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Trump is the Establishment: The old scam of making money off the government was never acceptable

This is a mystery that I thought was strange, even back in 2016.  We had an event in West Chester for Trump, and all the big players were invited, but many didn’t attend.  At the time, they were worried that John Kasich would be angry with them because he was running for president and he was from Ohio, and people thought he was going to be the guy.  I never thought Kasich would be the guy, neither Ted Cruz nor any others.  To understand why, you had to know what voters were looking for, and this was a trajectory that I remember well going back to the start of Barack Obama’s first term in 2008, after a feeble performance by John McCain.  The way Sarah Palin was treated by everyone back then started a chain reaction that led to Trump.  Another weak shot at the White House in 2012 by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan was particularly embarrassing; where they thought this high-brow approach of letting the opposition make fun of you, but that we were supposed to be like Christ and hang ourselves on a cross for crucifixion wasn’t going to cut the mustard.  People wanted to fight, and they wanted fighters in politics.  That has always been my position, and any time someone has tried to apply these woke rules to me, some social game like the rules of high school, where the popular kids wouldn’t like you if you didn’t do what they said, it hasn’t worked out well for them.  And that was the platform of the GOP before Trump, and people left that old way.  They embraced Trump as soon as possible and have not looked back ever since.  Because people just got tired of watching the Republican Party lose, and Trump promised wins, which he gave us in large amounts once elected.

And with the same understanding, I knew the Never Trumper movement would fall flat, and Paul Ryan has been at the center of that as an advisor to Fox News.  That he and his gang never understood the political base of the Republican Party, given all the resources they had to work with, is astonishing.  How could they not understand?  But they didn’t and somehow thought that if they kept putting people like Ron DeSantis out there, and Nikki Haley, people who sounded like Trump but weren’t Trump, that people would be stupid and pick who they selected for us.  They had so little understanding of what voters wanted that they didn’t see the frailty of their premise.   And I would talk to people about Trump and tell them that Trump would be the guy many times over the last three years, and people didn’t see it.  I told them people were tired of this shell game, where politicians said one thing to the public but became members of the uni-party as soon as they were elected; that wouldn’t cut it anymore.  It never did.  The problem was that people trusted in the past, but now that they’ve been let down, they were looking for representatives who would fight on their behalf against a system obviously rigged to take power and get rich off the results.  People were sick of it and Trump offered himself as that guy to fix it.  And in 2016, it was just him against the world, and a few people joined the fight early on to help him.  I was one of the early ones, as early as possible since before Trump went down the escalator at Trump Tower in New York. 

Paul Ryan apparently just figured all this out because he stated that MAGA Republicans are the new mainstream as if that is a news flash.  As if that just happened.  He and Mitch McConnell have been functioning all this time without understanding the details of what the Republican Party was.  People would not accept it being a captured asset of the political left.  It became apparent to me when my local congressman, John Boehner, became Speaker of the House, and we saw what he did with all that power.  We knew him and were perplexed that he didn’t seem able to do anything to help our country but go through cosmetic nonsense.  Obama was destroying our country, and Boehner was crying about it.  That became the face of the Republican establishment.  I remember I had a special invite to be with all those Republicans in a get-out-the-vote rally with Kid Rock back in 2012, where Romney, Ryan, Boehner, and Kasich were all going to be on stage together.  And I was given VIP access to all of them.  I politely declined because I was already done with all those losers, and now, ten years later, look just how right I was.  At the time, people looked at me with wide-eyed astonishment.  I knew those guys were not the Republican Party I wanted to be a part of.  They liked losing too much and were far too liberal for me.  As governor of Ohio, John Kasich was an idiot, a major letdown.  I was a fan when he first became the governor, but once he lost that public sector union debate in a 2012 election, he quickly turned away from Tea Party politics and snapped right into loser mode. 

So, it was never my option to pick anybody but Trump.  I thought George Bush, both of them, were too far to the left for me; I worked hard in 1992 to get Ross Perot elected, and even back then, people would tell me I was betraying the Republican Party.  No, I want business executives running the executive office, people who know what they are doing and understand how money works, and what a capitalist country is supposed to perform.  They are not a bunch of lying losers who tell us what we want to hear, then rob our tax money and sell us all out to globalists around the world in the realm of centralized banking.  Even this past Memorial Day, I was with many people at a remote location who were going on and on about Ron DeSantis, and I told them, “No, he’s not going to go anywhere.  People are tired of the lies.  Trump will be the nominee, and no jail or phony charges will stop him.”  All the trouble that has been thrown at Trump has only confirmed just how far down the rabbit hole we always were, and people like Paul Ryan, and other “establishment Republicans” were keeping us from solving the problem, which made people like me very, very angry.  And everything I told everyone about this Trump in 2024 situation has come true, just as I said it would.  So why did people like Paul Ryan still think they were the establishment, and all these highly paid people at Fox News and the Beltway culture fail to see the obvious?  How could they all be so stupid?  Well, it’s because they were corrupt, where they viewed government as a path to easy money, and if there were people like Trump in it, that easy money would be harder to get.  And that’s what the game has been for a long time.  Now, many more people are willing to admit that about their government and demand change.  But the Republican Party establishment was never with the thieves.  The people of the party always wanted results.  But that former establishment lied to them, and for some reason, they thought that behavior would continue forever.  Instead, people stopped listening to them, and Trump became the establishment, along with other MAGA candidates.  And that is the way of the future.  Losing is for losers, and Trump supporters aren’t losers.  They have been abused.  But they never accepted loss as the definition of their Republican Party.  And history will remember these important lessons for many thousands of years. 

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, the RNC Should Pay Trump’s Legal Bills: Making the Republican Party Great Again

There is a lot of talk about Lara Trump being the co-chair of the RNC and all the checks and balances that go into running the Republican organization, and here’s the deal.  President Trump is the Republican Party.  I’ve been telling everyone that since 2015, and the reason for it is that everyone who came before didn’t do a very good job.  What is needed these days in political parties is solid executive leadership, and the Trump family, as a whole, has offered to fill that role for all the classic reasons of saving the country and all that.  To perform that task has cost President Trump billions of dollars in opportunity cost, so since he is so committed to the task, it should not be a surprise that Lara Trump would step in and help do whatever she can to make the Republican Party great again.  You can’t make America Great Again if you don’t have a political party committed to the task, and when it comes to RINO Republicans and Democrats, the Uni-Party essentially they have been captured by the enemies of America through the front door of finance.  So anyway, improving the situation would require like-minded people, such as Lara Trump, who, like her father-in-law, is living beyond corruption because of their wealth.  Understanding how to deal with millions of dollars is the first step to running a successful party, and there just aren’t that many people out there in that position with the charisma that Lara has.  I’ve met her a few times, along with her husband and the other Trump kids; they are friendly and sincere.  I met a few of them yesterday in fact.  And I have no problem with any involvement they want to contribute to the RNC.  There are short-term goals and then long-term necessities.  And as I have been saying all along, with J.D. Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy, they are the future of the Republican Party.  But we have to get to that future, and there is an all-out war presently to destroy President Trump, and the first task of the RNC is to protect him so he can protect the Party brand.

That raises the obvious question of whether the RNC should pay for President Trump’s legal bills.  Right now, it’s not in very good shape; fundraising has been lacking because the RNC has not been very committed to the Trump future, which should have been obvious.  Too many Never-Trumpers have run them, and it shows on their balance sheets.  And the answer is yes, an emphatic yes.  If Trump is the future, then supporting him should be the top priority, and these legal cases against him are purely political, so it becomes a political matter.  People donating to the RNC will want to know that their candidates will win, and defending Trump is a way to achieve that.  Of course, the Democrats want to bleed Trump of everything he’s worth, like the looting thugs that they are.  So they don’t want to see the RNC help Trump in any way, shape, or form.  But if the RNC could put a billion dollars in its accounts, it should be willing to give it to Trump’s legal expenses and more.  The best way to frustrate the Marxists involved in this hostile attack against Trump is to make all their efforts worthless.  To make all their long-established plans fail in front of their faces.  And nothing would do that better than to charge Trump back up after all these corrosive abuses of the court system to destroy him financially. 

Trump’s brand will help many Republicans down the ballot, so we are looking at a different way of spending money here.  These court cases are far better advertising than the typical television ads and radio bits.  That old media sustainability is a thing of the past.  People don’t elect candidates based on old media methods.  New media is where it’s all at, and Trump is all over the topics of news in that realm.  The court cases are the best advertising because they give new media a lot to discuss, which is where people’s minds are.  The Democrats could spend a billion dollars on traditional media, which still won’t help them because the advertisement market has changed dramatically.  A billion dollars still only gives access to the same five or six people competing for space with aging medication and lawyers preparing wills.  The 50 and Underground are on new media, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, YouTube, and everywhere but where they once were.  And the only thing anybody is talking about in new media is how unfair it has been against Trump this entire process.   Because of President Trump, we have all received tremendously valuable information about how corrupt our government has become.  It certainly hasn’t been accountable to “we the people.”  Hostile agents have hijacked our government, and it has been serving their interests.  So we live in an age with all new rules on supporting political parties and the candidates up and down the ticket.  And there is no better motivator for political action than what has been done to Trump.  So, keeping him healthy should be the top priority.  It is the best way to use any money the RNC acquires for political viability. 

As a good example of how powerful capitalism is, the Trump shoe campaign was enormously successful, where Trump came up with his brand of tennis shoes and launched them at a sporting event.  Trump’s brand could generate billions of dollars of revenue just through the sale of t-shirts, ties, and red MAGA hats.  In the long run, preserving and working with the Trump family will greatly fill up the accounts of the RNC as a money-raising machine.  Nothing brings in donations better than success, so the strategy of trying to keep Trump away from the RNC will only hurt the RNC in the future.  They need to embrace full support of Trump and ride the coattails of Trump into down-ballot Republican pick-ups.  The anger at how the court system is rigged against Trump by itself is enough to carry all Republicans across the finish line, so there is no better way to spend Republican donations.  This was not part of the plan by Democrats and RINO Republicans.  They didn’t think Trump would make it this far, and all this talk of forcing Trump to come up with cash by selling off assets to drain him financially would go away in frustration if there was a cash infusion from donors.  The best way to do that is to combine the Trump brand with the RNC and make them whole so people aren’t confused about who or what they support.  If people know their donations are helping Trump, they’ll send a check for $20 to $50.  People understand that Trump is fighting for them, so they’ll be motivated to contribute.  But if money goes to the Trump Organization and some to the RNC, those efforts will be divided, and both will fall short of the goal.  I think the RNC under Lara Trump will raise over a billion dollars, likely more.  But it takes the right person at the right time, under the right circumstances.  And if everyone worked together and supported Trump, many good things could happen for the Republican Party in the future, which would be great for America. 

Rich Hoffman

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Sheriff Jones on Glenn Beck: Talking out of both sides, especially when it comes to Darbi Boddy

As much as I think we all want to get behind Sheriff Jones’ terrorist watch initiative in Butler County, Ohio, I couldn’t help but wonder if the same guy talking on the Glenn Beck Radio Show was the person who had stripped away the CCW of school board member Darbi Boddy, over a bogus civil protection order filed against her.  Anybody with any logic knows that Sheriff Jones has played his part in allowing another school board member, Isaac Adi, to file a motion of protection against Darbi Boddy essentially over pure politics.  The lawyers who run the Lakota school board don’t want someone like Darbi, a staunch conservative MAGA type of community representative negotiating labor contracts with the radical leftist teacher’s union, so they have all worked in the background to find some way to remove Darbi from the school board by some legal nonsense such as this civil protection order that Isaac filed against Darbi, constructed on the back of a napkin and abused by several political figures in the know.  This is a clear case of abuse of government power to subvert the will of the voters who put Darbi in office.  But because these political figures, and their legal handlers reject who the voters put in their political club, they have turned toward the power of abusive government to edit that decision in a vile and disgusting way.  So when Sheriff Jones, who is at the center of the case, says to Glenn Beck, “The sheriffs work for the people, and if the people don’t like the job they do, they can vote them out.”  That clearly isn’t the message in the Darbi Boddy case.  The unsaid statement from politicians like Jones is that we control the law, and we can come up with anything to destroy you, including taking away your CCW over a phony political charge meant to keep an elected officeholder off her duties for 90 days so they can appoint some weak loser they can control for contract negotiations.  Essentially, the local version of Joe Biden, to join the others they have allowed on the school board.  Wherever there is a lot of money, we should expect this kind of corruption.  But what is new is that we learned the lawyers are actually the activists behind election fraud, which is what all this is: the removal of a public pick for office to manage the affairs of the community. 

Sheriff Jones had a pretty good meltdown at a nomination interview with the Central Committee types at the end of 2023, where he did not get an endorsement.  His response was anger in stating that he didn’t need a party endorsement, and his response for his upcoming re-election was to go it alone.  So he has picked this immigration issue, which we all agree on, and booked himself on several big national shows to bring celebrity representation into Butler County, which we also like.  I like seeing my sheriff on the Glenn Beck Show and other places discussing important counter-terrorism topics.  But we also expect to walk the walk and not just talk about it.  Jones was in trouble with the Central Committee people because of how he handled the Darbi Boddy situation and Lakota school politics in general, especially the behavior of the previous superintendent.  Then there is the Roger Reynolds case; Jones has been caught many times trying to destroy his political rivals over the last several years, so there wasn’t an option to vote him out of office.  He destroys anybody who might try.  After I learned from several people who knew what happened between Jones and the Central Committee, I thought we probably should have put up someone to run against him.  But people liked him enough to give him the benefit of the doubt, so in that way, Jones sabotaged any rivals before they could be put forth. 

So, the guy we heard on the Glenn Beck Program was not the same person we are dealing with in our community.  I wish it were. I like that Sheriff Jones who can do media and represent us nicely to the rest of the world, and I’ve told him that directly on more than one occasion.  But this activist who uses the power of office to abuse that power and take down political rivals, such as what is happening against Darbi Boddy, is what makes the world a much worse place.  In Darbi’s case, the sheriff who pulled her CCW is a sheriff by the name of David Duchak from Miami County.  But all these sheriffs know each other, especially on this issue. Sheriff Jones has allowed it to happen and done all he could to blow on the embers of discontent, only not directly to maintain plausible deniability.  My statement on who cares about a Concealed Carry Permit, we are a Constitutional Carry state for just this very purpose.  We can’t ultimately trust the government not to abuse its power, so gun rights are a check on that power, and the police don’t get to use the machine of politics to disarm the public.  I view a CCW as a good practice and will continue to maintain one.  But in Ohio, it’s not necessary.  This is also the problem with red flag laws.  When it can abuse its power, as it is against Darbi Boddy, to remove her from an elected office they don’t want her in, the government can use the law to destroy people, including disarming them under some bogus suspicion generated by that same government.  Who believes a big man like Isaac Adi is terrified of a 110-pound Darbi Boddy dripping wet?  (Which is why most women don’t like her) Yet because Isaac made an accusation, the powers of government have been allowed to ruin the life of Darbi Boddy in very destructive ways, particularly on gun rights. 

Meanwhile, the terrorists are a real threat, and we do need to do what Sheriff Jones is saying, at least to the media.  Private people are the fine line between success and failure, which we just recently saw when young thugs at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl party opened fire into the crowd of a million or so and were stopped by private citizens bold enough to put an end to the senseless violence.  The police were then called to come in and clean up the mess.  And now that the Biden administration has allowed many terrorist cells into our nation through his open border policy, we have a lot of similar threats that are undoubtedly going to continue.  And our best hope of minimizing casualties from this threat is to have private people helping law enforcement manage the danger.  And Darbi Boddy is one of those people with whom Sheriff Jones should be aligned, not antagonizing over political power.  You can’t talk out of both sides of your mouth.  You either want to stop terrorist threats with community involvement, or you just want to go on Glenn Beck and other shows to talk a good game to get re-elected so that you can just abuse the power of elected office to bring meaning to a life otherwise lacking.  But you can’t have it both ways, which is why the Central Committee was hesitant to endorse him in the first place.  Sheriff Jones’ performance had come into question, and people have been thinking about firing him.  Yet it’s not nearly as simple as he tried to make it sound to Glenn Beck.  But we don’t have anybody to rival him because he has used government power to push away rivals and maintain himself as the only choice.  But if anything, that lack of community unification has made us much more vulnerable to terrorism than anything else, and Sheriff Jones has undoubtedly played his part in that discontent. 

Rich Hoffman

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Stopping Terrorism in Butler County, Ohio: The FBI is warning about the danger, and it will be up to us to prevent it

Regarding Sheriff Jones, my local sheriff in Butler County, Ohio, I prefer to have a good relationship.  We do not always see eye to eye on things.  But, in 2024, he is a supporter of President Trump, and so long as he is on the good side of Nancy Nix and a few other people who share a common interest, we are in a decent place.  I happen to love Nancy Nix, so as a political foundation, everything starts from there.  If he’s good with her, we can find common ground to work with.  These are not the times to focus on political differences but on what we have in common and as I would expect my sheriff to do, Jones, who is up for re-election, went to Washington D.C. to meet with the head of the FBI, Christopher Wray to get a briefing on the obvious, the very real possibility that terrorism will be unleashed in 2024 as yet another form of election interference from the radical left that put Obama and this goofball Biden in the White House, to bring so much misery and destruction that we have been witnessing.  I’m not a fan of Wray, the FBI, or the other intelligence agencies.  I’m not particularly trusting of any law enforcement, as the temptation to abuse their power is a thin line that often fails.  But law enforcement, like our government in general, is something you must have to maintain a civil society.  You want them to have the power to do their jobs but never enough power to become an authoritarian regime where their power goes to their heads, which is certainly the case with the FBI.  They are out of control, untrustworthy, and dangerous.  But when they are worried about domestic terrorism, we should all listen.  And they are worried.

The problem, of course, is the apparent border invasion that the Democrats in America have unleashed with the help of the George Soros Open Border Society to expand globalism as a military endeavor, to destroy national concepts all over the world, and to replace them with corporate communism.  With more than 10 million illegal migrants flooding the American southern border, there is always going to be a percentage of them who are prone to terrorist activity, and they are now lost by the many thousands within America as sleeper cells ready to do their malice.  So Chris Wray is warning sheriffs all over the country to be on the lookout and to do what they can to stop terrorism from these border insurgents wherever possible.  Of course, the most significant danger to this well-intentioned alliance is that the FBI’s suggestion is to violate more constitutional rights for the safety of all and to expand the government and resources that money can buy through taxes to deal with the incursion.  That’s the old Cloward and Piven strategy as provoked by the left, overwhelm our system with dangerous malcontents and hope they erode away our concept of safety and run for the skirts of mother government for protection.  Well, as much of a danger as that may be, that is not what Sheriff Jones is proposing.  Jones is generally good when it comes to protecting Constitutional concepts, he was good during Covid.  We may disagree on other things along the lines of how much power police should have and the abuses that come with police work when power is abused, and mistreatment in society is unleashed.  But in this terrorism case, he has a similar view to the one he has with firearm carry policies.  He wants to help people help themselves so we can help them and law enforcement keep our society safe.  If you see something, say something, and know what to recognize and when. 

To that point, Jones is getting behind terrorist recognition classes to help educate communities on recognizing potential terrorist activity, which I think is a good idea.  I believe that there is a very probable chance that we will see not just one terrorist activity in America, perhaps more significant than 9/11 during 2024, but several.  And we cannot lose our minds as a country when we experience them.  We have to keep ourselves together and put Trump back in office so we can get this country back under control.  The immigration policy of the left has been a military attack, and that’s how we must see it.  The purposeful displacement of multicultural insurgents hidden within the ranks of the hungry and innocent is a malicious attack meant to destroy our society.  And it will be a painful process to clean up.  But you can bet that these same characters will do anything to stop Trump, including unleashing terrorist cells to invoke crises of such a magnitude that elections will be disrupted, and the government can unleash emergency orders to change how we do things Constitutionally.  We will not have the luxury to spend 20 years dealing with a terrorist attack like 9/11 or the Oklahoma City Bombing.  We will get about 5 minutes.  Without question, there are plans to implement several of these horrendous acts, and the FBI is telling us they don’t have control.  The CIA has been caught all too often tampering with other people’s governments, including our own.  They were involved in the document of 51 agents who stated that the Biden laptop was Russian propaganda, so they are looking for a way to erase their sins in all this as well.  Nothing unifies the country like pain and death, so beware.  There are a lot of sins that bad people are perfectly willing to cover up by keeping Trump out of the White House and the world on lockdown, even worse than we saw in 2020. 

We must stop terrorism person to person

This crisis of magnitude demands our best as a culture and community.  And I would highly encourage as many people as possible to take the classes Sheriff Jones is making available.  Work with law enforcement as much as possible to help them be better.  I think it’s unrealistic to prevent terrorist activity from happening.  I believe the best we can hope for is to minimize the damage from terrorist intentions, much like the rules we have with concealed carry.  Just because you carry a gun, that doesn’t mean you can stop aggressive shooters who seek to kill first.  But we can minimize the casualties by halting the bloodshed when we see it—the same with terrorism.  The object is to terrorize people, so the best way to prepare for that is not to let them terrorize our society.  Detect it, report it, and stop it where you can ahead of time.  But when it does happen, don’t become neutralized by fear.  Be ready to engage it appropriately and root out the villains by supporting law enforcement so they can do what they are designed to do.  We’ll have time to have political debates later.  But we need to survive as a culture first, and some hostile sleeper cells have crossed over into America with crime as their goal in life, who want to destroy everything it means to be an American.  So it is our task to pull together to stop them and to put that aggression in the other direction, and make them, the antagonizers, the terrorists, and the cutthroat criminal syndicates, flee for their lives.  I am often critical of too much police, and I have been very critical of the upcoming police levy in Liberty Township.  I see too many cops sitting around looking for things to do.  But as I say too, you need a certain amount of law enforcement to have a civil society and the point of politics is to figure out that sweet spot, how much is just right.  But putting up with crime is not an option. I was on my way to Tractor Supply a few days ago and I saw a car pulled over in front of the Elk Run Golf Course with about four police vehicles and five ratty-looking scum bags pulled out of a car with all its doors open and drug dogs sniffing out corruption from drug-induced lunatics.  And I was thrilled to see the police doing a good job.  I wanted to get out of the car and give them all high fives because that’s how you keep evil characters from harming our communities.  Don’t put up with bad behavior.  When you see it, call it out and give it back to them before they can give it to you.  And if we do that a lot more in 2024, we might get through it with minimum casualties. Hopefully, everyone will get through it.  But at the very least, diligence will save lives, and we should work together to do that. 

Rich Hoffman

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When Government Causes the Problems They Want to Protect You From: Frock Cameras are dangerous

I’ve had many people try to convince me that the upcoming Liberty Township Police Levy, which will be voted for in the March primary election, is something I should support. I have a lot of friends who are in government who really think things like police are essential to the viability of a community, and the more police you have, the better your community. My argument is that I have seen too much abuse from this local group, and I don’t see them with enough to do. When I see the police in my community, they are sitting in their cars because there isn’t much to do on radio calls. My argument is that I can understand a few police officers for a community our size, but that the 30-40 they propose, along with a lot of administrative staff, is too expensive and isn’t worth the money. But that’s not even the worst of it. I have seen enough over these last few years to give me a lot of pause on any government expansion, especially after Covid. When the police say they are there to help and to keep our community safe, we have found that the most dangerous element we deal with is government radicalism. And during Covid, we came close to checkpoints of health enforcement and door-to-door raids for nongovernment compliance. And when you have some loser like Biden in the White House, I’m not too keen to hire the people who would be most likely to harass me. And yes, on Christmas Day this year, I came close to a swatting situation where police had gathered in front of my home, looking like they were preparing for a raid until I went out and engaged them, which was when they drove off. In this political environment, especially, more government workers do not make sense.

The corruption of law enforcement is horrendous

And with the same kind of zeal that communities are always asking for more police, we have had frock cameras imposed upon us, always with good intent. But that’s how it always starts: the need for safety and security. In case you haven’t noticed, and I have, cameras are all over our communities these days, especially in Fairfield, even in West Chester, and areas outside of the I-275 loop around Cincinnati. The cameras we are told are there for our safety, to record the comings and goings of cars in our neighborhoods that can track them in case something happens. And who doesn’t want an always eye in the sky to record a license plate number for a hit and run? The argument for the cameras is that they are always watching and will keep us safe from criminals who roam around at night looking for soft targets to harass. Yet all that sounds good until you realize that all this nonsense is code words for lazy police work and the building of an extensive government network that can track everything you do at all hours of the day. I have been involved in fighting back against these cameras in a couple of different places since about a decade ago when they were first introduced. One argument in Lincoln Heights was in partnership with WLW radio, where police were giving people tickets in the mail for speeding along that corridor of I-75. And again, at the toll bridge in Louisville, Kentucky, toll fines were mailed to people just for driving across the bridge. There were no toll booths to pay; they just took a picture of your license plate and sent you the bill in the mail. It was pretty scandalous then, but it has become common practice over the years. That’s how they do it in Florida, around the Orlando area. I tried to pay the toll at a toll booth, and the stupid cameras still sent me a bill. Technology has been introduced to cover up lazy police work and employee engagement.

It’s a trick being used more and more against political enemies

It always starts with the pitch from some tech firm that has a new technology or a vaccine for a virus that the government hasn’t yet made in a lab in China under the direction of Dr. Fauci and other expert class malcontents. And good-intentioned people like local trustees start nodding their heads yes to the promise of more security for their communities. That is until you realize that many of the dangers in our communities are caused by government, such as the current lousy border policy by the Biden administration, which has allowed criminals and cutthroats of all kinds from drug cartels to roam freely and violate our safety. The government causes problems with terrible political policy, and then they turn to more government intrusion to cover up all their mistakes. We end up paying for all of it and, in the process, lose vast amounts of our freedoms. And they sell it to us by saying, “We would never abuse our power,” and one day, you are getting a bill in the mail for that traffic light you went through as it turned from yellow to red a bit too quickly. The frock cameras give police a chance to enforce the law from some rec room somewhere doing even less because A.I. and these cameras are doing most of the work for them. It always starts with good intentions and ends in more tyranny and abuses of power.

Do you really want people like this watching your every move, where you go and when, and with whom?

It’s not hypothetical; we saw it happen when an out-of-control government panicked by some global health police decided to shut down our communities and “shelter in place.”  When DeWine did that in Ohio, I ignored him and conducted my life.  Luckily, at that time, I knew the sheriff of my community and knew he was not in agreement with the governor and wasn’t going to enforce the unjust lockdown policies, which came straight from a globalist loser by the name of Richard Hatchett, who started that mess.  A lot of political figures were suckered into enforcing unconstitutional laws.  If such a thing happened again, the cameras that were set up for our security would be there to tell on us every time we left our driveway, making it all too easy for a centralized authority to punish us for violating the mandate of a prominent government governor out of control and power hungry.  What started as good intentions for safety and security has become an ominous tyrant we can never turn off or escape.  Our local law enforcement suddenly isn’t the cops we know in our community but is A.I. in some data bank at the NSA who is plotting our every move and reporting it to our foreign and domestic enemies who are openly trying to overthrow the Constitution of the United States with international law.  And it all starts with more police levies and politicians who get suckered into saying yes to frock cameras.  It all sounds fine until you have to pay for it all, and you lose your freedoms for some greater good, as it’s determined by communists in the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization, which directly created our policies at the CDC and were enforced with authority by the Biden administration.  By putting up the cameras, the loss of local control of your law enforcement goes away, and soon, outside forces are watching your every move from any place on the planet.  And if you violate some policy they come up with on the back of a napkin, they’ll have the evidence that you did so for them to prosecute.  And at that point, you are a slave to their system of vile tyranny.  Yeah, no thanks.  I’m not supporting the Liberty Township Police Levy or their stupid frock cameras.  I think many people will be unfortunately suckered into voting for it.  And I’m sure everyone will regret it later.

Rich Hoffman

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I Support George Lang Emphatically for Senate in the 4th District of Ohio: Staying strong under intense fire in 2024

With George Lang’s term as an Ohio senator coming up this year, he’s up for re-election in 2024, I happily endorse him for another term.  George Lang has done a great job in the 4th District of Ohio, and I wish every politician were like him.  If they were, we’d be a lot better off as a country.  Yet, many people, especially my readers, have developed a healthy distrust of politicians of all kinds, and I know many wonder why I like George Lang so much, even though he is considered a mainstream politician.  After all, Candace Keller had filed to run against George, which she had done before when it was for a representative seat, and the campaign took a turn for the worse in the mudslinging.  I personally like Candice, her husband, and her family.  I tend to get along best in the world with people like her.  On most things, our politics are very much aligned.  But because she has filed and intends to run against George, I must talk about a few things as to why I am such a supporter of the very powerful senator for the 4th District and explain why he’s not a RINO as is so common a designation for a mainstream politician.  While I am certainly no fan of RINOs, I must set the record straight going into this election year as to why I have always supported George, which sometimes mystifies people.  But from my perspective, it’s an easy decision, because George Lang is a very good person from the ground up and I have known that side of him for a very long time now, around 15 years.  And he’s very much the same person now that I have known all that time, which brings to mind three examples that would put some rationality behind the decision-making process.

Yes, George Lang associates with compelling people and has for many years; John Boehner comes to mind as he was marching toward the Speaker of the House role in Congress.  Along the way, George and I formed a friendship as fellow Tea Party members who were very upset by the direction Barack Obama was taking our country, which goes all the way back to 2009.  Well, all this was before President Trump came along, but in 2012, I had a significant negative news story designed to push everyone away from me.  I was okay with it, but there were a lot of Judas types who were perfectly willing to kiss my cheek in public to be thrown to the wolves, to say it nicely.  We had an event in the back room of a local LaRosa’s restaurant to rally support for me in the wake of intense fire.  Guess who stood with me under the fierce fire in public.  There is a picture of us all at this event, but guess who took the picture?  George Lang came, probably on the same afternoon he was having lunch with John Boehner, Speaker of the House at the time.  My name was all over the media, on all the primary sources so he had a lot to lose.  But he came anyway and was even willing to be in the picture.  It was my suggestion that he take the picture and that we keep him out of it.  So we took the picture, and I learned a lot about George Lang that day, which has lasted for over a decade.  He’s the real deal and he will stand with you under intense fire.  He had much to lose being associated with me, especially by the donors.  But as I have seen many more times than once, George is strongly inclined to do the right things, especially under great fire.

I can also say that I have seen George work with Governor DeWine with the door closed and the pressure very hot.  My thoughts on any management, especially politics, is that you get much more done with the door shut than with dueling press conferences.  And George has been highly influential in these kinds of meetings. A lot goes on in the senate in Columbus, Ohio, that has George Lang’s name all over it, but he never seeks the credit.  And I’ve witnessed it several times personally with Governor DeWine, where just a few people were in the room, and George had to make his point.  These are no powder puff conversations; George is stern when he needs to be and knows what to say and when.  And as professionals should be, George and the Governor were able to shake hands and get things done at the end of the conversation.  I would point to the recent flip-flop by DeWine on the transgender surgery ban for kids as one such example.  DeWine does listen to people when he steps in it.  And George has been one who can shut the door and talk to him without compromising who he is politically.  This is a skill that many people never develop in their lives.  It comes easily to George.  Many people in his position get washed away by the giant waves when you spend time with some of these prominent personalities; it’s easy to happen.  But George can play at a very high level and never lose himself in becoming a RINO.

George has such an excellent personal foundation and can do the things I am talking about because he sincerely loves his wife.  I have known that side of them, and I can say that one of the reasons George and I have maintained a friendship all this time is because he has a great relationship with his wife, which I respect.  I don’t know many people who love their wives and kids like George Lang.  And it has been my observation that this is the key to George’s success.  When you can love a spouse the way George does of his wife Debbie and your kids the way he does, then you can love your country, your political party, your Constitution, your commitment to business, everything with that strong foundation.  And that’s ultimately why I like George so much.  I know a lot of politicians, but I don’t know of many who have such strong foundations as George Lang does.  If you can love a wife the way he does her, and she does him, then you are doing something fundamentally right at the start.  And that can then translate into many good things you do in life.  So, when it comes to other politicians, it may not be their fault that they aren’t as skilled as George Lang is.  And people frustrated that they don’t have those skills might assume that he possesses some voodoo magic in his associations with the very powerful.  But I know him very personally and know that his secret sauce is the love of his family, which allows him to play big ball without losing himself along the way.  Because at the end of the day, no matter what happens, he has his family, which is really all George wants in life.  And that makes him very good as a senator and someone we are lucky to have in the 4th District in Ohio.  I wish we could have him forever, but for now, at least one more term.

Rich Hoffman

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They All Have it Coming: The Beltway is preparing for the Trump revenge tour

With all the positioning propaganda against Trump that has come out in the 2023 election cycle, the purposeful Christmas Dinner conversation meant to steer people away from Trump to neocon losers like Birdbrain Nikki; the truth is lingering behind people’s actions. Most notably, the way Marco Rubio and others acted regarding the recent NDAA signage pushed recklessly through the House and Senate for continued spending.  The baseball insiders know what’s going on with Trump and understand that the media will not be able to shape stories as they have in the past and that all these attempts to knock Trump out of the 2024 presidential race will fall flat.  The SWAMP doesn’t want to be drained, and the alligators and snakes are fighting back with a brutal sentiment.  But they all know what’s coming, which is precisely why they put a provision in that latest NDAA bill that will prevent Trump from pulling out of NATO over support of Ukraine’s fight with Russia over border disputes.  They know Trump will be in the White House again, and they are already working to protect their nest eggs, so if it wasn’t already apparent to the world, it is now.  The inside baseball people in politics know that the inevitable is about to happen, and there is nothing they can do about it short of starting a Civil War, which is actually on the table from their perspective.  Before they hand over the reins of government to the MAGA political wave, they are going to pull every dirty trick in the book.  This NDAA thing is just an easy one to spot because it always involves Republicans like Marco Rubio, who are just whores for distributing government money confiscated from taxpayers and giving it to big globalist goals like the support of NATO, so long as America funds it while other countries don’t. 

These tricks have worked in the past because a level of trust came with them.  People trusted the media because they didn’t want to waste their time doubting them, and they trusted politicians enough to let them make up bills like the NDAA NATO supporting horror that it is because it didn’t affect ordinary people very much.  But we had a stolen election in 2020, and we had a bioweapons attack that killed people.  We shut them up in their homes, destroyed their businesses, and broke up families in a truly terrible year, and people have not forgotten.  The arrogant people who perpetrated this attack thought they had it all figured out.  Disney would help them create “global citizens” in America, the media would steer everyone into the slaughterhouse compliantly, and globalism would be well on its way to world domination.  And people wouldn’t be any wiser to it.  All the pinheads in media who can barely write 300 words without consulting an AI program thought they had it all in the bag.  The plan going into the election season would be that lawfare would keep Trump off the ballot, planted news stories around Christmas time would steer the public away from the troubled Trump during the Holiday of 2023, and the bad guys would win once again because the dumb, gullible public would be too busy watching football and unwrapping presents to understand what was happening.  The scam perpetrators, like Dr. Fauci before them, would get honorary degrees and peace prizes and be invited to Davos to speak at the World Economic Forum as celebrities. Leonardo DiCaprio might even sit next to them at a round table event. And globalism would continue to grow unimpeded.

But that plan blew up over that same period, the entire fourth quarter of the 2023 year.  The bad guys were going through the motions, but the results weren’t returning as intended.  Going through the Holiday season, Trump was pulling way ahead of Biden, leaving the other GOP competitors in the dust.  The Colorado story about taking Trump off the ballot was going nowhere.  The Supreme Court was signaling that it wasn’t going to support the Jack Smith insurrection case as a fast track to impact the primary season, which the Colorado story depends on for a Constitutional verdict, and Nikki Haley is not catching Trump the way Fox News tried to sell it.  People who saw these stories said, “We aren’t going to be suckered by you people again.”  And they turned the channel and watched something else.  People are ready to vote for Trump for one primary reason.  Globalism has cost them money, and they are tired of sending money to places like Ukraine while China continues to abuse old man Biden ruthlessly, indicating they are planning to take Taiwan back as a part of their country, putting all of us at risk of losing computer chip manufacturing.  The conversations I was in with people who never think about things like this are concerned about one thing: their money isn’t worth as much now as it was before that 2020 attack against American sovereignty.  When Trump was in the White House before, life was better for them.  What they have seen over the last three years has terrified them.  And they want their country back.  I’m not going to say, “I told you so, all of you,” But “I told you so,” all along.  I can think of many Christmases in times past where I was the only one talking about these things.  Now, everyone is. 

And the Beltway insiders know it too; everyone knows it.  This won’t be an average year for anybody.  People want Trump back in office for normalcy.  Continued ANTIFA riots are only going to make people angrier and less supportive of progressive politics.  Either way, a continuation of the radicalism of 2020 into 2024 is going to turn people away from Democrat priorities, or Trump moving back into the White House will set it in motion with a revenge tour that is perfectly justified.  Lots of people need to suffer for what they did to us all.  And we see it in our bank accounts.  All these globalists who thought they were going to crush the American economy to reset global expectations with their Great Reset forgot that there were people who would be angry about it.  And they were going to blame the globalists, people like Marco Rubio, who plays a Republican on television, but as a senator, sees his role in protecting global military police, NATO, and other partnerships that are grossly one-sided, to impose border disputes on nationalists to make them states of the United Nations.  All those flights of fancy in previous years sounded like ambitious plans that didn’t impact Hometown USA and everyone’s Christmas Dinners.  Plenty of presents were under the tree, and food was easy to get.  But this year, not so much.  Food is costly.  The cost of all goods and services is dramatically higher than during the Trump years, and people are furious about it.  So Little Marco and his gang of government thieves have stuck support for NATO into the NDAA while they still have the power to do so.  Because they know what’s coming, and they are bracing for impact.  And from my perspective, they will need much more than a seat belt.

Rich Hoffman

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Second Call Defense May Be the Most Important Thing You Do in 2024: Catherine Herridge thinks there will be a “Black Swan” event, and I think she’s right

Catherine Herridge is one of the only reporters I still respect from the mainstream news, and there is a lot of talk about a recent statement she made about the upcoming year of 2024 when she indicated that she thought there would be a Black Swan event at some point. I agree with her; there may be several. There are a lot of bad guys in the world that have been dramatically empowered by bad laws, weak politics, globalism, terrorism, and eroded values, and the power and money that have come from these activities are not going to be given up easily. I expect a lot of attempts to unleash violence into our society before power is given back or taken back by force. Whatever the case, the bad guys will not just ride off nicely into the night. That’s why they are bad guys; they do bad things and harm innocent people. So I think 2024 will be unusually difficult, much worse than 2020 when color revolutions were unleashed in the streets with a few phone calls from the rich and famous. Sheer whores who will do anything for a buck took over entire cities in 2020 and nearly burned Washington DC to the ground. The media and political figures responsible for the terrible things that happened in 2020 want you to think about the time that people pushed back on January 6th, hoping to erase from your mind everything you had seen and experienced and that some fantasy of normalcy could come from the Biden administration in those early days of 2021. But no, people didn’t forget, and they are voting for Trump anyway; populist movements everywhere are looking for revenge, using the law first to implement it. But that leaves the bad guys nowhere to go, and you can bet they will try every desperate thing to outrun justice.

One thing that has been on my mind is that I had to scold a few of our local news people from the network news who were trying to stoke riots from downtown Cincinnati to come up into West Chester to harass people outside the I-275 loop. A few did come, but it didn’t go very far. My response was similar to what I’m about to say, and in some cases, I walked people I know through the process of buying guns to defend their homes. These were people who don’t usually think this way but were not about to let a bunch of thugs ransack their homes, rape their women, and make a general mess of things in their community. But you can bet that George Soros and all his friends intended for all that to happen even more. What happened recently in Israel could quickly occur anywhere in the United States; the intention of the bad guys is undoubtedly there, and if they aren’t going to respect our laws and enforcement community, then what choice does anybody have? So I helped a lot of people get their hands on guns “just in case,” and the critical riots from Fox 19 News and Channel 5 fizzled out and moved back down the highway to hang out in Over-The-Rhine. Thankfully, it got close to being messy and never quite evolved into a crisis. But people learned from those events that it was possible and needed to be prepared. That’s why I’m recommending to everyone this time membership to Second Call Defense, which is insurance for gun owners who may need to make that second call after a defensive shooting to keep a very corrupt judicial system from destroying your life in the aftermath, which is one of their strategies against the Second Amendment.

We’ve seen how lawfare has been used against Trump, and before all these recent ostentatious displays of law abuse, it has occurred in many ways in our own hometown. Right now, I can think of how the law has been weaponized against Darbi Boddy, who has a bogus hearing on December 29th. She’s the school board member from Lakota who has so many radical elements trying to destroy her life just because she exists, and they want her in jail. And the local Republican Party has been stoking the fires to make it happen—hazardous stuff. I could say the same of what happened to Roger Reynolds, the former Butler County auditor. I just received a very nice Christmas note from Judge Elderstein, a story where the Butler County judges go after their own in really detrimental ways, and this story involves the prosecutor of Butler County, Michael Gmoser, and many other influential people in Ohio who have been engaged in lawfare against political rivals. These law enforcement types cannot be trusted and they are not the people you want to be dealing with after a defensive shooting. Ohio is a lot better on gun laws, particularly Stand Your Ground and Constitutional Carry as a result of our current government doing really good things to make them happen. I’m a permit holder and probably always will be. And yes, because of my lifestyle, it comes up more than you’d like. I had an incident just a few days ago where everyone made it to Christmas Dinner. But gun altercations are more of a reality in a politically charged society as we have now, where radical elements are empowered to bring harm to innocent people, and those innocent people have no choice but to defend themselves. We want to trust the law to do their jobs, but there are many reasons to understand that trust isn’t on the table.

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You will get benefits if you use my name to join Second Call Defense.  I know the people involved and I like them a lot.  I usually don’t bring up these kinds of memberships, but I would say, especially this coming year of 2024, to protect yourself with Second Call Defense or an insurance program like it.  I’m not here to sell you insurance.  I have been associated with Second Call Defense for a long time, around ten years now.  Over that span, there have been six times when I almost had to make that second call, counting the recent incident from the other day.  And believe me, before you pull the trigger on an attacker, it does run through your mind.  Because once you do pull that trigger and someone dies as a result, the political hellhounds who want to attack the Second Amendment will be all over you, trying to use that tragedy to destroy your life in every way they can.  With Second Call Defense, you let their lawyers handle your case as soon as the police arrive. They’ll help you get your gun back, and they help with bond money and the kind of procedures that a person without representation would find to be a nightmare.  You don’t want to become a January 6th prisoner or go through what Darbi Boddy is going through now because the law has targeted you for their acquisition of power.  A self-defense shooting is bad enough without having the legal system destroy your entire life for its display of power and political objectives.  So, as some friendly advice, I would recommend everyone who carries a firearm, even in a Constitutional Carry way, to join Second Call Defense, even if just for 2024.  I hope it’s not the case, but things will likely get very rough in 2024, and you want to be prepared on all fronts.  Putting up with detrimental behavior is not an option.  But it would be best to protect yourself with more than a gun.  Insurance certainly helps, and it will rest your mind in those times when you do have to use a weapon and pull the trigger against someone attacking you.  I can’t recommend Second Call Defense more; it may be the most important thing you can do for yourself in 2024.  It’s rough out there; access to good legal representation certainly needs to be part of any strategy that deals with the malicious intent of a society gone mad. 

Rich Hoffman

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Ohio State Central Committee Members Show the Trend in Modern Politics: Sara Carruthers did not get endorsed by the Republican Party, among others

It’s not just the cosmetics on corporate television; we are seeing some real trends in politics that everyone should take notice of.  What we learned after 2020 was just how much control an invisible sector of a ruling class had over our elections, and in America, we were very far away from a real republic.  It was a kind of dictatorship run by corporate conglomerations who thought that communism China style was the wave of the future and that everyone else should get on board with it.  I read countless books, particularly by people like Ray Dalio, who had already committed to this World Economic Forum view of the world from the power players at Davos early in the last decade, so for them, it was all a done deal.  But as mystified that many are that Trump is headed to be the nominee for the Republican Party and that Ohio was one of the first states to fully endorse him officially, there are a lot of perplexed faces out there from the mainstreamers who thought they had it all figured out.  They didn’t, and the evidence of all that was obvious in a recent Central Committee meeting in Butler County, Ohio, where the actual trends were showing themselves quite obviously.  The mainstream candidates found that they weren’t so mainstream and that the baked-in opposition party approach to mass collectivism, such as the local Sheriff’s commitment to unionized labor, was dramatically out of step with the coming political trends.  No surprise for me, I have watched this evolution since before the Tea Party movement started in 2009, as a direct reaction to the implantation of Barack Obama as a terrorist selection of the Weather Underground party, which many of us pointed out but were not listened to.  It was the same kind of denial that resulted in local politics in 2023 as the Central Committee picked new faces for party endorsements to replace the old ones. Suddenly, the political world took on an entirely new meaning. 

For instance, there has been a lot of talk lately about Sara Carruthers, a state representative for the 47th district in Ohio who had just been censored for not supporting the Speaker of the House that should have been elected, but instead worked with Democrats to put in place a known RINO, last year.  After the defeat of Lynda O’Conner off the Lakota school board in 2023, Sara expressed her views about extremism in the Republican Party to the Journal News quite explicitly, saying that she found them alarming.  For a long time now people have been frustrated by Sara’s obvious leanings toward the Democrat Party and there has been a desire to purge the party of RINOs, (Republicans in Name Only) and that has most percolated within the Central Committee meetings.  Over the last decade, better people have joined these Central Committees and have sought to reform the Republican Party from the inside out because they were frustrated with the kind of Republicans who were running the party, people like John Kasich and John Boehner.  But there was always a lot of strong-arming and intimidation that went with these meetings, so it has taken a while for many members to find their courage and conduct themselves the way that party politics was designed to best represent the voter base of a community.  So Sara didn’t get an endorsement for the Republican Party this time; instead, it went to Diane Mullins.  Shocking in the traditional way of viewing politics, where those who raise the most money tend to have the most power.  That shift has changed since Trump entered politics. Gradually, the Central Committees have grown the courage to fill their roles appropriately instead of being intimidated into voting a certain way. 

Another emerging trend is in MAGA candidates, like Bernie Moreno, who J.D. Vance has endorsed as a partner over Secretary of State Frank LaRose.  Frank LaRose only received 30% of the vote among the Ohio State GOP Central Committee, whereas Bernie Moreno received 70%.  Remember the story about Sheriff Jones, who went on a personal vendetta against State Rep Thomas Hall? It looked like the young man was done in politics because the powerful sheriff targeted him for destruction, along with several other people as well.  Thomas received 100% of the vote.  But when it came time to endorse the sheriff, he did not come highly recommended, which is a direct result of his activism against the very popular Butler County auditor Roger Reynolds, whom the sheriff falsely prosecuted for purely political power-playing reasons.  At this last meeting, according to those there, the Sheriff was very upset about his weak vote and decided to pull his name from the endorsement process.  I recently had a pleasant conversation with Sheriff Jones about his new car in the parking lot of an event we were both at.  It was a nice car.  We also joked about our hats because we both wear cowboy hats in public.  And we kept the conversation light.  The vice mayor of Hamilton, Ohio, was there, and the meeting was a “lofty” occasion.  I may like the Sheriff personally, but he has not shown himself to be a Republican these last few years since Trump left the White House.  And that exploded at this recent Central Committee meeting.  Without a full-throated endorsement, he decided he was done with the whole political party endorsement process and didn’t need it.  After all, who was going to run against him?  As angry as he was, who else could he blame?  He was using the political party to strong-arm the Central Committee for years, and finally, they stood up to him, and he didn’t like it.  But it was based on his actions, not theirs.  It’s in subtle ways like that which politics is changing all across America, and many have not yet figured out just what kind of impact that will have.  Which I say will be dramatic. 

People are tired of corruption in politics, and many good people have joined the Central Committees in their communities to help root it out.  For too long, powerful political characters and their donor backing imposed their will on Central Committee members without much respect.  But that has changed.  Central Committee members in Ohio endorsed President Trump in these same meetings, so the trend is moving in an obvious direction.  And if I had to bet money on it, I would say that all this has the attention of Jack Smith’s case in Washington, D.C.  He knows his case is going nowhere and now he’s looking to shift the blame to the Supreme Court by accelerating the trial for insurrection.  The goal was to prevent Central Committee members from endorsing Trump ahead of the primaries coming up.  But now that Trump is so far out early, these court cases won’t do what they were intended, so Smith is looking to get out of it and place the blame on the high court to protect his reputation.  I’m also sure that there is a way for Sheriff Jones to get back into everyone’s good graces.  He was good in Butler County when Trump was in the White House for the first time.  And now that Trump is running again, the Sheriff can get behind that effort and people can come together again.  But the days of forcing big labor RINOs who would otherwise be Democrats if they ran anywhere else are over.  Central Committees are doing their jobs, not just rubber-stamping some of these political candidates.  And when they do wrong, such as Sara Carruthers has, they endorse alternatives, which is about time and a sign of good things to come.

Rich Hoffman

The Cheating Spouse: Sara Carruthers Called Us”Extremists”

I wasn’t going to talk about what I’ve been saying to all the mostly guys in the Republican party of Butler County, Ohio in the wake of Lynda O’Connor’s loss from the Lakota school board until I read the comments from Sara Carruthers in the Journal News. Obviously, she was referring to me and some of the core team around me who are considered radicals where she said she hated the “extremism in the party.” And that she said, “I think it’s sad to have other Republicans fighting against you.” Well, she’s up for re-election and my message to her is, she’s next. And all those like her. We can’t fight Democrats when we don’t have Republicans in the party. So, we must go through this process to make things honest before we can ever consider winning in politics. Otherwise, it’s all an illusion. Everyone has probably seen the video that Candice Keller took of Butler County Commissioner Cindy Carpenter campaigning for a Democrat on election day. There are a lot of RINO Republicans operating in the Butler County GOP, and they have made their voices known more ostentatiously since Trump has been out of the White House. And many of us, just aren’t going to put up with it. I’ve never given any illusion that I would. I work with people. I listen to their point of view and give people an honest shake. But politically, I’m to the hard right of the Tea Party, and that isn’t going to change. Obviously, I’m interested in politics for different reasons than other people. So my comment to people who have been asking me why I can’t support these RINOs when we learn about them is that I always say, “I love all Republicans until they show me they aren’t. Then I hate them.” There is no middle ground.

One of those cheating spouses

Further, I have been saying to lots of people an obvious metaphor that is directly relatable. Political relationships are a lot like marriage, with marriage being something everyone can relate to in some way or another. And most of the people I have been talking to have been men. I have said this to women, but the context is from a male perspective. When you catch a woman climbing out of the window to sleep with someone else on the other side of town, don’t go out and buy her a diamond ring. It would be best if you were looking for ways to get away from her, not deepening the commitment. And in regard to Lynda O’Connor, I feel she cheated on me, and my way of dealing with that isn’t to profess my love for her, or even to hold my nose and pretend like we have a happy marriage. Once it’s over, for me, it’s over. Forever. My policy is to let the cheaters have their loves, their forbidden fruit. I won’t play happy family with tea on Sundays like there isn’t a problem. A lot of people with low self-esteem are afraid that they won’t ever find another spouse, or maybe there are kids and property that are all wrapped up in the marriage, so it’s just cheaper to put up with all the cheating and play happy family. I think a lot of people find themselves in this situation, and it rolls over into their political lives. Well, that’s not where I am. I want to believe in the people who represent us politically, and those are my standards and the standards of a lot of people I know and associate with. What I hear from all these crybabies after this 2023 election are complaints that we have standards and that we should give those up and put up with the cheating wife who crawls out the window to multiple lovers across town, to keep the kids together, essentially.

To people like Sara Carruthers, it is considered “extreme” to have values.  The Trump MAGA movement is considered “extreme” because it does not want to put up with the politics of the past, where values are thrown out the window, and concessions with evil are endorsed.  In those kinds of statements, I hear a lazy person who doesn’t want to do the hard work of representation and upholding the values of the community she represents.  That certainly was the anger at Lynda O’Connor.  She did not express the community’s sentiment; she worked against it, even working to silence the community from having an opinion.  And that is what many of the insiders in the wake of the 2023 election have been expressing: frustration that they couldn’t control the narrative and impose some low bar that the rest of the community would put up with so they could compete with low-level Democrats for office seats.  If that is what we have to do to compete with Democrats, to play their dumb game, then the answer is, no. I know many people who will be a hard pass on that approach.  What’s the difference then between a Democrat and a Republican if the brand is destroyed by becoming one of them?  When Cindy Carpenter (Sheriff Jones’ budget girl) is campaigning for Democrats on election day.  I’ll pass if that is the kind of teamwork Sara Carruthers is talking about.  Like I’ve also been saying a lot lately to the soft-shelled tacos of the Republican Party, “With Republicans like you, who needs Democrats.” 

Here’s the deal: everyone can do what they want, I’ll only tell you once, Trump will be back in office.  There is going to be a very violent and tumultuous four years coming up while we clean up years and years of neglect.  And anybody who wants to ride that political train, get on and fasten your seat belt.  I know many people willing to fight for what’s right, and they will either do it arm-in-arm with a political party or work against you.  So, you better catch up if you want to do anything political.  It’s not extreme to have “high expectations,” and we are talking about that.  The anger at Lynda, Sara, Cindy, Sheriff Jones, and many of the business owners of Butler County who are only in politics to protect their investments is that they do not match the high expectations of those interested in politics that represent their values.  The message is that everyone should lower their values to accommodate the cheating spouse just to maintain the façade of marriage.  Which a lot of people do.  But these “extremists” that Sara is referring to are not those types of people.  Sincerity and honesty are not bad traits, and it is those traits that these aftermath losers are indicating are holding back the Republican Party.  I know many bright young people who would run for some of these future political offices.  But they will not kiss a ring or play nice with their morality.  This is why we end up with losers who lack ethical standards in some positions, which is why the Republicans are losing.  Not because the expectations are too high but because the kind of people they want are too lazy and too compromised to live up to those standards.  The future of politics will force that issue to be addressed, ready or not.  And in Butler County, Ohio, many are not. 

Rich Hoffman