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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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The Evendale Nazis: Occult attempts to get leverage over political rivals hidden behind historical perspective

I know a lot of people, so I think I would know somebody who would be connected to the Nazi group that tried to cause some trouble in Evendale, Ohio, displaying swastikas and other Nazi imagery in an attempt to ignite a race war.  With their masked faces and an apparent effort to look like Hitler’s followers with nicely pressed clothes that looked fresh off the rack from Party City, my very first thought was that these were a bunch of government workers, probably public school teachers trying to inspire hatred by stirring up people of color to rise and fight against the daily barrage of change from the Trump administration.  It was a pathetic attempt by people who don’t know their history or understand why America is turning away from all this name-calling control and back toward tradition, to cause the kind of social unrest that the national news would cover and convince people to go in a different political direction.  It’s not working; the Marxist left is trying to portray the Trump administration and his conservative supporters as racist Nazi lovers.  The Nazis were always convenient bad guys as established in our culture, and they were, by European standards, socialists and certainly weren’t freedom-loving patriots of small government as the Tea Party movement emerged, and from that, MAGA, which put Trump in office.  These were people who didn’t know their history and who were trying to take the shame of Nazi imagery and control the public narrative of that ignorance.  There is a lot more going on with the Nazis and the administrative state population control behind the memory of that occult-based military takeover of the world that runs much deeper than modern politics.  The swastika, for instance, is one of the oldest occult symbols in the world and has been seen in just about every culture at a time when people weren’t supposed even to be able to build boats large enough to cross an ocean.  The oldest known swastika in the world so far that we have found has come out of Ukraine, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, in the village of Mizyn.  So there was a lot more going on with these Evandale Nazis than just some government workers trying to cause a media dispute to stop the Trump administration.  It was older, occult-driven, and much more sinister but every bit as stupid.

I know more about the Marge Schott story than I would otherwise care to.  When in 1996, the owner of the baseball team The Cincinnati Reds at that time, Schott, said during an ESPN interview that “Hitler was good at the beginning, but he just went too far,” a crusade to remove her from society began, and all rational thought went out the window.  A decade before she made these comments, I knew Marge Schott through a guy who claimed to be her grandson so that he could try to date my wife, which was a whole story of its own.  Well, Marge didn’t have any kids, and in those days, I knew many people in Marge Schott’s circle of influence, so I could root the guy out for the fraud he turned out to be.  Not that he was any competition to me, but he certainly wanted my wife, and the best way to show what a deceitful liar he was, was for me to show that he was lying about who he was and connect him to a more extensive network of con artists who were pretending to be connected to powerful, wealthy, Cincinnati families to take advantage of innocent, beautiful young girls in the modeling profession.  Through all this crazy activity, I got to know Marge Schott a bit, and I always felt bad for her after the comments she made were used to essentially destroy her publicly and force the sale of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team to a different owner.  It was a clear early sign of woke behavior in using controversy to make public opinion adhere to a political message meant to control the mass population.  Marge said some things that were her genuine opinion, which were being used to control social politics and status in society in general. 

The truth is that many people supported Adolph Hitler, including the royal family of England.  After World War I, after the Treaty of Versailles, the powers that wanted to form an alliance against sovereign nations tried to use the League of Nations to rally everyone to the cause of globalism, and they went too far with the German people.  And that gave rise to Hitler, and many people followed him as a pushback against the first attempt at globalism, just as many of those same forces have tried to do with modern-day Putin and even Trump.  Not that any of these people are alike, other than they run the countries they come from, but the sticking point is that they all received public support for supporting national sovereignty over globalist trends.  When Hitler went “too far,” as Marge Schott meant, he had moved toward mass extermination of the Jewish people, for a whole list of new bad ideas that came from the power that had gone to his head. 

But what is most concerning about the Nazis and Hitler was how they connected the political party to occult practices.  This is why I have been talking a lot over the years about how much of the occult is wrapped into our modern politics, even to the point where the Elohim who work against God are political assets for modern-day Marxist incursions into an otherwise peaceful, and successful society.  The occult use of ancient symbols, such as swastikas, is an attempt to cover up just how much of a relationship many people in the world try to use from the spirit world to invoke their menace on the face of the earth.  Imagine the Genie from the popular Disney movie Aladdin being able to serve whoever rubs the magic lamp and grant wishes to the master.  To occult practitioners, that is a secret weapon they seek diligently. You find it all over modern political movements, a desire to use occult efforts to get leverage over political opponents, and the Nazis showed success in this alliance. Still, because it all went bad, the nature of that relationship was being pushed underground, so general people wouldn’t make the connection.  That’s when things start falling apart socially; in the past, these types of people have been able to invoke Nazi imagery to steer people toward some emotional catastrophe and manipulate society toward those sentiments rather than reveal their true intentions of occult concealment for mass social control.  I saw this happen up close with Marge Schott more than twenty years ago, and now well-ironed cosplay Nazis were running around Evendale trying to start a race war ahead of Trump closing down The Department of Education.  This trick had worked in the past, but people were growing tired of it because the historical references of swastika use were very shallow in the scheme of things.  The Nazis were only the most recent to use them for a relationship with something much more significant and terrifying, the religions of the world that predated human civilization as we know it today, to a time before the earth began, and the ramifications of that are horrendous to those with shallow intellects.  As I say all the time, look where there is war, such as in Ukraine, with many hidden secrets of the past that are there, and you will find people trying to hide that past through violence and emotional diatribes.  And in the case of the Evendale Nazis, we are seeing terrified radical Marxists trying to use events of the past to conceal the real problem that has been exposed by the light of day.

Rich Hoffman

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Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws: Without a piratical effort, corruption would have won in 2024

I’ve been telling conservatives since before even the Tea Party movement that they needed a piratical effort to fight conventional politics.  The reason they kept losing to an inferior socialist global plot was that they did not fight back.  They might have had good ideas, but they couldn’t defend them from radicalism, and Saul Alinsky understood that and used that knowledge to build the Democrat Party on very loose sand on a beach.  But they survived because they essentially turned off the water of ideas, so there was never a high tide of ideas to wash away the sand castles of assumptions that they had built.  So they could appear strong and superior because they controlled the water, not the ideas that propelled society, keeping their dumb ideas from washing away.  But the first thought I had when Mika Brzensnski and Joe Scarborough flew to Mar-a-Lago to have a meeting with President Trump, after all the trouble they have caused him over the last 8 years, I put the credit more toward the WarRoom audience of podcasters who had formed to create alternative MAGA media, more than the valiant efforts of President Trump.  Not to take anything away from Trump, he needed to be tough and drive through all the opposition to win this massive election of 2024.  In this second American Revolution, he will go down in history as the modern George Washington, and nobody can take it away from him the day he was shot in the head, and his first instinct was to stand up and pump his fist in the air yelling fight, fight, fight, to a roaring crowd.  Nobody worked harder than Trump, but he couldn’t have done it alone. Instead, what had been missing from these rebellious enterprises is the pirate element of the modern versions of John Paul Jones, which is precisely how Steve Bannon sees himself, and the work of the WarRoom podcast over the last four years that has become a powerhouse in media.

Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro spent the summer in jail for defying a corrupt January 6th Congressional Committee that was attempting to hide election fraud and the crimes of Covid behind some government insurrection they created to have a coup against President Trump and to send a warning across the bow of all Trump supporters the Department of Justice prosecuted many of the people shown in the new book by WarRoom Books, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws released right around the election to commemorate all the great work done by the people who set up and became the voices of the WarRoom posse, as they like to call themselves.  I rushed out to get the book because, like the Trump coffee table books, this is a big book that is mostly pictures but one that captures this period of history extremely well.  The people celebrated in the book are some of the people who, if they didn’t do what they did, there wouldn’t have been a successful MAGA media to challenge the mainstream media and their capture of everything people saw and heard.  Like John Paul Jones harassed under the guidance of Ben Franklin, the most powerful navy in the world during the First Revolution, the equivalent these days was the global mainstream media, and what was done by the WarRoom during this Second American Revolution was on the same scale.  We needed a place in the media where the rebels and outlaws could help the American cause of preserving the Constitution and selling it to the world.  That is precisely what was captured in this new book: the efforts of many people who did not do the safe thing and sat on the sidelines.  They worked the behind-the-scenes stuff to a massive effect.  One of the reasons that election fraud was managed better in this 2024 election, and we did learn that Trump won during the prime time hours and that cheating didn’t go on to keep him out of office in the days after that, was because of the pressure of the WarRoom. 

I’ve seen this pirate effect work up close and have been doing it myself for a long time.  So, I have been telling thousands of people how to do it.  And Steve Bannon was just the kind of guy to do it, as he had done over at Breitbart after Andrew died suddenly.  Steve carried that alternative media to significant levels and was recruited by the Trump team during the first term as a key strategist.  However, the pressure mounted by the traditional forces and Steve left the White House and essentially started the WarRoom podcast, which reported news twice daily and even on Saturdays, far better than anything the mainstream media was doing.  What the WarRoom was able to do was essentially replace The Drudge Report with alternative news and The Rush Limbaugh Show for the conservative audience once he died shortly after Biden took office in 2021.  Those were some very dark days.  I continued doing my own pirate efforts, and they worked very well.  But there weren’t many places to go for news until the upstart Real America’s Voice provided a place for people who were sick beyond sick with the betrayal of Fox News.  And the WarRoom started partnering with them to provide what many have since called MAGA media. 

Good, it will save us from firing them

But this isn’t just about a successful media enterprise. Many of the people pictured in that book were openly harassed by an established order of criminal-level government that grotesquely abused their power. This is one of the reasons that Trump has indicated that he has no other pick for Attorney General other than Matt Gaetz, who is also featured in the book.  Many names, like Mike Lindell, who had very successful companies, were personally sought after to be destroyed because they supported President Trump and were the kind of people who stuck with it every day and fought back with everything they had.  Alex Jones is in the book, and we all saw what they tried to do to him.  So is Rudy Guiliani, who, as of yesterday, had lost everything he had but a good cigar and openly laughed at the forces of evil that were trying to destroy him with bankruptcy utterly.  No, Trump is going to support those who fought hard in the background to put him back in office, and to a large extent, that is why the Morning Joe crew at MSNBC had to bend the knee to Trump, as is most of the media.  Oh, don’t get any fancy ideas of reconciliation.  These people are out of gas and are in that condition mainly because of the WarRoom as a media outlet.  Charlie Kirk is one of the brightest political minds of modern times, and he is featured in that book.  And I love the book because history will look very kindly on all the people in it and many who didn’t make it.  I think people like Grace Chong should undoubtedly be in it, but probably isn’t because she doesn’t like to draw attention to herself.  There are many more who aren’t in the book, but those who are are examples of how to do these things in the future, and we need to remember who they are and what they did to help save America.  And the effort that actually requires people to fight back and not just take what an established order gives you.  And without these outlaws of a criminal government, we would not have had the election win of 2024 that we did have.  This is why the book Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws is such an important book to remember of these very dark times. 

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, the Media is Filled with Stupid People: If you want the job done right, sometimes you just have to do it yourself

It seems like I am answering many questions lately from people who have long wanted to ask.  Such as, why have I put so much effort into writing a 1200-word article every day on this blog site, much of the time, accompanied with video for over 15 years.  The answer is that I can do a better job than anybody else in the media, and I say that because over the last 20 years, I have known the kind of people who end up in media, and if we want to tell the story by reporting media, then you can limit the news to the type of people who are typically picked to be in it.  And I say that because I would know.  There was a large part of my life where all I wanted to do was to be a film director and movie producer.  If you go through my writing over the last 15 years, you’ll see a very distinct break by me from all media outlets around the first election for Trump.  Once I came out in favor of Trump, everybody turned on me.  But before that, people in the business tolerated me.  They even invited me to movie sets with A-lits actors and charming dinners in Glendale and Santa Monica, California, to discuss brewing projects.  But there came a time around 2009 when Barack Obama was president when we all had to decide.  The Tea Party movement needed the modern version of Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, and even John Paul Jones, who could work a revolution from the background.  I also got to know good people who broke away in the media, and I was one of them.  Of all my contacts, I knew quite a few people at Clear Channel Radio, which I utilized to advance Tea Party causes, who would eventually move over to Glenn Beck’s Blaze.  So yes, I have had a lot of opportunities in media. Still, I found through personal experience that people who make a living in media are a particular kind of person. If the truth were going to be told about things, then I would have to take away those elements myself, which is what I have been doing now for quite a long time.

So, doing the blog for me is similar as to why Trump wants to run for president.  It costs him money to run for a political office, and everyone knows what he has been through to do it.  We need the same kind of commitment from people who can afford to, at all levels of society, if we want to make America Great Again.  I gave up on the idea of being one of them in media by identifying myself with the Tea Party movement, and I found over the next five or six years that I could do a lot better on my own.  I know the kind of people who read my blog and do it because they get better news than they do from newspapers and broadcasts, and they get it every day in a way that tells a whole story on a topic instead of some little fragment.   And I don’t do it for fame or opportunity, but because it’s a job that needs to be done. It could only happen if you didn’t care what people thought and didn’t need anybody to pay you to do the job.  So, from top to bottom, I know media personalities at all levels and understand the personality types who survive in the business, and I determined that I would do the job myself if I wanted it done right. 

I would say most media types are whores.  I found it reprehensible what Clear Channel did to Doc Thompson, a pretty good friend who worked directly for Glenn Beck after quite a lot going on behind the scenes.  For a long time, I was careful not to call people out too much because chances were, they would call me to be on a show.  I’d write a book, and my publishers didn’t want me to rock the boat personally with things, so I tried to keep personalities out of my comments.  But during Trump’s last term, when I saw how everyone treated him, especially in the media, I just tossed all that out the window and stopped answering the calls or appearing anywhere.  Of course, I alienated people at a significant personal cost to me.  But that’s OK.  I have done what I think is a good job on a desperately needed topic.  Because most people who are in the media, and survive there, aren’t very good people for many reasons.  In Cincinnati, there was a time about a decade ago when I knew most every media personality on a first-name basis, and I had their phone numbers and would send them text messages often throughout the day.  Even in 2019, when I was on vacation with my wife at the Epcot Center in Florida, I had the media people at Channel 12 wanting to know the latest on the Trump front in Butler County, and I reluctantly took the call because I liked the guy.  But it was a nowhere story to feed a narrative they didn’t really want to get.  All the media personalities were cheerleading for the removal of Trump, and I lost any desire to correspond with them. 

So because the media is such a mess, and when Trump calls them “fake news,” I know all too well what he means.  He understands it because he was a media darling for a long time, and they invited him into their world.  Trump used that knowledge to be president and started to untie all the shoes of the rat-infested substructure of all media during that first term.  There were a lot of people who had to make hard decisions, and I was certainly one of them.  And I’m glad I did.  I think if I hadn’t poured millions and millions of words that people needed to hear into this AI-infested media climate, there are a lot of influential people who would only have had Fox News and some conservatives from New York writing books to help shape their courage where it matters in day to day matters.  I have always been good at media, like many people.  But what was different about me was that I could do other things, too.  I didn’t have to eat out of the hand of some money investor who wanted to drive a media narrative, especially once Trump became involved in the story.  I was free to talk about Trump any way I wanted.  Many might remember the radio broadcasts I did out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 2016 to 2018.  It was a privately owned radio station where I frequently hosted Saturday shows.  I would talk about the benefits of the Trump presidency, and even they were reserved because it was the culture of media that was a problem, and they needed advertising dollars to stay open, and they were always worried about being shut down by the FCC and their advertisers.  So, I have been writing this blog for a long time now.  I am happy with the work that has been a slow trickle working in the background for a long time.  And I have done it because I wanted to, because I wanted people to hear at least a critical opinion that was not at all whored out to any money tied interest.  I’m glad all that occurred.  But yes, from my knowledge, I can say it: the media is filled with people who are not very smart and incapable of seeing the big picture.  And the big picture is where the story always was.  Telling that story takes a perspective of freedom that cannot come from an insider.  Of course, the cost to all that is lost opportunity, financially.  But the value exceeds money by a lot because, in truth, there is an expansion of the human race for which we presently sit on the precipice in ways that seemed impossible just a few years ago.  Yet, here we are.  And yes, it was all worth it.  Things don’t always work out the way you think they will.  But often, because you do things for the right reasons, things work out for the better.

Rich Hoffman

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Kevin McCarthy Had To Go: We have representatives in America, not leaders who can be captured by globalism

The biggest problem with modern politics is that we’ve tried to take an American republican form of government and mix it with this Marxist globalism concept, where consensus-building values are the value system.  The American government is supposed to be boisterous and combative.  I do not mean it in an over-the-top way, but in the values that should be pursued in government, where honor and valor drive decisions.  Not administrative state passive-aggressive manipulations.  Of course, when you have a government built on passive aggression, you will have a failure, and that is the case of every Marxist government that there is, whether they are outright communist governments like China, Cuba, and North Korea or socialist governments like what they have in England, all the EU, Mexico, Canada and most of South America.  The globalist standard has been Marxism consensus building, where individuals are twisted into accepting the whole of the mob despite what the people electing these people wanted. It has been a disastrous failure, especially in America, with everyone in the world trying to steal our money. Politicians are all too tempted to give it away to make all their global friends and lobbyists happy.  At least with dueling, individuals had a measure of respect that backed their actions, which showed in successful government.  And in that spirit, it was about time that Kevin McCarthy was thrown overboard as Speaker of the House.  Matt Gaetz did an excellent job of sticking to his promises and showing that he’s not afraid of conflict by not falling in line with the mob, and that’s how a good government is supposed to work.  We have been functioning from all the wrong measures for too long, leading to significant problems for the American government that must be fixed. And removing Kevin McCarthy from his speaker role was an essential first step in what will happen over the next few years. 

This was obvious after what the World Economic Forum tried to pull on America during the Covid crisis, which they were at the heart of.  They didn’t understand American forms of government, where we have representatives instead of leaders.  And they thought, just as they have done with corporate structure, that if they capture assets like in chess, they capture the whole thing through consensus building.  However, the American form of government was meant to slow down these communist ambitions and put the decision-making process on a representative republic where representatives of the population were elected and sent to do the people’s business.  In that understanding, Matt Gaetz is the perfect representative acting on behalf of his constituents.  Kevin McCarthy was not because he had strayed away from representing his voters, and instead was getting pulled into all these other directions that globalism desires.  More irresponsible spending to establish a continuing resolution on a budget that is way out of control.  Nobody wants to see Kevin McCarthy work with many loser Democrats who wish to destroy our country.  And because he did, he should be removed.  And if such a fight becomes personal, let them fight it in the street.  That is much better and more honest than what we have been getting from the government.  All the dishonesty of such a passive-aggressive government shows itself in inflated spending because, to hide all the malice, the government steps into a giveaway mode to buy off the public the same way that consensus-building monstrosities have bought off our politicians.  And the whole deal gets blown up into the kind of disaster we have witnessed for decades.  It is not good that it has taken this long to remove the Speaker of the House for not performing correctly; it should have happened long ago.  All this politeness costs money. 

Klaus Schwab has been increasingly frustrated with the American West in that he sees so much pushback with the direction of his Great Reset that he’s been asking leaders to turn over management to the World Economic Forum to implement all their dumb ideas.  I told you guys over a decade ago about Socialist International and other Marxist organizations that are at the center of everything the European Union is up to.  Klaus and the gang do not understand the American government, nor do people like Larry Fink and Bill Gates, prominent investors in globalism, as direct advisors to the World Economic Forum.  The key to their Marxist push with their economic plans for globalism entailed asset capture.  If they can capture an institution, such as a political party like Republicans and Democrats, they could control the institution’s direction.  But they missed that American politicians are supposed to represent Americans; they don’t lead Americans.  Americans don’t want or need leaders.  They only want someone to do the work of government that they don’t have time for.  So when the Administrative State captured all the leaders of the world for the efforts of Covid management, which was essentially a capture of capitalist systems of economic activity and directing them to Marxist measures to remove the push of capitalism to the pull of communism, the assumption was that America would be steered where required by the World Economic Forum.  But that’s not what happened in America; politicians who went in that direction had their power removed, which is why checks on political power are so necessary in the American government.  It is supposed to be messy because people are messy.  And honestly, we must deal with the chaotic nature of governance before any excellent work can be done.

Kevin McCarthy was Speaker of the House over one of the most historical periods in American history, where we have a criminal family in the White House, which massive election fraud put him there, we have out-of-control border crossings and drug cartels essentially running the governments of America and Mexico, we have sex trafficking occurring everywhere untended, and we still have to punish the people involved in Covid.  And McCarthy was making deals with Democrats over a government spending itself into oblivion with more than 30 trillion dollars in debt.  Talk about a clown show.  Every member of Congress should have been just as outraged as Matt Gaetz was.  And that there weren’t indicates how many of them have become out of touch.  They see themselves as leaders more than representatives, which wasn’t what they were elected to do.  Most everyone, from Sean Hannity to Mark Levine, has missed the importance of the Kevin McCarthy removal.  Even Trump misses the point when he points out that Republicans fight each other while Democrats get along.  That is because the means they use to value government is wrong and built around Marxist ideas of consensus building instead of the conduct of a representative republic.  Most everyone, even people many consider the most intelligent people in the world, have missed the obvious.  America was never designed to be led by leaders.  The government intended to cool the jets of the power grabbers and prevent them from the kind of globalist deals that have caused us so much trouble.  We have a government in desperate need of accountability to the voters, not submission to authority, which has been the assumption.  And why so many people miss the importance of why Kevin McCarthy had to go, and many like him, is they are measuring the wrong values.  Our republic will survive; we don’t need leaders.  We need people to keep the government small and out of our way so that good things can happen in the country with the largest economy.  This is no accident, and why the Marxists in the world are licking their lips to get a hold of all that wealth by capturing what they thought were leaders when they were just representatives all along?

Rich Hoffman

Future Debates are Over: Trump is redefining the expectations of politics for the better

It’s an exciting trend, not a surprising one, but certainly telling, and that is debates no longer matter in presidential politics, and as a byproduct of that, money is much less of a factor.  One thing that was grossly obvious in the last Fox News debate was how much things have changed in just a very short period, and if you watched it, or at least some of it as I did, you can see a desperation from the cable news networks to assert a power that they used to have over the process, which they are desperate to hang on to.  Among those under 10% types, there was a consistency to bend allegiance to the media moguls who wanted to set the presidential agenda around consultants and Beltway priorities to keep a globalist narrative on track.  And Trump wisely stepped beyond those controls, leaving essentially the old-world Republicans to battle it out for the bottom in an utterly meaningless debate.  While the discussion was occurring, Trump, of course, did his now famous Tucker Carlson interview, which very quickly gathered up a quarter of a billion views, so the differences in future state politics and the past that have been primarily controlled by consulting firms and media tycoons couldn’t be more obvious.  It’s all about the horse race and the coverage leading up to it for all the parasites who have injected themselves into the process and, over time, taken complete control of the narrative.  But that’s changing now, as it should have long ago.  All presidential politics should be about managing the republic and nothing else.  However, just like in sports, we have turned a game into it, and many people have figured out how to make a living off the coverage of that game. Some have even toyed with the idea that they can run the country if only they force the candidates to stay within the debate framework established by the media. 

One of the big arguments that were made toward Trump joining the Fox News debate was that if the President started a trend of not participating in discussions, then Joe Biden would likely skip doing any arguments in 2024.  Well, I have news for everyone: Joe Biden will never do any more debates.  His handlers will not put him on a stage to talk outside a controlled format.  It’s just not going to happen.  There will be no presidential debates in 2024, which, of course, all the people who make their living covering the horse race of politics find devastating.  But that’s a good thing because all those tag-alongs were useless anyway.  The debates in elections were meant to show people who the candidates were.  But they have evolved into setting the presidential agenda.  Everyone knows who Trump is; he’s the most famous person on Earth.  Nobody is going to learn anything new about Trump after a debate.  The only people who would benefit would be the people hosting the discussion and trying to sell airtime while covering the horse race of politics.  That is essentially all Fox News is and has been for a long time.  They cover the horse race but don’t care much for what horse wins.  They make their money off the event’s coverage, not the actual results in the aftermath.  This kind of culture has led to all the wrong priorities, leading blank-minded candidates to dance to the strings of media owners who then take the business of the republic and form fit it into their business needs. 

During his last term, Trump showed how easy it is to fix many of these issues that consultants have been getting in the way of for a long time, which has hidden itself behind the debate culture of the past.  That’s another reason the media hates Trump; he has exposed this game.  He doesn’t need the money that donors can give, and he doesn’t need the media to make him into a star.  He’s his own person, which infuriates the consultant class.  They can’t make him who he is; he doesn’t need them, which is one of the scariest realities they could have for a lot of people who are parasites in the world–not to be needed, and Trump doesn’t.  It also points out the political change where money is used to buy influence.  Money doesn’t have so much power these days because the game used to be that the media would make a star out of a candidate, and that star would then use that success to raise money, so the money could then be used to buy airtime on the media that created the star, to begin with.  Trump has stepped over that entire process altogether.  It’s all been a shell game that has benefited the wrong people.  The voters have been used to generate the money, but they never get what they want out of politics, leaving everyone perpetually hungry for the next horse race, which Fox News starts covering three years before an election.  It’s been a big scam that does nothing to help solve problems; it only makes money for those who cause all the trouble in the first place, and people are no longer interested.  That may be terrifying to the people who make money off politics, but it’s a changing business, and they’ll have to adapt. 

The Biden people ripped off the scab when they tried to put him in office with a campaign in his basement during Covid.  Trump and Biden had a debate that year, 2020, but they fell short of completing the traditional three that had preceded their terms.  Biden is a primarily handled media caricature kept in power by stolen elections, just as most communist countries stay in control.  Only in America people know better because we do have a free media culture.  And if traditional media doesn’t serve the people, then they will find alternatives, and they have.  And Trump’s campaign in 2024 will completely embrace that new media.  The old media isn’t doing anything useful anyway, so Trump doesn’t need them.  Biden has shown that he doesn’t need them either.  So, there won’t be any presidential debates in 2024.  Fox News hosting these debates is over; nobody cares.  And there will be no return to that type of shell game, rightfully, because money has essentially been taken out of politics.  Money can’t buy support the way it has been sold in the past.  People form opinions about political candidates much differently now, and consultants are finding themselves out of a job they never should have had in the first place.  The future of Trump is to move much faster than the Beltway consultants ever could, and the news will occur at a speed only fast-moving social media can cover.  Newsrooms with editors picking the top three stories of the day are a thing of the past.  The need to know, and quickly, is the wave of tomorrow, and people will form their opinions on their own, not to be shaped by the glitz of media machines and slick ad campaigns.  No, for a change, candidates will be judged by what they do, not what they say, and the future of politics is all about achievement, not manipulation, which is a needed change that we’ve needed for a long time. 

Rich Hoffman

The Goal of the Deep State: Pedophilia on a mass scale

I didn’t arrive at this conclusion lightly.   It is the sum of a lot of work, study, and life experience.  And any suspicions I had on the matter that wanted to think otherwise evaporated with the latest school scandal at Lakota, in my neighborhood, where yet another administrative staff member had been found to have excessively sexual lifestyles, and kids were part of the role-playing fantasy.  Watching how all the various authority figures moved to cover up the actions was stunning, especially since I knew many of the personalities personally.  That experience was incredibly educational, but it wasn’t the first time.  Over the last few years, including some people that I knew very well and would never guess that they would have temptations toward pedophilia, and were actually hard-core pastor types of the local church, were caught trying to give nude backrubs to 11-year-old girls.  It was everywhere, and many members of the administrative state went out of their way to cover it up, but why.  And just how bad was it?  So when you ask what the root cause of the Deep State is, why a small group of people who consider themselves the wealthy elite, I call them the Desecrators of Davos, want so intensely to acquire so much wealth and power, it can only then start to make a bit of sense.  When you ask that question seriously and stacked with behavioral evidence, you find that it is sex addiction and the power it gives some over others that is the real problem, and eventually, almost all roads of that lifestyle lead to pedophilia.  And that the entire purpose of a Deep State rooted in globalism, hidden behind social causes as a mask to conceal the evil, is to have access to children to fulfill that vile objective. 

I started this effort by talking about personal experiences that showed me how bad this situation really is and how people you know well are investing themselves directly or indirectly in pedophilia.  But that is an answer in the micro that connects to massive evidence in the macro.  People understand that over 2 million children a year go missing if you have seen the recent Christian-based movie, The Sound of Freedom.  It was shown to President Trump, and he has declared that if he’s president again, he will go to war with the Deep State and their various criminal cartels, which are purposely allowed to break all rules and moral norms to terrorize the innocent.  We have to then look at the way the members of the Deep State spend their time, specifically the shocking case of Jimmy Savile, the very popular BBC celebrity, and the extensive pedophilia that he engaged in with a large number of people in the entertainment industry, who interacted with the Royal Family regularly and was considered a pimp to Jersey Island, the English territory just north of the French mainland that is a known haven for the rich and famous seeking sexual interaction with children, boys, and girls.  When you consider that Mr. Climate Change himself, King Charles knows about all this, a stunning revelation comes into sharp focus.  The point of the Deep State isn’t just to run the world.  But they want to run the world so that they can have a way to satisfy their immense sexual appetites.  If they run the world, they can live above the law, which is what we have seen with Jeffery Epstein in America and from what we know and are learning about in regard to Jimmy Savile, which involved every kind of sexual perversion that could be imagined.  And people propped him up as a celebrity anyway, knowing full well what he was up to, government members, law enforcement, and everyone at the BBC.  And once the story got out, the key member of the BBC who had been facilitating all the behavior had to leave for another job as the head of The New York Times. 

If you’ve ever been in a fraternity or witnessed a hazing ritual, you will know that public debasement is part of the team-building process.  The same idea applies to corporate heads, political figures, and social influencers.  Members of rock bands understand this all too well as groupies, many of them extremely young, throw their young bodies at stinky, sweaty members of the band to be close to them.  The managers turn the other way because it gets the band members addicted to the sex and keeps them coming back for more.  They wouldn’t get that kind of attention in any other life, but in being a rock star.  And once down that road, there is no way back to normal.  Sex is a never-ending appetite and usually ends in some form of pedophilia.  This is true of the creepy next-door neighbor or the wealthy mover and shaker at the top of the political pyramid.  And the people who want to rule the world want to facilitate that weakness.  Why does anybody think that porn is essentially what the internet provides?  Everything else is a front for pornography, just as almost every type from the progressive leftism in the world, earth preservation, racism, and Modern Monetary Theory are all fronts for the pursuit of sex with the power acquired and the ability to exist above the law because everyone else is so compromised.  Back to my personal story in Lakota schools in Butler County, Ohio, the reluctance to punish the crime was that so many in the decision-making process were compromised themselves.  They had behaved poorly in public, people had a video of the acts, and they couldn’t afford to have a moral position.  And many people in authority found themselves in the same position at all levels.  They couldn’t punish the threat of pedophilia because they were either guilty themselves or were thinking of becoming guilty because they wanted to participate.  They weren’t outraged by the behavior because they wanted to be just as bad if given the chance and acquire the power to do so. 

Preying on the gullibility of the innocent is part of the charge behind the sexual intrusion.  So by taking that sentiment to its logical conclusion, the entire point of the Deep State is to acquire power, using infinite wealth to inflict that power, to have access to sexual manipulation and conquest over others.  And the younger, the better because it is a very powerful temptation to steal innocence from those not yet tarnished in the world and to be the first to leave your mark on them.  The Deep State is an ancient menace that is rooted in perversion for all the animal instincts that have destroyed mankind since the beginning of time.  And the quest for political power to indulge in those activities is enormous and not talked about enough.  It’s a topic people would like to avoid because they don’t want to know.  But it’s at the center of all political discourse.  And if you ever doubt it, just visit K-Street in Washington, D.C.  Everyone knows what’s going on, including the police and the politicians.  But nobody stops the prostitution there, just a few blocks from the White House.  The root cause of most of the political trouble in the world is sexual, and it’s impossible to have a proper society when such a priority is the reason for all activity.  Yet that is the truth of it when you pull back all the talk about socialism, charities, renewable energy, everything, you have a mask that is intent to take advantage of someone sexually, an intern, a prostitute, or a sex trafficked kid to satisfy some unquenchable desire, that brings great evil into the world through the ultimate theft.  And once a person crosses those lines, as most people do in some way, there is no going back or hope to restore a life without such terrible things happening in the world.

Rich Hoffman

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A Government That Will Kill Political Rivals: The Kennedy assassination wasn’t a conspiracy after all

Robert Kennedy is running for president, and he has been saying a lot about the assassination of his uncle, JFK, President Kennedy. As it turns out, the Oliver Stone film JFK starring Kevin Costner wasn’t a conspiracy theory after all. Kennedy is saying that the CIA was unquestionably involved in the murder of President Kennedy, and coming from him, that’s no small statement. People have been wondering about it for years. When documents were declassified a few years ago, during Trump’s administration, it was revealed that the CIA had been involved, and now we have presidential candidates on both sides of the political debate talking about it. Many of the people involved at the time are now dead or in some sort of retirement where they are insulated from the ramifications. It’s a story that took 60 years to get out, but at least it finally did, and it has turned out to be everything and more than what the conspiracy theories had been discussing. The idea that Lee Harvey Oswald, the lone gunman, did the entire killing on his own, ostentatiously in front of a crowd in Texas, was always a stretch. The CIA had been suspected, but most people couldn’t imagine that people from the American government would ever do such a terrible thing. Yet they did, and through the declassification of the records, we know that the CIA played a significant role in killing an American president. 

As messy as that assassination was, the killings continued, including Robert Kennedy’s father. Now the son, Bobby Kennedy Jr., wrote the great book The Real Anthony Fauci that I have been raving about for more than a year. It’s a book with the goods on the who, what, when, where, and how regarding Covid and its conspirators who did much worse than the CIA did during the Kennedy assassination. And he had his own father murdered a few years later as he was an attorney general poking into a lot of mob activity. The government killings continued throughout the 60s, but the public was catching on, so they turned to law-fare when it came to getting rid of Nixon, which Hillary Clinton was able to see up close, where legal terrorists and judges were able to conspire to do much the same thing, kill off a popular president in Nixon and destroy him without blowing off half of his head in front of a crowd on national television. They killed Nixon while he was still alive to wave goodbye to everyone. But whether a political assassination was physical, as it was in Kennedy’s case, or literal, as it was in Nixon’s case, we know for sure that we have a fourth branch of government funded by the American taxpayer, who intends to rule us all by force and to protect the concept of globalism by removing the pick of the American taxpayers when they disagree with who ends up in the White House. And they are playing for keeps, no jokes. Their message to the rest of us is of no tolerance, and they are willing to abuse their authority without fear of recourse. Their clear assumption is that they are in control, that constitutional violations are not of their concern, and that they represent a greater good as defined by global liberalism rather than the intent of the American people. 

And we saw a continuation of this culture of killing where they essentially tried the same kind of law-fare that was successful with Nixon and applied it to Trump. Now that the Durham Report is out, we see to what extent all the highest levels of political power were involved in trying to set up an entirely fictional story about President Trump having a relationship with Russia. The CIA, the FBI, and many others connected to those fourth branch of unelected bureaucratic killers played the same game with Trump that they did with Nixon, only Trump punched back where Nixon simply resigned for the country’s sake. And the more that Trump punched back, the deeper into the playbook of tyranny these Administrative State terrorists had to go. Obviously, the FBI had picked Hillary Clinton as their president, and they would do anything to make that happen, which was revealed by some of the agents under the pressure of performance. And it only got worse the more that Trump fought back, leading us to over seven years of detrimental conduct that showed just how terrible many of this fourth branch of government types really are. And to make it worse, they had a sympathetic ear from the media, actually more of a complicit partner where globalism was the goal at the expense of American sovereignty. And they didn’t care what damage they caused to people to preserve their system. They didn’t care who they destroyed, what lies they had to tell, or what an embarrassment to the rest of the world it may cause our nation. What we saw applied to Trump was the same kind of menace that had been there essentially from the beginning. And they had become so arrogant over time that they no longer felt they needed to contain the information from the public. They have so much disdain for the public and so much power that they simply don’t fear anybody finding out how bad they really are. 

The message here is that a government that will kill political rivals with violent murder in front of the world is a government that will do anything to stay in power. And any doubt anybody had about election fraud in 2020, or any other time, is that these same people have also made themselves involved in that business. If there were any doubt about it, in the form of conspiracy theories, then the same path of resolution we saw over the Kennedy assassination would unfold in much the same way. After 60 years and many of the people who were involved die off and retire out of harm’s way, the admissions will slowly start to come forth. But in essence, we have a government that investigates itself, so nobody will ever be caught. Murders will go unsolved, and the temptation for abuse of authority is all too lucrative, which is essentially what the Durham Report says in its 130 pages. “We know there is a crime here, but there is no political will to do anything about it because the fourth branch of government is really in charge, and if you question them, they’ll kill you one way or another.” And a government with that kind of attitude is dangerous. They are not working on behalf of voters or taxpayers but from acquired power stolen from those people for the benefit of hostile, foreign characters. So, of course, they were involved in stealing our election. Of course, they were engaged in spreading Covid authoritarian style assassinations of millions of innocent people to gain the ability to take down a president, which is becoming apparent with the Department of Defense interactions through the Wuhan Lab in China and the Chinese government in general. These are ruthless people who must be removed from their positions of terror, and that will be no small task. 

Rich Hoffman

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Freedom is More Important than Money: Fox News and Corporate Communism will lose as history remembers

There continues to be an almost cult-like reverence at the firing of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, as if controlling a person’s employment reassured the Liberal World Order that they could control what people thought and did. After all, that is precisely how the system is designed under the new China rules for global communism. There is an institutional assurance to themselves that they are in control and can punish people of contrary thought by controlling them economically. If they can’t control people literally with their means of making a living, then through digital currency, they hope to shut people off from participating. Then, of course, they fantasize that they will control the entire world as a small minority by essentially controlling the means of making a living. If the goal of Karl Marx, which is the inherited system the Chinese adopted, and the World Economic Forum is seeking to implement it through every corporation by controlling finance through companies like BlackRock was to control the means of production, then this newer method of centralized control of people’s incomes takes that goal to a much different level. So there was much celebrating when Fox News listened to criticisms and finally fired Tucker Carlson from the number one-rated television show on cable prime time after a settlement with Dominion. They thought they had silenced Tucker and punished all critics of this Liberal World Order almost as if it were a sensual delight. Tucker was gone from Fox News, and the bad guys out there thought they had done something to protect themselves from people like Tucker and the MAGA movement’s growth. But I had a very different opinion and one that is worth perspective. 

The first thing I said about the Tucker Carlson firing at Fox News was that I was happy for him because it must have been frustrating to bend his show around Rupert Murdoch’s and his family’s obvious philosophy. Fox News has always been politics-lite, going back to Bill O’Reilly. It was more conservative than the other stations, which had been trending toward the communist left since the 90s. But it was never representative of mainstream America. There has always been this fantasy that is at the core strategy of this corporate communism movement, which Fox News has obviously bought into, which believes that the content providers create culture and not the market demand of the public. This is a fundamental difference between communism and capitalism. For instance, I think the most recent John Wick movie is one of the best movies ever made. I didn’t see one trace of Woke behavior in it; fans have rewarded it with great box office numbers. However, the belief is that if the communist mind takes over the entire entertainment industry and that people will not have any choice but to go and see their offerings that are filled with all kinds of government propaganda and liberal utterances, that the public will still show up and consume their product because they are bored and will do anything no matter what the quality of the product is. Which, of course, is blowing up in their face. This problem of there always being some kind of John Wick hitting the market need of the public is something that the controllers of the World Economic Forum who want open Chinese-style communism don’t understand. And that is why they were perplexed at the tremendous support that Tucker Carlson had when he announced he was going to continue his show on Twitter. They thought that if they controlled the platform for speech, they could control what people thought and consumed. They are not prepared for competition.

And yet that is the key to a moral society; it’s one that has competition in it for the attention of the masses. I realized this up close and personal several times in my life. Well before Tucker Carlson had a very high-profile de-platforming strategy utilized against him, I have been through it several times. I’ve been doing these kinds of things for a long time, writing, speaking, and undercutting government centralized authority systems, and I’ve seen every kind of attempt to deplatform me hoping to change my behavior. And what I discovered, even if I always knew it in the back of my mind, was that people like options, especially options in thinking. And given a choice, they will always explore those choices. This has been the problem with communism from the start. It’s one thing to impose communism on a suppressed culture of poor people, which is undoubtedly the case in China. The Chinese people have always been more compliant, and to their own defense, they don’t know any better than what the current communist government is offering them. The ability to have an air conditioner and a car is an amazing concept, so a very authoritarian government is not something they would know to question. But in America, that’s a different story. Choice is the key to culture and to economic power. Choice is expected, even demanded. So controls over the supply chain, entertainment options, and even news feeds are failing dramatically, and much of that desperation can be seen in Fox News firing their number one personality, as if sacrificing something very valuable to them would win them appeasement in the circles of this Liberal World Order. 

With his new Twitter show, Tucker Carlson will be free and gain a much larger audience than this modern cord-cutting public would otherwise give him. And if there was one primary thing that was driving the MAGA movement in general, it has been the decentralizing of news. That has certainly been the case with me. I’ve had offers from everywhere to run my own radio show. I used to do a lot of work with Clear Channel in Cincinnati and Michigan as a spot filler. And to host shows that were already known in established markets. But I have found running my own media is much more valuable. Not having the limits imposed by some dimwit corporate pinhead is worth more than the wages otherwise earned.

There are many ways to make money, especially for a person like me, and there are always people willing to pay because when you are a valuable personality, there is always someone who wants that value. And that is certainly the case with Tucker Carlson, who would be lucky to see 4 million viewers on a good night. He will be able to reach more people than that with his own news show, so I’m sure he’s happy about it. He will find he can do more and talk about more without trying to stay in the lines of what Fox News established for its employees. I was surprised that Tucker stayed with it as long as he did. I suppose the paycheck was good, but for people like him, he can make 20 million dollars anywhere. The limits were otherwise too frustrating to him, and you can see this last year he has almost been daring Fox News to fire him, to free him from his confines. Which I fully understand. Freedom is often much more valuable than money if all things are otherwise equal. And that is where this corporate communism model will ultimately fail and be laughed at in the memory of history. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Public Relations Scam at Lakota: Somehow, a story about reckless sex became about getting rid of Darbi Boddy on the school board

Despite all the terrible news in such great abundance these days, I see a lot of positives worth talking about because people are becoming smarter every day.  Many people are oblivious to how much public relations firms run everything in their lives.  For instance, it has been quite clear that our own government has become a public relations firm for Big Pharma and that the entire notion of government medicine was simply guaranteed product sales using the government to enforce market stability for the firm they represent.  And if you want representation, you don’t get it with votes; you hire lobbyists, you pay to play, and only then can you get the power that government offers.   But it does all start locally, and now that so many discussions about government schools are on the top of everyone’s mind, a recent example at Lakota schools in my home district of Butler County, Ohio, showed the story better than any other means.  Here we had a school superintendent involved in a messy divorce who admitted in a police report that he had fantasies of drugging, molesting, and video recording three students with whom he was in charge, but the media in town would not move on the story.  They pretended it never happened and that the whistleblowers were the villains.  It was a bizarre case that shows just how deeply public relations firms shape the reality that a voting public understands.  And at Lakota schools, we had a wild example of the worst that could be learned about a public administrator, and they spun the story through public relations in a way to cover it up.  And most of the news media in Cincinnati, print and television, worked hard to suppress the story to the favor of the public relations representatives at Lakota, who insisted to the public that the story was not real and that the whistleblowers were simply political activists who wanted to get rid of the superintendent. 

Those same public relations personalities then tried to spin everything around on the first-year school board member, Darbi Boddy, whom the community has rallied around to uphold a standard of morality in the crazy government school, and school systems, in general, to provoke her into being removed from the school board.  This was all before the superintendent had to resign due to his actions, leaving the standard teacher union thugs irate and looking for revenge.   On the way to record the video for this article, I had heard on the radio’s top-of-the-hour news report that the community was seeking signatures to remove Darbi Boddy from Lakota schools because having her on the school board was going to make it difficult, if not impossible, to find a new superintendent.  That was on a big Clear Channel radio station in Cincinnati reading essentially off a press release directly as it was given to them, and that was out of all the topics in Cincinnati media, a news story.  Ironically I had at that moment in my hand a report from Channel 12 news, Cincinnati, talking about the challenges of finding a good superintendent in the very contentious environment of Lakota schools.  All of that was the work of just a few public relations people hired by Lakota schools to manage the district and the voting public.  And none of it was real as we would consider facts part of reality.  Rather, the reality was being completely shaped by public relations right in front of everyone’s faces who knew better. 

Many of the people who had been involved in the school superintendent’s story and found his sexual lifestyle learned about in the wake of his divorce reprehensible, were stunned that for over six months prior, the public school denied the existence of reality and stuck completely to their tactic of shaping their image completely around public relations tools, the media, press releases denying what was learned even when police testimony was quite clear, and using legal firms to establish a fake precedent with bizarre interpretations of legal definitions as to what moral behavior was and criminal intent.  Even the law from the level of the police was shown to fit into the public relations game completely, playing along as the story was shaped not by truth but by PR statements given to the press, for which they ran with completely.  And during that entire time, from when the public learned about the police report admission from the superintendent to the time he resigned, around six months, the media was cold on the story to the point where they could get away with it.  They had to cover what the public was outraged about, but their tactic was to take the edge off the story hoping that people would forget about it and those telling the story would be terrified by legal threats to their very lives.  It was all very ominous and corrupt beyond reason.  Yet the moment the superintendent resigned, suddenly, there was an avalanche of stories from all the news outlets about the Lakota school’s situation.  Even Channel 9 was doing Lakota stories suddenly on a variety of topics.  It was stunning; all the news stations were reporting the events of Lakota and, of course, the newspapers.  But their subject wasn’t the exploits of the superintendent and the danger it might pose sexually to the student population like rational people might expect; rather, the entire efforts were to get rid of Darbi Boddy as the school board member the community had rallied around to stand up to the public relations efforts. 

Prior to this Lakota story, people had a kind of perception of this hidden menace.  But only when the machine had been turned on to such a ridiculous level with such stark contrasts could anybody see what the problem always has been.  Lakota schools didn’t have a leg to stand on in defending their very progressive pick for superintendent with such rock-solid evidence that did exist, and so many people knew about it.  And the story got out to the public through all the methods that public relations couldn’t manipulate, citizen journalism, social media, and a billboard campaign in the community.  But all the places where public relations could touch with their press releases, we saw a news culture that essentially read the statements without any investigation and carried the message to an unsuspecting public.  The example was perfect, and it shows a deeper problem in many government endeavors at all levels, from local to national to international.  The same game was being played everywhere and for the same reasons.  Somehow at Lakota schools, a story about a superintendent of the student population having fantasies about kids in a sexual way was turned completely around to the danger of the school board member who represented the community in showing disdain for that information.  It was a clear case of morality that anybody should have been able to agree with.  Yet the public relations machine dug in and tried to defend the absurd, and the desperation of their lack of effectiveness forced them to go way over the top and reveal their hidden manipulations in a very educational way.  And in so doing, we all learned how this business is done everywhere else, from election fraud to Covid vaccination status to the inflation numbers of an economy that has obviously been in recession.  The same methods were applied in all those cases, and reality was shaped not by facts but by public relations mechanisms to the detriment of all representation and disrespect of all people in a society of free voters. 

Rich Hoffman

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