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Judge Lyons Wants to Put Darbi Boddy in Jail: Yet, the Butler County Republican Party desires unity?

It was ironic that at the same precise moment that Judge Lyons was seeking to put Darbi Boddy, a Lakota school board member in jail just for being on school board-related business in Columbus, Ohio where he imposed a restraining order keeping her from Isaac Adi, another school board member, that the Chairman of the Republican Party of Butler County, Ohio was sending out a letter trying to unify the party after a tough election. Here was a prime case of some old washed-up crusty crab who has been trying to destroy a mom with fines and incarceration because Darbi essentially didn’t kiss the ring of Lynda O’Connor, who had just lost the election, and that same GOP endorsed her. Literally, just a few days before, I was at another political event where Isaac was there, and he was telling me how much Darbi was like a sister to him and that he loved her. Yet just a few days later, he and his attorney, another sucker for Lynda O’Connor, were trying to put Darbi in jail while her husband was overseas serving our nation. And they have a child at home forming opinions about the world and she sees all this harassment of her mommy by really ruthlessly diabolical people. Smart judge. Smart Isaac. Isaac wasn’t lying to me, was he? Actions always tell the truth. And to all the other people who have gone way out on a limb of injustice to stand behind Lynda, who positioned everyone for failure out of pure selfishness. As I read that letter from Todd Hall, my phone was constantly going off from a lot of Darbi supporters who wanted to go to war with these people in a very vicious way. Somehow, I don’t think this is the kind of unification Todd was talking about in his letter. But I read it carefully and tried to find something positive about it.

I’ve known Todd Hall for a long time, and I like him. I’ve stood up for him when many people wanted his head in much the way I stand up for Darbi. I like to see good people trying to do good things. If they stumble their feet along the way a bit, I don’t get hung up on it. I judge intent for what it should be, and actions mean a lot in determining that intent. And I understand what Todd Hall wants to do after a tough loss, which is good. To get the Republican Party all pointed in the right direction. The trouble is that everyone has a different opinion about what the right direction is. It is the job of leadership, no matter if it’s a political party, a company, or a sports team to figure out what “right” is and get a team accomplishing it together. And in the Butler County Republican Party, over the last several years, Jennifer Edwards at Fox 19 is always there to stoke the fires, as I warned everyone about. She doesn’t do to Democrats what she does to Republicans. She was again pushing the Darbi story in Butler County just as she did the story against Roger Reynolds where Sheriff Jones went after him, and other people completely maliciously, just to show power over other rivals within the party. When power becomes more important to these teammates, any organization is destined to fail; in this case, voters have been taking notice. And Todd tried to point that out in his letter with motivational quotes to get everyone’s attention. But one particular quote I thought was especially relevant and was the point of the entire letter:

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships – Michael Jordan.

That sounds generic enough, but there is a good story to this. Everyone knows Michael Jordan was probably the greatest NBA player ever to live, in a time when people liked professional basketball before the league started eating from the hands of communist China. But while Jordan was with the Bulls, they won six national championships, so obviously, he was essential to the team. But a lot of background stuff went on that allowed Michael Jordan to be all he could. He had teammates like Scottie Pippen, who was always a quiet background player who was excellent in his own way, so he drew double teams away from Jordan and allowed some of those games with such spectacular results. Then there was Dennis Rodman, the crazy character who was always causing trouble and drew a lot of attention, again allowing Michael Jordan to be more of what his talents could provide to their full extent. Then there was the coach, Phil Jackson, who had a unique leadership ability to get all those crazy characters pointed toward wins on the court when, if left to their own devices, they would likely have flown apart and destroyed each other. Putting all those unique personalities together in one place without fights is tough. But a good leader like Jackson was able to, and the results were evident, as Todd Hall pointed out in his letter. Perhaps he was thinking about teamwork generically; even Michael Jordan needed a team. But it’s more than that; it’s a leadership element that is the most desired in the world, much more than gold or any precious metal, winning leadership, no matter what organization we are discussing. The Chicago Bulls had it; teams that had Tom Brady on them had it. We see it in specific companies, entertainment, music, and art. And we see it in politics with President Trump.

Rob here is Judge Lyons and these are the kind of people we are dealing with
Looks like Kerry told on these three

When you don’t have your version of Phil Jackson in a leadership role but have lots of wild personalities on a team, like Dennis Rodman, Michael Jordan, and Scottie Pippen, winning isn’t guaranteed.  Great talent can do what great talent does, but wins are hard to come by without leadership.  Someone should have told Judge Lyons and Sheriff Jones that being a bunch of stingy old mustache men with about five minutes left in their careers isn’t enough.  They should be recruiting new, bright people so the Republican Party can win next week, next month, and next year.  But after the way people have seen how the GOP has treated Darbi; who in their right mind would want to play for that team?  Who wants to be thrown in jail because they refused to kiss the ring of some egomaniac that is only in politics because they don’t have that kind of respect anywhere else?  Once they step out of politics and go to Ace Hardware to buy some nails for the house, people stop saying hi to them and treating them like local celebrities.  So they seek personal fulfillment in destructive ways, bringing the party down which reflect in losses at the ballot box.  If the Republican Party isn’t giving the public wins, then people aren’t interested.  And that was what fueled the Chicago Bulls when Jordan was playing there.  Without the successes, they would have just been another team.  But what we have now is a Butler County Republican Party run by older relics hanging on to their past who are jealous of the young, beautiful people, and they aren’t interested in winning.  They are interested in the power of their position.  And if they are shown disrespect, they want to put their critics in jail.  That is precisely what happened to the former Butler County auditor, Roger Reynolds.  And that’s what they are trying to do to Darbi Boddy and many others who are challenging the old farts with playing time, looking for a victory.  But victory isn’t essential to the Republican Party, and the public is losing interest.  And it will take more than a letter from Todd Hall to fix any of that.

Rich Hoffman

‘The Capitalist Manifesto’ by Johan Norberg: Admitting to the only economic system that helps people the most

The change of view of economic fundamentals from the political left

After reading Johan Norberg’s book The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World, I’ll admit to a substantial flood of satisfaction. I mean this wasn’t Ayn Rand, it was a kind of Ikea view of capitalism, but the message was quite clear. I’ve read other books by Johan Norberg and he’s pretty good for what I’d consider a lefty. He’s conservative by European standards, but in America, we have very different ideas of what a liberal is. But to Johan, a liberal means less restriction in market economies in a region that has always been about tyranny, the tyranny of the church, the tyranny of some maniacal king, or secret societies trying to undo everything in the background. The lunatic Karl Marx conceived in Europe the birthplace of socialism and communism. I would never have read the book if I hadn’t seen Elon Musk recommend it. I’m not a fan of Elon Musk. I want him to do well with SpaceX. He makes a good car, but he’s not my idea of a good leader. But he is the richest person in the world, and I have thought it interesting to watch him grow his political perspective to accommodate his needs to move humanity into space and set up a colony on Mars. He has learned quite ostentatiously that a socialist Biden government with Barack Obama still whispering in his ear is never going to get Musk where he wants SpaceX to go. It takes too long to obtain permits, and the Department of Labor constantly harasses him because Musk doesn’t allow unionized labor to manage his manufacturing facilities. So Musk has evolved over time and seems to have fully embraced capitalism now in ways that are pace setting. There are a lot of very interesting observations in The Capitalist Manifesto that are quite delicious and well worth talking about. I think it may be one of the most important books of 2023, and it is undoubtedly impactful to the world’s current circumstances.

A very important book

I’ve been talking about this kind of stuff for many years so the change in tone is not lost on me.  What The Capitalist Manifesto is by Norberg is a confession intended for liberals to read that undoes over a century of lunacy in following Karl Marx.  This is not a book intended for the MAGA crowd in America but the many socialists and communists around the world who still are trying to work The Communist Manifesto into political sustainability.  I remember how vicious that media, in general, was when I worked with the producers of the movie Atlas Shrugged to get the message out about their film version of the Ayn Rand books that were famous around the world but were labeled conspiracy theories of the radical right.  So this Johan Norberg confession is no small matter.  It wasn’t written for me or the fans of Ayn Rand, it was written to the college liberal, the Keynesian economist and the diabolical politician getting rich off the Swamp and all its globalist mechanisms.  Norberg has figured out something that the political left has been very slow to admit to: socialism of any kind doesn’t work.  And it was never going to work, and that capitalism, by free people, the freer, the better, is the key to unlocking the powers of any economy.  This is a CATO Institute view of the world that offers a flood of statistics to show just how much better the world is because of capitalism than it is under any other kind of authoritarian approach.  Norberg presents a dizzying display of real-world examples that everyone needs to come to grips with because we now have enough data to make some sobering judgments.

The Capitalist Manifesto was Norberg trying to explain to global liberals that if they want globalism and if they’re going to fight populism, they had better embrace capitalism and do it quickly.  He’s certainly no fan of President Trump, who he sees as a threat to the global order because he’s a nationalist who wants to close the borders of America to outside influence, to turn in instead of migrating out.  But the impact of financial systems driven by political sentiments couldn’t be more obvious.  This book was a white flag from the radical leftist points of view that capitalism was the only solution to global problems such as poverty.  There is no other economic approach that has improved the lives of so many, and as if to solidify critical opinion about capitalism, Johan Norberg cites many instances where Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx himself admitted that capitalism is the best and only way to approach economic theory.  And to argue against any notion that centralized planning does anything but harm people economically and is a background contributor to many of life’s many miseries.  This was a book attempting to capture the MAGA message of free markets in America and stamp liberalism to it as if it was their idea all along.  Again, Norberg has kind of an Ikea view of the world; I wouldn’t call Sweden a bastion of capitalism.  They only look that way because the rest of Europe has the heavy fog of communism and socialism hanging over it in such a devastating way.  America has an expectation of freedom that Europe does not have.  But to even say the word “capitalism” in Europe is taboo, similar to saying that your father has a mistress or that mom is wearing red panties under her white dress to church.  Nobody has been willing to admit these secrets in public until now. 

As I closed the book, I realized I had just read something that would set the tone for the next several decades.  It was a victory in many ways that the enemies of the world understood that they would never win against capitalism.  And that even liberal-minded people like Musk and Norberg, who are poster children for the World Economic Forum, or at least had been until the realities of populism rising around the world forced them to look in the mirror and give up on Marxism wholesale.  The Capitalist Manifesto is not an American book.  I tried to buy a copy at my local Barnes and Noble, but they didn’t have it.  The book ships out of the United Kingdom, so we’re not discussing an American product trying to explain capitalism’s values to the world.  This is coming from a European perspective, where socialism was born and raised to the detriment of most of the world.  Johan Norberg understands that only capitalism has worked to solve many of the problems that Democrats and their many versions regionally are concerned with.  The only way to help people is to find a way to put more money in their pockets that doesn’t involve the government stealing it from people who have made money and giving it to people who were too lazy to work for it.  I can’t recommend this book enough; it’s an avalanche of admissions that culture must embrace.  And within its pages, we can see the future, where liberals are finally going to get on the side of conservatives because they must.  They may even try to steal capitalism as their own, which would be expected of them.  But whatever the case, the world will change for the better as a result, and things will look a whole lot different economically, in a good way, in the decades to come because of the admissions in this book. 

Rich Hoffman

There is no Right-Wing in America: The various levels of accepting Karl Marx that destroys people from the inside out

For a lot of reasons this 2023 election has been contentious, but we must clear something up.  In America, there is no such thing as “the radical right.”  The political spectrum that so many people report, especially in the media, is all based on Karl Marx.  Karl Marx is the center position, and we measure everything off him.  When we talk about a political centralist, we are talking about Marx and people who have accepted various degrees of Marxism over time.  In America, we created our own definitions for things, most of which center around the Constitution, which was most displayed at the beginning of the country, such as Federalists and Anti-Federalists, which I most identify with.  And our American Constitution represented a right and left position to some extent.  But around the rest of the world, and what has been adopted by the global media, it is Marxism that they build their entire presumption around, and it is all wrong.  Their political spectrum is just another scandalous trick meant to lower people’s aversion to Marxism so that various degrees of acceptance could take place in America.  But at the core of most American politics is this mysticism as to why people seem to behave so much differently than the aristocratic ruling class which wants to separate the ordinary people from those who desire to boss other people around.  Marxism was their little curtain like the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz, where they could hide behind something and rule over others from a powerful central government, and a lot of people who came out of their childhoods with such desires accepted Marxism to various degrees to satisfy those inner insecurities.  But America was designed to get away from Marxism, which is a European creation and an export to other cultures, which it has destroyed many in its wake.  But in America, it just isn’t applicable. 

A lot of people during the 2023 elections have said of me and others in the MAGA movement that we are right-wing, which I find perplexing.  I watched old westerns like Gunsmoke, Little House on the Prairie, Davy Crockett from Disney, and Zorro as a kid.  Those are products from an unusually free country that had expectations of personal identity that is unique in the world and there is a reason we don’t see those kinds of stories being produced by modern-day Hollywood.  Because the Marxists, as I have explained and which is quite well chronicled now, intended to take over Hollywood, destroy those types of stories, and present the public with Marxist propaganda.  A really good example of that is in the movie Kong: Skull Island which just had China buy up Legendary Studios who produced the film.  I’ve talked specifically about this movie on several occasions and there are a lot more, this isn’t an isolated incident.  But it is overtly obvious what is going on, and it is an excellent example of how the movie industry gradually accepted various levels of Marxism, socialism, and communism into their lives.  To the point where in 2023 the political scale is so distorted with tainted perspective that nobody even remembers where the baseline was because it has been removed from social discourse.  But people are still people and they believe what they do, the same as they always have.  This attempt to change them has been a failed experiment and it is starting to frustrate the perpetrators.  Out of frustration because they can’t get people to follow them, they refer to those who reject them as “right winged.”  When really, it was people who were never drug to the left to any degree that they are referring to. 

I understand what happens to people throughout their lives; they might experiment with drugs, and they might even delve into a homosexual experience.  At some point in the many temptations of youth, they step away into the darkness of Marxism and start accepting various degrees of leftist ideology, which compromises their integrity, and they end up becoming some degree of a lefty.  Maybe they like the Beatles, who were overt communists in their artistic offerings, or they fear standing alone in the free market and find some powerful government that can distribute fairness attractive, so they start adopting little bits of Marx into their lives to hide from the reality of a competitive existence.  Most of the RINOs I have known over the years fall into one of these categories.  At some point, they did drugs, drank too much, cheated on their spouses, and lost their ability to be “holier than thou,” so they accept little bits of lefty politics to hide their shame.  Over time, their political view moved far to the left, and they wanted to believe that they were centralists, when in fact, they were all the dangers of what the Federalists represented, those who love big government to hide their many mistakes in life and still be celebrated in social circles as respectable.  After all, don’t all people have those problems?  Well, I don’t; I have never liked socialist classic rock songs, done drugs, or enjoyed a promiscuous lifestyle.  I’m essentially someone who could have walked out of any movie from Hollywood’s Golden Age and am proudly untainted by the corrosive effects of Marxism.  And that makes it easy for me to see various levels of Marxism in other people because their behavior is so overtly leftist, as the Europeans classify it. 

I am sympathetic to people who have lost their way, and I’m happy to help them through the dark caves of life with a flashlight that will show them the path to righteousness.  And when you further peel back the intentions of Marxism, which was wonderfully captured in the book We the Living, our society was designed to desecrate individuals so that they would seek to hide their shame behind Marxism for relief.  I have known this for a long time, especially in my own college days.  I would look at women passed out in the halls of dorms and the apartments of strange young men, equally compromised and disgraced with vomit all over their faces after a night of partying, and I would wonder how they would explain all this to their kids someday.  That kind of personal conduct is an element of Marxism and it was introduced into American culture early as the intrusions of Marxism and his soft socialism were being sold to America during the Industrial Revolution.  When we talk about people being “right-wing” we are essentially talking about people who refuse to accept failure in human conduct as a default mode for living life.  Marxism gives weak people the illusion that they can misbehave, drink too much, cheat too often, and hide their aversion to personal risk with the skirt of the mother government to protect them from too much competition in the world, to shelter their fragile egos from the realities of a hostile world.  Marxism let them believe that they could rule without risk, and be aristocrats without having actually to become a capitalist.  They could appease a docile public with charity and sacrifice just like the ancient Palestinians did when God told Abraham to take the nation of Israel and make it the “Promised Land.”  America is a promised land, and it has been invaded by left-leaning European imports, which Marxism defines.  And some people have accepted it, and from my perspective, they are some degree of a Marxist, depending on how much they use powerful centralized governments to shield them from their many mistakes in life.  There is no right-wing party that validates people who are encumbered with a mistake-riddled existence.  There are only failures and Americans.  Our classic Westerns used to distinguish to a hungry public the difference and show why any form of leftist political ideology is not only dangerous but destroyed people from the inside out.  And I consider anything to the political left of me as devastating to the individuals involved. 

Rich Hoffman

The New Speaker, Mike Johnson: Taking our government back from the Marxists and lobbyists

I keep telling everyone how good conflict is to any management system, especially in politics.  A great example is in how the Speaker of the House race was determined with Mike Johnson, a relative unknown who is probably more conservative than Jim Jordan.  This dumb idea of consensus building is a Marxist concept where one party’s rule convinces other people to make their own decisions for their own best interests.  It does not find the best people for the job, it eliminates them, and it doesn’t matter what field of professional endeavor it is applied.  It’s always the same.  The panic when one of the establishment Republicans was not elected as Speaker of the House was comical.  As I said, we can live without a Speaker of the House.  But the lobbyist culture can’t, and those were the people most vocal when House members rejected all the previous offerings.  The days where we get stuck with people who will sell us out, like Mitch McConnell, are over, and it’s because of how often they have let us down.  The free ride for manipulators of our Representative Republic is done.  We have seen the kind of world they want to give us, and we don’t like it.  So, this Speaker of the House situation in 2023 is just the beginning of many things to come that we could best describe for the bad guys as the “gnashing of teeth.”  After much discussion about who the Speaker of the House would be after Kevin McCarthy was removed for breaking his promises to the Freedom Caucus just a few months earlier, it took time to find someone everyone could agree on, and a typical lobbyist representative was not going to cut it.  The news media had meltdowns daily as to why Republicans couldn’t agree on the next Speaker, and for weeks, no names were seriously considered.  RINO after RINO was put forth, but there was no interest in voting for another “do nothing” just to be a placeholder for the lobbyists from K-Street.  Finally, a good person was elected, Mike Johnson. 

Most people don’t realize, because their lives are so entangled in it, just how much Marxism is lodged into their lives.  I live my life wonderfully free of its effects, so it is surprising to me how much people have been seduced by Marxism over time, and it’s obvious when fights like this Speaker thing show the beliefs of the mass population.  But what else would people believe? Ever since the invention of mass media, the mind control apparatus of vile characters has been working full-time to sell Marxism to the world through its trusted news sources.  Well, trusted until a lack of performance has let us down to the point of no return, which is where we find ourselves today.  People have been disrespected by those who want to essentially rule the world and apply Marxism as their means to maintain control.  I have been writing about it for decades and talking about it for far longer.  This consensus-building nonsense has always been destructive, and it’s the method of every school board in the country learned by their established practices.  We see it in corporate America, even globally.  But in essence, all it is is a rip-off of gullible people taken advantage of by the wolves of the world dressed up as grandma only to eat Little Red Riding Hood.  We have self-rule in America, and it has produced the most excellent economy in the world, which then provides the best opportunities for most people, which is also why the world as a whole is doing whatever it can to get into America.  But the methods of established practices through the nonsense of consensus building is as anti-American as you can get, and that’s why we have so much corrupt politics in Washington, D.C.  Mike Johnson is a decision to move in a different direction.

It is almost a joke that so many people, especially in the media, are surprised by the selection of Mike Johnson to be the new Speaker.  I talk about it all the time; my experience with Washington, D.C., has never been a good one.  I find it obliviously disgusting that there are so many leeches off the system. You see it best displayed if you spend time on K-Street and compare the daytime with the night.  So many people are there with very low moral codes, running around busily as if the work they are doing has any meaning when all they are doing is paving the way for big donors to buy a policy that benefits them.  Going way back into the 90s, I saw the writing on the wall.  Businesses felt they had to pay lobbyists to do essential representation for them because that was how the rigged system was developing.  We had elections, and people would vote, but the representatives did the deeds of those who padded their pockets financially.  And that’s obvious by the bank accounts of many politicians, pigs at the trough like Joe Biden.  It’s not just him, but the SWAMP makes people like Hunter Biden, crack addict losers who live off the efforts of others, just like Marxism produces everywhere in the world.  This is why corrupt people love Marxism because they can permanently hide in the background and never do anything of real merit but still be treated with importance.  And it has allowed political figures to sell off their offices and get rich while the rest of the world clamors in desperation for actual representation in government. 

And I keep telling people that the support of President Trump is not a fleeting thing.  The nature of politics is changing for good not because of Trump.  But people like Trump will only find that people will support them, which is the issue with selecting Mike Johnson for the Speaker role.  These MAGA supporters are looked at as terrorists by the Marxist insurgents who have placed themselves under the wheels of the will of the people because that’s how our system is thankfully designed.  They have been functioning otherwise, but that’s to their detriment.  In truth, Mike Johnson is just the most recent example.  In a few years, there will be people like him running the Senate, too, and running the FBI and Department of Defense.  People were conned; they weren’t stupid.  They got caught trusting bad people, and over time, the clock has run out on that trust.  So, we see people like Trump and Johnson moving into government positions.  The gravy train is ending, and there is no way to stop it, so the media is panicking over how the Speaker was selected.  There will be a day in the not-so-distant future when Trump won’t be in politics any longer.  But the desire for people like Mike Johnson won’t go away.  It will only increase, and that is because people desire proper representation by competent people.  It’s not the kind of sell-outs that gave politics a bad name in the first place.  Everyone should know better than to think that this scam would go on forever.  But people weren’t going to trust these losers perpetually.  People don’t want Marxism in America, so all the plots that have worked to make Marxism the standard of the world were always going to fall short, and those effects are happening as we speak and in ways that nobody has previously considered, to their detriment. 

Rich Hoffman

The Gnashing of Teeth is Coming: It is time for the righteous to have revenge over evil

I don’t think we see a prophecy fulfilled from the Book of Revelation in our present time.  But I do think a lot of very evil, and vile people are trying to make it look that way to hide their various crimes against humanity, such as the election fraud of 2020, the unleashing of COVID by a lab in Wuhan, and the depopulation plan that looks to have been attached to the vaccine mandates.  You could add the destruction of the global economy in there for good measure, the many evils started by the World Economic Forum to establish their Great Reset into international, China-style communism, and you could say things have not been fun.  There are lots of good reasons for people to feel anxious.  But I do think that the biblical references to the gnashing of teeth, especially in Matthew 13:42, are pretty appropriate for the times that are coming, and those people deserve all the pain and misery that come their way for all the vile acts they have done.  The gnashing of teeth is mentioned in a few other places in the bible, and it refers to the response of punishment on the path to justice where the bad guys get their day after a long wait to come.  Specifically, Matthew 13:42 says, “And the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”  That sounds like getting off easy, but we can go with it for the context of this article.  It continues in 43 by saying, “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.  Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”  Not everyone has such ears to hear, and we see that on the nightly news.  Yet righteousness is about to have its day, and I’ll say to all the bad guys out there.  You had your time; we nicely gave you a chance, and now it’s time to pay, and pay you must. 

My thoughts about this came from a comment on this site from someone responding to me on my position on Issue 1, which is a vile constitutional attack on Ohio in new ways to introduce the most radical abortion policy in America that might as well be a modern version of sacrificing children to Baal and Moloch from the ancient land of Canaan, the very reason that God, Yahweh deemed that the Israelites should seize that land and destroy those people for their horrendous villainy.  Upon reading that comment, I thought it was quite suitable for the context needed to describe our present condition.  And it is not for the righteous to suffer as they have now for far too long.  It is up to the perpetrators of evil to gnash their teeth into a fine paste as they suffer punishment for all they have done.  Because what they did, they did on purpose.  They did it with maliciousness.  They had murder on their mind to hold power and manipulate the freedom of others in an occurrence of evil that is far worse than any other previous point in history, on such a vast scale that the human victims don’t even have a point of reference to draw from, except the Bible.  Only such events and thoughts have been captured over a vast span of human history, only to be reflected now when the world’s evil has so pompously displayed itself for all to see.  The gnashing of teeth indicates that it’s their turn to endure the pain they caused and for justice to find them swiftly and ruthlessly. 

There are other parts of the Bible where the gnashing of teeth is mentioned, and the point of reference is always where the wicked must pay for their actions under the hand of the righteous.  All this terror was unleashed with the assumption that the people would behave like sheep and go willingly to the slaughterhouse, and that part of that cover story was to use Biblical reference from the Revelation prophecy as a mass acceptance of fate itself.  Bad guys will be bad guys; we should all accept it and move on.  Jesus would come again to judge the living and the dead; we could go back to our business of appeasing our betters and leave the world alone to its crime and syndicates of ominous power and the abuses that spawn from it.  The bad guys in the world are blowing on the fires set by evil to perpetuate an agenda they profit from.  No question that is the case with Hamas attacking Israel, then all these Marxist-based Palestinian supporters rallying to the cause of victimizing themselves in the aftermath, as if the punishment coming to them, the needed gnashing of the teeth, was somehow Israel’s fault for just existing.  It all goes back to the establishment of Israel in the first place by Yahweh, who looked at the evils of Canaan, which would become Palestine, and deemed it unfit for occupation by a people who worshipped vile, despicable gods from the ancient past with bloodthirsty sacrifice.  Honestly, the issue was never appropriately settled, and now that same evil has been distributed upon the world stage in ways nobody has ever seen before, and now there is a judgment day upon us.  The righteous have the opportunity to gnash the teeth of the enemy. 

All these prosecutors who are trying to eradicate President Trump, to keep him from running in 2024, have it coming, and we don’t want to hear a lot of crying from them when gnashing their teeth will be the only acceptable response.  They did it to themselves.  Along with the punishments that must come from the Covid crowd and all the depopulation murderers who have been using many means of human destruction to propel their deathly agenda, such as abortion in Ohio, the killing of people with dangerous medicine which is very much a present problem and the complete degradation of our health system to accelerate pain and suffering so that big pharma can profit off the misery.  Yes, there are many things to pay for, and the righteous have the right and obligation to unleash their fury.  It wasn’t us who did all these evil things.  We didn’t conduct our lives in such a way.  And those who did have justice coming at them to grind them into dust, where there will be lots of gnashing of teeth.  It’s not like this is the first kind of righteous response that was called for.  But it is for the scale we are dealing with here, global in nature, essentially impacting every person in the world at the same time.  This has indeed been a global menace that has unleashed itself behind the spread of Marxism, and liberal politics masked behind secular fairness for the perpetuation of death and destruction at every opportunity.  And judgment day, in many ways, is the natural response.  And as evil is judged, they should expect things to go badly for them, and they will pray for the day when the gnashing of teeth is the worst.  Because they willingly participated in all this evil with the intent to destroy everything in their path.  And now they have been caught and will have to pay in ways like never before.  And as they gnash their teeth in the fires of Hell and eternal damnation, screaming from the top of their lungs at the pain of it all they need to remember the most important thing.  They did it to themselves. 

Rich Hoffman

Make Sure to Judge and Judge Often: Learning from Ecclesiastes 10:8

One of the dumbest things I have ever heard come out of the mouth of another human being is, “Don’t judge.”  Of course, we should judge, and we should put up high barriers around the things that we love.  I say, “judge and judge often.”  Have strong opinions and cast judgment aggressively everywhere.  And to best illustrate the necessity of this value, I think Ecclesiastes 10:8 best describes the need for review by saying, “he that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.”  One of the reasons we have the mess we have today on so many fronts is that we allowed ourselves to turn off this valuable ability that the human race has to change their environment.  Most animals in the world cannot come up with such conceptual faculties.  They can only function from their biological impulse.  But human beings can alter their environment through their intellect, and in that way, creating something of value and then protecting that value from the impediments of evil is one of the greatest attributes that we have, which is the meaning of that Ecclesiastes phrase.  We live in a world now run by the snakes of evil, as portrayed in the Garden of Eden story.  There are always snakes; the world is full of them and on many layers of life.  They don’t just come in one shape or size, but many.  Snakes are abundant in the world, and they are seeking evil for the way that evil feeds itself.  So, to advance in life, human beings must come up with some way that isolates the mechanisms of the snake, of evil, in our lives.  In our culture, we have created property rights and then defended those rights with barriers, represented in Ecclesiastes as “hedges.”

We can call something evil by its desire to remove value from consideration.  When the snake tempted Eve, we see clearly that the desire was to focus her mind on good and evil instead of eating from the Tree of Eternal Life, which is to say, a life of value.  For evil, it’s in removing value from society that it does its work, whether we are talking about desecrating our bodies from being temples of God, to the kind of language we use, or even having casual Fridays in a business climate.  Divorce has been one of the most intrusive evils to be enacted in our culture, the desire to destroy the concept of family so that children are left vulnerable in an evil world to the intentions of every vile specimen.  Evil wants easy access to the creations that spawn out of value, so desecrating any of those values is their primary objective.  It is why evil wants people to do drugs to abandon their religions, their families, their jobs, their politics, and their values.  Evil is the snakes always tempting Eve away from the Tree of Eternal Life and into the duality of conflict, which sin always controls by controlling what people value or don’t.  Judging others is essential because it does not allow evil to hide in the background of ambiguity and is at the core of any civilized society.  The Bible contains excellent wisdom accumulated from the efforts of the human race over many thousands of years, so it goes well beyond any religious assumption for the afterlife.  What the Bible does best is reflect values from lives well lived or not so well lived and provide that wisdom for future generations to build a foundation of judgment from. 

And that is why it is dangerous to cut down the hedges because that is where the snakes hide.  And when you cut them away, and there is no hiding place, the snakes will surely bite.  Hedges are barriers that we often place around our property to make sure that other people recognize our boundaries and our values.  We value things, whether it be a home, a spouse, children, a job, or a car.  It should be obvious when studying Marxism that much of the premise of collectivism is in removing barriers to ownership, such as saying, my wife, my country, my family, etc.  This is why open marriages are such a disgusting concept, the idea of sharing a spouse with strangers for the sexual excitement of it.  Not only does it desecrate the value of a lifetime commitment to another person, but it also defiles the idea of a marriage that creates a family at the most foundational level.  So we wear a wedding ring as a hedge to let others know we have boundaries.  Snakes might gather there to hide in wait, hoping to catch someone off guard and stumble into their lair of hiding so they might bite them or even consume them.  That is why we have locked doors in our homes, to keep out people who might do us harm.  That’s why we lock our cars in a parking lot so that anybody can’t get into them and drive them away.  So, too, must we have locks on our most personal thoughts and ideas.  Being open to the world is not a good thing because it allows the snakes of our lives easy entry into our most personal possessions.  And yes, the keys to Western Civilization are creating values and defending them because, in that process, we make social value, which the rest of the world is starving for. 

Of course, there must be standards and established protections around those things you love and care for.  And that the evil of the world will embed itself in those barriers but will keep clear of those things you value because of their natural inclination to hide.  That is the way to manage evil.  Not having standards allows evil to move anywhere and to hide in the open, where chaos can camouflage their intentions, which is the problem of modern times.  When we ask why there is so much evil in the world, we have removed our hedges and allowed sin to hide among us at close range instead of the safe distance of our established boundaries.  We must judge, set up barriers against evil, and cast opinions about it.  Once we listened to the dumb serpents in the Garden of Eden, we opened ourselves to this vile existence of living with and putting up with evil instead of keeping our minds on the things that matter.  And we learn what matters through possessions that we seek to protect their value from the world’s evils.  In that process, we keep our minds on the Tree of Knowledge, on the things that matter.  To best fight evil, we must maintain hedges that keep it from the things we most value.  We don’t open ourselves to evil and live without judgment.  To do that, we become no better than animals and every other lifeform just eating, reproducing, and fulfilling some lifecycle of some cellular decomposition.  To live our best life, turn to Ecclesiastes 10:8 and learn the wisdom of the past to bring value to the future and keep those snakes obscured at a safe distance.  Because at every opportunity, they will bite you because that’s what snakes do. 

Rich Hoffman

In the 2024 Election Trump Wins Big: With Kennedy in the race, he pulls votes from Biden

They aren’t brilliant on the Clay and Buck Show. They talk about politics, but they just don’t have the sage advice that Rush Limbaugh always had, and I think corporate media wants it that way. They lack the Metaphysics of Quality as I like to term it from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. They are not at the front of the train but do all their radio work from the caboose, at the back, where things have already happened. So, their thoughts about Robert F. Kennedy getting into the presidential race as a third-party candidate have been way off and the record needs to be set. I have had a lot of people concerned about what they heard on that show, and a few other media sources that all are getting it wrong as to who Kennedy would draw from. The initial impression has been that Kennedy would pull away votes from Trump, similar to what happened in 1992. It would be the opposite: Trump would win easily and it would be Biden who would lose voters to Kennedy, precisely the much-needed independent voters that everyone is always so concerned with. If it happens it will play out very similarly to when Ross Perot ran as a third party, but instead of the Democrat winning in Clinton, it will be Trump winning over Biden, by similar margins. Which would be fitting in many ways, a proper bookend to a period of nightmarish government scandal. A lot of bad things happened along the lines of globalism when Bush entered office on the coattails of Ronald Reagan so people like me couldn’t support Bush. So I worked for the Ross Perot campaign and he peeled away 19%, and Clinton won, and we ended up with not just eight bad years of him, but all the government expansion after 9/11, then the Obama terrorism mess. It’s been rough.

If the election were held today, Trump would win easily in a head-to-head with Biden. Trump is beating Biden in six of the seven battleground states and is tied with Biden in Michigan. The corporate media has been shy about reporting this pronounced trend, but that’s how it’s shaping up. People want Trump back mainly because the economy has been so debilitating. I did notice in my area that gas prices have fallen below 3 dollars per gallon. Well, that is globalism trying to stay in power, it’s not because of Biden, other than all those types of people are fearful of what will happen when Biden is not there anymore. The wrath of the American people is at a full baritone and a quiet fear is emerging regarding the next day, after the next election. Suppose it’s Trump and all the economic policies from Biden suddenly get reversed, which will essentially be the end of the globalist experiment. In that case, many people are going to have a terrible day. So they haven’t been talking about how well Trump is doing this far out, even with all the legal cases. Trump by himself is fine against Biden. People want revenge for what happened in 2020 with the election problems, and they are ready to put their foot down and vote with excessive anger. This globalist economy has been paralyzing for many people, and they are furious about it. So without Kennedy in the race, it’s poised to be a bloodbath against Biden and artificially low gas prices won’t help. It’s too little too late, people have already made their decision. And the EV market problems aren’t going away. The stories will get worse in the coming year, especially in Michigan so there is a lot on the horizon that low gas prices won’t fix for Biden and his globalist insurgents.

Yet with Kennedy in the race, Trump wins easily, perhaps every state.  And if you are Bobby Kennedy Jr., that makes sense to do.  Because for the Democrats to go through the kind of populist alignment that the Republican Party has gone through, they have to take down all their corrupt hawks, and Biden is representative of that era.  So, Kennedy will run, whereas Bernie Sanders was open to a deal to sideline him.  Kennedy’s run in 2024 would be the launch of a 2028 campaign to put his family back in control as the kingmaker of Democrat politics.  And I wouldn’t mind that.  I like Kennedy for many reasons.  I look forward to his next book on the Wuhan Cover-up in December.  I have been waiting for that one for over a year now.  His previous book, The Real Anthony Fauci, has been excellent, and people are slowly learning how wrong and corrupt everything about COVID-19 was.  Kennedy has been great on that front.  He’s not so great on other things, but fantastic on Covid, and we will continue to see fallout as people learn the truth.  This new book will expose the connection of the DOD to the Wuhan lab in China, which is why every month it has continued to push out.  But it looks like December will be the last delay.  And it will be a ball buster, especially going into election season and exposing how much of the Biden administration was involved in the Covid cover-up and using the virus created in a lab in China to seize power they never deserved to have.

But essentially, Trump’s base support will at least be 39% after all the court cases come and go.  Those people will never leave Trump over anything.  Biden, on the other hand, has a base support of around 32%.   The Democrats stick together, but their base support isn’t as significant.  Usually, they make up their numbers with independents who cover that gap.  But if Kennedy is in the race, he will suddenly get around 22% of likely voters, with the remainder sprinkling around the other candidates.  And Trump will get his share of those, putting him quickly into the 40% range, making it impossible for Biden to beat Trump anywhere.  And such a blowout will be fitting, considering how they took power.  It will be the only thing that can heal our nation, and people are poised for it.  And I think Kennedy is so committed to the anti-vax message that has defined Biden’s presidency that he will run to put the issue at the core of the 2024 campaign.  All these horrendous things that came with the Biden administration are coming to a head. They have been trying to outrun them, but it collapses in 2024.  That’s why we have elections on things every four years; it’s just enough time to try something without giving elected leadership time to destroy our country.  So either way, Biden is losing; Democrats have ostracized their best next chance in Kennedy because they tried to crush populism instead of embracing it, and either way, Trump will win.  Campaigning from the basement just isn’t going to work without Covid to shut the world down again, so all the corporate media so profoundly committed to global communism and Marxism are going to be vulnerable, and that revenge people have been wanting is going to get its chance.  And that will be a great day to witness.  That’s how things look one year out from the next election, but it will only get better for Trump over that short period.

Rich Hoffman

I Still Like Sidney Powell: A corrupt court and the Tortures of Terror meant to beat out a confession from innocent people

I still like Sidney Powell. She took the plea deal on the Georgia election fraud prosecution, and people are mad at her. But I get it. She’s broke and doesn’t have much money or the potential to get more money. This is part of the strategy by a corrupt Marxist ideologue such as Fani Willis to prosecute so many people who were part of President Trump’s inner circle, which Sidney Powell was undoubtedly a part of. And what has happened to Sidney since she essentially rooted out the radicalism of the intelligence community in how they have been committing election fraud for many years is what authority regimes have done through all of human history. Regarding this case, the stretch racks in the Tower of London come to mind. The point of such torture was to pull people apart until they confessed to a crime, whether they committed it or not. Then, to use that confession to steer public sentiment in the direction of the agents of tyranny. Fani’s goal is to get people close to Trump to flip on him, get a confession letter and testimony against Trump that she can then use for her real target, taking down an American president. For Sidney Powell, who is out of money and has been on the stretch rack of federal prosecution for many years now, she’s ready to say uncle and get taken off the torture rack. For her six years of probation, a six thousand dollar fine with a few thousand dollars of restitution sounds like a pretty good deal. At this point, she wants the pain to stop. All she has to do is confess to sins she never committed. That is the point of the torture, to begin with.

In America, we are supposed to have an assumption of innocence where the court has the burden to prove you are guilty.  But that’s not how our courts work these days.  Sidney Powell and all of the people in Trump’s circle were considered guilty by association and, once indicted, had to rush to defend themselves from the associated guilt.  There are only two ways to deal with that condition.  To throw money at it, many thousands of dollars, sometimes millions.  Or to self-represent and blow up the internal court workings, which is my favorite method.  But either way, Marxism has moved into our judicial system for many years, and the assumption of guilt that abandons the Bill of Rights purposely.  Sidney Powell had to prove she wasn’t guilty, which cost a lot of money.  Now, if you can afford to play the legal game with lots of expensive lawyers like Trump, you can prove to the court that you aren’t guilty.  But that’s the game: if you don’t have the money to pay off the lawyers for long periods, you can’t win a court case.  That’s not fair.  But that’s not the game these days.  You either disrupt the court’s comfort zone by interrupting their procedural expectations or throw money at the problem with lawyers who negotiate on your behalf.  However, assuming that there is an assumption of justice is the wrong way to think.  Going to court is war, and you must treat it that way.  Their goal is to drain their enemy of resources and resolve until they get what they want out of you. In this case, all Fani wanted out of Sidney Powell was a confession letter and apology, which makes her fake case suddenly have merit against Trump.

Fani Willis and the Georgia prosecution overcharged with the clear intent to drain Sidney Powell and the rest of the Trump inner circle and force an admission by taking a misdemeanor charge instead of all the initial jail time on the table.  When you add up the cost of a trial to prove that you are innocent, you may do so in the end, but you’ll spend a lot of money, which only feeds the corrupt court system.  You might spend millions of dollars to prove you are not guilty, which is corrupt beyond acceptance.  That is not how our legal system is supposed to work.  It contradicts everything our Bill of Rights is supposed to stand for.  But for a Marxist like Fani Willis, who wants to destroy the American Constitution, that is no problem.  I just went through Fulton County, Georgia, so I understand the region’s politics, and Marxism is undoubtedly part of the culture that the courts are now representing.  They know Sidney Powell won’t be the only one to take the plea deal.  Getting her to take it is equivalent to letting the following people in line hear the screams of the tortured victim.  More will be willing to take the deal before ever getting to court, giving this phony prosecution more confession letters and apologies to dangle in front of Trump.  It’s a rigged game beyond corruption, but complaining about it now won’t do any good.  For people who think they would hold up better than Sidney Powell, I don’t think so.  They wore her down just as torture victims have over all of history.  People have their breaking point, and Sidney hit hers.  And there will be many more.  I would advise Sidney otherwise, but she is a good lawyer herself.  Her law license means something to her, so she wants to play by the rules, but to play by the rules means you must willingly get on the stretch rack in the Tower of London and let them torture you.  My method would be to burn it all down and everyone involved, to take them out of their comfort zones and not let them hide behind such a corrupt system. 

It won’t matter when it comes to Trump because the same Marxist activism behind this judicial corruption will also be the prosecution’s downfall.  To present these confession letters to the court and jury doesn’t validate the individual integrity of President Trump himself.  The weakness of Marxism is in its dependency on collective judgment, but Trump’s case is his own.  Without question, Fani’s strategy is to show these confession letters to the jury to give merit to her assertion that election fraud didn’t happen in Georgia, which we know it did.  What will end up being displayed as a result of the case is the gross overcharging that was applied to these innocent people to beat a confession out of them to attempt to turn reality into their own making.  To say that election fraud didn’t occur when it did.  And the Trump team is prepared to show that it did beyond a reasonable doubt.  So, in the end, it won’t matter what Sidney Powell did.  The judicial system tortured her to exploit corrupt activism with political assassinations of presidential politics as its primary objective.  And to hide an actual crime of election fraud behind confessions received from the process of legal torture.  It is not precisely a society of law and order, but rather the same means that communist countries use to prosecute their political enemies.  And Sidney Powell was overcharged to achieve just what they received.  She gets her life back.  And the prosecution gets a confession, which they hope gives them some foundation for a phony case that never had any real merit.

Rich Hoffman

A Review of ‘Government Gangsters’ by Kash Patel: The proof everyone has been looking for

I see it all as turning a corner. The story laid out in Kash Patel’s new book Government Gangsters is irreversibly potent. You can’t unsee it once you have seen it. I have watched America wake up for years to the kind of government that it has, and it’s clear where it’s all going. It’s most evident with the Speaker of the House situation in Congress. The peer pressure pushes for order and compromise, where the voters have had enough. They just want to save the idea of their country, and now they know how bad some of these Government Gangster types are. Just a few years ago, people like me would talk about how bad the government is, and people would squawk about wanting to talk about something else. Now, when it’s evident that the uniparty is willing to pull off their Republican masks to keep Jim Jordan, whom President Trump endorsed, from becoming Speaker and to get Congress going again, we can see who the activists are in our government who don’t want the will of the American people represented in congress but are tethered to lobbyists and international tyrants willingly. They’ve been hiding behind the Republican brand while doing whatever it took to profit themselves no matter how much they sold out our country, and now people can see. They can see how some low-life judge in New York has tried to show power over a former president, Trump, who just so happens to be leading over all rivals, including the current president, in polling one year away from the election, by being ahead in 6 of 7 battleground states and is tied in Michigan. The scam was always in the order of things, and disorder is emerging to expose who these Government Gangsters have always been. And it has been not fun to see.

Kash Patel is no slack-jawed loser; he served high up in President Trump’s administration in several capacities, including Senior Director of Counter Terrorism and Chief of Staff to the Department of Defense. So he was there for most everything directly over many years of the Trump presidency, which most of the Swamp would love to pretend never happened, just as they are currently in denial of the direction of Congress. People don’t want more sell-outs in Congress. They want people like Jim Jordan and a minority of participants in the House on both sides; Republicans and Democrats are hoping that if they drag their feet longer, everything will snap back into the scam that got us all into trouble in the first place. But that’s not happening; people are now awake, although slow to respond. Ultimately, it’s economy that people judge their government by, and this economy isn’t good. There has been a lot of hope that if Robert Kennedy jumped into the race to make it a three-way entanglement, it would help the Democrats. But early polling shows that Trump, one way or the other, no matter what is going on with court cases during the upcoming primary season, will have 39% of the vote. And he will get a share of independents who are sick of the price of milk and eggs being too expensive under Joe Biden. And Trump will win easily. That reality has not sunk in yet, but it will. Rather quickly. Now that these Government Gangsters have shown who they were, there is no way to put all that back in a bottle and move on. Which I think is a great thing, as ugly as it has been.

Early after the election, after I started my Rumble channel, which now has over a thousand videos that get respectable viewership, considering they are primarily about politics, I explained to everyone something I had known for a long time. The mob got tired of running from the law and instead moved into government, so we now call them “Government Gangsters.” It has not been a government for the people by the people but has essentially become a fourth branch of unaccountable government called the Deep State that has captured law enforcement and the military to perform the kind of mob hits that Al Capone was famous for in Chicago. People at the time thought I was overly dramatic, but in 2023, after three years of hindsight, people saw that what I said was true. That it is all too true. We don’t have a government serving the people in America; that was all an illusion, performed through rigged elections, a Marxist-oriented media, and a K-Street lobby that gave easy money to anyone who defected from Constitutional concepts. And once Trump was elected, impossibly because the system was so rigged against something like that, they hit the panic button and started to show who they were all these years. Government Gangsters brings the evidence of just how bad it is, and it is. The FBI has become essentially a hit squad for the Deep State, which has its roots in international finance and a legal system deeply committed to concepts of globalism and the abolition of the American Constitution. Most of the time, all books like this are missing other points of view, but in this case, there is only one view. That our government is out of control and is hostile to the people it’s supposed to serve, and they have now all been caught, and it’s up to voters to sort it all out, which will happen now that it’s all so obvious.

I was in a public place where people watched the Ohio State football game over the weekend with Penn State.  And games like that used to occupy all of America’s leisure energy, but not now.  People remember the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State.  People know how much less money they have to spend on fun stuff during football games like that.  People aren’t nearly as distracted as they used to be, which allowed these Government Gangsters to thrive, hidden in the background.  At a game like that, usually, people wouldn’t talk to me with my guns and cowboy hat looming around in the background.  They would try to ignore me the best they could.  But not anymore.  Instead, they ask me, “When is Trump coming back?  Is he going to beat all these federal charges?  Will Trump be able to get our economy moving again?”  People know I’ve been involved in this stuff for over 30 years.  My answer to them is, and has been, that there will be a lot of turbulence.  Fasten your seat belt; it will be a bumpy landing.  But yes, Trump will be back, beat all the charges, and be able to get the economy moving again the most powerful in the world.  It’s simple: just get rid of the government gangsters, push out the organized crime element of our current government, and things will suddenly get a lot better.  But first, you must admit that there is a problem, which is where many people are right now.  People are hoping and praying for a return of Trump and the destruction of the Government Gangsters, which are now clearly evident for all to see.  But the gangsters are hoping to wait out the storm and are planning on everyone going back to sleep so they can resume their crimes against humanity.  However, America is waking up for good this time, and the results will be inevitable. 

Rich Hoffman

Turning off Lynda O’Conner’s Mic: When the excuses are removed, you see what people really are

Well, of course, the criticism of Lakota School Board President Lynda O’Conner is perfectly warranted, and a couple of political PACs have formed to speak out against her.  A campaign to “turn off her mic” is perfectly justified, which is a reaction to her behavior over the last year, where she has sought to completely control public speech and criticism of her performance as a management body at Lakota.  Too often, people involved in politics forget that after all the election stuff, political people are supposed actually to do a good job.  If it’s a first-time office holder, there is usually some forgiveness for not knowing what they are doing.  But for someone who has been around for 16 years or more, such as Lynda O’Conner has, good performance is expected.  This is a political problem; getting elected is a kind of popularity contest with the ultimate social euphoria, like being elected homecoming king or queen.  The public affirmation is addicting, and it’s nice to be picked by the public to do something.  But then there is the actual problem of doing the job.  This is what is going on with Congress these days, where people are tired of lip service from the Speaker of the House role.  People are tired of broken promises and lackluster performance in their representative government. Over the years, the trend has been pointing toward increased scrutiny as more people are paying more attention to political topics than they used to, especially in public education.  There used to be an assumption that public schools were okay, that kids were getting good, respectable instructions.  Not the actual reality that they are learning centers for Hamas and abortion activism.  Now that people have had to reluctantly admit, in the post-Covid years, public schools have not been tolerant of conservative values when school board members get caught in that crossfire by default, they don’t want to get seen carrying water for liberal causes, which is precisely what Lynda O’Conner was found doing.

One of those political PACs that has come forth against her during this election of 2023, where Lynda is on the party ticket for re-election after doing the job for a very long time, has produced a video showing the primary problem. In the footage, Lynda had the mic turned off of a local advocate giving public statements. Lynda was functioning from bad legal advice from the same kind of people who caused the problem, to begin with, school administrative officers who had behaved detrimentally in public and caused great harm to the school’s reputation. To cover up that damage, Lynda became the most prominent advocate for getting rid of free speech, which is critical to the maintenance of public schools, where the taxpayers fund the entire process. A community representative, which all school board members are, does not get to limit the public’s opinions and openly keeps those beliefs quiet to preserve an idea of Lakota schools, which it did not earn. There exhibited many problems regarding abuse of power that Lynda O’Conner showed during 2022 and 2023 when much of this public drama unfolded, but the biggest problem is found in that video: how she managed public crises that Lakota administrative employees caused. That was enough to cause a lot of people who formally supported her to withdraw that support. And if Lynda wanted to do what was right for the local Republican Party, she never would have put them in this awkward position by running in the next election after all the controversy.

Of course, the problems extend well beyond the cosmetic trouble of abusing power by attempting to cut off public criticism of school board management. And this is more where I am on this topic. Lynda was given a three-vote majority and completely screwed it up with uncovered activism. Before that last election, which saw the successful campaigns of Darbi Boddy and Isaac Adi elected as endorsed Republican representatives, Lynda was given by “us” members of the community who wanted to help her what she said she wanted, which was a majority vote on the board so she wasn’t always the lone victimized voice. For context, many people would tell me about my relationship with Lynda, that she was a RINO and was a liberal. Of course, I would reply, “I will stand by Lynda until she proves otherwise.” Lynda would complain that she was the only one willing to vote for conservative ideas on the Lakota school board in a conservative district. So, some of us got together and gave her the requested help. But rather than rejoice over the matter, Lynda had been exposed as the liberal everyone warned me she was. Because now that she had the votes, she would be uncovered. She was pleased to double-talk with Julie Shaffer and Kelly Casper while having public spats with Brad Lovell to sell her conservative brand to the community. But it was all show business. When Lynda was handed the President role with a majority vote, she had no further excuses for performance, so she immediately picked a fight with Darbi Boddy over nonsense political issues and moved to separate Isaac Adi from Darbi, which has resulted in a lot of chaos meant to disguise her liberal inclinations.

Darbi Boddy became the scapegoat for Lynda’s sins as a liberal posing as a conservative to win public support between election cycles. As long as Lynda was a victim, she could always say, “Look, I’m being outvoted. I can do nothing to stop the out-of-control spending, the genderless bathrooms, and social degradation from the teacher’s union.” But once those excuses were taken away, suddenly the new reason was, “Darbi isn’t professional and is bringing harm to our efforts through negative news stories,” which, of course, Lynda and Julie leaked to their contacts to drive the narrative, all while turning off the microphone to the public so they could attempt to contain public opinion. Truthfully, the Republican Party endorsed her out of friendships, the kind of sympathy formed by the challenges of the popularity contest of elected office. And compassion that politics is changing and the public expects a decent performance from their representatives. So Lynda put them all in the wrong place, and being so politically astute, she should have known better. I don’t see any political difference between Julie Shaffer and Doug Horten, who is also running. The only school board candidate I can support in this election is Russ Loges, who seems sincere and willing to work hard. But we know what we are getting with Lynda. And I didn’t suddenly become a Julie Shaffer fan. Everyone is asking me why I haven’t put up the video on so many phones of bad behavior showing Julie in compromising positions. You can’t pay me enough to look at that trainwreck in such compromised states. I’d instead rather not think about it personally, everyone by now knows the stories. These people are disasters, and we could do a lot better as a community, and we did have options. And instead of those options working for the Republican Party healthily and productively, they are now on the outside working to expose bad behavior, which is expected from politics once the elections are over. We hope people actually to be conservative and stand for constitutional values. And Lynda hasn’t done any of those things.

Rich Hoffman