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The Warm Blanket of Socialism: Hiding the tattoos and body piercings of millions of bad personal decisions with progressive crusades

The mirror doesn’t lie.  What looks back is the result of millions and millions of decisions, and most people don’t like what they see.  So they construct social engagements accordingly.  If they lean toward liberal politics, it is likely because they are ashamed of their decisions in life and look for social order to hide them from the realities of those bad decisions with a warm blanket of socialism to hide under.  And the last thing they want to do is have some conservative come into their room and rip away that protection from even themselves, let alone the judgments of the world. But beyond the personal, the reflection prompts deeper contemplation about the state of the nation—particularly the visible unraveling among those who champion a progressive, collectivist vision for society. What some call the “warm blanket of socialism” provides comfort to those less inclined toward self-reliance, a psychological shelter against the uncertainties of individual responsibility and the harsh light of personal accountability.

Self-reliance has long been a cornerstone of the American ethos, embodied in figures who tie their own shoes at a young age, change their own tires, perform their own brake jobs, cook their own meals, and build their lives through initiative. Such individuals tend to align with Republican values, emphasizing limited government, free markets, and personal merit. In contrast, those who feel lost or overwhelmed often seek refuge in collective structures—government programs, social safety nets, group identities—where shared burdens mitigate individual risk. This isn’t mere preference; it’s a response to upbringing and circumstance. If early life lacked lessons in independence, if family structures fractured through divorce, remarriage, or instability, the world can feel perpetually threatening. The “blanket” becomes essential, and any policy pulling it away—lower taxes reducing social services, pro-capitalist reforms favoring entrepreneurs, immigration enforcement, or school choice—evokes terror, like yanking covers off a frightened child in the dark.

This dynamic explains much of the current unrest. With policies under the Trump administration prioritizing capitalism, family stability, homeschooling, and distrust of public education, and reducing dependence on public aid, those accustomed to collective coverage feel exposed. Fewer people relying on the system means less communal “blanket” to hide behind. Protests erupt not only from policy disagreements but also from existential fear: the loss of a parental government that shields from consequences. This mirrors historical patterns—East Berlin walls, Soviet barriers—designed to prevent defection from collectivism to individual freedom, lest the illusion of security crumble.

Psychological research illuminates these divides. Conservatives often exhibit higher self-control, greater emphasis on personal responsibility, and stronger physiological responses to threats in ways that reinforce stability-seeking behaviors. Liberals, by contrast, prioritize harm avoidance, fairness as equality, and openness to change, sometimes at the expense of binding structures like authority or tradition. One study found that conservatives outperform liberals in self-control tasks, particularly when free will is framed positively, suggesting that ideology shapes not only beliefs but also behavioral resilience. Happiness gaps also appear: conservatives report higher life satisfaction, potentially attributable to attitudes that value personal agency over systemic solutions.

Family structure plays a pivotal role. Decades of rising divorce, blended families, absent parents, and serial partners disrupt trust in foundational institutions. Children navigating weekends between homes—with new spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends—often internalize instability, leading to victimhood narratives and reliance on external support. Data show complex patterns: conservatives are slightly more likely to have ever divorced in some age groups, but remarry more readily and report happier marriages overall. Marriage rates have declined sharply among Democrats compared to Republicans since the 1980s, with liberals increasingly forgoing marriage altogether, viewing it as less essential for happiness. Conservative women tend to marry younger and desire more children, sustaining family-oriented values. In red states, higher teen birth rates historically contrast with lower divorce rates in blue states like Massachusetts, highlighting how cultural norms around family influence outcomes.

Public education, infused with progressive ideologies over generations, amplifies this. Marxist influences in curricula—from high school to university—promote collectivism over individual merit, framing society as oppressive rather than opportunity-rich. Turning away from this requires reclaiming education rooted in self-reliance and traditional values.

Visible markers often signal these divides. Protesters against conservative policies frequently display extensive tattoos, piercings (nose rings, large earlobe gauges), and other body modifications—symbols of rebellion against norms and a return to “primitive” or indigenous aesthetics that reject Western civilization’s emphasis on restraint. Biblically, Leviticus 19:28 prohibits cuttings or marks for the dead, often interpreted as rejecting pagan mourning rituals or idolatry rather than all body art. Many Christian scholars argue that the New Testament shifts focus to heart intentions and body stewardship (1 Corinthians 6:19-20), not absolute bans. The verse targeted cultural compromise with false gods, not modern self-expression. Still, some view extreme modifications as desecration of the “temple,” opening doors to parasitic influences—spiritual or psychological—that erode personal sanctity. This ties to anti-civilizational trends: embracing perversions destructive to family, promoting LGBTQ+ agendas that undermine traditional bonds, and feeding primal urges over ordered happiness.

Yet statistics nuance perceptions. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that 32% of U.S. adults have at least one tattoo (22% have more than one), with roughly equal rates: 33% among Democrats/Democratic leaners and 32% among Republicans/Republican leaners. No major partisan divide exists; differences vary more by age (higher among under-50s), gender (38% women vs. 27% men), and race/ethnicity. Visible, extreme modifications may cluster more among vocal progressive activists, creating a perceptual association, but broader data indicate that tattoos are mainstream across ideologies.

The anger on display—protests that block highways, defend open borders, and resist enforcement—stems from poor personal decisions compounded by cultural shifts. Tattoos and piercings become outward signs of inner chaos, a rejection of self-care mirroring societal rejection of meritocracy. When self-reliance prevails, those who hide behind collectivism feel judged; their resentment manifests as demands for “fairness” that serve as cover for mistakes. We can’t restructure society around resentment—help those open to change, but not at civilization’s expense.

This isn’t hatred of people but a critique of ideology: understanding roots—broken families, poor teachings, fear—fosters empathy without capitulation. Promote self-reliance, stable families, capitalist opportunity; rebuild through virtue, not mandates. Policies favoring doers—business starters, home maintainers, homeschoolers—create prosperity for all willing to participate.  But what people believe politically, and act out socially, such as in the Minnesota riots, are reflections of their many bad decisions in life, and a transferance to society in general that they can pass off those mistakes through moral crusades that are always too little too late.  And usually, the body piercings and tattoos are a clear reflection of a fragmented mind hiding behind social causes because they have wrecked their lives personally, and can only get redemption through collectivist enterprise. 

Footnotes

1.  Pew Research Center, “32% of Americans have a tattoo, including 22% who have more than one,” August 15, 2023. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/15/32-of-americans-have-a-tattoo-including-22-who-have-more-than-one/

2.  Institute for Family Studies, “The Growing Link Between Marriage, Fertility, and Partisanship,” September 18, 2025.

3.  Gallup, “When and Why Marriage Became Partisan,” July 11, 2024.

4.  American Enterprise Institute, “The Republican Marriage Advantage: Partisanship, Marriage, and Family Stability in the Trump Era,” October 31, 2024.

5.  Desiring God, “Tattoos in Biblical Perspective,” December 19, 2013. https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/tattoos-in-biblical-perspective

6.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “The self-control consequences of political ideology,” 2015.

7.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, “Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction,” 2012.

8.  PLOS ONE, studies on moral foundations and psychological motivations in liberalism vs. conservatism, 2020.

Rich Hoffman

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Kameltoe Harris is Worse than Old Man Joe: Desperate Democrats and Their Communist Machine of Doom

What do I think of Kameltoe Harris being put at the top of the presidential ticket for the Democrat party? Well, she’s worse than Biden and will be slaughtered through the debate process because she is dumb as a rock.  She’s a slack-jawed, dope-smoking loser who manipulated her way into high office with sexual favors and the exploitation of her skin color, which is Indian, not black.  There is a reason that they kept her in the background all this time.  They only put her with Biden because she was a woman too dumb to understand how they were using her, and now they have to, out of desperation, switch her out with the frail old man because they knew after that debate performance and after that assassination attempt that put Trump in the lead, that they had to do something.  I had been saying that they were going to stick with Biden and hoped some miracle happened, and their hearts were crushed when that bullet didn’t kill Trump, and the government got caught with their hands all over the actions of the lone shooter.  He wasn’t so lonely after all, and when that failed, they went to their very weak bench, and there was Kameltoe, Kamala Harris, cackling like a hyena with blood dripping from her lips after eating the dead carcass of what’s left of the Democrat party.  I would say I have zero respect for her, probably less.  I don’t think she has one redeeming quality, not a single one.  She slept her way into that office, and the only thing she can do for Democrats is give them some dancing clips for TikTok.  But she does represent the Democrat party, and in their desperation, I can see why they turned to her.  They think that’s what America’s future is, which was always behind the Biden crime family.  By the way, they looked like a motley bunch when old man Joe gave his address to the nation, stating that he was not going to continue running for president.  With four months left before the election, they are all scampering for something that will win American hearts, but Kameltoe isn’t it. 

Suddenly for Democrats, Harris is the second coming

I thought Vivek Ramaswamy said it best recently when he said we weren’t running against a person; we were running against a machine in the Democrat party.  And he’s right.  That machine of international collectivism promoting communist China’s views of the world needs to consume the American way of life to establish its objectives of a one-world government run by the United Nations, and they want nothing less than the destruction of the sovereignty of the United States, and complete submission to the authority of global politics which is left of the most radical leftist in America.  Most of the world is consumed with communism or socialism or some kind of leftover Karl Marx sentiment, and America is their destination for looting everything we have like common criminals who would be lured by the siren songs of destruction by the orchestra they are playing through media sentiment and mindless irony.  This was always the danger of a mass movement in communications when the perpetrators thought they had more power than they had.  The ability to manipulate the common public so easily with advertising, to buy the latest soap, car, or sports team.  And that those same traits could be applied to politics.  But what the communist left is learning, all too late, is that politics and economic desires are not the same thing, and they function by different rules.  And their platform of identity politics was always the wrong approach.  The party of freedom that came from the Wigs in America evolved into the Republican Party for a reason, and the Democrats never had an answer to it, and that is what is falling apart to this very day.  About that same time that Republicans became the party of freedom, of the abolitionist movement, the communists who were following Karl Marx were sending their representatives around the world to become progressives and to cast their strategy into the culture of global menace, and it has taken about 150 years for it all to come to fruition on this current collision course. 

It would have happened earlier, but the strategy of mass media manipulation had to play out, and the Democrats just had to run out of gas.  It was going to take a media icon like Trump to exploit the machine of doom that was built to overtake America in a very military type of campaign for destruction.  This Democrat party is a communist machine built to destroy much the way they did in China and Russia, spreading into Central America, Cuba, South America, and all over Europe with dozens of failed socialist experiments.  That machine has been loose in America for a long time, exploiting the nice nature of Republicans who didn’t fight back hard enough when confronted with this diabolical menace.  Until someone like Trump came along and showed the Judeo/Christian soldiers how to fight these evil creatures.  And now, in desperation from their failures, they are turning to Kameltoe, hoping that something will change for them.  But public sentiment sees what is going on and has been for over a century.  However, their past crimes have caught up to them, and they can’t hide from what they have done. 

When we talked about the Republican party emerging from the Whigs when Franklin Pierce defeated General Winfield Scott in a lopsided victory, Charles Sumner told William Seward, “Now is the time for a new organization.  Out of the chaos, the party of freedom must arise.”  And the Republican Party was born.  The only reason Democrats have survived this long was because they hijacked through media manipulation the Civil Rights Movement, which Republicans started to undo the evils the slave-owning Democrats had utilized in American politics through Reconstruction.  And the lies told to advance that story have caught up to them through the presidency of Barack Obama.  People proved they weren’t racist when they put up with eight years of that loser, and they aren’t keen to go through it again.  The machine of global communism can no longer hide its intent behind noise and sentiment.  People want freedom from that machine, as it was identified in the election when Winfield Scott lost.  Democrats have been losing ever since, but the machine disguised those losses through public relations trickery and a conspiracy controlled by international finance that people trusted too much until the process let them down.  Now, there isn’t anything the machine can do to win people over, especially putting another dummy like Cameltoe at the top of the ticket and expecting all the dope-smoking, slack-jawed, lazy losers to rise and defend their gains from an angry American public.  Democrats, as I always say, can’t win if they don’t cheat, and the machine of their party can’t manipulate people into acting against their self-interest.  No, we aren’t obligated to show Kamala Harris even an ounce of respect.  They tried to kill our president and our representative, and they intended to enslave us all to this international communist machine funded by BlackRock and the liberal loser Larry Fink.  And their house of cards is falling under their own actions.  And their last desperate hail Mary is Kameltoe.  And she isn’t up to the task.

Rich Hoffman

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It Will Only Get Worse: Trump is just the tip of the tip of the Iceberg

Of course not. The populist tendency of America is not a solitary effort, as was evident in France this past Sunday, the first week of June 2024, when snap elections were called to stave off a complete populist revolt there.  As I said about that issue, and all these others, globalism requires election fraud to stay in power, which was always their plan.  But, things didn’t go the way they planned with the Great Reset and the “new normal” they tried to establish, and things have spiraled out of their control while populist political movements all over the world are rising against corporate communism.  To me, this is not new.  I was young and didn’t know the details of politics as I do now, but I remember the good ol’ days when George Bush senior, the old head of the CIA, was preaching globalism in the early 90s as a sequel to Ronald Reagan, and I was not OK with it.  I worked with the Reform Party back then to help get Ross Perot elected and was entirely involved in the campaign.  So I’ve watched Donald Trump grow into the needs of the Reform Party to become what he is today, the leader of the Republican Party.  We learned our lesson back then with Bush when Clinton won.  We understood that the political movement we were working with needed to be in two parties and that we’d have to work out the details.  Something that Macron in France is hoping to stave off with his snap elections to suppress the French call for populism from what they are calling a “right-winged” government there.  When they say “right-winged,” they mean “anti-Marxist.”  But what we are seeing now isn’t new, and it’s not being driven by one personality that, if eliminated, would bring order to the world once again. 

As I watched the guilty verdict for the Hunter Biden trial, the contempt of congress testimony of Merrick Garland, and the reverberation of Dr. Doom himself, Fauci, I thought of all the times President Trump as a member of the Reform Party thinking about running for president against Pat Buchanan more as a gimmick than anything drew small crowds at Tea Party events.  Back then, you could talk to Trump as easy as anybody.  His growth came from the need for a Reform Party.  Not because of him, which many people clearly don’t understand.  With all the effort Democrats are employing to get rid of Trump from the 2024 ticket, the populist movement is carrying Trump.  Not the other way around.  What we see worldwide is very similar to what we saw when Bush was knocked out of politics by Ross Perot in 1992.  Perot may have faded into the background, and Trump stepped in, but it all started with a question: can we trust a centralized globalism to rule the world? The answer is a resounding no.  No in France, no in Brazil, no in Argentina, no everywhere.  The concept of a European Union, whether we’re talking about Brexit or populist uprisings in France, Spain, Belgium, or Romania, is only going to increase because the communist advocates behind the World Economic Forum and other organizations have failed to sell it to the people they want to rule over.  And they are being rejected massively.  If anything, Trump is too nice for the anger people feel.  Trump represents the frustrations people have, but once Trump goes away from politics, four years from now, the people behind him will be much angrier, much more frustrated, and more justice-seeking than anybody in the previous administrations could ever have dreamed of.  And modern Democrats and global progressives clearly don’t understand. 

Putting top-loaded tyranny back on the globalist menu is gone forever.  I have watched and been a part of this globalist movement and watched the communist push behind corporate influence for over four years, and I’m telling everyone, the game broke with COVID-19.  I knew it the moment Bill Gates resigned from the Microsoft board. I knew what they were trying to do with Covid, and now, four years later, they’ve all been caught.  Any trust they had built with the world they tossed out the window in frustration over the Trump election in the United States, and they got caught overplaying their hands and killing people for no reason.  Other than keeping the centralized global powers they had enjoyed in the previous decades when people still trusted them, they have lost that trust now and forever and will never recover.  So, this desperate attempt to stop Trump in America is an admission to something none of them ever understood.  I could have explained it to them thirty years ago as I did to people in Dallas, Texas, at the Trump family home on the night before the election that eventually saw Clinton win because the Bush vote split.  We wouldn’t make that mistake again, but we wouldn’t put up with the old establishment types either.  We weren’t going to accept a corrupt and captured Republican Party that worked the previous 20 years, going back to the CIA to remove Nixon from office, or even further than that, in the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, just so these globalist forces could use the power of government to stay in power themselves.  No, that wasn’t going to be acceptable.

It has been a modern World War with communism making its move in not traditional combat.  People were slow to see it, but over time, they have warmed up to the idea that they can’t trust centralized governments to have their best interests in mind.  They have been turning away from World Economic Forum communists and corporations that are too dedicated to the efforts of globalism rather than to satisfying capitalist market trends.  I’ve been there for many more years than most people, only because it has been hard for many to admit to the real problem.  But they are coming around and are finally ready to stick up for themselves through these various populist movements.  In the United States, it’s all about Trump.  But in other countries, they have their versions; in France, it’s Marine Le Pen.  They tried to kill Jair Bolsonaro, and when that didn’t work, they rigged the election and put in the communist criminal Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva in Brazil.  In Argentina its Javier Gerardo Milei who won there.  The world sees this kind of thing everywhere and will only pick up steam.  There will come a day very soon when the radical left will beg for the type of leadership Trump brings to the table because, with him, it’s mostly cosmetic.  Following behind him is a parade of characters who expect real reform away from the communist globalism that people are turning away from everywhere.  Because it’s not been good for them.  And there are no tricks that can be used to put all this back into a safe bottle for the globalists to enjoy again.  They broke any trust they wanted in the past forever.  They just haven’t yet accepted that inevitability, and when they finally do, there will be a lot of emotional collapses, and they’ll realize everything too late.  But what we are seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg.  It will get much worse for them in the months and years.  And they will deserve it for all they get.

Rich Hoffman

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America Protects the World from Persecutions: It is the destruction of the rule of law and the Constitution that the enemies seek

A lot of people are noticing now that there is a level of persecution that has always existed.  But because of the rawness and desperation of the enemy, best described as the works of evil in the world, it is much more on their minds than in the modern past.  But as I was telling someone the other day, don’t ever forget the 9th of AV when the Spanish told the Jewish people to leave in 1492 or be killed.  Remember that three boats that were in the harbor that day were from Christopher Columbus, who was fleeing a different kind of persecution and seeking the discovery of something “not European.”  Free from the kind of world that those seeking a New World would find very inviting.  And in many ways, because of that, the Jewish people were not wiped from the face of the earth.  I also think of the Apostle Paul, who died a martyr in prison and became a significant contributor to the biblical text of the New Testament that we study today.  Or I think of John the Baptist from the Old Testament, who had his head cut off to appease the whims of a silly socialite.  Persecutions are not unique in history and are just as bad and frequent in the world as yesterday.  The will of the political left to persecute their enemies is the same as all those examples from the past.  As it stands, Christianity as a whole was founded on the persecution and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, a religion founded on the concept hoping to apply some logic to the practice that took people several thousand years to finally figure out, which ironically led to the preservation of the Jewish people on that fateful day in 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue. 

The Ark of the Covenant at Mar-a-Lago. How the rule of law created civilization

If not for the creation of the United States, the Jewish people would have finally been wiped out, just as they were determined to have done to them in the Book of Ester from the Bible.  When America was discovered, and the persecuted from around the world fled there to be away from tyrannies abundant wherever they came from, it was in the power of the United States to become the best shelter for the Jewish people that the world had produced.  And because of the strength of the United States, the Jewish people were able to have their homeland of Israel restored to them, which still has the forces of evil angry about it.  If America had never been discovered, there would be no place on earth where being persecuted for different opinions or backgrounds could shelter the innocent from the concept of persecution.  That we see it now coming from the political left is simply that European-style globalism has brought with it the expectation they have always had that those with the most power would have the right to rule over minority opinion.  And that most of the world’s antagonism against America is due to this precise problem.  But America did something never before accomplished anywhere on earth or in its vast history.  It wrote a Constitution that sheltered people from persecution, and our entire legal system was built around protecting people from it.  And it is in that way, under those expectations of the rule of law, that Trump can be president, even if the world would love to throw him in jail as they did the Apostle Paul or John the Baptist.  Or crucified the way that Jesus Christ was, a political murder by those in power against those they wished to suppress. 

By following America’s constitution, the oppressors of history finally have a legal means that takes away their power.  The reason behind creating the United States as a moral foundation is to prevent the government from gaining that kind of power.  Of course, it is unrealistic to expect the world to respect such a concept.  But whenever you pick up a Bible or meet a Jewish person, keep in mind that their entire existence is connected to America becoming a nation built on Constitutional law instead of the whims of corrupt European kings or dynasties of the Near and Far East.  The Puritans who fled Europe out of fear of the Roman Catholic Church specifically made America what it is today, a country where free people could exist without the fear of persecution.  If everyone follows the law, it is illegal in America.  All the discussions of stripping away free speech in America and jailing people who were part of the Trump White House, like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, or even local school board members who stood up to the international trade unions, such as what has occurred in my home school district of Lakota schools, where school board member Darbi Boddy has joined the ranks of those persecuted by radical globalists who hate the American Constitution.  The difference between American law and international globalism that is trying to destroy America is that repression and persecution are not acceptable.  While leftist judges are attempting to put Darbi in jail, Steve Bannon from Trump’s White House, and Trump himself for many made-up political charges, ultimately, the Constitution provides a safe harbor that John the Baptist never had or the Apostle Paul.  History deserves context, and without America, the world would still expect persecution as a priority instead of some back-door reality. 

And that is what we are fighting for today.  We don’t have an obligation to be persecuted by our enemies, and many enemies have no intention to “co-exist” with us.  They only want peace so they can get close enough to us to erode our laws so they can gain the ability to do as history has always done to people it doesn’t like and persecute them.  The reason that progressives hate our Constitution so much is because it keeps them from gaining the power actually to do as they have done all through human history.  And that is to keep the government small enough not to have the ability to persecute, which obviously by the attempts against Trump and many of his supporters, especially those from January 6th, and what is being done to Julian Assange presently, are common in the world.  Not unique.  The moment that we let America fall, or the Constitution that it is built on, the world regresses back to what it was before 1492, and nobody wants that, except the bad guys.  The world clamored for America and still does because of the American Constitution.  And it ultimately is why Supreme Court cases tend to outlast the radical prosecutions of those progressive elements that take over District Attorney offices by the same hostile forces that demanded the head of John the Baptist.  Because of mass communication culture, people see these persecutions more than at any time in history, and they think that the evil in the world now is unique.  But it’s not.  What is different now than in the past is that we expect the American Constitution not to have such harassment and that the keys to happiness are in the rule of law as established by it.  And as long as people know and understand the Constitution, they can expect not to be persecuted.  Which ultimately is the great miracle of our times. 

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham Should Be Impeached: Gun rights are the keys to all successful economies

And she should be impeached, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.  I have been everywhere in New Mexico, and I can say with certainty most of the people there are not big supporters of her.  Her support primarily comes from the colleges around Albuquerque, where Marxism has infected the population in a population center that has given the illusion of a blue state mentality.  But that is not the case, and the governor has shown her cards in many ways by jumping offsides on a conservative hard count.  She never had the power to create an executive order limiting the Second Amendment in any way over what she says is excessive gun violence involving children.  The progressive trend to exploit children for the advancement of attacks on the American Constitution is not new, and it’s certainly what is going on with this latest attack on the Second Amendment.  Then, for that same anti-family Democrat party to advance talks of killing kids with abortion almost in the same sentences is perplexing and irrational.  But it’s not a surprise, given the state of their party politics.  The pressure to stop populism forces governors like Grisham to blink and give away their intentions when they would be better off holding their cards.  Democrats can’t afford to because their window on power is closing in on them.  Now, because of her outright attack on gun rights in New Mexico, many Republicans are calling for her impeachment, as her executive order limiting concealed carry where public places are concerned was such an overreach and abuse of power that Republicans are perfectly justified in attacking the governor for such outrageous actions.  I said it the moment she signed the order: Governor Grisham did not have the authority to act against gun rights.  Constitutional laws are “absolute.”  They are not subject to government interpretation or any progressive editing, which she had in mind when she signed her ridiculous executive order.

I think it’s great that we are finally having honest conversations about Constitutional law.  I have wanted to have these intelligent conversations for the last thirty years, and it’s only now, or really, since COVID came along, and all these big-time Democrats with Marxism clearly on their minds have shown the public what I have been warning about all this time.  People used to say, “No, they aren’t that crazy, (Democrats).  They aren’t Marxists, communists, and socialists.”  Well, yes they are, and they always have been.  They know that Marxism will never work in America so long as they can’t use physical force to impose compliance with the government, so they, of course, desire to destroy the American Constitution.  They aren’t looking to live within the law; they intend to break it, which Grisham’s Executive Order did.  Just as Biden’s Executive Order involving vaccine mandates clearly violated the law.  The American Constitution limits the powers of government; it doesn’t grant them.  Unlike Communist China, where they criticize all these limits on government power, the goal of Marxism as a philosophy is to have central state control over everything, and the people serve the state.  Grisham did as many progressives (Marxists) have been trying to do with their acquired power, abusing it toward the aims of global communism.  But they can’t hope to do that unless they can get people to fear authority, and that won’t happen if people are personally armed with gun rights.

The point of the Second Amendment initially, and to this day, is to limit the power of tyrants like Governor Grisham, who want to use government control to impose itself on the rights of individuals.  Government power is limited because of the tendency of authority figures to abuse their power throughout history.  With the long-established plans of Marxism to take over the world, and especially embedding itself into American culture under many disguises, they see where political sentiment is heading with MAGA and the support for President Trump, especially in New Mexico, so they are making their moves while they still can, while they still have power.  But in haste, governors like Grisham have shown ordinary people the game being played, not just speculated about.  And the reaction to her executive order is much more rambunctious than such actions have been in the past.  The government does not have the right to do what it did with Covid, and that is to suspend Constitutions.  That is why the scandal of Covid was so audacious and the political motivations so obvious, even if it’s hard for people to admit to.  COVID was about giving the government the power it wanted in the world for global communism.  It was not about health management. Otherwise, the government would have made emergency recommendations for Ivermectin upon the Covid outbreak.  Instead, they supported censorship.  They wanted casualties because it helped them advance their cause toward Marxism.  Just as Governor Grisham tried to exploit the death of children to take away gun rights and strike a blow at Constitutional limits to government power, these are scary examples of a government power grab. That is why we have a Constitution as we do, with the Second Amendment and the First to set up boundaries to check that power before it gets out of control.  An American society without guns will be a Marxist one, which is their goal, and when that power is abused, the natural reaction should be impeachment from office for the attempt.  There must be consequences. 

When people like Grisham say, “America is the only place in the world with gun laws that make gun ownership common.  Nobody else has them.”  Well, I’ve been all over the world, and I can tell you there is no place like America.  And why should there be?  It is no accident that the freest country on earth has the best economy.  And the areas that have the most centralized authority have the worst economies.  China is another Marxist con game where American investment has been tricked into believing that communism was the future, so they have moved in that direction, propping up the communist country into what history will quickly recognize as a dramatic failure.  Then, of course, why are guns needed? Well, wherever a good economy produces something of value, other people always want to take it, including the government.  So, that is why there is a Bill of Rights that protects gun rights.  And there is no negotiation on gun rights, none at all.  Gun rights are the key if you want an excellent economy, as most people worldwide do.  Where there is value, there must be a means to protect the value created.  Governor Grisham, like most from her Democrat Party, is attempting to take over the American economy with centralized planning, which will significantly restrict personal freedom and the amount of money such a country can generate regarding GDP.  So, people have a right to be upset about it, and more than ever, people are making the direct correlation between gun rights, safety, and economic viability.  The more guns and personal freedom, the more money a country can make.  And the more capital, the better the society and the options for the people living there.  Gun rights are the key to a productive and safe society.  Any intrusion on that deserves removal from government office, which Governor Grisham, at the very least, deserves for her vast examples of government overreach. 

Rich Hoffman

Fox News Cutting Tucker Carlson: Corporate structures failing everywhere and trying to hide why

It was no surprise to me that Tucker Carlson was removed from Fox News, even as the number one guy. I’ve been saying it for weeks; it’s almost as if Tucker was trying to get them to fire him so that he could be free of that corporate structure. We are all getting ready to go through a highly unusual period in world history that was a long time coming. There is a belief, especially among the communist-minded, that they could be as rulers, the center of all thought and activity. And that if only they captured the corporate structure, they would always capture economic flow. But the truth was that corporations existed to fulfill market needs and that invention was only part of that discovery. The condition always existed; people needed food, recreation, security, and social and intellectual advancement, so it was the problem of corporate structure to fulfill those market needs as they presented themselves through the measurements of money. Money, particularly capitalism, was the best measure of this incentive-based economy, so corporations would rise to meet those needs and attempt to make a profit from those efforts. Since America had the capitalist system, it obviously made more money than the rest of the world, leaving other economies struggling to figure it all out. But there was a problem; it was getting harder and more complicated year by year for CEOs to stand before shareholders and explain a lack of quarter-to-quarter increases. Because if an economy doesn’t continue to expand, such as in America, where our 19 trillion dollar GDP continues along an upward spike, then CEOs can’t tell shareholders where those subsequent profits will come from. 

Over the last several years, CEOs and corporations, in general, have turned toward globalism to reach new global markets and continue to expand that upward trajectory of profit-based reporting. But the problem was, the rest of the world didn’t think like America. They were struggling with some balance between outright communism, complete centralized control of their governments, and socialism, where the “state,” a collection of mindless bureaucrats who have yet to prove anywhere in the world that they can do anything right, is going to control the means of all production. So there has been a collision that most in America haven’t noticed too much because they only really care that they can get a Happy Meal from McDonald’s at will when they want it. So long as they could do that, they didn’t care much about globalism, communism, the World Economic Forum, or what John Kerry said latest about worshipping his long lost mother, Earth, with a sacrifice of our capitalist economy to the gods of communism. And along this process grew the belief among corporate circles that they controlled social fulfillment and not the other way around, where market forces were determined by social need. Communists have always gotten it wrong. Yet more and more, our colleges, our board rooms, and our CEOs have read all the wrong books, listened to all the wrong people, and have turned more and more inward to share the belief that it was corporations that decided the fate of economies. Not something they had to work with to find their place in it. And that’s what has happened to Fox News. They started their organization as an alternative to corporate media, dominated by CNN and the mainstream outlets that leaned politically left at the time. Fox offered a center-right option that Americans were hungry for. They put on some attractive news anchors and turned loose a market need that was much in demand, and they had success until they tried to change that formula. 

That formula really began to change when Glenn Beck was removed from his 5-6 slot over ten years ago, mainly because the billionaire tycoon George Soros was tired of Beck doing stories that showed what he was trying to do to America through finance. Fellow billionaire and progressive pal Rupert Murdoch listened to Soros and the New York Society of upset progressives sent Beck packing. A few years later, they would do the same to Bill O’Reilly, another number one talent that they removed essentially because they felt that Bill legitimized Donald Trump by allowing him to announce his presidential campaign on his show. Then from there, the ball really started rolling, whether it was Dan Bongino, Rudi Guiliani, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ed Henry, the list goes on and on. The more effective the MAGA movement was, the more desperate progressive radicals who always intended to spread communism worldwide and into corporate structures became. Like self-centered children who believe the world centers around them, they thought that Fox News had created Donald Trump, and it was Trump’s sales of capitalism that were interrupting the plans of globalism most, and they had to destroy that means of communication. 

That government beast serving globalism is very attractive to the American intelligence agencies who were caught allowing election fraud in the 2020 election, so they had to do something to attempt to bury their complicity in that massive crime, so they blew on the mind of Ray Epps to provoke an insurrection on January 6th. But people saw it for what it was, and Epps has been well hidden from the public since that January 6th event in 2021. After Tucker Carlson did some excellent reporting on Ray Epps and the general condition of government activism around January 6th, it was evident that Fox News would cut him too. They didn’t care if he had the number one show. They had fallen into the belief that they “Fox News” had made Tucker Carlson. Not that Tucker—and those like him—made Fox News as is usually the case of market-driving influencers. Then Fox News had to settle the Dominion lawsuit because they were actually all complicit in the election narrative, which would have been exposed in court, so they settled a massive payout to keep the case private and not released under the lens of public exposure. Remember when Fox News called Arizona for Biden when people were still in line voting for Trump in 2020? Yeah, there’s that and much more. So 60 Minutes doing the work of the Deep State, globalists who are terrified that Trump will win the Republican nomination played their part in resurrecting the Ray Epps story so to set up the next lawsuit against Fox News, which showed itself to be willing to settle lawsuits making it a prime target for everyone who has an ax to grind to get a little money in their pockets, so the rest was history.

The next day after the 60 Minutes story, Tucker was released, and the political left cheered, thinking they had done something substantial. They had eliminated the voice of the MAGA movement, and now they would be one step closer to keeping Donald Trump from winning the nomination. But that only shows how stupid they all really are. I’ve said it and said it over and over for many months now; Fox News was holding back Tucker Carlson. Tucker would be better off away from Fox. Fox was lucky to have a guy like that. But Murdoch knows he’s not going to live very much longer. His kids are radical New York lefties who will destroy Fox anyway. So now is a chance to sell off Fox News before they screw it all up. Likely Murdoch has in mind Larry Fink’s group at BlackRock because through Fed activism, BlackRock, Vanguard, and StateStreet own most of all the corporate boards that are out there, and they are all equally failing to meet market trends versus the imposed ESG measures. So Fox is ripe for buying, primarily if they can protect themselves from another lawsuit, this one coming from Ray Epps, and sell the company while it still has value before the kids destroy it anyway. And the progressive radicals, like Larry Fink, can hang the head of Fox News over their fireplace. And they all think they will have then stopped the MAGA movement. Yet, in reality, all they will have done is decentralize that MAGA movement, which will then make it much more powerful and less restricted. 

Rich Hoffman

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Proof of CRT in Public Schools: Accuracy in Media has gone undercover and exposed this massive problem in schools like Lakota and many others

I don’t blame Isaac Adi for not seeing Critical Race Theory in Lakota schools. The first-year school board member ran on a platform of driving CRT out of the government school from a northern suburb of Cincinnati but found once he was in office, things were a lot harder in reality than they are on the campaign trail. People lie, and many people guilty of committing CRT with students have not been honest about what they have done, and for good people like Isaac; that is a harsh reality. His first year as a school board member has been tough. As a good, honest person, he has found his path to goodness barricaded by many deceitful characters. Because he does not stray from the truth, he believes people, even when they don’t deserve it. And for those people, it has been kind of a cat-and-mouse game to discover what they are up to. In truth, the only way to see CRT in public schools is to get up from your chair as Darbi Boddy did at Lakota and see it for yourself behind the union firewall that protects radical leftist teachers from public opinion. After all, that caused all the mess with the Matt Miller situation, the recent superintendent who just resigned due to a lot of public pressure for actions discovered in the process. Radical, purple-haired people eater types of liberal teachers who want to be the next candidates for a Sam Smith music video are not going to tell the truth about what they want to do to our kids hidden away in the classrooms. The way to catch them in their lies is to get up and go see what they are doing for yourself. You cannot take their word for anything.

But this isn’t just a Lakota thing; it’s a big problem all over the country where radical Democrat-minded activists are intent on rewriting the history of America and corrupting our young people while they feel protected from the public with heavy security put in place out of fear of school shootings. The more protected “public” schools have become, the worse the problem has evolved. Darbi gets it; she knows what the real fight is about and has been doing a good job in Lakota schools. Her former friend joining her on the board has had a tougher time. He wanted to get along with these people, and they’d been playing him for a sucker. That happens to nice people. I think it says a lot about him that he is so trusting. But when it comes to discovering the truth from many very deceitful characters, those are not traits that will help him.

On the other hand, Darbi caused a lot of stir and had many hostile elements wanting to eradicate her.   Which I would say are all the ingredients for a good school board member. Parents should be able to trust that their school board members are protecting their interests and listening to what the ill-minded are up to, and believing them, doesn’t fit that criterion.   But it’s not just Darbi who has been unraveling this not so concealed mystery. There has been a media group called Accuracy in Media, connected with Project Veritas in several ways, who have gone undercover and recorded the little game teachers and administrators have been playing against parents. And it’s in several schools in Ohio that they have recorded the evidence as discussed on 55 KRC with Brian Thomas. And Southern Ohio has been one of their biggest areas of investigation in the schools surrounding Lakota schools. And what Accuracy in Media discovered is that CRT is typical, not unique and that the teachers think it’s a game of radicalism that they are entitled to play on taxpayers out of spite for a social agenda they are far more committed to than teaching kids how to read, write, and do basic math.

To determine CRT as a reality is simple; if teachers are promoting racism among the population, if they are teaching a revision of American history, they are teaching Critical Race Theory. CRT is meant to undermine an entire generation in their belief of goodness regarding their country, and it’s dangerous on every scale. Its been around for a while, my wife and I could both tell stories from our own college days where college professors would want a report done on the Whiskey Rebellion, for instance, but the report would need to be done on the impact on slaves from the time period instead of the emphasis on the evolution of government standards in a free society. Back then, 30 years ago, they tried to disguise their efforts. But these days, it’s all out in the open, much like Sam Smith’s devil-worshipping forays in front of millions of people at the Grammy’s, sponsored by Pfizer. To continue denying what they are doing in public, they count on good people like Isaac Adi to give them the benefit of the doubt while manipulating everything behind the scenes and often bragging about it. But that’s where personal verification comes into play, such as the media group Accuracy in Media, and goes undercover to reveal what’s really going on. And what they have discovered is that the problem is even worse than I have been saying it is. 

We are not living in an honorable society; if we were, Isaac Adi would be the perfect person for it. Instead, Darbi Boddy, a young lady with a lot of experience in how the human race can fail, knows that you can’t take the word of radicals when they say they aren’t doing something like CRT. When Darbi got into a lot of trouble going into two Lakota school buildings to take pictures for herself, you would have thought she was performing an exorcism among demonic spirits demanding that they bring Christ into their lives, and their heads were spinning backward, and they were fully spitting explosive vomit. Darbi captured images of gay pride artwork that was proudly displayed where very young people would see it, and there were plenty of references to CRT, where racism was being defined in the minds of the school as a reality shaped by politics and not by real history. If you want to really teach black history in America, they will talk about the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves. And how Ulysses Grant tried hard to integrate the freed slaves into American society, but Democrats were violently against it. The KKK wasn’t a bunch of Republicans; it was southern Democrats who were fighting against reformation. That’s the real history, and what they are teaching with CRT is a version of history that breeds Democrat voters by denying the past. And by corrupting the minds of millions of young people behind their parents’ backs, Democrats who run these labor unions hope to sustain themselves as a political power in the future by erasing their complicit past. And when it all comes down to the truth behind the menace, that’s all liberals care about, power at the expense of intelligence. Yes, CRT is being taught in all public schools. Thank goodness we have school board members like Darbi Boddy to expose it. And media outlets like Accuracy in Media to do the work all media should have been doing all along, and that is exposing these dangerous elements that are so corrosive to young minds. 

Rich Hoffman

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Matt Miller Resigns and Blames Everyone But Himself in the Process: Darbi Boddy is far more valuable for Butler County real estate value than Sheriff Jones

I wasn’t planning to say much on the Matt Miller resignation. Obviously, he just wasn’t a good fit for our community, and like it happens to a lot of people, his divorce essentially destroyed his life. Many people have false beliefs about the importance of what a superintendent does for a community and the changing nature of public education. Included in this article is a good piece by Jesse Watters on Fox News about CRT in Ohio schools and just how much radicalism we are dealing with. As a former teacher and an obvious supporter of left-winged radicalism in public schools, Matt Miller was a prominent progressive politically, and that came out during his tenure little by little. In the beginning, he did a pretty good job of hiding it, but during Covid, he showed himself to be precisely what many of us worried he was. The mask mandates were a disaster; he pushed conservatives off the school board, then finally what we learned about his personal life through divorce records, the community had to take a stand, which they did, and he had to resign. But before he left, he dropped a media bomb, essentially attempting to set up a lawsuit against the school board and anybody else they could drag into the issue for creating an unsafe workspace for him, which was evident in an article from the Cincinnati Enquirer that made its way to Yahoo News by his attorney setting up the litigation indicating playing himself a victim and that all his problems are someone else’s fault. He took a job within Butler County for much less money. 

I give people a lot of advice, free of charge because I want to see them have good lives. I even very recently gave some excellent advice to Matt Miller himself through his attorney, Elizabeth. My advice to the school board is not to settle any lawsuit with Miller and to take him to court. What everyone knows about the case, including the school board, which can be seen on ProtectLakotaKids.com, is that there isn’t any path for litigation once the discovery process is revealed in court, so there is no reason to settle anything. Just a few months ago, when Matt Miller threatened everyone with lawsuits, including me, I told him with written documentation that he could solve all his problems if he only worked with Darbi Boddy. He had gone way too far in trying to remove her from the school board, and to destroy her life, just as he did with Todd Parnell and several other very liberal school board members. It didn’t work; he should have tried to call off all the radical dogs who were petitioning to remove Darbi and make her life a living hell. If anybody should be filing lawsuits, it’s Darbi. I think she has a great case against a lot of people. But that’s not her nature. She’s tough and respects toughness. If only Matt Miller had offered peace, he wouldn’t have had to resign. All he had to do was work with her. He didn’t have to like her. But of course, he didn’t listen; his legal counsel ignored the good advice as well, and now they find themselves where they are. And it’s nobody’s fault but their own. Matt Miller’s career wasn’t destroyed by Darbi, Darbi’s friends, the Tea Party members of Lakota, or even conservatives in general. His ex-wife destroyed his career for the way he managed his family in his interactions. And what he did was not reflective of someone who should be managing anybody, anywhere. Once people learned in his own words through a Butler County Police report the details of his marriage and divorce, they couldn’t work with him any longer, and they certainly didn’t want to pay him the amount of money he was making as a Lakota superintendent. 

Yet there is much more to the story that obviously Tom Ferrell and other area Republicans reflect when they showed concern that Matt Miller was leaving Lakota schools because of a political upheaval that pushed him away. Tom is a trustee for Liberty Township. I know him; I think he’s a good guy. But he thought Matt Miller was like the second coming of Christ, like many do, and they worry that with some national figure like Matt Miller gone, that Lakota will suffer. So rather than make fun of all those people for their beliefs, I’ll give a little more free advice that is actually worth a lot of money. But it shreds a popularly held misconception that government schools drive real estate value and that if Lakota doesn’t have an excellent grade card by some expensive superintendent, people will move away and destroy our real estate industry, and our community will be destroyed. The radical union element created those beliefs, just as they have secretly pushed CRT and generous progressive lifestyles on Americans for years. They have told us that zip codes get funding, and any interruption of that will destroy our entire society. But it won’t. It’s time to call that bluff and let reality tell the rest of the story. Don’t get suckered by the progressive playbook, and that’s clearly the condition of Liberty Township Trustee Tom Farrell and likely most of the Lakota school board, and many parents who drank the Matt Miller Kool-Aid and think the sky will fall just because he resigned. The sky is just fine. Here’s the hard truth of reality. 

I’ve lived in Liberty Township most of my life. I’ve traveled all over the world, and I have come to realize that it’s one of the best places on earth, so I have stayed in the same area most of that time. But I have watched several regions, like Fairfield, Princeton, Middletown, and Hamilton, rise and fall as real estate destinations. And do you know why people move and what makes real estate value occur, which no realtor wants to admit to in public? It’s running from liberalism. When any area starts getting too many liberals on their school boards or as trustees, city councils, and mayors, when liberals begin running the show, conservative money moves to where they aren’t. It has nothing to do with the quality of the schools but the degree of liberalism. Even though many of the Matt Miller supporters moved from liberal areas to be recruited by a liberal public school, Lakota and those pretentious types are now crying like babies because what they want out of Lakota is more liberalism, and they filled the houses that were built for them.  Yet, they could all move away, and their homes would be sold to more conservative people who do want to live in the area because they don’t want to live where liberals are ruining their zip codes. If you study the matter all over the nation, from New York to Los Angeles or to Seattle, Washington, you’ll find the same truth; people leave areas where liberals are in charge. Butler County, Ohio, has thrived not because of Lakota schools.  Lakota schools has thrived because of the people who moved there, despite the liberalism that came from the employees. Butler County has always been a haven from liberals, and that is its actual value. I should know; I have watched it grow over many years. I used to have cows next to my house. Now it’s a bunch of crybabies, Matt Miller-supporting losers. I would be happy to see them leave and to take their liberal voting record with them. I could put my dog in charge of Lakota schools, and our community would still be a valuable place to live, a destination for most of the world.   The school and its employees are a hindrance, not a help. 

Back to Tom Farrell, and politicians like him, the best thing that could have happened was Darbi Boddy. Having peaceful school board meetings is not a value; it’s a lazy approach to management. But when people hear people like her defending conservative values from liberal invasions, that helps real estate value more than any other criteria. There is nothing better to show concerned parents that they are moving to a safe community than Darbi Boddy fighting to keep their children safe from the evils of liberalism, CRT, genderless bathrooms, and pushing gay lifestyles on young children, not even before they enter puberty. A few years ago, Jesse Watters’s piece would never have appeared on Fox News. Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes would have laughed it off as a conspiracy theory, just how radical these public schools really were. Today, people generally understand that these public schools threaten their families and their lives. And they are terrified of the effects of liberalism, and they ultimately do vote with their feet. I would recommend that people like Tom Farrell update their understanding of what makes a great community. I would also suggest that Tom update his Facebook photo. Times do change, and we need to reflect that in our assumptions. And in this new world, Darbi Boddy is much more valuable to the Republican Party and to regional politics that drive real estate values than Sherriff Jones and a well-known police department. Darbi has done more to keep kids safe, and that’s what most moms care more about than anything. And people won’t leave Lakota because of Matt Miller. But they will flock to Lakota because of Darbi and her crusade to keep kids safe and to provide a good education environment by fighting off a liberal progressive agenda, which is the primary concern of this new real estate market. 

Now there is one more thing to discuss, and again I wasn’t going to talk about it because it sort of falls in the realm of soap opera gossip. But Matt Miller made it the centerpiece of his exit statements and the accusation against Darbi that her supporters may have broken into his home. This also plays into Karin Johnson from Channel 5 News, who wanted to clarify to Darbi after my video started circulating that she did not coordinate her video profile of Matt Miller serving trespassing notifications to Darbi at her home in front of her child, as a coordinated effort with the school. Karin says it was a pure coincidence. However, this is where the story gets a little wild. Karin Johnson was also involved in publishing the video of Darbi Boddy taking a picture of a young student in the halls of Lakota, dressed below the dress code standards, which again looks like a very coordinated event from the school to the media. It turns out that the young person photographed by Darbi was the daughter of Matt Miller’s housekeeper, and she is the one who has made the statements about a break-in at Matt’s home. This same person also claims to have adventurous relationships with Matt Miller himself, as she has bragged about it to several people. When I learned all this I didn’t believe it. But then I read the police report, so nothing would surprise me now. And these people think they are going to last two seconds in court? The media was worried about lawsuits because of these people? Give me a break. Lazy media, lazy lawyers, lazy school board, lots of lazy people let this whole thing spin out of control. The story gets pretty bizarre from there. Apparently, this is the same person who was charged with domestic violence, knowingly causing physical harm on the 16th of January, 2023. So let’s do some basic math here; Karin Johnson is involved in all these Darbi Boddy hit pieces, this housekeeper gets into trouble with the police on Monday the 16th, and Matt Miller resigns on Wednesday the 18th. And by the 20th, Matt Miller puts out his exit letter talking about how Darbi Boddy destroyed his life and may have even broken into his home, according to the testimony of his housekeeper, who happens to be the mother of the person Darbi took a picture of in the hall as a dress code violation, that was used by Channel 5 to attempt further to pressure Darbi to resign from the school board. Hmmmmm, I don’t think we need Sherlock Holmes here to smell what is cooking in the politics of Lakota. And you know what, if Darbi hadn’t taken any pictures and didn’t just show up to see what was really happening in the halls of the school, we wouldn’t know anything. Imagine just how much is still hidden. The only reason we know any of this is because we had a school board member who went to look for herself, and through the coverup, we learned a lot about what is really going on in our public school and their media friends who help conceal things the tax paying public would otherwise be very concerned about.

Truth is always stranger than fiction, and as far as legal challenges are concerned, Darbi Boddy has a lot to be very angry about regarding her treatment by lots of characters. And her case of advocating for much more transparency among school board members policing the schools for radical elements that are usually hidden from the public has a lot more merit. As I always say, don’t judge people by what they say but by what they do. And many people are doing a lot of things, and we wouldn’t know any of it if not for Darbi Boddy. 

Rich Hoffman

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After A Year of Darbi Boddy as Lakota School Board Member, Was it Worth It: Lawyers have had too much power and wasted entirely too much money

It’s been about a year now since Darbi Boddy was sworn in as the new Lakota school board member, and we have to ask, was it worth it? Was it worth all the trouble, the news coverage, the hard feelings, lawsuits, threats, scandal, petitions, and civil war with the rest of the board?   Well, of course, it was worth it. Darbi Boddy has turned out to be precisely what was needed, and because of her, we are seeing many good things that would have never happened any other way. When Lynda O’Conner and I set out to have a conservative majority on the school board of Lakota schools, Darbi Boddy was precisely what I had in mind. Lynda obviously had other ideas, and we ultimately disagreed with the final result. In management, my philosophy is obvious and well-known; I like conflict because it gets people to the root cause of a problem. And many people in Lakota, not as conservative as I am, are sick of the government school system always taking too much money from the community and wasting vast sums of money only to teach children progressive politics that is detrimental to the human race. At the start of the year, we were all worried about Critical Race Theory and same-sex bathrooms at Lakota, and with my kind of management philosophy, Darbi Boddy was just the kind of firecracker that needed to be thrown into the hornet’s nest to flush out all the bad guys who were causing so much of the trouble. Darbi was worth the investment of the Republican Party, and the fundraising, and all the negative media coverage. Because she did what all good managers do, she used the conflict to root out the trouble and force everyone to live up to a performance standard, and that requirement has crushed the weak elements of the public education façade that were too expensive and brought liberalism into a very conservative community.

We will hear something of a purge from Lakota; many resignations will be notable, which will be excellent. In a liberal world, which is typical in government, they classify quality as in hiring more useless people to perform a task. So a value to them is in paying too many employees too much money to perform a needed task. And leading up to the last school board election, Lakota as a school system was pushing for another school levy, which had many people extremely upset. As expensive as Lakota schools are presently to the taxpayers, and for what they are teaching, which is all the crazy progressive garbage that we hear about negatively on the nightly news, the idea that Lakota would try to obtain a tax increase to pay for more wasteful employees was simply a horrendous enterprise. In truth, what too many wasteful employees provide any organization is inefficiency and corruption. We have seen plenty of that at Lakota, which was hiding behind a compliant school board that lawyers ran. One thing I learned during all this was how much lawyers have their hands in everyone’s pockets, and they are turning out to be a significant problem not just locally but nationally and internationally in politics as well. They operate without a political party to shape political activity in devastating ways and suck off way too much taxpayer money as a result. Looking at some of the invoices from legal work over just the last couple of months at Lakota shows all that needs to be known on this topic. The amount of corruption that lawyers were covering up and diffusing from the public was enormous and expensive. So when we were asking questions about where all the money was going, it wasn’t just on high-priced administrators advocating for progressive politics at taxpayer expense; it was in a more devastating way going to lawyers who have the sole purpose of covering up scandals and employee misconduct and preventing the public from having an opinion on that conduct. The result has been a loss of free speech, which is a significant violation of the constitutional parameters between the public and their employees of elected representatives, and the financial burden, as a result, was enormous. 

It’s a shame that the other school board members on the Republican majority weren’t as good as Darbi. The other two turned out to be RINOs, John Boehner-type RINOs. The Republican Party isn’t as unified as it was when we had that last election, so it’s not clear how endorsements for the next election will happen. Based on the previous election’s results, it might not be needed. There is a power struggle in the Butler County Republican Party that was unified a year ago, which goes back to my management method of using conflict to identify weak spots. We have indeed found weak Republicans behind all the smiling faces of campaign mode. I was very proud of Isaac Adi when I took a picture of him with Jim Jordan at a GOP event not that long ago. I still think Isaac is a good person, even though he has worked against Darbi Boddy since the moment she was sworn in. A lot of people have learned over the last year just how conservative, or not, they actually were, and that will make this next election an interesting one now that the cards are on the table. It will be a different kind of election, and there will be a chance to get two more Darbi Boddy types on the school board, which will be a great opportunity. 

Yet to the question, was it all worth it? Well, the answer is yes because the obvious thing that everyone is fighting for is a good education for kids, and taxpayers throw money into a pot to accomplish that task. And many parasites obviously want to suck up that money to support their often lazy and maniacal worldview. Just because Lakota will be peeling away a lot of employees doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. The best thing is to do more with less, let the trouble leave, and not replace them with more expensive employees. Just because Democrats had an insurrection in the Ohio House to essentially protect their extensive government views regarding the Backpack Bill, education is changing, and only good management will prepare Lakota for what is happening. Eventually, the money will go to the child, not the zip code. Lakota will have to be competitive and not just sit around with their mouth open and have lawyers shovel in vast sums of money and keep the public from interrupting the process. So far, after years on the school board, only Darbi Boddy has been a good school board member who has truly given the public what they have been needing, proper representation under a great deal of duress. Many people in Darbi’s position would have fallen apart, but she has been challenging and lived up to all the rigors I knew she would have to face going in. It has been bloody, ugly, and treacherous. But she is doing a great job and is poised to have another great year. Meanwhile, those most unstable under the pressure of performance are jumping ship, and for the taxpayers paying for all this mess, that’s a wonderful thing that we need a lot more of. 

As we reflect on this past year and plan for the upcoming one, remember in April of 2022, Matt Miller and the school board chose to run the newly elected Darbi Boddy off the school board, just as they had previously with Todd Parnell the year before. There was a radical push by activists encouraged by superintendent Matt Miller to remove by force Darbi from the board. There were media hit pieces orchestrated by many of these same people who went way out of their way to publically embarrass Darbi; they were camped outside her home with the media cameras focused on her, and her child as Matt Miller sent a trespassing order to her for a school she was supposed to be managing. The radical unfairness started with Matt Miller and the current school board. But Darbi held tough and stayed sincere through all the pressure. She showed what could be possible if one good school board member asked the hard questions and challenged the management of millions and millions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars. The radical leftist elements openly harassed supporters of Darbi Boddy and threatened them with lawsuits and other forms of intimidation, attempting to publicly shame them into hiding. But people stood up for themselves, and good things did happen as a result. Now, just think about how good the school board could be if Darbi had some support. And for those who are upset about all this, take some notes. Don’t play the game unless you plan to lose. Everything started with a vote and people picking their representation, then politics stepped in to try and erase that vote. The same methods can and will be applied to any office holder, no matter where or what they do, or how long they have been doing it. Remember that the voters are in charge of their political representation, which a government school certainly is. Politicians don’t decide fates, voters do.

Rich Hoffman

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Illegal Immigration is Election Fraud: Why Democrats want to get rid of the electrical college

There has been a push from Democrats now that they’ve seen the election results from 2022 to recognize more in presidential elections the popular vote. As has been the issue for many presidential cycles, the popular vote has gone to Democrats. In contrast, the electoral vote has gone to Republicans, revealing something of a long-established plan. And now that they are in trouble in more ways than one, they are trying to cash in on it while they still can. And this is yet another reason illegal immigration should be viewed as another form of election fraud because that’s ultimately what it is. In states like California and New York, where voting rules are very loose, they have it so illegal immigrants can vote. The Democrats believe that illegal immigrants will vote for the political party that doesn’t plan to export them once here. Hence, the entire mechanism is another form of election fraud that intends to commit the crime from the outset but is disguised as “compassion.” And that is precisely how California and other progressive states have managed to get more voters for their causes by allowing voters without voter ID and other controls to stuff ballots toward Democrats, especially in presidential elections. Then, of course, they expect people to accept those ridiculously high voter totals because they have been counting people illegally in America who never had a right to vote and to accept those results as reality. 

Of course, if such a method of election fraud is part of the plan of Democrats, they’ll want to use them to stay in power. And now that their other forms of election fraud, such as ballot stuffing through Covid rules, and early voting tampering, are now more exposed than they have been in past elections, the writing is on the wall for Democrats. Future elections will be harder to steal the way they have been doing, and they’ll need some method of safety to keep the results tilted in their favor. Their best investment is the method they have committed to, election fraud through illegal immigration, and to hope that if they could lobby to get rid of the electoral college, then progressive states could then rob conservative states of their impact in federal elections, which is why they are putting more of an emphasis on the popular vote and rejecting the electoral college. However, the electoral college was created to frustrate just these very kinds of efforts. The vote counts of California and New York have become a joke that Republicans automatically write off as a presidential possibility because of their specific recruiting of illegal immigrants to boost Democrats for voter turnout. Because of the electoral college, Republicans have been too quick to concede the problem and, to avoid conflict, have simply not argued the fact. This isn’t how we should deal with an election fraud issue, but because of the electoral college, Republicans figure they can win without arguing about it. But as a last resort after so much investment, Democrats can see that it will get a lot harder in future elections if they don’t start counting the popular vote with more seriousness.

It continues to be a running joke that Joe Biden beat President Trump in an obviously rigged the election in 2020. Nobody believes that Joe Biden had over 80 million voters and won the popular votes as he had run his entire campaign in his basement, much the way Katie Hobbs in Arizona had. They knew at the time their messaging was bad, and Americans didn’t like them, but they controlled the cheating mechanisms and believed that society was at a lazy place where nobody would want to question the results of whatever election occurred. So now we see this new kind of arrogance from politicians and their campaigns that know they have advanced cheating mechanisms in place and don’t have to campaign traditionally to earn votes because they can manufacture them on the spot at will. That lack of respect for the voting process is new, and it started to show itself with the Biden election. So confident were they in their election cheating methods that they no longer felt they needed to earn votes to win. Just as they have done with illegal immigrants, allow them into the country and paint Republicans as the big meanies who want to deport them. Let those people vote in their own self-interest to stay in the country with illegally cast ballots. But for that to work as effectively as they planned, Democrats have to get rid of the electoral college, and once they do that, states like California could steal elections away from states like Ohio. Or Florida, which manages its elections very effectively, would be washed away by progressive states like New York. The point Democrats have in getting rid of the electoral college is that they can get rid of voting accountability, thus opening up the possibilities for cheating even more in the process. 

What does that tell you about Democrats? To build an entire political party on election fraud is precisely what they have done, and to hide that fact, they need to convince society to measure elections by popular vote, as a democracy rather than the republic that it is, and to empower states to represent themselves individually, instead of a collective mass. It is far easier to focus illegal efforts of voting in a few states than to run an election fraud scam in 50 states. There are far more opportunities to get caught. As is increasingly part of the Democrat plan, because they do not have the heart of Americans, and they know it, they have lost the union vote to Trump, they have lost the women, and they are losing the minorities. They need illegal immigrants who don’t yet know how destructive Democrats are to vote for them illegally, and that will only work in states that do not require voter ID. That will then frustrate efforts in states with good election laws from being adequately represented in elections because their vote counts would mean less if widespread vote totals were utilized rather than the quality of the vote. This pattern persists at all election levels; Democrats don’t want a voting day; they want a voting quarter because Democrat voters tend to be lazy and have serious engagement problems. So they need a month to vote. And they can’t even be trusted to show up to vote, so Democrat votes have to be taken from their voters’ homes. Then to deal with all those problems, Democrats need fresh meat who do not yet know what scam artists they are as a political party, so they need illegal immigrants. This is why we have so many millions of new immigrants crossed into America illegally by Democrat policies to hide their real intentions of election fraud. Anybody supporting illegal immigration is also someone who is supporting the Democrat playbook to commit election fraud because that is really the only purpose for it. The intent to commit a crime is to stay in power as the voting base has rejected Democrat ideas. And it is for that reason that suddenly there is a push to get rid of the electoral college because only by making a push for a popular vote count can so many illegal votes be counted and used to hold power for Democrats.

Rich Hoffman

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