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The Fued Between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk: Cybertruck saves Trump Tower Las Vegas from a Terrorist Attack

You can see what kind of war we’re in; the terrorist attacks were meant to be evident on the first day of the New Year ahead of the incoming Trump administration.  The radical elements out there are going to have their faces melt, and they are going to try every trick in the book to impose on us the same kind of disorder and chaos that have imprisoned the human race since the beginning of time.  I’ve liked the Cybertruck by Tesla since the first design was introduced, and I’ll probably get one myself once the dust settles on it.  It’s in high demand now, and I don’t want to wait for one.  So when it gets a little easier to get one, I probably will, and for all the reasons that a terrorist tried to use it to blow up in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas.  The Cybertruck was strong, contained the explosion, and didn’t even break any windows to the lobby of one of President Trump’s premier properties in the world. An obvious attempt to further divide Elon Musk and Trump on New Year’s Day with two terrorist attacks.  One at the Trump Hotel and another that killed and hurt a lot of people in New Orleans almost at the same time.  I’d say it is almost a non-existent coincidence that the two terrorists acted alone and that all kinds of characters have been behind the illegal immigration movement that do not want to see America Great Again, so as terrorists do, they try to scare people, into submission.  And there are a lot of terrorists under Obama and Biden who are operating in the background of our nation.  And there will be a lot more violent acts committed against innocent people in the days to come, so we’ll have to meet that violence where it lives and smoke it out into the open to deal with.  We don’t have time for personal feuds between Steve Bannon of the WarRoom and Elon Musk, which I think goes far beyond practicality. 

I like Steve Bannon a lot.  Without the WarRoom podcast, which was run by Steve Bannon, the MAGA movement wouldn’t have been as strong as it was.  We needed a pirate element, and Steve was John Paul Jones in our modern movement.  But saying that, I don’t agree with him on everything; I have found a few things deeply alarming about Steve Bannon, and those things have been emerging over this ridiculous H-1B visa issue.  It’s one thing to disagree on policy, which is bound to happen in a big tent party, which the Republican Party is these days.  But Steve’s position on foreign labor is very pro-union-like, and as we all know, unions are anti-capitalist and pro-Karl Marx in their design, and I knew it was going to be tough to have all these union people supporting Trump and then getting them to see things correctly regarding the definitions of labor.  Everyone should have to compete for a good job no matter where they were born.  Nobody should be given anything for nothing.  That has been the standard union idea out there: that America First meant good jobs for Americans just because they were born in America.  To me, America First means something very different relative to the way business is conducted in other places in the world, and once many of the jobs are brought back to America from where they presently are, America will be operating at very low unemployment, and we are going to want every last person working who can, and we’ll need immigration labor to fill the gaps in need versus supply.

That labor discussion about people who want to come to America and pursue the American Dream is different than the illegal immigration that has hidden criminal elements and terrorists into our country behind the chaos of open borders designed to give us precisely the kind of world we experienced on New Year’s Day, 2025, terrorism and criminal enterprise by those hostile to America.  They all have to be deported for the security of our domestic nation.  However, we will need an immigration system that accommodates all the work that will be done in returning to the United States in the years to come.  We will need more than 300 million potential workers to feed the economy Trump has in mind.  So, taking the side of labor unions with an America First attached to birthright citizenship of more entitled people who work far too little for way too much money is not a productive position, which brings up the other thing that has always concerned me about Steve Bannon, his dislike of Ayn Rand.  Coming from his background in finance, I would think he would appreciate the Ayn Rand message of producers versus looters more than he does, but he has been very hostile toward the American novelist and the people who support her, which is baffling considering Bannon’s support, of President Trump, a guy who could easily be one of the heroes of Ayn Rand’s books.  But that hatred of Ayn Rand is the same as why labor unions tend to hate those who run industry.  They believe in collectivism, which is the root of labor unions.  And an absolute hatred of the producers of the world of which Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of the best. 

Elon Musk, ironically has had a lot of excellent manufacturing capacity in his companies because he managed to fight off the labor union movements pushed on him by the Department of Labor radicals.  But for most of his life, Elon Musk has been a hard-line Democrat, certainly left of center.  This sudden love of MAGA is a late position for sure.  However, regarding labor union policy, Musk has been among the best, and Steve Bannon is far to the left of Musk on that topic.  So, it can confuse people trying to figure out where all these guys are and who is right about what.  Personally, and I say this affectionately, I see people do this all the time.  I think what Steve Bannon is doing is self-sabotage because his role in the future is confusing to him.  When you are a warrior who fights hard to win, what does that warrior do once they’ve won?  How do pirates define themselves when piracy is no longer needed?  Because the fight has changed, and suddenly, the values that made you a hero now make you a union-loving liberal.  You’re the same person, but the world changed, and it’s hard to figure it all out.  So psychologically, people, when faced with this kind of thing, resort to self-sabotage so they can at least get their identity to a place where they recognize the person they look at in the mirror.  That is sometimes far easier than adjusting to change, even if that change was something you fought hard to win.  In everyone’s minds, winning was a fantasy they never thought would come true.  Meanwhile, the real bad guys are out there, and terrorists are going to make Making America Great Again very difficult.  And Steve Bannon is needed for that fight.  And so is Elon Musk.  And so are labor unions, as they will need to do work, but they will need to change their approach to it.  We need everyone.  The goal of the parasites out there is to divide us with fear and chaos so they can continue to run their crime syndicates in government over us all.  If you thought New Year’s Day was bad, it will get far worse.  You can bet on it.  And we need everyone pointed in the correct direction and to put their differences aside because that’s what big-tent politics requires.  And to fight for what is truly needed as defined by an America First that can lead the world to a better tomorrow.  And we don’t have time for complex psychological issues that spawn from identity failures and quirky philosophies.  Let’s fight to win and surrender nothing to terrorism.  And let competition cover the employment issues, which is how greatness is born.  And evil is rooted out before it ever grows into a weed.    

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Rich Hoffman

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The New Mob is No Different than the Old Mob: The bigger the government, the more mobsters there are to exploit it

Organized crime never went away; it just moved into the globalist movement. The old mobsters like Moe Dalitz from Cleveland and Screw Andrews from Cincinnati are now Larry Fink, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerburg. When people get a lot of money and use it to buy our government, it’s all the same game of corruption.  What we have witnessed with the advent of technology is that the lazy, the corrupt, the malicious, and outright evil people of the world still rally together to use mass to exploit easy living for themselves through crime and jeopardy.  Just as during western expansion, Jesse James and the gang would gather with force to rob a bank or hold up a train and steal the wealth from the inhabitants.  Mobsters always sought ways to profit off sin to exploit an endeavor, and what we see happening now globally is no different.  Technology and travel allowed them to do so on larger scales, along with centralized banking.  In other words, the bigger the government and the more organized it is, the more tempting the target is to exploit to acquire wealth as quickly as possible.  So, of course, governments would be targets for mobster activities.  Why would you hold up victims on a train when you can use the power of the government to do it for you?  All you have to do is control the government, and that is the easy part because there are always whores of some kind looking for an easy buck.  Living in Cincinnati, I have had a front-row seat to some of this mobster behavior.  Some of the biggest mobsters of their time spent a lot of time in Cincinnati and Newport, Kentucky, because it was such a centralized hub within the country.  Like anywhere where there is a lot of money; of course, organized crime elements would grow to exploit it as much as possible, which they did. 

I think it was very fortunate that I grew up the way I did.  I have always had a bold personality, and there was never a part of my life where I faced some ramifications for having it.  Instead, I have lived a vibrant life full of massive experiences.  And when danger and dollars were put before me to see if I dared take them, I was always yearning for the opportunities that came with both.  Not so good for the crime, and of course, that caused rifts that led to violence.  Which I was always perfectly fine with.  I enjoyed it.  If I could be said to have an addiction of some kind, it would be danger and it took me many years to find good ways to satisfy that part of my nature.  It’s a topic that came up in a conversation I had where someone asked me how many times I have had a gun pulled on me because they expected the answer to be zero.  Instead, I had to think about it and realized I couldn’t count them all.  It’s not like it was every day, but it was so often that I couldn’t think of them all, even after several days.  Whenever I came up with a number over twenty, I thought of new times.  And for me, it was never a regrettable experience but an excellent opportunity that made my life better as a result.  So, I don’t look back on those experiences with apprehension, but conquerable moments that made me better.  I learned firsthand that mobsters were not as brutal or scary as portrayed in the movies. Instead, at their core, they relied on group affiliation to fill in insecurities in their public lives that led to easy money because they were essentially lazy.  Their only power was fear and the ability to manipulate other people with even less courage than they had.  People sell themselves to the “take” way too easily, and often.   

Naturally, as our world grew smaller with technology and transportation, those types of people sought to exploit more people easily with a centralized government.  The old mob guys, and I met several of them in Cincinnati, mainly when I worked as a busboy at the Mike Fink restaurant on the Ohio River, was no different from the billionaires and manipulators of the world today, such as Larry Fink, Bill Gates, and Klause Schwab.  People who met Moe Dalitz from the Cleveland Four would think of him as a very charitable person involved in many front groups that everyone would recognize.  He was a trendy guy who would essentially become Mr. Las Vegas.  But he was still a thug, just as Larry Fink of BlackRock is today.  They run front organizations that give them the appearance of legitimacy.  But they made their money off the crimes of their mobster behavior, organized crime.  The activity of washing money through Ukraine by starting wars and profiting off the misery would classify as a classic mobster endeavor.  The only reason they used to be regional is that the technology and transportation at the time kept them from getting too far from a central location.  Back in the period known as the golden age of mob behavior, from the 1920s through the 1960s, planes were more challenging to get around the earth as fast as they can today, and cars were big and slow.  There weren’t highways like we have these days where you can be in another state within five hours of traveling all day, seven days a week.  Now, mobster types can hide in the mountains of Davos with all the other international gangs, such as the Khazarian Mafia, the Knights of Malta, The Jesuits, and the World Economic Forum.  Because of technology, those people have found each other easier and aligned for their crimes against humanity, which is in their nature to do.  I only mentioned my experience because I know better and understand the thinking that attracts those people to do what they do.  And why they point guns at people, hoping to use force to gain compliance. 

I also learned that the only thing those people understand is force.  They don’t respect sympathy or pleading.  They only understand force.  I’m still around to tell some of these stories because of force.  The secret to understanding this realization is that they join mobs for the same reason people join labor unions: they hope to collectively bargain for an easier life that pays them the most.  They want as much money as possible by doing as little as they can get by earning it.  And joining a mob, whether the racket is hustling girls, gambling, or bootlegging, or whether it’s drug trafficking, stealing tax money through front group organizations that get sizable grants from the government, and the kickbacks flow into the pockets of those granting the money.  Wherever there is a lot of money and access, there will be some organized crime element to exploit it and the people in the way of getting it. And there is no appeal to their “better” natures.  They will do anything to acquire easy money.  And demonizing cash doesn’t stop the behavior.  Only force manages such thugs.  There is no way to use bigger government to protect yourself from their attempts at organized crime, which Big Pharma is only a modern version of the kind of businesses that Moe Dalitz used to run.  The bigger and more powerful government only makes it easier for more mob types to exploit innocent people for their desires to gain power and money as quickly as possible, which is at the core of everything BlackRock does in the world from a money management standpoint.  And they are no different than what the old mobsters of memory did every day.  The only difference is that technology allows them to do it on a bigger scale, and our understanding of those scales is just catching up to reality.   

Rich Hoffman

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10 Foot Aliens Land in Las Vegas: When the government reports on conspiracy stories, it’s clear they are trying to hide the really bad stuff

I’ve talked about aliens quite a lot, and I think there is much merit to the seeding of human civilization by colonists from other planets. I hesitate to call them aliens because, in many ways, they are likely us. So perhaps they aren’t so alien after all. The religions of the world, when studied, point to far more color along these lines than just some lazy assumption from academia that humans went from being cave people to advanced religions in too short of a time, and there is still a lot to uncover regarding our deep and mysterious past. If a UFO landed and many people stepped out of strange spacecraft, I would not be surprised. I would find it shocking that it wasn’t the case, as opposed to such an occurrence being unique. The evidence points to interactions between space colonists and humans being far too frequent, including currently. The esoteric nature of secret society attachment to governments is the first clue. World War II was essentially started along the lines of occult belief, which directly related to UFO study, by the Nazis, and thus, the creation of the United Nations was born from the disturbances of various European occult beliefs colliding with global politics in a world suddenly not so big due to increases in transportation and communication. The aliens have always been with us and likely work in the background with occult contacts as recently as one minute ago, somewhere in the world, and the noise behind most modern politics likely points to these interactions, which are cleverly hidden by various religions of the world. But those are not the real dangers. Aliens are not to be feared. It’s the governments of the world that are the problem as they always have been, and the push for power that often comes in how information is obtained, and from what source, and the desire to monopolize those interactions for silly human vision, not so enlightened by proper philosophy.

And if you study these things long enough, you’ll start to see a pattern emerging, and there is one emerging right now. You know that governments are in trouble, not just the American government for its work in election fraud to put a phony president in office, or the world governments hidden behind the corruption of the World Economic Forum and the world of global finance that has been caught killing millions of people with Covid, starting useless wars for the desire to convert the world from nationalism to a borderless aristocracy, and they are worried that people are going to unite and rally to their destruction. So they are trying to appease the masses with reminders about how government is there to protect us from the scary beings from outer space. When you really peal back the orange at the root cause of much intelligence agency trouble, in their narrative that everything has to be so secret for national security and the safety of the public, what it really means is that they want justification to operate without Constitutional parameters over fears that a superior technology might come along and destroy the entire human race.   I think these interactions won’t ever happen because that relationship has existed since the beginning of time. We are them, so why would we destroy ourselves? But governments that want to grab power and stay in power use the fear of the unknown to bypass our laws, which they have then carried over into other aspects of political life. This results in the mysteries we see regarding UFO reports and the various governments’ conspiracy to conceal them or use them to strike fear in the public and remind them how much people need a government and an all-powerful military to protect them. In truth, it’s just another big government scam to spend money, hide things from the public, and grow government for some elusive goal of national defense.

You can always tell when the government, as an organized unit of malcontents, gets itself in trouble by the way they behave. UFO stories start to leak to the public during this time, and that has been the case recently. The only thing that can save the governments from serious prosecution and even rebellion is to attempt to unite the world behind a common fear of planetary destruction by little green men who may invade us at any time. That was certainly the case when prime-time outlets have been covering stories that the military had been experimenting on crashed UFOs by actual leakers who witnessed the occurrences. But even stranger was the UFO crash that occurred in the late spring of 2023 in Las Vegas, where a few kids witnessed a crash that actually left a dent in a parking lot and found a bunch of 10-foot-tall aliens trying to cover their tracks of their cloaked ship failing to conceal itself while they bumbled around like the three stooges trying to use local construction equipment to clean up the crash. The kid reporting the accident sounded credible enough. And as usual with these kinds of things, the elusive Men in Black came along in the days after to do what they do to contain the public image. It was all standard UFO stuff. Many people think the Men in Black are U.S. government people; others think they are trying to appear that way and are actually not human in origin. There is a lot of talk about them in the great book and movie, The Mothman Prophecies. They were reported at the Las Vegas crash site. But what is really strange is that the mainstream news so joyfully reported the incident. That’s when you know something is really wrong.    

I would say that UFO crashes and interactions with lifeforms from other planets are common. The way that the government manages the stories is that they keep everyone isolated and not talking to each other. That is until the government needs a cover story for its own existence. And when that happens, the reports of these UFOs start getting reported in the mainstream news, with the obvious hope that people might be frightened by them and run for the skirt of mother government and its perpetual desire to be the helicopter parents of all existence. It’s not alien invaders we have to worry about; it’s the corrupt governments of the world and their desires for power that are the real danger. And when they start talking about aliens, you know they are worried about people noticing all the bad things they have been up to, which would inspire people not to trust them. Because aliens, for them, is their cheater card that they keep in their back pocket to bail them out when all else fails. And using the rules I always talk about, judging people based on what they do, not what they say, what the government is doing has been criminal, murderous, and driven by deep corruptions. And people are aware of it, more people than usual, which is scary for them. Because there isn’t enough government to hold back the anger of the world, and based on what we know about things, even the alien stories aren’t going to contain the anger that people justifiably feel. 

Rich Hoffman

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Kasich and the Casinos: The many levels of EVIL all at war for justification

Governor Kasich has drawn a lot of unnecessary controversy to himself by standing in the way of the casino deal in Ohio where voters approved the casinos in Ohio by a slim margin. The casino lobby for a long time solicited Ohio as a possibility for gambling, and for many years I took great pride in Ohio for being a place were gambling wasn’t accepted.

I believe Kasich is legally wrong in what he is doing, since the will of the voter has spoken. However, I can’t say that I blame him, as a resident of Ohio, for not wanting to see casinos in Ohio.

I can only speak for myself, but I suspect Governor Kasich isn’t too far off from my thinking, based on his actions. So I’ll offer my opinion on gambling in Ohio as a possible window into the ethical problem Governor Kasich, in his position might be struggling with.

The Constitutional amendment for casino gambling has been floating around for a number of years. If you look at the chart below, you’ll notice that essentially the same constitutional amendment was dangled in front of voters from 2006, 2008 before finally being passed in 2009. So the vote in 2009 wasn’t a pure vote, done with the overwhelming approval of the Ohio voter. This vote was done just like school levies, where if the amendment didn’t pass the first time, then voters would just see it again a few months or a few years later. The vote in 2009 was passed by beating down the voter, attempting till those opposed just gave up realizing that bigger and bigger waves were on the horizon, and resistance was futile.

2009 Constitutional
Amendment Casino gambling Passed

2008 Referendum Payday lending Failed

2008 Constitutional
Amendment Casino gambling Failed

2006 Constitutional
Amendment Minimum wage Passed

2006 Constitutional
Amendment Casino gambling Failed

2006 Constitutional
Amendment Pro-smoking measure Failed

I see the state looking toward casinos as a desperate ploy by bankrupt souls to cover costs they don’t have the courage to address any other way but by throwing money at the situation. The same people who foolishly conceive that by spending money on school levies, tend to also support infinite amounts of money poured into education, police departments, fire departments and all public services, because in their limited perspective of the world, spending money equals success. These are the same idiots that believe that spending money at a craps table, or by playing dice, or pulling the lever on a slot machine, a person can win.

It is these types of minds that have led our civilization to the condition it’s in. To understand that world, study a casino. Here in Cincinnati, the closest major casino is Hollywood Casino’s in Lawrenceburg Indiana. At first glance, this is a neat place. The parking is cheap. The drinks are cheap. The lobby is extravagant. They have an excellent, all you can eat Egyptian Temple themed buffet that is spectacular. On the way into this palace where the hotel rooms are lavish, and quite impressive, designed to lure the drunk gambler or the illicit fly-by-night lovers to relish in some nocturnal sin, there are giveaways for Harley Davidson motorcycles and other “free gifts” that are designed like insect traps to emit pleasurable thoughts only to trap the poor creature into the actual ambush. The trap is the casino itself, where a smoky room and chaotic noise greets the would-be-gambler. Once inside the temptations of great wealth lures the player to a table, or a slot where the hopes and dreams of a lifetime are placed in the fate of the randomness of dice, cards or a computer selection.

I stood in this place and watched players for well over an hour. My lack of participation was alarming to many of the employees that watched me like a coyote roaming a hen house. What I witnessed in this trap was a decadent place that feeds off the ignorance of the players. I had heard stories for years of co-workers, and some of my own employees that had gambling problems. One woman is a little black woman who was a friend of mine named, “Fuzz.” Well, Fuzz every week when I gave her a check on Friday would proclaim, “time to hit them slots!” She looked forward all week to those slot machines. She spent all her money on those things. She was perpetually broke, and bought most of her attire at dollar stores. She was even on some government assistance even though she had a full-time job. I liked Fuzz, but I felt sorry for her. I’ve known one too many people like her. When I was younger I worked with a guy named Sonny who was addicted to the race tracks in Lebanon. Sonny spent all his money on the tracks, went through at least two wives that I know of, and ended up in a trailer in South Lebanon before meeting a dismal end due to alcohol related illnesses.

Fuzz and Sonny are just the bottom feeders. They represent a modestly small percentage of gamblers in casinos, and it could be argued that if there weren’t any casinos, these self-destructive people would find other way to destroy themselves. But casinos certainly take advantage of self-destructive people. And they by their nature encourage people to become self-destructive.

U.S.50 that Hollywood Casino is built off of used to be a country road leading into downtown Lawrenceburg. As promised by developers, the casino did bring some business to the surrounding area. There are some car dealerships, restaurants, and some shopping complexes, the same ones that seem to go in wherever large groups of people are brought together. One of the fears when Lawrenceburg first brought casinos to the neighborhood was that crime would go up, prostitution would sky rocket and there’d be drug dealers on every corner. Well, that was a bit dramatic. At first glance, Lawrenceburg’s economy did improve. They have retail there they wouldn’t have otherwise because of the casinos, and the prostitution and drug use are like they are everywhere else hidden from view. But, I have family out in Indiana and used to travel U.S. 50 a few times a year to visit them and I remember when the bridge for I-275 was being built by the power plant, so that’s how far back my memory goes. Back in those days, a strip joint was a far-away place. Newport was known as Little Vegas back then and there all the derelict men that wanted fast women and all the things organized crime provided was in some far away land. Not anymore. Concepts Show Club offers topless dancing right in downtown Lawrenceburg, there have been prostitution busts in a few massage parlors, which is carefully swept under the rug, because the local politicians love having the extra tax money to throw at government services, because as we can see historically, politicians use tax money to buy votes, and when there is more tax money collected, there is more money to buy votes. Casinos are simply disguised taxes. They are ways to pull more money away from “working people” so more money can be used to buy votes.

For the casino proposed in Cincinnati there are already discussions about having a strip club near that casino. I remember when Larry Flynt first brought Hustler of Hollywood to Cincinnati and all the controversy over putting that business in Monroe, and people were up in arms about having immoral business in Cincinnati.

15 years later, Hustler of Hollywood up in Monroe is always busy, all hours of the day. My wife and I have been in there, and I really don’t see the big deal. But apparently a lot of people love porn. But is Monroe a better place because of it? No. Monroe has struggled. They have the big discount outlet mall, and Traders World, but no major business has gone in around Monroe. No big new companies. Only little retail centers.

That is the same model in Las Vegas, Vegas is shows, restaurants, hotels, but how about those manufacturing jobs that actually employee people, not in service jobs, but production jobs? Why do people go to Vegas? Prostitution is legal in Nevada. So they go there for that. They go there to gamble, and maybe catch a glimpse of Area 51. But do employees go Vegas to produce, or to sell themselves?

That requires a different definition of employment. Does the employee get paid to make something, or do they simply entertain for the sake of amusement. For instance, a grill cook at Wendy’s makes a burger so he exchanges his time and contributions to the construction of a hamburger. But what about a casino owner, what are they producing? They are producing jobs, but what kind of jobs? The product a casino produces is hope. The cocktail waitresses do deliver the drinks from the bar, where the bartender makes the drink. But the function of both is to diminish the senses of the customer so they spend more money on hope. And those are the types of jobs casinos bring to a community. Yes, they do create jobs, but they do so by being a parasite to the community they serve. Casinos are like sex to what production oriented business is to romance. Sex is quick and easy. Romance can take a whole evening or even a weekend. Sex is tearing off the cloths of your mate on a beach in some exotic location after four or five drinks at the bar. Romance is having your mate go out to dinner without her underwear, and letting her know through the evening that you know it, but you don’t touch her. You go to dinner, you go to your movie, you behave respectfully showing restraint, then when it comes time to do the deed, you make it last for a couple of hours. However in the minds of some, sex and romance is the same thing and these are the same people who think casino business and regular business is the same thing. They are not.

Most business owners I know would prefer not to have strip clubs and casinos near their businesses because they provide temptations to employees to take too long at lunch, and to waste their money. An employee with empty pockets and a desperate heart is an unreliable employee. They cost an employer in thousands of uncalculated ways. It’s one thing when a casino is in some out-of-the-way place, because it takes effort and planning to get there, because casinos are subconsciously looked upon as places of low quality. The casino in Davenport Iowa when I visited that city years ago cheapened in my eyes the entire state, because it said to me that the state was desperate for money, that the political leaders took the cheap sex route no different than porn as a way to solve their financial problems. I thought the same thing in Kalamazoo Michigan when I saw casinos there. It said to me, “I’m desperate for money, so desperate that we seek to drain every last dime out of our local economy and the people that support it.” And we all feel the same way about Vegas. It’s cheap, sleazy, and speaks of raw sex. That’s why it’s so popular for bachelor parties to go to Vegas. Men don’t go there to be good. They go there to be bad.

So why would we want casinos in Cincinnati or anywhere in Ohio? Why would casinos attract big business to Ohio? Have casinos attracted large firms to Las Vegas? Is Microsoft and Silicone Valley seeking to relocate to Vegas? How about all the big car companies of the world? Are they flocking to such regions?

No. People who like casinos like to go to them, but they don’t want the sins of their illicit behavior to be a constant reminder to the thousands of dollars they lost, or the girl they bought to give them a “hand job” in some dark corner of a strip joint. They want to go back to their homes at the end of the night, far away from their sins and sleep with there nice wife, while their children sleep safely in the next room, far away from their improprieties.

So casino planners that speak of urban development being solved by casinos are extremely short-sighted. If anything, downtown Cincinnati would become even more of a temporary tourist destination. Why would residents want to move next to a casino in a multi-million dollar real-estate development? They won’t. People who can afford such things will still fly to Vegas, so they don’t have to stare their sins in the face every day from the balcony of their homes.

So if I were the Governor and I knew that the constitution of Ohio had been beat into submission by thousands of weak souls what didn’t put it on the ballot just once, but three times since 2006 and I knew that the casino deal is a very progressive plan to implement on the state, I’d drag my feet too, or I would at least not make it easy for them. I wouldn’t want those businesses desiring to bring casinos to Ohio to feel comfortable with using Ohio and its people to just rob and loot the wealth of our communities, without making them jump through hoops to test their sincerity. But that’s the problem with fairness. The right thing is to show equal opportunity to all business no matter if you like it or not. The marketplace needs to decide what succeeds or fails, and government has no place in the regulation of such things even if the business is evil and vile.

So whatever Kasich’s motives are, he shouldn’t be using regulation to discourage casinos from setting up shop in Ohio. But I cannot be angry with him, because the casinos themselves, and how they came to be are progressive institutions that I find repulsive and they should have went away when voters said in 2006 that they didn’t want casinos in Ohio. Instead, they did as all government does when they don’t get their way, just as in school levies, they just kept putting it on the ballot until resistance to them gave up, and the amendment passed. That’s how we obtained casinos in Ohio, under the strong-armed tactics of thugs, corrupt politicians looking for a financial bail-out from all the votes they’ve purchased with tax money and out-right-thieves that are licking their lips to take all the money they can from the weak, like my friend Fuzz, and Sonny till there is nothing left but a corpse.

So with all that said, I’m still a fan of John Kasich. It’s not an excuse to abuse a government position even if in his mind it is to right an evil. But in the face of all the evil present in the situation, I’ll give him a reassuring pat on the shoulder for only being human.

For the rest, those small little minds that are so enticed with bright lights, cheap 19 year old women and their bare breasts, and the fantasy that wasting your night in a casino constitutes nightlife, nothing can help you. You are the same people that believe in collective bargaining as a right given to you by FDR. You are children of LBJ’s Great Society and seek to cover the sins of not only your deepest desires, but your political subscription to that mythical society paid for by the future. You’re guilt causes you to endorse policies you know are wrong because the guilt of your poorly lived lives is too great for you to carry alone. So you seek easy money through casinos to lessen your burden.

You are the same people who seek to repeal S.B.5, because should the curtain be taken away from the shell game you and your generation have used for years to hide your deeds described above, there will be no place else for your guilt to reside, but in the mirror. So keep signing those petitions and try and erase S.B.5 from the books, and continue to solve your big government ideas with casinos and higher taxes, because you will not leave this earth with less of a burden, but with the knowledge that you have not only bankrupted us all financially, but morally as well. Keep signing those petitions! I will make sure everyone remembers who the villains are.

Rich Hoffman

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