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It Takes “Big Balls” to Reform Government Efficiency: To have a job, high performance matters

To answer a question that has come up recently from government workers shocked by the DOGE exploits of a 19-year-old young man who is known as “Big Balls,” this debate is already too late to have.  The wasteful practices of the federal government and all the massive amounts of terminations that need to be made to make government much smaller and to push those workers into the growing private sector employment will not be fought in the courts, as many hope.  It will be fought in public relations.  For instance, the poor-performing government workers at USAID will not be able to hide behind polite society and continue to underperform for the American taxpayer without exposure any longer.  I’ve been warning about this day for decades, and here it is.  Everyone was told, and they chose not to listen.  So, don’t be surprised when some wiz kid that Elon Musk hired right out of high school can come in and eliminate many government jobs with the push of a button on a laptop.  Nobody in the world is better at finding overachieving engagement from employees than Elon Musk right now; he has been very successful at finding those types of people at Tesla, SpaceX, and just about everything else he has touched.  And, of course, we see the same practices from people like this: Edward Coristine, the young man who has the world melting down as he calls himself “Big Balls.”  Well, it takes a lot of guts to step into a very corrosive work culture with the power of government behind it and tell them all that they are worthless and that they need to go.  They have been underperforming, and in the case of USAID, the Pentagon, and many other places that DOGE will be analyzing for President Trump, if you want to be great as a nation or at anything, you can’t accept underperformance.  There must be standards that define winning, and employees must meet or exceed those standards.  But coming up short was never going to be acceptable.

I’m not surprised that Musk has hired many bright-eyed young people to perform these analysis jobs, such as in the case of Edward Coristine.  I know many young people like this “Big Balls” kid.  They remind me of the old hot rod culture we used to have in America, where kids coming of age to drive could get their hands on an old car and hot rod it up so they could race on the weekends.  That kind of car culture has been taken away from kids so they have turned to computer coding.  Getting computers to do things better and faster than stock options right out of the store is what many kids like Big Balls spend all their time thinking about.  Elon Musk has given those kinds of kids homes in his companies.  They can take their passion and put it to good use right out of high school.  So, they end up with a pure view of the world that makes things easy to see.  Edward Coristine has an advantage as a young person who has not yet learned to fail.  Many people who have failed a lot in life seek a government job to hide those failures even from themselves, and they hope all their lives that nobody notices.  So, government employment has become a joke over time, and nobody feels confident in criticizing it because the power of the government might crush them for doing so.  I’ve been through all that myself, where I have been very critical of the government and have seen its wrath firsthand.  Not that it did them any good.  But I can see why Musk has people like Big Balls on his team.  It takes a person who has not lived long enough to accept failure sometimes and the ambition to change the world without learning to hold back so as not to hurt other people’s feelings to walk into a roomful of government employees and tell them they are all worthless and could be removed immediately and all their jobs could be done in the corner of the room with one guy and a second-hand laptop.  It takes Big Balls to be that honest.

I have received a lot of hate mail these last few weeks, much more than usual, which is usually quite a lot.  But the hate comes in the form of an almost mirror mirror on the wall complex where they are trying to convince themselves of their point more than me.  They think government jobs are protected and the courts will protect them from the realities of performance measures, a standard labor union fantasy.  Through mass collectivism, they can be insulated from the rigors of reality.  But of course, I say to them, generally politely, that these fights won’t be conducted in the corrupt courts, but in the realm of public opinion.  The next time we get to a government shutdown, for instance, and Congress has to vote for more appropriations, how are they going to do that when it is a PR nightmare now that people know how useless a lot of these government workers are?  They aren’t worth the money wasted on them, and the fear of continued services lost because those employees aren’t there will be removed. 

The low-engagement people will lose whenever you have a high-engagement culture fighting against a low-engagement culture.  You can’t fight against people who work 7 days a week, 24 hours a day because they love their job with people who barely work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, even if they still report to the office, which many of them have been working from home.  Those low-engagement people will get slaughtered in the process, which DOGE brings to the table.  Not just in the one young man, Big Balls, but in many like him.  And behind him is a vast army of like-minded people who don’t want some stuffy adult government worker culture holding back their future from them.  They have more than a few reasons to be angry about how they approach their job of performance revolution.  If people are going to be in a government job, we always expect performance.  Not to hide behind some social constructs like a worthless college degree in basket weaving so that they could get into one of these government union jobs and sit on their butts for the next thirty years until they retire with a ridiculous benefits package for essentially doing nothing that whole time.  Those days are over and have been for many years.  But it’s catching up now because it took people like Big Balls to expose how useless those government workers were.  They need to be removed from that comfortable, expensive position and put into the private sector, where they must compete for a job every day.  And if they fail there, it is because in competition, they didn’t make the team.  If you want a great country and economy, you have to make it so that the people doing the work are the best.  And those who don’t work so hard are not just sitting around milking the system from the taxpayers who worked so hard to provide the funds.  Regarding Big Balls and the kind of people Elon Musk typically surrounds himself with, they are not losers who have learned from society to lose.  They are rebelling against that premise, which I think is fantastic.  This is why I have been a fan of Musk for a long time.  And I love what he is doing with DOGE.  We don’t want losers doing these government jobs; we want winners.  And the best way to do that is to put people in place to analyze these jobs who have not yet learned to lose.  Big Balls has yet to learn how to lose, much to his credit.  And we need in the world a lot more people like him.

Rich Hoffman

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The Tariff’s on Mexico, Canada, and China: Stopping the looting of Marxist countries and their unearned merit

Let’s do some basic math to understand the genius of Trump’s economic proposals of using tariffs to replace internal taxation, and to put the wealth that America generates back to the people who make it, not the leeching socialists, communists, and Marxists who have been living off America for over a century with unearned merit.  President Trump is talking about getting rid of the ridiculous Jekyll Island progressive income tax system that was devised in 1913, which generates around 2.4 trillion dollars a year.  The new proposed tariffs for Mexico and Canada are around 25% to deal with a trade deficit of around 200 billion dollars for each country.  DOGE is discussing cutting around one trillion dollars from the budget, which I think is a very conservative start.  There is much more to get, but it’s a good beginning.   And with China, Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on top of an already maintained limit of roughly 10.1%.  So there is a long way to go to get all these countries up and over 20%.  And we haven’t even started talking about Europe, specifically the EU, and the lack of support they all have poured into NATO, which we have almost funded at 100%.  Socialist economists, just about everyone coming out of the university system, can’t get their minds around this.  But essentially, enough money would be generated to take America back to wealth levels before the creation of the Fed and the Internal Revenue Service.  Enough money will be generated to create an External Revenue Service, allowing us to eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with better revenue generators. 

The problem with Jekyll Island was that it was created by very wealthy people who were globalists in their assumption about where the world was headed, and it essentially planned to use the United States to fund a one-world government off the backs of Americans.  And even if America were left a carcass in the end, it would be, from the socialist point of view, for the greater good.  And that’s where we find ourselves today.  Only, they never planned for Americans to ever put someone like President Trump in office with a promised platform to undo it all.   I think the Jekyll Island participants were trying to do what they thought was right when they came up with the Federal Reserve and the Progressive Income Tax system.  But most murderers could also justify their crimes in the same way.  It sounded like a good idea then, but upon reflection, over a century later, it was a disaster.  And we’re tired of it.  What Trump is talking about doing is brilliant and well-needed.  It will be earth-shattering for the world.  It will cause some short-term disruptions in the supply chain and profit margins.  It will drive up prices a bit, but that’s OK.  There are a lot of costs that will snap into shape quickly, and people will be pleased with the result.  We have needed as a nation to cut ties with all these socialist and communist countries who, by design, were set up to loot and pillage American capitalism to choke it off and destroy it and call it good, friendly international relations. 

Watching Justin Trudeau speaking from Canada about the pending tariffs was quite a spectacle.  That Canadians would cry over tariffs from America, which would undoubtedly be painful for them, indicates how out of touch they have always been.  They have existed off the good work that America has produced, which has allowed them to spread Marxism to every corner of the planet while not paying the price for too much-centralized government.  In many ways, Mexico has enjoyed the same liberties, which is why the country is run essentially by drug cartels.  Their trade imbalance with the United States has allowed them to make bad economic decisions because if they stumbled and fell, it was the United States that always picked them back up.  It is through the theft and looting that China has gained superpower status from emerging as essentially a third-world backwater armpit of a country, as it was during World War II and would have easily been conquered by Japan if America had not intervened.  The same people who put together the plan for Jekyll Island are the same type of investors who propped up China to become a world power of dominant communism and the global, centralized government model.  And these efforts are over a century old, but they didn’t just start there.  They emerged with the Marxist movement as soon as transportation allowed for easy travel and communication from country to country.  Globalism planned to loot off the success of America, steal American wealth, and redistribute it through centralized government to every corner of the world.  That is the hard fact of centralized banking and their intentions at Jekyll Island.  It was an early form of predatory lending to destroy the host for some lofty investment in social construct.  China didn’t earn its wealth; it was created by the very same global investors who purposely tried to destroy America without firing a single shot in a military campaign.  And President Trump is doing as he promised he would upon re-election; he’s stopping the carnage. 

America’s best years were around 1870 to 1913.  After that Jekyll Island mess, everything started going downhill from there.  And it is back to those policies that President Trump is proposing to return.  This is the period of western expansion, gold coming out of the west, railroads, and great optimism.  It’s why progressives want us to think of that period as an imposition on the American Indian.  At that time, boatloads of Marxists were stepping off ships in New York from Europe and trying to convince everyone what a brilliant idea Karl Marx had.  Because Americans were personally wealthy, compared to other places in the world, they could afford to listen, and the poison was injected into our political system, which has stayed there for more than a century now.  However, President Trump is finally starting to remove that poisoning from our political and economic systems.  And it will happen quickly because the value of what is made in the world primarily comes from America—and consumed.  So goes America, so goes the world.  It might take a minute to untangle the mess given to us.  However, Trump’s tariffs are the first step toward a much more excellent economic recovery package.  Not one that looks at the 80s and wants to replicate Ronald Reagan.  However, one that steps back to the 1870s, the period of Reconstruction, where more people of all places and colors could elevate their lives through personal wealth than had occurred at any point in history.  The economy Trump is proposing to build and do it quickly will be the greatest that history has ever seen anywhere in the world at any time.  But best of all, these countries getting tariffs to cover trade imbalances are all losers who have adopted Karl Marx’s thoughts about economic development.  America is turning away from that garbage, and it will force those other countries to do the same, or they won’t be able to compete.  They have avoided that fate up until now because America funded their communist fantasies.  But with Trump’s moves, that isn’t happening anymore.  And that is great news ahead of an exciting future.

Rich Hoffman

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I Really Like Palmer Luckey: What the new Anduril Plant in Ohio means to global manufacturing

Stories like this one are my favorite because they get down to the fundamental issue of why I do all the things I do socially.  I get pretty frustrated with people sometimes, and a few times in 2024, I came really close to just closing up my tent flap and not opening it again for anybody and letting them rot away.  To be honest, I don’t try to help people because I want to help them with their lives.  I do it because I have to share space with them and I get tired of their limitations holding back the kind of world I want to live in.  So, I try to teach as many people as possible how they should live so they don’t hold back so much from the world I want to live in.  But when they stall out and don’t listen to what I tell them, I come close to just letting them rot away and turn to things that make me personally happy, and forget about them.  But sometimes it is worth it, and stories like the announcement in mid-January in Ohio about Anduril, the defense contractor, investing a billion dollars to a south of Columbus campus led by Palmer Luckey, the inventor of the Facebook Oculus virtual reality headset, are a ray of hope.  The plan is to build a giant campus to build autonomous drones for a direct market defense need that is going to arise during the Trump administration in the year 2027.  So, this manufacturing ambition will be over 90 football fields long and host over 4000 jobs. It will be quite an addition to the loop around Columbus, Ohio, and will join the new Intel factory that is being built just north of the city.  And as exciting as all this is, I can say from inside knowledge that this is just the tip of the iceberg in Ohio. 

Many people have worked hard to lay the political foundation for something like this Anduril project.  They could have gone anywhere in the world that they wanted, but they picked Ohio, a spot just above Washington Court House for a reason.  I know all those reasons, and there is a reason I have been saying the things I have about vertical takeoff taxi markets, regenerative medicine, and hyperloop.  I told everyone weeks ago that Vivek Ramaswamy would be the governor and Jon Husted would be appointed to J.D. Vance’s senate seat.  And that Bernie Moreno would be the other very pro-business senator.  Many very good people have been building this political structure to facilitate massive growth in Ohio, which I think will be the next Silicon Valley, but only much more significant.  Ohio is the place to be and I’m not surprised by any of this news.  More people are out there, like Palmer Luckey, a wonderful young man who was homeschooled full of ambition, so he knows how to think outside the box. I think he’s fantastic.  He is proposing essentially with this Anduril ambition to be the SpaceX of the defense industry.  He is a massive Trump supporter.  He gets what is coming, and he is building this fighter drone technology to meet a change in state war obligation that is looming from information that is well known.  Trump will try to negotiate us away from a war with China.  But odds are, all that will fall apart; they will lose their power and won’t like it.  And they aren’t going to just turn the world back over to the sovereignty of America.  No, they are going to want to fight it out.  And Palmer Luckey is doing what he needs to do to get out in front of it with this Anduril factory. 

But this is where things get interesting.  The defense industry is filled with cost-plus companies and a structure that protects it from innovation, so what does this young man Palmer Luckey think he will do to change things?  Luckey is talking about shipping drone units in 2026 ahead of a 2027 need date.  And things just don’t happen that fast in the defense industry.   Well, they will now.  The people behind Anduril, including the investors, understand what the game is, and that is the destruction of the cost-plus model that has long hampered the defense industry.  You see it everywhere: the old legacy companies and their suppliers all act like trolls under a bridge, charging extraordinary amounts of money to do basic things.  Most of these cost-plus companies have radical labor unions whose costs are way out of alignment with reality, so you must throw a lot of congressional money at delayed schedules to get mediocre results.  Anduril is proposing to take the cost plus out of the equation and to become the SpaceX of the defense market, and they will change the way business is done.  And the Trump administration will be very supportive, so Anduril’s timeline is not far-fetched.  Anduril has the money.  They have the vision.  They have a political structure that wants them to succeed.  They have all impediments out of their way.  And it makes me happy because I want to see more people like Palmer Lucky and companies like Anduril born into reality.

The way it works at SpaceX and Andruil is that to avoid the cost-plus supply chains; they vertically integrate so they can work around the compliance loops that protect cost-plus companies and their sandbagging techniques that are designed to prevent the product from hitting schedule targets so they can always drive congress to more funding through the extortion of the schedule.  Cost-plus suppliers constantly force expedited fees based on their purposeful limited capacity because that is how the cost-plus game has always worked.  Companies like Andruil and SpaceX are just doing everything themselves, which is why Andruil is building such a large facility: for self-reliance and vertical integration.  The trend was to get as many people in a supply chain as possible in as many countries as possible.  However, globalism put that trend into motion to protect the cost-plus scam.  And that is all coming apart now under this new Trump administration and Ohio politics.  And people like Palmer Luckey are some of the first to see it.  That’s also why Intel is building a plant in Ohio out of all places.  Innovation needs to be fast and vigorous.  Not slow and stupid.  And I am very encouraged that there are companies like Andruil out there and that there are young people like Palmer Luckey who want to do good things in the world.  I want to see a lot of companies, preferably all companies and education systems, adopt approaches to business like Andruil and SpaceX.  It’s the rate of resolution that I can get excited about, and while the industry hopes Andruil will fail in its ambitions and slip schedule like all the other fools in the world, I am betting they won’t.  I think Palmer Luckey understands in a way I have been working to teach people for many years.  And he’s doing it, and once people see his success, they will all want to copy it. And for me, that is the best news of this century!  I can live in a world with people who think like Palmer Luckey.  But I have no desire to deal with the losers of the cost-plus structure of stalled ambition and lazy labor that has emerged from the defense work scams that have been so embarrassing.  With this announcement from Andruil, I see a lot of hope for the future.

Rich Hoffman

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SpaceX Does it Again: Crawling out from under Cost-Plus restrictions

For perspective, you can go back through all my writing, millions and millions of words back to 2013 when I wrote an article from Florida about the essential end of the Space Shuttle program and that Obama’s vision for NASA was to partner with Russian cosmonauts for any future space missions.  I was very outraged at the policy, and if I never liked Obama for anything, it was his anti-growth attitude to suppress American exceptionalism as it often presents itself in space travel, that I hated the most.  We were going backward under Obama and Biden, and the only growth we have seen in over two decades came from the four years we had from Trump the first time.  So, I have been very excited about watching the civilian infrastructure for space develop, and anywhere I can help it, I certainly do.  So if I’m more excited these days and very enthusiastic for every day, as many people pointed out to me at a Jags get-together ahead of the inauguration of Trump, I’m sure eventually they’ll understand.  I don’t think people realize what a miracle the week of January 13th was in 2025.  Yes, SpaceX did it again; they landed their Superheavy booster rocket back on the pad it launched from after carrying another Starship into space.  They lost the ship due to a pressure problem that couldn’t gas out fast enough on a new second-generation Starship, and it ruptured the hull, causing the whole thing to break up in the atmosphere.   That was unfortunate but very correctable.  The real trick was repeating the landing of the booster rocket to show that the first time wasn’t an accident.  Watching that rocket capture chopsticks system work now repeatably was a fantastic thing to witness, and it takes us a long way from my complaints about when Obama ended the Space Shuttle program over a decade ago.

But that wasn’t all; just a few hours before SpaceX launched, Blue Origin put their own rocket into space, but this one was carrying a lunar lander from Firefly, a Texas-based company, that was returning to the moon.  Another personal problem I have is with NASA and governments around the world.  I don’t care what anybody found when we went to the moon the first time.  There was no excuse not to have a Hilton there by now so I could vacation on the moon with my family.  This raw, primitive embrace of backward thinking that came to us from both political parties has infuriated me to no end.  When people ask me why I have had my war against public education, it starts with this lack of preparation as a culture to advance people into space.  We should have been doing this since the original moon missions, and as I was growing up, it looked good.  But the Department of Education under Jimmy Carter and the socialist politics that held our society down through labor unions and liberal politics stopped that advancement and I have never been good with it.   If we don’t have a culture pushing for adventures into space, we are deliberately trying to suppress the ambitions of the human race in a very unhealthy way.  So, for me, watching all this space activity just a few days before President Trump’s return to the White House was fantastic and deserved as a subject of massive optimism.  For a culture to produce two space launches like Blue Origin and SpaceX produced, it would have taken NASA a decade to do one of them.  Let alone two significant ones.  We are dealing with good times, finally.

The amount of capacity and bandwidth is the real challenge, and that’s what is changing, which I’ll be pointing out often because I am pretty sure people don’t know what to think of these displays of monumental ambition.  It takes thousands of manhours and intelligence calculations to produce one rocket into space, especially when discussing complicated payloads.  But here we have a culture that did it twice in the same week. Additionally, there are several Falcon rockets that are taking constant payload into space, whether people or satellites for the Starlink system, we have come a long way from the Obama administration sending Americans into space through partnerships with Russia.  As soon as SpaceX realized that they had lost their Starship, they were already planning to pull another out of their manufacturing facility, where several others were waiting, and they were planning another launch next month.  SpaceX expects to launch at least 20 more times in 2025 to develop Starship further.  What they learned from this recent one, even though it burned up in the atmosphere, was extremely valuable compared to the traditional hindrances of a cost-plus company.  The way SpaceX is attacking the problem is the definition of how these things will be done in the future, and it embodies a whole new view of manufacturing that is escaping the clutches of global socialists like Obama, who were deliberately trying to hold back humanity.   It’s one of those situations in which small-minded people have been trying to destroy society to rule over the ashes.  And these new manufacturing methods being developed at SpaceX are a rebellion against that sentiment.  And it’s precisely what space needs for humans to colonize the stars.  Other companies are now moving in that same direction regarding the “rate of resolution.”

Cost-plus companies have been hijacked by all kinds of horrible forces that have held back the aerospace industry since the first moon landing.  When parasitic characters realized they could stall contracts and make money off ignorant governments for more congressional money to be thrown at the trolls to build something, trouble was clearly on the horizon.  That’s why space had to move into civilian care because there was looting politics in government control that held us back with people like Obama.  A setback like Starship had at SpaceX this week would have stopped advancement at a typical cost-plus company for a decade in the past.  Instead, Elon Musk said immediately that the plan was to roll out another Starship and get ready for a second try next month.  The only thing that will hold them back is the speed of government, which will increase dramatically once Trump is back in office.  There is a lot to be very excited about, and I am.  It’s not just about going to space that is exciting; it is about watching the human race crawl out from under a very oppressive political climate and an education system that has sought to cripple us purposely.  Not to inspire us to grow.  And due to all that, we see that the human race is doing big things again, and the American culture, which has produced the world’s wealthiest people, is putting that wealth to good use in adventure and enterprise.  As good as this past week was, and it was, I see under the incoming Trump administration launches like that happening every single day.  I don’t think people realize yet how important all this is and what it will do for us.  But I can see it and am very excited about what’s coming.   In many ways, it’s a dream come true. 

Rich Hoffman

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Getting Back to Mars: Why the CIA is leaking that giant people built pyramids on that remote world

The evidence is underwater on Earth

We are far enough along to make some general statements of a reasonably large magnitude.  We have enough evidence to understand why the CIA is leaking some of their regression hypnosis experiments, which include a species of large people who built pyramids on Mars.  And that the proof that they migrated here to Earth many years ago, likely well before the last ice age, is abundant everywhere.  It’s just not where people have been looking.  It’s like looking for your lost car keys under a parking lot light when you left them in the restaurant.  But the restaurant is closed and dark and you can only see under the light.  So that’s where you look for your lost keys.  Since I have seen some of the unusual stonework in Ishi-no-Hoden, Japan, and started thinking about just how ancient the Silk Road was from the Near East to Japan, it is evident that the world’s prime real state property from that period is underwater.  So the evidence of what came likely from Mars, and even more likely, many other places in the galaxy, forces us to completely re-think our previous assumptions on the evolution of humanity.  We did not evolve linearly, migrating from one invention to another, but we have witnessed many tens of thousands of years, perhaps even millions, of rising and falling cultures creating significant stone monuments all over the earth, much of it buried under the water along coastal regions now, were the result of a lost technology that is waiting to be rediscovered and were the result of a race of people who could and did make the journey from Mars to Earth for some needed reason.  This culture was global and abundant worldwide, as we are discovering with LiDAR readings revealing massive amounts of civilization thousands of years ago that were trading with each other culturally over vast spaces. 

This global culture was having a crisis and built their entire civilization from a mythology of their homelands.  In the Mediterranean region going down into what we now call northern Africa, among the Khemetians, Malta, and even into Crete, they revered the Dog Star Sirius as if this global stone-working culture yearned for home desperately.  They brought technology and an understanding of advanced mathematics that would have taken tens of thousands of years to develop.  These were not hunter-gatherer groups but very sophisticated people with most of their culture erased, except for the stonework they left behind.  Everything else has decayed into oblivion and was only captured in oral traditions of subsequent cultures, like the Egyptians, Sumerians, and throughout the Indus Valley.  What happens to all cultures, as we are seeing presently in the United States, is that detrimental ideas usually destroy the advancement of civilization.  That is, after all, what we see Democrats attempting to do in the modern age, to climb back into a primitive state where they can rule over the ashes.  And that is the real secret and reason for the massive cover-up: the admission to the sciences that humanity doesn’t progress along a straight line of continuous achievement.  But it can all be wiped away repeatedly by bad decisions and poor government.  And in the case of what we have seen on Earth, it can be wiped out and, in many cases, wholly forgotten.  When I saw Ishi-no-Hoden for myself, after visiting places like Stonehenge and Chichen Itza personally, and touched the rock as opposed to just seeing pictures of it, I am confident that the culture that made these things were far more advanced than we are today about certain kinds of things.  Their roots came from other places besides Earth because their religions and philosophy, captured in passed-down myths, have a crisis of abandonment that always points back to the stars, like Mars and Sirius. 

And many authorities know what we will find once we return to Mars, which is happening rapidly now.  As I said, the CIA has done remote viewing on these subjects, and much of what we know is going to be declassified under the Trump administration; they are trying to leak out long-held secrets because the psychological impact is going to be tough for the entire human race to deal with.  But Elon Musk made it so that humanity can return to the stars, and once we get out there, we will find ourselves in the process of rediscovery.  That’s the primary reason we never returned to the moon.  We will see archaeology everywhere, which is from our previous cultures.  Just as we see all over the earth now, we have not given it much thought because the coastlines have changed significantly since those early times.  The ocean levels were more than 400 feet lower during the Ice Age and off the coast of Japan, the entire area of the Persian Gulf north of Qutar, large spans of territory south of Italy down into Malta, and all across the Atlantic, around Florida, Central America, everywhere, the evidence of this very ancient culture is there and tells the story of migration from Mars to Earth, and they brought with them their advanced culture that had been moving about the galaxy with great activity.  But they were somewhat abandoned on Earth and yearned to return home to the stars.  

As I have said in the case of Deloris Cannon, I believe quantum mechanics can explain remote viewing and is a valid science. What the CIA experimented with revealed startling information that became power over the rest of the branches of government that they tried to justify as national security.  However, it ended up being detrimental to the human race because the psychology of such knowledge could and would be catastrophic.  And that so many institutional powers invested their reputations in a line of dialogue that just has not been accurate but instead was self-centered and empowering.  We came from a creation story so that we didn’t have to admit the truth, that we came from the stars and are now returning.  And that much of what we have been doing for tens of thousands of years is striving to get back to where we came from.  And the secrecy the CIA has been trying to hide from us all is coming undone with that same trajectory.  The jealousy that the institutions tried to guard against this global realization of the evolution of humanity is now falling apart among all known governments; they have lost the ability to contain the truth.  The truth is in places like Ishi-no-Hoden, the assumed age is 14,000 BC.  Or on Malta, building temples to the star of Sirius in 3,600 BC, over 5000 years ago.  Think about Sirius Radio.  The signs are everywhere; humanity knows, even if they don’t consciously have a way to connect that knowledge to their terrestrial realities passed down through institutional sciences that were always wrong.  The human race makes terrible decisions and regresses to acting like Stone Age malcontents, always hunting for food and warmth around a campfire.  That doesn’t mean that society didn’t develop into something lofty that could travel between planets at times in the past or well into the future, as we are doing now.  And if you want the proof, I would say it’s at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.  It is under Mount Moriah, where the Temple of Solomon was built over some of that ancient past.  God wanted Abraham to sacrifice Isaac upon that Foundation Stone there.  There was a vast history at that spot that the world’s religions have been trying to mask.  But we see it in the tunnels under the Holy of Holies where the current Dome of the Rock resides.  History is there for all if only people could look at it.  Or to look for their car keys where they last left them instead of where it was most convenient to look.  The proof is everywhere, especially along the ancient coastlines when the oceans were much lower than today’s.  And what we see there is a culture that we will visit again on the surface of Mars once we start settling there again.  Then we’ll admit the obvious: it wasn’t aliens that came from Mars and the stars to visit us and bring us technology.  It was us all along. 

Rich Hoffman

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We Need More Kids: Birthrates need to increase dramatically

I haven’t let myself get too encouraged by Elon Musk’s “Occupy Mars” campaign.  He’s been excited about it for more than three decades now, and he has made himself a multi-billionaire, with the projection to become the first trillionaire not for the love of money and fame that comes with such enterprises but simply because he wants to bring science fiction, that he loved as a kid, to reality through engineering excellence.  I didn’t think he had much chance until this last election, and I’m glad he did what he had to do to see his vision through.  It wasn’t enough to be one of the world’s greatest inventors.  I remember the stories of Edison, who was incredibly late in life trying to solve the riddle of manufacturing rubber for the upcoming car industry, which was a real problem.  What Edison never solved was the politics of the matter.  And, of course, Edison’s employee, Tesla, had all kinds of great ideas about energy and how it could be distributed.  Edison’s method won out because it required infrastructure, the government could manage it, and unionized employees could stick themselves right in the middle of the whole thing and give us the uninventive mess we have today.  Seldom do good ideas break through to the kinds of frontiers that Elom Musk is about to enjoy because he moved his politics toward the winning Trump administration, which is about to unload on the world all the best that science fiction could give us.  A significant boom to the aerospace markets for which SpaceX will be able to do all it ever thought about and more.  Suddenly, going to Mars and colonizing it is very viable, with real economic value coming directly from it, and it will all be very exciting.  I’m officially a major supporter of the Occupy Mars movement.  It is the most exciting thing we can do as human beings.

But a math problem has been at the heart of all our politics for centuries now.  The responsibility for adventure or the sacrifice to higher powers is at the heart of earth worship.  So, our next technical objective to overcome is not the engineering feats of getting to Mars, colonizing it, and terraforming the planet to restore it to a vibrant place that was likely full of life.  The problem now is with human beings being able to wrap their minds around the whole effort, and for that, I have found myself obsessed with reexamining King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and studying all the vast tunnels under the city and understanding the importance of the most contested piece of real estate on planet earth.  Because I’m one of those people who think the evidence all adds up to Jerusalem being necessary to the seeding of Earth from a distant point in history, more than 10,000 years ago, and the cave under the Holy of Holies which is now concealed by the Dome of the Rock under Islam control was there long before Abraham went to that spot to kill his son Isaac in a sacrifice to God.  I think we are about to make a series of earth-shattering discoveries that date many of these things to much longer than we typically measure them, and the ramifications will indeed be jarring to all involved.  That’s all part of the adventure.  Because what’s important here is at the heart of most of the world’s problems, do you advance life through sacrifice, as they did at that Temple?  Or do you advance life through science and thought?  The new incoming Trump administration will rule through thought.  He, Trump, has been given a divine mandate to fight back against the forces of evil that have held back the human race for many thousands of years.  And it’s going to get untangled over this next Trump term. 

That leaves us to talk about birthrates.  We have needed them to increase for several years.  We have a culture that has openly sought to cheapen life, to kill their babies much the way the ancient Canaanites did to their Mesopotamian Gods, especially Baal, who is the real villain of the Bible.  Baal, the dominating god of nature, is in constant combat with Yahweh, the God of the Hebrew people and author of the Ten Commandments.  One group wanted to kill their kids to prop up the sentiment to their deity of choice, the nature-worshipping cultures of Baal or the self-fulfilling, creative cultures of Yahweh.  We need many more children on Earth to migrate human beings into space, and that is considering the massive amount of AI that will be required.  We are talking about the plot of the movie Blade Runner here, the morality of the nature of life itself, and whether or not robots will have human rights as a form of intelligence.  These are significant issues, but the bottom line is that if we want to put 1 million people on Mars by the very near date of 2050, which we do, just 25 years from now, then we have to change a lot of our life policies from what they have been to what they need to be.  We need many more families having many more kids than they have been, and they need to have fun doing it. 

We need to get back to the birthrates of the past, where families often had five or more kids all the time.  My grandparents lived during such a time.  My grandmother was a twin, and her mom had so many kids that they traded them like baseball cards.  “Hey, I have an extra one of these. Do you want one.”  A family member took her brother because my grandmother’s family had way more kids than they could afford to take care of themselves.  Some of these families had more than ten kids each.  This kind of Western expansion mentality is essential to human growth stages, and we need to exceed even that in the next few years to expand human life into space the way we need to.  Depressing that ambition is simply a held sentiment to the old Baal worship of the Canaanites and other sacrificial cultures around the world.  Our low birthrates of today are caused by social sentiment toward earth worship, to keep humans attached to their mother, and not to grow up healthy and independent as a culture of adventurers.  But to cleave close to mother in an unhealthy way that stifles us permanently, and ultimately destroys our species for the good of the planet, and views humans as a virus upon that mother which needs to be destroyed.  Ultimately, human growth into space is to settle that long-residing dispute in Jerusalem. Do we kill our kids to sever the jealous whims of a broken-minded deity, or do we have lots of kids and treasure them all as representatives of human consciousness and the perpetuation of the creative spirit of humanity into everlasting life born from the earth, but to settle the cosmos on a series of many adventures that was the point all along.  And to that, I say, “Occupy Mars!” 

Rich Hoffman

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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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The Secret to Elon Musk’s Success: His high score on the video game Diablo

I could tell Elon Musk was expanding his intellect as much as a few years ago, and I covered it as I witnessed it.  It was in the kind of books that he was reading, and because of that, I’m not surprised by his support of President Trump.  The only way you can remain a Democrat with Marxist foundations is through ignorance.  When you start learning things, you can’t support dumb politics.  While Elon Musk has always been intelligent and very successful, his political positions are more a result of knowledge than of upbringing or regional considerations.  For him, the realities of running his businesses have driven him to learn more to survive and, ultimately, provide him with a political point of view that facilitates productivity.  Having compassion for other people is one thing.  Destroying the world over compassion is quite another, and I could tell that as Elon Musk dealt with the realities of politics through his businesses, especially the Department of Labor trying to push him to unionize his Tesla plants, he was heading toward more small government than an imposing, all-powerful government that could take everything you own, and sit on FAA permits because you weren’t supporting their political party to stay in power.  For that matter, President Trump also went through the same kind of conversion throughout his life.  That doesn’t make all these people suddenly conservative the way I would be.  I grew up in a conservative area around a lot of conservative people, so I started that way.  As I learned more in life, my roots in conservative thought deepened.  But logic dictates that we all get to the same place once we figure out how the world works and the people in it strive to live in it. 

So, with all that said, people wonder why Elon Musk is so successful and why those who work for him are so engaged.  Now, I talk to many people at a consulting level.  If people listen to me, they are successful.  If they don’t, then they fail.  There isn’t any muddy middle.  There is no consensus on where everyone gets a participation trophy; success is a very rigid standard, and I always get asked about it by compelling people worldwide.   My joint statement toward any successful enterprise is that engagement is the most important and challenging thing to manage in a business.  You can see it in sports when two NFL teams play football.  Usually when one team wins over another given that all the players are the same essentially, they all weigh the same, they are all just as tall and have talented players at all the positions.  The element that determines winners from losers is the coaching staff and their ability to get good engagement from their players.  Labor unions tend to be unproductive because people aren’t motivated to engage in the business through collective bargaining.  They are always fighting the company management they work for to do as little as possible and still get paid wages at a highly engaged value.  Getting people engaged in a project or company is elusive, and the easiest thing that most management turns to is wages, hoping that people will be motivated to make more money and that they might work harder as a result of how much they are paid.  But of course, as I always say, money is not a good motivator.  Throwing money at people does not get people to be more engaged; most of the time, it lowers it as more money often destroys the things that make a person good and strive to be better.  Once a person stops striving for goals in their life, they tend to be less engaged in the things they do, from raising children to buying a new car. 

I thought it was interesting that Elon Musk during the middle of October 2024 had launched new Tesla products, the Tesla Bot and the Tesla Taxi, then a few days later launched with SpaceX, the first Super Heavy Booster into space carrying a Starship, then landed it back at Boca Chica right on target to be captured by the giant chopsticks, to be reloaded with fuel and to launch again.  It was a remarkable feat of engineering by thousands of people, and Elon Musk had created the culture that performed it.  But Musk wasn’t done.  The next day, SpaceX used a Falcon Heavy to launch the Europa Clipper, which is going to Jupiter to study a moon there, and it came off without a hitch.  That launch alone a few years ago would have resulted from a decade of work at NASA.  But after all that, do you know what Elon Musk was most proud of?  He leveled up in the Diablo video game, which he does quite a lot playing video games.  With all his success, he lives in a little shack at Boca Chica, runs around in t-shirts, and plays video games with his co-workers.  He’s one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the richest, and he has no pretense of measuring success the way we traditionally do, with great wealth hanging from him in a social context.  And he cares about his high score in a popular video game. 

What is expected at Elon Musk companies, and I know this personally, is that he recruits and retains highly engaged people. Business schools have yet to unlock this mystery because everyone learns the same wrong things.  Elon Musk does a lot that goes well beyond Lean Manufacturing techniques, and no consulting firms in the world have yet figured it out.  But I’ll tell everyone here for free because I like you.  The secret to Elon Musk’s success is that he does not, as a management culture, rob his employees of their emotional investment in their work.  By providing a job, they have a means to make a living.  But he does not impose himself on their work and instead removes barriers to success.  Not success measured in monetary value.  Once people can pay for their lives, families, homes, and social engagements, they want to do work they feel good about.  Elon Musk gives them jobs in which they can invest to create high-engagement cultures.  Cultures where people want to work and express themselves through good work.  If you watch employees at SpaceX, you see them highly engaged at all hours of the day, 7 days a week.  Because they like their work, and it shows in what they do. Most companies miss these traits altogether because engagement is challenging to measure.  But once it is unlocked, the results are apparent.  Elon Musk showed how he gets high engagement by not being pretentious at so much success, especially after a week where he started it on stage with President Trump at that now famous rally at Butler, Pennsylvania.  Musk was equally impressed with his high score on Diablo; people see that in him and can relate to him.  When an owner or job provider does not rob people of the value of their work through social conditions that impose a static order upon them, people will then invest in themselves into a project because they want to, for all the same reasons that people play video games with no monetary compensation provided, at all.  People do things because they feel good doing them.  The world is far better off for a business or capitalist enterprise when people are engaged in their jobs because the products produced reflect that engagement.  And when people are allowed to invest in themselves and not be robbed by some cultural stigma, success always follows.   And winning becomes expected, not just some fantasy folklore from some island that time forgot.  But it is available to all who dare to tap into its vast secrets and opportunities for the curious and hardworking.

Rich Hoffman

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The Biggest Thing to Ever Happen to the Human Race: SpaceX performed perfectly with Starship 5

In many ways, the spectacular Super Heavy Booster catch at the SpaceX facility was more significant than when the Berlin Wall came down.  Much more important, politically, scientifically, and philosophically.   It was an awesome display of what human minds can achieve when unleashed, and to say the least, the door to human colonization of space was just kicked wide open.  On an even larger scale, the pages of Karl Marx might as well have been burnt as the most inefficient system of government management ever created.  Capitalism was and will always be the means of managing people and their finances for the future as this incredible event occurred just a few weeks away from the 2024 election, where essentially those are the two choices: abundant capitalism from a sovereign American market or global communism ran by the United Nations.  Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, gets it.  I was probably the first person in the world, including himself, to see Musk turn hard to Republican elected officials as he had in the past been an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama and Biden.  I chronicled his change by the kind of books he was reading and pointed it out well before he seemed to have figured it out.  Communism doesn’t work, and it was overt communism that had been holding back this fantastic event of the launch of Starship 5 from Boca Chica, Texas, and the Starbase there with FAA permits that were holding everything up with massive government bureaucracy.   Once they finally had their permit, under tremendous public pressure, the FAA had no choice really; the SpaceX team launched, for the first time in all history, the largest vehicle ever to go into space and have controlled landings in two different locations precisely over their targets, all automated and coming off without a problem.  The countdown to launch was exact and on point, and we saw what routine spaceflights over the coming years would look like. 

America has a choice to make that is very positive: elect President Trump and get a whole lot more toward a massively expanding economy as what people saw from SpaceX on October 13th, 2024.  As I watched the Super Heavy Booster carry Starship into space to land in the Indian Ocean about an hour later, the giant thing the size of a skyscraper turned around and landed back at the same pad it had just launched from.  It returned to earth to be captured by the Megazilla chopsticks at the launch pad precisely and smoothly.  I first thought that we needed to work out the property rights issue that would arise as we settled into space.  The world is getting ready to go through a gold rush similar to what America experienced during westward expansion, and the governing principle will have to be flamboyant capitalism to pull it all off.  One of the very first things that the new Trump administration will have to do is protect property rights on the Moon and other celestial bodies.  It will have to be American economic standards that the rest of the world will have to live up to because we will be the first to arrive and set up colonies.  Starship will make moving into space a practical reality and an economy that will quickly outperform anything ever done on earth, including coal, oil, railroads, shipping, and telecommunications.  We are talking about trillions and trillions of dollars of economic value.  But it’s not about making money that matters; it’s expanding human intellect, and the only way to do that is to embrace capitalism and human expansion into space.  A lot is about to change for the better because of what SpaceX did.  The personal journey that Elon Musk has made politically, out of necessity, is one that the rest of the world will now have to embrace—especially communist China.

While the FAA and other government regulatory agencies were trying to protect environmental concerns in the cooling system of SpaceX launches, and California announced a ban of any Elon Musk launch into space from their state entirely due to his political beliefs, China is plotting to carry their communist nation into space with very aggressive plans.  So, America must be the first to enter these vast realms and establish the ground rules.  The moon needs to be viewed as another continent in our neighborhood that is about the size of Africa, and humans will inevitably go there and use it as a staging platform for expansion into the solar system.  All the typical political models of the past are suddenly irrelevant, which is evident behind the Trump campaign in America.  So many people have come together under Trump, including Elon Musk, that a new direction for the entire world has just unfolded, and the proof of what is possible was just shown by the Super Heavy rocket that landed precisely at a spaceport like something from a science fiction concept.  Only this wasn’t fiction; it was fact.  Over one hundred years of science fiction and fantasy were being engineered into reality, and an explosion of intellect was thrust onto the world stage.  All past philosophies, except vivacious capitalism, would be inappropriate for embracing these massive changes. 

I’ve been a fan of SpaceX for a long time now, and I cheer them on with each launch. They have achieved some new and fantastic engineering breakthroughs.  But I did not expect that Super Heavy Booster to return to the launch pad to be captured like that.  And to answer everyone catching up, why do they have to capture that rocket with the chopsticks? Well, that’s because the Super Heavy Rocket weighs 250 tons, and it would add too much weight to the craft to have legs on it like they do their Falcon rockets.  (the Falcon rockets are named after the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, by the way, which demonstrates what impact science fiction can have on making it into science reality)  The chopsticks on Mechazilla (also named after the massive mechanical monster in Godzilla movies) are a means to take that pressure away from the Super Heavy craft and place it back on its launch stand to be refueled and relaunched within hours.  See what’s going on here?  The new Giga factory for Starship there at the Spaceport in Texas is planning to build 1000 Star Ships per year, and launches will go up every day, several times a day, to take massive amounts of payload and people into space to live as a routine part of human existence.  Fueled by science fiction books and movies, the imaginations of many brilliant people have found a home under Elon Musk, and now they need an economic system that can unleash their vast potential.  And communism was never going to be it.  The pressure of performance under the upcoming Trump administration will change the world for the better in ways that most aren’t ready for.  But what SpaceX did on Sunday, the 13th of October, was life-changing.  I would say it was more significant than the moon landing because of what it does to the economy of space.  No longer would countries control the realm of space, but it would be the laws of economic reality, imagination, and ambition.  The human race demands autonomy and freedom to think, contemplate, and invent.  And Starship by SpaceX is the means to achieve the greatness of the human race under the potential of capitalism for thousands of years in the future.  And it all starts with a proven concept, which SpaceX has done.  Now, it needs a political system that can make it happen, and that comes with the election of President Trump.

Rich Hoffman

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The FAA Has Held Up SpaceX Too Long: Government is holding the human race back from going to Mars

Just a little memo for everyone out there, especially those who thought compliance with government authority was going to be the future trend, they were wrong.  I’ve listened to complete idiots tell me for more than two decades now that compliance with government authority was only going to increase year by year, and I have argued with them to the contrary.  COVID destroyed people’s tolerance for government pinheads forever.  Government power had been abused, and people were finally pushed too far.  And that’s why Elon Musk was on stage with President Trump in Pennsylvania, cheerleading on a Republican administration that promises to cut down on government red tape dramatically.  Musk is not a Republican or a conservative.  However, the FAA process denying him approved applications for his next space flights for Starship 5 has pushed him into Trump’s corner.  Just as they have with many Democrats who have now crossed over and joined supporting Trump, a common theme has emerged.  The government has become too big and has all the wrong values, and people are tired of interrupting their lives needlessly.  That is certainly the case with Elon Musk, who has to file a lot of permits for the launch of each of his Starships which he is working through his company, SpaceX, to prove the landing of the largest vehicle to ever enter space and return to earth.  What the Starship 5 mission proves to do is re-land the Super Heavy Booster rocket back at Boca Chica with their chopstick system.  From there, refueling and reentry into space will become a common occurrence.  But first, SpaceX has to stick the landing of the Superheavy rocket to prove the whole capture system works.  So, there is a lot of urgency to increase the innovation rate to meet the missions’ needs because Starship is a key to NASA’s programs of returning to the moon, and this application process with the government is holding everything up needlessly. 

To make matters worse, and to my point, you can’t put the heads of lazy people in compliance authority to the genuinely heroic efforts of manufacturing.  It was never a math problem that would work, and Elon Musk has tried to play nice his whole life.  And the Federal Aviation Association did pretty well with SpaceX until the second part of 2024 when Elon Musk formally endorsed Trump for president.  Two iconic photos tell the complete story of the 2024 election cycle and precisely, this problem.  The first is the attempted assassination of President Trump, where he is pumping his fist in the air with blood running down his face after just being shot in the head.  Within moments of that picture hitting the public, Elon Musk formally endorsed President Trump for president, stepping away from years of supporting Democrats such as Joe Biden and Barack Obama.  Elon Musk is hardly a conservative.  But then again, neither is President Trump traditionally.  But what they all have in common is the difficulty in dealing with government bureaucracy where entire groups of worthless people get mall cop authority over the titans of industry with the stroke of a pen.  From there, the FAA stopped approving Musk’s applications for SpaceX flights, as if to punish him for supporting President Trump in any fashion.  It all essentially started with that photo of Trump right after the assassination attempt, which has backfired massively in the intention of getting rid of Trump.  Instead, it solidified him into the world’s consciousness in ways no political campaign could have done otherwise. 

The other photo to come out of all this is when Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, to finish what he started, which was interrupted by that assassination attempt.  This time, Elon Musk came on stage to speak on behalf of President Trump.   And Trump was in the picture standing at the podium calm and resolute, in the same spot where an assassin’s bullet had narrowly missed him just a few months earlier.  And there he was, standing boldly to the possibility of death.  Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world and one of the smartest who has declared himself to the task of carrying human civilization to space to colonize other planets, was jumping around on the stage like a little kid, excited about being there.  The picture that was instantly famous is of Musk jumping in the air with joy at the prospect of Trump winning and deregulating his industry to the point where it has crippled his efforts in a way government pinheads only can.  The joy is evident on Elon Musk’s face, the empowerment of taking back the government from the hands of the truly terrible, the people who are worthless in life and have only defined themselves as demanding that good people adhere to some government mob. Otherwise, punishment will follow.  If you look across the world, especially across the regulatory industry, this communist push to make centralized government appeased has gone too far.  And now there was proof that even the friendly and compliant Elon Musk would be punished if he didn’t support the tyrannical mob in government to the point that they would stonewall the permit process for his life’s work.  That is why you can never give the government too much power over you; they always abuse it. 

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We’re not talking about making the world unsafe.  There will always be a need for the government to provide some regulatory bumpers to hazardous conduct.  However, the lesson everyone has had to learn is that capitalist practices are a far better regulator than government pinheads.  Market conditions are far more potent because failure has a more significant impact than some regulatory committees.  The case of the FAA holding up the next Starship flight has to do with concerns over the water system used for fire suppression having an environmental impact on the local wildlife.  People have had it with this EPA argument.  The earth serves humanity’s needs, not limit them to appeasement like a bunch of primitives sitting around a campfire throwing sticks at every noise in the dark.  And that is what the government has been offering with its ridiculous rules centered around EPA concerns, which has just turned out to be a cover story for outright communism.  And the mob mentality of the government these days who put their political opponents in jail and deny permits as punishment to those who don’t support them politically.  Over the last four years, Biden has pushed too far and tyrannically, and his relationship with a former supporter, Elon Musk, has shattered.  Musk was so happy about the revelation that he was glad to be on stage with Trump and put his entire support behind electing the President back into office so that he could get his company, SpaceX, moving again and not sitting around like a bunch of idiots waiting for the FAA to approve their launch application.  If the permit process for these launches takes more than a few hours, it’s too long.  And that holds in every industry.  More compliance to senseless mobs of government power is not the wave of the future—quite the opposite.  When Trump wins, he will put Musk in charge of improving the government’s work, including the ridiculous permit process holding SpaceX back.  Elon Musk will finally be able to solve that problem directly.  And he is jumping for joy, literally.  And who will there be to blame in the end, the government that pushed too much and too far to advance tyranny and compliance to a bunch of worthless people who should have never been part of the process, to begin with?  They will only be able to blame themselves for what they did.

Rich Hoffman

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