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Amy Acton, the Puppet of Marc Elias: When they can’t defend their record, they send cease and desist letters, hoping to hide their past

In the bustling parking lot of Ohio’s brand-new Buc-ee’s just north of Dayton off I-70, Dr. Amy Acton posed for what was meant to be a wholesome campaign snapshot—a smiling physician-turned-politician standing beside the gleaming Texas-sized travel center, projecting the image of a nice, relatable lady who shops where everyday Buckeyes shop. The first Ohio Buc-ee’s opened in Huber Heights in early April 2026, drawing massive crowds and national attention for its clean restrooms, fresh brisket, and over-the-top convenience. Acton’s team seized the moment, posting the photo to humanize her, to say, “See? She’s just like you.” But the optics couldn’t paper over the deeper story unfolding in this 2026 gubernatorial race. While Acton tried to reset her image with photo ops and bedside-manner charm, Vivek Ramaswamy was drawing genuine, overflowing crowds of longtime Ohio friends, family, and supporters who have known him since he was a boy in Cincinnati—people who remember his parents’ immigrant journey, his entrepreneurial drive, and the decades of personal relationships that speak louder than any staged picture. You can judge a person by the company they keep, and Ramaswamy’s circle spills over with proud, authentic voices from his past who have stuck with him through every chapter of his life. Acton’s campaign, by contrast, feels increasingly desperate, resorting to high-powered Washington lawyers to silence critics rather than defend her record. 

To understand why this race matters so much to Ohio’s future, you have to go back to the spring of 2020, when Dr. Amy Acton served as Director of the Ohio Department of Health under Republican Governor Mike DeWine. She wasn’t elected; she was appointed. Yet she became the public face of some of the nation’s most aggressive COVID-19 policies. On March 22, 2020—when Ohio had reported just a handful of deaths—Acton helped lead the state into one of the earliest and strictest lockdowns anywhere. Schools closed statewide for the rest of the academic year. “Non-essential” businesses shuttered overnight. Stay-at-home orders restricted movement. Nursing homes were locked down, isolating vulnerable residents from loved ones. Capacity limits, mask mandates, and social-distancing rules followed, all modeled closely on guidance from the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Acton appeared in daily press briefings alongside DeWine, projecting calm authority while estimating infection numbers that frightened the public into compliance. She resigned in June 2020 amid growing protests outside her home, but the policies she championed reshaped Ohio in ways the state is still recovering from six years later. 

The human and economic toll of those decisions has been documented in mounting data. Ohio’s unemployment rate rocketed from 4.9 percent to 16.4 percent in a single month—the sharpest spike in modern state history. Thousands of small businesses, restaurants, gyms, and retailers never reopened. Hospitality and tourism sectors collapsed. Learning loss among schoolchildren, especially in low-income districts, was catastrophic; studies projected lifetime economic losses in the hundreds of billions for Ohio alone due to missed instruction and widened achievement gaps. Mental health crises exploded: overdoses rose sharply, youth depression and suicide ideation increased, and isolation in nursing homes contributed to excess deaths beyond the virus itself—many from untreated conditions, delayed care, or despair. Nationwide analyses, including those examining excess mortality, have increasingly questioned whether the most restrictive measures saved more lives than they cost, when indirect harms are weighed. In Ohio, the early modeling that justified the lockdowns proved overly pessimistic, yet the policies remained locked in place longer than in many peer states. Acton has never fully reckoned with this in her campaign. Instead, she positions herself as “a doctor, not a politician,” emphasizing her roots in working-class Youngstown and her compassion. But for families who lost businesses, kids who fell behind, or elderly residents who died alone, those words ring hollow. The statistics don’t lie: the lockdown playbook—drawn from federal guidance influenced by international models—inflicted measurable, lasting damage on Ohio’s economy, education system, and social fabric. 

Fast-forward to 2026, and Acton is the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, running with David Pepper—former chair of the Ohio Democrat Party—as her lieutenant governor pick. Polls show the race tightening or even tilting her way slightly in some surveys, despite Ohio’s deep Republican lean. Her campaign message focuses on affordability, families, and pushing back against “special interests.” Yet when journalists and commentators like Jack Windsor of the Ohio Press Network dig into her record—whether the 2020 policies, the resurfaced 2019 Bexley police report, or other public details—her team doesn’t debate the substance. They deploy heavy legal artillery. The Acton/Pepper campaign has retained Elias Law Group, the Washington, D.C., firm founded by Marc Elias, the Democratic election lawyer infamous for his role in the 2016 Clinton campaign’s Steele dossier efforts, post-2020 litigation challenging election integrity claims, and aggressive legal maneuvers nationwide. Elias’s firm has sent cease-and-desist letters to outlets and commentators questioning Acton, framing routine investigative reporting as defamation or libel. These aren’t polite corrections; they are designed to intimidate, to force journalists and critics into defensive silence rather than risk costly litigation—even when the recipients know the claims lack merit. 

This tactic is classic lawfare, and it’s especially galling because Acton is now a public figure running for the highest office in the state. Under the landmark U.S. Supreme Court precedent New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), public officials and candidates must prove “actual malice”—knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth—to win defamation suits. The bar is deliberately high to protect robust political debate and press freedom. Elias’s team knows this, yet the letters keep coming. They mirror the same playbook used in the 2020 election challenges: procedural delays, technical objections, and resource-draining threats to bury inconvenient truths under paperwork and fear. David Pepper, Acton’s running mate, has long been a fixture in Democratic politics, and his involvement signals the campaign’s strategy—control the narrative through insiders rather than earn voter trust through transparency. When a police report from August 2019 resurfaced—detailing a verbal domestic dispute at the Acton home over her long work hours, where both she and her husband admitted to drinking, she had taken prescription medication, she shattered a large mirror in frustration, and she was heading toward her car until her husband physically intervened—no charges were filed, and officers noted no physical violence. It was a private family moment turned public by her candidacy. Yet instead of addressing it head-on or releasing more context, the campaign and its allies dismiss questions as “attacks” while Elias’s firm fires off warnings. The report is public record. Citizens have every right to weigh it when evaluating a candidate who once directed public health policy affecting millions. 

Contrast this with Vivek Ramaswamy. The Republican frontrunner grew up in Ohio, built a successful biotech company from scratch, and ran a high-profile 2024 presidential campaign that put him in the national spotlight. His support isn’t manufactured through consultants or photo ops. Crowds at his events include people who knew him as a kid, family friends who watched him navigate his Indian-immigrant parents’ sacrifices, and longtime associates who have seen his character tested over decades. That kind of organic loyalty doesn’t come from polling consultants or law-firm intimidation. Ramaswamy’s platform emphasizes prosperity, limited government, school choice, economic freedom, and a rejection of the bureaucratic overreach that defined the COVID era. He has visited every county, secured endorsements from sheriffs, unions in some cases, and grassroots conservatives who remember exactly who was at the podium issuing orders in 2020. His running mate, Senate President Rob McColley, brings institutional knowledge and legislative heft. Together, they represent a future-oriented conservatism rooted in Ohio values—innovation, hard work, and accountability—rather than nostalgia for the administrative state. 

The deeper issue here transcends one race. When campaigns hire the likes of Marc Elias to muzzle journalists covering a candidate’s public record—whether COVID policies that harmed families or personal incidents that raise legitimate character questions—they erode the very foundation of representative government. Free speech and a free press exist precisely so voters can vet those who seek power. Ohioans paid a steep price for Acton’s lockdown decisions: lost livelihoods, educational setbacks that will echo for generations, and a lingering sense that government overstepped its bounds under the banner of “following the science.” Data now shows that many of those measures delivered marginal or questionable benefits relative to their costs. Excess mortality studies and economic analyses continue to reveal the trade-offs. Yet instead of debating that record openly, the campaign seeks to shut down the conversation. That’s not leadership; it’s the same insider playbook that has eroded trust in institutions nationwide. Elias’s history—tied to efforts to litigate away election challenges in 2020 and beyond—only underscores the pattern: when the facts are uncomfortable, deploy lawyers to redefine reality. 

Ramaswamy, by contrast, invites scrutiny of his record because it stands on merit—entrepreneurial success, family values, and a clear-eyed rejection of the bureaucratic excesses that hurt working families. His supporters aren’t fringe; they’re the backbone of Ohio communities who remember the pre-lockdown economy, the joy of school events, and the freedom to live without constant government edict. They see in him someone who judges people by character and results, not by elite credentials or media spin. The 2026 race is more than a choice between two candidates; it’s a referendum on whether Ohio learns from 2020 or repeats the mistakes. Voters who value prosperity, honest accountability, and open debate have every reason to reject the politics of intimidation and nostalgia for administrative control.

Acton’s team may believe a few more Buc-ee’s photo ops and some strategic legal letters will paper over the past. But Ohioans have long memories. The lockdown lady’s policies didn’t just inconvenience people—they upended lives, and the data backs that up. Police reports, public records, and economic statistics don’t vanish because a Washington law firm sends a letter. When the votes are counted in November 2026, character, record, and authenticity will decide it. Vivek Ramaswamy brings the relationships, the vision, and the backbone to move Ohio forward. Amy Acton’s campaign, built on image management and legal threats, reveals exactly why voters should send a different message. The truth doesn’t need cease-and-desist letters to survive—it just needs voters willing to remember.

Footnotes

1.  Ohio’s first Buc-ee’s location details and Acton’s visit: Campaign site and local news coverage, April 2026.

2.  Acton’s role as Health Director and lockdown timeline: Contemporary reporting and her Wikipedia entry.

3.  Economic and educational impacts of 2020 lockdowns in Ohio: Unemployment data from state labor statistics; learning loss projections from education analyses.

4.  2019 Bexley police report: Public records as covered by NBC News and Ohio outlets, April 2026.

5.  Elias Law Group retainers and cease-and-desist letters: Reporting by Jack Windsor/Ohio Press Network and related commentary, 2026.

6.  New York Times v. Sullivan precedent: U.S. Supreme Court, 376 U.S. 254 (1964).

7.  Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ohio roots and campaign: Polling and news coverage of his events and endorsements.

8.  Broader COVID policy critiques: Peer-reviewed studies on excess mortality, mental health, and economic costs (various sources, including PMC and state-specific analyses).

Bibliography for Further Reading

•  Wikipedia: 2026 Ohio gubernatorial election (for candidate overview and polling).

•  Ohio Capital Journal and Dispatch articles on the 2019 police incident and campaign responses (April 2026).

•  NBC News coverage of Acton’s domestic dispute report.

•  Jack Windsor/Ohio Press Network commentary on Elias Law Group letters.

•  Signal Ohio and local reporting on Buc-ee’s opening and Acton’s photo op.

•  Historical coverage of Ohio COVID response (Washington Post, NBC4, 2020).

•  Economic analyses of lockdown impacts (state labor data, education studies).

•  U.S. Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (full opinion available via legal archives).

Extended Footnote on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) and the “Sullivan Doctrine”

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York Times Company v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), fundamentally reshaped American libel law and remains the cornerstone of First Amendment protections for political speech and press freedom. Often called the “Sullivan case,” it gave rise to what legal scholars refer to as the “Sullivan doctrine” or “actual malice” rule—a constitutional standard that has been extended and refined in a line of subsequent Supreme Court cases (collectively the “Sullivan cases”). This body of law was born directly out of the Civil Rights Movement and was designed to prevent public officials from using defamation suits as a weapon to silence criticism. 

Facts and Historical Context

In March 1960, amid the escalating sit-in protests and violence against Black students in Montgomery, Alabama, the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South placed a full-page advertisement titled “Heed Their Rising Voices” in The New York Times. The ad solicited donations to support King’s legal defense and the broader civil rights cause. It criticized “an unprecedented wave of terror” by Southern officials and police, describing incidents such as the padlocking of a dining hall at Alabama State College and police actions against demonstrators. The advertisement contained several minor factual inaccuracies (e.g., the exact number of times King had been arrested, the songs sung by students, and whether the dining hall was actually padlocked). It was signed by 64 prominent figures (including Eleanor Roosevelt and Jackie Robinson) and listed the names of four Alabama ministers associated with King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference—some of whose names had been added without their explicit prior approval. 

L.B. Sullivan, the elected Montgomery Public Safety Commissioner who oversaw the police department, was not named in the ad. Nevertheless, he sued The New York Times and the four ministers in Alabama state court, claiming the criticism of police conduct defamed him by implication. Under then-prevailing Alabama common-law libel rules, a plaintiff could recover substantial damages merely by showing the statement was false and tended to harm reputation; no proof of actual harm or malicious intent was required, and damages were often presumed. An all-white jury awarded Sullivan $500,000—a staggering sum in 1960. The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed the verdict. Similar libel suits were filed by other Alabama officials, part of a coordinated “libel attack” strategy by segregationists to bankrupt newspapers and intimidate national coverage of the Civil Rights Movement. 

The Supreme Court’s Unanimous Ruling

On March 9, 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the judgment in a 9-0 decision written by Justice William J. Brennan Jr. The Court held that Alabama’s libel law unconstitutionally infringed on the First and Fourteenth Amendments when applied to criticism of public officials’ conduct. Brennan famously declared that the First Amendment “prohibits a State from awarding damages to a public official for defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with ‘actual malice’—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.” The standard must be proven with “convincing clarity.” 

The opinion emphasized that “debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” Erroneous statements, Brennan noted, are “inevitable in free debate” and must be protected lest the fear of liability chill essential political discourse. The ruling explicitly rejected the idea that the press could be held to the strict liability standards of ordinary private libel suits when reporting on matters of public concern. 

Expansion to Public Figures and the “Sullivan Progeny”

The Sullivan rule was not limited to elected officials. In the companion cases Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts and Associated Press v. Walker (388 U.S. 130, 1967), the Court extended the actual-malice requirement to “public figures”—prominent private citizens who thrust themselves into public controversies or are drawn into them. Justice Harlan’s plurality opinion refined the standard slightly but preserved the core protection.

Later, in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (418 U.S. 323, 1974), the Court drew a clearer line: private individuals (who have not voluntarily entered the public arena) need only show negligence by the defendant for compensatory damages, but public figures and officials must still meet the higher actual-malice threshold. Subsequent cases such as Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967) applied similar protections to false-light privacy claims, and Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988) extended First Amendment safeguards to parody and emotional-distress claims involving public figures. 

Enduring Significance

Sullivan and its progeny were a direct response to the use of libel law as a tool of political suppression during the Civil Rights era. By placing the burden of proof on the plaintiff and raising the fault standard dramatically, the doctrine has made it extraordinarily difficult for public officials or public figures to win defamation suits against the press or critics—precisely the point. It has shielded investigative journalism, opinion writing, and robust political debate for more than six decades, even as critics (including some modern Supreme Court justices) have questioned whether the internet age requires recalibration. 

In the context of modern political campaigns, the rule remains vital: candidates who voluntarily seek public office become public figures and must tolerate sharp scrutiny of their records, statements, and character. Cease-and-desist letters or threats of litigation that rely on pre-Sullivan common-law standards rarely survive constitutional review when aimed at commentary on a candidate’s official acts or fitness for office. The doctrine ensures that voters—not lawyers—ultimately decide the truth through open debate.

This historical and legal framework underscores why public-figure plaintiffs today face such a high bar: the Supreme Court deliberately chose to err on the side of protecting speech to safeguard democracy itself. For further reading, see the full opinion at 376 U.S. 254 and analyses in Actual Malice by Samantha Barbas (2023) or the Stanford Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute’s primary-source collection.

Rich Hoffman

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Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

Why The World Needs Tesla Semis: There is just too much regulation in the trucking industry

It was unfortunate that Elon Musk went sideways with President Trump, because there are enough problems in the world without something like a minor scuffle to derail what are otherwise fantastic opportunities.  Inflation is down, as predicted, and the economy is expected to boom.  And a lot of the debt we are currently incurring will easily be paid off with growth, if you can keep foreign and domestic terrorists from shutting the world down again with another COVID-type bioweapon.  The relationship Elon Musk has had with the White House has been positive so far in 2025, and there are many people who would like to see that optimism end.  And because of Elon Musk’s embrace of the MAGA movement and the great work he did with DOGE, I have been planning to get a Cybertruck.  I think it’s the best vehicle in the world being made right now.  I don’t mind that it’s electric.  I like traditional fossil fuel vehicles, but the power that these electric engines produce is an excellent example of fantastic engineering, so I am very interested in all Tesla products.  And I want them to continue to grow in market share.  But when Elon Musk got upset and supported an impeachment of President Trump, I dropped those plans for a Cybertruck faster than a New York second.  If Musk isn’t supporting MAGA, I’m not supporting Musk.  I might like him.  I might cheer him on as an innovator.  But I’m also not going to go out of my way to buy a Tesla if I can’t believe in the creator himself.  I only looked at Tesla vehicles because of Musk’s embrace of President Trump.  So we’ll see if any reconciliation lasts, or if it’s just a matter of personal survival.  Always judge people not by what they say, but by what they do.

But speaking of Elon Musk, self-driving vehicles, especially the Tesla semi trucks, and MAGA, there is a lot of fear that the self-driving aspect of these modern vehicles is just another way to steal jobs away from Americans.  But I don’t see it that way at all.  I’ve pointed out before that electric semi-trucks don’t have the range to replace full-time, diesel over-the-road trucks.  The concern is that self-driving trucks will replace the jobs of professional truck drivers.  However, I believe it will only benefit them, as the transportation industry is overly regulated. Therefore, when asked, “Why the Tesla semi?” the answer is a solution to overregulation that makes being a truck driver a challenging occupation. And that if you could change the nature of the over-road part of it, then we might find more drivers who would want to enter that field.  The problem with shipping products from the West Coast to the East, for instance, is that drivers are forced to be on the road too long.   They have to stop every 11 hours within a 14-hour on-duty window after 10 consecutive hours off, and all of this has to be recorded in a logbook. It’s just a pain in the neck for the driver.  It forces them to be on the road longer and away from their families needlessly.  The regulators will say that it prevents accidents from driver fatigue.  I know a lot of truck drivers, I’ve dealt with thousands of them over the years and for them there is nothing worse than driving all across the country with all the regulations involved only to get to their destination and have to sit in the parking lot waiting for a manufacturing plant to open, to unload them, further wasting their time.  Transportation times across the country are ridiculously long due to excessive regulations and a lackadaisical approach to labor hours in manufacturing these days. 

Where the Tesla semi trucks come in is that they can drive automatically across the boring states, such as Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, and drop their loads off at designated drop lots outside major cities.  And from there, a live driver can get up and work an 8-hour day picking up that trailer and taking it the rest of the way to the destination.  I think it would create more truck driving jobs to use the self-driving trucks to haul loads over the vast distances where there isn’t much traffic.  Self-driving trucks could operate outside of that 11-hour window, significantly reducing delivery times and making the live driver’s time much more productive.  However, to impose all those restrictions on a live driver and force them to stay on the road for over a week due to regulatory burdens is unreasonable.  It is no wonder, then, that there is a shortage of drivers.  It’s fun to be on the road for short spurts, but day after day, year after year, it wears out families and makes life challenging.  We should be making the profession easier, not harder.  The Tesla semi would work well with a drop lot system, which would make more commerce available by removing the capacity ceiling.  With capacity being determined by the regulatory burdens.  The safest thing to do to a truck driver is to keep them from driving.  However, we want drivers to drive more and haul more product from one place to another, and that limit should not be confined to human driving hours. 

One of the most attractive aspects of Tesla vehicles to me is that they are self-driving.  I enjoy driving cars probably more than most people.  But I can think of a million things to do with my time than driving when I am just trying to get from one place to another.  And I could use that extra half hour in those drives around town to do other things if the car is driving itself.  I could improve my efficiency significantly if the car drove itself.  And I see that being the significant benefit to the Tesla line of products.  They enhance time management, which will undoubtedly benefit the trucking industry.  I always feel sorry for truck drivers at rest stops, forced to wait out their 11-hour driving window when they are still 2,000 miles from home, heading in the opposite direction.  If I were them, I’d want to drive for 16 hours straight and cut down my time on the road, so I could either spend more time with my family or have the opportunity to make more money with additional routes. However, as things stand, a significant amount of trucking capacity remains underutilized due to drivers being constrained by excessive regulation.  The Tesla Semi would help make those long routes much more manageable, making it more achievable to give drivers a regular 8-hour workday and the ability to get home to their families each night.  And to let the Tesla Semi handle the long over-the-road hauls, driving way past the 11-hour maximum.  I see an expansion of the trucking industry, making it more attractive for human drivers to become truck drivers, as the automated Tesla semis could handle the heavy lifting that is currently discouraging market entry.  And that part of making America Great Again is in making truck driving great, maybe for the first time.  Tesla’s innovation in self-driving vehicles can give human beings a great gift, greatly expanding economic opportunities in the future.  And that has more value than money, most of the time.

Rich Hoffman

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The Armour of God: Being the arbriter of divine justice

I understood Melania Trump’s outfit for the Inauguration.  Retribution comes to mind, and appropriately so.  Nobody should expect to get away with what they did to the Trumps under any circumstances.  And being a person who expresses herself through fashion, I understood Melania’s message clearly.  She’s the same age as my wife, so culturally, we all share the same references, and the first thing that came to my mind was the Clint Eastwood film, High Plains Drifter.  Melania says what she needs to tell through fashion, and she was holding the Bibles for Trump at his swearing-in; her look was undoubtedly expressive.  It was stylish and, for most people, very stunning. Indeed, she did not take the safe road.  However, after I saw Trump’s speech to Davos, I knew precisely what they were doing, and it was undoubtedly the appropriate message. 

Now, what have I been telling you all along?

You can tell that, as a couple, they have talked about this moment and what they would do if they had the opportunity to return to the White House.  And by the way that Trump spoke to the very people who had plotted his destruction, the people I call the Desecrators of Davos, Trump knew what he needed to do.  With her big wide-brimmed hat, Melania Trump might have been the visual expression of President Trump himself.  But President Trump personally delivered the much-deserved rebuke right in front of their faces to some of the most evil people on planet Earth.  He was doing on a large scale what the movie High Plains Drifter did in a fictional sense to a much smaller town called Lago, set in the old west and the efforts of western expansion that explored the challenges psychologically of a people trying to settle in a remote part of the world while trying to manage the temptations of a lack of law and order.

In the movie, a wonderfully psychological thriller that was one of the early directing efforts by Clint Eastwood, which he also starred in, a stranger rides into town, and he appears to have very superior gunfighting skills, for which the city wants to hire him to protect them from three bandits that are about to be released from jail.  The three criminals want revenge for what the town did to them.  They hired them to kill Marshal Duncan over mining rights to the city, and in the process, the entire town was a little bit guilty of the murder.  Once the killers were put in jail for the crime, they swore revenge upon release, which is why the town now was seeking to kill the killers by hiring the strange gunman, Clint Eastwood.  It’s a very good movie and certainly one of my favorites.  I don’t mind saying that I loved the film so much that it inspired the contents of my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, because, in both cases, the contents are about much more than what is shown at face value.  I talk about being a ghost in my book and life because of the lessons I learned from that great movie, High Plains Drifter.  You can often do much more in the world as a ghost than as a flesh and blood, earthly figure.  The town is paralyzed with fear and guilt by all they have done to the point where they will do anything the Stranger says.  Anything.  And when I saw Trump talking to the Davos crowd, it was the same thing as Clint Eastwood showed in that movie, where the entire town served him, hoping to erase their guilt for past crimes by committing all new ones and appeasing a power they recognize as being superior to them. 

Of course, the Stranger punishes everyone in town who has revenge coming.  And we find out at the end that the Stranger all along looks to have been the ghost of Marshal Duncan.  He knew what he was doing because he was the person that they had all killed.  And he came back to life to get revenge on them all.  And I know that look on Trump’s face, the confidence that comes from surviving death and getting another chance to get revenge on the people who hurt you.  I try not to make all these stories about me, but I use my personal experience to give a foundation to any testimony.  And I know what it feels like to survive circumstances where you were almost killed but are spared by the Armour of God to bring to the world revenge in the way that God understands it.  It is a very satisfying feeling when you realize that God puts his hand on you to be his instrument of retribution.  And, after the assassination attempts against Trump right before the election, you can tell he’s feeling it.  I have walked away from major, major, very devastating car crashes at high speeds, over 100 miles an hour, and slept like a baby that was unharmed just a few hours later except for a few bumps and bruises.  I have been shot at lots of times.  I have had many plots for my demise fail spectacularly by people who are very good at those kinds of things, and I was able to make complete fools of them over and over again.  It was amazing that Trump’s assassin missed his head by just millimeters.  Such a close call certainly gets your attention and shows divine intervention.  But I can count more than 50 times I have experienced such a rare occurrence, which is statistically impossible once, let alone that much.  I don’t think about it much daily, but watching Trump at Davos reminded me of all those times, and statistically speaking, it’s far more than luck at work.  That’s why I talk about the Book of Ephesians so much; it is the best literature in the world at describing the power and need for the Armour of God.  It’s a very real thing for a few select people fortunate enough to experience it.  But to feel it, you essentially have to face death and survive.  And once you realize that the hand of God is on you, you fear nothing.

In High Plains Drifter, it isn’t revealed until the end of the movie that the Stranger is the ghost of Marshal Duncan, which then explains why he knew so much about the characters he was torturing throughout the movie, using the guilt of their crimes as a weapon to destroy them personally.  It also explains why the Stranger had no fear of death because he had already gone through that ordeal and was resurrected by the hand of God to enact revenge on the wicked.  It’s a wonderful story, and retribution is a morality of its own.  Trump, dealing with the most sinful people on planet Earth all collected together, did precisely what he needed to do.  And all they could do was sit there and take it.  Trump, with the Armour of God on him, knew what they had all done, and he was intent on making them all choke on their guilt.  This is precisely what happened at Davos at the end of his speech.  They clapped like fools toward their own demise.  And Trump earned the right to do it because they tried to kill him many times over.  He survived to come back to the White House and give retribution to all those worldwide who were in on the many crimes against him.  Whether it’s a little fictional town called Lago from High Plains Drifter or the entire global community of politicians and business leaders plotting to rule over us all, retribution was the theme.  And a well-deserved theme defined best by Melania Trump’s fantastic attire at the Inauguration.  A retribution well deserved by an executor of justice for which Trump became the Hell-hound from the grave to bring justice to those who deserve severe punishment for the crimes they committed against all humanity.

Rich Hoffman

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Potomac Fever: The cost of reforming government

We saw a bit about what Anthony Scaramucci meant when he warned Elon Musk over the Holidays of 2024 to stay out of the politics of Washington, D.C.  He specifically cautioned Musk not to get Potomac Fever as he had worked for the White House for a while, which caused a rift with Trump that has lasted to the present and he played like he didn’t want Musk to get that sickness.  Looking back on it, and I’m sure this time won’t be much different, there were many people that Trump liked and supported and tried to bring with him to Washington, D.C., that fell apart and off the rocker without too much time.  Steve Bannon was one of those who got caught off the reservation a bit and had to be removed from the administration.  At one level what Scaramucci said on cable news about Musk could have been viewed as a warning.  “Don’t let what happened to me happen to you,” kind of advice.  Politics is a bloodsport, as I say all the time, and things do get bloody around Trump for many reasons.  But looking deeper into the matter, and it only happened a few days later, when Scaramucci said to Musk to run his businesses and leave people alone in government, what happened to Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over the H-1B visa issue was just a tiny glimpse of things to come.  Surprisingly, the worst critics of Musk’s position were the MAGA people, some of the president’s biggest supporters.  But I wasn’t surprised.  It’s going to get a lot worse than that.  What happened with the H-1B visas was that the SWAMP defended itself from reform, which is what Scaramucci meant as a spokesman for the Beltway’s ruthlessness.  Enjoy your business.  Go live a good life and leave those government people alone.  Or they will ruin your life. 

If you want to do this kind of thing, you have a couple of ingredients that you have to bring with you if you want to reform the government away from the many parasites that are often in it.  You can’t care what people think of you, which Elon Musk doesn’t appear to do in the usual way.  You have to be independently wealthy because the bad guys in the government first pursue your ability to make money as a means to attack.  There are vast evils made daily by people who trade ethics for money, which is why Washington, D.C., has spiraled so far out of control.  That is also why there aren’t more Donald Trumps in the world.  You have to have independent wealth to fight the SWAMP.  When people complain that all these rich people are in Trump’s government, including the come lately types like Elon Musk, you have to understand that you really can’t fight this fight unless you have independent wealth, and in most cases, a lot of it.  If you have just average wealth, that’s not enough because you will be wholly cancel cultured at the bank faster than a bullet from a gun can leave the muzzle.  Yeah, there is a reason that things are the way they are, and the corrupt often end up ruling over everyone else.  Once the bad guys get control of a government and find that they can use the power of it to steal money from everyone through taxation, they aren’t going to give up that racket easily.  So, anybody wanting to challenge that system must be at a place where they no longer care what people think and where the world’s parasites can’t impact their income.  Because they have so much money, people are always willing to be their friends to get some of it. 

But to Scaramucci’s point, yes, these are ruthless and vile people, and if you want to have any kind of good life while fighting them, forget about it.  There is no upside except in doing the right thing; that is the not-so-well-spoken part of the message.  Looking at all the people who came and went within Trump’s orbit over the last decade is truly astonishing.  And when you see how many MAGA supporters were ready to blow up the whole thing over one disagreement over H-1B visas, the immigration issue that is the cornerstone of the entire Trump support system, you get a good idea of the scale of the problem.  To answer the question about America First, what does that mean if the American worker is a unionized slug not willing to do much work beyond the 40 hours a week and leaving a lot of unworked tasks still unfulfilled at the end of a week and call that a lack of capacity, rather than a lack of willingness to be productive?  You can’t build success in the world like that.  So that’s why there is support for immigrant labor, not because they are cheaper, but because they outwork all the unionized slugs, and there are a lot of government workers in Washington D.C.  Most of them belong to some union, and that’s where all the money goes, we pay too much money for too little work.  And because we have brought this big tent into the MAGA movement, there will be a lot of disagreements on policy items.  And if there is anything to exploit, the SWAMP will do so to preserve itself from reform. 

What Anthony Scaramucci said was essentially the old mafia utterance about minding your own business; otherwise, you’d be swimming with the fishes.  The government is no longer, or if it ever was, a representative government.  It’s organized crime under most conditions.  And the crime bosses essentially tell society that if you want a minimal government running your life as opposed to outright anarchy, then you have to pay the price.  A little bit of corruption isn’t going to hurt anything, from their point of view.  Just pay your fee through taxation, and we’ll leave you alone for the most part unless you get some funny ideas about being a hero.  Nobody wants to be a hero.  That is until someone wants to be a hero and save everyone from the system at any cost.  And that perspective often comes from wealth, the kind where they can have anything they want and aren’t concerned about being removed from the Christmas Party list where you get to flirt with the unhappy wives of their typical combover bootlicker husbands and call it high society.  Washington, D.C., is where the Lords of Easy Money set up their racket, and people pay for protection from the very thugs that run the whole outfit, just like the mob.  And Anthoney Scaramucci understands what Potomac Fever is because he’s had it.  And most people get it.  It’s that sickness that people get when they find out they can make friends with people who become powerful because of their access to confiscated wealth and can live a good, easy life if they only join the government union.  Fighting against that union takes a lot of effort, which comes from the defense of that system by those who most benefit from it.  To stand up to it, you have to have abundant wealth and not care about the social impact that comes with it.  What was said to Musk from Scaramucci was more than a warning; it was a vision statement for the government crime syndicate running things.  And that is where the real fight always was. 

Rich Hoffman

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Robert F. Kennedy Will Be Great As the HHS Secretary: Punishment for Covid has to happen

Why would anybody be surprised about Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy?  I’m doing a lot of “I told you so latelys” because it’s well deserved.  But I warned everyone about Covid before it hit, while it hit, and what had to happen in the aftermath.  A lot of people are guilty of murder and we had a government that clearly wasn’t representing us.  And they attacked the Trump administration by walking into his office and telling him he had to shut down the economy, or else he’d be responsible for millions of deaths.  And that action did cost lives, a lot of misery, and an election that gave us four years of illegal activity, where everything Joe Biden signed was wrong and unlawful.  And we’re supposed just to let it all go? No, I don’t think so.  Instead, we needed a regime change so we could address the issue, and the apparent defense by the bad guys was obviously to run out the clock on what they think is a statute of limitations protection on what was essentially the most explicit murder plot in the history of the world that was entirely motivated by power and greed.  All that was done has to be cleaned up at a minimum, but picking Robert F. Kennedy as the HHS Secretary is even more than that.  RFK wrote the book on this case, which I reviewed and discussed extensively.  The crime, of course, was that the gain of function of a SARS virus known to bats to make it transmissible and highly contagious was not an act of nature.  It was deliberate terrorism and Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates, along with a lot of other people, have their knowing hands all over it.  And someone has to pay for all that, we can’t just let it go.

Even if there wasn’t an RFK by a victorious Trump administration being put in place, Rand Paul isn’t done with this issue either.  He needed Republican control of the Senate and to eliminate the stonewalling Mitch McConnell, both of which just happened, to be in place to advance this cause.  Many senators have become very protective of big pharma, and they weren’t going to put those companies on the chopping block and hold them responsible for what they did in 2020.  Rand Paul is ready to prosecute the case, and the evidence is extensive.  This issue isn’t going away, folks.  And people are going to be hurt to learn just how badly compromised our government was during this period.  And as good as Trump ran a good campaign that vastly won the majority vote, prosecuting the government for its Covid creation and response to a global crisis they created, and the coup against Trump, that they used Covid to destroy human civilization was on the ballot.  People want their slice of pie on this one, and they’re going to get it.  It was never an option to let this whole thing go and anybody who thought they would get away with it was lying to themselves.  What the NIH and CDC did to the world must be managed and understood so that it can never happen again, and that means that people who work in those government agencies have to be accountable, and nobody set up the case better than Robert F. Kennedy in two of his books, The Real Anthony Fauci, and The Wuhan Cover-up. I think those are two of the most influential books written in this century, and everyone in government should read them in preparation for what is coming on that front. 

But the more significant issue, as if such a thing were possible, is dealing with the hijacking of our government by several corporations, specifically, in this case, Big Pharma.  Much of the media that we have now is funded by Big Pharma as well; Fox News is almost exclusively a giant Big Pharma ad, so, of course, they don’t want to see a disruption in their grip over our elected representatives, but how did you think all these politicians became rich in office?  They were purchased.  Many didn’t have two nickels to rub together with a dime in their pocket before they arrived as elected officials in Washington, D.C., and that culture needed to change from the start.  During Trump’s first term, he wanted to get out of funding the United Nations-controlled World Health Organization, which started all the COVID problems but continues to this day to attempt to hide progressive globalism behind health policy, and they have to be dealt with harshly.  And who better to take them on within the Trump administration than a person who likely knows the most about all these relationships and how destructive they have been?  Yes, elections have consequences, so we must fight every day to preserve as much of their integrity as possible to hear the will of the people and do what they want done.  Because of what happened to them with Covid, they overwhelmingly voted for Trump, who had said beforehand what he would do with Kennedy as a pick.  It’s not like Trump misrepresented himself.  The bad guys did bad things, and now they must be punished severely so that it never happens again.  And Big Pharma has to be removed from running our lives for their lazy profits. 

I’m certainly not an anti-corporation guy.  I love capitalism, and corporations are forced to be the best they can be through competition.  But that’s not what many of these corporations tied to our government are all about. Instead, they use the power of government to shield themselves from innovation and expectations of competition.  They use the power of government and regulation to destroy rivals.  And impose on the public such ridiculous proposals as mandated vaccines and horrendous deals of prosecution where these companies are not liable during our lifetimes for mistakes they have made.  And keep in mind that they are that overt about scandalous things. What do you think they are doing about stuff they never expect to get caught with, such as the poisoning of our water supply or cheap and accessible ingredients that make their margins better at the total cost of society?  Once you take a radical anti-human agenda and apply it to the government monitoring of our food supply, no wonder so many are detrimentally sick.  You can’t deal with health insurance costs while leaving a system preserved that purposely makes people ill and never gets better to fuel their demise for the profits of a lazy Pharma company.  I have also pointed out that cures for cancer are available right now, but this entire Pharma industry has no interest in that because they make money off giving people the medicine they don’t need for results that ultimately will destroy them.  And those parasitic companies have an entire profit portfolio that is built off the demise of people, not their continued health.  And until there is a significant shakeup, and I mean a MAJOR one, where lots of people are put in jail and even processed for capital murder, the correct changes to the entire system won’t be possible.  That’s why Robert F. Kennedy was the best man for the job, and the people voted for Trump to get that result.  So it has to happen.

Rich Hoffman

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Where Voter ID Was Required, Kamala Harris Didn’t Win: A trend that emerged that tells a story of massive election fraud over a long period of time

Generally speaking, a trend emerged during the 2024 election cycle that shows a need for significantly simplifying the election process in federal elections, where all the states will have to hit a requirement.  They can manage their elections as they should, but a standard has to be set so that we don’t have what we essentially saw happen with Kamala Harris.  Other people saw it too, and the lunatics on the left quickly tried to water down the observation, but generally speaking, Kamala Harris only really won in states where voter ID was not required.  And in states where voter ID was required, she didn’t win, or she struggled.  And the problem with voter ID looks to be such a problem that Democrats have figured out that they can get a 5-point swing based on just the rule on voter ID.  Where Kamala lost by a few points where voter ID was present, she won by a few points where there wasn’t any voter ID.  What’s good about this particular election year was that most other forms of fraud had been rooted out, especially in the early drop boxes.  So, a trend toward how Democrats have been cheating for years centers around the lack of ID during elections or the manipulation of them in states with weak laws.  It shows why we can never have another election without correcting these basic problems. We need to get back to same-day voting, and they need to be on paper ballots, and every state must require voter ID with a picture.  Based on what we know now, after the 2024 election, that is the only real way to understand what voters genuinely want in their representative republic. 

Of course the generalities about Kamala Harris and the trend toward voter ID or a lack of it has caused a lot of consternation, so here are the detailed breakdowns to explain the situation.  There are 36 states that require voters to show some kind of identification at the polls to prove they are who they say they are.  Fourteen states don’t require people to show an ID when they vote in person.  Of those states, Kamala won 12 of them.  And as it turned out, Harris won 19 states and, of course, Washington D.C.  There are coastal areas that are just too far gone toward communist Democrat positions that Kamala won anyway.  They weren’t big, consequential states, but they do fall outside our observable standard expressed here for voter ID.  In Pennsylvania, first-time voters must show identification with an optional photo standard.  No photo ID is required in Nevada, but signatures must be provided.  All voters must show identification in Colorado, but it doesn’t require a photo.  In New Hampshire, if a voter does not have a picture, the poll worker can take one for them and attach it to an affidavit.  There are nine states, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, that are stricter and require all voters to show a state-issued photo ID.  Trump won all those states in that case, and Kamala didn’t win a single one.  So there is a bit more to it than just saying Kamala won where voter ID wasn’t.  But generally, where voter ID was required, Democrats struggled.  This has been the case for years, but with the push by Democrats to vote easily, to not have scrubbed voter rolls, to have mail-in ballots that were easy to tamper with, to have a postal service that was destroying votes in transit that did not support big government ideas, there was just too much room for Democrats to cheat and they have been doing so for quite a long time. 

There has also been a lot of talk, as people have noticed what I pointed out would be a problem for the last three years. The Democrats cheated in 2020 because they are 12 million short of those numbers.  Trump performed similarly, and if you look at how Republicans performed in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024, the excitement for Trump’s building a big tent was consistent.  However, Democrats have around a 69 million threshold consistent unless they can create extra votes not attached to actual people.  Because everyone was watching closely during this election, Democrats were forced to stay within their 69 million ceiling.  And even that, when voter ID is considered to add around a 5-point contamination on the same day voting, which could be illegal aliens or any number of Democrat voting apparatus, Democrats would perform even worse.  This explains why they had no genuine desire to have a message that people could buy into and instead relied lazily on voter fraud to gain and keep power.  When they were challenged, as they were with Trump, who had a big tent message and vision for America as a sovereign country, Democrats couldn’t compete.  Now, in the world of globalism, where communists have rigged elections all the time, there is nothing new about any of this.  Democrats were a party built for globalism and the destruction of American sovereignty, so they weren’t prepared for a fair fight with a fair election.  Their party has been built on rigged elections and a tilted battle against voters before the election ever started.  It’s always been this way, but they weren’t ready for this particular election, and it showed.

I don’t think the Democrats will survive this modern realization.  And as to the trend of switching every few years from Republicans or Democrats controlling the House, I’m telling you, if you get control of your elections in all the states so that they are genuinely free and fair, Republicans will win everywhere, and the House will gain a majority.  Democrats have only kept things close through massive election fraud.  Let’s go to a federal standard of same-day voting, paper ballots, and voter ID with a government-issued photo. The real intent of American voters will be represented truly.  This mess that went on in Arizona and Nevada is incredible in any modern sense.  It’s like watching the Flintstones dig a hole with a dinosaur.  It is ridiculously primitive and inefficient, and with all the time it has taken them to count their votes, are opportunities for election fraud because, like what happened in 2020 where the counters waited for everyone to go to sleep so they could slide some boxes into the mix for Joe Biden, and again what they did in Arizona to keep Kari Lake from becoming the governor, loose rules make it easy for criminals to steal elections.  And if we want to be serious about elections, we need to set a standard and have everyone do the same for federal election representation.  Because of the loose rules, Democrats have made a living from gaining power by exploiting good faith and using it as a club to destroy the concept of American life in favor of globalism and the global citizen movement.  With much of the noise removed in this election, a clear trend emerged, and with that knowledge, we have a chance to fix it for good in the future.   We must adhere to this mandate to preserve our republic so it can stand. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Rebellion Against the Global Managerial Class: What causes all war

When the British were finally forced to leave New York after the Revolutionary War, as one of the final acts after their defeat at the Battle of Yorktown, they imagined that the Americans would fall apart as soon as they left the city.  But once on their ships, an officer remembered that he had left something behind in a home he had been occupying and returned to get it.  The ship landed, and the officer returned to the house and retrieved what he had left behind, which he had expected to be a dangerous enterprise.  But he was stunned, as was the rest of England, to learn that the Americans were capable of self-government and were better off with them gone.  The world in America was better without the micromanagement of an oppressive centralized force.  And that is still the fight we have to this day; a managerial class of bureaucrats is attached to globalism and wants every corner of the globe to submit to their authority.  People have a raw belief about other people and the role authority plays in their lives.  And the truth is, the kind of freedom demonstrated for the first time in the world, the creation of a new nation and a people who governed themselves was bound to occur at some point in time.  America was able to happen due to a unique period in history where shipping allowed for international trade and communication just enough to make a new country possible.  But it was still too big to have all these jealous managerial people poking their noses in everyone’s business.  For a few hundred years, America was left alone because, for one, it didn’t have much value.  So, most of the other countries in the world didn’t care much about what happened to America.  That is until it became one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and mass communications became possible. At that point, the same jealous people were thrust together into a conflict that is very much the story of our modern day.

When Barack Obama says that he doesn’t understand how we became so divided, as he did at a recent rally for Harris, as the poll numbers show his Marxist revolution in the American government is coming to an end, I don’t think he does understand his role in the mess.  He was brought into that micromanagement culture of government to be a kind of communist parent.  So, like that English officer returning to New York, this concept of self-government just doesn’t make sense to him.  And, of course, there are people within the United States and worldwide who are just as perplexed.  I would call them broken people who crave government to be a parent in their lives.  They are insecure people who do not sustain themselves properly, so they are attracted to group affiliations.  But what caused the Revolutionary War in the first place is the same desire behind the MAGA movement now.  Everyone is shocked by what they are seeing in global populism, much less government, because most people never dealt with the cause of freedom in the first place.  When we talk about a Deep State and an administrative state, we are talking about people who are personally insecure and who want to rule over people in a managerial class kind of way.  You see it at every level of society, where a superior bosses around an inferior for the joy of being in control over someone else.  And this is the essence behind all forms of globalism.  They want to control value so that they can rule over the people who want a piece of that value.  But they do not understand why people would not want to be governed by them.  Or why more value is created in a culture that rebels against a management class of overseers. 

Another common theme that has not been well understood is that the Revolutionary War was about who controlled currency.  One of the plans the English had for the newly found Americans was to crush their economy by flooding the market with counterfeit money, making all the pay and exchanges made to people worthless, and essentially destroying the effort of freedom because nobody could afford the basics in life, particularly on the frontier of private property.  This was a continued problem with George Washington, who had been very successful before he became involved in the war or the presidency.  For his efforts, he was paid with worthless money, just as everyone else was, and that misfortune lasted the rest of his life.  But Americans didn’t turn away from freedom over a lousy economy that perplexed the world and its managerial class overseas.  They never understood it, and that holds to this day.  The same kind of people who lost America to the Revolution are handling our money supply now, and they have been purposely trying to destroy our economy for the purposeful incursion of ruling over America from the newly created United Nations.  To answer Barack Obama’s question, this rebellion would always occur, even if it meant the destruction of our economy.  When that destruction was most utilized in a global policy with the creation of the Covid bioweapon that shut down the world economy, the opposite of what they thought would happen occurred.  Just as that English officer was surprised to see how Americans behaved once the managerial class of the English military packed up and left New York after that war of independence. 

The monetary policy of imposing control over those who were supposed to be happy as subordinates was never understood psychologically, so the world has made the same mistakes repeatedly.  And Americans were taught by all the wrong people about how the world was supposed to be.  What was ignored was how people wished to live, and those forces never reconciled.  And that is the heart of what we see in this current election.  People do not want to be ruled by a managerial class.  It doesn’t matter if it’s other countries, centralized bankers, aliens from space, the World Economic Forum, or China, no matter who it is. People don’t want to be controlled by a managerial class, and America shows the benefits of what freedom produces in people.  Even when attempts to destroy our economy were utilized, people did not rush back to the arms of global overseers; instead, they became more rebellious.  And are electing Trump to get the globalists out of our back pockets.  And the more managerial overseers try to keep their hands in our pockets, the more anxious we have become.  But none of this is new; it’s just that the world is finally catching up to the nature of all human beings.  They don’t want a micromanaging parental figure ruling their lives.  They want freedom from all that, and the next several years are going to be very surprising to those globalist types.  They never reconciled what that English officer learned that day in New York, which is just as accurate now as it was then.  There is nothing that this management class can do to change human nature.  Things will never be for them as they would like them to be because that is not the nature of human beings anywhere. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Astonishing Trump Rally at Butler, Pennsylvania: Christopher Macchio gave the MAGA movement a soundtrack

It’s been a few days since the event, but I think it was one of the most pivotal events in all political history, President Trump’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassin tried to kill him and almost succeeded.  Shots were projected, and people were hurt in the crowd, and a person died.  It was serious stuff, and in this overly litigious world where the safety nazis are ruining everything with a mind-numbing existence of compliance to the authoritative experts of the world, it just doesn’t happen where tragedy is overcome by dramatic optimism.  But that was the message Trump brought with him for this return to the site on July 13th, 2024.  For Trump to return to the scene of the crime and dominate it with an optimistic speech that was attended by a larger group than before was breathtaking.  This second speech on October 5th, 2024, was something America needed to see, and it was probably expressed best by Elon Musk, who attended and spoke, jumping around on stage like a little boy happy to go to a baseball game with his father.  There was an innocence to the wealthiest man in the world and one of the most successful acting like a young kid happy about the future.  It was a sincere moment that history will never forget and Trump set it all up by returning to a place of doom with an optimism very few people in the world could ever hope to achieve.  Yet that is what Trump has been offering: a way to defeat the machine of communism that is present in our current captured government and to rise above it by pushing fear aside and leading the world back to health.  But in the wake of it all, there are a few things to think about that are unique and life-changing and that everyone should be aware of. 

First of all, the crowd defied modern conventions.  It was like the day of the assassination attempt, with bullets flying around everyone, and nobody knew where the shots were coming from or even how many shooters there were.  Essentially, in the middle of a large crowd, there was a shootout because a well-placed sniper did get the shot off that killed the assassin.  People in the audience were hit and killed, and there was blood everywhere.  It was a significant tragedy.  But the Trump supporters didn’t run from the area like a bunch of cowards.  Instead, they ducked, they looked around, and they remained calm.  This is a reaction that years of Hollywood productions by skinny pants losers from Santa Monica screenwriting don’t understand about real Americans.  Not the latte-sipping sissies of Democrat areas, but the meat and potatoes people from the flyover states who aren’t afraid of their own shadow.  People under fire weren’t cowards and did not leave Trump’s side when, at that time, they had to assume he was killed.  Elon Musk was watching from afar and had the same reaction that everyone else did once Trump stood up and pumped his fist to the sky, saying fight, fight, fight with blood running down his face in defiance of the killer’s intentions.  That is the American spirit, and it was at that moment, Elon Musk decided to endorse President Trump, which was something I didn’t think would ever happen.  Given that Musk is a Democrat and had been trending toward Republicans over the last few years, supporting Ron DeSantis early in the process.  Trump’s courage under fire and real danger inspired Musk and many others to join the effort to reelect the president, which was a story that Musk retold while on stage to a captivated audience. 

But knowing what happened the first time, why would people want to come back and stand in line for more than 24 hours only to hear the same speech repeatedly?  Why would people even want to risk their lives to attend an outside rally where there are people who want to kill Trump, and they might be killed themselves in the process?  This was like having people return to the Kennedy assassination after it had happened and give a motivational speech about America from the spot of the killing.  What would provoke people to want to do such a thing?  Most people, including conservative commentators, had no idea how to answer that question.  Yet the rally had people there, many more than the previous time in July, as far as the eye could see.  People wanted to be there and tried to put danger on notice.  They were not going to be afraid.  They wanted to support Trump, be near him, and be a part of history, which was a magnificent occasion after all that has happened over the last several years.  The event was live-streamed to over 5 million people on social media, but millions would see it and witness a unique historical event in the days that followed.  The plans for America’s demise were failing, and people could feel it in the air. They wanted to play their part in recapturing our country from the clutches of vile globalism.  It was more of a military occasion without the bullets flying toward an enemy, but the impression was the same.  If global communism ruled with fear, these people defied that intention by attending and participating in that rally. 

However, Trump understood that he had brought something new to his typical rally format before the rally started.  He invited the noted tenor Christopher Macchio to perform before and after the speech in a display that I thought was jaw-dropping audacious.  And for Trump to flex that celebrity muscle then was ominously bold.  Macchio has performed for Trump before, most recently at the RNC event in Wisconsin, but again at the White House.  However, for Macchio to perform at the Butler, Pennsylvania Trump rally was a touch of class that could only come from the Trump Organization as a statement.  It was a statement that wasn’t needed, yet Macchio brought opera to a culture that doesn’t usually get exposed to that kind of thing.  And Macchio performed several songs after the rally; once the typical YMCA song ended with Trump dancing on stage, Christopher sang “Nessun Dorma,” “How Great Thou Art,” and “Hallelujah” to a stunned crowd.  I was stunned.  I thought it was incredibly classy and bold.  Obviously, like Musk, this very talented and rare individual and a top New York celebrity was full-throated in support of Trump.  Christopher Macchio was jumping around on stage in his own way with a compelling performance that was cheerleading Americans in the ways of the Power of Positive Thinking to overcome years of massive tragedy and to restore America to health in ways that people are just now coming to understand.  That was essentially what Trump was offering with this rally: not just returning to the spot to overcome the attempted fear but also overcoming it and overwhelming it by laughing at danger, even dancing on top of it.  But boldly, we continue our triumph over evil the way only opera as an art form could even be conceived.  Yet there it was, and now the MAGA movement had a soundtrack to march to, to take back our country from those who have been stealing it away for a long time.  Now, there was music to give life to the movement captured so wonderfully by Christopher Macchio.  And the world will never be the same. 

Rich Hoffman

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Democrats Have Always Hated the 15th Amendment: What Joe Biden really meant by wearing a MAGA hat

There has been a lot of speculation about why Joe Biden put on a MAGA hat when it was presented to him at a recent campaign event.  Not only did he wear it, but he also carried it back with him to the plane when leaving the campaign stop.  The speculation has been that Biden is doing as Trump suggested at the last debate and is wearing the hat to spite Kamala Harris and the government system that wants to put her in power.  So, in his vastly passive-aggressive manner, Biden rebelled against Kamala and the Democrat party by supporting President Trump.  After all, it was a kind of running joke during the debate when Trump told Kamala that he was about to send her a MAGA hat because she had essentially switched all her platform points to adopt those of MAGA.  Essentially saying to the world, “Whatever Trump said,” as a desperate means to gain some favorability with a public not very excited about her beyond the same old derelicts who support typical Democrat policies.  Secretly, so went the belief Biden was supporting Trump because of what the Democrats did to him.  I don’t think it’s as simple as that, although it’s an interesting thought.  I believe there is something much more sinister going on and that Biden, in his elderly condition, was too oblivious to know he was giving away to the public a kind of tongue-in-cheek playbook that has been going on for a long time, and he was so confident in its outcome, that putting on the Trump hat was an act of uselessness as if to say, “no matter what you people do, you’re not in charge.  We’ll say and do anything to stay in power for power’s sake.  Elections are mere formalities.” 

I first thought of the Reconstruction period after the Civil War.  A lot of people don’t know or remember that it was Republicans, and radical ones at that, who fought the Civil War to free people from slavery.  It was after the 15th Amendment to the Constitution that the Southern Democrats were forced to accept that people of color could vote when the wheels of peace came off, and essentially, a second civil war ensued for the next 100 years.  It would work against Democrats to such an extent that they finally captured the policies of the GOP and took them as their own regarding the Civil Rights Acts of that period in the late 1950s and 1960s.  Before all that, Democrats, through policies of gross domestic terrorism, were openly committing violence against blacks and white Republicans all through the South by the thousands.  It was Republicans who fought the battle to free all people, and it was explicitly President Grant who pushed for it even with the massively violent opposition that was flung in his direction, just as President Trump is being treated to this very day.  The KKK was formed as an overt form of radicalism to fight back against the Grant imposed 15th Amendment giving blacks the right to vote and it lasted well into the modern age we know so well.  Joe Biden has been in office so long that many of his early friends as Democrats were leftovers from this Reconstruction period, where Democrats sought to undo the Republican efforts with KKK violence and adopting the positions of Grant’s administration, which Teddy Roosevelt would continue a few decades later much to the anger of Democrats, by adopting their policies as their own to gain power, but then to lie to the public when pressed and behave much differently legislatively. 

Republicans have been at fault by being too trusting with their typical “golly gee” approach to everything, expecting Democrats to be as honest as they are.  But Joe Biden has never been an honest person.  What the Democrats finally did with Civil Rights in the 1960s was essentially steal the Republican platform so that they could acquire power and use that power to essentially do all they wanted to resist during Reconstruction and toss America back into the arms of Europe through Marxism which had always been lingering in the background of the Southern love of aristocracy and a cotton trade with the mother countries of Europe.  They never wanted or fully adopted the American Constitution as it was presented, not during the Continental Congress or the Civil War.  Their economy was locked up into European trade and love of aristocracy, which is still a big part of their story today.  When Democrats put people into office like Barack Obama or Kamala Harris, it’s for them no different than Joe Biden putting on a MAGA hat.  Even though Biden has violently spoken against Make America Great Again policies, the joke by putting on the hat was an elderly mistake that indicated to what extent he and other Democrats would do to acquire power, by whatever means.  If they didn’t, they’d get no chance to fight back against the kind of policies that came from Abraham Lincoln and President Grant, leading to the Civil War and the freeing of slaves by Republicans, creating Reconstruction that led to the second American Civil War, which lasted up until late 1959 when Democrats decided to adopt the Republican platform cosmetically, so that they could undo it behind the scenes ones they tricked people into voting them into power.  And that has been their strategy in the modern age, leading right up to Joe Biden putting on that MAGA hat as a joke, but done with unusual sincerity that shocked many people. 

In his old age, Joe Biden has become arrogant to the point where he doesn’t care what people think.  He believes in the process of Democrats lying to the public to acquire power, and if anybody questions the effort, he and others will lie straight to your face.  They will say and do anything to gain control because it’s only then that they can do what they want.  And if they have to lie, steal, or cheat to do it, then so be it.  That is why Kamala Harris, rather than running on a platform of hating the MAGA movement, is suddenly saying that she supports gun rights and border security.  She is talking about inflation as if she had nothing to do with its current increases.  Kamala Harris has adopted the Trump MAGA policies for only one reason: to be elected so she can gain power and do what Democrats have always done: lie to get into office, then turn the country against the Constitution and steer us all back to Europe.  Their hatred of the 15th Amendment was an act of terrorism they never got over, and they approached the matter in the extreme by essentially recapturing people of color as a block voting group to use for their purposes by making them so dependent on free government giveaways, that they were essentially put back in the chains of slavery before there was ever a Constitution or a 15th Amendment.  And not until Trump came along did the code finally get cracked and exposed as to what they were up to all along.  And to hide that fact, Kamala Harris is adopting many of Trump’s policies, hoping to hoodwink Trump supporters until she can win office and can conduct her real strategy, which Democrats concealed from the public.  Until we deal with that trend once and for all, we will continue to have massive problems, and there will always be a civil war brewing in the background because they do not like America or our Constitution and have been at war with it now for centuries.  They lie to gain power, which Joe Biden intended by laughing about and putting on that hat. Because he and most of the Democrats of his party know what they plan, and they think we are all suckers who will fall for it, as we have in the past.

Rich Hoffman

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The World Has Been Run By Stupid People, Like Kamala Harris: Poor people are manufactured by bad decisions and wrong ideas

I’d say you could go back to the first moment human beings gathered together to form some government, but the game has been occurring for a long time.  It’s not new to our modern era.  However, only through the creation of the United States has it been exposed the way it has been, and even created a discussion point about the difference between worthless administrators and those who know and understand how to do work.  And that was the big difference between President Trump and the communist loser Kamala Harris at the presidential debate in 2024.  When people talk about the debate being rigged by the moderators of Disney-owned ABC, they are making an understatement.  It comes down to one fundamental issue I have been dealing with all of my adult life. It culminates in the understanding of free people living their lives to their fullest potential; a massive scam is unraveling.  Who does work, and who is best in a position to lead in some way?  Out of all this, I couldn’t help but think of the very good President Grant, who shared many traits with Trump.  He was a good president who knew how to get things done and made the country far better off.  But his memory is wrapped up in controversy and scandal, and he is remembered as one of the most corrupt administrations in the history of the world.  This wasn’t because Grant himself was corrupt, but because people grew to hate Grant because he was too good and would not bend the knee to an administrative class of bureaucrats, so they smeared his name in history for revenge on how bad and worthless Grant made them feel as people.  The same problem can be found in the ruins of Saqqara in Egypt, where the tombs of their worthless administrators attempted to rival those of the pharaohs in luxury and social impact.  What we see play out is the desire many have for self-worth propped up by the power of government disguised as a social benefit for the sheer desire of self-fulfillment. 

President Trump got where he was by being better than his competitors, resulting from a capitalist system of social enchantment.  Kamala Harris is the product of communist sentiment; she started life as a sex toy side girl who was put into a prosecutor’s office because of how she appeased power.  That is the result of her entire life, which dramatically unraveled on the stage against President Trump.  People thought it was a good debate because she could talk, compared to Joe Biden, who was whisked away to make way for Kamala to sit at the top of the ticket, as Trump said, “like a dog.”  The problem for many is that Trump existed at all as a representative of competence and performance because the Marxists who have been trying to undermine American culture for many decades could not live up to the high example of Trump, so their conglomeration of sentiment manifested by Kamala Harris attempted to throw out all the usual stop sticks that have repealed the human race from success for thousands of years, and Trump wasn’t having any of it.  That made people frustrated with Trump because he was supposed to be more dignified about that disguise, more like Grant was, or the countless pharaohs of Egyptian society, and give the allusion that what the world needed were more bureaucrats acting as village chiefs and ruling through administrative nonsense to give the illusion of leadership. 

And to that point, every single economist and government commentator has gotten the situation wrong, which I ran into firsthand when I was young.  In my 20s, I was invited to many powerful shindigs, with the kind of people that made Kamala Harris the person she became.  They were always radical Democrats, and there was no confusing me with anything but a hard-line conservative.  But, since the beginning, people have tried to use me because of my mouth and see if they might ride my coattails to some successful enterprise based on my gift of gab.  So, I was exposed to many people who ran and taught things, especially college professors and economists.  I’d talk to them at these events about their views of the world as they would explain to me that the future of the American economy would be service-oriented and that all the manufacturing jobs would be overseas where labor was cheaper and workers there were more willing to do it.  I would say to them, “That’s not going to work very well,” they would then laugh and assume that I had a lot to learn.  Well, they all turned out to be wrong, and they were not very smart to begin with, even though they were teaching society through colleges all the same points of view, which all turned out to be wrong.  And all these years later, we see just how bad they were.  And it was their kind of people who were trying to push Kamala Harris under the door, hoping nobody would notice how stupid they were all along.  Trump and his successes make them look foolish because he knows better and doesn’t feel even a bit of desire to politely bend the knee to them to make them feel part of the process.  And that is the essential case Kamala made on their behalf. 

But even deeper than that, from the point of view of my grand jury service in 2024, where through many criminal cases, I could see the totality of this stupidity up close, with my unique perspective of the world and its history.  The primary cause of most crime and the defeat of major cities are the failed policies of these destructive Democrats and their Marxist ideas that never valued work and honor but excuses and victimization sentiment.  To protect themselves from analysis, they have just sought to build a government to hide the folly of their failed enterprises.  And people are tired of the mess they have left behind.  Trump represents achievement and quality without bending the knee to an administrative class of worthless bureaucrats.  Harris provides a mask to all the world’s problems in a desire to perpetuate the scam just a year or two longer for their benefit.  Ultimately, they can’t run and hide forever.  They have been trying for thousands of years.  However, under the premise of a free society in America where power was decentralized and put to good use through capitalism, the surviving characteristic of the human race is emerging in ways that were never actually expressed before.  And, of course, the world is angry about it; they hate President Trump.  But Trump is the unyielding character we all want to see opening up opportunities for everyone else.  This exposes people like Kamala Harris, all the political pundits of the world, and the majority of economists of the United Nations as phonies.  And all the people who taught them all the wrong things along the way.  I saw it firsthand years ago, but at the time, I would tell them, “If you say so.”  Maybe they did know something I didn’t.  I gave them the benefit of the doubt.  But as it turned out, they didn’t.  They were just stupid and sought to hide that stupidity through government expansion and an aristocratic approach to the power achieved through mass collectivism.  The world they have made with those approaches is a failure based on their sheer stupidity, and people are tired of putting up with it.  Perhaps, for the first time in history.

Rich Hoffman

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