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Elon Musk Has Found His Szechuan Sauce: Turning a One to a Zero

Mar-a-Lago has been the center of American politics, as I said it would be on day one of removing Trump from office in 2021, since then.  And it has replaced the White House as the place to be and do business with America.  But what I never thought would happen would be that I would ever see Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world and poised to become the first trillionaire, sitting at the big kid’s table on Thanksgiving with the Trump family, President Trump, Barron, and Melania, dancing to the YMCA song.  I thought it was an extraordinary historical event, maybe one of the most significant events ever, and I have seen many things.  For context, this particular Thanksgiving event had been building all this time, since Trump left office, or was pushed out, and was now culminating into this fantastic celebration where so many improbable things emerged in that wonderful moment captured on video with Trump backslapping Musk like a little boy, or dear old friend and having essentially two of the most powerful men in the world be not rivals with each other, but soul mates, and deep friends who know their place in history, and are happy about it.  These kinds of things never go together, and if Trump had not taken that bullet to the face and lived, this Thanksgiving celebration never would have happened.  It only happens in cases such as when Jesus Christ was killed and came back to have dinner with his disciples, a kind of post-death celebration of eternal life.  This is the best Trump we could have hoped to have gotten, and it came with so many improbable resolutions that the world is uniting around Trump for all the reasons that they were all so wrong.  Suddenly, everything reversed course and swung in the other direction.

As I watched Elon Musk sitting there obviously enjoying his newly adopted father, which is what Trump has become to him over these last few months, I was thinking of a Rick and Morty episode that I like a lot where the character Rick Sanchez destroys the entire Federation Government by changing a 1 to a 0 in their galactic financial markets just because Rick wanted to get the dipping sauce from McDonald’s that was part of a Mulan promotion called Szechuan Sauce.  I don’t know if Elon Musk is the most intelligent person on earth, the way that the character Rick Sanchez is the most intelligent human being in the entire universe.  I have known people like Elon Musk regarding intelligence, and if they turned the mirror just a little bit, they could be just as wealthy.  Those kinds of social measures do not seem to matter to Elon Musk.  To him, money is just a tool so he can build and do extraordinary things.  And for the MAGA movement, he has become the replacement for George Soros, who used to fund all those left-leaning causes.  Elon Musk, after that assassination attempt, admired Trump so much that his brilliant mind was able to see something emerging that he needed in his life, and that was to overthrow the kind of government that was keeping his SpaceX company from doing what it needed to do, and that is to carry humanity to space.  This transformation with Elon Musk is something I pointed out almost two years ago when I saw his book recommendation for Johan Norberg called The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.  I reviewed that book and pointed out at that time that something compelling was happening when a person like Elon Musk was stepping away from the World Economic Forum and stepping in to open support of global capitalism. 

Everyone disagreed with me, and they wanted to argue about why Trump would never be back in office and that Elon Musk was an asset to China because of his relationship with Tesla, making factories there, and having to dance to the strings of the communist government.  He was also the poster boy for Klaus Schwab at the WEF.  I saw this all happening when I was introduced to Vivek Ramaswamy at an event right before the release of his book, Woke Inc., by the wonderful Nancy Nix, Butler County’s fabulous auditor.  Maybe someday Vivek will tell a story about what we discussed, but even then, it was becoming clear to me where the world was heading, and people with their finger on it, like Trump, Vivek, Musk, and others, were crawling out into the light of day.  Books like Vivek’s and Norberg’s could not be written and not shatter an established order because the only reason that order had power was through deceit.  And now people were talking about these kinds of things.  You never know how little things end up becoming big things.  That’s why you do everything. 

And I was the only one saying that the polls were lying and that Kamala was never ahead.  Only Rasmussen was showing a contrary election that showed that Trump could win.  But I was even more aggressive than them because I looked at a more significant trend that nobody else seemed to see, not even Elon Musk.  But once he did see it, as Trump was nearly assassinated, everything from there just clicked into place, and perhaps the most improbable event in all human history happened on Thanksgiving down at Mar-a-Lago with Musk dancing to the famous YMCA song while sitting next to Trump for Thanksgiving Dinner, 2024.  Musk was happy that he found his Szechuan Sauce.

I know the world will catch up, but nobody will see what has hit them in a few years.  The way all this added up to this Thanksgiving event was a change for the entire human race, and it was so good that it almost made up for all the misery we have experienced over the last 8 years.  The first few years of Trump were great, but we learned many ugly truths about our world and its governments that moved out of conspiracy theory and into observable facts.  It happened fast and will continue to accelerate at a mind-bending pace.  And Musk knows it.  He had been trying to solve this engineering problem: how can you make the human race a space-fairing society?  Well, you have to build a political system that can accommodate it, and first, you have to start with world peace.  How can you do that, support the guy who they were trying to kill, and essentially change a 1 to a 0 and collapse their entire world order so that we can get a colony of over a million people on Mars within a few years?  Musk solved his engineering problem, and he found in Trump precisely what he needed, and he was so happy about it that he hadn’t left Mar-a-Lago since the election of 2024.  While everyone was celebrating, we saw just a glimpse of what the world could be, and it was very positive and happening in such a way that nobody saw it coming.  Except for me, nobody called it the way I did out of all the media markets.  And personally, because of all the grief that I took over everything I had been saying and continue to say, seeing Trump and Musk together on Thanksgiving was the best gift I could have received.  In this case, it’s a gift that keeps on being given.   Musk turned the world from a 1 to a 0.  And I love it!

Rich Hoffman

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Rick and Morty on Adult Swim: The future of a new generation

Watching Bill O’Reilly lately, with his support of Tesla Motors, government bailouts, yet maintaining strong traditional stances against socially downward trends, I had the feeling I’m was watching a generation’s excuses for bringing socialism to America. O’Reilly represents a majority American opinion for those above age 35, which is why he is so popular. However, there is a tremendous undercurrent that is coming under this age barrier and they think radically different from the generation of Bill O’Reilly about most everything. These are people from a generation that does not understand what it meant to have a mother in the home. They had the “state” in charge of most of their education, and they don’t have great prospects for social monetary gains, and they are not particularly happy about it. I associate with these people in gaming circles. They are often Star Wars fans, Doctor Who fans, and they play a lot of video games—hours and hours of video games. They don’t know or care who their politicians are—because they don’t trust them. The system has let them down in every way possible and they are well aware of it. They will likely support Rand Paul for president, but otherwise have quit the real world—because to them—it sucks—and lacks opportunity. They are not like Bill O’Reilly’s generation, and have no desire to be.

Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network traditionally puts out cartoons intended for adults, and it is a favorite channel in my house. Cartoons I find are able to tackle complex adult problems without the pretense of serious drama—so I find them very enjoyable. I was a fan of The Simpsons until the direction of their show moved too far to the political left, I enjoy The Family Guy in spite of their obvious progressivism, and I love Robot Chicken. There is a lot of imagination and creativity in adult oriented cartoons that speak honestly about the direction of human civilization. But I have a new favorite it’s called Rick and Morty and aside from the gaseous expulsion jokes, I absolutely love it.  

Rick and Morty is an American animated television series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon that premiered on December 2, 2013 on Cartoon Network‘s late-night programming block, Adult Swim. Roiland voices the eponymous main characters: Rick, a scientist and alcoholic, and Morty, Rick’s grandson. The series was announced during Adult Swim’s 2012 Upfront presentation, and has been picked up for 10 half-hour episodes; the series has been renewed by Adult Swim for a second season. The show has received critical acclaim.[1]

Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically-gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compounded with Morty’s already unstable family life, these events cause Morty much distress at home and school.

Cast and characters

  • Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland) – A genius scientist whose alcoholic tendencies are the source of concern for his daughter’s family over the safety of their son Morty.
  • Morty Smith (Justin Roiland) – Rick’s good-natured but easily influenced 14-year-old grandson, usually dragged into his misadventures.
  • Jerry Smith (Chris Parnell) – Morty’s insecure father, who strongly disapproves of Rick’s influence over his son. His marriage is jeopardized by Jerry’s poor relationship with father-in-law Rick. Jerry works at a low-level advertising agency.
  • Beth Smith (née Sanchez) (Sarah Chalke) – Morty’s mother, Rick’s daughter, and a cardiac surgeon for horses. Level-headed and assertive, she struggles with her husband over his ego, which thrives in defiance of his proven mediocrity.
  • Summer Smith (Spencer Grammer) – Morty’s older sister, a more conventional teenager who values her image and constant access to cell phones. She occasionally expresses jealousy that it is Morty who gets to accompany Rick on his inter-dimensional adventures.

 

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Of course I relate most with the grandfather Rick, except when he belches, farts, and drinks. The kind of physics stories that the show is tackling correctly identifies the topics of concern that America is currently facing. I have covered here the predictions that the world will experience over the next 20 years, and Rick and Morty is right on track to help the minds of this new generation deal with those complex issues.

I simply love the story lines. They are some of the cleverest topics I have seen attempted by a television show with the exception of Doctor Who, only this show goes a few steps further. There is an episode where Morty convinces his grandfather to buy him a sex robot while traveling to an intergalactic pawn shop which was truly bizarre, but as I watched it I couldn’t help but think that the future of the sex trade industry was being shown. The human race is only a few decades away from these very issues, and that same episode dealt with extremely difficult subject matter centering on problems with feminism—and the nature of life. In spite of the crazy over-the-top conduct of the show, it was very intelligent and well written. If it wasn’t so controversial, it would be nominated for an Emmy because it is actually dealing with hard topics that most writers would avoid like the plague.

It doesn’t happen often, but Rick and Morty is one of those rare exceptions on television that is well worth watching. It certainly took me by surprise. The goodness of it is not so much in what it is now, but in what it will be as the Bill O’Reilly generation fades off into the sunset with all their 60’s hippie rhetoric, big spending debt, and labor union stagnation—yielding to a new generation that will have to solve cures for cancer, their own mortality, and new issues involving the mind-bending discoveries about our universe that will come directly from the computation services of modern artificial intelligence being hatched before our very eyes. Many of the problems that Bill O’Reilly deals with nightly will soon washed away like high-tide striking a sandcastle on a Florida beach. This is the attitude of Rick from the show, where he protests to his granddaughter, Summer that now he has to take over a planet because of her boobs. I don’t understand Bill O’Reilly’s support of Tesla Motors. But I do understand the grandfather Rick, and that is why Rick and Morty is a breath of fresh air seen only on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network.

Rich Hoffman  

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