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Buying the Truth: Peer reviewers have made over a billion dollars from the top four medical outlets

I read a fascinating book this week that I thought was very revealing about the field of anthropology by a professor of that field called Weaponizing Anthropology, which is about how the CIA has infiltrated that science and the colleges that teach it to shape narratives to build a social narrative.  The book by David Price, I think, explains a lot about just how wrong it is that we establish what we think of as a fact.  And it reminded me of the problems revealed during Covid from the Lancet in England, a very respected medical publication, where Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci found ways to manipulate the important news of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to prevent and treat Covid-19.  And to take away that hope from millions of people suffering from the artificial virus, let loose from a lab in China to spread around the world, from gain-of-function research.  Regarding the field of anthropology and the related sciences, I have complained a lot about some of the ridiculous assumptions made about the mound building culture in the Ohio Valley for instance that steers concern more toward a hunter and gatherer mindset of gradual evolution when in fact we are looking at a Vico Cycle of continued decline and rebirth from cultures extending deep into the past, well beyond the Archaic Period.  And recently, we learned that peer reviewers for four of the top medical journals have received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers totaling around 1 billion dollars from 2020 to 2022.  This has opened the door to what big business it is to be in the peer review business.  People tend to trust information that is associated with an expert opinion.  But the deceit is that when that expert is paid to have an argument that the people writing the checks want them to have, the information is meaningless.  And in the context of the value of helpful information, we are finding that what we assume to be a reality is, in truth, only shaped by those paying for the definition of that reality, which endorses a need they have for mass public opinion to shade in their direction. 

This morning, I had 337,000 unread emails, and about a quarter of those are from people who offer peer review services and want me to pay them for their expert opinion to lend to the credibility of my material.  Or, they want me to review their material and are willing to pay for it.  It is an enormous business, and many people make a lot of money offering nothing more than an opinion, and the fee for being an expert in a field is very valuable.  But I don’t get into that money game for many reasons.  For a long time, I have not trusted peer-reviewed opinions for many reasons.  This recent information from the Weaponizing Anthropology book and this report on the peer review contributions to the top four medical journals has only solidified my opinion.  Which is sad because I would like to see the system work.  I read a lot of information, and I have my trusted sources.  I think the information is more credible when I see their name next to an article or a book.  But that’s how this whole racket got started in the first place.  Trust was for sale, and there were a lot of evil characters in the world willing to exploit it for all kinds of nefarious reasons.  That was indeed happening in the medical field.  And it was happening in large doses in anthropology and archaeology.  Those who pay for an opinion get to shape what that opinion is. 

I think we were a lot better off in the sciences when adventurers through discovery would publish wild finds in a search for fortune and glory.  The idea of profiting off finding a new treasure in the world and becoming rich in the process was more honest than what we have now, where experts are paid to shape an opinion and steer people as sponsored spokespeople toward some treatment that might not be good for them.  A good example is in the diagnosis of diabetes, for instance, where pancreatic health can be self-generated.  However, the medical approach shaped by paid experts wants to steer patients toward pharmaceutical treatments because that’s where the profit is.  The goal is not in saving lives with real and permanent treatment, it’s in keeping people sick so that pharma companies can profit off the demise of those patients.  The ability to purchase a peer-reviewed opinion then shapes reality, not toward the truth but toward the desire of profit seekers at the expense of honesty.  How often have I heard that the Clovis people migrated into North America across the frozen land bridge from Russia to Alaska 20,000 years ago?  When none of the expert opinions can begin to explain why there were such large skeletons found in Indian mounds all over North America from a people with very precise understandings of mathematics, and were certainly not hunters and gatherers, but sophisticated city dwellers, such as at the Cahokia site just outside of St. Louis that had cities larger than what was found in Europe at the time.  Most of that information has been suppressed by the peer review process, and only old-fashioned passion projects from seekers of fortune and glory have been able to shake that information loose from the world.

It has been a house of cards that was always going to fail, and that one billion dollars reported just for those four publications is just the tip of the iceberg.  This same practice is occurring in all our professional fields that produce experts.  Being an expert pays a lot of money once you establish yourself.  And as I said, I get a lot of offers, which I turn down because I don’t like the process, and would never take money for it.  Because I see it all as a huge problem.  These latest reports only confirm what I always suspected.  When you can pay cash to create a truth, can you say that a truth is real?  When opinion is for sale, I don’t see that it has any value.  An expert might work hard to build up credibility to put their name next to something, but the minute people discover that the opinion was purchased, all merit for the contents flies out the window.  That is what the CIA has been doing in the field of anthropology to shape social discourse by controlling the narrative with people on their staff, or with money paid to experts through black budgets not regulated by members of an elected body of government in Congress.  And since many people got caught over the Lancet issue regarding COVID, I don’t think the expert class will ever gain credibility back.  It will take more than time to get people to trust in the system again.  And the peer review process is now broken forever.  And that might lead to wild theories and speculations from a hungry public.  But honestly, that information is more valid than the opinions of people paid to shape a truth that might have no basis in reality.  But it might serve the plots of more scandalous people who do not have our best interests in mind. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Jesse Watters DOGE Interview: A change that will last

It was an excellent interview with Jesse Watters, DOGE, and Elon Musk.  I think we are seeing something here that will stick around, and I couldn’t be happier, reflecting over the years to the early part of the Tea Party movement, when fiscal responsibility was our main concern.  It seemed inconceivable at the time that something like a DOGE would ever happen.  But here we are in 2025 having serious discussions about the massive government waste that taxpayers are funding, and it’s not just a campaign issue that comes up every four years.  As Elon Musk has set it up, DOGE has emerged as something that can stick around long after he’s gone, which is what good CEOs do for their companies: you set the table and make it so that you build a culture that can run on its own.  And I’m sure Elon Musk will stick around and be a figurehead of DOGE for a long time.  But what he has created and what the members are doing will last and become a part of government oversight that will last even as the political tides might change.  The Jesse Watters interview captured well what DOGE really is, which I’m sure they had no idea it would be.  One thing that was certainly obvious was that the people doing DOGE are brilliant and well-intentioned, and what Elon Musk has done as the head of the effort is set a standard that can now cascade into a culture of scrutiny that should have been present from the beginning.  Whenever you have money involved, there will be people looking to exploit the system so they can steal some of it.  And when you have a government this big and powerful, that can confiscate so much wealth from people, abuse was a certainty.  But to what extent can people only imagine, until now?

I don’t think Elon Musk needs to be there every day to run DOGE.  It’s nice that he is still doing it even as the government’s activism against him has sought to ruin his car company, Tesla.  Elon Musk might be the wealthiest person in the world, but this commitment to DOGE has cost him dearly.  And I think from here on out, all that needs to be done is to empower people like the current DOGE members into doing the work and to let it take on a life of its own.  What they ended up with differs from what they set out to do in saving trillions of dollars off the top of the budget.  Most of the savings they have extracted aren’t the obvious things like entitlement payments and program-driven budgets, but the day-to-day abuses that get hidden behind all the chaos.  Most of the savings coming from DOGE are in saved opportunity cost, which is usually very hard to measure.  Elon Musk’s way of thinking when running his other companies was just what was needed.  The government has required this oversight since it started collecting taxes, and what Elon Musk has done in this very short time deserves great recognition and gratitude because he could have done what most everyone does, and just ignored the problem.  When you are as wealthy as he is, he could have easily turned his back on the issue and moved offshore to live a fun life.  But to sink his teeth into this project took guts, and because of it, we’ll be talking about DOGE, I think, permanently. 

People can’t be trusted to do the right things on their own, and one thing that came out of the DOGE interview on Fox News was how many people have been abusing the system dramatically.  I saw much of this firsthand when my wife and I traveled to Washington, D.C. for an extended period and lived in Fairfax County to see how most of those communities entirely existed off the waste scraped off the top of government.  Many of the programs that have so much waste in them were created with the best of intentions, but when you involve people who are always looking for the easiest way to do things, a scandal is bound to happen, and many people are professional con artists, even to themselves.  They can look in the mirror and even lie to what looks back and feel okay with it.  Those are the kind of people drawn to government work, and the many spoils come from a largely unregulated system.  The stories of abuse that DOGE is telling are just the tip of the iceberg.  And, astonishingly, we are talking about it now.  I thought from the Tea Party perspective that we’d have to have another Revolutionary War-type engagement to get control of government spending and waste.  I never thought that President Trump, one of the wealthiest men in the world, would be in the White House, which meant he was personally free of the typical social constraints that even keep the questions from being asked.  Or that the wealthiest and most innovative CEO in the world would personally create a department to oversee waste management and root out the perpetrators like a gunslinging sheriff in a wild and hostile old west town full of criminals. 

I think Elon Musk has done enough, and if he did nothing else with DOGE, he has given us something that will last well into the future.  I do not think that Democrats will be back in the White House anytime soon, if ever.  I do not see them retaking power in the House and Senate and gaining the ability to stop DOGE politically.  No, I think DOGE is here to stay and will run fine because it has good people in it, and it started because of Elon Musk.  But it has emerged into its own thing, and now there is a level of expectation for it to continue.  The public will never not want a DOGE to look out for waste on their behalf.  Going back to the system where looters were free to steal all they could from the government system will never be what it was.  In a lot of ways, creating DOGE is what people looked through all the smoke to elect Trump in the first place was all about.  This is precisely why we wanted Trump.  Elon Musk wouldn’t be able to participate in our government if not for how Trump runs things.  This kind of CEO management style has taken this government waste problem and brought it out of the box for us to fix, instead of the continued policies of hiding the issue from the world and hoping that nobody notices.  DOGE has been so successful that the expectation will be that it will always be a part of government and that its role will expand with time to unleash enterprising people to protect government systems from the parasitic nature of most human beings.  Only the threat of getting caught will keep people in line.  And without DOGE, there was nothing to give criminals pause.  But now there is, and we are far better off for it.

Rich Hoffman

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The Value of Frisch’s in Cincinnati: Anti family efforts by lots of bad people show just what they want to do to America

The trouble started for Frisch’s restaurants in the Cincinnati area when they allowed a private equity acquisition from NRD Capital to bring in a bunch of woke ideas that started a chain reaction beginning in 2015 that essentially killed the business during the self-made government Covid crises that sealed the deal.  Sadly, Frisch’s has always been a big part of my family’s life; but these days, they are empty everywhere.  I saw the writing on the wall the day I tried to order a Coke, and they told me they had switched to Pepsi products.  That was in 2015, ahead of President Trump’s first term, and I shook my head at my wife at the impending doom that was to come.  Pepsi tends to support a client base that is more liberal than Coke, which has, over the years, marketed toward more traditional audiences.  And Frisch’s was always about respect for tradition, family strength, and the morning breakfast bar.  It has been very sad to see so many of Frisch’s restaurants closing, especially the one in Fairfield off Seward Road, and the one right in the heart of Sharonville.  A few are still fluttering along, but when I drive by them at 6:30 AM, they are as closed as a barn door to a stable full of wild horses.  A self-imposed exile caused by parasitic lending practices and people in finance who thought they could loot benefit from a solid Cincinnati tradition, when they set up a lease agreement that just financially crushed the restaurant chain that relied on family tradition and a community experience to survive.  Other similar restaurants, such as Denny’s, Applebee’s, and Red Lobster, have all been going through the same kind of challenges.  But adding to the problem were the Covid shutdowns, for which Frische’s never recovered, and changes in social discourse that has an anti-family slant to it, and what we are seeing now with the closure of over 40 locations, 20 of them just in 2024 alone, is the foolish and parasitic imposition of government and short sighted financial institutions destroying American business.

No people at the breakfast bar at 7 AM

I have unique knowledge about this decline as I used to work at Frisch’s as a waiter during the 90s, a period that had crushing difficulty for me.  I was going through a lot of what Frisch’s is now at that time in my life, with serious lawsuits and government trouble that were crushing.  A lot of people would not have blamed me for committing suicide, given the level of pain and suffering I was enduring at this time.  It was so severe and complex that Job from the Bible was fortunate.  People had no idea how I would survive or if I would.  Without being too ostentatious, I can say that it was horrible, and at the time, I saw no way out.  I was acting as my own lawyer in several lawsuits, which did not have a very good track record of success.  Looking back on it, believe what you want about God, but he was testing me, and I passed the test primarily by dusting myself off and becoming a waiter at Frisch’s while I spent the next five years digging out of that bottomless hole with extraordinarily high tips from a public who had come to like me quite a bit.  I was their area philosopher, and people would come to eat at the Frisch’s restaurant that I worked at on Fields Ertle Road to hear me talk and give them advice.  And I learned a lot about people during this critical time that I use daily.  And the wisdom I gained from all that crushing pain was better than all the gold available to the masses of humanity.  And thinking back on it, I couldn’t have had it any other way. 

I picked that particular restaurant to work at because it was where my wife and I went all the time as a young couple, and on the first day that my first daughter was born, coming home from the hospital, we ate there with her all cuddled up in a blanket on the table.  So I picked that moment to make a massive life recovery, and hustled back to health.  I put on a smile and a whole lot of hustle, worked all I could and I won my cases, fought off a lot of very evil people and I made a small fortune in unnaturally high tips because of my personality and the families who came to eat at the restaurant that I was working at to have me work their table.  They would ask for me at the front specifically.  I understood why Frisch’s was such a great place as a host to the family experience, and I wanted to help with that effort any way I could, literally being at the bottom of the barrel myself.  I learned that a healthy dose of optimism can carry you through anything, for a large part, that was the marketing plan for Frisch’s to provide a platform for the public to engage in positive community interaction.  It’s where people went to see their friends and neighbors and to have good food, which started with the Car Hop days, where personal automobiles fused with American lifestyles centered around freedom and independence. 

You can’t live in the past, and things do change.  But what happened to Frisch’s is a massive social breakdown where people don’t go out into the community for a shared experience anymore, and that is a government policy problem attached to the United Nations.  The breakdown of the family structure is very much a globalist trend that interferes with places of business like Frisch’s.  I was also so pro-family that my customers would give me their checks worth of tips to show their appreciation, tipping at a rate of 80% or more, with 100% not uncommon.  Rob Dibble, the former Reds pitcher from the Nasty Boy days used to stop by and eat at my station quite often and would leave me $100 tips for a ten-dollar check, to hear me talk.  People went to Frisch’s for the company and the food.  The globalism that attacked American ideas was against both things that migrated into our local community through hostile lending practices, leaving behind a lot of history and tradition. And Frisch’s and its excellent breakfast bars are now a thing of the past.  And the writing was on the wall when they switched from Coke to Pepsi in 2015.  It was too late when they tried to correct that mistake just a few years ago and return to Coke.  They had blown their market viability and been destroyed by forces that took it for granted that Frisch’s would always have its lights on.  And now people don’t do things as a family like they used to, leaving Frisch’s out of the consideration by a public that used to value those experiences and has not yet replaced the sentiment with other options in the marketplace.  This wasn’t a natural market-driven killing. It was the purposeful destruction of many hidden elements that are parasitic in nature and anti-American at heart.  And Frisch’s was, and whatever survives from all this, a very pro-American family gathering place that shows what the efforts of globalism always intended for them and us as a whole.  Without Trump, America would be just as Frisch’s is now, only a memory with empty storefronts and massive debts as a distant memory of what it once was. 

Rich Hoffman

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He Who Owns the Gold Rules: Why the Pentegon won’t be able to get rid of Pete Hegseth

I was thrilled that Pete Hegseth got rid of Susan Rice at her Pentagon job.  I disagree with Bill O’Reilly when he says that the military brass in the Pentagon will run Pete off from his new Secretary of Defense role, as Trump appointed him to reform the military.  I don’t think they will be able to, and here’s why, and why everything that Trump is doing is going to work—he who owns the gold rules.  The administrators are not in charge.  And they are being exposed, and they have lost their leverage.  Susan Rice represents that era of administrators who purposely sought to give away America’s gold so it couldn’t rule the world.  I heard a very funny interview recently from a British reporter trying to challenge Natalie Winters from the WarRoom about America and its place in the world, and let me just say, there are a lot of people who are in for some hard lessons.  Never forget that the real issue is socialism against capitalism, and to make socialism and communism work, there have been many globalist types who have purposely given away America’s gold so that it wouldn’t be able to rule.  And when this globalist reporter couldn’t talk down to Natalie as a young woman, he was exasperated by her arrogance.  But she knows, and everyone else is learning, that the key to stopping globalism is to stop giving away American values to countries that don’t deserve it.  Susan Rice’s firing by Pete Hegseth is part of a larger pattern emerging from the Trump administration, and it is precisely why we voted for him.  People like Susan Rice, a former U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, are not going to be allowed to run the Pentagon in favor of policies that weaken America and strengthen the rest of the world that has adopted socialism and communism.  And she won’t be the last to go.

The national security issue is a simple one; I talk about it all the time with my gunfighter at the bar metaphor.  The gunfighter can have his back to the room and not worry about everyone trying to kill him, because everyone wants to find some way to get what he has, because he has value.  As I say, “he who owns the gold, rules.”  Other people may try to steal that gold, but they dare not when you have a superior military or a reputation for being the fastest with a gun, because it’s too risky to confront.  They would rather wait until you sleep and try to steal it that way.  And in the case of our Pentagon, people like Susan Rice have been undermining American independence for decades.  And if we had put some regular general in the system of Pete Hegseth’s current role, we’d get another nobody giving away American wealth to achieve peace.  As a communications expert, Pete Hegseth knows how to sell America to a new recruiting class, and his value has already seen a sharp increase in recruitment.  But for the pretentious people who work at the Pentagon and love to spend a lot of time in Georgetown eating and shopping with inflated wages and lifelong appointments that they don’t fear losing, the old days are over, and they are never coming back.  Globalism has been a bad deal, and one of the most significant bleeding wounds America has had has come out of the Pentagon from people like Susan Rice.

Negotiations with other countries are simple.  Do they have gold?  No.  They have crappy economic systems because they adopted Marxist ideas, which is the case in most of the world, including that English reporter who was interviewing Natalie Winters.  The truth is, America has the most excellent economy, even with far fewer people than China, and that is because of our capitalist markets.  And the bureaucratic administrators of the Washington D.C. culture have been working to undo that, and they will not be allowed to.  They don’t have the power anymore and won’t have the power to eliminate Pete Hegseth from his position.  They have been trying to create a scandal to pressure Pete and leak information to the media to accelerate that pressure.  But this is where things get fun, that’s why Trump put a media star in that position so that he could undo the rumors and pressure, because he knew from the beginning where the threats were.  And those people won’t be able to get rid of Pete Hegseth.  But Pete can undo them, which he started with when he fired Susan Rice.  Who cares what other countries think, or how fair it is for them?  They don’t get a seat at the big boys’ table if they don’t have gold.  Those are the rules of the world, and the only way to get gold in a capitalist economy is to become competitive and have things that the world wants.  Not to wait for globalists like Susan Rice and the Pentagon losers from the administrative state to steal gold from America and give it to the worthless and corrupt so that they can feel like they have a seat at the table.  No, they need to grovel like all the other Marxists. 

This is The Art of the Deal, as Trump has known and written about it for many years.  You have to know your leverage point and not allow others to think they are equal.  If you have something the world wants, you have some leverage to negotiate with.  We don’t need a governing Pentagon and a United Nations stealing American wealth, then lecturing us about sidewalks and roundabouts.  The administrative state has no value in such a world, and to destroy it, Trump is exposing that in favor of those with real value, and Susan Rice and the gang can’t compete on that level.  The English reporter talking to Natalie can’t either.  And they find such a concept of competition reprehensible, because they have been trained as Marxists.  But that house of cards is coming down and being exposed for what it always was.  Remember what I said many years ago about Trump’s second term?  If people wanted to understand it, just read The Art of the Comeback, where he was underwater by billions of dollars, and a homeless person sleeping on the street was much richer than he was.  And how he climbed out of that dire situation, and pretty quickly.  A few years later, he was the star of the hit television show The Apprentice, now on Amazon Prime.  Everyone should watch it and learn, because that is happening at the Pentagon.  And the world with the Trump administration knowing economics better than most practitioners anywhere.  If you want to be valuable in the world and have a seat at the table, find something you do well and use it as leverage to make a good deal.  Don’t grovel like a bunch of Marxist losers.  That trend is over, for America.  And we are never going to return to that policy.  And those guilty of it, like Susan Rice, will be fired for poor performance. 

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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The Wall Street Casino: Never build an economy off slot machines

I’ve heard a lot of dumb talk about the state of the economy at the end of Trump’s first 100 days in office, but people who have been profiting off the chaos for a long time expect it to continue.  Specifically, the condition of the stock market and GDP growth are at a very slow 1.7%.  I would say to everyone, don’t be a sucker, all the economic reporting over the last several years has been phony bologna built on a house of wet cards.  We’ve been in depression territory most of the Biden years, and it was never reported that way because of the Fed’s Modern Monetary Theory of printing fake money to prop up our entire monetary system artificially.  And because they don’t like Trump, they are turning off the faucet to make him look bad.  But real value, where things matter, is improving dramatically, especially on the energy front.  There is a lot of opportunity for massive economic growth, but the control over the usual measures has been ripped away from the bad guys, who aren’t happy about it.  So don’t be a sucker and listen to their cries for help.  And certainly don’t think the stock market is a good measure of economic growth.  At best, the stock market is a gambling casino.  It is designed so the house always wins; sometimes, they let out enough money to encourage people to play.  But you can’t build a policy based on it.  Just as nobody in their right mind would call spending money and reporting winnings from a casino or horse racing as real value, other than in just getting lucky.  You cannot build a national monetary policy around the casino game of stock market investments.  And if anybody thought that the stock market provided guarantees on investments, then they are the victims of a sucker’s game meant to take advantage of the gullible. 

I have been saying this for a long time, and have cautioned Trump people to attach their name to any stock market increases.  The stock market has exploded since Trump was in office the first time, but that isn’t because of Trump’s economic policies, it as a move by the Fed to wash printed money into Wall Street so that firms like BlackRock could gain purchasing power to leverage debt and produce buyouts of companies so that radical leftist boards full of woke politics could take over and manage American companies and they were controlled by the direct CEO letters that Larry Fink would send out to the market, and people would listen because people’s 401K plans were used to hide the ruse.  People would not question this insurrection of America’s monetary policy if they thought they were making a lot of money on the stock market.  But in truth, it was an artificial bubble created by deceit to gain control of American industry and to implement DEI policies to control their management systems.  I have had a front row seat to all this, and I can say that what I’m saying is that I’m putting it nicely.  Maybe too nicely.  But I am sympathetic to all the suckers out there who have fallen for this trick.  If everyone had just thought of the stock market for what it is, a casino, there would be a lot fewer broken hearts now.  I’m not against casinos or the stock market.  But know the game we are playing.  The system is not designed to make people wealthy,  Only to convince them to play the game so they can wash all that phony money injected into the market with real value from the suckers who play the slot machines in the casino, where the house always wins.  And in this case, the home is the Fed. 

Trump would do better to separate himself from the Stock Exchange and stick to tangible assets, such as drilling for oil and an energy policy that can be exported and has real value.  But the liberal media reporting has cooked the books for a long time and isn’t suddenly going to print the truth.  They didn’t suddenly become honest with Trump’s first 100 days in his second term, after Biden was pushed out of office with a massive election victory.  The financial media need suckers from their gambling tables, and BlackRock and the other money managers need real value to wash the money of the fake stuff the Fed has been printing.  They don’t want the GDP to grow without their fingers on that growth so that they can manipulate the results.  And they certainly don’t want their scam to end.  I would recommend that Trump’s White House separate itself as much as possible from Wall Street because a massive correction is coming, and many people will be very upset.  But a lot of real wealth will also be created.  But not from the casino of Wall Street.  Real value in housing, energy, defense, technology, and health will emerge under the capitalism of the Trump administration, and a hateful media culture will not like it.  And they will try to steer people away from Trump’s policies because they know they will lose control of the process during this next Trump term.  The stock market was always a house of cards that would fall at the slightest gust of wind. 

Andrew Jackson warned of this condition when he was president in the early part of the 19th Century and had his famous war with the banks.  We are in a battle for who controls our finances.  Financial people have been happy to let Tea Party types who have grown into MAGA supporters talk about free speech and fiscal responsibility, so long as they continued to seek value for their money from their casinos.  But there isn’t a single money manager out there who is selling investments that do not attempt to take advantage of the short gains of the casino slot machines that come in the form of quarterly reports in industries propped up with phony Fed money, while in reality, socialist policies have capped off our markets in detrimental, and truly destructive ways.  The flashy lights keep everyone from seeing the drunks playing the game with free alcohol provided by the house to numb our senses, and convince us to be easy suckers with prostitutes on our arms posing to be future wives so long as they continued to hit it big.  And to do that, you had to keep playing the game.  No, that game is for idiots; if you have been one of them, that’s on you.  We are taking control of our monetary system, and the casinos aren’t going to be happy about it, and don’t expect them to be.  But don’t expect the United States to build its economy on a gambling platform only.  You can’t make a society off a policy meant to protect stock market gains that were purely fictitious.  And the Fed has dumped so much phony money into the system, they fear people finding out about it.  So, for Trump’s part, let them learn the hard way and don’t attach any part of the administration to the stock market.  It was always a bad measure that bad people controlled for manipulations that have been bad for America.  And it’s time to stop playing that corrupt game rooted in dishonesty and villainy. 

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, We Are Going to Arrest Judges and Put Them in Jail: “Imagine” a world where law breakers actually get punished

Yes, to answer the question, we will put judges in jail.  If they break the law, they will be arrested and thrown in jail with everyone else.  And that is a lesson that Judge Dugan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, learned in late April of 2025 as she was trying to help an illegal alien escape as agents were in her courtroom to deport the guy.  We have been talking about the radicalism of our judiciary, who have come to believe that they don’t have to live by the same rules that the rest of society does, but that they have gained king like powers to resist temporary challenges to social order by elected representatives, like Trump in the White House.  So their goal is to put on the brakes and use the process to stall out temperaments.  Their commitment to the hostile policies of the Open Border movement, which is globalist in nature, was never more evident than in their resistance to the Trump movement.  During the last term, we saw that resistance to the popularly elected Trump came from the FBI and other forces at the Department of Justice.  Now the shoe is on the other foot, and Trump has control of those arms of government.  Because people gave him that power through an election, and now we see as a last line of defense these radical leftist judges who always think they could make up the law from the bench and build the kind of society that they’d like as liberals.  This has been a tactic that has emerged more from the background, the longer Trump has been in politics, because the radicalism was always hidden behind polite society.  And to expose it, Trump needed to make society less polite.  We were dealing with a “screw you over with a smile on our faces” culture that was very manipulative and malicious. 

But Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the Pam Bondi Justice Department, with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino working on the FBI side, and we suddenly have many different government agencies we can feel good about.  Before Trump was elected back to office, the FBI was helping judicial radicalism, which is why all these sanctuary cities thought they were going to be able to defy Trump.  But now that cover story has been stripped away, the judges are all alone and exposed.  A former ex-judge in New Mexico was also arrested with his wife for essentially doing the same thing as Judge Dugan. Retired Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife Nancy were arrested at their home by Homeland Security, now ran by the great Kristi Noem, for tampering with evidence by destroying the cell phone of his wife as they were harboring Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, a 23-year old Venezuelan national and suspected member of the Tren de Aragua gang.  When they say, “but there is no evidence,” they say stupid things like that because they know their role in destroying evidence and think we’ll never figure it out.  These old judges who think they are in command of the legal system know that to get convictions, you have to have evidence.  So we have a whole subculture of radical, Marxist liberals who think that if they destroy the evidence, our judicial system will never prosecute and get a conviction.  I have seen this process up close, so it’s a huge problem.  Marxists have been playing on the gullibility of good Christian people for many years, and honestly, we’re tired of it.  That’s why people voted for Trump: to give us these new government agencies that had been corrupted by indecision in the past, but now will enforce the law, even when we know that people like Hillary Clinton are destroying the evidence of her email correspondence.  Or that proof of election fraud was wiped out by the courts, which wanted to certify someone they politically support.  Or in the case of illegal immigration, this judicial couple felt they had the power to change immigration law with a protest by using the system against itself.  And now with Kristi Noem, that shell game is no longer working.

And that is the real fear, the radical left’s observation about arresting judges for getting in the way of Trump’s deportation policies.  Before Trump was elected, he made it clear that he was going to go to war with the drug cartels.  And now we see who has been helping them ruin our country, all these radical leftist judges who are sympathetic to the destruction of our country.   Go through the musical libraries of couples like that one in New Mexico. You’ll find a lot of hippie music and progressive artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, and they are probably in love with John Lennon’s communist song, “Imagine.”  These are not flag-waving Constitutional patriots.  These are hostile hippies now aged and abusing the power they were given as legal professionals to articulate their politics as senior citizens.  And whatever Judge Dugan thought she was doing by trying to sneak off an illegal immigrant in her courtroom through her private chambers only indicates how deep this problem has been for decades.  These judges have been trying to cripple America with soft on crime policies and to change the nature of the American people with open border policies written while pot smoking losers who now run public policy sit around and listen to that stupid John Lennon song, “Imagine.” 

Well, “Imagine this,” a world where lawbreakers go to jail.  And those in charge of judgeships are arrested for using their bench as a political weapon to undo law and order, rather than preserving it.  Finally, we have a Justice Department, an FBI, and a Homeland Security willing to do the job as needed.  And this is just the beginning.  So yes, we will be throwing more judges in jail and prosecuting the radicals regarding judicial review.  If they want to be relevant in co-equal branches of government, they better be willing to work as hard as Trump does to do a good job.  Up to this point, the people we have had in the White House had too many advisors, and they enjoyed the ceremonial aspects of the job too much, but they weren’t in love with the work.  These judges don’t work very much; they drink too much wine and listen to too much old hippie music, which corrupts their minds about the task.  And they aren’t going to stop Trump with weak political positions and a 9-to-noon daily work schedule.  The world isn’t going to slow down to the political sentiments of the Marxist left.  They will have to compete with capitalism, with value, and with laws that protect those values, rather than being an insurgent trying always to undermine them from their benches.  And regarding evidence, action is some of the best evidence of what people get caught doing.  And Judge Dugan was caught tampering with the arrest and deportation of an illegal immigrant.  But she’s not alone.  We need many of these people to clean up our system.  And it’s good to see that we finally have people willing to do the work.  One arrest at a time.  Put them all in jail.  And if we need bigger jails, let’s build them off the money we save by destroying the drug cartels! 

Rich Hoffman

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King Trump: He can stay as long as he wants

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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The Fed Was Always Illegal: Getting rid of horrendous preditory banking practices

I keep hearing that the stock market lost over a trillion dollars in value on this particular day, or that the trade war with China cost them a lot of money.  For which I will tell you, the money was never real.  And remember something, he who owns the gold rules.  And we have all the gold.  China is a propped-up paper tiger, and they have been exposed.  And again, remember what they did to us.  They unleashed COVID from a lab in Wuhan.  The White House is willing to say it was an accident in an experiment they should never have done with Dr. Fauci.  But I would say that they did it on purpose during an election year to tamper with our election system, and to insert Joe Biden into the White House, because they wanted Trump out, and all this tariff talk during the first administration.  The stock market has largely been propped up with phony money from the Modern Monetary Theory movement of progressive politics, and the Federal Reserve made it all possible with unholy alliances with radical leftists like Larry Fink at BlackRock, to wash the money.  And the whole inflation game was caused by making too much money chasing too few goods.  This happens when you have an independent money manager in the Federal Reserve who thinks they get to run everything without having representatives who must answer to the public.  The only concession the Federal Reserve has made on behalf of centralized bankers is that they allowed a President to appoint a chairperson just to shut up the masses.  However, this is precisely what President Jackson warned about during his war with the banks.  You can’t have a representative republic that works correctly if you have an independent organization managing your money from the perspective of global, centralized banking.  It just doesn’t work, and never should have been applied.

Fake money by an illegal money management system

Trump appointed Jerome Powell, the current head of the Federal Reserve, during his first term, and Powell has turned out to be a disaster.  They essentially printed too much money to hide the bad Biden economy and washed it through Wall Street, making inflation in the process, then dug in because so many people have made investments in the phony profits that they dare not reveal their scam.  However, someone had to reset the clock to the real value, which is what Trump is doing.  Remember when the Dow Jones was under 18,000 before Trump’s first term, after 8 years of the socialist Obama?  They weren’t doing Trump favors with Fed policy during those years that propped up massive increases in stock values. Instead, they were trying to put the genie back in the bottle to regain control of the Executive Branch.  Because they were concerned that they tried to keep Trump out of office, but people elected him anyway, three times now.  When the Fed was created in 1913 at Jekyll Island, what happened to Trump was never supposed to occur.  What we saw was an attack on America coming from centralized banking, and they intended to run our country without ever firing a shot.  While it’s true that someone needs to manage our money supply, we should have elected representatives who do it, not some independent group of bankers who essentially control our country with monetary policy.  Jerome Powell turned out to be just as worthless as Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, all of whom have made unholy alliances with lefty radicals like Larry Fink at BlackRock since even before the 2008 housing collapse.  You cannot give a government the ability to print endless money to pay for ever-expanding government and expect everything to work out all right. 

The Federal Reserve was always a scam, and it should be removed in the form it’s in now.  We need to rethink the whole concept, so when Jerome Powell says it is illegal to remove him as head of the Fed, he’s essentially saying that the game is rigged so that no elected representative can manage them once appointed.  They are independent of civilian oversight.  And if anybody does tamper with them, they manipulate the interest rates, wreck the stock market on a whim, because they control the money that goes into it, and bring great pain to people who get in their way. If you have dealt with many bankers, most of them are pretty ruthless, horribly unethical, and power hungry.  Predatory banking is the theme of our society, just beyond the reaches of polite discourse.  If you recall Mr. Potter’s banking relationships in It’s a Wonderful Life, I would say that’s a rated G impression of the truth.  People who control monetary policy today are ruthless and generally unethical.  And they are filled with flat-out lying manipulators like Larry Fink.  He didn’t become so powerful because he was more intelligent than everyone else.  But because he was dumb enough to put himself as a middleman between centralized banking to wash money through quantitative easing and then buy up the assets of American companies through their boards to run them with woke politics.  And the Fed made it all possible.  So Trump needs to run Powell off his post.   Or, to make his life so miserable that he doesn’t want to do the job.  Most predatory bankers are nothing more than terrorists who play golf, rather than run around kidnapping innocent people and killing them like the Palestinians do with Hamas.  They are all the same.

The Fed was illegal when created, and it’s just as bad today.  And I say unlawful because it works against the Constitutional framework the Founding Fathers of America intended.  Even though monetary policy was not explicitly defined in our Constitution, it should have been.  Centralized bankers worldwide found a workaround legally, which is why the Jekyll Island meeting happened in the first place.  I’m not going to say that it was a vast conspiracy; I think the Jekyll Island participants wanted to do what they thought was right from their perspective.  But it was the wrong thing to do, and the Federal Reserve should never have been created.  It was a mistake that put our country’s fate in the hands of predatory banking.  And we had to stop the cycle at some point in time, and that is one of the reasons we elected Trump.  That’s also why these tariffs will work: they force value where value actually resides and take the power of centralized banking away from them to determine winners and losers with propped-up phony money printed to saturate markets with bad fiscal policy.  They printed money and drove up your 401K plans to shut you up while they stole your country from you.  And now we are taking it back, and they violently oppose it.  Which we would expect them to do.  But don’t think you have to appease the Fed to have a good life.  They should never have been in charge of the financial policy of free people because that freedom is an illusion.  And they are losing that ability during this Trump administration, and it’s about time.  I think our government needs to eliminate the Fed completely and rethink monetary policy.  Someone needs to manage our money supply.  However, they need to be elected and managed by the public through elections.  They are not independent of government management, so they can rule in the background to manipulate the whole thing with phony money.  We have to put an end to it all which is what we are in the process of doing presently.

Of course, I’m not writing this for a general audience, but for those who know who they are and can help with the situation.  With all this talk about Jerome Powell spending tens of millions of his own money to defend the Federal Reserve from questions coming out of the Trump administration, the key to that battle is in the complicity of the Fed and their policies on Modern Monetary Theory, which they deny, but are very guilty of.  And their relationship to BlackRock and what BlackRock has done with the money provided by the Fed through horrendous monetary policy.  They are guilty and they know it.  And they can’t defend that guilt, so they will do whatever they need to do to divert people’s attention from the real matter.  So don’t allow them to set the terms for the battle, take it away from them, and keep the focus of the discussion on what they are most guilty of.  And let them choke on it. They won’t win in court.  The Fed is guilty during 2008 of losing control of its balance sheet, by buying up bonds to fund deficits and using BlackRock to clean the money through Wall Street.  The balance sheet in 2008 was $900 billion.  By 2022, it grew to $7 trillion.  Ladies and gentlemen, that is a purposeful mismanagement of the US monetary system and criminal neglect by any definition.  And that is where the real fight is, and of course, to wash his hands of the complicity, Jerome Powell will spend millions of his own money to defend himself in court because his only hope is to go on offense and attack the attacker.  But he is as guilty as guilty gets.

Rich Hoffman

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Why President Trump Trusts Laura Loomer: Passion and Paychecks are not equitable

There is a lot of anger that President Trump trusts Laura Loomer, the independent reporter who has broken many stories that otherwise would have been shoved under the rug, and that he trusts her to the point where he is willing to make employment decisions based on that trust.  I completely understand, but most people don’t get it.  I’ve had the same reaction from people who doubt that the White House called me about the tariff impact of Trump’s policy.  It was a business-related question, but my name is on the list for a reason.  Trump trusts people who show commitment and loyalty to the effort.  Everyone should remember that being president costs Trump a lot of money.  He is doing the job because he wants to make the job better, and he tends to trust people from their respective fields who do the same.  Laura Loomer does the kind of work that should pay her millions annually.  But she keeps it scrappy, because that’s what’s most effective, and independent of the type of people who could pay millions of dollars for employment.  Getting paid only satisfies one criterion in life, and that is social status.  And the bad guys have been using social status to control mass populations since the beginning.  And from Trump’s perspective, he would rather trust Laura Loomer, who does reporting out of her passion for justice, than because she gets paid by CNN or Fox News, and has to satisfy them to stay employed.  Laura Loomer is part of a growing movement that is the real power behind many of the changes we see in the world that have not happened up to this point because institutions controlled the process.  But not anymore, and that change will certainly not be stopped.  It’s something that only America could have produced with the free speech movement, and it has taken time to develop.  But it’s here now, and President Trump is very much a creation of it, and he understands it instinctively as a successful businessman. 

I would add a few names to the Laura Loomer list. Breanna Morello from Florida is also doing some excellent reporting.  I first learned about her because of a story she did on the Butler County jail with Louder with Crowder, and I have found her particularly effective and very friendly.  I still talk to her here and there, and she is very committed to a truthful narrative, much like Laura Loomer is.  She used to work at Fox News but was released after refusing to comply with the COVID policy, so she leaped out on a limb to be an independent journalist, and she’s having quite an impact out there.  I would put Charlie Kirk in the same basket; he has turned out to be one of the most trustworthy media personalities in modern politics.  Any more, I only trust his news coverage on the Real America’s Voice podcast when discussing elections.  He and his team, including Jack Posobiac, are fantastic.  Which then crosses over to the WarRoom with Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart boss who used to be President Trump’s direct political strategist in the White House.  He was sent to jail for invoking executive privilege during the last administration, and he did 4 months, as did Peter Navarro.  We have seen a system used to having control of people being broken because they can’t control the narrative anymore because of these free-market journalists, and the impact is evident and necessary.  This is a lesson I learned personally, and I could tell a similar story as Breanne does.  In short, if somebody is paying you, you aren’t independent, and that is especially true of reporters. 

Everyone has to make a living, but reporters who maintain their distance from paid sources that wish to conceal their malcontent behavior behind polite society have corrupted the world for thousands of years.  And Trump learned enough from his entertainment background to understand how the spaghetti is made in the kitchen.  There will always be a place for institutional input, but that doesn’t mean we can trust it.  I would say that a similar thing is happening in the field of archaeology, as independent journalism has blown the lid off previous suppression theories, editorialized to control a narrative.  And that narrative can no longer be constrained because too many independent journalists are covering these topics out of passion rather than for a paycheck.  The new rules are not who you are with, but have you demonstrated passion for the subject and would do it whether or not someone paid you for it?  In Laura Loomer’s case, and increasingly, many reporter types, from Bill O’Reilly to Glenn Beck, have joined the independent ranks, even if the pay isn’t very good.  They do it because they are passionate about the topic.  And that is more of the world we want to see, where we have passionate people in key positions rather than paid monkeys who do what they are paid to do, like well-mannered dogs.  When I got the call from the White House, it was because they wanted to avoid the answer of the typical lobbyists.  They wanted an honest opinion from a name they had in the hat because the reputation for honesty had been earned, and that was a currency of its own—being able to trust someone used to be measured in paychecks.  However, over time, pay has not come to resemble worth; rather, it is compliance with the forces who write the check. 

There has been a silent killer out there, such as what happened to James O’Keefe, who had to turn toward independent journalism after Project Veritas removed him from his top job there, which was built by O’Keefe himself from the ground up.  The strategy by the money men, and I learned this lesson the hard way many years ago when I had the rug pulled out from me by a mighty Cincinnati business leader for millions and millions of dollars that I was on the hook for, who owns the gold rules.  If you don’t have gold, you don’t rule.  So you have all these finance firms who buy up assets to shut them down, such as the good journalism that was going on at Project Veritas, which was an asset bought up with phony Fed money to be shut down to control the narrative.  So O’Keefe is just as effective as always as a reporter.  But nobody hears or cares about Project Veritas anymore.  Without O’Keefe, they have no trust from the public.  People trust people, not institutions.  In the case of Project Veritas, once a board of directors gets involved and group consensus is the decision-making apparatus, and the funds that fuel the lives of those people trickle off into the darkness, it’s over for independence, and people like O’Keefe will always be on the outside.  The same kind of scenario could have happened to the Drudge Report.  I have had many people attempt to toss a lot of seven-figure money at my feet to control my narrative, but I have not accepted one dime, because the value is not in the dollars, it’s in the independence.  And once you take the money, you lose the autonomy.  Thankfully, there are a lot of Laura Loomers out there these days who feel the same way, and independent reporting has never been better.  And it’s no wonder President Trump trusts that type of reporting.  Time has proved that institutions cannot be trusted because the people involved are too easily controlled by those who write the paychecks.  And those people tend to hide in the dark. 

Rich Hoffman

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