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I Really Like Palmer Luckey: What the new Anduril Plant in Ohio means to global manufacturing

Stories like this one are my favorite because they get down to the fundamental issue of why I do all the things I do socially.  I get pretty frustrated with people sometimes, and a few times in 2024, I came really close to just closing up my tent flap and not opening it again for anybody and letting them rot away.  To be honest, I don’t try to help people because I want to help them with their lives.  I do it because I have to share space with them and I get tired of their limitations holding back the kind of world I want to live in.  So, I try to teach as many people as possible how they should live so they don’t hold back so much from the world I want to live in.  But when they stall out and don’t listen to what I tell them, I come close to just letting them rot away and turn to things that make me personally happy, and forget about them.  But sometimes it is worth it, and stories like the announcement in mid-January in Ohio about Anduril, the defense contractor, investing a billion dollars to a south of Columbus campus led by Palmer Luckey, the inventor of the Facebook Oculus virtual reality headset, are a ray of hope.  The plan is to build a giant campus to build autonomous drones for a direct market defense need that is going to arise during the Trump administration in the year 2027.  So, this manufacturing ambition will be over 90 football fields long and host over 4000 jobs. It will be quite an addition to the loop around Columbus, Ohio, and will join the new Intel factory that is being built just north of the city.  And as exciting as all this is, I can say from inside knowledge that this is just the tip of the iceberg in Ohio. 

Many people have worked hard to lay the political foundation for something like this Anduril project.  They could have gone anywhere in the world that they wanted, but they picked Ohio, a spot just above Washington Court House for a reason.  I know all those reasons, and there is a reason I have been saying the things I have about vertical takeoff taxi markets, regenerative medicine, and hyperloop.  I told everyone weeks ago that Vivek Ramaswamy would be the governor and Jon Husted would be appointed to J.D. Vance’s senate seat.  And that Bernie Moreno would be the other very pro-business senator.  Many very good people have been building this political structure to facilitate massive growth in Ohio, which I think will be the next Silicon Valley, but only much more significant.  Ohio is the place to be and I’m not surprised by any of this news.  More people are out there, like Palmer Luckey, a wonderful young man who was homeschooled full of ambition, so he knows how to think outside the box. I think he’s fantastic.  He is proposing essentially with this Anduril ambition to be the SpaceX of the defense industry.  He is a massive Trump supporter.  He gets what is coming, and he is building this fighter drone technology to meet a change in state war obligation that is looming from information that is well known.  Trump will try to negotiate us away from a war with China.  But odds are, all that will fall apart; they will lose their power and won’t like it.  And they aren’t going to just turn the world back over to the sovereignty of America.  No, they are going to want to fight it out.  And Palmer Luckey is doing what he needs to do to get out in front of it with this Anduril factory. 

But this is where things get interesting.  The defense industry is filled with cost-plus companies and a structure that protects it from innovation, so what does this young man Palmer Luckey think he will do to change things?  Luckey is talking about shipping drone units in 2026 ahead of a 2027 need date.  And things just don’t happen that fast in the defense industry.   Well, they will now.  The people behind Anduril, including the investors, understand what the game is, and that is the destruction of the cost-plus model that has long hampered the defense industry.  You see it everywhere: the old legacy companies and their suppliers all act like trolls under a bridge, charging extraordinary amounts of money to do basic things.  Most of these cost-plus companies have radical labor unions whose costs are way out of alignment with reality, so you must throw a lot of congressional money at delayed schedules to get mediocre results.  Anduril is proposing to take the cost plus out of the equation and to become the SpaceX of the defense market, and they will change the way business is done.  And the Trump administration will be very supportive, so Anduril’s timeline is not far-fetched.  Anduril has the money.  They have the vision.  They have a political structure that wants them to succeed.  They have all impediments out of their way.  And it makes me happy because I want to see more people like Palmer Lucky and companies like Anduril born into reality.

The way it works at SpaceX and Andruil is that to avoid the cost-plus supply chains; they vertically integrate so they can work around the compliance loops that protect cost-plus companies and their sandbagging techniques that are designed to prevent the product from hitting schedule targets so they can always drive congress to more funding through the extortion of the schedule.  Cost-plus suppliers constantly force expedited fees based on their purposeful limited capacity because that is how the cost-plus game has always worked.  Companies like Andruil and SpaceX are just doing everything themselves, which is why Andruil is building such a large facility: for self-reliance and vertical integration.  The trend was to get as many people in a supply chain as possible in as many countries as possible.  However, globalism put that trend into motion to protect the cost-plus scam.  And that is all coming apart now under this new Trump administration and Ohio politics.  And people like Palmer Luckey are some of the first to see it.  That’s also why Intel is building a plant in Ohio out of all places.  Innovation needs to be fast and vigorous.  Not slow and stupid.  And I am very encouraged that there are companies like Andruil out there and that there are young people like Palmer Luckey who want to do good things in the world.  I want to see a lot of companies, preferably all companies and education systems, adopt approaches to business like Andruil and SpaceX.  It’s the rate of resolution that I can get excited about, and while the industry hopes Andruil will fail in its ambitions and slip schedule like all the other fools in the world, I am betting they won’t.  I think Palmer Luckey understands in a way I have been working to teach people for many years.  And he’s doing it, and once people see his success, they will all want to copy it. And for me, that is the best news of this century!  I can live in a world with people who think like Palmer Luckey.  But I have no desire to deal with the losers of the cost-plus structure of stalled ambition and lazy labor that has emerged from the defense work scams that have been so embarrassing.  With this announcement from Andruil, I see a lot of hope for the future.

Rich Hoffman

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SpaceX Does it Again: Crawling out from under Cost-Plus restrictions

For perspective, you can go back through all my writing, millions and millions of words back to 2013 when I wrote an article from Florida about the essential end of the Space Shuttle program and that Obama’s vision for NASA was to partner with Russian cosmonauts for any future space missions.  I was very outraged at the policy, and if I never liked Obama for anything, it was his anti-growth attitude to suppress American exceptionalism as it often presents itself in space travel, that I hated the most.  We were going backward under Obama and Biden, and the only growth we have seen in over two decades came from the four years we had from Trump the first time.  So, I have been very excited about watching the civilian infrastructure for space develop, and anywhere I can help it, I certainly do.  So if I’m more excited these days and very enthusiastic for every day, as many people pointed out to me at a Jags get-together ahead of the inauguration of Trump, I’m sure eventually they’ll understand.  I don’t think people realize what a miracle the week of January 13th was in 2025.  Yes, SpaceX did it again; they landed their Superheavy booster rocket back on the pad it launched from after carrying another Starship into space.  They lost the ship due to a pressure problem that couldn’t gas out fast enough on a new second-generation Starship, and it ruptured the hull, causing the whole thing to break up in the atmosphere.   That was unfortunate but very correctable.  The real trick was repeating the landing of the booster rocket to show that the first time wasn’t an accident.  Watching that rocket capture chopsticks system work now repeatably was a fantastic thing to witness, and it takes us a long way from my complaints about when Obama ended the Space Shuttle program over a decade ago.

But that wasn’t all; just a few hours before SpaceX launched, Blue Origin put their own rocket into space, but this one was carrying a lunar lander from Firefly, a Texas-based company, that was returning to the moon.  Another personal problem I have is with NASA and governments around the world.  I don’t care what anybody found when we went to the moon the first time.  There was no excuse not to have a Hilton there by now so I could vacation on the moon with my family.  This raw, primitive embrace of backward thinking that came to us from both political parties has infuriated me to no end.  When people ask me why I have had my war against public education, it starts with this lack of preparation as a culture to advance people into space.  We should have been doing this since the original moon missions, and as I was growing up, it looked good.  But the Department of Education under Jimmy Carter and the socialist politics that held our society down through labor unions and liberal politics stopped that advancement and I have never been good with it.   If we don’t have a culture pushing for adventures into space, we are deliberately trying to suppress the ambitions of the human race in a very unhealthy way.  So, for me, watching all this space activity just a few days before President Trump’s return to the White House was fantastic and deserved as a subject of massive optimism.  For a culture to produce two space launches like Blue Origin and SpaceX produced, it would have taken NASA a decade to do one of them.  Let alone two significant ones.  We are dealing with good times, finally.

The amount of capacity and bandwidth is the real challenge, and that’s what is changing, which I’ll be pointing out often because I am pretty sure people don’t know what to think of these displays of monumental ambition.  It takes thousands of manhours and intelligence calculations to produce one rocket into space, especially when discussing complicated payloads.  But here we have a culture that did it twice in the same week. Additionally, there are several Falcon rockets that are taking constant payload into space, whether people or satellites for the Starlink system, we have come a long way from the Obama administration sending Americans into space through partnerships with Russia.  As soon as SpaceX realized that they had lost their Starship, they were already planning to pull another out of their manufacturing facility, where several others were waiting, and they were planning another launch next month.  SpaceX expects to launch at least 20 more times in 2025 to develop Starship further.  What they learned from this recent one, even though it burned up in the atmosphere, was extremely valuable compared to the traditional hindrances of a cost-plus company.  The way SpaceX is attacking the problem is the definition of how these things will be done in the future, and it embodies a whole new view of manufacturing that is escaping the clutches of global socialists like Obama, who were deliberately trying to hold back humanity.   It’s one of those situations in which small-minded people have been trying to destroy society to rule over the ashes.  And these new manufacturing methods being developed at SpaceX are a rebellion against that sentiment.  And it’s precisely what space needs for humans to colonize the stars.  Other companies are now moving in that same direction regarding the “rate of resolution.”

Cost-plus companies have been hijacked by all kinds of horrible forces that have held back the aerospace industry since the first moon landing.  When parasitic characters realized they could stall contracts and make money off ignorant governments for more congressional money to be thrown at the trolls to build something, trouble was clearly on the horizon.  That’s why space had to move into civilian care because there was looting politics in government control that held us back with people like Obama.  A setback like Starship had at SpaceX this week would have stopped advancement at a typical cost-plus company for a decade in the past.  Instead, Elon Musk said immediately that the plan was to roll out another Starship and get ready for a second try next month.  The only thing that will hold them back is the speed of government, which will increase dramatically once Trump is back in office.  There is a lot to be very excited about, and I am.  It’s not just about going to space that is exciting; it is about watching the human race crawl out from under a very oppressive political climate and an education system that has sought to cripple us purposely.  Not to inspire us to grow.  And due to all that, we see that the human race is doing big things again, and the American culture, which has produced the world’s wealthiest people, is putting that wealth to good use in adventure and enterprise.  As good as this past week was, and it was, I see under the incoming Trump administration launches like that happening every single day.  I don’t think people realize yet how important all this is and what it will do for us.  But I can see it and am very excited about what’s coming.   In many ways, it’s a dream come true. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Future of Healthcare: Living to over 150 years

I don’t do it every time, but sometimes, when I get a chance to talk to important people about something that everyone is interested in, I share it, which was certainly the case this week when I had an important meeting with high-level people about the future of healthcare.  These people are interested in helping shape Trump’s next four years into a success story, and our conversation migrated to healthcare and what it should look like by the end of Trump’s next four years.  I was being asked because they wanted an out-of-the-box answer, which I said was probably the easiest thing on Trump’s plate.  Healthcare is super easy to deal with.  It’s only hard if you are trying to preserve the old sickness model where insurance companies profit from the slowed demise of people ahead of death.  That is a dead model, and whenever people talk about health insurance or healthcare in general, that is what they want to throw money at.  And that game has been over for quite a while now.  Which, to that point, was the reason for this important meeting.  And what I told them was worth sharing with everyone else, so I’m happy to let everyone else in on the conversation.  I don’t think we were breaching any NDAs or anything.  I told them about the two problems of the human population in the future and that the Trump administration would have to solve both of them with some connected policy that would let the current system slip away into oblivion and embrace a whole new approach.  We talked about business cycles, and the way we treat people for healthcare ailments is about as practical today as a horse and buggy competing in the Indianapolis 500 is to the racing world.

“So what’s the future look like?” they asked me.  “A lot different,” I said.  We have two main problems: we have a depleted birth rate.  To become a multi-planetary species, we need to have a lot more newborn babies come into the world.  We don’t want to lose so many children to abortion or the decision not to have children because they cost a lot of money. Marriages are complex, and people aren’t so interested in all the hard work it takes to make a family.  We have to change that mindset.  Then we have the other problem: people live for too long in a depleted state.  The extra 20 years that people are living post-retirement can be said only to serve insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry that seeks to profit off the extended demise of people.  Rather than treat them for what’s breaking, we have a financial model that plugs into them as they die and profit off their loss.  Then, the government looks forward to stealing a lifetime of wealth with estate taxes at the end of life.  It’s a cannibal-based system resulting from gross mismanagement by a leadership culture of politics and social influencers.  The solution is in stem cells, where we get them, and how we build healthcare policy around using them to make a society that lives longer and still encourages birth rates to increase for couples inspired to start families and make commitments worth fighting for, which of course got a lot of eager faces hungry for more information.  Stem cells have been around for a while, but we know enough now to build a policy around them as a real healthcare solution that provides the best opportunity for people working in healthcare to continue.  But changing the motivations toward lifetime longevity is profitable longer than just allowing people to become sicker until they die away, leaving little behind gradually. 

Typically, when hospitals provide birthing services to new babies, the afterbirth, the placenta, and umbilical cords are tossed away into the garbage as biowaste, which is entirely foolish.  The placenta and the umbilical cords that give babies new life are valuable; they shouldn’t be thrown in the trash.  Hospitals should sell those items to stem cell labs for treatments for people seeking longevity care for health concerns.  If you wanted a stem cell injection to get a rotator cup repaired or a new knee or hip replacement, you could go to Panama City, Panama, and get a $15,000 injection, which would immediately boost cell growth to fix the problem areas without surgery.  It is a much better method than traditional methods.  Stem cells, especially those out of placentas and umbilical cords, will fix anything naturally and don’t need to be aimed at specific tissue.  When introduced to a body, they present competition to an aging cell structure within the body that finds they need to perform better, which is the result.   Stem cells only stay in the body for a couple of days.  But that infusion of activity jumpstarts the aging cell structure into behaving as it did when the body was much younger.   People find that they heal as they did at the start of their life rather than in a depleted state at the end.   Many sports figures are already using stem cells to fix torn ligaments and worn-out cartilage rather than going through the invasive surgeries that have been the typical path. 

Hospitals could get very rich selling these placentas and umbilical cords to stem cell providers, who could then save the healthcare industry from people slowly dying and being a drag on the entire system.  Not to make it sound bad, but what is more worthless in the world than an older adult who can’t work anymore, who is costing thousands of dollars every week in medical care?  We want that person to live longer and healthier.  Their age limit should be more than 150 years rather than 80 years old as it is now, after essentially 20 years of retirement and lousy health.  Stem cells return people to their youthful healing process, and you can get all the cells you need from new birth rates.  Hospitals to inspire more births could offer nearly free birthing processes to young couples and make all their money off selling the created afterbirth.  Of course, the current healthcare professionals don’t want anybody to know about these methods; they don’t want to change.   They want the government to dump wasted money into an ineffective system.  But at this point, we are about 4 years away from stem cells being mainstream anyway.  It might as well happen during Trump’s term rather than after so he can get the credit for it.   Because the only thing holding us back now is policy.  Not science.  This technology has been around in the form I’m talking about for about 4 to 5 years.  And by 2030, it will be almost as common as going to the dentist.  The cost per stem cell treatment will come down a lot and be affordable.  So, there is no downside.  It’s the future, and it’s here now.  Death and the aging process are decisions, not fate.  And for those concerned about the natural order of things being disrupted by science, I would point to the many biblical characters who lived many years past 100, and if they can live longer and pass down more wisdom to the next generations, then we would be much better off as a culture.  We need to solve both problems, aging and low birth rates, at the same time.  And this is the way to do it within a few short years of the next Trump presidency.  And all that’s keeping us from doing it is ourselves and a very slight refocus on the purpose of healthcare in a social context.

Rich Hoffman

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Judge Merchan Must Be Punished: We can’t have lawfare in our system of justice

When Judge Juan Merchan decided to sentence President Trump over the ridiculous business-related charges in New York, he was making some admissions that were uncomfortable for mass society to make.  That was only reiterated in the documents released in the final days of Jack Smith, the outgoing prosecutor for the DOJ who personally tried to lure Trump into a jury in a profoundly blue area and snag a conviction for a crime that they clearly understood could only be interpreted regionally, rather than culturally.  Marxism had become so prevalent in neighborhoods like D.C. and New York City that it was impossible to get an impartial jury of our peers in modern society, and at the heart of that was a prosecution scam that understood that they could use lawfare to destroy political rivals.  And they were willing to use it.  In both cases, the one with Jack Smith and Judge Merchan, the election of 2024 took away from them that power because people put President Trump back in office anyway.  And in so many ways, the human race grew up a bit and outpaced the regional confines of the small-minded and power-hungry.  And when Judge Merchan spoke to Trump, it was almost a plea to respect the system for which they had abused so much power so needlessly and to ask for mercy.  This resulted in a no sentencing outcome which was highly unusual.  A plea to respect the law and judgments of a jury of Trump’s peers when, in truth, the jury pool had been contaminated with Marxist movements and social tampering in a way that made Trump have nothing in common with his peers because it had become a system meant to fight against capitalism, and this was a business case against one of the world’s wealthiest people. Merchan and Jack Smith intended to pit against Trump the jealous, down-and-out, and scandal-driven to take revenge on all those who were doing better than the jury at life. They had made the legal system a retribution for the obvious laziness of that jury of peers. 

With some insider knowledge, I understand how these prosecutions can go bad.  I live in a very nice community with great police and prosecutors.  Even better, a jury of my peers in Butler County, Ohio, has more in common than in deep blue voting blocks like New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco.  When we set up our legal system, human beings were supposed to at least have enough in common to serve as a jury of their peers.  That common attribute might be a relationship with the Bible.  Or a love of a sporting event.  Family ties.  Something.  But what has often happened, and the various legal circles are very aware of this, is that people have less in common now than they ever have, and it has almost nothing to do with money.  There have been power groups who have exploited the weak and lazy toward gifts that only a government with the ability to confiscate wealth could distribute to them for unearned benefit.  And for those who might otherwise choose to be thieves in the world and rob the rich so that they don’t have to work themselves, a new kind of victimization politics has emerged.  Once the power structure had their advocates looking for easy money and to be the ground troops for their movement, they could taint these juries with left-leaning losers more concerned with taking the whole system down rather than seeking justice.  And that was what Judge Merchan and Jack Smith were caught doing, and it blew up in their faces.

In 2024, I was the foreman for a grand jury in my community, and it was a very eye-opening experience.  I got to know some of our local prosecutors very well and learned that they were not like Jack Smith or Judge Merchan as these Trump cases were in the news every day, and it wasn’t so clear what Trump’s future would be as a result.  When I served on the grand jury, the odds that Trump would win the election seemed very remote, almost like a fantasy that had no hope of ever coming true.  But I saw firsthand where opportunities to corrupt the jury and manipulate the court system could quickly have happened.  I was able to tour our local jail system and meet some inmates, and I thought about Trump a lot during all this time.  This system of justice, if it had people any less value-driven, could quickly put innocent people in jail and destroy their lives with lawfare.  Always in the background do we need to make sure we have a healthy society that can function from things they have in common, rather than specify the things they are different from each other and that power politics would use those differences to gain political power for themselves by using innocent people as the means and method.  We must always use common ground to base our society, which is a challenge at the heart of a thriving civilization.  That is not what Judge Merchan or Jack Smith was up to in prosecuting Trump, and they never thought that people would unite behind an effort to elect Trump back to the high office because they felt they had control of the system at the most fundamental level, and that they were the rulers of society.

Knowing all that, there is no choice but to turn the tables on Judge Juan Merchan and all the prosecution attempts against Trump from 2023 through 2024.  They tried to destroy our political order through lawfare, something they always knew was in their back pocket of power and gave them the smug impression that they were ultimately in charge.  And they knowingly abused their power.  I have always wondered about this, but until my personal experience on a grand jury, I wasn’t sure if the system could be so easily abused.  And the answer is that it can be.  And obviously, it is often.  What Judge Merchan did was what we can’t have legal people doing in a healthy society.  Merchan wasn’t standing for law and order.  He was using disorder to manipulate the law so that political power could use victimization politics to establish an order of overthrow against a system he didn’t like.  By exploiting the stupid, the broke, the lawless, putting them on a jury, and calling them peers of the healthy, wealthy, and wise, a knowing war of personalities was fused with purposeful intent to overthrow our entire system of government.  And we can’t forgive that.  Because they got caught, Trump’s DOJ will have no choice but to prosecute these prosecutors for their abuse of the law and the willing exploitation of people used like chess pieces to overthrow our entire established order and to call it justice mockingly.  We came very close to never having a fair election in America again, but only because we did was this escapade exploited for the crime that it was.  And we can’t forget what happened; we must send a strong message to the future that such behavior is inappropriate.  Judge Merchan and many others must be punished as much as possible so that others will never think of attempting such a thing again for fear of what might happen to them.

Rich Hoffman

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Of Course “Imagine” was Played at Carter’s Funneral: They were always about using communism to destroy the American way of life

I thought it was quite appropriate that Jimmy Carter, at his funeral after living 100 years of life, wanted to have the ridiculously dumb song by John Lennon, “Imagine,” sung.  The song summed up his life, really, and is the reason that he was the worst president until, of course, Joe Biden came along.  All these old hippies are showing a developed pattern.  They grew up liking the Beatles and John Lennon and have been trying to build a world they learned about in that song.  Ironically, shortly after the Carter funeral, that same kind of radicalism is coming out in the politics of California.  Remember Gavin Newsom talking about preserving the rivers to save some fish, but also to pay off debts to the Native American indigenous people, promises that we owed them?  Yes, there are plenty of people who run around in the political circles of Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, and Gavin Newsom who are very happy to see the massive wildfires burning out entire communities of Hollywood because, just like the end of the latest Yellowstone television show, the goal is to get rid of white people and return the land to the red people who they think lived in America first.  They get a lot of these dumb ideas from the communists of the British invasion and their favorite musical artists like the Beatles.  As teenagers smoking dope and having reckless sex, they were very open to the exploits of those radical leftists, and it shaped their lives into the disasters they grew up to become as adults.  Just because people think something doesn’t make it right, and I would say all people exposed to this period of history reflected in music like John Lennon’s had their minds destroyed in ways that have cascaded the destruction to millions of other people. 

I know many people who love the song “Imagine,” and they are, by their nature, good people.  However, they should not be involved in influencing people’s lives.  Songs like “Imagine” are not harmless.  I would consider it more damaging than most rap music because it sells itself as helpful, peace-loving, and even Christian.  Except that it is an anti-god diatribe by a diabolical atheist in John Lennon.  Every time I hear that song, I look for a bunch of dope smokers in tie-dye t-shirts to break out a pottery wheel and start slinging mud on it to make a vase.  To return to the primitive just as they did at Woodstock and to have sex with strangers because nobody should own anybody and everything should be free.  Free love, free money, no borders, country, or heaven.  No values.  Just dirty old hippie love, that’s what John Lennon was singing about, and yes, it has a catchy tune.  That’s how they sucker people into its demonic worship, always with catchy melodies that people sing along to without thinking about the real meaning of the song.  “Imagine” is a terrible song, something that could easily be said to have been purposely created to undermine our entire society and launch us all into globalism.  Without question, this is the same kind of popular song that dirty old men trying to sleep with prostitutes at Davos economic forums play when they are trying to appear hip to 21-year-old girls who have no idea who John Lennon is.  But they like the wine and the money, so they listen like brain-dead fools to the anthem of globalism.

“Imagine” is a communist ballad, a deliberate attempt to convince vast populations to throw away capitalism and embrace communism fully.  And it should have always been considered a national security problem.  There’s nothing good about it; John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, who helped him with that song, was a dedicated communist.  When she talks about peace, she means to lower the resistance to individual property rights and to surrender all integrity to the shared resources of the lazy and diabolical.  To watch Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sing the old John Lennon song in a church, of all places, was a purposeful insult to the American way of life.  But that’s how Jimmy Carter lived his life.  Remember how he tried to work with communist forces against Ronald Reagan in the background?  Jimmy Carter might have been a nice guy and an innocent peanut farmer, but like Yoko Ono, they kill you with kindness.  Putting a couple of country music stars out to sing a song to sell communism in a Catholic cathedral doesn’t make it any less of an attack.  It was also interesting that Trump was at the funeral, representing a noticeable effort to make America Great Again.  But great from what?  Well, the teachings of people like John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who purposefully tried to bring communism to America through their art.  And before Trump had a chance to get back into office to do that very thing, the Carter funeral was a chance to spit in the face of the MAGA movement with their war cry of progressive sentiment and blatant communist intentions.  “Imagine” is a song meant to spit in all our faces; how dare we want to have marriages and countries and do good in life so we can go to Heaven.  To attack every premise of values supporting individual rights over collective salvation sold to them through a catchy tune. 

I’m not a fan of Garth Brooks.  He cheated on his wife a lot and was a crybaby of country music.  Having him perform the song shows even more the kind of people that Jimmy Carter valued and thought represented America.  Jimmy Carter was a loser.  And he surrounded himself with other losers with a political philosophy that took all those misfits and hid them from social judgment through the communist movement.  And “Imagine” was their war song of peace.  Peace was their weapon to undo the kinds of values that people wanted to fight for.  By taking away the value people had for things, people would not want to fight each other over anything and would instead rot away in a hippie haze, smoke dope, advocate in fact for the legalization of marijuana, and advocate for a borderless world just as the Indians had before Christopher Columbus came along and messed it all up for everyone.  That is why Jimmy Carter was a terrible president and why it was entirely appropriate that he wanted “Imagine” played at his funeral by a bunch of losers and despots.  I agree with Steve Bannon’s take on John Lennon; he was a degenerate, and having that song played in a Christian setting was a spit in all our faces.  But it also tells everyone clearly what these fools are all about and why they are so detrimental to the human race.  After 100 years of life, that was the summary of Jimmy Carter’s life and efforts to recreate “Imagine” in the world and make it a reality, which is why he will always be remembered as being the second worst president in the history of the world.  But at least he lived long enough to see the worst, another old hippie, drug-abusing loser, Joe Biden, who made from his loins the diabolical production of flesh that is everything wrong with the world, Hunter Biden.  “Imagine” is a world where all these people are in charge.  We just experienced it, and what it was can only be described as a nightmare that is finally coming to an end.  “Imagine” that!

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Be A Wimp: What I expect society to be

Yeah, no, it was not acceptable for everyone to turn into babies over just 7 inches of snow and stay home like scared losers.  It was embarrassing to watch people in Cincinnati turn into cowards and display part 2 of COVID-19, where they let the experts tell them to stay home locked up until the snow emergency was over.  Most of Cincinnati listened to the weather terrorists as the first real snowstorm came through shortly after the New Year of 2025.  I watched the weather porn on television, too, especially Fox 19, and they had wall-to-wall coverage.  I understand their position; they are weather geeks and get excited about this kind of thing.  This is the time of year when the spotlight gets put on them, and they relish it.  They over-dramatize everything, and it is never as bad as they say it will be.  Seven inches of snow is a significant snowfall.  But it’s not something that can’t be managed.  I got up that day and did my usual thing unimpeded, as if there wasn’t any snow.  The snowstorm didn’t impact me at all, and I usually drive around through a week more than most people do.  I watched the same weather coverage as everyone else but did not listen to them tell me to stay home like a bunch of babies.  The weather porn was more entertainment than reality.  What we should have been doing was toughing through the snowstorm without impediment.  If it took an extra fifteen minutes to get to work, fine.  If people arrived a little late to where they were going, that would be fine too.  But to stay home, as the weather news told us, and to be unproductive, waiting for some little danger to pass by, is not how any American should be.  Productivity first, and management of safety elements with skill and innovation are expected as part of the process.  Just because people were scared to drive in the snow and were unskilled does not mean we should shut down our entire society.

Of course, many people were mad at me for my opinions and asked me what I thought was the appropriate level of safety over the matter.  A good example of what I believe is appropriate occurred just a few days ago.  A good friend of mine slipped and fell on some ice and split his head open.  He immediately noticed a lot of blood flowing from his head, way too much to rub away.  So, upon letting people know about it, he went to the human resources department where he worked, and they let him know that his skull was showing and that they needed to get him to the emergency room.  After quite an adventure of blood spilling over everywhere and coordination of people who needed to drive him to the hospital, they reported to him that he had a severe cut and that it was going to take nine stables to pull his head together again.  Not nine stitches, but staples.  They, of course, checked him after the patch-up for concussion protocols, which he passed.  He had a pretty hard head but was not displaying signs of a concussion, and they sent him on his way.  He insisted at the doctor that they keep him off light duty or any other impediment to his work schedule.  So, upon his request, he returned to his job with no restrictions.  And through all this, he did not miss a single minute of work.  He fell in the parking lot after his shift of work was complete.  He returned to his third shift position on time, without any excuses, and performed as if nothing had ever happened. 

The only measure he took that gave away that he had an injury was that he covered up his bandaged head with a baseball hat that he put over it to keep it somewhat protected from the elements.  Many people in his position would have sought to milk the system; they would have taken off weeks of work and tried to get out of doing as much work as possible.  But not him.  When there are problems in the world, this kind of guy always shows up and is there to solve problems.  And given the many excuses I heard about snowfall, it was good to see that there are still people like that guy in the world.  We need more tough people who don’t crawl into a fetal position every time something occurs.  I relate to people like that guy. I have done many similar things in my life, and it is bewildering to see such a lack of work ethic among anybody.  I have worked through even worse injuries and major surgeries and missed almost no work in the process.  I’ve had bones sticking out from severe cuts.  And on surgeries where they occurred on a Thursday or Friday and were projected to keep me bedridden for months, I reported back to work that following Monday after just a weekend of rest and recovery.  So, I expect to answer everyone’s questions all at once.  That’s what I am used to and the standards I have set for myself.  And I most relate to people like that guy who busted his head open and did everything he could to fix it and get back to work. 

If you leave your life to the panic porn people, the ridiculous experts such as we did with Covid, where we let them tell us to stay home and socially distance ourselves from the world, you should not be surprised when you fail at life.  Watching the Channel 19 broadcast the night of the snowstorm, I was shocked that those people told people to stay home and ride out the weather.  Who are they to say such a thing?  There is work to do in the world.  That mentality is a loser mentality, to yield to impediments instead of managing them.  I have never been that kind of person.  When I was in school years ago, I was the one who had perfect attendance for years on end.  I am never late for anything.  And if I say I will be somewhere, people can trust it will be so.  I don’t let silly snowstorms stop what I am doing or injuries that happen along the way.  As human beings, we invent tools to overcome nature.  We don’t yield to it.  We don’t let the snow beat us and keep us from doing what we need to do.  I never have, and I never will.  And I have no respect or sympathy for those who do.  People are free to do what they do in their lives.  But I am also free to have my opinion about it.  And I do.  Excuses make people weak.  That guy with the split open head could have leaned into his doctor to get all kinds of time off work and to milk it for everything he could.  But he didn’t.  And I could not have done anything on that snow day, too, and told the world I stayed home because the news told me to, and I would have been justified under some ill-defined definition of safety.  But I’m a great driver.  I can drive through the snow without any problem, so it would cheapen my skills to yield to the masses who aren’t so good just because the experts told me I could stay home like some kid in school yielding to an authority figure.  No, I had things to do.  I had a nice car to drive with good tires; it was well-maintained and had a nice, functioning heater to protect me from the cold.  And it was no problem to drive where I needed to go.  And everyone else had the same tools, too.  But they stayed home because the news told them to, which it was not in their authority to do so.  That is one of the many reasons we are trying to make America great again. People fear a little snow, and it’s not great now.  It takes great people to make anything great.  And being scared of snow or injuries isn’t what makes people great.  Tenacity and perseverance do. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Heart of the Pedophilia Problem: It’s in what we consider to be “adult content”

I’ve been writing these articles daily for over 15 years, and they are changing slightly.  It will probably tick off some people, but that’s OK.  We are trying to make America great again, and that means that we have to shift our focus from fixing things out there somewhere to looking at ourselves and fixing what’s broken within us, which allowed a broken world to occur in the first place.  So my work here is transforming perhaps from a Drudge Report from the classic days to more of a Tony Robbins motivational seminar at an Alcoholics Anonymous session.  That’s OK. When I started doing this, it wasn’t a very popular thing to do, and it made many people very angry.  But they are only angry because they know it’s true.  And that was never more abundantly true than over the issue of pedophilia, the diabolical trend of having sex with children that is such a horrendous problem—much more than most people want to admit to.  Here in my local community of Butler County, Ohio, we have seen sex with children and a very soft reaction to it from the public in general to be a significant trend among well-paid members of polite society.  So this isn’t just a scum bag in the corner with a porn addiction kind of problem.  It’s happening everywhere.  This past year, I was able to serve as a foreman on a grand jury, and I saw lots of evidence of child pornography that showed me the face of true evil manifesting in the world. That is such a problem. I would put it at number one out of all our current issues.  There are people trying to have sex with kids that you know and they are trying to do it right now.  And no child is safe if they interact with five or more people, even within family structures.  But why is it such a problem?  And why is it so hard for us to admit to it?  Well, that’s the heart of the problem.  We were all raised to advance it.

When we were all kids and coming of age, we were told by society that smoking, drinking, and having sex were “adult” content in movies and books and that we were kept from seeing or witnessing the practice.  Before puberty, we teach kids fun things, and we talk about those things as kids’ things.  But when we get to a certain age and want to show that we are adults, we start doing one of those three things: sex, drugs, and drinking to prove that we have come of age.  How many fourteen-year-old girls take up smoking as a means to show the world that they are now ready to be pollinated and have gained the power to use sex as a weapon?  Well, why do they think that?  Because we told them that was how adults become adults.  And they want to be adults and transition from being a kid.  We taught them that the values of being a kid were to be locked in a closet never to return, or to sell all those cute things from our childhood in a yard sale, to trade all the adorable stuffed animals with body piercings, pop music posters, and sexual conquests.  And because we focus on those three things as our gateways to adulthood, we don’t give ourselves any room to grow any further, and most people never mature beyond the age of 15 years old.  By that time, the mistakes of that chosen lifestyle scare people for life, and they never get over all the bad things they did during this age group.

By the time most people turn 50 or 60, they have made so many mistakes in their own lives and then destroyed the lives of their children with the same diabolical practices that they start to go a little psycho and lose touch with reality.  They come across as so out of touch that young people never consider listening to them for wisdom, which makes the situation worse for the older people, and they drop off the map and die quietly while their grandkids and great-grandkids can’t take their eyes off their smartphones during the funeral, caring almost nothing for the somber occasion.  That is a big reason why adults seek sex with kids, either to get back to that innocence or to undo in their minds the mistakes they made their entire adult lives.  Adults are old and broken, and kids are new and fresh, so in a parade of broken people, kids don’t have much of a chance to enter their teenage years without some corrupt influence trying to groom them into horrendous behavior on a path to self-destruction because that’s all the adults know to do and they pass the mess on to the next generation for all kinds of foolish reasons.  And before you know it, the men are taking their adult wealth and secretly flying to Cambodia to have sex with a harem fantasy of 14-year-old girls while the wife discharges her frustrations with growing insanity because women express themselves differently on this problem than men do.  Women feel rejected.  The men seek youth to do it all over again knowing what they do now that they wished they knew then.  Some men stay in the legal lane by getting a new wife in their 20s when they are in their 50s.  But in many ways, that isn’t good.   Nobody escapes intact, and everyone’s lives are ruined in the process. 

This ruin is on such a scale that we can’t deal with it.  So when we find out that our school superintendent is essentially selling his wife for sex-ploits with the world because of a severe porn addiction, and that addiction is taking them into sex with kids in their school, we act surprised.  But when that incident actually happened, most everyone sat on their hands and said nothing about it because deep inside, they were just as guilty.  They didn’t yet do the deed.  But they were thinking about it.  This trend to decriminalize sex with minors is more than just a desire; it’s the direction a society like ours goes when sex, drugs, and reckless behavior are the only things that we identify as proper to be an adult.  So, our values never progress beyond those traits, and we wonder why we have the problems we do.  Well, it all starts by telling kids that “adult content” is a forbidden fruit, and that’s their path to proving they are no longer children.  And we wish we could say to them that when they are 50, 60, and 70, they will want to have held on to their childhoods a lot longer and not be in such a rush to pick one or all of those three things to show the adults they were ready to grow up.  But that is why we have a pedophilia problem. We have baked it into our social order, and until we change that, it will continue to be a massive problem.  Kids don’t have much chance because the adults of their lives never figured it out.  Because they, too, were taught all the wrong things and, as adults, don’t know any better how to behave.  And it’s not just a few people; it’s most people of all ages and classes.  They all have the same fundamental problem: how they entered adulthood, thinking one of those horrible things was the means to get there.  Only to discover they should have held on to their childhoods much longer.  And if they had, they would have been much happier and intellectually sound as older adults than the empty lives they were given to live and never otherwise questioned. 

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Ever Get Drunk: If you offer youself as a leader, you can never compromise your mind

This is a bit controversial, but it’s a fact of life that needs to be understood.  If you offer yourself up as a leader of a position of any kind, you cannot allow yourself to be mentally impaired at all.  People do not want to see their leaders in an intoxicated state, ever.  I say this because of questions I have had to answer during this holiday season ahead of the Trump inauguration, and people are doing a lot of soul-searching and talking about things that they previously wouldn’t.  And at some of these Christmas parties, people were urging me to drink, and I didn’t.  I don’t like alcohol; I don’t like how it makes my mind feel.  I never have.  It slows me down, and I don’t want to go slow.  So when the drinks are being poured, I don’t participate.  There isn’t anything good that comes from social drinking other than making other people feel better that you don’t present yourself as “high and mighty.”  And honestly, we live in a world now where people need to be more mighty.  One thing that I can promise is that nobody will ever see me in a drunken state.  You can’t do so and offer to be a leader of any kind.  Human weakness is not a merit, it’s a liability.  And when people get drunk, they show the world that they cannot command themselves, let alone other people.  It doesn’t matter if it’s legal.  There are a lot of legal things that shouldn’t be.  A choice to impair your mind with intoxicants displays a weakness of character that is unforgivable among leaders, and you can never do it.  So, to answer everyone all at once, that’s why I am not keen on drinking much at these holiday get-togethers and other social gatherings.  I might sip on a wine or a mixed drink to taste it.  But that’s all.  I will never let them impact my mind in any way because I require too much of myself to be encumbered, mainly by choice.

Nothing good comes from drunken group engagements

I think President Trump is a good example of a good leader.  He doesn’t drink, and he has said that if he did have that bad habit, he would probably be a disaster.  People who are very much A-type personalities have to manage their ambitions, and if they invest in degrading behavior, they tend to succeed more at those diabolical tasks than regular people do.  Trump has worked through his life to manage vices, and he has arrived at this stage of his life with great moral authority because he has not done much that people could use against him.  He had a reputation as a playboy for a good part of his adult life, which has held him back a bit, and we can all see how that has been used against him.  But the key to the story is that you must maintain moral authority by not degrading yourself to the shared ambition of slugs who are extremely unproductive and not very good people.  Trading their opinions for valor does not do the human race any good.  People want to know, even if they are critical of the effort because it makes them feel guilty not to do it themselves; they want to know that the leaders in their lives have a firm hand on the wheel and will not waiver under pressure.  It’s reassuring to them to see that somebody has the strength to stand up to diabolical weakness and overcome temptation.  That is one of the many reasons Trump can do what he does in negotiations.  A strong person with their mind uncompromised always has leverage over compromised people.  And there are far more of those in the world than good leaders, making it relatively easy for Trump to overcome just about anybody with firm moral authority.  Nobody has ever seen President Trump drunk, and they never will and can never use a mutually embarrassing moment against him.

2025 is shaping up to be a period of self-reflection, which is why this is an important topic.  Moral authority is it’s own kind of capital.  We have allowed the socialists and communists of the world to sucker us into this depleted state where we would numb our brains and present it as merit.  It let the world know we weren’t more significant and better than everyone else because everyone was equally compromised.  Then, for most people who didn’t want to work very hard to be good people, it was a tempting fruit to eat.  Social drinking shows vulnerability among friends and puts everyone on equal footing, which is what the socialists always wanted.  It kept the lofty-minded grounded in the realities of the average.  And, of course, those people who don’t want to feel bad about their condition want company.  They are willing to be your friend if you compromise and get them off the hook of having to maintain a lofty self-impression.  We have allowed ourselves to believe that drunkenness is a merit and that it’s a gateway to social acceptance.  Because it took the pressure off other people to conduct their lives as more lofty participants of intellectual value, and that kind of talk comes across as prudish and unrealistic.

But we see failures everywhere in the world from a lack of leadership and connected directly to this trend toward drunkenness and a weakened mental state due to intoxicants, legal or illegal.  It has become fashionable to be incompetent, so many more people are surrendering to that temptation.  And it has become more stylish than ever to drink too much in front of other people to show them that your stuff doesn’t stink and that you don’t think of yourself as better than anybody else.  But you see the problem, that was the game all along, to bring down the good and spread them among the weak.  As Marxists have always wanted, weakness should be presented as merit.  So, in that way, getting drunk or high and not being very smart became a merit in a culture of misfits looking for sameness rather than exceptionalism.  And we have the kind of loser world we see now.  That’s something I have never embraced and never will.  I would not say it’s an accident that President Trump doesn’t drink, even under social conditions, for many reasons that aren’t the same as the reasons I give.  But the merit of the effort is the same.  Not being a drunk or intoxicating whore gives him emotional leverage over his enemies, and you better believe it in life, that enemies are a fact of life.  And you want leverage over them.  And that is the future trend now that we see where the Marxists have tried to take us all along.  And why, when the drinks get passed around at Christmas parties, I pass and drink water or something without alcohol in it.  A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and we have too often traded it in favor of consensus building with malcontents who don’t care about us; they only care that we don’t grow out of their reach.  And for the good of the world, we should never give them the satisfaction and relief from a mind intact while they have inebriated theirs and live as compromised people of a diabolical sameness that is a sin against humanity’s efforts.

Rich Hoffman

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George Soros Gets the Medal of Freedom: As they burn down Hollywood to hide the evidence of their many crimes

It shouldn’t be surprising that President Biden gave George Soros a Medal of Freedom award at the White House, the highest civilian honor our government can provide. Biden was put in office to be a terrorist and destroy the American way of life, and George Soros has been the ultimate terrorist.  So if you want to spit in the face of Americans, especially MAGA Americans, you would do something that grotesquely insults them.  And with that same evidence of disbelief, you can bet that the fires in Hollywood are terrorist-driven.  They were no accident.  They were set to destroy what the antagonists think of as an American icon, the industry of telling stories in America from a culture that can afford such a luxury.  The Hollywood Hills, where the big sign is so well known, didn’t just catch fire by itself.  My first thought about it, which is looking more and more accurate, is that if you are dealing with a mass pedophilia culture, one sure way to get rid of the evidence is to burn it all up.  It doesn’t matter to a terrorist or a criminal if innocent people are harmed in the process.  All they care about is the destruction of our nation and its symbols.  So, in that regard, it should be no surprise that George Soros and Hillary Clinton both received awards from the outgoing president.  And that they meant it to be an insult should come as no surprise.  These bad people hate us.  And they are losing power.  But what we see is no accident; it’s quite on purpose—and meant to be an insult.  They are daring you to have an opinion about it and want to show you that they have had control of our government all along.  And while they still can, they are going to award George Soros and others the best they have with the same malice that the eco-terrorists burned down Hollywood for all the same reasons. 

But even to further cheapen the experience, they gave many people those Medal of Freedom awards, not just George Soros.  The whole event came across as a visit to the Island of Misfit Toys from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  Even Michael J. Fox got one as an actor struggling with Parkinson’s disease.  Who can argue the merits, but that’s how these characters operate.  They hide their maliciousness behind conventional orthodox.  By tying George Soros to Michael J. Fox, they make it so that you can’t criticize one without insulting the other.  Just as they have done with the arson case, Trump is coming into office to attack their communist structure in California, so they create a crisis that justifies big government, and things get out of control.  And to sell it, they have to harm good people as well as bad people, bad people defined as those who facilitated the sex parties that are going to be prosecuted under a Trump DOJ.  And because the goal is to destroy evidence and make it impossible to arrest people and search their homes for evidence of these escapades, you have to burn out everyone so that it doesn’t look so obvious.  You might take out critics like James Woods in the process.  Then, blame it on climate change and try to capture the narrative as Trump is put back into office.  We’ve seen this all before, and that’s what the people do.  It’s how they think.  And it’s how they award George Soros for all the money he has funded into American domestic terrorism while disguising it behind people like Michael J. Fox and other actors that people might like to see getting an award. 

There with his dad was little Alex Soros, who many think will be able to pick up where his old dad left off.  And with the amount of money that they have to complete the task, many are worried.  But I would say to all those many, don’t worry.  These people are losers.  George Soros was only able to do what he did because he suckered people into thinking he wasn’t as evil as he was.  This is why people have a hard time admitting that the Hollywood fires were really arson instead of some environmental accident inspired by climate change.  Out of all the women Alex could date, he’s dating Hillary Clinton’s handmaiden Huma Abedin; the used-up has been of the pornography junkie Anthony Weiner.  Little Alex picked her out of all the women that money can buy.  That shows these people’s terrible judgment and explains why they are currently on the outside looking in.  Why are they losing power, and, ultimately, why were they not able to stop Trump and the MAGA movement once everyone caught on to what they were up to?  And it was that same lousy judgment that provoked them to give the Medal of Freedom award to a known American terrorist.  And that same stupidity that caused arson in Hollywood.  And caused riots over George Floyd, the drug user that they tried to exploit to start a race war.  These are all bad things from bad people who are really a small group of people, which is why Alex is keeping his relationships within his tight little circle of malcontents who want to destroy America using George Soros’s money to do it.  But with all that money, the best that little Alex can get as a potential wife is Huma Abedin.  That goes to show you what money can buy and can’t.

The same as trying to burn down America

What money can’t buy is trust, and the only way all these criminal enterprises have gotten this far out of control is because American people living their nice, comfortable lives have a default mode of trust that people like George Soros have been willing to exploit.  And knowing that, his son, little Alex, their mutual friend Hillary Clinton and a handful of other malcontents who thought they could buy the trust of Americans even as they spit in their face thought they could sucker everyone into looking the other way while they put Joe Biden in office through pure election fraud.  Or burnt down Hollywood to erase the sins of their past as angry justice is returning to the White House.  And with all the terrorism that George Soros sponsored to stop Trump and put him in jail for hundreds of years, he failed.  They had nothing left to do but give themselves awards and have a party while they could.  Out the door, the fire in Hollywood was their giant paper shredder, used to get rid of all they had done and hide it behind a true tragedy.   It’s their playbook for everything, including the disastrous Covid crime that is still pending punishment.  I know it bothered people to see Soros get the award, but consider the circumstances and what it means.  And we have a bunch of misfits who have lost power and aren’t getting it back.  And as spiteful as they are, they are trying to cheapen the award by giving it to themselves as a final parting shot while they still can.  And what that says about them is far more valuable than the cost of the award itself.  And the revelation of the genuine hatred they have for America at the core of every hostile act they have funded and fueled toward the destruction of our country behind a thin veil of trust they no longer possess.

Rich Hoffman

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Good Leaders Don’t Share the Spotlight: What Elon Musk means by a Direct Democracy on Mars

I understood what Elon Musk meant when he expressed that a government on Mars should be a Direct Democracy as opposed to what we have in the United States, a Representative Republic.  Many people took that as a knock against our current form of government, which many would consider the best in the world.  But I think the point of the matter is to regulate what you want the government to do.  I would say that in America, we just voted for a strong CEO type, and coming from the wealthiest man in the world who runs a lot of companies, of course, that would be his recommendation.  When we set up a government on Mars, we should give people the right to vote for a strong CEO type of leader.  Not a government with checks and balances that are meant to keep the brakes on government activism by making it hard to pass things that can slow down your society.  A mature government in a fully functioning country will have different needs than a remote colony of struggling adventurers, so context is everything.   But it’s important to consider how leadership is advanced or suppressed in a culture, depending on the kind of government you want to have.  Personally, I get asked at least two or three times a week when I am going to run for elected office, and my reply is always that I don’t have the tolerance for all that hand-holding.  Politicians have to be patient and need to serve the task at hand.  Where I am a very imposing person.  I expect people to do things my way or to take the highway.  I am not very interested in people who don’t do what I tell them.  And I certainly am not a group consensus kind of facilitator.  Elected office would be very frustrating because it involves too much working with other people to get anything done. 

I certainly understand the need for a time and place to give everyone a seat at the table.  In my own family, I get very frustrated in trying to get anybody to agree on anything when we coordinate events together.  There is always somebody working, there is always someone sick, there is always someone who wants to do something else.  And when it comes to those things and community events, I tend to sit on my temper and let everyone talk until they figure it out.  At those times, I sit back and sit on my hands and wait for everyone to get their minds right.  It drives me crazy, but its what you have to do sometimes when the people you are working with want to think they are all equally able to express an opinion and desire for an outcome.  Our representative government in America is good because it only gives it limited powers to do the bare minimum.  However, innovation and exceptional output come from individual leaders who are very strong-willed and can put people on their backs and take them to the promised land.  That’s the kind of thing I’m interested in.  That is undoubtedly what America voted for in putting Trump back in the White House.  We didn’t vote for a continued bureaucracy of three branches of government checking each other’s power.  As  a strong CEO, we want Trump to impose his will on the executive branch and make everyone else see things his way.  Which is the way we voted for.  That is the kind of thing that Elon Musk is talking about setting up on Mars.  I would say he’s new to this kind of thinking and has the right idea.  But as to government, you don’t want your leadership on Mars to come from the government.  You want a bunch of innovative CEOs competing with each other to drive culture forward.  You want just enough representative government to keep the power and water supply flowing.  The basic infrastructure that the government can provide for a society.  But nothing more.  Our form of government was so powerful because it decentralized the concept of a king.  But in a strongly run company, a CEO is essentially a king.  So, one thing we have never quite figured out in a capitalist culture is how to have a decentralized government that empowers kings to run good companies and give people options through at-will employment.  If they don’t like one company, they can work for another.  If their king is a tyrant, they can leave and work for someone much better.  Meanwhile, the water works, the power runs, and the basic infrastructure needs of society are handled by a government just powerful enough to do so but not so powerful that it takes over everything. 

I fall asleep with all the consensus-building that has been imposed on us by collectivist-based philosophies because they were never going to work.  I’m glad people are doing those jobs for school boards, trustees, and commissioners.  But I am only ever happy when I can point at someone and tell them to do a task.  They perform the task, and everyone celebrates victory.  Rule by Consensus is an academic fantasy by the fans of Karl Marx.  It’s as practical as unicorns and dragons from fantasy and has no business being discussed along with leadership concepts.  Human beings follow strong leaders.  Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, knows through experience what a good leader looks like.  And when traveling to other planets and setting up civilization there, strong leaders will be necessary.  Stalled government concepts will only slow down progress. 

When we talk about why we can’t do things anymore, and everything costs so much money, it’s because our government approach has been wrong.  When we try to build a bridge or a highway, if we look to the past, there was always some strong personality type that was able to wrestle all the alligators and make boots out of them.  This is opposed to the consensus-building approach, in which everyone treats the effort like an Alcoholics Anonymous session.  That approach costs money and time and seldom ever gets anything done.  And I have never been interested in those interactions with other people.  And people who are good leaders check out and do something else.  If you want success in a society, you have to give a means to firm leadership to work their magic.  We didn’t elect Trump to get along with other people.  We elected him to impose his will that we voted for.  He told us what he wanted to do, and we empowered him to do it.  That is what Elon Musk is talking about for Mars and space travel in general.  You never want the government to have too much power.  Our current Representative Republic keeps elected officials talking while the real leaders of the world run companies that employ people for everyone’s best interests.  We don’t look to the government to provide that leadership level, and we never should.  Even though we admire people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ronald Reagan, they are exceptions to the rule of a government that needs to have its power regulated and stalled so that a centralized authority doesn’t encumber authentic leadership.  And that is a trick we are still working out on earth.  We see good examples here and there; Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of them.  Trump has always been a successful and influential CEO.  But he doesn’t share the spotlight with anybody.  He has always been the top dog in all his endeavors.  And people dealing with him know it.  I’ve never seen authentic leadership share the spotlight of authority and work.  Rule by committee does not work.  Only strong leadership by influential personalities works.  Typically, those are not the people you want running the government.  You want them out there making money and employing people so that society has options and innovation to build from. 

Rich Hoffman

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