is a terrifying concept for education people. So while Republicans were busy with Christmas, the New Year, and family emergencies, 32 Democrats were convinced to vote for the moderate Republicans Stephens for the Speaker position, while 22 Republicans joined them to give them the majority. The drama over the incident was lost behind the national Kevin McCarthy debates, and it was too late when everyone found out what was going on. Republican Representatives in the Ohio House had been suckered and found themselves caught looking, just as a baseball player batting against a good pitcher stands at the plate expecting a slider or a curve ball and were planning their approach exclusively for those pitches. Then came a 90-mile-an-hour fastball right over the plate, the last thing that was expected. And the Democrats suddenly found themselves in power to protect their education policies and other big government union goodies extorted through years of bad government. For more details on this, you can hear from my good friend Jennifer Gross, a current Representative in Ohio, talk about it on the Brian Thomas show on 55 KRC. It’s a really good interview.

I’m sure Jason Stephens can be worked with, but it will make it much harder to do what many of the Republicans in the Ohio House had intended to do. The issue that remains, it will take several more sessions of Representative leadership to remove the premise of the 22 Republicans who are prone to be RINOs and work with Democrats who are essentially the same thing. They call themselves Republicans because they come from districts where people wouldn’t vote for Democrats strictly because of the name. So they pretend to be Republicans when, in fact, they are Democrats philosophically aligned. And the big union position has crossed many lines over the years; most people have friends or family who has benefited from union extortion, so it’s difficult for them to make a logical statement about them now. President Trump is a union supporter, which further complicates things for many RINOs. Suddenly the Republican Party in Ohio had in President Trump a person union members could vote for, so in the wake of his presidency, the old union problems are still problems, and they are doing everything they can to push reality off as far as possible. And by scheming to get Stephens in the Speaker role, the union types, especially the public sector unions, like those in the teaching profession, feel they can protect the money basket, that funding will continue to go to the wreck of the schools that we currently have, which don’t work and are filled with liberal propaganda. These people are going to fight to keep what they have extorted over the years, and when they saw how things were lined up with Merrin, it terrified them. 

Many from that side of things are calling anything to the political right of Karl Marx “far right,” when in truth, the facts are that everything else has been put in place through deception. Most of what Democrats have done over the years, including their relationship with public unions, has involved deception. And my distinction about union representatives is that all union concepts are socialist and communist in their positions, politically. I have known a lot of people, including family members, who were big union supporters. BIG union supporters, specifically because they worked at the Norwood car plant and Fisher Body in Fairfield, Ohio. Those manufacturing plants couldn’t deal with the unionized labor, and they never should. The Department of Labor’s position of being friendly and advocating for unionized labor penalizing companies who make big investments in communities only to have those investments controlled by union slugs talking about Karl Marx phrases as “workers of the world, unite” to always bring extortion to labor production unless the workers got what they wanted. That was always the radical left position, and they sold it to the public wrapped in the American flag as patriotism. But it was always a communist scam, and anybody who spoke against it was considered radical right winged. I’m okay with that, even with family members and their children who grew up thinking unions were “all-American enterprises.” I have always told them to read a book, then they would know better. Unions are not American and are hostile to capitalism. That makes them an enemy of the American economy and is detrimental to any concept of small government. 

And they have one play in the playbook, radicalism, deception, and cheating to keep any power they have acquired over the years. Once companies realize they won’t be able to run their own investments, that unions will, they shut down and leave, which is precisely what happened in Norwood, Ohio, Fairfield, Ohio, and many other Ohio facilities that watched the industry leave the state because of union activity. But that can’t happen in public education because it’s all attached to government jobs, and government never leaves. You can only make it smaller. And the issue in the Ohio House involving the Backpack Bill was a bridge too far for the radical union types. Once education funding starts going straight to the kids, and performance for that money is measured in the success of the end-use product, it’s over for the big union types who own and operate government schools. So they had to do something to protect themselves from reality.   And they did; under cover of chaos, they elected the RINO Republican Jason Stephens to snatch up the Ohio House Speaker position in a surprise upset while people watched the last Ohio State game and made New Year’s resolutions. I don’t think it’s the end of the world, but it was certainly a lost opportunity. Eventually, that opportunity will come around again because that is the trajectory of politics. Many of those 22 RINOs are only in those positions through some form of deception, and people are getting tired of it. They will be replaced with more conservative members in upcoming elections; that is the trend. Critics might call it “far-right,” but I would call it the America we have always loved and are working to get back to. Any other thought on the matter comes from people lost in the definitions created by the radical left anyway and has no merit in reality. Name-calling and deceit is no way to run a political movement, yet that’s all Democrats have. So they played their hand this time and won because nobody took them seriously. Well, take them seriously; they will do anything for power, and understand that while dealing with them. Don’t play nice with Democrats; treat them like the raccoons digging through your garbage late at night and assume they all have rabies. They are not your friends; they are diabolical representatives of Karl Marx and nothing else. 

Rich Hoffman

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