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The Secret to Elon Musk’s Success: An obsession with risk and the management of its destructive elements

It’s certainly worth a discussion, although I had been avoiding reading the book Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, mainly because it was a Time Magazine view of the world, and I tend not to enjoy books like that very much.  I’ve read other books by Isaacson and enjoyed them enough to learn new things.  In this case, Isaacson was given access to Elon Musk for the last few years to study him and learn all he could.  So, it was worth reading about the daily life and details of a person who is often the wealthiest in the world and runs some of the most successful companies.  But politically, I think of Elon Musk as a Barack Obama fanboy and a global greenie weenie.  But I do admire how he built Tesla.  I’m certainly not a EV fan of electric cars, but Tesla has carved out a nice little niche for themselves that I think is valuable.  SpaceX is an incredible company that is doing wonderful things.  I’m a tremendous fan of the Starship program and what has been done with Falcon 9 and the Dragon program.  I appreciate them for what they are, and I think Musk is just a unique personality to continue healthily pushing society places it needs to go.  I think of him as a great case of “dynamic intellectualism” that I talk about with the Metaphysics of Quality and the philosophy of Robert Persig.  But Elon Musk smoked pot on the Joe Rogan Show and wanted to put fart apps into his very expensive Tesla cars, so he’s not my kind of guy and people like Isaacson tend to get the surface qualities of his subjects, but not the real intellectual gist of their value.  However, after reading Elon Musk by Isaacson, the unavoidable trait of the secret to success did emerge without question, which is why I kept hearing about the book from friends and respected business leaders. 

Since the book came out in the fall of 2023, I have had at least someone once a week asking me if I had read the book since I usually read everything that comes out.  But I typically avoid the trendy stuff and lean more toward big-picture things.  I wasn’t interested in another get-rich book by people fascinated with wealth creation viewed through a popular cultural lens.  But so many people were getting the book and passing it out to their management teams, looking for some secret sauce that Musk obviously has.  So when I was at dinner with some very important people at Son of the Butcher at Liberty Center in Ohio, and under great encouragement from those people indicated that I would love the book, I left that dinner, stopped by the bookstore, and bought it just before Barnes and Noble closed for the night, and I promised them the next time I would see them, I would have read the book and told them what I thought of it.  That was on a Thursday night, so by Monday, when I would see some of them again, I had read the book, it’s a pretty big book with a lot of details in it.  Many people had bought the book, but they hadn’t made it very far through, and they wanted to know my opinion on whether to continue slugging through it.  In truth, it was a good book; Walter did a good job for a Simon and Schuster publication intended for static society audiences.  And I would say it’s one of the most important books of our time, for a lot of reasons, which I’ll spend separate articles covering.  But the secret sauce, yes, it was there and in all its glory.  I understood it, and it’s something I relate to. 

Throughout the book, I couldn’t help but think of President Trump when I think of Elon Musk and how wealth has been projected over time.  Trump’s Art of the Comeback from 1997 was about knowing influential people, supermodels, wives, exotic cars, and tall skyscrapers.  And in the part of the book where Elon Musk went through his period of wealth acquisition, Walter Isaacson seemed to be on comfortable ground.  However, in the cover inserts were exciting value changes for Elon Musk.  The things that Musk thinks are successful and what Trump thought was successful have changed a lot over time.  Musk had exhibitions of massive engineering feats displayed in his book, where Trump featured the building of skyscrapers and the New York skyline.  But while the things that wealth could buy as a value may have changed, getting there had not.  Most wealthy people have some prevalent traits they share in common, which is the concern of Walter’s books, especially with Steve Jobs.  What makes successful people successful?  And everyone talking to me about the book wanted to know this.  “If I read this book, will it make me successful?  Can we pass this book on to our super managers and sales teams and learn something from Elon Musk to help us be more successful?”  The answer is yes.  However, knowing how to be successful doesn’t mean most people have the guts to do so.  You can’t cheat that, even though that is what causes most of the corruption in the world—the desire to take the easy way to wealth to have the benefits without the downside. 

The downside with Musk and Trump, along with many others who have done similar things, even Jeff Bezos, is that they are addicted to risk and obsessed with it.   Elon Musk is a classic riverboat gambler who loves risk.  But has the unique personality to be very intelligent enough to know when and how to mitigate risk.  But yes, he is an obsessive gambler who would play Texas Hold ’em’ by pushing all in for every pot, blowing a lot of money in the process.  But in so doing, he would also get the biggest jackpots.  And that’s clearly how he achieved success at the level he did.  Anybody wanting to succeed would have to learn to bring more risk to their lives to have the success that comes from winning big.  A gambler like that might spend a fortune on betting.  But mathematically speaking, people like Musk and Trump know that eventually, things will swing in your direction.  What separates them from everyone else is how much you can take until you fold up on yourself, broke and destitute.  Musk certainly has a personality that could be homeless and poor beyond any reasonable scale because he is a person obsessed with risk.  I get it; I have many of those same traits.  It’s not the money someone like him is interested in.  But its success in risking and surviving, that is.  And without that risk, there would be no success.  Elon Musk would be just another person with Asperger’s and too much brain power, applying it to a static society that is not interested in risk.  They wanted everything safe and predictable and would push themselves by nature as far from the Elon Musk types as they could, to maintain their safe lives.  That’s what makes Walter’s book so good because it indeed chronicles this risky behavior in ways that the public usually doesn’t get to see in people.  But just buying the book wouldn’t make people successful by itself.  What it could do, though, was let people understand that risk is critical to business and how risk is managed is the key to all successful enterprises, which is my general opinion of the book.  Yes, people should read it.  However, they should learn from it how to put more risk into their lives without becoming destructive.  Because there is no way to cheat risk, you either develop a healthy relationship with risk or get standard, predictable results that stagnate and rot you and your culture from the inside out.  Luckily for us, there are people like Elon Musk out there who are making things exciting.  But, there should be a lot more, and maybe yet, there will be.

Rich Hoffman

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Sam Randazzo Committed Suicide: When a corrupt FBI, Marxist Democrats, and radical anti-America terrorists are after you, don’t run away, fight them

I hated to hear that Sam Randazzo had committed suicide the day before the State of the State speech of 2024, apparently connected to his upcoming court cases attached straight to the Governor over H.B. 6 and all the drama around FirstEnergy.  Sam was appointed as utilities director for the Governor’s office and got caught up by default into defending FirstEnergy, which the communists were after, and like many Republicans who got caught up in that entirely legitimate business relationship, they retreated from the fight by activists courts, an FBI that was weaponized for progressive administrations, and an Obama administration that had set terrorist motions forward before President Trump entered the White House, that was intended to destroy the energy grid of Ohio and convert the entire industry to solar and wind power.  Yeah, I’m not a believer that the FirstEnergy bribery scandal in Ohio was nothing more than Democrats who did not have a majority in Columbus crying about how unfair it was that FirstEnergy had no choice but to try to get members of government from the Republican Party, to build their majorities with campaign donations so that they as a company could stay open for business.  The radical left had attacked two nuclear power plants for closure in Ohio, and FirstEnergy was trying to keep them open.  As I received the news in the dome with Mike DeWine standing about 8 feet from me taking pictures with people, I had a new perspective on why the Governor’s speech was so flat that day.  This was the second recent suicide from someone involved in H.B.6.  The first guy, Nick Clark, had recently shot himself in the head while wearing a DeWine for Governor shirt in Florida, awaiting his trial over the same fundamental issues.  And supposedly, in a warehouse just down the road from the Statehouse down Mound Street, Sam hung himself, leaving behind a phone number for his wife and concern for his family’s well-being.  But he couldn’t deal with the pressure.  Pressure that he shouldn’t have had to deal with in the first place.  This was the same case over FirstEnergy, where the former Speaker of the House, Larry Householder, was rotting away in jail for essentially doing what all politicians have to do, especially in his position: make sure the party holds power with campaign donations to expand majorities.  If the Democrats could, they would do the same thing, but they aren’t very well-liked in Ohio.  But that hasn’t stopped progressive politics and outside influences from trying to rot Columbus from the inside out, which is essentially what H.B.6 was all about, starting with destroying Ohio’s power by attacking FirstEnergy with Marxist climate change policies that were extraordinarily expensive to force them into wind and solar, and to abandon fossil fuels.

Before they pulled all his information off the internet, I looked up what Sam was saying about himself as a professional who was listed as retired.  So, I put it here to counter what has been said about him.  Does this sound like the kind of guy who would want to kill himself by hanging in a lonely warehouse just a few hours before Governor DeWine’s 2024 State of the State speech?  Listen to his own words: “For more than four decades, I helped businesses on both sides of the meter, elected officials, associations, and regulators identify and thoughtfully address issues that affect the delivered price and availability of energy, communication, and other goods and services essential to a well-functioning and forward-looking economy. In doing so, I was often recognized as one of the best lawyers in America, and I combined my legal skills with a deep understanding of how accounting, finance, economics, and engineering principles must be appreciated and integrated to effectively navigate (often in a political context) towards a sustainable and practical solution. After retiring from the practice of law at the end of 2018, Governor Mike DeWine appointed me to the post of Commissioner and eventually Chair of the PUCO, and on April 11, 2019, I returned to the agency where I started. As Chair of the PUCO, I was Chair of the Ohio Power Siting Board. During the COVID pandemic, I also served as Chair of the Stay at Home Order Dispute Advisory Commission and on the Governor’s business advisory task force. On November 20, 2020, I resigned from government service for reasons expressed in my resignation letter. Since retiring, I have been blessed to have the love and support of my family and friends.”

Smiling for the camera is just another way of hiding from the real villains of our power grid

I’m not a fan of many of these Republicans; some of them, such as Matt Borges, I think are complete idiots, and I’d have no problem telling him that to his face for his anti-Trump activity within the Republican Party trying to keep losers like John Kasich in power.  But those are party disagreements on strategy.  Republicans should have never taken the bait by Democrats even to allow for any donations from FirstEnergy to be construed in any way other than what they were.  To let an activist FBI make it all a case of corruption and bribery hoping to erode Republican control in Columbus was ridiculous for a problem Democrats caused in the first place: an attack on Ohio’s energy grid.  Republicans should have stood their ground, fought and beat these losers in court, and made other people want to hang themselves in empty warehouses.  Not simi-retired lawyers like Sam Randazzo.  He should be taking his family to some nice vacation resort instead of preparing for a funeral.  It wasn’t fair to his family.  But as I say, politics is a blood sport, and the Democrats love blood, and Republicans never match the intensity because they are too nice.  They shouldn’t be. 

After hearing all this about Sam, I watched Governor DeWine, who caught my eye a few times.  Part of me felt terrible for him.  He’s a nice guy trying to play this blood sport the only way he knows how with Yellow Springs hippie liberalism and extensive government control over the levers of power.  He has learned over the years to appease these vile forces rather than fight them directly, and in the State of the State speech, he sought to appease those monsters on 3rd Street by making the whole speech about children and nothing else.  Governor DeWine signed H.B.6, which was talked about by Marxist media as a 1.3 billion dollar bailout of FirstEnergy.  Well, of course, Democrats were upset about it because they wanted to sink FirstEnergy and force them to go all in on windmills and solar panels.  They tried to kill Ohio’s energy policy, so yes, they were upset that Republicans were helping out FirstEnergy.  That is how Sam Randazzo got wrapped up in the scandal, as he found 4.3 million dollars coming at him from FirstEnergy.  But what was FirstEnergy supposed to do?  Sit around and be destroyed by climate activists and Marxist, America-hating despots?  Because that’s the real issue on the table that DeWine didn’t want to tackle, and his inability to defend Columbus Republicans left them hanging.  It’s that kind of classic Republican run-and-hide technique that has so many people supporting Trump.  And to answer a question Matt Borges brought up after the Access Hollywood tape about Trump trying to disparage him, was that locker room talk?  Yes.  That’s how people speak; if he didn’t know that, he should have.  Republican voters are going for Trump and not Mike DeWine types.  They want to see FirstEnergy thrive; they want nuclear power and fossil fuels to provide cheap electricity.  And they want the government to leave them alone.  And they certainly don’t want to see their representatives going to jail and hanging themselves in warehouses as the only option left to them in an activist, Marxist-controlled court system led by a corrupt FBI working for the Biden administration, and before them, the radical terrorist Obama.  If we’re going to play this blood sport, let the Democrats feel the pressure.  Not good people trying to stand up for the industry and Ohio’s power grid.  They knew what they were doing; when the government is prosecuting you, and it’s run by radicals who have endless money to throw at you, and you have to pay for parasite lawyers and are still facing jail time in your retirement years, what was old Sam supposed to do?  Who was going to defend him when all the other Republicans were running for the hills, trying not to be accused of bribery?  This is the same garbage they have been trying to do with Trump.  But he didn’t run away.  Mike DeWine and many others have, and that has only fed the desire for blood by the ruthless Democrats and their communist supporters at the expense of our great state. 

Rich Hoffman

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Ding Dongs in Columbus: A Review of Governor DeWine’s State of the State speech

Before I get into the obvious homeless guy on 3rd Street in Columbus who was standing on the corner a block south of the Statehouse, completely nude, with his ding dong and buttocks clear for all the world to see, as if he were getting ready to shower at a YMCA, I have to talk about the fantastic book I bought from the Statehouse gift shop that I have had my eye on for several years now, The Art and Artistry of the Ohio Statehouse by Dayna Jalkanen.  Every time I go to the Statehouse, I think about getting it, but time is always short, so I never do.  I love the Statehouse and the intentions of the work that is supposed to be done there, of republic-style representative government, and I had just told a story to similar people about my thoughts on Governor DeWine’s speech where I stood in the rotunda with DeWine giving out pictures with a lunch buffet set up in the middle of the room where senators, representatives, lawyers, lobbyists, cutthroats and even media personalities were at work saving the world from their perspective.  Even the “Rooster” was there dressed in his backpack and poorly attired shorts, deliberately showing disrespect for the process as he runs a government blog checking the antics of the powerful with a kind of Marxist mentality of “bringing them all down.  During this visit, I had a little more time to make it to the bookstore, where I was there with Jennifer Gross, the Ohio Representative from the 47th District, and her son, a brilliant young man.  I explained to many people that DeWine’s speech this year was horrible, worse than usual, and uninspiring.  And there was a thick blanket over the whole State of the State address as Columbus conspiracies were awash in speculation and scandal.  But as I have said before, the Statehouse is there, grand and has deep roots in history.  It intends to inspire people to greatness even if they fall short, as was apparent under this current flock of politicians.  So, I wanted to get the book to remind myself of the worth of it all.

As I checked out the book at the counter and spoke to Jennifer about all the perils of progress during legislative proceedings, I reflected on what I had just said about DeWine’s speech and why it was so bad.  Governor DeWine was clearly in a lame-duck stage of his term.  He was on the outs with the Trump campaign over several controversies.  But the biggest one is that DeWine isn’t a Republican, especially not a Trump Republican.  He’s a product of FDR’s New Deal and some Johnson version of a Great Society where the government was there to do what parents couldn’t or wouldn’t.  And that was the entirety of DeWine’s speech on the State of the State on 4.10.24.  The whole thing was about how the state of Ohio could take care of children in ways their parents would fall short of, and everything he mentioned required more legislation and tax money spent without scrutiny on the next generation without any real expectation of success.  As I had just said in the rotunda, everyone in that room thought they were doing the right things, including DeWine.  They all had the best of intentions.  Nobody thought of themselves as evil.  Yet there was evil everywhere, and why?  It’s a challenging game where you must go to Columbus to work with others to make things happen.  You have to build relationships and get things done.  But in compromising with other people to get things passed, most people find themselves changed forever in the process, and they aren’t the same people who were elected, and they don’t survive the meat grinder of politics intact. 

Whenever I attend a State of the State speech, I always like to sit in the gallery where all the lawyers, aides, and lobbyists sit because I want to hear how they talk to each other.  They all have some specific thing that concerns them most about the government.  It might be renewable energy, social programs, or even Rob Portman’s retirement status, and how many boards he is sitting on for advice.  I was sitting next to one of his former aides who went on and on about how much influence the former senator still had in the business world, which I had to snicker about.  I’ve known Rob Portman for a long time, especially at the beginning of his political career when he was in his 20s.  Rob Portman shouldn’t be advising businesses about anything; he doesn’t have the horsepower to understand the field or how it works.  But in that gallery, I heard many stories about things those people wanted to impress upon each other as they were caught up in the moment.  All dressed up to listen to the Governor give a speech about saving children from their parents.  I explained it later by identifying the problem for what it is: all those people at the speech had the power of government at their fingertips, and they had to decide how to use it to help people.  And that’s where the evil comes in: when people don’t have the right thoughts about things, how can they decide to use government the way it’s supposed to, not how their feeble minds interpret it?  DeWine intended his speech well, as everyone listening did.  But where can they apply government power to the right purposes?  That’s what I wanted to think about as I bought that book and why I took a little extra time talking with Jennifer about those kinds of challenges this time. 

But the answer to that question was at the corner of 3rd Street, just one block south of the Statehouse as I was leaving.  There was security everywhere around the Statehouse because of the governor.  I was leaving the Senate, and there were plenty of police.  But then there was this 6’ 6 man of color standing there with his pants pulled down around his ankles, underwear, and all oblivious to the world around him.  I don’t think he knew his ding dong was hanging out in full view to all the cars and pedestrians moving by him.  I’ve seen homeless people all over the world, and they are caused by too much government destroying the personal initiative of individual people.  And here was this guy, an apparent creation of a nanny state government rotting away in full view of everyone just a block from where all the rules of Ohio were made.  And nobody was doing anything about it.  He was violating public decency standards.  He was probably violating many drug laws.  But he was a person of color, and nobody wanted to be called a racist for pointing out his bad behavior.  So, everyone just ignored him and went about their way.   No doubt, several children that day had their lives ruined by seeing that naked guy on the street corner on a sunny April day in 2024.  With all the grand ideas proposed by many governors over the years, the reality is that the quality of life for people only gets worse the more that the government tries to replace good personal conduct with more laws, which aren’t even enforced a block from where DeWine gave his speech.  And all the people talking about big, fancy ideas in the gallery were already in their cars on their way home, driving past all the problems none had the guts to deal with.  Which is how evil works in those kinds of gatherings.  Well-intended people who use the power of government to do what they lack as people, and it migrated into society to show itself in that homeless guy so disconnected from reality he was nude on a street corner in the capital of Ohio, which should be a showpiece of excellence.  The Statehouse certainly lives up to the lofty expectations.  But the people in it, inhabiting it, don’t.  And they hide their lack of courage behind procedures and fancy speeches.  Yet they always fall short because their minds aren’t up to the task, and they don’t have the guts to increase their intellect where they can help people like that guy instead of making more of them by default. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Eclipse of 2024 in Ohio: When immortality is observed in all its magnificance

I’ve seen eclipses before, but this one in 2024 was different, especially since it was close to where I live in Liberty Township, Ohio.  The totality band was going to be very nearby, so once we received a decent weather report and had the exact path agreed upon by analysis, we found a good RV campsite in Rossburg, Ohio, to set up a base and make a real thing of it.  My crew is very interested in those things, and it certainly made a difference that all three of my grandchildren are inclined toward intelligent things. Even at age seven, one of them is showing a Thomas Edison level of genius, so we wanted to make this a unique experience for them.  Plus, getting out the campers after a hard winter was a chance to stretch our legs a bit.  For an eclipse, the event was scheduled to occur between 1 and 5 PM on April 8th, with the totality of darkness happening around 3:07 PM.  So rather than wait in some parking lot for that specific event, we took our homes on the road and were very relaxed.  So relaxed that we stayed at that campsite for a good part of the week.  It was also my birthday on the 9th so we made quite a thing of it.  We got up on the morning of the 8th, ready for a front-row seat of a great celestial anomaly.  We didn’t have to get up and go anywhere to observe it, so already that was a good thing.  We had a nice breakfast at our campsite, the kids played fervently, and the adults had some raw downtime to talk in ways there was never time for, so we had a very nice experience. 

It was worth it; by the time the moon had blocked the sun 100%, there was a nice halo ring around the celestial bodies that blocked out most of the light from the sun, and the stars came out.  On all horizons, it looked like a sunset for about 50 miles in every direction.  But directly over our heads, it was essentially night.  I put a video up with speed advanced to see that narrow 4-minute period where day became night, and we had two sunsets on the same day.  That particular part of the world is indeed in God’s country. Our campsite was in a flat open area with no trees close, and our campers were essentially pointed in the direction of the whole event as if it were a giant IMAX screen put there for our entertainment.  For a last-minute campsite, the one in Rossburg was fantastic.  It had a couple of lakes with fish and a beach for the kids to play in, which was quite nice.  And for four minutes of totality, everyone could geek out on science and optimally enjoy the eclipse.  All my kids would be lucky to ever see an eclipse like that again in their lives, and we were happy to have the chance to share it together.  Life has so many moving pieces, and getting so many people together to do something like this is hard.  And the celestial show did not let us down.  Even I found the whole thing to be a bit of a miracle and a sensational opportunity to study science in the field and contemplate larger concepts.  The little kids, my grandchildren, were overwhelmed with the spectacle, which is what we wanted for them, and it was obvious that interests were sparked in them at that moment that would last a lifetime.

During the totality, I couldn’t help but think of Tecumseh when he famously predicted an eclipse and an earthquake along the New Madrid Faultline by St. Lewis.  I also thought of all the conspiracy theories that had led up to the eclipse as people tried to make sense of such a meaningful event to human minds.  For instance, why were their ten towns named after the Biblical Nineveh along the path of the totality in North America?  Did many of the Masons who organized these towns initially know this eclipse would happen mathematically, and they set fate to play host to some celestial significance rooted in ancient astrological belief systems?  What role did this particular eclipse play in Jewish rituals, and how planned were they for this event in 2024?  And what results were produced by the particle collider at CERN, which was supposed to have gone off at that exact moment of the totality band in America?  All that was playing in my mind as we watched the eclipse unfold.  Yet, for me, it looked purely like a regional thing.  We had gone to that location because at home, even though home wasn’t very far away compared to other places that we’ve gone, the whole experience was a regional one.  Obviously, celestial observers witnessing events discussed in the Bible would only be important to those experiencing even the most dramatic events.  Most people in the world wouldn’t even notice that there was an eclipse at all.  The sun would dim a bit, and if you didn’t have special glasses to look at it, you would not see the moon passing in front of it.  And wouldn’t even know what was happening, if anything at all. 

The world did not end, and after that event, I continued to think about how humans bring meaning to natural occurrences to attempt to understand the cosmic significance.  As creatures of nature, we tend to do that, where nature happens, and people may observe it, but the importance may not have any significance other than three celestial bodies interacting with each other, the sun, the moon, and the earth relative to their positions.  Suppose anybody hung around long enough over billions of years. In that case, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with a neighboring galaxy, and there will be all kinds of disruptive, likely destructive, celestial events on a grand, epic scale.  This eclipse was a regional thing that had harmless consequences and reminded all the humans watching it, that there was a lot more to existence that they needed to understand.  And that they attempted to bring meaning to the passage of the moon in front of the sun in very specific places in North America was an interesting observation of relativity, but not much else.  But humans have minds, and they think and observe. So many stories came to their minds saying that they were doing what nature intended them to do, to take nature and make meaningful the occurrences in a way that shapes necessity in interesting ways.  The ability to think was the most miraculous event that day, to see a celestial event and to bring human meaning to it as a greater cosmic significance.  We certainly enjoyed it; we wanted all the kids to have something important to think about and see as gloriously as possible.  And to create memories that would last for years, even longer.  There would be more eclipses, not in that part of the world, but they would happen.  But they would never occur under that collection of circumstances ever again, where meaning was created by the minds observing it.  And what is born of that meaning is better than nature for its own sake and is the stuff that makes immortality such a grand word.

Rich Hoffman

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The Chinese Communism of Godzilla X Kong: Their anti-capitalist messages are obvious and dangerous to our youth

I was happy to have the chance to take my family to the new movie Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire.  That’s what movies are all about, that film.  Fun, adventurous, made for a big screen with the lights turned out and lots of popcorn to eat.  For my grandkids, they’ll say that this new Godzilla movie was their favorite movie ever.  And why not, from their perspective?  For what it was, this new Godzilla movie with King Kong was a classic, fun film, and to have an experience like that with my family is a treasure beyond average measures.  However, I am not at all happy with the Chinese ownership of Legendary Studios because there is a lot more behind the scenes that indicates a pro-communist message that cannot be ignored.  I’ve discussed it before, returning to an early entry in these Godzilla/Kong movies with Skull Island.  Under the Chinese owners, they took the raw and crazy primitive humans from Skull Island and turned them into wise natives living in harmony with nature.  A strategy that the Chinese have utilized on many fronts to promote anti-capitalist sentiment and advance their brand of communism to the rest of the world by attaching that message to young people who would grow up to accept such notions.  So, over time, the way that the native inhabitants of Skull Island have been viewed has changed from a Western position to a far Eastern one.  And under Legendary Studios, there was undoubtedly politics behind the message.  Was it too much for a movie like this?  I don’t think it ruins it completely.  But it is undoubtedly something to notice and understand what and why it’s happening.  It’s always great to watch giant monsters destroy significant human landmarks.  But, under Chinese ownership of Hollywood studios, we can’t ignore what they are trying to do under the soft sell of a monster movie intended for children. 

Featured in this movie, and introduced in the first Godzilla v. Kong movie, is the last of her race, a little girl from the Iwi tribe who can talk to the giant ape with sign language because she is also deaf.  She’s a friendly kid and a likable character, and taking it alone isn’t a big deal of conspiracy. But, the way the Iwi are portrayed in Godzilla X Kong is pretty ridiculous, tapping into this notion that I see quite often in the markets of mysticism and New Age mentality, where ancient cultures like Atlantis and Lemuria had it all together and were far superior to modern humans because they lived in harmony with nature, and now we have lost all that to our detriment.  And that lost in the core of the Earth is the lost tribe of the Iwi, this little girl’s ancestors who keep all these things balanced with nature as if nature had a logic far superior to the human race.   They even went so far in this movie to indicate that this lost wisdom allowed the descendants of the Iwi to make the giant pyramids we see on earth today by moving rocks around through gravity manipulation by working with nature, not against it.  The science presented in Godzilla X Kong is essentially the agenda for any climate summit of progressive radicalism seen anywhere in the world, from Dubai to Rio and all fancy vacation destinations in general, and is grotesquely out of step with reality.   But they figure that in a world where education is so poor and people so gullible to the truth, why not present such things as facts?

I like the old versions of Skull Island, not just in the 1933 original King Kong movie but also in Peter Jackson’s 2005 movie with the same title.  The way the West sees natives is great.  But the way communists see natives is not.  There is a political agenda to indicate that the collective notions of complete submission to authority rule are superior.  In the case of the communists, and as shown in Godzilla X Kong, there is a kind of queen of the tribe that represents complete submission of individual will toward the collective group as the ideal society.  Whereas in the classic versions of the Skull Island inhabitants, they were shown to be cannibals and primitive beyond help.  It was a tragedy in those films to sacrifice a pretty woman to the beast to appease their god, hoping to leave them alone.  Such ignorance was looked down upon.  But not in these modern Legendary Studios monster movies.  Complete irreverence to individuality is their goal, not a matter of terror.  Of course, the message is not hidden; communist governments want to sell to the public the benefit of being submissive toward centralized government at the cost of all individuality.  In the end, the message of these modern monster movies is that all the great things humans have built, like the city of Rome and the pyramids at Giza, can quickly be brought down by these giant monsters.  And they are acts of nature meant to be submitted to, not fought against.  So why bother?  The human race’s efforts are discouraged in these movies, and we discover that even with all our technology, we were never in charge, so most of our efforts were wasted from the start.  The Iwi tribe always had it right. 

Of course, that is all wrong, and so long as we look at these things with the kind of reverence that we would a show like Gilligan’s Island, this is harmless entertainment.  But never mistake the Chinese government’s purposeful intentions in buying Hollywood studios and their desire to capture the message given to us in a darkened theater and kids too young to know any better.  We should not have allowed the Chinese to buy up so much of our American assets, especially in entertainment.  If ancient cultures had it all together, they wouldn’t have gone extinct, such as Atlantis, and other societies would have long been wiped away.  I think there was a lot lost in the past, but politically, the cause wasn’t more collectivist behavior but in less of it.  In any society that turns toward centralized government to alleviate their fears of the unknown.  That looks to be the cause of much of the trouble in the past and in what has been lost and found again time and time over.  It is not the reverse, as presented in these Legendary Studio movies.  In truth, there is a lot of archaeology that needs to be done in China, but under their closed system of communist tyranny, that isn’t even on the table.  So who are they to say anything about ancient cultures but to feed the pot-smoking belief that the hippies of history knew more than our greedy capitalists of the modern world about how to live within its rules and regulations?  But they say it anyway to poison our youth with ideas of ideal society run by communist governments, even as those communist governments sit on some of the most fascinating ancient monuments in the history of the world. It is concealed behind a veil of communism to analyze the outside world.  And the understanding only free people can interpret.  But that’s a story for another day. 

Rich Hoffman

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Puff Daddy and the Rap Music Industry of Marxism and Mayhem: They always intended to destroy American culture

Whatever they call him, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, or whatever it is that the famous rap star is in trouble with, it’s not that the music industry is saturated with sex trafficking and child molesters that is the problem.  Everyone knows what Puff Daddy has been up to, and loose sex with lots of crazy women and underage kids is part of their lifestyle. The record industry has made a lot of money over the years, pandering to the worst of the human race, the typical losers who used to worship Baal in the Bible and sacrifice their firstborn children in trade for sex and glory.  If Puff Daddy is in trouble now, it’s likely because he has fallen out of favor and he’s being offered as a sacrifice to the gods of chaos by a corrupt FBI trying to appear like they are doing their job in an election year where they are trying to divert attention from President Biden, the inserted president, not the elected one.  No, the worst thing about this recent story is the origin of rap music to begin with, as a deliberate attack on American culture by Marxists looking to undermine our culture through the inner cities and to make ground troops out of the discontent with a communist revolution.  Don’t ever forget that Black Lives Matter was a Marxist organization that many corporations openly embraced.   But not before the rap music scene came along to pave the way for that nonsense and guilt people into believing they had to embrace that hate music to prove that they weren’t racists left over from the Civil War.  Also, never forget the Republican Party was created to end racism, and it was the Democrats who fought that effort, a mistake that would hurt them until they tried to use the Civil Rights Movement during the communist 60s to rebrand their image. 

People who are not very well educated in history have let pop music define their political parameters, so they have no context.  But the truth is, rap music was introduced to American music to destroy our culture and usher communism into communities of color to rot us from the inside out.  And Puff Daddy and all his other child-molesting rap buddies, like the dope smoker Snoop Dogg and even the whitewash sucker Eminem and the Beastie Boys, were creations of the music industry meant to be weapons of destruction to rot the minds of the youth and turn them against the culture of their parents for the destruction of America as a nation.  It was just one aspect of the globalist plans to attack America without tanks and troops and instead attack the minds of the youth so they wouldn’t be able to defend their culture from those vile enemies beyond our shores, let in by finance who promoted the effort.  What?  Do you think all those great Motown hits disappeared overnight?  Think of all those great songs that came from Detroit record labels.  Are we to believe they all disappeared during the 1990s only to be replaced by these losers, Puff Daddy and the gangster rappers of hate and destruction daring us to call them out for their blatant racism baited through politics to paralyze judgment and promote a drug-induced society of criminals and cop-hating thugs.  Is anybody surprised that Puff Daddy is in trouble or that the law is being selectively enforced?  Or was he allowed to break the law to get the goods on compromised people attending his parties for extortion rackets later? 

The damage is already obvious, I was at Liberty Center, Ohio a very nice shopping complex recently enjoying a nice day with my family.  And while in the food court was a bunch of thugs obviously raised on rap music using horrendous language and treating each other like gangs from the video game Grand Theft Auto.  And they didn’t care who heard them or what anybody thought of their social conduct.  They were obvious Lakota school students and they looked like they belonged in a music video for Puff Daddy.  I’ve warned everyone if you don’t run these losers out of these shopping complexes, then the same fate that happened to Forest Fair Mall, and Tri-County Mall will happen to Liberty Center.  Nice moms and family people don’t want to share space with these gangster rappers and their bad conduct.  They will just stop going to such places.  They don’t want to hear the bad language and witness the sorry attitudes and they will find alternatives.  Everyone has to understand that those kids were taught to be that way by Marxist elements of our culture.  It has nothing to do with racism.  If it did, then the Republican Party would be the refuge for all such discussions.  Instead, the American way of life has been under attack by the music industry to make such kids weapons of their war against America.  And instead of drafting our children into service to defend our country from the communists, the communists have drafted our kids through music to kill the concept of family.  And in so doing, to destroy the foundation of American life, the youth of tomorrow.  Those young Lakota kids have been radicalized to be weaponized terrorists against good people.  And that was the purpose of Puff Daddy and his FBI, CIA friends who empowered him.  They knew what they were doing all along.  They knew about the young girls, and the sex trafficking.  Heck, they helped facilitate the crimes, until it was to their advantage to cash in their investment and throw Puff Daddy under the bus.

If it was just about making money, the music industry would still be making music like they did with Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, and Prince.  Marxists infiltrated the music industry purposely to weaponize it, and Puff Daddy was one of those weapons.  And they used him until they wanted to close up a loop in their story.  Puff Daddy was a creation of those who hated America, as the entire rap culture was.  It was intended to destroy a whole generation with victimized sentiments and attempt to assign to mainstream America all the sins of the Democrat Party leading up to the Civil War.  And like the mechanisms of evil everywhere, the devil lies to all and twists the words of fate to their advantage to souls entirely too trusting.  And while we accepted this rap culture to erase away sins the Democrats caused, they used that guilt to destroy our nation’s youth with gangster rap that only now people see the proper strategy, entirely too late.  And think of all the poor kids who have had their lives destroyed by Puff Daddy and his friends of malcontents.  Rap music wasn’t created as a free market necessity but as political activism by Marxists looking to steer more losers toward the Democrat Party to keep themselves in power while trying to erase their guilt in the process.  And while kids were distracted by easy sex, drugs, and anti-American culture, the true motives were shaping our political world for the worse.  And Puff Daddy was just one of the losers; the record industry itself was ripe for the corruption it unleashed.  And the weapon of war was guilt; if they could make us feel shame, just like those dumb Lakota kids at Liberty Center, nobody would do anything about it.  And allow them to destroy our culture to prove they weren’t racists.  Meanwhile, massive numbers of underaged kids have had their lives ruined forever by these destructive rap stars and their record producers.  And only now is the whole destruction apparent to see, making it necessary for us to judge once and for all. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Lords of Easy Money Are Trying To Keep Biden in Power: We should have never created the Federal Reserve

I told everyone many months ago that the Lords of Easy Money were corrupt, and more to the point, the entire purpose of our present government is to make them money.  The Jekyll Island experiment with the Federal Reserve was a dumb idea when it was conceived in 1913, and now, after more than a century of its sheer stupidity, we are seeing the net result of its massive failure.  It is not a failure for them, but for the people the government is supposed to serve.  Not having a firm grasp of our financial system has been a terrible idea, and a group of private bankers running the whole show with globalism in mind has had the predicted results that many people have warned about for decades.  And we aren’t just talking about quantitative easing anymore, with bizarre communist Keynesian economics driving this mess; it’s complete on Modern Monetary Theory, just what they said they weren’t doing, they have been, since Biden took office under a stolen election—stolen, for just this precise reason, to make people under the influence of the Federal Reserve wealthy.  Not just by printing fake money leveraged heavily in debt spending, but in flat-out market manipulation, by dumping vast amounts of counterfeit money into Wall Street, propping up everyone’s 401K plans with dreams built on a wet paper napkin, and nothing else.  To keep the scam running, they must hold power through stolen elections and complete control over centralized banking.  Otherwise, it all falls apart for them.  Our monetary policy has been constructed around this kind of hostage holding, where if we check their power, they will just kill the patient, and poof, there goes all that fake 401K money and any hopes that millions of people have for a sustainable retirement. 

So, of course, they have been lying about the economy, trying to make Bidenomics appear like a boom when, in fact, we have been in a legitimate depression.  The cost of goods is out of control; if you haven’t bought a hamburger at Burger King lately, you couldn’t help but notice.  The cost of everything has gone up to extraordinarily high rates, including labor.  The tampering with the wage rates of minimum wage workers has screwed up everything; then, to make matters worse, they tried to hide their communist mess with fake money printed by the Fed to stave off the inevitable.  And they’ve managed to keep interest rates down for several sessions now but are leaning toward lowering them in June to juice the economy over the summer and hope that people won’t take their pain out on Biden, who was the cause of the terrible economy.  They create a few more worthless government jobs here and there and call it economic growth.  They print some money and flow it through Larry Fink directly, and Vanguard, State Street, and the rest of them, and everyone looks at the Dow hitting close to 40,000, and they hope it holds.  But it’s all built on phony government, phony media, phony money, and phony people empowered by a Federal Reserve that grew too drunk on its power and ability to manipulate the public.  And now it’s too late to fix.  And to keep the scam going, they need Joe Biden to stay in office. Otherwise, Trump is poised to take a wrecking ball to their scam.  By opening the doors to the economy and taking power away from the globalists, the leverage of the few against the many goes away.  The economy under a free market would be much more powerful.  The poor handling of it is because the Fed, under corrupt presidents like Obama and Biden, attached to international central banks, held the economy down for their quests for power.  And they will do anything to keep that power they never should have had in the first place. 

Because the Fed printed too much money chasing too few goods due to a throttled economy caused by them, we have massive inflation, evident when you buy a Whopper at Burger King or any other fast food restaurant.  Or take a trip to the grocery.  Our government, led by the Fed, which never should have been created, has screwed up everything, and to hide it while they tamper and plot in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, each year, they prop up losers like Biden to sit in the White House to keep them in power.  So, of course, they are covering for him by keeping interest rates low when they should be raising them to deal with inflation so that the reality of the actual economic depravity won’t hit most Americans until after the election is over.  With all the horrible policies of the Biden administration with EV cars, the war against fossil fuels, which is purely a socialist European thing, and the flooded border with immigrant turbulence flooding our welfare system with a Clowerd and Piven strategy met to destroy our financial network, the Fed is helping Biden out for just long enough to hope that Americans elect him through a slightly less stolen election this time.  Just long enough to keep their people in the White House and to keep the public from coming for the perpetrators in the Federal Reserve and their globalist infiltrators with all the anger that is deserved.

When Trump is president again, and it will take more than four years to pull off, we can’t fix a century of bad economic policy in just a few short years; we will have to rethink our Federal Reserve system completely.  Everything is on the table, especially the progressive tax system implemented around the same time.  At this point, we have to look at the creation of the Federal Reserve as an invasion of America’s financial system, something that is just as valuable as any hard-target military objective.  The people behind the creation of the Federal Reserve wanted control of our government and our country, and they have plunged us all into global central bankers in ways that have been hostile to our nation and the people it is supposed to serve.  Instead, these fools think they are aristocrats, and we are their subjects, and they think we are so stupid that we can’t see what they have been doing to us.  The ultimate crime is covering up poor performance, which the Biden administration is most guilty of.  But more than that, it’s been years of poor-performing economies that the Federal Reserve has tampered with to benefit globalists.  The Lords of Easy Money never thought they’d get caught.  They thought they could hide their crimes behind fancy talk and a manipulated media of whores who would do anything to carry their water just to be invited to the next Wall Street party.  But without the corruption of the Fed, many on Wall Street would be broke and beggars on the street.  Only in their unholy alliance with the Fed do they have any power at all or political influence.  And to keep that power, they will do anything, the least of which is to artificially hold down interest rates, hoping to outlast fate before all these crimes catch them with the next Trump administration, which will make President Jackson’s war on the banks look like a trip through Kindergarten. 

Rich Hoffman

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Democrats Have a Major Engagement Problem: It’s all catching up to them

How sure am I about President Trump’s strength in this upcoming election?  Well, it’s a simple math problem.  The traditional way of looking at things is in a panic because they know.  And for all those people I have been telling for four years that there was massive election fraud in 2020 and that Biden was illegally put into office, making everything he has touched all this time completely illegal, the proof they have been looking for is about to take place.  Because they know, they know what they did.  And so do many others.  But you don’t have to take it from me.  The facts are the facts, and everyone knows it.  Democrats have an engagement problem, which is one of the many reasons they are scrambling for voters now at the last minute with illegal immigration.  They have lost the inner city vote.  They have lost the panicky suburbanite moms.  They have lost the immigrant vote.  Biden has been so bad. Obama was also horrible during his third term behind Biden that the Democrat brand is now associated with outright communism.  And people don’t want it or like it.  And they aren’t excited about voting for it.  So without massive election fraud, like they had when they took power in 2020 under the ruse of Covid, Democrats know they have significant problems.  The media has been trying to keep it close because they desperately want the ad revenue.  We don’t want everyone getting cocky and not participating in this 2024 election, assuming that everything will be alright.  But if voter engagement stays high, and Trump gets another 75 million votes, which he can easily do, the Democrats won’t be able to keep up in this one.  They are in for a very sharp punch in the stomach, much deserved.

But Trump is only up by 4 to 6 in the Battlegrounds?  You might say.  In some polls, Biden wins by a few.  No, that’s all smoke and mirrors designed to sell political ads and keep the race close so people pump their billions of dollars into the Fox News life stream, the horse race of politics.  If you go out and poll 1500 likely voters, you are expected to get close results.  But we aren’t dealing with potential voters in this presidential race.  This is all about those who usually don’t vote, who are willing to crawl through broken glass naked to vote for President Trump, which I think will be a number closer to 80 million people.  And the Democrats will be hard-pressed to break into the 60 million range.  It’s just math; they don’t have it on their side, even with isolated cheating.  And they won’t be able to duplicate the level of cheating that has kept it close for them this time because of how outrageous it was during the last.  When Obama was running during both terms, he could not break out of the 60 million range, and many of those voters now find themselves to blame for many things in the world.  So, they are not exactly excited to vote.  Biden has been so horrible even The Rock is pulling back his endorsement because this current monstrosity has been horrible for business, the Democrat platform.  Oh, how about those gas prices and those EV mandates?  People are still sick of COVID-19 vaccine mandates imposed by a Biden executive order.  The embarrassment on the world stage.  The projection of weakness.  The corruption of the Biden family in general.  Biden has been horrendous, but that’s what happens when someone cheats to win, gets put on the stage, and nobody remembers voting for him, so they are already critical.  Then, it all starts to add up. 

There are a lot of people who can’t wait to vote for President Trump again, especially after all these court cases.  Democrats have made it personal, and people want to punch them back.  And all these criminals in government should consider themselves very lucky that most Americans are so fair, willing to live within the confines of the Constitution and punch back with a vote rather than violence.  These news shows claim the opposite who are in a total meltdown know better.  They all have it coming because of what they did and conspired to do.  When they get paid back, they deserve it, and then some.  However, many people are ready to vote for Trump to get that vote.  Biden has many people hiding because of their guilt in a string of crimes they assume would never catch up to them.  But it has.  All these years, we have assumed that there was a 50/50 split in America, where both sides were happy about their person running for office and that they would equally show up and vote on election day, making polling somewhat relevant if you could get a statistical sampling of “likely” voters.  But not this time.  This election is all about engagement and which side has more of it.  And because of the way that Democrats have been caught lying, stealing, and cheating in every way that they could, they don’t have much support except for the toxic communists who know this is their chance at revolution.  Everyone else, the idealists, the college kids, the perpetually scared suburbanite housewives who won’t let their kid leave the driveway without a Band-Aid for every scratch, nick, and bruise, are not excited about putting their name next to Joe Biden.  Some might vote anyway, but they aren’t motivated to do so.

That’s usually how it is at sporting events, where all fans enter a stadium excited about how their team might play.  But at the end of the game, when the score is 35 to nothing, people either leave to go back to their cars, happy or sad.  And when your team loses, and you have blown $500 on snacks and souvenirs, you feel terrible.  That is how Democrats are feeling right now, deep in their gut.  They studied these communist revolutions worldwide and saw how they did it, and they have tried it here in the United States.  But too many people were free.  Too many people have guns.  Too many people run their own businesses.  Too many people have access to too much information.  And there has never been someone as self-made as President Trump willing to pledge his fame and fortune to the cause of freedom.  So, the whole house of cards that the Democrats have built for global communism has fallen apart.  And people can’t wait to see it.  They can’t wait to vote against Joe Biden and the third term of the domestic terrorist, Barack Obama.  If the polling does not favor Biden, then it will not get better when actual people vote.  Because there are a lot of elements that polling doesn’t capture that will come into play.  And that is essential engagement; for Republicans, it will be very high.  For Democrats, it is low because they are the losing team, and people are not excited about the brand.  All they have is fear; most people aren’t afraid of them.  So they don’t even have that to drive people to vote.  So, Democrats have a big, massive problem.  And they deserve all the punishment coming to them, and then some.

Rich Hoffman

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Kimonos in Japan: If America wants to be Great Again, perhaps we should dress for that greatness

You might have heard about Jimmy Kimmel’s recent trip to Japan, a topic of its own.  But he is right about several things: Japan is clean, and crime is low.  He didn’t understand why, which I’ll break down in a separate article.  However, one thing that is quite clear that I admire about the Japanese people quite a lot is their embrace of their traditional culture and their kimono dress.  I, too, was recently in Japan. I’ve been there a few times during this year, so I am very familiar with some of the unique customs that they have there.  However, during this most recent trip, I saw quite a lot of Kyoto on a Thursday afternoon and for an extended period, and I was surprised by how they dressed.  Most of the people I encountered there were walking around the streets, the temples, and the bamboo forest in full kimonos, both men and women.  And there were rental shops everywhere that kimonos could be rented to wear around town.  It wasn’t a samurai cosplay convention, which was what I thought was going on.  This was how people dressed all the time, and it was very refreshing to see.  It reminded me of something I have been saying all the time, that in America, we need to embrace more of our traditions.  While in Japan, I fully expressed American culture, which they appreciated.  In America, I tend to wear a poncho to my gun competitions and other Second Amendment activities, the kind of Western wear that is very traditional to Western expansion and hard, cold nights on the open ranges next to campfires.   I have several of them, and when I wear them, I always get a lot of strange looks.  But I don’t think they should be considered strange at all.  And when I dressed that way to go out to the store in the middle of the night outside my hotel in Kobe, nobody in Japan thought it was strange at all. 

I had a few ponchos in Japan which I like to put on instead of a jacket, especially in inclement weather.  It’s like having a wrap-around blanket without worrying about it falling off your shoulders, so it frees up your arms underneath.  It’s suitable for short-term warmth without messing around with a cumbersome jacket.  And I like that a poncho hides a lot of what you might not want people to see, such as the many knives and guns that I carry all the time.  With concealed carry across multiple states, it is better to hide the big stuff with very baggy clothing instead of trying to contain the weapons in modern-day America’s conventional dress.  In Japan, their reverence for history, especially in their samurai culture, is unmistakable, and they openly embrace it, which I thought was very classy.  It was nice to see the women dressing up in these classic robes to go shopping and be seen around town.  And the men dressed similarly to accompany them.  Instead of being repealed by the display of my own dress, a few times on this latest trip, as I wore my poncho down to the local store to pick up supplies, people wanted to take a picture next to me in my boots, poncho, and Stetson cowboy hat to show they had met a “real American.”  And they were pleased about it.  As they snapped their pictures with me, I couldn’t help but think of one of my favorite quotes from the Dune books: “How else do humans invent the traps that betray us into mediocrity?” 

Mediocrity is what we have adopted in our modern Western cultures, with our associations with communism introduced through our education system.  They have rejected this mediocrity primarily in Japan due to their reverence for traditional values.  But in America, these days, we have associated fashion with an alliance with sportswear.  Nike, Adidas, and other brands seen from college sports programs have largely inspired our public presentation of ourselves.  These days, the idea of proper dress on casual Fridays is a golf shirt that shows we are interested in sports programs.  That is something that they don’t do as much in Japan.  They love sports, especially baseball, but they don’t go out of their way to show reverence for it out of disrespecting their traditional cultures.  But in America, we want to look like the coaches and players of our sports teams, which behind them have all kinds of corporate communism attached to them.  So, our American dress has shifted from individual expressions of a rugged outdoorsman to billboards for corporate influence over our sporting markets.  And the not-so-subtle message there is to accept that individuals are less important than the team’s greater good.  And, of course, behind that is that communism defines the greater good.  So, wearing a cowboy hat in America is quite a statement.  More people are doing it now than they used to, mainly because of the popular Yellowstone television show and the failed politics of the communist left.  People want to make America great again, and like the Japanese, they are turning to traditional dress to convey that trait.  But in America, our dress directly influences our society’s condition. 

I have always worn a cowboy hat.  But over the years, I have been less inclined toward sporting goods fashion trends in favor of my traditional gunslinger apparel.  I’ve been that way for many years.  I remember many late-night encounters in my twenties where I would wear my ponchos everywhere, including the Kenwood Mall in Cincinnati.  It’s one thing to do when you are in your 50s, as I am now.  But when you are in your 20s, many people look at you weird because you are so out of step with mainstream culture.  But it’s always been a visual hedge against mediocrity, which is how I view modern dress codes, and I largely reject the premise.  A culture should strive to stand out from the crowd in everything, individually.  Not to retreat into submission to the mob.  In Japan, particularly Kyoto and even Tokyo, even though the kimonos are uniformly similar in their loose-fitting robes, they are colorful and full of individualized expression.  I thought that seeing that expression was wonderful and was a major contributor to the quality of their society.  I had a chance to eat at a very nice restaurant in Kyoto with some friends.  It was a classic place; most people wore kimonos, and you had to take off your shoes while eating.  It had a spectacular garden to walk in while you waited for your food, and they provided you with slippers to do so.  I stepped into that place, mostly having to duck because the ceiling was low, and the whole place was primarily made of paper and wood.  They gave me a very large locker for my big cowboy boots, which is what they do when you enter to put your shoes in while you eat, but I still wore my cowboy hat.  And they took notice of it.  But it wasn’t in a “you’re not like us” way.  But rather, a respect for the culture that I came from.  And they were proud of their culture.  And what we all shared was a disrespect for sameness as defined by communism and an embrace of versatility as defined by capitalist markets.  They brought us mostly raw fish and vegetables, certainly not chicken nuggets as I might otherwise be used to in the States.  But it was a good look into a culture that embraced their uniqueness and certainly wasn’t shying away from their projection to the rest of the world.  And if America wants to be Great Again.  Perhaps we should start dressing for that greatness instead of playing everything down to some corporate version of casual and accepting sameness as a value rather than uniqueness. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Communist Left is in a Panic Because Trump Doubled His Wealth: Why capitalism always beats communism

In the rock, paper, scissors game of life, capitalism beats communism 100% of the time.  It doesn’t matter that the world has been taught communism in their universities, public schools, and government centers of inefficiency.  When in direct competition with capitalist elements of any society, communism always loses.  So, as we prepare to become a space-fairing species as if we ever stopped being one, capitalism should be at the center of every culture that participates.  And there was never a more obvious example of this than in the battle to destroy President Trump by the SWAMP gas of the communist left of the Washington D.C. beltway culture.  They planned to bankrupt Trump with a bunch of corrupt courts and leftist judges and keep him from being able to run for President of the United States by the fall of 2024.  In the minds of the “left,” the political affiliates of Karl Marx, Trump would be serving 700 years in jail, have all his vast assets confiscated by the state, and his family would be broke and begging on the street.  That was their American-hating fantasy.  But what ended up happening was that President Trump, to defend his right to free speech, started Truth Social, and his total wealth value doubled to a present level of over 6 billion dollars. This infused Trump with more cash to fight all these Marxist criminal cases and took the air completely out of the plans of his political enemies, who are also our political enemies, and they are pretty desperate now.  They bet everything on this plan, and now it’s falling apart in front of their faces, as I said all along that it would.  Even a few months ago, when people said that Trump was done for in politics, I reminded them that he was far from finished.  And that he was going to win and win big.  Because capitalism always beats communism, and by the time all this work against him was done, the communist left would bankrupt itself in a way they would never recover.  Everybody laughed.

But news report after news report showed the anxiety of those who had bought into different levels of communism injected into American life, in a panic over their entire political philosophy falling apart right in front of their faces.  Where they thought the New York court cases were the end of Trump and that Trump Tower was going to be confiscated by the state, the opposite happened.  And there was plenty of desperation to go around on their part.  But America was set up so that people like President Trump could exist.  I gave an excellent little talk this past week to a group of people after I read the book about Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, which I thought was astonishingly good, and I compared it to the Trump book The Art of the Comeback which I have been saying was the guidebook for the 2024 election.  If you want to know what Trump will do next, it’s all in that book published in the 1990s.  But the point of my talk, which I told them was likely the most crucial thing anybody would ever tell them, was that while how we measure wealth might change, the creation of it still has some essential ingredients that are important to the human race.  Wealth creation, specifically capitalist systems, requires the propensity of the human race to create new things out of risk.  To take chances.  And when you hit it big, the win may be celebrated differently.  Back in the 1990s, Trump was all about supermodels, fast cars, and tall buildings made of gold.  Elon Musk in 2024 has some compelling pictures of his most valued treasures on the covers of his book, one showing Starship stacking on SuperHeavy.  Then, on the back cover is a Tesla factory with a robot working in a nice, clean facility.  Both examples show the company’s success and how the people behind the enterprise measured that success.  But what made that success was always a risk and the ability to manage it for the betterment of all. 

Communist systems are all about averting risk.  They are the antithesis of creation.  It takes risk to do anything, so when you take the risk out of life, you take away the creation of things that are positive for the human race, which is why communist cultures, such as China, Cuba, Iran, and other places, are hellholes that depend on stealing from rich countries to sustain themselves.  That is why governments have to have massive taxes; they exist in at-risk environments that must be subsidized off the looted wealth of productive people who take many risks.  The more tolerance for risk a person had, and the better they managed it, the more successful they were.  Of course, those who don’t like risk and want a mother government to take it out of their lives will resent those who can handle it.  But what leverage can they inject into the world if they don’t bring any real value to an enterprise?  While the displays between the way Elon Musk displays his wealth as one of the world’s wealthiest people and President Trump may be different, it is similar to how they can handle more risk than others and use that trait to improve the world.

That was the swagger President Trump brought to his court cases.  When he was being hit from all sides by the communist left, he had the thought to use his money to start his own social media company, and I am proud to say that I was one of the first few hundred to sign up for it, which is how I was able to get my actual name in my username, @rhoffman.  And when Truth Social went public in March of 2024, it gave Trump access to plenty of cash to deal with all these pesky communists.   Trump could have spent these last few years working to be the wealthiest man in the world if he wanted to.  Instead, he doubled his billionaire status enough to stay alive for this presidential race, and the communists, because they count on systems to protect them from risk, were no match for someone very successful in managing risk and thrived in that environment.  This is why communism will never beat capitalism, even as much as the fantasy might wish such a condition to be so.  That’s why Karl Marx died broke.  That’s why the movement of Freemasonry in Europe failed to inject the entire world with socialism; group affiliations were intended to disguise people’s aversion to risk.  But it is always the risk-takers who succeed in life.  And there are always people who instead take risks to live the safe life of bootlicking their tribal leader in exchange for food from the confiscated wealth taken by mob rule.  It is that crucial designation that indicates why capitalism will always beat communism and why Trump has succeeded so well against these communist plots against him.  Most good things in life are created by risk, including asking out a pretty girl for a date.  Or driving a car that you just spent all day cleaning up for a night on the town, starting a new company, and making a profit.  People like Trump were successful because of their comfort with risk.  And what they create with that success makes the world a better place.  Which is why he’s winning, and the communist left is losing so spectacularly. 

Rich Hoffman

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